Crisis on Earth-Prime (an Arrowverse novel)

Chapter 35: Into the Future - World in Peril (Part 1)

One Year into the Future

I then looked at my surroundings, everything messed up and broken. Even the tables had dust but I had no idea how everything suddenly changed all around me. I ran the tip of my finger over a glass table with layers upon layers of dust.

This made no sense. Where did Hamdan-X, Khaled-X, and my little brother go? Where did they vanish to?

"Come out wherever you are!" I shouted. "Don't start what you can't finish!"

I kept walking around and the more I observed, the more I realized I might have gotten sucked into a parallel universe. After all, it was something we dealt with all the time, even Dawoud who had been brought to Earth-Prime against his will. Then something peculiar caught my attention and that was how everything seemed reddish, even the light from outside was red mixed with some yellow or orange, or all three mixed in.

Walking out to the hallway, I saw the scimitar Khaled had attempted to slice and dice me with, and it had some blood in it but the amount was so small, I knew whose ever it was, it did not kill them but likely graced them.

I picked it up, ready to use it at a given moment's notice. I walked over to my room, then walked over to the terrace and what you know, the skies were red and the sun was red. But while that was unusual and suddenly I began to realize that maybe just maybe, I was dreaming, I noticed a strange red energy flowing into the skies from the antenna way on top of the Burj Khalifa and it was somehow turning the sun red.

Was I dreaming and was this all some kind trick my mind was playing on me?

I stepped outside the palace and as anticipated, everything was messed up. Even Fazza's car was on fire as were the rest of the vehicles. I tried to find a car that could take me to the city where all the action was clearly taking place. I finally found another Mercedes SUV, the one that belonged to Saeed Hilal.

I hotwired it and managed to turn it on and off to downtown I went. As I tried entering the city, it was blocked off from the rest of the emirate. Smoke was all over, with everything in the vicinity in shambles. I couldn't enter with the vehicle so I held my sword tightly, ready to fight and slice and dice if needed.

As I walked further into the City Walk, everything was obviously devoid of humanity and I began to wonder what it was that happened. I then ran into a dead body, some guy I had never seen nor had a clue of who he was. He had blood all around his nose and mouth, obvious that he had been suffering from some type of disease or something.

I had no idea what was going on or what had happened. I then realized I had to find some kind of face covering just in case an infectious disease had spread throughout the country, region, or perhaps the entire world.

Then I saw various Nazi symbol and most prominently the swastika and the double bolted S's.

This dream or nightmare, rather, was the scariest one I had ever encountered. I had to assume I was lying somewhere, unconscious, and me wondering how I was going to get out of this nightmare.

Then a loud and fast whooshing sound alerted me and saw someone flying from the Burj Khalifa.

It was a blonde woman but her face was concealed with a retractable mask. She then revealed her identity and I was surprised to see it was Kara and she did not have the S symbol, the Kara and Clark I knew, had on their chest that represented the House of El.

Instead, she had the double bolted S symbol.

"Kara?"

"Not the Kara you know!" she said in a cruel and calculating tone.