Flashpoint Mayhem

by TrueHorror88

Another victory for the team, yet someone was unable to celebrate that and chose to make a world-shaking decision. Barry saved his mother from death, changing his past and his present, but it also affected others without him knowing. Seth and his family are just as affected, maybe more. The team faces newer threats, but they're not new to the Lethal Protector. They're threats.

10. Chapter 10: Invasion Part 1

And now another bedtime story for all you wonderful readers out there in the big wide world…

Hope you guys are doing well out there, wherever you are.

Now to answer some reviews:

hunter41963801: Glad you think so man, and it's an interesting feeling you have. And hopefully the title and this chapter will answer your question about the Invasion Crossover. Thanks, and hope the same for you.

Zane214252: Well, if you've read Enter The Demon, it's not the first crossover our elemental hero has been introduced in, my friend.

rubeneliasrivera: That's an interesting thought for sure, my friend.

The Guardian of Reality: Oh yeah, they did. Yeah, Earth-1's book of criminals has just gotten bigger, for sure. I've planned a, at least in my opinion, a funny reaction to their meeting. Hope you guys think the same.

Jason Hunter: Wonder why he does? Or does Caitlin just attract the crazies. The Snow-Fury family is bigger now, and yeah Barry wanted to help Seth's family, even at the cost of his own job. And yeah, our little scientist, Dr. Harmon has indeed gotten a sample of the wretched titan's symbiote. Wonder what she will do with this now that she already has her own symbiotes in her hands. Can't be good, yeah, agreed. Thanks for it anyway.

guest: Glad you enjoyed that masterpiece too. I'm mostly happy that they got Cletus' backstory right. I loved the details of how they introduced it. I loved it. Glad to hear, and Anti-Venom's identity… Well, you have to read on to figure it out ;)

Starpottergeek: Thanks for it, my friend. Yeah, been working on these two's symbiotes for a while, finally happy I can bring them forth.

Also, I'd like to thank The IDEALLER 1995 and Ryu Otsutsuki, both of whom have helped with designing new suits and I'd like to thank them for that. And to any long-time readers from the previous stories, I'd like to thank them for their comments and messages with suggestions. I've looked at them and I've used some of them.

Plus, I also got inspiration from a Pokemon for a suit idea, believe it or not. Other inspiration I got was from Pinterest.

So, without further ado…

ENJOY!

Chapter 10: Invasion Part 1

(Klyntar Cave)

Inside of the Klyntar Cave training facility of S.T.A.R. Labs, Seth's eyes went left and right as they pointed to the ceiling. He watched his three daughters running on the ceiling, striking the various measurers that keep popping out on the hard surface.

Neither of them hesitated and struck them with their full might. It was no surprise to see Frankie put her experience to the test with her already knowing how to use her symbiote in combat. But it was surprising to see how quickly Evelyn and Ruby had gotten used to their symbiotes and managed to attack with their newfound superstrength.

They were only settling into their new symbiote powers, not using them to form suits yet and rely on their current advantages… In training at least.

Seth saw Ruby backflip before landing back on the ceiling. A measurer popped out in front of her, and she lashed out her hands, releasing black tendrils from her arms and attacking the power-measurer. It shone upon the impact.

Evelyn stuck to the ceiling like a spider, three measurers shooting out around her, and she released gray tendrils with black and white veins from her back. Her attack on the power-measurers forced them back into the ceiling after registering the attacks.

Frankie, with a series of practiced acrobatic skills, managed to punch and kick several measurers back into the ceiling with her rapid strikes.

Looking at the monitor which displays their individual power levels after striking the measurers. "Not bad. They're settling into their powers really quick." He spoke with a smile, which quickly vanished when hearing a strange demonic sniffle in the back of his head. "Venom?"

"We're just so proud of them." Venom sniffled again, almost bursting into tears in his host's body and mind.

"Girls! Take five." Seth called out to his daughters.

They nodded and dropped down from the ceiling, landing in soundless crouches. "How was it?" Ruby asked excitedly. "We doing great?"

"Don't even think "great" covers what you three just did." Seth chuckled. "You three were just hospitalized and now you're back better than ever. It's impressive and unbelievable."

"Dad, you sound old now." Evelyn quipped, her father giving an annoyed look. "What, that was Dusk talking, I swear."

Frankie turned her eyes to her sister. "Dusk? Your symbiote's name is Dusk?"

"Pretty cool, right?" Evelyn smirked.

"Wait, what about you, Rubs?" Seth inquired of his daughter. "Got a name for your roommate?"

"Yeah… Reap." Ruby announced. "Best name of all."

"Best name of all." The newly christened symbiote Reap boasted in agreement.

"No way, your sister is wrong." Dusk argued in her host's head.

"Yeah…" Evelyn clicked her tongue sheepishly. "Dusk got her own opinions on that name." She said, still not used to hearing a second voice in her own head that wasn't her own.

"What's the next thing on the agenda, dad?" Ruby asked. Seth didn't answer, instead he took several steps backwards till he stood a few feet away from them.

"Dad?" Frankie asked in confusion as he saw him stop.

"Me teaching you from afar won't help you guys, not at your current level." Seth stated slowly, lifting his eyes and facing his daughters. Clenching his hands, his clothes began to morph and shift, spreading over his entire body. "Means I gotta take this up a notch."

"You serious?" Evelyn asked as her father's form grew taller.

"You mean this?" Ruby asked excitedly.

"I…" Seth's entire head was engulfed by his "other" and he faced them with red eyes. "We're serious. Bring it on." He declared and showed his determination with flames bursting around his entire body.

"With pleasure." Frankie stated and stood as Magenta.

In an instant, the three sisters attacked their father with the ferocity of a pack of crazed battle-hungry wolves.

X

Inside of the Speed Lab training facility of S.T.A.R. Labs, flashes of yellow lightning emitted from the track course as Wally ran around in it without ever slowing down. Iris and Joe watched as he kept running. Cisco watched the same from the platform with his feet on the desk.

Caitlin watched the speedster run, but she had to steady herself against the desk when feeling the ground shake. "God sake, Seth. Don't go all Mortal Kombat on our daughters." She muttered.

"Sure, it's not the other way around?" Iris quipped at the doctor who laughed in response.

"Damn." Joe rubbed his chin in surprise. "Kid gets faster every time we test him."

Cisco pressed a key on his computer. "Mach 2."

Iris snapped her eyes to the viber in surprise. "Already?" Cisco confidently nodded. The reporter returned her eyes to the track that her brother's occupying. "He just got his speed a few days ago. How are his vitals?"

Caitlin looked to her screen. "His running economy, lactate threshold are all way above expected levels."

The viber smirked. "Think we might have a little prodigy on our hands. Like, a Wizard of Whiz-" He stopped, feeling the ground and the rest of the training lab shake. "Meanwhile, Caitlin's kids turn into a little demolition crew. Just one of them could tear down a building,"

"Don't encourage them." Caitlin ordered him. If any of her daughters did that, she'd have no choice but actually ground all three of them till they're old enough for marriage.

And with the way their father is, they'd never get married at all.

"Guys…" Iris started. "I don't want Wally thinking he's Barry, rushing off half-cocked, trying to take down Alchemy, Anti-Venom or Savitar the next time one of them shows up."

"Okay, but, guys, Wally's not like me, he doesn't want his powers gone." Caitlin pitched in. "We're gonna have a hard time convincing him not to use them."

Iris countered. "Yeah, well, we have to until he's ready."

Joe hollowly laughed, gesturing to the track that's flashing continuously yellow. "How?"

"By convincing him that he isn't." Iris replied, turning her eyes to the scientists. "That means no encouraging him, no training him, and, you…" She faced Cisco with a serious stare, walking to his side. "No talking to him about his suit. Please, it's for his own good."

Cisco looked between Joe and Caitlin, hoping for them to come to his defense. When not getting it, he scoffed. "Why the hell not, it's just another lie between friends, right?"

"Cisco…" Iris sighed, hearing the disdain in his voice. He was still bearing a flame of hate for Barry.

WHOOSH

Wally came out of the track, sliding to a stop with a giddy smile. He chuckled in excitement. "What?" The new speedster looked around, seeing the looks of hesitation on their faces. "Still no good?"

Agreeing to follow Iris's words, Caitlin told the fledgling speedster. "Um, I think, maybe we should try again tomorrow. I can run a few more tests. Seth should be done with training the girls too, so he could help me."

Another tremor came from the other training lab, shaking the entire Speed Lab. "If not, your daughters have turned him into mincemeat by now." Cisco joked, grabbing his coffee mug before it could fall off the table.

"That was an amazing run." Joe wrapped an arm around his son's neck. "Dinner's on me, whatever you want." Iris joined her brother and father and walked with them out of the Speed Lab.

The computer chimed with a trilling sound and then H.R. spoke through the speakers. "Test, test. Fellow S.T.A.R. Labs employees, your presence in the Cortex would be greatly appreciated."

"That's tonight? His presentation?" Cisco groaned. Caitlin gave a sheepish nod with a closed mouth. "Great." The viber sighed, moving his feet off the desk and stood back up.

"What do you think… if after…" Caitlin offered. "Maybe me and Seth drop off the girls, and we get a drink? You, me, Seth and Barry?" She hoped that a single night together would be able to fix their broken friendship.

"Barry?" Cisco scoffed. "We're just gonna get drinks, pretend like we're friends." She gave a small shrug. "Nice try. Ain't gonna happen." He moved off the platform. "Plus, you didn't exactly treat him with kid gloves after what he almost did to your family, why should I treat him any differently after what he's done?" He said, moving out of the Speed Lab.

"Ouch." Caitlin said, walking towards the exit and entering the hallway. "Hey!" She gasped when seeing Seth walk through the halls.

"Hey yourself, gorgeous." He said when seeing her dressed in a beautiful brown dress with a rope of silk tied around her waist. "Now, why are you walking around looking like perfection?" He wasn't joking, she looked like she had just come from a formal event and looked incredibly elegant.

Blushing immensely Caitlin said and walked closer to him. "What can I say, it felt like a good day to dress up."

"And you did it to perfection." Seth walked closer to her, and once within arm's reach, they shared a kiss. Detaching from her lips, he said with a nod to the Speed Lab. "How'd it go in there?"

"Good, Wally's already running at Mach 2." Caitlin said.

"Not bad for a rookie." Seth quipped.

"What about our troublemakers? They doing better than before?" Caitlin asked, noticing that his hand was holding onto his stomach and hissed lightly.

"Gave me more than a few strikes that actually smarts." Seth admitted with a groan. "Proud of those girls in so many, many ways I can barely count. It's incredible how they managed to get the handle of their symbiotes like this."

"Glad to hear. But…" Caitlin pressed a hand on his chest. "Are you okay?"

"What do you mean?" Seth asked. "I'm fine, doing good and all."

"Are you sure?" Caitlin inquired. "You destabilized yourself with Speed Force lightning, an elemental that makes a lightning bolt look like a joke. Still don't get why you did that, Seth."

"Had to replicate what happened when I got through the portal to this universe the first time, it destabilized me so much that Venom subconsciously birthed a daughter in a metahuman girl, Frankie. Thought that was the only way so it'd work with Ruby and Evelyn's strange physiologies." Seth stated.

"Yeah, but…" Caitlin punched his arm. Seth gave a confused look while holding his arm. "Don't ever do that again, or I'll freeze you again into a popsicle."

"Like you actually need a reason to kiss me…" Seth teased, and she winked before walking away and towards the Cortex. He followed her. The two entered the Cortex and the mutant noticed the monitors and their displaying contents. "What is that?"

"S.T.A.R. Labs: The Explosive Tour?" Caitlin read the title under the virtual construction of the facility.

"Precisely, Dr. Snow." Harrison jumped into the Cortex from the side lab, holding a mug with freshly brewed coffee.

"Is this the hell show Caitlin told me about?" Seth wondered, directing look to his mate.

"It is, yeah." Caitlin said, taking a seat by the console. "Hey girls." She greeted her daughters when they entered the room, each of them holding bottles of cold water.

Ruby groaned at the images on the monitors, knowing what this was about. "You really wanna open S.T.A.R. Labs to the public?"

"In two weeks?" Barry followed up.

"It's more of a soft open, not a hard open. But you know, I'll use your input, all right?" H.R. chuckled, walking closer to the monitors. "Right now, it's very important cause the clock is ticking."

"What exactly is the plan with this…. plan, Wells?" Frankie inquired.

"Well, you see, young Snow-Fury…" He spun around, turning to the monitors. "My vision is set to include, but not limited to, BAM…" He pressed a key on the remote in his hand, turning to the next slide of various guests using indoors transportation devices to move around. "…A personal transportation tour of the facility." Everyone had mixed reactions and opinions to his idea. "Or, for the faint of heart, we have, POW…" He turned another slide, showing another virtual S.T.A.R. Labs but with greater details. "…A Virtual Reality alternative. Both set to include "Particle Vision!""

"What? "Particle Vision?"" Evelyn asked.

"Please tell me that's something you can eat." Dusk asked pleadingly, letting out a gurgle akin to a stomach growl. Evelyn chuckled at her "other's" cry for food.

H.R. explained, with jazz hands. ""Particle Vision," which is a moment-to-moment reenactment of the Particle Accelerator explosion, but seen from the point of…" He waited for someone to connect the dots.

Cisco started. "Particle-"

"The particle!" Harrison-19 cut him off.

"Yeah, definitely not something you can eat. Evelyn, feed me!" Dusk demanded.

Evelyn sighed, turning to her father. "Dad, how do you keep Venom's hunger in check?"

"I keep secret stashes of food around, preferably the kind that holds out for a long time." Seth told her.

Cisco got a curious look. "How many of those you got here?"

"In the Cortex? Seven." Seth replied. "Might wanna get some more now that Rubs and Evie got symbiotes too."

"Oh yeah, good idea." Ruby said, surprising most in the Cortex as she is now holding a candy bar. Seth gave her a look of shock. "Yeah, found your secret stash. Well, not so secret anymore." She informed while stuffing an unwrapped chocolate bar into her pocket.

"Uh, got one more?" Evelyn asked.

"Two actually." Ruby pulled out two bars, throwing one to Evelyn and the other to Frankie. "But yeah, Dad, you ought to find better places to hide your stashes."

"Definitely places you won't be able to find." Seth stated, snapping off a piece of her candy bar. Breaking it in two, he threw one into his mouth and gave the other to Caitlin who accepted it with a smile.

Barry clapped his hands, inching closer to the Earth-19er. "Listen, H.R., I know that you're trying to figure out how you add value to the team, I get it, but this-"

"Let me stop you right there, B.A." Harrison paused him.

"Okay, don't call me "B.A."" Barry affirmed.

"I can make S.T.A.R. Labs the powerhouse in the scientific community that it once was, and moreover, earn back the people's trust." Harrison started. "Look at you guys. You just- Your faces are so darn gloomy. Here's what we'll do, I'm gonna make you guys a-"

The computers chimed and trilled, cutting off the idea man. Cisco turned to the doctor at the computers. "Was that, was that the satellite? I hope that wasn't the satellite."

