In the middle of the night, a blue portal opens in an alleyway. From it comes three people, each unique in their own way.
“Here we are. The Arrowverse.” I turn to Lightmare, who landed on the floor. “Interesting.”
“.........What?.......”
“Yeah............the first go through a breach can leave you feeling woozy. But that’s not what’s curious.” I snap, conjuring up a hand mirror, and show it to her. She’s become human, and is wearing black boots, a grey shirt and hoodie, a purple skirt, and in her hair a purple pin in the shape of three jewels. She backs up to Riolu in shock, and starts to panic.
“Cover her mouth, we can’t afford her screaming.” Riolu nods, and covers her mouth with his two paws. ”Now then, are you going to scream?”
She shakes her head, and Riolu let’s go. “But.........how.........?”
“It appears that the rules have changed. Leaving Equestria now works like traveling through the mirror portal. There goes my notes on interdimensional travel.”
I look towards the street as Riolu walks up to me. “Where exactly are we?”
“The others never told you about Barry, and this world?” They tilt their head, and wave their paw ‘so-so’. “Sigh. Barry Allen. The Flash............and an old friend. This version of Earth..............it’s one of superheroes. After a particle accelerator explosion, massive amounts of different, theoretical types of matter bathed Central City. Here. That matter mutated different individuals, giving them extraordinary abilities.”
“And I assume this...........Barry Allen, was mutated?” Asks Lightmare.
“The more common term is metahuman. But yes, yes he was. But unlike the other metas, he gained a connection to something greater. The Speed Force. An inter-dimensional force, which gives a particular meta unique abilities. A speedster.”
Her eyes widen. “That’s what you meant when you told Celestia.............!”
“That we’ll be helping out the fastest man alive. A speedster has many abilities, the most prominent being super-speed.”
“But what exactly are we doing here?”
I turn my head to them, and pull off a small smile. “To help them. Let’s just say................Tomorrow, they’ll need our help. More than ever.”
“We need to do something,” says Joe. It’s the morning after, and team Flash is talking with Lyla Diggle, head of A.R.G.U.S. Last night, something big happened, and she’s explaining to them all about it.
“We are. Nearly every member state in the UN is in talks to coordinate a response. Action is being taken,” she says.
“So, wait, you want us to just sit this one out?”
“These things are like “World War Z” zombies. If they decide to attack, no military can stop them,” says Barry.
“Neither could you. Not by yourself, anyway. Just let us handle this. For now.”
She leaves, and Barry turns to all of them. “So the plan isn’t to just stay still and do nothing, right?”
“No. Barry, you heard Lyla. You can’t do this alone,” says Iris.
“I don’t plan to.”
(Meanwhile, in Star City..............)
“Anything?” Asks Oliver. The Green Arrow. Him and John Diggle, Spartan, are in an abandoned building hunting down a villain named Vigilante.
“Zilch,” says Felicity, over comms.
“He’s got to be here somewhere.”
“What are the chances the guy just decided that he had enough of this life, you know? No health insurance. He was sick of the crazy hours. I mean, bullets aren’t actually that cheap, and he............” Vigilante suddenly jumps down, and Oliver fires an arrow at them, trapping their pistol in a pillar. The two take cover as they pull out an Uzi, and fire rounds at them. Right before they get hit, Barry runs in, and takes them to the apartment where Felicity is.
“I’m sorry, man. I...........” He says to Dig.
“It’s okay,” they say as the run over to the balcony, and take their helmet off. Barry points at them before looking at Oliver, who’s recovering, right as Dig pukes over the side.
“Man..........” He spots Felicity. “Hey.”
“Hi, Barry.”
He turns to Oliver. “So, who was that guy?”
“That, was Vigilante, and we nearly had him.”
“You nearly, had him, Ollie? It looked like he was about to ‘Scarface’ you guys.”
“Barry, is there something that I can do for you? Another evil speedster to help you with or......”
“Maybe, actually? That’s not why I’m here, though.”
“What’s so urgent that you had to rush to Star City?” Asks Felicity.
“Aliens.”
“Aliens?” Asks ‘Ollie.'
“Aliens.”
“I swear to God, Barry. My life was somewhat normal before I met you,” says Dig.
“I............I mean, I’m sorry. Look, okay, they’re real, and they’re already here, and, from what Lyla told us, it does not appear to be for peace.”
“Oh, no.”
“Lyla knows about this?” Asks Dig, as turns to leave.
“Lyla........yeah, she came to...where are you................”
A woman comes in. “I called Thea,” says Felicity.
“Yeah, I came to have you sign this before City Council went in to mutiny, but that can totally wait. Count me in,” she says.
“For what? I thought you retired,” says Oliver.
“Yeah, but it’s.........it’s aliens.”
Aw, that is so cute. You guys are just gonna get together and go fight some aliens....have you lost your mind?! They’re aliens, and there’s only four of you,” exclaims Felicity.
“Not if we get Stein and, you know, all the others.”
“They’re calling themselves the Legends.”
“Egotistical but catchy,” says Thea.
“Do you know where they are?”
“I know where they were.”
“What is this place?” Asks Thea. They’re all outside a large hanger/hall, waiting for their friends.
“Uh-It’s this old hall-hangar thing that S.T.A.R. Labs owns. Or I guess, I own it,” says Barry.
“Well, you should do something with it.”
“All right, so let me get this right. Our time-traveling buddies in a flying time-ship are supposed to just pop up right here, right?” Asks Dig.
“Yeah.”
“This is the time and place I gave them, so if they got my message, they should be here............”Says Felicity, right as a small spaceship appears in the air, out of nowhere and flies down. “Right now.”
“You know why I’ve never done drugs? It’s ‘cause I was always afraid I’d see weird stuff.”
“Okay, take everybody inside, all right? Tell Oliver I’ll be right back.”
“Where are you going?” Asks Felicity.
“Well, since we’re fighting aliens, I figured we should get one of our own, right?” He approaches Cisco as they start to head in. “You found the right Earth?”
