EPISODE 10: BOOM! BANG! POW!
It was daylight in Starling City as Sin walked into the building of Queen Consolidated. Part of her was hoping to find Oliver sitting at his desk while the other part knew he wouldn't be there. He has yet to return and hasn't contacted anybody to let them know he was fine and would be back soon. He has gone on his solo missions somewhere in the world before but he always called or something. Sin opened the door to Oliver's office and sure enough he wasn't there. She closed the door trying not to slam as she got ready to leave the building. She walked out into the hall spotting Thea coming caring a stack of papers.
"Hey Thea," Sin greeted.
"Hey," she greeted back. "Any chance you heard from my brother?"
"No and from the sound of things no one has," she said crossing her arms.
"What the hell could he be doing? I know Tommy's death must have been hard for him but he isn't the only one."
"I guess people just have different ways of grieving."
"I suppose," Thea conceded. "If you hear from him will you let me know?"
"Of course," she said saying by to Thea as they parted ways.
Thea went into her office setting the stack of papers on her desk pulling out her phone.
In a warehouse located in the Glades the Question was surrounded by a bunch of goons. Standing behind him was a teenage girl scarred. He kept her close as the thugs began to inch closer and closer. He took quick glances at all his opponents. He knew which was the weakest, the strongest, the most frightened, and the one who would charge first. A man behind him reached for the girl and regretted it very soon as the Question brought a strong chop down on the guys arm breaking it. He quickly caught a punch breaking the guy's wrist and then tossed him into the next attacker. Another guy charged in only to get a punch to the face followed by an elbow then a back hand sending him to the ground. One of the guys got off the ground pulling out a gun. The Question was quicker pushing the man's gun in the air making it fire into the ceiling. He hit the guy with a hard punch across the face and then moved his gun hand down making it point towards the man's foot making him shoot himself. He fell to the ground holding his foot in pain. The Question turned around looking at the girl and leaned forward.
"I suggest you stay out of this part of town," he said patting the girl on the shoulder. He walked out the building with his hands in his pockets. His phone suddenly rang in his pocket. He pulled it out to see it was Thea Queen. "Hello Miss Queen, what can I do for you?"
"What news do you have on my brother?"
"Nothing more than the last time you called, which was yesterday by the way," he reminded her.
"I haven't heard from him in days and neither has his friends so I need to know where he is," Thea demanded.
"I told you I will do everything within my power to get you information on your brother but if I can't help it then I'm apologize," he responded calmly entering an alleyway.
"Whatever info you can get will be greatly appreciated Question," Thea said truly concerned for her brother.
"All I can tell you is that one second he was at the hospital and then he was suddenly gone. There isn't much to go on."
"How do you just vanish?" Thea asked.
"Well that is the question," he said hanging up the phone.
The Question suddenly came to a stop when he got a feeling he was being watched. He looked around but was unable to find who was looking at him. Whoever it was they were good at concealing their presence. He took a few steps staying on guard when he heard someone shout…
"BANG!"
The Question moved quickly out the way barley dodging a bullet. He was behind a dumpster as he now heard footsteps approaching him. He picked up a piece of glass that was on the ground and sued it to get a look at his attacker. Unfortunately he knew who it was at first glance.
"Onomatopoeia," he said.
Onomatopoeia was wearing a black mask that had a white spiral on it. He also wore an all-black get up that included a trench-coat and gloves. He was aiming a pistol equipped with a silencer.
"I was wondering if you would target me Onomatopoeia," Question said getting ready to make his move as he picked up a handful of glass off the ground.
"BANG! BANG! BLAM!" he shouted as he fired his weapon at Question.
"And people think I'm crazy," Question said to himself jumping out from behind cover.
He threw the shards of glass temporarily blinding his opponent and charged at him. He first knocked the gun out of his hand with a sharp chop then threw a punch hitting Onomatopoeia in the face. He tried to hit him with another but was blocked as the attacker pulled out a knife and began swinging his blade and with every swing came his sound effects.
"SLASH! SLOOSH! SWOOP! SWICH!"
He nailed Question across the chest making blood fall from the knife. He played with the knife in his hand before charging at his opponent with great force. Question continued to stay on defense for for some time getting more cuts before catching Onomatopoeia's knife hand and kicking him in the chest. He took advantage of this moment and delivered multiples punches to his foe before stopping as he felt a jolt of pain hit his gut. He looked down to see that the crazy villain had pulled out a second knife and got him.
"STAB!" he said before he roundhouse kicked Question across the face.
He moved over to finish his prey before an arrow came whizzing from the sky landing right in front of him dispersing a cloud of smoke. By the time it cleared Question was gone. He picked up the arrow off the ground to see it was colored purple he broke the arrow while saying…
"SNAP!"
