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Chapter 10- Escape from Earth-X
Star City, Earth-X
"Now, you referenced 100 guards", Oliver said as he looked at the map, "I assume most of them are around the perimeter?"
"Correct", Leo said.
"All right", Oliver said, "We fight through them outside. We access the main corridor. What is security like inside the hangar?"
"I'll do some recon", Barry said as he sped away and came back in a second.
"So the entire facility has meta-human dampeners", Barry revealed.
"Okay, we can't take that hangar with no powers, man", Jax said, "And Ultron and Logan alone won't be enough."
"These satellites indicate a control room off the hangar", Stein said, "That must be where the dampener is."
"Okay, well, we definitely can't take the main control room with no powers", John said, "It's not like we blend in here."
That moment, everyone looked at Oliver.
"I think I know how to get in", Oliver said with a smirk.
Later- Peter said to Alex and Ray, "I'm allowing this mission against my better judgment. You have one hour."
With an exhale, Alex said gratefully, "I appreciate it. We all do."
"Yeah, I know", Peter said, "Go get 'em. But if you don't make it through the gateway, I am not giving you more time. I will blow that place up."
He then walked off as Alex and Ray prepared to go to the mission.
Later, a vehicle stopped near the hangar.
"Your papers, Sir", the soldier stationed there asked the people inside.
"We don't have papers", Leo said from inside, "This is a special visit."
"Your papers", he said as he pointed his gun, "Now."
"Suit yourself", Leo said, "But, uh, I think you better talk to our boss."
Leo then revealed the person sitting at the back of the car- Oliver Queen.
"As you were", Oliver said.
"My apologies, sir", the soldier said apologetically to Oliver, whose doppelganger was a well-respected board member of Hydra.
"Let them through! Let them through!" he called out and the gate buzzed open while the vehicle went inside.
"Thank you, Sir", he said with a raised salute.
Oliver later walked inside as everyone raised their hands and saluted, "Hail Hydra!"
Oliver followed the gesture.
"Sir", Lance said as he walked there, "We were-We were not expecting you."
"Nor was I anticipating being back so soon", Oliver said, "But the Iron Emperor sent me back. Thanks to your incompetence, the Earth-1 doppelgangers", he raised his voice, "MY DOPPELGANGER!" he softened his voice again, "Escaped his execution."
"Yes, he did", Lance said.
"And?" Oliver asked.
"We are exhausting every possible means to locate them", Lance revealed.
"Good."
"Would you like us to delay deployment until we do so?" Lance asked and Oliver made a puzzled face, though his back was turned to Lance so he couldn't see it.
"Deployment?" he asked.
"She is inbound and ready", Lance said as he pressed a button to reveal something horrifying, "The doomsday device."
As Oliver looked at it, Lance said, "The Wellenreiter is fully operational and at the ready, sir. Shall we send her through?"
"As scheduled", Oliver said without hesitation as he needed to maintain his cover.
"Begin!" Lance said and the Wellenreiter flew into the sky where a large, red breach had opened up. The Wellenreiter went through it and it closed.
"The Wellenreiter is on its way", Lance then said as he raised his hand, "Hail Hydra!"
"Hail Hydra!" the other soldiers said too with raised hands.
"Hail Hydra", Oliver said too.
"Is there anything else I can help you with?" Lance asked him.
"No, that'll be all", Oliver said.
"Very well", Lance said as he prepared to walk off but then stopped, "Before I go, I have something for you, Sir. You may not be the Emperor, but you're still a very high ranking board member. So we need a gift to celebrate your return."
He then nodded at Oliver who nodded back.
And then he called out, "Guard!"
Some guards came in, holding a crying, blonde woman and then forced her on her knees. Oliver did not know her, but the broken look on her face was enough for a pang to go out for her.
"Well, I know how much you enjoy executing rule breakers, and this one, the Emperor's traitorous daughter, has broken many of them", Lance said to Oliver's shock, who managed to school his expression though. So this was Gwen- the Iron Emperor's daughter.
"We discovered this traitor handing her rations to the work camp children", Lance said, "Strictly against camp rules, of course. And our Iron Emperor had already said that we can do whatever we want with her."
As he said that, he handed Oliver a gun.
"Those children were starving", Gwen said in a very feeble voice.
