Dinah could tell that Huntress wasn't quite herself. Her normally dancing blue eyes were cold. The blonde stepped back. "How did you... escape?" She swallowed hard, more than a little nervous about her friend. There was just no other way to put it; Huntress intimidated the living hell out of her.

"Mad Hatter. tried to take me to the infirmary to install." she trailed off, closing her eyes for a few seconds as a sharp pain ripped through her skull. Finally as it faded she continued. ".the device and I. was able to escape... I've been looking for you everywhere kid."

"And Barbara?" Dinah asked.

"We need help to her." Huntress walked toward her almost mechanically. Her movements were so strange and awkward.

"What happened to you?" Dinah asked, taking an involuntary step backwards.

"They gave me a good ass-whooping. but. I heal fast."

"I know. I saw what they did to you." Dinah wondered if it was possible that her friend was acting so oddly because of how much pain she had to be in thanks to all the beatings. She hesitated "May I touch you?"

The brunette smiled nervously, "Hm? What now?"

"May I touch you?"

"Sure..." Huntress raised her arm as if to offer it to Dinah. The moment the blonde reached for her, she jerked into action. She slid forward and tried to nail Dinah in the jaw but the telekinetic ducked the blow. Huntress turned sharply and kicked her. Dinah fell backwards.

"Stupid kid." Huntress growled.

Dinah looked up at Huntress. She almost looked like a dark angel, her eyes glistened and she smiled evily. Dinah knew instinctively that time was short. Closing her eyes she willed herself to fight back.

"Forgive me for hurting you," Dinah whispered as she kicked out and slammed her feet into Helena's already bruised gut. Helena staggered back, momentarily taken aback. Dinah jumped up and tried to run but suddenly Huntress leaped in front of her and blocked her way. Dinah stepped back.

"Kid, let's just do the easy way." Huntress felt annoyed. "I don't want hurt you."

"I don't want hurt you either."

Huntress laughed "You're kidding right?" She charged forward to attack but Dinah raised her hand and pushed her with her mind power making her hit her back against the wall. Huntress stood up, anger flashing in her eyes. She was seriously pissed. She gave a hard tight smile and then hissed out, "So you want to play? Let's play then."

::Helena don't hurt her:: she heard Oracle's voice in her comm.

"Don't fucking bother me right now!" Huntress shouted. Dinah pushed her back again using her power. "Good." Huntress smiled "Just remember who always wins in the training room kid." She jumped up and dropped down next to the blonde. She threw a hard left that Dinah evaded by dropping to the ground. Huntress kicked her in the stomach and Dinah crashed against the wall knocking over a table full of books. "Piece of cake." Huntress said. She hissed as another flash of pain ripped through her. She placed a hand to the back of her neck and growled.

::What's wrong??:: Oracle asked.

"It's hurts..." The brunette said clenching her teeth.

::Did you get her yet? Don't worry about the pain right now. Get Dinah!::

Huntress shook her head and walked toward Dinah "Sure, I need to teach her a lesson." Dinah stood up and tried to punch at Helena but she missed almost completely. The brunette slugged her twice and kicked her making her fall back and crash through a glass table. She lay stunned on the ground, wincing in pain. ::Huntress, just trap her. Get her. Stop playing with your food.::

"Let me have fun a while and later I'll kill her."

::No, you must bring her here!:: Orcale said knowing that Huntress was rejecting the device too fast.

"Fuck you!." Huntress lifted Dinah up into the air and then threw her against the bookcase. The blond hit it hard, her body creaking in resistance. ::Huntress!!::

Dinah kicked out at Huntress and using her power sent her flying against a hard wooden door on the opposite side of the room. Huntress hit it directly and staggered under the impact. She jerked to her feet and looked angrily at the blonde. She just had in her mind to just kill the stupid kid.



* * *

"What is happening?" the Mad Hatter asked at Clock Tower.

