Beast Boy kept his green head under the hood while they walked briskly outside. He didn't know where they were going, and he didn't really want to.
No one spoke. That's why, in the silence, the explosion was so loud.
Miss Martian looked up in surprise as a building on the next block went on fire. Only the top floor, but people were streaming out in hospital gowns and scrubs. It was a hospital.
"Shit," Superboy muttered, "Guys, stay here. Lightning and I will try to get the people out."
He ran to the building.
Wonder Girl spoke up, "Are we really just going to stand here? Come on, we need to help."
Batgirl shook her head. "Calm down, Cassie. We need to just stay put."
Wonder Girl made fists. "No." She ran towards the building.
Venom cursed. "You guys stay here. I'll-"
"You don't have powers!" Robin hissed.
Venom looked down at her hands. Robin gritted his teeth.
"Batgirl and I have handled fires before. We'll go in. Just stay out here."
Batgirl nodded at him and they ran towards the fire.
As soon as they neared the hospital, a girl ran past them, into the building, still too far ahead of them for them to take out. When they came inside, she was gone, sprinting up stairs.
Batgirl grabbed a fire extinguisher, "C'mon, Tim. Time to get to work." They ran up the stairs too, putting out small fires on the way.
When they finally exited the stairwell, they stopped in surprise.
There was a man there, dressed in a bullet proof vest and black shirt. Superboy was nowhere to be seen, still evacuating the patients, but he was holding Wonder Girl.
Batgirl, still in the shadows, stopped Robin from moving forward.
"Let her go."
The voice came from in front of them. It was the girl from outside, with a blonde ponytail and sunglasses on.
The man turned to her, a wild look in her eyes. "Who the hell are you?"
"I said to let her go."
He started to get angry. "Answer me first!"
The girl took out something from behind her back. A knife, which glittered in the flames, almost put out.
With a flick of her wrist, the blade turned in midair, whirring to the man. It hit him solidly in the hand, and a detonator was ripped off as he screamed in pain and let Wonder Girl go.
"Arghhh!" he yelled. Then he charged the girl.
She moved so quickly that Robin and Batgirl didn't even see it. She flipped backwards, then forwards, another knife in hand, slicing the other detonator out of the man's hand. She landed lightly, and sliced upwards, tearing at his shoulder.
A gush of blood followed.
The man blinked, not yet feeling the pain. She threw her knife and the hilt bounced off his temple.
He collapsed so loudly that he made a thump when he hit the ground.
"Robin! Batgirl! What are you doing-" Wonder Girl started.
The blonde girl turned and looked at them. She spoke, her voice rough from either emotion or the smoke. Probably the smoke. "What the hell are you three doing? In Gotham? Do you know what happens to meta humans in Gotham?"
"Robin?" A voice said from behind Batgirl. It was Superboy, out of breath. "What are you doing here?"
She twisted her knife out of the man. She was wearing gloves.
"I could ask the same of you."
Lightning laughed humorlessly, "It's a long story."
Just then, sirens ripped through the air. The female Robin cursed. Then she tapped her ear.
"Commissioner. Don't let your men come up here." She listened for a minute, then hissed, "Fine."
She turned to Batgirl, Robin and Wonder Girl. "Don't speak. Just let us do the talking."
A minute later, the pounding from the staircase was heard. Someone was coming up.
It was a woman, with white hair and glasses, dressed in a police uniform and holding up her gun.
Pointing it at the girl with the sunglasses.
"What are you doing here?" the woman looked around, as if she remembered something. Then her face cleared as she spotted Superboy and then sweeped around to the redheaded girl in the corner.
It was Barbara Gordon.
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