Chapter 13 - The Triskelion Part 1

"That's another dead end for the man in the skull mask. I'm starting to think he's a ghost." Diggle announced as Oliver entered the layer from the back door, dressed in his vigilante uniform.

"He's not. He's just good at hiding." Oliver said, irritably before placing his bow back in its place. "What about the blonde situation? Did you find anything on the blonde women I encountered the other day?"

"No. But I think Felicity did." Diggle said as he tried his best to use Felicity's computers, making sure not to set off any alarms. There is no saying what the little blonde IT girl had in store for the thieves who tries to use her computers while she's gone.

"Felicity? She's here?" Oliver asked in alarm.

"No... I mean I found something in her files." Diggle explained as he managed to load up the articles on two of the side screens. "Do you remember the time few months ago? When you just came back from your grief trip from Lian Yu? The copy cats situation?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm sure you must remember Felicity mentioning about three blonde vigilantes going around glades, saving people." Diggle reminded.

"I might remember them." Oliver said slowly, not knowing where this is going.

"Well...Our mystery blonde is one of them." Diggle informed. "According to the newspaper articles, there are three possible different blonde vigilantes at that time. The first one uses a bow which I figured is Sara." Diggle said as he looked at Oliver. "The second one is fond of knives."

"The women I encountered when Laurel was kidnapped by the doll-maker." Oliver recited, as he remembered the event of Doll-maker's death. Diggle nodded.

"Correct."

"But it can't be her. The women who followed me, she was equipped with two battle staves and a gun. She used them to fight off Cyrus Gold." Oliver protested. "Besides, she was a lot taller. She didn't look anything like the lady with knives."

"Which bring us to the third blonde vigilante." Diggle said as he loaded up a bad quality snapshot of the said women in action in the glades. "The people of glades had described her as a tall, slim, blonde vigilante, dressed in a blue-black catsuit, equipped with two battle staves and a gun. She was seen in many areas of glades during your absence. And not just her, all three of them. But I'm guessing the other two doesn't matter since she's our mystery blonde." Oliver looked at the articles and images before shaking his head.

"Okay, this driving me crazy." Oliver confessed angrily. "They all look the same."

"I know." Diggle agreed, as he himself was irked by the three blondes. For god's sake, he can't even tell which one is sara. "But hopefully with felicity's facial software we can get an insight on our mystery women's background."

"Is their anything else on her?" Oliver asked.

"Nope. Unless you include hundreds of thank you and 'being the hero' articles, there is nothing else on her. It's like she's a ghost. No place of origins."

"What about Felicity's facial recognition software?"

"It's still scanning." Oliver raised his eyebrows at Diggle's sentence. As far as he knows felicity's software can generate results in minutes even with a small amount of flesh showing in a image. "But I doubt it would be any help, we don't have a clear image of her."

"But that software should be able to get results by now. The image is not that bad." Oliver pointed out.

"I know but it's still scanning. I don't really know how to use her computers, man." Diggle explained while Oliver nodded. There was still something out of place about this. About the software. Why hasn't it picked up any results yet?

"Was she active recently?"

"Yes, more than a week ago, when she saved a women from a gang rape. Just few hours before the QC's centrifuge was stolen."

"Find the women she saved. We might get something out of her." Oliver ordered before walking back to his arrows.

"Where are you going?" Diggle asked suddenly as he saw Oliver packing his arrows in his quiver.

"To set up a meeting with Amanda."

"Don't worry about it. I asked Layla. She'll get back to me soon enough." Diggle informed before going back to the computer screens which are getting harder and harder to operate every minute. "For now we just need to worry about Felicity."

"What about her?" Oliver asked in confusion as he saw the ex-solider fidget.

"It's been over a week, Oliver. I haven't got any calls or text messages from her over the course of two days." Diggle said worriedly. "I tried calling her but it went busy. I'm just worried."

"Did you check her recent status? Her train logs, her phone calls, cell phone tracing?" Oliver asked quickly before looking at the skeptical look on Diggle's face.

"Do you really think I know how to do all that stuff?!" Diggle said sarcastically. He's no expert in hacking.

"Right, sorry. I'll put someone else on it." Oliver nodded before pulling his phone out. "But first, I'll see if she picks her phone up again."

"She won't"

"Be positive." Diggle smirked at Oliver's answer. Looks like felicity smoak is rubbing on the Queen boy. That's my girl.

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"AGH! Could this day get any WORSE?!" Felicity screamed in protest, just as she took another men down while the Chinese triads leader 'China white' starred at her in amusement. Bobbie, her partner, who was fighting along with her snorted.

"It was your idea." Bobbie smirked as she turned and twisted the guy's neck before letting him go.

"Ouuu… I love that move, teach me." Felicity squealed to one of the guy who did a full 360 degrees round house double kick at her. The guy looked at her weirdly before attacking. "Guess not." And with that she kicked him down, before she went back to answering Bobbie. "Only because I didn't have any other choice! I had to do something!" Felicity scoffed as she used her knives to kill one of the last men of the group before slicing out the other's arm straight clean. After visiting Barry in central city for a week, Felicity had a brilliant idea to hunt down China white after her escape from prison. She knew if the white assassin comes back to starling City, she will cause many problems for the arrow team, resulting in lot of stealing and a lot of killings. So it's better to take care of that threat before it had the chance to get any bigger.

"You know, I wonder what Fury must think about us not showing up on time?" Felicity wondered.

"Probably kick us out or worse, dee-grade us to a lower level." Bobbie said in a horrified voice before beating the life out of a big burly Chinese triad who was all muscles and no brains.

"Yeah, maybe." Part of Felicity's reason to put China White on her priority list was to avoid the impending meeting with Fury at Triskelion, but Unfortunately the stubborn pirate wants them back home immediately, so their two-day chase of China white was cut short to this moment. "Let's get this over with." Felicity muttered as she killed the last men and then faced the White women herself. They were in the streets of Hong Kong, miles away from Starling City. "Nice dress by the way." Felicity added, looking at China's white short dress while Felicity and Bobbie, themselves, were dressed in their black civilian cloths. High black boots and black leather jackets, each equipped with a gun holster and few other pockets for other deadly weapons such as knives for felicity and tasers for Bobbie.

