"Remove your Hood, Merlyn. We know who you are." Oliver growled as he felt Laurel tense beside him, her arms crossed.

"Interesting." He said as he spoke through the modulator in his mask, before acquiescing and removing his hood to reveal a very different Merlyn. Tommy.

Oliver heard Laurel gasp... as they saw their old friend. A doppelgänger of the man that had perished while saving her. Instead of seeing Tommy's trademark cheeky grin at surprising them, he only saw Malcolm's sneer.

"Not the Merlyn you were expecting, huh? If you were expecting my mother's sperm donor, he hasn't been alive in almost twenty-three years. After which, I was raised by the last führer ."

"My father's doppelgänger on Earth-X?" Oliver asked.

"That's right, and my Oliver succeeded him." He nodded, his face returning to the look he usually associated with his friend. "Am I alive on this earth?"

"No," Laurel said, managing to find her voice. Her voice became thick with emotion as she spoke of their best friend. Tommy merely glared at her. Oliver gently squeezed Laurel's hand to assure her that he was still there, and not to take it personally.

"So we have been friends, we grew up as brothers?"

Tommy nodded. "We have practically been brothers since we were in diapers." He chuckled as if remembering fonder times. "Well, you, me, and Carter Bowen. The three musketeers." His smile died. "We lost Carter a while back. Killed by a terrorist wearing a hockey mask"

"I'm sorry for your loss, Tommy."

"You are similar to him, you know. My Oliver. Always thinking about others first, and yourself second." His soft voice changed to have an edge to it, as did his eyes when they turned to Laurel. "Though my Oliver isn't nearly as weak as yourself, he has standards."

Oliver took a step in front of Laurel, only for her to sidestep around him. "Watch what you say around her!" Oliver growled through gritted teeth.

"My Oliver would have taken his Dinah Laurel Lance as his mistress, but she gave it all away to be an outlaw. She would have been the third most powerful person in the world. Perhaps I should have given your head to the führer . So that he would know what she looks like now."

"I guess my doppelgänger, just have standards, Thomas. Just as we do on this earth." Laurel sneered as she started to walk back up to the cortex.

Oliver waited until she left. "If you ever speak to or about my wife that way, I'll kill you." He then glared at the man, who looked like the mirror image of his childhood friend. "Either way, you will give me information on your government, and your invasion force."

Tommy chuckled, "I don't think that will be an issue, Ollie."

Oliver watched Tommy's doppelgänger crunch down on something. "Tommy!" He yelled as he opened the door to the cell, just as Tommy from Earth-X fell to the ground, dead.

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Oliver found himself walking in no particular direction, and yet, he found himself in a lounge area of the labs that he never knew existed. He then looked around and saw Laurel sitting on one of the sofas. She looked up at him with her gorgeous green eyes. "Hey," she said. "How are you?"

"I should be asking you that." He said with a small smile. Oliver sat next to her and patted her leg in an attempt to comfort her. "Tommy from the other earth died. Killed himself. And despite him being an evil version of my childhood best friend, it felt like I lost him all over again."

"That's because you are a good person, Ollie. There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss Tommy. "

"Maybe I'm not a good person, Laurel." He said, voicing his doubts, knowing Laurel wouldn't judge him. "Maybe, I'm only deluding myself that I'm a good man, someone worthy of love and happiness. If I.. or my doppelgänger has what it takes to be one of Hitler's successors what does that say about me?"

"Listen to me, Ollie." Laurel gently moved his face so that he could look her in the eyes. "You're not a bad person. It doesn't matter what your doppelgänger has become, or what crimes he will commit. You aren't him." She said adamantly. "You may share his DNA, but you are two different people. You both have separate experiences, histories, and ideologies. I know what it's like to have a criminal as a doppelgänger."

Oliver felt like some of the weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He then moved on to the next thing that had been concerning him. Her own wellbeing and stress. Since their wedding imploded due to the Nazis he had been worried about her.

Laurel sighed, "It wasn't exactly how I imagined our wedding day."

"I noticed that you had ruined your wedding dress to keep everyone safe, to keep William safe. I wouldn't have blamed you if you had wanted to leave with the others, but you didn't because you are the bravest woman I have ever had the pleasure to know. And I love you for your sacrifice." Oliver said softly, before kissing her.

"It wasn't much of a sacrifice, Ollie. The dress means so much, but its not worth letting someone be killed. Besides, it may be an interesting story to tell our kids when we have them."

Oliver chuckled, "When we eventually have children, I'm going to make sure that they know that their mother is a hero. My hero." At Laurel's playful scoff, he said, "Laurel Lance, always trying to save the world."

"I think it's safe to say that it is a Lance-Queen Family trait."

