Chapter 02: Origins of the Operator Part 2

It has been a month since Jade used her laptop to give Robin a helping hand and she hasn't touched it since.

Instead, she went to the Library and School Computers to look through the street cameras, after doing some hacking to avoid the history being on said computer. Although today she was back home, not stepping foot outside.

The reason why?

There has been a massive breakout at both Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison caused by one of the most feared criminals in Gotham City.

The Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker.

Now first time she heard about the Joker, Jade was skeptical.

A Clown was the most feared criminal in a city as Gotham where you have a giant crocodile man that is a cannibal, a serial killer who carves his marks into his own skin, a genius with a knack for riddles and deathtraps and a man who can make anyone experience their worst fear through some sort of hallucinogenic gas?

But after Jade did her research she understood.

The Joker was a homicidal psychopath who first came to Gotham and had his murders be in the triple digits in one night, and was the only one who made the Batman seem human in their fights.

Plus he had this gas that made people laugh themselves to death, quite literally.

Shaking her head, Jade began paying attention to the News as were the Dursleys, who for once didn't force her to do anything as they were panicked.

"The Escaped Inmates of the Asylum as of now are the Riddler, Two-Face, Mad Hatter, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Clayface, Killer Croc, Bane, Firefly, Mister Freeze, Victor Zsasz, Professor. Pyg, Scarecrow and the Joker." The News lady Vicki Vale said as pictures of each one of them showed up. "Every one of these criminals have been incarcerated after a fight with the Batman and each of them have shown a willingness to kill, all of Gotham is encouraged to stay indoors until the situation is under control."

"This is what happens when you don't get a Death Sentence." Vernon said gesturing to the screen as it showed the pictures. "You get freaks like them that think they own the damn place."

"Vernon, what do we do if one of them comes here?" Petunia asked in worry as it wasn't unusual for the Gotham criminals to break into places to murder people.

"That's what I have my shotgun for Pet." Vernon said with his nickname for his wife before he noticed that Jade was staring at the TV at the pictures. "Girl!"

Jade flinched as she turned to see Vernon glaring at her.

"What are you doing standing about?! You have chores to do."

Jade gave a hesitant nod but she knew that some of them involved going outside.

"Uh Uncle Vernon." Jade's voice was a bit cracked as her Uncle looked at her with a frown. "C-Can I just do the inside one today until it's sa-?"

"No, we have a sodding reputation to keep with our houses appearance and it won't fall because you're too lazy." Vernon spat at her despite knowing the real reason and he smirked.

He was kind of hoping that one of them do pass by and get rid of her so they wouldn't have to put up with her.

Jade was quiet as she began to do her chores.

~An Hour Later~

Robin was grumbling to himself as he and Batman split up in the city earlier that day after the massive breakout.

Batman was focused on finding the Joker first because of how dangerous that clown seemed to everyone else and he wouldn't let him follow.

Instead he sent him on the trail of Professor Pyg, Two-Face, Mad Hatter and Zsasz while Batman took care of the others. The first two were already caught and sent to GCPD for transportation to Gotham.

But he guess he should be lucky that Batman trusts him enough to go after these four, especially after the mess-up last month.

Oracle has tried to find the same signal that made that junction box explode, but it never came back up leaving Robin to believe that maybe whoever it was got rid of whatever they used to avoid being traced.

Robin came out of his thoughts as he was on top of a building in the Park Row district by looking down to see a little girl weeding a garden in front of a house.

Blinking in confusion, Robin jumped and shot his grappling hook to swing closer.

'What is a kid doing out by herself during all of this?' He thought as GCPD practically declared Martial Law to the residents to keep them off the streets.

Did her parents know she was out here?

He was considering going down there and making sure she went inside before he saw something that made his blood run cold.

A man wearing nothing but shorts with numerous scars on his body walked out of an alley, holding a knife before seeing the girl and he grinned, walking towards her.

Victor Zsasz just found a new victim.

Reacting quickly, Robin shot down there and did a flip, kicking Zsasz in the back causing him to fly forward with an audible crash as the girl jerked up and spun around her eyes widening as Robin landed between her and the man.

"Going after little girls now Zsasz?" Robin asked his tone having a hardened edge to it.

"She's just begging to be released from the shackles of life." Zsasz said with a laugh as he picked himself up. "And I have a spot for her on my arm."

Robin tensed as Jade backed up. "Get out of here." Robin told her as Zsasz came running forward.

Reacting quickly, Robin ducked the knife, grabbing the arm as he used it as leverage to jump up and kick Zsasz in the chest, causing him to back up before he reached into his belt and pulled out a thing of brass knuckles and slammed it right into Zsasz's stomach over some of the marks as he was stumbling now.

