Gabby, who was still in shock over what she was hearing, turned away from Dinah as her fingers went to her ear to call for Batgirl, but a beeping from the kitchen forced her to pause. She wondered what it was making that noise, and for the smallest of moments, thought that maybe Dinah had planted a bomb of some sort and had used her story to trick her, but then she remembered. "The pizza," she said softly, more to herself than the other figure in the room. She gave a small smile, which looked more like a wince to the other blonde, and then walked down the hallway and into the kitchen. She went to work putting on the oven mitts as she heard the softest of footsteps behind her. As she put the pizza onto the stove, she asked, "You have time for a bite?" The teenaged Oracle wasn't hungry herself anymore, but she thought she would ask regardless. Even so, she figured that Dinah's need to talk to Batgirl was urgent, and she was only really asking to fill the silence between them.

As expected, Dinah shook her head. "It smells good, but no."

Gabby nodded and then then, after taking the oven mitts off and hooking them back above the stove, she put her finger back to her comm. set and spoke in a somewhat of a murmur. "Batgirl?" There was the smallest of pauses before she heard the out of breath voice of her mentor.

[Yeah Oracle? What's going on?] Though the teen wouldn't see it, there was the a touch of concern on her face, knowing that Gabby was supposed to be resting, and Oracle sounded scared.

"You know I wouldn't hit you up right now, but something's come up."

[But how? You're nowhere near headquarters. What could have possible happened since I last saw you?] Barbara asked. She looked over to Huntress before her eyes quickly flickered away.

"I got a… visitor at home."

[Are you alright?] Barbara asked. She shifted so that her back was straight, and her face twisted into one of complete seriousness.

"Yes," the teen told her, "I'm fine. My… visitor needs to speak with you."

[Who is it?]

"Well-" Gabby said, hesitating. She wasn't sure if she wanted to use Dinah's real name or ask her friend if she had some sort of alias.

[Our mystery woman? The one you and Huntress both fought?]

"Yes," Gabby replied, relieved that she didn't have to make that decision after all.

[What did she say? Are you sure you're alright? How did she find you?]

At this Gabby smiled lightly. Barbara was concerned for her, considering her last encounter with the masked Dinah had been why she was supposed to be recuperating that evening. "Yes Batgirl, I'm okay. She knows me in real life, which is how she was able to find me. Anyway, she says that she has some information about the components to share with you - the plans for future use and whatnot. She thought one thing about those plans only to learn something different later. She thinks she's on the wrong side. I don't think I am explaining it right. Maybe she can do a better job of it. At any rate, she needs to see you ASAP."

[Alright, tell her I can meet her on the roof of New Gotham High. If she knows you in real life, then she may know you from there and will know how to get there. My ETA is about fifteen minutes.]

"Ours is a little longer on foot"

[You are not going anywhere,] Batgirl said sternly. [Have you forgotten-?]

"Oracle out." There was a beep in Gabby's ear that told her that the other line had gone dead as well. "She's going to kill me a little later, but…" The teen only shrugged and looked over to the other blonde. "New Gotham High's roof," was all she said then. Dinah nodded, and Gabby went about locking up procedures around the house, making sure to close and lock the window, and locking the door before the two of them left for their school.

The pizza forgotten, Gabby and Dinah made a rushed attempted to change into clothing that would, on Gabby's part be warmer than the pajamas she had sported out of the shower, and on Dinah, look less like she was out to rob someone. Snow began to fall in large flakes, making the world around them quiet save the breathing of the two teenagers. "Do you know a way onto the roof of the high school? Dinah asked after they made it to the subway station. "I'm still new," she seemed to want to explain.

"Yeah," Gabby responded after a moment's thought. It was a moment she didn't actually need, but she seemed to wonder if it was okay now to let Dinah into some of her more delicate secrets. Just because Dinah knew her relation to batgirl didn't mean she needed to know about Barbara's. "For emergencies and such," she added.

"Oh."

There was nothing else to say after that, it seemed. Dinah and Gabby each had their questions of course, but each knew that then wasn't the time and place for them. Gabby knew that she would learn more soon enough, and Dinah knew that she could get all the answers she needed whenever she wanted. She knew, though that if she did use her powers in that way, Gabby may never trust her, even if, she hoped she forgave her for being associated with Gotham city's biggest crime leader.

