Another chapter coming up! I hope everyone has been enjoying the story so far and I hope you all appreciate this next chapter.

I'm so sorry for the delay but I just got so busy that I had absolutely no time for writing. I hope this chapter makes up for my delay.

Chapter 9: Schott Through The Heart

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National City Cemetery

The news of Winn's father's death had been a hard blow for him. Winn had always had a very complicated relationship with his father considering his criminal past. Kara knew that Winn hated who his father had become but she also knew coming from her own experience with Astra that it's next to impossible to truly block off all you feelings regarding the people in your life that you love. She didn't know what words to saw so instead she just did what she'd seen Oliver do for others, just be there for them and let them know that you support them. And that's exactly what she had been doing for Winn during the funeral.

Thinking back to Oliver for a moment, her reunion with the archer from Earth 1 had smoothed over once Oliver had admitted the truth. She still had plenty of questions for him but for now she was content to let Oliver answer them on his own. Besides she still had found time to tell everyone that Oliver was indeed alive. She had originally planned to use the karaoke night to announce it but what happened with Winn Sr. soured any chance of a proper Oliver Queen arrival. Kara promised herself and Oliver though that she would tell everyone by the end of the day.

After his body was laid to rest, Kara watched as Winn walked away only to be approached by an older woman who began speaking with him. Kara could tell that Winn was clearly irritated by this woman's presence. Suddenly Kara's attention was drawn to the sound of a chime from the casket. Not taking a chance, Kara bolted out of the cemetery, changed in her costume and bolted back shouting out an order, "Everyone down!" just as an explosion rocked out of the casket and sent a fireball screaming from the hole.

"Bastard always wanted to go out with a bang!" The older woman exclaimed.

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DEO Headquarters

Following the explosion, everyone was brought back to the DEO for a medical checkup and a plan to determine who could have been responsible for the bombing at the funeral. Kara watched Winn as he observed his own mother getting check up on by Alex with a scowl on his face. Kara turned to him and asked. "I hate to ask this but I have to."

"He's dead Kara!" Winn exclaimed loudly. "Look I had the Warden and two separate medical examiners sign off on his body. I had them cross reference his dental records and fingerprints. The dude in the box was my father."

"So why blow himself up at his own funeral" Kara asked as Winn sighed.

"Maybe for the headlines?" James suggested.

"Yeah Toyman's last Trick." Winn scoffed at the idea.

"I still think we should so a full analysis of the explosive residue. It may tell us who's helping your father." J'onn offered.

"No one is helping him!" Winn yelled getting angrier by the minute. "He was a crazy person. Crazy people do crazy things like, I don't know, mass murder."

Alex walked into the main room. "Well I'm happy to report Mary had a clean bill of heath." She then turned to Winn. "She wants to talk to you."

"Yeah well she's had 20 years to do that." Winn grumbled.

"My son." M'yrnn began. "May I borrow 10 of your earth dollars. The strike team tackled the pizza deliveryman. I think I should tip him well."

"Delivery man?" J'onn asked. "But we're having dinner with Alex and Kara."

"That's why I bought a tomato pie." M'yrnn replied.

"We're cooking. We already have the ingredients." J'onn explained.

Alex then stepped in ans led M'yrnn back home. "So we should get to you place ASAP and get that roast in the oven. Tomato pie is one of my favorite d'oeuvres."

J'onn sighed as Kara came to him. "Go, be with them."

"What about the Worldkillers?" J'onn asked.

"Alex has everyone available agent looking for them. Go eat." Kara assured her friend.

J'onn sighed and left just as Mon-el entered the room. "Hey Kara, we never talked."

The two aliens left the central room and went off to the more private conference room for their conversation. "Hey, uh I owe you an apology."

"For what?" Kara asked confused about what he had done.

"When we were together. I never really got how it must have been for you to find out that I'd been lying. About being Daxam's prince and all that." Mon-el offered. "And I'm really sorry that I put you through that."

Kara was taken aback by his words. "Wow I really appreciate you saying that."

"Of course." Mon-el offered though he still looked troubled.

"Are you ok?" Kara asked.

"Imra lied to me." Mon-el admitted. "About something big with Legion business and Brainy was in on it too.

"Oh." Was all Kara could offer.

"Yeah, when your wife conspires with your best friend it…

"Feels like garbage." Kara finished

Mon-el nodded silently knowing exactly how he felt. "Hey uh can we get a drink late? You know after the whole Winn stuff. There's some things you should know."

