War Zone Homecoming

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. This continues the Secret Operations… Interrupted story involving one of the ideas that was later added to it as to how Oliver managed to get home after the debriefing. Enjoy!

Three Days after the Debriefing

Three days after the debriefing saw Oliver finally on his way back home from the nearby hidden base ARGUS had. Waller's paranoia and attention to detail had ensured the debriefing went on longer then it should have and it made the archer wonder if she was actually doing it just to annoy the Hell out of him. But finally, thankfully, Shrieve's arrival had been a Godsend and soon Oliver and the Yamashiros were on their way to Starling City with the good General personally coming along with them to ensure they made it back safely with several Humvees filled with soldiers as escorts both in front and in the back of their Humvee. Things were fairly quiet as the Yamashiros had decided to take a nap, leaving Oliver and Shrieve to converse quietly from time to time.

Naturally, life would decide to screw Oliver over once they had arrived into one of the busier sections of the city when the lead Humvee went kaboom! After that, gun fire was coming their way and everybody was quick to get out before they got shot or blown up. Shrieve was quick to start giving out orders to his men and it wasn't long before Oliver and Maseo were also shooting back at whoever was attacking them with their hand guns. A loud noise some minutes later caused Shrieve to look up and curse in annoyance. "Dammit! We do NOT need the press watching this!" Why on God's green Earth couldn't this have been a simple thing!?

If Waller was somehow behind this, then may God help her as he would not be kind in getting back at her for this! Though thoughts of that quickly went out the door when one of the shooters yelled out that they would all die for locking away Chien Na Wei. "I suddenly miss days of debriefing, that was calm compared to this crap." Muttered Oliver darkly while hoping his mom and sister weren't paying attention to the news right now.

Which, as life liked to screw with him, was actually happening anyway as mother and daughter watched on horrified. Both of them wondering why this whole mess was happening! Moira considered asking Malcolm to get his Enforcer involved and if he wound up dead in the process? Well.. That would just be a bonus as far as she was concerned. The two women, along with everyone else watching the event saw Oliver bring out some archery equipment and began to make use of it against the attackers. Several seconds later saw each of his arrows hitting their destinations and Moira couldn't help but gasp over it since it meant her son had to do something so horrible.

Thea was equally shocked and horrified but also impressed that her big brother had somehow became such an excellent archer if he was able to get in shots like that during a situation like the one he's in. Laurel, while she knew it was wrong to want to see Ollie get hurt badly also didn't want to see him dead as it would likely break Moira and Thea even more. She actually felt disgusted with herself for wanting to see him get hurt and knew she was going to have to deal with that very soon.

Oliver took out several more rooftop gunmen and was in the process of quickly crossing the street while avoiding getting shot at by street level shooters when he was suddenly forced back as a knife went flying past his nose. The gunfire quickly stopped as well, much to his confusion and turning to see where the knife had come from. What he saw was a short haired, goatee having black man with some kind of claw in one hand while wearing boots, blue jeans, and a golden jacket. "You've got something of mine I want back." The man called out as he advanced on Oliver.

The archer quickly fired off an arrow at him but saw it blocked by the claws the man had and had to dodge a swipe from him as he had no desire to get cut by those things! "Who the Hell are you!?" Oliver had a fairly good idea what the man was after but he wasn't concerned about that at the moment as he was over living.

"Ben Turner, but you can call me Bronze Tiger." The now identified man told him before kicking him in the gut and going for another swipe of the blades but not getting his opponent entirely as Oliver moved out of the way and hissed in pain from the cut he got.

"The codename's kind of hokey isn't it?" Cause come on now, this was not some comic book!

"What's hokey is some spoiled playboy who knows how to use archery so well." Oliver supposed he couldn't blame the guy for thinking that as they traded a few blows between one another while the archer tried his best to avoid getting cut by the man's claws.

A loud explosion saw the end of the news chopper that had been hovering above and freaking out a few people since now they had no clue whatsoever about what was going on! No further news choppers were going to be entering the area due to military involvement as well thanks to Shrieve. "Tell me where Chien Na Wei is and I might consider letting you live!" Turner told Oliver as he got him in the side with a kick that sent the former castaway stumbling away in pain.

But despite that, Oliver attempted to ignore the pain and fired an arrow at his attacker but it completely missed him much to his annoyance. Ben smirked at him and told him to try again. Oliver readied another arrow but spoke up before firing it. "I got no idea where she is so you'll have to ask someone else you nutjob!"

"Lying's not gonna help ya kid."

From over the archer's shoulder, Turner noticed several black vehicles coming their way and smirked again as he knew exactly who it was. "Why the Hell are you smirking for?"

"Because, I've got more friends from the Triad coming to help screw up your day even more." Oliver muttered darkly over that and fired his arrow only to curse angrily when the man blocked it and he was about ready to just charge in with an arrow and stab the damn man in the heart or something and be over with it. If he was so lucky anyway.

Police cars were also arriving and Shrieve hoped this wasn't about to turn into an outright bloodbath. "We either gotta end this before it gets worse or just get the Hell out of here!" The General told the Yamashiros.

"But we can't leave Oliver behind!" Cried out Tatsu and getting a look in return from the man.

"Nobody said anything about leaving him behind Mrs. Yamashiro." He sternly told her and she felt suitably chastised for thinking wrongly of him in that moment and gently rubbing her son's head as he whimpered in fear again.

After firing off a few shots, Maseo gave his attention back to the two adults. "It seems a retreat is the likely option here, but how to go about it while not getting shot at by the Triad is another thing."

Shrieve considered it for a short time and then ordered the family to get inside the Humvee but do their best to keep from being seen in the windows. Nervous as Hell about it, they did so while the General ordered his men to get into the remaining vehicles and leave the Triad to the police now that they had shown up and were getting involved. Taking a chance, Shrieve put his head over the top of the Humvee and yelled out for Oliver to get inside. Reluctantly he did so but made sure to fire off a few arrows at the so called Bronze Tiger to keep him from immediately going after him. Climbing into the front seat as Shrieve revved the engine. Their ride and the other two Humvees were soon roaring off down a side street.

Turner watched on annoyed before quickly getting out of the way of gun fire and headed towards one of the Triad vehicles and told them he was taking it to chase after their targets. Two other cars ended up following him with both of the vehicles having two men in them while their comrades fought SCPD's finest.

Author's Notes: And thus begins War Zone Homecoming! Not sure how long this will be however. Look forward to your thoughts!