- Kara Danvers: Is that a... are you smiling?
- Oliver Queen: I kind of like you guys. Don't tell anyone.
- Kara Danvers: Where would Deegan, um, Superman keep something valuable?
- Alex Danvers: Anything of importance to him, he keeps in a place called the Fortress of Solitude. I'll take you there.
- Barry Allen: [groans] I just came from the Fortress of Solitude!
- Green Arrow: I know what happens to Barry and Kara.
- Mar Novu: Mm. And now you're here in the faint hope I can alter it.
- Green Arrow: Well, you just said you were a god. Now, I don't think you're testing to see if we're strong enough. I think you're testing us to see if we're good enough. And I don't think, in any of the universes you've tested, that anyone has ever stood and confronted you like this.
- Mar Novu: Yes. You are the first in a multitude.
- Green Arrow: I'm not who you need! You said I'd pass the test if I knew my true self. My true self is filled with darkness. But Barry and Kara are different. They inspire hope. They inspire people because they are the best of us. And if this test of yours is gonna kill our best chance at stopping this crisis, well, as gods go, you're not a very smart one.
- Mar Novu: The universe is a very complex piece of machinery, and balance must be maintained. One change requires another. How would you propose I keep the balance?
- Kara Danvers: Cisco, will you do the honors?
- Cisco Ramon: Anything for my favorite Kryptonian. That's right, I have a favorite Kryptonian.
- Brainiac-5: Yes. A good choice.
- Mar Novu: Self-sacrifice alone will not see you through this trial. Survival will only be found by knowing your true self. Or this world will be doomed, like all the others.
- Oliver Queen: Okay, that's enough.
- Barry Allen: [they find themselves back in the apartment building hallway] That was very glass-half-empty.
- Superman: You can't just wear that symbol on your chest and call yourself a hero, Deegan. Our powers amplify who we are. And the way you've been using yours tells me you don't have the mettle for this.
- Elseworlds Superman: No. No, you're wrong. I did... I didn't think big enough. I won't make that mistake again.
- [Amazo breaches in; it absorbs Clark's heat vision and fires it back at him]
- Elseworlds Superman: You see? There is no defeating me. I AM THE MASTER OF THIS WORLD!
- Lois Lane: [breaching in with J'onn and Brainy] Blah, blah, blah. It's a bit much, don't you think?
- Superman: [surprised and confused] Honey?
- Lois Lane: [nonchalantly] Yes, dear?
- [first lines]
- Dr. John Deegan: My name is John Deegan, and I'm from Gotham, a city in grave need of heroes. As a doctor at Arkham Asylum, I did my part by protecting this city from the criminially insane. The world didn't understand my methods, so I worked in secret until, one day, when a cosmic being recognized my potential and gave me the chance to be something greater. Someone greater.
- [becoming a Bizarro-ish version of Superman]
- Elseworlds Superman: Now I am Superman.
- Elseworlds Superman: There's no place you can run that I can't find you.
- Oliver Queen: [quietly] What?
- Elseworlds Superman: It's over.
- Oliver Queen: What are you talking about?
- Barry Allen: Clark, it's us. Barry and Oliver.
- Elseworlds Superman: Oh, I know who you are. Your confusion lies with me.
- Oliver Queen: [realizing] Deegan. The Monitor gave you the book back?
- Elseworlds Superman: And showed me how to *really* use it.
- Elseworlds Superman: Idiots. I'm bulletproof.
- Oliver Queen: I know.
- [he shoots at a nearby crane; it teeters, ready to fall]
- Barry Allen: You want to be Earth's hero? Save the children or stop us.
- Oliver Queen: Your choice, "Superman".
- Barry Allen: Being bad makes me feel bad, man.
- Oliver Queen: The crane gag was harmless. It would have landed in an empty parking lot.
- Barry Allen: Still, man. I don't know. Just doing something like that on purpose, I think I'm gonna puke. I'm...
- [they duck behind a car as they hear police sirens, and Barry gags]
- Barry Allen: No, I'm okay. I'm okay.
- Oliver Queen: We need to find out how extensive this reality change is, and we need to get off the streets. Come on.
- Barry Allen: [trying to barf] I can't get anything coming up. I can't...
- [following Oliver as he jogs away]
- Barry Allen: Wait up. I have a plan.
- Kara Danvers: I know the real man who wears that glyph. It's not you. You're not Superman.
