Hawkwoman and The Batkids


Unknown Warehouse on the Gotham Docks

February 12th, 2009

"Bats is busy, Bruce Wayne is stuck on a flight between here and Hong Kong, and we already have the kids, what problems could come our way?" A mace that shimmered with white light smashed through the wall. The goon who'd spoken found himself on the ground. The other's eyes went wide. A hand shot through the hole in the wall and captured the still standing goon. His face crashed into the wall. His eyes rolled back in his head. The goon on the ground ripped out his gun.

The wall disappeared into a cloud of grey smoke, a dark shadow with wings filled the wall's void. He could see a faint glimmer from the mace on the shadow's hand, and its eyes were a shade of white. The shape seemed small for bats, but that didn't completely register in the goon's mind.

"Bat-" He didn't finish his sentence. A fist flew from the smoke and struck him in the head. The goon was out before his head rebounded off the ground. She stepped out of the smoke and entered the warehouse proper. Tall and proud in her gold, red, and partially brown armour Hawkwoman levelled a death glare at the goons armed with automatic rifles. One dropped his rifle and sat down on the ground, hands behind his head. A few sent glances towards the man. The woman in the back has a gun to Dick's head. Surrounding the black haired and blue eyed pre-teen is the rest of the Wayne children, plus surprisingly enough Barbara Gordon. Each of the children had their hands zip-tied together and a few of the other adults had guns pointed in their direction.

"Hawkwoman?" The wide eyes and slack jawed gaze from Dick is legitimate, much to The Thanagarian's shock. Any other words prepared to spill from his mouth are blocked by the gun shoved into his cheek.

"You know Batman doesn't like Metas in his city. You might want to leave before the big bad Bats shows up." The woman sounds certain, her tone hard as the gun pushed into Dick's face. Shayera's lips quirked upwards at the corner and her mace crackled with glimmering white lightning once more. Her eyes narrowed on the leader and she swung her mace a few times. The goons in front of her went wide eyed, and one tossed his gun and collapsed onto the floor cross legged, his gun quite a distance away. "What the hell are you doing?"

"I've heard about the Hawks, you think The Bat is bad? At least he just uses his fists!" The man growled back at the woman. "I'm stayin' right here until the cops show up and cuff me, ain't no way I'm fighting a freakin' Hawk."

"There's fourteen of us, hostages in the mix, and The Bat still hasn't shown. That means it's her versus all of us alone. Plus there's a fifty-fifty shot The Bat takes her out for fluttering her feathers in Gotham."

"Bad news kidnappers." Shayera's voice is almost gleeful, her smile grew bigger, and she flipped her mace about in her hand again. "The Big Bad Bat isn't coming, but I'm right here and you happen to have something a friend of mine will want back. Hand over the kids or I start breaking skulls."

"We have guns on them, no way to you take us all out without one of them getting hurt. You wouldn't risk it." The woman smiled right back at Shayera, whose lips parted to reveal her teeth.

"You're partially right, but I suspect that the only ones getting hurt tonight are you lot." Dick shoved his head back into the woman's mouth. Blood flew into the air, and the rest of the kids sprung as one. Barbara elbowed the goon near her and Jason snatched the rifle out of the nearest person to him. Cass shot to her feet, her head smashed into the gut of the woman and sent her backwards. The two guys flanking her brought their guns towards Dick, Jason caught one in the head with the butt of his stolen rifle, Cass high kicked the other in the face.

Shayera had reacted in the same instant. Her mace slammed into one of the outer men and sent him through a crate. The next three aimed their guns, as her wings drew back and beat forward. The gust of air launched her into the air and scattered the three goons still around her. She flew at the last few goons standing, her mace made short work of them. Shayera skidded over the ground, dust kicked up behind her as her wings flared.

The woman had gotten back up, gun in hand and rushed at Dick. Shayera threw her mace. The Nth metal weapon collided with the woman's jaw and sent her to the floor. Slowly Shayera pulled out of her crouch, her eyes scanned the kidnappers carefully. She took stock of those whose chests rose and fell without issue, there were a few where that wasn't the case. The man who'd thrown his gun at the beginning, surveyed the damage to his compatriots.

