Chapter 6

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"I am back!" Artemis announced, walking back into the Arrow cave.

"How did it go?" Oliver asked.

"Not well." Artemis said. "Barry got transported into another dimension, and someone - no one we know - got put in a coma."

Oliver stared at her. "You say all of that like it's nothing, is Barry going to be ok?"

"I think so, Cisco found out he's a meta and thinks he can get Barry out, so everything will hopefully be ok."

"And the person in the coma?"

"They're not sure." Artemis said, taking on a more somber mood. She knew Jessie was going to be ok - Bart said she became Jesse Quick. But nobody else was supposed to know that. "How are things here?" she asked, changing the subject.

"No leads while you were gone." Oliver said, being short with her.

"Hey, I don't understand what I did wrong." Artemis protested.

"You lied to me, then got away from here as fast as possible."

"What did I lie about?" Artemis asked, feigning innocence.

"Your friend who you ran into, the one you and Roy ran after."

"What about him?"

This had Oliver stumped. "The story just seems off." was the response he finally settled on.

"So you don't trust me." Artemis interpreted.

"No, I do trust you Felicity -"

"Then why are you doubting my story? Just because it seems off?"

Oliver sighed. He knew when he was beat, though he rarely admitted it. "Sorry." he muttered.

"Thank you." Artemis said, accepting the apology, even though Oliver was right.

Roy walked in then. "How was Barry?" he asked when he saw Artemis.

"He got sucked into an alternate dimension." Artemis told him. Roy pretended to be surprised and concerned.

"Is he going to be all right?" he asked.

"They think so. There was a big explosion when it happened. Energy and a few random things got out." she said, hoping Roy would catch the hidden meaning. His eyes widened for a second.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"Yeah, I think everything will end up ok." she said.

Oliver watched this conversation with confusion. They seemed to be talking about something else, but what they were saying didn't have any out of place words, and made sense. "Anything pop up?" Oliver asked.

"Nothing yet." Artemis responded. She had sat down at the computer. "I'll let you know when something does happen."

Suddenly the computer started beeping.

"Something happened." Artemis said, and started typing. "Hostage situation, the mayor, a few other officials, and Captain Lance."

"Let's go than." Oliver said, grabbing his bow.

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"I'm in position." Oliver said over the coms.

"Can we expect Sara?" Artemis asked. "I mean, her father is being held hostage."

"She's too far away, at Nanda Parbat." Oliver said. "If the Black Canary was in Starling, she'd probably turn up anytime now but she hasn't contacted me."

Artemis had stopped listening. She set up a private link with Roy only.

"Roy -" she began.

"I know." he whispered. "I need to an eye out for Dinah. Call her, see if she picks up."

Artemis dialed Dinah's number, and got no response.

"Nothing. She's probably already there." she said with a sigh. She wasn't afraid for Dinah's well being - she was a better hand to hand combatant than Oliver and had a metahuman ability - but Oliver could get suspicious if Sara never mentioned it to him, or didn't remember it when he brought it up.

"Try to keep Oliver from seeing her." she asked Roy.

"Will do." he promised. Artemis then turned on the coms that were connected to everybody.

"Let's go." Oliver said quietly.

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"Clear." Roy announced, looking at another room. Nobody was in there. Suddenly the window crashed in and Dinah was there.

"Roy?" Oliver asked over the coms. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah," he responded, "just clumsy." He turned his com off. "Are you out of your mind?" he asked Dinah.

"My father is being held hostage here." she told him, trying to push past him. He stepped in her way.

"We can take care of that, and make sure your father stays safe." he told her. "If Oliver sees you here, he's going to think you're Sara, and ask Sara about it later."

"I want to save my family." Dinah said, clearly frustrated.

"We can do that fine without you." Roy told her. "You coming here endangers everything we've been hiding."

"Ok, I'll go home." she said, turning to the window.

"Wait." Roy called after her. She turned back towards him.

"What?" she asked.

"You didn't just come here for your father did you." he said. She didn't say anything. "You miss this."

"Are you saying you didn't?" she asked him. "Are you saying you and Artemis only said yes because Oliver wanted you too?"

Roy was silent now. "We can do some work to trick Oliver into letting you join too." he offered. "Me and Artemis can come up with something, if I get her to agree."

"Ok." Dinah said. "Just be careful."

"We always are." Roy told her. "And, me and Artemis need to talk to you and the team later. Can you contact everybody?"

"Sure!" she said. She then turned and took a running jump out the window.

"Show off." Roy muttered.

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"So she showed up, confessed to missing this, and you offered to trick Oliver into letting her join in on this. With my help." Artemis summarized.

"Yep." Roy said. "And I actually agree with her. She'd been at this longer than us, it had been a part of her life longer. So I completely support her decision."

"How do we do this then?" Artemis asked.

Roy suddenly got an idea. "When's her sister going to be back in town?"

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