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CANARY BUNKER / FORMER ARROW BUNKER
Drake Lance-Queen
I sit in my desk in my all black Black Canary jump suit with a dark blue vest over my chest eating a peanut butter sandwich. I look at the 5 holograms of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash and Green Lantern talk as we are in a meeting about the current missions that are happening around the world. They all update me on the status of their missions and what they’ll be doing next incase they go MIA.
Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, is on a mission in space fighting a civil war on a different planet caused by the yellow lanterns. Superman, Kal El, is in Metropolis as usual fighting any villains in his home city but heading to another planet in a couple of hours to track General Zod. Flash, Barry Allen, in middle-east stopping the war there. Batman, Bruce, stays in Gotham as there is plenty of things happening there that he can’t leave behind to go somewhere else for. Leaving his city behind would mean chaos for the time that he’s gone, and I give him respect for that.
“Well, this channel is always open, so if anything goes wrong, you come directly to me.” I say as I’m held responsible for keeping track of where they’re going. They all nod and dismiss themselves but Diana stays behind being the only hologram left on the channel still. I begin to eat my sandwich but then stop when I realize she’s still there.
“Where are you?” I ask as she hasn’t updated me.
“I’m in Brazil, Cheetah is running around in the forest killing cartel gangs.” She says and this doesn’t sound like her style of killing neither her game. Cheetah is in it for money, she’d be working for the cartel if they could pay her salary.
“That sounds off.” I say confused and Diana nods agreeing.
“Because it is. I investigated the attack and there was no sign of her claw attacks, only signs of blade attacks and gunshot wounds. Drake…” She says going to tell me something bad and I already know what it’ll be about. “He was there. He didn’t even show them any mercy.” She says talking about Slade and I sigh knowing that he’s reverted back to his old ways. Slade has been going after gangs, mafias, yakuzas, and cartels, but not in the way The Justice League does it. “I know it’s hard to believe, but there’s no good in him, there never was.” Diana says trying to break the news to me as I feel guilty.
I get upset hearing the news of Slade and hold back my emotions. “Well you get right back to me if you know where he’s going next alright?” I tell her as a command and she nods. She then dismisses herself and I let out a deep breath and cry in silence alone in the bunker. Poor Slade, losing his humanity once again, and all because of me.
I sit back in my chair leaning back and placing my boots on the table and rethink my actions. There was nothing else that I could do. I cry tears of regret and pain knowing that I could’ve asked him to stay, and maybe he would’ve.
“You still gonna eat the Peanut butter sandwich?” I hear Ollie’s voice in the bunker and I stop crying wiping my tears away. I look at him as seeing him put back together into the human he once was, makes me joyful.
“You come back to see what your bunker looked like?” I tease him and he looks around at the new lighting, furniture, walls, suit placements, weapons, and everything. This bunker is nothing what it looked like before. Now it’s almost like a home, minus the sleeping. Dark grey walls, with blue lighting, dark wood floors, dark wood furniture, and all of my sisters’ old suits together in one wall, while Ollie’s retired suits are on one wall with a collage of all his appearances on the newspapers and magazines. My suits stand in their own wall with all the cool items I’ve collected over the years, with my electric bass guitars, song lyrics and magazine cover shoots.
“No, I came to see how my husband is doing.” He says as he’s still in his suit from his party that I failed to go to.
“Well you’ll see that he’s totally fine.” I say playing off my tears and appearing happy for him but I know he’ll be here for me no matter what. Ollie smiles lightly and walks towards the desk and takes a seat in the chairs in front of my desk.
“I used to have nothing.” I speak up realizing how much has changed with my life. Not too long ago, I was just a 21 year old running around Star City in a leather jacket, black turtle neck, and skinny ripped black jeans without a purpose in life. “And then I got this.” I say remembering when my contract signed me on and changed everything, when I partnered up with Ollie during his Green Arrow days. “This job.” I remember when Bruce and Diana found me lost in the alleys of Gotham after Ollie’s disappearance. “This family.” When Rene, Felicity, and Diggle reached out to me and supported me through everything after abandoning them. “And I was better because of it.” I look at myself now, 25 years old with a career with The Justice League saving the entire world now, saving my city with Team Arrow, and being a role model for everyone while kicking and screaming on stage when I can find time to go on tour.
