The Hitchhikers guide to the Millma Verse
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The Starling Arrows.
Kayla Lane was relaxing on her Twin Earth double's boat co-owned with Twin's Barry Allen. The pair had gone exploring, as per usual, so had left the boat free for Kayla for a few days. She wanted to do a bit of fishing anyway as she hadn't done something so peaceful like that in a while – and it was even more serene when not using her powers.
Ah, to be human.
She was just setting herself up, the sun starting to crawl down into the evening sky when a portal opened on the docks and she had to sigh in annoyance as the unmistakeable form of Cisco Ramon appeared.
"Kayla!" He called, only pausing for a second to take note on where he was as he moved over to her. "We have to go!"
"No… I have a weekend by myself, I don't…" she started.
"There's a new Earth! I saw it last night. I've been spying as much as I can, but I need to go there now," Cisco insisted.
"There's always new Earths. There are thousands and thousands of them," Kayla pointed out. "They aren't going anywhere."
"But I want to see this Earth in person now," he insisted.
"That's the type of attitude that got you punched by Harrison Ford the last time we world hopped," Kayla pointed out and noticed the look. "What? Look, you can go there if you want – it's a free multiverse, after all… sort of," she moved to untie the boat from the dock, wanting to get away from Vibe Junior.
"Oi! You're the one who wanted to explore the multiverse," Cisco pointed out, as Kayla paused in her untying. He had a point.
"Fine. How long?" Kayla asked with a sigh as she looked up at Vibe Junior now.
"An hour… two, tops. Then I'll leave you to your… boating?" Cisco stated.
"Fishing," Kayla corrected.
"You fish?" Cisco frowned. He had never heard of any Kara or Kayla fishing. The closest was his Kara who farmed, or New Justice's, who was a vet, but that was different to going out on the ocean and fishing.
"Oh, there's so much about me you still don't know," Kayla smirked. "Okay then. Two hours. Then back here and leave me be."
"You're on," Cisco smirked as he turned, opening a new portal behind them.
Kayla took one last wistful look at the boat, the open ocean and then followed Cisco through the vortex.
-Hitchhikers-
They landed in the middle of a familiar street, but before they could take in their surroundings, there was gunfire. It was all Kayla could do but move with speed to protect Cisco and move him to safety while she assessed the situation.
"What the hell?" Cisco called, once they were under cover.
"I should have stayed on the boat," Kayla groaned as she turned to Cisco now. "Okay, what do we do? I can go out and stop this, but that would be intervening…"
"Oh, forget that, just stop them!" Cisco groaned as Kayla smirked, pressing her necklace so her costume wrapped around her. Tying her hair back, she jumped up, and was prepared to stop the bullets and grab the people responsible, but she didn't have to as there was a whistling sound and sudden explosions.
"Oliver," Kara sighed, knowing the sound of an exploding Arrow as she turned, expecting to see the green cladded figure, but was surprised when two women, dressed almost like Amazonians, albeit with masks over their faces, landed in front of her; one stared at Kayla, while the other moved off to deal with the two obvious street gangs that had opened fire on one another.
"Why are you messing with our operation?" The woman had a voice modulator on, so Kayla couldn't tell who it was, but the hair was noticeably blonde, and the body looked familiar.
"I'm not. We didn't even know you had one," Kayla admitted.
"We?" The woman asked looking around for the other person.
"Vibe Junior!" Kayla called, "It's safe to come out now…"
"Vibe… Junior?" The woman frowned as Cisco came out of his hiding place, hands in the air.
"What are you doing here?" The other woman came up now, Kayla noticing the gang members were unconscious and tied up already. "The cops will be here soon to get these assholes," the other woman continued to her companion; also using a voice modulator.
"A couple of exploding arrows at the same time… man, these people are weak. Good job, Andromeda," the first woman smirked.
"All in a day's work, Astraea," Andromeda stated but looked back to Kayla and Cisco. "Why are you here, Vibe? And why is she calling you Vibe Junior?"
"Erm… I think you've got me mixed up with someone else…" Cisco chuckled.
