Green Hal37: At that moment, all Overman cared about was getting his comrades and the Prism out of there as quickly as possible and not wasting unnecessary time by doing anything else, which could risk Clark, Bart, and Barry, who are all faster than the Overman (same level as DCEU Superman), going after them and finding out where their hidden base is. Also, I'm aware that there are some things not different from canon, but I guarantee that the more interesting differences will occur as we get closer to the final battle of this plot.
Chapter 7
"Superman, Supergirl, Superwoman, and Red Tornado are sweeping the perimeter," Oliver informed as he, Ollie, Dinah, Sara, Laurel-One, Laurel-Two, Roy, and Diggle were walking on the rooftop of the enemies' hideout building.
Bart and Barry suddenly sped up to them. "It's done," Barry announced. "It's wall-to-wall Nazis in there."
"Dinah, the Laurels, and I will take up breach positions on the northwest corner," Sara said, before turning to the other three women. "If that's okay with you guys."
"I'm okay with it," Dinah nodded.
"Ditto," Laurel-Two nodded too.
"Let's do it," Laurel-One added.
"Dig and I could take up the southwest corner," Roy said.
"All right," Diggle nodded in agreement.
"Chloe and the other bright minds think our parallel Earth baddies converted that Prism thing they've stolen into some kind of super-weapon," Ollie said.
"Speaking of 'super', theirs are definitely our biggest threats," Barry said.
"Agreed," Oliver said. "Let's take them out first."
"That'll definitely be a piece of cake," Ollie quipped, sarcastically.
Up in the air, Superman, Supergirl, Superwoman, and Red Tornado flew past, as the rest of the heroes entered the facility and started scouring the area.
Oliver slowly made his way into the shipping depot, with Ollie right behind him. As the two Green Arrows rounded a corner, they were suddenly spotted by about a dozen Nazi soldiers.
"Halt!" one of the soldiers ordered as he and the others pointed their guns at the emerald archers, who readied their bows.
Barry suddenly appeared in a flash of yellow-orange lightning, knocking all the soldiers out. He stopped in front of the Green Arrows.
"Couldn't have left one for me?" Oliver remarked.
"We had that," Ollie added.
"I'm saving your Nazi selves for you guys," Barry said.
"Technically, in my case, he's not really Nazi me," Ollie pointed out.
"There's no sign of the Prism," Laurel-One announced, as she, Laurel-Two, Sara, Dinah, Roy, and Diggle approached them.
"Well, it's gotta be here somewhere," Barry said.
Bart suddenly appeared in a flash of yellow lightning. "We got incoming, guys."
At that moment, a number of Nazi soldiers stormed into the area.
"Stay where you are!" one of them ordered.
"Oh, boy," Roy said.
Before the heroes knew it, they were completely surrounded as more and more soldiers appeared.
A streak of red lightning shot past and Barry immediately took off in pursuit of his enemy.
A moment later, a green blur shot past as well and Bart immediately sped after it.
Oliver, Ollie, and Roy raised their bows and started firing arrows, while Diggle took out his handgun and opened fire on the soldiers. Sara twirled her bo-staff and detached it into a pair of batons before using them to attack the soldiers. Laurel-One and Laurel-Two took out their batons as Dinah took out a pair of knives and the three Black Canaries also started engaging the soldiers.
Oliver grabbed a soldier's head between his feet and flipped him to the ground. He grabbed another soldier and threw him down before kicking another one against a pile of crates and shooting him in the chest with an arrow.
Ollie fired three arrows simultaneously, taking down three soldiers. He flip-kicked another soldier away and fired two arrows simultaneously, taking two more soldiers down.
Diggle shot down two soldiers and punched another soldier out. He ducked out of the way as a soldier opened fire on him and wasted no time shooting that soldier down.
Roy kicked a soldier in the knee and punched him in the face, knocking the soldier out. He shot down another soldier with an arrow and flip-kicked another away.
Sara whacked a soldier in the face with her batons in a spin motion, taking him down, and elbowed another one in the face. Laurel-Two struck a solider in the chest twice with her baton and followed up with a punch to the face, knocking him out.
Dinah threw a knife at a soldier who aimed his gun at her. The knife hit the soldier's hand, causing him to drop his weapon. Dinah then leapt at him with a jump-kick, her foot colliding with the soldier's head as he was taken down.
Laurel-One sent several soldiers flying off with her Canary Cry, taking them down. She unleashed her scream on several more soldiers, taking them out as well, before switching back to her combat skills on the opponents.
A flying Owlman appeared and landed on the ground near where the assembled heroes were taking down the soldiers.
"I got this," Oliver said, after smacking down another soldier with his bow.
He turned to Owlman and fired an arrow at him, only for the latter to swat it away with his hand. Owlman fired several shots from his plasma gun at Oliver, who immediately dodged out of the way. In retaliation, Oliver fired three arrows in rapid succession, but Owlman flipped in the air as he avoided them. The two then rushed each other and started engaging each other in close combat.
