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CHAPTER 10
"Felicity we have thirty minutes to stop a bomb. I want you to talk Roy through on how to disable it." He says, as he makes a sharp right turn on his motorbike.
"Oh my gosh, Oliver we were talking and All of a sudden all three of you went dark. Communications were down. What happened?" She takes in a breathe of relief, finally being able to hear her guys again.
"Felicity It's a long story. Remember the nano bombs from Lexcorp?"
"Yes, how could I forget?"
"Well there's one in Central park, Like I was saying I need you to talk Roy through on how to disable it. Diggle's going to evacuate as many people out of the park as he can, the blast radius on this thing is unpredictable."
"Right!And what exactly what exactly are you going to do?"
"I got the easy part, I'm going after Merlyn. If we're going to disarm the bomb, we have got to do it fast."
He says his name again, leaving a worst taste in his mouth than before. He was on a new level of crazy. Even more crazier than before, and that was stretching it. To murder innocent people just to have this sick idea to have a higher position in the world to make it a better place.
He hears typing in the background. "Lex corp here I come."
" Let me know when its done". The typing stopped for a minute, and he heard a deep breath on the other side of the conversation.
"Get Thea back, and be don't get yourself killed".
He hangs up, if he was honest he would probably only be keeping one of those promises. He knew which one it'd be if it came to that.
The Merlyn airstrip was a little ways outside of the city. About twenty minutes away, but with the speed and rate that Oliver was going, it only took ten minutes. It sat on a cliff, where the waves crashed up against gets low on the grassy plains, opposite of the cliff, surveying the strip. It took everything in him he had to wait, hoping his IT girl could get the job done. In the ten minutes it took for him to get there, he hadn't got the call. Until now.
"Yes Felicity, are we all good to go on that side?"
"Oliver we have a problem. As we said before this is ground breaking technology. I've found a way to slow it the timer down, but not for long. Lexcorp boots me out of the system everytime I try to retrieve the data manual . All I can think is that, we try to get the cops to help clear the area and keep it blocked off until Barry can maybe-
" Felicity we don't have time for all of that. Barry has enough on his plate. Can you put me through to
Luthor himself?"
"The head of the company Lex Luther, I can try to get you into his office, but what are you going to say?"
"He wouldn't just take any old call, I'm going to have a talk billionaire to billionaire. Ask him how he feel's about buying into Queen Consolidated. Then once I get through, I'll question him about the bomb."
Not picking up. He had to try again. Too much was at stake.
"Felicity, try to patch me through again."
"Trying," she calmly says.
No answer again. The voicemail comes on, making him grate his teeth. "How long, do we have until it detonates?"
"About sixteen minutes now". Roy answers
"One more time Felicity, put me through again."
"Oliver I don't think that-
"One more time." This was the last time.
Someone picks up this time. A female, not exactly who Oliver wanted but it was a start. He immediately clears his throat, the feminine voice catching him off guard.
"Thank you for calling Lexcorp, my name is Mercy and how may help you today."
"Mr. Luthor please."
"May I ask whom I may be speaking with?"
"Oliver Queen, I may have a business proposal for Mr. Luthor."
"One moment please". The obnoxious holding music comes on and a minute later it was the man himself.
"Mr. Queen."
"WRONG, it's a friend of Mr Queen." He answers,all traces of Mr. Queen gone. He got the hood instead.
"May I ask who I'm speaking with."
"That's not important at the moment, your handcrafted bomb is in star city about to be detonated so you need to tell me how to disarm it."
"I'm sorry, I'm not going to just hand delicate intel out over the phone to a guy with a cheap voice enhancer and bad manners. Be reasonable, Lexcorp designs weapons for the military and more, you could be anyone."
Oliver takes a deep breath, his patience wearing thin.
"You're right I could be anyone be anywhere, but If you don't give me the means to shut off this bomb innocent people might die, then their blood is on you hands and I'll be coming for you."
"That sounds like a threat, do I need to get the police involved?"
He takes another deep breathe, they didn't have much time. This was getting him nowhere, he decided to try to a different approach than normal for the arrow. He certainly didn't deal with one percenters like this, but this was different, Luthor was the victim. Just like everyone else who had the misfortune of coming in contact with Merlyn
"Sir, someone has stolen your property. Does the name Macolm Meryln mean anything to you?"
"Maybe it does… he's the guy that almost destroyed Star city correct".
"Correct, and I believe he's planning on doing the same thing, just on a larger scale. He's planted your bomb in my home, now please give me the means to disable it."
"When?"
"Right now".
"Fine, are you into the area?"
"No but I have friends there, you can help them."
