Day 52 - Felicity

Her hands shook for an hour after he left. Diggle texts that he won't let him do anything stupid. Roy decides to back Diggle up. It leaves her alone in the Foundry. Which gives her a lot of room to pace. Which she does, for the first time in her life. Facts: Oliver is alive. Oliver is unhinged. Oliver has no scars. It's uber-Oliver. Oliver to the tenth power. Felicity calls STAR labs.

"Hey, how's it going?" Caitlin asks. "You're on speaker."

"Oh good, you're up, I know it's late."

"Kind of a big deal. Besides at midnight we're going to make - how are you?

"Not good. Oliver is... Oliver is amped up."

"Mirakuru amped up?"

"No, it's like, he's more Oliver. More alive. More focused. But he's still Oliver. No super strength."

"That could be stress -" Caitlin says.

"Come on, the guy came back from the dead, it's got to be cooler than stress-" Cisco says.

"He just... when Oliver gets frustrated, he likes to hit things. Right now, he's just a ball of wanting to hit things."

"So it is stress-" Caitlin says.

"I think so, but heightened stress. What if it's a side effect?"

"A side effect of what?" Barry says. "Hi Felicity. I'm here too."

"Of whatever he went through."

"You mean, whatever the meta human did to him.." Barry says.

"What if it's not a meta human-"

"The guy came back from the dead, fully healed, with no scars, no chemicals in his system, it has to be a metahuman," Cisco says.

"Then who is it? Ra's al Ghul?" Barry says.

"Would explain the immortal theory-" Caitlin says.

"Not really. Immortality is totally different than being able to heal someone." Barry says.

"Right," Felicity thinks. "in our research, Ra's al Ghul never leaves his super secret base somewhere in China, right? Like in all the years?"

"Oooooh, wait, wait, wait," Cisco says excitedly. "You don't think it's a person, you think it's a place."

"Yes," Felicity says. "And it... it healed him by amping up his healing process, which would also amp up-"

"Brain activity, which would make Oliver go..." Caitlin continues.

"Full crazy Oliver," Barry says. "Not to mention what his adrenal system must be doing."

"So this Ra's al Ghul guy - he's not Dread Pirate Roberts, he just keeps healing himself again and again? Dude, it does exist!" Cisco says.

"What are you talking about?" Caitlin says.

"The Fountain of Youth. This is some Indiana Jones stuff going on now," Cisco says.

"It's not the Fountain of Youth," Barry says. "Felicity, you want me to come up?"

"Last time one of you went full-crazy, you threw Oliver off a building. No thank you, but you know, thanks for offering. Diggle and Roy are on it."

"Can they handle him?" Barry says.

"Felicity, if what we're saying is even remotely true, Oliver has no gravity right now. He's just out there, spinning. You need to find a way to ground him, to calm him down. Something to tell his body to stop fighting so everything can calm down." Caitlin pauses.

"Like The Incredible Hulk," Cisco says. "But serious."

"You know he's fighting," Caitlin breathes. "That's Oliver. But you also know some other stuff about him, maybe two things, or one thing that might... remind him of who he is."

"What is she talking about? What are you talking about?" Barry says.

Before Felicity can respond, there's a text on her phone. Felicity opens it and gasps, "Oliver just shot Roy. They're coming back to the Foundry."

"I'm coming up."

"No Barry! I'll let you know. Just, just get into Merlyn's data. We need to know if we're even close to right and if there's... there's something going on with Oliver."

Felicity hangs up, doing her best not to panic. She readies the medical station, puts out the instruments, carefully hides tranquilizers around the Foundry and waits. Ray texts her: "Everything ok?"

Felicity wants to tell him Oliver is back but she can't. Not now. Not before Thea knows. Unless Thea already knows. She closes out of the text window, thinks about texting Diggle and then the door opens. Roy is passed out, there's a clean bullet wound to the shoulder. Oliver and Diggle place him on the table.

Diggle immediately begins to tend the wound. Felicity watches as Oliver goes to the corner and hits one of the training posts. When Felicity is leaning over Diggle, he whispers up to her, "we went to Merlyn's. He was with Thea," Diggle says. "Oliver wanted to go in anyway. Roy got worried about Thea."

"Who had the gun?"

"I did," Diggle says, with a look over his shoulder at Oliver. "It was ugly. Felicity, I've never-"

"I told you to let me go in alone," Oliver comes back into view.

"He was with your sister."

"Yeah, which is even more reason for me to go in."

"Or it could have been someone else we had to fight-" Diggle says.

"Thea would not have fought us."

"You don't know that Oliver. That's what we're telling you. You were gone for over fifty days. You don't know what-"

"I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. MERLYN DECIDED TO TAKE EVERYTHING FROM ME. MY SISTER, MY LIFE. HE DIDN'T SUCCEED. I'M BACK. I LIVED." Oliver slams his hand down and everything on the table jumps. Before the fern goes over completely, his hand stops it.

"Oliver, you are not right. Tell me that you know that. Tell me that you can at least see that."

Instead Oliver walks off angrily. Diggle looks at Felicity, "what the hell are we going to do?"

"I have an idea. You may not like it."