THE CAT, THE BAT, AND I
Thanks so much to Nightstalker for her edting help.
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I travel, I usually travel around world, helping people, and it's a marvelous experience. I have an endless list of persons awiting me round the world: I had face almost everything: terrorist, high tech thieves, street crimes, sportsmen hunting prohibited species; I help too when there are an accident or a disasters.
The most beautiful moments is when I have the opportunity to give a gentle hand and confort a frightened infant. I love kids, they are the hope of the world.
People needs a better place where to live. And in this fight to help them sometimes you and all your powers are not enough to stop the madness that exist on the world. Sometimes you need help, Its nice work with your friends and sometimes it give you incrdible experiences to remember all your life. Let me tell you what happened the day that I need call a friend for help. I never expected find behind her an amazing world of survive and love. This is one of the most beautiful experiences I ever had.
This is the story...
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It wasn't an average day in New Gotham. Dinah had gone to the school, but Barbara had excused herself waiting for an unexpected visitor. She got a phone call early. It was not the phone call that worried her, it was the fact that the person that had made the call needed to see her in person. That was not normal behavior for her friend.
Most of the time they talked about business. Barbara was very picky about letting people know her; but she did make exceptions, her visitor was one of the few people that knew her face to face or kind of, through the computer screen.
She had brushed her hair into a ponytail, it made her look younger. At the moment, Helena was surely sleeping like a log at her apartment after a long, heavy night-- they had stopped three robberies and one kidnapping. It worried her; it was too much work for Dinah, she was thinking seriously about an easier work schedule for her. She picked up her coffee mug and looked her watch. A signal appeared as she raised her eyes to the monitors.
"She is here, punctual as always," she said to Alfred who was on the lower floor cleaning some equipment. She immediately deactivated her security system.
"Okay." Alfred walked toward the balcony door.
"Okay?" Barbara raised her brown.
"I am normalizing my vocabulary."
"Helena?"
Alfred just smiled.
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I loved to fly, it was an incredible sensation. The feeling of freedom was something that filled my soul. I saw the big building that was the Clock Tower and went to it. It wasn't my first visit to New Gotham; but it had been a long time since the last time I had been there. I found my target: The Clocktower. I had known Barbara since she was Batgirl because of her association with Batman. And after the shooting, we hadn't met again, this was to be the first time that we would see each other in all those years. We had been in contact but usually just for work through computers and special communication systems. Oracle was the best hacker in the world.
I landed softly over the balcony and found Alfred waiting for my there.
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He smiled looking the graceful woman. "Welcome princess. Miss Barbara is waiting for you."
"Alfred?"
"The same."
"Nice to see you again, Alfred." She smiled putting her hand over his shoulder.
"It's a pleasure for me too. You look as young as always."
"That was really nice. You are really a gentlemen."
"I am British. This way please." He opened the door
She laughed and followed him.
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"The wizard Oracle, working as always."
Barbara raised her head when she heard her name. "And you still don't like doors princess." She was happy to see her friend.
"Hello, Oracle." The tall brunette smiled looking at her; she had a beautiful face.
"I was waiting for you."
"This place is not the disaster I imagined." The woman walked inside the lab looking around. The Clock Tower was really amazing. She was wearing white pants and a red blouse. Her long, dark hair fell over her shoulders.
"How's that?" Oracle asked.
"I imagined you in the middle of keyboards, and thousands of computers. But this place is marvelous." She walked inside the lab and hugged her strongly.
Barbara hugged her back. "Long time."
The woman moved back and took the red head's hands between hers, kneeling in front of her. "Yes, I haven't seen you since before the shooting."
"Yes... it was almost eight years ago."
"I'm glad you found the courage to continue the fight, Barbara, you're a true hero."
"I'm not, I just..." Barbara blushed.
"You are." The woman interrupted with a firm voice. "You are an example for all of us. You kept fighting against all odds.... And you won."
"I'd like to feel happy to see you," Barbara tried to change the subject, talking about herself wasn't her favorite subject, "but the truth is that it worries me. I know that you are not here for a social visit."
"I always ask for your help."
"Yes, but you ask, you never come, and if you come here, it must be a bad thing."
"I forgot, an Oracle knows everything, right?." The princess smiled, moving back.
"Yes." Barbara smiled too.
"You are right. Do you remember Circe?" she sat next to her.
"Yes... she is a powerful wizard."
"Circe's powers derive from black magic and the manipulation of magical energy, for all her powers, Circe is still basically mortal. She has altered her appearance to keep me off guard."
"She hates you because you were gifted by all the Gods and Goddess while she was only favored by Hecate." The redhead paused. "She transformed you into clay during the War of the Gods. Princess... Is she back?"
