As soon as Felicity asked for help Oliver began to crash. I may to move but everything screamed in protest. Felicity pointed at me and said "You, stay, sit." They then ran to Oliver. Dig said "He's not going to make it." Felicity then said "He will, we just have to find out what's in his system" Barry stammered "I-I-I Usually only work on dead people!" Felicity yelled "Barry." He took a deep breath before saying "I can think of 4 possible diagnosis for what's causing his body to react this way. .. Make that three possible diagnosis." Barry was running around Oliver's body doing multiple tests "Two. Start chest compressions." He ran one more test and then said "Got it, he's suffering from intravenous coagulation." Felicity asked "What?" Barry explained "His blood is unnaturally clotting. It's like maple syrup." I grunted, being the resident Canadian I didn't like when gross things were related to maple syrup.. Made it harder to eat. Felicity asked "You can save him, right?" Barry looked around and didn't answer.

He then saw something and went for it. Rat posion. "Lucky you guys have a rat problem." Diggle then exclaimed "You Kidding? That'll kill him!" Barry then barked "He dies if I don't!" Dig and Felicity looked at me. Made sense since they knew I knew Barry from the future. I nodded "Do it!" Barry then measured out some of the rat posion "The right amount of this stuff will thin his blood to get it circulating again." He injected it. Oliver continued to crash. But then stablised. He was out of immediate danger.

A little bit later Barry was still working on Oliver when Oliver suddently woke up and grabbed his throat. "Oliver, Oliver let him go" Diggle said. Oliver let go and stammered "What.. What the hell is going on." Felicity then explained "You were injected with a strong-acting blood coagulant." Barry Coughed and messaged his throat "You would have stroked out, but fortunately you had a very effective blood thinner handy. Warfarine, better known as Rat poison." I then said "Barry Saved your Life Oliver." Felicity then said "This is the point of the life saving emergancy where you thank the person that did the lifesaving." Oliver then said to Felicity "You told him who I am?" Felicity nodded "Yeah I did" Oliver then said, obviously betrayed "That's not your secret to tell, Felicity. I decide who finds out my identity." I then said "We didn't have time to get your vote Oliver. I made the final call. Blame me. I know we can trust him." Oliver then said "What happens if he leaves here and goes to the police." Barry then said "I wouldn't do that." Felicity said "I trust him." To which Oliver barked "I don't!" Felicity barked back "What are you going to do, put an arrow in him?" Oliver looked at Barry "I am considering it." Felicity yelled "Don't worry, he's kidding! How is this any different from when your mother shot you and you came to me for help?" Barry said confusse "your mother shot you?" Felicity ignored him and continued "Or when you brought Dig down here when he was poisoned with Curare!" Oliver yelled "The difference is that I did my homework on both of you, I don't just tell people easily." Barry then said "I'm not going to tell anyone, and you don't have to thank me, but you should thank her instead of being kind of a jerk. Mr Queen." A quick "HA!" escaped my lips before I could contain it. Oliver gave me a death glare..

His phone beeped a couple times. He looked at it and said "I have to go. The man that we fought in the bunker, he has what he needs to mass produce the serum from the island and we have to stop him." Barry then said "He touched your skin when he grabbed your neck. I was able to absorb the residual oils from his skin, which when added to a gel-based polymer, might be able to re-create his fingerprint." Oliver nodded and left.

Barry came over to me a little while later and asked "What are you eating? I do not think I have seen it before." I replied "Ambrosia.. It is a healing food of the gods." He raised an eyebrow "The gods? Cool! That must mean you are a Demigod.. Like Aquaman.. Or Iron Thunder." I chuckled "Exactly like Iron Thunder." He stopped in his tracks "Woah.. The rumors are true.. Blue Lightning and Iron Thunder are one in the same! And he is Oliver Queen's Head of Security..and Oliver Queen is the Arrow.. My god this is so cool." I nodded "That it is Barry.. That it is." He then addressed all of us "You 4 have dealt with some Nasty People.. The Doll Maker, Count Vertigo, Dodger, The Huntress." Dig said "We weren't keeping score." Barry said "I was." That was when Oliver came in "Barry! The Rat poison that you gave me. Are there any side effects?" Barry thought for a second "umm, yeah, I think hallucinations maybe. And excessive sweating, are you sweating excessively?" Felicity came forward "Are you Hallucinating what are you seeing?" Oliver looked at me before saying "A girl named Shado that was with me on the island." Felicity smirked "Shado, Sara.. How many women were you marooned with? Are you sure it wasn't fantasy island?" Barry then went and stood in front of Oliver and exclaimed "You did train in a jungle or forest environment hence the green!" Oliver just stared at Barry, who then said "Hey let me draw some blood, see what's up."

