Hello everyone. And now the Earths have merged. I don't know what my stories are yet, now that the timeline has changed. We continue with other changes. Anyways, the Injustice's Earth hasn't disappeared. It still exists.

Chapter 25

"Hope, anything?"

Ant-Man didn't know how long he and the Wasp had escaped the wave of anti-matter in the Quantum Realm. The two lovers had managed to reach a tunnel before it all disappeared. The Wasp was flying while carrying Scott with both arms. But neither of them had visibility into what they were seeing. They were crossing in complete darkness. Neither of them knew what to expect at the end of the dark tunnel.

"I have zero visibility," replied the Wasp, who was panicked.

"This way must lead to somewhere," Ant-Man insisted.

"What if there's nothing? And if it were just the anti-matter that awaits us…"

Suddenly there was a blinding flash.

"Hope, what is it?"

Then familiar voices sounded.

"Hope? Scott? Do you copy?"

Then, Ant-Man and the Wasp landed on a platform. They resumed their normal sizes. In amazement, they recognized the Quantum Tunnel machine.

Then Hank Pym and his wife joined them.

"Thank god, you came back!" the old man said happily.

The two Avengers raised their helmets and saw with amazement and relief Hope's parents who appeared to be alive and well.

"Mom! Dad!"

Immediately, she got up and ran to join her parents and hugged them both, much to their surprises.

"Sweetheart, you okay?" asked Janet, puzzled.

Scott stood up and looked at Hope's family in amazement.

"Hank! Janet! We are glad to see you again! This means that the wave of anti-matter hasn't yet hit Earth – 1!"

Hank pulled away from his daughter and looked at Scott in confusion.

"The wave of anti-matter? Earth – 1?"

Stunned, Hope anxiously joined her father.

"Dad, we have to get out of there quickly, before the anti-matter consumes us… it almost killed us in the Quantum Realm… We have to make contact with the Waverider and the Paragons!"

Very worried, Janet came over to caress her daughter's shoulders.

"Hope! Calm down! Did something happen in the Quantum Realm? What are these Paragons?"

"Why do you want us to contact the Waverider?" Hank added, more and more confused. "Are you talking about the Legends'timeship?"

Astonished, Hope looked at her father with wide eyes.

"Do you know the Legends?"

"Who wouldn't know them?" resumed her father. "They hang out with Green Arrow, Flash, and Supergirl."

Scott and Hope were both very stunned to hear Hank Pym mention the three heroes of two Earths.

"What the hell's happening? We lost contact with you two, we were worried sick!" Janet said anxiously. "Did something attack you there?"

"It's okay," Hank said, wanting to stay calm. "I'm sure it's nothing. They just got married. We need to give them a break."

"Yes, you're right," Janet agreed.

"We got married?!" exclaimed Scott and Hope, dumbfounded.

Janet looked horrified and put her hand on her forehead.

"Oh My God, they forgot their wedding!"

"Surely a time wave of the Quantum Realm that must have affected their memories, a chronoshift, probably," Hank continued distraught. "If they forgot their very recent wedding…"

"Our wedding?"Scott said, anxious and stunned, wondering if he had heard correctly.

Hope was speechless, unable to utter a word. Then Janet came to reassure her daughter.

"It's gonna to be okay, Hope. Don't worry. Stay here with Scott, we'll go get a doctor."

Hank gently put his hands on Ant-Man's shoulders.

"Don't worry, Scott! I will immediately call a doctor. It's gonna to be okay. You're my son-in-law, I won't let you down! Stay here with Hope, and don't move! We're coming back to see you with a doctor. Scott, Hope, are you both staying here?"

"Uh… okay," Scott agreed, in spite of himself nervously.

Hope was too shocked to answer. Taking her silence as a yes, Hank Pym and his wife left the lab in a hurry, very worried about the couple's sanity.

After they left, Hope sat down in a chair, completely dumbfounded. As Scott looked around, with utter incomprehension.

"At least we escaped anti-matter," he said.

"Scott, this is the Twilight Zone!" Hope exclaimed, still surprised.

"Do you think we're on another Earth in the Multiverse?" Scott suggested, panicked.

As he walked through the lab, he eventually found a framed photo, and what he saw confused him even more.

"Hope?"

"What now?" exclaimed the Wasp, wanting no more surprises.

Scott came back to her, with a stunned look and showed her the framed photo. It was a photo of Scott wearing his wedding suit, and Hope was standing next to him in a wedding dress. Both were smiling in the photo.