"I'm sure of it, Oracle."
"I don't like this..."
"Me either. I have some clues, she is using a scientist here in New Gotham to mix her Bestiamorph potion in some food elements. I need do research for the companies that work here with food."
"I can do that... Why New Gotham?"
"She thinks I don't work here, and it would give her more time. But I'm not going to move from this city until know what is she is planning."
The sound of the elevator door opening called their attention.
"Barbara? What are you doing here?" Helena walked inside. Her mentor usually was at school in the mornings. She noticed the strange woman seated next to her mentor; that was weird. No one had access inside the Clock Tower.
"Hi Helena, come here." Barbara gestured to her to come near with her hand.
Helena walked with suspicion into the lab; she didn't like strange people there. The brunette woman stood up, cutting her thoughts. She was maybe 25 or 26 years old and had a really beautiful face. Helena noticed she was tall, really tall.
"Princess," Barbara said proudly "This is Helena, Helena Kyle."
"Princess?" Helena frowned.
"Hi, nice to meet you," Diana said smiling and extending her hand. Helena gave her hand, not yet convinced to greet the visitor.
"She is my protégé." Barbara explained.
"You have a protégé?"
"Actually, two. Dinah is not here, she's at school. Helena is half meta and Dinah is meta, with telekinetic powers."
"You are incredible, you have been keeping busy." The amazon was surprised; Barbara was not just a cybernetic genius she still had the spirit and the strengthh to train people. It was admirable.
"You have no idea." Barbara laughed lightly.
Helena, who had keeping watching the woman in silence, crossed her arms and asked a question, fixing her eyes on Diana. "Nice chat, but who are you?"
"She is Diana, princess of Themyscira." Barbara explained.
"Themys... what?"
"Well, Temyscira is an island where only women live. It's in the Bermuda triangle."
"Is she an amazon?" The brunette remembered some stories that Barbara had told her about other super heroes in the world. It was like listening to fairy tales. She had read or watched tv reports about them, and knew Barbara sometimes helped some of them with her computer skills but, she had never met one.
"Yes, I am," Diana said.
"And what is she doing here?" Helena asked Barbara. The fact that she was an unknown person, was still bothering her, amazon or not.
"Helena, that wasn't polite!" the redhead scolded her.
"Sorry but it's odd to see a stranger here."
"It's okay, it's okay," Diana said, she touched Barbara's shoulder and looked Helena. "We met years ago, and now I came here to ask for Oracle's help."
Helena wasn't convinced and raised her brow. "And the... people in your kingdom can't help you?
"Helena." Barbara sighed "You have no idea who she is, do you?"
"A princess, right?" Helena answered sarcastically. "I just imagined that if she was a princess, she had a kingdom and an army to protect her." She didn't like seeing strange people in the place that she thought of as her territory. She could say she and Barbara had been friends, but she had never seen her before; whatever, after the experience with Darkstrike she didn't trust so much in Barbara's instincts about her friends.
The red head was going to say something but Diana touched her shoulder. She didn't want to start an argument there. "It's okay, Barbara, don't worry, she is just worried for your work place."
"She's right." Helena nodded.
Barbara wasn't happy with her protégé's attitude. She glared at her. "The princess is my friend, that's enough for me and, therefore, for you, okay?"
"Well..."
"Okay?" the red head pointed with firm voice.
"Okay..." Helena sighed in disgust.
"We'll talk later. Now I need to work with her. Go train." Barbara was ashamed by her attitude; politeness had never been one of the her strong points.
"At nine am? I came for breakfast," the brunette protested.
"Well, go get breakfast."
"Are you trying to get rid of me?"
"No, I'm not trying to get rid of you... I just need to work with her. Go to breakfast." Barbara turned toward the Delphi without hiding her annoyance "Come on princess, we need to do a search."
Helena glared at them. She turned and walked in bad mood toward the kitchen.
"Sorry princess, sometimes she is so difficult," Barbara said, stopping in front of her monitor.
"I understand, don't worry. I think she is worried about you and the security of this place. As I said, this place is amazing."
"She needs to learn to control her temper, she's always the same." The redhead began to type at her keyboard "She is not a child anymore. She has her mother's attitude and is as stubborn as him."
"Him?"
"I'll explain to you later."
"You just need to explain to her who I am," Diana said in calm voice.
"I wanted to, but she is always in a defensive position. Before she knew who you were, she was attacking you. I don't like that," Barbara explained.
"I don't want to cause trouble for you." Diana looked upstairs.
"You aren't." She looked at Diana "It's not you, it's her. She needs to learn to control herself. For her own good. Now, let's go to work."
