And now another bedtime story for all you wonderful readers out there in the big wide world, new and old…
Hope you guys are doing well out there, wherever you are.
And…
I wish you all a very, very Merry Christmas!
I've gotten tons of messages about new readers entering the fray, which I'm insanely happy about. Thanks a lot, you guys.
And I'm sorry, but this one might be shorter than the others. If you've watched the Crossover, you'll understand why, you know.
Now to answer some reviews:
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So, without further ado…
ENJOY!
Chapter 11: Invasion Part 2
Within the secret elevator that is sliding down the elevator shaft are Matt Stark, Felicity Smoak and Cisco Ramon. They all moved to Star City to find something of Oliver's so the viber could use his powers to maybe get his location, and with that the kidnapped Star City natives' location.
"And why exactly am I here?" Matt asked Cisco and Felicity again for the third time with an annoyed look, a vein bulging on his forehead.
"Think it was Seth's idea." Felicity answered him with the same exact response she gave him when he asked the last two times, this time speaking in slight annoyance at the repeated query.
Matt scoffed, leaning against the wall. "One of these days, I'm gonna have to commit to my ideas and really blow him up."
Felicity faced him with an incredulous look. "You wanna blow up your nieces' father?"
"As if that elemental parasite would die so easily." In his own way, that was his way of complimenting his brother-in-law.
Cisco changed the subject. "That armor of yours is new right?"
"Future Knight." Matt announced the name of his new armor. "Worked on it before I last came to Earth-1. Completed it not too long ago."
"Pretty dark look, you know." Felicity said with her opinion of the armor.
"I know, it's cool." Matt chuckled. "I had to change things up a bit with the way things are going here."
"You hear everything from Seth and Cait?" Cisco asked.
"Yeah. Sinister Seven, the visits from various heroes from 616, everything." Matt told him. "I really hope that's the end of it now, cause I don't think this world can handle even more than that. It's a miracle it's still standing right now."
"Don't sell our Earth short, Matt. We still got our good sides." Cisco quipped. "And we still have our own powerful heroes just like your Earth."
"I know…" Matt clenched his fists. "But it sounds like Anti-Venom was still able to infect my nieces with anti-symbiotes. If I had a chance to face him, god I would have torn him to shreds and blown whatever was left of him to dust."
"Barry and Seth could do nothing against him." Cisco reminded him, though he was unhappy with the speedster's name.
Matt scoffed. "Barry's not me, his specialty is velocity and running, mine is using weaponry of all types. I can blow him up to pieces." Felicity and Cisco could see there was nothing they could say to quell his flame for revenge.
The elevator came to a stop and the three of them could hear someone say. "I can't believe it."
Recognizing the voice as Curtis Holts, Felicity waited for the elevator doors to open before saying. "Try to start." She walked out with both Cisco and Matt. The mutant looked around, seeing the African-American scientist, Curtis Holt, the man with Spanish heritage, Rene Ramirez, and the pale man on the platform, Rory Regan.
He asked Felicity for names and descriptions on the way to Star City.
Felicity gestured to the two powered males beside her. "Guys, this is Cisco Ramon of S.T.A.R. Labs, and Matt Stark of Earth-616, or otherwise known as Iron Knight."
"Curtis. Big fan." Curtis said with a smile.
Rene, while putting on a sweater, introduced himself. "Rene Ramirez."
"Rory Regan." The man at the platform introduced himself.
"Okay, Curtis, you're tall." Cisco pointed a finger at the man. "Rene, and Rory." The viber pointed a finger at the members while walking up to the platform. "That's two Rorys I know now. The other one, he's a douche though. You're not a douche, are you?"
"No." Rory assured him.
"Okay. Good, I just had to make sure, right?" Cisco said back.
"Seriously, Cisco?" Matt asked. The viber gave a shrug. "Back to the mission at hand, we have to find Oliver and company."
"And I'm positive, he's not talking about the cherished Disney animated film starring Billy Joel, okay?" Cisco clarified while examining a keyboard. "I'm talking, I gotta vibe, all right?" He put it back on the table.
Walking up to the platform, Matt asked the Star City team. "You got anything that's personal for them? Something for Cisco to vibe off of."
Felicity was hit with inspiration. "I got one of his old bows here somewhere." She moved away to find the bow.
Cisco snapped his fingers. "That'll do."
"Um, for those of us who don't know you as well, not me, cause I feel like we're best friends, and we've known each other for a long time. Um, what are you going to do exactly?" Curtis asked.
"Oh, right. Um, I'm about to vibe." Cisco explained.
Matt elaborated. "When Cisco comes into contact with something he may be able to perceive events throughout space and time, allowing him to see into the past and future. It even allows him to see into parallel dimensions. And more importantly, it will allow him to see where people are, like our dick-ish archer."
Rene scoffed. "So, you're like them, metahumans."
"Well, he is, I'm a mutant." Matt explained.
"Which, in short, is his universe's version of a metahuman." Felicity explained while rummaging through a crate. "Just a bit more biological."
"So, no difference?" Rene scoffed.
"Don't sound too excited about it." Cisco quipped.
Felicity walked over to the viber, having found the bow that Oliver used in the past. "Okay, so this is it. Just, please don't break it. Any more than it already is broken." She sheepishly added. "Okay, go."
Cisco raised his hands… touching the bow and the vibe came to him in flashing lights… Appearing as though he entered a distorted reality.
X
It was a distortive vision… But Cisco found himself inside of something that appeared akin to a hallway, lots of lime-green lights around them.
…
Looking around, he found himself at the end of the hallway, standing within a… storage room of sorts?
…
He found his kidnapped friends… All of them… John… Sara…Thea… Ray… Oliver…
…
It was as though the entire room spun around….
…
The vibe ended…
X
Cisco gasped when the vibe ended, bringing him back to the present. "I saw them." He told the people facing him with expecting and anxious looks.
"Alive?" Matt asked, not trusting these guys to not have outright killed their allies after capturing them.
"Yeah. They were in some kind of stasis, like a ship." Cisco stated. "It's a little Alien, a little Star Trek, J.J. Abrams style, and a whole lot of tech."
"You said tech!" Felicity shouted.
"Yes, I said tech." Cisco nodded. "It's an alien spaceship, Felicity, these guys aren't amateurs." He told her with an incredulous look.
Felicity stammered, unable to say the words. Curtis was more than happy to step in and help his friend. "I think where she's going is, if we had some, we might be able to download some intel off it, like, including everyone's location."
"Yes!" Felicity nodded.
"Hold please." Cisco rushed to his bag, searching for something.
