"So, we're really done with this place?" Thea asked as she, Oliver, Roy and Laurel entered the bunker for the last time.

"Afraid so Speedy. Laurel's earth 2 doppelganger gave James the bunker's location, hell, he had a bug planted in here, which means that Diaz has the Bunker's location, which means it's vulnerable. Besides, we should've relocated a while ago for that exact reason." Oliver said as they moved to collect their gear.

"Oh Roy, I had a welcome back present for you, though this wasn't the way I wanted to give it to you." Oliver said as he handed Roy a box from Central city.

When he opened it, he found that Cisco had made him a new suit.

"A new suit?" Roy asked.

"Since Thea is using your old suit, figured you could use a new one." Oliver said as he handed it to Roy.

"Thanks, can't wait to try it out." Roy said as they grabbed the rest of their gear and Oliver grabbed a switch.

"What's that?" Thea asked.

"Cisco rigged this place up with a doomsday option. This is the detonator. If Diaz's men are coming here, I'll gladly blow this place to hell to take them with it." Oliver said as he walked out before anyone could argue and they followed.


Oliver, Laurel, Thea, Roy, Rene and Dinah all made their way into New Team Arrow's bunker.

"John and Lyla are on their way?" Oliver asked.

"Yeah. But why are you having them come here?" Rene asked.

"Because our bunker is not secure. Prometheus somehow found the bunker, something we still have not figured out, he then gave it's location to Earth 2 Laurel, who bugged it for Cayden James, giving him it's location, which means Diaz knows it to." Oliver said.

"Yeah. Why would Diaz do all of this now? He could've moved on us months ago." Dinah asked.

"Diaz wanted me in prison to avoid making a martyr of the Green Arrow. With me out of the picture, he would've come after you. It didn't go that way. Frankly I'm amazed he hasn't done this sooner." Oliver said.

"Well, I'm not liking his plan B. This is the feed from our surveillance cameras." Laurel said as she revealed a tablet to pull up footage of Diaz's men trashing their bunker.

"Son of a bitch." Dinah said.

"What are we doing just watching? Let's go there now." Rene said.

"There's no time, Rene," John said as he and Lyla entered the lair, "Diaz has numbers, which means he has tactical advantage."

"John's right. Bunkers and equipment can be replaced. We need to look at the big picture. Are our families on the way to the safe house?" Oliver asked Lyla.

"Better. NORAD bunker in Colorado." Lyla said and Oliver, Laurel and Rene all sighed in relief.

"But what do we about the guys who are about to torch our bunker?" John asked.

"Beat them to it." Oliver said as he pulled out the detonator.

"What's that?" John asked.

"Remember last year when Chase trapped Felicity and I in the bunker?" Oliver asked.

"Yeah." John said as he realized where Oliver was going with this.

"Well, now we're finishing that." Oliver said as he activated the detonator and they watched the bunker blow up.

"Think there will be any stragglers?" Rene asked almost hopefully.

"Don't worry. You'll get your chance. Just have patience, Rene." Dinah said.

"Dinah's right. Diaz is making his move. We will make ours carefully and precisely. End this tonight." Oliver said before turning to Lyla.

"How much support can we expect from Argus?" he asked.

"Not that much. Frankly giving you guys the support I have so far has been stretching the rules." Lyla said.

"As big a problem as Diaz is for Star City- For A.R.G.U.S., he's small potatoes." John said.

"What John means is A.R.G.U.S. isn't chartered for law enforcement." Lyla said as Curtis entered.

"It looks like it's just up to us, then." Curtis said.

"Curtis. How's Nick?" Oliver asked.

"He's resting, post-op. It was pretty bad, but he's gonna be ok. We got lucky." Curtis said.

"He took those bullets for me." he then added.

"Don't worry. We'll give him payback times 10." Rene said.

"Where do we start?" Curtis asked.

"Well, we've got to get a direct Intel on Diaz's location." Dinah said.

"I'm working on that." Lyla said.

"All right. And we need some major-league ordnance." Rene added.

"That A.R.G.U.S. can help with." Lyla said but Oliver stopped them before they could all continue making plans.

"You know, if we keep going this way, we're going to die out there. It doesn't matter how much weaponry Lyla provides, how angry we are, how much adrenaline we have. If we just-if we just press ahead like this, we're all gonna die out there." Oliver said.

"We haven't worked together in months. You know, Diaz is not expecting that at least." John pointed out.

"He's planned for everything. Us getting back together, working as a team- it's a start, but this guy's got an army. He has the city officials; He's got the police. He's got everything. He's planned for everything." Oliver said.

"Please tell me there's a "but" coming out the end of this pep talk." Curtis said.

"There's two actually. Laurel." Oliver said.

"What about me?" Laurel asked as all eyes turned to her.

"You are the one thing that Ricardo Diaz could not plan for. Everything that has happened since you came back has thrown him off his game simply because unlike Chase, he did not take into account how your return could affect his plans." Oliver said.

"He's right about that Laurel. You're the one who help me realize that my role on this team was not to be the Green Arrow and you helped Oliver convince me not to leave." John said.

"And our close partnership at the SCPD has helped to mend fences between our two teams." Dinah said.

"What's the other but?" Rene asked.

"Anatoly Knyazev." Oliver said.

"I thought he hated your guts." Rene said.

"I think we've come to an understanding. I also think that he might be the only other move Diaz does not see coming." Oliver said.

"Oliver, if that's our tactical advantage, we need to press it." John said.

"Let me set a meet with him, ok? Let us make a move off of his Intel. But until we have it, I want you guys to stand down, and I'm asking you to trust me. I know that that trust does not come easy after everything that's happened. Let's put all of that aside and get this done." Oliver said.

"Even so, like you said, Diaz has an army, it's gonna take more than the 8 of us to take him down." Laurel said.

"I know. That's why I called in some backup. I just hope he gets here in time." Oliver said.

"You called him?" John asked and Oliver nodded.

"John, to stop Diaz, I am willing to do anything. Including asking him for help." Oliver said.

"Who?" Laurel asked as her fiance turned to face her.

"Slade Wilson." Oliver said.


Okay, little author's note. I don't know about everyone else, but last week's Arrow episode began to revive my faith in the show, since spoiler alert, they're finally bringing Team Arrow back together and Oliver's no longer doing that flying solo crap. His team is what makes him strong, not weak and I like how they're redeeming Anatoly. And by the way, I really wish that the Arrowverse could still use Slade since he'd be the perfect addition to the season finale, just like he was in the season 5 finale.