"Ok."
Thanks so much to Nightstalker for her edting help.
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I travel, I usually travel around world, helping people, and it's a marvelous experience. I have an endless list of persons awiting me round the world: I had face almost everything: terrorist, high tech thieves, street crimes, sportsmen hunting prohibited species; I help too when there are an accident or a disasters.
The most beautiful moments is when I have the opportunity to give a gentle hand and confort a frightened infant. I love kids, they are the hope of the world.
People needs a better place where to live. And in this fight to help them sometimes you and all your powers are not enough to stop the madness that exist on the world. Sometimes you need help, Its nice work with your friends and sometimes it give you incrdible experiences to remember all your life. Let me tell you what happened the day that I need call a friend for help. I never expected find behind her an amazing world of survive and love. This is one of the most beautiful experiences I ever had.
This is the story...
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It wasn't an average day in New Gotham. Dinah had gone to the school, but Barbara had excused herself waiting for an unexpected visitor. She got a phone call early. It was not the phone call that worried her, it was the fact that the person that had made the call needed to see her in person. That was not normal behavior for her friend.
Most of the time they talked about business. Barbara was very picky about letting people know her; but she did make exceptions, her visitor was one of the few people that knew her face to face or kind of, through the computer screen.
She had brushed her hair into a ponytail, it made her look younger. At the moment, Helena was surely sleeping like a log at her apartment after a long, heavy night-- they had stopped three robberies and one kidnapping. It worried her; it was too much work for Dinah, she was thinking seriously about an easier work schedule for her. She picked up her coffee mug and looked her watch. A signal appeared as she raised her eyes to the monitors.
"She is here, punctual as always," she said to Alfred who was on the lower floor cleaning some equipment. She immediately deactivated her security system.
"Okay." Alfred walked toward the balcony door.
"Okay?" Barbara raised her brown.
"I am normalizing my vocabulary."
"Helena?"
Alfred just smiled.
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I loved to fly, it was an incredible sensation. The feeling of freedom was something that filled my soul. I saw the big building that was the Clock Tower and went to it. It wasn't my first visit to New Gotham; but it had been a long time since the last time I had been there. I found my target: The Clocktower. I had known Barbara since she was Batgirl because of her association with Batman. And after the shooting, we hadn't met again, this was to be the first time that we would see each other in all those years. We had been in contact but usually just for work through computers and special communication systems. Oracle was the best hacker in the world.
I landed softly over the balcony and found Alfred waiting for my there.
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He smiled looking the graceful woman. "Welcome princess. Miss Barbara is waiting for you."
"Alfred?"
"The same."
"Nice to see you again, Alfred." She smiled putting her hand over his shoulder.
"It's a pleasure for me too. You look as young as always."
"That was really nice. You are really a gentlemen."
"I am British. This way please." He opened the door
She laughed and followed him.
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"The wizard Oracle, working as always."
Barbara raised her head when she heard her name. "And you still don't like doors princess." She was happy to see her friend.
"Hello, Oracle." The tall brunette smiled looking at her; she had a beautiful face.
"I was waiting for you."
"This place is not the disaster I imagined." The woman walked inside the lab looking around. The Clock Tower was really amazing. She was wearing white pants and a red blouse. Her long, dark hair fell over her shoulders.
"How's that?" Oracle asked.
"I imagined you in the middle of keyboards, and thousands of computers. But this place is marvelous." She walked inside the lab and hugged her strongly.
Barbara hugged her back. "Long time."
The woman moved back and took the red head's hands between hers, kneeling in front of her. "Yes, I haven't seen you since before the shooting."
"Yes... it was almost eight years ago."
"I'm glad you found the courage to continue the fight, Barbara, you're a true hero."
"I'm not, I just..." Barbara blushed.
"You are." The woman interrupted with a firm voice. "You are an example for all of us. You kept fighting against all odds.... And you won."
"I'd like to feel happy to see you," Barbara tried to change the subject, talking about herself wasn't her favorite subject, "but the truth is that it worries me. I know that you are not here for a social visit."
"I always ask for your help."
"Yes, but you ask, you never come, and if you come here, it must be a bad thing."
"I forgot, an Oracle knows everything, right?." The princess smiled, moving back.
"Yes." Barbara smiled too.
"You are right. Do you remember Circe?" she sat next to her.
"Yes... she is a powerful wizard."
"Circe's powers derive from black magic and the manipulation of magical energy, for all her powers, Circe is still basically mortal. She has altered her appearance to keep me off guard."
"She hates you because you were gifted by all the Gods and Goddess while she was only favored by Hecate." The redhead paused. "She transformed you into clay during the War of the Gods. Princess... Is she back?"
