Chapter 28.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
And at last, here we are with 'Invasion!' I know many people have been looking forward to it, so I hope I deliver.
Some of the stuff here is inspired by Aragorn II Elessar's 'Devil of Star City' and 'Thunder and Steel: The Masters of Evil' so thank you to him.
Unlike before, this entire arc will be written in Third Person POV.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed or favirouted this fic so far.
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters and elements you see in this fic. I only own Jason Stark and any other OC's and worlds you see in here.
On with the show.
TheLycanKing: Thanks for the review. I actually do hope that the Sinister Six appear in the canon MCU as that would be awesome.
AntBoy1: Thanks for the review. Yes the Sinister Six will be interesting. Glad you are interested in seeing my version of 'Invasion'. I hope you enjoy it. I will see on 'Young Justice' and thanks for the suggestion. Glad the choices for canon Paragons are worthy.
the mysterious Mr.E: Thanks for the review. You will see how Rebecca, Lex, Erik and others react to Markiplier. I have a special plan for him that will be explored in an upcoming story arc.
SupergodzillaSailorCosmos: Thanks for the review. Actually Alpha Flight, Namor and Reed did show up. Markiplier is a famous YouTuber. Actually it will be the TV series version of 'Watchmen' because although I loved the 'Doomsday Clock' storyline, it wouldn't fit in this series, while the film was horrible as hell.
OmniUIShaggyOverexagerated: Thanks for the review. I agree that's why we have Fanfiction. So that characters from separate fandom's can meet and interact with one another.
No One's POV.
It had been 2 weeks since the tragic incident with Nemesis, Typhoid Mary and Saracon.
Jason, while not shut off, wasn't as bright and enthusiastic as normal. He had even lost control during missions; killing anyone he fought which concerned Novu.
The others weren't as broken as Jason, but they were all still sad.
Conrad, while sad, was still trying to help and comfort Jason as best he could.
Jason entered the pocket realm, to see Conrad, Takio, Nico and Beck sitting at a table.
"Hey guys" Jason greeted.
"Hey Jay you holding up?" Takio asked.
Jason nodded back.
"How goes the search for new Paragons?" Beck asked.
"It hit a dead end. We don't know" Takio said in frustration.
That was when a blue portal opened up in the middle of the park, startling them all.
Conrad had ignited his fists with Dragon Lightning.
Takio made the Halo armour form over him in a matter of seconds.
Beck and Jason took fighting stances.
Barry and a shorter Latino man with long hair and glasses jumped out of the portal.
"Barry?" Jason asked in joy and confusion.
"Hey" Barry greeted.
"Hey Cisco" Jason greeted the Latino man.
"Hey Jay" he replied.
"These are two friends of mine, Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon" Jason introduced them.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Conrad James" Conrad shook Barry and Cisco's hands.
"Takio Maseoshiro" Takio said.
"Quinten Beck" Beck went last.
"So you two are friends then?" Conrad asked.
"Well friend is a loose term. We work together" Cisco shrugged.
Jason, Conrad, Nico, Takio and Beck could imiadetley sense that there was some unspoken tension between the two.
"We're here for a reason" Cisco then said.
"I figured you wouldn't jump over here for a social call" Jason said.
"Okay, you remember when I helped you out those months ago and you promised you'd do the same thing for me?" Barry asked.
"What are we up against?" Jason asked.
When they jumped over to Earth-1, Jason had also requested to pick up Frank Castle, Logan Howlett, Nuke and Shang Chi for help against this new threat.
When they arrived, Jason had noticed a blonde haired man with a stubble beard there standing amongst other heroes.
"Oliver" Jason called out in greeting.
"Hey Jay" Oliver replied with a smile.
Jason walked up to Oliver and much to the older man's protest hugged him, while everyone else sniggered.
After greeting everyone, Barry, Cisco and a blonde haired woman in a blue and red outfit with a skirt and red cape behind her jumped out another portal.
