"Down on the ground lady," the cop yelled at her. "We have orders to shoot to kill if necessary." The police officer grabbed at his radio. "I got her, old building on Madison Street."

"Down on the floor. Put your hands behind your head and spread your legs," a second voice ordered.

Huntress dropped to her knees and obeyed. Her mind whirled as she tried to think of how to escape. She felt the cop snap cuffs around her wrists.

"Where is she?"

Huntress heard a familiar voice. She tried to raise her head but she felt a rifle pressing up against her back. "Don't move," the officer ordered, leaving her no doubt that he had an itchy trigger finger. "It's okay, it's okay, let me talk to her." the new man said as he walked towards her. He knelt down next to her and began to examine the back of her head.

"Reese?" she asked, "What are you doing?"

"Trying to be sure..." he took her by the arm and helped her to stand up. "Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yes but..."

He took her to a corner "What the hell is going on? I get back from the gym and suddenly I'm being told that every squad car in the department is out on the street looking for you and Dinah."

"Help me get out of here and I promise I'll explain everything," she urged, eyes darting every which way.

"I can't. You have the entire damn GCPD outside this building right now. Oracle told me that some guy named Mad Hatter had put some kind of weird mind control device into you and Dinah. The next thing I know everyone is after you two. But I don't get it, you don't have a chip in your head."

"She is lying. She tried to put one of those things in me but I guess I rejected it. Alfred and Dinah helped me. Look Reese, Dinah erased many of her files. She's pissed off. I'm in real danger right now. If you turn me over to the police I'm done. As in seriously screwed. Hatter is the one behind all of the computer store robberies. He's trying to take over the entire town. He's the one behind the weird police reports on me and Dinah."

"What?" Rese was confused.

"Please Reese, help me. You know me," Helena pleaded "The man that was installing devices inside people to commit his robberies in some weird way or another is now in control of Oracle. He put one of those things in her and now he has both her and the Clocktower. That criminal has acces to the security system of the entire city. He has Dinah now. I have to get in there and get them out and stop him. Please, I need your help."

"Okay, just don't do anything stupid, okay?" He looked her in the eyes and taking off his pistol he put it in her back and pushed her outside. "I'll take her to the shop", he said to the police officers there.

They walked outside the building. Two big men stood up in front of him.

"Good work. Give us the girl." One of them told to him.

"Excuse me?" Reese looked at them. "This is GCPD business."

"We are in charge now," one of the men said, trying to look imposing.

Huntress recognized one of them. "Reese, those are Hatters' boys," she whispered to him.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Reese asked. "FBI, Detective," the taller of the two men replied.

"FBI my ass," Huntress mumbled. "You shut up!" Reese shouted to her pressing the gun into her back. Helena glared to him. "I'll take her in first. If the Captain approves it, then you can have her."

"Sorry but that's not how we do business," the smaller man said as he started to move towards them.

Reese pushed Helena behind him. "That's not going to happen. I don't care if you're the damn Secret Service. We do things my way in my city. You can wait until she's processed."

"Bosses aren't gonna like this Detective," the taller man whined.

"Yeah well, that's too bad," Reese muttered as he pushed Helena into his car.

* * *

"What is that damn police officer doing?" Mad Hatter asked.

"That's Jesse Reese," Barbara explained. "He's Helena's boyfriend. He's probably trying to protect her."

"But you told him that she..."

"Yes." She dialed a phone number. "Give me a moment."

* * *

"You're kind of an ass when you want to be aren't you?" Helena grunted as she cracked her back. "Did you have to shove that gun quite so hard into my back?"

"I'm trying to save you," he protested. "I need to get to the Clocktower."

Reese heard his phone ring. He looked down at the caller ID. "Well this might be your ticket in." He picked up the phone. "Oracle? Yeah, I got her. I'm bring in her in. Right, right. To get the chip out. Yep, we're on our way."

He hung up the phone and looked hard at Helena. "You'd better have a plan."

She grunted. "Something like that."

* * * Oracle was in her bathroom, her head resting between her crossed arms. The pain in her back was killing her; she opened another pill bottle. She poured several into her hand and tossed them into her mouth. She chased it with water. She was sweating. She placed a hand on her back. Everything was spinning. She felt sick.

So incredibly sick.

"Oracle, Dinah is here." Polly said as she entered the bathroom.

Oracle turned her wheelchair "I'll be there in just a moment." "Reese is here."

"Let him in through the garage but watch him carefully," Oracle instructed. "I'm not sure we should trust him just yet."

* * *

The garage door opened. Reese drove his sedan in and parked it next to Barbara's oversized Hummer. He glanced to the back-seat and saw that Helena was lounged across it, a hand lazily covering her eyes from the light.

"Do you see his men?" she drawled, still not looking up to see for herself. He smirked at her.

Shaking his head he said, "Do me a favor huh? And I know it's going to be hard but I think you can manage just this once."

"Reese," she warned, not unkindly.

He chose to ignore her. "I need you to shut your mouth and I need you to stay completely still. There are cameras everywhere." "Someone's having their time of month," Helena grumbled. His eyebrow shot straight up into his hairline. He considered actually getting into a verbal tit-for-tat with her but then thought better of it. Finally, with a resigned sigh he shot back, "Helena, shut up."

* * *

Oracle frowned as she examined the video from the garage. She could see that Huntress was lying flat on her back in the back of Reese's sedan. Turning to her switchboard she dialed his cell.

"Reese," she demanded. "What's going on?"

Why?

"Huntress..."

She's out. I knocked her out. It was the only way to get her here. You know how stubborn she can be. And she wouldn't shut up. "Okay fine. Bring her up then. We'll be up here waiting for you."

Okay

Oracle disconnected the call and then looked over at Polly. "I need two more of the chips." "On it," the woman replied, breaking away.

Oracle just flinched, another wave of pain overcoming her.

* * *

Reese picked Helena up and tossed her over his shoulder in a fireman's' carry. He stepped into the elevator and started to look around. The elevator door snapped closed behind them. Helena raised her head.

"Relax, there aren't any camera in this elevator. The one we had got broken a few weeks ago." She paused and winked. "Accident."

"Uh huh," Reese muttered, putting her down. He made a face when she winced in pain. She waved him off. She was about to turn away when he caught her arm and spun her towards him, his lips on hers before she could even form a word.

Her initial shock passed quickly and she wrapped her arms around his neck, yanking him closer and kissing back with equal intensity. She felt his hands against her cheeks and pressed for further contact. He moved her against the far wall of the elevator and continued the passionate embrace.

She finally broke the kiss several moments later, gasping desperately for air. Her eyes dancing mischievously she grinned at him. "Okay, okay, I forgive you." She paused. "Ever shove a gun in my back again and..."

He held up a hand and laughed. "You don't need to finish that."

"I didn't think so," she smirked, eyes still locked on him.

"Okay." Reese smiled. "So then, what's the plan?"

"The plan is that we don't have a plan."

"I was afraid that you were going to say that. Do I need to remind you that going into a fight without a plan is a really bad idea."

She dismissed his worries with a flick of her hand. "Look, he had six thugs that I could see. That includes those two FBI wannabes. Then there's also Hatter, Barbara, Polly and Dinah. We have to assume that Dinah is also compromised at this point." She paused. "We just have to hope that we get to them on time."

"On time?"

"Can't say as I'm really looking forward to going rounds with Barbara and Dinah. She's a hell of a fighter and Dinah really likes tossing me around. You know, sibling rivalry and all that. She wants the bigger room."

Reese snorted, somehow not doubting her. He pressed the elevator button to the upper level.