Standing around in the prison yard, Sara, Jax, Professor Stein, J'onn, and Clark looked around them uncomfortable. All the miserable prisoners, wearing different badges on them, crying, and angry, and guards threatening to kill anyone who got out of line. "So this craphole's Earth-X," Jax said.
"Wells was right," Stein said.
"He usually is," Sara said.
"It's hard to believe a place like this exists on any Earth," J'onn said, and Professor Stein looked back at his friends.
"I wish I shared your sentiment, but in all my travels to distant times, one thing that sadly remains constant in men's ability to feel hated for other men," He said and Clark looked at the other prisoners sadly.
"Keep moving!"
"Move!"
"All prisoners, stay away from the gate!"
Jax looked outside of the prison yard to see prisoners being dragged off, crying, different shape badges on their grey prison uniforms. "Stars and triangles-"
"Badges used to identify purported crimes these people have committed to land in here," Professor Stein said.
Jax then saw someone near them a badge on him as well. "What's the pink triangle for? What did you do?"
"I loved the wrong person," he said.
Immediately, a worried Sara looked at her hero friends, who looked at her worried as well. "We got to get out of here," Sara then looked at Professor Stein and Jax. "Transmute us out."
"With pleasure," Professor Stein said before turning to Jax.
The two collided their hands together, everyone expected them to turn into FIRESTORM. But they never did. Clark looked at them confused before looking at J'onn, to see him trying to break the collar from his neck. But no luck. He tried breaking it off from his neck as well, but nothing was happening either. "I can't seem to break through them either."
"Power-dampening collars," Barry realized.
"Well, why are you guys wearing them, then?" Jax asked Clark and J'onn.
"Yeah, aren't you guys indestructible?" Barry asked them.
"Red sun takes away our powers including Kara's," Clark said.
"Doesn't matter. There's too many guards here anyways," Sara said.
"They're gonna kill Kara," J'onn said.
"We have to get her back. The both of them," Clark added on as J'onn looked away and made Oliver suspicious about that.
"Look, we're not gonna let that happen, J'onn, I promise you. We're gonna get back to our Earth before then," Sara assured.
"How?" Clark asked. "We don't even know how we got here."
"No, we don't. But we're gonna figure it out. We're gonna find a way to get out of this place, and we're gonna get back to the people we love," Oliver assured.
"I just hope everyone is okay," Barry muttered.
Earth 1: STAR Labs
Cisco jerked slightly when he heard a banging sound nearby, and he groaned. "What?"
"Rip Van Ramon awakens!" Harry announced dramatically from the next cell over, continuing to bounce his ball against the wall.
Cisco turned his head, then frowned, realizing his face was against glass. He backed up slightly, frowning when he saw where he was. "This doesn't look like a wedding."
He heard a muffled Canary Cry from a few cells over, then heard Caitlin call from above. "You missed quite a bit, Cisco!"
"All you need to know," Harry continued bouncing his ball, "is that you are locked in one of your fabulous anti-metahuman cells with the rest of us, and we can't escape."
"Of course we can't," Cisco grumbled, slumping against the wall. "That's what I designed them for, genius!"
"Good command of the obvious," Harry snorted.
"Boys," Caitlin warned.
"Is that a ball?" Cisco narrowed his eyes.
"Why?" Harry asked. "Is it bothering you?"
"Yes." Harry smirked and kept at it, trying to bounce it even louder. "God!" Cisco groaned, backing up and kicking the neighboring wall. "Hey!"
Dinah groaned, putting her hands on her hips. "Are they gonna do that the whole time we're in here?"
"Probably," Caitlin admitted.
"It hurts! Cut it out!"
"Cut what out?"
"Oh, my God," Dinah closed her eyes, leaning her forehead against the glass. "They totally are."
Caitlin sighed, leaning against the glass as Harry and Cisco continued to bicker. "Told you so."
Alex's eyes were way too heavy as she started to come to. "S.T.A.R. Labs," Harry sighed, and Alex blinked. "You know," Harry continued, rolling over in a wheelchair as Kara continued to struggle, trying to get free. "I, uh . . . I built this place with my own hands and called it home for fifteen man with Wells's face stood up and took off the glasses, sneering as he walked over. "I hated every minute of it."
"Where are my friends?" Alex demanded.
"Your Friends?" Thawne asked. "They're on Earth-X. I wouldn't worry about your 'friends' too much because they're not going to be alive much longer. I'm actually surprised their your friends not after they find out what you did to Kara."
Alex swallowed as Thawne turned away, and she tried to break free from the restraints and digging into her pocket to grab her knife that she kept hidden just in case if she got kidnapped, she'd be able to break free from her enemies. She heard a familiar dark chuckle. "Sister, don't worry we made sure to remove every weapon you had hidden. We don't trust you enough knowing your gonna break free."
Alex swallowed. She started putting the pieces together knowing why her sister was here "You did all this just – " Kara swallowed. "Just to get me? Do you know how many innocent people you killed?!"
"Their lives to save mine?" Kara smirked arrogantly. "Well, they should feel honored!" Alex gasped on how her sister changed. Kara loved seeing her sister afraid and vulnerable just like how she felt when she betrayed her. "It's a strange sensation, isn't it? Feeling vulnerable?"
Alex swallowed hard. "It's just gonna get worse for you," Thawne said and Alex looked at him. "Because that red sunlight I'm gonna use it on your sister, it's gonna soften her up pretty soon and you're gonna work on the serum. Once that's done she's gonna kill you just like Overgirl killed her own Alex for betraying her just like you did."
"J'onn will kill you for this," Alex said sternly.
"But where is your precious father?" Thawne asked Alex. "We should probably get you going."
"Good," she sat back up. "That'll give me time to talk to . . . " She smiled darkly. "My sister."
Alex tried to keep her breathing level to normal, but she knew that won't work because after she finishes her task Kara is gonna kill her.
Looking through the vents, was Iris, Felicity, and Winn, the three of them listening on the whole conversation. And Iris was shaking in fear from hearing the tone in her soon-to-be husband super friend voice, and having no power to save her. "Did you hear that? Everyone else is on Earth-X."