With shock and incomprehension, Hope looked at the photo then looked at Scott, who gave her a compassionate expression in anguish.

"We really are married!" he said to her.

"You've gotta be kidding me!" Hope continued in anguish.

"I don't need a doctor, I need a drink," Scott said stunned.

"It's another Earth! It must be another Earth!"

No, I'm afraid not.

Both Avengers looked up, surprised to hear a voice coming out of nowhere. Then J'onn J'onzz finally arrives in the laboratory. They immediately joined him with relief.

"J'onn," Hope said. "What the hell is happening?"

"Are we on another Earth that has not been touched by anti-matter?" Scott asked.

J'onn frowned, puzzled at Ant-Man's question, and replied:

"There is no more anti-matter. Where have you been?"

"In the Quantum Realm," Hope replied alarmed. "We were trying to reach several Earths when the anti-matter almost killed us! We narrowly escaped and ended up here! J'onn, what's this?"

"Are we dead?"Scott said, alarmed.

"I need to tell you what happened," said the neutral Martian and urging the two Avengers to remain calm.

Spider-Man hovered from web to web around the buildings of New York. He had regained consciousness in the middle of nowhere. He had no idea how he had ended up there. He had tried to contact his aunt, Happy, Ned and MJ. But their numbers were blocked. Had he returned to his New York before the Crisis? Was everything back to normal?

Not knowing what else to do, Spider-Man leapt over the city skyline, looking for his loved ones.

Then, unexpectedly, an electric net wrapped around him, and fell like a stone on the roof of one of the skyscrapers.

"Damn! What the hell happened?" exclaimed the young Avenger, struggling.

Then the silhouette of a man came towards him. He was a tall, dark-haired man who was very unfriendly and who looked at his captive with contempt. The young hero noticed that the man was wearing an open trenchcoat, including a black t-shirt with the design of a skull.

"This is the end for you, Spider-Man! Or should I say Parker!"

"Who the fuck are you?"

"I'm the Punisher, and you better be cooperative if you don't want me to shoot you in the head!" growled the angry man.

"What do you want from me?" Spider-Man got angry, trying to struggle.

"Everyone says you killed Mysterio, a great superhero who saved us from an alien threat. So, kid, you better tell me why you killed him. If you answer without making a fuss, either I'll hand you over to the police, or I'll kill you! What do you choose, kiddo?"

Spider-Man had just fought against the Anti-Monitor army, only to be threatened by a berserk gun guy.

"What I'm about to tell you is the truth. Quentin Beck was no hero. Mysterio was a joke. I didn't kill anyone. Beck threatened to kill my friends…"

The Punisher drew his gun, nearly hitting Spider-Man in the head.

"No, no, no lies! My patience is wearing thin, boy! Tell me why you killed Beck or if not…"

As he threatened him with a gun, a blowing wind threw him away, then a red blur threw him to the ground, at full speed. Within seconds, the Punisher was tied up and pinned to the ground.

Then Spider-Man saw Supergirl, who tore off this metal net with her super fists. And she helped him up.

"You okay?"she asked him worriedly.

Then Flash, after knocking out the Punisher, came up to them, smiling.

"Hey Spider-Man!"

The latter looked at the two heroes who had just landed to save his life.

"Supergirl? Flash? What are you guys doing on my Earth?"

The two heroes looked at each other, sharing an embarrassed look, then it was Supergirl who answered him:

"Peter. This is our Earth now."

"Our Earth?"

"Peter, do you remember the Dawn of Time? After the Anti-Monitor?" Flash asked him gently.

Spider-Man thinks about it, then ends up responding:

"Yes, I remember Oliver, and the birth of the universe… and… and… (He looked up, having understood.) Wait, you're telling me that… this is our new universe? Didn't we… bring back the Earths like before?"

"When we recreated our universe, all of our worlds merged," Supergirl explained to him with a compassionate look. "Before, we live on several separate Earths. And now… we live on the same Earth. My cousin… me… Flash… And the Avengers… We're all on the same Earth. The reality as we knew it is no longer the same. Only Paragons know what is different. Then you, me, Barry, Kate, Thor, J'onn, Ryan Choi, Sara… and even Lex!"

Spider-Man removed his mask, revealing Peter's face. He was stunned.

"So… there are no more Multiverses? There is… only one universe?" he stammered in amazement.

