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The Hood jumped down from above, searching for his next target as he scoured John Nickel's penthouse. But he saw a damaged broken lamp, and no one was in the penthouse, making him realize that someone had taken Nickel already before him.

The Foundry

"Apparently, Mr. Nickel ticked off more people than we had thought." Bobbi sad.

"After the last night's fire, it's not entirely surprising." Oliver nodded. "Any leads on who hired Kovar?"

"No news." Natasha shook her head. "Look, Oliver, it's been a long night, why don't we head out for a dinner?"

Oliver considered but Natasha's look made it clear she was not going to take 'no' for an answer.

Roy's House

Roy and Thea were making out on the bed before they were interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Now you want to stop?" Thea teased.

"Well, we don't all have butlers." Roy joked. "You know, some of us actually have to answer our own doors."

"Oh, the horror." Thea said sarcastically.

Roy opened the door, trying to make sure his visitor would not see Thea but…

"You look familiar." The boy smirked at her. "I saw you on TV or something?"

"Probably." Thea smiled. "I'm Thea Queen."

"Yeah, right." The boy chuckled.

"Did you get it?" Roy interrupted, reaching for the small brown paper bag in his friends' hand.

"Tomorrow night, Joe wants us to be there at 11 P.M. He said to be there on time, Harper."

Roy closed the door as he turned to Thea, putting the bag on the desk.

"What's happening tomorrow at eleven?" Thea asked.

"Y'know, I'm actually kinda focused on what's happening right now." Roy attempted to change the subject as he kissed her.

Thea seemingly gave in but a moment later, she snatched the bag and scowled as she saw a gun inside it.

"Why do you have a gun?" She whirled on him.

"Because I'm no good with knives." Roy retorted as Thea stared at him incredulously. "Look, it's just a liquor store, the guy's a creep. Trust me, he deserves it." He pulled out the bullets from the firearm's cylinder. "If it'll make you feel any better, I won't be armed but of course, the owner won't know that…"

"I got you a job at my brother's club." Thea scoffed. "You have choices, you don't have to be a criminal!"

"I'm not talking about phone bills." Roy snapped. "I owe people, people with much bigger guns than this." He sighed. "Look, here in the Glades, this is pretty much the only solution."

"No, lot of people in the Glades live honest lives! Obviously not you!" Thea shot back. "You're just a waste." She said with disgust, grabbing her jacket and leaving the house.

"Thea!" Roy begged. "Let me make sure you get home OK."

"Don't bother." Thea hissed as she walked away.

Later, Big Belly Burger

Oliver, Diggle, Bobbi and Natasha and everyone else was disturbed to see on their phones a video on which was Nickel, bound and gagged.

"If you make the Glades your home, you know who this man is." An unknown voice said. "He owns your tenants, manages your slums, provides the leaking roofs over your heads, the mold pipes and asbestos in your walls. Basically, he makes money off our suffering." Nickel muffled in the meantime, begging. "But the police are not interested in helping us, they may have let us down but I won't. John, I want to give you the chance to state your case. Why shouldn't you be punished?"

A hand ripped the tape off his mouth as Nickel gasped. "I knew there was bad stuff in my buildings."

"Can you track him?" Oliver asked.

"If I had a laptop with me, maybe." Natasha said.

"OK, yes, I made a little profit!" Nickel admitted. "At least they had a place to live. Without me, people like them would end up on the streets."

"People like… That's what we all are to guys like this…" The camera shifted a little as there was a gun on the screen. "John, I find you guilty." The man shot twice as they stared in shock.

Natasha and Bobbi were silent. They had seen this ruthlessness before with many people but it never gets easy to see it, while Oliver and Diggle stared.

Later, the Foundry

"Uh-huh. Thanks." Natasha hung up. "That website code matches a cyber-crusader, who's been on the radar of NSA for a while now. The Savior. S.H.I.E.L.D. tracked him into the Glades but it's not easy to get a lock on him. Apparently, he erased all traces of himself last year. He's living off-the-grid."

