As said before, I got the idea of Felicity Smoak dying in the Arrow show. What's the twist in this one? What if we get a Felicity Smoak from Earth-52 where she's darker and a more psychotic than the original one from Earth-1 and she's trying to kill Earth-1 Oliver Queen. Felicity from Earth-52 absolutely despises Oliver Queen to the very core, which is the opposite to the original one and will do anything just to make his life a living hell as well as the people allied with him.
Earth-1 Felicity Smoak gets murdered by Prometheus just after the episode "Second Chances".
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"I know that we shouldn't be celebrating until after we catch Prometheus but, anyone up for champagne?" Felicity asks while holding a bottle in her hand and smiling sweetly her team, now with new members: Ragman, Wild Dog, Mr. Terrific and now their new Black Canary named Dinah Drake. Dinah seems nice so far. Felicity has already grown to like her. Still, it might take awhile for her to get used to the new Black Canary since it has always been Laurel in the Black Canary costume. The reason why she's offering champagne is to congratulate her team on a job well-done on defeating a mafia at the same time recruiting Dinah as the new member of Team Arrow.
Dinah Drake raises her hand. "I can go for champagne."
Felicity takes out a few cups and starts pouring champagne into it. Rory, Rene, Thea and John Diggle join in, eager for champagne as well. How long has it been since they drank champagne? A while? Far too long for their taste.
"Hey, Blondie," Rene brings up after taking a sip of champagne. "Don't you have anything stronger? Like wine."
Felicity shakes her head and lets out a sigh. "Nope. Oliver has the key to the wine cabinet. Besides, he knew one of you would try to steal wine from the cabinet so he keeps it locked."
"That's not true, Felicity," Rory says.
She raises an eyebrow at them both. "Really? Then can someone explain why I found the padlock to the wine cabinet nearly destroyed?"
Rory's and Rene's eyes widen when she says this and they look at each other before they immediately walk away with their drinks, making Dinah, Curtis and Diggle laugh. It's obvious that Rory and Rene were trying to steal wine from the wine cabinet.
"You know you two are going to buy him a new padlock, right?" Felicity reminds them.
"I'll make him one," Rory says.
Felicity can't help but laugh. Let alone Rory to make a padlock that would make easier to unlock. Note to self, don't let Rory make a padlock for the wine cabinet.
"Hey, where's Oliver?" she asks, aware that he's not in the lair.
"As always, my brother is busy," Thea says with the roll of her eyes. Diggle nudges her shoulder.
"He's on his way. He just got out of a meeting at the office," Diggle tells her. The whole shit with Prometheus is really stressing Oliver out. He's trying to find every resource that can help them find out who Prometheus is. They tried talking to Prometheus' mother and it didn't work. She wouldn't tell them anything. Now the SCPD are targeting the Green Arrow as the threat instead of Prometheus, the real threat to Star City.
But for now, they want to have a good moment today.
"Question, what's the champagne for? Are we celebrating something?" Dinah asks as she takes a sip of her champagne.
Felicity nods her head. "Yeah. You."
Dinah coughs up as she nearly chokes up on her drink. "Me? Why me?"
"Because we finally found a new Black Canary that will honour our friend's legacy," she says.
"I don't think I'm ready to fill her shoes yet, Felicity," Dinah says.
"Not shoes, just the mask," she says with a smile while giving her a small pastel green box. Dinah opens the small box. Inside it is a black leather eye-mask, a mask similar to Laurel's. "Listen, Laurel was my friend and I miss her. So could you do me a favour and -."
"Try not to disappoint her?" Dinah asks.
"Try not be like her," Felicity says. "Be yourself. It's better that way and less stressful."
Dinah smiles gratefully at her. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Felicity says. They clank the cups together and continue drinking champagne. It's a pity Oliver isn't here yet to celebrate with them. She knows he could use a glass of champagne about now. He'll arrive stressed, drained and tired like everyone else is, including her.
Looking at the people in the Arrowcave, despite the death of Billy Malone, seeing her team reminds her that she still has a family that love her. Oliver. John. Thea. Curtis. Sara. Barry. Caitlin. Cisco. Iris. Quentin. Donna. They're all her family. And she loves them very much. It makes her even wonder if she's doing the right thing by accepting Alena's Pandora drive she was given or the offer of joining Helix. She even believes that maybe it would be wrong for her to leave her family to simply justify the death of a man she dated for awhile. She cared about Billy. A lot. She almost told him that she loved him. But she wasn't ready for that yet. And it hurt when Prometheus killed him. But she still has family and needs to remind herself of that and not get consumed by darkness.