"Yes," Flash agreed with a sigh. "Kara and I were confused when we found out. For us everything's different, but not for others. For everyone, we've always lived on the same Earth. And now there are a lot of changes."

"Lots of changes," Supergirl said, nodding.

"Holy crap!" exclaimed Peter, dumbfounded.

"Yeah," the sympathetic speedster nodded. "It's a lot to process…"

"Yes, that's a big lot!" The young Avenger replied, shocked and dumbfounded.

J'onn had just finished telling Ant-Man and the Wasp about the latest events of the Crisis. The Vanishing Point. Speed Force. Then, the Dawn of Time, and the creation of the new universe.

Scott and Hope were totally bewildered. After a long alarming silence, Scott spoke:

"So… this new Earth… is ours?"

"Yes," J'onn agreed in a neutral tone.

"The Supers, Flash, all the others, are part of our universe?" Hope said, shocked, just regaining the use of speech. "It's… It's really… creepy! There are no more Multiverse!"

"We've reunited with our friends," J'onn explained. "But things aren't anymore as they were before the Crisis. Nothing is like before. And the only ones who know what's different are the Paragons."

"Hey wait… Hope and I aren't Paragons," Scott pointed out. "So how do we know what is different?"

"The Quantum Realm," Hope replied, still stunned. "We stayed there for a very long time. And I think we must have gone through a time vortex that projected us into this new universe."

"So… Hope and I… are we really married?" Scott exclaimed, his eyes wide in amazement.

"Looks like," replied the Martian with a compassionate look. "I have to go, I have to go find all our allies, and make them understand what happened to our universe."

Then he was gone, leaving Ant-Man and the Wasp alone in shock. After a silence, Scott spoke again:

"When I left the Quantum Realm on my own, it was to find myself in a world that had lost its half, and now… during this Crisis, when we come out, we are in a new universe. With Supergirl, Flash, the Legends… on this new Earth?"

"Scott, I think we're not at the end of our surprises," Hope decreed, still alarmed.

Finally, Hank and Janet returned to the lab with a doctor.

"Scott, Hope, I brought a doctor. He's going to check you out," Hope's father told them gently.

Embarrassed, the two lovers looked at each other, then got up to join them.

"Uh… look, Hank," Scott said hastily. "Sorry that we scared you… But I think Hope and I need a little rest…"

"Yeah Dad." Hope agreed, embarrassed. "Scott's right, I'm very tired. I really need to rest."

But Janet remained adamant.

"There is nothing to discuss. You let the doctor check you. We still don't know what danger there may be in the Quantum Realm."

"You're so right." Scott muttered, rolling his eyes, before Hope nudged him on the shoulder.

"Sorry Scott, I'm sorry, but she insisted on coming to see you," Hank said. "She's really as stubborn as you!"

"Who?" whispered Ant-Man in bewilderment.

Then it was a little girl who arrived in the laboratory running towards Ant-Man.

"Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!"

And she was running over to Scott, giving him a hug. He looked at the little girl in amazement.

"Cassie?"

"Hi Daddy, I'm glad to see you," said the little girl with a beaming smile. "Hey Hope!"

"Hey… Cassie," added Hope, who was as stunned as Ant-Man at the sight of Cassie becoming a little girl again.

The last time they had seen Cassie before the Crisis, she was a teenager. And today, she seemed to have rejuvenated. Scott found his daughter as she was before Thanos destroyed half the universe.

"Cassie… you are… you are… you are younger…" Scott pointed out, confused by his new reality. "My… Peanut…"

"I'm still younger than you, silly!" laughed young Cassie.

"Scott, are you all right?" Hank said worried again at the sight of Ant-Man with his daughter.

After a brief glance at his daughter, Scott lifted his head, feeling like an idiot.

"I think you're right: I don't mind the doctor taking a look at me and giving me a lot of painkillers. And I want morphine. It'll do me good!"

"Same for me," Hope agreed feeling like an exhausted athlete.

Wakanda

In his sister Shuri's lab, T'Challa admired the technical advancements of his new Black Panther suit. As always his sister couldn't help but rave about reciting her technical jargon that had taken to design his new armor.

"You've outdone yourself, Shuri, as always," Black Panther congratulated her.

"Thank you, brother."

Then J'onn joined them.

"Black Panther! Shuri!"

The two Wakandans looked at the Martian in amazement.

