From Hero to Villain

Part Two

She had taken care of the girl and slowed down Sallow, that's one thing off her mind. Now she just needed to make it out of town unnoticed. It only took a quick skip and a hop to reach the address she found only a few weeks ago, 60 Amherst Drive. It's in the commercial district, and it being a Saturday, no one would be around to see the winged girl slip through the loading dock unnoticed into the old warehouse.

As expected, it didn't take long to get to her new temporary home, and no one was around to see. Inside it was wide and spacious, plenty of space to hold the darling hero captive, of course. With nothing else to do for the day, she decided to go exploring among the crates. Towers upon towers of crates cluttered the huge room. Some reaching close to the unlit bulbs hanging from the rafters. Like large bats filling a cavern.

He had called her Bat Girl. She used to goof around, hanging upside down from trees when they went on walks or played hide and go seek. Oh, how many days were spend exploring the manor and its grounds? They weren't able to be kids like that for very long. The tragedy forced them to pick up the slack the late Sallows left behind.

Don't think of him, the voice warned, He is the enemy, they always were. They made you become a different person, a girl you weren't meant to be. This, this is who you truly are. The perfect villain, a supervillain.

Although Wendi forced back the memories, she slept in the rafters anyway. Old habits always die hard. That night she dreamed about Jasper, about a time before her world took a turn for the worst. The voice wouldn't know of course, no one should ever know. Not even Wendigo herself. Only Bat Girl would know, a girl from the past.

"Wendi, Wendi?" called Jaz as he wandered through the Sallow orchard, "Where are you?"

"If I told you, it would take all the fun out of hide and seek, now wouldn't it?" Wendi called from her hiding place. She dangled upside down from a tree, distracted by a bumblebee that buzzed by.

"So you're up. Come on! Mom says it's almost lunchtime," he whined. He was getting bored of the whole seeking thing.

"Hmm?" she wondered aloud, still watching her bee. His flight was steady, she wondered how he managed to lift his fat little body off the ground, "Practice probably."

"Wendi, stop babbling and come down!"

"Fine," she dropped headfirst from the tree, flipping around only to tackle Jaz to the ground.

Jasper yelped as he took in a mouth full of turf, "What was that for?" he asked as she stumbled to her feet.

"I didn't mean to," she apologized, "I guess I should practice like that bumblebee."

"What bee?"

"Don't worry about it."

Thoughts of the past quickly died away when she woke the next morning. Phase two starts today, the capture of Jasper Sallow. Of course, it would be a bit harder than the original plan due to yesterday's little complication. The mansion was bound to be crawling with cops. What a stupid complication.

We'll just have to lure him out somehow, won't we, and I have a lovely thought on what just might bring him running.

"What is it?" Wendi asked eagerly.

His dead girlfriend of course.

"I mean, that would definitely draw him out, but she's kinda dead."