Much later, Laurel, Lauren, Sara, along with Alena Whitlock, Rory Regan, Evelyn Sharp, Lyla Michaels, Tommy Merlyn, Roy, Thea, and Samantha all gathered in the Bunker as Alena worked on the computers, hoping to find anything on William's exact location.
Roy stepped down as he then approached Thea, who stood aside from the group.
"Hey." He greeted, an awkward tension filled the atmosphere.
"Hey." Thea greeted back.
"I'm sorry about the way I left. I just-" Roy began, but trailed off, unable to fight the words.
"Ollie's passed away, and William's been kidnapped. So, as far as apologies go, your timing is a little not great." Thea said, before walking away.
Roy then walked up and approached Rene. "Well, if you think that Oliver's mission is finished, tell that to William when we get him back." He argued.
"We will get him back, hoss." Rene said. "I mean, he was kidnapped here in Star City."
"Sure, that will make him feel a whole lot better." Roy said.
"I reached out to Felicity, but I got radio silence." Alena spoke up.
"I went to check up on her, and I'd say she's coming in right about-" Sara trailed off as everyone in the Bunker heard a sound.
The elevator doors opened to reveal Felicity Smoak, wearing a blue cardigan, as she arrived in the Bunker. "Wow, I haven't seen this many people down here in a while." She began nervously.
Everyone else turned to face her, as Roy greeted her. "Hey." He then approached her and hugged her, which she returned.
Sara then approached Felicity and hugged her as well, before separating.
"It's almost like a party." Felicity shakily said, as she walked up to the monitors, passing by Mia, who looked at her emotionally.
Felicity then sat down on a chair, as she then began to do her thing on the monitors.
"I tried running a quad-grid search tasked to a keyhole satellite array, but..." Alena explained, before Felicity took over.
"That array's dark-sided as it undergoes a firmware upgrade." She understood. "But fortunately when William moved to Central City, his overbearing stepmom implanted a subdermal tracking device into his arm."
"I'm sorry, what?!" Samantha demanded loudly.
"Yeah, I knew I was going to get that." Felicity winced at the shout. "And yes, that is pretty ethical, and debatable, but that's not important right now." She then typed again on the monitors.
"The device went dark after he was abducted, so whoever kidnapped him, knew that he had the device in his arm." She said, seeing that the device was offline.
"Well, that's convenient at least." Rory remarked.
"Just one second as I work up a statistically correlated list of possible locations he could be at." Felicity told everyone as she worked on the locations where William could be at. The computer showed a grid map of the locations, graphed in red.
"That is a very long list." Alena noted.
"Which is why we called everyone." Lauren responded, as Felicity gently held her hand, which she grasped gently before Roy got their attention.
"Thank you all for coming, some on very short notice." He began as walked to the center of the command post, with all members of the team, past and present, looking at him. "Oliver made the ultimate sacrifice for his friends and his family. And now, a part of his family, his son, needs our help. This is our most important mission, so be prepared for anything we might find. For Oliver."
Everyone stared at Roy as they all nodded firmly.
With that, he gave the order. "Suit up."
Later, Roy, in his Arsenal suit, along with Thea, raced across the rooftop of the Van Wayne Industries building, with the duo jumping off the rooftop and rolling to their feet on another, before Thea jumped off while Roy flipped across, both arriving on another as they then looked around.
"Okay, well, he's not here." Thea said before asking. "What was the next place on Felicity's list?"
"Kord Industries." Roy replied.
"All right, well, let's go." She said, before Roy spoke.
"Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" He asked.
"You already did back at the bunker, OK? I get it. You're sorry-" Thea said, before Roy took over.
"No. I never told you why I left." He said.
"And you don't need to." Thea assured. "I understand. You were going through a lot."
"Dying, getting resurrected, it gave me a whole new perspective on... on everything, including you. You know, I got my whole life back, and I realized that I wanted you in it... forever and... and always." Roy explained, finally saying what he's been meaning to say to her all night.
"And what does that mean?" Thea questioned, wondering what he meant by all this, and where this was all going.
Roy decided that it was to take a leap of faith. "It means... will you marry me?"
