Author's Notes: Episodes of Arrow Season 8 will be featured here in chronological order to what is occurring in Supergirl Season 5 in the buildup to Crisis. Unlike CW, the Supergirl characters are aware and preparing for the Anti-Monitor's arrival in semi-cooperation with Oliver Queen and his crew. These episodes are only featured to give context to Crisis as the real CW Arrow does not deserve nor require an Adventures' treatment.
Earth-2
As part of his mission, Oliver infiltrated Queen-Merlyn Enterprises Lab. He waited for most of the lab technicians to leave and then used an ID card his mother had given him to move through the lab. As part of his usual gear, he wore a green jacket, mask, a bow, and an arrow sack. He looked over a computer and gave the camera a serious look. He then discovered several scientists dead on the floor with arrows in their backs.
"Well...shit," he muttered.
An arrow nearly hit him hitting a computer tower instead. "You failed this city," Hood said to him.
"Isn't that a little harsh? I just got here," Oliver said to him.
What followed was a brutal physical fight as the two fired arrows at each other, smashed into computer towers, and brawled around the lab floor. Finally, Oliver was tossed to the floor. Hood fired an arrow right at his face. A hand suddenly deflected the arrow away.
"Oh, shit," Hood realized.
Oliver looked up seeing red boots, a one-piece dark blue suit, a red cape, and a Kryptonian crest on her chest. Kara eyed Oliver and then brought him back to his feet. "What are you doing here?" Oliver asked her.
"Saving your ass," Kara replied. "But only after I saw your little fight," she said amused. She then saw all the dead bodies on the floor. "Impressive body count."
"I didn't do it," Oliver said flatly.
Kara turned to Hood. "You're going to take us to your headquarters."
"The fuck I will," Hood said suspiciously.
"Suit yourself," Kara said as her eyes glowed red.
"I would be honored to show you around," Hood corrected himself.
"Good boy," Kara smirked.
In the hood was Hood bunker where Hood engaged in dramatic pull-ups. "Show off," Oliver shook his head.
"Jealous?" Kara mocked.
"Just nostalgic," Oliver replied.
"Ah, yes, you are old-as-fuck," Kara agreed. "So, what's your deal?"
"I was sent here by the Monitor," Oliver replied.
"And like the lapdog you are, you just decided to go along with it?" Kara asked unimpressed.
"I'm just trying to save the multiverse, so you can fuck off," Oliver said super-serious.
Kara gave him an aroused look. "You're dumb and weak, but you got the right attitude."
"You're an irresponsible blond that was gifted with way too much power. You think you can do whatever you want, don't you?" Oliver accused.
"Yeah," Kara confirmed.
"What were you doing at Queen-Merlyn?" Hood demanded.
"Not killing those scientists," Oliver said defensively.
"All I have to do is test the metal alloy of the arrows that killed those men and women and then we'll see," Hood said darkly.
"I, for one, don't give a fuck if he did kill those people or not. We have more important concerns here," Kara said to him.
The computer then gave them an alert. "Well, we know the arrows come from Dark Arrow," Hood said looking at his screen.
"Well...no shit," Kara said unimpressed.
"It's Malcolm Merlyn," Oliver assumed.
"You sure about that?" Kara mocked.
"It's him," Oliver said super-serious.
Oliver and Kara entered the Queen-Merlyn building. Kara was in civilian attire without glasses. "Where are your glasses?" Oliver wondered.
"I don't need to protect my secret identity here and glasses are for the weak," Kara replied.
The two entered Malcolm's office and found the Monitor instead. "Never ceases to impress. Humanity's potential for invention," he said facing them.
"Let's not jerk off humanity too hard," Kara rolled her eyes.
"In all the universes I have visited, there is not a single one where man fails to emerge from caves and hold dominion over the Earth," Monitor said amused.
"Really low bar there," Kara scoffed.
"What are you doing here?" Oliver asked super-serious.
"Reminding you what you are doing here which includes not interfering in the events of this Earth," Monitor told him.
"I have no intention of interfering," Oliver lied.
"You're not here to confront Malcolm Merlyn with your suspicion he's the Dark Archer," Monitor said.