“Tachyon device tracked you on Earth-38 when you met her, so you should find her there.”
“All right.”
“Just so you know, I’m only doing this because we’re on a mission. I’m not gonna let my issues with you get in the way of that.” He puts on the goggles, and opens a breach. “This might take a few tries.” They hop in.
A split second after the others head in, another breach opens inside, behind some crates. From it, the three of us enter the hall. We’re all the same as we left, save for me wearing the cloak.
“Here we are.” I take off the hood and cloak, changing back as I look at them. “Now, when I raise my hand, we walk out there, okay?”
“You still haven’t told us what we’re doing. Or where we are.”
“I’ll explain everything, I promise.”
Everyone’s waiting inside the hanger, while the tech support is in front of them.
Felicity walks around the room, accounting for everyone. “Team Arrow is here, team Legends, is here.........” she looks at H.R. “Is that everyone?”
“I think so?”
“Nate and Amaya are back watching the Waverider. The newbies,” says Sara Lance.
A breach opens in front of them all, and from it comes Barry, Cisco, and a woman.
“That was cool,” she says.
“Guys. Thanks for coming.”
“Barry, I thought you were bringing an alien,” says Oliver.
“Uh, yeah......we did. Everyone, this is my friend, Kara Danvers. Or as she’s known on her earth, Supergirl.”
“What makes her so super?” Asks Jackson/Jax Jefferson.
“Well........” Barry gestures to her, and she flies up and uses heat-vision to carve a symbol into the floor.
“I’m convinced,” says Dig.
“Best. Team-up. Ever!”
“It’s about to get a lot better, Felicity Smoak,” I say as I raise my hand, and lower it as we walk out.
They all brace for combat when Barry steps in front of them all. “Wait-wait-wait!” He walks up to us. “Asriel?”
“Howdy Barry. It’s been awhile.”
He looks at the two behind me. “Who are the two with you?”
“Oh! This.........is Lightmare.......” gesture to her. “And Riolu.” I gesture to him, then place my arms down. “Two other versions, of the Traveler.............and my friends.”
“Barry, we could use an explanation.”
“Oh.......sorry, Oliver Queen.” I walk toward, in front of them all. “Howdy, everyone! My name...............is Asriel.” I summon my blades. “Asriel Dreemurr. Prince of Monsters.”
“Wait............from that computer game, Undertale!?” Asks Ray Palmer.
“I will explain everything. But first.......” I turn to Lightmare, and Riolu. “I believe my friends, and ‘Supergirl’, will want to know everyone.”
“Okay, I think we have this.” They walk up to Team Arrow. “Oliver.”
“Green Arrow.”
“Dig,” says Lightmare.
“Spartan.”
“Thea.”
“Speedy.”
They walk towards the Legends.
“Sara,” says Lightmare.
“White Canary.”
“Jax, and professor Stein?”
“Firestorm.”
“Ray.”
“Palmer, uh, the Atom.”
“And Mick.”
“Hmm?” He looks at them, he was distractedly by a sandwich. “Oh, Heat Wave.”
They walk up to us. “And Asriel, Iris, Caitlin and Felicity. Whoo!”
“Yes!”
Kara points at Caitlin. “And you have cold powers, but you, can’t, use them?”
“You have powers?” Asks Felicity.
“It’s a long story.”
“Barry, so, Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow?” Asks Iris.
“Yeah.”
“Oh my god, he just got so much hotter.”
“Oh my god.”
“Asriel!” I look over at Oliver. “I believe you owe us all an explanation.”
“Sigh. Okay, fine.” I pull a chair over with my magic, and sit down. “You see...........just as there are other universes, other Earths, there are also other Multiverses. You see, Reality is made up of what is called the Omniverse. In each Multiverse, is different versions of space, time, some even have different rules. In the case of mine, there is magic, LV and EXP, and the power of Determination.”
“So what your saying is, you’re from a...............a ‘Multiverse’, where Undertale is real?” Asks Sara.
“I’m from one of the many alternate worlds, what you call AUs.”
“But what was that about the ‘Traveler’? And what about your friends?” Asks Stein.
“Oh........you see, whereas some AUs had me brought back by Frisk sharing a SOUL, getting help from unlikely places, or straight up sacrificing themselves...................the creator of my AU, manipulated the rules so I could be brought back.” I stand up. “I was Displaced to another Multiverse, along with everyone else. But it came at a cost. It bound me to the Omniverse, as it’s protector.”
“So the chick, and the blue dog..............their other people bound to the universes?” Asks Mick.
That comment left the two fuming. “Sigh.......that’s one way to put it. Yes, Lightmare and Riolu are other people bound to the fabric of reality. You see, the Traveler is a title, and we share it with seven other individuals. But here’s the kicker. With the title, comes great power.” They all perk up at this. “Oh yes. You see, each version of the Traveler has a unique gift, which they use to help protect the fabric of their places in the Omniverse.”
“Well I can assume your gift is the power of seven Human SOULs. But what about the others?” Asks Ray.
“We can explain our gifts better than he can. In my world, I was the student of our ruler until one fateful day...............an evil by the name of Nightmare Moon corrupted me, turned me into their faithful lieutenant. But I was SAVEd. That connection left me with two things.”
“Cover your ears!” I scream as she takes a deep breath, and screams. From her mouth comes a large sonic wave, which knocks everyone back a few feet to the ground.
Oliver recovers quickly. “What was that, a Canary Cry!?”
“More like.................a Siren Screech. She’s descended from sirens, and their voices had great magical power. And that includes their screams. Ugh! Even with my ears covered I can tell that was almost over 200 decibels!”
I walk up to the table. “Cisco, I think it’s best we get started.”
He turns on the screens, showing us different footage and information.
“Okay, these are the Dominators. We don’t know much about them,” says Barry.
“Except they’re really strong,” says Kara.
“And they have telepathic abilities.”
They all look at the both of us.
