How can you resist us?

by Lunasservant1985

Rating: teen
Tags: Gore, Original Character, Equestria Girls, Aria Blaze, Adagio Dazzle, Tragedy, Random, Slice of Life, Sonata Dusk, Alternate Universe, Sad
Length: 5746

There was only ONE person immune to the power of the sirens, and they must know how he was able to do so.

Jim Spades moved to Canterlot High at a very bad time, the day of the sirens and their plans to take over the school. Something was wrong though, he wasn't dazed or dazzled by their magic, why? They are going to find out, but they just might not like the truth behind Spades' resistance to their siren call.

He seems too nice, but also too strong, like there's something deep down inside him that grants him a power stronger than them, what could be more powerful than the calls of sea pony sirens?

This story was partly based on Hunted by Harm's way, and takes place during the events of Rainbow Rocks. Alternative Universe tag for the events taking place in an alternative continuity to established Equestria Girl's continuity.

Published 2016-05-29 03:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-05-29 03:40:01 UTC

Well, It's Like This.

I stepped into the Canterlot High cafeteria and sighed as I sat down. It had been a long day and it was only half over. Around me the cliques, though the lines between them had thinned considerably based on what I had heard, began to practice all their music together. "I had never been into music all that much. You might say that's from a lack of skill but it more so comes to a lack of interest in music altogether. I've never even considered taking flute lessons or going out to karaoke bars." I just wanted to sit and enjoy my lunch without any drama with music. I had moved to Canterlot City at the urgency of my aunt and uncle. They said it'd be good for me to get out of Chicago and meet new people in a smaller city. I agreed, but it felt so awkward to be here.

I looked around like a gazelle in the savanna eating while watching out for predators. It wouldn't be too long before I wouldn't be too far off. As I took a first bite into my taco Tuesday taco, the cafeteria doors flung open. Everyone's heads turned to see just who had burst in, including the six girl band calling themselves the Rainbooms. Three girls entered the cafeteria; a blue one with a giant ponytail, a fuchsia one star barrets and pigtails, and one with a wild untamed bush of orange that billowed behind her.

"Ahhh, Ahhhahaha...we heard you want rock this school, what's the matter with a little competition? when some of us burn brighter?" They crooned and everybody was soon eating out of their hands, I didn't see what the big deal was. Sure they sang good, but I personally didn't see it as something to fight over. I just munched on my tacos (which that blue on tried to steal before having her hand slapped away by the orange one) and watched as they performed. What seemed to get the orange one to notice me was they way I din't seemed to fazed by her singing.

When she finished, she looked at me slightly confused and really focused on me intently. Then she began to whisper softly in her companions ears, mixes of confusion...turned to devious looking grins. I gulped and not just some taco either.

It was a few hours later when I was cleaning out my locker for the weekend that I saw them again. All around the other students rushed to and fro to leave. There were no clubs or after school activities on Friday, it was all clear. I dug from my locker on of my most prized possessions, a backpack with a Batman cowl on the top and a cape tucked away in a pocket. Sure my old school mates back in Chicago used to make fun of me for still using a backpack like that, but I didn't care. I loved that backpack, even if it did remind me of...I reached into a pocket on one side of the backpack and took from it two plastic rings. one; a Legion Of Superheroes ring, the other a Green Lantern ring.

"In brightest day, in blackest night,

No evil shall escape my sight.

Let those who worship evil's might,

Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!!!"

I recited the oath even thought it really didn't do anything, though I could have sworn that at the last second, there was a brief green light flickering, but I chalked it up to my imagination. A guy with his hair in a spiked Mohawk gave me a little look that said 'you're weird' and I cared not for it as I slipped my rings on and adjusted the cowl over my head. I checked my bag for supplies; bat-pens, bat-pencils, bat-notepad, bat-folders, batarangs, bat-line, detective kit, bat-light and various bat gear. (all spy-gear and licensed toys mind you) I was given a few looks by the stragglers in that cowl poking out of the top and the cape waving behind me, but they soon thinned out and I was all alone. Or so it felt like I was.

