Robin was the first to attack, flying forwards with a quick assist from Superboy but Batgirl just batted him away and he tumbled into a wall. Superboy roared at her like some kind of primal beast and she span so he charged past her and into Robin and she didn't flinch when they collided.

She was having way too much fun for that.

Aqualad had his bioelectric weapons ready and he slashed at her arm, grazing it gently but she didn't feel the pain, only the sticky sensation of her warm blood on her arm and staining her outfit.

She gripped Aqualads wrists, pulling them forwards as she crashed her forehead into his nose, adding more force to the hit. As he stumbled back she cracked him in the jaw with a back fist before spinning and cracking him in the gut with a reverse round house kick.

Artemis fired and arrow and Batgirl stepped to the side and reached out lazily, grabbing it and causing friction burns along her hand that she didn't give a damn about.

"Your starting to piss me off you know that?" She growled low in her throat, the sound sending shivers down her opponents spines despite the hatred they were feeling.

"You are what we fight against in this world, monsters hiding in a humans skin" Aqualad scorned her viciously and her fathers words echoed in her head.

"You're a monster, do you understand? You deserve to hurt, and it's my right to save the world from the creature I brought into it"

Aqualad threw a punch at her, and instead of moving she simply caught it in her fist and started squeezing.

"You have no idea, how right you are" She muttered, twisting his wrist around and throwing him into the approaching Miss Martian who's pretty features were twisted in anger.

"See ya" Batgirl muttered under her breath, and then she ran pushing her body past it's natural limit and feeling angry and sad at the same time.

I am a monster, I deserve to hurt…deserve to suffer…

She kept running, to the one place where she would always suffer, those sickening images in her mind, refusing to leave her alone.

She would go there, and she would suffer.

Robin ached and he was pretty sure that collision with Superboy had sprained his wrist and broken a few fingers but he was more concerned with Aqualads seemingly broken wrist.

"She pummelled us, we were in top form and she was half dead and she absolutely destroyed us" Superboy muttered angrily to himself and the others nodded in agreement.

"Of course she did, we never stood a chance against her and were lucky she didn't do worse, especially with her that angry" Robin shuddered at the thought of an angry Batgirl on their case.

"What do we do next?" Artemis asked shifting so her hair was no longer in her face.

"We wait" Aqualad sighed resting his wrist as they stood, together yet alone on the empty rooftops of central.

Roy followed the tracer that he had placed on the inside of Batgirls cowl and ran quickly, he had to find her before she did something stupid and got herself killed.

It wouldn't surprise him however if she had snapped and just gone off the rails, there was only so much a person could take, and even Batgirl had her limits.

He ran along and skidded to a halt when he found Question and Kid Flash standing outside a huge half destroyed warehouse.

"She's in here" Question told him and Roy nodded and the three of them frog marched inside.

Batgirl hung from a beam and stared at the rubble, still hearing the bombs screams in her head and still able to see the charred form of her adoptive mother in the debris.

She heard the footsteps and opened her eyes watching the three heroes as they approached the middle of the room, standing below her, oblivious to her presence.

They stood and looked around for a moment.

"We know you're here Batgirl, there's no use hiding" Kid Flash called and she raised an eyebrow weakly and let go of the beam, spinning mid air and landing in the centre of the three heroes.

"I wasn't" She informed them and KF jumped and span around to face her.

"You need to come back, your not in any condition to be out here" Roy growled at her and she shrugged her shoulders.

"You can't fix this all by yourself" Question informed her and she stared at him and frowned.

"You have no face" She informed him, and he nodded so she frowned again.

"What am I supposed to hit if I get annoyed?" She asked and Roy gave a tiny smile, even in her state, she still managed to keep her wit.

"What do you normally hit?" Kid asked her and she tilted her head to the side as she watched Question.

"The nose, but he doesn't have a nose" Batgirl whined and Roy shook his head but the smile was evident.

"I'm sure you'll think of something, now come one. We need to get you to the safe house" Roy ordered her and she shook her head and Roy growled.

"Why are you doing this? Why do you keep running from us? We just want to help you" Roy snarled at her and she turned on him with animalistic fury.

"You don't have a clue do you? You couldn't possibly understand how I feel or what I do, the only person, rather, the only two people that could can't come anywhere near me! So don't, don't you even dare try to make this alright with petty words" She screamed at him and he stared at her, watching the anger bubble and boil inside her.

"Now, if you want to live, leave. Me. Alone" She snarled, throwing several smoke pellets to the ground and shooting out of the warehouse and into the depths of Gotham.

Batgirl was angry scared and alone, she wished that Batman were there just to give her a kick in the right freaking direction. She had to fix this on her own because it was her fault, she was the useless one, the hopeless monster.

"Perhaps it would have been better if Dad had killed me…" She muttered to herself and turned as a shadow loomed over her, she watched him with a small smile.

"Hey Bruce, your looking good" She muttered feeling the adrenaline running off and the exhaustion of what had happened finally catching up to her.

He didn't say anything, he just swept forwards and punched her in the jaw, making her head snap back at an agonising speed.

She staggered backwards and batted away two of his jab punches and returned them with a kick in the stomach that made him flinch but not stop.

"You should have stayed in hiding" Batman informed her, it wasn't a taunt or a threat, just a fact.

"I don't hide Bruce, you should know that" She replied managing to crack him in the ribs with the heel of her boot and she heard him groan in pain.

"You do hide, but I'm about to change that" He snarled, and then lunged, and gripped her mask.

And he pulled.