I think many of you have been waiting for this moment to come for a long time now. Yes, I'm talking about the training scenes in this fanfiction I know followers have been asking for. The song I'll be using for this one is Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n' Roses. I hope you enjoy it.
First Week of Training. 8: 23 a.m.
"Okay, everyone, let's get started," Cisco said through the microphone on the other side of the glass where he, Caitlin, Rachel and Dr. Wells watched while Oliver, Diggle, Felicity, Slade, Barry and Dick were standing in the training room that was built for them. "We're going to start with the basic training for those who have never punched anyone before and I'm talking to you, Missy." He was referring to Felicity. "Flash, you're going to be running around through the tubes. We're going to test how fast you can go. If your heartrate is going too fast and high then you can stop before you disappear into another dimension." Barry nodded in agreement. He was already in his Flash suit which Slade criticized it as looking ridiculous. "Slade, if I hear you criticizing my suit one more time, I'm taking that eyepatch of yours and flushing it down the toilet. We're going to test how fast you can deflect a moving object. Let's say arrows being shot at you."
"You're not actually going to let Oliver shoot me, are you?" Slade asked darkly without turning to look at Cisco. Slade was in his Deathstroke suit but was not wearing the mask.
"Cisco, if Slade rips my arm off, I'm blaming you," Oliver stated. He was also wearing his Arrow uniform. Felicity was wearing the Black Canary suit. Diggle simply wore a bulletproof vest since he didn't have a costume yet. Barry was in his Flash suit. And Dick was wearing his Nightwing suit.
"Cisco, could you please take off the jacket," Caitlin insisted, "It's almost 80 degrees in here."
"Really? Because to me it feels cold. I ain't taking off the jacket." He returned his attention to the team. "Don't worry, Mr. Queen, you won't be shooting Slade," Cisco assured. "You'll be shooting those dummies at the back. I have to warn you though, they move...a lot. Slade, as for you, you're going to be shot by a machine full of arrows so you don't need to worry about killing Oliver plus they're plastic." He then mumbled. "I'm just worried he'll decide to kill me. Felicity, you're going to start climbing lessons."
"You mean the wall over there?" Felicity asked, pointing at the climbing wall.
"Yep. Warning, the rocks on the wall retract themselves so I recommend you keep changing position every now and then. Be glad there's a mat beneath so you won't end up like a pancake," he said. "Oh and no harnesses."
"That's not very reassuring, Cisco," Slade grumbled.
"It's not supposed to be reassuring, Slade. That's the point of training here. Dick, you're fighting holograms on the simulator."
"You mean that white circle in the middle?" Dick asked. Five assassins showed up carrying katanas, already waiting for him. "I'm just calling it fighting ring."
"Yes, that's the one. And Mr. Diggle. Boy, do I have something special for you to do," Cisco said. He pressed a button and a giant elf-like robot came out from one of the doors, carrying two Eskrima sticks in his hands. "You get to fight my friend Sampson over there."
"Aw man, I hope my insurance covers up robot attacks," Diggle said as he picked up two of his own Eskrima sticks from the rack.
"Don't worry, he's perfectly safe. He's a reprogrammed Amazo, so he won't kill you. I hope," Cisco's voice squeaked when he said that. "Just think Will Smith in the iRobot film."
"Oh yeah right, because I'm black," Diggle argued. The others simply laughed.
"Come on, guys, let's take this seriously," Cisco said. "We're starting in ten seconds. 10..."
"I'm so going to die," Felicity mumbled.
"9...8...7...6"
Arrow, Black Canary, Deathstroke, Nightwing, Flash and Diggle got into their positions as Cisco continued counting down.
"3...2...and...1. Go!" And there they went into different directions, all except for Deathstroke who took out his sword and began deflecting the arrows that were being shot at him per second, the arrows bouncing off the silver blade.
Black Canary ran towards the wall, only for another wall, smaller than the other, to pop up from the floor and making her jump back with a startled cry. "Cisco!" she snapped.
"Oh, sorry," Cisco apologized immediately, "I forgot to tell you that you have to jump over another wall to get to the main wall. Imagine the wall is a house on fire and you need to jump over the fence."
"Oh well, thanks a lot!" she said sarcastically. She took a step back and tried to jump over the wall. She couldn't lift herself up over it.
"Shouldn't anyone be helping her?" Barry asked as he began running through the tubes in lightning speed, the tubes making whooshing sounds.
"Oh, I almost forgot the rules. The most important one. No help," Cisco said.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Diggle said as he was being attacked by the tall elf-like robot. It kept swinging the Eskrima sticks with force. Diggle kept dodging them by leaning back his torso, jumping and ducking. The robot was fast. It almost made it impossible for Diggle to attack back.
Arrow was shooting at the wooden dummies that were moving sideways. 10 dummies. He hit three of the dummies but then began to switch and shift from their place. Arrow was about to shoot another one but it moved quickly and his arrow hit a wall instead of the target. "Seriously?" He shot his arrows but the dummies began to move faster. Arrow cursed between his teeth and continued shooting.
"No one said this was going to be easy," Cisco laughed in amusement.
"I can't believe you gave that thing a name," Caitlin said, referring to the robot Diggle was fighting. "You know that's an Amazo, right?"
"Yeah, but then I reprogrammed it and named him Sampson," Cisco said as he chewed on a piece of cherry licorice. He then leaned forward and pressed a green button on the controller, "How about a little music to get them pumping?"
