The Biggest Day of All
The Fuhrer and The General
The sky is barely lit by the sun from the east, meaning it was about dawn when they arrived.
Green. That's all they could see after stepping out of the transdimensional gateway. Trees and nature was something they didn't expect to see since their Earth had gotten rid of such scenery to industrialization. This meant oxygen had to be artificially recycled to maintain the survival of their people. Although the method was viable, it would never compare to the real thing.
Deactivating their masks, Kara and Oliver both close their eyes and take a deep breath to take in the fresh air. Such clean air felt foreign, but soothing to the mind. Exhaling, they reopen their eyes and turn to each other.
"You feel it? I've never breathed easier." Oliver says. Kara nods silently.
"Once this world is ours, remind me to keep this forest intact." Oliver continued.
"Are you sure? What if the others see it as a sign of weakness?" Kara asks.
"They chose to follow and obey. What they think of me no longer matters and as long as we conquer this world, they will follow our lead."
Oliver knows the main priority of travelling to this Earth is to spread their eternal rule. But it doesn't change the fact that saving Kara's life will take precedent, for they need her strength to ensure victory over this world's so-called heroes. Taking one last look at her, he knows time is of the essence and if this fails, he must push forward without a speck of doubt to cloud his judgment.
"Call them in. We start now."
Oliver regained his composure as Kara activates her beacon. A few moments later, the gateway expands as legions of Nazi soldiers swarmed through in perfect formation. Following them were land vehicles and light artillery weapons built for skirmishes. As they reorganized, Kara and Oliver walk to a hill that overlooked the forest. They see a city in the distance with the street lights still lit. Judging by the geography of the landscape as well as the city's location next to the waterfront, he concluded it to be this Earth's Central City. The forest surrounding Central City proved to be advantageous as a rally point. Having the exit point a couple of clicks away from the city would allow for more flexibility and the element of surprise was on their side.
"Do you see anything of use to us?" Oliver asked.
Floating to survey the area from a bird's eye view, Kara saw a road system roughly half a mile away. Gently landing after her quick assessment, she reports "There is a road system that stretches throughout this whole forest. If we clear the trees to the north, we can send our vehicles without too much trouble. Shouldn't take more than a few hours."
"Very well, thank you General.
A few minutes later, a group emerge from the forest, each wearing the signature face masks belonging to commanders and high ranking officials within the inner circle of the Fuhrer. The war council has finally assembled.
"I know we're far from home. I know that we are risking a vast amount of resources to launch this campaign. All of you should know that I appreciate your trust in me to lead this, and I promise you. When this is over, the multiverse will be under our rule...forever." Oliver says.
All of them swung their right arms forward and chanted "HAIL VICTORY!"
"You all know the first phase. We assess the strength of the heroes of this world. Don't eliminate any of them, although I will allow you to give them an example of what the Fatherland has to offer compared to their inferior ways. Scouts have given us credible intel that suggest one of these heroes has the power to open breaches at will. Find them and extract them back here." Kara explained. "I've briefed the four of you that will lead this mission. Prometheus, you will have overall command. Move out!"
The Fourth Reich has begun.
Oliver Queen
Peace and quiet. Those two things were never a part of Oliver's sleep schedule for the past ten years. No dreams or nightmares, only serenity for the first time. He woke to see the sunlight barely shining through Cisco's shutters. Facing the ceiling, his thoughts go back to the previous evening. What started out as a happy occasion turned into an awkward incident because of the proposal. Then after that he sat on a bench feeling depressed like an immature teenager. Later, he is somehow talking with Kara about feelings and relationship issues.
'Since when did I talk about feelings and emotions so easily? The rejection must've have really messed with my head.'
As he kept staring at the ceiling, his thoughts drift back to his discussion with Kara over their current situations. They felt a connection through their similar problems and vented out everything that was held inside their heads. It brought perspective and Oliver saw how his alter ego would only bring pain to those he cared about, even though he tried to prevent that from happening so many times now.
