Chapter 8

Author's note: First off in case you don't already know Supergirl has been renewed and will air its second season on the CW. I know some have mixed feelings about the move so I am being very clear do not use the comments section on this story to instigate a war regarding this new issue or you will be blocked. Take comfort that Kara has a second season and that it will make any potential crossovers with Barry and now Oliver or even the Legends team easier as they are now on the same network. And now without further adieu here is chapter 8.

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Kara got off the elevator with Cat Grant's salad in her hand. She took a stop at Winn's desk where he and James were hard at work.

'Anything?' Kara asked as she noticed her friends work on the phone from the Green Arrow.

'Nothing the phone has over a hundred layers of state-of-the-art encryption. It'll take me maybe a year to crack it if I'm lucky to get through it all.' Winn explained.

Kara started to feel anxious it scared her that this man knew who she was. While she respected the Green Arrow and all the accomplishments he had done in Star City the simple fact was he was a stranger and having a stranger know everything about you was never a safe bet.

'There anything else you can remember of your meeting with him?' James asked referring to the night at the Tramway where Kara had her first encounter with the vigilante archer. Kara though for a moment then it came back to her.

'The night I met him I heard he was talking to someone on a radio, someone by the name of 'Felicity''. Kara recalled.

'I can make an identification algorithm that can cross-reference anyone named Felicity that's affiliated with Star City with anyone with the technical know-how that can make and program a phone like this.' Winn suggested.

Kara shot a look of confusion Winn may have been her best friend but even she didn't understand him when he explained technology, ironic given that she came from an alien society with technology advancements that made Earth's iPhone look like a toy car. 'If that's techno-lingo for 'Finding the Green Arrow through his partner' then by all means go for it.' Kara said as she headed to Cat's office.

Kara stepped into the office and placed the salad tray on the desk of her boss. 'Your salad Ms. Grant.' She offered politely.

'Oh finally! Its after lunch any longer and I'd be having this for dinner! Thank you, Kiera.' Cat said as she waved her hand dismissively signally Kara to leave.

Kara was about to head out of the office when one of the news footages from one of Cat's screens caught her attention.

'Following an anonymous tip earlier today National City Police apprehended Simon Lehane who was found unconscious at an underground parking garage at 15th and Woods.' The news anchorman announced. 'Lehane, who is a genetics specialist at Prometheus Labs, was taken into custody when evidence found at the scene incriminated him on several felonies. Lehane stands accused of multiple accounts of unethical inhumane experimentation as well as accepting bribes. While nothing is confirmed, witnesses claim they saw several hunting arrows being bagged by police officers which have many thinking the Green Arrow was somehow involved.'

'Unbelievable.' Kara heard Cat scoff 'I thought that this new guy would do things better than the Arrow, but I guess testosterone induced aggression is common among male vigilantes. Shame watching his PSA from a few months ago he really did seem like an upstart guy, even if his codename sounds like a hipster version of pot or weed or whatever stoners call marijuana these days.'

Kara marched back to Winn's desk the feeling of outrage seething after watching the news.

'Sorry Kara the program just started…' Winn tried to explain.

Kara ignored him as she picked up the phone off the table and stalked off. After dialing the programed number and the waiting of a few rings the familiar voice answered.

'What is it, kid?'

'We need to talk face-to-face, construction building on Deacon and Steels, 34th floor, one hour.' Kara said

'Anything I should know?'

'Yeah, I'm not asking.' Kara finished saying as she got into the elevator as she hung up.

Hotel

Oliver hung up before turning to Felicity who had returned from her tour of Lord Technologies and was hard at work on her computer.

'I cannot believe it took you nearly an hour to try and trace this anonymous, yet very encrypted, email.' Felicity berated 'I could have done this in two minutes…in my sleep.'

'Well technical expertise is more of your thing, I'm more of the shoot-arrows-from-a-considerable-distance type.' Oliver quipped.

Felicity shot a smile before the beeping of her computer caught her attention she turned back to see the screen.

'Oh god.' she said in a tone that sounded equal parts surprising and equal parts horrified.

'What is it?' Oliver asked as he came to her side. Looking over Felicity's shoulder he saw the information on the computer screen as she explained

'I was able to get a fixed location of the IP address and I narrowed it to a city block here in National City.' Felicity said as she pulled up the city map on screen. Oliver looked at the screen at the information shown and his eyes grew with fear.

'Are you sure?' Oliver asked with concern on this revelation.