Clark and Ultraman were in the air engaging each other in 'round two', their powerful blows producing one shockwave after another. A flying red object appeared seemingly out of nowhere and rammed into Ultraman's back, sending him crashing to the ground. Getting back up, Ultraman turned around and saw Red Tornado hovering in the air next to Clark. There was something distinctly familiar about the android woman's face, but he couldn't quite place his finger on it.
"Hello, brother, remember me?" she greeted with a smirk.
It was in that moment that Ultraman suddenly knew why this red android looked so familiar. It was... astonishing, to say the very least. "Tess," he replied in realization.
"In the flesh," Tess confirmed. "Or lack thereof. The last time we met, you dangled me out of the window of my office and was about to drop me forty stories."
"You shouldn't have betrayed me," Ultraman sneered. "If you'd allowed me to kill Lionel like I wanted, I wouldn't have had to resort to such an extreme action."
"You make it sound as though it was my fault instead of taking responsibility for your own action," Tess retorted.
"It was your fault, Tess," Ultraman countered. "The only thing I regret about that incident is wasting enough time for him," he threw a glance at Clark, "to save you instead of ending your life right away." He clenched his fists. "A mistake I won't make again."
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm not that easy to kill this time," Tess stated.
"You may have been given a robotic upgrade, sis', but you're still no match for someone of my strength," Ultraman declared.
"She won't be fighting you alone," Clark said firmly, protectively moving closer to Tess.
Ultraman flew at Clark and Tess. Clark caught Ultraman's fist and clenched it, causing the latter to let out a grunt. Clark then head-butted Ultraman in the face and followed up with a punch to the chest, sending Ultraman crashing to the ground.
As Ultraman stumbled up, wiping blood from his nose, he was struck and swept up by a cyclone summoned by Tess. Managing to steady himself, he unleashed his super-breath, sending the powerful winds back at Tess as she went flying back. He and Clark then flew at each other and threw a punch simultaneously, producing yet another shockwave as their fists collided.
Amazon Queen blocked Kara D's heat vision with her shield. Kara D then flew at her and threw a punch, but Amazon Queen avoided her fist. Amazon Queen bashed Kara D in the chest with her shield and, in a spin motion, slashed the blue and red heroine in the side of her neck, opening a slit. Kara D gasped, more out of surprise than pain, as she touched her wound. She looked at the tip of her middle finger, noticing some blood on it. Taking advantage of Kara D's distraction, Amazon Queen hit her in the face with the hilt of her sword, sending the Kryptonian heroine flying off. After landing on the ground, Kara D got back up and slammed her hands together as Amazon Queen leapt towards her, the resulting shockwave throwing the latter many feet back.
Kara K ducked under Overman's fist as he tried to punch her and punched him instead, sending him crashing to the ground. She flew down to Overman in a blur, grabbed him by the throat, and punched him several times in the face, bruising it and drawing blood from his nose. She then kicked him in the chest, sending him flying off as he crashed into a wall, damaging it. Overman got back up and fired heat vision at Kara K, who fired her own as their reddish-orange beams clashed halfway in an effort to overpower the other.
(S.T.A.R. Labs)
Harry was walking towards the elevator when he stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of Dark Arrow, Dark Arsenal, Andrea, and Dark Siren.
"Oh, God," Harry said in horror.
"There is no God," Dark Arrow stated.
"Just us and the Fatherland," Dark Arsenal added.
Harry turned around and started running back down the hallway. He pressed the red button on the wall, triggering the alarm as it started blaring throughout the building. He turned around just as Dark Siren unleashed her sonic scream, sending Harry flying back against the wall as he was knocked unconscious.
"He'll be useful," Dark Arrow said.
(Enemy hideout)
The inside of the shipping depot was a literal war zone as the various fights between the assembled heroes and enemy forces continued. Clark and Tess continued to engage Ultraman, who was managing to keep up against the combined might of the former two. As the fight between Kara D and Amazon Queen went on, it was clear that Kara D was the stronger of the two while Amazon Queen had much better combat skills and neither managed to gain a clear advantage over the other thus far. As for Kara K and Overman, the former was getting more hits in due to being stronger, though the latter wasn't doing too bad holding his own against the Maiden of Might. Barry and Thawne were still racing throughout the facility trading blows in an evenly matched high-speed battle.
Ollie had joined Oliver in dealing with Owlman, who was holding his own really well against the two Green Arrows. It especially helped that Owlman had the advantage of being able to fly via his suit. Dinah, Sara, Laurel-One, Laurel-Two, Roy, and Diggle continued taking down the soldiers. As Deathstroke appeared with a sword in his hand, Sara was the first to notice him and, after taking out her latest soldier, went to engage the mercenary. Diggle shot down a soldier with his gun and decided to help Sara deal with Deathstroke.
Bart built up electricity and hurled a lightning bolt at Inertia, sending the green-clad speedster flying several feet.
