Brotherhood Forged Through a Crucible

How different would the arrowverse had been if Barry Allen had been through everything with Oliver Queen.

On the night of March 18th, 2000, Barry came down stairs for to see what the commotion he heard had been. What he had seen was his mother surrounded by red and yellow lightning. Meanwhile, his father Henry was trying to reach out to his mother, Nora. Barry had seen a Man in a Yellow suit within the lightning, and the next thing he knew he was 10 blocks from home. After running all the way home, he sees his father being arrested and his mothers corpse being covered with a sheet. He was adopted by his best friends dad for 2 years. He is constantly called crazy, delusional, and traumatized. When barry turned 13, he decided to sign up for a student exchange program. The destination of said exchange, China.

Flip to the other side of the coin, and we see that Oliver has been born and raised with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was born in the illustrious family of the Queen's, and he grew up with his best friends, Tommy Merlyn and Laurel Lance. Oliver had a little sister named Thea when he was 10, Oliver is 15 when Barry's mother is murdered. 2 years later, Oliver decides to go with his father Robert Queen on a business trip to China. They set out on the Quen family yacht, the Queens Gambit.

Through a work of fate, Oliver and Barry end up on Lian Yu together, 5 years ahead of schedule for when Oliver was supposed to end up on the island. How will things differ and be the same during those 5 years? What will it be like when they come back to "civilization".

Read on to find out.

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