Champions & Wars Chapter 2: The Act, a Flash + Avengers Crossover fanfic

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Thanks a lot to Brainstorm Sorcerer and gussygus28 for their help with various plots and writing.

Also, the 'Civil War' plot in MCU is beginning here, and I'm anti-Accords, and anti-anyone who supports them.

So, this is the only warning. If anyone doesn't like that, they're free to turn back now and check in after the CW plot has finished.

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There are 2 more fics in the sandbox now-

"When legends meet: Johnathan the magic man" by Ededdneddy on AO3, which involves Jonathan Levinson from Buffyverse (who died in the previous fic at Ultron's hands) having his body fall into the world of 'Ed, Edd n Eddy', and being resurrected via Toon Force, after which he decides to stay in that world as a superhero. He also has another crossover fic called 'Merge' that you'll all enjoy.

"The Fallen and the Free" by King_Of_The_Multiverse on AO3, sequel to his "Storms of Ash and Glory", and this one involves Theon Greyjoy from ASOIAF in the world of the 2016 'The Magnificent Movie'.

Both great stuff.

Enjoy.

Guest 1: Thank you for the review, and yes, this time Deadpool would have much more to do if he went there. I think after Sora, Donald and Goofy are done with "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" and "Kingdom Hearts III", I'll do the Twisted Childhood Universe, plus "Once Upon A Time", and we'll see on Sadakaya. Haven't seen much of RWBY, sorry. Maybe someone in the sandbox who is familiar will take it?

TW: Thank you for the review and glad it was fantastic. He is. Since it passed through a breach, its just one here.

Guest 2: Thank you for the review. Wasn't a huge fan of DCAU Lois as I think she'd potential but they never moved her beyond her initial characterization, and part of that is because Superman's identity was NEVER revealed to her, so you've a very good point there. I'll see if the flashback can be fit in.

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Chapter 2- The Act

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

Oliver sat on the chair, looking at the rest of Team Arrow with an unreadable expression, Diggle ringing someone, before the automated voice said the number is unreachable.

"Nothing, man", Diggle said with a sigh, having tried for the 10th time, after Oliver had tried 10 times already, and the rest were all looking concerned.

"Where can Felicity go?" Sara wondered. "Did someone kidnap her? Like Prometheus?"

She and Oliver shared a look, remembering how he'd said Oliver would lose more, and were alarmed, while Roy added. "Her car is still there, so she'd have been taken before she reached it."

"She is not in her apartment either, is she?" Oliver asked the rest, just to be sure.

"No, I already checked", Thea confirmed from her end as Oliver sighed, wondering what was going on.

"And I called Caitlin, she said Felicity was fine when she left", Laurel added, and with that, the last avenue of contact was closed.

Oliver turned to the computers, worry coursing through him. "Let me check the cameras." He typed in some commands on the computer, and a while later, the streets monitored by the street cameras appeared.

Felicity's car was clearly in a spot not covered by any cameras, which Oliver couldn't help but appreciate, even in a situation such as this. But he did know where it was parked, and looked at the camera which covered the area close to it.

Then, he and the rest looked at another camera before it, which showed Felicity and Caitlin hugging goodbye, before Caitlin drove off, then Felicity walked further.

But then, in another camera positioned further, Felicity was seen walking briskly, as if trying to get away from something…..or someone.

And that was her last sighting, as she never appeared in the camera showing the area close to her car.

Whatever was after her had gotten her before she even got close enough to her car.

"Something invisible?" Roy suggested. "Maybe Prometheus hired an invisible meta."

"Then how are we gonna find something like that?!" Diggle snapped.

"Dig, I'm as worried about her as you are", Oliver assured Diggle, both of them being the ones in this room who'd known Felicity the longest. "But, prioritize, lashing out will not help her."

Diggle sighed and nodded, agreeing, and shared a nod with Roy too, as Oliver told the rest. "I think Ray will be more useful than the rest of us in this case."

Earth-199999, New York City, Avengers Compound

Steve and Natasha were sitting together in the former's room, Natasha looking ahead. "The team is going to be bigger now. So many people….all in here."

"Good thing the place is big enough to hold them all", Steve said, both of them chuckling at that, though Natasha noted he missed one subtle point of hers.

More people meant less space for them to be alone with each other.

"Can't believe it just began with the six of us", Steve commented, thinking back to when they'd assembled against the Chitauri the first time. "Back then, I thought that was the worst I'd see."

"We were so wrong", Natasha sighed, running a hand through her long, red hair, the flashes of Ultron's nukes and Mastermind's hallucinations running through her head.

"More threats, on Earth, and in the Universe, then the Multiverse", Steve said out-loud with a groan. "And we can't always rely on our friends from other worlds to help out, so this is the best thing to do."

"How many allies from other worlds do we have exactly though?" Natasha suddenly asked randomly, making Steve narrow his eyes.

"Well, there's the Justice League from Clark's Earth", Steve noted, thinking about everyone. "Then, Clint met up with Oliver, Barry and the others on another Earth, so they would be our allies too. And from what I know, they have experience with other worlds too, with whom they're allied, so I guess quite a bit in that case."

"Big network, huh?" Natasha smiled at Steve. "Always a good help."

"Which is why we're making ours bigger", Steve replied, and then both were silent, just looking ahead. Neither one really wanted to bring up anything private right now, they just didn't know how to.

Then there was a knock on the door, and Steve said. "Come in."

Sam opened the door. "Hey guys." They nodded at him as he said. "You told me to tell you when Tony arrives. Well, he is here now."

"Let's not keep him waiting", Natasha commented as the two of them stood up, ready to go out and talk.

"He has a guest though", Sam revealed, making them pause in confusion. They knew he was coming to talk about something important but…who else was with him?

"Who?" Steve inquired.

Sam groaned.

"The Secretary of State."

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

Ray groaned as his devices didn't do anything, and Oliver asked from behind him. "What's going on, did you get anything?"

"No, that's why none of my devices are really doing anything, tried to track if there is any space in these locations where any outlines of an invisible person could be invisible", Ray said with a sigh. "Even tried to check if there's any air being made in the area, because an invisible person would still need to breathe, but nothing at all!"

"So, what now?" Roy asked, his arms folded, hoping Felicity was fine, as every passing second would make the situation worse for her, whatever had happened to her.

"I'll be going back to Palmer Tech, use more stuff I've over there so I can track anything else", Ray said as he got up and prepared to go, looking at Oliver. "And I'll be in contact the entire time, so I can let you know the moment I get anything. We'll get her back, Oliver." They shared a nod, Felicity having been a woman both of them had loved, regardless of the relationships not working out.

And they still cared about her, they'd never let anything bad happen to her.

But before Ray could take another step, a strange 'Vwoorp, Vwoorp' sound was heard.

Doctor Who Theme Tune plays

All of a sudden, an old blue British police box from the 50s of all things appeared in front of them, as Diggle's jaw dropped, before he went. "What…what is….?"

Oliver instantly nodded to Sara, who prepared to scream in case there was any threat, while the door of the box opened, the others taking out weapons too.

Out walked a very slim man in a suit, with thick brown hair and finely boned face with freckles. The ladies in the room had to admit- he was definitely a looker.

"Oh hello there!" He walked forwards but then paused at the guns and arrows aimed at him. "I've had warmer welcomes." He commented before shrugging. "Of course, I had colder ones too."

"Who. Are. You?" Oliver coldly asked as he cocked the gun he was now holding. Felicity disappears, and this guy appears. He doesn't believe in coincidences often.

"I'm the Doctor!" He announced, as if that explained everything.

The team exchanged confused looks before Thea voiced the question. "Doctor who?"

"I love it when they ask that." The "Doctor" said to himself as he shoved his hands in his pockets, calmer than they would like. "Just the Doctor. This is quite nice actually." The Doctor changed the subject as he looked around the bunker, walking closer and inspecting a bench with arrow components.

"What's that? Condensed high-density polyurethane foam? Quite ingenious, that."

"Hey!" Oliver marched closer and got in the Doctor's way. The other man lost his childish glee as he focused on the archer.

"I just lost a friend, and we don't know why. Explain yourself right now!"

"So, I'm too late." The Doctor ran a hand through his hair and sighed. Oliver saw the signs of guilt, and they were too genuine to fake. "I'm sorry, I am so sorry."

"Felicity..." Oliver's voice cracked, Diggle looking shaken, the expressions of the others faltering too, as based on this unknown man's tone, something irreversibly bad had just happened to Felicity, and this guy was here to give the answers, since he seemed to be knowledgeable about what had happened.

Of course, they were still suspicious, as he'd appeared out of nowhere in their secret lair right after Felicity had disappeared.

"She was taken, by the kindest, most murderous psychopaths in the Universe." The Doctor paused before shrugging. "A Universe, I should say. Mine to be exact."

"What are they?" Oliver gritted his teeth as he held off the tears, something the rest of his team struggled to comprehend what this Doctor guy was saying.

"They are the Weeping Angels, and you have one in this very city."

Earth-199999, New York City, Avengers Compound

The Secretary of State, Thaddeus Ross, was standing at the head of a table in the conference room. Rhodey, Natasha, Steve, Tony, Sam and Maria were seated around.

"Four years ago, I had a heart attack." Ross did the motion of playing golf. "I dropped right in the middle of my back-swing." He lowered his hands. "Turned out it was the best round of my life, because after 13 hours of surgery and a triple bypass . . . I found something 40 years in the Army had never taught me: Perspective." Looking at the seated Avengers and Maria, he continued. "The world owes the Avengers an unpayable debt. You have fought for us, protected us, risked your lives . . . but while a great many people see you as heroes, there are some . . . who would prefer the word "vigilantes".

Natasha asked the important question. "And what word would you use, Mr. Secretary?"

"How about "dangerous"?" Ross shot back. "What would you call a group of US-based, enhanced individuals who routinely ignore sovereign borders and inflict their will wherever they choose and who, frankly, seem unconcerned about what they leave behind?"

They all just stared impassively, while Ross activated a screen behind him.

"New York."

A recording of a Chitauri Leviathan was seen, followed by civilians in New York running around while the army tried to fight back against the Chitauri. The Hulk was seen smashing into a building and sent a dust cloud to engulf the camera.

Rhodey looked regretful. He glanced behind to look at Natasha, who was watching emotionlessly, as were the rest.

"Washington DC."

The three Insight Helicarriers were seen, firing on each other. The destroyed Triskelion then appeared on the screen. Then a Helicarrier appeared crashing into the Potomac and throwing up a massive wave, engulfing citizens and the camera.

Sam and Maria looked down sadly.

"That watermelon."

The Avengers saw footage of themselves fighting against that watermelon monster, alongside Superman and Bart, with the thing having caused destruction and made people run. Ross shot a brief glance at Superman and Bart, but said nothing, something that the rest noticed.

"Those monsters in the city."

Footage was shown of the Ogre that Steve fought alongside Colossus and Iceman as civilians fled, followed by footage of the three-headed monster and the green rocky monster fighting the Avengers, Fantastic Four and Colossus and Iceman, with news helicopters trying to avoid the chaos.

"The nuclear mess."

Footage was seen of nuclear missiles all over the world, making their way towards the cities, with Tony looking down at that.

"The Mutants' attack."

They looked at some footage of the fight at the Compound, with Hulk trying to hold back Juggernaut as the place broke apart.

"Speaking of Mutants, some old messes involving them came to the forefront again. Alcatraz."

Footage appeared of Magneto's Mutant army attacking the island as the X-Men fought back against them.

"Alkali Lake."

They saw some footage of the flooded area.

"Statue of Liberty."

Footage was seen of a bright light coming from the Statue of Liberty as various world leaders fled from the summit nearby.

"JFK!"

A newspaper clipping appeared of JFK's death, and Magneto's arrest, Steve looking down with a sigh, knowing who'd actually done it, but he was also aware telling the Secretary of that right now won't make things any better.

"And let's not forget a Mutant attacking the President in the White House, or the Cuba incident in the 60s."

Steve finally said what the rest were thinking. "Okay. That's enough. You've made your point."

Ross nodded to an aide as he shut the screen down.

"For the past three years, you've operated with unlimited power and no supervision. That's an arrangement the government can no longer tolerate." An aide handed Ross a thick document. "But I think we have a solution."

Ross placed the thick document on the desk and passed it to Maria.

She picked it up, looking at it.

"The Superhuman Registration Act. About to be approved by our country." Maria glimpsed at the contents of the document briefly before Rhodes held out his hand so she passed it to him. "It states that the Avengers shall no longer be a private organization. Instead, they'll operate under the supervision of the United States government, only when and if the specific panel deems it necessary."

Ross stopped near Steve, who then spoke. "The Avengers were formed to make the world a safer place. I feel we've done that."

Ross pointedly asked. "Tell me, Captain, do you know where Thor and Banner are right now?"

Steve looked up and met Ross's eyes.

"Or that flying strong guy with the 'S' on his chest, and the fast guy? They weren't seen since this watermelon incident and that time a very powerful storm broke out in LA"

Steve didn't respond as Ross continued. "If I misplaced a couple of 30 megaton nukes . . . you can bet there'd be consequences." Ross walked around the table to stand in front of them. "Compromise. Reassurance. That's how the world works. Believe me, this is the middle ground."

Rhodes inquired. "So, there are contingencies."

Ross shrugged. "Very soon, the US government and other countries who want to limit the Avengers' entries into their borders meet in Vienna to ratify the SHRA."

Steve glanced at Tony, who looked down, then back up to meet his eyes.

Then Steve turned back to Ross. "With all due respect, Secretary, you do realize there is a difference between people and nukes, right?"

Ross began. "Powerful people can cause as much destruction as-"

"People are not weapons, Secretary Ross", Steve cut him off, and Ross looked like he wanted to slap Steve for it. "If you misplaced a couple of 30 megaton nukes, someone else could get their hands on them and use them wrongly. Thor, Banner, the other two, they're people, and as you can see, they're pretty powerful, I don't think anyone else would be using them for their own benefit."

"And if they decide to attack us?"

"Thor and Banner have had years to do it, and Banner even has reasons." Ross looked stricken, and Natasha had to hide a smirk. "You can even say they lulled us into a sense of security, if they're actually planning anything against us, but they never attacked us, even though with all their power, they don't need to take much time. So, I don't think your comparison is a fair one."

