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Gotham City, 2012.
Barbara arrived at the Clocktower.
"System on-line."
All the screens switched on at Barbara's voice command. One of the monitors had satellite pictures of several people with their names on. She looked at them, one by one. Green Arrow / Oliver Queen. Black Canary / Dinah Lance. Impulse / Bart Allen. Cyborg / Vic Stone. Watchtower / ?. Superman / ?. Taking the keyboard on her legs, she typed a new name. Watchtower-Ella Hunt / Chloe Sullivan. Then she called Bruce. He was in the cave. "Still soon to get out for a walk?"
"Did you establish contact?"
"Yes."
"And?"
"She's legitimate, Bruce. And she doesn't know about us. Looks like there is more than one Oracle after all."
"With the amount of information you manage everyday I don't like the idea of having two of you, Barbara. She could be dangerous."
"It seems that every once in a while a sidekick gets attacked by a psychopath. Oh the irony. But she was a computer whiz before her accident."
"How did it happen?"
"She lied, but I did my homework and had run a background check before I met her. A woman named Chloe Sullivan was declared dead three years ago. Under her new alias, she got a transfer to Gotham's hospital through Oliver Queen, which makes me wonder what's with playboy billionaires and funny costumes."
"What else did you get, Barbara?," asked Bruce ignoring her comment.
"Not a lot more. Her activity, whatever it was, has been null over the last three years."
"And the rest?"
"They call themselves the League, or Justice League, I'm not sure. This Green Arrow, he is the leader. It might be a good thing, Bruce. Maybe some day they will do great things."
"Keep an eye on them, Oracle, work on this Chloe Sullivan. Batman out."
Barbara looked at the screen, and smiling she took the phone and called New York. She missed Dick.
Fin
Author's notes: Thanks a lot for reading, muchísimas gracias por leer, merci beaucoup, Tack så mycket, danke schön, muito obrigado...Really, thanks for reading and enjoying.
Sequel to Link is Knall. It's being written right now, so I'll post it as soon as I'm finished.
Summary: One month after the events of Link, things are far from being over. Lois realizes through Clark that she wants something that, sharing her life and love with an alien, may not be possible to have. Chloe, now fulltime Oracle, teams up with Bruce and the League in order to finally unveil Lex's dirty secret. Meanwhile, some still have trouble dealing with Barbara's death. (Goes from beginnings of July to 14th July 2020)
KNALL PREVIEW (from first draft, so likely to be edited)
TEASER 1:
(....)
"Hey, I was just trying to catch up, these villains pop out like mushrooms"
"Oracle, get to the point!"
"What the hell was he dying of?--wait, he regenerates?"
"No wonder why my arrows were not hurting him."
"Guess the canary cry is out of place."
Chloe looked at the screen. "There are civilians close, Dinah, you'd hurt them."
"Swell." Dinah had to run out of Wade's range before he took back the weapon. Soon she was with Ollie.
Ollie took her arm and both ran towards Dinah's bike. "Swell? Spending to much time with a certain farmer?"
"I'm trying to watch my language, Ollie."
"Well, you didn't exactly say 'sweel' this morning after I--"
"Guys! I'm still here!"
Ollie smiled. "We know."
(...)
TEASER 2:
(...)
Lucy tried to ease things. "Lo, you're lucky that Dad actually likes your other half, no pun intended sweetheart."
Ron responded. "None taken, honey." It was a fact that Sam Lane still didn't like Ron, even if having Samuel had improved their relationship.
"So what? Just because he likes Clark I have to have a great relationship with Dad?"
"Dad's changed. You know the other day he was protesting because you two didn't--"
Clark cut her. "Get married?"
"Ha! Nice try, Smallville."
"No, Clark, I'm sorry. He knows his daughter and his daughter's defense mechanisms all too well. In fact, he knows her so well, that he considered the fact that you two are going to have kids unmarried as not such a bad thing after all."
A lump formed instantaneously in Clark's throat at the mention of such a delicate topic. Lois on the other side, replied without a problem.
"That'll be something new!"
"Well, I–"
Ron tried to calm him. "Hey, Clark, don't feel the pressure man."
"No, Smallville, it's ok. Look, maybe if you knock me up I'll call dad. The year our kid decides he or she's going to be a pacifist against all form of army."
(...)