Caitlin brought up the satellite image, displaying everything for her team. Something was descending through the atmosphere. Shock came over the doctor and she asked in disbelief. "Is that… A meteor?"

"Why, yes, that is a meteor, and yes, it is heading for downtown." Cisco declared, much to the team's growing disbelief.

"I gotta go." Barry declared.

"Same here, dumbass." Seth said and the speedster nodded.

WHOOSH

The metahuman sped into his suit, picking up the mutant and ran out of the facility. Caitlin watched them leave, wearing a worried look on her face. "Be careful Seth…"

X

The speedster and the elemental traveled through the city, following the ball of flames that came from the skies. During the way, Flash had let go of Venom, letting him swing towards their destination at his own pace and in his own way.

WHOOSH

Barry came to a stop at the impact site, a forestry park that somehow hadn't been burned down to a crisp despite a meteor falling into it. Seth landed on the ground. The two heroes faced the meteor.

Venom's white pseudo eyes snapped wide open in shock. "What the…"

"Seth, what's going on?" Caitlin asked.

"You're not gonna believe this." He answered.

"What is it? Guys, what do you see?" Cisco asked the heroes.

"This isn't a meteor." Barry replied.

"Set- Seth, come in." Seth pressed on his earpiece, his mate's voice coming through it along with the sound of static which made it hard to hear her words. "Seth, can you hear me?"

"Cait, can you hear us? Caitlin?" Seth asked but her voice practically faded into the static as the two heroes got closer to the meteor-esque thing. But it was no meteorite upon closer look, no meteor would be of a metallic nature or have thrusters or light… It was no piece of a big satellite.

It was a ship with a unique design and made of different metals.

Barry was closer to it by now, the ship within arm's reach. "Think I should touch it?" He asked the mutant with an arm raised up and close to touching it.

"Yeah, cause touching foreign objects fallen from the sky is never a bad thing, of course." Seth sarcastically quipped.

"You shouldn't do sarcasm in that form." Barry said… His fingers touch the surface of the ship.

Upon touching the device, a white light erupted from it in a powerful shockwave that pushed the elemental and the speedster backwards. Seth managed to land on his feet, tendrils anchoring his fall. Barry landed on the ground.

"That was… unexpected." He groaned.

"Flash." Seth got his attention as the ship opened up and someone… Something… came out of it.

It was a thin emerald green beast with a physique akin to a skeleton, incredibly thin and armed with a device around the right wrist of one of its three clawed hands. It doesn't have eyes and has a big head and closed eyes. Its skin is wrinkled and scaled.

The one that came out was quickly joined by a frightening number of others. The first one snarled at the two heroes as it charged towards them.

"Let's get out of here!" Seth shouted, leaping into the air and released tendrils, wrapped them around the speedster, and yanked into his hand. Venom latched onto a nearby building, looking down on the swarm of green men coming out of the ship. "Don't tell us we're dealing with another alien invasion?"

"Another?" Barry asked. "Come on… You mean they're… ALIENS!" Barry shouted to the high heavens.

"Long story… At least it's not Chitauri."

"And these guys are prettier." Venom noted honestly.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

The next day, the news of what happened at the impact site had spread to the rest of the city. But the site of the impact had been closed off to the public. A.R.G.U.S. had been involved and she met Barry at the site who said she had to meet them and the rest of the team at the facility to tell them everything.

And their new foe had just been revealed to the rest of the team. Each one with a mixed reaction…

"Aliens." Cisco said giddily. "Are they Alien aliens or little green men?"

"Both. Sort of." Barry answered unsurely.

"You mean we're not dealing with the Chitauri?" Ruby started. "I really hoped it was the Chitauri doing the invading this time, I really want to fight one. Are you guys certain we're not dealing with the Chitauri? Why can't we deal with Chitauri? What does it take to get invaded by the Chitauri?!"

Reap sighed heavily. "This universe sucks."

"Stop jinxing the rest of the planet because you have weird fantasies!" Evelyn exclaimed at her sister.

"No offense, partner, but your sister's a walking omen at this point." Dusk told her host.

Caitlin turned to her mate. "Chitauri, wasn't that the alien species that attacked your home back on 616?"

"Yup. Not exactly a nice bunch, trust me. And these guys… They don't seem that bad." Seth shrugged.

"One day, you gotta tell us the whole story of that, Dad." Frankie told her father who nodded his assurance.

Lyla stepped forward, handing out files from a folder. "Since we learned of them, we've been calling them the Dominators."

"Okay, that is not the name of a species that comes in peace." Wally commented.

Seth looked at the photos of sightings of this Dominators species. Most of them weren't clear but did indeed show their unique physique.

"No, no, it- It's very aggressive." Harrison-19 added.

Iris got Lyla's attention with her question. "So, how long have you guys known about these "Dominators"?"

"Since the '50s." The A.R.G.U.S director announced.

The answer shocked them all, and Joe connected the dots. "That was them. Redmond, Oregon, the government tried to cover it up." Looks of shock faced him, especially raised eyebrows from the Snow-Furys. "What? I watch Syfy channel."

"We're definitely gonna dive back into that later." Seth stated. "Lyla, please continue."

She did just that and with the monitor showing video footage. "In 1951, they appeared under the same sort of circumstances." The video showed soldiers of that time period shooting at a ship with their guns. "A ship crash landed, little to no communication. We learned they were abducting humans to gather intel about us." The video showed the Dominators attacking and turning over the jeeps with their relentless attacks. "They attacked, and hundreds of soldiers lost their lives. Then for some inexplicable reason, they left. All contact had been lost, until three months ago when the DOD received this."

She pressed a key on her remote, an audio file pulled on the monitor and was played by the Cortex Media Player application. The recording started, a Dominator speaking. "We pose no threat, human inhabitants. Understanding is our purpose. Any action against us, as shown to us in the past, will prompt swift retaliation." The warning came to an end.

"So, when we discovered four ships heading towards Earth, we were concerned that it was happening all over again." Lyla revealed "One of them, obviously, landed here."

"Right. Cause we ain't got enough crazy going on here in Central City." Joe groaned sarcastically.

"Seriously, this city should get a new name, like, Crazy City." Ruby groaned.

"I'm still waiting for the crazy, you know." The host heard Reap state casually.

Caitlin turned to Lyla. "Do you know what they want?"

"They've ignored all attempts to communicate, but we do know, just like before, that the dropships contained reconnaissance teams sent here to gather more intel about us." Lyla responded, her words not easing the doctor's mind.

"Looking for our weaknesses?" Joe suggested.

Evelyn clenched her fist. "We can't let them do that. No matter what they're here for, they invaded our planets and don't seem like they're here for peaceful matters."

"Evelyn's right, we need to do something." Wally stated.

"We are." Lyla started.

"How so?" Seth asked suspiciously, not believing that just any organization could handle an alien invasion, or even their reconnaissance teams.

"Nearly every member state in the UN is in talks to coordinate a response." Lyla told the mutant. "Action is being taken."

"So, wait, you want us to just sit this one out?" Iris asked in disbelief.

"Fat chance of that happening, Lyla." Seth added adamantly. No way would he just stand by the sidelines and let these Dominators have their way with his city and their planet.

Barry added. "These things are like World War Z zombies, if they decide to attack, no military can stop them."

"Neither could you, even with your forces." The A.R.G.U.S. director gestured to the powered beings around the speedster. "Not if this team is alone, anyway. Just let us handle this for now." She moved to take back her flash drive from the monitor.

"Like I already said, "Fat chance of that happening.""

Removing her drive from the screen, Lyla looked between Seth and his daughters. "Seth, maybe there is something you and your daughters can do for us, maybe."

"What? My daughters?" Seth asked, readying a denial and refusal to whatever she's about to say.

"Dad, shut up." Ruby told her father bluntly. "What is it, Lyla?"

Lyla started. "Your daughters have the same abilities as you now, as I recall. And Evelyn's a teleporter of sorts, from what I remember during our last adventure with King Shark. We could use your abilities to evacuate people from any Dominators that might feel hungry and chow down on some people."

"Wow… That… That was dark and gloomy." Frankie admitted.

Lyla gave the ferrokinetic a dry look. "Honey, don't take it personally, but didn't you eat two people?"

Frankie whistled innocently, her "other" speaking at the same time. "Oh yeah, I forgot about those two. They tasted awful, got a bad stomachache from that."

"Speak for yourself, I woke up smelling like human intestines and cologne." Frankie countered.

"Can I count on you and your girls to help me and A.R.G.U.S. evacuate civilians?" Lyla asked.

"Definitely." Caitlin answered for her family, her daughters giving excited smiles and Seth looked at her assurance. "I'm positive you and the girls can handle this without getting into trouble. Just keep an eye on our troublemakers."

"Promise." Seth assured her.

"I'll be in touch." Lyla nodded her gratitude and walked out of the Cortex.

"Girls, get ready." Caitlin told her daughters, and they moved away.

Seth looked at Cisco. "Cisco, didn't you mention working on something that was similar to Matt's dimensional travelling device? Mind if we use it for easier transport?"

"It's in my workshop. Go in there and wait, I'll give you the YouTube tutorial." Cisco joked and the elemental moved towards the workshop.

Wally walked over to Barry. "So, the plan isn't to just stay still and do nothing, right? Not just evacuate people, right?"

"No." Barry assured the fledgling speedster.

"Barry, you heard Lyla, we can't do this, not with our numbers." Iris told her boyfriend.

"I don't plan to." Barry smirked.

It was time for the heroes to join forces once more… But their numbers this time would grow bigger…

X

(S.T.A.R. City)

Walking down the stairs and into an underground section of the building, Oliver Queen looked around for their target. "Anything?" He spoke into his earpiece, connecting with Felicity Smoak.

From her end at the archer's loft, Felicity said. "Zilch."

"He's gotta be here somewhere." Green Arrow entered the underground section.

"What are the chances this guy just decided that he'd had enough of this life? You know, no health insurance?" Felicity quipped as John Diggle, AKA Spartan, entered from a separate entrance. "He's sick of the crazy hours. I mean, bullets aren't actually that cheap and he loses them-"

Green Arrow pulled out an arrow, then fired it at their villain, Vigilante. The villain was in his standard suit, which is made of black leather and computerized orange goggles that bear a resemblance to ski goggles. With the various holsters on his suit, he was equipped with several weapons, ranging from firearms to close-range weapons like knives.

The arrow Oliver fired shot the gun out of Vigilante's hand. Releasing that one, the villain pulled out a much larger gun and opened fire on the two native heroes in succession. John moved away, avoiding some of them.

However, two bullets came right for Oliver and three bullets came for John. But thankfully something… or Someone needed the heroes of Star City.

Time slowed to a crawl and The Flash moved in. Before any of the bullets could connect with their forms, Barry got them out of them in an instant.

Time returned to normal and Vigilante continued firing his automatic, but saw that none of his bullets hit anything…

And that his targets had vanished in thin air…

X

(Oliver's Loft.)

WHOOSH

The doors swung open, and Barry sped into the loft, letting go of both John and Oliver. He pulled his cowl off just in time as John grunted and groaned, fighting a losing battle to keep his stomach contents inside. "I'm sorry, man, I-"

"It's okay!" John shouted, moving out into the balcony and pulled off his helmet. He released everything, vomiting over the balcony.

Oliver, with his hood pulled off, exhaled heavily to reorient himself after being flashed through his city by the Scarlet Speedster. Barry groaned. "Yeah…" As John continued vomiting. "Hey." He waved to the person coming through the doors.

"Hi, Barry." Felicity greeted the speedster.

Barry looked back to the archer. "So, who was that guy?" He referred to the man with heavy equipment and wearing ski goggles.

"That was Vigilante, and we nearly had him." Oliver stated.

"You nearly had him?" Barry skeptically asked. "Ollie, it looked like he was about to Scarface you guys just…"

Oliver gave him a stern look. "Barry, is there something that I can do for you, another evil speedster to help you with?"

Felicity finally noted John projecting vomit from the balcony.

"Uh, maybe, actually- That's not why I'm here." Barry sheepishly stated.

"What was so urgent you had to rush to Star City?" Felicity inquired.

"Aliens." Barry answered.

Olivia gave him an incredulous look. "Aliens?"

"Aliens." Barry nodded.

Wiping off his mouth, John walked back into the loft. "I swear to God, Barry, my life was somewhat normal before I met you." Thea, Oliver's sister, entered the loft and heard their conversation.

"You've met Seth, and you say that to me?" John stood by his words. Barry groaned, rubbing his head. "Hey, I know, I'm mean, I'm sorry. Look, okay, they're real, and they're already here, and from what Lyla told us, it does not appear to be for peace."

"Oh no." Felicity let out.

"Lyla knows about this?" John asked.

"Lyla, yeah, she came to-" Barry said. "Where you-" John moved away to contact his wife.

Oliver gave Felicity a look and she said. "I called Thea."

"Yeah, I, uh…" Thea held up a folder. "I came to have you sign this before City Council went into mutiny, but that can totally wait." She threw the file folder away. "Count me in."

"For what? I thought you retired?" Oliver asked his sister.

Thea sheepishly replied. "Yeah, but it's…" She scoffed. "It's aliens." Oliver was sure she wasn't gonna take no for an answer.

"Oh, that is so cute." Felicity sarcastically started. "You guys are just gonna get together and go fight some aliens? Have you lost your minds?! They're aliens, and there's only four of you? Five if you include Seth!"

"Actually, eight, Seth and his daughters are probably gonna join us too." Barry corrected the hacker. "And our numbers increase if we get Stein and, you know, all the others."

"They're calling themselves "The Legends."" Olivier informed the speedster.

"Egotistical, but catchy." Thea commented.

Barry looked to the Emerald Archer. "Do you know where they are?"

"I know where they were." Oliver replied.

X

(Earth-38, National City)

While the rest of their growing forces are gathering and moving into a secluded aircraft hangar, Barry and Cisco decide to get an alien of their own to help fight this Dominator invasion. Granted Klyntar-hosts are powerful, but perhaps a Kryptonian would be just as powerful.

Granted travelling to Earth-38 did take several attempts, opening up breaches in order to reach the right location on the Earth.

Inside of an apartment, a breach opened up and Barry sped out of it with Cisco. The viber took off his goggles and looked around the pristine apartment. "This better be the right place. Cause if this isn't the right place, someone's about to be real confused." He said, both of them turning away from the door.

Said door behind them opened up and a very pretty young woman with pale skin and blonde hair entered her apartment. She had several grocery bags around her arms and behind her glasses, her eyes expanded to their limits in surprise at the sight of the familiar person.

"Barry!" Kara Danvers, AKA Kara Zor-El of Krypton, and residential superhero Supergirl said in excitement.

"Hey." Barry awkwardly raised a hand.

"I knew it. I knew that was you." Kara stated, piecing together that he was responsible for all the strange portals popping out around the city during her latest superhero activities. She dropped off her bags by a nearby table. "I knew it was you in that weird space."

They hugged each other. "Sorry, it took a couple of tries to get here." Barry apologized before moving out of the hug. "This is my friend, Cisco." The speedster introduced the viber.

