Chapter 16: The Darkness
A/N: Here comes the Batgirl vs Deathstroke fight I hope you like it, Please leave reviews
A/N 2: The music that Paige train to the Monster from the band Skillet
Emily's POV:
I had seen Paige mad before but this time it was different it was like there was a darkness inside her and for the first time ever it was like she wanted to kill somebody.
I convinced myself that it was just my imagination and I buried my head in her embrace. We didn't move I just cried into her arms and she holds me close to comfort me.
Now she seemed calm again but I know there is something else bothering her.
"Paige please stay here with me for the day I don't want to be alone." I say.
Paige cups my face and wipes away my tears. "I'll make sure he doesn't harm anyone again." As I hear those words the darkness inside Paige is back.
"Paige what's going on?" I ask worried that she was about to change into Maya.
"Nothing is wrong Em." Paige says sounding frustrated.
"PAIGE!" I say and pull away from her. Something was wrong even if she didn't want to admit it.
"What's wrong with you? I have known you for quite some time and you made sure that you never wanted to kill someone and now you act like you want to kill this guy as soon as you'll see him." I almost yell at her.
"Emily that's not important Deathstroke is too dangerous to live!" She screams at me.
"So you're just going to kill him in cold blood?" I say back shocked over what I just heard her say.
"Well I'm sure that's what he would have done if he had the choice!" Paige screams at me and I don't recognize her anymore.
"Get out." I say, feel the tears building up.
"Get out of here Paige! I don't know what happened to you but I don't like it. It's like you're turning into Maya and I don't think I want to see you right now!" I yell at Paige.
She doesn't answer she just walks out and slams the door behind her.
As Paige leaves I fall onto the ground and pull my knees to my face and continue to cry. I still love Paige but I don't think I'll be able to love someone who kills people. I only hoped that Paige still was the girl I fell in love with.
I wanted to talk to someone about Paige but only Caleb knew her secret and he'll probably be occupied finding out about Deathstroke so I felt like I had no one to talk to. but most of all I was worried about the darkness inside Paige, if she lets it control her nothing good will ever happen.
Paige's POV:
I had just gotten home and I was furious. What gave Emily the right to judge me for feeling like this? Deathstroke had killed my parents and I'm supposed to be ok with it? No Deathstroke deserves to die for everything that has happened to me.
"Caleb, see if you can find out anything about Deathstroke?" I ask him as I enter the bat cave.
"Nothing it's like his criminal records has been cleared. Nobody knows anything about him. It's as if he's a ghost. The only trail he leaves behind is that he writes the word Hitman on the place where he murdered someone." Caleb tells me and I sit down.
Deathstroke had executed right in front of me and now I had my change for revenge.
"I need to go and prepare." I say to Caleb and he nods.
"You know what Caleb. You can take the night off I can handle Deathstroke alone." I say as I walk out of the bat cave.
A few minutes later Caleb leaves my mansion and I decide to get some practice and head to my home gym to spare against some of my dolls either to get rid of or build up my anger.
I enter my gym and activates one of the dolls, it raises its arms ready to fight. I say "Music on!" and the radio starts to play one of my many downloaded songs.
I walk up to the doll and throw a punch which it blocks.
The secret side of me, I never let you see, I keep it caged, but I can't control it, so stay away from me. The beast is ugly. I feel the rage and I just can't hold it.
The radio plays in the background.
I start going on the defense, blocking its sloppy attacks. I waited for an opening to really attack with full force.
It's scratching on the walls, in the closet, in the halls, it comes awake and I can't control it. Hiding under the bed in my body, in my head. Why won't somebody come and save me from this? Make it end!
I move to the left and the doll misses a right hook, leaving him opened for me to go on the offensive.
I feel it deep within. It's just beneath the skin. I must confess that I feel like a monster.
As I hit the doll I'm starting to see Deathstroke's face on it.
I hate what I've become. The nightmare's just begun. I must confess that I feel like a monster!
I punch faster and faster with both my hands burying my hits deeper and deeper into the dolls abdomen as my anger builds up more and more.
I, I feel like a monster! I, I feel like a monster!
I throw the final punch to the doll's head, I hit so hard I send it flying from the doll's shoulders and land on the other side of the gym. Oh well guess I'll just start the next one.
Emily's POV:
The night was approaching fast and I knew that soon Paige would fight Deathstroke. I was still shocked, shocked that Paige had said that she was going to kill him. I just don't understand what would make her that furious.
I wanted to know why she wanted to kill Deathstroke so badly.
I didn't want the angry Paige that was furious, aggressive and had a scary darkness inside her. I wanted my sweet loving girlfriend whom always made me happy when she was near, comforting me when I felt my worst and always made me feel safe in her comforting embrace.
