Trying the Hero Thing [Black Canary]

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The temperature outside was starting to warm up. Spring had come a little late, but at least it seemed to have finally arrived. This made Leslie Willis, a.k.a., Livewire, want to get out and do something. She'd been in Gotham City for a few weeks now, but had layed a little low ever since her interview with Summer Gleeson at Gotham Live took place. In that time, Leslie had done a lot of thinking. For instance, she thought that maybe she was trying to get people's attention all the wrong way. Maybe, there was something to the hero or vigilante gig that she had just shrugged off out of spite for the Blue Boy Scout, Superman? Leslie had fun just doing as she pleases, but...it also felt good to help others. Like when she helped Tempest, for example. Helping someone who barely had any clothes on their back and whatnot actually made Leslie feel good about herself.

'Let's see...what do I want to check out first. The north side? I hear all the rich people live there. The east side? That's the bad part. Kind of like Suicide Slum in Metropolis...' she thought as she travelled slowly through the powerlines of Gotham City. 'Hmm...well, if I want to give the hero thing a try, then I'll probably have a better chance of finding trouble in the east side.'

With this last thought in mind, Leslie sped up and headed towards the east side of the city, looking for signs of distress along the way. She didn't have to wait long. Soon, she came upon a dark-haired young woman in an alleyway screaming for help. A man had her held at knife point. Two buddies of his looked like they were about to do something highly unpleasant, as they were starting to rip her clothes off. Leslie grinned as she thought of the unpleasantness that they were about recieve. As soon as she appeared out of a nearby streetlight, she hurled two bolts of electricity at the men who were trying to tear the woman's clothes off. The bolts hit their targets, shocking them violently until their skin began to burn and their hearts stopped. Their charred, smoking bodies crumpled to the ground. The smell of burnt flesh was quite apparent.

"What the fuck?!" yelled the man holding the woman at knife point, obviously beyond freaked out by what just happened. "Tommy! George! W-what the hell kind of freak are you?!"

"The electricfying kind!" Leslie retorted with a large, impish grin, hands on her curvy hips. "Now, let the woman go, and I might let you live..."

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Gotham City East! Where the scum thrive and the crime is born. It was a criminal's paradise and a vigilante's favorite vacation spot. Dinah had a man pinned to the ground in an alley and was roughing him up. The creep was using kids as drug dealers. He would pay them small change and had them selling the goods. Who would suspect a kid to be a drug dealer right? The kids didn't know what they were doing, they just wanted money to buy candy or a treat or maybe give to their mom to help pay the rent. I'll get to their parents later for not watching their children, especially in this part of town. She had him on his stomach with his arms behind his back and she was smashing his face into the ground. "You sorry piece of garbage! You make me sick!" Slapping him behind the head and then finally putting him in cuffs. The man was bloody and fatigued. Canary put a pretty good beating on him, but she wasn't done. "Sick! You are a sic..." Canary then heard a sound, it sounded like an explosion... no thunder... not quite. It was loud and sounded like trouble, that's all I know. She then lifted the man up to his feet and then gave him a spinning back kick and making him fly against a wall next to a dumpster. "Better not move, I will be back... if you do I will find you!" The man now groggy and just leaned his head against the dumpster. It sounded like just a few blocks down. Time to investigate.

Canary sprinted down the alley ways and finally came across a small group of people. Two women and one man and two other individuals on the ground. "What the.." Canary then doubled back and came through the alley behind the two women, she then made her self known. "What's going on here..." Woah, who is this chick? She had pale chalk like white skin and blue spikey hair and a black and blue leather outfit to match. Is she a villain or a fellow vigilante? She then noticed the other women's clothes were torn and she looked very upset. Then finally noticing two men? I'm guessing they are men... they are burnt and have smoke coming from their bodies, my God. Did she do this? "Did you..." Signaling to the dead burnt males on the ground. Oh my God, we don't kill people!

Canary then slowly made her way around the women and got into a fighting stance to confront the man. The thug now seeing he is out numbered and knows of the Black Canary then begins backing away slowly and of course begins to run. "I knew he was going to run..." Canary then turning to Livewire. "Stay with the girl! I'll get this creep!" Canary then started sprinting after him in hot pursuit! Oh man, he was going to get it!