Matt smirked, realizing what Cisco was looking for. "You got something interesting, don't ya Cisco?"
"Heck yeah." Cisco smiled, pulling out the device he had in mind. Handing the piece of technology to Curtis. "What about this?"
"What's that?" Felicity asked.
"I had Seth take this beauty off the Dominator ship that crashed in Central City. He was more than happy to pull it apart." Cisco chuckled.
"What?" Felicity said in surprise.
"Why're you surprised? It's Seth, he's more than happy to pull or tear into things. The doctor in him is begging to dissect something, morning and night." Matt said. It's a good thing Seth's not working at an actual hospital, he would have been thrown out of the building in a heartbeat.
"We're gonna hack alien tech." Curtis said gleefully, bringing the piece of alien tech closer to his face. "This is seriously the best day of my entire life!"
The nanite mutant smiled, it was a dependable team around them.
X
(Central City)
Back in Central City, at the hangar the heroes are using, Seth was looking out into the open space in front of him from on top of a crate. It was a strange thing to see the hangar so empty now. Everyone was busy trying to find the kidnapped Star City natives. Even Cisco and Felicity went to Star City to meet up with Team Arrow.
Seth forced Matt to come with the others, the nanite mutant threatening to tear him a new one for that. He smirked at that threat when it happened, knowing that it'd end up with a fight between him and the nanite mutant soon enough.
"Yo, what are you doing, dummy?" Seth looked down, seeing his sister look up at him.
"Chilling. What about you, Bubble?" Seth said back with a smirk, using her childhood nickname.
Olivia rolled her eyes, levitating up from the ground and hovered beside her big brother. "What's on your mind?"
"You already know." He said, not believing that his sister hadn't already dug into his brain with her powers.
"The girls." She took a seat beside her brother. "You're worried about them?"
"You know what could have happened if we hadn't stopped them before." Seth started. "The others are strong, I'm not doubting that, but the girls let themselves be swallowed up by their anger and almost took it out on the others. If we hadn't stopped them-"
"The number of heroes on this Earth would have been cut down by a large margin." Olivia finished his sentence. "But I'm mostly worried about Frankie."
"You noticed her being angrier than usual, too?" Seth asked.
"Pretty hard to not notice." She said back. "What happened when those girls fought the Sinister Seven?" She asked.
"They were overwhelmed. I had just gotten there, and they were at the end of their ropes. Anti-Venom attacked SS and me, knocking me out for a bit and then infected Rubs and Evie with anti-symbiotes. I woke up and… I lost control."
"You went abomination?" Olivia had to ask. Seth nodded honestly. "You want me and Matty to stay behind after this invasion mess? We wouldn't mind helping you guys out with these 616 villains and Alchemy and what not."
"No need. Focus on your kids." Seth said, hoping he'd get to meet his new family members soon enough. "Gotta go find Frankie, have a talk with her."
"No, you don't!" Olivia slapped his shoulder. Levitating off the crate, she said. "I'll find that kiddo and talk some sense into her. Leave it to good ol' Auntie Liv."
"Now I'm afraid." Seth quipped.
While flying backwards to the exit, Olivia flipped him the bird before levitating out of the hangar. Thankfully she didn't have to look too long for her niece as she already felt her mind nearby. Flying up and looking down on the roof of the hangar, she found her.
Sitting on the middle of the roof was Frankie, her knees brought up to her chest and her long hair flowing with the wind blowing over her. Olivia lowered herself to the roof, a couple of feet from her niece. "Hey honey."
"Hey Aunt Liv." Frankie greeted her aunt.
Olivia walked to her, and saw her body was covered in the trenchcoat that Seth gave her two years ago during the event of the Singularity. "What's with you, honey? You've been acting strange the whole time."
"I haven't been acting strange." Frankie countered without making eye contact. "What are you talking about?"
"Dear God, did your rebellious phase make a comeback or something?" Olivia quipped. "You fought the Sinister Seven." The psychic saw her niece twitch and her arms tighten around her knees. "That hard?"
"It's not because of them." Frankie stated, correcting her aunt who gave a confused look. "I watched… As Anti-Venom… I couldn't do anything and watched as that bastard hurt my own sisters. I watched as I saw them get infected with anti-symbiotes. I couldn't do anything and they… They were hurt, and almost died because I wasn't strong enough to stand against Anti-Venom."
Tears ran down her cheeks, her mind replaying the awful events in great detail that put her sisters on death's doorstep. It was horrible, and all she could do back then was just sit by their side after the wretched titan knocked her out.
In her eyes… She was utterly useless and pathetic against the white symbiote.
Hearing all of the thoughts swirling in her niece's head, Olivia wrapped an arm around her niece and brought her closer. "I know the feeling of facing or fighting against a powerful foe and not being able to do anything against him. We've all had this feeling, sweetie. Everyone here has had this feeling, it's nothing new. And trust me, the feeling is enough to make you want to lose yourself in rage and just devour all that's in front of you. But you can't let that happen, honey. You're stronger than that. Much, much stronger."
"But what will happen next time I fight him? I can't let that same thing happen, not to my sisters, not to my mom, my dad… My city. I have to become stronger, Aunt Liv." Frankie said.
Surprisingly enough, Olivia grimaced, and her niece faced her with a strange look. "You're starting to sound like your dad, it's creeping me out. Stop it."
"Seriously Auntie." The ferrokinetic groaned.
"But if you wanna get stronger, become stronger in your own way. Without losing yourself to the emotions that are trying to hook their claws on you right now." Olivia told her niece. "If you can keep a leveled head in a fight, you're able to make the smartest decisions in a heartbeat. Trust that and you'll be able to wipe the floor with Anti-Venom's stupid mug."
"You sure?" She asked her aunt.
"You stood your ground against Carnage when first using Magenta. You got to stop doubting your own strength, honey." Olivia assured her niece. "You're strong in your own way. Realize that, and then you'll be able to fight Anti-Venom and win against him with ease."
"You sure?" Frankie asked unsurely. "You really think I can?"
"Absolutely, honey." Olivia said, pulling her even closer into the hug. "You're a Snow-Fury, you're bound to be the strongest."
"Just hate how Dad had to hurt himself like that to help Evie and Rubs." Frankie said into her aunt's shoulder.
"Knowing your Dad, he'd have done the same over and over again. As long as it saved you girls, he'd have gone through Hell and back." Olivia stated wholeheartedly. "So, don't blame yourself any more for what happened, okay? Just… Be happy that you're back again and that your sisters are back too."
"And that I have my cool aunt and uncle back too." Frankie giggled, wrapping her own arms around her aunt's form. "I missed you, Aunt Liv."
