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Chapter 11:
Supergirl faced the fearsome White Martian who was in front of her. The creature roared and knocked repeatedly on the Kryptonian. She leaps into the air, hitting with all her might on the jaw of her mortal enemy. She knew that the White Martians were very resistant, and knew how to stand up to her.
Kara leapt into the air and pounced on the alien creature and carried it with her to the ceiling. The Martian fell to the ground, defeated. After catching his breath, Supergirl disappeared in super speed.
Oliver struggled to dodge the attacks on his own daughter, who kept wanting to kill him and yelling at him angrily.
"Mia, stop, calm down!"
"Bastard! You killed Zoe! I'll make you regret coming here!"yelled Mia, mad with rage.
At the mention of Zoe, Oliver then understood what was going on in his daughter's head. She took him for one of her dangerous enemies of the future. She had to hallucinate. He contented himself with raising his arms in sign of appeasement.
"Mia, I'm not JJ! I'm your father! Come to your senses! Hear my voice!"
But Oliver could very well shut up, because Mia didn't seem to listen to him. She only saw JJ's sly face.
"You're weak… You could not prevent me from killing your friend Zoe, as you couldn't prevent me from killing your brother… You are so pathetic…"
"SHUT UP! YOU'LL SEE IF I AM WEAK!"howled the archer, using her bow like a baseball bat.
And she swung her bow, immediately, Oliver defended himself using his own arrow weapon. He didn't know what to do to calm her down. As Mia continued to attack her father, whom she believed to be her enemy.
"COME ON! GO, FIGHT ME, YOU COWARD! FIGHT ME! YOU4LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID AT ZOE, WILLIAM AND ALEX!"
Oliver then understood his daughter's rage. She thought she saw her brother and Kara's sister dead. He continued to dodge his daughter's blows. He wanted to take her in his arms, but Mia pushed him away with his fists, and began to hit him in the face.
"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL RETURN TO EARTH – 1, FIND GRANT WILSON AND KILL HIM! LIKE THAT, YOU'LL NOT EXIST ANYMORE AND ZOE, WILLIAM AND ALEX WILL BE STILL IN LIFE!"
"STOP, MIA, I'M NOT JJ! AND WILLIAM AND ALEX ARE FINE! hurged Oliver, hoping his daughter would hear him.
"MURDERER!"
Supergirl arrived at the checkpoint, where she could see officers on the ground. Then Dig taking care of Connor's injured hand, while Alex taking care of William.
"Aren't you hurt?" asked the elder Danvers.
"No, luckily you were there," thanked William.
He had just escaped death when a Leviathan henchman tried to kill him. Fortunately, Alex had intervened in time to neutralize him. Supergirl came towards them.
"You okay?" she asked.
"Yes," replied the young man.
"Where's Mia?"
Then they saw in the distance, Mia who was fighting her father screaming in rage. Supergirl, Alex and William were taken aback.
"What's happening?" asked Kara.
Mia tried to hit her father with her bow, but the archer did everything to avoid it and tried to calm her down. In vain. As soon as he touched her, Mia freed herself in rage.
"DEFEND YOURSELF!"
William joined them by calling his sister. She saw him and roared in rage.
"Did you bring your guys here too?"she cried at the sight of her brother. "You're just a coward!"
"Mia, what's going on with you? It's me, William!" yelled the young man, panicked.
But his sister seemed persuaded to see a man from Deathstroke. And she shot an arrow right at him. Horrified, Oliver tried to intervene, but the arrow was launched and rushed straight at William. Before the arrow hit its target, Supergirl arrived in super-speed and used her body as a shield to protect the young man from the future. The arrow struck the kryptonian's chest and bounced over it as if nothing had happened.
Taking advantage of this respite, Oliver seized his daughter, disarming her. But Mia retaliated with her fists and her feet and freed herself from her father.
"Mia, come to your senses, I'm not JJ!" insisted Oliver, horrified and helpless.
