By: Faita

"Bruce I'm telling you Emily is Blaze," Terry said walking through the batcave. "And I'm telling you she's not," Bruce said. "She told me," Terry replied. "What did she say?" Bruce asked. "Well okay she didn't really tell me anything, but she knew who you were," Terry confessed. Bruce turned around and pressed a button on the batcomputer. A picture of Blaze appeared on the screen along with a lot of information along the side. "Blaze has many physic abilities, many of them are unknown. So they may include the ability to read minds. When the phone rung you must've thought about me and she caught that," Bruce explained. Terry thought about that. "Why would she say it though?" he then asked. "To throw you off, she might know what happened between you and Batgirl, and made you think that's who she was," Bruce said. "Why would she do that?" Terry asked. "So you wouldn't keep asking her who she was, might have known you would have figured her as Emily and dropped it," Bruce explained as if he knew exactly what he was talking about, when he was really just guessing. "I still say it really is Emily," Terry said. "You and Emily told each other everything right?" Bruce asked as if leading into something. "To a point," Terry replied almost unwilling to give out the information. "Is being an alien at that point?" Bruce asked. Before Terry could answer, a static voice came through the speaker. "Hey Batsy, get over to Fox now, we have a problem, I'll give you a clue, she rhymes with INK!" Blaze's voice said. Terry ran over to get his costume. Bruce tended to Blaze. "How'd you get this frequency?" Bruce asked as Batman walked over next to him. There was no answer. Bruce's face became madder. "I gotta go," Batman said beginning to walk away. Bruce turned around in the chair. "Terry," he said. Batman turned around. "She might be Emily and she might not be, watch yourself, Blaze and Inque may by difficult, and here," Bruce said handing Batman three batarangs that were very pale blue. "What are these?" Batman asked. "Helpful," is all that Bruce said and turned the chair back to the computer. "If it is Emily, and she comes back, you'll be happy, I know you will, she would too," Batman said and jumped into the batmobile and road off.

"I don't get it, where is everything?" Batman said as he flew in circles around the Fox company. Everything was calm and peaceful. There was no sign of Inque or Blaze, or any trouble. "Could she have tricked us?" Batman asked Bruce. "Possible," Bruce replied. "Why would she though, what could she possibly gain?" Batman asked more himself then Bruce. "If it is Emily, which is unlikely, she would not joke about Inque," Bruce said. "Then where is everything?" Batman asked. There was a pause from Bruce. "I got it. Blaze said to get to Fox, not the company. Inque must be attacking Fox himself," Bruce said. Batman turned the batmobile in the opposite direction. "I'm on my way," he said.