"Barry! Care to introduce us to your alien friend?" Oliver called out.
"Oh yes. Everyone, this is Kara Danvers or as she's known on her Earth; Supergirl" Barry gestured to Kara.
"What makes her so super?" A dark-skinned young man asked.
"Oh you have no idea" Jason chuckled as he already knew about Kryptonians and there abilities.
Kara flew into the air and fired Heat Vision at the ground, forming the symbol on her chest.
"I'm convinced" another dark-skinned man next to Oliver said as he looked up in awe.
"Well let's get this straight, so who are you all?" Kara asked.
"Oliver Queen. Green Arrow" Oliver said with a narrowing of his eyes, causing Jason to roll his eyes.
"John Diggle. Spartan" the dark-skinned man standing next to him introduced himself.
"You can call me Dig" he then said as Kara nodded.
"Thea Queen. Ollie's sister. Codename is Speedy" the woman with shoulder length dark hair said.
"Roy Harper. Thea's boyfriend. Codename is Arsenal" the young, dark haired man standing next to Thea said.
Kara then turned to the Legends.
"You all are?" she asked.
"Sara Lance. White Canary" Sara introduced herself.
"Professor Martin Stein" the old man introduced himself.
"Jefferson Jackson. We fuse into one superhero called Firestorm" the younger dark-skinned man said.
"And you?" Kara asked the man with a sweet and silly smile.
"Ray Palmer. The Atom" Ray said with a smile.
"And you?" Kara asked the last, burly man who was eating a burrito.
"Hmmm? Heat Wave" he said in a barely interested voice.
"And you all are?" Kara turned to Team Monitor.
"Jason Stark. Black Arrow" Jason introduced himself with a smile.
"Takio Maseoshiro. Codename is Halo" Takio introduced himself.
"Nico Di Angelo. Codename is Hades" Nico said.
"Conrad James. Orion" Conrad said.
"Quinten Beck. Codename is Mysterio" Beck said.
"Frank Castle. Punisher" Frank said in a gruff voice.
"Logan Howlett. The Wolverine" Logan introduced himself.
"Why do they call you the Wolverine? Can you turn into one?" Kara asked in curiosity.
"No bub. I just get as angry as one" Logan said and made his metal claws pop out, causing Kara to look at them with surprise.
"Nuke" Nuke said simply.
"No codename?" Kara asked.
"I do not have one. I am machine" Nuke said simply.
"Shang Chi. The Master of Kung Fu" Shang Chi introduced himself with a bow.
"Who might you be?" Kara then asked Felicity.
"Felicity Smoak. Codename Overwatch. Part of Team Arrow" she introduced herself excitedly.
"That leaves you two then" Kara said as she pointed to the red-haired woman and the dark-skinned one.
"I'm Caitlin Snow, doctor in Team Flash" Caitlin introduced herself with a polite smile.
Conrad looked at her with surprise, having met her daughter Nora.
"Iris West" Iris simply said.
"Well that concludes introductions" Jason said and all nodded.
"Barry, so Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow?" Jason heard Iris ask Barry in a quiet voice.
"Yeah" Barry replied.
"Oh my god. He just got so much hotter" she said, gushing over him.
"Oh my god" Barry sighed.
Jason looked confused and shared a look with Logan and Conrad.
"Maybe we should get started" Jason said.
"Wish we could have done that 15 seconds ago" Takio muttered.
Cisco nodded and showed the heroes something on a screen. It looked like a mutant zombie.
"These are the Dominators. We don't know much about them but there not friendly and they are not for peace" Barry said.
"And there strong and dangerous. I heard a lot about them when I was younger. They came to my planet before I was born, experimented on my people, killed a lot more" Kara said as everyone looked at her.
"But from what I hear, they're not the only strong ones. Barry here tells us that you're more powerful than a locomotive" Thea said.
"We should use Kara as a stand-in for training" Oliver said.
"Since when is Robin Hood calling the shots?" Mick asked.
