Of Futures
And Pasts
Disclaimer: As the 160th chapter is literally right around the corner, I thought that as a special treat, that I would do this cast watch the show idea for you guys. Or well, the beginnings of it at least as I doubt I'll be going beyond it into a full on thing anytime soon. The cast that will be seen here is as follows: Moira and Thea Queen, Walter Steele, Tommy and Malcolm Merlyn, Laurel, Dinah, and Quentin Lance, Slade Wilson, but hours before 'The Amazo' began to bomb the island, Tina Boland, Mei Gulong, Lt. Pike, John Diggle, Lyla Michaels, the Al Ghuls and Sara, the STAR Labs/Flash Crew, Amanda Waller, Tatsu and Maseo Yamashiro, Roy Harper, Sin, Rene, Curtis, Rory, and last but not least, the Supergirl crew. Now mind you, not every character will always have dialogue unless its specifically related to them or some such like that and since most fics usually have it to where Oliver's dead, I thought I'd change that some. Now, let's hit it!
Summary: Its a risky gamble, but a gamble a select few are willing to try in order to ensure a much better future.
In a room often used to greet visitors from other planets who either arrived by ship, teleporter, or otherwise, a large group suddenly found themselves in it without warning. Making for rather alarmed exclamations amongst the group and for those like Slade, J'onn Jonzz, Captain Singh, Malcolm, and Talia to be instantly on alert rather then being shocked and the like. Though there was a loud retching sound as Detective Quentin Lance vomited and gaining an ew or two in the process. "That's seriously disgusting, man." Declared the girl known as Sin with a wrinkled nose.
The young lady gained various agreements as Laurel tried desperately to help her drunken father stand up while her mother did nothing. Fortunately, she soon had help from a well built African American man. Detective Lance moaned a little as they helped him stand up. "You good, sir?"
An unintelligent response was his answer as Pike shook his head. "Damnit, Quentin." It was high time he put that man on forced leave and got him some mandatory therapy sessions. Long past time actually.
"Ugh, I don't know what happened but its making my trip feel like Hell." Moaned Thea as she sat down on the floor.
Not even realizing that she was gaining some very unhappy looks from her mother, Walter, and several others. Though one young individual was heard scoffing and muttering unkind things about the rich. Just then, a door opened and a figure came through. One that rather shocked those who weren't inebriated in some way as the figure was a pink skinned woman in a weird looking green and black outfit! "I mean you no harm, friends." Declared the figure as a skinny male gaped in shock.
"Are you an Alien!?" Asked the skinny male in shock and excitement and causing his adopted father, Detective Joe West, to facepalm himself.
The pink skinned figure smiled. "I am, Barry Allen. And I must admit that it is rather pleasing to meet you and not see you so jaded."
"You… You know me!?" Legit squeaked Barry as those who had weapons suddenly found themselves wondering where they went.
The figure nodded with that smile still in place. "I do. In fact, there are those here that I do know and some I regrettably do not." She replied as she looked at him and the various others in the shocked group.
"And that's why we're here, Okin. To change that." Came a voice that made the eyes of a few widen in further shock and surprise.
Which only increased as they and the others got a good look at the figure that had just come in. He looked older, well built, a scar went down his right eye, the figure had on a dark green outfit with a hood attached to it, and his white colored beard and short hair made a certain few think of Robert Queen. Though what was perhaps most shocking about him was the fact that he had a majority of one of his arms missing. But despite that, Moira Queen knew her baby boy's face anywhere. "Ol-Oliver!?"
If this was a dream, she hoped she wouldn't ever wake up from it as Malcolm schooled his facial expressions to hide what he was feeling. As he'd thought very seriously for a moment that that had been his old friend. The very same old friend he'd sent to his death five years ago and regretted it despite it needing to be done in order to ensure the Undertaking's success. Oliver merely smiled at his mother warmly as he nodded, causing her to rush to him and hugged him tightly, not caring at all if her baby boy could only wrap one of his arms around her. Everyone watched the scene with various feelings and thoughts running through them. For those Roy, Tommy, Mei, and Barry, it made their hearts clench painfully at their own losses where a parent(s) or sibling even was concerned. "All that time on the island has finally made me crack." Muttered a dark haired man aloud and ruining the moment as he did so.
