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"Any news on the general?" Oliver asked.

"It took a while, since Russia is a big country but yeah." Felicity said as she showed the Team Arrow the file on the screen. "Meet General Alexi Burov. Last known location was Moscow. Before he went off-the-grid, he was working on a pulse wave generator."

"Which, theoretically, could replicate the energy wave that destroyed Earth-2." Curtis added.

"OK, we need those plans." Oliver said.

"And plutonium, I mean, without it, Burov's device is useless." Felicity said.

"Where are we supposed to get that?" Sara questioned.

"Bialya." Diggle said as he entered the bunker. "There's a facility near the border, where all kinds of radioactive material is stored. I'm thinking a two-man fire team can get the job done."

"OK. Roy, you're up for it?" Oliver asked as he turned to Roy, who nodded.

"I think it wouldn't be a good idea if your Russian friend met me again." Slade said and Oliver and Sara nodded in understanding.

Star City

"This sounds too good to be true. I mean, can we trust the Monitor?" Tommy said as he was with Laurel in an alley before they saw Lyla appear.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Laurel demanded.

"Our mutual friend sent me." Lyla explained.

It took a second for Laurel and Tommy to follow. "You're working with the Monitor. Why?"

"It's complicated." Lyla said cryptically.

"Is that so? How complicated is the fact that he pretty much obliterated our Earth, our families, all of it!" Tommy snapped.

"He didn't. Mar Novu is trying to save worlds, not destroy them." Lyla pleaded.

Laurel shook her head and crossed her arms. "All that stuff about grief, you pretending like you were trying to help us. I should've known better."

"You were playing us." Tommy realized.

"I wasn't pretending." Lyla said.

"It's a little hard to believe, Lyla, after all the lying." Laurel sneered.

"It doesn't matter what you believe. You're here just the same as I am. Now, do you want to get your Earth back or not?" Lyla asked.

"What do you want from us?" Tommy asked.

"Oliver's going to Russia, to retrieve plans to build a weapon. You need to get them first." Lyla said.

"I thought Oliver was your friend." Laurel noted.

"He is, but this is bigger than him, bigger than any of us." Lyla pleaded.

"Well, whatever the Monitor offered you must be really something for you to be able to betray everyone that you care about." Laurel sneered.

"I am doing this for them, to protect them. Are you going to help me?" Lyla asked.

"Why would we ever trust you?" Tommy demanded.

"It's the only way for you to get your Earth back." Lyla said as Laurel and Tommy considered.

Later, Moscow

"So, we're in Russia now." Sara quipped as she looked around the bar. "I thought Anatoly would have a little… different taste."

"If you don't like it, then you can try the clubs back in Star City." Anatoly quipped as he entered, smiling.

"Hello, Anatoly." Oliver smiled.

Anatoly hugged Oliver and Sara. "I missed you both." He pulled away as he noticed Oliver frown. "What? Did you think I'd punch you again?"

"It never even crossed my mind." Oliver chuckled.

"Welcome to Russia, my favorite American." Anatoly smiled.

"Anatoly, we're looking for a man named General Alexi Burov." Sara said.

"Oh." Anatoly gapped. "May I ask why?"

"It's a long story, but we just want to talk to him and make a trade for something he may have in his possession, can you get us to him?" Sara asked.

Anatoly looked hesitant. "I… can ask around, but I cannot make any guarantees."

Bialya

Roy, wearing his Arsenal suit now and Diggle, in his Spartan gear, walked down a military warehouse, looking around.

"You really think an energy weapon is gonna stop this Monitor guy?" Roy questioned.

"Well, that's the hope." Diggle said.

"Why this place?" Roy wondered as he looked around.

"The military stores all of its excess plutonium here. The problem is it's impenetrable." Diggle explained.

"Which is why you asked me to come. You need a B&E expert to get inside?" Roy quipped.

"Yeah. Well, actually, it's more of a smash and grab. There's a shipment coming in tonight. We are gonna steal the plutonium before it gets inside. Go. Go. Go." Diggle gestured as they walked past the shelves.

"Why not bring Dinah or Rene?" Roy asked.

