Chapter 4.
Hey everyone. So sorry it took this long to update, its just high school exams are hectic and I haven't gotten time to write. The next chapter will hopefully come a lot sooner.
Anyway, this chapter picks up from the last one. It also features a surprise later on in the chapter.
Also I can confirm this now, the sequel to this story will cover alternate versions of Invasion, Crisis on Earth X, Infinity War and Endgame while the final part of the Trilogy will cover alternate versions of Elseworlds, Arrow season 8, and Crisis on Infinite Earths.
To everyone who has reviewed, followed and favirouted so far, thank you.
On with the show.
Jason's POV.
To say I was confused was the understatement of the year.
This was weirder than being sucked through a black hole and finding myself in Starling City.
Wait a minute…
Was this another black hole?
How did I get here?
One minute I was falling to my demise, the next I was in some weird pocket dimension.
The armoured man was not helping my case either.
All he was doing was staring at me.
It was creepy, man.
"Uh, who are you?" I asked feeling a little scared.
"I am Mar Novu but you may call me the Monitor. I have taken an interest in you. You are a very fascinating individual. I also need to recruit you," the man called Mar Novu said.
"What for?" I asked, now curious.
"A Crisis is immanent. Someone is coming, someone far more powerful then myself. I mean to prepare. I am testing individuals across the Multiverse to find a select few that are hopefully strong enough to stand against him, in the hopes that this group of champions will be able to save the Multiverse. You are the second person out of hundreds I have placed under fire who has managed to pass the first test. For all the good it did you," Novu said smirking slightly.
I looked at him as though he was crazy!
I had no idea what he was talking about and I had had enough with people talking about "recruiting" me.
"Listen dude, I don't care about your problems, I just want to go home," I said, feeling angry.
I was tempted to punch him in the face, anything to get him to send me home but, before I could move, a portal erupted in front of me and I landed back where I started on the podium.
"You show potential. Let us see if it is anything more," Novu said.
"What the hell are talking about?" I asked as Novu waved his hand and a portal appeared behind me and I fell into darkness.
When I woke up, I was back in a snowy mountain forest.
I looked around and saw Oliver staring at me like I just fell out the sky (which to be fair, I did).
"Oliver, are you okay?" I asked.
"Forget about me. Where the hell have you been man? I hit the bottom of the cliff and you weren't there. Then three hours later, you fall out of the sky. What is going on?" Oliver said.
I took a deep breath and explained everything: How I disappeared and wound up in a pocket dimension, how I met Novu and how he explained his mission.
I finished by telling him how Novu was even now, testing me to see if I was worthy of saving the Multiverse.
When I stopped talking, Oliver looked at me in bewilderment.
He was clearly reeling from the information.
"Do you think he was joking?" he asked.
"Probably not. I tried to hit him and he teleported me back to where I was standing when I fell through the portal," I said.
"Well no matter what, we must be ready for anything he sends at us," Oliver said and I nodded.
"Come we must try to find the nearest settlement and get hold of Diggle. Right now my phone just doesn't seem to have much of a signal. Maybe the closer we get to civilization the better our chances of getting help and the hell out of here," he said and marched off heading in a Northerly direction.
We kept on walking for several miles and I soon noticed that my broken nose was healed.
"How did this happen?" I wondered, "Could I have been mistaken before and it was never really broken? Nah! It was broken. I'm pretty sure about that. So, what or maybe who fixed it? Could it have been Novu and if it was him, how powerful is this guy?"
As I was thinking about all this, a snowstorm had started to swirl around us.
"Jason, we need to find a cave to take shelter in," Oliver said urgently, snapping me out of my thoughts.
Fortunately, it wasn't long before we found a cave.
Oliver busied himself with making a fire with some twigs from the surrounding trees, while I focused on trying to close the cave mouth with any rocks I could find lying around outside.
Soon the fire was blazing and the cave door was sealed to the best of my ability, which wasn't that, great I might add as I had never really done this before.
We sat by the fire in silence.
"So Jason, seeing as we stuck here for a while, what exactly happened with Mar Novu? Oliver asked in a serious tone.
"Well when we were falling off that cliff, he teleported me to his weird dimension. He then explained that he was trying to recruit me to save the Multiverse from a "Crisis" of some kind, whatever that means. He also said he was further testing me to see if I was worthy of saving the Multiverse. Don't know how, don't know when," I explained.
Oliver looked deep in thought before we went back into silence.
After a while he broke the silence again.
"So Jason, we have been together for a few months now and I don't want to pry, but I'd really like to learn more about you," he said.
"Oh, okay," I replied, "What do you want to know?"
"Well… I know quite a bit about your father, but you never talk about your mom. So, how about you start there and tell me a bit about her?" Oliver said.
Crap! That's not what I was expecting, but maybe it was time for me to come clean.
I took a deep breath.
