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"Impulse! Bart! Where are you?" Ollie shouted as he made his way down the corridor towards a slightly open door near the bottom. He let out a shout of frustration when he saw the cell room behind the door was empty. He heard a muffled grunt and feet shuffling behind him and turned to see something he really wasn't in the mood for. Lex Luthor stood about 10 feet away his arm wrapped firmly around the neck of a barely conscious Bart Allen. He has a handgun pressed against the kid's temple.
"Don't move!" he shouted at Ollie when the other man reached for his crossbow. "Green Arrow, what a surprise to see you here, but then today has been just full of surprises now hasn't it."
"Lex. You're killing him." Ollie said, his voice distorted as he tried to remain calm, so's not to make it obvious to Lex that the bold billionaire had the upper hand here. Bart chocked and struggled for air as his windpipe was crushed under Lex's arm.
"Yeah? Well maybe I need someone to take my stress out on. I have had a very difficult day and it's all down to Bart here. Have you had the pleasure of meeting his grandfather yet? And people say I'm crazy."
"Lex, listen to me, you don't want to kill him, he's no good to you dead."
"That's true, but he's no good dead to you either is he? And I'm guessing me blowing out the brains of your youngest teammate is a pretty effective way of fucking up your little band of terrorists." He replied with a dangerous smile.
"You pull that trigger and I swear it's gonna be the last thing you ever do." Ollie shouted back, his voice deadly serious with a twinge of desperation.
"I don't think you're in any position to make threats. But how about we make a deal?" Lex said, stepping make a couple of steps and dragging the kid along with him "You show me the man under the hood and maybe I won't kill your speedy little buddy here."
Oliver's mind weighed up all options, if he showed Lex who he was, he'd have to kill the man. He could not let him live knowing that information, Lex would never stop hunting him and everyone he loved would get caught in the crossfire. But if he didn't, Bart would pay the price with his life.
"Tick tock, time's running out." Lex shouted
"Three" he increased his hold around the kid's neck.
"Two" he took of the safety, Ollie raised a hand to hid hood.
"One-oof" he was elbowed in the stomach and hit across the head from behind. His grip on Bart loosened and he fell to the ground, the gun still in his hand. Bart too collapsed onto his hand and knees, gasping for air.
Oliver looked up to see AC, his arm still raised from the strike he'd just inflicted on Lex and a look of intense anger on his face.
"What the hell happened?" He asked, giving Ollie an accusing look as he helped Bart to his feet.
"I don't know! Lex must've been hiding down here, I was gone for less than a minute."
"Guys, seriously can ya do this later? I really wanna get outta this place. Please?" Bart said quietly between breaths.
"Right, yes. Was the way here clear?"
"Yeah and it still will be if we're quick, what're we gonna do with him?" AC questioned looking at the unconscious form of Lex.
"We leave him here, he's Lex, he'll get out, he always does and we'll be waiting. Kid, how you feeling?"
"Like I just got strangled by a crazy person with a gun."
"Okay, let's go"
Ollie led the way, his crossbow gripped tightly, prepared to shoot anyone who came barging towards them. AC helped Bart up the stairs, the kid was clearly struggling but had insisted that AC was not going to carry him as long as he was still awake. They were moving as fast as they could and as silently as they could. They made their way to a nearby fire exit that led onto the airfield where the LuthorCorp jet stood. The heroes had made it a quarter of the way towards the plane when they heard shots being fired. Ollie turned to see a group of guards firing at them from the main entrance of the building.
"Take Bart. Go. I'll cover you." He shouted to AC who proceeded to grab Bart and hoist him over his solider
"No, stop! Put me down! I want to help" he shouted in protest
"Seriously kid, I don't think you're in any condition to help, do you?" AC countered as he ran towards the jet.
Meanwhile Ollie stood his ground, shooting arrow after arrow at the men before him. Each one hitting their target just where he wanted them to. When reinforcements arrived and he realised he would not be able to take them all, he fired three trick arrows at the men which released a plume of green smoke. He smiled as they shouted and fired blindly through the green cloud before he turned and ran to the plane.
Onboard AC was trying to examine the deep cut on Bart's arm that had not yet healed like it normally would have due to the stress his body had been under. He carefully peeled away the remaining bits of bandage much to the kid's dislike, but he refused to make a sound. AC sterilized the wound and re-bandaged it with the medical supplies Vic had found in the jet's high-tech first aid box. Ollie appeared in the door way. He pulled in the stairs and shut the cabin door.
"Ok Vic, go! I don't know how long my little distraction will keep them immobilised!" He shouted, a little breathless "Bart? You okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, I'm fine." Though he wasn't fooling anyone.
"Kid you're not fine." AC said looking down at the readings he'd just taken using a very advanced piece of equipment "You're seriously dehydrated and suffering from extreme exhaustion, you need to rest."
"No! I'm fine, really." He shouted back.
"Bart, listen to me, if you keep going like this you're gonna burn out, you've already died once today, I'm not going to let it happen again." Ollie said firmly "I'm gonna give you a mild sedative to help you get some rest."
"No! Don't you get it? I'm not going back to sleep, I'm not gonna lose control again. You're not going to lock me in my own head like he did!" he shouted back at Ollie, his voice frantic and panicked.
The emerald archer looked hurt "Bart I would never… I wouldn't do this if there was another option." He nodded to AC who slipped a needle into the kids arm.
"No, no, no" he shouted, struggling against AC's grip before his head lolled forward and he was unconscious again. AC laid him down on one of the reclining seats and once the plane was in the air, he and Ollie set up a saline drip and a heart monitor.
"He's going to hate us" Ollie said quietly.
"No, no he isn't, he's just confused and scared."
"Yeah AC and we're the ones he's fuckin scared of."
"We saved him, I dunno what happened to him down there but we got him out in time."
"No. If it wasn't for me he wouldn't have even been there. If it wasn't for me he would have never gone into that building and if it wasn't for me that bastard would not have got him."
"You don't know that man, by the sounds of it that Thawne guy has known about Bart for a long time. I mean he is his grandfather after all, if you hadn't of found him that night in Star City then Thawne would have still got him and none of us would know a thing."
"We should have got there sooner, we should've-"
"No boss, listen to me, you can't beat yourself up about this. Bart's gonna need us after this, more than ever. It might take a while but he is going to be okay."
"Yeah, you're right. Man it's been a long day, let's just get home. Vic, anyone tailing us?"
"Negative man, I think we took out most of their military aircraft earlier, plus I emptied the tanks of the remaining jets, we've got enough juice to get us to Star City. ETA 6 hours; this thing isn't as fast as the Arrow Jet." He shouted from the cockpit.
"Okay, good, I'll switch with you in 3 hours, that all right man?"
"Sure thing boss"
With that Ollie checked over Bart's vitals once more and sat down opposite him, watching the reassuring rise and fall of the kid's chest. While AC went to find the planes shower as he was starting to dry out.
Well i know i think i said that was gonna be the last chapter but there will be another, yays ! Everything turned out okay in the end...or did it dun dun dunnn, yeah it did...or did it...?
So anyway let me know what you think :D