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Oliver, Roy, Henry, Lisa and Felicity were later patched up by the doctors as Samantha, Sara, Thea and Laurel approached them.
"You guys OK?" Samantha asked.
"A little banged up… but alive." Roy drawled.
"Must be Tuesday." Thea quipped as she hugged Roy tightly. "Don't scare me like that again."
"You and I both know that won't happen." Roy said.
"You idiot." Thea tightened the hug as Roy groaned in pain.
Oliver then noticed the bruises on Felicity's face. "What happened to you?"
"Uh, you know, tried to prevent a nuclear disaster and a psycho anarchist tried to hang me and kill me, regular day with you." Felicity cracked as everyone laughed. "I missed doing this with you guys."
"Sampson?" Oliver asked.
"Dead." Diggle said. "Hook in the brain, smart way to kill him. We've never been able to put him down before. Machin and Bane are under arrest. We'll make them tell us who hired them."
"Are you OK, Dad?" William asked as he approached Oliver.
"Come here, buddy." Oliver hugged William tightly.
A.R.G.U.S. Detention Black Site
"Give us a name and we'll consider reducing your sentence." Rick Flag said as Machin was in cuffs in an interrogation room. "Who hired you?"
"Her name was… Miranda Tate." Machin said and as soon as he said the name, suddenly, he was shaking around, like if he was being electrocuted before he collapsed to the floor as on his neck was a fresh small burn.
"Suicide chip…" Flag realized. "Guess they don't like rats."
"Oh, no…" Lyla whispered, color draining from her face.
"Who's Miranda Tate?" Felicity asked, not understanding.
Lyla picked up her phone and dialed a number. "Bruce, are you there?"
Gotham City
Bruce, Selina and Alfred dug a hole as they were hoping to be wrong.
"Bruce… it's empty." Selina said dreadfully.
"She's come back from the dead…" Bruce realized. "But when?"
"And more important question, if her body is not here, then where is she?" Alfred added.
Two years ago
Nora Darhk teleported out from the underground of Imperial Ring, while absorbing her master's energy…
…as she appeared in the outskirts of Star City, scarred and beaten from the fight with Team Arrow, Birds of Prey, Slade Wilson, Tommy Merlyn and the League of Assassins.
"We… we've lost…" Nora whispered.
"A temporary setback…" The voice of the Beast in her mind whispered. "There will be more chances, Lady Eleanor. I shall grant you more power to bring back one of our most loyal followers."
"Of course… yes, my master." Nora said as her eyes glowed before she reached to the ground as under the catacombs of Imperial Ring was flowing an emerald colored substance as she said an incantation. "Rise from the dead, our follower. Rise back from the realm beyond and pass behind the veil, so that you shall fulfill the will of the Beast…"
Himalayas
In the mountains, a small group of nomads were making a camp and roasting their food before from the shadows, a naked young woman approached them slowly, covered in blood and dirt as one of them got up. "My God, what happened to you?"
"I… I don't know. I remember… blackness and…"
"What's your name?" Another man asked as he took off his coat and put in on the woman's shoulders but to his surprise, she lunged at him and snapped his neck before grabbing a knife and killing the next one, staring in shock at what she had just done.
"I… I don't remember."
Elsewhere
A young red-haired woman was traveling across the desert as she approached the borders of a city.
"My bow… I know it is here…" Artemis said, entering the city.
If you don't know or have forgotten who is Artemis here, re-read MERLYN'S REDEMPTION to find out.
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