Chapter 6.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter. This chapter will deal with Jason meeting Barry Allen and Team Flash.
Also I realise that the previous chapter didn't explain the visions Jason had so this chapter will.
I recently watched the season premiere of Arrow season 8. I was hesitant at first due to the previous two seasons being terrible. I decided to give it a shot though and I must say it was EPIC! I really enjoyed the call-back to season 1.
This chapter will also feature our first appearance of the main villain of the "Legend" Trilogy.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed and favirouted this fic so far.
On with the show.
Jason's POV.
"So we are going where now?" I asked Oliver.
"You, Felicity and I are going on a road trip to Central City," he replied, "We're going to be gone for a few days."
"Okay," I grumbled, "but next time, don't surprise me with shit like this. I hate surprises!"
He just smirked at me as we finished loading the car, climbed in and headed towards Central City.
It was a 4 hour drive and Oliver filled me in on the way.
We were meeting a man named Barry Allen aka The Flash.
Apparently, he had been struck by lightning nine months before I arrived, and he woke up being able to run faster then the speed of sound.
Although that sounded awesome, I wasn't too surprised to hear that a guy like that actually existed.
After all… once you have fought aliens, fallen through a black hole into another Universe, been teleported to a pocket dimension and met with Mar Novu, enlisted to save the Multiverse and injected with Mirakuru and become super human, nothing really surprises you anymore.
The four hour drive was long and tiring and I couldn't wait to get to Central City and get some rest.
Central City looked almost identical to Starling City.
Like literally identical.
Eventually, we had arrived at some place called Jitters Coffee.
According to Felicity, it served the best coffee in the whole of the US and it's where we were supposed to meet up with Barry Allen and his adoptive father Joe to discuss fighting an Enhanced individual who was doing criminal activities.
I scanned the crowd, looking for someone who might look like The Flash.
Of course, how would I know what he would look like? Humans with super powers looked just like everyone else these days, so I could be staring at Barry and not even know it.
With that thought, I sat back and focused more on the coffee in front of me.
"Barry, over here," called Oliver.
I looked up and saw a young dark haired man about the same age as me and an older man with a cop badge pinned on his shirt walking towards us.
"Barry, Joe. Long time no see," Oliver said shaking Joe's and then Barry's hand.
Barry then turned to give Felicity a hug.
"Hey guys, how have you been? I've missed you," he said.
He then turned to me and said with a smile, "Hi, I'm Barry Allen and this is my adoptive father Joe."
"Hi Barry, Joe, nice to met you both," I replied, "I'm Jason Stark."
They both shook my hand.
Joe then turned to Oliver and said, "I take it you are here to catch the new metahuman who has appeared in town?"
Oliver nodded.
"We need the equipment in STAR Labs to do it," he said and Barry nodded.
"Well let's not waste anymore time. If you guys are ready, let's get going," said Joe.
With that, we all headed out to what they were all calling STAR Labs.
Apparently it was once the biggest business in the scientific industry until a particle accelerator they were activating exploded.
Everyone else knew each other and apparently about the mission except me and I felt out of place and awkward.
For now, I was still in the dark. Oliver hadn't really filled me in on what the mission was about and all he kept saying when I asked for details was, "Wait and see."
It was frustrating.
When we got there, Barry led us towards the cortex where a young brunette woman, a Latino man and a man in a wheelchair were busy working on a computer.
"Hey guys, look who's here," said Barry.
The woman and the Latino man turned and greeted Oliver and Felicity enthusiastically, while the man in the wheelchair just smiled.
Barry then added, "And this here is Jason Stark. He's helping us capture The Mist. Jason, this is Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow and Harrison Wells."
I smiled at everyone.
"Pleased to meet you all,' I said.
For some reason, I felt a little nervous of the one called Harrison Wells.
He was staring at me in a creepy, weird kind of way.
I wasn't sure why, but something about him felt "off" to me.
Barry was talking when Wells interrupted him.
"So Jason. Tell me about yourself. Specifically where you're from and how you got to be with Oliver" he said.
My creepy feeling was getting stronger and stronger.
I looked at Oliver for direction and he nodded at me to go ahead and tell my story.
"Well you see I am from another universe," I said.
Cisco, Barry and Caitlin's jaws dropped.
Wells smiled thinly almost as if he was expecting me to say that.
That freaked me out A LOT.
"So you're saying the Multiverse is real?" Cisco asked.
He was totally going fan boy on me.
He was like a little puppy all excited and bombarding me with a thousand questions.
"Yep it is," I said.
Again, Wells interrupted the chatter.
"Come with me please Mr Stark" he said.
I was taken aback and everyone else looked at Wells in confusion.
What was going on here?
"It's okay," he said with a dry smile, "I'm not going to eat you. I just want to talk to you in private for a minute."
I reluctantly followed him out the room.
As soon as we were far away, he got up from his chair.
My eyes widened and I looked at him in shock.
He was pretending to be paralyzed!