"Yeah, but you see, we need filler to pad the run time," Kara defended him.
"It's not filler, damn it. I went to Queen-Merlyn labs to acquire the dwarf-star particles just like you asked me," Oliver said defensively.
"You make it sound like a trifle," Monitor replied unimpressed.
"Yeah, do you even know how to contain or carry dwarf-star material? That stuff is radioactive as fuck," Kara added.
"Those specific particles can only be found on this Earth of a multitude," Monitor said.
"I don't know. That sounds like bullshit," Kara doubted.
"My point is that when I had already arrived, Malcolm had already stolen them. You know what would help? If I actually knew what the fuck this was all about," Oliver said frustrated.
"That I have tasked you should be reason enough," Monitor replied.
"Words I have said to so many people when I wanted to fuck with them," Kara grinned.
"Or have you come to doubt your mission?" Monitor asked him.
"No, I have not," Oliver said super-serious.
"Can I doubt it? Because it sounds like total nonsense to me," Kara said.
"Oliver Queen, you may leave," he dismissed him.
"Fine, I will," he said walking off in a huff.
Kara and Monitor faced off with each other. "I didn't anticipate your arrival here," he admitted.
"I didn't anticipate you giving random humans errands you could do yourself to supposedly save the multiverse but here we are. This is all an elaborate joke to fuck with him, isn't it? Because if it is, I want in," Kara smirked.
"You can't save him, you know that?" Monitor asked her.
"If that's true, you have nothing to worry about," Kara said obviously.
"You have always been an unpredictable element. In all the universes I have visited, there have only been two universes where Kara Zor-El possesses your kind of power. Your power rivals my own. You are even greater than all the Lantern Corps combined, faster than even the Flash, and you make Superman look like a mortal man in comparison," Monitor complimented.
"Well, finally some respect," Kara smiled.
"But even you will be no match for what the Anti-Monitor brings. Only together can we defeat him and save the multiverse," he told her.
"If you say so," Kara said suspiciously. "I don't trust you, not yet anyway. I'll be keeping my eye on you. If anything happens to Oliver, I may prove uncooperative."
"You play a dangerous game, Kara Zor-El," Monitor said seriously.
Oliver went down to Queen-Merlyn headquarters and had a chat with Malcolm over whether he was using the dwarf-star particles as a weapon. He predictably declared that it was a renewable energy project. Oliver took that as bullshit and walked around the office finding Kara on Facebook in a random cubicle.
"This Earth is so weird," Kara laughed as she scrolled through her newsfeed. "I've only been here a day and I have several hundred friends. Do you think my looks have anything to do with it?"
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Oliver asked.
"Finding out that Malcolm is the project manager of the dwarf-star project and intends to use it as a weapon for his own nefarious purposes," Kara said with a sucker in her mouth.
"Well, okay then," Oliver said and walked off.
"I think a thank you is in order," Kara shouted at him as he left.
That night, Malcolm was minding his own business working on his weapon of mass destruction when the window shattered as Oliver entered the office as Green Arrow. He got on Malcolm's desk and pointed his bow at him. "Malcolm Merlyn, you have failed this city," he said super-serious.
"I didn't do it," Malcolm said lamely.
Oliver was suddenly shot to the chest with an arrow knocking him off the desk. Dark and Green arrow proceeded to fight, disproving the theory that Malcolm, a middle-aged fat businessman could be the Dark Arrow. The two dueled competently around the office wrecking the place. Oliver, finally managed to take off Dark Arrow's mask off revealing him to be Tommy Merlyn, his stepbrother. Tommy quickly recovered getting back to his feet and pointing an arrow at a still stunned Oliver. A blur suddenly got in the way of the arrow shattering it. Supergirl then kicked Tommy out the window.
"The plot thickens," Kara said to a still stupified Oliver.
The next day, Oliver met up with his good pal, John Diggle. He then went to his own home-coming party acting all super-serious. "Why so serious?" Kara asked him in a white dress.
"The fate of the multiverse is in my hands," he said super-serious.
