Mick cracked his neck. "So, how many of these do we have left?"

"At least fifty Mr. Rory." Gideon replied.

Mick sighed. "Well then I'll make a drinking game out of it."

Jax raised his head to thief confused. "Really?"

Mick nodded. "Yeah we'll each take a drink every time someone gives me a dirty look or bird nose complains about how she used to be a barista."

Carter and Kendra glare at Mick.

Sara smiled holding up her can. "Two drinks."

Rip just ignored the Legends and hit play.

The memory set opened on Oliver working out in the redesigned lair, doing reps of pull-ups and push ups hanging off the gear over the Salmon ladder, before leaping off and taking out an arm on the training dummy with an elbow.

Clark sat at his desk in work finishing a story that will likely crucify this world's Oliver Queen but just as quickly hits the delete button on a story that started as 'Millionaire Mobster'. He needs more proof before throwing stones at anyone and given Oliver was already arrested as the Hood and is not likely to open up and is not... not this again. He looked around the empty office before quickly disappearing in a blur.

The scene shifted to a dark road as a FEMA truck drove through the remains of the Glades. It was soon joined by a pair of bikers on dirt bikes who began harassing the truck.

"Faster!" the man in the passenger seat told the driver.

"Foot's on the floor, man." The driver replied. "Call it in."

Mick smiled. "Hey an ambulance job!"

Ray turned to him. "Really?"

"It was good money haircut." Mick replied.

Kendra looked at the screen concerned. Sara looked at the screen in regret. She remembers this and could have easily broke China's neck. But that would definitely invoke the League of Assassins on Starling City at the time.

"This is FEMA truck 52. We're being pursued by two armed bikers. We're heading south on Third Street, requesting immediate assistance."

A short distance away, Roy sat in a mustang, a police scanner sitting between the seats. He listened to the message, then popped the clutch and took off, racing to help.

In the truck, the two bikers pulled up alongside the cab. "Come on, get us out of here." The passenger urged his partner. "Get us out of here!"

"I'm trying!" he replied.

Ahead of the truck, Roy drove straight at them with his lights off. Seeing the situation, he pulled to the left and gunned his engine. At the last moment he turned his lights on, and the biker swerved to avoid being hit by him. He did not, however, avoided plowing in to the back of a parked car, the impact of which sent him skidding across the tops of the parked cars and to the ground hard. Roy grinned in victory.

In the truck, the passenger, looked back in amazement. "Who the hell was that?" he wondered.

The other biker peeled off and turned around, heading towards Roy. Roy spun the mustang around and gunned it, heading towards the biker. It looked to be a repeat, until the biker pulled out a Mac-10 and opened fire, spraying the hood of the car with bullets. The sparks it kicked up momentarily blinded Roy, and when his vision cleared it was too late to avoided the large pile of debris on the road. The mustang hit the debris and flipped over completely, slamming down to the ground and skidding on blown tires and a busted frame for several feet.

Carter shook his head. "Foolish, brave, but was also foolish all the same."

Stein shook his head in wonder. "It's amazing it took him a year and a half to get killed."

Sara thought she should defend her friend but given there's a chance they'll see her smack him around soon she doesn't really have a leg to stand on.

Meanwhile, the men in the FEMA truck thought they had gotten away- until the two men spotted a figure in the road up ahead. As they got closer, they saw she was an Asian woman with stark white hair, twirling a pair of knives…

China White threw the knives at the truck. They smashed through the windshield and hit both men in the neck, killing them. As the dead drivers foot fell of the gas, the truck slowly came to a stop. A moment later, the second biker pulled up next to her and got off of his bike.

"Chéngzuò kǎchē. Shēnhòu liú xià shénme." She told him. He nodded and jumped into the cab as she climbed onto the bike.

A short distance away, three cop cars surrounded the totaled Mustang as Roy crawled out of it. They approached him with guns drawn.

"Forever answering why I needed the Atom suit." Ray replied dryly.

"Just so you know, the real bad guys are getting away!" He spat at them angrily as he collapsed against the side of the wrecked vehicle.

The scene changed to Verdant, where the night was just getting started. Diggle stood watching the crowd of writhing patrons as Oliver, now dressed in a suit, came up to him.

"We're going to need more sparring dummies." He told his friend with a smile.

"I'll start ordering them in bulk." Diggle replied. "This mean you're ready to launch crusade 2.0?"

