icanbecruel:

 ”I kindly insist that you don’t turn my Goblins into Zombies… The Labyrinth is hard enough as it is. There was no need to set it on ultra hard mode or something like that…” 

Well that line insulted Diana right off the bat. Making assumptions before getting to know someone was just rude. As well as insulting.

“Hey! I am against that, thank you very much!” The dark haired girl crossed her arms, staring up at him from under that bone helmet she wore. “I can’t infect anyway, so there!”

And then it slowly dawned on her… How did he know.

Rapidly, her face paled of all color, expression suddenly falling to one of shock and almost fear. “Wait… How did you…”

steveburnside:

“Good.” he sighed softly, closing his eyes. 

The feeling of someone else’s weight against his own was comforting and reassuring, Diana’s warmth only adding to that factor. Steve continued to let his fingers sift through her hair, yawning slightly when he realized how comfortable the bed was compared to the one back in Hell’s Pit. 

The idea hit him. 

“Diana I do sorta have to go soon though.” he mumbled softly, feeling bad for cutting everything so terribly short. “I have a mission to do… for a friend.” 

Diana’s eyes were already closed, half between a place of awake and sleep. She had not been able to be so comfortable in a long time. Listening to Steve’s heart beat. It was a comforting sound that she found she’d missed. A lot.

With his fingers toying with her hair, it was helping to lull her away some more, her fingers curling against the Hells Pit uniform. So warm.

But then Steve spoke, his voice snapping her out of such a peaceful state.

Slowly, Diana’s head turned and rested her chin on his chest, staring up at him half tiredly, and pouted. “Aw… Figures. Can I go with you? If not, then come home soon, or I’ll have to go look for you!”

gothamsduplicitousbachelor:

He had heard of the way Umbrella did things and had actually enacted an anti-bow plan of his own for Gotham, should the need ever arise. It was elaborate and near fool-proof but knew that no plan was ever perfect.

The widening of one eye was all the indication of a brow raising higher than the other. Soon enough though, he followed her into the green house and close the door behind him.

“I’ve read reports both from and about Umbrella. None of it is positive. If they were assassinated by their own company, I need to know how and why.” It was outside of Gotham sure, but this was something solid to go on with Umbrella whom he thought needed to be brought down a few pegs.

The door closed with a quiet click, and then a clink. Locking it’s self closed behind the Bat. And after a few moments, the backyard was crawling with wild life, such as fireflies, and a couple raccoons here and there. This was a place that the animals were used too.. And not infected, or mutated.

“My name is Diana, by the way.” The female commented as she walked away from him.

Diana walked around a large table against the window pane wall. The table counter it’s self was covered in plant life, hardly able to see any of the wood under it. Mushrooms, vegetables, and spice plants. Around the rest of the green house, had a few trees, bearing more edible goods. But it all looked so wild inside… And yet, normal. Despite the gigantic flower on the side of the building, of which Bruce could now see behind. Some of the roots and leaves were even inside at t6hat wall, making some interesting designs, with a large nest of leaves in the corner.

“You’re barking up a really old tree there, Bat. They’ve been doing that since… Wow… Since before I could remember.” The dark haired female responded, stopping over near where a mess of vines was hanging down, shuffling through them. “In a moment I can take you down to the basement and hack into the old mainframe for you. There is plenty of information on that… Considering, well…” She trailed off.

gothamsduplicitousbachelor:

A slow nod was given when she recognized who he was, though he backstepped swiftly when she turned from threat to fan in record time. The transformation caught him off-guard.

Comics. He knew they made them and vaulted his exploits, even exaggerating them to a degree, and some were ones he honestly wouldn’t have even come up with. He was a good detective but the way they pulled theories out of the sky with some of these comics was sheer imagination.

Regardless, it was enough to dissuade some while giving others hope.

“Yes…” he sounded unsure of the situation now. “About the scientists. Several went missing near the new Raccoon City and searching the ruins or the mountains brought nothing. Nothing except to bring me here to see who lives isolated here and to what end. Do you know anything?”

She must have known something since she was wary enough to be armed out here where the flora and fauna definitely must have mutated.

Oh, she must have spooked him. He probably wasn’t expecting to run into anyone clear up here who knew who he was. Let alone someone who was a fan of his work. Diana’s grin turned to a nervous smile and she wuickly stopped bobbing up and down. He was too serious to have her just giddy like this.

So, suppressing her urge to, well, flip out, she put her spear on her back, slinging it in place. She had to help him any way she could. What else was a fan to do with on of their heroes or idols? Be they from a book or not…

“Oh right, the question.” Slowly, her arms crossed over her chest, letting her head tilt left, then right. Thinking. “Well… If they worked for… Umbrella…” She nearly spat out the last word, tensing up at the mere mention of that company. “Then they might have been silenced by their own company, or.. .Well, died up here if they dared to try and survive too long. There are some dangerous creatures, especially in the city ruins. A lot of people go missing down there, because of mutated infected still sometimes slipping up from the old underground HIVE. On top of that, there are coyotes, wolves, wild dogs, cougars and lions that roam about. This is the wild mountains after all.”

