Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Summary:
When a wave of Antimatter begins to spread across the entire Multiverse, the Justice League assembles to fight it and save everything.
But the Monitor's Prophecy ways heavily on the Heroes, especially those who are fated to die.
Main pairings:
* Barry / Sara
* Oliver / Kara
* Bruce / Selina
Starring:
Team SuperArrow:
* Oliver Queen / Green Arrow (Stephan Amell)
* Kara Queen / Kara Zor-El / Supergirl (Melissa Benoist)
* John Diggle / Spartan (David Ramsey)
* Dinah Laurel Lance / Black Canary (Katie Cassidy)
* Moira Queen / Mia Zor-El / Green Star (Katherine McNamara)
* J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (David Harewood)
* Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh)
* Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath)
* Querl Dox / Brainy / Brainiac-5 (Jesse Rath)
* Mon-El / Valor (Chris Wood)
* Slade Wilson / Deathstroke (Manu Benet)
* Winn Schott Jr. (Jeremy Jordan)
* Rene Ramirez / Wild Dog (Rick Gonzales)
* Thea Harper / Speedy (Willa Holland)
* Roy Harper / Arsenal (Colton Haynes)
Team Flash:
* Barry Allen / The Flash of Earth 1 (Grant Gustin)
* Caitlin Snow / Frost (Danielle Panabaker)
* Cisco Ramone / Vibe (Carlos Valdes)
* Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man (Hartley Sawyer)
* Wally West / Mercury (Keiynan Lonsdale)
Team Legends:
* Sara Allen-Lance / White Canary (Caity Lotz)
* Ray Palmer / Atom (Brandon Routh)
* Mick Rory / Heatwave (Dominic Purcell)
* Nate Heywood / Steel (Nick Zano)
* John Constantine (Matt Ryan)
* Jefferson 'Jax' Jackson / Part of Firestorm III (Franz Dremah)
* Lily Stein-Jackson / Part of Firestorm III (Christina Brucato)
Also Starring:
* Clark Kent / Kal-El / Superman of Earth-67 (Tom Welling)
* Lois Lane-Kent of Earth-67 / Alura El (Erica Durance)
* Jefferson Pierce / Black Lightning (Cress Williams)
* Bruce Wayne / Batman of Earth 1 (Brett Dalton)
* Selina Kyle / Catwoman (Ashley Scott)
* Mar Novu - The Monitor / Mobius - The Anti-Monitor (Lamonica Garret)
* Lyla Diggle / Harbinger (Audrey Marie Anderson)
* Clark Kent / Kal-El / Superman of Earth-38 (Tyler Hoechilin)
* Lois Lane-Kent of Earth-38 (Elizabeth Tulloch)
* Leonard Snart / Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller)
* Barry Allen / The Flash of Earth-90 (John Wesley Shipp)
* Harrison 'Nash' Wells / Pariah (Tom Cavanagh)
Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode I.
Crisis on Earth-38.
Part 1: Beginning at the End.
In the beginning, there was only one. A single black infinitude. Then the infinitude found release, and, finally, the darkness broke, filling it with life. With the multiverse. Every existence multiplied by possibility. And spread out before space and time in infinite measure. Civilizations rose and fell. And rose again across reality's grasping expanse.
Life. A precious gift persevering in the face of every obstacle, until, finally, the age of heroes was born.
Chaos. The constant enemy of life kept at bay by champions from across the multiverse...joining forces to fight on behalf of all creation.
They found each other just in time, because now, the entire multiverse is about to come under attack. There is a malevolent force at work, one driven by a singular goal. The destruction of all there is. I have planned, there are those who say I have schemed, but the time for preparation has passed. The Crisis is now upon us all.
Earth-89. Gotham City.
In the dark city of Gotham, a man sits on a bench reading the Gotham Gazette with the headline reading: Batman catches Joker. Behind him, a large bat shaped symbol in the sky was visible. When the sky turns red, he lowers his paper and confusion as a feeling of dread settles in his stomach.
Alexander Knox looks at the symbol of their saviour and says "I hope you're watching, big guy."
Earth-9. San Francisco.
In the city of San Francisco, the young team of heroes known as the Titans stared in fear as the sky turned red and a bright light took them.
Earth-X.
On the formerly Nazi ruled Earth, Ray Terrill aka the Ray flew threw the sky as it turned red and a bright light took him.
Earth-66. Gotham City.
As Dick Grayson, once known in his youth as Robin the Boy Wonder, walked his dog along the street and enjoying the day, the sky turns red. He looks in fear as he exclaims "Holy Crimson Skies of Death!" before his world succumbs.
Earth-38. National City.