Suddenly the two heard some commotion outside and turned to the balcony. Once there, the team saw something in the sky writing SURRENDER MARY.

"What the hell is that?" James asked.

"It's a message for me." Mary answered.

Is that a wicked witch?" James asked.

"No." Kara answered. "It's flying monkeys."

Just then the horde of machine monkeys came swarming at the DEO and blasting through the building. Kara bolted after the big one as it started firing lasers at her as she neared it. She then sped ahead, grabbed a metal pole and slammed it into the mecha smashing it into a million pieces.

Kara then bolted back towards the DEO still holding her pole. Entering back in the building she started by firing her heat vision at one of the machines that was after Mary and the slamming her pole into another. She continued this process for several more minutes before the entire detachment of monkey robots had been destroyed and the room was clear.

As the action had died down, the agents began picking up the pieces of the machines and carrying off the few wounded to get treatment. As Kara watched the injured get carried away and another mess get cleaned up, she turned on her comms as she bolted out of the DEO and into the sky.

She then dialed Alex. "Hey Kara. Everyone going good?" Alex asked.

"Not exactly. A bunch of flying monkeys came into the DEO and blasted the place up." Kara admitted.

"Anyone hurt?" Alex asked worry in her voice.

"Nothing serious." Kara offered. I left the DEO in Winn's hands for the time being."

"Where are you off to?" Alex asked.

Kara bit her lip as she neared her objective, Oliver's house. "I'm running down something that might help us locate Winn's father." Kara skirted around the truth.

"Well whatever it is good luck." Alex offered as she hung up.

Kara then landed on the backyard though she didn't see the young teen girl in the backyard. As she landed, the young girl had seen her descent and gave a short scream as she fell down on her butt. As Kara took a closer look at her, she recognized her as Oliver's daughter.

As the girl got back on her feet, she yelled into the house. "Dad we've got company out back!"

A second later Oliver came outside, book in hand. "I was wondering when you would return. So we off to meet your family now?" Oliver asked.

Kara's attention however was on the young girl. While her initial arrival had shocked the young girl, she didn't seem at all astounded or confused at Supergirl's presence. Oliver picked up on this quickly. "This is Evelyn, my daughter. She knows all about my past as the Green Arrow and the multiverse. No need for subterfuge."

The young girl offered her hand for a shake. "Evelyn. Nice to meet you." Kara said as she shook Oliver's daughter's hand. "I'm Supergirl, or Kara in private."

"So is it time to introduce myself to your team?" Oliver asked. "You said we had to delay the event from last night after some family emergency?"

"Yeah and it's evolved into something more." Kara spoke. "The threat we face is human, no powers just brain power and a seriously deranged mind. We could honestly use your help in finding out who's responsible for this."

Oliver nodded and turned to his daughter. "Will you be alright if I go with Kara for the time being?"

Evelyn nodded. "I can handle myself. I'll make sure I get off to school on time tomorrow morning since I know you'll be busy through the morning."

Oliver gave a bemused look at his daughter. "And what makes you think that?"

"Because you're you." Evelyn answered.

Oliver gave a small chuckled and nodded. "Alright then. I'll see you after class tomorrow. Oh and don't forget your calculator for your math test tomorrow."

"I wont!" Evelyn said and she went back inside.

Oliver then went back insider and came out a minute later with a military green backpack in hand, a quiver loaded with arrows on his back and a bow in the other hand. "Well, we should get going."

Oliver and Kara wrapped their arms around each other. "Hang on tight." Kara said as she bolted off the ground and top speed and bolted back to the DEO.

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DEO Headquarters

When Kara landed on the main level of the DEO, they were greeted with several raised weapons from the DEO agents there. "Everyone stand down!" Kara ordered to the agents. "He's a friend."

"Who's this?" James asked.

"James, Mon-El, this is Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow from Earth 1." Kara introduced Oliver as he gave a nod to each of the three men in the main room.

"Wait, Oliver Queen as in dead Oliver Queen?" James asked.

"One in the same." Oliver replied. "Enough of introductions. We should get back to work now. Kara told me you all were hunting a copycat serial killer."

"Uh… yeah." Mon-el said. "Whoever this is sent a flight of mechanical monkeys after us. Winn and her mom and trying to discover who could have made them and find out ways we could stop whoever this is."

"I'm sorry." James started. "But no offense. What qualifications do you have for hunting deranged copycat serial killers?"

