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STAR CITY HARBOR
Drake Lance / Black Canary
Through lots of hacking through intel and cameras I’ve finally managed to track down League of Assassins’ source for shipping their followers in along with weapons. The devil works hard, but Ra’s works harder. Ra’s is planning something, and it’s big.
I stand over a building blending myself in with the dark and taking pictures with my phone of the situation. I spot them carrying out massive containers of what I can imagine could be weapons and vehicles. As I do, I count and track down as much of their assassins that I can find, making sure that I can make a detailed route into their boat and sabotage it.
Destroying their boat won’t completely stop whatever they’re planning, but it will delay them until I find out what is really happening… And what they’ve done with Ollie.
As I look around, I spot Ollie in his Ghost Archer suit as he seems to be in command of the assassins. Ollie yells at and points at locations spreading his assassins out for what seems like security. Ollie holds his bow as he’s equipped with a sword next to his quiver filled with dozens of arrows.
I plan out my route and as I do I spot a 3 shadow figures sneaking around. I observe more and realize it’s Team Arrow with Diggle in his Green Arrow suit leading WildDog and Mr.Terrific. You’re kidding me. They’re walking in a path where if they get spotted, they will be taken down, maybe even killed. Morons!
I sigh knowing my objective is clear as I look into my backpack that I’m carrying loaded with sticky bombs. Stop and destroy the shipments from coming in, find Ra’s master plans, and if all goes well… save Ollie.
Team Arrow is going to be my distraction knowing damn well they’re going to get caught faster than I can let out a cry. They’ll be a liability but my only way to get in. I’ll have to work quick.
I ignore their presence and begin to realize my time is counting down. I jump down from the roof onto the ground and take my marked route where I won’t be spotted. I sneak around corners and small gaps in-between shipments knowing I won’t get caught this way.
I find the shipments and as I do, I begin to realize they’re all labeled with the faded Queen Industries logo. I look at the logo knowing something about this isn’t right. Queen Industries has been shut down, so smuggling these in must’ve not been an issue when they passed through customs. Or this means Queen Industries is being rebuilt and someone from inside is helping out.
I stop thinking as my time is running out and I begin to place the sticky bombs on to the doors of as many shipments that I can place. “Drake?” I hear my comm being interrupted as someone is tuning into my radio frequency. “Drake?!” I hear the voice of Felicity as it’s buzzing and I tune her in clearer.
“I can hear you.” I whisper softly knowing if I talk too loud I’ll be caught. I look around me and see the assassins’ backs turned towards me or distracted. They suddenly then start moving and jumping off their stations and running towards the actual boat. “What is it now?”
“Thank god! They need your help! They’ve been ambushed. You need to save them.” Felicity begs me and as I plant the last sticky bomb on the shipment container I sigh and turn around.
“Of course they’ve been ambushed.” I say looking at the boat as I see them being taken on board the shipping boat.
“Look Drake, whatever it is you have against us, please put it to the side.“ She says with a break in her voice knowing that this might not end well. As cold and dark as I’ve become, I still have a heart to save these fools. It’s in my blood to help, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. “We need you.” She begs one last time and I take this chance. I can’t do this alone either.
“In a way, I need you all as much as you need me… Don’t tell anyone I said that.” I say to Felicity as I begin to run towards the boat. As I run I begin to realize that the assassins have all disappeared. I decide to take this opportunity and as I continue to run closer to the boat, I hear it sound its horn. It’s leaving!
“I’m gonna record what you said and listen to it every night before I sleep.” Felicity says mocking me as she’s proud of me. “Look, Oliver, alive or dead, would be proud of you right now.” I run up to the edge of the pier and see the boat is beginning to move away from me in a speed that I can’t keep up with.
“Yeah hold that thought, because the boat is leaving.” I say running faster trying to breathe calmly to push myself. I can do this. I catch up with the boat but I’m not close enough to get on. Only one choice left. As I run next to the boat, I snatch a long rope from the harbor and throw it like a lasso on to the boat’s stern. I pull it on making sure it’s tight and secure.
Hold on tight.
I jump off the harbor as the boat leaves it and I quickly launch myself and swing on to the walls of the boat. I look down seeing the water being rushed out underneath me and I climb up the stern. As I get close to the boat’s surface, I peek my head out trying to find any assassins to take down incase. I spot about 4 of them roaming around the boat and I roll into the floor of the boat and hide behind cases as I watch them.
