Chapter 01: Origins of the Operator Part 1
A ten year old girl was typing away furiously on a computer with half of a bagel in her mouth with round glasses drooping down her nose, her green eyes strained a bit.
"Operator, are you sure about this?" A voice came out of the headset she had on her short black hair with bangs that barely covered a lightning bolt scar on her forehead, the tips of the hair were dyed a dark red color.
Pausing to take the bagel out of her mouth, Operator swallowed what she was chewing before answering. "I'm certain that this was the location used to make those drugs, now shut it down."
It was only a few seconds before gunfire could be heard on the headset. "Crap."
"Told you so." Operator said smugly as she leaned back to show a ruffled black hoodie on over her small frame as she wore pants and white socks, one of them had a hole where her toe came out in.
"Not now Operator." The voice shouted back as curses could be heard from the gunmen before the sound of flesh being hit caused Operator to shake her head.
"You doubted me, so I have bragging rights." Operator said in a teasing tone. "When will you learn that I'm a prodigy at this."
"Apparently soon because you won't shut up about it." The voice snapped back in annoyance at her, but she just smirked as she heard the fighting.
The gunfire finally died down before Operator tapped the headset. "You still there?" She asked despite knowing fully well that he had it.
"Yeah I'm fine." The voice answered back. "I'll swing by before heading back home alright?"
"Can you pick up a pizza?" Operator asked hopefully only to hear a snort.
"No, I am not heading into a Pizza Store dressed like this to get you a pizza."
With that said, the communication line died down as Operator sighed and pushed herself back from the computer.
The things she could do with a computer and not get caught would astound a lot of people if they got the chance to know her.
Giving a smirk, she reached over and pressed a button as music began to blare through the room.
Bopping her head to the beat as she continued scanning what was going on in Gotham City through Cell Phones.
The cell towers helped build a digital map in an area with a phone, and considering that there's a cell phone every few feet no matter where you go, she could see what everyone was doing at any time because of the phones they carry.
She didn't notice someone entering as the song began playing her favorite part.
"~H20, I'm so Delirious. Don't you know, I'm so Delirious.~" The figure shook his head as Operator began singing along. "~Everywhere I go, I'm so Delirious. What's up yo, why so Delirious? With my crew-.~"
"Really Operator?"
Operator gave a small cry of shock as she spun around to see her visitor. "Robin, you know I hate it when you do that." She said to her visitor who gave a chuckle.
"I know, that's why I did it." Robin said flashing a smirk.
Robin was a fifteen year old teenager with black hair in a red kevlar titanium weaved tunic with an R emblem on the upper left chest area and green pants with a yellow utility belt around his waist as he wore a black cape that was yellow on the inside.
His eyes were covered by a dark green domino mask.
Quickly pausing the music, Operator looked at the smug teen. "Do you really have to wear the mask in here Jay?"
"Tch, I still can't believe you figured out who I was." Robin muttered shaking his head as he easily took the mask off, showing blue eyes.
"It isn't really that hard if people do look for the answer." Operator said in a deadpanned tone.
Jason Peter Todd gave her a look. "Oh be quiet Jade." He said causing Jade Lily Potter to stick her tongue out in retaliation. "So did you find anything new on your network?"
"Nothing but the encryptions left by the Riddler." Jade said shaking her head.
"Yeah, don't even try going for that." Jason said with a smirk.
"But it's begging for me to hack it." Jade whined only for Jason to mess with her hair just to irritate her. "Hey!"
"Leave that stuff to Oracle." Jason told her laughing at her face.
If one were to look at the two of them, you would think that they were siblings at a first glance and with their hair color and mannerisms towards each other no one would blame you for thinking that.
Jade finally smiled as she looked up at the teen who was pretty much an older brother figure in her life as she remembered how it all came to this.
~Three Years Ago~
A seven year old Jade was on a rooftop of a school with computer parts in front of her as she began tinkering with them.
It was an odd place, but no one could get up there unless they climbed the old drain pipe on the back, something that was deemed too dangerous for other people for fear that it would break, but her small weight allowed her to do so easily.
She was now dressed in a blue sweater that was two times too big for her.
Jade was a pretty unusual girl who always kept to herself around other people when she wasn't reading or on the school computer in the library.
People would call her a troubled child, and the rumors about her would support that, but it wasn't her fault.
She just… Had a knack for computers, ever since she took apart an old computer of her cousin's when he got a new one.
It was going into the dumpster anyways, so she snuck it back out and took it apart in her room when she was four.
