Arrow: Seeing Red
Quentin Lance closed the book for another day at work… well more like looking through the paperwork now. He's a cop on paper but that's mainly because of Laurel. They needed a fall guy for Slade Wilson whom actually was behind it and he still lost his standing for it. He looked at the clock and saw the hour, OK, dinner, then go home.
He went to the corner deli and grabbed some things for a simple dinner. He went for his wallet only to have the cashier push his hand back.
"It's on the house detective." The clerk assured him. Lance chased away enough pick pockets and stopped thieves over the years, a few free meals is the least he could do.
Quentin grabbed the bag and gave a silent nod. He can't exactly say no right now to a free meal since it's an act of kindness. "Thank you"
Quentin went outside the store only to feel a tug at his pant leg. He looked down and to his surprise sees a little brown eyed blond haired girl pulling on his leg. She kind of looks like a little Sara to his eyes she can't be more then 7. "Can I help you little girl?"
The girl nodded. "Are you really a policeman?"
Quentin looked at her not sure how to answer that. "As far as I'm concerned yes, I am. So what can I do for you?" He likely just has to call her parents.
The girl looked at him. "My aunt was watching me and I kind of got separated from her. When that happens I'm supposed to call my uncle but he never answered." Quentin nodded some uncle won't even answer the phone for his niece. "If that doesn't work I'm supposed to find a police man and he'll be able to find my daddy in no time."
Quentin nodded at least it sounds like this should be easy. He looked at the blond haired girl. "Sound strategy. What's your daddy's name?"
"Oliver Queen" The girl answered.
Quentin looked at her stunned for a moment. Well not really. Back then Queen and Merlyn were proof that 'men' and he uses that term loosely could be sluts. What is troubling him is how old she is. She can't be more then 7 so that would mean she would be conceived when Queen was… and she looks like… SON OF A BITCH! "What's your name?"
"Elizabeth Queen, but everyone calls me Liz."
Quentin let out a sigh wondering how they could keep something like this from him. "Alright, we're gonna make a quick stop by my house and then your parents will come there for you." He held out his hand and Liz gladly took it.
Sara Lance rode on her motorcycle not looking back. She wasn't ready. She gave the devil her soul. That won't ever change. She looks down as her phone goes off. Ordinarily she'd just ignore it but this was a phone given to her father to get in touch with her only in emergencies. She pulls to the side and turns on the phone. "Daddy! I'm not exactly in Starling City right now." She lied.
"Then get back here right now." Quentin ordered trying to keep calm for the little girl's sake.
Sara stopped and concern showed on her face. Did Slade go after Laurel? "Is Laurel OK?"
"Your sister is fine." Quentin assured her. "It's you, I need to talk to you, face to face."
Sara held the phone almost twitching. "Oh, why?"
"In person" Quentin assisted with the no argument tone only a parent could.
Sara shook her head wondering what this is about. "Daddy, I feel like I'm 16 again and you just discovered my pot stash, what's going on?"
"We'll talk in person baby."
Sara listened to the dial tone from a hung up phone. Guess she's staying in Starling a little longer then she thought.
Sara stormed into the house frustrated she was on her way to the airport and from the airport to Nanda Parbat to get help with this mess. "OK, dad what's so important you had to talk to me in person?"
Quentin glared at her. "Oh, I figured you could congratulate me on being a grandfather?"
Sara's eyes widened. She always thought this would be the other way around but considering how she found her when she came home... "Laurel got knocked up while she was hitting rock bottom?"
Quentin looked at his youngest in disapproval at the shot at her sister but calmed down. "Sara I have your daughter in the kitchen eating some cookies. The age fits she looks just like you and she's saying Queen is her father and she's five years old."
Sara rolled her eyes not believing he thinks this. That he thinks she could lie about something like this. "OK, I would have left the baby on your doorstep if I got pregnant. I mean come on; I couldn't even take care of myself back then much less a baby."
Quentin took a breath of relief seeing the honesty on her face. "Oh thank god, I'm sorry it's just the time added up. And she looks so much like you it was a little frightening."
Sara looked into the kitchen and saw the girl definitely not Shado's either as she thought. She does look like her though. She walked over to her. "Hi, I'm Sara, who are you?"
"Liz" The little girl answered.
Sara nodded. "So Lizzie, is Oliver Queen really your father?"
Liz nodded. "Uh huh, why does everyone keep asking me that?"
