Found by the Huntress 6
Chapter six: Jade's Phone Call
It's been four months since Helena found Jason, and the pair plan to end a few deserving members of Metropolis's underworld with Luther's blessing. Fortunately, they were not dumb enough to interfere in anything Luther had brewing. However, well, Luthar is evil enough to steal a cart of pies: he is not evil enough to deal in the trafficking operations they had uncovered. It is Sunday evening and Jason, and Helena are cuddling in bed, Helena refused to have sex on Sundays, and Jason was just fine with that. Both also learned during this time that they like to cuddle. They had attended Mass at a small church near the safe house they were borrowing on St. Martin Island. Fortunately, this particular borrow of the city was rarely attended to by Superman, so they did not have to worry too much about an accidental discovery. Helena dressed in her favorite Black Widow graphic t-shirt and a pair of purple sweats snuggled into the right side of Jason's chest. Jason is in black fleece pajama pants and a punisher t-shirt with his arm around Helena's shoulder.
"Wait…Helena, how many biological kids does Bruce have?" Jason asks randomly. He was almost asleep When something just hit him, causing him to snap awake.
"odd question, two Helena and Anna," Helena states tiredly.
"MOTHER FUCKING LYING OLD HAGE OF A BITCH!" Jason says as he sits bolt upright, causing Helena to be thrown off his chest.
"WHAT THE FUCK, JASON? I WAS ALMOST ASLEEP," Helena yelled; she almost smacked him till she saw the look on his face.
"Ok, explain what the situation is that made you bolt upright before I smack you," Helena says, a bit calmer as she watched the man; she…ya.. she…she watched Jason get up and start pacing.
"I learned this a few years into my training with the League Talia was pregnant with twins. Bruce does not have two biological kids. He has three; when the bitch learned she was pregnant with Fraternal twins, a boy, and a girl, she had the boy extracted well, carrying Anna to full term. Saying a boy must earn love, well a girl deserves love from the start, for a girl deserves every advantage she can get. Anna was raised with her mother's love and undivided attention. Damian was left alone for the most part, with only trainers and teachers who were given strict orders to show no affection to him; if they did, she killed them. She spoiled him rotten when she visited him. However, two years ago, David Cain tried to stage a cue, and the League went into civil war. I helped Ra's on the condition that both of Bruce's children be sent to him. Talia did not hold up her father's decree, well I need to go rescue the munchkin from his mother…and maybe kill Talia if there is time." Jason says with a glare.
"I am in, don't think you can talk me into staying, Dingbat; we are partners now, so you're stuck with me," Helena says with a grin. She did not like Talia at all.
"Good should be fun, and I know better than to try to talk you out of something. Well, let's book the flight to Israel, then we will have to cross the desert to get to 'Eth Alth'eban. Fortunately, I know the way. Then we need to inform Luther we are going to be out of town for a bit." Jason says, and the two get to work.
Two days later middle of the desert.
Helena, dressed in a tan button-up and khaki shorts, her trusty combat boots, and her favorite pair of dark purple lenses sunglasses, is sitting next to Jason. Jason is dressed in blue jeans, a red t-shirt, and a pair of dark round red lensed sunglasses. The man did not change his style often. The couple is driving in a hummer one of Helena's old contacts from her days in Spyral hooked them up with. Jason was fortunately still a member of the League on paper. So there was no worry about them being attacked by members of the League. They were in no real rush, and they would make it to 'Eth Alth'eban in another two days at the pace they were going. They were listening to an audiobook on Jason's phone to pass the time.
"Here I am on the road again.." Metallica's cover of turn the page starts coming from Jason's phone displayed Jade Nguyen-Harper.
"Ghaaaaaaa." The pair both scream at the unexpected noise, the hummer jerking.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT, JADE, YOU ALMOST," Jason yells at his best friend's ex-wife.
"they're going to execute Roy because he did something stupid in the League's territory then killed the people he did the stupid thing with. I am not going to let The League kill my husband. However, if this goes south, I am likely going to be executed with him. Look, there's a girl in Gotham, age seven, living in the Immaculate Virgin Mission. You will know her when you see her; please look in on her from time to time. I left her there to keep her safe." Jade's voice comes from the car's speakers before silence. Jason grabbed his phone and tried to call her back, getting a message that the phone has been disconnected.
