A Visitor from Her Deadly Past and A Few Surprises
Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC Comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them. I like to write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment.
A/N: The character Liz Barry/Predator, Jargon, and Ray Gulliver belongs to me.
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As it continue to downpour in New Gotham..a man in a black trench-coat walks down an alley. He sees an older guy also where a black suit. "Hello father" said the young man about his early twenties.
"Have you found her?" said the elder about fifty years old, "I want to see how my fine apprentice is doing"
"No father, but she is somewhere in the city, soon she will come out of the shadows and she will be on our side"
"Excellent..call me.when you find Liz.." He walks past his son and the son smirks evilly.
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Liz walks into her lounge and she heads to her bedroom to change her attire, she is drenched, after being on the veranda for couple of hours. "Nah" she said to herself and she walks over to the silver circular object and she turns on the heat on. She walks over to her black plush cover sofa and she lies down on it. As she lies down on the sofa..she enters a deep sleep..
Liz is walking down the street.she sees the man.and the son..she begins to have flash-backs of her past and few minutes she identifies them.the father is the man who kidnapped her age three and the younger man is the son.the guy that made her what she isn't suppose to be.a crime fighter.
Liz wakes up a bit upset, sweat is on her face and she looks around, she looks at the time and its only 2:00am. "Oh no" in a frighten tone. She stands up and she went into the refrigerator and she takes out a glass bottle of beer out, "Maybe it's just my imagination" she takes a sip of her beer, "Or maybe its not" She walks over and she sits down, while drinking her beer her whole body is shaking with fear. Tears are coming out of her eyes...she thought that man died like six months ago...
***Flash-back****
She is on the roof, watching the men in black chasing after Missy, they shot her and she falls to the ground, she lifts her head up and she sees Ben going after them..her eyes enhanced.she notices those guys isn't part of her past.but those men belong to a gang called Flaming X. They must have been in the area when this 'Ben' thing happened.
****End Flash-back****
"Oh god.he is been alive all this time.." Kinda like a whine and a cry at the same time. She wipes her tears. "I wish Drake was here" she puts her head down on her two knee caps.
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Reese is driving the cop car down the street and he is a bit tired, not watching where he was going and he notices a guy standing in the middle of the street and his eyes widens. He turns the wheel and he swerves in a different direction. He manages to put the brakes on before he hit a telephone pole. He opens his car door and notices the man isn't there. "Great..not another one!" He scratches his head, like wondering where the guy went, he can't leave just yet, because he doesn't know if the guy is okay or hurt. He walks across the street and he notices the guy is on the ground, blood leaking out of him. He runs over to him, kneeling beside him, taking his pulse, and he takes his cell phone out to dial the ambulance. The man opens his eyes and he injects a needle into his arm. Reese drops the cell phone before he can press the send button and he falls onto his back, his vision is getting blurry and blurry till it was lights out.
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"Barbara has Reese used the bat ring yet?" said Helena walking down the spiral stairs.
"No, if he did, I will alert you now.did you try his cell?"
"Yeah.but it keeps on ringing and ringing. I called him like twenty times.nothing"
"Odd" said Dinah walking into the room, "This isn't like Reese" she thinks for a moment, "Where do you think he can possibly be at?"
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Reese wakes up and he is inside of this old foul smell inside the room and the building as well and it smells like dead carcasses and plenty of chemicals. "What the?" He got back on his feet and he walks over to the steel door. He tries to open the door, but unsuccessful, someone or whoever bolted the door on him. He takes his handgun out and he points to the hinges of the door and he fires and the hinges blew off the door instantly and he kicks the door down.he slowly walks out of the room, pointing the gun in every directions. The coast is clear so far, he continues to stroll down the never-ending passageway. As each step he take the dirty floors of dried blood and something you really don't want to know makes a loud creaking sound and the worst of all it reeks! While patrolling down the corridor he can hear people screaming.including babies and children. He reaches into his pocket and he takes out another set of ammunition and he starts to load the gun up. He is now fully loaded and he is going to find out what the heck is this place and whoever is in charge of this place must pay.
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Liz finishes her beer and she is deciding to take a trip to the New Gotham burial ground, so she can talk to Drake maybe he has answers for her. She got back on her feet and she grabs her black leather jacket off the chair and she puts it on quickly and she went out of the door. She heads downhill of spiral of endless stairs till she finally reach to the stop. She opens the door that says: Exit. As she opens the door the strong gusts of cold wind is pounding on her. It didn't bother her because she has highly tolerance for cold weather and she is the fire element. She walks down the sidewalk as the wind is blowing at her hair making it flying all over the place. She could careless if her hair is gonna get messy, 'cause no one will notice and people won't care because this is after all 'New Gotham' its like the equivalent of New York City.