Sara let out a sigh well she can't leave her in a police station especially if Slade gets his hands on her. "Alright, I'll take you to your daddy OK. Can you ride on the back of a motorcycle?"
"You're borrowing my car." Quentin assisted not believing that thought ever entered her head.
Liz nodded and got out of her seat as Sara and Quentin went for the door she simply followed Sara out after she got her father's keys.
Quentin sat at the table and noticed he was missing a cookie. Liz wasn't close enough to take it. He doesn't mind if Sara did but she could have asked.
Sara opened the back door as the little girl hopped in. Where did she get the cookie from? She was between the girl and that table. Whatever, it is not really important right now. "Hop in."
Sara drove the car heading for the manor she can leave the kid with Moira. She drove and got to a couple miles of the house and saw a wrecked limo with a Queen license plate as she slammed on the breaks. What the hell happened in the minutes since she left?
"Hey!" Liz protested holding her head from hitting the passenger seat in the sudden stop.
"Sorry" Sara quickly undid the seatbelt and got out. "Stay in the car!"
She quickly took out her staff and ran over to the wreck. "Oliver! Ollie!" She quickly went for the cell phone. "Felicity, I need you to activate the tracer I put on Ollie."
Felicity stared at her computer confused. "You… put another tracker on Oliver?"
"He has a bad habit of pushing us away." Sara replied.
Felicity smiled glad to see she's not the only one to notice it. "Yeah, just give me a minute."
Oliver did his best to get his eyes open. What the hell happened?
"I was dead last time you were offered this choice."
Oliver got his eyes open enough to see Slade holding a gun on his mother and his sister both terrified for their lives. The two Queen women begging to be let go. "Slade" He forced himself up but couldn't break the restraints.
"What's going on?" Thea asked terrified.
Slade knelt in front of Oliver. "I often wonder how you looked… when he pointed the gun at Shado… and took her from me."
"You psychopath." Oliver growled. "Shado… Shado wasn't yours!"
"No, she was yours." Slade replied angrily. "Until you chose another woman over her."
"That's not what happened!" Oliver shouted.
"It is what happened! It is!" Slade shouted getting back to his feet losing his patience. "She told me!" He pointed behind himself.
Oliver stared in confusion. There's nothing there. He's ODing like Roy did now? "What do you mean she? There's nobody there!"
Moira looked between the two Lian Yu castaways until she was rocked by a revelation now that she knows Oliver's secret this makes sense. "Slade… you were on the island with Oliver?" Moira realized looking at the man.
Thea stared at her brother in shock. Why would Ollie let them anywhere near him if this is the truth, another lie, again.
Slade turned to Moira. "I thought I had known true despair, until I met your son. I trusted him to make the right choice."
"Let me make the right choice now." Oliver replied. "Kill me." He begged.
Thea and Moira both cried out. "No!" Even with how mad Thea is Oliver was still her brother.
"Choose me, please!" Oliver pleaded.
Slade glared at his 'brother'. "I am killing you, Oliver." Slade assured him pulling out a gun and cocking it. "Only more slowly than you would like." He has a promise to keep.
"Slade!"
Oliver turned to the new voice with a smile. She didn't leave.
Slade looked at the new voice in a smile as she came out with her staff. "Hello Sara."
Sara looked at the armed Mirakuru monster in front of her. Well at least she'll die for a good reason tonight. "They're not the ones you want to kill Slade."
Slade looked at him. "And what makes you think you know what I want?"
Sara glared at him. "You don't want to kill the people who had no hand in it. You want the woman Oliver committed to. You want the woman who smiled when Shado died because Oliver chose her."
Slade rushed her in blind fury katana drawn as Sara deflected each blow with her staff for now. With the Mirakuru the staff will break under the pressure eventually. Sara blocked a couple swings until she had an opening and knocked his sword away. But given the Mirakuru the sword was unnecessary as Slade simply threw a punch downward that broke Sara's staff in half. Sara used the two broken pieces as escrima sticks but Slade quickly stopped her attack by grabbing her wrists and squeezing tight as Sara dropped her weapons and Slade simply let go to draw out the beating. Sara threw a kick Slade dodged as the mercenary trapped her arm in his at her next punch.
Slade kept swinging with the Mirakuru easily cracking a rib or two as Sara coughed up blood. Slade hit her with an uppercut knocking her down. He went back to his gun and dragged Sara by her blond hair back to Moira and Thea. "So, now you have three options."
Oliver looked at the man he once considered his brother. "You kill me."
"Choose!" Slade shouted.
