Batgirl Annual #3 - Part 4

The last and final part of Batgirl Annual #3 includes characters from the Gotham Academy series.


It starts off with Batgirl trying to find a blueprint that Tina Nair (From the last part of Batgirl) stashed away at Gotham Academy. Babs is trying to find a head of a statue that contains the important blueprint, before Gladius finds it. She's trying to find the passage that goes under the library. Just as Babs was about to give up on finding the hidden passage, the shelf opens. Behind the passage way, Babs finds two girls,main characters in the Gotham Academy comics, who were mapping passageways and tunnels.

Olive on the right and Maps on the left

Maps asks Babs if they can help but Olive says they should leave. Babs takes up Maps offer.

The girls go on looking for chest that contains a head of a statue. Maps using here drawn out map leads them to where the chest is said to be and they then start looking for a hollow part of the wall. Olive finds it and grabs the chest out of it. The girls then proceed to open it and find the head of the statue in it. As Babs grabs it out, she can here something rattling inside. 

Before they had the chance to break it open, something runs past them and steals the head. that person turned out to be Gladius. Gladius ran up a passage that leads to the rooftop and Babs and the girls go after her. Babs catches up to Gladius and face each other ready to fight. Gladius is then hit by what looks like a Batarang ( A weapon used by Batman and his sidekicks). It was Maps who threw it and says she got it from a kid named Damian ( Batman's son and current Boy Wonder). 

Babs took a jab at the distracted Gladius and it lead to her letting go of the head that she stole from Babs. It broke from the impact and Olive and Maps go to pick up the thing that was inside of it. Babs ties up Gladius and heads towards the girls to check out what was inside. Inside the head of the statue was an old microfilm.

The girls head into the library to use a projector machine that can read what the microfilm contains but all that came up was a bunch of scribbles. 

Babs takes out a USB and plugs it into the computer which helps reveal the blueprint. 

As the girls are looking at the blueprint, which looks like it contains plans for a weapon, the film catches on fire.

Babs puts out the fire with anti-flame spray that she carries and tells the girls that the first rule of Superhero Club is to always be prepared. That then gives Maps an idea.

Then out of nowhere somebody appears and it turns out to be Mr. Scarlet, the librarian at the school. He tells them to go back to their room. Maps liked the idea of a Superhero Club so once she goes to her room, she starts planning out her costume.