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Chapter 7 Unthinkable
My name is Nathan Queen. After a fatal accident, I made a deal with the devil. Now I have returned to protect my city, like my brother. But first I must protect my sister and brother and bring the man who murdered my mother to justice, but to do this I must become someone else. I must become something else.
"Oliver?" Diggle asks. "Oliver, man, you okay?"
He turns around to see Roy still on the table, stationary. "The cure's not working," Oliver says.
"We don't know that," Felicity says. She turns her head to Oliver. "He still has a lot of Tibetan pit viper venom in his system.
An alarm then blares through the room. "What's that?" I ask.
"Proximity alarm," Felicity says.
"Oh bloody hell," I exclaim.
"I rigged the tower with sensors in case goons came here to kill us," Felicity explains. She loos on her tablet and then turns her head up and says, "Slade's goons are here to kill us."
"Talk to me, Felicity," Oliver orders.
"They're inside. They're right underneath us," Felicity explains.
"Where am I?" Roy says, getting up. Everyone turs to Roy with an expression of surprise. Felicity gasps. Then one of Slade's soldier's breaks through the door. Roy runs over and tries to punch him only hurting himself. I then run over and kick him in the face causing him to fall. I hear Felicity scream and look over to see one of Slade's soldier's grab her leg through a gap in the floor. Dig shots him and knocks him off of Felicity. Oliver shots an Arrow that somehow creates a zip line. Roy jumps down it. Followed by me, then Dig with the Mirakuru cure. And finally Oliver grabs Felicity and zip line's down with her. We then hear a helicopter it flies right beside the building we were in and flashes it's light at it. Then a missile flies out and hits the building. I get a better view of the person in the helicopter, a woman.
Time skip.
We're moving to Oliver's lair. "Okay, so what exactly are you?" the woman who was in the helicopter, Lyla says.
"You can call me the Spirit of Vengeance and I'm going to kill Slade for killing someone I care about. That's all that matters right now," I say.
"We aren't going to kill anyone," Oliver says.
I groan. "Oh Mr. goody to shoes has another 'we need to be better than them' speech. Great," I say, the last part sarcastically.
"Nobody's freaked out by his head being on fire? No one?" Roy asks.
"Look, kiddy's, I'm on your side and that's all that matters, okay?" I say, to all of them but mostly Roy, Felicity and Oliver, my tone leaving no room for a reply.
Time skip.
We get in the base, which is completely and utterly destroyed. "Oh, my god," Felicity says.
"What happened here," Roy asks.
"Slade's army. You were right about the place being compromised," Diggle says.
"Lyla. Your boss is gonna bomb the city," Oliver says.
"Yeah. Waller's never seen a problem that she didn't think couldn't be solved with a droned strike," Diggle says.
"It isn't like we don't have enough problems," I say.
"Why do you think I'm here?" Lyla says.
Diggle's head turns to look at Lyla. "You knew that Waller was going to level the city and you came here anyway?" Diggle asks.
"You're here," Lyla says.
"You need to go back to A.R.G.U.S. You need to stop Waller of buy us enough time to stop Slade," Oliver says.
"Yeah, not without me. Till death do us part, right?" Diggle says
"This time it might," Lyla says.
"Guys I need you to scrounge as many weapons as you can, especially injection arrows. We're gonna load them with the cure, which clearly works. This ends tonight, without killing," Oliver says, the last part mostly to me. "There's been enough death already," he says.
Time skip.
I look at the broken glass and see Zarathos. "You should have argued more. These monsters need to be put down," Zarathos says.
"They do, but like you said I need their help and arguing with Robin Hood won't get it," I reply. Lyla and Diggle look at me with confusion written on their face.
"Still, we can't just let them live," Zarathos comments.
"We'll need them. Them and a lot more. We need either an army or a miracle," I reply.