"The End of the World is licking at our heels!" a man screamed to passers-by as he held up a sign which read Prepare to meet thy Doom! The End of the World is Nigh! "Soon there shall be naught but dust writhing and twisting in the dead of space! Not even Supergirl will save you from-!" his proclamations of Doom were interrupted by an inhuman screech in the sky.
Up in the sky was a 20ft tall purple dragon. It breathed fire onto the crowd, barely missing pedestrians. As it shot a streak of fire towards the protestor, a sudden blur of blue and red was in front of him. After blocking the fire, the blur revealed itself to be none other than the protector of National City, the Girl of Steel Supergirl.
She looked back at the man with an eyebrow raised. "I guess Supergirl was able to save you." she said before ordering "Now, GO! Run!" As the man did so, Kara turned to the dragon and spoke to it, remembering this creature from an incident last year with the Children of Liberty. "Hey, Spike! Remember me?" the dragon growled quietly at the Last Daughter of Krypton. "Alana's worried about you. She knows your afraid of... something. She just wants you to come home. Come here." she called out to the Dragon known as Spike, as though she was speaking to a dog.
Spike growled slightly before moving closer to the Kind One, allowing her to press the switch on his collar. Immediately he shrank down into the unassuming form of a large lizard. Leaning down, Supergirl picked up the lizard and noticed that he seemed to be trembling in fear.
"What's got you so spooked, buddy?" she asked with concerned worry. Anything that could spook a dragon was worth worrying about. The sudden earthquake only solidified that belief. Kara's eyes narrowed onto the sign on the ground The End is Nigh? Rao, I hope not. she thought before she flew off with the Dragon in her arms.
Quickly she landed at the Department of Extranormal Operations (better known as the DEO), and handed Spike to an Agent as she spoke to her sister, Director Alex Danvers.
"Every pet in National City is having a nervous breakdown." she reported as she walked over to where Alex was standing with her friend and teammate, Brainy aka Brainiac 5 as well as her best friend, Lena Luthor - who, thanks to Kara's husband, knew that Kara and Supergirl were the same person. "This feels bigger than Leviathan." she said, thinking of this years Big Bad.
Alex nodded in agreement with her sister. "USGS didn't register an early warning, so it took everyone by surprise." she said, trying to stay as calm as possible, even a quake shook the building so hard that lights exploded in a shower of sparks.
Lena, who was normally composed in times of crisis, was as shaken as everyone. "And she does mean everyone. Because this earthquake is, quite literally, worldwide." she signaled to Brainy who brought up the current problem on the monitor. The image shown of the Earth was covered in red warning symbols.
Alex continued with more bad news. "But the seismic activity isn't coming from within the planet, its coming from without."
Kara shook her head in confused disbelief. "But that's-"
"Extranormal?" Brainy suggested.
"I was going to say 'Impossible', but okay." Kara said with a shrug, trying to stay as calm as possible, even though her panicking mind kept turning to her loved ones on Earth-1.
"Yes, yes a fair descriptor." The Android said in agreement before speaking rapidly in his own fear. "It would be unfeasible. Unthinkable. Absurd. Outlandish. But however you choose to describe this event, one thing is absolutely certain: we have-"
"-a major Crisis on our hands." interrupted J'onn J'onzz from behind them.
The five members of the Superfriends gathered around a white table that they'd had many briefings around in the past.
"The Monitor freed Mal?" Kara asked in shock after listening to how the being that she had fought last year with her husband, Oliver Queen aka The Green Arrow, and her best friend, Barry Allen aka the Flash, had released J'onn's brother Malefic from the Phantom Zone. "I didn't even know he was of this universe."
"Yes, I thought he was The Flash and Green Arrow's problem." Brainy asked in confusion.
"He's of every universe." J'onn told them definitively. "And he's everyone's problem. Last year he tested Kara and Earth-1's Heroes with Dr. Deegan and the Book of Destiny." Kara nodded as she remembered the Elseworlds incident well. It was when Oliver and Barry had swapped lives. Thankfully she'd been in Smallville with her cousin at the time and hadn't been affected like everyone on Earth-1, although it had been somewhat amusing watching as the two male heroes squabbled like an old married couple over how to use their skills. But they'd managed to fix everything alright and had even made a new friend (or frenemy?) in the form of Earth-1's Batman.
She was jogged from her thoughts when J'onn continued. "This year he's testing me, to make sure I'm ready for this." he told them.
"And what exactly is this?" Lena asked fearfully. There had never been a threat like this before, and she feared that Kara alone wouldn't be able to stop it.
"Another reality wave?" Kara asked in the same tone of voice.
