Canary's Song
Note: This is my first attempt at fan fiction, so please be gentle. Also, I would love reviews, but flames will either be laughed at or ignored. Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned, except for the henchmen and Alec, other than that I own nothing.
"Huntress! Huntress are you there?"
"Yeah I'm here Oracle chill. I'm on the roof right now, Dinah's in the car." It was true Huntress was on yet another roof waiting to stop another crime. Looking through a sky light she continued talking to Oracle, "It looks like there's maybe ten guys, one's tied to a chair, I think he might be the guy we're here to save."
"Are they armed?" Asked Oracle.
"Looks like it, hand guns and two shot guns." Replied Huntress taking in the scene with her feral eyes.
"Okay I want both you and Dinah to go in, at the same time but with different entrances this could create confusion." As always Oracle had already been working out a plan while Huntress was talking.
"Alright. Dinah you got that?"
"Yeah, I'm heading to the front door now."
"The front door, you kidding?" Asked Huntress a little unbelieving.
"Yeah, why not?" Dinah both answered and asked a little pissed at Huntress.
"Nothing, nothing at all, its just super heroes don't typically use the front door." Huntress defended herself.
"Alright, let's just go."
"Now you're speaking my language super kid." While Huntress crashed through the skylight, Dinah kicked down the front door. It had the intended effect; none of the men knew who to shoot first, a bad mistake on their part. By the time they had gotten their thoughts in order both Huntress and Dinah had already taken out three of them. From there four attacked Huntress while the rest took on Dinah.
"This is child's play." Commented Huntress while kicking one of the thugs in the head. Quickly, not to mention easily, she disarmed the other three men. "Bring it on little men." She goaded. One of them moved forward to punch her, but she easily sidestepped, grabbed his wrist, and then flipped him onto his back. Ducking beneath the next blow aimed at her she stuck out her leg and kicked his feet out from underneath him then as he landed preformed a flip that ended with her leg hitting his chest knocking the wind out of him. The final one, a bit more cautious, waited for Huntress to attack, an invitation she gladly accepted. Huntress took a swing at the crooks head, which he managed to block lashing out with his own attack aimed at her gut. She did a no hand cartwheel to avoid it then kicked the man in the back of the knee, before turning back to the mans front kneeing him in the stomach and finally grabbing his head and bashing it into her knee. "And that's the end of that." Huntress smirked proud of the work she had done.
While Huntress had been fighting the four men who charged her Dinah was dealing with her own problems. The three men rushed her all at once, and it was all she could do to avoid or block punches. One of them moved back pulling out his handgun obviously intending to fire it at her. With only two people fighting her now Dinah managed to escape long enough to use her telekinesis to disarm the one trying to shoot her, and also managed to pull the other thugs guns out of their holsters. Now that she had the advantage Dinah used her abilities to slam two of them into a wall with a large amount of force. Only one was left now, but using her powers was wearing Dinah out, "Remind me not to use my powers so much in a fight." She muttered closing her eyes and fighting back a wave of nausea, it wasn't intended for anyone to hear, but of course Oracle did.
"Dinah, are you okay? You're not getting dizzy or light headed are you?" Oracle questioned, worried about Dinah.
"I'm fine Oracle I can make it through this." Dinah responded while blocking a kick from the thug. As he reached out to punch her again, Dinah moved to the side pulling her bird-a-rang out of her jacket, and hit the man in the back of the head effectively knocking him out.
All of the crooks had been dispatched now, and the only thing left to do was untie the only one left. "Just stay cool and we'll get you out." Reassured Huntress as Dinah moved to untie the man. Once the ropes were off the man reached out to shake Dinah's hand. As his hand made contact with hers Dinah was pulled into his mind.
Looking around she saw him working in a laboratory, a crazy smile plastered on his face. While he was working the men from before had surrounded him, unbelievably he turned around and started to shake their hands as they congratulated him. After that Dinah was pushed back into the real world, which at the time wasn't a good thing. From inside his jacket he pulled out a syringe filled with an orange liquid, stabbing it into her side he pushed the plunger down all the way, and pulled it back out. The last thing the man would remember was Huntress's fist colliding with his jaw.
Now Dinah was feeling really dizzy, and using her telekinesis hadn't helped any. "Super kid, hey are you okay? How many fingers am I holding up?" Asked Huntress holding up two.
Dinah vision had started spinning, which was reflected in her answer, "I don't know, seven? Helena I don't feel so good."
"Oracle send Reese down to pick these guys up. We've also got a problem, the guy we were here to rescue injected Dinah with something, and she doesn't look so good." Huntress reported getting more and more worried about Dinah who kept getting paler.
"Huntress listen to me, I need you to get Dinah back here as soon as possible, take the car it'll be faster that way." Oracle ordered.
"Come one Dinah we gotta go." Said Huntress, grabbing Dinah's arm to steady her, slowly leading her to the car. Huntress opened the door and practically lifted Dinah inside. "Hold on Dinah, I'll get you to Barbara and everything will be fine." It sounded like she was trying to convince herself more then she was Dinah.
Elevator doors opened revealing huntress carrying a barely conscious Dinah. Moving quickly Helena placed Dinah on a table in the middle of the room. "Helena I need you to tell me exactly what happened." Stated Barbara already checking Dinah's vitals.
"I don't know, uh we busted in and beat up the bad guys like always, then Dinah untied the guy in the chair. He looked like he really was in trouble ya know, he shook her hand, and it kind of looked like she went into his head, but then there was this syringe that he pulled out and he stuck her with it. He won't be doing that again though, I punched him before he could do anything else." Helena explained what happened as clearly as she could, hoping that it would help Dinah. "Oh yeah I almost forgot." Helena handed Barbara the syringe.
"Thanks, I've got Dinah stabilize for now, but I should go analyze this. If you could get me a blood sample that would help to." Barbara wheeled over to her computers and used her equipment to work on the solution.
Meanwhile Helena was busy taking a blood sample, which she got easily enough and passed on to Barbara. She walked back over to Dinah and just started talking to her about anything and everything. "Come on super kid pull through okay." Helena whispered.
"Don't call me super kid." Came the equally quiet reply.
That response caused Helena to smile brightly, "Hey, Barbara she's awake and fully able to complain, I think she's probably better."
Barbara rolled her eyes at Helena's humor, but came to see Dinah none-the- less. "Dinah, how do you feel?"
"Really tired, and the room is still tilting a little, but other than that fine." Answered Dinah, reaching up and rubbing her eyes.
"I finished the analysis, and so far the 'drug' for lack of a better term, seems to just cause dizziness, nausea, basically everything you were feeling. By tomorrow I believe that you'll be up and out fighting crime again." Barbara told Dinah, confident in what she had said, "Dinah, Helena told me that he shook your hand, did you get a read off of him?"
"Yeah, he was defiantly one of the bad guys. I remember him working in a lab, just looking like a psycho, and then those guys we beat up came in, they were shaking hands. I'm pretty sure they were working together. Do we have anything for a head ache?"
"I'll go grab some Tylenol." Offered Helena, walking out of the room to get the bottle.
"While she's gone it's time for a small lecture slash talk. Dinah first of all we need to train your powers more, second you have to take it easy while using them; right now they're too much of a strain. You could wind up seriously hurting yourself, and it wouldn't be like Helena pulling a muscle, it could be a coma. Promise me you'll take it easier, until we do more training."
"I promise." Dinah sighed reluctantly, "No more lectures for now, all I want is Tylenol and sleep."
"Tylenol I've got right here, and I'll help you to your room." Smiled Helena, "I was planning on hitting the sack to so perfect timing." Helena helped Dinah sit up, giving her a few moments for the dizziness to pass. For the second time that night Helena steadied Dinah as they walked to Dinah's room.
"Thanks Helena." Dinah murmured after snuggling into bed and taking her Tylenol.
"No problem Dinah, see ya in the morning." Helena tiptoed quietly out of the room, shutting the door silently behind her. "Barbara what were you bugging Dinah about when I left for the meds?"
"That's none of your business Helena, just a little talk is all." Barbara retorted.
"Whatever, I'm heading home to crash so I'll see you tomorrow." Helena said as walked into the elevator and pressed the down button.
"Well after another day of saving the world I might as well get to sleep to." Barbara yawned, covering her mouth as she stretched.