Cisco pressed a green button and Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n' Roses began to play.
"Is Mama okay?" Rachel asked worriedly. She was sitting on the chair, drawing on the paper on a clipboard Caitlin gave her.
"Don't worry, Rachel, Felicity will be fine," Dr. Wells assured her and smiled at her. Of course, Rachel didn't smile back. She stared blankly at him as if she was looking right through him. As if she could see something in him that no one else could. Dr. Wells ignored her stare and shrugged it off as shyness. "I'll be busy checking for more metahumans."
"You're not staying?" Cisco asked. "Come on, I'm already setting a bet. My money's on Deathstroke."
"You're betting on the assassin that tried to kill us?" Caitlin asked in disbelief.
"Yep," Cisco nodded, "He's a better fighter and I think he can beat any of these guys any day." Of course, Dr. Wells already wheeled out of the control room.
"Thank you, Cisco!" Slade shouted.
Welcome to the Jungle!
It took Felicity more than a minute to finally push herself over the smaller wall and fell flat on the mat when she climbed over to the other side. She quickly scrambled onto her feet from the mat and ran to the big wall. She struggled to start climbing out the wall but managed to pull herself up. She gritted her teeth as she tried to climb, her gloved hands grasping tightly at the stones attached to the wall as well as he booted feet trying to keep balance. She only managed to climb 5 feet off the ground when the stone under her left foot retreated back into the wall and she fell, landing on the mat with a loud thump. Felicity laid there on the mat, moaning and rubbing her butt to ease the pain she was feeling right now. A voice could be heard echoing through the training room, a voice that would be heard in a Mortal Kombat game: BLACK CANARY LOSES. POINTS: 4.5
We got fun n' games
"Oooh," Cisco hissed, "Fatality right there. That's going to leave a mark."
"Is she okay?" Rachel asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, I'm sure she's fine," Cisco said but immediately spoke through the microphone. "Are you okay there, Felicity?"
"I'm good," she gave him a thumb's up. "I'll need an ice-pack though."
We got everything you want
"See? She's fine," Cisco assured Rachel with a shrug of his shoulders.
Oliver continued shooting at the moving targets. They were moving faster and faster by the minute, and it was getting even more difficult to hit the targets. "Hey, whoa whoa!" he exclaimed when the dummies began to surround him and move around in circles. "Cisco! What the hell!?"
Honey we know the names!
"It's part of the training, don't worry," Cisco said through the microphone, "If you don't hit all ten targets, the dummies will send an electrical jolt that will shock you unconscious. Sorry if that slipped my mind."
"Are you freaking kidding me with this!?" Oliver exclaimed as he continued shooting the moving dummies. He only managed to hit eight targets when the dummies joined together in a circle and shocked Oliver. He was now lying on the floor, shaking and convulsing. ARROW LOSES. POINTS: 8.9
We are the people that can find
Slade noticed this and tried very hard not to chuckle or smirk, knowing that any distraction can lead to his defeat with the machine shooting arrows at him. They said that karma is a bitch. He continued deflecting the arrows with his sword, swinging it sideways and the arrows bouncing off the blade repeatedly.
Diggle continued fighting off the robot that kept attacking him with everything it got, the Eskrima sticks making loud clanking sounds as Diggle tries to take the robot down. But it was fast and skillful, almost human like. It almost felt like he was fighting Oliver. "ACCESS: DEATHSTROKE," the robot suddenly said before it began to attack Diggle more violently now.
Whatever you may need.
"Holy shit!" Diggle cursed. He ducked when the robot swung its Eskrima stick with more force now and it tried to slam into Diggle. Luckily, Diggle rolled away and the robot crashed into a nearby wall. The fight last more than five minutes, mostly Diggle trying to avoid getting hit by the murderous robot, until he was slipped like a sack and slammed against the mat. The robot then hit Diggle in the abdomen with the stick, knocking the wind right out of him. Diggle now laid there, wheezing in pain, while the robot shut down by itself. JOHN DIGGLE LOSES. POINTS: 6.7.
If you got the money
"How are you going to explain that to his wife?" Caitlin asked.
"Ex-wife and I'm sure she won't notice," Cisco said though he didn't seem so sure of that. "At least he got more points than Felicity."
Honey
The only people that made it to the end were Deathstroke and Nightwing. Nightwing managed to defeat all of the holographic assassins and Deathstroke deflected all of the arrows that were shot at him. Unfortunately, Barry came out of the tubes all covered in blue putty. Deathstroke and Nightwing stared at Barry in surprise.
We got your disease
DEATHSTROKE WINS. POINTS: 10.
NIGHTWING WINS. POINTS: 10.
FLASH LOSES. POINTS: 8.2
Barry shouted: "8.2, really? I was only running."
In the Jungle
"You were supposed to avoid getting plastered," Cisco said through the microphone and Barry gave him the middle finger. Cisco checked Barry's heart-rate. 145 above the normal heart rate. Cisco knew that wasn't a good sign and would have to talk to Barry about it.
Welcome to the Jungle
Meanwhile Slade went to help Felicity who was still lying on the floor. She was looking up at the ceiling. Slade looked down at her and shook his head in disappointment. "You are hopeless, Felicity Megan Smoak."
"Oh shut up, Slade Joseph Wilson," she bit back but she was too tired to fight with him. Climbing the wall took a toll on her. She extended her arm. "Help me up, please."
