Gotham City

It was a particularly chilly night in Gotham city, the wind making it feel colder than before. Only a few brave people milled about the streets, for night was falling. The setting sun elongating the shadows in the already dark alleyways. In one particular alleyway three men huddled around a small fire, the flames licking the inside of a metal barrel.

"We should get going," one of the scrawnier three said, glancing around nervously, "the Bat comes out at night."

"Ah, don't be so paranoid Jerry, maybe we'll get to meet 'is new little partner," a second man said to the scrawny man, now known as Jerry.

"Who, Robin?" The third man joins in the conversation.

"No you dimwit!" The second man exclaims in exasperation, "They're calling her Batgirl, heard the Big 'Ol Bat finally took her under his wing," he paused snickering at his own joke, "after a while of her free-lancing."

"So there's more reason we should get going before it gets too dark." The first man, Jerry, says. At this point very little sunlight was entering the alley, and the fire was providing a majority of light. The men murmur their agreements as they start to make their way towards the exit of the alley. The fire flickers, casting erratic shadows around the alley, then dies completely.

"Crap!" Jerry exclaims loudly while the other two start spinning around anxiously "H-h-he's here, he's coming for us!" In the darkness one of the men starts backing up towards where he thought the entrance to the alley is only to bump into something hard and metallic. The man turns around with wide eyes as he is pulled further into the shadows giving out a short yelp. The two others glance in the direction of the noise, both gulping noisily. They see a shadow of a man walking towards them, both releasing a sigh of relief

"Quit messing with us man!" The person standing next to Jerry exclaims, a look of relief washing over his face. The shadow continues to walk agonizingly slowly towards them, stopping in a patch of light being cast by the now rising moon. Jerry and his friend both let out an audible gasp as they see the outline of what appears to be a man wearing thick, metal-plated clothes and an attached hood, with what they assumed to be a handle of a sword sticking out behind his back.

"Aaaaaah!" they both scream simultaneously, running in any direction away from the man.

A rooftop several blocks away

"Batman, this is Batgirl, come in Batman." A lean figure crouching on a ledge of a tall building speaks, holding a hand to her ear.

"I read you Batgirl." A deep, gravelly voice responds in her ear.

"I heard a scream a few blocks to my east, should I moved towards it or, like, ya' know, I don't have to or anything." Batgirl replies with a tone emphasizing Batman's finality in the matter.

"Be careful." As soon as the sentence was finished Batgirl jumped off the roof she was occupying and shot her high-power grapnel gun in the direction she needed to move in. Mid-air, she caught sight of two men running scared from a dark alleyway. Frowning, she detached her grapnel and dropped to the roof below her, using her cape at the last second to soften her landing. She started running and jumping from roof to roof until she was positioned above the alley she saw the men running from. Her frown only deepened when she saw a man tied up and unconscious, a wanted poster with his face on it pinned to the wall next to him. She jumped down and walked cautiously towards the man and the poster, which upon further inspection was pinned to the wall with some sort of metal shaped in a lighting bolt with sharpened edges.

"This is something weird," she said, hand moving up to her cowl again, "you might want to check this out."

"Stay where you are Batgirl, I'm on my way." Batman said through the built in communicator.

"Wait a minute, I see something." Batgirl replied, catching sight of motion in the corner of her eye. Batman began to reply, telling her to stay put, but she just cut the link. She approached a corner carefully, making sure to make as little noise as possible, when, out of nowhere, a cable wraps around her ankle dragging her up into the sky. She let out a little yelp, immediately covering her mouth so as to not alert any potential enemies. Reaching into her utility belt, she pulls out a small knife and cuts the rope, grabbing onto a fire escape on her descent, making her way down at a more cautious pace. She hears a soft clink on behind her and spins around, coming face to face with a person wearing a leather suit, a cape, an added hood and what looked to be a ski mask without any holes for the eyes of mouth. Instincts taking over, she went for a right hook, only to be blocked by the stranger's arm. Narrowly missing a kick to the stranger's stomach, she did a back handspring to gain some distance from her opponent who, to her complete bewilderment, was just standing there, looking at her and making no move to reach for what she assumed was his weapon on his back. Assuming it is a 'him'. A sharp noise was made on her left, distracting her gaze. She found out it was the Batman's grapnel gun hooking on to the ledge, and, returning her gaze to the previous location, found nothing. She stood there, puzzled, until she heard Batman land next to her and a second pair of feet, which she assumed was Robin.

"I told you to wait," Batman said, breaking the silence that had settled, "and you broke direct orders and engaged in what looks to be a fight with air." he said, motioning to her feet, still spread in a fighting stance.

"The weirdest thing just happened." was all that came out of her mouth.

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So there was my first chapter, constructive criticism welcome.

For the "stranger"'s costume, it's like Prometheus from Arrow season 5 without any holes for over the face and it's just one piece of material

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