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I walked into S.T.A.R Labs that morning and got ambushed my Caitlin and Cisco. "Finally you get here." Cisco exclaimed, I quickly checked the time and was surprised to see I was ten minutes early.
"We've been waiting for you all morning." Caitlin continued, and I had a feeling that they were over exaggerating. "We have something we need to ask you."
I looked at the pair suspiciously, since I've hardly ever seen them this excited about something. "Okay ask."
"We have to go to Starling City." Caitlin quickly stated.
"And why is that?" I asked slowly as I looked between to two.
"Well, remember that Felicity asked me to analyze the DNA of the arrow that killed the Canary." She quickly continued as Cisco waited impatiently. "Well, we have to pick it up."
"Felicity told me the she was going to mail it over here." I told them as I walked around them and to my desk.
"Okay truth is we want to see the Arrow Cave. No, we need to see it." Cisco confessed as he moved in front of me.
"Okay never call it that in front of Oliver." I informed them as I sat down and started up my computer. Suddenly my chair spun around and I was faced with an excited Cisco.
"So is that a yes!" He said jumping with excitement.
"I never said that. Oliver would kills us if we went down there. No scratch that he would kill me for taking you guys down there." I stated and Cisco's and Caitlin's faces quickly fell with disappointment.
"Come on we bought our train tickets and everything, we even got you one." Cisco continued with a pout. "Are you sure there's nothing you could do?"
I thought about it for a moment and I knew there was only one person who Oliver wouldn't be able to say no to. "Well, there is someone we would have to see first, but you guys have to promise to behave yourselves. Team Arrow is nothing like Team Flash, its not all fun and games like it is here."
"Okay whatever you say." He replied before he got a hold of my arm and began to push me out towards the exits with Caitlin not to far behind.
"Wait did you tell Dr. Wells or Barry." I asked wondering if we even had permission to skip out for a day.
"Of course we got it all taken care of." Caitlin assured me, and although I was a bit skeptical this reassurance was coming from Caitlin and I knew she wouldn't do anything irresponsible.
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"Why are we going to see Felicity first?" Caitlin asked as we walked into Palmer Tech.
I pushed the button on the elevator for the top floor where Felicity's office was located. "Because Oliver has a soft spot for Felicity." I told Caitlin and Cisco who hadn't stopped smiling from excitement since we stepped off of the train. "And he can't say no to her."
"Wow, that's genius!" Cisco exclaimed as he clapped his hands together. "It's obvious Oliver has a thing for Felicity, almost obvious that Barry has a thing for y..."
Cisco didn't get to finish his sentence because Caitlin smacked him on the head. "Owww...." Cisco exclaimed, and I ignored their bickering as I stepped out of the elevator and made my way towards Felicity's office. As I made a turn towards her office Cisco and Caitlin quickly caught up and walked quickly ahead of me and towards her office.
"Almost done here, Jerry. You should have gone home hours ago." We found Felicity talking to no one in her office.
"Who's Jerry?" Caitlin asked as she stepped into the room, Felicity looked up from her work and she seemed very shocked to find the three of us standing in front of her.
"This place is bigger than my apartment." Cisco commented as he looked around at her huge office.
"What are you guys doing here?" Felicity asked confused on the reason why we were in the city.
"You asked us to analyze the DNA off the arrow that killed Sara." Caitlin answered.
"I was just going to mail you the sample." She awkwardly replied as she looked over at me.
"Yeah, I told her that but they still wanted to come." I replied with a shrug.
"We had some vacation days coming--"
"We want to see the Arrow Cave." Cisco quickly confessed interrupting Caitlin.
"We don't call it that. Ever." Felicity informed them of what I had previously warned them of and they clearly weren't paying attention.
"I want to see the toys! I need to see the toys." Cisco desperately pleaded, and I could see Felicity slowly caving in. "Do you guys have an Arrowmobile?"
"Well we have a van and a couple of motorcycles." Felicity replied thoughtfully, before she turned back to us. "Fine but, remember everything is by Oliver's rules."
"Okay whatever you say." Cisco repeated what he told me earlier today, and I knew I shouldn't have taken his word for it. When we got to the hideout saying that Oliver was very angry and upset was an understatement. It was only after Felicity pulled him aside and they had a talk that he a caved in but he still wasn't happy. Immediately after Caitlin and Cisco got an okay they began to look around the room.
Cisco made his way over to the table lined up with arrows that Oliver had just made and began to make. "Don't touch that." Oliver scolded Cisco who was just about to touch the tip of one of the arrowheads. Hearing with Cisco moved to the next row of arrows and began to touch them with a look of fascination and concentration on this face. "Or that. It's a jettisoning arrow. Uses compressed CO2--"
"Compressed CO2 to jettison high tensile strength polymer cables." Cisco finished before he began to look at the rest of the waiting equipment.