Watch it bring it to your
"Why should I? Help yourself," Slade chuckled with his arms crossed.
"Because if you don't, you're not getting my vagina tonight," she whispered. With that, Slade helped her up from the floor without objecting. It was bribery but it worked.
Knees
The others were now a bit ticked off with Cisco for him not giving a full heads up on their training, mostly Oliver since he was the one who get electrocute by the dummies. Now he was shaking like a Chihuahua. Felicity ended up limping since her ass still hurt after falling. She would definitely have bruises and would need an ice pack for that. Right now, everyone was glaring at Cisco with arms crossed. However, Rachel was drawing and listening to music so she wasn't noticing a thing. Caitlin quickly walked out and left Cisco alone to help himself. Dick simply stood in the corner with a smug look on his face and arms crossed. Cisco simply gulped at the 5 annoyed vigilantes frowning at him.
Knees.
"Ooops?" Cisco smiled. It was more a scared smile.
"...Oops. Are you freaking kidding me..."
"...That robot could have killed me..."
"...You gave me an electrical shock..."
"...Why didn't you tell me there was another wall coming my way? I could have crashed into it..."
Everyone was snapping at him all the same time. Cisco simply hid his face behind papers, his cheeks turned red but inside, he was laughing. He didn't mean to make them mad but it was really funny seeing their reactions. It was beyond hilarious.
I want to watch you bleed.
"Okay, Felicity, we're going to test that Canary cry of yours," Cisco said. He and the others remained behind the glass with earbuds in their ears while Felicity stood in the middle of the room, surrounded by mirrors. There were twelve mirrors. "You have twelve mirrors around you. You only need to break one. We're practicing trajectory."
Welcome to the Jungle
Felicity nodded. She waiting for Cisco to tell her when to scream. "3...2...1..." he said. "Go!"
We take it day by day
Felicity screamed. She not only broke one mirror. She broke all twelve plus the window the others stood behind in. When it cracked they all jumped back. Slade hid Rachel behind his back just in case the window broke. Luckily, it didn't.
If you want
"Hey," Cisco snapped through the microphone, "These windows are not cheap, you know -."
"I'm sorry," Felicity apologized, "But I can't control the frequency or distance."
You're gonna bleed
Cisco put some thought into it until he finally came up with an idea. "Maybe we can make a device that will help you control your scream."
"Like a collar?" Felicity asked.
"Yeah, like a collar," he said, "We can build a collar that can control the range, the frequency and volume of your scream."
"That's actually not a bad idea, Cisco," Oliver said. Diggle nodded in agreement.
But it's the price you pay
Slade chuckled. "So if she starts nagging at me, I can simply use the collar to tune her out."
Glaring in annoyance, Felicity gave Slade the middle finger before walking out of the room. Slade laughed deeply.
And you're a very sexy girl
Very hard to please
"Okay, next is combat training," Cisco said.
"Do we have to do that obstacle thing again?" Barry groaned in annoyance. "I really don't want to get puttied again."
You can taste the bright lights
Cisco smiled mischievously. "Um, no, you guys will be fighting each other."
Felicity's eyes widened and looked at Slade who was giving her a cocky smirk. He was definitely going to get her during combat.
But you won't get there for free
Arrow vs Diggle
Both Oliver and Diggle stood at the white circle in fighting positions, waiting for Cisco to give the signal.
ROUND 1! FIGHT!
In the Jungle
"Hey, what's with the Mortal Kombat thing?" Diggle asked when all of them heard the speaker go off.
Before Cisco could answer him, Oliver already began to advance at Diggle but Diggle quickly punched Oliver in the face and flipped him to the floor.
Welcome to the Jungle
DIGGLE WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY.
"You ain't getting me this time, man," Diggle chuckled. Oliver groans in pain but swung his leg at Diggle's feet, knocking him down to the floor as well.
ARROW WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY
Feel my, my
Arrow vs Deathstroke
My serpentine
"This is for you making my sister leave Starling City, Slade," Oliver growled as and Slade circled around the floor like lions about to tear each apart. Apparently, that's what they were at the moment. Felicity couldn't interfere in the fight, or anyone else for that matter. It was a one-on-one fight. She and the others simply watched, hoping that Oliver didn't kill Slade. She was more worried about Oliver than Slade though, knowing how strong he is. He can easily break Oliver's neck in one twist even if unintentionally.
I want to hear you scream
"She decided it herself, kid," Slade said, "I didn't make her do anything. Let's leave this all behind us. Your sister is happy and safe wherever she is."
"She was safe with me."
"Tell her that yourself when she comes back," Slade smirk.
Oliver charged at Slade and attempted to punch him in the face. Slade grabbed his wrist and flipped Oliver to the floor. At the other side of the training room, Felicity and Rachel gasped in shock. Growling in anger, Oliver jumped back to his feet, punched Slade in the gut and elbowed his face. Slade punched Oliver in the gut as well, knocking the wind right out of him before kneeing him beneath the jaw and knocking him down to the ground.
Welcome to the Jungle
Oliver laid there on the ground defeated.
DEATHSTROKE WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY.
It gets worse here every day
Flash vs Deathstroke
You learn to live
There were no words to describe the fight between Barry and Slade. Other than pathetic, it was stupid. Barry was like a kid, not taking things seriously. He kept running around Slade while babbling like an idiot about the weather or how Cisco could upgrade his eyepatch. Eventually, Slade got tired of Barry's stupidity and anticipated his approach before bringing up his arm and Barry simply crashed into Slade's fist.