“I heard a lot of stories about them when I was a kid. They came to my planet when I was born, did a lot of experiments on people. Killed a lot more.”
“And I may have done a bit of studying before we came here.”
“Well, both of you are pretty strong. From what Barry tells us about you Kara, your stronger than a locomotive?” Asks Thea.
“We should use Asriel and Kara as stand-ins for training.”
“Since when was Robin Hood calling the shots?”
“I think what Mick is trying to say is it would be nice to know who’s in charge around here,” says Jax.
“We should take a vote. Choose a leader, someone we can trust,” says Ray.
“Well I trust Oliver, he’s got my vote,” says Cisco.
“I appreciate that Cisco, but Barry put us all together. It should be him."
“Fair enough.”
“I’m gonna set up a net, because let’s be honest. You’re all gonna get your butts kicked by me.”
They all look at me in disbelief.
“If you know about my game, then you know what I can do. I have the power equivalent to a god. Best prepare yourselves. Oh, and I can also do this.” I speed off outside to everyone’s disbelief.
“So let me get this straight. You can’t remember anything about your past, but you remember being human?”
“Before waking up under that tree..................nothing. Just bits and pieces of how I became this. And that fact. It was like..................something inside me, didn’t want to forget.”
While I was gone, Riolu and Cisco had started talking about themselves. Caitlin is talking with Lightmare.
“But aren’t you ever afraid? Scared............about losing control?”
“Fear is the reason I don’t lose control. My fear is failing to work with them to protect my friends. Sure, there are some moments where our shared anger gets out of hand. But up here.” She points at her head. “We both know that we need each other to survive. And don’t tell Asriel, but we know there will be some circumstances where it’s kill or be killed, and he won’t wanna fight. I’ll protect them both.”
I walk over to Barry. “What’s happened since we left?”
“After you left, Caitlin lost control and went after Alchemy. She wanted to be cured. Because of it, Cisco knows that Dante died because I changed the past, and Julian knows Caitlin’s a meta.”
“Sigh. And I assume he was going to tell CCPD, but you stopped him?”
He nods. “I begged him to keep it secret, and he agreed. On one condition. I was forced to resign.” He looks at me. “What about you?”
I’m about to answer when Jax, Oliver and Stein walk up to us.
“Barry. Before we start training, there’s something you need to hear.”
“A message that would be better if we could share with you in private,” says Stein.
“All right, Oliver and I will step away.”
“No, no, it’s fine. You can stay.”
“All right, but no one else.”
“All right. Let’s make it quick.”
We all enter a trailer, and Stein pulls out a recorder. Him and Barry sit down as he hits play, and places it on a nearby table.
“A war, is coming, Captain Hunter, and at some point, you’re gonna be called back to Central City to fight it. So you need to know that, while you and your team have been in the temporal zone, I made a choice that affected the timeline. As you know, whenever you alter the past, those changes affect the present and get compounded in the future. When you return, you will be in the new timeline I created, where everyone’s past and everyone’s future has been affected, including yours. When you come back, don’t trust anything or anyone. Not even me.”
I turn my head to the two of them. “Where did you get that from?”
“We found it in a secret room inside the Waverider. It was sent by Barry, 40 years from now.”
“40 years from now? Barry, what the hell does this mean?” Asks Oliver.
“It means I screwed things up when I changed the past.”
“What did you do?” Asks Stein.
“I went back in time, and I saved my mom.”
“He created a timeline where she was alive. It’s called Flashpoint.”
“I lived in it for a few months, until I realized that I made a big mistake, and I tried to reset the timeline, put things back to how they were supposed to be, but.............”
“But it didn’t work.”
“No.”
“Wow. Barry, that’s........”
“So what’s changed since you did this?”
“Cisco’s brother is dead. Caitlin has powers, Diggle has a son now instead of a daughter.”
“What?” Oliver takes a step forward. “John had a daughter?”
“I didn’t just screw up my life, man. I screwed up everybody’s lives and, apparently, everybody’s lives in the future. And not only that, but me changing things is why Asriel came here in the first place.”
The three look at me.
“Sigh. When he changed things, we were facing an alternate version of my sister, and Béte Noire from Glitchtale. They opened..........unstable breaches, and that destabilized everything. Pulled me and some other friends of mine into Flashpoint.”
“Allowing people to cross between the two realities,” Stein deduces.
“Not just that. My world is a Nexus, a-a hub, its linked to every single world in the Omniverse. By destablising the fabric of space-time, it allowed for.....................unstable dimensional openings. Displacing people from other worlds, to here.”
“It felt like, when these aliens got here, that finally something had happened I didn’t cause, and maybe I could make up for everything I’d done to everybody, but I................”
“I think we should be on the up and up with everybody. We got to tell ‘em,” says Jax.
I turn to him. “We’re going up against a bunch of aliens, and you want to tell people that their lives might have been affected by time travel?”
“One sci-fi problem at a time.”
Jax looks exasperated while Oliver walks up to Barry in the chair. “You made a mistake, Barry. It’s part of the job. But we can’t deal with it today.”
“And if it wasn’t for that mistake, we would’ve never met.”
Oliver opens the door and everyone starts to head out. I walk out before Stein, and dodge to the right a split second, before Ray is thrown at us.
“What the hell!?” Oliver and I both scream.
“Now would be a good time to get in there, Mick burned your friends stetson!” Shouts Sara, taking cover.
“HE DID WHAT!?” I roll out of the way right as several chairs get thrown our way by tendrils of energy. “Mick you freaking idiot!!”
“What’s the big deal!? She can get another one! Besides, I didn’t do it on purpose, the flames grazed her hat while training!”
I put my hands forward, conjuring a large forcefield right as more chairs, and crates fly at us.
“The ‘big deal’, is that was a gift from the Apple family! They gave it to her in gratitude, and as a token of her bravery, it belonged to Applejack’s father!!”
“I assume she treasured it then!?” Shouts Cisco as more stuff hits the field.