- Elseworlds Superman: And yet, I am all that you once were. No offense to Barry Allen, but as a hero, you... you are so much more than just faster than a speeding bullet.
- Kara Danvers: So you're imitating my powers and my family crest, but not my gender? Too afraid to be a woman?
- Elseworlds Superman: Oh, I'm not afraid of anything. The Book of Destiny revealed to me all there is to know about Barry Allen and Oliver Queen, but for you and this Man of Steel, there was nothing. Nothing but the android you fought in Central City. It's... It's as if you don't exist in this world.
- Kara Danvers: That's why you locked me up and dampened my powers.
- Barry Allen: Look, we don't want any trouble.
- Oliver Queen: We just have a business proposal for Mr. Ramon.
- Cisco Ramon: A business proposal. I'm gonna pass. You see, I like watching my people put a beating on other people, so...
- James Olsen: So I guess we got that in common.
- Barry Allen: We've got this, right?
- Oliver Queen: Totally.
- [they get thrown across a bar table]
- Bartender: Oh! Is now an okay time to ask for a selfie?
- Oliver Queen: We need to find Cisco.
- Barry Allen: Okay, well if us good guys are bad guys, stands to reason that our good guy friend is now a bad guy.
- Oliver Queen: Sure. You're CCPD. Where do criminals hang out in this city?
- Barry Allen: [seeing bar patrons cower from them] Are they all afraid of us?
- Oliver Queen: Go with it.
- Barry Allen: This is a terrible idea.
- Oliver Queen: You keep saying that.
- Barry Allen: And yet here we are anyway.
- Bartender: Oh, my god. The Trigger Twins. Sorry, I'm just a huge fan of your criminal history.
- Barry Allen: Oh.
- Bartender: You guys are my heroes. Well, not "heroes". Legends. Can I get you guys something?
- Barry Allen: Apparently, we need allies and resources.
- Oliver Queen: We're looking for Cisco Ramon.
- Bartender: You mean the boss?
- Oliver Queen: Sure.
- Kara Danvers: Alex!
- Alex Danvers: How do you know my name?
- Kara Danvers: I'm not from this Earth. Where I come from, we're sisters.
- Alex Danvers: You... you are as despicable as they come. I mean, the stories of all the twisted things that you've done.
- Kara Danvers: Alex, I know things look one way to you, that I look one way to you, but... but the way thing are, it's not real. Not really real. And if you just let me explain, I can tell you...
- Alex Danvers: You are dangerous, and you are clearly crazy. And I have work to do.
- Kara Danvers: [Alex closes the outer blast door] No, wait! Wait. Just... just let me explain! I can tell you everything.
- Cisco Ramon: Stop, stop. Stop! Jimmy, what are you thinking? What, are you gonna kill 'em here, now? Gary's still cleaning up from the last mess you made, Clockwork Orange. Do 'em out in the alley.
- James Olsen: All right, come on, let's go.
- Barry Allen: Wait. Wait, wait, wait. I knew your brother Dante.
- Cisco Ramon: Stop. Hold up. How'd you know Dante?
- Barry Allen: It's a long story. If he were here, he'd tell you to listen to our proposal.
- [quietly to Oliver]
- Barry Allen: What's our proposal?
- Oliver Queen: How'd you like to get rid of Superman?
- Cisco Ramon: All right, I've got ledgers to keep and miles to go before I sleep, so talk fast.
- Oliver Queen: Right. F-First, we need to know if you can vibe.
- Cisco Ramon: [knocking items off his desk] Can I vibe?
- Barry Allen: Teleport, open a breach. You can still do that, right?
- Cisco Ramon: Rhetorical question. How do you think I got into all those bank vaults? But you, you didn't know that. You came in here not knowing if I could do what you thought I could do. That's very risky.
- Barry Allen: We're kind of desperate.
- Cisco Ramon: Please keep giving me more reasons to not do business with you.
- Oliver Queen: All right, listen, you could use your powers for so much more than breaking into bank vaults.
- Cisco Ramon: Go back to the part about taking down Superdick. That's the part I wanna hear.
- Oliver Queen: We're gonna get to that.
- Barry Allen: For now, I could teach you how to use your powers to get to a whole different Earth.
- Cisco Ramon: A whole different Earth. Tell me more.