Ross snarled, glaring at them all, mostly Steve, and finally said. "Even then, you all need to be supervise-"

"Because we fought the aliens who'd have killed everyone else if we didn't?" Natasha cut him off with another question as he now turned to glare at her. "The Helicarriers would have killed millions of people all over the world if we hadn't stopped them."

"And those missiles…..none of them even reached their targets because of the efforts of the people in this room, and many others", Maria pointed out too. "So, I'm not sure how trying to supervise them would be any kind of solution."

"You used to work directly under Director Fury, surely you'd understand."

Maria smiled. "Director Fury believed the Avengers are a force for good, with or without SHIELD. I believe the same."

Ross sighed, shaking his head, and finally said. "Talk it over."

Natasha inquired with a game-face. "And if we come to a decision you don't like?

Ross stared at her. "Then you retire."

She stifled a smile as he walked out.

Asgard, Nornheim

The Rock Troll Ulik had started attacking parts of the main Kingdom with others of his race, destroying portions, and abducting people, all to challenge Odin, being angry at him for having been driven underground due to their violent nature, with Odin having killed their King Geirrodur back then too.

Ulik taunted some Asgardian civilians who were now bound in chains, all cowering before him, while they were surrounded by an entire formation of Rock Trolls, big and small both.

"To protect you, that Odin has to come here!" Ulik screamed while pointing at the scared civilians, gesturing to some Asgardian soldiers who were lying dead nearby, having come to rescue the hostages, only to be killed, which made the hostages whimper. "On one hand, we have the lives of all of you!" He raised a finger while stomping his foot on the ground angrily, breaking some of it as the people screamed. "And on the other hand, there is the LIFE OF ODIN!"

Suddenly, a powerful wind blew for just a second, making Ulik look up with wide eyes.

At a distance, six horses neighed while rearing, and on top of them were Thor Odinson, Hercules, Sif, and the Warriors Three- Fandral, Volstagg and Hogun.

"I shall be in the lead, my friends", Thor told the other five, before they began riding towards the formation of Rock Trolls.

Sif, ever the strategist, looked at the formation. "I don't think it would be wise for all of us to dive in directly. Let us go from the West." She told all of them. "We should not enter via any openings."

"Right you are", Thor said with a nod as they rode to the formation's West now.

"These Rock Trolls have made a fortress from their formation", Hercules told Thor and Sif while turning to them. "There is no clear sign of entry from the ground. I believe I should break-"

Thor: The Dark World- As The Hammer Falls plays

Thor raised Mjolnir and fired lightning at a good portion of the formation, killing all those Rock Trolls as their scorched bodies fell down, forming an entrance finally.

"Or you can just use your lightning."

Thor and Hercules shared a laugh as the six rode into the formation now, while the Rock Trolls who'd not been struck by lightning moved in to close up the formation and trap them (other than Thor who could fly).

Some Rock Trolls tried to attack inside as Sif killed one with her sword, Volstagg felling another with his ax while Hogun killed another with his mace that he used as a flail, Fandral slicing down one more with his rapier, with Hercules sending three of them flying with his Adamantine Mace.

As they kept going further in and parting from each other, the Rock Trolls kept moving around to close up any openings, and eventually, Fandral found himself alone, while Rock Trolls were around him.

Hercules rode forth too as Rock Trolls surrounded him, and he chuckled.

Sif found herself surrounded too.

Hercules got off his horse, casually strolling towards the Rock Trolls that charged at him, and then, he sent one down with a smack while grabbing another by the throat, laughing on seeing the Troll's face, contorted in pain.

One more charged him but Hercules kicked him into three more as all four crumpled onto the ground.

Then he threw the one whose throat he'd grabbed into a few more, making them all fall, and smacked another into a small group as well, felling them too.

He then turned to see a big group of particularly huge Rock Trolls moving right at him.

"More Rock Trolls?" He questioned mockingly. "Were you all born right here?" With that, he laughed sardonically in a way that sent chills down all of their spines.

All of a sudden, Hercules raised his Adamantine Mace and slammed it on the ground hard, causing it to shake while it broke and a huge crater was formed right underneath the entire group of huge Rock Trolls, sending them falling deep into it as pieces of the ground then started covering the crater too.

Hercules saw more Rock Trolls rushing him and taunted them with a smirk while beckoning them towards himself. "Come! Come! Come!" Seeing that, they froze, and Hercules laughed again before pointing at them and beckoning them.

As Fandral rode, he saw more Rock Trolls rushing him, and quickly sliced down three with his rapier before going forth, ducking to avoid the swing of one Troll, and as another charged right at him, Fandral leapt and stabbed that one through the mouth with his sword while his horse passed from between the Rock Troll's feet.

Fandral pulled out his sword and leapt to its other side, landing on his horse and riding it forth while the Rock Troll fell dead behind him.

Volstagg used his ax to hit one Rock Troll right between its legs as it screamed in pain, making him laugh, while he retracted the ax and threw it off, before slicing another Troll's throat as it went down, and he moved forth, avoiding being kicked by a Troll while wounding its foot, making it scream and fall to the ground.

Hogun was wielding his mace like a flail. "This is my barrier. Enter it if you can!" Two Rock Trolls charged as he swung his mace and struck their faces, sending them down.

More charged him from behind as he swung and threw them back too, and before they could recover, he struck another on the face, making that one fall down as well.

After that, Hogun deflected the strike of one with his mace and struck him away, before doing the same to another.

Then, he kicked a Rock Troll away before stunning another small group by striking their faces quickly as they were sent back.

Sif was twirling her sword, a few dead Rock Trolls lying around her, when a few of them lifted up a big net and threw it right at her.

Sif held up her sword, catching the net with its blade, and then twirling it, she hurled the net back up into the sky. It opened up fully and fell upon the Rock Trolls that had thrown it, trapping them due to its strength.

As Thor rode around, he saw the Rock Trolls were closing up all his ways, and shook his head.

Sif sliced one Rock Troll down, then did the same to another, before ducking to avoid another's swing and kicking that one away, and as two more charged her, she roared while holding forth her shield, and managed to push them off too.

Thor threw Mjolnir, the hammer striking and killing more Rock Trolls blocking his path, before he grabbed it on return and leapt off his horse, rushing forth and striking three Rock Trolls rapidly, sending them all flying off, while Sif looked up to see him arrive, and soon enough, Thor was shoulder-to-shoulder with her.

"Let us get to the others, Lady Sif", Thor told Sif, who nodded as they rushed forth.

Hercules had one Rock Troll in a chokehold as he kicked another away. "If I'd known you'd be this many", he kicked one Rock Troll into many more, "I'd have eaten more", he whacked a Rock Troll with his Adamantine Mace into some more, "now I'll have to eat after this battle." With that, he threw the one he'd grabbed in the chokehold away into the air.

One Rock Troll tried to attack with a club but Hercules whacked the club so hard it flew high into the air, the Rock Troll looking up while squinting his eyes to follow it.

Only, Hercules lifted up the Rock Troll and threw him into a huge group of them too, taking them all down.

Fandral rode nearby, and smirked. "Hercules, that's all the Rock Trolls you slew? My, my, you're getting soft in your old age."

"Soft, huh?"

More Rock Trolls surrounded them from all sides, only for Hercules to slam his foot hard on the ground, shaking it and causing a shockwave which felled all Rock Trolls that had surrounded them instantly.

Hercules laughed but Fandral still seemed unimpressed. "You missed me." He started laughing.

"Did I?" He slammed his foot on the ground again, causing a lesser shockwave which made Fandral's horse rear, throwing him off.

Hercules chuckled as he walked towards the fallen Fandral, punching a Rock Troll away and taking another out with his Adamantine Mace, before holding out his hand to Fandral. "Come, Fandral."

Hogun whacked a Rock Troll away, then quickly struck two at the same time, before Volstagg leapt out at another Rock Troll, slamming it onto the ground, Hogun kicking another away while Volstagg sliced another down.

Then lightning killed many Rock Trolls blocking the way as Thor, Hercules, Sif and Fandral joined them, all six quickly felling more Rock Trolls, then forming a circle as they moved vigilantly.

"Ulik and our people must be over there", Thor gestured to the direction, "surrounded by all these Rock Trolls. We must go there."

The six rushed into the direction, easily killing the attacking Rock Trolls, and eventually, after beating down the final line of Rock Trolls before the center, they found themselves in the central area, where the Asgardian hostages were tied up.

Thor managed to send 7 Rock Trolls flying in rapid succession with Mjolnir as Sif blocked various Rock Trolls with her shield, trying to hold them back, Hercules spinning his Adamantine Mace, felling Rock Trolls effortlessly.

"Prince Thor, save us!" One Asgardian woman cried out.

"Fandral, Volstagg, Hogun, free them all!" Thor ordered, and they nodded, felling one Rock Troll each, before Volstagg cut off the chains binding some of them, freeing those Asgardians, while Fandral and Hogun freed some more, and Sif bashed a Troll away before cutting the final chain, freeing the remaining captured Asgardians.

Then, Hogun struck two Rock Trolls quickly with his mace, while Volstagg sliced another down.

Thor destroyed an entire line of Rock Trolls quickly and rushed forth, seeing Ulik standing beyond the remaining lines of Rock Trolls.

Thor: The Dark World- As The Hammer Falls plays

Running forwards, Thor twirled Mjolnir while aiming it to his front, and summoned a huge tornado, sucking up the screaming Rock Trolls who were sent into the air, being spun in the tornado.

With all the Asgardian hostages safe and behind him, Thor could use more power now to defeat the remainder of these.

Ulik watched the tornado with a frown, and soon, it started dying down.

But before he could see past it, a metallic hum was heard, and then, Mjolnir burst through the tornado that was dying down and struck Ulik on the chest, making him crash onto his back, breaking the ground underneath him, his sword falling nearby, while Mjolnir flew back to Thor, who twirled it and held his hand out, flying into the air.

Before Ulik could get up, Thor landed near him and put his foot on the Rock Troll's chest, keeping him pinned down.

"I accept your surrender, Ulik."

To Thor's confusion, Ulik smirked.

"Who is Ulik? Are you sure, Prince Thor, that I am Ulik?"

"Or maybe I am Ulik."

Thor turned to his left, confused, as he saw another Ulik appear.

"Or perhaps I am."

Turning to his right, Thor saw a third Ulik, and in his confusion, he stepped off the Ulik whom he'd put his foot on.

"Could be me too."

Thor turned around to see a fourth Ulik appearing.

"Or maybe me."

One more Ulik appeared, and all four of them surrounded him.

"You've lost, Prince Thor!"

Taking advantage of Thor's confusion, the Ulik on the ground grabbed his sword and swung, Thor barely jumping back to avoid being sliced on the abdomen.

That Ulik stood up, smirking at Thor, who looked at the other four, and noticed them giving the Ulik who'd just gotten up side-eyes.

Thor: The Dark World- As The Hammer Falls plays

Before the Ulik who'd gotten up could do anything else, lightning came down from the skies, and struck the other four Uliks, killing them all instantly, to the shock of the remaining Ulik.

Thor kicked him on the chest, making him fall down again, and placed Mjolnir on top of him, Ulik just staring in shock.

Thor turned around, seeing most of the other Rock Trolls were dead or had been scattered, with Hercules, Sif and the Warriors Three leading the civilians away. They shared smiles and nods with him, as Thor turned around to look down at Ulik again.

"Your illusion with these four look-alikes is quite brilliant, Ulik", Thor told the stunned Ulik. "However, I have grown up with Loki, and you should have told them to not give you the side-eye, as they did that to see what you ordered them to do."

Ulik just stared at Thor, baffled, as Thor told him sternly. "You shall be placed in our prison now."

Earth-205, Pike Creek, Delaware

A blonde man named Nick walked along the sidewalk to his house. He opened his front gate, which creaked, and let it swing shut behind him. A wind picked up, swinging the gate forwards and back, as Nick turned back to look. The gate banged open and shut.

A while later, Nick lay in bed, alone and restless. He pulled his hands out from under the blankets: they were bloodstained. He tossed the blankets back and there was blood all over him and the sheets, a lot of it, as though someone had bled to death a moment ago. Nick got out of bed and switched on the bedside light. There was no blood.

"All right, keep it together. Keep it together, man."

Nick turned off the light and lay down. He rolled over and there was a woman in bed next to him, blood on her cheek. He sat up, shocked: he knew her—her name was Sarah—and the last thing he expected was to see her.

"It's you, Nick. You're special. You're chosen."

Nick shook his head, disbelieving, and covered his eyes with one hand. When he looked back, Sarah was gone.

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

"Explain again- what are you exactly?" Laurel asked once more, for all of them, just so they could be totally clear about it.

"I am a Time Lord", Ten said to them. "From Gallifrey."

Diggle started. "And you are…"

"The last one, yes! Don't ask again", Ten said in a tone that made all of them, other than Oliver, a little unnerved, Diggle mentally chiding himself for hitting such a sore spot.

"And you call yourself The Doctor", Thea finished, Ten shrugging at that, as if it was obvious.

"Yes I do, now can we get to work?" Ten inquired of them.

"How exactly did you track that thing that took Felicity up till here?" Ray asked the real important question, his nerd not exactly very enthusiastic right now due to what had happened to Felicity.

"Well, I first tracked that the Singularity began in this Universe", Ten noted, and they realized he was quite the smart one from just that. "Since the Singularity, and a little trip to a very interesting future of an alternate Universe, I try to keep an eye out in case anything from my own reality crosses over. Unfortunately, something more dangerous than I'd like managed to slip in."

Sara asked. "These Weeping Angel things?"

"Like I said, the only psychopaths in the Multiverse to kill you nicely", Ten explained matter-of-fact. "They send their victims to the past, then feed off the days the victim might have had over here."

"Wait, what?" Roy asked, looking quite confused, and it was the same for most of them, with Oliver, Sara and Ray being the exceptions.

"Yeah, I didn't get it either", Laurel said.

"The victim is sent to the past, any random point in time, then the Weeping Angels feed off of the temporal energy of the days that the victim didn't get to live in the present", Ten finally made it clear, and while they were still a bit confused, they could understand it more.

