Teamwork

Chapter 25 - Results

Thea was dragged out of the room, hands tied behind her back, kicking and screaming. She had just watched as Oliver was tortured with a whip, and then her boyfriend was brought in and a needle stabbed into his heart. They were bringing Roy out of the room as well, but she was worried that he was seriously injured from that needle. The men brought them to what appeared to be a garage with a black van parked inside. Roy was removed from the stretcher and thrown into the back of the van and then Thea was thrown in after him. The door was slammed shut behind them and it was just a moment later that the van started to move. She would have watched to see where they were going, or coming from, if the windows had not been blacked out. After a brief moment she moved as close as she could to Roy in hopes that he would wake up, soon.

It was only a few minutes later when the van slid to a stop, causing Thea to lose her balance as she fell over onto her side with a cry. She was pulled roughly out of the van and pushed a few feet away to some stairs outside of what looked like a bank. She thought the building looked familiar but was unable to get a good look before Roy was thrown in her direction and landed hard on the steps beside her. One of the men came over to her and quickly untied her hands before quickly climbing back in the van. As the van sped away she turned to Roy and tried to wake him up. After a couple of minutes of talking to him, shaking him, even slapping his face he finally started to stir.

"Thea?" Roy asked groggily. He felt like he had been run over by a truck.

"Roy!" Thea cried with relief. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Roy responded as he slowly sat up. "Where are we?" He asked as he slowly started to look around.

"I don't know." Thea responded as she tried to dry her tears.

"Hey, I know this building." Roy stated as he slowly stood, recognizing where they were.

"Where are we?" Thea asked as she stood next to Roy, holding on to his arm as she was unwilling to let him go anytime soon.

"We're at the bank." Roy responded.

"What bank?" Thea asked, thoroughly confused now.

"The one where we stopped the arms dealers." Roy said as he looked around some more, trying to get his bearings so he could take them back to the lair that he now knew was close. "Come on. Let's go back to the lair."

"Won't they just come find us?" Thea asked, curious as to why they didn't just wait for Oliver's Team to find them.

"They won't be able to." Roy said as they started to walk. "Slade destroyed all my trackers."

Felicity sat staring at her Teammates. She knew that Slade had the cure. She had just seen him inject Roy with it. She knew that the entire game had just changed.

"What do you mean he has a cure?" Lance asked as he watched the Team's reaction to Slade's words.

"Dad, you know about the Mirakuru." Sara answered as she turned from her Team to look at her Dad who gave a nod of his head as he remembered his run in with Cyrus Gold. "Slade has a cure for it."

"If he has more of it..." Diggle stated as he realized what this meant.

"...Then we can stop Slade with his own cure." Sara finished.

"We have to find him first though." Felicity said as she turned back to her computers and began typing furiously again. "If only I could find him!" She muttered under her breath.

"How are you going to find him?" Laurel asked curiously. "You've been trying to track him for hours."

"I know." Felicity responded without looking up from her computer screen. "I just had a thought though. I just have to see if it works."