Elsewhere:
When Oliver and the Trickster hit the ground, Oliver fell hard on his back. He looked around and observed his surroundings. The city looked a lot like Central City, only a lot darker. It was not the sunny, bright Central City that Oliver knew and visited when having double dates with Barry, Iris and Felicity. He saw the Trickster hitting the button on his remote, trying to access the detonator attached to Iris' heartbeat. Oliver hoped that wherever Iris was that she was safe at S.T.A.R Labs with Barry, Caitlin, Felicity, Diggle, Kara and Clark, that she was in surgery getting that bomb removed from her.
"What's wrong with this thing?" Trickster asked as he hit the button over and over. Nothing was happening. Now that Oliver thought about it, they were probably on an alternate Earth. All he knew was that he was not on Earth-X, Kara and Clark's Earth, Earth-2, or Earth 3. No, this was different. Way different.
"This is somehow your fault!" the Trickster said angrily to Oliver. He ran over, trying to attack, Oliver, but Oliver grabbed him and held him in place. The two proceeded to go at it and they got into a fist fight. Trickster managed to scuff Oliver a little bit with a knife he had, but other than that Oliver knew he would heal. Oliver decked Trickster in the chest and sent him flying towards a car. He grabbed a trick arrow and made a nearby car explode, Trickster getting caught on fire slightly. Once Oliver knew that the crazed psychopath was down, he went over and grabbed the Trickster's head.
"Keep quiet!" Oliver growled. However, he stopped when he heard trucks that sounded military grade coming his way. The next thing that he knew, he and the Trickster were surrounded by military police.
"Put your hands up, arrow freak!" one guard called out to him.
Oliver felt the nerves settling in his stomach. Normally, he would grab one of his trick arrows and swing his way out of there, but he saw that he was completely surrounded. Whoever these military guys were, they were looking for him, not just the Trickster.
Think Ollie, think, Oliver thought to himself. He grabbed a trick arrow that could have smoke surrounding him within a matter of seconds. Grabbing it, he fired it at the ground. He acted fast, grabbing another arrow and swinging to safety of a nearby rooftop. He watched as the military police roughly escorted several prisoners into their vehicles, talking about how they lost the Green Arrow.
"I'm in a nightmare," he whispered to himself. For the first time in a while, Oliver felt truly scared and terrified.
Meanwhile, on another rooftop in Star City, Roy, Donna, Hal, Dinah, Jessica, Jesse and Ray found themselves observing their surroundings.
"It's Star City, sort of," said Hal.
"So, maybe it's a temporal displacement or an alternate earth?" asked Jesse, who was kneeling down on the rooftop.
"That could be it, Jess," Ray said. "Or, maybe we jumped to a different dimension."
"Maybe events in our own timeline have changed," Donna threw out.
"No, that's not possible. This doesn't feel like an altered timeline, Wonder Girl," Jesse stated. "I would know."
"Well, we need to determine which," said Roy. "If the Trickster's bomb detonated inside Iris, then we have to get back."
"The Hall of Justice should have picked up any anomalies, right?" Dinah asked.
"That's assuming if there is a Hall of Justice," said Donna. "I can't make contact."
"Well, we can find out as soon as Jessica and I charge our rings," Hal said. "The two of us can get all of there."
"I can check in Themyscira and see if I can do some recon with my mom," Donna said. "If this is an altered timeline, at least I'll be able to find out which events."
"Be careful there, babe." Roy kissed Donna on the cheek.
"Ring, where's the closest power battery?" Jessica asked.
Jessica's ring replied, "The Ferris Aircraft Facility in Coast City."
"Well at least that has not changed," Hal said. "Come on, Jessica. Let's go and get our rings charged."
"We can stay and check things out here," Roy offered, sharing a look with Jesse.
"And I can go to Palmer Tech and see if there's any info there that can help us," Ray said.
"I'll go with you, Ray," Dinah said.
