Now the early hours of nighttime, darkness slowly made its way into the city and the moon begun to shine its lovely light. Helena however, could not give a care about whether the sun was fading or if there was a hole in the moon. She just knew that tonight, her mother's impersonator was going down; no matter what it took to do so. Busy pouncing on the punching bag that was upstairs, and clad in her training outfit of a tanktop and black shorts, Helena got an unexpected visitor as she continued her assault.
"Don't you want to talk about this, Helena?" Barbara questioned as she took the glasses off of the bridge of her nose. Her dazzling red hair sparkled in the lights above her, but Helena took no notice.
"Come on Helena. You'll get ill or something if you keep training like this. The Catwoman-impostor is one of the many rogues you'll face in your life." Barbara tried to explain to her. After a sharp kick, Helena looked at her mentor.
"I get that you are concerned and everything, but this is something that I don't think you'll understand." Helena said as she wiped the sweat off her with the towel.
"Helena…"
"She was a mirror image of my mom, Barbara. I looked at a photo of her as Catwoman, and that burglar looked like her in every way. She even the smelled the way my mom did. I want her out of my city." Helena spoke gravelly to Barbara as she walked closer to her.
"You look like a lot tonight. Not just in appearance, but in personality traits too. Even though she was a world-class thief, Selina was a very resourceful, aggressive and sensible woman. But wait, scratch sensible off the list." Barbara retraced as she sat back in the wheelchair reminiscing.
"Was she a good fighter?" Helena asked.
"Don't let those claws fool you. Your mother was no joke when it came to fighting; she'd always hit Batman, Robin and me where it hurts. Even though it may sound disturbing, I miss having battles with her, she was so unpredictable." Barbara laughed at her thoughts.
Coming out from her room to join them was Dinah, who looked like she was ready for a nice night out. Helena even snapped out of her broodiness to make an inquiry about her ensemble that she was sporting.
"Wow, Miss Lance, going to paint New Gotham red, eh?" Helena questioned. Dinah rolled her eyes and joined the two women.
"Helena, if I said anything that offended you earlier, I'm…." Dinah was silenced by Helena's waving hand.
"It's forgotten Dinah. But hey, when you come back, I'm still going to kick your ass over the Iced Tea dress." Helena said with a form of giddiness.
"Bring it, Huntress." Dinah spoke with newfound sassiness.
"Hey, enough! If I wasn't wheelchair bound, you both would not be hearing the end of it from me." Barbara joked as Helena and Dinah laughed. Suddenly, a knock came at the door and both Helena and Barbara jerked to the source of the sound. Dinah smiled and headed for the door.
"That's my date…" she said.
"Are you brain-dead? The point of a secret lair is just that; keep it a secret! I can't believe you gave him our address!" Helena scolded her.
"Please, he's harmless. I'll catch up with you guys later." Dinah waved at them.
"Dinah, remember keep on your earring. If anything happens I'll give you a ring." Barbara instructed her as Dinah signaled that she knew what to do.
Dinah was welcomed at the outside door by her date for the night, Avery. Avery was in a dark gold muscle shirt with jeans and gave a warm smile to Dinah Lance.
"Hey there." Dinah told him.
"Hello yourself. You look awesome." Avery said with a smirk.
"So where are we going tonight?" Dinah asked the two headed for the elevator.
"I want to take you out to this new dinner slash nightclub. It's called Avalon, you heard of it?" Avery questioned.
"Who hasn't? I've been saving up since April to go there. So far all I've come up with is money for the appetizers. Still working on the main course though." Dinah said as Avery laughed.
"Please, I got the main course right here for you." Avery said as he looked at Dinah.
"Really?" Dinah said as she inched closer to him.
"I'm not talking about the food either." Avery said as he came closer to Dinah also.
"I know." She said as she was locked into a gentle kiss with Avery. His lips were wet but pillowy soft, and Dinah loved his feel. Leaving the clock tower, they headed out to the night, but Dinah did not know what Avery's true intentions were. Avery smiled at the thought of converting this new metahuman into the sisterhood for Mistress Bast. Dinah was everything he admired in a good woman of the cat; feisty, sexy and very spontaneous. Every since last week at Dark Horse, he knew that she was the one.
"But a test remains, to prove her worthiness…" Avery said aloud absentmindedly.
"What was that you said, Avery?" Dinah questioned.
"I said I'm enthused by your loveliness. Not all girls in New Gotham are trusting of men they just met you know? You're one of a kind." Avery said as he looked at Dinah with his eyes sparkling in the moonlight. Dinah kissed him once more and took notice of his strange eyes.
"Wow, you have such pretty eyes. But they look like those of cat's eyes." Dinah spotted as she looked deep into them. Avery laughed and came closer and closer to her.
"Avery, what's up with you?" Dinah questioned as he came closer. Suddenly, things stopped once Avery surprisingly got punched in his face and fell to the ground. The assailant as well as three others dressed in skin-tight leather made themselves known. Blonde and tall, Dinah was in shock.
"Oracle, Oracle come in. I need backup!" Dinah yelled in the receiver.
"Oracle, here. Dinah, listen you're on your own. Huntress is in the other part of the city. Try and hold them off, but if things get too hairy then I want you and Avery to get the hell out of there!" Oracle instructed.
"I gotcha." Dinah said as she got into fighting stance. All four of the leather opponents changed their eyes into cat's-eyes showing their metahuman abilities. Dinah sighed as one of them flipped over in her direction. Going for a handspring kick, Dinah reversed the attack and flipped the girl over and landed a snap kick to her face. The next two coming toward her got pushed right back down when Dinah attacked them with her psychic energy.
The next one got the jump on Dinah and slapped her hard across the face with a punch, and then knocked her downward after a spin kick. Gunning for her while she was on the ground, Dinah grabbed the woman's leg and swung her into a bench, making it break into splinters.
The two that Dinah shot with her powers previously, came back and landed a double kick, knocking Dinah out, but not for the count. The girl jumped up and punched them both viciously in the face and flipped them over by their hair. Before Dinah could attack the remainders, Avery got up into her face and began to laugh. Dinah, disturbed and confused looked blankly at him.
"You've been chosen Dinah, to enter the Sisterhood of Bast. You should be pleased." Avery told her.
"What? Sisterhood? Who's Bast?" Dinah questioned.
"You'll come to know in time, since you have passed the test. But for now…" Avery stopped as he gathered all of his strength and punched Dinah in her face. Unconscious, Avery put Dinah in his arms and carried her and started to walk with the members of the sisterhood.
"Dinah…Dinah…Dinah are you there?" Oracle yelled into the receiver but nothing occurred. At the clock tower, Oracle went frantic as she tried to trace Dinah's whereabouts.
-Xtreme Slayer