Darhk
"Rec time. 20 minutes." A guard on the PA told us.
The buzzer sounded as the cells opened.
"Ahh. Uh, are you in touch with the land, spend much time in Mother Nature?" I asked Murmur.
He shook his head.
"No? Well, your ancestors did. They knew that life is a series of phases. "A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to uproot, a time to kill." Master the paradox of change with inconstantly, and the primordial force of nature itself will be at your beck and call."
Murmur moved a book, revealing The Idol.
"Ah. My Idol- Julius Caesar." "Cry havoc! And lets slip the dogs of war."
An Inmate stabbed a guard.
We took the guards hostage.
Oliver
We heard a Prison alarm sounding.
"What happened?" I asked Thea.
"It was rec hour. The Prisoners were out of their cells. He's holding the guards hostage." She explained.
"How many?" I inquired.
"Doesn't matter how many. We have to put Darhk back in his cage." Dig replied.
"Let's gear up!"
"Oliver, I can't prosecute him without getting him into Custody first."
Laurel had her black mask in her hand.
"One last time."
I nodded my head.
Thea
I slid on my red kevlar archer suit.
I put my red mask on my face.
I put my black quiver with my red arrows in it on my back.
I put my sword on my back.
I grabbed my red recurve bow out of the rack.
I put red eyeshadow on my eyelids.
Oliver
I slid on my black kevlar archer suit.
I put my green mask on my face.
I put my black quiver with my black arrows that have green arrowheads in it on my back.
I grabbed my black bow out of the rack.
Laurel
I slid my turtleneck bodysuit shirt on, black pants, leg holsters, and thigh high boots on.
I slid my black leather jacket on.
I put my black mask on my face.
I grabbed my black tactical tonfas out of the rack.
I put gold eyeshadow on my eyelids.
Dig
I got suited up.
I grabbed my gun out of the rack.
Oliver
"For two Vigilantes, I must say we look good." Thea commented.
Laurel laughed.
"I love her."
Lance
I pulled up in front of Iron Heights.
I got out of my car.
"What the hell's going on around here? Can't just stand around here waiting for something to happen. Who's in charge?" I asked a ESU Officer.
"Not you, Captain. You've been suspended."
I chuckled.
"Heh heh heh. Pike, right? Well, that figures. Wait it out till we've got a stack of dead bodies on our hands." I expressed my thoughts.
"I'm sorry, sir. You need to get back to your vehicle."
"No. I want to speak with him."
The ESU Officer wasn't moving.
"I need to speak with him now!"
"I can't do that."
"Yes, you can do that. You can do that. Go get-"
I saw Pike talking with a different Officer.
"Never mind. I see him."
"Sir!" He called, trying to block me from getting to Pike.
"Pike! Hey! I see you over there! What are you doing here, huh?!"
Oliver
Cops were everywhere.
"How are we gonna get through all those Cops?" Dig questioned.
"Looks like Lance has it covered."
"By laying into Lieutenant Pike apparently." Thea pointed out.
Lance punched Pike in the face, knocking him out.
"And he just knocked him out." She announced.
"As a distraction to give us an opening. Let's move." I ordered.
We dropped in through the roof.
"Thought I told you to come alone." I told Dig when I saw Andy.
"You did. And I didn't."
"Look. I know you don't trust me, but that's why I'm here- To prove you can."
"Darhk has hostages in the Mess Hall. Let's fan out and hit them from all sides." I ordered.
Dig cocked his gun.
Dig and Andy ran off in the left direction.
Laurel and Thea ran off in the right direction.
I ran off in the middle direction.
Laurel
We encountered three Inmates.
"I remember this guy." I told Thea when I saw Murmur.
"Those lips." Thea pointed out.
"Gross." I commented.
We took them down.
Dig
Andy and me were shooting Inmates.
Laurel
"Not a bad warm-up. It seems like you're ready for a rematch." It was Merlyn from behind Thea.
She turned around.
"Go get the others. I've got this."
"No. Let me take him."
"Go!"
I ran off to meet up with Ollie, Dig, and Andy.
Thea
"Let's see how well I taught you." Malcolm told me.
I took my sword off my back.
I ran at him.
Darhk
There was gunfire and shouting.
"Huh. You know, the Police took me seriously when I said I would start killing hostages if they moved upon the Prison. It's too bad our masked Vigilante friends didn't get the memo."
