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Later, Batcave

"Any clues?" Helena asked as Henry was going over the CCTV.

"Nothing." Henry sighed, frustrated. "That bitch just wiped the floor with me and I could do nothing to stop her."

"It's not your fault, OK?" Barbara assured him. "Shiva is one of the most dangerous assassins ever and master martial artists, you're lucky she didn't kill you. And don't worry, Oliver and Nicky are looking after Ashley."

"What does she want with Laurel?" Henry wondered.

Elsewhere

Laurel groaned, slowly coming to. She was in some room with an Asian architecture and she looked around, trying to remember.

"Shiva…"

At first, she wanted to take her out before the worry for her own daughter flooded through her.

She looked around before she went out and saw Shiva at the table, drinking a cup of tea. "Have a seat, Laurel."

"You…" Laurel glared. "What do you want? Last time we met, you and your zealot friends tried to destroy Star City and then we buried you all under the rubble."

"If your will and determination is strong enough, death cannot claim you so easily." Shiva said.

"Whatever you want, leave my friends and my family alone." Laurel said.

Shiva laughed softly. "Do not be concerned, Laurel. No harm will come to anyone you care about or you than it needs to be… if you pass a test. You pass, you're free to go home and your husband, your daughter, your sister and your friends will be safe… for now. You fail… you will wish for something as merciful as death."

"What test? What are you playing at?" Laurel demanded.

Batcave

"OK, let's see if the nanites I gave you all work." Henry typed in some commands. "Hong Kong." He sighed. "I never wanted to go back to Hong Kong again."

"I know it brings back bad memories but we have to." Barbara said.

"OK, we're taking a plane tonight." Henry nodded. "But we'll leave Tatsu out of this. I don't want her to go through that pain again."

Hong Kong

"What are we doing here?" Laurel demanded.

"You may have heard about what happened to your husband here." Shiva said as they were in a restaurant as Shiva was eating noodles.

"I know more than I would like to know." Laurel said, already knowing what Oliver had done to Shrieve from her husband and Tatsu. "What is the point of all this? What do you want from me?"

"To see how worthy of a warrior you are." Shiva said.

"So, what, this is all… some kind of a messed up test?" Laurel scoffed. "No, thanks."

"It's too late to walk away now. Things have been set in motion that you cannot even imagine. And if you're not willing to do whatever it takes and if you cannot separate your feelings from the warrior you are, you and everyone you love, will suffer fate far worse than death." Shiva smirked.

"What are you talking about?" Laurel asked, confused.

"Come play with us, lady." The Asian man said as he put a hand on Laurel's shoulder, while he had in his hand a pool stick and Laurel scowled in disgust, smelling the alcohol from him. "I've never played with a white woman before."

"Look, buddy, I'm married and I really am not in a mood for a game." Laurel showed her wedding ring.

"Oh, so how about your friend?" The man turned to Shiva with lustful eyes. "She seems more… experienced."

"OK, you don't want to do this, trust me." Laurel said.

"Let her decide." The man said but Shiva, with a glare, ripped his finger off as he screamed in pain.

"Aaah! My finger!" The man screamed as he reached for the gun in his pocket. "You fucking—"

"Uh-uh, no guns." Shiva said before she kicked him in the chest, knocking him down on the floor. "Besides, you can't pull the trigger now, can you?"

"Oh, great." Laurel groaned as the eight thugs pulled out rebars, knives, chains, baseball bats, guns and brass knuckles.

"Take them both out!"

Laurel dodged as one of them tried to stab her before she threw him away. Another thug wrapped his chain around her arm and pulled Laurel but she managed to kick him in the chest before one of them knocked her down with his baseball bat.

Laurel kicked the man in his chest, making him stagger as she got up before she punched him in his face and kicked him in the stomach, sending him crashing against a table. Another thug rushed at Laurel from behind but she hit him with her elbow in his stomach and whipped her head, hitting the man in his face.

Shiva was too quick for the men to hit her as she beat them all up as bones cracked and she was about to snap the neck of one of the men before...

"Let him go, or you'll have to go through me too." Laurel warned.

"I give up, please, no more." The man begged.

