Barbara Gordon waited at the airport for Elsa's plane to arrive in Gotham, joining her was three other ladies, the first was Dinah Drake, the Black Canary, a blond haired woman dressed in mostly black spandex, the second was Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, the third was a Japanese woman called Tatsu Yamashiro, Katana. Together these four women made up the all female crime fighting team known as the Birds of Prey.
"You didn't tell us you was bringing in a possible knew member to our team," Dinah told Barbara as the plane arrived at the airport.
"We're not, Elsa is just here for training."
"So she's a apprentice then?" Helena questioned.
"All you need to know is that Batman wants us to train her, her kingdom is being threatened by Scarecrow and she has been really down about not being able to defend it. She wants training so that she won't be able to constantly rely on Batman to bail her out of trouble."
"And Bruce couldn't handle it himself why?" Tatsu asked
"You know Bruce, he's always to busy."
As the plain landed Elsa walked out and was greeted with a hug by Barbara.
"Nice to see you again to Barbara."
"Call me Babs, I like to think of us as friends."
Elsa turned and noticed the other three bowing to her, showing respect to her title. "I take it these three is your new team."
"Yep, that is Dina Drake the Black Canary, Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, and Tatsu Yamashiro, Katana."
"Um, are you sure it's a good idea for her to know our identities?" Helena asked
"Well if she's going to train with us she might as well."
"Don't worry I'm good with secrets," Elsa ensured "I know who Batman is to and I've kept his secret. You don't have to worry about me. But just so we are clear, I am not here to join any team, I just want training so I can defend my kingdom properly."
"Well you definitely have come to the right group of girls." Helena ensured, between the four of us we have mastered at least half of all known martial arts and fighting skills out there."
"Oh trust me it's way more than half sweetheart," Dinah corrected.
It was about a thirty minute drive to the Birds of Prey's lair. When they arrived Elsa noticed it was a old warehouse decorated with punching bags, weights and target ranges.
"Each of us has a different fighting style and skills so we have this place set up to match each of their different skills set." Barbara replied. "I am skilled in martial arts, Black Canary has her Canary cry."
"What's that?"
"Cover your ears."
"Why?"
"Trust me."
Dinah then let out a super high pitched scream that nearly knocked Elsa to the floor. "That's why." Dinah said with a smirk when she was done.
"Remind me to not get in a shouting match with you." Elsa joked as she picked herself off the floor.
"Huntress is an expert marksman," A ball launching machine commonly used in baseball practice started shooting out tennis balls, firing and reloading her crossbow like a breeze she easily shot each ball and stuck them to the wall with her arrows in a single try."
"Impressive," Elsa replied in shock. "I suppose that Katana is a skilled sword fighter with her Katana then?"
"Oh not just that." Katana replied "My blade is not just a ordinary sword, it is the Soultaker, with it I keep the soul of my deceased husband in it so he can always be with me at all times, I also can trap the souls of my enemies in it."
"Okay then...?" Elsa replied a little uneasy "Remind me to never become your enemy, I like my soul where it is, with me." Elsa then turned to Barbara. "So you have something for me to train with?"
"You see those targets over there?" Barbara pointed at a dozen targets on the far side of the room. "See if you can shoot an icicle in every last one of them, one of the most important parts of being a good crime fighter or just trying to defend yourself of someone period is making sure you hit your mark. Pretend that those targets is someone trying to hurt your kingdom and hitting the bullseye will take them down.
"Okay then," Elsa breathed, forming two icicles in her hands she then tossed them at two of the targets, without even stopping she formed two more, then two more again until she had tossed one at every last target. Stopping and catching her breath she checked on her work, she was shocked to see that she actually got them all on the bullseye.
"Nice work," Helena admired. "Not a bad shot for a beginner."
"I used to make a snow dart board in my room when me and Anna was little and play darts. I would always beat her of course," Elsa replied with a laugh.
"That wasn't bad," Barbara complemented "But now let's see how you do with a moving target." Barbara had Dinah and Tatsu bring out two more ball launchers and placed one on each of Elsa's side to go with the one in front of her. "In real life the enemy won't stand still you need to make sure you can hit a moving target before it gets to you. When we fire these balls at you I want to make sure you will be able to hit them before they hit you."
"I'm ready," Elsa let out a exhale as she got herself in fighting position, then they turned on the machines. Elsa had to quickly dodge as several balls launched themselves in her direction.
"This exercise doesn't only test to see if you can hit a moving target," Barbara replied as Elsa shot a blast of ice at one of the balls, freezing it. "But also tests your reflexes to see if you can dodge a strike coming your way."
"Are you always outnumbered like this?" Elsa replied as she struggled to keep up with the dozens of balls coming at her direction."
"Sometimes," Helena smiled almost in amusement at how much Elsa struggled to dodge some of the fast balls. "But hey you never know so you got to be ready."
As Elsa got pelted in the shoulder by one of the balls she let of a scream and shot ice out from every direction, freezing nearly ever ball and sending several sticking to the wall impaled on icicles. Calming down she turned and saw the other ladies ducking behind the equipment.
"Okay," Barbara exhaled once the danger had passed "Word of advice, shooting your powers in all directions like that in battle might not be the best choice, especially if there are innocent bystanders around. You don't want them to get caught in the cross hairs."
"Sorry," Elsa replied embarrassed. "I just got overwhelmed and I took to extreme of action."
