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"Twenty four men." Pulling the binoculars away from his eyes Oliver looked down at the notebook lying on the ground next to him and scribbled the last tally mark next to the other twenty-three vertical lines on the page.

He didn't know if that was all the men Ivo had brought with him but it was close to the number he remembered seeing the first time he had gone to war against the psychotic doctor. He couldn't claim to remember each pirate Ivo had with him but he after four hours of recon on the Amazo he had seen twenty-four different men excluding Ivo and the prisoners inside the ship.

"Ivo should take at least half of them with him to the submarine." Maybe more if the doctor felt paranoid. Sara had said when it came to the Mirakuru Ivo was like a completely different person. Someone who became so fixated on one thing they ignored everything else. That would work in his favor. If he was right being this close to finding the Mirakuru would cause Ivo to fixate on it. Blind the doctor to what was happening around him.

Of course, Ivo didn't know that the 'castaway' he was talking to was from the future and had knowledge that made it easy for him to manipulate the doctor and get him to the submarine. Where he would only find a quick death instead of the Mirakuru he was looking for.

Picking the binoculars he set down up he brought them back to his eyes as movement on the ship caught his attention.

Ivo was out in the open. . .and boarding one of the smaller boats hanging next to the deck.

"He's moving sooner than expected." Oliver frowned. He knew Ivo was obsessed with finding the Mirakuru but he wasn't even sending a scouting party to the coordinates he left for them.

Following Ivo and his men as they came to shore on the coast of the island he started packing his notebook and binoculars away in the backpack, he had brought with him from Starling.

If Ivo wanted to head straight for the sub then that was fine. The missile launcher was already set to fire when he gave the command.

Shouldering his pack he grabbed the rifle next to him and started down the mountain to the coast as Ivo and his men began trekking further into the island. It would only take them two hours to reach the sub from the beach since Ivo had the Amazo circle the island to get as close as he could to the Mirakuru.

"He wouldn't have done that if Fyers men had told him what I've been up to." Ivo like Fyers thought he was dealing with a simple castaway, not a well-trained killer. And that would contribute to the death of the doctor. The missile launcher would do the rest.

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"Something is wrong." Looking around the fissure in the island trapping the nearly hundred-year-old Japanese submarine inland Ivo frowned. He and his men had been on the island for hours. The castaway had given them the exact location of the Mirakuru but he was not stupid enough to head straight for the submarine. His men had circled the fissure in the island twice searching for traps or the castaway and they had found nothing. Which should have been good but he remembered the castaway's words about what was supposed to be around the sub.

And there wasn't an animal in sight.

Wolves the size of bears and crocodiles that didn't die when shot were supposed to be surrounding the submarine. Yet he had not seen either of those things. Where were the beasts?

"Sir?"

"Captain, take five men and search the sub," Ivo ordered taking a reluctant step back putting distance between himself and his goal. And he hated it. No matter how small the distance he was still moving away from his what he had been working towards.

"I'm going to kill that castaway." The doctor thought enraged at the obstruction stopping him from saving his wife. Whoever the castaway was he would pay dearly.

As the captain of his crew and the men he picked made their way down to the sub, Ivo took a breath. Now was not the time to be angry. Anger caused mistakes and that was not something he could afford. Not now. Not when he was so close.

"Just wait a little longer, Jessica."

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Hundreds of feet above sea level Oliver crouched behind a boulder watching Ivo through the scope of his sniper rifle. It had been easy to follow the doctor and his men through the forest without being detected. Lian Yu was his home as much as Starling City. He knew it like he knew the back of his hand. And the mercenaries Ivo had under his employ while ruthless were not subtle. Their tracks were easy to follow.

Below him, Ivo stood on the bank of the river as his men waded into the water. Oliver didn't hear the order since Ivo and his men had changed the frequency of their radio's but he could guess what was going on. Ivo had probably realized something was wrong and sent his men ahead to set off any potential traps.

Not that they would find anything. Setting traps in the sub would only scare Ivo away and he needed the doctor to go inside. The pirates wouldn't find anything that would potentially scare the doctor. Ivo would enter the submarine and he would die today.

Setting his rifle down Oliver unzipped the pack lying next to him and lifted the bulky laptop out flipping it open. Everything was ready. All that was left was for Ivo to enter the submarine.

