Sorry it's been a while since my last update. I've been busy with some other things lately. But I'm back now so hopefully this was worth the wait.
"I can't believe Talia was in on the whole thing." Batgirl sat in a chair in her living room, analyzing all just happened. Strange had tortured Harley into spilling the beans on her secret identity, she was rescued by the people she had tried to push away, and Talia was working with Ra's the whole time, not only that was his daughter.
"We should have known,"Robin replied, "We should have all known. A little more investigating and we would have known she was Ra's daughter all along."
"Instead we let her play us all," Batgirl picked up a batarange and in anger she threw it across the room into the dining room where it got stuck into a wall.
"Talia was the one who broke me out of prison," Harley replied finally speaking up, she had been silent ever since escaping Hugo's lair. Staring at the floor in silence as she sat on Barbara's sofa. "She was the one that got all those prisoners out for Strange to experiment on."
"Well the good news is, now that her secret is out, we can let the cops in about Talia's alliance and take her down." Catwoman replied, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed.
"If Talia is Ra's Al Ghul's daughter, she will probably be just as trained as the rest of the league." Robin responded "Arresting her won't be as easy as you wish."
"Harley when Hugo tortured you with the mutagen he used a cure on you after you gave him my identity. Do you by any chance know what that cure was?"
"No, I wish I knew the cure so we could reverse what has been done to those people, but I just don't know. I'm sorry Babs."
"I bet I know where we could get the cure from?" Catwoman spoke up. "Talia was always a rival for Batman's affection. The Dark knight always had a thing for bad girls. Why? I'm not sure, you would think a masked hero would go for the little miss perfects of the world, but not Batman.
"Where are you going with this?" Robin asked.
"My point is that just like me, Talia has feelings for the Dark Knight, and if you want to get that cure you are going to have to get it from her, and use her feelings for Batman as leverage."
"Your assuming that we catch her first." Robin added.
"There's three of us and one of her, all we have to do is catch her off guard." Catwoman replied.
Robin turned to Batgirl "I know you haven't trusted us, but if we are to stop Hugo and Ra's we have to work together, give us a chance, this one time. We can still win this, together, as a team."
Batgirl sighed and stared at the ground. "When I started this crusade I did it alone, I never wanted a team, mainly because I was afraid if I let anyone else get involved in my crusade that they would get hurt. I have nearly died on multiple occasions, and lost a really good friend of mine because of my attempts to go at this alone. I was stubborn, afraid, and I never got over my own guilt, and anger over the one person I cared about that I couldn't save. It was my guilt and fear of losing anyone else that caused me to push you away. I know now that if I'm truly going to heal and get past my own guilt that I need to start letting people in. It will take some time, but I can start with you."
Robin put a hand on Batgirl's shoulders. "We have all lost people Batgirl, it's how you honor their memory that matters, you can either dwell in your sorrow or honor them."
"Well I've done enough dwelling for a lifetime. It's time I truly honor her the right way." Batgirl reached out her hand for Robing to shake. "So Partners?"
Robin smiled and accepted the handshake "Partners, let's go stop a mad scientist Batgirl."
"It's Barbara,"
"Come again?"
Barbara removed her cowl. "Barbara Gordon, if we're going to work together we need to trust each other, and that includes with our secret identities too."
Robin smiled and removed his mask. "Tim Drake."
"Selina Kyle," Catwoman chimed in as well.
"Yeah I know, I read the police report," Batgirl responded before turning back to Robin "Also there is a few rules, first one is no killing."
"Won't be a problem."
"Second, no going behind each others back. We agree on how to handle a assignment together, no secrecy."
"Roger that."
"And lastly, tell my father my secret and I will ensure you never walk again."
Tim chuckled at that last part. "I think that won't be a problem."
"Alright then I think I have a plan to capture Talia, but it includes working with my father."
"You're the boss Barbara, whatever you say we will do."
"Call me Babs, that's what my friends call me."
"Okay then Babs."
Selina suddenly interrupted "Um I hate to be the one to break up a friendly chat but…" Selina pointed to Harley who was still on the couch "What are we to do with her?"
"Oh yeah," Robin realized "Technically she's a fugitive, but it's to dangerous to send her back to Arkham right now. Hugo will be looking for her."
