The Return of the Queens

Chapter 20

The next night they were at a hanger that Queen Consolidated owned so that they would have to space to work on Laurel's new powers. They set up some targets for her to hit on the other side of the space. At first it was taking her a while to learn how to aim it.

"I just can't control where it is going to go. I don't know what to do differently." Laurel said.

"That's probably the problem. You are trying to hard to be perfect when you don't even know how to use this power yet." Oliver said.

"So, what do you suggest?" Laurel asked.

"I want you to clear your mind of everything. Once you have done that, I want you to open your eyes and just scream. If you don't think too much you might do better." Oliver said.

"Ok, it is worth a try." Laurel said.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and released it while she was clearing her mind. She opened her eyes and screamed at the top of her lungs and she hit the middle target. She did the same thing two more time, hitting the other two targets.

"Well, it looks like you have the hang of that. Let's try something different." Oliver said as they walked over to a what looked like a window.

"We need to see if you can control your frequency so that you can break windows without doing a full out scream." Oliver said.

"I don't know how to do that." Laurel said.

"Well, I have twenty windows here, so we have plenty to break." Oliver said with a smile.

"Ok, Let's see how this goes. I am just going to try to sing first. Who knows that might help?" Laurel said.

"I have always loved your voice. Give it a try." Oliver said.

She took a deep breath and started to sign but nothing was happening. She was about to give up when she hit a high note in the song and the window started to vibrate and all of a sudden it shattered.

"Ok, so we know a high frequency will break glass." Laurel said.

Sara and Thea were on the other side of the hanger trying to get control of Sara's powers to see what she could do as well. Thea wanted to test and see if Sara could see events during a fight. That would really come in handy.

"Ok, I want you to turn your back to me and see if you can tell what I am doing." Thea said.

Thea did a certain action and Sara said, "You just gave me the finger."

Ok, lucky guess. What about now?" Thea asked.

"You just mooned me." Sara said.

"Ok, now I am going to try something different." Thea said.

Thea walked up behind Sara and swung her fist at her. Sara blocked the punch and spun around just in time to catch the other one that Thea had thrown at her.

"Wow, this is a great power. If I concentrate on the here and now, it increases my instincts. This is really cool." Sara said.

"What am I thinking now?" Thea asked.

"I can't read your mind Thea. But I can see the future and if what I am seeing in the future is what you are thinking about, I think your mind is in the gutter right now." Sara said.

"Eww, that is so gross. I don't need to hear them talking about there sex life." Laurel said from across the room.

"What are you talking about. I didn't hear anything." Oliver said.

"They were just over there talking about Sara having a vision of them having sex and they were talking about it a little too loud for my liking." Laurel said.

"Laurel, they are way over there, and I can't even hear anything that they are saying." Oliver said.

"Really, because I can hear them perfectly and I am going over there to give my sister a piece of my mind." Laurel said.

"What did she say Laurel?" Oliver asked.

"She said if she wasn't so into Thea, she might would try to get with you because she would like to have a piece of both of the Queen siblings." Laurel said and Oliver had to hold her back.

"Why, don't you come over here and try it Sara. I will beat your ass." Laurel said.

"What are you talking about?" Sara said.

"I heard you saying that you wouldn't mind get a piece of Ollie." Laurel said.

"How did you hear that? And I was just joking. I would never do that to you Laurel." Sara said.

"I heard you because you said it really loudly." Laurel said.

"Laurel, I was talking in a normal tone way over there. There is no way that you should have been able to hear me say that." Sara said.

"Wow looks like you have some kind of echo hearing or something like that too. That could come in really handy." Thea said.

"Sara, you went to visit your mom on the day of the particle accelerator explosion, didn't you?" Oliver asked.

"Yeah, I did. Why do you ask?" Sara asked.

"I wonder if that has anything to do with your powers." Thea asked.

"I guess it could." Sara said.

"Ok, but that doesn't explain how I got my powers though. I was here at that time." Laurel said.

"I hear that the people at STAR Labs are running test on people to see if they were affected somehow by the explosion. Maybe we should go there and see if they can help us answer these questions." Oliver said.

"Sounds like a plan. When do you want to go?" Laurel asked.

"Let's go this weekend. We could use the break before we have to face off with Slade again." Thea said.

They all agreed that they would leave Friday afternoon to go to Central City unless Slade decided to try something before, they left. Oliver's phone started to ring. He looked down at the time and it said that it was nine pm. Oliver answered, and it was Barbara saying that the cure was done.

Oliver turned to Sara and said, "Well we know for a fact that your powers work. That was Barbara and she said that the cure was done, and she call at nine pm, just like you said the cure would be ready by then two nights ago." Oliver said.