Barbara closed the Hummer door. She rested her head on the back seat and closed her eyes a few seconds then moved her hands down to turn off the transponder. Still hurt like hell. She needed to make more adaptations to it. She removed it carefully and put it on the passenger seat. She closed her eyes again and rested her head on the wheel; she just needed a few seconds to recover.

--Miss Barbara, we have a situation here…-- she heard Alfred's voice on the mic.

"What situation Alfred?."

--I got a phone call. I taped it--.

She moved back and put the car in drive. Alfred played the recording; surprised, she stopped the Hummer. When the narration finished, she asked, almost stunned, "Is that Cheetah?"

--It should be, Miss Barbara, who else? She called a few minutes ago.--

"How could she know our phone number?"

--I don't have any idea.--

"If she calls again, send the call to my mobile. Use Delphi. I'm moving." She pressed the accelerator button with her hand.

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"You?... " Helena tried to stand up but found her senses were totally numb; it was like being drunk. Her arms felt heavy and her hands were tied behind her back.

"Careful…" Sandy stood up, pointing at her with a Chinese star, "you will be dead before you break that chain."

"What... do you want now?"

"You know... Barbara."

Helena coughed. "You can't..:"

"I can. She killed my sister, eye for an eye.. remember?" Shiva wet the cloth in the cold water.

"You're wrong..."

"We'll talk later." Sandy sat on the mattress and wiped Helena forehead, "You're burning up, girl. You're sick. You should be in bed, not out on the streets."

"Sandy..." the brunette mumbled.

Suddenly, the door broke with a loud noise, the oriental woman covered her face and stepped back. A growl echoed in the room.

"She's mine…" Cheetah growled. She'd followed the other woman after the stranger had stopped her from attacking, on the rooftop.

"Yours? Sorry, my dear…" Shiva tried to throw a Chinese star at Cheetah, but the woman grabbed her wrist with her tail and pushed her against the wall.

"Great…" the brunette mumbled to herself, trying to break the chains that bound her; but they held. The women were taking their time fighting. She made a greater effort and pulled harder, unsucessfully.

"I'll kill you!" Cheetah grunted, sending Shiva against the wall, "The necklace is mine!"

Shiva rolled to avoid a hard blow from the angry woman, "What damn necklace?"

"It's mine! Where is it?"

Shiva had gone through Helena's pockets without finding anything except for a ancient piece of paper with a drawing of a necklace. She kicked her assailant in the gut to push her as far away as possible. "I don't have a necklace, and she doesn't either. I searched her.

"She must have it." Cheetah attacked Shiva again, the oriental woman ducked.

Cheetah grabbed Shiva by her neck and hit her harder against the ground. "You are dead!"

Shiva gasped, surprised by the strength of the woman.

Cheetah raised her claw.

"Wait!" Shiva whispered, raising her hand "She doesn't have it, but I know where is it…"

"What?"

"I checked her, she doesn't have it," Shiva coughed. "…But I know where you can find it…"

Helena let her head fall back; she couldn't break the ropes, she felt so sick and staying conscious was hard. She tried to keep her eyes open, knowing she was in big trouble with those two women there, but this was useful information.

"Talk." The Cheetah growled.

"You want the necklace, I want the other woman. I think both can get what we want." Shiva coughed again, "Release me, let me explain…"

"Don't try to play with me…"Tthe woman released her and stepped back.

Shiva rubbed her neck and stood up, she tried to move, but Cheetah growled.

"Easy," Shiva said, she pointed toward a table, "Is that what are you looking for?"

Cheeta turned and saw the ancient paper that had been in her cave. She went to it grabbed it. The woman turned angry and shouted "You stole this from me!"

"No! I found it in her pocket!"

Cheetah turned and glared at the brunette. She suddenly jumped towards her, raised her easily with one hand. "You were in my cave? I'll kill you."

The brunette winced, feeling the strong hand on her throat. She struggled and kicked Cheetah with her knee, but the woman didn't move.

"You should be paralyzed! I poisoned you!" Cheeta shouted annoyed, "Maybe you need another dose!"

The inhuman woman raised the brunette over her head easily and threw her against the wall. "How did you find it?"

"Ooof." Huntress grunted.

"Cheetah, stop!" Sandy raised her hand.

"Who the hell are you?" Cheetah growled and in a second was over Huntress raising her by her lapels, "How did you know where my cave was hidden?"

"Fuck you…" Huntress clenched her teeth, glaring at her.

"Don't be stupid, Helena!" Shiva put her hands over Cheetah's. "Kill her and you'll never see the necklace."

"She must confess." Cheetah smashed her back against the wall harder. Helena's head hit the concrete and she saw stars.

"I know who would have it. I think we can help each other."

"Talk." Cheeta glared at her.

"She doesn't work alone, she works with a woman, the woman that I'm looking for. I'm sure she has your necklace," she waved toward Helena "and I know she would do anything for her life. So we will have an exchange. I need her alive to get the woman, and getting that woman you will get the necklace."

Cheetah released Huntress and she slipped down the wall. "So we don't need her."

The brunette curled up on herself; that woman hit hard as a mule. She focused on trying to remain conscious.

"No, I know where to find the necklace, I just need your promise to not kill her before I do the deal, and… The other woman is mine; the necklace yours?"

