Roy slowly blinked open his eyes, he looked around S.T.A.R labs, the Flash suit was on prominent display in the back now with a white emblem. He slowly sat up reclaiming his thoughts, and noticed Catlyn, Felicity, Stone and Cisco talking with each other.
"I still can't believe he managed to transport us from California to Kansas in 15 minutes." Stone said to Catlyn and Cisco.
"Yeah he's pretty freaking cool isn't he," Cisco said smugly.
Felicity then noticed Roy stand up in the med bay and alerted the others. Barry and Ted walked in as the others all crowded around him.
"What happened?" Roy asked not expecting a good answer.
"The heat from the building caused you to pass out when I sped you out." Barry said.
"How long was I out?" Roy asked.
"About 3 hours." Catlyn said.
"Huff what happened to Verdant?" Roy asked.
"Sorry Roy it was completely destroyed and Starling city is in Lockdown." Barry told him
"What?!" Roy exclaimed while standing up.
"A bunch of vertigo was released into the atmosphere and the city is in ruins." Barry said.
"It's a no man's land." Cisco butted in.
"I guess I failed, I can't do anything right." Roy said storming off, walking out the door and down the elevator.
Felicity was about follow but Barry grabbed her arm.
"He needs to figure this out on his own for now." Barry said to her.
Starling city, City Hall
"Madam Mayor, what are we going to do? The city is being destroyed, 3 of my friends are dead." An Alderman told her while walking down the hall to her office.
"I'm sorry about that, but we need to think here, the military have abandoned us and are not going to help, I don't know what to do." Mayor Castle said as she walked into her office, only to find Vertigo standing there.
"Hello Madam Mayor." Vertigo said while turning around.
"Who are you? Who let you in?" She said angrily.
"When I was a boy, my country was being destroyed by a horrendous tyrant, he murdered my family, I was angry so I searched the world for a way to stop this, I went to a place called Nanda Parbat, I assumed an alias called Damian Darkh to study there and become something greater for my country, and I did. I saved it but then I realized that I needed to do more for it and claim the power that the west had, so I expanded over a number of decades and fueled cities across the US with vertigo so that now I could claim this world. I started this a century ago, and it would've taken many more if not for the particle accelerator explosion providing me with ability to harness the vibrational barriers of the universe through this staff, and propel my plans forward. The reason why I'm telling you this is because I want you to know that I am doing this not for personal gain but the gain of my people. So goodbye." Vertigo said as he raised his staff and killed the two.
Suddenly the man in The Arrow suit from earlier smashed through the window and shot multiple arrows into Vertigo nearly killing him and just stood there aiming the last one at his head.
"Werner vertigo you…" The man in the hood began to say.
"Have failed this city I know. So I see you've gone back to your murderous ways after your apparent resurrection." Vertigo said bleeding out on the floor.
"Gone back? Looks like Oliver was too soft, probably why he's dead." The man said.
"Huh, well you don't seem to look like Oliver Queen so you're another copycat, news flash that's not very original at least change up the colour." Vertigo said while sticking syringe into his leg with a green fluid inside of it. The man in the hood then shot an arrow into his heart. Despite that his body began to heal and then proceeded to front flipped off the floor and pulled out the arrows. Before he could do anything else the copycat raised a blinking arrow and held it up to Vertigo.
"This arrow will blow in 30 seconds and will kill both of us, I can make explode even faster by just pressing this button so how about we call this one a draw." He said.
"Very well we'll settle this later." Vertigo said.
The man in the hood then grappled down to the street below and stopped by a bunch of gangs who were attacking civilians in the post-apocalyptic streets.
"Queen's back!" one of them shouted, which caused all the other thugs to stop what they were doing and charge at him.
A stampede of 20 odd thugs made their way to the copycat who just smiled. He raised his bow and shot a few explosive arrows into them killing the thug himself and anyone else in his vicinity, this took out about 7 of them. A few more charged his position, he dodged the first then pulled out an arrow and stabbed him in the back then pulled out the same arrow and threw it at the next, straight in the head, the third was met with a headlock and a swift snapping of the neck. A few began to run away the ones who remained were cautious about their actions and kept their distance, one decided to attack with knives but was countered, the hooded man stole the knives gashing his neck and then using the knives to stab two more in the heart. The rest all ran but he then shot an arrow at a bill board knocking it down and crushing them. The last few were scared, one raised an SMG but was met with the hood taking it and using it to kill him and his friends. The hood then began to walk away and made sure to check for survivors, he saw one thug desperately holding on for dear life, he was crawling away. But he showed no mercy and nailed him in the back of the head with an arrow and smiled.
Vertigo looked from the top of city hall and thought of the excitement that would ensue with a very different Arrow roaming the post-apocalyptic streets.
Central City alley ways
Roy sat there in the middle of an abandoned alley way in his uniform thinking to himself, he couldn't save Thea, nor John or his city. He had failed it in every way possible. What was he anymore. All of a sudden a man in a blue and yellow armor appeared at the end of the alley way, he pulled out a gun from his back and starred Roy down with beetle esque eyes.
"Ray? So they called you. Listen just leave me alone." Roy stood up and shouted at him. All of a sudden the man in the suit raised his gun and shot a laser blast at him, Roy dodged in the nick of time, he turned back at the alley wall and noticed that it wasn't dented at all, he then saw small mechanical bugs on the ground they jumped on him nailing him down to the ground with low powered tasers. "Roy Harper, you have failed this city! The man in the suit said through a voice modulator making his voice deep and robotic.
He walked up to him and knelt down and moved his gun to store it on his back, it was connected to a power supply by a metal hose. His eyes were big, hug and bright yellow, the helmet was blue with black accents across his face. His upper body was blue with a bright yellow stripe across and down his arms. The armor on his abdomen and lower legs was black with a bit of blue on his utility belt which had a variety of contraptions on it and on is boots.
He raised a high tech knife at Roy, despite the mask covering his face it was clear this attack was personal, he hated him. Roy pulled out an EMP arrow from his quiver and activated it shocking his attacker off and causing the mechanical bugs to deactivate. By the time he raised his bow his attacker had got, seeming to have rebooted his systems but was not fast enough to raise his gun so Roy had the upper hand.
"Who are you?" Roy shouted at him.
"Just someone merely wanting justice I think you should know all about that." He said.
Roy then let go of the bow string but the arrow was caught, Roy then pressed a button in his sleeve and it exploded, causing the man in the suit to be pushed back. As Roy suspected it didn't kill him but it did shut down a lot of his systems. The HUD from the pilot's point of view read "multiple malfunctions".
"This isn't over Harper." The man in the suit responded, a pair of yellow wings popped out of the power supply on his back, as well as a thruster, he then flew off into the night.