Sneaky, Sneaky little Bat [Tag: Lexie]

[Alli]

Batman didn’t trust her enough to tell her his identity, or let her into their little vigilante ‘let’s save the world’ club, but enough to get her a plane ticket (on the Batplane express) and fly her to Metropolis to spy on the LexCorp offices. At nine on a Friday night which involved a lot of convincing her Dad that she was “going to visit her college friend from Metropolis” to even try and get out of town for the whole weekend. What else would she have told him?

"Hey Dad, uhm... at night sometimes I dress up like a bat and Batman wants me to spy on that crazy bald guy in Metropolis Lex Luthor, so I sorta kinda gotta fly to Metropolis this weekend, because Batman will be all bitchy and angsty at me if I don't. But don't worry, Batman totally doesn't know I'm Batgirl. So it's all good." Except more than likely he did, Batman was like a computer, he just had to think a little bit and he would find the answer. It was likely that Batman, the superhero who was mortal for the love of God and knew the identity of a ton of villains, and superheroes, and could scare the living hell out of anyone, knew that she was Batgirl. It would be shocking if Batman didn't, it'd be like him not knowing the sky was blue.

For some reason she had a feeling that he didn't know the sky was blue, because of the fact that he NEVER CAME OUT IN THE SUNLIGHT. He was a vampire, or a creature of a night that would burst into twenty foot tall flames and then his ashes would sparkle beautifully on the ground if he went into the light.

Woah, totally got off topic there. Anyways, on with the story. There was a 99.9% percent chance that Batman knew who she was, because he treated her like a child. While she... well she was the size of a twelve year old, she wasn't a child.

"Are you there yet?" The deep, cold voice echoed through her comlink that Batman had -demanded- she wore when she had gotten in the Batplane.

"I'm working on it! I've been to Metropolis twice in my life, and neither of them involved going to LexCorp and dressing up as some random business person." She huffed as she tugged at her hair nervously, walking into the LexCorp building and looking around. She had to get up a few floors before she could change, where was Luthor's office anyway?

"Twenty-second floor."
"Thanks." Was she sure he was completely human? No, she wasn't. Why? Because he didn't trust her, that was why, and sometimes he just knew what she was thinking. It was truly odd.

Her heels clicked as she walked on the floor towards the elevator, stepping inside of it, breathing slowly, in and out, in and out, in and out. She was fine, she wasn't alone, Batman was... guiding her? However he wasn't there to save her ass if she could shot at, which worried her. She had crashed a villain poker party, she had been so determined to prove herself to Batman that she hadn't been scared. Now all she was hopefully going to do was snoop around Luthor's office and not get caught.

The elevator dinged, and Barbara stepped out of it. It was dead silence, and she felt like all she could hear was her heart pounding in her chest. If she got nervous like this, she'd be reckless. She make some noise or another, or not move fast enough and end up getting hurt or screwing up. It had happened before and it would surely happen again.

"Nearest bathroom is down the hallway, second door on your left, then around the corner." She followed his directions into the bathroom and changed from the fake business outfit to the Batsuit. She didn't feel any calmer, and she stepped out of the bathroom her heart beating just as hard.

"His office?"
"Down this hall and to the right, last door at the very end. They'll be a passcode."
"How do you know all this?"
"I have my sources."
"Likely story."

She was trying to be as quiet as she could, while she knew there were cameras everywhere, they could only do so much. However one of the things they could do was alert Lex to his presence, even though it was late and if she were him she wouldn't have even BEEN in her office. She would have been home, sleeping or something. She came closer and closer to the door, until she was right next to security keypad.

"I take it you know this too?"
"Try 1763."
"Didn't work."
"How about 2930."
"Nada. How about those sources now?"
"6945?"

The keypad, instead of turning red with the wrong passcode as it had the last two times turned green and the door opened.

This was going to end badly, wasn't it?

[hexiva]

" - mean well, Mr. Zante," Luthor snapped into the phone as the door slid open. He was looking out over the city from the vast windows of his office, his back to the door. "But I suggest you learn to change your mind shortly, or I'll be forced to - " He turned in his chair casually as he spoke, and then froze in mid-sentence. "Excuse me, Mr. Zante, something's just come up." He slowly lowered the phone from his ear. "Bat . . . woman, I presume?"

