"This is very well done," Barbara said to Dinah while she checked her notes
in the dining room, "you could improve it by giving these some graphics."
"Would you let me take the laptop to the school?" Dinah asked.
"Of course, it's worthwhile; I will load some data on for you later," Barbara replied. They heard the elevator door open and watched Helena enter with a very dark expression. She opened the fridge, took out a coke and closed the door while taking a sip from the can. Barbara and Dinah looked at her surprised.
"What are you doing here?" Barbara asked "You should be at work."
"Problems," Helena collapsed into a neighboring chair.
"Problems? What kind of problems?" Barbara asked raising her eyebrow. Helena kept silent and took another sip out of her coke.
"What happened?" Barbara asked.
"I hit a man..." Helena replied.
"What?" Barbara set Dinah's books aside.
"I hit a man, Leonard had to remove me from him... he was really concerned so he gave me three days off."
"What did that man do to you?" Dinah asked surprised.
"... He was bothering me at the bar, Leonard sent me to go get some stuff and he followed me."
"And?" Barbara asked looking at her.
"... I don't know, I don't remember."
"How can you not remember?" Barbara asked again.
"I don't remember..." Helena bit her lips "all I know was that two guards were holding me back and I saw him on the floor bleeding... I don't know what happened; I don't remember having ever hitting him!"
"I don't like this," Barbara muttered to herself.
"Barbara, it totally freaked me out."
The Delphi alarm interrupted them.
"We'll talk about this later," Barbara said as she approached the monitors, "Oh and I'd appreciate it if you don't avoid me," she said turning back at Helena. They reached the monitors and Barbara set out typing on the computer. "It's the main bank, there's been an assault.
"This time of the day?" Huntress asked, "What are they? Dumb?"
"Today's the cross over of old to new money at the currency house, they're gonna burn the old money," Barbara said as she read the data on her monitor, "You better hurry." Helena ran off to get changed.
Barbara turned to Dinah, "You too."
"Me?" Dinah smiled "Seriously?"
"Yes, hurry" Barbara stopped Dinah by the arm "Take care of her," she said in low voice, "something is wrong."
* * *
The bank was madness the moment that Dinah and Huntress arrived; from a neighboring roof they observed the movement.
"Gonna be a bit difficult for them to leave," Dinah said.
"I don't think they were dumb enough not to plan an escape route," Huntress replied.
* * * "You're right Huntress," Barbara said as she searched the maps of new Gotham, "The bank has a tunnel that ends up at the park, it's a sewer, it was part of an old building in old Gotham."
* * *
"We can wait for them there!" Dinah said.
"Or we can at least intercept them!" Huntress replied.
After a few minutes, both girls arrived at the park, just as the thieves were exiting the sewers with bags of money in their hands.
"Bingo," Huntress said, "once again you're dead on Oracle; we have six men at sight."
::Be careful:: Barbara replied. They surprised the men. While Dinah took on two of them, Huntress went after the remaining 4. Dinah used her mental power to throw one of them into a tree and rendered the other unconscious with a kick to the jaw. She looked up to see if Huntress needed help.
Huntress had already knocked one of them out, and just rendered another one unconscious, she approached the remaining two, smiling. They raised their hands "we surrender," they said. Helena didn't seem to listen and launched into a fury of punches and kicks aimed towards them.
"Huntress!" Dinah shouted, "They surrendered, they gave up!!!"
Helena continued attacking the men, Dinah tried to pull her back by her arm but Huntress turns around and hit her in the face.
"Barbara! She's gone mad," Dinah said picking herself up from the grass.
:: What? ::
"Huntress has gone mad. I tried to stop her but she hit me," Dinah replied.
:: Huntress, Huntress! Do you copy? :: Barbara yelled in the mic.
Dinah watched as Helena attacked the men violently, she had to stop her. She ran over to Helena and jumped on her back, both toppled over onto the grass.
"Huntress hold on!" she said.