A man in a black trench-coat is watching her from above and he lits up a cigarette and he takes few puffs and he exhales white smoke moves freely out of his mouth. He drops the cigarette on purpose on her shoulder to get her attention.
She felt a burning smell and she turns her head to the left side and notices a used cigarette that was just in use is resting on her $200 leather jacket. She flicks the cigarette off and she lifts her head up to see who was this idiot who done this.
He leaps off the building and he lands in front of Liz, "Hello Liz" He picks his cigarette of the ground and its still usable. He puts it in his mouth and he smiles at her, "Long time no see"
She backs up in horror, while she is backing up she trips over newspaper stands and she lands onto the ground, she looks at him, afraid and scared. She is unable to move away that is how scared she is. "Jargon...what.what..do you want?"
"Nothing.relax Liz..just ready to take you to home.." He takes a few steps closers up to her.
"Home!?" in a freak out tone, her eyes widen with lots of intense fear in her black dark eyes.
"Home.remember that 'home'...that home..is somewhere you belong.."
"Back off you sick piece of crap!!!" she hissed at him, "I rather die than go back to there!"
"You have to go there..that is your home and I will take you there.." he takes a slight pause and he looks down at her, "Father will be please to see you." he puts his hands together and he smiles at her.
"Father!?" she slowly backs up trying to get away from him she is now having flash-backs of 'Father'.
****Flash-Back****
Liz as a child is lying on her cot and a man walks into the room, the man in charge of the place, the man responsible of kidnapping her, torturing, beating, and brainwashing her..is THAT 'Father'
***End-Flash-back***
"Oh no" tears shoots out of her eyes she looks up at this man..the man who she basically protected when she was eighteen is blood related to the man who held against her will and nearly beat her to death.
"Come on, it won't be, so bad." he puts his hands down allowing to her to get off the wet cold cement ground.
"Get away!!!" she cried out loud, she uses his TK on him and she flings him into a brick wall, she manages to get up and she takes off..heading the New Gotham burial ground, rather going to the clock tower to seek some help, in a way she such an idiot but she is blinded by her past, causing her to become confused, scared, and lost...
She flash-like speed to the burial ground and she leaps over the black barred fence and she walks down the pathway, her tears are dried and they are turning to ice crystals that is how cold it is. She spots Drakes gravestone and she kneels down in front of it. "Drake please help me" she is hoping for answers, but nothing.all she can hear is the wind and the clanking sound the trees hitting one another. She lifts her head up and she looks at the crescent moon as it shone down on her, "Help me" she said one last time and she lies her body on the cold grass right in front of his gravestone..she closes her eyes.and she falls asleep, not a brilliant plan because her tolerance for cold temperature surely won't last long and soon she will freeze to death.
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At the clock tower Helena walks into the main room where all the computers are at, she sees Barbara on the computer like always she is just clicking and typing away.
"Any clues where Reese might be?" said Helena
"Nothing so far," she turns her head staring the short headed dark brown head and she pauses for a quick second, "Helena..what the heck is going on?"
"I don't know" she pauses and then she replies again in a worried tone of voice. "Earlier tonight when Liz was patrolling.I didn't like knock sense into her..I let her go"
"You did what?"
"Barbara cool down...maybe we know why the disappearance of Reese..I think our clues is Liz"
"What does Liz has to do with Reese?"
"I don't know..its her past is freaking out..and she knows who killed her boyfriend..I know.I know I should of told you.but she was scared..and when she gets scared she gets violent.."
She nods her head slowly and she begins to type onto the computer, she is hacking into the police database, "Did she by any chance give you the murderer's name?"
She shakes her head, "No...let me tell you.she was scared like..what is that fricken word...grrr.anyways..she protected this killer since she was eighteen..and she said to me she 'no hero'.I think there is a link between Liz and this unknown killer"
"A link to what?" she now getting more interested in what Helena has to say.
"A link to her past" Helena turns around and notices Dinah standing there, she was watching the conversation the whole time, "Dinah.you should have said something."
"Sorry, I didn't want to interrupt your conversation..I have a question"
"Is this important or not important?" said Helena demanding voice
"Important, should you also be worry about Reese's safety as well?"
"She has a good point, Helena.we should retrace Reese's steps, find his car" she types Reese's license plate onto the screen and it shows a map where the car was.