"Well, friend is a loose term, we work together." Cisco clarified before introducing himself. "Hi, Cisco." He shook hands with the Kryptonian. "I have to say it, this… Is a nice universe you got here."

"Thank you." Kara smiled widely.

"Do you- Okay, do you remember last year…" Barry sheepishly continued. "When I helped you and you promised to do the same for me?"

Kara got a determined look. "What are we up against?"

X

Inside of the aircraft hangar the teams are using for the duration of the alien invasion, the teams had gathered… Almost all of them, anyway.

And Felicity was overviewing them all. "Team Arrow is here." She noted her own team consisting of Oliver, Thea and John. She looked to the other team beside them. "Team Legends is here." She noted the team consisting of Sara Lance, Dr. Martin Stein, Ray Palmer, Jefferson Jackson, and Mick Rory. She walked towards Harrison-19. "Is that everyone?"

"I think so?" H.R. unsurely said.

"No, we got a few on reconnaissance right now. They should be back soon." Caitlin said, speaking of her family.

"Can't wait for them." Sara quipped. "Nate and Amaya are back watching The Waverider. The newbies." She simplified.

A breach opened near the crates. Barry, Cisco and Kara in her suit jumped out of it. The Kryptonian is clad in her blue suit with a red skirt and cape with a crest-like symbol embroiled with a large "S" on her chest. She wears tights and over-the-knee red boots.

Kara sighed happily and let out. "That was cool." Cisco smiled.

"Guys!" Barry said, moving closer to the gathering of heroes. "Thanks for coming."

Oliver looked around the speedster, confused as to where his alien companion was. "Barry, I thought you were bringing an alien?"

"And yeah…" Barry turned to the blonde alien beside him. "We did. Everybody, this is my friend, Kara Danvers…" Kara gave a closed nervous smile at the many strangers looking at her. "Or as she's known on her Earth, Supergirl."

Jax looked at her. "What makes her so super?"

"Well…" Barry wordlessly asked her to demonstrate.

And demonstrate she did as Supergirl flew into the air, displaying the ability of flight. She then showed another ability, heat vision as she projected blue energy beams from her eyes. Everyone watched as Kara burned the shield of House of El on the floor.

"I'm convinced." John admitted when she stopped firing.

Completely ecstatic, Felicity announced. "Best team-up ever!"

The gathering of heroes had appeared, but it wasn't complete…

…

…

Several minutes had passed, allowing Kara the time to learn the names of all heroes and their alter-egos.

"Okay, I think I have this." Kara said. She started with the native Star City team. "Oliver?" She pointed at him.

"Green Arrow." The archer stated.

"Digg." She pointed at John.

"Spartan." The ex-soldier stated.

"Thea." She pointed at the young woman.

"Speedy." The red archer stated.

"Okay." She moved to the other team of Legends. "And Sara?"

"White Canary." The former assassin stated.

"Jax and Professor Stein?" She pointed at the couple of metahumans.

""Firestorm/Firestorm"" The two stated in unison.

"Ray?" Kara looked at the scientist.

"Palmer, The Atom." The genius scientist told her.

"And… Mick." Kara faced the gruff man.

"Mmm?" The criminal removed his sandwich from his mouth, his mouth full. "Oh, Heat Wave." He declared.

"Uh, and…" Kara rushed to the computers with Iris, Felicity and Caitlin. "Iris, Caitlin and Felicity. Whoo! Yes! And you, you have cold powers but you can't use them?" She directed to Caitlin who shrugged.

"You have powers?" Felicity asked quickly.

"It's a long story." Caitlin replied, the hacker showing a pout of confusion. The doctor looked at her watch, curious about the whereabouts of her family.

Iris moved closer to her boyfriend; her eyes locked on Oliver. "Uh, Barry, so, Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow?" Barry nodded. "Oh, my God, he just got so much hotter." She revealed.

"Oh my God." Barry groaned.

Kara clapped her hands, taking in all the people who had moved closer. "That is a lot of people. But is this everyone?"

Caitlin opened her mouth about to deject her, but she didn't have to.

A breach opened up from the ceiling close to the entrance of the hangar. Everyone heard it bursting open and three forms came out of it, landing on the ground with a thud which was barely audible because of their screams.

Caitlin shot up from her chair, looking past the other heroes to see the three small forms landing on the ground. As she expected, she saw Magenta there, Frankie's alter-ego. Though the others were… She hasn't seen those before.

Standing up was a young person in a full body black suit with white veins, a striking resemblance to Venom. But it was different still. The person has a black hood on, white fangs are around the rim of the hood. At the collar of the hood, was a long slippery tongue sticking out. The shoulders had white fang-like spikes protruding from them. Under the hood, on the mask are white pseudo eyes with grey outlines. The sharp grey claws at her hands flex.

A familiar Vibranium Chakram blade in the person's right hand.

"No way…" Caitlin muttered. Her eyes drifted to the other person that stood up.

The person standing up next wore a black and white trenchcoat, a spiraling mix of black and white veins on either side of the coat. Instead of zippers on it, it had fangs instead. Under the coat is a gray body suit. Each shoulder has two serpentine wing-like protrusions from it, waving around in the air. The left wings are white, the right ones are black. Much like the others she has sharp white eyes.

On the left wrist is a large hardened gray bow with a black string.

The other heroes took in their forms, seeing that they were splattered in some blue substance.

Magenta looked up, the lower half of her mask splitting up to reveal her mouth. "Where is he?!"

"Clearly not back yet!" The hooded symbiote user exclaimed, her demonic voice coming out of her mouth that revealed itself when the lower half of her own mask opened up.

"He better come fast, or we're on the menu tonight." The symbiote user with the bow declared adamantly, taking out the device that Cisco gave her father.

The breach pulsated when Venom appeared out of it, snarling as he landed on the ground. Same blue substance on his daughters was all over his body, too. Seeing the huge demon-like being appear out of the portal, most of the heroes were about to jump into action. But Caitlin shouted. "Don't, they're on our side."

"They what?" Kara asked with a raised eyebrow.

Meanwhile Seth faced the breach. "Eclipse, close the breach."

Pressing the button on the device, Eclipse tried to close it. But it didn't do anything to actually close the breach. "Fuck, it's not closing!"

Venom growled at the breach. "Son of a bitch!" He pulled his sword out of his stomach. A clench of his hand and black flames enveloped the crystal blade. Thrusting it towards the breach, the black flames were released in a column of flames. The abyssal flames connected with the dimensional gateway.

Thanks to the volume and intensity of the flames, the portal was quickly incinerated in a matter of seconds.

As soon as it was turned into ashes, Seth finally fell down to a knee and groaned and panted heavily. His daughters fell to their knees as well, having similar reactions as their father. "You girls okay?" He asked, looking over his shoulder.

On her back on the ground, Frankie raised a hand and gave a weak thumbs up. "Define "okay.""

Ruby held her stomach in pain and panted in exhaustion. "Last fucking time, we're getting information from those A.R.G.U.S. clowns."

"Last time, we're working with them." Evelyn added, one of her serpentine wings wiping off sweat and dust from her mask.

"Seth, are you and the girls alright?" Caitlin asked in concern.

"We're fine, Mom." Evelyn told her mother. "Just… quite pissed off."

""Mom?"" Kara asked, directing it to Caitlin.

"Who are those guys?" Sara asked.

"Oh right, not all of you know them." Caitlin realized. "The big one's there is Seth, my boyfriend." The demon-like elemental waved his free hand while panting. "And the three girls are our daughters, Evelyn, Frankie and Ruby." Evelyn was the only one to wave her greeting.

"Daughters?!" Mick groaned. He turned to Caitlin, giving her a wide-eyed look. "What the hell came out of you?"

Caitlin rolled her eyes at the crude question. "They're adopted, but yeah, they're taking after their father. But didn't realize Ruby and Evelyn got new suits."

"Huh?" Cisco stepped forward a few feet, taking in their suits. "I don't recall making those sui- ARGH!" He screamed and jumped out of the way when suddenly Seth flung the device that he gave him earlier at him.

Venom snarled, getting back to his full height. "What the hell, Cisco? Didn't you say that damn thing would work just fine?!"

"And yet, when we use it out there, we can barely get it to open a breach!" Frankie shouted.

"We had to try four times to get the damn thing to work! WHILE BEING CHASED BY ALIENS!" Ruby bellowed.

Cisco picked up the device, checking it over. "Dude, you forgot to charge it."

"That was our job?!" Evelyn shouted in disbelief.

"Ruby put down the blade." Caitlin ordered her daughter who gave a shrug, not knowing what she's talking about. "Don't think I didn't notice, young lady. Blade down, or you're grounded till you leave for college."

Ruby groaned demonically, using her tongue to grab the falling Chakram blade from the sky. Cisco gulped. "Was she gonna throw that at me?" He began shivering like crazy.

"No, she wasn't." Caitlin told him, but he wasn't convinced. "Girls, get out of the suits and say hi to everyone."

The three girls flexed their backs, the symbiotes retracting into their bodies. The Star City team widened their eyes at the person under Eclipse's mask. Evelyn walked up to her father's side, patting his symbiote-covered back.

Ruby looked between the other heroes. Facing her mother, she asked. "Who are all the extras?"

"Extras?" Sara asked.

"Ruby, be nice." Caitlin told her daughter.

"Fine, Mom. Who are all these extra people?" Ruby asked.

"That's nice?" Thea asked and the gravity manipulator gave a shrug.

Sara chuckled. "Bet she's a popular one with her friends."

"That'd imply she actually had friends." Frankie sniped, walking past her sister.

Ruby gritted her teeth. "What was that, metal freak?" She lashed out her blade.

"Got a problem, gravity girl?!" Frankie lashed out her own arm, morphing it into a large battle axe.

"Enough of that!" Seth shouted, grabbing his two daughters by the backs of their clothes and held them up in the air with tendrils. The girls lowered their weapons as the symbiote around Seth pulled back into his body and he cracked his neck. "Can't leave you two alone for two seconds before you try and take yourselves out."

"Bet you're happy I'm not that like that, Dad?" Evelyn mused.

"Evelyn?" Oliver got the metahuman's attention. "Since when did you have powers?"

Evelyn didn't know what to say or do, being stared at by the three Star City natives. "Dad, what was that thing about strangers talking to you?" That statement confused the three heroes from Star City.

Facing his daughter, he reminded her. "If you don't know them, ignore them. If they follow you, you shadowport. If they still find you somehow, you-" Evelyn stopped listening, shadowporting out of the way. "And she jumps to shadowporting. Why does she even bother asking?"

"Don't know honey, but you know our daughter. Also, babe…" Caitlin pointed to his hands.

"I know." Seth held out his hands just in time for Evelyn to shadowport out of the air above him and fall into his arms.

"Hi, Dad." Evelyn chuckled.

"Honey, I love you but you gotta stop doing this. It's a weird habit, you know." Seth said, walking over to his mate with all of their daughters.

"Who drew an… "S?" on the ground?" Frankie asked, noticing the Kryptonian crest on the ground.

"More like burned." Ruby noted. "And Dad gives us hell for even contemplating graffiti."

"Hey, that was me." Kara waved her hand. "Kara Danvers, Supergirl on another planet."

"Oh, you're the alien that Barry met last year." Seth deduced. "Nice to meet you."

"Likewise… Seth, right?" Kara asked.

"Venom is the other name." Seth said.

"Evelyn?" Kara pointed to the metahuman in her father's arms.

"Eclipse." She waved her greeting.

"Frankie?" Kara pointed to the girl in Seth's tendril.

"Magenta." Frankie said with a wave.

"Ruby?" Kara pointed to the other girl in Seth's tendril.

"Genysis." Ruby revealed her new hero name.

"Cool… Any more people I should know about?" Kara asked.

"Not that I can recall, no." Seth said, letting go of Evelyn and his tendrils swung his other daughters away. Frankie and Ruby stuck to the crates with their feet, one crouching on top of it and the other sticking to the wall. "But maybe not graffiti all over the floor next time, Superwoman."

"Promise, and it's Supergirl." Kara clarified.

"Copy that." Seth nodded.

Mick chortled with a mouthful of meat. "Huh, forgot all about the guy with the worm swimming in his guts- MMJMMMPH!" Heat Wave didn't get to say anything more as a tendril wrapped around his head and lifted him up into the air, ensnaring him and muffling every word he might let out.

His sandwich fell to the ground.

"The hell is he doing here?!" Seth shouted, keeping the Heat Gun user suspended in the air.

"Dude, what are you doing?" Barry moved to his side. "He's on our side. He's with the Legends?"

"Legends?" Seth asked. "That's… Egotistical." He admitted, Sara raised an eyebrow. "And you really want the same guy who kidnapped Caitlin and hurt Cisco to join us?"

"Yeah, I mean Sara can keep him in check. Plus, they got Ray and Firestorm here too." Barry reasoned with the elemental.

"I know like two out of three of those names." Seth confessed, turning to the side and seeing Martin Stein. "Cait, you okay with this?" He asked his mate while keeping Mick suspended in the air.

"I mean, it's fine. It's in the past." Caitlin waved him off.

"If you're okay with it… Fine. But still." Seth's tendril swung Mick around before throwing him into a bunch of crates. Facing Sara, he said. "You the Captain of this crew?"

"Yup." Sara nodded.

"Sorry, not sorry for hurting your crewmate." Seth stated. Sara didn't seem to mind.

Oliver cleared his throat. "Okay, guys, we should probably get started."

Cisco turned on the slideshow on the six monitors over his head. "Okay." Barry took off his jacket, pointing to the screens which showed the silhouette of a Dominator. "These are the Dominators; we don't know much about them."

"Except, they're really strong." Kara pitched in, everyone in the hangar faced her. "I heard a lot of stories about them when I was a kid. They came to my planet before I was born, they did experiments on a lot of people, killed a lot more."

"Well, they're not the only ones with superhuman strength, I hear." Thea chimed in. "Barry says that you're more powerful than a locomotive?" Kara gave the speedster a dry look, wondering about that exaggeration,

"That's not all, they have telepathic powers." Seth announced.

"They do?" Caitlin asked her mate who nodded his confirmation.

"How do you know that?" Oliver asked skeptically. "Can you confirm that, Seth?"

Ruby gave the green archer a dry look. "Well, we just faced off against three teams of Dominators, and managed to fight our way back, so I think we got a pretty good understanding of their powers."

"Three teams?" Cisco asked.

"Lyla didn't say anything about you guys having to fight them, did she?" Caitlin expressed her concern and confusion.

"At first it was just evacuating people." Evelyn said. "But then Lyla contacted us and wanted us to check on their reconnaissance team."

"We went dark after agreeing to it, but it went sideways extremely quick… Cause it wasn't a reconnaissance team… It was three of them, and they turned into assault teams when they found us." Frankie admitted.

"They read your minds?" Caitlin recalled Olivia has the same powers, which explains Seth's assurance and understanding of the Dominators' powers.

Seth nodded. "Not exactly the nicest bunch, but we managed to stand our ground. Especially our girls."

