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As Oliver, Sara, Matt, Klein and Diggle entered the lair, they were surprised to see…
"Barry. Felicity. What brings you here?" Oliver asked.
"We need to talk." Felicity explained.
"What's going on?" Sara asked.
"I've been trying to figure out what went wrong with the suit, when Ray died and well, this is what we and Cisco found." Barry said as he turned on the recording on the computer.
"I'm alive and I'm in trouble."
Oliver narrowed his eyes, recognizing the voice. "That sounds like…"
"Ray." Felicity nodded. "Because it is Ray. Because Ray isn't dead."
"What?" Matt asked before shaking his head. "Felicity, that's not possible."
"I know. He was killed when the top floor of Palmer Tech blew up six months ago but that's obviously not what happened because he sent this message six days ago and dead people don't generally do that." Felicity said. "Ray's alive. He's out there somewhere. I have to help him."
"Did Ray's message indicate what kind of trouble he's in?" Oliver asked.
"No. If it did, it would have been the first thing I told you." Felicity shook her head.
"I've told Cisco to take a look at it a bit closer, see if he can—" Barry stopped, when the laptop went off.
"Speak of the devil." Felicity said as she turned to the computer and typed in some commands.
"What are you doing?" Oliver asked as she put her hands away.
"Absolutely nothing." Felicity said as the screen cleared up to show Ray's face and he looked exhausted.
"Felicity, is that you?" Ray asked.
"Oh, my God, Ray!" Felicity cried out.
"Ray, where are you?" Oliver inquired.
"I don't know. And if that wasn't enough, I think I'm being held against my will." Ray said as he looked around.
"What?" Felicity demanded, panicking.
"Yeah, they want my suit. Or at least the tech." Ray explained. "The good news is that the tech is useless to them in my current condition."
"Ray, if you have your suit, then why don't you just…"
"…bust my way out? Yeah, that's not really happening." Ray interrupted Oliver.
"What, the suit doesn't work?" Felicity demanded.
"Actually, it worked a little too well." Ray said as it was revealed that he had shrunken down to miniature size.
"How is something like this even possible?" Diggle demanded, puzzled. "I swear to God, my life was somewhat normal three years ago."
"Ray modified his suit with the same nanites I injected him after Bad Arrow shot him." Felicity explained. "It's a long story involving a lot of molecular physics, the bottom line is that Ray jury-rigged a short-range message burst that was intercepted by whoever's holding him captive."
"Ray think they want the suit for its technology but they can't use it, while it's small." Oliver realized.
"And considering how small he is, we're basically looking for a needle in a city of haystacks." Sara realized.
"A suit that can shrink down to a size of an ant." Klein mused. "I think I've read about something like that in S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Ray has something he thinks could help." Felicity said as she resumed the recording.
"Back at Palmer Tech, I've got schematics for a machine that should be able to resize me." Ray said.
"I'm not an engineer, so this isn't my area of expertise exactly but Fitz might be able to help build it." Klein said. "I'll give him a call, see if he can get here."
"And I'll call Cisco." Barry said.
"Do it." Oliver ordered.
"I'll pick up the schematics for the device from Palmer Tech." Felicity said as she got up.
Later, Kord Industries
The Green Arrow was on the rooftop and ziplined in through the window as he neared the keypad to the door.
"Punch in 4-5-8-7." Felicity said.
The Green Arrow typed in the code as the Flash, Spartan, Daredevil and the Canary entered.
"Clock's running." Felicity said before the cameras turned on.
"That's weird." Fitz said.
"What?" Daredevil asked.
"The security cameras are coming back online." Fitz explained.
"I've got it." Green Arrow said as he fired three arrows, destroying the cameras.
"No! Don't you understand?! If Kord upgraded their security, they probably improved their response time!" Felicity cried out as Oliver cursed himself for his impulsiveness.
The Canary looked around with Spartan and Daredevil as Spartan picked up some device.
"I got it." Spartan said before the alarms went off and guards entered, forcing the vigilantes to take cover.