Felicity leaves the Arrowcave after the small celebration (too bad Oliver missed it) and heads over to her car which is right in front of the former campaign office. Oliver and Diggle have insisted that she parked closer to headquarters so they would keep an eye on any suspicious activity, like Prometheus per say. They're worried that Prometheus might come after her and kill her like he did with a lot of people, including Tobias Church. He even killed a housewife, a woman with two kids. That's something Felicity would label as too far.
She quickly digs into her purse for her car keys when she feels a poke on her shoulder and squeals as she turns around, ready to hit anyone in front of her. Luckily, it's just Oliver who was too quiet for her to notice his arrival.
"Holy cow, you scared the shit out of me, Oliver!" she sighs in relief, feeling her face become fuzzy as the energy drains out of her body. She literally had to hold onto the car's mirror to keep herself from falling off balance when her legs became wobbly.
"Sorry," he apologizes, raising his hands up in surrender, "I just wanted to see if you were okay."
"I'm fine. You missed the celebration downstairs." she says.
"There was a celebration? I didn't know this," he says in surprise. "What were we celebrating?"
Felicity slaps him on the shoulder. "Dinah, you dummy. The new Black Canary. We had to celebrate since we finally accomplished something. It's the only thing worth celebrating so far since almost everything went to shit. By the way, I finally found our wine thieves. Rene and Rory. They owe you a new padlock."
"Thanks for telling me," he says and apologizes for not arriving to join the celebration with them.
"I'm just heading home to get some rest. My fingers are cramping up from all the computer work I've been doing. I can even hear my fingers crack when I curl them into a fist."
"Are you sure you're okay?" Oliver asks. He noticed Felicity ahs been acting odd over the last couple of weeks.
Ever since Billy's death, Felicity hasn't been feeling the same. She's been more distant, especially after the Alena girl, the one with brown hair and glasses, gave her Pandora which gives Felicity access to every data in the world. Oliver doesn't know it yet, about her meeting with Alena or the offer to join Helix. Felicity doesn't want to tell him though, not yet. She needs more time before telling him. She plans on telling him eventually. She just needs time for the whole Prometheus thing to blow over.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Felicity says gravelly while nodding her head.
"You know, you can talk to me or Dig if something's bothering you," Oliver says, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"I know. I just don't want to talk about it right now. You already have enough on your shoulders. I don't want you to carry more weight with my problems," she says.
"Felicity, I'm worried about you. It's not a weight. I care about you. And so does Dig. And Quentin. And Thea," Oliver reminds her. "Whatever your problem is, it's my problem too because I'm worried that you're getting into something that could get you hurt or worse."
"Oliver, I...I'm not doing anything that risky," she says to him, "I want to find Prometheus as much as you do. I want to know his name. I want him to pay for everything he's done. But you have to trust me. If what I'm doing is going to help catch Prometheus, you should at least let me try do things my way. I can't stay in the Arrowcave behind computer monitors forever, Oliver. Because then I feel useless."
Oliver is taken aback by this. He never thought of Felicity actually feeling this way, thinking herself as useless behind computer monitors instead of hunting down Prometheus like the others are.
"With Havenrock and Billy, I just wish none of this happened," she tells him, "I could have directed that thing into the ocean instead of driving it into a town full of thousand people, and I could have chosen to break up with Billy instead of telling him that I work for the Green Arrow. But I didn't choose any of those things. I keep making choices that brings consequence after consequence. And I don't know how else to deal with that. Hacking and searching computer data isn't helping me as it use to."
"I'm sorry you had to go through all this, Felicity," Oliver says, "I didn't know you actually felt like this."
"...Maybe it's because I never got to tell you," she says, "Looks like neither of use were completely honest with each other. To tell you the truth, I considered quitting the team lots of times. But never did because I still care about you. You, Dig, Barry and Thea. All of you are my family. And I never give up on family. The last thing I want is Prometheus hurting my family and I'll do everything I can to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone else."
