Author's Note: Just a little more Invasion fluff, almost exactly the same as the shows. Also please leave some reviews guys. I'd really like to hear your opinions and criticisms.

Oliver practically ran up the stairs in the Queen Mansion. He needed to see Kara, now. The encounter with John Diggle and Felicity Smoak in the lair and the visions that accompanied it were unnerving him. These visions were of another life that he led and he wanted no part of it. All of the pain and suffering in that life, how did he even survive it? He did his best to avoid any of the guests while he navigated through the mansion. He didn't even want to see Tommy. All he saw when he thought of Tommy now was his motionless body being jolted by a defibrillator.

"Kara, I…" he burst through the door to her room. She was in her bridal gown and Sara was adjusting her hair.

"Don't you know it's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding?" said Sara disapprovingly.

"Or skip out on the rehearsal dinner," added Kara.

"I know, I said I was sorry."

"In a text," said Sara disapprovingly.

"Sara, can you give us a few minutes, please?" asked Oliver politely.

"You're lucky I'm not a trained assassin or anything," quipped Sara as she walked past Oliver.

Trained assassin…

In the visions, that's exactly what Sara was. Oliver tried to shove Sara's strangely coincidental choice of words into the back of his mind, closing the door and turning to Kara, finally getting a good look at her in her wedding gown. He didn't think she'd ever looked more beautiful. All of her hair being draped to her right suited her, and her sparkling blue eyes were brought out even more by her makeup.

"Oh, wow. You, um… you look beautiful," said Oliver.

"I called you over 20 times last night," said Kara worryingly as she turned to face Oliver.

"I can't explain last night. I just… Today… Today, I want to marry you."

"Well, that's good because there are guests here."

"No, not with guests, not in a few hours. Now. Kara, I need to… I need to get out of here. We can elope…"

"Oliver…"

"I'm being serious. I don't know what's going on with me right now. I just know that I want to be with you as quickly as humanly possible." Oliver felt like he was going to lose her. Sooner or later she'd be taken from him and he couldn't allow that to happen.

"What is going on with you?" asked Kara.

"Last night, somebody reminded me that I have everything, and I don't want to give it up. I'm afraid that I'm going to give it up."

"Well, that's very sweet of you," replied Kara, taking his hands in hers, "But we have over 200 guests coming, and your parents, they've spent a fortune on this wedding."

"I know, and I'm… I'm sorry if this is confusing or if I'm scaring you, but the only thing in the world that makes sense to me right now… is that I love you…And I'm going to take that job at Queen Consolidated, and I swear to God, I'm going to work every single day to be the man you fell in love with."

She didn't say anything. She didn't need to. She replied with that warm smile of hers, the one that Oliver could never forget, the one that he'd see every time he'd close his eyes. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Oliver said come in, and the person entered. John Diggle?

"Sorry about the interruption. The Russian lady downstairs told me to come right up. You got a minute to talk?"

After Sara and Diggle helped him dispatch of Deathstroke, the pieces of Oliver's real life started to come together as the visions began to link and make sense. He was trapped in a simulation of what his life would've been if he had never gotten on the Queen's Gambit. For whatever reason, the Dominators trapped them here, and they needed to get out. Ray Palmer and Thea were the other two trapped here. Sara was going to speak to Ray and he was going to speak to Thea.

He walked into the reception area and spotted Thea talking to Tommy and Malcolm. He tried to walk over to her but he was intercepted by his parents.

"Son, don't you think you should be getting your tuxedo on?" said Robert.

"Are you all right, Oliver?" asked Moira.

"I just need to speak with Thea," replied Oliver.

"I think I saw her talking to Malcolm over by the ice sculpture," said Robert. Oliver tried to walk past him to Thea, but Robert stopped him from passing, "Son, I think you need to calm down."

"You're acting terribly strange," said Moira.

"Your mother and I are concerned that if you keep up this unstable behaviour that is not going to finish well."

That is not going to finish well.