"Well, you see… back in the day, my dad was a playboy who slept with just about everyone. One day there was a party, and my dad had a little bit too much to drink. When he woke up the next morning, he was in bed with this woman named Samantha Wiseman. Nine months later, I was born. To give him some credit, he stuck around and tried to do his best, but the stress of being a father all of a sudden got to him and he turned to drink for solace. He became an alcoholic. My mom didn't want me raised by an alcoholic and left him. She decided to move to San Diego, to make a better life for herself and me, but that didn't work out because she started taking drugs to cope. She became an addict. She fought it off for months but in the end, she picked up a handgun, turned it on herself and shot herself in the head. And that's the story of my mom," I explained feeling the pain coming back.
Oliver looked at me with pity in his eyes.
"I'm so sorry Jason. My dad also shot himself in front of me, and then, an old friend turned enemy, Slade Wilson, drove a sword right through my mothers heart in front of my sister and I. So, I know a bit about how you feel," Oliver said.
At that moment, I realized that Oliver and I were so similar. We had both lost people we loved. He was basically an older version of me.
I suppose, since I was spilling my guts to Oliver and we had nowhere to go, now was a good time to tell him the rest of my weird story.
"By the way… I have something else I want to tell you, but you might think I'm crazy," I said to him.
Oliver looked at me with curiosity in his eyes.
"What are you talking about?" he asked.
"Well… there's actually another world in my universe. It is home to many species. Mostly humans, Elves, Dwarves and a race of shape shifters. I have a connection to that world. My ancestor was Glorfindal, mightiest amongst Elves. He was a great fighter and even though the great Elven kingdom named Gondolin was destroyed, he fought and killed a great demon called a Balrog. Before that however, he had children and eventually, some of them came to Earth and interbred with humans. My mother was one of his descendants, which makes me one too," I explained.
By the end of my story, Oliver was staring at me like I had just said pigs could fly on my Earth.
"What?" was all Oliver could muster.
"Yeah. My ancestor is in Elf" I said.
"How do you know that your ancestor is an Elf?" he asked me.
"Well I went through my mother's journals…you know, after she died and found out that Glorfindal was my ancestor. I initially thought she was crazy, which considering her mental health at that stage, it wouldn't be a surprise," I explained.
"Well how did you figure out she wasn't crazy?" Oliver asked.
"Well I went to the mirror one day, and I found out I had gold irises. I could also see further and I had pointed ears, which I can change in order to blend in with the world," I said.
"Can you show me?" he asked.
"Sure" I replied and changed my ears to show they were pointed.
Oliver looked stunned.
"Wow. What else did your ancestor do?" Oliver asked me.
"Well, he served as a general in Gondolin under the kingship of the Elf Turgon. The Dark Lord, Morgoth attacked Gondolin with an entire army. Glorfindal managed to evacuate the populace away from the burning city. While on a cliff however, they were ambushed by a giant, fiery demon called a Balrog. Glorfindal tackled the beast off a cliff and battled it. He managed to kill the Balrog but it dragged him down with it and he died. His body was recovered and they buried him in the mountain. And that was the day I chose to forever honour my ancestor," I said.
"Holy crap, your ancestor sounds awesome!" Oliver said after a while.
"I know right?" I said with a smile.
We sat in silence for about another few minutes before suddenly, his phone started ringing.
"Your phone is working again," I said in excitement.
"Who's calling you?" I asked.
"It's Lyla Michaels. She's an old friend of mine who works for a government organization called ARGUS. It's our version of what you explained was called SHIELD in your world," Oliver explained before answering the call.
"Lyla. How are you?" he asked her.
"Where the hell are you?" was the reply.
"In a cave, somewhere in the mountains, but no idea where, it could be the Himalayas or Canada for all I know," Oliver answered.
"Okay, keep your signal on, so I can track you. I'll send a chopper to pick you up," Lyla said.
"Will do Lyla. See you soon, I hope," Oliver replied.
Before Oliver could fill me in on the details, a loud growl echoed outside the cave door.
Oliver was on his feet instantly.
So was I as I picked up a burning log.
A large wolf like creature appeared inside the cave.
Danm but it had extremely sharp teeth!
"Oliver, I think this could be part of Novu's test to see if I was worthy" I said and he nodded.
The wolf leapt straight at me and I hit it with the log.
It yelped in pain but honestly, I think I just pissed it off.
It came at me again and this time, it swiped my face with its claws.
I screamed in pain.
Oliver leapt onto its back and stabbed it repeatedly with arrows.
The beast snarled and threw him off.
Then, it picked me up with its mouth and shoved my face into the burning fire.
I screamed as my flesh began to burn and melt.
Oliver drew an explosive arrow to try and save me, but the wolf threw spikes into Oliver's stomach.
"Of course the wolf can throw porcupine quills," I thought to myself sarcastically.
Despite my pain, I knew I couldn't give up.
I picked up another burning log and jammed it into the wolfs mouth before kicking down into its stomach.
The wolf yelped before disappearing in a cloud of ash.
Relief swept over me, but I couldn't celebrate as my face was on fire. Literally.
Oliver picked me up before slinging me over his shoulder and sprinting out the cave and into the snow covered landscape.
He started putting snow on my face.
I could feel the pain and I knew the injuries were petty bad, but I felt strangely detached. Like I was watching my body from the outside.
Suddenly, a helicopter appeared out of nowhere and landed nearby.