“Yes, and the last thing you want to do is get her mad! That’s her secret weapon, she’s capable of doing a Rage Shift!”
“What’s a Rage Shift!?” Exclaims Jax.
“Normally, its a natural state unicorns take when they’re furious! Unicorns do it, and they get a large boost in power.”
“But Lightmare..............you know about symbiotic relationships, and how they work?!”
“Yeah, two species work together to survive different environments, like how a cleaner shrimp cleans the mouths of fish!” Shouts Ray.
“The remnants of Nightmare Moon are inside her, they amplify her natural abilities, and her SOUL keeps it alive!”
The entire front of the shield gets covered in darkness.
“And when she Rage Shifts............?” Says Barry.
“.......................That darkness, is the result of her dark magic. The Mare in the Moon. The Nyx Incarnaté. Nightmare Moon, Princess of darkness.” I turn to Mick. “If you want to live, I suggest you hide. Everyone else.....” I turn to them. “You wanted to practice on an alien. Now’s your chance.”
“What do you need us t’do?” Asks Jax.
“Just cover me. Hopefully, I might be able to get close enough to calm her down.” Right then we hear a dark cackle. We all turn and see two, blue slits open up in the darkness.
“I know you’re in there Mick! You can’t hide!”
“Am I talking to my friend, or the symbiotic being inside her?”
“Such limited thinking. Think of this as...............the two of us, each having one hand on the wheel. She’s simply too furious to care how I steer the carriage!”
“Well then...............how about you stop hiding in the darkness, and face us?”
“Hehehe! Challenge accepted, Asriel Dreemurr!” All the darkness falls to the ground, and merges into one spot to form a tall alicorn with sharp fangs, blue reptilian slits, and dark blue armor. In her magic is a red scythe, and a dark blue and black Keyblade with black chains covering a moon, black wings for hilt guards, and a black crescent moon at the end.
My eyes focus on the Keyblade as I summon my own.
“I see you recognize the type of weapon this is! I call it Night Terror. As for the scythe, I took it off of Sombra before he sealed himself away!”
She braces them for combat when I start to chuckle, the Keyblade disappearing from my hand. “Might I ask what is so funny?”
“Do you really think you can stop me? Hahahahahahahaha! You really are an idiot!”
In a white flash I grow older, and summon twin blades as the barrier breaks. She zooms in with her wings and our blades clash. The others try to get in, but her hair blocks them and knocks them away.
“You won’t stop us from dealing with Mick Rory! Our power is four times as strong as Celestia’s!!!”
I growl in anger, and swing out of the clash, knocking them forward several feet. “Sigh. Well then.............I guess I’m gonna have to even the odds. I didn’t want to ever risk this...............but whatever the price is, for what I’m about to do..................I’m willing to pay it. Just have to make this quick, don’t want to spoil anything just yet.”
I look down, and close my eyes. A dark presence looks over me, giving everyone who's watching the chills. “’LOVE too, is an acronym. It stands for Level Of Violence.’”
A black screen appears behind me, displaying my name, and LV 3. “’A way of measuring someone’s capacity to hurt.’. Know this, Nightmare Moon. I promise you.................” The face markings form, and a second line forms down, the two linking to my eyes. I open my eyes, and my right is pure black with a rainbow flame, while the left is red. The LV on the screen jumps to LV 19. “I will stop you.”
She looks at me in disbelief, right as I warp behind her and spin kick her into the left hanger wall.
“Dont you think it’s a little stupid doing this? We know you have limits now.”
I lift my hand, and quickly close it as it’s surrounded in a red and blue aura. She suddenly contorts and crushes down into a ball, as I raise my hand to the left, and swing it to the right. This throws her quickly outside as I glitch, and teleport near her.
“Letting my LV through has given me a lot of strength. I still want to make this quick.................b u t I w i l l e n j o y d r a w i n g t h i s o u t !”
She hisses, creates a disc of magic around her, and starts to hover. She sends a large energy blast at me, and I put out my left hand, deflecting the blast upwards into the sky.
“Always wanted to try this, let’s see if it works!”
I summon both my blades, and jump into the air. I slash downwards, and start to spin rapidly. Right as I hit the ground, the spinning speeds up, racing me forward towards her. She tries to blast me several times, but I drift left and right, picking up speed and slicing her with the blades, knocking her back several feet.
She struggles to get back up, and pounds the ground, cracking the concrete road. “NO! I WILL NOT BE DENIED REVENGE!” She points her horn up to the air, and sends out a large blast above herself. The energy scatters, and solidifies to form a dome in front of me as the others run up behind me.
“Try getting me now! Not even Celestia could break this shield, it was created by Starswirl!”
She cackles as Oliver walks up to me. “Okay kid, what’s the plan?”
“I could, theoretically, break a hole through this. But I would be completely drained, and she would just repair the hole.”
“What we need to do is damage and break through it, faster than she can repair it,” says Sara.
“But how will you get the amount of power needed? It’ll take what you have left to make the hole in the first place,” says Ray.
I put a hand on my muzzle, then slowly look down at my hands. I turn to them. “I got it. I’ll punch the hole through, and keep it open. You guys have to rush her, and knock her down. Once she’s down, her concentration on this thing will break, and it’ll shatter, letting me through.”
“But that still begs the question: how are you gonna keep it open?” Asks Barry.
I chuckle, and turn towards the shield. “You’ll see!”
Black HATE oozes out of my body, and condenses around my hands. I slash them through the air to hit and weaken the shield, and shape the HATE into two, spinning drills. I jump up into the air, and rocket down, hands first, right into the shield. The drills hit the weakened part of the shield, causing it to crack, and shatter.
A hole forms as more hate oozes out, forming two tentacles with drills on the ends. I stand in the middle of the hole, and turn to the others. “Go, now! I can only hold this for so long!”
