Artemis sighed, rubbing a hand across her face. "Look, Nightwing, who is she?"
Nightwing walked over to the computer and pulled up her file. Inside that was a small range of photos, one of which he pulled up. Fox was smiling with a group of Bludhaven police officers.
She was wearing a yellow T-shirt with Tails from Sonic X on it, a pair of pale blue shorts and plain blue flats with thigh high brown socks. Her hair was pulled back into one high braided ponytail, the white hair streaked with yellow, pale blue and brown. "This file is all the stuff Bats and I have on her. I might as well tell you what we know before we go and apologise. This photo right here shows her with her squad."
"Wait, she's a police officer? She's a Bludhaven cop?" Kid Flash was curious. Not to mention, she was really pretty when she was smiling like that.
"Kinda. That squad there consists of the only non-corrupt cops in Bludhaven, led by Commissioner Michael Tully, a good friend of Commissioner Gordon." Nightwing flicked to another picture, this time with just her an and older man, hair a vibrant red with grey streaks at the temple. "Technically, Fox isn't a cop. She's the profiler, lead informant and honorary policewoman of the squad. In Commissioner Tully's words, she's 'a fine cop who never needed to go to police school'."
"So, what, she's a cop, a vigilante and apparently a dancer too?" Batgirl crossed her arms. This all seemed a bit too fishy to her.
Nightwing shook his head. "She is a dancer, Batgirl." He pulled up another picture, this time of her dancing.
She was wearing a plain green singlet, green and white tights, a black short mesh tutu skirt and black mesh fingerless gloves. Her hair was up in two high pigtails streaked with green and black. She was in her final pose, in which Fox was on one foot, side on, the other foot put and arching towards her head, her back bent to meet it. "She dances and entertains for various clubs, like the one she's taking us to tonight, as well as some more respectable ones. She also does street dance and dancing and entertainment for fundraisers."
"So she's a dancing cop. Anyone else find that as weird as I do?" Bumblebee asked.
"Well, she isn't a real cop, and with her background, anything normal would be extremely unexpected." Nightwing pulled down the photos and pulled up her file. It was ridiculously short. Batgirl and Robin were stunned.
"Is this really all you have on her?" Robin asked in disbelief. "How can you know so little?"
"That's all that has been verified by Fox." Batman emerged from the shadows, slowly stepping over to the computer.
"But, but, how can she hide all trails that may lead to her? It's like she doesn't exist!" Robin exclaimed. He thought that it was impossible for somebody to have a file this short.
"Because, technically, she doesn't exist. There's no record of her birth, of her parents. She doesn't have any birth certificates, a passport, a resume, anything. We can't find a paper trail because she doesn't have one." Batman explained in his gravelly voice.
"How could she have had all of that pulled from the system? It's impossible!" exclaimed Batgirl.
Nightwing shook his head at her. "It's not impossible if there was nothing to be pulled in the first place." Batgirl gaped at the slightly younger man. How? He nodded at her unspoken question. "Fox's real name is Vixen Streetborn. She and her parents were all homeless, and fell through the cracks in Bludhaven's medical and legal systems, so Fox was never registered as a legal citizen, and her parents were just never put into it in the first place. Put that together with her strong dislike of the written word, and you have a girl who is invisible on paper and absolutely almost untraceable."
"Wait." Artemis spoke up. "You said almost untraceable."
Nightwing nodded. "Yeah, Fox is mentioned in police reports, club databases and in the emails and data used by other people. Even though she has so many aliases, her signature is very unique, being that of an albino dancer/cop. So there is a little bit on her, but not much."
"She is also hyper aware, and can read people like books, but is easily distracted, and often leaves other people behind in her thought processes." Batman added, and Nightwing gaped at him.
"Huh? How did you know that? That wasn't in her file!" Nightwing quickly re read her file, in case he had missed something.
"You aren't the only one in contact with Fox." Batman smirked a tiny smirk. If you weren't a bat, you would have missed it.
~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~
It was the night after Nightwing had been attacked, and Batman was roaming Bludhaven, looking for Fox. He had been looking through the city, searching for any large disturbances, but he hadn't found anything. He had stopped a few robberies, muggings and a messy fight between two rival gangs, but he hadn't seen Fox anywhere.
He stopped on top of a tall apartment building, when he heard a voice come from behind. "Could you stop doing my job? You're making me look bad, you know."
Batman turned around, and there was the girl he was looking for. She was casually sitting on the edge of the building, not looking tense or scared of the fact that one strong gust of wind could blow her off of her perch. He took a couple of silent steps towards her. "Who are you?"
"Wow, you don't beat around the bush, do you? And anyway, I thought that you had already asked that question." Fox swung her legs slowly, not even looking at the irate Dark Knight looming over her shoulder.
