The following week the rumors of an unusual movement of criminals began to
grow in New Gothman, the rumors that hoodlums of all domestic parts had
arrived in the city. Barbara received the information that someone was
helping Live Wire but she couldn't get the name.
Barbara got up very late one night to drink a glass of water in the kitchen, when she turned on the light, she saw a figure reclined in the armchair in the living room, observing thoroughly she realized that it was Helena, she never stayed in the Tower, not matter how late she was. She wheeled towards her, she rested at her side.
"Do you feel well?" she touched her forehead.
"... No.. " Helena opened her eyelids, her face reflected fatigue "I haven't been able to sleep..."
"Why don't you rest in the room?"
"I didn't plan to stay here, I thought that if I rest here just a moment, the headhaceh will go, but it didn't. I Took some aspirins but it didn't work. This headache is worse everytime... I will like to be able to sleep a few hours."
"I'll be right back." Barbara rotated her wheelchair toward the elevator: She returned a few minutes later. "Loosen your pants." she asked her clapping her on her thigh.
"What is that?" Helena looked at her with her eyes half opened, opening the button of her pants.
"I will make you sleep a while" Barbar lowered the pants a bit and injected the liquid into her. "you will be able to rest a little. I promise that tomorrow I'll revise again all your studies. I'm beginning to hate this more each day."
"... I just want to rest... My head is killing me..."
"You will, you will..."
Barbara stayed with her until she fell deeply sleep. She covered her with a quilt and wheeled toward her room.
* * *
"Good morning!" Dinah greeted Barbara the next morning she was preparing her papers to take to the school, when she sat down near her, she observed the other side of the platform, in the living room Helena was sleeping deeply covered with a quilt.
She looked at Barbara. "Why is she sleeping here? I can't believe it."
Barbara gave a quick glance at Helena, she took off her eyeglasses and she placed them on the table. "She was out, I had to inject her with a sedative, I'm very concerned, now she has the headhache all day. I need check all her analyses again."
"Will you allow her to leave to patrol?"
"I won't be able to retain it, I will give her some strong pills, I don't like the idea so much because they are very strong and are like a sedative, they will diminish her capacity to react or of perceiving danger as she is used to."
"Is the headache becoming uncontrollable?"
".Or she is foreseeing a very big danger... and that worries me more."
"That sounds very bad." Dinah looked again towards the sleeping Helena. "Does she know it?"
"No, it is something that I was thinking about all night after I left her sleeping in the room."
Dinah took a deep breath, she was worried for her friend too. Helena never admitted it when she felt sick, and when she did admit it to Barbara it was because she felt really bad.
* * *
Huntress and Dinah worked separat trying to figure out if the rumors about the thugs arriving in New Gothman had some connecton with Live Wire
That night was cold,it had been raining all day. Huntress was sitting on the top of an emergency stairway of an old department building waiting for an infomer that she had an appointment with in the alley. She rubbed her hands.
"It's so cold" she said "I need change the place of these blind dates."
::Try a restaurant next time:: she heard Dinah's voice.
::How is your headache Huntress? :: Oracle asked.
"I'm feeling better since you gave me those pills"
::Be very careful, remember that those pills blocked your warning senses and you will be not able to move as fast as usuall. Anything yet?::
"Nothing. How is your luck Dinah?"
:: Nothing. wait :: the Dinah voice sounded over the comm. Set.:: I see one of the guys that we are looking for, I'll go after him. ::
"Good luck" Huntress said.
::You both, don't break contact with me please.:: Oracle said.
* * *
Dinah fell over the man and pushed him against a wall.
"Okay, I'm tired of your games. speak." she said.
"I told you that." the man explained.
"You are lying!" she hit him with her fist "I know that, speak. You know what's happening."
The man punched her in the stomach and ran towards the alley. Dinah moved her hand and the man rose of the floor. She threw him over an old wooden box on the corner of the street. She grabbed him by the neck but he was unconscious.
"Oh, no. I hit him very hard." Dinah thought, she began to check in his pockets, maybe she could find something. She found a piece of paper in his pant pocket and unfolded it.
* * *
The minutes had lapsed in silence, suddenly Huntress heard a sound behind her, she turned her head and a shot smashed a few inches from her head.
* * *
:: Jesus! :: Barbara heard Dinah scream into the mic as she looked at the monitor.
"What happened Dinah?" she asked the blond girl.
