Author's Note: This is an experiment. I'm not sure if people would be too cool with the premise of this story. Everybody believes Tommy Merlyn died a hero at the end of Season One. I agree but my personal opinion is that there could have been so much more done with Tommy's character.
Which is where this story comes in. I'm going to split this particular story into two parts. I need to see how Season Two ends before I can bring any of the other Arrow characters. They will appear in Part One but in flashbacks or hallucinations.
Part One will follow Tommy's journey from death, rebirth and finding out why this was done to him. Will he succeed? Time will tell. There will be some originally created characters featured, outside POV to help Tommy cope with what has happened to him.
As I mentioned, this is experimental. If you guys enjoy the story (let me know in reviews or in PMs, those are cool with me. Just deliver constructive criticism please).
Disclaimer: I own nothing that belongs to the creators of Arrow or the CW. I'm just playing with their toys. :-) Also there are some lines of dialogue from the 2011 Marvel Studios film Thor so I don't own that either.
All that said, let's begin
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Inside of a secure medical facility, four men in security uniforms sat in a control room filled several monitors showing camera footage.
One of the guards, a tall Caucasian male with slick back jet black hair, spoke up "How long do we have to babysit this guy?"
"Boss man said that we have to guard him until they come to collect a finished product." A bigger and muscular African American with his dark hair in a buzz-cut.
"Find it funny the boss would do business with people like that." A tall and lanky young man with short blond hair said. He appears to to be the youngest of the four. "I heard they're like ninjas or something."
"We shouldn't ask questions like that, son." The older but well built man with salt and pepper hair and a scruffy beard told them. "For the record, they're assassins and the boss has a history with their leader. Owes him BIG."
"But why invest in this guy? He's nothing." The African American guard stated.
"Doesn't seem like a muscle bound he-man but that stuff made him smart. Real smart." The older guard stated. "I wouldn't underestimate him."
"Especially how that hot ninja chick comes to train him to fight." Slick back guard stated. "They're now almost equal skill wise."
"That ninja chick has a name." The younger guard said.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. After some Hindu god or something." Slick back guard said. "Kali? Or was it Vishnu?"
"Irregardless, she could break you in half with her pinky and since this guy is being trained by her, so can he." The older guard said.
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A man with dark hair sat in a corner, appearing to be building some sort of contraption. He seemed so focused that he never looks up from his work
On the floor next to him were several pieces of sharpened plastic.
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"What's he doing?" Slick back guard asked as he watched the footage of the man.
The other guards look at the monitor and see what he was seeing.
"Think he's up to something?" The younger guard asked.
"If he is, I'm not surprised." The African American guard asked.
"Tate, go make sure he doesn't do something we'll end up regretting." The older guard said to the African American guard as he points at the Slick Back guard. "Take Hoover with you. It's gonna take more than one of you to subdue this guy."
Tate and Hoover get up from their chairs and leave the control room.
"Keller, go to the lab and talk to Dr Desmond. Tell him we're gonna need another sedative. Stronger dosage this time." The older guard told his younger counterpart.
Keller the younger guard leaves the control room.
The older guard watches the monitor at the man in the room with intense focus.
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Tate and Hoover exit an elevator and go down a long white corridor and stop at a door. Both men seemed apprehensive about opening the door but do so out of fear the wrath of their boss.
When they open the door, the two guards find the man standing in the corner facing the wall. The guards pull out their taser guns and point them at him.
"All right, arts and crafts is done. Think it's time to take a nice long nap." Tate told the man.
"Guess it is... but it's going to longer than you had planned." The man said as he raises his hands but the guards don't see a piece of sharpened plastic hidden in each hand.
The man slowly turns to face the guards as it is revealed who he was - Tommy Merlyn. He had dark circles under his eyes but his body was a bit leaner than before and his biceps had a bit more muscle definition. He has a short beard forming and his hair was slightly longer than he normally had it.
Tate and Hoover appear confused until the two shards hit Tate in the neck. The shards hit both his carotid arteries and he fell to the ground.