"I know," A female voice says. I turn to her, so did Lyla and Diggle but they aim their guns as well. I see a beautiful woman, barely less beautiful than Laurel. Behind here was Sara, my crushes sister, and a small army of men in ninja like costumes. "Which is why an army is what I've brought," she says.
"Gee, Sara you could've called before you invited five, six; seven, seven assassins down into our top secret lair," Felicity says.
"What is she doing here?" Oliver asks.
"I asked her to come," Sara says, Sara and Oliver then walk off to chat.
The woman walks over to me. "I am Nyssa, daughter of Ra's al Ghul, heir to the demon," the woman says as she walked over to me. "It is an honor to meet a Spirit of Vengeance," she then adds.
"A? as in the are more like me?" I ask.
"There was," Nyssa says. "We thought your kind died out a little over three thousand years ago," she says. "Their disappearance inspired the first Ra's to create the league of assassins."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Nyssa," I say. We shake hands.
We then walk over to Sara and Oliver, with Felicity following. "To fight the unthinkable you have to be willing to do the unthinkable," Sara says.
"You may not want my help, Mr. Queen," Nyssa says, causing Oliver to look at us. "But there is little question that you are in desperate need of it."
"First we need to find Slade's base of operations," Sara says.
"Slade Wilson and Isabel Rochev are using your former office building as their base of operations," Nyssa says.
Oliver walks over to Roy. Nyssa and me walk over.
"She's fine. Thea and Nate were headed put of the city before this started," Oliver says. He then turns to both Nyssa and me. "We do this my way," Oliver says.
"The league does not take prisoners," Nyssa says.
"And neither does the Spirit of Vengeance," I add.
"They do tonight," Oliver says.
Time skip.
One of Slade's soldier's walk past the door, only for it to open to reveal to unconscious members of Slade's gang. Sara drops down and stabs him with a cure arrow which causes him to groan before falling unconscious. "Elevator bank's clear," Sara says.
Oliver hits a soldier with an arrow causing him to fall down. Oliver then fights two, knocking one down and then injecting the other one with an injection arrow. "Conference room's clear," Oliver says.
Both Oliver and Sara walk into Oliver's old office, with Slade, Isabel, and his men waiting for them "You must have quite a bit of faith in this cure if you've come alone," Deathstroke says.
"We didn't come alone," Oliver says. Nyssa, a bunch of her assassins and me jump into the building.
Nyssa and her assassins fire injection arrows which hit two of Slade's men. Oliver fires three injection arrows. Two bounce off of his suit, the other he blocked with his sword. Sara and Isabel start to fight, using their weapons. Slade's men run at Oliver but the league take them out. Slade makes a run for the window, I try to hit him but I miss, and he zip wires out of there. I then turn to Rochev and I lasso my chain around her waist. Pulling her over to me. I then pick her up by the throat. "Where is Slade Wilson!?" I demand.
"Go to hell," she says.
"Already been there. It sucks," I say. "Now answer my bloody question."
"Go to hell," she repeats.
"Spirit. No!" Oliver shouts, knowingly.
I then burn the skin off of her body. Oliver aims his arrow at me and Nyssa and her men aim there's at Oliver. Isabel screams as her skin burns off, until she's a pile of ashes
"Your reticence to do what is necessary; is why your city burns," Nyssa says. Nyssa walks out of there and I follow her.
Time skip.
Detective Lance walk in and aims his gun at Nyssa. "What is she doing here?" he asks.
Sara walks over to Lance, saying, "She's here to help." Sara then lowers his gun. "Just trust me, please." He puts his gun away.
"Guess I'll have to work with anybody who can help get my daughter back," Lance says.
"What?" Sara asks.
"One of these masked guys they took Laurel," Lance says. "I couldn't stop him. Believe me, I; I tried."
"Oh, we have a new big problem; which considering our other problems, is really saying something. I hacked a satellite and tasked it for thermographic imaging. All of Slade's men are at the Giordano Tunnel," Felicity explains.
"I thought these guys were trying to destroy the city not escape it," Lace says.