"So, Felicity is in the past now?" Diggle asked, seeming heartbroken, all of them realizing they might not see her again, at least not as they knew her.

"Yes, I'm sorry", Ten said sadly, wishing he'd come sooner.

"Tell me how we can beat this thing", Oliver said with a growl, wanting to make the Weeping Angel suffer. Sure, Felicity might end up having a nice life in the past (he hoped she did, she didn't deserve to be dropped in the prehistoric or medieval time-periods), but she should have been here, amongst them, amongst her friends and loved ones, who cared about her.

"They are quite fast, I'll tell you that", Ten said to them.

"We know someone who is faster", Thea said in reply.

"I know, did my research", Ten revealed, to their surprise, then continued. "As you already know, they can send people back in time. They also have a very unique defense mechanism."

"And how does it work?" Ray inquired, hoping they could do something to counter it.

"Weeping Angels are "quantum-locked"." Ten revealed at that point.

"What does that mean now?" Sara asked, all of them except Ray looking very confused now.

"They do not exist when we watch them", Ten said, and some of them, especially Diggle, looked like the explanations were giving them very bad headaches. "If any living thing, like your friend Felicity, looks at the Weeping Angels, they immediately turn to stone, until they are no longer looked at."

"I get it", Ray finally said, grasping the concept. "Felicity looked at it, but during that moment, it was like a normal statue. Then when she looked away, the Weeping Angel followed her and took her." He groaned. "Damn it!"

The others shared his frustration, with Ten adding. "This is why they are "weeping". They cannot look at each other as it would have the same effect." He concluded. "Their greatest asset is their greatest curse." But then he sighed in frustration. "But unfortunately, which I never thought I'd say in this case, there is only one of them here from what I've gathered, so we cannot trick them into looking at each other."

"Because why would the world make anything easy?" Oliver said with a groan, realizing this would be something Felicity would have said if she were here.

"And how did you know to come to us?" Sara then asked him, and his answer to that would clear hers and Oliver's lingering doubts about him.

"That's quite simple really. In that little field trip I mentioned, ran into one of your mates." Ten smiled at a very confused Oliver. "Well, not exactly YOUR mate, but someone that knows you. Another you. A variant of you. Lovely people though."

"Someone please tell me I'm dreaming", Dig pleaded out loud.

"Long story short, got a copy of that world's history, saw your name, or your superhero name, because you're a superhero, and that's just brilliant, and knew you'd be the man to talk to here too."

"Right", Oliver said with a finish. He wasn't as dumbfounded by the fantastical as Diggle was, but….this was how all of their lives would be nowadays?

Middle-earth

Sora, Donald and Goofy now found themselves near another small hill, similar to the one that they had seen before, and here, there were dead bodies of creatures that looked like wolves, but were much larger, looking quite hideous.

Some had been sliced by a sword or an ax, while others had been pierced by arrows, and some even looked to have been burnt. Some of the tree-tops nearby were burnt too.

"Looks like a fight went down here, and it was a messy one", Goofy said, staring at all the littered corpses. "And these are scary."

"The ones who fought against these are the ones we are following, so they must have gone this way", Sora told the rest of them as he stared ahead. "So, ready to come with me?"

"The fire that burnt them all…..it was magical", Donald said to his two friends. "The magic was very powerful."

"Anything else you can tell us about this magic?" Sora inquired of his mage friend.

"It was…..very powerful and light magic!" Donald told Sora with wide eyes. "I would say whoever cast it is very strong with magic based in the light."

"So, thoughts Sora?" Goofy then asked the Keyblade wielder.

"If they're using magic based in the light, that gives us even more reason to help them", Sora said confidently and began rushing forth. "Come on guys!"

Donald and Goofy ran after him, continuing to trail the path that the Fellowship of the Ring had used.

Earth-199999, New York City, Avengers Compound

The Avengers were talking about the SHRA as Steve read through the document himself, his memory and intellect, enhanced by the Super Soldier Serum, helping him understand everything well enough.

Rhodes was saying to Sam. "Secretary Ross has a Congressional Medal of Honor, which is one more than you have."

Sam gave a good counterpoint. "So, let's say we agree to this thing. How long is it gonna be before they LoJack us like a bunch of common criminals?"

Rhodes wasn't having it. "The US government want to sign this. The US Government, Sam, and you're just like, "No, that's cool. We got it. ""

Sam had to ask. "How long are you going to play both sides?"

"Okay, I got something to say", Tony finally said.

"Oh, this will clear it up", Sam muttered, as the rest turned to him, Steve looking up from his reading of the SHRA.

"After I became Iron Man, we have guys like Vanko slicing cars in half, Stanes and Hammers trying to copy my suits, and that's just me. What about the rest of us, psycho super gamma monsters", Tony said while gesturing largely with his hands, referring to Blonsky, "more super soldiers from ancient anti-freedom terrorists," he pointed at Steve, referring to Red Skull, "and need I remind anyone of the big guys ready to throw thunderbolts at us from the clouds." Obviously, he was referring to Thor.

"Are you saying its our fault?" Steve asked with a raised eyebrow, not believing Tony was saying something like this.

"Look, if we've great power, it will cause someone else to square up to us with a challenge, so we need to make sure everyone trusts us with it, meaning, perhaps the power needs to be controlled so they do trust us", Tony finally made his point.

"Boom!" Rhodey said smugly while turning to Sam.

"I don't think you're considering everything though", Maria now spoke up, making Tony turn to her in surprise.

"Really? Like what?"

"Red Skull existed long before Captain America, he did not rise up to challenge Cap", Hill pointed out, sharing a look with Steve. "Even Hulk originally came into existence because of a failed attempt to recreate the Serum. Blonsky became his challenger because of your buddy Ross."

That made Tony's face deflate, while Maria continued. "Sure, with your suits, Hammer and Vanko have tried to copy it, but not every situation arises as a challenge due to the Avengers. Ultron was your own pet-project to prevent these challenges, and that went wrong too."

"Which is my point, we need to be put in check", Tony finally said. "There is no decision-making process here! So, whatever form us being put in check takes, I'm game. Because if we're boundary-less, we're no better than the bad guys."

"Ultron was something you and Dr. Banner were working on!" Maria countered. "You did not consult the rest of the team, especially Thor, about it, so if anything, you ignored a decision-making process that could have been taken."

Tony sputtered at that, not having a counter-argument, while Sam looked at Rhodey and added. "Just because a country says its law, doesn't mean all of its right. There are laws with good intentions which can be misused easily, and that's not mentioning laws in all the dictatorial regimes which suppress the rest. They're laws still, in those countries, doesn't make them right."

"Really? Name some of these laws then", Rhodes challenged Sam.

"There's this law in the Indian Constitution which makes cruelty against a wife by a husband and his relatives punishable."

"And what's wrong with that?"

"Many wives lie about abuse just so they can blackmail their husbands", Sam pointed out exactly what was wrong. "And there are no safeguards for the men accused. Sure, the guilty ones deserve punishment, but innocent ones get caught up too."

"That's not to mention various places where marital rape is not illegal so anyone could rape their spouse and get away with it because they're married, so the raped person just ends up being in a submissive position due to the laws", Maria spoke her point. "And don't forget what Sam said about dictatorial regimes. In North Korea, an individual's entire family, including children and grandchildren can be sent to labour camps because of one person's actions."

"And when the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, they banned women from getting education in secondary schools and colleges", Sam added to his points. "These are laws too in their countries! That doesn't mean they're right. And let's not forget our own country- child marriage is not illegal in the States."

Rhodes had no counter-arguments, but Tony sighed, rubbing his head. "Just because there are problems with laws doesn't mean these are the same."

"They look pretty similar to me", Steve said as he shut the document, looking pretty disturbed. "Those with secret identities need to reveal their legal names and true identities to the US government."

"It's the government!"

"And what if Hydra is sitting there, like it was sitting in SHIELD?" Steve asked while exchanging glances with Natasha, Sam and Maria.

"Then they could launch investigations."

"If Hydra's thugs are too high-up in power, they can easily use their powers to stop it", Maria cut down that line of argument pretty quickly. "Besides, if the World Security Council, a higher legal authority, had their way, almost all of you and New York would have been dead because of that nuke they sent."

"Well, governments and organizations can mess up, SHIELD did too, as you know, by not catching Hydra quickly", Tony argued against Maria.

"Which is why we're having doubts about answering to such large organizations, governmental or not", Natasha shrugged.

"And it says those with innate powers must wear tracking bracelets at all times", Steve added with a shake of his head. "Then it also says about people being detained indefinitely without a trial, not just if they actually break the law, but if they're deemed a threat to the safety of the public. I'm not sure who gets to decide that, and how they'd deem someone in such a manner. But either way, even if someone has broken the law, a trial is needed to prove legally that they did something illegal so the punishment can be given fairly AFTER the crime."

"We can talk about it", Tony argued, before looking at Natasha. "Besides, even if there are doubts about organizations, there are doubts about people too."

"I'm not saying we're perfect, but someone dies on your watch, you don't give up. This document just shifts the blames because we're not taking responsibility for our actions", Steve countered.

Rhodes had to disagree. "I'm sorry. Steve. That - that is dangerously arrogant." Steve shook his head. "This is the United States of America itself that we're talking about. Its not SHIELD, it's not HYDRA."

Steve gave his point. "No, but it's run by people with agendas, and agendas change. Not to mention, the people in power can be very untrustworthy sometimes." Steve darkly thought of Alexander Pierce, and then….Krell!

"What if you have an agenda?" Tony asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I will keep those separate from the team and do those in my personal time", Steve replied to him.

"Even then, I'm here", Tony pointed out then as he walked near Steve. "When I realized what my weapons were capable of in the wrong hands, I shut it down and stop manufacturing."

Steve still wasn't having it. "Tony, you chose to do that. If we sign this, we surrender our right to choose. What if this panel sends us somewhere we don't think we should go? What if there is somewhere we need to go, and they don't let us? What if there's another attack by an alien force, and they stop us from fighting back, with people dying in the meantime? We may not be perfect, but the safest hands are still our own."

Everyone shared looks at that.

But Tony wasn't moving either. "If we don't do this now, it's gonna be done to us. That's the fact. That won't be pretty."

"If we raise our voice against it, at least make sure it's not so one-sided and violates human rights, we can make sure it's done in a way that no one is harmed", Steve argued what really needed to be done.

"Even then, at least we need to show that we're playing ball", Tony gave his counterpoint, then looked at Maria. "Besides, Canada has had their own Superhuman Registration Act for a while, no one seems to have a problem with that one."

"That one doesn't involve forcing people to give up their secret identities", Maria shot back. "It just created Department H, which provided training and legal support for participating Canadian superheroes, even paid them well while supporting room and board needs. Way different from what's going on here. This is just what they were trying to do to Mutants before but on a larger scale."

"Then we can play ball and convince the US government to make it like Canada's", Tony argued, then looked at Natasha again. "And like I said, the safest hands might not be our own."

"If you wanna say something, say it directly", Natasha told Tony with a little edge in her voice.

"Okay, no offense, I know you aren't like that anymore, so, I'm really sorry about the low blow, you can take as many on me after this as you like, but- we don't even know half of what you and Clint have done before", Tony said pointedly, as Natasha looked down with a sigh, then back up at him, while Steve shook his head, not liking this attack on Natasha, or Clint, as Maria, Sam and Rhodes simply watched. "So, how are they supposed to just trust you if they don't know a lot about you?"

"Wanna know something interesting?" Tony nodded. "Won't say anything about Clint, but everything I did before…..it was for a government." Tony did a double-take on hearing that as Natasha stifled a smile. "They made me a child soldier. So…you were saying?"

"I still think we should sign to show we're willing to meet them halfway, then we can argue our side", Rhodes tried to speak diplomatically.

"If we sign first, we lose our leverage", Sam responded. "Why'd they listen to us if we already signed? If we signed before, that means we agreed to everything. We won't have any foot to stand on and argue against their points after that."

Maria suddenly got up, Steve asking. "What's the matter?"

"Something like this, I just have my doubts about it", Maria told all of them before beginning to walk off. "I need to speak with Fury to get some clarity."

"Let us know if you get anything", Natasha added, Maria nodding.

"Good luck", Steve told her, making her smile.

"Thank you, Cap."

With that, she walked off, but Tony wasn't done. "Look, like I said, it will be done to us, and it won't be pretty. They will need our recruits to sign as well."

Steve shook his head. "Why don't we just sign over our lives to people we really can't trust, what then, Tony? Why don't you do a read of it properly?" He held up the document, and handed it to Tony, who took it, before keeping it at the table near himself.

"Better to work with the system than trying to wreck it."

The two stared at each other for a bit, as Sam asked JARVIS. "JARVIS, you got anything to add?"

No response, as Sam looked at Tony. "That's weird."

"It is, actually, haven't maintained my buddy for a while, too distracted", Tony said, before adding. "Don't worry, will get J running back up soon."

At that point, Steve stood up, picking up the SHRA at the table. "Mind if I take this?"

"To where?"

"Let's just say I know some people with legal knowledge. I want their opinion on this."

Tony sighed, looking like he didn't like that, but shrugged. "Be my guest."

"Thank you." Steve shared a cordial nod with Rhodes, a look with Sam, and a little smile with Natasha, before walking off.

Earth-205, Pike Creek, Delaware

Nick carried a blanket and teddy bears past a freestanding baby rocker to a cardboard box. The rocker started moving on its own.

Nick turned to look, then went over and stopped it. A baby's cry was heard.

Nick dug frantically through the box and pulled out a baby monitor. He stared at it, listening to the crying.

Then, Nick opened the nursery door, still listening. He stared at the crib for a moment. The crying went silent. He turned on the light.

Silence.

He turned away and the crying began again. He turned back and saw blood pouring out of the crib onto the carpet.

"No..."

Nick went up to the crib and fell to his knees, sobbing.

The crib was empty. It and the carpet were clean.

Earth-8096, New York City

The Avengers watched as a SHIELD jet had been fired at out of nowhere, with Captain America ordering. "Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Vision, go!"

"On it, Cap", Iron Man said as he, Ms. Marvel and Vision flew towards the crashing jet, while Captain America did a run-up and leapt ahead onto another building, Black Panther right behind him, with Hawkeye firing an arrow as he used it to swing away, Ant-Man aka Scott Lang riding an ant, having recently joined the Avengers properly (Hank was currently working on a project back in his lab, which was why he wasn't with the rest), while Wasp flew too, and Hulk leapt towards the jet himself.