Hoover fires his taser at Tommy but he rolls out of the way. Tommy lands on the opposite side of his bed while Hoover made his way towards him.
"Security personnel to medical wing. Code Red. I repeat, Code-" Hoover said into a radio but before finish his sentence, Tommy grabs him and puts him a sleeper hold. Hoover struggles to breathe as Tommy squeezes tighter.
"I didn't want this. I didn't want it!" Tommy said angrily through gritted teeth. Hoover struggles to breathe but his end came swiftly when Tommy quickly and violently snaps Hoover's neck.
Tommy searches through Tate and Hoover's equipment and grabs a few of their non lethal weaponry including their Glock 17 handguns from their waistbands holsters.
He begins to remove Hoover's uniform and puts it on as he begins to button up the shirt.
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The older guard made his way down that same corridor with three more guards. "Sweep the perimeter. Bag him but we need him alive."
They make their to the now abandoned room where Tate laid in a pool of his own blood and Hoover was slumped wearing a white undershirt and his boxer briefs. A strange contraption was in Hoover's right hand.
The older guard speaks into his two way radio. "Keller, this is Wallace. Our guest has decided to check out early. Gather the rest of the security and be on alert. Kid's in uniform."
"Copy that." Keller is heard saying on the radio.
One of the other walks over to Hoover's lifeless body and checks the device and hears a ticking sound coming from it. He picks it up fails to notice a makeshift trip wire tied to it.
Before Wallace could warn him, a moderately sized explosive discharged and created an explosion that killed two of the guards and injured Wallace and another young muscular guard with short dark hair by sending them flying backwards across the hall.
The two try to recover while Wallace radios Keller "Emergency. Explosion... In Medical Bay. Two men down."
"Did you find him?" Keller asked
"Negative." Wallace growled with rage in his voice. "You find him, cripple him! Let those ninjas put him back together once we're done."
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Two guards stand in front of an elevator, waiting for it to open. Both men were tall good looking men in their late thirties.
The doors open to reveal Tommy standing in the center of the elevator but his hair was slick back and sunglasses over his eyes.
The two men got into the elevator with Tommy and the doors close. The two men stare at Tommy who stares straight at the door.
One of the guards speaks "You really think that outfit is fooling anyone?"
"Not really." Tommy stated as the guards to go for their weapons but Tommy subdues the two until they were unconscious. "But can't fault a guy for trying."
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Keller and about a dozen guards stop at a different set of elevator doors and point their guns at the door as the elevator heads down.
"On my signal, open fire." Keller told the other guards. "Aim for the legs. Cripple, not kill."
The elevator finally makes his way down and the doors open. A figure stands there with his hands in the air.
"FIRE!" Keller yells as the men shoot at the figure's legs. They all empty their clips into the figure and stop shooting once they're out of ammo.
Keller watches as the figure falls to the ground. He sees that it was one of the guards Tommy had taken down moments earlier.
Suddenly, three small round metallic capsules rain down from the elevator and roll into the corridor. The orbs release smoke from them which causes the guards to become blinded and disoriented.
Another figure lunges forward and Keller, who had one more shot, shoots him in the head but it was the other guard Tommy had taken down.
Out of the murky smoke, Tommy emerges and goes to take out the guards. He pulls out the two Glocks and shoots five of the guards including Keller who was hit in the right shin which causes Keller to wail in agony. Might've been his first time getting shot.
The seven uninjured guards try to take Tommy down but Tommy quickly avoids each attempt and counters with swift and violent strikes. A few of the attacks prove fatal while others break bones.
The guards who were still alive lay, moaning in pain.
Keller limps on his good leg and gets up only to have Tommy deliver a left spinning roundhouse kick. The attack knocks Keller out cold.
Tommy looks around and sees a sign on a door that reads 'Parking Lot Access.' He smiles and made his way towards the door.
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In the parking lot, Tommy looks around and sees it was filled with marked military vehicles. It was pouring rain as he looks inside each vehicle to see if there were keys left in the ignition. No luck. He goes to a few of the tires of some the vehicles and sticks something in a few of them.
