Found By The Huntress

by Soulhope The Wolf

This takes place in a Rebirth continuity version of the Under the Ted Hood movie universe: Jason Todd saved Helena Bertinelli from the Bertinelli massacre before he was Robin. Twelve years later, as the Huntress, Helena finds Jason bleeding out in an alley sixteen blocks from an explosion and saves him...things get interesting from there.

1. Red Hood Down

Found by The Huntress

Chapter one: Red Hood Down

Cross posted on AO3 Account: Nobodythehope

Jason Peter Todd is a handsome twenty-five-year-old American man of Portuguese and Irish descent. He is six feet even with a broad, muscular, flexible frame. He has dark brown hair and angry blue eyes hidden behind a damaged domino mask that only covers the right side of his face. He is dressed in a two-piece gray armored suit and a pair of armored boots. He is also severely injured, bleeding from multiple cuts. His right arm had a deep set of cuts, and he had metal embedded in its form when his gun blew up after Batman jammed it by throwing a small Batarang into the barrel and his pinky is going the wrong direction. He had a two-inch piece of rebar stuck in his left thigh, a three-inch laceration on his right calf. Jason also has a nasty gash on his left side along one rib and a few cracked ribs from his fight with Bruce. Given Jason had been caught in an explosion, he caused he was lucky he had no other broken…ok his right pinky definitely should not go in those directions. He also had plastic fragments from his domino lenses in his eye and could not see much out

Jason as Red Hood had finally reached his endgame with Batman, AKA Bruce Wayne, his adopted father. That endgame involved a brutal fight of it. Still, Jason felt he got lucky as he knew he did not have a concussion. Although he was bleeding out that his bleeding wounds were from the explosion, he triggered so he can't blame his current state on Bruce. Jason had made it sixteen blocks from the tenement he used to live in twelve years ago, the building his mother OD in when Jason Leg gave out, and he fell into a bunch of trashcans making a massive racket. He figured he would pass out soon and likely bleed out here in whatever alley this was in, having lost track of where he was going in the haze of blood loss. At least this time, he would be dying on a warm summer night in his home city of Gotham instead of a cold, snowy night in a foreign country.

Jason now understood why one of his teachers, Lady Shiva hesitates to fight Bruce again. The woman had almost beaten Bruce once when he was Robin until he interfered in the fight. Bruce handed her her ass in their second fight shortly after his death but before his resurrection as Bruce had pinned down Shiva's timing and speed. Jason had thought he was winning his battle with Batman at first. Then Bruce stopped holding back as much.

Jason is a brutal, savage, lethal fighter, and in the ten years he spent training and learning in preparation for his fight with Batman, Jason has mastered three more fighting styles than Batman, two both purely meant for killing and the last being Gun-fu. Then Bruce had gotten his timing down and proceeded to show him just how brutal and savage Batman could fight. He realized just how much Bruce held back when his ass went through a bathtub. His head went through a bathroom sink. Jason thinks his ribs cracked when Bruce put him through a wall. The bastard had also put on extra armor for their fight. He also got the feeling Bruce was still holding back. Then his mind went a bit hazy as the adrenalin sustaining him ware off…or bleed out of him. Also, the side effects of the final dose of the 1Lutus is the cure for pit madness were kicking in. He had to take small amounts as he knew some of Leauge of Assassins goons were watching him and Talia had given him something else to control the symptoms till he left. He would have been fine if not for the blood loss. However, with the lowered blood volume, the stuff was making him high.

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Helena Janice Rosa Bertinelli is a beautiful woman who just turned twenty-six. She is half African American half Sicilian has angry Honey brown eyes containing a hidden kindness and long wavy brown hair. She is staked with large D cup breasts, very well-defined abbs, a wasp waist, wide hips, toned peach-shaped butt, and long toned legs with surprisingly dainty delicate-looking feet. However, right now, she is not Helena Bertinelli; she is the Huntress. Her plump cupid bow lips were painted with dark purple lipstick, a purple and white short sleaved bulletproof Kevlar leather laminate button-up long hooded trench coat, armored purple gauntlets, armored boots, pants made from the same material as her top, and a small utility belt. Her gloves have extra pouches holding mini bolts for her mini crossbows hidden in her boots.

