Oliver jumped down the stairs in the lair, seeing the damage done to their second home. Dig followed behind him, gun raised. Sarah remained at the hospital, with Felicity awaiting an update.
"He fought them." Dig stated, moving over to the smashed glass of the case, Oliver's suit hanging there still.
Oliver nodded, hitting the comm link in his ear. "Sarah? Update?"
"Felicity is looking at the lair feeds right now, but she doesn't expect much since Slade knows we have them."
"Keep me posted."
"Copy that."
Oliver moved over to the tables, seeing that Roy was working on his own arrows at the time of the attack. Dig checked the supplies, and came back, frustrated.
"They didn't take anything. Why take Roy? To make him talk?"
Oliver shook his head. "Slade doesn't interrogate much. He's too impatient, especially with the Mirakuru." He moved over to the smashed case. "We're missing something here. Something big."
Dig sighed. "I can try and get Lyla in on this. She'll be willing to help."
Oliver nodded. "Do that. Please."
"Oliver!"
"Sarah?"
"Felicity found nothing in the lair, but she found something else that's alarming."
"What?"
"Star labs just had a break in into their storage center. A prototype was stolen."
"Okay? What does it do?"
Sarah sighed. "It filters chemicals out of the blood and can put them into a storage container. Oliver, it can put the mirakuru in Roy's blood into more than one person! Felicity estimates that there is enough in him to create at least a dozen if not more! And if one gets the mirakuru,"
"More can be filtered from that person." Oliver breathed, his eyes meeting Digs'.
"Could this get worse?"
PING
Dig pulled his phone out of his pocket, cursing at the message he just recieved. Looking up at Oliver, he nodded. "Never ask that question."
Screams echoed down the hospital's hallway. The lights started flashing.
Sarah moved from Felicity's bedside to the doorway. She listened and heard the thudding of multiple footsteps.
"Sarah?"
She turned back, and saw the fear in Felicity's face. Sara reached for the vase at Felicity's bedside.
"We have to go. NOW!"
Reaching over she pulled two syringes of vicodin into Felicity's IV. Quickly she disconnected her from the machines, and the lights went out.
A man stood in the doorway, causing Felicity to scream. Sarah turned quickly, and swung the vase, hitting the man in the face. He didn't move. He pushed her to the floor, moving towards Felicity who was tapping on her tablet.
Suddenly his arm caught on fire, and screaming he ran from the room. Sarah looked at Felicity, who was gritting her teeth. "He should have spent more money on his clothes. Electricty doesn't do well with polyester."
Sarah chuckled, and frowned seeing her broken com-link on the floor. Shaking her head, she quickly wrapped the bag around her body, it held the tablet, phone, and Tockman's Key. Then pulled the blanket Felicity was laying on out the door.
"I think it's time you checked out."
"I couldn't agree more."
Oliver was thrown against the side of the Bentley as Dig took a turn almost on two wheels.
"How long since the call went out?" Dig asked again.
"Too long." Oliver swallowed. Moments after getting the information about the machine from Sarah and Felicity, a call came over the radio that there were masked men in the hospital. Then more starting a fire at the botanical gardens. Not getting any word from Sarah, Oliver suited up and with Dig flew back to the hospital.
"You may want to run from here, the streets will be chaotic."
Oliver jumped out of the car. He rolled and ran to the nearest building, climbing up the fire escape to the roof, seeing the helicopters around the hospital. His pulse pounded in his ears, thinking of Felicity being injured or alone in this mess. He ran, jumping across rooftops, getting to the hospital trying to see if the girls were okay. Suddenly he stopped recognizing a figure standing on the roof, where he had sat watching Felicity on his patrols. Slade stood there, dressed in his suit, the black and orange standing out against lights from other buildings.
"Slade."
Sarah then moved to Felicity on the floor of the service elevator.
"Okay?" she whispered.
Felicity looked up. "If I weren't so drugged up I might be in agony."
Sarah hid a chuckle. "I'm afraid it's going to get worse. I have to get you to a safe place. It's not the lair, or your apartment. For sure not mine."
"The clock tower?"
Sarah shook her head. "No, we may need that at a later date." She wrapped an arm around Felicity, and as gently as she could, pulled her again on the blankets.
Felicity let out a groan, then a whimper making Sarah almost cry.
"I'm sorry."
Felicity nodded, and they started to slowly shuffle forward. Gasping at the hot pain starting by the motion, Felicity glanced at Sarah. "Where are we going?"
"The only place I think Oliver would want you."
"Why are we going to a deserted island and being surrounded by a million guards?"
Sarah laughed, as the hobbled to the back door of a car. "Not quite, I think he'd be able to hear your loud voice from there." Sarah gently picked the tech genius up, and eased her into a laying position in the back seat. Shutting the door, the got into the front seat.
"This brings back memories."
Sarah shook her head. "Just relax Felicity. I'm getting you out of here."
"Do you even have a valid driver's license?"
Sarah reversed the car, and gunned it, as two masked men ran out of the stairway's door.
"Right now, I don't think it matters."
"What did you do?"
"I told you relationships make you vulnerable. This proves it. Roy is gone yet you're looking for your Felicity."
"Why go after her. She's already been hurt enough Slade." Oliver growled, hating hearing Felicity's name on his ex-mentor's lips.
"Broken is good, her faith is broken. But I'm after something else." He tilted his head his eye peering at him. "You know what I want Oliver."
Oliver drew an arrow on his bow. "You're not getting it Slade."
He chuckled. "I was sure of that. But yet again kid, I hold the cards. Mr. Harper," his eye glared at him "Ms. Lance, and your precious Felicity."
Oliver drew back more the bow taut. "You'll never find the key Slade."
"Then your team will bear the pain of your actions kid."
Oliver let the arrow fly, hearing Dig yell in his ear.
"Felicity is safe! We're going after Roy!"
