WHAT!! 2 updates in one day!! It is impossible. I don't know how I did it. Anyway, I could not get this idea out of my head, so I decided to run with it.

By the way, in case you don't know, in the comics, Barbara is a genius and later becomes Oracle, an information broker and hacker working to help other superheros.


Barbara looked out the window, it was a small circular window with heavy rivets to protect against the differences in air pressure. Outside, she could see the clouds, up close, bright and fluffy. Below that, she could see the ocean spreading away to the horizon. She would have been content to sit and stare at the beautiful scenery, but she was rudely interrupted by a deep male voice yelling,

"Sit tight now, we're about to switch to the rockets."

She barely had time to face forward and put her head in the headrest behind it before the rockets kicked in and the plane lurched forwards. The skin on her face was pulled back by the sudden and intense acceleration and she could vaguely hear someone yelling

"WOOHOO ! Alright, now we're moving!"

Just when she thought that she was about to pass out from the 4 G force, all movement stopped. The change between the speed and the silence was almost as jarring as the first blast forward. As she pulled her head forward, she noticed that her ipod, which had previously been lying on her lap began to lazily float up towards the ceiling. She looked at Dick, who had been the source of the previous screaming, of course, and remarked,

"So, was that extreme enough for you?"

"Oh, I don't know." He replied folding his hands behind his head. "I'm just feeling kinda mellow." He said this with a smirk, because they both knew that there were few things in life that Robin enjoyed more than breaking the sound barrier.

As Dick began to unbuckle his complicated seat belts, Barbara took another look out of the window. Instead of seeing the bright white clouds and the soft blue ocean, she instead saw the inky blackness of space, punctuated by bright stars. As Robin began to zip around the cabin of the plane yelling, Look at me, I'm Superman! Barbara continued to stare out. This was only her second trip into space since the formation of the Justice league, and the thrill of it was still very new to her.

As she looked out the window, she could see the large, looming satellite approaching in the distance. After a few minutes of checking the controls and enabling autopilot, Bruce Wayne, billionaire playboy and just recently, space pilot, leaned back into the passenger cabin and said, Dick, Barbara, you had better get suited up, we are gonna be docking in just a few minutes. Before going to change into her uniform, Barbara took one last look out of the window to watch the Earth, still huge and awesome, rotate, ever so slowly.

It was not exactly like she had lied to her father. She had just finished a conference in Japan about biometrics, however, she was actually giving the lecture, not listening to it. She had developed a new type of software that would allow the computer to analyze an iris to further detail. That meant that the biometric lock would be harder to crack or fool.
At least most of the people attending the conference spoke English. Those that only spoke Japanese had interpreters, but Barbara was not sure how anyone would translate 'traceless biometric data packet' between English and Japanese.

Now, having given her lecture and endured a grueling 2 hour Q&A session, she was off for a relaxing weekend with the only two people who knew her secret identity. Of course, as she and Robin would soon find out, a weekend at the Justice League Satellite would be anything but relaxing…


Not what you were expecting? Good. Anyway, in case you were getting confused about the biometrics stuff, check out the wikipedia article on it. I figured that since Barbara is supposed to be a computer genius, we might as well have her doing some genius stuff.

It looks like this is going to be much longer than I first thought. Well, hopefully it will be exiting.