Hello everyone. I hope that we can quickly get out of this crisis situation that we are facing. In the meantime, a new chapter. Good reading.
Chapter 10:
Supergirl and Oliver had just returned to DEO. They went to the medical center, where Mia was resting. William was at her bedside. They both saw Alex come out of the room, smiling. The archer concluded that his daughter's condition was improving.
"So?" he asked.
"Mia's on the mend," beaming Alex announced. "The cure was effective. Her body eliminates the poison. Your daughter will be able to recover, Oliver."
Moved, Oliver looked at Alex with relief and happiness. Even Kara was relieved and overjoyed.
"That is good news," she cried.
"And how is she?"asked Oliver again, disturbed with joy.
"For the moment, she is resting, but she is healing quickly. Your daughter is a fighter like you, Oliver," replied Alex.
Then to everyone's surprise, Oliver came to give Alex a hug. Kara was very stunned, and her sister was even more so. Immediately, Alex hugged the archer back.
Oliver stepped back while thanking the director of DEO.
"Thanks, Alex. And thank you also to Supergirl. I am delighted that we managed to save my daughter and also prevent Kara from finding herself in the clutches of Leviathan."
"Thank you for taking care of my sister," congratulated Alex in return.
"I'm going to go… see my daughter… can I go see her?"
"Of course."
Immediately, Oliver took the path to the medical center, while Supergirl didn't hesitate to launch him:
"Do I dream or do you smile, Oliver? I thought you never smiled?"
"Very funny, Kara," replied the sarcastic archer.
And he went to the medbay while Supergirl joined her sister.
"Oliver Queen hugging my sister! I never thought I would ever see that. If I tell Barry this, he'll never want to believe me! Even I have no right to that!"
"Probably the one and only hug I'll get from him," Alex agreed, laughing lightly.
Supergirl chuckled too, about to say something when Brainy joined them.
"Supergirl, Madam Director!"
"What's going on, Brainy?" asked Alex.
"We spotted an intrusion at DEO," said Coluan. "Our sensors have located several signs of life in the basements of the building."
The two sisters immediately resumed their seriousness.
"I'll go take a look down there to see if I find anything," said Supergirl.
"If you find something, don't try anything, take no initiative, you inform me immediately," ordered Alex.
Supergirl nodded and set off in super speed. Alex then turned to Brainy:
"How could they have entered our premises?"
"I am currently looking for any traces of signals that would inform us of the position of our intruders," explained the being of the future.
"If you find something, you keep me posted."
The Kryptonian and Dreamer walked to the officers' locker rooms, looking for clues.
"The building is secret," said Dreamer. "How could they have gotten in here?"
"I don't know," replied Supergirl.
On entering the locker room, the two superheroines discovered two men, half naked, tied up and gagged on the ground. Immediately, Supergirl released them and removed their gags.
"What happened?"she asked them, nervous.
"We didn't see anything coming," said one of the men. "Two guys fell on us. They knocked us out, and they must have taken our uniforms."
Then Supergirl contacted her sister by her headset:
"Alex! We've a problem ! The DEO is infiltrated. We've two intruders walking around with agency uniforms!"
In the control room, Alex had received the message. Dig and Connor were standing next to her.
"Copy that, we will be vigilant! (She turned to Brainy, who was at her computer.) Brainy, we need to check all of our agents! We have two intruders wearing their uniforms."
"I'm going through all of our cameras," cried the Coluan, looking at his screen. "Sprock Madam Director, I just spotted an unauthorized entry into the penitentiary section."
"Do you have aliens locked up in cells?" asked John, anxious.
"The most dangerous," replied Alex, shaking his head. "Do we have pictures of the cells?"
Brainy looked at the video images.
"Nothing alarming, madam. The cameras show the inmates in the cells. There is nobody."
"Yet someone tried to break in there, it's not trivial," Connor remarked.
"We'd better go take a look," said Dig as he left the room.
"You don't want to be accompanied?"asked Alex.
"We don't know who to trust right now, and I'm a soldier," Dig explained. "I am not afraid of danger."
Close to the balcony stood Diaz, camouflaged in DEO suit. He passed a few agents, who suspected nothing.
At the medical center, Oliver stood at the bedside of his daughter who slept soundly. Finally, he was relieved that it was all over. Once Mia woke up, he would send his children back to Earth – 1 quickly, while he took care of Diaz. He was a deadly enemy with his metal arm for Supergirl. He had to quickly neutralize this threat.
While he was deep in thought, Alex came to see him.
"Oliver, excuse me for disturbing you, but I need to talk to you, it's urgent!"