In a flash, she picked up her bow and wanted to throw a new arrow, but Supergirl ran at full speed and locked her arms behind her and urged her to calm down. Mia struggled with all her might but she was no match for her.
"Mia, calm down! Calm down ! Stop, you're going to kill your father!" Kara exclaimed, holding Mia's arms tightly.
"JJ, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE YOUR GUYS WHO WILL STOP ME? YOU'RE ONLY A COWARD! AND I WILL KILL YOU! YOU HEAR ME, JJ! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"Who the hell is JJ? There is no JJ here! Mia, calm down!" cried Supergirl, not knowing what to do to calm her down.
Despite Supergirl's super strength, Mia continued to struggle, wanting to free herself from her. She fidgeted like a wild animal, and Kara feared her harm if she continued to block her arms.
Oliver ran to her, taking her daughter's face by the hands, wanting to force her to look at him.
"Mia, look at me! Look at me! It's okay! I am not JJ! I'm your father, I am not JJ!"
"But what's wrong with her?" exclaimed William in shock.
Alex ran to them, holding a syringe. Supergirl turned to her, desperate, still holding Mia, preventing her from attacking Oliver.
"Alex, I don't know what to do to calm her down, and I'm scared of harming her!" cried her sister.
"Hold her!" replied the elder Danvers, running towards them with her syringe.
"Alex, what are you doing?" Oliver exclaimed when he saw Kara's sister going to her daughter's neck.
Alex injected her syringe into Mia's neck. Immediately, the archer stopped struggling and felt her eyelids close.
"I would kill you JJ… I would kill you…"
And she lost consciousness in the arms of Supergirl. The kryptonian laid her gently on the floor, while Oliver sighed in relief.
"I administered a sedative to her," said Alex. "I only saw this solution to calm her down."
"Thank you," Oliver congratulated her.
William slowly approached her.
"I saw Diaz gas her on her face," he said to the others.
"Surely a hallucinogenic gas," Kara replied. "Who is JJ?"
William turns pale at the mention of this name before answering:
"Someone from our future in 2040. It's a long story."
"Did Diaz do that to my daughter?" cried Oliver angrily.
"Apparently Leviathan has ordered our deaths, mine and Mia's," added the young man of the future.
"A guy from Leviathan has been neutralized, Diaz is still in the building," warned Alex.
Suddenly, the alarm from the DEO building sounded again. Brainy called out to them:
"Madam Director! We have an escape at DEO! Someone opened the cells and the prisoners took the opportunity to escape! They are scattered throughout the building!"
"We really needed that on top of everything else," sighed Alex, getting up.
"Surely Diaz who is trying to make a diversion to flee," said Supergirl.
"He won't escape this building," Oliver assured him, standing up.
"We have free aliens, and Diaz who wants my death and that of Mia! What do we do?" exclaimed William.
"Kara, can you bring my daughter back to the medbay and make sure she's safe?" asked the archer of Earth – 1.
"I will, Oliver," said Supergirl, lifting Mia in her arms.
"I still have agents, they can help us stop these aliens," replied Alex.
"William, you're staying with Mia and Supergirl," added Oliver, taking back his bow.
"And you, what are you going to do?"asked him son.
"Find Diaz and prevent him from doing harm."
The escaped aliens entered the DEO checkpoint. Brainy took his true form of Coluan, and set off to face one, while Dreamer waved his lasso to repel them. Alex started the fight with a bluish alien.
After bringing Mia back to her bed at the medical center, she went to lend a hand to her sister Alex.
Then the White Martian, whom she had faced earlier, appeared out of nowhere and struck the Kryptonian, pushing her like a missile towards a wall, smashing it.
The creature roared and rushed towards the Kryptonian. The two beings clashed in the laboratories, destroying everything in their path. Kara may strike the Martian several times, the alien remained standing, taking all the blows.
With his foot, the Martian threw Kara in the distance. Then he walked towards the medbay.
