Reno Island

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC Comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them. I like to write fanfics for my living and for my entertainment. But I do own Liz Barry/Predator, Mike, Strike, Neja, Xyl, Hailen, Ray, Kane, Lizix, MortiSin, Raine; and anything that has to do with Quion. Also the place Reno Island belongs to me.

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On a normal day in New Gotham, Liz is packing her bags into Mike's car. She and Mike is going on a trip to Reno Island, finally they can spend, quality time together, no Quion, no Kane, and no baddies that wants Liz dead in a huge way. Mike walks outside with his bags and puts it into the trunk of his car.

"Do we have everything?"

"Yup, I'm ready, when you are ready."

"Good," he went into the driver's side and enters it; Liz went onto the other side of the vehicle and enters the passenger's side. She grabs the door handle and closes it shut; Mike did the same thing too. "This trip will take five hours to get to and you're going to love this place, the people are friendly and it's a town that everybody knows each other."

"Just like an old TV sitcom, that you see on that cable channel called Nick at Night: TV Land or something like that." As Liz puts her seatbelt on, "Finally you and I can spend the weekend together, before things get pretty hectic around here."

"Yeah, I agree with that, plus, let's keep our mind off of that and enjoy ourselves, we earned it." He starts his car and drives off to Reno Island. Reno Island is like the most popular small little town, because everyone is friendly and it's the best place to relax at.

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About five hours later, they reached to Reno Island and Mike drives his car onto the ferry and parks it. The ferry takes the people over to the giant size island, finally it came to a stop and Mike drives off the ferry and onto the island.

"Where is the town actually?"

"Just down the long stretch road, it's not that far," said Mike, while driving. He takes one look at Liz and smiled, and turned his head, facing back to the road, so he knows where he is actually going, without crashing.

"I can't wait to be in the town, the sun, the heat, its like going to Key West or Cancun," said Liz smiling. Mike smiled too. Within minutes later they finally reached to Reno Island, its also a name of a town too, that's because there is one town only on this Island.

A man waves his hands to stop Mike from driving anymore further. He stops the car and the man walks over to the driver's side window. "You two staying here?"

"Just the weekend," he smiled at the man, "Don't worry, we won't cause any trouble."

"That's good; we don't want trouble on this island." He sees Liz and winks at her, "Enjoy yourselves, you can go on ahead."

Mike drives away from him, "Did he wink at you?"

"Yeah, but don't worry, I don't have a problem, kicking his tush." Mike cracks up laughing at her, "What? You like when I use words to substitute for swears?" He nods his head, "Yup, I don't like swears, it isn't nice, even though I'm a butt kicking crime fighter."

"Your sooo cute," Liz smiled at him, "Were almost there, there is a small cabin up ahead." He continues to drive up the street and takes a second right and wa-la, they are at the cabin.

Liz gets out of the cabin, "It's small and cute." She sees a teenage woman coming out of the cabin, "This must be the landlord of the cabin."

"That's the daughter," he whispers to her and he went up to the teenage girl, "Hey, we are the couple, which we will be staying over the weekend, is your mother around?"

"She inside, please come in," said opens the screen door and watches the two enters the room and she closes the door, "Do you want coffee?"

"Were good," said the two in unison.

She smiled and called her mother, the mother walks out of the den and looks at Mike, "Ah, Michael, welcome." She went over to him and hugs him. "Is your mother still living?"

"She deceased, MaryAnn I want you to meet my girlfriend, this is Liz Barry."

"Nice to meet you Liz and welcome to Reno Island, we will take your bags into your rooms or you want one room."

"Two rooms will be fine," said Mike, as he said nicely to them.

"Come, Serenity," said the mother, walking outside with her nineteen year old daughter. The two leaves the house for two minutes, grabbing their stuff and bring it into the rooms.

"There nice people," said Liz.

"Yeah, the daughter doesn't talk much; the mother doesn't know why she doesn't talk much."

Liz sees the daughter trying to open the door, "Let me get that." She rushes over and opens the door open for Serenity, the girl smiled at Liz and went into one of the rooms and places the stuff down. Then the mother walks into the other room and placed Mike's stuff onto the bed.

"Well, we will be around, do you mind if Serenity stays in this cabin?" said the mother.

"Not at all, it's fine, I will love extra company," answered Liz.

"Thank you," the mother smiled and exits the cabin.

Serenity walks into a back room and sits down in the corner. Mike is unpacking his stuff and Liz sees the back room open and she slowly sees Serenity talking to herself. "You okay?" She looks around the room and this must be her room or some sort of a secret room.

She looks up and doesn't say a thing, "Yeah." She gets back on her knees and looks at Liz. "How do you like this town so far?" She quickly exits the room and bolts it shut, "I'm very strict about my room." Like she is hiding something and doesn't want it to be revealed.

