I wasn't there but a little while before all of Ollie's friends were thrown in the cell with me. "Father! Laurel!" They all looked at me with fear. Oliver slammed the door shut and they panicked as a weird fog filled the room. Someone outside the cell activated my collar and the torture started again. Laurel was close enough to pull my mask off and when she did, blood was spilling out of my mouth and down my neck.

"Oh, God, Mari. What do we do? How do we help her?"

"We can't do anything." Malcolm said as he coughed. He was right as they all started to lose consciousness, I felt myself panic. Someone turned my collar off and I choked on the smoke.

"Father? Dig? Ray?" No one responded. I tried pulling but it was just pulling on dead weight, also know as my arms. "Oliver!" I screamed loudly and the collar was turned back on and I just let myself collapse, blood pooling around my head and mask. I started to choke and the will the survive left me. I was trapped in a room with all of my friends dead in front of me.

After what I thought was a century, they all started coughing and coming back to life. I was so happy I actually smiled despite all the pain. "Mari, your blood." My father looked at me with concern but I was too tired to move. He explained to everyone why they were still alive and what our next move was.

When the door burst open I tried to gasp but instead I made the bleeding worse. Great. My life right now was... subpar. I saw Barry and frowned. I thought he would be glad to see me suffering. Instead, he ignored the others and ran to my side. He grabbed the collar and ripped it off. My throat healed and I coughed up all the blood that was stuck in my throat.

"Oh, that sucked. I don't care what anyone says, immortality is the worst." I knew the half of my face that was in blood was nasty and so was most if not all of my hair.

"I can see that now."

"Hey, worst time to bring this up but I am really sorry about my craziness."

"I can tell you're different now." He shattered the locks on my arm caskets and ripped those bands off as well. I felt free and that was actually the best. I stood up, put my mask on and freed Malcolm, Ray, and Laurel. I supported Malcolm as we all started walking out of this hell like compound.

Unfortunately, the city wasn't much better. We were all scrambling around to find Ra's. I let out a frustrated sigh as nothing seemed I be going our way. Felicity kept searching endlessly but as she did, someone interrupted. I pulled my hand gun and turned to see Nyssa and Oliver.

"You son of a bitch!" I hit Oliver across the face with the butt of the gun and when he fell to his knees, I kneed him in the face. "That's for that bullshit torture." He sat up and wiped the blood from his face.

"Stop! I definitely deserved that but now let me explain." He stood up.

Felicity turned around in her chair and glared at Ollie. "Do it again Mari." I hit him with the gun but then felt Malcolm pull me back by my arm so I turned around and put my hands up before putting my weapon away.

"Not even a sign! You didn't give us anything! I thought I would have to kill you and I almost did just then." I got everything off my chest and I stood back. Listening to Oliver make his flimsy excuses was driving me crazy. "I can't do this. I can't work with a fraud." I walked toward the door but Thea stepped in my way.

"Don't. You said you would never leave me but look what you are doing."

"Your brother is back. He's the one you care about." I felt hurt and angry that after everything he's done, she still forgives him. I ran over to the giant window and jumped, shattering the glass all around me. I kept falling but I pulled my sword and used it to grab a side of a building. I went to the airfield on the outskirts of the city and stole a police helicopter. I flew myself to Central City where I landed the copter at Ferris Airfields. I walked through the city, still decked out in my uniform, a lose grip on my helmet with blood still staining my face and hair. I walked into CC Jitters and looked around. I had expected to find Barry or Caitlin, hoping to offer assistance for their own mission, a much simpler mission than Ollie's.

I walked to the roof and found Iris looking out of the city. "Come on, Barry."

"Why does Barry need a cheerleader?" Iris turned at the sound of my voice but backed up immediately, hitting the wall and stopping.

"Mari?"

"Hey there. Where is Barry?"

"He's at STAR Labs but he's trying to get information from Wells so I decided it would be best to leave him be."

"Wells. Why Wells?"

"He killed Barry's mother and he also turns out to be a speedster from the future."

I paused for a moment then nodded. "Yeah, I thought Starling City was weird."

"You know, since I've met you, your hair has grown back."

I reached up and realized she was right. My hair was long on the side that was once buzzed short. "It's been at least a year since I last shaved my head. But I think I want to change."

"I need a distraction." I looked at her questioningly. "Let's make you look like a normal person again."

I smiled. "Sounds great to me." We snuck down the fire escape and quickly made it to her house. She helped me wash the blood from my hair and after I showered and felt clean, I walked into her room. She had cleaned my uniform and was holding it up to herself in the mirror. "Trying to picture yourself like me?" She gasped and turned around.

"Oh, no. I just wanted to see."

"It's okay. It's just I used to be like that sometimes. I would hold up my uniform in the mirror and wonder why I turned out like I did."

"That's all in the past so let's just move on." She held up a plastic bag. "I don't know what your hair is naturally but I got black."

"Actually, that's what it was naturally." I glanced at myself in the mirror. "I think it was, anyways."

Iris let out a little laugh. "You mean you can remember what you used to look like?"

Although she thought it was humorous, I thought it was disgusting. "No." She stopped laughing and we sat quietly as she dyed my hair. While she did, I pulled out every single piercing I had. They closed up immediately and I thought of how I could get the tattoos off. There were a lot of them but I knew exactly want would work.

As my hair dried, Iris fell asleep on the couch. I snuck out and bought some gasoline and headed to the dump. I poured the gas on the tattooed skin and caught a match on fire. I dropped it at my feet and let the fire burn my skin until I knew it was all gone. I threw myself into the river and felt the now warming feeling of my healing. I stayed underwater for a few minutes before I surface, dried off and went back to the West household. I sat polishing my weapons until Iris woke up. She rubbed her eyes groggily. The first thing that caught her eye was my now clear neck.

"What did you do?" I gave her a puzzled look. "Your tattoos, they're... You burned them off. Why would you do that?"

"Hey, it's fine. I'm not crazy, but I needed the tattoos gone as soon as possible. I just wanted a fresh start."

"Is that fresh enough?"