"You...you didn't seem to cooperate when we made our move." A girl's voice called out echoing from seemingly nowhere. "I'm sorry...where are my manners? My name is Adagio Dazzle, and I am using the school intercom to speak to you, I wanna talk. It's about something that happened earlier today. Why don't you come on over to the principal's office and chat.?" I was uncertain, I mean who just waltzes into the principal's office and uses the intercom to talk with one person? How'd she know it was me? How'd she know?

I made my way to principal Celestia's office, reaching out and knocking on the door the girl Adagio called again. "Come on in...I've been expecting you."

"How can you be sure it's not Principal Celestia back and mad that a student is trespassing; and using the school property?"

"Do You sound like Principal Celestia, and besides I wouldn't worry, WE have little Ms. Celestia wrapped around our little fingers." I opened the door and she sat at the desk, grinning ear to ear. "What are you wearing?" She asked while giving me a funny look. Yeah that backpack with the cape and bat cowl would turn a few heads.

"What's it matter to you?" I say trying to do my best to sound imposing with my scowl and cowl. Adagio only laughed as two chairs to the sides at her sides spin around the other girls from before are seated there.

"Oh how cute, he thinks he's Batman." The fuchsia one says giggling into her hand. I slowly start to back towards the door, trying to keep it from looking obvious that that's what I'm doing as The grin and sneer with devious looks on their faces. "I'm Aria Blaze."

"I'm Sonata Dusk." The light blue one say with a giggle as she lifts the cowl built into my backpack, "what's your name cutie?" She says hands ruining through the shaggy locks of chestnut brown hair.

"Jim...Jim Spades." I tell them as they continue circling me like hawks. I felt my fingers wrapping around the contents of of a pouch in my utility belt, but it could have been anything from a bat-pen to a batarang....a TOY batarang.

"Jimmy boyo?" Adagio asks as her finger circle my face. "Do you know...what we are?" She says as she giggles and kisses my cheek.

"We're Sirens, sea pony sirens from the magical land of Equestria to be precise, we feed on strife and dismay that you humans are so easily able to give with a little." Sonata said as she giggled and tried to reach into a pouch on my belt. I recoiled away and growled softly.

"This some kind of trick question?" I ask. "You look like normal girls to me." I say giggling and hoping that it's all a joke.

"Come now Jimmy." Adagio says as she gets from Celestia's desk. "We may look like normal human females to you, but we are in fact anything but normal." I raised my eyes as Sonata brushes up against me like a cat. "In fact, we aren't even from this world." Adagio adds as she walks up to me and nuzzling me like a cat.

"We are sirens, banished here from a land known as Equestria, a land were you exist a talking pastel colored magical talking pony. Over time, we've realized that our song wasn't completely stripped of the power we once had. We can make you silly humans fall and worship us just as easily as the ponies we once had adoring us." Her hand brushed across the back of my neck, sending a shiver across my body. "Men would especially fall to our feet in admiration. Yet, you're the first man we've seen not adoring us in years...are you...into men?" She asked pressing her chest orbs together and giggling softly.

"No Dagi, I think he just likes something a little different going by that costume he's wearing." Sonata says as she really DOES purr like a cat. "Hey I know...How bout we be the Gotham City Sirens?I'll be Catwoman...meow. Aria can be Poison Ivy."

"It would be fitting for her." Adagio chimes in.

"Shut up." the angsty Aria says thought she does seem a bit interested in the notion.

"And You can really rev me puddin...you're...Harley." Adagio adds catching on with a devilish ear to ear grin. Her voice almost a near recreation of who she was imitating. The one and only...Harley Quinn, which was getting too close to the art for me to feel comfortable.