Oliver shook his head. "No"
Slade went to grab Thea when to the surprise of all five people in this situation the gun left Slade's hands on its own and came to a stop in the hands of a blond haired little girl.
Elizabeth looked at the gun nervously. "Don't tell my parents you saw me with this."
Slade looked at the girl he turned to Oliver and Sara as a consuming fire swelled inside of the merc. He sees her mother's hair and pieces of the kid pre island in her eyes. They buried Shado and took it this far. Slade walked up to the little girl and pie faced her butt first to the floor. He looked at her for a quiet moment before going to collect his gun back. "I think we found a…"
Oliver and Sara watched in surprise as a new vigilante showed up almost like the answer they were looking for in a prayer. The new costume pushed Slade away from the gun and easily tagged him with a left hand wobbling him.
Slade looked at Oliver's new girl according to the build. Black undersuit like Sarah's but a gold hood above it. A longbow on her back with two blades one on each side. Well this should be a new challenge for the merc. "And who are you supposed to be?"
Elizabeth smiled seeing her. "Mommy!"
"Artemis!" The woman answered and quickly kicked Slade in the head knocking him down.
Artemis looked at her daughter and quickly took the gun from her. "You, are in so much trouble when we get home!"
"That's not fair I took it from him." Liz protested.
Oliver watched in surprise as Artemis effortlessly broke the gun. She didn't strip it she just broke the gun in half by squeezing it. What is she on some evolved form of Mirakuru?
Artemis quickly grabbed Liz and moved to the left dodging a katana swing and dashing back a couple feet. She looked at his opponent Katana, one eye, guns, white hair. "Oh crap you're Deathstroke." Slade gave a quick nod.
Artemis went into her arm and took out six flechettes. She threw two at Slade who easily knocked them away with his sword. She slid two to Liz whom went running for the others. Artemis threw the remainder of her projectiles and Slade blocked each one as he rushed at her. Artemis quickly took two kukiri knives off her back and the metals clashed for control.
Elizabeth ran as fast as her legs could take her handing one of the flechettes to Sara and the little girl ran for Thea cutting the restraint on her and freeing the teen. Sara quickly did the same for Moira and just as quickly freed Oliver as the two vigilantes quickly get to their feet.
Slade watched Artemis as the petite hero blocked everything he's thrown her way. He suspects the only reason he's still in this fight is the Mirakuru but this girl is able to match him hit for hit. Slade smiled getting through her defenses and cutting her arm causing Artemis to involuntarily drop a knife. Slade went to rush the opening only for Artemis to perform a variation of a backflip and kick Slade in the face with each foot.
Artemis landed on her feet and jumped in a bicycle kick motion kicking Slade in the face four more time knocking the Mercenary down to the floor unconscious. Artemis walked to him knife in hand but put it to the air blocking a sword swing but leaving it exposed as the next swing knocked the second blade into the air disarming Artemis.
Artemis looked at her new opponent. And she knows her, not this one but she knows her. "Ravager?"
Isabel Roschev looked at her new opponent displeased and disappointed. She didn't know what Slade was saying but she was enjoying seeing the whole Queen family tremble in fear. She was finally going to get to see that homewrecking bitch completely destroyed. She'd take her company and the one good stinking thing about Moira would have forced Slade's hand to take her life. "You shouldn't have interfered."
Artemis looked her opponent in the eyes confused. When would she save Slade? She just figured it would be an Oedipous thing and she wanted to kill him herself. "Since when are you daddy's little girl?" Artemis quickly took the bow off her back and blocked each sword swing by Isabel.
Isabel barely kept up with the yellow archer as Sara entered the battle her escrima sticks in hand. Oliver with one of Artemis' knives. Isabel swung at Artemis and Sara hit her in the arm with one of her sticks forcing her to drop a sword. Isabel swung at the canary only to be hit by a bow with her other hand dropping her other blade. Oliver held the knife at her throat and Isabel instantly stopped.
Artemis looked into Oliver's eyes and saw him set to kill. "No, she can still do a lot of good things. Rose is a kid she doesn't know any better but she can if we teach her. Especially when she finds out about what her father really is capable of."
Oliver looked at her confused so Slade has a son and daughter who knew. "That's not Rose Wilson that's Isabel Roschev."
Artemis quickly pulled back and clobbered the Queen industries CEO with her longbow knocking her to the floor. Artemis straddled her and proceeded to reign down lefts and rights as Isabel quickly started bleeding from the mouth and maybe losing some teeth as several cuts appeared on top of her head.
