《Batman In MCU》 Chapter 1 - Im reborn. I woke up to find myself in a dark space, I couldn''t hear or see anything, I felt like I was in a pool of fluid and weirdly I felt comfortable but that feeling of comfort was short lived . My comfortable world began to tremble and I felt myself being pulled towards a light and no matter how hard I struggled it was useless. Soon I was out and confused about where I was but It didn''t take long for me to realise where I was and where I was before. I was shocked to say the least my mind racing at hundred miles per hour trying to figure out how all this was happening, when a sharp went from my behind through my whole body I couldn''t help but begin to cry. I was soon handed over to a beautiful woman who was holding unto me with care and seeing her smile I was certain she was my mother " hello little one, I''m your mother. " seeing her I decided to make her happy and give my cutest smile which seemed to do the trick " do you want to see your father little one?" she asked as she handed me over to a man who was fidgety showing how nervous he was . He picked me up and held me very carefully trying his best not to harm me " hey buddy... I''m your father. " he said smiling and crying I guess he was happy to see me. " So what do we name him Thomas. " my mother asked my father who was still holding me as if I was some fragile glass that would fall and break but hey don''t get me wrong, I have absolutely no problem with that. After looking at me once more he spoke up"Jeffery , Jeffery King." and so I got my name in this new world Jeffrey king Four years later./// It''s been four years since I began my new life, my life was smooth sailing my parents had more money than I could spend and they kept making more, suffice to say I had enough toys. Apart from enjoying my life , I had been trying my best to figure out which world I was born in and so far I know it was similar to my old world except the time period was in the 70''s but apart from that there wasn''t any major differences I know the world wars had happened I didn''t focus much on them just the essentials Hitler and Naxis so I think their the same. I was going over the clues when a man walked into my room "it''s time master Jeffery." . The man was none other than our Butler Sebastian, he was a kind man with a goatee he was always spotting his suit and white gloves looking alot like a character from an anime from my old life."Coming Sebastian." I spoke as I got down from my desk and headed downstairs. I know I''ve said this already but damn was my family rich our home was a huge mansion which looked like it was built way before my father was born, it''s design spoke lots of the genius that designed it. I quickly got down the stairs to see my mother and father, my father was dressed in a suit same as always and my mother, well she looked absolutely stunning in her long white dress with her green emerald necklace and earings. "Are you ready Jeff ?" my mother smilled as she stretched out her hand I reached out for it and walked beside her " yes mom. " I smiled back at her. "Hey aren''t you going to greet your old man." my father came up to me ruffling my hair even though he knew very well I hated it so in revenge I turned, ignoring him but after receiving some chocolate all was forgiven, what can I say.... I love chocolate. We got in the car and headed off to my father''s friend''s place for dinner, he had been talking about this friend of his for a while and today was the day I got to meet the famous Howard. "your going to love it Jeff , they have a son your age as well." I smiled I wasn''t looking forward to it that much though, as I still kept my memories from my past life I was technically 32. So kids my age didn''t really make good companions. "yeah I heard Tony is a little genius just like you." Alarm bells began to go of in my head Howard, Tony... nah it couldn''t be. Just then we arrived at the place and when I say the man in front I was stunned because he looked just like Howard Stark from the Peggy Carter series, at that moment I knew what world I was in, it was a world of Aliens,mutants, God''s and mad titans who wipe out half the universe because he is not a fan of overpopulation and has a crush on death. I was in the Marvel universe. Chapter 2 - Making friends with a Stark After going in our parents left us so we get to know each other and I''m not proud but.....I ended up just staring at Tony. I mean, what would you do if you suddenly see a fictional character in real life and a kid at that. " I know I''m handsome but geez no need to stare. " Tony Stark spoke his first words to me and I was surprised by his choice of words, I know the original Stark from the movies personality but I thought as a kid he would be well.... a kid " that''s a tad bit Narcissistic isn''t it." Tony paused as he heard me, shocked I''m guessing " big words kid, how long did it take you to look that up." "probably less than the amount of time it took you to discover a dictionary." we had a little staring contest and then became best buds, me for obvious reasons and Tony probably because he found someone his age who is his match. We spent the rest of the time in Tony''s room just talking and hanging and when it was time to go down for dinner, we looked like we''ve known each other for years and our parents were happy to see that. As we sat for dinner I saw another famous person Edwin Jarvis,the man who inspired Tony''s A.I in the future, he was just like Jarvis in the series and generally a lovable guy. Unfortunately like all good things, the night came to an end and we had to go home.Tony and I did promise to see each other more so there is that. After we got home I got ready for bed, said goodnight to my parents and went to my room but I was too excited to sleep , I mean I was a Dc fan but I also watch every marvel movie and the series just because but never did I expect to end up here after getting hit by a truck and the hatred I had held for that truck all these years was finally gone. After calming down I realised this wasn''t all pros and there were cons as well,this was a dangerous world after all. I mean this world experienced world ending events on a yearly bases and was filled with men with powers who had god complexes. Thinking all this I got up went to my desk and began to plan for my future cause I sure as hell was not going to die once more. After that day at the Starks, Tony and I had been meeting up and getting closer and due to my continues exposure to Tony I''m glad to say there is a qualitative leap in my Iq. Anyway after a full month of setting my plans and making sure their perfect I had a meeting with my parents. "Mom Dad I want to learn martial arts." needless to say my parents where confused as to where this came from. "Son if you don''t mind me asking why do you want to do this?" and so began my bs and my I''m-so-cute-don''t-say-no, and it would have worked to if not because of my meddling mother. "Nice try no why do you really want to do this?" pouting that my plan failed, I began my pitch to convince my mom to get me a trainer." Mom you know the body is the foundation of everything, if one has a strong and healthy body one has a long life, a sharp mind and also reduces chance of getting sick." " is that so?" seeing I was going somewhere I began to push hard." also learning martial arts gives me self defense also it teaches self discipline and you what they say the say the earlier you begin the stronger the foundation. " As I finished I realised the smile on my mother''s face was strange, it felt as though I had just walked into a trap."Okay we will get you a trainer..." I jumped happy I could finally start my path but then she continued with a smile I later learnt to be wary of"..... at the same time get you various tutors for your studies, as you said ''the earlier you begin the stronger the foundation. ''. " at this point I knew I dug a trap for myself. And so began my daily training sessions to reach the top in this mad world. Chapter 3 - That night. There were two things I learned during my period of training. 1: my parents have connections with the military. The day after my discussion with my mother I first started training with Sebastian who turned out to be a drill Sargent from hell. After the morning every part of my body felt sore I still get shivers till date when I remember that day, just when I thought I could take a break I had to meet my tutors, which of course led to me studying the whole afternoon after the tutors discovered my ''genius'' ( 28 years of schooling from my previous life). This leads me to point number 2: training does not get easy as time goes on. You see when you watch anime or TV series and the main character struggles in the beginning of training but as it goes on it seems to get easier and easier and he even looks cool whilst doing it..... yeah that''s a big fat lie. After my first week I had the same mindset turns out what I was doing before was just prepping, at that point I was just about ready to quit but one look from my mother and I knew there was no way out. I did have some good memories apart from the torture, I met Peggy Carter who is an excellent marksman and even greater teacher including some members of the howling commandos who taught me a whole slew of things, form boxing to judo even survival in the wild which involved as staying in the woods for a month without any prior preparations on my side but that''s another. On another note I became closer with Tony and even made a new friend, Rhodey, after we met It didn''t take long to see he was basically what kept Tony from trying out any random crazy idea that pops in his head, now don''t get me wrong I tried, I really did but Tony can be what''s the word... ah yes persuasive. So the years went by with us being close friends, also as a perk of being with Tony I had invented some really cool gadgets which were inspired from the movies and comics I used to read in my past life. Now I can guess what most of you are thinking I should get the super soldier serum, yeah I tried. Let me tell you something I don''t know what kind of dogshit luck the main characters of fanfics in my previous life had stumbling unto what ever they needed. I had searched the entire Stark household and my own just in case but nothing, zero,nada, zilch. Something good came out of it though I managed to rummage through some S.S.R files and I could confirm my parents were apart of it. Anyway this was how I spent my years until one night when I was ten years old. I was at Tony''s with Rhodey, we kept talking about any random thing that popped in our heads when we head a loud explosion and out of reflex I turned to the source along with Tony and Rhodey and the sight I saw was one I would never forget. My house was on fire. Without a second thought I ran out and headed straight for my home. I arrived just in time to see a suspicious person ridding away on a bike, seeing this I wasted no time firing at the bike with my homemade tracker gun which hit his tyre but caused no damage paying no heed I rushed and tried to enter my home but failed. I could b?r?ly see through the flames but what I saw was going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life, my mom lay there dead with bullet holes in her and blood flowing from her mouth. At that point I knew what one of the heroes in my past life said '' I wish I was faster '', but unlike him who couldn''t do anything I could going to my backyard I moved a stone to reveal a secret room which held my gadgets I had made over the years. looking at my screen which revealed the location of the prepratraitor and who ever they were they were gonna pay. Chapter 4 - A boy and his butler Following the trail I was led deep into the Woods where a base stood. In my free time I had been going through my Dad''s documents so I knew that the base before me was not authorised. I went upon a heel close by using my binoculars I was able to look into the base lo and behold, they were none other than Hydra remnants. Upon an even closer inspection I saw another character who made his appearance on the big screen in my past life.....The Winter Soldier,Bucky Barnes At that moment I felt what Tony felt during Civil War, I was livid and I wanted him dead. I calmed down after thinking things through killing him was of no use as first of all he wasn''t even conscious and so the target of my hate was moved unto the one who ordered the hit, who if my suspicions were correct was in the office Bucky just came out of. My parkour skills came in handy as well as military training and I was able to sneak into the base undetected. Sticking to the roofs I was stealthy as a ninja avoiding all gazes I headed to the office, of course I planted some explosives on the way, what I''m not just leaving here after killing the guy, I''m leaving with a bang. Finally after my hardwork I managed to sneak into the office through the window. Before me stood your stereotypical villain, wearing his uniform with his twirly moustache and silk hair as long with a face that looked like.. you know what that''s enough of a description . I snuk up behind the man who was facing a board with pictures, I took a peak and what I saw sealed his fate there was a picture of my mom and dad crossed out, the ink still wet. Wasting no time I came up to him and shut his throat ?ssassin''s Creed style. As I watched him fall gurgling blood and holding his throat I stared him down and wanted to say something but...what came out wasn''t words but all the food I had eaten earlier. Okay it was my first time killing someone I had killed animals on my wilderness survival but this was different, after a few minutes I got a grip and just in time too cause the agent were rushing to the office with guns, I didn''t know how they found out so quickly but I wasn''t going to stick around and ask them. Jumping out the window I made a break for it, activating all the bombs I had set before. The chase was intense but I made it, well I thought I did when I landed outside I was face to face with the winter soldier and a short fight occurred, of course the result being me having my arse handed to me, I won''t elaborate more. I managed to escape still and headed back to my home, what was left of it anyway. The ride back was enough to take away the rush, I had revenge but I did not feel any better. My parents were not coming back, I would never hear my mom scolding me or my dad cracking jokes . The reality hit me like a ton of bricks I arrived at the scorched remains an hour later, it had began to rain and the rain doused out the flames. In front of the building stood Sebastian out in the rain holding an umbrella seeing him I couldn''t hold back and rushed into his arms to begin crying, all the tears I had held in came pouring out and there we stood a boy and his Butler alone in the rain. A lot happened that day but one thing I know for sure was a part of me died that day. Chapter 5 - The Funeral The funeral was a week after, a lot of dignitaries appeared to give their condolences. I just gave them the minimal amount of respect nothing more, Tony and Rhodey came over to comfort me. I initially attempted to get away from them but they wouldn''t budge and so I wore a mask one I have worn everyday since then. I put on a smile. Seeing my smile they thought they had succeeded and the atmosphere became more lax. The funeral was how you would expect... gloomy and sad, the funeral did not last long. After the funeral the people that mattered headed to a private room to wait for the lawyer. The people in the room were relatives I had no idea existed, Uncles,Aunts, cousins, second uncles and the like. I was seating at a corner by myself watching the fam interact with one another when someone headed my way. It was a young girl around my age, she was dressed in a black straight dress, she had a freckled face, grey eyes and brown hair which went down to her shoulders. "Hi, I''m Katherine King but I prefer Kate." she introduced herself to me, considering she was in this room and had the same sur name as I did it didn''t take much to deduce she was my cousin. " I''m Jeffrey King but you already know that. " I spoke with the false smile plastered on my face, I have learnt this reduces the chance of people asking questions they don''t want the answers to. She giggled at my answer we began talking and contray to my expectations I enjoyed talking to her. The lawyer appeared a few minutes later and everyone took their seats, I ended up placed in front right by Kate and her family. Kate was similar to me in a way, she was the only child and her mom and dad seemed to care about each other but that''s where similarities end, her father...for lack of better words was an ?sshole, based on my investigations, yes you read right, investigations. I had every single ?du?t in this room investigated, I had watched enough movies in my past life to know when situations like this occur the most danger is from so called family . Anyway back to my uncle, based on my investigations he was a very shady man who owned a private security company, his company was doing well but he was not content and had set his greedy eyes on his brother''s property ergo my father''s property. The lawyer began reading the will and the more he read the uglier my uncle''s face began. Apparently my father believed in my intelligence, he had left all his businesses, property and money to me, a kid had billions to his name, I''m pretty sure I became the youngest billionaire ever. My uncle tried to argue I was too young but the lawyer just said he trusted me and I could appoint who ever I wished to run the business. Immediately the lawyer was finished I announced that Sebastian would be in charge of running everything until I was ready to take over. At my words my uncles face was not the only one with an ugly expression and I could guess why, the family was thinking of ways to trick me to get everything but with my move all plans were thrown out the door. The funeral came to an end. Sebastian escorted everyone out before returning to the study knowing we had to talk. Sebastian just stood there when he came in, after I short while I finally spoke up " Sebastian I know you are curious as to why I did this and the answer is a simple one I am leaving. " " I do not understand young master. " " I have decided to take a trip to find myself.... I will leave tonight and I know this is sudden but I hope you understand. " Sebastian stared at me for a while before speaking " I will always be waiting young master. " I smiled at that " Oh and while I am away I do hope you could fix the Manor." I was leaving in a new home in New York but I missed the old one because it held memories. Chapter 6 - The Hand After that night I became a whole new person getting on a ship that led to a place I don''t know. On the ship I managed to get together with a group of guys who turned out to be in a triad, after arriving in China which was apparently the final destination I joined the triad under the alias Bruce Wayne. Heh what can I say, I love the man. Life in the triad was how you''d expect extortion, girls,booze,parties and drugs can''t forget those. I made it a priority to stay away from the drugs though, I sold but never took any. After spending a few years in the triad I became middle management no longer a low level grunt which allowed me to gain more info about the underworld, which in turn allowed to find an organisation that anyone from my previous world would recognise.... The Hand. Apparently The Hand had a base close to where I was though it was disguised as a dojo for Krav Maga and so I did what any other sane person in my shoes would do, I joined the dojo. The dojo was mostly just like any other martial dojo emphasis on the word ''mostly'', we were taught Krav Maga which increased my martial arts knowledge but I noticed that the extremely talented ones were taking to a secret place by our sensei who went by the name Kenji Nakamura, he looked to be in his late thirties black hair, clean shaven and always in his robes. After studying as much as I could about the place, I decided it was time to move into the inner circle. I began to reveal my true skill bit by bit which earned me the attention of Kenji the sensei, after training one day he called me aside and told me what we were learning were the basics and the true martial arts were only taught to the talented one and he could see potential in me. The next day I was moved to the secret place and this was where the difference began to show. In the new place we weren''t only taught better Krav Maga and other martial arts we were also sometimes given special tests like tailing one of the teachers without being seen or stealing from the teachers and returning without being caught and just like the previous place the best of the best were taken some place else which I ?ssume was the Hand''s main base of operations. After six months of learning all I could from the place I got selected to move to the main base. I went on to bid farewell to the friends I had made in the triad before joining a ship which took us to Japan. The journey to Japan was surprisingly longer than I thought it would be, after a month and a half we arrived in Japan home of manga and anime. When we arrived we were quickly moved to a place that really began to give of that whole ninjas-who-lurk-in-the-shadows vibe. The place was hidden in a mountain which was extremely difficult to trek, after passing through a waterfall we discovered the hidden hideout. The place was riddled with ninjas who dressed exactly like how ninjas in TV shows did, we led down a winding part to a place where we would train. I began to make friends with some of the people there one was even an African American named John Lewis although I didn''t know if he was using an alias just like me. The training here was intense, apart from martial arts we were also taught how to use a variety of weapons from swords to shurikens, I patiently learned for months until I began to notice something strange. After every month they would come take a number of people for a week and when they returned there were subtle differences, after thinking for a while I finally remembered the Hand had a hypnotising policy, "oh shit!" I mumbled to myself. I knew I had to escape as the only way I would learn more was if I fully joined them and I wasn''t planning on doing that but after careful consideration I realised it was next to impossible to escape on my own and so I told John about my discovery, of course he did not believe me at first but after showing him evidence he was on board. We also got a few more people to join us in our escape, after a whole week of planning we were confident we would escape. Chapter 7 - The blind old man We had been working and planning out our plan and it was finally time to implement it. It was lights out and time for all unhypnotised recruits to go to bed. The torches all went out and I could b?r?ly hear their footsteps even with my trained hearing leaving. I made sure they were all gone and then snuck out, just in time to see my partners in this escape, before tonight we had monitored the ninjas and had realised we weren''t left alone to sleep but were checked on every hour. We quickly made our way through one of the hallways, our steps quick but silent. We made our way through the hallways avoiding every guard we could and killing the ones we could not soon we arrived at where we normally trained. One of the escapees noticed there was an entrance hidden here during our training and so we had set it as our escape route. We quickly opened up the entrance which revealed a tunnel, we all quickly jumped in and closed the entrance behind us. As we run through the tunnel we eventually heard the whistling of wind and we knew soon we would be home free causing everyone to speed up but as we were almost out, I had an odd feeling.... this was too easy suddenly on nothing but pure instinct I stopped grabbing John who was right by me. Just as John turned to yell at me, the four who stepped out had countless shuriken and kunai embedded into them, everyone took in a sharp breath when they saw what happened to the ones before them. John turned to me with an apologetic look realising that if I did not stop him just then he would be like the four before us. At this point I knew I could not just stay there as the ninjas were probably making their way through the tunnel and would soon catch up to us. Thinking on my feet I grabbed some smoke bombs from my belt as well as from John and threw them at the entrance causing a smoke screen, without a second to spare I rushed forward and grabbed one of the dead bodies flinging them out and making a dive for the forest the ninjas ended up shooting at my decoy. The smart ones including John, had dived with me avoid the ambush but for the ones who stayed.....well let''s just say our numbers were down to five. We quickly made our way through the forest in the cover of the night, the ninjas followed after and we somehow managed to kill some of them without losing some of our own. As we continued running, the people around started to gain the hope of survival but it was soon cut in half, literally two members of our team were cut in half causing us to jump forward alert. The one responsible was dressed like a