"And Alex only has a few hours before they kill her," Winn whispered after hearing what Thawne told Alex. He couldn't believe that her own sister betrayed her.
"We gotta stop them," Iris whispered.
"Got any ideas?" Felicity asked.
"I don't know. Give me some time to think," Iris whispered.
"Iris, I'm all for girl power plus boy power and everything, how are Winn, me, and you gonna stop the meaner, Nazi version of my ex-boyfriend and...people with superpowers?" Felicity asked.
"We don't have to. We just need to get to the pipeline and get Cisco. He could turn off all the power to the building and breach us out of here," Iris whispered.
"Do you know how to get to the pipeline from here?" Winn asked and Iris breathed heavily.
"I think so," she whispered.
"Lead the way, McClane," Felicity whispered before Iris began to crawl through the vents with Winn and Felicity following.
Earth-X
Standing in the prison yard, the heroes were suddenly alarmed when alarms started ringing, whistles blowing, guards yelling, prisoners crying. "Move!"
"I don't like the look of this," Jax said as a bunch of guards stormed into the yard.
"What's going on?" Clark asked.
"I don't know," J'onn said.
"Keep moving!"
"What are we doing?" Barry asked, as he realized that him, his friends, and the guy from before were the only ones standing in the middle of the yard. Everyone else was standing terrifyingly on the outskirts of the yard, not wanting to get shot.
"It's roundup time," the man said.
"Roundup for what?" Clark asked.
"Move! In line, now!"
But when a tall man walked in, seeming to be in charged at the moment. "So...these are the heroes."
"Yes, Sturmbannfuehrer."
But when the leader laid his eyes on Sara, he was full of disgust. And when Sara saw him, she was in full of despair.
He was her father's doppelgänger.
"Blonde hair...blue eyes ─ This Nordic perfection," Quentin said. "Why would you align yourself with the unpure."
"Because I like men...and women," Sara said and Quentin huffed.
"You know, I had a daughter who looked just like you, with similar compulsions. And I expunged that filth from my family line forever!" Sara flinched as he turned away and saw J'onn. "Our general can't wait to kill you traitors once she's done with her sister, you're next." Quentin pointed out to J'onn and turned away. "Bring them all. And him!" They all looked back at the men again, but the team were suspicious about what J'onn and Alex did as well as her cousin. "Move! Now!"
Heading down the field, with guards and guns behind them, the heroes walked in a single formation. Professor Stein, Jax, Clark, Barry, Oliver, Sara, J'onn, and the man. "Not be an alarmist, but if we don't get have an escape plan, I suggest we get one immediately." Oliver looked over at Sara for a moment, giving an expression she knew all to well. He then gave Barry the same look, and he nodded.
At once, they all turned around, ready to fight their way out, but for some who didn't know the plan, like J'onn and Clark, they weren't ready for what's about to happen next. Quentin already held a small device out, and pressed the button on it. This sent several bolts of electricity from their collars, throughout each of their bodies.
They groaned in pain as they fell to the ground. Oliver and Barry stared up at the man in pure hatred while Clark and J'onn struggled to get up after that bolt. "Up!"
They pulled themselves up, but Clark and J'onn were having a hard time getting up until Barry and Sara helped them up. "Come on, you gotta pull through this."
Barry helped Clark up, despite being handcuffed and Clark having Kryptonian strength, but he managed to help him up. "Go."
They walked and walked until Quentin told them to stop. They were faced with a long ditched to the ground, clearly where their bodies were gonna fall in once their dead. Clark stared at it nervously, J'onn looked fearfully. "Turn around." They all faced Quentin as he walked straight up to Oliver. "I know you are not him, but I cannot stomach the sight regardless." He pulled a black bag over Oliver's head, so he was faceless. "Ready!"
"I'm sorry, Lois," Clark muttered to himself.
"Aim!" The guards pointed their guns at the group, cocking their weapons.
J'onn looked at Clark one last time, and he gave him a smile. An assuring smile. A smile that the both of them wanted to see before they die.
But right before any shots were fired, another one was. An ice blast. Freezing the guns.
Everyone looked to see Leonard Snart on the sidelines, holding a freeze gun, a smirk on him. "I hate fire."
"Snart?"
"Snart?"
"Snart?"
"Snart?"
Oliver yanked the black bag from his head, trying to make sense of what's happening, but couldn't. "About time!"
They all looked at the man confused. "Kill them all!"
The guards immediately started shooting everyone while Oliver and Barry tried to fight some off. Clark and J'onn started punching some down, they heard Oliver yell, "Take cover!"
Everyone immediately ran for the ditch, sliding themselves into it, to come up with a plan to escape. But when Snart jumped into the ditch it seemed like the man and him knew each other. "Hey, you're cutting it close."
"I thought that was great timing. I really enjoyed the pun," Snart said.
"So you're Leonard Snart's doppelgänger?" Barry asked and Snart looked at him.
"No, I'm Leonard Snart, but you can call me Leo," he said but they all looked at him odd. "That is a fantastic outfit. Did you make that?" He asked as Oliver and Barry stared at him confused.
"Leo," the man said sternly.
"Right," Leo said, looking at him. "Time to make you shine, buddy."
"Uh, you, uh ─ You might want to close your eyes," the man said as Leo unhooked the collar off of him.
"Why?" Jax asked.
Suddenly, the man began to glow like the sun, and flew into the air. The heroes all stared at him taken back, especially when he started shooting sun balls at the Nazis. "Well, I believed he just answered your question." Stein said.
But the man landed back on the ground, staring down at everyone. "Come on, let's go."
"Where are we going?" J'onn asked.
"To our base," the man said. "Your base?" Sara asked.
"And ─ And who are you?" Clark asked.
"I was thinking exactly the same thing about you all," the man said, but in the distance, they all heard guards shouting and gunshots going off in the distance.
"You might have to tell us on the way," Leo said before they all crawled out of the ditched, and started running off.
Earth 1: STAR Labs
Alex looked around as she saw Kara in a blue gown and the looks of it, she had a small bump. She saw the red light hooked up and ready to go. Oliver and Thawne were in the distance keeping a good eye on her if she decided to do anything that can harm Kara or their baby. "You're looking more vulnerable. Scared, helpless, pathetic inferior."