As promised, after a surprisingly short subway ride, Gabby lead Dinah around the New Gotham High School building, and to the back where the gymnasium was. She took a quick look around for the security guard before she moved aside one of the bushes and found the rock behind it. Under the rock was the key to the gymnasium, and Gabby made quick work at opening the door. Dinah knew to keep a look out while the other blonde did so. She then followed after Gabby, and the two teens went inside, past the locker rooms and towards the gym teacher's office. "Here?" Dinah whispered. In the dark, it still seemed to echo around the room. Dinah had never been in the gym longer than she had to be, but with the lights to the outside and the purple-grey of the snowy sky made it so creepy now. She almost wished for the two dozen bouncing balls and the shouting of the gym teachers.

"Mm," Gabby grunted in response. "There's a ladder leading up to the roof." She used the same key to open the door of the office and felt around on the wall. She wasn't sure what she was looking for at first until her fingers brushed against the light switch. She hesitated, debating on whether she should turn it on, but she couldn't see, and she had not thought to bring a flash light with her. "Memorize the room," Gabby said as she turned the lights on for a mental count of ten seconds. To her dismay, she saw no ladder, but there was something strangely familiar about one of the farthest walls. Like in the credit union, there were cracks in the wall, much like a door. But where would the number key be, and why hadn't Barbara ever told her the pass code for it? Then, just as her fingers flicked the light switch off, she saw it, a small… something near the floor. She bet she only needed to kick at it with her foot for the door to open or for the ladder to come down.

Gabby must have been still for too long after the lights went out again, because Dinah asked, Everything okay?"

"Yeah," Gaby said. "Come on." Having herself memorized the floor just after the lights went on, Gabby walked slowly across the office, feeling her way for the desks and drawers. Finally, she came to the opposite wall where the so called door was, and nudged the base of the wall. She had been right. There was a whirring, and the door opened up. It was lit by a single light to the back, but it showed clear as anything a ladder leading up. "Yes," the teenaged Oracle hissed. "Come on," she said again, and began to climb the ladder. At the top, she saw the latch and opened it easily. She was surprised when she got help from the other side.

"Gabby," she heard.

"Hey Batgirl," she said easily. A firm hand grabbed under her shoulder and she was lifted out of the small space she had been in. Once out and on her feet, she saw Huntress as well. "Huntress," she said in surprise.

"Kid," she responded in the same manner Gabby had only seconds ago. It was followed up by a nod. When Gabby turned to help Dinah as well, she found that Barbara was already lifting the metahuman out as well. When she saw the other blonde clearly, she stepped back in a move that only Gabby seemed to know the true meaning of. "Batgirl… This is my friend Dinah. Er- The figure I fought the other night." Gabby's eyes flickered from Batgirl to Huntress, and then back to her mentor. At the slight tenseness of the oldest woman's posture, she tried to hurry on. "Now, I know you're still upset about all of that, but she didn't know it was me. It's okay."

"Alright," Batgirl said after a moment to look Dinah over. She seemed to come to a decision. "Why did you need to speak to me, and why was it so important that you had to drag my friend away from her home, where she should be healing?"

'Oh Barbara, lighten up,' Gabby thought, but she said nothing as her eyes went to her side, where Dinah stood. When Dinah's blue met with Gabby's green, Oracle nodded. "Go on," she encouraged.

Dinah took in a deep breath and let it out. Gabby watched the mist leave her nose, which reminded her of a steam engine. "I want to say first off that I am very sorry for everything. I-I didn't know. Not everything." Dinah looked down as if to think over how she was going to start. "You know that I am a metahuman. What you don't know is that I used to be in Arkham Asylum. My therapist, Harleen Quinzell adopted me and I went to live with her. She knew how unhappy I was with my powers. It… It was why I was in Arkham, and I wanted to get as far from that place as possible. She said she knew of a way to make me normal, that she had a doctor friend who was sort of a specialist for metahumans-"

"Dr. Fairgreen," Barbara murmured. Gabby nodded. She remembered Alfred saying that was who invented a machine that would sever a metahuman's ability from the metahuman.

