Diggle and Tommy stared at Oliver in disbelief. "Oliver" Diggle asked. Oliver nodded his head. Tommy and Diggle got up from the tables and looked at Oliver.
"You're that vigilante" Tommy said. Oliver tried to find the words to explain to his friend and his bodyguard. Just then Diggle went to punch him but Oliver ducked out of the way. Diggle fell into the table.
"Take it easy, Dig. You were poisoned" Oliver said.
"You son of a bitch" Diggle said trying to punch Oliver again but Oliver grabbed him. He let him go and Diggle leaned against the table he woke up on. He was still really weak from being poisoned. Diggle sat on the table.
"I could have taken you guys anywhere. I could have taken you guys home. I brought the both of you here" Oliver said.
"I guess you really did lose your mind on that island" Diggle said holding his arm that was shot.
"Found a couple things along the way" Oliver said.
"Like what archery classes" Diggle asked.
"Clarity. Starling City is dying. It is being poisoned by a criminal elite who don't care who they hurt as long as they maintain their wealth and power" Oliver said.
"People like my father" Tommy asked.
Oliver looked over to Tommy and shook his head. "I'm still working on that" he said.
"What are you gonna do, take them all down by your lonesome" Diggle asked.
"No. No, I want the two of you to join me. Special Forces out of Kandahar" Oliver said to Diggle. He turned to Tommy. "You still have the Merlyn name and you've been working with criminals. It's perfect" he said turning back to Diggle. "You're a fellow soldier" Oliver said.
"Oliver, you're not a solider. You're a criminal and a murderer" Diggle said walking out of the lair. Oliver stood there for a moment thinking about what Diggle said. Then he turned to Tommy.
"Tommy listen I'm…" Oliver started to say but Tommy interrupted him.
"Does she know" Tommy asked nodding his head toward the picture of Felicity on the desk.
"No and I would like to keep it that way" Oliver said.
Tommy nodded. "I see. So you what, want me to lie to my sister in law and my wife so you could run around town playing Robin Hood" he asked.
"I'm trying to save the city" Oliver said.
Tommy shook his head. "What by going around and putting an arrow in everybody who you think is hurting the city" he asked.
"They're bad people who will destroy this city" Oliver said.
"That doesn't make it right. Diggle's right. You're a murderer and I want nothing to do with any of this. Stay away from me and my family" Tommy said going to walk away but Oliver grabbed his arm stopping him.
"Don't tell Felicity" Oliver said.
Tommy let out a little laugh and pulled his arm out of Oliver's grasp. "She deserves to know that you have a death wish and she might lose you again" Tommy said.
"Tommy I'm serious. Don't tell her. It's for her own good" Oliver said seriously.
Tommy stood there silent for a moment. "She deserves better than you" he said walking out of the lair.
A half hour later Tommy arrived home and saw Laurel talking to Quentin. It was clear she had been crying. She looked over to Tommy when he walked through the door and ran to him hugging him. "Thank god. I was so scared something bad had happened to you" Laurel said.
"No I'm fine. I'm home now" he said.
Quentin walked up to the couple. "Where were you? I looked for you in and around the building. I couldn't find you" Quentin said.
Laurel pulled back from Tommy to look at him. "Yea where were you? I was so worried" she asked.
Tommy looked from his wife to his father in law. He thought about telling them about Oliver but decided against it. "I was trying to find you sir but I couldn't. I asked around but no one knew where you were. I guess I lost track of time trying to look for you. Sorry I didn't mean to worry you guys" he lied.
"You couldn't answer your phone. We've been trying to call you" Quentin said.
"I must have lost it in all the chaos" Tommy said.
"I'm just glad you're OK" Laurel said hugging him again. Tommy grimaced as he felt a pain shoot through his shoulder.
"You alright" Quentin asked.
Tommy nodded his head. "Yea I'm just a little sore. Felicity's had me moving a lot of stuff around at work" he said.
Quentin nodded. "Well I'll leave you two alone for the night. It's good to see your OK and that the vigilante didn't get to you" Quentin said.