Dinah had fallen asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow; only a few hours later she started dreaming. The man who had injected her was breaking out of prison, either knocking the guards unconscious or killing them, she wasn't really sure. It flashed to him in another building laughing insanely in a huge room filled with tubes, equipment, and a row of cages. Finally it flashed to the clock tower, the inside of it was in shambles, papers, and all of the screens littered the floor.
Awaking with a start Dinah started panicking. "It'll come true, they always come true." Dinah mumbled to herself over and over again. This was how Barbara found her in the morning.
"Dinah what's going on? What's going to come true? You need to tell me Dinah." Barbara spoke soothingly trying to get the information from Dinah.
"The dream Barbara, he broke out and the tower was trashed, and it'll come true Barbara it'll come true." Paranoia was clearly showing through in Dinah's voice.
"Look at me, and focus on my voice." Barbara knew that she had to calm Dinah down to get anywhere, "Dinah focus, and calm down I need you to tell me what you're talking about."
Eventually calming down, Dinah managed to retell her dream to Barbara. "It will come true, every time I've had a dream like this it's come true." Dinah told Barbara dejectedly.
"I'll go check the reports and see if your guy actually did escape." As Barbara was rolling to her computers, Helena came in through the elevator.
"What's up?" Helena asked.
"A dream Dinah had, she thinks that it's a prophetic one, and I need you to talk to Reese, see if there was a break out last night." Barbara informed Helena.
"I'm all over it. Before I go any where how is super kid?" Helena questioned.
"I don't really know, it took me forever to calm her down this morning. Right now she's upstairs training." Answered Barbara.
"I'll check on her, ya know see how she's doing and all." Helena was already walking up the spiral staircase to get to the room. Once inside she saw Dinah sitting Indian style on the floor, three silver orbs the size of golf balls floating above her hand in and intricate pattern. "Hey Dinah, I know that by now you probably know what I'm going to ask so why don't you just spit out the answer before I can."
Helena's unexpected entrance startled Dinah causing her to drop the balls. Picking them up with her mind, and putting them back into her pattern she answered Helena, "You're right I do know, and I'm okay I suppose."
"You suppose?" Helena repeated, leaning into the doorframe while crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow.
"I'm just a little worried is all, if that guy really did escape then it probably means that the rest of my dream was true to. Who knows what he was doing in that lab, and I'm," Dinah sighed searching for the words to continue while still holding up the orbs. As she thought the balls started moving faster and faster, causing Helena to look at her warily. "And I'm afraid about the clock tower, it looked like someone had broken in, and that shouldn't be possible. What if one of you two were here, either of you could be hurt or captured or who knows what." During Dinah's rant the orbs still kept moving faster until finally one crashed into the roof, and the other two went in separate directions crashing into opposite walls. Some of the items in the room had begun to shake as well.
"Calm down Dinah, I think Barbara would like the room to remain intact. It'll be okay." Huntress soothed.
"I hope so, and I'm sorry for getting mad. I should probably get the balls out of the walls before Barbara finds out." Dinah sighed, disappointed in herself for loosing control of her powers, for causing damage to the room, and for possibly freaking out Helena. Dislodging the balls from the wall Dinah placed them back in their proper containers before grabbing a pair of fighting sticks to practice her physical combat with. "You should go see Resse Helena." Helena then exited the room with the sounds of Dinah beating a dummy with her sticks following her.
Detective Reese had just sat down to have a drink of coffee and read a newspaper, when as usual Helena showed up out of nowhere. Looking up from his paper Reese nearly spilt his coffee when he noticed Helena sitting there. "You've got to stop doing that to me. Now what can it do for you?"
"I need some information. Were there any break outs from prison?" Helena smiled despite the serious nature of the talk; the idea of Reese spilling coffee all over himself on her account was very amusing in her mind.
"Unfortunately, yes. That bust that you and Dinah pulled last night, one of the guys managed to get out somehow. Several of the officers working that night were beat up pretty bad, and two wound up dead. Those who are still alive either don't remember anything or are still unconscious." Reese told her.
"Oracle is not going to be happy to hear that, and neither is Dinah." Helena sighed looking down at the table.
"Wait, what's going on this time?" Reese asked exasperated.
"A dream that Dinah had." Helena started before Reese interrupted.
"A dream? You're kidding right?"
"No, sometimes Dinah gets these dreams that are different from regular ones they tell thing that either have happened or will happen. Last night she had one of those dreams that showed the guy breaking out, and some other things to. This morning she was pretty freaked out about it. Look it's been fun 'chatting' but I gotta get going."
While Helena was explaining the situation to Reese he had looked down at the table trying to take it all in. When Helena said she had to go Reese was about to stop her, but once again she disappeared before he could.
Back at the clock tower Helena had just finished relaying what Reese had told her to Barbara and Dinah. Barbara had also gotten the same information, which served to confirm what detective Reese told Helena. "See I told you it would come true." Dinah pointed.
"Perhaps, but that man breaking out could've been the only true part." Barbara argued, "Anyway you have school in the morning so I want everyone in bed." On Barbara's last word everyone did go to sleep as she practically ordered.
The next day Dinah had gone to school, Helena was out doing whatever it is that she does during the day, and although Barbara would normally be at school as well she had other duties to attend to so got a substitute to cover her. At this time Barbara was busy working on her computers, trying to find out more about the man that had broken out of prison. After a few hours of searching she managed to find out a few things about him. It was at that moment that Helena decided to walk in. "Aren't you suppose to be at school?" Helena asked.
Barbara rolled her eyes, but answered anyway. "Yes, but I wanted to find out more about that man. His name is Alec Nolc, a former scientist who was basically booted off the team because they thought that both he and his theories were crazy. After that he went out on his own starting from scratch in a different lab where he created several dangerous chemicals. Due to lack of funding he started selling to the black market. I suppose the last group wasn't too happy with the quality of the work."
"Dinah is not going to be happy when she finds this out, she'll probably start to panic again. Maybe we can do this without Dinah knowing about it, I'll just go out once you find where he is, he'll go back to jail, and we'll be done with it all." Helena suggested.
"That probably won't work Helena because although I've been searching I haven't been able to find him."
"Shit. Should we let Dinah know about what we found then?" Helena inquired disappointed that her plan wouldn't work.
"Not yet, but we can't keep this from her."
Meanwhile at school Dinah was having a very difficult time paying attention, she had been called on three times to answer different questions and because she had been thinking of other things couldn't answer them. The torture was almost over though, only a few more minutes before the bell rang and Dinah's suffering was ended. Bells rang through out the school signaling that the day there had finally ended. As Dinah was walking home to the tower a sharp pain like a thousand icicles being dropped into her mind struck. Using the last of her wits Dinah staggered into an alley where she sunk to the ground, her back being supported by the wall. Clutching her head Dinah tried to stop the pain, flashes of the clock tower went through her mind, and a booming voice kept shouting at her. Slowly the pain faded away, and tired as she was from that experience Dinah continued home to tell Barbara what happened.
What Dinah didn't realize was that she had been sitting in that ally for a half hour causing Helena and Barbara to worry about why she was so late. "Where is she? What if that guy kidnapped her while she was walking to school or something? I'm going out to search for her." Helena started walking towards the elevator intending to do exactly what she said she would. Doors opened before Helena managed to make it there, they revealed a very haggard looking Dinah. Pushing against the back of the elevator Dinah made her way into the room where Helena helped her into a chair.
"Dinah what happened to you?" Barbara asked wheeling over to her.
"Yeah, come on super kid spill."
"I don't know exactly. I was walking home and then there was a horrible pain. It was so cold, there was yelling, and what felt like someone stabbing me, all in the head." Dinah tried to explain. "The voice was so loud and it just felt wrong, like someone was raping my mind. That's the best way I can explain it."
"Helena go take her to her room, Dinah I want you to get some rest, and I'll try to figure out what happened." Barbara doled out assignments.
Down at the docks inside an abandoned warehouse, a figure was hidden in shadows. "Well Alec old lad you've done it again. You're such a genius one poison one cure. Just in case right, can't be too careful these days. Oh the pain she felt when we were swimming in her mind, that was nice. We'll make them pay for hitting us won't we, paid to get them out of the way and that's just what we'll do won't we. Yes, yes we saw where their hide out was. No escape this time, no escape. Call the men and grab the gas and let's get going." Alec's voice sang to himself. If Alec wasn't crazy then no one was, he often held conversations with himself, asking his opinion and then disagreeing with it leading to an argument. Right now both sides were obviously agreeing on what they were about to do.
