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Callie stood with Thea as they spoke with her father.

"It's too bad Tommy couldn't make it, though," Thea noted, Callie nodding at the thought.

"He's so busy, but it just means the reunion when he finally takes his holidays will be spectacular," Callie admitted, her heart again longing for her brother. Something wasn't sitting right in her chest as she spoke about him, but she chose to ignore whatever her issue was.

"Well, they've got him working triple shifts at the hospital these days. Besides, Chicago isn't exactly next door," Merlyn realistically pointed out, passing Callie another glass of champagne as he looked at his two daughters - even if Thea didn't know they were related.

"I can't believe he's a doctor now!" Thea exclaimed, and Callie muttered in agreement.

"Well, he says the same thing about you, miss entrepreneur."

"Yeah, I don't think running Verdant makes me an entrepreneur."

"No, but it makes you successful. Your father should be very proud of the woman you've grown into!"

Callie went to reply when there was a tug on her arm and she found Sara standing beside her. Callie excused herself from the conversation but found herself frowning as she studied the clothing that Sara was wearing.

"Why aren't you in your dress?" Callie interrogated as she motioned to the bridesmaid dress she currently was wearing. Sara grabbed her hands and held them tight as she looked the girl in the eyes.

"Callie, there's something terribly wrong with everything," she started as she looked at the girl. "I keep having these memory flashes that I don't remember happening!"

Callie paused before she thought about the moment only the day before that she had spoken to her brother on the phone, a vision of his grave passing before her eyes. "I think my brother is dead," she agreed, causing Sara to run her hand through her hair and take a breath.

"Oliver thinks we're in a shared hallucination, I suddenly knew some sort of martial art, there was a battle I think?" Sara rambled, and Callie took a deep breath as the memory of a mind-controlled Sara stabbing her in the shoulder blurred past her eyes.

"Six of us!" Callie exclaimed and Sara frantically nodded.

Callie quickly stripped back into some normal clothes as they all rushed to where they had agreed to meet outside in the quad.

"Have you explained to Ray what we have to do?"

"Yeah. Apparently, we have to get to an office tower that my non-fiancée doesn't own, which is a little strange. All that coming from a guy who's been having memories that he's able to shrink," Ray rambled, and Callie felt the familiarity of this in her chest as he did so.

"Well, whatever we're doing, we have to do it fast because whatever the Dominators have done to us, they would have built in safeguards. They're probably manifestations from our memories designed to keep us here," Oliver explained, shouting as an arrow shot through the air and slammed into his shoulder. They all gasped before they turned to see various figures facing them.

Callie studied them, recognising Damien, Malcolm, Slade and the soldiers (mirikuru and argus) standing against them. The rain trickled down on them all, and Callie felt her muscles tense as she studied them all.

"They're not real!" Oliver reminded them all as he noticed the shock that had spread across everyones faces as they remembered memories with the villains.

"They certainly look real," Thea's voice rang out as she came to stand at the end of the line they had formed. "But let's not get into that right now."

"Speedy?"

"Yeah. I had a change of heart, ok? Like I said, I can't lose my family again."

"Your father's still alive, Thea. Your real father at least!" Malcolm shouted out, causing Callie to clench her fists as she remembered how it was his fault that her brother had been killed in the earthquakes almost four years ago.

"Unfortunately, this is gonna be a little less satisfying for me than killing your sister and lover," the fake Damien spoke to Sara, but it was Callie paused at his words. She had learnt that she had died due to Barry changing the timeline, but she hadn't realised it was Darhk who had killed her in the new one.

The five foes from their pasts stood in front of the six of them. Callie noticed that it was like everyone had paired up; Diggle with the Argus goons, Ray with the Mirakuru soldiers, Oliver with Slade, Sara with Darhk and Thea with her father.

"Guys?" They all paused as they turned to look at Callie. The girl had a confused look on her face and they all instantly knew this wasn't going to be good.

"If the dominators have assigned you all someone from your past to kill you, why haven't they assigned me anyone?" She slowly questioned, and they all exchanged puzzled looks.

It wasn't until the smooth voice of Damien Darhk rang out across the grass quadrant, did they get their answer.

"You're already dying, Camilla," he laughed, but it only confused everyone else more.