- Barry Allen: [arriving in the Fortress of Solitude] Oh, thank god we're here.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah. Only took seventeen tries.
- Superman: Doctor, could I have a word, please?
- [they grab each other and fly away]
- Cisco Ramon: [opening a breach] Well, that's my cue. I'm out! You ladies have fun.
- Oliver Queen: Novu! I know you're in there, you son of a bitch! I'm not afraid of you. I'm not impressed by you! Stop with these games and show yourself!
- Mar Novu: [Oliver forces his way into his dimension] So much passion. And hubris. To think, that if you just yell loud enough you can command a god.
- Oliver Queen: You're not a god.
- Mar Novu: Yet there isn't a name for what I am, so I suppose "god" will have to do.
- J'onn J'onzz: I hope to see you all again soon.
- Superman: Preferably without giving Lois another reason to dive head-first into danger.
- Lois Lane: I dive where you dive, babe.
- Clark Kent: Hey, you really are so much stronger than me, Kara. Every time we're together, I see it. Which is why I know what I'm doing is okay.
- Kara Danvers: What are you doing, Clark?
- Lois Lane: You need to stop beating around the bush. People like people who are direct.
- Kara Danvers: What is going on?
- Lois Lane: I told you we had a lot of fun on Argo.
- Clark Kent: Lois. Lois, Lois.
- Lois Lane: What? We're all adults.
- Kara Danvers: Are you having a baby?
- [realizing it's true, she hugs them in support and excitement]
- Kara Danvers: Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Congratulations. This is so great. I'm so happy for you.
- Clark Kent: And-and the safest place for Lois to be is on Argo.
- Lois Lane: When the baby starts kicking.
- Kara Danvers: Oh, yeah. That would be awful. So you're gone another nine months?
- Clark Kent: Uh... a little longer than that.
- Lois Lane: Honestly, the world might be fine with just Kara Danvers. Your cousin ain't half bad. Clark? Clark!
- Superman: [distracted] What?
- Lois Lane: Quick, it's burning.
- Superman: Oh! Oh, no! No!
- Lois Lane: [pouring her drink on the fire to put it out] Next time, just use your heat vision.
- Superman: Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. I'm... I just... I wanted tonight to be special.
- Lois Lane: Why?
- Superman: Because I want every night to be special. I mean, with you. But also special. Forever. With you. I am so bad at this.
- Lois Lane: What did I tell you, Kansas? Be direct.
- [he retreives a piece of coal, crushes it into a diamond, and places it in an engagement ring]
- Superman: Lois Lane...
- [as an acceptance, she kisses him]
- Superman: That's all I had to say?
- Lois Lane: Yeah.
- Superman: I like this direct thing.
- Oliver Queen: It's nice to be able to feel the effect of alcohol again.
- Barry Allen: Yeah, superspeed has its plusses and its minuses.
- Oliver Queen: Always hungry. I was burning holes in my shoes.
- Barry Allen: You're not gonna miss anything about it?
- Oliver Queen: There were a few times where I was running so fast, it was like things were standing still. Everything just looked really clear to me. I... I'm gonna miss that.
- Barry Allen: Flashtime.
- Oliver Queen: What?
- Barry Allen: That's just what I call it.
- Oliver Queen: Do you really have a name for everything?
- Oliver Queen: I thought you were done with us.
- Batwoman: Wishful thinking. I just came from Arkham. Tell me this deranged doctor of yours isn't gonna be a bigger problem.
- Oliver Queen: Deegan? Why?
- Batwoman: Because I hear he's made a friend.
- Kara Danvers: You know, my Alex was always drawn to service, so i-i-it's not surprising that you care so deeply about this world and all the people in it. But on my Earth, Alex doesn't just have a job. She's in charge of a place like this.
- Alex Danvers: She's in charge?
- Kara Danvers: She's a leader who's just and proud, and when someone tells her to do something she knows is wrong, she gives them hell, and she does what's right. And she doesn't have powers like I do, but she's a hero. And she has the biggest heart of anyone I know, even though she doesn't always like to show it. And she has good friends, a real family of support that she's created for herself. And she doesn't hide who she is; she wants a wife, and kids. She's optimistic that she can have it all. It's not an "if", it's a "when".
- Alex Danvers: She sounds pretty awesome.