Sin walked into the hideout where Dinah had ordered a meeting probably to talk about Oliver. Already there was Diggle, Felicity, Nyssa, Dinah, and surprisingly Helena.
"Helena what are you doing here?" Sin asked.
"Came to give you guys a heads up," she said.
They all sat around as she passed around a drawing of a man wearing a mask.
"Who is this?" Sin asked.
"We call him Onomatopoeia," she said. "Wish I could show you footage or have an actual picture of him but he is good at staying away from cameras."
"You telling us about him must mean he is in Starling," Diggle concluded.
"He is," she confirmed. "A friend of mine had a run in with him a little while ago and is getting patched up."
"So what's his story?" Felicity asked.
"We don't know a lot about him but we do know his MO," she informed. "He targets heroes without powers."
"He targets heroes without powers?" Sin repeated.
"I've actually fought him once but he didn't know about my Canary Cry and when he found out he hasn't bothered me since."
"Well some of us aren't so lucky," Helena said. "He has come after me at least twice a year since I put on my suit and I lost count the number of times he has tried to kill Batman."
"Who's your friend that recently had a run in with him?" Nyssa asked.
"I can't tell you that for certain reasons. Just know he's one of us," she said.
"How many heroes has he killed?"
"We suspect two."
"Suspect?" Nyssa questioned.
"Like I said he is good at covering his tracks. He don't got a name, where he came from, or what he wants besides to kill us."
"Who were the two heroes he you think he killed?" Sin asked.
"One went by the name Guardian and the other we suspect he's responsible for was a man that went by Vigilante."
"How long has he been doing this?" Felicity asked.
"Long enough," Dinah said. "We need to catch this guy while he's in the city."
"Well we have plenty of bait," Sin said. "Me, Dig, and Nyssa can run around tonight until he shows himself."
"Think he knows about my strength?" he questioned.
"Won't matter if he has two other targets right there waiting for him," Nyssa said.
"Three other targets," Helena said. "I'm staying just in case. This guy is dangerous on many levels."
"Then how about this," Dinah said. "John and I will stay hidden while you three patrol and when he makes his move we all jump on him."
"Sound like a plan," Sin said.
"So where Oliver," Helena suddenly asked.
"If you hear from him let us know," everyone said.
Sara walked through her apartment wearing nothing but her night gown as she took down any and all photos that had Tommy on them. She moved over to the couch plopping down and just looked at the door just needing to remind herself that Tommy was not about to walk through that door. Suddenly a knock came from the door catching her off guard. She got up and slowly made her way to the door opening it. Standing there was Malcolm Merlyn.
"Hey Sara," he greeted.
"Malcolm?"
That night the team of heroes began their plan to capture Onomatopoeia. Arsenal, Huntress, and Nyssa patrolled the city together stopping the occasional mugger. It was about two hours into the night when they just stopped looking over the city.
"Is he still in the city?" Sin asked Helena.
"He has to be with all of us still here," she responded.
"He is probably hoping to see the Arrow," Nyssa suggested.
"Well he is going to have to get in line because he is still MIA," Sin said walking closer to the edge of the building.
"Maybe we are being too obvious," Nyssa said. "How about we split up? He could be waiting to get one us alone and when he shows himself we just have to call with his location."
"This guy is dangerous, I would prefer it if we stayed together," Helena said. She has had encounters with this mad man before and the worst idea is to try and fight him alone even with help on the way. Every encounter she had with him she needed help. A few times it was the Question or Batman and sometimes even Nightwing. They all had a hard time taking him on so she didn't want to take any chances.
"Well we have to do something," Nyssa said firing a zip-line arrow at the building across from her. "I'll be the bait and when he comes I'll give all of you call." With that she jumped off moving out of sight.
Sin looked to Helen who looked really worried. "Hey it'll be okay," Sin promised her.
"I hope you are right," she said. "He's only killed two heroes we know of but anytime he shows up it's a nightmare."
Sara sat in the middle of the floor of her home and across from her was Malcolm. They both had their eyes closed and legs crossed meditating. Sara took a deep breath followed by another and then another before she opened her eyes.
"This isn't working," she said.
"It's not working because you are not trying," Malcolm responded keeping his eyes closed.
"I'm not trying because I don't see how this will help me get over Tommy's death."
"It's not supposed to help you get over Tommy's death it's supposed to help you function in spite of it," he opened his eyes looking at his daughter-in-law. "When I lost Rebecca I didn't know how to deal with properly or even know what to do."
"So you started meditating?" she questioned not even a little convinced.
"I started putting my grief to other uses," he said standing. She stood with him and they locked eyes. "Hit me," he told her.
"What?"
"I want you to throw your best punch at me."
"You know my father is a police officer so he made sure his daughters got some type of self-defense training."
"Hit me," he said again.
Sara just went with it because to be honest she has been wanting to hit something. She threw a punch only for Malcom to easily slap it aside. She threw another that Malcolm caught in his hand before he tripped her making her fall on the floor.