"So, what happened a year ago?" Diggle wondered.

Suddenly, the website went active again, again with a man bound and mouth gagged with a tape.

"We're back." The voice announced. "I have with me assistant district attorney Gavin Carnahan." The gagged man let out muffled screams. "Now, D.A.'s are supposed to go after bad guys but this one can't even be bothered to bring them to trial. Like the ones who killed my wife in a bodega."

Bobbi started typing, tracking him down.

"They said there wasn't enough evidence." The man on the screen continued. "You think the evidence would have turned up if she had been killed in one of Starling City's nicer neighborhoods?"

Bobbi pulled up a news article about the bodega shooting. "Emma Falk, grieving husband is Joseph Falk." She read. "He's 42 years old, used to work in Department of Transportation as computer technician, went off the grid after his wife's murder… year ago from today."

"No current phone number or address." Natasha said.

"Gavin, you're a lawyer." Falk continued. "You're used to making a case. So, go ahead, I'm gonna give you ten minutes to deliver the closing argument of your life."

"I'll see if we can get a lock on him." Bobbi said as Oliver rushed out from the lair.

"Shut it down." Oliver ordered.

"I can't, the signal's firewalled." Bobbi said. "But I think I got him, he's at 23rd and Mira."

Oliver ran out and grabbed his helmet.

"You want to hood up?" Diggle demanded.

"It's the middle of the day!" Oliver said.

Starling City

"How's Carnahan doing?" Oliver asked while riding the bike.

"Not convincing argument!" Diggle replied.

"Almost there!" Oliver stopped and rushed into the building, checking every room inside. "He's not here!"

"What?" Bobbi asked, dumbfounded.

"I checked every office on every floor. He's not here!" Oliver snarled angrily. "Are you sure it's here?"

"Yeah…" Suddenly, Chloe and Diggle widened their eyes.

"What the hell?" Diggle whispered. "It can't be…"

"What?" Oliver demanded.

"He's on the move! North of you, Ocean and Grand!"

Oliver jumped on the roof from the window, rushing from rooftop to rooftop.

"I took on cases that were… that I thought… that I could win…" Carnahan stuttered. "I'm sorry…"

"Gavin Carnahan, I find you guilty of crimes against the Glades." Falk said, raising his gun.

"Don't do this!" Carnahan begged, to no avail.

"And I sentence you to death."

"I'm at Ocean and Grand, but it's just a vacant lot!" Oliver said, looking at the construction side.

"How the hell is this possible…" Natasha wondered before they saw Falk execute Carnahan, shooting him dead live on screen as they stared for a moment, processing.

"Oliver, it's over, Carnahan is dead." Diggle called out.

"How the hell did that happen? You had him, right?" Natasha asked.

"I don't know." Oliver wondered. "If he's not using a car, then what?"

Roy's House, the Glades

Roy walked out snorted instantly as he saw her. "I was waiting for this."

"Waiting for what?" Thea asked.

"The whole 'you can change I can see the real you' speech." He stretched his arms. "Look around, this is home sweet home for me. In the Glades, you either starve or you do things that mean you're lucky enough to make it to 21."

Thea shook her head. "I can't accept that."

"Can't accept me."

Thea sighed but before she could come up with an argument, a man approached them. "Roy Harper?"

"Yeah?" Roy turned around but a moment later, the man stuck a syringe into his neck.

"Roy!" Thea exclaimed, lunging at the man but he shoved her and she was knocked out the moment she hit the ground.

Later, Verdant

Oliver, Natasha and Tommy were at the bar until the TV on the wall showed news bulletin on the most recent activity of the Savior as everyone looked at the screen.

"More on the story out of the Glades. The kidnapper seems to have another victim and is broadcasting the feed to his website. A warning to viewers, this is live footage, so we're not sure what we're about to see."

The Savior ripped the tape off Roy's mouth as he gasped. "Meet Roy Harper. Arrest for larceny and robbery, aggravated assault." The Savior listed. "And yet you're out on the street. Another gangbanger in the Glades running free, just like the ones who killed my wife. I grew up in the Glades but it didn't turn me into a criminal."