The archer nodded, before turning to William.
"Stay with your sister!"
The young man of the future nodded, while Oliver followed Alex to the checkpoint.
"What's happening?"
"We have an intrusion at DEO," Alex explained.
"What?" exclaimed the archer, stunned.
"Our building is infiltrated. Kara has just informed me that two intruders are walking around the agency wearing DEO uniforms. Brainy was able to locate a GPS chip that emanates from your quiver. That's how they found us. It is probably Leviathan."
Oliver grumbled and cursed himself, remembering his fight with Diaz in the warehouse. He should have known he wouldn't let go so easily. He had certainly put a tracer in his quiver during the fight.
"We are on alert, but I fear that it is still Leviathan, who seeks either to reach Supergirl or your children!"
"We will not let it go, Alex! I'll not let them take neither Kara or my children," Oliver said.
Supergirl and Dreamer joined them at the command post.
"We didn't find anything suspicious in the basements," Kara explained. "I used my x-rays, I saw nothing at all."
Then came Dig and Connor.
"We're coming back from the cell room, we haven't found anything," Dig explained.
"What shall we do now?"Connor asked.
"We need to quickly search the building from top to bottom and check all of our agents," said Alex.
"In all discretion, it would be preferable," added Oliver. "We shouldn't alert our intruders."
"I suggest that we separate and form groups to search the whole building," proposed Supergirl. "I'm sure we will soon find our unwanted visitors."
"I'm staying here to coordinate everything with Brainy," said Alex.
"I'm taking John with me," said Oliver. "Connor just has to go with Supergirl and Dreamer."
"On it," said Connor, nodding.
Then Brainy came to join them.
"Madam Director, a silent alarm has just been triggered in the cell room."
"Probably an alien trying to escape," cried Dreamer.
"We're going right away to check that no one is escaping," said Kara.
"I'm coming with you," said Connor.
William was standing at his sister's bedside, when she opened her eyes and looked around.
"How do you feel, sis?"
"Better than before," announced Mia. "Really good."
"Alex said you still need to rest," William explained. "Your body rejects the poison with the cure."
"And where is our father?"asked his sister.
"Apparently there is a security failure at DEO."
"We should go check…"
"Supergirl is with Connor, and our father left with John. They will manage this!"
Close to the checkpoint, Diaz slipped through the officers and settled in front of an empty desk. He landed in front of the computer, took out one of his metallic fingers and pressed on a computer.
Oliver and John roamed the dark hallways to the upper floors, watching for the slightest suspicious gesture.
"Who would have thought we'd be fighting aliens when we landed here," Dig said.
"All I wanted to come here was get my kids and get out of here," replied the archer.
"And what keeps you here?"
"Diaz. He'll never stop. He will continue to threaten Kara. Besides, it's because of me that he's here. I can't let him go after Supergirl."
"Don't worry, Oliver! We'll not let him do it! We managed to save your daughter, it's already a lot," Dig replied in a confident voice.
Supergirl, Dreamer and Connor entered the cell room where a few aliens were still trapped.
"I told you, no one is there," said Connor.
"Yet someone tried to gain access to the cells," objected the Kryptonian.
"Supergirl! Dreamer!"
The two superheroes turned their heads and seemed dumbfounded when they find out… Connor inside one of the cells, which was drumming at the door enclosure.
"Connor?"exclaimed Supergirl, taken aback.
"It's not me! It's not me!" yelled Connor who was in the cell.
Kara turned to Connor who was with her. The second young black man gave them a sneer.
"I've been waiting for this for a long time!" replied the evil Connor.
With a leap, he pushed Dreamer aside and hit Supergirl pushing her back. The kryptonian got up and went to the charge.
She slapped the evil Connor in the face, but he remained standing and stared at Supergirl with a sneer.
"White Martian!" cried the Girl of Steel.
"You locked us in this cage, you can't hold us indefinitely, Kryptonian," replied the evil Connor.
Dreamer got up and opened the cell where Connor was locked up.
Supergirl and the Connor-shaped white Martian fought hand-to-hand. She clapped her hands, creating a shock wave that destabilized the Martian who returned to his true form.
The real Connor came out of the cell and Supergirl then threw the Martian into the dungeon and closed the door.
"Are you alright?" Kara asked the young man.
"I'm fine," he replied, taking a breath. "My father is in one of these cells!"
"What?"exclaimed the Kryptonian.
Dreamer immediately released Dig, who was half struck.
"What happened?" asked the bluish hero woman.
"We came to check the cell room, then we got knocked out, we didn't see anything coming," John explained, rubbing his head. "When we woke up, we were locked up."
