"Tempest!" Huntress yelled. Striking some goon in the chest with a flying kick, then elbowing them in the nose, successfully knocking them out.
"Kinda busy!" I replied back. Jumping over two other guys, kicking them into each other, then kicking one in the face, knocking him out, and elbowing the other in the stomach, then punching him in the forehead. I watched him crumple next to his buddy, before turning my attention to the reinforcements. We were taking down a drug deal in Blüdhaven, after following a lead I'd found while in Gotham, again. The criminals in Blüdhaven were getting sloppier, and leaving trails in Gotham, and other surrounding cities. So easier leads for me to find, and leasy wasted time, hey, I even got to study for my AP physics test last night! Huntress was fighting her way through some guards in front the shipment, while I was keeping the not-very-useful reinforcements at bay.
I was getting a little board occupying these non-experienced buffoons, so I glanced at Huntresses progress and she was finishing setting the explosives on the crates. She got the lady one and jumped off of the crate. I took the hint, as she started moving towards me, and we moved all of the unconscious goons to the other side of a metal wall so they wouldn't die. There were still some that were conscious, like seven out of the twenty five, and they were dumb enough to keep fighting us, instead of helping they're unconscious compass, or run away from the explosion. We finished moving the unconscious ones, hog tied them quickly, then delevated and tied the ones who weren't unconscious behind the wall so they didn't die either, then ran out of the building right as the explosives went off. To leave, we had to go back into the area where the explosives were, out from behind the protective wall, so we were launched forward a little. We got up and kept running.
"That was a little close, didn't feel like giving us more than a minute and a half?" I directed towards huntress.
she looked over at me with a streight face.
"I knew we could do it, plus it was on your clock too, I shared the time to your holocommunicator, so you knew how long we had." She said. The holocommunicators were the small computers on our upper arms. They were barely noticeable, and very thin, so they didn't add extra weight. We had them strapped a little below our left shoulders, we had similar ones, but mine was cooler, and did more stuff, and both of ours were capable of a lot, but I don't feel like going into the details.
We continued running until we got to the hunt-mobile(god, we need to come up with a better name for it) and jumped in. Huntress pressed the flight button, and the car transformed. We then took off and started heading back home, to Gotham city.
~~~~~~~~~~Six years earlier~~~~~~~~~~
Laurie sat in the shotgun seat in Detective Wilson's police car. She'd come home that day from school to find an empty house. Her parents were gone, but she didn't know that, she just assumed they were out on an errand, so she'd gone over to her neighbors house and asked if she could stay and do her homework, empty houses scared a 10-year-old Laurie, and her neighbor, little old Mrs. Greenland was used to this, seeing as Laurie's parents went out for errands quite often, and was quite happy to spoil and help out the cute little girl next door with her homework and such.
But when it got dark and Laurie's parents still hadn't come over to get her, Mrs. Greenland got worried, and called Detective Wilson to make sure everything was alright. Everything in fact was not alright, because when Detective Wilson went into Laurie's house to check, a small amount of Mr. Harper's blood was on the floor of the kitchen. There was no sign of either parent and there wasn't enough blood loss for there to be death and there wasn't any sign of struggle, detective Wilson's first thought was that Laurie's parents would've been kidnapped. After a few days Laurie's mother's best friend Helena Bertinelli, had flown out to see what had happened.
So Laurie sat and watched out the window and tried to figure out the muted conversation between Mrs. Helena and Detective Wilson. She stared and stared, but eventually gave up and assumed that Detective Wilson was just filling Mrs. Helena in on how her parents were missing. they seemed to finish their conversation without Laurie noticing, and as Detective Wilson opened the car door Lorie stepped out eagerly, happy to be out of the cramped little police car.
"Laurie, do you remember Helena from the last time she visited. Your mom?" He asked.
"I think so, I was seven, right Mrs. Helena?" I replied. Mrs. Helena smiled and nodded, and looked like she was about to say something but then Detective Wilson spoke again.
"Would you be ok with going back home with Helena, just until we find your parents?" He asked.
"I know you must miss them, but while their gone, I'll do my best to take care of you." Mrs. Helena added
"Yeah!" Laurie said happily. The last time Mrs. Helena had come to visit, she played dolls with Laurie, and didn't just ignore her like her moms other friends. As you may guess she very much disliked her mothers other friends.
Laurie went home on the plane with Mrs. Helena, and when the plane landed, there was already a car waiting for Mrs. Helena. After Mrs. Helena introduced Lorie to the driver, they climbed into the backseat, and there was a man in a suit waiting to meet Laurie.
"Hello miss Harper, I am so glad to meet you, Mistress Helena has told me so much about you over the phone, when she left to visit you." The older man said.
"Laurie, this is Clinton, my families trusted, and beloved butler." Helena explained.
"Hi mister Clinton, happy to meet you to!" Laurie said, as Clinton got out of the car, and got in on the front passengers side. The back of the car was blocked off, like a fancy car Laurie had seen in a movie, so it was just Helena and Laurie.
"I know I'm not your mom, but while she is gone, I'll try my hardest to do my best and take care of you." Helena started.
"Thanks Mrs. Helena." Laurie replied sleepily.
"You don't have to call me Mrs., just Helena is fine if you'd like." She added
"Thanks... Helena, um can I go to sleep, I'm pretty sleepy." Lorie asked.
"Oh sure, I'm sure I have a pillow around here somewhere..." Helena said, but as she looked over, Laurie was already asleep.
"I'll take care of you, I know what it's like to loose your family..." She said quietly when she was sure Laurie was asleep.
The car stopped once they reached a stop, and the sudden stop shook Laurie awake. Laurie looked out the window and asked,
"Why are we stopping here, are we taking a train, or are we at an airport? And when are we going to be at your house?" Laurie asked half awake, ranting a little.
Helena giggled a little "This is my house silly."
"Really?" Laurie asked surprised.
Right as Clinton opened the door and said as Laurie looked around at the vast mansion, and the surrounding property.
"Welcome to the Bertinelli manor, miss Harper."
Sorry it's shortish, they get much longer I promise! Thanks for reading!