"Now wait just a darn second here!" I shout as I use the cape to blow air at them, making them back off some. "You seriously expect me to believe that you three are sirens? Are you girls as insane as they say my idol is?"

"Hmm... you know it's so hard telling sometimes." Aria replies before giggling. " Establish order, and everything becomes chaos...we...are the perfect engines...of chaos...no matter what world we're dumped in. I'm just curious to know how you've managed to not fall for our singing."

"To be honest... I don't know, maybe I'm just like my inspiration." I say flipping my cowl back on and my cape. "I'm strong willed thanks to years of Tibetan mental training and martial arts disciplined honed to razor sharp perfection." The words are lies, the closet to Tibetan I had ever experienced was some Sha Phaley and De-Thuk soup from a restaurant. The Dazzlings laugh at me and point, their laughter stings but it can't break me.

"You'll hear us sing, and you WILL give in." Adagio says as I roll my eyes as she and the others start to sing. As they sing, nothing unusual is happening. No green fog, their jewels aren't lighting up, nothing I'm still immune, and in some ways I kinda know why, I smirk under my bat cowl knowing.

"Well, you certianly sing like sirens, I'll give you that." I comment as they stop singing. Adagio clutched her jewel as a look of surprise, then anger appears on her face. She glances at me, then down at her jewel, then back at me before a smirk appears on her face replacing the anger at not getting what she wants from me.

"Interesting...a normal man would have been on the floor, bowing at our feet by now. Yet here you are, not even phased by our song."

"His will is strong, I will admit." Aria says softly as she blows me...a kiss. "More like that Man Of Steel than the Dark Knight."

"This can mean only one of two things." She walks back towards me, placing a hand under my chin. "Either you're not from this world...or you're a rare case of a human who needs a more...personal method to make them fall. Mostly due to something...that happened to you...what are you hiding behind all this Batman gutter junk and vendor trash hmm?" She walks around me while still making sure that her grip on my hair tightens under the hood cowl. "Was it a bad day? hmm? You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am, I can tell." Adagio says tugging hard on my hair.

"I'm not sensing anything different about you from any one else, not your fellow classmates; not the teachers we broke, not even that Sunset girl we met earlier. So I think we can rule out the first option. So that leaves us with assuming it was one hell of a bad day that made you what you are...and I mean beyond waking up with only five minutes to school starting on the day of a big test." Aria and Sonata starting to walk towards me with seductive looks on their faces, I started backing away.

"I think you're all very lovely ladies, very beautiful and attractive, but I don't want to get involved."

"What are you going to do? snap the bat-cuffs on us?" Aria says with a smirk before Sonata adds.

"We'd be more than happy to get back against the wall and..spread um." She says with a wink. I made my move, hoping that what I'd been fondling inside my bat belt pouch was what I hoped it was. I drew the can from my pouch without taking time to determine what it was and squeezed the top. 'Silly string? Please don't be silly string.' I thought as...

"GAHH! What the cuss dude!" Sonata says throwing her hands to her ears as do the other two Dazzlings. Yes! The canister was what I was hoping it was. A can of compressed air in a loud horn with the Batman symbol on the side, is there anything Warner Bros won't put The Dark Knight's name on?

"Ha! Foul temptress, fall at the power of the mighty Bat-horn!" I said, my Batman role playing getting a little more Adam West like than anything, I didn't care. I turned on my heels and darted out the door. I could hear their angry grunts; gripes and groans as the ringing intuits I surely had given them was starting to pass.

"After that NERD!" Adagio shouted still reeling over from her ear drums taking a beating.

"I take offense to that!" I shouted back running at full speed, my cape billowing behind me as my shoes became black Kevlar boots, the lockers the towers of the art deco Gotham City.

