I hope someone loses :)
"Oh damn. I lost the game." Felicity's voice rang through the comms, leaving the boys on the other side confused. They gave her a moment to say something, but she didn't. Of course just as Oliver opened his mouth to inquire, her voice came back over the comms.
"Guys! I've got four heat signatures moving towards you, and none of them are labeled. Be ready." Moments later, both Roy and Oliver were locked in combat against what were apparently masked men. Felicity listened to the fighting over the comms, cringing every time she heard one of her boys grunt in pain. Eventually the noise died down, and after a moment Felicity spoke up.
"Oliver? Roy? You both okay?" At first no one responded, but just as Felicity stood up to go drive out there herself, the comms spoke.
"Fine." Roy said.
"Okay." Oliver said. Then Felicity heard the sound of their bikes and knew they were officially on their way home.
They walked in ten minutes later and almost instantly Roy started talking.
"What the hell was the thing about some game?" Felicity ignored him at first, glancing over both him and Oliver and after deciding there weren't any bad injuries she turned back to him.
"You know… the game?" Both boys looked at her, no recognition visible anywhere on their faces. She groaned. "Ugh. Okay. It's one of those games that someone started a while back, I mean I remember playing it in sixth grade, actually that might have been when it started."
"Felicity." Oliver called.
"Right. Anyway this game isn't much. Basically whenever you think of the game you lose and have to announce it to the room. Anyone in the room who was playing will lose the game, and anyone who wasn't will start playing. People always had jokes about how to end it… silly stuff like the President making a TV appearance and announcing that he'd lost the game, or I think someone suggested that it had to be the Queen of England."
"That's stupid. How do not lose every time you play a board game?" Roy asked.
"Well if you think of game it isn't necessarily the game. The best way I've ever come up with to describe it, is that it kind of appears in your head in all capitals. You know, like THE GAME." She gestured with her hands like she was presenting something just above her head. Roy gave her another look, before handing her his comm and walking away to get changed. Oliver handed her the comm shaking his head, and obviously trying not to laugh.
"Hey!" Felicity protested when she saw his face. "The game was a serious matter in middle school!" Oliver didn't say anything else, just turned to walk away, still trying not to laugh.