Disclaimer: I do not own DC Comics or the CW TV shows Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl or any other characters or elements pertaining to the mentioned franchises.
When Sara woke up, she was back in her room in her family house and looked around, confused.
"What…"
"Are you alright?"
Sara stiffened as she turned her head and looked at Laurel. "Laurel? What…"
"Nightmares again?" Laurel asked.
Sara hugged Laurel tightly, not believing it but processing for a moment. "Wait… are you…"
"I'm her. Not Black Siren. She's back on Earth-2. We convinced her to turn over a new leaf, remember?" Laurel asked.
Sara frowned. She did remember Black Siren joining them and so on but suddenly, another set of memories flashed in front of her, with both Sara and Laurel reaching Black Siren and convincing her to redeem herself.
"Yeah…" Sara admitted.
"Alright, time to go to work, honey." Quentin said as he put on his suit and Sara smiled in relief but then remembered the loss of Barry and Kara. Two of her closest friends were gone… and just a few people remember what happened.
S.T.A.R. Labs
Nash groaned in pain as he woke up on a stretcher back in the lab as Caitlin held him.
"Easy." Caitlin said.
"What… how…" Nash breathed out.
"Nash, is it you?" Caitlin asked.
"Of course it's me, Snow." Nash assured.
"His brainwave activity seems normal."
Nash recognized the voice and turned to Allegra. "Allegra?"
"No. You keep mixing us up, right? My doppelganger is with Iris, working." The woman resembling Allegra said and Nash realized that it was his surrogate daughter, somehow alive.
"Maya…" Nash breathed out in relief and hugged her in relief as they smiled before Nash remembered. "Barry. Where's Barry?"
Suddenly, the atmosphere turned grim as Nash noticed their solemn looks and turned to the newspapers and read the headline.
"THE FLASH VANISHES IN CRISIS", written by Iris West.
Star City
Still processing what had happened, Oliver was in the cemetery but couldn't find Laurel's or Tommy's graves. Then he noticed the grave of his father and himself, which he recognized from when the Gambit had gone down and then he noticed another grave and then he felt like if he had been gut-punched.
"In the loving memory of the Flash and Supergirl, who have stopped the Crisis on Infinite Earths"
Oliver fell on his knees and was in tears, mourning for two of his closest friends before familiar hands touched his shoulders but Oliver ignored them, too full of grief at the moment to process that they were with him.
"It's tough, I know. I miss them too, buddy." Tommy said.
"We're still with you, my little boy." Moira promised.
"Are you ready?" Diggle asked as he put on his suit.
"Let's go." Lyla said, with JJ and Little Sara behind them as they left the apartment.
Oliver, Laurel, Sara, Diggle, Lyla and their children, Felicity, Roy, Thea, Joe, Henry, Cisco, Caitlin, Ralph, Allegra, Harry, Nash, Maya, Jesse, Jay, Patty, Iris, Captain Singh, Eddie, Wally, Ray, Snart, Mick, Lisa, Alex, Alura, Dick, J'onn, Clark, Lois, James, Winn, Mon-El, Imra, Nia, Lena, Eliza and Jeremiah had attended the funeral.
"When I first met Barry, we didn't get off the right foot." Oliver cleared his throat. "But I knew somewhere in my gut that he was a good man deep down, highly driven by getting justice for his father and would always try to do things the right way, even if there might not be. He would try to see the best in people, even when it might not have been in them." He took a deep breath. "Barry would go beyond and above and to great lengths to do right by everyone. He saved countless of lives over and over again, even though there were some he couldn't save without paying a high price."
Oliver then wiped his eyes, sniffing. "In a lot of ways, Barry had been like a brother to me. When I was in a dark place, Barry helped me find my way to the light. He reminded me that it was my humanity that helped me keep going even through my darkest days. He could inspire the light and bring the best even in the worst of people." He glanced at Snart, Mick and Lisa. "Wherever Barry is…" He looked up into the sky. "Today you've brought the best in everyone here."
They all mourned for Barry for few respectful moments before J'onn took Oliver's place, as he cleared his throat.
"In many ways, Kara was to me like another daughter." J'onn said. "She was naïve sometimes, full of hope and fierce and emotional." He smiled fondly as his eyes got wet. "She'd try to stand for goodness and justice and try to stand by her values, even though it cost her family…" He turned to Alex, Jeremiah and Eliza and Alura. "It cost her friends…" He glanced at Lena, remembering their short fallout. "It cost her love…" He glanced at Mon-El. "But she managed to pull back from that edge. Kara is an embodiment of the best of both humans and aliens. And if someone like them could stop the Crisis, imagine what all of us can achieve if we work together.
We need to remember what it took to win, as we restore what we had lost. This wasn't a victory won by a single species or army. If we can put down our grievances long enough to stop even the gods themselves, then nothing can stop us from reaching new heights. It may take some time but we need to restore everything that we've lost. Our homes, our worlds, all of this and more. Together, we can build a future greater than any single one of us could ever imagine. A future paid for by the lives of those that fought and died besides us."
The atmosphere turned solemn again for a moment, all of them remembering the people they had lost in the past, even though they were back in the new multiverse, those, whose memories were preserved or were restored by J'onn, could feel their wounds open.
"A future many are not going to live to see. And while we still have many challenges ahead of us, if there's one thing we've learned, when we stand together, we can face anything head-on. And we will honor those who died to make sure we live to see that future." J'onn finished and there was not one dry eye at the memorial, when he finished his speech.
