This was originally supposed to be released about almost a month ago, in honor of the five year anniversary of Arrow's series finale, as well as redoing some things that can be a bit better. a one shot, but after thoughtful reconsideration, it will be a few chapters long. More will be detailed in the A/N, but for now, let's get to this story.
Warning: The following is not for John Diggle or Dinah Drake Fans. If any of you come complaining to me about that, you will be ignored like a bratty child who tries to cause a scene at their sibling's birthday party by trying to blow out the candles on their birthday cake.
As a fisherman boat sailed away from the island of Lian Yu in the North China Sea, Oliver Queen looked on with a hateful glare.
"My name is Oliver Queen."
Oliver emerges from the ocean in the North China Sea, having swam up and avoiding drowning after his boat, the Queen's Gambit, sank.
In the Amazo ship, Slade Wilson, injected with Mirakuru, punches Oliver right in the face, making him fall to the flooded floor, nearly colliding with Slade's orange and black mask.
On Lian Yu, Anthony Ivo, the man who came to the island in search of Mirakuru, and thus the owner of the ship Amazo, fires his gun at Shado, much to both Oliver's and Sara's horror and anguish.
In a tent on Lian Yu, Oliver screamed in pain while held captive as a blade sliced through his torso by a mercenary, Billy Wintergreen.
"For five years, I was stranded on a hellish island, with only one thought and one goal... survive. After I returned home, I had a new goal, to fulfill my father's dying wish and save my city. And for eight years, I've done everything I could to make this possible and honor my father. I've taken down corrupt businessmen and politicians that made my city into a hellhole..."
Oliver, in his first uniform, takes on armed men on a rooftop.
"I've defeated businessmen who became assassins..."
The Hood battles the Dark Archer, Malcolm Merlyn, on the rooftop of Merlyn Global Group.
"Super soldier mercenaries and an army of super-soldiers..."
Oliver, now known as The Arrow, leads Roy Harper, Nyssa Al Ghul, Sara Lance, and members of the League of Assassins against Mirakuru soldiers in the tunnel, and he then battles Slade, now the mercenary Deathstroke, on the top of an abandoned factory.
"And took on organizations with assassins."
Oliver fights members of the League of Assassins, and then battles against Ra's Al Ghul in a swordfight.
"But that didn't stop there, I also fought against metahumans..."
As an undercover member of the League of Assassins known as Al-Sah-Him, Oliver fights the Reverse Flash.
"Evil magicians..."
Oliver, as the Green Arrow, holds Damien Darhk by his collar before impaling him with his arrow, killing him.
"Immortal beings..."
Oliver, along with the Flash, and Kendra Saunders and Carter Hall, the reincarnated 'lovers' of both Egyptian Priestess Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu, and the latest reincarnations of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, stand against Vandal Savage.
"Serial killers..."
Oliver fights the mysterious Prometheus, the Throwing Star Killer of Star City, in an abandoned building.
"Aliens..."
Oliver battles a Dominator on a rooftop, along with fellow heroes.
"Invaders of alternate universes..."
Oliver, along with the Flash, White Canary, Supergirl, Alex Danvers, and the other heroes, fight the Nazi soldiers of Earth-X, and Oliver then battles his Earth-X doppelganger, who is the leader of the Nazis in their reality.
"...and cosmic beings."
Oliver, now the Spectre, battles the Anti-Monitor at the Dawn of Time.
"In every way unimaginable, I began an age of heroes, and I fought beside brave men and women, friends, family, and allies, striving for justice."
The Green Arrow, along with the Flash, Supergirl, and White Canary, leads his superhero allies into battle, standing tall against their adversaries.
"I even became Mayor of Star City."
Olive places his left hand on the Bible, as he lifts his right one, and then recites the oath.
"But then, the Crisis came, and I had to become someone else. I had to become... something else."
The Spectre unleashes a surge of energy from eyes, up into the sky as he defeated the Anti-Monitor.
"I made the ultimate sacrifice which helped birth not just an entirely new universe, but also a new Multiverse to replace the one it had fallen."
A dying Oliver sheds a tear as he views the birth of a new universe, before closing his eyes, succumbing to his injuries. Both Barry and Sara cry as they comforted each other, grieving for their friend.
"Now my friends and family will have to go on without me, and although I have become a Spectre, there is a part of me that will always be... the Green Arrow!"
Starling City, April, 2014
"Both my children will live." Moira Queen said as she stood up to her feet. She and her children were kidnapped and held by Slade Wilson, cuffed in zip-ties as he tried to force Oliver in making a choice; either save Thea and let Moira die, or save Thea and let Moira die instead, hauntingly similar to how Ivo had forced Oliver to choose either Sara or Shado back five years ago. Moira, however, made the choice instead for her son, rising herself up to her feet as she turned around and faced Slade.
"Mom? What are you doing?!" Thea cried out.
"Thea, I love you!" Moira tearfully declared to her daughter, as Slade pointed his handgun toward her head. "Close your eyes, baby!" She pleaded to Thea, not wanting her youngest to see her death.
"NO!" Oliver yelled in despair.
"You posses true courage, Moira." Slade said in acknowledgement, putting his handgun away back in his coat. "I'm truly sorry..."
However, Oliver, not wanting to feel helpless at this moment, discreetly pulled out a pocketknife and started to cut the zip-tie to free himself.
"...You did not pass that on to your son." Slade finished as he pulled out his sword, and spun back to face Moira and attempted to kill her by impaling the sword into her chest.
