2016 (Earth-1)

This is a timeline of events that occurred during **2016**.

	+ Felicity Smoak returns home from the hospital, trying to figure out her place on Team Arrow now that she is a paraplegic.
* **January 4**
	+ An A.R.G.U.S. agent seeks out John Diggle and Lyla Michaels for assistance, but is kidnapped before he can tell the pair anything.
* **January 6**
	+ John and Lyla goes to Amanda Waller, who secretly gives her a portable hard drive that reveals the operative was taken by an organization known as "Shadowspire".
	+ John recognizes the name and recounts first meeting the war profiteering group in Afghanistan.
	+ With Andy's help, the team tracks Shadowspire. Oliver pressures Felicity for help, who has started having hallucinations of her hacker past self.
	+ Shadowspire infiltrates A.R.G.U.S. looking for the access codes to a project known as "Rubicon", kills Amanda Waller when she refuses to help.
	+ Oliver Queen and Team Arrow, with Felicity's assistance, enter A.R.G.U.S. and stops Shadowspire.
	+ Oliver vows to look for a way to cure Felicity's paralysis; and John takes to his house.
* **January 10**
	+ David Bowie dies of liver cancer at the age of 69.
* **January 16**
	+ In an effort to save humanity in 2166, Time Master Rip Hunter travels back to 2016 to assemble a group of superheroes and supervillains to stop Vandal Savage's rise to power before he conquers the world: Lucifer Morningstar/Dark Flash, Ray Palmer/A.T.O.M, Sara Lance/White Canary, Jefferson Jackson, and Martin Stein (combined Firestorm), Mick Rory/Heat Wave, Leonard Snart/Captain Cold, Carter Hall/Hawkman, and Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl.
	+ All the superheroes and supervillains accept the offer, except Jefferson Jackson, who is drugged by Martin Stein and taken to the Waverider for "the adventure of his life". Although all of them accept, Lucifer refuses as he wants to stay in present with his friends on Earth-38 and he also believes in and knows that his friends, Palmer, Lance, Jackson, Stein, Hall and Saunders would been able to take on and bring down Vandal Savage.
	+ Rip Hunter founds the team, made up by superheroes and supervillains, dubbed "The Legends". After which, Hunter takes the newly founded team to October 17, 1975 St. Roch, New Orleans.
* **January 19**
	+ Two weeks later, Team Arrow goes after a burglar and Green Arrow and Speedy manage to corner him. He escapes when Thea loses consciousness.
	+ Malcolm Merlyn reveals to Oliver that since she has not taken a life, the bloodlust is killing her.
	+ Ruvé Adams enters the mayoral race.
	+ Oliver finds out that the burglar is Roy Harper. They free Roy from the control of a man who goes by the name Calculator.
* **January 20**
	+ Felicity Smoak tracks the Calculator through the web, who reveals he intends to shut down the entire city, killing everyone in the process. Team Arrow manages to stop the plan.
	+ The Calculator is revealed to be Felicity's father, Noah Kuttler.
	+ Roy Harper decides to leave again.
	+ Thea Queen slips into a coma.
	+ Nyssa escapes her cell in Nanda Parbat, and visits Tatsu Yamashiro and convinces her to give her the Lotus, a cure for Thea's bloodlust. She demands Oliver to kill Malcolm in exchange for Lotus.
	+ Oliver refuses Nyssa's offer; instead, he manages to convince Malcolm to relinquish control of the League to Nyssa in exchange for the Lotus.
* **January 21**
	+ At the exchange, Malcolm Merlyn double-crosses Nyssa al Ghul and a war starts between the two assassin factions in Star City.
	+ Oliver convinces Merlyn to challenge Nyssa to a duel.
	+ Oliver uses ancient rules to trade places with Nyssa as her husband. Oliver defeats Malcolm Merlyn but, instead of killing him, he severs the hand wearing the Demon's Head ring and exchange the ring for the Lotus.
	+ Nyssa disbands the League and calls for Oliver Queen and Malcolm Merlyn and destroys the ring in front of the two.
	+ Malcolm Merlyn informs Damien Darhk about Oliver's son, William.
* **January 22**
	+ Noah Kuttler reveals to Felicity Smoak that he is the Calculator, claiming to have changed into a good person. She finds out that he is lying and turns him over to the police.
* **January 24**
	+ Cisco presents a new idea to slow Zoom down, telling the team about a meta-human, whom he has dubbed the "Turtle", who has the ability to stop the kinetic energy around him and slow everyone to a halt.
	+ Joe West struggles to develop a relationship with Wally, who has been street racing in an attempt to earn enough money for Francine Barrek's medical bills.
	+ After Barry fails to stop the Turtle, identified as Russell Glosson, at a diamond unveiling, Team Flash sets a trap at an art exhibit.
	+ Caitlin discovers that Jay Garrick is dying of an illness caused by Zoom stealing his speed.
	+ Barry invites Patty with the intention of telling her his secret, but Glosson is aware of the trap and almost kills Patty before escaping. Russell Glosson/The Turtle kidnaps Patty Spivot.
	+ Team Flash tracks him down and Barry is able to generate enough speed to move through the kinetic waves to knock him unconscious and save Patty.
	+ Patty tells Barry that she is leaving Central City.
* **January 25**
	+ Team Flash vow to stop Zoom to get Jay's speed back in order to cure Jay.
	+ At night, Harry kills Glosson by extracting a portion of his brain matter.
	+ Team Flash discovers Turtle's death and Jay suspects Harry.
* **January 26**
	+ After learning the time that The Flash was active, Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash's younger self from 2184 arrives in January 26, 2016, noticing Barry Allen/The Flash of an alternate timeline speeding away.
	+ Cisco asks Harry for help in controlling his vibing abilities. Harry determines they are connected to Cisco's fear response and triggers a vibe which alerts the team that Eobard Thawne is back.
	+ Harry surmises that this version of Thawne is from a point in the future before he went back in time to kill Nora Allen and was protected from being erased.
	+ Cisco has a vibe of the future, and the team learns that Thawne is planning to use tachyons to return to his time.
	+ Barry arrives and destroys the machine. After a race around the city, The Flash stops Reverse-Flash and imprisons him at the particle accelerator.
	+ However, this capture of Reverse-Flash causes a rupture in the timeline that threatens to kill Cisco, so Barry decide to send Thawne back to the future to save his friend. After Thawne is released from his prison in S.T.A.R. Labs, Reverse-Flash is aided by The Flash to return to his time.
	+ Patty discovers Barry is The Flash but, when he refuses to acknowledge it, she chooses to leave Central City.
	+ Iris learns that Francine's death is imminent and reconciles with her. Wally takes her advice to do the same.
* **January 28**
	+ Francine Barrek dies from the effects of MacGregor's Syndrome.
* **January 30**
	+ Cheyenne goes into labor while working and it is revealed that Cloud 9 does not offer paid maternity leave, which prompts Jonah and Amy to call corporate and accidentally get a union buster named Steve Bucatinsky sent to the store.
	+ But it is also revealed that Cheyenne's labor is false known as Braxton Hicks.
* **January 31**
	+ Dina regrets giving up her assistant manager position, especially after learning that Jonah doesn't want to date her.
	+ Harmonica Thompson is born to Bo Derek Thompson and Cheyenne Tyler Lee.
	+ Later on, Glenn tries to get around Cloud 9's maternity policy by "suspending" Cheyenne for six weeks with pay so she can be with her child, but Steve overhears it and Glenn is soon fired.
	+ This prompts everyone to walk out of the store in protest, except Dina. As the only employee who didn't walk out, Dina reassumes her assistant manager job and takes charge, with everyone else's jobs hanging in the balance.
	+ The employee walkout in protest of Glenn's firing prompts District Manager Jeff Sutton to visit the store. He meets with Amy and Jonah, offering everyone's job back including Glenn's, but on the condition that they sign a written apology and have everything go back normal.
	+ This doesn't sit well with Amy and Jonah, so they organize a full-fledged strike for the next day.

