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Oliver and Sara stared in horror, while Slade stared in surprise as Kazumi stared, shock and pain across her face as she stumbled back and fell down, with blood seeping from her abdomen.
"You're a monster." Sara sneered, disgusted that Emiko stabbed her own mother, who was only trying to help her.
"This was all your doing!" Emiko shot back.
"You destroy everything, kid." Slade sneered.
In that moment, Diggle and Arsenal rushed in, shocked to see Emiko stab her own mother.
"Get her out of here!" Oliver ordered.
Diggle grabbed Kazumi as he and Arsenal got her out.
"This ends here!" Oliver snarled, having enough of it as he notched an arrow.
"If you could feel the power that is surging through me, you would know that I do not fear an arrow." Slade taunted, waving his sword around. "I am stronger than you can even imagine and soon I will not be alone."
Oliver fired an arrow into the fuse box as the room went dark and the machine stopped working. Oliver fired three arrows that Slade blocked with his sword. Emiko fired an arrow but Oliver and Sara dodged, while the assassins engaged the Circle's soldiers.
Emiko jumped over a table, kicking Sara back. Sara blocked the following kicks as they exchanged blows before Sara knocked her down.
"Your parents would both be ashamed of you." Sara said.
"Robert was always ashamed of me. What happened to my mother is your fault." Emiko sneered, justifying herself as Sara glared at her in disgust.
Slade tackled Oliver, slamming him to a concrete pillar, cracking it before throwing him over his shoulder.
"You can't hurt me, kid." Slade taunted.
Oliver fired two arrows into Slade's chest as the arrows beeped before exploding, knocking Slade down on the floor. Oliver got up and grabbed from the machine a vial with Mirakuru before he turned off the machine.
Sara dodged as Emiko attacked with her bow and blocked with her batons. Emiko aimed at Sara's head but Sara dodged and kicked Emiko as she staggered back. Emiko aimed at Sara's legs but Sara jumped and kicked her in the face.
"I'm going to make you pay for what you did." Sara sneered. "All those years of hell, it's all because of you!"
"You made your choice to go on the boat. You have only yourself to blame." Emiko said before pushing Sara back but Sara dodged as Emiko attacked again before hitting Emiko from behind, knocking her down.
"Move!" Oliver ordered as he fired a flashbang arrow, blinding Emiko and Slade before he and Sara retreated, alongside the assassins. "We're not going to win this tonight."
Sara then noticed the vial in Oliver's hand.
"Is that…"
"Yeah." Oliver nodded as he handed it to her. "We need to get this to S.T.A.R. Labs. Hopefully, they can create a cure."
"Slade has at least 20 guys like him and we need to find a way to stop them." Sara nodded.
"He's getting away." Slade said.
"Not for long. He's going to die. Buried under the rubble. Alone. Knowing that we'll be out there, destroying everything he loves." Emiko said as Slade smiled in satisfaction before she pulled out a detonator and pressed the trigger.
Suddenly, the ceiling above crumbled.
"Watch out!" Oliver cried out, pushing Sara forward as the rubble was falling down upon them and when the dust settled, Sara stared in horror as she was separated from Oliver, who was trapped under the rubble.
"Ollie! Ollie!" Sara exclaimed.
Oliver groaned as the debris was on top of him, trying to call out.
"Felicity… Roy… John…"
Oliver coughed as he tried to reach for an explosive arrow next to him before it was handed to him by someone he did not expect to see again.
"Here you go."
"Dad?" Oliver whispered, not believing his own eyes.
"Hi, Ollie. It's been a long time." Robert said.
"You haven't aged a day." Oliver said, once he could speak up. "I must have a really bad concussion."
"What could you expect? A building just fell on you." Robert said. "Just like how me and Malcolm planned to fix the Glades."
"But I stopped him." Oliver said as Robert sighed.
"Considering what your sister, my daughter… and your former best friend are up to… it might have been for nothing, kiddo, if you won't find a way out." Robert pointed out.
Oliver summoned all his strength to move the rubble before he rolled away and freed himself as Robert helped him get up.
