Part 17

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In Star City Oliver Queen grabs his phone as it rings. His fiancé gives him a look seeing the name. He answers. "Bailey?" His eye brows crease. "What? Hold on, you need to slow down." His face is stoic as he listens, then after a moment his eyes widen. "What? What happened?" Felicity's face fills with concern. Oliver puts his phone on speaker. "I don't know, but HYDRA has the Avengers. I need your help." Oliver looks to Felicity and she nods. If Bailey says she needs help... Then she must be desperate. "Ok, we'll help. What do you have?" Felicity opens her laptop and books two plane tickets to New York. "I have some leads, but nothing really solid. HYDYA is tricky. They're good at hiding. They have this mind controlling drug, and if we don't hurry, we might be fighting the Avengers." Oliver nods. "Ok, we're heading your way. How many hands do you have right now?" He hears Bailey whisper to someone. "I have all of SHIELD behind us, Bucky Barnes, and Spiderman." Oliver nods. "We'll be there soon." He hangs up and shares a look with Felicity.

Bailey sighs as she puts her phone away. "Who was that?" She looks at Peter. "Ever heard of the Green Arrow?" Peter's eyes widened. "You know that guy?!" Bailey nods. "He trained me, and he's a friend. He'll help us." Bucky nods. Good enough for him. "We can't stay here." Bailey thinks for a moment. The Tower was a bad idea. Then an idea pops into her head. It was risky, but they didn't have much of a choice. Without explaining, she grabs Bucky and Peter and runs into the abandoned, hidden, subway station she once found. "What is this place?" She runs to the tower, grabs Ned, and runs back. "Woah." Bailey hits a power switch and the light turns on; a computer does too. "This was going to be my base of operation, before my dad found out my identity." They nod. Peter and Bucky sit. "Now what?" Bailey sighs and sits next to Bucky. "We wait until the Green Arrow shows up."

At the New York airport, Oliver and Felicity wait. Then out of nowhere Bailey runs up to them and runs them away. She stops in the abandoned building from before. "I suggest you suit up." Oliver nods and Bailey grabs Felicity running her to the train station. "Never getting used to that." She stops seeing people staring at her. More specifically, a VERY buff man, Spiderman, and some kid at a computer. "Hi." They wave to her awkwardly. "Guys this is Felicity Smoak. She works with the Green Arrow." Bailey cringes and looks to Felicity. "That really is a mouth full." Felicity nods in agreement. Bailey looks to her phone, then runs off, returning with Oliver, all suited up. Ned's jaw drops and looks at Peter. "Dude!" Bailey shakes her head. "Arrow, Felicity, meet Bucky Barnes, Spiderman, and- Ned." Ned smiles and waves. "Let's get to work."

Everyone had taken to their own activities. Felicity was hacking into city cameras to see if there was any footage of how the HYDRA agents had taken the Avengers. Ned pitched in every now and then.

Oliver and Bucky were going through their artillery together. Bailey smiled knowing they would have gotten along.

Her task was looking into the properties of the serum used on the Avengers. Peter would help her, but he was nowhere as skilled in Biology and CSI work as Bailey was. Still, Bailey appreciated his talking. It kept her mind off things that would otherwise distract her.

"Dammit!" Bailey pushes her swivel chair away from her mini lab in frustration. Everyone looks at her. "Everything okay?" Bailey stands and pounds her fist into the locker that was next to her. She laughs bitterly. "No. Everything is not alright." Bailey points at the picture of her father. "Not only are the Avengers gone, but they are drugged with a serum I have no experience with." She runs a hand through her hair and Peter watches as she paces back and forth. Even angry, her beauty captivated him.

Bailey flops back down into her chair. "I have no idea what this drug does to a person. What symptoms or weakness it has." She grabs the slide with the only bit of the serum they had. "I would be able to experiment with it if I had more, but I'd have to take it through animal trials first and would have to figure out how they constructed it. It would take days to figure this out. But we don't have days." Peter reaches to put a hand on Bailey's back, but she jolts away. "Bailey, it'll be--" She jumps to her feet. "It's not going to be fine. We have no way of helping them. None." Bailey crossed her arms. "I'm betting that none of you have a way to contain the Avengers? Hmm? No. Because you can't. Not even Nick Fury would be able to." Bailey looks at her feet. Tears welling her eyes. "My father might be lost and there is nothing I can do about it." She sharply inhales and looks around. A single tear slid down her cheek. "I need some air." And with that everyone is hit by a gust of wind and Bailey was gone.

Bailey found herself on a rooftop looking over New York. Feeling tall made her feel better. Tony also exhibited this trait. His Towers, the fact that he could fly, and you'd often find him standing on tables while talking to Pepper. A high position made the Stark's feel untouchable. By their pasts, current issues, and most often; stress. Bailey would run across rooftops and Tony would take long flights.

Bailey numbly rubs her mini arc reactor necklace between her fingers. It was the only piece of nano technology that she and Tony had actually gotten to work. She smiles at the memory.

It had been a late night in the lab. They had just come up with the idea of nano tech and were experimenting. They chipped a piece off the new element and used it in two prototypes. The only issue was that they were both EXTREMELY sugar high and passed out on their desks. When they woke up in the morning they found that both devices were working perfectly. It was so unfortunate that neither of them could remember how they'd done it. So, they added clasps to the small devices and turned them into necklaces to match.

Then, not three days later, Tony had shipped Bailey off to Central City.

Bailey would always find herself holding the necklace when stressed. It reminded her that even far away, she'd always be able to find her father.

Wait.

That was it.

Bailey jumped up from her place on the roof and zipped into the train car. "I figured it out!" Peter stands. "A way to reverse the serum?" Bailey shakes her head and shows them her necklace. "No." She smiles widely.

"I found a way to find them."


^ THIS IS THE MINI ARC REACTORS THAT BAILEY AND TONY MADE

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^ THIS IS THE MINI ARC REACTORS THAT BAILEY AND TONY MADE. JUST THOUGHT I'D ADD IT IN

AHHH THERE IT IS. THIS JUST ROLLED OUT ON IT'S OWN. I'M SO PROUD. SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I'VE PUT SO MUCH RESEARCH INTO THIS STORY. I COULD GO ON TO EXPLAIN HOW THE MIND CONTROL DRUG WORKS IF YOU WANT; JUST COMMENT.

WRITING THEORIES ABOUT THE NANO TECH IS ALSO FUN.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED!

BYEEEE

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