Author's Note and Disclaimer:

A plot bunny I got, while playing Uncharted video game. This takes post-Season 5 of Arrow.

Just to make some things clear: Laurel is not dead and no exploding island happpened. Roy and Sara have become sort of a treasure hunters and everything else will be explained in flashbacks as the story continues.

I do not own DC Comics or the CW TV shows Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow or any other characters or elements pertaining to the mentioned franchises.


In a prison in Panama, a young man with short brown hair was surrounded by a circle of prisoners as he was fighting a man taller and more muscular than him as they traded punches before a gunshot rang out and the guards entered, dragging the young man and the man he was just fighting, away.


The muscular guy was dragged into solitary confinement cell as the younger man was accompanied to a more ruined part of the prison as the guard uncuffed him. "Thank you."

"The money your friend had paid me better be worth it, Harper." The guard said as Roy smirked.

"It should be." Roy rubbed his wrists as the guard returned back to his post on the other side of the prison. Roy climbed up the ruined wall as he was then on a cliff, approaching a small chasm carefully and inside he found a small totem as he put it in his pocket.

Roy then returned back as the guard returned and cuffed Roy again. "When you're done talking with your friends, you know where to find me."

He dragged Roy into the yard, playing his part. "If I catch you fighting again, it's one week in a hole for you!" He walked away as Roy smirked.

"Nice acting."


As soon as Roy could, he approached the phone booth and dialed a number as he heard a female voice with Australian accent. "Hello?"

"Rose, it's me." Roy said. "Roy."

"Thank God, Jason was almost going to break you out." Rose sighed in relief.

"Look, I found another lead. Some kind of totem with Arabic writings. I think Sara might be able to translate it." Roy explained.

"OK, I talked with the warden and paid him as we agreed, he should smuggle you out tonight. Just try to keep your head down and a low profile." Rose said.


Roy was trying to do as instructed and stay out of trouble. But, in the mess hall, some inmates were watching Roy, probably friends of the prisoner Roy had beaten earlier as Roy quickly tried to finish eating his food and was about to leave before some prisoners followed him and Roy tried to run but then, after running in a maze of corridors, Roy was cornered in a boiler room. One of the inmates tried to attack Roy but Roy dodged and kicked him in the stomach as Roy threw another inmate at the other two before from above jumped down a young man with black hair and branded 'J' letter on his cheek.

"Private fight, or can I join?"

"Be my guest." Roy shrugged as the two beat the remaining inmates. "You're late, Jason."

"It's not easy to break in." Jason smirked as he heard an explosion. "That's our cue, come on, let's go!"

Roy followed Jason as they climbed up the pile of crates towards a window and they were running to the outside wall of the prison as they were on a rooftop and were about to jump to the other side. Jason rushed and jumped but Roy was forced to take cover as Rose and Sara showed up.

"Roy, come on! We'll pull you up!" Jason yelled.

Roy ran and jumped as Sara held his hand. "I got you, Roy."

The gunshots rang out as Sara turned to the prison. "They know you're getting away." Rose said.

She and Sara tried to pull Roy up but then, gunshots were fired towards them as they hit the prison wall on which Roy was climbing as Roy was hanging on the ledge.

"Roy." Rose whispered before Roy was coughing out blood and she, Jason and Sara paled. "Oh, no."

Roy was losing his grip as his limp body was falling down but Sara and Jason held him tightly. "Hang on, Roy! Come on!"

"Roy, give me your other hand! Reach out, come on!" Jason shouted as he was trying to reach out with his other hand but Roy was slipping before he fell down as his body crashed through the plated roof.

"Roy! No!" Sara exclaimed, tears forming in her eyes.

Jason tackled Sara down. "We have to go."

"No, I won't leave him behind…"

"Sara! He's gone!" Rose snapped, shaking Sara. "We stay here, we're all dead!"

"I won't leave Roy behind!"