"Let's hope it's just the desire to save the world, and not to become a vigilante."

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Barry moved up to the cortex to see Thea talking to his girlfriend, while almost lounging on one of the swivel chairs, her legs crossed at the ankles on the desk. He smiled as he watched Patty, she looked happy, despite the hell that seemed to be going on around him, the fact that Devoe knows who he is, the Nazis from another earth invading their Earth.

Despite what The Thinker may have installed for him and his team, watching Laurel and Oliver operate in sync, regardless of the situation reaffirmed to himself that he wanted to marry Patty. He wanted to have her by his side, and him by hers for the rest of their life. If he was going to take on The Thinker, he would have to discuss it with the others to get their advice. Right now, though, the most important thing was to stop these Nazis and help Oliver and Laurel with their actual marriage now that it was ruined. He could talk to Patty after the dust settled. Ollie and Laurel deserved their time in the spotlight, and he didn't want to diminish any more than what had already happened.

"Hey," Patty said, moving towards him, and giving him a small peck.

"Hey," Barry repeated. He then looked over at Thea. "You alright? I know that Oliver and Laurel were close to Tommy."

Thea nodded, though her smile didn't reach her eyes. "I've known Tommy forever. He was my half-brother. But that wasn't Tommy. Not the Tommy that I knew."

"That's smart," Patty said. "You have to remember that despite knowing the face they are wearing, they aren't your loved ones."

Barry looked down at his shoes, he knew that she was speaking from experience. Savitar. He felt Patty gently rub his back, as Barry changed the subject. "Have you seen Ollie?"

Oliver's sister graciously accepted his change in the topic with a small nod. "I think he walked that way." She pointed towards an area where he had never had the time to explore. The computer in front of Thea beeped, and she immediately sat up. "You need to get Ollie, Laurel, and Kara," Thea said in a tone that he usually associated with her brother.

Barry kissed his girlfriend before speeding off to tell Kara and then to find Oliver and Laurel. Once he found the Star City natives, he knocked on the door. "Hey, we have a situation at Dayton Optical Systems. Nazis."

Barry watched as the would-be-happy-couple had a silent discussion. Laurel nodded. Oliver looked back up at him. "I need you to head to The Bunker and pick something up for me. Ted will know where it is. Tell him that I need the K-Arrow."

Barry sped off, and fond himself in the Bunker, and the next thing he knew, he had been tackled by the larger man, and he heard a gun cock. "It's me, Barry!" He almost yelled.

"Sorry Kid," Ted apologized, as he helped Barry up. "Can't be too careful with the parallel universe or what have you."

"My Baby Girl's big day was ruined, we couldn't take the risk that you were someone else, coming for The Bunker or worse, for William," Quentin added, as he lowered his gun, and holstering it, he then walked back to the small dormitory area of the bunker.

Barry rubbed his arm. "No, I get it." He then looked at the grizzled vigilante. "Oliver said that he needs the K-Arrow."

The older man smirked, "I was wondering why he had asked me to hightail it all the way to a backwater township in Kansas. Only to find some of the green meteorites in and around Reeves Dam last year." Ted walked over to a lockbox near the armory and used a retinal scanner. Ted pulled out a strange-looking arrow lined with lead around its head and handed it to him.

Barry grabbed it and sped off, meeting the others at the location. The four heroes walked together as they heard Cisco telling them about the location, but were cut off as they watched the Earth-X leaders exit the building, and making a B-line towards them.

Barry watched as the woman, the archer, the Reverse-Flash, and a man wearing a black suit, stepped forward. The speedster gently dropped their stolen item on the ground.

"I'm pretty sure that doesn't belong to you." Black Canary said as she unclipped her baton.

"And you will give it to us, one way or another." Green Arrow finished and gripped his hand on his bow tighter.

"Your self-confidence is admirable, but it is your Achilles Heel. You have defeated many foes, but the question remains, how do you feel about us?" The archer asked as he pressed a button on his suit, revealing Oliver as the archer, the woman was Kara, Eobard Thawne was the Speedster and the final man was Damien Darhk.

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Oliver's eyes widened as he saw Damien Darhk. He didn't quite hear what Thawne was taunting Barry about, and his eyes remained firmly fixed on Darhk. Oliver could still remember cradling the love of his life in his arms. He could still hear her labored breaths as he remembered Darhk thrusting Oliver's own arrow into her sternum. How Barry had revealed that in a different timeline Darhk was her murderer. He would never let that happen again.

"I will give you one chance," Oliver growled, feeling his fingers wrapping tighter around his bow. "Leave."

"You have no authority over us. As führer over my earth, and soon this one, my loyalty is only owed to two things. The Fatherland, and my wife." Earth-X Oliver sneered. "I can see that you are not the same as me, you do not hold the same convictions." He said gesturing to how close Oliver currently was to Laurel.

