Chapter 4
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Seconds after being bathed in light the twenty-five people who will know the truth about the New Universe start to wake up, all wearing regular clothes rather than any super suits. Due to the change in timelines everyone is either the age they actually were in October of 2014. Or, in the case of the people whose personal timelines changed the age they were when the events Oliver explained to them occurred, while Lyla is visibly pregnant.
"Whare are we?" Kate asks, looking around in confusion as she notices most of the others don't look confused.
"Lian Yu," Oliver answers.
"Oliver, are you, you?" John asks his friend, wanting him to say yes.
"Yeah, John, I'm me," Oliver answers, just from his voice everyone who knows him can tell that he is once more Oliver and is no longer the Spectre.
"It's damn good to have you back," John says relieved as he hugs his brother.
"Why the hell are back on this Bloody Island?" Thea asks, as she really hates this place.
"Lian Yu's special, it has properties. Because of that it needed to be one of the first places on earth created," Oliver explains, knowing that because he still has all the extra knowledge he gained. "For the next twenty-four hours us and this Island will be all that exists as everything else forms. Once twenty-four hours have past we'll remember ever detail of our counterparts' lives, and we will all have to get to where people are expecting us to be," Oliver explains, knowing that that will affect them all in different ways.
"So, until then we're on an island with Land mines, great," Quentin says sarcastically.
"Landmines?" Joe asks worried, as he looks at his kids, feeling concerned for them.
"Stick with Sara, John, and I, between the three of us we know where all the dangers are," Oliver says, as he looks at Thea, and can't help but think about what happened the last time, in his memory, she was on this island.
"Okay, so If we are going to be on this Island, that apparently has a lot of dangers, what are we going to do?" Lena asks curious.
"We plan," Nyssa answers.
"And we need to make sure we have the supplies we need to get through the next twenty-four hours," Alex says, as while there are aliens and meta humans in the group she knows they all need food and water.
"We do need to plan, but we don't need supplies," Oliver explains. "Across the Island, there is a camp, one with supplies that will last us all the twenty-four hours we're going to be here," Oliver reveals, as he and Mar Novu made sure that the twenty-five of them would have what they need for the time they are going to be on the Island.
"That will not be an easy journey," Nyssa comments, knowing that, and wondering if people among the group will be able to handle it.
"Kal, J'onn and I can fly us across," Kara offers.
"And Wally and I can run…. Or will that set of the landmines?" Barry asks curious, looking at Oliver.
"It depends where you run," Oliver explains. "I will tell you the path to run," Oliver reveals.
"That will be helpful, I really don't want to get blown up," Wally comments, to everyone's amusement.
A couple of hours later everyone has be brought to the Camp and because they want to test their fighting abilities in this new universe Laurel, Sara, Alex, Thea, Nyssa, and Kate are all sparing together. Not being able to help herself Lena is watching on and is feeling amazed by the six women, while Lyla, who is nearby also watching, wishes she could join them, but given her current condition she can't.
"Kara," Lena says, having some questions which only her friend can answer and so she pulls Kara away from the conversation which is going on between her, Clark, John, Rip, and Barry.
"Yes?" Kara asks, walking over.
"None of these women are aliens? None have special abilities?" Lena asks, it being clear what she is talking about.
"Nope," Kara answers. "All six of them, and Lyla too, have worked incredibly hard, trained for a long time to be able to fight the way you see," Kara explains. She is truly impressed by all of them she knows that none of them have had an easy journey.
"It's impressive," Lena comments as she has always been impressed with self-made woman.
"More than impressive," Iris says as she, Caitlin and Lois walk up to where Kara and Lena are, having walked away from where Joe, J'onn and Quentin are in the middle of a conversation, bonding over their similarities, while Wally, Nate, Ray, Cisco, and Luke are nearby geaking out over everything together.
"They're heroes who fight, every day, but there are other ways to be heroes," Lois comments, as she knows that all to well. "We all know that, we all are," Lois says, looking between the others, having known enough from Kara about Lena to know she is different from her brother.