"Never had a doubt in my mind." Caitlin proudly said.

"I'm sorry, are you and your daughters aliens or metahumans?" Kara asked.

"We're alien hosts to Klyntars. It's an alien species from Earth-616, my origin earth." Seth explained. "I'm a mutant, my Earth's version of a metahuman. Frankie and Evelyn are metas, and Rubs is an enhanced being."

"Awesome… Awesome." Kara was glad she hadn't brought Winn over; he'd go bananas at this gathering of heroes.

"Seth?" Caitlin got her mate's attention. "You think we could use some extra backup, maybe?"

"Got that covered, babe." Seth gave a thumbs up. But depending on how long it'd take for them to actually come, that was a whole other story.

"We should use your daughters as stand-ins for training." Oliver casually declared.

"Come again?" Seth growled. Caitlin gives the archer a cold glare.

While groaning in pain, Heat Wave asked. "Since when was Robin Hood calling the shots?" The archer gave him a glare.

"What, I think, Mick is trying to say is, it would be nice if we knew who was in charge around here." Jax clarified.

"Maybe we should take a vote…" Ray suggested. "Choose a leader. Someone we can all trust."

"Well, I trust Oliver and Seth. They got my vote." Cisco announced.

"Thanks, Cisco, but I'm gonna hold back a smitch and not leader on this one." The mutant said.

"Appreciate that, Cisco, but Barry put us all together, it should be him." Oliver said.

Barry looked at him for assurance and the Star City hero nodded his confirmation. "Fair enough." Cisco accepted.

"Queen, we're gonna go back on that entire "you using my kids as a stand-ins for training"- thing." Seth told the archer who shot him a glare.

"Okay… Um…" Barry clapped his hands, standing in front of everyone. "Cool, all right, well, I guess as team leader, first thing to do is… start out by… Um…"

"Doing a test run." Oliver whispered.

"Let's do a test run, yeah. Let's do a test run." Barry stated as though it was his idea. But he struggled to continue.

"This is how he usually is?" Reap asked her host.

"It's a miracle he's still alive and kicking." Ruby said.

Oliver continued. "Against Seth's girls."

"Against Seth's girls. All right?" Barry said. "Test run against Seth's girls."

"Are we just supposed to pretend like we don't hear him?" Sara wondered.

"I'm definitely not gonna do that." Seth said. "No one's gonna be fighting my daughters, I'll take their place."

"Oh, come on, dad!" Ruby exclaimed, not loving that idea. "Stop hogging all the fun."

"It's training, Seth." Oliver told the mutant. "We need the best sparring partners."

Seth was about to argue, but Caitlin got his attention. "Seth, I honestly think it's best if the girls take this one."

"What? Why?" Seth said in shock, not believing her words. Their daughters believed them, and they shot their mother loving and grateful looks.

Caitlin reminded him. "You're still exhausted from destabilizing yourself, Seth. You need to take it easy, especially after brawling with three Dominator assault teams. Trust our daughters to do this."

Frankie elbowed his arm, garnering his attention. "You could have killed yourself with that plan, Dad. It's time for us to stick up for you. Come on, let us handle this."

"Trust us. We can handle this." Ruby added.

Evelyn cracked her hands as well. "We can handle this, dad. Take it easy."

Hearing his beloved and his daughters try to convince him, Seth was unable to counter them. "If you're sure about this, then fine. Go ahead."

"Just don't kill them." Caitlin said.

"We'll go easy on them, Caitlin. Don't worry." Sara assured the doctor.

"I was talking to my daughters." Caitlin clarified sheepishly, getting wide eyes from Sara.

"For real?" The former assassin asked.

"They're basically cannibals at this point." Caitlin deadpanned, getting shocked eyes. "Like I said, they take after their father."

"Hey!" Seth asked in hurt.

"Okay? Look alive, we're training to fight aliens, by fighting… Alien hosts, who're trained metahumans and enhanced… so… Do it. Just suit up!" Barry let out, they moved to their suits and weaponry.

"Nice…" Ruby smirked wickedly.

"You just wanted to fight them, huh, Rubs?" Caitlin asked, stepping over to her gleeful daughter. "Love the name, Genysis."

"New symbiote, new powers… New beginning. Feels like I should have had this name a long ago, maybe when you adopted me, Mom. New beginning, new life and all that." Ruby admitted.

"Aren't you a big softie?" Caitlin teased, kissing the top of her daughter's head.

"Guys." Barry waved the girls, Seth, Oliver and Kara over. "Gotta admit, I'm excited about this training."

"If or when the training turns sideways and my daughters get more than just scratched, I will intervene." Seth stated adamantly, not caring if he ruined an important training session or not.

"Okay." The speedster accepted, turning his eyes to Oliver and Kara. "I was excited about the two of you guys meeting each other. Yeah, Oliver was the first person to train me."

Kara smiled widely. "Really? Well…" She faced the archer. "You did a really good job."

"It's cause I didn't hold back, I shot him." Oliver bluntly said.

"Oh yeah, dad said you whined a bit about that for a while." Frankie stated.

"No… No, I mean, I didn't whine." Barry stammered.

Oliver faced the three girls. "You might be kids, don't hold back either."

"Um, are you sure about that?" Kara asked for the three girls. "I mean, they seem pretty strong and we can't just let them hurt your friends."

"These people, my friends need to understand this isn't gonna be easy." Oliver said, he turned to the girls again. "Don't hold back, especially against me."

Ruby chuckled to herself, getting the archer's attention. "Sorry, but is that supposed to scare us into submission? To listen to you. I don't even know if you're actually serious or if you're dumb as a bag of bricks."

"Excuse me?" Oliver asked.

Frankie continued. "The three of us have literally been kidnapped by a serial killer, dealt with powers that are beyond our understanding and we've fought horrible beings since before putting on our suits. We've even fought villains from different Earths and are still alive."

"And not too long ago, we were close to dying from fighting some of the worst villains of Earth-616." Evelyn added. "To sum it up, you're gonna have to try harder than that to scare us."

"Also, for the record…" Frankie faced him with a serious look. "We never planned to go easy on any of you. Wouldn't be training if we did."

Oliver moved away, silenced by the three girls' determination.

"Who pissed in his breakfast?" Dusk wondered.

"People, anyone who didn't like him." Evelyn quipped.

"Did he not like me?" Kara wondered, asking the people who know him better.

"No, he's…. He's like that with everyone, it's… He'll warm up to you." Barry told her before walking away.

"Trust me, it's gonna take time to get used to that guy." Seth told the hero from Earth-38.

While the heroes spoke to one another, Iris walked past them and made her way to the entrance with long strides. She held a look of anger and concern when seeing her little brother Wally about to walk into the hangar. "Wally, what are you doing here? You can't just show up and think you're gonna train with everyone else."

"Why not?" Wally inquired of his sister.

"Because we need to test you more." Iris stated.

Wally countered. "H.R. said that my results were great, he said I'm good to go."

"I don't care what H.R. said. You are not ready." Iris countered.

"I am ready." Wally argued with his sister.

"Wally." She said in frustration, gesturing to the hangar to empathize with her next point. "Everyone here has been doing this for a long time. And this is gonna be the hardest challenge they've faced." Wally listened as she continued. "Fighting Alchemy, Anti-Venom or Savitar, or aliens isn't something you just show up and try. If you screw up, you could die. Do- Do you get that?" The new speedster sighed, speeding away. "Great."

X

At their computer station, Felicity and Cisco were overlooking the satellites and their maps, trying to get anything on the Dominators.

With a sigh, Cisco said. "Satellite's not picking anything abnormal."

"No." Felicity agreed, scratching her eyes.

"I don't know if we're gonna find any Dominators this way." Cisco admitted. He rolled over to another set of computers.

"Hey, I, um…" Felicity followed the viber in her own wheelchair. "Just- I couldn't help but notice things are a little bit tense? You don't need to be able to "vibe" to figure that out."

Cisco bluntly counters. "Okay, so, apparently, it's, like, illegal to be mad at Barry, but guess what, he screws up just like the rest of us." He gave a hollow chuckle. "If you think I'm bad, then you should have seen Seth and Caitlin, they practically threatened him every time he blinked."

"Yeah, I get that, he makes mistakes like us, too, and when he does, he feels bad like the rest of us, too." Felicity stated.

Turning in his chair, Cisco faced the hacker. "Felicity, he took it upon himself to change the timeline. And because of it, my brother… Was killed." Felicity watched as he turned back to face the computer. "So, there's no amount of feeling bad that could ever make up for that."

Seth walked past the two computer experts and went to Martin Stein. "Stein, good to see you again."

"Ah, Dr. Fury, what a pleasure to see you amongst the living again." The elder half of Firestorm declared, shaking hands with the mutant. "What you did last time… It was incredible, you saved the entire world."

"Likewise, old friend. One thing I regret about that is Ronnie dying when it happened." Seth said sadly.

"Ronald was willing to lay down his life for the world and people he loves, just as you, Dr. Fury." Martin told the elemental.

"Gray." Jax got the professor's attention, nodding to the Scarlet Speedster conversing with the emerald archer, both of them in their suits.

"Ah, yes." Martin walked towards the speedster with his other half following him.

"Barry, before we start training there's something you need to hear." Jax told him and the mutant's ears perked up, intriguing him.

Martin added, seeing Oliver and Seth join their conversation. "A message that would be better if we could share with you in private."

"All right, I'll step away." Oliver said.

"I won't." Seth bluntly said.

"No, no, it's fine. Both of you can stay." Barry said.

"All right. But no one else." Martin stated.

"Sounds like we need to make it quick." Seth noted, looking around and seeing that everyone was busying suiting up and checking their equipment. The five of them moved into the trailer, closing the door behind them. Martin took a seat in his chair, taking out an iPod-like device. "Gonna play music for us, Stein? Did hear you have a great voice."

"Unfortunately, that is not on the agenda today, Dr. Fury." The professor said as he pressed the play button on the device, playing the audio file he and Jefferson found on the Waverider.

"A war is coming, Captain Hunter, and at some point, you're gonna be called back to Central City to fight it." A voice spoke. "So you need to know that while you and your team have been in the Temporal Zone, I made a choice that affected the timeline. Cost me a lot, almost everything. As you know, whenever you alter the past, those changes affect the present and get compounded in the future. When you return, you will be in the new timeline I created, where everyone's past and everyone's future has been affected, including yours. When you come back, don't trust anything or anyone, not even me."

"That's some warning." Seth thought.

"Where did you get that from?" Barry inquired the Firestorm pair.

"We found it in a secret room inside The Waverider." Jefferson answered. "It was sent by you, 40 years from now."

"Time-travel again? Fucking hell, can't we just deal with some minor issue instead." Seth groaned.

"Forty years from now? Barry, what the hell does this mean?" Oliver inquired.

Barry gulped. "It means I screwed things up when I changed the past."

"What did you do?" Martin asked.

"Barry went back in time and stopped Thawne from murdering his mother." Seth answered for the speedster. "But it had some dire consequences, to say the least."

"I created a timeline where she's alive." Barry elaborated. "It's called "Flashpoint," and I lived in it for a few months, until I realized that I made a big mistake, and I tried to reset the timeline to put things back to how they were supposed to be but…"

"But it didn't work?" Wally assumed.

"No." Barry said.

"Wow, Barry, that's…" Oliver didn't know how to continue.

"So, what's changed since you did this?" Martin inquired, hoping the list wasn't too long.

"Cisco's brother is dead, Caitlin has powers, Seth and his daughters were almost erased from existence, the portals from Seth's Earth have reopened and their villains are pouring in now, Diggle has a son now instead of a daughter." Barry said.

"What? John had a daughter?" Oliver asked in disbelief and shock.

"I didn't just screw up my life, man, I screwed up everybody's lives, and apparently everybody's lives in the future." Barry noted. "I felt like, when these aliens got here, that finally something had happened I didn't cause, and maybe I could make up for everything I had done to everybody, but I…"

"Dr. Fury, how are you and your daughters still here? You are not native to this universe, except for young Frankie." Martin inquired of the elemental.

"The Speed Force saved our asses before he reset the timeline, thankfully. It saved us from being erased." He said.

"I think we should be on the up and up with everybody. We gotta tell 'em." Jefferson suggested.

"We're going up against a bunch of aliens, and you wanna tell people that their lives might be affected by time travel?" Oliver inquired. "One sci-fi problem at a time."

"For once I agree with Queenie." Seth admitted. "We tell people, they're not gonna be able to trust us and they will not work with us then."

"You made a mistake, Barry, it's part of the job." Oliver told the speedster. "We can't deal with it today." He left the trailer, followed by Jefferson and then Barry.

Seth was about to follow them but saw Martin still in his seat, wearing a disappointed look. "You got something on your mind, Stein?"

"Seth, let me ask you this and please be honest with me." Martin looked at him, awaiting his response. Seth nodded his response, confirming that his next words would be spoken with honesty. "How do you feel about Barry's… Lapse in judgement?"

"Honestly, at first I was clouded." Seth leant against the wall next to the entrance. "I was clouded by my anger, and I couldn't stop hating Barry for almost erasing my daughters from existence. Honestly, I'm pretty certain I would have tossed him around like a ragdoll if he had actually done that. What about you, Stein? What are your thoughts on his decision?"

"Since we last saw each other, Seth, I've joined the Legends, and we are a group of unlikely allies who now operate together to protect the timeline. That was the mission that Rip Hunter gave us as a team when recruiting us." He stood up from his chair. "And I, along with my team and my new captain, aim to uphold that promise to Rip Hunter."

"To each their own." Seth moved out of the trailer.

Martin gave a brief nod before walking to the exit himself. But he came to a stop when he felt a migraine hitting his head. It was another awful one, but it came with a series of visions. Some of a little baby … Then of an older child… Then of a teenager…

The visions confused and scared him, wondering if this meant if something happened to his wife.

At that moment, Caitlin stepped into the trailer and found Martin Stein standing silently and by himself. "Professor Stein, are you okay?" She asked in concern.

"I'm not sure." He responded when turning to face the young doctor. "Ms. Snow, while I realize your daughters need you here, would you mind accompanying me to my home? There's something I need to do."

"Sure." Caitlin smiled.

"Are you certain? I realize your daughters would need you here if something happened, not to mention your vast medical expertise." Martin said.

"It's fine, Dr. Stein. Plus, the girls are about to have some fun of their own. Doubt they'll notice me helping you out." Caitlin assured the professor.

"If you're certain." Martin accepted and the two walked out of the trailer.

X

"Anytime today people!" Ruby exclaimed impatiently, tabbing both the ground and her forearm as she waited for them to get into their suits so they could begin training. "We got an alien invasion around the corner, one we'd actually like to stop in the near future, or this week."

"Wow, this girl's impatient." Sara quipped, donning her White Canary suit.

"Lady, you got no idea." Evelyn said, standing beside her sisters. "But are you guys ready?"

"We are." Oliver noted as he and Barry stepped over to the other heroes who've readied themselves consisting of Thea, Mick, Ray, John and Supergirl. Barry stood back. "And remember-"

"Yeah, yeah, broken record: No holding back or you're gonna throw a tantrum till we give you your bottle." Frankie said.