::It's a contest to hunt down Huntress! Live Wire organized a contest to hunt down Huntress, she's paying a big reward for her capture, for that reason the criminals are arriving in the city::
Oracle felt her blood freeze, Live Wire was too angry because she couldn't catch Huntress and she and Dinah had been breaking all her robbery plans. She was as mad as Harley Quinn and she knew that wasn't a joke. That was the reason why the headaches were growing, she was perceiving the danger around her.
"Huntress, come back immediately!" she ordered the brunette.
* * *
Huntress jumped into the alley and hid behind some garbage cans. She didn't know in that moment what was worse, not having her sixth sense or the headaches.
"I hear you Oracle, but it's too late." she explained "there is a sniper, I'm the target. I'm beginning to seriously consider that mask-wearing thing you keep raving about."
:: You finally understand the idea of a secret identity.:: Dinah said ::Where is she Barbara?::
::At 34 avenue, it's far from you, go faster Dinah!::
"Very amusing." Helena reached over to see a movement on the second floor of the building where the shot had come from. "I'm go for him!" she exclaimed running towards him, she jumped onto the window sill. The sniper had escaped, and was now moving downstairs.
The sniper ran into the alley, suddenly Huntress fell in front of him.
"Are you looking for me?" she asked raising her brow.
The sniper wanted to hit her with his weapon but Huntress avoided it and hit him with her fists and knocked him over. She open his pockets and found the contest paper.
"Young girl, 25, dressed in black, short brown hair, white, dangerous." Huntress read the paper "Probable places: Alleys, dark places and roofs." She folded the paper up and put it into her pocket. "I think it's save to say that's me."
"Come back immediately:: Oracle ordered, :: I don't want more surprises::
Huntress got up and turned, she was surprised to see a large man standing across from her. She hadn't felt his presence.
"What the...?" before being able to finish her sentence the man punched her in the face stunning her, he took her by the lapel of her leather jacket and hit her back against the brick wall, cracking the wall in the process. Without releasing her, he hit her head against his head and shattered her back against the wall again. A trickle of blood made it's way down Huntress' forehead.
"An enormous gorilla intercepted me..." Huntress grunted looking at the man while he had her against the wall, he wore a gray mask and his muscles were exaggeratedly big.
"Bane caught you..." he told her.
* * *
Barbara was frozen when she heard the name. "My God! No!! " she exclaimed "Get out of there Huntress!!"
* * *
"Bane is wrong" Huntress said raising her two feet from the ground and using them as a lever she made him back away. The man loosened his hold on her. "This guy ate muscles..." she said falling on his feet over the floor.
:: Huntress get out of there! :: Barbara screamed through the mic.
Huntress couldn't move, Bane was over her again, he was big but his movement was even faster. He threw her a blow that the girl stopped with her forearm. The youth punched him in the face twice. Bane tried to hit her again but Huntress avoided it bending over.
Huntress threw another punch at him, but he grabbed her hand and hit her in the jaw, she saw stars and stepped back feeling her knees bend. A second punch in her jaw made her turn and fall.
"Ow..." she mumbled putting her hand to her bleeding nose, Bane hit like a mule. Before being able to react, Bane kicked her strongly in her ribs, taking out her air. He lifted her by the lapel of her coat and punched her again in the stomach, a second blow hit her in the face. Huntress fell over some garbage cans.
::Huntress do you copy? :: she heard Barbara's voice calling her ::get out of there! That lunatic broke your fathers back! ::
"I don't have a father..." the girl mumbled trying to endure the pain.
"Never hit Bane!" he screamed. Huntress saw the big man over her again. He picked her up by the back of her coat and smashed her against the floor, Huntress fell with all her weight on her shoulder, she groaned. Whoever that man was, he wasn't giving her time of react. She felt a strong kick in her stomach and a second one made her scream as she felt her rib crack under the pressure.
* * *
Barbara had been listening to all the noise and the groaning, she was desperate, Bane was a murderer without feelings, Huntress was in serious problems ::Huntress please, run away as far as you can!:: she asked again with out have a response.
* * *
"Oh God..." Huntress laid on the floor stunned by the pain, she grabbed her stomach with her hands. Her whole body hurt and she felt as if everything was moving around her. She heard the distant sound of Barbara calling her, ordering her to get away.
"That's all you got?" Bane began circling her and kicked her again in her ribs. Huntress grunted painfuly, she turned to her side as she coughed up blood. She tried to think clearly, but she was too dazed, she knew she had a couple of broken ribs and surely a dislocated shoulder.
"You are not my rival!" He took her again by her lapel and made her get up, he put her face in front his face, Huntress tried to keep her eyes open, but her mind didn't respond, she was falling into unconsciousness, "Bane will charge good money for you... give thanks for that, I will kill you."