“And I was better because of it too. You are the best part of me.” Ollie looks at me with a charming smile. “You missed out tonight, it was so fun.” Ollie says as we begin to have the conversations that marry couples do.
“Really? I wish I could’ve been there.” I respond as this night meant a lot to him and I hate myself for not being there to support him.
“Yeah, but then I got robbed by your twin. He took the jewelry which I don’t really care for, but he left behind finger print dust on the safe.” Ollie says explaining the situation and I wasn’t aware that he was in the city at all. I knew about his escape, but I suspected he would’ve laid low.
“Silver Siren is in town?” I say confused as he hasn’t popped in my radar in the city. A lot has been happening in Star City, small crimes still with the Falcones and other gangs. “Here take a piece.” I say sliding the plate of my peanut butter sandwich towards him, and he takes a piece eating it.
“Thanks.” He says and I open my drawer in my desk and pull out a document getting ready to surprise him. “What’s that?” He asks and he’ll be shocked.
“You know how we’ve been trying with the surrogate a couple weeks ago?” I ask him and he nods not knowing the update about that. “Well… My sperm won.” I say being competitive and playful with him smiling and open the document up and show him the ultrasounds of our future child who has my blood.
“This is amazing!” Ollie says proud to be a father now and I smile as this is what I know me and him have wanted since we got married. “What are we going to name him or her?” Ollie asks putting the document back excited as ever.
“If it’s a girl, I was thinking Juno?” I say knowing she’d be beautiful, strong, and bold like me.
“And if it’s a boy?” He asks me giving me the choice but I don’t want to hog the names.
“Your choice.” I tell him as I take a bite of my sandwich.
“I always liked the name Connor.” He says and I can already imagine that boy being determined, curious and independent like Ollie.
“That’s a nice name.” I say imagining them both. “I can see it now, Juno or Connor as little toddlers running around the lake house my father used to take me, Laurel, and Sara in Olympia during the summer. Us in the house eating peanut butter sandwiches.” I tease and we both smile and chuckle.
We both sit in silence eating our sandwiches and Ollie looks at his suit from the distance in his chair. I know how much he misses putting the hood on but he’s left that life behind for the good of himself. Martian Manhunter could only heal so much of the trauma in his mind from the 2 years of hell that Ra’s put him through, that him putting that hood on could trigger the trauma and bring back the blood lust. It could reverse all that Martian has done for Ollie and possibly make it worse.
Having Ollie back is a blessing. It seemed hellish at first and it was a fight to get him back, but I’m glad he’s back home. Will no longer lives with us, his grandparents decided to take custody of him and it’s for the better. The two of us are very busy people and there’s no time for me to be the role model I should be, not even after what I did on the blimp through natural instinct to Ra’s. No one knows about the incident except maybe Slade, but it’s enough to keep it on the low.
I hear the elevator of the bunker open and see Felicity walk in and I take the document, close it up, and throw it back into my desk. “I’ve been working on a project for some time now! But it’s somewhat functional, but not at its best yet.” She says rushing in towards me and Ollie.
“What is it?” I ask as she’s spoke to me about a project but her technology language and my brain are not equals.
“Let’s just say it can kind of predict crime before it happens. I based it on an algorithm and it watches everyone and anyone. It scans their choices, actions, and behavior and develops whether they are a threat to look into or if their life could be in danger. But I’ve made it to track these people through all the cameras in Star City so far, it’s kind of rusty!” Felicity sets her computer down on my desk and I look at it seeing a white screen with black letters reading ‘Hello Drake Lance‘.
“It’s watching me?” I ask as I stare at the camera in her computer and she nods. “And what about this?” I say missing the point of her program that resembles Big Brother. This could be controversial if she sold something like this, and potentially dangerous.
“Her name is The Machine, and I found a way to track Silver Siren.” She says taking back her computer and loading up something on her screen. “I used the algorithm to find not you, but him and it popped up. It noticed that your frequencies were different.” She turns her screen towards me and shows me a CCTV footage of Silver walking into an apartment building holding groceries, and then it tracks him going inside with the apartment cameras.
“That’s amazing.” Ollie speaks up being shocked by it and I’m on board with the idea. This technology advancement can help The Justice League track all major crimes around the globe before they even happen without finding out from a threat from someone.
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