SuperCorp Chronicles

Chapter 104

"Supergirl, 01, confirmed, Batwoman 10, confirmed." The Zeta tube spoke out as Kara and Kate exited the tube into Kate's base of operations.

"Welcome to the Belfry." Kate said since that's what they called her base of operations, which was located inside an abandoned clocktower in Hub City.

"So this is where the Birds of Prey operate out of." Kara said, since that was the name Kate's team went by.

"I still can't believe the media calls us that." Kate said, rolling her eyes at that.

"Shut up, you love it." her foster daughter and first protege, Ryan Wilder, aka Batgirl, said as she walked into the Belfry.

"Ryan, if you're here, then I guess that means you're done with your homework." Kate said, since one of her rules for letting Ryan be her Robin in a way was that Ryan had to put her personal life as Ryan Wilder first. She had to keep a balance in her life.

"Yes Kate. And Aunt Mary can confirm it." Ryan said, since Kate's stepsister Mary Hamilton was also living in Hub City now and she was actually Kate's team medic, since Kara had made it standard policy for every Justice Leaguer to have a qualified medic on their personal teams, a policy that everyone agreed with. Even the invulnerable ones like herself and Superman, though robots like Kelex did count. And Mary had quickly become an aunt to Ryan.

"Good, then go practice with the bo staff Luke and Harper made you, since I need to talk to Supergirl in private." Kate said, referring to her second-in-command and primary team inventor, Luke Fox, aka Batwing and his protege, straight from Gotham, Harper Row, Bluebird.

"Got it." Ryan said.

"Where's the rest of your team?" Kara asked.

"Kelly's at work with social services, which is almost as bad here as it is in Gotham, which as we both know is one of the worst in the country, no matter how much money Bruce pours into it, and Barbara is at work as the new commissioner of the Hub City Police Department." Kate said, since her girlfriend was a member of the team and was actually their newest field agent, codename Hawkfire and the final member of the Birds of Prey was none other than the daughter of Gotham's own Police Commissioner Jim Gordon, Barbara Gordon, who was actually one of Bruce's former partners, she was the original Batgirl when she was Ryan's age and actually Dick's ex until after the Joker had shot her in the spine, paralyzing her from the waist down. Barbara had been forced to hang up her mask after that, though she'd found a new purpose as Oracle, becoming a cyber warrior and she'd relocated to Hub City with Kate to get out of the shadow of both of their families.

"Got it. But anyways, what's going on?" Kara asked.

"I'm sure you've read that I recently got my own Joker here in Hub City." Kate said.

"Alice, yeah, what about her?" Kara asked.

"Well, not long after she became active, I discovered that she's actually my twin sister Beth. Who I thought died when I was 13 years old." Kate said.

"Yeah, I remember you told me all about that. How the Joker hijacked a bus and sent you off the road. Bruce managed to save you, but not your mom and sister." Kara said, since one of the things they'd bonded over was their shared trauma from loss.

"Yeah, well it turns out she survived and she's crazy. And she's figured out who I am. But during my most recent fight with her, she accidentally revealed that she's not the only one who survived that accident." Kate said.

"Your mom." Kara said in shock and Kate nodded.

"Alice is holding my mother captive somewhere and until I find her." Kate said.

"You can't make any moves against her." Kara said.

"Exactly. I want to believe that deep down, my sister is still inside of Alice, but I can't work on bringing Beth out of Alice until after I've gotten my mom to safety. Will you help me?" Kate asked.

"I'm offended you have to ask. Of course I will. Especially since I recently got my mom back and there's no way I'm going to let you be deprived of that. But have you told your dad?" Kara asked, having already guessed the answer.

"I haven't spoken to my dad since I moved out here. Especially since we both know that he's causing Bruce even more problems than the Joker at times." Kate said, since her father was extremely anti-vigilante, since he blamed Batman and the Joker for what happened to his family. Despite all of Kate's attempts to convince her father to put the blame on the Joker, since Batman had saved Kate, not to mention all those other kids on the bus that day.

"And he also sent his second in command at Crows HQ here to try and convince you to leave your post running the new Hub City division of Wayne Enterprises." Luke said as he and Mary, since they were dating, entered.

"Still not sure why he thought that was a good idea, since his second-in-command is none other than Sophie Moore." Kate said.

"No." Kara said.

"Yep. The girl I dated at Point Rock until we got busted, we said we'd go into the hearing together and own up to what we did only for her to betray me and break my heart. I told Luke to get her out of my building before I shot her. Especially since she didn't even apologize to me, she just tried to justify what she did. Even though I'm happy with Kelly now, that's still a scar I'm not ready to pick at yet." Kate said.

"Wow. I'm glad I'm on much better terms with my exes." Kara said.

"To be fair through Kara, you don't really have exes, just a few girls you've slept with over the years. And yes, I'm aware that I'm on that list." Kate said.

"And Lena told me to thank you for that, since she's pretty sure you're the one who taught me a lot of what I know." Kara said with a smirk, which Kate shared.

"She's very welcome and I'm glad she's not jealous or anything." Kate said.

"If she can handle me being best friends with Felicity, she can handle anything, besides, she knows that it was just harmless fun for us. It's not like what I have with her." Kara said and Kate smiled.

"I'm really happy for you Kara. Despite all the bad blood between your family and hers, you and Lena fell in love and I can't wait for your wedding." Kate said.

"Since when are you a romantic?" Kara asked.

"I'm not, but I can get sentimental at times." Kate admitted.

"Can you see you and Kelly getting where Lena and I are now?" Kara asked.

"Maybe someday. I'm just glad that things aren't awkward between Alex and I, since I know she used to date Kelly, but thankfully, their split was relatively amicable and it looks like she's going the distance with Felicity." Kate said.

"Tell me about it. But anyways, let's focus on finding your mom so you can introduce her to your girlfriend." Kara said.

"Agreed. Let's get to work." Kate said as they got back on task.