"I know that kid." Tommy recognized the boy as Oliver turned to him.

"How?" He asked. "Tommy." Oliver insisted.

"Ollie!" Thea wailed suddenly as Oliver, Tommy and Natasha turned to her, seeing the dirt on her clothes and tears on her face before she turned to the TV, seeing Roy and covered her mouth, sobbing. "Oh, God, no. I didn't know where else to go."

"You know him?" Oliver demanded.

Thea nodded. "Roy, he's my friend. We were in a fight, when some guy came out of nowhere and just attacked us, he doesn't deserve to die!" She cried out.

"I promise you, he's gonna be OK." Oliver assured Thea, holding her shoulders. "Stay here with Tommy." Thea nodded as Oliver went to the basement with Natasha following him a moment later.

"Roy Harper…" Bobbi trailed off, her eyes widening.

"You know him?" Diggle asked.

"I knew his father. It's been a long time." Bobbi said.

"Anything?" Oliver asked as he entered with Natasha.

"Not really. Just some ambient rhythm in the background." Bobbi said as she turned on the speaker.

"What is that?" Oliver asked. "Sounds like a car driving over lane markers."

"No, I don't think it's a car." Natasha said. "It could be a bus or…"

"Bobbi, show me a map." Diggle said as she showed on the screen a map of Starling City. "Sights of the abductions so far." Bobbi marked the spots on the map. "Right there, right there. Locksley and Adams. Wells Street down by CNRI. Those are all subway stops!"

"I didn't know Starling City had subway." Natasha said.

"No but we used to." Diggle corrected. "When I was a kid, my Dad used to take me down to the Rockets game. By fourteen minutes, I'd lean against the window, feeling the rhythm of the train moving."

"That's why we couldn't find him and how he was moving so quickly." Natasha realized.

"He was underground using the subway tunnels the whole time. He used to work for Department of Transportation, that's why I couldn't pinpoint his location." Bobbi realized.

"Where is he now?" Oliver asked as he went to suit up.

"Old Town Cross, if he follows the route, he'll be at the Spring Street stop in fifteen minutes." Bobbi said as Natasha followed Oliver.

Four years ago, London

"Harper, I'm seeing a lot of activity on the rooftop. Be careful." Natasha said, as she observed with her goggles.

"Copy." Harper said as he climbed up and dodged and took cover upon seeing the laser gunsight. "Sniper."

"I got him." Clint said as he fired an arrow, shooting him down.

"Chemical engineers, snipers, techs, we're looking at a bioweapon." Bobbi said as they saw the drivers loading up into the building some equipment.

"What are they up to?" Harper wondered as he and Natasha snuck in through the ducts As they jumped down, Harper picked a garotte, wrapping it around a guard's neck, knocking him out. They snuck past more guards as they saw a manifest on the table. "What is that?"

"Components for a chemical weapon. VX nerve gas." Natasha said. "We can't let it leave this place."

"I agree." Harper said.

They snuck deeper into the facility and saw the men load up a device.

"We can't let them leave with that gas." Bobbi said.

"I'll see if I can plant in a tracker. Then call a drone strike and boom." Harper said, sneaking into the truck as Natasha and Bobbi snuck on the guards, knocking them out. Clint shot more of them down before the cargo door of the truck closed as it drove away.

"Roy!" Natasha cried out as the truck drove away.

"Hill, call in a drone strike on my location, now!" Harper ordered.

"Roy, what the hell are you doing?" Clint demanded.

"Finishing the mission." Harper said.

"At the cost of your own life?" Natasha demanded, looking around for another truck before she ran to hotwire it. "Look, you don't have to do this, we can…"

"There's no time, Nat! If that thing gets loose, people are gonna die. You can't intercept my location without leaving the VX gas intact. I'm sorry, guys, I had to make a choice. Tell my boy… that I'm sorry. That his daddy is a hero."