"Thanks for teaching me that, Barry," Bart muttered.
Inertia tried to get back up, but he suddenly received several rapid punches to his face from Bart and was knocked out cold.
"People don't call me the 'fastest man alive' just for no reason," Bart remarked with a triumphant smile.
He reached down and took off Inertia's mask, revealing a face that Bart found very familiar. Inertia looked a lot like Jimmy Olsen as well as Jimmy's older brother and Chloe's first husband Henry, though Bart wasn't sure if it was the doppelganger of either one of them or someone else entirely.
Overgirl flew over to where the two Green Arrows were engaging Owlman and sent Oliver flying many feet with a shove to the chest. Oliver crashed on a pile of crates and was knocked out by the impact. Overgirl then flew to Ollie, grabbed him by the throat, and held him up with one hand. She was about to snap his neck when a familiar pain suddenly overtook her body. Her grip around Ollie's neck loosened immediately and she collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain. Smirking, Ollie unclenched his right hand, revealing a ring with a glowing green gem resting in his palm.
"Not so fast," Ollie remarked.
He was abruptly knocked to the ground by a kick in the back from Owlman, who then helped Overgirl up to her feet.
"Are you all right?" Owlman asked.
"I'm pissed," Overgirl snarled.
Owlman suddenly flipped out of the way while Overgirl flew up in the air as the two avoided a sonic scream that Dinah unleashed at them.
(S.T.A.R. Labs)
Conner, Courtney, Caitlin, Lois, Chloe, Thea, Alex, Lena, and Winn were in the cortex looking at a computer screen, which was showing footage of Dark Arrow, Dark Arsenal, Andrea, and Dark Siren walking away from an unconscious Harry in the hallway.
"Courtney, Caitlin, you two come with me," Conner instructed. "The rest of you find somewhere to hide."
"I may have retired from vigilantism, but I'm not hiding," Thea said as she grabbed her katana. "I'm coming with you."
"Me too," Alex said, pulling out her pistol.
"Me three," Lois added.
"Actually, Lois, I think you should stay with Chloe, Winn, and Lena," Conner said, before turning to Thea and Alex. "You two can come though."
Lois gave Conner a firm look. "Why can't I come, Superboy? If you don't know by now that I'm not one to back down from a fight, you don't really know me at all."
"I know you're a fighter, Lois, but you and Chloe need to keep Winn and Lena safe," Conner pointed out.
"I agree with him, cuz," Chloe said to Lois.
"Fine," Lois gave in.
"Get somewhere safe," Conner said, before he, Courtney, Caitlin, Thea, and Alex headed off.
Lois went over to the duffle bag of weapons, took out three pistols, and handed Chloe, Lena, and Winn each one.
"My gut instincts tell me we'll be needing these," Lois said, before taking a pistol for herself.
She then took out four daggers that were encased in lead and handed Chloe, Lena, and Winn each one.
"We'll most likely be needing these too," Lois said.
"Lead casing? Is this what I think it is?" Winn asked.
"If you mean kryptonite, yes," Chloe answered.
Lena removed the casing of her knife, revealing that the blade was indeed made out of the Kryptonian mineral.
"You don't mind if I keep this, do you?" Lena asked, as she put the casing back over the blade.
"No, go ahead," Chloe told her.
"When I get back to our Earth, I'm gonna get started immediately on those force field belts that I plan to create for situations exactly like this one," Winn said.
(Enemy hideout)
Oliver slowly opened his eyes as he came to, a ringing sound in his ears. Lying on the ground, he looked around at the intense battle still raging between his allies and their enemies. Clark and Tess were still fighting Ultraman, while Kara D and Amazon Queen, as well as Kara K and Overman, were at a stalemate. Barry and Thawne were still racing around in streaks of lightning as one still hadn't managed to overpower the other yet. Sara and Diggle were still engaging Deathstroke, who was easily holding his own against the two. Laurel-One, Laurel-One, and Roy were still taking down soldiers, the former two sending several flying with their sonic screams. Ollie was engaging Owlman, but the emerald archer was struggling quite a bit against the latter.
Bart was helping Dinah take on Overgirl as he effortlessly avoided a blast of heat vision from the Kryptonian. Dinah unleashed her Canary Cry, but Overgirl dodged it and flew down at Dinah in a blur, only for Bart to speed Dinah out of the way while Overgirl crashed on the ground, damaging it.
As Overgirl got back up, Bart sped around her in circles, building up electricity. Overgirl fired several beams of heat vision at him, but they failed to hit him as he was too fast. Bart then hurled a powerful lightning bolt at Overgirl, knocking her down. In retaliation, Overgirl slammed her hands together, producing a shockwave that Bart avoided while Dinah was sent flying. Bart caught Dinah before she could land on the ground.
"Gotcha, Goldilocks," Bart said with a grin.
"Thanks, Speedy Gonzalez," Dinah replied as he set her down.