"A.R.G.U.S. is going to level the city to stop them from getting out. It's what Slade's planning on. He knows Waller's tactics," Oliver says.
"Meaning they'll all be at the same place. Giving us the perfect opportunity to take them all down at once," I say. Lance turns to me and by his expression he hadn't seen me before.
"What the hell is that!?" Lance asks.
"Look all you need to know is that I'm the Spirit of Vengeance. I want to see Slade take his final breath, and I don't want to see any innocents like your daughter getting hurt," I say.
"Spirit's right. We need to take it," the Arrow says, agreeing with me.
"What about Laurel? Wilson took her for a reason," Lance says.
"I know what it is. But the city comes first," the Arrow says.
"This is my daughter. This is your sister," Lance says, motioning to Sara. "You can't just leave her like this! Look I know you said you were trying another way, and I respect that; but Slade Wilson, his men, they're monsters. And monsters, they need to be destroyed. You've killed before. Tonight I suggest you get back in the habit." Lance and Sara leave the room. I see Felicity walking over to Oliver, and think, 'oh great. Another, sappy speech about how Quinton is wrong and he doesn't have to kill'. I follow them out of the room, not wanting to hear this.
Lance walks over to me. "Sorry about what I said about monster's needing to be put down. You seem like an okay guy," Lance says.
"Oh, I'm just as human as you are, you know, just with a demon inside of me," I say.
"Um, okay," Lance says.
"Good chat," I say, walking off.
Time skip.
Oliver, Roy, Sara, Nyssa, her assassins and me walk across the tunnel walking closer to Slade's men, but he isn't here for some reason or another. "no kill shots. Let the cure do its work," Oliver says. Slade's men charge at us, and we walk to them. "Ready!" Oliver shouts, and both groups continue moving. "Ready!" he repeats. "Ready! Fire!" he shouts. The archer's fire cure arrows at the goons. I reach them and I bulldoze through them punching, kicking, knocking them over with my chain, but reluctantly not killing. We had basically defeated all of them when someone said something through the coms.
"You've been busy, kid," Slade says, through the coms.
"It's over, Slade. Your army is broken," Oliver says.
"And I pity them. But once again, you missed the point. I have the one you love. You're going to meet me where I say. Otherwise, I am going to kill her," Slade says, through the coms.
"No, you do what you have to. I'm done playing your games," Oliver says.
"You're done when I say you're done! I was surprised. I thought you had a thing for stronger women. But now that I've met her; I can see the appeal. She is quite lovely; your Felicity," Slade says.
Time skip.
Oliver told me to stay behind, that he would take down Slade. But unfortunately for him, and Slade. I'm not the best at following orders. I'm though surprisingly stealth for someone with a flaming head. Oliver and Sara didn't notice me the whole time. Probably too distracted by the thought of the people they care about being hurt. I watched him as he walks over to our mother's murderer who's holding a sword to his friend's neck.
"Drop the bow, kid," Slade says. Slade puts the blade closer to Felicity's neck. "Do it." Oliver slowly lowers his bow before placing it on the ground. Slade's last remaining man carries Laurel in, holding her by wrapping his arm around her neck. "Yes, countless nights dreaming; of taking from you all that you took from me," he says.
"By killing the women I love," Oliver asks.
"Yes."
"Like you loved Shado?"
"Yes."
"You see her; don't you? What does she look like in your madness, Slade?" Oliver asks. Slade drops Felicity to her knees, removing his blade from her throat. "What does she say to you? I remember her being beautiful, young, kind. And she would be horrified by what you've done in her name," he says.
"What I have done," Slade says, walking closer to Oliver. "What I have done; is what you lack the courage to do; to fight for her!" he then walks back to Felicity. "So; when her body lies at your feet; her blood wet against your skin; then you will know how I feel!" he shouts.