"Roy! Roy!" Clint called out.

"Requesting confirmation, Harper. Drone strike confirmed?" Hill called out.

"Confirmed." Harper said as Clint, Bobbi and Natasha felt their hearts shatter. They watched as the drone flew in and a moment later, the truck exploded as they all stared.

Present, Starling City

The Hood blasted the access grate with an explosive arrow as he descended with Natasha with the grapnel arrow, entering the access tunnel for subway and following the tracks and stopped as the train passed by, almost running through them.

"It's happening." Bobbi said over the comms.

"I'll give you ten minutes to state your case, Roy. So, tell us, why do you get to live?" Falk asked.

Roy closed his eyes as he looked back at his entire life so far, sobbing. "I shouldn't." He looked into the camera. "Just go on. Kill me!"

Falk stepped back, surprised. "You really don't care if you live or die?"

Verdant

In Verdant, Thea watched helplessly at her friend on TV, as Tommy was trying to comfort her.

"No one is going to miss me." Roy announced. "I'm just a waste." He repeated what Thea had said to him the other day.

The tears of guilt streamed down Thea's eyes, wishing she could take those words back.

Starling City

"Well, then, we agree on something." Falk commented as he raised his gun. "This world would be better off without you in it."

Roy closed his eyes, making peace with his fate, just as an explosion suddenly followed on the ceiling of the train, sending Falk to the ground, just as the Hood and Natasha showed up, with the former throwing a fletchette towards Roy's restrained hand.

In the meantime, Falk got up, just as the Hood aimed the arrow at him. "Let him go." He snarled. "You kill him, he won't get an opportunity to change."

"He will not get a second chance." Natasha said.

"We're the only ones who can save this city!" Falk retorted. "We can't stop now!"

"We're not the same!" The Hood shot back.

"You have killed people. So have I. What's the difference between you and me?" The deranged man continued to protest. "Emma never got a second chance. You two have no idea how lonely it is." He turned to Roy.

"Joseph. Joseph!" Natasha called out as he turned to them again. "We know what is it like to be alone."

"But that does not give you the right to kill people in cold blood." The Hood added.

"He deserves it." Falk snapped. Roy managed to free his hand, trying to let his other hand loose in the meantime. "Just like the gangbangers who gunned her down, he's no different than them. And now I get to gun him down!"

He turned at Roy and opened fire, just as Roy took cover.

"No!" Natasha cried out, just as the Hood let go of the bowstring and fired the arrow, shooting the man in his back as he dropped dead.

Roy went out of the cover to see his abductor dead on the floor and the vigilantes gone.

Verdant

Thea was staring into the wall at the table as her phone buzzed and she looked at the message.

"Turn to your left."

She did so and saw Roy, still in shock and she ran to him and hugged him tightly, greatly relieved. "I thought you were going to die."

"That makes two of us." Roy admitted honestly.

After a moment, Thea smiled and let him go. "I probably look like a mess. I'm going to go to the bathroom and freshen way, way up." But on the way to the bathroom, she returned to her friend and kissed him on his cheek. "I'm sorry about what I said."

The Foundry

"We should look after Roy. He needs it." Bobbi said as Natasha nodded.

"Thea's friend is upstairs." Diggle said.

"I saw." Oliver said.

"They were more than happy to see each other." Bobbi pointed out as Diggle seemed amused, while Oliver frowned as Bobbi and Natasha enjoyed the looks on their faces.

"You OK?" Diggle asked.

"I'm getting there." Oliver said. "Thank you." Then he noticed the map on the screen. "What's that?"

"The map of the decommissioned subway of the city. Why?" Bobbi said as Natasha took a closer look.

Oliver opened the list as he looked at the glyph. "I've seen that map before." He showed it to them as it hit them all. "It was right in front of our faces the entire time. My father, the other archer, the Undertaking, whatever the plan is. It's all connected to the Glades."

The next chapter is not going to cover 1x19 but again it will be something more of my ideas.

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