As Overgirl levitated in the air, Bart rapidly spun his arms around, creating a vortex that knocked her several feet back.
After spitting out a bit of blood, Oliver climbed to his feet, nocked a kryptonite arrow, and aimed it up at Overgirl, who managed to fly out of Bart's vortex. Oliver fired the arrow and it hit Overgirl's side, causing her to let out a cry of pain as she dropped to the ground. Bart and Dinah turned to Oliver as he approached them and he nodded at the two.
Overgirl hissed in pain as she yanked the kryptonite arrow out of her side and tossed it several feet away. She levitated in the air again and glared at Oliver as her eyes glowed brightly.
"Burn!" Overgirl snarled, before firing her heat vision at him.
Oliver flipped out of the way as he avoided the blast. He quickly fired another kryptonite arrow at Overgirl, but this time she flew out of the way. Overgirl was about to fly down at Oliver when Dinah's Canary Cry sent her flying off.
(S.T.A.R. Labs)
Dark Arrow, Dark Arsenal, Andrea, and Dark Siren entered the Speed Lab, looking around for anyone who may be present. Dark Arrow, Dark Arsenal, and Dark Siren suddenly flipped out of the way as a couple of blasts from Stargirl's staff were suddenly fired at them. A blast was then fired at Andrea, who leapt out of the way to avoid it.
The four enemies looked up and noticed Courtney, clad in full Stargirl gear with her staff in hand, hovering in the air.
"You can't fight all four of us alone," Dark Arrow said as he pointed an arrow at her.
"Who said I was alone?" Courtney countered with a smirk, before Superboy suddenly appeared and hovered beside her.
"Here we go," Conner said.
He flew at Andrea and punched her in the chest, knocking her against the wall. He then tried to punch her again, but Andrea sidestepped and punched Conner in the ribs, staggering him a few feet back.
Dark Arrow fired an arrow up at Courtney, while Dark Arsenal fired three simultaneously. Courtney twirled her staff, deflecting Dark Arrow's arrow and one of Dark Arsenal's arrows, while the latter's other two arrows hit Courtney in her right shoulder and abdomen, causing her to groan in pain.
Courtney was then struck and thrown back by Dark Siren's sonic scream before she dropped to the floor twenty feet below.
"Court!" Conner exclaimed in horror, as he saw what just happened to his girlfriend.
Taking advantage of this distraction, Andrea punched Conner in the face twice and followed up with a spin-kick to his chest, knocking him down. She then placed her foot on Conner's chest and smirked.
"You're not gonna kill me so what's the point in..."
Andrea was interrupted as she was hit by a blast of ice that staggered her a few feet.
"I, for one, have no problem killing you," Frost remarked, before unleashing another blast of ice, which Andrea avoided as she leapt out of the way.
Dark Siren and Dark Arsenal stood over the wounded and unconscious Courtney, the latter aiming an arrow at her forehead. Before the two could do anything, bullets were suddenly fired in their direction, forcing Dark Siren and Dark Arsenal to flip out of the way. They turned to the shooter and saw Alex, with Thea next to her, pointing a pistol at them. Dark Arsenal fired an arrow, disarming Alex of the gun.
Alex rushed Dark Arsenal, while Thea charged at Dark Siren with her katana.
(Enemy hideout)
Barry fired a huge lightning bolt at Thawne, hitting the yellow-clad speedster dead on as he was violently thrown back and sent tumbling many feet into a pillar. Thawne got back up, only to let out an abrupt "Whooooaaaa!" as he was swept up by a cyclone from Tess, who then directed the highly powerful winds to throw him far across the facility as Thawne screamed.
Barry grinned at Tess in thanks and she returned a smile in response.
Deathstroke grabbed Sara by the throat and slammed her on the ground. He then delivered a hard punch to her face, knocking her out. Diggle tried to sneak up behind Deathstroke, but Deathstroke spun around and kicked Diggle in the abdomen, knocking him down. Diggle got back up and tried to punch Deathstroke, but Deathstroke easily avoided Diggle's blow. In a spin motion, Deathstroke swung his sword and chopped Diggle's left hand off, causing the latter to holler in pain as he clutched his bleeding stump with his other hand. Deathstroke then drove his sword through Diggle's chest. Diggle gasped in pain as Deathstroke retracted the bloody sword and Diggle fell to the ground, eyes staring without seeing as blood gushed out of his wound.
(S.T.A.R. Labs)
Alex tried to punch Dark Arsenal, but he easily ducked under her blow. Dark Arsenal smacked Alex across the face with his bow, knocking her on the floor. She tried to get up, but Dark Arsenal kicked her in the face, rendering her unconscious.
"My sis-in-law will be having lots of fun with you later," Dark Arsenal said with a smirk.
Thea was struggling quite a bit as she engaged Dark Siren and Dark Arrow, who both blocked and dodged all her blows. Dark Arrow smacked Thea's hand with his bow, disarming her of the katana as it fell to the ground. Dark Siren then punched Thea in the face, knocking her out.