They run in as the hole starts sealing up. I put my hands at either sides, and the two tentacles aim up and down to keep it at bay
Her horn charges up, and she swings her head around. The magic, rather than coming out as a beam, swings around in a spiral, like a whip. Barry and Oliver were able to duck in time, but the others get knocked back into the shield. Right as she charges her horn for another blast, Oliver shoots her in the left hoof, and Barry runs in and speed-punches her in the muzzle, knocking her down. The moment she hit she the ground, the dome shatters, letting me drop down to my knees, and the HATE to dissipate.
Oliver walks up to me, and offers me a hand. “Not bad for a rookie. What was that black stuff?”
I grab it, and pull myself to my feet, panting. “That...........was HATE. The black trait. Can be corruptive if you aren’t careful, but..............it makes for great tools and prosthetics. Not to mention it increases the users power tenfold.”
I slowly walk with Oliver, up to the others. They’re standing in a circle around her in case she tries anything.
“Well then, what happens now? You gonna kill me? Turn me back into your friend?!”
“No. you see, I can’t kill you, or ‘turn you back.’ You’re as much her as she is you.” she tries to blast me, and I dodge. I put up my hands as the others brace to attack. “Sigh. That being said..........you uh, really like blasting people around, huh?”
I look down. “Listen. I know you didn’t answer me before, but.............somewhere in there. I can feel it. There’s a glimmer of a good person inside you. The memory of someone who once wanted to the right thing. Someone who, in another time, might’ve even been, a friend? C’mon buddy.” my face markings disappear, and I change back in a white flash. “Do you remember me? Please, if your listening............let’s forget all this, ok? Just stop fighting and............welp, my job will be a whole lot easier.”
She looks down, and closes her eyes in guilt. “All I ever wanted.............was to be noticed. To be..........recognized. T-To be............acknowledged!” tears drip down to the ground. “W-We both shared th-that in common.........we b-both wanted t-to be noticed for our h-hard work!”
“You sympathized with Lightmare, didn’t you?” She slowly nods. “I understand. You two have a lot in common. Your drive to be the best, your relation with Celestia, your desire to be noticed. But most importantly..............your memories of pain. Memories, are who we are. In a way, they are our SOULs. Without them, we wouldn’t be us. We’d just.............look like the one people remember.”
“Hmhmhm!You know...............she doesn’t just hold you in high regard.”
“Yes.........I know.”
“Then you know she will do whatever it takes.” I nod. She slowly stands up. “Okay, Asriel Dreemurr. I’ll give her back the driver seat. But know this. Despite your..............condition, at least try to care for her, just as you managed to care for Frisk.”
“I’ll...........I’ll try.”
She smiles as tears run down her face. “One more thing...............thank you.”
I smirk. “I didn’t do anything.”
She chuckles at that as blue and black flames slowly light around her. “Are you kidding? You just SAVEd me. Thank you...............for giving me a chance. Until next time we meet, Asriel Dreemurr.............admire the starry night.............it’s all w-we ever w-wanted!” the flames surround her in a column of fire, eventually receding and revealing an unconscious Lightmare.
I pick her up in my arms. “Bring me what remains of her hat. I’ll be with her.............we both need rest. Hopefully, I’ll be able to fix it.” And I start to walk back.
(Several hours later..............)
She wakes up on the ground, in a makeshift bed.
“What...............what happened?”
“You were so mad at Mick that Nightmare Moon took the pilot seat for awhile.” She turns towards me in shock. I’m sitting down, using green flames to regenerate the fabric in her hat. “Don’t worry. No one got seriously hurt. In fact.................I SAVEd her.”
She looks down in shame. “I’m sorry. It’s just..................Seeing it get destroyed...............”
“It felt like you broke your promise. I understand. I also understand why, out of all of those she corrupted, she chose you as a host. You have a lot in common.”
“And..................You’re okay with that? I thought that you..............”
“That I would want her gone? That I wouldn’t understand?” I stand up, and lay next to her. “Memories are who we are. In a way, they are our SOULs. They shape us, define our everyday decisions. Without them, we wouldn’t be us. We’d just look like the one people love.” I turn my head to her. “She chose you, because you both wanted to be noticed?”
She looks down. “................Yes. Truth is.................despite being friends with her..................I’m jealous of Twilight. After I went ballistic the first time...........I felt terrible. So...............she told me everything. I was always in Twilight’s shadow. She found answers to our assignments before I could, she could take a hooves-on approach with magic, and when I did find something before her....................No one even acknowledged me. She’s probably advanced in her studies by now. And even then, she has everything. Friends, family, she’s an Element of Harmony for Celestia’s sake! and the Element of Magic at that!” She turns her head to me. “But then I found the Tale of the Two Sisters. I found the prophecy, I saw the signs! and weeks before Twilight at that! I thought ‘What if I found the stars that the legend speaks of? Everyone would acknowledge me then!’” She sighs, and looks back down. “And that’s what I did. Took me two weeks of studying star patterns. Seeing the dates, and matching them with those of the Summer Sun Celebration. And then.........................I found them. I should’ve known she enchanted them somehow. The moment their light landed on my pupils, they all moved towards the moon, and released her.” A tear drops to her legs. “I’d understand if you’re.................”
I kiss her on the cheek, causing her to look at me, and blush. I look in the opposite direction. “Just because you made some mistakes in the past, and have a lot in common with the Mare in the Moon, doesn’t mean i’m mad at you. It just makes you unique.”
She opens her mouth to say something when Cisco comes over with Riolu.
“If you two are done, I think Caitlin and I might’ve thought of a way to remove the leg cuff on Riolu.”
“What!?” Lightmare and I both shout, standing up.
“They think that you and Barry might be able to vibrate me out of them.”
I put a hand to my muzzle. “It could work...............but we’d need to be quick. Cisco, could you grab a bucket? I don’t know how he’ll handle high vibrations.”
He nods, and walks towards the entrance of the trailer.
“It’s be nice to help you guys out, for riolu AGH!” he facepaws.
“I really need to find a solution to that.”