"Missed you too, honey." Olivia placed a kiss on her niece's head. "Now… Since it's just the two of us up here." She jumped out of the hug, spiraling on the rooftop. "How about the two of us make up for the training me, your dad and my hubby had to cut in on… up here?" She gestured to the rooftop.
Frankie smirked, backflipping and landing on her feet. Her clothes morphed and covered her entire body, Magenta standing in front of Olivia. "Let's do this!"
X
(S.T.A.R. City, Arrowcave)
"Seriously, these are all the villains that have come from 616 to Earth-1?" Matt asked in disbelief while sitting at the computers. Though he wanted to help the others with examining the alien tech, he was assured that they could handle it. The mutant accepted and decided to talk with the elemental over in Central City via the console computers.
While speaking, he asked about the girls' fight with the Sinister Seven and got a list of members of the evil group.
Matt leant down with a shocked look. Hollowly chuckling, he told the elemental over the webcam. "Evie fought against Rhino, Shocker and Vulture?"
"Prior to getting a symbiote, but yeah." Seth nodded. "I'm still impressed she managed to fight against those crazies."
"No kidding, I fought Vulture and Electro years ago and they almost tore my suit and me in pieces." Matt chuckled.
"Yeah, remember that. I had to patch you up after Electro roasted you. God, you whined like you had a hole in your stomach."
"I did have a hole in my stomach, you environmental pest!" Matt shouted at the screen, unknowingly getting the others' attention. "Were you trying to patch up my wound or make it worse?"
"Not my fault, you can't handle a simple bit of pain, you damn rust bucket! At some point, you gotta learn to fucking deal with the pain!" Seth shouted from his end.
"Next time, I'll make you deal with the pain, you damn bastard!" Matt shouted into the screen.
"Like that's possible without you breaking into pieces, you damn rust-filled jackass!" Seth bellowed from his end.
Rory looked at Cisco. "Are they always like that?" He pointed a finger to the nanite mutant shouting at the computer screen, somehow found a gun and pointed it at the monitor. "And is he gonna break our stuff?"
"To those kinds of questions, always assume the answer's "yes."" Cisco told him.
Curtis sighed, looking away from his work. "I'm so conflicted." He got everyone's attention… Well, most of them, one mutant was busy with his heated argument with his brother-in-law. "You know, on the one hand, I get to hack actual extraterrestrial technology. But, on the other hand, ETs are real, but unfortunately they're dickwads who are gonna kill us."
Rory got his attention. "Don't worry, it's gonna work out."
Giving him a skeptical look, Curtis asked. "You're not gonna tell me God has a plan, are you?"
"Well…" Rory trailed off.
"Look, I respect your religion and all, I just find it a little hard to believe that there's some divine plan to the universe which also includes space monsters." Curtis said while moving away from the table and towards Felicity and Cisco.
"What's that?" Felicity asked, pointing a finger at the object in his hands.
"I like to call it the 3PO processor." Curtis smiled. ""I am fluent in over six million forms of communication."" He quoted the iconic robot.
Cisco looked at the processor in his hands. "And it speaks Dominator?"
"I didn't specifically program it for that, but in my defense, I didn't know the Dominators even existed." Curtis confessed while handing the device to the viber.
"Let's see if it works." Cisco said, attaching the processor to the piece of stolen alien tech.
As soon as he did that, the electronic device began beeping. Matt heard its sound and walked over to them, hearing them chuckle excitedly. "That looks interesting."
"Thanks." Curtis smiled. "I feel like Elliot in E.T. "It's working! It's working!"" He quoted the popular movie.
"Your tech guy quotes movies?" Cisco directed to Felicity.
"Yeah." Felicity said, her eyes locked onto the beeping device.
"Real original." Matt muttered. His and the others' attention turned to the devices that beeped much more and louder. The rapid sound didn't set with the nanite mutant. "What's going…" He trailed off when it shines with an ominous green light. "Everybody get down!"
They obliged, turning their heads away and covering their faces just in time for the machine to explode. The device was completely blown to pieces. "What happened?" Renee asked when coming closer to examine the damage.
"We made an idiot move, that's what happened. Ow!" Cisco hissed when trying to pick up a shard of metal from the blown device, retracting his fingers from its immense temperature.
"We've made an error." Matt quipped, using an armored gauntlet to pick up the piece that Cisco was unable to grab.
"We tried to plug human tech into a Dominator power source, of course it overloaded." Curtis realized.
"We need a regulator, okay?" Felicity pitched in.
"Something that can handle… Whatever's coursing through this damn thing." Matt followed up.
Curtis snapped his fingers, inspiration hitting him. "Van Horn Industries was working on a prototype for NASA over a year ago. Maybe they perfected it by now."
Felicity brought up everything she had about Van Horn Industries and events from last year. She groaned. "Yeah, they perfected it, all right. So much so, somebody's already stolen it. According to SCPD reports, it was a doctor named Laura Washington?"
"A doctor? That doesn't make any sense." Curtis admitted.
"Depends on the situation, Curtis." Matt chimed in.
Felicity continued her data-search and found more. "And here's why she needed it: She's been artificially augmenting herself with stolen technology, because why would the universe make anything easy?"
"Question that's been going on since the dawn of time." Matt quipped.
Curtis looked over her shoulder. "It says here, implants give her enhanced strength, stamina, and electricity based powers."
"A cyborg?" Matt smiled. "That definitely made this trip more interesting."
"More interesting than saving our friends from aliens?" Rory questioned.
"Hey, it's your first alien invasion, not mine." Matt told him.
"Nothing we can't handle." Curtis confidently said.
"That's everything we can't handle." Felicity shot down Curtis' confidence while retrieving her phone.
"Come on, Felicity, I mean, this might be our only chance to find Oliver and everyone else." Curtis argued.
"That's why I'm calling in reinforcements." Felicity said, turning away to call their reinforcements.
"And what?" Matt gestured to himself. "The guy who's practically a flying arsenal doesn't count as reinforcements?"
"Apparently not, Hoss." Renee stated.
"Gonna go call some backup myself." Matt added, pressing his earpiece.
X
(Central City)
"What? Stein has a kid? A daughter?" Seth rapidly asked his mate from the side of a crate he's sitting on. His eyes looked down at his mate who was sitting under him on a wheelchair. She nodded. "Since when?"
"Since… For a long time, Seth." Caitlin stated matter-of-factly. "Why are you surprised?"
Shrugging his shoulders, he responded. "I don't think I met her yet. Not before the Singularity mess, or even after I got back from Earth-2."
