Quick Author's notes:
This is a story of Kara Zor-El from the Supergirl show and Stephanie Brown, pre-New 52. It is rated M for action, language, blood, and possible sexual themes later on in the chapters. This is also gonna be a very slow burn and takes place some time after season 3, possibly missing some things because I haven't seen episode fourteen and up when writing this.
"Winn, calm down. You are speaking way to fast even for me." Kara said, trying to get her friend to take a breath to tell her what was going on. This was not what she thought would happen when she stepped foot into the DEO that morning.
"I think we might have a vigilante on our hands." He said after a moment to compose himself again. "They found guys tied together with a very expensive type of metal cable that they couldn't cut through easily with any knife they had on hand."
"So that wasn't yours and James' doing?" Kara asked, almost concerned with someone else's vigilante work in her city that she had no clue about. "Please tell me you're joking, Winn. It's not funny either way."
"I wish I was. But this stuff isn't exactly cheap and easy to come by. Plus, they also found something that seems straight out of Gotham." He pressed a couple things on his tablet and showed Kara a bat-like shape throwing knife that was found stuck in one of the dumpsters in the alley they criminals were found next to.
In a split second, Kara grabbed the tablet from Winn, taking a moment to study it. She began circling around the middle console as she got closer to the other monitors. "Why did it have to be a bat…" She said to herself before turning to Winn again. "Did the criminals give a description of who got to them?"
Winn took a moment to grab his tablet back to look through the police records to double check. "Uh… All they said about the person was that she had blonde hair and wore black and purple with a bat on her chest."
Well that wasn't what I expected. Kara thought, shaking her head. "I've got to find them and get them to stop. This city doesn't need to worry about person going around dressed as a bat." She began heading to the balcony before she stopped and turned back to Winn. "If you hear anything else about this, let me know please." She gave him a quick smile before heading off to her apartment to get ready for her day at work.
Once Kara got to her floor at CatCo, all she saw was a frenzy of people running around the office, all looking like they were panicking. She went to the main office, happy to see that James and Lena were still there talking so she could get answers quickly. "What's going on here?"
"There are claims of people spotting one of the Bats here." Lena explained, her arms crossed in front of her chest.
"Batgirl from the sounds of it." James added, a look of somewhat concern on his face. "I don't see why she's here. National City is a lot safer than Gotham."
"Maybe she got sick of the heavy stuff and wanted to take care of the people in a city that already has a guardian angel." Lena said, giving off an almost joking tone. "Whatever her reason I'm sure we will figure it out at some point."
Before Kara could say anything else, Lena's assistant came into the room to pull her aside, explaining that someone was there to meet with her about some possible pictures of Batgirl. The CEO apologized and had James and Kara leave as the person came into the office.
"You have any idea on why Batgirl is here?" James asked Kara after making it passed most of the people in the office.
"Not a clue, but I'm sure I know a way to find out." Kara said as she headed to the stairs. She made her way to the roof before pulling her phone out and calling the one person she knew that had worked with one of the vigilantes in Gotham, Clark.
After a few rings, Kara began feeling a little upset as Clark didn't answer his phone. At the last ring before she knew it would go to voicemail, she heard a couple hushed voices before the familiar voice of her cousin was heard through the speaker. "Kara? Is everything okay?" He asked, his voice filled with a little concern.
She couldn't help as a soft chuck escaped her throat. "I'm fine, Clark. I just need to ask for a favor, if that is okay." She said, her Supergirl style of speaking slipping through, which seemed to have caught her cousin off guard.
"Anything." He said after a moment, moving farther away from the people he was with. "What do you need?"
"Batgirl showed up to National City. To be honest, I didn't know there was a Batgirl, let alone a blonde one." She explained, holding the sigh she felt trying to escape. "Would it be possible for you to talk to your friend to see if he could help shine some light on why she's here? I feel like it might be his way of watching me and I don't like it."
The other end was silent for a moment before an almost irritated sigh came from Clark. "No problem. If I can actually get him to talk to me. I'll let you know what I find out, but don't expect an answer right away, he's being a bit difficult at that moment."
"All I can ask for is for you to try. Even if you can't get him to talk to you, thank you for trying." Kara said, feeling grateful that she at least was getting an effort. "And sorry for not waiting till later. I just wanted some information before we end up running into each other."
"Don't worry, Kara. You know I'm always here to help." Clark said, his voice sounding very happy even through the phone. "I have to go, was about to go to an interview. I'll let you know what I have anything."
The two Kryptonians said their goodbyes before Kara went back to the stairs, going back to her desk for a moment before getting ready to leave. "Going anywhere in particular?" A familiar stopped the girl before she looked up and found James standing there
"Oh, yeah. I was gonna go see if I could possibly get more information from the criminals about this Batgirl going around the streets." Kara explained, which wasn't exactly a lie, but she didn't have to tell James that it was so that she could hopefully find her and see if Supergirl couldn't get her out of the city since he already knew that.
"I heard one of the people ended up having a broken leg. While they were taking care of him he apparently wouldn't stop talking about her. I'm sure if you talk to the right person you could get an idea of what he was saying." James explained, offering Kara some help as well, knowing how much she had hated when he became Guardian. He couldn't imagine what was going through her head now that one of the more famous vigilantes are in town.
Kara simply offered James nothing more than a smile before leaving CatCo and heading towards the hospital. She began trying to think of ways to get that information out of someone as she walked.
Her focus on the task started clouding her focus on other things, causing her to bump into someone who was exiting the hospital as she was going in. "Oh, gosh. I'm so sorry." She said quickly, helping the other person up.
She was grated with a soft feminine laugh as the other brushed herself off. "Don't worry about it, I think we both are at fault for this one." As she moved strands of blonde hair out of her own face, she smiled at Kara, her gray-blue eyes meeting the sky-blue ones that hid behind glasses. "We should try and be more careful." She moved aside to let Kara go out first. "You seem like you've got to be somewhere, so I don't waste anymore of your time."
The Girl of Steel seemed speechless for a moment before giving a quick nod. "Thanks. And sorry again." She said before going inside, leaving the girl to try and get the information she needed.