Authors Note: Hi guys! The is now in the time stream of the first season, I will only be doing a couple of episodes from this season, then going on to season 2. Enjoy!
Three years in the future:
I tapped my foot on the ground, "Come on, Come on," I muttered under my breath, today was the day! I looked over at Dick, he grinned at me behind the eye mask. It had been three years since my life had changed; my Mom was shot by my step-father, but instead I got adopted by Bruce Wayne, who turned out to be my biological Father! I discovered that he and his ward Dick Grayson, were not all they appeared to be, they were in fact Batman and Robin. Once I found out my Dad had given me a choice, I could just continue with my new life or if I wanted to I could join them as a team. Come on, what would you choose, of course I picked the latter! And so I became Batgirl, yeah a little cheesy, but come on, when your Dad is Batman what over name are you gonna to pick? So after months of training I was allowed out in to Gotham. I was glad that Dick was with me, he always kept an eye on me when we were on missions, part of me wanted to tell him that I was ok and to focus, but when something went wrong he was there in an instant.
Dick and I were on the top of the building looking down at Gotham Park, for some reason Mr. Freeze was on the rampage. "Come on, lets get this done," Dick said, and shot a rope across the park. I followed suit and swung down from the building. I shot a batarang at Freeze's ice cannon to get his attention.
"Batman," He hissed, "I was wondering when you'd appear."
Dick laughed, it was his trademark snigger almost, it echoed around the park, Freeze looked around to see where he was. I flipped off the rope and landed on Freezes helmet springing off it tucking and landing, Dick landed beside me. He fired two of his birdarangs at Freezes helmet has he was on the ground cracking the glass.
"Oh, Boy Wonder and Batgirl. The Bat send you to drag me off to prison? Frankly I'm underwhelmed," Freeze got to his feet.
"Great but we're kinda in a hurry," Dick said tapping his foot not the grass.
"Kids. Always in such a hurry, I prefer to preserve these moments forever," He raised the cannon.
"Not talking to you," I said sighing and pointing behind Freeze. Freeze turned about and from behind the rock leapt The Dark Knight, he spread his cape, making him look about twice his already giant size. And came down on Freeze like a ton of bricks, punching threw the glass of his helmet.
Soon Freeze was in cuffs and being lead away, I looked up at Dad, "Are we going now Batman?' He looked down at me and Dick, our faces hoping he would say yes.
"Get in the Batmobile," He said turning away.
"Oh yeah!" Dick whooped and punched the air, then high-fived me. Today was the day.
Metropolis was something else. It was so different to Gotham and Central City were I was born. It was clean and spacious, while Gotham, even though its my home, is filthy and well less grand. Today was the day, it was the day that Dick and I get to see inside the Hall of Justice. Dad along with Superman had started the Justice league to protect the earth, and more members joined over the years and soon it would be our turn. We waited for the others to arrive, and soon Green Arrow and Speedy joined us. Speedy was always a little cold in my opinion, but GA was almost good for a laugh. Aquaman and Aqualad came, I hadn't met them before, but they seemed nice. I was practically shaking with excitement and I gave Dick a smile. The last to show up ironically were the speedsters, The Flash and Kid Flash.
"Oh man! I knew we'd be the last ones here," Kid Flash swore as they skidded to a halt.
We walked towards the doors, and the nerves suddenly hit me, "Are you alright?" Dad's voice came from behind me.
"Yeah Batman, just a little spooked," I gulped.
Dick elbowed me, "Come on Batgirl, you fight worse than this at home!" I nodded, Dick was right. As we walked through the crowd I heard people gasp in amazement and take pictures, they pasted comments like; "Is that Batman?" and "Look its Robin and Batgirl," I held my head up as I walked, I gotta look good.
Green Arrow lent forward to Speedy, "Are you ready to see the inner hall?"
"Born that way," Speedy replied, I felt the same drive too, this is what we trained so hard for.
Aqualad gave me a smile, "Glad we're all here."
"Have all five side kicks ever been in the same place at the same time?" Kid Flash burst out.