"J'onn J'onzz. What are you doing in Wakanda? Did Supergirl send you?" asked the King of Wakanda. "Something's wrong?"

"Not anymore," J'onn replied. "Things are not the way they used to be. Everything changed."

"What do you mean?" Shuri asked, puzzled.

J'onn walked over to T'Challa, raising his hand to his forehead.

"You're going to find out."

And he used his telepathic powers on T'Chala, making him remember the whole Crisis, as well as the reality as it was, before the crossover.

T'Challa saw himself battling Shadow Demons in Supergirl's Earth, then his passage through the anti-matter cannon with both Flash and Black Lightning. For then, when the wave of anti-matter disintegrated the whole Waverider.

Finally, J'onn withdrew his hand. T'Challa was confused by all his old memories. Worried, Shuri joined her brother.

"What did you do to him?"

Without a word, J'onn returned the memories to Black Panther's sister. And like her brother, she remembered the whole Crisis. As well as the end of the Multiverse.

Soon after, T'Challa and his sister looked at the Martian with wide, wide eyes.

"I remember…" Shuri whispered, confused. "I remember the Crisis. The Anti-Monitor. The two Supermen. And the wave of anti-matter…"

After a moment of bewilderment, T'Challa regained his senses and eyed the Martian with a loud voice:

"J'onn, what happened? Are we back? Like after Thanos?"

"Not quite," corrected the Green Martian. "I have to tell you what happened. We brought back the universe, but the world is no longer the way you knew it."

Shuri looked at her brother, then J'onn in dismay.

Westchester, New York

Supergirl and The Flash roamed the country, discovering all the changes in their new Earth. After realizing that the Avengers were part of their universe, the Girl of Steel had the idea of going for a ride to New York. If Juggernaut was on their new Earth, were the X-Men a part of it as well?

Supergirl flew over New York, with Spider-Man, fluttering with her webs. Then they came to a Manor that they both knew so well. The X-Mansion.

The two heroes were shocked.

"Is that…" said Spider-Man, amazed.

"The X-Mansion?" stammered Supergirl. "The Mansion of the X-Men?"

Flash joined them in super-speed.

"Is that where the X-Men live?" he asked.

"There's only one way to find out," Supergirl said.

The three heroes entered the interior of the great Manor. Kara was shocked to realize that everything inside was as she had discovered it when she was in X-Men's Earth during the Crisis.

The three Paragons then saw the mutant students. As soon as they crossed the entrance, all the students gazed at them with ecstasy. Some even waved their smartphones to take pictures.

«Look, it's Supergirl!» «With the Flash from Central City!» «Why are they here?» «Oh My God!» «Supergirl!» «Supergirl!»

A few students followed them. The Paragons gave them friendly looks. Then two young teenage girls joined them. Supergirl recognized them as Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair.

"Supergirl! Flash! Welcome to the X-Mansion!" Dani said jovially, shaking Kara's hand.

"What brings you to our Manor?" Rahne added ecstatically.

Flash waved to them, in a friendly tone. And Supergirl gave them a wide, benevolent smile.

"Hey girls! Dani and… Rahne, as I recall…"

At the mention of their first names, the two girls were even more ecstatic. They looked at each other with "Oh!" of amazement.

"She remembers us! She remembers our first names!" Rahne exclaimed excitedly. "Did you hear her?"

"Oh My God, that's so awesome!" Dani added as confused as her girlfriend.

"Yeah, yeah, girls, I remember you," Supergirl told them calmly, raising her hands. "Could you…"

But Rahne spoke again excitedly:

"Sorry Supergirl, could you ask Thor to come to the Mansion? We would like to take a picture with you two! You are our fans, both of you!"

"Hey, I'm the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!" Peter proudly announced with a smile.

But neither of the two girls took an interest in him. They had only eyes on the Girl of Steel. Then, they noticed Flash and came to stand next to him.

"Flash, can we take a picture, please?" Rahne asked, still excited, brandishing a smartphone.

"Uh… yes," Flash answered a little embarrassed.

Immediately, the two girls positioned themselves next to Flash and Rahne raised her camera in the air to take the picture. Then they laughed with joy.

"Thanks, thanks," said the two girls.

Finally, Supergirl turned her head… and saw in amazement Scott Summers with Logan and Professor Charles Xavier, moving with his wheelchair, come towards her. All three were delighted.

After the two girls left, Flash and Spider-Man joined Supergirl, and looked stunned at the sight of the X-Men.

