***IMPORTANT NOTICE: For those of you who have been following this story from the beginning, I just wanted to inform you that I went back through all the chapter and (hopefully) fixed any and all mistakes as well as made some little additions here and there. So, in order for everything to make sense you may want to re-read everything before continuing on to the latest chapter. I didn't change anything just added stuff.

Also, I have officially stopped watching the Arrow TV show (Oliver was just getting on my nerves too much and I wasn't willing to waste an hour of my life once a week to watch it if I pretty much know I'm going to be disappointed by it. So, I've decided to stick with the Arrow Fanfiction, instead – mainly because at least things might go my way in the fanfiction universe, plus a lot of the writers on fanfiction are better than the writers of the actual show (it's a sad truth).

This means that if any cute or meaningful Olicity scenes happen on the show, I will be unaware of them. If any of you guys (who are actually still watching the show, b/c I know a lot of you have stopped for the same reasons I have) want me to incorporate a specific Olicity scene that happened on the show recently into this story (or in another collection of one shots) then let me know which episode/season it came from and I'll look the scene up on YouTube. Thank you!***

P.S. – Even the Disclaimer right below this message has been updated and re-organized, so if you are interested in some little tidbits that may or may not end up in this story, check it out!

Disclaimer:

I do NOT own Arrow, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises or any of the characters affiliated with them. Everything else is mine.

A/N: Just want to clear some storyline points up:

The Batman story that I was inspired by was Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy and some elements from Tim Burton's Batman Returns. I picture Christian Bale as Batman, simply because he was the best Batman in my opinion – but you guys may imagine differently.

There is one other character that I sort of made up (I think there is a superhero character with the same name, but this one is hopefully completely different). I am calling her the White Tiger – I picture Queen Latifah as this particular character. She will be the one to help Felicity train and become her own vigilante.

Yes, you read correctly – I am turning Felicity into a vigilante. She will be neither good nor evil (it all simply depends on her mood). Said vigilante does exist already in the superhero world (go ahead and try to guess which one she's going to become – I'll give you a hint…it is NOT the Black Canary.

Also, some timeline intricacies that you all might need to be aware of between the Arrow Universe and the Batman Universe are these:

Gotham is actually an island (even in the comics) and in my mind it is surrounded by Starling City and Metropolis as well as the Palisades. If it helps you all to picture it, think of it like a giant compass. In the North you have the Palisades (the Old City – original Gotham and is 150 years old; a very nice part of the City which leads to the Long Island version of Gotham where the wealthy individuals of society live and frequent; still part of Gotham City jurisdiction); to the Left/West you have Starling City (including the Glades; is a 25 minute drive, 40 minutes with bad traffic, from Gotham City); to the South you have Metropolis (the same distance from Gotham as Starling City)…to the Right/East leads away from all three Cities and towards the country and farm lands that surround them. In the Center of this proverbial compass is Gotham City (the biggest of all three Cities) which is surrounded by a large river that covers all four sides. There are five bridges that connect Gotham to everything else (one bridge leads to the Palisades, one to the country, two to Metropolis, and two to Starling City).

The Batman Timeline is this – Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents' murder at age 8, he disappeared and left Gotham at age 22, was missing for seven years during which time he was declared dead. During those seven years he spent six months trying to join the criminal underworld all over the world in order to better understand criminals and why they do the things they do. He ended up in a Chinese prison for the next six months after he was caught stealing from himself (ironic). Wayne would then spend the next six years training with the League f Shadows. The Batman Begins part of the story spans six months after Mr. Wayne's return to Gotham. There is then a yearlong gap between Batman Begins & the Dark Knight part of the story. During that gap is when the mystery of the Joker plagues Gotham as well as Batman and the Police. Then the events of the Dark Knight unfold during the time that Oliver returns to Lian Yue for five months after the undertaking before Felicity and Diggle drag his stubborn ass back home.

So, because of what happened in the Dark Knight happened while Oliver was back on the island in his self-imposed exile, he is sort of unaware of the Gotham Masked Vigilante. It has been seven months since the happenings of the Dark Knight as well as since Oliver returned to starling…the second time around.

Oliver was 22 when he left on the Gambit, he was 27 (28 by the end of season 1) when he returned home; now in season 2 of Arrow he is 29 years old.

As for Bruce Wayne, he was 22 when he left Gotham, returned when he was 29 (turned 30 in the middle of Batman Begins); he was 32 during the events of the Dark Knight, and is now at present 33 years old. Making him four years older than Oliver.

Oliver was 18 when Bruce Wayne went off the grid and left Gotham, so he was aware that the man was missing, but by the time Mr. Wayne returned to Gotham Oliver was only 25 and still trapped on Lian Yue. So, Oliver – being too concerned with his own life, problems/issues, and his own City to save – was unaware that Bruce Wayne had returned. He learns of Mr. Wayne's story after the fact.

The League of Shadows…is extremely strict and has certain levels of training (I made up exactly 9 levels) that a member must complete – it takes however long that warrior needs to take in order to learn what needs to be learned in each level; meaning a person could finish it in one year or it could take them an entire lifetime to accomplish the training – in order to be considered as one of the elite members. In my story, Sara/Canary only made it to the third level during her year and a half stay with the League. So, she never even completed the training. She never knew Bruce Wayne had been a part of the League because by the time she had joined he had already left the League. The Mercenary (in the story Sara tells; took him 6 yrs) – aka the 13th Rhas Al Ghul (the League of Shadows in 1300 years old), the White Tiger (took her 5 yrs), Bruce Wayne (took him 6 yrs), Bane (took him 8 yrs), and Nyssa (took her 10 yrs) are the only ones to have completed all nine levels of training in the last 100 years.

The Child from the story was taught by the White Tiger in the same way that the League is taught, but not quite so brutally.

Hopes this makes things more understandable in my story.