Palmer Technologies Ray's Palmer's Office
Ray walks into his private office and tries to turn on the light but it didn't work he tries to flick it a few more times as Roy stands up from his desk at the back of the room in his uniform becoming known to Ray.
"The circuit is cut it won't work neither will your phone or computer," Roy said through a voice modifier.
"I thought The Arrow died?" Ray asked.
"It's called legacy" Roy said.
"You've watched too many Christopher Nolan movies" Ray said and Roy just smirked. "So how can I help you?" Ray said while sitting down at his lab bench.
"$200,000 was stolen from Malcolm Merlyn trust, it was stolen by you." Roy said.
"Considering you're not trying to shoot me, you don't seem to mind that I stole it but would like to know why." Ray said.
"Well it is blood money so I'm not a fan of you stealing but yes I would like to know why?" Roy asked.
"I didn't steal anything," Ray said.
"What?" Roy asked.
"A subsidiary took it and now that I have just sold them off to Wayne Enterprises there's no evidence" Ray said smugly.
"You're playing a dangerous game Mr Palmer," Roy said.
"A game that I'm winning now if you excuse men." Ray said as got up and walked to the door. Roy debated in his mind what he should do then decided to shoot an arrow into the back of Ray's left leg.
"Ahhh!" Ray screamed as he fell to the ground with Roy walking up behind him.
"WHY DID YOU STEAL THE MONEY!?" Roy demanded as he said this Ray puled the arrow out and grabbed a metal brace from his desk put it around his knee and motioned his arm towards a cabinet which sent a metal glove looking thing onto his hand which he used to uppercut Roy across the room into a filing cabinet.
Roy let out a scream whilst Ray walked up to him.
"Well Mr Arrow or whatever stupid knock off name you can think of here's some advice, be more original and stop imitating a murderer, that's a grappling arrow right?" Ray said while trying to hold back a laugh.
"huh?" Roy said then suddenly Ray threw him through a window luckily Roy used the grappling Arrow to save himself but he was still hurt from it.
The next day
Ted Grant's Gym
Laurel walked through the door with a parcel in her hand, Ted was training with a kid white, raven hair around 15 years old.
"Hi Ted I didn't know you trained kids?" as soon as she said that a feeling of awkwardness enveloped the three of them.
"Um… this is….uh" Ted slurred.
"Alvin Draper" The boy said breaking the awkwardness.
"Yeah… I'm doing it as a favour for his um dad yeah" Ted said hesitantly.
"Okay well I can see that I'm making this really awkward so I'll get out of your way" Alvin said while took off his gloves off and made his way to the locker room.
"Okay um Ted Felicity wanted me to give this to you," she said while handing him a small box, "It's a communicator and an untraceable phone and a few other things.
"Jeez a lot of stuff" Ted said.
"I'll catch you later Ted nice meeting you Laurel" Alvin said while walking out of the locker room
"Seeya kid" Ted said smiling.
"Wait I never told him my name?" Laurel asked.
"You're the district attorney, you're essentially famous" Ted said smiling.
Just then a news report came on the TV stating that an oil tanker had exploded on a freeway leading out of the city.
"Oh my God!" Ted exclaimed.
"I'll call Roy" Laurel said.
The freeway which is above a river
Roy, Diggle, Laurel and Ted were doing damage control.
As Roy picks up a couple of infants from a burning car he notices a bus on the verge of falling over the edge.
"Dig get in the car!" Roy exclaimed while taking out a rope and attaching it to the truck Dig was getting in and the school bus.
Dig tried to back up as much as he could but to no avail and the rope snapped causing the bus to fall over the edge of the road.
"NO!" Roy screamed.
Just then the bus rose up from the ground to reveal a man in a blue mechanical suit flying the bus over as the man in the suit landed on the bridge a bunch of reporters gathered round.
"It's all in a day's work, you can call me The Atom." The man said as he flew off.
"woah" Dig said as he got out the truck.
"Crap" Felicity said.
"What?" Roy asked.
"That's Ray." Felicity said.
"Oh my God" Roy said.
The Foundry
Roy, Felicity, Diggle, Laurel and Ted are discussing The Atom.
"I don't see the problem with another hero in the city." Ted said.
"He threw Roy out a 40 story window," Diggle said.
"Ray's doing this for his wife who died during the siege," Felicity told him.
"Malcolm Merlyn does what he does for his wife and he's trust worthy isn't he" Laurel said angrily.
"Guys I think we need to calm down, talk to him I mean it's not like he's trying to kill us or give us top of the line tech" Roy shouted.
"Holy CRAP!" Felicity shouted.
"Felicity what is it?" Laurel asked.
"Dr Lockhart he's been arrested!" Felicity said.
On a news report
"Dr James Lockhart was arrested tonight due to evidence being leaked online of him aiding and abetting the vigilantes known as The Arrow, Arsenal, The Canary and Wildcat he is currently being driven over to the Starling City central precinct where he will be questioned for his crimes-"said the reporter.
Roy marched straight to the cabinet containing his uniform.
"Roy, Roy ROY! What the hell do you think you're doing" Diggle demanded at Roy.
"Dr Lockhart has stood by us, helped us, saved our lives I'm not gonna let him rot in jail for it!" Roy shouted back at Diggle while pushing him on the ground, Ted and Laurel ran up to him to see if he was ok.
"Roy you're not thinking straight-"Felicity said.
"Shut up Felicity! All of us can see that this is your fault." Roy shouted.
"What?" Felicity said shockingly.
"If you had told us about what Ray was doing, we could've prepared and Dr Lockhart wouldn't be criminalised right now, besides he knows who we all are he could talk and this could all be over. Oh and Felicity was there any way that you knew that Ray could ID us?" Roy said.