Supper had started when Dinah finally woke up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes she walked out and noticed the nice meal sitting on the table. Inhaling the scent Dinah's mouth watered, she hadn't had anything to eat since lunch where she ate a few bites of an apple. Chinese food sitting on a table was very appealing at this point, so Dinah hurried down the steps as fast as she could over to the paper containers. "You think she's hungry Barbara." Helena nodded her head toward Dinah who was sitting at the table practically inhaling the food. Barbara just smiled at Dinah's antics while Helena chuckled a little before they also went to the table to join her.
Now that dinner was finally over and done with there were things that needed to be discussed. "Dinah," Barbara started wondering if she should continue, a look from Helena told her yes, "The man who you dreamed about.we found out some things about him." Dinah immediately started paying as close of attention as she could, as Barbara relayed all of what she had told Helena earlier to Dinah.
"I need to go for a walk." Dinah mumbled as she grabbed a jacket.
"That went as well as could be expected, at least things didn't start shaking." Helena pointed out.
"I suppose you're right." Barbara agreed
"Should I go after her?"
"No, I think she needs some time to herself." Out of the corner of her eye, Barbara noticed people in one of the clock towers security cameras. "Helena we've got problems, they're in the elevator right now."
"They must have just missed Dinah, don't worry I'll take care of them." Helena boasted as her eyes turned feral. Just then the elevator door opened revealing eight men including Alec. Everyone excluding Alec attacked Huntress, and she in turn fought him or her off. The group of men was only meant to be a distraction though, while they were fighting Alec pulled out an odd looking gun and shot at Huntress with it. A dart hit Huntress in the back of her shoulder, whipping around she noticed Alec standing with the gun, then she grew very tired and wound up collapsing on the ground. Alec then turned and shot Barbara who had also been fighting off a few people, and like Huntress she fell into a deep slumber.
The clock tower did not escape unscathed, everything was scattered everywhere not to mention that the table had been broken. Alec ordered his men to tie Helena's hands and feet, and to also tie Barbara's hands. "There's one missing did you notice?" Alec asked, one of the men made to answer, but Alec beat him to it, "Yes I did, the blonde one. Where'd she go? I don't know, but we'll be able to get her eventually. She'll come for her friends then we'll get her." Alec broke into a sadistic grin. "Time to go now."
Once Helena and Barbara had been loaded into the back of the van that Alec and his group arrived in they drove off towards the docks. Upon arrival the two girls were carried out of the back and stuffed in a hanging cage in Alec's laboratory. The men were paid and then dismissed so they could get back to whatever other crime they would normally commit. "Should we test it? That would be fun, but on which one of them? I say the one with brown hair, the red head already can't use her legs, so it would be no fun to test it on her. That's true, let's lower it down and inject her before they wake up." Lowering the cage to the ground Alec grabbed a syringe and injected it into Helena's arm, and then the cage was lifted back up to its original hanging position. "Time to visit the other one."
Finished with her walk Dinah returned to the clock tower only to find it in shambles just like in her dream. "Helena, Barbara!" Dinah called out searching the rooms, but not finding anything. By now Dinah was starting to panic, but Barbara had always taught her to keep a cool head, so controlling her fear and anger as best she could Dinah thought about what she could do. "The security tapes."
Fortunately the computers were still operational, and Dinah was able to access the tapes. When she saw Alec on the screen and the fight Dinah started loosing control of her anger, objects were shaking but Dinah knew that she still had something left to do. She pulled up pictures and information on all the people who had been there.
For the second time that day a sharp pain assaulted Dinah's mind and flashes of Helena and Barbara being tortured, along with Helena slowly dying, miserably curled in a corner of a cage. Alec was standing, and laughing at the pain that he inflicted. As had happened earlier the pain slowly faded, but the images caused Dinah to snap. A calm look occupied her face, but there was and odd look in her eye. Going upstairs she changed into a pair of black combat pants, a black tank top, black hiking boots, and to complete the ensemble a black trench coat.
As Dinah walked back into the main room, things were twisting, bending, floating, and spinning. The staircase, usually spiral in shape, was almost like a normal set of stairs, besides the fact that the banister was like a snake hunting some prey, and the steps were warping constantly. Coolly Dinah walked down the steps, they straightened as her foot came near them, but as soon as her feet were off they started warping again.
Pulling the information that she had collected out of her pocket, Dinah found out where one of the men lived. An idea forming Dinah opened the elevator and lowered it quickly to the ground using her abilities. A pay phone on the corner of the street was her destination, since there were people on the street Dinah realized, even in her state of mind, that she couldn't let them see things warping as she moved by them. Using the most amount of control that Dinah had ever demonstrated she made it to the pay phone, and using her information once more called the man.
The phone rang three times before anyone picked up, "Hello?"
"Yes hello, is this mister Tince?"
"Yeah I'm him. What can I do for you?"
"I'm in need of your assistance, and I have a lot of money. Do you know of a place where no one will see us meet?"
"First things first lady, how much money?"
"What's fair?"
"I'm going to need at least five thousand up front."
"That can be arranged. Now about a meeting place."
"Yeah, there's an abandoned apartment building on twenty Ninth Street, wait for me out front." With that said the man hung up.
Dinah also hung up pleased at how everything was going. Walking towards the assigned meeting place took a lot of discipline to make sure that nothing was moving too noticeably. As she got closer to her destination, Dinah noticed less and less people around, so she let go of her control.
On the steps outside the building Tince was busy waiting for her. Off in the distance he noticed someone approaching and figured it was her. It wasn't until she got very close that he noticed something wrong with the picture. Street lamps were coiling, and bending towards the ground, the bricks on the abandoned buildings were cracking along with the road and side walks, and doors were opening and shutting despite the fact that there was no wind.
Seeing him standing outside the build, freaking out about what was going on was priceless in Dinah's mind. "Mister Tince, how good to see you in person."
"Where's my money?" He asked looking around warily.
"I hate to break it to you, but there is no money. It was all just one big lie to get you alone." Dinah confessed.
From a holster hidden under his jacket Tince produced a gun, aiming it at her with a shaky hand. "What do you want? You're the one doing that to the lamp posts aren't you?" He questioned, Dinah moved closer to him, "Stop stay away from me. I'll shoot." He declared.
"Tsk-tsk, there's no need to pull a gun." Dinah stated pulling his gun out of his hand, picking him up, slamming him against the wall and pinning him there. "All I want is some information." She moved the gun so that it was pointed underneath his jaw, so that if the gun went off the bullet would fly directly into his brain.
"Alright I'll tell you anything you want to know just don't hurt me."
"You don't want me to hurt you even though it's your job to hurt others, interesting logic. I know what you did earlier, help break into the clock tower and took the people inside."
"I didn't do anything, you can't prove it." He accused.
"I can't, even though I have security tapes that clearly show your face?" She asked angrily, on of the lamps breaking off from its post and then embedding itself in a wall, the gun pressed harder tilting his chin up some. "I want to know where Alec is, and where my family is."
"What do you mean your family, those people were too old to be your sister and defiantly none are your mother."
"There's no actual blood relation, but since my mother died they're all I have making them my family. So the question remains, where are they?"
"Alec is hiding in a warehouse at the docks, number eleven. I told you now let me go." He demanded.
"You helped hurt them, now I'm going to hurt you." She smiled sweetly, as she removed the gun, re-aimed it at his leg, and fired. Screams of agony erupted from between his lips as Dinah laughed. "We're not done yet." Shot after shot rang out, and Tince was still pinned painfully to the wall. None of the shots had been fatal, just very painful, or enjoyable from Dinah's point of view.
"Please stop. You said you wouldn't hurt me."
"Funny I don't remember agreeing to that. You're right though, it is time to stop good-bye." She put the gun back to its original position underneath his jaw, the trigger was pulled, and Tince's body went limp. Blood smeared on the wall behind him as he slid down it since Dinah let go. Walking out into the night Dinah didn't give a second thought to the man whose life she took.
Hazy grey bars were the first things that swam into Helena's vision. "Ugh, Oracle are you awake?" Helena asked as she forced herself into a sitting position.
Barbara woke up at the sound of Helena calling her, "Huntress?"
"Yeah it's me. He's got us in a cage, but I don't see Dinah anywhere."
"Hopefully that means that she got away, and they haven't caught her yet." Barbara also dragged herself into a sitting position, "We have to find a way to escape."
"You can't do that, they can't do that can they? No they can't. You hear that, you can't." Alec started dancing around chanting, "You can't."
"Try me you psycho path." Helena challenged.
