Darcy was awoken early to another day of work by her dad; however, where he found his daughter puzzled him slight as he thought back to seeing her a sleep at her computer desk as he arrived home from dropping his daughter off at his company to learn more about his industry. As he stepped into the house he could no longer contain his suspicion, so he ended up finding himself in her room looking up her recent history with the excuse in his head that every normal parent probably had snooped around in their child's room at one time or another. To his misfortune Darcy wasn't a regular teenager, and had her computer set to never keeping track of her time on the computer, which made Bruce even more determined to figure out what she was doing last night as he begun to hack the database of his daughter's computer.
"Sorry that I ran out on you like that Darcy, hopefully under the watchful eye of your father it won't happen again," Warren apologized as he took Darcy through Wayne Tech to get to her dad office where she was going to go back to reading the documents that she didn't get to yesterday.
"It wasn't a big deal and plus I haven't had to lift a finger since Terry started coming over," Darcy stated while smiling at the fact that she was able to chill in her room without having to go downstairs and give her dad pills every four hours during the afternoon.
"Well I suppose that's great to hear that my son is finally doing something constructive with his time instead of doing timeā¦"
Darcy stopped paying attention to Warren as she felt a cold shiver go up her spine installing the feeling that they were being watched, but as she glanced around at people below and around her they all seem to be minding their own business and working hard on creating new products and manufacturing them. Darcy narrowed her eyes in suspicion as they left Wayne Tech knowing that there was definitely something going on and for some reason Darcy could only see Derek as the person to blame. She hated the fact that she was judging someone on the soul reason that she gets a bad vibe from him, but as her dad always told her that in Gotham it was expected to expect the unexpected. Her dad's secretary put a bunch of files on her desk as she was just finishing all the documents from yesterday. The files that the secretary placed on her desk were employee profiles that Mrs. Finn assured her that it was necessary for her to read to learn about all the employees working at the company she'll be leading in the future. Darcy flipped through them only caring to look at their name, family situation, medical health, and job prescription to lock away in her photo graphic memory even though she knew that it was even retaining the useless things as well like the rest of their boring life stories. When she came across Warren's file she actually took care in reading as she read that he had divorced his wife and had two sons in which the older one lived with him and younger one, Mathew, was with his wife, Mary McGinnis. It seemed that Terry had been in wrongs with the law all through his life, hanging out with the wrong people, and nearly got a record but the judge sentenced him to juvy instead of jail only because of his age at the time. Even though Warren's file was supposed to be all about him she found out more information about his family than she did about Warren, but then again to her he seemed like an open book a good man that went to Hamilton High and graduated from university with a spotless record, so in the end she could see why there wasn't much written about him. After finishing his file it gave Darcy an idea if this stack of files had information about every employee that meant that Derek Powers was also in this pile, she thought as scanned. By reading Derek's file she found out that he had a family like other people; however, it was just him and his son, Paxton, since his wife died of unknown causes years ago, which only made Darcy's suspicion grow. She also read that his father had a company that was known for producing weapons to sale all over the world, but now her dad took over some of Derek's father's facilities and the money that Derek inherited from the company is used to supply a company called Powers Corporation, which shocked Darcy because if all this was true that meant that even though her dad was the main ruler over this company, but Derek was like a co-ruler since he ruled over everything that her dad bought off Derek's father, and if she could remember clearly that made him the third most powerful man right next Warren being the second and her father being the first. In her mind she erased her dad out the equation because in the end he was getting old and Derek was probably counting on him living for a short while longer or being forced into retirement, but his real threat was both Warren and her after all Warren was a perfectly healthy man in his thirties, by the time Warren has to retire he'll probably have to as well. There is no way he was going to become the head not with someone half his age taking her dad's seat. So the only question now was how was he planning to get rid of the competition without getting caught red handed? As she thought over this question and begun to read his file again she noticed that the part of job progress was empty, but Darcy didn't have time to add that to the things to pounder about as she watched the door to her dad's office open to reveal a massive figure of a guy with brown skin and a scary across his eye. Darcy didn't even need to look at him twice before the warning bells in her head went off sending her guard up as well.
"May I ask who you are?"
"Good afternoon Miss. Wayne I was instructed to give you a cup of tea from the directors that further fund your father's company as a welcome gesture," the man answered, but Darcy wasn't pleased with the answer she wanted him to state his name, so that she could at least sort through the employee files to figure out if he really didn't belong here as much as he looked it.
"Leave it here and get out, as you can see I'm busy."