"It really isn't, Oliver. You're just a man. Chill out, enjoy the party," Kara advised.
"I don't feel like celebrating," Oliver said and took off.
Oliver met up with John in the hallway. "You know, the party is back that way," he said.
"I don't have time for this shit, John. I have a Crisis to solve," Oliver said super-serious.
"Oliver, has it ever occurred to you that this Crisis is because you push the people close to you away?" John asked rhetorically.
"If a grenade falls in the middle of your platoon, what do you do?" Oliver asked.
"I fall on it. I contain the blast," John said obviously.
"That's what I'm doing. The platoon is the multiverse and the grenade is the Anti-Monitor. I'm going to single handily jump on him and contain the blast," Oliver said super-serious.
"Are you listening to yourself?" John asked him.
"I will be damned if I put other people at risk," Oliver said resolved.
"And I will be damned if I just let you go into that dark night," John said just as resolved.
"And I will be damned if I hear another fucking cliche," Kara said interrupting them. "Have some beer," she said giving them glasses.
"Why not in a bottle?" John wondered.
"That's disgusting," Kara shook her head dismayed.
"This is Supergirl's alter ego, Kara," Oliver introduced.
"Nice to see you again," John lied.
"Alright, you two, shake hands and makeup," Kara ordered.
The two took shook hands and then Oliver put John in a hold until he passed out dropping him to the floor. "Really?" Kara asked him.
"I can't let him get hurt. This is my burden," Oliver said super-serious.
Kara eyed John on the floor and then back to Oliver. "What?" he asked her. Kara sighed and then patted him on the forehead knocking him out.
"I can't believe you two are friends," Kara said looking at them both and walking out.
Kara shed her dress and took to the air in her Supergirl uniform. With X-ray vision, she scanned the city and dropped down in front of an abandoned building. Inside were a few dozen goons guarding the entrance. Kara eyed them seeing through the walls. With a clap of her hands, the glass doors were thrown forward stunning the guards. Kara entered the building swatting a majority of them down within a quick second. Those that survived Kara's first wave tried to shoot at her. Kara used her heat vision slashing goons to pieces. Kara casually killed the rest of her opposition and went up the stairs where she was shot at by two corrupt cops.
Kara flung the female cop down the stairs breaking her neck. He then slammed the male cop's head into the wall killing him instantly. Kara then sped up the stairs where she found Tommy in full gear on the roof with a doomsday device. An arrow went straight for her as she opened the door. It shattered upon hitting her crest.
"You don't have to do this," Tommy said to her.
"No, I get to do this," Kara said advancing on him.
Tommy fired arrow-after-arrow at Kara as she walked towards him. She fired heat vision on them incinerating them before they landed. Tommy then took a blade and tried to stab her with it. Kara quickly disarmed him and beat him down. Tommy took off his mask bleeding from his face. Kara walked past him and looked over the bomb containing the dwarf-star material.
"You can't. It's encrypted by my personal code. You can't break it in time," Tommy said to her.
"No, but you can," Kara said and then knelt down next to him. She took hold of his jaw and kissed him passionately. Once she was done, she inputted the code deactivating the doomsday weapon. Kara then carefully took the dwarf-star particle tube off the device and flew off.
Kara, Oliver, and John met up at the Hood bunker. "What do you plan to do with that?" Hood asked Kara seeing her with the tube.
"Threaten my enemies into submission," Kara smirked.
"You're not from this universe, are you?" Hood realized.
"No shit, Sherlock," Kara rolled her eyes.
"You know what? I've assessed the situation and I'm leaving," Hood said walking off.
"Alright, let's go," Kara said putting the tube in a bag.
"How could you knock me out and do that to Tommy?" Oliver said outraged.
"He was going nuke the city," Kara said obviously.
"He could have been redeemed," Oliver said super-serious.
"And I don't give a shit about one man on one planet in one universe...except you," Kara said.
"Is it because my sacrifice is key to saving the multiverse?" Oliver asked her.
"Wow, your ego surpasses even my own," Kara rolled her eyes.
"No one's fate is sealed. We can still prevent this. Oliver, you're not alone in this," John said to him.