I let Barry and Oliver have an exchange in private. That was until Felicity said "Found Cyrus Gold." the group converged around Felicity "Who's Cyrus Gold?" Oliver asked. Diggle said "The human weapon that left both you and David nearly dead the other night. The kid did manage to pull his print off your neck" Felicity then said "I've had facial recognition software scanning closed circuit cameras all over town. He's at the corner of Delgado and 25th right now but we are just about to lose him." I then asked "What else is at the intersection?" Felicity then said "A parking lot, a market, a motel, could be where he's holed up." Oliver then said "I've got this." I looked at him "Not alone I hope?" Diggle then said "Oliver, let me handle this one, it's just recon. Gives you two a break." Oliver nodded "fine, but I'm going as your back up. David.." He pulled me and Dig over "Keep an eye on Allen." I sighed "We have nothing to worry about Oliver.." He shook his head "Please." I rolled my eyes and nodded "Okay." they left and Barry said "don't worry, I'll figure out what's wrong with Oliver." I smirked at him "It may take you a while." Felicity smirked as well "and you would be the first." We all chuckled.

They had not been gone long before Oliver got in contact with Felicity wanting back up with a location to meet him at. She also called the Detective to the extra muscle. Boy I looked forward to the day we had an actual team to watch our backs. I waited fully garbed in the Blue Lightning suit with Oliver who was wearing his Arrow suit on top of a roof. Lance walked onto the scene. He asked "This about Sara? You heard from her?" Oliver replied with his voice changer on "No. I'm sorry this is.. Something else." He handed a document to Lance, who looked at it, I said "Cyrus Gold. He robbed the applied sciences division of queen consolidated last week." Oliver then said "Detective. He's extremely dangerous." Lance then said "The CSI kid from Central City. He said this guy was like some kind of monster." I nodded "He is." Lance then asked "Well what is it, Steroids?" Oliver then said "Worse, it's-it's." he trailed off, looking above Lance. I followed his gaze and saw nothing. Lance then said "Saying I believe you, why come to me?" Oliver replied "I've been compromised" Lance looked confused "What does that mean?" Oliver then barked "It means I'd be a liability, you have to take my word on this, Detective." I then added "In our last fight.. He critically wounded the Arrow.. And I have a broken wrist and cracked ribs, amongst other things. We need your help." Oliver looked at me before saying "Gather as many men as you can, and do not hesitate to kill Cyrus Gold because if given the opportunity, He'll do the same to you" He then shot and arrow and repelled down the building. I looked at Lance and said "No prison can hold him.. He is stronger than Captain America himself. We wouldn't recommend killing If there was no other viable option. Thank you Detective." I then threw myself off the building, acting like I was connecting to Oliver's line but instead used the winds to land. I looked at Oliver un-hooded and panicky and asked "What did you see?" He shook his head and whispered "Slade.." I nodded and looked down, saying softly "We should go." And we left.

I spent a few hours in my apartment, allowing the Ambrosia to take effect. I could use my hand again now, it hurt a little to use but that was inconsequential. Once I deemed myself fit to return to 'duty' I returned to the foundry, running into Barry, Felicity and Diggle on my way in. Once downstairs it was trashed. Oliver was cleaning it up. It looked like most of my stuff was fine, although a few of my arrows had been knocked to the ground. Felicity asked "What the hell happened here, did somebody break in?" Oliver said "No." That was when something beeped and Barry ran over to his testing station and said "Your blood analysis is done. Good news." Oliver then asked "You know what is in my system?" Barry then said "That's the thing, your blood is clean. There is nothing wrong with you." Oliver then shouted "Then why am I hallucinating?!" I said slowly "Calm down Oliver.." He looked at me as Barry said "I don't know.. But whatever your problem is, ut's not pharmacological, its psychological. It's in your head."