"I'm ready, I just don't know where to begin." Oliver admitted. "Last year, I had the list. Getting justice was as simple as crossing names out of a book."

Sara frowned and had to ask. "Gideon, how many names were on the list Oliver fought at a later date?"

"Isabel Roschev, Daniel Brickwell, Sebastian Blood, Tobias Church..."

Sara waved her hand. "Alright that's enough!"

"Problems" Mick asked with a smile.

Sara glared at him and Mick took a swig of beer. "No, but when we get back I'm going to nail that book into Oliver's hands.

"This is Starling City. You never have to look far to find someone engaged in illegal activity." Dig noted. "Yesterday Big Belly Burger got robbed."

"Was Carly there? She OK?" Oliver asked at once in concern.

Dig took a moment to answer. "Yeah, she was, um, it was her day off." He answered awkwardly.

"Good. Well, the three of us should get dinner." Oliver suggested. "I haven't seen her since I got back."

"Why the sudden interest in my love life?" Dig asked.

"If it's important to you, it's important to me." Oliver replied.

Kendra simply face palmed as Carter watched in disbelief and he thought he was bad at reading people.

Snart looked at the screen it's more then obvious to him. "Is he always this..."

"Yes!" Sara replied. It's more then obvious to her that Dig and whoever this Carly is was already over.

"Hey!" Thea said happily, running up to the pair. "I didn't see you come in."

"I had a secret entrance installed when I ran the club." Oliver said, actually telling the truth. She gave him a look and he smiled. "Kidding." He lied.

Jax looked at Sara. "Is your dad really this bad at catching him?"

Sara shrugged. "I think he just didn't want to after the Undertaking. Oliver and the Hood returning is way too much of a smoking gun for him to ignore unless he wanted to."

Thea thought about pressing, but then her phone rang. "Hello?" she said, moving behind the two to shield herself from some of the sound as she held the phone tightly to her ear. "Yes, yeah, this is Thea Queen." She listened, and her expression turned from puzzlement to concern to annoyed anger. "Of course that's where he is."

The scene changed to the police station, where Roy was sitting cuffed in the interview room. He stared ahead stoically as Laurel circled around behind him.

"Who is he, Roy?" she asked.

"I already told you, I don't know." Roy replied impassively.

"So you just happen to have one of his arrows." She said, tossing down the flechette that Roy had kept in his pocket ever since he had been saved. He had painted it red, though- a fact he used against his interrogator.

"I hear he likes green ones." He noted.

"Do you think this is funny?" Laurel demanded. "Because I can charge you with obstruction right now!"

Carter looked at the screen. "Have a feeling this wouldn't be his first time arrested."

Ray looked at the screen. "Every day of the week sometimes twice on Sunday if his file is accurate."

Roy said nothing, so she decided to take another approach. She sat down across from him. "Look I used to feel the same way as you." She admitted. "He has this way of seducing you."

" Making you feel like he's some kind of guardian angel. But he's not. He causes chaos and death. And you trying to emulate him just makes the situation worse."

Kendra looked at the screen. "A modern day Robin Hood makes news. Does she forget how much he saved her."

Ray frowned knowing where Laurel's anger is coming from. "You watched Carter die 200 times you never went through angry grief before?"

Kendra nodded and her eyes went back to the screen.

"Half the city fell into a hole." Roy noted. "I'd say the situation's already worse. Look, some of us are just trying to make it better."

Laurel scoffed. "Who, like you and the Hood?"

"Look, there—" he paused, then leaned forward. "There are others. Others out there who are willing to do what's right. I've seen them. People have seen a streak, I've seen her." He told her.

"I'm not interested in anyone else." Laurel said. "Just him."

"As always." Sara teased.

A short time later, Roy finally exited the room to find Thea and Oliver waiting for him.

"What happened?" Thea asked, and then took in his appearance. "Are you hurt?"

"Fender bender." Roy said dismissively.

"He totaled his car playing hood junior." Laurel said.

"At least it wasn't my car." Roy shot back.

Mick smiled finally a good guy he can get behind.

"Don't say anything!" Thea said in annoyance. "I already called you an attorney."

"That won't be necessary, we're not pressing charges." Laurel told them. "So long as he gives up looking for trouble."

Thea rolled her eyes. "Might as well tell him to give up breathing."

"I'll talk to him." Oliver told Laurel quietly.

Snart looked at the screen. "Goodbye Mr. Harper."

Sara shook her head. "And he was so young too."

