CHAPTER 8

Dinah saw that Helena was about to have it out with bane and took a step towards her to help her take Bane on. Helena saw her coming from the corner of her eye and stretched out her hand, signaling her to stop. "This is between me and him, Dinah."

Dinah step backwards and joined Reese, her mother, and Richard watching Helena and Barbara go. All the convicts have been dealt with besides the two biggies: Harley Quinn and Bane.

Bane tapped on the yellow button three times as he stepped off the platform. He grunter as his body began to convulse. Before Helena's very eyes, Bane's muscles began to bulge. Bane seemed to get taller and taller. When it was all done, Bane was taller and more muscular than a gorilla. "And now, young Huntress, I will break your back like I broke your fathers back."

Bane brought back his arm and formed a fist and went in for her face. Helena dodged the giant fist which was nearly the size of her entire head. Helena spun around and kicked him in the ribs. Bane made no effort to defend himself as she made contact with her ribs. Bane never even flinched. "That tickled!" Bane laughed. Bane turned around and knelt down as he reached for the large platform. He roared as lifted the entire platform. Helena stepped back not knowing what to do as Bane turned back around to face Helena. "Catch!" Bane through the platform with amazing strength.

Helena leaped out of the way, barely avoiding contact with the platform. Behind her, Barbara and Harley had to pause their fight to avoid being mauled by the giant platform. Behind them, the Black Canary used her golden shockwave to destroy the platform before it crashed into them.

Barbara and Harley Quinn commenced their fighting. Harley went to kick Barbara under her jaw, but Barbara swatted away her ankle with her right arm. Barbara retaliated with a kick to her gut, causing Harley to bend forward gasping for air. Barbara stepped forward and delivered a powerful punch across Harley's face. Harley fell to the ground. Wiping the blood from her lip she looked up at Barbara with rage in her eyes.

Harley climbed to her feet and charged wildly at Barbara. Harley's attack was so reckless, that somehow Barbara was able to trip her and that was going to be it for her. Barbara flipped Harley over her shoulder, and Harley crashed onto the ground behind Barbara. Barbara turned around and dropped to her knees to deliver a punch that rendered Harley out cold, bringing their fight to an end.

Bane had backed Helena into a wall, or at least that was what she wanted him to think. Helena turned and ran for the wall. She leaped and bounced high up on the wall with her right foot and know she was flying directly towards Bane. She twisted around to face Bane and stuck her right foot out as the flat of his foot was perfectly aimed just above the venom button on his chest. She made contact with his chest but he did not budge. She fell to the ground, feeling as if she had just rammed into a brick wall.

Bane laughed as he reached down and grabbed Helena. She yelped at his strong grip on her arms as he lifted her up over his head. "It's time to fly, bird!" He threw Helena into the wall. Helena hit the stone wall with an incredible impact as she fell to the ground. Helena was in great pain, making it hard for her to get up onto her feet.

She looked up to see Bane standing above her raising his foot to stomp on her chest. Helena's eyes opened wide, sensing the danger she was in. She rolled to her right to avoid his foot. Helena was back on her feet to find Bane's fist coming at her at full speed. She ducked and instead of hitting her, Bane punched the wall, nearly punching a hole in the wall. Helena twisted herself to the side and put all her force into kicking Bane in the kneecap. Bane yelped in Bane, but that was the only reaction she got from him. Bane swatter Helena away, slapping her across the face and sending her flying half way to the other side of the room.

Helena neck was sore and she began to rub it as she sat up. Her lip was busted open. She climbed back on to her feet as Bane made his way towards her. She took a deep breath as she leaped as high as she could and spun around while stretching out her right leg to kick Bane across the face. Bane stumbled a few steps towards the right. Helena tried for another kick across the face, since it was one of his weak spots, but Bane caught her right leg and threw her violently onto the ground. Despite the pain she felt in her back, she rushed to get back onto her feet, so not to give Bane a free shot at her.

She was back on her feet, but could not move fast enough to avoid his giant fist punching her in her ribs. Helena cried in pain as she heard one or two of her ribs break. Bane took advantage of her distraction slapped her across the face with the back of his right fist. Helene spun around and fell onto her stomach.

"I can't take any more of this," Barbara said. She headed over towards Bane and was going in to help Helena. Helena pointed at her and gave her a look to tell her to stay away. Barbara, frustrated over how things were turning out, stepped back.

Helena got up onto her hands and knees and began to cough. She spat out the nasty taste in her mouth and blood came out of her mouth. She was bleeding internally, which was not a good sign. She looked up at Bane who was approaching her. She had to go on fighting, ignoring all the pains in her body. When Bane was close enough, she rolled over onto her back and swung her right leg, kicking Bane behind his left knee cap, causing him to fall onto his back.

In the security room, one of the convicts began to stir. He pulled himself up onto his feet to see where he was, He saw all of the convicts scattered everywhere. He began to feel light headed and feel back into unconsciousness. He fell onto the computer station, accidentally activating the electrified gates.



Helena slowly climbed to her feet as Bane did the same. He did so a lot quicker than she did since he was not severely injured as she was. Bane snapped forward unexpectedly and grabbed Helena back the neck, chocking her to death. "I grow quickly bored with you. Prepare to die."

Suddenly, a great pain began to rush through Bane's entire body. His skin slowly began to shrivel up as he was aging before everyone's eyes. He dropped Helena to the ground as the air began to refill her lungs. "Not now…Damn it!" Bane franticly began looking into his pockets. He pulled out a small metal box, much like the one Helena found from Raven. He opened it up and pulled out a syringe full of the morphing formula.

Helena knew that he needed that morphing formula and she was determined not to let him have it. She kicked upward, hitting his wrist, and knocking the syringe out of his hand. The syringe fell to the ground and shattered. "No…you fool!"

Helena climbed to her feet to see Bane reaching for another spring. Helena swatted the metal container out of his hands, destroying all the syringes.

"No! I can't believe you did that!" Bane said franticly. He had shrunk down to his normal size and was beginning to look more like a tall decrepit old man. His pinkish skin was turning grayish.

Helena spun around on her left heel and kicked Bane across the face. Bane stumbled backwards. With each attack, Helena was in great agony, but things was finally looking towards her and she could not let up until the job was done. Helena delivered two punches across Bane's face. With each punch, Bane stumbled backwards. He was now standing inched from the cell gate. Her intent was to pin him to the cell door and continue hitting him until he was out cold. Helena charged at Bane and she threw herself into Bane, hitting his stomach with her shoulder into his stomach. He was pushed up against the cell gate, and sparks began to fly as electricity flowed into both of their wet clothes.

Bane screamed in agony as the electricity flowed through his body. Helena, was thrown from Bane's body and her smoking body rolled a few feet away. Smoke began to rise from Bane as his body convulsed. Finally, his body separated from the cell gate and the dead smoking burnt body of Bane collapsed.