Namaskar, everyone. FINALLY, I'm back- sorry again for such a long long wait, and Happy New Year to you all, but real life's been even more super-duper busy as total hell lately, and as we've had Christmas too, plus with COVID still very much with us all, you've no idea what it's been like. Now, I'm making 'Coburn and the Legends' and its sequels my one and only main writing focus this brand new year, thanks to the absolutely wonderful plans me and my two best ever buddy brothers on here Aragorn II Elessar and Brainstorm Sorcerer have worked so hard on for their plots these last two years, but thanks to recently seeing, enjoying and absolutely loving for the first time the 1986 movie of 'Highlander' and its leading three of Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown, and that I love Charlize Theron's great Netflix released masterpiece 'The Old Guard', I just haven't been able to stop picturing this grand idea for days now and want to give to you all.
And I should also say that I've decided to delete my two Arrowverse/MCU projects 'From the Shadows to the Open' and 'Your Legacy Lives On', my little 'Flash' fic 'Mr Allen. How nice of you to visit' and 'The Age of the Punisher'- sorry about that to anyone if necessary, but I haven't worked on or been interested in progressing further with the first two ever since their last updates two/three years ago, and thanks to those of you who are my closest friends on here I've now matured about and agree with you all on the bullshit parts to both Arrowverse and Marvel, ESPECIALLY the Arrowverse, hence why the 'Flash' fic's gone itself too, and I have plans for a more better and exciting version of TAOTP so have taken that down too for now. All of which is gonna help me with my intentions for the CATL series. Rest assured though that my 'Jessica Jones'/'Guardians of the Galaxy' spinoff inclusion in brother Aragorn's amazing 'Heroes' series is here to stay, THAT is a rock solid assured promise, and is available for me to return to whenever I decide to do so.
So, allow me to present this great little idea piece, which is a crossover mix between 'Arrow', 'Highlander' and 'The Old Guard' together, but obviously FF rules don't allow ya to do a threesome so I've done it as an 'Arrow'/'Highlander' crossover, set during the two 'Heroes Join Forces' crossover episodes between 'Arrow' and 'Flash' when the pathetic monkey of a villain excuse Vandal Savage makes his first, and in the case of here his very last, Arrowverse debut. I hope you all enjoy.
I do not own both movies and TV shows or any of their characters, nor the additional comic characters who'll feature too, I only own OCs
Flamengo Park, Rio de Janeiro, November 2015
"You sure this is where they said to meet?" Joe asked Andy as they, Nicky and Nile stood together before the great sculpture of the Monument to the Dead of World War II in Flamengo Park, other commuters moving past them and walking and strolling pace as they made their way through and enjoyed the park.
Andy nodded. "When the daughter of an almost two thousand year old immortal asks you to meet her, knowing full well just who you are as well, you can expect her not to break that promise," she said determinedly.
"Scandal you say her first name is, right?" Nile asked. Andy, Joe and Nicky nodded in confirmation. "Seems a pretty funny sorta one for a woman," Nile further remarked.
Nicky himself nodded again. "In some sense of way, yes, you're not wrong there, Nile," he said, "But considering just who her father is, and the history me, Joe, Andy, Booker and Quynh have had the unpleasantness of sharing with him over the hundreds or thousands of years our different long lives have made up, it would hardly be surprising."
"So who is her father?" Nile asked, her curiosity growing ever more.
But just then, Andy said "And here she comes now", gesturing with her arm, and the other three looked in the direction where she had pointed. Sure enough, they saw three good looking women heading in their direction. The one in the middle, dressed in a black sleeveless top and blue jeans and brown boots, and with a set expression on her face, had long curly black hair and brown eyes. Her companion on the right was a redhead with hazel eyes, dressed in a green sleeveless and shoulderless crop top and half tight Nike shorts, while the third woman on her left was a South American, with long dark brown hair and eyes and wearing a purple bikini top and bottom and red flipflops.