"And her?"

"She is in not in the deal, she is out." Shiva crossed her arms and looked at Huntress moving restlessly on the floor.

"I will enjoy killing her."

"She is out I said, I'll give you the necklace."

Cheeta was silent for a few seconds, then pointed at Shiva, "Be careful, I'll kill you if you try to double cross me."

Shiva knelt next to the brunette; she leaned and brushed the hair away from her face. The young crime fighter was still recovering. "Barbara does have the necklace, right?" She picked up the ancient paper with the drawing of the necklace that CheetaH had thrown to the floor and put it in front of her face, "I found this in your pocket, Barbara has it, you were taking it to her, right?"

Huntress spit at her.

Shiva closed her eyes a second trying to contain her anger. She slapped her on the face, "Don't push your luck, Helena…" She stood up and cleaned her face, "The other woman has it. I'm sure." She said to Cheetah.

"All right…"

"You said you poisoned her."

"Yes, it's a potent virus that attacks the meta cells; it would kill a normal human in an instant. But in a meta human, it acts slowly. I needed time to make her tell me where my necklace is; but she'll be dead in 48 hours."

"Dead?"

"You want the other woman, I want the necklace," Cheetah said with a cold voice. "Call the woman now."

Shiva looked at her in silence a few seconds, it wasn't in her plans to kill her ex-friend, but… she couldn't do anything to avoid it. She picked up the mobile phone next to the next table.

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Barbara looked impatiently at the numbers on the screen while the elevator moved up. The transponder was on her lap and, firmly held in her right hand, the small vial. It contained the sample from which she would try to find an antidote. Had she been able to move her feet, she'd be tapping them impatiently. When the door finally opened, she wheeled out, to find Alfred with the phone in his hand.

"One second, she has just arrived." He covered the speaker. "It's her, Miss Barbara."

The redhead wheeled toward him and took the phone. "Barbara Gordon."

--Miss Gordon, what a pleasure hear you.--

"Who is this?"

--Don't you remember me, Miss Gordon? It's Sandra, Sandra Wu San.---

"Sandy?" She looked at Alfred, surprised. He frowned.

--Okay, no more introductions, Miss Gordon, I know you will try to locate me. I'm proposing an exchange, you and the necklace for Helena.---

"What are you…?"

--No time for explanations, Miss Gordon. I'll see you at the dockyards, Gate 4. If you want to see Helena again, move fast, I think she's very sick.---

"I need to give her an antidote. How I can be sure she's all right and you are not lying?"

--All right.--

Barbara heard steps and, after a few seconds, a voice.

--Mommy wants to talk to you, say hi…--

"Helena?"

Silence over the com.

--She doesn't want to say hi,-- Sandy said --She's shy. Maybe she needs to be pushed.--

Barbara felt a shiver on her back when she heard an inhuman growl. She recognized it immediately.

Cheetah.

What was Cheetah doing there?

The next was a hard thud and a cry. That cry was definitely Helena's.

"Sandy, stop!". She heard another thud and another cry from her protégée. "Stop, Sandy! Don't hurt her." The redhead grabbed the arms of her chair with such force that her knuckles turned white.

--Is that enough, Miss Gordon?--

"That was not necessary, Sandy!" The redhead pressed her lips together with anger. "You want me, not her."

--You asked for it. Not me. Maybe now you will understand I'm not playing.--

"All right, all right. I'll be there with the necklace." Barbara brushed her hair back nervously. "Just don't touch her."

--Just don't test our patience. Cheetah is not good with that... You know that, right? Helena thinks she is a bit rude, but I think she's okay. You have two hours. Dockyards, Gate 4. I don't need you to tell you that you must be alone, right? Be nice, you know Cheetah is not patient.--

The phone line cut.

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"You don't need to be so rude." Shiva glared at Cheetah. The brunette was curled up at her feet.

"I'm tired of her games. I don't have time for this."

"Well, she will be here in a few. You heard me. She will come for her."

"Yes. I heard it, I'll see you later." Cheetah stormed out of the room.

Shiva raised her brow and looked her friend on the floor and walked toward her, "Stubborn as always." She took her by her arm to help her up. She p and touched her skin. "Jesus, you are burning up."

She tried to help her to her feet, but the young crime fighter fainted in her arms.

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Barbara hung up the phone and was silent for a few seconds. Alfred looked at her, concerned.

"Are you all right, Miss Barbara?" he asked softly.

"It's Sandy…" the redhead sighed.

"Lady Shiva?" Alfred asked surprised, "She was…."

"She isn't… I don't know why she has her, I can't understand it." The redhead leaned back in her chair.

"Where is Cheetah?"

"I don't have any idea," Barbara was confused, "but she knows about the necklace too, and she wants to exchange it and me for Helena."

"What?"

"Dammit, I need to work on the antidote faster…" She turned her wheelchair toward the lab.

"But you can't go, Miss Barbara," Alfred followed her, "She could kill both…"

"We don't have any other option. It's the only way to try to save her; Sandy told me she is sick, if the drug affected Helena, she is as helpless as Dinah is now. And I need to be close to her to inject the serum before it's too late. How is Dinah?"

"Unconscious."

"Alfred, come with me."