Hey guys
You know my next Arrow story post was supposed to be a new multi chapter one but it's not at the moment working out because I fee like something's missing. Anyway onto this story.
Well if I said anything that would be spoilers. Let's just say I got the idea for this after watching 40X9 and despite not originally intending to be wrote it has.
As usual I don't own Arrow or anything related to DC comics.
Enjoy
"Let them go Darhk" Oliver growls, while being restrained by two ghost soldiers.
Damien just smirks as the door to the chamber closes, sealing Felicity, Diggle and Thea inside of it as gas begins to fill into the small, sealed room. Oliver finally being let go rushes over as he glances at all three of them.
Thea is holding her breath successfully keeping the toxin out of her, due to the League type of training she got from Malcolm and isn't scared considering she's died once already.
After giving a short nod, Diggle is silent while the gas begins to fill up his lungs before falling to the floor. Felicity clearly panicking mutters one last "I love you" then collapses as he never says the words back.
Oliver glances over at Thea who is looking on in shock then over to the bodies of his friends trying to keep in his emotions behind a blank mask. Just then the door opens as the room is empty of any remaining traces of gas with Oliver rushing in.
"Are you ok?" Oliver asked, embracing his sister in a hug.
"Fine" Thea replied giving a quick hug back but steps away, turning her attention to Darhk.
"I must admit I didn't see that coming. I should have considering you've picked up quite a few handy League tricks. Of course the two remaining Queens are not dead, well take it as an early present" Damien said, grinning.
"Oh I'm going to kill you" Thea replied, her voice cold.
"I look forward to you trying. Now I think I'll leave you both alone and you can call the SCPD if you want. I never liked this facility anyway" Damien said before leaving the room with his men.
Meanwhile Oliver silent through all of this is knelling down by the lifeless bodies. Letting the emotions flood as Oliver cries for the loss of Diggle, a brother in all but blood and Felicity, a woman he loved.
Thea silently comes up from behind with clear tears for the loss of people she considered to be her friends. Hearing movement they turn to see both Laurel in her Black Canary garb and Malcolm in the Green Arrow suit standing just on the other side of the glass.
Rushing into the room "Oh no, no. Please tell me they're not, Ollie tell me they're not dead" Laurel said, trying not to break down.
Getting to his feet with embracing her in a hug as she begins crying "I'm sorry Laurel. I'm so sorry" Oliver replied, his voice thick with emotion.
"Are you ok?" Malcolm asked his daughter, stepping into the room.
"I'll get there" Thea said.
After a few more minutes Oliver makes a call directly to Quentin who said he would be there shortly. Laurel and Malcolm got out of there before the police showed up.
A couple of weeks later during the early morning.
In the underground base Oliver is sitting by the round table lost in thought. Earlier this week they had the funerals for both John Diggle and Felicity Smoak.
Donna left Star City after an argument where she blamed him for getting her daughter killed and also for some strange reason not marrying Felicity months ago. Kind of hard when the city is under siege by terrorists.
Of course after both of their deaths he hasn't been out much as either Oliver Queen or the Green Arrow because once he does return things will change. Darhk said by taking the people he cared about away Oliver would have no reason to keep fighting.
No, that has made him going to go back to a persona he hasn't used in years. A persona Starling back before the city had a name change called... The Hood. Going back to embracing the darkness and if Darhk wants a war so badly the Hood will give the man one.
"I figured I would fine you down here" Laurel said, dressed in casual cloths of a leather jacket and blue jeans approaches.
Glancing over "Sorry I haven't been around" Oliver said.
"No you don't have to apologize. I understand more than most" Laurel said taking a seat beside him with placing an object on the table.
Briefly picking up the ring "You can get rid of it. I don't need this anymore" Oliver said.
"You loved her" Laurel said.
"I doubt even if we married we would have lasted. Because she couldn't handle the fact that I probably will always keep secrets. However Felicity had no problem going behind by back or forcing me into conversations I didn't want" Oliver replied, not looking to go into the details.
Before any more conversation can be had Thea walks over to the table sitting down.
"Do you have a plan for Darhk?" Thea, asked.
"We tear apart his operations piece by piece then we kill him and every one of his allies. If you both want out then I understand" Oliver said, his voice going cold.
"I'm in. Glad you've got your killer instinct back" Thea said, in understanding of the darker side of the world.
"Good" was the only thing Oliver said.
"Where do we start on the details?" Laurel asked.
"I need to go have a few meetings with some old contacts. It's going to take awhile, Thea I need you to call Alex and tell him I'll be making a press release at some point. Also get in contact with Jessica Danforth and tell her she's need back in Star" Oliver said.
"I'll get in contact with Ms. Danforth. Although she might refuse considering Lonnie Machin kidnapped her daughter the last time they were here" Laurel said.
"Tell her this concerns Madison" Oliver replied before getting to his feet.
About an hour later in the main headquarters of A.R.G.U.S. Oliver walks into an office.
"I'm surprised your here" Amanda said, looking up from doing paper work.
"I need your help. I'm going to end Darhk and HIVE" Oliver said.
"You've lost your edge years ago Oliver. You're useless to everybody now days" Amanda replied.
"I don't care if you help me or not but I just thought you might have wanted a major terrorist organization off the board. I'm still the man that tortured General Shrieve all those years ago" Oliver said, going to exit.
"Wait. I'll help, what do you need?" Amanda asked.