Huntress began to fight Dinah off; she flipped Dinah onto her back and threw a punch at her. Dinah grabbed the fist and suddenly an image of a scarecrow flooded her mind. Frightened she accidentally used her mental powers to throw Huntress off, causing the older woman to fly backwards into a tree. Helena tried standing up but Dinah forced her to the ground face down and twisted her arm behind her back. "Will you just stay still," Dinah said harshly.
"What?" Helena asked surprised, "What are you doing?"
"Will you clam down?" Dinah asked.
"Yeah, okay, I'm calm, I'm calm. Let go of me! You're hurting me!" Helena replied.
Dinah let go of Huntress, she looked straight into her face as Helena sat up.
"What the hell happened to you?" Helena said as she moved her arm about.
"No, what the hell happened to you?" Dinah replied.
:: Is everything okay? :: Barbara asked :: Huntress? ::
"She's okay now," Dinah tucked a lock of hair behind her ear, "She's calmed down now."
:: The thieves? ::
Dinah looked at the unconscious bodies of the thieves and said, "No one escaped, call the police, we're going."
"What happened?" Helena got up looking at the men on the ground.
"You're telling me you don't remember?" Dinah asked helping Helena up.
"No, I don't" Helena looks at her seriously.
"You don't even remember attacking me either?"
"I did?"
:: You two, back to the tower now :: came Barbara's voice over the comm :: I need to speak to both of you ::
* * *
As dawn began to break over New Gotham, Barbara sat on the balcony reflecting over the past 24 hours of Helena's behavior. It worried her that Helena didn't remember a thing or remember attacking Dinah. At first she thought Helena might have been affected by something but the test results came through negative, everything was normal.
"Are you ok?" Dinah's voice shook her out of her thoughts.
"Yes. Why are you awake so early?" she asked.
"I couldn't sleep, kept thinking of Helena... what about you?"
"No..." Barbara played with her fingers, "What if it happens again and none of us are there to stop her?" she asked.
"What you going to do? Ground her?" Dinah asked.
"Lord no! Of course not, but there must be something... I need to know what is, to stop it, and in the meantime... we cannot leave her alone."
"Helena won't like it," Dinah replied folding her arms.
"I know," Barbara replied.
"Barbara, when I touched her. I saw something..." Dinah said after a moment's pause.
"What did you see?"
"It's strange, the figure of a scarecrow, it gave me the chills,"
"A scarecrow?" Barbara repeated, "That doesn't make any sense."
"Yeah, but it scared the hell out of me."
* * *
Reese had called Helena and Dinah to show them several pictures of a recent murder. They had been in an empty street of New Gotham city.
"Their hearts stopped?" Dinah asked looking at one of the pictures, "The men have a scared expression in their faces."
"They died of fear?" Helena gave some more pictures to Dinah.
"It seems like it." Reese said. "I haven't found another explanation, and I've seen many strange things with you that really surprise me."
"Is there some relationship between them?" Helena asked.
"We're working on that. How do you feel?" Reese looked her.
"Fine." Helena answered absentmindedly looking a picture. "Why?"
"Remember two days ago?"
Helena didn't like question and tried to avoid it "Um ok. May I keep this pictures?"
"I thought you were going to kill him." he insisted.
"You don't know me." Helena said angry, she felt uncomfortable.
"Hey. easy" Reese felt her aggressiveness and looked at her face "I'm trying to help, what happened with you?"
"Nothing. just was a bad day."
"And today too, huh?"
"Just was a bad day Reese, I don't want to talk about that, I'm ashamed enough of it already."
::Huntress:: she heard Oracle's voice:: An alarm was activated in the the big warehouse on Main Avenue::
"There's been an assault Reese, at the big warehouse on Main Avenue." Helena said to him. "I need to go."
"I'll call the police" said Reese running to his car.
"Dinah, let's go!"
***
Dinah and Helena hid behind a wall. A truck was driving through the alley with the lights off.
"They work quickly." Dinah said.