"You're not this person, Kara. You believe in hope and justice. You're not a killer," Alex said as Kara slowly paced around her, taunting her.
"Oh, please. You're hero friends they want to be: blonde, white. Aryan perfection," Kara said.
"This isn't you. You never thought you were better than anyone else," Alex said.
"I should. I mean I am. I'm a god to them. Us heroes could be living like one," Kara said before she chuckled softly.
"Like you, Oliver, and Thawne?" Alex asked.
"Yes, like us. They want someone to bow to, to worship, to lead," Kara said.
"What you're doing Kara isn't leading. It's ruling," Alex said.
"Yes it is," Kara said before she smiled. "Everyone else is like ants, Alex."
"They shouldn't fear the heroes that protect their city or what you can do. They should rely on you guys when they need you," Alex said.
"Oh, spare me the Good Samaritan crap," Kara said.
"They're not gonna take advantage of anyone, just because they can," Alex said.
"The world isn't made better by protecting the weak. It's made better by getting rid of them," Kara said as she walked up to her, but all Alex did was shed some tears. "You really are pathetic." Alex scoffed at her as Kara began circling around her again. "You know, I saw you at the wedding. So... miserable."
"So what?" Alex asked. "So...ever since I disappeared, that's all you've been. Miserable. But what about Maggie?" Kara asked, looking down at her again. "Do you ever think about her? Or do you not just not care enough to look for her?"
"Of course I care-"
"You were all by yourself. Poor, lonely little Alex. Can't even find a date to a wedding. Well, you could of instead you regretted everything you did with Sara." Kara said before she laughed. "You must of been that broken that you couldn't handle being in the same room as her after your one-night stand. The pain is too much too bare."
"You don't know what you're talking about," Alex said.
"It's written all over that badass face you keep on because you're afraid to let your emotions show," Kara said before scrunching Alex's nose. "You spend so much time on your Earth putting the bad aliens away but don't seem to care about your own well being. No wonder why you feel so utterly miserable. I would feel the same way if we were sisters anymore."
"It's not going to work," Alex said and Kara looked down at her. "You're not gonna get what you want and being able to leave this Earth alive."
"Really?" Kara asked before leaned down in Alex's face. "Why do you think is gonna happen when my former hero friends find out what you and J'onn did? You'd think they'll trust you or better enough what did you think Clark's gonna do when he finds out what J'onn did to me. They won't make it back before I rip your heart, I mean you're clearly not using it very well."
"At least I have one," Alex muttered, but groaned when Kara added pressure against her shoulder.
"We're almost ready," she said, walking away. But Alex looked down at the floor, her eyes fluttering in tears, her thoughts now we're all on J'onn.
Meanwhile, a vent door opened in the pipeline, and Iris's head popped down. "Clear."
She then jumped down, landing on her feet, Felicity doing the same. "I know bad guys have inopportune timing, but this is, like, the worst timing ever."
"Yeah, tell me about it, sister," Iris said as they stood at the pad to open the cell doors. "Barry and I were just about to get married until Kara ruined my wedding "
"At least you guys left on good terms. The last thing I told Oliver was, I don't want to marry you, and now he's stuck in Nazi world," Felicity said. "I mean what if we never see them again?"
"Hey! At least your best friend isn't some psycho killer that's getting her revenge on the people who betrayed her," Winn yelled at the both of them.
"What are you talking about?" Iris asked. But right then, they were almost shot at.
"Stop! Hands in the air!"
The girls snapped around to find Nazi guards heading their way, and they slowly away from the pad. But Iris eyed a couple of open wires nearby, so she grabbed them, and yanked them. This caused a huge blast of fog to hit the guards, and the girls were able to grab their guns. "That was extremely badass."
"Same to you," Iris said with a smile before she looked at the pad again. "Cisco."
"Cisco?!" Felicity called out.
"Hey! Guys, we're trapped in here!"
"We're gonna get you out of here!" Felicity called out before looking back at Iris, who was at the pad again. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me," Iris ranted.
"What?" Felicity asked, walking up to her.
"I can't open the blast door," Iris said.
"You mean they're trapped?" Felicity asked before she started pressing the buttons on the pad. "I'll send an SOS to the Legends."
"How long will it take for them to get it?" Iris asked.
"Depends where they are in time," Felicity said.
"We can't wait that long," Iris said, fear in her voice. "We have to save Alex ourselves."
Earth X: Star City
Oliver stepped out of the elevator, followed by the rest of the heroes, Leo, and the prisoner introduced to them as Ray Terrill, looking around at the familiar room. "I guess we're in Earth-X's Star City," he remarked.
"I have to say, that's one hell of a story," Ray eyed them as they walked into the room. "You're a speedster," he pointed at Barry.
"Yeah," Barry nodded, looking around.
"OK," Ray looked between Stein and Jax. "You two turn into the burning man."
"Yup," Jax confirmed.
"And you are," Ray turned to Oliver, "are the good doppelgänger of the Führer."
"All right, then," Leo leaned against the table, looking at them. "You still haven't told us which Earth you're from. Clearly, it's not this one."
"Uh, we're from Earth-38," Clark and J'onn held up their hands.
"And the rest of us are from Earth-1," Barry finished.
Leo's eyebrows shot up. "Earth-1?" he repeated, then looked at Ray. "Well . . . golly."
Jax frowned. "Am I missing something here?"
"I'm from Earth-1, too," Ray explained.
"If you're from our Earth, then you know how we got here, don't you?" Barry asked.
"Yeah, I have a pretty good idea," Ray nodded, reaching behind him for a tablet. "I think you guys . . . " He pulled something up and held the tablet up for them to see. "Came through this."
Barry frowned. "A temporal gateway?" Barry asked.
"So we have a way to get back," J'onn smiled.
Oliver nodded. "So where is this thing?"
"It's actually not too far from here," Leo answered.
"22.3 kilometers, to be exact," Ray pitched in.
"Well, we'd drive there," Leo shrugged.
"Good," Oliver looked between them. "So take us to it."
Ray winced, then shook his head. "Can't do that."