"Alright, everybody, good luck," Hal said. He and Jessica allowed themselves to break into flight, going towards Ferris Aircraft. Donna proceeded to fly towards Themyscira, needing to find out whatever information that she could. Ray went off to go to Palmer Tech, hoping to find information as well.
In Coast City, California, Hal and Jessica felt a relief that not much has changed. The Ferris Aircraft Facility still looked the same.
There's a positive, though Jessica to herself.
"Ring, where did you say the power battery was?" asked Hal.
"Carol Ferris' office," the ring replied. At least that didn't change either. Hal and Jessica always kept a power battery in Carol's office to make things easier for them to charge their rings when needed. The other one was in the Hall of Justice, which belonged to Jessica.
"Alright," said Jessica softly. However, they were interrupted by the sound of tortured screams coming from another room. It sounded like Deathstroke, and two other voices that seemed to belong to Curtis and Dinah.
"Please, please, just stop!" Slade was yelling out.
"You will be going to the high council and pay for your crimes, Deathstroke," a voice said that sounded a lot like Dinah.
"Dinah; Curtis?" whispered Hal. He opened the door to an empty room, which contained not only Dinah Drake and Curtis Holt but also Slade Wilson. Or at least it looked like Dinah and Curtis, who had Slade tied down to a table, torturing him crudely. This wasn't the Curtis Holt that Hal and Jessica knew.
"You will pay for your delinquencies," growled Curtis.
"Please, just stop it! He's using you two like damn puppets!" Slade gasped out. Hal and Jessica watched uncomfortably as Dinah did her Canary Cry right in Slade's face.
"So, this is how things work around here, now?" asked Hal, feeling angered. The Curtis Holt that he knew was a gentle soul of a man, not this.
"So you two are wearing green again?" asked Dinah, confused.
"It's funny. They look like Jessica Cruz and Hal Jordan, but it is not them," Curtis said.
"Whoever you two are, you will surrender to the high council. Once we are done with Slade, you two are coming with us," Dinah said heatedly. She proceeded to do her Canary Cry, which seemed stronger and more violent than ever. Hal and Jessica both covered their ears; however, it was Jessica who used her ring, creating a force field of green to block out the sound.
"We don't know whoever you two are, but you're under arrest," said Curtis, grabbing one of his T-spears.
"Well we're resisting," Jessica said coldly. She used her power ring to form a giant green hand, grabbing Curtis and tossing him around a few times before creating a brick wall and throwing him into it. "I'll try not to leave a scar," she added softly. She watched as Hal engaged in a fight with Dinah. They both only had so much juice left in their rings, so that meant they needed to charge up sooner rather than later. Hal formed a green hand and grabbed a model plane from above him and smashed it over Dinah, before, throwing a few punches and forming a giant green handgun, shooting. Jessica engaged with Curtis in some hand to hand, before forming two giant green buses and slamming Curtis into them, and firing giant green lasers at him. After over twenty minutes, Dinah and Curtis were down. Once the two were knocked out and staying down, Hal formed two pairs of green handcuffs, locking their wrists. Hal and Jessica walked over to Slade, releasing him from the table he was strapped down to.
"Why are they doing this? Who's this high council?" asked Jessica.
"Look, we're not with them just start talking," said Hal.
"Well look, whoever you two are, they know you now, so watch your backs," Slade panted.
Suddenly, the panicked sound of Jesse's voice came through Hal and Jessica's comms.
"Hal, Jessica! Help! It's Sinestro!" Jesse cried out.
"Sinestro?" asked Hal. "Don't worry, Jesse Quick. We will be there soon. We just have to charge our rings." He turned to speak to Deathstroke. "As for you, Slade, you're coming with us." When he said that, Slade was no longer there.
"Spooky," Jessica said. She and Hal went to charge their Lantern rings. Once they finished they were back in Star City, where they saw Jesse and Roy fighting off Sinestro.
"Oh my God," whispered Hal as he and Jessica flew in.
