[DC NEW 52] BIRDS OF PREY v3 [ESP-ENG]
BIRDS OF
PREY v3 [ESP]
#BirdsOfPreyNew52
I haven't given up
trying to clear my name. But in the meantime, there are people who need our
help. And while Ev's great, two people aren't a team.
-- Dinah Lance
I miss having people
watching my back, and not having to figure out everything alone. Call it a
family, call it a team, call it whatever you like. I just want to know what
it's like to trust somebody again.
-- Dinah Lance
One year ago, Dinah Lance was just off the heels of
Team 7, and she was still chasing Basilisk, despite the fact that she no longer
had an employer. Her lost husband Kurt would have expected better from her, but
Dinah had settled on seeking a job at the Penguin's Iceberg Lounge, knowing
that a lead on Basilisk would soon spring up there. Unfortunately, he wasn't in
the habit of taking job applications, so she decided to prove her worth by
infiltrating the outfit by herself.
When she arrived in the Penguin's bathroom, he was
unimpressed. To prove her worth, she demonstrated her special ability: a sonic
scream that could shake down the roof, if it were intense enough. Naturally,
the scream alerted Penguin's muscle, and she made short work of them with her
martial arts skills. Finally impressed, Penguin hired her, and dubbed her
"Black Canary," in keeping with the ornithological theme.
On the job, Dinah struck a tentative friendship up
with Ev Crawford, code-named Starling. After a few weeks of working the casino
floor, Dinah discovered that there would soon be a deal going down with
Basilisk at the lounge. On the night in question, she spotted the seller, and
the conspicuous, suspicious bulge under his hoodie, which must have been the
package.
Unfortunately, her plan was disrupted by the sudden
appearance of Batgirl. Angry that weeks of her work would be wasted if the
seller got scared off, not to mention the fact that the Basilisk buyer hadn't
even been I.D.'d yet. With Penguin shouting at her to do something about the
intruder, Dinah knocked Batgirl through a window, hoping she'd survive it.
Outside, Dinah managed to convey that she was on an
undercover mission, though she was working freelance. As it turned out, Batgirl
was after the same people, having heard that the package to be sold was a
mutation bomb, which could do serious damage on Gotham's streets. When Dinah
spotted the prospective buyer escaping, she and Batgirl split up, with Dinah
using her sonic scream to stop the buyer in his track, and drag him back into
the lounge.
Inside, she found Starling with a gun to Batgirl's
head, and Penguin urging her to pull the trigger. Eager to get through this
without anybody getting killed, Dinah asked Starling whether she trusted her.
Of course, Ev found it hard to trust anyone at all, but after hearing that the
patron she was protecting - the seller - intended to hurt a lot of people, she
lowered her weapon. With that, Batgirl disarmed Starling completely, assured
that both women were on the right side of the issue. The three of them escaped
on a speed boat in a hail of bullets.
Once home, Dinah realized that there was something her
life was missing since Team 7. It wasn't just the adventure, though. It was the
feeling that someone was watching her back for her; the comfort of finally
being able to trust someone again.
Meanwhile, Starling reported back to Amanda Waller,
clearly a plant. Waller encouraged her to maintain a friendship with Dinah,
while she herself was keeping Dinah's husband Kurt in stasis.
At a church in Gotham City, Gotham Gazette reporter Charlie Keen is beginning to doubt that his informant's story is true. His informants claim that there is a covert ops team being run by a bunch of supercriminal hotties, but as yet, Charlie has seen no evidence to this fact. Unbeknownst to Charlie, his unseen informants have a sniper rifle trained on the back of his head.
As in if answer to his skepticism, a car suddenly smashes through the wall behind him, driven by Starling. The informant, a sniper in a suit which seems to have chameleon-like properties, is confident in his position, ordering his men to kill the driver while he takes care of the other one.
The other one happens to be Black Canary, who has already snuck up on him, and delivers a kick to his face. He whips out a blade, but she dodges it carefully, delivering another kick, which sends him over the edge of the balcony, and crashing down onto the pews below.
Suddenly, a cord loops around Black Canary's neck, and she dangles over the floor below, which has filled with more chameleon-armoured thugs. Starling drags Charlie into the back of her car, dodging attacks and shooting back with her pistol.
Two weeks previously, Dinah noticed Charlie spying on her through a camera from underneath a car. Fortunately, he would not see who she was meeting with: Barbara Gordon, once Oracle, and now Batgirl.
Dinah hoped that Barbara would reconsider rejecting her offer to join the new Birds of Prey team. Barbara warned that being a part of a team like that is dangerous, given that Dinah is still a wanted murderer. Barbara was also unimpressed that Dinah had teamed with Ev Crawford, who she had seen on several government watch-lists. Even so, Barbara offered Katana as a potential recruit.
Black Canary cuts herself free from the cord, landing in the midst of her attackers. Knowing she is outnumbered, she unleashes a powerful Canary Cry, blowing out their eardrums and incapacitating them. They are not down for long, though, and Dinah is nearly overtaken. Starling recklessly drives through the church over Charlie's complaints, trying to get to her partner.
Two weeks ago, Charlie had tracked Dinah Lance to a bar where she met with Ev Crawford. They didn't speak, but he could tell that they knew each other. Afterward, he followed Starling as she bar-hopped around Gotham, but ultimately, he found no evidence that she was part of a covert ops team. With doubt in his mind, he arranged a meeting with his informant at the church.
As Starling and the car approach, Black Canary leaps onto the hood, dragging one of her attackers with her. As they brawl on top of the moving vehicle, she manages to rip off his mask. When she demands to know who he is, he responds "I'm the one who just killed you", and plants a kiss on her lips. Angrily, she punches him off of the car, only to see that the car is about to crash all of the pews again.
She climbs back into the car through the window as it thuds over top of the destroyed church's remains. She reveals to Charlie that she knows he's been following them for two weeks, and that she doesn't believe he was the intended target. He was merely a pawn used in order to draw the Birds of Prey out into the open.
The girls take Charlie to the Gotham International Airport, hoping to help him out of the country. However, Dinah suddenly feels something strange coming on inside her. Meanwhile, Charlie's phone rings, and as he reads it, his eyes and nose begin bleeding. Moments later, Charlie's entire body explodes in a flash of flames, knocking the girls to the ground.
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