Seeing how it was kept together amazed her and she studied those parts for two months before putting it back together and much to her surprise it worked faster than when her cousin had it.
Since then she began looking more into electronics, old systems that her cousin went to throw away, she took apart and put back together.
Now you may be wondering why she had to sneak the computer and systems to her room to take them apart?
Well her family isn't really the best family and that is putting it mildly.
Jade felt her eyes harden as she thought about her family and subconsciously rubbed her arm, wincing as she did so.
The Dursleys were a family of people who strived to be normal and anything abnormal they hated with a passion, like her with her quirks and the fact that strange things happened around her.
The time she was running from someone and she ended up on a roof a second later, or the time she somehow turned her teacher's wig blue just by looking at it.
And there was that one time her hair was cut, but it grew back to the same length the very next day.
That was considered freakish to them and she wasn't the only one they hated.
Beings such as Superman, Flash, hell any superheroes they badmouthed whenever they appeared on the TV, calling them freaks of nature and said something about them needing to be put down or locked up.
Jade however loved watching them as she thought they were cool.
But back to her family.
Vernon Dursley was a whale of a man with absolutely no neck that work for a company called Grunnings, something that sold drills.
Anyone outside of the family saw him as a hard worker who loved his wife and son and took his job seriously, but inside the house he was a lazy man who belittled her.
Always calling her girl, Jade never knew her real name until she had to be registered to school for them to appear normal, but they registered her as a delinquent that would need watching and spread rumors about her throughout the neighborhood that she was a trouble child with mental health problems.
A lot of people believed that because of her lack of socialization at the time.
And then they moved to Gotham City, USA from Little Whinging, England due to her Uncle Vernon's job.
Petunia Dursley, formerly Evans, was the opposite of Vernon in appearances, she was so skinny you would think she would break with enough neck for both her and her husband.
She was always a polite woman to people who saw her, but she was a gossiper who eavesdropped on the neighbors for a 'juicy' story and would ruin friendships with her rumors just to amuse her.
As soon as Jade was old enough, Petunia started to have her work around the house and learn how to cook at a young age so she wouldn't have to.
Finally there was Dudley Dursley, he took after his father in weight and seemed to be making it a life goal to surpass it at only being the same age as her.
Dudley was practically trained from birth to hate her and that made Jade feel sorry for him despite the hatred she felt at him because while she was jealous at how the Dursleys loved him and treated him as if he could do no wrong, they made her a pariah and blamed her for everything.
It's not like she asked to be left on their doorstep as a baby.
Jade heard the bell to get to class, but she ignored it and continued working.
She was already labeled a delinquent, why bother trying to change their minds?
Jade actually did try to change the Dursley's mind about her when she first fixed Dudley's computer by showing them, thinking so innocently that they would be proud of her.
What she got instead was yelling for stealing it and locked in her room with a bloody nose.
That was when she stopped caring what they thought.
Instead she stayed away from home as much as she could unless she had a list of chores, further showing 'proof' that she was the delinquent that the Dursley's claimed for her to be, they were gaining the sympathy of having to put up with her.
What she did was raid the junk yard for broken laptop's and using the workable parts in various ones to build one for herself as she was slowly gaining an idea on how to build one.
The tools she stole from various people.
A screwdriver from one family.
A wrench from another.
Her small and skinny frame helped her hide and move quickly as it was.
Now she doesn't skip every class, she attended enough to pass.
Clasping the screen down, Jade began to mess with it before she saw it power up and smiled.
She now had her own laptop.
With that done, she messed with it some more and hacked into the school wi-fi, they really need to choose a better password than XxSchoolGothamxX, seriously.
Once she did that, she began to look up various news articles about the Justice League as she wasn't allowed to look them up at home.
But the one she came to look at the most was the Batman.
The reason being was that the city she lived in was the city that the Batman resided in and rumors were that he was some sort of supernatural creature, although some people say he's just a normal human.
Whatever the case was, Jade wanted to learn all she could about the Gotham City Protector.
~That Night~
"Don't burn the Pork Chops." Petunia told Jade as she was cooking while the Dursley's were in their home.
"Yes Aunt Petunia." Jade said in a low tone.
As usual, Petunia was sitting around watching TV with Dudley and Vernon while Jade was in charge of making dinner again.
She had to hide her laptop in her bedroom in this house so the Dursley's wouldn't see it.
As she worked, she overheard Vernon complaining about how the freaks in Gotham were making life harder for ordinary folks because of that plant lady Poison Ivy destroying a part of the Grunning building in a fight with the Batman.