She has a simple purple domino with white lenses to help protect her identity. Catwoman started the trend for the lady vigilantes of Gotham to have clear lenses, but she did not like the idea of her eyes being on display. She is also thinking of changing up her costume to show off her abbs as she put a lot of work into her core exercises and just felt it was time for an update to her look.

Huntress as Helena Bertinelli had quit Spyral and returned to Gotham two years ago and worked at Gotham Academy as a teacher. She is currently royally pissed off as whatever that fucking explosion sixteen blocks away was as it blew her stakeout on a mob operation. One of her family's killers was working for the 'Family' Huntress is currently stocking. That is when she heard the distinct sound of something falling into steel trashcans, a body dump perhaps, and it was on the other side of the building she was standing on. She was moving as she hoped to vent her frustrations by busting the heads of the body dumpers.

She descended into the alley quickly and quietly using some parkour maneuvers. All she finds is a man passed out into trashcans and the scent of blood. She is disappointed her night lenses were only gen two bat tech and in desperate need of an upgrade as they only showed things in a crisp high-definition black and white, although they could not make out textures. She got to try out fourteen-year-old Cassandra Cain Wayne AKA Orphan AKA the new Batgirl's white sixth-generation lenses once, and they were much better than even the stuff Spyral had. Not only did they show color, but they also had a built-in HUD, multiple vision modes, and even a clock. She is stuck using her Rolex, which she now kept in her utility belt after having to have it repaired for the sixth time.

Still, she figured she better check on the man, so she disengaged her night lenses, pulled her flashlight from her belt, and clicked it on. She saw the details. Her lenses could not display gray Kevlar pants armored boots; he did not have a red helmet, but she recognized the description no doubt about it this is Red Hood. She would need to bandage him up, handcuff him, and then she would call the Bat. Catching Red Hood should get her an invite to the cave.

Well, she was not easy. When she moved back to Gotham after quitting Spyral, Huntress had thought about trying to seduce Nightwing AKA Richard 'Dick' John Grayson, to try to get an invite to the cave as she knew the man and worked with him when he infiltrated Spyral. However, Dicky boy did not trust her as she was more than willing and has killed. He also had a great ass, but he is Barbara 'Babs' Joan Gordon Oracle and the first Batgirl's man. Even back when they were working together in Spyral, Helena knew about Oracle, the first Batgirl.

Helena really did not want to piss off a hacker of her caliber as she is the greatest hacker on the planet. Despite sucking at being a friend, she somehow became friends with Barbara, so she did not want to sleep with her friend's man. Even if Dick and Barbara were currently off after they had a fight about something stupid, as she was only half-listening, in her opinion, the pair honestly are just scared to take that next step.

When Huntress first got back to Gotham, she thought of trying to seduce The Big Bad Bat Bruce Wayne himself to get an invite to the Batcave cave. However, Bruce did not like her very much because she was again fine with killing. He is also devoted to his wife, Catwoman/Selina Wayne nee Kyle. The two have been married for five years, having gotten together ten years ago when the Joker killed the second Robin. However, the couple had been on and off since Batman's second year of operation. Batman has been operating in Gotham for fifteen years now.

Helena Bertinelli was a lot of things, but she is not a homewrecker. Catwoman is also one of the few women who scared her, so she was definitely not crossing that boss bitch. Well, Helena did not mind a woman when she was drunk, and Selina is bisexual. However, The Cat is just as devoted to the Bat as the Bat was to her. Neither slept around, so she is never going to get in through their bed.

Although there are rumors, they had a four-way with either Wonder Woman and her mother or Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. There is another rumor they had a threesome with Roxy Rocket. There is a rumor around a high society that Bruce and Selina had a three-way with Selina's sister Maggie. There was another that they had a three-way Sandra wu-san or a four-way that included Talia al Ghul. There was also another rumor they have the occasional three-way the demon's daughter. The gossip in her thought the last one might have happened as it was from back before Bruce and Selina got married; however, the current Robin Athanasia 'Anna' Wayne is not ten. She is just small for a twelve-year-old girl, and Helena had been her teacher last year. Sue, her Helena, liked to listen to gossip.