Felicity then said from her station "oh my god. Oliver.. David.. Lance has been injured.. He is in ICU.. 2 cops are dead. Including Lance's old partner." I curled my good hand into a fist. Oliver looked at me and said "We need to check on him, we put him up to this. How's you arm?" I nodded "It's good enough to fire an arrow or two. Lets go." Oliver nodded "That's good, I doubt you could use your powers again without arousing suspicion." We began to suit up with Barry asked "Why don't you use your powers David? I'm sure it would have helped you stop a lot in the past.. Including Cyrus Gold." I looked at him "Because it is a risk to the city. It could attract unwanted attention, and confirm belief that I am Iron Thunder. It's better if I handicap myself for the sake of the city.. Even if it means I break a wrist or two.." Barry nodded slowly. I didn't tell him about the time travel.. Not yet. I would visit him once he discovered his powers to warn him of my younger self and not to give away that he knew me. I couldn't risk him figuring something out that might lead to him never becoming the Flash.

Oliver and I snuck into the Detective's room in the hospital, late a night. Oliver asked "How are you Detective?" Lance replied weakly "I am Alive. Unlike most everyone else in my unit." I then said "We are sorry about your partner.." Lance replied "I took him in there." Oliver then said "Because of us. Because we asked you to." Lance looked over at us "I hate to disappoint you two, but not every death in this city is on you." I then murmured softly "If only you knew." Barry bringing up me not using my powers brought up the old feelings of everything that went wrong being on my for not showing my powers to stop them. I knew better.. But it still remained on my mind. Lance then said "I got this off Gold, hopefully you can do something with it. I didn't believe this at first, I mean, it's like he's not human." He passed a key over to Oliver. Oliver replied "He's human." Lance then said "Well, then you can kill him. For hilton, and me" I nodded slowly "We will see to it Detective. Rest now, we will take it from here." We then left for the foundry to prepare for taking out Gold.

Oliver sharpened our arrows even more in the hopes they would penetrate Cyrus Gold's skin. Diggle then said "I think those are sharp enough." Oliver stopped and turned to us "Apparently I am not. Diggle.. David.. Do you think I'm losing my mind" Diggle replied "No more than the rest of us." Oliver then said quietly "I saw.. Slade Wilson. Slade was my friend on the island and like Shado, he is dead because of me. Mr Lance just told us that not every death in this city is our fault. Fine. There are plenty that are." Diggle then said "When I got home from Afganistan, I saw a ghost too. Survivor's guilt. Why us, not them." Oliver then said "I know why." I then said "Then the why's not your problem Oliver. Besides.. Don't take on the deaths in this city as your own. They rest solely on me.. For not revealing who I am to the world... hopefully that will take a little off your mind." Oliver shook his head "They rest on both of us David.. Never forget we are in this together.. But Dig.. How did you make your ghost go away?" Diggle took a deep breath before saying "I figured put what they were trying to tell me." Oliver asked "Which was?" Diggle replied "That's for me to hear, Oliver. You have to figure out what yours is trying to tell you."

Felicity then said "Guys we've got something here." We walked over to her "I scanned the key Lance gave you, and traced it's serial code back to the manufacturer." Barry then said "This particular key fits a lock somewhere on crescent circle in the Glades." Oliver took a look at his bow before picking it up. Felicity hopped to her feet "Where are you going, you can't go out there in your condition." Oliver said "I have to stop this." Felicity replied "Oliver, Gold left you half dead. Which is 50 percent better than how he left Detective Hilton." I then picked up my bow and said "He won't be alone Fel. I'm going with him." She looked at me and said "Don't get me started on you too. You aren't fully healed yet." I then replied "Doesn't matter. I'll keep Oliver's head in the game.. And he will keep me from having to throw a hand punch, right Ollie." He looked at me and nodded, before looking back at Felicity and said "We don't have a choice. David and I are the only ones who can take Gold out. We'll come back." Felicity then said "Promise me?" Oliver looked at me and gave me a short nod. I finished suiting up and followed him out. Possibly to our deaths.