Placing the laptop on top of his bag he picked his rifle up again and put the cross hair back on Ivo who was still waiting on the bank as his men entered the submarine.

It wasn't even half an hour later when one of the pirates climbed out and waved the doctor forward.

Breathing deeply as Ivo took his first step into the water Oliver kept his finger as far from the trigger as he could. The desire to just shoot the doctor was still strong.

Killing the doctor just once wasn't enough. In the end when Ivo had died the first time the doctor had still won. A quick death versus the pain he deserved was a far better fate than Oliver would have granted him. But if he hadn't shot him Sara would have and she didn't deserve to have that on her conscious.

So he watched as Ivo waded as far as he could into the water before being forced to swim the rest of the way to the sub.

Watched as the doctor was pulled onto the sub, and watched as Ivo went down the ladder.

He waited another minute to let Ivo get deeper into the submarine before made his move.

"Goodbye, Ivo," Oliver whispered taking one hand off his rifle and pressing the enter key on the laptop activating the remote launch of the missile launcher hidden miles away.

In the distance, the red flames of the missile weren't hard to miss and he was sure the men left on the boat saw it as well.

"Not that it will do them any good." Ivo and his men had been forced to leave their radios on the bank just like him, Sara, Shado, and Slade had to do when they were searching for the Mirakuru.

The pirates on the boat couldn't warn the doctor of what was coming. And inside the submarine, Ivo wouldn't hear the missile until it was far too late to escape.

Keeping his sights on the only entrance and exit on the submarine Oliver set his finger on the trigger ready to squeeze if someone tried to leave. In the air above him, the missile whistled as it descended.

Seconds later smoke and fire were the only things he could see through the scope as the missile hit home.

Closing his eyes as the shock wave from the explosion shook the island.

Opening them a second later he scanned the wreckage of the submarine for any sign of movement. Not that he expected to find any, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

When he didn't see anyone still moving he nodded.

"The worlds better off without people like Anthony Ivo." He said as he stood up from his hiding spot and packed up the laptop.

The Green Arrow had been a hero who didn't kill. Like Barry and Kara. And the Green Arrow wouldn't be coming back in this timeline. Not with Oliver Queen under the hood anyway.

"Some people don't deserve to live." Maybe it wasn't his place to decide that, but he was the only one who could stop people like Ivo and the man who had taught him that lesson. Damien Darhk.

Picking up his rifle he set it to safety and slid it through the straps on the backpack before putting the bag on his back.

Turning the cliff he grabbed the rope that had been nailed into the face of the mountain and attached it to the harness around his waist.

"Glad I decided on rock climbing equipment and not kayaking." In Starling buying things like repelling gear was just a cover, but now it was paying off.

Tossing the rest of the rope over the side of the cliff he stepped off and started sliding down the rope towards the ground.

He was sure the other pirates would be on their way across the island to investigate and he needed to hurry to the coast. With most of their men dying alongside the doctor and the others on their way to ground zero of the explosion now was the best time to attack the boat.

Sara might not be on the boat but Anthony was. And the Russian was another friend Oliver needed to save.

Landing on the ground he unclipped his harness and hid it as well as he could behind the trees at the base of the mountain before running across the bank to where Ivo and his men left their radios.

"Ivo? Captain? What's going on out there?"

As he got closer to the radios Oliver could hear the other pirates still on the ship trying to get in contact with the doctor.

"What was that explosion?"

Picking up one of the radios Oliver started his trek back across the island.

"Hello? Ivo, I'm sending men to your location."

"Good." Oliver attached the radio to the strap over his shoulder. The plan was going perfectly.

All that was left was to take the freighter, free Anatoly, and the others and then send them on their way so they were gone when Waller came for him.

Authors Note:

I know, shorter than most chapters but Ivo's arc won't be very long. Not nearly as long as year ones. At max, it's going to be 10k. I could stretch it out but I'm trying to keep the story realistic and Oliver, in my opinion, is to smart not to do exactly what I'm writing. It just wouldn't make sense for him not to utilize everything at his disposal. And what he as his a missile launcher and the exact location where Ivo is going to be.

Sorry to anyone who wanted to read more of Ivo, or see more of Oliver's skill but I feel like it would take away from the story by suddenly making Oliver dumb enough not to use the missile launcher. Or if I threw in some unexpected surprise that wasn't in the show. It just wouldn't work.

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