Hey guys! LLS! I'm sorry this took so dang long, but school. My first AP class is killing me. Anyway, I thought I would say this now so that I don't ever have to write it again.

"Normal Dialogue" "Singing" 'Thinking' "Speaking on a TV/Radio/Sound-giving device (includes COMMING the team)" "Singing on a Sound-Giving device" *Speaking with the Team via psychic link* 'Writing'

Now, if anyone is confused on to why something is in a specific font, there is your explanation. If I think of something else, or another scenario plays out, I will add it in to the list and place the new list in another author's note.

Let's see, the plot is not mine, the OC is not mine (they both belong to Linwe Tulcakelume), neither of the songs are mine. The first song is "The World is Mine" from Batman the Brave and the Bold, and the second song, I'm sad to say, is "I've got Tricks up My Sleeve" from My Little Pony. Please don't judge me.

Let me just say now, two months for an update is fast for me, especially one this long. The only way I got this one up now is because somehow, Texas got a snow day in February. This is not normal.

Anyway, without further adieu...

Chapter 2: Loyalty is Different than Blood

3rd Person POV

Gotham City

The sun was shining through her curtains, burning through her closed eyes when she awoke. It seemed quiet. There were no cars on the streets nor people on the sidewalks. Aika looked across and saw that the door of the apartment across from hers was wide open, with no one inside.

Aika raised a brow and walked into the living room and switched on the television. She then walked into the kitchen to make some semblance of breakfast (it was a Saturday, and she didn't exactly have a set schedule).

Apple in hand, Aika jumped over the back of the couch and landed with her feet crossed and her back up against the arm. There was a blonde reporter on the screen.

"...have left their homes unprotected. No one can find a connection between these people except for..." Strange music started to play through the speakers of the television.

"The Music Meister sings the song that the world wants to hear..."

Aika perked up when she heard the singing. That wasn't supposed to happen. The screen flipped to a shot of her father. Wearing possibly the cheesiest fur cape ever. His eyes were covered by a pair of eighth note glasses.

'Oh my god," Aika thought. 'What is he doing?'

He started speaking with the beat.

'Oh hello dear Gotham,

You are under my control.'

'You can not think

But you'll do as you are told.'

'If my wife couldn't live

Then neither will you.'

'So run up to the tops,

and jump off to your doom!'

Aika couldn't believe it, this was all because of her father...no, Jasper. This is all because of Jasper.

'I've got to do something!' Aika thought. She ran into her room and threw open the doors of her closet. She drudged around until she found purple corset top which she had never planned on wearing.

'Okay, think Aika. Jasper gets arrested, you go to a foster home. Jasper gets away, but without having killed anyone, you can make a plead for a trial and get him put on house arrest until you can figure this out."

She could hear people singing outside.

"The music Meister

Sings the song that the world wants to hear.

Let's not fight, let's get along

For our hypnotic propetier!

Aika had put on the top, a pair of black skinny jeans, and boots.

'If dad sees me, I'm grounded for a month and I still wouldn't be able to help him.'

She grabbed a black scarf and wrapped it around her mouth. The sound would still escape if she needed it to, but you couldn't tell who she was.

Aika ran out of the apartment and locked the door behind her.

Wayne Tower

3rd Person POV- Batman, Robin, and Black Canary.

"He's gotten smarter, but not any less dramatic," Canary observed. Meister was everywhere. On screens anyway. The man himself was nowhere to be found.

"The videos on the newer models are feeding through at the same speed as the videos on the older models," Batman said while looking at the feeds of two different screens. "He has to projecting from multiple transmitters across this city for that to work."

"Of course! Otherwise the original models wouldn't be synchronized with the new ones!" Robin exclaimed.

"He did that on purpose. So that we would find different transmitters, but not him," Batman said.

"But, if we can triangulate the position of multiple transmitters-"

"It'll lead us straight to the source!"

The three got to work.

Gotham City

3rd Person POV- Aika Dewhurst

Aika ran into her father's room, wearing the outfit she had donned and now looking for anything she could use or clues to where her father might have gone. She opened the top drawer of his dresser and immediately closed it while scrunching up her face in disgust. Hopefully, nothing useful would be hidden among his boxer shorts.