Tommy just looked at his father in law. "Yea I didn't see the vigilante at all tonight" Tommy lied letting out a nervous laugh.
"Good night guys" Quentin said.
"Thank you dad for everything" Laurel said hugging him.
Quentin nodded. "Of course" he said leaving the apartment.
Tommy let out a sigh and took off his blazer and threw it on the couch. He took a seat on the couch. "Oh my god" he heard Laurel say. Tommy looked up at her and saw her looking at him with fear in her eyes. "What happened" she asked pointing to the red spot in his white shirt that was obviously blood. Tommy looked down and shook his head.
"Nothing I'm fine" Tommy said as Laurel walked up to him.
She shook her head. "It's not nothing. Is that blood" she asked starting to unbutton his shirt.
Tommy jumped up. "I fell and cut myself but I'm fine" he said.
Laurel walked up to him again. "That looks like a lot of blood" Laurel said reaching for his shirt again.
Tommy grabbed her hand. "Don't worry about it. I'm OK. I promise" he said kissing her hand. "There is something we need to talk about though" he said walking her over to the couch and sitting down with her. Laurel looked up at him. "We need to stay away from Oliver" Tommy said.
Laurel looked at him shocked. "Why? What happened" she asked.
Tommy shook his head. "Just trust me. We need to stay away from him" he said.
Laurel looked away confused. "We just saw him a couple hours ago and had a good conversation with him" she said.
"That was before. Just stay away from him and keep Becca away from him too" Tommy said getting up and walking into their bedroom.
In the lair Oliver sat at his desk and held the photo he had of Felicity and stared at it. Did he screw up? He never wanted Felicity to know about all of this. It would put her in danger and he didn't want her to have to keep his secret from everyone she loved. It wasn't fair to her. He was scared to death of losing her again. He just got her back and he didn't think he could handle it if he lost her again. It was looking like that was going to become a reality. Maybe he could explain it to her in a way that she would understand why he had to do this. She'd probably hate him forever and never want to see him again. Just that thought scared him. He didn't know how he'd be able to handle it if she started looking at him with hate in her eyes instead of love. Just then his computer started beeping. He looked up and saw that it was June and Jennifer Wilde leaving town. They were sisters to a big crime boss in Starling City who died while Oliver was on the island. Oliver put his mask and hood on and left the lair.
Felicity was back in Gotham driving to try to meet with Hank Sutherland. She got his address off the internet and decided to try to go see him. She wanted to try to convince him to give her the medicine he stole from Ace Chemicals. She wanted to mass produce it so that she could help millions of people around the world. She just needed her scientists to see what was inside it so they could duplicate it. The only way she'd be able to do that would be to actually get the medicine and bring it back with her. Her other inventions were hurting people but this was one where she would be able to help so many people. She arrived at the address she had for him. She got out of her car and walked up to the house ringing the doorbell. After a couple seconds the door opened and Hank was standing on the other side. Felicity smiled at him. "Hello Hank. I think we need to talk" she said.
"I'm not interested" Hank said going to close the door but Felicity stopped it from closing.
"I can help your grandfather" Felicity said.
Oliver had followed the June and Jennifer to Gotham. They wound up going to Ace Chemicals. Oliver got off his motorcycle and looked up at the building. Why were they here? What did they want from here? Oliver went into the building and hid in the rafters. He saw the Wilde sisters talking to about five different people. One of the people was holding a gun on them. They were very obviously being held hostage. "We already told you it won't work" June said.
Jennifer nodded. "Yea our brother was a psychopath. He made weapons for criminals like that guy with the freeze gun" Jennifer said.
"Exactly we want to know where that cryogenic chamber is. Show us where you're brother hid it" the man holding the gun said. The sisters looked at each other than started walking deeper into the factory. Oliver followed them quietly up on the rafters. They finally made it to where the chamber was. One of the sisters pulled a curtain off it revealing the chamber. The man smiled.
"Well we really only need one of you to make it work" he said grabbing Jennifer. "Take her outside and get rid of her" the man said to two of the men.
