"Whatever you guys just did was incredible." Oliver said as he entered the bunker and he could feel a change in the room's atmosphere.
"We only took down one nuke. We still have 15,433 to go, give or take." Felicity said.
"The code to the line-of-sight hack, can you distro it to everybody?" Felicity asked Lyla, handing her a USB drive.
"I'm on it." Lyla said, taking the drive and heading out.
"All right, that's one." Oliver said
"1 nuke in 15,000. The chances of us getting them all is- 1 in 375 million." Felicity said.
"Well, we need to find Darhk's hacker and shut down Rubicon at the source." Oliver said
"When we disarmed the nuke, we gained access to its onboard computer and cloned it's hard drive remotely. Then we ran a backtrace to determine the source of the initial launch signal. He's holed up in a warehouse on the corner of Cheswold and Crombie. Let's get after him." Felicity said as suddenly, there was a flash of lightning and Thea was standing there.
"Sounds like I got back just in time to kick some ass." Thea said and Oliver grinned.
"Yeah, okay, Thea, Laurel, go with Felicity and Curtis and back them up until they can take down Rubicon for good." Oliver said.
"Hey, what are you going to do?" Laurel asked.
"I'm going to city hall." Oliver said and they all knew what that meant.
"Oliver, you yourself said going after Darhk is a suicide mission." John pointed out.
"Well, John, I'm not going to die tonight." Oliver said.
"Well, let me go with you, back you up." John said.
"If things go bad, I need you to back the city up." Oliver said.
"Ollie, things aren't going to go bad. Your speech, it gave us all hope again." Laurel said and Oliver smiled.
"Still, better safe than sorry." Oliver said and they nodded.
After everyone else had left, John was gearing up in the bunker as Lyla approached him.
"I thought you were staying behind." She asked.
"Yeah, it doesn't mean I shouldn't be prepared." John said.
"I'm not going to ask if you're alright. I think I know the answer." Lyla said.
"Lyla, this isn't the right time for this conversation." John said.
"When the Ghosts attacked, you froze. I've never seen you do that before." Lyla said.
"Lyla, I can't talk about this." John said.
"Was it Andy? - He was a Ghost." Lyla insisted.
"- Lyla." John said.
"If the world's going to end, then let's at least go out being honest with each other." Lyla said.
"Yes, it was Andy. But not like I said and not like you think. Earlier you said it was a good kill. It wasn't, Lyla. I said it was self-defense. It wasn't. You must think I'm a monster." John said in shame, only to have Lyla place her hand on his shoulder.
"Fog of war, Johnny. You did what you had to do. It's that simple." Lyla said.
"Lyla, there's nothing simple about this." John protested.
Speedy ran through the facility they'd tracked Seldon to, taking out all the Ghosts she saw with Black Canary covering her and Felicity and Curtis as they made their way further into the facility.
"Looks like the hacker is definitely here." Felicity confirmed.
"DARHK!" Green Arrow roared as he entered the nexus chamber under city hall to see Darhk and his daughter there, just waiting for the end of world.
"What does a guy have to do to end the world in peace?" Darhk asked as he turned to face Green Arrow.
"Why is he here, Daddy?" Darhk's daughter asked.
"Oh, he came here to die, sweetheart. Clearly." Darhk said as he sent Green Arrow flying back the way he came.
"Ha ha ha! 15 minutes till the end of the world, and you want to spend them with me. I am touched." Darhk said as the fight poured out into the street.
"Even if you stop me, even if you could, those missiles are finding their targets. This is a mercy killing on a global scale. I'm sparing my daughter the pain of growing up without her mother and you the pain of having to live without your parents and everyone else that you've lost." Darhk said as he took Green Arrow into his grip, only to have something thrown at the back of his head and he turned to see the people of Star City, including survivors from his Ark, facing him.
"Let him go! Get out." A man said.
"For real?" Darhk asked.
"Get out of here. Get out!" More people began shouting.
"Get out of our town! We don't want you here! Get out of this town!" the man from the Ark shouted.
"This heartwarming display would mean a whole lot more had I not just seen you all tearing yourselves and your city apart. Aah! That is why I did this. Humanity is feckless, and I wanted to cleanse it of a millennia worth of rot it has been infected by, and I will do it!" Darhk said.
