Batgirl wasted no time in arriving at the court house on fifteenth street. Now knowing the location of Black Mask's current location Batgirl was determined that tonight would be his last day as a free man. Black mask had killed enough people, and brought harm to many more. Him and his gang went down tonight.
Kicking in the door Batgirl turned on her X-ray goggles to see what appeared to be a man tied to a chair with a bag over his head in a room on the other side of the hall. Running into the room and kicking the door down, batgirl ran up to the hostage and started untying him.
"It's okay, your safe now. I am going to get you out of here." As soon as Batgirl removed the bag from the hostage's head she realized she had walked right into a trap. The hostage as it turned out was only a life sized wooden puppet with a "Gotcha" sticky note placed on it's forehead. Before Batgirl could even react she felt a bullet get lodged right into her shoulder.
"I can't believe you actually fell for that." Batgirl heard Black Mask say behind her. Batgirl turned around and saw Black Mask holding a six shooter in his hand chuckling to himself. "So, your the little bitch who has been causing me trouble these past few months. I must say I thought you would be a bit more smarter then to fall for something like that. I'm a little disappointed actually."
"So this whole thing was a set up!" Batgirl hissed as she held onto her wounded shoulder "Can't say I'm surprised. I knew you were to much of a cowered to fight fair."
"You really think I got to where I am by being fair Batgirl? You don't get to be as powerful as I am being fair. You get this powerful by being smarter than everyone else. I knew that fighting you one on one at full strength I wouldn't stand much of a chance, so I thought I would even the odds out a bit."
"I don't need both arms to kick your pathetic ass." Batgirl hissed.
"Maybe, but you will if your going to beat all of us." Then thirty more men piled into the room and surrounded Batgirl, many of them holding metal pipes and baseball bats. "As I said Batgirl, I didn't get where I am today by being fair," Black Mask turned to his men "Now kill her!"
Batgirl had to react and react fast. She was wounded and fatally outnumbered. If she was going to get out of this alive she had to outsmart them, but first she had to get away from them, which was easier said then done considering they surrounded her and blocked the exit.
Batgirl grabbed a metal pipe a metal pipe out of one of the gangster's hands and struck him over the head, but before she could turn around she got hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat.
"How about a bat for a bat?" The gangster laughed as he hit her over the head.
"How about a foot up your ass?" Batgirl fired back as she kicked the man in the groin then sure enough turned him around and kicked him in the rear before slamming his face against the wall.
"Hey Bat Bitch catch!" Batgirl suddenly heard another man shout out, Batgirl barely had time to react and catch a chair that was thrown her way. Batgirl tossed it back and hit the man that through it, but as a result left herself vulnerable to being struck in her injured shoulder with a crowbar. Batgirl screamed in pain and reached for her injured shoulder, allowing Black Mask to punch her in the face with a pair of brass knuckles, knocking Batgirl to the ground.
"Pathetic Batgirl," Black Mask mocked as he paced around the injured Batgirl "And to think you actually were able to put several of my men behind bars. You think that because you put on that mask that you suddenly are like Batman? That the mask and cape makes you a hero? Not even the great Batman was able to take me down and unlike you, he was a actual hero. You are just a wannabe fangirl who spent way to much time living in a fantasy world where you actually thought you could be like the Batman. You are not the Batman. You are just a sad pathetic little child. And now you are going to die for your actions."
There was no way Batgirl could beat Black Mask or his men in this condition, she was badly wounded and needed to find a way out of there. Taking out a smoke pellet Batgirl tossed it to the ground temporarily blinding everyone and tried to run for the exit. Black Mask could make out her shadow though and shot her in the back of her shin causing her to fall to the ground.
"Oh this is so sad. And such a shame for someone so young." Black Mask mocked as he walked up to Batgirl and picked up a crowbar. "You could have actually had a real career, one with promise, but instead you chased a fantasy, trying to be someone you wasn't. And now look at you, as helpless as a horse with a broken leg. Boys, I think it's time we put this horse out of her misery. But since you really pissed us off Batgirl, you don't get the mercy of it being quick and painless, oh no, I'm going to make sure to take out time, so you can feel exactly what we are doing to you."
Batgirl tried her best not to show it, but deep down she was actually getting a little scared. For the first time, someone actually got the jump on her, and put made it to where she couldn't escape. For the first time since she put on that mask, she didn't know how she was going to get out of this.
