Chapter 12: A New Enemy

A/n: So the votes are counted and now the waiting is over and the new enemy is going to be revealed in this chapter.

Paige's POV:

I was on my midnight patrol with Caleb on the Comm link reporting from the bat cave. It was a calm night but it was something in the air that told me something big was going to happen very soon.

This town had been much safer than ever not that I'm here stopping A's plans. The people of Rosewood were much safer but the news still debated if I were a hero or a bigger threat than A Those debates made Emily furious but I didn't care I didn't become Batgirl to be praised by Rosewood I only wanted justice.

Suddenly I saw a fire in the distance so I decided to investigate it since it could have been a robbery gone wrong.

I jumped on the stealth bike and drove to the building that was on fire, it was a small house so either it was an accident or A sending a message.

A man and a woman were standing outside the building with a group of firemen, the woman was screaming and tried to run towards the building but the firemen were holding her back. She yelled and tried to get past the firemen, someone was still inside the building.

I had to act fast before the house collapsed I fired the grapple hook to get inside through an opened window. Once I landed inside the house I could feel the heat inside the house.

It was like being inside a sauna that was on fire, the smoke was getting thicker and thicker but I had to save whoever was inside the burning house.

I heard some sobbing in the distance so I searched through the top floor kicking down doors feeling the sweat all over me as I continued searching the rooms for the sobs. As I searched through the rooms the fire starting to spread and I was about to faint but I couldn't let whoever was inside the house die when I knew I could save him or her.

When I kicked down a third door it came a small fire explosion from the room, so that room was empty.

I heard coughing from the room behind me so I kicked down the door and there was a young girl couldn't be older than five years old and she looked like a young me. She was choking from the smoke and she was surrounded by fire, she had no way out.

I didn't think anymore I ran inside the room and jumped through flames that were scattered across the floor.

Suddenly I felt something tackled me so I fell on the floor. I looked up and saw a Power armor that shot fire from two guns placed on the wrists.

When I tried to get back up, I got kicked in the stomach and although my suit was made to withstand heavy blows so did the kick very painful and I was just too weak to fight.

The Power armor lifted me off my feet and removed the mask, it was a girl with long brown hair and green eyes. She looked at me with an evil smile on her face.

"I want the last thing you know is that you were defeated by Jenna Marshall." she says and then she activates a Jetpack flying through the roof still holding me.

Once we were through the roof she dropped me so I fell through the roof and everything got black.

I felt a few nudges that made me know that I wasn't dead but it sure felt like I was burning in hell. I opened my eyes and saw the girl shaking my arm in panic. I felt the floor giving up so I used my last energy to get up and grab the kid and run towards the window sine some burning boards had blocked the door so the window was our only way out. I lifted the girl in my arms and jumped through the window holding the girl in my arms and fell to the lawn landing on my back to make sure the girl didn't get hurt.

I slowly loosened my grip around the girl and she was alive and well more than anyone could say about me I was exhausted, dehydrated, bruised and sore from the house.

The woman walked up to me and saw the girl in my arms, the girl walked up to the woman and the woman hugged the girl as I slowly got back up.

"I was wrong about you". I hear the woman say as I leave. It felt good that someone thought I was good.

"Caleb I need you to find out everything about a Jenna Marshall." I say over the Comm link.

"Ok Jenna Marshall... She is a highly paid assassin who goes by the name Fire fly, her thing is that she burns down everything leaving nothing but ashes, holy shit Paige this one is more dangerous than anyone I ever know aside from possibly A why do you want to know about her?" Caleb says sounding more worried than usual.

"Because I just bumped into her and she almost killed me." I answer him not really caring what he's going to answer I turned off the Comm link.

I walked to the stealth bike and drove home fighting to not fall asleep, all the way home.

Once I got home I took off my mask noticing that my site was beyond repairing so I threw it in a garbage bag and asked Caleb to throw it in a Dumpster when he went home.

When I got out from the Batcave I went to the kitchen and got myself a glass of cold water before I went to sleep.

