Okay. New city. Took a month to get here. Been here for three hours, and nothing has gone wrong. Aaaaand just like that I get tackled into an alley by two guys, and there's a knife in my ribs. Fucking joy. I need to be more observant.

"Back off!" says a...rather sultry voice. Angry and loud...but sultry none the less. There comes the sound of punches, kicks, grunts, and someone flying into a trashcan.

"Murum da mutagil!" comes another voice. Kinda echo-y and creepy, but female. There's a yell afterwards, muffled

"Hey, are you ok?" there's a hand picking me up as someone, a lady in a vest and fishnets...two of them, one with blonde hair and a blue vest and another with black hair and...a tuxedo top? Blondie is punching some guy, I imagine my would be mugger, and miss tux is helping me up.

"I'm fine." Blondie punches the guy out and comes over to us. I'm dusting myself off. "Just a little sore."

"Good job with them Canary."

"Thanks, it's great stress relief. Oh my god, Zatanna, his ribs!" we both look at my ribs, oh yeah, the knife

"Oh god, hold still!"

"No." I'm calm, they're not, I'll live, they don't know that. "I'm fine." I take the knife out

"No don't do that!"

"I'm fine look." I pull up my shirt and show them "See? All better." I am too.

"Holy crap. Who are you?"

"Geeze, I get into town, and not even one day in I get stabbed. Is a quiet life too much to ask?"

"You came to Gotham for a quiet life?" asks miss magic

"Is that what this place is called?"

"Yeah," says blondie "and it's home to a whole bunch of super criminals, if you came for a quiet life you came to the wrong town. How did you get here without knowing the name of the city?"

"I walked."

"Where were you previously that wasn't so quiet?"

"Uh, some place with a guy named 'Flash' or something, then after that there was this green alien guy." sigh "This is my third attempt at a new city. Oh well, guess it's time to get going again."

"Hold up." tux lady puts a hand on my shoulder " I want to take you to the hospital, make sure you're okay after that knife, make sure you don't have any viruses now."

"I'm fine, I'd know if I weren't."

"Still, it would make me feel better if-"

"No. God, you're just like that guy in the red jumpsuit. I don't need to go to the hospital, I'm perfectly healthy." I start to leave when all of a sudden blondie stops me

"Canary-"

"No, Zatanna, he never told us who he was, and people don't just heal like that. We need answers." I slap away her hand, I'm kinda angry

"Is it really so hard to believe that superheroes and supervillains aren't the only supers out there, some of us just want to settle down and live a normal boring life?"

"Actually, yes." I stare at her. REALLY?

"You are so-...I don't even know what you are. I told the guy in the funky yellow jumpsuit, I told the guy in the red one, I told the alien dude and I'll tell you too - I just want to be left alone!"

"Can't do that. Zatanna."

"Sorry kid." at the same time she and I speak "Tereciart!"

"Erebihorp!" mine is just a bit later so only I get effected, and the magic goes haywire sending me somewhere unintended. I think.

"Zatanna, where is he?"

"I-I'm not sure." she concentrates and speaks "Tnacol! He's...in France?"