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Twenty-One

"Pass me another egg roll," Barry grinned holding his plate up for more food. Currently, Barry, Felicity and I were sitting in my office in QC waiting for the results of the blood Oliver had got for us the night before. Dick had posed as a detective and asked us to process it from the police department as the lab was backlogged. Barry didn't question it-all he did was ask what was for dinner. Suki had been left with us and was sitting in the corner eating and reading a book. It was a funny thing-it looked like she ready for an attack at the slightest moment so it had me wondering who had trained her to fight.

I grabbed the last egg roll and dropped it on his plate before sitting back to continue with my honey chicken. "I'd love to open an office in Central City," I grinned. "I'd think right now that there would be a market for helping the disadvantaged." That afternoon I'd taken Barry for a tour of Binan and he'd geeked it out with some of the younger kids and achieved a high score on the new Halo game. The kids loved him and it gave me the opportunity to do some paperwork.

"So you look like the type of guy who'd be geeking out over the whole STAR Labs machine smasher thingy," I grinned.

"It's called a particle accelerator," Felicity told me. "Only problem is that there's been a hundred percent increase in earthquakes since they've turned on the Large Hadron Collider."

Barry snorted. "That data is misleading."

"You would know about misleading, don't you?" Oliver suddenly asked, standing in the doorway with Diggle.

Felicity raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"

"He's not from CSI, he's an assistant," Oliver answered. "I had Diggle do some digging, your bosses don't know you're in Starling do they? And there is no similar cases in Central City." He closed the door behind the two of them. "So tell me Barry, what are you doing here?"

Barry sighed. "Well I told you my mum was murdered."

"By your father," Oliver nodded. "I know."

He shook his head. "No. He didn't do it."

"You said that the police didn't find the man who killed her," I frowned.

"The police think they did," Barry argued. "And so does my sister. She doesn't understand. No one does. None of you saw what I saw. I was eleven but I know what I saw. They don't believe me."

"Believe you about what?" Oliver inquired.

"One night something just came into our house, like a tornado," he disclosed. "A blur. Somewhere inside The Blur, I saw a person. My dad tried to fight it and I tried to get to him when suddenly I was twenty blocks away from our house. Nobody believed me. They thought I was trying to cover for my father. But what I saw that night was real."

Oliver sighed. "As real as the man that ripped down that metal door with his bare hands,"

Barry nodded. "That's why I look into cases like this. The ones nobody believes are possible. Maybe if I can just make sense of one, I might be able to find out who really killed my mother and free my dad. I am sorry I lied to you."

Oliver sat leant against the wall after stealing some food off the table. Barry's phone rang just as my computer pinged with an email. I opened it when he left to take the call. "The sedative in the suspect's blood is Ketamine," I read. "The lab says that with the current concentration ratio in the blood sample is pretty large."

"That's a schedule three controlled substance," said Diggle. "I guess that makes it easier to track. We just gotta figure out a way to get Barry out of your hair."

"And we'll need to get rid of him," Felicity sighed, "because there's only one possible location with a large enough quality of the sedative that correlates with the mount of blood the stolen centrifuge can process."

"ARGUS," Suki spoke up. "You're speaking about ARGUS. They should have a disaster bunker on the edge of the Glades like they do in every city. It has supplies-food, clothing, medicine and right now it's sitting around unguarded."

Just as I was about to ask how she would know about ARGUS, the door opened. Barry came in with a frown. "So that was my boss. He just found out I didn't have food poisoning. I gotta be on the train tonight or I lose my job."

"I'll take you back to River's to get your stuff," Felicity offered with a wink. "Come on Suki. We can get Ben and Jerry's on the way home."

"Thank you," Barry smiled. "It's been really nice working with you."

"Likewise," I grinned.

"We couldn't have done this without you," Oliver nodded. "You've helped the company a lot. I-we owe you Barry."

"Bring me back ice cream!" I shouted after Felicity.

The three of us waited until they were gone.

"I need a new suit," I sighed, staring at the same old gloved I'd been wearing for almost two years now. "Something different. Something new."

"Something old, something blue?" the Hood asked me, slight cocky smirk on his face.

I snorted. "Yeah when I get married you're not involved."

He chuckled. "It's nice, just the two of us."

I grinned and nodded. The two of us were walking along the streets in the shadows just like old times. The ARGUS bunker was where Suki had said it was at the edge of the city-only problem was we weren't the first ones there.

Our mysterious thief was already there.

Stepping in through the broken entrance, the Hood took the left and I took the right. "I've got next to nothing here, Hood."

"Little help would be good!" the Hood answered.

The sound of crushing metal and groans pulled me to the other end of the warehouse. But the time I got there, the Hood was lying on the ground with a needle stuck in his neck. "Diggle I need you here now! Something's happened to the Hood."

The thief laughed.

"Who are you?" I asked him, checking the Hood's pulse. "Ollie…your pulse sucks…"

"Mirakuru," he whispered.

"You can't stop me," he laughed. "No one can. It's made me stronger. I'm gonna have some fun with you before I break you like a twig, little bitch.

I stood up. So he was a Mirakuru soldier? I stepped over the Hood to make myself a target. "No need for name calling."

He raised his fist and flung his fist at me.

I caught it. "Are you really going to snap me like a twig? Or can you be my little bitch?" I kneed him right in the nuts. No matter how strong or fast you are-nut shots always send a guy down. I delivered a spinning kick to his face, sending him flying across the warehouse into a pile of boxes. "Who are you?"

He picked himself up. "I am merely a follower."

"A follower of who?" I asked.

"My brother." He punched me in the face and grabbed my arm, twisting it behind my back, trying to break it. I threw my head back and elbowed him in the throat. He let me go and stumbled back a little.

"You can tell your brother that I'm calling him out," I warned him. He turned and took off. "Actually, on second thoughts…I'll tell him myself," I sighed. I ran off after him as a car pulled in.

Diggle got out and rushed over. "Where's Oliver?"

"Inside," I answered. "I've got no idea what he was injected with. I need to get this guy and find out what he was injected with. Take him back to the lair. Don't let him die, Dig."

That's when he started screaming.

I paused by the door but shook my head and ran off after the thief.

I lost him the further I got into the city. I stuck around and looked for the thief for about half an hour before last call came through.

"Shade, you need to get back to the lair," Felicity told me over the coms. "Dig's gone to get some help. He might not make it."

I ran back as fast as I could.

"When you said help I didn't think this!" I argued with Felicity and Diggle, staring at the unconscious body of Barry Allen on the table beside Oliver. I shook my head and pinched the bridge of my nose. "What the blood hell do we do if Barry dobs?" Diggle had gone and abducted Barry from the train station disguised as the Hood, bringing him back on Felicity's insistence. She was adamant that we could trust Barry and that he would be thrilled to assist Team Arrow since we were essentially what he was looking for.

Felicity rushed around to check Oliver's pulse. "We cross that bridge when we come to it. Dig, pass me the smelling salts." She took a small vial off Diggle and waved it underneath Barry's nose before standing back to wait.

A couple seconds later Barry sat upright with a gasp. He rubbed his eyes and looked around, eyes growing wide and only getting wider when he saw Oliver and I both suited up.

"Please," Felicity begged, "save our friend."

++++++ So next chapter we will be meeting Charlie.

Oh I can't wait.

You've seen a snippet from part 2 of this FanFic so next you'll see the whole thing ++++++