Like an animal
"Ow," Barry moaned while holding his bloody nose.
"You talk too much, kid," Slade growled before getting off the fighting ring.
In the jungle
DEATHSTROKE WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY.
Where we play
Deathstroke vs Diggle
"Oh hell no, I'm not fighting this guy," Diggle protested as he was technically pushed into the fighting ring by Felicity and Oliver. Slade smirked, knowing that he was going to have a lot of fun with John Diggle.
If you got a hunger
Cisco shook his head. "You have to. That's the entire point of training. Everyone here has to participate."
"Including me?" Rachel asked innocently, raising her head.
For what you see
"No," everyone said at the same time.
"Hey, speaking of everyone, where's Nightwing?" Barry asked as he looked around but there was no sign of Dick Grayson anywhere.
You'll take it eventually
"Don't worry, he's coming back," Cisco said while working behind the controllers, "He said he had to pick up something and would be right back."
"Yeah, he ain't coming back," Oliver groaned in pain as he sat back down on the bench.
You can have anything you want
"Nah. He'll come back," Cisco said assuring.
"I'm telling you, I ain't fighting this guy," Diggle kept protesting, "I have an ex-wife and an unborn kid to take care of."
But you better not take it from me
"Holy shit, you're having a kid, that's awesome!" Barry exclaimed excitedly.
ROUND 1! FIGHT!
"Slade, please don't leave Lyla a widow or the baby fatherless," Felicity nearly pleaded as she watched both Slade and Diggle circle around the spot, Diggle already getting ready to make a run for it.
In the Jungle
Slade advanced at Diggle, throwing a punch at him. Diggle ducked down to avoid the punch before delivering a sucker-punch beneath the jaw. Slade staggered back but got back in balance and swung a kick a Diggle's head. Diggle ducked again and tried to deliver another punch to the jaw but Slade anticipated this and flipped Diggle to the ground hard just as he did with Oliver and gave Diggle a punch in the face.
DEATHSTROKE WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY.
Welcome to the Jungle
"That's it," Diggle groaned before bringing up his foot and striking Slade in the groin. Slade yelled out in pain and dropped to the ground, holding himself.
"Oooh, ow," Cisco cringed, "Ow, right in the nuts. Ow."
Oliver tried very hard not to burst into laughter but couldn't help himself and ended up laughing. So did Barry. Caitlin put a hand over her mouth to hold the laughter. Felicity and Rachel simply stared in shock.
Watch it bring you to your
"I think Dig just castrated my boyfriend," she said.
"What's castration?" Rachel asked. Felicity stared down at the little girl with wide eyes. She almost forgot that Rachel didn't know what castration was or parts of the human body. She now realized she would need all the luck she could get to explain to Rachel what a period was before she turned twelve. The last thing Felicity needed was a real life Carrie White case.
Knees
"I'll tell you when you're at least nine, okay, Rachel?"
"Yes," Rachel nodded in agreement.
Knees
"Oh, by the way, guys," Diggle grunted, "We're having twins."
Everyone looked at Diggle in shock. "Twins?" Oliver asked. "Oh my God," Felicity excitedly.
Slade patted Diggle on the shoulder. "Congratulations."
"All right, Felicity, you're up next," Cisco announced.
I'm gonna watch you plead.
Felicity's face went pale when Cisco said that and thoughts of a 1000 ways to die swam in her head.
Black Canary vs Arrow
Felicity was put on the ring with Oliver since Diggle was taking a breather while Slade was having his dick and testicles iced from the kick Diggle gave him. Caitlin took Rachel out of the room so she wouldn't have to see this. Cisco already put up the new rule in the training room: No Kicking or Punching the Genital Areas of your Opponent during Training. So technically, Felicity couldn't kick or punch Oliver in the dick to win the fight. It was something she wouldn't do plus it was now considered cheating in the training room.
And when you're high
"Don't worry, Felicity, I'll be taking it easy on you," Oliver assured her.
"Taking it easy won't help her fight, kid," Slade groaned while holding the ice pack between his legs. He was sitting next to Diggle. "I can't believe you dare kick me there," he muttered.
You never
"I thought you had that Mirakuru thing," Diggle said in his defense.
"Mirakuru, not pain reliever," Slade hissed.
"Sorry."
Ever want to come down.
"Slade is right, you know," Felicity said to Oliver as they got into fighting position, "There's no way I'm going to learn if you take it easy on me. So don't try to hold back...Ever."
ROUND 1. FIGHT
Fighting Oliver wasn't as bad as fighting Slade but it was still pretty. She asked Oliver not to hold back and that's exactly what he was doing. He attacked her with everything he had. Oliver had already beaten her in two rounds. She knew that the third round wouldn't do much better.
So down
She tried to deliver a straight punch to Oliver's abdomen like Sara taught her but Oliver grabbed her by the upper arm and flipped her to the ground again. Of course, when he did so, Felicity's leg flew over to Oliver's neck, hooking itself around it and bringing Oliver down to the ground along with her.
So down
From a distance, Slade smirked proudly at her technique, even if she didn't planned it. If she was able to take Oliver down that way, then she wasn't completely hopeless.
