For those of you who are new this is the third story in a four part series I am doing based on the character of Batgirl. While it's not mandatory to read the other two, this does have themes from the past two stories that crossover so you might want to read both Batgirl: Origins and Batgirl: Betrayel so you don't get confused.
Hope you enjoy.
On the North side of Gotham a grey nineteen seventy mustang pulled up to a gas station. Inside the car was two heavy assault rifles, a duffel bag, military gear including a bullet proof vest, and a pair of ski masks. The drivers of the car was two of Gotham's most wanted fugitives, a married paired of bank robbers Danny and Erin Hall.
The couple who were in their mid thirties had been responsible for a string of robberies stretching all across Gotham as well as into Metropolis throughout the past years. They were known to be extremely ruthless and unforgiving and didn't believe in leaving any witnesses to their crimes. Their was often no limits to the places they targeting, having hit banks, convenient stores, shopping centers as well as dozens among dozens of gas stations throughout the past year.
Today they were at it again, pulling up to a gas pump Erin grabbed the duffel bag and exited the car.
"Remember the plan?"
"Of course I remember the plan," Danny barked back, "I feel the tank up with gas while you ready yourself for the robbery."
"Then sit and wait while I get the cash and take out the witnesses then you drive the getaway car."
"Erin, we've been doing this for a year now, why must you still run the plan by me?"
"Just to make sure you don't fuck it up."
"Why would I fuck it up? We've been doing the same thing for a year now."
"Just stick by the car." Erin growled as she walked inside the gas station and walked towards the bathroom to change into her heist clothes. Mumbling to himself Danny got out of the car and started to fill up the tank.
Hiding in the bushes out of their eye set, something was watching them. A monstrous being that was human in appearance but with grey callus skin, razor sharp nails and teeth, and big yellow eyes. The creature only wore a pair on beat up khaki shorts and didn't have a single hair on it's head. Waiting till Danny's head was turned and his focus was on the gas, the creature crept out of the bushes and walked slowly to where Danny stood.
It wasn't until the creature was in striking distance that Danny noticed a shadow creeping up behind him. Turning around Danny gasped as his eyes came in contact with the seven foot monster in front of him.
"What the hell?" Before Danny could react the creature grabbed Danny by the back of the head and smashed his face into the driver's side window. Not finished with it's attack, the monster pulled over to the driver's side back passenger window and smashed his face into the window again, the creature repeated that action again, and again, smashing Danny's face into every last window in the car, the back window, the right side window, the front passenger window, then finally finishing it off with the windshield.
The monster then threw Danny to the ground, Danny's face completely coated in blood and unrecognizable and he was to weak to get up due to the attack. As a result he watched helplessly as the monster walked inside the gas station where it's other target awaited.
Walking inside the gas station the creature's eyes landed on the front counter. Where the clerk gasped at the sight of the creature that just walked in. The monster lunged at the clerk and smashed the guy's face onto the desk. The monster then rammed it's fist into the glass case holding the hunting knifes and rammed one into the clerk's skull. The monster then wanked the phone right out of the wall and walked into the office where the manager was on the computer, completely unaware at what was going on behind him. That proved fatal because the monster came from behind and wrapped the telephone cord around the manager's neck. The manager gasped and started choking as he tried to get the cord off around his neck but the monster kept pulling tighter and tighter until finally the manager stopped choking. Releasing the cords the manager fell forward on his keyboard dead.
The monster made it's way back outside where Danny still laid by his car near death. All Danny could do was watch as the monster ripped off the door clean off the car. Danny wanted to scream, wanted to beg that thing to stop, but all he could do was cough up blood as the monster swung the door handle, slicing Danny's head clean off his body.
Picking Danny's decapitated head up by the hair the monster made it's way to the ladies room where Erin was changing. Erin was just about finished, putting on her bullet proof vest and pulling out her ski mask when she heard the door open. Freezing and not making a sound she waited, hoping it was just a costumer needing to take a piss. The monster walked to the first stall to find it empty, it then walked to the second stall and saw it was empty too. Finally it reached the final stall and saw the feet of Erin inside. It grabbed the nob and started to tug.
"Hey stupid there is two other stalls here this one is busy." The person on the other end didn't respond, instead it just stood their for a second before lifting it's grey callus hand over the stall. Erin suddenly felt a string of fear coming over her, backing up against the wall as far as she could.
Suddenly the monster lifted Danny's decapitated head above the stall and dropped it in front of Erin's terrified eyes. Erin screamed at sight of Danny's blood soaked head.
"NO DANNY! OH MY GOD!"
A hand came smashing through the wooden door trying to grab Erin, terrified Erin crawled on her belly to try to get to the other stall and run away. That proved to be a big mistake because the monster walked to the other stall and kicked the door in, pinning Erin where she sat.
Erin took out a six shooter and emptied the entire round into the monster. The monster screamed and took a step back with each shot, but all the bullets seemed to do was wound it. After the last shot the monster made it's way toward Erin. Pinned like a mouse in a trap all Erin could do was scream as the monster picked her up by the neck and lift her six inches off the ground. Erin coughed and gasped as she begged the monster for mercy, but her please was unheard as the monster grabbed the back of Erin's head and with one single twist, snapped Erin's neck a full one hundred and eighty degrees.