"No we've already taken care of you. Injected a poison into you we did. Yes a new poison only one of it only one antidote. We don't need to do anything to your friend, cause she can't use her legs. That's right she's immobilized."
"Shut up before I make you." Helena growled, quickly getting annoyed with him.
"For now, but only because we want to torment your other friend for a little bit. It's always such fun to do isn't it." For a moment he went into a trance lasting several minutes, Helena and Barbara watching him closely wondering what he was doing. Snapping out of he flashed his crazy smile, "We've made her mind so jumbled haven't we. Oh yes we have, but she knows where we are. She's angry now too. There was something else too. Yes there was, but what was it? I don't know either."
"What'd you do to her? If you hurt her you'll regret it." Helena threatened him.
"Huntress stop. Yelling at him won't do any good." Barbara reasoned.
All of the sudden Helena's vision started spinning, "Oracle, something's wrong."
"It must be the poising he was talking about, but I can't do anything until we get out of here."
"Your friend is coming, so we will call in our own help. Bad news for her, guns and flesh don't usually mix well." He laughed as he went to go make his phone calls.
The pain had been worse than the first two times, but all it was serving to do was make her angrier. Dinah knew what she wanted to do, rip the man's head off. Around the area where she had been when he entered his mind lampposts had been shoved straight into the buildings, cars had been blown on top of roofs, windows had been blown out, and underneath where she was standing there was a crater. Staggering to her feet Dinah continued her journey to the docks, and to her family.
Emotions were starting to well in her mind again, but she pushed them back down. Not consciously, but it was still done, the anger she was feeling at that point was too great to even attempt to fight. It was in control now and Dinah was just along for the ride. Looming in the distance were the warehouses on the docks. "Almost there." Dinah thought to herself.
Helena had only been getting worse as time went by, she was now covered in a cold sweat and was shaking, her head now rested in Barbara's lap. Several men walked into the room led by Alec, she assumed this was the help he had been talking about earlier. Barbara couldn't help but think that Dinah needed to get here soon, but she was also worried about Dinah facing off against so many armed men.
"There's no need to worry, your friend is right outside our door. She is, but she's also in for a big surprise. That's true when she sees all these men it'll be a big shocker."
The door to the room burst open revealing the ever-calm looking Dinah. She was not surprised like Alec hoped (At least she didn't look it), instead she walked right into the middle of the men, who all aimed their guns at her and cocked them. "Dinah what are you doing? Why'd you walk into the middle it leaves you in a vulnerable position." Barbara was actually confused.
"You're a foolish girl. That's right she is. Kill her. I agree kill her now!" Alec shouted gleefully.
All of the men opened fire on her. Barbara turned away unable to watch, even Helena who had only a vague idea of what was going on felt that she should block out the noises. Their clips were soon empty, but Dinah was still standing without a scratch on her. The bullets were stuck in mid flight, "It was a nice try, but not quite good enough."
Barbara looked over at Dinah hearing her voice, "How is that possible?"
"How is what.possible?" Helena asked.
"They all shot at Dinah, but she stopped all the bullets." Barbara summarized.
Gathering all the bullets into one large ball Dinah used their former momentum to shoot it through the roof. With no bullets left the men decided to either attack her or run, most chose to run. Those who attacked were no problem for Dinah, she merely propelled them all into walls the crunch of bones sounding through the building as they struck. "Where's the cure Alec? If you don't tell me I'll kill you."
"You can't kill us. He's right we can go into your mind and cause you pain like before." Alec gloated.
"Not this time." She sent him crashing into a wall, "Want some more? Cause there's plenty more where that came from. Almost lucky for you that Huntress needs my help, otherwise you'd be a smear on the wall." Picking him back up she transported him over to her where she grabbed his hand searching his memory for where he put the antidote. Finding it she let go of his hand and slammed him into another wall knocking him unconscious for the time being.
Using her telekinesis Dinah snapped the chain holding the cage up and slowly lowered it to the floor. Bending the bars with the antidote in hand she gave it to Barbara who injected Helena with it. Dinah helped Barbara into a chair, and also pulled Helena out placing her on a table that had nothing on it. Groaning Helena became more aware of her surroundings; the first face she saw was Dinah's. "What happened, and where's Alec?" Helena asked standing up despite Barbara's complaints. "Alec is unconscious, and Dinah took care of everyone else." Barbara clued Helena in.
More groaning was heard from Alec this time, Dinah walked over to him with Helena not far behind. "We should hit him again, and make sure that he stays unconscious." Helena spat.
"I agree." Dinah used her powers to pick him up but quickly dropped him as a familiar pain bit through her head again. Mustering up her strength Dinah slammed him into the floor, making him break his concentration.
"We'll kill you!" Alec screamed in a murderous rage getting up and lunging at Dinah. His vengeance was short lived by a kick to the stomach delivered by Helena sending him back to the ground.
"No I'll kill you." Dinah stated in a frighteningly calm voice, more like it was a fact then a threat.
"What? Dinah stop!" Helena shouted as Dinah kept using her powers to pound Alec into a pulp. "Don't let the anger take control of you, fight it. You are the one who controls your actions Dinah."
Through confused eyes Dinah stared at Helena and then back at Alec's battered form. Tears started forming in her eyes, and Dinah collapsed to the ground falling into unconsciousness. Helena picked her up and walked back over to Barbara, "We have to get out of here if there's a car or something outside I'll hot wire it."
"Good idea. Take Dinah with you." Barbara instructed.
"I'll be back for you later, so just sit tight." With that Helena took off outside.
Only a few minutes later Helena came back and carried Barbara out of the building. "Can you check and see if super kid is okay? I'm going to put you in the back."
"There was a lot of strain on her mind, but I won't know more until we get back to the clock tower."
Everyone was inside the clock tower now, Dinah was lying on the floor since the table was broken and warped. Barbara was scanning Dinah to see how much damage she had caused by using her powers so much, and Helena was looking at the condition that the clock tower was in. "Do you think it was her who did this to the stairs?"
"Yes I do, in her state of mind at the time her powers could have easily done that."
"This is going to cost a lot to repair. I'm going to go down to the pay phone to call Reese so that he can pick up those guys seeing as our phone doesn't work anymore." Helena sighed a little irritated.
It was the afternoon of the next day now and Dinah had still not woken up. "Helena, her mind is in a bad state right now. You heard about the damage she caused just trying to find us, and then what she did at the warehouse. I think she over did it and I don't know if she'll ever wake up." Barbara explained solemnly.
"No she'll make it Barbara. Dinah's a fighter and she proved that last night. Besides we can't give up on her when she didn't give up one us."
Three weeks later the clock tower had been restored to its original condition, the only thing missing was the petit young blond that brightened the place up. Dinah had been relocated to her room so that she was more comfortable, and every day Helena, and Barbara would go in for a few minutes to talk to her. Helena was in there right now, trying to lend her strength to Dinah so that she would wake up, but she never did.
Two hours later Helena couldn't help, but feel that something wasn't right. She went to check in on Dinah only to find that she wasn't there instead a letter was sitting on the bed. "Barbara I need to talk to you now!" Helena called urgently rushing down the stairs.
"What is it?"
"I guess Dinah woke up, but she's gone and she left this." Helena held up the letter so that both her and Barbara could read it.
Dear Barbara, and Helena,
I'm sorry for leaving you like this, but I can't stay here. About that night at the warehouse I did some horrible things that can't be redeemed
and I don't think that I could face the two of you again knowing what I did. This has to be gotten off my chest or I'll die of the guilt, if you search the police files chances are that you'll find out about a shooting that took place that night. A man who was shot in several places including the head, I was the one who killed him, and I did so without any mercy. You all probably never want to see me again. All I can say is that I'm sorry and that I love both of you. You guys were the best family I've ever had and I'll miss you even if you don't miss me. If you do miss me please don't try to find me because I've left Gotham and I'll be going by a different name now. Please, please forgive me, and I'll carry on the crime fighting as best as I can. Once again I'm sorry and I'll miss you, but this is for
the best.
Love, Dinah
"I can't believe she left." Helena whispered in shock.
"She'll be missed, but we still have a job to do just like she will be." Barbara reasoned.
"You're right on both counts." Helena agreed wiping away a single tear that dripped down her face. "Good luck super kid."
Far from the clock tower on top of a build Dinah stood tall and whispered a final good-bye to her family and to the city that she tried to protect. Then she turned around ready to start her new life as the crime fighter black canary.
The End. Maybe.I'm not exactly sure yet.
