The shot missed, but the loud noise made her angry, she punched him harder. The man fell backwards and the pistol fell to the floor. She hit him with her fists. The man yelped.

"Helena, stop!!!"

The brunette turned her head and saw another intruder.

"Are you crazy?" Dinah said, looking the bleeding man lying on the floor. "You are going to kill him!"

The brunette growled and ran toward her to attack. Dinah understood she was not in her senses and, raising her hand, she hit her friend with an energy shield that made the brunette bounce against the ground. Dinah stepped back. "Huntress, it's me..."

The brunette heard a noise and turned, she saw the guard dragging to take his pistol again. She was over him before Dinah could blink, she reacted immediately and jumped over the brunette to prevent her from hurting him more. Helena pushed Dinah with incredible strength. Dinah rolled over the floor.

"Barbara..." Dinah took her mic. "Helena doesn't recognize me..." She felt the hand of her friend around her neck. Helena raised her with one hand. Dinah tried to release her grip but the strength of Helena was incredible. If she squeezed her neck, she would easily break it. "Huntess... don't..." she whispered.

The brunette locked her eyes on her. Instinctively, she felt she couldn't hurt the girl. She released her and ran into the shadows. Dinah fell to the floor coughing and rubbing her neck. When she looked up, Helena had gone. She wanted to follow her, but the zoo guard was in bad condition.

Barbara arrived a few seconds later. Dinah was checking the unconscious man on the ground.

"Dinah, what happened?" Barbara asked, worried at the sight of the man covered with blood.

"She almost killed him. She attacked me, but I guess she recognized me suddenly, because she released me and ran. I thought for a moment that she was going to break my neck."

Barbara took Dinah's chin in her palm to check her neck. Satisfied the girl was not injured, she checked her locator. "She is near here." She turned her wheelchair.

"Where are you going?"

"I need to stop her. She could seriously hurt someone."

"But..."

"Go to the Hummer, call an ambulance, this man needs help. Hurry up." Barbara turned on her mic. "Wonder Woman, position?"

::A few minutes from New Gotham.::

"We found Helena at the New Gotham zoo."

::I'll be there in a few minutes.::

It would be just like her to think to hide in a zoo. Luckily, I finished my meetings at the United Nations and I was flying in my invisible jet to New Gotham again. I was flying as fast as I could but it would stil take me fifteen or twenty minutes.

Helena sniffed, something familiar, she began to follow the smell. Her steps took her to the infirmary of the zoo. She broke the door easily pushing it with her hands. She walked in. Inside, there were some injured animals inside small cells that began to to make noises when they heard her inside. She looked at some of them; the smell turned stronger and she discovered from where the smell came.

A young tiger, maybe ten months was inside a cage. His foot was bandaged. She kneeled and looked at him with curiosity. She tried to touch him and he growled at her; she returned the growl with a playful one. The animal moved his nose close to her to smell her and she did the same. They sniffed each others faces a few seconds. She looked up and shook the bars. She stood up and, taking it between her hands, she broke the door of the cell.

The tiger moved outside and she followed him. She caressed his head and hugged him. The tiger saw her as a playmate and pushed her playfully with his paw. She fell and sat on the floor. She pushed him back with her hand and pounced at him. Growling, he jumped on her and they rolled around, wrestling for several minutes. The tiger nudged her with his head and they both uttered low rumbles of happiness from their chests.

A raccoon eating corn caught Helena's attention. She crawled toward it to scare it.

The plan worked and the raccoon jumped, she began to taunt it, playing. The raccoon ran to a corner and she tried to catch it but the small animal was fast. The game began to annoy the girl because she couldn't trap it. Suddenly, she lost it.

The animal jumped on her back with it claws on her head. She growled and, moving back, she knocked down a counter. The raccoon jumped on the floor.

Barbara heard loud crash and she followed it. The only reason for it must be that someone was disturbing them. The silent night helped her to hear the noises clearly. She heard them coming from a house in one of the back parts of the park and she could see from a distance that the door was broken; she immediately knew that her protégé would be there. The place was dark, she need a few seconds to let her eyes adjust. She put the dart gun on her lap.

Helena was taunting a raccoon. The small animal hissed to her and she tried unsuccessfully to trap it. She was so distracted that she didn't hear Barbara wheeling in.