The question took Thea aback as she was not expecting to hear that question at all. "Uh..." She let out, not knowing on what to say.
In an abandoned building in Star City, Rory, in his Ragman suit, scares a group of homeless people squatting there away by extending his rags, as both Rene, in his Wild Dog uniform, and Evelyn, in her Artemis uniform, arrive in time. They had arrived there as the second team in search of William, and the building was in Felicity's list.
"Nice. I would've fired some shots." Rene quipped, removing his hockey mask.
"My way's scarier." Rory retorted, as he removed his mask.
"If you two are done with comparing scare tactics, we do have a kid to search for." Evelyn reminded the duo.
The three then walked down the hallway in search of William as Rene held up a flashlight to see in the dark. No sign of the boy thus far, but they have seen more homeless people in the building.
"So, how are things? It's been a while." Rene asked.
"Yeah. Well, a while is what it took for these rags to work again. Since then, I've been fighting for justice." Rory explained.
"To honor your father?" Rene inquired.
"To honor Oliver. Because Oliver killed Damien Darhk in Iron Heights in this reality, Genesis never happened, and Havenrock was never destroyed. My family survived, but I still became the hero I was meant to be." Rory elaborated.
"That's good to hear." Evelyn said, pleased to learn that.
"Yeah, that reminds, me, why are you here, Short-Fry?" Rene questioned, as he and Rory both shot her looks of scorn. "I thought you sold us out to Chase, and mysteriously vanished after what happened in Lian Yu."
Evelyn winced at that reminder as she looked down in shame. But she took a deep breath as she then spoke up. "In this reality, Oliver saved my family from H.I.V.E., and after that, I was inspired by Oliver to become a hero, and he recruited me. And my working with Chase in this reality was actually a deception because I was working undercover to see if I could find any intel on Chase to use against him. As for Lian Yu, Oliver stopped Chase from killing himself, and after that, I retired so I could focus on my personal life, but would come often if any of you ever needed help."
She then deeply sighed as a look of regret appeared on her face. "We called Oliver a fraud and a murderer, and I sold you all out to Chase in the old reality, but after what happened on Lian Yu, and after this... Crisis, I finally saw that Oliver was a hero, and I was wrong."
Rene's look then lightened as he took in Evelyn's confession. "I mean, Oliver and I, we've had our differences over the years." He said.
"Yeah, I assumed." Rory added.
"Why?" Rene inquired, raising an eyebrow as he turned to face him.
"Well, for starters, you were rebellious, disobeyed orders, and didn't think much of him at first." Rory stated, listing the reasons why he and Oliver were different.
"Yeah." Rene agreed, looking down before speaking. "Like I said earlier, back in the Bunker, I've made mistakes that I'm not proud of, and I know Oliver and I made amends with one another after that whole trial two years ago, but what I did to him, I want to atone for that."
"Well, that's a good thing. I mean, of everyone, you're the most like him." Rory said.
"No, I'm not." Rene said, shaking his head in disagreement. "Roy's the one most like him. I may have my virtues, but they're not Oliver's. I have my flaws, so I'm not like him."
He then tilted his head. "Come on, let's find William."
In another abandoned building, Lauren, in her Black Siren uniform, used echolocation to hear any sign of anyone in the building, while Laurel, in her Black Canary uniform, held up her flashlight as she looked down the hallway.
"Clear!" Black Siren shouted.
"Clear!" Black Canary responded.
Suddenly, Sara, in her White Canary outfit, arrived in front of the twins.
"I searched the whole building's clear." Sara said. "There's no sign of William here."
"So, where the hell is he?!" Siren demanded, huffing in frustration, as she then walked away quickly, before Laurel caught up to her. "Okay, what's the matter with you?" She demanded.
"With me?" Lauren retorted.
"Yes! When I talked to you at the Bunker, you said that you were okay, but the way you spoke to me, you didn't seem fine." Laurel answered, before gently asking. "What's going on?"
Lauren sighed in exasperation, seeing that there was no hiding it. "It's about Oliver. Well, not exactly him, but... who his sacrifice brought back." She began.