"I'm just saying," continued Robert, "Kara, the company. This is your life now."

"No, it isn't," said Oliver, as he embraced his mother, trying not to shed any tears, "I'm so… I'm sorry," he said, hugging his father before letting go and walking towards Thea.

"She knows, Ollie. She knows, and she doesn't want to go," said Sara as Oliver approached Thea.

"The better question is why would you want to?" asked Thea.

"Because none of this is real," replied Sara.

"It's real enough, ok? It's… it's better than our real lives. In this life, Laurel is alive, Kara is alive, my parents are alive."

"But those are not your parents."

"They remember the only lullaby that would actually work to put me to sleep. They remember every day of my life, ok? They even smell like them, Ollie"

"They're not them, Thea. I want them to be, but they're not," replied Oliver, "Where are John and Ray?" he asked Sara.

"They're waiting outside."

"Give us a few minutes," requested Oliver to Sara.

"Give us a few minutes."

Sara acknowledged Oliver's request and started to head for the exit. Just as she was about to leave, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She whipped around, and saw Laurel in her bridesmaid dress.

"Sara, where are you going? Shouldn't you be getting ready?" asked Laurel.

"Laurel, I… I can't explain, but I have to go."

"No, you can't leave now. Whatever it is, I'm sure we can fix it another time."

"I… I can't," replied Sara, hugging Laurel tightly before exiting. As she exited the door, she ignored Laurel's pleas for her to stay, as she simply dropped her head and allowed the tears to flow while she walked to meet with John and Ray.

"I want you to be well, I want you to be happy. I love you, Thea," said Oliver before letting go of Thea after their embrace. He understood why she couldn't leave. At the age of 21, she'd lose almost everyone in her life. Her parents, Roy, the women whom were basically her sisters. Oliver may have learnt to live with loss, but Thea hadn't. He headed for the exit, but was confronted by Tommy and Laurel.

"Oliver," said Tommy, "Sara left for some reason, I'm going to go get her."

"No, no, there's no need," interjected Oliver.

"Why?" asked Laurel.

"I'm going too."

"What?" said Tommy, shocked, "You can't Oliver, the ceremony is soon, Kara is…"

"Tommy," interrupted Oliver, "I wish I could explain, I really wish I could. But there's something we have to do. I'm really sorry," he said, before hugging both Laurel and Tommy, "Thank you both, for everything."

Oliver didn't plan on saying goodbye to his parents or Tommy and Laurel. Of course, they weren't real, but Thea was right. They felt and smelt just like how their real counterparts did. They were real. They were just part of this simulation created by the Dominators. The fact that this fake world would simply painlessly cease to exist once they escaped was slightly comforting towards Oliver, but it still didn't help to lessen the burden of having to say goodbye to Tommy and Laurel again. Once again, he tried to toss his emotions aside and focus on the task at hand. He just met up with the others in the garden of the Queen's Mansion.

"Where's Thea?" asked Diggle.

"Thea's staying," replied Oliver, "Have you explained to Ray what we have to do?

"Yeah. Apparently, we have to get to an office tower that my non-fiancé doesn't own, which is a little strange. All that coming from a guy who's been having memories that he's able to shrink."

"Well, whatever we're doing, we have to do it fast because whatever the Dominators have done to us, they would have built in safeguards. They're probably manifestations from our memories designed to keep us here."

Just as Oliver finished his sentence, he felt a sharp, piercing pain just below his left shoulder that pushed him a meter back. He looked to the source of the pain, recognising the shaft of an arrow. He pulled the arrow out of his skin and mentally calculated its trajectory to find out where it had been shot from. Right in front of him…

Malcom Merlyn… Slade Wilson… Damien Darhk… H.I.V.E agents… Mirakuru Soldiers.

"They're not real," said Oliver.

"They certainly look real. Let's not get into that right now," said Thea as she walked to beside Oliver.

"Speedy?"

"Yeah. I had a change of heart, ok? Like I said, I can't lose my family again."

