Disclaimer: WB/DC own these characters. I'm only borrowing them for a while. I own the original ideas found in this.

AN: WOW! The reaction to the previous two chapters have been fantastic! Thank you for all the new kudos, follows, favs and of course reviews. All of you are wonderful. Especially glad you liked the battles. Yeah, I wonder if the show will ever give us Felicity fighting. She was certainly awesome in the few times when she has had to handle herself, especially against Cooper. Surprised Oliver too, I think. Especially since she's not been trained. Supposedly.

I hope you like this chapter. It also has a few more surprises…keep reviewing, it gives the Muse the motivation to write even more.

Previously:

Sara asked, looking first at Roy, then at Felicity, "So…given the opportunity, you wouldn't want the effects anymore?"

Roy and Felicity exchanged glances and answered simultaneously, "Yes."

Sara smiled and held up her phone. "Then you'll be happy to know, Cisco from STAR labs just texted me to say they think they got the secret to the cure figured out. Barry will be bringing the doses to us within the hour."

Felicity felt like her legs had been kicked out from under her, which surprised her. A myriad of emotions swept through her with the news that the poison within her, threatening her natural sunny disposition, could be reversed. Relief, surprise, shock, but also a strange sense of disappointment as well, which surprised her. However, when she recalled how she felt while fighting Oliver and Slade, an addicting sense of capability, of power, flowed through her. It was invigorating. She had never felt so alive, so powerful, so…enabled. Suddenly she wasn't sure if she wanted to get rid of that feeling.

That awareness brought on a sense of uneasiness. She would've thought the possibility of getting the mirakuru reversed would only be a relief. All of a sudden Felicity was more confused than she'd ever been in her entire life. It almost felt as though she was tempted to keep something too good to be true.

"Felicity?" Oliver asked softly from right beside her.

She turned slowly to look up at him. Oliver was looking at her with such love and concern in his eyes. Despite her attempting to kill him only minutes before. Of course, that wasn't really her back there, it was the mirakuru. So, if it could make her almost kill the man she loved, why was she hesitating getting rid of it?

"Because it's intoxicating to be that powerful," Roy said.

Felicity startled. "My damn filter." She sighed in resignation as she acknowledged she had said that last sentence out loud. Her pale face reddened as she realized she said "the man she loved".

Oliver nodded. "Yes. I can certainly understand, especially in light of what Slade had done to you, why you would want to feel powerful. Knowing that nothing could possibly hurt you again. However.."

"However, it isn't exactly healthy to have it within my system, is it?"

Roy shook his head. "Not really. Always having to battle the anger, it gets old pretty fast."

"Not to mention what the long-term health effects are, having it in your system," Oliver said.

"It most certainly could change even your sunny nature, Felicity," Sara added with a wry smile. "It's also not a healthy way to heal from the assault, even though it would give you a way to resolve your feelings. As well as feeling like you'd never be powerless again." After giving Felicity a wry smile, Sara added, "But it doesn't really deal with the crux of the situation, and healing that part of your psyche."

Before they could continue the conversation, Oliver heard something. He quieted the group down and walked toward the door. However, a group of four men in suits entered the room. One of them walked directly towards Oliver, holding up a badge.

"Miller, from ARGUS. Agent Michaels was pulled away at the last minute by Director Waller for an item of top priority. She sent me to pick up your prisoner."

Oliver took the badge and studied it. He nodded, and handed it back. He studied the other three men. "Yes, he's lying over there. We gave him a dose of pit viper venom to sedate him for the trip. With the mirakuru in him, it's the only thing that will take him down."

"Yes, we've been updated with all of that."

WHOOSH! Oliver still jumped from the sound, even though he had been expecting Barry to arrive.

"Hi guys! Got the antidote right here for you." He handed Oliver a briefcase. Oliver placed it on the ground, opened it and took one out. He was about to walk over to Slade when Agent Miller spoke up.

"Ah, if I may interrupt. Are we sure we want to administer that on top of the pit viper venom already in his system?"