Oliver narrowed his eyes, followed by Clark, and Sara looked over when she saw J'onn stiffen. "Why?" she asked before any of them could say something they might regret.
"Because the gateway's in a facility guarded by a not-so-small army of Nazis," Ray answered.
"Yeah, well, we've faced worse, so . . . " Jax shrugged.
"Look, it's our only way home," Barry told them. "We're going through it."
"Nobody's going through anything!" a familiar voice behind them stated, except in a much colder and sterner voice. J'onn and Clark whipped around at once, followed by Barry, and all of them watched as a more rugged version of Winn Schott walked up, his eyes narrowed. "Because we're blowing it the hell up."
"Winn?" J'onn and Clark asked at the same time, J'onn jaw falling open, Clark blinking in confusion.
"Please," Leo walked past them. "Freedom Fighter General Schott."
"General Schott?" J'onn repeated faintly.
"Yeah," Schott narrowed his eyes at him. "And who are you?"
"They say their from Earth-1 and Earth-38." Leo said as General Schott glared at J'onn.
"You seem to be glaring at J'onn," Clark said looking confused.
"You know Kara will kill Alex after getting the serum, J'onn. Overgirl killed this Earth-X Alex because she betrayed her own sister and tried to kill her," Schott narrowed his eyes up at him.
"What are you talking about, man?" Barry asked confused.
"Tell them J'onn why Kara joined Thawne and how she could've gone rogue," Schott said crossing his arms.
"You guys know Kara?" Sara asked.
"We worked with her until Thawne figured out her plan and the next day she's trying to kill one of our members. You betrayed Kara and now look what you turned Supergirl into," Schott said.
"Easy General Schott," Leo said.
"What is he talking about, J'onn? What does he mean you betrayed my cousin?" Clark asked as he clenched his fists.
"We wanted to solve things a different way to stop World killers, but Kara saw the good in them and wanted to save them. Alex disagreed with the idea and leashed out their dark side. Kara argued that they were innocent, but Alex told Kara that there wasn't anything they could do and turned her away. Alex was tired of Kara using the word 'hope' and said she was the cause of aliens appearing and her father disappearing." J'onn looked at Clark as he took a deep breath.
"You turned Kara into a monster that everyone feared us to be," Clark said gripping his suit as everyone tried to hold Clark back.
"I know. Alex kicked her out of the D.E.O and she tried to tell Alex their was another way, but she didn't listen to her. Then, we saw the security footage of Kara talking to speedster and we thought it was Barry until some Archer came out of a portal as well and she was gone," J'onn looked down.
"Thawne injected Kara with Red Kryptonite after finding out she was betraying them and going back home to Barry's wedding. After that Kara was gone and next thing we know is that she got married to Dark Arrow and is now carrying his baby," Schott said pinching between his nose.
"She's pregnant?" Clark asked as Oliver froze in silence.
"They're on our side, General Schott," Ray assured him.
"Except for the part where you want to blow up our only way home," Jax scowled.
"We don't exactly want to," Leo amended.
"Everyone we care about is on the other side of that gateway, imprisoned by Nazis," Barry said sternly and Schott looked at him. "They're gonna kill everyone we love if we don't get back."
"Eliminate the facility, and you eliminate our only chance of saving our friends from your enemies," Professor Stein said.
"I'm sorry, but we've been waiting for an opportunity like this for years. We cannot wait any longer. This is our only chance to separate the Further from his army. We are trying to turn this war around," Schott sternly said.
"You are gonna leave our Earth at the mercy of three psychopaths who have ravaged hours," Oliver stated, and Schott looked at him. But when he did, hate filled his eyes.
"Don't you ever call Kara a psychopath. Why does this man look exactly like the Further I am trying to kill?" He asked.
"Look, fingerless gloves," Sara said and Schott looked at her. "All we are asking is for a little bit of time. Let us get into the facility and through that gateway."
"The gateway is guarded by thirty Panzer Xils, fifty Sturmtigers, and one-hundred Schutzstaffel officers. Not the best odds, maybe," Leo said.
"I'll take them," J'onn said.
"No, you will not," Schott sternly said. "We are blowing up that gateway right now. Final order."
He then stormed off as Clark clenched his fists. "Sorry, he's a little rough around the edges. But he is the general, and he's issued his commands."
But J'onn wouldn't have it. He began to chase after Winn but the man stopped him. "Hey, hey, hey," He looked at him confused. "You won't change his mind. Giving the fact you betrayed his best friend and got her into this mess."
"Look, on my Earth, all of us are like family," J'onn said, looking at the man. "And he would do anything to help Alex or Kara. Anything."
"Right now, you're not the best person to talk to him, J'onn. Kara is this way because of you and Alex. I shouldn't of trust humans to take care of my cousin." Clark said as the superhero friends looked at him.
"I have to Clark. If Kara can't surrender, I'm sorry but we're gonna have to take it out of her hands," J'onn said as Clark shakes his head 'no'.
"No. We're gonna save everyone including Kara. I'm sorry J'onn but things go differently on this Earth," Oliver said as Barry agreed.
"Ray," Leo said and the man looked at him. "Let him try. It won't work but he should be able to try."
Ray nodded before letting J'onn pass, which he walked straight up to Winn, who was going through his plan at the table while the others stayed with Ray and Leo.
Meanwhile, the others were wondering what made Kara to switch sides and join Thawne to kidnapped all their friends and stole a prism.
"We need to know how Kara joined Thawne, Dark Arrow, Prometheus," Oliver said.
"You sure you heroes can handle what all went down on Earth-X with Kara," Leo said unsure.
"We need to know," Barry said.
"You're friend arrived here a few weeks ago and started working with Thawne, Prometheus, and Dark Arrow," Ray said as Clark sighed.
"She was tortured and trained by Oliver for her to be able to take down Alex and J'onn. But, she found this place and offered to help us turn this war around," Leo said as Barry nodded.
"Then, how did our Kara become evil?" Sara asked.
"Thawne found out her working with us Freedom Fighters and injected her with Red Kryptonite after that she was gone and killed innocent people," Ray said as Oliver clenched his fists.
