Grodd
An: I do not own Arrow or Flash
Summary: "Wait you lost to a gorilla?" Oliver asked incredulously. "No, not a gorilla, Grodd, the telepathic gorilla," Barry responded. He knew Oliver wouldn't understand until he me Grodd.
Team Arrow arrived in Central after a short flight. Barry's request for help promoted the use of the Palmer Technologies Jet instead of a long drive. They arrived at Star Labs to find most of Team Flash bruised and incapacitated.
"What happened?" Oliver asked full of concern,
"Gorilla Grodd set a trap and we walked right into it," Barry said frustrated. Even he still had bruises making Felicity wonder how badly hurt he had been in the first place since he heals fast.
"Wait, you lost to a gorilla?" Oliver asked.
"No not a gorilla, Grodd, the telepathic Gorilla," Barry explained. He knew Oliver wouldn't understand until he me Grodd.
Oliver pursed his lips and Barry knew he was making fun of him in his head.
"Did you try feeding it bananas?" Thea asked while trying to suppress a giggle.
"No no no no no no," an injured Joe said shaking his head emphatically. "Grodd does not like bananas. They piss him off."
"I would stop laughing," Caitlyn advised opening surveillance footage of Barry and Grodd fighting, "You certainly won't be laughing when Grodd sends you flying into the side of a building,"
Everyone flinched when Barry slide down the slide of the building onto the ground.
"What exactly are we up against then?" Diggle asked.
"A super intelligent gorilla that can control minds," Cisco said.
Oliver's eyes cut to Felicity, "Why does this sound like one of those shows you watch?"
She shrugged, "What's the game plan?"
"Grodd was a gorilla that Star Labs used to experiment on. He has the ability to manipulate person's minds. We came up with some technology to keep him out of our minds but as you can see," Barry said nodding to the footage, "that didn't work."
"So on top of the telepathy thing he's a master strategist?" Diggle said.
Those of members of Team Flash that could nod their head without pain, did so.
"What is it that he's after?" Felicity asked.
"He wants to make humans pay for what they did to him." Barry said, "He wants to make us extinct."
"We can't let that happen," Thea quipped.
"Last week he kidnapped a scientist working on a virulent strain of virus that would affect humans and not monkeys. He has the virus but no effective way to spread it. There are two labs that carry the device he needs."
"I suppose you have a plan," Oliver said replaying the moment on the screen where Grodd timed Barry's run perfectly, catching him and tossing him around like a rag doll. Oliver was going to need a seriously large arrow to carry the amount of tranquilizer necessary to put that ape to sleep.
"I do," Barry replied.
"It better be a plan that doesn't put Oliver anywhere near that beast," Felicity mumbled to herself.
S-2
Felicity sat by herself behind some computers set up in an abandoned building. Barry's brilliant plan was to bait Grodd to take the tech from both labs. Since Team Flash didn't have the manpower to cover both labs he asked Team Arrow to assist and cover the other lab. Caitlyn developed a tranquilizer that would be strong enough to knock Grodd out. Cisco had already developed special arrows and syringes to deliver the dosage fast. They figured he was more likely to show up at Star Labs since this was the lab he probably wanted to destroy the most.
For obvious reasons she was not allowed to run the operation from Star Labs so she was stuck inside what she called "the haunted warehouse," by herself. The building was old. It was made of iron which made the occasional noise as it contracted in the cool of the night. She also thought the little scurrying noises she heard were rats. She had her feet propped up. Nothing was going to be crawling up her legs.
She detected movement outside Star Labs and immediately informed the team. They were getting ready to engage when she felt a strong release of breath behind her neck. She froze. In the reflection of the screens she could see the face of a very large gorilla standing behind her. She swallowed and slowly turned around.
"Hi," she said innocently looking the gorilla in his eyes. This was so not a part of the plan.
"Where is the device?" the gorilla asked in her head.
"Uh you'll have to be more specific Mr. Grodd."
He leaned closer to her and roared,
"Wow, I'm in my own King Kong movie!" Felicity eyes widened in horror, out of all the things her mouth could say, she referenced the movie with the oversize ape.
"King Kong?" she heard the gorilla query in her head.
Her mind immediately pulled up the movie in her mind and played it for him.
"I am not an over sized gorilla that is interested in human females," the voice in her head snarled.
"Oh I know," she said, thoughts of Oliver flying around in her head.
Grodd grimaced for a moment before continuing "I want to know where the device is? I saw you leave Star Labs,"
"It's still at Star Labs," Felicity replied honestly.
"You mean that idiot was foolish enough not to move it?" Grodd asked.
"Yes," she said thinking of the trap they set up at both labs. She cursed herself for not redirecting her thoughts quickly enough.
"Ah, a trap," Grodd said. "I suppose something mundane like that is all you humans are capable of,"
"Mundane!" Felicity's mind immediately protested, her mind flying through everything in her life that wasn't mundane.
