章節 11: Arrow ~ Fallout ~ Part Three
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"OK, just tell me your psychopath of a student didn't get off that island, too," Malcolm griped.
"What's wrong?" Talia tilted her head. "Was the great Al Saher actually scared of him?"
"No, he just pissed me off," Malcolm grumbled.
"You're not alone," Laurel agreed as Dig reached for a device near Winn.
"Says the one who turned her back on the man who saved her," Talia raised an eyebrow. "Pity."
"Eyes!" Dig warned, sliding the device under the platform.
Whatever it was, it exploded, making Talia cover her eyes. Dig grabbed Winn and ran, Malcolm and Laurel taking off after them. "You want me to kill them?" one of the mercenaries asked Talia.
"You're not being paid to keep them alive," Talia growled. The mercenaries took off after them, and Talia nodded at Faust. "Let's get to work."
***
Winn crouched behind a pile of crates, watching three mercs approach. When they were past the door, he tapped a button on his tablet.
The lights went out, and all three looked up and around. Malcolm dropped from the ceiling, tackling one. Laurel charged into the second, punching him and knocking his gun away from him. Dig grabbed the gun and exchanged shots with the third merc, both dodging shots.
In the middle of the shootout, though, Dig suddenly stopped firing, and Winn's eyes widened when the merc punched him down. "Dig!" he shouted.
"You're not gonna feel a thing," the merc sneered, raising his gun. "Promise."
A green arrow caught him in the shoulder, followed by heat vision in his back. Malcolm slammed his merc into a steel wall nearby as Oliver and Kara ran in, charging the three mercs that arrived as backup. Kara kicked one in the stomach, and Laurel and Malcolm hastily dove out of the way as the merc went flying into a pile of crates nearby. Oliver took on another, easily punching him out. "You guys OK?" he called.
"Peachy!" came Winn's answer.
Dig punched the last merc out and growled, turning around. "I'm pissed!"
"Yeah, he speaks for the rest of us," Malcolm winced.
***
"Just about finished," Faust told Talia.
"Good," she smirked.
Banging from the floor above them made her look up, then one of the mercs shouted, "Incoming!"
Talia turned to see four figures drop down the elevator shaft and take cover as the mercs opened fire. Dinah stuck her head out when they paused, screaming at them and flinging them into the table. Talia scowled and walked up onto the platform. "So you're the new Black Canary that Evelyn called a bitch."
Alex snorted as she walked out, a combat knife in her hand. "She's the bitch."
"Takes one to know one," Dinah agreed.
Talia narrowed her eyes as Alex walked up onto the platform while Dinah, Curtis, and J'onn ran around. Finally, Alex charged, Talia ducking her attack and using her bow like a staff, the two of them moving like blurs.
J'onn grabbed one mercenary and flung him into the wall, the merc crying out in pain when he hit. Curtis hit another in the head with one of his T-spheres, then looked down at the device in his hand. "Good news," he said. "The bomb sniffer works!"
"Bad news, it's working in the bunker," Felicity said.
"The whole place is wired," J'onn confirmed.
"If you can take the devices, I can jam the detonation signal remotely. Are the others OK?"
"I don't know," Curtis turned to find out, only to look at two mercs in his way. "But I might not be."
Two arrows hit the first merc, one green and the other black. Laurel ran around the corner and tossed a knife into the second one. "They're fine," Oliver ran around the corner, the others following him. "I have eyes on Talia!"
Kara flew past the others into the mer that tried to run, grabbing him by the neck and flinging him up onto the platform, just as Talia kicked Alex down the stairs. Kara ran to help her sister up as J'onn and Dinah came around the corner.
Talia looked around, then curled her lip and turned. "To be continued," she decided, holding up a device and pressing a button on it.
Everyone flinched when the bombs around the lair detonated, and when they looked up, Talia was gone.
***
Talia walked around the corner, heading for the exit, only to stop when Quentin stood in her way. "Don't move!" he ordered, aiming at her. "I said don't move."
"Deputy Mayor Lance," Talia chuckled. "Are you really going to try and kill me?"
"Which of us has a gun?" Quentin growled.
"Mmm," Talia tilted her head. "Two of the three of us."
Quentin blinked, then cried out when the same scream from the bridge sounded. Talia readjusted the earplugs she wore, sauntering past Quentin and giving him a kick in the side for good measure. "He never even noticed me," Evelyn said smugly from where she was hiding behind another pile of crates.
"Good work," Talia nodded at her newest student. "Now, let's go."
***
"Whoa," Quentin winced when he saw the Arrowcave. "Hell of a mess."
"Yeah," Oliver grimaced, standing up from where he was cleaning up. "What's happening with the graduation?"
"Uh, went off without a problem," Quentin nodded. "Unless you count some food poisoning from the city caterer."
"The graduation was a distraction," Dig grumbled. "They left that map for me and Dinah to find."
"So when did they pivot from targeting them to targeting us?" Felicity asked.
"Maybe she didn't," Curtis shrugged. "I mean, maybe the SCPD and the bunker were her targets all along."
"That seems pretty random, considering how much trouble they went through to make sure we wouldn't be here," Dig frowned.
"What if planting the explosives wasn't their objective?" Malcolm suggested.
"It was to their objective," Laurel nodded.
"Maybe they were trying to steal something?" Alex suggested.
"Like what?" Felicity frowned.
"Weapons," J'onn guessed. "From what Kara told us, both are skilled archers. They could have taken equipment from here to make arrows. Not to mention, the mercenaries they're working with need weapons as well."
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