"Sorry wha-" she was cut off by a sudden stabbing pain in her upper shoulder, causing her to wheeze as all the air suddenly left her lungs. There was another laugh from Darhk as Callie slumped to the ground, feeling for the wound that she now remembered was on her shoulder.

She could hear the others begin to fight around her, but she was just struggling to even form a breath of air. There was blood all over the white top that she had gotten changed into, and she could see that the puddle of blood she was struggling in had also began to coat her white converse. The blood was thick on her hands as she applied pressure to her wound.

She didn't hear the fighting stop, but she heard Sara scream her name as the blonde hurled towards her. She slid across the grass as she collapsed down by her side. Callie couldn't make out what was being said. Sara's lips were moving in slow motion, but the girl couldn't make out any noice or lip sync. The blood was on Sara's blonde hair now too, have dipped into the puddle as she pressed against Callie's wound.

She was hauled to her feet, and was passing in and out of consciousness. Next thing Callie knew, she was standing in front of a massive green portal that didn't look like it was safe. Sara held her tightly with the help of Thea as they headed straight towards the portal.

"Guys, I don't think that belongs there," Ray pointed to the portal, as if they hadn't already realised that. "That's either the way out of here, or we got to click our heels together 3 times and say, "There's no place like home."

"And if that doesn't work?" Sara asked.

"It has to work."

"She's running out of time!" Oliver muttered, pushing them lightly towards the portal as Callie whimpered in pain. They headed through the green mist, the life around them fading.

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Callie groaned as she slid out of the chamber pod she had been encased in, only for Oliver and Diggle to catch her before she slumped to the floor.

"Where are we?"

"You all right?" Oliver asked Diggle, referring to the gunshot he had received back in the fake world. Diggle nodded, knowing that the girl in his arms however was not okay.

"Yeah. It may not be real, but it still hurts like a son of a bitch."

"Uh, guys. There's something you really need to see," Ray noted, and they all looked up to see the reflection of the Earth looking back at them.

Dig wasn't actually wounded, but it was clear he was suffering a little bit of pain. But the man put it aside as he and Oliver helped Callie to stumble through the hallways.

The dominators had at least wrapped Callie's shoulder in some form of makeshift bandage, but the blood had began to seep through the grey jumpsuits that they all had been changed into. She could barely lift her head to even look at the others.

Oliver handed her fully to dig as he grabbed a gun from the wall to fire at the dominators they had just encountered. Diggle carried her in a bridal style as they ran behind Ray down the hallways of the ship and eventually into the drop ship after being chased by dominators they had ran into. Dig placed Callie into the seat between Oliver and Sara before the rest of them all sat down. Sara twisted in her seat, applying pressure to Callie's wound as the ship suddenly secured them and jumped to life.

"And mom said I wouldn't amount to anything if I didn't go to college!" Thea joked before the ship started to jolt as it detached itself from the main alien ship.

"Uh, I really hope you hit autopilot because I don't see any controls on this thing!" Ray yelled as they spun frantically through the air.

"Incoming!"

"How do you know?" Sara and Callie asked at the same time. The raven haired girl groaned as the ship jolted again and sparks flew, the pain in her shoulder only increasing. Sara tried to soothe her, placing a soft hand on the side of her face to keep her eyes on her own.

"Lucky guess?"

"We need to find a way to steer this thing, or we're not gonna last very long!" Oliver yelled at them all.

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"Oliver... Nice clothes. Shopping at Alien Gap?" Nate joked as he leant against the wall of the Waverider. He had managed to bring the ship they were on to connect with the ship.

"Not funny." Oliver snarked.

"Well, lucky for you guys, the Waverider has a machine that replicates old clothes and weapons. Hi. I'm Nate Heywood." He waved at them all.

"Hi. Thea, and--and this is exactly twice as many spaceships as I ever thought I'd be on." Thea quipped.

"Well, actually, it's a time ship." Sara muttered, before she felt her hands get more wet from the blood that was seeping from Callie's body.

"How'd you find us?"

"I didn't. Your nerd army back on Earth did."

"I'm gonna take Callie to the med bay, have Gideon fix her up!" Sara yelled as she lifted Callie into her arms and sprinted down the hallway.

"Who the hell is Gideon?"