#### February

* **February 1**
	+ At the employee protest, Garrett hits it off with a woman who showed up to support the strike, but is dismayed when he learns her real beef is against transgender rights.
	+ Dina tries hard to get on Jeff's good side, unsuccessfully attempting to break the strike.
	+ Eventually, Jeff convinces most of the striking employees to return to work, leaving only Amy and Jonah on the picket line. The two ultimately also decide to go back to work, resolving to fight Cloud 9 from within.
* **February 2**
	+ Following the strike, the employees at Cloud 9 return to work and do everything possibly to impress Jeff.
	+ Joe, Iris and Wally West and also Barry Allen holds a small funeral for Francine Barrek.
* **February 4**
	+ When a giant construction crew begins reconstruction of the warehouse where Monteleone was thrown in a tar pit, Joey Monteleone is freed from the tar pit, becoming the meta-human, with the ability to turn his body into molten tar, known as Tar Pit.
	+ Monteleone sets out to get revenge on those who attempted to kill him.
	+ Harry creates a device to siphon Barry's speed energy and attaches it to his suit. The tachyon device steals a portion of Barry's speed.
	+ Harry gives the speed energy to Zoom, who demands the rest.
	+ Wally continues racing even after Francine's death. Iris discover this and shows up at one of his races wearing sexy clothes to blend in and she then gain multiple leads on Joey Monteleone and the hustler, Clark Bronwen, who is hosting every street race involving Wally.
* **February 5**
	+ Iris confronts Clark Bronwen with evidence on him, threatening to publish it unless he stops letting Wally race, which fails.
	+ Harry Wells and Barry Allen successfully find a way to close the breaches.
	+ When her initial attempt to stop Wally's racing fails, Iris brings Joe to the next race to shut it down. When Tar Pit arrives at the drag race, disguising himself as pavement, hurling Wally, his racing opponent, and their cars toward Clark Bronwen. The Flash arrives and Bronwen, but Iris is injured by a shard of glass from Wally's car when Barry is too slow to save her, indirectly caused by Harry.
	+ Because of this, Harry tells Team Flash about the tachyon device that instead of enhancing the Speed Force energy, this device reverses the effect siphoning the energy, asking to be returned to Earth-2 and have Barry seal the breaches so Zoom cannot re-enter. Joe instead punches Harry and places him in the Pipeline.
	+ With Joe West using Clay Stanley as bait, Tar Pit arrive and attempts to Stanley, but is defeated by The Flash using nitrous grenades.
* **February 6**
	+ After stopping Tar Pit, Barry tries to plead Harry's case. Successful, Barry informs Harry that the team will help him to save Jesse from Zoom.
* **February 7**
	+ Before heading to Earth-2, Barry closes all but one of the breaches, which is at S.T.A.R. Labs.
	+ Using the last breach, Barry Allen, Cisco Ramon, and Harry Wells travel to Earth-2, but an energy surge destabilizes the breach and the trio get stuck on Earth-2.
	+ A new meta-human named Adam Fells appears in Central City.
	+ Jay tells Caitlin that he invented Velocity-6, which is the real reason why he lost his speed.
	+ Caitlin develops Velocity-7, which Jay uses to engage Fells, who escapes.
* **February 8**
	+ Caitlin creates Velocity-9, which Jay uses to stop Fells, who gets incarcerated in Iron Heights. Caitlin discovers that Velocity-9 can cure Jay.
	+ Jay, Caitlin, Iris and Joe stabilize the breach and allows Barry Allen, Cisco Ramon, Harry Wells, and Harry's daughter Jesse to return through the breach, but Zoom catches up to them and stabs his arm through Jay and pulls him back through the closing breach to Earth-2.
* **February 15**
	+ Malcolm Merlyn joins Damien Darhk, Ruvé Adams, and the other leaders of H.I.V.E. and it is revealed that they are moving on to "Phase 5" of their plan.
	+ Thea finds out about William and supports Oliver's decision to hide it from Felicity.
	+ Darhk sends a group of mercenaries, known as the Demolition Team, to take out Quentin Lance, whom Laurel saves.
	+ With Curtis Holt's help, Felicity realizes that the Demolition Team is planning to destroy the building of the mayoral debate between Oliver Queen and Ruvé Adam, leaving her alive as a sympathetic survivor.
	+ Oliver Queen and his team stop the mercenaries in time for Oliver to win the debate.
	+ Oliver and Felicity become engaged and Curtis gives her a device that can cure her paralysis.
* **February 16**
	+ Damien Darhk kidnaps William Clayton.
	+ Quentin tells Donna about his previous involvements with Darhk.
	+ Darhk demands Oliver to withdraw from the mayoral race in exchange for William.
* **February 17**
	+ Oliver reveals the truth about William to the rest of Team Arrow while revealing his alter ego to Samantha Clayton.
	+ Oliver asks the Detroit-based vigilante named Mari McCabe/Vixen for help, as her powers are derived from magic.
	+ Mari tracks William's location; but they fail to rescue him.
	+ Oliver withdraws from the race while the team discovers the root of Darhk's powers and sets a plan to destroy his mystical idol.
	+ The plan works; Damien Darhk is left powerless and arrested, while William is saved.
	+ They also discover that Malcolm was the one who kidnapped William.
	+ Later, Oliver sends William and his mother away for safety, planning to reveal the truth to William when he is 18.
	+ Felicity decides to break up with Oliver while she recovers her ability to walk.
* **February 22**
	+ Two weeks after "Jay Garrick's death", while everyone tries to move on, the humanoid shark-monster that Harry stopped, known as "King Shark", escapes A.R.G.U.S. custody and heads for Central City to kill The Flash.
	+ John Diggle and Lyla Michaels, the new director of A.R.G.U.S. and succeed Waller, arrive to warn Barry Allen.
* **February 23**
	+ King Shark, later identified as Shay Lamden, shows up at Barry's home looking for The Flash, tracking Barry's electrical field.
	+ Barry and Wally find it hard to develop a relationship.
	+ After Caitlin becomes cold due to Jay's death, Cisco becomes scared that she will become Killer Frost; but she assures him that she is only dealing with her grief.
	+ A.R.G.U.S. arrives at the West house and forces King Shark to retreat.
	+ Later, Barry forces King Shark to chase him out on the water, where Barry creates an electrified underwater cyclone that subdues King Shark, and allows A.R.G.U.S. to imprison him again, with Lyla planning to find a cure.
	+ Barry vows to open a breach back to Earth-2 to stop Zoom meanwhile on Earth-2, Zoom unmasks and reveals himself to "Jay", whose real name is Hunter Zolomon.

#### March

* **March 6**
	+ Nancy Reagan dies.
* **March 14**
	+ Carrie Cutter returns to Star City and begins targeting high profile couples.
* **March 15**
	+ While Team Arrow works to track Cupid's whereabouts and prevent any more killings, Laurel Lance works on Darhk's prosecution.
	+ After several failed attempts to find a suitable witness, Quentin testifies to his involvement.
* **March 16**
	+ Team Arrow discovers that Carrie is targeting couples that have recently been married.
	+ In order to draw her out, Oliver convinces Felicity to stage a "secret" wedding with him to set themselves up as targets, intentionally leaking the information to the media.
	+ The plan works and Carrie attacks Oliver and Felicity at the ceremony. Felicity distracts her long enough for Diggle and Thea to apprehend her.
* **March 17**
	+ Damien Darhk's bail is denied and is remanded into custody.
	+ Quentin Lance is suspended pending an investigation, while Felicity quits Team Arrow for good.
	+ In custody, Darhk is shown wearing a mystical ring he secretly carried inside.
* **March 21**
	+ Barry starts training to get faster so that he can stop Zoom.
	+ While out friends at a club for downtime, Barry and the other club patrons are robbed by a speedster, Trajectory, who then escapes.
* **March 22**
	+ The speedster, Trajectory, turns out to be Eliza Harmon, a Mercury Labs employee who developed Velocity-9 from samples Caitlin gave her to help with Jay's illness.
	+ Trajectory invades S.T.A.R. Labs, imprisons Barry, and demands more V-9.
	+ After Trajectory threatens Jesse's life, Harry and Caitlin make more of the drug for Trajectory, who then speeds off to wreak havoc on the city.
	+ The Flash manages to stop Trajectory before she injects more V-9 into her system. Barry watches as Trajectory's speed becomes so intense that her lightning turns blue and she disintegrates, dying.
	+ Iris West's article on Trajectory and The Flash, titled "FLASH Stops Evil Female Speedster" is published on the front page of Central City Picture News.
* **March 23**
	+ Jesse decides to leave Central City to experience the world on her own and stop Harry from doing harmful things just to protect her.
	+ Based on what Barry saw from the overuse of V-9, the similarities between Zoom's speed and Jay's sickness, and Cisco's vibe (where he sees Zoom unmasked), Team Flash concludes that Jay is Zoom.
* **March 24**
	+ Using prison computers, Brie Larvan changes her release date from August 12, 2067 to March 29, 2016, orchestrating her release from prison in five days.
* **March 29**
	+ Brie Larvan is released from Iron Heights Prison.
	+ **Time Rupture**: Barry Allen travels back in time to January 27, 2015 in order to find a way to be faster, accidentally altering events with Hartley Rathaway.
	+ Back in 2016 from 2015, Barry Allen is confronted by the Time Wraith, but a reformed Hartley arrives with his sonic gauntlets and defeats the Time Wraith.
	+ Barry gives Iris a footage of Eddie recorded in the alternate timeline, advising her to move on with her life.
* **March 30**
	+ Brie Larvan/Bug-Eyed Bandit travels to Star City in search of the bio-mechanical chip that helps Felicity walk.
	+ Larvan attacks Palmer Tech, holding the board hostage until Felicity turns herself over.
	+ Curtis tracks down Oliver's hideout, discovering his secret identity in the process, so that he can offer his help to the team to save Felicity, Donna, and Thea.
	+ Oliver is stung by one of Brie's robotic bees. Curtis realizes the sting actually implanted a bee within Oliver that is replicating itself.
	+ Laurel uses her Canary Cry to save Oliver.
	+ Felicity is able to evacuate the board members, while Larvan reveals she is after the chip because she has a tumor that is going to leave her paralyzed. Curtis develops a virus to shut down the bees and uses them to stop Larvan.
* **March 31**
	+ Malcolm Merlyn visits Darhk and informs him that H.I.V.E. is proceeding with "Genesis" without Darhk, who later gains the loyalty of Michael Amar.
	+ Andy is revealed to be still in allegiance with Darhk.

