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"We've been tailing your mother for days and she's done nothing off her routine so far." Bobbi said.
"And nothing in her home or office phone that would be out of the ordinary, asides from her calling Tommy's father." Natasha said.
"Why wouldn't she call him? They're old friends. We're all old friends." Oliver said sarcastically.
"We already know that whatever is Merlyn and your mother planning, it's linked to the Glades." Bobbi said.
"And when Walter was onto them, Merlyn had him kidnapped." Natasha said.
"I gotta ask her." Oliver said, about to leave.
"And how did that work out the last time?" Natasha pointed out.
"Not that kind of conversation." Oliver said, shooting Natasha a look.
Queen Manor
"Hey, Mom." Oliver said as he entered the living room.
Moira turned around, nervous at first but then relieved. "Walter's upstairs resting, I think he's doing well. Don't you?"
"Who took him?" Oliver asked bluntly.
"Well, we don't know yet. But I'm going to make sure all the resources of Queen Consolidated are behind him." Moira replied.
"That's the answer you have the press yesterday; I want the truth." Oliver said bluntly.
"I don't know what you mean." Moira dodged.
"I think you do." Oliver said. "A couple of months ago, when I showed you Dad's notebook, you seemed to know something; something about our family being in danger."
"Are you suggesting that I knew something about my husband's kidnapping?" Moira asked defensively.
"I'm suggesting that maybe you were scared." Oliver measured his words. "That maybe you didn't mean for any of this to happen. But it was harder than you thought. And now you're barely keeping your head above water. Please, Mom. Let me help you before you drown." He pleaded.
"You need to stop asking these things, do you understand?" Moira insisted, nervous. "I need you to stop."
"I can't. I need to know." Oliver said before the lights flickered.
"Is that a power outage?" Moira asked, confused about what was going on.
"I don't know." Oliver said before a dart hit his neck as he collapsed on the floor.
"Oliver!" Moira wailed, kneeling on the floor to check on him "Oliver!" Suddenly, she too was hit with a dart as she passed out.
Elsewhere
As Moira came to, she found herself tied to a metal chair in an abandoned warehouse as across her was Oliver, also bound to a chair.
"Mom!" Oliver yelled as he seemed to have woken up.
"Oliver…" Moira said weakly as she looked around. "How are we… we need to get out of here."
The Hood stepped out from the shadows. "Moira Queen. You have failed this city."
"Please, do not hurt my son." Moira begged.
"Tell me what the Undertaking is and I won't have to." Clint, disguised as the Hood stared at Oliver, who gave him an imperceptive nod as Clint slugged him and Oliver groaned.
"No!" Moira wailed.
"Tell me!" Clint snarled.
"Please, leave my son alone!" Moira begged, crying.
"What is Malcolm Merlyn planning?!" Clint demanded.
"I can't tell you! He'll kill me, he'll kill my family!" Moira cried out.
"You should be more worried about what I'll do!" Clint snarled before he tossed Oliver tied to the chair on the ground as Oliver gasped, faking pain.
"No! Malcolm is planning to level the Glades!" Moira finally broke. "He said so he could rebuild it but—"
"How?" Clint asked.
"There's a device." Moira said.
"What device?!" Clint demanded, nearing Moira.
"He says it can create an earthquake." Moira explained, shocking Clint and Oliver, although considering what he and Natasha had found in Unidac, this didn't completely surprise him.
"How is this possible?" The Hood asked.
"I don't know, he says it was created by Unidac Industries. He used my company's Applied Science Division to turn it into a weapon." Moira said.
"Why would you get involved in something like this?" The Hood demanded.
"My husband…" Moira said slowly as Oliver's shock, anger and feeling of betrayal were growing increasingly. "He got involved without my knowing. He was just trying to do some good. He was lost. He… his decisions left me vulnerable to Malcolm and I had no choice. I had to protect my family and children."
"The device. Where is it?" The Hood inquired.
"I don't know." Moira sobbed out.
"I can't stop Merlyn if you don't tell me!" The Hood snarled.
"You can't stop him, it's too late." Moira scoffed.
The Hood approached Oliver, pulling out a fletchette as Moira panicked. "No, no, no, I told you everything!" The Hood cut the restraints off before he approached Moira, also freeing her as Moira was walking towards limping Oliver. "Oliver!" She cried out.
"No!" Oliver pushed her away, betrayal and anger filling him.
"Oh, sweet… please, I know what you must be thinking, sweetheart but I never intended any of this to happen." Moira begged. "You know that I would never willingly be a part of anything like this."
"I don't know anything anymore." Oliver glared as he got up on his feet, limping out from the warehouse, not wanting to look back at his mother.
Later, the Lair
"You OK, Queen?" Clint asked as he handed Oliver an icepack.
"I've had worse, don't worry." Oliver assured him before turning to Bobbi. "I need you to dig up everything you can on Unidac Industries."