From a distance, at a different building, Bishop had his smoking big gun aimed, having been the one to fire at the jet.

He didn't want to do it, but there was no choice, and he needed his timeline, his future, saved.

"Falcon", Captain America then ordered their other latest permanent member as Vision phased through the jet, flying out with two people, while Ms. Marvel held it up, Iron Man breaking open a door and going inside. "Stay up above the jet, anyone they miss, get them."

"I'll watch their back, Cap, you watch yours", Falcon said from the air, Redwing next to him. "I've dealt with much worse than this, isn't that right, Red-"

He was cut off when a dart hit his neck. "Ah!" He pulled it out, looking at it, and instantly felt drowsy, but before he could fall, something wrapped around him, and he was pulled away, onto a building.

Iron Man and Vision had saved almost everyone now, when there was a small explosion in the jet, and one remaining SHIELD Agent was thrown out.

"Falcon!" Captain America cried out, and got no response. Not having time, he leapt ahead and caught the agent, landing safely on the next building, while Ms. Marvel flew away with the jet to put it in the water.

"Falcon!" Captain America cried out as he looked up in the sky, and saw only Redwing, screeching in panic.

The drowsy Falcon saw Bishop standing before him.

"Cap….."

"I need to save my future, and I won't take any chances", Bishop muttered as Falcon lost consciousness, and lifting him up over his shoulder, Bishop walked off.

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

Laurel and Thea looked inside of the TARDIS, with Ten leaning against the walls, his face giddy at their reactions. "Go on, what do you think?"

Thea blinked, before walking away. "This is our life now?"

Ten lost his giddiness to disappointment. "Hang on, not gonna say, you know, small box, bigger on the inside?"

"We're a bit overwhelmed, sorry." Laurel said as she sat down, rubbing her head. The Doctor realized what she meant and rubbed his neck.

"No no no, my fault, I get lost in my own little track of excitement. Almost forgot to remember how you must be feeling."

He sighed and sat down, Laurel and Thea looking at him as he looked down. "I understand how you feel, its just…"

"You process it differently", Thea noted, both sitting down on either side of him, while he nodded.

"It feels like I'm ripped apart every time I lose someone", Ten said sadly, thinking of Astrid Peth, Rose, Joan, Jabe, and many, MANY more. "Yet, I just hop into this, and go on, trying to see more, do more, as if it would help, and make me forget, but I don't forget them."

"We never can do", Laurel sighed. "Doing that would be disrespectful to them."

Ten nodded. "Indeed, all we can do is carry on for them."

Oliver, Diggle, Ray, Sara and Roy were sitting together outside, looking down sadly, having known Felicity better than Laurel and Thea, especially in the cases of Oliver, Diggle and Ray.

"So…we'll never see her again", Diggle said, as if this was news, but truth be told, he was still processing it, same for the rest of them.

She'd been with them for so long, now she was suddenly gone.

Oliver may have split from her, but she was always going to be dear to him still, and she had been here since the beginning, alongside Diggle.

"Where could she be?" Roy wondered out loud. "The past can be scary; I hope she was sent to a decent place."

"She has to be, she deserves that much", Ray said, barely holding back tears as he clutched his fists, thinking about all the times they'd spent together.

"The world isn't so nice, its very cruel", Sara spoke from experience, sharing a look with Oliver. "But in her case, I hope an exception was made. We will get this thing for her."

"There were many times I did not agree with her course of action", Oliver finally spoke to the rest. "Many times she did things I did not like, but I never stopped caring about her, and I still do. She was here from the start, as were you, Dig." Oliver and Diggle shared a nod. "At the end, she did her part, and helped us. Now she is not here, and we will get this Weeping Angel who is responsible for that."

He declared. "We owe her that much."

While still saddened, all of them had faces firm with determination now, and they all nodded at each other, ready to take it on, as Ten, Thea and Laurel walked out of the TARDIS.

"You're a time-traveller, right?" Dig suddenly asked Ten, who nodded.

"Yes, thought we'd established that."

"Then…why don't you go into the past and bring her back?" Diggle asked Ten all of a sudden. "Like, from whenever she was sent to, back to here, you can do that, right?"

The rest looked at Ten intently now, hoping for a positive answer, but his shoulders drooped, and they realized whatever he was going to say, wasn't going to be the answer they wanted to hear.

"I could try, but if I did do it, it would create a paradox", Ten told the entire Team Arrow. "Because the person sent back in time, in this case, Felicity, would end up living out a full life in the past now, and if I tried to pull them back, I would disrupt the established flow of time, and the consequences can be catastrophic." He added with an emphasis. "Just like the Singularity which began in this world, and now breaches are open all over the Multiverse."

Team Arrow winced, realizing just how bad it could be if The Doctor attempted to pull Felicity back into the present.

"So, they can send her into the past without any problem even though she should have lived in the present", Ray began. "But she cannot be brought back?" He snapped. "How is that fair?!"

Ten shook his head. "It is not, and I know it." He sighed. "But there is nothing we can do about it other than making sure the Weeping Angel does not hurt anyone else." Rubbing his hands, he shook his shoulders. "Let's discuss some ideas then."

Earth-8096, New York City

Captain America arrived near a docked freighter, getting off his bike, Redwing having led him here, as he leapt onto the top of the freighter, then rushed down to the lower decks, glad that Falcon's kidnapper had completely missed Redwing.

As he came down the stairs, he saw Falcon inside some sort of glass tank, with liquid all around him, though there was a mask attached to him to help him breathe.

He hadn't been put in here to die, but he'd been taken. Then again, taking him out of here seemed too easy.

"Rest easy, Falcon", Cap began. "I'll have you out in-"

"Don't!"

Cap slightly tilted his head behind as he felt a gun to it. "What's going on here?"

"Listen carefully", Bishop snarled at Cap with a cracking voice. "You crack that glass tank, you'll set off a C-4 charge that'll kill the Falcon, and you as well."

Hearing the cracks in his voice, Cap could tell something was off. "You're in pain, I can see that. Put the gun down and I'll get you the help you need. The Avengers will-"

"WRONG!" He screamed, about to pull the trigger, but Cap spun around quicker, bashing his hand as the gun fell away, but he quickly took out another and fired right at Cap, who used his shield to block the blaster fire that came at him.

This was not a normal gun; Cap could tell that much.

As Bishop fired again, Cap rushed forth and struck his hand with the shield hard, sending then gun flying off, Bishop now preparing to fight Cap in hand-to-hand combat.

"I've studied you, Rogers, your focus is split", Bishop snarled. "You're worried about your buddy- the Falcon!"

And then, he attacked with a punch with his bionic arm that Cap blocked with his shield, a ringing sound being heard, before Cap leapt back, and as Bishop charged him, Cap threw his shield.

It hit the wall behind Bishop, and ricocheted off of it, hitting Bishop from behind, staggering him forwards as he fell down.

Cap knelt down, grasping his shield. "Whatever your reasons are for acting against the Avengers, right now, I need to stop you, then we will listen to you."

"I know all about you", Bishop said, as Cap noted he was glowing with some sort of energy. "You know nothing about me!"

And then, he fired some energy from his hand at Cap before he could raise his shield, striking him and sending him flying off into a corner, while Bishop then picked up Cap's shield while taking out another gun, rushing at him.

As Cap got up on one knee, Bishop aimed the other gun at him, as Cap noted he was panting, this energy discharge having affected him negatively.

"If this ends, it is on my terms!" Bishop sneered.

"That took a lot out of you", Cap noted, and then in a blur of movement, he used his hands to support himself as he flipped and kicked the gun out of Bishop's hand, before catching it as he rolled away to a distance.

Standing up, he aimed at Bishop. "Surrender now!"

"Never!" Bishop held up the shield, as Cap fired Bishop's gun, but Bishop used Cap's own shield to defend himself.

As Cap pulled the trigger again, a click was heard, Cap realizing the gun was empty now.

"Try this!" Bishop hurled the shield right at Cap, who ducked to avoid, the shield now getting stuck in the wall behind.

Cap quickly rushed the wall, leaping as he grabbed the shield, about to pull it out, only for Bishop to slam into him hard, sending them both rolling on the ground.

Before either could get up, Bishop fired some energy directly at Cap's face, point-blank, finally knocking him out.

A while later, Cap came to, but when he tried to move, he realized he was trapped, then looked down to see he had been strapped to a chair made of some sort of metal. His hands, shoulders and lower body were completely trapped in it.

"This is an inhibitor chair", Bishop told Cap, before aiming his gun to the super soldier's head. "I am here to save my time."

Cap had questions, but the inhibitor chair prevented him from even speaking.

"The Avengers." Venom was dripping from Bishop's voice. "I'm coming after every single one of you."

Middle-earth

Sora, Donald and Goofy saw a cliff in front of them, Goofy wondering. "Is there any way around this?" There was a structure protruding out of the cliff face.

Suddenly, they saw a pony of all things walking back down a narrow path that separated the cliff from a dark water body that was to their right.

"Gawrsh, poor thing is all alone!" Goofy commented as the pony stopped near them, seeming confused.

"Uhh…hey pony", Sora greeted it awkwardly while waving a hand. "Umm, do you know how to get across this place?"

The pony just stared at them, then grunted while gesturing ahead, at the path where it had come from.

"That's it!" Donald asked, then groaned and screamed while stamping his feet on the ground. "AW COME ON!"

The pony began to walk off again, walking past the Trio before it started trotting over the path that they had come from.

"Why do we have to go through this place?" Donald started whining. "Dark tunnels and all that stuff?"

"I sense darkness here too", Sora had to say. "Maybe the people we're following can be in trouble from it."

"Considering how powerful the magic used to defeat those things like wolves was, according ter Donald here, I think they could handle it, Sora", Goofy pointed out to his friend, Sora nodding in realization.

"Yeah, you're right, but still, a helping hand is always appreciated, come on!" Sora said, before he started walking across the narrow path, with Goofy behind him, and Donald at the last.

"I wonder why they let the pony go back though", Goofy suddenly wondered.

"Dark tunnels aren't good for 'em!" Donald snapped as if it was obvious, making Goofy jump and fall into the water with a 'splash'!

"Gawrsh, Donald!" Goofy commented with a groan as Sora and Donald looked down. "Now you've got me all wet."

"Hey, it was you that jumped!" Donald snapped back.

"Goofy, get out of the water", Sora simply said, holding out a hand, looking quite uneasy, and suddenly, Donald and Goofy felt the same unease too, so Goofy quickly swam to Sora and grasped his hand, Sora pulling him out.

For reasons that Goofy could not tell, he was glad to be out of the water, and the other two were relieved to have pulled him out too.

They continued walking the path, unaware of some ripples in the water that were following the path that they were treading by way of water.

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

"Any good ideas for tracking this thing?" Ray asked, sitting at the computer as he typed on it.

"Oh, that is not the biggest problem", Ten said with a shrug. "You lot know the general area where it took her, right?"

"We do", Oliver confirmed. It wasn't too far from here, based on everything, since Felicity's car was parked some distance away so as to not lead people up to this base, but not that far either.

"Well, this can help track it", Ten said, lifting up his Sonic Screwdriver, which confused all of them, even Ray.

"Now what is that?" Sara inquired.

"My Sonic Screwdriver", Ten revealed giddily. "It can detect and amplify energies, scan and identify matter, send out communications, enhance signals and frequencies, and even perform calculations. Not to mention, if one is nearby, I can know due to this as there would be electromagnetic messes all around."

"You really do live an interesting life", Diggle noted.

"Oh, you've no idea", Ten told them excitedly, then gestured to his face. "Even with this face, first thing I did was turn back an alien invasion, then made a British Prime Minister eventually step down from her position."

Team Arrow was awed to hear all that, as Diggle muttered. "Alien Invasion?" Ten nodded while he grabbed his head. "Aliens are real, why are things so weird?"

"Yeah…that's something", Laurel had to say too, the rest sharing strange yet awed looks. "And I guess you're an alien too in that case."

Ten nodded at that.

"Whoa!"

But there was something that got Oliver's attention. "Why exactly did you make this Prime Minister step down?" If she was corrupt, just 'making her step down' wouldn't be that easy, even for a genius time-travelling alien who looked human and was knowledgeable about a LOT of things.

"Yeah, that alien invasion I turned back?" Ten reminded them of what he'd just said. "She had their ship destroyed AFTER they were already turned back."

Oliver tilted his head. "Why exactly was that wrong?"

"They were LEAVING!"

"They did come to conquer though", Oliver pointed out, his arms folded. "Maybe it's a questionable move, but its understandable why she did that."

"But I told them NEVER to return!"

"And considering you're a time-traveller, you're not always around to help, are you?" Oliver pointed out, and Ten was at a loss of words, as the rest, even Laurel and Diggle, gave him looks of shock at that. "And you made her step down because she made the pragmatic choice. Seriously?"

"Well, she was supposed to be better!" Ten said at that point. "She was supposed to usher in the Golden Age of Britain, so I'd expect bet-"

"Wait", Oliver raised his hand. "Golden Age of Britain? You knew about that?"

"Yes", Ten nodded, not sure where Oliver was going with this.

"So, this Golden Age of Britain under this Prime Minister WAS a historical event that you knew about", Oliver noted. "And because she did something you didn't like, you'd a tantrum and eventually got her to step down?" Ten's eyes widened as the rest shot him some dirty glares at that, Oliver growling. "So, you will not bring Felicity back because it can cause a paradox, but its okay for you to change history if you feel like it? Explain THAT!"

Ten realized there was no defense he could make of his actions and sighed, before raising his hands. "All right, I get it, I was being a ponce throwing a tantrum in that situation and I messed up, I've paid for it too!" He groaned, thinking about The Master's reign of terror as Harold Saxon. While he'd have risen even without Harriet Jones having been deposed by him earlier, considering who he was, his actions had made it easier for sure.

Ten finally said. "But, we've more important priorities than talking about my mistakes, the Weeping Angel is still out there."

Oliver nodded. "You're right, and I don't know much about you, so I'll be dropping the subject for now."