"Not anymore, thanks for having my back," Oliver said giving him a bro-hug.
"Yeah, fuck me, right?" Kara said dismayed.
"Let's go home," John said.
"I have one last thing to do," Oliver said as they all entered the elevator.
At the police station, Oliver looked upon a completely beffudled Tommy in an interrogation room. Even after hours of questioning, he still claimed no memory of what he did or what had happened to him.
Moira then entered the room and gave Oliver a hug. "I came as soon as I heard," she said tearfully.
"I'm so sorry," Oliver said to her.
"It's not your fault," she assured him.
"I have to go," Oliver said sadly. "I love you, mom."
"I love you, too. I'll see you back at the house," Moira said hopefully.
"Yeah," Oliver lied giving her a hug.
"All good?" John asked.
"Not really," Oliver said disturbed by Tommy's condition. "Let's go home."
The police station suddenly became super-active as the city was in distress. Kara met up with them. "Move your ass," she said to them.
John took out his trans-dimensional device creating a portal back to Earth 1. "Go, now!" Kara rushed them through.
As soon as they were gone, Kara ripped through the ceiling and incinerated the civilian clothes off her revealing her Supergirl uniform. In front of her, Starling City was instantly gone. At supersonic speed, an intense flash of light continued to expand in all directions. Kara escaped to space where she saw the explosion quickly consume North America. Kara flew around the Earth and accelerated until she reached light speed. The explosion receded and then Kara saw a person suddenly appear in Starling City, the cause of the blast. The person walked back into its portal as time went backward.
Kara quickly realized who this person was. Giving her some time to spare, Kara pointed her hand at Earth and fired a white telekinetic beam at the Earth. Kara ignited to Prime and put all her power into the beam slowly moving the Earth along its orbit. The person in question then suddenly appeared through a portal in space where the Earth would have been had Kara not moved it. Kara stopped her beam and flew over to this exotic enemy.
As she got close to it, explosions erupted all over its body as gas and dust particles hit its body. Kara withstood the explosions of light and gamma-ray bursts as matter annihilated off its antimatter body. Kara extended an energy field around it and herself preventing any matter from getting through. The anti-matter being was a simple robot drone. It looked over at Earth and then back at Kara.
"Who are you?" Kara demanded of it.
The drone ignored her and then exited through a portal leaving Kara dumbfounded.
Author's Notes: There is always a fine line in believability with twists. Annie and Kara were different enough to think I was still following The Boys script and Kara had been established to still be Latin America at the time. However, Hank coming back from Latin America without Kara, Brainiac 5's secret plan he whispers to Kara, and Annie's physical appearance were red flags something was up. I never miss a chance to give the JL a beat down. I do it again in Adventures of Batwoman Season 1.5.
The ending to Justice League is featured in the final chapters of Midvale. I place the events of Justice League right before Supergirl Season 1. The Synder cut could possibly alter that particular Midvale chapter unless it is so different that I can substitute Steppenwolf with another villain and have it be featured in Adventures after Season 6. I know they're working on Brightburn 2 but no other details than that. I won't be able to do much with it, because I killed Connor off...although that was a deleted timeline so who knows.
I really tried to create a contrast between Clark and Kara in their approaches to villains and life in general. I wanted to show the cultural differences as well as the way they were growing up as children. But I also wanted a contrast between Kara and her Kryptonian people as well. For me, it was important that Kara be her own unique creation and not a female clone of Superman/Clark. A lot of factors influenced CW SG Season 1 like wanting to play it safe with the character, making Supergirl a role model for young women, and promoting a positive agenda. The Boys, on the other hand, is not concerned with such things and tells a story filled with moral compromise, shades of grey, conspiracy, mistrust, changing alliances, and genuine mystery. In this regard, Supergirl is stuck in the 70s with the heroine needing to be a simple good example.
Having all of the Arrowverse heroes on one Earth creates countless plotholes as to why the heroes are not cooperating with each other when it comes to boss villains/disasters. That's why I decided not to take that route. Also, I am not keen on erasing seasons 1-4 from the continuity in favor of a vague Lex utopia.