"There was an Earth-X Kara, but she's dying and Oliver wanted to take your Kara's heart and put it in his wife, but she stopped and told him that you're Kara can be capable to stop you heroes at the wedding," Leo explained. "Oliver and Kara got married and after marriage you're supposed to celebrate after getting married. Next thing we know is that Kara got pregnant and the only person who can create a serum for their baby to grow is Alex." Leo said.
"We can help her still," Barry said.
"How can you save your friend if her husband is calling all the shots," Ray said to Barry and his superhero friends.
"Then we'll kill their Dark Arrow and give Kara a chance to stand down," Sara said.
"No, I'll deal with Dark Arrow. Clark can help his cousin and get her on our side again," Oliver said, as he had his hands behind his back.
"I agree with Ollie. Kara deserves another chance, I mean Alex and J'onn owe her that," Barry said, and Sara looked at them in disbelief.
Meanwhile, Jax was looking at a group of girls and boys, surrounded by a young blonde woman, who was teaching them how to read, but he was pulled away from them when he saw Professor Stein approaching him. "Jefferson?"
"Uh, Grey, I'm busy, man," Jax said, walking away.
"Yes, I can see that, I was hoping you might take a moment away from your ruminations on dystopian alterative history to accept my apology," Professor Stein said as he began to follow right behind Jax. "I may be a learned man, I am not always an astute one. I think I was just so thrilled with the reality of my imminent departure that I neglected to consider your own feelings."
"Look, man, I'm not trying to take you away from your family or nothing-"
"You are my family. Long before I unexpectedly found myself with a daughter, I found myself unexpectedly with a son," Professor Stein said.
"Yeah I know. I ju-"
"You know. You know, do you?" Stein asked. "Look around you. We're standing in one of the darkest places imaginable. Yet I'm optimistic. Do you know why?"
"Cause you're a crazy old man," Jax said.
"Yes. No!" Professor Stein exclaimed and Jax laughed. "Because I'm standing here with you. You are a better son than I could have ever hoped for. And no length of time or distance will ever change that."
"A'ight. Apology accepted. Come here," Jax said before the two hugged each other.
Meanwhile Oliver and Barry have some quiet time to themselves to figure out how to get Kara back on their sides. Oliver knows what betrayal looks like because too many members on his team betrayed him with all the enemies he had to deal with.
Barry got betrayed twice with one of his mentors and someone who he looked up to. Harrison Wells who was really Thawne that killed his mother and sent his father to prison for a crime that he didn't commit. Zoom knows as Jay Zoloman or Jay Garrick who pretended to be The Flash. He knows what betrayal feels like and he's hoping to get Kara back on their side.
"You know, we have to get Kara back and keep J'onn and Alex from killing her," Oliver said, as he stood watching J'onn from a distance looking for some weapons.
"I know. I just can't believe her boss and sister did that to her. We need to convince her that we are her family and we can protect her," Barry said, as Oliver nodded his head.
"Kara's pregnant, Barry. She needs someone she can trust and we were on their side instead of Kara's," Oliver said, sighing and realizing he had to protect her.
"What are we gonna do about J'onn and Alex, they're gonna wanna take Kara back to the DEO and put her in a maximum security," Barry said, as Oliver nodded his head.
"Then we do everything in our power to make sure nothing happens to Kara and not have them take her back to Earth-38," Oliver said, as Barry agreed to his idea.
Looking through multiple drawers, internally breaking down, J'onn was trying to find a weapon, of anything, when Sara walked in on him. "What are you doing?"
J'onn looked at her, not caring that he was caught. "Looking for a gun or a knife. Anything. Okay, I don't care how many Sturmtigers they have out there. I'm gonna save Alex, with or without the help of these people."
"No, you're not," Sara told him.
"I'm a government agent certified in over thirty military weapons and I'm the Martian Manhunter," J'onn stated.
"Impressive, I'll give you that. But you still can't fight your way through an army of Nazis alone and scared," Sara said.
"I'm not scared," J'onn argued.
"No, not for you. For your daughter or Alex," Sara said.
"I should've done more. I mean, I should made sure that I had Kara followed and maybe she wouldn't of gone down this path and I could of stopped her," J'onn said. "I could made sure Alex was fine if it wasn't for a distraction that made her mind confusing," J'onn looked at Sara.
"Well, sorry for being a distraction," Sara said, looking down.
"You don't understand. I can't lose her. I promised her father that I'll take good care of her," J'onn said.
"I understand more than you think," Sara said before she walked past him, and sat down. "I lost my sister. The anger and guilt that I felt for not being able to save her took me down a dark path just as much it's taking Kara down the same path."
"I'm sorry," J'onn muttered. "I don't know Kara's friends as much as she does, but she was lucky to have y'all." J'onn said. "I'm guessing Alex didn't know either."
"How could she?" Sara asked. "I mean the only thing Alex and I know about each other is what we look like with our clothes off. Beautiful, by the way." Sara stood up as J'onn eyes twitched in confusion. "You also don't know that I protect my team, and you, J'onn, you're my team. And I promise you, we're not gonna let what happened to my sister happen to your daughter."
"I'm sorry. I just want to ─ I want to save Alex, and she wants to get back to Maggie," J'onn said.
"Maggie is?" Sara asked.
"Complicated," J'onn answered for Alex.
"Yeah. I had a Maggie too. And I think about going back to her all the time," Sara said and J'onn looked at her nervously. "Look, Alex, she seems like a thoughtful person. And if she thought it wasn't going to work out and had to end it, I'm sure the reason was valid. Tell her to trust her instincts."
Clark was pacing around bored, he was getting worried about his cousin and how much darkness she let herself feel. He blamed J'onn and Alex for her working with one her friend's enemies then getting married to someone who looks like the evil version of the Green Arrow. He tried thinking positively and hoping that they could get through to her and get her to be on their side and stop the Nazi invasion.
Clark knew that Oliver and Barry were gonna try their best and make sure Kara gets out of there alive. He heard everything that Oliver and Barry talked about and he thinks it's the best idea to keep her away from going back to Earth-38 and away from J'onn and Alex after their betrayal on her.