"First I want you to help make William and Samantha in Central City stay off of Darhk's radar. Second I would like any and all intel you get for any major operations or the elite members of HIVE" Oliver replied.
"I'll do it but I expect a favor in return" Amanda said.
"Put it on my tab" Oliver replied, leaving.
In the loft Jessica Danforth is sitting on the couch waiting until hearing the door close she gets up to see Oliver approaching.
"Oh I'm so sorry hear about what happened. How are you doing? Did you call me here to help?" Jessica asked, her voice laced with a motherly concern.
Pulling out a tan envelope Oliver tosses it to her.
Opening it "What's in here?" Jessica asked, curious.
"Evidence I've gathered. It details your involvement in being a founder of Tempest that Malcolm and my father formed. It also has a paper trial of you helping to remove the remains of the Queen's Gambit from a warehouse" Oliver said.
"Why are you even showing me this? If this is a form of blackmail, I expected better of you" Jessica said, almost disappointed.
"I spent five years doing worse than this. You may have ran from Star months ago because of your daughter but you also ran because of not wanting this to become public" Oliver said.
"What do you even want? Because I don't care if you go near my Madison, I will end you" Jessica threatened, angrily.
"You are going to become the new mayor. I'll put it simply… Jessica this is your chance for redemption. If you do take office the police won't discover the evidence" Oliver replied, calmly.
"If I don't follow?" Jessica wondered.
"Madison can visit you in Iron Heights. This is not blackmail, this is me giving you a choice and it's up to you" Oliver replied, in a cold manner.
Taking a moment to consider her new situation "I'll do it. Because you're also right, it's long past time I started trying to actually make a difference for this city" Jessica replied.
"I'll make a few phone calls and you'll be in by this afternoon" Oliver said, while pulling out his cell phone.
"Don't ever contact me again" Jessica replied.
Oliver moves to the side letting her leave then let's out a huge sigh of guilt when hearing the door closing. Despite last year infiltrating the League of Assassins to bring down Ras A Gul which included plan B that his team carried out, it's been awhile since he was in this mindset.
The ability to use people guilty or otherwise like he did with Taiana but unlike her Jessica was responsible for the murder of her husband in a rage due to him having begun selling drugs in the Glades which Malcolm helped cover up the killing. Checking his phone to see Anatoly Knyazev having sent a text message saying that any disagreements the Star City branch had are over and were expected to give their full cooperation. If not Oliver could deal out whatever punishment he saw fit.
Briefly he remembers those weeks in Russia just before leaving to Coast City where Anatoly gave him the rank of Bratva captain and the tattoo as thanks for saving his life.
Coming back to the present Oliver after sending a message back places the phone in his pocket. It's time to go see Alex so he can do a press conference. Momentarily Oliver considers going to see Andy Diggle who's still in the cage and has no clue his brother's been dead for weeks but decides against it. Mostly because he has nothing to use yet and there are other things needed to be done first.
Later that night on a lone road a black van is pulled up alongside a money truck which the security guards were killed due to a rocket launcher.
Three of Ghost thugs are emptying cans of gas onto the cash. As one pulls out a lighter it is struck from his hand by an arrow as all of them look up to see Oliver in the Green Arrow gear on top of the van.
Just before the ghosts are able to fire one arrow goes into one of the men's chest and the other into the second man's shoulder. The last man begins firing his MP5 with Oliver is already taking cover on the other side of the van.
Realizing his target is no longer there the man moves around to the side of the van but Oliver kicks him in his knee. A loud scream erupts from his mouth as the man feels it break, sinking to the asphalt ground then has the tooth containing cyanide ripped from his mouth.
"Talk and I won't make you feel pain" Oliver growled, nocking an arrow.
"It doesn't matter. I'm a nobody, I just follow orders" the man replied.
"Are you sure?" Oliver asked, giving a light nudge to the man's knee with his foot.
"Yes" he replied wincing.
Oliver fires an arrow directly into the man's throat killing him instantly. He can join the dead or well considering the other man committed suicide probably three lifeless thugs, for the police to clean up. The archer has no sympathy for the terrorists nor probably ever will. Because he is in a battle of survival and Oliver actually wonders if this is the first time in a long while he's even realized it.
Because the Green Arrow and his team are not going to give up in their war to get Star City from back Damien Darhk.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
Now yes both Diggle and Felicity are 100% dead. Diggle which despite me liking him Arrow has got far to many people running around in masks and he was the one got the card to go. Why Felicity is well go check my profile because I'm not going to put the main bulk into every story.
Both of their deaths is severing or one of the things is basically bringing back the fact of death meaning something which has got washed out by all the literally resurrecting of people.
The reason why Thea isn't is because of the League training and let's just say that was far better then my original idea for her staying alive.
Now one of the major things I could see people having a problem with is the fact of how easily Oliver using skills he learned from Amanda Waller to basically manipulate Jessica Danforth. Oliver knows that he can't be both the mayor and the vigilante plus even if he does win on the show I doubt he's going to keep the position forever. Also he knows she wouldn't have gone in to be mayor without some persuasion. For Oliver it was nothing more than giving a person on The List a second chance like he did in season 1 and Jessica due to being a founding member of Tempest was.
Me having Oliver get The Bratva rank and tattoo in between the season 3 and 4 flashbacks when as of the moment has not well I think they should have done that at the end of season 2 or season 3.
Now for those wondering well do you guys want me to continue this? I do have a few ideas that might be worth exploring.
Until next time