Zsasz saw the wounds reopen on the old scars and glared. "You dare mess with my marks?!" He shouted as he tried to stab Robin who kept dodging.

If it was just the average person, Zsasz would've killed them by now, but against anyone with training, he was just a guy with a knife.

After making sure the man was unconscious, Robin turned to be surprised as Jade was still in the area, having watched the fight.

"I thought I told you to get out of here." Robin said a little annoyed.

Jade just looked away.

Giving a sigh, Robin shook his head. "Are you hurt?" He asked making sure as he got ready to call Oracle to send word to GCPD so they could pick Zsasz up.

"I-I'm fine." Jade muttered looking away.

Robin raised a brow at how she was acting before chalking it up to nearly dying at Zsasz's hands, shaking his head he contacted Oracle.

"Oracle, Victor Zsasz is apprehended, send the GCPD my coordinates." Robin said in his com link. "Do you have the last known location of the Hatter?"

"Tetch is staying off the grid, but he'll turn up eventually." Oracle answered him as she began typing. "Good work on apprehending him. Pyg and Dent."

"Thanks, but there's still a lot of criminals on the loose tonight." Robin said as he turned only to see Jade getting back to weeding the garden. "Hold on."

He got off the com link.

"Go inside." Robin told her. "You were lucky I was here with Zsasz, you shouldn't push that luck."

"I need to finish my chores." Jade said, knowing that if she didn't finish them Vernon and Petunia would punish her.

"Jason, what's going on?" Oracle asked in the com.

"There's a kid who refuses to go inside." Robin answered hotly, he wasn't that good with kids. "Look I'm sure that your parents are worried about you and wouldn't want you to be out here during all this."

Robin saw how Jade stilled at that before looking down. "I wouldn't know." She muttered, barely loud enough for Robin to hear.

"Robin, meet me in the Diamond District." Batman's voice came over the coms. "Riddler is attempting a robbery."

"Got it Batman." Robin said as he gave one last glance at the girl who continued to work before he left.

~The Next Day~

Jade gave a sigh as she was now at school.

Most of the rogues were recaptured all in that night, the only ones avoiding capture were Firefly, Mad Hatter and Poison Ivy.

As she listened to her teacher speaking in History class, she felt something wet hit the back of her head.

Reaching back, Jade made a small grimace at the spitball and she didn't need to look back to see that it was Dudley who had a smirk.

Some of the kids ignored the incident, although some of them gave her a look of pity, but they did nothing as Dudley would've made their lives worse if they did.

As she tried to ignore her cousin, Jade looked back to her half-covered book which had stick figure drawings of Batman and Robin.

Ever since she saw them, she's been a little obsessed with trying to find out more about them.

Not as obsessed as the people they fight thankfully, but enough to where she wanted to see one of them again.

'Maybe I could help them?' Jade thought remembering how she did save Robin last month before she squashed the idea.

The sheer idea of her helping them is ludicrous, heck it was crazy to even think that they would accept help from her.

She feels invincible from the computer, able to that guy down with a keystroke and seeing what else she could do. It was an exhilarating feeling, as if no one could touch her. Invincible, immortal… Unbeatable.

But take that away and she's a coward… Just like when Victor Zsasz nearly killed her the other night she was too frozen in fear to run.

"-tter." Jade blinked as she realized the teacher was speaking to her. "Ms. Potter, would you please answer the question?"

Jade went red from embarrassment. "Um sorry Mr. Adams, I didn't hear the question."

The teacher gave a sigh as some of the class snickered at her, the loudest being her cousin. "I asked if you would please explain the tale of Solomon Grundy." He said as that was an important part of Gotham's history and what they were learning.

Jade knew that one instantly, as Solomon Grundy was an immortal zombie that went against Batman and the Justice League from time to time, but he was born in the swamps of Gotham in the early 19th Century, once known as Cyrus Gold.

But she could feel Dudley's look on her and knew that if she answered correctly, it wouldn't be a secret that she was passing her classes with flying colors despite skipping some.

She had to hide her intelligence from the Dursley's as they wouldn't stand anyone smarter than her cousin, so whenever Report Cards came out, she made a fake with bad grades to show them instead of the ones she got.

"I don't know." Jade muttered earning a look of disbelief from Mr. Adams who knew her grade point average.

"Are you certain Ms. Potter?" Mr. Adams said as Jade gave a nod before he sighed. "Very well, Solomon Grundy was once only known as a Nursery Rhyme. Solomon Grundy. Born on a Monday. Christened on Tuesday. Married on Wednesday. Took ill on Thursday. Grew worse on Friday. Died on Saturday. Buried on Sunday. That was the end of Solomon Grundy."