I channeled my idol more than ever as I enter the auditorium, up on the balcony on the second floor, The Dazzlings heading right for me. 'Gotta think, can't panic, think, your mentor has faced far worse and always used his mind more than anything to survive.' I thought to myself as they got closer and closer to the lattice doors of the balcony. 'I can't lock the doors, no key so maybe if I dig deep for the right tool.' I think as I pull some strong wire that had a tensile strength that could hold a person like climbing rope. "If I tie the door handles together and use a strong sailors bowline knot then ah! Got it!' I had the doors barred with the wire, but it still opened a crack as The Dazzlings collided with it."

"You can't hide on that balcony forever!" Adagio said angrily fishing in her purse for something.

"My idol once had a stare down with Dracula; while he was profusely bleeding, In The Gotham SEWERS!" I said before tilting my head to seemingly no one and saying softly, "in Batman and Dracula: Red Rain 1991."

"Who are you talking nerd to?" Aria asked with a puzzled look.

"Nobody! Now try and get to me Gotham Sirens!"

"We're not playing your dorky nerd games you little zit! Now take your medicine like the others like a MAN!" Adagio adds her eyes burning in rage as a pocket knife hacks away at the cords, 'damn!' I think to myself as I fish for more in my utility belt, and I also find...'yes' I think to myself again taking a plastic batarang from a pouch. 'Its a stretch, and it's no line launcher or bat grapple, but if I tie some wire to one end of my trusty batarang, and clip the other end to my belt, it should.' I did all that as I twirled the batarang over my head preparing to toss it as the Sirens continued their assault on the door.

"HA! Look at that nerd Adagio! He really thinks he's.." She pauses at seeing me attach on end of my batarang to a light hanging overhead, I give a few tugs on the line testing the strength just as two of the Dazzlings break in. I spread my backpack's cape wings out and look back at them with a smirk.

"I'm Batman." I say holding that last part in just the right way...before I add..."The Goddamn Batman...wow even I thought that was on bad taste." I said as they snapped out of their temporary bedazzlement of their own.

"Bag em and gag em!" Aria saws as she pounces like a wild crazy cat woman on me. I don't even think as I kick off from the balcony railing and swing. The rush of air, the fluttering of my cape behind me. For once in my life, I"m not just some nerd playing with his toys while a bunch of crazy girls chase me...I am Batman....come to think of it...isn't that exactly what Batman is? Oh well no time to be pedantic about it. I almost wish I had a crowd to see the feat as I swing over the chairs in the auditorium lower level and all the way over to the balcony on the other side where a surprise is waiting for me, Sonata.

"Come to mama my little batty! I wonder...are you a bat-pony back in equestria?...nahh you're too cute to be a blood orange sucker." She says standing on a ledge her arms out wide as she smiles at me. I land on the railings, my fists curled and my head inched forward to her, I give a growl from Africa that melts and wipes that silly grin right off her pretty face. Then reach for a capsule of homemade flash powder in my belt. I toss it on the ground, harmless stunning powder but it temporary blinds. My cape shields me from my own attack, but stuns her. She stumbles and flails her arms blinded, and starts to tip over the railings into hard metal chairs ten feet down!

'No! No matter what...I'm no killer.' I think to myself as I reach out and drag her back from the edge, she regains her sight as I hold her and dust her off, "You okay Sonata?" I ask her hugging her a bit.

"I'm okay...but you just made a big mistake little man!" She says giving me a toothy grin as the other two Dazzlings grab my by the arms and I give in, I'm also not someone who hurts girls, call me a gentlemen but what can I do?

"You'll never take the Bat-man foul...sea...snakes?" I say struggling to break free as the giggle girlishly.

"It's almost a shame we'll have to break through that shell of yours, I think I'm starting to actually like your sweet naivety." Adagio says as the try to lead me away. I reach into the pouch of my be;t, hoping I grab something useful. Fingers wrapping a few tubes, I hope it's more smoke. I raise them up...Elmer's glue...great.

'Are you a fan of mine or not? are you dense? are you...stupid? Don't you play Arkham Origins after school kid?' His voice says in my ear then I realize what he means . I unscrew the top and squeeze the bottle.