Though Oliver did chuckle as he and his mother pulled apart and she glared at the man for interrupting her reunion with her son! "Nah, not at all, Slade."
"You sure, Kid? Cause I quite remember there being a berry or two that caused you to hallucinate." Replied the man with an amused grin on his face.
"Yes, thank you for reminding me of something I've tried very hard to forget about." Oliver replied dryly as everyone else watched on.
Slade barked out a laugh at the dry reply. "You're welcome, Kid. Now you wanna explain to me what we're all doin' here when I know damn well that last I knew, you weren't a much older man missin' an arm? Or havin' such a wonderful scar on your face?"
"Time travel."
"Alright, I don't know what's going on but I know I've had enough." Stated Joe firmly while Francine frowned at him as Barry rolled his eyes at the older man while Iris continued to stare at the woman she long thought to be dead.
Along with wondering who the young guy was with her as well for that matter. Oliver just sighed as he pulled out two tubes containing some kind of liquid in them. "I'd forgotten how Barry had told me of how staunch you were in your beliefs that things of an impossible nature just didn't exist. Which made it hard for you to accept certain things that just didn't fit with your view of the world."
Joe frowned at the white haired man as Barry stared at the figure in surprise before coming to the conclusion that he and the man must have crossed paths enough for him to be willing enough to tell the guy that. Even Singh frowned, but it wasn't cause of the mystery figure knowing such a thing about one of his, but over how true those words were. Which had often caused him to assign certain cases to others under his command since they weren't as likely to have some kind of issue with it like West most likely would. "Laurel, catch." Ordered Oliver as he tossed one of the tubes to the shocked and mostly silent Lawyer.
Who thankfully caught it and looked at it. "Uhh, what is it, exactly?" She asked suspiciously.
"A quick acting sobering agent, give it to your father and have him drink it. Its a little something Okin and several of our smarter types cooked up to deal with hang overs and drugged states of mind." He gave the blushing pink alien a proud look that had her ducking her head some.
Laurel eyed him suspiciously while having some unkind thoughts towards her ex as he walked away from his mother to come and kneel down before his little sister. His mother not too far behind as well. "Hey, Speedy."
"No-Nobody calls me that anymore. And you're, you're not real."
Oliver gave his baby sister a sad look as their mother watched on broken heartedly while Walter wrapped her up in his arms to provide comfort. "Drink this for me, okay? You'll see I'm real."
Looking at him with hazy vision, Thea took the tube from him and dranked it with his encouragement. Causing her to gag soon afterwards. "Oh God! That tastes TERRIBLE!" Moaned the girl.
Causing him to snicker. "Well, I never did say it was gonna taste great, now did I?"
She would have glared at him if it wasn't for the fact she was starting to feel sober and very clear headed. Allowing for her to look at the man in front of her for a moment before her eyes widened in shock and surprise. "Ollie!?"
"Yeah, its me, Speedy, its me." He told her softly and instantly had her hugging him as she cried.
"Oh God, I knew it! I just knew you weren't dead!" Sobbed the young Queen as she continued to hug him. Not realizing at the moment he was missing an arm.
Smiling softly, he spoke up. "You were with me the whole time. And have been to this day."
Everyone watched on and those like Slade couldn't help but feel happy as he knew the Kid had greatly missed his little sister more then he did the Lance girl. Whom he noticed didn't seem too happy with the Kid either and he supposed he could understand that given what the Kid had told him. Things Shado didn't exactly know just yet and that worried him as knowing their luck, she'd find out at the worst possible time and things would go to Hell even more with their luck being what it tended to be at times. Dinah, seeing the effects for herself, took the tube from her eldest while ignoring the glare from her and made her ex-husband drink the contents. And like young Thea, gagged at the apparent taste. "Oh sweet Jesus that's horrible!" Gasped out the man and Dinah would have said something but thought better of it.
Pike it seemed wasn't as willing to stay quiet. "Sergeant, you and I need to have a talk ASAP."