"They have their hands full in Star City." Diggle explained.

They were on a stakeout, hiding behind some crates.

"You ready?" Diggle asked.

"As I'll ever be." Roy said as he notched two arrows and shot down the guards.

"Let's go!" Diggle ordered as he opened the back of a truck but then an alarm blared.

"Must be some kind of tamper alarm." Roy realized.

"I'll get the payload." Diggle said.

"I'll keep watch." Roy said as he shot another guard and rushed at another, throwing him over his shoulder and knocking him out before he turned to Diggle. "You got it?"

"Yeah. Let's get the hell out of here." Diggle said.

Moscow

"I have classic bad news/good news." Anatoly said as he returned to the bar. "I find General Burov."

"And that's the good news or bad?" Sara asked.

"The good news. The bad news is, he is man who likes betting and blood, which means only place to find him, Krovavaya Banya." Anatoly said.

"Which means 'The Bloodbath' in Russian." Oliver translated.

"Well, sounds like fun." Tommy noted.

"Alright, Sara, me, and Laurel will go with Anatoly to the club to find Burov. Tommy, be on the lookout, if something happens." Oliver said.

Anatoly accompanied Oliver, Sara and Laurel into the fight club as they walked down the corridor.

"So this is what the Russians do for fun. I assume that we want to have our chat with the general without crossing the Bratva." Laurel noted.

"We want to move quickly and keep our heads low." Oliver whispered.

"There is general." Anatoly said as he pointed up to Burov, who was observing the fight from above and they went upstairs. "General Burov…" Burov turned to Anatoly, who was accompanied by Oliver. "I am Anatoly Knyazev, Danik's friend."

"Danik has big mouth. What do you want?" Burov demanded.

"Your expertise with something sensitive." Oliver explained.

"Lucky for you, this fight is boring. Let us go talk." Burov said, gesturing to nearby door.

Oliver, Sara, Laurel and Anatoly were with Burov in his office.

"I abandoned this pulse wave generator project. Too unpredictable, bad business. So why should I give to you, Kapiushon?" Burov asked as he turned to Oliver.

"Maybe you should've kept your secret identity secret?" Anatoly joked.

"I assume this means you're not gonna give us the plans just because we say 'Please'." Tommy quipped.

"No need for unpleasantness. I am willing to make deal." Burov assured, smiling.

"Good. What do you want?" Oliver asked.

"A fighter, someone to upset the favorite so I can not be bored. Should be easy for you, Kapiushon, no?" Burov smirked.

"So I win, and then you give us the plans." Oliver realized and Burov nodded. "Done deal."

"Excellent. I will go make it so." Burov clapped his hands happily as he left.

"Ollie, that guy down there is twice as big as you." Sara noted as he looked at Oliver worriedly.

"So I give him half a chance." Oliver said.

Oliver entered the cage, where he faced a muscular man with a thick moustache and long hair and the fight announcer said something in Russian, while Anatoly, Sara and Laurel observed.

The bell rang and on cue, the man tackled Oliver, slamming him to the bars as Oliver blocked his punches before he got hit in the face and knocked down on the floor and kicked in the face. Oliver recovered and dodged the following punch and hit the man in the abdomen and blocked his blows before slamming his elbow onto the man's arm and hitting him in the throat as the man choked.

Oliver then rushed the man, slamming him to the bars and punched him in the face. The man attempted to throw a punch but Oliver blocked and hit him in the leg, forcing him on his knees before punching and kicking him in the face, knocking him out as the spectators booed and Burov clapped his hands, laughing in satisfaction.

"We should head out. Get the car ready." Sara said as she left with Anatoly and Laurel.

Oliver later met Burov in his office.

"Very good! I don't think you have many friends here, though." Burov said, impressed as he reached for his pocket and handed Oliver a hard drive. "But I am man of my word."

"Not so fast."

Oliver and Burov turned to see someone else enter Burov's office as two men aimed their guns at Oliver.

"Oleg, wha... what a pleasure." Burov said nervously.

"Did you really think you could conduct business on Bratva territory without me knowing?" Oleg asked.