"Fuck…fuck, fuck. Roy, you dumb fucking piece of shit, the junk you inject yourself with has gotten you in trouble again. But, God damn it, Helena, I am stepping on it." Jason says as he floors it.
"Who the fuck was that?" Helena asks. You could hear a bit of jealousy in her voice.
"Jade Nguyen-Harper A woman I trained with, a member of the League of Assassins, a member of Talia's secret faction The League of Shadows. She is also my best friend, Roy Harper's ex wif…wife, shit, clever woman." Jason says as he puts it together.
"Well, I was traveling the world going to other trainers aside from the League Jade was my babysitter, making sure I got whatever the shit was that Talia was using to suppress the pit madness. About nine years ago, I met up with and teamed up with The former speedy for a time. He and Jade fell in love. Eight years ago, they got married, Jade left the League, I got a new babysitter, Roy joined AA, was sponsored by Killer Croc got off Heroin. Seven years ago, they had a daughter and named me her godfather. Two years ago, Lian, their daughter, supposedly had been killed by the Electrocutioner."
"I helped Roy track the fucker down, and he put three arrows in his skull including, an exploding one. Then he fell off the wagon and into a canyon well, Jade rejoined the League. I was there when she served him 'divorce' papers. The thing is, he never read the papers, and I did not get a look at them. Roy told me he could not bear the sight of his daughter's body. I get the feeling the girl is alive, and the papers she served him were instead meant to sever his parental rights. I tried to get him off the junk he injected himself with a few times, but the man was depressed, and I can't blame him. I have sent him money when he needed it after returning to Gotham, and I know Croc has been doing the same thing. The last time I talked to him, he had joined a mercenary outfit called The Iron Rule. They were operating here in the Middle East. That was just before I blew my ass up with Batman and Joker, so I have not talked to him in four months. So it looks like we have three people to rescue, and you need to hit me now because I am going to have to do something phenomenally stupid to save them." Jason says with a brutal look as they speed through the desert.
"I will hit you after we save your friend and his wife. But, wait, Jade…fuck me. She is the assassin known as Cheshire, isn't she." Helena says with a realization.
"Yes?" That is all Jason says, confused at Helena's reaction.
"Great, I get to save a woman who has tried to kill me several times. You owe me for this." Helena says with a look that said I can't believe I am doing this.
"However, you want me to pay you back ill do," Jason says with a smile.
'Eth Alth'eban living quarters
Thirty-year-old Jade Nguyen-Harper is a beautiful half Vietnamese woman standing at five foot six inches tall with grey eyes and long black hair. She has the body of a goddess with large, almost D cup breasts, long legs, and a nice large heart-shaped butt. She was never quite able to shed the last of the belly and booty fat she gained well pregnant with her daughter, so her strong core was hidden by a thin layer of belly fat, giving her a smooth belly instead of a toned one. However, her husband liked the extra junk in her trunk. As a high ranked member of the League, she was allowed to dress how she wanted, so she wore a short green áo dài that showed off her long legs, a pair of black stockings and a pair of slip up cuffed boots, and a simple green cloth belt around her waist. She had pouches strapped to her legs with various tools of her trade. Strapped to her back is a pair of short curved swords about twenty inches long.
Jade just broke her phone and was looking at the grinning cat death mask. The last time she wore this mask was three years ago when she brought her injured daughter to the immaculate virgin mission in her home city of Gotham. Jade put the mask on, slipped out the door and into the shadows. Jade could save her husband by challenging and beating Ra's Al Gule; however, that was a pure contest of skill, and well, a highly-skilled martial artist, she knew she was no match for the man without her poisons.