Oliver scoffed at James's distrust. "I've been fighting as a vigilante for over ten years and I'm still alive. I trained The Flash and a dozen other superheroes back on my home Earth. More recently I took down Dr Psycho when no one else could even find him."

"Wait a minute." James's eyes went wide. "You're that archer nearly killed me!"

"I nearly killed you?" Oliver asked until he remembered the battle with the hero National City had taken to calling Guardian. "Wait a minute. You're Guardian? The guy with the shield that I beat when you went after Edge?"

James fidgeted. "You took me by surprise. I could've taken you down in a fair fight."

Oliver chuckled. "First lesson. Fights are never fair. If you only fight fair then you're gonna end up dead."

"Is that what happened with Dr Psycho? You just decided to kill him because fights aren't fair?" James accused.

Kara wanted to interfere and stop the arguing before punches got thrown. She did agree with James at the time though. Kara didn't kill, ever and seeing Oliver go back to killing had her worried. She had understood but not approved of it for their Earth X doppelgangers since they would never stop their assault but she wasn't sure about Dr Psycho.

"The monster kidnapped my daughter." Oliver growled. "As a father I will do whatever it takes to save my little girl."

James was then silent. Even though he wasn't a father, he knew a child in danger reared primal emotions in their parents and he knew then that arguing the point further was not a good idea.

Just then Winn entered the room with a scowl on his face. "Have you guys seen my mom?" He asked.

"I thought you were putting humpy dumpty back together." Mon-el joked.

"No. She's gone and so is the side panel of the monkey's gear chamber." Winn explained.

Just then the main screen became static and a new feed popped up showing Winn's mother captured and a female voice spoke. "I have your mother but you can trade your life for his. She's hanging around the old Wiggens Game Company factory. But hurry junior, the pressure is on."

Winn's face showed only steely determination. Kara spoke first. "I'll go."

"Me too." Mon-el offered.

"I will as well." Oliver said as he grabbed his bow from the bag.

"Not without me." Winn added

"That's exactly what she wants." James warned.

"I've spent my entire life trying to fight off the part of me that's like my dad, but now, now I can use it." Winn explained as Oliver fell in step with him. "New friend?" Winn asked.

"Oliver Queen." Oliver said. "Long story, I'll explain when we get back."

"Agreed." Winn said.

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Wiggens Game Company Factory

Once the team of five arrived at the factory, they stayed together to perform their sweep of the facility and hopefully find Winn's mother. Oliver took the lead with a notched arrow ready to fire. Having had a small amount of time to catch up on the Toyman serial killer, Oliver knew that he loved traps and as such his copycat would probably have a few of her own.

His suspensions were confirmed when a flying model plane came screaming towards them. "Is that a plane?" Mon-el asked.

"No it's a bomb!" Winn yelled. The plane crashed into the ground and exploded sending s shockwave that knocked Winn, James and Oliver to the ground. Oliver quickly reacted and got back into the fight as three more planes came at them. James and Winn went off to find the hostage while. Kara blasted the first one with her heat vision, Mon-el smashed the second with a bat and Oliver knocked the third out of the sky with a well-placed arrow.

After eliminating the last of the aerial attackers, the three heroes scanned the room for the controller. "So glad junior brought his friends." A voice over the intercom said.

"There she it." Kara said as she walked in the direction of the woman's supposed location. "Heat vision, freeze breath and some many point of articulation. I think I'll keep you." The voice ended as Kara was suddenly trapped in giant plastic toy case devoid of any oxygen.

Kara attempted to escape but her powers couldn't break the barrier. "It's so rare to find a vintage superhero in mint condition." The voice continued to taunt them, angering Oliver and Mon-el.

Oliver and Mon-el ran to help her out but an unseen force knocked them back. Turning around, the duo saw a giant mechanical T-Rex charging them. "Are you kidding me?" Oliver complained. "First time travel, inter-dimensional travel, aliens, now giant mechanical dinosaurs?"

Mon-el then turned his attention to the mecha while Oliver worked to get Kara out. Oliver fired an arrow into the lining however it bounced off. Oliver then got an idea. "Mon-el! Lead it here!"

Mon-el nodded and led the monster right to Kara and as it's tail whipped around, it broke Kara free of her containment however the oxygen depravity had severely weakened her.

Mon-el and Oliver then doubled teamed the ugly mecha. Oliver fired one of his EMP arrows that disrupted one of the machine's legs. Mon-el then grabbed one of the leather capes and through a series of odd but effective tricks was able to bring down the dinosaur.

