CHAPTER 4

Helena and Dinah reached downtown New Gotham to see a very grotesque sight. There were dead bodies all over the place. All of the victim's faces were painted with neon orange and green paint. "It looks like a hurricane of violence hit here," Dinah commented.

"What do you see?" Barbara asked over the ear piece.

"It looks like it was raining dead bodies here. Someone took their frustrations on the Neo Fangs," Helena said.

"Hmmm, strange," Barbara replied.

"They all seemed to have weapons ranging from metal pipes to switchblades," Dinah informed Barbara.

"See if there is any blood on the weapons and scan it. I will see what Delphi brings up."

"You got it," Helena said reaching in her pocket and pulling out her hand held scanner. She found a switchblade that was soaked in blood and she turned on the hand scanner. A green light turned on as she waved it over the knife.

"That's enough. Stand by for the results," Barbara said.

Helena turned off the hand scanner and put it back in her pocket. "Whoever did this to the Neo Fangs must be very good, because I don't see any other bodies here besides those belonging to the Neo Fangs."

"Huntress, that blood belongs to a member of the Neo Fangs," Barbara announced.

"They were fighting amongst themselves? This is no ordinary brawl," Helena replied.

"Do you think this has anything to do with David Crane?" Dinah asked.

"The formula his stole did not have this severe of a side effect. It brought out the fear in people, not their anger, but then again if David is as good as his father in chemistry, he may have changed the formula to have this new reaction."

"Hey Huntress!" a voice called from behind her.

She spun around to get a face full of red gas sprayed into her face. Dinah turned to see a man in a business suit standing behind Helena, who staggered as the spray was released. His hair was oily black and neatly combed to the back.

Dinah took a step before leaning back on her left leg so she was able to swing kick for his head with her right leg. The man ducked under the kick, kneeled down and kicked Dinah in the knees, sending her falling to her back. "Show me your rage, hero!" He leaned over Dinah to spray the canister he held in his hand in her face. Dinah clinched her teeth as she kicked upward, kicking the canister out of his hand. Dinah rolled onto her stomach, and used part of her telekinesis and her arm strength to push herself up into the air to land on her feet.

"So you must be David Crane, and it appears you have changed the formula that you stole from your father."

"You are a very intelligent young girl," David replied.

"Perhaps I won't need to spray you. I'll just let your partner here kill you."

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Everything went black for Helena, as if she had gone blind. Helena looked up in Dinah's direction, but instead of seeing Dinah, standing there, grinning towards her was Clay Face. "Helena Kyle, you are your mother's child, and you're about to die like too!" He pulled out the knife that he used to slay her mother.

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Dinah saw Helena looking at her strangely. Her pupils were highly dilated. "Huntress? Are you okay?"

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"You bastard! You killed my mother!" Helena charged at Clay Face who was laughing mockingly at her.

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Helena charged at Dinah. Dinah was too stunned to move. "Helena what are you doing?"

Helena did not reply. She leaped high in the air and stretched her right foot in front of her. The flat of her foot crashed into Dinah's chest sending Dinah flying into a dumpster. Dinah moaned as she climbed up onto her right knee and looked up. Helena was charging for another attack. "Helena, stop!" Dinah said. Using her powers, she formed an invisible field in front of Helena. Helena crashed into it and stumbled backwards.

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Helena stumbled backwards as Clay Face leaped high in the sky, causing her to run into the brick wall behind him. She turned around to see Clay Face once again with a sadistic grin on his face. There was no way Clay Face could have done that! That could only mean one thing.

As she suspected, Clay Face laughed as his body began to take on a feminine form. His frizzy black hair became long and red as blood. His brown eyes faded into a dark red color. Standing before Helena now was Raven.

"You! I'm getting sick and tired of you! This ends now!"

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Dinah did not know what Helena was talking about. Who was she getting tired of? That gas that David sprayed into Helena's face was making her delusional. Dinah turned to look for David, but he was long gone. She returned her focus back to Helena. What could she do to help Helena break out of the delusions?

The sound of police sirens began to echo through the streets. "Oracle, I don't know what to do? It's just Huntress and I out here, and she is totally delusional. The police are about to arrive; how do I get Huntress away from here?

"Get out of there, Dinah. Hopefully she will come after you or make a break herself." Barbara replied.

Dinah felt very guilty turning her back on Helena but there was no choice. She too, was now wanted by the police for her actions when she was under the spell of Madam Kaliea. Dinah turned and jumped; bouncing on top of the dumpster and unto the roof of the mini-mart. From there she ran across the roof and leaped across the street to land on another low roof across the street.

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"Catch ya' later!" Raven said. She turned around and leaped =.

By that time, the background and come back and she could see the buildings once again. Raven had leaped and bounced of a garbage dumpster and onto the roof of a mini-mart. Helena, furious of her get away, screamed in rage. She ran off, not knowing where she was going. She didn't care where she was going at that moment, she just needed to go off and blow some steam.

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Helena, ran through the dead bodies of the Neo Fangs just as the police pulled onto the scene from another street. As Helena ran, Barbara's voice came over the ear piece. "Huntress, do you copy? Huntress! Huntress!" Helena made no reply, not hearing Barbara through her delusions.