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Matt and Sara entered the lair to notice Oliver sitting down, beaten and staring. "Ollie, what's wrong?"

"I feel like this is all my fault… and I don't know what to do to stop it." Oliver whispered.

"Ollie, there's always another way. And you're not alone." Sara assured.

"But I feel like Chase's right." Oliver said. "It's only a matter of time before someone else pays the price. Dad. Shado. Slade. Karen. I let people get close to me until Chase uses them against me as his targets."

"We're doing our best to protect them, Oliver." Matt assured. "You don't know that you fail until you try. So like you once told me, never give up. No matter what. And I think I know what leverage we may have against Chase. Let's use it."


Later, Star City

"This is where Chase has Anatoly?" Colleen asked as she, Green Arrow, the Canary, Wild Dog, Ragman, Daredevil, Danny, Luke, Jessica, Logan and Frank were outside the building.

"It was where he shot the video." Green Arrow said.

"I sense heat in there. A lot." Daredevil said.

"There were a lot of heat signatures there. They might be a decoy." The Canary said.

"Let's split up and search floor by floor." Logan suggested.

"I agree." Frank nodded before Logan sniffed something. "What?"

"She's here…" Logan realized.


As they entered the building, Colleen, Danny and Rene opened a door, only to see a bomb.

"Move!" Colleen ordered, pushing Rene and Danny away as the explosion caused for the rubble to collapse and block their way.

"What was that?" Oliver demanded. "Rene, Danny, anyone, do you copy?"

"Copy. We're fine. But we're trapped." Danny coughed out. "These heat signatures are actually bombs."

"Can't you punch through it?" Rene demanded.

"Not without more of the debris falling down on our heads." Colleen said.


Oliver took a peek under the door with a snake cam as he looked at the monitor on his wrist. "We've got five minutes for search and rescue before this whole place comes down. Ragman, Luke, Jessica, find Colleen, Danny and Rene and get them out of here. We'll find Anatoly. You meet us in the hallway with Frank and Logan later."

They walked down the hall until the elevator opened to reveal Anatoly restrained to a chair.

"Oliver!" Anatoly called out. Oliver, Sara and Matt rushed to him and untied him. "Listen, Adrian Chase is—"

"We know." Sara cut Anatoly's restraints. "We're gonna get you out of here."

Suddenly, the elevator closed.

"What's going on?" Anatoly demanded.

"Chase is controlling the elevator." Oliver realized.

"Anatoly, you need to get out of here before this place blows." Sara said.

"But what about—" Anatoly attempted to protest.

"Chase and his allies us, you're not his target anymore." Matt said.

"I meant, what about you?" Anatoly asked.

"We're gonna end this." Sara said. "Anatoly, you need get out of here."

They went out to face Prometheus, Ikari, Lady Deathstrike and Mary Walker.

"Hello, Oliver." Prometheus said.


"You guys OK?" Luke asked.

"Yeah. Just waiting on that rescue." Rene said.

"Stand back!" Jessica ordered as she and Luke punched through the debris.


Prometheus took off his mask to reveal Adrian's face. "I'm glad Talia told you. I prefer it this way, face to face. There's an honesty to it."

"Well, honestly, we're gonna keep all of us in here until this building comes down on top of us." Oliver sneered.

"Then you'd be dead. And I'd like to see you survive an explosion this size." Adrian smirked at Logan, who had entered.

"You sure are not, bub." Logan sneered.

"Even if you survive, I'll make sure you won't." Deathstrike growled.

"Not if I cut you into pieces." Logan glared.

"You really think I'd let that happen?" Adrian smirked as he pulled out a detonator and turned off the bombs. "Remember. I'm always ten steps ahead of you."

"If that were true, you would've seen this coming." Matt said.

And then, much to Adrian's shock, Spartan went out from around the corner with Adrian's wife Doris. "Adrian." She said and Adrian stiffened.

"You shouldn't be here." He said lowly, staring at her in surprise while Doris looked at him horrified.

"How else was I supposed to find out the truth?" Doris demanded as she breathed out heavily. "You killed all those people."

"It's not that simple." Adrian said.

"You killed them. It's simple." Doris sneered as she neared him in an attempt to reach him. "I know, baby. This can't be you." She held him by his cheeks. "It's not you."

"I'm sorry…" Adrian whispered as he pulled her in for her hug. "I'm so sorry…" He then glared up at Oliver. "Why did you make her come here?"

"To get you to stop. You have to stop." Doris pleaded, pulling away and looking into Adrian's eyes. "You have to… you have to turn yourself in."

"I can't do that." Adrian protested.

"Please. Whatever this is, whatever you're doing, it's over." Doris begged.

"You'd tell the police?" Adrian whispered.

