Rachel POV- Oliver, Felicity, Barry, Iris, Sara, Kara, and Rachel went down to where they were holding their hostage. According to Felicity he looked like Prometheus a man Oliver took down not too long ago. Slowly the man took off his hood and mask. The unshakeable Oliver Queen took a small step back in shock and Rachel let out a small gasp.
"Oh my God" Felicity said.
"Oh my God what? Who is that?" Iris asked.
"That's Tommy Merlyn" Sara said.
"He died over 4 years ago" Felicity said softly.
"Oliver who's Tommy Merlyn?" Barry asked.
"Malcolm's son" Rachel said.
"Also Thea's other brother…and my best friend. We're gonna need a moment alone" Oliver explained stepping up to the container.
Slowly the others filed out of the room and headed back up to the Lab. Rachel looked back at Oliver and Tommy remembering how close they used to be. When Rachel first started working with Oliver he was killing people on a list given to him by his father who then killed himself.
She didn't agree but she did help him clean up his city. Oliver and Tommy were like brothers at least until Tommy found out Oliver was the Hood and he turned against him and became distant. Tommy never sold Oliver out but he couldn't look at him the same way.
Then he died while saving Laurel Lance's life when his father tried to blow up the Glades. His death made Oliver the hero he is today. The one who kills only if there is no other choice.
"He's a crony" Mick said to the group in the lab.
"Anachronism" Martin corrected.
"That's what I said" Mick affirmed.
"Lately we've been dealing with Anachronisms. It's people and things displaced throughout time" Sara explained.
"Okay but why would Nazis from 1945 want to crash my wedding?" Iris questioned.
"Crab legs. They were delicious" Mick told her.
"Well Iris has a point though. If they're out of time they would've targeted the military or law enforcement" Alex said.
"Tommy was plucked from 5 years ago and put in the Prometheus wardrobe. That doesn't make any sense" Felicity said frustrated.
"It does if we're not dealing with an Anachronism" Caitlin pointed out.
"Visitors from another earth?" Barry asked.
"Whoa there are more than one?" Jax asked.
"Where have you been? Where do you think she's from?" Rachel laughed and pointed to Kara.
"There are 52 earths actually. I'm from Earth-38" Kara smiled.
"Though I'm hard pressed to think of one where Nazis are ascendant" Martin said.
"I can. There's a 53rd earth and it's called Earth-X" Wells told them.
On the computer he brought up old footage of Nazis and Hitler as he explained about Earth-X.
"It doesn't have a designation because it's a place so awful, so horrific no sane person would ever travel there. It's basically our earth- same history same time line with one crucial and critical difference."
"So let me hypothesize. The Nazis developed the atomic bomb before the United States did and they were more than happy to use it" Martin guessed.
"Yes the Nazis won the war and New York, London, Paris, Moscow all obliterated. The SS set up outposts not only all throughout Europe but also all throughout the Americas and Hitler continued his brutal reign aided by Prime Ministers and Presidents sympathetic to turn him until his death in 1994."
"Now they're not happy ruling just one earth…God this is making me physically ill" Felicity said softly turning away from the screen before she just walked out completely.
"Yeah the line starts behind me" Jax said.
"W…we have to find them. I mean do you think they're using the breach to hop between worlds?" Kara asked.
"That or they're operating from a staging area somewhere in Central City or close by" Alex said.
"Well good thing we have a metric ton of smart people in this building…and Rory. Let's get to work on finding our new friends from Earth-X" Barry said getting a confused look from Mick.
The computer geeks got to work on hacking and looking for the Earth-Xers. The scientists tried to figure out a way to help the computer geeks narrow down their search fields. Oliver slowly walked into the room.
He told them that Tommy popped a cyanide pill and was dead, also he had no useful information. Then Oliver went to find Felicity who was talking with Team Arrow working with them to find the Nazis. Rachel was busy trying and failing to heal Cisco's concussion while Iris spun around in a chair feeling useless and very bored.
Rachel was getting frustrated with her inability to help Cisco. Her mom worked in a hospital and she could heal wounds that weren't gushing blood so why couldn't Rachel too. Suddenly Iris and Felicity were moving to the computer.
"Find something?" Rachel asked stepping into the room.
"Oh yeah. I'll go get Barry" Felicity said rushing out.
Unfortunately Oliver wanted to only take Supergirl and Flash to see what the Nazis were up to. Rachel forced him to promise he'd call for backup before he realized he'd actually need it. With nothing else to do Rachel retuned to Cisco's side and tried to focus and calm herself to figure out how to help him.
"Dayton Optical Systems calls it the Prism" Rachel heard Felicity say.
"What on earth do they need a sub-light generator for? It's basically a spectral emitter that uses quantum entanglement" Wells said and Felicity finished.
"You could also use it to create a stable fusion reaction" Caitlin said.
"Big boom" Rachel said softly to herself as she looked down at Cisco.
"Okay which all means what?...No guys really I would like to know what you're talking about" Iris said.
"You got this" Felicity told Wells.
"Well basically the device they stole can be converted to a neutron bomb" Wells explained.
"Boom" Felicity echoed Rachel's comment.
"I take it back" Iris said.
"The bottom line is that we have to catch these parallel-earth goose-steppers" Felicity said.
"This might help" Barry said entering the room with an arrow.
"Is that a kryptonite arrow?" Alex asked fearfully.
"Yup" Barry said.
"I know I shouldn't have to ask this question but I have to ask this question. Oliver didn't shoot Kara did he?" Felicity asked.
"Sort of. The other Archer and flying-woman are Oliver and Kara of Earth-X" Barry explained.
Rachel left Cisco to go into the other room with Alex, Wells, Felicity, Iris, Barry and Caitlin were. She wondered where their Oliver and Kara were at the moment. She also wondered how many more evil doppelgangers they'd see before this whole mess was over. Worse she wondered what her doppelganger would be like.
"When you said that Earth-X was horrible you might have undersold it" Caitlin told Wells.
"Wait a minute. How…how could there be another Kara?" Alex asked.
"Haven't you been paying attention? Tommy Merlyn on this earth died over 4 years ago. Yet he was here today from Earth-X. That means…" Rachel tried to help Alex understand.
"That there are actually 53 Kara's just like there are 53 Krypton's and 53 Earths" Wells finished.
"Oh" Alex said softly digesting that information.
"And the Thawne from our earth is working with them" Barry said.
"He's an idiot" Wells fired back.
"Why can't that guy just stay dead" Rachel growled out.
"Okay well if that arrow has not-so-Supergirl's blood on it we co…" Felicity started.
"We could track it using quantum analysis" Wells cut her off.
"We could" Felicity finished her sentence.
"Hey guys I think I might have a quicker way. These red blood cells are suffused with shortwave radiation" Alex called from the medical room.
"Solar radiation?" Caitlin asked as they all went into the room.
"Yeah incredibly high amounts. Like nothing I've ever seen" Alex replied.
"Can you track it?" Barry asked Felicity.
"Well I once caught a deranged serial killer off his face cream so… no joke" Felicity laughed a little.
"Let's just do it fast" Barry asked.
Everyone except Barry, Iris and Rachel began working on it. Rachel took a seat next to Cisco as they worked and once again tried to will her energy into him to heal his head. Once again nothing happened but seeing as she currently had nothing else to do now she kept on trying.
"Maybe tracking her off of face cream would've been easier" Caitlin said a few hours later as they all sat at computers and Mick lay in the second med bed drinking beer.
