AN: Remember Justin Hartley's Oliver Queen (Oliver 1) is older than Stephen Amell's (Oliver 2). If you don't know that this chapter will be super confusing. Also (spoiler) we're going to be dealing with three fricking Oliver Queens in this chapter. I admit that I don't have the talent to handle three characters with the same name but we're gonna try. I've gotten a few reviews saying I should rewrite all the parts with the Olivers to make it less confusing, and I agree, but I want to make know that enough people think it's necessary. (I'll probably change the title too since that's just embarrassing). Also sorry I was gone for almost 3 years. Things happened and I never felt happy with it.
Chapter 19
"Where'd the box go?" Oliver 1 asked.
"I'm sure it fell on the floor somewhere," Oliver 2 said.
"No," Barry commented, "I'm pretty sure it disappeared.
While Barry and the two Oliver Queens searched the floor for the box, Clark took in their surroundings. "We're on a different earth," he muttered.
"What? You mean the Count's Earth, Earth-20?" the elder Oliver asked. Clark nodded.
"This is so cool," Barry exclaimed.
"No, it really isn't," the younger Oliver said, "and I would really like to get back to S.T.A.R. Labs!"
The first Green Arrow glanced around the room. "I think this is S.T.A.R. Labs."
"Freeze!" shouted a familiar female voice. The four heroes turned around to see Caitlin and Cisco holding up their hands, threateningly. They were nearly identical to the Caitlin and Cisco on Earth-1 except that Caitlin's hair was white and Cisco was wearing a pair of high-tech sunglasses.
"Ignore the pun because we are serious," Cisco said, "Whatever you were thinking of doing, Ultraman, don't, or I will vibe you into next week.
Clark put his hands up in surrender. "Calm down, I'm not Ultraman."
"That's exactly what Ultraman would say."
"He's telling the truth," Barry said, "Trust me."
"Why should we trust you?" Caitlin asked, "We don't know who you are." Barry's face fell.
"We're from the Mirror World," the elder Oliver explained, "the Mirror Box brought us over from our earth to yours. My name is Oliver Queen. He's Barry Allen and he's Clark Kent." Oliver gestured to Barry and Clark, then he placed his arm over the younger Oliver. "And this is the knockoff Oliver Queen."
"Shut up," Oliver muttered.
Caitlin and Cisco lowered their hands, understanding. "Oliver Queen? He's dead," Cisco said.
"Which one?" Barry asked.
"Both of them," Caitlin explained.
The younger Oliver threw his hands up in the air. "Well that's fantastic."
Cisco squinted at Clark. "So, you're really not Ultraman?"
Clark nodded. "The only thing we have in common is our rugged good looks," he deadpanned.
"You can say that again. I'm Vibe, but you can call me Cisco, and this is Frost."
As Cisco introduced her, Frost's hair faded from icy blue to brunette. "I prefer Caitlin."
"Nice to meet you," Oliver 2 said, "Do you two know how to get back?"
"You can't get back to the Mirror World without a box," Caitlin explained, "we would lend you ours, but Dr. Wells has it and we haven't seen him in a few days."
Barry stepped forward. "Dr. Wells? Do you know where he is?"
"No, he didn't actually say where he was going," Cisco said, "but it seemed personal."
Oliver, Clark, Barry, and Oliver shared a look. "So, there's no way to get back?" the elder Oliver asked.
"The last time I came here, Ultraman broke the Mirror Box that had brought me. It had transported me back when Chloe and Emil fixed it, almost like an automatic undo," Clark said.
"Do the others know that?" the Arrow asked.
"Chloe was there," Barry said excitedly.
Clark nodded. "She'll know what to do. Knowing Chloe, she's probably working on it right now. We could also head to the North pole and Jor-El could send us back."
"Who's Jor-El?" the younger Queen asked.
"My father."
"I don't know about you guys, but I want to know how I died," the first Oliver said.
Barry shrugged. "I don't have any preference."
"Woohoo! Let's go see my grave!" Oliver started to walk out of the cortex, but then turned to Cisco and Caitlin. "Where am I buried?"
"Smallville," Cisco answered.
"Smallville! Smallville?"
"Hey, watch it," Clark snapped playfully.
Barry glanced down and realized that the four of them were still in their suits. He turned to Caitlin and Cisco. "You guys wouldn't happen to have some extra clothes lying around, would you?"
Xxx
The four of them left STAR Labs wearing matching sweatpants. Barry was wearing a navy-blue STAR Labs sweater, while Clark and the Olivers were wearing hoodies with the hoods up so that they wouldn't attract attention.
"So, how are we going to get there?" the younger Oliver asked. Clark and Barry shared a look before they grabbed their Oliver and made their way to Smallville Cemetery. The four of them hid behind a tree when they realized that the cemetery wasn't empty.
"Is that Lois?" Oliver asked. Clark nodded. "What is she doing at my grave?"
"She's mourning you. You were her husband."
Oliver looked and Clark, trying to determine if he was serious. "I guess that would make sense, then," Oliver whispered when he realized he wasn't joking, "with the other you being evil and all." They had been silent for a few minutes watching Lois when he spoke up again. "If you know all this, then you know how I'd died, right?"
"It was Clark Luthor," Clark explained, "Ultraman."