Red Robin, AKA Tim Drake, is also off the table for seduction as he is underage, and that was just eww. Plus, Tim is in a long-term relationship with Stephanie Brown, aka Spoiler, and she liked the quirky girl. The bats Cassandra is straight and again underage, so eww. They also have a three-year-old daughter named Helena, who called her Big H. She occasionally babysat Anna and Helena (despite Anna saying she did not need to be babysat). So, well, a cave invite was still far away. She at least had their trust to watch their kids. That was a start.

So, as she would not be able to sleep her way into an invite to the cave, she would have to work hard to earn the Bat's trust. She had to limit who she killed and be very thorough with the disposal of the bodies when she did kill. The reason she wanted to get into the Batcave was so she could slip a program into the Batcomputer that would loop the footage of Joker's Arkham cell so she could kill the piece of puss. The Bat had too good of a watch on the monster to ensure he did not escape his cell without him knowing about it. However, the cell was not wired for sound.

Poor Tim got piss kicked out of him by Red Hood. Even she was worried when they saw his throat had been, but it was shallow, more a warning that said I chose to spar your life Replacement, which he had written with a silver sharpie on his suit. Helena had to admit Tim could be a brat at times, and She had punched him out once or twice. The first time he met his girlfriend, she smashed a brick in his face. To be fair to Stephanie, the currently seventeen-year-old girl was a new vigilante three years ago, and Tim had just started as Robin and thought she was a criminal.

Huntress rolled Red Hood over, and when she saw his face, she removed her comlink and stomped on it well, also removing what was left of Jason's domino and leaving it. Jason Todd is alive, and Helena owed him more than she could ever repay.

She might be in costume. However, the young woman is no longer Huntress. She is Helena Bertinelli, and she quickly went to work bandaging Jason's wounds. When she ran out of bandages, she drew Jason's knife and started cutting strips off her tabard to finish dressing his wounds. She wrapped one of his arms around her shoulders. She was happy she blew the engine on her bike, so she had taken her Mustang out tonight. It was parked two blocks away. Jason, well, he was pure (hard yummy) muscle and heavy as hell as dead weight. Helena is in phenomenal shape, and it's going to be a pain in her well-shaped ass to get him in her car. Given she started to position him for a fireman's carry. She could dump him in a cart when she got to her apartment, at least.

"Whasa who," Jason mumbled, sounding drunk Helena knew it was from blood loss. Good, he had not fully passed out.

"It's Helena Bertinelli. You got tall and drea… I mean heavy Jason Peter Todd. On your feet, soldier! We need to get two blocks. You're the most stubborn bastard I have ever met. Stay awake long enough to get to my car, and I will get you somewhere safe you can recover." Helena says just loud enough in Jason's ear so only he can hear her. She is thrilled he was not entirely out as it would make getting him to her car easier on her.

"O wil," Jason mumbles and, with Huntress wrapping one of his arms over her shoulder, gets them to their feet.

The pair made it to Helena's dark purple 2018 mustang with a white cross painted on the hood, which she parked in a secluded alley in the east end just outside the Thomas and Martha Wayne free clinic. She gave Big Henry a home-cooked meal to watch her vehicles when she works in the East End, so she never had to worry about some young punk stealing her tires or jacking her bike. The clinic had a safe haven for the batfamily; however, that is not an option tonight, as Helena knew the Bat would check the clinic after finding the blood trail, and Lesslie would likely tell Bruce about Jason.

Helena dumped Jason in the passenger seat and was glad she had black leather seats as he is bleeding through the bandages. She quickly made her way to the large hobo sleeping in the alley.

"If anybody asks Henry, I was alone and came by about an hour and twenty minutes from now," Helena says as she pulls out some twenties from her belt.

Big Henry is a massive man of Irish descent, standing eight feet tall, with a gigantic red beard and green eyes. Despite being homeless, Henry is fit and knows how to use his size. He has some anger issues due to a few head injuries he has had over the years, but the anger management classes Lesslie Tompkins runs out of her clinic have helped him immensely. The man has looked out for the clinic for years.

"You do not have to pay Big Henry for his silence. Big Henry can see the man is someone the little mob princess cares about more than the other Bats. However, well, she does not have too Big Henry would not mind some of the spicey curry Mob Princess makes. The Salmon, asparagus, and baby potatoes Mob Princess made Big Henry were delicious." Henry says with a smile as he waves off the money and hands Helena back her tupaware.

