Komodo's identity is revealed, and Oliver confronts him...


Oliver and Alex remained by Kara's bedside for the next few hours as she drifted off to sleep once again. After a while, Alex left to go see Maggie, but Oliver didn't move. He wanted to be there when she woke up again. Under the sun lamps, her lacerations and injuries were beginning to heal, which gave them all something positive to at least cling to. Oliver watched her intently, looking for any sign of her coming back to consciousness. Her eyes slowly began to open, and Oliver heard her groan as she tried to move.

"Hey, hey, hey, take it easy" said Oliver as he sprung up and stood over her, placing his hand reassuringly on her left shoulder.

"Oliver…" she said, recognising him.

"Yeah, it's me." Her eyes hovered around the room, and Oliver saw her become slightly unnerved once again. The room reminded her of the facility she was kept in, "Hey, look at me. It's alright" said Oliver. She stared at him, and for the first time since she had been back, she smiled slightly. Oliver sat back down on his chair, but moved it right up to her bedside so he'd always be in her line of sight.

"Where's Alex?" asked Kara.

"She's gone to see Maggie. She'll be back soon. Hey, I got you sticky buns" said Oliver, gesturing to the packet on the bedside table.

"Thanks" replied Kara.

"Are you feeling any better?" asked Oliver.

"Yeah, a little." Oliver knew that talking about what had happened would be tough for her, but he had to know a couple of things.

"Kara… how long do you think you were gone for?" asked Oliver.

"I don't know… Two weeks, maybe." Oliver swore under his breath. The Vertigo drug had really warped her mind severely.

"Was it Komodo who hurt you? The archer?" asked Oliver, drawing a small nod from her, "Do you know who he is?" Kara was trying to reply, but the words were struggling to come out of her mouth. Eventually, she managed to say his name…

"Simon Lacroix."

Oliver felt his anger and rage boil up inside of him. That bastard lied with a straight face to him. His technology hadn't been stolen by Cadmus, it had probably been supplied to them. He heard someone walk in to the room, and turned to see Alex walk in.

"Kara. You're awake" said Alex, as she rushed towards Kara's side. As she entered, Oliver stood and started to make his way out of the room, "Oliver, where are you going?" asked Alex.

"Just need to get some fresh air."


(23:59 – Seattle)

Simon Lacroix stood in his office, admiring the painting of the Megalania that hung on the wall opposite his desk. He was alone in the building with the exception of security. Everybody else had gone home, but he had some business to tend to… not regarding his company. He was expecting a visitor. Right on the cue of midnight, the lights shut off in his office, and he couldn't help but crack a smile as he heard the thuds of footsteps entering into his office from the open balcony door.

"I've been expecting you" said Lacroix nonchalantly without turning around.

"Simon Lacroix… You're going to pay for what you did to Supergirl" said the Green Arrow, "I know that you're Komodo… and I'm going to kill you."

"Well then why haven't you yet?" asked Lacroix, as he turned around to face Oliver, "Is it because you're not stupid enough to try murder the CEO of a worldwide company in his office, or is it because you know that you simply can't? Twice now, you've come up against me, and I've proven that you can't beat me. I'm faster… stronger… and better than you in every conceivable way… Oliver."

Oliver winced at the revelation that Lacroix knew who he was too, and Oliver had to fight back the urge to nock an arrow and put it in Lacroix's chest right now.

"Oh yes, I know who you are too. It took me a while to connect the dots, but with the help of some friends of mine, I figured it out, Mr Queen. You show up around the same time the Green Arrow does, and you return the same time that he does too. The most interesting thing though is that there is absolutely nothing else on you. No family, no bank accounts… It's almost as if Oliver Queen doesn't exist on this planet" said Lacroix, as he took a couple of steps closer to Oliver.

"What the hell do you want?" asked Oliver.

"Does the date of the 11th of February ring a bell?" asked Lacroix, with Oliver's stone-cold expression being the answer he received, "I didn't think it would. You see, Oliver, I spent many years searching for an artifact. A Totem. I'd used an insurmountable amount of resources trying to find it. It was my life's work… and on the 11th of February of this year, I finally found the map to it… and then you blew up the car it was being transported in, and burnt it to fucking ash!"

Oliver mentally kicked himself for not remembering sooner, as the image of the half-burnt envelope with the name 'Lacroix' written on it popped back into his mind. He had forgotten about it almost immediately in the aftermath of the ordeal, having gone to Al's Bar to go meet Maggie for the first time.

"You tortured an innocent woman, over a totem?" asked Oliver, his voice filled with anger and disgust.

"I don't expect you to understand what it feels like to have your life's work ripped away from you!" scowled Lacroix, as he stood just inches away from Oliver.

"I understand perfectly!" scowled back Oliver, "Leave Supergirl out of this! You want me, here I am!"

"The typical good guy plea. Your little girlfriend isn't safe. She's not going to be until I've made you suffer. You may have her back, but trust me, this war has just begun."

"I'm not a man you want go to war with" replied Oliver, causing Lacroix to scoff, eyeing down Oliver with little respect.

"This is going to be fun" said Lacroix intensely, as he turned around and walked back to the painting. He paused in front of it, reaching into an inside pocket of his trench coat, and held up a flechette in his hand, the same one that Oliver had used to try kill him. He turned his body to a sideways stance to face Oliver, before throwing the flechette at him. Oliver caught it as it was inches away from his right eye. It was a telegraphed move from Lacroix, one that wasn't meant to harm him… it was merely a statement.

"Keep it" said Lacroix, smirking, "You're going to need it."

Oliver dropped the flechette to the floor, walking out onto the balcony and shooting a grappling arrow to zip away from the Stellmoor International building.


Oliver walked in the forests several miles away from the city of Seattle to the DEO transport aircraft he had used to get here. The encounter with Lacroix pretty much went as expected, but Oliver left feeling a bit more worried than he'd expected he would. Kara's torture was just the beginning. Whatever Lacroix was planning was going to be big but Oliver knew that he was going to stop it. He didn't know anything about the totem, but judging by how Lacroix spoke about it, it wasn't something that should be allowed into his hands. Oliver whipped his head up to the sky defensively upon hearing a whoosh, but relaxed when he saw it was a blue and red blur. Down flew Clark Kent, who landed right in front of Oliver.

"What the hell are you doing?" asked Clark sternly, as he approached Oliver.

"What do you think?" replied Oliver arrogantly.

"What were you even thinking when you decided to confront Lacroix in his office? Let alone what you were thinking when you stole a DEO transport aircraft to fly here?"

"Clark, I needed to know what he wanted and why."

"Do you know now?"

"Yes, I do. I also know that he's planning something else, which we'll hopefully find out about when Winn taps into the bug that I placed in his office. We have Kara back, but this is far from over" finished Oliver, as he opened the pilot's door to the aircraft and stepped in.


A/N: Next chapter, a plan to aid Kara's recovery is discussed, and Oliver and Slade train together, like old times...