Huntress couldn't avoid passing out as her head fell to her back.
Barbara got up very late one night to drink a glass of water in the kitchen, when she turned on the light, she saw a figure reclined in the armchair in the living room, observing thoroughly she realized that it was Helena, she never stayed in the Tower, not matter how late she was. She wheeled towards her, she rested at her side.
"Do you feel well?" she touched her forehead.
"... No.. " Helena opened her eyelids, her face reflected fatigue "I haven't been able to sleep..."
"Why don't you rest in the room?"
"I didn't plan to stay here, I thought that if I rest here just a moment, the headhaceh will go, but it didn't. I Took some aspirins but it didn't work. This headache is worse everytime... I will like to be able to sleep a few hours."
"I'll be right back." Barbara rotated her wheelchair toward the elevator: She returned a few minutes later. "Loosen your pants." she asked her clapping her on her thigh.
"What is that?" Helena looked at her with her eyes half opened, opening the button of her pants.
"I will make you sleep a while" Barbar lowered the pants a bit and injected the liquid into her. "you will be able to rest a little. I promise that tomorrow I'll revise again all your studies. I'm beginning to hate this more each day."
"... I just want to rest... My head is killing me..."
"You will, you will..."
Barbara stayed with her until she fell deeply sleep. She covered her with a quilt and wheeled toward her room.
* * *
"Good morning!" Dinah greeted Barbara the next morning she was preparing her papers to take to the school, when she sat down near her, she observed the other side of the platform, in the living room Helena was sleeping deeply covered with a quilt.
She looked at Barbara. "Why is she sleeping here? I can't believe it."
Barbara gave a quick glance at Helena, she took off her eyeglasses and she placed them on the table. "She was out, I had to inject her with a sedative, I'm very concerned, now she has the headhache all day. I need check all her analyses again."
"Will you allow her to leave to patrol?"
"I won't be able to retain it, I will give her some strong pills, I don't like the idea so much because they are very strong and are like a sedative, they will diminish her capacity to react or of perceiving danger as she is used to."
"Is the headache becoming uncontrollable?"
".Or she is foreseeing a very big danger... and that worries me more."
"That sounds very bad." Dinah looked again towards the sleeping Helena. "Does she know it?"
"No, it is something that I was thinking about all night after I left her sleeping in the room."
Dinah took a deep breath, she was worried for her friend too. Helena never admitted it when she felt sick, and when she did admit it to Barbara it was because she felt really bad.
* * *
Huntress and Dinah worked separat trying to figure out if the rumors about the thugs arriving in New Gothman had some connecton with Live Wire
That night was cold,it had been raining all day. Huntress was sitting on the top of an emergency stairway of an old department building waiting for an infomer that she had an appointment with in the alley. She rubbed her hands.
"It's so cold" she said "I need change the place of these blind dates."
::Try a restaurant next time:: she heard Dinah's voice.
::How is your headache Huntress? :: Oracle asked.
"I'm feeling better since you gave me those pills"
::Be very careful, remember that those pills blocked your warning senses and you will be not able to move as fast as usuall. Anything yet?::
"Nothing. How is your luck Dinah?"
:: Nothing. wait :: the Dinah voice sounded over the comm. Set.:: I see one of the guys that we are looking for, I'll go after him. ::
"Good luck" Huntress said.
::You both, don't break contact with me please.:: Oracle said.
* * *
Dinah fell over the man and pushed him against a wall.
"Okay, I'm tired of your games. speak." she said.
"I told you that." the man explained.
"You are lying!" she hit him with her fist "I know that, speak. You know what's happening."
The man punched her in the stomach and ran towards the alley. Dinah moved her hand and the man rose of the floor. She threw him over an old wooden box on the corner of the street. She grabbed him by the neck but he was unconscious.
"Oh, no. I hit him very hard." Dinah thought, she began to check in his pockets, maybe she could find something. She found a piece of paper in his pant pocket and unfolded it.
* * *
The minutes had lapsed in silence, suddenly Huntress heard a sound behind her, she turned her head and a shot smashed a few inches from her head.
* * *
:: Jesus! :: Barbara heard Dinah scream into the mic as she looked at the monitor.
"What happened Dinah?" she asked the blond girl.
::It's a contest to hunt down Huntress! Live Wire organized a contest to hunt down Huntress, she's paying a big reward for her capture, for that reason the criminals are arriving in the city::
Oracle felt her blood freeze, Live Wire was too angry because she couldn't catch Huntress and she and Dinah had been breaking all her robbery plans. She was as mad as Harley Quinn and she knew that wasn't a joke. That was the reason why the headaches were growing, she was perceiving the danger around her.
