CHAPTER 9

"Forget Huntress, this is between you and me!" Danielle spun around and kicked the gun out of Bill Donaldson's hand. Danielle immediately leaped over her father and landed on the other side, putting both men in front of her. The Penguin raised up his right hand when Bill Donaldson went to charge at her. "I will handle this." Penguin took two steps forward, with his umbrella in hand. "Are you really ready to take on your old man? Do you have it in you?"

"Does this answer your question, Father!" Danielle leaped into her action. She tried a spin kick for his face, but the Penguin raised up his umbrella and held it with one hand on each end to block the kick.

Penguin let go of the top end of the umbrella and pointed it Danielle. A blue gas sprayed into Danielle's face. She began to cough and wheeze as she fell to her knees. She began to get light headed before she fell to the ground. "That was easy."

"It's not going to be that easy, Penguin!" Came another voice. He turned around to see the Huntress and Dinah standing there.

"I want Donaldson!" Dinah said, staring at him angrily.

Dinah charged at Bill. Bill backed up nervously, knowing that he was outmatched. He could not escape Dinah as she kicked him across the face, sending him stumbling into the wall. Bill put his hands in front of him to keep himself from crashing into the wall. He turned around just in time to see a fist coming at him. He barely got out of the way of Dinah's fist.

Helena attacked the Penguin with a high kick, which he blocked with his umbrella. With a press of a button on the handle of the umbrella, a razor sharp blade popped out from the tip of the umbrella. He swung the umbrella wildly trying to slash her across her chest. The huntress stepped back to avoid the blade. The penguin went for a second swipe. This time she stepped in closer, and raised up her left arm and the fabric part of the umbrella was blocked, not allowing the blade to make human contact. Helena kicked his wrist, sending the umbrella up in the air, and out of his hands. She then leaned onto her right leg and kicked the Penguin in the chest with the flat of her left foot.

The Penguin stumbled backwards a few steps before regaining his composure. With fire in his eyes, he came charging at Helena. With him being overweight, she assumed that he would be too slow and weak to prove to be a challenge in hand-to-hand combat. That would prove to be a mistake on her part. He came at her with surprising speed, delivering a powerful punch that sent Helena crashing into the brick building behind her.

Bill Donaldson had done an okay job in avoiding Dinah, but he was quickly getting tired. Finally, he was able to regain possession of the gun that was kicked out of his hand. He swung the gun towards Dinah. "I've had enough of you!"

Dinah waved her left arm and an invisible force ripped the gun out of his hands. He knew at that instant that it was over for him. Dinah was upon him in a flash with a kick across his face. Bill Donaldson flipped in mid air before landing on the ground unconscious.

Helena was leaning up against the wall as the Penguin had picked up his umbrella and pointed it at her. "Say good bye to your powers!"

Suddenly, the Penguin stumbled forward, dropping his umbrella. Standing there behind where the Penguin used to stand was Danielle. "Forget about it. I'm not going to let you hurt anyone else!"

The Penguin climbed up to one knee when Helena walked up to him. Helena went to kick him unconscious, but he raised his right arm to block the kick. With his left hand, he grabbed his umbrella and used the hook handle of the Umbrella to hook Helena's left ankle, causing her to fall on her back.

The Penguin was back on his feet and spun around towards his daughter. Danielle went to punch him in the nose, but her father caught her wrist in his left hand. "It's a shame it has to be this way, Danielle. I would have loved for you to join me as my partner in crime, but let's face facts, you would never join me, now would you?"

"Like hell I would!" Danielle said angrily.

"I thought so," The Penguin replied. Without warning, he kicked her in the stomach. She bent forwards, gasping for air, as he swung the umbrella and hit her up in the side of her head, sending her tumbling to the ground.

Suddenly, the umbrella was ripped from his hands and thrown away from him. The Penguin looked around franticly to see what had happen when he saw Dinah standing there, besides the unconscious Bill Donaldson. From the look in her eyes, he knew she was the one the robbed him of his umbrella.

He took one step towards her when a boot came crashing into his face, sending him stumbling backwards. The Huntress took another step towards him and did another spin kick across the side of his face. The Penguin stumbled to his right, nearly falling face first to the ground. He made a mad dash for his umbrella, where the blade was still sticking out the top of the umbrella.

Danielle had jumped back to her feet, as he ran past her for the umbrella, accidentally tripping him. He stumbled forward until he fell on top of the umbrella. The Penguin did not get up, which caused the three girls to approach him. It was Danielle who noticed the pool of blood from under her father's stomach. "God, no!" Danielle gasped as she carefully rolled him around onto his back. The blade had rammed through his stomach.

He coughed and wheezed as blood trickled down from the corner of his mouth. "Danielle, I wish it didn't have to be like this."

"If you truly meant that, Dad, then you would have stopped this before it got out of hand."

"Ah, so much like your mother. So much like your mother," Oswald said as his eyes gently closed and he took his final breath.