Barbara, aka Oracle, finds out that Mr. Fisher is up to no good with his company and sends Dinah, aka Black Canary to confront him and get a confession out of him, but she doesn't succeed, so she leaves her name and number for when he's ready to confess. Later that night, Oracle gets a message from Mr. Fisher. A suicide note. So Black Canary races over there to try to save him and finds out that its a trap and she's caught in it.
A man named Savant is behind it with his goons. Oracle calls upon Huntress to help her but first Oracle must help Huntress with her problem finding a missing person taken by some evil people. Oracle helps her and the Huntress lends a hand in helping her find Black Canary. It turns out that Mr. Fisher was being blackmailed into helping Savant by having his family kidnapped and he was doing anything to ensure their safety. Huntress arrives and Black Canary gets out of her bonds while Oracle threatens Savant with deleting his files.
Oracle decides to keep Savant's files for herself which gets her in trouble with a Senator who wants those files destroyed and Oracle and Black Canary with them. Since Black Canary was laid up with two broken legs, she had Huntress go and meet the Senator who told her he wanted the files. She told him the files had been destroyed because she believed that to be true. The Senator is also going after Savant in prison. Oracle wants to fire Black Canary because she keeps getting hurt and Barbara can't stand to lose her, while at the same time she can't stand to have them treat her any differently for being in a wheelchair.
Dinah, all healed goes back to visit her Sensei who is dying and meets up with Shiva who works on the bad side of things but also trained under the Sensei. They are both being attacked and must join together to fight a common enemy. Also, Oracle has been hacked. Barbara is sending superheroes off to bizarre places that her computer is telling her that illegal activity is going on but instead a pool party is happening.
In this section, Dinah's inner monologue is written on legal pad paper in cursive which is pretty neat except that my poor eyes have trouble reading the cursive. It is pretty to look at, though. Dinah will also mention her mother's past which is a really cool one. Will these women learn to work together? Who kills someone close to Dinah and why? Dinah's finally got her cry back after losing it but she'd still rather use her fists in a fight because she doesn't feel confident about her voice. Huntress is wary about the two women especially Barbara because of the way Barbara has treated her in the past. And Barbara would like to do this alone so no one gets hurt but that's not possible. This a great comic filled with complex characters. I'm not sure which Birds of Prey Series I prefer. I'll have to read another one of this one to see. I give this book five out of five stars.
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