At Wayne Manor, Kara, Mon, and Brainiac 5 watched TV. The news media was showing the release and exoneration of Jacob Kane. "How does it feel to be exonerated?" a reporter asked Jacob.
"Any day justice prevails is a good day in my book," Jacob replied.
"Proven that you were framed by Alice's gang, what is your next step?" the reporter asked.
"To return to the Crows and restore peace in this city. At the end of the day, that's all that matters," Jacob said as he entered his car to leave.
"The justice system does not exonerate anyone. Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Also, there is no concrete proof that Alice's gang framed Jacob Kane," Brainiac 5 remarked.
"How the fuck did this happen? He was supposed to stay in jail until he cooperated with you," Kara said displeased.
"I kept him for as long as I could without blowing my cover," Brainiac 5 said simply.
"Why not just kill him and be done with it?" Mon asked.
"Mon, I've been doing this for the last six months. It wouldn't be fun if I just killed everyone that opposed me. I'm trying to get people to cooperate with me even when they don't want to," Kara told him. "Also, he's my uncle...in-law."
"I'm still skeptical that you married Bruce Wayne and didn't sleep with him," Mon said suspiciously.
"They didn't sleep together," Brainiac 5 assured him.
"Creepy as fuck that you know that," Kara said irritably.
"Now that Mon has returned will you be formally divorcing Mr. Wayne?" Brainiac 5 asked curiously.
"Fuck no. I love this house and his money," Kara rejected.
"Just add bigamy to the pile of sexual deviancy," Mon rolled his eyes.
"You being here complicates what I've been trying to do. Now, I have to babysit you and Kate," Kara said annoyed.
"How many rooms does this house have?" Mon wondered as he looked around.
"Thirty," Brainiac 5 answered.
"Not bad," Mon said impressed. "And we shall make love in each one of them," he said to Kara.
"Not all rooms are practical for that purpose," Brainiac 5 warned.
"We'll make it work," Kara said looking at Mon lovingly.
The next morning, the three Vindicators marched into Wayne Tower. Mon and Brainiac 5 walked normally to the desk while Kara struggled to walk properly. Kate eyed Kara with concern and then stared at Mon. "Who are you?" Kate asked of him.
"This is Mon-El, Prince of the Jin-Saiyan people," Brainiac 5 introduced.
"Insane people?" Kate questioned.
"It just sounds weird in English," Kara stumbled her way to the desk.
"Are you drunk?" Kate wondered.
"No, something even better," Kara said deliriously.
"So, you're Kate Kane," Mon looked her over as he towered above her. "We have a lot in common. We both like women, look like men, ride motorcycles, and have an affinity for black body armor."
Kate gave him an unimpressed look. "Prince, huh? No doubt you are all about the patriarchy."
"Bitch, I am the patriarch of this planet," Mon said seriously.
"Not in this time you're not. You're not even supposed to be here," Kara said sitting behind her desk.
"I feel like I'm missing something. You three are...friends?" Kate questioned.
"Mon-El is Kara's husband in the future and the father of her children," Brainiac 5 revealed.
"Wow," Kate said speechless.
"Let's keep that to ourselves, shall we. There is a Kara Danvers, a Kara Wayne, and a Kara Zor-El. All three have their roles on this world and I can't afford to get them mixed up," Kara said to Kate.
"This is bigamy," Kate accused.
"In ten years, you'll be considered a bigot for judging me," Kara predicted.
The wheels in Kate's brain turned as she wondered how she should feel about this. "The villain of the week," Brainiac 5 presented a tablet to Kara showing a news article on a grisly murder.
"A vampire? You fucking serious?" Kara shook her head.
"I have not confirmed whether the killer is a real vampire," Brainiac 5 admitted.
"So, how do we defeat this vampire: stakes, crosses, garlic?" Kate listed off.
"How about total incineration?" Mon grinned.
"No, Mon, she has to do it," Kara rebuked.
"People are getting murdered. This isn't a game," Kate said passionately.
"Where were the victims last seen alive?" Kara asked.
"Clubs in Old Gotham. Since the attacks, the Crows have stepped-up security on every club except The Curse," Brainiac 5 said.
"Isn't The Curse a BDSM bar?" Kate recalled.
"Why are the Crows not patrolling that club?" Kara asked.
"Because you own it and I specifically banned them," Brainiac 5 replied.
Kara grinned at that. "Alright, Kate. Suit up and slay this vampire."
