CHAPTER 4
Helena opened her eyes to find herself looking upwards into dimly lit lights. Slowly, all five sense began to run to normal. Her right shoulder was in great pain. She looked around to see herself in a plastic cell. It took a few seconds, but she began to remember being rolled into her prison cell here. They weren't going to give her time to recover from a gun shot? What were they trying to do, kill her?
Huntress moved her left wrist to find her wrist not cuffed to the stretcher. She was connected to an IV which was pumping into here some blood, but the quart of blood was nearly gone. She was also connected to a heart monitor. She brought her left wrist towards his right, which was in a sling, and she pulled the heart monitor off her. A sharp pain echoed through his shoulder, which caused her to scream in pain. It was by far the greatest pain she could remember ever feeling.
Helena sat up and swung her legs off the cot. She began to feel very dizzy and nearly fell off the bed, but she grabbed the IV stand and kept herself up. She slowly slid off the bed and unto her feet. She was very wobbly, but she kept herself up by holding on to the IV stand. Helena noticed she was still wearing her hospital gown. No wonder why she felt a strong draft, and what made it worse was it was extremely short.
She heard a buzz and she walked towards the far end of the cell, rolling the stand along and using it as a crutch. Coming into the room was Commissioner O'Reiley. "You're up out of bed already, amazing!"
The Huntress was struggling to remain on her feet. "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
"You must be confused right now. There no doubt that you know that I have done some rather shady things to apprehend you. Why, is not important, what is important is that I finally have you where I want you."
"If it's not too much to ask, you could at least give me some decent clothes to wear."
The commissioner laughed. "What you are wearing will soon not matter. The bullet I shot you with is a very special bullet. It was full of specially made toxin. The bullet did minimal damage itself, but it has pumped my little poison into your body. Slowly, your bloodstream will become contaminated. Your temperature will continually rise and begin to cook you alive. Your body will experience seizers. In short, you are going to die a slow, agonizing death. The next forty-eight hours, you are going to want death to overtake you, but it will not come until the end of the forty-eight hours."
"I don't understand. Why are you doing this?"
"Because your are the daughter of my greatest nemesis, Batman. Since he's to coward to show his face in Gotham, I will have to settle with his only daughter. I have planned this for over a year, and I have used this cover as a police commissioner to get to where we now stand. With you gone, New Gotham will become the playground to the criminal underworld. So enjoy your last few days of life." Commissioner O'Reilly laughed as he turned and headed out of the room.
Helena turned around and leaned back on the plastic cell wall and slid down until she was sitting on the ground. Her life was coming to an end, and there was nothing she could do about it. She was going to die alone.
* * * *
Reese was over at the clock tower that morning, still upset about the night before. "I can't believe he is hiding her away from me like this."
"It sounds like he suspects you still working with us," Barbara replied, putting her glasses onto the counter.
"Then why string things along? Why doesn't he fire me or put me in jail if he suspects that?"
"I have no answers for you," Barbara replied. "Something very unusual is going on here." Dinah came running down the stairs and unto the platform. "What's wrong, Dinah?"
It took her a half of a minute to be able to talk after catching her breath. "The news! Turn on the news!"
With a tap of a few keys on the keyboard, one of the flat screen LCD computer screens began showing the news. A reporter was standing outside of the New Gotham police station. "Last night, the Huntress was apprehended by the NGPS. She was admitted to the hospital early this morning, suffering a shot to her right shoulder. Unpresidently, only a few hours after surgery, she was moved to Arkham Asylum where in her cell, she will receive all medical attention until she can recover and stand trial for the murder of Officer John Davidson."
Barbara turned off the broadcast, feeling sick to her stomach after hearing the report. Reese was beyond furious. "I don't believe what I just heard. She's already in prison!"
"Then we're too late?" Dinah heart sank to the bottom of her stomach.
Barbara was too stunned for words. She just shook her head and tried to reply, but no words came forth. Reese still had more steam to blow off. "Is he trying to kill her? He is going against everything I stand for as an honest police detective! Everyone has a right to recover from a dangerous surgery, yet he basically takes her off the surgery table and throws her to prison!"
"I hate to say it, but there may be a shady background to your boss," Barbara said. "I will have to look into his bio. This was something I should have done when he first took his job."