So down
Felicity had Oliver down on the floor, his neck and head trapped between her her thighs. Her legs were almost thin so she lacked strength when it came to holding onto Oliver and keeping him down. But she tried. She squeezed hard and Oliver growled as she struggled to get out of Felicity's hold.
Yeah!
Oliver then brought his foot up and kicked Felicity in the lower spine, causing her to cry out and loosening her hold on Oliver. Oliver easily slipped out of her hold and punched her in the gut before getting up.
ARROW WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY
Slade chuckled at this and shook his head. The short victory was lived while it lasted.
"I don't think this is working out," Felicity hissed as Slade pressed an ice pack to her lower back where a large bruise was forming.
"The training or our relationship?" Slade said, hoping that it wasn't the second answer.
"The training," she said with her teeth gritting and chuckled through her nose, "Don't worry. Our relationship is working just fine. I'm just saying, fighting isn't working out for me."
"You're not giving up, are you?" Slade asked.
"Fuck no," Felicity said. She was glad Rachel was outside the infirmary and not listening to her curse, "Not after all I've been through. I've come all this way and I almost beat Oliver. Almost. I am not giving this one up."
Slade smiled. "Good. Because I'm not going to let you give up."
"I just can't seem to fight no matter how much I try," she sighed, "I don't have the strength to punch you guys in the face. My hands are small and not strong enough."
"That's because you need training, love," Slade explained, "Extensive and rough training. You wish to take down one of us one day, you would have to continue doing this every day for the rest of your life until you finally build up strength."
Felicity chuckled. "Then I probably have some work to do."
Slade smiled softly and patted her head. He attempted to pat her back but she was already bruised from the kick Oliver gave her. "I was thinking," he said, "That maybe after we finish this, you and I can go out for dinner."
You know where you are?
"You mean like a date? An actual date?" Felicity smiled at him.
"Yes," he smiled in return.
"I would love to," she said.
Smiling softly, Slade leaned down and kissed her. Oh how desperately he wanted to make love to her right here in the infirmary but he couldn't, knowing that he would simply be interrupted by Diggle, or Slade or possibly Cisco.
You're in the jungle, baby
"How am I going to learn how to fight if I can barely climb a wall?" Felicity sighed in deception as she laid back down on the medical bed. Slade continued pressing the ice pack against her throbbing back. She hissed.
"Learn the pressure points of your opponent, love. Lie down on your back and you'll see what I mean."
Felicity nodded before turning to lie down on her back. She slapped away his hand when he started poking her nose. "What the hell?"
You gonna die
"Punch the nose and the eyes, it messes up the sense and distracts the opponent," he said. And then placed his hand around her neck. "You punch them in the neck, it will disrupt breathing, talking and the spinal cord." Slade took her arm and poked at the crook between the lower and upper arm. "The inner elbow. Punch or kick it, it will cause dislocation." He placed his hand below her breasts. "The Solar Plexus. It's difficult to hit but very effective for breaking ribs or any other bones protecting the vital organs."
"Like the heart and the lungs?"
Slade nodded. "Exactly. Now, the liver right here just below the Solar Plexus will cause your opponents to become dizzy or lose breath. If you hit them in the kidney, it might cause them to urinate blood."
Felicity made a face at this. "That's disgusting."
Slade chuckled and gave her playful smirk while putting his hand on her knees. "Now, the knees, you'll be able to knock down your opponent with just the right kick. And as for the thighs." His hand slowly slide down her inner and Felicity bite her lower lip, her face slightly flushed. "The thighs has plenty of pressure points which will help you distract your opponent. And the groin." Slade placed his hand on the groin area between her legs. "I think you know how much it will hurt your opponents."
"You mean for the opponents that don't wear protection cups during training," Felicity teased. Slade frowned at her in annoyance. He didn't need to be reminded of the stunt Diggle pulled on him in the fighting ring. But Felicity simply laughed because of the look on his face when she brought it up.
Black Canary vs Diggle
In the jungle
"Are you sure you don't want me to take it easy on you, Felicity?" Diggle asked as both he and Felicity got into the fighting ring and positioned themselves into a fighting stance. "Oliver took you down pretty hard."
Oliver and the others sat their on the benches, watching them both. Slade kept glaring at him and no one knew why. "I thought you said not to take it easy on her and I simply did what the two of you told me to do," Oliver muttered with batting an eye or looking over at Slade.
Welcome to the jungle
"Yes, but when I was healing her, I found that you almost dislocated her lower spinal cord," Slade growled. "Another kick and she would never be able to walk again. I had to put her spine back into place to avoid any more damages."
(Hint, hint)
"Sorry," Oliver said.
Watch it bring you to your
Felicity and Diggle began fighting. It took five minutes of dodging before Diggle had Felicity in a chokehold. Felicity suddenly elbowed him in the gut (right in the Solar Plexus), grabbed him by the arm and flipped him down to the ground.
BLACK CANARY WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY.
Knees
Dig laid there on the mat disoriented and Felicity placed a hand over her mouth in shock.
"Holy shit," Oliver said in astonishment. Everyone looked at Felicity in shock, including Diggle after recovering from his daze.
Knees
Felicity then squealed and started hopping around like a crazed bunny before running over to Slade embraced him tightly. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"Good. You're learning," Slade chuckled as he embraced her in return.
"How long did it take you to teach her that?" Oliver asked in astonishment.
In the jungle
"15 minutes in the infirmary," Slade said.