Lance scoffed as Oliver sighed and moving forward, aimed his gun at her. But he could not bring himself to shoot an innocent woman, even if it was to cover up his tracks. She was also the woman loved by the man who had reluctantly decided to help them even though it meant his loss. His entire world's loss.
Oliver turned his gun on Lance and pulled the trigger-
But only heard the click of the gun.
Lance laughed as all the soldiers cocked their guns at Oliver.
With a chuckle, Lance said, "Did you really think I would hand you a loaded weapon BEFORE VERIFYING WHO YOU ARE?"
Oliver suddenly smacked Lance on the face with the gun, knocking him out. He then grabbed a Hydra soldier and took cover behind him as a beam disintegrated him.
He then took his gun and fired at the soldiers, disintegrating them. He grabbed one soldier and kicked another over a machine. He then kneed that soldier on the chest and he was out.
He then rushed to Gwen and put his hand on her shoulder. She pushed his hand away, clearly terrified, for good reason.
"Hey, hey, hey, you're okay", Oliver assured in the most soothing voice he could muster, "No, no, no, you're fine. You're fine."
He then gave her his gun and said, "Just take this and go."
"Why are you doing this?" she asked, still weary of him.
"Because a good and innocent heart doesn't deserve this", Oliver said sincerely before saying, "Take it and go."
As she got up, he said again, "Go!"
She then ran out of the doorway, gun in hand.
Oliver then pressed a button and the meta-human dampener was off.
"Clear", he said.
Barry sped in and asked, "How did it-", he looked around at the unconscious soldiers, "Oh."
"Barry, we have a problem", Oliver said as he eyed some damaged machinery, "The gateway control's been damaged."
"We can't turn it on?" Barry asked.
"We can't turn it on here, but there should be a manual override at the platform", Oliver revealed.
With a sigh, Barry said, "All right, we're gonna have to fight our way through."
Outside, Leo's comms activated.
"Snart", Parker said from the other end, "Some Freedom Fighters went rogue and sent the weapon without my permission."
"Call it back, General!" Snart pleaded.
"Too late", Parker said, "It's been programmed. There's no changing course now. I can't call it back. I'm sorry."
"But they haven't gone through yet", Leo said.
"I'm sorry. Just get out of there", Parker said.
"What's going on?" Logan asked him.
"Guys, we have a problem", Leo said.
"What kind of problem?" Sara asked via earpiece.
"I smell a very bad problem", Logan said.
"A weapon is heading to blow up the facility", Leo revealed.
"A weapon? You mean a missile?" Alex asked.
"Not exactly", Leo said.
"Much worse", Logan said.
"Why does this happen to us?" John grumbled on the earpiece.
At a distance, a red robot with a tornado swirling around it flew towards the facility.
"In ten minutes, Red Tornado's gonna bring down this entire facility, and there's nothing we can do to stop that robot", Leo said.
"Then we need to reopen the gateway before that happens", Oliver said.
"Nice thinking, genius", Logan commented dryly.
Oliver said, "- Barry, Ray, Ultron –"
"We know", Barry said, "Stop a flying robot somehow."
"Good", Oliver said, "The rest of us will open the breach."
"That's the whole plan?" Leo asked.
Barry then said in his best imitation of his biggest frenemy, "Well, as the Snart we know used to say, "Make the plan. Execute the plan. Expect the plan to go off the rails. Throw away the plan.""
"Wow", Leo said before saying, "That is-that is terrible advice. I always have a plan, down to the second, so nothing ever goes wrong."
"No, no, no, the only plan now is not to leave this Earth without me", Ray said as he kissed Leo, "Okay."
"Right", Leo said.
"Your doppelganger sounds more fun than you", Logan said to Leo as he wasn't a rule follower.
"Ready for Tornado watch", Ray said to Barry and Ultron.
"Let's do it", Barry said as he sped Ray out. Ultron flew out after them.
Leo then put down a duffel bag and said, "I thought it'd be fun if we put on our costumes."
He opened it, revealing suits and weapons.
"Where'd you get the bow and quiver?" Oliver asked Leo as he looked at the bow and arrows.
"The general collects weapons", Leo said with a smirk.
"You remember Ultron's story, right?" Logan asked.