Eventually he's going to have to talk to Felicity about this. The best option would be to take a break before potentially ending the whole thing. As harsh as it sounds, the relationship made them reckless and easily manipulated by their emotions. But that discussion can happen on another day. It's time to get up and get ready to witness Barry and Iris finally getting married. Hearing some light snoring coming from Cisco's room, Oliver decides to take the shower first.
'I should trim my beard too. It's getting a bit too barbaric, especially for a mayor...'
Staring into the mirror, thinking back to before his journey, he always had a clean shaven face. It made him look younger and much more foolish compared to now. The island changed his perspective of the world and survival was all that matters. Were it not for Yao Fei, who knows how things would have turned out. People would still be alive that aren't today. His mother, Tommy, and Laurel for starters.
'No point on dwelling on it now.'
Feeling refreshed from a shower, he exits the bathroom to hear Cisco still snoring. Getting his pants and shirt on, he walks to Cisco's door and barges through.
"Come on, get up. Barry can't get married without his best man." Oliver says as he lightly smacks Cisco's face a few times.
"Ok ok. Jesus, I can feel my face bruising already."
TWO HOURS LATER
The time is currently 10:30 AM. Barry and Iris are to be wed in half an hour. Oliver sees Barry pacing back and forth to the right side of the church benches. Barry looked more nervous than ever before. Walking up to him, Barry's hands were visibly shaking. Not from his speed but from the sheer anxiety.
"You don't seem unnerved at all my friend." Oliver said sarcastically.
"Well you haven't gotten married before so I don't know if you have legit advice for this."
"First off, breathe. Panicking is only making it worse. Secondly, I have gotten married before."
That caught Barry's attention immediately. "Wait what? Since when did Oliver Queen have time to get married?"
"Remember three years ago, when I asked you to help me in Nanda Parbat?"
"Yeah, when you were undercover with the League of Assassins."
"Well to secure my position, Ra's forced me to marry his daughter Nyssa. It didn't feel real since we had no choice. Despite it being fake, the fact that I got married is a bit weird even now." Oliver explained. "We both know it was a sham marriage, yet she still insists on calling me husband which is a bit ironic."
Barry couldn't help but laugh. How he never heard this story from anyone from Team Arrow is an accomplishment. Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching behind them, Oliver and Barry turn around to see Kara approaching them. She was wearing a peach colored dress reaching down to about her knees. Still wearing her signature fake glasses and pink lipstick.
"What's going on over here?" she said curiously with a smile.
"Oh nothing. Just a funny story so Barry can stop worrying." Oliver replied. "You should've seen him two minutes ago. I thought he was going to book it."
Kara snickered seeing Oliver poking a bit of fun at Barry. The happy atmosphere made his heart feel much lighter than the past few months of being mayor. Seeing Barry genuinely happy probably rubbed off on both of them. With his hands in his pockets, he suddenly remembered something he saw earlier on the wedding program pamphlet. Taking it out of his pocket, Oliver re-read the music section and saw Kara's name on it.
"Hey Kara, I couldn't help but notice your name in the music section. Do you play an instrument?" he said as he handed over the pamphlet.
"If you consider my voice as an instrument, then yes."
"You are full of surprises aren't you. Both of you and your unique talents and all I do is shoot arrows."
"I'm sure there is more than archery that makes you unique. What about your cooking? Felicity tells me you have a real knack for it." Barry says.
"You can cook?!" Kara was flabbergasted.
Oliver laughed nervously trying to think of a response. "I dabbled a bit when I took a break from crime fighting. From what I've heard, you eat just as much as Barry. I wouldn't mind cooking for you sometime."
Kara had an even bigger smile on her face hearing about Oliver offering his cooking. "I'd like that."
They kept staring into each other's eyes without realizing it. Hearing Barry clear his throat brought Oliver back and he had to look somewhere else to regain his composure. Feeling a bit awkward, "I'm going to check on Cisco to see what else needs to be done."