"Out of control is what they are, there should be a martial law on all of them." Vernon spat out in anger. "Damn near lost my job."
Truthfully the Dursley's didn't know about Gotham's… Crime problems when they first moved there otherwise Vernon would've declined the promotion to get to where he was at.
As Jade continued listening, grease shot out of the pan, hitting her arm causing her to give a small cry as she burned herself.
"Careful with the food girl." Vernon shouted as her arm was stinging.
"Y-Yes Uncle Vernon." Jade said trying her best to ignore the pain as she continued.
She would have to keep the burn hidden again.
Thankfully they didn't stay up for too long after dinner, with her cleaning up all the while before she walked down to her room which was the basement with no heating.
But Jade liked it, it was a lot better than the cupboard underneath the stairs that she used to sleep in back in Privet Drive.
The Dursley's were disappointed in not having a cupboard to place her in so they placed her in the basement.
Turning the computer on, Jade hacked into the street camera on their block with a bored expression.
It was always the same thing at night, some people pass by obviously drunk as hell, a dog would stop at the neighboring yard to use the bathroom and sleep for an hour before leaving.
Jade laid her cheek into her left hand while it was propped on the elbow, bored out of her mind-.
Jade stopped as she saw something unusual on the camera she switched to, she could only reach up to two blocks from this area with her signal.
It was a fight.
Jade's eyes widened as she recognized Batman taking on a group of thugs using hand-to-hand combat, she could practically hear the bones break as he was brutal against them.
Ducking and weaving through their punches, Batman stopped two at once, grabbing their fists before using them to jump up and kick three back as they tried to tackle him at the same time before he landed and twisted the two fists he held, effectively breaking them.
"Whoa." Jade said in awe at how someone could fight like that as she saw one of them run off as Batman was still fighting three so she switched cameras to see where he was going only to see another person jump down and kick him on the other camera.
It was Robin the Boy Wonder.
Landing on the ground with a smirk, Robin was just as brutal as Batman, surprising for only being a young teenager in looks.
But as he was fighting this one guy, another one was a bit behind him taking a gun out.
Jade didn't know why she did it, but she tapped on her laptop, sending a signal to the nearby junction box, causing it to explode sending the man flying as Robin looked at it in surprise after taking the man he was fighting down.
That was when Batman came into view on the camera from the sky as if he could fly, giving proof that he could be supernatural.
Jade saw Robin's lips move, talking to Batman who glanced at the sparking junction box as he checked the man that Jade sent flying seeing that he was still breathing.
After a second he looked right at the camera causing Jade to quickly log off, shutting her laptop down, especially when she saw another signal attempting to lock onto her's.
Someone just tried to track her, most likely Batman.
Thankfully she managed to shut it down before it did lock onto her.
'Why did I do that?' Jade thought in confusion as she didn't really interfere when anyone else was being hurt in Gotham if she caught it.
… Well she may have sent an anonymous email to GCPD about it with the signal bouncing everywhere but that was it.
This was the first time she truly interfered with something.
"I should probably stay off my laptop for a bit." Jade muttered.
~Outside~
"I lost the signal." A voice said from within Batman's cowl as he gave a frown. "Whoever it was shut themselves down before I could finish tracing it."
"Keep an eye out for that signal Oracle." Batman told her as he looked at the unconscious thug. "Something tells me this isn't going to be the last time we see it."
Robin had a frown at how he didn't see the other guy, too caught up in the thrill of fighting the first one, something that he knew Batman would berate him for.
"So who do you think it is?" Robin asked curiously. "The only person I know who can do that is Oracle."
"That's what worries me." Batman said.
To Be Continued…
Yes a new story to go with my HP/Gorillaz story and it's another HP one, this time with a female Harry.
Crossover with only Batman at first and may go further into DC.
As you can see this is kind of inspired by Watch Dogs with the hacking and while Jade, the female Harry is a prodigy at hacking, she cannot fight to save her life… Yet that is.
Right now she's a malnourished child who is extremely good at running and hiding due to practice from her cousin.
Yes you can see that she changes quite a bit from the part at the beginning in the span of three years, how it happens will be revealed as well as the fate of the Dursley's.
Right now I hope you like the first chapter and I will try to continue it as soon as I can along with my Wizard of the Gorillaz story.
And yes she eventually gets a sibling relationship with Jason Todd the second Robin, you can guess that will cause a lot of drama when Death of the Family comes around.
So tell me what you think and if I should continue.
By the way who recognized the song that she was listening to in the beginning?