CHAPTER 7

Bane and Harley Quinn had all of Arkham to themselves. In a few short hours, night fall would come, and all of New Gotham's criminals will rob the city blind. All the money will come to them to buy their morphing formula, and they will be rich beyond imagination. New Gotham will be theirs to run. It was the perfect plan. The Huntress and Oracle had not of anything of what was really happening. They will never get to know the truth, Bane would make sure of that.

Bane had found an excuse to be excused from Harley's presence for a few second in order to meet with David Crane. "Thank you for staying back for awhile."

"Hey, if it's about what you and I have planned for your girlfriend's birthday, it would be my pleasure."

"It is," Bane grinned. "The time has…" A sharp pain swept over Bane in the chest. He began to clinch at his chest, gasping for air. The skin on his face began to wrinkle up.

"Here," David said, pulling out his syringe of morphing formula. He injected it into his arm, and his face began to morph back into the young Commissioner O'Reiley face.

"My gratitude, Mr. Crane. It appears the many years of venom has taken it's toll on me. That morphing formula is the only thing keeping me alive." He ripped his shirt open to reveal a glowing yellow button connected to a special black vest. He tapped on it once and his body began to convulse. He closed his eyes as venom was pumped into his body. His muscles began to expand back to where it was. He had found a way to get rid of the tube that connected to the back of his head to receive his dose of Venom. Now, the venom is pumped into him from underneath the vest into his chest. "Anyway, the time has come. Tonight, Harley and I will celebrate her birthday, I want her birthday to be explosive, as we have discussed.

"I'll get on it right away," David grinned.

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Raven broke into the high school, and walked down the hall. There was still day light enough to see her way around the school. The school was perfectly empty since it was officially spring break. She made her way to the teacher's offices and found the door labeled Barbara Gordon. She violently kicked the door open and entered her office.

Raven grinned as she looked around a perfectly kept office full of books, folders, and papers. Raven saw a picture from on the wooden desk and she picked it up and looked at it. It was a picture of her and that new hero she knew very little about. If she remembered correctly, his name was Nightwing. "Oops," She said as she dropped the picture on the floor, causing the glass of the frame to shatter.

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"Are you sure you want to work tonight? I'll gladly work the bar tonight," Gibson offered Danielle once again.

"Thanks Gibson, I will be fine. In fact, maybe it will get my mind off of the loosing my home. Speaking of which, it is very nice of you to let me stay here," Danielle said, turning to look towards Barbara.

"We'll glad to have you stay with us," Barbara said.

Richard came running into the hideout from the front door. "I stopped by the mansion to see if we can find something to use better than a police scanner to replace Delphi when I stopped by the answering machine. Detective Jacobs called for you. Your office at the school has been utterly trashed. Someone painted on one of your walls, 'The Huntress shall die!"

"Another message from Raven," Barbara frowned. "Perfect, now the police suspect me of working with the Huntress. That makes four of us who are now wanted by the police."

"This is going too far," Helena said frustrated with this whole situation. "Why can't she just come to me, since it is I she wants instead of involving all of you."

"Hey, if you are thinking about taking Raven on alone, you've got another thing coming," Reese said, walking up to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. "We're all in this together."

"I hate to leave at a time like this, but I have to open the bar in two hours. I need to head on over and prepare to open up."

"Since I live under the bar, let me walk you over," Gibson volunteered.