Sara's Decision

Chapter 18

That night the two couples met to eat at the Italian place. Things were a little awkward at first because Tommy had not seen much of Oliver and Sara since he had found out that they were vigilantes. So, they were surprised when Tommy decided to ask them "So, how is everything going with your other night job?"

"Everything is going pretty good. We have this list that we just keep checking names off of until they are all taken care of. We also try to help with regular street crime as well." Oliver said.

"Well that is good because I know that this city is more than just one percenters that are causing trouble. At least you are trying to stop all crime." Tommy said.

"We try to do what we can. Now that Laurel is ready to go out in the field that will take some of the weight off of us." Sara said.

"You really think that Laurel is ready to go out in the field?" Tommy asked.

"What is that supposed to mean Tommy?" Laurel asked a little irritated.

"Nothing, I just want them to be absolutely sure that you are ready before they let you out in the field." Tommy said.

"While I appreciate you worrying about me. I can take care of myself." Laurel said.

"I know you can, but I can't help but worry." Tommy said.

"She is going to be fine. She almost beat me the other day when we were training." Sara said.

"Really? I have seen you fight before. So, Laurel is almost as good as you then?" Tommy asked.

"Yeah, and because she is not done training she will be just as good or better than I am." Sara said.

The two couples then started to eat their meals because both Oliver, Tommy, and Sara had to be at Verdant in a few hours to work and Laurel was going to go and help Thea and Roy train. Once they were done eating, they all talked for a little while longer about what had been going on in their lives lately. Everyone then went to Verdant where Laurel went in the back entrance to the lair, while Oliver, Tommy, and Sara went through the front door so that they could get to work.

When Laurel entered the lair, she saw that Thea and Roy were already working on their archery skills. Laurel walked over to them and said "Thea, you come over and spar with me and Roy, you keep working on archery."

"Ok, just don't get upset when I kick your ass" Thea said with a smile.

"You wish Speedy, you wish." Laurel said with a laugh as they started to swing metal sticks at each other.

Thea was hanging in there pretty well while they were sparring. This made Laurel think that it would not be to long before Thea was ready to go into the field herself. Meaning that the team was finally rounding into form.

"You are doing great Thea. You can almost keep up with me and I am almost keeping up with Sara. That means that you are going to be ready for the field soon." Laurel said.

"Wow! You think so. I can't wait to be out there with you three." Thea said.

"You will be out there soon enough. Now go switch with Roy so I can see how he is progressing." Laurel said and Thea nodded as she went to tell Roy to switch up with her.

"Ok Roy, let's see what you got." Laurel said.

"Ok." Roy said and then they both started swinging the metal sticks.

Roy was learning quickly, but he was not landing any good shots on Laurel, so that meant that he still needed some more work.

"You are learning really fast, but you are not up to Oliver and Sara's standards quite yet, so just keep training the way you are, and you will be ready before you know it." Laurel said.

"Thanks Laurel. I just hope I am not disappointing y'all by not being ready yet." Roy said.

"You are not disappointing anyone. It took me a while to get to where I am too. Just keep working hard and it will pay off." Laurel said.

There is an alarm coming from the computer, so Laurel walks over and asked, "What have we got Barbara?"

"I have had the computers tracking Blood and Rochev, and there is finally some movement from Blood. It looks like he has rented a building to be his campaign office for running for mayor. It has an underground entrance and there are a lot of people using it from the satellite view that I am using." Barbara said.

At that moment Oliver and Sara walked down to suit up. They looked at Laurel and she realized that they wanted her to suit up as well, so she went to change into her suit as well. The three of them left to go and see what they could find out about Blood.

When they arrived, it looked like Blood had people bringing in other people who were unconscious and doing something to them. Sara looked at Oliver and handing him a few injector arrows just in case.

"What is this liquid in the arrows?" Oliver asked.

"The cure for the mirakuru. I had it made before I came back in time. I knew this was coming so I came prepared." Sara said.

"Ok, I am still hoping you are wrong about this but just in case it is Slade I will use these if I have to." Oliver said and Sara nodded.

The three vigilantes moved in so they could see what was going on inside the building and what they saw shocked them all. There was a man in a skull mask injecting people with a serum that was cause the people to spasm and bleed from the eyes and then it looked like they died. Oliver now knew for sure that this was the mirakuru.

"Ok, let's move in. We have to stop this." Oliver said and Laurel and Sara both nodded.

They saw this big man standing with the man in the skull mask as they entered to take the two men down. When Oliver swung at the big man his punch didn't even faze the man. So, he took an arrow out with the cure in it and stabbed the man with it. The big man started to spasm and fell to the floor. Sara and Laurel both took care of the man in the skull mask very quickly before tying him up. The two women then realized that the big man was getting back up. Oliver then slugged him three times in the head and the man was knocked unconscious. The cure had worked which was a relief for Sara because she had not been able to test it yet. They tied the big man up as well and called the police so that they would come and pick them up and take them to jail. Before they left though, they checked to make sure if any of the people injected with the mirakuru were alive, and to their disappointment none of them were.

The three vigilantes returned to the lair and checked back into their street clothes and decided that it was time to head home for the night.