#### April

* **April 5**
	+ Andy tells John that he was approached by Malcolm Merlyn about a plan to break Damien Darhk out of prison.
	+ Oliver and John foil H.I.V.E.'s plan, but it turns out to be a ruse designed to let Malcolm and his loyal assassins invade the Arrowcave and steal Darhk's idol.
	+ Malcolm delivers the idol to Darhk, who finds out that it is incomplete.
	+ John reveals to Andy that he personally hid the missing piece in another location. Oliver becomes suspicious of Andy.
* **April 6**
	+ Damien Darhk and Michael Amar orchestrate a prison riot at Iron Heights Penitentiary and Team Arrow sets out to stop him with Andy joining them.
	+ However, when Team Arrow reaches Darhk, Andy turns on them and gives Darhk the missing piece to his idol.
	+ With his powers restored, Darhk subdues Team Arrow and stabs Laurel before escaping with Malcolm, Andy, and tens of other inmates.
	+ Green Arrow takes Black Canary to the hospital to be treated for her wound.
	+ A mere hour later, the rest of Team Arrow arrive at the hospital while Quentin Lance is called and told of Laurel's wound.
	+ Sometime later, Laurel Lance dies at the hospital with surrounded by all of Team Arrow as Quentin Lance arrives at the hospital and knows Laurel died by the look on Oliver's face.
* **April 13**
	+ As Team Arrow, including the rejoined Felicity Smoak, mourns Laurel Lance's death and tries to determine their next move against Darhk, another woman posing as the Black Canary appears in Star City.
	+ The imposter turns out to be Evelyn Sharp, the daughter of H.I.V.E. prisoners who were left behind after Oliver saved his team when they were previously kidnapped by Darhk back on Christmas Eve, 2015.
	+ Quentin Lance starts looking for ways to revive Laurel; but Oliver manages to dissuade him.
	+ John Diggle, angry at being betrayed by Andy, goes after Ruvé Adams, the new mayor; but Oliver intervenes.
	+ Ruvé Adams issues arrest warrants for all vigilantes.
	+ Evelyn Sharp goes after Ruvé publicly, but the Green Arrow is able to dissuade her from killing Ruvé.
* **April 14**
	+ At Laurel Lance's funeral paid for by Lucifer, it is attended by Lucifer Morningstar, Team Arrow and Laurel's family, except Sara as she didn't know of her death until she returns from traveling adventure in mid-May 2016. Oliver Queen reveals Laurel as the Black Canary to preserve her image with the city. Lucifer vows to defeat and kill Damien Darhk.
	+ Moments after the funeral is over, Barry Allen arrive and apologizes for him and his team's absence in Laurel's funeral, which Oliver accepts.
	+ Afterwards, Oliver vows to find a way to defeat and kill Damien Darhk.
* **April 19**
	+ Barry Allen/The Flash tests the tachyon accelerator, and is able to enhance his speed four times greater than normal. As Barry test his speed, he accidentally travels a month into the future of May 9, 2016 of Earth-38; this universe has the exact same date as Earth-1.
	+ After spending a couple of days on Earth-38, Barry Allen travels back to Earth-1 mere seconds after leaving, showing far greeter speed levels. When arriving at S.T.A.R. Labs, this surprises Barry as for him was gone for a few days and he only thought he traveled between universes, unbeknownst to Barry, he traveled one month into the future of parallel universe to his own.
	+ Barry decides to re-open a breach back to Earth-2, and he believes that Cisco's powers are the key to opening the portals.
	+ Caitlin reveals that Jay's Earth-1 doppelgänger is named Hunter Zolomon and Harry, shocked to hear this, reveals that Earth-2 Hunter Zolomon was a convicted serial killer.
	+ Zolomon was receiving electroconvulsive therapy during the particle accelerator on Earth-2, and was one of the many affected.
	+ With this revelation, Team Flash confirms that "Jay" is Hunter Zolomon.
	+ Cisco opens a breach, and Zoom immediately appears, chasing Barry back to S.T.A.R. Labs.
	+ There, Barry uses images of Zolomon's parents as a distraction to trap him, but Hunter Zolomon escapes the speed trap, claiming to be "the darkness".
	+ Zolomon kidnaps Wally West and demands The Flash's speed in exchange for Wally's life. The Flash agrees, so Harry siphons all of Barry's speed force energy, all but 2% left inside his system, but the Speed Force connection in Barry's system is locked alongside his meta-human DNA, both emotionally and physically, leaving Barry powerless to protect his world.
	+ Nora West-Allen and Barry Allen travel from 2018 to steal the Speed Force transmitter to use against Cicada and the two listen to Barry's past villain.
	+ Zolomon injects the Speed Force energy into himself, and he kidnaps Caitlin with his enhanced speed before escaping.
	+ When Zoom kidnapped Caitlin, Nora and Barry steals the Speed Force transmitter, however, Zoom notices this and runs after them entering the time portal, from which a Time Wraith goes and Zoom is caught by the Time Wraith and Barry and Nora arrive in January 27, 2015 instead of December 11, 2013.