shinigami from bleach, holding a long slim katana. It was none other than Kenji Nakamura. Kenji Nakamura''s appearance stunned me, after joining the Hand I became privileged to more information and from that info the owners of the dojos outside should not have that level of skill. The skill he revealed earlier was definitely above the one training them in the headquarters, I had had a spar with our training and if I pushed my self to my limits I could hear his steps and see his movements albeit b?r?ly but I still could but for Kenji Nakamura..... no matter how I tried even when he was right in front of me it felt as though it was an illusion. Relying on nothing more than instinct John and I b?r?ly avoided the katana, the third guy was unfortunately not lucky and had his head liberated from his body, and then there were two. I realised we had to fight back or we would really end up dead, picking up my Kunai I rushed at him with John in tow. We attacked with all we had but it was to no avail, He was toying with us and we knew it. A few minutes passed and he eventually got tired of us and struck at me, relying on instinct once more I managed to block it with my Kunai and b?r?ly escaped but I had a feeling my instinct would not save me once more. Kenji seemingly interested in me rushed at me and I could nothing but close my eyes waiting for my death but it never came rather I heard a clank, opening my eyes I was stunned. An old man was before me and had blocked Kenji''s attack, I could not see his face but Kenji was stunned when he saw him. "Stick" venom dripping as he mentioned the name, " Kenji, your still living huh" the old man responded chuckling. "That''s rich coming from you." The old man ignored him turning to me "you alright?" the man turned to face me, the thing that drew my attention was his shades he was wearing as it was the exact same one blind people wore. Then it clicked blind old man, has skills,goes against the Hand.... Stick it was actually him leader of The Chaste. Chapter 8 - The Chaste I couldn''t believe it, there he was Stick. I realised I had been staring and gave a quick nod in response to his question " good head deeper into the Woods I catch up after dealing with this guy. " I grabbed John who was still in shock and headed deeper into the Woods, as I ran I could hear the two clashing. We had managed to run for a few minutes when a shuiriken was fired straight at us. It was at that moment we realised we were surrounded by the hand, " Are you okay John?" "yeah Bruce, I can still fight." he spoke as he picked up a sword which was conveniently just there, ignoring this I reached into my belt pulling out my shuirikens we stood back to back. The battle between us was intense we were taking them out in droves but they kept coming and we were quickly running out of stamina, Kunai began to fall from the skies taking out a few of the ninjas which confused John and I because we were certain that everyone other person apart from the both of us was dead, so who was helping us. We weren''t confused for long though, another group of ninjas dropped from the tree tops, they were dressed differently from the ones attacking us. Leading them was a girl about our age dressed in her own red ninja attire different from the rest, the outfit seemingly telling us she was ranked above the rest I looked her straight in the eyes and she seemed to return my look before looking at the ninjas from the hand. " leave none standing. " she gave her order as she pulled out her twin Sai. The men behind did not hesitate, dashing into the members of the hand brandishing their weapons and in a few seconds most of the green around us was dyed red, relying on some weird footwork the girl appeared before John and I. I could see John tense up at her appearance but I could sense she meant us no harm " thank you. " " there is no need for your thanks, I was just following orders and... " she glanced at the corpses of the members of the hand "... they are our sworn enemies anyway. " at that I had some clues regarding her as well us her....partners identities. "I see you''ve met Elektra." Stick''s voice was soon heard turning to the source I saw Stick walking out of the woods sporting a few scratches here and there otherwise relatively unharmed. It a second to register what he said but when I did I was stunned because I was meeting another great character Elektra. Elektra was always an interesting character to me as she went through a lot and I was stunned to meet her, Elektra ignoring both John and I asked Stick, "what do we do with them?" Stick then turned to face us and if I didn''t know better it seemed like he was studying us. " Well boys you heard her what do you want to do? you can still leave although you should know Kenji would have reported your escape by now and the hand won''t stop hunting you , you could also join us, we are different from the hand I could even teach you so as to enable you have revenge." at his last word John seemed fired up, I guess he wanted to have revenge as his friends got murdered but me.... I was of another opinion the world we were in was the marvel universe and no matter which earth I was on there would definitely be powerful beings and crisis level events happening and I needed power if I wanted to survive this world. ""I agree"" we both answered but for different reasons and from the minute change in expression it wasn''t that hard to see Stick had realised it as well. ////////////////////////////// We spent the next week journeying to the secret base of the chaste. It was located in a secret location in China, we arrived before a cliff so high it to be touching the sky, that''s when we were told the news apparently there was an entrance test which involved climbing the cliff. And so the treacherous climb began. Chapter 9 - Death of Bruce Wayne John and I had joined the chaste after the gruelling climb. The base of the chaste was a hidden village which gave off a different vibe from the hand, everyone was clothed in some ninja clothing as well but the vibe was kind of different I guess it''s because the people here still have their mind. Stick decided he would train me personally, his training began with checking my physical prowess and when he was okay with it he did something I did not expect. Stick placed a blindfold around my eyes " you are not always going to have your senses in a battle, so the only way for you to keep your peak no matter the condition of your place of battle." Stick explained and then he began to torture me. Stick came at me attacking me without holding back causing me to receive loads of wounds he also imposed for me to go about my day to day with the blind fold on, but I have to admit I received a lot of gains not only can I function without my sight my other senses were heightened he also went on to train all my other senses as well as teach me more levels of combat enabling me to reach a high level of skill. Apart from my gains in the combat department I had also made some in the relationship department. It took a while but I and Elektra became an item, Elektra was a great girl but I remembered that she later went on to join the hand which caused me to refrain from revealing my true identity to her apart from that we were pretty close. The years I spent in the chaste was lax going on a few missions here and there with either John or Elektra, making out with Elektra ah life was good but like all good times it was coming to an end. We were sent on a mission , a hidden base of the hand was discovered and so we were sent on a mission to destroy but throughout the entire journey I felt something was up I didn''t know what it was but I felt something was wrong looking around I saw Elektra had this apologetic look in her eyes when she looked at me, I was deep in my thoughts when John came up to me. " Bruce" " yeah" I turned to him momentarily forgetting my thoughts, " I don''t know why but I think I''m gonna make it..... so incase I don''t send this to my family they are in Russia oh also I forgot my name isn''t john it''s Dimitri. " as he said that it confirmed my suspicions that he was using a fake name but what I did not expect was him being Russian. He shoved the letter into my arms and I wanted to refuse but something told me that he wasn''t going to make it out and the next second I knew why, it was an ambush. We were surrounded by an army of ninjas the hand knew we were coming and when I turned to Elektra I knew why, she had turned over to their side we were out numbered 50 to 1 there was no way we were winning this. I managed to take out a few but it didn''t seem to matter and soon I was conered at a cliff and I immediately knew the only way this would end was with the death of all of us, I watched people I knew meet their end even Dimitri ended up dead seeing I was the only one left I took a leap of faith of the cliff and that was the end of Bruce Wayne. Chapter 10 - The Dark Night Begins I fell into a river managing to escape the members of the Hand, I was hurt by Elektra''s betrayal I knew it would happen but it didn''t hurt any less. Seeing that everyone probably thought I was dead, I decided to not disappoint, so from today onwards Bruce Wayne was dead I spent a lot of years and I was no longer a teen but 20 years old and it was time I returned home. /////////////////////// *Ding*Dong* Sebastian began to walk towards the door wondering who it could possibly be this late at night, he opened the door and couldn''t believe who it was he had spent the last ten years ( The earlier chapters might have minor differences but the overall time should amount To ten years, I''ll go back and probably fix them to match the timeline any way our Mc is 20 as of now)dreaming of this moment but he couldn''t believe his eyes when it happened. Jeffrey King stood right before him with his ever so familiar mischievous smirk plastered on his face " What don''t I get a hug?" I missed Sebastian a lot he was family and It was exactly like the saying you don''t know what you have until you lose it. We remained there hugging one another forgetting time as we stood after a few minutes " Come on in master Jeffrey I''ll get you some tea." Sebastian headed in with my bags as I closed the door behind me. I had a good look at the Manor, Sebastian had done as I asked and restored it to its former glory, standing there brought back so many memories. I was lost in my thought when Sebastian brought a cup of tea and with just a sip I was back in the river of memories I remembered having tea and listening to my Dad''s exaggerated tales and my mom''s sweet smile all those memories brought a tear to my eyes " Are you okay Master Jeffrey? " Sebastian asked his concern clear in his eyes" It''s nothing Sebastian I''m just happy to be home." The next day my name was all over the news with various news articles writing about my return and even more reporters stationed beyond the gate waiting to take a picture of Jeffrey King. The media was not the only one interested in me, I had also received calls from Tony Stark and from our conversations I kinda hoped his kidnapping was brought forward as the movies did not do him justice because Tony as of now was a bit too arrogant. I had a press conference and using the cover story provided by Sebastian, I told the reporters I was studying in a private school in Britain it helped erasing the question of where I was for ten years. I payed a visit to the company and did the necessary legal process and any other thing that needed to be done. I headed home and began my project after a whole month I was finally done with my project. "I am still not sure as to why you brought me here master Jeffrey." Sebastian spoke as we arrived in the study I moved towards the desk in the centre speaking as I did so, " Sebastian since I returned I did some research and do you know what I discovered the city is run by the mobs and the criminal elite and the people who are supposed to stop this are taking bribes and are in league with the people poisoning this city there are but a few people left fighting this war against crime, but they are not enough this city needs someone else, something else..." as I said that I placed my hand under the desk and into a Grove causing the huge clock to move aside a reveal a hidden elevator which earned me a raised brow from Sebastian. "let me guess this someone is referring to you?" Sebastian asked as we entered the elevator " My parents dedicated their lives to helping others and I think it''s time I did same". We walked out of the elevator into a cave, this was another reason why I wanted the Manor restored I mean where else would one find a house with a ready made cave. " You did all this in a month.... "Sebastian spoke as we walked through the cave," I showed you all this because I hope you can help me". We arrived before a mannequin, Sebastian took a good look at it before asking me " I have just one question, why a bat?" I looked at the armour I had decided on after a month of deliberation and decided to borrow the words of the original, " I had a fear of bats and I think it''s time my enemies shared my dread." I looked at my armour and stretched out my hand to touch the bat symbol on the ?h?st. Chapter 11 - A bat demon In a certain warehouse. A group of guys sit around a table playing poker, the warehouse is filled to the brim with Narcotics of various kinds. "When are they supposed to arrive again?" one of the guys playing questioned another, the guy took a glance at his watch " they should be here in a few minutes, now quit your whining and play already daddy needs a new bike." his words causing them to laugh. The lights suddenly go out causing them to go silent " what was that? " "probably a fault or something.... Johnny go check it out." Johnny tried to protest " why me? " " cause I said so, now get. " Johnny finally got up and went out to check what was going on. The men continued talking when they heard a muffled sound, a bang, a groan then silence. All the men became alert, " Johnny! Johnny that you?" there was no answer. Every man grabbed their guns ready for anything they aimed their guns and all was silent. *whoosh * a sound was heard followed by a scream of one of their own "Aaaaarhhh" that was the last straw all their guns began spitting fire tongues but that did nothing to slow whatever was there . It picked them out one by one, all they could hear was the screams of their comrades. Fear gripped each and everyone of them like a blanket, like a wise man once fear of the unknown is mankind''s greatest fear. After a minute it was down to one man who had managed to leave the warehouse he ran until he saw a truck he recognised. The truck was the one they were waiting for but what made his heart skip a beat was the two inside where knocked out, before he could run he was pulled up by something and slammed on the top of the truck. The pain went from his back to his entire body causing him to groan, he tried to get up only to have a foot slammed on his throat. He looked up to see his ?ssailant only to see a demon.... a bat demon to be precise, it had pointy ears like a bat with a bat symbol on its ?h?st. The man could not find any other word to describe what was before him, he did not dare to believe the thing before him was human, then he heard it''s voice and he knew he was right. A demonic deep voice came from the ?ssailant, the voice was cold without the slightest trace of emotion and it served to increase his fear all the more..... " who do you work for?" the demon asked but he didn''t answer, the demon seeing this increased the pressure on his neck and spoke once more " I''m only going to ask this once more, who.do. you.work.for?" at this point the fear overwhelmed his feeble defences. "Okay Okay it''s Antoine, he pays us, all I do is protect the warehouse. I swear that''s all I know man please don''t kill me please I''m begging you." The demon remained silent then flipped him again on the truck then came up to him " if I see you around again. I''ll break the other one " its words confused him until it slammed his foot unto his right arm shattering his bone causing him to scream....he looked around only to realise the demon was gone. Underneath the king Manor in the batcave. Sebastian was sitting before the computer when he spoke up "how was your night master Jeffery?" behind him a man appeared from the shadows dressed in a bat costume. the man took down his cowl to reveal he was none other than Jeffery King " eventful." At the Warehouse. Police squads have sealed the place and ate taking evidence at this time a detective walks in "Oi Stacy over here!" the detected walks over to his partner " what have we got?" he asks as he looks around " gang bangers all knocked out apparently they were storing a ton of narcotics... and by the looks of the truck outside I''ll say today was moving day ", the detective takes at look at the truck " what happened? ". "Now that''s were it gets interesting George, none of the other guys saw what did it but the only eyewitness claims it was a demon, a bat demon.", George raises a brow at that " a bat demon?seriously Matt. " he then turns to look at the eyewitness who definitely looked as though he saw the devil. "There is no such thing." Chapter 12 - The bat comes knocking *slam * detective Stacy slams his hand in frustration, it had been four weeks, a whole month since this alleged demon began roaming the streets and they were no closer to figuring who he was. The were no pictures or videos but every one new he existed, he was some sort of urban myth... The only thing that allowed detective George Stacy to even believe that he existed, was the fact that almost every guy they apprehended over the past month claimed to have seen him. Some people claimed to have been have saved by him as well... but the most prominent evidence was what his partner preffered to call as the batarang for some damn reason. Detective George sat in his seat thinking when his partner barged in, "George! We got a lead on the bat demon. At Club Verdant, later that night. "Scram! the higher ups are pissed and you idiots can''t get this a****** what do I even pay you idiots for. Out!" Antione was extremely pissed. For some reason, somone or something had been going after his warehouses and the higher ups were breathing down his neck. He had been carrying out investigations, all the people he had spoken to kept talking about some giant bat total nutcases the lot of them. Antoine continued to drink his sorrows away when he heard a bang followed by screams as well gunshots. Antoine as well as the guys in the room took out their guns prepared for whatever, then there was silence... the silence served to heighten their senses. *Boom * the door was blasted open and they all hoisted their guns at the fog which for some god damn reason was in the club. A object rolled in drawing their attention it began blinking with blue light, before anyone could react there was a bang followed by a sound which disoriented everyone. Antoine had been a criminal for years but what he saw that night.... he had never seen something like that. It was the creature that had been in the nightmares of his men. It walked out of the fog with two points from its head, every step it took did nothing but plant a deep seeded fear in them. It moved with a knee one of my men was out, quickly spinning around its elbow was in my man''s throat and in a minute all my men were down. When it was done it walked over them coming to me, I picked a gun by the side and aimed at him emptying my gun but the bullets just bounced of and there I saw something that made my heart drop to my stomach. The already present frown became deeper, it grabbed and rose him by his collar, " you have been storing narcotics in your warehouses and transporting them who do you work for? " it asked in a deep voice. "I ain''t telling you Sh*t?" I spat in it''s face it actually messed up my business and dared to question me. It paused for a minute then slammed me through the ceiling to floor windows behind me, I looked down. I was 20 floors high, if I fell.... as I thought this he actually took away an arm holding me up with just one and I held on for dear life. "Once more who do you work for?" , I kept quiet but with each second I felt his grip loosen and finally I gave up " wait wait, I don''t know man I just get alerts when they want something.... " " who''s they?" " I don''t know. " His grip loosened once more and I knew if it loosened any more I was dead. " Okay the list!the list! pull me up! " "what list?" " pull me up! please " He kept silent but I knew if I didn''t say I wasn''t making it out of here "It''s a list of the people I work with and some higher ups now pull me up! please!" " where is it?" " It''s in my drawer pull me up..." "Freeze!" Detective George Stacy P.O.V We made it to the place, Matt discovered all the warehouses that had been hit by the bat belonged to a guy called Antoine. *Ding* the elevator arrived at the 20th floor but what we saw was not the Club scene we expected the place was a mess and it was clear our guy was here. Matt called for back up as we headed in, as we headed in we heard a voice. The voice was scary I admit and it seemed to be questioning. We arrived in, " Freeze!" before us stood a 6ft tall man dressed in a bat costume,"bring the guy in nice and slow." The batman paused he flung Antoine in as well as a flash bang, with a bang we were blinded. Chapter 13 - The List George was in the captain''s office along with his partner recounting what they saw. "....Then he vanished. " " what do you mean he vanished?" The captain asked, he had listened to the story but all it did was leave him with more questions. "I mean he vanished, there was a bang and then he was gone." The captain held the bridge of his nose as he heard what they just said , " at least we have confirmed... okay we are leaning more to him being human and we have a drawing of him " he places his hand on a sketch created by a sketch artist, after a moments pause he speaks to the detectives once more" okay go ahead and interrogate Antoine, I want to know who this..... batman is maybe he can give as a clue as to who he is or what the batman was after." George and his partner moved out of the office and headed to go interrogate Antoine. " So George, why do you think he''s doing this?" Matt questioned George as the were on their way." I don''t know what he''s after, but what I do know is no one in their right mind goes around beating other''s in a bat suit and even if he is trying to do good, one does not go outside the law to obtain justice. " George spoke with a strong conviction which stunned Matt. George was a strong believer of the law and he did not believe in vigilantes. They soon arrived in the room where Antoine was kept, "I want my lawyer" he spoke immediately he saw them enter the room. George moved towards them and dropped a folder filled with evidence on the table, " illegal possession of narcotics, selling narcotics, selling under age girls and a whole list of offences.... I think this is enough to keep you behind bars for a long time. So go ahead call your lawyer I want to see if he is that good. " Seeing all the evidence the indifference in Antoine''s face disappeared it was replaced by a slight look of panic but he remained silent. Matt decided it was time to cut in, " look we are after the guy that came after you.... you cooperate, then we can help to reduce your sentence which you are definitely going to obtain when you go to court. Do you have any idea who the batman is or what he was after." Antoine remained silent as his mind remembered everything, he began to weigh his options he either kept his mouth shut and hoped the people behind him felt he was worth it and came to save him or he took his chances and confessed. Antoine was silent for a while before he spoke up " he was after the list..." ////////// In the batcave Jeffrey had managed to grab the flash drive and escape and was now before his computer which had finally decoded the flash drive. "Have you found anything sir?" Sebastian came right behind him asking. " It seems to be a list. A very interesting list, most of the people on this list were the people running the place but now it seemed they were all wolves in sheeps clothing. " Jeffrey looked through the list and was surprised by the sheer number of people on the list as well as the power the people on the list had. " Oh my! What now master Jeffrey? " Sebastian asked " It seems I have my work cut out for me." In an undisclosed location "master Antoine has spoken to the police and apparently the batman has the list." A man dressed in a prim suit came up to a man who was in a office chair looking at a video of Antoine in the station. "Oh? whose this batman?" The ''master'' asked his man " he appeared a month ago and apparently all who have seen him claim he is a demon. He is also the reason Antoine was caught he provided the evidence as well." "Oh now that is interesting. Find out everything about this batman" "Yes sir! erhm..... sir what about Antoine." the ''master '' sneered at what his man said " He has lived long enough don''t you think. " "I understand." The man then proceeded to walk out , the master spoke to himself " batman huh..... interesting " Chapter 14 - You know us billionaire vigilantes... Jeffrey had finally