"But….I think you might need to self-reflect", Sara added in a pointed tone, that Ten chose to ignore for now.

"How do we catch it?" Ray asked the important question now.

"A reflective chamber with mirrors angled to make sure it's always observing itself, thus ending it", Ten commented, before shrugging. "But its too complex and requires precision, one misalignment and we're done for."

"Maybe we can use that quick-drying concrete?" Oliver suggested. "Once its locked it, we could bury it." And it can suffer for what it did, Oliver thought darkly.

"It can break free", Ten said with a shake of his head.

"Maybe a stasis field or cryogenic containment?" Ray suggested at that point.

"Can work, but a power outage would release it", Ten pointed out the flaw, making Ray groan as they wondered what else could be done.

"Do you have anything which could just throw it into a different, and empty timeline or world?" Thea asked Ten almost pleadingly.

"While it is possible, if we make a mistake, Star City will end up being a mess", Ten pointed out.

"Even with these risks, I think we need to do something to stop it right now", Oliver began. "Observing itself will end it, right?" Ten nodded, so Oliver continued. "I'll act as bait, and-"

They stopped when there was a beeping sound, and Ten inquired. "What's that about?"

"Its an alert when someone is ringing the bell upstairs", Diggle revealed to him. "So we can change into normal, go up there secretly, and let the person in, but only in the upper area."

"Right, pretty good setup", Ten had to say, and they looked at the cameras, seeing it was a courier outside, and he rung the doorbell again, holding a package.

"Who'd have something for the Mayor's office?" Sara wondered, before raising an eyebrow. "Maybe it's a bomb?"

"I'll go check", Oliver said, first walking off to change from his suit into normal clothes.

Few minutes later, Oliver opened the door in the upper area, looking at the courier. "Hello, sorry to keep you waiting."

"Hello, Mr. Mayor", the courier greeted pleasantly. "Package for you."

"I'll take it", Oliver said, gently grasping the package and discreetly putting his ear onto it, hearing nothing. Plus, the courier seemed legit too. Definitely not an explosive. "Thank you."

"With all due respect, you can thank me by shedding some light on this subject."

"What subject?" Oliver asked in confusion.

"See, we've had this package in our possession for almost the last 5 years", the courier revealed, to Oliver's shock. "With explicit instructions to deliver it to you at this exact address at this exact date. Funnily enough, it was right after you were revealed to be alive."

Oliver's eyes widened, and he asked. "Who is this from?"

"Someone called 'Felicity Smoak'", the courier shrugged before holding out a paper. "Sign here, please."

Oliver did just that, hiding how happy he was from the guy.

Few minutes later

"This is from Felicity?" Laurel asked, still in disbelief. "And she gave this to the courier about 5 years ago?"

Oliver nodded. "Yeah, she did."

"So its our Felicity", Diggle realized what was going on, while rubbing his head. "She…."

"She sent it to us, and it reached us exactly a day after she disappeared", Ray finished for him. "Definitely not a coincidence."

"Open it up", Sara said, and Ray nodded, unwrapping the package, tearing off the tape, and then opening it up properly.

Inside was a small device, the size of a portable radio, the main body of it being a metallic silver, with a glowing, orb-like core in the middle.

"What's this now?" Roy inquired.

"It's a device. A very special device", Ray said with squinting as he looked closely. "In fact, I think Kord Industries has made one like this."

"Yeah, I know about that one", Oliver suddenly remembered.

"What does it do?" Sara inquired.

"It can siphon off energy from anything nearby", Ray explained the device's uses, as a smile broke out on Ten's face.

"Felicity Smoak, you are brilliant."

Earth-8096, New York City

Iron Man now flew to the ship, as the Avengers had decided that if it was a trap, they should not go in together, so now, here he was.

"So, the bird leads me here?" He muttered to himself, landing on the deck, and tried to scan the computers on the ship, but it said that the Freighter Ownership was unknown. "Great, an onboard computer that comes up with zilch."

He then went to the lower decks too. "If this doesn't scream trap with a capital 'T'….." He ended up downstairs where he saw Falcon in the tank, while Cap was restrained via the inhibitor chair. "Cap? Falcon?"

He scanned both the restraints of the Heroes, finding out that the locks were integrated with C4. "Who would do this? And why-"

Iron Man was cut off when a blast of energy hit him from behind, sending him rolling onto the ground, before he looked up to see Bishop standing over him. "Who are you?"

"Meet the future, futurist", Bishop snarled as Iron Man flew at him with a punch, striking him hard as he was sent rolling away, spitting out some blood.

But before Iron Man could do anything else, Bishop hit him with a powerful energy blast that sent him flying into a corner, crashing through the freighter as he fell into the water, and running, Bishop leapt in after him.

Inside the water, Iron Man punched Bishop once more, before firing powerful repulsors. Bishop countered with energy of his own.

They struggled for a few seconds, before Iron Man's repulsors overpowered Bishop, and he was struck by them, now being thrown further down into the water, seemingly losing consciousness.

Grabbing him, Iron Man now flew out of the water. "Whoever you are, you're now coming with us."

Only, Bishop's eyes opened, and he smirked, glowing with even more energy than before, having tricked Iron Man into giving him energy from the repulsors.

With that, he blasted Iron Man hard, sending him flying up into the air as he screamed, before crashing onto the deck of the freighter, his suit damaged, Bishop falling back into the water, as he started swimming back towards the freighter himself.

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

Ten had augmented the device, while the rest were gearing up, while he explained. "This thing can siphon off all types of energy, and that includes the temporal energy of a Weeping Angel, meaning once we activate this near it, it's gone."

"Fine by me", Thea said while picking up her bow.

"The risk is…..that it siphons off all energy near it", Ten pointed out the flaw. "So, it can also take away the electricity that exists in a human body."

Some eyes went wide, Sara realizing. "Meaning unless we get out of dodge quickly, we're goners too."

Ten nodded grimly, but Oliver said firmly. "That's a risk we've to take. Either way, this thing is going down."

That was something no one disagreed with, as Dig loaded up his gun. "Right on, man. For Felicity."

Ten rolled his eyes on seeing the gun. "Well, I guess you lot are not that heroic either."

"Excuse me?" Diggle asked, not getting it, as the rest turned to look at Ten.

"People with guns are usually the enemy in my book", Ten said, shooting Dig a disapproving look, as he shook angrily.

"Are you really an old Time Lord or a child throwing a tantrum?" Oliver had to ask at that point, making Ten turn to him.

"Well, I don't have a gun, so I'm better than him", Ten said, gesturing to Diggle, who clutched his fists.

"Not everyone is as smart as you are", Sara pointed out with folded arms. "We humans also need to defend ourselves from enemies."

"And a gun is all we have, not a screwdriver that can do anything or a flying time machine that looks like a 50s British Box", Diggle said passionately. "And I used to be in the army. We are soldiers, who dedicated our lives to protecting our country, just because you haven't done that doesn't give you the right to judge!"

Ten started. "I mean…..I've seen how much damage those things can do-"

"If an enemy of yours got a Sonic Screwdriver like you, or a TARDIS, they could use them wrongly", Oliver pointed out, making Ten turn to him. "A gun is just a tool, it's the person using it that matters. Not sure why I need to spell that out for you."

Ten sighed, backing down a bit, realizing these people were not in too much awe of him and so were not going to accept his point of view over this.

"All right, let's stop this, in that case, and get to work on taking this thing down. Allons-y!"

Earth-205, Pike Creek, Delaware

Nick lay in bed in an empty room.

"Nick."

Nick sat up. Sarah stood at the foot of the bed.

"Nick. You're dreaming, Nick. But it doesn't mean this isn't real."

"Sarah?" Nick questioned in shock.

Sarah told him. "I'm not your wife, Nick. I'm an Angel."

Nick was confused. "An Angel?"

"My name is Lucifer", "Sarah" finally revealed.

"Sure", Nick muttered. "Naturally. Um... Could you do me a favor there, Satan, and remind me to quit drinking before I go to bed?"

Lucifer instead told him. "I'm here because you're special, Nick. There's very, very few people like you."

"Is that so?"

Lucifer revealed just what he was. "You're a vessel—a very powerful vessel."

Nick swung his legs off the bed. "Meaning what, exactly?"

"I need to take control of your mind and your body. To be honest, it'll probably be unpleasant for you", Lucifer then added. "But it is necessary."

Nick sighed. "Okay, look...if it's just the same to you, I think I'd like to wake up now."

"I told you—this is real", Lucifer insisted, then reassured him. "Don't be afraid. This is your choice."

Lucifer sat on the bed next to Nick. "You need to invite me in."

Nick wasn't having it. "Even if this is real—which it's not, but assuming it was...why the hell would I do something like that?"

"You people misunderstand me. You call me "Satan" and "Devil", but... Do you know my crime?" As Nick listened, Lucifer told him what he believed his crime to be. "I loved God too much. And for that, he betrayed me—punished me." He started making a parallel between themselves. "Just as he's punished you. After all, how could God stand idly by while that man broke into your home and butchered your family in their beds?"

Nick swallowed, not looking at "Sarah".

"There are only two rational answers, Nick—either he's sadistic, or he simply doesn't care." Lucifer continued comparing himself to the broken man. "You're angry. You have every right to be angry. I am angry, too. That's why I want to find him—hold him accountable for his actions. Just because he created us doesn't mean he can toy with us, like playthings."

Nick cared about only one thing. "If I help you...can you bring back my family?"

"I'm sorry. I can't." However, he sweetened the deal. "But I can give you the next best thing. God did this to you, Nick. And I can give you justice. Peace."

Nick was still a bit skeptical. "How do I know you're telling the truth?"

"Because, contrary to popular belief, I don't lie. I don't need to. What I need...is you. Nick, I need you to say yes."

Nick remembered the empty baby rocker, the blood pouring from the crib, the empty crib.

"Then yes."

The high-pitched screech of Angel speech was heard. White light flared from all the upper windows of Nick's house.

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

Ray, in his ATOM suit, flew in the air over the area, scanning it with his suit. "These things should react differently to light considering their quantum-locked nature." He ran an ultraviolet scan, and got strange readings from one area. "Guys, I got strange readings from the church. Think it might be there."

Laurel and Thea walked into the church, looking around carefully at the building, and some statues here and there, as Laurel asked. "Why do we have to be bait again?"

"You two were inside the TARDIS so there is some Time Energy radiating off of you two", Oliver reminded from his vantage point, arrow aimed, while Sara stood next to him.

"Great, just great", Thea said with a sigh as they continued to walk, when Thea stepped away to inspect a broken stone by the church gate, and for a moment, Laurel was alone, her gaze wandering over the quiet yard.

It was unsettling in its stillness, the world holding its breath as if waiting for something to happen. She felt it before she saw it—a sudden, unnatural drop in temperature that made her breath puff out in front of her.

She turned quickly, her heart skipping a beat as she saw Thea freeze, eyes locked on something in the distance. Laurel followed her friend's gaze and felt her stomach drop.

There, at the far end of the church grounds, a figure stood—a tall, stone-like creature cloaked in shadow. It appeared still, but it seemed to be looking right at her and Thea, as if they were prey.

Laurel's breath caught in her throat as a sharp, instinctual fear clawed at her. The figure did not move. But the air around them shifted. The temperature seemed to drop further.

"Laurel…" Thea's voice was barely a whisper, a tremor running through it. "Is that…..the Angel?"

Both of them blinked for a second, and suddenly, it had moved from its spot, and closed half the distance already, seeming to reach out to them.

Laurel gulped. "It is." The silence of the church grounds seemed to thicken. Laurel could barely move, every muscle frozen under the intensity of its gaze. She opened her mouth to say something, but no sound came out.

Thea, too, was paralyzed, her feet cemented to the ground as the creature's eyes remained locked on hers and Laurel's. It wasn't just the fear that kept them rooted to the spot—it was the overwhelming sense of being hunted. Of being watched.

Laurel, barely able to focus, whispered. "Don't blink, don't blink."

She took a slow, careful step back, not daring to tear her eyes away, her whole body screaming to move. Thea was feeling the same, as she slowly backed, while keeping her eyes on the Weeping Angel.

Oliver could see it from his vantage point too, as Sara asked. "Should we attack it?"

"Only if it gets worse", Oliver told her, his arrow still nocked. "Everyone, fire near it when I tell you to!"

Thea backed off further, getting closer to Laurel now, both doing their best to not peel their gazes away from the Weeping Angel, before they backed off together towards a stone column.

Slowly, they started going behind it, but did not move their gazes away.

"NOW!" Oliver cried out.

With that, he fired an arrow.

Roy fired an arrow too from his vantage point.

Diggle fired a shot.

Ray blasted down from above.

The arrows, the shot and the blast, all hit the ground near the Weeping Angel, causing a small explosion of smoke.

Laurel and Thea sighed in relief, but the moment the smoke cleared, the Weeping Angel was inches from them, making them back off and fall down in horror.

The smoke had only blurred their visions of it and made it easier for the Weeping Angel to come to them.

But that was part of the plan to distract it from the real danger.

Still, it was too close for comfort.

Nocking another arrow, Oliver fired again.

This one whizzed past the Angel's face, missing it by half an inch on purpose.

Laurel and Thea continued to crawl back, not breaking away their gazes.

"Gotcha!"

Behind the Weeping Angel, the crouching Ten activated the device, which started pulsing rhythmically, then beeped. "Run, NOW!"

Ten himself rolled away and ran as a force field projected from the device, while Laurel and Thea began to run, finally breaking their gazes away from the Weeping Angel.

The Weeping Angel would have followed, but the device worked its charm, as it slowly started siphoning off the Weeping Angel's energy, and its form started to flicker, the statue appearing dormant and alive alternately, with each passing second.

Lights all over the area went out too, as Laurel and Thea were almost caught by the force field.

"No!" Sara cried out and leapt down, running forth.

"Sara!" Oliver cried out in concern.

Sara let out a weak Canary Cry, striking Laurel and Thea in a way that it sent them flying away from the force field, making them fall down to the ground harmlessly, but the force field got her, and she gasped, falling to the ground.

"SARA!" Laurel cried out in concern as she stood up, trying to rush towards her sister, but Thea pulled her back.

Being a meta-human, the device wasn't draining Sara instantly, and she started crawling away with gritted teeth, eventually trying to pick herself up as she managed to sit up.

