The Next

Generation

Part 2

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the general idea you see within this one shot. And this is a follow up to chapter 3. Also in my timeline, that little hanky panky Felicity had with Ray resulted in a son. And is around 2 years older then the daughter she later has with Oliver. Also a conversation I had awhile back involving a child between Deadshot and Cupid happening will finally come to life!

Summary: Oliver gives advice to the next generation.

Location: Lian Yu and the long crashed Fuselage...

Oliver had brought the group of next generation heroes to the Fuselage as it was the best area to train in. As he was pretty sure there were still a few landmines left buried in the land of Lian Yu, even with a few trips here and there with a landmine detector. And currently with him was his and Felicity's daughter Amelia 'Arrowette' Queen, Sara 'Freebird' Diggle, Virgil 'Static Shock' Hawkins, Richard 'Robin' Grayson, Barry and Linda's daughter Eliza 'Trajectory' Allen-Park, the green skinned teen known as Garfield 'Beast Boy' Logan who could turn into any animal he wanted, Floyd Lawton and Carrie Cutter-Lawton's son Eugene 'Muerte Querubin' Lawton-Cutter, and the orange skinned Tamaranean girl known as Koriand'r. Or Starfire if you were going by a codename when it comes to her. Felicity's son with Ray wanted no part in this which wasn't surprising as he never expressed any kind of interest in the world of super heroics. And instead preferred to spend his time doing things that were Science related. Course if anyone asked Felicity about his choice, she would inform them that she was relieved by his decision to stay out of it.

Ray himself was also alright with it and it even allowed the two to really bond as a father and son duo in all things Science. Something Felicity was happy about and even joined in on the fun from time to time. Eugene had opted to go by the Chinese version of his name as the English translation left quite a few uncomfortable since it meant 'Death Cherub'. Which both of his parents thought was a truly fitting name for their boy. He was just as good as his parents with weapons and some thought he was possibly Meta somehow as he could hit a target at a far longer distance then what even his father could do. Thankfully, while he only inherited his mother's temper, he didn't inherit her habit of getting obsessed with the opposite sex like she did. Mostly because the doctors like Emil Hamilton in the early days of the League had come across had found a way to cure her of the experiment she was used for to make her fearless years prior to meeting any of them. She was still fearless, but no longer suffered side effects.

Something Floyd himself was happy about as it meant he no longer had to worry about her falling for some guy or girl who saved her life. The first two times that had happened, had wound up being a wake up call for the man once he realized how much he did care for her. He was thankful his ex wife allowed him back into their daughter's life and was even more happy when his little girl took to Carrie pretty well, and as well towards Eugene.

As for Eliza, despite the fact her parents weren't married to one another. Linda had still wanted her to have both last names, Barry's reaction to that when Linda had brought it up to him had always confused the woman but eventually waved it off as it being a Barry thing. Eliza herself witnessed the same thing when she asked her parents about the whole two names thing and pretty much had come to the same conclusion as her mother. When her parents or anyone else asked why she liked to be called Trajectory, she always told them she thought it sounded cool. Naturally she was about the only one who thought that way but she didn't really care as it was her codename and she was sticking to it!

She and the rest of the young generation of heroes were listening to Oliver talk about the importance of using the environment to your advantage. Because if you truly know your surroundings, you will be one step closer to victory against an opponent. Here, she noticed that his gaze settled on her before speaking and she stared right back, not even afraid of the man even if he had apparently put two arrows into her dad's back years ago. "Even if you have super speed on your side, knowing the area really well should be done. Especially if you're fighting against another speedster who might just be a bit faster then you are." Well, she considered, man's got a good point there.

"But considering I am not even from this planet, would that not work for me?" Starfire asked curiously.

Oliver looked at her and considered that for a moment. "Considering your flight capabilities it would likely be a factor against you. But if you make it a point to know the area from both on foot and in the air, it shouldn't be as much of an issue." She nodded in understanding at that and wondered if she could get Robin to help her with that problem since he was able to help her before with learning his language.

Even if he had been a bit odd about the whole thing, something she had been confused about until Freebird told her why he had acted the way he did. Needless to say, Earth ways were still very strange for the alien girl but she would do her best to learn them! Oliver looked at the crowd and when he got a grin on his face, everyone started to feel a little nervous at the sight of it. "Alright everybody, time for a run! I've carefully marked where we will be running so as to avoid any potential landmines. And remember, no powers of any kind." He shot a look to Starfire first before looking at Garfield.

"Aww man! That tanks!" The green boy grumbled aloud.

"I'm sure you won't see it that way when you're in the fight of your life and its going on for longer then you'd like." The long time member of the League rebutted.

Garfield rose up a finger and opened his mouth, but closed it while lowering the finger as he couldn't quite come up with a counter to that. "You make a good point dude." Was all he could say in the end, gaining him eye rolls from everyone else and a shake of the head from their arrow friendly mentor of the day.

"Glad you see it that way kid. Now… Let's go!" And with that, he took off and the others were soon after him.

Soon afterwards, a very unhappy Batman showed up, only to see no one in the near by area. Grumbling to himself about wayward proteges and color coded arrow obsessed interlopers, he took off in what he felt was the right direction while ensuring he had a landmine detector out and about. Unfortunately for him, he failed to realize that the route marked with the flags was where he was meant to go if he wanted to find his wayward protege. Something he'd be kicking himself over for a good long while when he finally realized that hours later. It'd also make him become the butt of jokes for a good long while too since those still on the station decided to spy on him just for the Hell of it. Which was primarily Barry and Roy, but it was thanks to them that a lot of the others got in on the joke.

Author's Notes: And here we are good buddies! It took me a good while to get this one finished up, but here we are! Eliza is actually a real character from the DC comics who wasn't around for too long it seems unfortunately. I just decided to twist her history a bit here just cause I could. Whether or not she's the child Barry and Linda are having from The Day Is Saved? Now that would be telling! R and R!