In the arms of the middle placed woman, his arms wrapped around her neck while all three of them exchanged big smiles with him as they approached Andy, Joe, Nicky and Nile, was a boy with of about two years old, with short light brown hair wearing only in crocs and a Pampers nappy, the brown haired woman in the bikini pushing his stroller, a pack of Pampers sat in the basket area below the seat.
At last, the four of them stopped before the immortal quartet. "Greetings, Andromache, Yusuf, Nicolò," the black haired woman with the toddler boy addressed Andy, Joe and Nicky, then turned to Nile, "And to you, Miss...?" She paused, obviously not knowing who Nile was.
"Nile. Nile Freeman," the young woman immortal answered the question, "Former US Marine, and now very much a part of Andy's world." She knew full well about Andy, Joe and Nicky's real names, as well as that of their now banished member Booker, the older immortals having shared all the facts with her after their takedown of Steven Merrick in London a month ago.
Andy nodded. "And to you, Scandal Savage," she responded with.
The black haired woman, Scandal Savage, nodded, then gestured to the redhead in green. "My first beloved Knockout," she introduced the second woman, then did the same with the bikini wearing South American woman, "And the second addition to our love bondage Liana Kerzner." All three of them exchanged loving smiles and kisses with each other after the introductions had been made, before Scandal looked back to the immortal quartet. "And this gorgeous little thing..." she turned to the toddler boy in her arms, "...is our son." Her smile grew even bigger, "Luciano."
At that, the little boy made a noise as if to say "Yes", prompting chuckles from Scandal, Knockout and Liana in response, as well as Joe and Nicky.
"So I take it that means you three are an item together, huh?" Nile asked, addressing Scandal.
Scandal nodded. "We are," she answered.
"Me and Scandal met a few years ago after Knockout was murdered," Liana explained, "At first, it was thanks to two members of a team Scandal was once a part of, the Secret Six, attempting to cheer her up after a state of depression she had been in for a time thanks to Knockout's death by arranging for me, dressed like Knockout, to jump out of a cake as a surprise for her." She turned to Scandal, "Something which you didn't take too kindly to at first, isn't that right, my love?"
Scandal nodded. "Yes," she replied with, now smiling, "Until our next and by pure chance meeting with each other in a supermarket some time afterwards, and you managing to get us a double-date, which I'm so happy to have obliged by your wishes to." Liana's own smile broadened.
"And after I was brought back from the dead by a powerful demon known as Neron, thanks to a special card of his, and we were both reunited with each other, Scandal proposed a polygamous marriage between the three of us," Knockout went on, once again turning to and exchanging huge smiles with the other two women, "Which we all accepted, didn't we."
"Indeed we did, my wife," Scandal said.
"With I choosing to be the bearer of this gorgeous little human being thanks to the male donor who helped us with the process," Liana concluded it all, grinning broadly again at son Luciano who gave his own open mouthed one back, which lit his whole face up, and making a little noise too.
"Wow..." Nile breathed, completely in awe at what she had just heard and learned.
"I take it though you didn't contact and summon us here to Rio just for a social interaction," Andy said, returning to the main topic at hand.
Knockout shook her head. "No, Andromache. We didn't," she said.
"We need your help," Liana now took up, "And in return, we believe we can help you and us rid ourselves, the whole world and the upcoming future itself potentially of the most monstrous immortal tyrant who's bent and twisted our planet's history from within its shadows for far too long."
Andy, Joe, Nicky and Nile looked between each other, contemplating the three women's words. "What do you think?" Andy eventually asked her three comrades quietly.
"I need some serious explanation as to just who the hell it is we've been talking about for one thing, that's for sure," Nile replied with.
Joe nodded. "Nile's right," he said to Andy, "It's time to reveal to her just who Scandal's father is, and why he's been as much a part of our lives and Booker and Quynh's for centuries as much as we have between us."
"You said it," Nicky furthered in co-joined agreement with his lover's words, finishing with, "And we should hear what Scandal's called us all this way over here to propose about."
Andy now nodded, showing clearly that she agreed completely with what her brothers and sister in arms had all said, and looked back over to Scandal and her two lovers. "Please explain everything, if you please," she addressed them.