"He does have state of the art facial recognition software which he could've used on you earlier tonight." Felicity admitted.
"I arrest my case" Roy said while grabbing his bow and leaving the room with Diggle running after him.
Dr Lockhart is being walked up the steps of the SCPD with two guards behind him and more stationed around as well as an army of reporters behind metal fences, Roy is aiming an Arrow at one of the guards from a nearby rooftop. Just as Roy is about to let go of the bowstring Diggle tackles him and knocks him on his back pinning him to the ground.
"Diggle GET OFF ME!" Roy shouted.
"Roy you can't do this!" Diggle shouted.
"I need to do this" Roy screamed.
"You'll become a killer Roy would the Doc want that would Oliver want that?" Diggle said trying to calm him down.
"Oliver Queen was a psychopath!" Roy cried.
"You'll turn out just like him." Diggle said struggling to keep Roy down.
"I can't let this happen Diggle I can't" Roy cried even more now.
"You can't save everybody Roy no one can." Diggle said while Roy became calmer and stopped squirming.
Roy cried into Diggle as he comforted him. Just then several shots went off causing the two to become aware.
"What the hell!" Roy exclaimed.
The two slowly looked over after the shots stopped and could see two officers shot dead with a few others wounded including Captain Lance unfortunately Dr Lockhart had been killed.
"NO!" Roy shouted Diggle then covered his moth and pointed him to a nearby bell tower the only place the shots could've come from.
The two headed there immediately, unfortunately a police officer noticed Roy hop over a building without him noticing. As they climbed the steps of the abandoned tower they stopped at the door to the lookout platform which had a fencing going around it with a dome acting as a roof with a bell in it.
"Okay man ready 1… 2… 3 Go!" Diggle said as they busted down the door they found Deadshot packing away his rifle who then subsequently tried to shoot them with his wrist mounted guns but Roy shot him in the arm causing him to fall before a single shot could be fired.
"Lotten you son of a bitch" Diggle shouted and punched the man in the face causing his nose to bleed.
"You'll understand John I'm just following orders, remember," he said then proceeded to cough up blood.
Police cars then surrounded the building while other officers set up a barricade.
Roy who was the only one standing noticed a Sniper laser on his chest, he ducked barely missing the shot.
Just then Deadshot got a call on his communicator and was shocked.
"Diggle please-"Lotten felt a surge of electricity go throughout his body. "Look out for Zoey- ahh" He gasped and seemingly dies.
"Holy shit" Diggle said.
"Dig they've got a sniper on the roof over there and the entire tower is surrounded we can't zip line without somebody seeing!" Roy said. Diggle was in shock, feeling more vulnerable than he had ever been in the past 3 years.
"Roy… you… I… give me your jacket and bow." Diggle said breathing heavily.
"What the hell are you on about?" Roy asked.
"They only think there's one person here… if they get me you can zip line outta here" Diggle said firmly.
"No we're both getting outta here together" Roy shouted.
"Listen to me Roy it's the only way! The only way for one of us to get out with are freedom, besides I came here to make sure you didn't kill anyone." Diggle said as he pulled the jacket off of Roy.
"Diggle don't!" Roy exclaimed.
"Get in position damn it!" Diggle said now pointing a gun at Roy.
Roy got in position to fire the zip line bearing in mind to crouch so the sniper couldn't see him. He then looked at Diggle who was putting on the hood.
"Look out for my family" Diggle said.
Diggle stood up and started to shoot arrows at the sniper as Roy zip lined to another building while the police's attention was diverted, Diggle took out the Sniper but didn't notice another one to his left. The other sniper shot Diggle through the back which caused him to fall off of the building.
"Diggle are you ok DIGGLE!" Roy shouted through the radio after he heard the shot.
As Diggle fell to what would be his death The Atom flew down and saved him, flying him away into the night unnoticed by Roy who thought his friend fell to his death as he was on the other side of the tower.
The Foundry
Roy strolled into the room with a distraught look on his face but when he looked over and saw Diggle on the table with Felicity, Laurel and Ted by him he was shocked but then he noticed Ray Palmer there as well. Roy lost his shit and tried to shoot at Ray who just managed to dodge the arrow.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU SON OF A BITCH?" Roy shouted.
Ted then snuck up behind him punching him causing him to fall to the ground.
"He's the one who turned in Lockhart, who hired Deadshot he's the reason Diggle is dead!" Roy shouted in pain.
"No he didn't he just saved Diggle from dying Roy, but he is in a comma, we have him stabilised but-"Laurel said calming him down.
"What happened?" Roy asked while getting up.
"We saw that the two of you were stuck on the roof so we called Ray to help. There was no other way Roy." Ted said.
"If he didn't turn in Lockhart then who did?" Roy asked.
Everyone was silent.
"Felicity hook everyone to a polygraph including yourself." Roy ordered.
1 hour later
As Laurel unhooked herself from the machine it became clear that none of them were the ones who turned in Lockhart.
"If it was no one here then we have to think." Ray said.
"Yeah it would have to be someone that new about this or at least had enough clues to figure it out, had a personal reason to hurt us and had the resources to pull this off." As Roy said that last part they all new who it was.
Thea's penthouse
Thea was sitting watching TV when Roy wearing the Arsenal suit smashed through the window, Thea gasped managing to punch him knocking him down as he ran up to her she then ran for the door when Widcat opened it she turned to the staircase then saw The Black Canary at the top when she turned back to Arsenal she saw The Atom outside.
"THEA QUEEN YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY!" They all said in unison.