"EWWW! What is this stuff?" Sonata asks as her hair and face are turned white by the thick gooey paste.

"Is..this...glue? did Bat-Nerd just spray us with white school glue" Aria asks as she tries to pull and flick the glue from her locks of hair.

"Quick! let's find a bathroom and wash this gunk off!" Adagio says as she shuffles the other Dazzlings into a bathroom. I make my way through the passages of the hallways of the school and into the art room. Ms. Canvas has left for the day, so I get my bearings and check for some supplies in case I run into the Dazzlings again.

"Hmmmm?...let's see; about fifty toy batarangs left, plenty of line, my detective kit is still here but I doubt I'll be needing to dust for fingerprints anytime soon, horn's still here, some smoke pellets I was looking for earlier. I held the capsule of the instant smoke in my hands and stepped out, the exit just a few turns down a hallway, and no sign of the Dazzlings. I took a few cautionary steps as I saw their shadows getting closer around a corner. I ducked into the gymnasium and climbed into the bleachers, they were solid so there was no risk of getting crushed inside them.

"I think I saw Bat-boy duck in here." Sonata said as I ducked down in the crook of the metal struts.

"I swear I'm going to kick the mother loving crud out of him for that glue!" Aria said angrily as she and the others began to look around for me. I reached into my backpack and the first thing I pulled from it was a tube of Batman body wash for a dollar from Big Lots. In any other hands it'd be useless, but to the world's greatest detective, it was another tool. I squirted the icy berry blast onto the ground as he would his gelignite explosive gel. Though this stuff couldn't be detonated, rubbed into the floor, it could be useful in a different way.

"Where is that little ahhhh!" Adagio screeched as she and the others tumbled onto the gym floor.

"Now what cheap marketing product has that runt tricked us with?! Aria shouted as she and the girls struggled to get off the soapy floor. I stepped out from cover and stood over them.

"Hey, Big Lots may be cheap, but this is licensed Batman brand body wash." I said as I was tempted to squirt more maybe in their eyes, but I wasn't cruel. "So do you girls give up? Or are you still determined to capture the Bat-Man?"

"Why are you saying it like that? Isn't it just Batman? As in just one word?" Sonata asked as she finally got up, slightly sore from the fall.

"Yeah but in 1939 when he first appeared, it was written as Bat-Man or THE Bat-Man, I have a copy of Batman Chronicles vol 1 and the TV stories...man, its amazing how tastes changing effects wrtting. I mean long before he was obligated to be a possible pedophile with an obsession with Alice In Wonderland, Mad Hatter was a quircky inventor who loved to steal...hats. Not everything needs to be darker and edgier am I right?....Wait a minitue?" I was so caught up in my little "lecture," that I had forgotten I was running for my life from these girls...they had me. "Okay girls, I'll surrender and come with you quietly, but I gotta know just one thing."

"Oh really? And what prey tell is that Dork Knight?" Adagio asked as she took me by the arm and began leading me outside.

"Tell me something sirens...Do you bleed?...You will...You will."

"Really? You wanna get though smart guy?" Aria said as she cracked her knuckles bracing for a fight....

"Nah...I just always wanted to say that. Dawn Of Justice really rocked!"

"Says you and nobody else." Adagio said as she smugly flicked at my nose with her fingers chuckling.

"Well, I gotta say, this isn't as bad as I thought it would be." I said as I munch on Sonata's tacos, she made them herself with the perfect seasoning and fresh farmer's market ingredients. The Dazzlings had taken me back to their home, I sat with my hands tied to a chair as Sonata fed me tacos for dinner, Aria giggled and said I looked like a baby being fed like that. The TV in the living room had initially been tuned to Sonata's favorite show, (Futurama) but either to be nice to me, or too humiliate me even further, Adagio had changed the channel to a rerun of Batman: The animated series, and one of the Emmy winners at that, Heart Of Ice.