Just in the nick of time, Oliver cut himself free pf the zip-tie and charged at Slade, tackling him to the ground on the leaves, making him drop his sword as Moira and Thea stared on, both stunned and shock.
Oliver decked Slade in the face, dazing him as he then pulled out Slade's handgun, and started striking him across his face with it.
Iron Heights Penitentiary, 2016
At Iron Heights Penitentiary, Green Arrow, along with Laurel Lance, the Black Canary, Speedy, and Spartan, battled the inmates there, along with Damien Darhk, the leader of the organization H.I.V.E. Along with Darhk were Malcolm Merlyn, and Andy Diggle, John's brother who was previously thought to be murdered by Deadshot, but was now revealed to be alive and working undercover as an agent to H.I.V.E., and a traitor to John, having given Darhk the last piece of the Khushu Idol.
Once putting the Idol back together, Andy killed two of the Iron Height inmates in order for Damien's magical powers to increase. He froze Team Arrow in place with his powers as Merlyn ordered for them to leave, but Darhk retorted for them to wait as he flung Speedy and Spartan aside, while holding Green Arrow and Black Canary with his magic as he turned to face the latter.
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. Ms. Lance, nine months ago, I made your daddy a promise. I told him what I would do if he betrayed me." Darhk began menacingly.
Green Arrow broke free of Darhk's hold on him, and fired an arrow at him, which the madman caught easily with his hand. Darhk then held Green Arrow again with his magic as he held his arrow, slowly approaching Black Canary. "I want you to give your father a message. I want you to give your father a message, from me. I want you to tell him-"
Suddenly, a sonic scream pierced the prison corridor, with everyone wincing at the loud sound as Darhk was forced to drop the arrow and cover his ears in pain. Then, he was thrown and sent flying across the cafeteria, along with the Ghosts and both Andy and Malcolm.
Green Arrow and Black Canary turned to see Sara Lance, in her White Canary uniform and Dinah 'Lauren' Lance, Laurel's twin sister, in her Black Siren uniform, both outside the corridor. Black Siren then smirked as she said. "Looks like we arrived a bit late to the party, huh?"
"You're right on time." Black Canary responded, smiling.
"Let's finish this." White Canary said, twirling her both bo-staff as Speedy and Spartan got back up to their feet, as did Darhk, Malcolm, and Andy.
"Agreed." Green Arrow said.
With that, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Speedy, Spartan, White Canary, and Black Siren all charged at the villains. In the end, Green Arrow finally killed Damien Darhk with an arrow to the heart, and Spartan killed Andy as well, no longer seeing him as his long lost brother but a traitor. However, Malcolm escaped, to parts unknown.
Lian Yu, 2017
On a speedboat, Oliver had his bow and arrow aimed at Adrian Chase, Prometheus, who had his son William trapped in a headlock, in one final endgame to convince Oliver that everything around him, everything he touches, dies. But Oliver didn't care about any of that right now, all he cared for right now is his son's safety, but he had to make sure that he fired a nonlethal shot, because if Chase dies, then the island will explode, and everyone on it will die.
Oliver slowly lowered his bow, however he then let go of the arrow, and Chase was struck with an arrow in his ankle, right at his right leg, forcing him to let go of William as he dropped to the floor in pain.
Finally free, William rushed to Oliver as he then hugged him tightly. "William! Come here!" Oliver gently placed his hands on his son's head, wanting to be sure that he was alright as he asked. "Hey! Are you okay? Are you alright? Did he hurt? Are you alright?"
William shook his head 'no' in response, and Oliver hugged him tightly again.
"He's gonna be fine-" Chase began with a smirk on his face, before Oliver abruptly cut him off.
"Don't you talk to him! DON'T EVEN LOOK AT HIM!" He angrily yelled, pointing at Chase.
"You won." Chase said, gaining Oliver's attention, as he continued. "Your son has his father back, and he learned exactly who his father was. Just like you learned who your father was, right here on these very same waters."
"What?" Oliver asked, confused as to what Chase meant by that.
"William's younger than you were, so he's gonna be fine, you know?" Chase continued as he faced them both. "And you have each other."
"What are you, saying?" Oliver demanded, although he had this feeling on where this was going, and what Chase was alluding to.
"Which is good. Oliver, that's good." Chase said, before pulling out a revolver from his jacket, and aimed it towards his own temple. "Without Mom, and-"
Oliver, acting on instinct, flung a flechette at Chase's hand, disarming him of his handgun and pinning it to the door. Chase tried to pry the flechette off the door to get his gun, but Oliver was not having that. He then fired a tranquilizing arrow at Chase, hitting him in the back as he then fell down unconscious.
It was over, finally over. Adrian Chase, the Throwing Star Killer known as Prometheus, has finally been defeated!
As per the original, Oliver saved his mother from Slade on Earth-Prime. But I also wanted to add other changes. For this, I wanted to bring back Earth-1 Laurel, and change the outcome of her fate in Iron Heights. I also had this idea a while back that the two Laurels can exist on Earth-Prime, but with some crucial differences; they'd both be born as twins.
So for this, Earth-1 Laurel will be referred to as 'Laurel' or 'Black Canary' when in uniform, and Earth-2 Laurel will be referred to as 'Lauren' or 'Black Siren' when in uniform.
There's also going to be a level changes as this story progresses, and stay tuned.
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