Scandal nodded. "Very well," she gave in response, then, after first handing baby Luciano over to stripper lover Liana who began fussing all over him, she folded her arms across her chest and turned to Nile. "The man me, my dear wives and your fellow immortal brothers and sister refer to as my father, young Nile..." she began, the hatred beginning to come very thickly into her voice as she spoke, "...was upon a time the priest and adviser to the Ancient Egyptian Pharoah Ramesses II. His name, which he still bears to this very day, is Hath-Set, but the six of us..." she now gestured with a hand to herself and the other five adults, "...your now banished comrade Booker and lost long one Quynh know him very well indeed by another name." She paused for effect, then continued, "That name... is Vandal Savage..."
Almost thirty minutes would pass before Nile finally shook her head. "This is just so much to take in," she said, her brain hammering from all the huge amounts of facts and revelations Andy, Joe, Nicky, Scandal and her two lovers had all shared with her about Scandal's father, the man known as Vandal Savage or Hath-Set- he and the two individuals known as Prince Khufu and Priestess Chay-Ara all being made immortal by the radiation from a shower of meteors originating from the planet Thanagar which fell upon the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, after Savage had first killed the two lovers; Savage himself then going on to advise, guide, help and be helped by many history famous military leaders and other individuals over the next four thousand years in his desire for dominion over the whole planet, as well relentlessly hunting down Khufu and Chay-Ara in order to maintain his own immortality due to their life force being practically bound to his own.
Joe laid a hand on her arm. "I know, it's such a lot for you to absorb, considering you've only been amongst us and known of your immortal powers and abilities for just over a month," he said calmly in an assuring voice, "But absolutely every single little thing about Savage we've just explained to you all is as true as it ever will and would be to its very full extent."
"When it was just me and Quynh, before Joe and Nicky joined us to further it, we encountered and battled Savage a number of times, either in various battles and wars between whichever armies he was amongst the ranks of, or in solo encounters wherever and whenever which were just as bloody and vicious," Andy further explained.
"And when Booker became the next member of us before you, Nile, he too would encounter and fight Savage a few times as well," Nicky finished with.
Nile took all this from her three fellow immortals in, still processing that many facts she had been taught and read from the history books both during school and in the years of her previous human life in the US Marines had been influenced or actually instigated by an immortal tyrant, Scandal Savage's own father too at that.
Finally, she looked to the three women lovers, Liana herself still playing with son Luciano as he ran around her, giggling while he did so and switching from left to right hands with Liana as she watched him, face still bearing a giant mother's smile. "And now, you wish for us four to help you end him, huh?" she asked of them.
It was Scandal Nile directed the question to, but Knockout was the one who answered it. "It has been extremely personal for us ever since the son-of-a-bitch attempted to have me killed six years ago back when Scandal and I were part of the Secret Six," she explained, "Thanks to hiring the assassin known as Pistolera to do said thing with a Thangarian sniper rifle. The shot implanted a bomb within me, but thanks extremely luckily to my superhuman healing factors I survived the explosion, which would've killed me very outright if I was a normal human. All because Vandal wanted to send a perverted warning of what would happen if Scandal didn't bear an heir for him."
Scandal snorted. "As if I ever cared about bearing one for such a monstrous uncaring father like him in the first place," she said with disgust, "The only things I'll ever be grateful to him for is the immortality I share with thanks to being born his daughter, the combat training he gave me during childhood and shaped me into who I am now, and you and Liana yourselves."
"But if that is your wish to do so, then we need to know your father's latest exact whereabouts," Joe pointed out, "After all, considering the man he has been for almost four thousand years both as Vandal Savage and as Hath-Set, he never stays in one place on a permanent basis."
Scandal nodded. "I know that, Yusuf," she acknowledged, "And we can give you the answer."
At that, Joe, Nicky, Andy and Nile became alert. "So where is he?" Andy asked.
"The latest we heard from a trustworthy contact who keeps a close watch on Vandal for us, so that we know exactly whereabouts in the world he is, the bastard had managed to get himself onboard a cargo ship which departed Mexico for Central City nearly three weeks ago, and is scheduled to dock there this night," Liana answered Andy.