Oliver simply embraces her and she hugs back. He knows everything with Billy and Havenrock is affecting her very badly. He really wishes he can help her. But if she wants to do this on her own, he would have to trust her and let her be. Even after breaking off the engagement, there's still part of Oliver that still loves Felicity, even she no longer has the same feelings.
"Thank you for being here for me, Ollie," she says.
Oliver is thinking the contrary though. Felicity has always been there for him even when he trying to keep her and Diggle away. She is always by his side, even when things went south.
Her phone rings by the time she returns to the loft. It's her mom Donna. Once she locks the front door, she answers the phone call.
"Hey mom," she tries to act as casually as possible, hoping that Donna doesn't notice that tiredness in her voice. "What's up?" She walks over to the kitchen to the refrigerator where she keeps a bag of leftovers from Big Belly Burgers she was planning on eating today.
"Hi, Felicity, how's my baby girl?" Donna asks through the phone.
"I'm fine, mom," she says while putting the bag of hamburger in the microwave to heat it up.
"Are you sure, honey...?"
Before Felicity can answer, she feels a sharp pain on her upper back, going right through her chest. She looks down to see blood blooming on her pink sweater. Her body goes completely numb with pain.
"...Then why do you look so sad?" Felicity recognizes a dark growling voice whispering in her ear. She looks over her shoulder and sees Prometheus standing behind her, pulling out the blade he used to stab her from behind. In his other hand, he is holding a phone. It came clear to Felicity that it wasn't her mother calling on the phone. Prometheus did this to distract her.
Felicity reacts quickly and tries to run away from the madman that stabbed her but the pain in her chest has spread to her entire body, causing her legs to grow weak and let her body fall to the floor. She starts gasping for air, trying to get as much oxygen in her lungs as possible but it's not working. She can't breathe.
She is now lying on the floor, curled up in a fetal position and her hand grasping at her chest as blood continues soaking her pink sweater. She continues gasping for air as tears flow down her eyes.
She watches Prometheus kneel next to her, tilting his head to the side as he watches her trying to breathe whatever breath she has left.
"I'm sorry for making you go through this, Miss Smoak," Prometheus says darkly, "It's nothing personal. You just allied yourself with the wrong man."
"You killed Billy. Why are you doing this?" she asks in a whisper.
"As said, it's nothing personal," he says, "I simply want to see the Green Arrow suffer."
"...Who are you?"
Prometheus brings his hand up and slowly takes off the mask from his face to show her who he really is. Adrian Chase. Felicity's eyes widen at this.
"It's you."
Adrian Chase watches her die slowly and once she's finally dead, he leaves the apartment through the bedroom window upstairs just as he entered. Unbeknown to him, her cellphone, which is now on the floor in the pool of Felicity's blood, starts ringing. It's Oliver.
Three days later...
Oliver is sitting at the front row benches of the church, staring at the mahogany coffin containing Felicity's body, his eyes teary, red and bloodshot. He looks to his right to see Donna sobbing loudly in mourning while Quentin holds her in comfort.
Oliver stands up from his seat and slowly walks over to the open coffin. Felicity is lying in the coffin, dressed in a beautiful white dress with the tie neckline covering the wound on her chest and her blonde hair loose over her shoulder in soft waves. Her hands are clasping together over her stomach with a bouquet of white lilies placed over them. Her lips are painted in red to cover up the chapped and blue hue of them. Oliver has almost forgot how beautiful she looked in her sleep. Of course, this time, her sleep is eternal.
He lost her. He lost Felicity. The woman he once loved. The woman who has always been there for him since the beginning, ever since he first took the mantle. Prometheus killed her and he wasn't there to save her. He wasn't there to stop Prometheus. And now she's dead.
He still remembers.
When he tried to call Felicity on her phone, she wouldn't answer. He even texted her, but they were left unanswered.
After a few hours without Felicity returning his phone calls, he got worried and went to the loft to check if everything was okay. However, no one answered the door when he rang the bell. He called her phone number again. He could hear her phone ringing from inside the loft. Again no answer.
"Felicity?" he called out. When she wouldn't answer, Oliver immediately kicked the door down and barged into the apartment. "Felicity!" he screamed when he found her lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He ran to her side. She wasn't moving. Her eyes are still open but they weren't looking at him when he kneeled next to her. "No," he cried out as he turned her to lie down on her back. The pink sweater was now completely red with her blood. Oliver ripped the top of her sweater open and found a bloody gash on her chest. She lost a lot of blood.