"I will bring you the curry next time. Stay safe, Henry." Helena says with a smile as she takes the dishes. She then heads back to her car.

Helena climbed into the driver's seat, then hit a hidden button on the steering wheel. She stole a bit of tech from Spyral through up a hologram that made it look like she was in street clothes to anyone outside. A second button is depressed, and the seat next to her seems like it's empty. A third button is pressed three times, and her Mustang becomes an old red Ford Focus Wagon and changed her appearance to some non-descript white woman. Helena reached up and pulled off her mask sees Jason's eyes drooping, and slaps him.

"Whys you hit m tis time Helena?" Jason asks. Helena had always hit him when he did something stupid, as she said it was the only way he would learn it.

"You were going to fall asleep, and I do not want to take your full weight to drag you into my apartment, so Jay, do me a favor and stay awake for the next ten minutes. Bruce would be able to do it." Helena says with a sly smile as she starts her car. She figured Bruce was a sore subject.

"Better than buss. I stay awake." Jason says with a hard look on his face. Two minutes go by as Helena makes her way to Cherry Hill. She jerks the wheel when Jason brings his injured hand up and smashes his damaged pinky into the radio button. Gotham Heavy starts playing on the station.

"What the fuck Jason!" Helena yells as The Sound of Silence by Disturbed comes through the radio, causing her to jump.

"Sorry was sta pass out, not want qui don't wan you have drag ass up appa. Wil, no again, try something else next time. Good taste music." Jason slurs with an apologetic look on his face. The next time he almost passed out, he just grabbed his injured finger. It does the trick. Helena leaves the radio on.

Helena pulls into the underground parking lot of her apartment building and turns off her car. She opened her glove box and pulled out pairs of glasses. These are Smart Masks use electromagnetic mesh to create holograms to disguise the wearer. She kept three in her car. The purple mask is hers. The red mask is Barbara's(and set for the woman's prescription), and Dinah's black mask. These are a bit more powerful than an ordinary Smart Mask meant for complete body disguise, making them useful for when they did not feel like leaving from the balcony. However, these masks were prototypes. The short battery life of these more powerful masks made them impractical for long infiltrations as the charge lasted ten minutes. She slapped Dinah's pair on Jason and activated it as she was not in Gotham tonight.

Jason morphed into a dark-haired, blue-eyed woman standing five foot four, with large D cups, a tight body, long toned legs, and a heart-shaped ass. The woman is dressed in fishnet stockings, cut-off blue jeans, a black halter top, and pair of combat boots. If she had to, she could pass Jason off as her drunk friend who has crashed in her apartment before. Helena pulled a modified W-phone from her belt hit the crossbow icon. This looped the right camera's in the building to prevent her from being tracked as she headed to her apartment without changing. Helena then puts her own on and activates it now, looking like she is dressed in blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and combat boots as Jason tweaks his inured finger again. She then turns off the holoprojections and gets out of her car, and helps Jason out. They limp to the elevator, and Helena hits the up button. They step into the elevator when it arrives. Jason looks up in the mirror as Helena hits the button for the penthouse.

"Why I small hot lady? Not beufle as you Hela." Jason asks the only reason the man was still conscious is his sheer stubbornness.

"Smart mask, new toy in the arsenal from after your death," Helena says with a shy smile a blush; did he just call her beautiful? She must have left an impression on him twelve years ago if he still remembered her.

"Niffy," Jason replies as he again tweaks his injured pinky to prevent himself from passing out.

Helena drags 'Dinah' to her apartment on the top floor. She managed to unlock her door and dragged him to her black velvet couch. She lays him on it so she will be able to so she can get at the piece of rebar.

Helena's living room's most predominant feature is the oversized u-shaped black velvet couch, some pictures of her, and the rest of BOP. She also had pictures of her and Little H, Anna, and Cassandra. A Walnut end table, a lovely walnut entertainment center, a matching coffee table, a large LCD tv, a Wayne-Station 5, an excellent surround sound set up with a stereo that she could dock her W-phon. She had two full bookshelves made of walnut. Sue, her she liked walnut furniture. However, Helena preferred to read digital copies of books nowadays (as it allowed her to hide her love of comic books.) She also had a matching black recliner.

