A New Life on a New Earth

Chapter 32

The team was in the bunker the next night deciding how they were going to use Otis Graves to help in bringing down Lex. If they could flip Graves in some way, they would have everything they needed to make sure that Lex stayed in prison for longer than he was already going to be in there.

"How do you plan to flip Otis? I can't see him flipping that easily." Alex said.

"It won't be easy, but some of the things that my team and I used in the past were to tell people that they will go to jail in place of their boss if they didn't give up details that would put their boss in jail." Oliver said.

"That does actually work. We use it on criminals all the time with the government." J'onn said.

"Yeah, we do use that quite a bit. Is there anything else that you have in mind?" Alex asked.

"We could always use the red death on him. That stuff always seems to work on people." Thea said.

"That would definitely make someone talk. I don't know if we should use that all the time though. I just don't like causing people pain all the time like I used to anymore." Oliver said.

"I think being on this earth is really changing us, Ollie. Last year, neither of us would have cared about using the red death." Sara said.

"See. I told you Kara. Everyone changes for the better the longer they are around you." Oliver said.

"I still don't know if I can attribute that all to me. I think the person has to be willing to change in the first place in order for them to actually change." Kara said.

"Fair enough. So, we need to end this as soon as possible." Oliver said.

"So, you think we should go after Graves tonight?" Kara asked.

"Yeah, if we can get Graves tonight, we can end this within the next week or so." Oliver said.

"Sounds like a plan. We shouldn't need all of us to take care of this should we?" Kara asked.

"No, but we should keep the others on call just in case we end up needing them for some reason." Oliver said.

"So, who all is going?" Thea asked.

"I think Sara, Kara, Alex, and I will be enough for now. We will let you know if we need the rest of you." Oliver said.

"Sounds good. We will be waiting here if you need us for any reason." Laurel said as Oliver, Kara, Sara, and Alex went to change into their suits.

. . .

The team found the apartment that Otis Graves was leaving and it surprised them how little security he had. They looked at each other and then shook their heads.

"So, this guy is obviously an idiot. If you work for someone like Lex Luthor, you should have more than just two guards." Alex said.

"From what I hear, this guy is not too bright. He probably thinks that since he works for Lex, he is untouchable." Kara said.

"Well, let's go and show him that he is not untouchable. Let's get this guy put into jail right beside his boss." Sara said.

"Ok, so how do you want to do this? We can just use blackmail or we can use torture or the red death." Oliver said.

"Let's try the blackmail first and then we can go from there." Kara said.

"Sounds good to me." Sara said as she entered the house and took out the guards while Oliver and Alex went to grab Graves and hold him still while Kara came in to question him.

"Otis Graves, we know that you work with Lex Luthor and we also know that you are the person who was in contact with Ben Lockwood about starting the Children of Liberty. You are going to tell us what we need to know or you will go to jail for all of the same crimes as Ben Lockwood since we know that you worked with him to start the Children of Liberty." Kara said.

"I don't know what you are talking about. I don't know Ben Lockwood and I have never worked with him before." Graves said.

"Don't lie Otis. We have video of the meeting between the two of you. Now come clean and help us pin this on Lex and we will let you go." Kara said.

"Ok, I will tell you what you need to know. I don't want to go to jail." Graves said.

"Dude, are you really wetting your pants right now?" Sara asked.

"Oh crap! He really is wetting his pants." Alex said.

"Just think about what he would do if I was the one who was questioning him, White Canary." Oliver said.

"Oh man, that would be funny as hell. I wish we would have done that now. He might have actually crapped in his pants." Sara said while laughing.

"Did this happen much where you guys were from?" Alex asked.

"More than you would think. It was easy when your game was intimidation, like mine is." Oliver said.

"I did it when I first got back home and was working with Green Arrow. I have mellowed out a lot since then." Sara said.

"I can be intimidating." Kara said.

"In the right situation you can, but for the most part, people know you as being really bubbly and that just is not intimidating." Sara said.

"I just made him piss his pains." Kara said.

"I think that was more of the threat of going to jail than anything else." Oliver said with a smile.

"Anyways, enough of this. So Graves, what can you tell us about Lex's involvement in this?" Kara asked.

"He is the head of the whole thing. He hates you aliens so much that he will do anything to get rid of you. Oh, he also has his own escape from the prison. It is through the back wall of his cell." Graves said.

"That is interesting information to have. I think we have all that we need for now. Let's go and see if we can use this to keep Lex in jail for the rest of his life. Oh, and by the way Graves, there is nothing I can do to keep you out of jail, but if you do work with the DA, they should be able to make you a deal for a reduced sentence." Kara said as she grabbed Graves flew him to the nearest police station.