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Felicity was typing away on her computer, trying to track down a lead, when her phone let out a loud ping. The noise startled her teammates who all turned to see where the noise was coming from.
Felicity heard the ringtone and closed her eyes. She’d imagined the noise. It was someone else’s phone. This wasn’t happening. It couldn’t be. The phone pinged again.
“Felicity? You gonna get that?” Oliver asked.
“No, because the second I get it, then it means this is real and I-.”
The noise happened again.
“I really think you should answer the phone. Someone’s clearly trying to reach you.” He said. “DO you want me to answer it?”
“No!” She said a little too forcefully. As she yelled that, one of her computer screens started to glitch, but then returned to normal. “Sorry, its just- I can handle it.”
The phone chimed again. This time, Felicity picked up the phone and hit the button to answer the call. “No.” She said quickly before hanging up.
“Um, Felicity? Something going on you need to tell us?” John asked. Thea, Laurel and Roy also looked curious about what they’d just seen.
“It’s nothing, just- that was…my dad.”
“I thought you hadn’t spoken to your dad since he left.”
“He left and he stayed gone for years. Then, when I was in college, he decided to track me down. Claimed he wanted to have a relationship with me. I’m not interested.”
Her father leaving as a kid hurt a lot. Then, he came back into her life and she realized why he’d left. She decided it was better than she didn’t end up getting raised by him. Still, she wasn’t quite ready to tell Oliver, John or any of the others who her dad was. ‘Hey, my dad’s a supervillain’ didn’t naturally come up in conversation.
Oliver and John could tell that she was hiding something, but thankfully for her, an alarm started to go off before they could question her. Felicity announced that there was something going on at Kord Industries.
The team suited up and headed out. At first, it seemed like what was happening at Kord was just a standard robbery. It wasn’t until they got into the building and found the people breaking in that they realized this wasn’t your average robbery.
Oliver didn’t see exactly how it happened, but one moment Thea was standing next to him. The next, she was across the room. He thought he saw a grey blur go past him, but he wasn’t sure. Thea wasn’t hurt, so Oliver began firing arrows at one of the robbers, a brunette woman in a strange red outfit. She waved her hand and some kind of red energy came out of her hands, disintegrating the arrows.
“I think you’re out of your depth.” She said.
One of her partners, a woman dressed in a similar outfit but hers was green, was facing off against Roy and Digg. They were firing in her direction, but she somehow was managing to stop the arrows and bullets in midair.
“Get out of there.” Felicity said as soon as the woman spoke. “Leave. Right now.”
Suddenly, a man in a bluish-grey outfit stopped next to the woman in red. He moved as fast as Barry could, which Oliver found unsettling. “You have no idea what you walked into, do you?”
“They most certainly don’t.” A fourth voice said. While Oliver didn’t know who the other three were, he recognized the man who’d just spoke. There weren’t many people who didn’t know Magneto. What was the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants doing here? “We have what we need. Let’s go.”
“What about them?” The other man asked.
“They weren’t able to stop us, and they didn’t do anything to harm us. I don’t see a reason to do anything.” Magneto answered.
The unknown speedster sped them out of the room before Team Arrow could react. They returned to the lair, feeling defeated. As Felicity tried to work out what had been stolen, a thought started to bug Oliver.
“Why’d you tell us to leave?” He asked his girlfriend.
Her team was being attacked by Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Polaris. Felicity didn't want her friends to get hurt, but she also didn't want anything to happen to her siblings. “Uh, because Magneto was there.” She answered.
Her reasoning made since, except for the fact that Magneto hadn’t been in the room when she told them to leave. She couldn’t have known he was there. Oliver wanted to press, but she turned back to the screens, trying to figure out what they’d taken. She figured it out relatively quickly. They’d stolen a prototype device that Kord claimed could analyze DNA with little more than the prick of a finger. Once they knew what had been taken, the team called it a night until they could figure out what Magneto was going to do with it.
Oliver and Felicity went to their apartment to get some rest. It had been a long night. A few hours later, Felicity was fast asleep when Oliver heard a door open. Someone had broken in. He nudged Felicity awake. He didn’t want to wake her, but he also didn’t want to leave her in bed, asleep and vulnerable, while he went to investigate.
“Someone’s here.”
“What do we do?” She asked.
“You stay in here. I’ll handle it.” he told her.
He went into the hallway. Felicity heard a bang a few seconds later and rushed out after him.
“Oliv- what are you doing here?” She said as she rounded the corner and saw Magneto in the kitchen, with every knife she owned pointed at Oliver. “Put. Them. Back.”
“Felicity, don’t.”
“Oliver, its okay.” She said before turning back to Magneto. “Drop the knives. Now.”
The archer couldn’t believe it, but Magneto moved a finger and all of the knives returned to where they belonged. “You know him?” Oliver asked.
“Yeah. Oliver, this is Magneto aka Erik Lehnsherr. My dad.”
“You- Magneto is your father?”
“Yes, the story I told you about my family, I left a few things out. Like the reason my dad left and my siblings. Well half-siblings.”
“I believe you met them earlier.” Magneto remarked. “Green Arrow. Don’t look so surprised, I’m a genius. Something Felicity inherited.’
“Why are you here?” Felicity asked her father. “I told you, I don’t want to be part of your Evil Mutant Club.”
“It’s the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.” He corrected. “And that’s not why I’m here. You want to hide among the humans, and I respect that even if I don’t understand it, but we’ve missed you. Is it too much to ask for one dinner with all of my children?”
“That depends. You wanna tell me why you stole the prototype from Kord Industries?”
“So that it couldn’t be used. It wasn’t meant to analyze DNA, it was meant to track it. If that device was completed and became operational, every single mutant on Earth would be put in jeopardy. They could find any of us anywhere. I don’t have the same faith in humanity that you and Charles do.”
“Dinner. Tomorrow. That’s all I’m agreeing to.”
“Good. I will see you tomorrow.” Magneto said as he left the apartment.
Leaving Felicity alone to explain a few things to Oliver. “I know, I should’ve told you but there isn’t an easy way to tell someone that you’re a mutant and your father in an infamous mutant terrorist.” She blurted out.
“I can imagine. What’s your ability, if that’s okay for me to ask. Is it okay to ask?”
“It varies from person to person, but I don’t mind. As long as I’m the one revealing that I’m a mutant. Kinda surprised it isn’t obvious. I’m technokinetic. That’s why I’m so good with technology.”
“It suits you.” Oliver said.