I was standing in front of a guard.
"Well, too bad for you really. Kill them." I ordered the Inmates to kill the guards.
Oliver
I shot an arrow into one of the Inmate's backs that tried to kill a guard.
Dig shot a bullet at one of the Inmates that tried to kill a guard.
Andy shot a bullet at one of the Inmates that tried to kill a guard.
Laurel hopped over one of the Mess Hall tables.
She was hitting Inmates with her black tactical tonfa.
I kept fighting with Inmates.
Dig kept fighting with Inmates.
Laurel kept fighting with Inmates.
Andy was having a hard time fighting with Inmates.
Thea
Malcolm and me were sword fighting.
I caused him to roll backwards on the floor.
Malcolm got back up.
We continued sword fighting.
I punched him in the face, surprising him.
Malcolm stumbled backwards.
He knocked my sword out of my hand.
Malcolm pinned me against cell bars.
"Unh!"
He had his sword across my neck.
I was gagging.
"You no longer have the drive to kill, and it shows. You lost part of yourself when they cured you of that bloodlust, and that is why you will never beat me."
Malcolm removed his sword from across my neck.
He ran off.
Oliver
Dig was fighting Inmates.
One of the Inmates had Andy in a headlock.
He kicked Andy's gun to Darhk.
I flipped an Inmate on his back.
Darhk picked up Andy's gun.
Laurel threw an Inmates through the air.
We all stopped fighting when we saw he had a gun.
Darhk aimed it at Andy.
"Andrew Diggle, it's been awhile."
"Let him go!" Dig ordered.
"Drop your weapons."
"Don't do it." Andy told him.
"Suit yourself. But on the count of three, I'm gonna turn that wall into a Jackson Pollock painting with his brains."
The three of us weren't standing down.
"1...
2..."
Dig and me glanced at each other.
"Okay." He told him, holding his hands up in surrender.
I put my arrow back into my quiver of arrows.
Dig slid his gun across the room.
Laurel put her black tactical tonfa on the floor.
I put my black bow on the floor.
"Now was that so hard?"
An Inmate put Dig in a headlock with a knife to his throat.
Two Inmates grabbed me.
An Inmate put Laurel in a headlock with a knife to her throat.
"I believe you have something for me." He told Andy, walking towards him.
The Inmate let go of Andy.
He put the last piece of The Idol into Darhk's hand.
"An- Andy."
"I'm sorry, man."
"Heh heh heh."
Darhk gave Andy's gun back to him.
"Andy."
I tried to get out of the Inmates' grasp.
It didn't work.
He aimed his gun at me.
"I've been tracking your movements for months. I know everywhere you been. All I needed to hear was that it was you that hid the stone." Andy told Dig, looking over at him whilst having his gun trained on me.
"Was there ever a chance for you?"
"Your brother's way beyond reach, Mr. Diggle."
Darhk put the last piece of the Idol into the Idol.
"It's all over now."
A bow string was drawn.
I knew it was Thea.
She fired two red arrows into Darhk.
"Unh!" He yelled, falling against the wall.
"Took the words right out of my mouth!"
Dig knocked the Inmate off him.
Laurel knocked the Inmate off her.
I knocked the Inmates off me.
We went back to fighting Inmates.
Darhk pulled both of the arrows out.
I punched one in the stomach five times before knocking him out.
One had Laurel in the headlock and one was coming at her.
She kicked him backwards.
Laurel knocked the one out that had her in a headlock.
"I need to sacrifice."
Darhk put his hands on the Idol.
"Not enough. You know what to do." He told Andy.
Andy shot two Inmates we had taken down, killing them.
Darhk put his hand on one of the deceased Inmate's leg.
"Ohh. Kanjigar septum vohnostrum."
"Ha ha ha!" Darhk said, standing up.
Laurel, Thea, Dig, and me went to go after him.
He put us in a frozen state.
"Ohh! Oh, I feel so much better." He addressed the four of us.
"Hey. I am sorry about your buddies, but omelets and eggs and all of that, but I know how to make it up to you, though."
The Inmates on the floor got up.
"Who wants to go for a walk outside?"
"Heh heh heh." He said when the Inmates walked out of the Mess Hall.
"Andy here might have mentioned that his brother, John, worked for The Green Arrow, or should I say Oliver Queen?"