The second drawer consisted of polos and different types of pants. The third, however, was locked.

'If I were a key, where would I be?' Aika asked herself. She looked over on the bed stand and saw her mother's old jewelry box. Inside this box was a little gold key that was just the right size for the drawer.

Inside the third drawer were three pairs of eighth-note glasses- which she did not put on as she already had the scarf around her nose and mouth- what looked like car keys, and a little wooden box. In the little box was what looked like the prototype for a microphone with an extremely sharp edge. A knife? Next to this prototype was a slip of paper with an address and the words...

'Meet with E.

1207 Pepper st.

Meet to finish model.

Tuesday.'

'E?' Aika thought. 'Does that stand for Edward? As in uncle Eddie? One way to find out. If anyone knows where dad is, it's Eddie.'

Aika grabbed the prototype knife and stuck it in her boot. The keys were shoved in a pocket along with the address. Making her way down to the abandoned street, Aika clicked the lock button on the keys. A light flashed through a motorcycle cover a few spots down.

Underneath the cover was a white motorbike. Aika didn't know the first thing about the make or model, but she had a general idea of how to ride it.

'Okay Aika. Time to make a decision. Do something illegal to keep dad from doing something even more illegal, or stay put and let dad do his thing?'

The decision was made fairly quickly as Aika climbed onto the bike and drove off to the address on the paper.

Gotham City

Abandoned Apartment

As Aika pulled up to the building she started to second-guess herself. Had she really gone to the right place? She had never actually met Uncle Eddie, but the way Melody would talk about him, he didn't sound like the kind of guy to live in a place like this.

'Oh well, if anyone knows where dad may be broadcasting from, it's Eddie,' Aika thought. She walked up to the door and knocked. No answer.

"Uncle Eddie?" Aika called, hoping someone was inside.

'What if he is under the spell too? Though, this doesn't exactly look like a place with televisions, and you can't hear the music at this end of the city,' Aika thought. She started to back away, planning on circling the building to see if there was another entrance, but just before she turned around, the door was opened by a large mass of a man.

"Who the hell are you?" He asked.

"Who are you?" She retorted. He started to close the door, but she ran and put her foot in the way.

"Wait," she said, "I need to see Eddie. Is he here?"

"Depends who's asking."

"Tell him it's Melody's daughter."

The man closed the door and left Aika standing there, hoping that someone would return. After about five minutes, her cell phone rang out of her back pocket. She looked at the caller ID and saw that it was an unknown number. She answered. Before she even got a chance to say "hello," another voice piped up.

"Let me get this straight my dear. You're mean to tell me that a niece I have never met and with whom I have never spoken on the phone suddenly knows exactly where to find me?"

"That sounds about right," Aika replied.

"Before I answer any of your questions, tell me how you found me and who you have told."

Aika sighed. "I found a slip of paper with your initial and this address on it in my dad's drawer about an hour ago. I haven't told anyone about this. I'm starting to rethink that last decision, though."

"Darling, is that a threat?"

"No, just an observation," she replied shakily.

"Alright. One more thing. When is a door not a door?"

Aika didn't have to think about her next answer; Melody had been quite fond of riddles. "When it's been left ajar."

"Good job. You'll find the entrance unlocked. Go up the stairs and into the first room on your right. The numbers on the door should be 221b. No one will harm you, but please don't make a scene." And with that, he hung up.

True to his word, Aika opened the door with no trouble. Directly in front of her was a set of stairs that led to a short hallway. However, the apartment, 221b, was still locked when she reached it.

"Uncle Eddie," she said, "will you please open the door?"

The door opened and behind it stood a (kind of short) man with shaggy brown hair. He was on the skinnier side and had on a purple top and jeans. Aika pulled down her scarf so her could see her face.

"Oh my god. You look exactly like your mother," he said. She noticed as he talked that he had a gap in between his two front teeth. "What do you need, my dear?"