Cisco walks in to get a bucket, and spots the recorder. He picks it up, and plays it. “A war is coming, Captain Hunter...........”
“Are you sure you want me to keep going?” Asks Kara.
“Yeah! Yes. Just give us five minutes. Please,” says Oliver, as the all stand up and recover.
Cisco walks up to Barry. “Hey.”
“Hey.”
“You know what this is? This is really you. Like, future you.”
“Come on, look.............”
“You told ‘em, right?”
“I’m gonna tell them, yeah, when this is finished.”
“When this is finished? Even though you’re about to lead them through an alien war? Even after Flashpoint? After everything you’ve messed up?! All the lives you’ve changed?! You still don’t think you should tell them?!”
“Tell us what?” Asks Sara.
Cisco gestures to them all as I get closer. “Jax, and Professor Stein found a message from me in the future saying that.............right now, I can’t be trusted.”
“And why would future you say that?”
“I think because........................I went back in time and changed the timeline, and.............now, things here are different than before I left. Including, some of your lives.”
“Some of our lives? Like who?” Asks Kara.
“Cisco. Caitlin. Wally. Dig.”
He looks between Barry, and the others. “Me? Why? What happened?”
“Hey.” Oliver walks up to him. “Apparently you had a daughter.”
“I had a daughter, Barry?”
“Baby John was Baby Sara.”
“So, wait, you..........let me get this straight. You just, uh...........You just erased, a daughter from my life?”
“Yeah.”
“You can’t go back and just change things like that, Barry,” says Sara.
“I know.”
“You know how hard it is for me to not alter events? To bring my sister back? But I don’t, because I know the implications.”
“All those aberrations we spent the last eight months traveling through time trying to correct...............you just decided that it was okay for you to create your own?” Asks Ray.
“We should’ve told ‘em before,” says Jax.
They all look at me.
“This is how you’re here, isn’t it?” Asks Dig.
I cover my face with my paw. “Not completely, but...............Yes. The exact moment he changed things, an alternate version of Chara, and Bete Noire opened unstable breaches. That destabilized everything, allowing passage between the Multiverses. Pulled me and some other friends into the timeline he created.”
Just then, a phone chimes. I turn towards Felicity. “Guys? Guys, it’s Lyla. The President’s been abducted by the Dominators. She needs us now.”
“Okay, you guys go. All right? I’m gonna sit this one out. You have Supergirl and Asriel, They’re just as fast as I am. Get the President. We can talk about this later.” They all turn to leave as Barry walks up to Kara. “You still trust me, right?”
“I’ll always trust you, but it might take more to convince them.”
He turns to Oliver. “If you need me, I’ll be there.”
“Guys, this is cr..............hey! This is crazy! Everyone is going, including Barry! I...........I’m not going without him.”
“Then you’ll be here, Oliver,” says Dig. They all start walking away.
“Then i’m not going either.” They all quickly turn to me. “You guys............really don’t understand, do you?” I point at Barry. “Zoom had just killed Henry Allen, right in front of him! Right as he’s in a place where he can move on from Nora, his dad is taken from him!! OF COURSE HE WOULD WANT TO CHANGE THINGS!!!!!” I turn to look at Sara, furious. "And don't even try to be the bigger person here Sara Lance. I know for a fact that you tried twice to kill Damien Darhk before he could kill your sister, so you don't get to take the high road!" Everyone, even Oliver looks shocked at my harsh words. But no one takes it worse than Sara, because i'm right.
I turn to look at Ray. "Also, you can't get on his back for creating a time aberration. No one except Oliver even knew what you guys were doing until recently! Hell, Barry didn't even know Snart died until you told him earlier!" Even Cisco looks at me when I say this, since no one on team Flash had known about this fact either.
"Wait........Snart's dead?" Asks Felicity.
Ray looks down at the ground. "............He sacrificed himself, in order to save the rest of us. He died a hero. A legend."
Kara steps between me, and everyone. “Okay, okay. You know what? Oliver, Asriel, it’s okay. I will go with them. We’ll get the President. You stay here with Barry.”
And they all leave. I clench my fists. “This is why you wanted Oliver as team leader, rather than Barry.” I turn towards Cisco. “You’re angry at Barry for Dante’s death!”
He looks straight at me. “It’s because of his actions that Dante was killed, of course I’m mad at him! And why are you mad, the others deserved to know!”
I zoom up towards him. “Except it wasn’t your secret to tell, was it!? And it wasn’t Barry’s decision to not tell everyone, it was mine and Olivers! But it was your decision to be a hypocrite, by letting your beef with him get in the way of all this! But you just don’t care, how much Barry regrets doing it, do you? How many people he stops trying to fix this!? HOW MANY PEOPLE HE SAVES!?!”
“Asriel!” Shouts Lightmare.
I look at her, and see she’s slightly afraid. I look at them all, and take a breath. “Next time you try to do something like this, remember that I’m here.” I walk up to Riolu. “Barry, could you come over?” He slowly nods, and walks over. We both kneel. “Okay...........vibrate your hand at the frequency needed to break gold. I’ll do the leg cuff.” Our left hands start to vibrate. “Rather than vibrate you out of these, we’re gonna break them. On the count of three. One, two, three!” I shove it into the leg cuff, right as Barry does the gold ring on their right arm. They both break into two pieces on the floor.
They grab their arm. “H-How do we know if it worked?”
“Try throwing an Aura Sphere at a crate.”
The look down at their paws, then straight ahead at one of the nearby crates. They then put their paws together behind them. Slowly, a blue, flame-like energy grows in their paws, creating a large blue sphere.
“Aura.............Sphere!” they put their paws in front of them’ sending the orb outwards at it. As soon as it hits, it breaks into several pieces, burning away with blue flames.
They put their paws up in ecstasy. “Sweet Lugia, I am back!”
Everyone smiles at their happiness. Barry spots me walking away.
“Where are you going?”
“To S.T.A.R Labs. Speed lab.” I then run off.
(20 minutes later.......)
