Chapter 3
AN: Because the last chapter was more of a filter, and I really wanted you to read this chapter, I have decided to update two days in a row. The next chapter probably won't be out for a couple of days. Hope you like this chapter. THANK YOU for the support.
"Good," Oliver says, when he sees the nods and gestures. "I will say your names one at a time, and when I do say the person whose memories you would like to restore," Oliver instructs, and once again he sees nods, and gestures of understanding. "J'onn,"
"Alex Danvers," J'onn requests, and Kara is not surprised, but still thankful.
"Clark?"
"Lois Lane,"
"Kara?"
"Lena Luthor," Kara requests, as she wants to make things right with the person who means a lot to her.
"Rip?" Oliver asks.
"Sara Lance," Rip answers, without hesitation.
"John?" Oliver asks.
"Lyla Michaels,"
"Laurel,"
"Quentin Lance," Laurel says as even though she knows it will be painful for her father she feels like he deserves to know the truth, and she wants to be honest with him in this new Universe.
"Thea?"
"Nyssa Al Ghul," Thea answers, to Oliver's shock as he was expecting her to say Roy.
"Really?" Oliver asks, wanting to know his sisters' reasons, and because of that he is more like himself than the specter.
"I love him, but after everything he's been through, Roy deserves a clean slate," Thea reveals, knowing that Roy's memories of the previous universe will just cause him pain, burden him, and she doesn't want to do that to him. "Nyssa's my friend, I would like my friend in this new world," Thea explains, as she and Nyssa became close when destroying the Lazarus pits, and Oliver nods in understanding.
"Ray?" Oliver asks, clearly moving on now that he has an explanation.
"Nate Hayward," Ray answers. Honestly, he debated between Nate and Constantine because he realized they could use Constantine's magic, but ultimately decided that he wanted to choose his friend.
"Iris?" Oliver asks.
"Joe West,"
"Barry?"
"Wally West," Barry answers, to everyone's shock, having not made up his mind until he says it.
"Barry, I thought…" Iris starts to say as that certainly isn't who she was expecting Barry to choose.
"Dad will just be hurt by his memories," Barry reveals, feeling similar to Thea. "I will save him from what happened. I will free him from jail and give him his life, but he deserves to be truly free. He won't be if he gets his memories," Barry admits. "I want you to have all the family you can have," Barry says, looking at Iris, as he while he means that he also knows that Joe will lose Jenna, at least the version of her they knew, and so he doesn't deserve to lose Wally too.
"Thank you," Iris says, feeling amazed, as Barry is giving her brother, before kissing him.
"Cisco?" Oliver asks.
"Caitlin Snow," Cisco answers, as he didn't really have to think about it.
"And Kate?" Oliver asks.
"Luke Fox," Kate answers, as while she considered Bruce she is pretty sure that Luke is a better choice. While she selfishly wants her one friend to remember the truth she also believes that if she manages to find this Universe's version of Bruce she will be able to get him to help, come home, without him having memories of the other universe, in fact it might even be easier to do so.
"So, what happens now?" Cisco asks curious, and in answer to his question there is a flash of light and everyone who was named appeared, all of them looking like they are frozen.
"What's wrong with them?" Clark asks worried.
"They are in a state of Preparation," The Monitor explains.
"J'onn, we need you to restore their memories," Oliver explains.
"Okay," J'onn says, and over the next few minutes he walks up to the twelve people who have been brought into the Vanishing Point and touches their heads. Restoring their memories of the 'Old' universe, and as he does that to each person they 'wake up'.
"What's going on?" Joe asks, speaking for everyone and looking confused.
"Short version. Our Multiverse has been destroyed, a new one is being formed. The twelve of us were each able to pick one person whose memories of the old universe would be restored, we picked you," Cisco explains, pointing to the respective people when he says 'twelve of us'. "We're going back to October 2014 and have five years to make the new Multiverse right, because apparently Oliver, who is currently a cosmic being but will be himself again when we are on Earth Prime, screwed up how things were meant to be when he failed to train Laurel, who apparently knows Bruce Wayne which is just awesome. We have to fix things without telling anyone else he truth because we can't," Cisco explains. "Is that everything?" Cisco asks, looking between the others who know the truth.
"Yeah, that covers it, apart from the fact that there has been timeline changes," Ray explains, as he notices Nate look excited.
"Bruce Wayne left Gotham approximately when you died," Nyssa says, looking at Laurel, thinking that there may be a connection there, and knowing of Bruce, and who he was, because of her sister.
"Damn, I should have realised that," Kate mutters to herself, feeling like an idiot for not connecting the two events together.
"Laurel? Which Laurel are you?" Sara asks, looking at her sister, as Quentin looks to shock for words, and the others are digesting all the information they have gotten.
"Our Laurel," Oliver answers, and as soon as he speaks both Sara and Quentin hurry towards Laurel to hug her.
"You could have chosen anyone," Lena says, looking at Kara, as the Kryptonian breaks apart from the hug she is sharing with Alex, the only person who would have requested her memories be restore. "Why?"
"Because I did not want to hurt you again," Kara admits. "This new Universe may be different, but I am still me. You would have never found out I was lying in this new Universe, but I couldn't hurt you like that again," Kara explains, not knowing if it is enough for things to become right between her and Lena, but she really hopes so.
"Thank you," Lena says, feeling amazed, and she just walks to her friend and hugs her, finally forgiving her, as other people around the room embrace with the people they love, including Joe hugging three of his kids, while morning the loss of one.