William, standing at the bedside of his unconscious sister, saw the creature from Mars moving towards them. Panicked, he hastened to grab a weapon and aimed at the monster who returned to the room. He fired several shots, which had no effect on the monster.
"Not good," grumbled the young man.
The White Martian roared and grabbed William by the collar, lifting him like a cat. Supergirl came into the bedroom.
"Leave him! You want me! Leviathan wants my death! Come on, catch me!"she yelled, fiercely.
The creature released William and went to the charge on the Kryptonian. Both landed on the ground, creating a slight crater. The two stood up. Kara grabbed a block of stone and used it to strike the monster in the face. Taking advantage of the fact that it was struck, she threw her fist in the air and finally managed to control the monster. She used her heat vision to definitively knock out her opponent.
"Finally ... I hate the White Martians," she replied before flying away.
Several floors below, Diaz was walking quietly towards the exit of the building, when the archer stood before him, threatening him with his bow and one of his arrows.
"Stay back!" Oliver ordered, aiming at his enemy.
Diaz remained sly.
"Didn't your kid kill you? Too bad. It would have been enjoyable."
"Killing you will make me happy, more than you imagine," thundered the archer with a threatening look.
Ricardo Diaz just snickered.
"Oliver Queen! The man who hides his darkness behind a hood and his quiver! Do you really want to kill me? When your destiny is to save the universe? I know everything about you. Thanks to my new friend, the White Martian, I know everything there is to know about Green Arrow. And on the other me on your Earth. I know absolutely everything about you and him."
Oliver grinned.
"So you know how it will end for you."
"Your Ricardo Diaz managed to put you in prison, called out the criminal. I'm sure he and I would have made a good team. You were mayor of your city and he forced you to reveal your secret identity to everyone, which led you to prison. I admit that I love this part of the story. It gives me ideas that might interest Leviathan. And I also love the part where he faced you in prison."
Angrily, Oliver remembered the fight he had pitted against Diaz in Slabside's jail. Unarmed, he'd been confronted Diaz with his bare hands, in a fierce and bloody struggle. And he had defeated him.
"I'd no weapon and I defeated it, just as I will defeat you!" he replied, raising his bow.
"Do you think you have mastered me with your bow? Lex Luthor offered me this arm to kill the Kryptonians. I am invincible! You cannot do anything against me!"sneered Diaz more beautifully.
"Luthor may have made you this arm for Supergirl and her cousin, but not against me," replied the archer harshly. "That's not this arm that will prevent me from hurting you."
"Oh, oh, I'm so scared," continued the criminal with his grin.
Oliver drew an arrow, which Diaz managed to repel with his metallic arm which created a deviating wave.
And the criminal used his other arm to strike the archer. The two clashed in close combat. Diaz punched Oliver in the face and in the chest, then used his metal arm to lengthen him like a snake. He grabbed the archer, tossing him into the air. Oliver managed to catch an arrow and planted it in the metal of the arm. But this had no effect.
"I told you, Queen, you can't do anything against me! Just as you cannot prevent Leviathan from killing your children! Your daughter and your son are doomed on this Earth!"
"Not while I'm there!" Oliver roars, struggling.
Diaz swung his metallic arm, throwing Oliver to the ground. And he rushed over to hit him in the face with his other fist.
He brought up a blade from his metallic arm and sliced Oliver at the abdomen. The archer howled in pain and fell to the ground.
Delighted, he turned and went to a huge suitcase. He undid the clasps and opened the briefcase.
Groaning in pain and with one hand on his bleeding abdomen, Oliver got up painfully, while Diaz turned to him with his usual grin.
"You lost, as always! For a man who has so much darkness in him, what may well be his paradise? What is your perfect world when you have so much darkness in your soul?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Oliver, groaning.
"You'll find out very quickly," replied the criminal with a sinister smile.
