Chapter 36.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
This chapter will focus on Jason, Alexia, Mal, AA Tony and Bruce, Ollie, Victor, Hook and Baelfire on there mission to locate the surprise character so I hope you're all excited.
It will also provide several revelations as well.
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 this fic.
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Jason's POV.
Turns out, it's quite easy to leave Storybrooke.
I'm saying this because Baelfire said that it was very hard to enter and exit the place.
Clearly he was wrong and right.
Now Baelfire, Hook, Alexia, the doppelgangers of my dad and Bruce Banner, Oliver, Mal. Victor and I were travelling to Los Angeles to find someone who could break the dark curse.
Anyone who could, I was very thankful for.
We had used a private jet that I had no idea how they got it, and were now travelling to LA.
Hook had informed me that the person we were looking for was a professor from my Earth named Ivan Romanoff.
That was completely weird, because Natasha and I were close and she never mentioned having any family.
Than again, she was a super spy so despite how close we were, she wouldn't tell me most things.
But hopefully I could learn a few things from Ivan.
Alexia seemed stressed but that might have something to do with the fact that she just learned all of her memories were a lie.
When we arrived there was a man dressed in a leather jacket with a quiver of arrows slung to his back.
"Hey Robin" Hook greeted.
"Hook. So these are the others. Which one of you is Jason Stark?" the man asked.
I figured this guy was Robin Hood.
"That would be me" I said, shaking his hand.
"And Baelfire told me about the rest of you so no worry" Robin said with a light smile.
"Have you located Ivan Romanoff?" Baelfire asked.
"Yes. He is currently giving a lecture at a downtown school. Will Scarlet managed to locate his office, so we can talk to him" Robin said.
"Who's Will Scarlet?" I asked him.
"Knave of Hearts" Robin replied.
"Like Alice in Wonderland?" I asked in surprise.
"The exact same mate" Hook replied.
I've seen most of everything.
Alexia stuck next to me which was kind of nice.
We travelled across LA which seems to be the same no matter what Earth it is.
We arrived at some large, old-school building.
"Okay. Mal, you stay here and we'll contact you if we need backup. The rest of us, let's go" Robin said.
He still had his quiver strapped to his back, and I was wondering how the hell he was going to get through security.
Still, surprisingly, we did get through the building.
There we met a dark haired man.
"Will, you found him?" Robin asked.
"All done" the man I assumed was Will Scarlet replied.
"Will, I assume you know who everyone is?" Robin said.
"Yep. It's nice to meet you Jason" Will said, shaking my hand.
"I've found Ivan Romanoff. Follow me" Will said.
We followed him down a blinding series of hallways and offices, until we reached one that read 'Professor Romanoff'.
Will knocked on the door.
"Come in" a mild-mannered voice said from the other side.
It sounded British with an underlying tone of Russian.
Will opened the door and Will, Robin, Tony, Bruce, Oliver, Hook and I entered with Alexia and Victor guarding the door.
When we entered there was an old, bald-headed man sitting at the desk.
He looked like he was in his 70s, maybe 80s.
He looked at us with curiosity.
"Might I inquire who you are?" he asked.
"My name is Will Scarlet. These are my friends, Jason Stark, Robin, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Oliver Queen and Killian Jones. We need your help. It's about the dark curse" Will said.
At that, Ivan's face transformed to one of concern.
"Okay then. Sit down and explain to me exactly what happened" Ivan said.
So Will and I explained the whole dark curse thing to him.
Surprisingly, Ivan took it all in quite well.
"I see. Well this poses an interesting problem. Let me first contact an old friend of mine" Ivan said.
He moved away and made a phone-call.
A few minutes later a door behind his desk opened and a man in a dark business suit entered.
Ivan smiled when he saw the man.
And I instantly paled.
Because the new guy looked exactly like Malcolm Merlyn.
"You!?" I exclaimed in a mixture of shock, horror and anger.
"Do I know you?" the man asked in confusion.
Oh, so this was probably a doppelganger of Merlyn.
"You look like an old enemy of mine" I said.
"Ah! That explains it. But I'm not him" the man said.
"This is Captain Jack Harkness, from Earth-167" Ivan introduced him.
"I'm Jason Stark" I said, shaking his hand.
Trust me, after operating in the Multiverse for this long, I wasn't very surprised to see so many doppelgangers.
"I understand we need to break a dark curse. Well I'm all in" Harkness said with a grin.
I had a feeling I was gonna like this guy.
"But first, Jason, may I speak to you and Mr Queen in private please?" Ivan requested.
"Sure" I replied.
Oliver and I followed Ivan into the same door Harkness came through with the man in question following us.
"I have several things I need to show you" he said.
I frowned in confusion.
This was gonna be interesting for sure.
Ivan led me to a large screen.
On it was my step-sister Rebecca.
Facing her was some ninja dude clad in white with a sword in his hand.
"What the hell is this?" I whispered in shock.
"Someone named Rebecca Potts who was fighting someone named Storm Shadow on Earth-1984" Ivan spoke.
This was bad.
"Do you know her?" Harkness asked.
"That's my step-sister. What is she doing there?" I asked in horror.
"She is on a mission to map out worlds" Ivan responded.
On-screen, Rebecca and Storm Shadow charged each other.
It was clear however that she was outmatched.
But then all of a sudden, they both vanished and then reappeared.
"What the heck?" Oliver asked.
"The barriers that separate realities are growing thinner and weaker, adding to major conflicts, it is now easy for anyone to accidentally travel to another reality" Ivan explained.