"Like me?" Laurel inquired.
"And Tommy, Moira, and Samantha... even Harrison Wells from my old Earth and his daughter." Lauren added before pausing. She then found her words as she spoke again. "...Them I get, I understand, but why me? Why did Oliver bring me back as well after everything?"
"Well, I mean, we don't know the exact full rules of this whole 'coming back to life' thing, and that says a lot because we have seen the Lazarus Pits." Laurel said.
"Yes, we do." Lauren interjected. "You're all of the people who Oliver would have wanted his sacrifice to bring back, and I'm still here. After everything with Zoom, Chase, and Diaz, why did he choose to bring me back as your twin sister in this reality instead of leaving me forgotten?" She questioned, with tears in her eyes.
"Because he knew how hard you were working to redeem yourself during your time as me." Lauren began, stepping close to her twin as she held her shoulders. "Yeah, you were an evil doppelganger of mine who worked with villains. But over time, you began to change yourself for the better after suffering a dark and tragic past on your old Earth and after working with villains who you thought would be great father figures. In the end, however, you've come and proven yourself worthy to take up the mantle of Black Canary, a mantle created by Sara and carried on by me."
"Even some people are deserving of a second chance, regardless of the darkness, you are someone who deserves a second chance, not just in redemption, but also in life." Sara stated further.
Lauren looked down, feeling emotional as she took in both her sisters' words.
Mia, in her Green Arrow uniform, zip-lined to a rooftop as she jumped off the cable and landed in a pose, before getting up to her feet and looking for any sign of William. However, she then heard footsteps, and turned around quickly to see William, only he struggled as he was pushed forward by someone.
"Let him go!" Mia warned, pulling out an arrow from her quiver and nocking it on her bow, aiming at the suspect.
The suspect turned to face Mia, as he then showed his face, revealing a middle age man with light skin and a beard, with an alarmed expression.
Mia looked at the man, but frowned, having never seen him before in her life. "Who the hell are you?" She demanded.
As both Mia and the man stood still, with his grip on William, Mia kept her aim on the man, as she slightly marched forward. "I said, who are you!" She demanded.
"You're wearing his hood, you should know!" The man retorted back.
Mia stared in confusion as she tried to figure out exactly who this person was, and why he kidnapped William. Eventually, she finally figured it out quickly.
Winter, 2012
In an abandoned factory, Oliver, as the Hood, takes on the men of Black Armada, a private security firm made up of former soldiers from Special Forces, and hired by John Byrne, the next person on Oliver's list, having been targeted for using his position as CEO of a beer company as a front for human trafficking.
The Hood dodges a punch from a Black Armada soldier, ducking as he then shoves him aside to the wall behind him. He turns to two assailants with rifles, who open fire at him, but miss as he then fires arrows at them in their shoulders, shooting them down. The thug who tried to punch the Hood gets back up and tries to attack him again, but the Hood deflects a blow before jabbing him in the torso with his bow, and grabbing him by his vest, lifting him up and knocking him out by hitting his head on a ceiling beam.
The Hood then charges down the stairs and decks another soldier to the floor, before firing two arrows, one to another thug on his left and the other to the one on his right, killing him as he tumbled down the stairs. The Hood then fights another soldier as he charged the vigilante, but the Hood easily takes him down with jabs to his torso, deflecting a left kick with his right elbow as he then elbowed him in his side and kicking him, before throwing him aside. Another thug charges at the Hood with a baton, but the Hood easily caught his right arm, forcing him to drop the baton as he then slightly throws him at the exterior of a giant container and shoving him to the edge of a steel rectangular vat filled with water and kneeing him in the torso. The Hood then grabbed the thug and turned him around as he then forced his head into the water as he dragged him across the vat before pulling him up back up and pushing him away, firing an arrow at him and another soldier who appeared in the corridor.
The Hood walks down the corridor as he then sees another soldier, and charges at him, pushing him into a pressure tank and sending him to the floor as he made his way forward before turning back and shooting an arrow at the soldier, who tried to shoot the vigilante with his handgun, and firing another arrow at another soldier.
