Crisis on Earth-Prime (an Arrowverse novel)

Chapter 36: Into the Future - Band of Heroes (Part 2)

Oliver Queen had Khaled-X drag Clark into the room, and shoved him to the floor. My trembling got worse, and I mean it got worse but I tried to control it.

            Then one of the guards came and grabbed me, making me kneel on the floor.

            "Let him go!" Clark shouted. "Take my life and let him live!"

            "Clark!" I cried out.

            "I want you to watch as I behead your uncle or rather, your brother's uncle!" Oliver pulled out a Katana sword and then his eyes began to glow red. "I want you witness what happens when anyone defies me and the New Reich!" his voice suddenly changed, a deep scary voice that definitely did not belong to him.

            It was as if he had just become a different person. It was scary and it was as if I was living in a horror movie of some sort. It was as if he got body snatched or something.

            "Who are you?!" I demanded.

            "I'm General Zod!" he said. "And Kal-El will fall!"

            He raised the Katana, trembling more violently at the thought I was about to witness an execution by beheading.

            But not just anyone's execution, Clark's, Superman's.

            Oliver or General Zod, whoever he was, raised the Katana high up. Oliver's eyes were still glowing that scary red, similarly to when the Reverse flash's/Eobard Thawne's eyes did since he had a connection to the negative Speed Force.

            He kept the sword suspended in the air, my heart beating a million beats a minute. He was about to behead Clark and I yelled 'No!'

            And then several kryptonite arrows were shot through the windows, and then a group of masked individuals stormed into the palace from the ceiling and windows, and shot more kryptonite arrows. Some of the other guards got shot and dropped dead, and then Hamdan's eyes began to glow the same scary red, as did Khaled-X's.

            One of the rebels grabbed and untied me. Clark too was freed and took me to cover, protecting me with his own body, shielding me from harm.

Then Khaled-X sped to Oliver Queen as did Hamdan-X, and both took him to safety.

            I looked up at Oliver-X, and he glared at me, as if telling me that he wasn't done with me. Then he, along with Khaled-X and Hamdan-X, all sped away and I began to wonder how it was that they got Kryptonian powers and how it was that Oliver had General Zod in him.

            A fallen Kryptonian soldier, with evil intentions.

            "Am I glad to see you guys" I said the moment I realized that the person who had saved me was none other than Khaled, my Khaled.

            "Same" he hugged me.

            Then everyone else revealed their faces. Sara Lance, Cecile Horton-West, Fazza, and Laurel Lance.

            "You have no idea how happy I am to see you and bringing your band of Merrymen" I said.

            "Actually, it's not my band...it's his" Khaled smiled and then I saw someone removing their face covering.

            "Dawoud!" I said, and we both embraced with a hug.

            "I thought I was never going to see you, after you vanished a year ago."

            "You almost didn't" I said, relieved. "Those Earth-Xers and Space invaders, or whoever they are, almost killed us."

            "I suppose we owe you our lives" said Clark but Dawoud looked anything but happy to see him.