"Unless you've been living under a rock, you would have realized that the whole city has been hypnotized by my father," Aika started.

"So? And in case you haven't noticed, I more or less have been under a rock."

"I need your help to stop dad."

"Isn't that a certain flying rodent's job?" He raised a brow at this.

"Batman will just put dad back in Arkham. I'm not doing this for him, this is so that I can keep myself out of an orphanage," Aika said. "Wait, wouldn't they just send me to you?"

"Ah, greed. A powerful motivator when it need be," he said as he walked over to his desk. "And no, they wouldn't. My living situation is too...unstable at the moment. Anyway... What was your name again?"

"Aika."

"So your parents did come to an agreement over that one."

"Excuse me?"

"Jasper had wanted a musical name while Little Mel had wanted something a little more subtle. Aika is Japanese for 'love song'. Anyway, Love Song, your father and I had been working on a prototype microphone before he did whatever he's doing now. I believe he was storing it in a drawer at your apartment."

"I know the one," Aika said as she shifted her leg which beheld the boot under which the knife-microphone thing was kept.

"Anyway, in that microphone should be a chip. On that chip is a recording of Black Canary's cry. We were going to use it so that the microphone would be immune to the cry, but since the one he is probably using right now doesn't have that chip, it should be able to wake everyone up. It can be inserted into any kind of video camera as a memory chip. Most cameras like that come with a cord for you to plug it into a computer or sound system."

"So I find a camera, put the chip in it, find dad and his computers, get the camera plugged into the computers and press play? Poof, everyone wakes up?"

"Poof. But your father may object."

"I'll worry about him. Do you know where he is broadcasting from?"

"He kept mentioning the band hall, start there."

"Thanks Uncle Eddie."

"Anytime little Love Song. Do me a favor, don't mention this to anyone."

Aika just nodded, a little confused as to why he didn't want anyone knowing about their interaction.

She walked outside, pulled up her scarf so it covered her face, and drove off towards the arts district.

Gotham City Band Hall

"The Music Meister

sings the song that the world wants to hear

Let's not fight lets get along

For our hypnotic propetier!"

Jasper could still hear the singing as he sat at the desk in the large choir room, surrounded by computer monitors and a central hub. The central hub fed to all the different transmitters around the city, that way all his little singers were keeping perfect time.

He kept glancing up at the skylight, expecting the dynamic duo to come crashing in at any second. He was hoping his throw-off leading to Wayne Industries was enough. He sat and watched as his little minions caused chaos throughout the city.

Just outside the band hall, the white motorcycle was pulling up. Aika hopped off and grabbed the camcorder with the chip inside. This particular camcorder had no cord, if just plugged directly into the computer.

As Aika was walking up to the entrance, she realized that her father would recognize her shy personality. 'Okay Aika. You have to completely remake your personality in about two minutes. Let's just go totally opposite- loud, obnoxious. Make a scene.'

Those were her exact thoughts as she stumbled upon a room filled with computers instead of instruments. Her father sat in the middle of it all. Aika took a big breath and pushed open the doors.

Jasper jumped and turned around.

"Well Sir, you've done a fine job of re-decorating this room, but what of the other 67? Did you really spend all of our funds on all these computers and then just stick them in one room? If that wasn't a dumbass move then I don't know what is!"

"Who the hell are you?" Jasper yelled

"Isn't it obvious, I'm the interior decorator! I must say, if you worked half as hard on the rooms as you did on you stupid outfits then you would be rich by now!"

"How are you not..."

"Oh darling, I just don't listen to bad music."

Jasper's face was reddening by the minute. Any more nasty comments and he may have to blow this ignorant music-hater out of existence. Aika started to walk around the room like a king walks around his court.

"I just don't see how you forgot someone so trivial! It was an obvious slip in the plan! I shouldn't have expected any better from a mere choir boy."

That was the last straw. Jasper flung himself at this mystery girl, using his microphone stand to pin her to the wall by her shoulders.

"Give me one reason not to blast you right here, right now," he growled.

"Cause, darling...