Today it was like that Paige had died and all that was left was the darkness. It made me wonder, how long has she been like this? Is this a personality? And what worried me most of all was that the real Paige? I hoped this entire day was a nightmare, first my mom gets kidnapped by a Hitman and then I had a huge quarrel with Paige. Why can't I just wake up from this nightmare?
As I walked to my room I felt that I stepped on something, I looked down and it was a black worn out book. I lifted up the book and saw that it belonged to Deathstroke, Paige must have dropped it her after she had left. I opened the book and saw that it was full with names that were crossed over, I had seen enough of these at my mom's work (More than she wanted me to see.) to know that it was a hit list that in this case Deathstroke had to track down his victims. As I read the first two names I'm shocked again, the first two names were Paige's parents, now I understood why she wanted to kill Deathstroke. I reached for my cell phone and dialed Paige's number. No answer, either she didn't want to answer or she wasn't having her cell phone with her right now. All I could do was to leave a voicemail hoping she wouldn't delete it when she saw that it was for me.
I sit down on the couch and look out the window.
"Please Paige do the right thing".
Paige's POV:
I had put on my batsuit ready to take on Deathstroke I jumped on my stealth bike and drove towards the church both angry than ready. Tonight I'll get my revenge on my parents' murderer.
I drive to the church, the town was looking empty since everyone was scared of what Deathstroke will do next. He had made it clear on the news that if anyone else than I would get inside the church he would kill commissioner Fields, so the cops were nowhere to be seen.
I parked outside the church and walks in the front door.
I can see Deathstroke carving the word HITMAN on one of the walls, must be one of his ways to leave his mark.
"Good I see you have arrived." He says without turning around.
"I've here now Dearthstroke, let commissioner Fields go!" I demanded to show him I was not in a mood to play sick mind games.
"She is in the basement in a pod made of bulletproof glass, and she has enough air to survive until midnight which is about two and a half hours from now, the air will run out and she will slowly suffocate, but fortunately for you, I have defeated you long before midnight." Deathstroke says raising his staff and holds it in a steady grip.
I charge at him, bad move, he sidesteps and use his staff to both get me to fall over and hit me in the back of the head at the same time.
I get back up activates my power gloves but when I get close Deathstroke hits my wrists several times with his staff, I can't build up any offensive and my power gloves are now short-circuited so now I can't activate them.
"I've watched you in your fights, now you won't be able to use your best trick against me." Deathstroke says.
He was right my power gloves were my greatest trick when I fought harder fights but now they were short circuited so they were useless now, so I had to use a different strategy to kill Deathstroke.
He grabs his staff at one end and swings it with all of his strength hitting my side so I fly up against the church's wall and then fall down on the ground. That hit hunted like hell, as I get back on my feet I have blurred vision so I couldn't block his next attack which was with his right fist, so he punches me right on my jaw, making me take a few steps backwards.
He charges at me again but this time I duck and roll out of the way in the last second barley avoiding his staff. I roll back in front of him and throw a punch to his head, his head snaps back from the impact, but as I'm ready to throw another one Deathstroke hits me on my left side with his staff and then before I had time to react to the first hit he hits my right side and then he continues to hit my left and right side with his staff good thing my armor is built to resist heavy punches so I don't have to worry about breaking any ribs, he is done hitting me with his staff he grabs my wrist and swings me over his shoulders on I land hard on my back.
"I expected more from you, A said you would provide a challenge." Deathstroke says and kicks me in the gut as I'm trying to get back up."
"Surely you can do better!" Deathstroke says, this time sounding disappointed.
I get back up and this time I keep my distance making him come to me.
He swings his staff aiming for the right side my head but I move my right wrist to the side of my head so the heavy armor blocks his attack, and eminently he aims for the other side of my head but I block that with my other wrist and them I hold both my wrist to the sides of my head as he keeps swinging his staff hoping that hell break my arms. When I feel that he swings is starting to slow down I leap towards him and start throwing punches to his face covering mask. I punch faster and faster as my rage builds up I start to see red and I want to rip off his head.
Suddenly Deathstroke kicks me in my stomach, in surprise I back away so we both get some time to recover.
We walk up towards each other and then he swings his staff and I avoid his blow by taking a first step backwards, he swings it again and once I avoid it this time by rolling to the right, we both throw a right hook and both our right fists hits and he takes a step back from the impact, guess I throw heavier hits than him.
From out of nowhere he swings his staff and hits my jaw with extreme force, thank goodness I didn't break any teeth, then he hit my spine right between my shoulder blades so hard that I bend forward and he jumps into the air and uses the speed from his drop to give this hit more power, as the staff hits my back the impact was too much and I fall to the ground.
He raises his staff again to crush my skull, but I roll away in the last second. The force of that staff swing was so hard that he cracked some of the church floor.