Note: This is my first attempt at fan fiction, so please be gentle. Also, I would love reviews, but flames will either be laughed at or ignored. Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned, except for the henchmen and Alec, other than that I own nothing.
"Huntress! Huntress are you there?"
"Yeah I'm here Oracle chill. I'm on the roof right now, Dinah's in the car." It was true Huntress was on yet another roof waiting to stop another crime. Looking through a sky light she continued talking to Oracle, "It looks like there's maybe ten guys, one's tied to a chair, I think he might be the guy we're here to save."
"Are they armed?" Asked Oracle.
"Looks like it, hand guns and two shot guns." Replied Huntress taking in the scene with her feral eyes.
"Okay I want both you and Dinah to go in, at the same time but with different entrances this could create confusion." As always Oracle had already been working out a plan while Huntress was talking.
"Alright. Dinah you got that?"
"Yeah, I'm heading to the front door now."
"The front door, you kidding?" Asked Huntress a little unbelieving.
"Yeah, why not?" Dinah both answered and asked a little pissed at Huntress.
"Nothing, nothing at all, its just super heroes don't typically use the front door." Huntress defended herself.
"Alright, let's just go."
"Now you're speaking my language super kid." While Huntress crashed through the skylight, Dinah kicked down the front door. It had the intended effect; none of the men knew who to shoot first, a bad mistake on their part. By the time they had gotten their thoughts in order both Huntress and Dinah had already taken out three of them. From there four attacked Huntress while the rest took on Dinah.
"This is child's play." Commented Huntress while kicking one of the thugs in the head. Quickly, not to mention easily, she disarmed the other three men. "Bring it on little men." She goaded. One of them moved forward to punch her, but she easily sidestepped, grabbed his wrist, and then flipped him onto his back. Ducking beneath the next blow aimed at her she stuck out her leg and kicked his feet out from underneath him then as he landed preformed a flip that ended with her leg hitting his chest knocking the wind out of him. The final one, a bit more cautious, waited for Huntress to attack, an invitation she gladly accepted. Huntress took a swing at the crooks head, which he managed to block lashing out with his own attack aimed at her gut. She did a no hand cartwheel to avoid it then kicked the man in the back of the knee, before turning back to the mans front kneeing him in the stomach and finally grabbing his head and bashing it into her knee. "And that's the end of that." Huntress smirked proud of the work she had done.
While Huntress had been fighting the four men who charged her Dinah was dealing with her own problems. The three men rushed her all at once, and it was all she could do to avoid or block punches. One of them moved back pulling out his handgun obviously intending to fire it at her. With only two people fighting her now Dinah managed to escape long enough to use her telekinesis to disarm the one trying to shoot her, and also managed to pull the other thugs guns out of their holsters. Now that she had the advantage Dinah used her abilities to slam two of them into a wall with a large amount of force. Only one was left now, but using her powers was wearing Dinah out, "Remind me not to use my powers so much in a fight." She muttered closing her eyes and fighting back a wave of nausea, it wasn't intended for anyone to hear, but of course Oracle did.
"Dinah, are you okay? You're not getting dizzy or light headed are you?" Oracle questioned, worried about Dinah.
"I'm fine Oracle I can make it through this." Dinah responded while blocking a kick from the thug. As he reached out to punch her again, Dinah moved to the side pulling her bird-a-rang out of her jacket, and hit the man in the back of the head effectively knocking him out.
All of the crooks had been dispatched now, and the only thing left to do was untie the only one left. "Just stay cool and we'll get you out." Reassured Huntress as Dinah moved to untie the man. Once the ropes were off the man reached out to shake Dinah's hand. As his hand made contact with hers Dinah was pulled into his mind.
Looking around she saw him working in a laboratory, a crazy smile plastered on his face. While he was working the men from before had surrounded him, unbelievably he turned around and started to shake their hands as they congratulated him. After that Dinah was pushed back into the real world, which at the time wasn't a good thing. From inside his jacket he pulled out a syringe filled with an orange liquid, stabbing it into her side he pushed the plunger down all the way, and pulled it back out. The last thing the man would remember was Huntress's fist colliding with his jaw.
Now Dinah was feeling really dizzy, and using her telekinesis hadn't helped any. "Super kid, hey are you okay? How many fingers am I holding up?" Asked Huntress holding up two.
Dinah vision had started spinning, which was reflected in her answer, "I don't know, seven? Helena I don't feel so good."
"Oracle send Reese down to pick these guys up. We've also got a problem, the guy we were here to rescue injected Dinah with something, and she doesn't look so good." Huntress reported getting more and more worried about Dinah who kept getting paler.
"Huntress listen to me, I need you to get Dinah back here as soon as possible, take the car it'll be faster that way." Oracle ordered.
"Come one Dinah we gotta go." Said Huntress, grabbing Dinah's arm to steady her, slowly leading her to the car. Huntress opened the door and practically lifted Dinah inside. "Hold on Dinah, I'll get you to Barbara and everything will be fine." It sounded like she was trying to convince herself more then she was Dinah.
Elevator doors opened revealing huntress carrying a barely conscious Dinah. Moving quickly Helena placed Dinah on a table in the middle of the room. "Helena I need you to tell me exactly what happened." Stated Barbara already checking Dinah's vitals.
"I don't know, uh we busted in and beat up the bad guys like always, then Dinah untied the guy in the chair. He looked like he really was in trouble ya know, he shook her hand, and it kind of looked like she went into his head, but then there was this syringe that he pulled out and he stuck her with it. He won't be doing that again though, I punched him before he could do anything else." Helena explained what happened as clearly as she could, hoping that it would help Dinah. "Oh yeah I almost forgot." Helena handed Barbara the syringe.
"Thanks, I've got Dinah stabilize for now, but I should go analyze this. If you could get me a blood sample that would help to." Barbara wheeled over to her computers and used her equipment to work on the solution.
Meanwhile Helena was busy taking a blood sample, which she got easily enough and passed on to Barbara. She walked back over to Dinah and just started talking to her about anything and everything. "Come on super kid pull through okay." Helena whispered.
"Don't call me super kid." Came the equally quiet reply.
That response caused Helena to smile brightly, "Hey, Barbara she's awake and fully able to complain, I think she's probably better."
Barbara rolled her eyes at Helena's humor, but came to see Dinah none-the- less. "Dinah, how do you feel?"
"Really tired, and the room is still tilting a little, but other than that fine." Answered Dinah, reaching up and rubbing her eyes.
"I finished the analysis, and so far the 'drug' for lack of a better term, seems to just cause dizziness, nausea, basically everything you were feeling. By tomorrow I believe that you'll be up and out fighting crime again." Barbara told Dinah, confident in what she had said, "Dinah, Helena told me that he shook your hand, did you get a read off of him?"
"Yeah, he was defiantly one of the bad guys. I remember him working in a lab, just looking like a psycho, and then those guys we beat up came in, they were shaking hands. I'm pretty sure they were working together. Do we have anything for a head ache?"
"I'll go grab some Tylenol." Offered Helena, walking out of the room to get the bottle.
"While she's gone it's time for a small lecture slash talk. Dinah first of all we need to train your powers more, second you have to take it easy while using them; right now they're too much of a strain. You could wind up seriously hurting yourself, and it wouldn't be like Helena pulling a muscle, it could be a coma. Promise me you'll take it easier, until we do more training."
"I promise." Dinah sighed reluctantly, "No more lectures for now, all I want is Tylenol and sleep."
"Tylenol I've got right here, and I'll help you to your room." Smiled Helena, "I was planning on hitting the sack to so perfect timing." Helena helped Dinah sit up, giving her a few moments for the dizziness to pass. For the second time that night Helena steadied Dinah as they walked to Dinah's room.
"Thanks Helena." Dinah murmured after snuggling into bed and taking her Tylenol.
"No problem Dinah, see ya in the morning." Helena tiptoed quietly out of the room, shutting the door silently behind her. "Barbara what were you bugging Dinah about when I left for the meds?"
"That's none of your business Helena, just a little talk is all." Barbara retorted.
"Whatever, I'm heading home to crash so I'll see you tomorrow." Helena said as walked into the elevator and pressed the down button.
"Well after another day of saving the world I might as well get to sleep to." Barbara yawned, covering her mouth as she stretched.
Dinah had fallen asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow; only a few hours later she started dreaming. The man who had injected her was breaking out of prison, either knocking the guards unconscious or killing them, she wasn't really sure. It flashed to him in another building laughing insanely in a huge room filled with tubes, equipment, and a row of cages. Finally it flashed to the clock tower, the inside of it was in shambles, papers, and all of the screens littered the floor.
