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"Shoot to the Future": Oliver and Lian materialise in mid-air above a futuristic city and fall towards the ground. Oliver manages to slow their fall with a grappling hook and they land mostly unscathed. They are met by Connor and the Legion of Super-Heroes, revealing that they are on Earth in th

Quote1 Now you know. This is why our family is always kept apart... Quote2
— Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)

Green Arrow (Volume 7) #3 is an issue of the series Green Arrow (Volume 7) with a cover date of August, 2023. It was published on June 27, 2023.

Synopsis for "Shoot to the Future"

Oliver and Lian materialise in mid-air above a futuristic city and fall towards the ground. Oliver manages to slow their fall with a grappling hook and they land mostly unscathed. They are met by Connor and the Legion of Super-Heroes, revealing that they are on Earth in the 31st Century. Connor tells them that the Legion tracked their biometric readings and the teleporter signature to locate them and teleport them through time and space to their location. Oliver ignores the Legion and walks over to hug Connor. He tells Connor he is sorry for everything, but Connor tells him they have plenty of time to catch up, revealing that he has been in the future for months.

Back in the present, Arsenal and Black Canary battle Peacemaker and Peacewrecker. Peacemaker accidentally shoots the control panel outside Count Vertigo's cell, opening the door and deactivating his power-suppression collar. He unleashes his vertigo effect on all four of them until Black Canary knocks him down with the Canary Cry. They recover and Peacemaker offers Roy, considered the world's greatest marksman, a deal: if he can beat Peacemaker in a shooting contest, Smith will allow him to interrogate Vertigo; if he fails, he and Canary must leave. Roy agrees, despite both their female teammates telling them it is a stupid idea. Roy wins easily and orders Vertigo to tell him what he knows. Vertigo tells them that Waller is up to something big and has been gathering powerful objects, but he doesn't know where she is.

At Legion headquarters in the future, Lian tells Oliver and Connor what happened to her after she "died". She woke up in a lab with Amanda Waller and a mysterious archer; the two were arguing as Waller worried they were taking too big a risk but the archer insisted that Team Arrow could never be together. Lian then teleported away and spent years uncontrollably teleporting across time and space. She repeatedly tried to reunite with Roy, but every time she got close she teleported away again. She eventually gave up and settled in Alleytown, trying to forget her old life, until Roy found her and she was transported away again. Brainiac 5 scans her and Oliver and informs them that they, as well as Connor, have teleportation devices implanted in their necks like the Suicide Squad's bombs, obviously implanted by Waller. He also says he can't remove the devices because he doesn't know what triggers the displacement and he has no way of determining where they would end up if he accidentally set it off.

Brainiac shows them a "dark energy teleporter" like the one Oliver destroyed on the alien world, and was found near Connor when he arrived in the future. Oliver says he knows what it is, and tells Lian he believes that the archer she saw talking to Waller was him. He touches the teleporter, triggering a video message from an elderly version of himself from the future. The future Ollie tells his younger self that in his timeline a "Great Disaster" killed billions of people, and Team Arrow were responsible. He tells Oliver that their family need to stay apart, and he can never go home. The present-day Oliver tells the others that they can't return to their own time and that is why he destroyed the other teleporter.

Lian refuses to believe it and tells him they can beat whatever is coming together. After a moment, Oliver says she is right and they should go home, when suddenly a giant green energy construct smashes through the wall. The construct easily restrains the Legion, Connor and Lian; and a bubble surrounds Oliver and pulls him into space. The bubble opens and Oliver points his bow at the person generating it, who is revealed to be Hal Jordan as Parallax.

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