"Y-yeah. I'm gonna check on Alex one more time. I know I said it earlier, but congrats again Barry." Kara says.
"Thank you, both of you. For being here with me today. I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Save your tears for the future Mrs. West-Allen." Oliver says before walking away.
Kara Zor-el
As her song ended, Kara made her way back to her seat next to Alex. Watching Joe West escort Iris down the aisle was a beautiful spectacle. She walked with grace and conviction, eyes solely on Barry's. It felt like ones of those fairy tale weddings from those old kids cartoons.
The amount of positive energy in the the room kept rising; all sorts of emotions were running wild in Kara's mind. She came to this Earth with Alex to originally to get their "mojo" back after Mon-el came back from the future and Alex ending her engagement with Maggie. But unlike herself, Alex already managed to pick herself back up a little bit by having some fun with Legends team leader, Sara Lance.
Kara was so close to forgetting how to live like a human in order to move on and embrace her Kryptonian heritage. Why deal with the pain and anger when being Supergirl meant saving people and not having to look back to her past mistakes. Looking at Alex, who seemed to have recovered a bit from the hangover, a sudden realization dawns upon her.
'Mon-el is just one part of my life. I might still love him, but I have to move on. He has. Besides, he's lived seven years without me and he seemed much more mature and experienced compared to the arrogant Daxamite prince that arrived in that escape pod.'
Diverting her attention away from main couple, she glances towards the bridesmaids. Caitlyn and Felicity wore matching light pink dresses and they looked gorgeous. Turning to her right she sees Cisco and Oliver in their tuxes. Cisco, who usually wore pop culture t-shirts and cargo pants cleaned up rather well. Next to him stood Oliver. Earlier she tried not to notice him by focusing on the wall behind Barry. That failed when she gazed into his eyes after his offer to cook food. Were it not for Barry interrupting, she probably would've stared forever. She scanned his tall figure which meshed with the tuxedo seamlessly. Strong shoulders, a straight back, and freshly trimmed beard covering a handsome jawline.
'No, no, no. Stop it Kara! He's with Felicity. Don't get in the way of that.'
She had to get these thoughts out of her head. Her emotions were all over the place and staring at Oliver wasn't helping.
'Rao give me strength to last through this.'
Pushing her glasses up her nose, she turns back to Barry and Iris as they take each other's hand before the priest.
Barry Allen
'It's happening. This is really happening. I'm about to marry Iris.'
He has dreamt of this moment for the past 16 years. 16 years of being raised together in the West house. 16 years of falling in love with Iris led to this moment. It almost feels like destiny has finally granted him a win after all the struggles they faced the past three years against multiple different speedsters. Even with De Voe still out there coming up with some sinister plan, it can wait until after they took their vows as husband and wife.
Looking into Iris' eyes, Barry felt so much love and passion radiating from them it made his knees weak. The priest's words were a blur and both of them completely tuned out, getting impatient to say 'I do'. Everything felt perfect; from the amazing weather, to the church decorations, even Kara's beautiful rendition of Running Home to You.
'Mom. Dad. I know you're watching me and I know I've made you proud. I only wished you were here to see us.'
"...speak now or forever hold your peace." The priest recites.
A few seconds later, a gunshot rings throughout the church and the echo bounces all over the walls. Turning from her, Barry sees the priest's limp body slowly falling to the ground from a bullet in the head.
Before processing what just happened, Barry turns towards the direction of where the bullet came from. At the entrance of the church stood a horde of soldiers, clad in black with red goggles and german style helmets. Their left arms had red SS bands and they all held what looked like modern versions of StG 44s.
'You have got to be kidding me!'
"Nazis? I hate Nazis." Barry, Kara, and Oliver said simultaneously.
A second later, the soldiers opened fire upon the guests. Channeling the speedforce, he sprinted to catch the slow moving bullets. But the amount of bullets was too many for him to intercept by himself.
"Wally! Kara! Protect the civilians!"