That night, Mon and Kara went to The Curse in civilian attire. Mon wore a black leather jacket outfit while Kara wore a white dress. Mon returned from the bathroom after taking a decent hit of cocaine and slouched on a couch with Kara and two other blond women.
"So, what do you do?" one of the blondes asked Mon.
"Mostly murders and executions," Mon answered.
"Do you like it?" the blond asked having misheard him over the loud music.
"Well, it depends. Why?" Mon asked.
"Most guys I know that work in mergers and acquisitions really don't like it," the blond said.
Mon nodded, pretending to be interested in her opinion. "So...where do you work out?"
Meanwhile, Kate was on patrol as Batwoman. She heard a convenient scream inside the club and went to check it out. In one of the empty backrooms, she found a woman suspended from the ceiling with tubes coming out of her veins. "No sign of the vampire," Kate said through her radio as she pulled the tubes out of the woman's arms. Immediately, blood started gushing out of her arms.
"Shit!" Kate realized as she tried to put pressure on the wound. "Did not think this through."
Nocturna then appeared before Kate. "Vampire...bat...screams duo to me," she said.
"I work alone," Kate said, lacking all self-awareness.
"Oh really?" Brainiac 5 scoffed through her radio.
Batwoman and Nocturna fought in hand-to-hand combat with Kate quickly subduing the vampire to the floor. "Sorry, you're not my type."
"But you are mine," Nocturna smiled. "I'm a universal recipient," she said as she bit Kate on the lips.
Kate immediately felt dizzy and collapsed on the floor. "I always wondered what bat-blood tasted like," Nocturna smiled amused.
Nocturna quickly suspended Kate in preparation for draining her. Crows then arrived on the scene somehow aware of the crime in progress. Nocturna quickly took off escaping from the club. Sophie got to Kate still drugged up and unable to move.
"She's still alive but unconscious," Kate said to Sophie referring to the victim.
"A medic is on its way," Sophie told her.
The lights suddenly went on as Kara, Mon, and some bouncers entered the room. "What do we have here?" Kara asked, seeing Sophie and Kate together.
"We saw Batwoman enter the club. We went to investigate," Sophie excused.
"Do you know who the fuck I am?" Kara asked her.
"You're Kara Wayne," Sophie said obviously.
"I own this club, alright. I make the rules and no Crows allowed," Kara told her off.
"If not for us, this woman would have been dead," Sophie said referring to the victim.
Kara scanned the victim for life-signs and then turned back to Sophie. "It would appear you saved me from some embarrassment. I can't have my patrons getting killed by a vampire, can I? Now...get out," Kara ordered.
Sophie shook her head and then took her men out of the club. Kara then turned to Kate but she was already gone. Kara smirked amused and then took Mon back inside the club. She opened a special guest room filled with Medieval weaponry and restraints. Locking the door behind them, she focused on Mon.
"I've been a naughty girl, Mon," Kara admitted.
"You don't say," Mon doubted.
"I lied to Lena about my secret identity. I made her feel bad," Kara confessed.
Mon shook his head ashamed of her. "That's fucked up."
Kara let her dress drop off her shoulders and pool around her waist exposing her back. "I need to be punished."
Mon nodded and then fired several energy bars around Kara's waist preventing her from moving any of her limbs. Kara could easily break the bars but enjoyed the thrill of being completely under his control. Mon put on an executioner's mask and then got a whip ready.
At the Bat-cave, Kate drove her motorcycle erratically and then flopped on the floor still drugged. Brainiac 5 came over to her and injected her with an antidote. After Kate had recovered, she took off the suit and got a briefing from Brainiac 5 as to what they were dealing with.
"Nocturna injected you with an animal tranquilizer," Brainiac 5 explained.
"It wasn't really an injection. It was more like a bite," Kate corrected. "She had actual fangs."
"Since your encounter was so intimate, I might be able to run a test on the suit," Brainiac 5 said as he scanned the suit with his eyes. "Curious."
"What?" Kate asked impatiently.
"There's no forensic evidence of her on the suit," Brainiac 5 considered.
"Well, we'll have to draw her out then," Kate said.
"A social gathering," Brainiac 5 concluded.
"A party," Kate smiled.
At Kate's lesbian bar, video cameras looked for any sign of Nocturna. Kara barged into the surveillance room and looked at Kate's masculine outfit. "Let...me...fix your tie," Kara laughed drunkenly.
