“Oh, Dad…,” Batgirl said, choking back tears. “I should have known. I had you all wrong.”
“No…I was wrong,” Commissioner Gordon admitted, welling up a little himself. “I guess what I’m saying is—”
“I can stay at Super Hero High?!” she asked.
“You can stay at Super Hero High…Batgirl,” he said.
She hugged her father again. More than the award, she had gotten what she had been truly wishing for.
Her father had called her Batgirl.
“Where’s the cake?” Cheetah asked. “Someone said there would be cake!”
“Katana was supposed to get it from Capes and Cowls,” Supergirl said. “I’ll go check to see if she needs help. Be right back.”
A moment later, Supergirl returned. She looked shaken.
“What is it?” Wonder Woman asked.
Supergirl swallowed and said, “Steve Trevor told me that Katana picked up the cake over an hour ago.”
“Then where is she?” Cheetah growled. “I’m hungry!”
It was Bumblebee who stated the obvious. “This is totally unlike her. Katana is never late to anything. Something must be terribly wrong….”
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