Awaking with a start Dinah started panicking. "It'll come true, they always come true." Dinah mumbled to herself over and over again. This was how Barbara found her in the morning.
"Dinah what's going on? What's going to come true? You need to tell me Dinah." Barbara spoke soothingly trying to get the information from Dinah.
"The dream Barbara, he broke out and the tower was trashed, and it'll come true Barbara it'll come true." Paranoia was clearly showing through in Dinah's voice.
"Look at me, and focus on my voice." Barbara knew that she had to calm Dinah down to get anywhere, "Dinah focus, and calm down I need you to tell me what you're talking about."
Eventually calming down, Dinah managed to retell her dream to Barbara. "It will come true, every time I've had a dream like this it's come true." Dinah told Barbara dejectedly.
"I'll go check the reports and see if your guy actually did escape." As Barbara was rolling to her computers, Helena came in through the elevator.
"What's up?" Helena asked.
"A dream Dinah had, she thinks that it's a prophetic one, and I need you to talk to Reese, see if there was a break out last night." Barbara informed Helena.
"I'm all over it. Before I go any where how is super kid?" Helena questioned.
"I don't really know, it took me forever to calm her down this morning. Right now she's upstairs training." Answered Barbara.
"I'll check on her, ya know see how she's doing and all." Helena was already walking up the spiral staircase to get to the room. Once inside she saw Dinah sitting Indian style on the floor, three silver orbs the size of golf balls floating above her hand in and intricate pattern. "Hey Dinah, I know that by now you probably know what I'm going to ask so why don't you just spit out the answer before I can."
Helena's unexpected entrance startled Dinah causing her to drop the balls. Picking them up with her mind, and putting them back into her pattern she answered Helena, "You're right I do know, and I'm okay I suppose."
"You suppose?" Helena repeated, leaning into the doorframe while crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow.
"I'm just a little worried is all, if that guy really did escape then it probably means that the rest of my dream was true to. Who knows what he was doing in that lab, and I'm," Dinah sighed searching for the words to continue while still holding up the orbs. As she thought the balls started moving faster and faster, causing Helena to look at her warily. "And I'm afraid about the clock tower, it looked like someone had broken in, and that shouldn't be possible. What if one of you two were here, either of you could be hurt or captured or who knows what." During Dinah's rant the orbs still kept moving faster until finally one crashed into the roof, and the other two went in separate directions crashing into opposite walls. Some of the items in the room had begun to shake as well.
"Calm down Dinah, I think Barbara would like the room to remain intact. It'll be okay." Huntress soothed.
"I hope so, and I'm sorry for getting mad. I should probably get the balls out of the walls before Barbara finds out." Dinah sighed, disappointed in herself for loosing control of her powers, for causing damage to the room, and for possibly freaking out Helena. Dislodging the balls from the wall Dinah placed them back in their proper containers before grabbing a pair of fighting sticks to practice her physical combat with. "You should go see Resse Helena." Helena then exited the room with the sounds of Dinah beating a dummy with her sticks following her.
Detective Reese had just sat down to have a drink of coffee and read a newspaper, when as usual Helena showed up out of nowhere. Looking up from his paper Reese nearly spilt his coffee when he noticed Helena sitting there. "You've got to stop doing that to me. Now what can it do for you?"
"I need some information. Were there any break outs from prison?" Helena smiled despite the serious nature of the talk; the idea of Reese spilling coffee all over himself on her account was very amusing in her mind.
"Unfortunately, yes. That bust that you and Dinah pulled last night, one of the guys managed to get out somehow. Several of the officers working that night were beat up pretty bad, and two wound up dead. Those who are still alive either don't remember anything or are still unconscious." Reese told her.
"Oracle is not going to be happy to hear that, and neither is Dinah." Helena sighed looking down at the table.
"Wait, what's going on this time?" Reese asked exasperated.
"A dream that Dinah had." Helena started before Reese interrupted.
"A dream? You're kidding right?"
"No, sometimes Dinah gets these dreams that are different from regular ones they tell thing that either have happened or will happen. Last night she had one of those dreams that showed the guy breaking out, and some other things to. This morning she was pretty freaked out about it. Look it's been fun 'chatting' but I gotta get going."
While Helena was explaining the situation to Reese he had looked down at the table trying to take it all in. When Helena said she had to go Reese was about to stop her, but once again she disappeared before he could.
Back at the clock tower Helena had just finished relaying what Reese had told her to Barbara and Dinah. Barbara had also gotten the same information, which served to confirm what detective Reese told Helena. "See I told you it would come true." Dinah pointed.
"Perhaps, but that man breaking out could've been the only true part." Barbara argued, "Anyway you have school in the morning so I want everyone in bed." On Barbara's last word everyone did go to sleep as she practically ordered.
The next day Dinah had gone to school, Helena was out doing whatever it is that she does during the day, and although Barbara would normally be at school as well she had other duties to attend to so got a substitute to cover her. At this time Barbara was busy working on her computers, trying to find out more about the man that had broken out of prison. After a few hours of searching she managed to find out a few things about him. It was at that moment that Helena decided to walk in. "Aren't you suppose to be at school?" Helena asked.
Barbara rolled her eyes, but answered anyway. "Yes, but I wanted to find out more about that man. His name is Alec Nolc, a former scientist who was basically booted off the team because they thought that both he and his theories were crazy. After that he went out on his own starting from scratch in a different lab where he created several dangerous chemicals. Due to lack of funding he started selling to the black market. I suppose the last group wasn't too happy with the quality of the work."
"Dinah is not going to be happy when she finds this out, she'll probably start to panic again. Maybe we can do this without Dinah knowing about it, I'll just go out once you find where he is, he'll go back to jail, and we'll be done with it all." Helena suggested.
"That probably won't work Helena because although I've been searching I haven't been able to find him."
"Shit. Should we let Dinah know about what we found then?" Helena inquired disappointed that her plan wouldn't work.
"Not yet, but we can't keep this from her."
Meanwhile at school Dinah was having a very difficult time paying attention, she had been called on three times to answer different questions and because she had been thinking of other things couldn't answer them. The torture was almost over though, only a few more minutes before the bell rang and Dinah's suffering was ended. Bells rang through out the school signaling that the day there had finally ended. As Dinah was walking home to the tower a sharp pain like a thousand icicles being dropped into her mind struck. Using the last of her wits Dinah staggered into an alley where she sunk to the ground, her back being supported by the wall. Clutching her head Dinah tried to stop the pain, flashes of the clock tower went through her mind, and a booming voice kept shouting at her. Slowly the pain faded away, and tired as she was from that experience Dinah continued home to tell Barbara what happened.
What Dinah didn't realize was that she had been sitting in that ally for a half hour causing Helena and Barbara to worry about why she was so late. "Where is she? What if that guy kidnapped her while she was walking to school or something? I'm going out to search for her." Helena started walking towards the elevator intending to do exactly what she said she would. Doors opened before Helena managed to make it there, they revealed a very haggard looking Dinah. Pushing against the back of the elevator Dinah made her way into the room where Helena helped her into a chair.
"Dinah what happened to you?" Barbara asked wheeling over to her.
"Yeah, come on super kid spill."
"I don't know exactly. I was walking home and then there was a horrible pain. It was so cold, there was yelling, and what felt like someone stabbing me, all in the head." Dinah tried to explain. "The voice was so loud and it just felt wrong, like someone was raping my mind. That's the best way I can explain it."
"Helena go take her to her room, Dinah I want you to get some rest, and I'll try to figure out what happened." Barbara doled out assignments.
Down at the docks inside an abandoned warehouse, a figure was hidden in shadows. "Well Alec old lad you've done it again. You're such a genius one poison one cure. Just in case right, can't be too careful these days. Oh the pain she felt when we were swimming in her mind, that was nice. We'll make them pay for hitting us won't we, paid to get them out of the way and that's just what we'll do won't we. Yes, yes we saw where their hide out was. No escape this time, no escape. Call the men and grab the gas and let's get going." Alec's voice sang to himself. If Alec wasn't crazy then no one was, he often held conversations with himself, asking his opinion and then disagreeing with it leading to an argument. Right now both sides were obviously agreeing on what they were about to do.