"Yep." Oliver said under his breath clearly already annoyed and we haven't even been here for ten minutes.
"Since when did we start selling admission the the Arrow Cave?" Roy asked as he took a seat on the table next to me.
"It's..." Oliver began to say in disbelief before he turned to Felicity and pointed at her accusingly. "Do you see what you've done?" Felicity only looked at him innocently as she played with her earrings. I looked back over at Cisco knowing that I shouldn't keep my eye off of him. He was standing in front of Oliver's suit with almost a sparkle in his eye.
"Incredible. I have so many ideas for improvements." Cisco stated before he moved onto the case that held my suit. "Wow and this one I'm going to touch it." He said before he caressed my suit, and there were no words to express how weirded out I felt at the moment. Then last in line was Roy's red suit. "And this. Oh, oh, man! And I mean, red is so much cooler than green, am I right?"
"Hmm. I am really starting to like this guy." Roy declared as I elbowed his side. "What it is?"
"Hey, what's that for?" Caitlin asked as she nodded towards the salmon ladder at the back of the room.
"Distracting me from work." Felicity confused, and I pretended not to notice the smirk on Oliver's face when he heard those words.
"So where's Mr. Diggle?" Caitlin asked as she looked around the room
"He's running down a lead." Roy replied and at that second Olivers phone began to ring.
"Diggle." Oliver greeted as he picked up the phone, then his expression became serious and it was clear that there was trouble. "Our target is storming A.R.G.U.S. And Lyla is there."
Oliver and Roy immediately began to pick up their equipment. "Mm-hmm. Bad ass." Cisco began to say in excitement as he watched to two heroes prep for their fight. "So cool!"
"It'll be over by the time they get there." Caitlin commented in worry.
"They've been doing this for a long time Caitlin. They know what their doing." I reminded her, but she still pulled out her phone.
"I'm going to call Barry." She announced as she pressed the call button. I sighed at her stubbornness and sat down next to Felicity knowing there was no use arguing. "Hey, Barry? The Arrow needs your help here in Starling City, hurry up."
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After a couple of minutes of doing nothing because we were still waiting for Olivers and the rest of the team to come back Barry decided to pick up the salmon ladder bar. At first he tried it slowly and after a few attempts he began to use his super speed until he was just a red blur going up and down the ladder. Felicity Caitlin and I just stared as Cisco was stretching i the corner preparing himself for his turn.
"How often does Oliver do this?" Caitlin asked still looking at the red blur.
"At least every Wednesday." Felicity replied with a pause, like she could practically see Oliver doing it.
"There's a lot of sweating." I continued.
"And a lot of shirtlessness."Felicity added, and the three of us took a second to imagine it. Suddenly Barry stopped and handed Cisco the bar.
"I don't see what's so hard about that." He said confidently, and I crossed my arms over my chest acting like I was unimpressed. "So did you guys like what you saw?"
"Oh you mean the red blur? Yeah that was great." I replied sarcastically as I looked back at Cisco who jumped up on the bar and attempted to lift the bar. After a couple of failed attempts Cisco gave up and put the bar back.
"That is impossible." He stated as he a tried to catch his breath.
"It's not impossible." I countered, and Cisco looked at me in shock.
"And you think you can do it?" He questioned in disbelief.
"Oh I know I can." I replied confidently, since I've done it many times before.
"Okay there tough girl let me see your hands, that can apparently lift themselves up on that ladder. Come on let me see them." Cisco said and I played along and showed him my hands. "You think that you can do it. Then go ahead, I'll like to see you try."
I sighed, and then took off my jacket and walked over to the salmon ladder. I easily jumped up and began to make my way up to the top and then jumped off when I made it to the bottom again. Cisco had his mouth wide open as he looked at me in shock, I walked up to him and handed him the bar again. "See easy."
"How did you...how!" He exclaimed and then made his way back to the ladder.
"That was pretty great." Barry said as I walked back up to where Felicity and Caitlin were sitting. "Didn't know you had that in you."
"How about you did you like what you saw?" I teased, mimicking what he asked us earlier. Barry froze and looked at me not being able to find words. "Barry, I'm just messing with you."
I began to notice who Barry kept looking over at the glass case that held my suit, and I could tell he was beginning to get nervous, probably thinking that Artemis would show up. "Hey, so Artemis she isn't here or anything right?" Barry asked Felicity and she immediately tensed up.
"Here no, She's far away from here actually. Like really far. She's actually taking some action days, far away from here." Felicity said rambling and I glared over at her so she could shut up. "I'm not sure she should have called you." Felicity said in a worried tone as an attempt to change the subject. "Oliver doesn't play well with others."