The Hood then sees another soldier with a handgun in his hand, but quickly disarms him and slams his head on a metal pipe, leaving a dent on it and knocking him out cold, as he then fires two more arrows, one to a soldier on his right and the other to his left. The Hood continues to make his way through the corridor as yet another Black Armada soldier charges at the archer, but he quickly shoves him to the wall of the pressure tank, forcing the soldier to drop his gun before pushing him down the stairs. The Hood pulls an arrow from his quiver as he then nocks it and aims to the soldier, who tries to get back up but extends his left hand once he sees what the Hood is going to do to him.
"No, please! Please-" He pleads in vain, before the Hood lets go of the bowstring, firing the arrow and killing him. Normally, the Hood would let the man go with a warning, but seeing as how these people are hired to protect a human trafficker, he will not show leniency. With that, he continued to walk the factory as he walked through the doorway.
The Hood charges at another Black Armada soldier by the collar of his vest and shoves him to a wall, knocking him to the floor as he then fires arrows at three other soldiers, two in front of him and one in the staircase, before turning around and firing an arrow to the soldier he shoved and turning back to shoot an arrow at another soldier on the staircase, who opened fire at the Hood with a rifle.
The Hood takes on a solider who charges at the vigilante, but the Hood deflects his attacks as he then grabs him and knees him in the torso, before wrapping his arm around his neck and flipping him over, throwing him onto the floor and incapacitating him. The Hood then fires an arrow at one soldier as another tried shooting him with his handgun, but the Hood dodges the bullets and grabs his arm, trying to force him to drop the gun as he punched him on his side. While the Hood struggled with the soldier, another shoots at him, although the vigilante is able to make quick work with the soldier he was busy with by kicking his head on the metal pipes, knocking him out, before turning his attention to the soldier shooting him as he then fired an arrow at him, killing him.
Another soldier charges at the Hood with a handgun in his hand, but the Hood pushes his arm upward, making him miss a shot, before slamming him on the pipes and throwing him over them. The Hood fires an arrow at another soldier before making his way to another one and two exchange blows as more soldiers enter the corridor. The soldier grabs the Hood's right arm and flips him over his shoulder, but the archer easily lands to his feet and charges at the soldier, pushing him back onto the support beams, specifically the ceramic area, incapacitating him.
The Hood then gets back up halfway as he fires at another soldier to his left in the shoulder, making him fall onto the pipes, before charging at another soldier as he deflected hits and jabbed him in the torso, staggering him to the floor. Another soldier charges at the Hood but the archer shoots an arrow at him, before kicking the soldier he jabbed in the shin, making him fall face-first to the floor and knocking him out. The Hood then grabs another soldier, who stood on the pipes, and pulls him down on the floor, also avoiding gunfire as another soldier charges at the Hood from behind, but the Hood quickly back kicks him, sending him falling back on the pipes.
The Hood then fires an arrow at one soldier charging him, while another tries to punch him, but the vigilante grabs his arm, stopping his attack and then flipping him over the metal pipes, before scaling over the pipes. He then fires two arrows, one at the soldier in front of him, and another behind him on the left who tries shooting him with a rifle. He then sees silhouettes of more Black Armada soldiers coming and continues to make his way through the factory.
Arriving outside the factory, the Hood fires two more arrows at two soldiers, and sees one charging at him at his left, before grabbing him by the vest and slamming him by the wall of the metal tank and then tossing him to the floor as the archer then grapples another soldier before spinning and falling back first to the ground while throwing the soldier over him. The Hood quickly gets back up to his feet and fires an arrow at him, killing the soldier.
With that, the Hood climbs up the ladder and walks through the metal walkway. However, he sees more Black Armada soldiers and goes to punch one of them, but they all charge at the Hood, swarming him as they each attack him repeatedly with more soldiers coming to assist.
Growling, the Hood pulls out a smoke pellet and drops it over the pathway grate as the smoke then releases, causing the soldiers to be somewhat blind as they to strike the Hood as he then aims his bow high and fires a grappling arrow, zip-lining up as he escaped the horde of soldiers while grabbing one of them, who screamed before the Hood then let him go, falling to the ground.