Supper had started when Dinah finally woke up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes she walked out and noticed the nice meal sitting on the table. Inhaling the scent Dinah's mouth watered, she hadn't had anything to eat since lunch where she ate a few bites of an apple. Chinese food sitting on a table was very appealing at this point, so Dinah hurried down the steps as fast as she could over to the paper containers. "You think she's hungry Barbara." Helena nodded her head toward Dinah who was sitting at the table practically inhaling the food. Barbara just smiled at Dinah's antics while Helena chuckled a little before they also went to the table to join her.
Now that dinner was finally over and done with there were things that needed to be discussed. "Dinah," Barbara started wondering if she should continue, a look from Helena told her yes, "The man who you dreamed about.we found out some things about him." Dinah immediately started paying as close of attention as she could, as Barbara relayed all of what she had told Helena earlier to Dinah.
"I need to go for a walk." Dinah mumbled as she grabbed a jacket.
"That went as well as could be expected, at least things didn't start shaking." Helena pointed out.
"I suppose you're right." Barbara agreed
"Should I go after her?"
"No, I think she needs some time to herself." Out of the corner of her eye, Barbara noticed people in one of the clock towers security cameras. "Helena we've got problems, they're in the elevator right now."
"They must have just missed Dinah, don't worry I'll take care of them." Helena boasted as her eyes turned feral. Just then the elevator door opened revealing eight men including Alec. Everyone excluding Alec attacked Huntress, and she in turn fought him or her off. The group of men was only meant to be a distraction though, while they were fighting Alec pulled out an odd looking gun and shot at Huntress with it. A dart hit Huntress in the back of her shoulder, whipping around she noticed Alec standing with the gun, then she grew very tired and wound up collapsing on the ground. Alec then turned and shot Barbara who had also been fighting off a few people, and like Huntress she fell into a deep slumber.
The clock tower did not escape unscathed, everything was scattered everywhere not to mention that the table had been broken. Alec ordered his men to tie Helena's hands and feet, and to also tie Barbara's hands. "There's one missing did you notice?" Alec asked, one of the men made to answer, but Alec beat him to it, "Yes I did, the blonde one. Where'd she go? I don't know, but we'll be able to get her eventually. She'll come for her friends then we'll get her." Alec broke into a sadistic grin. "Time to go now."
Once Helena and Barbara had been loaded into the back of the van that Alec and his group arrived in they drove off towards the docks. Upon arrival the two girls were carried out of the back and stuffed in a hanging cage in Alec's laboratory. The men were paid and then dismissed so they could get back to whatever other crime they would normally commit. "Should we test it? That would be fun, but on which one of them? I say the one with brown hair, the red head already can't use her legs, so it would be no fun to test it on her. That's true, let's lower it down and inject her before they wake up." Lowering the cage to the ground Alec grabbed a syringe and injected it into Helena's arm, and then the cage was lifted back up to its original hanging position. "Time to visit the other one."
Finished with her walk Dinah returned to the clock tower only to find it in shambles just like in her dream. "Helena, Barbara!" Dinah called out searching the rooms, but not finding anything. By now Dinah was starting to panic, but Barbara had always taught her to keep a cool head, so controlling her fear and anger as best she could Dinah thought about what she could do. "The security tapes."
Fortunately the computers were still operational, and Dinah was able to access the tapes. When she saw Alec on the screen and the fight Dinah started loosing control of her anger, objects were shaking but Dinah knew that she still had something left to do. She pulled up pictures and information on all the people who had been there.
For the second time that day a sharp pain assaulted Dinah's mind and flashes of Helena and Barbara being tortured, along with Helena slowly dying, miserably curled in a corner of a cage. Alec was standing, and laughing at the pain that he inflicted. As had happened earlier the pain slowly faded, but the images caused Dinah to snap. A calm look occupied her face, but there was and odd look in her eye. Going upstairs she changed into a pair of black combat pants, a black tank top, black hiking boots, and to complete the ensemble a black trench coat.
As Dinah walked back into the main room, things were twisting, bending, floating, and spinning. The staircase, usually spiral in shape, was almost like a normal set of stairs, besides the fact that the banister was like a snake hunting some prey, and the steps were warping constantly. Coolly Dinah walked down the steps, they straightened as her foot came near them, but as soon as her feet were off they started warping again.
Pulling the information that she had collected out of her pocket, Dinah found out where one of the men lived. An idea forming Dinah opened the elevator and lowered it quickly to the ground using her abilities. A pay phone on the corner of the street was her destination, since there were people on the street Dinah realized, even in her state of mind, that she couldn't let them see things warping as she moved by them. Using the most amount of control that Dinah had ever demonstrated she made it to the pay phone, and using her information once more called the man.
The phone rang three times before anyone picked up, "Hello?"
"Yes hello, is this mister Tince?"
"Yeah I'm him. What can I do for you?"
"I'm in need of your assistance, and I have a lot of money. Do you know of a place where no one will see us meet?"
"First things first lady, how much money?"
"What's fair?"
"I'm going to need at least five thousand up front."
"That can be arranged. Now about a meeting place."
"Yeah, there's an abandoned apartment building on twenty Ninth Street, wait for me out front." With that said the man hung up.
Dinah also hung up pleased at how everything was going. Walking towards the assigned meeting place took a lot of discipline to make sure that nothing was moving too noticeably. As she got closer to her destination, Dinah noticed less and less people around, so she let go of her control.
On the steps outside the building Tince was busy waiting for her. Off in the distance he noticed someone approaching and figured it was her. It wasn't until she got very close that he noticed something wrong with the picture. Street lamps were coiling, and bending towards the ground, the bricks on the abandoned buildings were cracking along with the road and side walks, and doors were opening and shutting despite the fact that there was no wind.
Seeing him standing outside the build, freaking out about what was going on was priceless in Dinah's mind. "Mister Tince, how good to see you in person."
"Where's my money?" He asked looking around warily.
"I hate to break it to you, but there is no money. It was all just one big lie to get you alone." Dinah confessed.
From a holster hidden under his jacket Tince produced a gun, aiming it at her with a shaky hand. "What do you want? You're the one doing that to the lamp posts aren't you?" He questioned, Dinah moved closer to him, "Stop stay away from me. I'll shoot." He declared.
"Tsk-tsk, there's no need to pull a gun." Dinah stated pulling his gun out of his hand, picking him up, slamming him against the wall and pinning him there. "All I want is some information." She moved the gun so that it was pointed underneath his jaw, so that if the gun went off the bullet would fly directly into his brain.
"Alright I'll tell you anything you want to know just don't hurt me."
"You don't want me to hurt you even though it's your job to hurt others, interesting logic. I know what you did earlier, help break into the clock tower and took the people inside."
"I didn't do anything, you can't prove it." He accused.
"I can't, even though I have security tapes that clearly show your face?" She asked angrily, on of the lamps breaking off from its post and then embedding itself in a wall, the gun pressed harder tilting his chin up some. "I want to know where Alec is, and where my family is."
"What do you mean your family, those people were too old to be your sister and defiantly none are your mother."
"There's no actual blood relation, but since my mother died they're all I have making them my family. So the question remains, where are they?"
"Alec is hiding in a warehouse at the docks, number eleven. I told you now let me go." He demanded.
"You helped hurt them, now I'm going to hurt you." She smiled sweetly, as she removed the gun, re-aimed it at his leg, and fired. Screams of agony erupted from between his lips as Dinah laughed. "We're not done yet." Shot after shot rang out, and Tince was still pinned painfully to the wall. None of the shots had been fatal, just very painful, or enjoyable from Dinah's point of view.
"Please stop. You said you wouldn't hurt me."
"Funny I don't remember agreeing to that. You're right though, it is time to stop good-bye." She put the gun back to its original position underneath his jaw, the trigger was pulled, and Tince's body went limp. Blood smeared on the wall behind him as he slid down it since Dinah let go. Walking out into the night Dinah didn't give a second thought to the man whose life she took.
Hazy grey bars were the first things that swam into Helena's vision. "Ugh, Oracle are you awake?" Helena asked as she forced herself into a sitting position.
Barbara woke up at the sound of Helena calling her, "Huntress?"
"Yeah it's me. He's got us in a cage, but I don't see Dinah anywhere."
"Hopefully that means that she got away, and they haven't caught her yet." Barbara also dragged herself into a sitting position, "We have to find a way to escape."
"You can't do that, they can't do that can they? No they can't. You hear that, you can't." Alec started dancing around chanting, "You can't."
"Try me you psycho path." Helena challenged.
