It was early in the morning and all the occupants of the Bat Castle were asleep, except for one. In her room Selina was wake awake and she had been for several hours. After moving in with the other rangers, suddenly she heard movements outside her door creaking. She immediately grabbed her Claw weapon from the bedside table. Keeping it behind her back she approached the door and pulled it open. She was relieved to see that it was just Barbra Gordon standing outside. She was then embarrassed when she realised she was only wearing a yellow and white nightshirt that only went down as far as her knees. "Barb", she mumbled while trying to avert her gaze, "you startled me".
Barbra smiled, "Yeah I can see", she replied noting the Claw in her hand. She couldn't help but notice that her cheeks were flushed and thought how cute she looked. She realised that they had been standing in silence for a while so she regained her senses and continued, "I heard a noise so I went to investigate. Then I saw your light on and thought you were in trouble".
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to disturb you", she apologised.
The daughter of Jim Gordon noticed the dark circles under Selina's eyes. She then saw that her bed hadn't been slept in, "Selina have you been up all night?"
Selina looked at the clock and saw it read 5am, "Yeah I guess I have, must've lost track of time".
Barbra's eye narrowed, there was something bugging her. The others had noticed the odd patterns in her behaviour, sleeping for just a few hours a day and the reluctance to share anything about her life before she met the others. "Look Selina I don't want this to sound rude but im worried about you", Barbra began. "We all promised no secrets".
Selina looked at Barbra dangerously, "Are you accusing me of keeping secrets?"
"Not accusing", Barbra replied, "but you're hiding something and if it's detrimental to the team then I think they should know".
"Do you", Selina began and sat down on her desk chair, "if you must know I've been working ways to stop the Joker". It wasn't a total lie but it wasn't the whole story, "Perhaps everyone else should be doing the same thing instead of goofing off all the time".
"How dare you", Barbra shouted, "you know for a fact that i would if i had the same equipment that you did". She breathed deeply to try and regain her composure, "you may not have wanted to join, but you should at least work on treating us as your equals".
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Selina shot back.
"You know exactly what I mean", Barbra replied, "I can't speak for everyone but I certainly feel that you don't treat me as a clan member. You rarely include me in these searches that you conduct and you're reluctant to join during our training sessions. Until you do that don't you dare accuse us of slacking off Kyle".
The pair looked at each other murderously but before the argument could continue the computer beeped. Selina immediately called up the search programs but she was confused. There were no search results listed. "What is it?" Barbra asked as she peered over her shoulder.
"I'm not sure", she replied, "the computer's found something thats apparently connected to Zordon?". She pushed a few buttons and a message appeared on screen, "Incoming encrypted message, that's weird".
"Isn't this a bit odd", Barbra said, Selina tried entering a password but this was rejected. She tried a few more times but the computer kept telling her that she wasn't authorised to view the message. "I'll wake Dick, maybe he knows the password", Barbra said and Selina merely grunted in response. The catwoman was confused, who could send a message like this?
A few hours later neither Selina or Dick were closer to cracking the encryption on the file. For the first hour everyone gathered around the computer and waited in anticipation but as time passed the others began to drift away. Selina though decided to remain and watched as Dick worked. While it was clear that Nightwing was good with computers.
Selina walked into the living quarters and saw the others playing basketball. They claimed that it was part of their training regime but to him it just looked like they were running around after a ball. Deciding that a walk would clear her head, she grabbed a jacket from the peg and left through the front door.
She left the castle and thought about the things Selina had said earlier. She had been given a morpher so of course she was part of the team. Then again perhaps she was still keeping them at arm's length. She mocked their game of basketball and its benefits to their team work.
She didn't know how long she had been walking but soon Selina found herself in a rocky patch of scrubland. Maybe it was time to go back and this time she would tell them everything, she sighed.
"Well well, what do we have here", she heard a voice call from behind her. Her blood immediately ran cold as she turned around to face her mortal enemy, "Out for an early morning stroll", she teased.
"Harley Quinn?" She growled, " What brings the Joker's Bitch here?"
"Oh you know", she began and tapped her hammer on the ground a couple of times, " I just wanted to say hello".
"Well now you've done that, you can leave", Selina spat.
"So much anger kitty cat", she smiled, "what did I ever do to you", Harley added with a mocking tone.
By now Selina was barely controlling her anger, "You know exactly what you did, killed hundreds of thousands of innocents lives", she swallowed before continuing, "we were teammates".
"Maybe they deserved it", Harley shot back with a vicious tone. She fired a her gun which Selina narrowly avoided. Quickly morphing she summoned her Claws and charged at Harley. Harley managed to block a couple of swings before jamming the end of her hammer into the ribs of the Catwoman. Selina cried out in pain and dropped down to one knee, much to the delight of Harley.
Selina ground her teeth before going on the attack again. This time she mixed in a few kicks to try and throw Harley Quinn off guard but whatever she tried, she seemed to have an answer for it. Harley used her Hammer to sweep out Selina's legs and she crashed to the ground with a bump, dropping her claws in the process.
Harley laughed and brought her hammer up into an attacking position. Almost on instinct Selina summoned her claws back into her hands. From her prone position slashed the weapon across the unprotected legs of Harley. She cried out in pain and fell to the ground, clutching at her legs. Selina rolled away and gasped when she saw red blood on Harley's gloved hands. Her claws had cut through her suit and her legs were bleeding badly, "so You're human?" She managed to splutter.
"Of course I'm human", Harley roared, "what else would I be?"
" Well you are the Joker's bitch, why go back to him after everything we did?" She asked.
hammer struggled back to her feet and retrieved her hammer, "Revenge", she growled, "i worked hard i even became an ally to Bats, but still you all turned your backs on me and I will stop at nothing until all are gone".
"But that can't be right", Selina replied, "I didn't do that, the Birds of prey would never do that, you must be mistaken".
"You're calling me a liar?" Harley pointed her gun at the catwoman, "you'll be the first one of your team to die". She fired at Selina, however Selina dodged as Batman slammed into Harley. She was knocked her off her feet. Immediately leaping to her feet, she stared across at the five rangers defiantly before running away.
Selina breathed a sigh of relief before sinking to her knees, "Thanks", she gasped.
"What the fuck Selina", Jason began, Selina nodded her head, "I was walking and Harley got the jump on me". The red hood sensed the honesty in her words and immediately backed down.
"I'm sorry", Selina apologised. "Look i know I've been distant, i mocked your training and kept to myself" she continued " But i do appreciate that you made me part of your clan and part of your team " the others looked at her. " Selina, look we are more then a team we are a family, you're part of that " Bruce said, Selina smiled " Thanks Bats"
" Dont call me Bats"