Two Black Armada soldiers were on the giant tanks as they opened fire at the Hood, but they missed each shot before the archer threw two flechettes at them, killing them both, and let go of the grappling arrow, landing on his feet on another pathway as he then fired one arrow to the soldier who tried to charge at him and spinning around and firing the second arrow to the one who tried to attack him behind.
Finally clear of all obstacles, the Hood pulls out a zip-line arrow and fires it, before using the line to cross to another rooftop of the factory. He then lands in a pose before getting up to his feet. Suddenly, a gunshot was then heard, with a bullet hitting the Hood's shoulder as he turned around, slightly growling in pain. He saw a man with a beard, aiming a gun at him, before flinging a flechette at his hand, disarming him of the gun as the man yelped in surprise
The Hood slightly stepped forward while the man stepped back in fear. "You stay back!" He yelled.
The Hood then pulled out an arrow and aimed it at the man. "John Byrne! You have failed this city!" He growled, maintaining his aim at his target.
Back in the present day, Mia kept her aim at the suspect, John Bryne. "Let him go!" She demanded.
"I brought him up here to throw him off. My whole life ended right here!" Byrne explained, gesturing to this rooftop they were all on right now.
"I don't care! Final warning." Mia snapped, readying herself to fire the arrow.
"He thought he was saving me. Eight years in Iron Heights never saved anyone." Byrne sneered,
"So you kidnap his son, the man who spared your life?!" Mia demanded in anger. "I should put this arrow in you right now!"
Byrne then threw William aside, raising his arms up in surrender, awaiting for the release of death. "Do it! After 8 years in prison, I got nothing left to live for anyway! Go ahead!"
Mia considered for a moment, ready to let go of the bowstring and fire the arrow as William watched on in fear and anticipation while holding his shoulder in pain, but then she remembered Laurel's advice from earlier. "Don't do it like Oliver did it, do it in a way you would do." She heard her voice tell her in her head.
With that, Mia removed her arrow from the bowstring and put it back in her quiver, as Byrne looked on in disbelief. "No. If Oliver Queen didn't kill you, then neither will I, but your ass is going back to prison." She firmly stated, while slightly walking forward towards him.
Suddenly, an arrow pierced Byrne right in his chest where his heart was, killing him as his body then fell backwards to the ground, much to both Mia's and William's shock.
"Such a failure that man was." They heard a female voice say, and Mia turned around to see an Asian woman in a red and black uniform.
"You?!" Mia demanded in shock, not being able to believe who she was seeing.
"Hello, dear niece." Emiko Adachi greeted, with a smirk on her face.
What are you doing here, Emiko?" Mia demanded, slowly stepping back.
"Simple, I'm continuing what I started, and finishing what I should've done last year, making your family suffer the way I suffered by destroying your father's legacy." Emiko Adachi explained, before pointing her bow towards William. "Starting with him."
William gasped as Mia stood in front of him, in a protective stance as he hid behind her.
"Why, Emiko? My dad brought you back, he prevented your death! He saved you!" Mia shouted in disbelief.
"Because the world sees him as a hero, when he does not deserve to be a hero! His father, your grandfather, abandoned me and chose his family over me, his own daughter! And if I had to suffer without my father, then shall William and everyone who stood with Oliver!" Emiko snapped. "But I was more of the planner in orchestrating John Byrne's breakout and kidnapping. The real people who broke Byrne out of prison are right here." She elaborated before gesturing to two individuals stepping out of the silhouettes, forcing Mia to freeze as she finally saw who they were.
She saw Dinah Drake arrive on the rooftop, in her BC uniform, as John Diggle joined beside her, in his Spartan uniform sans his helmet, with red trims, as they both stand beside Emiko. "You two assisted in a convict's escape? You allowed a convicted human trafficker to kidnap a young boy?! Why? How could you both do this to my father, you two of all people!" She demanded, with shock and disbelief in her voice.
"Because we want revenge for kicking us out! Oliver and Lance both fired me from being SCPD and left me to rot in Iron Heights with a metahuman dampening collar, all because I tried to get justice for Vinny!" Dinah snarled.