"Perhaps if we go back to your base of operation?" Kayla suggested.
"A trick to take out the Starling Arrows, no thanks," Astraea folded her arms.
"The Starling…?" Cisco started, frowning at this.
"Oh, this is ridiculous!" Kayla groaned, reaching for her necklace and removing her superhero costume, much to the two new heroes shock. She kept her hair tied up though.
"But…" Andromeda muttered as Kayla frowned at the reaction to her identity being revealed.
"Impossible," Astraea confirmed for her teammate, both nodding to one another though as they too took off their masks – to reveal the familiar face of Kayla looking back at them.
"Kara and Kayla," Kayla Lane chuckled, it all made sense now. "But… which is which?"
"The same can be said of you," one of the sisters stated, the other folding her arms; their voice modulators must have been automatic with their masks as their voices were normal now.
"I'm Kayla," Kayla Lane confirmed.
"We're not from this world," Cisco pointed out.
"I think that's making itself extremely obvious. Okay, you've won us over, Kaye?" This must have been Kara if 'Kaye' was a nickname from Kayla.
"Come on," this world's Kayla stated, pulling form her person a small disc-like object.
"Is that…?" Cisco started, but this world's Kayla pressed it and a familiar portal opened in front of them, just as the sound of sirens greeted them.
"Urgh," this world's Kara muttered, "I don't want the press this time, come on you two, quickly!" Her sister had already jumped through the portal; Kayla Lane and Cisco shared a look, shrugged, then jumped through themselves.
They found themselves in the familiar headquarters of the Arrow Bunker, recognisable from its central circular raised platform and costume cases lining the wall. Right now, it was empty, aside from the four of them as the portal closed behind them.
"Alright, explain," one of the sisters stated as she grabbed the bow and quiver from her twin, putting both hers and her twin's weapons away as she turned to Kayla Lane and Cisco, the latter of who raised a hand like a child answering a question in class; all three Kryptonians though raised an eyebrow at him.
"Before that, is that a world hopping device?" Cisco asked as this world's Kayla put the small disc away.
"It's called an extrapolator. It allows us to get from place to place," this Kayla explained to a frown from Kayla Lane.
"Right. So, what are your last names?" Cisco asked as Kayla Lane groaned at the question, realizing why he asked – last names were the best way to differentiate between them all, especially as there were now three women present with the same faces.
"Queen," both the twins stated in unison, smiling slightly.
"Okay, that's different," Cisco stated, turning to his Kayla at this.
"Who's who?" Kayla asked. They really were identical, and even their costumes were similar. She could now tell why everyone had a hard time telling Kara and herself apart on her world.
"I'm Kara, or Astraea," Kara Queen stated as Kayla smiled – maybe named after Astra, like their aunt.
"And I'm Kayla, or Andromeda," Kayla Queen stated. "You?"
"Kayla Lane," Kayla stated.
"Ouch, that's going to get confusing," Kayla Queen bit her lip. "Tell you what, call me Kaye – it's what Kara here calls me," Kayla Queen stated, her walls must have been dropping as she wasn't as impersonal as her sister.
"Okay, Kaye," Kayla Lane nodded, glancing to Cisco.
"You were going to explain yourselves," Kara Queen, however, pointed out.
"Oh right," Cisco spoke up now. "Well, we're from the multiverse – I'm from a world called Mutant Earth, while Kayla Lane here is more of a drifter…"
"Hitchhiker," Kayla Lane corrected.
"Okay, hitchhiker," Cisco chuckled. "Over the past year now we've been exploring other worlds in the multiverse – I actually only found this world yesterday so I asked Kayla if she wanted to look today. You guys said you had a Vibe; hasn't he discovered the multiverse?"
"Our Cisco doesn't even know about the multiverse," Kaye stated with a shrug as Kara Queen looked on with a frown to Cisco. "He can teleport anywhere on the planet; even made us these extrapolators so we can get to places quickly – it's been a blessing for us to get to the Fortress."
"But… can't you fly there…?" Kayla Lane pointed out, but instantly regretted it at the glare she got from both girls. "Okay, maybe not. Weird."
