Helena

Chapter 1

A/N: This takes place a few months after Endgame and is a "Season 3″ AU with the inserted character of Helena Wayne from Earth-2 (Also known as Helena W

Chapter 1

Getting through the loss of one of your own was no easy task. There was a lot of in-fighting, a lot of people skipping training and to top it all off; a few failed missions due to the fighting. The fights were over stupid little things, for a while

The day she came along, the entire day seemed completely normal to start off with, training with Black Canary and Nightwing. M'gann made burgers and tofu burgers and everything seemed normal.

That was, until Batman came in.

"Nightwing. Batgirl. With me." He orders, knowing in the back of his head that they would follow them.

Batgirl and Nightwing put down their food and follow Batman, no questions asked.

Before they could even make it into the Zeta Tube's before their wrist computers went off.

"Hostage situation at Gotham Academy?" Batgirl asks Dick in a small whisper.

"That's what we're doing," Batman spits. "Get a move on."

As they quickly slap on their suits, their computer goes off 2 more times.

"Tim just sent out an SOS." Dick says in worry as he grabs his escrima sticks and heads toward the Zeta Tubes.

The 3 different signals made Barbara slightly confused. She figured it couldn't be a computer malfunction because she just upgraded every operating system last week.

She shrugs it off, for now, and follows her partner.

They land on the roof first, sliding through the vents with quick speed. Splitting up down the long hallway with quick speed. Batman split up on his own, heading down the West wing towards the english department.

There were 3 pockets full of kids and gunmen, They herded the students like cattle into spaces.

Tim was stuck in the school library like a sitting duck which angered him to no end. Right now there were 5 gunmen waving assault rifles around like they were paint ball guns. Together they had herded the West Wing together into one spot. He sat silently, staring at them, waiting for when Bruce and the rest of them would get here to get him out.

Out of the crowd of silent students, one girl stood up. "Mister I gotta go to the bathroom!"

The girl was Helena Kyle, a scholarship kid who really had a mouth on her. She was smart though, had a few classes with Tim. He had to keep up with her in English.

The one guy spat at her in his thick Russian (Slavic?) accent. "Not my problem."

The girl, with the guts she had, walked towards the man. "My period just started and I don't have any underwear on!"

The guy looks at her weirdly. "Why is that?"

"Laundry day, and you know what, this is my only uniform and I'm going to get it all dirty!" She exclaims sadly.

"I don't see any…"

She sweeps his feet with her leg, making the man the topple over with his rifle. She grabs it and runs to the empty half of the library. She peeks from behind one of the shelves and waits for the men to follow her one by one.

As one man turns the corner, she takes the buttstock of the rifle and with all the strength she had bashes the rifle in his face.

As another man turns to her shelf, the lights switch off.

Took him long enough.

She takes the rifle and shoots out one of the long tall windows of the library. "EVERYONE GET OUT NOW!" She exclaims.

The kids scream at the gunshots but start to run towards the window, jumping out into the bushes and taking off towards the crowd of parents that gathered outside.

"What took you so long, pops?" She says to the Batman, who's busy turning riflemen into rag-dolls.

"Shut up and fight."

Helena laughs at that and reaches for his utility belt and holds his batarang in her hand like her pocket knife.

There were only 2 guys left, when the guy tried to use his weight on her, she just went for a swift kick to his face. The guys stumbles back but he still comes running at her like a line-backer.

She takes the batarang and jabs it into his shoulder and shoves him into the book shelf, and he didn't get back up.

Batgirl watched from the hallway in amazement, growing confused on how such a girl could fight like that. She didn't investigate it further like she wanted to, instead she took off to Nightwing to give back-up.

The gunmen were down, and Batman looked at the girl in disapproval. "Didn't I tell you to not go charging into this?"

"I got bored." She jokes sticking her tongue out at him. "Just, thanks for getting here."

Batman smirks. "If I had come in a few minutes later I wouldn't have needed to."

Then she takes a glass and cuts up her arm a little bit, making it look like she was a victim and not a Gotham Savior. "Ready when you are."

Batman wraps an arm around the girl and shoots his grappling gun to the light pole. He grabs her by the waist and pulls them out of the room and over the crowd. He lands near the ambulance.

"Thank you Batman," She fake murmurs in tears. "Thank you! You saved my life!"

He wanted to laugh, Batman wanted to laugh.

He places her on the gurney as he grapples to the school again, running and putting an end to the chaos.

You could see the three leave from the roof, the rich parents and their kids cheering as they disappeared into the day.

Helena looks at her bandaged arm as she sees Tim Drake walk over to her.

She sighs. "You holding up there, Timmy?"

He nods and holds up his arm. "Cut it on the way out of the library." He says. "It's not deep, I'll live. I just wanted to say what you did was brave."

She smiles. "Not really."

"You could've died."

He wouldn't let that happen. She thinks for a moment. "I would've been fine. Is Bruce coming to pick you up?"

Helena distinctly remembered when his parents died. Everyone walked up to Tim and gave him hugs, She remembers giving him her pudding from her lunch for like, two weeks.

"Yeah, he should be here soon." He says. "Is your dad coming?"

"No, my mom should be here." She looks around for a moment. "I don't know where she could possibly be. I'll see you around?"

Tim frowns a little at that. "At least let me repay you for saving my life, I'll sit with you until your mom gets here?"

Helena laughs at her classmate. "Go ahead, Drake." She jokes as she pats the seat next to her in the back of the ambulance.

He sits next to her, the blood on his forehead and the sweat and small drops of blood dripping from her face.

"Is that your blood?" He asks.

She looks at him oddly before going to wipe her face on her uniform sleeve. She looks at it and shakes her head. "Nope."