She quickly made her way down to the holding cells of the compound. She knew if she killed the guards, Ra's would hunt them down no matter what. If she did not kill the guards, they would be a low priority. The darts Jade launched at the guards were coated with a fast-acting toxin that would knock them out for a few hours and give them a horrible hangover but would not kill them. She stole the cell keys and made her way to her husband's cell, even though the man thought they were divorced. God, she still loved him and had been keeping tabs on the man to make sure he did not OD. It hurt her to keep the fact that their daughter was still alive from him, but their Little Lotus was safer without them in her life. She opened the door to find the man she loved shaking and soaked in sweat as he is in the middle of both alcohol and heroin withdrawal.
Roy Harper is a handsome 30-year-old man standing five foot eleven inches tall. He has short red hair and green eyes. Despite falling into drug and alcohol abuse, the man still kept up his daily training regimen; he had a toned, fit body worth of a vigilante hero and archer. Fortunately, the man is only wearing a pair of blue jeans, and Jade could admire her man's body for a moment as she approached him. She frowned sadly at the site of the two-day-old track mark on his left arm.
"Dummy, it's me. We are getting out of here." Jade whispers as she kneeled down next to him.
Only one person called Roy a dummy and had that much affection for him in their voice.
"Jade been a long time you…you look great. I thought you got rid of the mask." Roy says with a smile as he shook.
"We can flirt later. But, we need to leave now." Jade says as she wraps his right arm around her shoulders. The pair quickly make their way out of the dungeon.
"what are…" Jade starts to say harshly when Roy shoves her aside.
"AHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA" Only to see her husband give a scream worth of Luke Skywalkers as his right arm is severed from his body by a sword. Cheshire glared at the woman who cut his arm off. She stood at five foot eight inches tall, with the body of a dancer. The woman is dressed in a tight green number based on Arabian dancers that showed off her belly. The woman has olive skin, long brown hair, and striking green eyes. She has d cups, long toned legs, and her rear was small and round. Strapped to her waist is an old German mouser pistol. Jade was jealous the woman was able to drop the lair of fat she had gained well pregnant with her daughter. She was holding two ornamental dao, the guards of the blades resembling dragon's heads. Cheshire quickly rapped her belt tightly around her husband's bleeding stump.
"I am so disappointed in you, Cheshire. To think you would betray me for this drug-addicted murderer." Talia says her voice was giving a good approximation of a disappointed mother.
"Go to hell, you dried up, old bitch," Jade says as she drew her swords. It would take just a scratch from one of her blades to take the woman out; then, she could get Roy to the helicopter she planned to steal and to a hospital. The pair rush each other and begin a graceful dance of sword strikes. After a short time, Talia delivers a brutal kick that makes it through Jade's guard doubling the much younger woman over. She falls the kick with a knee to Jade's face that shattered the other woman's mask, a shard of it cutting her right eyebrow. The older woman had a look of sadistic glee as she delivered a hard pommel strike to the younger woman's ribs, feeling one break.
"STOP!" a man's voice yells, stopping the two woman's fight. Flanked by many other members of the League of Assassins comes their charismatic leader. Standing at six foot five inches tall, Ra's al Ghul is an imposing figure. He has short black hair coming two to points reminiscent of demons' horns and is graying at the temples, a short fu man chu beard. He dressed in a white v neck shirt that showed off his muscular upper body, green cape, pants with a sash around his waist, and slip-on riding boots. Worn at his waist is a broad scimitar with a hilt decorated with gold.
"Cheshire, I will overlook this if you kill Mr. Harper right now." Ra's says, his voice full of a father caring.
"Demons head respectfully, I would rather die with my husband," Jade says, meeting the man's eyes.
"No, Jade, just kill me." Roy pleads with his ex, not wanting her to die.
"I will not kill you, stupid Dummy. I love you too much," Jade admits as she drops her swords, then reaches down and removes her pouches. She could not take this many members of the League, Ra's and Talia.
"Then I am sorry to say that in the morning, I will execute you both with my own hand. Tonight I will allow you two to share a cell. Fred, my medical bag..." Ra's says as he gives the pair a look of respect.
Taking the kit, he begins bandaging Roy's stump. Despite being centuries old, Ra's was still a trained medical doctor and kept up with advances in medical technology. One of the things that made the members of the League so fanatically loyal to him was the fact that he would personally tend to their wounds as a father tending to his children. He also leads from the front on many significant operations, further endearing himself to his followers. Ra's has even gone out of his way to pull members from danger.1 He then tended to Jade's wounds before they were taken back to Roy's cell.