Shiva considered before she let go of the man. Laurel narrowed her eyes. "I expected you to put up more of a fight."

"It matters not, Laurel. There is no honor in beating up an already defeated foe. They have yielded." Shiva said.

"Why did you bring me here?" Laurel asked as Shiva accompanied her into a small apartment, where an elderly man was in bed. "Who—"

"Sensei." Shiva whispered.

"Your… your master?" Laurel realized.

"He has been poisoned." Shiva said. "He is dying. I used to be a member of the League of Assassins but I left. And I've been training with other masters of fight as well. O-Sensei… he's one of my earliest masters."

"I'm sorry." Laurel said in sympathy as she saw the pain in her eyes.

"Six of his and my students have died. Horribly. All to poison him. One of your enemies as well. Poisoning a good man because she wanted to for the sake of fun and hunt." Shiva said and it didn't take long for Laurel to put the two and two together.

"Why not simply ask us? You didn't have to kidnap me." Laurel snapped. "You do realize my friends will be searching for me and they will hunt you down. Let me go before things get harder."

"Don't move!" Henry yelled as he entered with Oliver, Dinah, Sara, Helena, Roy, Dick and Barbara as he aimed his gun.

"No, no, wait." Laurel intervened.

"You shouldn't have taken my wife." Oliver growled.

"Wait, she's not the bad one here." Laurel said.

"She attacked us and kidnapped you!" Henry reminded. "Give us a good reason why we should not take you down."

"This is a really stupid idea, Laurel." Henry said over the comms as Laurel and Shiva entered the apartment complex.

"It's not like we have any other choice left." Laurel said.

"I don't like this any more than you do but we don't have a choice." Oliver said.

Henry sighed. "I know but still…"

"I see her. She is in the hotel room." Barbara said. Laurel was about to reach for the doorknob, when…

"Laurel, wait. That room may be rigged with toxic defense measures. It's Cheshire we're dealing with, remember?" Henry reminded.

"Good point." Laurel said.

"Laurel, be careful. From what I know about Jade, don't touch her with your bare skin. Any physical contact with her, skin-to-skin, may be lethal. Whatever happens, don't let her lay as much as a finger on you." Sara said.

Laurel turned on her Canary Cry, smashing the door as Jade got up and Laurel groaned at seeing Jade's features. She was in transparent white undergarments but she might as well was naked. Jade jumped out through the balcony window and dived into the pool.

Shiva and Laurel jumped down from the balcony with grapnels as they descended to the ground.

Jade got up from the pool as Laurel tried to kick her but Jade dodged before trying to land a punch at her face. Laurel blocked with her arm and kicked Jade in her stomach and hitting her in the face. Jade aimed a kick at Laurel's midsection but Laurel grabbed her leg and threw her down before she punched Jade in her face. Jade lunged at Laurel but Laurel dodged and grabbed her in the chokehold until she passed out as Shiva smirked.

"Impressive." Shiva said. "You have more potential than I thought."

Laurel sighed, tired of Shiva's half-truths. "Stop playing games, Shiva. What do you want from me?"

"There is a fight coming that you need to be ready for. I'm here to make sure you do not die so quickly." Shiva said. "We may be enemies but I am not beyond reason. I know now that Cain's and the schemes of the League of Shadows were… out of the way, as you would say. And perhaps… perhaps this time… our interests are aligned."

Elsewhere, a black woman in silver outfit and some device on her belt entered a room as there was a Caucasian woman in red outfit, red tinted glasses and wearing wrist guns and a tall man with a shield with spike in its center and razor edges.

"They have Jade." The black woman said.

"She's a tough girl, she can handle herself." The man said.

"Let's see how far they are willing to go to stop our scheme." The man with the dragon tattoo on his shoulder said, smirking. "We'll see how strong their determination is… before I crush them."

"Shouldn't we strike now?" The man with the shield asked.

"No. Not yet. Not until I'm done with an old friend." The man with the dragon tattoo said.

I think you can guess who were the guys at the end of this chapter. But they're more in the background in this story, this is more like foreshadowing the sequel that I plan in June.

So, what do you guys think?

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