"Its cool and nice, just the gatekeeper or whatever, looks, hmm, I dunno, plus I'm new in town for a couple of days."

"Yeah." She pauses and she can hear screaming in her head, like a past event, like she is haunted by it. "That's Damien, he is a jerk." She walks passes Liz and walks over to cough and sits down.

"Did he hurt you?" answers Liz, "You can tell me." She can scan her, but she doesn't want to do that, that is like invasion of privacy.

"It's nothing!" She gets up and hurried out of the room.

Liz got up immedienly and she felt a sharp pain that caused her to fall onto the floor. Mike exits his room and sees Liz, shaking, "You okay?" He rushes to her side and helps her back up to the couch.

"Yeah, its nothing, I'm going to the local bar and maybe they have milk there." She smiles at him and Mike still looks at her, like he knows something is up, but Liz is denying it, she puts her hands onto him. "I'm fine, relax, we are here to have fun." He holds her hands by the finger tips and smiled. "Everything is going to be alright." She leans over to him and kissed him on the forehead. She lets go of his hands and got back up and exits the cabin.

Serenity sees Liz and runs over to her, "Can I come with you, wherever you're going?" She hopes she will let her tag along.

"Sure, I'm going to the local bar," replied Liz.

Serenity kind of smiled for a bit and is drastically fades away. Liz smiled at her and the two walks down the road, they walk past the locals and some of the locals, that are males, stared at the two. Serenity was kind of getting nervous when they were staring at her. Liz can tell that these men probably did something to her and soon she is going to find out, that may include violence. Up the street, they see a tavern called 'Joe's Tavern'.

Serenity walks behind Liz, so Liz can enter the bar first, within seconds they reached to the bar and she opens the big black door and went in. It's a nice looking bar, looks like The Dark Horse and just need to add Westerness into the mix. Liz takes a seat up at the bar and Serenity sits down beside her.

"What drink do you want?" asked the bartender.

"Milk," as she said it quickly and calmly.

He cracks up laughing like it's a joke and can tell it's not a joke, "I will get your drink." He sees Serenity and she tries not to look at him, "Serenity, my dear, you look a bit shy today." She doesn't say a thing and Liz turns to her and to him, "Don't worry about her, she muted."

'Yeah right' as Liz thought to herself, he must of did something to her and probably the rest of the men in this town. The bartender fills a mug with milk and he hands it to her. Liz takes a sip of the milk and it feels a bit good.

A man walks into the bar and spots Serenity and a good looking chick; he goes over to them, with a grin on his face and sat down beside Serenity. "Can I have a glass of beer, my friend, Joe?" Joe the bartender smiled at him and winks at him and moves away to get the beer. He turns his head and sees Serenity, "Hello Serenity, who is this?"

Serenity doesn't say a thing and Liz sees her body shaking, "A friend." She is feeling a bit nervous around him.

"A friend eh? What's her name?" He stares at her, dead center in the eyes.

Serenity doesn't know Liz's name, "I don't know, she never gave me her name, please, leave me alone."

He grabs her by the arm, "You tell me now!"

"Let go of me! You're hurting me!" she cried.

Liz quickly gets off the stool and went over to him and taps him on the shoulders. He lets go Serenity and he smiles at him. She smiled at him too and she punches him in the face and throws him onto the ground. Serenity looks at her, "Let's get out of here." Serenity said nothing to Liz and followed her anyways. The two exits the bar and heads back to the cabin.

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Joe finishes what he was doing he saw his loyal friend onto the ground, clutching to his nose, "What happened here?" He exits behind the bar booth and checks down on him.

"Serenity's gal pal, took a swung at me," he sits back up, "We need to teach the outsider a lesson, before Serenity squeal to her mother and this is something they will never regret."

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Liz and Serenity enters the cabin and sees Mike on the couch reading, "You two are back so soon." They said nothing, "Did something come up?" In a worried tone of voice

"Yeah," she turns to Serenity, "Start talking," as Liz crosses her arms, "Tell me what is with the men in this town and you?"

Tears streams down her face and doesn't say a thing, the mother, MaryAnn walks into the back of the cabin and sees Serenity, scared and about to reveal something. "What's going on?" She turns to her daughter and the two couple. "What happened?"

Mike turns to Liz for an answer; Liz looks at MaryAnn, "Did something happen to your daughter?"

"God no, is this all is about?" They said nothing, "Why do you asking this for? It's nothing."

"Nothing? Earlier today, I saw Serenity in the back room and she quickly exits and locks the door and at the bar, this guy waltz into the bar, asking for my name, Serenity doesn't give it and he grabs her arm and wouldn't let go, what the heck happened to your daughter?"

"I think your imagining all of this," she the mother quickly and snappy. She went over to her daughter, "Come."

