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Chapter 13 - Crashing Down

Jesse and Felicity headed towards the hall, just before the door they saw Brennan and Diggle walking towards them with arms full of water bottles. Jesse waited in the hall to help the guys and Felicity turned into the room. She looked for Oliver first expecting him to be sparring but the sight took her by surprise. Him and Roy were moving in sync with Shalimar and Emma. Their bodies seemed to be flowing back and forth in a gentle rhythm. Then Felicity noticed the room was no longer the hall that she had seen earlier it was beautiful like a tranquil paradise.

She was stood staring with her mouth open speechless. Brennan came alongside her and paused, "You like our home?" He asked. Felicity turned towards him more shocked at what he'd said now than the room, "Home?" He laughed, "Adam built us somewhere safe and this is a snippet of that place. Sanctuary we call it." "Its beautiful. How is it possible?" She asked her brain working overtime to fathom the technology being used. "Its another one of Adam's genius toys we have a simulator generator at Sanctuary to help us train and this is a portable version. There are projectors in the corners." Jesse answered her question. "O" was all she mustered as she went back to watching Oliver. He had a look of pure peace on his face almost like when hes sleeping with her in his arms.

Shalimar looked over seeing the room fill with the rest of both teams and brought the session to an end. She walked over to Brennan taking a bottle of water and throwing one to Oliver and Roy. Emma moved over to Jesse taking a bottle for herself and Diggle held one out to a sulking Sara. "Are you okay?" He asked concerned for her she had been more broody than usual since finding out about Felicity and dredging up Ivo. "I'm fine." She ground out, "Thanks." She continued a little softer motioning the water bottle. Dig nodded and turned back to the others.

"What time is it?" Roy asked after emptying his water bottle. "Half 4" Jesse answered. "I'm going to head to work I need to change first and I don't want to be late. Canary you coming?" She moved towards the door in silent acknowledgement. Roy retrieved his hoodie and after saying his thanks to Emma and Shalimar he left towards the garage. "Oliver you Okay if I head out too?" Diggle asked. "Sure I've got to see Detective Lance then I'll be done for the night." He answered and Diggle said his goodbyes to the group, he gave Felicity a look before leaving. Brennan followed to let them all out.

"Is Adam in the lab? He said he needed to see me at some point." She asked the remainder of Mutant X. "Yeah want me to take you to him?" Emma offered. "Sure. Oliver I'll be back in a..." She didn't get to finish Oliver knew what she was going to see Adam for and he wasn't going to let her go alone. He moved and took her hand. "I'm coming too." He smiled at her and she blushed. "Go before we all end up in a chick flick." Shalimar jibed. Everyone laughed.

As the 3 entered the lab they saw Adam leaning over a microscope. They all waited in silence for him to finish. Oliver looked about the lab and he noticed several 3D images on the wall he moved over to look as them. He didn't understand much except he recognised the helix shape as being DNA and the image of a brain. The bar chart was in gibberish he didn't understand any of the words.

"That's Roy's results." Oliver turned towards the voice and saw Adam watching him. "Can you fix him?" Was all he asked it was all he needed from Adam and Mutant X. "Yes however I need some samples from Slade and some more information. What happened when he was injected?" The question caught Oliver off guard it was a little odd he thought. "I was fighting off Cyrus and they had already injected him. The fight lasted about 5 minutes before I could get to Roy. He wasn't breathing and had no pulse. I did CPR and he started breathing again." "Hmm that explains some of the findings. You said that it killed Slade but he revived and you didn't do CPR on him? Would you say he was dead for longer than Roy?" "What findings? Yes he was dead we couldn't help him any more Ivo took us away. Yes it was about half an hour or more from leaving the freighter to him appearing again." The room went silent while Adam thought for a few more minutes.

Felicity broke the silence, "We found a lead to finding Slade but when we do how are we going to get samples?" Adam turned to answer her, "I've been using Roy's results and I think I have an anaesthetic that should take him out for a few minutes while you get what we need. Now I've finished your DNA sequencing are you ready?" Felicity nodded feeling a little nervous again. "If you sit in the chair, take your jacket off, it'll be over before you know." He said. Felicity followed Adam's instructions and Oliver took her jacket on her way to the chair. She settled back and faced the ceiling. She knew it wasn't going to hurt so relaxed back and waited.

