It had been quiet for some time. Dinah was beginning to worry even more. She didn't have her comm. set on, so Barbara couldn't track her location. How were they going to find her? Had they even realized by now that she was gone? Her head was throbbing and she was getting anxious when suddenly she felt a familiar presence nearby and she began to relax.
"Looks like you could use some help," Helena said as she started untying Dinah.
"No, thanks. I'm actually enjoying being tied to a chair," Dinah replied with sarcasm.
Helena finished untying her and took off the blindfold.
"You ok, kid? You look.... drugged." Helena looked at Dinah's face and saw the dilated pupils and confused look.
"Maybe 'cause I am. Don't worry about me. Although there is someone we should be worried about. They guy that kidnapped me just got a call and had to go. He said he had to take care of someone and I have a feeling it's someone we know."
"Your feelings are probably right. Oracle?" Helena turned on her comm set as she motioned Dinah to get up and follow her out.
"I read you Huntress. Did you find Dinah?" Oracle's voice was very worried.
"Yeah I did. Is everything ok? You sound freaked out."
Before Oracle had a chance to answer her the comm set went dead.
"Oracle? Oracle? " A look of concern came upon Helena. It certainly wasn't like Barbara to just go off comms. It fact she never had before.
"What's going on?" Witnessing Helena's expression Dinah started to get worried.
"We have to get to the clock tower. Oracle's not responding."
With that they bolted towards the clock tower and what they found wasn't what they were expecting. It felt like the elevator was taking forever to go up. When the doors slowly opened all they could see at first was black. Helena's catlike eyes adjusted to the dark quickly and she gasped at what she saw. She was about to run towards something when the lights went on and Dinah also saw what Helena had: Barbara and Alfred unconscious, beat, and tied up on the floor. Before either could react to the scene someone from behind them started clapping. Helena and Dinah swiftly turned around and saw Crawler standing there. "You came! But you're too late!"
"Oh my God! What are you doing here?" Dinah said shocked. From what Cade had said she was expecting to find him here. He had said he needed to take care of someone. If he didn't hurt Alfred and Barbara, then who did he have to take care of?
"Oh I'm sorry. Where you expecting someone else?" Crawler said to Dinah as he looked her up and down. "He got to you didn't he?" He gave her a creepy smile.
"What did you do to them?" Helena's eyes hastily changed and she charged into him and with a swift motion he picked her up and threw her into the wall. Dinah was taken by at his strength. He was a lot stronger than the last time they had fought. She hurried to Helena's side and tried to help her up.
"Why are you doing this to us?" Dinah asked as she tried to figure out what was going on. Why had the crawler come back to hurt them?
"Because I can. Because nobody can stop me. I can do whatever the hell I feel like with people's lives." He started to walk towards them. Dinah looked at Helena who was saken by the hit and was bleeding from the forehead.
"And what do you get from watching them hurt? Pleasure?" Helena said as she pushed Dinah behind her for protection.
"No, of course not. I'm just trying to help them learn a lesson. What kind of a man do you think I am?" He was getting very close to them and he wasn't the slightest bit scared. He made a fist and was about to punch Helena when Dinah used her telekinesis to send him flying into a wall.
"You're not a man, you're an animal! No, you're worst then animal, you're....trash!" Dinah blurted out as she came out from behind Helena and started tossing Crawler around with her mind. "And no offense but if I were a parent I wouldn't want you as my child's teacher." She had thrown Crawler into so many walls then he was starting to lose consciousness.
Helena rushed to Barbara and Alfred's side and started untying them. She rushed to get the emergency medical kit and used smelling salts on Barbara and Alfred. Bu the time they woke up Crawler was lying unconscious on the other side of the room. Helena and Dinah helped Barbara into her chair. The girls quickly explained everything to Barbara and tied up Crawler.
"Thank God you two are ok!" Barbara couldn't stop saying that, like it was a miracle that they had.
"You have so little faith in us Oracle, "Dinah said with a small smile that disappeared when she took a closer look at Barbara's expression. "What aren't you telling us?"
"The clinic that he was transferred to, it was doing experiments on Metahumans. They were messing with there genes," Barbara explained to Helena and Dinah.
"You don't by any chance mean the ones that they wear do you?" Dinah tried to lighten the mood but was obviously failing.
Alfred walked in the room holding a tray with glasses of lemonade in it. "I believe everyone could use a drink right about now." He gave everyone a glass.
"Fortunately for us, Crawler didn't know about Dinah's telekinesis. So he wasn't prepared for it. And may I just say, you totally kicked his ass girl!" Helena smiled and gave her a friendly punch in the arm.
"Thanks but I don't think we should be celebrating yet. Remember I said the guy that kidnapped me said he had to take care of someone? Well he's not here and he wasn't the one who hurt Barbara and Alfred which makes me think he's still out there and about to hurt someone we care about. But who?"
A look of terror came to Helena as she figured out who that person would be.
"Oh no!" Before anyone had time to react, Helena rushed to the balcony and jumped down.