"Yes," Dinah said. She was surprised, but continued on. The only one out of the loop was Huntress, but she remained quiet and close to Batgirl without touching. "I assume you know all about him and The Metahuman Project then?"

"Somewhat. Continue," Batgirl replied.

"Yeah, well… My aunt made me believe that maybe she could make me normal. After starting high school she tried really hard to find her friend, since he dropped off the face of the planet after Batman left and the Metahuman Project went downhill. She when she found him, they began working on the machine again- Rebuilding it, and I thought I was going to be normal. There was just that one part, the one he had made so many years ago but didn't have blueprints to. I think they'd been destroyed. So I went and got it. Or I tried. Everything went weird and the idiots I was working with messed up. Not to mention there was you," she said, looking to Huntress. "I didn't know if she was with you or if she was on her own. She scared me, and I messed up too. Later that night, I knew Gabby was associated with you, but I didn't know who she was until after we had been fighting a bit and I touched her skin.

"I ran away from the credit union as soon as I could, and I gave the component to my aunt, and all was well, I thought. Today…" Dinah looked away again. "There was a new guy, someone who knew my aunt and the doctor from a long time ago, back when she and my… uncle I guess, were real bad guys. I bumped into him and read his thoughts. I found out that she had a different plan. It… It is fuzzy, but I got the gist of what she wants to do. She was going to take the powers from me- that much was true, but she had other plans. She wants to make us all this twisted family. Me without my powers, and her and Uncle J all living together somewhere."

"I don't understand. Uncle J?"

"I saw these images of her in red and black… And that guy… I think he was the Joker."

"Harley Quinn. Harleen Quinzell. I should've-" Batgirl shook her head and her gaze became severe. "What else did you see? What is she planning?"

"Sometime soon, she plans to test the machine. It is done. She wants to keep the city occupied while she goes to get my uncle- No, he is not my uncle, but for three years, all she ever talked about was my sweet uncle J and how much she missed him. If she is my aunt and he was coming back, it was always natural that he would be my uncle, and it is kind of hard not to think of him like that now, even if he is… him." Dinah shook her head. "She wants to create a diversion to keep you and you," she said nodding to Batgirl and Huntress respectively, "occupied while she gets him."

There was a silence. "Is that all?"

"I'm not sure how. I mean the machine, but I don't know whose power she plans to take and what she will do with it. I didn't know any of the other stuff. I knew she was going to make me normal and because all dealings related to metahumans was pretty hush-hush it had to be somewhat questionable methods to accomplish this, but… I didn't know that my uncle was him."

"If she was the one to get you out of Arkham Asylum and had been you therapist beforehand, she would know your powers and the ways around them. She must have been careful when in contact with you," Gabby offered. Gabby only nodded to this.

"So, no timeframe?" Huntress finally spoke up.

"I just know that it is going to be soon. As I said, that machine is finish and knowing her, she is eager to get him."

"Shit," Batgirl muttered. Gabby shifted from one foot to the other. With the snow still falling and the wind starting to pick up, she wished she was still at home.

"So what do we do?" Huntress asked. "What can we do with this information?"

"Well-"

The sudden sound of beeping made the redhead look to Dinah, where she searched herself at first for what was making that noise. She took out a cell phone and looked at it. She froze, and then when she looked up she smiled. Before either Batgirl Huntress or Gabby could say or do anything further, Dinah took steps towards Batgirl and brought her arm back. The crack to the jaw was like a canon in the otherwise silent night. As Batgirl stumbled back in shock, Huntress was in front of Dinah, shoving her back.

What… the hell?!" she asked, shoving her again. Dinah only laughed. Gabby frowned at this.

"So, Ms. Gordon, my literature teacher is the defender of this city. I really should have made that connection, considering the rumors about teacher and student relations." Then, Dinah hunched down, her eyes black, and rushed forward towards Batgirl, and then Huntress, who refused to let her near again. The two women then went on the attack, and Gabby knew that just like last time, it could have been somewhat disastrous.