"And you didn't answer truthfully." He growled.
"Why do you think that?" Fox suddenly back flipped over Batman and landed in a bow. Batman didn't answer. "Oh, you didn't find anything on me, did you? You know, just because you can't find any information on somebody, doesn't mean that they are lying."
"Really?" Batman crossed his arms. He was getting really tired of this girl.
"Yup. After all, I can't find any really truthful info about you, but it doesn't mean that you aren't an honour-driven man with OCD." With that, Fox laughed and flipped her way across the roof.
Teetering on the edge, she called out, "I'm so hyper from coffee and sugar that I'm practically invincible!"
She seemed to slip off of the roof, but somersaulted into a perfect landing on the road below. Batman could only watch as she pranced along the roads of Bludhaven.
~~~~~~~TIMESKIP~~~~~NOMNOMNOM~~~~~TIMESKIP~~~~~~
A week later, Batman had found Fox looking like she was having the life, beating up some rapists in an alley way. She was laughing and spinning around like she was on a stage, not fighting around bags of questionable contents.
The men were all clearly drunk, one holding a gun and another holding a knife. The third man had been holding a metal pipe, but he was facedown unconscious on top of one of the bags.
Fox back flipped away from a wild knife swipe, and ducked from a ricocheting bullet. With a single kick upside the head, the gun wielder was knocked out, and only the knife fighter was left. He was slightly smarter than his fellows, and did his best to back her into a corner. Not that it helped him any.
Fox jumped up over a knife thrust to her stomach, and stretching her legs, suspended herself inside the corner. She began to scurry up the wall, out of the reach of the drunken man beneath her. Soon, halfway up the wall, she stopped, and with a push from her legs, she was falling. Fox landed on top of the man, all three rapists now unconscious.
The girl's masked face tilted up in the direction of the Dark Knight. "So, how'd I do?"
Batman looked at her, slightly confused. Why was she asking him? "Your kicks were weak and your backflip was messy. You were also playing with them."
Fox laughed and started to collect the unconscious bodies. "Liar. My kicks had as much energy as was needed, and I do perfect backflips in my sleep. I wasn't playing with them; I was simply expending more energy than needed to diffuse the situation."
Batman nodded grudgingly. She was right, which proved the fact that she was very well aware of what she could do. She was also a bit boastful. Fox lugged all three men to the entrance of the alley and let out a piercing whistle.
"What was that?" The dark knight ground out.
Fox turned to look at him with her hands on her hips. "You'll find out in a minute but if you don't want to be seen, you had better hide."
Batman stepped into the shadows and Fox stepped onto the sidewalk. Soon, a police car pulled up, and out came Commissioner Michael Tully and Officer Gerry Winkles.
"Hey Foxy-Blue, whatcha got for us now? I thought that you were on the other side of town!" Officer Winkles poked one of the unconscious men. "Hoo wee, you really did them good, didncha?" Fox just nodded, and pointed from the body to the car. "Yeah, yeah, we'll get'um there. Are you doin' okay, or did one of'um get ya?"
Commissioner Tully shoved the younger man in the shoulder. "Stop lollygagging and get some work done, you soulless spawn of Satan. And talk properly, you sound like some gangsta."
"Hey, no insulting my hair colour, my left handedness or my accent, sir. What's got your panties in a twist?" Officer Winkles turned and winked at Fox.
"He's sleep deprived, dat what he is. Not to mention his God-fearin' ma came to town, so he's gonna be going on the whole 'hate all red headed left handers' for the next few days. Thank your stars that you don't have to deal with him, day in, day out. See ya!" With that, the vibrant young man leapt into the car.
"Good job, Blue. Thanks for getting them. We found the young lady a couple of blocks back. She should be in the hospital now." Commissioner Tully nodded to her once before getting into the car and driving off.
Fox sighed before turning around. "So… wanna go get coffee?"
~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK END~~~~~~~~HAHAHAHA~~~~~~~~~
"What do you mean Batman? Are you in contact with her too?" Kaldur asked respectfully.
"Why didn't we know about this?" Robin was outraged. He knew Batman was a bit secretive, but not to this level.
Batman smirked and walked over to the zeta-beam. "Fox asked me not to tell you everything." A flash of light took him away, leaving eleven people with their mouths hanging open. They had actually seen Batman smirk!
So, I know it's been a while, but I've had stuff happening and all... How did you like it? Got a bit more about Fox, and a couple of new mysterious things about her, hmmm? Hahaha, I'm so mean! Anyway,, thanks for reading this, and i should hopefully have another chapter up soon!
Be Crazy!
Psy Koteek