Looking at Leo, Oliver said seriously, "Let's go to war."
"Only thing I know", Logan said as his claws popped out.
Lance, Castle and the other soldiers moved towards the gateway.
"No one gets to the gateway!" Castle yelled, "No one!"
That moment, the door was blasted and all the soldiers, including Frank, were sent flying back.
It was Firestorm. He fired his blasts, getting more soldiers. Oliver, Laurel, Sara, Roy, John, Logan, Leo and Alex entered too.
Oliver and Roy fired their arrows in quick succession while Laurel screamed at them, sending them flying back. Leo fired his cold gun around while Alex, Sara and John fired Hydra guns which disintegrated soldiers.
Frank got up and fired a beam at Alex but Logan stepped in the way and rushed him. Two soldiers blocked his path but he stabbed one deeply in the chest and sliced the throat of the other.
Another appeared but Logan jumped and embedded his claws into him with a feral roar.
Sara and Alex then hid behind opposite crates. A Hydra soldier appeared but Sara grabbed his gun while Alex kicked him away and snatched his gun. She disintegrated him with the beam and did the same to another soldier approaching them.
Another soldier fired at them from above but Sara disintegrated him with a shot.
Roy swept a soldier's feet from under him and smacked him out before shooting a soldier down. John disintegrated two soldiers with a gun before Frank fired at him but he ducked to avoid.
Oliver flipped a soldier to the ground and shot another down.
Above them, Firestorm blasted the soldiers and flew off as Logan ran after him.
Flash ran towards Red Tornado as Ray flew over him next to a train.
"Here we go!" Ray shouted.
Ray fired some energy blasts at Red Tornado which it dodged and fired air blasts which Ray barely dodged as Red Tornado flew past him. Ray flew after it but it kept firing its air blasts.
Eventually, Ray arrived in front of it. It was about to fire a concentrated blast when Barry jumped and grabbed it from behind.
Firestorm and Logan hid behind some crates as Hydra soldiers passed by them.
"Okay, we're Hydra-free", Logan said, "Let's go."
"Hold on", Firestorm said as he listened to Stein inside him, "That's an automated power cell. We need to activate it before using the control console."
"So I get you can hot-wire it, no problem", Logan said.
"Then you'll turn on the console", Firestorm told him.
"Let's kick some ass", Logan said as the two ran.
Firestorm managed to hot wire the console and said, "Logan! We got power."
That moment, some soldiers arrived, riding a vehicle and tried to fire at him but he blasted them off.
Barry tried to phase through Red Tornado but it flew into the air at high speed.
"Ray!" Barry called out, "A little help here!"
Ray flew up to them but Red Tornado fired a concentrated energy blast. Ray dodged one but another hit him and he started falling down as his glow faded.
Red Tornado then did a spin motion and threw off Barry too. Ray managed to light up again and caught Barry as they both crashed on the ground.
They saw Red Tornado flying over them and said simultaneously, "Oh crap!"
Suddenly, it was pulled towards something by an invisible force. It was Ultron.
"For God's sake", Ultron said as he used his gravity manipulation to pull Red Tornado closer and fired a concussive blast at it, making it fly back by a few feet.
Oliver shot down a soldier before flipping over a crate and shooting down another and as he got up, he shot down another.
Leo smacked one out while Roy shot down another and John disintegrated another.
Laurel screamed and sent three flying off.
Some soldiers fired at them with a machine gun from inside a vehicle and they took cover.
"Well that's not very fair", Leo complained.
"Life is never fair", John said.
Alex and Sara tried to fire at the vehicle from the sides but couldn't get a clear shot.
Logan ran at the console and managed to pull it. A stream of red and white energy burst up and hit many soldiers, bursting them into nothingness.
The light faded and a red portal, that was much larger than a breach, opened.
A gunshot rang out and Logan was hit by a bullet, though the wound started healing. He turned around to see Lance.
Before Lance could fire again, Logan leapt at him and embedded his claws into him.
With a snarl, he said, "Sometimes when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry."
And then he ripped Lance's insides with a swift movement of his claws and got up as Sara and Laurel looked at him and nodded.
Ultron fired his most powerful concussive blasts at Red Tornado while Ray fired his energy blast and Barry shot up a lightning bolt. The three hit the android simultaneously and it exploded into nothingness.