"This is how I shall always remember you: surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love. The monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish... best served COLD." I recited along with Mr. Freeze as the episode drew to a close, Discovery family (formerly the hub) told me to stay tuned for pets 101, the cartoons were closing for the day, I miss the old network. Adagio swaggered back in. Sonata dig through my backpack for all my Batman gear, school supplies and all.

"What kinda things do you keep in here Jimmy?" She asks as she lays my note books with the covers to The Joker's Five Way Revenge, on the covers. Then my capsules of knockout gas and flash-bang powder.

"I'm more inclined to know how you cooked up real working Batman do hickeys." Aria comments as Sonata fishes a folded up Batman themed fishing pole.

"You'd be surprised what you can do with a couple hundred chemistry sets and dedication to the study of chemistry and physics." I say as I feel naked and defeated without my cape and cowl, my gear getting ogled at by catty, giggling girls. "Why are the gorgeous always crazy?" I asked, they only laugh as a response.

"How touching, but you know...I still have to wonder dear Jimmy...just what is it about you that makes you so resilient to us?' Adagio asks standing there with her hands on her slightly coked hips and a quizzical look in her eyes. "I know based on how resistant you seem to us. That it had to be some deep, painful tragedy that really zapped all the cynicism you could have ever felt in your life, just given you a dose of true inner pain that you replaced with hope and resilience to cope, which in turn built up your inner strength and by extension your resistance to us...you're not from around here are you Jimmy?" She asks stroking my hair softly.

"Chicago, I lived in Chicago with my parents years ago, My aunt and uncle said it would be a good change of pace to live here...so here I am."

"What happened in Chicago? know that I ask not as a siren, but one curious to know just what gave you this power over us." Adagio said as she and The Dazzlings took seats on the couch.

"Okay..you caught me and we got this far...I"ll tell you. I started remembering the painful past.

It was some odd years ago...back in Chicago were I was originally from, that my life was forever changed. The windy city, breeze coming off of Lake Michigan; the rattle of the elevated trains as they carried commuters in the metropolitan hub, and the historic buildings that rivaled the big apple New York seven hundred and eighty-two miles away.

"Get to the point please." Adagio says interrupting me.

"Okay Okay geeze you can't rush good storytelling. Anyway, we lived in a decent neighbor hood not far from the river and the financial district, the Sears Tower not too far away. My parents...they...they loved me so much. As far back as I can remember, they made sure I had the best birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese, and all the toys I could want. My dad was a successful architect and my mom was a hair stylist in a fine salon that the finest of Chicago's elite often frequented. Truly a kid couldn't have asked for anything to be happier."

"Where are you're parents now?" Sonata asked blissfully ignorant to what lay ahead.

One of the things I really like at an early age has always been Batman, I got it from it my dad. He was a huge fan of the caped crusader, and he made sure I followed in his footsteps for that bat-love. Chicago was a like our own little slice of Gotham, with the elevated trains and theaters that often had old movies running for special midnight screenings which he loved to take us too. It was when the Monarch...Ironically named in its own right isn't it ladies...you'll see what I mean soon. The Monarch was a dilapidated movie house of of O'Neil street. The Elevated train rattled over head every time it took us there.

The grey and slightly dismal buildings of O'Neil Street always seemed less bleak when my mom and dad took me out to the movies. It was one night that was a big deal for dear old dad and myself, because The Monarch was screening the old Batman movie from 89 that night. I still remember it. We went in took our seats and watched it all the way through..."I haven't seen this movie in the theaters since I was your age Jim." My dad said to me just as the Warner Bros shield came into place, and the signature Danny Elfman score kicked in.

We sat through the whole movie, when it was over it was almost three in the morning. The Monarch closed as we left, and every other store and building on the block had closed.

"I can't believe you insisted we sit through that whole movie, it's late and starting to rain." My mother said as the thunderheads above us rumbled and they ominously began to drizzle down on us.