Leaping down, Oliver fired a grapple arrow. Seeing that, Sara grasped it as it made its way towards her, and then Oliver pressed a button, as it retracted, pulling Sara with it, saving her life.

Ray, meanwhile, had flown much higher into the air to avoid the ill-effects of the device upon his suit.

Soon enough, the device's beeping stopped, as did its pulsing, and the force field died down.

Oliver helped Sara up while she panted. "You all right?"

Sara nodded. "…..Yeah."

He supported her back towards the church's grounds, as Laurel and Thea made their way too, Laurel holding Sara by the face. "Sara, you okay?"

"I'm fine", Sara panted, as Laurel hugged her, and Sara hugged back.

"Thank you", Thea said gratefully, before Laurel and Sara let go, while Ten, Roy and Diggle arrived too, with Ray landing on the ground.

They looked at a stone statue before them, completely damp and lifeless, just a piece of stone.

"Now you can stay there", Ten said to the statue with a snarl as he picked the deactivated device up. "Your energy has been taken away by this thing, you can just stay inside, trapped forever, unable to move. Remember this, no matter wherever or whenever you go, I will always come to stop you."

Oliver looked at the statue vindictively and asked Ten. "Its suffering now, right?"

Ten nodded. "It is."

Diggle scoffed angrily. "Good."

The Weeping Angel had been neutralized!

Earth-8096, New York City

Iron Man came to, now also restrained to an inhibitor chair like Captain America was, Bishop standing nearby. "These chairs, they were designed by Magneto to be used on X-Men he captured, but where I come from, this anti-Mutant tech has been acquired by the Avengers, and used upon a lot of us. Its all because of scum like you!"

Iron Man had no idea what Bishop was talking about, but the inhibitor chair prevented him from asking.

That was when a roar was heard, and suddenly, Hulk burst down through the ship, punching Bishop away as he did so, making the Mutant from the future roll away into a corner, spitting out blood.

He rolled over with a groan, looking up at Hulk with wide but angry eyes.

"Hulk smash you!"

Middle-earth, Gates of Moria

Sora, Donald and Goofy reached what used to be a smooth section of the wall with two trees to flank it, except now, there was rubble all over the area, the wall having been broken by something, and now, it was covering this entrance.

"Gawrsh, that looks like a big mess", Goofy said about the rubble covering the entrance, the other two nodding.

"I guess the people we are looking for are trapped inside", Sora realized, walking towards the rubble. "I'm sure we can break it, right guys?"

"Shouldn't even take long", Donald told the other two boastfully. "But…what could have collapsed this entrance?"

As if in answer, a tentacle swiped all their feet, tripping them, then grabbed Sora by the ankle, pulling him up as he screamed. "AAAAAAAAARRGHH!"

Donald and Goofy quickly got up.

"SORA!"

"Sora!"

They summoned their weapons just as Sora summoned the Keyblade, and before the tentacle could pass Sora to another tentacle, Sora struck the tentacle holding his ankle hard with the Keyblade.

A guttural roar of pain was heard as the tentacle went numb, dropping Sora right into the water, and he quickly swam to the ground, letting Donald and Goofy help him out while they turned to face the multiple tentacles swarming out of the water.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring CR - 11. The Doors Of Durin plays at 4:55 mark

"That must be why I did not like it in this water", Goofy commented, all three facing the creature as they stood side-by-side, weapons at the ready.

The creature's face came out of the water, its gaping jaw visible to all three, Goofy muttering. "Yikes! Definitely don't wanna go into THAT mouth!"

"That makes all of us", Sora said before using the Keyblade to fire a 'Fire' spell at a tentacle, making the creature screech as it retracted that tentacle.

It attacked with another tentacle but Goofy bashed that one with his shield, making it retract that one too.

And after that, Donald struck it with a 'Thunder', making it scream in pain as it was struck, lashing its tentacles around at that.

As the three prepared to attack again, it lashed out with many of its tentacles, striking all three of them at the same time as they were sent to the ground.

They quickly got back up as Sora said. "Come on, guys!"

And then, Goofy came to the front, holding out his shield, the other two standing behind him in the 'Trinity Guard' position.

It struck with a few tentacles again, staggering them back, but they held on, and as it tried to strike with even more tentacles, they smashed forth as one, making it scream in pain as it retracted all of the tentacles at once due to them being badly damaged.

And then, Sora leapt up high and brought his Keyblade down upon the creature's head, the creature letting out a roar of agony as it swam back, retracting itself into the water while Sora flipped back, landing onto the ground.

Before the creature could fully disappear, Donald raised his staff and cried out. "THUNDER!"

The lightning struck the water as well as the creature at once, making it spasm violently while the water was electrocuted too.

And when Donald was done, the creature seemed to still before sinking into the ground.

The three shared a look, Sora saying. "Good work, guys."

"As always, Sora."

"Oh yes."

"If this is what we're dealing with here, I think we definitely need to stick around", Sora said before turning to the debris. "Donald, Goofy, let's deal with it."

"Sure thing", Goofy said as hey formed the 'Trinity Guard' again, and smashed into the debris as one, shattering all of it as it was sent flying here and there, with the pathway open once more now.

It seemed dark inside, though the moonlight seemed to light the place up, so they walked in, Sora crying out. "Hello! Guys! The entrance is open now!"

He stopped when he stepped on something, and looked down to see it was a skeleton, which caused him to gasp as the eyes of Donald and Goofy fell on many more of those skeletons too, causing both of them to scream as Donald jumped into Goofy's arms, and Goofy jumped at the sight before falling down, dropping Donald who rolled away, both groaning.

Sora just looked down at the skeletons sadly, noting their short sizes.

"Are these the people we were looking for?" Donald asked glumly as he and Goofy picked themselves up.

"No, don't think so, Donald", Goofy told him, causing Sora to look up. "These look to be many years old, so it can't be the fellers we're looking for."

"But this means they're still in danger here", Sora told the other two firmly, while clutching his fist. "And we must help them still. Let's go!"

He started running further as Donald and Goofy ran after him, any doubts about their need in this world, plus Sora's determination to see this all through, completely quelled, especially in Donald's mind.

Earth-1, Star City, The Lair

There were no lights in the lair now, as it too had been affected by the device, so the group had to use a secret staircase to find their way into here.

Oliver said to The Doctor. "I do not agree with some things you've said you've done, but…you helped us take this thing down, and for that, I thank you." He held out his hand.

Ten shook it. "You're welcome." He added in a somber tone. "I'm sorry about your loss."

Oliver nodded in appreciation, as did the rest, Oliver saying. "I'm sorry about all of yours."

Ten nodded back, and they dropped hands, as Ray said. "If we meet under better circumstances, there are so many other things I'd love to learn from you."

"Let us hope we do meet, Ray Palmer", Ten said with a smile as he walked into the TARDIS. "Of course, I might look different, though hopefully not, but there is a lot of stuff I'd love to tell you."

They waved, and he waved back, as the doors then closed, and a while the later, the 'Vwoorp, Vwoorp' sound was heard, before the TARDIS disappeared.

"Well, at least because of him, we got it before it could take anyone else", Sara pointed out the bright side to everything.

"Still", Diggle sighed. "Felicity is gone now."

"But since she sent the package with the device, and sent it only 5 years ago, she must be fine, wherever she is and whenever she was sent to", Roy told him, and Diggle nodded, conceding to that.

Felicity was gone, but they were glad to realize she was probably living a full life, devoid of danger.

"Still have to tell her mom though", Oliver said, the mood dropping again.

Middle-earth, Mines of Moria

Sora, Donald and Goofy continued moving through the stone passageways and steep passages of the mine, passing intricate carvings along the way. They were too deep within for the moonlight now, so Donald was using his staff to light up their way.

Eventually, they found themselves on a pathway that had a wall to its left and the edge of a large pit to the right.

Donald shone his staff down at the pit, and they saw the remains of large veins of some sort of metal, and it reflected a silver color from Donald's light.

"Huh?!" Donald said in shock, with Sora and Goofy having the same reaction. "Is that what I think it is?"

"It looks like it, Donald", Goofy had to say.

"Mythril", Sora spoke the name of the metal, unaware that it was spelled just slightly differently in this world. "Its so rare, and here, we find it so much of it!"

"Maybe it is rare in this world too, except over here?" Goofy suggested to his two friends, and they shrugged.

"I think this is where the Moogles get it from", Donald joked, all three chuckling at that, before they continued along the winding stairs, eventually coming to a halt in front of three different doorways, all of them carved in stone.

"Three pathways", Sora groaned. "And we've no idea which is the right one."

"Should we check each one at a time?" Donald suggested, only for Sora to shake his head.

"No, let's split up, check out each one", Sora suggested, but that was when they heard a clanging sound that just seemed to carry on and on, echoing throughout the entire mine.

"Now where did that come from?" Sora wondered, as Goofy pointed at one of the doorways.

"Definitely from there", he told the two, before running towards the area, the other two following him as well, but that was when they heard several high-pitched screeches which caused their ears a lot of irritation.

"Think that sound we heard earlier attracted whatever these are?" Sora asked the other two, and they nodded, as they reached what looked like a literal city in the mine, and it was really beautiful!

It had buildings! Ornate columns stretched from ceiling to floor, with designs carved into them.

Unfortunately, they had no time to admire any of that, because very disgusting looking creatures with ugly faces and an even uglier way of walking, carrying poorly-made weapons and wearing poorly-made armors (most likely didn't know how to use the Mythril), were swarming the entire area, concentrating at a wooden door that had been barricaded.

Some of the creatures were poking at the door with their swords and axes, before one fell down, an arrow in its throat, and a while later, another fell down with an arrow in its chest.

Sora, Donald and Goofy rushed forth as many of the creatures started surrounding them from all sides too, screeching at them with their ugly faces, while some smacked their lips, as if wanting to eat them, though even they briefly glanced at Donald and Goofy in utter confusion.

"These look like the ugliest things we've fought", Donald had to say, Goofy nodding in agreement, as the creatures charged at them.

Only, Sora swung his Keyblade in wide arcs, striking about five of them in quick succession, taking down all of them, as Donald cried out. "Fire!"

And then fire struck two of the creatures at once, taking them down as the others screeched in fear due to it being fire, while Goofy charged forth and bashed three of them easily with his shield.

As another one tried to strike Sora, he easily dodged and gave it an uppercut with his Keyblade, sending it flying up, before spinning and striking another one on the head, taking it down too, and then struck another on the chest as it was sent flying off.

Donald cried out at two more of them. "Blizzard!" And they were hit with big blocks of ice which took them down easily, while another nearby felt really cold, with Goofy bashing one more away easily.

That was when the ground shook, and they saw a huge creature that was even uglier than these ones, with a chain on its neck, entering the doorway, shattering what now remained of it.

"Oh boy!" Sora had to say, before three of the creatures attacked him at once but he managed to take them all out with one wide swing, as Goofy bashed two more away, while Donald just whacked another with his staff, knocking it down.

But these creatures seemed endless, crawling out of everywhere, but then Donald cried out. "THUNDER!" Thunder came down, striking some more of them, scorching them completely.

"Fire!" Sora then said, aiming his Keyblade and firing a fireball, which took down more of them, with the others seeming afraid of the fire, while Goofy bashed three more away quickly.

When even more surrounded them, they did the Trinity Guard, with Sora and Donald behind Goofy, before rushing forth with their full might, bashing many of the creatures away as they scattered here and there, with Donald calling down Thunder once more to kill a few others.

Sora then used Blizzard himself to take out two more, while Goofy first did a Downward Ground Swing, swinging his shield downwards while moving forwards to take out a creature, after which he did a 'Left Ground Swing', vigorously hitting the creatures to his left as they were sent flying off too.

Sora ran across a wall, and did a downwards swing, striking many more of the creatures as they were taken down too.

They looked around, seeing the creatures had reduced in number, while inside, they heard some sort of inhuman whimpering before a thud was heard.

"Think the big one is down", Sora told Donald and Goofy cheerfully, which was when they heard a loud rumbling sound, echoing throughout the entire place, sounding very ominous, making even the Trio freeze briefly.

They turned to a corner, seeing an eerie, orange-red glow coming from it, while even the creatures around them looked amongst themselves fearfully. A second rumble sounded, and the creatures all scampered away.

As Sora, Donald and Goofy watched, what looked like a giant creature made out of darkness and flames marched out of the darkness, growling. It had gigantic horns on its head, and a wide, gaping mouth with molten rock for teeth and lava in its throat.

"Think….we got a bigger one", Donald whispered, the three still rooted to their spot as the creature, a Balrog of Morgoth, walked towards the chamber, where pieces of the door had been put back up as a poor barricade.

"Such…darkness!" Sora said in horror as he stared at the Balrog, which seemed to stare at the remains of the door, while an old, grave voice was heard chanting from the other side.

The Balrog seemed to be in a contest of wills with whoever was on the other side, and all of a sudden, the remains of the doors shattered into nothingness due to an unseen force, and they heard a loud thud and clatter, while the Balrog marched into the chamber.

Finally snapping out of their dazes, Sora said. "Come on! Let's go after it! We need to help the people in there!"

With that, they walked into the chamber, but saw the creature had exited already, but could still hear its rumble down below, and slowly, they walked down into an exit that lead to a hall, where they saw the Balrog rumbling again as many more disgusting creatures from earlier were scampering in all directions, while a group of people was running ahead from the Balrog, reaching into a narrow doorway, while the Balrog followed them.

Sora, Donald and Goofy rushed after it, but it smashed through the narrow doorway when it finally reached it, blocking their way with debris once more.

"Just like before, guys", Sora reminded his friends, and they stood in the Trinity Guard formation, before rushing towards the debris, and smashing it completely.

They found a small path leading to a narrow, downward flight of steps, but saw the Balrog was chasing after the group across a very narrow bridge, much ahead.

So, they hurried down a narrow, winding staircase towards the pit, and saw a really HUGE gap in the stairs.

"Gawrsh, what should we do about that?" Goofy wondered.

Sora held out his hands, the Keyblade briefly disappearing. "Come on guys." Donald and Goofy held one hand each, as Sora began to glide in the air, holding both of them, this being the first time he'd glided while holding people.