"What the hell happened to you?" Kate wondered as she saw bruises all over her arms, shoulders, and neck.
"Just a little fun with Mon," Kara said dismissively and then focused as she healed all of them away.
"You're in danger of overdoing it with Mon," Brainiac 5 warned.
"Look...Barney...I haven't had...a real dick in three fucking years. I was faithful. I was true," Kara slurred.
"You're embarrassing yourself in front of the child," Brainiac 5 said to her referring to Kate.
"You have no idea what you're missing out on," Kara said to Kate.
"Pregnancy, STDs, rape, domestic violence," Kate listed off. "Thanks but no thanks."
Kara looked over the video surveillance cameras. "You're using your own kind as bait for Nocturna? Damn, if your father came up with this plan, he would be eviscerated in the press."
"Yeah, well, I'm a lesbian so it's okay," Kate excused.
Kara laughed at that. "Keep me posted, Barney. I have to give a Mon a tour of Wayne Manor...one room...at a time."
"I understand your meaning," Brainiac 5 dismissed her. "We may have an issue."
"What?" Kate asked.
"Sophie," Brainiac 5 pointed out.
"I need to get out there," Kate said leaving the room.
Kate awkwardly looked around for Nocturna as Brainiac 5 continued to scan. "I've located a possible suspect. She's near Sophie. We can take out two birds with one stone, so to speak."
"Sophie is off-limits," Kate hissed.
Kate pulled off a little trick where she intentionally cut herself at the bar with a knife in front of the suspect causing an immediate reaction. Kate then noticed Mary socializing in the club.
"Mary is here. I need to get her out of here," Kate said concernedly.
"I'll take care of it," Brainiac 5 said and then went over to an already tipsy Mary. "Come with me if you want to live," he said to her.
"You need to work on your pick-up lines," Mary critiqued.
"You're leaving," Brainiac 5 ordered.
"Does your tie...glow in the dark?" Mary wondered upon looking at it.
"Yes, yes it does," Brainiac 5 confirmed.
"Who are you, exactly?" Mary demanded.
"I'm a cybernetic organism, Brainiac systems Model Five-point-O," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Okay, don't tell me. Be that way," Mary rolled her eyes.
"We have a situation," Kate radioed Brainiac 5.
Brainiac 5 linked himself to the surveillance cameras and saw Beth hanging outside the club. He continued to keep an eye on Mary as Kate went outside to confront Beth.
Kate walked up to Beth as she stared into the surveillance camera. "Where's Mouse? I want him," Beth demanded.
"I don't have time for this crap," Kate said dismissively. "I don't know. He gets moved around. I'm not told everything."
"Then this has been a waste of time," Beth said walking off.
"The Crows think you're dead. You have a second chance, Beth. You have a chance to be compassionate and kind. A version of yourself I thought you could be," Kate said to her.
"A version that can't survive in this shitty city," Beth doubted.
"Then leave this city. Find somewhere where you can find peace," Kate encouraged.
"Yeah, as soon as you tell your bitch boss to extract the tracking device on my body. I'm caught in the middle unable to be who I was before to survive but unable to leave either. It's going to get me killed," Beth said to her.
"I'll see what I can do, but you can't be out in the open like this," Kate said to her.
"Fine. I'll just hide myself away," Beth said bitterly and walked off.
As she went for a stroll to find herself, Nocturna suddenly attacked her. "Oh shit!" she realized as she was bitten.
Back in the lesbian club, Brainiac 5 continued to monitor the cameras. As Beth went out of view, another woman was stalking her. "Who's that?" Kate asked.
"Natalia Knight, adopted by Charles Knight. He worked as a janitor at the Gotham Cathedral. He died two weeks ago," Brainiac 5 said.
"Right before the killings started," Kate realized.
"She has a rare genetic disorder called porphyria. She has a sensitivity to sunlight and her kidneys have difficulty filtering her blood," Brainiac 5 explained.
"Fascinating. Can you track her?" Kate asked.
"Of course," Brainiac 5 said as he began accessing every camera in the area for her. "Suit up," he said as he located her.
Batwoman ran around Gotham until she came to an abandoned warehouse where she found Beth tied up and drained of her blood. "Where is Nocturna?" Kate asked.
"Wish I knew," Beth said weakly. "I've been a little tied up."
Kate sliced off Beth's ropes with her armbands and took off her cowl. "She injected you with an animal tranquilizer. It will wear off soon," Kate assured her.
"Lovely," Beth said sarcastically.