And he moved away. The archer could see the inside of the suitcase. It was a huge plant with tentacles like Oliver had never seen before. Suddenly, the plant came to life and leapt into the air of the suitcase. The archer tried to dodge him, but his weak state prevented him from moving. The plant leapt straight at Oliver and trapped him with his tentacles like an octopus. The archer struggled, the plant gripped his body completely. He felt his eyes close. He saw Diaz swing his horrible grin at him.
"Sweet dreams, Green Arrow…"
Finally, DEO agents had regained control of the agency. Supergirl, Dreamer and Brainy brought the aliens back to their cells.
"Alex, we're missing a White Martian," Kara announced, over the headset.
"He must have taken advantage of the panic to escape," replied her sister from the checkpoint.
"Or maybe he joined Diaz. He said he had a psychic connection to him and passed on info to him about Oliver."
"I'm going to warn J'onn," added Alex.
When the aliens returned to their cells, Dreamer turned to his Kryptonian friend.
"All returned, it was the last who were missing," she said.
"All that's missing is Diaz and the White Martian," Kara replied.
"Ricardo Diaz is a human, therefore, not an alien," said Brainy. "What will we do with him when caught?"
"Diaz invested the DEO and it targeted my friends of Earth – 1," retorted Supergirl. "I'm sure Alex won't mind keeping him locked up here."
"We still have to stop him," said Dreamer. "Kara, this guy has a metal arm that God knows how many weapons, not just kryptonite. Not only is he mad with revenge, but with his arm, I don't see how to stop him."
"We will find a way, I would like to go see how William and Mia are."
Mia was lying in a bed, with William at her bedside. When she opened her eyes, she was confused, and had trouble finding her bearings. The Kryptonian was there, along with Connor and John Diggle. Everyone was relieved to see that Mia was fine.
Supergirl slowly approached her.
"Mia, how are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, I will survive," replied the archer of the future. "What happened?"
She saw Connor, with his hand covered in bandages approaching her.
"Diaz threw you a hallucinogenic gas which made you delirious."
Mia looked shocked.
"So everything I saw … wasn't it real?"
Supergirl nodded with a reassuring smile.
"It wasn't real. It was this gas that made you hallucinate."
That was then that Mia finally saw William at his bedside. Immense relief ran through her whole body. Immediately, she threw herself on him to hug him. She had tears in her eyes.
"William… Thank God, you're not dead… I thought you were… I thought JJ had you… (Then she realized in shock.) And Alex?"
The elder Danvers came up to them with a smile.
"I'm here."
Mia sighed in relief again.
"So there was never a JJ!"
"No, just that you almost killed our father," said William.
The archer was stunned.
"What?"
"And me too, by the way," he added. "I almost got one of your arrows. Fortunately, Supergirl was there. She protected me and kept you from hurting our father."
Mia could no longer find her words, so much that she was shocked to have nearly killed her loved ones.
"I thought I was fighting against JJ and his guys from Deathstroke…"
Then, to everyone's surprise, she hugged the Kryptonian in tears.
"Thank you Supergirl. For preventing me from killing William and my father. If I had killed them, I would never have forgiven myself. My God ! Thank you Supergirl!"
Touched, Kara caressed her back.
"It's okay, it's okay. Mia, it wasn't your fault," she assured her.
Then she moved away from the Girl of Steel and looked at everyone.
"I don't see my dad. Where is he?"
"The last time I saw him, he was going to find Diaz to neutralize him," replied Supergirl.
"It's been over an hour," Alex pointed out to her. "He should have already given a sign of life."
The Kryptonian then called her archer friend by headset:
"Oliver, can you hear me? It's Supergirl! Have you found Diaz? Oliver? Oliver, can you hear me?"
"The communications are working again," hastened to answer Alex. "Normally, he should be able to hear you."
"If Oliver doesn't answer, that means there's a problem," added Dig, distraught.
"Do you think Diaz could have done something to him?" asked William, alarmed.