Oliver placed his fingers against her neck to see if he could find some pulse. He found nothing, not even a heartbeat. He checked the pulse on her wrist. She had none.
"No," he sobbed as he held her to his chest. "No! Felicity. NO!"
"Oliver?"
Oliver turns around. Barry Allen is standing behind him wearing a black suit.
"Barry."
He looks over at the coffin where Felicity is lying. Tears fill up Barry's eyes as he holds up a gasp in shock. "I came here to see if it's true. She's really dead?"
Oliver nods, confirming it. Barry starts tearing up and embraces Oliver tightly. "I'm so sorry."
"Me too," Oliver says once he's released from the embrace, "I should have been there. I shouldn't have left her alone. I knew Prometheus would attack her and yet...I failed her. And now she's..." Oliver starts crying again.
"Oliver." Susan Williams, Oliver's new girlfriend, approaches both him and Barry Allen. She is wearing a black dress. Following behind her is Adrian Chase and his wife Doris. "I'm so sorry. I came here as soon as I heard."
"We both did," Adrian says, putting his arm around her. He takes Oliver's hand and shakes it. "I'm so sorry about Felicity."
(Son of a bitch. I know I shouldn't be interrupting the story but I'll say it anyways. Son of a bitch)
"We all are," Doris says.
"I hear that her mom is here, is she okay?" Susan asks.
"She's heartbroken," Oliver tells her. Her, Barry and Susan look over to where Donna and Quentin are. "She just lost her daughter, the only thing she had left of a family.
"I'm sorry," she apologizes once more. "Listen, I know this is a bad time but I would appreciate that after the funeral you don't mind me having an interview with you and Donna Smoak about Felicity's murder. People have the right to know that the mayor's ex-fiancée was murdered by the Throwing Star Killer."
"I don't know if I'm comfortable with that, Susan," Oliver says.
"I know. I just think it would be best. If not me, there will be an entire paparazzi waiting outside the church, waiting to take pictures and ask question and I don't think Donna Smoak would want that," Susan insists.
Oliver sighs. He didn't want to admit it but Susan is right. If not her, other people from the news media will arrive instead. "20 minutes, please. Okay? Just 20 minutes. No more. No less."
Susan nods in agreement. "20 minutes." She then walks away to the other side of the church.
"Are John and Thea here?" Barry asks.
"Yeah," Oliver says, "They're over there."
Barry leaves his side to go see Thea and Diggle. Thea is sobbing at the back of the church with Diggle sitting next to her, putting a hand on her back.
Meanwhile, Adrian tells Oliver he wants to have a word with him in private before turning to his wife Doris. "Could you give us a moment?"
"Sure, honey," Doris says. She kisses him on the cheek before walking away.
Adrian looks over at the coffin where Felicity is. How pale she looks. He pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs. "She was beautiful. I'm sorry about your ex-fiancée," he apologizes, "Listen, I think you should consider giving SCPD the order. Have the department hunt both Prometheus and the Green Arrow. Prometheus is responsible for Felicity's death. And where was the Green Arrow? He's the reason why Prometheus killed her. He's challenging the Green Arrow. Mr. Queen, as your district attorney, I am advising you have to make the right decision. These archers are dangerous. They need to be dealt with. And if you don't, more people are going to die, not just Felicity."
"I -."
"Felicity just died, Mr. Queen. If it were Doris, I would have done everything in my power to take down the Throwing Star Killer or Prometheus or whatever his name is, even if it means taking down the Green Arrow with him," Adrian says sternly, "Right now, you and Donna need to mourn over your loss. But soon, you're going to have to make that choice. If you don't do it for the city, do it for Felicity."
Oliver looks over at Felicity's body. He knows that Adrian is right. This needs to stop. Prometheus needs to be taken down. And if Prometheus needs to go down, so does the Green Arrow.
"...Okay. You're right, Adrian," Oliver sighs in defeat, "You're right. I'll call SCPD tomorrow to give them permission on hunting down both Prometheus and Green Arrow, and give them full support on whatever they need. But they will both be taken alive. I will not have anymore dead bodies in my city."
