The sound of his heart racing and blood pumping loudly in his ears was all Oliver could hear as he zigzagged among the early morning traffic in Starling City. The sounds of the horns being beeped in his direction and the shouting drunks that stalked the dimly lit streets went unnoticed by him as he raced to save his Girl Friday. He had lost communication with her as he and Diggle had raced to stop Slade's Mirakuru Army as they threatened to invade Starling City Hospital, in a bid to steal much needed equipment to continue production of the power enhancing drug.
"Felicity?. Felicity?" He Growled on hearing her shriek followed by Slades Voice in the background. Damn it he should have seen that the hospital raid had been set up as a distraction. As soon as Slade's voice had echoed through the comms, Oliver had left his place by Digs side and made his way back to the Foundry. Minutes away from their Lair he heard the shots, bringing their communication stream to an abrupt end.
Oliver raced down the metal steps into the foundry to be greeted by an empty space. With his bow steady, arrow loaded, he slowly and stealthily made his way down the last few rungs and glided closer to the monitors. He saw a blood trail to the back door, but the lair was empty. Following the trail of blood led Oliver to Verdants parking garage and an empty parking space that unofficially belonged to Felicity and her little red mini. With one hand he rubbed his hand across his stubble in disbelief whilst with the other he answered his ringing cell that he knew would be Diggle. "Dig she's gone".
By the time Oliver had made his way back into the lair Diggle had arrived and was set up at the monitors. "Where the hell is she?" Oliver bellowed and he narrowed the distance between them.
"I'm working on it" Dig replied as he threw Oliver a bottle water. Oliver lent one hand on the back of Digs chair and the other on the desk in front watching Digs every move at the workstation. Dig set to work as Felicity had shown him how and managed to bring up the tracker that she'd had implanted in her earring as a matter of security. "She's heading east on 24th and 7"
Oliver with hesitation or speaking a word left the lair and jumped onto his bike heading in her direction. Dig had manged to restore the comms connection and delivered Oliver explicit instructions as to Felicity's movements. "She's taking a left onto 34th street. Wait. she's stopped. Oliver do you have a visual?"
The only reply that Diggle received was Oliver screaming Felicity's name as Oliver spotted her car overturned in the middle of the road. Oliver sprinted to the overturned car, sliding the last few feet on his knees, scuffing the leather of his pea green trousers, in order to get a look inside. There was the briefest moment of relief when he realized she was not in he car, but this quickly vanished at the realization that she was with Slade. The Damage on the drivers door told him she'd been forced off the road.
"Dig? what the hell is going on, she's not here?"
"The tracker says you should be right on top of her"
Oliver dropped his head in despair and was struck by a glimmer on the underside of the roof of her car. It was her earring. "Dig her trackers here, it must have fallen out when her car was hit"
"I'm accessing traffic cameras now"