Chapter 1: Prologue
My name is Victoria Callahan.
My father, Colby, owns and is the president of Callahan Tech, a huge company that is partnered with Wayne Enterprises, another multi-million dollar company.
My mother passed when I was only two years old because of reasons I know I've been lied to about. After that is when my father came up with the great idea (note my sarcasm) of this stupid business to get his mind off of my mother's death.
My dad was never around, so I basically was raised by a few of our maids. When I was 12, Bruce Wayne, the owner and head of Wayne Enterprises, adopted a 9 year old boy who was an acrobat that just lost his parents due to a terrible trapeze accident. Since Bruce was extremely busy like my dad, me and Dick, his adopted ward, grew very close. He became like a little brother to me and he was the only one who understood what I was going through.
Before I turned 13, one of my maids told me that CT and Wayne Enterprises were having a bit of trouble with a business deal with another big company, one who they didn't necessarily trust, but they couldn't pass up the offer. The other company wanted to change plans, but CT and Wayne didn't take no for an answer. Me and Dick were rather confused about the whole deal, but we didn't think much about it. What we didn't know was that the other 'company' was actually the Light.
At my 13th birthday party, Vandal Savage and his gang of violent villains from The Light broke into my party and tried to take me captive, and in the process killed all of my maids and a few of the guests, who were business partners with my father.
Before they got a chance to get away with me, Batman and Robin defeated Vandal and the other villains and saved my life. Before they ran away, he told Batman, Robin, and I that he would be back to get me every year on my birthday.
Since then I've always worried about my father's and I's safety. Soon after the incident, Dick told me he was Robin and Bruce was Batman, and that there would always be someone there to protect me.
To ensure that I was safe, my father hired a few bodyguards. Every year on my birthday, all the bodyguards would die trying to protect me. I always told the next round that came in that they were basically signing up their own death, but they didn't care. All of there missions were to make sure that the League of Shadows wouldn't take me hostage. They were all extremely brave people.
And when my 17th birthday rolled around, I was beginning to think no one could stop them. No one could protect me without dying. I was scared that my friends and others might be in danger just because of some dumb business deal gone wrong.
But it turns out I was wrong. There was someone that could protect me without risking his life or others. And that someone's name was Roy Harper, Red Arrow. And it turns out in the end that he's more than just my bodyguard after all.