Rhapsody in Green

The wandering hawk

Author's Note: This is an AU of the Arrowverse that includes some elements of the DC universe that weren't covered on their TV shows, while also lacking the nonsense of the Arrowverse.

For starters I've gotten rid of everything after Season Three of The Flash and Season Two of Arrow. The Flash/Arrow crossover that introduced Hawkman still happened though. Barry didn't stay in the Speedforce and Killer Frost joined the team, but those are the only post-Season Three elements that I'm keeping.

I'm mostly taking from the pre-Flashpoint version of the Green Lantern (which I highly recommend) for this story. As for Diggle being Jon Stewart, I plan to address that in the future.

I'm not using anything from Legends of Tomorrow or Batwoman. Legends is just too silly for my taste and I stopped watching Batwoman after two episodes. I never watched Black Lightning or Stargirl, so they aren't in this story either.

If you have any questions please ask them in the comments.

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Killer Frost was having a great day. Caitlin was exhausted, so she let Frost take over. It was nice getting to hang out with Barry, Cisco, and Harry. Then came the call from Joe about a bank robbery.

She and Barry, now clad in his Flash suit, sped to the bank. Cisco and Harry remained at STAR Labs to act as mission control. Upon entering the bank, the two heroes noticed that the robbers had taken several people hostage, including a couple of children who couldn't have been older than seven.

Without hesitating, Barry shoved the nearest robber at super speed, he flew across the room before anyone could say "It's the Flash!"

Frost blasted the first robber to aim his submachine gun at Barry with a cascade of ice. Like a well-oiled machine the duo of the Flash and Killer Frost made short work of the other five robbers.

As they turned to check on the hostages something invisible hit them with the force of a speeding truck, knocking both Meta-humans to the floor. The unseen blow took the wind out of Frost and left her panting for several seconds. When she recovered from her disorientation and sat up, she saw another robber exiting the bank vault. This robber was armed with a high-tech gun similar to Leonard Snart's cold gun.

"You should've taken today off, Flash." Said therobber as he aimed the gun Barry, who was slowly getting to his feet. Therobber fired a sphere of compressed air about the size of a basketball. Itstruck Barry and sent him flying into a wall.

At the same time a window near Frost shattered. Both she and the robber turned to see a man with bird-like wings, wearing a bird-shaped helmet, and armed with a mace enter the bank. Frost thought the man looked vaguely familiar, but couldn't be sure.

The robber trained his air-gun on the bird-man,but he was already moving. Using his mace, the Bird-man knocked the air-gun outof robber's hands, with his fist he knocked out the robber.

Frost and Barry, now on their feet again, approached the Bird-man. "Carter?" Barry asked, recognizing him.

"Long time, no see, Flash." Said Carter Hall, also known as Hawkman.

"What are you doing here?" asked Barry.

Carter sighed. "I was just passing by-"

"And you wanted to hang out with the cool kids." Frost interrupted him.

"Caitlin?" Carter asked, getting a good look at Frost for the first time. "What the...?"

"You've missed a lot." Said Barry in an attempt to diffuse the awkwardness.

"Uh huh." Replied Carter.

With the robbers neutralized the police entered the bank and arrested them while Frost, Barry, and Carter freed the hostages. Joe West approached the three Meta-humans. Frost noticed that Barry avoided making eye-contact with Joe. Things had been tense between the two of them ever since Barry and Iris had broken up. Frost suspected that Joe blamed Barry for the break-up, while he still loved Barry as his adopted son.

"I have that high-tech air gun sent over to STAR Labs ASAP." Said Joe. "We also found this on the robber that came out of the vault." He held up an evidence bag. Inside the bag was a shiny green ring.