Her hands went back at her sides, looking up at Batman. No loner afraid, or intimidated, not at all. She was friendly. “I’m not sure where they are right now, but I can tell you where they may have gone, maybe guide you around. but I doubt there is anything left. There is a reason no one comes up here brrrruBATMAN.”

Diana nearly tripped over her own words, and covered it up by faking a shiver, glancing around. “Wow, suddenly chilly, huh? Yeah, let’s go inside!” Quickly, she walked back to the green house door, motioning for Batman to follow.

ghostofthejungle:

“Seems like you know everything,” he noted.

A comic book? —Since when was he and his brothers in a comic book? And how did the ‘maker’ of this ‘comic book’ know everything of the mutants’ life? This was a mystery; a mystery he’ll never know.

Leonardo instantly noticed the mild look on her face. “Well, it’s cool, I guess.”

Diana cringed slightly at the words of knowing everything. She really must seem like a creep right now.

“Well, not quite everything… I’ve missed several issues, and don’t have many of the new ones.” The young woman explained, looking down at the ground nervously.

But when Leonardo said it was cool, she looked up quickly and brightened up, a huge grin on her face and she nodded vigorously. “Uh huh! Really cool! I could even show you what I have if you like!”

karenalesproux:

“I have always wondered, do you know what they’re saying during their attacks? I had another BOW acquaintance who could talk to them.. At least as far as I can remember..”

Karena looked forward, and back to Diana, she knew her friend would have to disappear soon. 

“I will need to get in contact with….it does not matter. Though you need to find a way to escape from this place un-noticed. Understood?” she asked, removing her respirator to breathe normal air. It felt good to relax after just getting out of a near-death experience.

That question was a bit off the wall, and it made the BOW have to pause. “I uh… I never tried before. I don’t think I can’t, but I just never tried… Maybe I should try and pay attention from now on. But I can communicate well with animals and plants. I wonder if I can with infected too.” That was actually a very good skill to have.

One hand was on the girls chin, tapping it in contemplative thought. But, her curious thought process was broken when Lupo spoke up again, and a deep frown came onto her face.

“I’d feel better with you to company me, because without me to navigate… I’m worried you may get lost or hurt.” Never the less however, Diana caved and nodded with a sigh. “I can do that easily. I have survived this long mastering stealth. Just, promise me you’ll be all right, okay?”

With that, she turned and lunged up into the tree above them, swinging around on a few branches, and vanishing into the leaves and pine needles of combined different tree types, moving away swiftly with the cover of plant life. She could get just about anywhere in silence, especially in the wild.

gothamsduplicitousbachelor:

“I want to know what happened to the scientists who have disappeared over the last month and I’m asking.” he stated the last part taking a step closer to her, mirroring her circling technique but eyes of white locked onto hers.

“And I’m the Batman.” he retorted.

And though she couldn’t see him easily for even in the moonlight, he still seemed to just absorb it, the dark material of his cape and cowl not reflective in the least. His movements were slow and fluid, weight shifting and eyes locking on her like a predator.

 He wanted to make it intimidating and give her the sense that even should she attack, he was not to be trifled nor underestimated. Also, ignoring her last question seemed to be a good move on his end.

Scientists? Diana hadn’t seen any of the sort up here.. .Not for many years at least. Slowly, one of her eyebrows rose behind that helmet, never once stopping in her slow movements. Of which, this cloaked figure seemed to mimic. Both of them seeming like territorial beasts trying to display dominance.

However, he entire body just stopped moving when he said who he was.

And her eyes went wider, just holding as still as can be. Like a deer caught in the headlights. She was in shock.

Slowly, she stood straighter, no longer seeming threatening. The girls movements however were very slow, and careful. so as to not set him off. “So… You’re the Bat… The caped crusader himself.”

His questions seemed to fly out of her mind as all of the sudden she seemed giddy as can be, pushing her helmet up and positively beaming at him. Bouncing on her heels. “Oh my god, THE Batman, the protector of the night! Oh my gosh this is so cool! It’s just like my comic books!”

karenalesproux:

Karena looked forward, seeing the light that was shining through the broken doorway. She grabbed Diana by the arm, a motherly-move, something she did with her own children, and ran forward. She was not going to leave Diana behind. 

Though a BOW, and though the USS Operative was not at all human-loving, she had a soft spot, more like a motherly protection over Diana. It didn’t take much to remind her of her own children, and she felt the pull to take care of yet another child, though she didn’t know Diana’s actual age.