Instantly, the speedforce surged through Wally as they run to catch the bullets in the path towards civilians. Meanwhile, Kara charges forward to meet them head on while feeling nothing due to her impenetrable skin. Looking back towards Iris, Barry can see Jax and professor Stein have merged into Firestorm. They along with Mick start blasting cover fire. Iris, Felicity, Caitlyn, Cisco, and Oliver took cover behind the benches to avoid getting shot by any stray bullets.
As Wally and Kara kept the enemy distracted, Barry made his way back to Iris and the others to check on their status. Next to Iris was Joe, Cecile, Captain Singh and his husband.
"Allen! What the hell is going on?!"
"Captain, I know this all may seem really confusing, because I'm just as lost right now. With that said, we can talk about this after we get everyone to safety." Barry answered.
"You better have a good explanation about being the Flash, Allen. You too Joe."
Looking at Iris crouched on the floor with Joe, Barry could feel himself getting angrier by the second. Not for himself but for Iris having her special day ruined by factors ruined by outside factors. Cupping her cheeks in his hands, "I love you."
"I love you too, now go be a hero."
"Ok we need to clear a path for the guests. Cisco I need you to-"
Right as Barry was about to finish his sentence, an explosion cut him off. The back wall of the church was blown to bits. The shockwave disoriented everyone within in the vicinity. His ears were ringing. Vision was blurry and the first thing he saw was Joe passed out on the floor shielding himself over Cecile. Shaking his head a few times to regain his bearings, he looks across to the other side to see Oliver also trying to get up from his daze. Near the entrance, the Nazis, Kara, and Wally were also knocked down by the blast.
"Cisco, open a breach. Cisco?"
'God damn it where is he?'
"Looking for this?" a familiar voice said. "Thank you by the way for making our lives easier by identifying the breacher."
Turning towards the origin of the explosion, Barry sees four figures standing above the rubble with Cisco unconscious at their feet. The far left figure wore heavy combat gear with a mask, splitting at the end, black on the left and red on the right with a katana on his back. Next to him was a terminator style robot with a glowing green rock in its chest. Middle right was an archer, face covered by a thick cloth mask and two short swords holstered over his left shoulder. And finally on the far right stood a speedster in all black with red accent lightning spreading from his emblem, which had two lightning shaped S's.
Barry didn't know the first three, but the last one was a person he never wanted to see again after what happened two years ago.
"Zoom…"
Kara Zor-el
'Get up Kara. All these people are in danger, so get up!'
Forcing strength back into her arms, Kara pushed herself from the ground to see chaos and destruction. Her ears were still ringing from the explosion due to her super hearing taking the brunt of it. The number of Nazis had dwindled from some being knocked out or buried under rubble. She could see blood on the church floor from the crushed dead bodies of soldiers. It felt like a warzone erupted out of nowhere and this will only get worse before it got better.
'Rao, what is going on?'
She turns and sees the four new arrivals and the first one she sees is the glowing green core of Metallo. But unlike last time, it was a bare metallic exoskeleton instead of being covered with John Corben's human skin. That only made it look more intimidating compared to last time when she had Clark help her.
Closer to her position, she saw Oliver and Barry huddled near each other also looking at the four and looked like they had seen ghosts.
"So these are the so called heroes. I expected more." the man in the black and red mask said. He had what sounded like an Australian accent. He broke off from the group and pulled his katana from his back and walked towards the civilians.
Getting back on her feet, she sped towards him until Metallo got in the way causing them to collide. The kryptonite radiation burned every cell in her body for being within a short proximity of her. Her strength was waning and every movement brought pain to her muscles.
"Firestorm! Get that thing out of here!" Oliver commanded.
Feeling her strength returning, she notices Firestorm tackling Metallo onto the street outside the church.
"Kara, go and assist Firestorm. We'll handle things in here." Oliver says.
