[1] Beware the Batman and the Black Widow [1]

Nothing to fear except fear Itself

 Silent Terror Part 2

LOCATION: Bat Cave

Batman and I drive back to the Bat cave still reeling from the information that we had just gathered,

Gotham City had been turned into a torture play ground for the criminally insane

It was a disgustingly devious plan thought up by a very deranged individual, I could never get behind that state of mind that caused a few individuals to wish such grievous harm to others and the worse thing was that they enjoyed it

When I killed people in my time as a KGB assassin I would feel remorse although most of them were killers themselves I got no pleasure out of taking lives, never

I only hope that that sentiment wasn't just me trying to convince myself.  

<No, no I wasn't that person anymore come on Romanoff back to the present.>

I could see out of the corner of my eye Batman intently watching me, he always seemed to know when I was getting lost in thoughts but even if I could talk about how I was feeling I don't feel much like sharing. 

We pull into the secret entrance way behind a waterfall to the Bat Cave and bring the Bat Mobile to a full stop on the parking pad.

<sometimes I forget how amazing this is I spent a good 50 years working alone but I wasn't alone anymore I have a team ,no more than just a team, I have friends>

We exit the vehicle and walk deeper in to the cave where we see everyone is sitting around the main area which is where we meet every couple of days to discuss important business.

Barbra has a large black board displayed in front of our meeting area and she also has a ginger cat in her arms everyone sits down and watches intently she tries to address the room as a teacher would

"I think I might have solved one of our problems" she writes on the black board in white chalk, well anything thing that helps us in our current calamity would be very useful, suddenly Barbra places the small ginger feline on the table, I was curious what she was getting at.

Barbra begins to make some noises with a cat toy that had a small bell hanging on the end of it, of course everyone cannot hear the bell and we look at each other with the same puzzled look on everyone's face, but the cat seems to react to it.

Tim writes on his board "So it doesn't affect animals?"

Barbra flips over the massive Blackboard

"Animals have a very acute sense of hearing in normal situations most animals can hear sounds at much higher frequency than humans it comes to reason that somehow the Scarecrow has trapped all relative sound above the human hearing range but low enough that animals can still hear" Barbra explains 

I think I was beginning to understand we were so busy focusing on if it was a biological or chemical problem but it was neither of the above, we need to be looking at physics

"Radio waves" I sign to Batman he nods in response

"You're a genius" I sign to Barbra and with a smile and a shrug she responds "I know".

Barbra throws me something, I quickly catch it directly in the palm of my hand

They look like earpieces but a bit more bulky with some sort of switch on them Barbra motions for me to put them in my ears.

I put the devices in my ears

Dick smiles and writes on his board "You know Natasha with your age I've been telling you to invest in some hearing aids" I resist the urge to throw something at him.