Note: Hahahahahahahahahaha, Muahahahahahahah. This is the most evil chapter that I have written to date. Oh, man you guys are going to love it, but not as much as I love how much you're going to love it. By the way have I mentioned how fucking awesome all of you guys are, you all make me so happy with your reviews. With that out of the way enjoy the chapter.

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Glass shards being propelled by the force of the explosion flew at them, many hitting the ground around them shattering into tiny pieces. One of the hands from the clock came crashing down a few feet away from them, bouncing a few times before coming to a stop. "We have to take cover, let's go into that alley." Instructed Barbara, as Canary and Huntress ran to avoid the shards. Huntress made it into the alley preventing any harm that could be done to either her or Barbara, Canary, however, was not so lucky. As she was almost inside the alley, a jagged piece of glass flew at a deadly speed, and impaled her leg; she fell the rest of the way into the alley, landing beside Huntress.

Canary gasped from the pain, the glass was still in her leg, the bottom part sticking out along with the top part, it was a bloody mess. "You're hurt." Huntress observed setting Barbara down in a sitting position, her eyes grew angry, "I'll kill them!" She was about to do just that to, but fortunately Canary was still in her right mind, and knew that it would be suicide, so she stopped Huntress.

"Huntress! Getting yourself killed won't help anyone, Barbara and I both need you." Canary soothed, and eventually Huntress returned to the both of them.

"What can we do? You can't walk on that leg, and there's no way that I can carry the both of you." Pointed Huntress.

"What about Tek? He should be able to help shouldn't he?" Barbara asked.

"Yes I can. If you guys can make it up to the roof, I can send the plane in stealth mode to pick you up. From there I'll find a place for you guys to hang out for awhile." Tek informed.

"It won't be easy, but we'll handle it." Canary assured him, "Huntress, carry Barbara, I'll try to walk on my own."

"No deal, I'll take Barbara up and then come back down for you." Argued Huntress worried about her girlfriend. Girlfriend, is that what they were. Right then Huntress didn't know, but she liked the sound of it.

"No, that'll only waste time, and you know that I'll be climbing behind you no matter what, so let's go." Huntress sighed, and then gave up knowing how stubborn Canary could be when she wanted.

Agonizing pain ripped through her leg every time she took a step, the blood was flowing from it badly, dripping on the stairs every now and again. Her breath came in pained gasps, and Huntress was constantly looking back to check on her, through all the pain it made her feel wanted, which made her feel good; she spared a reassuring smile for Huntress, but it seemed to do nothing to eliminate Huntress's worry. After all this was over she was looking forward to spending some more relaxing time with her adopted family especially Helena, instead of having to save the world once again. For just a few months she would like to be a regular person, but that wouldn't happen for a while yet, she still needed a cure. That only brought up more depressing thoughts, ones that she couldn't deal with right now. Everything in front of her eyes, was starting to get hazy as the world tilted, she faltered on a step hitting her bad leg not quite able to stifle the small cry of pain.

"That fucking plane better get here soon." Huntress glowered silently, Canary was injured, Barbara was without a wheel chair, and to top it all off the clock tower is no more. "Barbara, how are you holding up?"

"I'll be fine don't worry, I'm sure Tek can send a chair no matter how primitive it might be in comparison to my old one." Barbara reassured, and Helena gave her a nod to signal that she had been listening.

"Those bastards, I'll kill them, and if not that just severely maim them." It was hard for Huntress to work through her anger, but for Dinah she would try. For Dinah, she felt that she could do anything, no matter how difficult, no matter what the cost, if she asked then she would receive. Then Huntress heard Canary's gasping moan, she turned quickly staring down at Canary's face which was contorted from pain. "Canary, are you okay?" Huntress asked, climbing back down a few steps.

"I'll be fine keep going, the sooner we get to the roof, the sooner we get out of danger." Canary confirmed, slowly pushing herself up and continuing the ascent of the fire escape. They finally reached the roof, the plane had yet to arrive, but was only a minute or two away as Tek informed them.

Things were getting worse for Canary, the blood kept a steady flow, and it wasn't until Huntress set Barbara down that she noticed how sever it was. "Shit. Canary, why didn't you say something?" She knew that she couldn't hold the wound with her hands nor could she pull the glass out. Instead she tore off a piece of Canary's coat, knowing that the material would be more absorbent than her leather, and held it to the wound.

"It would've been pointless to say anything, we still had to get to the top." Her response came in between her gasps, "I'm sorry if I worry you."

"Don't apologize, it'll be fine; I'll make sure of that. Just rest for a bit." Huntress kissed Canary's forehead, smoothing back the hair that fell into her face, the gloves she wore keeping things safe. Finally they heard the plane land in the center of the roof, first Huntress picked up Canary, depositing her carefully in one of the seats before going back out and repeating the process with Barbara.

"Ah, Saitoh pleasant to see you as always. How did it go?"

"The clock tower is no more, everything was destroyed we made sure of that. Unfortunately, we don't know what happened to the occupants Mr. Inyana, but so far it seems unlikely that they were killed."

"This disappoints me Saitoh, I held higher expectations, especially for you, and you failed to meet them. I want to know where they are, find them at all cost before they can strike out against us. Now go."