Batman jumped off of the rooftop and onto the balcony of an apartment one floor down. He looked through the glass doors and saw Inque and Blaze standing in front of each other. "You were right, they're here," Batman said to Bruce. Inque formed a giant hand and broke through the glass doors and wrapped it around Batman. She carried him in through the broken glass door and into the room. He struggled to get out but had no luck. Furniture and picture frames lay on the floor. They had already been fighting for sometime. A man in his late forties sat in the corner of the room, huddled in fear of his life. "It not nice to come uninvited," Inque said and threw him against the wall. He hit it hard and fell to the ground several feet away from the man. "I invited him," Blaze said and ran towards Inque. Inque went to liquid state and slithered under Blaze's feet; Blaze slipped and fell into a seat type thing that Inque formed to catch her. Inque formed into her human like form and appeared on another structure slightly above Blaze. Parts of the seat moved and tied Blaze in, tightening around her. She grid her teeth as Inque smiled at her with her hand on her own chin. "Needed help did you?" Inque said still smiling. "Thought he would like to help, and find out how you got back," Blaze said as Batman slowly rose. "It's amazing what the sewers can do for a girl complexion," Inque said. "Or why you're attacking Fox himself," Blaze added, obviously a way to get information from Inque. "I'm back in business and my new employer knows more about what he's doing," Inque said getting closer to Blaze. "Powers?" Blaze asked. Inque's expression turned angry and she backed farther away. "You're trying to get me to give information aren't you?" Inque asked angrily. Blaze grinned. Inque tightened her grip around Blaze, Blaze moaned in pain, but kept the grin on her face. "Actually, she's stalling," Batman said and threw one of the things Bruce had given him. It opened when it hit Inque, and the area that it touched and a little more turned to ice. Inque cried in surprise and pain. She lost her grip on Blaze, and Blaze began to fall to the floor. Batman ran over to her and caught her just before she hit the carpet. "You ok?" he asked her in a whisper. She nodded in response and he helped her to her feet. They looked at Inque fiercely. "I got more party favors if you want some," Batman said holding a batarang in his hand. Inque looked at him, cradling the ice with the rest of her body. "Get Fox out of here," Batman said to Blaze and motioned his head towards the man in the corner. Blaze nodded and began to run to him. Inque went into liquid form the best she could and reformed right in front of Blaze before Blaze got to Fox. "Now you're taking orders from the Bat? I thought you were different, the 'take orders from nobody' kind of girl, but I guess I was wrong," Inque said. "Not to far off," Blaze said. Inque grinned. "Good," she said and leapt on to Blaze. Inque completely covered Blaze from head to toe. Batman had no way to get her off. Blaze was growing weaker and fell to her knees. After a minute of waiting, Inque was still in liquid form and moved out of the room. Blaze was on her hands and knees on the floor. Coughing up pieces of Inque from her mouth. Batman ran over to Blaze who was still coughing, but no longer any pieces of Inque. He helped her to her feet and kept her from falling to her knees. "Are you ok?" he asked her. She nodded and stopped coughing. He set her down on a couch, them looked at Fox. He was gone; Batman looked at the door and saw his back turn the corner. Batman looked back to Blaze. She sighed. "What do you think Inque was doing to me?" Blaze asked as she wearily stood up, Batman took a step back to give her room. Blaze walked over to the balcony and opened the door, shards of broken glass crunched under her feet as she walked over it on to the balcony. She stepped up to the edge and looked over it at the city. Batman walked over next to her. "I wish I knew, you feel different in anyway?" Batman asked worried. Blaze inhaled deeply through her mouth, then exhaled and sighed. "I do feel different, I feel better," she said looking at him as Batman leaned on the balcony edge next to her and looked over the side. He looked back at her. "I feel like," she began to say, but she leaned in and kissed Batman on the lips. His eyes widened in surprise. She kissed him long and hard. She finally pulled away and smiled at him. He was breathing heavily. "Inque," Blaze finished and grinned evilly. Batman took a step away from her, his eyes now wide with shock. "You, you, you're…" Batman began to mutter, to shocked to say any real words. "I'm Inque, yes. And boy do I feel great!" she said as she waved her arms above her head. "It's been so long since I've had a real body, not just one I formed," when she finished a light rain began to fall from the dark sky. Blaze lifted her head to the sky and felt the rain fall off her chin and into her hair. "It's been so long since I've felt water, I forgot how good it can feel," she said and sighed with contempt. "How long?" Batman asked curiously. Blaze looked at him, then turned her attention back to the rain. "Almost a lifetime," Blaze answered. "Why did you take Blaze's body?" Batman asked getting more serious. "She was compatible, her powers didn't hurt either. She had a lot of power to handle, I feel very powerful. I don't know why she took orders from you, she could easily kill you any number of ways," she said in an unthreating tone. She closed her eyes and felt the rain fall over her eyes. Batman was wet too, but he couldn't feel it. "So you chose her so you could kill me," Batman said staring at her coldly, which he had perfected by watching Bruce. "I could have killed you as myself, just thought I'd be nice and kill you as the person you trust most," she said. "TERRY GET OUT OF THERE!!!" Bruce yelled at him. Blaze raised her hand to him. He felt a great force on his chest and it pushed him off the balcony. He fell down the side of the building a couple stories. "Not that way," Bruce told him. "No kidding," Batman said and turned around so he was falling feet first. He turned on the boosters under his feet and flew back up to the balcony; he chased Blaze into the room before he landed. "Where's Blaze?" he demanded. "In my body where else," she said. Batman took out one of the batarangs Bruce had given him and threw it at her, her raised her hand and it flew to the side. "Not this time Batsy, this time, it ends," Blaze said as she began to charge towards Batman, he readied himself to leap out of the way. "You're right," a voice said from the doorway. Inque stood there standing in the doorframe, only her silhouette showed from the light from the other room behind her, "it ends." Inque went into liquid form and slithered around Blaze and formed in front of her before she reached Batman. "You learned my tricks," Blaze said taking a step backwards. Inque took a step forward. "All of them, I know everything you're capable of, and all your weaknesses," Inque said coldly. "Do you know how to get your body back?" Blaze asked stopping, Inque stopped too. "Only one way to find out," Inque said and pounced on Blaze like before. Completely covering her from head to toe, and making her fall to her knees. Blaze shot out one of her hands and aimed it at something on the ceiling. Batman was watching what they were doing, but didn't look what Blaze was pointing to. He didn't have to. A sharp gust of wind flew from her hand and broke off a piece from a fixture on the ceiling. Water poured into the room. Inque screamed, but then there were two screams at the same time, then only one. Inque crept off Blaze and began to wash out in the water. Batman threw the batarang at her and she frozen all over. Blaze crawled over to her hands and knees and was coughing up bits of Inque again, but less this time. Batman walked cautiously over to her. "Blaze?" he asked. "What?" she asked getting to her feet. She looked over at the frozen puddle of Inque on the floor. "How'd you know that wasn't me?" she asked looking up at him. He grinned knowing it was really Blaze. "Didn't," he replied. She frowned and spit some more of Inque across the room. "Suppose I would've have rather been frozen then melted," Blaze said walking over to the balcony edge. "Blaze?" Batman said moving one foot towards her. She stopped walking and turned around. "Who are you really?" Batman asked. She grinned. "Who do you think I am," she asked. Batman didn't reply. "That wasn't a good thing to do," Bruce said to him, Batman didn't reply to him either. "If you must know, I'm a friend, that's all I'm saying, for now," Blaze said and dove off the balcony.