made an appearance once more as himself and not the batman. He had thought about it carefully and realised he couldn''t ignore his identity as Jeffery King, billionaire extraordinaire. Sebastian had also aided in him in creating rumours that provided an alibi as to why he was missing in the public eye, and let''s just say....he now has a reputation similar to his friend Tony. "Hello mister King." Sebastian had been running the company with him, " I''m Joseph Morgan." He introduced himself, he was an African American with a few gray hairs hear and there which seemed to be the only witness to his age as he was as fit as a fiddle and showed no other signs of his age. " Nice to meet you Mr. Morgan I''ve heard a lot about you." Whilst Jeffrey was living his other life Detective George Stacy was pissed. They had arrived that day to find Antoine dead in his cell, apparently from hanging himself. George did not believe Antoine killed himself, not one bit he was sure he was murdered because if the information he gave the day before showed anything, it was that the people behind him were the one''s running the show. George would bet his job that this was a murder and someone had ordered the hit, George moved to the Captain but the captain wouldn''t hear it. George came out of the Captain''s office with a sullen look , he looked around at the officers moving about and a disturbing thought appeared, how many were working for the enemy. "hey, you okay." Matt came up from behind him, " Yeah. Yeah I''m good. " George replied, " you sure cause you don''t look good. " George paused for a moment before asking Matt as he began walking to his office, " hey, do you believe he did it. " " huh" " Antoine, something just isn''t right, why did he do it." Matt paused hearing that "... who knows man?... wait don''t tell me, you think.... " . " yeah it was a hit." George interrupted and seeing Matt was about to speak he continued, "think about it, he just gave up information yesterday so as to have an easier sentence and I''ll be damned if I believe we confiscated his entire wealth. Guys like that always have a hidden stash, now a guy who is looking forward to a lighter sentence as well as his wealth when he gets out doesn''t just kill himself." At this point they had arrived at their office and Matt began to think of what his partner just said, "...okay if, I said if, if your somehow right then that means we have a mole. " Matt finally spoke up but George shook his head to disagree, "not a mole, with the scale we have seen this isn''t some small time gang this is a mafia a syndicate even now the question is how many are with them." At this point it finally hit Matt as he looked at the officers in the building just how terrifying their opponent was and all he could say was... "oh sh*t!!!!!!". Sebastian was watching Jeffery as he modified a car, the car was a prototype developed by the tech department of their company and for some reason it was here in the batcave being modified by one Jeffrey King. Jeffrey stood up smiling after he was done and began to introduce his modified car to Sebastian, " bulletproof, heat resistant, A whole array of weapons hidden in, an A.i that can give Jarvis and run for his money capable of maneuvering almost all terain and a whole slew of other improvements but the most impressive it goes from 0 to 900 in 3 seconds..... " "why did you do this?" was the first question that popped in Sebastian''s mind. " Oh you know us billionaire vigilantes, we love our toys.. " Jeffery as he looked at his bat mobile. Chapter 15 - Partners Jeffrey was getting annoyed, pissed even. For the past month the batman had been going after the people on the list and the more he did the bigger he realised all this was. First of all the people he went after were way high up and had too much say in how the place was run and yet none of them was the man in charge and all that meant the man in charge was bigger than he initially thought. The real kicker on the other hand was the NYPD had just issued a warrant for his arrest, the batman was now a wanted vigilantee. In front of the Police Station. "...we hereby declare that the so called batman is a danger to this city he is to be considered armed and dangerous and we the NYPD will not condone any form of vigilantism. We the NYPD hereby issue an arrest warrant for this so called batman." The Captain spoke to the journalists gathered at the press. Immediately the captain was done a journalist asked a question, "Captain does that mean you are confirming the rumors, is the really a demon bat in our city?" . "He is no demon, he is but a man in a bat costume and as I said earlier he should be considered armed and dangerous, thank you." the Captain then left ignoring the many questions from the various reporters. Detective George Stacy watched the entire thing, "this doesn''t feel right." Matt turned to him, "what do you mean? first you want to catch this guy now you don''t?" "Don''t get me wrong I don''t condone the batman, but he has helped us in bringing down the guys at the top even bringing down some corrupt cops but most of the officials haven''t been charged and we don''t go after the crooks we found by after batman...it just doesn''t feel right." Matt paused " when you put it that way....yeah something does not add up." back in the king Manor. "It seems the batman just became public enemy number one." Sebastian came up to Jeffrey, " It seems I underestimated the number of officers in their pockets. " " indeed, how close are you to getting to the top." " It has now become impossible to beat my way any higher, Antoine''s death served as a warning. Snithches get stitches, no one wants to be next. " "So what are you going to do next?" Sebastian asked Jeffrey who was now drenched in sweat after his workout, " I just started out and have yet to gain contacts in the criminal world but I''m pretty sure every good cop has a few." "That''s a great idea only one problem, you are now public enemy number one and wanted by the NYPD how are you going to do this." "I refuse to believe every officer in this city has been bought.... Oracle bring up the list of officers." "Yes sir" A female voice responded, Jeffrey decided he needed an A.I Sebastian was good but wasn''t enough and that led to the birth of the A.I, the Oracle. Oracle brought up the list of officers who didn''t have any records of receiving a bribe, suddenly one name stood out detective George Stacy Jeffrey knew slot about him as he was the father of Gwent Stacy as well as future NYPD captain. " it seems the batman would be paying someone a visit. later that night. at the NYPD. George was in his office try to make sense of everything but it was like finding a needle in a hay stack. He was getting frustrated when the lights in his office suddenly went out then he heard a voice, " hello detective." George turned around fast pointing his gun at the person who he couldn''t believe was in his office, before him was the demon bat himself. " How did you get here?" "I''m batman." "what''s that supposed to mean?", the batman ignored his question an continued "I need your help." " help. Why would I help you? you are a wanted criminal. " " do you believe that, you know as well as I do that this city is slowly dying and more than the police are in thier pockets." "So what you want to be what, Captain America." "These are the files I have collected but I''m missing something the people won''t talk after what happened to Antoine but I have figured out something none of them know more than what they should almost like terrorist cells there must be a link between them but I can''t find it, I need your help." Batman dropped a folder on his desk, George moved to look at the folder when he looked back up the batman was no more. "Even if I help you, how will I contact you huh." George muttered to himself when suddenly there folder began to vibrate.. opening it the was a phone hidden among the files with a message on its screen "use this." Chapter 16 - Mr.Cheng As I said earlier every good cop has a source in just two days, detective George Stacy called me over, when I say me I mean the batman. George was on the rooftop and started to doubt whether all this was a bad idea. He was meeting with a vigilante for God''s sake, just as he was about to heard back in, "detective" a deep emotionless voice resounded behind him. Turning around the batman was right before him, " that your actual voice or? " "I heard you had information for me." the batman ignored his question. ".... I took some effort, this guy is not an easy guy to find", the detective spoke as he passed the file to me. " It wasn''t easy most of these guys have next to no contact with one another unless at those parties, that''s were we saw this guy..." batman takes a closer look at the Asian man he didn''t recognise. "couldn''t I.d the guy. but we do know he is the only one linking all our perps together." " he is not the boss." the batman finally spoke, "huh" " think about it if I run such a massive organisation is one of two things appear and inspire fear to rule or be mysterious and use mankind''s fear of the unknown... considering we didn''t know this guy existed until recently... " George interrupted " they''re probably the latter. " "do you have anymore information..." back at the batcave. "this just keeps getting more interesting." Sebastian spoke up after reading through the file, "so what are you going to do now." "Thanks to the detective I know where he will be this Saturday night and guess who obtained an invitation." a smirk appeared on the batman''s face. "I guess this is a job for master King then." "Thank you for having me Mr.Pierce." Jeffrey spoke with a smile on his face, " No I should thank you Mr.King, you know with all that has been going on recently the batman going after the rich and the city slowly descending to chaos I decided to host this Galla to show the people of this city we are not afraid." after listening to Mr.Pierce, Jeffrey grabbed a glass of wine "well cheers to that." "I think I see a pretty right there please excuse me." " oh don''t mind me, go ahead enjoy yourself. " "thank you." And with that Jeffrey walked away all smiles. The information showed thbat the guy only liked to show up at high class social gatherings and there was a tip he would here tonight. As I walked around I spoke to Sebastian through the com in my ear, "any sign of him?" "not yet I''m still searching. Are you sure this is a good idea sir?" "of course I meet him conduct some introductions and obtain his name I mean who doesn''t want to meet Jeffrey King." "hmm....wait sir I think I have something. To your right he just entered a room with two other guys." I walked towards it but saw the two guards infront, and judging by their posture I knew they were not simple. I stopped grabbed a drink and headed of to a corner. " Sebastian there are two guards infront I can''t get close, can you pull up the audio feed? " "I thought you''d never ask" and with that I was in. mysterious guy(M.G) Collins (C) C: nice to see you Mr Cheng. M.G: good to see you too Collins, but I''m sure you didn''t call me over to say hi. M.G: you have a clue as to where it is? C: I have something... there was a short pause M.G:... and what am I going to do with this? C: that has information on who has what your looking for he is a... collector of sorts. Hearing this conversation I knew I had to go in. I made my way to the roof as I arrived Sebastian questioned me, " what are you doing? " " making an entrance. " After changing into my bat suit I jumped down with my grappling hook and fired a flash bang into the office. I jumped in right after to grab Collins but the so called Mr.Cheng got away and I had two guys to deal with. The two rushed at me and we began fighting, I was impressed by their skills they were definitely better than the street thugs I had been up against recently. they even managed to land a hit or two, but I''m batman. ( A/N before I continue I know there is no way the batman would be this weak but I want this to be like his earlier years so yeah he will make a few mistakes be human but he will improve eventually becoming a monster like the original bat) I took out the guys when I heard the sound of an engine looking out I saw a black car leaving it didn''t take much to know who the Hell was in there. Pressing a bu??on I took a leap of faith, as I got increasingly close to the alsphat a sound came from behind and I knew my ride was here. I landed right in my batmobile and gave chase. The was a bit too many cars and I might loose him, I activated a feature and the car shot a few grappling hooks.. I allowed the people of new York to see something they wouldn''t forget anytime soon, I mean how many times do you see a car driving up a building. Chapter 17 - The Chase The batmobile was speeding on the buildings chasing after Mr.Cheng, who had begun to fire at the car. The commotion was enough to draw the attention of the NYPD who was now rushing to the scene. The car took a turn heading down a less busy route. Seeing this as an opportunity Batman fired at the car''s wheels causing an explosion which in turn caused the car to flip over. the batmobile pulled up by the car, Bats jumped out and began to walk over to the reckage. Just as he did he spotted Mr. Cheng making his way out, he stopped and took a good look at him. Mr.Cheng did same before speaking out, "so your the batman, hehe my master has been interested in you lately." " Who is your master?" Batman questioned but he just laughed and charged at batman with a sword. Batman moved just in time to avoid the swing of his sword firing a few batarangs as he did so. Cheng was skilled enough to block each one with his sword, at this point batman''s scowl became more evident the feeling that he wasn''t just against Street thugs increased. He rushed at Cheng delivering a roundhouse kick to his head. The two continued to exchange blows with bats using his braces to block the sword strikes. After a few more rounds Batman finally kicked his sword and socked him hard in the jaw. He moved over to continue his interrogation but the man had bitten down on poison and was gone. Batman was stunned for a moment and was stunned for a moment before searching him but he found nothing. He was about to conduct a search on the car when he heard the sirens. He gave up and jumped into his batmobile disappearing and just like any good movie the police arrived just as he left. "Damn it! we missed him!" the captain exclaimed seeing they missed him, when he saw Mr.Chengs corpse he was shocked then made a call " we have a problem". meanwhile batman had returned with the mind to question Collins as to what exactly he gave Cheng but when he arrived the scene he saw was not what he was expecting Collins was found dead and pinned to the wall with two swords. Just then Batman received a call from detective Stacy "we need to talk" A man walked in, he was in a neat suit with a hat covering his face his appearance contrasting with the sort of people in the club. The man ignored the stares and moved closer to a man who looked to be of importance. " I''m here to see the lady." hearing what he said he gave a nod and led him to an office where a lady sat enjoying her own personal strip show. she turned when she heard them enter and smiled "My my my It''s been a while." the man took of his hat revealing to be none other than Sebastian "not long enough" "leave" the lady spoke only one word and everyone was gone leaving just her and Sebastian. " I thought you didn''t want to see me anymore after your prince returned" " I''m here for business Eve" " Aren''t you always ". She spoke as she poured a glass of scotch for herself " want some...your loss". " I''m here for information" Sebastian got straight to the point "that''s not how this works Sebastian." Sebastian gave her a look of confusion. "You know, when you contacted us and said let''s form this I was first to jump on board but recently you have been ignoring us." "I''ve been busy" " well the others are starting to talk, their starting to get ideas..." " I deal with it." "hmm ok so what do you need handsome." " do you know Mr.cheng" " I thought we were letting them be?" " Things have changed, what are they after?" Eve took a good look at him before placing her drink down. "I don''t know what but I know where it might be...." " And?" " Sebastian you should know this is a give and take relationship.. " Sebastian glanced at her once more "I owe you one" she smiled and took a chip from a drawer " here you go and don''t forget, you owe me." Chapter 18 - Bounty Atop the police building, Batman walked out of the shadows to see George Stacy who was waiting. "you''re here!" George exclaimed immediately he saw the batman. " you said this was important " "this is, you are now wanted." Batman just stared "I already am" "no you don''t get it, when I say wanted I mean with a bounty on your head. The captain just issued a $1000 bounty on your head do you understand and if that wasn''t bad enough I heard you have a bounty in the underworld as well a stunning $1000000." Batman didn''t show any emotion but deep inside he was stunned. he wasn''t dumb the bounty was definitely a big problem " I''ll handle it " batman spoke and turned to leave but George spoke up "did you do it?..." " I mean did you kill them." Batman was silent for a moment, "Cheng took in poison, for Collins I''m sure the people behind Cheng were the ones responsible so as to keep him silent." George let out a sigh of relief, for a moment he thought Batman might have been responsible, that he made the wrong decision by allying with a vigilante "that''s good" he looked up only realising then that the batman was gone, "I hate it when he does that." he muttered to himself. I an unknown building a man was smashing objects around him " damn him!" "dammit, damn you Batman!" One of his manager hesitating spoke up master we obtained the drive which has information on where ''it'' is. Those words managed to calm the man down a bit. " I originally thought this... batman was intriguing and was even going to extend an olive branch, but the bastard killed Cheng. Find it after you retrieve it we will get this batman before we go he will pay for what he has done." "yes master." In the Batcave. Batman had just arrived thinking of the events of the night. "master Jeffrey your here." Sebastian spoke as he saw the batman take a seat before his computer with his scowl even more prominent. "I have something you might be interested in Sir." His words left the batman puzzled, Sebastian chuckled as he saw the batman''s puzzled expression. "Don''t forget I am a former member of the SSR and I still have friends in all sorts of places. It wasn''t to difficult to obtain the information" Sebastian spoke with a smirk on his face. Batman proceeded to look through the information, the key points he now understood, being what they had was with one Johnson and it would be arriving in the city by the end of the week giving him sometime to prepare for the inevitable battle and mist importantly, what they were after was some sort of ring. Jeffrey watched the ring for a while and an idea popped in his head but he quickly dismissed it. At the airport. A man was dressed in a beast hide leaving his ?h?st b?r?. "Mr Kraven it''s an honour to meet you" another man came over to receive him " hm I am here for one thing"The man spoke with a thick Russian accent "our master has made arrangements this will be your best hunt yet." Kraven sneered, "the batman huh I can''t wait Hehe" Chapter 19 - A bat Hunt Batman was patrolling the city when he tapped into an alarm discovering a robbery was happening in a bank nearby even funnier it was a bank he owned. The four criminals robbing the bank where in ski masks with ?ssault rifles, suddenly there was a bang following which a hole appeared in the ceiling which the bat came right through nailing a superhero landing batman style. But the criminals forgot all the money aiming at him with some of the hostages also getting up pulling guns at him. "hah it worked, you actually came weren''t sure if it was going to work but we got you, you son of a b***h...THE MONEY IS OURS!" Batman dropped a smoke bomb which blinded the criminals but that didn''t stop them as they emptied their guns. Then there was silence with their gun barrels still smoking, "did we get him?" one of the criminal asked when a couple of batarangs flew at them as a response. "f***! he still alive" Batman moved out of the smokescreen taking them all down before disappearing. On a rooftop. "I take it, it was another trap sir." Sebastian spoke through the coms, " the whole city has gone mad, I can''t tell if someone actually needs help or are just trying to lure me out." "hm... that may be true but you can take them out." "That worries me. The person who did all this knows this people are not enough, I have the feeling that their plotting something. I don''t like the fact that I don''t know what." There was a pause after that, " I''ll see what I can find. In the meantime you need to get to the office. " In a certain club. "Wow two visits in such a short time, I feel loved" "hello Eve" Sebastian had decided to visit her once more. "As much as I love to see you...I have a feeling your not here just to see me are you?" " I need some information." "When don''t you" She spoke as she drank a glass of whiskey. "I need to..." "nuh uh" Eve cut of Sebastian, " if you want something you need to do something for me first." She spoke with a seductive smile on her face, Sebastian held her gaze before releasing a sigh " what is it?" "certain technology has been unearthed" "what technology?" " The S.S.R kind or what do they call it nowadays... oh yes Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division. They really need to work on the name, anyway a certain group has gotten their hand on that kind of tech and I want it." saying so she passed over a folder to Sebastian, He took a quick glance at it "I deal with it later tonight now the info." "Your familiar with the name Kraven yes?" Sebastian gained an alarmed look and got up to warn Jeffery. seeing him in such a rush Eve laughed before speaking, " You know Sebastian you were a tad too late." her words caused Sebastian''s steps to come to a halt. Turning to her, he asked " what do you mean?" "Kraven has a plan and it''s already began." at her words every monitor in New York City changed revealing Kraven. "Hello Ney York," Jeffrey who was in the midst if a meeting got up looking at the screen." I am Kraven, the hunter" a man with a fur jacket with a thick Russian accent appeared on screen. Jeffrey was stunned seeing the man, the man was a famous baddie but he didn''t expect to meet him at least not this soon. " Batman I know you are watching this, I have kidnapped a bus of school children..." The camera moved to show a bunch of teens tied up " I will kill one of them every ten minutes if you fail to appear. let the hunt begin!" with those words an address was written on the screen. Jeffrey left the office heading down to the pasking lot. " Oracle..." He began " already here sir" following her words a car engine was heard from behind him, The batmobile was here, Jeffrey jumped in and sped of. In the N.Y.P.D "okay people we have got a mad man who has kidnapped a school bus full of children. I want all our best men on this we have ten minutes until we lose a child now move." The captain gave a short speech gearing up with the rest behind us. George and his partner got into their car. " the whole city has gone mad Georgie mad I tell you." George''s partner began " Ever since the batman appeared everything went to sh*t, with all these criminals popping up hoping to get the bounty and now as though one freak in a costume was not enough we got another one who is kidnapping kids man, kids this is all messed up, It would have been better if the batman never showed up.." George heard his partner''s rant and although he did not want to agree a part of him silently agreed. Chapter 20 - Kraven "I want men all round snipers over there and there." the captain began giving orders the police had placed a barricade preventing any of the journalist from getting too close. "Do we have a visual?" "negative no sign of the kids and Kraven or the batman" "dammit" Matt was pissed, " why don''t we storm in? we only got a few minutes left before a kid dies on live television." "we can''t" George spoke to his partner understanding his frustration very well. "why the hell not?!" " we still don''t have a visual and for all we know this could be a trap one wrong move and a kid dies." Matt understood his partner very well but it still didn''t make him feel better. In the building. Kraven stood before the kids who were all huddled up together shaking, taking a look at his watch, the bat had a minute before a kid lost their life. "It looks as though the batman doesn''t take me seriously." he spoke with his russian accent terrifying the kids even more as he began to walk closer to them, "well we''ll have to change that won''t we." *boom* there was an explosion at the side of the building drawing everyone''s attention inside and outside. George looked up at the explosion and spoke to himself, "he''s here". Inside Kraven had directed his attention away from the kids to the site of the explosion