"His wife?" Kara asked startled. "Are you not with Laurel on your earth?"

Earth-X Kara stepped forward, "As far as our world is concerned, Dinah Laurel Lance is dead. Turncoats to the fatherland, and to the führer himself is a capital crime."

"It seems like Laurel Lance wanted to save her world," Oliver said, as Barry sped after Thawne. Oliver then drew the K-Arrow and aimed it at the Nazi doppelgänger of his friend.

"And what do you hope to prove with this?" Kara from Earth-X asked, pointing at the nocked bow. "Arrows, bullets, knives, and bombardment do nothing to me."

"I would like to test that theory," Oliver said with a small cocky grin, and loosed the arrow, only for it to hover in place. Oliver looked over at Darhk, who had his hand held out, palm facing them.

"Not so fast Robin Hood."

Before the arrow could be used against them, Darhk went flying backwards.

SCREEEEEE

Oliver rolled forward, picking up the arrow and firing it at Kara's evil twin, watching the lead arrowhead fall apart revealing an almost green glowing arrowhead. Oliver watched as Kara from another earth dropped to her knees, and became almost pale.

Oliver charged towards his doppelgänger, only to be pulled towards Darhk. Out of the corner of his eye, he could hear the evil Kara screeching as the arrow was pulled from her chest. Oliver focused back on Darhk, who sported his usual sadistic smirk.

"Now, now, Mr. Queen. I think we should allow Mein führer to deal with The Songbird."

Once Oliver got within arm's reach of the man, he managed to click a button on his belt, and drop a flash-bang grenade, blinding his foe, he drew an arrow from his quiver and drove it into the man's chest.

Darhk coughed, "Do you really think that you will make a difference, Oliver? You are a small group, we have an army."

"I do." Oliver growled, "You have lost a high ranking person each time you have fought us. Tommy at my wedding, and you tonight."

"Another will take my place until we have what we came for!" He managed to say before he started gurgling blood as falling to the floor clutching his chest.

Barry arrived and sped him toward a construction site, where he heard Laurel's Canary Cry.

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Kara watched in horror as Oliver fired a kryptonite arrow. A stone that may as well be curare for Kryptonians. Her doppelgänger feel to her knees and looked like she was about to pass out, that was until Oliver was almost Force-pulled by the blonde man, and allowed the evil Oliver a chance to pull the arrow from his wife, and drew the arrow with his bow and aimed it at Kara.

Kara was about to defend herself, when Laurel released another Canary Cry, seeing the meteorite arrow off into the curb, where hopefully it would be washed down into the drains.

The Evil Kara clapped, sending a shock wave back at the two heroines, forcing them backwards. Kara looked up to see Nazi-Oliver holding up his wife and pointing at a construction site. She used her heat vision on the scaffolding to cause the structure to fall on top of the apartments.

Kara grabbed Laurel and flew her to the area. "Black Canary, keep the building from toppling.

She watched as Laurel used her cry to keep the site from falling, while Oliver and Barry supported the structure with arrows and cables as she repaired the building with her heat-vision.

Barry sped towards where the kryptonite arrow had fallen and picked it up.

Kara looked towards the two Star City natives, "A kryptonite arrow?"

Oliver nodded, "After you told us about what weaknesses your people have, and after the Dominator Invasion, I had a friend head to Kansas where a meteorite had landed."

Upon noticing Kara's almost happy demeanor, Laurel gently dismissed her hopes. "There were no pods or ships. We scoured the satellites from Star Labs. We don't think Krypton or their people survived on our Earth."

"Oh.."

"I want to assure you, Kara," Oliver said. "I didn't construct the arrow to attack you. It was a fail-safe in case people from your homeworld had nefarious intentions with our planet."

Kara exhaled and nodded. "It makes sense. I'm glad that we could discuss this before things turned sour."

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Patty gently took the bloodied meteorite arrow from Alex in order to study it. Honestly, she was just grateful that she could help her boyfriend, and the rest of the band of heroes to defend their earth from invaders, much like they did with the Dominators the year before.

She walked with Alex, "Oliver wouldn't shoot my sister would he?"

Patty shook her head, "Not unless it was necessary, or a part of whatever training they were doing, but he wouldn't use lethal measures against your sister. He and Laurel invited Kara to their wedding. And knowing Oliver as much as I do, it shows how high he regards her." Patty then shrugged her shoulders, "Besides, if Barry trusts Oliver, then so do I."

Patty knew intimately how much Barry looked up to Oliver. As if the older man was something like the older brother Barry never had. And judging from the way that Oliver bickered and has acted towards Barry, Patty could say that this brotherly bond went both ways.