"HAHA!" Mick grunted. "None of them like you Queenie."

"Like you're such a peach." Ruby sarcastically told the Heat Gun user.

Seth chuckled from on top of a crater. "Girls, remember if things go out of hand, I will jump in without hesitation."

"That will not be necessary, Seth." Oliver told the mutant.

"Not your choice, Queen." Seth countered. "My daughters, I'll jump in if I have to. No questions asked."

"Dad, we got it, if things get too fun, you're the party pooper." Ruby rolled her eyes. Seth chuckled and let out a sigh, giving them the go-ahead with a wave of his hand. Turning back to the other heroes, the gravity manipulator saw that all of them had readied themselves and suited up. "Finally ready?"

"Are you three sure about having so many of us as opponents, girls?" Kara asked worriedly.

"Nah, it's nothing." Evelyn assured the Kryptonian.

"Besides…" Frankie's clothes began to shift and morph while cracking her fists. "We need this more than you guys do."

"What does that mean?" John asked, putting on his helmet.

"Enough talking, let's get on with this show!" Mick impatiently shouted, pulling on the trigger of his Heat Gun to empathize his point, his weapon charging up.

"About time you said something smart." Ruby growled.

"So you ready for this?" Thea felt like she should ask them.

"Question you should be asking yourself…" Evelyn adamantly said, her clothes morphing into gray symbiotic mass and engulfing her entire being as she started to emit both light and darkness from her within. Her gray body suit formed underneath. The symbiote spread to her sides, forming a black and white trenchcoat, white fangs sprouted along the rim where the zipline should be. Spiraling black and white veins spread over her. From her shoulders sprouted two serpentine wing-like protrusions, the left wings shining brightly with light and the right wings darkening with darkness coursing through them.

Her blue eyes became enveloped by the mass, giving her sharp white eyes. A black circle formed in the middle of her forehead with luminous light, its opposite onyx darkness outlining the moon. The darkening brilliance went to the two sides of the moon, spreading their positions and took the forms of two crescent moons on either side of the full moon. Each crescent moon pointing their own way, left and right. Her light formed a single dot under her right eye, enlarging a second later and forming a crescent moon-like symbol under her optical organ.

Lashing out her left hand, a gray bow formed instantly around her wrist with a black string.

Immediately Ruby became enveloped by her symbiote, forming a full body black suit with white veins spreading over her entire form. Her hood came over her head, white fangs protruding along the rim of the hood. From the collar of her hood, a long slithering tongue lashed out and, akin to a snake's tongue sniffing the air of a new environment, smelled the air. White fang-like spikes protruded from her shoulders. Her fingers morphed into grey claws.

When her eyes became enveloped, they formed into white pseudo eyes with grey outlines. The lower half of her mask split right open, revealing the maw of a ravenous beast with thousands of fangs. A flex of her hand, and she brought out her Chakram blade, using her gravity manipulation to hold it up.

Frankie flexed her back, her clothes morphing into pinkish miasma which spread over her entire body uncontrollably. While covering her body, a series of black and white veins followed and spread over her symbiote-enveloped body. The symbiote engulfed her head. White eyes formed on her face, the same spirals of black and white veins coming over her eyes. Fingers turned into claws when the miasma covered her hands in the same patterns as with her feet. Much like her sister's mask, the lower half of her "mouth" tore open, showing a maw filled with razor-sharp fangs and a long serpentine rose-red tongue shooting out of it.

Clenching her hands, plates of rusty metal came flying towards her. The metal plates spiraled around the ferrokinetic, breaking into pieces and swarmed around her right arm. The metal wrapped around her appendage, bending to her ferrokinetic powers and tightly wrapped around it like armor. The sharpest pieces of metal she could get, embed her into knuckles like spikes. Tendrils sprouted from her back, lashing out and swiping the air violently. Her left arm morphed into a weapon of its own. A second later, it was now a large sword with black and white veins had taken the place of her appendage.

Magenta snarled at the heroes who flinched at their appearances. "Question you should be asking yourselves…"

Genysis continued with a sick and wicked smile. "Are you ready to dance with demons?"

"Enough talk!" Mick shouted, rushing till he stood in front of the human heroes and pulled the trigger. A column of bright flames came flying towards the three symbiote-users.

"Magenta, what was that plan about dealing with fire?" Genysis asked.

"This!" Magenta jumped in front of her sisters, raising her armored right arm before thrusting it into the ground. The blow to the ground was enhanced by both her ferrokinetic powers and her symbiote powers, opening up a hole and pushing up several metal pieces and dirt up like a geyser. The flames connected with the dirt geyser and shielded the three girls.

"That's a… New one." Kara admitted in surprise. Mick retracted his gun.

A burst of shadows erupted above the burning dirt geyser and Eclipse pulled back two arrows of hardened symbiote miasma. Her light and darkness embraced the two projectiles before she released them, letting them fly at superspeed.

Kara saw the two arrows, thrusting out her eyes and shot them down with heat vision. No one expected the two arrows to explode, causing a bright light akin to a flashbang blowing up. Everyone groaned as the light came over them.

While they were distracted, Genysis appeared behind them and swung her blade. But it was blocked by White Canary who crossed her clubs to block the Chakram Blade. Sara faced the young girl. "Not bad. But it's gonna take more than that to get the drop on us, kiddo."

"No offense, Sara. But you guys aren't our goals, our goals are bigger and worse than you guys. You're the training partners this time!" Ruby shouted, her long tongue from her collar lashing out and wrapped around her stomach.

Sara tried to knock it away, but the gravity manipulator used her superstrength to easily lift the former League of Assassins assassin and swung her around before throwing her away.

She landed on the ground with a thud. Oliver and Thea, while Sara got up, jumped in front of her and shot their arrows. But they stopped mid-air when Magenta had her hand pointed at the projectiles. The ferrokinetic swung her hand, throwing them away.

Magenta appeared in front of her sister, facing the two opposing archers and the assassin they're shielding. "Need a hand?" She quipped, asking her sister.

"Screw you." Genysis' ears perked up at the sound of thrusters, turning upwards to see The Atom hover beside Kara. "Which do you want?"

"We got Kara." Magenta referred to Supergirl. "You take these three."

"Guess that leaves me with Ray, Heat Wave and Spartan?" Eclipse asked, appearing beside her sisters in a smog of shadows. They nodded. "Smart, Kara's probably the biggest threat now."

"She's nothing compared to the Sinister Seven…" Ruby growled. "Let's go!"

Using her sister's tongue as a springboard, Magenta jumped off it and into the air. Kara snapped to her with surprise on her face, and crossed her arms over her face blocking the kick that came for her. Using her shielded vision to her advantage, Frankie flexed her claws and began slashing the Kryptonian violently and ferociously.

Supergirl managed to push her off of her with her legs, then used her cape to shield herself from the next wave of slashes. Magenta roared, using Kara's cape to jump into the air and stick to the ceiling. Clenching her right hand, she forced the metal around her arm to unbend and form a metal sphere. She hurled the ball from above the Earth-38 hero.

Kara, displaying her super hearing and superstrength, spiraled in the air and kicked the metal sphere away with ease. She flew towards the ferrokinetic who used the ceiling to backflip, avoiding her incoming attacks. Their fight continued on the ceiling.

Oliver fired off arrows in rapid succession, each one of them blocked by Ruby's Chakram blade and her tongue. Seeing Speedy about to join the rapid-fire herself, Genysis clenched her fist and yanked it back. With her gravity manipulation, she yanked the bows out of their hands and threw them behind her.

"That's not nice." Thea quipped, retrieving her double-edged sword that is strapped to her back.

"Want nice, ask your brother to be your sparring partner." Ruby countered, confusing the Star City heroes as she wrapped her long tongue around her right arm. "We're not here to be nice."

"Sounds like my kind of party." Sara joked, combining her two expendable batons into a bo-staff. She spun the staff around herself before pointing it at the symbiote-bearer.

Taking the challenge, the former HYDRA assassin sprung to action and rushed towards the Legends Captain, thrusting her tongue-wrapped fist forward to meet the incoming staff strike. Her fist met the staff and Ruby put her plan to the test.

The tongue that she had around her arm unwrapped itself and wrapped around Sara's form and her weapon. Like it was a rope, Ruby pulled on her tongue and swung White Canary around in the air before throwing her away.

Sara was thrown into a couple of crates, but got back up and rushed towards the gravity manipulator. While her attention was turned to the Waverider Captain, Ruby felt Oliver and Thea run towards her from behind.

"That Queen guy doesn't know much about symbiotes, does he?" Reap questioned.

"Apparently." She thought back as she jumped backwards, jumping over the Queen siblings and morphed her left arm into a hardened saber. Landing on the ground, she used her Chakram blade to block Thea's sword, her saber blocked Sara's bo-staff and used her tongue to stop Oliver's fists.

Oliver gave the girl a glare. "Thought you weren't gonna hold back?"

"Piss off!" Ruby shouted, pushing the three heroes off of her and jumped backwards. "Try this!" She shouted, slamming her palm down on the ground.

Seth watched from afar as his daughter displayed another skill unlike before.

The ground under her cracked and suddenly it looked as though the three Star City natives… They struggled to hold their footing and seemed to be pulled towards a direction. It wasn't just them, the ground underneath them began to crack and pieces of if flew towards Ruby.

"She's pulling everything to her like a singularity." Seth noted, intrigued by his daughter's new move which seemed to increase its gravitational pull, to the point where the Star City natives have to try and grab the ground in fear of being pulled to her.

"Instead of directing her powers inwardly, she's generating a field that forces everything to her with immense strength." He noted.

"Before she couldn't do this without hurting herself. But with Reap's healing abilities, her worries of harming herself have been lowered and she can now use the Gravitonium in her to their max." Venom noted.

"Yeah… But…" Seth trailed off skeptically with worry.

Oliver, Sara and Thea finally lost their footing and were pulled towards the former HYDRA assassin who spiraled around in the air, kicking the three heroes away. They got back on their feet and Ruby charged them and resumed their fight.

Dodging a stream of flames, Eclipse pulled back another arrow imbued with light and darkness before releasing it at Heat Wave. Mick avoided it but grimaced when the arrow easily pierced into the ground. "Kid means business."

Spartan pulled his trigger, shooting at the girl who used her serpentine wings to block out the lead bullets. "Does this surprise you? You've seen how their father is."

"He's a peach." Ray quipped, flying towards them and fired a pair energy blast from his gauntlets.

Unwrapping her wings from around her, Eclipse showed a new ability of her own. Her two upper wings on both shoulders swung up, the tip of them splitting open and revealing mouths on each of them. Inside of the mouths, blasts of light came flying out of the left wing and darkness blasts came out of the right one.

The two elemental attacks canceled out The Atom's energy beams when connecting with them. Evelyn formed a large sword of light quickly when John came to attack her in close combat. He tried to swing his fists for her, even lashing out his legs to try and get her.

But Eclipse used her sword to divert them and reflect the incoming strikes. Moreover, she managed to push him back with swings of her serpentine wings.

"Girl's tough." John noted, holding his side in pain.

"Screw tough, we just have to roast her!" Mick shouted, blasting a column of flames at the girl.

Shadowporting to avoid the flames, Evelyn landed on the ground and reeled back her wings, opening mouths on all four of them. She stood up, forming arrows and pulled them back on her bow.

In her own fight, Ruby reeled back her Chakram blade while challenging all of her gravitational powers. The ground under her cracking and fissuring. The three Star City heroes stopped and watched as he

The ceiling was no different from the ground, creaking and breaking into pieces as Frankie was about ready her next attack for Kara.

"That's not good." Lightning sparked around the mutant's body, wind wrapped around him, and he stood up on the crater.

"Seth, what's wrong?" Barry asked, seeing the elements gather around him.

The speedster's words barely reached his ears, he focused on his daughters. "What are you gonna do? You can't stop all three?"

"Don't have to worry about that." Seth muttered, his "other" already feeling the familiar presence of those two.

The very moment his three daughters were about to release their attacks, Seth jumped off the crater, causing it to crack into two.

One other being flew into the hangar in a black flash with blue blazes behind him. Another calmly walked in, leaning against the hangar entrance and snapped her fingers.

Before Frankie even noticed it, Seth appeared behind her and grabbed onto the wrist of her outstretched clawed hand, putting a halt to her attack that might have left Kara with more than a scratch. Magenta looked over her shoulder, surprised to find her father. "Dad?" Her claws returned to their normal length.

The moment Ruby was about to attack with her Chakram blade, she was stopped by a pinkish energy cube that formed around her. "What the-" She was cut off when the cube lifted her up and limited her movements. "What's this shit?"

Eclipse released her arrows and the beams of both light and darkness from her serpentine wings. Ray, Mick and John got worried about them. But someone jumped in front of them, lashing out their hands and fired off two large beams that cancelled out the opposing attacks.

"That's enough now, Frankie." Seth told his daughter. "Thanks for stopping Rubs down there." He looked under him, looking at the person by the hangar entrance.

"Don't mention it." The other heroes turned to the voice and saw the familiar woman walking in calmly. She has long magenta hair and azure-blue eyes. Her body is clad in a black shirt with a red leather jacket over it and dark blue jeans.

Showing a smirk, Olivia Fury-Start faced her niece she held in a cube of her making. "Really didn't think I'd have to put you on a timeout just when I arrived, kiddo. Can't stay out of trouble, Rubs?"

"Shut up." Ruby sulked with a pout, averting her eyes from her psychic aunt.

"Love the new suit." She said. "Honey, how did it go on your end?"

Eclipse turned to the person who stopped her attack, seeing that it was an armored man in a black hooded cape with lapis-blue linings, which shine with light. The man underneath had a familiar mask akin to a knight's helmet with blue light coming out of the visor. His armor underneath the cloak is pitch-black and lapis-blue.

The mask opened up and the man underneath showed his familiar face, one with dark-red hair and emerald-green eyes. Matt Stark faced his niece who was wide-eyed. "Hey Evelyn."

"Uncle Matt?" She said in shock, lowering both her wings and her bow. "Why are you here?"

"Happy to see you too, kiddo." Matt chuckled, walking over to his niece and ruffled her head. She giggled in response to his action. "Your old man asked for some backup. Something about… "Another freaking alien invasion", that was your words, right, Seth?" He asked, looking upwards to meet the elemental's eyes.

"Got it in one, Matty." Seth released his hold on Frankie's wrist and jumped down from the ceiling. Frankie followed her father and Kara lowered herself to the ground as well.

"Sorry, Dad." Frankie apologized, her aunt lowering her sister and releasing her out of the cube.

"Yeah, sorry." Ruby said as well.

"Sorry." Evelyn followed up.

"Considering what you three have been through, you have nothing to apologize for, girls." Seth assured his daughters, the three of them retracting their suits.

"What have they been through?" Olivia asked, also noting that now all three of her nieces have symbiotes. Last time it was only one of them and now they all have, which confused her. Hearing small clattering sounds coming from her husband, she faced him and saw pieces of his gauntlets falling to the ground, breaking off of his armor. "Matt, your armor."