"She's Stein's daughter, Seth. She was always busy." Caitlin remarked. "But I did meet her a few times after the Singularity event, she helped make Frankie's room more comfortable after everything that happened."
"I'm always glad that even though I wasn't here, she was still surrounded by loving and generous people." Seth leaped off the crate and took a seat on the table. "Like her beautiful mother."
"Oh yeah." Caitlin leant up from her chair, standing in front of Seth before capturing his lips with a kiss. Seth reciprocated the kiss. She pulled out of the kiss and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You talk with Frankie? Check on her?"
"Liv said she'd take care of that, actually." The ceiling shook over their heads, immense forces shaking the roof. "And I think she's still "talking" it out with our daughter." Seth sheepishly said.
"Her version of talking and bonding with her family never changes." Venom mentally tilted his head. "But it's efficient."
"One word for it, yeah." Seth quipped.
Facing the ceiling, Caitlin added. "I imagine they're doing more than just "talking" right now, babe."
"One thing they've got in common is their need for battle." Seth joked, getting closer to the edge of the table, hanging a leg out. "It's a… unique characteristic, for sure."
"Yeah, no one will ever mess with our daughter. Daughters, actually, now that I think about it." Caitlin admitted with a chuckle.
"That's what I'm most happy about." Seth agreed. The two parents looked to the side, seeing their daughter, Evelyn walk towards the exit. "Evie, where are you going?"
"Don't tell us you're gonna join your sister up there?" Caitlin gestured to the shaking and tremoring ceiling.
"No way, I'm sure Aunt Liv will tear me a new one." She joked. "Uncle Matt called me and said he wanted me to be there with him in Star City. Mind if I go?"
"Of course not, honey. Be careful." Caitlin told her daughter, giving her a hug. "Star City's not the best of cities to be in at any time." She warned her child.
"I know, Mom." Evelyn told her mother before walking away, giving her father a wave and her entire form became engulfed by her "other" while she disappeared in a fog of shadows.
"Wonder why the Star City team recognized Evelyn?" Caitlin directed to her mate.
"You think they know her doppelganger?" Seth wondered.
"I'll call Felicity, get an update from her." Caitlin said, pulling out her phone.
X
Shadows erupted in the sky, Eclipse appeared out of them and fell to the ground. Before landing on the ground, she used the serpentine wings to halt her descent, lowering herself to the ground gently. She was outside the fences of the location her uncle told her of.
"10 out of 10." She heard Dusk rate her descent.
"Because I used your powers?" Evelyn questioned as she saw a rusty container after walking through the open gates. "You're not hard to please, you know, Dusk." The metahuman walked to the container, jumping onto the side of it and leant against it, her back sticking to the rusty metal like glue.
She smiled behind her mask. The metahuman had grown accustomed to the powers that come with being a host to a symbiote from the Earth-616 planet, Klyntar, as has her sister. The two of them were still feeling angered from being easily defeated by the Sinister Seven and Anti-Venom. But with the anger that came from that defeat, they also got a new and renewed sense of determination.
They wanted to get better and stronger more than before, and they now wanted to defeat all threats looming in their city. "Sinister Seven, you're gonna regret meeting us the next time we face off."
"That's the spirit." Evelyn looked to the side, seeing her uncle hover close to her side. "You're getting a good handle of your new powers, honey. It took your old man months getting the handle on them."
"Remember, Dad had to figure that out on his own and learn from the other Venom. But me and Rubs, we have him and Frankie to teach us." The metahuman told her uncle.
"And you're progressing at an incredible pace." Matt noted, though he wasn't surprised. Even at their age, the three girls are getting stronger and better faster than he and Seth did in the past. They improved their minds and their skills at the same time, but these girls had already strengthened their minds and their powers are improving as well.
Sooner or later, these three girls would become the real protectors of their home.
"Hey, how are the twins, Uncle Matt?" Evelyn asked.
Chuckling behind his mask, Matt answered. "Pretty sure they're crying their eyes out from dealing with their grandfathers fighting."
"Grandpa Nick and your dad not getting along?" Evelyn asked.
"Pretty big understatement, sweetie." The mutant quipped.
WHOOSH
A flash of lightning rushed past the gates, coming to a stop and revealed himself to be Barry who dropped off two people. One was wearing a black Fairplay jacket, black pants and black boots. To hide his face, he has his hair styled back in a style similar to braids and wears a black face that appears to be in the shape of a T. He also has a pair of black leather gloves.
Matt recognized that one as Curtis Holt. The other was completely covered from head to toe in dirty old rags. "Nice suits."
"Hi!" Evelyn waved her hand.
"Hey, you're Eclipse, right?" Curtis asked excitedly. "Felicity told us you look like someone we know, Evelyn Sharp."
Her mask slithered off and Evelyn showed her face to the heroes of Star City. "I'm Evelyn Fury, formerly known as Evelyn Sharp of Earth-2."
"So, you're her doppelganger? That's so cool." Curtis admitted. "Oh yeah, I'm Mr. Terrific."
"Ragman, or Rory Reagan under the rags." Rory gestured to himself, speaking in a distortive voice.
"Pleasure to meet you guys." Eclipse said before the symbiote covered her face again. She looked between them. "Didn't you say it was gonna be three guys from Star City?" She directed to her uncle.
"It was, where's the last one?" Matt asked the natives.
"He… He had his own method of transportation." Ragman admitted.
As if on cue, the sound of a revving motor reached their ears and they saw a motorcycle drive towards them. The rider was wearing a suit… of sorts. It appeared to be a makeshift suit. The suit consists of a hockey mask, a blue shirt with a red dog in the center of it, a blue shirt under it, army pants, brown gloves and a holster. The rider came to a stop and turned off his engine.
"You should've taken him up on his offer to carry you." Mr. Terrific pointed to the speedster as he spoke to Wild Dog. "It was awesome."
"Nobody's carrying me anywhere." Renee countered.
Ragman got the speedster's attention. "It's so cool that Felicity reached out, it's awesome to meet you."
Barry smirked. "Yeah, well, wait till you meet her."
Matt and Evelyn looked up when hearing something whooshing and flying through the air, seeing Supergirl land on the metal crater. Kara stood back up, putting her hands on her hips and struck a pose. "Hey, everyone!"
"Wow, she's really… Cheery." Matt admitted.
"Oh, I've had enough of this." Wild Dog snidely said, getting off his motorcycle and took out his gun, quickly moving towards the entrance to the facility.
Evelyn jumped off the crater. "I'll scout ahead, Uncle Matt." Matt gave her a nod, she disappeared in a smog of shadows.