"Don't call us sidekicks," Speedy snapped, "Not after today." Wow, whats gotten into him, I mused.
"Sorry," KF said, "It's the first time at the Hall, I'm a little overwhelmed."
Dick made a face, "You're overwhelmed, Freeze was underwhelmed, why isn't anyone just whelmed?" I laughed, he was always making up new words, but that got me a stern look off Dad, better keep the composer here.
We walked in to the Hall and all of us stopped in our tracks, "Maybe that's why Robin," I said pointing upwards. Around the inside of the Hall we're statues of the original members; Batman, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman. It was pretty amazing. We came up to a door that said 'Authorised Personal Only', it opened and Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter were their to great us. Martian Manhunter's real name was J'onn J'onzz and Red Tornado was actually a robot, I wasn't looking up encrypted files on the Batcave computer, not at all.
"Robin, Batgirl, Speedy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Welcome," J'onn said to us and lead the way through the doors. Dick and Kid Flash gave each other a fist pump. "You will now have unlimited access to the gym, our fully stocked galley and of course our library." We entered the library and it was wall to wall books, I was in a little haven, I love books.
"Make yourselves at home," The Flash said. Dick, KF and I took that invite and flopped on the chairs
The adults gathered at the top of the room, I heard Dad's deep voice, "Quick debrief to discuss the coincidence of four ice villains attacking on the same day we shouldn't be long," He turned and a camera scanner came out of the ceiling, it was part of the Zeta Beams that you could take all over the world, it scanned you and then you simply walked in, the first time I did it I was pretty scared, but now it got easier. It scanned the adults and then a door opened that read 'Justice League Members Only', but Speedy wasn't happy, no surprise there.
"So that's it? You promised us a real look inside, not a glorified backstage pass," He stood arms crossed and he looked pissed off.
"It's a first step," Aquaman spoke, "You've been granted access that very few people have."
"Oh really?" Speedy gestured to the window were members of the public were looking down and taking pictures, "Who cares what side of the glass we're on?
"Roy, you just need to be patient," Green Arrow tried to calm him, I could see this wasn't going well.
"What I need is respect, they're treating us like kids, worse, like sidekicks, we deserve better than this," Roy looked at us.
I looked at Dick, Kid Flash, Aqualad, we all had the same expression, "You're kidding right?" Roy looked shocked. "You're playing their game? Why? Because you think they play fair? Today was supposed to be the day! Step one in becoming full members of the Justice League."
"Well sure but I thought step one was a tour of HQ?" I said raising an eye brow.
"Except the Hall isn't the real HQ! I bet they never told you it's just a false front for tourists and a pitstop for catching Zeta Beam tele-porter tubes to the real thing; an orbiting satellite called The Watch Tower." Roy pointed towards the sky.
My eyes widened, I never heard of any of this, and by the look of the other teens neither had they, I glanced over at my Dad and he was glaring at Green Arrow and crossed his arms.
"I know, I know, but I though maybe we could make an exception?" Green Arrow asked my Dad. Did he know Dad at all? Batman make an exception? Come on dude.
"What? Nothing? That's it, it's not fair, I thought I was your partner Ollie, but apparently not," Roy threw down his hat, we all looked on in shock, this was mad, I mean why would he get so wound up about this? He turned and began to walk out, "Guess they're right about you four, you're not ready." And he left, just like that, out the door.
The moment was short lived by someone calling on the com-link, "Superman to Justice League, there has been an explosion in Project Cadmus, it's on fire."
I looked up at the screen, so that was Superman. The adults walked over and Dad spoke up, "I had to my suspicions about Project Cadmus This may present the perfect opportunity to…." But he was cut off.
"Zatara to Justice League, The Sorcerer is using the Amulet of Batten to block out the sun requesting full League response." Well that sounds serious, I thought.
"Superman?" Dad asked him.
"It's a small fire the departments got it under control," Superman reported.
"Then Cadmus can wait," Dad pushed a button, "All Leaguers rendezvous at Zatara's co-ordinates. Batman out." We got out of our seats, and walked over, my first league fight, this was gonna be good, "You lot stay put."