"No, you won't." Green Arrow said as he got to his feet and he could feel the hope of everyone in the city.
"Ok, just for fun, how are you going to stop me?"Darhk asked.
"Because it won't just be me who's going to stop you." Green Arrow said as fired an arrow and Darhk's magic did nothing to stop it from hitting his face, scratching it, causing Green Arrow to grin as he felt his eyes glow.
"It's not so easy without the magic, is it?" Green Arrow asked, since now it was a fair fight.
"Oh, I don't need magic. I'm a former member of the League of Assassins, or have you forgotten that?" Darhk asked.
"Remind me." Green Arrow said as the 2 clashed in battle.
"Oh, my God. Cooper." Felicity said in horror when they found Cooper.
"Hey, Felicity. How you doing?" Cooper asked.
"Who shot you?" Speedy asked.
"Guess. He's moving the bullet closer and closer to my spine. said it hurt so bad, I'd do anything to make him stop." Cooper said.
"Like blow up the planet?" Black Canary asked.
"Sorry, I'm a selfish bastard, but she knew that already." Cooper said.
"I need a moment alone with him." Felicity said.
"Felicity, I don't think right." Speedy began only to have Felicity snap "- Now.", causing them all to leave the room.
"I'm sorry, Felicity. I know I should be strong enough to pull myself away from this keyboard, but I think we both know that I'm not." Cooper said.
"You are." Felicity insisted.
"He's powerful. He's so powerful, and if I stop Rubicon, he'll know, and he'll kill me in the most painful way possible." Cooper said.
"You're better than this, Cooper. You're stronger than this. You can still do the right thing. You can still be the man that I loved." Felicity said.
"I haven't been that guy in a long time." Cooper said.
"Remember what we wanted to do 7 years ago in that cockroach-infested dorm room? Save the world. Now's your chance." Felicity insisted.
Cooper nodded and then finally pulled himself away from the computer and seconds later, screamed out in pain as he died.
Darhk had knocked Green Arrow back and knocked away both his bow and quiver before taking both the bow and one of the arrows and firing it into Green Arrow's shoulder.
"You may have taken out my magic, but I will still beat you." Darhk said, only to have the people of Star City rally around the Green Arrow..
"You brought friends. That's ok. So did I." Darhk said as Ghosts emerged onto the streets, only for one army to be met by another as the people of Star City joined Green Arrow in the fight.
What the hell happened?" Black Canary asked as they entered the room.
"Darhk." Felicity said as she and Curtis went to work.
"We have 3 minutes to take down 15,000 nukes." Curtis said.
"Why isn't this a simple matter of flicking off a switch?" Speedy asked.
"Rubicon has safeguards for their safeguards. I can't disarm a warhead." Felicity said.
"Then don't." Curtis said.
"I don't think you understand how this works." Black Canary said.
"It's not the warheads. It's just the missile. If we invert their horizons They'll explode in space." Curtis said.
As Green Arrow pulled the arrow out of his shoulder, he saw Quentin Lance hold out his hand to him, which he took and then Quentin helped him up as Spartan and Lyla joined them.
"I thought you and Donna?" Green Arrow asked.
"Don't worry, she's safe, but I had to come back to stand with my city, because this Oliver Queen guy gives a hell of a speech." Quentin said and Green Arrow smiled before turning to the others.
"You two were supposed to stay as backup." Green Arrow said.
"I already lost one brother." Spartan said.
Green Arrow smiled as he felt the tide of battle change and knew that now it was time to end this, once and for all.
"You two put down the Ghosts." Green Arrow said to Spartan and Lyla who nodded.
"You keep people safe." Green Arrow then said to Quentin, who also nodded.
"What about Darhk?" Spartan asked.
"Darhk's mine." Green Arrow said and they all nodded before engaging.
Green Arrow engaged Darhk and actually beat him to the ground before grabbing the collar of his suit jacket and hoisting him up.
"What are you going to do now, Oliver? Stop the posturing. We both know that you can't do spared the life of the man who killed your mother." Darhk reminded him.
"And you a friend of mine. You killed tens of thousands of innocent people. With Slade Wilson, I had a choice. This time, I don't." Green Arrow said as he drove the arrow into Darhk's heart, just as Darhk had done to Nyssa weeks ago, before dropping his body to the ground, dead. It was over. Damien Darhk was dead.