"I'll stop the truck, and attack the driver. Behind must be the other thieves. They're sure to come out when I stop it. Be careful Dinah."
Huntress jumped to the driver's window, the man was surprised, Helena hit his face and she turned the steering wheel against the wall. She jumped out before it impacted. The rear door of the truck opened and several men with weapons got out.
Dinah immediately disarmed two of them and began to fight them. Huntress jumped over a third man and threw him onto the floor. Three more thieves left the truck and attacked her.
:: Is everything ok? :: they heard Oracle ask.
"Excellent." Huntress bent over to avoid a blow. All these thieves have a good sense of fashion, they choose stylish clothes."
In few seconds the girls subjected them. Suddenly, one of the men that Dinah hit tried to escape through an alley.
"He's mine" Huntress came out running behind him.
:: The police are coming down the road:: Oracle warned.
"They'll need to fish for the men." Dinah said looking all the men laying in the floor "Helena was after one that ran away"
:: Follow her, don't leave her alone::
"Okay, I'm on my way."
::Call me if there any problems::
* * *
Barbara recorded a database from one system to another, trying to analyze the pictures that Reese had taken. Seeing the faces of the men have her a slight chill. Suddenly she heard the voice of Dinah in the mic.
:: Barbara happened again:: she said.
"How did it happen again?" Barbara asked while Alfred came closer to listen to the conversation from behind.
:: I folllowed Huntress:: Dinah explained :: She and the thief went to the back of a house, she had him cornered, the man cried asking her to go away .He was terrified; Huntress seemed to enjoy his fear. She began to hit him and didn't listen me, I lifted her with my telekinesis, and I threw her in the side of the house... ::
"Why did you do that?"
:: I didn't have a choice Barbara, the cold water got her to react, although I believe that I ruined her new jacket::
"Where are you?"
:: In the apartment above the Bar, she came to change her clothes::
Barbara took a deep sigh and looked with concern at Alfred, they needed stop her. "Return to the tower as soon as possible." She said.
"Ok, Dinah out."
"Would you let me take the laptop to the school?" Dinah asked.
"Of course, it's worthwhile; I will load some data on for you later," Barbara replied. They heard the elevator door open and watched Helena enter with a very dark expression. She opened the fridge, took out a coke and closed the door while taking a sip from the can. Barbara and Dinah looked at her surprised.
"What are you doing here?" Barbara asked "You should be at work."
"Problems," Helena collapsed into a neighboring chair.
"Problems? What kind of problems?" Barbara asked raising her eyebrow. Helena kept silent and took another sip out of her coke.
"What happened?" Barbara asked.
"I hit a man..." Helena replied.
"What?" Barbara set Dinah's books aside.
"I hit a man, Leonard had to remove me from him... he was really concerned so he gave me three days off."
"What did that man do to you?" Dinah asked surprised.
"... He was bothering me at the bar, Leonard sent me to go get some stuff and he followed me."
"And?" Barbara asked looking at her.
"... I don't know, I don't remember."
"How can you not remember?" Barbara asked again.
"I don't remember..." Helena bit her lips "all I know was that two guards were holding me back and I saw him on the floor bleeding... I don't know what happened; I don't remember having ever hitting him!"
"I don't like this," Barbara muttered to herself.
"Barbara, it totally freaked me out."
The Delphi alarm interrupted them.
"We'll talk about this later," Barbara said as she approached the monitors, "Oh and I'd appreciate it if you don't avoid me," she said turning back at Helena. They reached the monitors and Barbara set out typing on the computer. "It's the main bank, there's been an assault.
"This time of the day?" Huntress asked, "What are they? Dumb?"
"Today's the cross over of old to new money at the currency house, they're gonna burn the old money," Barbara said as she read the data on her monitor, "You better hurry." Helena ran off to get changed.
Barbara turned to Dinah, "You too."
"Me?" Dinah smiled "Seriously?"