"Huntress, come back immediately!" she ordered the brunette.
* * *
Huntress jumped into the alley and hid behind some garbage cans. She didn't know in that moment what was worse, not having her sixth sense or the headaches.
"I hear you Oracle, but it's too late." she explained "there is a sniper, I'm the target. I'm beginning to seriously consider that mask-wearing thing you keep raving about."
:: You finally understand the idea of a secret identity.:: Dinah said ::Where is she Barbara?::
::At 34 avenue, it's far from you, go faster Dinah!::
"Very amusing." Helena reached over to see a movement on the second floor of the building where the shot had come from. "I'm go for him!" she exclaimed running towards him, she jumped onto the window sill. The sniper had escaped, and was now moving downstairs.
The sniper ran into the alley, suddenly Huntress fell in front of him.
"Are you looking for me?" she asked raising her brow.
The sniper wanted to hit her with his weapon but Huntress avoided it and hit him with her fists and knocked him over. She open his pockets and found the contest paper.
"Young girl, 25, dressed in black, short brown hair, white, dangerous." Huntress read the paper "Probable places: Alleys, dark places and roofs." She folded the paper up and put it into her pocket. "I think it's save to say that's me."
"Come back immediately:: Oracle ordered, :: I don't want more surprises::
Huntress got up and turned, she was surprised to see a large man standing across from her. She hadn't felt his presence.
"What the...?" before being able to finish her sentence the man punched her in the face stunning her, he took her by the lapel of her leather jacket and hit her back against the brick wall, cracking the wall in the process. Without releasing her, he hit her head against his head and shattered her back against the wall again. A trickle of blood made it's way down Huntress' forehead.
"An enormous gorilla intercepted me..." Huntress grunted looking at the man while he had her against the wall, he wore a gray mask and his muscles were exaggeratedly big.
"Bane caught you..." he told her.
* * *
Barbara was frozen when she heard the name. "My God! No!! " she exclaimed "Get out of there Huntress!!"
* * *
"Bane is wrong" Huntress said raising her two feet from the ground and using them as a lever she made him back away. The man loosened his hold on her. "This guy ate muscles..." she said falling on his feet over the floor.
:: Huntress get out of there! :: Barbara screamed through the mic.
Huntress couldn't move, Bane was over her again, he was big but his movement was even faster. He threw her a blow that the girl stopped with her forearm. The youth punched him in the face twice. Bane tried to hit her again but Huntress avoided it bending over.
Huntress threw another punch at him, but he grabbed her hand and hit her in the jaw, she saw stars and stepped back feeling her knees bend. A second punch in her jaw made her turn and fall.
"Ow..." she mumbled putting her hand to her bleeding nose, Bane hit like a mule. Before being able to react, Bane kicked her strongly in her ribs, taking out her air. He lifted her by the lapel of her coat and punched her again in the stomach, a second blow hit her in the face. Huntress fell over some garbage cans.
::Huntress do you copy? :: she heard Barbara's voice calling her ::get out of there! That lunatic broke your fathers back! ::
"I don't have a father..." the girl mumbled trying to endure the pain.
"Never hit Bane!" he screamed. Huntress saw the big man over her again. He picked her up by the back of her coat and smashed her against the floor, Huntress fell with all her weight on her shoulder, she groaned. Whoever that man was, he wasn't giving her time of react. She felt a strong kick in her stomach and a second one made her scream as she felt her rib crack under the pressure.
* * *
Barbara had been listening to all the noise and the groaning, she was desperate, Bane was a murderer without feelings, Huntress was in serious problems ::Huntress please, run away as far as you can!:: she asked again with out have a response.
* * *
"Oh God..." Huntress laid on the floor stunned by the pain, she grabbed her stomach with her hands. Her whole body hurt and she felt as if everything was moving around her. She heard the distant sound of Barbara calling her, ordering her to get away.
"That's all you got?" Bane began circling her and kicked her again in her ribs. Huntress grunted painfuly, she turned to her side as she coughed up blood. She tried to think clearly, but she was too dazed, she knew she had a couple of broken ribs and surely a dislocated shoulder.
"You are not my rival!" He took her again by her lapel and made her get up, he put her face in front his face, Huntress tried to keep her eyes open, but her mind didn't respond, she was falling into unconsciousness, "Bane will charge good money for you... give thanks for that, I will kill you."
Huntress couldn't avoid passing out as her head fell to her back.