"Barbara you put a tracking device on Reese's license plate?" said Helena, she looks at her, "You tell me why?"
"It could be useful towards missing people and he can be a missing person, even though he is a cop"
"Correction he is a detective" she walks over to the computer screen and she quickly memorize the screen. "I'm on it" She takes off and she went over to the elevator. The elevator door swung open, she walks in, and the metal door closes.
"Barbara anything I can do?" said Dinah
"Find Liz, check her apartment"
"What if she not there where should I go?"
"Anywhere where she might be at..go.I will be here.make sure you turn on your transceivers as well" Dinah presses a tiny button on her transceiver earrings and she leaves the room as well.
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Reese stops walking and he sees an open door and he walks into the room, he sees scared children huddled up to the wall, "You okay" as he kneels beside them, he is unaware what they capable of doing. They opened their eyes and they lunged at him with powerful superhuman strength. Reese tries to get them off of him without hurting them. He pulls the gun away from the children and he fires at a clear range, trying to scare the children away and successfully they got off of him and they run to the corner. "What the frigg is this place?" He looks around the room.
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Liz opens her eyes really quickly, she felt a hand on her shoulders and she lifts her head up and she sees Jargon. She hurls him off of her. He lands onto the ground and she looks at him. He cracks the side of his neck and he gets back on his feet. "Liz, you can run but you can't hide" He smiles at her as he looks from her head to toe. "You truly changed, Father will be glad.since your one successful warrior.."
"Back off" her body engulfs in flames and she throws a fireball at him. He reflects it off his body and the large fireball hits the clouds and when it hits the clouds its starts the rain of fire. "You idiot!!" more fireballs shoots out of her hitting trees and empty office buildings, she collapses to the ground, she felt this urge deep down.it can't be the trance.Ben had it and destroyed it.can it come back? "No.." she dugs her fingers into the muddy soil and she felt a dark force gathering and spreading all around her. Black veins is covering her body it's reaching to her head and few seconds later it seeps down disappearing, blending in with her skin color. She lifts her head up and her eyes are pure black and she closes her eyes and her eyes are still back in normal. She let's out a loud yell, because she is in severe pain and she doesn't want a trance...it continuing to build up..and build up till she is officially in a trance..
(Chapter 3 coming up)
Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC Comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them. I like to write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment.
A/N: The character Liz Barry/Predator, Jargon, and Ray Gulliver belongs to me.
~*~
As it continue to downpour in New Gotham..a man in a black trench-coat walks down an alley. He sees an older guy also where a black suit. "Hello father" said the young man about his early twenties.
"Have you found her?" said the elder about fifty years old, "I want to see how my fine apprentice is doing"
"No father, but she is somewhere in the city, soon she will come out of the shadows and she will be on our side"
"Excellent..call me.when you find Liz.." He walks past his son and the son smirks evilly.
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Liz walks into her lounge and she heads to her bedroom to change her attire, she is drenched, after being on the veranda for couple of hours. "Nah" she said to herself and she walks over to the silver circular object and she turns on the heat on. She walks over to her black plush cover sofa and she lies down on it. As she lies down on the sofa..she enters a deep sleep..
Liz is walking down the street.she sees the man.and the son..she begins to have flash-backs of her past and few minutes she identifies them.the father is the man who kidnapped her age three and the younger man is the son.the guy that made her what she isn't suppose to be.a crime fighter.
Liz wakes up a bit upset, sweat is on her face and she looks around, she looks at the time and its only 2:00am. "Oh no" in a frighten tone. She stands up and she went into the refrigerator and she takes out a glass bottle of beer out, "Maybe it's just my imagination" she takes a sip of her beer, "Or maybe its not" She walks over and she sits down, while drinking her beer her whole body is shaking with fear. Tears are coming out of her eyes...she thought that man died like six months ago...
***Flash-back****
She is on the roof, watching the men in black chasing after Missy, they shot her and she falls to the ground, she lifts her head up and she sees Ben going after them..her eyes enhanced.she notices those guys isn't part of her past.but those men belong to a gang called Flaming X. They must have been in the area when this 'Ben' thing happened.
****End Flash-back****
"Oh god.he is been alive all this time.." Kinda like a whine and a cry at the same time. She wipes her tears. "I wish Drake was here" she puts her head down on her two knee caps.