"Do you really think we're going to be able to do it? Prepare the multiverse, save the multiverse?" Iris asks the others curious.
"We have to," Caitlin comments, as she knows that neither she or Frost want to die again.
"Caitlin's right, we have no choice. We have five years, and twenty-five of us, we'll make things right, we have to," Kara says, agreeing with what the others are saying.
From where she is fighting Laurel is getting back to her feet after being double teamed by Alex and Kate, and as she does she notices that Oliver is standing alone on the shoreline.
"I'll be back," Laurel says before jogging over to where Oliver is. "Ollie?" Laurel asks, and he turns to look at her. "I know this may be a stupid question, but are you okay?" Laurel asks worried.
"Yes," Oliver answers simply.
"Do you want to talk?" Laurel asks curious.
"I'm just comprehending everything," Oliver explains. "Thinking about everyone,"
"You mean William and Mia," Laurel realises, and Oliver looks at her in surprise. "Come on Ollie, you have infinite knowledge now, you know being dead I know about what happened to people I care about, and I know you. So, I know you'll be thinking about the two people you love the most," Laurel explains.
"William exists in this world, his name is Connor here, but he exists, he is different, but also very similar to the son I knew," Oliver explains, feeling glad to know about his son, but he isn't sure what he is going to do about his son as he doesn't want to let him down, hurt him, like he did in the other universe. "Mia doesn't, and the version of her I met never will, no matter the universe," Oliver explains, as there was no possible way for Mia to be the same Mia he met, even if he and Felicity were to get together again.
"I'm sorry," Laurel says, meaning that.
"Me too," Oliver admits, though despite the pain he is in he also feels like it is okay. "I will miss her, but I will never forget her, and know every possibility of her life, that helps," Oliver reveals. Not sure what to say, Laurel reaches up and puts his hand on his shoulder, and gives it a gentle squeeze.
"I know I'm a lawyer in this world too. If you want, if you need a lawyer, I will help you with William… I mean Connor," Laurel assures Oliver as she remembers what happened in the previous reality and so she doesn't know if it will be the same in this one.
"Thank you," Oliver says gratefully as that does help him, and for a few minutes the two of them stand together in silence.
"Laurel, I didn't treat you in the way you deserve. I tried to protect you and I hurt you, over and over again, I won't do that again," Oliver promises, breaking the silence.
"I appreciate that, but Ollie, I will be the Black Canary, as well as the DA if it comes to that. I meant it when I said I love being in the field," Laurel explains. "I want us to be a team this time, a real one, equals," Laurel requests as she desperately wants that as she is sure it will prevent so much.
"We will be," Oliver says, with a nod, not wanting to make the same mistakes he made last time, and he feels like the best way to do that is for him and Laurel to be partners.
"So, this ability I now have, what is it?" Laurel asks curious.
"A canary cry," Oliver says, with a slight smile. "And I will do everything I can to help you learn to control it," Oliver promises as after seeing Dinah and Earth Two Laurel he is sure he can help Laurel figure it out.
"Thank you," Laurel says and the two of them drift into silence once more.
For a few minutes Laurel and Oliver stand in silence together until they both hear footsteps and turn to see Thea and Sara walking up to them.
"Everything okay?" Thea asks, the two people she loves the most.
"Yeah," Oliver answers.
"Good, because I'm not letting either of you die in this world, so you can't be idiots," Sara says, looking between her sister, and her oldest friend, there being an edge to her voice as she is angry at Oliver for the role he played in her sister's death.
"I have no intention of being an idiot Sar Bear," Laurel assures her sister, as she puts an arm around her.
"Good, but you're not the one I'm worried about," Sara says, glaring slightly at Oliver.
"I don't either," Oliver promises.
"Good," Thea says, as Oliver puts an arm around her.
"Come on, we should get planning," Oliver says, and the Queen and Lance siblings head back to the other.
As the others see the Queens and Lances approaching they stop what they are doing, and all walk closer together.
"Once time truly begins again there will be ripple effects, changes not even I can predict, so we cannot prepare for everything now. But, what we can do is prepare for the immediate problems," Oliver explains as he looks around at everyone.
