Blue Bird: Hatchling
(A.N. Batman is not mine, only Blue-Jay is!)
She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled, with this costume, she was guaranteed to get the prize for most realistic.
She was wearing grey tights and a grey undershirt, over which she had donned a blue leotard with a stylized light blue 'B' on the left breast. Her black leather boots went up to her knees, and her hands were covered by black gloves that went up to her elbows. The mask that hid her identity was also black, as was the black headband that held back her long, platinum blond hair.
Smirking, she clicked the yellow utility belt she had made around her waist. Batman and his pals had left enough batarangs and grapple guns around for her to have accumulated a rather large collection, some of which she had brought with her to add effect. Being the inventor that she was, she had also made some smoke bombs and a gasmask that actually worked. The look was finished off by a black cape, lined with blue.
Tossing her hair over her shoulder, she left the empty bathroom.
Instantly, she knew something was wrong. She sounds of the party were gone, instead, there was frightened whispers and crying.
Sneaking through the shadows on the edge of the hall, she knelt by the banister and looked down into the main room. Her eyes went wide, because standing on the dais at the head of the room, accompanied by several armed cronies, was Bane.
The first thing the thought about doing was going out the window and going for help, but that plan was destroyed almost as soon as it was formed, because just as she began to move for one of the windows, one of the thugs looked up, and spotted her.
"Boss!" he yelled, pointing. She mentally cursed and back flipped to avoid several bullets. She twirled and ducked and dodged, first bullets, then the two men that came barreling towards her from either side. Flipping into the air, she got a hand onto both their heads, and added a little more force as they collided with one another.
Flipping onto the railing, she through several batarangs, three knocked the guns out of the men's hands, and the forth lodged itself into the light switch, causing the lights above to short-circuit and throwing the room into shadow as the emergency lights came on.
Jumping down and landing silently on the ground floor, she darted up behind one thug and squeezed the pressure point where his shoulder and neck met, causing him to slump to the floor with out a sound.
Suddenly, her cape was sized. Bane hoisted her into the air and held her at arms length while she swung at him. "My, my, you have courage for one so small." "I sure do!" she snapped, changing her voice a little as she spoke. And then she made her move. Swinging up over Banes' arm so that she was standing on it, she unfastened her cape and lunged at the tubes coming out of the back of Banes' head. She seized them with both hands and, bracing her feet against his back, yanked with all her might. It worked.
Venom sprayed everywhere as she jumped out of the way of his massive fists as he shrunk. Finally he reached a size where she was able to flip into the air, land on his shoulders and smash all her weight down on the pressure point she had used to knock out one of his thugs before. Bane crumpled to the floor with a crash as she flipped away, snatching her cape mid-flip and swinging it back onto her shoulders as she stood up straight.
Looking around, she saw that all of the hostages had escaped and that she was alone in the building, but not for long. The police burst in a second later, the commissioner at the front, yelling "FREEZE!" But then they saw her and Bane. "Whoa." Bullok said, wide-eyed, looking from her to the massive man out-cold on the stone floor.
She took this opportunity to fire off a grapple and escaped through a skylight. Leaping from roof to roof and swinging from building to building, she ran around the city for an hour to lose any followers she might have picked up, before going home.
Landing on her balcony, she slipped inside and peeled off her costume, stuffing it into the back of her closet before going to bed, exhausted. 'Good thing, mom and dad are out of town.' She thought before closing her eyes as she fell asleep, not knowing that she would be taking her costume out again very soon, and things were going to get complicated.