The Return of the Queens

Chapter 30

A few day later, after Laurel had made her announcement that she was running for mayor, officially surprising everyone on the team. Laurel was now in her campaign office looking to hire a good campaign manager. She had a few people come in but only one of them really impressed her.

"I am impressed with what you have shown me so far. Can you start on tomorrow?" Laurel asked.

"Yes, I can do that. It is a pleasure to be working with you Mrs. Queen." The man said.

"You too Mr. Chase. I will see you first thing in the morning." Laurel said and Chase nodded.

Oliver then walked into the office and asked, "So, how did it go with finding a campaign manager?"

"I found a guy that seems to know what he is doing. He seems a little weird though, but I can work through that if he does his job the way he is supposed to." Laurel said.

"Would you like me to get Felicity to run a background check on him?" Oliver asked.

"Sure, it wouldn't hurt." Laurel said.

"I will call her right now. What is the guy's name?" Oliver asked.

"Adrian Chase." Laurel said and Oliver then went to make his call to Felicity.

"She is looking into him. She said it could be a while though." Oliver said.

"That's fine. It's not really a hurry." Laurel said.

"Alright, so let's go to lunch. Then we will come back and get to work on setting things up downstairs." Oliver said since they were going to use the basement of this place as their new lair because it had a whole lot more room.

When they returned from lunch they went into the basement and got the basic set up. They would have to call their friends at STAR Labs to help with the computers and all of the tech stuff. When they were done, they were pleased with the way the place looked for the most part.

"It's getting late in the day. We should head back over to the old lair since that is what we are using until the computers are setup in this place." Oliver said and Laurel nodded as they left and want to the old lair below the club.

"So, do you have anything that we need to look into tonight Felicity?" Oliver asked.

"Not as of right now. If you want to train for a while, I will let you know if anything comes up." Felicity said as Oliver and Laurel went to change into their workout clothes and started to spar. They sparred for a while and then Oliver went to do the salmon ladder while Laurel sparred with Sara and Thea. Roy and Barbara then came in and began lifting weights. Once they had all worked out and sparred to make sure that they were getting the training that they needed, they all decided that they would go out on patrol for a little while to make sure that nothing bad was happening on the streets.

Everything seemed to be quiet for the most part. Roy did have to stop a mugging and Barbara had to stop a store robbery, but other than that everything seemed to be quiet, which made them a little afraid because that usually means that something bad is going to happen soon.

Oliver was patrolling an area of the Glades that was normally where you could people mugging someone or people selling drugs, but it was quiet. That didn't set well with Oliver. Of course, he was glad that no one was in trouble or anything but, the fact that this area was so quiet, it was like something was waiting for him. He knew he was just being paranoid, but he couldn't help but to feel that way. He had learned while he was on Lian Yu not to take anything for granted and always expect the unexpected.

Unfortunately, this time he was right as he felt something prick him in the neck and he pulled the dart out and fell to the ground and saw a man in a black suit similar to his walking up to him before everything went dark.

A little while later Oliver woke up and he found himself tied to a chair. He thought about dislocating his thumbs to get out of his bindings, but he realized that he was tied in a way that that would not help. He tried to think of a way out of this, but nothing was coming to his mind right away, so he would have to bide his time.

The man who Oliver assumed was Prometheus, walked into the room and said, "Mr. Queen, it is good to finally meet you. I have been waiting a while for this."

"Wish I could say the same, but all I know is that you have been killing innocent people for no reason whatsoever." Oliver said.

"Oh, there was a reason for it. It was to get your attention so that you would know that I was coming for you." Prometheus said.

"And what is it that I am supposed to have done to you?" Oliver asked.

"You took my father from me. You didn't kill him at least but he was be rotting in prison for the rest of his life." Prometheus said.

"If he is in prison then I am sure that I did the right thing by sending him there, if he is as crazy as you are." Oliver said and Prometheus punched him in the face.

"Don't get smart Mr. Queen. It will not end well for you if you do that." Prometheus said.

"So, what is it that you want from me?" Oliver asked.

"I want to make you suffer the way you made me suffer." Prometheus said.

"Ok, I have heard this before. It hasn't worked yet though." Oliver said and that got him another punch to the face.

"Well, I am going to go and see if I can have fun with any of your other friends. I will be back later Mr. Queen." Prometheus said as he left the run.

A little while later the team all returned to the lair and they realized that Oliver didn't return. "Where is Ollie?" Laurel asked.

"I don't know. I lost contact with him a while ago and I thought he probably just turned his comms off. I am starting to think that is not the case anymore." Felicity said.

"I am going out to look for him. Send me the last location that you saw from his tracker. If he isn't there, we all need to split up and find him." Laurel said and they all nodded.

"Ok, with Ollie out for now, that pretty much puts me in charge. If Laurel doesn't find him then we meet here and we decide what to do from there." Thea said and everyone nodded.

Laurel went to the last place Oliver's tracker showed that he was, and she could not find him anywhere. She radioed back in saying, "He is not here. Something isn't right. I think he has been taken."

"Ok, come back in and we will see what we can find once we come up with a plan." Thea said.

"Sorry Thea, but that will waste too much time and I am not going to waste my time coming back in when I might be able to find something out here." Laurel said as she went to find out if there were any witnesses around who might have seen anything.