Chapter Text
Red Robin snored, fast asleep on top of a random apartment building’s rooftop. He slumped on top of the ledge, almost falling off the building. Batgirl inched closer slowly, trying to mask her footsteps as best as she could. Tim had raided her room yesterday, citing that he had lost his boyfriend’s sweatshirt and was looking for it. Stephanie was furious at his lack of trust in her, although she had stolen Benard’s sweatshirt. In her defense, she had run out of clothes to wear and Tim was roughly her size. How was she supposed to know the sweatshirt was Benards? Anyways, she was slowly encroaching on the betrayer’s area when suddenly, a blue light shone on the previously dark rooftop.
“Kaalki, Dismount!”, a feminine voice shouted from above her.
Batgirl looked up and her eyes widened. A glowing blue portal had formed above her and through the portal, she saw a body hurtling toward her. Bagirl saw bright bluebell eyes right before the mystery person landed on her.
“Oww”, Batgirl tried to sit up. Her head hurt and her body throbbed with pain.
“Je suis desole!”, A Very Hot Woman stood up. “Pardon-moi, I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize I would land right on top of you!”
The lady’s voice effortlessly changed from French to English.
“Did you just teleport?!”, Red Robin screamed.
He quickly stood up and got into a fighting stance.
“Batman, we have an unknown-”, was all he managed to get out before he was knocked out. By the Very Strong Woman.
It was an impressive kick. Whoever this woman was, she was very strong and capable. She had just knocked out the Red Robin, who injected himself with small poisons just to get immunity. He was already in his best shape, so whoever could knock him out was someone with incredible strength.
Wait. This was an unknown. Batgirl needed to focus. She could catastrophize with her feelings later, at a more appropriate time.
“What are you doing here?”, Batgirl asked with a dangerous voice.
Her hand gripped her newest toy, the electric shock batarangs she had been gifted by Cass on her birthday.
“I’m not a danger, Madame Batgirl!”, her eyes pleaded.
“You’re a magic user in Gotham, a place known for banning magic users. You’re wearing a mask presumably to hide your identity, which is just plain suspicious and you just knocked out Red Robin, one of our fair city’s protectors. Tell me, what have you done to show us that you aren’t a danger?”, a voice growled from the shadows.
Oh. Batgirl relaxed. That was Robin. As if this woman could possibly face up against a trained assassin, a practiced martial artist, an expert with all forms of swordsmanship, and-
Clank. Robin’s sword fell from his clasp and his head lolled. Batgirl rushed towards him and only barely reached in time to stop him from falling to the ground.
What.
This unknown had just managed to knock out Red Robin and Robin? Batgirl couldn’t help but admire the woman’s skills with her chosen weapon. A yo-yo was very difficult to deal damage with, but she had just managed to knock Robin out of consciousness with it.
“I am so sorry”, the ravenette paled. “He surprised me and I just reacted ? Oh my god, I swear I’m not a bad guy!”
“Then who are you?”, the blonde asked, taking a step back while still holding her brother’s body in her arms.
Red Robin’s body was nowhere to be found, which might be something to deal with at a later time, Batgirl thought belatedly.
“I’m Ladybug, Paris’s heroine. I just want to talk.”
Batgirl almost agreed when she saw the ravenette widen her eyes so persuasively and plead with that sweet sweet voice. She righted herself again and gained her bearings.
“Y-You can talk with Batman”, she replied with no great deal of ease.
“You mean Nightwing? Batman and Wonder Woman are on another planet right now, fighting tyrant space lords. Everyone knows Nightwing picks up the mantle when Batman’s out of town”, Ladybug said.
She was right, of course, but Batgirl had no idea she was privy to that kind of information. These kinds of outer space missions were usually very secretive, and only revealed to close allies.
“Oh, Wonder Woman told me”, Ladybug said, noticing Batgirl’s surprise. “We met last weekend and she was talking about it while she trained me.”
Oh, so Ladybug was friends with Wonder Woman. That was good, it meant that they could trust her not to be evil. But Batman would still want to investigate her before attempting any contact. He was a paranoid hovering parent, after all.
“Do you mind explaining what your business here is, exactly?”
Ladybug grimaced. “See, I’m not really a meta? My powers aren't my own. I have a kwami named Tikki. My kwami is kind of like a goddess? Well anyways, she is what gives me my powers and she says that Gotham has a LOT of bad luck. It's definitely an issue.”
“As if we couldn't tell”, Batgirl snorted.
“I mean, OBVIOUSLY, because you protect this place, you probably know that! Right, I’m so stupid, forget I said that last bit!”, Ladybug nervously chattered.
“Go on.”
“Right, so I hope that with my presence here or powers, I can maybe alleviate some of this bad aura? I know it sounds dumb, but I literally am the embodiment of luck. My kwami can probably explain it better to you, but I was really hoping we could find a more private place to talk.” Ladybug peered at Batgirl through her eyelashes, trying to gauge the blonde’s reaction. However, all she saw was a bright red flush appearing on her face.
“Uh-I-sUrE! I MEAN! LET ME-UH, CONFER! WITH MY TEAMMATES!”, Batgirl squeaked out.
She placed her brother down slowly on the ground and walked to another corner of the building but still keeping Ladybug in her sight.
“Okay, I guess?” Ladybug smiled. Batgirl really was so cute when she was embarrassed, though Ladybug could not fathom why she would be.
“Okay, stand here where I can see you. I mean-not that I would want to see you. I definitely don’t like you or find you attractive at all haha! I just need to make sure you don’t do anything suspicious while I’m talking with Batman. Also, maybe if you could maybe not whack anymore of my teammates while I converse with Batman, that would be great!”, Batgirl said.