"I don't know who you are but I'm going to have fun with you two." The leader of Chinese triads snickered forcing Felicity to be impressed. Even though felicity and Bobbie had taken out all of China white's men, in a matter of few seconds, the women still hadn't lost her confidence. Which means she knows how to handle herself. Unlike Amanda who started running away as soon as she saw her agents fell.

"I'm out." Bobbie suddenly announced.

"Wa-what?!" Felicity turned to her friend in shock.

"Two against one, it's not fair."

"So you automatically got yourself out? What if I wanted to sit out?" Felicity fired, aching for some rest.

"Dude, knives and knives. You're both knives." Bobbie pointed out. "You should fight her first!"

"But I wanna go second!" Felicity exclaimed.

"No, I am!"

"No, I am" Felicity replied back stubbornly.

"Listen here, shortie, I'm not going in a blade fight unless I have my newly upgraded metal battle staves with me."

"And I'm not going because I want to rest!" Felicity replied firmly, forgetting that there is white women waiting for them to fight. "My blades are demanding to be rested!"

"And my staves are crying."

"No one cares about your stupid wood sticks!"

"Don't call them that! They are my babies. Your stupid blades needs all the insults it can get."

"Jealous, that I have a better weapon." Felicity smirked.

"Jealous my foot." Bobbie exclaimed. "I'm going to rest whether you like it or not."

"No. I am. My back is aching. All because of your stupid idea to sneak in the luggage compartment. Do you even know how neck braking that is?!"

"I perfectly know how that feels like. I'm taller than you if you hadn't noticed Smoaky." Bobbie scoffed.

"Of course I have. You and your stu-" Chein Na Wei didn't know what's worse. One moment these two blonde agents were ready to fight her and the other, they're fighting over each other like a pair of stubborn siblings. She watched as in seconds the conversation reached to their love life. Chien didn't know if she should just enjoy the show with a popcorn in her hand or run away.

"Don't bring hunter into this!"

"Well, don't bring Oliver into this!" The name struck Chein. Oliver? Oliver Queen? So they're from starling.

"Oh right, Your precious Oliver queen." Bobbie said sarcastically before glaring. "Queen my foot!"

"You love Oliver queen?" Chein blurted out without thinking only to be glared by the two blonde agents.

"SHUT IT!" Both the blondes yelled at the White.

"Hey, you don't have to be ashamed." Chein spoke again, ignoring their glares. "I gotta admit, He's kinda hot." She said as she remembered her last meeting with Oliver. "Weak but hot. I wouldn't mind being with him." This instantly struck a nerve in Felicity.

"Okay, you win Bobbie. Go down there and cheer for me. I already have a competition with the two lances, don't need a white criminal on my ass too." Felicity ordered while Bobbie nodded and dragged her ass back to the pavement. "As for you..." Felicity said turning to Chein. "You're good as dead now." Feeling that her attacker was ready to attack now, Chein held her knives tightly.

"Oh, did I upset you?" Chein cooed. "How touché."

"You bet." Felicity smirked before throwing three of her knives at Chein.

"YAYAYA! GO FELICITY GO!" Bobbie yelled in enthusiasm, as she pretend to eat a popcorn and cheer for her blonde friend. Meanwhile, Chein did her best to avoid those knives. Unfortunately one of them struck her in her arm. She pulled it out and attacked Felicity with her own. In seconds both her and the blonde attacker was in a complete hand to hand combat. Trying get an upper hand as they lunged for each other. Chein gotta admit, her attacker was in a fine shape to do all those flips and jumps that she was doing now. It was the crack of her shoulder being dislocated that she felt the first wave of pain.

"AHHH!" She screamed while Felicity on the other hand, kicked the White assassin in the stomach before throwing her against the alley's wall. Unfortunately for her, Chein recovered quickly and attacked her with an equal blow. It rendered Felicity to the ground, scratching her palms against the harsh pavement.

"Ouch!" Bobbie commented. "COME ON, SHORTIE. USE YOUR NINJA FLIPS!" And that's what Felicity did, she round-house the White assassin to the floor. "YEEAAHHHH... THATS MY GUURRL!" It was the unexpected ring from Felicity's phone that stopped Bobbie from watching the fight. She pulled the phone out grumpily, only to find Oliver Queen calling.

"Hey, shortie, Oliver is calling you" she yelled to her friend who stopped for a second, resulting in a punch to the face. "Uhhh... Never mind, I'll handle it." Bobbie winced as she saw her friend on the pavement, nursing her cheek.

"Hello." Bobbie said in her best normal voice as she answered the call.

"Felicity?" Yep.. That's definitely Oliver.

"No, I'm actually Bobbie, Felicity's friend. Who is this?" Bobbie replied.

"Um.. I'm Oliver. Oliver Queen. Is Felicity there?" Bobbie looked at the two women fighting.

"Yes but she's a little busy right now." That's when Chein screamed in pain while Felicity filled her with punches after punches. Their knives forgotten.

"What was that? Is everything okay?" Oliver asked over the phone making Bobbie curse. He must have heard the commotion.

"Oh no, Mr. Queen. Everything is fine. It's just felicity is having a very gruesome battle with cooking. It's been ages since we met so she's cooking us some Chinese food. She got the dumpling down but she still has to tackle the White hairy prawn." Bobbie answered, snickering at her own explanation.

"Oh, I didn't know she could cook Chinese."

"Well she's a girl full of talents. Mr. Queen."

"Oliver. Call me Oliver."