The Canary kicked a shelf as it collapsed onto a guard, while Daredevil knocked the other guard out by throwing a billy club at his head.
"We need to get out of here." Green Arrow ordered.
"We're clear." Spartan announced as the Flash sped them out before outside, Diggle pulled out his helmet and groaned and vomited as Oliver, Barry and Matt winced.
"Sorry, man." Barry said.
"I hate you." Diggle grumbled, glaring at Barry.
The Lair
Felicity almost jumped and yelped as the computer next to her turned on.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Ray called out.
"Ray…" Felicity turned her head with Fitz, Jemma and Klein.
"Any luck with the schematics?" Ray asked. "I realize the quantum manifold could present a challenge."
"Nothing a little late-night shopping at Kord Industries couldn't solve." Felicity quipped.
Ray sighed in relief. "Oh, that's great. Thank you, Felicity. Now we just have to figure out how to…" He stopped and paled as a shadow covered him.
"Ray, you still there?" Felicity asked before she, Klein, Fitz and Jemma paled at the sight of large figure of Damien Darhk behind Ray. "Oh, no…" She whispered, horrified as the screen went black.
"Are you sure it was Darhk that you saw on Ray's camera?" Oliver asked.
"He's basically Dum Dum Dugan's evil twin without a mustache and blonde hair." Fitz drawled.
"And if it really is him, Ray is definitely not getting out of this!" Felicity snapped.
"It's actually good that Darhk has Ray." Oliver said.
"How exactly is that a good thing?" Felicity demanded.
"We have an inside man." Matt said before it hit Sara.
"My Dad." Sara realized.
"And what if between then and now, Darhk decides to squish Ray underneath his shoe?" Felicity argued.
"If Darhk wanted to hurt Ray, he would've done it by now." Diggle pointed out.
"Dig's right. We just need to let FitzSimmons build the machine and then we'll work on finding Ray, as soon as Lance finds something out, we just have to wait." Oliver said.
"I hate waiting and seeing." Felicity grumbled as she sat down. "I have to do something."
"Felicity, there's nothing we can do anymore now. How about we just go to your place, watch TV and relax until Lance finds out something useful." Barry suggested as he helped Felicity get up.
"But…"
"No 'but', you did what you could." Barry argued and Felicity sighed and nodded.
"You're right. Let's go." Felicity said.
"Thanks for coming to help again." Oliver said as he thanked Fitz and Jemma, who were building the device.
"It's the least we could do, you helped S.H.I.E.L.D. before." Jemma assured Oliver.
"How's everything going?" Matt asked.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. is currently under heavy revision and everything's a mess. The director is someone… good." Fitz admitted. "But I've heard that Sokovia was a mess because of Baron Strucker."
"Nat told me." Matt nodded. "Any news from the Avengers?"
"Not really." Jemma said. "But Bobbi has finished her recovery."
"That's good." Oliver said, relieved.
"Tell her from us that we wish her well." Sara said before Oliver's phone rang.
"It's John." Oliver said.
"He is definitely hiding something in there." Diggle said as Felicity showed on the monitor the blueprints of the building.
"The Latin Building. Before the city went to crap, it was touted as the most secure building on the West coast." Felicity explained. "Every access is protected by a retinal scanner and a voice print."
"Getting in will not be easy." Fitz said.
"If possible at all." Jemma nodded.
"From the outside at least." Oliver nodded. "Is the device ready?"
"We'll need at least an hour to finish it." Klein said.
"But that's probably not the time we've got." Fitz added. "We're gonna have to assemble it in the field."
"Wait, you want to go out with us?" Sara protested.
"It's our only choice." Oliver said. "And if you can resize Ray on the inside, then we have another hand getting us all outside."
Later, the Latin building
The Green Arrow was hiding on the rooftop, avoiding the guarding Ghosts, about to rappel down on another building when one of the guards whacked him in the head with his rifle, knocking him out.
"These are very nice." Darhk said as he held the Green Arrow's quiver as he was chained. "Oops." He mocked as he broke one arrow in half and threw the weapons to the corner of the room. "Leave us." Darhk ordered the Ghost, who left and took off his mask, revealing it to none other than John Diggle.
