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Infinite DC - Birds of Prey: Dark	By : Xygrej Category: DC Verse Comics > Birds Of Prey Views: 5629 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Birds of Prey, nor any of the characters from it. Birds of Prey and all related characters belong to DC Comics as do all characters included in this story. I do not own any of them, nor do I profit from this story in any way.

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"Nice timing, Huntress," Canary admitted. "Though, a few minutes ago would've been great, too."
"Y'know me, I like to pick my spots," Huntress replied. "And it was kinda funny watching you run from tall, dark, and so-ugly-a-mother-couldn't-love-him."
Dinah shrugged. "Oh, well I guess I'll just sit back and enjoy this, then."
Before Huntress could inquire about this, her thoughts were interrupted by a loud roar. Spinning to face the source, she found Jared, the giant monster of a man, throwing the garbage dumpster he'd crashed into across the street. Huntress' eyes narrowed as a hand went to her belt, grabbing an arrow and attaching a device to the end. As the hulking brute charged her, she quickly back-flipped and fired straight down, the arrow hitting the ground and releasing a net directly upwards, ensnaring Jared. The purple and black clad heroine landed back on the concrete gracefully, prepping her crossbow again with what she thought was plenty of time...until the net was torn apart when Jared aimed his head straight up and fired what looked like energy beams from his upper set of eyes.
"Crap, why didn't you tell me he had lasers?!" Huntress yelled back at Black Canary as she barely managed to dodge a massive punch.
"I didn't know he had heat vision!" Dinah cried back.
"It isn't heat vision," Raven interjected. "They're eldritch energy bursts, and he tends to only use them when he's severely agitated."
"Oh goody, here I was thinking he might be another Superman, but thankfully, he's just a FREAKING DEMON!" the Violet Archer screamed as she leaped over a garbage dumpster hurled her way, grabbing hold of a fire escape.
Deciding she'd had enough of watching Huntress take on Jared one-on-one, Black Canary took a deep breath before letting loose a Canary Cry powerful enough to tear up the concrete ground. The force of the screech, combined with the hunks of stone being slammed into him, was strong enough to send Jared crashing through the side of a building. Huntress flipped off the fire escape, landing next to Dinah.
"...Yeah, okay, we'll count this one as both of ours," Huntress conceded.
"He's not down yet," Dinah corrected, pulling out her sansetsukon as she heard Jared start to move under the stone debris. "We need to move this fight to somewhere a little more in our favour."
Huntress looked around. Spotting a manhole cover, she grinned, knowing she could take advantage of the darkness of the sewers. Walking over to it, she grabbed a small stick of dynamite from her belt, looking to jam it into the cover, but was stopped as she felt Rachel's hand on her shoulder.
"Allow me..." Raven advised, her eyes glowing white. "...Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"
Suddenly, the manhole cover was enveloped in black energy and was yanked out, exposing the way down into the sewer system of Platinum Flats. Huntress blinked in surprise, watching as Raven floated the cover in mid-air.
"...Okay, THAT was pretty awesome," Huntress admitted.
Raven didn't answer, instead turning to face Jared as he tossed Black Canary into a wall, blood trickling from the blonde's nose, and aimed an eye blast at her. Thinking quickly, Rachel used her telekinesis to fling the manhole cover at her half-brother's face, which didn't do much to hurt him, but managed to force his head in a different direction, scorching the wall instead of Black Canary.
"C'mon!" Rachel cried to Dinah, levitating herself and floating down into the manhole.
Black Canary limped her after as Huntress armed her crossbow. "Oh, God dammit, why a sewer? Why ALWAYS a sewer?!"
"Deal, blondie," Huntress shot back as Dinah slid down the ladder leading into the sewers. The Violet Archer took aim at Jared as he rushed her. Lifting a foot over the manhole, she fired her arrow, which erupted into a thick goo all over the half-demon's eyes as she let herself drop straight down into the sewers, landing just behind Dinah at the bottom as she was returning her sansetsukon to its place in her jacket.
"C'mon, we need to lure him deeper in, where it's darkest," Huntress told the others, the three women jogging through the horrid smelling sewers of Platinum Flats as they heard Jared's roar from above.
After a minute of jogging, the three had found a dark enough section of the sewers to stage their fight with Jared. Just in time, too, as a loud crash and roar echoing off the walls indicated that Raven's half-brother was closing in on them.
"COME OUT, SISTER!" Jared bellowed. "WHERE ARE YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS HIDING?!"
"He thinks we're friends?" Huntress whispered from her hiding place. "Wonderful..."
Choosing her position over the entrance to their section in the sewers, Black Canary tightened her gloves as Jared approached from below. The second he passed underneath her, she dropped down and planted a pair of elbows into his shoulder-blades, bringing him down to a knee. She then let loose a Canary Cry that sent him tumbling across the stone floor, right into more nets placed by Huntress. Once he was ensnared in them, Raven used her telekinesis to tighten them further and bury him in rocks.
"...You think that's it?" Huntress asked after a few moments, just before energy beams fired straight up through the rubble.
"Hel, never ask that!" Dinah yelled, backing back into the shadows as Jared sprung free.
"Calm down, he can't see us in the dark," Raven advised.
Jared growled lowly before pointing his head straight up and launching a massive energy burst out of his upper eyes, cutting straight up through the street above. Sunlight peered down through the hole, illuminating off the sewer water and exposing the three women to Jared. He chuckled lowly as he glanced to each of them.
Huntress sighed, her shoulders dropping. "...For the record, I did NOT jinx THAT one."
Jared roared, throwing a fist at Huntress. Raven waved a hand, creating a black energy shield in front of her, but Jared shattered it, the shock of which sent the purple and black clad heroine crashing into a wall. Jared then fired a blast at the roof over her, caving it in on top of her.