Reese did not hear her. He had pulled out his cell phone and dialed in to the police station and was waiting for a reply. "Yes, this is Detective Reese. Put the commissioner on for me."
After a short minute, he came over the other line. "Well, are you well rested today, detective?"
"What the hell are you thinking sending the Huntress to prison this short after her surgery! You are going to kill her!"
"I did it, because she is extremely dangerous. She can disappear over night if we left her in the hospital. I though to avoid any chance for her to get out, I would have her treated in her prison cell."
"Come on, you shot her in the shoulder, which was improper in the first place, and then you take her off the surgery table and put her in cell, with no time to recover, which is a risk on her health. There are protocols that we must follow…"
"Don't you dare talk to me about protocols, detective!" Commissioner O'Reiley snapped. "You have been working side by side with a vigilante who thinks she's above the law, and you haven't done anything about it thus far. If you followed the protocols and obeyed the laws of New Gotham, you would have her arrested for endangering herself, and the innocent civilians of New Gotham. You have no right to accuse me of anything!"
"The Huntress is doing something we can't, take on New Gotham's greatest villains. She has been a great alley for the police!"
"But she is not a police officer herself, which gives her no authority by New Gotham to do the things she has been doing! Now, that is enough of your accusations, and get to this station this instant before you are out of a job!"
Reese shook his head, thinking about what was said. "You know what? You can take this job and shove it up your ass! I quit!" Reese hung up and violent threw his cell phone into the wall, and his cell phone exploded into hundreds of pieces!"
Barbara and Dinah stared at him in shock at his rage. It was Barbara who broke the silence. "Maybe you need to calm down a little, and rethink about what you have just done."
"No, I am tired of working with a man who bends the rules when it pleases him! I wouldn't be surprised in the least if he was shady! As long as he is commissioner, I refuse to be associated with him!" Reese was breathing heavily after all the screaming. He began to try to calm himself down. "I'm going to break Helena out of prison."
"Wait a minute, if you try to break her out, you will be throwing your life away! Let's think this through calmly."
"The time for thinking is over. It's time for action."
Helena opened her eyes to find herself looking upwards into dimly lit lights. Slowly, all five sense began to run to normal. Her right shoulder was in great pain. She looked around to see herself in a plastic cell. It took a few seconds, but she began to remember being rolled into her prison cell here. They weren't going to give her time to recover from a gun shot? What were they trying to do, kill her?
Huntress moved her left wrist to find her wrist not cuffed to the stretcher. She was connected to an IV which was pumping into here some blood, but the quart of blood was nearly gone. She was also connected to a heart monitor. She brought her left wrist towards his right, which was in a sling, and she pulled the heart monitor off her. A sharp pain echoed through his shoulder, which caused her to scream in pain. It was by far the greatest pain she could remember ever feeling.
Helena sat up and swung her legs off the cot. She began to feel very dizzy and nearly fell off the bed, but she grabbed the IV stand and kept herself up. She slowly slid off the bed and unto her feet. She was very wobbly, but she kept herself up by holding on to the IV stand. Helena noticed she was still wearing her hospital gown. No wonder why she felt a strong draft, and what made it worse was it was extremely short.
She heard a buzz and she walked towards the far end of the cell, rolling the stand along and using it as a crutch. Coming into the room was Commissioner O'Reiley. "You're up out of bed already, amazing!"
The Huntress was struggling to remain on her feet. "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
"You must be confused right now. There no doubt that you know that I have done some rather shady things to apprehend you. Why, is not important, what is important is that I finally have you where I want you."
"If it's not too much to ask, you could at least give me some decent clothes to wear."
The commissioner laughed. "What you are wearing will soon not matter. The bullet I shot you with is a very special bullet. It was full of specially made toxin. The bullet did minimal damage itself, but it has pumped my little poison into your body. Slowly, your bloodstream will become contaminated. Your temperature will continually rise and begin to cook you alive. Your body will experience seizers. In short, you are going to die a slow, agonizing death. The next forty-eight hours, you are going to want death to overtake you, but it will not come until the end of the forty-eight hours."
"I don't understand. Why are you doing this?"