#### May

* **May 1**
	+ As Barry Allen adjusts to life without his powers, Harry decides to leave the lab to look for Jesse. Shortly after speaking with her, Harry is attacked and kidnapped by Griffin Grey, believing him to be Earth-1 Harrison Wells (Eobard Thawne), who demands that Harry find a cure for his meta-human abilities.
	+ Grey has superhuman strength, but is also aging rapidly.
	+ Barry discovers that, when Grey uses his super strength, he accelerates the aging process.
	+ Barry, Joe, Cisco and Jesse manipulate Grey into exerting his powers until ages and dies a weak, old man; his body then reverts to its 18-year-old self.
* **May 2**
	+ To fight Zoom, Harry offers to recreate the circumstances that gave Barry his speed.
	+ Later, Zoom decide to conquer the other Earths in the multiverse and takes Caitlin with him back to Earth-1.
	+ Team Flash, knowing that they need to have the genius who is smart enough of whom created the Speed Force and guided Barry's life into becoming The Flash since the latter's birth and created S.T.A.R. Labs, calls for Lucifer Morningstar/Dark Flash throughout the multiverse.
	+ While Barry keeps declining Harry's offer, Team Flash rigs a hologram of The Flash to stop crime around the city so that no one will know the truth.
* **May 3**
	+ Henry Allen returns to Central City and joins Team Flash. He argues with Harry on the safety of another explosion. Zoom and Caitlin arrive back on Earth-1 with Zoom declaring Central City under his control.
	+ Iris confesses her feelings to Barry.
	+ Dante Ramon of Earth-2, known as Rupture, arrives on Earth-1 looking to kill Cisco, believing that Cisco kill his Earth-2 brother.
	+ Zoom sends Rupture after the police to send Central City a message.
	+ Barry and the police stop Rupture, but Zoom arrives and kills the officers himself, and also Rupture for failing him. Zoom then publicly announces The Flash's disappearance.
	+ Cisco and Earth-1 Dante become closer.
	+ Barry finally agrees to Harry's plan as Lucifer arrives.
	+ Lucifer and Harry combine their minds and recreates the particle accelerator that gave Barry his speed, but instead, they have the accelerator blast concealed to happen inside of S.T.A.R. Labs only. During the process, Barry Allen is seemingly vaporized, while Jesse and Wally are caught in the blast, with everyone believing Barry died and Lucifer being the only who knows that he survived and is inside the Speed Force, Lucifer tries to convince Team Flash that he and Harry succeeded and Barry is alive and inside Speed Force, but to no avail.
	+ Moments after the explosion, Wally regains consciousness, but Jesse remains in a coma.
	+ Cisco has a vibe of Barry and realizes that he is still alive and in the Speed Force, confirms what Lucifer said, and they apologize for not believing Lucifer is smart enough in the aftermath of Barry's "vaporizing".
	+ Damien Darhk returns to H.I.V.E. and kills two of the board members before renewing his plans for "Genesis".
* **May 4**
	+ Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak go to Hub City and meet an immortal shaman, Esrin Fortuna, who starts educating Oliver about dark magic.
	+ Thea Queen and Alex Davis, who is working for Ruvé Adams now, go to an unknown city for vacation. She soon realizes that the city is atypical and finds out that Alex is using Darhk's mind control pills. She is subdued by Darhk's operatives and the city is revealed to be under Star City.
	+ Cisco and Harry create a path into the Speed Force so Barry can escape, but he chooses to remain in the Speed Force so he can earn his powers back. After which, Lucifer tells Team Flash that Barry could teleported out of the Speed Force anytime, if he wanted to, but Barry choosing to stay means that he chose to regain his speed instead, and now Barry to complete a quick trial, emotional and physical pain.
	+ Mere moments later, with his powers and unlock the Speed Force connection once more, and the help from Cisco and Iris, Barry Allen returns to S.T.A.R. Labs as The Flash in time to save Team Flash from the reanimated corpse of Tony Woodward.
	+ After a mystical ritual, Fortuna tells Oliver that the darkness inside him is too strong to channel the light.
	+ In Star City, John Diggle locates Andy, but is captured after a brief shootout.
	+ Afterwards, Barry uses a bit of Speed Force energy to bring Jesse out of her coma.
	+ Andy places a tracking device on him, then allows John to escape so that Darhk and his team can go after John and Lyla and stea "Rubicon", the key to the world's nuclear weapons.
	+ Oliver Queen manages to stop Damien Darhk by channeling the power of light, nullifying Darhk's powers and forcing him to reteat.
	+ John Diggle kills his brother Andy in order to protect his family and friends from him.
	+ Across Central City at CCPD, Zoom has assembled an army of meta-humans from Earth-2, planning to unleash them on the entirety of Central City.
	+ Lucifer bids The Flash and Team Flash farewell and returns to Earth-38.
	+ Team Arrow realizes that Damien Darhk plans to detonate nuclear weapons and build a new world over the ashes.
* **May 16**
	+ Caitlin Snow returns to Team Flash, but not without emotional trauma from being kidnapped.
* **May 17**
	+ The Metapocalypse occurs.
		- Zoom's meta-human army invade Central City.
		- Zoom's army wreaks havoc across the city. Barry puts out several fires and takes out some of the meta-humans to help the police.
		- Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry displays a level of confidence in stopping Zoom that concerns Team Flash and each of them attempts to convince him to be more cautious.
		- Among the meta-human army is Zoom's lieutenant Laurel Lance's Earth-2 doppelgänger, Laurel Lance/Black Siren, who attacks various building around Central City using sonic blasts.
		- Wally begins taking on meta-humans trying to repay The Flash for saving him.
		- Team Flash creates a sonic amplifier tuned to the frequency of Earth-2. They discharge it and render all Earth-2 natives unconscious, allowing Barry to apprehend them all at once, although Zoom survives by escaping to Earth-2.
		- The Flash places all the meta-humans from Zoom's meta-human army in S.T.A.R. Labs Pipeline and the meta-human wing of Iron Heights Penitentiary.
	+ Cisco begins having vibes of a future Earth-2 being destroyed, unbeknownst to Cisco, he vibed an alternate future of Earth-2's destruction by anti-matter on October 15, 2019.Barry convinces Joe to let Wally be a hero.
	+ Later that night while Team Flash and their family has a celebration dinner, Cisco has another vibe of Earth-2 being destroyed and informs Team Flash, making Wally ask questions. Moments later, Zoom returns and kidnaps Henry Allen in front of Team Flash and their family. Barry races after tem, revealing his identity to Wally.
	+ The Flash chases Zoom throughout Central City and their conflict leads to the old Allen house in which Barry is forced to watch Zoom kill Henry Allen.
	+ Zoom manages to escape The Flash by creating a time remnant, whom Zoom kills.
* **May 18**
	+ Damien Darhk begins taking control of the world's nuclear missiles.
	+ Team Arrow seeks out Noah Kuttler to help disable Rubicon.
	+ Darhk sends Danny Brickwell and Amar to find and kill Noah, but Green Arrow and his team are able to rescue him. Noah Kuttler agrees to help, but it requires a high-powered processor from Palmer Tech.
	+ In the underground city, Malcolm Merlyn tells Thea Queen it is designed to protect Darhk and his chosen people from the nuclear apocalypse. Lonnie Machin/Anarky attacks the city and kills Alex Davis.
	+ Felicity Smoak learns she has been fired as CEO and is unable to get the processor, forcing Team Arrow to break in and steal it. H.I.V.E. locates the team when Noah hacks into Rubicon.
	+ As H.I.V.E. attacks, Felicity and Noah shut down Rubicon and stop all the missiles but one, which launches and heads to Monument Point. Felicity only manages to redirect it to Havenrock, reducing the casualties to tens of thousands.
	+ Oliver and Diggle find Darhk in the Star City nexus chamber, gathering more power from all the deaths caused by the explosion.
	+ Darhk's power has grown exponentially and he attempts to reactivate "Rubicon" with the help of Felicity's former boyfriend, Cooper Seldon, and launch the remaining missiles. However, Noah, Felicity, and Curtis successfully shut down "Rubicon" for good.
	+ Genesis occurs.
		- Oliver and Diggle discover the underground city and track Thea's whereabouts.
		- Malcolm Merlyn uses a mind-controlling drug on her which makes her turn on Oliver, but Oliver manages to talk her back to reality.
		- Just then, Machin takes over H.I.V.E.'s command center and threatens to destroy Darhk's town.
		- Oliver, Diggle, and Thea intercede, but the main power source gets ruptured and explodes, destroying the city.
		- The town is evacuated and Machin escapes, but not before he kills Ruvé Adams.
		- The Genesis event and also known as the destruction of Havenrock, which leaves Rory Reagan the sole survivor of Genesis's casualties.
* **May 19**
	+ After multiple failures, Rip Hunter returns his team to their day-to-day lives in May 2016 instead of January 2016, secretly knowing that if he did the latter, Sara Lance would have been killed alongside her sister.
	+ Sara Lance meets her father Quentin Lance after her adventures throughout the timeline, discovering Laurel was killed by Damien Darhk and Team Arrow are using extreme tactics to kill Damien Darhk.
	+ Donna convinces Noah to leave and never come back.
	+ Darhk decides to use Rubicon to destroy the whole Earth and shows up at Oliver's home, where Felicity, Donna, and Curtis are.
	+ The Star City Uprising occurs.
		- Darhk steals the laptop keeping him locked out of Rubicon and launches over 15,000 nuclear missiles, giving Team Arrow two hours to prevent worldwide annihilation.
		- With Star City rioting, Oliver addresses everyone, inspiring hope in them to stay strong, while Felicity and Curtis divert the missile aimed at Star City.
		- Oliver goes after Darhk, while Felicity, Merlyn, and Thea track down Rubicon.
		- Felicity convinces Cooper to stop helping Darhk, at the cost of his life. Curtis devises a means to stop the missiles.
		- Oliver is able to nullify Darhk's powers with the hope he inspired throughout the city. While the citizens of Star City take on Darhk's remaining men, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow fights Damien Darhk, but soon after, Lucifer returns to Earth-1 and arrives in Star City. Lucifer Morningstar/Dark Flash kills Damien Darhk as revenge for killing Laurel Lance.
	+ At the Arrowcave, Sara and Quentin are watching the news showing Lucifer killing Damien Darhk.
	+ At his rundown apartment, Malcolm Merlyn watches on the news showing Lucifer killing Damien Darhk. Seconds later, Eobard Thawne and Damien Darhk from 1987 recruits Malcolm Merlyn into the Legion of Doom and the trio time travels to Chicago March 1927 in a plan to lure the Legends (from 2017) to make them give the Askaran Amulet. However, mere seconds after the Legion of Doom's defeat in 1916, Merlyn is returned to his apartment on the night of May 19, 2016.
	+ Rene Ramirez is inspired by the Dark Flash killing Damien Darhk and saving Star City alongside the Green Arrow and Rene decide to start his vigilantism.
* **May 22**
	+ Henry Allen's funeral is held in Central City by Team Flash and is attended by all of Team Flash and Lucifer Morningstar.
	+ After Henry's funeral, Zoom challenges Barry to a race to determine who is faster, threatening to kill everyone Barry loves if he refuses.
* **May 23**
	+ Harry discovers Zoom is in possession of a magnetar, a device that will destroy every universe in the Multiverse except Earth-1 which requires both their speeds to power.
	+ When an enraged and vengeful Barry refuses to back out, Team Flash locks him in the Pipeline and forces Zoom back to Earth-2 themselves; but Zoom abducts Joe in the process.
	+ Wally discovers this and frees Barry, who agrees to Zoom's race.
	+ The race for the Multiverse occurs.
		- As The Flash races Zoom around the magnetar, he creates a time remnant of himself who frees Joe and destroys the machine, but at the cost of his life.
		- The prime Flash defeats Zoom, who is then taken away by Time Wraiths for his crimes against the timeline. As Hunter Zolomon/Zoom is taken away by the Wraiths, Hunter Zolomon/Zoom is transformed into the monsterous demonic Speed Force enforcer, known as the Black Flash.
* **May 24**
	+ The Flash rescues the man in the iron mask, who is revealed to be the real Jay Garrick, Henry Allen's Earth-3 doppelgänger who was trapped by Zoom on Earth-2 for months.
	+ Harry and Jesse return to Earth-2 with Jay Garrick, who plans to return home to Earth-3 from there.
	+ **Time Rupture**: Still feeling broken and defeated, Barry Allen/The Flash travels back in time to March 18, 2000 and stops the Reverse-Flash from killing Nora Allen.
		- **Time Rupture due to Flashpoint**: Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash and Barry Allen/The Flash return from Flashpoint to May 2016 in the Post-Flashpoint timeline only mere moments after he left. Because they both traveled in time through the Speed Force, Thawne is spared from being erased from existence and is turned into a time remnant, despite his ancestor Eddie Thawne's suicide in May 2015. However, Eobard Thawne's pre-Flashpoint remain intact in this new timeline, making Hunter Zolomon, now transformed into the Black Flash, chase him in the attempt to kill him again and fix the ruptured timeline.
		- Because of this, Thawne is unable to escape the enforcer and sought the Spear of Destiny to restore his existence to the timeline. Thawne first and foremost travel to 1942 to obtain the Askaran Amulet, in order to find the Spear.
* **May 26**
	+ Thea Queen, John Diggle and Quentin Lance, who gets fired from SCPD, leaves Team Arrow for new lives, and the city council appoints Oliver Queen as the interim mayor.
* **May 31**
	+ Rip Hunter's former team meets up again sometime after to resume their adventures, though Hawkman and Hawkgirl abstain from joining.
	+ Rip Hunter's team, now officially dubbed the Legends, talks with Rex Tyler in May 2016, but is cut short from hearing his explanation on why they shouldn't board the Waverider and travel to 1942, as Rex Tyler mysterious disappears, erased from the timeline.