"Cloth magic." He explained.

"Of course." Oliver deadpanned.

The trio then took off for the main room to see that the threat had been eliminated and Winn's mother had been rescued.

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Alien Bar

"Carry on my wayward son!" Mon-el tried to sing but more accurately screamed into the mike. After taking down their opponent, the group had decided to head for the bar to relax and celebrate. In light of Oliver's assistance in the fight, they had invited him and Oliver had decided to accept. Though he might live to regret that.

"So how bad was that?" Mon-el asked knowing how terrible he was.

"I would just say that you should sing Kansas for yourself and not other people." Kara said softening the blow.

"Yeah that's good advice." Mon-el said as the two laughed.

"Still better than Wild Dog's singing." Oliver smiled.

"Oh come on Rene wasn't that bad." Kara placated.

"He would sing in our showers down in the lair." Oliver retorted. "I swear to God, the walls shook and glass broke."

Kara laughed at this and Mon-el still smiled though it seemed to father. "Anyway, Kara I did still want to talk to you."

Oliver knew that was his cue to leave. "I'm gonna go get another drink." Oliver said leaving Kara and Mon-el to discuss their debacle. Oliver knew that Kara and Mon-el had a complicated history from what Barry had told him. He heard something about him, time travel and another wife. Oliver took another swig of his whiskey. If he never had to deal with time travel or any other weird shit again, it would be too soon.

As Oliver went off to the bar and got his drink, he turned and saw Alex right in front of him holding a glass of whiskey in her hand. They both took a second to recover before speaking. "Alex." Oliver said.

"Oliver." Alex replied trying to keep her voice steady. She had not expected this when Kara asked her to come to the bar. "I heard you were dead."

"Long story." Oliver answered. "Take a seat and I'll tell you all about."

Alex only nodded as the two took a seat and Kara joined them. "Hey Alex! I take it you just met Oliver."

"Yep." Alex replied taking a sip of her drink. "So, how did you survive?"

"When the prison riot began, an old friend helped me escape. When I got out, I knew that with the explosion, everyone would consider me dead and so I decided to let myself be assumed deceased and disappear away from everyone so that my friends and family could live a normal life while I started over someplace else." Oliver explained.

"Why come here if you wanted to be away from everyone?" Alex asked.

Oliver sighed. "I didn't know much about the multiverse. The only two earths I knew off was Earth 1, 38 and X. I didn't want to risk trying out some unknown Earth. As for National City, I had only planned to stay here a few weeks but Evelyn go so well adjusted here that I decided to make this place my home."

Alex smiled. "You know we can't just keep this a secret from all your friends back on Earth 1. The next time we get in touch with them, we'll have to tell them you're alive and here."

Oliver took a big gulp of his drink. "I know and wont ask you to lie. All I ask is that if they ask me to come back with them, you help me convince them to let me stay here. And also convince them not to kill Evelyn."

Now both Alex and Kara were confused. "What!?" They asked in unison.

Oliver sighed. "Alex, you haven't met her yet but Kara has. Evelyn is my adopted daughter. She initially started out as a member of my team when she was just a teenage. However a little over a year ago when she learned about my past as the Hood, she betrayed the team. We all thought that she was dead following the destruction of Lian Yu but she was alive. When I found her, I nursed her back to health, we buried the hatchet regarding her betrayal and I took her with me to Earth 38 to help her restart her life."

By now Alex and Kara had come to understand. They both nodded in support when Oliver asked them again to back him up when they called his friends to let them know he was alive. As the night dragged on, Alex broke away from the group to give a supporting hug to a man that came into the bar whom Kara explained that he was like their surrogate father… and a Martian.

Eventually Oliver broke away from the group before Kara got the bright idea to make Oliver do karaoke. As he went up to the bar, he was accosted by James Olsen though this time he looked less self righteous and more sullen. "Hey Oliver, I wanted to apologize for how I accused you back at the DEO. I didn't know the whole story about what had happened."

Oliver was a little surprised by this but he smiled at James's sincere apology. "It's not necessary but I do appreciate it." Oliver then noticed that something still looked like it was bothering him. "You ok man?"

"Yeah… No… It's just some stupid stuff with my girlfriend Lena." James said.

"Lena Luthor?" Oliver asked and James nodded.

Oliver nodded as well. "What kind of stupid stuff?"