"What the hell?" Matt asked, turning his eyes downwards to his arms. More pieces on the backs of his arms broke off. Piecing together possible reasons for his gauntlets to break down, he came to the conclusion in the form of his niece, Evelyn. "I countered all four of the beams and her arrows. But I must have missed two of her beams, they must have been deflected and hit my gauntlets instead."

"So sorry Uncle Matt." Evelyn said.

Matt gave her a calm smile. "Don't you worry about a thing, Evie. Compared to the things your father and your aunt here even, it's small things."

"Hey!" Olivia elbowed her husband's armored side, making him give her a look while using nanites to fix his arms.

"Pretty sure, you three inferring was not part of the arrangement, Seth?" Oliver asked rhetorically.

Before the elemental could say anything, Olivia stepped forward and told the green archer. "Listen… Uh… What was his name again?" She asked her brother.

Sara chuckled at the psychic's words while the elemental mutant answered his sister. "Oliver Queen."

"Right, that." She remembered the unpleasant archer she worked with last year. She turned back to him. "Listen, Queen. Obviously, my nieces are going through some stuff, and they were willing to channel all of their aggression into turning you and the rest here into mincemeat. So, how about you change your tone just a scooch and thank us for stepping in when we did, or I can personally pick up where my darling nieces left off and turn you, your awful personality and your leather-thingy suit into pureed garbage which I'm gonna throw at the aliens we're dealing with. Huh? How does that sound? Oh, and if you don't thank us within the next seconds, I'm sure my husband will happily blow a hole through your already empty noggin. And you know, he's always packing." Her eyes shined with pinkish energy, displaying her spiking anger.

"…Wow… She… She has a way with words." Kara noted in surprise.

"That's my baby sister for you." Seth noted.

"Your sister?!" Kara screamed in surprise.

"Babe, I thought we agreed you wouldn't use me to threaten people." Matt reminded his wife.

Snapping her attention to him, Olivia countered. "Any and all promises I may or may not have made while pregnant does not count."

"How did that go by the way? You blow a gasket or something?" Sara wondered.

"You have no idea." Matt shivered, remembering what happened when his wife finally went into labor. The entire facility practically shook.

Afraid of what the married mutants might do, Oliver obliged to her wishes. "Thank you… you three."

"You're very much welcome. Now…" Olivia clapped her hands. "I need to hug my adorable nieces now. Girls?" She opened her arms wide open, and the three girls immediately hugged their aunt. "That's right, I missed you three too."

"It's good to see you two again." Seth noted, fist-bumping the nanite mutant. "I've missed you."

"Likewise." Matt nodded.

"But… Seriously, couldn't you two have come earlier?" Seth got close to Matt's face, breathing angrily into his face. "What, you lose your way here or what, scrapyard?"

Clenching a hand, Matt countered. "Maybe it would have helped if you actually sent the damn coordinates for this hangar, you damn elemental pest. You don't know how to use a computer or what?"

"Say that again, scrapyard!" Seth seethed with rage, his body emitting smoke.

"You got a problem with me, parasitic bastard!" Matt shouted, his right arm forming a long energy blade.

"Are they always like that?" Kara asked, directing her words to Barry.

"Yup." He answered to her surprise.

"Okay, down boys." Olivia told them as she unwrapped her arms from her nieces. "Where's Caity?"

"She's helping Professor Stein right now." Seth answered.

Walking closer to her brother, the psychic asked. "Sounds like we have some time for you to explain what has happened while we were gone."

"I do yeah." Seth looked at Kara. "Kara, can you take over as the training partner while I explain everything to these guys?" The Kryptonian nodded her confirmation as the mutants walked over to the side to talk in private.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

Inside of the Speed Lab, Wally was taking a look at the results of his recent test. He had a look of disbelief and confusion on his face and couldn't believe what he was looking at him.

Joe walked into the training facility, pulling his phone away from his ear. "Hey, son."

"I don't understand, Dad." Wally got up from his chair. "No one in this family wants me to have powers. You don't, Barry doesn't, even Iris." He pointed to the screens with his test results. "According to this, everything is fine with me, in fact everything is better than fine."

At that moment, Iris entered the training room and her brother told her snidely. "What, did you run back to make sure I didn't see these?" The reporter faced the screen. "I'm faster than you now, remember? Whether you, or Barry, or anyone likes it or not."

He had a look of disappointment on his face. Iris faced him. "Wally, look, I know you're upset with me, I was- I was just trying to protect you."

Wally scoffed at her words. "Come on, I know you don't want me training, I just don't get why." Iris struggled to answer. "Because I'm better than Barry was when he first got his speed. You know, in Flashpoint, you and I were a brother-sister crime fighting unit. So, it sucks you don't have the same faith in me here as you did there."

He stormed out of the training room. While rushing through the hallway, he finds Harrison speaking into his recording device. "Brother and sister crime fighting unit." Wally passed by him and the Earth-19er looked up from his device and his notes. "Hi, there, Wallace. Uh, I came back to get some… Lip balm." He closed his notebook and his device.

"It's okay…" Wally told him. "You seem to be the only one that'll tell me the truth around here."

"Me?" H.R. pointed to himself.

"We're kinda treated the same way, right? No one shows us any respect."

"I'm-" Harrison-19 walked closer to him. "Respect, I'm just trying to earn that, Wallace."

As the Earth-19er tried to walk past him, Wally tapped his shoulder and said. "Well, maybe we should stop listening to them."

"Yeah. What? What does that mean?" H.R. asked, throwing him for a loop.

"It means I want you to train me." Wally clarified.

"Me?" He asked for clarification. The new speedster nodded his confirmation. "I would be gone faster than humor in a Liam Neeson movie, do you know what I mean?"

"No." Wally responded.

"Yeah." Harrison said.

"Not if they don't find out." Wally argued. Harrison gave him a hesitant look. "Come on, no one's gonna do this for me. I wanna make a difference, H.R., I'm never gonna be able to, if I don't know how to use my powers. Please, I wanna help people, same as you do. So, show me how."

Harrison patted his shoulder, appearing to agree to this arrangement. But he shot the fledgling speedster down. "Nah." He walked away before any other officers came his way.

X

"Thank you for joining me, my dear." Martin Stein told Caitlin as they walked towards the professor's home.

"Of course, I wasn't being much help back there, anyway. And Seth is there to keep an eye on our daughters too." Caitlin replied.

"That is true, Mr. Fury can keep an eye on your children. But about not appearing to be of much help, as you mentioned. Having powers isn't exactly a death sentence, no matter who your doppelganger is." Martin told her, trying to ease her mind.

"Seth said the same to me, repeatedly." Martin chuckled at her words. "But I… I attacked my friends, my best friends and I even hurt the man I love, the father of my children. And I said horrible, horrible things to them."

"But that wasn't you. Perhaps a part of you was there, but that was the mother in you, wanting to protect and help your children." Martin heard the entire story from her during the way to his home. "And- and believe me, as a person who sometimes shares a body with another human being, I know the difference and so do your friends, and of course, your most beloved, whom I'm sure didn't mind your "attack"."

"No, he did not." Caitlin blushed, recalling the words Seth used when describing the kiss she used to give him cold feet. "But I'm just so scared. What if she comes back and I can't keep her out? Then what?"

Martin stopped their pace, facing her with a sincere look. "We'll all be there for you." Caitlin smiled back with appreciation. "But I believe there is another worry that requires your attention, my dear."

Caitlin gave him a confused look while resuming their walk. "Yeah, what's that?"

"You, my dear Dr. Snow, are now sharing a household with three Klyntar bearers, meaning you will require to purchase insurmountable amounts of chocolate bars to satiate their unfathomable hunger." Martin joked.

"That… Is very much true, unfortunately." Caitlin laughed at how true that statement was. The two shared a laugh like old friends as they walked up to the professor's front door.

But as he got closer to it, Martin's strange migraines appeared again, once again showing him visions of this person he had no idea who was. But the person in his visions… She was happy to see him, waving at him happily and with a wide smile on her face.

The visions stopped and Martin reeled back, the visions stopping their assault. Caitlin saw the look on his face. "Are you okay?"

Before the professor could answer, the front door opened up and the same brunette woman with green eyes in his visions was inside his house, wearing a wide smile on her face as she saw him. "You're back!" The woman practically jumped out of the house, hugging Martin.

Caitlin shifted her eyes between the two.

"I'm sorry, I was looking for my wife." Martin told the young woman in front of him.

She laughed. "Very funny, she's not here. It's so good to see you, I missed you so much."

"Did you?" He nervously asked, trying to put together this woman's identity.

"Of course. I love you, Dad." The woman told her father.

Said father was shocked by the statement, but only briefly before smiling widely. "I love you, too." Martin hugged his daughter. But it was a brief hug as he excused himself. "But I'm sorry, we have to… We have to go. Please tell your mother, I'll see her soon."

"Professor Stein?" Caitlin asked.

"We have to leave, now." Martin turned to Caitlin. The two of them nodded their farewells before walking away.

X

Inside of the hangar, while most of the heroes were busy training with Kara… The three mutants were having a private conversation…

SLAP

"THEY WERE DYING?!" Olivia screamed after slapping her brother. Her nieces jumped back in shock and her husband flinched at the sound of when her flat hand connected with Seth's face. The elemental himself groaned and rubbed the area of impact.

"Can't believe this happened." Matt muttered.

Seth, after having walked off to talk between themselves, told his sister and best friend of everything that happened since their last visit. He told them of Taskmaster coming to this world, joining forces with Dr. Octopus, Rhino, Vulture, Scorpion, Shocker and The Rival, the speedster from Flashpoint, becoming the new Sinister Seven. He told them that they're working together with Dr. Alchemy, the man behind the new metahumans' appearances, and had a hellhound in the form of Anti-Venom….

The same wretched titan that put anti-symbiotes in his children, putting them on death's bed.

"Why didn't you contact us, Seth? We would have come in a heartbeat." Matt angrily told his brother-in-law.

"My daughters were drawing their last breaths. I'm sorry I didn't think of hopping between universes to ask for your help." Seth countered angrily. Matt nodded his understanding. "I'm sorry, but I didn't know what to do. If Venom hadn't been willing to actually birthing children in them to fight off Anti-Venom's spawns, I… I don't even wanna imagine what could have happened to my children."

Olivia turned her eyes to her brother's head. "V, thanks for everything. You really had our nieces' backs there. Thanks."

"We already told your brother; his daughters are our daughters. His children are our children. We're family, we protect each other through thick and thin. Heaven and hell fears us if anything dares to harm our family." Venom told the psychic mutant.

"That's what it means to be a Fury." She chuckled. Though her father might just disagree with that statement.

"The important thing is they're alive and well now." Matt noted.

"Exactly." Seth noted Matt's armor. "New armor?"

"Thought it was time for a change." Matt quipped. "But hell really has broken loose on this Earth, hasn't it, Seth?"

"No kidding, yeah." Seth agreed.

Olivia looked at her three nieces. "But I gotta admit, it's impressive how you three are back on your feet again so quickly after dealing with Sinister Seven and Anti-Venom on the same night."

"We had to, Aunt Liv." Frankie said. "We have to pay them back for what they've done to us." She cracked both of her hands. "We have to get better and hurt those bastards."

"But we may have… Let our aggressions get the better of us back in our training session with the other heroes." Ruby admitted.

"Sorry for that, Dad." Evelyn apologized again.

Facing the three of them, he said. "Like I said before, considering what you three have gone through I don't blame you guys for losing control like that. It happens." Placing a hand on Evelyn's shoulder, he said. "I'm just sorry I wasn't able to prevent any of those awful things from happening."

"Wasn't all bad." Ruby tapped her head. "Now Evie and I got our own roommates now."

"You mean "sisters", Rubs." Evelyn told her sister.

"Yeah…" Frankie said, looking down at the ground with saddened eyes that no one saw.

But Olivia felt her thoughts and narrowed her eyes in concern.

"Uh guys?" The family turned their eyes away from each other, facing Kara who wore a concerned look while the others behind her struggled and panted heavily in exhaustion. "Are you sure you want me to keep going?"

"Looks like you've given Oliver a proper spanking, Kara. Nice job, you'll get a gold star for that." Seth quipped.

"Yeah. Yes." Oliver forced himself back up through gritted teeth. "Just give us five minutes, please."

"You really put them through the wringer, Kara. I'm impressed." Olivia cracked her hands. "I expect the same treatment when I join Round 2. I won't go down easy, just a warning."

Kara paled when seeing the battle-thirsty on her face. "Is she always like this?" She asked the male mutants while pointing at the psychic.

"Yeah, but this is more than usual." Her brother admitted.

"Well, she hadn't had a proper fight in a long time since she got pregnant. Now that the kids have come, she's ready to let loose big-time." Matt followed up.

"Oh, honey, you got no idea." Olivia added, a flicker of psychic energy sparking in her eyes when looking over her shoulder at her husband.

The others got back to their feet while Cisco walked over to the Scarlet Speedster. "Hey."

"Hey." He greeted the viber who wore a disbelieving look.

Holding up a familiar iPod-looking device, Cisco asked. "You know what this is?" He had already heard everything from this device. "This is really you. Like, future you."

Barry pleadingly asked. "Come on, look."

Looking past the speedster, at the other heroes, Cisco wondered. "You told them, right?"

Crossing his arms, Barry said. "I'm gonna tell them, yeah, when this is finished."

"When this is finished." Cisco scoffed. "Even though you're about to lead them through an alien war? Even after Flashpoint? After everything you've messed up, all the lives you've changed, all the lives you could have erased, you still don't think you should tell them?"

"Oh crap." Seth muttered.

"Tell us what?" Sara asked, hearing their not-so-subtle conversation.

Cisco gave the speedster a stern look, making him turn around and start his explanation. "Uh, Jax and Professor Stein found a message from me in the future saying that, right now, I can't be trusted."

Sara narrowed her eyes. "And why would future you say that?"

Barry admitted. "I think because I went back in time and changed the timeline, and now… Things here are different than before I left, including some of your lives."

"Say what?" Olivia asked, thinking that it was only her brother and nieces that were affected by his time travel shenanigans.

"Some of our lives? Like who?" Kara asked.

"Cisco, Caitlin, Seth, Wally." Barry shot a worried look at one of the Star City natives. "Digg."

"Me?" John asked, turning his head from side to side. "Why? What happened?"

Being his friend, and someone he called a "brother", Oliver stepped closer to him. "Apparently, you had a daughter."

John snapped his eyes back to the Scarlet Speedster. "I had a daughter, Barry?"

The speedster slightly nodded. "Baby John was Baby Sara."

"So…" John gulped, blinking rapidly to fight back tears. "What you… Let me get this straight, you just, uh… You just erased a daughter from my life?" He asked, holding back mountain-sized amounts of anger.

Those words… It had a strange effect on Caitlin, who grabbed her stomach and stroked it caringly…. A void that needed to be tended to…. But why?

"Yeah." Barry sadly.