"This planet is no different to others though," Cisco put his foot in it, "so surely Kryptonians like yourself could get there. What about Clark?"
"Clark's dead," a new voice interrupted them; the two hitchhikers turned to see the familiar vigilantes of Green Arrow and Black Canary, respectively. "Who are these two?" Green Arrow asked Kayla and Kara Queen.
"Multiverse," the twins replied in unison as Black Canary, at least, removed her mask and smiled. Laurel Lance, albeit with short bleached hair, smiled back at them.
"We mean you no harm… Oliver," Cisco stated as the Green Arrow groaned, pulling back his hood to reveal, indeed, Oliver Queen. He unchanged to the Olivers in the multiverse.
"What do you mean Clark's dead here?" Kayla Lane asked, the pit of her stomach not yet having returned; this was close to home for her. Again.
"Lex Luthor," Kaye sighed now as Kayla Lane turned back to her doppelgänger. "It was around the time we landed on Lian Yu…"
"You landed on Lian Yu?!" Cisco was the one to ask this.
"Yeah," Oliver spoke, the multiverse duo turning back to Oliver now who had rested his bow and quiver on the nearby railing, leaning next to it as he crossed his arms. Laurel had already pulled up a chair. "It's where I met them."
"So… you saved Kayla and Kara from their pod, not Clark?" Kayla Lane asked, trying to fit the pieces together.
"No. Professor Ivo did," Kara Queen sighed. "If it wasn't for Sara…"
"Sara?" Kayla was lost now. "How does this tie into Clark being dead here?"
"I think we better start from the start," Kaye stated, smirking to her sister, who nodded.
"Why don't you take a seat?" Laurel stated kindly, offering both Kayla Lane and Cisco a computer swivel chair, which they took, frowning now to the Kryptonian sisters.
"Sixteen years ago," Oliver was the one to speak, surprising the duo as they turned in their chairs to face the Green Arrow instead, "I found myself stranded on Lain Yu – and judging by your reaction, you both know the place, right?" The duo nodded at this. "Good, that saves a lot of explanation. Well, I didn't get there alone; Sara Lance, Laurel's sister, ended up on the Island with me, albeit by a different route… she found herself recruited by a mad doctor."
"Ivo," Cisco muttered; it was the same story on his Earth, although after escaping Ivo, his Sara had found herself being recruited into the League of Assassins.
"That's the one," Kara Queen muttered darkly. Oliver raised his hand mutely, to silence Kara.
"I'd been on the Island for about a year when out of the sky crashed what I thought was a meteor. When I got to it, Ivo's team had got there first – they'd left nothing to say what it was or why they'd taken it," Oliver explained.
"But it was your pod," Kayla Lane deduced, pointing to Kara and Kayla Queen now.
"Yup," Kayla Queen nodded. "Two helpless alien girls. We had powers back then, but we didn't know how to use them. Ivo figured out what we were quickly; with the knowledge of Superman's weakness, it wasn't too difficult to find a way to contain us."
"But we had Sara," Kara Queen added. "She was working for Ivo, trying to find a way out. We befriended her and she kept us sane… that was until the poisoning."
"In a last-bid attempt to stop Superman, Lex Luthor released Kryptonite into the atmosphere," Oliver explained, Kayla Lane putting a hand to her mouth in shock at this.
"It did the trick," Kara Queen stated darkly. "It killed Clark."
"We didn't even know him," Kayla Queen sighed as a tear came to her eye. Kayla knew the pain they were feeling – only it had to be worst; at least she had known her Clark before he had died.
"The little cousin we'd been sent to protect… dead," Kara Queen stated as Kayla Queen put her hand on her sister's arm in comfort. "Because a madman didn't like that he was helping people."
"The unfortunate side affect of Kryptonite being in the atmosphere meant that Kara and Kayla here were poisoned too." Oliver stated, Kayla Lane looking back to him. "Ivo acted fast though, before the girls died, he injected them both with an experimental serum, Mirakuru," he sighed now.
