Five Years Running: Chapter 4: Lost and Found
....The Bat Plane landed smoothly on the steel surface of the mountain cave. It looked like a laboratory, or a storage house, or a combination of the two.....
Batman walked up to the first steel sliding door and ripped off the key pad lock. The door didn't budge.
Emily looked at him and sighed annoyingly. "Let me help she said," and threw a batarang right in the crack of the door. It beeped five times and exploded. The door slid open and they walked inside. There was another door with no key pad and the door behind them shut. Batgirl ran to one while Batman went to another. But with all their might and gadgets, the doors wouldn't budge.
"Well this is just great!" said Terry, sitting on a wooden box. "What are we supposed to do now Batgirl?" asked Terry. She didn't respond. "Batgirl? Hello? Paging Emily!" he called.
"....I'm in love with a guy that I don't even now and-," she was singing.
"Batgirl!" Batman yelled, which made her stop singing. She clicked the button she had installed earlier and her face went bright red with embarrassment. "So that's what it was," thought Terry. "A radio. Does she think this is a game or something?!" Terry sighed and hung his head annoyed, trying to think.
"Yo, what's up? You look upset," she said.
"No really," said an annoyed Terry.
"What is your problem?!"
"You are my problem ok?!" Emily glared at him. How could he say that to her?!
"Whatever. What did I do?!"
"Why did you have to come to Gotham anyway?!" yelled Batman. "Didn't you make me miserable enough when you lived Metropolis?!" This got her mega unhappy and she went over there and slapped him in the face.
"Listen you rat with wings, I haven't done anything to you since I got here, and I never said I was moving here ok?!??!!!" Terry glared at her.
"You really want to know why I'm mad?!" he asked.
"Yeah I do!" she said.
"You're my best friend for twelve years and then you just move away. Then you never talk to me. At least at the first family reunion after you moved, you acted like I was still your cousin and important to you! Then you come here and decide to act all chummy and then you have to be my partner and all that crud! Why can't you just leave me alone! Not like you care any way!"
"Is that what you think?! That I don't care?! The day I moved was the day I died on the inside! If I didn't care about you then I wouldn't be vacationing in Gotham City and I definitely wouldn't be risking my butt out here!"
"You sure have a great way of showing it...."
"You haven't even been what I've been through! Don't ever say that to me!" she was right up in his face now. "After I saw you again, things seemed the way they always were. That lasted four hours and then I left the reunion! Do you know how I felt?! Do you even know what that did to me?! That day I learned that the only way to avoid getting hurt is never get close to someone who you know you'll have to say goodbye to as soon as you've said hello! That ripped me apart Terry! Do you know how lonesome I've been? I never had any really good friends, and never had a boyfriend. I was too scared of getting hurt. And you know my parents, they were certainly no help! It was probably the stupidest mistake of my life, but if you were in my shoes, can you honestly say you wouldn't do the same?!" she yelled.
"Emily?" said Terry.
"What?!" she yelled at him.
"I"m sorry." She glared at him and then burst into tears. She put her head on his chest and cried her eyes out.
"Oh Terry! I"m so sorry! It was so selfish of me! I'm so sorry," she broke in between sobs. She wiped away her tears with her hand and they sat there a while. Suddenly the door ahead of them slid open, and the two stepped inside.
It was empty, save a few barrels of toxic ooze. Without warning, the door behind them shut and stuck.
"I don't like this...." said Batgirl. "It feels too much like a trap."
"Yeah and we fell in it," replied Batman. The steel covering plates of a window slid open to reveal Blight, laughing his head off.
"That's right!" he cackled. "Now I can get you out of the way for good!" Batman's batarang hit the shield, but it did no good. "Bullet proof you fool! Do you think a flimsy piece of metal can pierce it?!" and he laughed more. All of a sudden he was gone and a green, smoke like gas was filing the air. The two collapsed on the ground, coughing. Emily, holding her throat, managed to stand and called out.
"Batman!"
There was no reply....She called again, but still he didn't answer.
"Terry, where are you?!" thought Emily. She called again, this time, stumbling through the smoke. She tripped and fell over Terry! "Oh no!" she thought. "Please God no!" She grabbed his arm and after quite a lot of effort, she knocked down the door, and managed to drag Terry into the bat plain....
To Be Continued....