The Return of the Queens

Chapter 33

It had been a week since Batman showed up to try and take them all down. Oliver was finally about to get back to the team and tonight was going to be his first outing since he had been kidnapped by Prometheus. "So, how does it feel to be back in your suit?" Thea asked.

"I never knew how much this life was a part of me until I couldn't join y'all in the field for a little over a week. I know it wasn't that long of a time, but with me not being able to do anything, it made it really boring." Oliver said.

"I bet. I mean you have never been one to just sit around and do nothing. I bet the kids took good care of you while Laurel was at work." Sara said.

"They did. It was actually nice to have them here. You know they are supposed to be born within the next year, right?" Oliver asked looking at Laurel.

"Yeah, I seem to remember that. I guess we had better get to work on that so that they don't just disappear or something." Laurel said.

"Anyways, enough about that. So, what is the plan for tonight?" Barbara asked.

"Well, curtesy of the kids being here, we know who we will be facing next and we know how to stop him. It won't be easy, because even if we do find a way to negate his powers, he was still trained by the League of Assassins, so he will be hard to beat either way." Oliver said.

"How is it that we can beat him if he has magic?" Roy asked.

"That part will be up to Thea and me. We have a tattoo that will work against him. We can see if we can get one for all of you as well, but if we can't, you will have to leave the fighting of Darhk up to Thea and me. Y'all will just have to fight his gang off, so that we are able to do what we need to do." Oliver said.

"Ok, that sounds like a plan but how do you use the tattoos?" Sara asked.

"We are going to call in a friend who gave them to us. He will be able to train us how to use them. It is just hard to get in touch with him sometimes though." Thea said.

"For right now we are just going to go out and patrol and see if we can catch any of these men that work for Darhk and see what kind of information we can get from them." Oliver said as they all left the bunker to go and patrol.

Laurel stayed with Oliver for the night because the last time they went their separate ways when patrolling Oliver was kidnapped. It worked out ok for them because they ended up finding one of Darhk's men, but before they could ask any questions, the man cracked on of his teeth and a poison killed him.

"Well, I guess that means that we will have to find a way to stop them from doing that." Laurel said.

"Yeah, that was unexpected. Let's see if anyone else has had any luck." Oliver said.

Oliver got on comms and asked, "Has anyone encountered any of Darhk's men yet? If so watch out for the poison they have in a tooth. The one we caught just killed himself." Oliver said.

"Yeah, I had the same problem." Thea said.

"Same here." Sara said.

"Well, obviously they have been told not to talk to anyone or to even get captured by anyone. But why would they do this willingly?" Thea asked.

"Maybe it is like a cult and they are brain washed or something." Sara said.

"That is not that far of a stretch. There are plants out there that have a substance in them that make people vulnerable to suggestion, which means they will do as you say without even know that it happened." Thea said.

"That's really a think. I thought that was all fake." Barbara said.

"Oh, it is real. I have never seen it in action, but I have heard about it before." Oliver said.

"So, you think that all of Darhk's minions are on this stuff?" Roy asked.

"Maybe not the same kind, but surely something like it." Thea said.

"I am going to get some blood from this guy and see if we can find out what they are on. Then we will know if we can counteract it in anyways. We might be able to get some answers then." Oliver said as he reached in his pocket and pulled out a rag and got as much of the guys blood on it as he could.

Everyone then returned to the bunker and waited for the bloodwork to be finished. It wasn't the same stuff that Oliver and Thea were talking about, but it was something similar that was keeping these men compliant.

"Good thing is, there is an antidote for this stuff. We just have to find one of Darhk's men and use it on them." Thea said.

"That shouldn't be too hard. We just need to find a way to stop them from breaking that tooth." Laurel said and everyone nodded.

"Now that we know what we need to do tomorrow night. Let's all head home. We will go out tomorrow night and get the answers we need." Oliver said and everyone nodded and headed home.

Once they were home, Oliver and Laurel went straight to the bedroom and changed their clothes so that they were comfortable. They then just laid there in bed and talked for a while.

"So, how did it feel to be back out there tonight?" Laurel asked.

"It felt good. I never thought I would mess being out there with y'all that much, but I really did." Oliver said.

"Well, I think we did ok without you." Laurel said.

"Yeah, I wish I could have seen you tearing up those thugs when you were trying to find me. I bet it was hot." Oliver said.

"So, you think me beating the shit out of some thugs would be hot?" Laurel asked.

"Babe, anything you do it hot." Oliver said.

"Right answer." Laurel said as she leaned over and kissed him and then things started to go further, and they ended up making love.