"How come it didn't alert Brainy?"cried Dreamer. "The cameras must have been neutralized, no doubt about it."
It was then that Supergirl looked horrified. If John Diggle was here with her, then Oliver was with an impostor who had assumed his appearance. Probably another White Martian.
She made contact with her headset:
"Oliver! Oliver, can you hear me? Diggle isn't with you! That's not him, it's not Diggle! That's a White Martian who took on his appearance! Oliver! Oliver!"
"Kara, it seems that our communications are scrambled," remarked Dreamer. "I can't reach anyone!"
"So, an intruder has access to the DEO checkpoint!"Supergirl realized.
"A white Martian has taken on my appearance and is walking with Oliver," cried Dig, panicked. "That's urgent to neutralize it before that attacks him."
"I'm going to find Oliver, and you're going back to the control room quickly. One of the intruders must certainly be there."
Then Supergirl disappeared in super speed.
Oliver stood ready to intervene, his bow unfurled with his arrows, as John walked beside him with his weapon.
"You know, we haven't had a chance to communicate lately," he told her.
"These last few days have been complicated, John, between Mar Novu, the coming Crisis and my children who are coming from the future," explained Oliver. "It's a lot to cash in on."
"But you've always been solid, you're Green Arrow," Dig told him.
"I'm flattered that you have this impression of me, but right now, I can't stop worrying about William and Mia. I almost lost them today. First William, then Mia. I've resolved to die when my time comes, but I cannot accept that my children will perish. I would kill Diaz and Leviathan myself, if necessary."
"Oliver, you don't think you should stop thinking like a vigilante, and act like a father," said his friend gently.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Think first of you and your children. And it's not selfish, it's human."
"You have always been like a brother to me, John, I would be grateful," said Oliver with a smile.
"You will always be my brother, Oliver!" Dig replied, smiling back.
Supergirl appeared out of nowhere before the archer.
"Oliver, get away from him, that's not John!"
"What?" exclaimed Oliver, confused and surprised.
"The real John is with Dreamer and Connor. White Martians have duplicated them! It's not John!"
Oliver turned to catch sight of John Diggle who had a grin in his face, then began to snicker to the archer's dismay, because he had never heard his friend laugh like that before.
"What you are naive, you humans!" he sneered.
And he exposed fangs under his grin. Fast as an arrow, Oliver drew his bow and shot an arrow at John the Martian, but the latter dodged it. He hit Oliver, propelling him against the wall.
Supergirl threw her fist in the air, but John caught it and began to twist it. And sent her to the archer.
Oliver stood up and faced the Martian who looked like his friend.
"What's going on with you, Oliver? Are you afraid to face your brother?"
"You are not John, you are not my brother!"replied the archer angrily. "And you don't deserve to take his face."
"Oh, do you dislike that face? So let's take someone else! Someone a little more familiar!"
Then John materialized into Oliver, much to the amazement of the real archer. The "fake" Oliver grinned at his counterpart.
"It's better? It's so easy to take on anyone's appearance!" sneered the Martian Oliver. "And even to read people's minds, including yours!"
Roaring with rage, the real Oliver rushed against his enemy, attacking him in close combat. But however he tried to strike the Martian, the "fake" Oliver knew how to avoid his blows.
"I read your mind, Oliver, and I know all your movements and your attack strategies," sneered the Martian. "You can't stop me. I know absolutely everything about you… Green Arrow… The Hood… Lian Yu… I went through all your thoughts to the most perverse."
And he grabbed Oliver by the neck. The archer of Earth – 1 might resist, the Martian had a strong hold on him. The "false" Oliver strangled the real while sneering:
"I was tired of listening to your ridiculous feelings and fears. While you were telling me about your stories of imminent death that made me die of boredom, I searched your mind on everything there was to know about Ricardo Diaz. I'm talking about the Diaz that you have known on your Earth. Everything you did to neutralize him and I passed this info on to Diaz who is infiltrating the DEO right now. Yeah, I've a psychic connection with him, I can transmit to him anything I want as a thought. Which means he knows everything about his doppelganger Earth – 1, but also about you. Oliver Queen, the son of a wealthy, playboy and selfish who found himself on an island after a shipwreck, who hides his darkness behind a hood, a bow and a quiver. Your death will come much sooner than you think. But first, it is your children who will suffer. After William's betrayal, Leviathan will take a bite of him… and as for Mia, Diaz has a little surprise in store for her. You would not leave unattended… You didn't come to this Earth to save your children, but to see them die…"
Roaring in rage, Oliver managed to get rid of his assailant. Supergirl got up and used her super-breath to repel the Martian.
