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MIDTOWN STAR CITY
Drake Lance / Black Canary
Ollie and I jump off the container when the truck stops, and quickly hide inside a building. We both watch Joe and his mercenary men take out the Q-core. The truck drives away and Joe stays behind alone as he begins to activate the bomb. Joe doesn’t notice it and Ollie looks at the bomb feeling guilty.
“This isn’t your fault.” I tell him as I lay my hand on his shoulder. I know Ollie too well, and I know him well enough to know that he’s blaming himself about everything in his head. That’s what makes us alike and together we deal with it.
“I know.” Ollie agrees as he looks back at me. “But I just can’t help to think that I helped him in this.”
“Then let’s do something about it.” I say as I walk out of the building first and Ollie follows with his bow and arrow armed. He aims it up at Joe as we watch him set the bomb still, and I make sure I step loudly so that he can notice me. “Hey asshat.” I yell and Joe stops working on the bomb as he turns around towards me and Ollie.
“Nice of you to join the party.” Joe says sarcastically as he walks towards me and he takes out his blade. “But I think I’m gonna have to disinvite you both.” Joe swings his blade around and I take my Dragon blade out as it begins to glow in its green aura.
“You’re a disgrace to your father’s legacy.” I say as I walk towards him and we begin to walk in circles. A giant mercenary approaches Ollie and Ollie looks at the giant not intimated at all.
“My father was pathetic to love you.” He says and he’s wrong, Slade became better when we were together. Slade was a better man than I ever could’ve imagined, if only the world could see that. If only someone else could’ve brought that out of him.
“You’re wrong. He was the happiest man and you knew that.” I tell Joe and Joe scoffs as he makes me sound ridiculous. He gets angry and quickly brings down his blade towards me and we begin to battle. Our blades hit each other multiple times and I am stronger than him.
I think about Slade and I think about that this is for him. I am here because of him! Joe stops and he takes a breather as I won’t kill him. That’s not justice, and I can control myself now. Joe spits out saliva and he continues to breathe hard, taking sharp breaths.
“Your father would be ashamed of you.” I say and Joe gets triggered. I hear Ollie fighting the giant mercenary hand-to-hand and I can tell he’s struggling.
“AAAGHHHH.” Joe shouts and he quickly runs towards me going for an attack. Joe moves his blade getting angry as his attacks are out of pure rage. I dodge his attacks as I won’t counter them, he’ll waste his energy like this giving me the upper hand. When I find a chance, I quickly slash my blade on Joe’s and his blade breaks in half. I swing a kick to his face and then kick him down to the ground.
“You’re done Joe. Give up.” I say walking towards Joe as he lays on the ground. “There’s no running away from this.”
“I’m unstoppable.” Joe says as he takes out a button from his armor and he presses it. I look at the Q-core as the giant timer goes off. 3 minutes. “You can’t stop it from happening. It’s unhackable.” Joe says and he’s right, Felicity designed that way.
“Asshole!” I shout and quickly punch him his pretty face knocking him out cold. Ollie takes down the mercenary giant and I quickly walk towards the Q-core as it’s now an unstoppable activated bomb ready to go off. Ollie runs up to the bomb too seeing the timer ticking down to 2 minutes and there’s no way to stop it.
“No airplane this time.” I tell Ollie as a joke but now isn’t the time for jokes. Ollie looks at me seriously but then chuckles as he can’t help himself.
“What do we do?” Ollie asks as he looks around for ways and there’s nothing that can prevent this from happening. This is the end. “Felicity is too far to hack into it, and even if she could, she wouldn’t be able to.” Ollie says and I look at the bomb trying to solve a way to stop this. He won.
I begin to get nervous knowing that this is really it. This is THAT moment when the heroes lose.
“Are you a scared little boy? Or are you the most powerful creature in the universe?” I hear Constantine’s voice echo in my head. I realize the barriers he put in my mind, I can remove them but if I do, there’s no coming back. Who even knows what will happen to me.
“Do you trust me?” I ask Ollie and Ollie looks at me confused.
“Drake, there’s no time for jokes anymore. We have 1 minute left!” Ollie says and there’s no time for explanation, and I know he’ll find it hard to believe what I truly am. Who I truly am.
I close my eyes and I think hard. I go into the darkest place of my consciousness and think about all the pain and sadness I’ve encountered in my life. All the bottled up rage, all the anger and pain hiding in one spot of my mind. There. Come out.
