Earth 1, Kaznia/Star City
Sara slowly roused herself from sleep - she hadn't found it easy to drift off the night before. She reached out an investigating hand and found the other half of the bed was empty. Her eyes widening slightly, she reached out for her watch and groaned when she saw that she'd overslept.
''You should have woken me up'' she grumbled at the absent Leonard.
When she made it down to the dining room - they had decided last night that dealing with the news from the future outweighed the immediate Capture Savage project - he seemed to be deep in conversation with Saffron. The other Team Kaznia members were scattered about the room, in various stages of having breakfast.
X
Felicity thought that Project Olympus sounded like something out of a science fiction novel. There were plenty of those - and films - about aliens invading Earth. She admitted that this was at least a new twist for the genre. Oliver - oddly - was for once the less sceptical.
''I always wanted to see an alien when I was a boy'' he confessed.
'Well,'' she took a second look at what had just appeared on her computer screen. ''I stand corrected - and you might get a chance.''
At Dinah's request, she'd hacked into the Pentagon's system and found Project Olympus. It had started out as a series of potential scenarios involving military responses to alien contact - it had now become something else. A sub-folder had the title Project Ares. Open that and you saw the surface of Mars. A desolate, rocky, landscape towards which a strange-looking craft was descending. The image was fizzy but whatever it was didn't look terrestrial in design. Time passed and then equally fuzzy figures emerged from the craft. They were wearing some kind of protective suits but looked humanoid in shape. They appeared to be taking rock and soil samples. Later sequences showed a building taking place on the Martian surface, with what appeared to a spaceship nearby. shape on the
''Aliens on Mars'' Oliver mused.
''Apparently, they've been sighted at a number of locations there, always collecting samples.'' Felicity continued to read text that was appearing on another part of the screen. ''And now they've started construction work. There's no overall consensus - here or worldwide - about what to do. The hawks want to assume hostility - the more extreme want to nuke Mars - another idea is to mount an armed expedition - though it's not clear where the funding for that will come from. Plus, they'll need time to build a suitable spaceship.''
''Exactly what the other Allems came to warn us about''. Oliver wasn't entirely out of sympathy with the military point of view. Whoever the newcomers were, they were setting up shop in the near vicinity of Earth, without any attempt at prior contact. It was at the very least highhanded. Preparing for possible future hostility was a reasonable military response.
Dinah had come, as the Legends representative, to get this precise information, but also to make a request - hopefully as a last resort - because Felicity wasn't sure that even she could achieve it. She could access the controls of a nuke in flight - almost certainly - but to divert it off the intended course would be another matter. Its systems had been designed to prevent that. All she was willing to say was that he would do her best, if the need arose.
X
Dinah - disguised - had met them in a restaurant earlier in the evening and they had gone back to their hotel room so that she could fill them on what the Legends hoped Felicity would be able to but
Felicity could see that there was something else on her friend's mind and finally challenged her about it.
''Out with it. I can see somethings bothering you.''
''It's a personal matter'' Dinah sighed. ''It's going to have to wait.''
Felicity simply continued to look at her.
Slowly Dinah began to speak. ''The woman who came from the future - General Saffron Allen - she's my daughter, although my sister brought her up as her own - it's a long story. The thing is, she's also Leonard's daughter.''
''Leonard Snart?'' Oliver was frowning.
''He didn't force me or anything like that. Were pretty intense at one time, but it was never going to work out.''
Obviously not, Oliver thought.
Felicity was stunned - apart from the revelation itself - and she couldn't think of many more unsuitable pairings - Sara was a friend, as was Laurel. Three strong women important to her, were likely to be at two-on-one odds if things turned out badly.
'''Who knows?'' she asked, tentatively.
''Saffron told Leonard - and a good number of the other Legends. They knew each other in the future she comes from.''
''Which we might make quite different, Oliver thought. This was Barry Allen territory.