"You're hiding something," said Mike, "You can tell us," as he blocks them from leaving. He looks at Liz and turns at the two woman, "My girlfriend saves peoples lives and help them, and she used to work for the New Gotham police department."

The mother sighs for a moment and looks at Liz, "Very, well, three years ago, the men in this town, including the Sheriff, brutally beaten her and assaulted her and that was the room where it took place. She is still traumatized by it ever since, we tried to leave the town, but we couldn't."

"It's like the Sheriff like owns you and whatever you do, you can't getaway," said Liz and she pauses for a few moments and then replies, "I think I should deal with them."

"What can you do? They can over power you." Mike tries not to laugh, "What's funny?" said the mother confused.

"I promise that you will keep a secret," said Liz looking at the two, "If you told a soul about this, this isn't good towards me." They nodded their heads in agreement in what she has to say, "I'm a Metahuman butt kicking crime fighter and you won't tell a soul about this, because I rarely tell people my secret, because they will know everything about me and what I can do, but I trust you two, since you trusted me to tell that dark secret and when I successfully take them down, detective Reese from New Gotham, will exposed this dark town and help you leave town and put you into protective custody till they find a way to keep you safe."

"Why are you doing this?"

"This is what I do for a living." 'Except with the Kane issue part' as she thought to herself, "Don't worry, I will take them down."

"Thank you!" she went over to Liz and hugs her and releases her.

"Mike, put them in your room and watch them at all cost," he nods his head and he went into the room and the two followed with him. "And I gotta call some friends." She quickly pauses and felt a sharp pain on her side and she nearly falls to the ground and she looks up and sees twenty men walking down the street. "Screw that." As she refers to her siblings and she gets back onto her toes and walks out of the cabin and locks the door shut.

She walks up to the men and grins at them, "You fella's looking for trouble?" They each grinned at her, "Well, you come to the right place, but first I gotta kick your rear end, because your in DEEP trouble, hurting my new friends."

"So you know?" said the Sheriff

"I know everything, dang straight, my boo." She leaps in the air and kicks the Sheriff in the jaw and the round man lands hard onto the ground. "Ding! Matches begin!" They look down and saw the Sheriff and charges at her and she jumps in the air and a light pink aura covers her body with another white glow and she lands onto the ground and her eyes are bright pink. "Taste this!" She flash-like speed up to them and started to throw punches at them and few kicks and one gets behind her and she backs kicks him in the nut and he drops onto his knees and she turns around sharply and pushes his head, causing him to drops to the ground. She back-flips in the air and she begins to make a white light orb with her hands and she chucks it at the ground and the dirt on the road blows up and the brown smog covers their faces and eyes and they either fall onto the ground or collided to each other. "I win!" Joe the bartender walks behind her and bangs her head hard with a bat and she falls to the ground, slipping into unconsciousness.

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Liz wakes up finds her in a room, in the back room of 'Joe's Tavern' and she slowly gets up and notices her hands are around shackles and she is chained to the wall. "Ow my head," she rubs her head and she pulled the chains off of her and breaks the shackles. She kicks down the metal cage down, "They are stupid." She exits the back room and sees the men celebrating. "Give me a break."

She spots one of the man putting some drugs into a glass of beer, like that is going to happen dude. Time for a small surprise.he-he-he. She crotches down and she changes into a beautiful white tiger and she sneaks behind the bar booth and looks up and sees Joe chatting to his men. Her white tail moves gently across his legs and he looks down and sees nothing. Liz then transfer into a mouse to sneak across the floor.

The man sees a mouse running across the floor, "Looky what we have here." He went over to the mouse and picks her up by the tail. "Its sure purty." He grins at the mouse, "Hello little mousey."

'He-he-he-he-he' that came out as a mouse little noise, she opens her mouth and bits him on the thumb and he start to scream and he breaks free and throws the mouse at the wall. 'Owie!' He looks at the mouse and about to step on her. But he stops immedienly as soon he sees the mouse getting larger and large. "Guys." He points the at the mouse and they stared in shock. Liz changes back into human formed. "What the heck are you? The devil?"

"Hellz, no, I'm your worst nightmare."

Their eyes widen with fear and bolted out of the bar. Liz walks out of the bar and sees them getting arrested, Reese looks at her, "Mike called us, after didn't receiving a word from you and he called us, we came, bagged the men and they will be sentence for life and as for Serenity and her mother, they are being put into police custody till they find a safe place."

Liz sees Mike, "Mike!" She hugs them, "I miss you so much!" He hugs her too.

"What happened?"

"I fought them, got unconscious, broke free from the jail cell, saw the drug putting into the beer, they knew I was going to wake up, then I scared the living daylights outta them, and here I am." She smiled at them. "Let's go home and work out this dealio with Kane, I'm sooo in the mood to fight evil back."

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