So this idea came to me a while back when the TV series of Supergirl came out. With Batgirl being one of my favorite DC female superheroes I wanted to do a special stand alone story for her. Originally I was wanting to do the story in the form of a TV series and have each chapter be like a TV episode. But to do that I would had to have made some pretty extra long chapters to fit a whole episode in so instead I changed it to be more like a movie than a TV show . And with a Batgirl movie in the works now seems like the perfect time to write this.
She slowly crawled her way out of the building and into the ally way, bloodied and bruised after being ambushed. She thought she could take up the mantel, pick up after where the Batman left off, but she soon found herself in way over her head. She thought she was responding to a hostage situation pulled off by the Black mask gang, only to find out too late that she had walked right into a ambush and found herself surrounded by Black mask nearly all of his men. Receiving a bullet to her right shoulder then two more during the fight she found herself over powered by the gang and if it wasn't for the sound of police sirens, they might of very easily beaten her to death.
It had taken all her strength just to get up and walk out the opposite direction of the police lights to avoid getting seen by the cops. After all her father was the police Commissioner and if he saw her passed out and bloodied on the street's he could unmask her and find out her secret, then who the hell knows what would happen then?
Blood was still spilling from her gunshot wound as she made her way down the ally, she was turning pale and starting to lose consciousness the further she walked. If she didn't get medical attention soon she would surely bleed out. She soon found her legs weakening, not able to support her own body wait any more she collapsed on the hard ground. She just saw the shadowy figure of a man walking up and standing over her as she passed out.
Three months earlier.
"Dad I'll be fine, plus it's time for me to move out on my own, can't live under your roof forever." 21 year old Barbara Gordon said over the phone as she removed boxes from the U-haul truck into her new apartment.
"Well I for one see no problem with that logic." Barbara's father, police commissioner Jim Gordon replied on the other end of the line.
"Dad, you can't baby me forever." Barbara laughed, taking the box inside and setting it on the floor.
"I'm just looking out for your best interest that's all. It's what father's do. Your going to miss my home cooking though."
"Hey I'll still be over to visit when I can, I'm less then twenty miles away it's not like I'm in a complete other state."
"The other side of Gotham is a complete other state when your letting your daughter move out on her own.
"Well it's not like I'm completely on my own." Barbara corrected, as she walked back outside to get another box. "I am going have to room mates I hear. And they are nurses
"Really," Gordon responded "Well that sounds encouraging, what's their names."
"Well I'm not positive considering I only heard of them when I signed the lease the apartment but I think the land lord said one of their names is Sarah Strong and the other's name is Harleen Quinzell."
"Well I'm sure you three will become good friends in know time. So you start your job at Wayne Enterprise tomorrow.
"Yep in the I.T department. Although I must say it's feels weird that I am going to work for the second richest man in America. I'll admit I'm nervous.
"Well just make sure to make a good first impression when you see him tomorrow and you'll be fine. You're a smart girl and know more about computers and technology then I can dream. I barely know how to work the internet and you can take computers apart and put them back together and run a complete diagnostic to see if it's running right with your eyes closed.
"And one hand tied behind my back." Barbara smirked as she laid another box down on the floor.
"Well it's more than I could ever wish to do."
Barbara saw a car pulling up to the driveway and knew it had to be her new roommates coming to greet her.
"Hey dad I have to go my roommates are hear to meet me."
"Say no more Babs, just make sure you call me later tonight when you can."
"Will do daddy, love you bye." Barbara clicked her phone off just as the door to her roommate's car opened.
"Babsy!" The first girl, a highly energetic woman with blonde hair tied into to pony tales said with a thick accent. The woman ran up to greet her with a big hug. "So nice to finally see you I'm Harleen but you can just call me Harley, everyone else does."
"Nice to meet you Harley" Barbara coughed, Harley was squeezing a little to tight her hugs.
"Oh I just know we are going to be the best of friends!" Harley said excited.
"Sorry Barbara she's king of a hugger." The other woman that must have been Sarah said
"Sarah Strong right?" Barbara asked once Harley finally let go.
"Correct," Sarah replied, Sara was just a couple inches shorter than Harley and had black hair with red highlights. "Need help unloading any?"
"Um yeah." Barbara replied "I'm not even halfway unpacked"
"Leave it to me new roomie." Harley replied "I'll have all this stuff unpacked in record time." Harley dove into the Uhaul truck and came out carrying to boxes at a time.
