Arrow vs. Glory
Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. Been reading Buffy The Vampire Slayer fics again lately and got to thinking about a little match up between him and Glorificus. And for this story, the events with Glory will have taken place at a much later time after season 7. Takes place in season 2 of Arrow, but with alive!Tommy. Also takes place after Three Ghosts.
Summary: Glory comes to Starling City causing havoc, forcing Oliver to suit up during the day to try and stop her.
For several days now, Glory and her minions had been staying in this city in the ever continuing search for the Key. A key that would get her back home and allow her to take back her rightful place as supreme ruler of all that was there to rule over. Well, once she took care of a few problems back home anyway. Then it'd be ruling and making minions and the like do as she ordered. Unfortunately however on 5th day of their stay here, Glory got pretty darn bored and decided to go out to have a little fun. Not particularly caring if anyone could see her doing it since hello! Evil unstoppable Goddess and all! And pretty much everyone in Starling City was seeing her in action thanks to the news crews that caught wind of what was going on when the downtown area turned into a freakin' war zone with cops doing whatever the heck they could to try and bring down someone who apparently couldn't be brought down. Which quite frankly? Was scaring the absolute Hell out of them considering she wasn't even wearing armor!
"Hah! Is this all you monkeys got!? Cause seriously, I am getting bored here!" Glory informed them with a toss of her hair as if she was simply discussing the weather or some such.
Lance from his spot leaned over the hood and glared at the woman. "Lady, I don't know what the Hell you're on, but we are gonna bring you down! Now, make it easy on yourself and let us arrest you." Something told the man that this broad wasn't gonna do that and make his and his fellow cops' lives easier. As it is, the numerous deaths she'd already caused was already ensuring a death sentence for the broad.
Glory seemed to be considering this for a moment, if only to mess with the heads of the monkeys. "Hmm... Yeah... You see, I don't think so old guy! But you know, why don't you come over here and let me get a bite to eat?" She suggested with a bright, but clearly demented smile on her face.
"For Christ's Sakes, this broad is on somethin' wacky." Lance muttered to himself, a fellow officer next to him had to agree on that.
Raising his head back over the hood he told her that what she wanted just wasn't gonna happen. "That so monkey? Well I guess neither of us are going to get what we want then." And with that, she started walking towards Lance, intending to get herself a juicy meal from this monkey's head. Then go home and get pampered by her minions.
However, a sudden arrow that only bounced off her shoulder and onto the ground caused her to stop and look at it with annoyance written all over her face. Picking it up and looking at it as Lance and other fellow cops looked on in shock at it all as she looked around wondering where the damned thing came from. "I don't know who did that, but I don't appreciate it! Now, if you know what's good for you, you can run away and hope I don't find you. Or you can come to me right here and now and I'll kill you quick. Or slowly, whichever of the two that I feel like doing."
"I don't think I'll be running away or just handing myself over to you lady." A deep menacing voice called out, and Lance knew then that the Hood arrived on the scene just then.
"Aww Hell, this just went to crap even more." He grumbled, mostly to himself.
Looking back over the hood once again, he was just in time to see the Arrow as he liked to call himself make it down to the street and started his way towards the whack job in the somewhat ruined dress that somehow still managed to stay on her despite all the bullets that wrecked the thing. Glory looked at the newcomer not all that impressed even as she snapped the offending arrow in half with barely any effort. "And who in the Hell Dimension are you supposed to be?" Green would look sooo much better on her then this monkey anyway!
"I'm the one who's going to put you down right here if you don't hand yourself over to the authorities." The hooded man informed her, causing her to scoff at him.
"Then bring it sweetypie, cause I'm not gonna stop my fun just cause you say so!" And gave him a smirk afterwards.
The new comer loaded up a new arrow and aimed it right at her. "Then you... HAVE FAILED THIS CITY!" And let loose with the arrow right into her heart.
Unfortunately for him, she managed to catch it before it could make its mark. "Ooh is that supposed to scare me sweety? Cause I'm a damned Hell Goddess you little monkey! And I know scary cause of that." She smugly told him as she snapped that arrow in half as well.
"But feel free to fire another of your useless arrows at me sweet cheeks. Not that it'll do you any good."
Lance had to agree on that but hoped like Hell that the Arrow had something that could knock this bitch down permanently. And then frowned at himself for even hoping for that. Every other surviving cop was looking on now at the scene before them, wondering if the vigilante was going to do what they couldn't somehow. They watched as the Arrow fired off another arrow, only for her to catch it again as she just stood there smirking at him. But much to her surprise, it blew up on her. Knocking her to the ground rather hard. Snarling at what happened, she stood up with anger written all over her face. Especially when she realized that her dress truly was a damned goner now.