I’m walking through S.T.A.R. Labs, then I notice the secret room is open. I walk in, and see Barry looking at a holographic projection of a news article. Oliver is inside too.
“I didn’t think about it, Oliver. I didn’t think about the future. I was so focused on the past, I didn’t think about it until now. I changed so much.”
“What is this?” We both ask, Oliver turning and seeing me.
“Its a........an article from the future, It’s a story about me vanishing.”
I see the byline, ‘Written by Julie Greer.’
“Used to be written by Iris West-Allen. But now, I don’t know. Something’s............something’s changed with Iris. Something’s changed with our future. God, what did I do?”
“Barry, this is a weird-looking newspaper article. It doesn’t mean anything. You need to stop beating yourself up over this," says Oliver.
“Especially when we don’t blame you.”
“I’m sorry, but how can you say that?” He turns to the both of us. “I’m responsible for all of this.”
“Maybe. Maybe not. Barry, you made a choice. You wanted to see your parents alive again. Do you honestly know anyone that, if they were in your shoes, wouldn’t do the same exact thing? I would do the exact same thing. Barry, after the Gambit went down, it was me, my father, and a crewmember on a life raft. Lost at sea. Enough food and water for one person, maybe. My father took a gun, shot the crewmember, told me to survive, and then turned the gun on himself, He shot himself in the head. He sacrificed himself, so that I could live. Nothing I could do, No choice. Slade Wilson drove a sword, right through my mother’s heart, in front of my sister and I. I was there, I was helpless, on the ground, I was powerless to stop it. No choice. Do you not think that I wouldn’t give anything to go back and to make things different?”
“You never told me that.”
“Barry, the world isn’t different because you changed the timeline. Change happens. Tragedy happens. People make choices, and those choices affect everyone else. You’re not a god, Barry.”
“Your just a man, with extraordinary abilities.”
He looks at me. “Everyone’s been saying that to me, that I’m not a god, just a man. I....I don't know what to think. And it’s kinda ironic, coming from ‘the God of Hyperdeath’.”
“The difference is that I know how you felt Barry! Zoom killed your dad, right in front of you!”
“But why?! Why are you so adamant on defending me?! Why didn’t you want to tell the others? Better yet, since when have you been so secretive, it’s only been two days.............!”
“IT HASN’T BEEN TWO DAYS!” I snap. I facepalm as they show confusion. “For some reason the timelines are becoming unsynced. It hasn’t been two days.............it’s been four months.”
“But still..........what happened to change you so much? And why didn’t anyone else come?”
I look back and forth between the two. “Sigh. Alright. You deserve to know the truth. We can tell everyone when this is over.” I snap, conjuring up a chair, and sit down. “Four weeks after we got back, we had to face Discord........no, we had to face all four of them.”
“Who’s Discord?”
“A villain from their world. A creature called a draconequus, he's capable of manipulating reality using magic.”
“But they messed up. They Discorded Frisk, flipped her personality around. And you know what that would be. So, in order to keep everyone safe, I used a creation of the Author.” I pull it out of my pocket. “It’s called the Multiversal Morpher. It allows the user to become legendary villains from throughout the Omniverse.”
“So what’ve you’re saying, is you used the morpher to become a villain? What for, and what villain?”
“To get Celestia’s help, I became the Infinite. We......We discovered that someone new is messing with reality. They had attacked Equestria in the past, and did so again right before Discord showed up, so I knew she would listen to him. It..................it didn’t go as planned. She stabbed me in the back while me and Sans were facing Frisk.”
They both look shocked.
“How did you survive?” Asks Oliver.
“Scoff! Survive? I didn’t have enough determination to LOAD, let alone REFUSE my own death! I died, but not before releasing my power to give everyone a happy ending!”
They show confusion.
“Sigh.” I stand up, and put out my hand. I flip it over, causing the glitching SOULs to appear in a red and purple flash.
They slowly walk closer, examining them. “What’s does this look like to you?”
“Like a computer image that has bugs in the programming. A.........”
“A glitch. Something, or, someone, in the Omniverse that shouldn’t exist, but does. I had Determination, but not enough to refuse death, or RESET. When I died, I appeared in front of a glitching, flashing, broken RESET button. It fixed my body, but..............”
“It didn’t fix your SOULs,” Barry realizes.
“Exactly. This is just their former power, and determination. Now................I can’t feel anything. At least, not everything a regular person can. You see, SOULless beings can only feel three things. Basic survival instinct, anger, and the satisfaction of succeeding a goal. I....I also seem to be able to feel fear. And.............two people have managed to actually.........make me care for them.”
“Lightmare............”
“And Frisk.”
Oliver snaps his fingers, and points at me. “That’s what Nightmare Moon meant by a condition!”
“Indeed. My family knows, including her.” I walk up to him, and put a hand on his shoulder. “Look, Oliver’s right. Things happen, the world isn’t different because you changed the timeline. The only huge thing that changed, is me coming here. And even then, haven’t we done some good work together?”
Suddenly, the entire building rumbles.
“Hey guys, wherever you are right now, we need you,” Lightmare says over the intercoms. “Things just got a whole lot worse.”
We all walk out through a side exit, and find the others trashing the place.
“Guys.” They all spot us. “We can talk about this.”
Barry catches an arrow, and I absorb an energy bolt from Ray.
“Guess not.”. Barry speeds Oliver behind a car as they fire at us, and I warp as I shift forms.
“Whats wrong with them?” Asks Oliver.
“Don’t know. Asriel?”
“Must be under some form of mind control. I did say Dominators have cerebral abilities, it’d be pretty easy to create an advanced version through tech!”
We move just as the car explodes, knocking us to the ground. Barry and I speed Oliver behind a wall.
“Okay.......”
“You really did it this time Barry!” Shouts Oliver as he looks over the left side.
“Seriously?”
“Yeah, seriously!” A blue beam comes out of the wall. “What’s that?”
“That would be heat vision.”
“Okay.” We walk out into the fight as they all group up.