"No." Doris shook her head.

"You're right." Adrian nodded, leaning his forehead onto her. "I'm gonna take care of this."

Matt heard a sound of metal being drawn as his blood ran cold. "Get back!"

But it was too late. Suddenly, there was a sound of metal piercing flesh as Doris stilled, while Adrian dropped a bloodied knife.

"John!" Oliver yelled as Doris fell into Diggle's arms, bleeding out before they rushed out


Rory, Rene, Jessica, Luke, Frank, Danny and Colleen rushed upstairs to help, only to face more ninjas with Ward, Maki and Bullseye.

"You're not going anywhere." Ward said, pulling out his guns and firing as Rory stepped forward to protect them.

Rene and Frank opened fire, while Ward, Maki and Bullseye took cover. Bullseye threw pieces of debris that grazed Jessica and Danny but Rory protected them. Frank opened fire, while Ward took cover around a corner, while Colleen, Danny, Luke and Jessica engaged the ninjas.

Jessica and Luke threw away some of the ninjas, while Colleen cut down more of them. Colleen blocked with her katana and scabbard as some of the ninjas attacked, while Danny rushed at Bullseye, both of them exchanging blows but Bullseye flipped away as Danny kicked him in his chin. Bullseye picked some glass shards and threw them and Danny jumped away as some of the shards grazed him.

Colleen fenced with Maki, exchanging sword strikes but Maki cut Colleen across her back as Colleen screamed before she was knocked down on the ground. As Maki was about to finish her off, she flipped away as Jessica threw a ninja at her and threw a needle, hitting Jessica in the leg, causing for her to kneel down.

Ward threw a grenade, forcing them to scatter before Rory shielded them from the explosion. As the smoke dissipated, the villains had vanished.


Oliver blocked Adrian's sword and threw him down before Adrian got up and both men dropped their weapons. Adrian rushed at Oliver as a shelf with dishes collapsed, tackling him to the ground but Oliver got on top of Adrian, sending a flurry of punches that Adrian blocked before throwing Oliver away. Adrian roared as he lunged at Oliver, breaking through a wall.


Matt blocked Ikari's Kamas using his billy clubs and knocked him back before kicking him in the chest, making Ikari stagger. Matt dodged as Ikari attacked and scratched Matt, who hissed in pain. Matt flipped away to dodge and Ikari threw darts that Matt blocked with his clubs. Ikari slid towards Matt and kicked him in the back and then in the chin, sending Matt flying back as he was dazed.

When Matt recovered, Ikari was gone.


Logan and Deathstrike crossed their claws, slicing at each other before Logan slammed Deathstrike to a wall and attempted to cut her head off. Deathstrike dodged as Logan cut her hair and cut him in the leg, forcing him on his knees. Deathstrike wrapped her legs around Logan and slammed him to the ground before stabbing him repeatedly.

"I will carve your brain out through your eye sockets. Maybe that will finally end you." Deathstrike said.

Logan roared, cutting her in the leg before pushing her back. They lunged at each other and crashed through a wall. As Logan got up, Deathstrike kicked him away, sending him sliding across the floor. When Logan came to, Deathstrike had vanished.


Sara blocked Mary's machetes with her batons before dodging as Mary aimed at her head.

"You don't have to do this." Sara pleaded.

"But I want to. This is fun." Mary smirked.

Sara ducked as Mary cut some hair from Sara's wig. Sara knocked one of the machetes of Mary's hand and forced her to her knees but Mary wrestled with Sara, knocking them on the ground before Mary kicked Sara away as she ran off.


Both men exchanged blows before Oliver slammed Adrian against a window. Oliver threw him away and they grabbed each other before crashing down onto a table that collapsed under their combined weight They both groaned and got up on their feet as they circled each other.

"I told you, Oliver. I'm not gonna kill you and you can't kill me." Adrian gloated.

"Yes, Adrian. Yes, I can!" Oliver snarled.

Suddenly, he felt an arrow in the leg and was passing out as he saw Talia with a bow until his vision turned dark.


I briefly considered whether or not would Oliver get captured since it made no sense to me that someone, who had been trained by Ra's al Ghul as his successor cannot escape from shackles, but Aragorn II Elessar had established that it will happen. But I honestly think that the confession that Oliver likes killing is utter BS and I have some changes planned to the next part. And the reason why no one else helped was because they were too busy getting Doris and Anatoly out and fending off other villains.

Quite frankly, the whole episode 5x17 made little to no sense to me, due to the fact that Oliver likes killing is utter nonsense and like I said, someone, who had been trained by Ra's as his successor should be able to escape from shackles.

So, what do you guys think?

Please review and let me know if you have enjoyed this and want for me to continue.