- Kara Danvers: She is. And I-I know I'm not your sister on this planet. I... I guess my pod didn't land here, but... you're still that person. I can tell. I know it. And Superman re-wrote this reality to make us all his prisoners. I think you're smart enough to see through him.
- Alex Danvers: If I were to let you out of that cell, you'd, what, stop him?
- Kara Danvers: [with a nod] Pinky swear.
- Brainiac-5: An enormous robot with the powers of Superman. This is exciting!
- [to Lois]
- Brainiac-5: Thank you for including me.
- Barry Allen: Alex, you're here! What are you doing here?
- [approaches her to hug her, but she wraps him in a headlock]
- Barry Allen: A badass in every reality. Got it.
- Superman: Barry and Kara. You had more faith than I did.
- Green Arrow: Well, I don't know Kara as well as I know Barry, but when things get tough, he doesn't slow down. He digs deeper and runs faster.
- Superman: That's my cousin to a T.
- Barry Allen: So, I feel like I should be thanking you for something. The Monitor. You talked to him, didn't you?
- [Oliver nods]
- Barry Allen: You got him to change our destinies somehow.
- Oliver Queen: You and Kara changed your destinies, Barry, by being the heroes that you always have been.
- [Barry takes a sip from his beer]
- Oliver Queen: Hey, I've been you. I lived it, I felt it. You're a good man.
- Barry Allen: So are you. Even if you don't want people to believe it.
- Oliver Queen: I'm not as good as you think I am. But because of you, I think I'll get there someday.
- Barry Allen: Should we hug it out?
- Oliver Queen: No! No. And I really mean it this time. Twice you've made me hug you. No.
- Mar Novu: Gentlemen. It's time we talked about your destiny. Must confess my interest is piqued. You possess neither power nor abilites, yet still manged to outwit an opponent with the powers of a super man.
- Barry Allen: It's just one word. "Superman."
- Oliver Queen: What is this, hmm? If you're testing us, then let us get back to it.
- Mar Novu: Oliver Queen, a man who channels his hubris and anger and calls it strength. Are you truly that eager to die? No. Not eager. But willing. Ready to. Good. There might be hope for this universe yet.
- Barry Allen: If that's supposed to be a pep talk, I've had better.
- Barry Allen: You can't just write yourelf as a hero. It... it doesn't work that way.
- Elseworlds Superman: Doesn't it, though? You were struck by lightning, I was given the book by a higher power. Both random acts of chance. But this... this is my destiny, so much more than becoming the Flash was ever yours.
- Barry Allen: People don't become heroes because of circumstance. They become heroes in spite of circumstance.
- Oliver Queen: You're just a cheap knockoff.
- Elseworlds Superman: Oh, I'm anything but cheap.
- [he fires his heat vision at them]
- Elseworlds Superman: And just wait until you see what other fun changes I've made. To your family, your friends. There is no safe harbor for you. This is no longer your world. It's MINE!
- John Diggle: Congratulations, sir.
- Killer Frost: The way you caught that crane, like it weighed nothing.
- John Diggle: Very, very impressive.
- Elseworlds Superman: [smashing a console] The fugitives escaped!
- John Diggle: Sir, we are quite sure you will bring them back to justice.
- Killer Frost: No one can escape Superman.
- Elseworlds Superman: You really think so?
- John Diggle: Sir, you are far too powerful.
- Barry Allen: Okay, we get Cisco, breach to Earth-38, find real Superman.
- Oliver Queen: That's the plan.
- Barry Allen: As long as this Cisco's willing to help us. The last alternate version of Cisco I met was not super helpful. Who knows how he's been re-written this time?
- Barry Allen: We need your help.
- Cisco Ramon: Listen. I don't know who you think you are, but around here, people call me Mr. Ramon.
- James Olsen: You got a problem here, Mr. Ramon?
- Cisco Ramon: Case in point. Jimmy, uh, I think the Pet Shop Boys here need an education in how things work around here.
- James Olsen: I don't think that should be a problem. They don't call me Superman's worst pal for nothing.
- Killer Frost: You know, Diggle can monitor the sorry sacks from upstairs. Why don't you take the night off?
- Alex Danvers: That's okay. I still have some work to do.
- Killer Frost: You know, that's the third time in just as many weeks I've told you to go home and you've turned me down. You know, this sorry little pelt's really bringing me down. So why don't you wanna go home? Boyfriend troubles?
- Alex Danvers: No.