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Livewire nearly jumped out of her skin when the blonde-haired, tight leather-wearing woman suddenly showed up. She hadn't been expecting anyone to intervene, so it startled her when she heard another woman's voice come from behind she and the near rape victim.

"Duh!" Leslie responded sardonically when asked if she'd burned and killed the two men laying on the ground. "They deserved it! They were about to do nasty things to this poor woman!"

When the thug saw the intruder, he began to back away from his victim before turning and running away. Leslie was then told to stay and watch said victim while the blonde ran after the thug. She frowned. No one told Livewire what to do! Besides, this was her crime to stop, and blondie was stealing her spotlight!

"Are you all right, lady?" she asked the scared, crying woman a bit hurriedly.

The woman nodded, using a part of her ripped shirt to dry her eyes with. "Y-yes."

"Good," Leslie replied. "Stay here. I'll get this guy and make 'im pay!"

She then turned into her living electricity form before instantly disappearing into the streetlight she had appeared out of. She had the blonde and the thug in her sights. All she had to do was stop the guy before the other woman did. This would be easy enough. She proved that it was by travelling quickly through the powerlines and pouring out of another street light in another alleyway directly in front of the man. Doing so caused him to skid to a hault and stare at her in horror.

"I'd stop running if I were you," she said, not bothering to revert to solid form, which gave her voice a slight static sound to it. "I don't want ya too worn out before I have my fun with ya."

Leslie started to reach out to grab the thug, planning to shock him just enough to hurt him, but not to burn or kill him. She wanted this pervert to suffer a little before putting him out of his misery.

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Canary was in hot pursuit, which she seemed to be doing a lot lately. The man was screaming. "Leave me alone crazy bitch!" Canary then chuckled. They then approached a dead end, a chain-link fence, he then began to climb it but was kind of slow at doing so caused he was possible fatigue from the running. "Hell yeah! Got him now!" Canary then began to take a deep breath readying her patented Canary Cry. Then all of a sudden a voice came out over the power lines above in a static like tone.

"I'd stop running if I were you," she said, not bothering to revert to solid form, which gave her voice a slight static sound to it. "I don't want ya too worn out before I have my fun with ya."

 It was that white powdered girl with the blue spikey hair. Is she in the wires? A bolt of electricity then came out of the wires and shocked the man and he was on the ground twitching from the instant shock. "What the hell!" She then went to check on him but could not touch him from the surrounding shock waves coming from his body. Who was this woman? What's her deal? We don't do this for fun, we do this to protect people and for justice! Canary now addressing her. "Come out lady! We need to talk, now!!!"

Canary then thought, standing her ground and glancing at the fallen thug. "Hopefully I don't get the shock of my life and end up like him...."

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As Leslie reached for the man, she inadvertently sent a bolt of electricity coursing through his body.

'Dammit!' she cursed to herself, now reverting back to her solid, tight black suit wearing form. 'I wanted to play with him a bit before I killed him. Oh well. The sick-o deserved it!'

When she heard the voice of the blonde, leather-clad woman addressing her, she frowned.

"What do you want, blondie?" Leslie asked sarcastically as she looked at the stranger.

Her voice was now back to her normal, slightly high-pitched tone. She casually walked over the dead, but still convulsing thug in order to close the distance a little bit between herself and the stranger. As she gazed at the woman, it suddenly dawned on her as to who she possibly is.

"Hey, you're the Black Canary, aren't you? I've heard about you. Got some kind of sonic scream or somethin', right? Look, I'm tryin' to help you heroes out here. I just took out some of this city's trash, so you should be thanking me..."

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Wow, this chick knows me? I mean I know people have heard of me, but I'm not really a household name. Who is she? Canary then approached the woman with caution. "Yes, I am the Black Canary... and you are?"

Canary then didn't let Livewire answer. "Also, I should be thanking you? You just killed these men... who could have been linked to something more, some big time thugs in this city... the girl was safe and I had him in my sights..." Dinah now frustrated. "I don't know who you are or what side you stand for, but we don't kill!"

Canary then turned away from Livewire and proceeded making her way to the woman to see if she was alright, but then slightly turned to the spikey haired girl. "I suggest you leave now..."

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"Liv--" Leslie started to respond, but the vigilante didn't let her, yelling at her for murdering a few rapists instead. She frowned.