"Damn, I hate Luthors." Clark was extremely relieved that that was how Oliver had viewed Ultraman, not as Clark's double, but as a Luthor."
The four of them waited until Lois was gone, then solemnly approached the elder Oliver Queen's grave. The other three gave Oliver space as he knelt at his doppelganger's grave. The group stood in silence that was broken when the elder Queen spoke, "This Earth sucks." His companions nodded behind him. "I mean, the most handsome man of this planet is dead and decomposing right below us."
"Don't you take anything seriously?" the other Oliver growled, irritated, "you're dead, and your laughing as if it's nothing."
"It is nothing!" he yelled, "I'm not dead, he is."
"You don't care about his family, that your family, is missing you?"
"I don't have a family," the elder snapped. Then added softly, "not anymore."
Barry spoke up, looking off in the distance at something. "You have a wife."
"Yeah, and I love Chloe, but we don't love each other on this Earth."
"Oliver? Is that you?" came a familiar voice several yards away.
"Yeah, I was talking about Lois," Barry explained as they watched her return to the grave.
Clark pulled his hood lower to cover more of his face. "We should leave."
"Why?" Oliver 2 asked.
"She has kryptonite." Without another word, Barry and Clark picked up the Queens and reached Starling City in a few seconds.
"It almost looks the same." Oliver saw the familiar green glow of Verdant's sign down the street.
Barry was looking the other way at the sunset. "Should we be in the Glades at night? In civilian clothes, I mean. I know we can handle it, but this city at night is still pretty unsettling."
"We can handle it," the elder Oliver said, "we have two vigilantes, a speedster, and a Kryptonian. Anyone who tries to mug us would be an idiot."
The click of three safeties being turned off echoed behind them in the deserted street. The four heroes turned around slowly and saw three large guys with guns pointed at them. Barry sighed, "Not again."
"Did you not hear what I just said?" Oliver asked them, "because if you did, you're stupider than I thought a mugger could be."
"Shut up and give us your money."
The younger Oliver leaned towards the group. "I don't know about you guys but I don't have any money," he whispered.
"Shut up!" said one of the thugs. A flash of green took out the guy on the left. He fell with an arrow in his hand and leg.
"No way!" One of the thugs yelled.
"I thought he was dead!" The other said, nearly hysteric. He looked pointedly at Clark, who shrugged.
"I thought he was dead too."
The Green Arrow landed in front them and took on the thugs in a short fight. He was about to leave when both Olivers shouted, "Wait!"
He turned around slowly, the exposed facial features not matching either of the known Arrows. His eyes widened when he took in the men in front of him.
"Oliver?" he asked, his voice modulator turned off. His outfit matching exactly with Starling's Oliver Arrow suit.
Oliver recognized the voice immediately. "Tommy?"
"You're supposed to be dead," Tommy said, looking not at the doppelganger of his lifelong friend, but at the other Oliver Queen
"Yeah, I know. I'm not your Oliver. It's hard to explain," the elder Oliver Queen said.
"You're from another universe."
"Yeah actually," Barry said, "How'd you know?"
"The Count. He talked about leaving to go to a different universe."
"Yeah, we met him," the younger Oliver said, "he also said that he had killed your version of me."
Tommy smirked slightly. "He tried his best."
"You mean that he's still alive?" Clark asked.
"I'll show you." He guided the group to the back entrance of Verdant, which was beginning to get the day's customers. He opened the basement door and down the stairs to the Arrowcave which was identical to the one on Earth-1 except for the make-shift medical bay with an unconscious Oliver Queen. All four vigilantes were speechless at the sight of Earth-20's Oliver Queen looking weak.
Clark was the first to speak. "What happened to him?"
"The Count had overdosed him with Vertigo."
Barry walked towards the ill Oliver. "Is he in a coma?"
"No," Oliver's doppleganger said as he sat up, "I'm just resting." Barry shouted and instinctively sped to the other side of the Arrowcave. He raised an eyebrow. "I was overdosed over a year ago. The only thing wrong with me is I'm down a kidney."
"How did this happen?" Clark asked.
"During Thea's trial," Dopple-Oliver explained, "the Count figured out who I was, he kidnapped Felicity. He almost overdosed her when I jumped inbetween them and got the full force of the drug." He chuckled bitterly. "Slade was pissed. He didn't make a move until I was coherent again and by that point Tommy had taken over as the Green Arrow."
"If you've been coherent for so long, why are you living…here?" the first Oliver asked.
"It's best if the Count believes that I'm dead and Tommy's the current Arrow. It'll keep Felicity safe."
"Well, the good news is he believes it. I ran into him over on our earth. Felicity's safe."
The doppelganger visibly sagged. "That's a relief. Neither of us could confirm without exposing the secret."
"So it seems like the only person actually dead is me," the elder Oliver complained.
"Well we don't know about Barry," Clark said. They all turned to look at the speedster. "Do you want see how the other you lives?"
Barry thought about it before shaking his head. "It's like you said, Oliver. The Chloe of this earth doesn't love you. She's not your Chloe and whatever Henry and Nora Allen are like on this earth, they're not my parents and I won't be me."
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Pushed for time, Chloe had sent Bart to pick up Emil so he arrived at S.T.A.R. with glue and the DNA familial DNA results for Oliver Queen in his bag. He and Chloe delicately placed pieces together. After this was done, he wanted to smash the mirror box himself.