S.T.A.R. Labs, Earth-1
Thawne was about to perform the surgery when the lights went out. He had sped off to check while the Iron Emperor, Captain Hydra, Black Widow, Darkdevil and Dark Arrow had gone to do the same.
Thea suddenly jumped down and flip kicked a soldier away before kicking the other soldier out. Felicity jumped out after her.
"Come on, Kara", Thea said as she started undoing the straps.
"Just get me to the sun", Kara said weakly.
The two started leading her away when a stick whizzed past Thea and embedded into the wall behind them. Then there was a gust of wind and Thawne had his hand wrapped around Felicity's throat as he pinned her to the wall.
The others arrived too.
"You thought it would be easy?" Darkdevil asked with a smirk.
"You tried to deny my wife the life she needs", Dark Arrow growled at them, "You both will die."
"But first decrypt the system", Captain Hydra ordered.
"Never", Felicity said.
"No need", Emperor Stark said, "I can do it."
"I can do it faster", Thawne said, "I am from the future, Miss Smoak. No matter how complex your encryption is, I can get through it. But first, let me kill you."
And then he vibrated his hand closer to her. Just before his hand could go through her, a circular blur hit him on the back of the head and he was thrown away by a few feet before being knocked out.
The blur flew back into the direction it came from and was plucked out of the air by a hand, revealing it to be a shield of blue, white and red with America's symbol on it. It was Captain America!
Darkdevil threw a stick at him but a club deflected it. It went into the hand of Daredevil. Dark Arrow was about to make a move when he felt a gun to his head.
It was Black Widow! Their own Black Widow.
"You move and I'll blow your head off", she sneered.
"Nat?" Captain Hydra asked in horror.
"I am a spy", she said, "My mission is to kill you all."
"What?" Captain Hydra said in horror.
"Who do you think killed Bucky?" she sneered at him, "It was not Rene."
Captain Hydra could only roar in rage and madness when suddenly a suited man appeared in the room out of nowhere and hit him with a beam, throwing him back by a few feet. Before he could react, Captain America punched him out with his vibranium arm while Atom knocked out Stark and Darkdevil too.
Dark Arrow suddenly brandished a fletchette and cut Natasha's leg, making her stagger. Before he could do anything else, a gauntlet covered hand punched him out. It was Deathstroke.
"Come on", Captain America said.
Ray and Felicity started supporting Kara out with Thea as Daredevil said, "There are more in here!"
In a room, all the heroes walked out through the portal when suddenly someone jumped after them but Barry knocked him out with a punch. It was Frank Castle of Earth-X.
"Very loyal, this bastard", Logan commented.
Outside, a soldier was hit by a gust of wind and fell down, unconscious. It was Zari. Two tried to fire at her but a red energy covered them and they were thrown away. It was Wanda Maximoff!
In another hallway, some soldiers were walking around when two woman jumped between them and sliced the throats of two each. They were Nyssa and Elektra.
As another soldier attacked, Jessica grabbed him from behind and slammed him to the ground while Luke punched another away. Colleen cut one down with her sword and knocked another away with her Iron Fist.
The Earth-199999 Black Widow shot down two as she arrived there and smacked another out.
A soldier tried to fire but his gun's barrel was shut by webbing as Spider-Man pulled him with a web and knocked him out by slamming him to a side.
Two more were shot down by arrows. It was Hawkeye. He turned his bow into a bo-staff and smacked two more out in quick succession.
In another area, a soldier was grabbed from behind and his throat was sliced by a knife. It was Frank Castle of Earth-199999.
Two more arrived there and tried to take out their guns but Frank threw two knives and they were both dead as the knives hit their throats. Some more arrived from behind him and fired but he took cover and fired back, getting some.
Two of them were kicked away from behind by a flying Falcon while the other two were shot down by War Machine. One fell down on being hit by an invisible force on his nose as another was knocked out by a small blast. Ant-Man and Wasp were there.
Three more were hit by blasts of energy and were out. It was a gorgeous blonde woman with a tight navy blue suit and a symbol which looked like a red glowing star in the middle. Captain Marvel!
"Attention all prisoners, the cavalry has arrived!" Nate announced on the P.A. system.