"Your niece, right?" Kara asked the armored mutant.
"One of three I have here on this Earth." Matt stated. "Evie's gonna scout and keep an eye on… Ramirez." He said sheepishly, not knowing his codename.
"Wild Dog." Ragman said, stating the codename of his friend.
"Wild Dog, then. I'll fly up and find an entrance above in case our dear doctor isn't alone." Matt informed the other heroes before flying up, traveling over the building.
Flash sped after Wild Dog, coming to a stop when finding him walk ahead with his gun in his hand. "Yo, you want some company?"
Giving him a brief look over his shoulder, Renee turned his sights back to the front. "Not really."
Shadows erupted in front of him and Barry, Evelyn appearing out of them. Renee looked frustrated at her shadowporting powers. "Doesn't look like there's anyone else here, but I haven't found that doctor yet."
"Right, thanks Evie." Barry thanked the girl who formed a bow around her left wrist, lifting it up while forming arrows in her right hand. He turned to Renee who continued onwards. "Um, so what exactly is it you've "had enough of"?"
"Nothing. I just didn't know there were flying metahumans now." Renee said. "Or teleporting mini-Venoms now."
Both Matt and Supergirl appeared from the sky, Renee groaning at their presence. "No sign of Washington." Kara said.
"Evie, you find anything?" Matt asked his niece.
"Nothing, couldn't find the doctor either." She answered.
"Oh, yeah, Supergirl's not a meta, she's an alien. Iron Knight's not one either, he's a mutant." Barry clarified.
Kara added quickly. "Oh, well, I'm one of the good ones."
"There are no good ones." Renee asked.
"Hey, what's your damage, man?" Barry asked.
Wild Dog holstered his firearm, turning around to face the powers heroes as he took off his hockey mask. "My "damage" is that people like you four have the power of gods, yet you think you can make the world a better place just by putting on a fancy costume."
Matt looked at his new armor, not believing it to be fancy in way or form. He chose a sinister design for a reason, after all. Evelyn didn't jump in but listened closely to the conversation.
"No, we think we make the world a better place because…" Kara shared a look and a shrug with the speedster. "Well, we do." Barry nodded his agreement.
"Look around." Wild Dog countered. "Moment he showed up…" He pointed to Flash. "Metas start appearing everywhere." He looked at Kara. "Now you show up, and we get aliens." He faced Matt and Evelyn. "And let's not forget the moment Venom came to the scene, more crazies followed, like that red guy he fought in the middle of the city. And seems like that was only the beginning with more of his familiar crazies coming back. Superpowers are evil, man, and I don't want anything to do with them or with any of you." He was about to put on his mask.
"Hey." Evelyn stopped him, getting his attention as her mask slithered up to reveal her face. "I doubt you know this, but do you know why my Dad fought that crazy red guy that looks like him?"
"Because he was a villain and your dad's a "good" guy?" Renee asked with air quotes.
"That, and because Carnage kidnapped my sister and held her hostage." Evelyn revealed. "My dad fought Carnage to protect this city, his home, his friends, his family… and his children." Renee gulped. "My dad took a sword through his chest, through his heart for his home. If you don't like superpowers and think they're evil, go ahead, I won't lose any sleep over that. But I won't stand here and let you throw dirt at what my dad's done for his city, for his family. He chose to protect Central City against all crazies, and he's here to help stop the Dominators too."
With that she slithered her mask over her face again and walked away. She came to a stop in front of a door. Matt saw her action. "Eclipse, what is it?"
One of her serpentine wings raised itself, pointing to the door. "Someone's in there."
"I'll check it out." Renee said, putting on his mask again and pulled out his gun. He opened the door and entered the wide room that appeared to be akin to a storage room. He looked around, checking out the entire room.
However, his examination came to an end when suddenly a bright blue energy shot hit him and launched him back into a rusty machine. He groaned, pushing himself up to face cybernetically enhanced Laura Washington.
The woman with a cybernetic eye and a cybernetic arm looked at Wild Dog, her raised arm charging with bluish energy, converging to her finger. "What do you want?" She asked threateningly, her finger lightning up with energy.
Wild Dog pushed himself up to his feet. "You stole something from Van Horn Industries."
"You mean this?" The woman raised her right hand, showing something the size of a chip embedded in her appendage.
"Yeah, hand it over." Renee demanded.
She faced him with a cold glare. "Or what?"
"I'll take it from you." He bluntly said.
"I doubt that." Laura fired off a pair of energy shots after him, Renee dodged them as he ran around and opened fire with his two guns. But he tripped and fell into a shelf. "Do you wanna give up?"
Wild Dog got up. "I'm just getting started."
"So am I." The finger of her cybernetic arm charged with more energy.
"Mind if cut in?" Laura looked up to see a circular black metal shield bash into her. The energy in her finger released itself, striking the shield and causing the shield to lose its momentum so it couldn't hurt her too badly. The cybernetically-enhanced doctor came to a stop, looking at the wielder of the shield, seeing that it was Iron Knight. "So, you're the knight from Central City, wanted to see your armor for a while."
"Always a pleasure to meet a fan." Matt quipped, transforming his circular shield into a rectangular one while forming a sword in his other arm. "Like my colleague said, we need that tech in your arm, Doctor Washington. How about we try the nice approach, and you hand it over nicely?"
"Doctor Washington? Been a while since I've been called that." She said while facing him. "And what if I don't want the nice approach?"
"Ask her." Matt nodded behind her.
Laura turned around and a hardened symbiote bow slammed into her arm. She groaned and slid back, only to feel the nanite mutant's shield slam into her back, knocking her to the side. "Give up, Washington! You're outnumbered!"
"Not happening kid." The cybernetic woman raised her eyes, her left cybernetic eye shining before releasing beams of blue energy at the three of them. Matt used his shield to block the energy attack, Evelyn disappeared in shadows to dodge. Renee would have been shot down if not for the Scarlet Speedster who sped in and grabbed him, getting him out of the way.
"What-" Laura was cut off when she had to dodge the various swings from Eclipse's wings that she's lashing out after him.
"You're not finished with us!" Evelyn exclaimed, spiraling around and used her wings to repeatedly slam into Laura. Each strike to her body caused the cybernetically-enhanced doctor to instinctively shoot energy beams from either her eye or her arm.
"Wow!" Barry let out, dodging the energy shots. "We're gonna be toast if she hits us with those."
"Then don't get hit!" Matt countered, using a rail gun to cancel out the random shots. Noticing the tech on her body, he got an idea. "Flash, hit her with your fists."