"I'm not leaving," she said to Canary firmly after the woman was done bitching at her. "Look, gimme a break, okay? I'm trying to turn over a new leaf here! I'm not used to just knocking people out and sending them to prison! Hell, I'm the one who usually ends up in prison!"

She paused here to let her words sink in. Honestly, she hadn't thought about whether or not the thugs could be a part of something bigger, or not. The crime the men were about to pull had disgusted her, so Leslie had acted without really thinking things through.

"I wanna change," she went on, crossing her arms over her chest. "I just don't really know how..."

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"Really...?" Dinah responded in a soft and relieving voice. Livewire sounded sincere or she was a hell of an actress, but Dinah decided to trust her instincts and hope for the best. She believed that their is good in everyone, well had hoped there is. Just some needed a little time to find it. She then shook her head sighed. "I'm... sorry... let's start over... as you know I'm the Black Canary and what's your name again?" Dinah then made her way to the burnt man that had died being electrocuted on the fence and began to check his pockets. "Let's see if we can find anything, could you check the other guy?" Canary was speaking in a much calmer and nicer tone.

Canary believes in giving second chances but this time she was in the wrong because she didn't giver this girl a first chance. She just needed to be shown the way perhaps. Only time will tell. "If we could find some kind of clue, some kind of connection to anything really. These creeps could have been from the Diablos, the Ugandians, Red Crosses, the King 47s... oh!" Dinah chuckled. "Those are local gangs by the way, they aren't a big threat but could be working for covers or eyes for the streets for the heavy hitters such as Penguin, Two-Face, the Falcones or even the Joker!" Canary kept searching for clues, either to a certain bar or local or message, anything!  She then looked up to Livewire.

"Ever heard of those monsters?"

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"Yes, really," Leslie replied sincerely. "You can call me Livewire, and sure, I'll check 'im out."

Canary was being nicer to her now, so Leslie was cool with doing what she asked. As she began to search the guy, the blonde was saying how these guys might have been connected to local gangs, or even working for bigger guys such as the Joker.

"I've heard of the heavy-hitters you're talking about, but not the other gangs. I only did a little bit of 'homework'. I'm originally from Metropolis, you see. Came here for a vacation, and then decided I need to change," Leslie answered the vigilante while she searched the dead man's pockets. "Getting tired of trying to fight Superman and failing, heh."

After she finished searching the man, she gave a frustrated little sigh. "I can't find anything. You having any luck over there?"

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"Superman?" Dinah chuckled. "I used to fight along side him in the Justice League, that was a year ago... I've gone solo, I guess you can say!" Canary smirked. She was used to having a team, having someone to have your back. Like Ollie.. "Was it one sided? When you battled Superman, that is..." Canary was trying to make small talk while she searched the deceased man. She still didn't trust this Livewire yet. But she could use the help.

"Bingo!" Ahh, yes... she found something. It was a burn? A kind of branded burn on his back like you would do to livestock, you could still see this burn brand besides the burnt skin from Livewire's shock. "He's been branded... 666...  which would mean he was a Diablo! These sick fuckers like to burn their victims as a method of torture, perhaps they will try to get revenge, a burn for a burn?" Canary then rose from her crouching position. "Want to go fight some devils?"

Canary smiled and gave her new "friend" a wink... "Let your reformation begin?"

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"You've worked with the Boy Scout before?!" Leslie nearly yelled. "I can't believe that you haven't heard of me, then!"

She honestly couldn't believe it. If Canary worked with the Man of Steel in the past, then surely she would have heard of her. Right? Or, was she just another criminal conquest to make himself look good in the public's eye? God, how she hated Superman and his grand-standing!

After a few moments, Canary managed to find a brand on the man she'd been searching. Thinking quickly, Leslie re-searched the man she'd been "assigned". Among the burns that she'd given him, she could barely make out the same brand the blonde vigilante had seen on the other thug.

"Heh, yeah, maybe. Guess I gave them a taste of their own medicine, though!" Leslie replied with a laugh. "And sure! I'm up for taking out some more dirt-bags. Let's do this!"

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"Cla... I mea Superman didn't talk about his foes too much!" Whew! I almost revealed Superman's first name, that wouldn't have been nice. "Umm... he's a really great guy once you get to know him... or.. yea.." Seems like Livewire isn't his biggest fan, let's change the subject.