"That's it. I knew you were strong. You're stronger than I am, Oliver." Robert said before holding Oliver's arm as bones cracked and Oliver screamed in pain. "Sorry. I had to." Oliver glared at Robert as he sighed. "I know you're angry…"
"Why wouldn't I be? You were unfaithful to Mom again. And look where that led us." Oliver looked around the rubble. "I have to warn Mom, Thea, John, Felicity, Roy, all of them. Slade's going to kill them all… because of me. I need to get out of here. I need to find them."
"Are you really going to kill my daughter? Your own sister?" Robert argued.
"She's not my sister anymore." Oliver growled.
"And how are you going to get out of here, Oliver?" Robert pointed out as Oliver saw that his bow was broken in two, when the ceiling collapsed.
Oliver tapped his comms, trying to call out. "Sara. Dig. Felicity. Roy. Anyone copy?"
"Don't worry about them. They're capable people, aren't they?" Robert argued.
"I hope you're right." Oliver said.
"What were my last words to you? "Right my wrongs. Survive." That's what you need to focus on." Robert said. "It's funny, that neither of your sisters are yours in full blood. Thea's only your mother's daughter. Emiko just mine."
"Well, your daughter left us both to die." Oliver drawled and Robert had the decency to look ashamed. "This is all your fault, not mine. And as usual, I have to clean up your mess."
"What are you going to do exactly? Fratricide? Pretty damning sin, isn't it? Perhaps even worse than whatever I or Malcolm had done." Robert pointed out.
"She made her choice. I tried to reach her. I tried to help her. But she left me no choice." Oliver said. "She let you die. And she tried to kill her own mother, when she tried to help her. And now she wants to kill my family. My friends. Everyone I love. Even though they have done nothing to her. She's a monster."
"So you decide to become one now, too?" Robert argued. "Haven't you been down this road before?"
"There is no other way, Dad." Oliver said.
"This line of thinking is going to keep you trapped here." Robert said.
Sara tried to pry out the rubble with her staff as she grunted, struggling until Nyssa showed up, helping her, much to her surprise, alongside Helena.
"What?" Sara asked, confused.
"I thought you might need help." Nyssa said.
"Nyssa, I…"
"Let's talk about this later, right now Oliver needs all the help he can get." Helena said.
"Are you sure that more payload is a good idea? You get this wrong, you're going to end up buried under the rubble." Robert pointed out.
"This is it. All of it, or I'm out of options." Oliver said as he was rigging the arrow.
"Why is it, that you always end up out of the frying pan, right into the fire?" Robert asked sarcastically.
"I'm here only for one reason and one reason only. Slade and Emiko." Oliver said coldly.
Robert chuckled. "My daughter. Your half-sister. And your former best friend."
"It doesn't matter who they once were to me! What matters is finding them and stopping them before they hurt anyone else!" Oliver exploded. "It's something you should appreciate."
"What? Because of what Emiko did to us and what Slade is about to do to your friends and family?" Robert questioned.
"No, because of what you did!" Oliver yelled and Robert was silent. "I spent last year trying to fix what you and Malcolm did. And my Mom. And when I finally did it, I had to then fix my own mess with Slade until I found out that you made another mess. I knew you weren't perfect… but can you imagine what it's like, realizing that your family has done worse mistakes than you could have imagined that they could? Sometimes I wish… I wish that you had told me and Mom everything about the Undertaking and Emiko sooner. Maybe I wouldn't be in this mess right now."
Robert sighed. "You're right, Oliver. I should've been honest with you, Thea and your mother and more loyal. But I was stuck in my own cycle, just like you and Sara are right now and you will keep being stuck until you both break free!"
Oliver sighed and considered. "No. This is bigger than you. This is bigger than both of us. The choices that Emiko made, they are on her. The choices that Slade's making, they might be on me. They might be on the Mirakuru… but now I have the chance to fix it."
"What are you going to do?" Robert asked.
