Chapter 12: The fallen Hero
"What about Digg?"
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Oliver's face fell. He looked away to hide the pain in his eyes, but she knew him far too well for that, "Oliver you're scaring me, what happened to Digg?"
"I only know bits and pieces the others filled me in on. But I'll tell you what I know..."
::Flashback::
"I see them, there's a lot of blood, Felicity is in his arms, neither one is moving."
He ran to them and was able to steady himself enough to take Oliver's pulse. As soon as his hand was within an inch of his throat Oliver's arm shot up and grasped Digg by the neck, instinctively and defensively choking him. It only took Oliver a few seconds to register what he was doing but it was a long enough gargling sound that Roy and Sara were demanding to know what was happening.
Dig responded horsely, "he's alive."
At that moment a shot rang out, hitting him in the shoulder and dropping him to his knees. He turned to face his attacker, gun drawn, praying Slade wasn't still alive. As he took a step he noticed his com link had fallen out as he crushed it under his foot. The others could be no help now.
"Amanda"
There stood Waller, pissed and still somewhat bleeding. She had Lyla by the throat, gun to her head. "Drop your weapon and no one else gets hurt."
"He saw the fear in Lyla's eyes that she normally hid so well and nodded, slowly putting his gun on the ground.
"Nobody attacks ARGUS and gets away with it. John Diggle, you are under arrest for conspiracy to commit murder, releasing known fellons, stealing government secrets, l on a government agency and the murder of ARGUS agent Lyla Michaels." She pulled the trigger and Lyla slumped to the floor. Within the blink of an eye she shot Him again in the other shoulder as 3 armed men rushed him to cuff him and take him into custody.
::End Flashback::
"Lawton was able to follow them back to ARGUS headquarters, he got us a message that he was alive before he disappeared. But we haven't been able to hack into their servers yet, we still have the computers he brought you- Sara got them set up but she can't even hack into them, much less use them to hack the ARGUS server, they are too advanced for her. Once you get out of here we can buckle down and find him."
She looked at him, squinting and biting her lip as she thought through all the information he had just shared. "Okay, but you are getting me out of here today, and explaining your leg- and don't say it's nothing, nothing wouldn't have you in a wheel chair and a hospital gown!"
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The End- I will have an epilogue up shortly that time jumps and fills in the blank then I can mark this baby as complete! Looks like I'm going to make my deadline!