"As you wish Miss. Wayne," he said while bowing and leaving the cup of tea in front of her with a smile before showing himself out. Darcy examined the cup tea wondering what was really in it and who really sent that guy, after all she knew that it couldn't of been from the board of directors, because they didn't seem interested in her on the day her dad introduced her for a birthday present. Well she wasn't going to try it herself but she definitely wanted to find out what was so special about this cup of tea that the board of Directors couldn't deliver it in person to her. So she got out her cellphone and pressed on a button that had the letter S and the number 5 written across it. The button brought up five options between taste, smell, hear, touch, and see in which she picked the taste option and a white slip came out of the black phone that Darcy stuck into the tea. The second the slip of sensory paper hit the tea a computer voice in her phone came on telling her that it was an unknown substance over and over again while a picture of a skull appeared on her phone screen. Even though Darcy was no closer to finding out the content of the cup of tea she was glad that she didn't drink it as she witnessed the sensory paper denigrate into thin air. This was probably the first time one of the gadgets she installed in her blackberry actually saved her life but judging by the path she was headed down it wasn't going to be the last time. Darcy's often installed new features in her everyday stuff like super power jets in a bag that Alfred gave to her when she was nine, but her cell phone was probably her most useful up grade ever because not only did it do all the normal features of calling, texting, music, and games, but it also had a database identical to the one in the master computer in the bat cave, so all of the information on people her dad ever gathered was stored on her phone; it had a human sense scanner where the taste option could match the taste of anything to where it was originated, located, and right down to its molecular form. The senses of hearing and seeing can help her match a sound to its origin or match a face or object to the database she downloaded from the bat cave while her father was on a business trip also they can recreate anything they scan, and finally touch allows her figure out the texture, origin of the martial she puts her phone on. Also her phone could act as a stun gun, had a self-homing device so that no matter where Darcy left it, it was programed to come back to her, and it had access to all news networks, police radio waves and it acted like a pocket knife.
Darcy knew as she put her cell phone back in her pocket, that she need to find out who sent that guy to kill her with a substance even her phone couldn't identify, which meant the substance was recently discovered or it was man made, but first she needed to get out of this place before the person who wanted her dead realizes their plan back fired. In the end it was quite easy to sneak out of her dad's company when she had where all the security cameras, ventilation shaft openings, and pretty much the whole blue print of the company memorized thanks to her photo graphic memory. The tricky part was how she was getting home without any money or a car. As she pondered her dilemma a bunch of kids came riding passed with skate boards and scouters, and as they zoomed away from her she took out her phone and quickly scanned a kid with a motor scooter just press the recreate button on her phone to see a digital remake of the child's means of transportation. She hoped on her brand new green scooter with one destination in mind to get home.
Bruce was still fiddling with Darcy's computer; he was so close to hacking her system he just needed to figure out the final password to the last firewall protecting her system after spending the entire day hacking into eight defense systems that each had a password that involved some form of Alfred's name encoded in a series of numbers and signs; however, this password was different and no matter in what language or code of Alfred's name he put in all of them were denied. Until it hit him all he did was write bat man in the empty blank to unlock her computer to see that his daughter stayed up late researching about Derek Powers.
"What are you doing?" Darcy questioned as she stood in the door way of her room glaring at her dad, while wondering what was so interesting on her computer that her dad had broken a serious privacy law. No one goes into her room and snoops through her stuff especially when she isn't at home. Bruce turned around to make up an excuse to curve her anger, but what came out of his mouth was a question about why she was home so early and how she got home. Darcy played with the idea of telling her dad she almost was killed at work today, but was it okay to alert her dad when she wasn't even sure who was the person behind this case? In the end she told her dad the whole thing after all what else could she do and plus she needed something to get out of trouble for skipping work today.
"Are you sure the tea was poisoned?"
"Gee maybe I should've drunk it and dropped dead, of course I'm sure it was poisoned," Darcy replied with annoyance that her dad would doubt her for a moment.
"Do you think Powers is behind it?" Bruce asked while pointing to her recent places on the internet that all had searches about Mr. Powers, which caused Darcy to sigh with annoyance as she told him that she didn't have any concrete proof that he was, but she had an extremely good hunch it was him and she convinced her dad by telling him her theory about what she thought was Mr. Powers' master plan was to capture and rule over her dad's whole company.
"If your theory is correct than we have to warn Warren about this-"
"It's too late take a look at this," Darcy interrupted her dad as a message appeared upon the news network application on her phone that allows her to receive news as soon as it happens and right on top of the list was a report on the death of Warren McGinnis that was killed when his house got broken into and the men shot him dead. "But I don't get it shouldn't he be still at the office?"
"Didn't he tell you that I was sending him on a business trip in my place so I gave him the day off, and Mrs. Finn was supposed to watch over you?"
"Must have slipped my mind," Darcy answered with a guilty crack in her voice as she admitted that he probably had told her when she wasn't paying attention to him. Bruce couldn't ignore the facts plus he always knew that Powers was no good. He probably should've dealt with him a long time ago before he could go this far, before his hunger for power could lead to the possible death of his daughter and the one of his most loyal employee. The very thought that he let Derek Powers slide under the radar made fury boil with in Bruce to the point he almost wished he wasn't too old to put on the bat suit. The only thing Bruce think of doing to make it up to Mr. Warren was to find hard cold evidence to get Derek locked up behind bars. To avenge Warren he went down to the caverns of his house to a place he never hoped to ever visit again the bat cave; which Darcy was more than happy to follow him not only because being the bat cave was her dream along with putting on the suit that represented a legacy she always hoped of being a part of.