A woman with dark hair stepped out and I assumed this was Lyla.
"Lyla, your timing couldn't be better. I don't know how you found us so fast but we need to get him back to HQ now!" Oliver said to the woman.
She nodded and motioned for Oliver to carry me to the helicopter.
As much as I wanted to pass out I couldn't.
A few painful hours later and I was back at the Arrow Cave and on a table.
Oliver carried me inside and through the haze I noticed that Diggle, Felicity, Laurel and Roy were all there.
"Oliver, where have you been man?" Diggle asked.
"No time to talk, I'll explain later," Oliver replied curtly, showing him my limp body.
"What the hell happened to him this time?" Diggle asked, "Okay, never mind we'll talk about it after he's taken care of."
"Felicity is there any way to heal him?" asked Oliver.
Felicity shook her head.
"Mirakuru," Oliver said.
Diggle, Felicity, Roy, Laurel and Lyla all stared at him like he was crazy.
Oliver rushed out of the room.
A few minutes latter he returned carrying a box of syringes that were all filled with some type of blue liquid.
He jammed five of them into my arm.
I felt like I was exploding.
Blood was shooting out my eyes from the pain.
That was when I blacked out.
When I woke up, I was back in the Monitor's realm.
"Ah! You have passed my test Jason Stark. Well done," he said with a smile.
"Yeah, so what? I got my face burnt off because of you," I said angrily.
"Relax. You are fine. It was all part of the test, which you have passed admirably. However, I have to go now. I have other individuals to recruit from across the Multiverse. You will have time with your friends before I come back to get you. Use your time wisely," Novu said.
I barely had time to figure out what he was talking about before I vanished again.
When I woke up again, I was in the Arrow Cave. Alone.
My first thought was that I no longer felt that intense, searing pain in my face.
Tentatively, I put a hand on my cheek, but instead of finding my flesh charred, my skin felt completely smooth.
I got up and walked to the bathroom.
I wanted to see why my face no longer felt burnt off.
What I saw stunned me. The flesh was completely healed.
"Yeah okay, I've seen just about everything now," I muttered as I looked for a clean shirt and some pants to change into seeing as my stuff was in tatters.
Then, I went to find Oliver.
Boy was I tired.
Tired of life.
I mean come on, first I end up in a strange universe, and then I end up fighting ninjas, following that with a creepy dude who was trying to recruit me to save the Multiverse from annihilation. Then my face gets burned which makes me look like Freddy Krueger. And finally my face is completely healed.
Yep, something was up, I just didn't know what.
I was walking towards the Queen Consolidated building when I heard someone shouting, "Someone please help!"
I ran in the direction of the voice and saw a car had overturned and a young woman was trapped inside it.
I decided to try and budge the car a little bit to try and drag her out, but to my shock, rather than move it a bit, I actually lifted it up as if it was nothing.
I threw the car aside and drawing upon my Boy Scout skills in First Aid began trying to stop the bleeding.
At the same time, I grabbed her phone and dialled 911.
Within five minutes an ambulance arrived and I decided to go with her to make sure she was okay.
About an hour later, Oliver walked into the hospital.
"Jason are you okay? I saw what happened on the news and I got here as quickly as I could," Oliver said.
"Dude how can I be okay? When I woke up, my face was completely healed. And then when I saved that woman, I lifted the car like it was nothing. What the hell did you inject me with?" I asked.
Oliver took a deep breath. "This is not the place or the time to talk about this. Meet me back at the club tonight and I will explain everything," he said and I nodded.
Yep guys this is how my life started going to hell.
I knew that something bad was coming from what Novu said.
He sounded anxious… almost scared.
Whatever could scare Novu was definitely a force to be reckoned with.
If I was to survive this Crisis that Novu was talking about, then I needed to become someone else.
Something else.
BOOM! How was that?
So to address some things:
The being as you can see was Mar Novu aka the Monitor from the Elseworlds crossover. And I can confirm this now: Crisis on Infinite Earths will be the major event of the "Legend" Trilogy and will be the final story arc in the trilogy.
As you can see, the Monitor is gathering a team of people to save the Multiverse from the Anti Monitor. The Anti Monitor will be the main antagonist of the trilogy. Now the team will consist of a mixture of OC's and characters that have already appeared in the MCU and Arrowverse so far. Give me your suggestions for who you would like to see. Although, I have some rules:
Not characters that are major players, for example: Clint Barton isn't going to join.
Not characters that are dead.
And it can also be non Marvel and non DC characters as well. Give me your suggestions for who you would like to see in the Trilogy.
Now as you can see, Middle Earth is a realm within the MCU and before you ask, yes I do have plans to bring it in at some point in the trilogy.
And Jason is the descendant of Glorfindal. Obviously he doesn't know Glorfindal is alive but he will encounter him at some point.
And Jason was injected with Mirakuru. This however is an adapted version of it, which gives the user superhuman strength, speed, endurance, instincts and healing, but doesn't turn him into a raging psychopath.
Now hopefully the next chapter will be up a lot sooner then this one.
And don't forget to give me your suggestions.
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