I sneak behind each one taking them down silently. I loot anything that I can find a use for here such as card keys and small little weapons to add on. “Felicity, where are they?” I whisper as I look around for more assassins.
“Up the stairs, to your left in that room. They’re not alone, there’s two other assassins… I don’t really like calling them that.” She says and I follow her directions and as I do I take a small peek through the window finding the 3 of them all zip tied with their mouths covered in tape. Classic.
“Well that’s what they are.” I respond to Felicity’s comment and I then spot the two assassins standing with riffles watching over them. “I have eyes on them… If I survive this Felicity, I’m going to make a song of the time some morons got kidnapped.”
“Ooh!! Can Madonna be featured in it.” She jokes around and I decide to kick open the door.
“We don’t get along.” I say and the doors fly open. “Hey assholes.” I greet everyone and I spot a chair and throw it at the assassin from a far and then head to the other one. He attempts to aim the riffle at me but I grab it and hit him in the head with it. The threats are taken cared of and I look at the 3 boys tilting my head as I’m annoyed.
I take my knife out and free them all as I rip their tapes off their mouth hard on purpose. “You just waxed my entire face D!” Rene shouts in pain and looks at me angry and I press the tape covered in his facial hair on to his chest to mock him.
“What the hell are you guys doing here?” I say to them in a very angered tone as they all rise up. “Do you all have a death wish?!”
“Funny seeing you here, we were going to ask the same thing.” Rene says in a very pissy mood, but Diggle pushes him back with his arm as if Rene were a kid. Rene walks away and looks out the window trying to calm himself down from the seasickness. Wasn’t he in the navy?
“I don’t have time for this.” I say as I turn away from them but Diggle’s voice stops me.
“Argus was given information about the shipment and location tonight. When we got here, they found us faster than we expected.” Diggle speaks up seriously and I turn towards him as he looks ridiculous in his Green Arrow suit.
“You were all set up. Congrats, you fell for it! Did you get anything out of this?” I ask hoping they have the plans of what Ra’s is up to or even what is happening with Ollie.
“Nothing yet… Who told you about this?” Curtis asks wanting to know if I’ve been set up like them but even a moron would know they’ve been set up. They should’ve taken more precaution but they didn’t.
“I know people…” I say as I’ve got nothing. “… Plus I planted some bombs on the shipments and they’re all ready to blow with a tap of a button at the harbor.” I say pulling the switch out and they all look at me as they’ve underestimated my ability to think.
“What’s the plan then D?” Rene speaks up and they all have trust in me. Diggle looks at me as he’s ready to pass his mantle down to me to lead and I’ll take it, for tonight. Tonight, I need a team to watch my ass.
“We call Argus and get them to set up a point where we can meet them to escort whatever else they have on here. In the meantime, we fight as hard as we can and take over the boat.” I command the three of them.
“He’s here you know… Oliver or whoever that is.” Diggle says bringing up Ollie as I’ve forgotten about him.
“He’s the one in command of these assassins.” Curtis speaks up and looks at all of us. “Whatever they did to Oliver, that’s not him Drake.” Curtis says and I know he will recognize me, I just need to get close to him.
“Ollie is mine to deal with. You three focus on the mission, I’ll find him.” I say leaving the room and jumping off the upper platform of the boat and on to the ground level. I continue to sneak around the boat and then I begin to hear the sounds of gunshots from Rene’s guns, and what sounds like little lasers from Curtis’ balls.
As I sneak around I find myself walking towards the main deck and spot Ollie watching the ocean in front of him. I stand a couple feet away from him, making sure my distance is safe and I watch him as he’s taken notice of me. He looks over his shoulder and finds me.
“Ollie.” I breathe out as I can’t recognize the human inside of him. “What did they do to you?” I say walking closer to him as I begin to get emotional seeing the person I love, tortured into someone he isn’t.
“That is not my name, and it won’t be after I finish off with you.” He says like a soldier and takes out his blade from his sheath. He’s going to kill me.
“Your name is Oliver Jonas Queen!” I say desperately trying to jog his memory back but he’s convinced that he is someone else, something else. “You have a son named Will, a fiancé who is a kicker and screamer who loves you. Ollie you have to remember.” I don’t want to fight him.
“Oliver Queen is dead.” He chuckles. “I am Al Sah Him, heir to the demon and Star City is going to fall when you’re taken cared of.” He says getting closer to me and I whip out my electric baton from my belt as a weapon to fight against him. I didn’t want it to go like this.