"What exactly my father's intentions are for travelling there, and do so as a three week length stowaway too, we don't know," Scandal admitted, "But if this turns out to be linked with Priestess Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu themselves, which could be very likely be the exact reason, then it certainly spells trouble very much indeed for Central City's super-speed bearing guardian known as the Flash."
"He and those who work with him have never encountered Hath-Set before," Knockout now took over, "So if he is indeed heading for Central City, then the Scarlet Speedster will need to be warned."
The three lovers fell silent, Liana lifting Luciano and holding him up in her arms before then doing some gentle twirls, the toddler boy laughing joyously as his number 3 mum spun him round and round.
Meanwhile, Andy, Joe, Nicky and Nile moved closer so that they all faced each other. "So, what're we all thinking?" Andy addressed her fellow immortals.
"Like we've all explained to Nile, you, Quynh, me and Nicky and Booker have all fought Savage, either in the heat of battle during whichever war, some of which he himself helped bring about, or in solo encounters wherever and whenever in the world," Joe said, "But none of us have been able to best and beat him."
Andy nodded. "That is certainly very undeniably true," she admitted matter of factly, "He's never been able to worry about dying and coming back to life over and over again, thanks to his own lifeforce being bound to that of Prince Khufu and Priestess Chay-Ara and allowing him to maintain his own prolonged life and youth physicalness, whereas we have never been able to tell when our next death might very well be our last ever."
"Like that other immortal you told me about who was once like you guys? Lykon?" Nile asked, knowing full well of course that Andy, Joe, Nicky, Booker and now herself weren't truly immortal beings, and that their ability to heal could one day eventually stop altogether without any warning, something which she learned had happened to another immortal who at one time fought with Andy and Quynh before his healing abilities had stopped completely and he died of his wounds.
Andy nodded. "Yes," she confirmed.
"But if this an opportunity for us to help our friend Scandal here..." Nicky took over, nodding sideways slightly in Scandal's direction before continuing, "...and her two beloveds rid themselves of a problem which has also plagued us and history itself just as much very much so for almost four thousand years, then I think we should take it."
"I agree," Nile added, not needing another huge history lesson lecture on everything she had learned about Savage in order to help her make her mind up.
"But like you say, Andy, Savage has no fear of dying, whereas we do, never knowing when the inevitable day comes when our healing powers cease to be," Joe pointed out remindingly again, "And he has always managed to best us, you the last of the Scythians, me and Nicky the last ever Saracen and Genovese knight from the time of the Crusades, and Booker the sole surviving Napoleonic soldier, whenever we've come up against him, and he would have absolutely no hindrance at all with young Nile herself either. If we are to go up against him again now, and actually win this one once and for all, then we are gonna need a big master plan indeed."
Andy nodded. "I know what you mean," she acknowledged, then her mouth formed a smirk grin, "And I think I know just what, or rather who, we need to seek for this matter. Someone who's undeniably much more powerful and skilled than you, me, Nicky, Booker, Quynh and Savage combined have ever been ourselves despite our longer life periods than him, and who will have no difficulty at all whatsoever in holding his own out against the likes of Savage that we ourselves can't."
At first, Joe and Nicky themselves were puzzled, their brows furrowed in confusion, but then they seemed to work out what Andy was saying and nodded, smirk grinning themselves, but Nile herself was still a blank. "Who?" she asked Andy.
Andy didn't answer the younger woman at first, but instead the four of them looked back over to Scandal, Knockout and Liana who were all looking towards her, Joe, Nicky and Nile with unsure expressions. Andy nodded. "We've decided to accept what you, Knockout and Liana ask of us, Scandal," she told the Savage daughter figure.
Upon hearing that, all three women visibly relaxed, relief passing over their faces. "We thank you, Yusuf, Nicolò and Miss Freeman so much indeed, Andromache," Scandal said in a very thankful filled voice.
"You will need some additional help though if you're going to accomplish this mission," Liana said remindingly.
Andy nodded. "Don't worry," she said, her smirk grin returning, "We know exactly what to do."
