A secret revealed

She's... dead. Questions swirled around my head. I had to know what happened. Hopefully Barbara can tell me what happened.

"Barbara, please calm down, I need you to focus."

She just kept sobbing. Hands over her eyes. I grabbed her arms and pulled them down.

"Barbara, look at me." The storm in my head raged to a new level. The energy was just waiting to get out. Reluctantly Barbara made eye contact. I felt a surge of power right behind my eyes. "You need to calm down. Just breathe"

Suddenly, she just stopped crying. It was as if someone had flipped a switch in her head. No, not someone. I did it, somehow. I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. This is my opportubity to really find out what happened.

"Barbara, can you hear me?"

"Yes"

"Do you know what happened to me? To Angela?"

"Yes"

It seems I will have to be more precise in my questions.

"Tell me what happened to Angela, starting from my last memory."

"The boom you heard was a couple of thugs with high tech weapons breaking into the science building. I heard it from a few blocks over and responded quickly. By the time I go there the goons were in your lab. One of them was holdig a menacing looking high tech weapon to Angela's head. The other was demanding access to the experiments vault. I rushed in. I managed to subdue the intruders with relative ease. What I didn't realize was that the weapon's energy core was damaged in the scuffle. It exploded and caught us all in the blast. When the dust cleared Angela was dead and you were **** covered in broken glass and various chemicals. You also had a huge gash in your head. I got you to the hospital. This was 3 days ago. You've been **** ever since."

As she recounted her experience I got flashes of memory. I remembered seeing the thugs surprising us in the lab. A woman in a cape and cowl came in through the window and saving us.

"Barbara, are you a superhero?"

"Yes, I am Batgirl" she whispers.