The three costumed clad hero's sat in Ollie's basement work room, watching the fireworks being played out in front of them by the two angry archer's, Ollie clad in his Green Arrow costume, stood red faced, hands on hips, as Roy dressed in street clothes, stood screaming into his face.
"YOU CAN"T BE SERIOUS OLLIE, YOUR NOT FUCKING GOING WITHOUT ME..NO FUCKING WAY." He bellowed.
"OH FOR GODS SAKE BE REALISTIC, YOU'RE UNDER COURT ORDERS NOT TO LEAVE THIS HOUSE." Ollie bellowed back.
"STUFF THE FRICKIN COURT ORDER OLD MAN, WE"RE TALKING ABOUT MY LIFE HERE, THE LIFE THIS PSYCHO HAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, YOUR NOT LEAVING HERE WITHOUT ME, I AIN'T GONNA LET YOU." Roy ranted.
Ollie let out an exasperated sigh, turning his back on his irritated ex partner and ward, throwing his hands in the air and walking a short distance away to stand with his hands behind his head. He and Dick had kept the fact that they had discovered that Deathstroke had been involved in murdering Cheshire and setting Roy up to themselves, Ollie hadn't wanted to worry about waking up one morning to find out Roy had gone after him himself, and Roy's reaction to the news tonight when they finally told him only served to prove he had done the right thing in keeping it quiet. Dick had spent the last six days finding Slade Wilson's location and monitoring the mercenary's movements. Now they were ready to go after him, to find out exactly what happened. They were suited up and ready to go, Wally and Mia weren't able to come, they'd been called away to a crises that both the Titans and the JLA was needed for, so that left Ollie, Connor, Dick and Dinah to deal with Deathstroke, if they could just manage to get past Roy.
"Wake up to yourself kid, you know it can't happen...You don't even have a costume...And someone's got to stay with Lian." Ollie had made a conscious effort to lower his voice, hoping to calm the situation.
"SHIT OLLIE, I DON"T NEED TO BE IN COSTUME TO GO AFTER WILSON, HE KNOWS WHO I AM, YOU KNOW THAT." Roy took a breath, then he also made a deliberate effort to lower his voice, "Look Ollie, I could fight him in blue jeans and it's not gonna matter, point is this is my fight, I need to be with you on this...This Dude killed my daughters mother, he framed me, he destroyed the life I had, and ruined the relationship I had with my kid...I need to know why...I need to go."
Before Ollie could reply Dinah cut in. "He's right Ollie...If this was you or I we'd damn well make sure we got a piece of the action, we can't leave him out...I'll stay with Lian...Roy should go...He needs to."
Ollie stared at Dinah, thinking through what she had said before speaking, "Ok kid, lets get you kitted out." he said.
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Five hours later and the four hero's lay in the long grass on the top of a hill overlooking a large cement building.
"It's and old psyciatric hospital." Nightwing said,"It's been empty for nearly twenty years, it was used for violent, high risk patients but they closed it down when someone leaked files to the press that showed the patients were being kept in inhuman conditions...As old as the place is its pretty well fortified, the plans I found show numerous heavy security doors we might have to work or way through to find him."
"Any idea on where he might be in there?" Green Arrow asked.
"None, we're just going to have to work through it one step at time." Nightwing said
"Maybe if we split up into two groups, we can cover more ground." Connor said.
Roy looked at him one eyebrow raised. "Dude...We're talking Deathstroke The Terminator here...This Dude is bad news and we ain't got any Meta's on our side here."
"Roy's right...We stand the best chance of pulling this off if we stay together...Slade isn't to be underestimated." Nightwing said firmly.
"He's really that powerful, I mean he's not Metahuman is he?" asked Connor.
"Pretty much, he's got advanced strength and agility, and he uses 90 of his brain capacity, the result of some seriously fucked up military experiment I believe, he's taken on the Titans and beaten them to a stand still before...Three archer's and an acrobat ain't nothin to him." Roy said
"Ok enough talk, lets get this show on the road" said Green Arrow, already starting down the hill.
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They reached the building and were surprised to find the door unlocked.
"You'da thought he'd be a bit more carefull about that." Green Arrow said.
"Nah man, he pobebly knows we're here, he's not stupid." Roy added
"He's known since we arrived, but that just means we have to be more careful, not less, we don't have the element of surprise here." Nightwing said
"Ok then little flies, lets step into his web." said Green Arrow cautiously entering the door.
They made their way slowly, checking each room as the went, Green Arrow and Connor takeing the point with Nightwing and Roy takeing up the rear.
After and intense half hour, they came to a long hallway with numerous doors leading off it, they slowly made their way past an opened reinforced doorway and down the hallway, again checking each door as room as the went.
"I wondered how long it would take you to find me...Your getting better at this game as you age Bat boy." echoed a deep voice from behind them.
The four hero's whirled around to find Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke blocking the doorway behind them.
end part 8 -to be continued.