"And Oliver kicked me off the team for telling him that he left a trail of bodies every place that he went, when he should've made me the Green Arrow! I SHOULD BE THE GREEN ARROW! I SHOULD BE THE ONE TO WEAR THE SUIT! NOT YOU!" Diggle shouted, revealing his true colors.
"Don't give me any of that bullshit, both of you." Mia sneered. "Dad told me everything about you all before Crisis, and the whole truth, not your pathetic sob stories. He told me how you belittled him, how you both disagreed with him." She then pointed her bow at Dinah. "How you sided with a madman who disregarded civilians as collateral damage and how you attack Quentin." She then moved her bow and gestured to John. "And you told my father that he leaves a trail of dead bodies every place that he went. He was right when he said that his trail of bodies never included his own brother. How he managed to deal with your behavior is beyond me, just as the fact of how JJ, Sara, and Connor managed with you growing up."
"Don't you dare go there, Mia." Dinah warned.
"Why not? I'm just stating the truth. I mean, you both turned your backs when he needed you most." Mia stated. "And he gave everything for this new world, gave everyone he knew a second chance, gave you a second chance, and you wasted it."
"That's enough, we all came here to do one job, and we're gonna finish it." Diggle said.
"We all?" Mia questioned.
"Mr. Diggle refers to us, Ms. Queen." A male voice said.
Malcolm Merlyn then arrived in his League uniform and armed with his bow and quiver, along with more people but suited in different uniforms and fully masked, Chase in his Prometheus outfit, China White, Cupid; armed with her bow and a quiver of heart-shaped arrows, Warner, Kane Wolfman, formally Joe Wilson, also arrived in a orange and black armor with a katana strapped on his back, along with armed men with rifles and suited with bulletproof vests; his Jackals, followed by Stanley Dover in a dark jacket with a crazed look, Simon Lacroix, A.K.A. Komodo, in a dark suit and wearing a mask underneath, and Lonnie Machin, A.K.A. Anarky; with his half-burnt face and sporting a red vest with a black sweater underneath with the symbol of A in his front torso. Finally, the Longbow Hunters; with Red, a light-skinned woman in a red leather jacket with red visor sunglasses, Silencer, a dark-skinned woman with short hair and a device around her belt, and Bear, a bearded light-skinned man who had a bladed shield with a spike in center.
"Oh, frak." Mia groaned, seeing how she was badly outnumbered.
"Face it, Mia. You're alone, and you can't take us all alone." Chase mocked.
Mia gripped her bow tightly, her knuckles underneath her gloves turning white, as she pulled out an arrow from her quiver and notched it on her bowstring, aiming at the villains as she breathed deeply. "If I must stand alone, then so be it. But I won't falter because unlike Diggle, Emiko, and Dinah, I will not betray my father's memory. I will honor him and his legacy by doing what he would've done; protecting our family, protecting my family, but I will do it my way and not the way he did. And if I die tonight trying to stop some of you, then someone else will carry on the fight, carry on my father's mission." She declared, standing her ground.
"Well, as far as final words go, that was really inspiring, dear niece." Emiko acknowledged, before pulling out an arrow and aiming it on her bow. "But unfortunately for you, you'll still die here alone."
Suddenly, a breach opened as everyone all looked to see Sara, Laurel, and Lauren, stepping out of it and standing beside Mia.
"She's not alone." Sara said, as she then turned to Mia. "And you won't do it alone, Mia." She said, gesturing to the breach.
Suddenly, both Roy and Thea jumped out of the breach as well, arriving on the rooftop, followed by Rene, Evelyn, Rory, and Ray Palmer as he flew out, suited up in his A.T.O.M. exosuit. Then came Lyla and a team of A.R.G.U.S. soldiers, followed by Nyssa Al Ghul and Talia Al Ghul, Ben Turner, Helena Bertinelli, Tatsu Yamashiro in her Japanese armor while sporting a white mask with a red sun, Slade Wilson in similar orange and black armor, but wearing a black and orange helmet. Finally, Cisco Ramon came out in his Vibe uniform, followed by Caitlin Snow, as Frost, in her uniform, Mari McCabe in her Vixen attire and with her Anasi totem. All of a sudden a blur of orange lightning then appeared out of the breach and William was then taken away from the rooftop.