"Yes, hurry" Barbara stopped Dinah by the arm "Take care of her," she said in low voice, "something is wrong."
* * *
The bank was madness the moment that Dinah and Huntress arrived; from a neighboring roof they observed the movement.
"Gonna be a bit difficult for them to leave," Dinah said.
"I don't think they were dumb enough not to plan an escape route," Huntress replied.
* * * "You're right Huntress," Barbara said as she searched the maps of new Gotham, "The bank has a tunnel that ends up at the park, it's a sewer, it was part of an old building in old Gotham."
* * *
"We can wait for them there!" Dinah said.
"Or we can at least intercept them!" Huntress replied.
After a few minutes, both girls arrived at the park, just as the thieves were exiting the sewers with bags of money in their hands.
"Bingo," Huntress said, "once again you're dead on Oracle; we have six men at sight."
::Be careful:: Barbara replied. They surprised the men. While Dinah took on two of them, Huntress went after the remaining 4. Dinah used her mental power to throw one of them into a tree and rendered the other unconscious with a kick to the jaw. She looked up to see if Huntress needed help.
Huntress had already knocked one of them out, and just rendered another one unconscious, she approached the remaining two, smiling. They raised their hands "we surrender," they said. Helena didn't seem to listen and launched into a fury of punches and kicks aimed towards them.
"Huntress!" Dinah shouted, "They surrendered, they gave up!!!"
Helena continued attacking the men, Dinah tried to pull her back by her arm but Huntress turns around and hit her in the face.
"Barbara! She's gone mad," Dinah said picking herself up from the grass.
:: What? ::
"Huntress has gone mad. I tried to stop her but she hit me," Dinah replied.
:: Huntress, Huntress! Do you copy? :: Barbara yelled in the mic.
Dinah watched as Helena attacked the men violently, she had to stop her. She ran over to Helena and jumped on her back, both toppled over onto the grass.
"Huntress hold on!" she said.
Huntress began to fight Dinah off; she flipped Dinah onto her back and threw a punch at her. Dinah grabbed the fist and suddenly an image of a scarecrow flooded her mind. Frightened she accidentally used her mental powers to throw Huntress off, causing the older woman to fly backwards into a tree. Helena tried standing up but Dinah forced her to the ground face down and twisted her arm behind her back. "Will you just stay still," Dinah said harshly.
"What?" Helena asked surprised, "What are you doing?"
"Will you clam down?" Dinah asked.
"Yeah, okay, I'm calm, I'm calm. Let go of me! You're hurting me!" Helena replied.
Dinah let go of Huntress, she looked straight into her face as Helena sat up.
"What the hell happened to you?" Helena said as she moved her arm about.
"No, what the hell happened to you?" Dinah replied.
:: Is everything okay? :: Barbara asked :: Huntress? ::
"She's okay now," Dinah tucked a lock of hair behind her ear, "She's calmed down now."
:: The thieves? ::
Dinah looked at the unconscious bodies of the thieves and said, "No one escaped, call the police, we're going."
"What happened?" Helena got up looking at the men on the ground.
"You're telling me you don't remember?" Dinah asked helping Helena up.
"No, I don't" Helena looks at her seriously.
"You don't even remember attacking me either?"
"I did?"
:: You two, back to the tower now :: came Barbara's voice over the comm :: I need to speak to both of you ::
* * *
As dawn began to break over New Gotham, Barbara sat on the balcony reflecting over the past 24 hours of Helena's behavior. It worried her that Helena didn't remember a thing or remember attacking Dinah. At first she thought Helena might have been affected by something but the test results came through negative, everything was normal.
"Are you ok?" Dinah's voice shook her out of her thoughts.
"Yes. Why are you awake so early?" she asked.
"I couldn't sleep, kept thinking of Helena... what about you?"
"No..." Barbara played with her fingers, "What if it happens again and none of us are there to stop her?" she asked.
"What you going to do? Ground her?" Dinah asked.
