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A/N: AU with references and characters from the Arrow TV Show! Enjoy this story! It's going to be a ride.
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"Overwatch, what's your status?" They stood frantically over the computers waiting for any sign that she had made it out alright.
The operation was to grab two vials of the drug 'Verdant' from the lab that hid underground an abandoned building in Italy. They had heard the loud gunshots and yelling. They watched as armed men flew to the building as one of their agents stole a drug the government was trying to hide there.
"She's either hit or they have her!" Roy exclaimed to Sebastian. The worried agents stared at each other.
"I'm out." Came through the comms with thankful gasps of breath being let out.
Felicity Smoak's plane had touched down in Starling far too soon for her liking. She wanted more rest which is something her job didn't give her much of. Her body ached from running from the assailants. She was left to wonder why she chose the more physical part of this job when she could've stayed behind a computer all day.
The CIA recruited her straight out of MIT. She was now useful to them with her master's degree in Cyber Security and Computer Sciences. She passed the polygraph easily. Which lead to them testing her in other areas. They warned her of the dangers of the job, but offered to completely pay of her student loan debt, and that was an offer she couldn't refuse. She was assigned to the Cyber Security branch and sat at her desk watching for threats and easily getting into their systems to see if further action needed to be taken. It was fulfilling and exactly what she went to school for, but she itched for something more.
Her fellow agents laughed at her when she spoke out loud of becoming a field agent, gaining intel and having to possibly take a bullet. They were the geeks not people who reprieved themselves from a computer screen.
The gossip had spread to the head of the cyber security branch and next thing Felicity knew she was training to engage in the physical testing. Someone with her skills becoming a field agent was beneficial to the CIA, so they encouraged her.
Two years after passing the field agent test she now entered the Starling City CIA branch that was hidden under a corporate building. She had to write her debrief on the mission before she could head home to bed.
Her fingerprints were scanned on a tablet as well as her eyes before the door unlocked and let her into the offices.
Agents buzzed around while others were deep in their computers or paper work probably preparing for their own missions. She headed to her office and sat her bag and coat down before going to see Director Michaels.
The woman with short brown hair sat at her desk in her grey office. Everything coordinated just like the rest of the floor. Felicity swiftly walked in as she caught Director Michael's eyes.
"Where's the drugs?" The director asked, politeness was not something the woman was good at.
Felicity took off her large gold bangle bracelet and pulled the circle apart where the vials were neatly stored in the middle of it. She took them out and placed them on the desk before her.
"There." Felicity remarked before snapping the bracelet back together.
"Good. Have me your debrief before you leave." With that dismissal Felicity turned on her toes and headed to her office.
Helena waited there for her, "Felicity Smoak, I've missed you."
She laughed at the girl's dramatics before taking a seat at her desk. "I've been gone a day!"
"Oliver was pissed you made it out so easily. Pretty sure he was hoping you got shot or something."
Felicity rolled her eyes at Helena's comment. Oliver Queen and Felicity didn't get along in the slightest. They were always disagreeing with how an operation should be done. He would occasionally bring up that she shouldn't even be in the field because her skills were more valuable on a computer. To Felicity this felt like the whole a women should be in the kitchen saying and she'd jab at him that he was only a bodyguard who got caught up in the Russian mob.
Helena kept quiet as Felicity finished her debrief, sent it off to the Director, and let out a slight whine when she realized how far away her bed was.
"Canary, Arrow, do you copy?" Cisco questioned through the comms.
Adrian, Felicity, and Helena stood behind him as they watched the available security cameras looking for any signs of the two agents.
It was another attempt to gain information on The Depot. Oliver and Sara Lance were on the mission together in a small town in Mexico. They were to steal as many hard drives as they could and meet at the rendezvous point at 10:00pm. It was now 11:00pm and Cisco decided he should try comms to reach them.
"They've been made." Adrian spoke as his hands were crossed behind his head.
Felicity had enough of this waiting game and grabbed a computer next to Cisco before he could stop her. She hacked into the building's security and tried to piggyback the system to find if any security threats went off. When that didn't work she used a program that could identify heat signatures in the building with use of a satellite that the agency had in space.
There was no one in the building that matched Oliver or Sara's physicality.
"Vibe, do you copy?" It was Oliver's voice suddenly booming through the speakers in the room.
Sara was injured and they had to drop a couple hard drives of information but were safe and headed to the plane.
Felicity wished she didn't have to go to this meeting today; it was Saturday after all. She'd rather stay in bed all day watching Netflix and eating chocolate chip mint ice cream, but she was a CIA agent and had no choice but to go to work when summoned.
Director Michaels sat at the head of the table dressed down from her usual attire. Sara sat next to her with her arm in a sling. Oliver was to her left with Adrian on his other side. Cisco, Helena, and Roy were also seated as Felicity took the seat in between Adrian and Roy.
All the agents had looked run down from another week of trying to gain information on The Depot. Director Michaels had started the meeting stating what Felicity already knew because Cisco had told her already. She zoned out until she heard her name being said.
"Felicity, I would like you and Oliver to go on this next mission to Moscow this week. Being Oliver's background it's going to be risky, but with your background it's nothing you can't handle…"
Oliver interrupted before Director Michaels had finished, "She's not going with me."
Felicity rolled her eyes at him. She didn't want to work with him either but it's not like they had a choice.
"Agent Queen, this is not optional. I need you both on this op. You need to find and distract Dr. Petrov while Felicity downloads the vaccine formula he's developing. We believe that its intentions aren't transparent." She said sternly.
"Sara is capable for this mission." He spoke again causing Adrian to even roll his eyes.
"Queen, if I have to reprimand you again you won't like the outcome. You and Agent Smoak leave for Moscow tomorrow night at 11:25. I will send you both the details and expect an outline of the mission by the end of the night. This meeting is dismissed."
Felicity was in her office for a total of fifteen minutes before he stormed in.
"Do you even know how to speak Russian?"
She turned to him, "Vy napyshchennaya zadnitsa You are a pompous ass."
He liked how her lips formed the Russian words, "Cute. What's your plan?"
She turned away and typed something on her computer screen causing her printer to go off and print what looked like 10 pages to Oliver.
"Get the pages out of the printer, disagree but we are doing it my way."
"Why do you think I'm going to listen to you?" He challenged back.
"Because we all know your history with Russia and you'll do something stupid. I'm not really wanting to become a test rat with this vaccine. Word is that it causes alzheimer's within months and that The Depot wants to use it to craft an army. Which is why my op in your hands will work best."
He glanced at the op she wrote in his hands as she spoke. It was bold even for Oliver, but he knew she was right when she mentioned his history with Russia. The country had gotten him into this mess anyway.