I awoke that night when I heard someone open the door.

I sat up in bed and saw Batman standing there, "Ready?"

I grinned, "Born ready." I quickly changed into a pair of shorts, some gym shoes and a blue T-shirt. I met him up in his little gym and we went to our transports. I simply opened the window and morphed to a pterodactyl while he went and got in the Batwing. I met him near the top of the condo and we flew off. I followed him since I had no idea where we were going and just the fact that it was urgent enough to wake me up in the middle of the night.

I hovered as he landed in some alleyway and I followed him. He got out and I morphed to a snake and slithered onto his awaiting hand. He let me slither around his neck as he walked in to the night club.

He walked in and activity ceased completely. There was a quick draw on guns and he started counting under his breath as he held perfectly still. "1, 2, 3, 4,...now!"

I threw myself off of his neck and morphed to Raptor. Almost at once people started running for the exits as the ones that Batman was looking for stayed behind to fight. Batman was busy with one man as another one aimed at him from the back. I hissed as I leapt into the air and pinned him to the ground. He was knocked out when his head hit the ground. Batman threw the last guy against the wall and held him there.

"Where is he?" He growled in the guys face. He was about to say something when someone crashed through the ceiling and knocked him away from the guy.

I vaguely registered having heard something about a super hero called Superman as I ran over to the guy who had been interrogated. He was trying to get away as I jumped in front of him and hissed. He yelped and scuttled backwards away from me as the two men fought on the other side of the building. I slowly followed him making him back up against the wall. I felt my tail bump against one of the empty cages for the cage dancers. I lunged at the guy's throat, who screamed, and picked him up by his shirt. I tossed him into the cage and bashed the lock with my tail. I turned around as I heard Batman grunt and saw him get thrown into the wall.

I growled as I went over to him. I nosed him and saw that he was dazed and nearly unconscious. I growled at the man floating there and changed from a Raptor to a very large dinosaur, thankfully the club had very tall vaulted ceilings. I growled in my new Spinosaurus form and charged at him. He flew past my head and punched me under the jaw as Batman slowly woke up. I snapped at him again and managed to nick his cape and throw him into the wall but he retaliated by punching me in the side of my head. I let a whine escape me as pain erupted all along my head. This guy hits hard! I swiped at him again and nearly caught him until he flew down away from my jaw and upper cutted me. My head reared back as the onslaught of punches continued. He hit me right, left, then right again and finally gave me a massive uppercut. I roared as I fell to the ground writhing in pain.

I slowly spassed back to my human form unable to control it and he gasped. Batman came over to me and knelt down as I writhed in pain. He tackled the man in red and blue and knocked him against the wall. The man flipped the position and pinned him against the floor. I moaned in agony as I tried to morph again but to no avail as he used his x-ray vision and looked at Batman's face. I looked at the cage and saw that the man I had earlier trapped had escaped and was long gone as the man holding Bruce down gasped.

"Bruce?"

"You peeked." I watched as Superman let Batman stand up before looking at me as I lay on the floor in agony from his blows.

Batman came over to me and knelt down. "Erin?"

He softly spoke as I whimpered. He rolled me over onto my back and I groaned.

Superman was shocked to say the least. "Oh no." I had a nice black eye and my face was contorted into a look of pain. He slightly stumbled back, "I did this."

I finally opened my eyes and slowly sat up with the help of Batman. "Hey it's okay. You didn't know." He offered me a small smiled and I gave him a lopsided one. "Don't worry; I think I got some worse stuff from Penguin and his stupid bird." I said as I stood up and used Batman as a support.

Superman looked at Batman, "What are you doing in Metropolis?"

"Besides signing a contract with Luthor? Looking for the Joker. He's been reported several times in different parts of the city."

"What makes you think that I can't handle the Joker?" Superman said as he quirked an eyebrow. Batman let go of me and I sat down on a chair as he pulled out a small baggy from his utility belt. It was a glowing green piece of rock and it had a very bad effect against Superman. He grew weak and collapsed on the floor.

"You see this? Joker has about twenty more pounds of this in his hands." He said before putting it back inside the belt. Superman stood up and shook his head as if to clear it.

I stood up with my strength finally back and smiled, "Well, this is going to be fun I-"

"You're not going to help this time." Batman said as he cut me off.

"What? What do you mean not help out this time?!"

He sighed, "Erin it's too dangerous."

"What, so facing off with the man of steel wasn't? No offense, " I said to the caped man near me, "and what about Penguin? Was that not dangerous? And it's not like I haven't faced off with the clown before!"

"This is different!" He yelled. "Joker's not like Penguin, he will kill you if he gets the chance! Now more than ever because he's dealt with and seen what you can do! I can't have you running around with that big of a risk!" He shouted at me.

I stood there shocked as he slowly realized what he did.

"Erin look,"

"No, I completely understand. You don't want me around obviously and I'm too much of a bother and from your point of view I apparently am a liability." I said with tears starting to creep at the corners of my eyes. "See you around Superman." I said before morphing into a Pterodactyl and flying back to the condo.

After I left Batman let his shoulders hang.

"Well, you sure blew it."

He growled at Superman. "Stay out of it."

Superman shrugged before flying off. Batman waited before jumping into the Batwing and slowly following him with the little tracker that he had placed on his cape. He saw him land in the window of a duplex and changed to reveal Clark Kent. The reporter he had met with Lois Lane earlier. Clark noticed the miniscule thing and looked out the window to see Batman salute him before flying off. He grumbled as he crushed the little machine.

Uh oh! A spat happened! Will she do something drastic? Find out next chapter!