Dark Arrow looked down at her. "I'm going to enjoy the suffering that awaits you, little sister."
Conner unleashed his freeze breath at the same time Frost unleashed a concentrated beam of ice from both of her hands. The two attacks struck Andrea, rapidly freezing her body. Conner and Frost continued firing the attacks as the ice surrounding Andrea grew more and more solid.
Behind the two, Dark Arrow fired a cable arrow that wrapped itself around Frost, restraining her. A moment later, a bluish-white flash of light discharged from the cable and Frost fell to the floor, out cold.
"You'll be useful too," Dark Arrow said as he stared at Frost' unconscious form.
Conner whirled around and slammed his hands together, producing a shockwave that sent Dark Arrow flying across the Speed Lab.
Dark Siren unleashed her sonic scream at Conner, causing him to fall to his knees as he was struck dead on. Conner clutched his ears in intense pain due to his super-hearing making him much more sensitive to such an attack than non-Kryptonians.
As Dark Siren and Dark Arsenal stalked closer to the half-Kryptonian, Dark Arsenal pulled out a knife containing a glowing green blade and shoved it into Conner's abdomen. Conner gasped in pain and started coughing up blood. Dark Siren then leaned over and unleashed her scream directly in front of Conner's face. By the time Dark Siren stopped screaming ten seconds later, Conner had already passed out due to the combination of a sonic scream attacking him at point-blank range, the excruciating effects of the kryptonite knife, and the stab wound.
The ice that Andrea was trapped within started cracking. A few moments later, the ice shattered into many tiny pieces that fell to the floor as she broke free.
(Enemy hideout)
Sara opened her eyes as she came to. Dazed, the first thing she saw was Deathstroke standing over her. He was about to stab her with his sword when a Canary Cry sent him flying off.
Sara got up and saw that Laurel-One was the one responsible for the sonic scream. Suddenly, a look of horror appeared on Laurel-One's face as she noticed something.
"Oh, my God," Laurel-One gasped in horror.
"What is it?" Sara wondered as she whirled around, only to stop dead in her tracks at the sight of a motionless Diggle lying on the ground in a pool of blood. "John!"
She and Laurel-One rushed over to him, but quickly realized there was nothing they could do as he was gone.
"Mr. Diggle wasn't much of a challenge," Deathstroke stated, as he approached the Lance sisters. "He only lasted as long as he did because of you." He pointed to Sara.
Snarling angrily, Sara lunged at Deathstroke and tried to strike him with her batons, but he blocked her attacks with his sword. He also blocked a strike from Laurel-One and shoved her to the ground. Laurel-One got back up and rushed Deathstroke.
Clark and Ultraman were in the air exchanging punches when heavy footsteps sounded and a metallic robot with a glowing green stone in the center of its chest appeared out of the shadows. The robot, known as Metallo, stopped, focusing its attention specifically on Clark, who was too engrossed in the fight against his doppelganger to notice its presence. Metallo fired a huge beam of green energy from its stone, hitting Clark dead on as he dropped to the ground and was knocked unconscious. Ultraman smirked, knowing that it wouldn't be much longer until the assembled heroes were taken down.
Kara K and Overman were also still fighting when the former was struck in the back by huge green energy beam, causing her to drop to the ground as she was knocked unconscious too.
Kara D and Amazon Queen were still engaging each other as well when the sight of Metallo approaching suddenly got the former's attention.
"Metallo," Kara D said in horror, right before she was struck in the chest and sent flying off by a green beam fired by the robot in question.
Oliver, Roy, and Laurel-Two were standing over Diggle's lifeless body with sad and defeated looks on their face. With a heavy sigh, Oliver kneeled down and closed Diggle's eyes.
"I'm sorry, my friend," Oliver said sadly, as Laurel-Two placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
As they felt a familiar gust of wind behind them, Oliver, Roy, and Laurel-Two turned around to see Barry standing there, a sad look on his face.
"I'm sorry, Oliver," Barry said.
"His death will not be in vain," Oliver stated with grim determination. "I'm going to make sure the man responsible will wish he never set foot on this Earth."
Owlman punched Dinah in the throat, causing her to clutch it in pain, and swept her feet from under her. He then stamped Dinah in the face, knocking her out.
Ollie fired a cable arrow that wrapped itself around Owlman, restraining him. A moment later, the cable discharged electricity, but Owlman was unaffected due to his suit protecting him. Owlman broke free of the cables and turned around to face Ollie.
"You know, I can do this all day," Ollie said, panting heavily as the fight was starting to take its toll on his stamina.
"So can I," Owlman replied, before he and Ollie rushed each other.
Tess was helping Bart against Overgirl when Ultraman suddenly appeared in a blur and punched Bart in the head, sending the speedster flying off. Bart crashed into a pillar before falling to the ground, out cold.