“You’re leaving me no choice Ollie.” I say turning the voltage on the baton and he swings his sword towards me, but I roll underneath him. I whack Ollie’s back and it shocks him and he reacts to it. He’s still human, which means if I’m not careful, I could kill him.
“Quit calling me that!” He says angry and we begin to fight and we block each other’s attacks as if we knew what was going to happen after every move. We both don’t land any attacks on each other and it’s impressive. Ollie before couldn’t hold up a sparring match with me more than 3 minutes until he got tired and gave up. But this is a real challenge, and our lives are on the edge.
As we continue fighting I begin to find myself having the upper hand. I land a couple of kicks and hits on to Ollie. I push kick Ollie to the ground and I walk closer to him to end this nonsense and bring him home.
“You’ve had enough fun as a bad guy Ollie, you’ve lost.” I say looking down at him as he lays in the ground exhausted. “Come with me, we can end this and bring down the League of Assassins.” I give him my hand and he looks at my necklace, the one of his ring. He groans and turns his head away from me as he must be having a flashback. He’s remembering.
“Drake…” He says as it if it was his first time saying my name. “W-where am I?” He stares at me confused and then suddenly I watch his facial expressions quickly shift into anger and hate. “You did this to me. You killed me.” He says and as he does I get weak and vulnerable.
It’s not my fault. It’s not my fault. It’s not going to work this time.
I back away from Ollie as he begins to growl at me. “You did this to me! Why did you let me die!” He says angry and as he does it begins to hit me. I begin to cry knowing that this is actually my fault. I was right all along. He didn’t sacrifice himself, I killed him. It should’ve been me!
“You left me no choice. I didn’t know you were going to get on that plane!” I say and suddenly I feel an arrow from behind me pierce right through my shoulder. I scream but not strong enough to create a canary cry. I groan in pain and then Ollie punches me in the face and I fall to the ground.
I quickly snap the arrow and pull both sides out of my shoulder. I turn towards Ollie going to create a Canary cry to get him away from me but he quickly latches his hands on to my neck. He prevents me from screaming and raises me up on to my knees.
“I’ve spent these last 3 years training for this day. I followed you around everywhere you went watching how you moved, fight, talked, sang, behave. I was there in Paris when you fought Slade, or when you got so drunk you didn’t remember him picking you up out of an alley in some homeless man’s tent. But no matter how good of a fighter you are, your heart, soul and mind is WEAK.” He says and I begin to cry as the words begin to hurt. This torture, the man of your dreams, the one you love so much, destroying you… it’s worse than anything I’ve been through. But I have something.
“We’re retreating, we can’t fight them off any longer.” Diggle says into my earpiece and I know now that I am truly alone. I dig through my pocket and grab the bomb switch and press it. As I press it, I watch a part of the harbor light up in flames. Ollie looks over and throws me to the ground releasing me from his hold. I don’t have enough energy to scream and so I begin to get up slowly. Ollie kicks me in the gut and I fall right back down again. I begin to chuckle as I feel blood slip down my face and watch Ollie look at the harbor in anger.
“I might be weak but it’s what makes me human.” I say knowing the only way to get to my Ollie is if I piss him off enough to kill me.
“Kill him now.” I hear the voice of Ra’s Al Ghul from behind me and I smile lightly at Ollie mocking him. Ollie grabs me by the arm and pushes me towards the edge of the deck as I’m an inch away from falling to the ocean. “Once we get rid of him you will fully become Al Sah Him, we can take over Star City. Take back this pathetic city Robert Queen built.” Ra’s says and I turn towards Ollie and look at him as Ollie places his sword against my body. “He is only but your past, we must rid of him to move forward.” He says inspiring Ollie and as he does, I begin to realize that this is a choice for Ollie. A decision he has to make, meaning, there is still pieces of Ollie left of him in this ghost.
time to break him, give him pay back.
“Go ahead. Get that promotion.” I say and he stares his cold gaze into my eyes. “You can blame me for your death all you want, others would call it a sacrifice. But I never stopped looking for you. Sure you can pretend to be this person that you’re not, we all know you care. Just know that if you decide to kill me, think about the people that love you and how broken they would be if you killed the only person who searched for you far and deep when they told him you were dead. Think about how disappointed Will would be, how he’ll never have a role model neither a father figure in his life to guide him. Or your dad, and how disappointed he would be on the mission that he wanted you to follow. Think about Laurel, Helena, Sara, and Felicity, and how they cared, loved, and did everything for you to be your very best. I know you hate me and honestly I want you to kill me, maybe then I’ll have some closure with the man I fell in love instead of this rotten flesh. So do it. I don’t want to be in a world without you by my side anyways. Give yourself the buzz you want from killing me, because when I’m gone… nobody will care about you as much as I do. I hope you burn in hell.” I finish and shut up waiting for him to kill me. Ollie looks at me and I begin to see the small human parts of him show but Ra’s can’t see it due to Ollie’s back being turned towards him.