Being the captain of the Waverider and an expert of time travel herself, Sara faced the speedster. "Look, you can't go back and just change things like that, Barry." She scolded him.

"I know." Barry nodded.

Sara wasn't so sure of that. "Do you know how hard it is for me to not alter events to bring my sister back? But I don't because I know the implications." He gestured to John whose life was affected by the change in the timelines.

Ray added. "All those aberrations we've spent the last eight months travelling through time trying to correct… You just decided that it was okay for you to create your own?"

"We should've told 'em before." Jax stated.

"Ship's already sailed, Jax. Doesn't make a difference thinking about it now." Seth told the half of Firestorm.

"Guys!" Felicity called out, having read a message from Lyla. "Guys, it's Lyla. The President's been abducted by the Dominators. She needs us now."

Barry thought to himself briefly, turning to face the other heroes. "Okay, you guys go, all right? I'm gonna sit this one out, obviously. You have Supergirl, she's just as fast as I am. Get the President, we can talk about this later."

It was wordlessly agreed, and they moved towards the exit.

Matt looked to his brother-in-law. "What do we do?"

"We stay here for now." Seth replied.

Barry moved to Kara and asked. "You still trust me, right?"

"I will always trust you… But…" Kara glances at the heroes walking behind her. "It might take more to convince them."

Barry nodded, turning to Oliver. "If you need me, I'll be there."

"Guys, this is- Hey!" Oliver called out to the other heroes, getting their attention. "This is crazy! Everyone is going, including Barry. I-I'm not going without him." The archer affirmed.

"Have these two always been close?" Evelyn heard Dusk ask.

"Think so." The host quipped.

"Then you'll be here, Oliver." John told his friend.

"Okay…" Kara faced the archer. "You know what, Oliver, it's okay. I will go with them, we'll get the President, and you stay here with Barry and the rest." Oliver accepted with a nod and watched as the Kryptonian followed the other heroes to the exit, making their way to the location of the President to rescue him.

X

(S.T.A.R. Labs)

Inside of the Cortex, Caitlin was checking the satellite scans of the city. She was seated there and waited for her daughters to come back from their home. They desperately needed a shower after dealing with three teams of territorial Dominators.

"We haven't heard from the rescue team yet." Caitlin muttered while checking the audio logs and messages, wondering if she had missed any messages. "Wonder if something happened to them?"

"Don't worry about them." Seth said, leaning against the doorframe. Caitlin turned in her wheelchair, facing her mate. "The girls are still home?"

"Yeah." Caitlin stood up, walking over to him. "Think it's the last time we're having our daughters deal with an alien invasion of all things."

"Or follow A.R.G.U. S's information, which sucks by the way." Seth said.

Smiling widely Caitlin wrapped her arms around her mate's neck, who responded with his arms wrapping around her waist and pulled her closer. "Why can't we deal with normal family life problems instead of an alien invasion?" She chuckled into his shoulder.

Seth chuckled back. "You mean like dividing up chores, keeping an eye on our kids' grades, rearranging the furniture, making sure our kids go to a good college after graduation?"

"I mean, I would love a new couch." Caitlin and Seth shared a laugh at her joke. "But I think our everyday life would be a bit more… manageable if we had those kinds of problems."

"Yeah, but they'd be boring." Seth countered with a chortle.

"Guess you're right." Caitlin ran a hand down his torso.

"Not that I'm complaining, but this doesn't seem like the right place for this." He said with a nod to her roaming hand.

Caitlin faced him with a serious and concerned look, her hand placing itself on his chest. "Are you okay?"

Placing a hand over hers, he assured her. "I'm completely fine, Cait. I'm just a bit winded from that entire destabilization is all. But I'm fine. I promise." He took her hand off his chest, placing a loving kiss on her fingers. "The moment I feel like something's off, you'll be the first to know."

"I hope so." Caitlin told the mutant. She gave him a playful slap on his chest. "Otherwise, I will happily revisit the idea of strapping you to a bed."

"Oh really?" Seth teased her with a daring smile. "You could have told me that, you know. Might have upped my game then."

Caitlin then assured him. "Trust me, your game does not need improvement, Dr. Fury."

"Why thank you, Dr. Snow." Seth replied. The computer chimed and he saw the notification, seeing that someone was inside of the Time Vault. "Someone's in the Vault."

"Bet it's Barry." Caitlin noted.

"Think I ought to check on that moron." Seth said.

"Good luck." The icy metahuman told the mutant as he walked out of the Cortex and into the hallway.

X

(Time Vault)

Oliver Queen stepped into the Time Vault, finding the speedster standing in front of the white console and the article from the future.

Feeling his presence there, Barry told the archer. "I didn't think about it, Oliver. I didn't think about the future. I was so focused on the past that I didn't think about it until now." He shook his head. "I changed so much."

"What is this?" Oliver asked, seeing the article for the first time ever.

Examining the article himself again, Barry answered. "This is an article from the future. It's a story about me vanishing." He looked at the byline.

"By Julie Greer." The byline said… Not the name he was used to seeing on that spot.

It was no longer written by Iris West-Allen.

"Used to be written by Iris West-Allen, but now, I don't know, something's changed with Iris. Something's changed with our future." Barry groaned with clenched hands. "God, what did I do?"

"Barry, this is a weird-looking newspaper article." Oliver admitted after taking in the article from the future. "It doesn't mean anything. You need to stop beating yourself up over this."

Barry turned around, giving him an incredulous look. "I'm sorry, but how can you say that? I'm responsible for all of this."

"Well, maybe, maybe not." Oliver countered. "Barry, you made a choice. You wanted to see your parents alive again. Do you honestly know anyone, that if they were in your shoes, wouldn't do the exact same thing? I would do the exact same thing. Barry, after The Gambit went down, it was me, my father and a crew member on a life raft, lost at sea. Enough food and water for one person, maybe. My father took a gun, shot the crew member, told me to survive, and then turned the gun on himself. He shot himself in the head, he sacrificed himself so that I could live. Nothing I could do, no choice. Slade Wilson drove a sword right through my mother's heart in front of my sister, and I was there. I was helpless on the ground; I was powerless to stop it. No choice. Do you not think that I wouldn't give anything to go back and to make things different?"

"You never told me that." Barry said, shocked and baffled by the story.

"Barry, the world isn't different because you changed the timeline." Oliver told the speedster. "Change happens, tragedy happens. People make choices, and those choices affect everyone else. You're not a God, Barry."

"Just like Jay told you on Earth-3." Seth chimed in, revealing his presence to the heroes who snapped around to face him. "I'm shocked that three people have told you the same thing, and we all hope it's finally penetrated that thick little head of yours."

"Really not in the mood for an insult, dude." Barry told the mutant.

"Fat chance of you not getting one." Seth walked past the speedster, taking in the article and the new name on the byline. "Julie Greer… Can't imagine Iris not being a reporter, honestly. Wonder what she'd be in the future then, a baker, maybe?"

"You're really joking right now." Barry stated.

"Life shows danger in volume, I laugh in its face." Seth quipped. "But you about done sulking or what? We still got an alien invasion out there on our doorstep. And it's your first time dealing with an invasion like this, so be prepared."

"Little hard to focus on that when our team hates me." Barry groaned.

"You get two minutes to feel bad, and then walk it off." Seth adamantly told him. "Granted, I hate you for almost erasing me and my daughters, but you did help us before when my daughters were about to die. You did something good, dumbass. And like Oliver said, you made a mistake. Brush it off, and get back on the horse."

"Seth, how can you say that?" Oliver said.

"They may not like you right now, or rather not trust you at this point, but the team is here for a reason: To stop the Dominators. Sooner or later, they'll understand everything and return to their senses." Seth said.

"And if they don't?" Barry asked.

"You keep running towards danger." Seth stated bluntly. "You need people's trust in you, not if they like you or not. That's the most important thing. Besides, they're here. They'll listen… After saving the President., hopefully."

Though he did doubt Mick's involvement, not finding it hard to believe if he actually stole from the President himself though he was there to save him.

Suddenly the unmistakable sound of explosions traveled through the hallways, shaking the entire facility.

"Oh, what now?!" Seth shouted.

Cisco's voice came through the speakers. "Guys, wherever you are right now, we need you."

Barry turned on the console, showing what was happening outside on a holographic screen. It was a disbelieving sight. Everyone who went out to rescue the President has returned now, but are clearly out of their minds as they attack S.T.A.R. Labs with waves of relentless attacks.

"Oh, things just got so much worse." Barry said.

"I'd say things got so much more interesting." The three heroes turned to the entrance and saw Olivia smirking at the sight. "This is gonna be interesting for sure."

X

Seth, Oliver, Barry, Olivia, Matt, Frankie, Evelyn and Ruby rushed out of the facility.

Each of them wore their suits and looked at the seven heroes in front of them.

"Guys?" Barry asked them, getting their attention. "Can we talk about this?"

Thea released her arrow, letting it fly towards the speedster. With a flick of her fingers, Angel Fury caught it with her psychic energy. "Guess not."

"What's their problem?" Seth asked once the symbiote had engulfed his entire body.

"My guess…" Olivia's eyes shone through the lenses of her demon-like mask. "They're under the Dominators' control."

"Can't you overcome their control, Aunt Liv?" Eclipse said, forming arrows between her fingers on her right hand just as Thea pulled out an arrow from her quiver.

"No, not like this." Olivia said, using her powers to break the arrow in two. "We need to knock some sense into them." She said, her eyes locked onto the flying Kryptonian in the skies.

Mick released a column of flames at them. Matt and Seth jumped in front of the others, one forming a shield with his nanites and the other spun his sword around as the flames connected with them. Firestorm hovered over them along with Atom, both thrusting out their arms and shooting at them.

Angel Fury used her powers, encasing her brother and husband in psychic squares that block off the attacks. "Those flyers are gonna be problematic."

"I take Atom." Matt declared to the elemental.

"We take Firestorm." Seth declared. Both male mutants sent a nod to Olivia who nodded.

With clenches of her fists, the squares dissipated, and her family members leaped after the two flyers. "Guess, that leaves me with the main course." Olivia nodded at the Kryptonian who glared at her.

"Careful, Aunt Liv. She got a lot of powers." Evelyn warned her.

"Oh, I noticed." While Kara trained with the other heroes in the hangar before, Olivia made sure to watch all of her capabilities. Heat vision, x-ray vision, flight, super hearing, superstrength, superspeed, superhuman reflexes, freeze breath and bulletproof durability.

Behind her mask, she showed a vicious smile. "Oh, this is gonna be so… So much fun." She took out the handle on her belt, pressing the button and released her adamantium razor-whip. "Let's go, Kara!"

Her shout got the Kryptonian's attention, making herself shoot down after the psychic in a hurry. Using her psychic powers, she formed several pinkish psychic cubes and threw them after Supergirl who responded with her eyes projecting two heat beams. Her heat vision deflected the cubes, scattering them around and caused them to fly into the ground.

Angel Fury enveloped her entire body with psychic energy before leaping into the air, thrusting herself after the Kryptonian with psychically-enhanced speed. While under the Dominators' mind-control, she widened her eyes when suddenly she was kicked in the face by the psychic.

"Was that…" Oliver struggled to put a name to the laser beams coming out of Kara's eyes.

"Heat vision, yeah." Barry clarified.

"Enough talking!" Genysis snarled, leaping into the air and flexed her glasses. Mick turned his gun on her, literally opening fire on the gravity manipulator. But Ruby dug her tongue into the ground, using it as an anchor and pulled her to the ground.

Using her gravity powers, she made herself lighter and quickly appeared in front of Heat Wave with a clenched fist. "This is for kidnapping my Mom, Rory!" In that moment, she made her fist heavier with her powers before slamming it into his chin, delivering him an uppercut that flung him into the air.

The Legend with the Heat Gun returned to his feet, shooting fire blasts after the former HYDRA assassin. Ruby smirked, avoiding the array of fire shots before jumping towards him.

Under the Dominators' mind control, Thea pulled back four arrows and shot them after the metahuman with light and darkness in her veins. Spiraling around with her serpentine wings stretched out, Eclipse spun around and deflected the incoming projectiles, flinging them left and right.

Planting her feet into the ground, Evelyn stopped her rotation and pulled back two arrows made of hardened symbiote matter. She released her arrows, both of them imbued with darkness. Though Thea dodged the arrows, she felt the excessive force of their impact when they penetrated and smashed into the ground, releasing what sounded like a pair of explosions.

But Thea used that momentum, rolling on the ground and returning to her feet before lashing out with her bow, using it as a melee weapon. Evelyn used her own bow as a defensive weapon, using it to shield herself from the incoming attack.

With her free hand, Evelyn clenched a fist and let her darkness travel through it. She thrust it towards her face, but Thea backflipped to avoid the attack. Spreading her fingers, the metahuman used her momentum and split her arm into tendrils that followed the red archer.

But most of her tendrils were shot to pieces as Spartan shot them with unmatched marksmanship.

Evelyn retracted her tendrils with a groan, quickly shadowporting to avoid the various bullets coming her way from John. "Hey!" Frankie shouted, swinging a battle axe down for him, knocking the gun out of his hand. "Mr. Diggle, we know you're not yourself right now, but we can't go easy on your nonetheless." She told the man while morphing her arms into swords.

John didn't show any fear. He bent down, picking up two pipes, one short and another one longer. He twirled both of them around in his hands, facing the ferrokinetic with unflinching confidence. Magenta snarled, swinging both of her swords for him. But Spartan used the longer pipe in his hand, blocking off her two swords.

"Wha-" She cut herself off with gritted teeth as John found an opening, hitting her stomach with the shorter pipe. He was about to unleash another flurry of swings at the girl, but tendrils sprouted from her stomach and pushed the former soldier back.

Rushing forward, she grabbed both of his wrists before he got the chance to strike back. With his hands restrained by her, John relied on his legs and tried to strike the ferrokinetic with his right leg. Frankie countered with her own right leg, rapidly clashing with their legs.

Frankie gained the upper hand, pressing her foot down on John's foot, her foot releasing tendrils and keeping them secured around him as they dug into the ground. With her other foot, Magenta kicked the former soldier repeatedly, each blow knocking the wind out of him.

When bile came out of his mouth, Frankie grimaced. "Sorry, Mr. Diggle." She apologized, releasing her hold from his foot and hands, before jumping up and thrusting both of her feet into his chest, sending him away and into the sign.

Sara got to the ferrokinetic, swinging her batons for her. Magenta avoided the two first strikes, the third and fourth strikes were countered by two arrows with green arrowheads. Frankie turned to the archer who fired them off. "Thanks."

"Don't mention it, just go easy on John." He nodded to his friend who got up, unflinching as shards of glass rolled off his back. He rushed to the ferrokinetic who lashed out with a series of tendrils, knocking him back to the ground. "Hey!"

"He's your friend, you should know he can handle this." Frankie countered before rushing towards him.

Oliver turned his attention back to Sara and was met with a fist slamming into the side of his face. He was spun around from the blow, but he used the momentum to lash out a foot and try to kick her. But the captain of the Legends saw it coming even whilst brainwashed, using her batons to catch his foot.