"Hey, guys, Dick's back and with some kind of dwarf," Cisco said with squinted eyes as Dick approached the training room still in his Nightwing suit. Behind him was a short figure. It wasn't a dwarf though. It was a boy dressed in black, red, green and yellow.
Welcome to the Jungle - Cisco pressed the button and the music turned off.
"Hey, Nightwing, you missed combat practice!" Cisco called out from the spot, "Black Canary just beat John Diggle's ass today."
"Is it too late to say that I let her win?" Diggle groaned as he pushed himself up from the floor. Oliver walked over to him and patted his shoulder.
"It's too late," Oliver said.
"Sorry I was late for the fun, guys," Dick apologized as he approached the fighting ring with the weirdly dressed kid behind him. "But I had to pick up something from Gotham. Something that might help us during training, especially you Black Canary." Felicity detached herself from Slade and the two of them listened up. Dick smirked as he took a step aside, revealing a ten year old boy dressed in red, black and green with black paddings on the elbows and knees, a black eye mask and a dark hooded cloak. He's taller than Rachel but a bit too short to be twelve or eleven. "This is Robin. Batman's associate. I asked him to help us out in our little fun and he agreed to it."
"Man, are you serious?" Diggle asked, "We're not fighting a ten-year-old. Hell, we don't even fight Rachel over there."
Rachel looked above from her drawing when she heard her name being mentioned but realizing that it was nothing for her to be concerned about, she went back to drawing.
"Oh, I can assure you he fights," Dick said, "He's the greatest fighter I've seen in years, trained by the leader of the League of Assassins himself Ra's alhul Ghul."
"Ra's al Ghul?" Oliver said.
"Never heard of him," Barry shook his head.
"You should," the boy growled as if the words were offensive somehow. Nightwing placed a hand on Robin's shoulder as a way to hold him back from attacking.
"Easy there, Robin."
"Are you sure this is a good idea, Dick?" Cisco asked, "I don't know if I feel comfortable letting the guys fight a kid."
"It's totally fine. I spoke to the Big Bats himself and it took me five hours to convince him," Dick said, "So there's no way of saying no to this. Besides, you're never going to get a better fighter like him."
"Ahem," Slade cleared his throat and raised his hand up, "Right here."
Robin chuckled darkly. "We'll see about that." The boy then said something to Slade but in a different language, something no one understood.
"What did he say?" Felicity asked.
"It's Arabic," Diggle answered.
"He said that I'm dead meat," Slade explained with a smirk, "I like challenges."
"Okay, guys, we're getting back to training!" Cisco reminded them with a shout. "We're taking five so hydrate and stretch. And please wear protection cups in your pants this time, people, please."
Cisco left the training room along with Caitlin to get bottles of water. Diggle went for the punching bags to warm up for the next fight, Barry went running through the tubes as fast as he can. Oliver went to train in the salmon ladder.
"Come here, love," Slade took Felicity by the hand and took her to the area of the gymnastics equipment. "You are going to learn to build up strength. You did well. But not good enough."
"Barely good," the boy Robin spoke up snarking, "What you taught her was basic training. I learned more than military combat by the age of 3. At this rate, she doesn't even have a chance to stay alive if she ever confronts a member of the League."
"Well, at your age, I learned to respect elders so maybe you should start learning as well," Slade said as he almost approached him if Felicity hadn't stopped him.
"Slade, easy," she said, "Remember, he's a child. Besides, Rachel is here."
Slade let out a deep growl but took a step back and let it be.
Chuckling, Robin took off his hood and placed it down on the bench. Felicity's eyes widened when she recognized the black hair and greenish blue eyes. "Damian?"
Robin looked at Felicity in surprise. "Miss Smoak?"
Felicity then looked at Dick in shock. "Bruce Wayne's ward is Robin?"
"The executive assistant of Queen's Consolidated is Black Canary?" Robin said.
Dick looked at them both, not knowing what to say to each of them. He was dumbfounded.
Felicity began stuttering uncontrollably. "So, wait, if he's...And that means Mr. Wayne is...Oh God."
With that, Felicity dropped on the mat, passing out.
"I told you only idiots would fall for an eye piece mask, you dumbass," Damian snarled at Dick while Slade and now Rachel were trying to wake Felicity up.
Black Canary vs Deathstroke (I know some of you were waiting for this part)
In the Jungle
Now the moment of Felicity fighting Slade had been looking forward were to it for awhile. Felicity, on the other hand, feared for that very moment to come. Slade had already warned her that he wouldn't take it easy on her so he was simply keeping his part of the bargain.
Welcome to the Jungle
Felicity was learning so far. She already knew how to dodge the punches and kicks. And already knew the weak spots just like he told her. She punched Slade in the kidney, only to remember that Slade's body was full of Mirakuru. Oh shit.
Slade advanced at her. Felicity ducked and escaped through the space between his legs and turned around to kick him in the butt. Slade stumbled forward and Damian's mocking laughter could be heard from the other side of the training room.
Feel my,
Felicity jumped back to her feet and braced herself in her fighting stance again. Slade slowly turned around to face her and gave her his most devilish smirk. Oh fuck. Oh shit. Oh fuck.
He advanced at her again. Felicity had to think fast and she did. When Slade charged after her, she quickly placed her hands on his shoulders and flipped over him, falling to the floor on her stomach and kicked her foot at his ankles, knocking him down to the ground. She took the opportunity to jab her foot down at his abdomen. Slade didn't even cringe. Felicity got up and attempted to give him another blow with her elbow this time but Slade grabbed her arm and threw her back down to the floor.
