The next day they were in the lair training when the computer beeped telling the team that there was a problem that needed to be taken care of. Oliver walked to where Barbara was sitting at her computer and asked, "what's going on Barbara?"

"Looks like someone broke the Count out of Iron Heights." Barbara said.

"Well let us know as soon as you find a location on him. We cannot let him start making Vertigo again." Oliver said.

"I think we are too late for that. Some how people have been getting the drug for a couple of weeks now. The Count must have given the recipe to someone else so that he would be ahead of the game before he got out of prison." Barbara said.

"Keep an eye out for a location and then let us know where we are going." Oliver said and Barbara nodded.

Just then the screen on the television changed to a message from the Count. Oliver walked over and asked, "Is there any way that you can trace this video?"

"I am trying to do that now. He is good though. He seems to be bouncing the message all over the world so that I can't get a location on him." Barbara said.

"Well look for anything in the picture that we are seeing now to see if there is anything that will help identify where he is." Oliver said.

"Already on it. Hey, look at the background. Looks like some kind of government seal or something." Barbara said.

"I know where he is. That is an old shut down building where the where city maintenance workers used to work." Laurel said.

"Ok, let's go take down the Count." Oliver said as the group suited up and left the Lair.

When they arrived at the old maintenance building, they staked the place out to see what they were dealing with. "Ok looks like we have two men guarding each entry point. There are three entrances. Thea and Sara, you take the east entrance. Laurel and Emiko, you take the west entrance. Roy and I will take the north entrance." Oliver said and the team left for their assigned entrances.

The three teams took out the guards at the doors easily and then entered the building. When they got inside, they could see that the Count and his workers had been busy make a lot of vertigo.

Oliver entered the room going to take out the Count. He found out that this was not going to be as easy as he thought when he was jumped by a lot of the workers who were trying to protect the Count.

While Oliver was distracting some of the workers, Sara was able to get to the count easily and hit him with here staff. The Count seemed to be dazed from the shot that he just took to the head. Sara picked the man up off the ground and put him in a choke hold. She was just going to put him to sleep but then the Count made a very serious mistake. The Count said, "Do it bitch, you don't have the balls to kill me."

"Are you sure about that?" Sara asked as she made a quick movement and there was a loud crack as she had broken his neck.

"Well, at least we got this drug off of the streets." Laurel said.

"I am afraid it is not the end of vertigo. There are other people who will try to make it in the future." Sara said.

"Well for now we can count this as a victory, and we will worry with the other people making vertigo when it is time." Oliver said as the team went back to the lair to change and head home.

When the group got home, Thea had a question for Oliver. "Ollie, when you first returned from the island, how did you know that I was on drugs so quickly?" Thea asked.

"Well, that is a long story. I guess we have time." Oliver said and the group sat to listen to the story.

"On my third year away, I was actually in Hong Kong. This woman named Amanda Waller saved me from the Amazo, which was the boat that Sara and I tried to use to get home in my second year away. Anyways, Waller was trying to get me to work for her as an asset to a government organization known as ARGUS. She threatened me saying that she would kill you by staging it to look like you had an overdose, since you were using drug to dull the pain of losing me and dad." Oliver said.

"So, you knew I was on drugs because some government lady said I was." Thea said.

"That and I also saw you buying some then too." Oliver said getting a shocked look from everyone in the room.

"How would you see me buying drugs if you weren't here?" Thea asked.

"The people who were after the bioweapon that we were trying to stop came to Starling City, so we had to follow them. I was here for a couple of days. I tried to check on every one of you while I was here. I saw when Laurel decided that she was going to stay in Starling City instead of going to San Francisco. I saw when Thea was talking to my gravestone and bought drugs there and then Tommy tried to talk some sense into her. I even saw Thea buy some more drugs at Tommy's birthday party that night. I cornered the guy upstairs and told him to stay away from Thea. He recognized me and I couldn't let any of you know that I was there, so I snapped his neck and threw him over the railing." Oliver said.

"That was you? You were trying to protect me even when I didn't know it was you?" Thea asked.

"I will always protect you Speedy. I just wish I could have been here and protected you the couple of years after that as well." Oliver said.

"Its ok Ollie. I am clean now because of you. So, in the end you got me clean anyways, even if it was a couple of years later then you would have liked." Thea said.

"Ok, enough about that. How about we change the subject and talk about something a little more pleasant." Oliver said and the group hung around telling old stories and laughing at the ones that they had never heard before. Finally, everyone got tired and decided to call it a night.