Well, Well, Well, Look What We Have Here

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belongs to DC Comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them, but I do own Liz Barry/Predator, Strike, and Mike Thompson...

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On a normal Friday night, Barbara is on the computer, searching for criminals in the city of New Gotham, Huntress is on patrolling, and Dinah at a school dance and that leaves Liz, in the clock tower helping Barbara. As for Reese and Strike, Reese is on cop duty and investigating the werid occurrence that happened like five days ago, and knowing who did it and as for Strike, he is somewhere in New Gotham, he is rarely explains what he does during the night time, most of it, is keeping track of his "family" and on the look out, so he and his family is off the radar from Quion.

"Liz, can you come here for a second?" said Barbara

Liz heard her named called and she holds a couple pieces of papers, containing files of different criminals, currently living in New Gotham and she went over to her and placed the papers onto the computer table, beside her, "Yeah?" She looks at the computer screen and then looks at her.

"Can you do a little mission for me?" Liz nods her head, like 'yeah', "I want you to steal something from this person's apartment, his named is Mike Thompson"

"Mike Thompson? The fifth richest man in New Gotham?" she questions Barbara

"Yeah, I want you to steal this artifact" she moves the mouse cursor over to the thumbnail of the picture and double clicks it, so Liz can have a better view of the picture, its a golden, shiny statue, that has inscriptions all over it.

"Okay, why do you want me to steal it? Is it something really important, even though you don't steal, but need it anyways?"

"You can say that"

Liz takes a good look at the statue and she stores the picture in her memory, so she can use her photographic memory, "Okay, cool, I think I can handle it" Liz walks away from the computer, "I'm going"

"Okay, before you go, I will hand you transceivers, so we can keep in contact" she hands her the earring transceivers, "If you need anything, tell me, maybe I can work something up"

"Okay, thanks" Liz puts the earring transceivers on her ears and she left the clock tower.

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In Eastern New Gotham, where like all the wealthy people live, up on a hill, there lies a large white mansion, it's surrounded by surveillance videos, guards, or anything wealthy people can do in order to protect themselves from getting murdered, robbed, stalked, ect. Inside the white mansion, a Caucasian male is in front of the second floor window, looking out of it, only for a glimpse.

The young male, is about thirty-one of age, walks over to his private room and sits down on his computer, "Hmmmm" he is typing something on the computer.

A man in a black suit, walks into his private study, "Mike, Sir, I'm putting the alarm on"

Mike looks up and looks at his bodyguard, "Okay," the bodyguard smiled and closed the door, as he walked out of the room.

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Liz swoop in front of the bushes and she shifts out of a Red Tail Hawk form, she could of fly inside of the building, but this way it better and wiser, so she can have less enemies to tangle with. She peaks through the bushes and she sees two men guarding the metal gate that leads to the mansion. She shuts the transceivers off so she can do her own thing, which she is good at. She slowly changes into a black stray cat and she runs out of the bushes and the guards ignores the cat and she runs down to the end of the street and changes into human form, if she walked out of the bushes and greeted the guards, they would act suspicious towards her, but this way she is doing, is like the right way, like acting casual.

The two guards notices a female wears black sneakers, blue jeans, and red belly shirt, revealing her belly button ring, they are grinning at her, when she is walking over to them. They are unaware what she is about to do, "May we help you?" as he elbows his partner.

"A tour of this fine estate" she said sweetly to them,

"We will give ya a tour" the two slowly went over to her, "Let's go to a shortcut" The other guard grins at her and quietly chuckling.

'As if' as she thought to herself, "Come here boys, a little closer, I wanna tell ya something"

"Okay," said the two in a unison, they are thinking something in their heads, most likely its going to be dirty, they went over to her, following her orders.

'One...two...three' her eyes changes with her eye lid closed and she opens her eyes, and grins at the two and she sharply kicks the two in the stomach, they clung onto their stomach, "Sorry, boys it ain't going to happen" she gives the two a ball breaker, that means she kicks them nuts really hard and then spins kick them in the upper chest. They dropped to the ground, hard, "hahaha, losers, like that will ever happen"

She walks away from them and she runs over to the gate and she leaps into the air about 15ft and she safely crosses the gate, she lands onto her two feet, safely. She slowly goes up the pathway, making no sounds onto the cement pathway. She comes across a dumpster and she hides behind it, she takes a peak, to see any more guards around. Her pupils widen as she is seeing objects up close, so far nothing. 'What the?' she stops thinking to herself as she hears a clicking sound behind her.