New York City, the next day
Andy lead the way into the Hudson Street building which called itself Nash Antiques, Joe and Nicky and Nile filing in after her. "So this is where we should find Macleod, huh?" Nile asked doubtfully, looking round the shop.
On the journey from Rio to Manhattan, Andy, Joe and Nicky had told her the whole story of absolutely everything about the man she was about to be introduced to for the first time, including them and him meeting and crossing paths with one another a number of times ever since the last few years of the 16th century onwards, and also about the man who had helped make him into the person he was, the one known as Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez, or to use his actual name Tak-Ne, born in Ancient Egypt in 896 BCE during the Third Intermediate Period, with whom Andy and Quynh themselves had occasionally met and helped each other out against whoever.
Nicky nodded. "The man you are about to meet, Nile, purchased this place back in 1796 under the alias of Adrian Montague, and ever since then has lived here under the new name of Russell Nash," he explained.
"Correct to a tee, Nicolò," a new Scottish accented voice suddenly spoke, and as they all turned in the direction of it a man with short brown hair, a stubbly beard and piercing blue eyes, dressed in a brown leather jacket, dark blue jumper, light blue jeans and black trainers appeared, hands in his jacket pockets as he casually and slowly approached the group and stopped before them, hands coming out. "Greetings, Andromache, Nicolò and Yusuf," he addressed Andy and the two men, "Once again, we meet."
Andy nodded. "Indeed we do, Macleod," she responded with in reply to the man's words. She turned to Nile, "Nile, meet Connor Macleod of the Clan Macleod, born 1518 in Glenfinnan, Scotland, near the shores of Loch Shiel. And a fellow immortal, like us."
Nile nodded and stepped forward, holding out a hand. "Nile Freeman," she introduced herself to the Scotsman, "A pleasure to meet you, Mr Macleod."
Connor eyes moved up and down Nile's body, examining her from head to toe, then he made his decision and at last shook her hand. "And you too, Miss Freeman," he greeted her with. "So you're an immortal too, huh?" he asked after they had released each other.
Nile nodded. "The latest to join the group after I was first killed properly by a Taliban scumbag while serving as a member of the US Marines in Afghanistan, after which Andy sought me out and brought me into her world," she gave in explanation.
"Hmmm," Connor said, then noticed something. "Where is Sebastian, might I ask"? he asked, referring of course to Booker.
"He betrayed us a month ago to a wealthy power greedy pharmaceutical scumbag called Steven Merrick," Joe answered the question with a sense of disgust, "Believing the fucker help he and Andy end their immortality with which they'd grown weary of by then, only to see the bigger picture when Merrick was willing to torture and use forceful extraction upon us in order to study us."
"But thankfully, me and a former CIA man called Copley got to Merrick's office in London where he'd taken Andy, Booker, Joe and Nicky, Copley getting me in there and allowing me to get to the lab where he was keeping the four of them for experimentation, after first taking out some of his military grade security fuckers in order to do so, and free the four," Nile took up, a sense of pride in her words, "After which, together, we battled our way through and eliminated Merrick's remaining men, including his main ex-Special Forces one Keane, and I did away with Merrick himself by launching him and I out of a top floor window and right down onto and through a car on the street below, the impact killing both us but him far more outright, whereas I was able to heal and return to the land of the living."
"In the aftermath of which Copley revealed to us how his research into us revealed what a number of our past missions had a greater effect than they ever knew, with the descendants of people we rescued way back whenever going on to help the world in many different ways, which helped establish new faith in our existence," Andy added with further pride.
"And for what he did to us, betraying us to Merrick, we sentenced Booker to loneliness, forbidding him from contacting for one hundred years. Which is where he currently stands," Nicky concluded.
Connor nodded, impression clearly to see on his face as he took in everything the four immortals had just told him. Eventually, he spoke. "So what brings our paths together again now, Andromache?" he asked, addressing Andy, his ever piercing blue eyes looking into her green ones, "I know you, Yusuf, Nicolò and young Nile aren't here on a personal call, so whatever the reason you're here is it's obviously for something very important, something which requires my needs too."