With ease and with expert skill, she flung him to the ground again with her batons. Raising her batons over her head she was about to strike him with them, but Oliver reached back and swung his bow out to meet her attack.

WHOOSH

"argh!" Suddenly Barry came flying and was slammed into Oliver, both of them flying down to the ground. "That smarts." He said with a groan, facing the Kryptonian who hovered over them. "Hi, Ollie." He greeted his fellow hero weakly.

"You really did it this time." Oliver groaned.

"Seriously?" Barry asked.

"Yeah, seriously!" Oliver nodded.

The two looked up, facing Kara and Sara side by side. The assassin holding throwing stars between her fingers, the Kryptonian's eyes brimming with energy.

Things were looking grim for them.

WHOOSH

But then Wally came speeding out of the facility, knocking Sara to the ground. He came to a stop, standing in front of the other two heroes. "Wally?" Barry asked.

Showing a smile, he corrected him. "Kid Flash."

His smile fell when Kara flew into him like a torpedo, sending him flying into a wall which he bounced off and to the ground. "Wally?" Barry sped to him, crouching down by his side. "Wally, talk to me. Hey, come on."

"Where's Olivia?" Oliver asked for the psychic who was supposed to take care of Kara.

"Hey, Supes!" Angel Fury got the Kryptonian's attention, thrusting a psychic cube into her that hit her with the speed and force of a boulder. Kara released a groan when she was flung into a wall. She landed on the ground. "Where the hell do you think you're going, Supergirl? I ain't finished with you yet." She growled at the hero from Earth-38.

Barry pressed his earpiece. "Guys, Wally's hurt bad but he's alive."

"Get an ETA on overriding the mind control?" Oliver asked.

"If not, don't bother. I've missed this!" Olivia shouted, generating psychic spheres in her hands before releasing them in powerful beams. Kara flew into the air, dodging the psychic beams.

The Kryptonian thrust her head out, shooting energy beams from her eyes. Angel Fury used her whip, using it to block the beams. Her adamantium managed to block her beams and she deflected them with a twist of her whip.

Olivia launched herself from the ground, her entire body enwrapped in psychic energy. Clenching a fist, she coursed psychic energy through her arm and converged it to her fist. Kara reeled back a fist herself, thrusting it forward to meet the psychic's.

The two fists collided, releasing powerful shockwaves that shook the ground and caused dust and smoke to blow over everyone close by. Kara lashed out a kick, but Olivia blocked with her forearm before retaliating with her whip, swinging it for the Kryptonian's throat. The whip wrapped around her throat, and the mutant yanked her down to the ground. Kara barely had a time to counter or get back on her feet before Olivia slammed down on her with her feet, both of them enveloped with immense psychic energy.

With her bulletproof skin, it didn't seem like her skin broke from the impact but the ground under Kara definitely cracked from the strike.

"I hope so, cause these two might just end up tearing each other open." Barry said, but in all honesty, he meant it.

"Bingo! Yahtzee!" Both Cisco and Felicity shouted over the comms.

"You go first." Felicity told the viber. "You go first, it's your office."

Just then, Atom came flying to the ground, a series of rapidly fired repulsor blasts raining down on him. Matt halted his assault, shooting down to him and reeling back a semi-circular energy sword. He thrust it after Ray who shrunk himself to avoid the attack, flying away before returning back to his full form. "Damn you Ray!"

He formed apertures around his left arm, forming an ion cannon before blasting the man. While releasing a series of repulsor beams, small panels opened up on his right thigh before miniaturized bombs came out of the openings. With his free hand, Matt grabbed them and threw them after the armored Legend.

Barry and Oliver grimaced at the explosions emitting around the good-hearted and polite Ray Palmer. "Dude, don't kill him!" The speedster chastised the nanite mutant.

"You wanna fight fire with wind, go ahead! Me, I'll bring bombs!" He said while behind his cape a blue double-barreled cannon appeared, looking over his right shoulder before opening fire on the Legend. Ray screamed in pain as the attacks hit his armor, pushing him away,

Olivia jumped backwards and away from Kara. "Also, can our two nerds at the console fucking decide who's gonna tell the news?"

"I will, I will!" Cisco shouted. "There's a weird signal coming from the salt mines."

"For the record, that is what I was gonna say." Felicity chimed in.

"For God's sake!" Olivia complained, launching several psychic spheres at the Kryptonian.

"Well, can you jam it?" Barry asked the viber and the hacker from Star City. "And quickly, otherwise Matt and Liv might just end up killing everyone who's brainwashed?"

"Heard that, you leather-spangled speed-bastard!" Olivia shouted, dodging Kara's heat vision.

"Um… No." Felicity declared.

While listening to the hacker and viber conversing, Oliver fired off arrows at Sara. Barry looked at him. "How many of those you got left?"

"Probably not enough."

"Take the close-range fighters away from here, the long-range ones like us need this space to take care of the rest." Matt shouted.

"Where exactly?!" Oliver shouted his question.

Just as then Firestorm came flying down from the sky, descending like a meteor and fell to the ground. Venom landed on the ground, tendrils lashing out at the fire metahuman who flew up in the sky, avoiding the incoming strikes.

While the metahuman avoided his attacks, Seth faced the archer. "The hallway closest to you leads to a bunker under the facility, hold them off down there with our daughters."

"Think that will help?" Barry asked.

"Got a better plan?"

Inspiration came to the speedster as the Kryptonian appeared before the psychic, appearing not to have a single scratch on her from the attacks that Olivia had delivered her. "Liv, swap with me."

"What? Why?" She asked.

"If the others can't shut the machine down, maybe she can." Barry nodded to Supergirl. He got up and walked to her side. "Trust me."

"Gonna be hard to do that, but if you have a plan, let's get on with it." Olivia accepted and allowed the speedster to turn to the flying hero from Earth-38.

"Hey Supergirl…" Kara faced him. "Let's finally see who's faster." He sped away and Kara followed him.

"Tch." Olivia scoffed. "Just when things got interesting."

"What's Wally doing here?" Venom asked when seeing Joe's son on the ground unconscious.

Iron Knight slid to a stop beside his brother-in-law. "Does it really surprise you he's here? Joe's kids head-dive into danger at first sight."

"No kidding." Seth recalled Iris jumping out of a building for a story. He wasn't wrong. The elemental reached down, grabbing Wally and lifted him up. "Magenta?" He got his attention.

"I know the plan." She said after her father threw Wally to her, who caught the fledgling speedster with a pair of tendrils.

"Queen, go with her and cover her, and she will cover you when she's placed Wally away." Seth told him.

Eclipse dropped down to the ground, appearing out of a smog of shadows. "I'll go with them." She said, her tendrils and serpentine wings swinging out and deflected the arrows coming from Speedy. "It's gonna be easier to deal with these guys with me and Frankie underground."

"Fine. Go, but be careful." Seth noted as Firestorm and Atom returned to their feet. "We'll take care of the rest here."

Hearing her family's plan, Ruby jumped down to their side. "I ain't leaving, I'm staying here."

"Calm down, honey. No one's asking you to move away." Olivia told her young combative niece.

"Good." She said.

"Frankie, lead the way!" Eclipse told her sister while firing three arrows at John, Sara and Thea. Frankie nodded and tightened her hold around the fledgling speedster before running towards the hallway. Three of them jumped down the stairs, the ferrokinetic kicked the door off its hinges and entered the underground tunnel. "How do you know this place?"

She asked, having never seen this humongous bunker before. Frankie looked over her shoulder. "When he found out about Magenta and me, dad brought me down here a lot to train me. Aunt Liv did as well."

"You trained down here?" Oliver asked in disbelief, berating himself for asking when seeing the claw marks on the walls around them. "Impressive."

"Look out!" Evelyn's wings shielded them from sudden gunfire. Spreading her senses to their limit, the metahuman realized that Oliver's friends had found their way into the bunker as well. "It's your friends, Queen!"

"I can see that." Oliver pulled an arrow back on his bow, releasing it and watched his singular arrow fly through the air. The single arrow split into three arrows, exploding on the ground in front of his three friends. "Let's go!"

The archer led them deeper into the bunker under S.T.A.R. Labs. All the while bullets came flying from behind along with arrows with red arrowheads. Giving Wally to the green archer, Frankie swiped her hand to the side and flicked the bullets away and Evelyn countered the arrows with her own.

"No offense, Queen, but your friends and sister, they suck!" Evelyn said, knowing full well they're under the Dominators' control.

"You two talk too damn much!" Oliver countered.

The two symbiote-bearers came to a stop and Oliver rounded a corner, dropping off the new speedster. He faced his friends with the two metahumans and raised his bow, reaching behind to pull an arrow out of his quiver. But he couldn't find one, deducing that he had run out of arrows.

"Damn." Oliver said.

"Guess it's up close and personal." Evelyn quipped, retracting her bow and forming two swords from her hands, her left one shining with light and the right one emitting pure darkness.

"Fine with me." Frankie quipped back, morphing both of her arms into jagged swords.

Oliver charged forward, using his bow to counter all of Sara's incoming baton strikes. He swung his bow around to strike her, spiraling around to attack her from different sides. The former assassin spun around to her feet, striking the archer's stomach with her baton.

The archer grunted in pain from the strike, allowing Sara the opportunity to continue her assault and rapidly swing her two batons and push Oliver back. With a twirl, she swung her batons for his legs, but he jumped over her body to avoid her attacks.

They continued trying to strike one another with their weapons, bow meeting batons repeatedly but never meeting the owners.

Thea fired arrows after the metahuman with light and darkness powers, Evelyn used her element-imbued swords to block the incoming projectiles. Crossing her blades over one another, Eclipse quickly charged before halting before the red archer. With a cry, she uncrossed her arms violently, knocking both the arrows and the bow out of her opponent's hands.

Before she could continue her fight with the crimson archer, pinkish tendrils ensnared Thea's form before pushing her up against a wall. Following the familiar tendrils, Evelyn saw her sister use her tendrils to wrap around John's form. More tendrils sprouted from her back and wrapped around Sara's form.

"Thought this might go easier, just until they're back to their senses." Frankie stated, feeling her sister's and Oliver's eyes on her. While speaking the three Star City natives in her tendrils struggled.

"Magenta, look." Evelyn's arms morphed back to hands, and she pointed a clawed finger at the three people in her tendrils, seeing their heads turn and twist. Their heads turned down and the strange shine on their foreheads disappeared. "They're back."

"Looks like Barry took care of whatever took control of them." Frankie noted as she lowered them to the ground.

X

"Wait, he did?" Seth asked in surprise, turning to his brother-in-law who had a similar look of surprise.

Together the two of them faced the pile of defeated allies… The one Olivia's sitting on while examining the claws of her gauntlets like they're nails after a polish.

"They're okay?" Matt inquired of her wife.

"Oh yeah, they've been good for a while now." Olivia's mask split open, allowing her to blow dirt off her claws.

"And you've been punching them into mincemeat, why?" Matt asked.

"Blowing off steam." She casually said, jumping off Rory's body and walked towards her family members. "You know it's healthy to let loose, and really let loose. Otherwise, you're gonna blow up like an inferno."

"Babe, love you, but please, last time you blew up, you just went into labor and popped out two kids. We don't need any more of you blowing up." Matt stated.

Olivia chortled, grabbing her husband's jaw and shook his head. "Oh, trust me, pal. We're not having any more of those blow-ups for now. God knows I can't handle going through that again."

Ruby walked over to her father. "I kinda wanna know what their story was when she gave birth to the twins."

"Don't expect it to be anything like the one from Earth-2." Seth quipped. "Night and day, kiddo."

"More like human and mutant, Dad." She quipped. "But this was really good, Dad. We did good."

"You and Reap did good as well." Seth said, ruffling her head. A burst of shadows appeared, and Evelyn, Frankie and Oliver and his team appeared out of it. "Welcome back." He greeted.

"Hey Dad!" Evelyn waved a hand at him; tendrils did the same from her back.

Matt looked at the archer and his team. "Surprised to see you guys in one piece."

"Thank your nieces for that." Sara said, gesturing to the metahuman girls with one of her batons. Mind-controlled and the girls were able to handle her at full strength. They were trained well, and it must have shown that given how little they were damaged. "And thanks for keeping us in check, too."

Evelyn shadowported into the facility with Wally.

"Don't mention it." Magenta said, her teeth gritted and grinding against each other.

Venom noticed the ferrokinetic's words, her tone and her strange grinding fangs. "Something's off with Frankie."

"You noticed too?" Seth asked. Feeling a mental nod, he added. "We're not the only ones." Long since, he's noticed her sister keeping her eyes on his ferrokinetic daughter.

It worried him.

Rain began to come over them, slowly drenching their forms. "Great. Rain." Olivia complained, her mask reforming over her face. Felicity came out with an umbrella, holding it over her and Mick Rory.

WHOOSH

Barry arrived back to the others. Felicity smiled at the gathering of heroes, turning to Heat Wave. "So, what's it like, being all mind-controlled and stuff?"

Jax glanced at Mick. "I didn't realize he had a mind to be controlled." He quipped. The others laughed and smirked at his joke.

"Trust us, that took us all by surprise." Ruby laughed.

"Barry…" Ray got his attention. "About before, message or no message, we're with you."

"Thank you." Barry smiled, feeling that he had his friends' trust again.

"So, where's Supergirl?" Thea asked the speedster as he was the last one with her.

"Scanning the city to make sure there aren't any more of the orbs that whammied all of you." Barry replied.

"Okay. So now what?" John asked.

"We call Lyla, tell her these Dominators aren't here peacefully." Oliver said.

"Just don't ask for their information, seriously it sucks ass." Ruby stated.

"Then we got a plan." Seth said, moving towards the entrance of the facility.

But while walking towards it… Something strange happened to the others.

A bright, transparent beam shot down and enveloped Sara. The next moment it appeared, that same light pulled the assassin up into the sky. "Sara!" Oliver screamed.

The same light appeared in beams, hitting and snatching both John and Thea.

"Everybody inside now! Knight, shoot down whatever's above our heads now!" Seth ordered. The others rushed to the building, while Matt aimed his repulsors and cannons upwards before opening fire.

Ray was about to join the nanite mutant but was instead snatched up by the same laser that took John, Sara and Thea.

Then… Same laser touched down and connected with Oliver's body. Barry widened his eyes, rushing towards him with all of his speed. Time slowed to a crawl. But even though he was within arm's length, the archer was transported through the beam and upwards.

Time returned to normal, and Barry was unable to save the emerald archer of Star City.

And with that… Heroes of Star City were taken… But only them…

To be continued…

And that's a chapter, peeps!

Hope you all loved the first installment of the Invasion crossover; the second part is already a work in progress and coming along nicely. Though it might be the shortest chapter of this season so far, just a fair warning.

But I also hope you guys enjoyed the new suits for Ruby and Evelyn post-symbiote, especially Ruby's new hero name. Been thinking about that for a while.

But now the humans of the heroes have been kidnapped by the Dominators. But for what reason?

Stay tuned and until next time, peeps!