of the Family

As they all stand in this weird square, tensions begin to rise. At one vertex, stands a fierce girl dressed in black, with bloodied lips and a **** stare. Across from her, stands a dark skinned girl, naked as the day she was born, holding herself in her arms as she stops to weep and look at the others. To her right, a redhead with glasses in a wheelchair tries to sense the room as she feels some tension. Opposite to her stands a young man with black hair, oblivious to everything happening. A loud thud is heard from behind them, a dark cloaked figure stands above the operating table in the med section of the cave, as it removes its gear, almost all eyes turn to it, apart from the black scorning eyes of the girl in the black armour. Tiffany tries to make herself small, as Cassandra continues to stare at her, not uttering a word.

Barbara and Dick turned towards the dark figure leaving the two girls be. "Are you okey?" asked the boy wonder, looking concerned, as Barbara spots a gashing wound just above Batman's crotch. "What happened? You said you were going to find the girls.. Where is Stephanie?" she asked, as the Batman simply ignored them both.

"Bruce! Where is she?" Barbara shouted, the wound in such a specific place, usually heavily protected behind his armour, there was no way someone could do that to him, and this scared Barbara. The only scenario such wound could be inflicted upon him, was if he had that area exposed, and if he did and was cut it must've been for a terrifying reason.

"Dead" answered a chilling voice behind Barbara, a voice so rarely heard. It was the Asian girl standing across the naked girl, a girl which almost never speaks. "What do you mean?" asked the young man to the left of Barbara, turning his head and a frightened look in his eyes as well. He never dared to do anything with the Black Bat, she was Batman's solely, he too never heard her speak. "Master need to punish her, she refuse him inside her, he punish her more" the chilling voice continued.

"She is dead to us, that's all you need to know." the deep voice of the Batman was heard echoing through the cave, both Barbara's and Dick's blood froze. "She betrayed me, she betrayed her sister. We will never speak of her again". Rage began to fill the redhead, she had already figured in her head everything that transpired. "What did you do?" she spat at him, teeth clenched. "I will advise you to back away from it or I will need to discipline you too" Batman answered her menacingly. "Are you going to try and **** me too? Just try, I promise that I will do a better job than her and cut your balls off too" she shot, getting ready in her chair.

She didn't figure that the blow will come from behind her, for some reason she was so fixed on the man she completely ignored the girl coming hard to kick her in the back of her head. Barbara was thrown off her chair to the ground, she could see the heel of the boot coming down to her face to finish the job, only to be blocked and miss her by mere inches. The girl concentrated on the young man who deflected her kick.

Dick saw her in the last moment, the black armoured girl kicked Barbara to the ground and tried to deal a killing blow to the redhead once she was on the cold floor. He too understood what must have transpired between Batman and Batgirl, he always considered the domination part as just a sex game Bruce liked to play with the girls, lord knows Dick would have loved to have a harem like Batman had, but this was taking it too far. And if the girl is really dead because of some idiotic sense of supremacy, Dick wanted nothing to do with it. So he chose a side, a fairly easy choice for him, and defended the redhead lying on the ground.

He always knew Cassandra was fast, they trained few times and it was difficult for him to defeat her. But now she was relentless, as he came to her with a punch, she already released a flurry of blows, each hitting him straight in the face before he even managed to react. He got out his clubs from behind his back, raised them up to guard his face and tried again.

Barbara pulled herself up, her chair was kicked away from her, she knew it was lost and that she has to move quickly. If they don't get out fast, things will end badly. She crawled and pushed herself as she saw Nightwing and Black Bat exchanging fists and blows, with the girl having a clear advantage, as the man on the operating table just sat and watched. She crawled and got to the car parked in the center, no more than twenty meters from the fighting. The redhead got up to it, opened the door and pulled herself in.

As she got in, she called the dark skinned girl to the car, and she shouted for the boy to disengage and join them too. She will never forgive herself, because this call made the boy look away, it made him avert his eyes from his opponent and fix their eyes locked in eachother. She looked him deep in the eyes, the same eyes she loved and hated so much, as she saw how a heavy boot found its way to his chin in this spilt second. She saw his stare go blank the deeper the boot went, pushing his jaw back, as the light in the blue eyes disappeared. Barbara could hear herself starting to call him, as his lifeless body hit the ground.

Tiffany stood frozen, unable to move, her eyes gazed on Dick's body. Batman had leapt to him, trying to save him, Cassandra now running away from him, not giving any more consideration to him. She saw that Barbara could wait no longer and punched the throttle all the way down as Cassandra tried to intercept. Her eyes returned to Bruce, holding the young man in his arms, with nothing but sorrow in his eyes.

On the road, driving fast away, Barbara knew the family is no more.