#### June

* **June 7**
	+ Oliver Queen is elected as the Mayor of Star City.
* **June 12**
	+ Caitlin Snow discovers her meta-human powers.
* **June 16**
	+ Dante Ramon is killed by a drunk driver, leaving Cisco Ramon with depression for months.
* **June 22**
	+ The angel Carriel alongside her siblings Yael, Ramaziel, Engel, Parisa, Laila, Tainiel, Orifiel, Charmeine, Leviathan, and Hariel kills Lucifer's children, Alfonso Morningstar and Eva Diaz.
* **June 30**
	+ Lucifer and Team Superfriends arrive on Earth-1.
	+ Alfonso Morningstar and Eva Diaz's funerals is held together in New York City, and is attended by Lucifer and new girlfriend/first real love, Kara Danvers, and his friends from Teams Flash, Arrow and Superfriends.
	+ After the funeral, Kara walks up to Lucifer and they talk. When Kara asks what he is going to do, Lucifer vows to destroys those of his siblings who killed his two children, and that his siblings can't change, and he also adds that no angel can change.

#### July

* **July 1**
	+ Carriel and her team tries to takeover both Earth-1 and Earth-38.Carriel, Leviathan, Hariel, Ramaziel, Orifiel, and Yael begin to takeover Earth-38 while Laila, Parisa, Engel, Tainiel and Charmeine begin to takeover Earth-1.
	+ While the DEO and Martian Manhunter tries to fight Team 1, Lucifer Morningstar/Dark Flash and Supergirl arrives on Earth-1 and Lucifer kills Laila, Parisa, Engel, Tainiel and Charmeine, freeing the entirety of Earth-1.
* **July 12**
	+ Ray Terrill debuts as a vigilante known as "The Ray".
* **July 22**
	+ Vito Duric smuggles submersible missile launch systems in Pyong-Yang.

#### August

* **August 5**
	+ Vito Duric smuggles a space-based laser prototype in Johannesburg.
* **August 19**
	+ Jonathan Smythe kills 3 people in a car accident.
* **August 28**
	+ Ray Terrill discovers the Multiverse, and fortuitously travels to a parallel universe designated as Earth-X. Ray soon meets Leonard "Leo" Snart, whom he falls in love, despite knowing his Earth's Leonard Snart is a criminal.

#### September

* **September 4**
	+ In this new timeline; the Post-Flashpoint timeline, Barry Allen learns that the timeline did not reset exactly and Joe and Iris do not talk to each other anymore and he discovers Iris has not forgiven Joe for concealing that her mother was alive.
	+ Edward Clariss is confronted by a mysterious voice and finds the message "Alchemy" being scratched into his mirror by an invisible force.
* **September 5**
	+ The Flash stops a bike thief carrying jewelry before returning to S.T.A.R. Labs.
	+ At S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry tries to get Joe and Iris talking again, but to no avail. Barry asks why Cisco is depressed.
	+ Barry discovers that Dante, Cisco's brother, was killed by a drunk driver, during his time in Flashpoint and believes that he caused Dante's death. Barry also learns Cisco is angry with him for not altering the timeline to save his dead brother.
	+ Barry later learns that he has a new CSI partner, Julian Albert, who does not like him, and in this new timeline Albert has worked at CCPD, and sharing the lab with him, since August 2015.
	+ Barry travels to Star City and tells Felicity of his whole journey since defeating Zoom, needing her advice and he also discovers that John Diggle now has a son, John Jr., instead of a daughter.
* **September 6**
	+ Barry decides to travel back to fix the damage, but is intercepted by Jay Garrick, who tells him that the timeline never resets exactly and he has to learn to live with his mistakes.
	+ Edward Clariss has visions of Flashpoint and locates the person responsible, Alchemy, who restores Clariss' powers and memories, with Clariss becoming "the Rival".
	+ Barry tells Team Flash about the timeline's alterations before confronting the Rival at an abandoned warehouse.
	+ Alchemy is there as well, saying that he is preparing for a future event. Cisco arrives and helps Barry defeat the Rival, who is then incarcerated in Iron Heights.
	+ Team Flash determines Alchemy is creating other meta-humans from Flashpoint, whom they need to track down.
	+ Cisco and Barry reconcile, as do Iris and Joe.
	+ Caitlin is secretly revealed to have cryokinetic powers.
	+ Inside his cell, Clariss is confronted by the of Alchemy for his failure before being killed by an unidentified metallic being; who is Savitar.
* **September 15**
	+ Seven months later, Amy seeks the help of employee Marcus to run the deli, and asks him to run the meat slicer despite not being trained to do so.
	+ Marcus cuts off his own thumb, and Amy tries to get him to the hospital while simultaneously trying to hide the incident from Jeff.
	+ Jonah works with Dina to help her write an apology letter and win back the employees she betrayed in the strike, but Dina insists she isn't sorry.
	+ Glenn tries his best to prove to Jeff he is a tough, strict boss, while Mateo just wants Jeff to notice his hard work.
	+ Cheyenne returns to Cloud 9 during her maternity leave as a customer, which apparently went on longer than said, but becomes an unwilling employee again.
* **September 19**
	+ Jonah is assigned to manning the gun counter despite his protests that he is morally opposed to guns.
	+ Amy's husband Amy is taking their daughter camping, and Amy is looking forward to a weekand lounging alone at home.
	+ Glenn learns the Cloud 9 pharmacy sells the morning after pill and tries to prevent customers from buying them.
	+ When a crow flies into the store, Dina, Mateo and Garrett team up to get it out.
	+ After learning he can refuse to sell a gun to any person he is suspicious of, Jonah starts refusing sales to everyone, causing a gun rights group to protest at Cloud 9.
	+ Adam decides to back out when he gets tickets to a conference, causing Amy to take out her frustrations on Jonah and the staff.
	+ In a final mishap, Dina captures the crow in a sack and asks Mateo to set it free but through a miscommunication Mateo instead smashes the bird against the floor until its dead, which horrifies Dina.
* **September 27**
	+ Harry Wells and Jesse Wells return to Earth-1, where she reveals she has gained super speed from the dark matter blast on May 3, 2016. Harry hopes everyone will dissuade her from using her powers.
	+ Foster child Frankie Kane develops meta-human magnetic powers that manifest as an alternate personality, Magenta, who attacks her abusive foster father.
	+ Julian confronts Frankie at the station and is nearly killed by Magenta.
	+ Barry learns from Magenta that she got her powers from Alchemy.
	+ Magenta escapes and later goes to the Central City Hospital to kill her foster father by dropping an oil tanker on the building.
	+ The Flash creates a vortex to hold the tanker in place, but is unable to confront Magenta simultaneously. Wells sends Jesse to help The Flash.
	+ Jesse takes over the vortex while Barry talks Kane into gaining control over Magenta.
	+ Wally, grappling with disappointment over having no speed, realizes he is having the same dreams from Flashpoint that Kane describes.
	+ Harry tells Jesse that he will support her decision and presents her with her own speedster costume, giving his nickname for her, which becomes her alter ego; Jesse Quick.
	+ Joe later shows Barry and Julian footage of Clariss being killed in his cell by an unseen force, manifesting only as a flying ball of white light.
* **September 29**
	+ A scandal erupts at Cloud 9 when their advertising spokesman Daniel Hertzler aka Kyle the Cloud 9 cloud is accused of murdering people and eating their flesh.
	+ Cheyenne returns to work following her maternity leave and begins to annoy Garrett and Sandra with her baby photos.
	+ Glenn learns that marijuana was found in Kyle's possession and thinks he only murdered people because he was high.
	+ Amy and Jonah have a fun day daring each other to perform various pranks.
	+ Mateo tries to confirm that Jeff is interested in him romantically.
	+ Due to Kyle being high, this prompts Glenn to order drug tests for all employees.
	+ Dina is more than willing to administer the urine tests.
	+ Later, Glenn and Amy has a conversation, where Glenn realizes it doesn't matter if someone's high if they do their jobs, and his happiness is restored with nice words from Amy.
	+ Glenn throws out the urine drug tests, which annoys Dina.

