Big Problem, Little Time

Chapter XIII: The Meeting

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The young, reckless, Oliver Queen got off of his jet and walked towards his limo. He had just landed in Metropolis for a meeting with Lex Luthor. He knew that this is the city Clark saved so he didn't bother to bring his suit or bow or anything of that matter even thought Luthor had tried many times to thwart Superman with the green rock, Kryptonite, but ultimately failed. Oliver got in the limo and was greeted by none other than Lex himself. Lex wore an all black tuxedo with a black undershirt and Oliver wore a black suit with a green undershirt, green tie and green handkerchief. Green was Oliver's color, but it was Lex's too, as Oliver had heard. Is was hard to keep your eyes away from his bald head. "Not that it makes me uncomfortable, but can you make eye-to-eye contact instead of eye-to-head?" Oliver's face turned bright red, he was only 27 years old and Lex seemed to be much older. "Thank You." Lex said calmly. They began to talk about the deal they were about to make on the way to the Lex-Corp building in the center of Metropolis. "So, this, thing, you have," Oliver Started. "Go on." Luthor said grinning. "You say it is, millions of dollars?" Oliver said again. "Yes, indeed it is, and I can show you it." Lex said still grinning. We pulled up to Lex-Corp and I stared to the top wondering if one of me arrows would reach that far, in grappling terms, and I followed him in. I began to step on the elevator and Lex stopped me. "We have a, different, elevator. This one goes up, we need to go down." He lead Oliver into a storage closet labeled Stay Out. Fine of $1,000,000 to Those Who Enter Unsupervised. "Watch this." Lex said walking towards a wall. He put his hand on and brick and pushed, a little button flipped out of the brick beside it. He pushed the button and a panel flipped open. "Name." The voice in the panel said. "Alexander Joseph Luthor and Oliver Jonas Queen." Lex said. "DNA Sample, Fingerprint and Retina needed." The voice said again. "Lex let out a sigh and spit on the screen in a little area titled DNA Sample and then scanned his eye and pressed his thumb against the panel. "Your turn Mr. Queen." He said nodding towards Oliver, he went through the same process as Lex. "Access Granted." The voice said after a few moments. Lex led the way into an elevator and pressed a button labeled B14 and Oliver began to wonder where all the other buttons led to. Lex let Oliver off first at their destination and someone pointed a gun to Oliver's head. "Get down rich boy." Said the man holding the gun.