"Get up!" yelled one of the guards

She slowly got up to her feet and she smiles, she turns around and looks at him and the gun in his hand, "Hey, are you going to use that gun at me?"

"Maybe" he flashed the flash-light at her face, "Who are you?"

"Someone that you can't beat"

"Oh yea?" as he slowly goes over to her, holding his gun; then he stops right in front of her, only 5ft away from her.

She flash-like speed and she grabs the gun out of his hands and she returned to her designated spot, where she was previously was at. What she just did, was like one second, not even and she aims the gun at him, "Now your wondering how the heck I did that" He nodded his head, "But, sorry, hun" she sharply disassembles the gun and threw it onto the ground, in the matter of seconds. He stared at her in shock and afraid what she might do next and she flash-like speed again and she ran behind him and knocked him out cold, he is going to be out cold for the rest of the night.

'Finally..' She slowly went over to the house and notices there are no guards around, 'This was too easy' as she thought to herself. She looks up and she springs into the air and lands softly into the roof and she sees an opened window and she quietly went over to it, she uses her sensory, and can sense no one is near the room, she enters the window and she is now in the mansion, 'Time to get my prize' she exits the room and she walks down the halls, silently. She takes a corner and into the large room, that contains artifacts and there, just sitting it in the glass, she sees the artifact, that Barbara was asking about. She slowly went over it to it. She takes the glass off the artifact and she quietly takes the artifact and she examines it and puts it into her black bag. She slowly walks out of the room and she heard another gun clicking sound behind her, but it sounded more like a shotgun. 'Not another one'

"Drop it!" The man raises the shotgun at her, "Drop now! Do it!"

Liz rolls her eyes and she drops the bag onto the rugged floor and she turns around slowly and looks at him, the man that is holding the shotgun and aiming at her, is Mike Thompson, he looks a bit angry.

"Roger!" No answer

"Sorry, the 'Roger' friend you are asking is currently unavailable"

He looks surprised as he looks at her, that this intruder is a female cat burglar, "Wow, I thought you were someone else." He looks down and notices his stolen artifact is chillen inside of the bag, "Cat burglar.."

"Got a problem with that?" she smiles at him

"Not really, this is my first" he smiled at her too, "So tell my why you wanted this artifact? Was it because it was shiny?"

"No, I like ancient objects, I have thing with ancient artifact that goes back around the BC era."

"Ah" he doesn't know what to say to a female cat burglar, "Can you tell me what happened to my bodyguard Roger?"

"Yeah..I kicked his butt"

"Wow" he laughed a bit, "Nice try, I don't think you can take down martial arts, black belt."

"What they say, girls kick butt,"

He smiled at her comment.

Roger walks into the room, limping, and his eyes widen as he sees the intruder. "You!"

"Sparky, lay off" she turns to him, "We already been through this"

He lunges at her and she dodges out of the way and she quickly kicks him in the back of the leg, he nearly trips onto the ground. Liz stops what she is doing and she saw a dozen of guards pouring into the room, he must have called backup. They take there guns out and aiming at her.

"Sorry, I loved the party, I gotta go," she runs down the hall and they begin to run after her, including Mike.

"Hold your fire!" yelled Mike; he doesn't want any one get hurt or killed in his mansion

Liz increases her speed and she dives out of the window and she lands onto the ground and Mike looks at the window, only watching her escaping. She continuing on running down the pathway and she disappear into the darkness.

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Liz walks into the clock tower, "Barbara, next time, don't ask me to do that again!" As she walks towards the food cabinets.

Barbara looks at her and thinks, "Okay and I'm guessing you didn't get it"

"Uh-huh, I had it, but I was outnumbered" She pulls out a box of crackers out and begins to eat it, "But, that Mike guy is hott"

"I noticed" by the way Liz is acting,

"Whose hott?" as Helena walks into the room, coming in after doing a nightly patrol in New Gotham, what is like left of it.

"Some guy named Mike, all I can say he's mine and you can't have him"

(Chapter 7 coming up soon)