"When a danger comes, your going to get overwhelmed at times," Barbara replied in a calm matter putting a arm around Elsa and staring straight at her. "But you must not panic and make a bad decision. The safety of your kingdom and those you care about rely on you staying calm and not making a drastic decision like you just did. Stay calm, think, don't panic. You do that, you will shine, you got potential Elsa."
They were all interrupted suddenly by a voice coming in through the police radio that Barbara kept on her desk.
"Reports of a possible robbery at Sphinx antique shop"
"You actually have a police radio at your desk?" Elsa asked in surprise.
"My dad's the commissioner, you'd be surprised at the stuff I can get my hands on," Barbara then turned to the rest of the team. "Suit up girls."
"Wait I want to come too?" Elsa replied.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Dinah replied "No offense but your have just started training."
"You ever heard of training on the field?" Elsa replied "I'll follow your lead and learn by studying."
"You don't even have a outfit though?" Tatsu replied.
"Ice powers remember." To the surprise of everyone Elsa transformed her dress into a ice Mech suit complete with a jet pack, helmet and visor and a snow emblem on her chest plate.
"What was that you was saying about a suit Tatsu?" Elsa smirked as she showed off her look.
Everyone just stood speechless for a second before Helena finally spoke up "Okay, I have no idea how you will do on the field but I got to admit that was pretty cool."
A few minutes later the Birds of Prey plus Elsa was all suited up and arriving at the antique store. A perfectly cut circle was carved in the window letting the female crime fighters know that they had already made their way into the store.
"Keep a eye out ladies whoever our thief is might still be in the store." Batgirl ordered
"Follow our lead Elsa," Black Canary whispered.
"Actually on the field, I think I will go by Snow Queen."
Dinah turned and gave Elsa a confused look "Snow Queen, like the fairy tale? Are you serious."
"Hey it's better then Black Canary, canaries aren't black, your not black, the name doesn't make much sense."
"If you say so."
"Both of you, hush." Katana whispered as the five of them entered the store. They suddenly saw the shadow of a body laying on the floor. Running up to him the five of them noticed that it was the body of the store owner, his neck had been slashed and he had bled out. Batgirl put her finger to his neck and shook her head.
"He's dead."
"Who could have done this?" Elsa asked "And for what?"
Batgirl examined the slash marks on his neck "There are three slashes, each of them about a centimeter apart, the slashes were clean, like a single swipe. I don't know who did this yet, but whoever this was, they knew what they were doing."
"Batgirl," Huntress tapped on the shoulder, there was noises coming from the rooftop.
"Come on ladies." Batgirl pulled out her grappling hook and grappled to the roof, the others soon climbed to the top and followed suit. Once on top of the roof they saw a lady dressed in a black cat suit running on the rooftop carrying a black bag.
"Catwoman!" Batgirl snarled "I should have known."
"I know how this looks Batgirl." Catwoman hissed turning around.
"Whatever you stole, turn it over now."
"I'm not stealing anything, I am protecting it."
"From who? The man you just murdered?"
"Batgirl, you of all of you ladies have to know murder's not my thing?"
"If that's the case hand over what's in the bag and we will figure this case out together."
Catwoman frowned and turned the other way. "Sorry, but this is my mission." Catwoman then leaped to the next rooftop causing the others to give chase.
"Black Canary, your cry now!" Batgirl ordered. Black Canary let out her six sonic screamed towards Catwoman's direction, knocking her to the floor. Her bag went rolling towards Elsa's direction, stopping at her feet. Elsa picked up the bag and reached inside to pull out a six inch golden statue of a Sphinx cat.
"All of this trouble for a cat statue?"
"This is not looking good for you Selina." Huntress replied.
"Okay, yes, I went to the shop to steal the Sphinx cat and add it to my collection of statues, but someone else was there trying to steal the same thing, the store clerk was already dead."
"Give us one good reason why we should believe that?" Katana replied "The murder victim had three slashes on his neck, and I happen to notice your right claws have blood stains on them. Now how is that possible?"
"I got in a fight with the real killer, and if you give me time to find them I will prove it."
"Sorry Selina, but not this time," Batgirl replied "This time I got to take you in."
"Well I won't let you stop me." Catwoman pulled out her bolas and wrapped Batgirl, and Black Canary in them before throwing a smoke pellet on the ground and disappeared by the time the smoke cleared.
"We got to go after her," Elsa growled about to take to the skies.
"No Elsa, she can't go to far." Batgirl answered as Katana slit loose the bola's with her blade. "Right now I got to inform my dad about the murder victim and have them put a all alert out on Catwoman. Once a alert comes in, we will have her."
"Nice job keeping up by the way." Huntress replied "Not to bad for a beginner."
Elsa didn't respond as she turned and stared off in the direction that Catwoman disappeared. She came here for training so she could go back and stop one threat, instead she got herself caught up in a mission of her own.
Back with the League of Shadows Talia was walking up to her father with news about the Queen of Arendelle. "Batman has sent Queen Elsa to Gotham father. I have a feeling he is on to us."
"Is the Queen alone or with company?" Ra's asked
"She is with company, four in fact, the Birds of Prey, I heard they are going to be training her."
"Go to Gotham, keep an eye on her, than report back to me. She will choose the League of Shadows, she will be my successor, or Arendelle will pay the price."
You really didn't think I would go through all the trouble of putting in the Birds of Prey and not give them their on mission did you? That would be such a wasted opportunity. Plus I thought it would be a good way to give Elsa some extra training by having her on the field during a case. Hope you enjoyed it.