It had been over 3 hours since John, Rory and Nyssa had left to investigate Merlyn Global and now Oliver and Laurel were starting to get worried about them, especially given that everyone else they hold dear was being held prisoner by Talia al Ghul, who had already turned Tommy against them, so they were fairly certain that they were now prisoners of wars.
Right now they were getting ready to search the city when Lyla entered the bunker.
"Lyla, what are you doing here?" Laurel asked.
"John never came home and he's not answering his phone, so I assumed he was here with you guys." Lyla said.
"He's not here, we were actually about to go looking for him." Oliver said.
"What happened?" Lyla asked.
"We suspect the same thing that happened to the others, that he's been captured by Talia." Oliver said.
"I'll have Argus help with the search." Lyla said.
"I've also contacted Star Labs, since we believe that Talia is employing the services of meta from another and Star labs has the only satellite on earth that locate that sort of stuff." Oliver said and Lyla nodded.
"I'll let you know if I find anything." Lyla said as the elevator opened again and Nyssa walked out, though she looked very beat up as she limped in, holding her left arm.
"Nyssa." Oliver said as he and Laurel ran up to her.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." Nyssa said.
"Nyssa, you can barely walk, what happened?" Laurel asked as she and Oliver helped Nyssa sit down.
"We split up the moment we arrived at Merlyn Global to cover more ground and I lost contact with Mr. Diggle and Mr. Regan shortly afterwards, but before I could investigate, I was ambushed by Talia's students." Nyssa said.
"So, you're the former heir to the demon." Oliver said.
"Maybe so, but Talia was also once the heir to the demon and it seems that she never taught them the value of honor." Nyssa said.
"So, why wouldn't they take you to?" Laurel asked.
"Talia would most likely want to fight Nyssa personally, with it being a fair fight. Just like your father." Oliver said.
"How do we plan on stopping someone who used to be the heir to the demon when the one daughter of Ra's al Ghul we had on our side was defeated?" Laurel asked.
"I don't know yet, but we will figure out something. In the meantime, we need to figure out where everyone else is." Oliver said, right as his phone rang with a video message.
Oliver answered it and to his shock and anger, he saw that it was a message from William and wherever he was, it was clear that it was not by choice.
"Help me, please, help me." William begged and before Oliver could even begin to trace the call, it ended.
"What's wrong?" Laurel asked.
"Talia crossed a line. She kidnapped William." Oliver growled as his phone rang again.
"Hello?" Oliver snapped.
"Hey Oliver, now a bad time?" Cisco asked.
"Cisco, what is it?" Oliver asked.
"The satellite found something. An earth-2 meta was located and it was not in Central City with the others." Cisco said.
"Okay, so, how are you certain that it's our meta?" Oliver asked.
"Because of where the signal is originating from." Cisco said.
"Where?" Oliver demanded.
"An island in the North China Sea. I believe you know it as Lian Yu." Cisco said.
"Thank you Cisco." Oliver said as he hung up.
"What's going on?" Laurel asked.
"Cisco found the other you and I'm fairly certain that's where we'll find the others." Oliver said.
"Why, where are they?" Laurel said.
"Lian Yu." Oliver said.
"She took this back to where it all began." Nyssa asked.
"And to where I have a tactical advantage and knowledge of the terrain and where we can find some reinforcements." Oliver said.
"You aren't talking about who I think you're talking about are you?" Laurel asked.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures Laurel. Especially considering how likely it is that Thea will go into labor at any time now and they're holding my son. I have to do whatever it takes to save them." Oliver said and Laurel nodded in understanding, though she still didn't like that he resorting to using a murderer to save those he cared most for.