Malcolm joined Andy and Darhk.
"Oh, oh, oh, see, I know what you're all thinking, but, no, he didn't tell me." He pointed back at Malcolm.
"It was really just a hop, skip, and a jump from the whole Diggle connection to you to your little Sister to your ex-girlfriend. But when you came to rescue that boy, William, that look on your face. That was a father's look. I should have recognized it there and then."
"We need to get out of here now." Merlyn told him.
"Patience."
He sent Dig and Thea backwards.
Malcolm
I looked over to where Thea had landed.
She was against the wall.
Oliver
"I've been waiting for this moment for a long time."
He looked over at Laurel.
"Miss. Lance, nine months ago,"
Malcolm picked the Idol up.
"I made your Daddy a promise. I told him what I would do if he betrayed me."
I got up off the floor.
"Unh!"
I loaded an arrow into my bow.
I shot the arrow at him.
Darhk caught the arrow.
He put me in a frozen state.
"Impressive." Darhk complimented me on my skills.
I stuck my nose up.
"Now where was I? Oh, yeah."
He turned his attention back to Laurel.
Malcolm
Thea stared in Damien's eyes.
A realization look passed through her eyes.
"Laurel, move!" Thea yelled.
"Shut that kid up!" Damien yelled.
Andy was shooting bullets at her.
Oliver
"I want you to give your father a message from me."
Darhk walked closer to Laurel.
"I want you to tell him-"
Malcolm
Laurel moved at the last second.
A bullet whizzed by her.
Thea looked down at the bullet in her throat.
"That was extremely painful."
Damien stared.
"Malcolm, please. Do not let Thea die. Just because you're angry with Oliver."
Darhk
Laurel was evading my blows.
She threw me backwards with a Canary Cry.
Andy was shooting at Laurel.
She hid behind a wall.
Laurel
I grabbed my pistol off my left hip.
Darhk
Laurel was firing a pistol.
One of her bullets landed in Andy's wrist.
"Stupid bitch!"
Laurel laughed.
"That stupid bitch shot me!"
Laurel vanished.
"She knows exits out of this place even Inmates don't know about as ADA."
"Stop talking." Malcolm told Thea.
"Stop telling me what to do, old man." She retorted.
"If you don't stop talking-"
"What are you gonna do? Hit me?"
He shook his head.
"Then stop-"
Malcolm clapped a hand over Thea's mouth.
"I told you to stop talking."
She huffed against his hand.
"Oh, come on! How old are you? 5?"
"No." It was muffled.
"Will you please stop talking?!"
Thea dropped her head backwards.
"Just pull it out!"
"It pierced through your throat. I can't just pull it out."
"I hate hospitals. Only bad news I've received in hospitals."
"Come on, you."
Malcolm easily lifted Thea up into his arms.
"Come on, frozen boy."
He yanked Oliver with him.
He grunted.
"Ow!"
"Ollie!"
"It's fine. It's fine."
Oliver got up.
"I'm right here. Everything is gonna be fine."
"Laurel? Laurel? Where is she?"
"She's probably back at the Bunker. I'm gonna check on her. Everything is fine."
"He had the same look Ra's did when he was about to stab me."
"Don't worry. You saved Laurel. The same way Tommy did."
Thea smiled.
"It's in your blood, baby Sis."
Pike
"Everybody, move!" Green Arrow yelled at the Cops.
Nobody moved.
"Do y'all think I won't shoot one of you?!" He yelled.
"Move or I start shooting arrows!" Green Arrow threatened.
Nobody moved.
He pushed a Cop.
"I have an injured teammate and you wanna keep getting in my way?! Isn't it your job to protect all the residents of Star City?! Even ones you don't agree with?!"
"I'm so sorry."
"If y'all listened to the Lances sooner, this wouldn't have happened!"
I looked down.
"Speedy... The Arhcer in red... Got shot in the throat by... Damien Darhk! Because you guys didn't listen to how dangerous he is! He tried to kill Black Canary! So, you can all give a round of applause to Lieutenant Pike for not listening to Captain Lance!"
I sighed.
"I am so sorry about your teammates. Sincerely. I am truly sorry."
"No, you're not. You don't give a damn about us. But we take the bullets and the shivs from Darhk's ghosts for you!"
Green Arrow pushed through us.
He was upset.