"Not exactly." Brainy said as he did something with his console before pointing to the big screen on the wall. The screen showed a large orange shape moving closer to Earth. "Whatever is it, it is hurtling through space at an impossible speed." he continued. "I calculate it will reach the edge of the universe in exactly 5. 3 hours, at which point, it will boomerang back. Once it intersects again with our solar system, the results will be, in a word," he paused before turning to Kara and saying in a dread filled voice "cataclysmic."
Everyone shuddered with fear as the planet shook. It was J'onn who asked the question they all dreaded an answer to. "Exactly when will it reach us?"
But Brainy could answer with confidence. "There are too many variables to calculate precisely, but I will say this. If this wave isn't stopped by tomorrow night there will be no more us. No more future. No more anything."
As they all allowed that worrisome to enter their hearts and minds, Alex asked "Are there any inhabited planets in its trajectory?"
"Just one." Brainy answered as he pointed to the screen.
There on the monitor was a small asteroid in the path of the wave. It was small, but to Kara it meant everything.
"Argo City." Alex said in horror, knowing what that small world meant to her sister.
"Oh, my God." J'onn was equally horrified. "Superman's there with Lois, and-" "My Mom." Kara finished with dread.
"Can we warn them?" The Elder Danvers sister asked the Android.
"Argo's Harun-El sure makes communications difficult but I will try." he promised as he sat at the computer to work. "How much time do they have, Brainy?" Kara asked her friend, hoping for some good news.
She was sadly disappointed.
"Not enough."
Argo City.
It was a peaceful day in the Last City of Krypton. And that peace was personified in the home of Kal-El - known on Earth as Clark Kent or Superman - and his human wife, Lois Lane-Kent.
"Superman, champion of Earth, who faced off with Doomsday, apprehended General Zod, and went toe-to-toe with dozens of Lex Luthor's death traps, has finally met his match!" The voice to his right mocked as he beheld the great evil.
Except now, the Man of Steel was facing his greatest threat, and it would take all of his strength and skill to survive with his mind intact.
"A dirty diaper." Lois finished with a smirk. Sure enough Clark was holding up the recently filled diaper, with his infant son, Jonathan Samuel Kent-Lane, also known in Argo as Baby Jon-El, looking far too proud of himself for his daddy's sanity. "What do you think? Front page news?" she asked jokingly. Although she could just imagine Kara's reaction to the state her cousin was in. The Girl of Steel would most likely split her time between laughing her head off at Kal and cooing about how adorable Jonny is.
"Uh I mean, I think it's a little lowbrow - for Lois Lane." he said dryly as he buttoned up Jon's little blue onesie.
"Lowbrow?" Lois asked, almost offended. "If only the citizens of Earth could see Kal-El struggling with spit up." Clark shuddered at the thought of what his numerous enemies would do if they could see him now. Or worse - Kara! He'd never hear the end of it.
"Need I remind you, Miss Lane, uh, I have no powers here." He tried to defend himself only for his wife to shoot that down with glee. "Oh, don't you be blaming this on the red sun, honey." she told him with a smirk.
Finally Clark had managed to get his son dressed and wrapped in an adorable red baby blanket. "Hey, buddy." he said getting an adorable giggle form the baby.
Lois clapped with a sarcastic cheer of "Yay, Daddy did it."
"Yeah, kinda." he said as he came over to her.
The Kryptonian and the Human took a moment to gaze adoringly at their boy. "Jonathan really has your eyes, huh?" Lois noted about Father and Sons bright blue eyes. Must be an El trait.
"I'll take it so long he has your everything else." Clark said before saying something that had been on his mind for a while. "You know, when I used to picture us together, we were always living on Earth, and we had two kids."
Lois smiled at the nice thought. "Well, I hate to break it to you, Kansas, but prognostication is not one of your superpowers." Plus after a 20 hour labour, Jon would have to wait until he's at least 4 before they even considered giving him a sibling.
Clark chuckled, before they were interrupted by a sudden chime from the communicator. Lois turned it on and they were to find that it was Kara.
"Kal. Lois." they didn't notice the panic in her voice.
"Kara?" Lois grinned, happy to see her cousin-in-law. She then noticed the new outfit "In Pants?!" a huge change from the skirt.
Kara tried to say something but it was garbled. Lois tried to adjust the comm. to get a better signal. "How did she manage to break through Argo's shield interference?" Kal asked confusedly.
"Not well apparently." she replied. Finally the connection was stable.
"Kal, Lois. Argo is in danger. You need to get out now!" But the connection died as the sky turned red. Clark and Lois looked up in the sky with fear for their son.