"Oliver." Bobbie smiled. "She's been meaning to cook Chinese for a long time. Finally she got the ingredients in her hands. She's just having a hard time putting them in the pot. You know how Chinese food works, right?" Bobbie couldn't help but laugh. Oliver must be weirded out by her now.

'Uhh.. Okay.. Tell her I called." Yep.. Bingo.

"I will, Oliver. Have a good day." Bobbie replied before she cut the call. "Hey, shortie! Oliver said he misses you!" Bobbie yelled out.

"SHUT IT!" Both felicity and Chein yelled at her as they continued to fight. Bobbie sulked at their behaviour.

"Whaaattt, I was just trying to help." Bobbie said, offended. Meanwhile...

"Does miss perfect wants Oliver queen to like her?" Chein cooed as she saw felicity get angry. "Ohh, poor baby." Felicity was nearly on the verge of letting her blood lusts out.

"That's it!" Felicity screamed before she lunged onto Chein's white hair. In return Chein grabbed Felicity's hair.

"Oh, I wonder how miss perfect's hair will look like after I'm done with them. It sucks to be a blonde doesn't it?" Chein mocked as she pulled Felicity's hair which in turn started a cat fight between the two.

"LEAVE MY HAIR ALONE!" Felicity screamed in anger as she continued her battle. "AHHH!" With one last yell, Felicity pulled Chein's hair tightly.

"OWWW... STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!" Chein whined as she scratched felicity with her nails, like a true cat.

"OH LOOK! WHO'S BEING A POOR BABY NOW?!" Felicity yelled back, before being kicked by Chein flaring legs.

"TAKE THAT BLONDIE!" Chein yelled as both the women landed on top of each other, Chein blocking Felicity's wind pipe.

"I'M NOT A BLONDIEE!" Felicity squeaked before she changed the places and started suffocating Chein. In seconds they were back to hair pulling.

Bobbie raised her eye-brows at their change of fighting style. By now both of them has lost their professionalism and were fighting like little kids.

"Hey, why are you guys fighting like little 14 year old girls?" Bobbie's words rendered both assassins out of their stupidity. They both stopped and looked at each other. "We're not having a Justin Bieber concert here!"

"Whaaattt?" Chein said aloud in surprise. What was she thinking?

"Daaaa." Bobbie stated the obvious. "Come on felicity, we have to be back at Triskelion by tomorrow morning. And I ain't taking a luggage compartment this time."

"You're right." Felicity said as she got up and fixed up her hair. Chein doing the same. "Sorry Chein, I didn't know we would be fighting like little cats. Oliver is really messing up my mind. I'm sorry about your hair." She said as she looked at Chein's half pulled hair while Bobbie stared in amazement at her friend's sincere apology.

"It's alright." The White assassin said, surprised at her own answer.

"It was nice meeting you" Felicity offered as she stuck her hand out for a shake. "Sorry that I have to cut this meeting short. I have a very stubborn, grumpy pirate waiting for me. Have a happy afterlife." And with that, before Both Bobbie and Chein could realize what was happening, Felicity had suddenly grabbed onto Chein's neck and twisted it until she heard the crack.

Bobbie watched in surprise as her friend dropped the dead body to the ground.

"She was really nice. Oh well, off to the pirate we go. Come on Bob." Felicity smiled before walking away, leaving a shocked Bobbie behind. I knew she was bi-polar. Bobbie thought as she also followed the short blonde agent with a wicked grin on her face.

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Sara Lance doesn't like to be interrupted when she's in the middle of doing a job. Hearing her phone's ringtone was the last thing she'd except when she's trying to fight off a group of black ops. Well, technically she was running, since there were just too many of them. Running zigzag around the streets of Budapest, the city of bad luck, Sara threw the black ops men in a false direction before hiding behind a dumpster in one of the alleys. Right, this should give me some time. She thought as she pulled her phone out and looked at the called ID. Ollie?

"Sara." She heard Oliver's firm voice as she answered the call.

"Hey, Ollie. This might not be the rig-"

"I need your help." Oliver cut her sentence off. "Please." Sara frowned at the desperation in Oliver's voice.

"What is it?"

"I need you to trace felicity. I want to know where she is." Sara couldn't help but smile at the worry in his voice. There's something in his voice that she can't figure out. His worry makes her feel so much like the old Oliver that she knew before the gambit went down.

"I'm sure she would fine, Oliver." Sara reasoned, knowing that Felicity can take care of herself and intruding in someone's personal space would be a big mistake.

"I think something's wrong." There is that worry again.

"Did you call her?" Sara asked, feeling a little worried about her new friend she had made during her visit to starling.

"Yes. We have been trying for past two days but just few minutes ago, her friend named 'Bobbie' picked up the phone. There was something going on in the background. Like a fight or something." Oliver replied.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Her friend said they were cooking but I know a fight when I hear one. Could you maybe look Felicity up? I'll send you all the details. I can look up her phone's last coordinates but can you do an extensive search on her?" Sara looked at the open street again.

"You mean a background check?" Sara corrected, with raised eye-brows. There was no sudden reply.

"Yes." Oliver replied after few seconds of silence.

"Are you sure? You could do this from your base too." Sara confirmed, not liking the idea of running a full search on her friend's life.

"I- I feel like all her computers are rigged." Oliver confessed. "After all she controls them." Sara raised her eye-brows at the statement. Sara was under the impression that Oliver knew about everything that goes on in his lair. Looks like he didn't. "With all the stuff I have found... the assassination attempts on her an-"

"assassination?" Sara cut him off.

" -And the multiple threats that I have gathered against her life-" Oliver continued, ignoring Sara's question "- there is something in her past that doesn't add up. Something that she's hiding."

"And you want me to find it out, externally and because you don't want to be on the receiving end of her anger." Sara concluded.

"Yes."

"Are you sure about this Ollie? Because it's like your breaking her trust."

"Sara, her life is in danger." Oliver replied firmly. "I nearly lost her once, I can't loose her again. I want her to be safe." Sara smiled at the caring manner of her childhood friend.