Ra's had been kind enough to provide a blanket for Roy. He had even offered the man a shot of morphine both for his pain and to help his withdrawal symptoms. Roy refused, saying he would rather spend his last few hours with his ex-wife in pain but with a clear head. A few hours have passed since then, and Jade was sitting on the bed of their shared cell with Roy resting his head in her lap as she carded her fingers through his short sweat-soaked hair. The blanket was not one of the thin sheets given to most prisoners but a fine proper quilt.
"You should try to get some rest, Jade. Withdraw is going to keep me awake." Roy says with a caring look on his pained features. Jade just shook her head no.
"Roy… Lian…Lian did not die that night, and we are not devoiced. The papers I served you with were not divorce papers but a termination of our parental rights. Lian had lost her memories of us due to the Electrocutioner's attack, and I took her to the Immaculate Virgin Mission in Gotham. She has been there ever since. I…I did not tell you because she is safer without us in her life." Jade admits surprising herself as she sheds a few tears and is surprised when Roy reached up and whipped them away.
"Good to know our Little Lotus is still alive, and I am still married to the most beautiful woman in the world," Roy says with a small smile as he sheds a few tears himself.
"I check in on her from time to time, and she is still so smart. She won a Full ride Wayne Foundation scholarship to Gotham academy. I checked, and she has the best grades of her year. I told Jason enough for him to figure it out…you know… he will look in on her make sure she stays safe." Jade says before Roy sits up and hugs her. For the first time in her adult life, Jade broke down and cried into her husbands' shoulder, sad she would not be able to see their daughter grow up from a distance. Roy is crying tears of sadness and happiness into his wife's hair, happy that his daughter is alive but sad they would be dying without seeing her again. Jade falls asleep at some point.
The next day
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Ra's is holding an executioner's sword in his hand. The pair would have the honor of dying by the blade and not the ax. Jade and Roy were kneeling infront of a couple of chopping blocks that had been laid out in a manner that would allow Ra's to behead husband and wife with the same stroke.
"Do any wish to exercise the right to challenge me for their lives?" Ra's asks, following the League's law by offering the right to face him in single combat for the captive's lives.
"I CHALLENGE AHHOWW." A man's deep voice comes calls from the execution chamber's entrance ending with a pained yell.
"YOU STUPID DINGBAT, THIS IS YOUR BIG PLAN!" A woman's yell comes from the same location. As one, the gathered members of the League of Assassins turned to look.
Standing at the entrance to the chamber is a man standing six feet tall dressed in two-piece black body armor, red gloves, red arm wraps around the top of his gloves, a red sleeveless hooded sweatshirt. He also had on a red domino mask with glowing red lenses and an armored red half facemask. Adorning his chest is a white skull. He is wearing a black utility belt with a pair of thigh holsters with a couple of ten-millimeter pistols. Strapped to his back are a sword and a crowbar. A pair of armored combat boots finished off his look2.
Next to him is a woman standing at five foot eleven inches tall, her brown hair cut in a bob. She is wearing a black two-piece armored suit with dark purple armored gauntlets containing crossbow bolts, a dark v accent that drew eyes to her well-endowed chest, cape with a hooded cloak. Her utility belt had a double-bladed ax head like H symbol on its buckle, and strapped to her thigh is a crossbow. On her face is a sizeable H-shaped domino mask that framed her cheeks with glowing red lenses. Around her neck is a large gold cross and in her ears are small gold cross earings.3 the woman was grinding her combat boots heel into the man's foot. Red Hood and the Huntress have arrived just in time, and everyone in the room collectively sweatdropped at the ruined dramatic reveal.
To be continued same Huntress time Same Red Hood channel.
's was initially a physician before becoming the head of the demon In new earth, and I picture him as more of a leader similar to the vain of Char Aznable.
2. Jason's latest costume in the comics but with a punisher skull instead of the bat symbol
3. the original costume worn by Helena Bertinelli in the '90s before the belly window costume, well keeping the hood from her rebirth outfit.