This chapter was actually kind of hard to write. It sticks to the scenes at the end of the episode, but with four additional heroes, two additional Nazis, and another relationship to insert in? It was a bit difficult.

Still, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!

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Oliver woke with a start and immediately regretted it, wincing when he felt how sore he was. He took a moment to take a breath, then asked, "Is everyone all right?"

"We're gonna have to work on your definition of 'all right,' Oliver," Sara responded dryly from his left.

"Fine, kid," Slade answered further down the line.

"I'm gonna use Quentin's words," Thea added from somewhere on Oliver's right. "A little north of pissed off."

"Yep, that makes two of us," Malcolm grimaced.

"Three," Laurel chimed in.

"Yo, Grey!" Jax shouted. "You good?"

"It seems my retirement was somewhat tardy," Stein grumbled, but other than that, he sounded fine.

Kara whimpered slightly as she sat up. "Kara?" Oliver asked quietly.

"Can I please have one year when I don't get hit by Kryptonite?" she seethed, trying to move her shoulder. "Ow!"

"Well, I guess that proves a theory." Oliver tensed when he heard Malcolm's voice, but not his, and he looked up to see the Magician walk up, take off the veil covering his head, and deactivate the mask covering his face. He found himself looking right into Malcolm's cold eyes. "You are weaker than her."

Malcolm growled in annoyance. "Now I really know what it's like to see yourself in the mirror."

The Magician snorted. "At least I wasn't the cause of my son's death."

Slade snarled in his defense. "Says the one who was perfectly capable of being there to prevent his."

"I'd have thought you'd have been right there in the church with him," Laurel smirked. "Or were you too much a coward to even join?"

The Magician's eyes turned even colder as he slowly turned to Laurel. Something flashed from his hand, and Laurel cried out in pain when a knife pierced her collarbone, just narrowly missing her neck. "Laurel!" Sara shouted.

"You don't get to even speak about him," the Magician seethed, narrowing his eyes at Laurel. "Don't you even open your mouth again."

"What did she ever do to you?" Alex snapped.

The Magician just sneered, and anything else he would have said was cut off by slow clapping from above them. Everyone twisted to see Thawne walk up, cowl and mask off. "Well, here we are," he grinned smugly, chuckling. "This is fun. For me," he added, turning to Barry. "Not so much for you. All the times you've killed me, and now here all I have to do is kill you once."

"Don't tell me you're gonna monologue," the Magician scowled.

"You had your moment," Thawne narrowed his eyes. "Let me have mine."

"Well, at least you two don't get along, it looks like," Sara snorted.

Malcolm blinked, looking at her. "When did I ever get along with a speedster?" He twisted, trying to see to Barry. "No offense!"

"Not sure if it's taken or not!" Barry rolled his eyes.

"Enough, you two!" Overgirl's voice shouted, making both of them turn as she walked up. "Enough."

Alex threw a glare up at Thawne. "Hey, you might want to listen to her. We know that if you wanted to kill us, you wouldn't have put these . . . " She looked at the sleek silver device around her neck in addition to her Wolf Howl. "Dog collars on us first."

Thawne grumbled, but straightened as Overgirl stopped by the Magician. "Now I know what it feels like to hate myself," Kara whispered.

"She's not you," Laurel told her.

"Mmm," Overgirl turned to consider Laurel, and Oliver didn't like the look on her face at all. "No, she's not. Hurt by one little arrow to the shoulder?" She laughed, walking forward. "That's pathetic." She stopped in front of Laurel, and her face twisted in an ugly sneer. "And so are you."

Laurel yelped in pain when Overgirl threw a sharp right hook, making her head hit the wall behind them. "No!" Kara shrieked.

"Stop!" Oliver yelled as Overgirl continued to punch Laurel back to the ground, the meta struggling to stay upright. "Stop it!"

"Leave her alone!" Sara shouted.

Overgirl sneered and brought her fist up one more time –

"General!"

The familiar yell made everyone freeze, including Overgirl, her fist still raised. "She – " she began.

"I know exactly who she is," a Slade in entirely black gear with red plates walked in, mask under his arm. "I know what she's done." He stopped behind Overgirl, looking down at Laurel with narrowed eyes. "And I know she's dead." That made Laurel's eyes widen. "And this one will be, too," Terminator continued, looking at Overgirl. "Do you remember?"