"Are you ready?" Adam asked. "Yea." She replied remembering that she had to stay still. The scanner started this time with a blue colour and did one sweep of Felicity before vanishing. "That was quick." She commented looking over to Adam. "Not as hard to make the alterations as to take the information. How do you feel?" He asked. "Great well I don't feel any different so I'm hoping that's a good sign." She replied. "That's good can you try using your ability just to make sure everything is okay." Adam suggested holding out the tablet for her to take.

Felicity held the tablet and entered it her eyes changing to the static patterns. The room where she found herself was as it normally would be, she called Roy's results and they appeared as floating images. She returned back into the lab, "All working fine." "That's great if you have any problems you just have to let me know." He replied taking the tablet back from her. Oliver handed her the green jacket back which she took gratefully, she had felt a little lost without it for the last few minutes.

"I need to go and see Detective Lance to explain about the bodies and last night do you want me to drop you back home or do you need to stay?" Oliver asked. "No we have the searches set up on the system here they have tech I could only dream about. It'll be faster but with the wide parameters we set it will still take a while so home it is. I still have chores to do and I can catch up on some TV." She replied. "If the system gets a notification one of us will inform you. Go and have an easy night." Adam added. "Thanks Adam." Felicity said followed by Oliver's thanks. Adam nodded and returned to his microscope, Emma smiled at them both and ushered them to follow her. "Come on I'll see you out."

Out on the street it was late dusk almost dark so Oliver took a different route back heading for their apartment. It was rush hour traffic so where he could he kept to the quieter streets. Not 2 streets from home something struck the bike from the side throwing the occupants and the bike across the street.

Felicity felt the impact and instantly her leg was in agony. A moment later she felt weightless as her grip on Oliver's waist loosened and slipped from her fingers. Several moments felt like hours before she hit the pavement once then twice rolling. She felt her body dragging across the pavement before her head collided with something then the world went black.

Oliver was riding down the street watching the junction in the distance. They were just clearing a side road when he felt the right side of bike jerk violently to the left. He felt Felicity's hands slide from his waist as he tried to hold onto the bike which was moving into the air. He felt the rotating motion of the bike the wheels were moving upwards and he released his hold not wanting to be crushed by the bike when it landed. He heard the bike crash into the floor then landed himself hard on the tarmac. His momentum resulted in him sliding along on his back several feet before his bum connected with the curb. His head fell back to the floor for a moment while he checked himself for injuries. Feeling no pains just confusion he rolled over and lifted his head.

He saw a car in the middle of the road with an indent on the passenger side bumper and wing. That's what hit us, he thought. As he rose up on one knee the door of the car opened and a figure emerged. The head turned and revealed a half and half black and orange mask. Slade. Standing Oliver threw his helmet from his head and lifted the hood.

Slade moved around the door of the car and drew his katana sword from the sheath on his back and took up his attack stance. Oliver took stock of his surroundings, his bow was to the right but between him and Slade, he needed to make a dash for it. His legs tensed then propelled him forward and into a gambol allowing him to grab the bow and roll into a crouched defensive position to deflect Slades attack.

Slade smirked watching the kid calculate his moves he was so predictable. As he moved forward collecting his bow from the ground Slade bounded forward slamming his katana downwards to Oliver's back but just before it connected with soft tissue a loud clank rang out. His bow was in the way. He pushed his Mirakuru strength into the locked weapons and watched as Oliver slowly crumpled.

Oliver felt the sword connect with his bow above his head, then he felt the crushing weight. He used all his might to keep from crumpling but he couldn't compete with the Mirakuru. He decided fast and used Slade's strength to propel him between his own legs. He rose and spun while Slade took his sweet time to register what had happened. When he did turn Oliver was ready and brought his bow down onto the side of his head.

Slade pushed down and suddenly he felt the resistance disappear. He thought he had sliced into Oliver but he was gone the space in front of him was empty. He lifted his sword and spun around to be greeted with a sharp thud to the left of his head. He was partially prepared and the blow didn't phase him too much but he used the opening Oliver had given and sliced the katana through his side and across his chest.