I started to back away from him in fear, but he grabbed me and moving very fast threw me into a room that appeared out of nowhere.
"What the hell are you?" I asked him.
"My name is Eobard Thwane. I know which universe you are from, as I have been to your Earth a few times in the past. Now you are going to tell me exactly how you ended up here and how to replicate it," he said with an evil smirk.
"Piss off!" I said.
Not the best response I guess, because he grabbed me and threw me into a chair.
Then moving at super speed, the way I was told Barry Allen moves, he tied me up.
"Tell me. Or you I will make you suffer," he said and laughed.
"I'll give you a few minutes to think about it," he said.
"For now, I'll go tell your friends that you're not feeling very well and that I've given you something to relax you so that you can rest," he added, before exiting the room.
Ah fuck me! Why was I constantly getting myself in these crazy situations? It was really starting to annoy me! I just wanted to help Oliver and, get back to what I now called my home for a hot shower. Was that too much to ask? I thought to myself.
I tried breaking out of the cuffs, but for some reason, I couldn't use my superhuman strength.
This wasn't good.
It wasn't good at all!
As I was struggling to get lose, I saw what looked like a door open.
I don't now how it appeared just that it did.
Different places kept flashing past the opening.
They continually shifted to show something different.
This was weird and I was getting more agitated by the minute.
First I saw a universe with diamonds.
Then came one that scared the LIVING SHIT out of me!
I saw a being that looked like Novu, but was more like a Cyborg than a human.
He/it was staring at me.
"See you soon Jason Stark. I will bathe the Multiverse in your blood!" he snarled at me.
"Can we reschedule for another day?" I asked with my usual Stark humour, to hide the fear that was coursing through my veins.
While I was trying to process all this, Wells, or should I say Thawne returned.
"So Jason, have you made your decision? What is it going to be, the easy way, or the fun, for me, way?" he asked.
"Let's see… How about you go to hell!" I spat at him.
Bad idea.
He chuckled, picking me up and throwing me into the door where the Novu looking cyborg was.
"The Anti Monitor is going to love having you there," Wells/Thawne said as he pushed me through the door.
"HOLY SHIT!" I screamed as I plummeted into the other dimension.
"Well look at what we have here," said a voice.
I looked up, there was the Cyborg aka. The Anti Monitor.
"I am the Anti Monitor boy, and you will kneel or die!" he boomed.
Before I could reply (fortunately because for once I was speechless), Novu appeared out of nowhere.
Okay… I was getting really tired of all these weird things happening to me from one minute to the next, but this one time I was really, really happy to see Novu.
"Come Jason" he ordered and I ran towards him.
"You will not escape next time boy," I heard the Anti Monitor say as Novu and I teleported the hell out of there.
I found myself back in Novu's realm.
"Okay, can you just tell me what the hell is going on? Who was that guy and how did you find me?" I asked Novu with irritation in my voice.
I was getting fed up with being thrown around from one reality to another.
I felt like a pawn and I wasn't enjoying being toyed with by every guy/entity that came along.
"Well, I guess you do deserve an explanation," said Novu, "So here goes…"
"In order of your questions… what's going on is that IT has started. The being you met is the Anti Monitor. He is my brother and he is the being we have to stop from destroying everything. As for how I found you, the answer is that we share a connection. I can detect when you, or one of my other recruits are in danger," Novu explained.
"Why is your own brother trying to destroy the Multiverse?" I asked him confused.
"That answer is complicated. You see, at the beginning, there was a scientist named Krona on the planet of Oa. He performed a forbidden experiment of looking back in time to the creation of the Universe which had dangerous repercussions. It created not only an evil antimatter duplicate of the known Universe, it also created endless positive matter duplicates of the known Universe, with Oa being the only planet not duplicated in any of the positive matter Universes except in the Anti-Matter Universe where it is called Qward, the home planet of the Thunderers (the evil counterparts to the Oan race). Krona was banished from his world following that," Novu explained as I looked at him with equal parts of confusion and horror in my eyes.
"Earth 1 was the first Universe. Then, I and the Anti Monitor emerged. We had different purposes; my intention was to seek knowledge about the Multiverse, while the Anti Monitor sought to destroy it. We waged war against each other for billions of years until a giant attack by an unknown force rendered us both catatonic until the present time. Then when you conducted the experiment to travel to parallel worlds, it woke both of us up. The Anti Monitor became aware of you and now seeks to destroy you as you are a hindrance to his plans. I am gathering a team of remarkable individuals with the purpose of saving the Multiverse and defeating the Anti Monitor," Novu finished explaining.
My mouth must have been hanging open because Novu gave me a wry smile.
"You're kidding right?" I asked him, hoping this was some kind of joke.
"No I am not, my friend. I have only one person left that I need to recruit before I come to collect you. When I do, we will begin the mission to save the Multiverse," Novu said.
To be honest, I didn't want any part of this, but I had a feeling I didn't exactly have a choice.
"All right then, what happens now?" I asked Novu.