"You're in a safe place now, Jason. You can pass out now. I promise I will take care of you." Helena says to Jason, her voice uncharacteristically soft as she removed their Smart Masks. She takes a moment to move the hair out of his eyes. She also hits the crossbow icon unlooping the cameras she programmed to loop.

"Night bufle Hela sleepy Jay out," Jason says as he allows the darkness to take him.

Helena puts her domino back on, grabs his uninjured right hand, braces it properly, and gives it a good sold hard headbutt, hitting herself just hard enough in the right place to leave the right kind of that it would have knocked her out. Her plan was Red Hood knocked her out, removed her com line, and destroyed it before raiding her belt for medical supplies then using her cloak for more bandages. She needed physical evidence of an altercation. The bruise that would form would also be sufficiently nasty enough.

Once her bell stopped ringing, Helena moves fast, stopping at what seems to be a blank wall and pushed on it, revealing the section of the wall is a façade. She then opens the door to what should be the second of her three-bedroom penthouses bedroom, which she turned into her armory. The room has tables along with the walls with a few spare costumes, a few winter versions of her costume, several different-sized repeater crossbows, lots of her trick bolts, and what Helena secretly called her pretty purple pointy's: barbed broad-headed bolts. She has a small shop in another hidden room with her tools and supplies for making her bolts so they could not be traced back to her.

Helena quickly removes her costume in the room, revealing her dark purple Italian silk T-back thong and cotton sports bra she wears underneath but leaves it on the floor. She goes to the closet and opens it to reveal her medical supplies and a mini-fridge. Helena pulls out two of the eight bags of her blood.

Helena's blood type is O negative, so she is a universal donor, she preferred to keep ten bags on hand, but Anna needed a transfusion last week after being saved by Red Hood, given she now knew Jason is the Red Hood, that action made more sense. Selina had found her a few minutes later and, as her place was closer, dragged her here. The girl was benched by Batman and Catwoman, although she would likely sneak out in the next few days. The blood bags had some Wayne medical additives that preserved blood indefinitely and were fully approved by the FDA. The additives are sold for ten dollars a unit, it cost five to produce the stuff, and the other five went into the benefits packages and employee programs of Wayne Industries. Thanks to the additives, she was able to stock up in case another vigilante of Gotham needed a transfusion. Helena carries them to the living room so they can start warming up. She detours to her room, slips a black scrunchie on her wrist, and grabs her phone sets it on a timer for an hour before setting it down next to the blood bags.

Returning to the hidden room, Helena grabbed a set of sterilized purple scrubs from her medical closet and slipped them on. She then picks up a tray and stacks on some suture kits, disinfectant, a few medical staple kits, her cautery, some scalpels, iodine, irrigation bottles, a syringe, lidocaine, a catheter kit, two bags of iv saline, some antibiotic ointment, a box of medium neoprene medical gloves, a mask, finger splint and a pair of sterilized shears meant for cutting sheet metal. Helena brings them to her living room, sets them on her coffee table, and plugs the cautery in. She ties her long hair back as she returns to the room one last time and grabs two boxes containing sterile dressings and bandages, sets on top of the boxes some sterilized plastic drapes to prevent the irrigation saline from getting on her couch, along with a high-tech IV stand. Depositing the last of the items on her coffee table, Helena goes to her kitchen. Her training from Spyral included the download of medical techniques, so she had the skills to stitch and staple Jason up. She can also remove the piece of rebar stuck in him and repair any damage it may have caused.

Helena puts on a face mask and begins a full disinfection scrub down. When she finished, she used her elbow to turn off the water and goes to Jason. Helena slips on a pair of gloves and disinfects his left hand, finds a vein, and puts in the catheter hooking him up to the saline drip to start getting his fluids up. Helena removes the bandages and is glad to see the bleeding stopped. She then opens the bag with the sterilized shears and begins cutting away at Jason's costume, leaving him in his boxers when she finished. It takes some time to cut through the protective material, so much so that the timer she set goes off as she makes the last cut causing her to jump a bit. Helena also found he broke his middle left toe. She removes her gloves, pulls on a new pair of gloves, turns off the alarm. She took a moment to admire Jason's toned body beefcake body as she writes out a text and sends it.