Oliver stumbles back dropping his arms down and hugging them back to his chest to ease the searing pain. He watched Slade's movements planning his next attack, he would protect Felicity Slade was not going to get her. He heard a snigger from behind the mask, "You don't deserve such a strong beauty like her, just like you never deserved Shado. You will fail her as you did Shado. I trained you, I'm stronger, I will keep my promise kid and there is nothing you can do to stop me." Slade gloated. Oliver's rage tipped over the edge his only thought to protect his girl, Felicity.

He ran at slade and tried to rugby tackle him to the ground. He half succeeded in he moved Slade several steps back before feeling the hilt hit between his shoulder blades and he dropped to his knees. Shaking the blow off he hooked his bow behind Slade's leg and grabbing the loose edge pulling the bow towards him with everything he had. Slade crashed to the ground and his sword bounced on the ground away from his reach.

Slade lifted his leg and squarely kicked Oliver in the face sending him flying backwards a few feet. This gave him time to roll over and retrieve his sword and resume an attack on Oliver. Before Oliver could get off the ground he found Slade looming over him katana held in a relaxed position one handed. "To easy kid, she doesn't deserve you." Oliver went to get to his feet but felt the sword biting into his left upper arm. He released his bow and grabbed the blade trying to shove it back he knew Slade could slice right through his arm. He felt the blade twist slightly then everything went black.

Slade had the blade in Oliver's left arm and he wanted this over he had things to do. He threw a left hook and knocked Oliver out cold. Pulling his blade forward making the gash deeper in the process he looked around and found his prize. Felicity was laying motionless on the pavement. He sheathed his sword while covering the distance. At Felicity's still form he bent down and emptied her pockets of keys and phone before lifting her over his shoulder. Something made a noise and Slade moved around seeing nothing moving in the area he looked to the floor and saw a bracelet below where Felicity's hands has been hanging. He stomped on it twisting the metal loops then walked to the car. He put Felicity in the trunk and returned to the drivers seat. Throwing the car in gear the vehicle went screeching down the road.

Roy and Canary arrived at Verdant. They had to park up in the alleyway as the staff were stood outside the staff entrance. Roy jumped off the bike and removed his helmet heading to the club. As he approached the group he spoke, "Hey what are you all doing outside?" "Its locked." One replied. He thought it highly unusual as Thea always opens up at 4 as she does paperwork and stock taking before opening. He pulled his keys out and opened the door.

All the lights were off no one was there. He started to feel panic setting in, "You get things set up I'll join you in a few." He said to the staff before heading back to the alley. "Thea isn't here." He answered Canary's unasked question. Roy pulled his phone out and dialed Thea's number. It went straight to voicemail. Roy's hands started to shake. Canary removed her helmet, "Ring Felicity she might know where she is." She said trying to calm Roy, "I'll park the bike up." And she dismounted and pushed the bike behind the dumpster.

Roy dialed Felicity's number, it rang out then went to voice mail. "S**t!" He cursed. He looked up to see Canary walking towards him, "She's not answering." "Let's get inside then try her again then Oliver." She picked up the helmets and both walked inside.

Oliver heard someone singing. He groaned his head throbbed then the stinging from his arm, hand and side kicked in. He hissed as he brought himself to sit up. Then the panic flooded his mind, Slade, Felicity! He spun his head around the car was gone and so was Felicity. He clumsily got to his feet and made his way to where Felicity had been lying. On the ground was her phone still ringing and apartment keys he dropped to his knees and picked up the phone. It stopped ringing before he could answer it.

He looked about the ground around him and saw her bracelet. Damn it, he thought her tracker was in his hands he had no way of finding her. Oliver's phone started beeping frantically, he unzipped his pocket and retrieved the phone answering it, "Roy." He coldly stated. "Are you with Felicity?" He asked. A strange starting question then he realised who had been trying to call on her phone. "No, why?" He couldn't bare to reveal he'd lost her to Slade. "I wondered if she knew where Thea might be." Oliver's blood ran icy cold he was speechless. "Olie what's wrong." It was Sara the call must be on speaker. "We got attacked by Slade, he has..." A tear ran down his cheek, "He took Felicity." He stated. "He must have taken Thea earlier. We will get them back. Where are you? Are you hurt?" His mind was a complete mess his world was crashing faster than he thought possible. "I'm 2 streets from Felicity's. I have cuts but I'm fine, the bike doesn't look so great." Oliver answered. "I'm on my way." Sara replied and the call ended.

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