….
"Oliver we have disabled the bomb and you sir are clear for take off however Merlyn is not. Roy and Diggle are on the way for back up, ten minutes out."
The helicopter approaches, the propellers sending rippling winds throughout the small area. the grass blew, and the waves crashed against the cliff. It lands and Merlyn and Thea begin to slowly board. Oliver quickly plants an arrow in Malcoms hand. He pulls it out, quickly breaking it in two.
"I'm really getting tired of you putting arrows in me, doesn't matter anyway say goodbye to your precious city". He clicks the trigger, but nothing happens he clicks it again, and again.
"What did you do!"
"I disabled it. Now give it up the bombs and let Thea go".
"No I've waited too long for this," - Oliver cuts him off with another arrow to his thigh,
"Let her go NOW, or the next one will hurt a lot worst." his trigger finger itchy, he waits on malcolm's move.
"Really poor choice of words Oliver". Without blinking he pushes her down, and off the side of the small cliff.
"Thea!" He reaches out for her only to come up short due to Malcolm holding him still into place.
He then gives him a knee to his nose. He drags him to the cliff, positioning him into a headlock to get a front row seat at a drowning thea. Oliver struggles feeling a bit helpless as his sisters cry's out for help. His vision goes blurry, with early signs of passing out,
"Help!" she screamed. She seemed to be in control and out from under Malcolms. That was a plus only bad thing is she was fighting for her life. Out of no where Roy Harper dives in head first to rescue her. Diggle aims his pistol at Merlyn, as he boards the jet. The bullets spray but barely hit him, as the jet takes off, leaving the hero and his team at the airstrip.
…
(A couple hours later at Star city general hospital)
Thea abruptly shoots up straight, breathing heavily.
"Thea its okay I'm here. Its Oliver." He hugs her until she stops shaking.
Roy sits in the corner quietly not wanting to interrupt the moment.
Oliver backs off taking a seat next to her hospital bed.
"Thea." She jumps to the sound of her own name.
"Where am I?"
"Star General, do you remember anything?"
She closes her eyes, as the horrific encounter of her drowning come into her mind.
"Last thing I remember is drowning and Roy coming to save me. The arrow was there, and so was my father. Was Malcolm there when you guys found me?"
Oliver's eyes flash to Roys. "No". He looks down.
She looks at her brother something wasn't right, something was bothering him,she picked up on it.
"Ollie, what's wrong?"
"Thea do you remember anything else, anything else to do with specifically with Malcolm?"
"No, should I?"
"No, no pressure if anything comes back to you, let me know?"
She noded.
"Get some rest."
"You sure you don't need a hospital bed, you look horrible".
"I'm fine, just get some rest, I'll be okay".
They both kissed her on her forehead, leaving the room."
They walk out into the lobby, just then the local news comes on, grabbing their attention.
"This just in Local Billionaire Malcolm Merlyn found with a case full of stolen high tech weapons. The weapons appear to be from billion dollar company Lexcorp. We got Lex Luthor, earlier this morning to issue a statement about the armory stolen from his warehouse in Star city."
"Hello, as you know some of my property was stolen earlier this week from a local warehouse in Star city, though I cannot disclose any information on what the item was. I just want to thank Star city's finest officers and the coast guard for helping bring this man… this animal to justice. I take full responsibility also for letting my tech fall into the wrong hands. As of today Lexcorp will be providing around the clock security for our remaining warehouses. No more further questions thank you.
…. (Back at the foundry)
The team downs a shot after a long week.
Diggle pours the shots fast, spilling a little on the bar.
"Lets make a toast, I'll go first to Malcolm being caught and getting Thea back."
"Cheers, to a long week and I second that getting Thea back." Roy add's.
"Here's to nobody dying today, and Lex Luthor calling me one of the most brilliant minds he's come across, I mean even though he didn't thank me today in his press conference, and even though all he had to do is squeeze it in Im-
"Felicity!" Oliver cuts her off.
"Sorry."
"I just want to say cheers to all my teammates especially you Roy, we've been through a lot all of us. Especially this week but we made it through. Honestly if I could go back and believe you when you told me it was Thea, I would."
Roy a little touched by his words replies. "Oliver I should have just come to you, and told you the truth, we're partners and I owe you at least that much."
"Both you guys were wrong, you should have just trusted each other. Like any other relationship, it should be built on trust. NOW the bromance level is up to here" she demonstrates with her hand. "We really need more girls on the team." Oliver and Roy slip away from the bar, knowing drunk talking Felicity was worst than a sober one.
"Partners?" Oliver ask.
"Partners." Roy replies.
THE END
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