Vera Pyra (The Flash) (Book One)

Chapter 9__The Brave and the Bold

When Oliver, Felicity and their friend John Diggle visited Central City to help out, they didn't just mean for help in Central City.

They meant help in Starling City.

The guy with the boomerang had killed an agent of ARGUS, and now it was just making everything a little too complicated for even Oliver's team to handle.

And the guy that we were going after now, he was attacking ARGUS building, using the specialized boomerangs to kill.

One was about to hit Diggle and a woman next to him from an overhead shot above their heads.

Levitating in the air with fire, I caught the boomerangs before they hurt them.

Diggle looked up. "Never thought I'd be so glad to see fire."

I smirked. "Hi." I nodded to the door. "Get out of here."

Diggle and the woman ran away.

The man threw a boomerang toward me. I dropped the two I was holding, catching the other one. This boomerang exploded, making me fall to the floor, but leaving no personal damage. I stood. The man slashed toward me with the boomerang. I ducked, spinning around him. The man turned to face me, slashing the boomerang toward me. I caught the blade, heating the boomerang up by contact enough to make him drop it. The man spun to kick me. I ducked, spinning, turning to face him. The man threw two boomerangs toward me with extra speed.

Barry zoomed in, catching the boomerangs, zooming out of the way.

I looked from Barry to the man.

The man threw a smoke trap to the floor, blinding us long enough for him to get away.

Barry nodded, zooming after him.

~

I walked toward Diggle and the woman. "Are you okay?"

"Who are you?" the woman asked.

"Better question," I told her. "Who attacked you?"

"And don't tell her it was an internal ARGUS matter," Diggle told her.

The woman sighed. "His name is Digger Harkness, former ASIS. His specialty is weapons and technology before he went rogue. Started selling his services to the highest bidder. We caught him three years ago."

"Well, looks like he escaped," I told them.

"Not exactly," the woman told us. "Harkness' skills made him an ideal recruit for Task Force X."

"You mean, the Suicide Squad," Diggle told her.

The woman nodded. "They had an op in Tanzania. The assassination of a local warlord. But the warlord had bigger guns. The mission went south. And the team had to be sanitized."

"You mean killed, Lyla," Diggle told her.

"Waller couldn't be reached," Lyla told us. "It was my call." Diggle looked away. "The microbomb in Harkness' neck must have malfunctioned."

Diggle looked at Lyla. "We need to consider that every ARGUS facility is compromised. There's only one place we can keep you safe."

~

Diggle, Lyla and I walked into the Arrow Lab, where Oliver, Cisco, Caitlin, Felicity and another guy already were.

The guy looked over my suit. "Let me guess. Pyra."

I pointed toward the red suit in a display case, looking at the guy. "Arsenal? Right?"