Ya better believe
I got tricks up my sleeve

And I captivate
'Cause I'm powerful and great

Ya better believe
I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate
'Cause I'm powerful and great"

Aika pushed Jasper off of her and grabbed his wrists, twirling him around the room.

"You think you've got what it takes to go toe to toe?
I've got more moves than you'll ever know
I own the stage, I'm all the rage
You're from the past, I'm from the Space Age"

Little did either of the two people in the room realize that they had an audience.

"She's new," Robin commented, "and not doing a bad job for a first timer, either."

Black Canary had a confused look on her face. "What is she doing?"

"She has a camera in her back pocket. Right side. It's a model that plugs directly into the computers. Most likely, she has something on that camera that can shut all of this off. The singing is just a distraction to get her over there unharmed."

"Come on, you're just making noise
Listen how my music destroys
Anything you throw at me
I'm gonna throw back, just wait and see"

The trio watched as Aika twirled her father around and tried her hardest to get over to the computers. Jasper stopped her and tried to punch her, but she took off her scarf just in time.

"Ya better believe
I got tricks up my sleeve

And I captivate
'Cause I'm powerful and great

Ya better believe
I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate
'Cause I'm powerful and great"

Jasper was put into a trance, as he hadn't been expecting to see that face under the scarf. His pupils enlarged, telling Aika that he was under her control.

"I'm here to take you down a peg
Oh, whoa, oh-whoa-oh-whoa-oh-oh
By the time I'm done, you're gonna beg
Oh, whoa, oh whoa oh whoa oh oh
To be in my band, application rejected!

Don't look so sad and so dejected"

Aika kept singing as she walked over to the central hub and pulled out the camera. She plugged it in, but waited to turn it on. She walked over to her hypnotized father and tied her scarf around his hands so that when she stopped singing, he couldn't get out.

"Don't mean to brag, don't mean to boast
But I'm a six-course meal and you're just burnt toast
Think I'm gonna ever give up?
No, never, ever, ever, ever!

Come on, you're just making noise
Listen how my music destroys

Anything you throw at me
I'm gonna throw back, just wait and see"

Black Canary, Batman, and Robin had all gotten into the computer room at this point and were watching Aika as she worked and finished her song. They were still wearing their earplugs, so her singing didn't affect them. Aika had noticed their presence in the room and smiled their way.

"Ya better believe
I got tricks up my sleeve

And I captivate
'Cause I'm powerful and great

Ya better believe
I got tricks up my sleeve

See me dominate
'Cause I'm powerful and great!"

She pressed a button on the camera and a recording of Canary's shriek filled the city. Two of the four heroes in the room flinched. Black Canary didn't feel the need to as it was her cry that filled the room.

After a few seconds, Aika fell to her knees in pain. Not having thought this one through, she didn't wear any kind of earplugs. Her hands flew to her head and she started to scream in pain. Soon she was unconscious.

"Someone get some earplugs on her!" Canary cried over the shriek, "if she's unconscious, then the pressure from her hands onto her ears is weakened, she'll be deafened!"

Robin raced over and pried Aika's hands off of her head one by one, replacing each hand with a plug. Soon, Aika's pain-stricken face returned to a neutral state, but she still did not awaken.

Batman walked over and unplugged the camera, silencing the sound. Moments after he did this, Jasper started to wake up, as he had also been affected by the cry. His eyes flew to the unconscious girl laying with her head in Robins arms.

"Aika?" He asked, trying to move over only to find that he was restrained. "Aika! What did you do to her you filthy flying rat!"

Batman walked over to him and replaced Aika's scarf with a pair of real handcuffs. "We didn't do anything, she came and stopped you."

"No, she wouldn't! I was doing this for her mother! For her mother! Those bastards at Wayne Medical weren't working on a cure! They found a cure too late! Maybe for someone else! But I wasn't married to anyone else! No one else can be my Melody! No one else can be her mother!" Jasper started yelling and screaming as Batman started to drag him out of the band hall. Robin picked up Aika and followed Canary out.

So? Did you like it? I promise, it gets better from here, and lots better as the story goes on.

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