Barry sped through the hallway right towards weather wizard. Mardon anticipated this and immediately sent lightning bolts right at Barry luckily he managed to dodge them and punched him in the face. Mardon fell to the ground then he sweep kicked Barry knocking him on his ass as well, he then grabbed Barry's throat while raising a shard of ice.
"Isn't ice Cold's thing?" Barry asked under the pressure.
"You ever heard of hail bitch?" Mardon said while smiling.
"You heard of speed punches?" Barry retorted, he then rapidly punched Mardon in the abdomen causing him to fall back on the floor.
"Fuck you!" Mardon shouted while pulling lightning through the window aiming it at Barry.
Barry sped out the way but the bolt then hit Mardon making him scream causing lightning bolts to hit the crowd below, Barry sped down saving the officers and pedestrians from the explosions. But collapsed due to the effects of the vertigo in the air.
"Shit, forgot to give him the vaccine!" Robin exclaimed from the eighth floor.
"It's fine, he'll be up in a couple minutes, he has accelerated healing." Roy said from the ground floor.
"Red, I should've mentioned this earlier, what are you going to do when you face Thea? I mean she can't be saved from Merlyn's grasp." Robin asked shyly.
"You saying I need to kill her? Because if you know me then you should know killing isn't in my dictionary?" Roy demanded.
"And if you know the batfamily you would know it isn't in ours either. But you should also know that you need to make a decision." Robin said firmly.
"I'll see what happens." Roy said calmly. "Oh and batfamily seriously?"
"Nightwing came up with it." Robin said.
"What's a Nightwing?" Roy asked just as Robin was tackled by Vertigo. "Hold on kid I'm on my way!" Roy exclaimed.
Upstairs Robin was on the floor while Vertigo punched him repeatedly. Robin managed to grab his bow staff and place an electric shield in front of him causing Vertigo to fall backwards. The two got up and stared each other down.
"What's the matter child need a babysitter?" Vertigo taunted.
"Actually my old babysitter had a mullet like yours, it sucked on him too, but yours is definitely worse. At least he had the common sense to cut it." Robin quipped.
"Very funny." Vertigo said then spun kicked Robin.
Robin blocked then countered with an uppercut. Vertigo then tried hitting him with Vertigo but Robin just walked right through it. And continued the fist fight. Robin was tossed against a wall and then he threw Vertigo through a glass wall which led into a small office, he tried to whale on Vertigo but he was pulled into a headlock.
"You can never beat Vertigo!" He shouted.
"For the love of god are you high stop speaking in the third person!" Roy shouted while he pulled Zytle over his head and used his bow staff to knock him out. "Oh yeah you're a drug dealer of course your high." Robin said panting for breath.
"Looks like you handled things." Roy said from behind him. The two walked into the main office.
"You guys make it look easy." Robin said.
"You'll get used to it, but you will probably be picking glass out of your pants for weeks." Roy laughed.
"Be sure to mention that to my girlfriend." Robin said.
"Could I have her name? I would love to pay her a visit, and by visit I mean kill her- obviously" Merlyn said from the other end of the office.
"Good cause that sounded really creepy" Flash said as he sped in next to Robin.
"Merlyn you can't beat all three of us." Roy said.
"No, no I can't but, I don't want to fight you two I just want to face my fellow archer here." Merlyn said to Robin and Flash.
"Hello why would we agree to that?" Flash asked.
"Because of this." Merlyn shot an arrow through the window behind the heroes it then split off into a dozen or so smaller arrows which looked to be acting like guided missiles. "Those arrows are set to hit and blow up specific targets throughout the city. I doubt you want them to die, you my young friend need to start hacking and you Mr. speed demon need to catch them."
"We need to go, now" Robin said.
"But?" Flash asked.
"But nothing, sometimes you've got to make the hard choice!" Robin shouted and pulled Barry's arm and the two sped off.
"As you can see there will always be heroes in this world to stop people like you." Roy said.
"And as you can see there will always be people like me." Merlyn said this as Thea walked up beside him.
"Thea… please don't do this." Roy begged.
"I will stand with my father." Thea said breaking any hope left in Roy's heart.
"Fine" Roy shot an arrow at Merlyn but he dodged it, the two got into a hand to hand fight, Roy kicked Merlyn back a bit which left him open for Thea to strike him but she missed. She then tried again but also missed, Roy then kicked her back then spin Kicked Merlyn who was coming at him from his side. Thea tried to put him into a headlock but Roy flipped her over his head, He then kicked Merlyn down on the ground, Thea tried another swing but missed, Roy countered by throwing her into an elevator and hit the down button and sent her to the ground floor. He then punched Merlyn who blocked and countered by throwing Roy into a desk.
Merlyn tried to stab Roy with an arrow but he back flipped off the floor and upper cut Merlyn to the ground and he then shot two arrows into his jacket shoulders pinning him to the ground. Roy then made his way to the top floor.
Once he got up there he looked for Merlyn's panic room he searched everywhere and found a panel for a thumb print. He grabbed a glass and used a fingerprint kit in his belt and transferred the print to his glove and opened the door revealing Felicity, Ted, Ray and Laurel all safe but tied up.
"Roy get us out of here." Felicity said.
"No I was just gonna stand here and look at you guys tied up. That sounded really creepy." Roy said whilst moving to untie his friends when he was struck in the back with an arrow causing him to collapse on the ground. Merlyn was the shooter he then pulled the arrow out and tossed it aside, he then proceeded to beat the hell out of Roy, after his face was covered in blood and his hood was ripped off Merlyn stared into Roy's eyes. Don't move you'll just prolong the inevitable, once I am finished with you I will kill your friends with excruciating torture, I will then find every gangbanger, thief and killer and remove them from this Earth, I will let this city finally pull itself out the gutter.
Roy drifted off into his mind and thought back to the day he met Oliver, he was tied up in a subway cart, about to die and he didn't feel a thing he didn't care if he lived or died. But then Oliver jumped in and freed him. After saving him, Oliver shot his captor in the back and murdered him without a seconds thought. That day changed him, he was indebted to Oliver but he felt like he had to, that he was doing all this to make up for the fact that somebody else had to die before he could do some real good. He thought of how his classmates form back in school thought of him as a thuggish bully how he had made so many other people's lives hard and he just felt like finishing the job by committing suicide. But he needed to do more, to help people, to make up for what he had done. The vigilante was the only one who he could latch on to but there was something missing. Purpose.
He then remembered a conversation he and Oliver had after he had first joined up with him after stopping a man trying to buy an Earthquake machine.
"Roy for 5 years I was stuck on that island for all that time I had to do terrible things just for the hope that one day I could go home and do something, to actually make something of myself. So I needed to survive." Oliver said.
"Do you feel like you have?" Roy asked.
"Only recently, you see for 6 months I killed people without thinking, I just wanted to get the job done and make things better but now I can see that things aren't better because of what I did. I see that I truly never left the island till after the quake." Said Oliver.
"You stopped killing" Roy said.
"Yeah I started doing good I started giving unbiased and fair justice without all of the politics and money that people in law do." Oliver said.
"That's what I should do?" Roy asked.
"Roy I wouldn't have let you in this lair if I didn't think that was inside you, justice, doing the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing. That is what we fight for." Oliver said with a smile.