"Ok, give me 24 hrs. I'll get back to you soon enough." Sara agreed.

"Okay." With that she cut the call. But as she poked around the dumpster to see if her coast was clear, she felt the familiar click of the heels, coming towards her.

"I know you're there." A familiar voice rang around the alley. "Sara." Sara pushed herself out of her hiding position as she looked up at the tall red-head figure standing infront of her. "It's nice to see you again."

"Natalia?" Sara questioned as she recognised the Russian red-head figure from her time in Russia.

"The one and only." Came the cold reply.

"What are you doing here?" Sara asked in confusion, relaxing her composure as she knew the red-head was a friend.

"I need your help."

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"Home sweet home" Felicity smiled as she looked up at the familiar round building of Triskelion. After hours of being in the flight - like a normal person in a normal plane seat with seat-belts, thankfully- felicity couldn't wait to get a nice shower and a good night sleep. But unfortunately her sleep will have to wait till it's actually nightfall here in Washington, D.C. It's still morning around here.

"Let's get that meeting over with." Bobbie said as Felicity's excitement turned into worry and then panic. The very thought of Fury and Maria scared her.

"uhh... How about we go eat something in that Italian resturant we saw on the way. Y-yeah lets go eat there." Felicty fumbled with her words as she hastily tried to leave the triskelion's pemises but was stopped by Bobbie's tight grip who pulled her back and steered her towards the entrance.

"No excuses, shortie. For all we could know, fury is seeing you right now through his window." Felicity glanced at the tall building covered with glass. I wonder which one belongs to Fury? Bobbie glanced at her friend and rolled her eyes. "Don't bother shortie. He's everywhere." Felicity glared at the tall agent. She's using his favourite line.

As they entered the building, the automatic security system scanned their IDs before letting them in. Through the glass doors and another security clearance, they finally reached to the elevators which would take them to the main floors. The bottom floors of the Triskelion were designed to elude any civilian to thinking as a office building, incase one of them manages to get in. Felicity looked through the clear glass of the elevator as she stared down at the large round glass roof of the bottom half of Triskelion. She could see the very bottom floor through the roof's glass where they were few minutes ago. (It's the same elevator in which cap was attacked by STRIKE members in Winter soilder. The part he knocks all of them out and then jumps through the elevator and the glass roof.)

"I love this building so much." She said in awe as the elevator dinged.

"Come on." Bobbie urged as they entered the main floor, the glass windows still reflecting the morning sun around the whole foyer. The foyer itself was huge, styled with the best advanced equipment, interior and weaponry stationed at every corner, incase of a lock down. She could see various elevators going up towards the high security floors and few elevated bridges connecting two sides of the building into one.

"Agent Smoak." Felicity heard a man-ly voice behind her. Both the ladies turned around to see Agent Sitwell starring at them, his grey eyes fixed on them, with a hint of annoyance and boredom.

"Agent Sitwell." Bobbie said in shock.

"Agent Morse. Agent Smoak." He greeted them with his nods. "I see you both are still alive." Both felicity and Bobbie exchanged looks. "You had everyone on a spiral, Agent Smoak." Felicity gave him a sheepish smile.

"You don't have to worry about that, Sitwell." Felicity heard a familiar voice, slightly cringing as she recognised the coldness in it. Maria. As if on cue, Agent Maria Hill walked into their sight. Bobbie straightened up as she saw the deputy director while Felicity tried to hide herself behind Bobbie. "If its anyone's concern, its mine. Go to Pierce. He needs you." Maria ordered the bald, elderly man who glared at the two blonde agents before walking off. Felicity always hated that guy. Him and Pierce. It's like they're hiding something. Always acting superior. "Agents." Maria's voice snapped Felicity's attention to her childhood friend. "The meeting with the director has been cancelled. Agent Morse, you can go and collect your new weapons from the tech division. Rest up a bit and then come back to me for reporting."

"Yes, mam." Bobbie replied before nodding and walking off, leaving Felicity to deal with the Ice queen. Felicity glared at her partner's back before facing the ice queen who was giving her the cold shoulder.

"You, come with me." Felicity gulped as she followed Maria through a serious of doors and a elevator. Maybe she could humour Maria?

"Its such a lovely weather out there, isn't it M?" Felicity said lightly, using the nick name, hoping to achieve the desired reaction. No reply. Not even a grunt. Felicity looked around as she saw every agent moving away from Maria's strong and loud strides. They all could feel her anger. Some of them she recognised as her friends, gave her sympathy looks. They knew she was dead. She knew she was dead. In the midst of this, a young, curly-haired agent decided to block Maria's way for an unknown reason. Felicity tried to point him out to stay clear but it was too late.

"Agent Hill, I was just looking for-"

"GET OUT!" Maria suddenly screamed at the young agent who shrunk at the loud voice. He held onto his tablet tightly as he starred at Maria in shock and fear. "ARE YOU DEAF? I TOLD YOU TO GET OUT OF THIS ROOM!" Next second the poor lad was seen running out of the room, leaving his tablet behind as it had slipped through his hands in fear. Maria seeing the tablet on the ground stomped her foot on it to crack its screen. She fixed her deadly eyes on the employees around her who also scurried out of her way in fear. Felicity sent a sorry glance to everyone before following Maria to her office, the door of the room slamming itself shut loudly.

"I'm revoking all your restrictions and security clearance."

"What?!" Felicity exclaimed in shock.

"You're not allowed to leave the building until I know you're blood is free from any poison. Since Agent Morse is aware of your blood condition, she will quarantine you until you're cleared."

"What-NO! I have to be back at Starl-"

"Your assignment is put on hold." Maria continued robotically, cutting felicity off. "Mr. Queen will be informed of your family emergency until your clear.."

"But Oliver-"

"You will stay here in Triskelion and go through a strict medical process to determine any odd behaviour-"

"Okay STOP! This is going too far! It's a joke, right?"