I had to take out that staff, it was so long he could hit me before I could come near enough to hit him, I got up fast and fired my grapple hook towards him and I hit his chest and before he had time to react I pulled him in. The tug I gave as I pulled him towards me made him losing some of his balance as I grapple forced him closer to me, once he was close enough I punched him in his face so he fell backwards and he lost his footing so I elbowed him in his chest while he was in midair so he slammed into the church floor, cracking the floor where he had landed.
He got back on his feet a bit slower than earlier, he is getting weaker that's a good sign.
He grabs his staff in the middle and starts to swing both of the ends towards my head swing by swing which I blocked the same way as last time he had tried that trick. Once he hits slowed down I grabbed the staff and elbowed him in his mask, he fell to the ground and lost the grip of his staff. Now I was holding the staff so I broke it in half and threw both pieces on the ground, now I had evened out the odds, or so I thought.
He reached behind his back and pulled out his twin swords, crap I had forgotten about them. He ran towards me and started swinging the swords even faster than he had swung his staff. I had to keep my distance from him, attacking him head on would be suicide I had to change my strategy now since he had changed his weapons and fighting style.
He had backed me into a corner, now I had to find a way to get past him without him slicing me into bat kebab. He swung both his swords towards me and I jumped over him during the jump I heard a ripping sound his right sword had cut through the cape leaving a tear in it, any closer and he would have sliced of my left foot.
I faced him and picked up a long candlestick to block his sword, the hard material in our weapons clanged as they hit each other. A few seconds one of his swings had missed me and one of his sword got stuck in one of the church benches. I throw the candlestick at him and he used his sword to cut it in half, but he didn't notice that I leaped into the air and when he had scooped through the candlestick he had left himself open for an attack from above, once I was in the air I kicked him right in his mask so he fall through another one of the church's benches.
I ran towards him as he got back up, he swung his sword and I throw a right hook towards his weapon. My glove was armored and the punch made his sword break into pieces while my glove had gotten a cut between my knuckles but miraculously the sword did not cut through my skin. I grabbed him by the throat and started letting out all my years of anger from the day my parents were killed. I threw punch after punch all over his face and torso probably breaking some of his ribs but I didn't stop I wanted to kill Deathstroke and now nothing could stop me.
I punched him, kicked him, kneed him and even head butted him as he stopped fighting back, since he was knocked out but I didn't care I just continued attacking, feeling my anger building up even more. I started to get tired so I lifted his unconscious body and threw him against the church wall. He landed right under where he had carved HITMAN with his head under the letter T.
I smashed the church bench where his sword had gotten stuck. Once the sword was released from the bench I picked it up and walked towards Deathstroke ready to decapitate him with his own weapon.
As I walk towards him I accidentally pressed a button on my wrist and activated my voicemail from my cell phone.
"You have one new voicemail." I heard through the Comm link.
"Hi Paige it's Emily, I found the book and now I understand why you want to kill Deathstroke but if you kill a monster you will not get better you will only become a monster yourself. Please Paige don't become a monster be the hero I always have thought you were, that I still think you are. Please Paige don't let revenge turn you into something ugly. I love you." I hear Emily's voice and I'm starting to calm down. I didn't want Emily to see me as a monster even if it meant that I would let my parents' killer live.
I threw the sword to the ground and walked up to Deathstroke. I heard him breathing slowly there was no chance he would regain his consciousness anytime soon. I grabbed a batrang and walked up to the wall were Deathstroke had carved HITMAN and carved the letter S in front of his carving, then I remembered that Emily's mother was still in the basement.
I ran down the stairs and found her tied up on a chair inside a pod made of bulletproof glass just like Deathstroke had said. I checked the time it was one minute after midnight so she had just ran out of air.
I had to act fast I sprayed my explosive gel on the side of the pod and detonated it. The explosion made the glass break and Pam was able to breathe. I untied her from the chair as she breathed heavily from her lack of air after being inside that pod.
"You'll be fine, I have taken care of Deathstroke you can arrest him now." I say as I help Pam back up on her feet.
"Wait, how can I ever thank you?" Pam asks me.
"Go home to your daughter." I say and leaves before Pam has any chance to replay.
Emily's POV:
I'm still sitting on my cough not really sure what I'm waiting for but I can't fall asleep not until I've found out what Paige did in her fight and I wanted to know if my mother was alive I just sat on the cough waiting for any kind of news.
The door opened and I saw my mom enter, I jumped off the cough and ran to my mom and we both embraced each other in a tight hug.
"Mom I'm so happy that you're alive!"
"Yes dear, Batgirl came and saved me." As I heard those words I had to ask.
"What happened to Deathstroke?" I was worried that my mom was going to say that Paige had killed him.
"He was badly beaten up, a lot of broken bones and possibly a concussion, but he's alive." My mom says and I feel relieved knowing that Paige did the right thing.
Tomorrow I'm going to thank Paige for what she did and Comfort her for what that had happened to her parents, but right now I wanted to be with my mom thanks to Paige my amazing girlfriend.