Last Chapter, I mentioned that the Twins were quite suspicious of Doug. Even though he helped with all that getting-the superheroes-together plan, it was only because Lorris had blackmailed him into doing it. And, of course, he STILL was a first-degree murderer and mind-controlling evil person, so they decided to keep him in custody of the DEO for the time.
Did I mention he was a mind-controller? Well, not until now. And it was mainly because he had magical powers.
At ARGUS one day, Nilla was just hanging out at a computer, looking up different villains while Lorris was furiously typing, trying to decode a long message. It was really a letter sent from techno-whiz/alchemist/doctor/PhD/veterinarian/biologist/physicist/inventor/lightning-powered Blitzen. (Yes, I had to put all of that in there.) "Come on, come on... she said this letter would tell me everything to know about Doug's real identity..." Lorris muttered, tongue sticking out as her fingers pattered across the keyboard.
"Could you give it a break already?" Oliver grumbled. "I can hear you past my hood."
"Well, of course you can," Lorris snipped, not bothering to look up. "That hood is made of non-soundproof material, also known as cloth. So go lock yourself up in a room with limestone walls if you don't wanna endure my noise anymore, you decrepit-stuck-up-arrow-shooting-old-geezer." Nilla looked up from her laptop to whisper, "Oooh, burn..."
"Hey! That is offensive! I don't take it very lightly!" Oliver snapped, hopping from the chair. Lorris rolled her eyes. "And I don't take your detective skills seriously. I mean, yeah, there's a mastermind criminal safely in the clutches of the DEO, but he also happens to be an escape artist who can shapeshift into whoever he wants at will, and you've been too busy protecting Star City to notice that he's secretly plotting to murder you. Only a know-it-all-marshmallow-face wouldn't notice until now."
For once in his long life, the Green Arrow was at a loss for words. "I.. wait... what?"
"She just roasted you, man!" John Diggle chortled from the corner where he had been watching the whole scene play out.
"AND I gave you all a dire warning about an old enemy of us Twins, named Doug," Lorris added. "I used him in my plan of getting Barry and Kara together, but he only cooperated because I threatened to blackmail his list of crimes to the police and all the security in the universe. So far he's being kept under custody of the DEO, but he's an escape artist and deadly schemer, so stay prepared."
"How old is he, anyway? And what are his crimes?" Oliver asked. So Lorris rattled off, "He's a 49-year-old person and still young, but he's actually had multiple lives ever since Vandal Savage existed. And I told Winn and Cisco the short list, but you're gonna get the long list, so watch out." (PS. It's in the same order as when she had told Winn and Cisco.)
"Felony tax evasion and earning $17,533,200; a pyramid scheme snatching him six billion and causing that huge stock market crash two years ago; stealing priceless artifacts from the Egyptian tombs; stealing valuables from museums around the world; working with drug dealers, mastermind criminals, and those horrendous nightmares, ESPECIALLY bloodmares; shoplifting; robbing everything from the Metropolis Bank; lying on a federal form; seventeen second-degree murders; eighty-nine homicidal first-degree murders; a currently running plan on how to kill Oliver Queen; enslaving people in Africa to do his work of tomb-raiding; finding Emperor Montezuma's hidden Aztec treasure and using it to make a bomb big enough to destroy Central City and National City, working with prostitutes; cashing bad checks.
"Oh, and he actually had seventeen hundred second-degree murders and eighty-nine thousand first-degree murders, such as pretending to be one of the Roman Senate and stabbing Julius Caesar fatally. Also, more crimes: mind-controlling wicked leaders like Hitler and Stalin, doing some horrible things to unborn babies disguised as a doctor, torturing several people, posing as different villains, illegally digging up corpses, blowing up Krypton, and he's been quite responsible for many rape incidents, thefts, animal abuse, poaching, the current genocide against religion, plotting to bomb many different places - Florence, Venice, Vatican City, Haiti, New York, Ottawa, etcetera.
"And he's making a hi-tech device that taps into the power of the Earth's core so that he can melt the Antarctic ice sheet and flood the whole Earth. There's more, but I don't wanna bore you, so that's also the short list."
Everyone in the room was staring with wide eyes. Felicity interrupted the silence, saying, "Okay, backtrack. You said that Doug's making a plan to kill Oliver?"
"And it does with using old Oliver's arrows against him," Lorris nodded. "Don't think that the arrows won't listen. He's a crazy criminal genius, after having at least 100,000 years of experience. Now, I must return to decoding this series of numbers." She turned back and typed in a few random letter. Suddenly the numbers on her screen turned to words and sentences. "Finally! Okay, what did you write now, Blitz? ... ... ... (GAAAASP) We need to get to Barry and Kara. Now. Doug's escaped from the DEO and is headed toward National City Park, on his way to Central City. And then afterwards he'll be attacking Star City."
"Okay, let's go. Everyone, let's move!" Oliver shouted. They followed the Twins to National City, arriving at the DEO to find a panicked Winn pacing around. "Hey! Guys! Doug just escaped by pretending to be a fatally injured citizen, and then he attacked everyone! Kara came in to fight him, and she's like, 'What do you think you're doing?' And Doug yells at her, 'Shut yer f-word little mouth up!' and then he whisks her away in this blinding flash of light!"
"OH, GREAT QUEEN GREATNESS, GIVE ME A BREAK! I WILL SUE HIM TODAY, THEN, INSTEAD OF WAITING ANOTHER FIVE TO TEN YEARS!" Lorris screeched. "Did he leave anything behind?"
"Only a slice of toast," Winn nervously tittered. Nilla picked up the toast, sniffed it, and took a bite. She spat it back out immediately. "Ew! it tastes like he put it in old socks and vinegar mixed with Kryptonite gunpowder!"
Then a strange light came over both of the twins' eyes. They stared at each other, alarmed. "KRYPTONITE GUNPOWDER! THE KRYPTONITE CHAMBERS IN ANTARCTICA!"
"WHAT?!" the people present shouted, but the Twins disappeared into a rainbow portal and appeared at S.T.A.R. Labs. "KARA WAS TAKEN TO THE KRYPTONITE CHAMBERS IN ANTARCTICA! WHERE IS BARRY?!" Nilla screamed. Cisco took his hands off his ears. "Ow, stop being to loud! And Barry's not here! Last we saw, he was in the park trying to find out why the tachyon device kept creating breaches to different countries, but still on this Earth."
"Oh, GREAT NIGHT HOWLERS OF ZOOTOPIA," the Twins roared. They quickly informed Cisco of what had recently passed, got him onto Lorris's hoverbike, and raced to Central City's park. Barry had left a black charred spot on a tree where he had left. Nilla sniffed it. "Still fresh. Where's Barry now?"
"Somewhere down in Argentina, on the border between Argentina and Chile," Cisco informed them.
"Got it. Oh, and don't say Chile like 'chili,' say it like 'CHI-lay,'" Lorris snorted.
"Yeah, well, if he's around that place right now, he's probably gonna go to one of the Poles next," Nilla said. "And while we're at it, what would be a good villain name for Doug?"
"Houdini II," Cisco called out immediately.
"Erm, maybe, but he's also a shapeshifter," Lorris shook her head, sniffing around the tree in her ocelot form.
"Chameleoudini?"
"Good one! Actually sounds fun to say, too. "OH, CHAMELEOUDINI!"
"You know,let's just go to the South Pole now," Nilla called. Lorris nodded, turning back into a human. "Okay. Come along, Vibe, we're gonna be needing you."