Breathing heavily through her respirator, Karena darted through the door, busting it open. The hinges screamed as the door flew open-wide, and Lupo took off up the hill. She could see the helicopter entering another side of the facility. 

When Karena looked behind her, letting go of her death grip on Diana’s arm, she noticed the creatures, stopping at the door, but looking in their direction.

“Are they scowling at us?” Karena asked, out of breath. The creatures would probably remember the Blue masked woman and her strangely bone-clad friend. They weren’t stupid after all. 

When Diana’s arm was snagged, she stumbled a moment. Not at all used to being pulled along. It was usually the other way around. But there was certainly no chance in her trying to go the OTHER way. that would be suicide.

Ironically, when the young woman didn’t like taking orders from people to listening, she had been listening to Karena fairly well, not even speaking up to argue once. The entire time they were here.

The door busted outwards, sending rested metal and steel flying off it’s attachments and clattering to the broken and over grown concrete. The two females darting up the sinking slope and across the grass. Making it to the tree lines safety for cover.

Diana slowly regained herself, observing some of her more brutal wounds, which were rapidly starting to heal. They weren’t too bad of a shock for her not to heal quickly. But her eyes were torn away to look back down towards the entrance way, where all those creatures were staying in the safety of the shadows, unable to come out into the sunlight… they were weak against it apparently. “I wouldn’t doubt it.. .We invaded their nest, and ran right out the other side. That’s like having a meal placed in front of you and then pulled away again.”

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yamatachristine:

The woman pulled out keycard after keycard. Christine’s eyes widened and she tilted her head a bit. “Holy shit.” was all she said. 

She began looking through the, organizing them, putting them in alphabetical order by last name. She started with the first name. 

Denied.

She moved to the second name.

Denied.

She sat the ‘denied’ cards to the left of her and continued through the list. Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven all denied. When she got to the eighth card, the computer did something different. It popped up the little ‘loading’ symbol. 

Access Granted.

“Bingo.” she said with a small grin. She tilted the laptop to Diana. “Here you go. Thank’s to this lovely scientists card right here.”

‘Holy Shit’. That reaction alone made Diana beam and grin like an idiot. God she was proud of herself for collecting all those things. She knew that one day, they would not be useless! And that belief was proven today.

Patience was something the young woman had an abundance of. So she willing sat through all seven denied cards, sipping at the juice quietly. Much like how a child would wait for something.

But then the number eight one popped, and it made Diana jump for joy, seeing the screen slowly connecting to the accessed account. “Whoo hoo! Thank you, Barnes, where ever you are.” It was the name on the card after all.

Then she realized how silly she might have looked and quickly sat down. “Sorry.”

gothamsduplicitousbachelor:

Batman watched the figures hush and then move about swiftly upon noticing his movement. When the other shadowy figure exited the greenhouse, he  watched them closely.

Hefting a spear. Dexterous, possibly trained, intelligent enough to wield a weapon. Possible ranged combat preference, piercing weapon preference.

He wasn’t sure what to make of the odd-shaped silhouette    but knew the rest of it was humanoid shaped and that was a start. Plus there was no getting around a meeting or confrontation of sorts, so he thought to initiate it on his own terms.

Readying a batarang, he leapt off the roof and landed to the side of the figure, so that if anything came rushing out of the green house he could face that too, and slowly rose, keeping the cloak close so that it appeared as if he just formed from the shadows themselves.

“Who are you and what is this place?” he asked, body loose and ready to dodge and react to any combat that may come his way.

Everything was eerily silent, and yet at the same time.. .There was still sound. She could hear owls in the trees farther off, the sound of crickets chirping at the edges of the back yard. Usually, when a Licker or something else had made it up here on their own, everything was gone…

And then the thud.

A large blacked out figure landed not far off, prompting Diana to take a trained defensive stance, facing her enemy completely. That eyepatch she wore was giving her read outs and status updates. Human. Non infected. Unarmed - well, no gun at least… But they were also giving off other strange readouts. They had strange gadgets on their person. Technology of some kind.

None of that did anything to ease Diana. She remained on guard, and slowly moved sideways, as if circling. The moon light soon reflected off her head, as she came into view. That was a helmet made of bones on her head, giving it the strange shape, and only one blue eye visible, the other was covered. Her clothes were tattered and stitched together thickly, like home made leather armor. The pole-arm it’s self was also made of bones. But all the bone items looked warped and unnatural.

“Why do you wanna know, and whose asking?” She countered, her tone demanding but cautious. For all she knew, this could be another one of those people hired to take her away and back to Umbrella’s filthy hands. “You got here, shouldn’t you know? How else could you have found your way here…”

karenalesproux:

Karena bolted forwards, ignoring the noises. She soon heard an umbrella chopper above the reservoir.
“Diana, lets move!” She yelled back, knowing she could distract the useless soldiers and let Diana be free.

