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The time line for this is roughly six months after Arrow: Prometheus. So around early season three of Flash, but none of season five of Arrow applies here. However, because of Flashpoint, Oliver has his season five suit. And Barry and Iris aren't together. Sorry if you like them, but the almost incestuous relationship between them kind of creeps me out.

New York

Night

A man dropped the bag of money as an arrow pinned him to the wall. He cried out in terror as Green Arrow stalked towards him, pulling something out.

"Have you seen the man in this picture?" Green Arrow asked as he held up a picture of Tommy.

"What?" the man asked confused.

"Have you seen the man in this picture!?" Green Arrow shouted as he grabbed the man's shirt, shoving the picture in his face.

"I've never seen him before in my life, okay?!" The man said as he closed his eyes, thinking this was the end.

He felt the archer let him go and opened his eyes. Green Arrow was gone.

Loft in New York

Later

"Say what you will about Malcolm, he has the best places to hide out." Thea said as she handed Laurel a beer.

"Agreed, want a beer Ollie?" Laurel asked as the archer sat sullenly on the couch.

"To what? Celebrate six months of failure?" Oliver asked sarcastically.

The two women exchanged glances before Laurel walked over and sat next to him.

"Hey, we'll find him." Laurel said as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

"I just…I thought we'd have more success than this. We've spent months doing nothing but chasing whispers of rumors about Tommy with zero success." Oliver sighed.

"Rough night?"

The pair jumped to their feet as Thea whirled around. Lyla was standing in the room, having gone completely unnoticed up to that point.

"Lyla, what are you doing here?" Oliver asked surprised.

"You Oliver. I need you to come with me. There's something I want your help with." Lyla explained.

Argus base

Later

"So you found a device created by Hive?" Oliver asked as he and Lyla walked through the base.

"We raided a Hive base and found it there. None of my scientists have any clue what it is." Lyla explained.

"So…why am I here exactly? This sounds like something more up Barry's alley." Oliver said confused.

"Because I trust your judgement, I want your opinion on it." Lyla told him.

"Oliver, good to see you." Diggle said and he and Quentin walked over.

"You to John, Quentin." Oliver nodded in greeting, pleased to see them.

"Lyla, we got a problem," Quentin said and they turned to him, "Ramon got an energy surge off the device."

"I thought I told Cisco not to run any tests on it until I said so" Lyla snapped as they walked down the hall.

"He wasn't running any tests; Cisco wasn't even in the room. It just lit up by itself." Diggle explained.

"Cisco's here?" Oliver asked surprised.

"Like you said, this was more up Barry's alley, or rather Cisco's alley. Central City was closer, we picked him up first," Lyla explained before turning to Quentin, "evacuate the base. If this turns bad, I don't want anyone hurt."

Quentin nodded and walked off as the other turned and walked down a spiral stairwell. They found Cisco and some people in lab coats standing in front of what must be the device Lyla was talking about. It was a golden square the size of a crate with a red dot in the center of it. Cisco stood up and ran over to them.

"Oliver, good to see ya man!" Cisco cried out as he and Oliver shook hands.

"You to Cisco." Oliver nodded.

"What do we know so far Cisco?" Lyla asked.

"Nothing, it just came to life out of nowhere. When we try to get close to it, we're pushed back by some sort of energy," Cisco gestured to the scientist get pushed back as he tried to touch the device with a q tip, "see?"

"Any idea what's causing it?" Oliver asked as he crossed his arms.

"No clue but it's giving off some sort of radiation, I'd step back." Cisco advised.

"Mr. Ramon, it's spiking again!" one of the lab coats cried out.

The four turned towards it just before it began to glow. The ground beneath them shook as a golden beam shot out in and hit the ceiling. There were waves of energy spreading throughout the room and something slammed into the ground and a flash of golden light blinded everyone. When they regain vision they saw an old woman, Caucasian, wearing what looked like battle armor kneeling on the ground. The old woman stood up and smiled at them in a way that did not inspire warm fuzzies.

Then she waved her hand and golden energy shot out her hand. Everyone ducked to avoid the beam as it hit the wall and destroyed part of it. Oliver stood up but was quickly grabbed by the woman. Diggle, Cisco, and Lyla looked up and were horrified at what they were seeing.

"I sense much darkness in you…let me show you how to let it out." The old woman said as she waved a hand it front of Oliver's face.

Black smoke seemed to come from it and it hit his face. The smoke vanished and Oliver's eyes became pure black for a moment before returning to normal. She let go of his arm and Oliver, to everyone's surprise, made no move to attack her.

"Who are you?" Diggle demanded and the woman smiled sadistically.

"I have been called many names over the centuries but you may call me Granny Goodness of Apokolips." Goodness told him.

"Apokolips?" Lyla repeated.

"It is a planet far from here." Goodness explained.

"Aliens are real?" Diggle asked in disbelief.

"We have no quarrel with your people." Lyla said and Goodness chuckled.

"An ant has no quarrel with a boot." Goodness said mockingly.

"So what, you're planning to step on us?" Diggle demanded.

"I am a deity of Apokolips and soon, this planet of ants shall fall." Goodness said as she appeared in front of Cisco.

Waving her hand in his face, the black smoke seemed to come out of her hand and rush over Cisco's face. When it vanished, Cisco's eyes, like Oliver's, turned completely black before returning to normal.

"Ma'am, we need to go now," Oliver said as he walked up to Goodness, "the more you talk, the more you give Lyla to work with."

"He's right, they're very resourceful." Cisco added and Goodness chuckled.

"Then I guess it's time to go." Goodness said resignedly.

She took out a six foot long yellow rod and swung at Lyla. Lyla jumped out of the way but Goodness moved with surprising speed, lunging for Lyla and hitting her in the back, the rode sparking up like a broken power cable. Lyla cried out in pain and Diggle took out his gun. Goodness jumped away from Lyla and whirled around, striking Diggle with the rode. He cried out as he and Lyla fell to the floor, over whelmed with man. Oliver and Cisco then walked off, leading Goodness out.

"Hey," Quentin said as Oliver and Cisco walked out with several Argus agents and a woman he's never seen before, "who's this?"

"We're taking these vehicles." Oliver told him as they walked into the vans and trucks in front of Quentin.

"Okay, what's going on?" Quentin asked confused.

"Quentin, are you there?" Diggle's voice, gruff with pain, said over the comms.

As if he could hear it, Oliver pulled ut his bow and notched an arrow. Shocked, Quentin ducked as Oliver fired, barely managing to avoid the arrow. Oliver fired more arrows and Quentin was forced to duck behind a corner to avoid the arrows. Oliver got in the driver seat of the first car and drove off, the others following after him. Quentin peaked his head around the corner and pulled out his gun, firing at Oliver's car. However, he didn't land any hits and they drove off and out of sight.

"What just happened?" Quentin demanded.

"The device spit out a hostile that brainwashed Oliver and Cisco." Lyla explained as Diggle helped her stand up.

"And several of our operatives by the looks of it." Quentin explained.

"Then it's worse than I thought. As of right now the world is at stage, omega level threat." Lyla explained.

"So what do we do?" Quentin asked but Lyla had no response.

So, what do you think? Please leave any thoughts or comments you may have in a review, feedback is greatly appreciated.