A/N: As I mentioned before this is a sequel to my Flash Crossover, Team Tech Support, you don't have to read that to enjoy this, but I thought it best to give a quick summary of events. Cadmus struck at the DEO and captured Supergirl, Martian Manhunter, Alex Danvers and Mon-El. Winn Schott escaped along with Cisco Ramone and Felicity Smoak of Earth One who were visiting. Cadmus used the psychic abilities of Black Mask to stage a Gordonian incursion into the Solar System which the Justice League was forced to combat, and started a massive gang war in Gotham city meaning that Felicity Smoak of Earth 38 (this world's Oracle) was unable to send any of her team to National City to help Winn rescue the DEO operatives. Luckily, with the help of Guardian and Lena Luthor, Felicity, Cisco and Winn were able to rescue Cadmus' prisoners. On his return to Earth, Batman dispatched Batgirl to National City to help Supergirl to track down and destroy Cadmus. This story takes place two months later, shortly after Batgirl's arrival in the city.

Cadmus had been silent for far too long. J'onn knew that they weren't beaten, far from it in fact, the fact that they had been able to capture some of the DEO's finest operatives was a testament to that fact. After Winn's rescue of himself and the others, J'onn had wanted to launch an immediate strike on the base in which they'd been held. Sadly however, Cadmus' attack on the DEO had left almost all of his field agents injured. So, Cadmus and the DEO licked their respective wounds and rebuilt their strength. Unsurprisingly, the raid on the facility two days ago had revealed that the organisation had moved out completely, they'd even left a note for Supergirl to find.

Better luck next time.

Needless to say, J'onn was delighted when he received word from Batgirl that she was coming to help. He knew her personally and trusted her completely, she'd worked with the DEO on occasion to help bring in some of her more… difficult rogues. Whilst J'onn was happy, Kara and Winn were not.

Both, he realised, had reasonable reasons not to be. Winn was still furious that none of the Bats came to their aid, even though the mission would take two days at most. However, Gotham gang wars were long and infinitely bloody unless you stopped the quickly, Oracle had no choice but to keep her team in Gotham. There were still border skirmishes going on now, it was a wonder that they were even getting Batgirl's support. He was angry at Felicity mind, she could have sent at least someone from their network to help, it just wasn't any individual members fault, he was confident that Winn would see that eventually.

Kara had taken issue to the Gothamite on a more ideological standpoint. Whilst J'onn did agree that Batman's methods could be… questionable, he himself had once brought this up to Bruce, who had been his friend for some five years at this stage. He had replied that criminals had to be afraid of him for what he does to work, and J'onn supposed this was right. He continued, saying that Superman's enemies were afraid of him because of his otherworldly powers, the fear of an unstoppable retribution, which allowed him to work in the light and give a message of hope but Batman's fear is based off his reputation as a figure of myth. Kara didn't understand that yet. I hope however, that she will, J'onn thought.

All this went through his mind in a rather awkward standoff between Batgirl, Supergirl, Guardian and Martian Manhunter. An alien had attacked National whilst Kara was off in Metropolis asking her cousin how he could be friends with Batman (J'onn would have to apologise that he'd told her that). Martian Manhunter and Batgirl were first on the scene and fell into a comfortable rhythm of attacks, the thing was eight foot tall and bristling with spines, but slow, it attacked one, they dodged and the other put a good hit in. Guardian was next, saving J'onn from a nasty swipe with his grapnel, finally Kara arrived and took down the tired adversary with a well-aimed punch to the face at great speed.

"Batgirl, thanks for the help." J'onn knew he'd have to be first to extend the hand of friendship, Kara sure as hell wouldn't…

"You're welcome J'onn. Guardian, Supergirl, it's good to finally meet you, I've heard good things about you."

"Likewise." James replied. Kara nodded but her lips thinned. Batgirl's irritation radiated off her even through the cowl.

"Supergirl, quite frankly I don't care that you have some kind of problem with me. I'm here, deal with it and be professional." Her voice softened. "I don't want us to be enemies, we're on the same side." With that she fired her grapnel and was out of sight in seconds.

Supergirl felt gut punched. She hated looking like an idiot and right now she felt like one, she may have a problem with the Gothamite, but it shouldn't affect their work. She knew that.


Two and a half hours later James walked into the office she had been given by Cat.

"Kara, Snapper wants you for an interview."

"Thanks James, can we walk and talk?"

"Sure."

"Why does Clark get on with Batman?" She asked, he stopped.

"Kara, you need to work this out for yourself." Damn, thought Kara, that was deliberately obtuse. She was about to snap at him when Snapper rounded the corner.

"Danvers, what took you… know, what, I don't really care. Barbara Gordon is in town to do some work for the Wayne Foundation, I want you to cover that, but with the appearance of Batgirl National, and her father's position as Commissioner of the GCPD I want you to get their thoughts on the Bats. I want this objective Danvers, we both know how you can be on this sort of thing. Look at what happened to your cousin's reputation when he did a U-turn on the Batman."

She didn't like his tone about Clark, but ignored it.

"Do you have any way of getting into contact with her?" She asked curtly.

"You've got an interview in two hours."

You've got to be kidding me, she thought, two hours to plan an interview…


Barbara Gordon had arrived at the café early and ordered a Latte. Now, she was sat looking over her glass and assessing the threat of the people surrounding her.

Two off duty cops, a bodyguard and a C-list celebrity he was hired by. The biggest danger here was the clumsy waiter.

She watched Kara walked in and noticed that she did the exact same scan, plus x-ray vision if the push down of the glasses was anything to go by. Barb knew it was low to get Batgirl into Supergirl's good books through their secret identities, but she genuinely liked the blonde and didn't want any issues.