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Reese is driving the cop car down the street and he is a bit tired, not watching where he was going and he notices a guy standing in the middle of the street and his eyes widens. He turns the wheel and he swerves in a different direction. He manages to put the brakes on before he hit a telephone pole. He opens his car door and notices the man isn't there. "Great..not another one!" He scratches his head, like wondering where the guy went, he can't leave just yet, because he doesn't know if the guy is okay or hurt. He walks across the street and he notices the guy is on the ground, blood leaking out of him. He runs over to him, kneeling beside him, taking his pulse, and he takes his cell phone out to dial the ambulance. The man opens his eyes and he injects a needle into his arm. Reese drops the cell phone before he can press the send button and he falls onto his back, his vision is getting blurry and blurry till it was lights out.
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"Barbara has Reese used the bat ring yet?" said Helena walking down the spiral stairs.
"No, if he did, I will alert you now.did you try his cell?"
"Yeah.but it keeps on ringing and ringing. I called him like twenty times.nothing"
"Odd" said Dinah walking into the room, "This isn't like Reese" she thinks for a moment, "Where do you think he can possibly be at?"
***************
Reese wakes up and he is inside of this old foul smell inside the room and the building as well and it smells like dead carcasses and plenty of chemicals. "What the?" He got back on his feet and he walks over to the steel door. He tries to open the door, but unsuccessful, someone or whoever bolted the door on him. He takes his handgun out and he points to the hinges of the door and he fires and the hinges blew off the door instantly and he kicks the door down.he slowly walks out of the room, pointing the gun in every directions. The coast is clear so far, he continues to stroll down the never-ending passageway. As each step he take the dirty floors of dried blood and something you really don't want to know makes a loud creaking sound and the worst of all it reeks! While patrolling down the corridor he can hear people screaming.including babies and children. He reaches into his pocket and he takes out another set of ammunition and he starts to load the gun up. He is now fully loaded and he is going to find out what the heck is this place and whoever is in charge of this place must pay.
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Liz finishes her beer and she is deciding to take a trip to the New Gotham burial ground, so she can talk to Drake maybe he has answers for her. She got back on her feet and she grabs her black leather jacket off the chair and she puts it on quickly and she went out of the door. She heads downhill of spiral of endless stairs till she finally reach to the stop. She opens the door that says: Exit. As she opens the door the strong gusts of cold wind is pounding on her. It didn't bother her because she has highly tolerance for cold weather and she is the fire element. She walks down the sidewalk as the wind is blowing at her hair making it flying all over the place. She could careless if her hair is gonna get messy, 'cause no one will notice and people won't care because this is after all 'New Gotham' its like the equivalent of New York City.
A man in a black trench-coat is watching her from above and he lits up a cigarette and he takes few puffs and he exhales white smoke moves freely out of his mouth. He drops the cigarette on purpose on her shoulder to get her attention.
She felt a burning smell and she turns her head to the left side and notices a used cigarette that was just in use is resting on her $200 leather jacket. She flicks the cigarette off and she lifts her head up to see who was this idiot who done this.
He leaps off the building and he lands in front of Liz, "Hello Liz" He picks his cigarette of the ground and its still usable. He puts it in his mouth and he smiles at her, "Long time no see"
She backs up in horror, while she is backing up she trips over newspaper stands and she lands onto the ground, she looks at him, afraid and scared. She is unable to move away that is how scared she is. "Jargon...what.what..do you want?"
"Nothing.relax Liz..just ready to take you to home.." He takes a few steps closers up to her.
"Home!?" in a freak out tone, her eyes widen with lots of intense fear in her black dark eyes.
"Home.remember that 'home'...that home..is somewhere you belong.."
"Back off you sick piece of crap!!!" she hissed at him, "I rather die than go back to there!"
"You have to go there..that is your home and I will take you there.." he takes a slight pause and he looks down at her, "Father will be please to see you." he puts his hands together and he smiles at her.
"Father!?" she slowly backs up trying to get away from him she is now having flash-backs of 'Father'.
****Flash-Back****
Liz as a child is lying on her cot and a man walks into the room, the man in charge of the place, the man responsible of kidnapping her, torturing, beating, and brainwashing her..is THAT 'Father'
***End-Flash-back***
"Oh no" tears shoots out of her eyes she looks up at this man..the man who she basically protected when she was eighteen is blood related to the man who held against her will and nearly beat her to death.
"Come on, it won't be, so bad." he puts his hands down allowing to her to get off the wet cold cement ground.
"Get away!!!" she cried out loud, she uses his TK on him and she flings him into a brick wall, she manages to get up and she takes off..heading the New Gotham burial ground, rather going to the clock tower to seek some help, in a way she such an idiot but she is blinded by her past, causing her to become confused, scared, and lost...