"Cyclops! Logan! Professor!" Kara chuckled with eyes of joy.

"Supergirl," Scott replied, just as jovial as the young woman.

"So you too, guys, are part of our universe now?" Flash wondered.

"Yes, my friends. It appears to be true." replied Charles, both surprised and delighted.

"Wait…" remarked Peter. "Do you remember us?"

"Before your arrival, your friend J'onn came to the Mansion," Scott explained, still happy.

Logan seemed to be totally overwhelmed. He felt like someone who had just been hit by a bus.

"Your Martian gave us a hell of a headache!" he wondered, at loose ends. "Before all this mess it was just us… now there's the Avengers… and all of you guys? I'm still having a hard time getting used to it."

"A positive result of this Crisis," resumed Charles, smiling. "Because it seems that in this world, mutants are not persecuted."

"Really?" Supergirl wondered.

"Yes, after your friend Martian left, we looked into what was different about us," Scott said with a smile. "There are a lot less anti-mutants. And the X-Men are officially accepted as superheroes in your gang. Thanks to you, Supergirl!"

"Thanks to me?"

"Yes," Charles replied with a smile. "We can say that the Crisis has had a good effect for all mutants. You pleaded for our cause. In this new world, Supergirl knew how to give hope to mutants and made it possible for humanity to accept us as real people. So I tell you… thank you Supergirl!"

Thus the X-Men were part of their new universe, and suffered no hatred, contempt or intolerance towards humans. Thanks to Supergirl? Immediately, the Girl of Steel understood then why the students of the Mansion were so ecstatic when they saw her inside the Manor.

At least, a positive result of this Crisis.

"I really need a beer!" Logan mumbled half-heartedly. "All these changes in reality are driving me crazy!"

"It's not just you," Flash replied, nodding.

Central city

Two workers were inspecting the depths of the city when they spotted Nash Wells' body lying unconscious on the ground.

"The hell?"

They ran to him, then one of them checked his pulse.

"Call for help. Now!"

As his colleague left for help, the other inspected the empty wall with his flashlight.

Star City

Sara Lance had just regained consciousness in an alley, totally lost. She had no idea how she had ended up there. She remembered the Dawn of Time and then… nothing at all.

With great bewilderment, she walked around her.

"How did I get back here?"

Then her mind was filled with memories. Memories of the Crisis. And of the Dawn of Time. Confused in her memories, she didn't notice a car that nearly crashed into her. Sara was able to avoid it, then ended up grabbing her phone.

She was relieved to hear her friend's voice.

"Ray, where are you?"

Later, she found Ray in a nearby bar, where her friend called out to her:

"Hey, Cap, over here!"

Relieved, Sara hurried to join her friend.

"Ray. Hey, hey!"

And she hugged him, delighted to find him, much to her friend's surprise. Sara had never given him such a warm hug. What was happening?

"Hey, you okay?" Ray said, frowning. "Not that I'm ever one to question a hug."

"What was the last thing that you remember?" the Captain of the Waverider asked hastily.

Ray frowned and replied:

"Uh, portaling to this location on your orders."

He had no idea what his friend was getting at.

Taken aback, Sara added in perplexity:

"You don't… remember coming here for trivia night and being teleported to an alternate Waverider to stop the Multiverse from being destroyed?"

"Wait?" Ray wondered ecstatically. "Was there a crossover? Were we invited? Did we win?"

That's certainly how it looks.

Sara and Ray stared at their surroundings, amazed at this mysterious voice that had just echoed out of nowhere.

"Did you just hear?" Ray said, confused.

Finally, J'onn J'onzz came over to them, eyes glowing red. He communicated with them, telepathically.

It's good to see you're both safe.

"J'onn!" Ray exclaimed, delighted. "That's a neat trick!"

Stunned, Sara looked at her friend and J'onn at the same time, stammering:

"Wait, you know J'onn J'onzz from Supergirl's Earth?"

"Of course I know J'onn." Ray replied nonchalantly. (Then he resumed his look of confusion.) "Wait, go back. Supergirl has her own Earth?"

"Not anymore," J'onn said, shaking his head. (At Sara's startled gaze, he added.) "When we restarted the universe, our worlds combined, and only we Paragons know it was ever any different. We're all on the same Earth now. Supergirl. The Avengers. Black Panther. Even the X-Men. We're all together on one Earth."

