"How much trouble do you think we'll get into?"
"You mean if we aren't killed by Derek, then I predict grounding and eternal solitude for me and you well you'll be lucky if he doesn't kill you," Darcy replied just to have Terry swallow hard as they both turned their attention towards the building that grew nearer and nearer every passing moment until they came face to face with Wayne Industries. Darcy landed the jet on top of the building so they wouldn't be seen by anyone who was roaming the streets at night.
"Shouldn't we make a plan before we walk into enemy lines?" Darcy asked as she rolled her eyes with the sight of seeing Terry jumping into the ventilation system with no clue how to get to Wayne Tech through them.
"We'll think of one just follow me," Terry replied as he plunged himself down into the ventilation shaft. With a heavy sigh Darcy caught him before he could reach the bottom of the long shaft and with one fowl sing of her hand tossed Terry out the ventilation system, because there was no way Darcy was going to follow this kid to her death. As they crawled through the darkness of the dusty tunnels in the ventilation system they both nearly jumped as a furious voice blared throughout the radios in their bat ears.
"What in the world do you children hope to prove?"
"I think the same question could be asked of you dad," Darcy answered as she switched off the com in her head, and soon after hearing the whip lash of Bruce's anger Terry did the same with the an engulfing fear raising through him, it was a fear that people only come across when a child knows that they have done something wrong and the fact occurs to them that there is no way to get out of it. The only emotion that overrode his guilt was his urge, his hunger to avenge his father and bring the slime bag that killed him to justice.
"How pissed off is your dad right now?"
"Very, he may pop a vein," Darcy snickered as she stopped at an opening in the shaft in which she knew was right above where all evil in Wayne Enterprises lay dormant just readying himself to wreak his havoc across the world, something Darcy couldn't and wouldn't allow to ever happen. As both children of the night stared down into the caverns of evil where they saw the classic laboratory with men running around in white trench coats and computers humming and beeping in over drive, but all that paled in comparison to what Darcy and Terry had their attention glued onto, which was the two men in the middle of all the chaos of the laboratory scene talking to each other about what Darcy was guessing the master plan.
"Hey put your hand over the vent and press the other one to your ear," Darcy whispered to Terry as she followed her instruction to better hear what the two men were scheming, the one that ordered her death and the one that was his errand boy.
"As you ordered we killed that executive guy, now pay up," The man who had delivered Darcy the tea that afternoon demanded as he waved over a group of his goons as if to put more emphasis on his demand by threating Derek with the good old odds of ten to one.
"Well I would never stiff you, Uriah and your gang, on a job well done; however, I told you to kill Warren McGinnis and Darcy Wayne, and so the question I want to know is what happened to her?"
"Nobody knows she disappeared after I delivered the poison, but with all that aside we still want our cash Mr. Powers."
"I suppose you carried out all my orders prefectly and who knows what condition the old geezer's daughter's in after all it takes twenty four hours for the poison to take its kill," Derek claimed as he clapped his hands just to have a man in a black suit present the gang with a suit case, which Darcy could only guess was filled to the brim with cash. When were the bad guys ever going to get more original she thought as the gang's leader bowed towards Derek after expecting the amount of money presented to him. With that the gang bid their supplier farewell and were heading off, which made Terry want to jump in that second so that they could take revenge on the gang along with the man that ordered them to end his father's life, but Darcy kept him in place with a glare that told him he better stay put or the bad guys may not be the only ones that feel the sting of the justice she was readying herself to dish out.
"Sir, the lethal mutagenic nerve gas has been packaged and is now ready to go to their destination, but is it really wise to sell the weapon to both countries?"
"Why not Dr. Li they both equally want my fine product, and I would hate disappoint one-"
"And you know it's just a bonus if you end up with double the cash, so that's your game," Darcy added as she swooped down towards the laboratory beneath her surprising both Derek and Terry.
"Oh really what is this the thirty-first of October please the whole batman thing was washed up years ago," Derek sneered as he tried to stifle his laughter with the mere thought that these kids believed they could stop him by playing dress up of the real thing that was now a simple scary legend to all evil out there in Gotham one that will never ruin their plots or schemes ever again.
"You should be honored to be the first piece of scum we throw in jail Mr. Powers," Terry entered just to stun Derek even further that there wasn't only one of them there were, but two, which only meant to him that he was going to need to pay extra to get these two brats exterminated, but knowing that this was his chance to make his mark on the world as the sole ruler of Wayne Enterprise and the inventor of a revolutionary weapon then he couldn't afford any distractions, whether they will cause him trouble or not so with a whistle he called back the gang that had murdered Warren McGinnis to get rid of the bat children for double the coast. This brought a smile to Darcy's face as she braced herself for anything her oncoming attackers could throw at her. The gang commenced the fight with attacking both Darcy and Terry in two groups of five, which didn't even faze Darcy after all with all the training and hard work that Alfred put her through secretly to prepare her for this very day made her more than ready to kick villain butt. So as fists and legs swung at her, she effortlessly dodged them while countering them with a deadly swiftness that left most of her attackers on the ground gasping for mercy. Seeing as how she finished taking out her attackers, left her mind focused on Terry as she saw that he was having trouble defeating the flies that were swarming around him, so after defeating the last couple of attackers with moves that she had come across on television when Alfred used to watch the wrestling channel.