Oliver saw from the distance on how much Clark was getting impatient and worried for his cousin. If it comes to it, Oliver will run away with Kara to make sure that her and the baby are safe from his team and the people from Earth-38. He knows that Sara is on J'onn and Alex side, Oliver doesn't trust Alex and her team as much as he trusts Kara and he knew what feelings she felt and how disappointed she is in her own sister and boss.
"Ray, please," Leo told Ray as they walked through the base. "Let's talk to him."
"Look, you said to let Alex try, I let her try, she didn't succeed," Ray told Leo as he headed to his bunk. "And I don't think Oliver helped matters any. If anything, he made them worse."
"So that's that?" Leo raised an eyebrow. "We just let these poor, strangely dressed individuals lose their one way home?"
"Look, it's what Winn ordered," Ray rolled his eyes, pulling his prison shirt off. "And I am not in the habit of defying generals on any Earth."
"And what about your family back on Earth-1?" Leo asked, leaning against the opposite bunk.
"What about them?" Ray frowned.
"You'd be giving up any chance of ever seeing them again."
Ray scowled, pulling on a fresh black shirt. "Leo, why are you pushing this?"
"Pardon?" he tilted his head.
"We have fought and bled and sacrificed for this war, and then these strangers show up, and you're willing to throw everything away for them?" Ray shook his head incredulously. "The fate of the world is at stake!"
"So are the lives of their loved ones," Leo countered.
"Come on," Ray sighed.
"Tease me all you want for being sentimental," Leo walked up to him. "These heroes would risk everything for the people they love, just like I would, for you."
He kissed Ray softly, cupping his jaw, and Ray chuckled softly. "You know I can't say no when you look at me like that."
"That is why I look at you like that," Leo smirked triumphantly.
"Guys," Jax looked up from where the ten were speaking together. "Look."
Everyone else turned around and watched Leo and Ray walk up. "We talked to the general," Ray began. "And after a lot of arguing . . . he agreed, so – "
"We're gonna help you out," Leo finished.
Sara and J'onn let out sighs of relief as Oliver, Barry, and Clark exchanging looks at each other. Now they were getting somewhere!
"Now, you referenced one hundred guards," Oliver said as they gathered back around the complex model. "I assume most of them are around the perimeter?"
"Correct," Leo confirmed.
"All right, we fight through them outside," Oliver nodded. "We access the main corridor. What is security like inside the hangar?"
"I'll do some recon," Barry volunteered, zipping off in a flash of yellow lightning. He was back in less than a second, papers blowing everywhere, and Oliver closed his eyes, refraining from saying anything snarky.
"Barry," Oliver cut in.
"So, the entire facility has metahuman dampeners." Barry said.
Clark groaned in annoyance. "OK, we can't take that hangar with no powers, man," Jax agreed.
"These satellites indicate a control room off the hangar," Stein pointed to the model. "That must be where the dampener is."
"OK, well, we definitely can't take the main control room with no powers," Jax huffed. "It's not like we blend in here."
Oliver seethed, then reached out for a green piece and placed them on the board. "Then I know how to get in."
"I'm allowing this mission against my better judgment," Schott told J'onn and Ray as they got ready to leave. "You have one hour."
"I appreciate it," J'onn said sincerely. "We all do."
He walked off, and Schott looked ready to say something but Ray shook his head. "Yeah, I know, I know what you're thinking."
"If you don't make it through the gateway, I am not giving you more time," Schott hissed. "I will blow that place to kingdom come."
Ray nodded, sighing as Schott walked off.
Earth-1, the med bay of STAR Labs, laid Kara, ready to become the procedure. Thawne hovered over Kara as Oliver-X stood by his wife's side. "Red light saturation is complete." Thawne then inserted a needle into her arm, as Kara groaned in pain and Oliver-X kissed her forehead. "She's cooked."
Kara looked up at Oliver-X, who just smiled down at her. "And our baby will grow beautifully."
"I love you," Kara softly said and he bent down, kissing her.
Alex was just glad she didn't see the kiss that Oliver had given her sister.
"I love you," Oliver-X whispered as he placed a mask over her face, immediately knocking her out into unconsciousness.
"Unfortunately, Miss Danvers," Thawne said and Alex looked up at him. "We don't trust you enough to give Kara the serum yourself. You're gonna need all the help you need."
Alex glared up at him as Oliver-X brought in Caitlin with meta-cuffs around her wrists. "J'onn will come for me and he'll kill ever last one of you."
"You're father," Thawne muttered before facing her again. "He's stuck on Earth-X along with your sister's cousin. Probably dead already." Alex tensed up when she heard him say that her father was probably 'dead'.
Watching in front of the time fault, was Iris, Felicity, and Winn, the three of them scared they were running out of time. "They're beginning the procedure."
"I'm working on it," Felicity said, who was quickly hacking into the power system.
And suddenly, everything in the facility powered down.
Thawne walked into the cortex, with an impatient Oliver-X behind him as alarms blared around them. "Just have enough backup power, and it's not enough."
"Well, everyone in the building has been accounted for," Oliver-X said. "Where might people be hiding?" Oliver-X asked Thawne. And just like that, Thawne zoomed off, up to the time vault.
He placed his hand on the wall, which opened the vault. He slowly walked inside, just for it to be empty.
Meanwhile, two guards were watching over Kara, Alex, and Caitlin when suddenly, Iris, Felicity, and Winn jumped from the vents, and knocked the guards down with the guns. "Take that you, Nazi mother ─ Whoo!" But Winn didn't find Felicity's delightful personality amusing at the moment.
He ran up to Alex, who slowly relaxed in relief. "Hey, hey, hey, it's Winn," Alex smiled in relief and guilt as she saw the hesitation of freeing her. "Come with us if you want to live."
"Just get us out of here before they come back," Alex muttered.
"Yeah, yeah," Iris said as she and Felicity began to uncuff her from the table.
Walking through the corridor, heading to the elevator, was Iris, Felicity, Winn, Alex and Caitlin making a run for it. Iris pressed the elevator button, multiple times. "We gotta go "
"I know, I'm trying-" But then the elevator door opened, just for all of them to stare at the person confused.