"Rao…" Kayla Lane groaned. "Deathstoke used that on my original world; created an army of super soldiers out of it who overran Starling City, claimed rule himself and killed anyone who questioned him. It's not a nice stuff."
"No, it's not," Oliver agreed simply.
"We're Kryptonians though," Kayla Queen stated positively. "We're made of stronger stuff than humans."
"But we were affected by the Kryptonite. It took a few months before Lex's sister, Lena, managed to remove the Kryptonite from the atmosphere," Kara Queen added.
"The damage had been done, though," Kayla Queen explained, "many of our powers had been taken, some by the exposure, others by the Mirakuru, but we were alive."
"In that time though, myself and my then-friend Slade Wilson, managed to save Sara, the girls and stop Ivo… at Slade's own demise, but that's not part of this story," Oliver stated, almost dismissively.
"Okay. So long-term exposure to Kryptonite, add in Mirakuru and, what… what are your powers?" Kayla Lane wanted to know as she looked over her double and twin.
"We still have some strength, superior hearing and a healing factor – we can get injured, but heal probably as quickly as Barry," Kayla smirked now. "We're also faster than humans, but not as fast as Barry."
"Barry?" Cisco grinned now. A familiar name. "Of course, he's here too."
"When we finally got off that Rao-forsaken island," Oliver stated, surprising the duo by his use of the Kryptonian sun-god, "my mother happily took Kayla and Kara in as one of her own, but in secret we started this," he indicated the base of operations around him.
"Actually," Kayla Queen held up a hand. "You went solo to begin with. Trying to avenge your father and that stupid list."
"That list–" Oliver started.
"Is in the past," Laurel interrupted smoothly, grinning at the interaction.
"We found out he'd started this, and we wanted in," Kayla Queen explained for the multiverse duo. "Sara came in later, and after a near-death experience, both Laurel here, and Tommy Merlyn became part of the team too."
"We were known as Team Arrow back then," Laurel stated, almost wistfully now.
"Then Barry came in," Kayla Queen explained. "He scienced us up."
"Scienced?" Cisco asked, chuckling at the made-up word.
"Shush now," Kayla Queen joked at her own joke.
"Kayla and Barry fell for one another – hard," Kara Queen stated, playfully punching her sister now.
"Karry," Cisco muttered, to a frown from this Earth group, but he waved it off quickly. Kayla and Barry still made a Karry ship name, after all.
"Shut up," Kayla Lance said to Cisco, to a small chuckle from Kara Queen.
"Did you guys have a Particle Accelerator?" Laurel now asked.
"If you're implying the one here exploded too and made meta humans, then yes," Cisco stated.
"Even on my original Earth. My Wells tried to channel it underground, but it was just as catastrophic," Kayla Lane supplied, to a look from Cisco. "What? Did I never tell you that?" She smirked now.
"Anyway… yes, the same happened here," Laurel continued. "Barry got caught in it, as did his friend Caitlin, our Cisco, Ralph Dibny, Ronnie Raymond and the Walker twins… it took time, but they became a team in Central City."
"Only the legend of Team Arrow had spread out beyond Starling City," Oliver stated, almost sighing now.
"They became the Central Arrows, even though they don't even use physical arrows," Laurel stated. "We got rebranded the Starling Arrow by both CatCo and the Daily Planet."
"Yeah, that's pretty permanent then," Kayla Lane noted, thoughtfully.
"Besides, Team Scarlett or Team Speedster don't exactly have the same ring to it," Oliver now voiced. "But they do have three speedsters in there, so who am I to complain?"
"He's not called The Flash here?" Cisco asked.
"Erm, no?" Kayla Queen supplied. "The Daily Planet called him the Scarlett Speedster and that stuck. Then Jesse got dubbed the Violet Speedster and Wally the Silver Speedster."
"Interesting. And kind of cool," Cisco nodded his approval of those names.
"What about Lex?" Kayla Lane asked. It felt like the only loose thread in this.
"Dead," Kara Queen stated proudly. "Not by us – by his sister, but he can't harm a living soul again."