"I will find them Mr. Inyana, I know how much you want Ms. Adams back in our custody."

"Good, then I don't have to tell you to hurry. Don't make me repeat myself on the issue of your departure." Saitoh bowed and left once more.

It was by no means a large plane, but it was big enough to seat four comfortably over short trips. An internal intercom turned on and Tek spoke out of it, "Don't worry about flying the plane, I've got that covered already. It'll be flying to a remote warehouse that I thought would be appropriate for the occasion, all the supplies you'll need, have already been transported there by another ship. You'll find all sorts of weapons, and medical tools for any injuries sustained. Also, I know that Dinah didn't have enough time to grab her stuff, so and injection gun along with a case of her serum will be waiting."

"Just get us there fast, Dinah needs help." Tears formed in her eyes as Helena looked to where Dinah sat pale, and shivering, she moved closer choosing to sit in the isle. "Are you cold?"

"She'll feel that way because of the blood loss, she needs some more. Tek, do you have anything that we can use to do a blood transfusion?" Barbara asked as she took mental note of Dinah's symptoms.

"Of course, it isn't the first time something like this has happened to her."

"You're suppose to be watching her back, and this isn't the first time she been dying from blood loss? What kind of back up are you?" Helena was angry, and frustrated, right now it was just easier to put the blame on Tek whom she knew almost nothing about.

"Helena, don't be mad at him. These things will happen, and you know that it isn't his fault, it's the Kaze." Almost immediately after Dinah's words, Helena's anger found it's new focus, a near-by, metal wall of the plane, which she smashed her fist into while she turned to Huntress, denting it, and then reverting back. "Feel better?"

"A little, but going one on one with Saio would make me feel a lot better. When I'm through with him my foot'll be so far up his ass that he'll be able to lick the bottom of my shoe." Helena threatened.

"Helena?"

"Yeah Dinah."

"I'm so cold, and tired. I just want to take a nap, but I'm scared." Dinah admitted, half delirious.

"Scared of what?"

"That I'll never wake up. I don't know how long I can stay awake." She whispered as her eyes started to fall shut.

Helena grabbed Dinah's arms and shook her lightly; "You can't go to sleep Dinah, not right now. I need you to stay awake for me. Will you do that?" Dinah shook her head yes, trying her best, but occasionally failing for small periods of time.

After what seemed like an eternity, the plane landed, Helena fetched a wheel chair she found just inside the door, and brought it back out to Barbara. From there they both made their way inside the warehouse, one the outside it looked old, decrepit, ready to be condemned, but on the inside it wasn't half so bad. Sure the windows were broken and covered with a layer of dirt, and grim so thick that Barbara doubted sunlight could penetrate it. Burn damage showed on the walls, and up near the top it was horrifically dirty, covered in cobwebs, and other such things. Other than that though, the place was actually very nice, the floor seemed to have been swept, and the lower portion of the walls really weren't anywhere near as disgusting as everything else seemed to be. There were tables everywhere, and on the tables sat metal cases, all around the edge of the walls they sat, holding who knows what goodies.

In the center though, was their destination as of right now; since Barbara was fine wheeling herself in the chair, Helena carried Dinah, who faded in and out of consciousness. Gently she set Dinah down doing what she could to make Dinah comfortable while Barbara searched through the supplies. From one of the containers Barbara found a heart monitor and quickly hooked it up to Dinah, then she pulled out a bag of blood along with an I.V. Setting the bag of blood on the metal hook, Barbara then proceeded to stick the I.V into Dinah's arm; now the blood was ready to flow into her at any moment, there was, however, something to do before that.

Barbara rolled over to where Helena was standing with several towels, and what looked like a pen in her lap, "Helena, I want you to pull out the shard of glass as soon as I give you the go ahead. You'll have to do it quickly to understand?" Helena nodded in understanding. Underneath Dinah's leg, Barbara placed two towels around the shard, she then passed one to Helena, "Use that to pull it out so that you don't cut your hand." She instructed, and Helena wrapped it around her hand tightly. Finally, Barbara placed one more towel on the side of the glass that was sticking out top, "Okay, now." Came the order, Helena yanked hard, and the bloody shard was removed.

Quickly Barbara covered the wound with the towel instructing Helena to hold it tightly; she took the pencil-like device and pushed a few buttons on it. "Move the towel." Helena complied, and Barbara brought over the pencil, pushing another button causing a laser to come from the tip cauterizing the wound and stopping the blood flow; she then repeated the same process on the lower portion of the leg.

A sound came that would haunt the two for years to come, the sound of a flat line. Helena's eyes widened in disbelief, Barbara was not frozen and rushed as fast as she could to turn on the flow of blood, hopping beyond hope that it would somehow help everything. "No, Dinah. . .no." Helena remained frozen in place trying to convince herself that it was just a dream, while Barbara started to perform CPR; it wasn't working, the single, long beep continued. "Please no."

Note: Well what do ya think of that. To be evil, I could just leave it there for an entire month, and have you guys sweat it out until I can update again MUAHAHAHAHAH, but I'm feelin generous. So if I get nice reviews filled with begging I might just reconsider and post another chapter *wink, wink* *hint, hint* hehehe. Aw hell, one more for the road, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Byes.