"What? Why?" I said.
"This is a League mission, you aren't trained with us yet," The Flash explained, "There'll be other missions."
"When you're ready, but for now, stay put," Dad stared at us, I knew that look, but I wasn't too happy about it. They all left through the far door, so Dick, Aqualad, Kid Flash and I were on our own.
"When we're ready? How are we ever going to be ready when they treat us like, like SideKicks?" KF stamped his foot.
"My mentor, my King, I thought he trusted me," Aqualad hung his head.
"They don't even trust us with the basics! They have a secret HQ in space!" KF shouted.
"What else aren't they telling us," Aqualad asked, "And what is Project Cadmus?"
I looked over at the computer, "Don't know, but I can find out." I grinned at Dick and we walked over to the computer. The thing with having Batman as your Dad and for Dick having him as your mentor, you get very good at hacking computers.
"Access Denied."
"Ha, wanna bet?" I laughed, I continued hacking and was breaking through.
"Whoa, how are you doing that?" Aqualad asked.
"Well she is Batman's daughter, right?" KF looked at me.
I nodded, "Same system as the Batcave," then motioned to Dick to hack the other system. Our work was done in no time. "Ok Cadmus, Genetics lab, here in DC. That's all there is," I clicked a few buttons trying to find more. "But if Batman's suspicious, maybe we should investigate?" I raised an eye brow and looked at Dick, Aqualad and Kid Flash.
"Solve their case before they do," Dick nodded in agreement.
"It would be poetic justice," Aqualad agreed.
"Hey, they're all about justice!" I shrugged.
"But they said stay put," Aqualad sighed.
Dick rolled his eyes, "For the blocking out the sun mission, not this!"
KF wanted an input, "Wait are you two going to Cadmus?" He asked putting his hands on my shoulder and Dick's, "Cause if you're going them I'm going."
We all turned and smiled at Aqualad. Come on dude, it's only a little trip to a burning building, what could possibly go wrong?
"So just like that? We're a team on a mission?" Aqualad said.
I nodded, "We didn't come here for a play date."
The fires at Cadmus had already died down when we got there, so I just swanned right in there, well I mean I leapt on to the second floor, come on, I'm Batgirl, I don't do front doors. The place smelt of burned wood, but it could have been a lot worse, it was a chemical lab. I turned my left arm to me, built in to my gauntlets was a computer, the hologram screen came up and I typed away looking for any information I could find. Dick had hacked the computer whilst KF and AL were searching around. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye but AL had spotted it.
"There is something here," He said walking out of the room. KF followed while Dick and I tried to get more information, we pulled some stats, and wow, this isn't normal, I thought, and looked over at Dick, he had got the same read out. We followed KF and AL out to the corridor, they were staring at the elevator.
"There was something in that elevator," Aqualad said.
KF shook his head, "I thought all elevators were meant to be locked down in a fire."
Dick rushed over and hit the down button, "This isn't right," He shook his head.
I bent my arm to look at my gauntlet, and pulled up the stats of the building, "Thought so, this is a high speed elevator, you don't need that in a two story building."
"Neither does what I saw," Aqualad said, I could sense the disturbance in his voice. But he walked forward and pried the door open. We walked over to the edged and looked down. I could see way there was an express speed elevator, it was a bottomless pit. Dick and I stood side by side and shot our ropes at the ceiling. He jumped first, he had no fear, I on the other hand hesitated. I felt AL's hand on my shoulder, "Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah sorry, just thinking," I smiled and jumped after Dick. It seemed like we were falling forever, sub level 10, sub level 13, then we stopped at sub level 26. I looked over at Dick, "I think we're at the end of our ropes."
He nodded, "This is gonna have to be our stop so," He swung to the edge and I followed. AL and KF arrived and swung over to the already crowded edge, I budged over to make room. Dick began to hack the door and I heard it unlock. AL pried the door open again. This strange corridor was in front us us, I wasn't too happy, it just didn't feel right.