"Stop thinking so fast," Grodd ordered.
"I can't stop thinking, that's like telling me to stop breathing, I can't do that either, not that I'm telling you to stop my breathing. That would be a bad thing, definitely a bad thing,"
"You are the most infuriating human I have ever met!"
Felicity gave him a sheepish look, "there's isn't any chance I could convince you that not all humans are bad?"
He growled at her, "that is an impossible thing to prove,"
"It's not," Felicity protested, her mind recalling the time she hacked into a lab that performed tests on animals and created havoc in their system.
"You think one deed redeems your species?" Grodd asked.
"I think you shouldn't judge an entire species by the inhumane deeds of a few?" she responded.
"You are the most intelligent human I have met so it puzzles my why you would be under the assumption that it is a few. Man is a cruel creature."
"Nature is cruel. Survival of the fittest," Felicity countered remembering all of those videos of lions hunting. She had felt sorry for the poor gazelles.
Grodd started showing Felicity his life. His life in the jungle where he was born and the day a man ripped him away from his mother. He showed her his life in a cage. He showed her the sewers of Central City. He made sure to make her see how he suffered.
"You are nothing but one of those gazelles to me!" Grodd said lifting his hand to swing at her when he turned around suddenly and caught four of the eight arrows that were headed for him from three different directions.
Two missed while two landed on his leg and he immediately pulled them out. He threw the arrows back at the green archer that was perched at the end of the roof. The archer ducked out of the way in time as the Arrows flew past him and pierced through the wall. Felicity let out a breath of relief that they missed Oliver. She did notice that he paused to note the force at which those arrows had been sent at him.
"You tricked me," Grodd said running forward to where the red archer was perched in the roof on the opposite side to the green one.
He caught the next wave of arrows but the Flash had arrived while he was focused on the archers and injected him with a large dose of the tranquilizer. Grodd movements slowed down and he was tilting dangerously to one side.
"I think one more should work, just in case" Oliver said firing another arrow into Grodd's leg.
The ape toppled over on to his side. Oliver jumped down and headed immediately to his girlfriend.
"You ok?" he asked cupping her face in his hands.
"Do you know how hard it was not to think about the emergency button that I pressed to alert you that I was in danger? I had to think of all sorts of things. I may have flashed him some of our more intimate moments too at the beginning when I was struggling for things to think of," she confessed. "You know these days you're hardwired into my thoughts."
Oliver smiled at her. A Felicity that babbled was a safe Felicity.
"That is one large gorilla!" Diggle stated watching Grodd in awe.
"Yet you missed your shots," Thea commented sarcastically.
Diggled glared at her and handed the extra bow and quiver back to Oliver. "What do we do with him now?"
"I'm not sure, I really hadn't thought that far ahead," Barry confessed scratching the back of his head.
"I have an idea," Felicity said, "but we will have to keep him sedated until I can get the building ready for him,"
S-3
Grodd awoke in a large empty building. He knew it wasn't the warehouse where he had encountered the human named Felicity. Once he could stand properly, he tested the strength of the outer walls with a strong punch. It didn't even form a dent. He concluded the walls were reinforced. There were strong I beams running along the ceiling that seemed to have no purpose structurally. It was almost as if they had been placed there for him. In one corner of the room there were books that were three times the size of normal human books. He picked up one and opened it. They had been adjusted for his size.
"Good morning Grodd," a voice boomed through the building.
Grodd looked around. One wall of the building was covered in televisions screens and the image of Felicity was on it.
"I hope the accommodations are suitable. I tried my best to make sure all of your needs would be accommodated. I even made sure you had intelligent diversions to entertain you," she said nodding to the book in his hand. "I know you can't respond to me yet. I'm still working on finding a way for you to do that. I do look forward to continuing our conversation on why humanity should not be wiped off the face of the earth. Until then, enjoy lunch."
The screen went blank, immediately being replaced with a television programme about a group of humans trying to restore the habitat of primates in the jungles of South America. She was trying to reprogramme him the way she did her computers. He was the master of manipulation not her. This attempt would fail.
His lunch arrived on a mechanized conveyor belt that delivered a large crate of fruits through a doorway in the south side of the building. He would study that area for weaknesses soon but at the moment he knew he needed nourishment. He noted not a single banana. Instead there was a variety of fruits but one particular fruit caught his attention. It had been the fruit that he used to eat in his native jungle. He and a few of the other young apes used to fight for them. He felt a warm familiar feeling in his chest that he associated with memories of his mother. Ok maybe one human might survive his plans but that was only because she was intelligent and he needed someone to talk to until he could find a way to make all the other primates as intelligent as him. Perhaps he could manipulate her into helping him with the goal to replace Central City with Gorilla City.
As he finished off the last of the fruit, a plan started forming in his head to escape his current imprisonment. Soon he would be able to exact his revenge on humanity.