Chapter 13: The Hard Fight
Paige's POV:
I had just gotten home from the hospital, tonight I was going to become of the hardest fights in my life. After what Jenna did to Emily I needed to control my emotions more than ever or else I would make a mistake and when I did she would use that against me.
I had to fight someone who could shoot fire, fly, had heavy armor it would be like fighting a human dragon and to top it off she had hidden bombs all over town if I didn't show up she would detonate all of them and I would have, more blood on my hands.
I was going to fight on her terms the construction side and much open space so she could fly around without worrying to crash into anything and I wouldn't have much cover from both of her flamethrowers.
I took off my jacket letting it fall to the floor not feeling like hanging it on a hook. When the jacket hit the ground I heard something else hit the ground. I looked down and saw that a picture had fallen on top of my jacket. I lifted and turned the picture around, it was a photo of me and Emily a few days after I had told her that I loved her.
On the photo I was giving Emily a piggyback ride and we were both looking into the camera smiling.
Flashback:
Me, Emily and Aria were walking home from school. It was a clear sky and there was some mild winds making Aria's and Emily's hair move on to their faces. Emily was constantly brushing it aside. I didn't have that problem since my hair was tied into a ponytail.
"I'm just saying that swimming is great muscle training since you use all of your muscles when you swim." Emily says to Aria.
"Yeah and that really has worked well for you perhaps I should give it a shot." I say to Emily enjoying the idea of my girlfriend and my swimming together.
"Ok ok Emily I get it, but let's face it not everyone is into swimming." Aria says raising her hands in defense.
We continue walking and Aria take photos with a camera she's gotten for her birthday.
"Are you taking pictures for private use or an art project?" I ask Aria.
"Well Paige I'm glad that you asked it's a little bit of both." Aria says and takes a photo of a chestnut tree.
"You know Em." Aria suddenly says. "Paige doesn't swim to get a workout she lifts weights and she looks stronger than you do." Aria says while she is sizing us up.
"It's not just about strength Aria it's also about endurance." Emily says.
"If Paige has about as much endurance as I got she would be able to walk the rest of the way to my place while she is carrying me on her back." Emily explains to Aria.
"Well I bet that Paige can do that." Aria says.
I'm starting to think that Emily had this planned to get me to give her a piggyback ride.
"Ok I'll do it" I say and crouches so that Emily can get up on my back. Once she was in position I stood up and grabbed her thighs while she puts her arms around me.
"Ok Paige giddy up" Emily says and we all share a laugh and then Aria takes a Photo of me and Emily.
"Hmm that's a good one" Aria says and looks at the picture on her camera and then shows it to me and Emily.
"That was a good one, can I get a copy?" I ask Aria.
Present
I put the picture down on a desktop and went to take a seat.
A few seconds later Caleb walks in.
"Hey Paige is Emily going to be alright?" He asks me.
"The doctors told me she will survive but they don't know when she'll awake." I answer.
"So what are we going to do about Fire fly?" Caleb asks me.
"She said she has planted bombs all over this city and if I don't show up to fight her she'll detonate them all, but if I arrives it doesn't mean that she won't detonate the bombs anyway so you have to use the computer to find where she has hidden the bombs and then report the bombs locations to the police so they can disable them while I fight Jenna." I said to Caleb.
I referred to her as Jenna instead of Fire fly because I knew that she was just a human in an armor and not a living armor. Jenna is just a human inside the armor if I can break through the armor I can take out Jenna.
Caleb didn't say anything he just walked to the bat cave entrance. He knew that I wasn't in the mood to talk about anything.
I look at the picture and tears start falling from my eyes, I didn't know if I was going to win this fight or if I'm going to survive, all I wanted right now was to hold my girlfriend in my arms and never let her go.
I went to my home gym and started to prepare for my biggest fight yet.
When the night was falling I knew I didn't have any time left I had to go and fight Jenna now. I was already in a batsuit since the last one got destroyed in my earlier fight with Jenna, good thing I had plenty of them.
Caleb had tried all afternoon to find the location of the bombs with little success since he had only found two bombs the first one at the hospital that I had told him to check first since I was worried about Emily and her mom. The other one at rosewood high were Caleb had checked on a hunch. Once he had found the bombs he had sent the locations of them to the police and they send a squad to disarm them.
I walked out of the bat cave to get to the construction site where I was going to fight Fire fly.
I used a hidden exit from the bat cave since I knew I couldn't focus on driving a motorcycle right now.
I had my power gloves with me in this fight, hopefully they would give me an edge in this fight.
Once I was outside I fired my grapple hook onto a building and glided towards the construction site.
When I reached the rooftop of the building across the street from the construction site, I saw Fire fly flying around the abandoned site I knew she was ready for a fight.
