Chapter 2: Fear those closest
The next day when Oliver walked into his office, Thea greeted him with a smile as she stood next to a woman wearing a business suit as she said, "Ollie, this is your new secretary. She will be here to help you out when I'm not available."
Oliver then held out his hand at the woman and smiled and said,
"Nice to meet you…"
The woman then shook Oliver's hand and smiled as she replied, "Miranda." before Miranda then added, "Let's take a look at your schedule today and see what we are dealing with today."
Oliver smiled at Miranda and replied,
"That sounds good, Miranda."
Thea then smiled at the two as she walked towards the door of her brother's office as she said, "Well, I'll leave you two to get to work. I'm gonna go and meet up with Laurel as I promised we would go on a shopping trip together."
Miranda smiled at Thea by the door and flirted a little, "Have fun on your shopping trip, Thea. Who knows what sort of things me and your brother might get up to in his office alone together."
As Thea was stepping out of the office, she looked back at Miranda and smiled as she simply said, "You wouldn't be the first woman to sleep with my brother." before leaving.
Miranda then looked at Oliver and giggled a little as she said to him,
"I think I might like getting along and working with your sister, Oliver."
Oliver then chuckled at Miranda a little as he replied, "I'll let her know you said that. Now let's get to work, as it looks like I have a speech to prepare."
Later…
A local street thug was on his way home, when he looked up and saw someone dressed in black as he said, "Can I help you, buddy?" but the dark figure didn't respond. Instead the figure fired an arrow at the thug and the thug screamed in agony as his body hit the ground.
Then the figure leaped down from the building they were on, and slowly walked towards the street thug, and the thug looked up at the figure with fear in his eyes, "A-are you the Green Arrow?"
again the figure didn't respond as they threw shurikens at the thug causing him to scream in agony, before the figure then drew a sword from their back as they looked at the thug and simply replied
"No...I'm not Green Arrow."
Before the figure then struck the street thug with their sword killing them. Meanwhile at the Star City police station, an officer walks up to Captain Lance as they handed him a piece of paper and said, "Sir, this report just came in."
Captain Lance then looked at the officer who gave him the report and smiled as he replied, "Thanks, keep up the good work."
Oliver then walked into the precinct and walked over to Captain Lance as he smiled and said, "How is the investigation coming along?"
Captain Lance looked at Oliver as he gave him the report he got as he replied,
"To be honest, we haven't been doing so great Oliver, and to make matters worse I just had a new report come in. Please tell me you have some good news for me."
Oliver then looked at Captain Lance as he said, "Another homicide? Well, I do have some news as the person wearing all black is from the League of assassins. I had a brief encounter with them last night."
Captain Lance then looked at Oliver and replied,
"Yeah, that latest one makes the tenth homicide case we've had this week. What are your league buddies doing back in our city?"
Oliver looked at Captain Lance as he said, "I'm not sure, but I do know that they are after someone called Prometheus. If I find out more information, I'll be sure to let you know Captain."
Captain Lance looked back at Oliver as he said,
"Thanks Oliver, I appreciate it. The sooner we can catch this Prometheus guy and have him off the streets the better. Having one bow slinging nutjob running around is enough, no offence to you and your buddies."
The next night…
Oliver and the others were out on patrol where Felicity contacted Oliver over the comms as she said, "Oliver we have a big problem, Artemis has turned off her communications, I can't get through to her."
Oliver then replied,
"Why would she do that? Is she in trouble?"
Felicity then said to Oliver over the comms, "I don't know, you'd think she would tell us if she was in any trouble, sending her tracker location to you...now."
Oliver looked at his wrist of his suit and saw the location of his protege before he replied,
"She's moving."
Felicity then looked on her computer at the base as she said over the comms, "Well, I mean she's on a subway that's moving. Not sure why she would be there."
Oliver then said to Felicity over the comms,
"I'm gonna make sure she's okay, tell the others to hold their position."
A few minutes later, Oliver found himself inside a warehouse and was slowly walking through, when he entered a room and heard a phone ringing. As Oliver got closer towards the ringing phone, the door behind him shut with an electronic lock and Oliver locked eyes with and aimed his bow at the masked archer as he said, "Justin Conners, you have failed this City!"
The masked archer looked back at Oliver as they simply replied, "Not as badly as you have, mr. Queen." Before Oliver fired an arrow at the masked archer, and the archer threw a shuriken shattering the arrow in half which shocked Oliver. The two archers then began exchanging fists with each other.
Felicity said to the others over the comms, "Guys, you gotta move, Oliver needs your help."
Artemis then replied over the comms,
"I'm heading up the stairs. This guy is going down!"
Meanwhile, Oliver and the masked archer were busy exchanging punches and kicks with each other before the masked archer kicked Oliver in his chest knocking him over a table before they then flipped over the table which had Oliver looking stunned, before the masked archer then grabbed Oliver and threw him across the room before he pointed his sword at him as he said, "You are no hero, and I'm going prove it by exposing you and showing the whole city who you really are."
The League of assassins then arrived as the masked archer then began fighting with the league members, before the masked archer eventually shot out the lights with an arrow causing them to flicker for a moment. When the lights came back on, the masked archer was gone leaving only Oliver and the league members behind.
The masked woman from before stormed over to Oliver and pulled him up to his feet before holding the blade of her sword to his throat as she threatened, "I warned you not to continue your pursuit of Prometheus. This will be the final warning I give you, because next time I won't be so merciful. Drop your pursuit of Prometheus! If I find you going after Prometheus, I will cut you down!"
Before the masked woman sheathed her sword and disappeared after throwing a smoke bomb along with the other League members. Felicity then contacted Oliver over the comms as she said, "Oliver! Are you ok?"
Oliver tried to catch his breath as he replied, "I'm fine Felicity, I'll fill you in on what happened, when I get back."