Sara looked at the Martian in dismay. So her whole world had just changed. While she was lost in thought, Ray still continued with joviality and confusion:

"Okay, sorry, guy, I'm a little lost here."

With a look of understanding, J'onn came to put his hand on Atom's forehead.

"Here, this'll be faster."

Anxious, Ray let his forehead touch him, and was assailed by memories. From the Crisis. From Earth – 38. From the other Waverider and his doppelganger who looked like Superman.

Ray looked confused by all his memories. He tried to come to his senses, with panic.

"Whoa, there was a multiverse. It all got destroyed. There was a Batman who had sacrificed himself, and there's a me that's a super me?" (He smiles proudly at the thought of his Earth – 96's doppelganger.)

Worried, Sara returned her attention to J'onn, who gently reassured her:

"It'll take him some time to assimilate to this new paradigm. I have been going from city to city restoring the memories of our compatriots as best I can. I found Ant-Man and the Wasp. They still have their memories, for they were somewhere in the Quantum Realm when our new universe was created."

"And what about Oliver?" she asked alarmed.

If the universe had been restored to any degree, Oliver Queen might still be alive again. Unfortunately, J'onn looked serious before responding sadly.

"There's been no sign of him."

No sign of him? Was Oliver still dead?

Sara couldn't bring herself to do so and hurriedly left the bar.

"Hey, where are you going?" Ray asked, distraught.

"To find my friend," said young Lance without looking behind her as she left the bar.

She had reached the Green Arrow bunker in Star City. Once the elevator took her to the Arrow's lair, Sara called her friend apprehensively:

"Oliver? Oliver?"

She looked around, but saw no sign of him. She saw the mannequin where the Green Arrow's suit usually sat. But to her disappointment, there was nothing on it.

Sadly, she looked at the stripped mannequin, when she heard a familiar voice:

"Sara?"

She turned around and found John Diggle, Rene Ramirez and Dinah Drake there. All three looked sad.

Moved, she joined them.

"I need to talk to you guys…"

"We already know. We already know." John interrupted in a sad voice.

Sara noticed that Dinah had tears in her eyes. Dig seemed to be holding them back.

"Martian J'onn came by and gave us a splitting headache." Rene explained upset.

"Sara?" said another voice.

The latter turned and saw Clint Barton join the members of Team Arrow. He seemed to have aged ten years. And like the others, he tried to suppress his tears. Sara looked stunned, then remembered that now the Avengers were part of their world.

"Clint?" she exclaimed, stunned. "Why… why are you here?"

The Avengers archer swallows in sorrow as he responds:

"This morning… I was having lunch with my family when… (He sniffed sadly.) The Supergirl's Martian came to my farm… to me too, he gave me a splitting headache with the memories of the Crisis… He told me everything about the new universe… New Earth… All of us together… I asked him for news of Oliver, and he told me… that he had not returned… So I came straight to this city… This Star City… I can't believe a city like this could exist now… Anyway… Oliver's gone…"

"It all happened, didn't it?" Dinah stammered, tears in her eyes.

"He died twice, Sara." John said, crying this time.

"Yeah," agreed the young Lance.

"I wasn't there both times. Both times I failed him."

"Dig, you...…"

"It's okay… I wasn't there.(He cried even more.) He was my brother!"

"I know," Sara agreed. "Listen to me. Look, we all... we all died, the entire universe, the Multiverse. Now we're back that means, Oliver, he might be back too!"

But John didn't share her optimism and went to cry in a corner of the bunker. Clint lowered his head sadly, weeping.

Rene spoke:

"After the brain dump… We had Felicity run a global search. I mean, nobody's better at finding people, but they've got to be here to be found. "

But Sara refused to accept this. She couldn't believe Oliver was actually gone.

"You don't know. Look, when Oliver died, he became something else. He... he called it the Spectre. Then maybe, Felicity, she just can't find him in that form. Dig, Clint, guys, she just can't find him in this form…"

Neither Rene nor Dinah reacted to this. Then Clint answered her:

"I asked Banner and Rhodey to use whatever means they can to try to find Oliver. I did it after the Martian's departure. Before you got there, they contacted me to tell me they couldn't find him."

But Sara continued to shake her head.

"They can't find him because he's the Spectre…"

"Banner has been contacted Doctor Strange," Clint said as if Sara hadn't said anything. "But I don't think he'll find him… He couldn't find Wanda Maximoff, so Oliver… It's highly unlikely!"

