Batgirl: Spoiled

[first lines]

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
[whining] How long is this going to take?

Oracle:
It takes as long as it takes, Steph. This is a stakeout - it's not supposed to be fun.

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
I was told stakeouts had donuts.

Oracle:
Any sign of him yet?

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Nope, nothing. Just an empty street. I'm cold, I don't have any donuts and I'm rapidly getting over this assignment.

Oracle:
We both know that suit's insolated, so stop your yapping.

[Batgirl spots a couple of thugs trying to break into a car]

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Hey, hold on a second. This night might not be a total waste. Looks like I get to kick somebody in the face after all.

Oracle:
Be careful!

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Yes yes. Careful Batgirl. I know.

[Batgirl rams the head of one crook through a car window and turns to confront the second]

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
I'm going to the tell the cops that you did this.

[Batgirl is about to chase the second car thief into a warehouse]

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
It's time to make the donuts.

Oracle:
Again with the donuts?

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Lay off me. I'm hungry.

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Come out, come out, wherever you are.

[a dozen thugs materialize from the shadows]

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Oh, I'm sorry. What I meant was, "Come out, the one thug I was chasing." The rest of you should probably go home.

[Batgirl throws her Bat-a-Rang at a perp but misses the target]

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Well, sh*t!

Oracle:
Did you just miss again?

Batgirl/Stephanie Brown:
Shut up. Yes. Shut up!

[after the gang captures Batgirl, the sound of glass shattering is heard in the distance]

Tentacles:
I know - let's all hear a noise and not do anything!

Harley Quinn:
[chuckling] Well, you should be more careful, Baby Bat.

[first lines]

Batgirl:
I was pursuing a criminal. That's what Batgirl does.

Oracle:
Batgirl arrived like she was invincible.

Batgirl:
I didn't think I was invincible.

Batgirl:
You weren't there. Batman wasn't there. You-you don't even know what happened!

Oracle:
Then what *did* happen?

Catwoman:
You're brave, kid, but you need to learn to choose your battles.

Batgirl:
I don't know if I would you use the word "choose".

Harley Quinn:
Then you shoulda run.

Batgirl:
Not my style.

Catwoman:
Is being dead your style?

Batgirl:
I don't know. I've already died once - it didn't stop me.

Catwoman:
Harley! Ivy says it's time to go.

Harley Quinn:
She gonna be okay to leave alone?

Catwoman:
*He's* coming. We have to go.

Harley Quinn:
Listen, Minibat, if you ever need a friend, we're not enemies.

Catwoman:
Don't be a stranger.

Batman:
These thugs are a new gang with ties higher up the food chain. I haven't determined who's funding them, but they've been recruiting heavily in this area. Their iconography appears to be Lovecraftian.

Batgirl:
Fascinating. I'll be sure to put it in my "Gangs I Have Known" scrapbook.

Batman:
She also said that Harley Quinn and Catwoman were sighted in the area.

Batgirl:
They dropped into the dance, yeah.

Batman:
They don't do anything they don't benefit from and they're criminals.

Batgirl:
That didn't seem to come up when they were saving my life. If they hadn't been here...

Batman:
Stay clear of them!

Batgirl:
Stay clear of them? Did you just miss the point where I said they saved my life?

Batman:
If you were more careful, you wouldn't need saving! Stay clear of them!

Batgirl:
You think you can run my life?

Batman:
[pointing to the Bat symbol on her chest] As long as you wear this symbol, you follow *my* lead. If I say stay clear of someone, you do it!

Batgirl:
Fine. Maybe I don't want to wear it anymore.

Batman:
You never understood what that symbol means and you don't have the discipline to do what we do. Feel free to hang it up whenever you like.

[last lines]

Oracle:
Steph, keep the suit, wear the earpiece.