Hey guys. I am so so sorry it took this long to update. First I was moving house and then I suffered from writers block so yeah.
I promise I will update more frequently then this.
This chapter will be set in Oliver's POV and will be Jason and Oliver training. There will be action in the next chapter.
Now on with the show.
Aragorn II Elessar: Thank you so much for your support. To answer your question, no Tony and Pepper did not have Jason. Tony and another woman had Jason. It will be explained in Chapter 4.
Oliver's POV.
After Jason and I were attacked by members of the League of Assassins, I saw that Jason was wounded and decided to bring him back to the Arrow Cave to heal him.
When I got back, Diggle looked ready to explode.
"Are you insane? Why the hell did you bring him back? He could tell the cops about us!" Diggle said.
I shot him an icy glare, and showed him a nearly catatonic Jason.
Imiadetley Dig's face morphed into one of shock and concern.
He ran towards Jason, picking him up and carrying him towards a nearby table, grabbing a medical kit along the way.
He quickly began to examine Jason's wounds to determine how badly he was hurt.
Jason had multiple stab wounds, none of them fatal but he had lost a lot of blood.
Diggle began fixing him up as fast as he could, while I kept my distance.
I hated to admit it, but I couldn't be anywhere near him, because the kid from another universe had grown on me.
He reminded me of myself when I was younger and I could see a lot of potential in him to be a great fighter and hero.
A few hours later Diggle approached me and said, "He'll live, but he's definitely going to have some scars afterwards."
I breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Diggle," I said, "That was a close call."
"Call me when he wakes up," I instructed as I started making my way out the door.
However, before I made it out, I heard Jason muttering something.
I went over to check on him and I heard him mumble about something or someone called Tesserect, Tony and something called Mjølnir.
It all sounded pretty weird to me. Who or what is a Mjølnir?
Additionally, Jason looked as white as a ghost and he had a thin layer of sweat covering his body.
I hoped the herbs were doing their job, because I really didn't want him to die.
It was now a waiting game and there was nothing else I could do, so I decided to stick to my plan and head out to the Queens Mansion.
As I left, I kept thinking about how he reacted when we got attacked and I couldn't help but wonder what he would be like if I got a chance to train him.
He seemed to have a lot of potential as a fighter and with some help, not only could he become great, he could even become a valuable addition to my team.
About five hours later, I got a call from Diggle informing me that Jason had regained concisions, so I headed back to the Arrow Cave.
"Hey Jason how are you feeling?" I asked him when I walked in.
"Like I got dropped on my head from a thousand feet in the sky," Jason groaned.
I chuckled.
"Well you sure look a hell of a lot better than you did earlier, that's for sure. I'm glad you made it man. I would have hated to lose you the first day we met," I said half jokingly half seriously.
Jason grinned at me and said, "Yeah, that would have sucked, wouldn't it? Especially for me!"
After a few minutes of chit chat I decided to take the chance and ask him what I really wanted to ask.
"Jason, I have a proposition for you," I said.
Jason frowned.
"Yeah, I'm listening" he replied.
I took a deep breath.
"Well I would like you to join my team. You see, here in my world I am a vigilante known as the Arrow. I would like to train you and have you join me in my quest to save Starling City from the guys who attacked you earlier, and all the other villains trying to destroy our way of life here."
Jason looked at me with an odd expression on his face.
"Before I give you an answer, can you tell me if you can you get me home?" he asked.
I concealed my emotions.
To be honest I had no idea if I could.
"Maybe I can, but I can't promise you anything other than that I will do my best. But in the meantime, I can train you and help you become a better fighter. So, what do you say? Do you want to give it a shot?" I asked him.
Jason took in a deep breath.
"Okay, I accept. As long as you keep helping me find a way back home, I will help you clean up Starling City of all the trash."
I grinned.
"Wonderful. When you are feeling better, we can begin training." I said.
"Now rest up and I'll chat to you again a bit later," I said before walking off to find Diggle.
"Hey Dig, Jason is joining the team," I said.
Diggle looked at me curiously, but nodded.
I suspect he was wondering why I was willing to trust a virtual stranger with all our secrets.
Maybe he could already tell that I was growing attached to the boy.
I wasn't sure myself why I would take him on and train him as a member of our team, but I instinctively knew I could trust him and that he would prove to be very helpful somewhere along the line.
"Catch up with you later," I said and walked away.
I had a feeling this was going to be the start of a new adventure.
Maybe he could even get some serious fighting skills when he was feeling better.
Little did I know how right I was.
Jason healed quickly thanks to the herbs from Lian Yu that I had brought and within a few hours he was already showing signs of improvement.
The first thing I noticed was his skin colour was slowly returning.
"Hey Jason, how are you feeling?" I asked him.
"Quite good actually," Jason replied.
"How the hell am I already healed? Did you use magic? Okay, I'm joking about the magic… wait… did you?" Jason asked.
I laughed.
"No actually it was special herbs from an island called Lian Yu. They are from a special underwater plant. They provide rapid healing" Oliver said.
"Sweet. You have got to give me some of those. It takes weeks to heal from those types of injuries on my Earth. Dr Helen Cho would love to have some of these" Jason said.
"Helen Cho?" I asked having never heard of her.
"One of the smartest people on my Earth. She's a famous scientist and neurobiologist and she's one of my colleagues."