They each squared up their adversaries.

Thea on Merlyn… Oliver on Deathstroke… Sara on Darhk… Diggle on H.I.V.E… Ray on the Mirakuru solders…

The fight began…

Thea blocking Merlyn's strike, Oliver evading Deathstroke's blade.

Ducking under Deathstroke's sword, Oliver dug into Deathstroke's body with a right hook, kicking Deathstroke's legs from under him and pushing him away with a front kick. Deathstroke rolled with the kick, jumping back to his feet and trying to decapitate Oliver once more. Oliver anticipated the swing of the blade again, ducking under and tossing Deathstroke with an arm drag.

Ray, trying his best to fight the Mirakuru soldiers without his A.T.O.M. suit, bobbed and weaved many of their strikes, but was unable to escape their grip as he is grabbed and tossed through the air by one of them. Diggle swiftly drew his gun and fired several shots into the Mirakuru soldier and a H.I.V.E. agent. The sound of movement behind him caused him to whip around. Unable to get out of the way, he and the H.I.V.E. agent simultaneously fired several bullets into eachother. Ray having been kicked away by the remaining Mirakuru soldier, landed near the deceased H.I.V.E. agent, picking up the gun right next to him, using it to shoot the Mirakuru soldier several times.

Thea's superior speed and agility allowed her to evade many of Merlyn's strikes, and made use of her jiu-jitsu to injure Merlyn with an armbar. Injured and outclassed, Merlyn is stabbed with his own sword when the fight returns to the feet. Thea, spotting Merlyn's bow, rips it from his hands, swiftly removing an arrow from his quiver and firing it in front of Sara for her to catch. Sara caught it easily and stabbed Darhk in the stomach, just like how he did with Laurel.

Oliver, how holding Deathstroke in place with a left overhook in a clinch, throws several dehabilitating knees to Deathstroke's abdomen before tossing him in front of the fountain.

"Ollie!" called out Thea, before throwing Merlyn's bow to Oliver.

Oliver caught the bow with his left hand, swiftly nocking the arrow, steadying his sights and firing the arrow at his target… Deathstroke's eye.

As quickly as they had appeared, they had all disappeared. The soldiers, the agents, the bow in his hand. Gone as if they had vanished into thin air.

"Ollie!"

He heard Kara's cries coming from the patio, rushing over to her. She had started crying, the tears in her eyes glistening with the moonlight.

"Ollie, what's going on? Where are you going?" she asked.

"I'm sorry, Kara. The person you fell in love with, that's not me, and I never deserved that love. You always deserved better." Fighting the urge to shed tears of his own, he pulled her head close and kissed her forehead, "I love you."

"I love you. Don't go, please!" she pleaded with him as Oliver let go of her and walked away. He turned to take one last look at his bride. Perhaps in another life, he would've gotten to marry her and spend the rest of his life with her, but it was not meant to be in this life.

"Ok, John. What now?" asked Oliver as the 5 of them entered the Smoak Tech building.

"Guys, I don't think that belongs there," said Ray, pointing to the green portal on their left, "Ok. That's either the way out of here, or we got to click our heels together 3 times and say, there's no place like home."

"And if that doesn't work?" asked Sara.

"It has to work. Dig's running out of time," replied Oliver as they all started to head for the portal.

You're never without me, my beautiful boy.

Oliver heard his mother's voice just before he entered the portal. He turned around, and there stood everyone who was a part of or had influenced his crusade.

His mother… There's nothing else to say except I could not be more proud of you. Become someone else. Become something else.

Felicity… You honour the dead by fighting, and you are not done fighting!

Tommy… I know I called you a murderer, but you are not. You are a hero.

Roy… You saved my life. You gave me purpose. This time, we had to save you.

Laurel… I know who you are in your bones, Oliver, and that person doesn't give up!

Kara… Never lose that smile Ollie, it's what I love most about you.

His father… This is your responsibility now.