Andy nodded, and answered with two words, a single name, "Vandal Savage."
At that, Connor's body stiffened, his lips tightening. "Him," he growled, his Scottish accent seeming to thicken as a dangerous quality came into his voice.
Nile nodded. "The son-of-a-bitch arrived in Central City last night," she told Connor, "After stowing himself away on a cargo ship from Mexico for three weeks."
Connor's eyes narrowed. "And you know this from...?" he asked demandingly.
"His daughter. Scandal Savage," Andy answered, Connor turning back to her but saying nothing, allowing Andy to continue, "We are here on behalf of her and her lovers Knockout and Liana Kerzner."
"But this isn't just about helping Scandal, Connor," Joe cut in, "This is a potential opportunity to at last eliminate a nuisance who is certainly far more primitive a one than what you yourself and Ramírez, and before you Andy and Quynh themselves as well, faced together in the form of the Kurgan, but who has manipulated and bent our world's history from within its shadows for four thousand years, advising, guiding, helping and being helped by many history famous military leaders and other individuals made famous to the human world in his desire for dominion over the whole planet."
"But obviously, as you know very well indeed from the times we've encountered each other and fought whoever, Hath-Set himself included, together, me, Joe, Andy and Nile, despite bearing healing abilities which have kept us three..." Nicky took over, gesturing to himself, Andy and Joe with a hand, "...Booker and Quynh alive as long as they have done, are still not quite as powerful as Hath-Set, he having been able to maintain his own youth and immortality by killing and transferring the life forces of Prince Khufu and Priestess Chay-Ara every time he's killed them into himself. Not to mention all the fighting, defensive and escape capable skills he's honed and gifted himself, and taught others too, over those thousands of years, and used against us in a fight."
"And that's why we've come to you, Connor," Andy resumed, "You are much powerful and skilled a fighter than us three, Nile, Booker and Quynh all combined, which is how and why you were easily able to take on and hold your own out against the Kurgan himself in every one of the encounters you and him had with each other back in '85, thanks to what Ramírez trained you in for over a year back in the 1500s to hone and craft you into the skilled lethal fighter you are now, and why you were eventually able to defeat him for good in the final encounter between you both. And unlike us, you haven't had to worry about the potential of one day learning that your healing abilities have suddenly stopped, and your wounds are at last truly lethal to bring actual proper death upon you."
"Which is all the more reason why, to take on this son-of-a-bitch Savage and put an end to his centuries long deluded and perverted life and intentions and aims, and in support of what Andy, Joe and Nicky have all said, we need your help on this matter, Mr Macleod...Connor," Nile finished it with.
At first, Connor stayed silent, taking in everything the four were putting to him. But inside him, he knew to extremely full amount tee that every single thing of what each of them had told him was absolutely true indeed, even though he had always opted never to be a full time part of Andy's group, choosing instead a solo existence for himself, his maintaining and running of his antiques shop right here in New York being one two hundred years plus running hobby. And if Savage's own daughter, who's previous past with the Secret Six Connor also knew very well about, including that her own father had tried to have her own lover Knockout killed but had thankfully failed, had sought the aid of his fellow immortals to help finally rid the world, and potentially the future itself as well, of Hath-Set after four thousand long years, then by god was this something he certainly couldn't turn down.
At last, seeing that the other four were awaiting his answer, he gave a single slow nod, a very set expression on his face. "Where do we go to end this fucker?" he asked, the relief on Andy, Joe, Nicky and Nile's faces, followed by smirk grins, very plain to see.
Star City, that night (this will be just after Cisco has revealed to Kendra and Team Arrow that he has his new Vibe powers in the 'Flash' 2x08 episode)
Roy closed his eyes, titled his head and groaned at the mental image. "I swear, Barry, every time you and/or one of your team shows up, I wonder just how much crazier things can get-" But then suddenly, he was cut off as the lights went out, only for them to come back on two seconds later. And not just that... "And looks like I just got my answer," Roy muttered as he and everyone stared in absolute shock at the five new individuals who now stood in the room with them.