"I already know how you feel. I know what it's like to hate. And now I know how it feels; to see my enemy so distracted; he doesn't see the real danger is right in front of him," Oliver says. Felicity stands up and pulls out a Mirakuru cure in a syringe out of her pocket and stab it into Slade's neck. Sara shots the Mirakuru soldier holding Laurel in the back. Causing him to let her go. Then I swing my chain at Slade and pull him to me and grab him by the neck.
"Spirit! Don't do this!" the Arrow shouts.
"No. He deserves to die! He killed her! He killed her!" I shout.
"Killed who?" the Arrow asks.
"My mother! He killed my mother! And now he's going to pay with his life!" I shout.
"You don't have to do this? Is this what you think she'd have wanted?" the Arrow asks.
"You have no idea what she'd have wanted!" I shout.
"Laurel! Don't!" I hear Sara shot. Out of the corner of my eye I see Laurel walk over to me.
"You don't have to do this," Laurel says as she walks beside me.
My eyes flicker, shifting into a darker colour. "Yes I do! You have no idea who I am!? Not really!?" I shout.
"If you do this, you will be so full of hate and anger that you'll turn into a monster. You'll turn into him. Don't do this," she begs.
I close my eyes and take a couple of deep breaths. I then look at Slade. I drop my chains. I then punch him in the face sending him flying. I turn to look Laurel in the eyes. "Thank you," I say. I see her smile. I then hear a groan and turn to see Slade getting up. I turn to the Arrow. "Arrow, I've got this. Don't worry I won't hurt him; much," I say. The Arrow nods. Slade's gotten up and I walk over to him. He charges at me, swing his sword at my head. I gab the blade of the sword and snap it in two, and releasing the piece of the blade in my hand. Slade drops the handle of the sword and punches me, which I barely noticed. I let him punch me a few more times, letting him ware himself down. He then pulls out his gun and shots me twice in the head before I grabbed the wrist of the hand he's holding the gun in, and twist it causing him to let it go. He then looks at me to see the bullet marks in my head heal almost instantly, and the bullets fall out of my head. "You won't hurt them," I say before punching him, falling off of his feet but I grabbed him by the collar of his armor. "You won't hurt anyone I care about again," I add before punching him again. "And you won't ruin my life any more than you already have," I add before punching him again, causing him nose to bleed. I then let go of his collar. I take a step back. "And that's a promise," I say, before kicking him in the face.
"Amanda it's over," the Arrow says over the coms. "Slade's down. His army's been taken out. Call back the drones. Amanda, it's over!"
"It's done," a female voice says.
"So, we just saved the city, right?" I ask.
"Yeah, I think we just did," the Arrow says.
I sigh in relief. "Please, do me a favor, and make sure this lunatic never sees the light of day, ever again," I say. The Arrow nods. "Well, I think that's my cue to go," I say.
"You're just going to leave?" he asks.
"Don't worry, I won't be far. See you around the streets some time," I say. He nods again. I then run off, disappearing into the night.
Time skip
I'm standing on a rooftop, looking down at a beautiful sight. Laurel, in her house, relaxed. I smile. I pull out my phone and call her. She answers. "Hey," I say.
"Hey," Laurel says.
"Did you get my voice mail?" I ask.
"Yeah," she says.
"I heard about the city wide attack on the news and wanted to check on you. Make sure you're alright," I say.
"I'm fine," she says.
"I'm really glad to hear it," I say.
"I need to go check up on my dad," she says.
"Yeah, go," I say.
"Goodnight Nate," she says.
"Goodnight, Laurel," I reply, I tear rolling down my check. She hangs up. I just watch her for a few more seconds, before rubbing the tear off my check and walking away.
I hope you liked this chapter. I'm sorry if the showdown between Nate, Arrow and co and Slade's army wasn't as good as you'd hoped it'd be, but I didn't know how I was supposed to write it with so many characters fighting all at once. Also, the other spirits of the Vengeance, will be important in season 3 and maybe 7. Please give me any suggestions or pieces of constructive criticism. And until next time, Ant-boy out.