Ultraman rammed into Tess hard, sending her crashing to the ground. He flew down to Tess in a blur, grabbed her by the throat, and brutally slammed her on the ground four times, putting many cracks in her cybernetic body. He stamped her head hard, reducing it to a heavily smashed mess, before doing the same to her arms and legs one-by-one. He then plunged his fist through Tess' chest, putting a deep hole in it, and tore out some mechanical parts as he retracted his hand.
"Hm," Clark Luthor smirked, staring coldly at Tess' remains. "For the record, sis', you were easy to kill. Now, to finish you off completely..." His eyes glowed with heat vision for a moment before returning to normal. "On second thought, instead of utterly destroying the rest of your parts, I think I'll spare them and turn you into something that could be useful to me."
As Deathstroke knocked Laurel-One out with a punch to the face, Sara charged at him furiously and hit him in the back with her batons, but the hits didn't affect him much due to the armor in his suit protecting him. Deathstroke spun around and kicked her in the knee, causing Sara to stumble over. He then elbowed her in the face, knocking her down. He was about to stab her in the chest when a flash of yellow-orange lightning appeared, knocking Deathstroke down.
"Thanks, Barry," Sara said, as the speedster helped her to her feet.
Sara, Barry, Oliver, Roy, and Laurel-Two gathered around Deathstroke when Overman and Thawne appeared in a blur and streak of red lightning respectively. Overman knocked down Barry, Oliver, and Laurel-Two, while Thawne did the same to Sara and Roy, taking them all down.
Owlman punched Ollie in the face, which was marked with multiple cuts and bruises, as well as a bloody nose, at this point, and followed up with a punch to Ollie's chest, causing the archer to clutch it in pain. Before the fight could go on further, Clark Luthor flew past and swooped up Ollie, holding him up by the throat with one hand.
"Oliver Queen," Ultraman sneered in disgust as he glared hatefully at the man who looked exactly like his old enemy. "The man who's been a major nuisance to me for years and tried to destroy everything I worked hard for."
"You're Clark Luthor, right?" Ollie asked hoarsely as he struggled really hard to breathe in the Kryptonian's very firm grip. "I heard you killed me on your Earth. How did that go for you, huh?"
"I had a very good reason and it was one of the most satisfying moments of my life," Ultraman retorted. "I would end your life right here and now, my allies have other plans in store for you and your little merry band."
He smacked Ollie on the head, rendering him unconscious, and threw him on the ground.
Clark opened his eyes as he came to. The first thing his brain registered was a burning hot pain he knew all too well shooting through his entire body. Kryptonite! Groaning, he realized his hands were bound behind his back. He then felt something around his neck. Some sort of collar. Undoubtedly, the device contained kryptonite, which definitely explained his current condition.
Clark glanced around and saw that he wasn't alone. Gathered around him and also chained with their hands behind their backs were Barry, Bart, Kara K, Kara D, Oliver, Ollie, Dinah, Sara, Laurel-One, Laurel-Two, and Roy. Clark saw they were also wearing collars, with Kara D's and Kara K's collars containing kryptonite like his.
"Is everyone all right?" Oliver asked, as he also came to.
"We're gonna have to work on your definition of 'all right', Oliver," Sara remarked.
"What the…" Bart trailed off. "My powers... I can't use my speed."
"Me neither," Barry said.
"I also can't use my sonic scream," Dinah noted.
"Same here," Laurel-One added.
"It must be because of the collars around our necks," Laurel-Two said.
"It looks like we're screwed," Roy said.
As the assembled heroes heard slow clapping behind them, they turned around and saw an unmasked Thawne approaching.
"Well, here we are," Thawne said with a smug grin as everyone glared at him. "This is fun for me. But not so much for you." He leaned down towards Barry. "All the times you've killed me, and now here, all I have to do is kill you once."
"That's enough, Eobard!" Overman ordered, as he, Ultraman, Amazon Queen, Overgirl, Owlman, Deathstroke, and Inertia walked over.
"I'd listen to him if I were you," Ollie said to Thawne, glaring at the speedster. "Besides, if you really wanted to kill us, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have put these dog collars around our necks."
"Now I know what it feels like to hate myself," Kara D said as she glared at Overgirl.
Clark frowned as he stared at the unmasked Inertia, noticing that the latter looked exactly like Eric Summers, an old classmate from high school who had temporarily taken his powers via electricity and lightning twice.
"It's done," Dark Arrow said to Overman as he, Dark Arsenal, Dark Siren, and Andrea had returned.
"It wasn't a problem at all," Dark Siren said.
"You're good to go," Dark Arsenal added.
"Well done," Overman said.
Overgirl suddenly fell to her knees, breathing heavily. Dark Arrow knelt down in front of her and grabbed her hands for support.
"The pain..." Overgirl groaned. "The pain... I don't know how much longer I can bear it."
"It's all right," Dark Arrow assured her with a smile. "It's all right. You're going to be all right because we found her. We have her." He and Overgirl looked over at Kara D. "And now we have her." The two turned back to each other. "I love you. Now, very soon, this nightmare will be over, and I'll take you home. So stand."
