CH.7: Feelings on the dance floor
"Alex!" Alex heard the scream as she saw him coming down at her. Vicerator, here, with all these people? She felt panic set in not realizing till now the true scale of such a massacre should it happen.
She is tackled to the ground just as sharp nails pierce where she had been. However she notices with horror that Kate had been nicked and she was lying atop her. "Kate!"
"Heh, all it took for me to get on top of you was saving your life, well, it isn't exactly what I had in mind but are you ok?" Her words catch her a bit off guard while flustering her and maybe angering her some.
"You didn't have to do that! I had everything under control." Alex wanted to shove her off as she could hear chaos ensuing.
"I'm sure you did…Director Danvers, or, should I say Agent Danvers working for the F.B.I." Her words bring her attention from the alien to her.
"Wait…what?" She tries to play it off as confusion but it is clear that from the way Kate studies her that she can see through her guise.
"So, this, the very thing that threatens all these people is the one you have been tracking correct? This is no ordinary human being." There was a tip of anger in her tone and Alex gives her a push.
"How do you even know about the Director part…lest you are-." Alex didn't know how she would have found out her lie lest she was…and there could be no way, and yet, Oliver Queen had paraded around for years as the vigilante known as the Green Arrow. Laurel Lance had been the Black Canary. So many others too.
Kate doesn't answer her but she also doesn't deny it. How did this happen? Why was this woman confusing her so much? If she was indeed the vigilante known as Batwoman…what was her backstory? That night that she had kissed her…it had been Kate, right, so…this was the same person, allegedly who had put her on the spot and played with her.
"I will let you believe what you want to, if I am this other person you think I am. Protect these people while I go and slip into something more…dominating." She winks at her before she rushes off.
Oh gods…she was having the hots for a woman in tights and a mask. How far had her life sunk? Was she like Felicity or even Iris? All of this was strange to her as aside from Maggie that was about as normal as her life got. Heroes in capes just weren't her thing. She could barely understand or tolerate the actions of Supergirl. Thankfully her sister Kara didn't put herself in danger as she was a simple reporter and that was it.
Alex scrambled to her feet as she began to usher people to safety. However that didn't stop Arthur from attacking her in the back sending her flying into and over a table as she felt cups and other stuff fall on top of her.
"ALEX DANVERS! DIRECTOR OF THE D.E.O.!" Did he really have to use her full title? Alex picked herself up but winced at the slice he did to her back.
"Do you know much this dress cost? Ugh, you see this is why I can't have good things. Arthur, turn yourself in. This doesn't have to involve all these innocent people-."
"ARTHUR…DON'T YOU MEAN VICERATOR? I AM NOT OF YOUR WORLD, SO WHY BOTHER SAYING A NAME ATTACHED TO A LIE?" He booms at her. She wished she had her weapon on her, again, but no matter what she did hiding such a weapon on her person in such an outfit would be tacky. It wasn't like she expected her evening to come to such a low.
Kate Kane…and Batwoman…could they be one and the same? Was she overthinking things here or wishing for them to be the same so she could not like the woman any less? Alex was from a different Earth…this couldn't work, no; she refused to fall for someone like her. She was the Director of an alien organization intent on keeping the peace and Hayley was breathing down her neck and the President was not making things easier.
Shut and close case…this is what was supposed to happen. Alex had been on dates since Maggie but none had stuck, or, maybe she refused to make it work. She could not believe she was having such a life crisis now of all times.
"Danvers get your act together!" Alex heard the voice and looks over as Maggie and Renee are armed with guns.
"How did you get those in here?" Alex was trying to wrap her head around this. Did just anyone walk in here with guns strapped to their thighs?
"No party is complete without the well prepared assault from an unknown. Judging by the size and length of the talons it is clear this is the one who attacked those people in the alleyway. Concur Renee?"
Renee lined up a shot and fired sending Arthur into a defiant stance. "Concur. Still…it would appear bullets only tick it off. Given the skeletal form it has taken, well, I can only assume he must have met Hugo Strange and he did some twisted stuff to him."
"Hugo what now?" Alex was lost but Maggie clearly was on the same track as Renee. This was truly a bizarre and strange rabbit hole she had fallen down.
"Hugo Strange…a mad man of sorts who has been on the GCPD most wanted list for some time; eluding capture, he is naturally the mastermind behind this thing." Renee speaks confidently but Alex knows better.
Did they not know this thing was an alien masquerading as a human? She wondered how Maggie was not correcting her on this? Why even bother trying to understand Maggie as the two had parted ways and no way was she getting involved in this.
"Just cover me while I get the people to safety!" Alex has no time to continue this conversation as she hears gunshots resound in the room as she gets people to safety. Arthur however ignores the bullets as he attacks a woman near her and Alex goes flying into the wall.
She lets out a grunt as she slips to the ground and feels lightheaded. The chaos ensues and Maggie and Renee even with their tag team Police stuff they are no match for the Vicerator formerly known as Arthur. He does a number on them and they lie next to each other unable to move. Alex watches in horror as he chows down on the woman sending her body all over the place with a spray of blood.
Others would follow but soon she would appear. Batwoman swinging in and lashing out with some serious kicks. She is more wary of his sharp nails as she seems poised for combat. Alex struggles to get up but she had the wind knocked out of her. "K-Kate…"
Alex can feel herself losing consciousness and much of the fight is lost on her as her head lolls to the right and she continues to hear the fight go on even without her vision. Whatever happened before she truly konked out it was clear Arthur was not happy.
Arthur had not expected so much opposition lying before him during this evening. Two women armed with guns and of course Batwoman. The women were easily dispatched as the gunshots only ticked him off. The main woman he had concerns with though clearly was set against the wall not budging an inch. Still he wouldn't be truly safe till she was good and dead.
Letting out a howl he dispatched the two women with a few quick strikes and then was about to turn his attention to her, well, maybe after a snack or two. The woman he gripped prove no problem and some others but then he was attacked and that is when things went downhill. He could not keep up with her precision kicks and she fought like a boxer in a ring strong and versatile.
"STAND STILL!" He bellows. Honestly his kind did not do this sort of fighting on his home planet. In fact suffice to say he didn't deal with such bothersome foes lest it was the D.E.O. and that woman, though, that had been a group effort.
"Now where is the fun in that? It is clear you don't belong here so make it easy on both of us and die or leave…I'm willing to take either." She quipped. Arthur rushed at her but she used her grappling hook to propel herself around him in a circular motion and attempted to kick him from behind.
Arthur of course had eyes in the back of his head so sensing the attack he hardens his body and catching her off guard as she tries to pull back he has her throat in his grip and he slams her down into the ground.
"DIE! WOMAN OF BAT!" Arthur snarls at her, spittle landing on her features as he applies even more pressure to her throat.
"I've had worse beat downs…do your worse! However, before you do so, how attached are you to your eye?" He tilts his head some wondering what she is getting on about. Squeezing hard he is practically atop her.
Suddenly he notes a flash of silver or some sort of weapon and it is lodged into his eye canal and he lets out a howl of blistering rage. He tries to unlodge the weapon from his socket and he stumbles back some. It burned like hell and he notices the woman picking up Alex and hurrying out as the doors burst open and the entire GCPD shows up training their weapons on him.
Damn, he thought, this did not go as I thought it would. She lives…but…for now Gotham will know it has something to keep it up at night and dreading when sleep comes. Unable to free the weapon without stalling his departure he flees as he crashes through a window and heads back to Duela.
Authors note: So much has happened and in the next chapter more multi-femslash options to expand the story.
