"Okay, first of all, how is that guy with us?" Felicity asked.
"We've redeemed him with the promise to get him back Snart," Ray said. "Which we will definitely do."
"I am just glad all the Legends are assembled at last," Rip smiled. "Gideon, set coordinates for November 2015, Nanda Parbat.."
"Setting the coordinates for November 2015, Nanda Parbat. Do you want me to land right outside the headquarters in invisible mode, Captain Hunter?" Gideon inquired.
"Yes," Rip said. "Well, here we are, this time, I brought us league disguises to blend in."
"I think there's too many of us, it'll get suspicious," Cisco said. "That's why Harry, Caitlin, Barry, and I are gonna get back to Central City. I hope all goes well with saving Sara, Thea, and Laurel."
"Thanks, Cisco," Ray said. "I think actually, Oliver, Felicity, and John should be the ones getting their fellow team members out. Kendra, Carter, Jax, Stein, and I each have plans for our returns to normal life.,"
"Hey, let me join, Haircut," Mick replied. "If memory serves, I'm a police officer now. The new memories are starting to come to me."
"Oh yeah, you come as well, Mick," Ray smiled.
"Well, I think the Waverider is a good tool to get you guys back to Star City. I'll come back later for Oliver, John, Felicity, Diggle, Laurel, and Thea,"
"Sounds fine," Ray said. Everyone waved goodbye, and John, Felicity, and Oliver went to save their friends.
Opening the League doors, however, Oliver realized he had made a terrible mistake. There was no Mick, no Snart, no Laurel, no Thea, and certainly no Malcolm. The man sitting on his throne was the original Ra's al Ghul, alive and well, as if he hadn't been killed by Oliver months before.
"My subjects, what can I do for you?" Ra's asked in his cold, emotionless voice.
"We're friends of Nyssa, and…" Oliver began.
"Silence," Ra's said, whipping out a bow and arrow. "She is no daughter of mine. She is dead to me. Understand?"
"Your lordship, we forgot. We shall cease," Oliver said quickly, as the three ran out.
"Do you think it's the wrong time?" John asked.
"An artificial intelligence from the future couldn't be wrong, could it? Let's check into Star City," Felicity suggested.
"Good idea," John agreed.
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Oliver paid a visit to Laurel and Thea's apartment, only to find someone else occupying it.
"Sara, I'm so glad you're alive!" Oliver exclaimed, hugging her.
"Uh, what's that for?" Sara asked. "Is this because my father lost another one of his jobs? I swear, what that man does in his spare time just gets more and more shaky…"
"Why don't Laurel and Thea live here?" Oliver asked.
"First of all, Laurel lives at the mansion with you, Tommy, Moira, and Robert. Second of all, who the hell is Thea?"
Oliver jumped back several feet. "You don't know Thea?"
"No, should I? Is Laurel pregnant or something?"
"Thea's my sister...why...Laurel? I thought Felicity…"
"Oliver, are you feeling alright? You don't have a sister. And do you mean Ray Palmer's wife?"
"Ray and Felicity married? And what do you mean I don't have a sister?"
"When Ray moved into town, something clicked between him and Queen Consolidated's IT girl. That's why you guys gave her a "Goodbye" party. Also, I don't think your parents were gonna have any more kids, what with you and Tommy…"
"Why do you keep mentioning Tommy? Doesn't he live with his dad?" Oliver was about to add, "And didn't he die?", but decided against it.
"You know as well as I do Tommy's biological mother died when he was 5 and his father 3 years later."
This news became too much for Oliver, who collapsed into a dead faint.
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"Felicity, something is way off with this timeline," Ray said, as he took a seat in her house.
"No kidding, that's why I invited you here," Felicity replied. "Let's review."
"It's pretty obvious what's missing: Malcolm Merlyn."
"You mean that advice I gave him…"
"It must have led him to be better to Tommy and take over his wife's business."
"Which means Brickwell killed him in 1993 instead of Rebecca."
"So Thea Queen couldn't have been born to him in 1995!"
As Felicity was about to process that information, Ray's phone buzzed.
"It's Oliver!" Laurel exclaimed. "He fell unconscious?"
"Felicity, get the rest of Team Arrow and the Legends pronto!" Ray exclaimed.
"It's so cute you guys have a real name now," Felicity laughed.
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"What happened?" Oliver asked, as he awoke in a hospital bed. Carter, Kendra, Felicity, John, Ray, Jax, and Stein were sitting in chairs.
"After Sara said you didn't have a sister, you fell into shock and hit your head on Sara's table," The voice of his mother, Moira, said. Oliver looked up to see Moira, Robert, Tommy, Sara, Quentin, and Laurel.
