"Why is it so hard to trace Powers' tracks?" Bruce questioned as he felt the toll of staring at a screen for most of the night with little progress.

"You know this is getting us nowhere, why don't you go up, and let me take a crack at this-"

"But-"

"But nothing dad, before you go on a senseless rant about how I'm not ready for this, why don't you give up already you can't continue to treat me like a defenseless child plus it isn't like I'm asking to do anything dangerous," Darcy argued determined to get this idea out of her dad's head that she was this delicate flower that could crumble right before his eyes at any second if he let her do anything remotely close to Bat Man work. After some consideration he sighed with defeat as he removed himself from the seat after ordering Darcy to keep track of all the information that she uncovers and their sources. Darcy was overjoyed as her dad's footsteps disappeared deeper into the mansion. Since her dad couldn't find any news of Derek's work on the international science network where anyone who's anyone in the science world posted their findings and who funded, any of the private markets, or on the phony web site he had created to misguide people that he was actually doing something to benefit America with his research. The only way Darcy was going to get answers was to look in the most forbidden and hardest website to get into unless you were an exclusive member given permission from the person who runs the black market themselves, which made her smile as she wondered how hard it was going to be to hack their data base. To her delight it was going to take some time and brain power to crack into it, which she had freely at her disposal. As Darcy worked feverously at cracking every firewall and defense program blocking her from easy access she heard footsteps on the staircase down to the bat cave, which made Darcy roll her eyes as she ripped her face away from the screen while prepared to have another battle with her dad about his let go issues. When Ace pricked up and started barking wildly as if there was an intruder advancing into the bat cave, which Darcy thought was completely impossible until she froze as she started at who Ace was barking at. Could this actually be happening? Darcy thought as she started at Terry McGinnis for some time before she regained her composure.

"What is this, no, where is this?" Terry questioned as he looked around just to catch sight of the cases where all the costumes that the previous night crusaders had worn to keep the streets of Gotham safe.

"It would be an understatement to say you're not supposed to be here," Darcy stated as she lunged at Terry to pin him with her arm across his neck and pressed a button on her phone that whipped out a small knife, which made Terry raise an eye brow as he gave her a look that made her back down slightly but not letting him out of her pin, but at least she retracted the pocket knife.

"I came here to see if you had any information on my dad's death," Terry asked with a plead in his face that made Darcy shrink back as she remembered how much this must hurt him, she could say she could relate but losing Alfred had to be nothing compared to losing a person who was related by blood.

"We don't know who tried to kill your father or attempt to kill me, all we know is whoever that person is there in my dad's company," Darcy answered while walking back to the computer to finish encrypting codes and hacking into the data base of the black market.

"Since they were after you then you should have at least a couple of leads."

"We do but at this point it could be anyone in the company after all not many people liked the idea that I just showed up out of nowhere," Darcy answered trying to keep as vague as possible in hopes that she could solve this mystery before giving Terry the full facts knowing that if she tells him her suspicion he may do something stupid and judging by the wildness of anger that bared in his face that he was probably going to do something that Darcy would deem stupid.

"Yeah but connect the two there isn't many people that wanted my dad as well-"

"Silence," Darcy demanded as she broke the last burrier in between her and the information that will clear up this whole mess for her, and hopefully prove her hypothesis on who was behind all this. She typed Derek's Powers name just to get two hits from buyers from Russia and China who were bidding against what Derek's scientists called a super virus that released large amounts of radiation that burned your body from the inside out. He was recreating the disease to the point that it could kill off more than half of America's population itself, so just thinking about the type of damage that biological weapon could cause on the battle field made an ice cold chill rush through Darcy. Now everything was becoming clear Derek needed Warren out of the way to take over Wayne Tech so he could produce the product in a greater quantity in less time, and he knew that even if he did managed to get Warren's job he still needed to get rid of Darcy because he knew she would never allow it even if her dad did end up dyeing soon leaving her to run the company. To make everything clear she plugged her phone into the computer to try to see if the substance that her phone collected matched up with the chemical formula of the substance that Derek was producing. Well that wasn't very much of a shock, Darcy thought as she saw a check mark across the screen of her cell phone notifying her that she got an exact match.

"Does all this mean it was Derek Powers? I knew he was a rat, but to go this low he's going to pay!" Terry exclaimed as he went towards the glass casing of the bat costumes, which Darcy rolled her eyes at as she watched him touch the casing just to be shocked by the security measure.

"Derek will pay, and that why we have the pol-"

"Really you're just going to seat there like a coward? I'm betting your dad was bat man in his golden years, so I have one question why aren't you following in his footsteps? Is it because you rather stay here safely minding your own business while people suffer?" Terry challenged just to hit every nerve in Darcy's body. What was she thinking? This was her chance to show her dad she could do what all the past heirs to his legacy couldn't and that was to carry it on. With determination in her face Darcy switched of the defense mechanism with a touch of the glass cases. Terry picked the newest batman costume her dad invented just in case he ever had to go back into the field because it increased both his speed and strength ten times, and it was also equipped with a built in computer that allowed him to see in twelve different types of visions, had a radio connected to the bat cave, and had a cloaking device, super turbo jets in his feet and retractable wings. This new costume also came with a design that Darcy made up herself, which got rid of unnecessary things like a cape, and made so that the suit covered every inch of the user's skin with the black fabric of the costume to give nothing away of the identity of the user. Finally the last thing that she changed was her dad's old symbol of a bat across his chest, it was no longer black, but a chrisom red to add a little bit more of the fear factor to the costume.

"Wow this is amazing, it fits perfectly."

"That's because it's programed to adjust to fit its user," Darcy replied as she slipped out of a dark corner of the cave to reveal a costume that she had made in secret from her dad's designs of Terry's suit. Her suit had all the same features as Terry's and many more. She even added all the upgrades she put on her phone in her costume. The design of her costume covered every inch of her body except at the back of her hair that was done up in a pony-tail, a black mini skirt draped across her waist with a pink bat symbol across her chest.

"Whatever happened to let the police take care of everything," Terry teased as he tried to hide the fact he thought that Darcy looked smoking hot in her costume, but that thought didn't last as they both heard movement from above them, which could only mean one thing Bruce was coming any moment. Darcy quickly dragged Terry to their motor vehicle room where she threw him into what her dad named the Bat Jet-X and hit a button that made the a whole in the ceiling of the bat cave where Darcy commanded it to take flight as she grabbed hold of the stirring wheel. Darcy managed to get her dad's greatest gadget out of the bat cave okay as she wondered how much trouble she was going to be in after this whole mess was over for breaking all the rules, the very thought made Darcy cringe with fear as her and her new accomplice flew speedily through the night.

As Bruce walked down the stairs to the bat cave his eyes narrowed with suspicion as he wondered why the indicator in his room warned him that there has been a bridge in the security of the costume cases. The sight that Bruce saw both shocked him and made fury boil into a flaming mess through his body as he saw that one of the costumes were missing probably due to Darcy having identical finger prints to him, the thing that tipped him off the enraged scale was seeing his most prized position gone for a joyride with his daughter. The only saving grace was that Darcy left all the information that she had gathered open on the computer for him to access the problem and come up with a quick and effective plan to bring his daughter back, but deep inside he knew something didn't add up. Why would Darcy take a boy costume even with the fact it was the most high tech costume he ever created it still wouldn't fit her physic even with the program he installed. Whatever his daughter was up to he vowed that she was so grounded for the rest of her life.