"We will be landing in less than one hour, ma'am. Did you finish your drink?" the stewardess asked the young girl around the age of sixteen with short red hair and brown eyes.
"Oh…here you go." she handed her the empty glass as she smiled and walked back to the stewardess cabin.
"May, isn't she a little young to be a millionaire?" the stewardess asked as she placed the glass in the dish holder.
"Children these days are brilliant so who knows, she looks kind of sad you know." another stewardess answers as they both notices the girl looking out of the private jet's window with her chin in the cup of her hand while staring blankly out the window.
"She probably doesn't have any true friends. After all that is what happen when you are child with money." the woman who asks the questioned states her opinion of their flyer when the sign "PREPARE FOR LANDING" glows interrupting their conversation.
'I can't believe that I am returning back to this dreary city after two years of my freelancing job.' The girl thought as the plane broke through the clouds and a city of rather dim lights was uncovered.
'Even from here nothing has change much…after all this is where I first got my little side job.' She thought as she buckled up her seat beat when turbulence shook the plane a little while the wheels came out from underneath the plane.
'It did sound like it was urge and the work was getting boring anyway so I appreciate this little break,' she thought as she felt the tires connect with the runway when a slight jerk was felt and the brakes applied to slow down their forward motion.
The plane begins to veer right as she sees that they were pulling a docking area with the guide signaling where to go and then motion for the pilot that he was in the rectangle.
Next was the humming of the bridge extending out to the jet's door when the sight of her two stewardess begins to unpack her two carry-on bags while her suitcase would be rolling out on the luggage strip when she got there.
Lucky for her the airport was not that busy that it took less then thirty minutes to pick up her luggage. Anyone visiting would think for a major airport that this would be the busiest place out of the city but to those who were born here know the reason why.
Gotham City is a high-profiled city that holds the worst of the worst villains that you can think of. The crime rate is so high that if it were not for the Dark Knight then this would have seriously affected the population of Gotham. Yet and still some people choose to stay here for whatever reason they may be.
The girl had rolled her luggage along the marble floor as some passed her to get back to there jobs none appeared to be tourists. A sign that had MS. BARABA GORDON written on it with the neatest of handwriting, which was being held up by a older looking man with dark pepper colored hair on the sides with a chauffer uniform on.
"Alfred, is that you?" the girl names Barbara Gordon runs over to the chauffer entrapping him in a fatherly daughter kind of fashion.
"Yes, Ms. Gordon it is me. It is good to see you have been taking excellent care of yourself." he stated when they broke from the hug as he headed over to grabbed her dropped luggage from when she saw him.
"If it wasn't for your recipe book you slipped in my luggage I would have probably starved to death. So how is everyone?" Barbara asks while the man name Alfred holds her bags and guides her to the car.
In traditional fashion, he opened the door for her until she was safely in and closed it back. He then opens the trunk and gently places her valuables in the back making sure not to break any souvenirs that she may have in her bag.
She waited till he rounded the driver side of the car and cranked up the engine and pilled off into traffic to pose her question again to the butler.
"So how is Bruce and Dick doing?" Barbara asked as she enjoyed the cushioned seat of the old fashioned English styled car.
"Ah Master Bruce is doing well! You know Master Dick has ventured off and formed his own team, but I will let Master Bruce tell you all about that. Oh and by the way, what would you like to have for dinner tonight?" Alfred answers his young passenger question while asking his own.
"My favorite would do. After all this is the only place I can get a home cooked steamed lobster with rice pilaf and a salad with a tall glass of iced tea. Oh I am getting hungry, just by thinking about it." Barbara answers as her hand were at her stomach.
"It's good to see your sense of humor hasn't change one bit, Barbara." Alfred says as they comes to a stop at a traffic light that was red as Barbara slides into a comfortable sleeping position as the city landscape lulls her off to sleep.
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"Barbara, wake up," a hand gently shakes her as she gave a brief stretch before yawning and than rubbing the sleep out of her eye.
"It seems as the plane ride tired you. Alfred said you had fell asleep during the car ride over here." A man silhouette came in to view when she notices it was none other than Gotham's most eligible and wealthiest bachelor, Bruce Wayne.
Yet he only allowed three people close to him to know of his secret. Since he would be mostly targeted for what he kept so well hidden from the public eyes that could bring harm to the people around him. That was the burden of being the cape crusader of Gotham City, you rarely have any down time to yourself.
The smell of dinner hit her nose, which causes her rumbling stomach as she waits till Bruce moves a good distance so she can place her feet on the ground.
"I have a job that you might be interested in. It will allow you to see Dick again." Bruce states as they were making their way towards the dining room.
"Just because this job concerns Dick, you think I would jump headfirst without knowing any information. Come on Bruce! You have taught me better than that." Barbara stated her opinion.
"If I offended you than you have my sincerest apology. I just thought that since I had brought you two up under my wings than you two would be close. After all, not that many children are stable enough to be a crime fighter. I merely thought that you would be concern about his safety." Bruce apologized for his accusation.
"Look Bruce, it is no problem you have a good motive after all, so you're forgiven." Barbara says as she takes a seat at the dining room table.
Bruce could not help but to smile 'She has really matured from the last time that I saw her. I hope she can take what I am about to offer her or we might never have this opportunity again.'
"Dig in you two," Alfred proclaims after handing them their respective plates before taking a seat in front of Barbara.