"Ahh, Hal Jordan and Jessica Cruz, this just keeps getting better!" Sinestro said.
"Oppressing your home planet wasn't enough for you, Sinestro?" Jessica asked coldly.
"The One Earth government is similar to mine on Korugar," Sinestro replied. "An alliance was logical; even with Hal Jordan and Jessica Cruz."
"So, our doppelgangers have joined your side?" asked Hal.
"As do all who wish to live," Sinestro replied back smoothly. He, Jessica and Hal all proceeded to go at it. Sinestro formed a giant yellow hand, grabbing Jessica and throwing her against a wall. Hal grabbed a dumpster and threw it at his former mentor. Once Jessica was back on her feet, she joined the fight, forming a brick wall and throwing Sinestro into it, smashing him. She did an uppercut to Sinestro, sending him flying backward. Hal formed a giant green hand and threw Sinestro far away into the night. He was not going to be a problem anymore. Hal walked over to Jesse.
"Are you okay?" Hal asked, giving his teammate a hand up, feeling concerned for Jesse. He knew that Jesse's father would have a fit if he found out she got hurt or worse. He felt a sense of responsibility to look after Roy, Jesse and Donna, who were still so young.
"Hal, Jessica," Jesse said to her two friends. Hal and Jessica turned to see their own doppelgangers, dressed in the Sinestro Corps uniforms.
"Someone called us?" asked this Earth's Jessica. Her eyes were glowing yellow.
"Wait, you two are in Sinestro Corps?!" Hal asked, shocked.
"Sinestro's right; fear's more effective than willpower," Sinestro-Hal said.
"So you both ditched green and went yellow, the color of cowardice," Jessica said hotly. She aimed her ring at her doppelganger, firing a blast of green energy. Sinestro-Jessica fired a blast of yellow. Hal and Sinestro-Hal did the same.
"We're still about Order, like the Guardians," Sinestro-Jessica replied back, voice cold. When Sinestro-Jessica fired at Roy, who was just rising to his feet, Hal felt nothing but anger. He genuinely liked Roy, knew that Roy was nothing but a good kid.
"I'm sure they're very proud of you both," Hal said hotly.
"Well sanctimony is easy when you don't know what –" Sinestro-Jessica started to say.
"Save it," Jessica snarled. "I guess it's time to kick my ass," she added. She flew forward and proceeded to fight her evil twin. It felt so weird, seeing this evil, corrupt version of herself right in front of her. The Sinestro Corps, the idea of inflicting fear upon people, was everything against Jessica's values. Ever since Jay Garrick had rescued her from Earth-3 and the ring that was inflicting fear and torture upon her, and brought her to Earth-1 to be trained by Hal, Barry and Ollie, Jessica strove to overcome her trauma and fear every day. She formed a giant green baseball bat and did a grand slam on her doppelganger right into a neon sign. Hal formed a brick wall and threw Sinestro-Hal right into it, smashing it and breaking it. Jessica kicked her doppelganger hard, making it an uppercut. Hal powered himself up and formed a green monster truck, running Sinestro-Hal over. Jessica formed a giant green machine gun and fired. Hal decked his doppelganger in the chest as Jessica did the same, and sent the two flying backwards, far away.
"Okay, at least that's done," panted Hal. "Are you all right Jess?"
"I'm okay," Jessica whispered. "That was surreal and disturbing."
"Yeah, all that yellow's really tough on the eyes," said Roy, who was brushing himself off.
"Come on, let's go and find somewhere safe," Jesse suggested.
"I agree," Jessica said with a nod. They all walked around a corner.
"Are there any good guys here?" asked Roy in confusion. Suddenly, emerging from the darkness was the doppelganger of the one and only Oliver Queen.
"There just might be," whispered Hal, relieved to see his and Barry's friend, even if it was on another Earth. At least that was a positive right there that Oliver Queen seemingly hasn't changed.
"The four of you, come with me," Oliver said to them.