"Are you, you?" John asks his wife, feeling desperate.
"Yeah, Jonny," Lyla confirms, and the two of them kiss.
As her father and sister embrace once more, both clearly thrilled to see each other again, Sara walks over to where Rip is standing alone, watching the reunions.
"Miss Lance," Rip greats.
"Captain Hunter," Sara says, grinning.
"I am not the Captain anymore," Rip tells Sara, as he can't help but return the grin.
"I may not understand everything that is going on, but I know we're going back to 2014, so you will be the Captain, and a Legend," Sara says, taking a step forward. "This time, I'm not letting you leave the team," Sara reveals, as she never should have let Rip walk out of the Waverider after they stopped the Legion.
"The team doesn't exist Sara, and won't for a while," Rip reveals. "Though I am not sure what I will be doing until it does," Rip admits, though he does intend to make sure Sara doesn't die, no matter what he has to do.
"We'll figure it out, because we're a team, Rip, you and me. Plus, we've got Ray and Nate. I'm sure between the four of us will figure out what to do until we can stop Savage, but only if we're together," Sara tells Rip.
"Do you remember that argument we had?" Rip asks curious.
"Which one?" Sara asks amused. "We had a lot of them," Sara says, and Rip knows she is right, but is still amused.
"This was one of our last, in our office, you said that I don't trust anyone," Rip explains.
"I remember," Sara confirms, it being a painful memory for her, as she hated that that was one of the last real conversations they had together, even though it was months before Rip sacrificed himself.
"I trust you, Miss Lance," Rip reveals. "Which is why when we form the Legends again we will both be Captains," Rip explains, as he has the clarity to see that he and Sara both bring different things to the role of Captain, things that will compliment each other if they work together.
"I'd like that," Sara says, as she and Rip return smiles.
"Miss Lance… I am sorry for betraying you, I felt…" Rip starts to say.
"I read your notebooks," Sara says, cutting him off and Rip knows exactly what that means. "I was pissed at you for so long, and you were trying to protect me. You suspected that Mallus would come after me because I had died, and so you thought by taking the Waverider you would protect me from that," Sara explains, and Rip can't help but think about how he failed to do that. "You did cross a line when you allowed Darkh to be brought back, but I know how much you hated yourself for that. So, you don't need to say anything more. I'm really glad to see you," Sara tells her friend, and not trusting his words Rip just nods as he never believed Sara would be okay with him.
Feeling beyond confused about what is going on Luke has walked over to Kate, the only person who he knows.
"I am so confused right now," Luke tells Kara.
"I know," Kate says, with a comforting look. "Things will make sense, eventually," Kate explains to her friend.
"You sure about that?" Luke asks, as he looks around the group that has been assembled.
"It's what I need to tell myself," Kate says, with a shrug, as she notices Nate turn to steel, which makes her doubt her own words.
"You choose to return my memories, not those of your beloved," Nyssa tells Thea, even though it is hard to hear Thea is pretty sure that there is surprise in Nyssa's voice.
"Roy deserves a clean slate," Thea reveals, repeating what she said earlier. "Me, you, Talia, we were trying to make things better, repent for the sins of our fathers," Thea reminds Nyssa. "On this Earth both our fathers are still alive. I have a chance to do things differently, I wanted you to have the same one," Thea reveals, as she debated which Al Ghul sister to restore memories to and she decided on Nyssa for two reason. The first, because she is closer to Nyssa, and the second is that she believes that it will be easier to get Talia without her memories to help than it would be for Nyssa without her memories considering the time they are being sent to.
"Thank you," Nyssa says, experiencing what a lot of people are experiencing which is being unsure what to say.
Not far from where Nyssa and Thea are Clark is hugging Lois, who he hasn't let go off, and Joe, Iris, Barry, Caitlin, Wally and Cisco are all standing together. Joe having his arm around Iris.
"So, we'll be back with Thawne, that's what is going on right?" Caitlin asks, being able to tell that Frost is a part of her still, which she is truly relieved about.
"Yeah," Barry confirms. "We should make sure he doesn't realise that you three have powers," Barry says, looking between his two best friends and brother. "Especially you, Wally," Barry explains, knowing that Wally being a speedster is an Advantage they could really use.
"I know," Wally says, as he understands everything that is going on. "Will you have to hide how fast you are?" Wally asks curious as he isn't sure what level of speed Barry currently has.
"Yeah," Barry confirms, knowing that is going to be rather difficult as he is as fast as he was when Crisis begun.
"It's time," Oliver suddenly says, in a loud voice, breaking through the various conversations that are going on throughout the room.
"It's time, what does that mean?" Laurel asks, as the room falls to silence.
"In moments we'll be sent to Earth Prime, to a location. For twenty-four hours we will be at the location together, then the rest of the world will be created, and we'll have to get to where people expect us to be," Oliver explains.
"Why don't we stay here until the world is created?" Sara asks curious.
"Because we need to be on the New Earth so that these versions of us can take the place of those who are supposed to exist, gain their memories, as the abilities of both versions of us merge," Oliver explains, as they have to be on Earth for the merge to take place. "Rip, I currently do not know where the Waverider is, but after twenty-four hours, when the rest of Earth joins us, I will," Oliver confirms, and in response Rip just nods, knowing that he is more concerned about saving Sara from Malcom than he is about the Waverider.
Once Oliver speaks and Rip nods, everyone, with the exception of the Monitor are bathed in a red-white light and they all disappear.