'Definitely.' Felicity answered

'Well at least Supergirl and I will have something to talk about.' Oliver said as he walked off to his meeting.


Moscow Russia, 2011

'Who the hell are you!?' Oliver growled as he forced his revolver into her face. Alex tried to keep calm but from what she saw him do to Anton Chernitskaya she could see in his eyes he had every intention of killing her unless he got what he wanted.

'Look let's just take it easy for a second…' Alex tried to reason as she reached forward to lower his gun hand. Before she knew it Oliver seized her wrist and had her in an arm-lock with her face against the dashboard. Alex felt the barrel pressed against the back of her head and any feeling of trying to be calm left her.

'You have three seconds to tell me something I believe before I blow your brain over the dashboard.' Oliver warned menacingly as he counted. 'One…two…'

'Alright, okay!' Alex pleaded, 'Me, my boss and my partner are DEO.'

'DEO?' Oliver asked curiously

'Department of Extranormal Operations, we're a secretive agency that…' Alex began

'…protects and defends the planet from alien threats.' Oliver said almost as if he knew about them. Alex was surprised as not many people knew of their organization's existence, her surprise only grew more as Oliver released her wrist and holstered his gun back.

'How do you know about us?' Alex asked rubbing her sore wrist.

'Your name sounded familiar, Danvers.' Oliver answered 'I believe you know a friend of mine, Maseo Yamashiro?'

Alex's eyes widened at the name, when she first started out as an agent one of her early missions was a joint operation with ARGUS which is where she met the man in question. Alex could only assume that Oliver met him as well at some point during his absence from society which explained his knowledge about her and the DEO.

'Yeah op in Jakarta a few years ago, he saved my life.' Alex answered. She recalled that memory, the mission had gone south and despite the ARGUS protocols of every agent for themselves in the event of a failed joint mission she survived because of Maseo's honour and kindness. 'How is he?'

She watched as Oliver turned his gaze from her towards his door window 'Last I saw of him he was fine,' he said replied after a bit of hesitation Alex knew enough from the tone of his voice that it was a touchy subject and chose not to press it any further.

'Oh that reminds me,' Alex said as Oliver turned his head back to face her, Alex swung her fist into his mouth stunning him. 'That's for threatening me.' Alex said still upset of having a gun pointed to her head as she watched as Oliver rubbed his bloodied split lip surprisingly he didn't retaliate or threaten to draw his gun again.

'I may have deserved it, the last few years with ARGUS haven't exactly improved my people skills.' Oliver said sarcastically.

'Is that where you've been for over four years being ARGUS' errand boy?' Alex asked cautiously like the rest of the world she truly believed Oliver died in the Yacht accident, not realizing that he was alive all this time.

'For the most part,' Oliver said.

'But I don't get it, alive all this time and you could've gone home, to your family, anytime you wanted. Why didn't you?' Alex asked.

'For the longest time I wanted nothing more than to go home to tell my loved ones I was alive to be with them again and right the wrongs left behind.' Oliver hesitantly started 'But the last two years I came to accept that I'm not the person they remember. I've spent over four years killing, torturing and experiencing things that make me realize my family is better off not knowing what I've done…what I've become and they're safer for it.'

Alex understood on some level, as far as Kara and her Mom were concerned she was an everyday bio-physiological expert doing a medical breakthrough conference in Switzerland. They had no idea that she had been spending the last years of her life hunting and, if needed, killing aliens. Alex never told them partly because of how they would react, Kara, an alien herself in particular. But the main reason was because of the danger the truth could put them in and Alex loved her family too much to get them involved into her world. She almost felt sick thinking about it, here she was with someone she wasn't a fan of before and after his disappearance and yet she was empathizing with him about family dilemmas.

The sound of tires caught her attention as a black van pulled up in front of them. Alex watched as three men exited the vehicle and walked towards their car. The two men on either side were big and brawny, but the third was roughly around her and Oliver's height, he had dark brown hair and a long beard that covered most of his face she could have sworn he was smiling at them.

'Stay here,' Oliver said as he opened his car door.

'Why its only a few guys?' Alex remarked

'That guy in the middle is the head of the Russian Mob.' Oliver said.

Alex shot a look of surprise.

'How else do you think I could easily obtain weapons in this country?' Oliver asked as he exited the car and approached them.