Dark Arrow helped his wife up and turned to Thawne. "S.T.A.R. Labs is secure."
"If you hurt my friends..." Barry angered.
"We did hurt your friends," Dark Arrow said. "We really enjoyed hurting your friends."
Clark and Ollie suddenly felt very worried for Lois and Chloe, while Kara D felt the same towards Alex, Lena, and Winn, Barry was concerned for Caitlin, Cisco, and Harry, and Oliver and Roy thought about Thea as strong feelings of dread came over them.
"Are they alive?" Oliver demanded, not even wanting to imagine what might've happened to his little sister and the others.
"Most of them are still alive, but I can't say the same for Superboy and the blondie in blue with the glowing stick," Dark Arsenal answered.
"Superboy?" Clark questioned in disbelief. "How?"
"That good ol' green stuff from space that comes in handy against your kind," Dark Arsenal answered. "Once I took that out, the kid didn't stand a chance."
Those from Earth-21 felt as though their hearts had been shattered into millions of pieces. Not only was Conner apparently murdered in cold blood by these remorseless bastards, but Courtney had died again after having been resurrected merely a week ago!
"We would've killed every single one of them," Dark Arrow said. "But the intelligence and abilities of some of those we spared will be useful to us, while the rest have very painful fates waiting for them."
"Once your friends have outlived their usefulness, they will die too," Deathstroke added.
"What about Tess?" Ollie demanded. "I notice she isn't here with us. Where the hell is she, huh?!"
Ultraman sped off and returned not even a second later, throwing Tess' heavily smashed and cracked remains on the ground in front of the heroes.
"You want my dear sister? There she is," Ultraman said with a sadistic smirk.
Clark, Ollie, Bart, Dinah, and Kara K gasped in horror at the severely damaged state their friend and teammate was in. The rest of the heroes didn't look well at all either.
"Mercy," Ollie muttered brokenly as tears welled up in his eyes. He looked up at Clark Luthor, his expression quickly changing from sadness to pure rage. "I'm gonna kill you, you Goddamn bastard! You hear me?! I'm gonna kill you in ways that will make you scream and wipe that disgusting smirk off your face! That's a promise!"
"You shouldn't make promises you won't be able to keep, Queen," Ultraman sneered as he leaned towards Ollie. "There's nothing you could do to avenge what I did to Tess because you're all going to be dead very soon." He stood up straight again. "But don't worry, I intend to make constructive use of her remains."
"Just because you destroyed Tess' physical body doesn't mean she's truly gone," Clark snarled as he glared at his doppelganger. He'd once thought that Clark Luthor was capable of redemption and becoming the hero he would've been had the Kents found him instead of Lionel, but Clark was beginning to think that maybe, like Lex, his doppelganger was a lost cause. "She'll never go along with your intentions."
"We'll see about that, Kent," Ultraman retorted.
He picked up Tess' remains and walked back over to his allies.
"We need your Kara's cooperation," Overman said to the heroes. "Actually, her cooperation isn't completely necessary, but it's preferable. For the time being, you're all more valuable as leverage."
"What do you want Kara for?" Barry demanded.
"To save my life," Overgirl answered, before turning to Kara D. "That's your little mission statement, isn't it? Help people, save lives? Well, now's your chance."
"She's dying," Thawne said.
"Her blood," Clark said in realization. "Your Kara was exposed to too much solar radiation."
"But that's not a bad thing, is it, Clark?" Ollie asked. "I mean, isn't it solar radiation that gives you guys your powers in the first place?"
"If we take in too much solar radiation, it can be lethal," Kara K explained, before turning to Overgirl. "That's what happened to you."
"Yes," Overgirl answered. "Like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun."
"But we can save her," Dark Arrow stated. "We're going to save her. All we need is a new heart, and luckily, on this planet, we found the perfect donor."
"We'll never let that happen!" Clark exclaimed angrily as he glared at the enemies. He turned to Overman. "If you really care about your cousin as much as I care about mine," Kara K threw a smile at Clark for that, "you wouldn't have allowed her to keep flying back and forth to the sun while you were aware of the danger it poses to Kryptonians! You could've stopped Kara yourself or at least made a better effort to convince her to stop! But it's obvious you didn't!"
"Perhaps you're right," Overman agreed. "Perhaps I should've been a little more convincing to her." He shook his head. "But all of that no longer matters. Because we now have your Kara in our grasp and we're gonna use her to save our Kara's life."
"That's why you stole the Prism?" Barry asked. "So you can duplicate a red sun, weaken Kara, and cut into her?"
"Can't make an omelette with invulnerable eggs," Overgirl remarked.
"Take mine!" Kara K exclaimed. "Take my heart instead and let Danvers live!"
Kara D shook her head. "No! No, Kara, you don't have to do that."
"I'm doing this for you," Kara K pointed out. "Your Earth needs you, Danvers."
"And yours need you too," Kara D countered.