preparing to finally face the batman. *boom* there was another explosion happened inside the building leaving a hole in the ground between Kraven and the kids. There was silence, Kraven got his weapons out ready for the fight when he heard weird sounds. Kraven''s curiosity lasted for a moment before he realised what it was and ran for cover just before countless bats rushed out the whole. Kraven ducked behind a pillar as the bats flew out the building causing all those outside to look at the scene in awe, " Jesus..." Matt stared at scene in the sky shocked. In the building several clicking sounds were heard then screams. Kraven was curious but didn''t dare move until the bats were gone. he moved towards the hole cautiously, he realised all the hostages were gone. looking through the hole he saw nothing. "Come out!" he shouted while pointing his rifle towards the hole. He was then drop kicked before he could pull the trigger as batman descended from the ceiling and rushed at him. "Hahaha you are truly wonderful." Kraven exclaimed as he pulled out his hunting knife and began to battle with one another. Batman soon realised he had sorely underestimated Kraven''s skill and ability as he was kicked straight through a pillar. "When I''m done with you batman, I''ll mount your head on my wall! hahaha" Kraven laughed as he charged at batman who dropped a smoke bomb disappearing into the smoke. Kraven was lost in the smoke alert and ready when he received a kick to the back of his head then a punch to his jaw. Two batarangs came out and knocked away his two hunting knives, another one came out of the smoke aiming for his head but relying on sheer instincts he caught the batarang, *beep*beep*beep*beep* the batarang was blinking and his eyes widened when he realised what was happening *bang* there was another explosion and Kraven was sent through the floor. Outside the building everyone was getting anxious after the explosions and bats and beginning to wonder ''just what the hell is going on in there''. The captain couldn''t hold it anymore, "all units get in position and get ready to go in." At that moment George saw something and shouted "hold on! hold your fire!" everyone came to a halt and saw some figures rushing out the building, the figures were none other than the kids. .... Batman flew down after him but Kraven rolled away just in time to avoid his punch. They both started exchanging blows once again but Kraven''s enhanced strength and agility came into play. Batman was taking more hits than he was giving. Bats soon had his back against a wall, he avoided a punch coming straight for his face and went round Kraven placing him in a sleep hold. Kraven slammed him into the wall once more, causing batman to let go before turning around to punch the bat who rolled away from him. Batman stood before him and held a switch which confused Kraven but as Batman pressed the bu??on a volt of electricity went through Kraven finally knocking him out. Batman let out a sigh of relief but before he could rest he heard footsteps and knew it was time to go. Chapter 21 - Just a Butler "well well that was interesting." Eve clapped as she saw the police drag out Kraven, the live feed had cut of when the vats appeared so the exact details of what happened in the building when unknown to them both but the end result was known. "Seems I was underestimating the batman." She turned to Sebastian with a sweet smile on her face which Sebastian ignored as he turn away. "oh Sebastian, this doesn''t cancel the deal though I do expect my tech." Sebastian looked at her with a frown etched on his face don''t worry you''ll get it by tonight. ..... Later that night at a warehouse. Sebastian had packed across the building looking at the people guarding the place, he hated what he was about to do but after a deep breath he pulled down hus hat covering his face a bit as he pulled out his glock with a silencer. Taking another deep breath he walked out his car and began heading over, the guards caught sight of him in a few minutes but were taken out before they could sound the alarm. Sebastian walked in confidently as though he owned the place one shot was all it took to take someone down. He killed about twenty people before the gang was aware of his presence as they began firing at him. Sebastian ducked behind a pillar fir cover as he reloaded his gun. One unlucky sob got too close and was grabbed and made into a human shield as Sebastian continued to walk forward shooting down the thugs, at this moment Sebastian went back to his times in the S.S.R where he would barge into Hydra bases like this. He never thought he would be doing something like this ever again. Sebastian kept emptying his gun into them until he was finally out. He began rushing towards them with his human shield changing the battle to a close combat one where his experience was made clear. A well timed kick sent one of them into a crate, turning around to avoid a punch from behind before flipping the ?ssailant and proceeding to snap their neck. Sebastian got to his feet grabbing an ?ssault rifle from the ground he looked around realising the tech along with the boss was no where to be seen. Hearing the revving from an engine, he rushed out right in time to see a car drive by but with one shot to the tire the car skidded of and right into the wall. Sebastian then calmly walked over to the car. The gang leader struggled to make his way out of the car with a briefcase only to come face to face with a barrel *bang* with one shot his life was over. Sebastian went down picked up the briefcase and left the scene. ... Matt was with George, reading the news paper which was about the events which had just taken place "Can''t believe these people they make it seem as though the guys some hero their even calling him some Dark night the captain America of our time... please captain America was a hero this guy is just some masked vigilante." " But he did save the kids" George argued. "who were in trouble because of him in the first place, what''s up with you? you seem to be on his side" "There are no sides Matt" George spoke up to Matt. " Oh really cause the papers make it seem like there are... like here ''the NYPD stood helpless whilst the batman saved the children'' no sides huh", Matt slammed the paper before George who took a closer look at the story. "he is just trying to help." "well we don''t need his help." ..... At the club. "well lookie here you''re back early." Sebastian ignored Eve''s comment as he placed the brief case before her. Eve opened the Briefcase and seeing her tech safe and sound she wore a smile like a child on Christmas morning. "you never fail captain." "I''m retired, remember" with those words he turned to leave " we might have retired from the S.S.R but you started all this. " Sebastian to one last look at her before walking out "I''m just a Butler." .... *thud* thud* Sebastian walked into the batcave to see Jeffery going through the combat simulation harder than ever before. " if you don''t mind me asking sir, are you alright " Jeffrey came to a halt taking a minute to catch his breath " the fight with Kraken earlier today made me realise something." "And what would that be sir." Sebastian came over with a towel, " it''s not enough. Soon enough I''ll be going against people who make what captain America could do look like child''s play I need to be stronger I need to be even better.. " Turning to look at the image on the screen "if this ring is what I thin it is then I need to get even better if I''m going to take him down." Chapter 22 - Of bats and Dragons pt 1 "how was the meeting sir?" a woman''s voice came over from the phone of a private yatch, a man laughed twirling a wine glass at hand "great of course is there anyone in this world who can refuse me". As he laughs he stares at a ring on his finger. The ring was his most prized possession he had first obtained the ring by chance but ever since he found out what it could do, he had never taken it of. With the ring no one could say no to him. "how long till we arrive?" "a few minutes sir." Hearing the captains words he got ready. As they arrived at the docks, he felt something was wrong he was ready to head back when he heard a thud turning around his men were down with bullet holes in their heads. His eyes widened in fright men in suits arrived with guns aimed at him, his back was immediately drenched in sweat and the only thought in his head was ''is this how I die''. A band interrupted his thoughts as smoke seemingly came out of nowhere obstructing everyones view. The men with guns came alert with their fingers on the trigger ready to fire at a moments notice. The smoke began to clear but the one they saw was not who they were expecting... before them was none other than the batman. In that moment when they were temporarily stunned Batman yanked forward and a crate came flying cracking the skulls of a few of the men and causing the others to scatter. Batman leaped up dropping a few flash bangs disorienting the men even further more. The getting close to them turning the fight to his advantage as he began disarming them and breaking a few bones whilst at it. Moving to the side Batman b?r?ly avoided a gunshot for his head, he moved quickly grabbing the guys arm and delivering quick jabs to his ribs before moving around him and snapping his neck causing the ?ssailant to drop to the ground like a sack of potatoes and just like that a group of over 30 were taken out within mere minutes without so much as a scratch. *clap*clap*clap* a slow clap resounded throughout out the empty docks. Batman turn to the source to see a man he really didn''t want to see. Atop of a container was a man of Asian decent who was in a neat black suit with a white shirt and a red tie. He had a goatee with long black hair but what drew the batman''s attention was the ring on his left index finger. "Hello Batman, I have heard a lot about you." He began with a smirk on his face "let me introduce myself, I am...." "the mandarin." Batman interrupted him causing the Mandarin to raise a brow in surprise. " I see you have heard of me." Batman remained silent watching the Mandarin he had a feeling it would be him but he hoped he was wrong but no such luck. The Mandarin moved and then threw down something, taking a closer look,Batman realised it was the corpse of the business man he thought he had help esacape. The mandarin continued speaking, "You see I came to this city in search of something I lost, but it was a pleasant surprise to encounter someone of your caliber. I''ll tell you want give me my ring and swear your allegiance to me and I will let you live." Batman just stared at him, he had indeed taken the ring from the business man earlier on. He had no idea how the Mandarin lost his rings but he was not handing it over to him. Seeing his silence the Mandarin had inferred his answer, " I see... such a shame " he moved his arm sending a ball of fire down at the Batman who rolled away just in time. At the NYPD. "Alright boys we have information that a shootout is going on at the docks and the batman has been spotted. move out" The captain spoke out George put on his vest grabbing his gun as he rushed out as well. Back at the Docks. Batman looked up just in time to see the mandarin raising his arm at him firing a fire blast at him. Bats shot his grappling hook above flying out of there just in time rolling unto a container. Batman got up in time to see Mandarin leaping unto the container. Batman waisted no time sending a sweeping kick to the Mandarin which swept him off his feet for a second but he managed to transform it to back flip and then sending a kick to the Bats jaw but he got his arm up in time to block it. Seeing that the Mandarin began to smile and then moved in unleashing a flurry of attacks. Batman avoiding them managed to place a tazer on him and activated it but it seemed to do nothing to him. He pulled it of him, " if that''s the best you can do..." he crushed it " then you are better of dead." To be Continued Chapter 23 - of bats and dragons pt2 Mandarin had his arm raised and ready to fire, when he heard a sound, turning around to see a container which was sent flying straight for him by an explosion. Batman had jumped away just intime to watch the whole thing happen. Bats let out a breath of relief thinking it was over when suddenly *boom* another explosion was heard and out of the flames came the Mandarin his clothes were all but destroyed leaving him half n?k?d but otherwise he was okay. "Xi¨¤nz¨¤i wo zh¨§n de h¨§n sh¨§ngq¨¬." The Mandarin spoke in Chinese then appeared before the batman and delivering a punch straight to his gut while releasing a fire ball sending Batman flying away. The Mandarin began walking to the batman his smile no longer visible and his rage clear in his eyes. Mandarin rose his hand to finish the job only to now realise he no longer had the ring, looking at Batman once more he saw Batman had the ring aimed for him receiving a fireball aimed straight for his face. "Arrrrgggh" He screamed in pain. Batman took advantage moving in and releasing a flurry of punches not letting up the least then aiming a well timed low kick to the Mandarin resulting in a sickening crunch as one of the Mandarins legs broke. The two were now at the edge of the docks but the Mandarin was refusing to give up. He stood picking up a sword from of the dead bodies nearby and began limping towards the batman, batman got in his fighting stance as they rushed at one another. One could not even tell Mandarin was fighting on one leg from the way he was moving but Batman wasn''t leaving any openings and neither the fight moved all the way into the Yacht which belonged to the business man. Batman was now decorated with sword cuts with fresh blood oozing out of the many openings, the Mandarin was not any better with a few cuts here and there and few more broken bones. "You can''t defeat me I am the Mandarin when I was conquering armies your father was yet to be born, I''ll give you one last chance hand over my rings or else..." In response to his threat Batman rose his hand and fired a ball. Mandarin moved to the side managing to avoid it just in time but turning to the Batman he saw him jumping out the window looking back at what the flame made contact with all he could say was " oh sh*t." The NYPD had just arrived at the docks the captain stood ready to give out their plan if action when *Boom* a loud explosion was heard and a bright flame rose into the night sky making it seem as though it was midday. "Dammit, move! move!" The NYPD rushed in to see men laying dead with weapons laid all around. Anyone could tell a war just happened, amongst the bodies one one George, Matt and the Captain recognised it was none other than the business man "sh*t! spread out! find the batman." George knew that whatever happened was something big these many bodies and the business man as well... people were going to want answers. They soon found the source of the explosion it was a yacht but with the intensity of the flames they wouldn''t be able to head in until the fire service got there. George was still watching everything when he got a call, after a few minutes his eyes opened wide as he cut the call and headed towards the captain and pointed his gun at him and pointed his gun at him shocking all present. "What the hell are you doing Stacy?!" "yeah Georgie what is up with you?" ignoring the looks from everyone else George began, "captain you are under arrest for murder, corruption, conspiracy to murder and a whole slew of charges you have the right to remain silent.." "What the hell Stacy!" The captain was fuming mad and every one just stood there in stunned silence " It''s over your crimes are being broadcastesd citywide as we speak. " he words causing the captain to be stunned and faint. Batman b?r?ly managed to make it in before falling to the ground as Sebastian run to him. The entire city was unable to sleep that night as evidence kept coming from an unknown source ending the criminals careers of many in New York. ..... Detective George Stacy had just finished a press conference when he received a call "hello Detective" George''s eyes opened wide hearing the voice " where have you been, I have been trying to get hold of you for a whole week. " " I had somethings to take care of, how did you like the gift." " you did this"George ask shocked "my friend did." "you have friends?" George asked genuinely shocked.. The line went dead. Chapter 24 - Captain Marvel It had been five whole years since the Mandarin fiasco and the city was recovering. Some might have argued that the city had gotten better and some might sat it got worse. The NYPD had taken down the bounty on the batman and have refused to give a statement causing many to believe the whole thing was some sort of stunt pulled by the NYPD to enforce the massive crackdown and that there was no such thing as the batman altho some eyewitness begged to differ. The event though had left a vacuum within New Yorks underworld with criminals popping out of everywhere to try and gain control but Batman was here. Jeffrey had learnt a lot after going against the Mandarin and knew if he had to go against the big purple bastard in the future his skills were not going to cut it and so he improve he learnt psychology, escape arts, mastered yoga improved on his acrobatics, became a master gymnast and mastered over 37 martial arts and became a master of a variety of weapons and had also improved his knowledge on various scientific disciplines rather than relying on his knowledge from his past life. He was now getting closer and closer to the actual batman but it still wasn''t enough... "I think you have done enough for today sir." Sebastian came in holding a towel with a bottle of water as Jeffery was on the salmon ladder. Jeff took a glance at him before dropping back to the ground, "thank you Sebastian" "it''s my p???sur? sir, but I do think you could take a rest everyonce in a while." "Crime never rests so neither do I" *Beep*Beep* an alarm went off just as Jeff spoke drawing their attention to the pc. They went over to see what was happening, a video popped up on screen of a woman in some sort of blue-green outfit fighting an old lady atop a train and then blowing up a tunnel with some sort of energy beam from her hands. It took a moment but Jeff remembered who this was she was none other Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel. " I''ve got to go." At Maria''s home. Carol and Nick were infront of the alien and were still negotiating when he jumped back from seeing Goose "oh my god, get that thing away from me." "what this don''t tell me your afraid of a cat now are you" Nick mocked him when he saw who was behind him so did Carol along with Maria as Monica entered and saw the figure she shouted " oh my god! it''s Batman! " as she said that the Skrull turned around and had the fright of his life as Batman walked out of the shadows. Nick could only utter three words after seeing him "no f**king way!" "You all have some explaining to do." Batman spoke in his inhumaly deep voice leaving everyone who saw him stunned. Maria was wonder just what was going on to have these guys keep popping up in her house, Carol was just confused as to who this guy was, how she didn''t notice him and more importantly how long had he been here. "Who are you?" Carol finally asked the question that was in her mind breaking the silence and drawing everyone''s attention towards herself " what do you mean who is he, he is the mothereffing Batman." "the who now?" Carol look at Nick who was genuinely shocked by her ignorance before it hit him that she was offworld for the past few years. Nick began to explain some of the bats exploits whilst Maria kept staring at the dark night himself, "I always thought you were nothing more than an urban myth a story made up by the NYPD to scare criminals but..." Maria kept looking at him her shock still clear in her eyes. Batman grabbed the skrull who was still on the ground raising him to eye level and with one bat glare he began to spill everything leaving Carol shocked once more and even more curious as to who the Batman truly was. ... After Maria had played the recording everyone was now on the same page and Bats had finally remembered the entire plot including some minor details he had forgotten. They were now all in the backyard and he had decided he was going with them, " if there are aliens coming, well then I''m coming with you. " Bats turned to Carol or should he say Captain Marvel whose suit had now taken on the iconic colour scheme Carol gave a smile and nod at the batman, she didn''t know him all that well but from what she heard she knew she could use his help, turning to the others "let''s go." Chapter 25 - Captain Marvel pt2 The team was now in a ship heading off to space. Batman looked outside at the sky as they flew higher and higher his facial expression might have been blank but he was excited inside, ever since he figured out he was in the marvel universe he knew for a fact he would go to space but he didn''t expect it to be so soon. Batman was soon brought out of his thoughts by Nick Fury who was holding the cat and using it to mess with Talos. Everyone was amused by his antics, "so batman...I''ve always wondered what are your powers?" Fury asked the batman after messing with the Skrull. Everyone''s attention was now on the batman, " I mean there have been plenty rumours, I heard one guy say your a demon first I thought he was nuts but then... " Nick turned to look at Carol and Talos, "I''m starting to think maybe he wasn''t so nuts after all." Bats just stared without saying a word "okay but you can summon bats right? the news reported it that time when a swarm of bats flew out the building." bats was still silent. "wait....don''t tell me you''re just a guy in a bat suit?" Fury asked with disbelief all over his face and for once he saw batman smile. " Okay we are here." Carol spoke up stopping Nick before he asked anymore questions. Maria looked outside but saw nothing but empty space, "Erhm I don''t see anything". With that the ship began to decloak causing everyone to marvel at the ship even batmans eyes widened, though for a fraction of a second. The got into the ship with Maria and Carol rushing to the teseract and Talos following after them,"well its just you and....where did he go?" Nick turned to where Batman was supposed to be only to find out he was by himself. Batman had slipped away he would ofcourse go back to help when they encountered danger but right now was the best time to scavenge the ship for tech. Batman moved through the air vents finding the armory. Bats jumped down and looking at the rows of weapons before himself, "jackpot". Carol had gotten the teseract but seeing Talos she realised something, "you didn''t come here for the teseract, did you?" she saw him hugging his family, " don''t worry I won''t hurt you", "Fratenizing with the enemy, I see" Yon-Rogg voice was heard. Carol turned to see him coming over with his men whilst holding Goose by the back of his neck. She immediately charged at him but was easily stopped by Yon-Rogg, she was knocked out and placed in some sort of holding with Maria, Nick and the others forced to their knees where they were scanned to determine threat levels. Nick shared a look with Maria wondering where the batman was. *Boom* all the batarangs went off at the same time. Sending Yon-Rogg and his men down. Batman burst out of the vents taking out any of the soilders still standing and grabbing the teseract , then moving to untie Nick and the others. "Man, am I happy to see you". "Stop right there!" Yon-Rogg stood pointing his weapon at the Batman, "how dare you!" looking around at what was left of his men Yon-Rogg was pissed that a mere human had done this, but just as he was about to pull the trigger he had a bad feeling and turned around, just in time to be blasted across the place by Captain marvel who was now covered in energy. She turned to the batman and shared a look before nodding, "the teseract." Batman handed over the box which she opened before placing it before Goose who had tentacles coming out of his mouth as he gulped it down. Fury picked Goose up gently, "I''m trusting you not to eat me." Carol rushed of to deal with the rest, and Batman brought his batarangs out rushing into battle. Maria picked up a weapon from the ground to blast the group of soldiers rushing for them only for the weapon not to work.. Just then Goose opened it''s mouth releasing it''s tentacles on them, Nick looked down at the creature in his hands and all he could say was "oh damn." Chapter 26 - Captain marvel finale Batman took a closer look at Goose and deciding that he was enough to protect Nick and Maria. Bats jumped down to deal with the soldiers below who now had their weapons at him, with a well timed flash bang Batman momentarily disappeared. The soldiers began looking around wondering just where he had gone, one of them spotted batman who now had a gas mask on, "found him!" his shout causing them to turn to him whilst bats dropped some bombs which released purple gas obstructing everyone''s view. There was a thud suddenly followed by more thuds in rapid succession. Nick and Maria looked on from above wondering what was happening in there. Their questions were soon