GIJose: Sorry, Arrow drew enough from that in the first two seasons that I really don't see the point to doing that. Plus, not exactly in a hurry to rewatch TDK.
Spain
Afternoon
Out on the front lawn of their house, Roy and Thea were having a mini picnic with their daughter, Lian Moira Harper. She was fisting her favorite toy, an arrowhead, made child safe of course. Thea had picked it one day while out, something Roy and Oliver got a kick out of, especially with how much Lian loved it. Roy had joked it was in her blood to love arrows.
The pair of them suddenly looked up as a black car rolled up in the drive way. It parked and Oliver got out.
"Hey, it's Uncle Ollie. Can you say hi Uncle Ollie," Thea cooed, making Lian wave with her little hand and Oliver smiled as he neared them.
"She's getting so big," Oliver noted, remembering how small she seemed on his last visit.
"Yeah, soon enough she's gonna be walking," Roy said with a mix of awe and dread.
"Well, for now, I think she needs to go down for a nap," Thea said, picking Lian up.
"So, want a beer?" Roy asked as they got up, Thea walking with Lian back towards the house.
Oliver shrugged in a 'why not' manner and they walked back towards the house.
Later, Oliver and Roy sat on the back patio, both nursing a beer.
"It's funny. We've got everything, right down to the beer and barbeque. But it just…" Roy trailed off, not sure how to put it into words.
"It's doesn't feel like home," Oliver supplied and Roy nodded. "Because it's not. No matter how much it may have taken from us, Starling City will always be our home."
"What's up with you?" Roy asked after a moment. "You seem like you're a million miles away."
With a sigh, Oliver pulled out the envelope and handed it to Roy.
"Argus," Roy noted as he took it. "Waller?"
"And John," Oliver said and Roy narrowed his eyes.
He opened it and stared at the picture for a moment.
"That was taken a week ago," Oliver said tiredly.
"Waller, she's messing with you Oliver. The dirty cops back home used to do this same thing to me and my friends all the time to mess with our heads," Roy said as he put it down on the table. "Sara is dead Oliver. We buried her."
"I need to know for sure," Oliver said lowly and Roy sighed.
"Alright. But I'm going with you," Roy said and Oliver started.
"You said you were leaving this life behind," Oliver protested.
"So did you," Roy shot back.
"Both of you are going," the pair looked over as Thea walked over.
"How much of that did you hear?" Oliver asked wearily.
"Enough. We don't abandon the people we care about. And I'll feel a lot better if you two are watching each other's backs," Thea said as she placed a hand on Roy's shoulder. "Go. And bring Sara back."
Seeing that he was out numbered, Oliver sighed in defeat.
"Okay. Guess the only thing left to do is to call the team. It's time for one last mission," Oliver said grimly.
Berlin
Same time
"We'll be right back with your food Madam," the waiter said before walking off.
Helena lowered the menu, picking up her wine and taking a drink. She smirked as she saw a man eying her appreciatively across the bar. As she lowered her drink to the table, she felt her phone vibrate. Pulling it out, she saw a familiar face on the screen.
"Oliver?" Helena asked as she answered.
Tokyo
Same time
"Okay, here's dinner," Barry said as he walked in, handing Cisco some take out.
"Oh thank god," Cisco said as he grabbed it, beginning to open it up. "Honestly, the only bright side of living on the run is all the amazing food we've gotten to eat."
"Well, that and bringing down all the criminals along the way," Barry said as he sat down in the van. "Speaking of-"
"I've got the next target under surveillance. There's a window at ten tomorrow night. We strike then," Cisco said and the pair high fived.
Suddenly, the back of the van opened and the pair whirled around to see various men in suits standing them. One of them pulled out a phone and dialed a number. As the phone connected the call, the man tossed the phone to Barry. Barry fumbled before catching it, putting it to his ear.
"Barry, I need your help."
"Oliver?" Barry said in shock.
Berlin
Same time
The waiter came back and blinked in confusion, seeing Helena had disappeared.
London, a few days later
Twilight
As the sun began to set over the city, Oliver stared out in it from the window of the Argus base they were in, wondering whether Sara really was in this city or whether Waller and Diggle were playing a cruel trick on him to arrest him as Roy thought.
Behind him, Roy and Helena were checking out the equipment as Barry and Cisco walked in.
"Roy, my man!" Cisco said, bumping fists with Roy.
"Hey Cisco, Barry," Roy greeted with a grin.
