Huntress began to recover conscience slowly, she felt really tired; something was wrong, she felt like she was floating in. water? Warm water. She was breathing with something, an annoyed thing that was inside her mouth; she bite it lightly, was a small plastic tube, was a breather. She didn't like it.

She forced her self to open her eyes with effort, she realized that she was inside a big glass cylinder tube, she was floating in some kind of weird green water. She could see the breather over her mouth, a small one. He had exchanged her clothes for a white costume over her body like a second skin. Several cables were connected from the costume to the top of the cylinder. She looked up, it were connected to the top of the tube.

A small round green light in the middle of her chest sparkled. Yes, definitely, She didn't like this, she felt like an experimental animal. Why was she there? She was in the. God! He was at Clock Tower!, now she remembered. He took her to that place.

She put her hands over the glass and tried to push it with one of her feet, but was bare and slipped. Suddenly she saw the Parasite, he was in front of a control panel moving some buttons. He looked at her and walked over.

"Hi sweetie, you are awake, good." He said "Maybe you are asking yourself where you are. Well I'm going to drain you. As I said, I'm going to use you as a source of energy, this is a special invention, I prepared it to catch Superman, but I will use it with you."

Huntress moved her head and examined the big tube where she was.

"It's too strong my dear, two inches." Parasite said "That light over your chest is showing me your heart rhythm. The liquid around you, feeds you through your skin and the costume helps. You are receiving proteins, vitamins, all the things that you need to keep you alive. The cables are taking your energy to that machine" He pointed a big computer that had a panel with two metal fingerprints on the front. "And you are breathing thanks of that" he pointed the breather "So, try to not break it."

Huntress knew she was in troubles. That man was insane. Parasite laughed and continued his explanation.

"When I turned the system on; every time I'll put my hands there, I will take your energy that is stored. You will only have enough strength to be alive, but no more. I'l kill you slowly. And now, you are awake and we can prove the machine."

Parasite walked toward the finger printers, Huntress followed him with her look and tried to break the glass with her fits but the substance where she was floating didn't let her have a free movement.

"I need to prepare myself, Black Canary will come to rescue you, and I'll be there. But I need first work, and you are going to help me." He said as he placed his hands there, bright light covered him.

Huntress' body shook. She groaned in the breather feeling him sapping her and tried to break unsuccessfully the cables that connected her with the machine.

"Yes!" he said "It works! See girl? I feel great!" He smiled taking her hands off and looked Huntress "You and I are a great team!"

Huntress moved, aching all over. He walked out of the room. She could barely keep her eyes open after that. She took hesitant one of the cables in her chest to try to pulled it off, but before she could do it, she fell unconscious.

* * *

The night fell over New Gotham, Barbara was still working at the lab. Parasite will know how she works reading her protégée mind and seems that he was avoiding let any kind of trace. She took off her glasses and put her fingers in the brick of her nose.

Carolyn and Dinah arrived from look information in the streets.

"We couldn't find anything. Did you have any luck?" Carolyn asked.

"Nothing. the oil didn't give us a trace "

"One more day is gone and we don't have an idea about where he could get Huntress!" Dinah felt frustrated.

The alarm turned on. Carolyn looked the monitor.

"Police report." she said "Someone. jumped from and high building over the bank truck and stole the money. The thief fought very similar to Huntress according to the report."

"He is still using her ??" Dinah said, worried. "Is this a good signal or what?."

"Well." Barbara sighed "after absorbing energy from his victims, he was able to maintain the powers and energy he stole from people for an extended amount of time, even enabling him to take their shape. But, he will try take advantage of Huntress. He would be draining her yet."

"Uhh?" Dinah looked at her. "What are you talking about?"

"That he not just kidnapped her to take her as a prisoner, he will be using her. like a. a kind of source of energy." Barbara tried focus in her job. ".and kill her slowly."

"That sounds creepy." Dinah mumbled.

"Yes, but am afraid of it." Barbara added. "Now, I think that you two need go to that place and look for a clue."

"A package has arrived Miss Barbara" Alfred entered to the lab and gave her an envelope.

"Canary, Did you search in the files about his activities in Metropolis?" Barbara opened it distracted.

"Yes, but nothing interesting, maybe we can." Canary started to say.

"Forget it" Barbara said. Canary looked at her. Barbara took off the envelope an earring of Huntress and showed them.

"Uh oh " Dinah mumbled. "Is she.?"

"No... I don't think so" Barbara said "he is showing us that he has the control. He will play with it a little more."

"And it will give us time." Carolyn said.

"Exactly." Barbara closed her fit around Huntress' earring "Let's go to work."

* * *

Huntress tried hard to open her eyes, she felt too tired, she felt as drugged, she lost all sense of time; there wasn't anything in that room that gave her an orientation about if it was day or night, or if she had been there hours or days. The only sound that she listened was her own breathing in the breather. She lowered her head and took again one of the cables in her chest with her hands. She tried again to pull it off, but was strongly stuck to the white costume that she wore. That simple movement tired her badly.

She rest a few seconds and put her feet over the glass wall and her back in the opposite side and tried to push and break the container unsuccessfully. Parasite had been prepared her cell perfectly well. She couldn't escape, she was too weak, and he wouldn't give her any opportunity.

She heard the heavy metal door and saw Parasite walking in.

"Nice you are wake" he said "I have great news. Black Canary will come to see you soon. After I kill her, I'll go for your another two friends." He stopped in front of the container "Maybe. Barbara is her name? Maybe Barbara could guide me to find Batman if I touched her. The problem is that maybe she will die after that."

Huntress felt the anger growing inside her when she listened the name of her mentor in his voice. She hated that man. She put both hands over the glass and stared at him.

"Amazing, amazing your determination." Parasite laughed "Keep your energy, keep it. for me. We have work to do tonight. I need return to Metropolis, but I need do it with. a good economical support, know?" He walked toward the fingerprints.

"No please. no again" Huntress said incomprehensible because of the breather in her mouth.

"I can't understand, did you say something?" He joked about that, and placed his hands in the finger printers. The brightness light covered him again. She groaned again feeling him sapping her and her body shake.

Parasite wait a few seconds and took off her hands. He walked toward her. Huntress moved restlessly inside the tube and grumbled in low voice. Every time he did that it hurt her so much.

"Am going to kill you as I said to you, slowly. You are pretty strong, maybe it will take me a week or two, but I can tell you that am enjoying this so much. I dunno you. Well, is late. Thanks dear! I'll go to work."

He walked outside of the room and closed the door. Huntress moved her head back, she wondered if Barbara would find her before that man kill her. She needed her mentor at that moment, she really needed the help of somebody, but she was alone, and she didn't have the necklace, Barbara couldn't find her. But she was most worried because her friends were in danger and she couldn't prevent them than in herself. She needed go out, but she couldn't. Her eyes closed and she began to fall in the unconsciousness calling Barbara in the breather.

Suddenly she felt something strange, she barely opened her eyes and saw her mother in front of her smiling. I she said to herself.

"No, you aren't." Selina hugged her, Helena couldn't give it back, but she enjoyed feeling her warm next to her. "You are strong my dear, fight, fight my little girl." Selina said with sweet voice brushing her hair "I'm here with you, I love you."

"I miss you so much" Helena whispered and rested her head in her mothers' shoulder before she passed out.