"I'm not sure who most of those people are, but Ray insisted they come," Laurel said.
"Oliver, I'm sorry, but you don't have a sister. Where did you even get a silly name like "Thea"?" Sara asked.
"She was born in 1995?" Oliver tried. "Through your affair with Malcolm Merlyn."
Tommy looked offended. "That wasn't funny, Oliver. My biological father was a kind and selfless man. He would never…"
"Tommy, it's so nice to see you," Oliver said. "But your dad…"
"You don't know crap about my biological father, Ollie. I prefer to think of Robert." Tommy protested.
"Dad, do you remember...the Gambit?" Oliver asked.
"Of course," Robert said. "Back in '07, I took both my boys on a trip to China. Of course, Tommy snuck aboard a girlfriend…" He looked at Sara.
"In my defense, at least it wasn't Oliver who invited me." Sara laughed.
Oliver tensed up, knowing how untrue that was. "So, the boat didn't sink. Thea wasn't born. Merlyn died when?"
"1993," Robert said, a little sad.
"We had to take in Tommy, didn't want him an orphan!" Moira exclaimed.
"Guys, I'm fine," Oliver said, emerging from the bed. "We gotta get to Central City and find Mick,"
"Where are you going? Can I come?" Laurel asked.
Oliver looked at John, who shook his head. "Just a cemetery, Ms. Lance. Nothing of interest." John motioned towards the Legends and Team Arrow members that were their original selves, and Oliver left the room, following after them.
"Well, that's quite suspicious," Sara turned to Laurel.
"No kidding. We may need to follow if necessary." Laurel replied.
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Oliver, John, Ray, Kendra, Stein, Jax, Carter, and Felicity boarded the train to Central City, and began to talk.
"Has anything seemed different in Central City?" Oliver asked.
"Well, Jefferson's and my powers work again, if that's what you mean," Stein replied. "My wife is still at home fine, and we don't have any secret kids yet, which could be one of numerous possible time travel repercussions."
"That's good," Oliver laughed.
"Central City feels the same. Barry, Cisco, and Caitlin felt no changes. But I take it things are quite different in Star City?" Stein wondered.
"Things are completely different in Star City," Oliver replied. "First of all, the Gambit was never sabotaged, my parents and Tommy are alive, I never met Roy, and most of all, my sister Thea never existed!"
"This is dangerous, very dangerous," Jax replied. "I mean, if she was born out of an affair…"
"Jefferson, the obvious question is what happened to Malcolm Merlyn!" Stein interrupted.
"What if," Carter suggested, "He took Felicity's advice to heart and was a better father, and kept open his wife's vet clinic, allowing him to be killed there in her place, so she never sabotaged the Queen's Gambit? Yes, I have been listening."
"That's it, Carter!" John realized. "No wonder this world is screwed up. We need Barry."
"What happened to Rip?" Kendra asked. "Couldn't we just borrow the Waverider?"
"Nobody has seen him. Maybe he never came and that's why he faded away, or is coming later in this new timeline. Barry's the only hope."
"We gotta get Mick too," Ray said. "And yes, yes he is."
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Yet again, the three teams gathered together, except without the non-existent Thea, the missing Roy, Rip, and the unknowing Laurel and Sara. Mick was there too, and had brought along Snart.
"I like this opportunity to kick butt in a different time period as much as the next guy, but I understand there's been a little problem in the timeline?" Snart quipped.
"Indeed, you see," Barry replied, writing a line on the board. "This line is time. Now, when Mick went to the past, he killed Rebecca Merlyn three years early. In the first created timeline, that shifted everything ahead by about 3 years, while turning Lance and Merlyn into psychopaths not unlike…"
Mick glared at Barry. "I didn't say you could insult us all all you wanted."
"I mean, two criminals equal to you guys in skill and ability." Barry quickly finished. "But anyways, this also caused the deaths of Thea, Laurel, and Nyssa, who was resurrected in Sara's place. When we went back to fix that, Felicity gave Merlyn some advice he took to heart. The early death of Rebecca and Felicity's advice caused Merlyn to be killed by Brickwell instead of Rebecca. We need to go and stop that."
"But with Englishman gone, let's just stay here, and enjoy Arrowpoint," Mick laughed, swinging his beer bottle.
"I must save my sister!" Oliver exclaimed.
"You mean, I must," Barry replied. "I am our only source of time-travel."
"But then none of us will even remember the real timeline," Cisco said.
"Be safe, Barry," Caitlin added.
"Guys, trust me, everything will turn out alright." Barry assured them.