We found the location and Oliver fired an explosive arrow and dropping in, killing the first guy. I planted an arrow myself and got to a safe distance as it exploded. I then dropped down as well, finding a man in a mask there... and Roy tied to a chair. Oliver roared "Where'd you get the Mirakuru? Who gave you the Formula?!" I then asked "Deathstroke?" The masked man looked at me "No, That honor belongs to someone else. .and he is coming. The Mirakuru was a gift. A gift I would use to save this city from itself." That was when Cyrus Gold attacked, he quickly dispatched Oliver before turning to me. He went on the offensive leading to me playing defense. I was smart enough not to use my arms to block a full on attack and instead quickly step sided each attack. I would then follow up with some heavy hits with my bow. Gold was not effected by them save for having to stumble here or there from the power of my hits as I was using my full elven strength on him. If he was surprised by my strength he did not show it. Soon he had knocked my bow from my hand and I ripped Kveykva from it's sheath, ignoring both my wrist and ribs scream in protest. I took a few heavy breaths as I got in a ready stance. Left with a choice.. Do I did to protect the timeline.. Or do I live by using my powers and potentially destroy the timeline. Cyrus Gold charged me and I raised my sword to the sky, about to utter the words to call down lightning when Oliver Tackled him.

I quickly joined the frey with my sword, slashing at Gold, getting a few good cuts in. That was when Oliver fired an arrow at a container.. Possibly the centrifuge. It exploding causing debris to fall. We both dove out of the way. Once the debris stopped I located my bow and grabbed it, but noticed Oliver giving CPR to Roy. I ran over and said "move" I then electrified my hands. Oliver got the hint and moved. I then began CPR mixed with an electified shock after 10 compresses. My wrist and chest screamed but I didn't care. I kept fighting. I whispered "Come on Roy.. Fight this. You have a destiny to fulfill.. You must become the Arsenal... come on Roy." Finally he began to breath and I got off him. Oliver nodded at me and I nodded back. "I will get him back to my house. You go have some more Ambrosia." I then said "Okay. Good luck." We then parted ways,

When I arrived Felicity ran up and gave me a hug. I hugged her back. She then pulled back and ask "Where's Oliver?" I then said "Bringing Roy back to his mansion.. He was injected with Mirakuru.." Diggle then asked "What is going to happen to him?" I shrugged " I honestly don't know.. I know he survives. How he overcomes the Serum I think we will have to look into ourselves." Felicity nodded slowly "So we have to find a way to neutralize a serum more potent that what was injected into Captain America.." I nodded "I know you have it in you Fel."

I ate some Ambrosia and waited as Oliver finally came down the steps. Felicity greeted him the same way she greeted me. Diggle asked "Any more ghost problems?" Oliver shook his head "I got the message. But we.. We have other problems. I assume David has already told you about Roy being injected with the serum. We are going to have to keep an eye on him." Diggle then asked "And Cyrus Gold?" Oliver replied "Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. But he was working with someone. I saw him. He wore a mask with the image of a skull. He's trying to mass produce the serum to build an army." Diggle asked "For what?" I replied "For the Siege of Starling City. The one we won't stop before hand.. But do stop during. We must prepare." Oliver nodded before looking around "Where's Barry?" Felicity replied "He went back to Central City. He wanted to get home in time to see them turn on the Particle Accelerator." I smirked slightly and said "He'd have to be the fastest man alive to make it on time.. Its happening any minute." They gave me a look before Felicity got a call and left to take it.

She returned with a box and gave it to Oliver "That was Barry, He left it for you Oliver. He didn't know what to get you David.. It seemed you already had everything you needed." Oliver opened it and it was a green mask "Even the Arrow deserved a christmas present." Diggle said. Felicity helped him put it on. Oliver asked "How do I look?" Felicity replied "Like a hero." I replied "Exactly how I met you a year from now. You're there Oliver.. You are finally.. Truly.. The Arrow."