"Quite a sense of humor for a nurse." Barbara replied as both her and Sarah grabbed boxes
"She can be serious on the job, but she just likes to look on the bright side of life and make people smile."
"You two know each other long?"
"We've been roommate's and best friends since collage." Sarah replied "We both recently graduated and wanted to continue to room together since we were such great friends and we even decided to get jobs together."
"Sounds like you two really have something special."
"So what do you do for a living Barbara?"
"Well I just recently got a job at Wayne Enterprise in the I.T department."
"Wait, you are about to work for Bruce Wayne himself?" Harley gasped "Oh my god I'm so jealous. Is it true what they say that he has a girl on each shoulder?"
"Well I only met him when he interviewed me and I didn't see any women on him."
"So he's single then?" Harley said "Think you can hook me up with a date or have you already called dibs on him."
"Harley," Barbara snickered "Bruce is my boss I don't think it would look to good to hit on my boss, besides he has to be at least ten years older than me."
"Ah men like to date younger women all the time, especially celebrities."
Barbara started to feel a little weirded out at the thought of that and decided to change the topic
"So I hear that the two of you are nurses."
"Well not exactly medical nurses but more like Psychologist." Sarah replied "We work as Psychologist at Arkham Asylum."
"What?" Barbara gasped "How did you get on at Arkham, why would you want to get on at Arkham? That place is filled with the craziest and most dangerous psycho's in all of Gotham."
"Which is why me and Sarah decided to work there." Harley joined in. "We both have always been fascinated with how the Gotham City big bad's think and would love to dive into there minds in hope to cure them."
"You actually think you can cure those people?"
"Well we know it won't be easy." Sarah replied "Lot's of people has tried and so far only one villain has been one hundred percent cured and transformed into a honest citizen. But We're up to the challenge. To know that I helped a former super criminal become a honest citizen would be a dream come true."
"Well I wish you luck on that. It would make my dad's job a bit easier if a lot of those freaks were no longer trying to destroy Gotham, with him being the police Commissioner and all."
"You call them freaks I call them misunderstood lost souls." Sarah replied.
"And that's the last box!" Harley replied dropping the last box in the living room. "You are officially moved in new Roomie. I say this calls for a celebration. Who wants Pizza? I'm buying.
The rest of the day was spent with the trio unpacking Barbara's things into her room while just telling each other stories about themselves. The one that had Harley nearly on the ground was while they were eating their pizza. Barbara told them about when during Batman's early days Barbara ounce hacked into Batman's computer software in order to feed him information on the criminals he was after. Barbara was just eleven at the time and Batman was still considered by many in the police department, including then Sergeant Jim Gordon a criminal and was trying to take him down. Barbara's father was so angry when he found out that Barbara was helping Batman and threatened to lock her in her room until she was thirty. He ended up grounding her for two months until Gordon found out that Batman wasn't the threat he thought he was. Barbara said she still had no regrets about her action.
"Hacking into the Batman's computer with your father being the police Commissioner?" Harley laughed. "And here I thought I was the crazy one."
"Hey I knew the Batman wasn't the criminal everyone thought he was and I was just trying to help him see it, doesn't matter though now everything is good. So anyway you have any plans for the rest of the evening, I got a great movie collection if you want to watch a movie."
"Love to Bab's but I'm start interviewing a client that recently arrived and I need to get ready for him." Harley said "He's pretty dangerous and I have to be prepared for him otherwise things can go south in a hurry."
"Oh really who is he?"
"I'm not inclined to tell, but he is pretty insane."
"I have to do some work related stuff as well Barbara" Sarah replied "But we will hang out again tomorrow I promise."
"You know we will." Harley replied "We are going to be the best of friends by the end of the week. You won't regret rooming with us I swear it."
"Oh trust me I can already tell."
After Dinner Barbara decided to call her father and let him know how her evening went. She told him about her roommates and how they were already getting along really well and how Harley claims that they are going to be the best of friends by the end of the week.
"Well things seem to be going pretty good for you glad to hear."
"So how are things holding up on your side daddy." Barbara asked
"Well I wish I was having your kind of luck."
"What's wrong?"
"It's Batman sweety, He's gone."
"Gone, what do you mean gone, as in dead?"
"No just gone. Left to go join the Justice League."
"But what will happen to Gotham without it's savior?"
"That's what I'm scared about."
So yeah, this is how the Batgirl movie would totally go if I was in charge with writing the script. Hope you are enjoying it so far. Not much action in the first chapter but it's a origin story so I kind of have to build up the characters first. Things will get going later on. Till then hope you enjoyed this.