"Welcome to Project Cadmus," Dick said. KF took off down the corridor to see what was going on, and we ran after him, but I need trying to run after a cat would have been easier, there was no way we were catching him up. We skidded to a halt at the end of the corridor and my jaw dropped, right before our eye were these giant creatures, they looked like gorillas crossed with elephants. I search for KF and I saw him on the far side of the beasts standing against a wall.
Once the giant Noah's Ark passed us, we got to the end of the corridor and there was another door. I grinned at Dick as he did his thing, I still needed to brush up on my hacking skills. The door slid open and all of us were in shock; lining the wall were giant pods and they contained these electrical creatures.
"They must be powering the whole place, that's way Cadmus is off the grid," I realised, Dick was already over hacking a computer. He pulled up the stats on the creatures.
"Whoa, look at theses things. The have super strength, telepathy, speed. They are living weapons," He said as it read over the screen, I leaned over his shoulder looking at the stats, they were impressive.
"They are engineering an army," KF said behind my head.
"Wait," I reached out and touched the screen, "What's this? Project Kr? The file is triple encrypted, Robin, can you hack this?"
"Give me to seconds," Dick typed furiously at the keys.
"Don't move!" A shout came from the other side of the room. I turned to look, a man was running in and at his heels were these creatures that looked like cats, but they were aliens, I took out my baton. I had modified it so it was long and I could use it like a sword. KF and AL stood beside me, we shielded Dick from the incomers.
"Aqualad? Kid Flash? Batgirl? Robin?" The incomer looked at us, he knew our names.
I recognised him, "Hey I know you, you are The Guardian? You're a hero."
"I do my best," Guardian said, he had a small little creature on his shoulder. I narrowed my eyes, I didn't trust them, jeez I'm starting to sound like my Dad.
"So what are you doing here?" KF asked him.
"I was going to ask you the same thing," Guardian said, "Look, we'll call the Justice League, get this all sorted out."
"The league isn't going to approve of you breeding weapons," I said pointing at the creatures around his feet.
"Weapons, what do you..?" He stopped talking, I saw the creature on his shoulder look over to him and the horns on its head light up, this wasn't normal. "Ugh, my head… what have I…" Then I realised why it wasn't normal, "Attack! No mercy!'
"Damn it," I swore as the creatures ran, I threw a smoke screen down, and shot a line up to a beam, "Robin, have you got it?" But I needn't have asked that, I heard his trade mark laugh above me. I rolled my eyes, typical. But there wasn't enough time to relax, the creatures were on their way. I repelled one with my baton then double kicked two, flipping and landing on my feet. I pulled the line and landed on the beam above, I spotted a away out.
"Come on! This way!" The team followed me down the corridor, Dick was already there hacking the lift. "How's it going?" I asked him.
"Nearly there," He said.
KF and AL skidded around the corner and found us, "Oh such team player Rob and Bats!" KF said.
"Relax the doors open," Dick said and we ran in to the lift and shut the doors before the creatures caught up on us.
I looked at the levels, we were heading further down. "Why are we going down?" Aqualad asked.
"Yeah, dude! Out is up!" Kid Flash said.
"Project Kr is on sub level 52," Dick told them.
Aqualad rubbed the back of his neck, "This is getting out of control. Perhaps we should contact the league?"
But the lift doors opened on level 52, "Ah come on Aqualad," I said, "We're here already, may as well." I hopped out of the lift and looked around. The surroundings were very different, the walls were lined with a strange substance, and they glowed.
"Batgirl! Wait!" Aqualad tried to get me back in the lift. I looked back at him and rolled my eyes.
"Come on, sense of adventure! We need to find out what Project Kr is," I smiled as Dick stood by my side.
We ran down the hall way to where it forked, we stopped, I looked in either direction, but which way?
"Halt!" We looked up to see another creature, but different standing in the way of one of the corridors. "This way!" I ran down the other corridor and they others powered after me. A door opened before us and a woman was walking out holding a clip board.
"In there!" I yelled and ran past her in the door Aqualad braced it as the boys leapt in and then it snapped shut. Dick ran over and hacked the door so it was deadlocked. We all stood, breathing heavily. We were here, in Project Kr.
To be Continued…