"Need some help?" Darcy asked as she flipped into the fray between Terry and his half of the gang members. Even though Terry felt that she was looking down on him especially since she had taken down all her attackers in half the time it has taken him to defeat two out of the five men attacking him, but in the end he grudgingly agreed to her offer. His reluctant attitude made Darcy snicker as she reached into her gadget belt to retrieve two tiny balls that she threw to the ground just to have the whole room filled to the brim with smoke, which gave the two bat children the upper hand because their heat vision allowed them to see through the smoke screen. Without a second to lose as the smoke began to dwindle slowly both Terry and Darcy commenced in taking out the rest of the bad guys before the smoke cleared to reveal to Derek that they may prove to be more trouble than he expected two children playing dress up to be as looked around at the sight of the gang rolling on the ground in pain.
"Who are you kids?"
"Why can't you tell Batgirl and Batman obviously," Darcy replied with a curtsy as Terry bowed. This form of mockery made fury boil through Derek as he commanded the leader of the gang that stood next to him that he would pay the leader triple for the extermination of these two thorns in his side. With an evil smile the leader promised to deliver them dead to Derek as he charged towards the kids.
"Sir, the plane is loaded and ready for takeoff at any moment," Dr. Li reported as he came out of the hanger that was right next to Derek's lair. Derek smiled with pleasure as he snuck away towards the hanger knowing this was his chance to make a clean get away by taking flight with the cargo.
"Notify the pilot that we take off this instant," Derek whispered to Dr. Li which made the scientist run ahead to follow out his orders from Derek. Darcy caught Powers leaving the room with the corner of her eye as she was slammed towards the ground by Uriah with one massive swing of his hand that smacked her across the face. This left Darcy burning with fury as she reached into her belt to get a gadget that will defeat the oversized gorilla of a man, but Terry stopped her with a determined look across his face. The very gesture left Darcy curious and annoyed knowing what was coming next was probably going to be another bad idea that Terry has roped her into tonight.
"I got this guy, you go after Derek-"
"Are you crazy? This guy, he'll kill you!"
"Well isn't that better than letting Derek get away?" Terry retorted just to have Darcy back away from the fight with a conflicted face knowing that Terry was right, but something deep down wanted her to continue to fight and make sure Terry didn't end up hurt or worse dead. In the end she sucked up her worry knowing that she needed to trust that her partner knows what he's doing or at least will be able to stay alive until she gets back, she thought as she dashed out of the room.
"Looks like your girlfriend has abandoned you, poor bat loser, don't worry she'll join you soon enough."
"I would be more worried about myself if I was you," Terry replied with cold venom reign throughout his voice as he mustered up all his pain and rage to channel through this fight. He wanted to make sure this man knew exactly how he felt when he had arrived home from school just to see that his dad was long dead; he didn't even get a chance to defend his dad or even apologize to him for being such a routine kid because of his parent's divorce. All he ever did was argue and defy his dad, and now he was gone and there was nothing he could do about it, but become the child his dad always wanted a child that did the right thing, and to start with his transformation he had to bring this guy down. With a deep breath he lunged into a one on one fight with a man that had to be five weight classes above him, which only increased Terry's determination to prove to Darcy, Mr. Wayne, and his dad that he could do this.
While war waged forward in the laboratory Darcy was sneaking through the hanger as she watched Derek talking to a bunch of scientists that handed him a suit case before allowing Derek to care on towards the plane that was already started as if Derek didn't want to waste a second in escaping from his brat infested hide out. Too bad for him Darcy had another idea in mind, which was bringing him down, and bringing him down is what she did as she launched into the air and acrobatically bashed Derek's face with a kick upon landing.
"Honestly, you did you think you'd escape that easily?" Darcy teased with amusement as she watched the smug look upon Derek's face disappear as he glared up at her from the ground.
"You're going to regret that," Derek declared as he stood up to dust himself off and whip the hot streaming chrisom liquid from his nose before he confronted Darcy with a gun from his pants pocket. "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this I do hate getting my hands dirty," Derek complained with a snicker as he drew back the trigger to fill the air with an intoxicating bang that scent not only a bullet flying but smoke as well. When the smoke cleared Derek expected to see Batgirl on the ground dead or at least gasping for dear life, but he saw none of the sort as he came face to face with Batgirl still standing in front of him as if he had never taken the point blank shot at her. His confusion made an amuse smile play at the ends of her lips, which only enraged Powers further as he didn't believe that the bullet actually hit her as he started to shot at her continually until his barrel was completely drained.
"This can't be. How is this possible?" Derek demanded with fury increasing his tone in volume. Darcy just snickered as she dropped every single bullet in front of him, which only sent him into further confusion as he tried to come up with a logical explanation for her being able to do what normal people couldn't, but he didn't have time to think too long the matter not with Darcy hammering him across the face with one blow of her fist, which nearly knocked him over. Feeling the smashing pain erupt from her blow led Derek to open his eyes to the fact that he couldn't win, but if he ordered the pilot to start the plane then the brats would be at a lost as well, Derek thought as he yelled take off so loud that the pilot with in the plane immediately took the plane upwards.
The very sight of the plane slowly drifting upward away from Darcy's reach to be allowed into the hands of people that planned to miss use the virus to take down their enemies with total disregard for human life angered her to the point that her last blow was a powerful kick to Derek's stomach that left him hurling towards the left over crates in the hanger. Darcy started to charge towards the plane with her extendible bat graveling hook that she shot from the center of her belt at the plane just to be zooming through the air as the plane completed its lift off into the sky. As Darcy clung to the graveling hook rope she heard a blood curdling scream as she saw green smoke coming out of the hanger exist that the plane took to get out of Wayne Enterprise. It occurred to her then that the crates she slammed Derek into must have had the lethal mutagenic nerve gas in it for later export to someone willing to make him rich in exchange for his destructive weapon. Wow, isn't irony sweet, Darcy thought without any remorse for the rat and his doomed future, after all as far she was concerned he deserve everything that befell upon him for taking the life of Warren.