Alex looked sated as she looked at the blood sample and discussed a way they could find this version of Kara thanks to the overexposure of solar radiation.

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Laurel stood next to Barry as he looked at pictures of Eobard Thawne in the time vault. "I can't believe he is back."

"Nothing this week has gone to plan," Laurel said softly, gently squeezing his shoulder. "You took a hit, seeing the man that murdered your mother. You have to get back up and show him that you won't cower. Don't give him that power." Laurel said emphatically. "I've had to get back up and even work alongside Malcolm Merlyn, who murdered my sister. You're a hero, Barry. You have to keep getting up and show him that you won't cower."

Barry turned around and hugged her. "Thank you, Laurel."

Laurel returned the hug, "Any time." She whispered back.

"Are you alright, Your wedding…"

"I'm a big girl, I can endure it. Besides, as much as I have been waiting for this day, all that matters is that Ollie and I love each other. I would be just as happy if it was a small wedding with a few friends and family."

At the sound of someone clearing their throat, the pair turned to see Oliver. "We found them."

Laurel sighed, and nodded, as Barry looked at Oliver. "Let's get them."

"One minute." He moved to Laurel and held her hands in his. "We don't know how strong their forces are, or if they plan to retaliate. I need you to prepare a second front. "

"On it."

Laurel walked out of the time vault. Laurel briskly walked with purpose to find Thea adjusting her strap for her quiver. "Speedy." I need you for a different mission.

Thea cocked her head, "You're not going to storm the Nazi base?"

She shook her head and moved towards Thea, to give her a hug. "Get Ray and meet me at this location," Laurel said as she slipped a small piece of paper into Thea's hand, before grabbing her gear and heading out to the small abandoned carpenter's workshop. It was the same location that; she, Oliver, and Roy had visited Central City when they dealt with Bivelo.

It wasn't long before Ray Palmer and Thea arrived. Ray smiled at her, before removing his helmet. "So why are we in…" He looked around. "An abandoned building?"

Laurel leaned against the old desk. "These people, out doppelgängers, are different compared to Darhk. They are an actual army. We need to be ready for anything to happen, so Ollie asked for me to grab a couple of heroes that we trust to be ready to take on any ambush that they may have installed for us."

Thea smirked as she bumped her shoulder with Laurel. "Smart."

"I'll use the computer in my suit to show on the logs that we have left to return to Star City. That way it doesn't look suspicious if they wondered where the woman with the sonic cry is."

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

He looked around at the soldiers of this pitiful Earth had mustered. A poor militia would be more apt. They were nothing but a thorn in his side. He stormed through Star Labs, taking out a man with glasses with ease, followed by a woman with white hair, and could form ice from her hands. Another woman with short dark hair.

He silently ordered his men to lock them up in the closest facility, which according to their newest ally, Eobard Thawne, was at the basement level. A prison that metahumans couldn't escape. It was a more primitive version of the cuffs that the Reich had used for decades back on his earth.

Oliver continued down until a woman then popped her head around the corner, before popping off a few rounds of a nine-millimeter pistol. Oliver fired a flashbang arrow, disorientating the gunwoman, before rushing towards her, flipping her over his shoulder and knocking her out.

::-:-:-::-:-:-::

Oliver blinked slowly as he woke up, the last thing he remembered was being attacked by a robot named Metalico. His head ached. He grimaced, before looking to his left to see Barry looking pallid and clammy. His friend would need something to eat soon. "Bear, you alright?"

Barry nodded sluggishly, "Is everyone else alright?"

"Define alright," Sara asked sarcastically.

"I'm in manacles." Mick Rory growled. "I'm far from alright. I feel like a convict."

A slow clap was heard from behind as Oliver craned his neck to see the evil speedster clapping mockingly towards Barry. As he taunted Barry, Oliver managed to nudge himself slightly between the man upon the raised platform, and Barry. The younger speedster kept his head high despite the taunts.

"You're not going to kill us, Thawne."

"I'm not?" Thawne asked with a cocky smirk, looking at Oliver. "You should really be thanking me, Mr. Queen. I'm the one that brought back your precious Laurel. I saved Barry from Flashpoint."

"Enough." Kara From Earth X commanded, before staggering to her knees. A man rushed to his side, the Nazi version of himself. Oliver felt sick to his core, looking at the evil version of himself. But Laurel was right, that wasn't him. This version of him was a different person, who happened to have the same name and look like him. Their history, their experiences couldn't have been more different. It was what made them different.

His doppelgänger flicked his wrist and watched as a couple of the SS soldiers saluted him before dragging his friend, Kara, away before the metal robot teleported them to somewhere unfamiliar. Some sort of prison. A concentration camp.