Black Mask raised his crowbar and struck Batgirl in the back of the head with it. As Black Mask beat her the rest of his men joined in the action, kicking her and beating her with metal pipes or their fist. Batgirl shielded her face with her arms, trying to protect what herself as little as she could right now. Black Mask raised his hand signalling for his men to stop, he then lifted Batgirl up by her collar, blood dripping from her mouth and her face looking like she was about to pass out. Her outfit had cuts all over her arms, legs, and torso area, as well as the bullet holes in the shoulder and shin area. She had taken so many blows that she could barely stand, and she had bleeding uncontrollably, she no longer had the strength to fight and as Black Mask lifted her up off the ground, defeated and humiliated, he gloated in his victory.
"You should have never gotten involved in this line of work kid, and now, you will die for your actions." Black Mask raised his crowbar one more time, ready to bludgeon Batgirl to death where she stood, only for them to hear and see the flashing of police lights pulling up from outside.
"Boss, it's the cops!" One of Black Mask's goons gasped. Growling to himself Black Mask threw Batgirl to the ground, pulled out his gun and shot Batgirl in the gut. As Batgirl screamed in pain Black Mask ordered them all to flee through the back entrance.
"But what about Batgirl?" One of the goons could be heard asking as they fled.
"She's good as dead anyway," Batgirl heard Black Mask say as she laid on the floor bleeding out, "There's no way she is going to survive what we did to her."
"This is the area Batgirl called me about. Search the area," Batgirl heard her father say from outside, "If Black Mask is still hear, we will find him."
"Daddy?" Batgirl gasped "She couldn't let her father see her in this state, if he or any of his officers see her, then in their attempt to save her they could remove her mask and reveal her identity. Despite how weak she was she had to get out of there. Placing her right hand on the wall Batgirl forced herself up, screaming in pain as she felt the bullet lodged in her shin. She then slowly made her way to the back exit, staying in the shadows in case one of Black Mask's men was still around or one of the cops were in the room. Batgirl was losing more and more blood, and her vision was getting more and more blurry, she needed medical attention and she needed it fast. As she reached for the doorknob Batgirl fell to her knees, no longer able to stand. She knew she was leaving a trail of blood behind her, she just prayed her father didn't find it.
Breaking in the door Gordon and over a dozen officers burst inside, the red lights from their guns waving in every area as they searched for Black Mask only to find he was no longer in the building.
"Jim, come get a look at this." One of Gorden's men called out, pointing to a patch of blood that laid on the floor. "Do you think it belongs to one of Black Mask's men."
"If it did they would still be here laying on the floor unconscious." Jim pointed out.
"The hostage?"
"Um... I'm not so sure there was a hostage guys." Another officer pointed out, as his fingers pointed to the dummy that laid on the floor.
"Wait if that was a hostage then that means..." Jim's eyes widened as he started putting the pieces together. "This whole thing was a set up to lure Batgirl into a trap."
"Do you think this blood belongs to her?" One of the cops asked
"No doubt, search every area of this place inside in out, Batgirl may be in grave danger, we need to find her!"
As Batgirl pulled the lever to the doorknob she slowly crawled her way out of the building and into the ally way, bloodied and bruised after being ambushed. She thought she could take up the mantel, pick up after where the Batman left off, but she soon found herself in way over her head. She thought she was responding to a hostage situation pulled off by the Black mask gang, only to find out too late that she had walked right into a ambush and found herself surrounded by Black mask nearly all of his men. Receiving a bullet to her right shoulder and two more bullets in the fight she found herself over powered by the gang and if it wasn't for the sound of police sirens from her father arriving, they might of very easily beaten her to death.
It had taken all her strength just to get up and walk out the opposite direction of the police lights to avoid getting seen by the cops. After all her father was the police Commissioner and if he saw her passed out and bloodied on the street's he could unmask her and find out her secret, then who the hell knows what would happen then?
Blood was still spilling from her gunshot wounds as she made her way down the ally, she was turning pale and starting to lose consciousness the further she walked. If she didn't get medical attention soon she would surely bleed out. She soon found her legs weakening, not able to support her own body wait any more she collapsed on the hard ground. She just saw the shadowy figure of a man walking up and standing over her as she passed out.
So as you probably figured out the last part of this chapter took us back to the beginning of the first chapter, finally revealed how Batgirl got in the messed up shape she was in the beginning of the story. How does she recover from this though, find out next chapter.
I am so good with cliffhangers.