"These are bell ropes from a church," Kate realized.
"Well, aren't you the detective," Beth mocked.
"Does Gotham Cathedral have bells?" Kate radioed Brainiac 5.
"Yes," Brainiac 5 confirmed.
"Can you collect Beth while I go to the Cathedral?" Kate requested.
"Certainly," Brainiac 5 agreed.
Batwoman rushed over to Gotham Cathedral and found Mary suspended and drained. There was a sudden rush of wind as Kara arrived on the scene. She looked over Mary's deathly complexion. "Deal with Nocturna. I got her," Kara said to Kate and then sped away.
Kate made her way to the bell tower and confronted Nocturna. "Your little fantasy is over."
"I think it's just starting," Nocturna countered.
"For the record, killing people isn't sexy," Kate said to her.
"Say what?" Kara radioed Kate.
"You see victims. I see kids with perfect skin, perfect kidneys, perfect lives who pollute their blood with every toxin they can get their hands on," Nocturna said.
"So, they deserve to die?" Kate scoffed.
"And I do? I never even had a chance," Nocturna said bitterly.
Kate then threw a Batarang at her missing completely. "Really?" Nocturna said unimpressed. She took a broken wooden board and began to beat Kate with it. Kate disarmed her and then threw her blood packets down the bell tower. "No!" Nocturna shrieked.
Nocturna slammed Kate into the bell itself. Kate flashed her with an ultraviolet device severely burning Nocturna's face. Nocturna then fled leaping out the window of the bell tower, landing on the ground, and then running off.
"Well...shit," Kate realized.
At the Bat-cave, Kara sat across from Beth at a table. "I thought we had an understanding that you would keep low but every time I give you some fresh air you manage to fuck it up," Kara said annoyed.
"I was attacked," Beth excused herself.
"You sent Nocturna after Mary, didn't you?" Kara sensed.
"It was either me or her," Beth explained.
"I admire your survival instinct. I really do. But I get the impression you wanted Mary dead. It's better to die than to allow the enemy an advantage over someone else," Kara said.
"You know what? I'm feeling a little stupid, right now. Stupid to think you were redeemable, stupid to not have the Crows kill your ass, stupid of me for rescuing you from the Gotham River, and stupid for thinking you could ever become Beth again."
Beth simply stared at Kara fearfully. "I don't want you to give up on me," she said tearfully.
Kara was moved by her. "Alright, I won't." Kara then went over to Brainiac 5. "I sent Jacob Kane files showing Sophie giving and receiving assistance from Batwoman. As of now, she's suspended."
"Good, we can't get to Jacob directly without upsetting Kate. So, we'll take out those around him," Kara said pleased. "By the way, where's Mon?"
"He went clubbing," Brainiac 5 said vaguely.
Nocturna fled into an underground club filled with other vampires like herself. The sprinkler system then turned on spraying everyone with blood. Nocturna drank up the blood and her burns immediately went away. Once the blood sprinklers turned off, everyone was covered in blood and loving it.
Mon suddenly appeared in front of them all wearing his black leather jacket and all-black outfit. He looked over the crowd wearing black sunglasses. As he stepped forward, the vampires moved out of the way for him. The music stopped abruptly. "So...who the fuck are you?" one vampire demanded of him.
"The top of the fucking food-chain," Mon grinned and then flashed them all with a solar flare technique. The vampires were devastated by the hit.
Mon then raised his hands as he blasted away scores of vampires. A few vampires, Mon entertained with a brief hand-to-hand fight before destroying them. It soon became a massacre as scores of vampires were incinerated. Mon eyed Nocturna trying to get away and then sent a beam through her shoulder, pinning her to the wall. Mon then slowly walked up to her.
"Natalia, is it? Don't worry. I'm not going to kill you," Mon said to her.
Nocturna gave him a grateful look. "But maybe you will wish I had. Give my regards to the others," Mon said and then lit her on fire.
Mon watched as she burned alive for a few moments screaming and thrashing and then noticed the Crows were on their way. Putting two fingers to his forehead, he then disappeared.
Author's Notes: For those who haven't followed Adventures of Supergirl, Mon-El was radically altered as a Goku/Vegeta Saiyan warrior with similar abilities. Since he has returned to Adventures of Supergirl, he may appear in Adventures of Batwoman every so often. Wow, for a moment there CW Batwoman became self-aware of itself as Kate calls herself stupid for all of her mistakes over the last 12 episodes.