"Don't worry I have this covered."
Alfred wasn't that thrilled about the idea of Harley taking refuge in the bat cave, mainly out of concern of her accidently discovering Batman's identity. But with Barbara taking her normal life car and having Tim, Selina, and Harley blindfolded Barbara was able to drive Harley to the Batcave without any danger of Batman's secret being exposed.
"Alfred will watch over you Harley," Barbara replied handing her over to Alfred. "He's former military, if anything happens he will keep you safe."
"You don't have to go through all this trouble for me Babs" Harley replied.
"It's my job, both as Batgirl and as your friend." Barbara then turned to Alfred "By the way Alfred did you get the prisoner transfer papers offline like I asked?"
"Right here Miss Gordon." Alfred replied "As well as documented statements that the prisoners never arrived. That will be all the proof your father needs of Talia's treachery"
Barbara then returned took the Batmobile and after parking her car in the cave, she had Tim and Selina hop in the Batmobile and drive towards GCPD, where Barbara knew her father would still be working.
Jim was looking through paper work when Batgirl and Robin swung through the open window. Jim turned at the sight of the two silhouettes behind him, turning around he jumped out of his seat at the sight of Batgirl and Robin standing behind him.
"Jesus Batgirl you nearly gave me a Goddamn heart attack." He then noticed Robin "I see you have your own Boy wonder, your becoming more and more like the Batman everyday."
Batgirl then handed Jim the papers she got from Alfred.
"What's this?"
"We know how Hugo got his hands on the prisoners he needed to make his monsters. Officer Tate orchestrated a secret breakout disguised as a prisoner transfer."
"What?" Jim gasped looking at the papers.
"Only instead of taking them to another prison, she took them to Strange where he used them to make his monsters. There's another thing you should know, Talia Tate is actually Talia Al Ghul, Ra's Al Ghul's daughter."
Jim growled and slammed the papers on his desk at the news. "I can't believe this, I fucking can't believe this. She was a mole this whole time. She was right under my nose and I didn't see it."
"None of us did, don't blame yourself, she fooled me too for a while."
"I want her brought in, NOW!"
Talia was currently staying at a one bedroom apartment in downtown Gotham. She definitely hated it compared to her normal home with the league of shadows. But as long as she was working with Hugo she had to keep up the act as a police officer. Which meant she had to go by Talia Tate, and pretend to be a police officer, and live in a small one bedroom apartment in the middle of Gotham. She was just hoping all of this ended soon so she could go back to her home with the league, and be out of this crap hole they called a apartment. Sadly it wasn't happening fast enough, there was still no word on the location of Batgirl or her allies, and as long as they were still out there, they were a threat to their plan.
She suddenly saw the flashing of police lights out her window. "Shit!" She gasped "They're on to me, Batgirl must have went to the…"
There was a bang at the door, and Commissioner Gordon's voice was heard yelling on the other end.
"Talia Al Ghul, you are surrounded, give yourself up."
Batgirl suddenly crashed through the window, causing Talia to draw her sword. "Fool, you'll never stop the league of shadows!"
Talia swung her sword but Batgirl quickly dodged it. Grabbing a sword hanging on Talia's wall she blocked Talia's blows. Talia swung her sword again, and Batgirl dodged out of the way, causing Talia to get her sword stuck in the wall. Batgirl knocked Talia to the wall, hoping to pin her down, but Talia swung her elbow knocking Batgirl in the chin, causing her to fall backwards Talia removed her sword from the wall and swung it forward again. Once again Batgirl dodged it, lowering herself just enough to avoid Talia's blade.
That is when Batgirl struck. Swinging her sword she scraped Talia's left leg, then tossing a batarange she hit Talia in the right leg. Talia seethed in pain and ran to the exit. Batgirl knew the batarange wouldn't stop her, it wasn't to, it was just to slow her down, and weaken her. Talia attempted to jump out her second apartment window, but with her wounded legs she instantly fell, where five other officers were there to arrest her.
"We got her Commissioner," Batgirl replied opening the apartment door. Jim walked to the window where he saw Talia being led away in handcuffs.
"Good, now let's see if we can make her talk."