"SHUT UP!" Maria finally screamed, loosing her patience. She slammed one of her pens in half before walking up to Felicity who stepped back a little at the anger radiating off from her childhood friend. "Do I look like I'm joking to you?" She sneered with her crystal blue eyes reflecting off Felicity's brown ones. "You have broken multiple of rules in the past few months. Do you really think I'm going to send you back?"

"Maria, look I know you're upset but-"

"Being upset doesn't even cover it. I get it, you break rules. That's how you roll and I'm completely fine with it. Your not the only one who does that but risking your life more than necessary and not informing me or Fury of your ridiculous and irresponsible actions, you are done Felicity Smoak!" Maria gritted out before she let her true feelings out. "I have had enough of your actions. You listen to me Smoak, and listen to me carefully, if I see you even one foot out of this building, consider yourself caged in the FRIDGE for the rest of your spy life!" FRIDGE is one of SHIELD's facility where all the artefacts ever found are kept. All the weapons, unknown objects of unknown origins… it's like a gold mine for SHIELD.

"But—"

"Agh! How could I even trust you after what you pulled?! You don't deserve my trust! You don't deserve my FRIENDSHIP, Felicity! You talk about how you've always been abused and turned into a weapon by your birth family but have you EVER thought about the people who cares about you. Who STILL cares about you?!" Maria screamed while Felicity held her tears back as each and every word from her best friend's mouth stung her like a slap. She never thought that the situation would accelerate to this point. If it was someone from her assignment attachments, it wouldn't have hurt her a lot since its part of her job to hide stuff and lie. But this was Maria. Her best friend. Someone who knows her since they were little kids. Someone who's aware of everything in her life. Her job, her lies, her needs to cooperate with undercover missions.

"I... I... I'm.." Felicity tried to answer back but it was like her mind was frozen. She couldn't process the words quickly. She does care about them and that's why she didn't want to worry them.

"Exactly. You don't. You only care about what you think is right." Maria said slowly before turning her back on her best friend. "Get out of my office." Felicity didn't move. She stood still. "Didn't you hear me?"

"Yes"

"What?"

"I said yes, I heard you!" Felicity replied firmly. She could finally feel some of her confidence coming back to her. She's not going to leave this matter alone. "But I am not going to leave. Not without explaining myself."

"There's nothing to explain, Felicity." Maria said, refusing to look at her best friend. The deputy of Shield knew that if she looked, she would probably end up having a breakdown and would loose her chance to teach a lesson to Felicity for ignoring her.

"Yes, there is!" Felicity replied, moving closer to Maria and forcing the women to look at felicity. "I know I have hurt you. More than anything in this world and I apologise for that. I really do! And not just that, I am sorry that I hid my problems away from you because I didn't want you to worry about me. I am sorry that I ignored you when I was at my deathbed. I'm sorry for feeling insecure and afraid at saying goodbye to everyone that I loved. I'm sorry for everything I did but that doesn't mean you could blame me for trust issues!" Felicity said, tears leaking out of her eyes as Maria's own tears were reflected back. " I CARE about you Maria. I care about you, Clint, Natasha, Fury, May, Coulson and anyone that I know off. But it's mostly you. You are my only best friend in this world. The one who understood me from the moment we met in that little pony warehouse. How could you think I didn't care about you?! I didn't tell you anything because I was scared you would worry and would probably result in shouting at me. I was afraid of your pain and anger so yeah if I hid some things, I apologise for that. I was just soo scared of what you might think.. that fear is what makes me care about all of you. I don't fear my enemies, Maria. I fear for my loved ones." Felicity croaked out before talking again. "And don't think I don't know why your being such a hypocrite. I know you from inside out." Felicity added, knowing that her friend was trying teach a lesson for ignoring her. The seconds continued to tickle as they were met with silence. 10 minutes of full silence, starring at each other, tears staining their cheeks before Maria finally broke. She instantly broke down on Felicity's shoulder and hugged her with her all might.

"I'm sorry. I..I..I just-" Maria croaked out between sobs before Felicity shushed her. "I was scared. Yo-you should have at least called me."

"I know, I'm sorry too."

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... Right after Bobbie leaves Felicity to deal with Maria...

Bobbie hates to admit it but she left Felicity alone on purpose. She was enjoying the glare she received when she had left the blonde agent with the ice queen. The tall agent considers it as a revenge for setting her on Oliver Queen's tail, who attacked her with his arrows, the moment she finished helping him. Not that she minded it but getting attacked by arrows?...Nah -Uh, Bobbie isn't going to take any arrows for anyone unless it someone close to her. And last time she checked Oliver Queen wasn't her best buddy. Besides that Queen boy is trouble at every point.

Bobbie's lips formed into a small smile as she saw the deputy director taking Felicity to the upper floors. With one last glance, she headed to the tech division located at the underground levels beneath Triskelion. Scanning her badge, she quickly enter the elevator and waited till it reached the underground levels. Just by looking at all the weapon rooms and cages along the corridor, she could determine, SHIELD has been working on some of the best tech these days. Looks like the scientists at THE ACADEMY are living up to their standards. Although as she passed the various corridors, she did happened to notice a red door at the end of the east corridor. That's where the River was located that surrounded a part of Triskelion. Usually that door was always locked and can only be accessed by a clearance level higher than level 9. Considering she was level 6, she never got the chance to see what's behind it. So it came as a surprise to her when she noticed that the door was slightly open. She could hear faint loud sounds of machineries and few shouts here and there. But overall they were still muffled by the door and the long surrounding walls. Feeling her curiosity kick in, she quickly looked around before entering the forbidden corridor. She couldn't see any cameras but she wouldn't underestimate the security of Triskelion. If she would just hurry up and leave, no-one will know she was ever here.

So as she walked towards the red door, she could hear voices getting louder and louder. By the end time she had reached the door, she could hear voices echoing... as if there is a big hallow underground aircraft landing station.. or some big open space, like the covered landing space that SHIELD uses to keep their Quinjets at THE HUB.

