Chapter Eleven
OK, this stuff is more going along with the actual episode, so it's a bit shorter. Still, I left it off at a very good place (I think).
Enjoy chapter eleven!
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"Felicity's got her friend working on Palmer Technology's spectrometry satellites," Jax told Caitlin, Harry, Lena, and Winn as they worked back in the labs.
"OK, but what about the Waverider?" Caitlin asked. "I mean, a time traveling spaceship must have some sort of tracking technology that we can use."
"Yeah, not exactly," Jax winced. "It's, uh . . . it's in the Stone Age."
"How could a time ship be in the stone age?" Winn wondered, only to blink. "Oh, you mean . . . he means literally in the Stone Age, OK."
"Well, parallel Earth jumping is kind of Cisco's specialty," Caitlin sighed.
"And since he's so busy being unconscious right now, I guess we're on our own," Harry huffed.
Jax looked up from what he was doing, and he nodded at Stein walked in. "Oh, perfect timing, man. We're trying to find the guys from Earth-X and we're coming up with nothing."
Stein sighed. "I'm sorry, would you excuse us for a moment?"
Jax tensed slightly, and Harry blinked. "Happily," he nodded as Winn hurriedly backed out. "We don't want to step on whatever – "
"Come on," Lena grabbed Harry by the elbow.
"Awkward, awkward thing – "
"It's not about you!" Lena hissed, tugging him after her as Caitlin hurried out.
"That is."
Jax watched the two leave in amusement before sighing and turning to Stein. "Grey, we got Nazis from a parallel Earth running around. We don't have time for – "
"Which is precisely why we cannot afford to be at odds with each other right now," Stein walked forward. "I hardly need a psychic connection to know that you're upset with me, but I could stand to know why!"
"Just forget about it, man," Jax sighed, turning around.
"It would make some sense if my decision to be with my family forced you to leave the Waverider, but I – I accounted for that variable, and yet you're still upset."
"You just don't get it!" Jax spun back around, glaring at him.
"No, I don't get it," Stein snapped in agreement. "My retirement requires you to give up nothing!"
"It requires me to give up you, Grey!" Jax finally burst out, making Stein do a double take and stare at him, surprised. "Look, I thought I made my peace with it. I thought 'OK, fine, I'll stay on the Waverider. Maybe I can't be Firestorm, but I can still be a Legend.' But then it hit me. I still can't be Firestorm and I can't be a Legend with you." Stein stayed silent as Jax walked closer to him. "I never knew my father, but I got to know you. You're the closest thing I've got to a dad, and now you're leaving."
Stein swallowed hard as Jax left, and he turned to stop him, but Jax was long gone by the time he turned.
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Alex walked out of the S.T.A.R. Labs elevator and would have missed Sara had the assassin not greeted her with, "Hey!"
Alex blinked and turned around. "Hey," she answered.
"How are you?" Sara tilted her head.
"Um . . . " Alex took a deep breath. "Punching Nazis, that was definitely as satisfying as I imagined it would be. It's . . . " She sighed.
"You OK?" Sara frowned.
"Yeah!" Alex nodded hastily. "Oh, me? No, I'm – I'm fine. I'm OK. I'm completely OK. I'm OK, OK?"
"OK," Sara gave her a look that clearly said she didn't believe her.
"OK," Alex sighed, wincing as Sara walked into the elevator.
"This isn't gonna be a thing, right?" Sara asked.
"Yeah," Alex shook her head. "No, no, I'm – I'm OK. I'm good."
Sara just gave her a look as the elevator closed, and Alex winced, turning to walk back down the hall. "Wow," Laurel remarked as she entered from another direction. "That sounded fun."
"Great, not you, too," Alex sighed. "I can only deal with one Lance right now."
"Then just think of me as Black Siren and not a Lance," Laurel draped an arm over her shoulders.
Alex smiled slightly, then Kara ran in from another direction. "Hey!" she called. "I was looking for you!"
"Hey," Alex smiled back.
Kara blinked, then frowned. "Are you OK?"
"Why does everybody ask me that question?" Alex groaned.
"And I'll let you two talk," Laurel hurried off.
"Uh, well, you sort of look like you just killed someone's puppy," Kara answered.
"Uh, no," Alex shook her head. "Uh, no. I'm – I'm fine. It's just this whole thing with Sara was . . . God, it was a mistake."