A lot of the kids were paying attention to the old Nursery Rhyme. "However years ago, a man was resurrected and has plagued the world to this very day, this man once known as Cyrus Gold has become Solomon Grundy… Well aren't any of you writing this down? It's on the test next week."

There was a scramble for paper and pencils as everyone began writing stuff down.

Now that the teacher was continuing teaching and not paying attention to her, Jade looked back at the notebook with the stick figure Batman and Robin before slowly adding a smaller one that was supposed to be her.

As she looked at it she frowned again and crossed it out, making plans to rip the paper out and burn it later.

As class ended, Jade was stopped by Mr. Adams while the rest of the class left. "Ms. Potter you and I both know that you could've answered that question easily." He said with a frown. "Is there something wrong?"

"No sir." Jade said as she knew what would happen if she tried to tell him about the Dursley's.

When she tried that once in England, she had the proof and actually got the police to show up, but the very next day the charges were dropped and the evidence disappeared as if it was like magic with the Dursley's telling people that she pranked the police, earning more sympathy while they punished her by locking her inside of the cupboard for a week with a sprained wrist and a black eye.

"You're a smart girl Ms. Potter, one with a bright future ahead of you." Mr. Adams said giving her a kind smile. "Now I will accept nothing but the best from you, do you hear me?"

Jade just gave a small nod.

Mr. Adams gave a sigh, knowing that he wouldn't get anything more from her. "Hurry to your next class Ms. Potter and remember, if you need to talk about anything I'll be right here."

"Yes sir." Jade said forcing a smile before she walked off.

~Lunch Time~

In the Library again, Jade was back on the computer, using the small program on it to hack the cameras around Gotham, while keeping any digital fingerprints off of it to avoid it being traced.

That was the skill that took the longest to learn and she still wasn't sure if she was doing it right or not.

And she wasn't sure what to do about encrypting her laptop as having anything encrypted in Gotham is like shooting a flare in the sky over a bright neon sign saying 'I'm right here Batman, please beat the everloving crap out of me' while wearing a pink tutu on top of a firetruck with the sirens blaring.

… Her mind goes to weird places sometimes.

She stopped as she came across a car chase in Gotham with the police following after some criminals.

Switching cameras to follow them, Jade smirked as she saw something and a keystroke later, roadblocks popped out of the ground much to the surprise of the vehicle being pursuited before they slammed into it, totaling the car as they were all groaning in pain, showing that all of them were alive.

Jade could see the police getting out of their cars, looking very confused at what happened as she watched them pull the criminals out before she switched off the camera and continued to look into the area's.

Again she just instinctively interfered with criminals.

Jade had a smile as she saw another group, teenagers this time, attempting to break into a building in an alley so she typed, setting the steam pipe off causing steam to blow nearby, scaring them off.

Leaning back as she admired her work, Jade decided it was probably best to get off before someone traces the signal to the school.

Hearing the bell to get to class, Jade gave a sigh and left the library before she saw Dudley waiting for her.

Her eyes went wide as she at first thought that he figured out what she did before he spoke. "Potter, I need my report for my next class." Dudley said in a smug tone.

'I think I gave him too much credit.' Jade thought a little relieved as she looked down and reached into her bag, giving Dudley the homework he forced onto her.

He just snatched it and pushed her down as he walked off.

Glaring at him in anger, Jade felt a little weird before one of the nearby locker doors swung open, slamming him in the face, knocking him down with a bloody nose.

Dudley covered his nose as he cried out in pain before looking at Jade with some fear.

'D-Did I do that?' Jade thought in shock before Dudley's words caused her to tense.

"You freak, I'm going to tell Dad you did that."

"B-But I didn't-." Jade tried to say as Dudley ran off. 'How did I do that?'

To Be Continued…

Well now, this story got a lot more attention in one chapter than my HP/Gorillaz story did in nine chapters, I'm surprised by that development, so here you are, another chapter to my newest story.

Jade is beginning to get into the mindset of becoming the Operator because with being abused for so long, she had a taste of being able to do something, to have the power to do something, that's the main reason for her change in my opinion.

She also met Robin face to face for the first time who saved her from Victor Zsasz, hopefully the interaction was good and she did another good deed by herself using the school computer to do some hacking.

Now this story will go for a while, maybe to the end of third or fourth year at Hogwarts. With that in the planned sequel for after that, I may have Jade become Batgirl after Cassandra Cain, I liked Stephanie better as Spoiler because she had her own identity, but I may not do that, right now it's just an idea in my head.

Now stay tuned for the next chapter as I will try to have it out soon.

Time to answer some reviews.

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