"I'm sure of it, Oracle."
"I don't like this..."
"Me either. I have some clues, she is using a scientist here in New Gotham to mix her Bestiamorph potion in some food elements. I need do research for the companies that work here with food."
"I can do that... Why New Gotham?"
"She thinks I don't work here, and it would give her more time. But I'm not going to move from this city until know what is she is planning."
The sound of the elevator door opening called their attention.
"Barbara? What are you doing here?" Helena walked inside. Her mentor usually was at school in the mornings. She noticed the strange woman seated next to her mentor; that was weird. No one had access inside the Clock Tower.
"Hi Helena, come here." Barbara gestured to her to come near with her hand.
Helena walked with suspicion into the lab; she didn't like strange people there. The brunette woman stood up, cutting her thoughts. She was maybe 25 or 26 years old and had a really beautiful face. Helena noticed she was tall, really tall.
"Princess," Barbara said proudly "This is Helena, Helena Kyle."
"Princess?" Helena frowned.
"Hi, nice to meet you," Diana said smiling and extending her hand. Helena gave her hand, not yet convinced to greet the visitor.
"She is my protégé." Barbara explained.
"You have a protégé?"
"Actually, two. Dinah is not here, she's at school. Helena is half meta and Dinah is meta, with telekinetic powers."
"You are incredible, you have been keeping busy." The amazon was surprised; Barbara was not just a cybernetic genius she still had the spirit and the strengthh to train people. It was admirable.
"You have no idea." Barbara laughed lightly.
Helena, who had keeping watching the woman in silence, crossed her arms and asked a question, fixing her eyes on Diana. "Nice chat, but who are you?"
"She is Diana, princess of Themyscira." Barbara explained.
"Themys... what?"
"Well, Temyscira is an island where only women live. It's in the Bermuda triangle."
"Is she an amazon?" The brunette remembered some stories that Barbara had told her about other super heroes in the world. It was like listening to fairy tales. She had read or watched tv reports about them, and knew Barbara sometimes helped some of them with her computer skills but, she had never met one.
"Yes, I am," Diana said.
"And what is she doing here?" Helena asked Barbara. The fact that she was an unknown person, was still bothering her, amazon or not.
"Helena, that wasn't polite!" the redhead scolded her.
"Sorry but it's odd to see a stranger here."
"It's okay, it's okay," Diana said, she touched Barbara's shoulder and looked Helena. "We met years ago, and now I came here to ask for Oracle's help."
Helena wasn't convinced and raised her brow. "And the... people in your kingdom can't help you?
"Helena." Barbara sighed "You have no idea who she is, do you?"
"A princess, right?" Helena answered sarcastically. "I just imagined that if she was a princess, she had a kingdom and an army to protect her." She didn't like seeing strange people in the place that she thought of as her territory. She could say she and Barbara had been friends, but she had never seen her before; whatever, after the experience with Darkstrike she didn't trust so much in Barbara's instincts about her friends.
The red head was going to say something but Diana touched her shoulder. She didn't want to start an argument there. "It's okay, Barbara, don't worry, she is just worried for your work place."
"She's right." Helena nodded.
Barbara wasn't happy with her protégé's attitude. She glared at her. "The princess is my friend, that's enough for me and, therefore, for you, okay?"
"Well..."
"Okay?" the red head pointed with firm voice.
"Okay..." Helena sighed in disgust.
"We'll talk later. Now I need to work with her. Go train." Barbara was ashamed by her attitude; politeness had never been one of the her strong points.
"At nine am? I came for breakfast," the brunette protested.
"Well, go get breakfast."
"Are you trying to get rid of me?"
"No, I'm not trying to get rid of you... I just need to work with her. Go to breakfast." Barbara turned toward the Delphi without hiding her annoyance "Come on princess, we need to do a search."
Helena glared at them. She turned and walked in bad mood toward the kitchen.
"Sorry princess, sometimes she is so difficult," Barbara said, stopping in front of her monitor.
"I understand, don't worry. I think she is worried about you and the security of this place. As I said, this place is amazing."
"She needs to learn to control her temper, she's always the same." The redhead began to type at her keyboard "She is not a child anymore. She has her mother's attitude and is as stubborn as him."
"Him?"
"I'll explain to you later."
"You just need to explain to her who I am," Diana said in calm voice.
"I wanted to, but she is always in a defensive position. Before she knew who you were, she was attacking you. I don't like that," Barbara explained.
"I don't want to cause trouble for you." Diana looked upstairs.
"You aren't." She looked at Diana "It's not you, it's her. She needs to learn to control herself. For her own good. Now, let's go to work."
"Ok."