Clark and Diana entered Aresia's room to find everything intact. Diana went over and began filtering through Aresia's things. Clark x-rayed the room and found a chest hidden under the bed area.
"Here, under the bed." Clark said as he got down on his hands and knees and retrieved the wooden box. He opened it and spilled its contents onto the floor. There were several books and folders which contained over 50 different documents. Diana picked one up and began reading.
"Target: Carter Hall, also known as 'Hawkman'. Assignment: Aresia. Location: Egypt. Association: Justice Society of America. Threat: Potentially dangerous, ability of flight and carries a club as weapon of choice." She stopped and looked up at Clark.
"This has to be something to do with the League of Shadows, like a hit list or something. That means Aresia has been working with them for some time now." Clark proclaimed.
"But who is this Carter Hall? And it still doesn't make any sense for Aresia to be involved in something like this."
"I don't know but we will find out who Carter Hall is and why Aresia is doing this."
Diana nodded in agreement and flipped to the next page and read again, "Target: Oliver Queen. Assignment: Winslow Schott. Location: Sulu Sea, Philippines. Association: Owner of Luthor Corp and Queen Industries. Threat: High business threat."
Clark grabbed the document from her and re-read it in only a few seconds. He stood up quickly and walked over to the window. Diana stood up too and joined him.
"Clark, what's wrong?"
"Oliver is a friend of mine. He went missing awhile back and he's thought to have died on a boating accident. I haven't been able to find him. I still thought he might be alive but now I'm not so sure after learning the League of Shadows was behind it."
"We can never know unless we look Clark. You take the lead here on Oliver and I'll search for Carter Hall." She then handed him one her earrings, "Take this. It works as a transmitter so that we can communicate whenever we need to. Once we find out everything we can, we'll meet again. Sound good?"
Clark was unsure about the plan but agreed anyway. They left Aresia's room and went back to the beach where Diana revealed her plane. She climbed in and looked over at Clark.
"You're sure you don't want a lift?"
"Believe me Diana, I'm a little faster than your plane."
Diana smiled, "That may be true. But can you do this?" She pushed a button and the entire plane went invisible, including her.
Clark tilted his head to the side making sure what he just saw was real. Diana laughed when she saw him trying to figure it out. He then used his x-ray vision and saw her. He smiled.
"Just be glad I'm the only one with x-ray vision…Princess."
Diana's laugh faded, "Wait what? What do you mean x-ray vision?"
Clark gave her a wink and a wave before ascended into the sky and disappearing above the clouds.
Lois waited for quite some time after Henri Ducard and China White left the room. She now knew that they had some type of connection to Oliver's disappearance and that someone named Winslow Schott appeared to be responsible. Her mind was already racing as she imagined many possible scenarios that could have happened to Oliver. Did something happen to him similar to what had happened to Lex? She put away the thoughts that he may actually be dead. She slowly opened the closet door and crept around the room. Just as she reached the door, it flew open as a giant group of people marched in, all bloodied and beaten up. They all suddenly stopped at the sight of her.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?!" China White yelled.
"Lois Lane of the Daily Planet, care to comment on your involvement in Oliver Queen's disappearance?" Lois asked on instinct.
The group looked back and forth at each other and then busted out laughing before Bane stepped forward, ready to address Lois.
"I commend your spirit. You have such passion for what you do and I truly admire that. But that passion and spirit has blinded you I fear."
"Ms. Lane, you shouldn't have come here," spoke Henri Ducard as he made his way through the group. "I don't know how you possibly got in here or what your motive was but none of that matter's now. I'm sure you understand that what we do next is nothing personal. But we can't have anyone interfering with our plans and I'm afraid you know too much for your own good."
Lois took a step back, "You're not actually thinking about killing a reporter from the world's most popular newspaper are you? It would bring a lot of unwanted attention to you from very powerful people."
"And who exactly knows you are here?"
"Trust me, Mr. Ducard is it? There are people who know where I am. And if they aren't able to do anything, I have a secret weapon. I think the rest of you team here already met him, especially this big guy here. Is your face okay sweetheart? You look like you could use a Band-Aid or some ice."
Bane clinched his fist and took a step towards Lois before Henri's hand stopped him.
"Ms. Lane, that mouth of yours is going to get you in a lot of trouble."
Lois wasn't about to back down now, "You're the one who will be in a lot of trouble."
"Is that a threat?" asked Ducard who started to chuckle at the idea of this woman threatening the most powerful criminal organization in the world.
"You can call it that," Lois shot back. "If anything happens to me, it will be the last time you hurt anyone, THAT I can promise."