"No we've already taken care of you. Injected a poison into you we did. Yes a new poison only one of it only one antidote. We don't need to do anything to your friend, cause she can't use her legs. That's right she's immobilized."
"Shut up before I make you." Helena growled, quickly getting annoyed with him.
"For now, but only because we want to torment your other friend for a little bit. It's always such fun to do isn't it." For a moment he went into a trance lasting several minutes, Helena and Barbara watching him closely wondering what he was doing. Snapping out of he flashed his crazy smile, "We've made her mind so jumbled haven't we. Oh yes we have, but she knows where we are. She's angry now too. There was something else too. Yes there was, but what was it? I don't know either."
"What'd you do to her? If you hurt her you'll regret it." Helena threatened him.
"Huntress stop. Yelling at him won't do any good." Barbara reasoned.
All of the sudden Helena's vision started spinning, "Oracle, something's wrong."
"It must be the poising he was talking about, but I can't do anything until we get out of here."
"Your friend is coming, so we will call in our own help. Bad news for her, guns and flesh don't usually mix well." He laughed as he went to go make his phone calls.
The pain had been worse than the first two times, but all it was serving to do was make her angrier. Dinah knew what she wanted to do, rip the man's head off. Around the area where she had been when he entered his mind lampposts had been shoved straight into the buildings, cars had been blown on top of roofs, windows had been blown out, and underneath where she was standing there was a crater. Staggering to her feet Dinah continued her journey to the docks, and to her family.
Emotions were starting to well in her mind again, but she pushed them back down. Not consciously, but it was still done, the anger she was feeling at that point was too great to even attempt to fight. It was in control now and Dinah was just along for the ride. Looming in the distance were the warehouses on the docks. "Almost there." Dinah thought to herself.
Helena had only been getting worse as time went by, she was now covered in a cold sweat and was shaking, her head now rested in Barbara's lap. Several men walked into the room led by Alec, she assumed this was the help he had been talking about earlier. Barbara couldn't help but think that Dinah needed to get here soon, but she was also worried about Dinah facing off against so many armed men.
"There's no need to worry, your friend is right outside our door. She is, but she's also in for a big surprise. That's true when she sees all these men it'll be a big shocker."
The door to the room burst open revealing the ever-calm looking Dinah. She was not surprised like Alec hoped (At least she didn't look it), instead she walked right into the middle of the men, who all aimed their guns at her and cocked them. "Dinah what are you doing? Why'd you walk into the middle it leaves you in a vulnerable position." Barbara was actually confused.
"You're a foolish girl. That's right she is. Kill her. I agree kill her now!" Alec shouted gleefully.
All of the men opened fire on her. Barbara turned away unable to watch, even Helena who had only a vague idea of what was going on felt that she should block out the noises. Their clips were soon empty, but Dinah was still standing without a scratch on her. The bullets were stuck in mid flight, "It was a nice try, but not quite good enough."
Barbara looked over at Dinah hearing her voice, "How is that possible?"
"How is what.possible?" Helena asked.
"They all shot at Dinah, but she stopped all the bullets." Barbara summarized.
Gathering all the bullets into one large ball Dinah used their former momentum to shoot it through the roof. With no bullets left the men decided to either attack her or run, most chose to run. Those who attacked were no problem for Dinah, she merely propelled them all into walls the crunch of bones sounding through the building as they struck. "Where's the cure Alec? If you don't tell me I'll kill you."
"You can't kill us. He's right we can go into your mind and cause you pain like before." Alec gloated.
"Not this time." She sent him crashing into a wall, "Want some more? Cause there's plenty more where that came from. Almost lucky for you that Huntress needs my help, otherwise you'd be a smear on the wall." Picking him back up she transported him over to her where she grabbed his hand searching his memory for where he put the antidote. Finding it she let go of his hand and slammed him into another wall knocking him unconscious for the time being.
Using her telekinesis Dinah snapped the chain holding the cage up and slowly lowered it to the floor. Bending the bars with the antidote in hand she gave it to Barbara who injected Helena with it. Dinah helped Barbara into a chair, and also pulled Helena out placing her on a table that had nothing on it. Groaning Helena became more aware of her surroundings; the first face she saw was Dinah's. "What happened, and where's Alec?" Helena asked standing up despite Barbara's complaints. "Alec is unconscious, and Dinah took care of everyone else." Barbara clued Helena in.
More groaning was heard from Alec this time, Dinah walked over to him with Helena not far behind. "We should hit him again, and make sure that he stays unconscious." Helena spat.
"I agree." Dinah used her powers to pick him up but quickly dropped him as a familiar pain bit through her head again. Mustering up her strength Dinah slammed him into the floor, making him break his concentration.
"We'll kill you!" Alec screamed in a murderous rage getting up and lunging at Dinah. His vengeance was short lived by a kick to the stomach delivered by Helena sending him back to the ground.
"No I'll kill you." Dinah stated in a frighteningly calm voice, more like it was a fact then a threat.
"What? Dinah stop!" Helena shouted as Dinah kept using her powers to pound Alec into a pulp. "Don't let the anger take control of you, fight it. You are the one who controls your actions Dinah."
Through confused eyes Dinah stared at Helena and then back at Alec's battered form. Tears started forming in her eyes, and Dinah collapsed to the ground falling into unconsciousness. Helena picked her up and walked back over to Barbara, "We have to get out of here if there's a car or something outside I'll hot wire it."
"Good idea. Take Dinah with you." Barbara instructed.
"I'll be back for you later, so just sit tight." With that Helena took off outside.
Only a few minutes later Helena came back and carried Barbara out of the building. "Can you check and see if super kid is okay? I'm going to put you in the back."
"There was a lot of strain on her mind, but I won't know more until we get back to the clock tower."
Everyone was inside the clock tower now, Dinah was lying on the floor since the table was broken and warped. Barbara was scanning Dinah to see how much damage she had caused by using her powers so much, and Helena was looking at the condition that the clock tower was in. "Do you think it was her who did this to the stairs?"
"Yes I do, in her state of mind at the time her powers could have easily done that."
"This is going to cost a lot to repair. I'm going to go down to the pay phone to call Reese so that he can pick up those guys seeing as our phone doesn't work anymore." Helena sighed a little irritated.
It was the afternoon of the next day now and Dinah had still not woken up. "Helena, her mind is in a bad state right now. You heard about the damage she caused just trying to find us, and then what she did at the warehouse. I think she over did it and I don't know if she'll ever wake up." Barbara explained solemnly.
"No she'll make it Barbara. Dinah's a fighter and she proved that last night. Besides we can't give up on her when she didn't give up one us."
Three weeks later the clock tower had been restored to its original condition, the only thing missing was the petit young blond that brightened the place up. Dinah had been relocated to her room so that she was more comfortable, and every day Helena, and Barbara would go in for a few minutes to talk to her. Helena was in there right now, trying to lend her strength to Dinah so that she would wake up, but she never did.
Two hours later Helena couldn't help, but feel that something wasn't right. She went to check in on Dinah only to find that she wasn't there instead a letter was sitting on the bed. "Barbara I need to talk to you now!" Helena called urgently rushing down the stairs.
"What is it?"
"I guess Dinah woke up, but she's gone and she left this." Helena held up the letter so that both her and Barbara could read it.
Dear Barbara, and Helena,
I'm sorry for leaving you like this, but I can't stay here. About that night at the warehouse I did some horrible things that can't be redeemed
and I don't think that I could face the two of you again knowing what I did. This has to be gotten off my chest or I'll die of the guilt, if you search the police files chances are that you'll find out about a shooting that took place that night. A man who was shot in several places including the head, I was the one who killed him, and I did so without any mercy. You all probably never want to see me again. All I can say is that I'm sorry and that I love both of you. You guys were the best family I've ever had and I'll miss you even if you don't miss me. If you do miss me please don't try to find me because I've left Gotham and I'll be going by a different name now. Please, please forgive me, and I'll carry on the crime fighting as best as I can. Once again I'm sorry and I'll miss you, but this is for
the best.
Love, Dinah
"I can't believe she left." Helena whispered in shock.
"She'll be missed, but we still have a job to do just like she will be." Barbara reasoned.
"You're right on both counts." Helena agreed wiping away a single tear that dripped down her face. "Good luck super kid."
Far from the clock tower on top of a build Dinah stood tall and whispered a final good-bye to her family and to the city that she tried to protect. Then she turned around ready to start her new life as the crime fighter black canary.
The End. Maybe.I'm not exactly sure yet.