"Get back to your true shape!" she cried, her eyes full of rage. "This appearance is of no use to you!"
The "false" Oliver resumed his grin:
"Oh, do you want me to get back to my true shape? If that's what you want, Kryptonian…"
And he morphed into a White Martian, a terrifying monster that was twice the size of Green Arrow.
"I'll take care of him. Go find William and Mia! Go ahead, Oliver!" launched Supergirl.
The Archer of Earth – 1 nodded and walked away from the hallway, while Supergirl was going to take on the White Martian. The Kryptonian confronted the monster with her fists, but the creature knew how to be resistant.
"Do you think it's reasonable to get up when you're supposed to be in bed?" asked William, when his sister was up, and had put on his quiver of arrows.
"If the DEO is under siege, you might as well be prepared," replied Mia, taking her bow. "I'm not going to wait wisely in a bed for Leviathan to kill me easily."
Then the two of them left the medbay.
Dreamer, Connor and Dig returned to the control room where Alex was standing.
"What is happening? Where are Kara and Oliver?"she asked.
Before they could answer, Dig saw Diaz in a chair in front of a computer screen. Stunned and horrified, he rushed towards him, taking out his weapon.
"DIAZ! HE'S HERE!"
Immediately, the criminal rose from the office, while all the agents nearby drew their weapons and aimed at him.
Dig and Connor ran over and came to stand very close to his position, holding him in check. Alex also drew his weapon and threatened the one-handed. It also triggered the emergency alarm. The resounding sound of the alert filled everyone's ears.
"Stay away from this office!"she demanded.
"And if I refuse?"scanned Diaz, not the least intimidated.
He brandished his metallic arm in the air which began to lie down like a snake. He grabbed an agent and threw him away, like a package. He did the same to another officer. Alex, Dig and a few agents started shooting at him, but Diaz used his metal arm to protect himself from the bullets.
Dreamer waved her energetic lasso which wrapped itself around Diaz's arm, but an electric shock gushed out and struck the young hero woman with full force.
He pounced on the agents, pushing them away as if nothing had happened. Dig came to stand in front of him, wanting to attack him, but Diaz pushed him away with the force of his metal member. Connor brandished his batons and wanted to confront the criminal, in vain. Diaz grabbed him by the arm, giving him a sly look.
"You already had me once, kid! There will be no other chances!"
And he twisted his arm and threw him to the ground. The young man of the future groans in pain. Alex ran towards him, shooting him, but Diaz protected himself with his arm. He made him lie down and grabbed the young woman by the neck and sent her to propel away.
Mia and William rushed over, ran to find Diaz standing in front of them. Several officers were on the ground, including Alex, Dig and Connor.
"Ah, kids…" sneered the criminal at the sight of the youth of the future.
Mia drew her bow and threatened the fellow with an icy look.
"Don't go ahead, stay where you are!"she demanded, aiming at her enemy.
Diaz giggled.
"You are your father's daughter. He, too, threatened me. But he was unable to stop me. And neither do you."
"What do you want?"exclaimed William.
"Leviathan demanded that you both die. You, boy, you betrayed us, therefore, you will die, and your sister will know what it's like to suffer terribly."
"Try to stop us!" launched the young archer.
She shot an arrow, but Diaz's metal arm pushed her away with a shock wave. Mia then started to rush on Diaz by shooting several arrows, which were deflected with the metal arm, creating waves.
William wanted to intervene when a man in the DEO uniform stopped him and threw him to the ground.
"Leviathan sends me to kill you, William, because of your betrayal of us," he said in a neutral voice.
And he grabbed the young man by the neck, and began to strangle him. William did everything to free himself from his grip, but felt his breath leave him. Finally, Alex rushed at full speed and neutralized William's attacker with a blow in the neck. The young man caught his breath, and Alex helped him up.
Farther away from them, Mia moved quickly to fire a new arrow, but her hand didn't even reach her quiver until Diaz grabbed him by the throat and lifted him to the ceiling.
Mia's hand flew to her quiver, grabbing the first arrow she could find and burying it in Diaz's other arm. What gave the criminal such strength in one arm clearly didn't extend into the other, and he released Mia with a groan of pain. The fall of the young girl from the future to the ground was particularly violent, the archer lands on her back with a groan. As she regained consciousness, Diaz came to crash right in front of her face. He grinned at her, before throwing a purple gas from his metal arm at her. Mia took a burst of purple gas right in the face. She coughed and did everything to regain consciousness, but she could only hear Diaz's sneer.
