So...

I may have fallen in love with a crazy killer.

How?

Well...

BATMAN BEYOND REVISITED

EPISODE:

AN OLD FOE

A year has past since I last fought her.

My first supercriminal.

Though, at the time, she wasn't so super.

She's caused quite a stir lately, though.

One bank destroyed, thirty dead, one crippled.

Of course I had to turn my attention to her.

Just like she wanted.

She left notes all over her crime scenes saying she wanted to us to meet.

Of course, if I was going to go there, I couldn't fall for the same trick twice.

I wasn't going to get caught off guard twice.

So, I updated the cowl to tell me the levels of liquid density on any solid surface.

I jumped off the building I was waiting on and landed in an old alleyway.

Classic 2020, where bricks were still used to make buildings until everything started being made out of unheated steel.

This is where she told me to meet her.

I switched to Inque vision, which is what I called the new feature, which allowed me to quickly spot her as she was trying to blend in with an old horror movie poster.

"I can see you, Inque. What do you want?"

She flowed through the air and stood in front of me.

"It has been a while, Batman."

"Don't stall. Get to your point and make it fast before I decide to haul you off to Arkham Asylum."

"I need your help, Batman. It's the Jokerz. While I was working with them, I discovered they were building some sort of particle dissolver."

I looked at Inque as if she was crazy, which she kinda was.

"I see you don't believe me."

"You have killed thirty people, blew up a bank, crippled someone and, a year ago, tried to kill me by crushing me. Not only that, but you just admitted you were working with Jokerz, a group known to be batshit crazy. And you just said the Jokerz were building a particle dissolver, something they're not smart enough to build and hasn't been built before because it doesn't even exist."

Inque frowned at me. "Fine. Don't believe me. I may have killed, but only to get your attention. This is way too far. Why would I risk getting caught just to tell you lies?"

"To lure me into a trap."

I could see the anger in her face. I could see how frustrated she was getting. I got into a fighting stance.

"Fine! Don't believe me. I'll just have to figure this out for myself."

She turned around.

"Wait! I still need to turn you in."

I grabbed Inque's hand and, for a brief moment, felt a jolt in my heart that caused me to let go of her almost instantly, watching her run off.

I left to the batcave.

"What the Hell, Jake?!" Dick yelled. "Are you an idiot? Why would you let her go?!"

"For once, I agree with Dick about you. That was stupid, Jake." Barbara said.

"I tried! But... I couldn't. I'm not sure why."

That was a lie.

I knew what it was.

But I didn't want to admit I may be falling in love with an enemy.

It was clear on his face Dick also knew I was lying.

"Jake, next time you see her, you'll take her to Arkham. I know what you're going through. I've seen it happen with Bruce. There was a woman called Selina Kyle. Catwoman. They were very much in love with each other, but Bruce never let it cloud his judgment."

I sighed and figured he was right.

I shook my head and went back over to the training bots.

However, the more I fought, the more my mind went to Inque. There was something about her, I couldn't tell what, that won't let me stop thinking of her.

All I could think of was her curves, her voice, how her hand felt in mine.

But thinking of her made me go back to when she was talking about The Jokerz.

I started to question...

Was she really lying?

Or has my crush on her shaken me up?