"I'm sorry, I just thought it'd be a unique experience for Jim."

"An eight year old should not be up past midnight watching movies" She retorts but my parents rarely ever got really mad at each other. My dad lead us into a shopping alleyway with closed up store fronts down it with the trains station's sign glowing like a beacon in the haze of the rain at the other end, it couldn't have been more than a hundred feet away, but it was the longest walk in my life. In the daytime the alley, with its stores would have been perfectly safe, but after midnight?

"Come on we can cut to the train station through here." My father said as he darted down into the darkness of the alley. To this very day I wonder just how different my life would have been if we had gone the long way, with the lights and late night stores still open and the somewhat safer passage through the night to the train. You can't change the past, so we made our way down the alleyway. Out of the darkness was this shaggy and disheveled old homeless guy. unshaven, smelling like human waste, dental plan gone to hell, and clothes tattered. My dad took out his wallet, about to hand him some money, and then he...he...he pulled a gun from the pocket of his worn green army jacket.

"Okay Mr. hand over the wallet and don't make a sound or I'll shoot. Don't try me." He said his grizzled old man voice. My mother silently shrieked and held me close to her, her final act of her mother's love to me.

"Okay, okay just calm down and put the gun away...I"ll give you whatever you want just...He never finished. I think the guy panicked, maybe he didn't really mean to do it..at first. Maybe he always meant to shoot. He pulled the trigger in one foul pull of his filthy hand and took my father's life away. The shot echoed down the alley sides over the roar of even the thunder storm. I felt something splatter on my cheeks and sting my eyes making me scream. It was later when I realized it was a chunk of father's brains that splattered in my face.

"OH MY GOD!!! NO!! PLEASE! NOT MY SON!" My mother begging telling me to run. I didn't, I refused to.

"Shut the fuck up SHUT THE FUCK UP! THE VOICES IN MY HEAD, WHY WON'T THEY SHUT UP?! He said holding his hands at the sides of his head and shaking it violently, so to this day I still believe that homeless guy was a victim of the cruel twists of fate our world often casts so many too, but that never excuses him what he did. He wrestled with my mother for her purse before opting to point the barrel of the gun at her chest and pull the trigger again. She was forever silenced, as more blood jets sprayed me on my shirt. my parents hit the ground and lay bleeding out on top of each other, my mother's eyes stared blankly up at me and all life ebbed away from her. I touched my mother's chest, it bled on me. My hand rested gently on her chest as I felt for a heartbeat, some hope, but there was no beating in her chest anymore, no hope in my life anymore.

I held my Dad's wrist, I felt for the throb of a pulse, a child turned into a field surgeon checking the fallen for life and finding none. They where gone...gone forever.

I finished my story and looked up at the Dazzlings, Sonata was in tears, Adagio was no longer the angry, power hungry girl she had been earlier, and even Aria looked almost on the verge of a tear in her eye. "That was...the saddest story I've ever heard." Sonata said sobbing into some tissues.

"So now do you see? Do you see why I took to the shadow of the bat? Even after all this time living with my aunt and uncle, it still feels like my life is a cruel echoing of the one that once existed as nothing more than a flight of fancy." I said finally feeling like I had told someone that would understand...why them? I looked back up at The Dazzlings and the patted my shoulders softly and even hugged me a little, finally Adagio spoke up.

"You can go, we don't need you to carry out our plans...just...go please before you make us consider calling the whole plan off." I had almost forgotten about that little detail of theirs. I packed up my bag and took one last look at them as they began to cry and shoo me away. ?Maybe there is something more to them than I thought, maybe it was ruse. They are still sirens and they feed off others emotions with delusions of grandeur. It's late at night as I sit at my computer jotting this down...I don't know if anyone will ever see this, and I don't know why I wrote it all down. The Battle Of The Bands is coming up soon, I think I'll go just to get my mind off of all this...and no more Batman stuff for a while now...or ever.