"Kara! Over here." The redhead shouted, Kara smiled.

"Sorry I'm late miss Gordon." She said, clearly about to ramble, but Barbara stops her.

"It's fine, and please, call me Barbara."

"Sorry, thank you Barbara." She cleared her throat. "So, what is the Wayne Foundation doing in National City?"

"Well, we're looking for jobs for those effected by violent crime in Gotham, especially those with PTSD who need to leave the city as soon as possible. We also wanted to pass on outreach tips to the GCPD, the NCPD is famous for its community work."

"That sounds like a really worthwhile project, how long has the Wayne Foundation been collaborating with the GCPD?"

"A while now, it's important to have good relations with the police in our line of work, and our goals are similar."

"What would those goals be?"

"To make Gotham a better place, and to honour the memories of everybody killed in Gotham's bloody history by ensuring that people like the Joker seek help rather than going on killing sprees."

"Do you really think allying yourselves with a ruthless vigilante is the way to go about this?"

That was the kicker, Barbara realised. She had to be careful.

"Firstly, I'm not in a position to give the official position of either the GCPD or the Wayne Foundation on the Batman, but personally I think it's better for him to work with the police force so that we can utilise his skills, but keep him in check at the same time. This is about Batgirl isn't it?" Kara nodded.

"That's an understandable point of view, but the so called "Bat-Family's" methods are questionable at best, taking that into account would you recommend the citizens of National City to welcome her with open arms?"

"We don't know that this a relocation yet, she's been seen, what twice? If it is, then I can honestly say yes, I would. I've met Batgirl, she's not as intimidating as Batman or Red Hood, both of whom I've also met, she's far more open. In fact, if Supergirl was to get in contact with her I'm sure they'd agree that they're on the same side, that would help with public trust."


The interview lasted for another fifteen minutes by Kara's guess, mostly about the Wayne Foundation project. Barbara's words had struck her, this was someone who had met her and both she and J'onn were saying that they just needed to clear the air to become close allies. She wasn't sure though, hence the phone call with her girlfriend.

"Look Kara, I'll support whatever you choose, but I think you should meet her. I'll come with you to referee if you want me to." Lena told her candidly

"Thanks Lee, that'd be much appreciated."

"Anytime darling."


"Nice batsignal." Batgirl said, stepping out from behind a pipe. Kara jumped.

"How did you sneak up on me?! I have super hearing and like, six kinds of vision!"

"It's a Bat thing." She replied with a smile. "What do the two of you want to talk to me about?" She asked, ensuring that they knew that she could see Lena hiding in the shadows. She stepped forward.

"You and Supergirl have some differences to sort out, here and now, so we can move forward." Lena spoke confidently, not flinching when the vigilante turned her gave on her directly.

"You wanna start Supergirl?" Batgirl asked with a slight smile.

"Why do you make people afraid of you? Don't you want to stop people committing crimes in the first place? You need to show there's always a better way!" Kara tried to keep her voice civil, but it wasn't working.

"Of course, we don't want people to commit crimes! What do you take us for? Thrill seekers? The second Robin died for this cause, we're not in it for fun. Second, you scare people too! Every time criminals sees that crest they're terrified, because you can shoot lasers out of your eyes, or disembowel them with a single finger. That's why you can tell people there's another way and be taken seriously, carrot and stick. We scare people by reputation, the mythos of the Bat is all that keeps us from being hunted down, or people not caring about that light in the sky." Her anger was visible now, lips tightened, muscles taut. Kara felt terrible. She'd misjudged both Batgirl and the rest of the Bats, what J'onn said finally made sense to her. She scared people, and because they also loved her it was easy to forget that.

"I'm sorry. That wasn't fair of me, I understand now. One more question though, why the cowl?"

Barbara smiled, forcing down what was left of her anger.

"I'm a woman, and with some of the people we have to deal with in Gotham that means they take me less seriously. The more closely linked I am to Batman, the more seriously they have to take me. Plus, it looks so much cooler than the awful domino masks." Lena chuckled at that, as did Kara.

Barbara wasn't sure about this, every moment of her training advised her against it, but she trusted Kara and Lena and needed them to trust her. She took a moment, what would Bruce do? Not this.

"Kara," Kara stiffened at her use of her secret identity, "we have to be able to trust one another." She took a deep breath, then pulled off her left gauntlet, placed her fourth finger just under the right hand "ear" of her cowl and pressed down. She pulled her gauntlet back on as an electrical hum came from the locks disengaging, releasing the armoured helmet from the breastplate of her Batsuit. After she heard the click, she pulled it off her head.

"Barbara Gordon?!" Kara said, shocked. Lena smirked.

"Shout it out for everyone to hear then Kar." Lena laughed. Barbara smirked.

"I wouldn't have told you here if anyone could see or hear us Kara, no need to start rambling."

"I don't ramble." The blonde pouted. Lena laughed again, in hysterics this time. Kara glared.

"You so do."

A/N: I'm so sorry it's taken so long to upload this, but I lost the completed first draft of this chapter (I think that version was better as well! Bloody Word…)

Thanks for sticking with me those of you who followed me from Team Tech Support and thanks for picking this up those of you who didn't. This is obviously canon divergent, probably from before Medusa, I haven't really figured that quite out. If any of you are wondering about Batgirl's Batsuit (try saying that six times quickly), think New 52 design, but helmet rather than cowl (see the one from Dawn of Justice on Alfred's bench.) Batgirl is going to be a major character, but I'm going to try to make sure that the focus stays on Kara, the show is Supergirl after all…

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Thanks.