He sees an unmarked SUV with tinted windows as he looks inside and sees the keys were in the igitition. He sighs in relief as he takes off the security guard uniform shirt and wraps it around his elbow.
All of a sudden, Tommy smashes the driver's side window with his wrapped up arm. He winces in pain at the impact but ignores the pain and unlocks the door and steps inside.
At that moment, Wallace and the guard who survived the bombing enter the parking lot. They see Tommy begin to start the car and drive out as he mows through the gate of the chain link fence.
"He's getting away!" Wallace shouted as he and the guard got into a black Humvee. They begin to drive but the two front tires pop with a loud bang as a few of the other vehicles' tires pop. "Damn it!"
"Guess he saw that coming, huh?"
Wallace glares at the other guard.
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Inside of hospital room, a nurse with long red hair that was pulled back in ponytail and light blue eyes was reading to a bedridden six year old girl from a children's book. The blond haired child had heavily bandaged up arms and hands with a bandage over the top of her head.
The nurse read from the book "And she lay sleeping for what seemed for eternity..."
"What does eternity mean?" The little girl asked. She looked weak but there seemed to be light left in her eyes.
"Eternity means for a very, very long time." The nurse explained. The child nods as the nurse continues reading. "The kingdom lay in the slumber along with the Princess." She looks up at the child with a kindly smile. "Slumber means sleep." The little girl smiles at the nurse. "Until one day a handsome prince found himself at the palace. The Prince climbed to the top of the tower where the Princess laid. He was mesmerized by her beauty as he slowly approaches the Princess. The Prince knelt down beside her and kissed the Princess."
"Then what happened?" The girl asked.
"The Princess began to awaken from her long dream as the rest of the Kingdom awoke from their long sleep." The nurse read. "The Kingdom rejoices and they all lived happily ever after."
The nurse closes the book and puts the book in a table next to the child's bed.
"Can you read me another one?" The little girl pleaded. "Please?"
"Tomorrow, Caitlyn. My shift is about to end. I promise that I'll read you as many stories as you want. Okay?" The redheaded nurse told her as she got up off the chair she had been sitting on.
"Okay." Caitlyn agreed as the nurse made her way out. "Bex?"
The nurse, Rebecca Frances but Bex to her close friends and family, looks over at Caitlyn. "Yes?"
"Is that story real?" Caitlyn asked with child like innocence.
"Only if you believe it is." Bex told her as Caitlyn smiles. "Now, another nurse is coming by to give you some medicine. Don't give her too much trouble."
Caitlyn giggles mischievously "I won't."
Bex grins as she walks out of the room.
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Wallace and the other guard named Jacobi drive aggressively down a highway in different vehicle as they look around for any sign of Tommy.
"You see him?" Wallace asked.
Jacobi looks around and frowns "No sign of him, sir."
"We gotta find him. If we don't, the boss is going to kill us." Wallace said.
The pair finds the vehicle Tommy had stolen abandoned on the side of the road. The car comes to a stop and get out to survey the scene which they find that Tommy is nowhere in sight.
"Where'd he go?" Jacobi asked.
"Not sure, son. But I don't think he couldn't have gone far on foot. Come on!" Wallace ordered and they got back in the car.
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A young looking twenty year old man with dark brown hair and brown eyes sat in the waiting area, wearing a dark green button up shirt over a black T-shirt and dark jeans. He was flipping through a old looking magazine which featured the headline 'Oliver Queen: The Miraculous Return of Starling City's Golden Boy.'
A figure walks over to him and places her left hand over the magazine. It was Bex who was wearing a jacket over her hospital scrubs. She seems to know the young man.
"You could've waited in the car." Bex told the young man.
The young man looks up at her, mildly annoyed. "It's pouring out and I didn't want to waste gas while I cooled my heels waiting for my big sister." Bex rolls her eyes as she snatches the magazine out of his hands. "Hey, I was reading that!"