Overgirl curled her lips into a smirk. "Very well."

"Then you know as well as I do that this one's death will be just as satisfying," Terminator smirked as well. "Don't make it as . . . simple as this."

Overgirl looked down at Laurel before giving her one last uppercut, then stood up. "You're lucky," she hissed.

"Yeah," Laurel spat blood on the ground, glaring up at Terminator. "Don't expect a thank you."

Terminator snorted. "I wouldn't accept it anyway."

"I agree with you, little one," Slade glared nastily at his Nazi counterpart. "Now I really know what it's like to hate myself."

"Let me guess," Malcolm rolled his eyes. "Some version of Deathstroke."

"My former unit before I was reassigned to the top of the Reich," Terminator smirked. "I took on the other name they called me."

"Terminator," Slade guessed.

"Which makes you the Magician," Kara guessed, looking at Malcolm's doppelgänger.

When he nodded and smirked, Malcolm snorted. "Something funny about that?" Barry asked in annoyance.

"I could make several annoying comments right now, but the only thing I'm thinking is that I told you it's magician," Malcolm threw Slade a look.

"Now?" Slade glared at him. "Seriously?"

"Shut up!" Laurel groaned.

Overgirl's eyebrows shot up, but then Black Arrow entered the room. "Well done," he looked over the heroes against the wall.

"It wasn't a problem," Overgirl said smugly, turning towards him, only to blink and stagger suddenly. Terminator and the Magician both turned in concern, but Black Arrow got to her first. He reached out and grabbed her arm firmly, slowing her collapse to the ground. She took shaky breaths, swallowing. "The pain," she whispered hoarsely, making Kara narrow her eyes. "The pain . . . I don't know how much longer I can bear it!"

"It's all right," Black Arrow soothed. "It's all right. You're gonna be all right, because we found her. We found her . . . " He looked past Overgirl to Kara, Overgirl turning to look at her doppelgänger, too. "And now we have her." He turned back to Overgirl, giving her a firm nod. "I love you," he whispered. "Now, very soon, this nightmare will be over, and I'll take you home. So stand."

Overgirl took a shaky breath, then swallowed and rose to her feet. Black Arrow made sure she was good, then nodded. She nodded back, and Black Arrow turned to Thawne as he walked over to join them. "S.T.A.R. Labs is secure," he told him.

Thawne nodded in response. "If you hurt my friends," Barry began.

"We did hurt your friends," Black Arrow nodded as the five lined up in front of them. "I really enjoyed hurting your friends."

"Are they alive?" Oliver asked, almost dreading the answer.

"Yes," Black Arrow nodded. "Yes . . . for now." Oliver narrowed his eyes at that, but Black Arrow continued. "We need your Kara's cooperation. Well, we don't need it. It would be preferable. But for the time being, you especially are more valuable as leverage."

Kara blinked, confused. "What do you want my sister for?" Alex looked around the others.

"To save my life," Overgirl answered, then blinked mockingly at Kara. "That's your little 'mission statement,' isn't it? Help people, save lives? Well, now's your chance."

"What the hell do you need her for?" Malcolm narrowed his eyes.

"The General is dying," Thawne answered.

"Was that the problem with her blood?" Thea asked.

"She's been exposed to too much solar radiation," Alex nodded in realization.

"Yes," Overgirl nodded, seeming annoyed with herself. "Like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun."

"But we can save her," Black Arrow smirked. "We're going to save her. All we need is a new heart. And luckily, on this planet . . . " His gaze settled on Kara, who froze in shock. "We found the perfect donor."

All the blood drained from both Kara's and Oliver's faces as four people around them erupted. "No way in hell!" Laurel yelled.

"Even just saying that is suicide!" Malcolm growled.

"Keep your hands off her!" Slade snarled.

"You stay the hell away from my sister!" Alex was the loudest of them all.

She also seemed to be the one Overgirl wanted to comment on. "Mmm, such loyalty," she purred, tilting her head, then snorted. "My sister tried to kill me."

"That's why you stole the Prism?" Barry looked around. "So you could duplicate a red sun, weaken Kara, and cut into her?"

"Can't make an omelet with invulnerable eggs," Overgirl smirked.

