The teams decided to up into Oliver, Slade and Harkness to investigate where the call from William had originated while Laurel and Nyssa went to check out the RPG site.
"Why does he get a weapon and I don't?" Harkness complained to Oliver.
"I trust him more than you." Oliver said simply.
"Didn't he kill your mother?" Harkness asked.
"That should indicate how little I trust you. Listen, you help me, you walk, but if you with me or any other members of this rescue team, well, let's just say you'll wish I threw your sorry ass back into that cell." Oliver said.
"Kid, I see movement." Slade said, pointing to cages.
"Let's move." Oliver said as they approached the cages to see Curtis, Evelyn, Rory, Thea and Samantha all sitting in cages.
"Oliver." Evelyn said.
"Keep your voices down." Slade said.
"What the hell is he doing here?" Thea asked, but Oliver turned his attention Samantha.
"Where's William?" he asked.
"I don't know we were separated. Oliver, what the hell is going on?" Samantha asked.
"Strange they're unguarded." Slade said.
"Seems pretty obvious to me mate," Harkness said as Talia and Tommy jumped down from the trees, "It's a trap."
"Don't even think it Oliver or your son loses his mother." Talia threatened as Oliver started to raise his bow.
"Oh and don't worry about that gun mate, Ms. al Ghul offered me this nice new one and a better offer." Harkness said as he pulled a gun on him.
"I suspected that it would be pointless to reach out to you, although given this turn of events, perhaps you've changed your mind." Talia said.
"What's it gonna be, Slade? Care to side with the winners?" Harkness asked.
"Put a gun to his head. Sorry, kid, but there's no giving up to these guys." Slade said, seemingly turning on Oliver.
"I assumed you'd want to be on the winning side." Harkness said as he walked over to Slade.
"Assumption is the mother of all failures!" Slade shouted as he punched Harkness out and Oliver used a flechette to stop Talia's arrow from killing Samantha as Laurel and Nyssa arrived in the clearing.
"Sister." Nyssa shouted.
Talia, seeing a lost cause, used a smoke bomb to cover their escape.
"Thea, are you okay?" Oliver asked as he helped his sister out of the cage.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Thea said.
"Yeah, as a master of lying about that stuff, don't think I don't recognize it, how much pain are you in?" Oliver asked.
"On a scale from one to ten, 20." Thea admitted.
"We need to get you to a doctor, now." Laurel said.
"How, our ride got blown up." Slade said.
"Talia brought us here on a plane." Curtis said.
"If I know her, it's got to be sabotaged." Oliver said.
"So, how do you suggest that we get Thea and everyone else off this rock?" Laurel asked.
"There's an Argus supply ship on the eastern shores. Laurel, get them to the ship and contact Argus for a pickup." Oliver said and Laurel nodded.
"I can lead them through the island a lot more quickly and given your sister's condition, the faster you get her off the island, the better." Slade said.
"Not a chance. I don't want you outside of my sight." Oliver said and Slade nodded in understanding.
"I'll meet up with you guys as soon as I can." Laurel said.
"Remember the code phrase we established to make sure we can tell the difference between you and your earth 2 double?" Oliver asked her and Laurel nodded before kissing him.
"Good luck." Laurel said with a smile as she led the others towards the ship.
"So, where do we go now fearless leader?" Slade asked as Nyssa reapproached them.
"My sister and the others fled into the forest, but I can track them." Nyssa said.
"Good, lead the way." Oliver said and Nyssa nodded.
"I've lost the trail." Nyssa said.
"Are you sure." Oliver asked her.
"No doubt my sister knew we would follow. Let me go on ahead, see if I can recover the trail." Nyssa said and Oliver nodded as she went on ahead.
"So, instead of marrying the blonde, you married Ra's al Ghul's daughter?" Slade asked.
"Nyssa talks to much." Oliver said.
"She still hasn't explained your beef with her sister." Slade said.
"My past is coming back to haunt me." Oliver said.
"Seems to be a recurring theme with you kid?" Slade said.
"Can't imagine why." Oliver said.
"It's not that complicated. You suffer from survivor's guilt. You can't get over the death of your father." Slade said.
"Talia al Ghul has nothing to do with my father." Oliver argued.
"Kid, when it comes to you, everything has to do with your father. You and I are not dissimilar. We're both haunted by our pasts, and the only way to bury that ghost is by forgiving yourself." Slade said.
"Forgiving myself for what?" Oliver asked.
"You blame yourself for your father's suicide and everything else that has gone wrong since. You need to forgive yourself for your sins." Slade said.
"You say that like it's easy." Oliver said, thinking of his guilt, not just for his father's death, but for the deaths of Yao Fei, Shado, Akio, Taiana, Tommy, his mother, Sara and what was happening with Tommy now.
"It's the hardest thing in this world." Slade said as Nyssa approached them.
"If the 2 of you are done relaxing, I've picked up the trail." Nyssa said and Oliver and Slade nodded.
Nyssa led them to a place that was all too familiar to Oliver and Slade. The plane they had used as their hideout for 2 years.
"This place brings back memories. Almost none of them good." Slade said.
"Feels like a lifetime ago." Oliver said.
"For Shado it was." Slade reminded him.
"Why would the trail end here, but there's no sign of the hostages. It makes no sense." Oliver said.
"I thought it would be obvious Oliver." Tommy said as he stepped out of the shadows, wearing his Prometheus gear, minus the mask.
"It's a trap." Slade said and Tommy nodded.
"I can see now that you're the one who kept Oliver alive while he was here." Tommy said to Slade.