"I was able to learn to focus my hatred and grief towards my lost so that no one will be able to hurt me or anyone else I care about again. Let me teach you."
Nyssa walked past the unconscious bodies of some thugs she just took care of. They had cornered a woman in the alley and Nyssa kindly stepped in to help. She shot an arrow that lifted her up to the building where she saw a man in all black and wearing a mask.
"You must be Onomatopoeia," she said drawing back her bow. He pulled out a knife quickly tossing it at Nyssa cutting her bow string. "Damn it," she cursed putting her hand to her ear. "I got him! Get over here!"
She had to move quick as the vigilante killer came at her full speed knives in hand. She ducked and dodged the attacks but what was throwing her off was the sounds he was making while doing so. She ducked another attacker before kicking him in the face and pulling out her sword.
"What is wrong with you? What do you think this is a comic book?" she said before engaging him again.
He whipped out a gun and began firing it while shouting "BANG!" with every shot. Nyssa was able to dodge the bullets and get close enough to hit the gun out his hand using her sword. She gracefully swung her blade while her opponent moved out the way of every attack. He spotted an opening and hit Nyssa right in the face with his fist and sure enough he shouted "POW!" while doing so.
Before he could make his move he turned around to see Huntress and Arsenal land on the building aiming there weapons. He looked back at Nyssa then back to the two new additions to the battle. He went into his coat before anybody could react and whipped out to submachine guns and began firing at all three.
"DA, DA, DA, Da, DA, DA, DA, DA, DA!" he yelled trying to hit the heroes.
They moved out the way staying on their toes. Sin jumped into the air pulling out her pistols and fired two rubber bullets at Onomatopoeia hitting his arms making him drop the guns. Huntress literally jumped at the opportunity tackling the killer to the ground and began to furiously punch him in the face. He kicked her off of him and sprung up from the ground hitting her with a punch to the stomach. He turned to see Nyssa coming behind him sword in hand. He caught the blade between his hands then kicked her in the gut and tossing the blade off the side of the building. He found himself on guard as the three began to circle him. They couldn't see it but he had a big smile on his face.
Sin jumped first throwing a punch that he caught then flipped her over his shoulder. She landed on her feet then tried to kick his legs out from under him but, he back-flipped out the way being met by both Helena and Nyssa who began to attack at the same time. He deflected the attacks as they began to push him back. He was almost night able to dodge the kick that Sin threw from behind as cartwheeled out of the way.
"This guy is good," Nyssa said breathing hard.
"Told you," Helena responded.
They saw as Onomatopoeia was about to make his move but a loud scream erupted as Dinah dressed as Black Canary hit him from behind. He went tumbling to the ground as he saw the Black Canary and the ski mask wearing partner now on the same roof. They could not see it but he had a disappointed look on his face. He dropped a flashbang on the ground blinding all of them and fled.
"Coward," Nyssa said running her eyes.
"He really doesn't fight with people who have powers," Sin said.
"Well he isn't going to stay in town another night so we'll have to wait till next time," Diggle said taking his ski mask off.
"You should really find something else to wear," Helena said to him.
"I'll think about it," he responded.
It was morning the next in the small neighborhood where a middle aged man approached a house bag in hand. He pulled out keys but before he could unlock it the door opened and he was greeted by two small children a boy and a girl.
"Daddy your home," the girl said.
"Where did you go?" the boy asked.
"I'll tell you all about it in minute," he said lifting both up in his arms and taking them inside the house. He put them down rubbing their heads. "Go tell mom I'm back and will be there shortly."
"Okay!" they both said running into the kitchen.
The man pulled out his keys opening the door to the basement. He walked down clicking on the light illuminating the many guns and knives in the room. He put his bag onto the workbench pulling out his black mask with a white spiral on it. He turned looking at a giant map on the wall where many pictures of heroes were pinned to it. He lifted his hand pointing at the spot with Starling City written on it.
"BANG!"
At the hideout a few of the team were there seeing Helena off and thanking her for her help. When things began to settle down Sin, Dinah, Diggle, and Felicity sat down and began to debate what they should do next. Suddenly Sin's phone rang and Oliver's name popped up. She quickly pushed the button answering.
"Oliver," she said.
"Hey Sin," she heard him say.
"Well thanks for letting us know you aren't dead," she said.
Dinah to the phone from her, "Where the hell are you?"
In a dark warehouse Oliver was chained up hanging upside down as Harley Quinn held the phone to his ear.
"It's a long story."
NEXT. EPISODE 11: A FAVOR
A/N: We are half way through this story and I just want to thank all you readers out there. Can't wait to post the next chapter because finally…GOTHAM CITY! BATMAN! MORE HARLEY QUINN! MORE SUICIDE SQUAD!
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