Athena and the League of Assassins (An Arrow: Season 3 Fanfiction)

Chapter 15: Calling In Backup

Felicity walked down the steps to the main floor room of STAR Labs, holding the phone to her ear. 

'Okay,' she said over the phone. 'I'll call you back later.' She hung up the call and came to stand in front of the large desk, where Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon and Dr. Harrison Wells were sitting. 'That was the Arrow - and Athena. They say Barry has been acting strangely.' 

'Strangely, how?' Dr. Wells asked. 

'He's been whammied,' Joe West replied, walking into the room. 'He was acting angry. It was scary. And his eyes - they glowed.' 

'It's possible that his body is fighting off the effect,' Caitlin spoke, 'so it's hitting him slower.' 

'When it comes to rage, that is not a good thing,' Dr. Wells also spoke up. 'The longer you suppress your emotions...' 

'The bigger the explosion,' Felicity finished for him. 

'Considering what he can do, how do we even stop him?' Joe asked. 

'A cold gun would come in real handy right about now,' Cisco quipped. 

'Hey,' Joe snapped back. 

'Just sayin'.' 

'None of us can stop Barry,' Dr. Wells spoke. He turned to Felicity, giving her a knowing look. 'Fortunately, Felicity knows two people who can. I think you better call back Oliver and Evelyn Queen. We're gonna need the Arrow and Athena's help.' 

Diggle was in STAR Labs, with Cisco near him, talking excitedly. 

'Ooh, see, I knew the Arrow and Athena were Oliver and Evelyn Queen. I mean, I had it narrowed down to like, a list of 150 people, but he was definitely on that list.' Diggle ignored him, opting to send him a pointed look. 

'Do you have a way to stop Barry's rage-fest?' Diggle asked, walking up to Joe and Dr. Wells. 

'I have an idea about how to do that. Joe, we're gonna need your help,' Dr. Wells replied. Joe walked forward to where Felicity was on a computer. 

'We need to find him first before he hurts somebody.' 

'I have him,' Felicity said. 'Facial recognition picked him up on a traffic camera downtown. Oh, God.' 

Downtown... 

The enraged Barry stalked up to Eddie, who laid on the ground, groaning in pain from being thrown from the car. He began to crawl towards his gun as the Flash walked towards him with glowing red eyes and the look of a predator in them. 

'Who the hell are you, huh?' he yelled through the voice modulator. 'You think you can just come along and get to have whatever you want? What gives you the right?' 

'What the hell are you talking about?' Eddie groaned, still crawling. 

'What are you doing?' Iris shouted just behind him. 'What has happened to you?' 

'I feel fine!' he shouted back.

'You are not fine.'

'How would you know? Because you write about me? You don't know me! You don't know who I am! You never did.' 

'I know that you have risked your life to help people,' Iris replied. 'To save them!' Barry turned for one split second, without fully turning, just looking over his shoulder, the red not in his eyes as something in him seemed to want to listen to the woman. 'Someone who does that does not suddenly turn around and want to hurt people.' There was a moment of quiet. 'Please.' His eyes turned red again, and just as he went to hurt Eddie again, a cord flew around his body, binding his hands to his waist.