The woman was unarmed and nearly a foot shorter than Luthor. On the other hand, he was no fighter and he had no way of knowing what powers, if any, she might have. If she was Kryptonian, he had a piece of Kryptonite in a lead box in his desk. If she was a normal human with the same training as the Batman - assuming he had no powers - then he could summon security.

He reached for the button on his desk.

[Alli]

Fuuuuuuu---

This wasn't good. She couldn't snoop with Lex -in- his office. Okay Barbara, that was possibly the most Captain Obvious statement you've ever thought about in your life. Why could Batman get Superman to do this? She would ask him whenever it wasn't just Lex and her in the same room, he'd think she was crazy.

Which she was for agreeing to this. Stupid, stupid, stupid. She had to stall, because if she didn't he'd probably a. try to kill her or b. call security. She wanted to snoop, she really hadn't gotten used to fighting people -so- much taller (and usually stronger) than her quite yet. Also, seeing as Batman -still- didn't trust her she hadn't been properly trained.

"You have a plan?" His voice went into her ear, and caused her to lose her train of thought. Though she calmed down a bit.

"No." Pause. "It's Batgirl, actually." She watched his hand. If she were Batman she could be all dark and angsty and threaten him, but she wasn't. She wasn't intimidating, she was nineteen year old, five foot two little girl that was just trying to prove herself.

She was failing. She held her hands up in a manner of trying to prove that she wasn't a threat, or at least she didn't want to have to be. "Batman just... hmph. He's busy, this whole situation is ridiculous. He wanted me to check in on you, but a bitty bat is less frightening then a great big bat..."

"What are you doing?"

"Trust me."

[hexiva]

Luthor's finger hovered over the button, but he didn't press it. "What does Gotham's big-eared maniac want with me? I wouldn't have thought I'd have anything to interest him. LexCorp is a little short on either purse-snatchers or bugs."

He leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms. "Talk fast. I haven't got all day, you know. Things to do, caves to find."

[Alli]

"Just to check in, make sure you're not doing anything too bad." Hack a computer system here or there, read a couple files, be a bit nosy. Of course that was below Batman when he was "busy".

"Pretty much Batman's coming to Metropolis... soon. He wanted me to check in on things." Truth is, Baldie, I don't even know what he really wants. I'm just here to hack your computer and look pretty.

"And clever, bats and caves. I don't live in the cave, just like I don't work with him." Technically, this was all on a very technical basis, and it wasn't like he couldn't hear every single word she was saying. “Seeing as you’re… busy, I’ll just leave.” She looked at him in such a way that she was thinking that he didn’t have anything to do.

She turned on her heel and started to walk out of the door, trying to think of a way she could come back and get the job done. Of course, she’d have to be a bit more bat like and less obvious. Hm.

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[katzenklavier]

Lex's brow furrowed at this most unwelcome news. It was bad enough that he had the Kryptonian breathing down his neck. Having to deal with the Bat and his ever-growing gang of teenage vigilantes in addition to that spit-curled idealist was the very last thing he needed this week. Not to mention the way the media would react; Lois, being the clever reporter she was, would no doubt catch wind and turn the public against him, yet again. Even that overgrown farmboy the Planet employed- Trent, Dent, the name escaped him- would probably find something snarky to write about.

"Batman in Metropolis." said Lex, his finger still hovering over the silent alarm button that would summon security. "Getting tired of chasing killer clowns and fat little businessmen who think they're flightless seabirds, is he?" He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his oak desk as he steepled his fingers. "My, my. Is that psychopath really so intimidated by me that he's willing to leave his squalid hellhole of a city undefended, just to keep tabs on me for a few days? Quite the risk, I must say."
His brilliant green eyes flashed dangerously.
"Poor Commissioner Gordon... Getting on in his years, isn't he? How ever will he manage without his caped crusader? And him with a young daughter, too. How perfectly fitting it would be, if some great tragedy were to befall them because Batman wasn't there to protect them. Wouldn't you agree, Batgirl?"

Playing the Devil's advocate, subtle jabbing and vague threats. Lex might not be able to lift a car over his head or fight twenty men at once, but in the mental arena, he reigned supreme.