Alex watched as Oliver and the bearded man pound hugged, and after a minute of talking, she saw one of the bigger men go around back of the van and returning to hand Oliver a large case. Oliver set the case down and opened it to inspect the contents. Smiling he closed the case before hugging the bearded man again. Alex watched Oliver pick up the case and walked back to the car as the mob leader and his men got into their van and drove off. After putting the case into the car trunk Oliver returned and started the car up.

'What do you owe them?' Alex asked she always knew growing up watching 'The Sopranos' with Kara when you made deals with criminals they would want something in return.

'All proceeds to fellow members are free of charge.' Oliver replied as he pulled out of the alley. Alex's eyes grew wide in shock, billionaire playboy, ARGUS operative and Russian mob member. Clearly there was more to Oliver Queen than met the eye.


Present Day

Supergirl stood on the 34th floor of the building waiting and watching over the city, she always felt a sense of pride that the safety of this city and its people were her responsibility and each one always giving her a reason to fight to protect them everyday setting an example to the people. A few minutes passed until a voice got her attention.

'Hello Supergirl.' The voice behind her greeted Supergirl knew exactly who it belonged to as she turned to face the Green Arrow.

'I'm surprised you aren't calling me by my real name.' Supergirl said as she approached him.

'Thought we'd keep it professional,' the Green Arrow replied

Supergirl narrowed her eyes in an attempt to x-ray vision the Green Arrow's face under his hood and mask. She first discovered this ability when she was a child while she was trying to adapt to her life on Earth, after years of practice the ability became useful for many uses from seeing Alex's leg if she broke it on that one camping trip or that time in high school when she caught an unnecessary glimpse of Tommy Saunders' goods through his football gear. To her surprise it didn't appear to be working on the Green Arrow's mask.

'Yeah that x-ray spec sneak peak gimmick? Clark tried it on me when we first met so I lined my mask and hood with a lead based composite in case I ran into another alien who could do the same.'

Damnit Supergirl thought he's smart, enough to deduce not only her identity and Clark's but to also take precautions against their powers. He's either crazy prepared or just cynical and paranoid. A moment of silence passed before the Green Arrow spoke.

'So you called this meeting, kid, what is it?' he asked with a slight of impatience in his voice.

'Doctor Simon Lehane, you threatened him.' Supergirl started with venom and disgust in her voice.

'I questioned him,' the Green Arrow corrected in the most nonchalant tone she ever heard 'It's not like I tortured him or any thing.'

'You shot arrows at him! Couldn't you have just…I don't know…' Supergirl struggled to find the right words.

'What? Reason with him, appeal to his better nature in the belief he'd tell me something?' the Green Arrow hypothetically asked.

'We're suppose to be the good guys; we can't stoop to their level.' Supergirl defended despite all her various powers she always showed restraint and do things the right way. That meant doing the opposite of what the Green Arrow did to Lehane. 'Which means you can't go all Tony Soprano on every suspect.'

'You're defending him! The guy who was paid to purposely experiment on seven girls in order to create Bizzaro a job he was more than happy to accept!' The Green Arrow argued back.

'Maybe but that doesn't excuse what you did!' Supergirl all but shouted

'Not even if it means finding out what I know?' The Green Arrow asked

Supergirl's eyes grew wide while she didn't agree with the methods of how he achieved his goals she did have to somewhat admire he got results. She was still curious as to what he recently learned, Lehane was a middleman so what the Green Arrow knew could be related to the benefactor probably the person who ordered Bizzaro to be created in the first place.

'Okay what did you find out?' she asked after careful consideration.

'A friend of mine traced the email Lehane received to a local address, Steelyards and Sheldon, considering this is your City there is only one place of significant interest in that area.'

'Lord Technologies.' Supergirl surmised. 'You're assuming someone working at Lord Tech is the one who hired him?'

'I never assume anything.' The Green Arrow said in a way that made Supergirl not to ask if he was sure about it.

Suddenly Supergirl's ear com device chimed, the DEO no doubt, and there was only one person she knew who would call her on it.

'Hang on' Supergirl said to her green clad companion she turned her back and placed her fingers to her earpiece, funny enough, the situation was no different than when they first met.

'Now's not a good time, Alex' Supergirl groaned unhappy that her meeting was being interrupted by a sudden call.

'It's important I need you to meet me at HQ' Alex informed

'Okay I'll be there soon,' Supergirl said as she started to turn back when she did she looked around and saw that the Green Arrow was gone, nowhere in sight. Wow he's good she thought to herself. She turned away for no less than a minute to take a call and he just up and vanished. Supergirl then turned and flew off.