"It's best that my wife gets the heart of someone who is a hundred percent identical to her," Dark Arrow said.
"Hey," Oliver growled as he glared furiously at his Nazi doppelganger. "I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill every last one of you."
"I second that!" Ollie snarled. "You're all dead!" He turned to Dark Arsenal. "Starting with you!"
"We'll see about that," Dark Arsenal sneered.
"You're not going to kill us," Overman said to the heroes. "You're all weak and prefer the high road. You're heroes."
He, Ultraman, Amazon Queen, Overgirl, Andrea, Owlman, Inertia, Thawne, Dark Arrow, Dark Arsenal, Dark Siren, and Deathstroke walked away.
Heavy footsteps sounded as Metallo appeared, stomped towards the chained heroes, and unleashed a massive blast of green energy from the stone in his chest.
(S.T.A.R. Labs)
Two Nazi soldiers picked Conner up from the floor of the Speed Lab. He was still unconscious due to the green kryptonite knife embedded in his abdomen. As the soldiers started dragging Conner out of the Speed Lab, they failed to notice the knife slip out of Conner's wound and fall to the floor, losing its glow once Conner was far enough from it.
After a few seconds, Conner opened his eyes as he came to. As he felt his strength returning, he freed himself from the soldiers and knocked them out very quickly. He headed back into the Speed Lab and found Courtney still on the ground, while Alex, Thea, and Caitlin were nowhere to be seen.
"Courtney," Conner gasped in horror as he rushed to her, noticing the arrows embedded in her shoulder and abdomen. "I'm not gonna let you die again."
He picked Courtney up and sped off.
Lois, Chloe, Winn, and Lena were cautiously creeping through the corridor when they suddenly felt a gush of wind behind them. The four turned around and saw Conner standing there with a wounded and unconscious Courtney in his arms.
"Oh, my God," Lena said.
"What happened? And where are the others?" Chloe asked.
"When I came to, I found Court lying on the ground, but Caitlin, Thea, and Alex were gone," Conner explained.
"Wait, came to? What happened to you?" Lois asked. "I take it things didn't go so well."
"One of the archers stabbed me with a kryptonite knife and the woman with the same powers as Black Canary screamed in my face," Conner explained, as he pulled the two arrows out of Courtney's wounds and threw them aside. "The combination of both attacks knocked me out. I woke up to two soldiers carrying me and, after I knocked them out, I grabbed Courtney and came to you guys."
He lifted up Courtney's blood-stained shirt up and was about to cauterize her wound with his heat vision when something unexpected happened.
"What the..." Conner trailed off in disbelief.
"Wait, is she..." Winn started.
He, Conner, Lois, Chloe, and Lena watched as Courtney's arrow wounds rapidly healed in seconds without leaving a scratch.
"She looks fully healed," Lena noted.
"That's new," Chloe noted. "I'm guessing it has to do with her resurrection at the hands of a cosmic being."
Conner looked relieved as he saw Courtney's eyes opened. "Court? Courtney?"
"Conner?" Courtney replied, before sitting up. "What happened?"
Before Conner could answer, the sound of the elevator doors opening around the corner got his attention. He turned his head, used his x-ray vision to see who were coming, and turned to the others with an alarmed look.
"We have to go," Conner said, urgently.
Earth-X
Barry, Oliver, Ollie, Bart, Kara K, Dinah, Sara, Laurel-One, Laurel-Two, and Roy came to and found themselves lying on a dirt ground. They still had the collars around their necks and their hands were bound in handcuffs, though Kara K's cuffs were thicker with a pair of glowing green lights on top of them.
"Where are we?" Laurel-One wondered, as she and the other heroes stood up.
"Where are Kal and Danvers?" Kara K wondered. "We can't let them operate on Danvers."
"We won't," Ollie assured her. "We're gonna find your cousin and save your fellow Girl of Steel."
"We need to figure out where we are first," Oliver pointed out.
"Yeah, about that..." Roy trailed off.
He and the other heroes looked around and saw they were in some kind of concentration camp, surrounded by hundreds of people dressed in striped uniforms. There were chain-link fences all around the area, with armed Nazi soldiers patrolling inside and outside the fences.
"I can't be the only getting an eerie vibe here, am I?" Bart remarked.
"I don't think this is our Earth," Laurel-Two noted.
"We're on Earth-X," Sara said in realization.
Most of you are probably surprised by what happened to Diggle and Tess, but I wanted to show the seriousness of this threat and make it have an actual impact on our heroes, motivating them to want to stop the Earth-X and Earth-64 enemies even more. Plus, in Dig's case, I didn't really have any plans for him in this series going forward. As for Tess, this isn't the last we'll see of her, but she'll definitely be out of commission for a while.
I considered killing off Alex as well, but decided against it because it could interfere with an upcoming plot that I already have planned for later in this story.
In case anyone thought I forgot about Icicle and Volcana, I haven't. They will appear in the next chapter.