answered, the smoke cleared away revealing countless bodies sprawled on the ground with the batman still in his original position, looking down Nick spoke but three words, "what the f*ck?!" Batman paid them no heed, and began running down the pathway trying to find where Carol was whilst taking down any soldiers that appeared in quick fashion with batarangs in both hands being used as daggers. Batman had just taken down another squadron and was beginning to wonder just where exactly Carol was when there was a boom and there she was flying backwards with Yon-Rogg behind her smashing into the walls. Batman decided she could handle herself and began rushing to the hanger only to soon come face to face with the scene of Nick raising up goose and point it towards soldiers like some sort of weapon. Batman released a sigh and jumped on the soldiers grabbing one''s weapon and using it to blast the weapon straight out of the other ones hand before he could fire, proceeding to then flip the first soldier onto his back and blasting him before turning to blast the soldier who was mid jump, about to land on him. Bats turned to face Nick after he was done, "I could have done that" Nick spoke up, "yeah right" Maria spoke up before turning to Batman, "we need to get to the hangar." "got it", Batman gave a nod and threw the weapon towards Maria before rushing for the hangar. They soon arrived at the hangar to see Carol and Yon-Rogg going against one another. "Get in!" Batman stood before their ship, "I''ll hold them back" he pulled out two batarangs and began fighting of the soldiers who were rushing for the ship, he first released a 540 kick straight to the head of the soldiers and then leaping of him unto another soldier and sending his batarangs straight into their head before proceeding to flip him into the others. He then performed a backflip back into the ship. The soldiers attempted to chase after them but soon head beeping sounds looking down there were a dozen batarangs on the ground with blinking red lights, "oh crap" *boom* The space ship managed to leave heading straight for earth''s atmosphere, but looking behind Bats saw another ship chasing after them with Captain Marvel holding unto it trying to stop the ship but she was blasted of the ship. The ship had arrived with Yon-Rogg right on their tail firing at them, thanks to Maria''s flying skills they managed to avoid the gun fire. "let me out." Batman spoke up causing everyone to look at him as though he was insane, "have you lost your God damned mind!" Batman ignored Nick looking towards Maria who hesitated for a moment before opening the hatch allowing Batman to jump out, "What the hell" Nick shouted at Maria as he saw her actually open it. Batman activated a mechanism in his suit allowing him to glide and avoid Yon-Rogg''s fire and land on the ship ready to blast Yon-Rogg but he just rose his arm releasing a green blast blasting the Batman away but Batman was quick enough to fire his grappling hook unto the ship and attach himself to the underbelly of the ship before taking of a bomb from his utility belt and jumping off right before it blew up. Bats attempted to activate his mechanism to glide away but for some reason it wouldn''t work as Batman realised this his eyes widened but just as he was about to make contact with the earth Captain Marvel arrived and landed him safely. "Thanks" "your welcome." they spoke up with smiles on their faces when the both looked up shocked at what the saw a whole fleet just appeared above earth''s atmosphere Batman and Captain marvel shared a look before Captain Marvel took of for the skies and began tearing through the ships like paper. Captain marvel wiped out the minor ships in mere minutes and appeared before the mother ship, which promptly warped away. Back on earth Batman had arrived before Yon-Rogg who had crawled out the ship. He looked at the Batman and began his typical villain rant, "do you know who I am human, I am a being beyond you I am..." before he could finish a batarang appeared before his face and blew with the resulting force sending him flying into his ship. "Nice shot" Captain landed behind him, Batman turned to face her "he talked too much." Carol burst out laughing after that statement. ..... That night they were all back at Maria''s home with Nick looking more like fury with an eye less, after a few talks Carol handed over a device to fury which would allow him to contact her but only during emergencies of course Batman received one as well before she went out and flew away. "So... how do I contact you" Nick turned to the Batman, "you know where to find me" a ship arrived above them and Batman fired his grappling hook and jumped in before flying away. Nick stood there mouth agape, "that is from the space ship right?" "yeah..." Maria answered mouth agape as well "how.... when did he get that?" Chapter 27 - Arms Race A man in a long coat with a hat on walked through a hallway. The sounds made from the soles of his shoes coming in contact with the tiles being the only sound through out the hallway. The man had soon arrived at the end of the hallway and opened the door before him. In the room were six individuals seated around a round table. The man ignoring the gazes now on himself walked to the seat before himself, sharing a look with the lady who sat at his right which turned out to be none other than lady Eve herself, and took a seat whilst taking of his hat and placing it on the table. "Let the meeting begin." the man who is Sebastian spoke up. .... In the city Batman had arrived at an abandoned warehouse where an arms deal was about to go down. You would think with all the talks about the batman, criminals would avoid this part of New York right, yeah no they keep coming one after the other all as though trying to prove something. "You got the stuff?"One of the men who had just arrived spoke up, he was a small timer seeing as the bat couldn''t recognise him immediately. He had seven guys around himself, who from the way they carried themselves Batman was certain they were all armed. "You got my money?" the leader of the guys who had been here earlier spoke up, he was scruffy looking with his jacket and cig in his mouth he embodied the meaning of the word shady. The newcomer looked at the ???ky grin on his face before signalling one of his men who walked back to one of the cars they came in and popped open the trunk returning with a briefcase at hand. The shady looking guy gestured for the case to be open, the guy look towards his boss who nodded at him before opening the case to reveal the stacks of cash within. The shady looking guy whistled as he laid eyes on the money, "there we go" taking a puff of his cigarette he called to his men to bring over a crate. "That''s the stuff?" The shady looking guy looked at the newcomer who asked the question, before beginning to explain. "This stuff is not like anything you''ve ever seen. This makes Ak''s look like toys, with these babies at hand no one can stop you on these streets be it the police or the so called Batman with one blast from these babies they''re all history." he pat the crate as he spoke. That was it the Batman had heard enough and it was time to take them down, with that Batman dropped a couple of flash bangs and smoke bombs which all went off at once. The shady dude was confused as to what was going on, "What the hell?!" but unlike him the local criminals were feeling fear as they knew exactly what or rather who was here. "Sh*t! the batman is here!" They shouted out as they began shooting into the smoke but it was to no avail as they couldn''t see anything and were still disoriented from the earlier flash bangs. Bats appeared before on of them grabbing his hand which held the gun raising it to face the ceiling before releasing quick jabs to his side and breaking a few ribs before flipping him into another guy and then firing a batarang which accurately disarmed two thugs. He then moved in to beat them both down and slid behind another guy cutting behind his legs with a batarang and forcing him to his knees before delivering a knee to his jaw. The boss grabbed his suitcase of money and tried to high tail out of there but one batarang hit him behind the head sending him face first as his last two were swiftly taken down as well. At this point the shady guy and his men were shocked. It had been at most ten seconds and all was now silent and being unable to see anything made the whole situation even more scary, " f*ck what are you waiting for, fire. fire god dammit" The shady guy gave his orders as he and a few men placed the crate back in the car and began to drive off. Batman had taken everyone else in the warehouse down and run out just in time to see the car speeding off, wasting no time he fired his grappling hook jumping above a building rushing after them before they left the warehouse District. Prying open the crate he grabbed ahold of one of the weapons within and aimed it at the entrance and just as he expected Batman soon appeared but with one shot the bat was sent flying. He began laughing like a mad man as he climbed out of the car which had fallen on its side. "hahaha not so though now are you" he mouthed off as he aimed at the bat who was struggling to get up after being blasted by God knows what. When Batman heard a weird sound and with his instincts telling him it wasn''t anything good, rolled away just in time to avoid a blast from the weapon. The shady kept firing whilst laughing like a mad man, with bats b?r?ly avoiding fire before firing a batarang at the guy who sneered and fired at batarang which promptly blew up creating a wall of fire before himself which in turn caused to take a step back as Batman came through the flames one hand taking the weapon away and the other hitting the guy away. As the guy fell to the ground, Batman came over tying a cable round the guys neck before passing it over a beam and then wrapping it around a small protution and pulling causing the guy to be raised up by his neck hanging. Batman grabbed his leg with his other hand preventing him from being hung to death. The shady guy began gasping for air while holding his neck. "what was that weapon?" "Go...f*ck... yourself." Batman released his leg and pulled on the cable more for a few seconds before loosening it once more and grabbing his leg again "what was that weapon?" "go... to... hell" At that Batman repeated his action once more, this time not stopping till the guy''s face began to turn blue. "you...won''t... kill... me" the shady guy struggled to speak. "your right I won''t. it''s precisely because I don''t kill that I know how to make you suffer without killing you, you''ll be surprised how much the human body can take." With his words, the shady guy broke into sweat before speaking up, "okay... wait. wait, I... don''t know...all I know is... boss... brought them... in... from some... place." "Who is your boss?" "He..." the guy began but Batman heard a familiar sound and ducked just a blast came from behind, going through the guy and destroying a building causing the ruble to fall on them both. After a minute the was movement in the ruble, as Batman came out covered in a force field. He looked to where his attacker should have been to find no one, shifting his attention to the crate he saw it was destroyed as well, all that was left was the weapon the shady guy had used. The sirens were soon heard as Batman picked up the weapon and disappeared into the night. Chapter 28 - T-Chaka "welcome back master Jeffrey how was your night." Sebastian approached Jeffrey who was in his bat suit with his mask down. He stood before the weapon he had managed to salvage but couldn''t make heads nor tails of the material much less the weapon itself. "what do you think of this?" Jeffrey asked Sebastian who was now right by him. Sebastian took a closer look at the weapon before speaking up, "I have never seen anything like this, if anything it is similar to the alien technology you brought over sir" as he said that he looked at the Bat suit which had incorporated said Alien Technology. "I thought so at first, but after further analysis that doesn''t seem to be the case. This metal has been recorded before in S.H.I.E.L.D database but the recorded amount was just enough to make a shield." Jeffrey spoke more as he did his thoughts went to a certain African country unfortunately he had yet to visit there and was clueless on how to manipulate said metal. But on a more alarming issue Jeffrey was curious as to who was responsible for selling these things were they a rouge member of Wakanda or an invader who stole said weapons, with that thought his suspect list was instantly shortened. "Sir" Sebastian''s voice brought Jeffrey out of his thoughts, "yes Sebastian." "I''d like to remind you that you have a meeting to attend to and would be advisable if you change into your other suit sir." Jeff remembered he did indeed have such a meeting which was to discuss with a certain small country on some things although he couldn''t exactly remember which small country it was exactly. " I best not keep them waiting then." That morning Jeff was in a neat Armani tux seating in his office, it was almost time and from his secretary he was quite sure the guest would be arriving in a few minutes. At that moment a dark skinned man walked in surrounded by guards. Jeff was at least able to narrow down the continent seeing the man, stretching out his hand he introduced himself but as he heard the rulers name, his mind went into overdrive trying to figure out why that name was important but with the name of the country it all made sense, before him was none other than king T-Chaka the king of Wakanda and current black panther. The meeting was soon over after an hour or so, but Jeffrey was even more suspicious. After an hour of talks Jeffrey felt as though T-Chaka was not hear for a partnership but rather using the whole thing as some sort of cover up and if Jeffrey had to guess he was here for the stolen Wakandan Tech. George Stacy was getting ready for his press conference, over the years he had worked with Batman and kept the streets as safe as possible. Now all his had work had paid of as he was now about to accept his promotion as Captain. "How do I look?" George turned to the lady standing by himself, "as handsome as the day I first met you." The lady who was none other than George Stacy''s wife, Helen Stacy leaned in giving him a kiss. "get a room you two." A voice broke up the two turning to the source George saw none other than his daughter "Gwen, where are your brothers, your supposed to be looking after them." George asked "oh, gave them a pile of chocolate they should be fine." "what, Gwen you know better than to give the boys chocolate!" Helen scolded her daughter as she rushed out the room. George and Gwen watched her leave before breaking out in laughter. "so you nervous dad?" Gwen asked her father, "nah, I''m good just a press conference, I''ve done this countless times." "is he going to be there?" "who?" "the batman!" Gwen answered excitedly, she had heard so many tales about the guy and she wanted nothing more than to meet the guy. George sighed seeing the excited look on his daughter''s face, "Gwen, sweetheart I don''t think he''ll be coming." "why not? you''re friends aren''t you?" "It''s complicated sweetheart" He kissed his daughter''s head "I''ve got to go" Gwen stood in place watching her father''s back as he left. The reporters were outside all with their cameras as the watched George Stacy move unto the platform and Shake hands with the mayor, before turning to give his speech. George speech spoke of his hopes and dreams and what he hoped to accomplish when someone suddenly shouted for everyone to get down as a blast came aimed for George but a batarang appeared before himself protecting him. The shooter hopped back into the van and escaped, looking up to where the batarang was from George spotted a shadow of a figure before the disappeared. Chapter 29 - New Masks Jeff had arrived in the cave ready to check in on T-Chaka, when Sebastian congratulated him " good work sir". Jeffery was confused and rose his brow to show, "for what exactly?" "well saving captain Stacy of course." Sebastian replied as he played the video of the batarang appearing in the nick of time saving the newly instated captain. Jeff frowned as he came closer replaying the video a couple of times before speaking up, "that wasn''t me". His words had stunned Sebastian, "but how?" "someone must have taken my bstarang from a former fight scene and it must be recent too considering, it managed to block a blast from those weapons which none of my old batarangs would have been able to do so this must be the enhanced ones." "so your saying, there is a copy cat" Sebastian spoke up causing Jeff to nod in response. "what about the van?" " way ahead of you" Oracle interrupted the conversation bringing up an image on the screen " the location is on screen now sir." "Thank you Oracle, I have a feeling that a certain cat would be there as well. Sebastian try and find this copycat." "yes sir" Sebastian responded as Jeff moved on to suit up. The location of the van led Jeff now in the bat costume to an abandoned warehouse. Scanning the building and the surrounding areas batman was able to ascertain that the ?ssailants were in the warehouse. The bat made his way through the vents landing unto the scaffolding, watching the people beneath who had no idea someone was above them. His batarang was drawn out and was ready to begin when he froze. Someone else had fired two batarangs drawing the attention of everyone in the warehouse as the batarangs returned to the intruders arms after knocking out two people. The intruder was dressed in a way that was obviously meant to imitate the batman, they wore some sort of helmet with two pointy edges which completely covered the face leaving but two eye holes. The intruder''s gender was easy to identify if the two mounds on her ?h?st were anything to go by, the intruder wore some sort of biker gear with shin guards and most importantly had a bat symbol on their ?h?st. The criminals lost their fear when they took a closer look and realised the person before them was not the batman. " f*cking b*tch, who the hell do you think you are?!" he asked anger clear in his voice but the intruder only tilted her head giving no response. "b*tch! boys get her!" the boss gave an order after receiving no response from the intruder. The men shared looks with one another before rushing at her. The intruder fired her batarangs once more before performing cartwheels appearing in their midst and taking them one by one with her kicks and batarangs. The intruder was stunned looking at the batman who now walking towards her, "who are you?" Batman questioned her. She began stuttering unable to speak probably "um...ehm...I''m..." she was interrupted by a group of bald ladies with spears. Batman was quick to react avoiding them but the intruder wasn''t getting sent straight into a wall. Batman looked at the new arrivals, seeing who they were here he was sure about one thing the black panther wasn''t far behind. The ladies got into their battle stance before charging at the batman, bats avoided one of then before hitting her from behind and then using her as a shield against the others. His action bought him some space, firing a batarang another was sent to the ground as Batman fired his grappling hook pulling a spear to himself and pushing off the remaining ladies. The ladies rushed him once more as he began with a roundhouse kick and with the resulting force jumped the others using his cape to blind the others wrapping around one''s neck he pulled and delivered a headbutt knocking her out in a few minutes all the ladies were down. Turning to the conner where the other lady should have been he saw that she was gone and now he was regretting not putting a tracker on her. Turning around there he was in all his wakandan glory, the black panther. He and the batman stood watching one another in a face off. "I can explain.." Batman started but was cut of by the black panther who charged at him. Chapter 30 - batman vs Black panther Black panther came claws swinging, as batman weaved between the strikes seamlessly and struck back with a kick aimed for the gut. Black panther''s cat like reflexes allowed him to back flip at the right moment avoiding the kick but not the grappling hook which had latched on to his leg and pulled him back to the bat who was waiting with a clothesline ready. Black panther ducked right in time avoiding the wild arm swing and performed a cartwheel appearing behind the bat and delivering a 540 kick to bats head. Bats narrowly avoided the kick by rolling forward not forgetting to fire a few batarangs which blew up in his face. Black panther''s suit absorbed most of the energy rendering the explosion essentialy useless, both men entered another stare down before charging at one another once more. Both men began exchanging punches and kicks in a rapid fashion causing them both to be impressed by each others martial prowess. Black panther managed to land a back hand sending Batman rolling into a couple of crates. As batman regained his senses the first thing he saw was an axe kick coming right at him, firing his grappling hook at the wall farther away from them he escaped sliding across the floor; the black panther was quick to give chase, only to be caught in a trap. Black panther was caught between four batarangs which released intense sonic waves all at once stunning him and disabling with his suit. Batman rushed at him firing his grappling hook above and firing another below as he swung over the Black Panther bringing him along before throwing him through a wall. Batman walked through the hole watching the panther carefully as he was sure that with his suit, that would not be enough, and he was right as the Black Panther soon was back on his feet and from his mannerism when he looked towards the batman, he could tell... he was pissed. Not wanting to enter hand to hand combat with the black panther once more, batman released a few smoke bombs right before The black panther made contact with him. The black panther stood confused as to where his opponent had gone but regained vigilance as he tried his best to pick up sounds, but alas he was to be disappointed. With all of Batman''s ninja training and experience he had long learnt to erase all sound when he moved. A punch was delivered on Black panthers gut sending him a few steps back and before he could get his bearings a kick landed on his jaw disorienting him more. Black Panther dialed his senses up to eleven readying himself, but even then a punch landed on his face sending him tumbling to the ground. The smoke cleared up to reveal the Batman standing over Black panther with the former''s foot on the later''s ?h?st. Batman stared down at his opponent and tried to reason with the Black panther but his bruised ego prevented him from seeing reason. Pushing off the Batman''s foot he performed a kick back and got to his feet delivering a kick which was blocked by the bat, before using the momentum to deliver another kick which landed causing Batman to take a few steps back. Black panther jumped once more with the intention of delivering another kick to Batman''s head but stopped when Batman spoke up, "T-Chaka stop!" Batman''s words caused him to calm to a halt, "how-how did you?" "the black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations. I try my best to know any new masks especially those in my city." T-Chaka put down his leg, finally ready to have a civil conversation. Black Panther took of his helmet revealing his true face not seeing the point of the helmet since the man before him already knew who he was,"Who are are you?" "I''m Batman." Batman gave a short concise answer causing the ends of T-Chaka''s mouth to twitch, Jeff knew what he meant but there was no way he was giving out his identity that easily. " Wakandan weapons have been making an appearance on my streets lately," Batman shifted the topic back to the matter at hand, " my people had discovered the disappearance of our weapons about a month ago, but we just recently discovered where they were." Batman spoke up after hearing his words, " any leads as to who is responsible. " T-Chaka frowned at that, "we know who is responsible, and it none other than Usyllus Klawe, but we are unable to find him and only know that he should be here." "mhm," was all Batman said as he retrieved a batarang and fired it at something as T-Chaka turned to see what it was he fired at he saw none other than the gang boss who had tried to escape whilst they were having a conversation. Chapter 31 - Klaue "Argh! please stop! I''ll talk! I swear! Please!" the gang leader screamed as the ground got closer and closer his screams got even louder. when he was a few inches away from the pavement, he came to a halt and was yanked back up where Batman and the Black panther stood with the Dora Milage behind them. "last time. talk!" Batman spoke once more. "okay, okay I don''t know him all that well. One guy came up to me and told me about the weapons he said I should do something big, you know to serve as advertisement for the sale and I would get the weapons for free." "What sale?" Batman questioned, "he is holding a sale at the docks this