The Batgirl of Gotham City (New Age)/Issue 2

Transcript
The issue begins with the Olympian athlete Anthony Lupus who has a broken leg as he in a laboratory with a professor Achilles Milo.


 * Lupus: Hey Doc, are you sure this will work?
 * Milo: Call me Professor and yes it will. This serum is made out of the DNA of various types of wolves. It would both heal your broken leg and make you considerably faster. You will be a beast in the Olympic scene.
 * Lupus: Are you positive?
 * Milo: I tested it on someone before. I am not here to con you Mr. Lupus.
 * Lupus: If you insist Professor.

He grabs the serum and drinks it.


 * Lupus: I feel nothing. Are you sure this worked?
 * Milo: Go home. Maybe you will feel something later.

He sighs and does so. A few hours later, Lupus is about to go to bed as his skin suddenly turns into a dark furry green and he grows claws. Lupus looks in the mirror and howls furiously.


 * Lupus: M-m-must kill-no I can't resort to savagery! I-I can! M-must kill Professor Milo! Must find cure!

He jumps out the window and runs out into Gotham City. It cuts to Barbara Gordon cooking dinner for both Jason and Jamie who he invited over.


 * Jason: Babs, thank you again for allowing me to introduce you to my partner.
 * Barbara: Of course. Hey Jamie, I'm curious, what caused you to pursue this life of being a cop?
 * Jamie: I suppose I like trying to help people in any way I can. I don't think I would handle putting on a mask and a cape and fighting supervillains so just arresting the small guys or the Batman and supposedly Batgirl now leftovers is enough for me.
 * Barbara: Interesting.
 * Jason: I admit, I kinda grew on this "Batfamily".
 * Jamie: Now a question for you two. Let's say you two went to the Overlook Hotel. Which of you two would go insane?
 * Jason: Absolutely Babs.
 * Barbara: I mean, I can't disagree. Anyways, dinner's done.

Suddenly the GCPD radio plays.


 * GCPD Radio: We need help on Founder's Island! We spotted someone that looks non-human.
 * Jason: Barbara! I'm sorry, we have to go and investigate this.
 * Barbara: It's fine.

Jason and Jamie run out. Barbara then turns to her bust and enters her mini Batcave. She uses the camera footage to locate the thing the radio was talking about.


 * Barbara: That does look ugly. Now it's time for me to take a closer look.

She grabs her motorcycle and begins driving to Lupus' location. Lupus notices her and roars as he starts running through the streets, sometimes etching up on buildings.


 * Batgirl: What are you?
 * Lupus: Leave me alone! This doesn't concern you!
 * Batgirl: You are someone who vaguely looks human who can supposedly speak English and is confusing and terrifying Gothamites. This does concern me.
 * Lupus: Go away! I don't want to hurt you! I only want to hurt Professor Milo!

He grabs a nearby crate and throws it at her. Barbara dodges it but as soon as she does, Lupus is gone.


 * Batgirl: I lost him. At least I have a lead. A Professor Milo.

It cuts to Professor Milo experimenting as Batgirl walks in and throws a batarang at him.


 * Milo: Batgirl? How can I help you?
 * Batgirl: There's a monster running around in Gotham City and it said it wants to hurt you. What do you know about it?
 * Milo: Nothing!

Batgirl grabs Milo and puts his arm in a hold.


 * Batgirl: Don't lie to me Professor!
 * Milo: Okay! Fine! The Black Mask has hired me to turn people into monsters! That monster running around, that's an Olympic athlete! Anthony Lupus I think his name is.
 * Batgirl: Why does Black Mask want monsters in Gotham?
 * Milo: I think he wants them to destroy people like you.
 * Barbara: So you're saying that Black Mask wants you to ruin innocent lives just so he can eliminate heroes from Gotham?
 * Milo: Yes.
 * Batgirl: You're a sad pathetic little man.

She grabs Milo and knocks him out. She then looks around Milo's lab and coincidentally finds a cure to the werewolf tonic.


 * Batgirl: Of course there's a convenient cure. But I can't say I'm complaining. I should likely wait here. Lupus did say he wants to take down Milo.

Suddenly, Lupus comes in extremely vicious and is out to destroy Milo.


 * Lupus: Milo! Where are you?!
 * Batgirl: I'm sorry, Professor Milo can't see you right now. He is busy being unconscious.
 * Lupus: You! I warned you to stay away! That this was business between me and Milo! But it looks like I have to kill you!
 * Batgirl: Okay, kill is an extremely drastic word.

Lupus roars and jumps on Batgirl. He starts frantically clawing her as she grabs the Batclaw and pulls some hardware on him. Lupus, due to having the rubble on him, roars as Batgirl escapes his body hold. She then starts hitting Lupus as Lupus tries to hit back. Batgirl then grabs the cure and injects it in Lupus' neck as he turns back to his human form.


 * Lupus: What happened?
 * Batgirl: Professor Milo. He turned you into a werewolf.
 * Lupus: Did I cause harm?
 * Batgirl: You did. But no worries I came prepared.

She hands him a tape recorder.


 * Batgirl: This is Milo's confession of what he did. And Milo is right-

She looks to where Milo's body was as it is now gone.


 * Batgirl: Okay, looks like he was here.
 * Lupus: Will he face justice?
 * Batgirl: I'll make sure of it.

She disappears. It finally cuts to the GCPD headquarters as it was revealed that someone found Milo and threw him into a cell as the officers are discussing it.


 * Michael Lane: How the hell did he get here?
 * Cash Taknesen: I saw it with my own eyes! A hooded figure broke in. And just threw him into a jail cell.
 * Jason: Was it one of the Batfamily?
 * Cash: No it was not. He was in all purple. I think it calls itself the Phantasm.

It cuts to the Phantasm watching over all of Gotham and zooms into a camera feed with Roman Sionis in it as issue ends.