Barry accepted, seeing that Evelyn heard her uncle's orders and jumped away before speeding forward. After gathering up enough speed, he sped to Laura and unleashed a series of hits. Any and all energy beams that came from her prosthetics were canceled out by both Matt and Evelyn's long range attacks before they could do any damage.
As they did this, Supergirl joined the fray, flying down and landing in the room with them. Her landing blew stray paper away. Barry moved away from Laura who he had pushed up to a wall and high-fived the Kryptonian after sharing a smile.
Understanding his intentions, Kara walked over to the doctor and grabbed hold of her. She lifted her up and reeled back a fist just as Barry stood back in the far end of the room, ready for action. Using all of her strength, she punched Laura and watched her fly straight into the air.
Barry sped into her, using an arm to thrust her back to the ground and knock her out at Supergirl's feet.
Curtis and Rory rushed in. Ragman said. "That was awesome."
Mr. Terrific turned his eyes to the chip-sized device embedded in her arm. "There's the regulator. She seems pretty attached to it." He chuckled at his own joke.
"Want me to cut it off?" Matt said, quickly forming a large cleaver-like sword with his nanites.
"Unc, no!" Evelyn shouted, using her wings snatch the sword out of his hand. "You can't just do that to people! Much less suggest it!"
"I'm joking… Kind of." Matt sheepishly added just as his niece shot him a stern look.
"Maybe we just remove it… Like, without the need for amputation?" Barry said worriedly.
"Okay, yeah." Curtis said, crouching down to retrieve the regulator.
Holstering his gun, Renee told the other heroes. "Thanks for the save."
Kara gave him a look. "Is that all you have to say?" She said sternly.
"I don't do apologies, sweetheart." Renee started; Kara looked down in response. He then took off his mask. "But if superpowers are a thing, it's good there are guys like you to help the world. And that includes your old man." He said with a glance directed to Evelyn. "You know, the green guy would've kicked my ass if I talked to him like that."
They laughed in response. "Yeah. Be happy it wasn't Seth, he'd either ignore you or straight-up eat you." Matt's joke put a damper on the laughter.
X
Having returned to the Arrowcave, Felicity and Cisco began working on the task with the newly-acquired regulator. Matt aided them after sending off his niece, Evelyn. Barry and Kara returned to the hangar in Central City. "You really know how to work this tech, Matt." Curtis asked while watching the mutant work.
"When an alien species invaded my Earth, they left a lot of leftovers. I examined every piece of it I could get my hands on." Matt said, lowering his tools and examining the devices in front of him on the table. "I've always liked working with this kind of stuff. And your tech is impressive, Curtis."
"Unfortunately, my translator's not gonna work with this." Curtis regrettably said, moving away from the table with Cisco and Matt.
"Any luck with the regulator we took off CyberWoman?" Rory asked the scientists as they came his way.
""CyberWoman"? I think I'm starting to like you guys." Cisco said approvingly of the name.
"The regulator worked, but my translator did not." Curtis said.
"Only thing we did get back from the Dominator tech was…" Matt turned a tablet around, showing his findings and displayed a mess of code that was unbelievably unreadable. "This mess. It's nothing like the code I've seen before."
"What?" Felicity exclaimed. "What, no, no, no, no, this…" She snatched the tablet. "No, this just looks random."
"It's not." Rory said, surprising everyone at his sudden confidence. "It's Gematria." They gave him confused looks. "Gematria is the numerology of-"
"Of the Torah." Felicity realized as she examined the code with her own eyes. "How did I not see that?"
Renee pitched in. "For the gentiles and those of us who actually had social lives in high school, what the hell are you talking about?"
"I think I heard of this from my Earth." Matt noted. "Each letter possesses the value of a number, in Hebrew."
"Exactly, and Gematria is the calculation of the numerical equivalence of letters, words, or phases." Rory added.
Baffled by that revelation, Curtis had to ask. "You mean the Dominators' language is based off the Old Testament?"
"Or shares commonalities, at least." Rory stated. Curtis and Cisco were still baffled by that. "You wanted proof of a "divine plan to the universe," right?"
The computer in front of her chimed before Felicity said. "Guys, I'm getting references to five Terran Captives here."
"Got a location?" Matt asked. The others moved closer to her look at the results of her findings.
"Yeah, the signal is coming from…" She trailed off at the results. "That's not possible. -3.127 latitude, -23.7987 longitude…"
"That doesn't make any sense. Geographical coordinates don't have any negative numbers." Cisco said.
"Technically they do…" Matt corrected him.
"But only when-" Felicity got a flash of inspiration. "Oh, my God, I think I know where they are."
X
"ARGH!" Magenta shouted as a pair of psychic cubes hit her, knocking her across the rooftop. She groaned as she rolled against the hard, sharp tiles. She finally came to a stop, pushing several tiles down the roof. "Aunt Liv, you never hold back, do ya?" She held her bruised stomach.
"Why would I hold back against my own niece?" Olivia asked while walking towards her downed family member. The sun was slowly setting, darkening the skies over their heads. "You can handle it, kiddo. But you have to use more of your ferrokinetic powers in a fight, even your symbiote powers have their limits."
"Pretty problematic to use those when there's a chance there's no metal around me." Frankie noted.
Olivia gestured to the darkened skies around them. "Honey, we're gonna be fighting an alien invasion, we'll have spaceships all around us, and you can bet your ass they're gonna be made of metal. You're gonna be alright and you'll have all the metal you need, trust me."
"But it's dangerous still." She said once her mask slithered off. "What if I… What if I can't control myself? What if I can't protect my family?"
"Practice and practice, honey. But most of all, you have to believe in yourself." Olivia said. "And don't worry about your family, you're not gonna be alone out there, you'll have people beside you."
"She's right, Frankie." The two of them turned around to find Ruby walking towards them. "We got your back."
"I don't doubt that Sis. It's just-"
"You're blaming yourself for what happened when Anti-Venom attacked us." Evelyn cut her sister off, shadowporting to her side.
"You guys knew?!" Frankie looked between her sisters before facing her aunt, thinking she had telepathically told them of her inner dilemma. But Olivia shook her head, assuring her young ferrokinetic niece that she had nothing to do with this.
Ruby chuckled. "Course we knew, dummy. We got symbiotes too, they could feel your doubts oozing out of you like sweat."
"Gross." Evelyn admitted to her sister's words. "But we knew you were struggling with this for a while, Frankie. But it's not your fault, we were too weak to fight against Anti-Venom."
"But we've leveled the playing field now… And the scales are tipping in our favor now." Ruby said while tendrils sprouted from her body.
Frankie widened her eyes with realization. "The younger the generation, the stronger the symbiote is."