Oliver and I were both horrified at that.
He turned the screen off and that was when I noticed a corpse.
It was a skeleton clad in a bright gold and blue costume with a star on its chest. A yellow visor was on its head.
That was very creepy but I noticed that Oliver looked shocked and horrified.
"You know him?" I asked Oliver.
"That's an old team-mate of mine. His codename is Booster Gold. He had vanished sometime ago and no one could figure out where" Oliver said.
"Yes. He came from first the realm of the Infinite Darkness known as Chaos King. Then he was captured by the Scarlet King. He was tortured and killed" Harkness said in a completely serous voice.
Oh shit this was bad.
"The Scarlet King did this?" I asked him.
"Yes. The Scarlet King hates Captain Harkness here with a passion. He is the one person who can battle his armies. For he even defeated the strongest of his children once" Ivan explained.
"His children?" I asked.
"Yes. One of them known as SCP-682 which is a reptile that is incapable of dying, is the weakest of his children" Harkness said.
That was even worse.
There was writing on a wall where Booster Gold's corpse lay.
It read:
All hail the power of Nalia the Goddess-Mother
Let all of Creation prostrate fall
Jack Harkness will retrieve the royal diadem and one of the 20 Paragons and Raj Kuthraplia from Earth-2007 will deliver it to her.
Knights will fall and only She-Ra can master the Universe.
Holy shit this was intense.
"And I hear that Baelfire mentioned the Old Guard to you?" Ivan said.
I actually wondered how he even knew about that.
"Yes he did" I said in confusion.
"Then let me explain who they are. The Old Guard exist on Earth-1 and are a group of immortal mercenaries. They have fought multiple threats to the Multiverse in the past" Ivan explained.
"Okay, how do I find them?" I asked.
"You don't. They find you" Ivan said.
Oh joy.
"Who is the leader of the Old Guard?" I asked him.
"Her name is Andromache and she is the Paragon of Hope. And the Evil Queen is the Paragon of Redemption" Ivan replied.
Seriously? Are you kidding me.
This was a lot of information.
"And the fact that the Monitor can guide you to them" Ivan said.
"How do you know about him?" I asked Ivan.
"I died. And after I died, Mar Novu brought me back to life to serve him and to combat the Scarlet King" Ivan explained.
Ah of course that makes sense actually.
"We need to get back to Storybrooke. Ivan, do you have any idea on how to break the curse?" Oliver asked him.
"I do. It is very simple. True love's kiss will do the trick. If not then good old magic" Ivan smiled.
"Let's go then" I said.
"Yeah that might be a problem" Harkness voiced.
We all turned around in confusion and that was when I saw a blonde haired woman with a pistol standing there.
"Who the hell are you?" Ivan demanded.
"The name is Yelena Belova. And I cannot have you interfering in our business" Yelena spoke, raising her pistol and firing a single bullet straight at Ivan.
In a fluid motion, Oliver whipped out a bow and fired an arrow that deflected Yelena's bullet.
Yelena roared and charged Harkness who met her.
The two traded blows but Harkness moved so fast, he was like a blur.
He effortlessly knocked her off her feet.
"I've used the power enhancing serums of the Old Yeren" he smirked.
"Let's go!" I shouted and helped Ivan as we moved out of the office.
Everyone was fighting against what I recognized as Hydra soldiers.
These people are like cockroaches, impossible to get rid of.
I grabbed one of the first Hydra soldiers and slammed his head to the floor, knocking him out.
Harkness moved around, shooting Hydra solders.
I drew a knife and stabbed one in the neck.
Ivan just moved around, using his cane while trying to avoid any major damage.
"Let's get the hell out of here!" Baelfire shouted as he killed another one.
We all moved as fast as we could out of the office and down to the car where Mal had already started the car.
"Get in!" she yelled and we all clambered into the car.
We drove away as fast as we could, back to the airfield with the plane and took off.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
This was far from over through.
I sat next to Alexia.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
"Not really. I just found out my entire life was one big lie" she said.
"I understand. Don't worry though, everything will be all right" I assured her.
She smiled at that and my heart fluttered.
Time to end this once and for all.
And Chapter 36 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
I hope I kept Harkness in character here.
So the special character was Ivan Romanoff who is MCU Natasha's father. He was briefly mentioned in 'Avengers: Endgame' as well. I know that in canon, he is dead, but in this series the Monitor brought him back to life.
Picture Ivan being played by Anthony Hopkins as I think he would nail it.
Also the Old Yeren are SCP-1000.
Now you all know some more about the Old Guard. I think that they would be a lot less noticeable in the Arrowverse than they would be in the MCU. And Andromache replaces Arrowverse Supergirl as the Paragon of Hope. They will make there debut next arc.
And now Captain Jack Harkness from the 'Dr Who' series is here. He is one of my absolute faviroutes as well and I couldn't resist using him.
And the official designation for the 'Dr Who/Torchwood' Earth will be Earth-167.
I do plan to use BBT further in this series as well.
Storm Shadow is from the 'G.I Joe' series and it will show up later on as well. This is the film series by the way.
And now the barriers have weakened quite a lot.
And now 'Smallville's Booster Gold is dead, captured, tortured and killed by the Scarlet King. Just to show you all how dangerous the Scarlet King is.
And SCP-682 is actually unkillable. They slammed an entire Solar System into him and he got right back up 2 minutes later.
Next chapter will wrap up the final battle and will reveal a surprise at the end.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you think of this chapter.
Arrowverse Fan 217 Out.