She quickly nods and launches herself outside to see Jax sending streams of fire on Metallo with little to no effect. As she lands on the ground, she fires her heat vision to avoid getting too close to the kryptonite core. Trying to aim for the core is proving useless as the machine continues to block with its arms. Jax ends his attack and retreats to stand next to Kara, hoping for some input on how to deal with this situation. Metallo on the other hand just lowered his arms from a defensive position and looked at them with emotionless, mechanical eyes.
"Got any ideas Supergirl?"
"Aim for the glowing rock in its chest. I can't get close to it or it will weaken me. If one of us manage to pin it down, the other will finish it off. We can try to overheat him and melt away his arms."
"Roger that. If that doesn't work, me and Grey will try to see if we can use our transmutation on it."
She didn't exactly know how Firestorm's abilities worked. Recalling back to the previous year, she remembered them being able to change the meta human bomb into a giant harmless sphere of water. Hopefully it would work on the kryptonite before it shot beams destroying everything.
Still unmoving, Metallo says "Let's see what you heroes are made of."
Oliver Queen
'How is he still alive? What is he planning now? And why is Slade standing next to next to him?'
Too many questions were running through Oliver's mind. This was supposed to be a happy day to celebrate Barry and Iris' wedding, and somehow it turned into World War III within a matter of minutes. Literal Nazis stormed in led by none other than Prometheus. More and more questions kept forming, but right now the priority should be to evacuate the guests before they get caught in the crossfire. With Cisco unconscious, breaching them is a no-go. Assessing the remaining heroes, the only way out would to cover their escape.
"Sara, you and Alex take Slade. Stall him long enough for the guests to get out. Retreat right after that."
"Got it." Sara says as she and Alex rip the bottom portion of their dresses for more maneuverability. Unsurprisingly, Sara brought her her knives and Alex kept her gun in a thigh holster.
"Wally and I will take Zoom. Wally let's go!" Barry shouted towards Wally as they begin to chase Zoom across Central City, lightning flying everywhere due to the large amount of speedforce in the vicinity.
"Mick and Caitlyn provide cover and help get these people out of here."
"BURN YOU NAZI SCUM!" Mick shouted as he pulled out his heat gun from his jacket and fired wildly in the Nazis' general direction.
Channeling her latent cold powers, Caitlyn repressed her kind personality and Killer Frost emerged with an unpleasant scowl on her face. "Why am I always in a dress when I have to save your sorry asses?"
Ice and fire shot at the continually increasing number of Nazis storming the opposite side of the church. Harry saw an opening and started to get the guests from the floor to lead them out of the area. Knowing the three could hand the evacuation, Oliver pulled out the portable bow in his coat pocket and five collapsable arrows. He aimed at Prometheus and loosed the arrow only for it to be split in half from another arrow flying through it.
"I don't know how you survived that bullet, but I'm going to make sure you stay dead this time." Oliver says to Prometheus, nocking another arrow.
"You're welcome to try and I have no idea what you speak of. All I know is that you don't deserve to share his resemblance. Your very existence sickens me." Prometheus says as he aims at Oliver's head. "In the name of the Fuhrer, I will ensure not even a single memory of you remains."
AN: So a lot happens in the span of this chapter. Might be a little too much now that I think of it. Right now I'm trying to figure out how the action scenes will be written since I've never really done them so bear with me until I get a good grasp on it. In addition to that, this story will focus mainly on Kara and Oliver so certain POVs like Barry's will pop up here and there. Barry is probably going to have the most outside of Ollie and Kara since he is like the glue that brings them together in a sense. Not to mention it's also their big day, or was supposed to be. Him not having a POV would be a crime in of itself.
One more thing I'm changing would be the number of characters per side. Earth -1 had a shit load yet Earth-X had four. I know budget is an issue for a TV show. Good thing writing has the unlimited budget of creativity. Deathstroke and Zoom are just the first two of many that should make the story feel more fresh rather than a copy and paste. The events of the story will diverge from this point on so get ready for major plot changes. The next chapter might take a little longer to update since it will have action scenes and that takes time to work out the logistics. Until next time!