This Canarrow story will be my first attempt at writing action scenes. I was only going to settle for simple stories because I didn't think I had the talent for action and decided to leave it to others who could do it justice. But now I'm going to give it a shot.
Here's some background for you. Oliver and Felicity dated briefly shortly after the season 3 pilot but decided they were more comfortable as friends and broke it off. After that, Oliver and Sara rekindled their romance and later became engaged following Sara's resurrection and her soul's return during season 4. Roy has also returned and rejoined Team Arrow in addition to rekindling his own romance with Thea. Vixen is also a member. I added Roy and Vixen because they both will be appearing during the second half of its midseason.
Disclaimer: I don't own "Arrow" or its characters. They belong to DC, Warner Brothers, the CW, and its showrunners.
Oliver and Sara were busy fighting through a multitude of ghosts while attempting to make their way towards the large, menacing drone as it was about to takeoff. For months, Damian Darhk had been unleashing a multitude of terrorist attacks against Star City which had increased in scale and intensity and were claiming scores of lives, with the death toll continuing to rise, and it was all part of an insane grand plan of his for Star City which was to culminate in the city's complete destruction. And once its destruction was finished, he was going to do the same to Central City, Coast City, National City, Metropolis, Gotham, Nanda Parbat, which he was most looking forward to attacking, Tokyo, Rome, Moscow, Cairo, and other major cities around the globe.
Everything Darhk had been doing and what he intended to do was part of his and HIVE'S twisted, evil, psychotic plan to reset humanity by conducting his own version of Noah's flood, and his cruelty and mercilessness knew no bounds. As for the drone, it was to serve as the final stage of his plans for Star City, and its purpose was to launch six missiles whose explosions would release huge amounts of deadly gas which would engulf the city and lead to the deaths of millions in it. And it would serve the exact same purpose for those other cities Darhk was going to target once he was through with Star City.
During those months leading up to the present, Felicity had been doing her utmost to hack into HIVE'S network servers in order to retrieve information about what their endgame was but to no avail. She was however a determined woman and continued trying, especially as the ghosts' terrorist attacks were steadily getting worse.
Eventually though she had found the appropriate information and with the contents about the drone, and its intent horrified her and the rest of Team Arrow. There was no way they could allow this to happen. None of them knew however the drone's location, so they put together a plan in which they would locate and bug Darhk's phone and listen daily for updates. That mission was carried out by Thea and Roy while Diggle, Laurel, and Mari McCabe/Vixen served as the backup and lookout. The plan had gone without a hitch, except for some close calls in which they were almost caught, and the conversations the team heard on Darhk's phone had given them invaluable information which they used to foil many of his operations.
Back in the present, Darhk's phone discussions had revealed to the team the imminent launch of the drone and they started making plans on how to stop it. After a bit of discussion, it was decided that Oliver and his fiancé Sara would stop the drone while Thea and Roy would be dispatched to provide cover fire against the ghosts standing guard. Laurel, Diggle, and Vixen on their part would distract the rest of the ghosts nearby. And that's how Oliver and Sara found themselves at this very moment battling ferociously against the ghosts while Roy and Thea were raining down arrows against the other ghosts who kept coming. Oliver on his part was releasing arrows like never before and Sara was busy twirling her baton in quick, rapid motions against each enemy she came across while using her canary cry against them periodically.
"We have to hurry and get to that drone Oli", Sara said while busy engaging in hand to hand combat with one ghost.
"I know Sara, but we need to get through these ghosts if we want a chance to succeed", replied Oliver while ducking and dodging the rapid fire from their assault rifles and shooting them down one by one. But no matter how hard Oliver and Sara fought, or how much Thea and Roy covered them or how much Diggle, Laurel, and Vixen distracted one group of ghosts from moving towards Oliver and Sara's position, others kept coming in a never ending succession.
As the battle progressed, 6 ghosts managed to break through Oliver and Sara's defensive positions and began barraging them with various martial arts moves, kicks and punches. They managed however to repel them with Oliver returning their vicious kicks and was able to knock two of them down by swinging his leg in a circular arc against them and took down a third by taking that ghost's arm and flipping him over his shoulder after which he swung his bow against the ghost's head, knocking him out. Sara on her part neutralized the other three by simultaneously using her canary cry against them, and while they were disoriented, she used her baton to knock each of them off the ground which in turn sent them crashing onto their backs unceremoniously.
"We can't keep this up Oli, we need to do something now if we're going to reach that drone in time", Sara said desperately while she and Oliver continued to struggle to get through the oncoming ghosts.
"I know honey, and I have an idea on how we can succeed", replied Oliver who quickly went on to explain his plan to her.
"I like it, let's do this", she responded, after which they put their plan into motion while asking Thea and Roy to continue launching cover fire for them. As the next wave of ghosts surged towards Oliver and Sara's position while mildly distracted by the cover fire, Sara turned her canary cry to its highest frequency and released it onto them, causing them to crouch down and cover their ears from its intensity. While Sara was doing that, Oliver nocked an explosive arrow, one which was designed to have a very wide blast radius, and shot it right into the center of where the ghosts were standing. The resulting blast caused huge shockwaves which sent them flying through the air and cleared a pathway for Oliver and Sara who both took advantage of it and hurried to the drone. Once there, they immediately flung themselves onto it as it began to ascend into the air in order to begin its rain of death.