Shrugging the thought off, she reached her hand out to open the door, but just as she was about to touch the handle, a hand reached out and shut the door loudly. Bobbie actually felt the impact as she moved a step back by the loud noise. Looking up at the stranger's hand, she gulped in fear. Apparently the hand belonged to a certain Chinese CAVALRY.

"What are you doing here, Agent Morse?" She heard the strict female voice of the CAVALRY.

"Agent Melinda May." Bobbie spurted out in fear as she quickly pulled her hand away from the Chinese women and fixed her posture. "I... I.. w-waa.. I was just.. "

"I'm asking you again, What. are. you. doing. here. Morse?" May repeated her question slowly, pronouncing each word with force, making Bobbie more nervous. It's the freakin CAVALRY! Oh my god, I'm so dead...

"Uhhh... nothing. I-I was just w-walking by." Bobbie spurted out, looking at the cold face of the Cavalry.

"In the restricted corridor?" Bobbie was caught off guard. She did the most logical thing that came up in her mind. She giggled.

"Hehehe... restricted corridor?" Bobbie said laughing nervously. "Heehehe.. I-.. I-I uh.. I didn't know I-I was in the r-restricted corridor. Oh how stupid of me?" She continued as she lightly hit her head to prove her point. "You look very fine and dandy today, Agent May." She said suddenly, frowning at her own words. "It's such a beautiful day isn't it?" She emphasised by pointing her arms around which now she realised were the walls. But even then there was no change in the Chinese women's cold face. It was like she was waiting for Bobbie to crack. "Uhh.. I need to get my weapons." And with that Bobbie made a quick run for the exit. Forget the staves, she needs to get out of here before May starts to question her more.

Unknown to Bobbie, Melinda May kept her cold stare at Bobbie's back until the blonde had left the corridor. She quickly changed the passcode, and made sure that the door was fully locked. Fury doesn't want anyone finding out about his new toy yet.

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"Where are you taking me?" Felicity asked as she wiped her left over tears, after their emotional apologising has ended.

"One of the special weapons rooms." Maria answered before they entered a room in the very top floors of Triskelion. It was large and glowed blue.

"What do you think of these?" Maria said as she pulled out a tray from the wall cabinets. It contained few new weapons that Felicity hasn't seen before.

"Niicceee, I like these babies." Felicity said as she looked at the new long range hand guns.

"They're called ICERS but apparently their makers wants to call them the night night guns." Felicity giggled at the name.

"They?"

"Two of our top students at the academy. They go by Fitzsimmons." Maria explained as she picked up one of them for herself. "Apparently they're a legend at the Academy. There hasn't been a time when Weaver hadn't stopped talking about them."

"Someone's annoyed.." Felicity teased.

"You have no idea." Maria whispered quietly before looking up. "Anyways, keep this batch for yourself." She said giving felicity the whole tray of the ICER weapons. It wasn't just guns but few other really cool mechanisms as well. "The chemical inside them can knock out pretty much anyone. Even a super solider." Felicity quirked her eyebrows at this. "These are just prototypes. We're waiting for the upgrades from the makers soon."

"If their prototypes, then why are you giving them to me? I'm happy with just one." Felicity asked in confusion.

"You have lot of vigilantes in your city, Remember DEATHSTROKE? You'll also need this for any enhanced." Maria said as Felicity nodded as she remembered Bobbie's prime mission of coming to Starling. The mysterious enhanced who has been dropping bodies. Now that she thinks about it, she hasn't heard anything on DEATHSTROKE'S movement recently. She was too caught up with her own drama that she forgot about the enhanced. "Besides we have so many of these here. We're shipping them to all of our bases around the world, in two days."

"Okay." Felicity agreed as she replaced one of the ICERS with her own gun. "I'll see what these babies can do."

"Come.." With that, both the agents left the room.

"Are they anymore toys?"

"Maybe." Felicity stared suspiciously at her friend. Maybe? That means there are more of the new toys. But it also means she's not permitted to tell. Looks like Maria wants her to find out. Because next thing she knows, she's being handed a 6 digit code. "I want a picture of Fury when he finds about this and a statement saying that I had nothing to do with it." Maria whispered. Felicity smirked.

"Deal." And with that, soon the agents headed back towards Maria's office. Looks like felicity has a hunt to complete before she leaves this place.

"So how's things going?" Felicity asked as she kept the ICER's bag in her hand and the code tucked in her pocket while following Maria to wherever her best friend was taking her. "With you and SHIELD?"

"As usual, boring." Maria replied. "Now that Fury is gone to Mexico with Coulson and your cousin to investigate the fallen hammer from the sky, things here at Triskelion are more boring than before."

"Hammer? From the sky?" Felicity asked sceptically, making Maria turn at her with a smirk.

"Ever heard of the lightening god from Norse mythology?" She asked with a teasing look in her eyes. Felicity stared at her. Of course the super hacker has heard about Thor from Norse Mythology. A hammer-wielding god, associated with thunder, lightning and storms.

"Nooo... No No No.. you're joking right?" Felicity shook her head with a smile. "A freakin god?!" She exclaimed. "On earth? I don't believe you."

"See for yourself." Maria said as she stuffed her tablet in Felicity's face. Felicity who was still shocked looked at the image of a man with long blond hair and a red cap. In one hand he held his mighty hammer and in the other, a brown-headed women. But that wasn't the best bit.

"Holy shit.. Look at his arms." Felicity exclaimed as she kept one hand over her mouth. "Is it even possible for a guy to be this hot?" She didn't mean any offence to Oliver's body but she has a type for people with big arms. She doubt the Salman ladder could stand a chance against this god.

"I know right." Maria squealed from beside her, once they were out of earshot. "Even may thinks he's dreamy."

"Really? Melinda May?" Felicity asked with a shocked smile.