"Helena..."

The brunette jumped back, startled, when she saw the red head. She crouched on the floor; she was in a corner and looked around trying to find a way to escape.

"Easy Helena, it's just me, Barbara..." the red head said softly.

Helena hissed, the last few hours she had been running from everyone, it seemed everybody wanted to catch her. She moved slowly toward her right.

"No, no..." Barbara said calmly. "I don't want to you." Barbara heard the sounds coming from her protégé. They weren't normal. She couldn't see her well, the place was too dark, "Hel... are you okay?" She kept still watching her, she could see her eyes in feral form shining in the darkness.

She heard her sniffing. After a few seconds that seemed like hours, Helena slowly began to move toward her. Through a window, a light from a lamp outside the house gave her the opportunity to see her. Her hair was messy and she had a strange look on her face. Barbara couldn't avoid feeling afraid, If Helena wasn't in her senses, she would be dangerous. She slowly extended her hand to her. The brunette moved her nose next to her skin. She sniffed there a few seconds and began to move slowly smelling her legs, too.

"That's it..." Barbara whispered. "It's me..."

Barbara heard a loud growl to her left, she turned her head and saw the big tiger, whose eyes shone in the dark, walking toward her. Barbara tried to unlock the dart gun. Helena hissed and moved back, startled by her abrupt movement. Barbara turned her chair to avoid the impact of the tiger that charged against her. The animal crashed into the back part of it making her fall to the floor with the chair over her. She hit the floor hard against the strong impact, and lost the dart gun.

The tiger hit with the chair with his paw, she tried to keep it over her to avoid the tiger's sharp claws; or she wouldn't have a chance.

Helena senses turned on. Suddenly, she jumped over the tiger grabbing his neck. Barbara watched the fight, her heart beating quickly; Helena was protecting her. The animal was strong and struggled, he scratched her with one of her claws on her arm and she released him. She growled and she hit him roughly with her fist on his snout. The fight was fast. After that, the animal understood who was in control and ran away.

The brunette stood up and watched him go. Barbara used her strength to lift her chair. Helena heard the noise and turned her head; she watched her a few seconds and ran towards the back door.

"Helena, don't go!" Barbara shouted.

Helena broke the door smashing her body against it. She looked around. To her right was a small, square pool where the doctors took the sick dolphins. At the end of it was a small door. She jumped down and, crawling, crossed it, she was in a place full of machines. An engine room. She tried to climb up and put her foot over a key, the key broke under her weight and water flowed from it into the pool. A red light turned on and she looked the small door closing down. She ran and jumped trying to cross it before it closed.

She always was fast.

But this time she wasn't enough fast.

She mewled when she felt the door trapping her ankle. She tried to free it, unsuccessfully, moving her legs, but the electronic door was heavy and created an intense pressure over her feet trying to close it. It hurt like hell and she had another problem, the water was running below the door and was filling the place.

Barbara climbed on her chair again and picked up the dart gun. She wheeled in the direction Helena had gone. She looked for her outside calling her name. She heard growls coming from a small canal. She wheeled toward it.

Helena was in the bottom of it, it was a very small pool but deep. The brunette was resting on her left side while her right foot was trapped below the electronic door, trying unsuccessfully to free her leg.

Barbara saw the water flowing under the door, knew she didn't have much time, she took off her belt and wrapped her legs with it. She moved down the wheelchair. Helena hissed when she heard her and tried to move back but was impossible. She was trapped.

''Helena, let me help you..'' Barbara looked at her, finally she could see her eyes, they had a strange color. She moved down the wheelchair and swung her legs over the edge. Helena growled loudly again, the pain was intense. "Easy, Hel... easy, I need to get you out of there." Barbara held the stairway and began to descend it slowly using her hands. She needed to get her out of there before she drowned.

She heard a 'crack', the old stairway broke and she fell down; she tried to grab onto something but it was useless. Helena meowed and moved back. The last thing Barbara saw before her head hit against the opposite wall, was the wood ceiling of the room.

"Dinah." Wonder Woman landed next to her. The blonde was running inside the zoo park. "Where is Helena?"

"Oracle went to look for her while I called an ambulance; I have been calling her but she doesn't answer me. I'm worried, and I don't know where she could be. Maybe Helena hurt her."