One by one the students gave statements to the officers and leave. But Helena's mother was nowhere to be seen, she had given her extensive statement to Commissioner Gordon himself, who thanked her for her bravery.

"I don't have half the balls you have, kid." He says through his Cigar. "You're crazy."

Tim's adoptive father was a little late to the scene also, which wasn't surprising to her.

When a big fancy sports car comes speeding up to the lot, Helena smirks. Loud music's blaring out the speakers and she swore she saw the car bounce.

Out of the front seat of the car comes Tim's guardian Bruce Wayne and his brother, Dick Grayson. Out of the one passenger seat is Barbara Gordon, Dick's girlfriend?

"Tim!" Barbara exclaims hugging him tightly "Thank god you're alright! I was so worried!"

Tim hugs back, smiling at her. "I'm fine."

"Who's this, Timmy? your girlfriend?" Dick teases.

Helena goes wide-eyed and starts to laugh nervously. "I-uh…No."

"She's not my girlfriend," Tim says sternly. "She's just a classmate. She saved the library of kids."

"Thank you," Bruce says to her. "Your mother and father should be proud of you."

"Actually sir," Helena corrects as politely as she can. "It's just my mother, and she doesn't seem to be here right now."

"Well," Bruce says. "As a debt of gratitude, let me give you a ride home."

Helena smiles and tucks a piece of hair behind her ear. "Why thank you, Mr. Wayne." She giggles. "That's very kind of you."

Barbara studies the girl from afar, her interactions with herself, Dick, Bruce and Tim. She's letting this all roll off rather naturally and it's still not good enough. Barbara saw the way she fought those gunmen, she worked with Batman perfectly and they were just perfect strangers.

Or were they?

The 5 of them pack into the sports car and take off towards the city.

"Where do you live?" Bruce asks Helena.

"Gotham Centennial Apartments." She answers him. "It's just outside downtown."

The car takes the next right as Barbara starts off the conversation. Investigating the link between her and Bruce.

"So Helena, My father says you took out one of the gunmen before Batman came. Where did you learn that?" She asks. "It's pretty impressive for a girl of your size."

"My mom's shitty boyfriends." The girl says back with a little smirk. "That answer your question?"

Barbara nods. "Well thank you, anyway."

The brunette girl nods in acknowledgement as Dick glances at the red-headed bat in confusion.

Helena shifts in her seat, a signal to Bruce. She knows something.

She can feel the car speed up a little bit as they make another turn into the apartment complex. Helena gets out, looking towards Tim. "Thanks for sitting with me."

Tim nods. "Thanks for saving my life."

Helena rolls her eyes and laughs walking to her apartment door. "Stop saying that."

Helena walks up the fumbles with her key for a moment before she watches Bruce speed off in his fancy car.

Nice seeing you again, Bruce.

She unlocks the door, and heads inside the apartment.

Barbara was still confused. The extra SOS, The girl, the fighting. It was all itching at Barbara and she wanted to find out the truth.

"Good work you two," Bruce says to Dick and Barbara. "You should be proud of yourselves."

A good work? We should be proud? Now, Barbara had to look into this.

It's hours of hacking into Batman's personal computer and she still couldn't find anything. It takes her into the Friday night, digging to find the connection. She sits in the corner with her tablet as the rest of the team binged on TV together.

"you okay Batgirl?" Nightwing asks, sitting next to her on the couch. "You seem, off."

"I'm fine." She says, completely lying to him.

"Batgirl…" He says again, hoping to get in the loop on why she was so curious about Helena in the car earlier today.

"It's that girl," She says. "I saw her, with Batman." She whispers. "They were fighting together."

"Yeah," Dick says, confused. "The girl's nuts."

"They were fighting like a team." She says. "You should've seen them! They worked together, He gave her a batarang to use."

Dick raises an eyebrow. "That's…odd…" He admits. "But that doesn't mean anything."

"Don't you find it weird that a Team Com's unit was used to send out a second SOS?" Barbara asks.

"Tim's could've malfunctioned."

She grumbled and rolled her eyes as she just kept looking for something to tie them together.

There has to be something.

In the hours of Saturday Morning, Batman called the team for an emergency mission. Miss Martian, Batgirl, Robin Nightwing and Superboy. A mission to Gotham, there was no need to get the rest of the team to manage Coms, Batman took over.

Batgirl looked over at Nightwing. "Weird." She mouths.

They were given their coordinates and were off in the bioship.

"Where are we going at this time of night?" M'gann asks from the passenger ship.

"Just follow the coordinates." Nightwing says. "Batman has a good reason for this. It's important."

Barbara watches the coordinates match up with the bio-ship to their location. She watches as M'gann parks, and nods. "We're now over the drop-off."

Nightwing M'gann and Batgirl jump towards the roof as Superboy stayed behind.

With M'gann's help They density-shifted in the apartment that was right below.

The place however was a complete disaster. Food, Glass and furniture were all over the room. As Batgirl makes it through the living room to the kitchen, she sees a massive pile of blood on the floor. She stops for a moment and turns her head, through the window, she saw the hallway and out that window, she saw where she and Bruce were parked.

Helena.

She steps over the pile of blood and starts to look at the scene, the wood cabinet door was completely crushed. She winced at that and looked around some more. Then, hear Batman was talking in her ear.

"what's your status?"

"I'm in the kitchen," She says. "There's a large pile of blood on the floor and I don't see anyone around."

As soon as she says that, she hears her tracker monitor start to beep repeatedly on her utility belt. She took it out and watched the screen. A red blip was pointing to the kitchen cupboard. She walks forward towards the cupboard. The beeping was getting louder and faster, it just kept going until she opened it.

It was Helena, the girl from earlier, clutching a gun to her hand and she looks at Barbara with fear in her eyes.

"She's dead…M-m-my mother is dead…" She whispers.