#### October

* **October 2**
	+ Barry begins training Jesse on how to use her powers.
	+ Harry suggests Team Flash locate a doppelgänger of himself from another Earth to replace him on the team once he and Jesse leave.
* **October 3**
	+ Scudder returns from being trapped in a mirror-like dimension with the ability to transport himself and others through reflective surfaces.
	+ Scudder reunites with Dillon, who now has vertigo-inducing powers, and they go on a crime spree.
	+ Barry and Jesse, now officially going by Jesse Quick as her alter ego, confront them, but are defeated after Barry ends up trapped inside a mirror by Scudder.
* **October 4**
	+ Caitlin secretly uses her emerging ice powers to help Barry free himself from his predicament.
	+ The Flash and Jesse Quick successfully capture Scudder and Dillon.
	+ After evaluating the candidates, Team Flash recruits the friendly and eccentric Harrison Randall "H.R." Wells of Earth-19, despite Harry's misgivings.
	+ Jesse and Harry return to Earth-2, but not before Harry apprises Cisco of Barry's suspicious escape.
	+ That night, Caitlin accidentally freezes the water in her shower and her appearance begins showing signs of her Earth-2 doppelgänger, Killer Frost.
* **October 5**
	+ Five months after the death of Damien Darhk, Oliver Queen is distracted from his new duties as mayor due to continuing as Green Arrow alone as his old team members having gone their separate ways.
	+ Oliver is encouraged by Felicity Smoak to build a new team by recruiting the amateur vigilantes now working in Star City, like Rene Ramirez, whom goes by his alter ego; Wild Dog.
* **October 6**
	+ A new criminal crew appears, headed by Tobias Church, and kidnaps Oliver in a bid to draw out and kill the Green Arrow, thereby taking over the city.
	+ Oliver is rescued by Thea Queen, but she permanently quits the team after seeing that Oliver is again willing to kill.
	+ Church escapes from the Green Arrow and a team of several police officers, then later unites all the organized crime cartels and street gangs under his leadership.
	+ Oliver finally agrees to form a new team and includes Curtis Holt at his request.
	+ Elsewhere in Star City, a mysterious hooded figure in black, named Prometheus, kills a policeman in cold blood.
* **October 8**
	+ Green Arrow recruits Rene Ramirez, Evelyn Sharp, and Curtis Holt and begins training them using an exercise from his Bratva initiation.
	+ As mayor, Oliver arranges to have AmerTek provide free medical care for Star City's disenfranchised at a special clinic.
	+ John Diggle, back in the Army and on a covert operation, is ambushed by his superior, who plans to sell a nuclear trigger and frame him.
	+ A new meta-human, Ragman, appears and starts attacking AmerTek executives.
* **October 9**
	+ The recruits leave Green Arrow because they do not trust him.
	+ Thea discovers that AmerTek CEO Janet Carroll is working with Church, and Felicity learns that it was AmerTek's nuclear missiles that Damien Darhk used to try and destroy the world.
	+ Ragman and Green Arrow stop an arms buy between Carroll and Church.
	+ Ragman later reveals that he was the only survivor of the Havenrock bombing five months ago. Green Arrow convinces him to put aside vengeance and join his team, leading Ragman to reveal his identity to Green Arrow; Rory Reagan.
* **October 10**
	+ Later, Oliver reveals his identity to the other recruits as a sign of trust and they agree to rejoin Team Arrow.
	+ Thea decides to appoint Quentin Lance as Deputy Mayor.
	+ Church is attacked by the mysterious archer who calls himself "Prometheus", who wants to personally kill Green Arrow.
* **October 12**
	+ Historian Nate Heywood enlists Mayor Oliver Queen's help in locating the Waverider after it was caught in a nuclear blast (Atomic bomb) in 1942.
	+ Underwater, Nate and Oliver find the Waverider submerged with only Mick Rory aboard in stasis, who have been in stasis for 74 years, and he reveals what happened after being revived. Rip's team - Mick, Ray, Sara, Jax, and Martin - traveled through time dealin with aberrations in history. They also encountered Justice Society of America (JSA) member Rex Tyler, who warned them not to travel to 1942 before vanishing. After learning that a nuclear bomb would be detonated in New York City in 1942, the Legends ignored the warning and discovered Damien Darhk, working with the Nazis, was behind the attack. Sara attempted to kill Darhk to avenge Laurel, but Darhk escaped and launched his atomic bomb toward New York from a U-boat. Rip scattered the team throughout time, except for the injured Mick, to save their lives while he intercepted the bomb with the Waverider.
	+ Afterwards, while Oliver Queen returns to Star City for his activities as both mayor and Green Arrow, Mick Rory and Nate Heywood use the Waverider to travel through time and rescues everyone from their respective scattered times, but fail to locate Rip.
* **October 13**
	+ Its Dog Adoption Day at Cloud 9 and Jonah and Mateo volunteer to help run it.
	+ Amy and Glenn see Cheyenne and Bo fighting about their relationship, and try to help them in different ways.
	+ Also, after being told by Dina he will lose two hours of pay because he forgot to punch in for work, Garrett watches Dina's every move to make sure she is doing everything by the book.
	+ Jonah and Mateo later find out that any unadopted dogs will be euthanized at the end of the day, so they compete with each other to find homes for all of them.
	+ Glenn offers to have the two get married in his church, encouraging Bo to move out of Cheyenne's parents' basement and rent a house.
	+ Amy tries to encourage Cheyenne to date more mature guys, which backfires when Cheyenne rekindles a relationship with her high school teach.
	+ After renting the house, Bo and Glenn get back to Cloud 9, and Bo notices Cheyenne and their high school teacher, thinking their teacher is trying to take his girlfriend.
	+ Jonah and Mateo manage to sell off all the unadopted dogs.
* **October 15**
	+ Green Arrow investigates a new drug, "Stardust", but still believes his team is not ready for the streets.
	+ While Green Arrow is being informed about Prometheus, Rene and Evelyn secretly raid Stardust dealer Derek Sampson's warehouse.
	+ The raid goes wrong and Sampson ends up with superhuman strength and an inability to feel pain.
* **October 16**
	+ Oliver learns what happened from District Manager Adrian Chase, convincing him that he still cannot trust his recruits.
	+ Felicity advises him to accept the recruits as they are and Green Arrow finally uses his new team to stop Sampson from creating more superhumans.
	+ Oliver also publicly endorses Thea's decision to appoint Quentin Lance as Deputy Mayor after negative news stories almost cause her to resign.
	+ Felicity admits to Rory Reagen that she was the one responsible for Havenrock.
* **October 17**
	+ Diggle is incarcerated and hallucinates Floyd Lawton as his cellmate due to guilt over killing his brother, Andy.
	+ Afterward, Diggle tells Lyla Michaels that he will not fight the charges against him, so she asks Oliver to help her break Diggle out of prison.
	+ Without informing the others, Caitlin Snow visits her estranged mother, Carla Tannhauser, at her medical research company to have her powers examined, but leaves after viciously attacking another scientist who intended to exploit her condition.
	+ A gigantic creature repeatedly appears and disappears throughout the streets of Central City.
	+ Cisco grows suspicious of the newly-recruited H.R. when he does not provide much help in battling the monster.
	+ The monster is revealed to be simply a hologram operated by a bullied 15-year-old boy wanting to create fear in others.
	+ Barry exposes the deception in time to keep police snipers from harming civilians and prevents Julian from shooting the boy, whom he mistakes for a meta-human.
* **October 18**
	+ H.R. is revealed to have no technical knowledge at all. He admits that he is only an "idea man" for his tech company on Earth-19 and that he came to Earth-1 primarily to get material for a novel.
	+ Team Flash decides to give him a chance to prove his worth as an assitant.
	+ A badly shaken Julian reconciles his differences with Barry.
	+ Carla informs Caitlin that her powers are increasing and that she needs to stop using them or her condition will become irreversible.
* **October 19**
	+ Oliver's new team captures an associate of Tobias Church's and delivers him and his loot to the Star City Police Department (SCPD).
	+ Afterward, Rory Reagan formally leaves Team Arrow, saying that he cannot work with Felicity.
* **October 20**
	+ Oliver Queen leaves Star City to help Lyla Michaels break John Diggle out of prison over Felicity and Team Arrow's objections.
	+ Quentin Lance and Adrian Chase personally deliver the evidence to the SCPD, which turns out to be a disguised bomb.
	+ The explosion allows Church's group to break in and steal weapons from evidence.
	+ Oliver infiltrates a federal prison and locates Diggle, who agrees to escape to safeguard Oliver. Oliver takes Diggle and Lyla to a H.I.V.E. safe house.
	+ Felicity attempts to reconcile matters with Rory.
	+ Felicity Smoak and Team Arrow determine that Church is planning an assault on the SCPD's anti-crime unit, where Chase is interrogating Church's man.
* **October 21**
	+ Rory rejoins the team and they help everyone inside escape the attack. However, Curtis is injured in the attack and Church captures Rene, intending to torture him to death.
	+ Oliver Queen returns and vows to rescue Rene Ramirez, while Adrian Chase decides to trust the vigilante's motives.
	+ Oliver rescues Rene, who tells him that he gave up Green Arrow's true identity to Church.
* **October 22**
	+ Church plans to kill Oliver as the Mayor instead of as Green Arrow.
	+ Oliver finds out that Felicity is dating Billy Malone, a police detective recently assigned to the anti-crime unit.
	+ Diggle rejoins Team Arrow and suggests that bodyguard Christopher Chance, the "Human Target", could be able to help them.
	+ Christopher impersonates Oliver Queen at City Hall and fakes the Mayor's death when Church's mercenary attacks.
	+ Team Arrow realizes that Church plans to consolidate the drug traffic of five citites through Star City, needing Green Arrow eliminated for his plan to succeed.
	+ Oliver, as Green Arrow, and his team, joined by Diggle and Christopher, raid Church's meeting and capture him along with several other crime lords.
* **October 23**
	+ Oliver publicly claims that his faked death was part of a sting operation.
	+ Prometheus kills Church during transport, despite Church telling him Green Arrow's identity.
* **October 25**
	+ Television reporter Susan Williams obtains evidence that Oliver was in Russia during the time he was supposedly stranded on Lian Yu.
* **October 31**
	+ The Halloween festivities at Cloud 9 are put on hold when Dina launches a full scale investigation into who stole fruit from a backroom storage area.
	+ Garrett is flustered over Dina's scandalous Halloween costume, and hates himself for it.
	+ Mateo tries to prepare a secret date with Jeff.
	+ Jonah and Cheyenne bond over store gossip, and Cheyenne tells Jonah that everyone thinks he has a crush on Amy.
	+ Amy is determined to help find the person responsible so she can get home in time for trick-or-treating with her daughter, Emma.

