Well this is gonna be fun.
"You didn't seriously...?"
"Yep."
"You just...?"
"Yep."
"Does this mean...?"
"Quite possibly."
It was like watching a tennis match. The couple was watching the aftermath of the collossally horrible idea and plan before their own eyes.
Oliver sighed before turning to his little sister and silently asking what the hell she was thinking letting Felicity go through with this. Thea just shrugged and walked back to her bike.
An hour and a half earlier.
The small group all arrived at vaguely the same time to their destination. It was quiet and dark, none of them feeling any sort of ease. Oliver dismounted his bike first and walked over to the speedster for an update on the situation.
"Well, Lis wasn't wrong about the small army. There are at least two guys at every entrance, four on the roof, and I caught sight of two snipers hidden in the hills on the north and south side." Barry was bouncing up and down on his heels as he spoke. He wanted to run, get revenge and justice for the people Dod hurt and save the hostages as quickly as possible.
Oliver nodded and looked towards his sister who seemed to be in a private conversation over the comms. Knowing she would share when it was time Olver sent Barry and Diggle to take care of the snipers. Speedy had just finished the conversation when the boys took them down. In five minutes the siblings had the roof cleared and working on a way in while the two on the ground systematically took out the ground crew.
All in all clearing the outside took about 15 minutes. Simple. Felicity had gotten a thermal scan and sent the soldier and speedster to the least populated door at the exact same time she sent the siblings to an unpopulated corner of the building to drop in on.
On Felicity's count they blew their way in and began taking out the army. Midway through the fight down the hallway, Thea slipped into a room, leaving Oliver to handle heavily trained and armed men by himself. Let's just say he had a few new scars by the end of the night.
Barry and Diggle had found the hostages relatively unharmed and tied to the chair that was in their cells. Barry searched each guard for a key and finally looted it off the one by the monitors. Hostages secured in only half an hour, the team felt a little optimistic.
Tommy and Felicity were working seamlessly together on directing the two sets of vigilantes and simultaneously working on a side plan for covering their tracks. Mark and Vivian were giving the computer genius as much info about Dod as they could.
The emerald archer reached the final room of the compound only to find it empty. Dod had yet to be found. The other two men joined not two minutes into Oliver searching the room for clues. Thea on the other hand was still nowhere to be found. The oldest Queen was torn between searching for his sister or Dod.
Felicity took the choice out of his hands when she announced she was on-site and ready to go.
"WHAT!?" Oliver snarled in frustration and worry. Racing to the roof, the archer scanned the area and sure enough, his I.T girl was sitting on top of one of the sniper' s nests. Her legs were bouncing back and forth and her laptop was sitting in her lap. The computer genius seemed content where she placed herself.
Oliver took off to her position while the other two continued the search for anything that could lead them to the monster they were tracking. Thea had finally emerged from the room she had slipped into and was following behind her brother apprehensively. Felicity didn't even look up when they got to her. Thea bent down next the blonde and began reading over her shoulder.
"So he is inside but he is hiding. There is another heat signature other than you boys. It looks to be coming from the basement but...WAIT!" The boys still inside had started heading towards that direction just after she had spoken.
"I have a plan but I need you guys out of the compound. NOW! Find any and all living things and get them and yourselves out." Felicity had growled out the orders taking everyone but Thea by surprise. The soldier and the speedster did as they were told and just after the last one was gone, with one click of a button the compound was blown to hell. Every single one of the vigilantes cried out in shock as the explosions continued making the smoke cloud bigger and bigger. Diggle was the first to move, grabbing Barry before an minor explosion could harm him. Oliver moved next turning terror filled eyes on his love.
"You didn't seriously...?"
"Yep."
"You just...?"
"Yep."
"Does this mean...?"
"Quite Possibly."
Oliver turned to his sister as she just shook her head and walked back to her bike as Felicity looked down at her laptop her eyes and fingers flitting across the screen and the keys. Barry sped both him and Diggle up to their perch just as Oliver began to ask even more questions.
"Do you realize what you just did? Dod was still in there! What if wherever he was hiding didn't protect him from the blast?" Felicity flinched as he snapped the last question. She typed a final command into her coding and shut the laptop down. She stood with Barry's help and then began walking back to the car she came in. She was hoping to come up with an answer before she reached it but nothing came to mind. The boys had followed waiting for her response.
"Lis, come on. What was that? I mean your not the killing type. We were gonna bring him in and make him pay for what he did. The legal." Barry was just as confused as the other two. Felicity sighed before turning towards her archer. As she looked up at him he could see every emotion that was churning within her in her crystalline blue eyes. She looked so lost that Oliver simply sighed and pulled her into his arms.
"There is a reason for the Explosion Oliver I promise, but I can't explain it yet. Roy and Thea know but the rest of the pieces have to fall into place before I can tell anyone else okay?" She sniffled as she looked up at him, begging him to wait her out. Oliver opened his mouth a few times before nodding silently.
The archer helped the I.T. girl into her car then turned to his other partners. They all were watching the fire blaze on as the two women went back to the club.
I know I said that they would get the guy in this one and they do, sort of. Felicity and Thea came up with a plan based on information she gathered after the others left. No I haven't turned Felicity into a killer. The place the body heat was in was a bunker made to withstand atomic bombs. The explosives were meant for Dod to kill the team. No one else dies or gets injured in any way other than minor injuries from hand to hand combat. Next Chapter should be the conclusion. Unless another plot bunny hits me. I hope you guys like it...Sorry it took so long…