His tone meant business and Lance nodded in understanding. He took a look around and noticed the various faces with them. "Where the Hell are we?"
"Something we've all been wondering, Detective Lance, and hopefully we'll have our answers soon enough." Answered Malcolm Merlyn smoothly.
Causing the formerly drunken Detective to look at him with a sour expression on his face. "Right."
"Everyone here aside from myself and Okin have been brought from the past to the future of 2049 and to the planet of Oa." Declared Oliver as he stood up and helped his baby sister up as well.
Mutters of shock disbelief and the like sweeping through the room thanks to his little declaration. Quentin, seeing and realizing who the man was rather quickly, growled and surged forward with the intent of punching the bastard out when he hit some kind of sudden green thing. "OW!" Howled the man in anger and pain.
"We have a strict no violence policy, Mr. Lance. One that will be abided by by not only you but everyone else here as well." Stated Okin as they all saw that she was somehow the cause of the green object that seemed to be coming from a ring on her hand.
Quentin grumbled as Sara remained hidden behind Nyssa and her father, an action neither necessarily approved of but kept quiet for the time being. She had so far chosen to remain hidden as she felt she couldn't bear the thought of what her family would think of her now being an Assassin and the things she'd done as one. And Malcolm, as Ra's could plainly see, looked nervous at the sight of him and it made the years old man ponder on it in a suspicious manner. Since his former Horseman shouldn't be acting that way towards him at all. Perhaps whatever reason we were brought here will reveal why my former Horseman is so nervous.
"Dude, that is so cool!" Gushed the long haired individual known as Cisco Ramon and even Barry had to agree.
Okin smiled at the excited young man she knew in this time as Vibe. Who wasn't nearly as exciteable as he used to be due to various events and the like. "I trust there is a rather strong reason for having managed to arrange our presence here, Oliver?" Walter asked of his wife's son.
He merely nodded as he stepped towards the door he and Okin had come in from. Thea practically refusing to leave his side as he did so. Opening the door, he gestured for the others to come with him as Okin put away her construct. "You'd be correct on that, Walter. And its a very important reason that will literally change my and Okin's time as we know it if its a success."
While everyone was curious about what he meant by that, they were more so wowed by the fact that as they traveled through the hall, they could see so many people dressed similarly to that of Okin. All of them having a strange green glow around them as they all somehow flew here and there under a star filled sky. "You're talking about changing history, aren't you? And do you have any idea of the potential consequences that might bring by playing with forces like that?" Asked J'onn in a grim tone of voice.
"I do, old friend, but considering Earth is nothing more then a floating crispy tender... We are willing to risk it." Replied Oliver in an equally if not more so, grimmer tone of voice.
Too much had been lost in that last battle that had forced Oliver and those of Earth's remaining heroes to retreat for the safety of Oa. As there was nothing more they could do to save Earth as it was ravaged by a plan of Darkeid's in order to ensure a victory of some sort. Quite a few present were greatly worried about the fact that apparently in the time they were in now, Earth was effectively fried and Moira couldn't help but wonder how her baby boy had anything to do with it. "Finally decided to go from killin' girls like my daughter to killin' the whole damned planet huh? Guess I shouldn't be surprised." Sneered Quentin and not giving a damn about the glares he was getting.
"Considering I never actually died and the choice was MINE to go with him on the Gambit, I'd say you are out of line, daddy." Declared Sara and finally breaking her silence and coming out of hiding at last.
Greatly surprising those who knew her in the process as Ra's nodded in approval as he hadn't cared too much for her showing weakness in the way she was doing so. An attempt at a Lance family reunion was had and due to Sara not being too pleased with her dad, the attempt didn't go so well. Even having to roughly grab Laurel and putting her arm into a hold behind her back when she tried to attack. "I'm pretty sure the Alien cutie said no violence, Laur."
Okin blushed at the wink she received from the younger version of Captain Lance as Nyssa frowned but held her piece as now wasn't the time. Oliver then suggested that everyone introduced themselves as they left the long hallway that showed the newcomers the outside world. A lone woman in black could be seen leaning against a wall as they made their way towards her. Eyes widened in surprise as when the lone figure turned her head to look at them, it was an older Laurel with her hair beginning to go grey in some areas! "What the Hell!?" Got out the younger Laurel and making her older self smirk.