They gritted their teeth, as the combined weight was slowly reducing the height at which they were flying, and they kept coming down each second.

"Quickly!" Donald cried out, just as they finally reached the other side, all three of them falling on their faces, and panted a little before staggering up.

"This part of the stairs feels weak", Sora told them, all three running off of it just as it crumbled, clearly having been weakened due to the Balrog walking upon it earlier.

They rushed forwards, seeing the Balrog chasing the group across the narrow bridge, though most of them but an old man with a staff and sword (probably the one who was heard chanting earlier) had crossed it. And for some reason, he seemed to remind the Trio of Yen Sid.

"HEY!" Sora called out to the Balrog, making it turn to them, and roar loudly, making them freeze just briefly, before Sora summoned his Keyblade, the other two holding out their weapons too. "Let's bring it!"

But as the Balrog stared at them, a shadow seemed to stretch out from underneath it, reaching their location, to their horror, and then, the shadow split into two, with two shapes rising out of the ground.

Sora, Donald and Goofy stared in utter horror as the other two figures rose up to a height of 24 feet each, just like the Balrog itself, and the two figures then started looking like the Balrog too, except one was made entirely of shadow, and the other entirely of flame, both being a bit thinner than the real Balrog, but no less dangerous.

What stood out was the Heartless symbol on both of their chests.

"It can…control and make Heartless!" Sora said in horror, the Trio now preparing to fight the two Heartless the Balrog had sprouted to fight them.

"The Keyblade must have attracted them here", Goofy realized, all three taking positions now.

The Shadow Heartless and Flame Heartless of the Balrog roared at the Trio, holding up their own swords, while the real Balrog continued moving across the bridge to face off against the old man.

Sora, Donald and Goofy still stood with their weapons out, now facing Infernal the Flame Heartless, and Shade the Shadow Heartless.

The Fellowship of the Ring ST-13-The Bridge of Khazad Dum plays

With that, Infernal swung its fire sword, its flames spewing as Sora, Donald and Goofy barely avoided those, while Shade suddenly dissolved into the background, covering the entire area in darkness.

"You cannot pass!" The old man's voice was heard saying as the original Balrog was heard rumbling in response.

"Gandalf!" The voice of someone on the other side of the bridge cried out in horror and concern.

"Where are they?" Sora asked Donald and Goofy, when in response, all three of them were hit by powerful flames from Infernal, which scorched them and threw them down, the three groaning in pain.

Meanwhile, the old Wizard, whose name was Gandalf, was heard saying. "I am a servant of the secret fire. Wielder of the flame of Anor."

As he spoke, a bubble of blue-white light appeared, a sphere covering him, and that light penetrated the darkness briefly, causing both Heartless to shriek, as Shade retracted the darkness, taking its normal form again.

Using the opportunity, Sora leapt, and dodging a fiery sword swing of Infernal, struck its face with his Keyblade, sending it staggering back, while Donald aimed at Shade and cried out. "THUNDER!"

It was hit by 'Thunder', slightly staggering it, while Sora landed, panting due to the wounds.

"The dark fire shall not avail you, flame of Udun!"

The Balrog brought his flaming giant sword down on Gandalf. The sword clashed with Gandalf's sword from within the bubble. The Balrog's sword and the bubble of light disintegrated at the same time.

"Heal!" Donald said while lifting his staff, healing himself, then Sora, and then Goofy, from the scorch marks upon them, and they felt rejuvenated, while Shade suddenly went into the ground as darkness, and before any of them could react, it protruded right from underneath them, holding out its sword, as the attack sent the three rolling into different directions, wounded once more.

They staggered up as Infernal swung its fiery sword in wide arcs, creating fire pillars that moved towards the Trio, with Sora dodge rolling to avoid as the other two backed off.

"Aero!" Sora cried out, his magic managing to briefly deflect the fire pillars into different directions, as Infernal screeched and struck at Donald with a fiery whip, only for Goofy to block, protecting Donald.

Meanwhile, the Balrog stepped towards Gandalf, having a fiery whip itself this time that it wielded.

At the same time, Shade created dark duplicates of itself, confusing the Trio as all the Shades, alongside Infernal, moved towards them.

Sora did a high leap forth, ending up at a column at the far side, very far from the bridge, with Donald and Goofy looking scared for him due to the wide gap between there and the bridge, but Sora did a 'Flowmotion' from there, rushing right at all the Shades.

And then, he did a 'Strike Raid' in midair, striking all of the Shades, as the duplicate illusions were dispersed, the real one staggering back from the blow, with Sora catching his Keyblade upon return.

Meanwhile, the Balrog was marching towards Gandalf once more, while Shade engulfed the area in darkness again.

Sora attempted to use his 'Shotlock' ability, but in the dark, he could not aim properly, as Donald held up his staff. "Fire!"

The fire briefly lit up the area, Sora managing to notice where Infernal was in the corner, preparing to attack them, while Donald did another 'Fire', giving Sora visibility enough to start attempting his 'Shotlock'.

Only, the darkness suddenly dissipated as Shade emerged from underneath Donald, about to grab him.

"DONALD!" Goofy cried out in defiance as he hurled his shield, doing a 'Goofy Bash' that struck Shade on the face, staggering it back a little as Goofy caught his shield on return and leapt, bashing Shade's face harder as it was sent back, screeching in anger.

"Go back to the shadow", Gandalf said to the Balrog.

At the same time, Infernal unleashed a meteor shower upon the Trio, with them being hit at first, being scorched badly, before Sora dodge-rolled away to avoid another meteor, while Donald and Goofy rushed back.

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

Gandalf slammed his staff down on the bridge and a loud cracking noise was heard. The Balrog snorted at the Wizard's display of power and took a step forward. Suddenly, the bridge under its feet crumbled and it plummeted below.

The Trio and the Balrog's Heartless briefly stopped their combat (though the Trio still dodged the meteors), looking at the Balrog falling, as Gandalf gave an exhausted grunt, then looked ahead to see Sora, Donald and Goofy fighting Infernal and Shade.

He gave them a smile and nod of acknowledgement while grunting in exhaustion, holding up his staff to help them, which was when a 'snap' was heard, the tail end of the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf's ankle.

The staff and sword slipped from Gandalf's hand as he was pulled down, with one person on the bridge's other end, who was very short in size, rushing forwards to try and save him, but a much taller man with long hair and beard held him back.

"No, no!"

"Gandalf!"

"FLY YOU FOOLS!" Gandalf's voice cried out as he was pulled down into the abyss with the Balrog.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The little man cried out from the other end in pure despair.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sora cried out in anguish and anger too, despairing at being unable to save Gandalf, even though they'd just met, and then he used his Keyblade to deflect three meteors in quick succession, before achieving Second Form!

And then, he did a 'Ragnarok', firing at the remaining meteors and destroying them all, protecting himself and the other two.

"HEAL!" Donald cried out, healing all three of them once more.

Meanwhile, another Man, this one with long dark hair and beard, was staring at this duel in awe, while his grief and disbelief over Gandalf's death were visible on his face. It looked like he wanted to help them.

"GET OUT OF HERE!" Sora cried out to him. "We can deal with them!"

He still looked conflicted, when the voice of the other Man from before was heard calling out to him.

"ARAGORN!"

The Man, Aragorn, stared at the Trio against the two Heartless of the Balrog once more, awed by the power they used, as even the Elves and Istari had never shown this manner of power.

Even though he wanted to help, escaping was important, which was what Gandalf had wanted for them, and these three (a Man-like Duck and Man-like Hound? He had never heard of those in Middle-earth!) wanted the same.

Not to mention, they were fighting on par with the darkness that had been born of Durin's Bane. One of them was a young child, but Aragorn could tell he was no ordinary young child.

"YOU HAVE OUR THANKS!" Aragorn cried out, and then, with a heavy heart, he rushed away, sparing them one last glance, but Sora gave him a grin and nod, assuring him that his concern was unneeded, and then, Aragorn finally made his way up the stairs.

Infernal struck Sora with its fiery whip, striking him and sending him falling to the ground, before swinging its sword, fire shooting out at Donald and Goofy, making them fall down once more, scorched.

Infernal charged at Sora just as he got up, Infernal now having a flaming shield. Sora countered with a perfectly-timed block, and activated 'Counter Impact', striking Infernal in a spin motion that sent it staggering back.

Shade stood next to Infernal, as Sora, Donald and Goofy did a 'Trinity Guard' once more, rushing forth at the two Heartless of the Balrog, managing to barely push them back, before Shade tried to strike with its sword as they rolled back to avoid, with Sora coming back to normal.

Getting up, they activated an 'attraction', this one being the 'Magic Carousel', as the Trio boarded the carousel emerging from beneath them, with it damaging the two Heartless and staggering them back as it rose.

Then it started spinning, circles of light continuously expanding outward from its center and glowing white when they reached the outer section, and then they used the opportunity to attack with sound waves.

Both of the Heartless were hit multiple times, stumbling back from the blows, and then the Trio ended it by emitting sound waves over a wide area, staggering them both back, while Goblins far back at the opposite end of the bridge were reduced to nothingness from these sound waves, as those that had avoided these barely fled.

The attraction disappeared as the three came down, while Infernal roared in rage, its flames now turning blue and intensifying, to the horror of the Trio, as it began to spin its whip around erratically, and swung its sword, the blue flames spreading all over.

Shade suddenly created a vortex of darkness, which started pulling the Trio in, as they screamed in horror, slowly reaching the core of the vortex, while some of Infernal's attacks struck them, scorching them, making them scream in pain.

Right before they could reach the core, Sora activated a 'Link', and Meow Wow appeared, with Sora getting on top of it, as it jumped, inhaling air and causing a whirlwind that damaged both the Heartless of the Balrog while it ascended, and its own size increased.

Then, Meow Wow landed on the ground, causing a powerful shockwave that weakened the already weakened bridge even more, also damaging Infernal and Shade, sending them staggering back, with Shade's vortex now gone as Donald and Goofy fell on their faces, wounded and panting.

Meow Wow turned around, and spouted air from its mouth, rushing backwards, managing to strike Infernal hard and send it flying to the other side of the bridge, which started breaking due to having been weakened by the clash.

It staggered back up, and leapt over the gap to fight the Trio again, as Sora got off Meow Wow, who disappeared, before he leapt high, and with a roar, struck Infernal hard above where the heart-symbol was with his glowing Keyblade, staggering it back.

It screeched as it began to disintegrate from the power, already having been weakened a lot, and then, it fell over the gap, disintegrating completely, releasing its heart.

Shade began to escape into the ground but Sora did one more 'Flowmotion' striking it at high speed, as it screeched, and was finally defeated by the combo, dispelling completely, with its heart also released.

Donald and Goofy got up with groans, exchanging a nod with Sora, with the remnants of the two Heartless coalescing as a Keychain was formed, and dropped into Sora's hand.

He looked at it, seeing it was in the shape of the Balrog, with two tiny wings as well, but sensing the darkness from it, he put it into his pocket regardless of the great power he felt in this Keychain, before the ground beneath them began to break completely.

"Come on!" He cried out, his Keyblade disappearing as he held out both hands, and they grasped his hands, with him beginning to glide them away, almost falling over once more, but they reached the other side, again falling on their faces.

Quickly getting up, they ran, the remainder of the bridge now collapsing right behind them, having been made unstable due to the clash of Gandalf and the Balrog earlier.

They rushed up towards an exit, glad to leave this place behind. They were sure they had been in there for more than a day, maybe even two.

Soon, they were out of Moria, the sunlight blinding them, and they arrived in a valley composed of rocks, all three collapsing when they were away from the door, in exhaustion and sadness both.

"We couldn't save him!" Sora cried out in despair, slamming his fist onto one rock with a roar. "We came here, to help, and WE COULDN'T SAVE HIM!"

Donald and Goofy looked at Sora sadly, walking up to him, patting his shoulders, Donald sighing. "I guess…he knew what he was doing."

"I should have done more!" Sora said sadly, the other two surprised, since they did not usually see him lose it like this.

"Sorry Sora", Goofy muttered, looking down, his ears drooping, as all three looked saddened.

Another thing gnawed at Sora. "This thing…..its Heartless are one of the first things we fought here."

"And they were plenty powerful", Donald muttered.

"I can only imagine how bad it will get from now on", Sora muttered, before looking ahead. "There were eight more with him. They are still here."

"So, let us go try help them, Sora", Goofy said, Sora nodding as he wiped tears that had appeared, and then, all three began running forwards.

Sora would not fail the other eight like he had failed Gandalf.

Earth-1, Star City, Oliver's apartment

Team Arrow sat together, on different couches, holding up bottles of beer, all of them silent, before Thea spoke up. "I didn't know her as well as most of you did, but…..she was nice. Not always agreeable, but she was a good friend to us."

Oliver took a little sip, then commented. "She has been here, with us, from the start, bringing her positive energy to us. It didn't always help", Oliver remembered her many unneeded protests, "but there were times it did, and she never backed down from fighting crime in this city." He shook his head sadly. "We will always miss her."

"I wish we could see her one last time, just to let her know her device helped", Diggle said, wiping away some tears.

"She was smart, I think she knows", Ray said, managing a bittersweet smile on his tear-stained face.

Oliver raised his bottle. "To Felicity."

They all raised their bottles.

"To Felicity."

And then, the doorbell rang. The group exchanged looks, before Oliver stood up and walked to the door, opening it up to see the same courier from before.

"Oh, its you", Oliver greeted him pleasantly. "First a delivery to my old office, now to my house, really?"

"Guess you can call it a coincidence, Mr. Queen", the courier shrugged, handing over the package. "Or not, since this is from that 'Felicity' person too."

Oliver's eyes narrowed, as the rest turned around in interest too, the courier adding. "And again, we had it with us for almost 5 years." He held out a paper. "Sign here."

"Here you go", Oliver said, signing it. "Thank you very much."

The courier left, as Oliver shut the door, and turned around, walking to the rest, placing the package on the table.

"What could she have sent this time?" Laurel wondered. "We beat the Weeping Angel already."

Oliver unwrapped the package, tearing off the tape, before they opened it up to see it contained a letter, and some pictures too.

Curious, Oliver lifted up one picture, and looked at it. What he saw shocked him.

"Oh my God!"