"A mistake?" Kara looked at her, surprised. "But you came here to have fun at a wedding, and, um . . . OK, Nazi invaders aside, you – you had a good time, right?"
"No," Alex turned around, stopping. "I mean, this – this was all kinds of wrong. Waking up with a strange woman in a strange bed? I have never had a one-night stand before. And this whole thing has just . . . it's got me spinning, Kara. I mean, what – what if I made a huge mistake?"
"No, Alex," Kara shook her head.
"OK, no, no, no," Alex held up her hands, stopping Kara from continuing. "I mean, look, I know I want to have kids, but Maggie was real. I mean, what we had, that was real. And now, with everything, I just . . . I chose to let her go. I chose that. I mean, what was I thinking?!"
"Alex," Kara finally reached out, putting her hands on her shoulders. "Maggie was amazing, and you two were amazing together, but the best part about her was that she showed you how to be true to yourself. You want kids, she doesn't. You just had to do what was right for you."
"What if I was wrong?" Alex asked quietly.
Kara sighed and reached out, hugging Alex tightly.
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Iris spun around in her chair in the cortex, then turned around to where Felicity, Lena, and Winn were working, James pacing the cortex. "How long till you brainiacs find these Nazis?"
Lena raised an eyebrow. "Our answer hasn't changed in the two minutes since you last asked us."
"Sorry," Iris sighed, sitting up.
Lena put her tablet aside, leaning against the table with a heavy sigh. "Nazis," she muttered, then chuckled. "Oh, my brother would have a field day."
"No, we do not want that," James shook his head. "That would be all kinds of bad."
"How are Malcolm and Thea?" Iris asked.
"Last I saw, Slade was speaking to Malcolm," James answered. "I think Thea just needs some time alone."
"And where's Laurel?" Iris looked around.
"Hopefully not being annoying," Winn shrugged, then blinked when a monitor on the console beeped. "Oh, looks like there's a break-in at . . . Dayton Optical Systems?"
Iris groaned, standing up as the others looked at it. "I know this sounds terrible, but maybe we should let the police handle it. I mean, we need our peeps to focus on the Nazis."
"Iris," James said slowly.
"This is Nazis," Felicity finished.
Iris looked past them to see Nazis knocking guards out, and she swallowed. "I'll go get Barry."
"I'll find Kara," Lena backed up.
"Yeah, OK," Felicity nodded as the two ran off.
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Kara landed in front of Dayton Optical, setting Oliver down with her. Barry skidded up to them, frowning slightly. "Beat ya," Kara grinned.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Barry rolled his eyes as Oliver smirked, stepping between the two. "Bit surprised . . . no motorcycle."
"Barry?" Oliver raised an eyebrow. "Just a quick reminder. Superspeed – I don't have it."
"Right, the girlfriend does," Barry grinned teasingly. "Not surprised you hitched a ride with her."
"Oh, my – " Oliver rolled his eyes. "Guess this is what we get for not telling you, huh?"
Barry just whistled innocently. "Noted," Kara sighed.
The three of them walked towards the building, Barry looking at it curiously. "So what do we know about this place? Why are the Earth-Xers targeting it?"
"Because," a familiar distorted voice answered, and the three stopped in their tracks as out of the building came the archer in black and red, the masked woman in black, and a new figure: a vibrating one in yellow and black, eyes glowing red. "They had something we need."
Oliver frowned, seeing the figure in yellow and black lower a glass container to the ground, something glinting dark red inside it. "Whatever you stole – "
"We're gonna want it back," Barry finished.
"Your confidence is predictable," the archer scoffed. "You've faced some of the greatest evils known to man, and you've defeated them. But if you think so highly of yourselves that you can defeat any threat that comes your way . . . "
There was a clicking noise, and suddenly, the woman's mask retracted, and Kara's eyes widened when her own face, albeit much more smug and arrogant, looked back at her. Oliver swallowed hard as the archer pushed back his hood, his mask disappearing, his emerald eyes meeting the cold ones of his own face. The figure in yellow stopped vibrating and removed his cowl, revealing not Barry's face, but that of Harrison Wells's.
Barry blanched and turned quickly to face Oliver and Kara, both of whom looked stunned speechless. "How do you feel about us?" Earth-X Oliver challenged as Earth-X Kara and Wells smirked at them.
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I just loved the Earth-Xers reveal. I really did.
Next up comes Green Arrow, Supergirl, and the Flash vs. Black Arrow, Overgirl, and the Reverse-Flash!
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