Text:

Librarian: Grrr Dick just…stupid dick stupidly killed my jalapeños. (Whiskey, beer, and wine emojis)

Teacher: real-world thoughts: good she is drinking, God, she is still mad about that it been two weeks. Text: (grumpy, angry emojis) In a bad mood, after that explosion ruined my stakeout (Cursing emoji), I got snuck up on and got knocked out by Red Hood. Fucker better not had cupped a feel when he Raided my belt for medical supplies, then used my cloak for the rest. I don't want to deal with anyone for the next few days. Consider me on vacation. Tell Bruce I will shoot him in the ass with my crossbow if he bugs me about anything for at least the next three days. I did not see anything but the gloved fist flying at my face…also, give Dick a call. It's been two weeks of me hearing you bitch about how you killed your peppers. Cute ass loves you, and you love him, stop being a scaredy bat move in together already.

Two nights ago, I went to pick up Little H and Anna to babysit them for Bruce and Selina's date night, and Alfred is going out with Lesslie. Selina says he is moping about the manor instead of returning to Blüdhaven due to a broken leg. The girls could not get in my car fast enough, and even Cassie joined in for a change. Tim has recovered, and he and Stephanie are covering Blüdhaven and likely using Dick's place as a love nest. So, get his ass out of the manor as he is driving the girls crazy. Turning off my phone, don't bug me (grumpy emoji).

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With her text sent, Helena turned off her phone and replaced her gloves again. She then laid a drape, numbed up the area the rebar was stuck in with lidocaine and went to work getting It out of his thigh. Helena was correct to leave it in as it had it nicked a vein. So, she used her cautery to seal the vein, irrigated the wound, then stapled the wound shut, applied triple antibiotic ointment, and bandages it. Helena then hung the blood bags and switched them. She then moves on to irrigating the next wound. It takes her three hours to finish stitching the man up. She also had to clean out the polycarbonate stuck in his left eye from his domino and then covered it with another bandage. Helena wrapped his ribs with an ace bandage. She then splinted his finger.

She then strips off her gloves and grabs Jason's suit. She brought it into her workshop, turned on her H vac system, threw the costume into her heat treatment oven, setting it to 2100F programmed it to turn off in an hour to destroy the outfit. She would throw the utility belt and knife into the east River and the ashes down the trash shoot. She goes to her linen closet and grabs a quilt to cover Jason with it. That done, she then makes her way to her room and takes a shower.

Toweling off, she changed into some comfortable underwear, blue jeans, a purple t-shirt, and a pair of socks. Reentering her armory, she opens her safe and pulls out a roll of hundreds. She returns to the living room, grabs a ball cap, sunglasses, Smart Masks and puts them in her purse with the cash. She writes a note, tapes it to Jason's head over his unbandaged eye, grabs her keys and purse, clicks on the crossbow icon, and leaves. She had taken Jason's measurements and planned on getting him some clothing at the twenty-four-hour Walmart along with some groceries she would need to feed more than herself for a while and also did not have all the ingredients for the curry Big Henry requested.

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Returning from Walmart a few hours later, Helena enters her apartment to find Jason, where she left him, and quickly puts her groceries away and returned the cart. Her penthouse had a washer and dryer, so she threw in the clothing she bought for Jason wanting to make sure they were clean. Helena had picked up a hellbat burger with some jokerized fries and a large chocolate shake on the way home. She sat down and indulged in a bit of junk food after grabbing her kindle fire 12. Jason was out, and she did not want to wake him by flicking on the tv or radio.

Helena Sits down on her chair and chows down. Finishing her meal, she gathers up the wrappers, gets up, and throws them away. Helena then opens her kindle, punching the code in to unlock it. She just picked up an exciting book called 1Black Canary: Breaking Silence, a reimagined world based on media theories about her friend. Helena got up after an hour to throw the clothes in the dryer and put a pot of coffee on. After another hour, she folded the clothing and brought the clothes basket into the living room. She settled in and began to wait, getting sucked into her book.

To be continued.

A real-world book that I found pretty good. It's available on amazon kindle and Audible.