"You are strong like your father, kid! But you can't do anything against me! Welcome to your worst nightmare…"
And he walked away from her, sneering.
Mia got up, completely disoriented, having lost all her bearings. She no longer saw anyone, her brother or any agent.
"William? Alex? Someone there?"
She turned in all directions ... when she saw in horror, the familiar face of JJ, the evil leader of Deathstroke in the future. JJ stood in front of her, dressed in Deathstroke attire, and gazed at Mia with a terrible grin.
"You missed me ?"
Mia looked shocked. Incredulous, she rubbed her eyes, but JJ's appearance still stood before her.
"No, you're not dreaming, I am very real!"
"JJ?! Ho… Ho… How… is it possible?" mumbled Mia, frozen in amazement, her eyes wide with surprise.
"You really thought that you, your brother and mine were the only ones to travel in time? I too have a lucky star who brought me here. I have traveled the Multiverse and I was come here to find you… and to kill you… Leviathan wants your death… I should perhaps to join with them…"
"No… that's impossible… You can't be here!" replied the archer, despite the fact that she was in shock.
"I'm here in front of you, and I will not hesitate to kill you, as I did with Zoe in 2040. Do you remember? You remember how I killed her in the future? You were even there and I took great pleasure in stabbing this girl!"
And he sneered, increasing Mia's anger.
"You shouldn't even exist!"she persisted. "We stopped Grant Wilson. We defeated him. You can't be there!"
He laughs more and more beautifully, continuing:
"You didn't kill him. Grant Wilson is still alive. Do you really imagine that he'll remain very quiet in his prison cell until the end of his days? The future where you and I come from still exists! That will happen much sooner than you think! And it's thanks to your father. You could have killed Grant but you chose to listen to your dad and spare him. As a result, I'm still here."
Still shocked, Mia drew an arrow and shot JJ, but the leader of Deathstroke dodged it.
"You cannot stop me. You couldn't help but kill your friend Zoe. As you have been unable to protect your brother since you landed on this Earth."
"I would prevent you from hurting my friends, JJ, I would find a way to stop you!" hissed the archer angrily.
"Oh, did I forget to tell you that I ran into William when I came here? I believe it's right. I met him."
Mia looked distraught and worried.
"What have you done?"
"You thought your brother was safe here in this undercover place? It looks like you are arriving too late to save him!"
And he went away, and showed him two inanimate bodies on the ground. Two dead bodies. Those of Alex and William. Mia felt her lungs empty. She felt like she was falling through the ground in a dizzying fall. An icy cold spread through his head.
Alex and William were lying lifeless on the floor of DEO. Both had their throats cut.
"No! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!"
Screaming in horror and despair, Mia threw herself on the inert body of her brother. William was lying dead, his throat cut, his eyes staring at the ceiling. Tears in her eyes, Mia stroked her brother's lifeless face.
"William… William…"
And she turned to the inert body of Alex who also had her throat cut.
Above her, JJ strolled around, sneering:
"I wanted to go after William, but this woman intervened. She wanted to defend him, so noble on her part. But she was no match for me. I slit her throat in seconds… and then I did the same thing with your bro."
Mia looked at the lifeless bodies of Alex and William, sobbing, unable to make the slightest movement.
Oliver then entered the great hall of the DEO, his bow in his hand. He was relieved to find his daughter alive, but seemed confused by what he saw. He could see Mia on the ground, mourning the bodies of two DEO officers who were lifeless on the ground. What was wrong with him? Why this sorrow for these agents?
"Mia, are you okay?" Oliver then asked his daughter gently.
When his daughter looked up, the archer then discovered anger and hatred on his face. She got up and looked at her father in fury.
"You killed them! You killed them!"she shouted angrily.
"Mia, what are you talking about? What's wrong?" asked Oliver surprised at his daughter's attitude towards him.
"I WILL KILL YOU! YOU WILL REGRET TO BE COMING HERE!"
And she rushed like a fury towards her father, shooting an arrow. Oliver narrowly avoided the arrow, and raised his arms, wanting to calm his daughter.
"Mia! Mia! Stop it, what's wrong with you? It's me, your father!"
"I WILL KILL YOU! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! I swear to God that you will pay for what you did!"
And she began to want to attack her father with his bow. Oliver dodged his gestures, while trying to speak to his daughter. But Mia didn't seem able to listen to her father. She screamed in rage, and did everything to try to reach her father.
Beside them was Ricardo Diaz. He watched with a merry grin Mia wanting to wrongly kill his father Oliver. Then he walked away, sneering.