Cisco realized that continuing their estrangement would be hypocritical, as Cisco has now also changed the past. The teams dissuade Barry from surrendering, and he and Cisco reconcile. After the Legends returned, the team discovered that the Dominators' weapon is a bomb that will kill all meta-humans on Earth, with millions of collateral human casualties. In 2016 Central City, the team learned that the Dominators know about Barry's manipulation of the timeline, deem him a threat, and are demanding his surrender in exchange for peace. Felicity and Cisco rescued the Legends and set the Dominator free, carelessly altering history. The Legends learn from the Dominator that the aliens have arrived to assess humanity's threat, now that meta-humans have appeared and formed the Justice Society of America. Although they were successful, the three Legends and their alien captive were taken prisoner by N.S.A. He goes there with his teammates Mick Rory and Amaya Jiwe as well as Felicity and Cisco to kidnap a Dominator for information. Nate said that the first Dominator invasion occurred in 1951 in Redmond, Oregon. Meanwhile, the Dominators' mothership headed towards Earth.
Aboard the Waverider, Ray deduced that the Dominators were gathering information about meta-humans, using the hallucination as a distraction, to help them build a special "weapon". Aided by Barry and Kara, they recovered a device to locate the captives, who are rescued by Nate Heywood in the Waverider. Felicity, Curtis Holt, and Cisco tried to hack into the Dominators' mainframe. The adversaries were defeated, and the five awaken in the Dominators' ship and escaped in a shuttle. Their escape attempt was blocked by personifications of their enemies: Malcolm Merlyn, Deathstroke, two Mirakuru soldiers, Damien Darhk, and two H.I.V.E. The captives began seeing flashes of their real lives and realized what the Dominators have done to them. His parents are alive, and Diggle is operating as a vigilante known as "The Hood". In that reality, Oliver was living at Queen Manor, having never gotten on The Queen's Gambit and is about to be married to Laurel Lance. They are held in pods on a Dominator ship, each one unconscious except for a shared hallucination of a simulated reality. Sara Lance, Ray, John Diggle, Thea, and Oliver are then abducted by the Dominators. When the team regroups, Ray Palmer tells Barry that everyone forgives and trusts him again.
While Oliver held them off, Barry lured Kara to the mind-control device and manipulates her into destroying it, freeing everyone from the Dominators' control. Labs, where Barry and Oliver confront them. The controlled heroes return and attack S.T.A.R. They find the President, but the Dominators kill him when he is found and activate a mind-control device to take over the group. Oliver chooses to stay behind in support of Barry, so Kara leads the group. However, Barry remained behind since most of them still distrusted him. As a result, only Oliver, Kara, Felicity Smoak, Martin Stein, Jefferson Jackson, and Caitlin Snow still trusted Barry.Īfter the Dominators abducted the President of the United States, the teams go on a mission rescue him. Cisco Ramon found and revealed a message that Barry's future self sent to Rip Hunter, which exposed Barry's manipulation of the timeline and its effects on other team members. Kara struggled to earn Oliver Queen's trust, seeing that he's is the most respected among the heroes of this world. Labs facility, sparring with Supergirl to prepare for the aliens. In order to face this new threat, Barry assembled Team Arrow, Thea Queen, the Legends, and Kara Danvers. Lyla Michaels told the team that the Dominators had landed during the 1950s, but mysteriously departed.