S.T.A.R. Labs
Cisco, Caitlin, Joe, Dante, Wally, Harry, Jesse, Nash, Iris, Eddie, Ralph and Allegra were in Cortex, toasting and mourning for Barry.
LAPD, Earth-66
Chloe Decker was at her desk, just numbly working before she looked up and felt like if time had frozen.
"Hello, Chloe." Lucifer said.
Chloe felt her heart race as she breathed out before she burst into tears and hugged Lucifer, kissing him. "You're back…"
"I'm back, Chloe." Lucifer promised. "I love you."
Metropolis, Earth-167
Alexander was in LexCorp and read the newspapers about Superman rescuing a group of astronauts in space as he smirked.
"I remember everything, Clark. And I once told you, every hero is just as great as his villain." Alexander said. Now that he knew everything, he could up his game to a new level.
The Speed Force
Barry and Thawne were in a high-speed chase within the Speed Force before Barry lunged at Thawne, who disintegrated into atoms.
"It ends here, Thawne!" Barry vowed as Thawne screamed, vanishing.
"Nooo!" Thawne screamed, disintegrating into atoms.
S.T.A.R. Labs, Earth Prime
"What's going on?" Caitlin asked as they looked on the screen.
"It's a storm. Antimatter, dark wave, photons, it's just like when we destroyed Savitar or when we turned on the particle accelerator." Cisco said as he looked at the readings.
The Arrow Lair, Star City, Earth Prime
"What are you doing, kid?" Slade asked as Oliver was looking over the profiles of Dick, Cisco, Sara, Laurel, Clark and other heroes.
"I need to make sure that their deaths are not in vain." Oliver said. "New Earth, new heroes, new villains. We need to create a team."
"When do we start?" Slade smirked.
The only ones that remember the Crisis, are the Paragons, plus J'onn, who went through the memories of them and the main characters of Arrowverse (Oliver, Sara, Diggle, J'onn, Lena, Clark etc.) due to J'onn probing through the Paragons' memories and restoring them to the rest of the main characters and Earth-1 and Earth-38 are merged now.
What majorly pissed me off though, was Arrowverse killing off Harry and Jesse and as much as I have softened around Nash post-Crisis, the Wellses deserve better than merging with him but I hope I did Nash here some justice.
Plus, dozens of things pissed me off in Arrow finale as well. Slade not showing up at Oliver's funeral and I don't buy the ban because of DCEU and Titans, considering DCEU Flash's cameo in COIE, Henry Allen not alive and the same for Earth-1 Laurel staying dead. But it felt to me that some things had to stay unchanged, like Nora dying at Thawne's hands, since that's what made Barry the hero in the first place and it felt to me that Nora alive again, invalidated everything Barry had done but Henry is alive and free but it just didn't feel right to me to bring Nora back, new universe or not, hope you understand but hope you like the other Crisis changes.
And I did briefly consider teasing Sara pregnant with Mia, but then another group of fanatics (Not Laurel fanatics, but Diggle fanatics this time), who had trashed me about including Slade as Oliver's brother and whined that Diggle is Oliver's brother, once again, alongside with reminding me why I hated Season 8 and Mia's behavior in it, killed any inspiration about making Mia Oliver/Sara child. Honestly, at this point, I don't see myself making Mia Oliver/Sara or Oliver/Laurel child at all, asides from crack fics or shorter stories, mainly due to my disappointment with the series finale and the backdoor pilot to "Green Arrow and the Canaries" and the harassment of different groups of fanatics (Diggle fanatics) just reinforced that decision. With the Laurel fanatics, I honestly just don't care anymore, to me they're all bark, no bite but the other kind, it's just frustrating.
Hope you like how I handled the ending and my version of Crisis of Infinite Earths. I'll be honest, I'm not particularly proud of it, mainly because there were too many fandoms and characters to handle and I guess I was too burned out to write group fight scenes or large-scale fight scenes after writing "Apocalypse Incoming" and "Come Together".
The funeral part is from my other story "Apocalypse Incoming", which was loosely inspired by COIE but I didn't want to do a rewrite of a memorial scene, so I hope you don't mind I used the same scene from my other story with some mild rewrites.
So, in this story, Kara is indeed dead, alongside Barry, whose return is just "teased" though, just like before The Flash: Rebirth and I don't really plan on writing Barry actually returning and let's just say that this story explains the merging of Earths in my The Darhk War series. I had originally planned COIE in my series at first but the actual crossover drove a wedge into the plans I had, so I decided to make COIE non-canon to the series, asides from the multiverse reborn and Earths merging, hope it works and Alexander remembering is just teased, not really in the mood to write more stories.
Plus, Arrowverse is dead after Oliver's death, since the Justice League doesn't help out each other, Kara and the Super-Friends combat a worldwide terrorist organization on their own, Freeland was invaded by a foreign country and no one helps out from JL and Oliver forming JL is more like teased here.
And as much as I have been enjoying Season 5 of Lucifer, it kind of plays too much with the lore and I'm sure the Christians would want the show banned at this point, so I'm ignoring Season 5 and Lucifer is back with Chloe indefinitely.
Hope you have liked this story and my version of COIE, alongside with the stories that were a prelude to it and I hope I have at least done the characters, especially Oliver, Barry and Kara more justice than how Arrowverse handled it and made Kara at least more likeable.
Please review and let me know if you have enjoyed the story to its end.
With regards
Bl4ckHunter