"Sounds like an interesting lady," I replied, "Maybe I can get to meet her one day. We can swap healing secrets."
"By the way… when you were unconscious, you were muttering some pretty weird thing. Who or what is a Mjølnir?" I asked.
"Its Thor's hammer" Jason replied.
"Thor has a hammer?" I asked.
"Yep. Only the worthy can wield it," Jason replied.
"I wonder if I would be worthy." I said.
"Maybe. He is rather old fashioned though. He doesn't like anyone else to touch it unless he approves of them," Jason replied.
"And the Tesserect? What is that?" I asked.
"It is a glowing cube. Loki used it to open the portal that let the Chitauri attack New York," Jason replied.
"Oh okay," I said.
Dam but his Earth sounded weird.
"I would like to visit your Earth someday" I said.
"That would be nice. I'd love to show you the Avengers Tower. It is insanely cool," Jason replied.
"And Tony is your dad, right?" I asked.
"Yep. He is Iron Man," Jason replied with a grin.
"Sounds like they're a cool team. I would like to meet Hawkeye and Black Widow sometime. I'd be curious to swap stories with them," I said wistfully.
"Well if we get there, I will introduce you to them. I have a feeling you guys would get along pretty well," Jason said.
"Probably. These Avengers sound fun. So you guys have only been attacked once, right?" I asked him.
I was full of questions but Jason seemed to enjoy answering them.
"Yep, by the Chitauri. They're giant snake like creatures that come out the sky. My dad had to fly a nuclear warhead into the portal. We fought to the very last. It was so awesome," Jason said with a glint in his eye.
"Sounds like you guys handle yourselves well under pressure. I look forward to hearing more about your adventures," I said and Jason grinned nodding his head.
"In the meantime, give yourself a day to rest and if you're feeling up to it, we can start some light training. By the way, you can rest at my house for now. Tomorrow I'll arrange for you to stay with Diggle. It will be more convenient that way," I added.
With that, we headed back to the Queen Mansion.
Tomorrow we would start training.
One day later.
The next day, I was pleased to see that Jason looked 100 times better than the day before.
The herbs had obviously done their work and he was almost fully healed.
After a light breakfast, we headed out to the Arrow Cave.
"Okay Jason, are you feeling up to some light training today?" I asked.
"Definitely," he replied, "Let's get it on!"
"Cool," I said nodding.
This kid had balls, I'll give him that.
"Okay so let's do some simple stretches to warm up before we get started," I said.
I showed him several basic stretches and he try to follow my lead.
By god he was the least supple person I had ever seen in my life.
It was quite amusing to watch him groan as he tried to touch his toes or bend from side to side.
After a while I told him to stop.
"Okay, so let's get started. Begin by standing on that line," I said pointing towards the area where I had set up a training ground.
"So, the goal is simple. Get past me and ring that bell. Use any means necessary," I said as Jason got himself ready.
Jason, nodded.
Then suddenly he ran at me, only for me to backhand him across the face, sending him to the ground.
He groaned and got back up before trying the same tactic again.
It didn't work out for him as a punch to the stomach sent him to the ground.
"Get up," I said.
"Remember, you have one goal and that's get to the bell."
Angered, Jason tried to hit me in the face, only for me to dodge and hit him under the chin with an uppercut.
Several more times I hit him, until he was lying on the ground, exhausted and in pain.
"Come on man! What is the point of this? To beat me up?" Jason asked, his face red with anger.
"The goal of this exercise is to figure out the goal of this exercise," I said simply.
Jason ran at me but instead of running straight at me, he side stepped and rolled under me before sprinting towards the bell and ringing it.
I am pretty sure I had a look of surprise on my face because Jason grinned like a madman.
"Ha! You thought you had me, didn't you?" he said with a satisfied look on his face.
I grinned. "Well Jason, looks like you are ready for the next level of training," I said and pointed to where the salmon ladder was.
"Now try to do a pull-up and then flip the bar to the next hook," I said.
Jason tried but ended up falling flat on his face.
I shook my head.
This kid needed work!
Then again eight years ago, I wasn't that good either.
We carried on for a little while, with me putting Jason through various exercises, mostly to test his skill level.
By the end, he was exhausted and sweating profusely.
"Okay kid, take a break. We will continue the training tomorrow. Dig will give a lift back to his place," I said and walked off.
Jason's POV.
That was the toughest level of training I had had in well…ever.
Even Clint Barton didn't push me this hard.
I stumbled towards the fridge and got myself a bottle of water.
The water felt cool against my parched throat.
I sighed with relief, glad that the gruelling training was over for the day.
Dig found me a few minutes later.
"Hey Jason. Are you ready to leave?" he asked.
Too tired to speak I just nodded and followed him to his car.
Fifteen minutes later, we were at his apartment.
"Hey Jason, you can take the bed, I'll sleep on the couch," Diggle said.
Ordinarily, I would have protested as I don't like to put people out, but I was even too tired for that, so I just nodded.
"Thanks Diggle," I said as I fell into the bed, already half asleep.
Yet, I just couldn't fully relax.
One thing kept bothering me, and that was the vision I had.
I had a feeling that shit was about to get even crazier.
And boy was I right…
And Chapter 2 is done. I hope you guys enjoyed it. The next chapter will feature Jason is action.
Also I am thinking about having Jason get a love interest. It can be either Marvel, DC or an OC. Let me know on your opinion.
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