Daniel Brickwell was playing cards with one of his associates in a warehouse outside the Glades when suddenly the lights flickered out.
"Go see what's going on." Brick said to his underling, who nodded as he headed out and Brick pulled out his own gun.
"Daniel Brickwell, you have failed this city." a snarling male voice said and Brick turned to see the Green Arrow standing up by the now broken window.
"I gonna have to bill you for that window." Brick said.
"You should be more worried about what I'm going to next. You." Green Arrow said.
"And why me? I'm not one of those one percenters you and that girlfriend of yours normally go after." Brick said.
"I don't just go after one percenters. Criminal scum like you are even higher up on that list and right now, you are on the top of that list." Green Arrow said as he fired an arrow directly towards Brick's heart, but he dodged right on time.
"You think you're the first person to try and take me out. Better than you have tried and yet I'm still standing here." Brick said as Green Arrow fired again, this time landing a hit directly into Brick's leg.
"The only difference is that I'm going to succeed." Green Arrow said as he walked up to him and put an arrow through his heart.
"That was for Rebecca Merlyn." Green Arrow said unrepentantly before moving out as he heard police sirens approach.
"So, Daniel Brickwell is pushing up daisies as we speak?" John asked.
"Malcolm would've done it himself when the truth came out, at least this way I made it somewhat painless." Oliver said.
Before John could say anything else, Oliver's phone rang and when he saw it was his mother, he instantly picked up.
"Hey mom, what's up?" Oliver asked.
"Oliver, Thea's been shot." Moira said and Oliver's blood ran cold.
"What, is she okay?" Oliver asked.
"She's in surgery right now at Star City General." Moira said.
"Okay, I'm on my way." Oliver said.
"What's going on?" John asked.
"Thea's been shot. Call Roy, tell him to meet us at Star City General." Oliver said and John nodded as they headed out of the foundry.
"Okay, well I hope Thea is alright. Yeah, keep me posted. Thanks. Love you to." Laurel said as she got off the phone with Oliver.
"Well that didn't sound good." Felicity said.
"It wasn't. That was Oliver, Thea's been shot, he and John are on their way to the hospital now." Laurel said.
"Well, hopefully she'll recover and who knows, maybe our Thea will join us here." Felicity said and Laurel nodded.
"I'm sure that's what Roy's hoping for." Laurel agreed as Cisco joined them.
"Okay so, we're going to start off with Laurel, since Dr. Wells already has an idea of what powers you have." Cisco said as Laurel headed into the training room.
"Okay, so what now?" Laurel asked.
"Just try screaming." Dr. Wells's voice said over the intercom system.
Laurel nodded as she she took a deep breath before trying to scream and sure enough, she found that her scream was amplified a thousand fold.
"Awesome." Laurel said.
"Okay Ms. Lance, now that we know what your powers are, we'll start working with you on refining them." Dr. Wells said.
"My turn." Felicity said as she took Laurel's place in the training room.
"Alright Ms. Smoak, now for you, we don't know how you were effected by the dark matter, so we're just going to have to start with the basics and try to trigger your abilities into manifesting, whatever it is they might be." Dr. Wells said.
"Got it. And how do we do that?" Felicity asked.
"By triggering the fear receptors in your brain to release enough adrenaline into your system to trigger your powers." Dr. Wells said as suddenly, a huge fan on the other side of the room and began to pull Felicity into it.
"What's going on?" Felicity asked.
"I'm trying to scare your powers into activating." Dr. Wells said.
"This seems a bit extreme don't you think?" Laurel asked the now handicapped man, though she knew he wasn't really handicapped.
"No, sometimes extreme measures are necessary to achieve the desired effect." Wells said, completely unaffected.
"And isn't that why you're in a wheelchair now?" Laurel countered.
"Wait guys, something's happening." Cisco said as they turned their attention back to the training room to see Felicity holding up her hands like she was trying to push the wind back, when suddenly, her hands began to glow green and so did her eyes and suddenly, every piece of technology in the room, including the fan, shut down.
"It looks like Ms. Smoak is a technopath." Dr. Wells said.
"A what?" Laurel asked.
"It means that she can control technology with her mind. Lucky." Cisco said.
"That could be dangerous considering how much of today's society is dependent on technology." Laurel said.
"While at the same time being extraordinary, since Ms. Smoak's powers could be used to do things like maintain hospital equipment." Dr. Wells said.
"Or if someone exploited them, they could bring the world to economic collapse." Cisco said.
"Which I will not do, though I'd like to make sure I don't end up robbing banks by accident." Felicity said.
"And we will make sure you know how to use those powers before you leave Central City." Dr. Wells assured her.
"Thank you Dr. Wells." Felicity said, the words leaving a sour taste in her mouth, since like Laurel, she knew the truth about this man and she couldn't believe that she had to pretend to be nice to him for the time being.