“Stay behind me.” She said, than moved forwards again.
The monsters behind them were closing in but will inevitably meet a firefight of death once they reach the surface.

Lupo hadn’t gone in for nothing. While hiding in the lab she secured a cylindrical tube filled with a purple colored substance, labeled G-Cell.

Diana jumped when Lupo suddenly took the forward advance. And the BOW was quickly on her heels. The order causing some of her old training to kick in. “Yes ma’am!” After all, all of her siblings were supposed to be used as infiltration, and designed to take orders… They just kept their free will.

With a firm nod of her helmet clad head, the younger female tightened her grip on her spear, obeying the command to stay behind Karena, But the rapidly closing in noises from behind was making her jittery and antsy. But not nearly as nervous as the sound of whirling helicopter blades topside made her.

She swallowed deeply, glancing back, then forwards again. “See that light? Straight ahead is the broken doorway, closed right now. That’s our ticket out.”

gothamsduplicitousbachelor:

The silhouette itself was reason to cause Batman to twitch mainly due to remembering some of Poison Ivy’s creations and what they could do. This here with the possibility of a mutagenic infection with a virus gave him a cold chill.

Nothing seemed natural, and everything was looking to have a ‘taint’ of some sort. But upon hearing access cards and hacking, along with the bevy of global organizations 

Risking detection, Batman pulled out a grappling hook and fired it to land on the far side of the house, to catch on the opposite lip, pulling him to the roof of the old building attached to the green house.

In a rush, he was atop the building now and surveyed from above to see if he could peek into the green house without leaning too far over. He wanted to see just what he was dealing with.

The person inside let out a quiet laugh towards something. “You’re sad plant face doesn’t work on me much any more.” And that line was followed by some squeaks and weird little sound effects, which only made more laughter.

But when the grapple hook was hooked onto something, it had made a clunk sound, and the weight Batman put on the roof caused a creak. And all sound inside of the green house ceased completely.

“… You hear that?” Came the same female voice, and then some rustling. “Might be a rogue infected… Maybe a Licker? They don’t come out here unless provoked… I’ll find it.” There was then a rush of movement, panc insdie the green house. Followed by silence…

The side door opened, leading towards the back yard, and someone came walking out, holding a spear. Being very cautious. The shadowed head shape looked mutated, elongated even. Either this person was wearing something, or they were really messed up.

gothamsduplicitousbachelor:

The flower was unlike anything he had ever seen before, much like some of the remains on his way here. Small snapshots and pictures were taken and when the voices were heard, he crouched low and kept silent.

He’d notice a few traps and that made him wary of staying outside, soon moving to a window and checking the edge and seals of it. A small black-light penlight was fished from a compartment in his belt and he moved it along the edge of the window seeing if there was anything to set off an alarm of any type.

Any time he felt the pair moving closer or detected any movement he would freeze and listen hard to hear where the sound came from.

The huge flower on the side of the building seemed to be pulsating upon closer inspection. The huge fleshy petals even moving slightly. Those little nubs that stuck around the center of most flowers, were wiggling about as if on their own. As there was very little wind.

At the windows, there was no such trapping or triggering mechanism. Only simple windows. What ones did open at least. It was hard to see passed so much plant life inside of the green house. But there was certainly someone chasing something. The shape of, what looked like a human… But the head looked strange, large and had huge teeth. But that was just from the shadowing.

“Come on, give me back that wallet thing, it has all the umbrella cards! I won’t be able to hack any of their computers or networks without those… Or maybe I should say Tricell now.. .Or Neo Umbrella.. Man I’m so confused by this stuff any more.” The female seemed to give up, and sigh, standing there…

There was the sound of shuffling as what ever it was she was talking so came closer, and held the item up.

“Yay~! Thank you. Now I won’t have to get the fishing net on you. Nooo don’t give me the pouty plant face.”

karenalesproux:

“Do you know the way?” 

It was too dark to make out anything, and Lupo had no idea where she was going. Though she was more trained and adept to situations like this, than her comrades UBCS, she was still confused. 

Though confused, she was irritated that UBCS got the job of coming to this facility instead of the new U.S.S. teams, or rather….Tricell’s people. Tricell had worked with Umbrella and taken their place, still using Umbrella’s USS teams as their own. 

But she was still lost..

“Mhm, this way.”

Poor Diana had no idea just how many people may be showing up, or how dangerous they could be. The UBCS were hired people, willing to do what it took for that extra dollar. At least it wasn’t any special trained BOW’s or anything, like say that NEMESIS thing…

The rogue female took a left, and stayed ahead of Karena, moving sideways with her spear poised at the ready. Leading her down tunnel after tunnel.

Soon, there was the sound of whistling air, rushing through cracks or something.A light breeze from somewhere ahead. They were close… But there was shuffling and gurgling sounds near by as well.