"I've heard enough, take her away." Henri ordered.
Lois took a few more steps backward as Bane and China White advanced on her. Suddenly, a winged figure crashed through the glass ceiling and landed behind Lois. In one motion, he grabbed Lois around the waist and struck Bane across the chest with his club, sending Bane tumbling backwards. The winged man then shot back up through the hole in the ceiling and disappeared with Lois.
Clark flew above the clouds with a new mission of finding Oliver. He soared through the sky as he came upon the first few islands of the Philippines. He began searching each island in hopes that Oliver had washed ashore on one of them. The first ten islands he checked were empty. He took to the sky again and used his enhanced vision to search the next ten but found nothing. Finally his eyes fell upon an island that was the furthest out from the rest. He saw some movement and watched as a group of men were chasing someone. Clark took off in their direction but stopped suddenly when the man being chased, began firing arrows at the group. He took them out one by one until only one man stood. Clark watched intently as the two engaged in combat. The other man wore a blue and yellow outfit that also covered his face. He wielded two swords and was able to chop the arrows in half as they came at him.
Clark flew a little closer until he recognized the archer's face, Oliver Queen. He then shot forward at the man with the swords and picked him up in a blur and tossed him on the other side of the island. Clark then flew back and landed about 100 feet from Oliver, who was waiting with an arrow loaded. Oliver shot the arrow at the unknown target but Clark caught it in his hand and snapped it in two.
"Oliver! It's me, Clark Kent!"
"Clark? What the…how is this possible? Clark, what are you doing here? How did you just do that?"
"I've been looking for you. I followed a few leads which brought me here." Clark said as he walked closer.
"How the hell did you just do all that?" Oliver said while still a bit shocked.
"We'll talk about that later. What happened to you?"
"Well one minute I'm enjoying a nice alcoholic beverage and the next, I wake up on a beach surrounded by a bunch of men with weapons. I was beaten at first and then trained to be like one of them. When I saw that they had nothing but bad intentions, I rebelled and they came after me."
"Who is they exactly?" asked Clark.
"Some special ops team I think. I was held prisoner for a short time before escaping thanks to the help of a couple of friends I made here on the island. One of them was the guy you just threw, his name is Slade Wilson."
"He was your friend?" Clark asked in disbelief after just witnessing the two of them fighting.
"He was," Oliver paused.
"Who else was here?"
"A girl named Shado. We grew kind of close, she taught me many things. I..I couldn't save her. Her death sent Slade into a rage. We went separate ways for some time. My next encounter with him, he was doped up on something that gave him enhanced abilities like I've never seen before, well at least until now."
"I'm sorry Oliver."
"I'm just glad to see you Clark."
"Well I think I may know who was responsible for you ending up here. I think you were a target for a group who goes by the name 'The League of Shadows' and a guy named Winslow Schott was assigned to take you out."
"Did you say Winslow Schott?"
"Yeah, do you know him?"
"I do. He used to work for Queen Industries in our exploratory science department. He was a brilliant man but he began acting out of control and had a weird thing for bringing toys to work. We had to eventually let him go."
"Well he must have had a big enough grudge against you to try and kill you. Do you remember anything on the boat?"
"Not really. There was only four of us on board. We were drinking and playing cards when suddenly I hear a loud bang and then the boat began to tip over and that was the last I remembered."
"Well I'm just glad you were able to survive, not only the ocean but the island as well. It's been almost two years now since you went missing."
"Two year?" Oliver questioned. "That's it? Because it felt like ten."
"Well I can take you home if you'd like."
"Just get me to the nearest airport and I can take it from there. I have somewhere I need to go."
"Lana right?"
Oliver nodded, "Have you heard from her?"
"I haven't for a while but I know she has been looking for you non-stop. Here hop on my back and let's get going."
Oliver looked at him funny. "This is going to be weird in more than one way. But hey, I haven't had that type of companionship now for a couple of years. I'll gladly straddle your back Clark." He joked.
Clark opened his eyes wide.
"I'm kidding Clark. Lighten up a little, I know I've been gone a while but I still know how to be sarcastic."
Clark laughed as the two took off in flight. Clark told Oliver his whole story and told him about his recent adventures. He explained more about The League of Shadows and even told Oliver about his trip into space. Oliver was inspired by Clark's stories of heroics and helped form an idea in his head for his future when he got back to Star Ciy and Metropolis.
They arrived at the Singapore airport and Oliver immediately went to the nearest pay phone and dialed Lana's number. A phone began ringing behind him and he turned around to find Lana standing there with her back to him. She answered the phone.
"Hello?"
"Lana, turn around."