"About time!" Rene said.
Nate opened the cell doors.
Ray, Felicity and Thea were leading Kara away as Ray said, "Come on! The Waverider's up on the roof."
Suddenly, he was hit by an arrow from behind and fell down as the arrow electrocuted him while the three ladies gasped.
It was Dark Arrow who was up again.
"Step away from her", he said to Thea, "Or I'll have to kill you here too, little sister."
Thea stepped protectively in front of Kara and said firmly, "No I won't."
Dark Arrow fired an arrow at her. Just before it could hit her, a tall figure jumped between them. He was a tall man of 6 feet 3 inches with dirty blonde hair. He carried a shotgun over his shoulder. He wore a black shirt, dark blue jeans and a grey trenchcoat. He wore shades too.
The arrow was embedded in his shoulder. He ripped it out. Dark Arrow roared and smacked his face with the bow, making his head tilt to a side as his shades slightly came off.
The man glared at him and grabbing his face, lifted him into the air and threw him off with such strength that he flew back by many feet. Dark Arrow then fell on the ground and continued sliding by a few feet.
He groaned as he tried to get up when he heard Oliver's voice, "Stay down! Or I'll kill her!"
He had Overgirl as his hostage, a knife to her throat.
In the Speed Lab, everyone was converging when Metallo leapt out.
"What the hell?" Rhodes said.
"Attack", Captain America ordered.
He blocked an energy attack with his shield as the others jumped around to avoid it.
"There's no giving up to these guys!" Slade yelled.
Suddenly, Cisco started laughing.
"Why the hell are you laughing?" a puzzled Sam Wilson asked him.
"I think it's because of that", Matt said as he pointed to where the others who had escaped Earth-X were running towards them.
"Let's kick some ass!" Cisco yelled.
Cisco fired his blue blasts, Killer Frost fired her beams, Scarlet Witch fired her hex blasts, Zari also fired her wind blasts, Leo fired his Cold Gun, Laurel fired her Canary Cry, Barry fired his lightning bolts, Captain Marvel and Wasp fired their energy attacks while Firestorm, Ultron and Ray fired too. The combined energy attacks completely obliterated Metallo into dust.
"Her neck doesn't seem very invulnerable now so I'll say again. Stay down!" Oliver growled.
"Just shoot them!" Overgirl shouted.
"I can save your wife's life!" Oliver yelled as Dark Arrow got up.
"There is only one way to save me", Overgirl said.
"We have friends at S.T.A.R. Labs", Oliver said, "There are ways to save your wife without hurting Kara."
"He's lying!" Overgirl said.
Suddenly, a red blur sped Overgirl and Dark Arrow out as Thea and Felicity sighed in relief. Ray regained consciousness.
The big man took off his shades and giving him a hand said, "Come with me if you want to live!"
Ray took his hand and pulled the arrow out as Kara sighed in relief. Oliver and Thea rushed each other and embraced each other really hard with tears in their eyes, afraid to let go.
Looking at the display of sibling affection, the big man said, "I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do."
Well, that ended up longer than I thought but I just kept writing and writing as I realized it all flowed well. So the Flash part is done and the Legends part begins.
Finally, our friends from Earth-199999 are here. Banner is here too. I just didn't show him as he is more like backup. The next chapter will explain how they got here.
The big man in the end is another model of Nuke which I will explain later. He is based on the good T-800 from Terminator: Judgement Day. So Arnie plays this guy too.
Imagine Emma Stone as Gwen. Ultron did say that her execution was never recorded. So this was her fate.
Two Natashas on the same side might seem redundant but I'll do something about it later.
Thea and Felicity would take longer than Felicity and Iris to execute any plan here because none of them know the facility that well, unlike Iris. So the 'shutting out lights' and system encryption happened very late because of that. Now this wasn't the smartest plan but I think under the circumstances, that's what the final plan would be in any case unless its people like Oliver, Matt, Slade, Elektra, Nyssa, Frank, Steve, Bucky, Natasha and Clint doing the planning. Plus, Thea and Felicity don't know Thawne that well.
But if the Avengers, the Defenders, the Legends, Punisher, Deathstroke, Elektra, Nyssa and Colleen had not shown up, things would be really horrible.
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