My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. Except today, I'm hiding it, because I'm putting on the Green Arrow suit and going to kick some ass as Green Arrow! Oliver let me take this round, since it was just a gang fight, and I'd have Laurel and Thea to help me out.

The beginning was not the best start for my self esteem. Felicity had to tighten the straps around the suit's arms a lot just so it'd fit me, and Cisco had to ship in a new mask because my head was too thin – Thea's exact words.

"So... you've shot a bow and arrow before, right?" Felicity asked.

"Yeah, totally!" I lied.

Thea sighed, "Okay, well most of these arrows are explosive, incendiary, sonic, hypnotic, gun-deflecting, or ended with a boxing glove, so they don't require too much finesse. Oh, and don't use your speed. We don't need people thinking Green Arrow and the Flash are the same person."

"Don't worry." Laurel giggled. "They'll know. I think Oliver's arms are wider than your head."

There was a ping from the computer, and Felicity turned around. She yelped a bit, and said, "Guys? The gang fight we thought was going to be so easy to break up? Shawna Baez was just spotted there."

"Peek-a-Boo?" I asked, and then noticed the looks of cringing on everyone's face. "Caitlin picked the name. So are we going or what?" We all suited up, and the journey was on!

The night's second embarrassment came from me not able to use my speed, and also not knowing how to ride a motorcycle. Don't worry – I heal fast. After falling off a motorcycle three times and treating some little girls to the sight of Green Arrow spinning his arms really fast to form air pockets below him to cushion the blow of the fall, I had to ride on the back of Laurel's motorcycle.

While we were riding there, Thea kept looking at me weird. She was probably picturing Oliver hugging Laurel's back for dear life while she was riding a motorcycle. (I can time-travel. I can fly. I can run on water. But if I fall off a motorcycle, I still get hurt like everyone else.) Felicity kept feeding us information. Apparently, the gang fight was over a storage place in Star City that belonged to Shawna's ex-boyfriend, Clay Parker. One gang wanted to store something there, another gang disagreed, and then there was Shawna. Those gang members didn't stand much of a chance against Shawna's teleportation powers.

I didn't realize that I was hugging Laurel really tightly with my head on her shoulder until we came to a stop, and Thea stifled a laugh at the sight of Laurel uncomfortably trying to shake me off. I got off, and Thea told me to be quiet. She got her bow and arrow ready, and we heard the sounds of gunfire from a few yards away. From behind the building, we saw fifteen thugs looking around frantically, and Peek-a-Boo appearing out of nowhere, striking down guys left and right with a gun and a crowbar. They weren't standing a chance.

"Cover your ears." Laurel said. I did what she said, and she jumped out from behind the building, letting out a piercing canary cry that made all the thugs drop to the ground in pain. Shawna reappeared and clasped her hands on her ears in pain, not able to teleport.

"You have one chance, Baez!" Thea yelled. "Turn yourself in!"

The second Laurel let off her cry, Peek-a-Boo disappeared into thin air. We looked around us and I felt something hit the back of my head. My vision blurred, and I turned just quickly enough to see Shawna standing over me with a crowbar in hand. Thea aimed an arrow, and Shawna disappeared again. The next time she appeared, her foot was in Laurel's face.

Laurel lunged to the side, and the two of them were soon locked in combat. Thea was shooting at Shawna, but Shawna was doing a great job of teleporting to different sides of Laurel while they were fighting, making it impossible to shoot an arrow without hitting Laurel.

"Barry!" Thea yelled at me. "Use one of your nanite arrows!"

That was the night's third embarrassment. It turns out that Oliver does not label his arrows. And even if he did, what power of mine allows me to turn my head a complete 180 to check the labels? That was Oliver's fault. And it wouldn't have been a problem if the arrow I had picked wasn't a sonic arrow.

I didn't really know how to... fire... an arrow, so it was more like holding a bow up and throwing the arrow, and as soon as it hit the ground, a giant sonic boom exploded, blasting all of us backwards. Shawna disappeared in midair, and we couldn't find her.

"Barry," Laurel said. "There are nanite arrows in your boot."

"What?"

Laurel sighed, "They cancel out superpowers. Oliver keeps them as a contingency in case you ever turn evil."

"Wait, what?!"

She didn't answer, so I reached into my boot and found a smaller arrow labelled, 'Use in case of darn dirty meta-humans'. I would never side with Eobard Thawne, but this seemed like a big middle finger to him and his work. Anyway, Shawna popped back into view and was locked back into combat against Laurel. Thea jumped in to help, but the two of them weren't used to fighting someone who could teleport and attack them from all angles. They weren't doing well.

I had to somehow get the arrow on Shawna, but I couldn't use my speed. My initial thought was that I could run over and stab her with the arrow, but of course I had to trip and fall over. I think Laurel laughed a bit, but I wasn't sure. It quickly became apparent that I had to learn how to fight without powers.

I could do that another time. I waited until Thea and Laurel weren't looking and spun my arm really quick to make a tiny wind tunnel and aimed it at Shawna. I caught her just mid-teleportation, and she was blown backwards. She landed on her back with a pained groan, and I threw the nanite arrow at her. It landed in her leg and flashed a blue light. She tried teleporting, but it didn't work. Thea and Laurel went over to deal with her.

Laurel looked back at me and whispered, "You didn't use your speed, did you?"

"What? No! It was just... the wind." I grinned. I don't think she believed me.

Thea bent over Peek-a-Boo and yelled, "What was in the warehouse that you wanted?!"

Shawna groaned, "I don't know. I was supposed to find out."

"Uh, guys?!" Laurel yelled. She had made her way over to the warehouse and was staring at the inside. The doors were thrown wide open. Thea and I ran over to find what Shawna was trying to protect.

It looked like a bomb. It was sitting in the middle of the room, a giant green cube with flashing lights on the side with a quiet beeping coming from it.

I walked closer to listen to the beeping. It sounded like words. I could only hear what they were saying when I put my ear up against it, and distinctly heard over and over again, "This planet belongs to Brainiac'.

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