"Ah, come on. Barry and Oliver kicked ass last week." Cisco said as he attempted to lift himself up onto the next step. "They were in, like a league of their own."
"Yeah, that was, like, a one time thing." Felicity reminded them.
"The dude was tossing around exploding boomerangs. They needed some back-up." Barry defended on a childish way. "And I need some dinner. That salmon ladder made me hungry for sushi."
At thay second Barry left leaving a mess of loose papers flying all over yhe room. "And I need to get some paperweights down here!" Felicity exclaimed in suprise as she tried to catch as many papers as she should.
"We should have warned you about that." Caitlin apolgized as we all began to pick up all the pieces of paper from the floor. When we finished Lyla stepped into the room follow by the rest of the team.
"Are you ok?" I asked Lyla as we all settled around a table.
"Can't work for A.R.G.U.S. Without making a few enemies. I'm sorry to involve all of you in this." She apologized, when Dig opened a plastice bag and emptied it out on the table. Lyla looked at Diggle in shock as pieces of scrap metal hit the aluminum table. "Is that A.R.G.U.S.Property?"
"It's evidence." Dig replied void of emotion, and although Lyla clearly wasn't happy she didn't push it any further.
Suddenly there was a rush of wind and everyone turned to face a maskless Barry eating sushi. "Hey! Secret identity?" Caitlin yelled, scolding a clueless Barry.
"They're married." Barry said using his chopsticks to point between the couple.
"We're not married." Diggle and Lyla replied in unison, clearly because they've probably have had to clear up that facts many times before.
"Or together. Whatever. He told her about me." Barry defended, but Dig shook his head in response. "You didn't?"
"I keep secrets for a living, man." Dig replied slightly offended by the lack of confidence.
"Ah. My bad." Barry said as he stuffed a roll of sushi in his mouth.
"You're--you're--"
"The Flash." Barry replied to Lyla's stunned stuttering. "Sushi?"
"We need a location on the man who's after Lyla." Oliver stated as he looked around the room making sure everyone was paying attention. "His name is Digger Harkness."
"The first step is to work the evidence..."Barry began to say as he got up from his chair.
"Barry, can I speak to you for a moment, please?" Oliver ordered as he moved away from the group. I looked over at Felicity and could tell she was worried about Oliver not wanting Barry's help too. When Barry and Oliver were of in the corner deep in conversation I heard the click of a camera go of and immediately turned towards Cisco who was taking pictures of them with his phone.
"What are you doing?" I said in a panic as I snatched the phone aways from him.
"Hey! Not cool man." Cisco exclaimed as he tried to take his phone back, but I quickly deleted the pictures.
"You promised you'd behave yourself." I scolded as I handed his phone back as he looked at me with a pout.
"I know but this is all so cool." He explained. "I just couldn't resist."
"You lucky Oliver didn't see you because..." I was cut off by a familiar rush of wind, and I looked over to the table on the other side of the room where Barry was using his supersede to piece together the remains of the boomerang.
"But it'll be worth it." Oliver said with a sigh as he stopped at the table next to us where Barry placed the tray that held the four boomerangs that he just pieced together.
"Rad!" Cisco said in excitement as he picked up one of the boomerangs and began to examine its structure. "These are a bit more teched out Than the one you guys brought to Central City polymer with a circuitry weave."
"Some of Harkness' boomerangs exploded." Roy informed.
"Oh, yeah, there are grooves in here that could definitely pack a C4 charge." Cisco confirmed as he continued to thoroughly look at the different boomerangs.
"Maybe if we figure out where Harkness got the supplies, we can use that to track him." Caitlin suggested and Cisco took another closer look at the weapon.
"These weren't made by Ka-Boom-Boomerang."
"Ka-Boom Boomerang?" Roy repeated Cisco's name in confusion.
"Yeah, you know, he has exploding boomerangs?" He attempted to clear up, but it really wasn't helping his case.
"That's not your best." Barry agreed, causing Cisco to look at Caitlin and I but we just nodded our headings in confirmation.
"Really?" Cisco asked in surprise , getting completely off track. "It makes perfect sense--"
"Cisco." Oliver said in a warning tone that immediately caused Cisco to stop his rambling. "If harkness didn't make them, we need to find out who did. And who he made the buy off of."
"Marcos. You see This collapsible node design?" Cisco stated as he showed us one of the ridges of the boomerang. "Dead giveaway. That's his signature."
"We need a location on this..." Oliver began to order before he looked over at Cisco for the name.
"Klaus Marcos." He quickly replied.
Felicity immediately made her way to her computer and began to work her magic. "No known home address or place of employment for Marcos." She read from and file that she was able to pull up. "But he was arrested last year by an officer Quentin Lance."
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