weekend, I swear that''s everything, please, please, don''t drop me." The gang leader gave one more plea as he saw the bat get closer, closing his eyes he waited to feel himself dropping once more but nothing opening his eyes he realised he was all alone. Away from the scene of interrogation, Batman turned to T-Chaka who had been silently staring at him for a while, "What?" Batman spoke up. "where you actually going to drop him?" his question caught the batman off guard, causing him to remain silent for a brief moment before he gave an answer, "no" Gwen had just got home closing the window as silently as possible, but she wasn''t silent enough as her mother walked in right after, "Gwen where were you? do you have any idea how worried your father and I were?" "I... I was..." Gwen attempted to speak up but went silent, "go on then," her mom crossed her arms "your father could have died today Gwen. He could have died." Gwen remained silent with her eyes trained on her feet not daring to look her mother in the eye. Her mother let out a sigh seeing her daughter''s behaviour, but before she could speak up, George had arrived. "I''ll handle this Helen, why don''t you go to the boys." George shared a look with his wife who looked between him and his daughter before walking out of the room. Gwen stood with her father in her room unable to utter a word. "sit" George ushered to his daughter who moved to sit on her bed as he moved to sit by her side, "you know I care for you right?", "yeah" Gwen responded in a b?r?ly audible whisper. George just watched his daughter who was definitely hiding something from him, "Gwen you can tell me anything, I hope you know that and when you are ready you''ll tell me whatever it is that you are up to." Gwen nodded giving her dad a hug, "okay, now why don''t we go to dinner before the boys devour everything again ". Gwen broke out laughing as she heard what her dad said, "sure dad." In a club, "Dammit! as If that stupid cat wasn''t enough we have a bat after us now! Damn it all" Ulysses Klaue smashed a glass of bourbon, when he received the news from his men. "What did the man on the inside say?" Klaue asked his men, "he said he would deal with the bat so where is he now?!" Klaue got more angry the more he spoke. "He says he is having some delays with the union." His henchmen begins "I don''t care, I want them both dead" "but sir killing the bat right now will turn the union against us" "bah who cares if the bat shows up before me" Klaue raises his prosthetic arm and delivers a blast leaving a hole in the wall, "I''ll turn him to dust." King Manor, Sebastian is cleaning his home when Eve walks out the shadows, "hello Sebastian", "what are you doing here?" "I get the feeling, you don''t want to see me" Eve puts on a fake hurt face. "oh please Eve, you and I both know, you wouldn''t be here if you didn''t need something." "there have been talks", She begins "they say you''re loosing your edge and their planning a vote" Sebastian comes to a halt, "when?" "When the new guy joins us" she responds before turning to leave, "watch your back...captain.." with those words she disappears back into the shadows. Chapter 32 - Ghost Bat "so your plan is to barge in during the auction." T-Chaka asked Batman who was seated before his computer. "Indeed" was Batman''s response, "why not look for him now?" Black panther asked confused as to why they weren''t on the streets looking for Klaue. "I''m busy", seeing as Batman wasn''t going to say anything more T-Chaka walked off to go practice whlie mumbling something that sounded an awful lot like annoying Bat. Batman took one glance and at him before ignoring him, the bat cave''s security was enough to prevent the cat from going to places where he shouldn''t be. Back to his computer, Bats was engrossed searching for this new bat person. Now not that he wasn''t flattered that someone took up his mantle but he wasn''t just going to let some wannabe roam the streets and perhaps even ruin his reputation if not die. But so far he hadn''t gained anything just that he realised some cases in the police file which were said to have been solved by him were definitely not and we''re likely to be the doings of the new bat. At an old apartment, Batman was now scouting out the place to see if he could find any clues leading to the identity of the new bat. "Why are you following me?" Bats turned to face the Black panther who for some reason was still following him. "I want to find Klaue, you want to find this new bat. I help you find them the quicker we get to finding my guy." They both remained in silence staring at one another before the bat turned away ignoring him. Activating his scanners embedded in his helmet he began to scan the place. Soon finding a piece of kevlar behind some wreckage he picked it up, a further scan revealed it was standard police issue used in making bullet proof vests for officers. At this point, there was some patterns he couldn''t ignore, going after people based of police info, kevlar meant for officers it was time he paid ol George a visit. Batman, stood across the street watching George''s home. "I don''t see the reason we are stalking the police captain." T-Chaka spoke up causing Bats to get annoyed handing over a drive to him he spoke up, "this drive contains information on mob bosses who would probably be interested in said weapons." "you had this all this while?" "I told you I was busy." at that moment Bats got sight of something from the conner of his eyes. A figure was making their way out of a window. With a closer look it was none other than the new bat. Batman had a smirk on his face as he followed after her leaving the black panther on the roof. Gwen had snuck out after making sure everyone was asleep. Gwen was determined to find where those crazy weapons came from, also she was curious as to who the other guy as well as the bald ladies who had knocked her out. Gwen was deep in her thoughts when the Batman suddenly appeared before her, "you''re coming with me" Gwens eyes opened wide disbelieving, she couldn''t believe the batman was right before her, "erhm...hello batman... sir, I''m a big fan of yours and you inspired me to where this and...and I''m gonna shut up now." "who are you?" Batman''s voice broke the awkward silence forming once more, "oh yeah, I''m... I''m, Ghost bat yeah Ghost bat" Batman stared Gwen down before speaking up, "Go home, Gwen the streets of new York is no place to fool around, the bat symbol on your ?h?st is nothing but a target." After his words he turned to leave. Gwen stood stunned, how did he know her name nevermimd that what did he mean, was he saying she wasn''t good enough. Gwen was extremely annoyed, she rushed at the bat whose back was turned to her but he avoided it at the right moment, "don''t look down on me." with that the batman had a small smirk on his face as Gwen continued rushing him with everything at her disposal. Batman kept blocking her attack, while analysing her movements checking just how good she was.. Gwen realising her attacks weren''t working she released a batarang which the bat tilted his head to avoid before continuing to exchange blows when he ducked and rolled avoiding the batarang which had flown back into her arms as she got into a stance to keep up this battle that determined if she was good enough. Chapter 33 - Head in the Game. Gwen charged once more with a kick aimed at the bats head, but bats grabbed her pulling her close and landing a heavy hit on her abdomen knocking the wind out of her. Gwen stumbled back trying her best to catch her breath and stabilise herself but the throbbing pain in her abdomen prevented her from doing so. At this point batman began walking towards her without a care, she attempted to punch him but had her hand grabbed and followed by a quick jab to her underarms. Gwen was now down, she couldn''t understand why. She had been hit before by the thugs she fought but this, this was a whole new level of pain as every punch felt like she was hit with a sledge hammer at full force and she couldn''t help but begin to wonder was the man behind that mask truly human. "Go home, this life isn''t for you." Batman left her with those words before disappearing. Batman might have seemed calm and all while fighting her but truth be told he was freaking out within, when he first arrived in this world he thought of fighting those big threats but as time went by he had to admit he had began to loose focus, he felt as though he was enough and that everything was under his control and so he could deal with everything but now with Gwen''s existence he couldn''t help but begin to think, was this truly the MCU he was familiar with. "Oracle, scan for Peter Parker." Batman spoke up, "yes sir, Peter Parker currently a student at midtown high and..." "enough, what about Oscorp" with that all information about Oscorp was brought before him, "search Oscorp files for research concerning spiders". Images were brought up, and with this Bats could speculate it wouldn''t be long before spiderman was born but where would Gwen factor into all of this. "Oracle how is our backdoor into Stark industries?" "still undiscovered sir." "good bring out info concerning the Jericho missile" More info was brought before his eyes and now he could kind of tell that in six months to a year iron man would begin and the MCU would officially be in full swing. Meaning he had to stop messing around and get his head back into the game, Some things he couldn''t deal with but some he could and number one on his list now was Hydra. Making up his mind Batman had decided when he was done with Klaue his next goal would be wiping out Hydra. *******[ Sebastian had appeared in a room where a group of people where seated around a round table. "why did you call this meeting Chris?" "Captain, you see we as a group are truly grateful to you for bringing us all together. I mean if not because of you who knows where we would be after everything, but now you''ve grown weak and are acting more like a Butler and less like our....captain." "Is this a coup?" Sebastian asked with a chilly tone in his voice. "please don''t refer to it as such we both know pretty well that a coup normally ends with the former leader dead, no, think of this more as a change of leadership." Sebastian took a quick look at everyone seated around the table only to see none was on his side. Sebastian debated pulling his gun out there and then, but he thought about it carefully most of the people here were taught by himself and so taking them out would not be an easy task. Everyone had fallen into am awkward silence. The awkward silence was broken by the door creaking as it was opened by someone. Sebastian turned to have a good look at new comer who was in a sharp suit white shirt with a green tie, the man had a smile which caused warning signals in Sebastians mind to go off. "Ah yes." Chris spoke up, "let me introduce you to our new member Norman Osborne." "hello nice to meet you, I look forward to working with you" Norman spoke as he stretched out his hand for a hand shake whilst Sebastians eyes widened a bit at the mention of his name remembering he was one of the people the young master was paying attention to. Chapter 34 - Sorry sorry I have been unable to upload a chapter recently. I had some stuff to deal with but I will try my best to upload multiple chapters this week. Chapter 35 - Scorpion. Gwen had returned home feeling down, she had wanted so long to meet and speak to the batman to join him in his crusade against crime, but after finally getting the chance she was beaten down and then rejected. As she stood thinking about what the batman had told her she heard footsteps heading towards her door moving her body to the door she managed to block the door just in time preventing the person from entering. "Gwen is me let me in." George spoke up but Gwen took one look at herself which was still in her makeshift bat costume and spoke up, "dadI''m a bit tired and want to go to bed early." "you sure?" George asked with his concern clear in his voice. "yeah", "okay call me if you need anything" George spoke up "sure dad". she listened to his footsteps as he left before slumping down behind her door. T-Chaka had arrived at the location where Klaue was suspected to be in. Making his way through the vents, the black panther had sneaked his way into the building. Spotting men with guns making routine patrols T-Chaka was sure he had come to the right place. Paying closer attention he was able to deduce the guards were paying more attention to a door a bit further down the hallway thinking to himself that Klaue was probably behind that door. T-Chaka burst through the vents taking the guards by surprise and taking out four of them before they could react. Wasting no time Black panther made a mad dash down the hallway with sparks flying as bullets bounced off his suit. The guards eyes opened wide seeing their bullets had no effect on the guy before them, at this point in time the only thought running through their heads was just who the hell had their boss pissed off. T-Chaka barged into the office after making short work of the two guards, before him sat Klaue with a whisky at hand. "Klaue!" "Ah your majesty what a surprise. I have to admit I wasn''t expecting you." Klaue spoke without a trace of worry in his voice. "You are coming to Wakanda with me, to pay for all your crimes." T-Chaka spoke with his rage clear in his voice, "Oh is that so, well before we leave why don''t you meet a friend of mine." T-Chaka narrowed his eyes in confusion, but before he could react a metal tail came out of nowhere sending him flying backwards. Batman was going to check on the black panther but arrived just in time to see the King being defenestrated. With a huge thud the blank panther had made a small crater and was struggling to get to his feet. Looking up at where he flew out from, the Batman saw someone he wasn''t expecting to see. The figure jumped down landing about two meters away from the Batman. The figure was decked in a green exoskeleton with silver ascents, the exoskeleton resembled some sort of scorpion with it''s tail end having an opening that sort of resembled a canon. "hello" the figure spoke their voice distorted by a voice modulator, "it''s a p???sur? to meet you. I hoped for it to be a bit later but... oh well . you can call me scorpion." "Becareful Batman, he is not easy to deal with." T-Chaka spoke up as he managed to regain his footing and re-entered a battle stance. "hmm interesting, you can still stand. I''m truly curious just how much that suit of yours can take" With that his tail began firing away, both the Batman and Black Panther managed to jump away in time avoiding the attack. Bats released a few batarangs but they were deflected by Scorpion using his tail. Scorpion pounced at the Batman, having a near miss and smashing through a car. Black panther taking advantage of that brief opening jumped to deliver a kick to Scorpion''s head but was caught by his tail and smashed into the road. Batman using his grappling hook pulled the Black Panther out of the way just in time to avoid a blast from the Scorpion''s tail. "Rushing in won''t help us we need to work together." Chapter 36 - Scorpion vs Batman and Black Panther The scorpion didn''t give them much time to regroup as he rushed at them almost instantly. Batman took to the skies as Black panther dived away to avoid the attack. Batman dropped a few smoke bombs to obsure Scorpion''s vision, before dropping in to deliver a roundhouse kick with a few rapid punches. He was stunned however when he realized that his attacks had done nothing to the man before him who was smiling down at him. With a back flip he escaped from the area enclosed by the smoke. "I take it you exchanged blows with him then." T-Chaka came to his side and spoke up, "the exoskeleton he is wearing is probably made of adamantium." "wait what..." Black panther was confused as to how he came to such a conclusion. "there are only few metals on earth that can stop my suit the likely hood of it being adamantium is much higher than vibranium". Before Black panther could question him further energy beams came towards them causing them to split up to avoid being hit. "do you have a plan cause I don''t think this guy is planning on letting us go." Black panther called out to the Batman. "his tail is his main source of attack, take it down to reduce his range of attack." T-Chaka eyes widened as he heard the Batman''s voice in his ear. Looking towards where the Batman was standing, almost two feet away "how..." "I placed coms on your helmet, you draw his attention I''ll deal with the tail." Black Panther was about to question him only to see him dissapear into the shadows. Scorpion stepped out only to see Black panther with no signs of the Batman. "Well, well kitty cat, seems it''s just you and me. " T-Chaka felt his rage build up hearing what Scorpion said and rushed at him, both men began trading blows in close quarters. Scorpion attempted to move back to gain some space so as to blast the black panther but he was unrelenting not giving even the slightest chance to Scorpion. Scorpion''s mood had gone from relaxed to annoyed. At this moment the Batman had appeared behind him locking his tail in place. Scorpion saw him and attempted to blast him away not knowing he had fallen for Batman''s trap. Blocking the opening Batman quickly retreated seeing this T-Chaka was quick to do so as well whilst Scorpion''s eyes widened in realization. *Boom* the was an explosion which took of Scorpion''s tail and sent him straight into a building. Batman and Black Panther stood side by side sharing a look before looking at the hole in the wall. As they were about to head in a blast landed right in front of them with it''s resulting force sending them back. Through the smoke Batman could make out Klaue moving Scorpion into a van while another man stood for a moment staring at the Batman before entering the van as well. The Dora milage arrived just as the van left. "my King!" the ladies rushed to help the Black Panther up as he let out a groan, "urgh... I''m getting too old for this." Batman performed a kick up getting to his feet before looking towards them. "you shouldn''t have gone in today. you should have waited for the trade." Batman spoke up "if I didn''t head in we wouldn''t know who Klaue is working with. I got us information." "who is supporting Klaue then? who made that exoskeleton? who came to rescue them? or let''s do something simpler what did they discuss today?" Batman had arrived a few inches away from T-Chaka, not the least bit worried about the Spears pointed at him. Black Panther remained silent after hearing all the questions, at this point he had realized he was a bit rash in how he dealt with the situation. "okay maybe I was a bit rash but we at least got the tail that should provide some answers." .... In an undisclosed lab, MacDonald Gargan aka the Scorpion was seated having his wounds tended to. "Do you know what you have done?" a voice questioned Gargan. " I didn''t expect the Batman to appear." Gargan responded gritting his teeth. "Well he was there and now you have lost a part of a fourteen billion dollar exosuit!" The voice spoke with anger clear in their voice "sorry sir." " Sorry isn''t fixing your mistake now is it. Octavious how far away are we from success" "Shouldn''t be long Mr. Osborne." A scientist in a white lab suit spoke, "good, now I''m going to deal with our bat problem.." Norman Osborne spoke as he left the lab. Chapter 37 - Wanted once more The Batman had returned to the bat cave with the black panther at his side. After preliminary scans Batman was even more worried, even ignoring the fact that someone had obtained that much adamantium to make a combat suit, the amount of tech in the tail alone sent shivers down his spine. In all honesty Batman hadn''t been all that interested in Scorpion just knowing him as one of Spidey''s many villains. But he was sure of one thing he definitely wasn''t famous for his high IQ meaning he didn''t build this himself, Bats was leaning more to the idea that an organization was probably supporting him. "So what have you discovered." T-Chaka spoke up unable to stand still anymore, Batman took a look at him before projecting what he had discovered unto the screen. T-Chaka eyes widened seeing the schematics not expecting just this tail to be so advanced,. not that he hadn''t seen anything as advanced, heck his daughter made stuff on this level every week. *ding* T-Chaka was brought out of his thoughts by a sound. Turning to the source he saw a man decked in a suit with a white theatre mask on. The figure walked briskly towards them with a tray at hand placing the tray on the table he picked up the kettle pouring tea into two cups before handing one to the Batman as well as the Black panther. "thank you agent S" Batman spoke up as he took a sip from his cup, "it''s a p???sur? sir" the masked man spoke, his voice distorted by a voice modulator before turning around to leave. T-Chaka only regained his bearings when the figure was gone, " who was that?" "A friend" was all he got from the Batman before he turned his attention back to the tail. After a few more minutes of silence he spoke up once more, "Oracle, scan for who obtained such large amounts of Adamantium in the past year check both legal and illegal chanels." At an office in an undisclosed location four men stood with their head down, they were bruised all over with blood stains on their clothes. Before them a man smashed his fist on his mahogany desk, seething with anger. The man was none other than Chris who had overthrown Sebastian recently, "how dare he, how dare that bastard!" Chris''s men had just reported to him that one of his warehouses had been raided before being burnt to the ground. What pissed him of even more was the fact that his men reported they saw a batlike figure at the scene. At this point Chris could tell who it was for the was no person in this city who didn''t know him, the Batman. Taking in a deep breath he picked up his phone, " call a meeting." At this moment Batman who was still trying to find the manufacturer of the Scorpion exo-suit had no idea he had been framed and now had a new enemy. In a classified location. "what is it Hill?" a bald man in all black with a black trench coat wearing a black eye patch over his left eye. "sir you have to look at this" saying so the lady who had called out to him pulled up a video of Batman and the Black Panther going up against Scorpion. The bald man kept quiet as he watched the video, thinking back on the time when he first met the Batman. After that he then thought back to the recent discussion he had with the world leaders. "Hill " "yes sir." "you''re heading to New York, your mission have the Batman join the Avengers initiative" His words caused Hill to stunned for a brief moment, "with all due respect sir, we don''t even know who he is, how am I supposed to find him." "that''s your problem Hill, your problem.." with a smirk Nick Fury turned to walk away. Chapter 38 - The Court has decided. George was getting a headache it hadn''t been long since he came captain yet he had to deal with an ?ssasination attempt, A new guy in a mask running round the city with Batman and apparently they were fighting a...scorpion person. George let out a sigh, the world was just becoming way too crazy(A/N: if only you knew Georgie) to make matters worse the higher ups were asking for answers, answers he did not have. And so that was why he was up here on the roof waiting to meet with his old friend the Batman. "Captain." the familiar cold voice sounded behind him causing George to turn around coming face to face with the Bat. "You know you have caused a lot of problems for me. I thought you were the sneak around type not the make holes in the middle of the street type." "there were certain complications" was all the Bat said, "what''s going on?" George asked feeling really worried as if Batman considered something a problem it definitely wasn''t a Small matter. "Scorpion''s suit..." Batman stated "Scorpion?" George asked with his brow raised showing his confusion. "the person I and the Black panther fought." "Scorpion, Batman, Black panther... who comes up with these names. what''s next huh a Spiderman." Batman remained silent at that which caused George to open his mouth in disbelief, "wait don''t tell me there is actually a Spiderman." Batman ignored his question and continued "...was made solely out of adamantium a rare and extremely powerful metal. I have a list of names of people who might be behind him and I already have some of my people investigating some of them, I need you to investigate the others." finished Batman handed him a folder. Looking through the folder George rose his head, "how did you get..." only to see he was alone "I hate it when he does that" George muttered to himself as he left. In a familiar room where a group of people were seated with serious grim expressions on their faces. Sebastian was seated amongst this men with a similar expression on his face but unlike the others he had a tinge of suspicion in his eyes. Chris seeing everyone was present spoke up, "everyone, I know each of you is wandering why I had called for this meeting all of a sudden" his words causing the members who were