"Good," Kayla stated. Even if these two had killed Lex, she honestly wouldn't have cared as he'd got what he deserved for poisoning the world with Kryptonite and killing Clark. Anyone who killed a Clark deserved a death sentence in Kayla's book… even if she had to lock up her Black Siren again, and not kill her for her Clark's death.
"And that's us," Kara Queen sighed, unfolding her arms and moving over to Laurel now, surprising Kayla Lane as Laurel jumped up and gave the girl a peck on the cheek.
"Wait, are you two together?" Kayla Lane asked Kara Queen and Laurel Lance.
"Yes," Laurel responded happily.
"No," Kara countered, causing Laurel to frown.
"Oh, these two have issues to sort out," Kayla Queen chuckled. "And if we're done here, I'm off to see Barry. Where's Sara and Tommy?" She addressed this to Oliver.
"They were checking out a bank heist. Hang on," Oliver moved over to the computers as Kayla Queen folded her arms and Kara and Laurel silently argued.
"Black Arrow, White Canary, what's the status?" Oliver asked into coms.
"All good," Tommy's voice came over the speaker. "Cops are on their way. Sara wants to stay to explain the situation, I'll be heading back now though."
"I'll go get him," Kayla Queen stated, producing her extrapolator device now and opening a portal. "Only Kara and I have these," she explained as she jumped through the vortex, and a moment later came back out with a man dressed in similar attire to Oliver, albeit all black instead of green.
"Thanks," Tommy Merlyn stated to Kayla Queen, taking off his hood but pausing as he saw Kayla Lane and Cisco. "Who…?"
"Friends. And I was about to go anyway, see you later. Have fun you two," Kayla Queen addressed her double and Cisco at this as she jumped back through the portal and was gone.
"Urm… someone going to explain?" Tommy asked as Oliver chuckled and moved over, kissing Tommy on the lips – much to Kayla Lane and Cisco's surprise again.
"Later, hon," Oliver chuckled as he pulled away from Tommy, who shrugged.
"Another successful night?" Tommy addressed the room at large.
"These two almost ruined our gang capture," Kara Queen spoke up, pointing to Cisco and Kayla Lane – Laurel had since given up arguing with the Kryptonian.
"You just sent some exploding arrows and they were knocked out!" Kayla Lane complained. "And I could have helped you…"
"It's fine," Oliver stated, giving Kara Queen a look now who rolled her eyes and sat down on the chair Laurel had since vacated. "The drugs raid was successfully busted wide open," Oliver continued to Tommy, "so a success for the Starling Arrows all around."
"Arrow Earth," Cisco randomly spoke, causing everyone in the room to fall silent and turn to him. "Sorry, we name all our Earths in the multiverse and given that all the teams here seem to be named after their city, followed by the Arrow legacy…. Well, it kind of makes sense to call this 'Arrow Earth'," he explained.
"Whatever," Oliver shrugged at that. He obviously didn't care.
"Multiverse?" Tommy blinked at this.
"I told you, I'll explain later," Oliver chuckled.
"Ten bucks says he doesn't," Kara Queen voiced.
"Kara…" Laurel groaned.
"Okay, I think our time is up," Kayla Lane stated, looking to Cisco now. "You got your answers. Besides, I was very much looking forward to an evening of fishing on Barry and Kayla's boat back on Twin, so now you have what you want…" Kayla Lane stood now, looking to Cisco.
"Right. Yeah. Urm, Oliver… I take it you're the leader here?" Cisco asked tentatively, looking around the room though.
"Yeah," Oliver nodded at that.
"Well, we have this system…" Cisco tried to explain, "it's a communication system and media streaming service that connects our Earths to one another. Just so we can chat to one another, request help if needed…"
"…and binge-watch different Star Treks," Kayla Lane added bemusedly.
"Oh, I like Star Trek," Laurel spoke up. "Have you got Star Trek Janeway?" she looked hopeful at Cisco, "we're on to season 5 now," Cisco's mouth dropped open at this. Kayla Lane groaned aloud.