"Ask him if he knows anything about the Vigilante." Laurel said, watching as Roy and Thea had a quiet argument. "Roy has obviously forged some sort of connection to him. Maybe it goes both ways."

"Doesn't sound like the Vigilante to have a groupie." Oliver said.

"That's just it- we don't know anything about the Vigilante." Laurel said. "Except for every time that he shows up, all hell breaks loose. It has to stop, Ollie. He has to be stopped." Laurel walked away, leaving a very frustrated Oliver behind.

Sara shook her head. Laurel is channeling her father from when Oliver first got back. She should have found a way to come back sooner.

Rip frowned seeing the effects of the recording on Sara it's bad enough to know Laurel is gone. Now she has to see this year in particular has to be salt in the wound.

Laurel kept walking until she walked up to a man in a gray suit and glasses. "The press already?"

Clark looked at her. "I was nearby covering the explosion on second." These guys blow something up and then attack the ambulances when Clark is busy elsewhere. This makes three now.

Snart looked at the screen. "So that's where the boyscout disappeared too."

Stein turned to the thief. "I'm sure you and Mr. Rory have used similar tactics against the Flash in the past."

Snart pointed to the screen. "Only when I first got started then I learned to be efficient."

"I miss simpler times." Mick added.

Laurel nodded. "Right that fire went right out on it's own. It's a line of weird occurrences."

"I heard you have the vigilante in custody. Is that true?" Clark asked.

Laurel smiled. "We had a vigilante, just not the one you're looking for. Please tell me you're not writing a story on him."

"I might be." Clark answered.

Laurel looked at him. "Positive or Negative?"

"Haven't figured that part out yet." Clark replied honestly.

Sara looked at the screen intrigued. "Gideon does Ollie know this guy from his five years away?"

"No Ms. Lance."

Ray shared Sara's interest as this guy seems to already know Oliver is the Green Arrow long before he wrote that story. "Is he a secret relative of mine?"

"No Mr Palmer. I believe it would be easier to just watch history as it happens."

Laurel looked at him. "Well if you find anything incriminating please deliver it to the cops."

"I will Ms..."

Laurel looked at him. "Oh!" She held out her hand. "Dinah Laurel Lance. But call me Laurel"

"Clark Kent"

Clark looked down hearing his phone as he digs it out of his pocket. "Go ahead Derrick, are you alright, just slow down... alright, I'll be right there."

Laurel looked at him. "Something wrong?"

"Maybe" Clark replied honestly. "I gotta go. I'm sorry. It was nice meeting you Ms. Lance." Clark replied as he headed for the exit wondering what was so important to the man.

Oliver looked at Roy with narrowed eyes.

"Thea." He called out as he walked towards the pair. His eyes were fixed on Roy. "Can you ask Mr. Diggle to bring the car around, please?"

Thea sighed, and then put a hand on Roy's shoulder. "I'll always think of you fondly." She told him wryly, and then moved off to find Diggle leaving Roy and Oliver alone.

Jax looked at the screen with a smile. "You can almost hear the funeral music."

Carter shook his head. "Strict talking to."

"How do you know that?" Jax asked.

Carter looked at him. "I was a big brother in fifteen lives. Made it awkward when I accidentally became the student of my 64 year old little sister."

"Save the speeches." Roy said after she was gone. "Your ex-girlfriend already laid one on me. Still, no effect."

"I used to be a lot like you, Roy." Oliver started.

Roy scoffed. "I doubt that. I spend more time in the back of cop cars than limos, so…" He moved to walk past him, but was stopped suddenly as Oliver grabbed his injured arm in an iron grip.

"The world doesn't work anymore." Oliver began as Roy gasped in pain. "It broke a long time ago, but it was like you were the only one who noticed. That makes you angry." Oliver let go. "And you're afraid that that anger is going to burn you up inside if you have to live in the world one second longer knowing that you could do something to fix it." He stared at Roy hard. "That anger's going to put you in the hospital, kid. Or worse."

Ray looked at the screen remembering his moments after Anna's death. Opting not to speak as the legends just took Ollie's speech in.

Mick looked at the screen... and simply yawned.

"Well, I'll take worse." Roy said. "It's better to be dead than in a hospital these days, right?"

Oliver looked at him in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Been to the Glades Memorial, lately?"

Oliver blinked. "No, but I didn't read that it was damaged by the quake."