"I'm going to finish this." Oliver said as he aimed an arrow at the rubble and fired as it exploded. "They can blame me for Shado and for your mistakes for the rest of their lives. I'm done blaming myself."
"It's an explosion." Nyssa said upon hearing something.
"It's Ollie. Get back! Everyone, get back!" Sara ordered as they backed off. The rubble exploded as they saw Oliver get out.
"Ollie." Sara breathed out as she hugged him tightly.
"I'm OK, Sara. I'm OK." Oliver assured her.
"Where's Slade and Emiko?" Oliver asked as he questioned one of the assassins.
"When we cleared the rubble, the place was empty." The assassin said as Oliver sighed.
"Which means that the Ninth Circle has at least fifty men just like Slade." Sara groaned before Oliver tapped his comms as he pulled out the vial with Mirakuru.
"Felicity. I need you to do something for me. Are you still in contact with S.T.A.R. Labs?" Oliver called out.
"What do you plan to do?" Emiko asked Slade as they were in the morgue.
"The kid is resilient. I'll give him that." Slade said as Emiko covered her mother's corpse with the sheet, making Slade feel some sympathy for her. "He destroys everything he touches."
"He does. And they're all going to pay. In full." Emiko vowed as the army of Mirakuru soldiers came to.
"Thank you." Oliver said as he, Sara, Diggle and Roy met with Helena and Nyssa. "Not that I don't appreciate what you did but how did you get out?"
"Do you think my own men would not listen to me?" Nyssa pointed out and Oliver sighed.
"I had a little chat with your friend." Helena said. "Something about nutjob father leading a cult of zealot assassins?"
"I've had some time to think and… I admit I might have let my feelings get the best of me." Nyssa said and Oliver had to fight the desire to scoff. "And looking back, I realize my father never approved of us together." She turned to Sara.
"You still want to kill me?" Oliver questioned.
"I can see you care for each other… and I will respect that." Nyssa said before nearing Oliver. "But break her heart and I'll make you feel pain unlike anything you have ever experienced." She whispered so lowly Oliver felt a chill go down his spine.
Laurel's apartment
Laurel was with Tommy, watching TV before Tommy's phone rang as he answered the call.
"Yeah, Ollie? Wait, slow down. What do you… OK." Tommy sighed as he hung up.
"What is it?" Laurel asked.
"All he said was that we're in danger and that we need to run and lay low." Tommy said and Laurel paled, realizing what was going on.
"Oh, God…"
"Yeah, I know." Tommy nodded as Laurel started packing up.
Queen Manor
Oliver burst the manor as Moira and Thea looked at him in surprise.
"Oliver, are you alright? What's going on?" Moira asked.
"It's a long story and I don't have time to explain but you need to run. Now. Leave Starling. Tonight." Oliver urged.
Knowing how agitated he was, Moira and Thea did not think twice as they entered the limo, realizing things were about to get ugly.
"What are you going to do?" Thea asked as Oliver took a breath.
"I'm going to end this. Once and for all." Oliver said.
Starling City
"Slade. They found them." Emiko said as Slade was watching his army waking up.
"Good." Slade smirked. "The kid was resilient up until now. I'll give him that. He thinks he can beat me at my game? Let's see how he can face these odds."
Over fifty men then came to, putting on Deathstroke masks as the Ninth Circle soldiers were preparing their weapons.
Beatrice and Virgil looked disturbed as they walked away.
"The council is being concerned about our leader." Virgil said.
"Discretion has been our ally for centuries. The world may know about us now but we were always subtle. And now she's taking all the subtlety away." Beatrice said.
"And?" Virgil asked.
"The council is making a vote, whether we should remove Emiko as the leader." Beatrice said.
"If this succeeds…"
"It matters not. She has become a loose cannon and a liability."
I think you all know who Emiko and Slade found. And I just couldn't see a way to fit in the "choice" with Thea and Moira but wait until the climax of the story. As I've mentioned before, I don't plan the rushed stupid redemption with Emiko but I promise you, she is going to get exactly what she deserves.
So, what do you guys think?
Please review and let me know if you have been enjoying this and want for me to continue.