Then, The Flash zipped back to where Mia was. "Alright, I sent William back to the Bunker, he's with Samantha and Felicity. He's safe, Mia." He said in assurance, much to Mia's relief.
"NO!" Emiko cried out in anger, fuming that her plans were ruined, as she did not anticipate the appearance of Oliver's allies, let alone the appearance of the Speedster.
"Thank you, Barry." Mia said with a smile, not just for the Flash helping get her brother to safety, but also knowing that she had people who had her back for this battle. She then turned back to face Emiko and her allies. "You say that my father destroyed your life, Emiko, yet you're blind to see what he's done to those who fought beside him, those who've earned his trust." She then gestured to the people around her. "This is what he's accomplished, an era of heroes. This is a legacy worth honoring, worth fighting for."
"And a legacy worth destroying forever. Tonight, we will kill every one of my brother's friends and family, and after that, we will destroy his entire legacy. We will show them all the monster he truly was." Emiko declared.
"Now this is going to be a lot of fun." Chase said as he drew out his katana, while China White twirled her karambit knives, Malcolm pulled out an arrow and notched it in his bow with his followers unsheathing their bows as well, Cupid pulling out her heart-shaped arrow and notched it, Kane pulling out his katana as the Jackels aimed their weapons. Anarky pulls out a pair of kamas from inside his jacket, as Stanley pulls out a shiv from his back pocket, Komodo draws an arrow from his quiver and notches it on his longbow, Red Dart extends her right arm with a wrist device on it, and Silencer nears her hands on the device in her belt.
All of Team Arrow did the same in readying their weapons as Roy, Thea, and Evelyn notched their own arrows onto their respective bows, while Lyla pulled out her handgun from her holster, Rene doing the same with his handguns as he pulled them out from his holster, Rory extended his rags, Helena extended her arms as she aimed her two crossbows, Tatsu unsheathing her katana blades, along with both Nyssa and Talia as they both unsheathed their respective swords, Turner pulls out two brass knuckles with steel claws from his jacket and placed them on his hands, Slade unsheathes his sword as he drew out his gun from his holster, while mist appeared from Frost's hands, Vibe adjusted his goggles, and Flash's eye briefly glowing with lightning.
Mia closed her eyes as she whispered. "For William and my father." She then reopened them as she then pulled out an arrow from her quiver, and notched it on her bow. "You have all failed Star City!" She shouted.
With that, the heroes and villains all yelled, as they charged at each other, engaging in a full-blown final battle, to preserve the memory of the man who gave his life for this new world, and his legacy as well.
I wanted to add detail as to why Oliver brought back both Laurels on Earth-Prime, as well as maybe assure who were disappointed that E-1 Laurel didn't come back. I even wanted to add depth as to why Black Siren feels self-doubt and uncertainty to her return. I hope I did well in explaining this. I also had to add an explanation as to why Evelyn was with Team Arrow once more, and I hope that explains best for most people.
The flashback fight scene is badass and all, as it showed not just Oliver's skills as the Hood one last time (before the Flash 9x09), but also proof that aside from Roy, Thea, Sara, and Nyssa, Oliver did not need a team whatsoever. But I have to be frank here, this fight scene was very difficult to write, it literally took me like a week or two to finish this fight scene.
The part where Rory and Rene discuss the latter being like Oliver is inspired by Aragorn II Elessar's "Rest in peace for your fight is over" one-shot; in which he stated that Roy was more like Oliver, and not Rene, to which I agree; hence why I added that dialogue where Rene disagreed with Rory. Kudos to you, Aragorn.
Diggle and Dinah have now appeared, and you also now know why they joined with the villains, because they both had villain characteristics in Season 6, when you look back and think about it.
The next chapter is the final battle, and I have an idea on how this will all end, I just wanna leave you all with the anticipation of what comes next. But I could use some help for the fight scenes, so I'm open to any suggestion.
Leave a review and let me know if you want this to continue.