"So are you going to get to the point or are we going to discuss this in the bat layer?" she whispers the last part as she was personally tired of prolong the reason she was called back to Gotham for.
"Surely I taught you patience but obviously you can't wait a little longer? We can have a causal talk about your last assignment. I read your reports they were very detailed, which I am proud of. So how did you like it over there?' Bruce asks after cutting his lobster tail in half with his knife.
"It was better than coming back to this dreary dump! If it wasn't for the people that I care about where not here than I would have never come back. This place reeks too much of Joker's gas, Penguin's fishy smell and Frost's obsession with trying to freeze people." Barbara states while she fills her mouth with lettuce that had ranch sauce.
"Ah come on now, it's not that bad. I believe your dad don't think so. Do you want to call him and tell him that you are in town?" Bruce inquires about her father's situation on her leaving Gotham at such an early age under false impressions.
"No, because then I might end up leaving for this job that has your interest and possibly mines since it is taking so long to get too." Barbara responds by grabbing the butter and the knife when a meow catches her attention.
She follows the sound before she hurls the knife in the direction when she sees a woman in a full body cat suit appear out of the small dark corner with Barbara's knife in her hand. "You know kids should be more careful with sharp objects. Since they don't know how to aim."
"Catwoman! What are you doing here?" Barbara pose as the two other men seem to be a peace that a criminal was in the house and looks as if she was at her own home.
"Oh so we are eating lobster tails today, Bruce did you ask for this?" Catwoman questions as she takes a seat at the dining room table.
"Why no Selina, I didn't but Barbara asked for it. This is her home welcoming. How you think we did, lively eh?" Bruce state with a smile on his face.
'Selina? He's smiling…whoa what is going on here?' Barbara thought to herself as she was still trying to process why was Catwoman sitting at their dining room table and the fact that Bruce was okay with it.
"Kid, you got good taste you know. Women with the taste of the finer things in life is someone I can get along well with." She claims as she had her elbows on the table while her fingers were intertwine with each other supporting her chin.
"My name is not kid!" Barbara had to pause to chew her food, "I am sixteen years old."
"I am aware of how old you are, but kid fits you so much better, don't you agree with me Bruce?" Selina or Catwoman asks as her eyes cut to where Bruce was silently eating his food.
"Oh I don't want to get drag into a female fight. They can turn deadly." Bruce teases both of the women for being violent.
"Should have know you would have taken the neutral side on this argument. You must care about this kid just like the other one." Selina states as she changes her position by placing her arms folds them across the table.
'Dike meet her too? I wonder was he as surprised as I am?' she thought as she decides to play along with what was happening.
"You still haven't told her have you? Bruce, you are up to no good again and I like that…I think she waited long enough and you even feed her. Don't you agree kid?" Selina asked her as she scratched the back of her biceps.
Barbara eyes Bruce as if trying to send him a message of what was going on and more importantly how did she know before me.
"Agreed. Thank you Albert you outdid yourself on this meal. If you need us we will be in the Bat Cave. Let's go Barb, time is wasting." Bruce states as he stands up and place his napkin on the table while the two other ladies follow suit.
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"At least the Bat Cave has not change that much," Barbara states as she grabs the pole and it sends her flying downward to the base level of operation where a large monitor computer screen sat in the middle of the layer with an equally large keyboard.
Bruce had pushed one of the buttons and a image of four teenagers appeared on the right with names underneath it, "Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire…what kind of names are those?"
"They are the members of the team known as Teen Titans and there leader is none other than…Dick or should I say Robin." Selina stated, as she looked comfortable in her seat.
"So that was what Alfred was talking about, Teen Titans, eh? It has a nice ring to it if you think about it. So what is so important about Robin's team?" Barbara asked.
"It is not the team but rather who is after the team. Their arch nemesis that goes by the name of the Brain and his Brotherhood of Evil is who we are really targeting. It seems as if they are looking for young protégé to enter their league." Bruce pauses after showing her a picture of the Brain.
"This is where I come into play? You know that means a new suit that is not affiliated with you or Robin. That would be a dead give away to me being a mole." Barbara states after hearing half of the information.
"Oh…she is a smart kid…do you know what else is involved?" Selina states as she was kicking her feet flipper style on the end of the chair.
"No, no clue at all," Barbara state the truth as she turns to look at Bruce so that he can finish what he was going to tell her.
"You are aware that you will be fighting against all five of them and the odds of you winning without their superpowers in play would be you hands down. However that is not the case, so Selina is going to train you so that you can easily mask your role. We have a three month block period before they convey for the meeting." Bruce states why Selina was here in the first place
"So let me see if I got this, you want me to act as a mole in the Brotherhood of Evil as well as fight the Teen Titans and get as close as possible to the Brain to find out his grand scheme?" Barbara asks when she hears an applause from Selina.
"Good thing you're a quick study kid or you might have no chance of surviving my training." She claims as she was looking up at the ceiling of the layer.
"You would be surprised at Barb, Selina. Just remember that I fully accepted her and Dick as my right and my left arm but anyway back to the point, you should get started as soon as possible." He says more towards Selina than Barbara who personally could not wait to get started.
"Alright, I will put what I had to do on hold to train this kid…come kid let's go." Selina swings her legs off of the chair until they touch the floor and stands up.
"Kid, you are in for the ride of a lifetime." was the last thing she says after looking her new apprentince up and down.