"Sara's death, we have to prevent that," Rip comments.
"Agreed," Laurel and Quentin say together.
"I would also rather not be drugged by my psycho dad," Thea comments.
"Even without Al Sah-her my father will likely find a way to bring you into the league," Nyssa says, looking at Oliver, as she has always suspected that her father had been planning that for a while and Malcom was just an excuse to make his move.
"I know," Oliver says. "You will gain your memories soon, but in this world you and Talia have a closer relationship, do you think together you'll be able to stop him if we help?" Oliver asks.
"I do not know, but we can try," Nyssa answers, feeling truly happy about the fact that she may be able to have a real relationship with her sister as that is one of her deepest desires, especially now that she understand Talia more.
"So, Sara, Merlyn, Ra's and the League, what else?" Laurel asks.
"Killing Damian Darkh," Sara says, as she is not going to let him live any longer, and John realises something he has not considered, that his brother is going to be alive, and he isn't sure how he feels about that.
"My aunt, and Myriad. With a chance I can get through to her, redeem her, and stop Non," Kara says as that's what she wants most.
"Thawne, which reminds me, we will not be able to do anything in Central City without him seeing, he had cameras everywhere," Barry explains, knowing that means him hiding how fast he is, which is likely going to be difficult.
"We'll figure it out. I've got a few ideas," Cisco says, and Barry nods.
"We also have to get my Dad out of jail and put Snart on the path for him to become a Legend," Barry says, and Iris knows she wants to start the Citizen sooner, but she isn't quite sure how she is going to do that yet.
"Stopping my sister, and saving my step-mother," Kate says as while she may hate Catherine, she loves Mary and doesn't want her to go through that pain again. She also intends to find Bruce, but Beth is the immediate concern.
"Cleaning up the mess in Metropolis from sending Lex to jail," Clark says as las time there were a lot of stolen weapons in the public, which he knows will have occurred in this time to.
"I'll be moving to National City," Lena comments.
"This version of you has already to National City," Oliver explains, and Lena is glad about that as it will make things easier.
"Maybe we should think about setting up the Bunker sooner," Diggle suggests. "We need a secure place for all of us, though how we are going to do that with no money I don't know," Diggle admits, as he is positive that the Foundry will be too small for everyone.
"I can help with that," Ray says.
"Same," Lena, Kate and Cisco all say.
"Jonny and I will have to prepare for our baby," Lyla says, wondering if it will be Sara or JJ.
"Ronny and Stein," Caitlin says. "We need to find them, help them,".
"Eddie," Iris says, knowing that she will break up with him as soon as possible.
"Okay, now we all know what our immediate concerns are, we need a plan," Oliver says, and together the group of twenty-five start to plan how they will handle the situations they need to handle, it being more than clear that for every situation they will offer help to each other, and Cisco asks everyone who he is going to make a super suit for how they would like it to look.
For over twenty hours, apart from when they all got some sleep, the twenty-five heroes of the Multiverse all plan what they need to do to deal with their immediate problems while bonding with each other.
"It's time," Oliver finally says, interrupting the happy bonding. "Barry, Wally, Clark, Kara, J'onn. We all know where we have to go. We need the five of you to get us there," Oliver explains, and they all nod. "Rip, the Waverider is in Starling City," Oliver explains, and as he does he realises something. "Which is already called Star City," Oliver reveals.
"I know, but I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I will make sure it is cloaked," Rip explains, and Oliver nods.
"We need to move out, we can't risk anyone, Thawne especially, figuring out that things are different now," Oliver explains.
"Um, we might have a problem with that, and I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner, but Thawne has his own version of Gideon," Cisco points out.
"Using my Gideon I will be able to create a way to disable Thawne's Gideon, or more helpfully, make it so his Gideon only gives information we want," Rip explains.
"Thanks," Barry says, gratefully.
"Okay, let's go," Oliver says, knowing they are wasting precious seconds, and once he speaks those who can fly or move at superspeed start to take the others to where they are supposed to be.