"It wasn't." Roy said. "The medicine that FEMA's been sending the hospital is being hijacked. So, if they don't re-supply, they'll be forced to close."

"By who?" Oliver demanded.

Sara shook her head. "It's sad how many ways there are to answer that question in Starling."

"I don't know!" Roy exclaimed angrily. "The doctors and nurses are already bailing on the place. And the cops?" He asked sarcastically. "The cops rarely venture that deep into the Glades, so I guess that leaves only me! What's it take to make you angry?" he asked Oliver hotly. When he didn't reply, he scoffed and walked off, leaving Oliver to think.

FIVE YEARS AGO

The scene flashed back to the Island. Oliver was staring at his hands, Hands he had just used to bash another man's skull in. He looked past his hand to the body. He looked up at his companions, who looked back worriedly, then turned away and sat down heavily.

Mick looked at the screen. "What's the big deal it was a rock girl arrow is saved."

"DRINK YOUR BEER!" Every other Legend replied simultaneously.

"Others will come." Shado said. "They won't be happy we killed their men."

"All the more reason to figure out why they're here." Slade said, kneeling down to begin rifling through the men's pockets. He pulled a folded up piece of paper out of the first one's shirt and opened it up. "It's a map. Of the island chain, containing Lian Yu. This is similar to the recon shots that A.S.I.S. gave me before I came here to rescue your father." He said. "Whatever they're looking for, it must be here, on this island." He looked up at Oliver sadly. "I've seen men in war with that look in their eyes."

"What look?" Shado asked.

"The one that says he's split into someone else." He explained. "Someone he doesn't even recognize. If someone doesn't talk to him, it'll tear him up."

Rip watched the screen knowing the past as it was he looked into recruiting Oliver from his first fight with Ra's Al Ghul knowing Dig would take over with a beast of a crossbow seeing Starling needed a Green Arrow but Ollie was too much of a wild card in changing the past and if they learned what happened to Laurel Oliver and Sara would have had a mutiny and got him off the ship in all of seven seconds.

Rip focused on the other Lian Yu survivor. He looked down and saw her fist clenched tightly to the point her fingernails might draw blood. "Sara, are you OK?"

Sara's hands immediately loosened up. "I'm fine."

Shado looked at him, then back at Oliver. She walked over to him as Slade watched sadly. Shado moved in front of him and leaned over, taking his hands in hers "Come on. Let's get away from this place." She told him, giving him a reassuring smile.

PRESENT

Clark saw Derrick and his super speed gave way the next block over letting Clark walk to avoid attention. "Derrick."

"Hey kid."

Clark looked at him. "Why did you call me? It sounded urgent."

Derrick turned to the right. Clark followed his eyesight and saw what looked like a young teenage girl face down on the sidewalk he followed the trail of blood and saw it started a foot from him on the street. "You moved her!"

Derrick looked at him. "Hey if I didn't someone would have drove right over her by now."

Clark looked at him. "And you didn't call the cops!"

Derrick laughed at him. "Kid, this is the Glades, only stupid cops are dumb enough to come all the way out here. I can tell because I called them an hour ago."

Clark sighed. "How did she die?"

Derrick shook his head. "She was dancing to imaginary music didn't even see it coming. Coroner will say she got hit by a car. But what really killed her." Derrick rifled through her pockets and pulled out what appeared to be a bag of powder to Clark. "Is this right here."

Clark took the small of powder looking it over and saw the sadness in his friends eyes. "You knew her?"

Derrick looked at him. "Lily, yeah, I knew her. I was friends with her parents before the Undertaking. Then I lost my wife Lily lost her family. And that's when things changed."

Sara shook her head. "Malcolm's legacy endures. Really should have sprung Nyssa and killed him on Nanda Parbat."

Stein looked at her. "That would have been murder Sara."

Sara glared at him. "And his five hundred plus kills was just what... super villain playtime."

Kendra frowned and turned back to the screen. "Let's just focus on the clips for now OK guys."

"What do you mean?" Clark asked as he saw the uncomfortable look on his friend's face. "Sorry, journalist instincts."

Derrick nodded and looked down defeated more then Clark has ever seen him. "It's fine. I've caught her doing stuff before drinking beer, smoking weed but she was 15 and a kid born in the glades at that it just seemed normal to me. But ever since her parents it's just been that crap! I tried to help but she just kept pushing me away. Looking back I don't think I want to know how she kept having money to pay for this. I should have fought harder, look past myself, but I didn't, I failed the kid."