"She is not exactly a human." Barbara explained typing on her keyboard "There are people in the world, a lot of people with abilities beyond what we think of as human. I don't know what their powers come from: natural mutations, biological experiments, no one knows. Huntress is half human and half meta. She has an inmunologycal system that makes her heal very fast. She is rejecting the device, I told you."

"Stop it!" shouted Mad Hatter.

"I cant stop her biological functions! Her inmunological system is damaging the device and the waves that is sending to her are out of my control.!."



* * *



Dinah ducked to avoid another blow from Helena. The brunette felt a hard object hitting her back and grunted. Dinah had thrown a chair at her. "Now I'm pissed dammit!" Huntress shouted standing up. "If you want to die slowly it's your choice." Her eyes' changed, she growled and the charged her prey. Dinah tried to cover herself but the impact of Helena colliding with her was roughly equivalent to being hit with the full force of a hurricane. A punch of Huntress's broke her lip and anther one cut her left brow. She tried to avoid the next blow but Huntress was faster, much fasther than her anyways. She fell to the floor dazed and bleeding from her nose. "Huntress. "the kid spat blood and coughed "It's me."

"Want to play more?" Huntress smirked looking at the blond girl dragging herself across the floor.

::Huntress don't kill her! We need here alive!:: Oracle said.

"Fuck off!" Helena growled back at Oracle. The pain cycling through her was making thinking even harder than usual. "Miss Helena, No!"

Huntress turned and looked Alfred stood up at the door. "Why the hell aren't you at the asylum grandfather?"

Alfred looked at Huntress's eyes; she was terrifying like this."She is your friend."

"Wanna play too?" she smirked.

"Please Miss Helena," he said. "We are your friends. We are your family and this is not you.""

"You are so dead old man." She walked toward him. She stopped halfway there.

A sudden jolt of pain jerked through her and she felt her focus blur. Putting a hand to the back of her neck she growled.

And then she fell.



* * *



"Order her to come here before it's too late." Mad Hatter yelled.

"Huntress" Oracle said in the mic "Come back now. Do you copy? Now!"

Mad Hatter looked his men "Go to that Wayne Manor and bring me that damn blond girl, I need her and all the software that she stole from me!"

"And Huntress? I need to take." Oracle asked.

"They will bring her back if her brain is not toasted." Mad Hatter shouted.



* * *

Huntress couldn't think, the pain in her back was blocking all of her senses. It felt like she had a sharp knife in her back. And not the metaphorical type. She fell to her knees holding her head. She could heard Oracle calling her but she couldn't respond.

Alfred helped Dinah to stand up. "What is happening?" he asked confused.

"I don't know" Dinah looked at Helena with fear in her eyes.

Huntress rolled on the floor growling. Dinah went slowly to her, she tried to touch her but Huntress hit her hand back and stood up stumbling. She didn't stay on her feet for long. Staggering back she crashed against a desk near to her.

"Something is hurting her, maybe the device." Dinah said to Alfred as she reached out for Helena again. She grabbed for her arms in an attempt to catch her.

Helena tried to struggle but Dinah clearly had the upper hand. The blonde finally slammed her friend against the ground and straddled her. Dinah touched her wrist. Inmediately she entered in her mind. What she saw of course was immediate chaos but that was to be expected. Digging deeper and towards recent events she saw Helena drugged and fighting against Oracle, she saw Barbara installing the device in Helena's back, and then of course Mad Hatter. It was all so much; she felt like she was about to explode.

There was a blast of light and the Dinah was forcibly ejected from Helena's head. Looking down she could see that her friend was dead out.

"She had one of the devices in her head. something is wrong. it's hurting her. she has a fever." Dinah said standing up again. "Something is wrong with the device." Dinah touched the back of her neck and could feel a small and hard object there. She felt Helena jerk under the touch and then begin to shale violently, almost like she was having a seizure. Dinah gathered her into her arms and held her tight, protecting her friend from further serious injury.

* * *

::Huntress. Can you hear me?:: Oracle called out. Seconds passed without an answer.

"Is she coming back?" Mad Hatter asked worried.

"No, she's not answering me but I still have her on the screen." Oracle said.

"Stupid girl."