"I hope no." The amazon looked around. "Keep your eyes open, I'll fly around the zoo looking for hers

"Yes, maybe you can find them easily. Keep in contact."

The amazon flew up and Dinah continued looking around.

Barbara was with her back against the cold wall. She slowly came back to her senses; she had been unconscious a few minutes. She felt her head throbbing and water around her. She tried to move, but a warm body against her didn't allow her movement. She opened her eyes and looked down, in some way, when she had been unconscious, Helena had recognized her and had managed to move her head to her lap.

"Helena? Are you okay?"she asked looking at the girl's leg trapped under the door. It, in an attempt to close, was hurting her. The water was still flowing into the place. "Hold on." She leaned over Helena to pull her leg and free her knowing they didn't have much time.

The brunette whimpered and held Barbara's waist strongly, feeling the pressure on her foot increase.

"Helena, help me, try to move your feet." Barbara tried to free her again while the girl pulled her leg. "Harder, Helena." It was unsuccessful, the girl cried out and buried her head in Barbara's lap.

Barbara stopped her movements. Helena's eyes were feral and she could read the pain in them. The pressure on her ankle was too much. Whimpering sounds started to come from the sick girl. Trying to soothe her, Barbara started to pet her head like a house pet. "It's okay, calm down, calm down.," Barbara told her softly, as whimpering sounds turned into a soft purr. In some way, the red head made her felt protected.

::Oracle? Where are you?:: Dinah called her.

"Dinah, I need help."

::Thanks of God, you were off line. Are you okay?::

"Yes, I'm okay. I'm with Helena. I need help, we are in trouble. I'm in a house next to the panther's cage; the east side of the park."

::Got it. Wonder Woman?::

::I'm on my way:: the amazon answered.

Oracle looked down. Helena was breathing quickly, feeling scared without understanding what was happening. Oracle tried to move again but Helena growled. Oracle held her and continued to pet her head. The pain was too much.

"I need to help you, this place is flowing, we need to go out.'' She moved lightly and taking a piece of metal broken from the stairway, she put it in the space where the door was opened, using it as a crowbar. ''Hold on just a few.'' She used all her weight but the crow bar just bent. "Damn."

Helena buried her face on her.

"Oracle, are you here?" she heard Wonder Woman's voice over her.

"I'm here!" Barbara shouted.

Diana kneeled on the edge and looked down. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, open the door, her leg is trapped."

Diana jumped down. Huntress raised her head and viciously hissed at her and tried to scratch her.

''Huntress.!'' Barbara took her arm and held it against her.

''It's okay. Don't worry,'' Diana said moving toward the door, but Helena threw her a punch that she barely avoided.

"Damn, Helena!" Barbara shouted grabbing her wrist. "Let her help you."

"She is just protecting you. Let me try something different." Diana kneeled and looked for the girl's eyes. "Helena, look at me."

"Do you think that would work?" Barbara asked knowing what she was trying to do. The princess of Themyscira had been granted, by Arthemis, godss of the hunt, with the eyes of a hunter and unity with beasts. She had an empathy with the animal kingdom and was able to communicate and calm the most savage creatures.

"I have never tried to create a link with a person that has a feline meta side," the amazon answered, "but we can try, maybe it will work... Helena, look at me," she said with a soft voice; the brunette growled, but didn't look at her. Wonder Woman raised her hand like she was going to touch Oracle. Helena annoyed, tried to attack her again, growling. Wonder woman moved back locking her eyes with her.

"Shit! Helena!" Oracle tried to hold her, but the girl was too strong.

"It's okay, it's okay. She is looking me." The amazon said.

The brunette moved back and held Oracle's waist again unable to move her eyes from Diana. Something in them attracted her attention. Barbara observed the interaction in silence. Dinah appeared in that moment, but her mentor signed with her hand not to move and keep silence. Oracle noticed Huntress' agitation began to diminish. After a few moments, she started to purr and rubbed her head against Barbara's leg.

Diana moved her hand and stroked Helena's arm. "Good girl," the princess praised and smiled at Oracle.

"Amazing." Dinah said.

Diana kneeled next to the door and pushed it up. The water ran freely inside filling the place. Huntress felt the pressure over her leg gone and a great relief on her ankle. The amazon held her waist with her left arm and Barbara with the other one before flying outside.