"Caleb any luck finding the bombs?" I asked Caleb over the Comm link.
"No I haven't found anyone yet but I'll continue searching... and Paige kick her ass!" Caleb answered back. It felt good that someone was believing that I would win.
I jumped from the rooftop and glided down to fight Jenna.
"So you've arrived, I was beginning to think you wouldn't show up." Jenna said as I landed on the ground.
"I'm here to stop you." I answered her.
"Don't be so certain." Jenna said and launched herself at me.
I dodged her just barely and throw some batrangs at her but they all just bounced of form her armor.
"Is that all you got? Let's make this fight fairer." Jenna said and landed showing that she was going to use hand to hand combat. I activated my power gloves and charged at her. She activated her Jetpack and she dived towards me, she grabbed me by the waist and moved me in front of her head as she flew head first into a brick wall slamming my back into it. I felt a hard pain in my back from the hard collision with the wall.
Before I had any chance getting back up Jenna grabbed me by the neck and slammed my head into the ground.
"Batgirl, I thought so much more from you." She mocked me.
I jumped up and threw a punch at her even though I knew the power gloves needed to recharge. Jenna sidestepped so I missed.
"Surely you can do better." She mocked me again.
I spat out some blood from my mouth, I couldn't give up how would I be able to defeat A if I couldn't defeat Jenna?
She walked up to me and threw a right hook that I dodged by jumping over her and landed behind her and I threw a punch at the back of her head. She lost her balance temporary.
"Now this will be fun." she says with a smirk.
I started attacking with several punches to the armors face and abdomen, with every punch Jenna took a step back, when her back was pressed against another brick wall when I throw the last right punch she caught my fist with her hand so I jumped and kicked the side of her head making her fall to the ground.
I walked up to her to make sure I had won the fight, but when I was two steps away from her she fired the flame thrower on her left hand, luckily I jumped back just avoiding the flame but I could feel the warmth of the fire and it was incredibly hot, if I were standing any closer my eyes would probably have melted.
"You didn't think this was over yet! Did you?" Jenna shouted at me.
"I'm just getting started!" I answered.
Jenna launched herself at me again but this time I jumped on top of her back. She didn't expect that so I activated my power gloves again and started punching everything I could reach. With every punch I sent a blast of high voltage inside Jenna's armor and I noticed that her Jetpack started to lose energy.
Jenna crashed onto the ground and I jumped off her at the last second. When my feet hit the ground the power gloves needed to recharge again so I temporarily turned them off.
I ran towards her but she got back up quicker than I thought, once she was back up she fired both her flame throwers and I had to dive behind a metal wall in order to avoid getting burnt to ashes from her flames.
When she stopped shooting fire the flame throwers I left my shelter and went to attack her again, but once I looked at where she was last standing she was gone.
I looked around to find her but I couldn't see her anywhere. Suddenly the barrels behind me exploded since they were filled with gasoline. The explosion tossed me back onto the ground and that's where Jenna appeared again. She was flying above me aiming her flamethrowers at me.
"You have fought well Batgirl but now it's over. DIE!" she yelled and fired her flame throwers at me.
I used all the energy I could muster to fast get up and dodge the fire at the last second.
"WHAT? YOU'RE STILL ALIVE? YOU JUST STOOD NEXT TO A SMALL EXPLOSION? HOW ARE YOU STILL STANDING?" Jenna screamed at me sounding frustrated.
Good she was getting scared that would make it much easier to defeat her.
She screamed and fired both her flame throwers while she was flying over me. I couldn't reach her when she was that high up in the air so I had to do something to make sure to even out the odds.
I ran around the construction trying to get her to fly lower. She most have noticed that because she didn't fly any lower instead she flew higher and fired her flame throwers right in front of me so I had to jump back.
"WHAT'S THE MATTER BATSY? AFRAID OF A LITTLE FIRE!" She yelled sounding like a maniac, good she was losing her mind now was the time to bring her down literally.
I stopped running so she flew right past me, and I fired my grapple hook so it got a grip on her Jetpack just like I planned.
Right now her Jetpack was just strong enough to only lift her in the power armor so my extra weight was too much for it I had her caught. I started pulling her down and since she couldn't reach around to cut the wire and she couldn't reach around I defiantly had her.
Her Jetpack was strong but I was stronger so I pulled and pulled so she was losing altitude in this tug of war. Suddenly her Jetpack exploded and she fell onto the ground, I ran up to her she aimed her right flamethrower at me and I throw a batrang that cut off the tube from the flame thrower so it was useless now.
Once I reached her I brought my knee up to her chest with full force, I could her the armor crack from the impact. I started kneeing her chest so the armor would break and it cracked more and more from each hit.