"Beautiful only has one season of Janeway so far! Okay, Oliver, please can we connect the system to this Earth?" Cisco implored as Kayla rolled her eyes.
"Have at it," Oliver shrugged. "We're between IT guys since Felicity moved, so if you can suggest anyone to help us, that would be good too."
"On it," Cisco grinned as he pulled from his pocket a USB drive and moved over to the computer. The software needed for the multiverse system now was on there. "It's pretty self-explanatory… well, there is a manual in the software so that is explanatory anyway… and there," Cisco moved back to show the screen to Oliver. "You can now clone the file to add it to other computers across your network. Of course, if you had an A.I. it would be easier…"
"Smoak Tech is working on A.I.'s," Tommy pointed out.
"Good luck on them," Kayla Lane chuckled. "Come on Cisco, time to go."
"Okay," Cisco said. "Hey Laurel, check out Beautiful Earth if you like Star Trek." Laurel gave a small smile and nod as Cisco opened a portal back to Twin.
-Hitchhikers-
Kayla Lane was back on Twin Earth, relaxing on the boat that Barry and Kayla owned. It was a peaceful and calm evening, and she was finally with her thoughts.
She had a rod against the side of the boat, the line in the water, waiting for fish, but she wasn't too bothered as she had her journal in her hand and was writing thoroughly, with no care in the world.
This evening was another interesting adventure in the multiverse, she had already written. Cisco found a new Earth and really wanted to go, so of course I came along and wow, what a difference. It was kind of cool but kind of sad at the same time.
So, positives: Kara and Kayla exist together on that world, and they obviously have the bond and are probably as close as I was to my Kara; they're even adopted into the Queen family, so Kara and Kayla Queen! They work with Oliver and Co. in Starling City and are impressive. That Kayla is with Barry – another Karry – while their Kara is… well, she's… Kayla paused at that, unsure how to finish that sentence.
The negatives though: Clark is dead, Lex killed him by releasing Kryptonite into the atmosphere… but Lex is now dead, and Lena Luthor cured the world of said Kryptonite. Kara and Kayla's powers were permanently affected though – even to the point of being experimented on with freaking Mirakuru! Urgh. But they're doing good. Kara even goes by Astraea, like Aunt Astra, while my double is Andromeda. A nice combination of A's there…
She paused as there was a tug on her fishing line. She put the book down and grabbed the rod, using her Rao-given Kryptonian strength to pull in the catch, but frowned when it turned out to be a boot.
"Urgh," she sighed, tossing the boot behind her and throwing the line back in.
The most interesting thing about this new world though… all the teams go by Arrow. She continued in her journal. There's the original Team Arrow, which consists of my double, her sister, Tommy Merlyn, Sara and Laurel Lance and, of course, Oliver – and they're called the Starling Arrows now, while there's also the Central Arrow, National Arrows, Platinum Arrow and even the Gotham Arrow. No Batman there, although there is a Batwoman, according to Cisco who texted me earlier about it.
Even more interesting is Oliver and Tommy seem to be an item, while their Kara and Laurel are sort of one. It's complicated, apparently. But I'll like to go back sometime. I'm not in a rush though, but a nicer world than some of the other ones. I wonder if there's a way to restore Kara and Kayla's powers though?
With that, she closed the book, although kept the pen in place on the page for a bookmark as she thought. Was it possible to restore Kara and Kayla Queen's powers? Maybe there was something in the Fortress of Solitude she could investigate tomorrow – after all, one existed here too.
But that was for the morning. Kara and Kayla Queen seemed happy enough as they were. No rush.
Post Chapter Note: We hope we got the Arrow history right. Sigma has seen nearly every episode, but things needed to be changed a bit to add in Kara and Kayla. And Felicity is not dead here – shocker! She's just moved on with Smoak Tech, so no hate please. Also, Tommy and Oliver. Yes, we put them together and Kara is sort of with Laurel but that doesn't make this Earth 'too' gay, when a lot of normal couples exists such as Karry (Kayla/Barry) and even Ronlin (Ronnie/Caitlin).
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