"Sara," John continued, joining the young woman. "Sara, gone is gone. He's gone."

At that moment, a golden circle appeared out of nowhere in Arrow's bunker, and then the silhouette of Stephen Strange, aka Doctor Strange arrived in the Arrowcave with a solemn gaze.

"I'm sorry! I looked everywhere in every nook and cranny of the cosmos! There is no Oliver Queen, no Specter! No signs! It was as if he had ceased to exist when this new world came into being. (He looked at Team Arrow in sorrow.) I'm so sorry. I wish I could have found him. All my condolences."

John then looked at Sara, still with tears in his eyes.

"You see, Sara. Like Clint said, he's gone."

"No, no, no, it can't be!" Sara cried with tears in her eyes. "Not Oliver! Not him! He can't be… He can't…"

And she found herself in Dig's arms. Both mourned the death of Oliver Queen. Clint came to put his hand on young Lance's shoulder, sobbing.

Then it was Rene and Dinah who hugged each other, both with tears in their eyes.

Central City

At Star Labs, Caitlin was busy treating Nash Wells, still unconscious in the lab's medical room.

Then footsteps echoed. J'onn, T'Challa (who was wearing the Black Panther outfit) and Shuri entered the hospital wing. The two Wakandans were still amazed at the appearance of this city in their new universe.

Caitlin noticed her three visitors and joined them.

"J'onn? Black Panther? Shuri? What are you doing here? Is something wrong?"

Shuri raised her eyebrows, incredulous at the puzzlement of the young woman, who seemed to act as if she knew them. Even her brother was still surprised.

J'onn responded, eyeing the unconscious Nash in disgust.

"Not anymore, no thanks to him."

The two Wakandans had their eyes fixed on the inert Wells, both were very angry.

"Do you know why he's like this?"Caitlin wondered, not understanding their resentment towards him.

"After what happened to him, it's surprising that he's still alive," Shuri muttered, looking at Nash lifeless.

"I'll show you," J'onn said, putting his hand on the Star Labs scientist's forehead.

Immediately, memories of the Crisis sprang into Caitlin Snow's mind, remembering it all. After a shock, she now looked at Nash Wells with fury, as for the two Wakandans.

"This is all his fault." she whispered.

"Yes, he's the one who released the Anti-Monitor and caused all this whole Crisis," T'Challa replied in a calm voice, but with great fury.

"He paid dearly for his misjudgment," J'onn continued, still furious.

"But not as much as some others." Shuri replied, gazing up at Nash with furious eyes.

Suddenly Nash regained consciousness screaming.

"What happened?" he stammered dazed in confusion. "Where am I? How did I get here?"

"What happened?" Shuri roared angrily. "What happened? Really? I can tell you what happened, you caused the end of the Multiverse! You have doomed countless Earths! Billions of lives…"

"You nearly damned us all to hell, Nash Wells!" J'onn yelled in rage.

Still confused, Nash just nodded, and got up from his bed.

"Well, that's an introduction, ladies and gentlemen. Who the hell are you and what are you talking about?"

"You need to stay calm. Your system's still recovering." Caitlin suggested coldly.

But Nash just chuckled as if it was all a tasteless joke. He grabbed his satchel.

"You… you need to calm down. I'm not gonna stay here, get lectured by some government suit who…"

"You can't demand anything, Wells!" T'Challa snapped back. "Especially after what you did!"

"What I did? Excuse me, Mister – who has strange technological armor – but I've no idea what you're talking about," he continued with indifference.

As he was about to leave, J'onn grabbed him by the shoulder and used his hand to restore his memory. Immediately Nash remembered having caused the whole Crisis. The release of the Anti-Monitor. Pariah. The end of the worlds. All of them.

After the Martian removed his hand from Nash's forehead, Nash gasped in horror and dismay. He leaned on the bed so as not to collapse. The whole weight of guilt hit him like a missile. This time, he no longer took it lightly. He gasped in horror, stammering:

"God! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"

But neither Caitlin nor T'Challa, Shuri or even J'onn shared the slightest empathy with him. All four stared at him angrily.

"It's too late to be sorry! The damage is done!" T'Challa said calmly, but still with an angry look.

"It's not enough that you're sorry!" Shuri bellowed with rage in her eyes.

"And that will never be enough," J'onn added, not calming his rage. "This is all your fault!"