Once her chest plate was broken I tore off her helmet exposing her face, I could see the fear in her eyes as I gave her the last punch right in her face before dropping her so she fell onto the ground, the punch probably broke her nose since I could see her nose bleed as I started walking.
"You haven't won yet." I hear her say behind me.
I turned around and saw her slowly getting back up.
"You see I got a little ensures, you see I just activated all bombs, they will explode in five minutes, and you see this heart monitor? The only way to disarm every one of them is if my heart stops beating them the bombs will all self-disarm and won't be able to get reactivated again but if you kill me they will all see you like a cold-blooded killer." Jenna said and laughed insanely.
I had no choice I tackled Jenna to the ground and started throwing punch after punch until the heart monitor showed no signs of life, then the screen showed a text that said bombs disarmed.
Now I had to hurry since my punches didn't kill her, she was in cardiac arrest and now I had to bring her back or else I would be seen as a bigger villain than A.
I throw away her chest plate and activated my power gloves to use them like a defibrillator, I brought them down to her chest sending 5000 volts inside her body, the heart monitor showed that nothing had happened, I brought down my gloves again, nothing happened, I punched her chest with both of my hands and then the heart monitor started beating and her heart rate was stable. She was alive but unconscious and both her plans had backfired I had won.
"Paige you're not going to believe this all bombs appeared on the screen and they are all disarmed." Caleb said over the Comm link.
"I know. I'll explain how they got disarmed tomorrow Caleb, go home and get some sleep." I say over the Comm link letting him know that the fight was over.
"Do you want me to report to the police that they can come and get Fire fly?" Caleb asks over the Comm link.
"No I got a big crowd during the fight I guess she wanted to unmask me before she killed me. I'm very sure some of Rosewood's finest saw the fight and are on their way to arrest her." I say to Caleb as some police officers and paramedics walked up to Jenna and put her on a stretcher.
I fired my grapple hook onto a building and glided home.
Once I got home Caleb had already left so I was left alone again, I had no messages on my cell phone and no voicemail. All my muscles felt sore from the fight so I undressed and walked into the shower, I planned to have a short shower but the water felt so good on my skin so I lost track of time and when I walked out of the shower I could see the sunlight from my bathroom window.
It was a good thing that the school was closed today because I would never have survived that after what I had gone through fighting Fire fly for 3 hours.
As I walked to my bed I could hear my cell phone ringing.
"Hi Paige this is Pam Fields." I heard Emily's mom say. "Listen Emily haven't woken up yet, but they allow members outside the eminent family to visit and I thought you would want to know that. Plus I could use some company while I wait for my daughter to awake." She said over the phone.
"Ok I'll come over to the hospital as fast as I can." I say, happy to hear what Pam had told me, it was the second best thing I could have heard all day. I already knew she had accepted that I was Emily's girlfriend but to have her telling me that she wanted me there really showed me that she liked me.
"Great I'll save you a seat." Pam says and we both hang up our phones.
I ran down the stair towards the front door but stops in front of the door since I hadn't put on any clothes yet.
I run back upstairs and get dressed, I put on a blue tank top, a pair of blue skinny jeans and a baseball cap since the sun was very bright today even if it was very cold outside, I ran downstairs, put on my light brown leather jacket and took a taxi to the hospital.
It was a beautiful day the sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the sky. Emily and I used to take long walks through the town when the weather was this good, those walks were always the highlight of my day's they meant that I would spend the days with Emily I reached the hospital in five minutes, I paid the driver and walked inside were Pam met me.
"Hi I thought I would save you the trouble of waiting in a long line so I decided to meet you and bring you to Emily's room." Pam said and we both walked inside.
Once we entered Emily's room I could see that Emily wasn't hooked up to any machine that the hospitals used for patients that were close to die, which I took as a good sign.
I walked up to Emily and she looked like she was asleep.
"The doctors said she wasn't in any coma she's just sleeping and they don't know when she'll wake up." Pam said as I moved closer to Emily and kissed her forehead.
"I miss you Em, I really know it's a bit selfish but I wish you would wake up so I can say that I love you one more time." I said as I rubbed her hand.
Suddenly I hear a mumble and when I looked up I saw Emily opening her eyes.
"Emily you're up" I say feeling happier than I ever felt before.
Pam walked up and hugged her daughter.
"Oh Emmy I'm so happy you're awake." Pam says.
Then she looks at me and then back to Emily.
"I'll go tell a doctor that you're up they'll probably want to know that." Pam says and walks out giving me a discreet wink as she walks out to the hallway.
I lean in to Emily and we both kiss deeply and passionately. After we break the kiss Emily looks at me and says.
"So Paige did I miss something?"
"Yeah, last night I put another one of A's best soldiers behind bars. I'll tell you more later." I answer.
"Well, Paige I think we should celebrate when I can leave this place." Emily says and we share another soft kiss.