“Okay. Barry, you handle the biggest threat, the fliers. Oliver, you and I will do take care of the others.”
They nod. Just as Mick aims at me, Barry knocks him down, and races off with the three following him.
Oliver takes on Dig and Thea while I summon my swords, and fight Sara. She’s quick, I’ll give her that, but my fast attack patterns, and magic make it hard for her to keep up with me.
“Sara’s giving me a run for my money, I don’t know how long I can keep this up!” I shout, right as Barry falls down from the top of the building. I get distracted long enough for Sara to drop kick me in the muzzle, knocking me towards Oliver and Barry.
Just as Dig and Thea are about to shoot at us, Lightmare runs out and dazes them with a Siren Screech. It leaves them dazed long enough for a yellow streak to knock them down.
“Lightmare..........” I see who the streak is. “Wally?”
“Kid Flash.” I smirk in satisfaction. Just then, Kara flies in, and knocks Wally over us into the wreckage of a pillar.
Barry speeds over as I look at Oliver. “Cisco, Felicity, I know you can hear me............get the location of the device NOW!!!!!!”
“How did you..........later. We picked up a weird signal in the salt mines, north west of here.”
“Can you jam it?” Asks Barry.
“Uh.........no.”
I turn to Oliver. “How many of those do you have left?”
“Probably not enough.”
Barry looks at us both. “Okay, this hallway leads to a bunker under the building, hold out there’s as long as you can.”
“Where are you going?”
Barry looks up in the sky, and spots Kara. “If they can’t shut it down, maybe she can.”
I look between Lightmare, and the approaching group. “Okay! Oliver, you and Lightmare get to Wally, I’ll give us cover! Run, Barry, Run!!!”
Right as Barry runs off, I summon a Chaos Buster and fire off shots, running towards the others. As soon as I get close enough, I grab them all, and warp some distance away into the hallway.
“They’ll be coming, so get ready!” I stick out my hands, summoning a large barrier. “That’ll block their shots for a bit, but I can only hold it for so long! I did leave it one sided though, so you and Lightmare will have to keep them at bay.”
“What about you?”
“Wally needs immediate medical attention, I can sense it. Once I hear footsteps, I’ll warp him to the Cortex, then come straight back.”
“But how can I help? My only long-range attack is the screech!”
I snap, creating a Chaos buster. I hand it to her. “There, that’ll be stable for about 200 shots, so use it sparingly..............footsteps, get ready!” I grab Wally right as the others hear footsteps too, and warp into the Cortex.
“Wally!” Shouts Joe. He and Iris grab him as walk up towards Cisco and Felicity. “What’s Barry doing?”
"It looks like he's taking Supergirl to the source of the signal," says Felicity.
"Oh how I would kill for some Kryptonite right now." They both turn and look at me in confusion. "Sorry, rambling. Kryptonians have a natural weakness to a rare and radioactive mineral called Kryptonite. There's different kinds, but the most common is green, causes dizziness and weakness on contact. Prolonged exposure weakens them to the point of paralysis, unconsciousness, and in severe cases, death."
"I assume she has no other weaknesses then?"
"Besides being overpowered, the only other things are magic, and the light of a red star. A yellow star's solar radiation gives Kryptonians their powers." Right then I grab my chest as I sense my magic break. "Gotta go, team Legends and Arrow just broke my shield! Keep in contact!"
I warp back down to the group, and sidestep at the last second out of the way of a fire blast.
"About time! I ran out of arrows right as your shield went down!"
Ray flies in, and I jump kick him into the right wall. "Just a little longer, I think know what Barry is planning!"
The Chaos Buster I gave Lightmare runs out of shots, and dissolves. She jumps towards me as Firestorm shoots a beam of flames at us, and I put up another shield.
"Come on Barry................" Right then, the two freeze up, grabbing their heads. I snap my fingers right as they recover, teleporting us all outside. Felicity was waiting with an umbrella, and jumps from the large amount of people appearing.
"First it's Barry running, now you can teleport!? Dig was right, things made a bit more sense before Metas showed up!"
"What happened?" Asks Ray.
"You didn't kill us, for one. Agh!" I grab my chest in pain, and start to glitch. "Okay, last-last-last time I use that much-much energy!"
"What's wrong with the kid?" Asks Mick as I fall to the ground, Lightmare grabbing me.
"DT...........now-now-now-now!" she pulls the vial and syringe out of my pocket as Barry runs back here. She injects it into my arm, slowly stabilizing the glitches.
"That.........is another story. Let's just say things get ugly, if I don't take those injections daily. Still, it's good to see you're all okay."
"The Dominators had you under some sort of mind control," says Felicity.
"Didn't realize Mick had a mind to control," says Jax, Mick scowling at him.
"Hey Barry, about before, message or no message, we're with you," says Ray.
"Thank you."
We all nod as I notice someone missing. "Where's Kara?"
"Scanning the city to make sure there aren't any more of the orbs that whammied them."
"Okay, so now what?" Asks Lightmare.
"We call Lyla, tell her the Dominators aren't here peacefully," says Oliver. Everyone nods when Sara is surrounded in a yellow beam, and disappears. "Sara!"
Thea and Dig get grabbed too. "Everybody inside, now!"
"Felicity and Mick get in while Lightmare tries to grab Ray, but he gets grabbed too. Oliver is frozen in shock, when another beam surrounds him. Barry and I try to run and push him out, but he disappears moments before we can.
"No................NO! AGH!" I punch the wall. "WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING THIS!? FIRST THEY PIT US AGAINST EACH OTHER, THEN THEY TAKE TEAM ARROW!? COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I punch it again, causing a piece to break off.
"Asriel, please!" Lightmare runs up to me, and puts her hands on my shoulders. "We'll get them back."
"............But we won't win. Not if they keep revealing new surprises. Sigh...............They've shown their cards, perhaps it's time we get some of our own." I turn my head to her. "It's time we got the old team back together..................with a few new members."