"Exactly…" The three daughters turned to their aunt and saw their father had joined them. "Granted we don't know if Anti-Venom's younger than your guys or older, so… The defining factor comes down to experience and fighting skills."
"Dad?" Frankie said.
"Which is why I propose this: Fight against each other, and with each other." Seth declared.
"As a team?" Evelyn asked.
"Exactly, the three of you together can cover each other's blink spots, handle multiple opponents and when one of you is in trouble, the other two will come to your rescue. You are sisters, you can depend on and trust one another." Seth told them. "Believe in yourselves, cover each other and fight together. That way, no one will be able to stand against you."
Ruby smiled at her father's belief in them. "That's a good speech and all, Dad, but pretty hard to prove it without some big threat here to test it on."
"Is that so, little girl?" Olivia smirked.
In an instant, the three of them flinched and took up their arms, all three of them engulfed by their symbiotes.
Their father showed a smirk himself as his clothes morphed and shifted into symbiote mass. "We may be your family…" The symbiote engulfed his entire body. "But we can be pretty big threats ourselves." Venom told the three girls.
"Even without your Uncle Matt." Olivia said as she had the nanites of her rectangular box cover her entire body, forming her suit. "We'll see if you girls can handle a pair of threats like us… If not, we'll make sure you can handle us by the end of the day."
The three girls realized they're gonna face off against a pair of big threats now.
X
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Oliver Queen, Thea Queen, John Diggle, Sara Lance and Ray Palmer found themselves in a peculiar location. Granted it's an alien spaceship in outer space.
After being kidnapped by the Dominators, the five of them were in a totally different world… A world where they were not heroes. They had no memories of their lives in the world they were born and raised in.
In this world… Oliver never got on the Queen's Gambit. In this world, his father Robert never committed suicide to assure his son's survival, so that he could right the wrongs he had done in Starling City. In this world, his mother Moira was never skewered by Deathstroke's sword. His and Thea's parents are alive in this strange world…
But more shockingly… Laurel Lance, the Canary of Star City… She is alive in this world and is Oliver's fiancée and their very own wedding is imminent.
He wasn't even the Arrow in this world… Everything in this world seemed perfect.
Perfect though… Something about this world didn't sit right with Oliver. He started experiencing flickers… Flashes of something else. Another life.
It started when Sara visited the Queen estate to join the wedding, her sister inviting her in and showing her the Canary necklace she wears around her neck. She got strange flickers, like static running through her head. The next one to feel something like that was Oliver. It happened after he and his father were saved by an archer in a green hood.
After hearing his own father call him a hero, Oliver suddenly got strange memories. He saw himself on a raft, shouting out into the big and wide ocean and seeing their family boat Queen's Gambit go down. It wasn't the only one, he saw his own father kill himself with a gun and also give a rock to his little sister.
Because of these memories, these flashes… He began investigating these flashes however he could. It led him to the green archer's base of operations, where he met his support, Felicity Smoak and the archer himself, John Diggle.
After conversing with John again, he realized that this world was not real… Especially after seeing Sara suddenly display impressive swordsmanship to dispose of a man in heavy equipment. They were being played with, throwing them into a world that is not real.
Both he and John got the others back, reminding them of their real lives in the real world. Some struggled to leave this perfect world, but they came along and joined the others. They met some resistance but disposed of them before finally leaving this world that the Dominators have constructed for them.
Though he was out of the fake world, John could still feel pain from when he was damaged inside of the fake world.
Ray led his friends down a hallway, just in time as two Dominators passed by. Thea walked up to the scientist's side. "Okay, so how do we find our way out of an alien spacecraft?"
Pointing ahead of them, Ray said. "This way. Even though it's an alien technology, certain principles of design are universal." The group rounded a corner… and came to regret their decisions. "Or not."
More than a dozen Dominators in front of them turned around, facing the heroes they kidnapped.
Oliver glanced to the side, seeing what appeared to be a weapon or sorts, similar to a large firearm. Aiming it at the evil aliens, he pulled the trigger and released a large energy beam. The energy beam pushed several Dominators down to the ground. Seeing the result, the archer noted. "Ray was right, certain principles of design are universal." He noted while firing off various beams at the Dominators when they tried to jump after them.
The archer kept firing beams at the Dominators while moving backwards with his friends. They moved away from that corridor, rushing down another one and entered a hallway. The group rushed down the hall, entering a hangar of sorts, showing a lot of machines with flying capabilities.
"You think you can fly one of these things?" John asked.
Oliver answered, his eyes locked onto the flying Dominator ships. "I'm hoping that between you, me, Ray, and Sara, someone can fly one of these things."
The five of them entered the nearest one, seeing that the ship could house five passengers. Each one of them took a seat, each of them sitting in front of some sort of console as they sat in the green-ish metallic ship.
Sara looked around questioningly. "Okay, now what?" She asked while examining and looking for the button that'd turn on this unfamiliar, alien spacecraft.
Oliver looked from his seat, glancing at the scientist with PhDs under his belt. "Ray?"
"Uh, now might be a good time to find the owner's manual." Ray quipped, unsure of what to do in this spacecraft.
Thea took a gamble, pressing a hand on the same console that the others have in front of them. The entire spacecraft beeped, the consoles in front of everyone going leaning towards them with a whirring sound. The red archer chuckled. "And Mom said I wouldn't amount to anything if I didn't go to college." She gave a glance to her brother who chuckled in response.
Much to their hopes, the spacecraft was ejected from the larger mothership. Out in the big wide space, it spiraled around before the wings ejected and started flying. None of the passengers seemed to do anything, each of them deducing that the ship has autopilot functionalities programmed into it.
From the Dominators mothership, more spacecrafts were ejected from exit ports under it. Soon… In a matter of seconds, a fleet of enemy spacecrafts followed the one the heroes had stolen.
Ray looked at the console in front of him. "Uh, really hope you hit autopilot cause I don't see any controls on this thing."
An alarm began blaring around them "Hold on, we got incoming." John announced.
"How do you know?" Sara questioned before the entire ship shook from an outside shockwave.
"Lucky guess?" John quipped.
Outside a rain of energy bullets began coming their way, none of them hitting the heroes. But a single shot came their way, hitting the ship and shook it, causing it to spiral uncontrollably.
"We need to find a way to steer this thing, or we're not gonna last very long." Oliver stated the obvious.
Three ships hover close to each other in a triangle-like formation. Red beams of energy connect from their artillery guns, forming a triangle of energy. The energy of all three ships converge to the middle of the red triangle, concentrating the mass into a single spot before about to release it all, finally decimating the heroes that have escaped their clutches.