"Just haul me off to Blackgate please, I'd like to not be hit with a mace." Police swarmed the building with Commissioner Gordon at their head, his face broke from its scowl when he saw Barbara. Shayera stood between The Commissioner and his daughter, her expression neutral and weaponless.

"Thank God! Barbara, you're alright." He stopped at Shayera and held out his hand. "Thank you Hawkwoman, I know Batman doesn't like you bunch running around the city, but thank you for intervening."

Shayera grasped his wrist. A small smile broke over her face and she nodded to him. She stepped out of his way.

"Of course Commissioner, what kind of hero would I be to let children be caught up in such a scheme. Wayne children, I'll be on my Commissioner. I trust you can get them home?" Shayera turned towards her mace, stopped by hand on her wrist. She turned and stared down into a pair of bright blue eyes and a face framed by blonde hair.

"Can I have your autograph Hawkwoman? Bruce will never believe I actually met Hawkwoman!" The smile on Stephanie's face was mischievous, and who was Shayera to begrudge the girl her wish, even if she knew Batman was probably going to make her next training a hell of a lot harder.

"Well if I had a pen?" The question was answered when Jason shoved a pen in her face, and a notepad. Shayera didn't want to know where, or possibly who, he'd gotten that off of. Dick appeared on her other side, his eyes locked onto her mask, a grin that spoke volumes to his less than angelic intentions.

"Make it out to The Wayne Family please! We're trying to see if we can get the whole Justice Leagues Autographs, Batman keeps saying no." Shayera barely caught the laugh that bubbled up in her chest at that last part, oh she had no way of not helping now, this was probably some competition between children and parent.

"Well since you asked so nicely, of course." Her lenses widened when Barbara appeared next to her holding her Father's phone. The smile on her face looked as fake as the one she'd seen Superman give to Lex Luthor one day.

"A photo would really seal the deal. Especially if you got all of us in it with you!" Shayera nodded, words stuck in her throat, oh yes Batman would most definitely make her training a living hell.


February 13th, 2009

Bruce rubbed at his neck, his unfocused eyes fell onto a small wrapped package on his bed. A sigh escaped his lips and he lifted the package up, his fingers carefully ripped the wrapping up. The box was big enough to be a device or trap, but his kids were smart enough not to do something the night he got home, and the security measures made the first more unlikely. He slipped the lid from the box and was greeted by a photo, framed in oak, in it Hawkwoman in full gear stood surrounded by each and every one of his children/wards, even Barbara had gotten in on it. He picked up and his thumb and forefinger found a place on his chin as he considered the photo. He picked out the details of one of the dingy warehouses on Gotham's docks, as well as the Gotham PD officers in the background and random goons too. He noted the guns and wrecked crates. He narrowed his eyes at the hundred watt smiles each of the children were throwing at the photographer, as well as the one on Shayera's face. He looked past the photo and found a note in the box.

'Now we have Hawkwoman, still waiting on Batman's - The Kids'


A/N:

I originally had this set up as a Mother's day special, but some of the ideas I had made it more of a celebration of family, specifically the way The Batfam grew to include much of the Justice League in a way. I still have the Mother's day special idea and will keep working on it, but this one seemed fun and I couldn't help but write it. I have played around with some of the character origins, but I wanted Cass to not be around long in the first chapter, and I figured that J'onn J'onzz would be a good way to introduce Cass to words and sign language. It is still going to be a hard road for her, but I figured if you have access to a telepath you might as well take a shot. I have no idea when you'll see this or where it'll end up in the order, I think my plan is for it to be towards the beginning but hey wouldn't be the first time I started something and put it up super late. Hope you enjoyed, and I hope I did some of the characters justice (ha pun intended) I haven't finished Young Justice Outsiders yet, yes I know that I'm really kinda late to the party on that one, but since this takes place before Season 1 and uses characters I feel like I've kinda gotten a handle on I think I'm in the clear. Thanks for reading and reviews are always welcomed!

-Six Out!