"It's an R&D tech company specialized in seismic infringement, we've been investigating them since that business with Kovar." Natasha said.
"Merlyn's planning to level the Glades with a device that triggers a manmade earthquake." Clint explained as Bobbi and Natasha stared at them in disbelief.
"You're kidding me." Bobbi muttered.
"What else does it say?" Oliver inquired.
"Wait a minute. There's a lot of media attention on something called 'The Unidac Massacre'." Bobbi said.
"Quite convenient." Natasha said.
"But look at this. According to this article, the police believes the copycat archer did this. The same one that almost killed you and that you spotted back in Unidac." Bobbi said.
"What?!" Oliver exclaimed.
"The other archer works for Merlyn." Clint realized.
"And he's tying up loose ends." Diggle added.
"To make sure there's no evidence of that device or that no one can point it back to him." Natasha said. "He also must be the one, who delivered Kovar the sarin gas. I think we need to talk with him very closely.
Oliver shook his head. "Well, even if we take out Merlyn, the other archer is still out there. He can set off the device." He sighed. "We need to find it. Then Merlyn can get his."
"We'll have to access the Merlyn Global Group mainframe, there's no way I can hack in remotely." Bobbi said.
Later, Merlyn Global Group
Clint, wearing a suit and Bobbi in her formal dress, both looking like high-class businessmen approached the reception.
"William Brandt. Lindsay Harrison. We have a 11.30 with Malcolm Merlyn." Clint said, showing his fake ID.
The guard checked their IDs before allowing them to go into the elevator.
Clint and Bobbi entered as the elevator closed before a young executive burst in with a pile of folders in his hand. "Hold that!" Bobbi pressed "close" but he managed to get in as he eyed Bobbi. "Where are you headed, sweetie?"
"19th floor." Bobbi said, trying to keep her voice calm.
"Too bad, I'm going to 13th—"
Annoyed, Clint knocked the executive's folders out of the elevator into the lobby, forcing him to get out as he was starting to gather the papers, while Bobbi pressed "close" button again.
"Ass." Bobbi muttered before pressing the device on her bracelet, sending the cameras into the loop as Clint pulled out a grapnel crossbow, while Bobbi tapped a button on her phone, while she opened the ceiling panel as they climbed up into the elevator shaft. "I think there's been a typo. No one has a meeting with Mr. Merlyn in 11.30. Oops."
Clint used the grapnel to swing across the gap between the elevators.
"Mainframe's at 25th floor." Natasha said, observing from across the street.
Clint and Bobbi snuck past the guards and approached the mainframe as Bobbi started downloading the data into her tablet. A guard was nearing her but Clint got behind him, grabbing him in chokehold as the guard passed out.
"Do you have it?" Clint asked.
"One minute… got it." Bobbi unplugged the tablet as she and Clint went out
Later, Natasha's apartment
"Are you alright, Oliver?" Natasha asked as he sat down next to her, still contemplating and processing his mother's betrayal.
"My father told me he failed the city." Oliver said, eying the List. "Asked me to right his wrongs but I never knew what he meant until now. The Undertaking. I promised myself when I crossed all the names off this List, I'd be done but…" He sighed. "Taking down these people, it doesn't honor him. I was just treating the symptoms while the disease festered. I stop the Undertaking… I wipe out the disease."
"So, once you stop the Undertaking, you'd resign as the Hood?" Natasha asked.
"We promised to each other we'd see through where we can go." Oliver said, turning to her. "What do you think?"
"I think you'd make a good S.H.I.E.L.D. agent." Natasha said.
"You know what I mean." Oliver said as they stared at each other before they kissed fiercely and laid down on the bed, stripping each other of their clothes. Oliver took off Natasha's top and unclipped her bra, while she unbuttoned his shirt and they kissed before Oliver ran his hands from Natasha's cheeks down her body as they continued making out.
Later at night, Natasha was lying on Oliver's chest, their clothes scattered across the room, their naked bodies pressed against each other under the sheet before both their phones went off as they picked them up.
"Yeah?" Oliver asked.
"I got the device. It's outside Merlyn Global Group in a warehouse in the Glades." Bobbi said.
Elsewhere
Clint, Bobbi, Natasha and Diggle were looking into a crate as they opened it, only to notice it was empty.
"Oliver, the device. It's gone." Diggle called out.
"Did you hear us, Oliver? Oliver, are you there?" Natasha called out.
"You should worry more about me."
They all whirled around, recognizing the voice as a man in white hood with a skull mask appeared, holding in his hand a bow and having a sheathed sword.
"William Brandt" is a reference to Jeremy Renner's character from Mission: Impossible franchise and "Lindsay Harrison" a reference to Adrianne Palicki's character from Smallville.
And I think you can guess who the new bad guy Natasha has to face, is.
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