Now, don't be mistaken, Elseworlds has already happened and Barry and Kara survived but right after that, Oliver got zapped into Earth-2 and spent a couple of months on Earth-2 Lian Yu.
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On Lian Yu, Oliver, wearing his hood ran down the woods and slid down rocks as he saw a fisherman boat. Oliver lighted an arrow as he ran it across a knife jammed onto a rock and fired it at the pyre at the shore as it exploded. The fishermen noticed the fire as they sailed to the shore and met Oliver, who lowered his hood.
Oliver stared outside the window of the emergency room before he turned around as the door opened.
"Oliver?" Moira asked.
"Hi, mom." Oliver said.
"Oh… my beautiful boy." Moira breathed out as she held Oliver by his cheeks and then hugged him.
"I missed you so much." Oliver said as Moira sobbed and kissed Oliver on his cheek.
Later, Queen Manor
It was a strange Déjà vu for Oliver to get driven back to the family manor by Moira.
"Your room is exactly as you left it. I never had the heart to change anything." Moira said.
Oliver sighed and took a deep breath as he turned to Moira. "I can't tell you how great it feels to be home."
"Oliver, it's really you."
Oliver looked more than a bit surprised but he managed to plaster a polite smile as the man approached. "Hi, Malcolm."
"Welcome home." Malcolm hugged Oliver, patting him on his back and Oliver couldn't help but feel the awkwardness in the air.
"OK, what… where's Walter?" Oliver asked, confused as he turned to Moira.
"Uh, he sold his shares of the company, when the Gambit went down." Moira explained.
Oliver nodded. "OK. OK." He turned to the stairs and saw a face he had not seen in years.
"What'd I tell you? Yachts suck." Oliver chuckled as Tommy approached him, smiling. "I knew it. I knew you were too stubborn to be dead." They were both in a tight embrace as Oliver felt his eyes get wet.
"Tommy…" Oliver smiled as he pulled away, trying to hold back his tears.
"Come on, man, why are you looking at me like I'm the one who's been gone for a decade?" Tommy joked.
"I… I just missed you." Oliver looked around. "Where's Thea?"
The atmosphere turned solemn as Moira approached Oliver. "Sweetheart, uh, why don't you settle in? I mean, you must be exhausted."
"Yeah, but I'd like to see Thea." Oliver insisted.
Moira then looked away briefly as it hit Oliver. "Oliver, when you and your father disappeared…" She took a breath as she met his eyes. "…it wasn't easy on her."
"She took things really hard and there is this new drug called 'Vertigo'." Tommy said as Oliver turned to him and the realization hit him. "I swear to you—"
"Tommy—" Malcolm started.
"I tried my best to look—"
"Tommy, look, it wasn't your fault." Malcolm assured.
Oliver looked completely devastated as he turned to Moira. "What wasn't his fault?"
"Thea, on her 18th birthday…" Moira swallowed, her voice breaking, unable to meet his eyes. "She overdosed."
Oliver breathed out, unable to process.
They were all seated at the table, enjoying the dinner.
"Raisa's famous chicken marsala? I used to make this for William all the time." Oliver said.
"Who's William?" Moira wondered.
"Oh, I know, he was like, your Wilson on the island, right?" Tommy tried.
"Something like that." Oliver nodded.
"How did you manage to survive by yourself all that time?" Malcolm wondered.
"It's a long story." Oliver said and Malcolm nodded.
"OK, things you missed while you were gone? I got married and divorced twice." Tommy said and Malcolm chuckled, while pouring himself a drink. "Let's see, what other gossip did you miss?"
Oliver took a breath. It certainly felt odd for him, what was in front of him right now. "Our parents getting married."
The temperature in the room suddenly dropped and none of them felt more awkwardness than Oliver, considering what he already knew. Moira and Malcolm glanced at each other uncomfortably before turning to Oliver. "It's…"
"…complicated." Malcolm finished.
"Oliver, I know this must all be a lot." Moira said.
"Well, Mom, my apologies, but I actually am a little tired and I think I'm gonna head up to my bedroom." Oliver said and Moira nodded as he got up from his seat. "Thank you for dinner."
Oliver sat down on his bed in his bedroom and pulled out an old photo of himself, Tommy, Laurel and Sara, missing them before Moira entered.
"Your bed has been made and there are fresh towels in the bathroom." Moira said.
"Thank you." Oliver smiled.
"I know the changes must be overwhelming and you must feel like you're on a different planet or something." Moira said.
"You could say that." Oliver said. If only she had any idea.
"It couldn't have been easy all those years on that island." Moira said softly.
"Sounds like it wasn't that easy here." Oliver said.
"Now, you're not the same man as when you left." Moira noted as Oliver looked away from her eyes, while she neared him. "And don't take this the wrong way but I get the sense that it's… it's for the better."
"I'm not so sure." Oliver admitted as he got up, missing Thea and looked at Moira. "Mom, when we were growing up, if you had to leave me and Thea to protect us… would you have done it?"
"Oliver, whether right or wrong, everything I've ever done was to protect my children. It's all a parent can do." Moira explained and Oliver nodded. "And someday, hmm, when you have children, you'll understand."
Oliver could understand now, considering William as he hugged Moira. "Mom, I'm so sorry."
Moira hugged Oliver back, soothing him. "Everything's OK. You're home. You're safe. Close your eyes, sweetheart. Get some rest, OK?"
"All right." Oliver nodded as he sat down on the bed.
Queen-Merlyn Enterprises
As soon as Moira had fallen, Oliver had put on his Green Arrow suit and entered the server room of Queen-Merlyn, using Moira's access card as he approached the computer before he found dead guards and scientists lying on the floor and got a familiar Déjà vu. Oliver started looking around until he sensed a presence of someone else as he dodged as an arrow shot a nearby server behind him as it exploded in sparks and he turned around to face an archer in green hood, who notched another arrow.
"You have failed this city." The archer growled.
Oliver dodged and kicked the table as the archer jumped and kicked Oliver back. Oliver slammed the archer to another server as it sparked but the archer dodged Oliver's kick before Oliver knocked him against another server. The archer dodged before Oliver could land a blow and punched Oliver, sending him crashing against another server as it exploded in sparks. They exchanged few blows as they fell over a table and then another before the archer picked his bow and fired an arrow at Oliver before suddenly, a blonde woman in black leather with yellow lining and wearing a domino mask showed up and knocked the arrow off with her baton.
"Stand down." Laurel ordered, now wearing a Black Canary suit as she turned to Oliver. "Oliver, what the hell are you doing on my Earth?"
Oliver stared at Laurel in surprise before turning to the archer, who had stood up in the meantime and looked into his eyes before realizing there was something familiar about him before the archer lowered his hood to reveal Tommy's face, much to Oliver's shock.
This felt like a good place to stop.
Yup, Tommy is Earth-2 Green Arrow, which is inspired by Stand with Ward and Queen's "Green Arrow of two earths", thank you for your permission, and well, as for Laurel being Earth-2 Black Canary, when she had not had the talk with Sara, Dinah and Felicity about trying to turn over a new leaf, well, just for a reminder, Oliver had been on the island for a few months and the next chapter is going to be explain why is Laurel operating as Black Canary on Earth-2 and I think you can guess who was behind it.
Now, don't get me wrong, I actually liked Chase as Earth-2 Green Arrow but Tommy being Earth-2 Dark Archer felt cliché and predictable and a lazy, half-hearted and poorly delivered apology from the writers. Could've easily had Malcolm as the Dark Archer again or maybe Chase instead.
So, what do you guys think?
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