Frosty Arrow

Chapter 9

"John, what's wrong?" Lyla asked when she saw the look on her husband's face when he entered their apartment.

"We have Andy back at the bunker and this time, Oliver's not taking any chances. He's had Laurel use her new powers to turn Andy's cell into a meat locker basically." John said.

"Something tells me that's not what's getting to you?" Lyla asked.

"It isn't. Andy deserves worse then what he's getting now." John said.

"Then what is it?" Lyla asked.

"Darhk had Andy plant a tracker on me for a reason. He wanted me to lead him to you. What do you have that he wants?" John asked.

"Johnny." Lyla said.

"Lyla, Darhk said something about Genesis and something tells me that he's not talking about the band. What does he want?" John asked.

"Rubicon." Lyla finally relented.

"I thought Rubicon was secure at Argus?" John asked.

"John, you should call your team, get them here so I can explain it all to theme." Lyla said and John nodded.

"Okay, so John said you were going to explain what Rubicon is?" Oliver asked after he, Laurel and Felicity all arrived at the Diggle apartment.

"Rubicon was created by Amanda Waller was a fail safe to stop any country, even ours from launching a nuclear missile." Lyla said and Oliver was horrified.

"How could Waller not see how dangerous that is." Oliver said.

"What do you mean? A way to stop nukes, sounds good." Laurel said.

"Except that it can go both ways. With the right tech support, instead of stopping nukes from firing, a person could launch every nuclear weapon on the planet. Seriously, I knew Waller was a sociopath, but I thought that even she would've seen the danger of something like that." Oliver said, much to everyone else's horror.

"After Shadowspire tried to still it, I had it moved to a subdermal implant in my wrist." Lyla said.

"You should've destroyed it Lyla. That is too much power for anyone to have and you risk destroying the same world that you are charged with protecting by keeping it around." Oliver said.

"Anyways, at least now Darhk's plan Genesis is starting to add up." John said, though he honestly agreed with Oliver about Rubicon.

"Yeah, in the old testament, God wanted to give the world a do over so he destroyed it with a flood." Felicity agreed.

"Okay, so Rubicon is Darhk's flood, but that still leaves another important question." Laurel said and Oliver nodded.

"What exactly was he building as his ark?" Oliver asked.

"Andy will know and I'm betting that whatever this ark is, that's where we'll find Thea." John said.

"Agreed. Malcolm probably had her abducted thinking that if he saved her from nuclear annihilation, she'd somehow love him again." Oliver said.

"Considering he's the reason the love of her life is locked up in a maximum security prison, I doubt that." Laurel said.

"Malcolm's insane and this is probably just another way for him to get revenge on me." Oliver said.

"For the League." Felicity said.

"Not just the League. One thing my friends fathers seem to have in common is the inability to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Malcolm blamed Brick for Tommy's death, but I'm positive that the only reason he set me up to fight Ra's was because he blamed me for it to." Oliver said.

"The only person to blame for that was Malcolm." Laurel said.

"And that is just one of many of his sins that I plan on getting justice for the next time I find him. But Laurel, see if you can get in touch with Nyssa. With Thea MIA we could use the extra manpower and no one knows Malcolm's style better than her." Oliver said and Laurel nodded.