The woman who stood at the head of the group, next to the man in a brown leather jacket, was white with dark short cropped hair and green eyes, dressed in a black tank top and jeans and combat boots, and with the hardened expression of the battle-hardened soldier. Slung over her back was a formidable looking double curved bladed battle axe, its handle entwined with brown leather.
One of the other two men who were with them, wearing a blue long sleeved shirt and dark jeans, had Arabic features, with the slightly darker skin tone, thick beard and short thick curly hair, all of which were black, to confirm it. The third and last man was European, clean-shaven with short dark brown hair and blue-grey eyes, dressed in a grey t-shirt and blue jeans. The second younger woman standing next to the first woman on her right was black, dressed in dark jeans and a red t-shirt with a chain necklace holding a small crucifix cross around her neck, her long black hair all done up in crochet braids.
"I think there's a lot you and your friends haven't seen coming, Mr Queen," the woman with the axe addressed Oliver.
"Great, more surprises," Cisco gasped, gesturing to the group of five, "Who the hell are this lot?"
Sara however stared wide eyed at the leather jacketed man. "It's you," she gasped, stepping forward, "Connor Macleod of the Clan Macleod."
Connor nodded, his fierce piercing eyes not blinking as he looked at Sara. "Yes, Miss Lance," he confirmed, "It is I."
"Wait. You know that guy, Sara?" Barry exclaimed, he and everyone else still very much in shock at the arrival of the intruders.
Sara turned back to him. "When I was with the League, I heard tale of a man who Ra's Al Ghul came across one time and became known as the only person ever to defeat Ra's in a fight, but was prevented from taking Ra's's life by the League man's followers," she explained, utter astonishment appearing on Team Arrow's faces themselves in particular, while Sara turned back to Connor. "I never thought the day would come I would actually meet you in the flesh at last though, Connor," she told him.
"And who are the rest of you?" Helena demanded.
"We are this, Miss Bertinelli," Nile Freeman spoke up, and watched by everyone she drew a pistol, a German made Heckler & Koch USP Compact, raised it to the bottom of her jaw and shot herself through it, her body tumbling forward onto the floor where she lay, eyes staring and empty.
"Wha-?" Cisco gasped, unable to speak anything else as he and the members of Teams Flash and Arrow stared with even more intensified wide eyed and open mouthed horror at what they had just seen.
"Wait, Mr Ramon," Andy now spoke calmly. Twenty five seconds passed in silence, and then they all heard the sound of healing skin, followed by a big gasp of breath from Nile as she returned to life, everyone on the Central and Star City teams still unable to believe or take in what was happening before them as Nile rolled over onto her back, panting out a few breaths.
"Son of a bitch," she muttered, "Hurts every time", and she pulled herself back onto her feet.
"OK, now just who the hell are you lot?" Helena demanded, desperate for answers.
Andy took a couple of steps forward. "My name is Andromache of the Scythians, Miss Bertinelli," she introduced herself, "But please, just call me Andy." She turned to Connor. "Connor you don't need further introduction to, thanks to Miss Lance." Now she gestured to Nile, "Nile Freeman, former US Marine back when she was human..." then Joe, "Yusuf Al-Kaysani, or Joe as he is now, the last of the Saracens..." and finally Nicky, "...and Nicolò di Genova, or Nicky, last of the Genovese Knights back when he and Joe were on opposites sides in the Crusades."
"But now..." Nicky spoke, slipping his hand into Joe's, "We're lovers."
"So you're...you're...immortals?!" Cisco gasped again.
Andy nodded. "Correct, Mr Ramon," she confirmed, "Just like Connor himself."
"Just like the individual we've come to help you lot out with," Nile herself now spoke again, "And who all of us, except myself, and two former comrades of mine, Andy, Joe and Nicky's who are no longer with us due to different circumstances, have a centuries long history with." She now looked to Kendra, "Like you too, Priestess Chay-Ara."
"Stop calling me that," Kendra insisted.
Seeming to ignore Kendra's sentence, Connor looked between her and all of Teams Flash and Arrow. "The man you seek answers to..." he paused for effect, then said the words, "...is Vandal Savage."