"Lord no! Of course not, but there must be something... I need to know what is, to stop it, and in the meantime... we cannot leave her alone."
"Helena won't like it," Dinah replied folding her arms.
"I know," Barbara replied.
"Barbara, when I touched her. I saw something..." Dinah said after a moment's pause.
"What did you see?"
"It's strange, the figure of a scarecrow, it gave me the chills,"
"A scarecrow?" Barbara repeated, "That doesn't make any sense."
"Yeah, but it scared the hell out of me."
* * *
Reese had called Helena and Dinah to show them several pictures of a recent murder. They had been in an empty street of New Gotham city.
"Their hearts stopped?" Dinah asked looking at one of the pictures, "The men have a scared expression in their faces."
"They died of fear?" Helena gave some more pictures to Dinah.
"It seems like it." Reese said. "I haven't found another explanation, and I've seen many strange things with you that really surprise me."
"Is there some relationship between them?" Helena asked.
"We're working on that. How do you feel?" Reese looked her.
"Fine." Helena answered absentmindedly looking a picture. "Why?"
"Remember two days ago?"
Helena didn't like question and tried to avoid it "Um ok. May I keep this pictures?"
"I thought you were going to kill him." he insisted.
"You don't know me." Helena said angry, she felt uncomfortable.
"Hey. easy" Reese felt her aggressiveness and looked at her face "I'm trying to help, what happened with you?"
"Nothing. just was a bad day."
"And today too, huh?"
"Just was a bad day Reese, I don't want to talk about that, I'm ashamed enough of it already."
::Huntress:: she heard Oracle's voice:: An alarm was activated in the the big warehouse on Main Avenue::
"There's been an assault Reese, at the big warehouse on Main Avenue." Helena said to him. "I need to go."
"I'll call the police" said Reese running to his car.
"Dinah, let's go!"
***
Dinah and Helena hid behind a wall. A truck was driving through the alley with the lights off.
"They work quickly." Dinah said.
"I'll stop the truck, and attack the driver. Behind must be the other thieves. They're sure to come out when I stop it. Be careful Dinah."
Huntress jumped to the driver's window, the man was surprised, Helena hit his face and she turned the steering wheel against the wall. She jumped out before it impacted. The rear door of the truck opened and several men with weapons got out.
Dinah immediately disarmed two of them and began to fight them. Huntress jumped over a third man and threw him onto the floor. Three more thieves left the truck and attacked her.
:: Is everything ok? :: they heard Oracle ask.
"Excellent." Huntress bent over to avoid a blow. All these thieves have a good sense of fashion, they choose stylish clothes."
In few seconds the girls subjected them. Suddenly, one of the men that Dinah hit tried to escape through an alley.
"He's mine" Huntress came out running behind him.
:: The police are coming down the road:: Oracle warned.
"They'll need to fish for the men." Dinah said looking all the men laying in the floor "Helena was after one that ran away"
:: Follow her, don't leave her alone::
"Okay, I'm on my way."
::Call me if there any problems::
* * *
Barbara recorded a database from one system to another, trying to analyze the pictures that Reese had taken. Seeing the faces of the men have her a slight chill. Suddenly she heard the voice of Dinah in the mic.
:: Barbara happened again:: she said.
"How did it happen again?" Barbara asked while Alfred came closer to listen to the conversation from behind.
:: I folllowed Huntress:: Dinah explained :: She and the thief went to the back of a house, she had him cornered, the man cried asking her to go away .He was terrified; Huntress seemed to enjoy his fear. She began to hit him and didn't listen me, I lifted her with my telekinesis, and I threw her in the side of the house... ::
"Why did you do that?"
:: I didn't have a choice Barbara, the cold water got her to react, although I believe that I ruined her new jacket::
"Where are you?"
:: In the apartment above the Bar, she came to change her clothes::
Barbara took a deep sigh and looked with concern at Alfred, they needed stop her. "Return to the tower as soon as possible." She said.
"Ok, Dinah out."