The Flash rubbed the back of his neck and looked at Oliver. "You know, he does have a point. Off hand, I think the venom might interfere with the antidote taking effect."

Miller reached his open hand towards the Flash. "We'll take it and administer it after he wakes up and we have him secure on the premises."

The Flash looked at Oliver, who nodded his agreement. The Flash handed the antidote to Miller, who then nodded to his three colleagues, who picked up Slade in a fireman's hold and carried him off.

Miller addressed Oliver again. "I'm sure Agent Michaels or Director Waller herself will contact you when Slade is secure within ARGUS."

"Thank you."

As the group watched Slade being carried off, they all breathed easier.

Sara said, "Well, I think we can take off now."

"Isn't your father coming to bring these other men to prison?" Felicity asked.

"I suppose we should give them the cure before they do that," Oliver said. Roy, Sara, and Diggle each took three of the cure and left to administer it to all of Slade's unconscious soldiers scattered around the building.

While they were gone, Barry looked at the two remaining Team Arrow members. "Well, if you don't need anything more from me, I better get back to Central City. I got some things left to do there…"

Since it was just them in the room, Oliver avoided using code names. "Thanks again, Barry. And thank Cisco and Caitlin for their assistance."

"You bet. And you can be sure we'll make some more of the antidote and keep it handy. As well as doses of mirakuru. You know, just in case." He smiled, then was gone in a whirl of red and yellow.

By this time, the other members returned from their mission to change Slade's super soldiers back into regular human beings. Just as they approached the group, Lyla and three men in suits burst into the room and rushed over to them.

Lyla first sought out Dig and gave him a hurried nod and smile, then looked at Oliver. "Sorry, Oliver, I don't know why it happened, but we were delayed by a strange road block thirty minutes from here. But we're here now. So, where's Slade?"

Felicity's heart fell to her feet. Then she began to hyperventilate as she realized truly what Lyla was saying. Over the increasing grayness covering her vision a voice in her ear told her to breathe slowly, to concentrate on his voice. It took a few minutes of focusing on her breathing to realize the voice was Oliver's'. Queen to the rescue. Again. Her hero.

"What's wrong?" Lyla asked Diggle.

Diggle explained how supposedly ARGUS agents had been there already and left with Slade. Lyla only looked at Diggle and turned to the men with her, issuing orders. They ran out as Team Arrow watched.

"You know, they could catch them," Roy offered, not able to bear the heartbroken and scared look on Felicity's face.

Sara rolled her eyes at him. "I guess we can hope. We should have known."

"How could we? That badge was an authentic ARGUS badge. I should have asked to see badges from all of them," Oliver sighed. "They probably stole one badge somewhere."

Felicity's knees began to crumble under her, so Oliver gently led her to the ground, and sat down beside her. "I can't believe it, I just can't believe it," she repeated to herself, eyes unfocused, staring into nothingness.

Oliver squeezed her gently in a hug. "We'll get him again. We will, Felicity." He stroked her hair slowly, willing her to calm down. However, his eyes were stone cold with anger and his lips were pressed in such a tight line they almost disappeared as he struggled not to show his own anger and frustration.

Her breath increasing once again, Felicity could only stare wild-eyed at Oliver. "Are you sure? He still has the mirakuru within him. You know they just…we just gave someone a sample of the cure, and they wouldn't give it to him. What are they going to do? They have some of the antidote. They know we have it. We don't have any advantage over them." She covered her face with her hands. "What are we going to do?"

"Felicity, you and Roy are our aces in the hole," Oliver whispered in her ear. "You can help us catch Slade. And we will."

Felicity swallowed deeply in an attempt to control the rising bile in her throat. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply for a few moments. Feeling more centered, she said, "Okay. That's right. I wanted to take the cure, but I'm not. Not yet. Not until that man is either dead or in chains. Or six feet under…cement and dirt. Perhaps a mountain. Or else put him in a dark, deep dungeon somewhere. Does ARGUS have one of those? Maybe you can build me one. Maybe Lyla can get Amanda to build one. Maybe…"

"Maybe you should take several more deep breaths," Oliver said gently, as she was beginning to hyperventilate again.