"Because your are the daughter of my greatest nemesis, Batman. Since he's to coward to show his face in Gotham, I will have to settle with his only daughter. I have planned this for over a year, and I have used this cover as a police commissioner to get to where we now stand. With you gone, New Gotham will become the playground to the criminal underworld. So enjoy your last few days of life." Commissioner O'Reilly laughed as he turned and headed out of the room.
Helena turned around and leaned back on the plastic cell wall and slid down until she was sitting on the ground. Her life was coming to an end, and there was nothing she could do about it. She was going to die alone.
* * * *
Reese was over at the clock tower that morning, still upset about the night before. "I can't believe he is hiding her away from me like this."
"It sounds like he suspects you still working with us," Barbara replied, putting her glasses onto the counter.
"Then why string things along? Why doesn't he fire me or put me in jail if he suspects that?"
"I have no answers for you," Barbara replied. "Something very unusual is going on here." Dinah came running down the stairs and unto the platform. "What's wrong, Dinah?"
It took her a half of a minute to be able to talk after catching her breath. "The news! Turn on the news!"
With a tap of a few keys on the keyboard, one of the flat screen LCD computer screens began showing the news. A reporter was standing outside of the New Gotham police station. "Last night, the Huntress was apprehended by the NGPS. She was admitted to the hospital early this morning, suffering a shot to her right shoulder. Unpresidently, only a few hours after surgery, she was moved to Arkham Asylum where in her cell, she will receive all medical attention until she can recover and stand trial for the murder of Officer John Davidson."
Barbara turned off the broadcast, feeling sick to her stomach after hearing the report. Reese was beyond furious. "I don't believe what I just heard. She's already in prison!"
"Then we're too late?" Dinah heart sank to the bottom of her stomach.
Barbara was too stunned for words. She just shook her head and tried to reply, but no words came forth. Reese still had more steam to blow off. "Is he trying to kill her? He is going against everything I stand for as an honest police detective! Everyone has a right to recover from a dangerous surgery, yet he basically takes her off the surgery table and throws her to prison!"
"I hate to say it, but there may be a shady background to your boss," Barbara said. "I will have to look into his bio. This was something I should have done when he first took his job."
Reese did not hear her. He had pulled out his cell phone and dialed in to the police station and was waiting for a reply. "Yes, this is Detective Reese. Put the commissioner on for me."
After a short minute, he came over the other line. "Well, are you well rested today, detective?"
"What the hell are you thinking sending the Huntress to prison this short after her surgery! You are going to kill her!"
"I did it, because she is extremely dangerous. She can disappear over night if we left her in the hospital. I though to avoid any chance for her to get out, I would have her treated in her prison cell."
"Come on, you shot her in the shoulder, which was improper in the first place, and then you take her off the surgery table and put her in cell, with no time to recover, which is a risk on her health. There are protocols that we must follow…"
"Don't you dare talk to me about protocols, detective!" Commissioner O'Reiley snapped. "You have been working side by side with a vigilante who thinks she's above the law, and you haven't done anything about it thus far. If you followed the protocols and obeyed the laws of New Gotham, you would have her arrested for endangering herself, and the innocent civilians of New Gotham. You have no right to accuse me of anything!"
"The Huntress is doing something we can't, take on New Gotham's greatest villains. She has been a great alley for the police!"
"But she is not a police officer herself, which gives her no authority by New Gotham to do the things she has been doing! Now, that is enough of your accusations, and get to this station this instant before you are out of a job!"
Reese shook his head, thinking about what was said. "You know what? You can take this job and shove it up your ass! I quit!" Reese hung up and violent threw his cell phone into the wall, and his cell phone exploded into hundreds of pieces!"
Barbara and Dinah stared at him in shock at his rage. It was Barbara who broke the silence. "Maybe you need to calm down a little, and rethink about what you have just done."
"No, I am tired of working with a man who bends the rules when it pleases him! I wouldn't be surprised in the least if he was shady! As long as he is commissioner, I refuse to be associated with him!" Reese was breathing heavily after all the screaming. He began to try to calm himself down. "I'm going to break Helena out of prison."
"Wait a minute, if you try to break her out, you will be throwing your life away! Let's think this through calmly."
"The time for thinking is over. It's time for action."
