Chapter 21

Lara POV

I sat beside Jason as he drove and Nicole sat in the back. "Are you ready?" I asked her.

"To meet the superbat family? Sure why not. It can not be worse than meeting the demonic realm." Nicole said. I laughed and smiled.

"Well I have to agree with that." Jason snorted.

"Well I can see where you get that snort you do." Nicole chuckled.

"Dad does that too." I exposed Jason with a smile.

"Oh shut up you." He growled at me.

"Nope." I laughed as he slaps my arm.

"Yes." He snapped.

"Someone is cranky!" I laughed as I leaned back in my seat.

"Stuff it blind bat!" Jason snaps at her.

"Aww someone is angry." I teased him more.

"Bitch!"

"Ass!" I snapped at him.

"Loser!"

"Murder!"

"Baby!"

"Crazy!"

"Slut!"

"You're a slut! I have only dated one person!" I smack him in the arm.

"You know that is kinda sad." He said.

"I was the same way. Though I have been betrothed to Alister since I was 5." Nicole spoke from her spot in the back seat.

"What the fuck?" Jason asked.

"It was a deal between him and my mom." She drawled. "It stopped the world from being destroyed."

"Well that's one way to do it." Jason said.

"I agree." Nicole spoke. "It also made my love life simple."

"I am sure."

"So this is the entry to the bat cave." Nicole said.

"Yup." I said as we came to a stop and got out. I can hear the laughing of Martha.

"Martha what the hell are you doing down here?" Jason asked.

"Why shouldn't I be?"

"Does the fact you got yourself grounded ring a bell?" Jason asked and I hear her snort.

"The first mission that comes along Dad will see I am needed." She spoke in such a way I wanted to punch her with the snooty attitude she had.

"Please." Nicole said. "I am sure they can handle missions just fine without you . If you remember, they have done it before."

"And who the fuck are you?" She snaps

"I am datamaster." Nicole said.

"You, you're one of the loser's friends?"

"That is enough from you!" Tim snapped. "Go back upstairs, you're not supposed to be down here!"

"But Red!"

"No buts!" He snapped at her.

"Fine!" She growls and walks out.

"What the hell is her issue?" Nicole asked.

"She's pissed that Dad grounded her." All three of us said.

"So you're the one that hacked my system and I never knew it." Tim said.

"Yea well don't feel too bad I hacked everything, even something by the name of the Legey of Doom?"

"Why didn't you tell me that!" I asked her.

"I thought it was some stupid club." She said./

"No, that is not what it is. It's a group of villains." I said

"Ohhh. You know they have been rather… sextual with each other." She said.

"I really don't need to know that." I hear Papa say.

"No but it's a fun fact." She laughed at them. "Anyways, where is this thing that you want me to crack?" Nicole asked.

"This way." Tim said.

"Awesome Lara, come on." She grabbed my arm and pulling me with her.

"I don't know how much help I will be." I said.

"Maybe not a lot but I can use someone to talk to me while I work." She snorts.

"Okay." I said.

"Good!" She laughed as I followed her. "And even if you don't understand what I am saying just let me bounce things off you." She tells me.

"I am great at that." I laughed.

"She is." Tim agreed.

"I listen to him and Wing ramble on and on about hacking. I picked up some but I do not have the head for it."

"I know that." Nicole said. "Coraline!"

"Yes Mother?" Coraline asked.

"Tell spinner that I will need him to keep the studio on lockdown once everyone leaves. Have him feed the live stream through Abigail and have her notify me if something happens." Nicole tells her.

"Yes Mother."

"Jack!" She said.

"Mother." I hear the male voice.

"Ready for your first test run?" She asked him.

"Yes Mother." He said.

"Is that another AI?" Tim asked.

"Yes it is." Nicole said. "After this if you ask I may just teach you how to make them." She said.

"Wait really?" Tim asked her.

"Why not? I would enjoy teaching someone what I can do." She chuckled.

"That is awesome!" He squealed like a child. I smiled.

"I will teach you the basic code and the personality codes so you can build it how you want but you can not edit the safety code." Nicole said.

"Safety code?" He asked.

"It's the code that makes sure we don't try to take over the world." Jack said. "It is the one code we can not edit even though most of us are learning AIs."

"I don't need 100 AIs going crazy on me." Nicole said with a sign.

"I know mom I am picking on you." He said softly.

"So what is Jack?" I asked. Then I felt something land on my arm and 8 legs start moving up my arm. "Another spider?" I asked.

"I like spiders." Nicole said.

"I know you're trying to talk Spinner out of being moved to a dog suit." I shrugged as she let go of my arm.

"Yea if that landlord hits him again I am going to do something stupid." She mutters.

"How about we just buy the building from him?" I asked her.

"No you and Dora are not going to buy the building from him." Nicole said.

"Oh come on then you would be able to do whatever you wanted and come on half the building is empty anyways!" I said to her.

"If the building goes into foreclosure then we will talk." She said dryly.

I huffed. "Fine."

"Between you and the goddesses I am not sure who is the worst Rich kid." Nicole muttered.

"This from the demon queen?" I asked as I heard her hiss at me.

"Fuck you." She hissed, making me laugh.

"I'm not allowed to." I said making Tim chock.

"I am sure." She snorted as I hear some banging. "Come on open." She hissed.

"I will help!" Jack said, jumping off my shoulder.

"Thank you Jack." She giggled.

I can hear the lazer as he cuts into whatever it is. "Ha they do have something similar to a USB port!"

"And that is good because?" Tim asked.

"Because I can plug into it." Nicole tells him.

"Coraline eyes." I whispered softly as I felt the nanobots move as I rolled my neck as everything came into view and I knelt down beside her. "How can I help?" I asked her.

"I need you to talk to me because I need to make sure it doesn't override me." She said.

"Okay when are you and Alister planning on doing the wedding?"

"I don't know we were married in our world for almost 90 years." She said as she typed. Her brow furrows. "We may need Dora." She tells me.

"Why?" I asked her.

"I don't know this language and it's in code to boot." She said.

"And Dora is the all speaker." I said pulling my phone out and spoke. "Bixbe call Dora."

"Calling dora." It said.

"What?" Lucifer asked.

"Not who I was expecting." I said to him.

"What do you need Lara?" He asked me.

"I need Dora for her all speak ability if she would be willing to help us decode this thing they found." I told him.

"I can just email her some symbols. If she can give me a basic alphabet I will be fine from there." Nicole said as she types on her computer.

"I think that would be the better option. We just got her to calm down." He tells me.

"Send her the email." I tell her.

"One email sent." Nicole said as she kept typing.

"Nicole sent it." I tell him.

"Yea and Dora is looking at it."

"Give me my phone Lucifer!" I can hear her yell.

"Very well." He groaned.

"Hey Lara." She said.

"You good dora?" I asked her.

"No but this is an odd mix of Greek and Gaelic." She tells me. "Tell her to give me 10 minutes to work up an alphabet for her."

"Okay, I will do it. Try to stay calm." I said.

"Not likely but thanks." She said softly. "Love you Baby sis."

I rolled my eyes. "Love you to Biggest sis." I tell her and she hangs up.

"What did she say?" She asked me.

"10 minutes for an alphabet." I tell her.

"Great that gives me time to poke around a bit."

"Biggest sister?" Tim asked me.

"Dora is 1000 years old Red." I tell him looking up at him. "She is the biggest since she the oldest of those I claim as family."

"Okay yes I would agree with that." He said.

"Then Rena then me, then Baraba…" Nicole said.

"How old are you?" He asked me.

"118." Nicole said