"Miles, you always read THAT magazine every time you come here." Bex told him.
"Hey, it's not my fault your hospital doesn't have up to date magazines." Miles Frances said to his sister. "Besides, I happen to find Oliver Queen very fascinating."
"You and everybody else." Bex said as she pulls him up and out of the waiting room. "Now, come on. I'd like to head home and her some sleep and prepare for another long shift tomorrow."
Miles groans as he grabs his jacket and puts it on while him and Bex left the hospital.
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Tommy walks through a street corner in the pouring rain, grabbing his arm like he was in pain as he looks to see if he was being followed.
He sees a car heading down the street and he rushes into an alley and hides behind a dumpster.
The car was the one with Wallace and Jacobi which zips past the alley Tommy was hiding in.
Tommy breathes a sigh of relief but continues hiding while recovering from the vibrating pain in his elbow.
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Miles was driving Bex's black 2010 Chevy Camero. Bex lays back in the seat, trying to take a short nap. He notices the exhaustion read all over her face. "I think this job is slowly killing you."
"Maybe but I still love it." Bex replied. "But I'm starting to feel if I'm doing enough of a good job to justify killing myself slowly."
"Come on, Bex. You pictured yourself becoming the next Florence Nightingale." Miles retorts.
"It's not that." Bex stated. "I just wanna make a difference."
Bex looks out the window and sees someone exit an alleyway in the street the drove into. She notices that the man was wobbly and seeming in pain.
Miles notices this. "Bex, what is it?"
Bex says nothing as she sees the man collapse on the ground. "Stop the car!" Miles pulls the brakes with a screech while Bex gets out of the car.
Miles grabs a flashlight as it continued pouring rain. "Is this your idea of making a difference, I am already not liking it!"
"Get the first aid kit!" Bex yelled to her brother which he does so. She knelt down next to the downed man. "Do me a favor and don't be dead."
Tommy looks up at her, trying to recover from his ordeal as he catches his breath and gazes at her pale blue eyes. "Are you... real?" He tries to speak again but his sheer exhaustion causes him to drift in and out of consciousness.
"No. No. No. No. Stay with me, okay." Bex said quickly to try to rouse him. Her voice was calm and soothing. "Stay awake."
It works as Tommy manages to stay awake and grips her hand tightly. Bex squeezes it back to assure him she was real.
Miles rushes over with the first aid kit. "Is he dead? Please tell me he isn't dead."
Bex goes to get Tommy to his feet. "Help me get him into the car."
"But-" Miles began but Bex gave him a scowl that told him he shouldn't argue with her. He lets out a deep sigh and begrudgingly helps his sister get Tommy off the ground. "We need to get him to a hospital."
Tommy shook his head as he manages to choke out. "No. No hospital. They'll find me."
"What do you mean? Who's looking for you?" Miles asked quickly.
"Miles, I don't think he's in any shape to answer questions." Bex stated.
"Fine, I'll wait until his lungs re-inflate, okay?" Miles said as they loaded Tommy into the back seat. She jumps into the back with Tommy.
Bex stares at Miles. "Get us home. I'll patch him up when we get there."
Miles groans as he jumps into the driver seat and starts the car. "If this guy turns out to be a psychotic ax murderer who broke out of Arkham, I am within my right to say I told you so before he hacks us to bits."
"Noted. Now drive." Bex demanded.
Miles rolls his eyes and starts to drive the car.
Bex checks on Tommy who was still drifting in and out of consciousness. "It's gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay."
Her voice had become muffled and Tommy lost consciousness.
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Cast
Colin Donnell as Thomas 'Tommy' Merlyn
Melissa Archer as Rebecca 'Bex' Frances
Dylan O'Brien as Miles Frances
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So, that was Chapter One. Was it bad?
If you guys liked it, tell me so. Like I've said before, I'm bummed Tommy isn't on Arrow anymore but hey, that's why fan fiction was invented. ;)
Also, above I have a cast list of the individuals featured in the story. I hope it doesn't seem silly.