"What I think Mick is trying to say is that it would be nice to know who is in-charge around here" Jax intervened before things could escalate.
"He's right. Maybe we should take a vote. Someone we all trust" Ray said.
"Well my vote goes to Oliver. I trust him" Cisco said without looking at Barry.
Everyone could sense the tension between Barry and Cisco at this point.
"Thank you for the vote of confidence Cisco, but Barry brought us all together. I think it should be him" Oliver said.
"Fair enough" Cisco said though it was obvious he didn't like it.
"Well, as team leader, I think we should start out by…" he stopped as he had no idea what to say.
"Doing a test run" Oliver said helpfully, getting slightly annoyed.
"Doing a test run. A test run" Barry said.
"Against her" Jason supplied, pointing to Kara.
"Against Kara. A test run against Supergirl" Barry repeated.
"Are we just supposed to pretend like we don't hear them" Shang Chi asked in an amused tone as he pointed to Jason and Oliver.
"Okay everyone. Suit up. Look alive. We're training to fight aliens by fighting an alien" Barry said.
"It will be useless on your part, but good luck anyway" Jason said with a chuckle, knowing full well how powerful a Kryptonian was, after watching Earth-96 Superman bitch-slap Nyarlathotep into kingdom come.
Everyone dispersed and started getting ready to train or get the crap kicked out of them.
"I was really excited about the two of you meeting" Barry said as he introduced Oliver to Kara and visa versa.
Shang Chi, Jason and Conrad were also there.
"Oliver is the first person who trained me" Barry said.
"Really?" Kara asked and Barry nodded.
"He did as well. Him, two others and Shang Chi over here are the people who turned me into the man I am now" Jason said, giving Oliver a smile.
"That's because I didn't hold back. I shot Barry" Oliver replied.
"He did shoot me" Barry admitted.
Jason actually chuckled at that but could sympathize.
"Ouch" Kara and Conrad winced.
"Point is, you can't hold back either" Oliver said.
"Are you sure? I just met these people" Kara said.
"These people need to understand the gravity of this situation. So don't hold back. Especially against me" Oliver said.
"Sure Oliver, maybe if you wanna commit suicide and take everybody with you, then that's not actually a bad way to go" Jason commented causing Oliver to glare at him.
Jason just flashed him a smile in return.
"All right then" Kara said.
"Jason, you and me; sparring match in five minutes. Shang Chi you as well" Oliver said.
"Hell yeah, this is gonna be fun" Jason rubbed his hands.
Later on, Jason and Oliver were sparring while Shang Chi watched from the sidelines.
"How've you been Oliver?" Jason asked as he dodged a kick.
"Quite good" he replied.
Jason flip-kicked and Oliver dodged, hitting him twice in the face.
Jason jumped up and kicked Oliver in the chest, backflippjng.
"All right, that's enough for now. Shang Chi, I wanna test you" Oliver said as Jason moved to the sidelines.
Shang Chi got into a fighting stance.
After a few seconds, he punched and kicked Oliver at blinding speed.
Oliver tried to sweep his legs, but Shang Chi flipped into the air and brought his feet onto Oliver, sending the Emerald Archer to the ground.
Oliver got to his feet slowly.
"I hate to admit it, but you're quite good" Oliver commented.
Shang Chi just grinned.
Oliver got back up and threw a punch at Shang Chi who blocked and knocked him away.
Meanwhile, all the heroes were trying to fight Kara, to no avail.
Diggle, Mick, Thea, Roy and Ray fired on him but they did nothing.
Nuke had managed to land in some solid hits but was knocked away.
Logan then leapt into the air with a roar and Kara caught him, but Logan slashed her with his claws, causing blood to seep.
"What?" Kara asked in shock, as she had no idea there was something beyond Kryptonite that could damage her.
A few minutes later, everyone was minding there own business, when Cisco walked up to Barry.
"You know what this is?" Cisco asked, holding up the message.
