Arrow ~ Fallout ~ Part Two

***

"Oh, good," Thea sighed in relief when Team Arrow reentered the Arrowcave to find Felicity plus two others there.

"What happened out there?" Malcolm asked with a frown. "Thought you would have had that one in the bag."

"How's Rene?" was what Felicity asked.

"Curtis and my dad took him to the hospital," Laurel answered.

"It's Dr. Schwartz," Dig added, and Felicity nodded, remembering she was the doctor who had tried to help their original Laurel.

"It's a collapsed lung," Dinah added. "It doesn't look so good."

"Evelyn and the mercenaries escaped, but we pulled this off the van," Oliver held a device out to Felicity.

"GPS?" she asked, looking it over.

"Yeah," Oliver nodded. "Let's backtrace it, figure out where they came from."

"On it," Felicity hurried back to her computers.

"Quentin suggested maybe the attack on SCPD was targeting him and Dinah," Thea said. "Think that's still the case?"

"Why would Evelyn blow up the precinct after discovering they weren't there?" Kara pointed out.

"Maybe Quentin was wrong," Oliver shrugged. "Maybe our first instincts were right."

"That she's targeting the police for some reason?" Dig frowned.

"Then we need to figure out what that reason is," Kara sighed. "And find her."

"Oh, funny you should say that," Felicity frowned. "GPS's last location was a warehouse – surprise, surprise – outside Pennytown. If Evelyn's any smarter than she was when we last saw her, she will not go back there."

"Maybe she left something behind for us to go on," Dinah suggested.

"John?" Oliver turned.

"We're on it," Dig confirmed, he and Dinah going to get their gear.

"I'm still trying to figure out how Evelyn Sharpe, the least experienced of Chase's band of Merry Women, escaped Lian Yu," Malcolm scowled.

"Lyla should be getting back to us soon about that," Oliver nodded. "But I'm trying to figure that out, too."

***

Dinah ducked into the warehouse, gun in hand. "Clear!" she called.

"Clear!" Dig echoed behind her.

Dinah lowered her gun, raising a flashlight to look around. "It's all packed up," she said. "Doesn't look like they were planning on coming back here."

"Question is, where were they headed?" Dig frowned, entering behind her. "Stay sharp. In my experience, bad guys aren't very good at covering their tracks."

Dinah walked further in, shining her light around, before asking, "You all right?"

"Yeah, why?" Dig asked.

"Since the bridge, you seem distracted."

"Just worried about Rene, that's all," he brushed it off.

"Saw you take the shot at that merc," Dinah raised an eyebrow. "Never seen you miss."

"Nobody makes every shot," Dig shook his head, removing his helmet, then paused and pointed. "What the hell is that?"

Dinah turned, aiming her light in the direction he pointed. It lit up a portable generator, and the piece of paper folded on top of it. She walked over and picked it up, unfolding it with Dig. "It's a map of City Hall," she recognized.

"With ingress and egress marks and line of sight," Dig added.

"For an attack," Dinah realized.

"Why the hell would they want to attack City Hall?" Dig wondered.

Dinah swallowed. "After the SCPD got bombed, they had to move the Academy graduation to a different venue. Oliver chose City Hall, but that decision was kept under wraps for security reasons!"

"How the hell did these guys find out?" Dig growled, grabbing his helmet and putting it on.

"I don't know, but we're running out of time to stop them!" Dinah shook her head, running out after him.

***

"This might be a late night, Raisa," Oliver warned, adjusting the sleeves of his suit jacket.

"I remember when your late nights were more like early mornings," she smirked, adjusting his tie slightly.

"Thankfully, I've exchanged club openings for Police Academy graduations now," Oliver smirked back.

"All right," Kara said as she walked into the living room, and Oliver did a double take when he saw her in a one-shoulder black dress and sandals, then smiled when he noticed the sapphire and diamond bracelet she wore on one wrist, her earrings dangling crystals that reflected orange in the light. As always, she was wearing the arrowhead around her neck, and her hair was swept into a braided updo. "I got a response from Alex, she and J'onn will be there at the ceremony, and Winn has agreed to be at the lair. Malcolm's got your extrapolator and is going to get them now."

"Your brothers would be smirking so smugly right now," Oliver grinned.

"Think they would?" Kara pretended to examine what she was wearing. "Maybe take a picture and show them. It takes a lot to get ready like this."

"Well, Malcolm will definitely grin when he sees you," Oliver chuckled. "Speaking of, we need to get going."

"Good luck," Raisa wished, and both waved before heading for the door, Oliver holding his arm out, which Kara took.

***

"Whoa," Alex pretended to hold a hand over her eyes when the two descended down the steps into the Arrowcave. "Have you absorbed too much solar radiation? Because you are way too bright."

"Very funny, Alex," Kara sighed.

"Thank you for coming," Oliver told her sincerely. "You, J'onn, Winn," he nodded to where the two men were with the rest of the group in the lair.

"Of course," J'onn nodded. "Especially since it's the police they're after."

"No problem," Winn agreed.

"Well, look at you," Malcolm did indeed grin smugly when he saw what Kara was wearing. "I feel like I need to be giving Oliver a warning of some kind."

"Oh, please," Kara rolled her eyes, Oliver giving him a look.

"You look beautiful," Malcolm assured her.

"As if there was any doubt," Oliver smirked. "Now, as to why we're dressed like this and not in our suits?"

"Right," Felicity nodded. "Well, with Winn's help, I cracked the code, so to speak."