"Yup! And If you think things can't get any more hotter than this, wait till you see Cap." Both girls squealed at the mention of Captain America.

"I can't wait to see him. Do you know where he is?" Felicity asked just as Maria gave her a teasing look.

"The training rooms. That's where he is most of the time."

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"John.." Diggle embraced his wife, Layla, as he met her outside Verdant.

"How are you?" He asked, releasing her from his grip.

"If you include going undercover again, not so great."

"Did you get anything off Amanda?" Diggle continued. He and Oliver are desperate to know their answers.

" She's a hard person, John. She refused to meet anyone of you. She's been acting strange since past few weeks. I could see her eyes filled with revenge and anger that I have never seen before." Layla told her husband, remembering the look Amanda gave her when she walked in. "It's for someone among your side. I don't who but she nearly had a whiplash when I informed her about you wanting to meet her." Diggle nodded, as he quite clearly knows why Amanda is feeling anger. After all she failed to kill Felicity. The question he really wanted answers too. Why is that women after his sister-like I.T girl?

"Did you find anything regarding the vigilantes roaming around starling?" Diggle asked. "ARGUS has a large database when it comes to criminals or vigilantes."

"Yeah." Layla nodded as she pulled a file out of her bag. "God know how much trouble I'm going to be if someone finds out about this but it turns out Amanda has been keeping a close eye on all the vigilantes running around Starling City. Her personal file also include all the names of you, Oliver, Felicity, Laurel, basically anyone you guys know. I couldn't get a proper look but I had a glimpse of you and Oliver's life."

"Yeah, well she's getting on everyone's nerves these days." Diggle agreed, taking the file from Layla's hand.

"Anyway, I ran the vigilante image you gave me on ARGUS's database. Guess who I came up with?" Layla asked with a smirk at her husband who knows that ARGUS's database is the best place to find dead people. If Felicity was here, she would have done this through her own computers by hacking but since the I.T girl wasn't here, Diggle had to resort to his wife. Besides, Oliver insisted that he asked Layla to run a search on ARGUS's database for some reason. Felicity's software still hadn't come up with anything yet.

"Who is it?" Diggle asked desperately. He got his answer when his wife flipped the pages in the file and stopped at a blonde women's face. Diggle could see that the women looked innocent but behind those dark blue eyes, there was something hidden.

"Barbara Morse or most commonly known as 'Bobbie'." Layla recited. "She's one of the head detective in SCPD." Diggle looked at her in shock. A detective was the blonde vigilante who was running around starling at night. And she was also the one who threatened to kill Felicity?

"Are you sure?" He asked her. One nod from his wife confirmed his suspicions. He had never met the women before but judging by the way Oliver was acting, she was dangerous. And that same women is in SC Police force. They were totally screwed.

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Felicity cringed as she sat herself down on the white bed in one of the quarantined rooms. She thought about her day as Bobbie fiddled with all the needle work that she's about to receive.

After settling her patch up with Maria and being introduced to the new ICERS, Felicity had spend the next few hours having a short trip to the showers and then catching up with everyone in Triskelion, carefully avoiding Pierce who she hated the most. There was something fishy about that man.

So after few hours of wandering around, trying to understand the message behind the 6 digit code, setting up pranks here and there, trying to locate Captain America -who by the way had left the training rooms to god knows where- felicity ended up at Agent May's doors... probably the biggest mistake she ever made. Before she could even greet her mother-like figure, she was forced to see the cavalry inside the women. Which resulted in many kicks and Tai Chi take downs that felicity could still hear the sound off. Her bones aching as she had been thrown on the ground multiple times. Honestly May's cavalry side could easily match up to the Demon's head.

"Owww.." Felicity flinched as Bobbie had placed a hand on her right shoulder that has been dislocated…. Thanks to the cavalry of course.

"Sorry.. Wait, let me fix it." Before Felicity could stop her, she heard a loud click and felt her shoulder back in its socket.

"AHHH! BOBBIE!" Felicity screamed as the pain that had seared through her arm was horrible. The tall agent snickered.

"Gosh, I don't understand why you didn't fight back with May. She destroyed you Guurrl!" Bobbie giggled nervously, also remembering her own encounter with May earlier. She's just going to pretend that it never happened. She's not afraid of may!

"Because she was hurt and I was the reason behind it. So I accepted the consequences." Felicity concluded the topic, leaving no room for arguments. She knew she had hurt lot of people and May was one of them. Besides, the women is like a mother to her and Clint. There's nothing that Felicity would do to disrespect her. Even if she had to bear with all the Tai Chi that re-arranged her bones.

"Heads up." Bobbie warned as she brought a needle towards Felicity who cringed at the sight of it. In few minutes, the tall blonde paramedic took her blood samples and sealed the hole with a small Band-Aid. "Okay, so I'll run this in the lab myself since no-one knows about your condition and don't worry I won't spill anything." Bobbie informed as she sealed the labelled tubes. "Next is the hamster wheel." Felicity groaned. She hates being probed, not to mention all the running she'll have to do. Oh well, same old fitness checks. So after two hours, felicity found herself back on the bed, slightly panting and her grey shirt soaked with her sweat.

"And NOW you're free to go." Felicity fist pumped her hand in the air as she jumped off the bed. She quickly had a shower and changed into fresh pair of clothes. This time wearing a red shirt with Iron man's face plastered on the front.

"Iron Man? Really?" Bobbie snickered.

"That's the only thing I could find in the cupboard. And also because the colour looks good on me." Felicity mused as she fixed her knives in her boots and strapped on her new ICER gun to the holster on the left leg. Her hair were still drying, giving her an impression as if she walked out of a pouring rain.

"Hey, what's that?" Bobbie asked noticing the blue glowing gun in Felicity's hand.

"Oh.. ICERS. A prototype that I'm trying out. Maria gave the whole batch to me. You can drop by my room and get one for-yourself. They pretty much knock you out I guess, both humans and inhuman. I haven't really tried them before."