As they ran out of their home, it was into a crowd of panicking citizens. It was times like this that Clark missed having his powers. They looked over to see Kara's mother, Alura leaving her home in an equal panic.
"Alura!" Clark called out to her. Hearing them Alura ran over.
"Kal, Lois. Thank Rao." Superman's Aunt said. "What's happening?" Clark asked of her.
Alura's expression was grave as she answered in an equally grave voice. "A massive wave of energy is moving through space. It's killing everything in its path."
"How long do we have?" Lois asked as the people around them panicked.
"Minutes!" she told them before motioning them to follow her. "Quickly! With me!" they followed.
They came to a small hanger, with a small one-person pod. "We must set a course for Earth. Hopefully, they'll have enough time to stop this wave before it hits." Alura hoped even as she feared for her daughter.
"Where are the rest?" Clark asked as a feeling of Deja-vu hit him. The planet shook powerfully.
Alura shook her head, even as she too had the same feeling as her nephew "There are no others. Only this one."
Moments later Jon was in the pod obliviously asleep as his parents looked at him for the last time and their hearts were breaking. For the first time, Clark finally knew how his father felt when he sent his only son away to save him. "We'll always be with you, Jonathan." he unconsciously mirrored the words of Jor-El as Lois spoke the same as Lara. "We will never leave you. Even in the face of our deaths." she said through her tears.
"We love you." said Superman as the pod closed and was fired into space, just as the wave consumed Argo, the Last City of Krypton.
Back on Earth, Kara watched in grief-filled horror as the last of her world, her people and her family were destroyed by the wave.
"They're gone." she said through her sobs as Alex and J'onn tried to console her.
"And we're next." Brainy said fearfully.
Yes, I'm doing a new fic. Sorry! But with Crisis I couldn't resist my own version. I got my idea for the ships of WhiteFlash (Barry/Sara) and SuperArrow (Oliver/Kara) from fics done by WritersBlocko39, specifically the Unmatched Records series (SuperArrow) and the Emerald Steel and Scarlet Canary Archives. Please read them as those stories are fantastic and really made me love these ships.
Here is the Alternate Timeline just so you know:
The Flash/Legends:
After Zoom was defeated, Barry is traumatized by his fathers murder by Zoom and plans to go back in time to save his mother from being killed by Eobard Thawne.
The Legends, after Rex Tyler warns them not to go to 1942, get a message from Barry of 2024. Barry asks them to go to 2016 to stop him from making a mistake (saving his mother and creating Flashpoint). They do so and Sara, feeling sympathy for him since she just lost Laurel, invites Barry to join them on the Waverider.
As a result of Barry did not creating Flashpoint, Sara Diggle was not erased. However she was born with a twin brother, John Diggle Jr.
Convinced not to save his mom, Barry goes with the Legends, leaving Wally West (who got speed from the experiment to restore Barry's after Zoom took it) to protect the city as Mercury (wearing the Futures End silver suit but with a full head cowl like what Barry wears), under the training and guidance of Cisco and Caitlin.
Barry remains with the legends in the months before the 1942 Nuking of New York. When Sara wants to kill Damien Darhk before he can kill Laurel, she and Barry argue over Sara's hypocrisy and actually come to blows. Eventually they make amends and the Legends save New York.
Afterwards the Legends meet the Justice Society of America and Barry is shocked to learn that one member is Jay Garrick, also known as the First Flash of Earth-1 who, not only looks like Henry Allen but is also Henrys maternal grandfather thus Barry's Great-Grandfather. With meeting Jay, Barry is able to gain some form of closure but remains with the legends.
But after discovering that Darhk is working with a Speedster, Barry decides to stay on the Waverider until the Speedster is defeated. When the team returns to 2016 for the Dominator's Invasion - in which the Dominators did not invade because of Flashpoint (as it didn't happen) but because they don't like Metahumans - Barry learns that Cisco's brother, Dante was killed as a result of his driving whilst drunk, Caitlin has begun to develop Ice powers and Wally is facing his own Big Bad in the form of Alchemy - a meta who has the power to turn others into Metas. There is no Savitar, and Julian is Alchemy willingly.
The Invasion crossover also has Roy Harper helping out and he is given a Presidential Pardon. He and Thea get back together.
Eventually the Legends learn that the Speedster Darhk is working with is Eobard Thawne (who is around because of an alternate timeline where Barry did create Flashpoint) and they are working with Malcolm Merlyn to find the Spear of Destiny.
During this time, Barry and Sara become close but after a mind altered Rip Hunter kills Sara (Gideon saves her) Barry gets scared and tries to back off. On a trip to Central City, Team Flash and the Legends are shocked when Supergirl arrives from Earth-38 unconscious after a run in with Music Meister who then whammies Barry. Getting him out requires Sara to admit how she feels for him and Barry does the same and in the aftermath the two get together (Kara is saved by Mon-El like in canon).