James and Oliver took a seat at the bar. "She's been ducking my calls and avoiding me. She called me tonight to tell me she had been in the office for several days now but when I called the office, they said they hadn't seen her for days."

"Why would she lie to you?" Oliver wondered.

"I don't know. I thought we were in a good place but the past few days I feel like she's just been more and more distant and that she'll just keep pushing me away." James explained.

Oliver sighed. "James, I know what you're dealing with. My ex girlfriend and I had several issues revolving around the same thing."

"What happened?" James asked.

"One time we disagreed over how to hunt down a monster of a man who had been targeting us. He had a few weeks ago gotten her boyfriend killed… long story. As such she became increasingly obsessed with taking him down that she even went so far as to make a deal with a cyber terrorist faction to get intel on him. We even ended up on opposite sides of a firefight because of it." Oliver explained.

"How did it end?" James asked.

Oliver sighed. "Eventually we realized that we were in two separate places and split up. But the truth of the matter is that it was what we both needed. Neither of us could lean on the other for support when we needed it and if we had tried to make it work, we would have ended up hating each other by the end."

James took a sip of his beer. "Not the answer I was hoping for."

"But it's one you need to hear." Oliver replied. "If she cant lean on you or trust you when things get rough, then you cant call what the two of you have a relationship anymore."

"Maybe you're right." James sighed.

"Speaking of other things you need to hear, we need to talk about your hero work." Oliver continued.

"Look I don't need a trainer." James retorted.

"You've got good instincts James and it's good that you want to help people. But's you've a lot like Barry when he first started out. If you don't think tactically in battle and develop discipline, you wont make much of a difference in anyone's life."

"So what? You gonna teach me how to kill because I don't do that… ever." James emphasized the last work.

"I'm not going to teach you how to kill. I'm going to teach you how to survive. As I said, I've been doing this over ten years without powers and I'm still alive. You want to hold the same record? Don't discount what I and other experienced warriors can show you."

James mulled the information over for a second before nodding his head. "Ok then, when do we begin?"

"Tomorrow morning." Oliver said as he stood up from the bar.

As Oliver made his way to the car, he turned around to hear Kara calling after him. "Hey Oliver!"

"Kara, did I forget something?" Oliver asked.

"No I just wanted to tell you something. I'm really happy that you're alive and that you're here." Kara admitted. "After everything that we've all suffered it's just nice that one of our friends that we thought was dead isn't anymore."

"Well I'm glad to be here with you as well." Oliver replied. "These last few months have been trying beyond what I imagined and it is nice to finally be able to relax even if it was only for a minute."

"Hey, you know if you wanted to, you could stay here and work with the DEO like I do. We could always use an extra pair of hands around here." Kara offered.

Oliver smiled. "I'd like that but I should go home now. Evelyn is probably wondering where I am." Oliver then opened up his arms. "Come here."

Kara smirked. "Oliver Queen offering a hug? Did you get hit on the head during that last fight?"

Oliver just continued to smile. "You just have that effect on me. Somehow I always feel happier when you're around."

Kara blushed and allowed herself to be embraced by her formerly deceased friend. Despite being a normal human, Oliver's embrace was strong and welcoming at the same time and Kara was enjoying being in his embrace.

However their moment was interrupted by the sound of a massive explosion rocking the nearby area. Oliver and Kara bolted into action and ran to the sight of the explosion. Once they arrived, the two heroes noticed the wreckage. Whatever building had previously stood there was now a fireball. Some survivors limped away from the explosion but Oliver knew from the size that the body count would be large for this attack.

As the two scanned the wreckage for survivors or evidence, both of their eyes were drawn in shock to something standing in the middle of the explosion creator. In the center of the creator stood a waving flag, undamaged and flapping in the wind. On the flash showed a symbol that made both Oliver and Kara's blood go cold.

A Swastika.

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I apologize for this cliffhanger but I'm using this to set up William's return and the attack of the Earth X Nazis as well as the revelation of Oliver's survival so naturally I want to incorporate it properly before it gets published.

Also there will be a new addition to the story. Many of you have insisted that I focus part of the story on Evelyn since her character is integral to how the story develops so subsequent chapters will have sections focused on her character development and her decision about whether or not to become Artemis again.

Once again I apologize for the delay I'm trying to write as fast and as accurately as I can but time is just not something I have a great deal of anymore. While I can't promise that I will be back to weekly updates, I will try to.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.