"HELENA!" Black Canary cried in horror, seeing her on and off partner/rival seemingly buried under stone.
"I'm sorry, was she a friend of yours?" Jared asked, grinning at Dinah as she felt anger cloud over all other emotions. "...Is that murderous rage I feel?"
"...You son of a BITCH!" Dinah screamed, leaping forward and connecting hard with a right hook to the cheek of Jared, feeling the bones in her fist almost shatter. This didn't stop her, though, as she followed this up by grabbing hold of his bald head and driving both knees into his face. She grinned in triumph as she saw a trickle of blood flow from his nose, but this was short-lived as he grabbed hold of her ankles and flung her like a rag-doll. Luckily, Raven was still there, and caught her with her telekinesis, causing her to land safely on her feet.
"Calm down!" Raven yelled to Black Canary. "He's influencing the element of wrath inside you!"
Jared turned to face his half-sister, scowling. "I WAS going to save you for last, Raven, but since you keep making this difficult..."
Black Canary's eyes shot wide open as she watched Jared raise a fist. Preparing another Canary Cry, Dinah was cut off as a pair of small black and red blurs whizzed past, sticking to Jared's arm. Jared stopped, staring at the bat-shaped objects attached to his arm, which promptly blew up in his face, Raven taking this opportunity to send her half-brother sailing through a wall with her telekinesis. She then quickly took every loose piece of stone around the new opening and filled it back in, hoping that would keep him at bay if he was still able to keep fighting...and chances were, he was.
"What was that?!" Dinah demanded.
"I would suggest 'help'," Rachel replied, looking behind Black Canary.
Canary turned, seeing a figure further back, still shrouded in the darkness. All she could make out was a dark, caped figure, standing in the shadows, black pointed ears standing up from the tips of their mask. A pair of white eyes pierced the dark, staring back at them.
"...Batman?" Black Canary inquired.
The figure stepped forward, light reflecting off the sewer water illuminating them somewhat. The figure was clearly bat-like, but wore a black and red Batsuit clearly conforming to a female form. Her skin showing under her cowl was porcelain white, and she wore red lipstick to match the red accents of her suit, as well as the red hair flowing out the back of her cowl.
"...Whoa, BatWOMAN...!" Dinah corrected herself, the anger clearing enough now that she could remember... "...Oh man, Huntress!"
Batwoman pressed a button on her belt, and suddenly, the rocks covering Huntress were knocked aside as a transparent dome underneath them widened. Black Canary smiled in relief as Helena could be seen relatively unharmed in the dome, just before it shrunk back down into a disc and fell to the ground in front of her.
"...I want one of those," Huntress said, looking up at Batwoman. "...Oh great. I've been rescued by the Dark Knightess."
"You're welcome," Batwoman replied, walking over to meet with the group.
"The hell are you even doing in Platinum Flats, anyway?" Helena demanded, dusting off her cape. "Don't tell me the Caped Crusader sent you to start some expansion on the west coast or something..."
"We're not exactly friends," the Dark Knightess retorted. "I came to Platinum Flats because I heard there was a severe spike in the crime-levels."
Huntress cocked an eyebrow. "...Funny, that's why I came."
"Hey, not to get in the middle of your pissing contest, but that's kind of why I'm here, too," Canary pointed out, the three looking to each other, then to Raven. "...Rachel?"
"...I knew it," Raven muttered. "I was wondering why I appeared here, when I was trying for Stonehenge. My father has portals in place here. He's using my brothers to increase criminal activity in this city."
"Wait, time out," Huntress interjected. "I'm COMPLETELY lost here. Demons, portals, what is going on?"
"Trigon the Terrible," Batwoman answered. "Inter-dimensional demon, ruler of an unnamed province in Hell itself, and conqueror of six kingdoms known collectively as the Under-Realms."
"...You're well-informed," Raven complimented.
"I've done my research," the Dark Knightess replied. "Your half-brother can't possibly be down for long. We should take this conversation to some place safer."
"I have an apartment not far from here," Dinah offered, "but I have no idea how secure it is to stuff like...well, THAT."
Batwoman sighed, turning away. "...I have a safe-house. Follow me."
With a little hesitance, the other three women followed after Batwoman, making their way down the sewer system. Huntress took up the rear with an arrow armed with dynamite, DEEPLY regretting ever coming to the west coast, and trying to keep her mind calm and NOT shoot the rats that scurried across the pipes over them.
If only she knew. They would've been better off if she had.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Well, let's get some details out of the way. I decided to alter Batwoman's costume a little bit so that it has a cowl (think Batgirl) instead of the simple face mask she wears in the comics, although it is still shaped similarly to the mask. Reason being, I wanted her to look more like a female counterpart to Batman, and Huntress already has a face mask. The hair poking out the back is still a wig, as it is in the comics, so anyone that tries to pull her hair for an advantage in a fight is in for a bit of a surprise.
Regarding Raven, I decided to let her keep her chant from the cartoon show. Like there, she doesn't ALWAYS have to say it, it's simply a chant that helps her to concentrate on achieving her goals, so she only uses it when she needs that extra bit of focus. She has a few other abilities that delve more into her demonic nature, but we'll get to those later.
Finally, I suppose I should address the name of this story, 'Birds of Prey: Dark'. The team name is still just 'The Birds of Prey', the story includes the 'Dark' part at the end because I tend to look at it like the Justice League Dark of the BoP, in that they deal with a lot of paranormal/supernatural threats. They'll still occasionally fight ordinary crooks, mind you, but a lot of the recurring villains will be demons, monsters, mutants, metahumans, etc.
Anyway, that's it for this chapter. Check in next time as the four regroup and exchange notes, all the while Trigon makes plans to put an end to their group before they can even get their feet off the ground. Ja né!
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