A while later- Barry, Caitlin and Cisco stared at the picture too, their eyes wide in surprise and bafflement, Caitlin covering her mouth.

Felicity was in the picture, standing next to a man who looked like Ethan Hunt, and in between them was a young boy.

"Ronnie…." Caitlin whispered, looking at the picture of a young Ronnie Raymond. She hadn't seen pictures of his parents, but she'd seen some pictures of him solo, when he was young.

But now…she'd seen his parents as well, and it was not what she'd expected, or the rest of them for the matter.

"Whoa man!" Cisco muttered in shock as he walked to the couch and sat down, looking shaken, Thea rubbing his shoulder.

"So…she was sent back in time", Barry noted. "Met Ronnie's dad, they fell in love, and got married."

"And then she died….of the cancer", Caitlin finished with tears in her eyes. Ronnie had lost his stepmom, and now she realized they had lost a friend as well.

Barry and Caitlin held hands, Barry wiping his own tears as they sat down too, all of them looking at each other sadly.

Felicity had become stepmother to Ronnie Raymond, then lost her husband Ed Raymond, before eventually passing away of cancer, shortly before Ronnie had joined STAR Labs, but before her death, she'd ensured to finish her device, and give that as well as the letter and these pictures to the courier service.

Now Ronnie was gone too, meaning nothing was left of the family.

It was so unfair!

1996, Central City

Felicity sighed, quickly shutting her laptop and putting it inside, since it looked too…..2010s, to look like it belonged in this time period.

It had been 4 months since she'd been here, still trying to figure out what exactly the statue that had managed to send her here was, and how it had done that.

When she'd figure that out, she could finally find out a method to go back perhaps, and deal with the thing.

Picking up her coffee, Felicity made to walk off, but accidentally bumped into a man, and dropped her coffee, staining her own dress.

"Oh my God! This is so embarrassing", Felicity said, turning to look at the man, and stopped in her tracks.

He looked exactly like Ethan Hunt!

"Huh?!"

"No, its my fault", the man said to her. "Well, I can't clean your dress, but come, I'll get buy you another coffee."

"No, no, no, there is no ne-"

"I insist", the man said with a charming smile that melted her heart, before holding out his hand. "I'm Ed. Ed Raymond."

Felicity grasped his hand. "Felicity. Felicity Smoak."

Present Day

"I hope…she was happy, until the cancer", Barry said with a sigh, looking down, remembering the first day they'd met.

Oliver opened up the letter, and started reading.

"Dear Oliver and the rest,

I so hoped we could see each other again, just one more time, but it seems like that won't happen now. I don't have much time left, but I sent that device, I hope you can use it to take that statue thingy out.

Took me almost 2 decades but finally figured it all out. We won't meet again, but at least that thing is gone.

Oliver, it didn't work out between us, but I will always care about you, just like you'll always care about me. I know I was a pain sometimes, sorry about that, but I know you will continue to fight the good fight till the end, and I wish you luck with it, whether you do it as Green Arrow or the Mayor, I know you will do good.

And please, let my mom know too. Make something up, but let her know that I love her, and that I'm sorry for behaving badly with her, and that I'm sorry I can't see her again.

Dig, you've been there with us from the start, and you were one of the best friends I could ask for. You were always there when I needed you, offering words of support, advice, and comfort, you were like my rock. I'll always miss you."

Oliver stopped, looking up at Diggle, who wiped some tears sadly.

"Barry, I wish we could have tried things out. Like I'd said, we're perfectly perfect for each other. But that chance is gone now. But I'm happy we got to be such good friends, and we always had each other's backs. So, to end this, I'll just say- Run Barry, run."

Even while tearing up, Barry managed a watery chuckle.

"Ray, it didn't work out, but I'm happy we were together, even for a little while. And I'm so flattered you thought I could run the company, even if I couldn't, which is why I returned it. I know you'll make it flourish."

Ray nodded with a little smile, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Caitlin, you were best girlfriend a girl like me could ask for, into science and all that, and also kind and understanding in ways I could only wish for at the time. Raising Ronnie, I can see why you fell for him, and my last few days are hard, knowing he'll die too, but I can't tell him, to keep the timeline straight. Oh God, I love him so much…..he is my baby, I don't want him to go! But…..I guess he'll be there with me and Ed one day. I'm so sorry, Caitlin."

They were all in tears again, especially Caitlin, as Barry had to hug her, while Cisco reached out his hand to pat her knee in comfort. Knowing Ronnie had been raised by Felicity, that made things even worse, as she'd know that he'll die too, and it'd have eaten her up in her last few days, since she could do nothing about it.

"Cisco, sorry about taking over the computers that one time. You are great with them too. And all that excitement you had which put mine to shame, oh I will miss chatting with you and geeking out over so many things."

Cisco smiled in between his tears.

"Roy, I still can't thank you enough for what you did for Oliver, when you pretended to be the Arrow. And I'm so happy you managed to come back. Oliver loves you, and I know you'll always follow him, no matter what."

Roy just nodded, wiping away a tear.

"Sara, I always thought of you as the strongest person I know, like an Amazon. And I hope this time you get to live a long life. I hope I have strength as much as you, considering what I'm dealing with."

Sara sighed sadly, wiping away a few tears, whispering. "You do."

"Laurel, Thea, we didn't know each other as well as the rest of the team, but I'm glad I got to know you two as well, and Laurel, your desire to help people, that always does inspire me. Thea, I've seen how much you grew in such a short time-span, and I'm jealous. I know you two will continue to do good.

Well, I guess this is it. I'm so sorry we couldn't see each other again. I will miss you guys till the end, but I'm glad my son is with me now.

Goodbye.

Felicity Smoak."

Oliver put the tear-stained letter down, putting it away, before he sat down himself, Sara patting his shoulder.

Felicity was gone, but her memories would always remain, and they would never forget all that she had done for the team, including helping in taking out this Weeping Angel, even after it had sent her to the past.

Finally, Oliver raised the bottle again. "To Felicity."

The rest raised their bottles too.

"To Felicity."

Earth-199999, New York City, Hell's Kitchen

Steve knocked at a door, and it was opened by a beautiful blonde woman he did not know.

"Hi ma'am."

"Hi….." the woman trailed off on realizing who he was, her face going red. "Oh my God!"

"Karen, what is i-?" A man with long hair walked up behind her, only to sputter when he saw just who it was. "Matt! Captain America wants to be our client!"

"Really Foggy?" Matt's voice came, as Foggy and Karen parted to allow Steve to walk in.

"Thank you."

Matt was inside, as Steve walked towards the table. "Hello, Mr. Murdock."

"Captain Rogers."

"Wait…." Karen was confused as she pointed between the two. "You know Captain America?"

"We met in a church actually", Matt told her, and that part was actually true. They'd met in a church before Steve had approached him again later with his pitch after the Avengers had deduced that he actually was Daredevil. "So, we're acquainted with each other."

"Whoa man! You definitely just raised our firm's reputation!" Foggy had to say. "Would you like water, tea, coffee?"

"No, thank you", Steve said politely. "Just need some legal aid, I'll pay any required fees as well."

"What do you need help with, Captain Rogers?" Matt finally asked him.

"This document", Steve put it on the table, allowing Foggy and Karen to see it properly too. "The SHRA- Superhuman Registration Act."

"That sounds ominous", Karen muttered, not liking the sound of it.

"We've been told the US plan to sign it. It will give a government panel oversight upon the Avengers so we operate outside within the USA when and if they deem necessary, and for acting outside the USA, we will need permission from both our country and the one we're going to. But outside of that, they will also affect vigilantes operating on the streets."

Steve could see Matt's face briefly freezing up at that.

"When I read through them, I saw many…concerning details, but I am not a legal expert, so I'm not sure all my opinions on this could be perfectly valid. Which is why I've come here."

"You want us to analyze this document and give our legal opinion on it", Foggy realized, Steve nodding at him.

"It'd be much appreciated."

"Well," Matt told Steve with a knowing smile that Steve returned. "You've come to the right place."

Earth-205, Pike Creek, Delaware

Lucifer laughed maniacally, looking down at the body of Nick that he now possessed, allowing him to move like a living and breathing human now, thus hiding in plain sight to all but those who could sense his true power.

He did plan to hold God accountable, or well…Chuck, who thought he was God, as he'd created this world, and some more, and them too, for his own sick games.

Then, to copy the real One, Chuck had punished him, so of course, Lucifer wanted payback. And he'd get it…..by blowing The Plan to Hell!

The Apocalypse was NOT going to happen on this world! He was going to go….and cause messes in as many other worlds as possible! Just a fake, huh?

Well, he was going to show the Multiverse what a fake Devil was truly capable of! He was going to do things Chuck had never conceived him doing.

And he was going to spite the real God with this too, by messing with His creations.

"Let us see how they stop me", he whispered, then let out maniacal laughter. He was going to meet the minions he'd made over the last year as well, to recruit them to the cause fully.

But before that, there was something else that he needed to do too.

And so, he teleported himself out of Nick's house, finding himself in a nearby alley now, and turning around, he looked at someone.

A smirk formed on the face of Nick, courtesy of Lucifer.

"Oh, am I happy to see you. You mind doing something for me?"

Well, a lot happened, and thanks a lot to Brainstorm Sorcerer for help with the Arrow/DW, CW and Earth-8096 plots, plus suggestions regarding the LOTR/KH stuff, and thanks a lot to gussygus28 for the SPN Lucifer stuff.

Imagine Jason Marsden as the courier, thanks to gussygus28 for the casting.

I'm not the biggest fan of Felicity in 'Arrow', which you all know, but I also don't hate her much. Well, I did hate her in Seasons 3-5, but in Seasons 6 and 7, she got better. Won't say I liked her or Olicity then due to all the baggage from Seasons 3-5, but didn't hate them either.

And frankly, she is not the worst character in the show, never mind the franchise. Off the top of my head, I can name 10 characters worse than her, 5 from the show itself.

But anyways, for those who don't know- in comics, Felicity Smoak is Ronnie Raymond's stepmom, so via Weeping Angel, I made that canon to Arrowverse as well, but unfortunately, she'd to pass away before Caitlin and Ronnie met, to keep the timeline intact, so….that happened.

Ed Raymond is obviously played by Tom Cruise, making him Hunt's E-1 doppelganger.

While I don't think Felicity is as smart as the show claims, she'd over a decade to figure out what the Weeping Angel was, how it sent her to the past, and how to beat it, since she is still deep into science and geek stuff.

So she sent the device (BTTF 2 style, and I saw the Trilogy recently at Cer1992's recommendation, thanks a lot to him), and then Ten augmented it, and the Angel was beaten.

While a lot of the Weeping Angel episodes could get convoluted, their debut episode 'Blink' is a solidly-written masterpiece for sure, and that's where this plotline's inspiration came from.

Felicity had a happy life until Ed died and she got sick, but it wasn't the worst life, until the cancer.

Rest In Peace Felicity Smoak.

This is not a popular opinion, but Ten is one of my least favorite Doctors, from Nine to Eleven, I like him the least, he is a sanctimonious holier-than-thou hypocrite, with only Tennant's performance being his saving grace.

Only time I liked him was in his last Series (though he did make messes there too), and frankly, DW couldn't have gotten rid of him fast enough IMO.

My favorite Doctor is Eleven. And after this, I will use Ten a total of one more time. At least I made sure to have Ten during a time-period when he wasn't with Rose, that'd have been even worse.

This is after 'Voyage of the Damned' but before 'Partners in Crime' for DW.

And all the stuff I called Ten out is just the tip of the iceberg in everything wrong with him.

Steven Moffat had loads of issues, but IMO his first two Series are amazing, and better than anything the overrated hack RTD could ever come up with.

Then, we had 'Civil War' in MCU, and like I'd said, I'm anti-Accords at day's end, it has nothing to do with which character I like more. While I prefer Steve, if Tony was anti-Accords and Steve was pro-Accords, I'd have supported Tony's anti-Accords stance.

So, here CW is happening about one year earlier, before even AOS Season 3. While Sokovia is fine, and nothing happened in Lagos, there've been many high-powered incidents recently, and like the Ultron arc had shown, superheroes have risen worldwide, so the USA fast-tracked everything, and the SHRA is here!

Of course, the plotline will be pretty different here compared to the film, which emotionally manipulated its audience into supporting Tony even when he was wrong, since he violated the Accords thrice himself while telling everyone else to sign them.

Like I showed in this chapter, just because something is made a law doesn't always make it right, even in democratic countries. And frankly, I didn't like the film much.

Now obviously, people must be wondering why I'm having Tony and Rhodey act worse than in the film which I said I didn't like. The reasons for that will be revealed later.

Steve has gone to Matt and Foggy who'll legally dismantle the SHRA.

Comics/EMH Maria would totally support SHRA but MCU Maria is less rigid, more sensible, and nicer, hence her take here.

Thor, Hercules and the rest saved Asgardian civilians from Ulik and his Rock Troll army, in a scene inspired by the battle against Drupad in 'Mahabharat 2013'. Ulik used look-alikes to confuse Thor this time, but if he gets out and becomes a threat again, then he'll finally get his Uru pounders.

On Earth-8096, Bishop has attacked the Avengers, and captured three of them. Plus, Falcon and Scott Lang's Ant-Man have joined the Avengers officially too, YAY!

Then, in Middle-earth, we'd Sora, Donald and Goofy running through Moria, and they killed the Watcher in the Water too, and then, inside, they saw Mithril.

Remember, 'Final Fantasy' and 'Kingdom Hearts' have that too, except its spelled 'Mythril' there. I heard the FF 'Mythril' was inspired by Tolkien's Mithril, hence the connection here.

So, the Heartless are in Middle-earth too now, drawn by the Keyblade, and the Balrog Durin's Bane managed to control two of its own to make Balrog Heartless- Infernal and Shade. Hope the battle with them was enjoyed, and Gandalf has fallen for now, and while I prefer the film's version of 'Fly, you fools', the book version made more sense here due to where Gandalf was looking before being dragged down.

Let's see what's next for the Trio and the Fellowship.

On Earth-205, SPN Lucifer has acquired Nick as a vessel, so next chapter, this plot can fully kick off at last, and I'm very excited for it.

Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter, which would be sometime in April, as I need to finish the MBA Sem 1 exams in March.