They bury Felicity at the cemetery after the funeral. Since she was Jewish, Donna throws dirt on top of the coffin. Oliver does the same thing. He's not Jewish but it feels right. Donna returns to the hotel and plans to stay in Starling City for awhile, despite Oliver's insistence for her to return to Las Vegas. She wants to stay and pack up Felicity's belongings from the loft so she can take them back home. Quentin would help her. He did the same thing when Laurel was killed. He packed up Laurel's things and stored them in the closet of his apartment, all except her Black Canary costume which is displayed in the Arrowcave.
Afterwards, Oliver gave the order. It's settled. He'll allow SCPD hunt down both Prometheus and the Green Arrow. He needs to warn Thea not go Speedy these days. The SCPD agreed they will arrest anyone running around carrying a bow and arrow. Oliver will still going out there as the Green Arrow but will have to take precautions while hunting down Prometheus. He can't find out the truth with SCPD breathing down his neck. He and his team will do everything to take the madman down, for her. Curtis is now in charge of Felicity's position as Overwatch for the time-being. Curtis agrees to it since he was also close to Felicity and took her job without a second thought, also determined to catch Prometheus and make him pay for what he did to her.
Barry returns to Starling City to tell Cisco, Caitlin, and Iris about Felicity's death and they are absolutely devastated with both Caitlin and Iris crying and Cisco left in shock. H.R., Julian and Wally didn't know Felicity that well though so they can't really say how they feel about her death except pity. They expressed their condolences over her despite not knowing her well. All they know is that she would be missed by everyone who knew her.
Central City
Two weeks later...
(Cue Prometheus theme - I know this music is meant for Prometheus only but let's face it, it's awesome)
At the far side of Central City, in an alleyway, another breach opens up. More and more breaches open and close every day. Cisco counted 52 breaches appearing in Central City but theorizes there might be more breaches they have not discovered yet.
One of those 52 breaches opens up and a person falls out before it immediately closes up again.
A woman, curly blonde haired and dressed in deep red leather, sits up from the ground frowning as she looks around the alley in confusion. She slowly stands up and continues looking around in confusion. What is this? Where am I? How did I get here?
She then hears a group of men laughing. She looks over her shoulder to see two drunk college student coming her way. She sees emblems on their jackets. They're from Hudson University. That's impossible, she thinks.
The two college boys start laughing and pointing her once she's spotted. They're probably laughing at the way she's dressed. Her attire does sort of look like a leather bondage suit with all the belts, buckles and zippers, she'll give them that. She considers herself lucky she's wearing an eye-mask instead of a full mask. That would definitely make her look like a bondage girl.
"Hey, are you another of those metahuman superheroes or villains, or are you just going to a costume party?" one of them with a mocking laugh.
"Do you mind telling me what city is this?" she asks, ignoring the question.
"You're in Central City," the other says, laughing as well. They're definitely drunk as shit.
She's a long way from where she was before. The woman is confused though. Central City?
"How do I get to Star City?" she asks.
"Star City is 600 miles from here," the first boy says, "You'll need to take Central City train station."
"...Thank you," she says as she starts walking down the alley. However, one of the college boys follows her and grabs her by the arm.
"Hey, wait a sec, come hang with us," he insists. The woman tugs her arm back to make him let go. She manages to pull her arm back
"No thank you," she says as she turns to leave the alley once more. The boy grabs her by the wrist again, tighter this time.
"Hey, bitch, I said -."
Before the boy can say anything else, the woman turns around and slashes the boy's throat with a small knife she kept hidden in the cuff of her sleeve. The boy gags up blood from his mouth before dropping dead to the ground. She looks at the boy's friend who's staring in shock. Looks like this kid's death shocked him out of his drunk state. He quickly makes a run for it the other way but doesn't make it three feet when the woman throws the blade she used to slash the other boy's throat like a boomerang and it jams itself into his skull, making him drop dead instantly. He died a lot faster than his friend.
The woman slowly walks over to the second boy she killed, the one with the blade stuck on the back of his skull, and bends down to pull it out the sharp knife from him with a firm tug. She uses her gloved hand to swipe off the blood from the blade before putting it away in one of the compartments of her belt.
"How many times do you have to learn this lesson, boys? No, means no," she says with a smirk before finally leaving the alley and entering Central City.
End of Chapter 1
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