Out in a black SUV parked behind the bushes two people, a bald middle aged man with round glasses and a black beard, and a young woman in her mid thirties with long black hair watched the slaughter unfold on a computer that was hacked to the security camera's.
"Was all this senseless slaughter necessary Professor Strange?"
"Trust me Ms. Kyle," Strange responded in a law spine tingling voice, "This is only the beginning of our cleansing of Gotham."
"You promised me that only the bad people would get hurt. I didn't agree to help you harm innocents."
"You didn't agree to nothing Ms. Kyle. You only joined when I promised that you would be spared. Those two workers were merely collateral damage, a mild flaw but nothing to concerning."
"Not concerning?" Selina Kyle gasped "Hugo those two workers were innocent, they didn't deserve what happened to them! I did my part, I got you what you needed for your experiment so let me out."
Hugo just chuckled "Oh Ms. Kyle I can't let you go yet,"
"And just why the hell not?"
"Because in order to make this a success I will need more, lots more. You will continue to get me what I want, and as a reward I won't turn you into one of those things."
"Eventually you will be caught you know? Batgirl..."
"Batgirl is not a threat," The monster walked to the back of the SUV where there was a cage opened and ready for him. Hugo walked out of the drivers seat and locked the monster into the cage. When Hugo returned he turned to Selina and issued a stern warning.
"This is only the beginning, there is many more of Gotham's scum out there, destroying this great city. We are going to do what Batman and Batgirl never could,issue a permanent solution to the problem. Careful which side you choose Catwoman, otherwise you could find yourself just like them." Strange pointed to the camera where Selina saw the bodies of Danny and Erin both laying in a pool of blood. Her face going pale Selina nodded in understanding to Hugo's words.
"Anything you say Hugo."
On another side of Gotham three jewel thieves bolted out the store, bags in hand filled with many expensive diamonds and rings. As they ran to their getaway car they suddenly froze when they saw their getaway driver laying on the ground unconscious with his hands and feet bound. Standing on top of the car was Batgirl, her arms crossed, staring down the three thieves. "You know, you picked the wrong day to get on my bad side."
The thieves pulled out guns but with one quick batarange the guns fell out of the thieves, hands, leaving the thieves grabbing their wrists in pain. Batgirl leaped off the car and drop kicked a thief in the chest slamming him against the wall. A second thief grabbed the crowbar that they used to smash the jewel cases and struck Batgirl in the back of the cowl, knocking her to her knees.
"There's three of us Bat bitch and only one of you. You don't stand a chance!"
Batgirl growled as she forced to head to stop spinning, suddenly a part in Batgirl snapped and she eyed the three thieves with fire in her eyes. "Wanna bet?" Getting to her feet she grabbed the wrist of the guy holding the crowbar, snapping his arm backwards as she yanked the crowbar out of his hand. The guy screamed in pain as he heard his bone snap. Batgirl then used his very crowbar on him striking him over the back of the head, his face hitting the cement knocking him unconscious.
A second thief grabbed her by the waist but Batgirl fought him off her and grabbed him by the collar and slammed him onto the roof of the car. She then lifted the guy by the hair before slamming his face onto the car hood three times before throwing him into a parking meter.
Then her attention turned onto the third thief. The thief's eyes widened in terror and he tried to make a dash for it but Batgirl lunged at him, grabbing him by the waist and sending them crashing through the jewelry store window. Getting to her feet Batgirl grabbed the thief by the collar and started dragging him to the front counter.
"No, please, I surrender!" The thief begged, but Batgirl wasn't listening she slammed him on top of the counter and started beating him across the face repeatedly. "Your robbing days are over you scum!"
"Batgirl stop!" Batgirl heard Alfred say through her earpiece. Back in the Batcave Alfred was watching the whole fight through a tiny camera that Batgirl had built into the cowl. The camera was intended for Alfred to send help if Batgirl ever got injured in a battle. But over the past few months Alfred was finding himself using it more to tell Batgirl to ease up of a bad guy as Batgirl was slowly becoming more and more rougher on the Gotham baddies. "He has surrendered, stop your pursuit now."
Grinding her teeth Batgirl tossed the thief to the ground and cuffed him to a the leg of of one of the display tables before contacting her father.
"I got three jewel thieves nabbed at the Gotham city Jeweler on main street, requesting immediate pickup.
Five minutes later Batgirl's father Commissioner Jim Gorden along with three other squad cars pulled up to the jewel shop and led the thieves away. Batgirl was watching from the store rooftop as one of the thieves went off on Jim.
"You should be going after that Batgirl, that's what you should be doing!" The thief said "She's more dangerous then all of us I'm telling you. She's gone completely crazy. She's going to cross the line and kill somebody and when she does that's going be on you for allowing her to unleash her self riotous attack on Gotham!"
"He's not completely wrong Miss Gordon." Alfred spoke over the earpiece.
"I'm not like them," Batgirl protested
"Maybe, but if you keep going the way you are, your going to get somebody killed. Don't let that be on your conscious."
Hearing enough Batgirl turned off her earpiece and glided off.
She was nothing like the scum of this city, she couldn't be.
As you can probably tell this one going to be more darker than the last two. I wanted to show Barbara really struggling mentally after the events of the past story and a dark villain that pushes her to the line felt like the best way to do it.
Hope you like it.