- Kara Danvers: [in her cell] Boyfriend?
- Killer Frost: I thought you were dating that dweeb in I.T. Not impressed, by the way.
- Alex Danvers: Okay, it was a couple of dates, and now he's dating Pam in H.R.
- Killer Frost: Hoo! Boy's got a type. Also, not impressed. You need to leave this place. You've got to get a life.
- Alex Danvers: Look, I love what I do. The work is important.
- Killer Frost: Well, now you sound like the big guy. And you and I both know I don't mean that as a compliment. Look, I am sure the work we do for the city's great, but half of what we do around here is really just to prop his ego up. Truth, justice, and the American way? More like "Me, myself, and I."
- Alex Danvers: [quietly] Yeah.
- Killer Frost: All work and no play doesn't just make a girl dull, it turns her heart to ice. And trust me, that ain't fun.
- Alex Danvers: I appreciate the offer, but I'm gonna stay just the same.
- Killer Frost: Suit yourself.
- Superman: Still Barry?
- Oliver Queen: Oh, no, we...
- Barry Allen: No, yeah...
- Oliver Queen: Yeah.
- Superman: Oh, so it's fixed. That's great.
- Oliver Queen: Well...
- Superman: [noticing Cisco] Oh, no. Kara?
- Cisco Ramon: Mr. Ramon. Am I supposed to believe this guy's Superman? What'd, you get him off the street? You don't even look like him.
- Cisco Ramon: [noticing a machine in the Fortress] Hey, uh, what's this?
- Lois Lane: [he presses a button and a bright light flashes] Yeah, you, uh... you really shouldn't touch that.
- Cisco Ramon: Hey, you could throw a party with this thing. Get some party favors; you know, I know a guy.
- Barry Allen: Look, everything is back to normal. Well, not everything.
- Superman: Where's Kara?
- Barry Allen: He's changed all of Central City. Maybe even the whole world. Everybody thinks he's you and we're bad.
- Cisco Ramon: I mean, I am bad.
- Oliver Queen: Hey, bottom line? Kara's nowhere to be found.
- Barry Allen: If we get the book back, we should be able to re-write reality again.
- Cisco Ramon: Yeah? And how are you gonna do that? You got a magic pen lying around somewhere behind these ice walls?
- Superman: No, it's not a pen. It's just the mind. I've encountered books like this before. The author writes things into existence through sheer force of will. But changing the story comes at a cost.
- Lois Lane: Do you have any idea where the book is?
- Barry Allen: If I were him, I'd keep it somewhere secure enough to also hold a Kryptonian.
- Oliver Queen: Easy. S.T.A.R. Labs. That place is under lock and key. I did time there once.
- Oliver Queen: Hey, so do we.
- Barry Allen: We... we did.
- Cisco Ramon: What'd you do? Did I say you could touch me?
- [to Barry]
- Cisco Ramon: Did I say he could touch me?
- Barry Allen: I don't know.
- Cisco Ramon: I missed that part.
- Superman: [simultaneously with Lois] I have to go.
- Lois Lane: You have to go.
- Elseworlds Superman: Well, well, well. A traitor in our midst.
- Killer Frost: You know, when I said you should get out there and start dating, Danvers, this isn't quite what I had in mind.
- Elseworlds Superman: I warned you.
- Kara Danvers: No, I tricked her into opening my cell. We don't know each other.
- Alex Danvers: Yes, we do. She's my sister.
- Elseworlds Superman: [preparing to fire his heat vision] Oh... well, then you can burn together.
- Superman: [breaching in with the others] Hi. Nice suit.
- Barry Allen: This isn't the fortress of anything. This is the Time Vault.
- Kara Danvers: [seeing the book] It's unlocked.
- Barry Allen: All right, well, how does one go about re-writing reality?
- Kara Danvers: Well...
- [she opens it, but is forced to close it again]
- Alex Danvers: You must still be weak from the Pipeline.
- Barry Allen: Are you okay?
- Kara Danvers: I don't know how Deegan did it.
- Alex Danvers: Well, can I suggest that whatever it is you need to find out, we do far away from here.
- Barry Allen: Clark knew how to do it.
- Kara Danvers: I'll get this to him.
- Kara Danvers: Clark, we need you to open this, fix things.
- [as he does so, things begin to return to normal; having become the Flash again, Barry speeds in]
- Barry Allen: He's doing it.