"Thanks I'll keep one too." Bobbie smiled as she went back to her labelling.

"Did you get your new weapons?" Felicity asked as she continued to stuff herself with more weapons and comb her wet hair.

"Yeah, I did." Bobbie answered slowly, not sure if she should say anything about the encounter she had with May. "They're great. See." Bobbie held out her new staves which now featured new gadgets like hidden knife, tasers at the end and easily stretched into a smooth bow by joining the two together and sliding their ends open. "They also have the ability to explode."

"Cool." Felicity nodded before looking up at bobbie. "I was thinking...Are you free too?" Felicity asked in hope. "I need your help in tracking down the star spangled man with a plan."

"Well, if you put it that way.." Bobbie smiled as she placed the blood samples in her private cupboard, only that she can open, after all, this room was Bobbie's lab. "I'll come." And with that both the ladies, dressed in white lab coats that they had picked up on the way, walked around the facility in search for their new teen sensation. Along the way, they couldn't help but act like paramedics and gave wrong directions to many of the new recruits.

"Just head next floor up and 2 doors to left, Agent Weaver will be there to help you." Felicity said in her posh accent to the new sci-tech recruit who had accidentally separated from his assigned group.

"And remember, apologise like you mean it. I think 5 hugs and kisses would do the trick." Bobbie continued.

"Thank you." The boy quickly thanked them before walking to the elevators.

"Tell her it was Agent May who send you!" Felicity screamed over him.

"OKAY!" Came the hurried reply. Both the girls exchanged looks and giggled. The room upstairs belonged to Maria, the deputy director of SHIELD, who was busy in a meeting with Pierce and Sitwell. It would be fun to see the new boy barge into the room and rapidly apologise to Maria for wandering off like he did with them. Not to mention the hugs and kisses she's about to receive.

"Oh god, we are so evil." Felicity grinned as this is not the only surprises they had set. Apparently Agent May will be receiving a serious of roses from a secret admirer (**cough**Bobbie**Cough**) and a big valentine chocolate that will definitely put the old lady on the edge. Meanwhile Maria will be visited by most of the new recruits who would come to her thinking she's Agent Weaver. Not to mention few agents that they locked up in the broom closets around the facility and few others who might find themselves in the middle of a training team. And let's not forget the traps felicity had managed to program around the top levels. Anyone who enters those levels, they will be greeted with a loud siren, alerting the whole building into chaos of intrusion and lock down. Yeah... they are pretty evil.

As if on cue, one of the sirens blared loudly around the top floors. It won't be long before the sprinkles are activated.

"Let's get to cover." Bobbie warned as they quickly took cover in one of the rooms just as the sprinkles in the large foyer were activated. Both the ladies laughed as everyone in the foyer ran for cover. They even happened to see a very pissed off Maria coming out of the lift, with her hair wet and stuck to her forehead. She was also being followed by the same young recruit who they had sent up earlier, still apologizing loudly, holding her hand in fear, which ticked Maria off. Felicity giggled.

"Oh my god, this is the best Chaos sight I have seen since months!" Bobbie exclaimed in excitement.

"Come on, let's move before the ice queen figures out that it was us." Felicity said quickly as they quickly moved further away from the cold, pissed off ice queen. In minutes they were far enough to avoid Maria's wrath.

"Is that Agent Romanoff?" Bobbie said suddenly as she pointed to a distant red-head figure who was walking across the foyer with someone. Felicity focused her eyes on the pointed figure. It seemed like they were shaking their heads at the pouring sprinkles from above. After few seconds of intense starring, she concluded that the women is Natasha Romanoff. But she was with someone, a blonde maybe.

"Come on let see." Felicity said as her curiosity side kicked up a notch.

"Are you sure?" Bobbie asked in worry. "I mean thats Romanoff we're talking about. She's a tremendous spy and she's a senior."

"Not to me.."

"What?"

"Don't worry, she won't see us. Now come on." Felicity assured before pulling her partner towards the duo who were getting more familiar and familiar every passing moment. They scurried behind the duo who had by now turned towards the surveillance side of the facility.

"Does it always rain around here like this?" The blonde asked sarcastically in a strangely familiar voice that send cold chills down Felicity's back. The blonde was apparently trying to dry her hair off while Natasha did nothing to wipe the water off. There was no doubt, the red-head was fuming with anger.

"No, it's just a sign that a particular prankster is back on the grounds." Felicity grinned. Even Natasha knows the true signs of Felicity's presence.

"Is it only me or does this women look familiar to you?" Bobbie whispered to Felicity as they followed them, making sure to hide behind a wall whenever they stopped.

"Prankster... Hmm.. Never thought you work for someone as fun as this." The unknown blonde said, as she kept her face hidden. Felicity on the other hand had her suspicions. The similarity was too obvious but she still didn't want to believe it.

"She's not fun. She's a nightmare." Felicity growled at the comment while bobbie slapped her arm to be quiet.

"She?" No reply. "Okay, so what is this place? I've never seen this before." The familiar blonde asked sceptically.

"It's headquarters." Was Natasha's only reply. Typical Nat.

"Of what? Do you guys have a name or is it only braws no brains?" The blonde questioned. Felicity narrowed her eyes at blonde who had stopped walking by now. "Natalia? I need to know this if I'm helping you." Natalia? So she doesn't know Nat's real name. The red-head assassin stopped in her tracks as she turned around to face the blonde.

"It's SHIELD."

"Shield? hmm...Nice name.." That was the moment when Felicity stopped. When the blonde had said her words, she had turned side-ways, allowing Felicity and Bobbie to see her face. Now thats why she seemed so familiar. There is no way both the ladies could ever forget the appearance of their friendly neighbourhood vigilante. The blonde standing infront of them was none other than Sara Lance herself. In seconds, both the agents exchanged worried looks before Felicity finally whispered screamed in panic.

"RUN!"