Hey peeps! Tulip here!
Gasp! An authors comment at the start of the chapter instead of the end? What is this?
Yes guys I am doing the authors note at the beginning cause I have a small announcement to make before the story starts, but before that a note to my two faithful reviewers.
BlakDawn, Batman was fighting another villain, as will be explained here in just a momentum, and thanks for reviewing as always!
Knightmare1896, I might have just borrowed a little bit from the old cartoon, but rest assured it's just a small plotline to help me out before I add some real twists, and no way am I having Batman work out that she's Barbara! How boring would that be? No I'm going to make him suffer just a little bit longer.
You remember that announcement I was talking about? Well there's two, the first one is this chapter going to have lots of Batman/Batgirl angst! Notice I said Batgirl instead of Barbara? Yep this is her first appearance as the Batgirl whoo! Also, after I complete Batgirl begins I am thinking of writing a sequel, or two, or three…
Enough of my blabbing! On with the story!
Tulip Out.
Batman was not having a good day. First he is forced to miss his own party when a hired thug tried to kill Barbara Gordon and Pamela Isley, then he has to go and deal with some guy calling himself Mr Freeze down at Gotham bank, he escaped and Batman suspects he is hiding in Gotham harbour, and now to top it all off he gets another call from Commissioner Gordon.
"Pamela Isley was comatose when she was in the ambulance, how can she be gone?" Batman asked resisting the urge to slam his head against a brick wall, but then he recalled the small bump on his head from where the commissioners daughter had slammed a metal lid on his head and pressed the thought aside.
"She's changed Batman, the chemicals have altered her very DNA, she's not just Pamela Isley anymore" The commissioners voice told him over the radio that was private between just Batman and the commissioner.
"Do you know where she was heading?" Batman asked, and there was a brief pause over the other side of the line, never a good sign.
"Commissioner. Where is she heading" It was an order not a question and the reply was shaky.
"She's going after Barbara"
That spurred on Batman, not because he was worried about Barbara oh no. He was worried about the beating Pamela was about to receive. He revved the engine and shot off towards the commissioners house, or he would have if he hadn't received yet another call from the commissioner when he was moments away from smashing open the front door to the commissioners house.
"Batman! She's here! I don't know why but she's-" The transmission cut off there and Batman heard a whole lot of swearing and crashes on the other line before he got a coherent message.
"Hello there Batman, nice night wouldn't you say?" The voice asked, it was feminine and light and Batman could only presume it was Pamela.
"Pamela, stop this, your ill and need help" Batman called into the radio and started debating whether or not he should check on Barbara or go and help the commissioner.
"Ill? I'm a goddess Batman! But of course with all gods they have that annoying little pest or two that tries to defy them, so I'm going to make both of you suffer" Pamela told the radio and Batman could still here fighting in the background, bit then he realised Pamela said both of you, not just you.
"Both? Pamela, who is the other person?" Batman demanded and he heard laughter on the other end and the distinct cry of James Gordon.
"Guess Batman, oh, and the names Ivy, Poison Ivy" And with that the line went dead and Batman was forced to decide, save the commissioner or check on Barbara the girl that took him out the previous night.
He went after Ivy.
Barbara saw him hovering outside her house and wondered briefly what he was doing there, but then Batman shot away in his car thing.
"What is that? Some kind of Batmobile?" She murmured and watched him shoot off, she knew where he was going.
The so called private radio that he and her father used? Took her less than five seconds to hack into it. Pamela hadn't been lying when she said her father would be preoccupied and now she had to go save him. Though she had to admit she was kind of excited about the prospect of fighting with the Batman this time, as opposed to fighting against him like she had the previous night. That had been fun to though…
"Snap out of it Barbs, you need to help the Bat and pops" She murmured to herself before pulling a mask over the top half over her head and clipping her new cape to her shoulders.
After rummaging through her house, which had been ruined courtesy of Pamela, she had found the (almost) perfect outfit.
She had on a black gymnasts outfit that had long sleeves and legs, her best black boots that came up just below her knees and black gloves that overlapped her sleeves. Around her waist she had a gold belt that had been hiding in the loft and had six compartments on it, three either side. She filled these compartments with her old throwing needles and ninja stars that her aunt had brought her. She had also managed to find several of those bat shaped blades that the Batman used, stored in her fathers safe. It hadn't been hard to crack the code he used. The mask she had on, along with the cape, were black and both were old Halloween costumes, or part of ones. The mask was a black mask that covered the top half of Barbara's face and the eyes pieces settled just in the right place for Barbara to see…after she had cut them a tiny bit bigger.
"Right, watch how Gotham, there's a new bat in town" Barbara muttered before she climbed out of her bedroom window and leapt across the balcony to the balcony of the house next to her and proceeded to climb up to the rooftop.
Batman grunted as he was slammed back by yet another one of Ivy's thick vines, only this time the vine held him against the wall where he had impacted. Ivy was laughing and the limp and unconscious form of James Gordon hung with a vine grasping his middle just beside Ivy.
"Well Batman, I am thoroughly disappointed, must admit I expected better" Ivy told him still trying to withhold giggles, an armed police man leapt at her and with a lazy wave he was flung backwards onto the road by an even thicker vine than the one holding Batman.
Batman couldn't overpower the vine that was holding him, and he was just about to pull one of his exploding pellets from his utility belt when Ivy cried out in pain.
Batman stared up at her, she was bleeding from the arm and there was a long thin needle in her arm.
Throwing needles? Who attacks with throwing needles?
Batman received his answer however when this time a person landed on top of Ivy, sending the two of them tumbling down to the tarmac. Batman caught a glimpse of a black figure as they ran into the cover of the shadows and Ivy stood up, covered in scratches and bruises.
"WHOSE THERE?" She screeched and Batman took this opportunity to pry himself free of the large branch and head towards the commissioner.
"Guess" A snarky voice replied and several plants erupted from the ground and shot in the direction of the voice.
"Oooh, so close" The voice taunted and Ivy screamed in outrage, only to receive a face full of ash.
The dark figure charged from the shadows and kicked Ivy in the face and Ivy stumbled backwards onto the floor, and Batman finally got a good look at the figure.
"Who am I? I'm the Batgirl"