Diggle lowered himself to sit on the floor on the other side of Felicity. "We will not let Slade get you a third time, Felicity."

Felicity turned her tear-filled eyes towards him. "How can you say that? We thought we had it covered the last time."

Oliver gripped the lower part of his face in frustration, rubbed at his chin, and exchanged glances with Dig, who met his gaze with a serious one of his own.

Sara offered gently, "Why don't we head to the lair and start working on who might have grabbed Slade?" Catching Oliver's eye, she said in a lower tone to him, "And maybe give Felicity something to help her relax. Maybe she can take a nap."

Felicity only concentrated on Sara's first statement "We know who took Slade. Isabel must have done it," Felicity said. Suddenly, her demeanor changed. She sat up straighter, her face reddened, and her voice became determined. "If it's the last thing I do, besides put Slade in the ground this time, is to take Isabel by her skinny neck and…"

"Felicity!" Oliver was shocked by the amount of anger Felicity displayed.

Felicity shook herself and looked at her friends with wide, blank eyes, as though she had forgotten where she'd been for a moment. "Oh dear." Exchanging looks with Roy, she said, "I'm beginning to understand more and more what you meant about the flashes of anger."

Roy nodded in understanding. "Yeah, exactly like that, Felicity."

"It just felt like, suddenly, this burst of anger crashed through me and all I wanted was to kill her."

"Yes, sometimes I'm okay, and suddenly something sets me off. That's why I've been so unpredictable since I got injected."

Oliver looked at the two younger people and began to bite his inner cheek. "But Roy, you've been learning how to control that anger, to not act on that impulse." Meeting Roy's look of surprise, Oliver said with a nod, "Yeah, you've been doing good on your anger management, Roy. I've been proud of you."

Roy startled, his awareness focused back on the group instead of only on Felicity. "Uh, yeah, Oliver, I have, haven't I? It was very hard at first, but it does get easier, Felicity."

Oliver smiled at him, sending him a silent thanks for helping to make Felicity feel better. He looked down at the woman in his arms, who had stopped shaking but who also had stopped her angry breathing. "Are you feeling more calm, Felicity?"

Felicity bit her lower lip, then met his gaze. "Yeah, feeling a little better. Yep, Team Arrow will win again. We'll find Slade, and beat him again."

Oliver kissed the top of her head and then assisted her in standing. "Well, as Sara suggested, let's get back to the lair and start working on our plan to go on the offensive against Slade. We've mostly been reacting defensively against him."

"That's because we don't know what he's planning in that crazy mind of his, Ollie," Sara said, her exasperation clearly showing.

Diggle approached her, put his arm around her shoulders. "We'll figure it out, Sara. He's giving us plenty to work on with how his brain works."

Oliver handed Felicity to Roy to accompany her to the car, and he herded the rest of the team out the door in front of him. He looked back at the room where he and Felicity could have been killed. Nothing was left behind to possibly indicate where Slade would go next, however. He sighed and hurried after his team.

AN: Well, after ending the last three chapters in cliffhangers, I suppose it's only right in ending this one without one. They sure do get addicting to an author, though.

Hope as we enter this second part of the story, it holds up to the promise to the first part. I had held onto the previous battle almost since the beginning of writing this story, so now…gotta write more. Hope you are enjoying it, and I sure hope you will write a review and let me know what you like about it. Always, always appreciated.

Yeah, some of you expressed sadness about Felicity not being affected by the mirakuru anymore. I felt bad and sad about her losing that so soon as well…so…that's why Slade escaped without getting the antidote. So she'd have a reason to keep it. Ha. My muse keeps me guessing. She's forever changing this story on me, ha. But that's what makes writing so much fun! Bye for now.