Author's Note: This is my first attempt at an Arrow/Flash-verse fic but I couldn't imagine a world with Flash and Green Arrow that was missing Batman and Robin! All characters owned by a combination of DC Comics and CW.
Star City
"Speedy…speedy, can you hear me?"
Thea Queen opened her eyes with a groan to see the worried face of her older brother looking down on her. "I'm…I'm okay," she said. "Don't worry, Arrow."
Green Arrow didn't look convinced, and he supported her back with one hand as Speedy carefully wriggled into sitting position. "What happened?" asked Speedy.
"We got our asses kicked," replied Arsenal before Green Arrow could reply. Arsenal was using a wall to support himself, his left foot twisted in a position that looked extremely painful. Knowing how much force it took to do any damage to him, Speedy had to agree without even looking at how badly the rest of the team was injured.
"Everyone's alive," said Green Arrow firmly, glancing at Arsenal. "So we live to fight another day."
"We'll get our asses kicked again," said Arsenal flatly. "That thing we just fought can control lightening."
"And is built like a tank," added Spartan, who was currently still on the floor nursing his head.
Green Arrow looked around and sighed. "Fine…we can call them."
Central City
Barry Allen groaned as he woke up on the ground, with Caitlin and Cisco above him looking rather alarmed.
"So…you didn't get him?" asked Cisco.
Barry snorted. "No, I didn't get him."
"Damn," said Cisco.
"Vibe, shut up," said Caitlin. "Flash, are you okay?"
"Remember when people said that this Simon dude can brain-blast you?" said Barry, sitting up gingerly.
"Yeah?"
"I figured out what that meant."
"Sweet, what does it mean?"
"VIBE," complained Caitlin.
"It means it feels like your brain is melting," said Barry dryly.
Cisco looked horrified.
"So…we're calling Team Arrow?" asked Caitlin.
Barry nodded. "Yeah…we're calling them."
Star City
Thea perched herself on the edge of Oliver's bed and looked at him pointedly.
"I'm doing it, I'm doing it," grumbled Oliver. "Look," he held up his cell phone. "I'm calling Barry now."
"Just making sure," said Thea, not budging.
Oliver raised an eyebrow as he finished dialing.
Barry picked up on the second ring. "Oliver? I was just about to call you."
Oliver and Thea exchanged glances as Oliver asked, "Really? Does your guy also shoot lightening from his hands?"
"No. My guy can control minds – wait…you have a lightening guy? What did you do, piss off Thor?"
"You have a mind reader problem?" asked Oliver.
Thea groaned.
"Yeah…but we lost him, so we can help you first…"
"You lost him?"
There was muffled shouting in the background on Barry's end and Barry corrected, "Cisco wants me to say that we didn't lose him, he's just out of range and Vibe will be more than up to the task of finding him once Simon is in-range."
"Simon?" asked Thea.
"Is that Speedy? Hi, Speedy! Yeah…he calls himself Simon. You know, like Simon Says?"
It was silent for a moment on the Queen Mansion side of the line. "Why are the people you chase so, so weird?" demanded Thea.
"Hey! It's not my fault! Anyway, when do you want me over there? Cause I can go my way and be there quickly but if I'm trying to bring Caitlin and Cisco-"
"Bring your whole team," interrupted Oliver. His headache was back. A mind-reader? "Let's just…let's just work together on these two."
Star City
Cisco sank onto a couch gratefully in the parlor of the Queen home. "Oh…I do love it when we visit this city."
"This isn't vacation, Cisco," complained Caitlin, putting down a heavy bag of equipment with a sigh.
"Why'd you bring so many things?" asked Thea, looking at the bulging bag suspiciously.
"Have you been developing equipment to combat a mind-reader?" asked Caitlin.
"Point taken," said Thea. "Want help taking it to the base?"
"Yeah, thank you," said Caitlin gratefully.
"Did I hear right?" asked Felicity, coming in with the rest of Team Arrow in tow (carrying a few dozen Subway sandwiches). "You were all attacked by a mind reader? And then you lost him?"
"He wasn't lost!" protested Cisco.
"Yes, he was," muttered Caitlin.
"Let's just find Thor first, shall we?" said Barry quickly.
"Thor?" asked Roy.
"Your person needs a name, doesn't he?"
Roy shrugged. "He didn't look like a Thor. More like a…Storm."
"Storm, huh?"
"Mr. Thunder," said Diggle solemnly, and everyone laughed.
Fighting a smile, Oliver said. "Come on, Cisco. Do your thing. Let's see if Mr. Thunder is one of your metahumans."
With a dramatic flourish, Cisco pulled his enhanced visors out from his pocket and said, "Watch Vibe at work…"
Thea snorted.
Cisco ignored her and put on the visors. About two second later he swore. "SHIT!"
"WHAT!?"
"Fucking-Simon-is-in-Central-City-and-he's-getting-away!"
"What-do-you-mean-he's-getting-away?" demanded Barry.
"He's-going-he's-going," Cisco continued to babble with very few people in the room following him. "He's-going-SHIT-THE-LIGHTNING-PERSON-IS-WITH-HIM! They're gone."
"Gone?" repeated Barry.
"That's the ONLY word I got," complained Roy. "Since when can you talk at super speed, Cisco?"
"How could they be gone?" demanded Oliver.
"They moved out of range," said Cisco. "It's like they were in a really fast moving car or…or a train!"
"The train station is only about six miles from here," said Felicity.
"Where exactly?" said Cisco.
Felicity pulled up Google Maps on her phone and showed him.
"That's what they did," said Cisco with finality. "They got on a train that left almost exactly when I started vibing."
"Fuck," said Thea. "They could be anywhere!"
"Actually," said Oliver, looking up from his own phone. "Only one train has left in the past five minutes." He help up his phone and the displayed the words:
"DESTINATION: GOTHAM"