The DEO discover the location of the totem...
(The DEO – 08:37)
35 hours since they had begun the search for the totem, and still very little progress. With so little information on the Arrow Totem, browsing through their records of what was known about The Outsiders was proving to be fruitless, as nothing pointed them in the direction they were hoping. The only things they were discovering were the activities which The Outsiders engaged in. Involved in multiple political uprisings, revolutions, and assassinations, all for their own gain. Their status in the underworld reminded Oliver of the League. He stood with Slade in the DEO, anxiously awaiting anything that would be of use to them.
"Any luck?" asked Clark, as he walked up next to Oliver and Slade.
"Clark, if I find something, I will probably pump my fist in the air and let you know" replied Winn, slightly annoyed.
"Come on, there has to be something on it" said Oliver, as his frustration began to boil over.
"Oliver, I've been looking. We've all been looking. The Outsiders were always very coy about the whereabouts of the totem, they rarely even speak of it" replied Winn.
"Well, if the leader of The Outsiders carries the totem, then who was their last leader?" asked Slade.
"A man named Henri Ducard. Seven years ago, his body was found in Latvia, no sign of the totem" replied Winn.
"Wait, wait. Latvia?" asked Oliver.
"Yeah, why?" asked Winn.
"Seven years ago, Lacroix was in Latvia" said Oliver, as he remembered reading about Komodo being spotted there in a case file, "What was Ducard's cause of death?" Winn quickly typed into his computer, bringing the report up.
"A black arrow through the heart" said Winn, "If Lacroix got to him, why doesn't he have the totem?"
"Either Lacroix got it but lost it at another point after, or Ducard knew Lacroix was coming and hid it from him" said Slade.
"Well, he hid it well if it's this hard to track down" replied Winn. Oliver reflexively clasped his left hand, as he did whenever he was agitated. This time however, he recognised his action, and with it accompanied a moment of realisation.
"What if we've been looking at this the wrong way?" asked Oliver, drawing the full attention of Slade, Clark and Winn, "This whole time we've just accepted what the totem is, we haven't looked at why the totem, is what it is."
"Are you implying the totem could be of alien origin?" asked Clark.
"Yes. Think about it. It's an artifact. It's been forged."
"Well, what materials could it possibly be made of?" asked Slade.
"Anything alien" replied Clark, "I mean Promethium, Dionesium, Nth met… Nth Metal. It could be made of Nth Metal. The planet that Nth Metal is from, Thanagar, was known to craft weapons and items with it."
"Yeah, the Arrow Totem could be a Thanagarian artifact" said Winn.
"Wait, I thought Nth Metal was just extremely strong. It's used in my bow" said Oliver.
"Nth Metal is extremely versatile. The Thanagarians even used to use it to defy gravity" explained Clark.
"Winn, cross-reference the description of the Arrow Totem with Thanagarian artifacts" requested Oliver. Winn did so, but the search quickly came up negative on the DEO database.
"The Fortress of Solitude database might have something" said Clark just before he burst off into flight, out of the DEO. They waited no more than a couple of minutes before the DEO received an incoming communication from the Fortress, which Winn speedily answered.
"Got it."
"That quickly?" asked Winn.
"I can speed-read. It was called the Aegis by the Thanagarians. The description here matches exactly with what we know of the Arrow Totem. Winn, use the Radiatron to try find it."
"Radiatron?" asked Oliver.
"It's a Thanagarian invention that detects radiation" explained Winn, as he typed furiously into his computer, "However, it can be also be used to scan for other Thanagarian inventions. The DEO has one attached to a satellite in orbit, and if you just give me one moment to reprogram it, it'll start scanning the planet right… now!" exclaimed Winn, as he pressed the enter key on his keyboard, causing the digital image of the globe to appear on the main screens of the DEO.
They all watched the sweeping of the global model anxiously for several seconds, waiting for the results to show. One sweep… Two sweeps… Three sweeps… The thought that they may possibly have been wrong flirted with their minds as nothing came up. Suddenly, a binging sound rang from Winn's computer, as the globe zoomed in to the location of the totem.
"It's on an island?" said Winn in slight surprise.
Oliver instinctively studied the area of the map surrounding the red flickering dot of its location. The contours, the placements of lakes, the meanders of streams, the shape of the island…
"You've got to be kidding me" exclaimed Slade, as he and Oliver both came to a realisation of where the totem was situated…
A/N: I wonder which island it could be...