"Where are Sin and Constantine?" Barry asked as he noticed their absence.
"John's in Hell," Helena said bluntly.
"What's he going through?" Cisco asked concerned.
"She means literally in Hell," Oliver said as he walked over.
"Okay…and Sin?" Barry asked as he and Cisco exchanged a bewildered glance.
"Last time I heard from her, she was hitting up the Casinos in Mexico," Roy explained.
"Okay, would someone mind explaining what we're doing here? I thought we were out after Russia," Barry said confused.
"Circumstances have changed Barry," Oliver said, wondering how to explain it.
"What I'd like to know is who's paying for all this?" Cisco asked as he gestured at the equipment. "I mean, it's a hell of a lot nice than what we had to work with back in Russia."
"Gentlemen, Ms. Bertinelli," the five of them turned towards the voice as Waller walked in, Diggle and Felicity trailing behind her. "My name is Amanda Waller."
"Wait, Waller, as in the person who hired Diggle to come after you?" Barry asked as he looked over at Oliver and Roy.
"As in she's the reason we're fugitives? Yeah," Roy confirmed.
"So, we're here…why?" Helena asked, glaring daggers at Waller, Diggle, and Felicity, the last two shifting uncomfortably under her glare.
"Well, I got them here Amanda. It's up to you to give them a reason to stay," Oliver said with a shrug when Waller looked at him to convince them.
"The target is a man who calls himself Adrian Chase," Diggle began as Felicity brought up a screen with a picture of Chase. "We believe that to be an alias."
"There's virtually nothing we know about Chase. There's no fingerprints to match him to, no DNA, dental records. Whoever he was previously, he hacked all digital traces of himself off the internet. We've been trying for months to find out who he is and we're as close to finding out as we were when we started," Felicity said, visibly frustrated.
"Mr. Chase appeared on Argus's radar not long after you all dealt with Drakon," Waller explained. "He's cut a path of destruction across four countries."
"For the most part, he's kept his targets tech related until his last job. He stole a batch of highly toxic chemicals from a Russian lab," Felicity explained.
"Okay, this is all sounds pretty awful, but what does it mean?" Cisco asked.
"We believe Mr. Chase is planning on building a device that will disperse the chemicals at a location of his choosing. If he succeeds, the loss of life will be…unimaginable," Waller said and a sense of horror washed over all of them.
"Look, we know you have every reason to walk out that door right now, and a lot of that is on me," Diggle said remorsefully. "But we need your help to stop Chase. He only has one more piece left he needs to build the device and it's here in London."
"We are aware you see yourselves as a sort of family. We are offering to let you make this so called family whole again," Waller said as she tossed something down on the desk.
They all looked down and Barry, Cisco, and Helena were stunned to see a picture of Sara Lance. The three of them looked over at Oliver and one glance was all it took for them to understand why they were really there.
"You want to make this right, to make this family whole?" Roy spoke up and they looked over at him. "Get us to Sara, we'll get you Chase, and you give us all pardons for our 'crimes'."
"You're going to let your student speak for you?" Waller raised an eyebrow at Oliver.
"I'll let him know when he says something I disagree with," Oliver said calmly.
"You know I can't promise you that Oliver," Waller said.
"Actually, I know you can. See, you need us a lot more than we need you. So here's the deal, we give you Chase, you get pardons for the five of us, Thea, Sin, Constantine…and Henry Allen," Barry looked over at Oliver sharply at this. "That's the deal, take it or leave it."
"…very well. You get me Chase, I'll get you your pardons," Waller promised, not looking happy about it.
"Looks like we're in business then," Cisco said as they all looked smug.
"Good. Because here comes the rest of the team," Diggle said looking off to the side.
The others followed his gaze and were shocked to see Laurel Lance and Caitlin Snow walking in.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" Cisco asked, accepting a hug from his best friend.
"Waller recruited me a few weeks ago, told me she'd pardon you and Barry for my help. I figured she was lying," Caitlin glanced over at Waller. "But I figured I'd run into you guys eventually. You guys are all I have left. So if she wouldn't pardon you, I was going to run with you, wherever that was."
"She told me Sara was alive. That was all I needed to hear," Laurel said simply and Oliver nodded in understanding.
"Okay, this isn't going to be like before," Oliver said and they all looked over at him. "This isn't Metas, cops, or Argus. We're on an entirely different level now. So…what's the plan Amanda?"