Part 3
"Do you question me Amar?"
"No sir..I would never question you, your cause is just..It is the only way for humans to survive the evil that threatens it."
Austin Dixon rose from his chair...the dark haired man magnated power and charisma that had the smaller man, known only as Amar, stepping back slightly. "Then we do what we must...it is unfortunate that we must take these steps..But the world is so blinded by those they consider their saviors that we fight this battle alone...We do so because it is right..we do so to save all that we know and love." he said, placing a hand compassionately of the other mans shoulder.
"This man..Harper..he still has not given up the information..Perhaps he has no knowledge of it." Amar said quietly.
"He has knowledge..You forget Amar, I was there..I know what happened..The person we seek did not vanish on his own accord, Roy Harper had a hand in his disappearance..I know this to be true...The report stated that the man fled and agent Harper was forced to shoot him..No body was found when the river was searched..and I know the man Harper was..and is, he would not have killed a fleeing man..no matter what the reports said..He knows where he is, he has played a role in ensuring Roberto Migliorini has stayed hidden all this time."
"What if he doesn't give up the information you seek?"
"He will give it up, I am confident of that..Never forget we have a greater power on our side, spurring us onward...He will guide the things that must be to occur. Harper will give us what we need..be confident Amar, do not doubt what will be." Dixon gave the mans shoulder a pat before turning away. "Go now..seek out those you love and know a better world will be coming." he added.
Amar bowed slightly, and turned to go. His leader was right, their cause was just..The world could not continue the way it was without the destruction of the true human race, something must be done..the supreme blessing of the great one was on Austin Dixon..who was he to question such greatness, he thought as he walked out of the room.
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Batman ran the tape again..augmenting the fuzzy black and white image until it was as clear as possible.
"There's nothing there..I don't know why you have to watch it again, isn't five times enough already..Kid comes in..sits down, orders a drink..gets a call an goes, doesn't even finish his beer. Whatever went down, went down with that call..That's my best guess." Green Arrow said, as he pulled an arrow out of his quiver that he had sitting on the ground beside him and proceeded to reach up and scratch an itchy spot on his back with it.
"It would appear that was the case..However.." Batman rewound and ran a section of the tape again. "That gives me reason to believe the call was a ruse." he said as he pointed to a man who appeared in the background near the clubs entrance..the man held a cell phone in his hand, and was punching in numbers.
Green Arrow watched transfixed as the man finished dialling at the same time that Roy's phone appeared to ring..he watched his ward take the call..the younger man placed his hand over his free ear and looked annoyed, obviously unable to hear the call properly because of the music in the club..the red head stood up and moved from his booth and headed towards the door, obviously intent on taking the call outside so he could hear better. "Well I'll be a monkeys Uncle." the Archer said, letting out a low whistle as the shadow obscured man waited until Roy walked passed, before following him outside. "That's our man!"
"Or someone who may know who our man is." Batman said as he tried to enhance the mans face. "The image is too obscure to see clearly, but with luck we may be able to enhance the image enough to get an idea of who we're looking for." he added.
Green Arrow watched fascinated as the image of the man was removed from the rest of the footage, then enlarged, before a series of enhancements made it become increasingly clearer. "I gotta get me one of these gadgets." he said awed.
"It's called a computer Arrow..and I believe you have one already."
"Yeah..but I want one like this..a really big one. Maybe I should get another Arrow cave..then I could have an Arrow computer and an Arrow car and another Arrow plane and...No wait..I have an idea..maybe team Arrow could set up here for awhile..you've got plenty of space..an Mia and Tim seem to hit it off okay, and..." Green Arrow's joking exuberance died down as he felt a Bat glare full force. "Sheesh you don't have a funny bone in your body..You must be a bag of laughs to live with, no wonder your kids are so..."
"We are not talking about my kids...We are supposed to be looking for one of yours, who I believe is in a great deal more trouble than he can handle on his own or you would have heard from him by now." Batman replied coldly.
The Archers playful demeanour faded away, replaced by a more serious look. "You're right, I'll admit it..Don't think I'm not worried, cause I am...I want that boy found as quickly as possible, I know as much as you do that he's gotta be in deep shit and I..." Green Arrows voice trailed off as another image appeared on the screen next to the image of the man's face that Batman had been working on. "Holy shit..I really gotta get me one of these things." he said.
"That's who we're looking for..Brian Caspin, has a rap sheet a mile long..He's also a well known hired gun..worked in Gotham for awhile, but it appears he's surface in New York."
"Well waddya waiting for?..Let's go find this bad assed dude." Green Arrow replied.
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Roy pushed himself upright on the bunk..every muscle in his body screamed in protest at the movement but, he thought to himself, he seemed to be in a little less pain than he had been the day before..They'd left him alone for a couple of day's, he'd even had a Doctor treat him the first day, and the food he was now being given had been edible..The fact that things seemed to have improved didn't give him any confidence though..he was sure they weren't being nice for the sake of it, they had something else up their sleeves he was sure of it..He prayed it had nothing to do with Lian..he couldn't bare the thought that something might happen to his precious little girl.
The sound of approaching footsteps made him pause in his thoughts, and he moved further back against the wall, watching suspiciously as the cell door was unlocked an five men walked in. He drew a breath and swallowed nervously as he recognised one of the men as the man who had been dealing out his abuse and torture over the last week or so.
"Hold him down." The man ordered.
The other four men dragged the now panicked Archer down flat on the mattress and piled on top of him, restraining him.
Roy felt panic surging in his body, he had no idea what was going to happen, but whatever it was it wouldn't be good. He struggled uselessly at first, soon realising he didn't have the strength to even move within their grasps. He felt his arm pulled on, and one of the men adjusted their grip to allow the fifth man to straighten the limb out, the movement gave Roy the opportunity to glimpse a syringe in the other mans hand. "No!" he yelled as he began to struggle again, feeling the sharp prick of the needle as it slid under his skin.
"I said hold him damn it!" the syringe wielding man yelled as Roy struggled.
Roy felt sudden familiar fiery warmth surge through his body..warming his insides..he groaned as the warmth washed over him..his mind registered fear at first as he realised what they had given him..then a sense of security, and protection as he relaxed into the feeling."That's got him." he heard a voice say..a voice that sounded like it was coming from a million miles away..He felt his breathing deepen, and at some stage he realised the men must have released him, he rolled onto his side and curled up into a ball..feeling safe and warm and wishing he could feel that way forever.
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