Oliver and Sara quickly went to Artemis seeing the situation change from saving her to quickly killing the girl.
Sara tried to pull her off but Artemis pushed her away with the force of a Mirakuru soldier. Oliver tried only for the same thing. Sara got to her feet she's not overpowering the newest vigilante and she can't use the sonic device this close to a kid. The Canary ran up next to her and shouted. "Hey! Turn around! Look at what you're about to do!"
Artemis turned and glared at the girl. Looking farther she could Moira and little hands shaking behind her leg. "Oh god!" She immediately got to her feet and stopped her attack seeing how badly she's scaring her. "Lizzie, I'm sorry." She took off her yellow cloak showing short blond hair and her mask showing her green eyes as she takes off her mask. "I'm so sorry!"
Moira looked at Artemis she has a feeling her and the young woman share a common reason to hate Ms. Roschev and while she agreed with what she did. She shouldn't have done it in front of her daughter. She smiled watching Liz run for her mother. Moira looked at the prone form of Isabel for a silent moment. She then kicked her in the ribs.
Thea looked at her mother in shock. "Really mom?" Thea asked with a look of disbelief. She's so in shock seeing all of this madness she can barely speak.
Artemis caught her daughter just happy to hold her in her arms. All the ugliness Isabel caused in their lives. She thought she was over it and then that happened. "I'm so sorry you saw that."
"It's OK mom, really." Liz assured her. She's just happy to see one of her parents.
Artemis smiled in the hug until she felt a great deal of pain in her back as Oliver ran to her seeing the arrow sticking out of her back. She pushed Liz to the floor away but in front of her as two more arrows went in her back while Artemis shieldied her daughter.
"Mommy!" Liz went to rush her mother's side but Sara grabbed her and held her back behind a tree.
Oliver quickly grabbed Artemis' bow and arrows from her quiver and returned fire with two aimed arrows but both missed. To his surprise the third arrow while it didn't hit the attacker it did create a smokescreen around him or her. When this is over he's going to have to ask how to make that arrow? He sees the archer flee the smoke screen and sees him leave in a blackish suit, Merlyn. Ollie fired another arrow but the other archer knocked it away as he fled .
Thea looked at her brother surprised at how natural that was to him. "Ollie?"
Oliver looked at his sister and saw the worried look in her eyes. "I'll explain when this is over Speedy. I promise. Mom, can you call Mr. Diggle have him meet us at the house tell him it's an emergency."
Moira nodded ever since she figured out the unsettling god awful truth that she shot her own son she was wondering how he made it. Good to finally figure out how he survived that.
Sara's eyes widened seeing a terrifying sight for her. "Ollie!"
Oliver turned around and saw Slade and Isabel getting to their feet. He quickly joined Sara for whatever fight he has left. He can barely stand, Sara can't beat Slade on her own, and unashamed to say their best shot is unconscious with three arrows in her back. However to their surprise the air behind them seemed to bend at an unnatural angle until it seemed to open a doorway. The two heroes watched intrigued by the portal.
Slade and Isabel watched confused until two hands grabbed them and pulled them through the portal. A brunette in a red duster and black pants quickly jumped out. The brunette put a bloody hand up and the portal closed.
Sara looked at the brunette in shock. She knows the Lazarus Pit and HIVE from her days in the league so magic, not exactly a new thing for her but that much was unreal. "Where did you leave them?"
"On the other side of Star city or whatever this place is called." The brunette replied.
Liz smiled seeing her. "Aunt Dawn!" She suddenly remembered what else happened as her face dropped. "Mom's hurt bad."
Dawn's face instantly dropped seeing her sister with three arrows in her back. "Buffy!"
Dawn looked at her concerned seeing the arrows they're in bad places and she can't exactly take them out here. "They'll be worse if I take her to a hospital through the sky."
Sara's eyes widen she's just a girl in normal clothes and a domino mask like hers but… "You can fly!... How?"
Dawn looked at her, "Not now do you have somewhere we can take her."
"We'll take her to my place we have a medic ready." Oliver assured her.
Dawn muttered not knowing exactly where she is she can't teleport seven people afraid of getting stuck in a wall. With that seven people got in for a very uncomfortable car ride to the Queen mansion.
Author Notes
This started as a one shot. But once it got to 30 pages I had break it down so it's going to be a mini story.
Buffy is Owned by Joss Whedon
Arrow is not owned by me and planned by an idiot. I'm assuming DC owns it on some level.