Now you go back to STAR Labs and finish your mission there," he replied.
"But what should I do about Dr Wells/Eobard Thawne, whatever the hell he calls himself?" I asked him.
"Nothing. I will place a special protection on you so that he won't be able to harm you. What you need to be aware of is that Thawne and the Anti Monitor are allies in this" Novu said.
"What? Are you sure I shouldn't tell Barry?" I asked in confusion.
"No. I have looked into the future and I have seen that the only way we win, is if Barry and Team Flash find out by themselves. So my protection will keep Thawne away from you. It will keep you safe from him, without you having to reveal his identity and jeopardizing our mission" Novu said.
"What about the Crisis, do you know what is going to happen?" I asked him.
"I do not know much. All I know is that hundreds of heroes will participate in the battle for the Multiverse, but only a few will live. That is all I know," Novu replied.
I nodded.
This was a lot to take in.
"All right. One more question. Do you know about the visions I had two weeks ago and if you do, do you know what they were about?" I asked him.
It had been bothering me and I guessed that if anyone had any answers for me it would be Novu.
"Actually I do know about them. Those were visions of possible futures. You see, the future is not set in stone. Every action we make affects the future. Those were all possible outcomes. The first was of an alien race called the Autobots on Earth 2007. The second was a being who covers Earth 3 in a great darkness. The third was your father defeating an alien warlord named Thanos. The fourth was John Constantine getting sucked into an ancient relic called the Soul Stone. The next one was you fighting a Balrog. The sixth was Thor being killed by Thanos. And the last one was of two ancient giant sized monsters named Godzilla and Kong," Novu explained.
My eyes widened.
"Holy shit!" I exclaimed.
"Do not worry. They are only possible futures" Novu assured me.
I sighed.
Knowing my luck, chances were high that those futures would all come to haunt me.
"Okay. I think I've hear enough. I'm ready for you to send me back. I will deal with everything if and when it happens," I said.
"I admire your courage and bravery Jason Stark. You have my respect," Novu said before I blacked out.
When I woke up in the corridor at STAR Labs.
I walked into the cortex where everyone was busy discussing how to catch the metahuman.
I could see the shock in Thawne's face when he saw me.
I wanted to say "Miss me motherfucker?" but now was not the time, so I just winked at him.
"Jay, where the hell have you been?" Oliver asked me.
"I just didn't feel well," I said as an excuse.
Inside I was feeling tense and wondering if Novu's protection spell, or whatever it was, was working.
Oliver looked sceptically at me and I knew he wasn't buying it, but he kept quiet.
"Did we find anything?" I asked.
"Yes. He was seen two blocks from here. We need to stop him now," Cisco said.
"Let's suit up and get going then," said Oliver.
As soon as we were ready, Barry sped us towards the guy's location.
When we got there, we saw that he was rapidly turning into gas.
I yanked an arrow out from my quiver and shot him.
It hit him in the knee while he was still solid.
This caused him to remain solid thanks to the nanites in the Arrow (thanks to Felicity Smoak).
Barry spun around him and I saw him speed punch the guy.
Oliver was next to attack him, but the guy grabbed and punched him in the face.
Pulling a move Oliver had taught me, I swept the guy's feet and punched him in the gut.
He dropped like a sack of potatoes.
Barry grabbed the metahuman and sped him back to the pipeline.
Without us even having a chance to catch our breath, he was back to collect us and take us back to base.
As soon as we were back at STAR labs, we let out a unified whoop!
"Well thank god for that," I said in relief.
Everyone grinned at me.
"Thanks for your assist guys," Barry thanked us.
"Anytime Barry," Oliver replied with a smile.
I gave Barry, Cisco and Caitlin a hug and avoided Thawne.
Finally we made it back to Starling City.
Wearily, I said goodbye to Oliver and Felicity and drove to my apartment.
As I got into the apartment I felt homesick.
I had been here for over a month now.
Everyone on my Earth probably thought I was dead.
I realized though that I was not going home anytime soon.
I thought it was best to just accept destiny.
I got into bed as I realised how much I missed home and my friends.
I couldn't get to sleep though.
As I tossed and turned I thought about how this was going to be one hell of a journey.
There was a song that I loved and it fit the moment.
I began to sing:
Over the edge. Feeling like I'm floating through the air.
All the pain I felt is paid for, all is said and done.
I'm restricted fixed upon the web; I need to kick the habit that my mind is breathing in.
Break upon I got to see, stand all my life holding all of it in your sleep.
I've played it innocent a feel of discontent,
I'm finally facing it all.
Fearless.
And Chapter 6 is done. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
So the Anti Monitor has been introduced as you can see. And the background I took from the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic book storyline.
The next chapter begins the final battle against Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins. It will be divided into 3 parts. Chapter 7 will be the prologue to the battle, Chapter 8 will be the main battle and Chapter 9 will wrap up Arc 1.
BTW: The song at the end is called "Fearless Part II" by TULE. You should definitely check it out if you haven't.
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