"No. Jennifer" June called out trying to run after her sister but she was grabbed from behind. The man pointed his gun at her. "Get the machine started. He'll be here soon" the man said. June started working on the machine. Oliver followed the two me who were taking Jennifer away and he shot an arrow at the two of them. They fell to the floor. Oliver jumped down in front of Jennifer. She screamed and started moved back away from the man in the hood.
"Please don't hurt me" Jennifer cried.
Oliver held up is his hands. "I'm not going to hurt you. Run get out of here" he said.
She nodded her head and started running. She stopped and looked at the man in the hood. "Please save my sister" Jennifer said. Oliver nodded. Jennifer ran away toward the entrance. Before Oliver knew what happened the two people he shot stood up.
They pulled the arrows out of their chests. What the hell? They should be dead Oliver thought. They started to attack Oliver and he fought back. He was able to get them down on to the ground. Then all of a sudden one of the masked people who had attacked him the night he dealt with Adam Hunt jumped in front of him. They started fighting. Oliver got the upper hand and knocked them to the ground. He loaded an arrow in his bow and aimed at them. "You have failed…" Oliver started to say when all of a sudden he was hit from behind and he fell to the floor unconscious. The other masked person stood above the unconscious archer holding their staff that they used to knock him unconscious. They took their mask off and it was Sara. She helped Ava up off the ground who also took her mask off.
"Thanks Sara" Ava said.
"Anytime. You know I got your back" Sara said. The two men who had attacked Oliver stood up. "Take his weapons and put him in the cryogenic chamber but leave his hood and mask on. Mrs. Merlyn was very clear. She doesn't care who he is just that we get rid of him" Sara said. They nodded and took the bow away and then took his quiver off him. The two men lifted the vigilante up by his arms and dragged him to the chamber and put him in it.
At Hank's house, Felicity was inside Hank's house. "You really think you can help him" Hank asked.
"I do and so many more people. That medicine you stole can be used to save so many lives like your grandfathers. I have the means to do it" she said.
"I already tried to give it to him but it didn't work" he said.
"That's because it wasn't complete yet. I was going to take it and have my scientists work on it so that we can start saving people's lives like your grandfathers" she said.
Hank looked over at his grandfather and thought for a moment. He looked back at Felicity and nodded his head. "Alright I'll let you have it on one condition" he said.
"Name it" Felicity said.
"My grandfather is the first one you try it on" he said.
Felicity nodded. "Deal" she said holding out her hand for him to shake. Hank gave her the medicine and then her phone beeped. She took it out and looked at it and her eyes went wide. "I got to go. Thank you for this" she said leaving the house.
Oliver started to wake up and was freezing. He looked around and saw a glass window in front of him. He jumped up and walked up to it. He looked out and saw the two masked people standing outside along with the criminals he was fighting. He saw the two people he shot who should be dead right now. He looked around and realized where he was. He was in that cryogenic chamber he saw from before. He went to take out an arrow from his quiver but he realized it was gone. He banged on the glass but it was no use. He was trapped. The man outside the chamber laughed. "It's no use struggling. You're going to freeze to death and there's nothing you can do about it. Don't worry though I'll take good care of these" he said holding up Oliver's bow and quiver. Oliver glared at him while the man just laughed. It was getting hard for Oliver to breath and he could feel his body starting to freeze. He fell back against the wall and started to lose consciousness.
He had to stay awake if he had any chance of surviving and making it back to Felicity. Felicity. All he wanted to do was get out of here and see her one last time. He was fighting to stay awake which was a battle that he was quickly losing. He heard a commotion outside the chamber but he couldn't lift his head to look at what was happening. He was so cold and he was quickly losing consciousness. He wasn't going to make it. His last thought as he fell into unconsciousness was of Felicity. A couple minutes later Oliver shot awake. He looked around and realized he was in the parking lot of Ace Chemicals next to his motorcycle. He slowly got up and he grabbed on to his bike for support as he was a little dizzy. He looked around the parking lot. He didn't see anyone there. He got on his motorcycle and drove away unaware of him being watched. From the top of Ace Chemicals the Batman watched as the Starling City vigilante drove away hopefully never to be seen again in his city.