Emily's POV:

It was Tuesday afternoon I was in history class but I couldn't focus on Mr. Fitz explaining the civil war. All I could see was Paige and she was worried about something and I wanted to know what it was seeing her like that was torture for me. Why couldn't I read Paige's mind it would make things so much easier.

She was Batgirl, she was the one that stood up against A if she was worried it couldn't be good.

Mr. Fitz cleared his throat and I snapped out of my own world thinking of how badly I wanted to have Paige telling me what's wrong.

After the class ended I walked up to Paige to see what's wrong.

"Hey Paige what's wrong?" I ask her just as we exit the classroom.

"Emily nothing is..." She said but I cut her off.

"Paige please don't lie to me, I don't like it. I can tell that something is wrong just by looking at you and I want you to be able to tell me anything because I love you." I say letting her know that I want an answer.

"Ok, I'm worried because A has a new top Lieutenant and she is more dangerous than Maya and I'm worried that I won't be able to protect you from her and I love you too much to lose you." She answers and I kiss her to show her that she is not going to lose me.

"How about I come to your place, we share a dinner and watch a movie and then we'll see what will happen after that." I say in an effort to get Paige to stop worrying about me.

"That sounds great." Paige says to me "I'll just talk to Caleb and give him the night off."

"I'll wait in my car and we can get to your place right after you two have he your talk" I say and walk to the parking lot.

"Ok, I love you so much." Paige says after me as a walk to my car and I turn and give her a wide smile. I'll never get tired of hearing her say that.

Paige's POV:

I see Caleb talking to Hanna and I walk up to him to give him the good news. He'll probably be happy to get the night off so he can spend some time with Hanna.

Suddenly I heard a huge explosion from the parking lot.

"EMILY!" I yell as I run to the parking lot.

I find Emily lying on her back with dirt from the explosion and I check for a pulse. She has one but it's very weak.

"SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE!" I scream as everyone starts to surround me and Emily.

The explosion came from Emily's car when she had unlocked it, thank god that she wasn't in the car when it exploded.

Suddenly Fire fly appears and look at all of us.

"Have I got your attention Batgirl? You have been a pain in the boss side for too long and we want you gone. Unless you meet me at the construction site tonight so I can kill you in front of everyone and if you refuse you should know that I have placed more explosive devices around town, if you don't face me the blood from the once who dies from the explosion will be on your hands just like this young girl." Fire fly said and flew away.

A few minutes later an ambulance came and picked up Emily, I had followed the ambulance to the hospital and I had just called Pam to let her know what has happened to her daughter and she was on her way to the hospital.

I was just sitting and waiting for the doctors to tell me anything about Emily.

Suddenly Pam walked in and sits down on the chair next to me.

"Hi Paige." She said to me.

"Hi Pam, are you sure you want to talk to me when Emily is... you know" I say not really sure what I can say without having Pam getting mad at me.

"The doctors are checking her so I couldn't see her yet and I was worried about you. You were there when Emily got... she got... oh my god my poor little Emmy." Pam said and started crying.

I put my arm around Pam's right arm and pulled her into a hug to comfort her, she had her head on my shoulder and cried while I rubbed my hand up and down her back and letting her cry it out.

After a while Pam stopped crying and looked at me.

"Thank you Paige I can't say how much I needed that." Pam said.

One of the doctors walked up to us to tell us about Emily so I was prepared for the worst.

"Mrs. Fields your daughter is stable now and she doesn't have any major head trauma or internal bleeding, but she is still unconscious and we don't know when she'll wake up." The doctor said.

"Can I see my daughter, please I need to see her." Pam said.

"Of course, but only members of the family can see her now." The doctor said and looked at me.

I realized that there was no point in waiting since I wouldn't be able to see Emily today even if Pam tried to convince the doctor to let me in.

I walked up to Pam and said "Go to your daughter if she wakes up she'll probably want to see her mom after what has happened to her. And if she wakes up can you tell her that I love her?" I said and Pam whispered a small thank you after she followed the doctor to see Emily.

That's when it hit me, I had no choice I had to fight Firefly tonight and I couldn't afford to lose if I did the odds were that one of the explosive devices were in the hospital and then Emily would die if I didn't stop Firefly.