#### November

* **November 8**
	+ It is Election Day and Cloud 9 becomes an official polling place.
	+ Amy and Jonah are not happy with the blatant candidate recommendations in Cloud 9's official voting guide, so they work together to encourage shoppers and co-workers to vote for a candidate that is more labor-friendly.
	+ Mateo tries to cover his undocumented status by stealing an "I Voted" sticker and telling everyone that he did vote.
	+ Dina and Glenn accidentally ruin some ballots and try to cover it up by throwing them out, which causes stress when they learn they could go to jail.
	+ Jonah and Amy decides to make a pamphlet about the truth of Election Day. Also, Amy meets Jonah's new girlfriend Naomi.
	+ Oliver Queen, John Diggle, and Felicity privately track Prometheus, who starts killing seemingly random civilians with throwing stars.
	+ Thea Queen discovers that Quentin Lance never quit drinking.
* **November 9**
	+ A news report on the killings causes tension in the city and angers the recruits, since they were not informed.
	+ Felicity steals one of the stars from Billy to examine it.
	+ A pattern between the victims relates to Oliver's list from when he first started out as The Hood.
	+ This further angers the recruits, Evelyn most of all, as they did not know about Oliver's "kill list" from when he initially returned.
	+ Felicity uses the pattern to predict future victims and Team Arrow splits up. Evelyn encounters Prometheus and engages him, managing to cut his arm before being overpowered. Oliver then arrives, but Prometheus escapes.
* **November 10**
	+ Evelyn reconciles with Oliver, and Felicity tells Billy that she works with the Green Arrow, which intrigues him.
	+ Felicity later tells Oliver that evidence she has discovered suggests that Prometheus could be an SCPD officer; Quentin is shown waking from an alcohol-induced sleep with a slash across his arm and a throwing star in his possession.
	+ Its the holiday season at Cloud 9 and Glenn and Dina hire a bunch of seasonal workers, including Adam, Amy's husband.
	+ Garrett and dina reveal to Jonah that they make an annual wager on which seasonal employee will quit or be fired first, which stokes Jonah's old gambling addiction.
	+ Jonah bands all the employees together for a pool and pushes his choice to quit.
	+ Also, Glenn conducts interviews to hire the perfect store Santa, but ends up hiring Cody.
	+ Multiple employees hint that Amy and Adam's marriage might be in trouble, which pushes Amy to try and prove otherwise by hooking up with Adam in the photo lab.
	+ But the gambling on the new employees backfires, when Jonah learns the employees are all from a "last chance" program at Glenn's church, and tries to make amends.
* **November 11**
	+ When Wally relates his recent dreams of being Kid Flash, Barry reveals what happened to him during Flashpoint.
	+ A meta-human, H.R. nicknamed Shade, appears and murders a stockbroker.
	+ Caitlin reveals her powers to Cisco and has him "vibe" her future.
	+ Cisco sees himself fighting Killer Frost, causing Caitlin to contemplate leaving for good.
	+ Alchemy summons Wally to him, so the team locks Wally in the particle accelerator for his own safety.
	+ Barry and the others stop Shade's next attack and capture him.
* **November 12**
	+ Cisco forces Caitlin to reveal the truth to the team and Barry privately confesses to her that her powers are a result of Flashpoint, which is only partly true. Caitlin was affected by the particle accelerator explosion in 2013, but Flashpoint unlocked and activated her powers earlier then in the original timeline.
	+ Wally volunteers to lead the team to Alchemy to capture the villain and stop the memories, which are causing him pain.
	+ Barry, Joe, and a S.W.A.T. team locate Alchemy and his followers and surround them.
	+ The metallic being that killed Edward Clariss appears and attacks them, revealing himself to be a speedster that only Barry can see and his name is Savitar and calls himself the "Future Flash".
	+ As Barry fights Savitar, Alchemy entices Wally to pick up his fallen energy weapon, which encases Wally in a crystal cocoon. Savitar overpowers Barry and prepares to stab him with a blade from his arm.
	+ Savitar opts to drag Barry across Central City, while batterin him to demonstrate his superiority. Cisco and Caitlin arrive to rescue Barry and Savitar flees.
* **November 13**
	+ Caitlin, with her Killer Frost persona having taken over, violently interrogates one of Alchemy's followers at CCPD headquarters. When Julian catches her, she coerces him to find the other acolytes so they can lead her to Alchemy, who can presumably remove her powers.
	+ Barry and Cisco track her down and imprison her, but Team Flash is fractured after she reveals Barry's role in Dante's death by creating Flashpoint.
	+ Greatly concerned and disregarding the consequences, Joe breaks Wally out of the cocoon. Wally emerges with unmanageable speed powers and he races away in a confused state.
	+ Barry offers his life to Caitlin for her freedom in a successful attempt to restore her sanity and gain her help in treating Wally.
	+ Joe and Bary locate Wally, stabilizing his condition with Caitlin's serum, and Wally soon embraces his new abilities.
* **November 14**
	+ Julian agrees to protect Caitlin from the police, but forces Barry to resign from the CCPD in exchange, believing him morally unfit for wanting Caitlin shielded.
	+ Julian is later revealed to be Alchemy and working for Savitar.
* **November 19**
	+ A new vigilante, Vincent Sobel, calling himself "Vigilante", appears in Star City, one who kills criminals in cold blood.
	+ Quentin Lance tenders his resignation as Deputy Mayor.
	+ Quentin later tells Thea about the throwing star and his drunken blackouts, but believes he is being set up.
* **November 20**
	+ Team Arrow intercepts the Vigilante during a bank robbery, but he gets away, as does Eric Dunn, the head of the robbers.
	+ District Attoryney Chase forces one of the other robbers to reveal Dunn's location and Green Arrow saves him from the Vigilante.
	+ Thea convinces Quentin to go into rehabilitation, while Oliver and Susan start getting closer.
* **November 21**
	+ Team Arrow poses as bank robbers to lure out the Vigilante, who again escapes even after Oliver defeats and nearly unmasks him.
	+ Thea tells Oliver about Quentin and the possibility of him being framed; they deduce that Prometheus must know Green Arrow's identity.
	+ Evelyn is revealed to be working for Prometheus.
* **November 25**
	+ The Cloud 9 crew deals with the rush of the Black Friday sale.
	+ Jonah uses a video camera to document his second Black Friday sale as an employee.
	+ Mateo and Cheyenne take bribes from customers who want sought-after gift items.
	+ Glenn takes his wife's muscle relaxers to deal with the stress of Black Friday and shares what's really on his mind.
	+ Amy begins to feel sick and suspects that she might be pregnant, causing her to re-evaluate her marriage to Adam.
	+ Garrett begins to get annoyed with Dina suggesting he work harder.
	+ Amy's pregnancy test is negative, and her sickness turns out to be food poisoning from the staff potluck held before opening hours, which spreads throughtout the employees.
	+ Due to the Black Friday sale, the employees are tired and are bareboned due to the sickness, and they try to come up with a plan to handle the rest of Black Friday.
	+ Later in the break room, all the remaining employees get into arguments, and Jonah tries to calm them down and get them back on their feet to get through the rest of the night, when blacked out, Glenn tells Jonah to keep quiet and curses at him, which shocks the others.
	+ When Garrett suggests to bail, Glenn say that's exactly what they are gonna do, which shocks him. Garrett then tells them they should stay throughout the night and do their jobs, because that is what he is gonna do, and Garrett takes charge with the remaining employees following behind. They manage to succeed just as they break down from sickness.
	+ After succeeding, Garrett and Dina later share a kiss and spends the night together in the store.
* **November 27**
	+ The Dominators appears in the Solar System, as they have been keeping tabs on Barry Allen's changes to the timeline, and recognizes him as a threat to their race due to the changes Flashpoint had caused.
	+ Barry Allen investigates a meteor crash outside Central City that turns out to be a spaceship from which Dominators emerge, as Lucifer arrive from Earth-38 and arrives at the crash site moments after The Flash.
* **November 28**
	+ Lyla Michaels and Lucifer tells Barry and Team Flash that the Dominators had previously landed in Redmond, Oregon in the 1951, but then mysteriously departed.
	+ Needing help, Barry and Lucifer assembles Team Flash, the original Team Arrow, Thea Queen, the Legends and Supergirl in a S.T.A.R. Labs facility, formerly owned by Wells (Thawne), currently owned by Barry and Lucifer.
	+ Barry Allen, Cisco Ramon and Lucifer Morningstar and his girlfriend Kara Danvers/Supergirl arrive from Earth-38.
	+ Lucifer Morningstar, with Barry Allen, reforms the Justice League, as a Crisis Team of Earth's strongest heroes, to protect the entire planet of Earth. With the team's founding members being Lucifer Morningstar/Dark Flash, Barry Allen/The Flash, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Kara Danvers/Supergirl, Sara Lance/White Canary, Ray Palmer/The Atom, Martin Stein and Jefferson Jackson (combined Firestorm), and Mick Rory/Heat Wave. Also, the Justice League's leaders are Lucifer Morningstar and Barry Allen.
	+ The Justice team begins training at a S.T.A.R. Labs facility, sparring against Supergirl to prepare for combat against the aliens.
	+ Cisco find and reveals a message to Rip Hunter from Barry's future self of an alternate timeline from 2056, which exposes Barry's manipulation of the timeline and how it affected other team members.
	+ Barry's manipulations of the timeline affected John Diggle with having a son instead of a daughter, and Cisco's brother being killed, and also Lucifer's life with Kara and their children has been wiped from existence, as the Flashpoint changes was so severe it crossed onto a neighboring universe.
	+ Oliver, Lucifer, Kara, Felicity, Martin, and Jefferson are left as the only ones who still trust Barry, but Lucifer is furious and initially grabs Barry's neck, but he then lets go and says that he still trusts him, but he is gonna get a drink and cool down at his house in this universe.
	+ The Dominators abduct the President to use him as bait for the Justice team.
	+ Supergirl leads most of the other heroes in a rescue effort, but the Dominators kills the President and ensnare everyone with a mind control device which includes Supergirl, White Canary, Firestorm, Speedy, Spartan, Atom, Heat Wave on the Dominators' mind control.
	+ The controlled heroes return and attack S.T.A.R. Labs while Lucifer also returns.
	+ Green Arrow, Dark Flash, and The Flash battle the controlled heroes, when Wally uses his newly given speed and knocks down the Dominator-controlled heroes and is injured and knocked unconscious by a controlled Firestorm.
	+ While Green Arrow, carrying the unconscious Wally to safety, and Dark Flash holds them off, The Flash lures Supergirl to the device and manipulates her into destroying it, freeing everyone.
	+ The other Justice team members decides to trust Barry again. Suddenly, Sara Lance, Ray Palmer, John Diggle, Thea Queen, and Oliver Queen are teleported away before Barry can intervene.
	+ Later, Oliver Queen, John Diggle, Thea Queen, Sara Lance, and Ray Palmer are all being held unconscious inside pods aboard the Dominator mothership, so the aliens could look inside their brains to uncover secrets.
	+ Meanwhile, Felicity, Curtis, and Cisco try to hack into the Dominators' mainframe using a piece of their technology.
	+ Team Arrow recovers a necessary device with the help of The Flash, Supergirl and Dark Flash and manages to locate the others.
	+ In the dream world, Oliver begins seeing flashes of his former life, as do Sara and Ray.
	+ All five captives soon realize that they are inside a shared hallucination of simulated reality.
	+ Their escape attempt is blocked by manifestations of Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer, Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, Damien Darhk and their mercenaries.
	+ The group defeats all of them, then they leave the dream world and awakens inside the Dominator mothership.
	+ Escaping in a shuttle, Oliver and the others are rescued by the Waverider, manned by Nate Heywood and Amaya Jiwe.
	+ Ray deduces that the Dominator were gathering information from their minds to help them complete a special "weapon", using the hallucination as a distraction.
	+ The Justice team learns that the Dominator mothership is headed toward Earth.
* **November 29**
	+ Nate Heywood, Amaya Jiwe, Felicity Smoak and Cisco Ramon travel back to the first Dominator invasion of Earth in Redmond, Oregon, on October 28, 1951.
	+ The remaining Justice team learns that the Dominators know about Barry Allen's manipulation of the timeline and that they demand his surrender in exchange for peace, using Agent Smith.
	+ The Dominator Invasion occurs.
		- After the Legends return from 1951, the Justice team discovers that the Dominators' weapon is a bomb that will kill all meta-humans on Earth with millions of collateral human casualties.
		- The Justice League dissuades Barry from surrendering and Cisco reconciles with him.
		- The entire Justice League, Earth's heroes and protectors, battles the Dominators.
		- The Justice League manage to destroy the bomb and forces the Dominators to retreating using pain-inflicting nanotechnology, which puts an effective end to the Dominator Invasion.
	+ In Central City at the S.T.A.R. Labs facility, the new President, Susan Brayden, publicly congratulates the Justice League in front of reporters and news outlets.
	+ An hour later at the S.T.A.R. Labs facility, The Justice League celebrates their victory over the Dominators in their civilian identities.
	+ While celebrating their victory, Martin convinces Jax not to tell the others that his daughter, Lily, is an aberration of the timeline indirectly caused him advising his younger self to focus a little more on his wife.