"Anyway... I know where the Diablos' turf is... We need to find out who they are working for and hit em hard!" Canary then pressed a button on the left side of her choker and then a few moments later a black motorcycle came revving through and stopped right in front of the duo. "There's my baby! Ain't she a beauty!" Canary then took the helmet from the back of the bike and looked to Livewire. "You ready?" She smiled and then mounted the bike. "Want a ride? Or you going to travel the Livewire way?" Canary then winked.

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"Says you," Leslie said under her breath after Canary made the comments about Superman.

Right now, she didn't care what the other woman's opinion on Superman was. She still didn't like him. Leslie then watched, curious and impressed, as the vigilante summoned her motorcycle in order to go after the Diablos.

"You've got a nice bike!" she answered the blonde once it roared into the alleyway. "I think I'll go the Livewire way, hehe."

Just after she said this, she turned into living electricity, ready to disappear into a telephone or power line so she could follow the Canary. So far, her first shot at being the good guy wasn't going too bad. The only thing Leslie needed to try and refrain from doing was killing the bad guys, according to the vigilante.

"You lead, I'll follow," she said in an eerie echoing voice that came with being in her energy form.

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Canary then chucked. "Alright, let's move... oh! Take this, easier to keep in contact..." She tossed a communicator in the air knowing Livewire catch it. Already on her bike, she then put on her helmet and started the bike. She revved it up and then took off on it. Livewire following, she sped through the various alleyways and then began to slow down in speed. They then came to an opening near an abandoned old fire station. It seen better days and was the hangout for the Diablos. Canary then removes her helmet and keeps it in hand. "Okay, here is the info on the Diablos... They don't carry firearms and aren't that great of fighters, but they make up for that if you become vulnerable with their torture techniques, they're big into torture..." Canary then scoped the area out. "Looks like three of them are outside, let's take them out then bust in for the rest, okay? Oh! Remember! No killing..."

Canary then got off her bike and began sprinting towards the trio of thugs. She then without warning or detection smashed one of them behind the head with her helmet. The hit was an instant knockout to the thug. "What the hell, get her!" Then another two of them came rushing out with knives and bats. So four thugs now! "Bring it..." One thug then went for a swing with his bat, but Canary then dodged it and gave him a leg sweep and he was down and then went for a flip and gave him a knee to the chest. She then had another one coming after her and then she leaped at him and gave him a elbow shot to the forehead. The man was on one knee and the others were targeting her now. Canary was having fun, loving every minute of it. It's a crazy life, but it was hers. Can't wait to see what sparky will do?

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After easily grabbing the communicator that Canary had tossed to her, it instantly melted in her energized hand. Livewire was still in her living electricity form, and wasn't about to transform back just to grab some silly little communication device.

"Oops!" she said a little sarcastically. "I won't need an ear piece if you have one on yourself. Trust me."

She then disappeared into a nearby telephone wire and began to follow the vigilante. Once they arrived at their destination, Leslie poured out of an electrical box close to where Canary had stopped. She reverted back into her physical form and put her hands on her hips as the yellow bird gave her a rundown on the Diablos, as well as reminded her not to kill anyone.

"Yeah, yeah. I got it!" she said before the blonde-haired woman started doing her thing.

Leslie could tell that Canary liked what she did, and this encouraged her to step in and help take out some more thugs. Making sure that her voltage was at taser strength, she aimed at two new Diablos, who had decided to show up to help their buddies. Her electrical blast hit one of them and chained off to affect his partner. Both convulsed for a momemt before collapsing to the pavement, unconscious. Next, she used the electrical currents around her to make an electromagnetic field around herself so that she could hover and float around to yet another oncoming thug. Reaching out with her hands, she grabbed the guy by his shoulders and sent a shock coursing through him. Again, it was taser strength, so it shouldn't kill him. Unless he had a pace-maker or something of that nature, that is.

To make sure Canary knew this, Leslie called out, "Don't worry! It's not enough juice to kill 'em!"

Right after she said this, she sensed a guy with a cell phone coming up behind her. Livewire turned around in mid-air, grabbed either side of his face, and planted a quick kiss on the thug's lips! Of course, as she did this, she sent some electricity through his system. She didn't know how to fight, so using her powers was the only other option she really had to defend herself and help Canary out at the moment. Leslie had to admit that she was probably having just as much fun as the vigilante right now. She could get used to this.