"We must find him and quickly," exclaimed Mia anxious.
"And that's what we're going to do," Kara replied.
It was then that Brainy joined them in the bedroom with a tablet in hand.
"Madam Director ! I analyzed the entire structure of our building. Our Leviathan intruder is locked up, but Diaz is gone. He seems to have left the agency."
"If Diaz is no longer at DEO, then where is my dad?" asked Mia, worried. "He should be there."
"Precisely, I located Oliver Queen a few floors below here, and he hasn't moved from his position for a while," added the Coluan.
Mia looked at William and Supergirl with concern, dreading the worst for her father.
The Kryptonian then arrived in a dark room of the building, with William, Mia, Connor and Dig on her heels.
With horror, they saw Oliver lying on the ground, with a huge plant encrusted on his chest. They rushed towards him.
"Dad!" exclaimed William, anxious.
"My God, Dad! No way!" yelled Mia, horrified.
"Oliver!" Dig cried, looking at his unconscious friend.
"What the hell is that?" Connor exclaimed when he saw the big plant.
Horrified, Kara recognized the plant that hung on the archer like a buoy. She came to rest near Oliver to check his pulse. She seemed relieved to find that her friend was still breathing. Mia approached the plant, but Supergirl immediately stopped her.
"No, don't touch this plant!"she yelled at the others. "I know what happens to Oliver!"
She immediately contacted her sister:
"Alex! We've a problem! Oliver has been attacked by the Black Mercy, and he's unconscious. The plant clung to him!"
"Copy that, I'm coming right away with a team," replied her sister.
"What the hell is the Black Mercy?" cried Mia, horrified and shocked.
"I know what is happening to your dad and it's not good at all," replied Supergirl, distraught.
When Oliver opened his eyes, he didn't recognize his surroundings. Obviously he was in an ordinary room. To his surprise, he was no longer wearing his archer suit, but simple clothes.
While walking around him, he then recognized the cabin in which he had left his wife and daughter behind him.
"What the…" he wondered, confused.
Then the cosmic being Mar Novu appeared out of nowhere, right in front of him. Shocked, Oliver approached him.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"Oliver Queen, you did it!"Novu said in a neutral tone.
"What… What?"
"The Multiverse is saved. The Crisis was avoided. You saved the whole universe, and escaped your death which was supposed to be inevitable. You have been able to triumph over fate. All the Earths are saved. Now you are free to live happily with your family. Congratulations."
And he disappeared immediately, under Oliver's confused look.
"I… I don't understand…"
"Oliver?" said a familiar voice.
The archer turned… and was shocked to find Felicity Smoak, who was as moved as he was. The young woman came into her husband's arms, repeating his name. At first confused and shocked, Oliver began to hug his wife.
"Felicity…"
Then she looked at her husband with a look of joy. She had tears in her eyes.
"You came back, and you saved the universe. You can be with your family. With me and our daughter. I am so happy that I lose my words."
Oliver nodded.
"So I came back home."
"Yes, that's good news, my love. Come… come with me."
And she led him to another room. Oliver saw a familiar cradle. Very happy, Felicity approached the crib, and pulled out a small being in her arms. Oliver was moved to find his daughter at the baby age.
"Mia…"
"Daddy's back, sweety. Look who's there! Look!" she said to the baby she was holding.
Oliver then looked at the baby who was watching him with round eyes. He had tears in his eyes, unable to say a single word.
"Do you want to take her in your arms?" asked his wife kindly.
"Yes, of course," he replied, nodding and crying.
And he took little Mia in his arms. He was amazed to be back with his family. He couldn't believe his eyes.
"I missed you so much… I missed you and your mommy so much…"
"You are here now, Oliver," Felicity replied. "And we finally have the opportunity to raise our daughter. You no longer have to be Green Arrow. The world is saved, there is no more danger. It's good news."
"Great news! It's too good to be true!"
And he looked at his baby, with a smile of joy and tears in his eyes.