"Sara! There's nothing you can do for him!" Jason snapped as he pointed to the courtyard of the prison. "The guards are coming, either we leave or join Roy! I know this is hard but we have to go!"

Sara's eyes were filling with tears as they got Sara up on her feet and they jumped down the prison wall into the river.


Two years later, Star City

Oliver, Sara and William were playing a racing video game as the two adults stared in disbelief as William's car was ahead of theirs as they reached the finish line.

"Oh, come on." Oliver sighed.

"Damn it." Sara sighed.

"Maybe next time." William shrugged.

"OK, video game time is over." Laurel said as she entered with Samantha. "Dinner, guys."


"Thank you for coming to visit." Oliver hugged Samantha.

"We'll do it again someday soon." Samantha smiled as she and William left.

"I'm sorry Thea didn't come." Sara told Oliver.

"It's not your fault." Oliver assured her. "Roy made his choice and Thea… one day she'll come around."

"I should head back too." Sara said as Oliver accompanied her.


Elsewhere, Sara, Rose and Oliver were then working on some paperwork as Sara and Oliver were putting the folders into cabinets, while Rose was stamping and signing off some papers before they heard the door knock.

"We're not opening yet." Rose announced before the door knocked again. "Wait an hour!" The knock was heard again before she groaned. "Are you serious?"

"I'll go open the door." Oliver assured her as he opened the door to the reception. "Can I help you?"

Oliver saw a young man in black jacket. "Yeah. I'm looking for a tall broody guy with short beard and short hair and his baby sister, a brunette and a woman with dirty blonde hair and an Australian blonde." He tensed upon recognizing the voice. "He's about your height. A little leaner and a little less grey at the temples."

The man turned around as he chuckled while Oliver, Sara and Rose stared in disbelief. "Roy?"

"Hey." Roy smiled as they hugged him tightly. "Whoa."

"Oh, my God, Roy. I thought…" Sara stopped upon measuring him. "We saw you get shot."

"Yeah." Roy lifted his shirt to reveal bullet wounds on his body in a horizontal row. "Right here."

"Oh my God…" Oliver murmured.

"Holy shit…" Rose whispered.

"The doctor there found me and patched me up and tossed me right back in my cell." Roy explained.

"How…" Rose breathed out. "I called everyone around, I checked wherever I could, all my contacts confirmed that you were dead."

"I nearly died. We blew up a prison and some guards ended up dead, did you think they'd let us walk away with it?" Roy pointed out as he leaned onto the desk. "They wanted to make sure I'd spend the rest of my life in there."

"Oh, Jesus…" Sara whispered, feeling guilty.

"Roy…" Oliver was lost for words. "I don't know what to… if we had known, if there was even a whisper that you were alive…"

"You guys would have come back for me." Roy nodded, assuring them all. "Don't worry. What matters is that I'm back."

Rose and Sara hugged Roy tightly again as Oliver leaned onto the desk. "I need some air."


"So, Chase nearly blew up Lian Yu and all of you, guys?" Roy asked as they were all talking outside.

"Yeah but in the end we got him." Oliver assured him.

"But you don't do the vigilante thing anymore." Roy pointed out.

"I couldn't. I had to stay. For William. I left things at John's hands." Oliver said. "Yeah, I should probably call Thea and Jason and…"

"No. You can't." Roy held him.

"Why not?" Sara asked.

Roy sighed deeply as he sat down. "I'm flying in deep trouble. Have you ever heard of John Butcher?"

"The crime lord?" Rose asked as Roy nodded.

Roy sighed. "For the past two years, he was my cellmate. This is what happened back in Panama after we tried to escape…"


Two years ago, Panama

Roy groaned as he opened his eyes, noticing he had bandages wrapped around his body as everything hurt like hell as he noticed a young Vietnamese woman next to him. "Who…"

"Take it easy. You almost died back there."

"What… where am I?"

"You should rest, Roy."

"Who are you?" Roy asked.

"Jade…" The woman replied.


Author's Note:

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Bl4ckHunter