Part Three
Barry's head spun with so many questions upon encountering Oliver Queen within the alternate Earth they were trapped. He didn't have time to ask them with Gotham's police force on their tail.
Oliver led them to a junkyard off the city limits.
Much to Barry and Kara's surprise, a Type-Z T.A.R.D.I.S. stood among the junk.
"What is that thing?!" Selena grimaced at the alien object.
"A spaceship," Kara answered, though it wasn't what Selena had anticipated.
"There's no way we can get in," Barry told Oliver. "Not without a genetic handprint from one of these two." He indicated the unconscious bodies of Min and Maureen he and Kara carted all the way there.
Oliver shook his head. "Won't work. Their genetic code has been altered."
"What?" Barry uttered in baffling disbelief. "How do you know?"
"Because she told me," Oliver nodded towards Maureen, right before he placed the palm of his hand on the black solid structure of the Type-Z.
Barry and Kara were astonished to see it open for him.
"How did you do that?" Kara asked him.
"My gauntlets have been amplified with a Time Lord bio signature," Oliver explained while walking in with the group.
Selena was instantly stunned, stepping over the threshold.
"How is this thing bigger on the inside when it was all flat and stuff on the inside?!"
Bruce shared her amazement. "This is…incredible!"
"I feel oddly at home here," Alfred claimed.
After setting Min and Maureen down in the seats on the console platform, Barry went right away to questioning Oliver: "O.K. Time to spill, Ollie. How did you get here to this Earth in the T.A.R.D.I.S.?"
Oliver chuckled. "You know, on any other day, that would've sounded like another cheesy pop culture reference Felicity or Curtis would've made. If they were here right now, they would flip at how real this all is."
"Yeah, so would Cisco," a smirking Barry concurred.
"And Winn," Kara added.
Nearly losing track of the conversation, Oliver returned, "So I was on patrol with John and Felicity when I found a big, black rectangular piece of art deco that materialized from nowhere in the middle of the street. I wasn't sure if I was drawn to it or it drew me in, but the next thing I realized is that I'm in another universe…and then this comes up."
He went to the console, pressing a specific button with a sticky note attached to it that read, "Press me."
Oliver did just that, and a holographic image was projected from the console.
It was one of Maureen.
"This is security protocol 712," the hologram began. "For the one receiving this message, listen carefully. My name is Maureen, and I'm a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. You are standing in my Type-Z T.A.R.D.I.S., short for 'Time And Relative Dimension In Space,' emphasis on 'dimension.' I pre-programmed it to take you to a particular point in time and space where your services will be required. My father's T.A.R.D.I.S. was wiped out by the Nuage."
The view screen across the console platform sparked on, displaying an image of a fiery haze shrouded within a swirling blue vortex that Barry and Kara knew as the infinite dimensional corridor.
"The Nuage is an interdimensional cloud generated from the infinite dimensional corridor capable of altering reality or the physiology of anything it touches – mainly beings that have prolonged exposure to time vortexes or dimensional corridors, such as Time Lords," Maureen's hologram continued. "I received a distress signal that brought me to this dimension, but as soon as I arrived, I also became a victim to the Nuage. The only way to reverse the Nuage's effects is by using the Chameleon Arch, restoring the individual's essence to them."
Following the Maureen hologram's instruction, the group proceeded to use the Chameleon Arch headset on Maureen herself.
The process was unmistakably painful.
Maureen woke out of her unconsciousness, screaming in agony as she underwent the internal transformation back into her Time Lord physiology.
The headset sizzled and smoked on her head.
"Maureen?" Kara said. "Are you okay?"
"I don't think I'll ever be bloody okay," the Time Lady remorsefully replied, back to her normal senses. "All those men and women Pop and I killed and tortured to do whatever we wanted…"
"None of that was your fault," Barry reassured her. "You were a totally different person when all of it went down."
"Doesn't change the fact that I committed those crimes," Maureen refuted. "We need to get Pop back to her usual self before she has to live the nightmare any further."
Their focus then shifted to Min, who was supposed to have been sitting beside Maureen the entire time; however, no one was sitting there. Instead, a fully conscious Min stood off the platform, holding the group at gunpoint near the opened doors of the T.A.R.D.I.S.
"Where am I?!" She furiously bellowed. "Is this another nightclub? You tryin' to muscle in your own establishment?!"
Maureen calmly stood with her hands held in protest.
"Pop, take it easy. You're under the influence of the Nuage."
"The what?!" Min exclaimed, even more confused. "What've these freaks done to you, sis?! You're actin' like somebody I don't even know!"
Oliver figured a distraction was needed to draw them out of Min's line of fire.
He reactivated Maureen's holographic message, bringing the image up directly near Min. As expected, she reacted to the technological scare, firing her gun at the hologram to no avail. What he had not expected was for her to bolt out of the T.A.R.D.I.S. before either he, Barry, or Kara had a chance to react.
The three heroes gave chase.
In their exit, they ran across what they perceived to be a dense evening fog, which made them lose track of Min afterward.
"Kara, we need eyes in the sky," Oliver directed.
"Got it," Kara acknowledged.
She leapt into the air, expecting to have been twenty feet thereafter.
Instead, she collapsed right onto the concrete.
"What the…?!"
Standing upright, she noticed how different she felt.
She struggled to generate a blast of heat vision from her eyes, but nothing came out. "I've lost my powers," she concluded in fear.
Barry tested his super speed, only to find himself running at the average human velocity. "Same here," he panicked, looking back towards the path they ran from Maureen's T.A.R.D.I.S. "That fog we ran through…it was the Nuage. And it's nullified our powers!"
All of the sudden, the three heroes were swarmed by sirens and flashing blue and red lights – Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, and the rest of the G.C.P.D. had them surrounded, their guns trained right on them.
"Don't move!" Gordon charged. "You're under arrest!"