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Operation Genesis Part 1

ARGUS HQ.

"Did you get Armitage in time?"  Lyla inquired as Laurel entered her office at ARGUS  moments after Laurel sent Milo Armitage to ARGUS's custody.

"Yep. He sang like a bird and then some." Laurel replied grimly thinking back to her conversation. "Apparently Darhk is about to execute something called Operation Genesis by committing a nuclear holocaust all over the world. Is that even possible?"  

"No, of course not." Lyla shook her head no reassuringly. But then something clicked in her mind as if she had a realization of something horrifying. "Unless... Son of a bitch."

"What is it?" Laurel queried, not liking the look on Lyla's face at the moment. It was nothing good, that was for sure.

"Rubicon." Lyla sighed, taking a seat on her chair. Why didn't she come to that conclusion sooner? "Remember when Shadowspire tried to steal it in January?"

"Yeah. And you had to move it to somewhere safe." Laurel nodded in recollection. "What is Rubicon any way?"

"It is a ballistic launch override protocol designed to prevent any country, even our own, from firing a nuclear missile." Lyla explained which made Laurel's eyes go wide in shock. "With some work and the right expertise, Rubicon could be corrupted. Instead of controlling nukes to prevent them from being launched..."

"He could launch the missiles himself." Laurel finished. "Please, tell me you hid somewhere safe?"

"Not exactly." Lyla grimaced, while holding her wrist up which made Laurel churn up.

"You hid the chip inside your wrist?" Laurel asked blanching.

"For security measures." Lyla justified her reasons. "Did you get any else from Armitage?"

"Yeah." Laurel took out a small piece of paper that she wrote the numbers down on the way to ARGUS and handed it to Lyla. "This."

Lyla knew right away what the numbers were. "Coordinates. I'll have one of my techs to give us a location based on those numbers."  

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Star City

"Lyla, are you sure this is right place?" Laurel asked as they walked into an old room filled with computers. After running the coordinates by the IT department, they discovered that it belonged to an abandoned military camp outside of Star City.  

"Positive. Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards of the barracks." Lyla reassured her studying the computers. Technology looked about four years old at best.  "We're in the right place." 

An old camera was suddenly activated and started to analyze the two women in this room with an accented voice incorporated into it. "Michaels. Lyla. Born 1975." The camera moved to analyze Laurel who was shocked of that camera knew the ARGUS Director. "Lance. Dinah Laurel. Born 1985."  

"What the hell? Must be some kind of a recording." Laurel murmured already tensing at the knowledge of her full name. Whatever that was, it was not good.

"I am not a recording, Fräulein." The computer spoke. "I may not be the man I was when your government took me prisoner in 1986, but I am."

"Do you know this thing?" Laurel asked Lyla who after a few moments recognizing the picture of a old bald man in glasses on the computer screen as well as his voice.  

"Yes." Lyla admitted. "His name was Armin Zola, a German scientist who had affiliations  to HIVE. He's been dead for four years."

"First correction, I am Swiss." Armin Zola corrected. "Second, look around you. I have never been more alive."  Lyla and Laurel looked around the room as they realized that he was alive thanks to the hundreds of computers inside the room. "In 2012 I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind, however, that was worth saving on two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain."

Laurel and Lyla's eyes widened in shock. How was it possible?

"How did you get here?" Laurel demanded, recovering from her shock.

"Invited." Zola replied, simply.

"Operation Moroz. It was a intelligence operation that took place during the Cold War.  CIA recruited German scientists with strategic values." Lyla explained to a confused Laurel. 

"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own." Zola revealed.

"Show me how." Laurel demanded. 

"Accessing Archive."  As pictures of Damien Darhk and other HIVE members flash across the screens, Zola began explain the reason behind HIVE's foundation. "HIVE was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom.  What we realized was that If you try to take that freedom, they resist. The wars taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the Cold War, I was recruited by the CIA. HIVE grew a beautiful parasite inside Star City. For 25 years, HIVE has been secretly feeding crisis and when history did not cooperate, history was changed." Laurel and Lyla were horrified to say the least.

"That's impossible. ARGUS would've stopped you." Lyla pointed out.

"Accidents will happen." The obituary of Amanda Waller was shown on the screen confirming Lyla's suspicions. Shadowspire was sent by HIVE to try to steal Rubicon earlier this year along. "HIVE created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to restart its history. Once the nuclear annihilation is complete, HIVE's new world order shall take place in its Ark." 

The camera turned to Laurel, Zola rubbing HIVE's upcoming victory in her face. "We won, Ms. Lance. Your father's death amounts to the same as his life: A zero sum."

Provoked, Laurel suddenly raised her fist up and slammed it into the glass screen, shattering it.