My serpentine
He straddled on top of her and brought down a fist to hit her in the face. Felicity grabbed the fist before they made contact and punched Slade in the nose.
Slade grabbed her by her blonde locks and pulled her head back. She groaned and gritted her teeth.
Jungle
"Do you give up?" Slade growled at her.
"Nope," she hissed and she gave him a direct punch in the good eye. She punched him in the eye again and again until he was finally off her. Slade yelled as he held a hand to his good eye. Felicity jumped back to her feet and took the opportunity of Slade's distraction to attack him from behind and began to elbow the back of his head.
Welcome to the Jungle
Even blinded at the moment, Slade managed to grab Felicity's arm again, flipped her off his back and slammed to the floor. Felicity now laid there immobile and grunting in pain.
DEATHSTROKE WINS. FLAWLESS VICTORY. FATALITY.
Slade helped pull her up from the ground. Felicity gasped when she saw him bleeding from the eye. "Oh god, Slade."
Watch it bring it to your
"It's all right. It will heal," Slade assured her. He sighed before grabbing a towel and pressing it to his bloody eye. Felicity took his hand and guided him to sit down on the bench.
Knees
Felicity looked at the blood-stained towel and at his bloody eye, and she began to tear up, burying her face into her hands.
Knees
"Why are you crying?" Slade asked as he heard her quiet sobs. "You did well. You're learning how to fight and best of all, you're learning to hold your own weight."
"I hurt you," she said.
Down in the jungle
"Don't start whining, please," Slade chuckled, "Oliver is enough."
Oliver objected. "Hey, I don't whine that much."
Welcome to the jungle
If Slade could see right now, he would glare at Oliver. Right now, he simply chuckled and smirked. "You want a bet? I can count the many times you whined at me during training."
"Slade, I'm sorry," Felicity kept apologizing.
"Don't be. Do you know how many people are able to blind me during a fight? None. You're the first. I'm proud of you," Slade smiled. Felicity smiled back softly and kissed him. She really hoped his eye would heal before their first date.
Robin vs... Everyone.
Watch it bring it to your
No one was getting out alive when it came to fighting. Felicity was the first one he took down. Damian found her to be too easy to take down; he expected more of a challenge. The second person he managed to take down was Diggle with a punch to the gut and a knee to the jaw. Barry was fast but a a huge talkative and very easy to detect. Damian ended up taking him down by throwing him tear gas, which blinded the speedster and Barry ended up crashing into the climbing wall. Oliver Queen was a bit of a challenge; he was clearly more prepared than the rests. But it was not enough. Damian still took him down to the ground. With Nightwing, it was like a dance with Eskrimas, clashing the metal bars against each other, making clanging sounds and swinging them around like swords. Damian ended up knocking Dick in the gut with the end of the Eskrima, knocked him off his feet with the other and then striking him in the gut again with the same.
It's gonna bring you down!
"Urgh, what did I tell you, guys, the kid's tougher than a rock," Dick groaned as he technically rolled out of the mat since he couldn't get up from the pain.
Damian then challenged Cisco to fight.
"Hey, no, I am not a fighter," Cisco said, backing away from the control panel as he thought Damian was coming right towards him, "I'm the one who makes the toys, dude."
"Then, can I fight her?" Damian asked, pointing at Rachel who still drawing on the bench with her headphones on, oblivious to what was going on around her.
"NO!" Everyone shouted at him.
Huh!
Damian's next opponent was Slade Wilson/Deathstroke. It was taking more effort than Damian thought. The big man simply didn't want to go down without a fight. As for Slade, he was having a hard time taking down the kid himself. He was a lot more resistant and more determined than Oliver but Slade wasn't willing to back down without a fight. In other words, both Slade and Damian were equally matched when it came to fighting. None of them were winning the fight. After at least an hour and a half of kicking, punching, growling and yelling, Cisco finally called the fight a tie. None of them won the fight. Now Cisco and Oliver owed Diggle 20 bucks since they already made a bet; Cisco's money was on Slade, Oliver's money was on Damian and Diggle bet that neither of them would win. And that was what happened.
"So this sword I'm giving you here is ten times stronger than the sword you currently have right now," Cisco and Slade walked along through the lab where Cisco had something for Slade. He was going to show it while in the van but Slade wouldn't even allow him to take his hands off the wheel for one second.
There was a long black case on the table next to the computers.
"What's the sword made of?" Cisco asked.
"Steel."
"Ah, well, this sword is not made of steel," Cisco said as he opened the case where inside laid a sword similar to the one Slade is currently using. Slade couldn't see anything special about it. "This is Inertron, stronger than any steel made here or any other country to be exact. It's more powerful that steel or uranium. It's even stronger than volatile Promethium."
"That strong?" Slade asked as he picked up the sword from the case.
"Strong. Weightless. And unbreakable," Cisco informed, "Not even a Kryptonian can break that thing in half."
"Really?" Slade tried bending the sword in his hand but even with the Mirakuru in his veins, he couldn't break the sword in half. Cisco was right. Inertron was indestructible. He grinned a the new sword. "Where did you find this?"
"S.T.A.R. Labs has a lot things hidden around here," Cisco said, "Inertron metal was one of them. It took me literally days to make that thing. Day and night."