I open my eyes back up and look at Ollie as I feel my skin on fire. I feel my eyes shine bright orange instead of my hazel and Ollie looks at me confused. I look at myself seeing that I’m indeed on fire, I control that energy that Constantine was afraid of but it becomes difficult.
“Drake?” Ollie says shocked and confused not knowing what to do. I look at him knowing that I am not myself anymore. I don’t feel anything like myself, I feel power that I never felt before in my life! I need him safe. “Drake!” He shouts and I don’t respond as I am not that anymore.
I am The Phoenix. Fire, Life, Incarnate, now and forever I am Phoenix.
I feel like I can do anything and I use my mind to manipulate the electromagnetic field. I use what feels like telekinesis and throw Ollie away using only my mind. Ollie panics and I use my mind to have him pressed down against the floor preventing him from stopping me. I can do it.
“Trust Me.” I say as my voice echoes and I look at the bomb ticking down. 3…
“Drake.” Ollie says worried for me as he knows what I’ll be doing. 2… “Drake!” 1… Let it go.
The bomb explodes and as it explodes I manipulate the nuclear energy, and absorb it. I trap the nuclear energy in a field of psychic fire not letting it get out. As I continue to absorb it I feel the fire rise from me and my aura turns into the actual Phoenix. I begin to float in the air and I scream loudly as the power is too great. The radiation and nuclear energy that I am absorbing is destroying me and if I die, so will The Phoenix.
I feel myself getting weak and I can’t stop as the explosion isn’t done. If I stop now, the city still dies. I begin to think about everything that has happened. The rage and anger fuels me and I think about the times that I’ve lost it. The times that made me vengeful. The memories of losing people. Losing LAUREL. Losing OLLIE. Losing DAVID. Losing SLADE. I remember how much they hurt, and how much it hurt to know who caused those deaths. Knowing they’re dead fuels me, and my guilt of being so angry all the time fuels me. I feel my power gain back and I become stronger once again. I become more powerful and I quickly absorb all the nuclear energy.
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Oliver Queen
The phoenix aura of Drake’s fades away slowly and I feel myself being able to get back up. He’s dying. Drake softly floats back down to the ground as the explosion is done, he did it. He saved us. He lays himself against the Q-core and I watch his glorious soft tan skin turn rotten, black and decomposed.
I get up from the ground as I feel free from Drake’s hidden power and run towards him. I quickly go to comfort him and I see him not being able to move neither breathe properly. He’s fighting to live and as I look at him, I see his glowing orange fire aura fade into his skin. I look at his eyes as the orange fiery glow fades away too going back to his hazel eyes.
“Hey.” I say softly as I grab on to his face and his face begins to turn black, as he’s beginning to rot from the radiation he’s absorbed. I look at Drake knowing this is it for him and I hate to say it. It hurts me to have to see him in pain like this and I want him to let go. I love him so much but I can’t let him fight to live so he can suffer forever. “We won.” I tell him to make him relieved and I feel relieved, but hurt that this had to be the end of it.
Drake doesn’t respond, and looks at me as he breathes harder trying to keep up with himself. I chuckle at him as he’s dying the way he is, stubbornly and a fighter. I caress his decomposing cheek as I begin to cry as it hurts.
“Drake look at me.” I say and he moves his head to look at me clearly very slowly and weakly. I watch tears grow in his eyes as he knows it too. As I lay my hand on his cheek continuing to caress it, he grabs on to my hand comforting us both. I need him to let us go. “We’re gonna be okay.” I say so that he can stop worrying about all of us. “You can rest now.” I say and Drake lays his head against the bomb slowly while closing his eyes. Drake takes one last final breath and his hand slowly falls from mine. I feel him let go of us as he’s gone now.
I smile lightly knowing that he’s in peace now. No more fighting bad guys. Now you can rest forever my love. I’ll see you on the other side. I kiss him on the cheek as I begin to sob quietly knowing that I have to live every second from now on without him. The world feels empty now.
“No.” I hear Quentin’s voice break and I turn towards him to see him crying from a far. He stares at the scene knowing Drake died.
He quickly walks towards Drake’s body and I let him have the closure he needs to have with his son. “Drake. Wake up son.” Quentin begins to sob and I sob as well as we’ve both lost our rocks. “Please wake up. Please?” Quentin continues to sob as he lays his head on Drake’s body and I watch him as Drake is gone. There’s no going back.
Quentin gets off Drake and I plant a kiss on Drake’s forehead. “Goodbye Drake.” I say as I brush his hair with my fingers getting a feel of it for the last time. “Thank you for everything. I love you and I always will.”
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