"Easy now, Dinah, I'm not looking to break any of them just yet." Oliver told the Earth-2 Native and gaining a fake pout from her in return.
"Darn. How else am I gonna have any fun?"
"Could always harrass Kilowog as I know he just loves that." Replied Oliver dryly with a grin.
He and the others watched as the future version of Laurel's face lit up. "Ooh! Good idea!"
Chuckling as Laurel decided to go past him, but not before giving a hug to Quentin, an ugly look at what her Earth-1 counterpart was wearing, and an appreciative wink at Sara for the black leather before heading off to find this Kilowog guy. Dinah Lance felt incredibly hurt by the fact the older version of her eldest had practically ignored her. Something that Oliver instantly caught on too. "Let's just say that that isn't the Laurel you know and that it'll be explained as you all witness my first years, along with the first years of a few others to becoming world and universally known heroes."
"Sounds like vigilante bulls**t." Noted Quentin sourly and gained a few frowns in return.
Ones mixed over his use of foul langauge and the fact that vigilantes aren't exactly embraced. "In a sense, yes. But over time, we became trusted and embraced by the people of the cities we protected as we kept them safe from threats that the Police or even the Military couldn't handle.""
Quentin just grumbled sourly as he wasn't willing to believe the man who had managed to trick his little girl into going on that damned boat. "You as a hero, Kid? I find that a little hard to believe considerin' you had a hard enough time getting a fire going on that damend Island." Remarked Slade with a grin that Oliver couldn't help but shake his head good naturedly at.
"Well, you did have a hand in it after all. But seeing is believing as the saying goes after all." Replied the one armed man as they came into the room with an entertainment set up.
"In this room, you will all be spending a good amount of time in it as you view memories from not only me, but others as well of our rise to being heroes. Heroes that one day became known as the 'Justice League'. Long held secrets and lies will be revealed as you watch these memories, forever changing your views of certain people you thought you knew. But all in the hopes that it will help you all to change the future into something far better then the one you're all in now."
Moira whimpered as Malcolm schooled his features carefully as he wasn't liking the fact that certain long carefully made plans were going to be revealed according to his best friend's son. "Okin and I will be staying with you to ensure no violence will be had. Though I'm sure we'll be joined by others as time goes on." Here, Oliver gave a pointed look towards Malcolm and he nodded slightly to understand its meaning.
Oliver even gave a look towards the Al Ghuls as well to show he was including them in not being allowed to commit violence. "Very well, no actions shall be taken unless you deem otherwise." Ra's said in reply.
"I must admit to some curiousity on my part seeing as how I helped train you, Oliver." Added Talia.
"Then let's begin and you may sit where you please or with those you are most familiar with if you so wish."
"Ollie?" Thea asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, Speedy?"
"Are… Are we gonna see how you lost your arm?"
Oliver stared at her and saw her frightened look and quickly hugged her. "No, Speedy, none of you will. As I only recently lost my arm during the final battle for Earth." He admitted honestly.
Causing her and their mother to hug him as tears came forth. The men in the room bowed their heads in respect for what had happened to him. "Damn, you could get some serious love goin' for you with the story you have about that, bro." Declared Tommy with a wide grin on his face and breaking the somber mood in the process in his view.
"Sorry, but I'm married. Happily at that. But anyway, let's get seated."
Glares came Tommy's way and he couldn't help but wilt some and decided that sitting near his older but still brother in all but blood brother was the best way to go. Something Oliver cottoned on too quickly and couldn't help but roll his eyes at but said nothing. Once everyone was seated, Okin handed Oliver a remote and he pressed play. "Let's begin." He intoned and soon, everyone was watching as a much younger and hairer Oliver caught the attention of a Chinese fishing trawler and the resulting aftermath of it.
Author's Notes: I was going to include a little of the pilot episode but I thought this was a good place to end it. Hope folks enjoyed regardless!