Despite the fact she had survived all the bullets sent at her, everyone including the Arrow was shocked at seeing her stand up after being hit with an explosive arrow. The fact that only her dress went out like the dinosaurs and revealing her goods to the world was another thing too. "Ohh you damned little monkey! I so loved that dress! Those fools with the guns may have already ruiuned it but I could have saved it somhow! My minions know how to do that sort of thing, but damnit! You just had to ruin that hope for me!" Glory screamed out as she charged head on at the asshole for destroying her beautiful dress.
The fight they witnessed was a hell of a brutal one that left a few broken bones. Primarily the Arrow's own bones, the whole thing for Oliver was frightfully similar to what he went through with Slade on the Amazo. But this just seemed a whole other level then dealing with someone on Mirakuru. "Well, well, well. Looks like I got your little monkey ass on your knees. Just like its meant to be, what with me being a Hell Goddess and all."
And Oliver truly was on his knees with a trail of blood coming down out of the side of his mouth, his arrows thrown everywhere, and his bow broken in half. The fact his hood hadn't come off just yet was something of a miracle too. And damn it all if he hadn't felt this much pain in a long while! Many of those watching the scene, whether on screen or on the street were looking on in horrified silence. Especially Tommy Merlyn as he was down in the basement with the rest of Team Arrow watching the whole thing occur. Moira for her part was getting damned worried about what was going to happen to her boy, and wished she had let him know she knew of his secret. Sara was currently on her way, but she had a sinking feeling she wasn't going to make it there in time.
"Lady... You're crazy." Was Oliver's only retort to the loon.
Glory simply shrugged her shoulders. "Living amongst you damned monkeys has made me a bit crazy. So sue me!" Not that they would be able to win that lawsuit since she'd just drain their monkey brains.
"But enough of that, I'm getting hungry Green Bean, and a girl's gotta eat." Oliver was confused by that and wondered if she was going to let him go now.
But to his growing horror, along with everyone else's. She pulled the hood off him and threw it to the side and somehow stuck her fingers into the sides of his head. A glow soon appeared and a horrified scream could be heard coming from the man as she did whatever it was she was doing to him. A look of euphoria could be seen on the lady's face as she continued her bizarre assault on the vigilante of Starling City. Moira, Thea, Laurel, and Felicity could all be seen crying their eyes out as everyone looked on in horror by what they were witnessing, even if they weren't entirely sure what this insane and impossible woman was doing to the Arrow.
And finally, the glow faded away as she pulled out her fingers with no blood to be seen at all on them. "Ohh hell yeah that was good!" She called out happily and looked around the warzone with a smile on her face. Leaving Oliver to slump to the ground with his sanity no longer in tact.
"Well, I'll be taking my leave then. See ya bitches!"
Lance however wasn't about to let this crazy broad leave as he got up and started firing off rounds at her, and soon had others joining in on the shooting. Glory on her part simply stood there amused by the actions of the monkeys. They kept firing until a van crashed through, and seeing that her minions had nicely arrived to get their beloved Goddes, she quickly climbed in the back and gave the old monkey the customary middle finger that the monkeys seemed to like doing as an insult. Making Lance even angrier then what he already was.
The van's doors closed and soon it hauled off like a Bat out of Hell, forcing police officers to quickly get out of the way as it crashed through their cars and leading to a chase between Starling's finest and the supposed Hell Goddess. Lance rushed over to Queen and helped him to sit up. "Kid! You alright!?" While he wasn't the Queen punk's biggest fan as both himself and as the vigilante, this wasn't something he wanted to see happen to the guy.
Unfortunately however, any response he got was of the unintelligent variety as Oliver mumbled on about keys and pretty colors. Making Lance damned alarmed by this sight and wondering just what the Hell the crazed broad did to him. He and the rest of the police force wouldn't be able to find Glory again unfortunately and Oliver would be seen as pretty much insane. Though Moira managed to ensure that he was allowed to be at home with them so that his family and friends could watch over him. Crime went up as a result of the Arrow's slide in to insanity thanks to Glory's actions despite the best efforts of Team Arrow with Roy's inclusion to the group, which included his own issues with whatever he'd beeen given by the guy in the mask. Slade was not a happy man either but left things be for the time being to see if his old friend would ever return to his senses. Moira would take back control of the company and managed to effectively oust Isabel with some help provided by way of Felicity.
It'd be around three months later when Oliver suddenly came back into his senses, much to the relief and happiness of everybody else. His return was a good thing too since Slade and Brother Blood finally decided they were going to do their level best to bring destruction upon the city. Even Tommy had helped put a stop to that since in Oliver's abscense, he'd started to take more of an active roll in the field thanks to the training given to him by Diggle and Sara. He and Roy managed to work surprisingly well together too. Oliver would always wonder for a long time after coming back to his senses on how it happened, but could be content with knowing he was back to himself as that time period was a horrible one to go through and would never wish it on anybody else.
Author's Notes: This one came out much quicker then even I thought it would. Which is always nice! Hope you all enjoyed this one and who knows, maybe I'll do a story centered on the time after Glory did her brain drain on him. R and R!