Ladybug sighed. Great, so Batgirl already hated her!
Batgirl touched her comms and started speaking, “Batman, you there?”
“Oh I am here for this! This tension between you and Ladybug is just! So strong! Gosh, you two are so cute!”, Batman squealed.
“Oh my god, stop! You saw how Steph totally blanked when she saw her kick Timmy, right?”, Oracle joined in.
“CODENAMES!”, Batgirl rushed out, turning quite an alarming shade of red as heat poured over her.
“Aww, sure Batgirl! Speaking about that, have you introduced yourself to the beautiful lady yet?”, totally-evil-Batman spoke.
“She forgot”, Oracle cackled. “She was enthralled by Ladybug’s muscles! You could totally see hearts in her eyes when she started using that yo-yo to knock out Damian!”
Okay well, that was so uncalled for! She was just calculating the dangerous physique of the invader!
“How are you guys not alarmed by the random stranger who just came in through a magical portal and knocked our teammates?!”, Batgirl gritted out.
“ It definitely didn’t seem like you were aware of that little fact either when you were busy ogling Ladybug. But anyways, it’s fine because B loves Ladybug, he was so close to adopting her when he saw her fight on the Ladyblog. You should have seen him when Wonder Woman claimed dibs on contacting her. Dude, he was so bummed out. Anyways, that's good! That means you can still date her!”
“Well, that doesn’t excuse the fact that she knocked out our teammates!”, Batgirl argued.
“Uhm, it was an accident . This type of vigilante shit happens regularly. Besides, it's not like they haven’t gotten worse from practice before. In fact, I think Red Robin’s bruises will fade up pretty quickly.”
“Wait, what?”, Batgirl asked. “You saw his bruise?”
“Yeah, he gained consciousness early on and I just informed him about Ladybug a few minutes ago. He’s still patrolling now that she's not a concern”, the elder vigilante explained.
“Fine. What do I tell her then?”
“Other than your feelings for her?”, Oracle asked mischievously.
“Or that you think she's just the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen?”, Batman joined in.
“Her body temperature has risen, according to her suit’s technology. She is just so cute, trying to convince us that she doesn’t have a crush on Ladybug!”
“OKAY CAN WE STOP TALKING ABOUT HOW I THINK LADYBUGS VERY HOT AND HOW MUCH I WANT TO KISS HER?”, Batgirl exploded.
“Okay, I never said you wanted to kiss her”, Oracle said.
But Batgirl’s attention was on Ladybug, who seemed to have heard.
“You think I’m hot? And you want to kiss me?”, Ladybug stared at her, her pupils blown wide.
“Oooh, she’s totally into you! Look at her face, she’s blushing !”, Oracle teased.
Batgirl shut her comms off.
“I-I didn’t mean to say that out loud”, she admitted.
“But it’s true?”, Ladybug further asked.
“Yeah…”
Ladybug took a step forward. “What did your teammates say about me?”
“Uh, you’re clear.”
“So, am I safe? You trust me now?”
“Yeah”, Batgirl breathed. She took a step closer to Ladybug.
Their eyes caught and Batgirl sucked in a deep breath. Her eyes were more beautiful up close.
“Well, I should probably tell you the truth of why I came here”, Ladybug bit her lip.
Batgirl’s eyes followed the motion.
“I wanted to find you”, Ladybug admitted.
“What? Why?”, Batgirl asked, her eyes snapping back to meet Ladybug’s bashful face.
“It seems I find you interesting”, Ladybug said. “And it looks like I have a thing for blondes.”
Batgirl gasped. “ Oh . It seems I have a thing for french accents, then.”
Ladybug giggled and Batgirl couldn’t stop the smitten smile forming on her face.
They stepped closer again, so close that Batgirl could count each eyelash on Ladybug’s eyes. But before anything happened, a loud alert came from Ladybug’s yo-yo. Batgirl nearly jumped out of her skin and it was her extensive vigilante training that kept her calm. The alert was loud , ringing through the entire rooftop and maybe the nearby rooftops too.
Ladybug took a step back and frowned at her yo-yo’s display. Batgirl, for her part, was both disappointed and excited. She was really disappointed the alert had interrupted them, obviously. But she was also amazed and a little excited at the prospect of her yo-yo having a functioning screen!
“I-I have to take this, sorry!”
Ladybug put on her glasses again and shouted her transformation phrase, feeling the same surge of power. When she looked back at Batgirl, her knees became shaky again. She could barely believe what had just happened. But she had a job to do. An akuma alert had come from her yo-yo and she had to purify yet another akuma.
“Voyage!”
Ladybug looked back at Batgirl for a final time. “I’m sorry! I’ll come back tomorrow!”
“Where are you going?”, Batgirl asked.
“Hawkmoth made another akuma, so I have to purify it. I’ll explain everything once I get back, I promise”, she answered.
Ladybug’s yo-yo beeped again, signaling a text from Chat Noir. She sighed and jumped through the portal, landing on solid ground this time, fortunately. Unfortunately, it seemed she had landed right into the middle of the battle.
Behind her, the portal closed and Batgirl blinked in surprise. She felt a presence behind her and scowled.
“How long have you been conscious, Robin?”, she spoke, rolling her eyes.
Robin replied, “Oh, I was only out for a few minutes. It was just so much more amusing to witness you awkwardly interact with Ladybug. I couldn’t possibly interrupt that.”
“Oh c’mon, since when do you ever support my crushes? Or anyone’s crushes, for that matter! Don’t you think love is a waste of time?”, she whined.
“I do find immense enjoyment in your suffering but even I have to agree that Ladybug would be a good addition to the family”, he replied and stalked off, jumping to another rooftop.
“She was totally interested in me though, right?”, she said to no one in particular.