Oliver growled low in his throat, making his doppelgänger turn to him. "I'm gonna kill you," he spat.

Black Arrow snorted. "Nah, you won't."

"You don't think?" Oliver snapped. "You, of all people, don't think I won't because of what you're doing?"

"And yet if you were in this exact same position," Black Arrow narrowed his eyes. "If your Kara was dying this exact same way, what would you do to save her? No matter what the cost, there is nothing I wouldn't do to save mine."

"Your wife is dying," Oliver countered. "You want to cut into my girlfriend to take her heart. We both want to save them."

"Except you chose the high road," Black Arrow retorted. "You . . . and them," his gaze went to Slade and Malcolm, both of whom narrowed their eyes. "The only thing about you that I could even possibly respect is your dedication to her. But you . . . " His gaze went to Laurel, who lifted her head high, despite the pain she was obviously feeling. "The only thing that would make me happy to see you is if I could get the pleasure of seeing you die again." He scoffed. "Someone else deserves that pleasure this time around."

Overgirl sneered at Laurel before following Black Arrow off, Terminator and the Magician right behind them, Thawne in the rear. Kara struggled to try and get her restraints off, the others doing the same, when Metallo fired a ray of Kryptonite energy at them, knocking them all out again.

***

Winn poked his head around the corner, looking through the hallway, then sighed. "It's safe," he whispered.

"Oh, thank God," Iris breathed as she, Felicity, and Lena joined Winn in walking down the hall. "I thought we were gonna die."

Felicity nodded. "If I had a dime for every time I thought that, I – " She blinked. "I'd have $2.40. I really thought I'd have more than that."

Winn swallowed. "It was Oliver and Slade, but it wasn't Oliver and Slade."

"It was Oliver and Slade in the High Castle," Felicity nodded.

"This is crazy," Lena swallowed. "Multiple Earths, aliens, doppelgängers from the Third Reich? What else is coming?"

"That's exactly what wakes me up at night," Iris sighed.

"How do you ever get back to sleep?" Felicity asked.

Iris shrugged. "Barry's by my side."

"Kara would probably say the same thing," Winn nodded.

Lena frowned, tilting her head. "Shut up," she whispered.

"Well, obviously it would be Oliver instead of Barry, but – "

"No, no," Lena a finger to her lips. "Shut up."

Iris bit her lip, following Lena down the hall. She squeaked when she saw black-clad figures just past them, and Lena plastered herself to the wall, the others behind her. "We're not alone," Felicity whimpered.

Lena inched forward again, and the four looked around the corner, eyes widening when they saw Nazis march into the pipeline, carrying Dinah, Curtis, and Rene over their shoulders. "Stalag S.T.A.R. Labs," Winn whispered.

Iris swallowed. "What are we going to do?"

***

The next time Oliver came to, he inhaled dust when he tried to take a deep breath. He coughed, wincing as he rolled over. He heard others coughing around him, then Alex's panicked voice. "Where's Kara?"

"Kara?" Malcolm bolted upright, twisting and trying to see.

"Kara!" Laurel quickly rolled to her knees, then groaned and lurched forward, reaching for her eyes.

"Hey," Slade reached out to her, supporting her before she fell back to the ground.

"They're gonna kill her!" Alex looked around, a wild look in her eyes.

"That's not gonna happen," Oliver immediately shook his head.

"Oliver's right, Alex," Sara nodded. "We're gonna get her back."

"We just need to figure out where we are first," Oliver looked around.

"Yeah . . . " Jax slowly stood, looking around. "About that . . . "

The others got to their feet, looking around at the others in striped uniforms milling about. "This is . . . somewhat disconcerting," Stein swallowed.

Thea whipped around when she heard the sound of a gate closing, and she frowned when she saw they were enclosed in a chainlink fence. "Where the hell are we?"

"I don't think this is our Earth," Jax answered.

Laurel held onto Slade as he helped her stand, then swallowed when she caught sight of their captors. "Ladies and gentlemen . . . welcome to Earth-X."

The others turned to see Nazis marching past the fence, and Oliver swallowed hard, realizing getting back to save Kara would be so much harder than they knew it would be before.

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. . . sorry, Laurel?

So that concludes the Arrow portion of "Crisis on Earth-X." Next up comes the Flash part of it!