"So you spent days and nights without sleep making this?" Slade asked, frowning at him. Cisco nodded with a smile. Slade couldn't help but chuckle and patted him on the back. "You did good."
Cisco hissed at the pat in the back and immediately flinched away. Slade frowned again but in confusion this time. He didn't even pat his back that hard. Why did it hurt him? He then remembered Dr. Caitlin Snow asking him to take off his jacket when it was almost 80 degrees in the labs but he refused.
"Cisco, mind telling me why you're still wearing that jacket? If Miss Snow believes that it's 79 degrees in here, I would recommend you listen to her or you might suffer a heatstroke," Slade said.
"It-It's just cold," Cisco walked over to one of the tables where the collar he was making for Felicity laid. Slade knew that he was lying by the way his voice stuttered. "For me it's cold."
"Cisco," Slade was serious this time, hoping to strike fear into him. Cisco didn't even look at him but Slade could see his hands shaking. "Cisco. Take off the jacket."
"I said it's cold, Slade," the kid said monotonously this time. "It's nothing."
"I'm not asking you," he growled. "I'm telling you. Take it off."
"No," Cisco snapped at him this time. It took Slade by surprise. He never heard Cisco snap like that before.
"Cisco, third and final warning," Slade threatened venomously while pointing a finger at him, "Take it off or I'll do it. And I don't think you want that second option."
Cisco looked up at Slade warily but sighed in defeat and put the collar back down on the table. He gritted his teeth as he slowly took off the jacket.
Slade's eye widened. There were dark purplish grey bruises all over his left forearm. They were fingerprints and they looked recent.
"Cisco, what happened to you there?" he asked.
Cisco shook his head quickly. "It was nothing."
"Oh really?" Slade stood behind Cisco and tugged down the collar of his T-shirt, revealing more bruises on the upper back. Slade stared in shock. "What happened here?"
"It's nothing," Cisco nearly stuttered and pushed Slade off.
"Don't you dare lie to me, kid!" Slade snapped as he forcefully turned Cisco around to face him, "I know a damn bruise when I see one. I know the marks of someone bein beaten. Who was it, Cisco?"
"Slade, nothing bad happened. It's none of your concern," Cisco said. But Slade wasn't convinced. He could see tears welling up in Cisco's eyes, either from shame or fear. Probably both.
"Cisco, you tell me what happened or so help me -."
"Hey, Cisco, is the collar ready for testing - Oh my God!" Felicity gasped and screamed as soon as she entered the lab and saw the bruises on his arm. "What happened!?"
"Someone beat Cisco," Slade said before Cisco could come up with an excuse. "And I have a good idea of who might be responsible for this."
Slade remembered the last time he visited S.T.A.R. Labs. Cisco invited him to dinner with his family which Slade declined. Cisco looked disappointed when Slade declined the invitation, almost sad. It even made him wonder why Cisco didn't want to eat with his family alone. Now Slade knew something bad happened to him during that day. Slade remembered seeing Cisco when Felicity and Rachel were kidnapped. Cisco wasn't wearing a jacket that day and his arm didn't have bruises. The bruises were made after Slade and Felicity left Central City.
Caitlin entered the lab as well and gasped at the sight of Cisco's arm. "I knew it! You fucking liar!" She snapped. "I knew something was up and you still fucking lied to my face!"
"What is going on? And I'm not asking again," Slade threatened, still glaring at Cisco.
"Caitlin, please, don't -."
"Shut up, Cisco," Caitlin hissed, "You've done enough lying. You're terrible at it and always will so stop trying, okay?" She then looked at Slade. "Cisco and his dad have been fighting like this ever since the explosion of the particle accelerator injured and killed hundreds of lives in Central City and those twenty miles away from the city. His parents blame him for it and were even trying to force him to quit. But Cisco always says no and it's like he just returned from a Hunger Games movie. And now, he and his dad are getting into fights whenever he heads over to his parents. Last time, he left and then came back with a black eye and a busted lip."
"Cisco, you're letting your father hit you?" Felicity asked in bewilderment.
"No, I'm not letting him hit me," Cisco objected, "It was just a disagreement. And for the record, I fought back."
"Cisco, we all know what a disagreement means when looking at that," Felicity gritted her teeth angrily while pointing at the bruises in his arms. She grabbed his wrist and lifted his arm up, "This is not okay, Cisco! This is child abuse! You need to tell the police about this."
"No, guys, really, I'm fine," Cisco kept insisting, "I can handle it myself, really."
Without warning, Slade grabbed Cisco by the upper arm and dragged him out of lab.
Looking at each other in confusion, Felicity and Caitlin followed the boys until they were outside of S.T.A.R. Labs. They both watched Slade drag Cisco to the van.
"Slade!?" Felicity called. Slade opened the door to the passenger's seat and practically pushed Cisco into the car. "Slade, what are you doing!"
Slade ignored her as he entered the car himself, started the car and drove away with Cisco.
"Oh my God," Felicity gasped, knowing exactly where Slade was taking Cisco, and grabbed Caitlin by the wrist, "Come on."
They both got into Caitlin's car and followed Slade and Cisco. Both of the girls already knew where Slade was going. Now they were going to stop him before he did something stupid.
Ta-da! I apologize if the fights were a bit crappy but it's because I'm not used to writing fighting scenes. I'm getting the hang of it though. I think.
So, what do you think Slade is going to do? Do you think Slade is going to kill Cisco's father?