whispering amongst themselves to stop and pay full attention to him. "we have a problem, this board was founded so as to keep order but controlling the city''s underbelly. For a few years now we have ignored an uncontrollable factor, the Batman." Chris words caused alarm bells to ring in Sebastian''s ears. "this masked vigilante has been parading round this city for a long time. We have ignored him mainly due to the fact his activities has had no impact on us but that changed." Chris slammed his fist on the table before continuing, " the bastard raided one of my factories today and then had the guts to blow it up." Sebastian''s eyes widened at those words, at this moment there was no doubt in his mind Jeffery was in trouble, big trouble. " I think it''s time we dealt with this uncontrollable factor" at this point all around the table all the members had broken into murmurs. "All in favor" Chris spoke up once more. Sebastian watched as the room became deadly silent with the members seated around the table sharing looks with one another, in a few moments the first hand went up with all others following soon after. Sebastian remained seated watching the whole thing in horror meanwhile keeping a calm outward appearance. "The court has decided, from now on the Batman is our enemy." "If I may" Norman Osborne spoke up drawing all eyes on himself, " I think I have a way to deal with our rodent problem.." the smile on his face causing Sebastian to feel a minor shiver down his spine and be completely unaware of Eve who had her eyes trained on himself. Chapter 39 - I know your secret Batman had arrived at a warehouse, one of the trails had led him here. Sneaking through the air vents Batman made his way into the ware house. The warehouse was b?r? but the scowl on Batman''s face got deeper. An empty warehouse without anything should be abandoned but not a single cobweb was in and it was too clean to be abandoned. Batman spoke up "Oracle scan the warehouse." Taking a closer look Batman realized the was a another floor hidden down below, now Batman was sure he found what he was looking for. Making his way to a side of the wall he began feeling around till he found a Grove pushing down on it the wall moved aside to reveal a hidden elevator, with a palm scanner. "Oracle..." Batman began, "already done sir" a ding sound followed as the door to the elevator opened stepping in the elevator as it started moving down. The doors opened again revealing a laboratory, making his way through Batman had an odd feeling someone was watching. Batman jerked his head to one side hearing a noise but saw nothing. Moving closer to the sound he saw came in contact with glass shards as well as some unknown substance. Bringing out a pick he picked at it discovering the substance was a viscous one. Batman paused hearing faint growling sounds as he rolled away in time to avoid the attack. In another place, Norman Osborne as well as other members of the court were watching the entire scene on screen. Norman had managed to manipulate one of his doctor''s into taking one of their attempts in recreating the super serum. Although it was a failure, he and the other viewers were pleasantly surprised and Osborne was sure he could obtain more founding, thinking so a smile made its way to his face. Eve had pulled Sebastian away from the rest. "what is it Eve?" Sebastian asked her, "I know" was all she said. "you know what?!" Sebastian got more confused as the conversation continued. "I know your secret" Eve whispered in his ear. Sebastian''s eyes widened for a moment but he kept his cool, "I don''t know what your talking about." Eve revealed a charming grin as she heard his words, "Oh Sebastian, my sweet, sweet Sebastian. Do you think I''m that dumb or did you forget my field of expertise. I mean you started all this a month after the young Jeffery King dissapeared you then began distancing yourself when he returned. A month later rumors of the Batman began, with you starting to ask for information, information relating to the Mandarin who the Batman latter tangled with..." Sebastian''s eyes slowly began to widen as she continued. "...and also the young billionaire rarely appears with the news claiming he is a Playboy and always of with a lady. You know what I find funny, I know billionaire playboys I mean check the paper Stark is the best example, but not once has the ladies your young master has been with been mentioned I know for a fact there are no ladies. So why don''t we stop the lies shall we, Jeffery King is the Batman." Back at the lab, Batman was face to face with a 6''8, green scaled red eye monstrosity. With a look Batman knew that the creature before himself was none other than the Lizard, hmm now he said it in his head he could understand George... Spiderman, scorpion, Rhino, Lizard and now Batman. Batman was snapped off his thoughts by a massive tail that came swinging at him. ************** short chap I know, next chap will be longer promise. Chapter 40 - The Lizard The streets were buzzing with people enjoying the cool air of the night, the occasional honks from the cabs on the streets. This scene was soon broken by Batman flying out of the ground followed by a giant green Lizard. The people were stunned for a moment but a scream woke everyone up as they began screaming whilst running for their lives. Bats back had slammed into a cab, siting up the sight of the Lizard releasing a roar came into his sights. The lizard''s amber eyes locked on to him and pounced at him, missing as Batman rolled away . Angry, he rushed at Batman once more swiping at him but Bats nimbly moved around him jumping on his back and grabbing at his neck as the lizard tried to shake him. The lizard rampaged as he tried to shake him off destroying some cars and parts of the street in the process. ROAR! he let out another roar but was silenced by Batman placing tear gas in the lizards mouth causing him to choke and tears to appear in his eyes. Taking advantage of his predicament Batman rushed in delivering a few hits, but just as he was about to land another hit on the lizard''s jaw a green flash appeared in the corner of his eye, before his was sent into a post by the Lizards tail. The members of the court broke into cheers as they saw that scene. Norman with his glass at hand had a wide grin on his face he knew when this was done he would have lots of people lining up to buy his serum. The lizard rushed at Batman ready to take a bite of him but got a mouth full of metal as Batman used the broken post before he could get used to the pain in his mouth, he felt something around his neck. Batman wrapped his grappling hook around the lizard and then threw him into a cab across the street causing an explosion. The members of the court watching became silent instantly. Norman crushed the glass in his hands with his eyes frosty, some of the other members had their eyes wide open. They could not believe the sight before their eyes, how the Batman made what he did look so effortless, at that moment a terrifying thought appeared in their minds, was the Batman truly human or was he like the rumors say a demon. With that thought shivers went down their spines. Batman walked to the Lizard with steady steps, a claw quickly came at him but moving to the side he dodged it and put a batarang in his hand. The Iizard let out a roar of pain but that was merely the begining of it''s nightmare. Batman became like a shadow sticking to him landing hit after hit and leaving wounds with his batarangs .The lizard tried to resist but was unable to land a single hit. the lizard let out a scream of pain as his right hand was blown up. At that moment the Batman appeared in his sight once more walking to him steadily at this point every cell in his body was screaming for it to get away from the demon before him. Wasting no time he made a mad dash and escaped through the sewers. Batman watched him escape before looking up at a space not far from him. At this point the members of the court broke out in cold sweat as the Batman was staring right at them which shocked them as they were positive their drone was impossible to be discovered but here they were with the Batman staring right at them wasting no time they withdrew the drone. Batman felt himself being watched but was busy dealing with the lizard but now he had time they were quick to escape. ***** At the batcave Batman had arrived and moved straight to his computer to locate at the tracker he slipped on the Lizard. "sir we need to talk", Sebastian walked in at this moment. "not now Sebastian I need to track down the lizard." "this is about the lizard" Batman came to a halt and turned to look at Sebastian. "Not long after your parents died and you left, I began an organization. Calling on old friends of mine, I founded the court. The aim of the court was to reduce crime by controlling the underworld of the city but like a wise man once said proximity to power corrupts" Batman interrupted "what are you getting at?" "The court considers you an uncontrollable factor and now wants to eliminate you" "Sebastian don''t tell me your court sent the lizard after me" Batman spoke his tone slowly turning cold " the court did but..." "no!" Batman stopped Sebastian, "no buts,I trusted you, you are the only family I have left in this world. how could you, you lied to me for years. You watched me put on this suit and go out there, day after day, fighting for this city and you said nothing." "Jeffery..." "no, I don''t want to speak to you right now.." with those words Batman walked out the batcave. Chapter 41 - I call it the batcycle It had been a whole week since the whole Lizard fiasco. Batman''s tracker led him to a dead end as Lizard at some point in time had got rid of the tracker. Batman figured if there was some sort of secret society behind this, it''s members would be apart of the elite in society and that is why he was here as Jeffery King hosting this party. "hey Jeff, you still with us?" Tony''s voice brought Jeffery out of his thoughts, "yeah" Jeffery flashed a smile at Tony. "you''ve been kind of off tonight?" Tony pressed on, "Just some stuff that aren''t important, what about word on the street is you are up to something big." "Indeed I am, Jeff indeed I am. I have something that I''ll be showing off real soon and trust me when I say it''s gonna blow your mind." Tony spoke as he gulped down another glass. "hey Tony, ever think of moving out of the weapon industry?" Jeff asked suddenly, "now why would I do that?" "aren''t you worried one day your missile is gonna blow up in your face." Jeff spoke as he thought to the event that led to Tony becoming Iron Man. "you know what I always say, make your friends and your enemies rich and wait to see which is which." Tony spoke while putting his arms on Jeff''s shoulder but his eyes soon saw a lady in the crowd. "excuse me Jeff, duty calls", Jeff scoffed at that, watching Tony leave before moving to the bar to get another drink, looking around for any suspicious people. ''this would be easier with Sebastian'' the thought popped in his head for a moment before shaking it off. "you don''t look like the host of a party", a voice came from behind him. Turning to face the voice he spoke up, "pardon" behind him was a lady in a close fitting blue dress, blue eyes as well as brown hair tied into a bun. "I mean for the host of the party one would think you''d be more like that guy" saying so she pointed into the crowd, following her line of sight he saw Tony. "Tony has always been the life of the party, I don''t believe we''ve met." Jeff spoke as he motioned for her to sit by him, "Susan Andrews" she stretched her hand out as she introduced herself, "Jeffery King" Jeff spoke as he took her hand. "yes, I don''t think there is anyone in this city who doesn''t know you." Jeff just smiled at that while getting her a ???ktail , "so Susan what brings you to this part of New York." "sightseeing" She traced her finger round the mouth of her glass, "Sightseeing, well the isn''t much too see around here", "I''m not here for what per se, but more for who" she sipped on her ???ktail. "you have my attention," Jeff spoke looking in her eyes. "I''m looking for the Batman", "the Batman?" " yes, I''ve heard a lot about him and really want to meet him. What about you, have you had the chance to meet the legendary bat?" "no I have not," His watch began beeping at that moment. " sorry, I have to go" Susan slipped a card to him before he left, "call me." Jeff after entering a hallway looked down at the card, she thought she hid well but had no idea he knew who she was, Maria Hill. Nick Fury, sending her here as well as her hinting at the Batman, proves he is searching for the Batman''s identity probably to have an upper hand when he decides to call on him or something of the sort. Getting to a place where no one was present he picked his phone, "Detective..." " Batman, I followed the lead you gave me and got something" "what?" " the lead, leads to Norman Osborne, we''re outside his building right now about to head in but we''ve been stopped by Scorpion and some other .... Oh my God!" Jeff heard a boom turning around looking through the mirror, he could see smoke rising from Oscorp as well as hearing the sirens which were all heading there. Jeff made a mad dash down to the underground garage, as he opened the door a car parked before himself with the backdoor opening. A quick look at the front, Jeff saw Sebastian before the wheel without any hesitation he got in. "Press the bu??on before you" Sebastian spoke up, doing so his suit came from behind and above him suiting him up. "I know I was wrong to hide what I did for, 27 years( A/N because a lot of you ask, so Jeff becomes Batman when he is 20, captain marvel event happens when he is 25 and at this point in time he is 37 the year being 2007 and iron Man happens in 2008. your wlcm) but no matter what we''re family..." "...and family sticks together no matter what" Jeff finished now in his bat suit. Sebastian had a smile on his face, "I took the liberty to inform master T-Chaka to meet you" "thank you Sebastian" " also please press the bu??on by you sir, I left a little surprise." Batman looked at it for a moment before pressing it. where he was seating detached from the car and transformed into a bike, "I call it the batcycle" Sebastian''s voice resounded in his ear, a smirk appeared on his face as he sped of. Chapter 42 - Batman... am I glad to see you *cough* cough* George made it to his feet coughing, looking at the damage around himself, with most of his men injured with some even dead. George was filled with unbridled rage as he stared at the two figures before himself. Before him stood Scorpion in his exo-suit, with a man he could not recognize standing by his side, the most striking feature of the man was the fact he had but one hand and an unrecognized but scary weapon at hand. The man locked eyes with George, seeing the unbridled rage in his eyes his face gained a sadistic look in his eye and aimed his weapon at George. "bye bye captain" the man said as he weapon loaded about to fire. The weapon though was sent out his hand by the black panther T-Chaka "Klaue!! today you will face Wakadan justice!" he shouted as he charged at Klaue. The Dora milage followed closely behind holding the Scorpion off and allowing their King to fight Klaue unimpeded. George watched all this stunned. Scorpion on the other hand was annoyed as he fought the Dora Milage, "get the hell out of my way!" he shouted as he swiped his tail at them sending some of them flying. A member of the Dora Milage saw an opening and taking advantage managed to put the Scorpion into a headlock with her spear as the others joined her. On the other hand with the Black Panther and Klaue, the battle was fierce as both of them were old enemies and after many battles had gained a basic understanding of each other''s fighting capabilities. Black Panther was trying his best to keep the fight as one of close combat with his claws out swiping at Klaue with all intention to end his life leaving bloody claw marks on him in the process. Klaue wasn''t having it though releasing a well timed blast from his arm cannon sending T-Chaka flying back. "I was just about getting tired of you myself" saying so Klaue continued to fire at T-Chaka who showed of his cat like agility as he avoided the attacks. The battle continued soon reaching a standstill as they continued to exchange blows but this standstill was soon broken by a Savage roar. The attention was drawn to the source of the roar where a huge green figure appeared, it was none other than the Lizard. Scorpion and Klaue had smiles on their face knowing the now had back up, meanwhile T-Chaka with the others became worried seeing this new guy entering the field,George couldn''t help but cuss "what the f*ck!" when he saw the creature looking straight at them. The Lizard let out another roar before charging at them heading straight for George who emptied his entire clip to no avail. His eyes widened in fear as the beast was but a metre away, at this moment the revving of a bike was heard and soon the sight of Batman riding through the flames was imprinted in their eyes. Batman jumped of his bike as it went straight into the Lizard sending him tumbling to the ground. Batman arrived at George''s side, "captain" "Batman... am I glad to see you". "You need to get out of here, gather all your men who can move and move the one''s who can''t out of here", Batman left those words as he rushed at the Lizard who was now on his feet once more. The lizard seeing him let out a roar before smashing it''s tail towards Batman. At that moment a man rushed into the office drawing his attention, "sir!" "is it done?" Norman asked immediately he saw the man. "Yes sir, your son has been moved outside the country", "good leave me for a moment". Norman watched the man leave before moving to his desk and activating his P.C on his screen was none other than Alexander Pierce. "We had a deal!" Norman screamed immediately he saw the man, " I think you are misunderstanding, our deal was you provide us with the super soldier serum and you receive your pay. No where in our agreement did it mention us protecting you." "Damn you! do you think you''ll get anything if I''m dead!" Norman was furious hearing what they said, Alexander had a smirk as he heard that " you underestimate Hydra Norman, we already have all your files and we will be able to continue from where you left, goodbye Norman". "Aaargh!" Norman amassed the computer as he heard that. " Damn you Hydra!" he took in a few breaths before muttering "this isn''t over" Chapter 43 - Rhino "Daniel!" Norman shouted for the man who had just left the office and he came rushing back in, "Yes sir" "clean this up". Norman walked past him after saying that, getting into the elevator he took his phone and dailed a number, "Aleksei, if anyone enters the building... kill them." Saying so he hung up and dialed another number, but soon smashed his phone screaming "Octavius!!" Otto had refused to answer his calls and Norman was certain he was abandoned. Stepping out of the elevator Norman was filled with rage seeing as he had been abandoned. Norman stepped into a lab where the few remaining people in the lab were taking all important things to carry out of the place. "Mr. Osborne sir" The leader called out and moved to Norman immediately he saw him. "Where is it?" "Sir?" The man looked at Norman confused. Norman wasting no time grabbed him by his collar where is the serum. Outside Oscorp Batman and Lizard had traded a few blows with Batman coming out on top. Batman stood upon the wreckage of a car watching The Lizard who was once again on his feet with rage clear in his eyes as he roared and rushed towards the Batman. At this point Batman performed a flip over him and injected a substance into his neck. The Lizard felt as though something had pricked but soon felt an unbearable amount of pain before reverting back to his human form. The scene stunned all at the scene, Batman was quick to hand the doc to one of the Dora Milage. "Get him out of here" she hesitated for a moment before rushing away with the n?k?d doc over her shoulder. "I''m heading in" Batman shouted as he rushed straight into the Oscorp building. "Don''t worry we will hold them off and join you soon." T-Chaka shouted back as he landed a hit on Klaue''s jaw. Batman took a quick look around as he rushed into Oscorp seeing everyone had been evacuated leaving only the Black Panther and the Dora Milage fighting Scorpion and Klaue. Unknown to the Batman George had returned and managed to make his way into the Oscorp building. The sounds of the alarm were blaring through the hallway as George made his way with his gun at hand. He had yet to see anyone, but with the blaring sound of alarm and the lights that were flickering on and off, probably due to the explosion caused him to tense up. George had taken a few turns and still hadn''t seen anyone was about to take the steps to move to the next floor, when he began to feel minor tremors. Soon a faint thumping sound could be heard, the sound grew louder as it got closer. George slowly turned around, his eyes widening when he saw what was rushing towards him. A hulking mass or grey with a horn on its head heading right for him, George began to fire at the figure but his bullets just bounced of, right before the figure smashed into him. A black shadow came from behind him and landed a hit sending the grey hulking mass tumbling back. The black shadow stood turning to face George, revealing himself to be none other than the Batman "run". The hulking grew mass stood allowing Batman to see who it was. It was none other than Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich Alex O''Hirn aka the Rhino. "Your going to pay for that I''m gonna smash you like a bug you costumed freak!" Rhino screamed as he rushed at the Batman, causing Bats to raise an eyebrow at the irony. Using the wall as a spring board, Batman jumped unto his back and left a batarang before jumping away as it exploded. The Rhino turned to face Batman relatively unharmed but extremely pissed off. Batman watched as The Rhino turned to face and tapped the bat symbol on his ?h?st. ''Good thing I had this installed didn''t think I''ll use it so soon'' Batman thought to himself as his gloves gave of a faint blue glow. He rushed to meet Rhino who was rushing at him and landed a hit on his jaw with the gloves which sent Rhino flying into a wall. Rhino crawled out the wall with a look of surprise on his face as he stared at the gloves on Batman''s hand. please head on here to support me it would mean a lot ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 44 - Green Goblin Rhino and Batman stood in place both waiting for the other to make the first move. Batman was studying the Rhino waiting for his attack, Rhino on the other hand was staring at the gloves on Batman''s hands with a trace of fear. Rhino couldn''t remember the last time he felt that much pain since he gained the suit. Batman done waiting for him to charge dropped smoke bombs covering the entire hallway with smoke and vanishing within the smoke. In the lab, "sir, I really think this is a bad idea. We have yet to perform any tests, we have no idea..." Norman cut him off by grabbing him by the neck, " did I ask for your opinion?" "No... sir" The man b?r?ly managed to spit out, "then shut up" Norman dropped him before walking into the chamber. Norman had ditched his suit and was now in a tight fitting black body suit. The people around stood still watching him with nervous eyes. "What are you all waiting for! activate it!" Norman screamed at the scientist who just stood there like statues. Two scientist turned to look at one another moving to the console and began to activate the device. The screams caused all present to take a step back. The screams lasted for a whole minute before coming to an abrupt halt, the scientist were curious as to what was going on. One of the braver scientist took a few steps forward coming to the chamber, leaning forward he tried to peer through the green gas when a palm slammed against the glass. The abrupt action causing him to fall on his bum. The sound of laughter was heard through the lab, the eerie laughter sent chills through the back of all present. The scientist before the chamber slowly crawled away from the chamber as he stared at the palm with had turned a dark green. His heart tightened hearing the eerie laughter that seemed to scream insane. *thud* A fist smashed into the chamber leaving a crack on the tempered glass, this was the last straw as the people began to run out leaving almost everything behind, no one wanted to wait for whatever demon to come out of that chamber. George finally arrived at the floor with the lab only to see countless people in white lab coats running out of a lab. Each and everyone of them had a look of terror on his face as though the most horrifying existence was behind them. George rose his gun to eye level, moving his finger to the trigger ready for whatever he would find. He moved into the lab, with the thing drawing his attention being the chamber in the center of the lab, which had a huge hole in front of it with green gas coming out of it. "what the hell" George muttered to himself when he saw the sight, thinking back to the