A freeze breathe slammed into all five of them, sending them flying across the room. Iris, Felicity, Winn, Alex, and Caitlin slowly looked up to the figure press the side of her face and reveal the real Kara of Earth-X. She walked out the elevator. "I don't believe Thawne, Oliver and Kara are done with you yet, Danvers."
A long van pulled up to the Schutzstaffel base, and one of the guards walked up to the driver's side. "Your papers, Sturmmann," he ordered the man inside, dressed in Nazi dress uniform.
"We don't have papers," Leo drawled. "This is a special visit."
"Your papers," the guard narrowed his eyes, raising his gun. "Now."
Leo rolled his eyes. "Suit yourself," he sighed. "But, uh . . . I think you better talk to our boss."
The guard narrowed his eyes, then the window behind Leo lowered. The guard's eyes widened in shock when Oliver was revealed, dressed in Nazi uniform. "As you were," Oliver ordered coldly.
"Mein gott," the guard gasped, hastily backing away. "My apologies, sirs! Let them through!" he shouted.
Leo smirked as the gate buzzed. "Let them through!" another soldier called. As the vehicle rolled into the facility, the guard held one arm up into the air, as long as everyone else.
"Hail, Fuehrer!"
Oliver and Malcolm strode into the base, Malcolm slightly behind Oliver and to his right, and every Nazi in the control room turned at once, raising their arms in salute. "Hail Führer!"
Oliver raised his arm in return. He strode further into the room, and he turned when the Sturmbannführer hurried in. "Mein Führer," he cleared his throat. "We were . . . we were not expecting you."
"Nor were we anticipating being back so soon," Malcolm nodded.
"Thanks to your incompetence," Oliver narrowed his eyes, "the Earth-1 doppelgängers – my doppelgänger!" The Sturmbannführer flinched when Oliver raised his voice for those words. "Escaped their executions."
"Yes, they did," the Sturmbannführer nodded.
"And?" Oliver prompted icily.
"We are exhausting every possible means to locate them."
"Good," Oliver nodded.
The Sturmbannführer nodded back, then asked, "Would you like us to delay deployment until we do so?"
"Deployment?" Oliver repeated, raising an eyebrow.
"She is inbound and ready," the Sturmbannführer gestured to a monitor off to the side.
Oliver turned and walked to see better. He stopped when he saw a circular platform with lights powering up around it. The Sturmbannführer behind them tapped a few keys, then a viewscreen previously showing black suddenly had a very familiar ship with very different colors appearing. "The Waverider," Oliver whispered under his breath. "The doomsday device."
"The Wellenreiter is fully operational and at the ready, mein Führer," the Sturmbannführer said. "Shall we send her through?"
Oliver considered the Nazi Waverider, then answered, "As scheduled."
The Sturmbannführer nodded curtly, then ordered, "Begin!"
The lights powered up even more, each one generating a beam. Before Oliver eyes, a column of red light similar to Cisco's breaching energy shot into the sky, forming a breach. "The Wellenreiter is on its way," the Sturmbannführer smirked proudly as the ship flew through. "Hail victory!"
"Hail victory!" the Nazis behind them shouted.
Oliver nodded absently. "Hail victory."
Thawne was standing in the cortex, pressing many buttons on a tablet, while guards held Iris, Felicity, Winn, and Caitlin hostage, when Oliver-X walked in. "Report."
"Good news. The Wellenreiter's made the transition to this Earth," Thawne said.
"Alex is all that matters," Oliver-X sternly said.
"That red sunlight we're flooding her with, that's burning off. So pretty soon, her cells will be desaturated, the baby would not make it," Thawne explained.
"Fix it," Oliver-X ordered.
"I can't," Thawne said.
"This is your city. This is your facility. So turn the power back on," Oliver-X once again ordered.
"I can't because the system has been encrypted," Thawne said.
"By who?" Oliver-X asked.
"By Miss Smoak," Thawne said, and they all looked over at Felicity.
Earth-X
Oliver paced the floor of the base. When Oliver finally stopped, his back to the other Nazi officers, the Sturmbannführer looked up and asked, "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"No, that'll be all," Oliver shook his head.
"Very well," the Sturmbannführer nodded, turning away, then paused. "Before I go, I have something for you, mein Führer." He turned around, raising eyebrows, and he explained. "A gift, to celebrate your return." Oliver nodded, wondering what he could possibly have, and the Sturmbannführer turned and shouted, "Guard!"
One of the doors to the facility opened, and Oliver frowned when he heard the sound of a woman thrashing. And he barely refrained from gasping himself when he saw who was deposited on the ground in front of him.
"Well, I know how much the New Reichsmen enjoy executing rule breakers, and this one has broken many of them," the Sturmbannführer explained while Oliver stared down at the Earth-X doppelgänger of Felicity Smoak, who was looking up at them defiantly. "We discovered this . . . filth . . . handing her rations to the work camp children. Strictly against camp rules, of course."
"Those children were starving," Felicity held her head high, even though her voice sounded very hoarse.
The Sturmbannführer scoffed, turning and handing Oliver a pistol. He stepped forward, looking her over, internally admiring Felicity's confidence, even when she was locked away in a Nazi prison camp. "Do you know why I chose her, mein Führer?" the Sturmbannführer asked.
Oliver bit down on his tongue so he wouldn't say anything he regretted, lifting the gun and aiming it at Felicity. He saw Felicity swallow hard but not look away.
It gave him the courage to turn, aim at the Sturmbannführer, and pull the trigger. But nothing happened.
Oliver looked at the gun as Quentin laughed. "Did you really think I would hand you a loaded weapon ─ BEFORE VERIFYING WHO YOU ARE?!"
Oliver narrowed his eyes, then used the gun to nail the Sturmbannführer with an uppercut. As the Nazis around them reacted.
Oliver was out in the open, but he remedied that quickly by grabbing a charging soldier and using him as a human shield, returning fire with a gun that was loaded this time. He stood protectively in front of Felicity as she curled up on the ground, trying to find cover. As the Sturmbannführer hurried out of the room. She turned around in shock as the soldier gurgled, and Oliver took care of the other soldiers in the room.
Oliver looked around to make sure no more soldiers were coming, then turned to Felicity to speak to her. "Hey, hey, hey, you're OK."