#### December

* **December 16**
	+ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is released in the United States.
* **December 18**
	+ Monica Gallagher dies of brain aneurysm caused by a infected needle.
* **December 24**
	+ Barry Allen asks Jay Garrick for help against Savitar. The two heroes locate and defeat Alchemy and return his weapon to its box, causing Savitar to disappear before he can kill Jay.
	+ Prometheus obtains further intel about Team Arrow from Evelyn Sharp.
	+ Outside of the Christmas party hosted by Mayor Oliver Queen, Prometheus attacks and hospitalizes Curtis Holt, injecting him with a tuberculosis vaccine developed by Justin Claybourne, a corrupt pharmaceutical manufacturer named on Oliver's former kill list.
	+ Discovering Julian to be Alchemy, Barry reveals his own identity to him to get further information. Julian relates how he located the fake and less powerful version of the Philosopher's Stone following a vision of his dead sister and that he has been having blackouts ever since.
* **December 25**
	+ When Team Arrow tracks down Prometheus, Evelyn reveals her true allegiance and escapes with Prometheus.
	+ Investigating Prometheus on his own, SCPD Officer Billy Malone sends information he discovers to Felicity just before the villain captures him.
	+ The information turns out to be about Justin Claybourne's illegitimate son, who may now be seeking retribution.
	+ Savitar manifests through Cisco using visions of Dante and fights Barry and Wally, but Caitlin manages to convince Cisco to close the box again.
	+ Team Flash communicates with Savitar through Julian, who claims that Barry, in the future, will imprison him. He also says that one teammate will betray them, one will fall, and a third will suffer a fate worse than death.
	+ Oliver deduces that Prometheus is at the former office building of the corporation that created the epidemic and goes there alone. He finds that Prometheus has staged it to resemble Oliver's prior attack.
	+ Oliver kills Prometheus, only to discover he has actually killed a gagged Billy, whom the real Prometheus set up as himself to trick Oliver.
	+ When returning to the Arrowcave, Oliver reveals to his team that Prometheus staged Billy by gagging him and taping a knife to his hand, but Felicity blames Prometheus.
	+ Trying to end Savitar's threat, Barry and Jay throw the box into the Speed Force but, in the process, Barry is thrown five months into the future to May 23, 2017 and witnesses Iris West murdered by Savitar in front of his future self. Jay tells Barry that the future is not fixed.
	+ While celebrating Christmas, Wally is given his own "Kid Flash" costume, afterwards, Julian arrives, revealing the he got Barry's job back for him.
	+ Barry rents a new apartment for himself and Iris as Christmas gift and takes her to show her their new apartment.
* **December 26**
	+ Curtis' husband, Paul, leaves him after discovering Curtis is a vigilante.
	+ While Felicity Smoak mourns Billy's death, John Diggle is recaptured by S.W.A.T. using faked phone call from Lyla, telling him its an emergency.
	+ Oliver encounters an apparently alive Laurel Lance inside the lair.
* **December 27**
	+ Oliver welcomes the seemingly-revived Laurel into the team, but it becomes clear that she is Laurel Lance's Earth-2 doppelgänger Black Siren, having been broken out of S.T.A.R. Labs by Prometheus.
	+ Earth-2 Laurel escapes and calls Oliver for a meeting, which ends in her capture.
	+ Learning about Paul, Rene convinces Curtis to focus on his capabilities, not his flaws.
	+ Oliver places Laurel in an A.R.G.U.S. facility, hoping to change her one day.
* **December 28**
	+ Oliver reveals his plans to follow their Laurel's dying wish, to find a new Black Canary.
	+ Oliver convinces Adrian Chase to represent John Diggle whose corrupt superior, General Walker, arrives to transfer him into custody. However, Chase manages to keep John Diggle in his jurisdiction.