And there we are, chapter 1 of my little brand new irresistible story idea done. This will be a short story only, like my 'Fast and Furious'/'Arrow' one from last year 'Queen and Shaw', how many exact chapters there'll be depending of course on both how much of the plot to the two 'Heroes Join Forces' episodes I'll include in this with the inclusions of our immortal cast from both 'Highlander' and 'The Old Guard' combined, and the importance to avoid making them too far too long and avoid complaints about it. But I hope you all had a great read, and are super excited for what's next.
So, changes that have happened here for 'Arrow' as as follows...: instead of SCPD snatching Helena up in episode 2x17, she escaped the scene with Oliver, the Green Arrow man promising afterwards to help her through the recovery process of what her murderous vengeance actions as the Huntress, including killing her father, had done, and so Helena joined Team Arrow proper in time to help take on and defeat Slade Wilson and his Mirakuru army, and has remained there ever since through season 3 and into season 4, resuming her old season 1 relationship with Oliver as well, meaning Oliver never departed for Coast City at season 3's end either; and rather than mortally stabbing Thea in order to force Oliver to agree to his terms, Ra's Al Ghul killed Diggle instead, so that takes care of the jackass, meaning also that Roy never posed as the Arrow or faked his death and departed Star City, so he's still with the team and Thea. Malcolm Merlyn still became Ra's Al Ghul, but, before anyone asks or complains I've got a big plan set out as to how I'll get rid of him, all thanks once again to you and your fic from now five years ago 'The Darhk War', buddy Bl4ckHunter, so please be patient and wait for the surprise, believe me, it'll be worth it.
Regarding where things stand with our Canary girl Sara Lance, rather than leaving Star City to go travelling round the world in solitude to battle her bloodlust and start fresh here Sara decided to head for Central City and call on Barry and Team Flash, so meeting him and the team's members properly for the first time in the process, and has remained amongst them there ever since, lending a hand against the situation with the Earth 2 metahumans being sent to Earth 1 by Hunter Zolomon/Zoom, and has accompanied them back home to Star City to help out with Vandal Savage. So that solves all the bullshit which started once Sara got recruited for the Legends by the major spit talking hypocrite Rippus Huntamus.
With 'Highlander' and 'The Old Guard' themselves, both movies have happened as they did, but, with 'Highlander', and to follow how the TV show of it starts, Connor did not win the Prize when he killed the Kurgan cos there were still several immortals remaining on Earth, fellow Clan Macleod member Duncan among them, hence why he'll still be his great bad ass immortal self; and with 'The Old Guard' Andy is not mortal, which is what I will always do for any story I decide to involve TOG in, as I much prefer it if Andy hadn't lost her immortality and so kept her thousands of years old ability of dying and being to come back to life every time. And yes, they and Savage, former comrades Booker and Quynh themselves included, all have history together, Kendra and Carter/Prince Khufu and Priestess Chay-Ara amongst it all themselves, along with the League of Assassins and Ra's Al Ghul knowing of Connor himself, hence Sara's words, so I hope you're all looking forward so much indeed to seeing Savage get what he so deserves from the legendary Connor and the other four.
And finally, yes, it is old Vandalous Scandalous Savageous' comic book Scandal Savage, (who no doubt Cassandra Savage in LOT episode 1x13 likely came from), together with her two lesbian lovers Knockout and Liana- they really are that, and married as a threesome too, in the comics, which is where I've taken everything regarding the three women from and am following as best as I possibly can, just to clear that up in case anyone decides to complain and think it's disgusting-, and who I've wanted to include in a story for quite a long time now, who has hired/asked Andy and her fellow immortals to get rid of her father, hope you all enjoyed seeing them at last. For their actress faces, it's Michelle Rodriguez for Scandal, Karen Gillan for Knockout, and Jordana Brewster as Liana. Their baby boy Luciano is entirely my own creation though, name and everything.
So, chapter 1 done, and I'll see ya all with more bad ass'ery surely to follow in chapter 2 to this great little story idea creation. Until then, adios amigos, from Flashraven