"Of course not. This simply fighter collecting his winnings." Burov lied.

"He's no mere fighter." Oleg smirked at Oliver. "Are you, Oliver Queen?"

"I have no fight with you or the Bratva. That is what I came for." Oliver explained, pointing to Burov's hard drive. "When I have it, I'm gone."

"The general only operates here because we say he can. And we did not say." Oleg said as he clicked the safety of his gun.

"No!" Oliver cried out as Oleg shot Burov but was then tased in his side as he passed out.

When Oliver came to, he was bound to a chair and suddenly, he felt a familiar Déjà vu. Just like, when he visited Russia the first time. Oliver tried to free himself from the restraints, using the trick Anatoly had taught him but couldn't dislocate his thumbs, much to his frustration. "Ugh. Damn it."

"We tied your thumbs, Kapiushon." Oleg said as he entered with Burov's hard drive in his hand. "You went to a lot of trouble to get this. Even we couldn't crack its security encryptions. It must be worth a great deal. Tell me what it is."

"No. You should know, if you had heard at least half the rumors about the Kapiushion, you would have known that I've gotten out of worse than this." Oliver declined and he groaned as they heard bones crack.

Oleg reached for his gun but Oliver slammed the chair at Oleg as it broke, dazing Oleg before Oliver grabbed him in chokehold. Oleg's men then entered but Oliver grabbed Oleg's gun and shot them before aiming the gun at Oleg's head. "Where's Burov's hard drive?"

"Here! Here!" Oleg panted out fearfully as he pulled out the hard drive. "I gave you what you wanted. You don't have to do this, please!"

"Yes, I do. No one can know my secret." Oliver whispered before he snapped Oleg's neck.

A moment later, he heard a Siren Cry as a thug was sent crashing against the door as Laurel, Tommy, Sara and Anatoly, with a gun ready entered and they smiled at each other.

Later

Oliver, Sara, Laurel, Tommy and Anatoly drank back in the bar.

"Prochnost." Oliver said.

"Prochnost. I missed this." Anatoly smiled.

"Thank you, Anatoly. I always seem to end up on your debt." Oliver said.

"We are beyond keeping score. We have been friends. We have been enemies. From now on, let us just be brothers." Anatoly assured.

"Not the Bratva kind." Oliver shook his head.

"No. Real family." Anatoly said as he smiled at Sara. "We've been through a lot, my friend. I hope that you can look out for each other. All of you."

Oliver, Sara and Anatoly embraced each other in a companionship-like hug.

Later, Star City

Lyla was on a rooftop, staring at the city as she sensed someone approaching her. "Did you bring the plans?"

"About that… we have decided not to join you and your cosmic fashion tragedy that you're in cahoots with." Laurel said as she appeared with Tommy.

"Then you won't get your Earth back." Lyla noted.

"If saving it means going back to the person that I used to be, then what the hell is the point?" Laurel snorted.

"You're saying you're trying to make things better, but from where I'm standing, they're worse." Tommy noted. "And if there's one thing I know… family secrets can destroy you, like when I found out the truth about Thea." Lyla stiffened as she met Tommy's eyes. "How will John and Oliver react, when they find out about your secrets, Lyla? You owe them the truth."

"Not yet." Lyla shook her head.

"Then this is gonna be a little awkward." Laurel noted and Lyla paled as she saw Oliver, Sara and Diggle approach, all three of them eying Lyla with looks full of shock, disbelief and betrayal.

"I didn't want to believe it." Diggle whispered, shaking his head in denial.

"I'm sorry." Lyla said.

Suddenly, Oliver, Sara, Diggle, Laurel and Tommy were hit in the necks by darts.

"Lyla… what… what have you done?" Diggle demanded before they all passed out and Lyla looked at their unconscious forms sadly.

Without Mia or William around, I thought this could be dealt with quickly and really, Oliver has dealt with guys that make Oleg look like chump change. And thumbs tied together, I just couldn't buy for some reason, since that episode showed that Oliver needed more time to get out of the zip-cuffs anyway. Again, plot over logic. And I just couldn't resist the callback to 1x01.

So, what do you guys think?

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