With difficulty, Nash looked at the four people who glared at him, and spoke in a broken voice:

"It is my fault! (Then he walked over to J'onn and T'Challa.) But you... you solved it. You and the others, you saved the universe. You fixed my mistake. Right?"

He gave a look of despair, wanting to convince himself that his fault had been corrected. But judging by the hostile looks of his interlocutors, he realized that wasn't.

"Not entirely!" resumed the Martian angrily.

"From now on, nothing will ever be the same," T'Challa clarified, approaching Nash with an icy look. "And you're gonna have to live with that guilt for the rest of your life, Nash Wells!"

Star City

At the Green Arrow's bunker, Barry, Supergirl, Thor and Peter arrived in the Arrowcave in ecstasy.

"Whoa! What the f…" exclaimed Peter overjoyed.

"So it really happened!" Thor exclaimed stunned, looking at the bunker.

"It's true." Barry added jovially. "We all live on the same Earth now."

"All the Earths must have merged when we helped Oliver reboot the universe." Thor suggested, stepping into the bunker.

"I can't believe it," Supergirl said ecstatically.

Then they came to see the whole Team of Arrow, with Clint Barton and Doctor Strange who didn't share their enthusiasm.

"What are you guys doing here?" Sara asked them in a sad voice.

"We had to see if it was true." replied Supergirl.

"We're exploring the changes in this new Earth," Thor added cheerfully. "I've lived a long life, and I never thought I would see this with my own eyes! A new universe created like this with all of us together, it's incredible! Even for me! If my father would have seen this…"

"The DEO, CatCo, all of National City is on this Earth now!" said the Girl of Steel excitedly. "The Avengers! The Avengers compound! Wakanda! Black Panther! The X-Men! There are even the Fantastic Four! And Argo's up there."

"It means that we did it," added Peter jovial too.

"Yes," Supergirl said, smiling with joy. "We saved everyone!"

Thor smiled, then noticed the grief of everyone in the bunker. He stopped smiling and asked them with a frown:

"What's wrong?"

"We didn't save everyone," Sara said in a tone that was anything but joy.

Immediately, the new heroes ceased to be jovial.

"What's the matter?" Peter asked, taken aback.

Sara walked away.

Then it was Team Arrow who came to welcome the four heroes who had just arrived.

Rene spoke with a somber look:

"Oliver… He didn't make it."

At this revelation, Barry, Supergirl, Thor, and Peter looked upset.

"Oliver hasn't come back?" cried Peter mortified. "Is he… still dead? I thought…"

"He hasn't come back," Clint objected, shaking his head. "He won't."

"His body, whether astral or physical, cannot be found in the entire cosmos," added Doctor Strange.

Peter collapsed to the ground, sobbing. Even Thor was sad.

"When I came to my senses in this new universe…" he stammered with sorrow. "I... I had hoped he could come back to us… Oliver…"

"Guess we just have to face facts." Dinah added.

"No, that's not… that's…" cried Barry upset.

"Why did he give everyone a new start, but not him?" Supergirl retorted with sadness and disbelief.

"Maybe this was the only way, Kara!" John replied with a sad expression. "Maybe his sacrifice made all of this possible. Him for us."

"Surely," Thor agreed with sorrow. "Before he died, he'd said… that it was his destiny. That he was supposed to die during the Crisis, as the Monitor said would happen. An end and a beginning."

"And that's what happened," Strange explained. "The end of our universe as we have known it, and now… the creation of this new Earth. Our reality isn't the same as before. Everything changed. There was no other way than the sacrifice of Oliver Queen for this new universe to emerge. If I had the power to bring him back, I would have. But I can't bring back a dead man."

Then an alarm interrupted them.

"What is that?" Renee said.

John ran over to the bunker monitors.

"We're being attacked."

"By who?" Supergirl declared.

Peter stopped crying and joined the heroes of Team Arrow, wanting to help. Diggle looked at the monitors and said in disbelief:

"You wouldn't believe it if I told you!"

The city of Star City was under attack by… a 50 foot Beebo plush toy. He walked through the streets of the city. The citizens ran in panic to take refuge for shelter. The police fired at the giant stuffed animal, but their bullets had no effect on the giant Beebo, which continued to advance, causing the city ground to shake like small earthquakes.

"BEEBO HUNGRY!" the plush bellowed, stepping forward and sneering.

Thanks for reading and reviewing.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I have planned other changes that will justify Cassie Lang's rejuvenation.