Felicity tried to scramble away, but Oliver crouched in front of her, too. "No, no, no, you're fine," he assured her. "You're fine." Felicity glared at him, clearly not believing him, so Oliver handed her the gun he had in his hands. "Just take this and go."
Felicity looked from the gun to the two men, then asked, "Why are you doing this?"
"It's the strong's duty to protect the weak," Oliver answered. "Take it and go."
Oliver stood up, walking past the dead bodies. He pressed a red button which helped some certain metas in. "Clear."
The Flash zoomed in and Oliver looked back at him. "How did it ─ Oh."
"Barry, we have a problem. The gateway control's been damaged," Oliver said.
"We can't turn it on?" Barry asked.
"We can't turn it on here, but there should be a manual override at the platform," Oliver explained and Barry sighed.
"All right, we're gonna have to fight our way through," Barry said before looking at Oliver, who nodded.
Outside the facility, was Leo, standing by the vehicle, pressing his comms irritated. "What do you mean?! Call it back!"
"Too late. It's been programmed. There's no changing course now."
"You said we'd have an hour," Leo said.
"Yeah, well, I change my mind."
"The team hasn't gone through the breach yet," Leo said.
"That team has nothing to do with us or saving our planet! And everyone who can threaten it is on the other side of that breach. They are not coming back through."
"General!" Leo said.
"Leo, enough! I'm not risking any more time. We are blowing it up."
The comms with the General ended and Leo quickly walked off, connecting with the rest of the team. "Guys, we have a problem."
"What kind of problem?"
"A weapon is heading to blow up the facility," Leo warned.
"A weapon? You mean a missile?"
"Not exactly," Leo said.
Earth-1: STAR Labs
Oliver-X stared at Felicity sternly, but the blonde stayed still. "Felicity Smoak. Turn the power back on."
But she refused. "He said," Thawne said before he zoomed up to her, holding her against the wall in a chokehold.
"Felicity!" Iris yelled while the guards held her back.
"Turn the power back on," Thawne continued.
"Sorry, Eobard. Eobard?" Felicity asked.
"Eobard," Thawne said.
"Eobard. My God, the future sounds weird," Felicity said.
"That's funny. Sometimes we think we're more clever than we are. Because where I come from, the history books are filled with stories of this Age of Heroes: Green Arrow, Black Canary, The Flash. And yet, no one," Thawne said before he held back his hand, that began to vibrate. "No one has ever heard of Felicity Smoak." Felicity held her eyes shut tightly, waiting for the end of when Thawne's vibrating hand shot right through her heart. But it never came.
"Stop!" Everyone looked over to see a frantic Alex running in. "Stop. Stop. Just...leave her alone. You came here for me and J'onn, so just take me, please. Please don't hurt anyone else." She then looked over at Felicity, who looked scared. Not for herself, but for Alex. "Give them the code."
"If I do, they'll kill you anyway," Felicity said.
"Nobody will die because of me. It's my fault we're in this mess in the first place," Alex said, giving her a look that everything was gonna be okay.
"Latte, Ada, Jonas, 1-1-9-0-0," Felicity finally gave him.
Thawne smiled before letting Felicity go, in which she dropped to the ground before the guard grabbed her. "Latte? Cute."
Earth-X
Leo and Ray stared at The Flash and Oliver in the middle of the facility, warning them what's about to come. "In ten minutes, Red Tornado's gonna bring down this entire facility, and there's nothing we can do to stop that robot."
"Then we need to reopen the gateway before that happens," Oliver said before Barry looked at him. "Barry, Ray-"
"We know. Stop a flying robot somehow," Barry said.
"Good. The rest of us will open the breach," Oliver said but Leo gave him a look.
"That's the whole plan?" Leo asked him.
"Well, as a Snart we know used to say, Make a plan. Execute the plan. Expect the plan to go off the rails. Throw away the plan," Barry mimicked Leo's doppelganger.
"Wow. That is - That is terrible advice. I always have a plan, down to the second, no nothing every go wrong," Leo said.
"No, no, no," Ray said as he cupped Leo's face. "The only plan now-" He then kissed Leo, causing Barry and Oliver looked surprised. "Is not to leave this Earth-" He kissed him again. "Without me."
"Okay," Leo said with a small smile.
"Let's do it," Barry said before he zoomed off, taking Ray with him.
Leo placed a huge duffel bag on the ground. "I thought it'd be fun if we put on our costumes." He opened the bag revealing Oliver's bow and quiver full of arrows.
Oliver picked up the bow. "Where did you get the bow and quiver?"
"The general likes to collect weapons," Leo said and Oliver nodded.
"Let's go to war," Oliver sternly said.
In the main part of the facility, a group of guards pointed their guns at the doorway with Quentin nearby watching. But the doorway got exploded in their faces by a fire blast. And FIRESTORM flew in while the other heroes ran in.
The Green Arrow shot some arrows. Clark used his heat vision. Citizen Cold used his cold gun. Sara and J'onn used rifles.
Once there was no Nazis in the way to the lever, FIRESTORM was ready to lift it down. "Okay, we're Nazi-free. Let's go."
"Hold on. That's an automated power cell. We need to activate it before using the control console."
"I can hot-wire it, no problem," Jax said.
"Then I'll turn on the console."
"You want to split up? You sure?" Jax asked.
"It's our most favorable odds. Let's kick some ass, Jefferson."
FIRESTORM ran off, waited until they were behind a wall safely before they split up.
Jax quickly ran off to the power cell, opening it while trying to hot wire it. Not even remotely worried about Grey, who was trying to avoid being shot at. "Grey, we got power." But Jax immediately duck down when he saw getting shot at. He ran off, ducking for cover while a small car drove by, Nazi soldiers shooting at him.
Jax getting down avoiding himself from getting shot as Stein heard him yell. "I'm pinned down."
Taking a leap of faith, Professor Stein immediately began to run across the room, heading to the lever. But mid run, he suddenly gasped, freezing in place.
Jax gasped in utter in shock seeing Professor Stein hit the floor, a Nazis soldier right behind him, having just shot him. Jax went down as he saw Professor Stein on the ground. "Grey! No!"