Clark pocketed the girl's stash. "I'll look into it. As long as you wait and tell the cops what happened here."

"Just help me find the person who sold her this crap." Derrick turned and watched the sirens in the distance. "Gee, this close to two hours too." Derrick turned to see Clark but instead saw nothing but the wall. "How does he do that?"

Ray looked at the screen. "Wow, he can be like Ollie with Barry's powers."

Rip thought about it. "Well that's a scary thought Mr. Palmer."

Sara thought on the visual until she smiled at her friend thankful for the laugh.

The scene changed to Glades Memorial. Oliver and Diggle walked through the halls, taking in the signs of desperation all around them.

"They survived the quake and ended up here. From one hell to the next." Diggle said.

"Yeah, whoever's stealing from here, they won't be for much longer." Oliver vowed. The two ducked into a stairwell and headed down to the ground floor. Out front Oliver saw a man talking to both protesters and the media.

"This city is failing on all accounts." He was saying.

Oliver looked on curiously. "Who's that in the spotlight?"

"An asshole." Sara stated with no room for argument.

"A scumbag." Ray added.

Kendra looked at her ex surprised.

Snart let out a low whistle. "Wow Raymond right to the S word. Big step up for you."

Ray shook his head. "That man is responsible for buckets of blood and hundreds if not thousands of deaths for the 'greater good' of himself as mayor. One noble act does not undo everything that came before."

"Sebastian Blood, the local alderman that I told you about." Dig said. "Not too shy about sharing his opinions."

"Which are?"

"Which are that the Glades have been abandoned. And no one gives a damn about these people." Dig replied.

"He hasn't met us yet." Oliver said, opening the door and stepping outside.

Carter shook his head. "I haven't seen such a stupid act in literally five hundred years."

Unseen to the other legends Kendra's cheeks flushed knowing it was her. Damn whiskey.

"We cannot stand by while the doctors on the other side of those doors are working with the bare minimum of resources because the police department already sees us as a lost cause." Blood was saying. "Meanwhile, thieves are seeking to make a quick buck off the misery of the Glades." He paused as he finally spotted Oliver. "Oliver Queen, isn't it?" he asked, drawing attention to him.

"Alderman." Oliver said in reply.

"What brings you to Glades Memorial, Mr. Queen? I assume someone of your means can afford the best medical treatment money can buy." Blood said sarcastically. "And I can assure you, you're not going to find that here."

"That's wrong, sir." Oliver said. "The people of the Glades have suffered too much not to have access to basic medical services."

"Well, that's very compassionate of you to say." Blood replied. "Although I wonder where your family's concern for its fellow citizens was when they ordered the construction of the earthquake machine that killed 503 people."

Oliver grimaced as he walked past the Alderman. He stopped, knowing that he couldn't leave it there.

"Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, please! I will be doing everything in my power to atone for my family's culpability in this tragedy." Oliver promised.

"Well, I'm sure the people of the Glades that I represent will sleep better knowing that- if they still had a place to sleep." Blood said, fire in his voice. "If their homes hadn't crumbled around them. If their stores and their businesses hadn't been condemned."

Stein shook his head in disgust. "Nothing says leadership like invoking a riot mob."

Jax now had the same disgust thanks to their bond. "Make Starling Great Again."

"You did this to us!"

"Go back to your mansion, rich boy!"

"Spare us your mercy visits, Queen!" Blood shouted as Oliver walked towards his car. "You've done enough for this city already." Oliver and Diggle managed to get into the car, and were driving out when someone shattered the rear passenger window, sending glass flying all over Oliver."

"And sometimes you see where Malcolm is coming from." Sara replied darkly not that she'd ever act on it.

Clark stood outside gently tapping on the door. He looked at the powder in all visions before coming to one coherent thought. He has no idea what this can be or if drugs even work the same on this world as his.

Kendra looked at the screen intrigued. "Is that where I think it is?"

"Yes." Stein, Jax, and Snart all replied.

Clark waited outside patiently he's guessing everyone is hard at work for the big occasion since last Summer. Clark knocked again and smiled seeing a light brown haired woman walking to the door with a smile on her face. "Hey Caitlin."

Caitlin Snow looked with a smile as she unlocked the door. "Clark, what are you doing here it's a long way from Star City."

Clark nodded. "I need your help."

Mick looked at the screen but turned to Snart. "Didn't we kidnap her once?"

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