She flash-like speed to the burial ground and she leaps over the black barred fence and she walks down the pathway, her tears are dried and they are turning to ice crystals that is how cold it is. She spots Drakes gravestone and she kneels down in front of it. "Drake please help me" she is hoping for answers, but nothing.all she can hear is the wind and the clanking sound the trees hitting one another. She lifts her head up and she looks at the crescent moon as it shone down on her, "Help me" she said one last time and she lies her body on the cold grass right in front of his gravestone..she closes her eyes.and she falls asleep, not a brilliant plan because her tolerance for cold temperature surely won't last long and soon she will freeze to death.
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At the clock tower Helena walks into the main room where all the computers are at, she sees Barbara on the computer like always she is just clicking and typing away.
"Any clues where Reese might be?" said Helena
"Nothing so far," she turns her head staring the short headed dark brown head and she pauses for a quick second, "Helena..what the heck is going on?"
"I don't know" she pauses and then she replies again in a worried tone of voice. "Earlier tonight when Liz was patrolling.I didn't like knock sense into her..I let her go"
"You did what?"
"Barbara cool down...maybe we know why the disappearance of Reese..I think our clues is Liz"
"What does Liz has to do with Reese?"
"I don't know..its her past is freaking out..and she knows who killed her boyfriend..I know.I know I should of told you.but she was scared..and when she gets scared she gets violent.."
She nods her head slowly and she begins to type onto the computer, she is hacking into the police database, "Did she by any chance give you the murderer's name?"
She shakes her head, "No...let me tell you.she was scared like..what is that fricken word...grrr.anyways..she protected this killer since she was eighteen..and she said to me she 'no hero'.I think there is a link between Liz and this unknown killer"
"A link to what?" she now getting more interested in what Helena has to say.
"A link to her past" Helena turns around and notices Dinah standing there, she was watching the conversation the whole time, "Dinah.you should have said something."
"Sorry, I didn't want to interrupt your conversation..I have a question"
"Is this important or not important?" said Helena demanding voice
"Important, should you also be worry about Reese's safety as well?"
"She has a good point, Helena.we should retrace Reese's steps, find his car" she types Reese's license plate onto the screen and it shows a map where the car was.
"Barbara you put a tracking device on Reese's license plate?" said Helena, she looks at her, "You tell me why?"
"It could be useful towards missing people and he can be a missing person, even though he is a cop"
"Correction he is a detective" she walks over to the computer screen and she quickly memorize the screen. "I'm on it" She takes off and she went over to the elevator. The elevator door swung open, she walks in, and the metal door closes.
"Barbara anything I can do?" said Dinah
"Find Liz, check her apartment"
"What if she not there where should I go?"
"Anywhere where she might be at..go.I will be here.make sure you turn on your transceivers as well" Dinah presses a tiny button on her transceiver earrings and she leaves the room as well.
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Reese stops walking and he sees an open door and he walks into the room, he sees scared children huddled up to the wall, "You okay" as he kneels beside them, he is unaware what they capable of doing. They opened their eyes and they lunged at him with powerful superhuman strength. Reese tries to get them off of him without hurting them. He pulls the gun away from the children and he fires at a clear range, trying to scare the children away and successfully they got off of him and they run to the corner. "What the frigg is this place?" He looks around the room.
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Liz opens her eyes really quickly, she felt a hand on her shoulders and she lifts her head up and she sees Jargon. She hurls him off of her. He lands onto the ground and she looks at him. He cracks the side of his neck and he gets back on his feet. "Liz, you can run but you can't hide" He smiles at her as he looks from her head to toe. "You truly changed, Father will be glad.since your one successful warrior.."
"Back off" her body engulfs in flames and she throws a fireball at him. He reflects it off his body and the large fireball hits the clouds and when it hits the clouds its starts the rain of fire. "You idiot!!" more fireballs shoots out of her hitting trees and empty office buildings, she collapses to the ground, she felt this urge deep down.it can't be the trance.Ben had it and destroyed it.can it come back? "No.." she dugs her fingers into the muddy soil and she felt a dark force gathering and spreading all around her. Black veins is covering her body it's reaching to her head and few seconds later it seeps down disappearing, blending in with her skin color. She lifts her head up and her eyes are pure black and she closes her eyes and her eyes are still back in normal. She let's out a loud yell, because she is in severe pain and she doesn't want a trance...it continuing to build up..and build up till she is officially in a trance..
(Chapter 3 coming up)