The events of the Quest for the Spear of Destiny happen the same way as in canon, except when the Legends face the Legion of Doom (now joined by Leonard Snart) in 1916, Merlyn, Darhk and Snart are defeated. Barry and Thawne, however have a Speed battle but when they fire Lightning Bolts at each other, the Positive and Negative Speed Force Lightning tears a hole into the Speed Force and both Barry and Thawne are pulled in (Thawne is erased as he is a Time remnant but Barry is trapped in the Speed force).
While trying to return to 2017 to inform Team Flash, the Legends discover that by tearing a hole in the Speed force, Time is broken creating Anachronisms. The Time Bureau is founded by Rip who then relives the Legends of Duty.
Sara, Martin and Ray then help Team Flash over the next six months to get Barry out of the Speed force, and when they do he's a bit nuts. Once he recovers, Barry splits his time between Team Flash and the Legends while dealing new villain, Clifford DeVoe aka The Thinker.
When Barry comes out of the Speed Force he is much faster than before, with his lightning now pale blue (like that of Ezra Miller's Flash in the DCEU) with yellow (like how Nora's lightning is mostly purple with yellow).
Barry doesn't go to prison for DeVoe's murder as they are able to prove he's innocent. DeVoe is defeated when he tries to take over Ralph Dibny.
After months of dating Barry eventually proposes to Sara.
Here's the Arrow/Supergirl AT info:
First no Olicity BS. they broke up in Season 4 when Felicity learned about William.
After his family is captured by Adrian Chase, Oliver - unable to recruit Barry or Sara - asks Kara, who has just fought the Daxamites and lost Mon-El, and Alex Danvers. With Kara and Alex there no one dies - except Malcolm who died before they arrived. Black Siren joins Team Arrow after learning that Chase kidnapped a kid. Slade also joins the team.
Oliver and Kara stay in touch and over the next six months or so, begin to date. The following seasons happen pretty much the same except the two teams help each other out.
Eventually Oliver proposes to Kara, coincidentally around the same time as Barry proposes to Sara.
When the FBI threaten Rene and his daughter, he tells Oliver and they are able to get the case against him dismissed on account of the Agents threats. With help from Barry, Sara and Kara, Oliver is able to defeat and kill Diaz and save Star City and doesn't go to prison. His identity is still revealed however.
At the end of the year Barry and Sara get married (during which a future Nora (I'm thinking Dove Cameron as the one playing her. your opinion?) - who isn't working with Thawne and just wanted to see her parents get married - shows up in secret as a waitress) but the wedding is interrupted by Nazis who are led by the New Reichsmen of Earth-X, which consists of Oliver Queen/Black Arrow, Kara Queen/Overgirl, Barry Allen/Blitzkrieg (Not Thawne) and Sara Allen/Scarlet Siren.
Martin Stein does not die, and instead retires while his daughter Lily takes his place as the brains of Firestorm as she and Jax have been dating. They eventually leave the Legends when Lily becomes pregnant with their son they name Ronald Martin Jackson. Barry sends his Earth-X doppelganger into the Speed Force, while Oliver and Sara kill theirs and Overgirl explodes. Afterwards Barry and Sara get married, with Oliver and Kara following not long after. At the time of the wedding, Sara is already several months pregnant.
Supergirl is really the only one that is the same (except for Team Arrow helping out), as Oliver didn't go to Prison, Nora didn't randomly show up and as the Enlightenment didn't happen, there is no Cicada. Legends is basically the same except Barry is around as Sara is pregnant.
Some time after the events on Lian Yu, Kara tells Lena that she's Supergirl and Lena remains her friend.
Elseworlds is mostly the same, except Sara is around and pregnant, and its Batman who they meet in Gotham (don't get me wrong, I like Ruby Rose as Batwoman but I prefer Batman).
Batman is set in the Gotham universe, and in Elseworlds, Bruce has been Batman for just 2 years and is played by Brett Dalton (aka Grant Ward on Agents of SHIELD) as I feel that he has a perfect blend of charm for Bruce Wayne and the darkness for Batman. Meanwhile Selina is played by Ashley Scott - who played Helena Kyle/Huntress on Birds of Prey
At the end of Elseworlds, Sara goes into labor and soon gives birth to a little girl called Nora Laurel Allen. Oliver is her Godfather and Caitlin is her Godmother.
Arrow season 8 is mostly the same except its Slade who joins Oliver on Earth-2 instead of Diggle.