"Come on man. Look…'" Barry tried to reason.
"You told them right" Cisco cut him off.
"I'm gonna tell them when this is over" Barry said.
"When this is finished?" Cisco said angrily.
"Even though you're about to lead them through an alien war? Even after Flashpoint? After everything you've messed up? You still don't think you should tell them?" Cisco demanded.
"Tell us what?" Sara asked.
Barry turned to face everyone.
"Jax and Professor Stein found a message from me in the future saying that right now, I can't be trusted" Barry said.
"And why would future you say that?" Sara asked.
"I think because, I went back and changed the timeline and now things are different here than before I left, including some of your lives" Barry said.
"Like who?" Frank asked.
"No one who is from another Earth" Barry said and Jason, Conrad, Takio, Nico, Beck, Shang Chi, Logan, Frank, Kara and Nuke sighed in relief.
"But I have seen changed in the lives of those who live on this Earth; Cisco. Caitlin. Wally. Dig" Barry said.
"Me? Why? What happened?" Diggle asked.
"Hey. Apparently you had a daughter" Oliver said to him.
"I had a daughter Barry?" Diggle asked.
"Baby John was Baby Sara" Barry admitted, his face showing shame.
"So let me get this right? You just erased my daughter from my life?" Diggle asked with outrage.
"Yeah" Barry replied, his voice a whisper.
"But you can't just go back and change things like that Barry. Do you know how hard it is for me to not alter events? To bring my sister back? But I don't, because I know the implications" Sara said.
"All those aberrations, the ones we've spent the last 8 months trying to correct. You thought it was okay for you to travel through time and create your own one?" Ray said angrily.
"Okay shut the hell up all of you!" Jason yelled.
"You're all acting like saints that have never made a mistake. Okay, Barry's father was just murdered by Zoom. He was under high emotional stress. You've all made mistakes under similar circumstances. So shut up" Oliver snapped.
"Guys its Lyla. The Dominators have abducted the President. She needs us now" Felicity said interrupting them.
"I'll sit this one out obviously. You have Supergirl and Conrad, there both just as fast as I am. We can talk about this later" Barry said.
"Hey! This is crazy; everybody is going, including Barry! I'm not going without him" Oliver snapped.
"Then you'll be staying here" Diggle said.
Jason glared at him in response.
"I'll stay here too" Jason snapped.
"As will I" Frank declared.
"Me too" Conrad said and all looked at him.
"It could be a trap" Conrad pointed out.
Everyone nodded and walked out.
Barry and Felicity walked off in two separate directions. Cisco made to follow Felicity but was stopped.
"Cisco!" Oliver called out.
"Yeah?" Cisco asked.
"Why did you do that?" Oliver demanded as Jason, Frank and Conrad glared at him too.
"They deserved to know" Cisco defended lamely.
"Not fucking now!" Jason said exasperated.
"Now because of you, we are going to war divided, and nobody trusts Barry" Frank snapped.
Conrad then punched Cisco multiple times in the face.
"You should be ashamed of yourself" Conrad sneered and all walked away as Cisco lowered his head in shame.
And Chapter 28 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
Sorry for the long chapter, but I wanted to get most of Part 1 done.
And while 'Invasion!' is a good crossover, the constant Barry hate fest pissed me off. And honestly, while what Barry did was horrible and selfish, Diggle and the Legends are the last people to criticise him.
Also Roy is here in the team as well, since he never left.
I hope you all enjoyed Jason punching Cisco as honestly, I wished someone had done it in canon.
And Cisco got exactly what he deserved here.
As for Logan's claws damaging Kara, personally I believe that adamantuim can penetrate Kryptonians as in the comics, Logan's claws damaged Thor.
I also hope you enjoyed the brief Shang Chi Vs Oliver fight. Personally I believe that Shang Chi can beat Oliver as he is one of the best H2H fighters in Marvel.
Next chapter will cover the battle.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you think of this chapter.
Arrowverse Fan 217 Out.