“Al Sah Him, now!” Ra’s shouts at Ollie and Ollie looks like he is hesitating. Ollie breathes heavy realizing who I am.
“SWIM.” Ollie whispers aggressively and pulls me into his blade as I feel impaled. I gasp Ollie’s name softly and Ollie slides me out of his blade and pushes me into the ocean. As he pushes me off his blade I see his humanity, the guilt of his actions painted all over his face. The mask of Al Sah Him is suddenly gone and I recognize the brooding and bold man I fell in love with. I take Ollie’s word into mind and fall into the ocean.
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ARROW BUNKER
Felicity Smoak
“Oh my god.” I gasp covering my mouth not believing what I just saw. I watch Drake being stabbed and then pushed into the ocean and all there is left to say is, they’ve won. I begin to get overwhelmed and back away knowing that Drake is dead. I begin to cry knowing there is no hope left in Star City. Drake was one of my closest friends and it’s depressing to see someone with a fired up soul like his just be, gone.
The TV begins to play the news as it’s live and switches to a breaking news story. “BREAKING NEWS: We’ve just received a chilling threatening video from Ra’s Al Ghul who is the world’s most wanted man declaring that the Black Canary or as many know him, Drake Lance has been murdered. This video is not recommended to be watched of in front of children so discretion is advised!” The anchor woman says and then the video clip of Ra’s plays.
“Dear residents of Star City, this is Ra’s Al Ghul, many of you don’t know me and many of you do. There is no Green Arrow.” The video then shows footage from a phone of Oliver’s plane blowing up in the sky that night. “And no more Black Canary.” A video footage of Black Canary being impaled by Oliver and thrown off the boat is shown. “Your true heroes have fallen and I suggest that the rest of the vigilantes in this city surrender as they’ve lost their fight. This city is mine and in 24 hours I expect most of this city to evacuate. I plan to rebuild Star City into my image and by rebuilding, I mean to wipe out every building, person left, road, etc. with a nuclear bomb…” Footage shows of the disaster that Ra’s Al Ghul caused in Gotham years ago with Scarecrow. “You’ve been warned.” The clip stops playing and reverts back to the female news anchor.
“What the hell is happening?!” Rene says walking in as we’ve been threatened. Diggle walks up to me fast and hugs me as he knows I’m in grief over Drake’s death.
“He’s dead.” Curtis responds to Rene and Rene doesn’t believe it. He acts as if Drake’s death hasn’t affected him. It affects us in every way possible, we’re not as strong as Drake. Drake is and was The Black Canary, and was more stronger, independent, skilled and wiser than all of us. We don’t stand a chance against The League of Assassins, not like this.
“We need to call The Justice League, maybe they can help.” Rene says as an idea but it’s not a smart one. Black Canary was all that we needed to prevent Ra’s take over but now we have nothing.
“They won’t. The minute we do, Slade is exposed and I don’t even know where Slade is!” I shout in anger knowing that Slade has disappeared and gone MIA. The time when we need him as well the most, especially with his connections.
“And Argus?” Rene brings them up.
“Last time we called for help they threatened to bomb the city to solve the problem. It’s not ethical.” Diggle responds letting me go and standing directly besides me as I cry on his shoulder.
“Then we’re screwed.” Curtis says and Rene shakes his head.
“We’re going to fight! I don’t care, but we are going to figure this out!” Rene says trying to motivate us.
“No! Because that’s suicide!” I yell in frustration, I refuse to lose another friend. “We lay low, evacuate everyone out and leave to a safe house I had built in Central City incase of emergency.”
“No, no, no we’re not just going to give up and give Ra’s what he wants!” Rene says and I’ve never seen him like this before. “D never let anyone tell him to back down and if they did he would beat the living crap out of them, so why can’t we do the same? He’s saved so many lives for fighting for what he believed was right even if everyone was telling him not to do it. D is gone, but that doesn’t mean that his fighting spirit is as well. We need to think like D because he would fight back! Only cowards give up guys, and we’re not cowards. We’re Team Fucking Arrow.“
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