But then the Legends' ship, the Waverider, appeared in front of the three Dominators ships, cutting off their formation. While the three ships were disoriented, from on top of the time ship, is Iron Knight. Forming foot clamps around his feet, anchoring him to the ship, the mutant raised his arms and opened his palms.
With his repulsors, he fired off beams at the three Dominator ships, destroying their wings and letting them crash into the others. He repeated this technique with others that came close, using rail guns that formed from his back.
"Would you like some assistance with the cleanup, Mr. Stark?" The ship's AI, Gideon, inquired of the nanite mutant.
"No way, Gideon. This is perfect target practice." Matt said excitedly as he continued shooting down alien ships one after another. "Wish Seth was here; I could shove this into his face and brag all day long."
"Would you like me to record your practice, Mr. Stark?" The AI from the future asked.
"Yes, please!" Matt shouted. "Jarvis, you could learn something from Gideon?"
"I have already grown to appreciate her interior design, sir." Jarvis confessed.
"Wait, what?" Matt said before releasing a unibeam from his chest, shooting down two ships in the process.
Did his AI just admit to flirting with Gideon?
From within the Waverider, the crew members told Iron Knight. "Yo, Knight, best if you get your armor-clad butt back in here so you don't get lost in the Temporal Zone." The voice said as the ship used a tractor beam to grab the spacecraft occupied with the Star City natives.
"Will do!" He shouted reluctantly, walking backwards and reached the hatch. He entered the time ship quickly before the ship time jumped.
The mutant groaned when getting back into the ship, Gideon closed the hatch behind him. "That was impressive to say the least."
A voice said, revealing that the owner's a beautiful African-American woman with curly hair, clad in a shirt with a jacket over it and black pants. She has a sort of golden tribal-looking necklace that has several bone fragments similar to either teeth, claws or both with a small golden cat-shaped head in the middle.
"Thanks… Uh…" Matt met Nate Heywood, the other crew member of the Waverider, not this one so he didn't know her name.
"Amaya Jiwe." The Spirit Totem bearer helped the mutant when seeing him struggle to find her name. "Matt Stark, right?"
"One and only." Matt boasted while his mask dismantled. "Whoo, that was fun."
The animal powered woman gave him a look like he was crazy. "You're an interesting individual, Matt."
"Why thank you, Amaya. Oh yeah, nice necklace." He nodded to the tribal necklace around her neck. She thanked him with a nod and a soft smile as she led him to the bridge.
"Get out!" Thea exclaimed at the spacious bridge with circular console in the middle of the room in front of a research room and a row of seats with belts and a view in front of the cockpit.
"Thanks for the save." Oliver thanked Nate who led him, Ray and Thea into the bridge.
"No problem. And don't forget about this guy." The historian pointed to the nanite mutant walking in with his crewmate. "He was the one who shot those Dominators down."
"Why are you here?" Oliver asked.
"I have a suit that's been upgraded to handle the outer space environment, and I have a shit ton of long-range weaponry, unlike most of the guys back on Earth." Matt said.
Thea smacked her brother's head, jumping in. "I think my brother tried to say, "thank you for saving us, Matt", but he must have fumbled his words. And thank you for saving us."
"All in a day's work, so no problem, Thea. Though your brother's way of thanking people sucks." Matt countered bluntly.
"Well… Speaking of problems, we still got some." Ray regrettably said.
"Like what, Ray?" Amaya inquired of the scientist.
Ray faced them all. "After we woke up, I got a look at the tech the Dominators were using to keep us under. They're using a neuromorphic interface similar to how I manipulate the Atom suit."
"What?" Oliver asked.
"What does that mean?" Thea asked as well.
Stammering his response, Ray said. "I think… I think the shared hallucination was to keep our minds occupied while the Dominators-"
"While the Dominators what?" Matt blinked his eyes in realization. "They probed your subconscious."
"Yeah, that's what I think as well." Ray told the mutant.
"Probed our heads for what?" Thea asked.
"Intel, most likely." Matt told the red archer.
"Wait, maybe they didn't choose us at random. Maybe they chose us because we couldn't fight back." Ray stated.
Nate followed his train of thought. "Because none of you are metahumans."
"Bigger question, what intel were they after?" Oliver inquired. "What is their plan?"
"Good question, go and knock on their front door, maybe they'll give you an answer before throwing you back in a mind prison." Matt joked and the green archer gave him a glare.
Suddenly, Ray recited some sentences that the Dominators spoke back on their mothership.
"Gesundheit." Thea said in German.
"No, it's what one of the Dominators said to another." Realizing his words, Ray laughed. "Which sounds like the beginning of a not so funny joke, but… Gideon?"
"Translating." In the middle of the console, the blue head of the AI manifested.
Thea shared a look with her brother at the sight of the floating blue head. "You ever think that our lives would really get this weird?"
Having translated the Dominator sentence, Gideon revealed her results. "The phrase loosely translates to, "We are nearing completion of the weapon.""
"What weapon?" Amaya asked in worry.
"I'm afraid I have no idea…" Gideon started. "But I'm tracking the Dominators mothership you escaped from. And it appears to be on a direct course for Earth."
"Great… That's just… Great." Matt thought.
X
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Inside of the large Dominator mothership, two Dominators watched the screen in front of them. While the other spacecrafts returned to the hangar on their ship, they decided to review the footage that their reconnaissance teams had sent them.
Though it was impossible for humans to see on their faces, the two Dominators turned shocked at the sight of familiar beings revealing themselves… Four hosts… One larger than the other three…
They watched the four beings fight off their three reconnaissance teams, managing to either push back, hurt or take out various members of their platoons.
One Dominator faced the other. "They fester this universe as well?"
The other Dominator hissed in disgust.
"The offspring of Knull have infested this world, indeed." The alien said while seeing the evil god's children fight off more of their comrades with animalistic ferocity and mad strength.
To be continued…
And that's a chapter, pees!
Sorry for the short chapter, but the flashback/ other world part of this installment was pretty boring, so I didn't feel like adding it. Hope you guys still like the second installment of the Invasion crossover, despite it being short. But the third part's already on its way, work in progress and will be longer, promise.
But in this chapter, it showed that the Dominators are familiar with the spawn of the evil lord of the dark, Knull. What could this mean for Earth-1, the multiverse and later stories that will come after Flashpoint Mayhem.
And some surprise cameos are gonna take place in the next chapter, food for thought.
Stay tuned and until next time, peeps!
Once again, another Merry Christmas to all of you. And in case we don't see each other until after New Year's, happy New Years!