"Are you sure about this?" Jemma asked.
"We'll be fine." Fitz said as he was holding onto the Canary as she jumped off the rooftop with the parachute, breaking through the window, ending up on the floor, where Diggle waited on them.
"Are you OK?" Diggle asked.
"We're good." Fitz groaned.
"Let's go." Diggle ordered.
Daredevil took cover behind a couch as the Ghosts engaged him before an explosion went off and he realized who it was.
Frank entered with a machine gun, opening fire at the Ghosts as he roared, shooting them down, while taking cover.
"You mind if I take a little peek-see?" Darhk joked while approaching the restrained Green Arrow. "I mean, I have my suspicion of course but might as well see if I'm right, as usual."
Suddenly, the Green Arrow kicked him back and flipped back, freeing himself of the chains, grabbing the bow and arrow, firing at Darhk, who deflected the arrow with a wave of his hand telekinetically.
"Didn't you learn anything from our last round?" Darhk mocked. "I guess not." With a gesture of his hands, the chains wrapped around the Green Arrow's neck, choking him as he fell down on his knees.
Daredevil threw a billy club as it ricocheted off the Ghosts before Daredevil caught it as Frank started shooting them down, while the Flash knocked down some of them.
Fitz and Jemma went down the corridor with Sara as they neared Diggle.
"Mr. Palmer." Fitz asked. "How do we get you out?"
"In five years and an NSA-grade computer to crack the asymmetric cipher." Ray said.
"Damn it." Jemma groaned. "What about—"
"No, the quantum field can't get through the glass." Fitz protested.
The Green Arrow tried to free himself from the chain noosed around his neck choking the life out of him.
"You know, it is a shame that you won't get a chance to see the new life I breathe into this city, the new life I breathe into this world." Darhk taunted.
"You won't get the chance." The Green Arrow choked out before tossing a flashbang pellet which blinded Darhk as the archer escaped.
Ray looked around his cell. "OK, this place has cameras in it. Those cameras…"
"Have to draw power from somewhere." Fitz realized as Ray turned on his Atom suit before Fitz prepared the device, firing on Ray's cell and enlarging him and destroying the glass cube in which he was trapped.
"I'm not dead." Ray said, relieved.
"Fine, now let's get out of here." Diggle said as he and the Canary accompanied them out.
"We got Ray, let's go!" Diggle called out as Green Arrow showed up, shooting down one of the Ghosts.
"We have to go. Good to see you, Ray." Oliver said.
"Nice suit." Ray smiled at seeing Oliver's new suit.
Later, the Lair
"Thanks for the help." Ray said.
"Good that the experience didn't change you." Oliver said.
"Indeed, they did not." Jemma nodded. "All your results show you're fine, save for some significant iron deficiency. You should probably eat more meat and vegetables in the next few weeks to fully recover."
"Thanks." Ray said. "So, this guy who wanted to make me his lab rat?"
"Damien Darhk. He's the leader of an organization we believe to be known as H.I.V.E." Oliver said.
"And if they wanted your tech, it's safe to assume it was for nothing good." Sara added.
"One other thing, they overheard my message to you." Ray said, turning to Felicity.
"Which means she might be a target." Barry realized as he held Felicity. "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to her."
H.I.V.E.
"You better not disappoint me." Darhk said. "I want them all off the board."
"Don't worry. I've made some new friends. They'll gladly take them out. For free." The Asian woman in green smirked.
"They better. Or I'll bury you so deep your own ghost will not find you." Darhk said as the woman smiled with a Cheshire cat like grin as Darhk turned to the man behind her. "And with our new replacements for your bones, you should be able to take him down, finally."
The man pulled out a playing card and threw it at the pillar behind Darhk with pinpoint accuracy. "Bullseye."
"This is going to be fun." The other Asian woman with hair tied to the bun and in black dress, smirked.
"Don't worry, Maki. I'll save a piece of them for you."
Guess who Darhk hired now. Imagine that Bullseye now has metal replacements for his broken bones.
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