things he saw recently, Scorpion, the Lizard with the hulking grey creature he encountered on the lower floors his mind couldn''t help but think '' what mad experiment was Osborne up too''. A eerie laughter broke his train of thought, " who is there? show yourself, this is the police" George spoke as he began to make his way into the lab but the lingering green gas hindered his vision. As George got deeper into the lab, he had a feeling a weird feeling as though someone was watching him. Turning around, his heart began to beat faster when he found nothing. He turned his head to the side to come to face with a green creature with bright amber eyes that had a manaical grin on its face right before it slammed into him. On the lower floor Rhino lay beneath Batman''s feet unconscious, Batman standing above had a few injuries with a trail of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, a few holes in his cape. He suit had been ripped in a few places, showing some parts of his places. Batman touched some of his injuries thinking back to the fight with Rhino. ''Rhino, he truly deserves to be Spiderman''s physical strongest villain.'' The damage to the environment surrounding serving as the witness to battle which had just taken place. At this point the scientist had arrived at the floor and came to a screeching halt when they laid their eyes on the Batman with his foot on the Rhino''s head. Some pissed their pants at the scene. Ignoring the looks on their faces, Batman thought back to they run here as if they were escaping from something and his eyes widened as he muttered "George" rushing to his aid. please head on here to support me it would mean a lot ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 45 - Farewell friend Outside the Oscorp building. Black panther had defeated Klaue but was now face to face with The Scorpion who had managed to defeat the Dora milage who lay on the ground battered and bruised. Black panther seeing his people laying on the ground was pissed and let out as roar as he charged for the Scorpion. The scorpion whose suit was scratched and damaged in a few places by the Dora Milage didn''t hesitate to fire a few blast at him. A blast hit him right in the face sending the black panther flying back into a car. "The bat isn''t here to save you this time kitty", Scorpion mocked as he picked up a car. "your going to pay for what you did to my suit the last time!" Scorpion roared as he smashed the car at the black panther who stopped it at the last moment. T-Chaka let out a grant as he struggled against the car being pressed against him. "Urgh!" T-Chaka struggled before lifting the car away to provide b?r?ly enough spare for him to roll away, relying on his agility he flipped behind Scorpion grabbed a car door and smashed it on the Scorpion''s head sending him face first into the trunk of the car he was holding. Scorpion rose his head just to have Black panther claw away at his helmet making it through to leave a deep cut on Scorpion''s face causing him to scream out in agony before throwing T-Chaka off him. Taking off his helmet Scorpion took a look at his face, seeing the scar on his face his anger was through the roof. Turning to face T-Chaka who had now made it to his feet he screamed, "I''m going to kill you!" In the Oscorp building. Batman had arrived at the lab, to see the empty chamber but the green smoke had long faded from the lab. Batman began to search the lab for George and soon came to a table where a black liquid was in some sort of container and seemed to move on its own. Batman picked it up to have a closer look but soon heard a sound and moved to the source of the sound. Batman came face to face with George being held by the throat, by a green creature wearing some sort of battle armor standing on a glider with a mad grin on its face cackling. Seeing him the creature flew out the window and to the roof, Batman didn''t hesitate as he jumped out the window and a fired a grappling hook towards the roof and pulled himself up. "we meet at last... Batman, you may call me... the Green Goblin." The Green Goblin cackled as he spoke. Batman watched this with apprehension, the green goblin was definitely a famous character in the marvel universe one who was not known for his sanity. Batman was hoping that Norman would remain Norman in this universe but luck didn''t seem to be on his side as Norman had transformed himself to the Goblin. "let him go!" Batman ordered for George to be let free. Green Goblin came to a halt when he heard that before a weird grin appeared on his face, "as you wish" "Aaargh!" the screams of George sounded as he fell 108 floors. Batman jumped without hesitation as to save his friend with the Green Goblin laughing as he watched. Batman fired his grappling hook toward the roof with one arm and stretched out his other hand towards George. Batman was inches away from George but couldn''t close the distance as the grew closer to the ground below. ''come on! come on!" Batman kept thinking. *smash* a deafening sound cut his thoughts. At the Stacy home, a crashing sound was heard causing Gwen to rush to the kitchen. In the kitchen two pieces of a broken plate where on the ground with Gwen''s mom clenching her ?h?st with red eyes, feeling something had happened. Outside the Oscorp building, black panther who had just defeated the Scorpion saw something crash into a car and moved to check it out. Arriving there a sad scene was before his eyes, Batman was by a body with his head bowed. A closer look at the body revealed the identity was none other than George Stacy captain of the NYP Chapter 46 - rain of death Batman stood and Black panther who was close to him felt as though his whole body was dropped in freezing water. At that moment the man before him did not feel human but rather like some sort of demon that just escaped hell. "Are... are you okay?" Black panther struggled before finally asking his question, "I''m going to kill him" "what?" Batman''s words caught Black panther off guard but before he could say or do anything Batman was off. Green Goblin stood on his glider watching Batman come after him, "aww seems you couldn''t make it hahahahahaha" The green goblin''s mad laughter drove Batman mad as he chased him through the skies swinging to keep up. "Oi Batman! catch" Green goblin threw spherical objects with a blinking green light. Bats stopped swinging and avoided them by gliding away causing the objects to miss him and fall further below and exploding when coming in contact with the buildings below. "Oops, well I did say catch" Goblin spoke right before falling on a roof as Batman fired a batarang at his glider and knocked him off. "Ouch" Goblin struggled to his feet just to come face to face with Batman''s fist which sent him back down and rolling. Batman rushed him not letting up, and stabbed at him with a batarang. Goblin caught it right before it could stab into his face and flipped Batman off of him. "Batman, Batman are you pissed? hahaha don''t be, because I''m just getting started." Batman tackled him but the goblin sent a knee into his ribs which caused a sickening crunch and knocked the wind out his lungs. "that sounded like it hurt" Goblin spoke to Batman who let out a grunt before taking a swing at the Goblin''s jaw. A smile returned to his face once more as his glider came from behind with two machine guns coming out and firing at the Batman causing him to jump of the building. Below Black panther and members of the Dora Milage who had managed to regain consciousness were helping the people who managed to survive the rain of bombs. T-Chaka looked up just in time to see Batman sent into a building. "I''m leaving this place to you!" he shouted as leaped unto a car and used it as a spring board to soar into the sky. Green Goblin was just about to fly into the building to continue his ?ssault on the Batman when he looked below, in time to see Black Panther grab on to his glider and flip on it to engage in hand to hand combat with himself. The two engaged in a fierce battle as the glider flew crazily through the city. Batman had managed to jump out the building a fired a grappling hook at the glider hanging on as he followed behind them. Green Goblin caught sight of him and pressed a bu??on causing his glider to rain bombs indiscriminately. *Boom*Boom* the sound of explosions closely followed by sirens could be heard throughout, with trails of smoke heading into the night sky. "Damnit!" Batman exclaimed as a bomb headed straight for his face. Firing a batarang at it he managed to blow it up before it got to him but the resulting explosion still managed to get to him burning off half of his mask. Goblin finally managed to kick Black panther off his glider send him straight down, "hahaha" Goblin''s laugh was cut off as he was tackled from behind and off the glider, through a building. The goblin now had a wound on his chin probably caused by a shard of glass as they crashed into the building, both men entered a battle stance and charged at one another. Goblin came with a wide swing but Batman avoided it and landed an uper cut before dropkicking the goblin into a pillar. Goblin stood up relatively unharmed laughing like a madman, as he stared the Batman down. *************** Don''t forget to head over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me.. ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 47 - Wrong, Im Batman "hahaha, do you really think you can harm me, Batman. You took everything away from me, without you everything would have gone smoothly!" Goblin screamed as he thew a concrete slab at Bats, Batman jumped over it activation his gloves once more he landed a strong right hook on the Goblin''s jaw causing him to spit out a mouthful of green blood as he flew away. Goblin stood holding his jaw, "Arrgh!" Green Goblin screamed as he punched at Batman. The Goblin''s fist colliding with the Batman''s. The resulting force directly shattered the glove and sent Batman flying through the wall. "you know I''ve always thought you were better, that somehow you were like Captain America..." Goblin started walking towards Batman at a leisurely pace, "but now I see it, you are nothing more than a man and in a Halloween costume." Batman stood once again, "wrong, I''m Batman". with that smoke appeared from all around confusing Green Goblin as Batman dissapeared into the smoke. Green Goblin began looking around frantically for the Batman, but to no avail getting more frantic each second. A batarang came from behind, hitting Green Goblin in the back of his head. As he tried to regain his bearing another one came attaching unto him releasing a powerful volt of electricity causing him to scream out in pain. An explosive came out shutting him up and sending him through a pillar. At this point Green Goblin was on all fours with his fear reaching a never before high. Green Goblin looked around him vigilantly for any signs of the Batman, when Batman dropped from above sending his face into the floor creating web like cracks on the ground. Goblin rose his head spitting out the cement and began looking around once again for the Batman. "Stop hiding like a coward and face me like a man! coward!" Goblin punched before himself only for his punch to be caught. The smoke cleared to reveal the Batman who towered over him and had a firm grip on his fist. Goblin''s eyes widened and before he could react, Batman pulled him close and headbutted him stunning him for a bit. Batman not letting up continued with a relentless ?ssault. Sending a knee straight to his head before continuing to vent his anger on the Goblin, smashing his right arm into a bloodied mess. After a full on ?ssault he pulled the Goblin by the back of his neck and spoke but one word, "why?" Goblin just stared at him through the eyes which had swollen up, "hahaha...hahahahaha...haaaaahhahahahahhaha" and began laughing like the mad man he was . At this point Batman heard a faint sound and moved as a glider made contact with the building and exploded. The entire building was sent down by the massive explosion causing all to move away from the collapsing building including Black Panther who was just about to make his way into the building. A huge cloud of dust formed as the building collapsed obscuring all forms of vision. As the dust cloud disappeared Black Panther rushed in calling for the Batman. Black Panther rushed into the scene soon spotting the Green Goblin''s corpse which had a wide grin etched on his face. Black Panther took a quick glance still looking for the Batman when he saw a massive concrete slab moving and came to a halt. The concrete slab was pushed away to reveal the Batman whose suit was all but destroyed but still stood strong. Choppers soon crowded the scene, shining it''s light down on the wreckage below. ... "The city is still in shock after the explosive events that happened yesternight as Batman with another unknown individual fought against Norman Osborne now known as the Green Goblin and caused massive destruction across the city...." "What did I tell you, idolizing these masked vigilantes. now look! look what they did to our city. A cop is dead for crying out loud a-" Jamesons voice was cut off as Sebastian turned off the T.V , "are you alright sir?" Sebastian asked as he turned to Jeff who was before his work table with Jeff remaining silent. In the Stacy home, Helen was on the couch hugging a picture of George tightly as she balled her eyes out. Gwen tried her best to comfort her mother, with even the boys remaining silent with somber looks on their face. ******* Don''t forget to head over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me.. ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 48 - It has began A whole week had passed since the Goblin incident. The city was in mourning for the countless people who died that night, with Jeff at a funeral himself. Jeff was dressed in all black in a sharp Armani suit, standing amongst the other guests. He watched as the placed George''s coffin into the pit and began shoveling dirt on it. Helen held on to the folded flag, balling her eyes out with her children by her side. Jeff watched this feeling guilty, he couldn''t help but think back to that night. If only he hadn''t handed that file over to George, if he had taken care of the Rhino a bit earlier or if he had just been able to grab George during the fall. Jeff just couldn''t help but wonder... what if? Unfortunately there are no what if''s in this world and all he could do at this moment was say goodbye to his friend. At Eve''s club, Sebastian was having a meeting with Eve. He hadn''t forgotten that she had found out the identity of the Batman and could share that information with the court whenever she wished. "Sebastian, a p???sur? as always..." She began pouring to glasses and spoke once more as she did so. "...I know why you are here, and no I haven''t told them and I don''t plan to." Sebastian rose a brow at her words, "what are you up to?" Sebastian questioned her as she turned around and handed a drink to himself, Sebastian hesitated for a moment before taking it. "I''m off the same mind as you, I believe the court has outlived it''s usefulness. It''s members have fallen and forgotten why we joined the court in the first place and become obsessed with power..." she was cut off by Sebastian "and you haven''t?" She laughed at that before sipping from her glass. "I''ll admit I can''t say I don''t love the power but I do know when love becomes obsession". "So what exactly are you after?" Sebastian spoke as he downed his glass. "A partnership, we alongside the bat work together to take down the Court. Just like the old days." Jeff after hesitating did not approach the Stacy family but got in his car and headed straight home. Jeff soon arrived home to see a limo packed before his gates with the all to familiar bald ladies standing guard. Jeff parked his car and got out with T-Chaka following his lead as both of them stood inches away from one another. "Your highness" Jeff spoke first, "Batman" T-Chaka responded with a smile. T-Chaka finally found the Batman''s identity after seeing him that night with his suit all but destroyed after the building collapse. "Would you like to come in?" "No need" T-Chaka spoke raising his hand to stop him."I''ll admit, I was surprised when I found out you were the Batman of all people you were on the bottom of my list as to who could be the Batman." Jeff smiled as he heard that, "I will be heading back to Wakanda, unfortunately Klaue took advantage of the chaos to escape but we managed to retrieve the vibranium." T-Chaka continued. "I guess it was a victory then" Jeff said, "Barely" T-Chaka sighed "to be honest, I''m getting too old for this. Maybe it''s time my son took over, either way before I leave I thought I should leave something with you." T-Chaka''s words caused Jeff to raise a brow, one of the Dora Milage came before Jeff with a brief case at hand, opening Jeff saw it was filled with vibranium and looked towards T-Chaka. "I thought with your suit gone and all maybe this could help in making a new one." "what happened to Wakanda not sharing Vibranium?" Jeff questioned as he held the briefcase. "I think you are different from the others Mr. King, and you will be able to put that to good use." Jeff nodded at T-Chaka words "If you ever need my help, you can count on me." T-Chaka smiled at those words, " and you will always have Wakanda''s help when you need it. Goodbye Mr. King" T-Chaka headed back with his guards "goodbye your highness." Jeff got into his car after watching T-Chaka drive off. At this time in Afghanistan, Tony Stark stood before a group of military men giving a speech, "... is it better to be feared or respected, I say is too much to ask for both? with that in mind I humbly present the crown jewel of Stark industries freedom line, it''s the first missile system to incorporate our propriety repulsor technology." "They, say the best weapon, is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree, I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That''s how dad did this, that''s how America does it and for that matter it worked out pretty well so far, find an excuse to let one of these of the chain and I guarantee you, the bad wouldn''t even want to come out of their caves." With those words Tony gestured to start, and the missiles were loaded causing all the people present to turn to face the device which had the missiles atop of it. A missile was fired and as it aproached it''s target it split into many more missiles, "For your consideration.... the Jericho" with those words, the missiles made contact producing a massive explosion sending a massive cloud of dust thier way and literally blowing the hats off of all those present. Chapter 49 - Plans Jeff seeing the news about Tony in Afghanistan and the Jericho missile, as well as him being missing had a smirk on his face, he wondered the look on Tony''s face as his own missile exploded before him. Iron Man was literally happening, soon old men from world war 2 will be returning, and big green rage monsters will be brawling with ugly grey monsters... oh and who can forget the two iconic arrogant gods. Jeff eyes moved to his new suit. His suit was made with the vibranium he received along with what he snagged from Oscorp...surprise an artificial symbiot. Artificial because Jeff had run some tests and was 90 percent sure that this wasn''t alien life and also he had failed to find any form of intelligence within. The black suit with silver accents was nothing short of a work of art. The suit''s mask now covered his whole face, could take the impact from a frickin missile. The bat suit was also fitted with an electric system which allows him to shock ?ssailants with a whole slew of other features hidden within courtesy of the King fortune. And to him the most important feature the suit being able to shrink into his watch. "I see you''ve seen the news sir", Sebastian walked in interrupting Jeff''s thoughts "I have". "should I prepare the Batwing sir", Sebastian tentatively asked causing Jeff to finally turn to face him with a look of confusion on his face. "To save master Stark, " Sebastian continued. "hmmm, no Tony will eventually return and there are somethings to take care of here." Jeff considered heading over to save Tony, but upon further consideration he decided against it. This event was the turning point for Tony and was a necessity for the birth of Ironman hence Jeff decided he wouldn''t interfere, but that didn''t mean he couldn''t make some money. Stark Industries stock price had began to fall with the news of Tony going missing, and Jeff knew it would fall even further when the merchant of death returned and announced Stark industries exit from the arms market. This would be the best time to acquire their stocks. When events of Iron Man one are over Jeff wonders what look Tony would have when he finds out that Jeff owns a majority of shares. "Sebastian tell the company to grab as many of Stark industries stock as possible but make sure not to draw attention whilst doing so." Sebastian was puzzeled by the order but didn''t refuse but headed out to pass them on. In another part of the city. The thumping sound of her taped fist as they made contact with the sand bag being the whole sound in the entire warehouse. The warehouse was one of the many abandoned warehouses in the city which she had transformed into her personal gym earlier on but abandoned after her meeting with the Batman. But after what happened recently she was back here once more, as this was the only place where she could momentarily forget about everything. "Aaah!" Gwen screamed as she delivered a fierce punch making a fist sized hole in the sandbag. After doing so Gwen fell on her bu??, sitting on the ground taking in deep breaths in a futile attempt to calm down. She couldn''t calm down the only time she was calm was when she was hitting something. Her eyes drifted to her bag and spotted her bat suit which was she had brought along, coming to a decision. ... Jeff was seated before his Bat computer going through files he had managed to retrieve from Norman''s damaged hard drive. Jeff had not forgotten that Norman was not alone and that some Court was apparantely out to get him. From his understanding Jeff knew that Sebastian created them to control the crime in the city so he returned to a safe City, but like all comic universes something went wrong and they decided to become rulers of the underworld now. With the amount of threats he had to deal with, Jeff was not keen on the idea of an new one popping up much less one of his own making. In an undisclosed location. A group of people were seated around a table, "Norman failed... and even caused a whole lot of trouble," Chris spoke up. "A whole lot of eyes have been drawn here recently, due to Osborne''s antics all those guys after the super serum will be here soon enough," another person spoke up. The others thought more about the serum, they were from that time and some had even seen Captain America in action so they would be lying if they said they weren''t interested in the serum. "Was there any trace of the serum when our people went over." Chris asked, "there was nothing but ruble if there was anything only the Batman knows." "what about you Obadiah?" Chris turned to the bald member who was silent through out. "Starks missing and my stocks are dropping, I''m sorry but won''t be able to provide a lot of weapons to hunt the Batman." Obadiah spoke up. "Understand, you deal with Stark industries we will handle the Batman." Chapter 50 - "What the hell did you do to me?" *huff*huff* heavy breaths could be heard as man run through the alleyways. The man kept looking back as he run. His panic clear on his face, ducking down a corner he hid behind a trash can peeking his head to see if he had lost his pursuer. After a few more seconds he thought he had lost his pursuer and let out a sigh of relief. As he did so he was grabbed by the hair and slammed face first into a wall. He let out a grunt of pain as a trail of blood trailed down his nose. "please I''m begging you , please I''ll turn myself in just let me go... God please..." "He isn''t here right now..." a distorted voice spoke, "but I am" were the last words his attacker let out, before blood curling screams broke through the night. ******* The next day "Rise and shine sir", Sebastian spoke up as he parted the curtains to allow the sunrays into the room. Jeff groggily awoke with dark circles around his eyes, as the rays found his face. "morning Sebastian", Jeff replied to Sebastian''s greeting. "I took the liberty of preparing breakfast", Sebastian spoke as he moved to serve Jeff. "Thank you Sebastian", "pleasure sir" Sebastian gave a smile before moving out of the room to allow Jeff get ready. Half an hour later Jeff was out refreshed moving straight to the batcave. Jeff with the help of Sebastian and Oracle had compiled files on the members of the court. Jeff sat to look through the files when a certain individual caught his attention. " and here I was thinking I wasn''t go to get involved with Ironman 1" Jeff muttered to himself as he saw an image of Obadiah Stane. The man who was the antagonist in the first Ironman movie. Jeff was in thought when an alarm caught his attention, moving his eyes to the screen he frowned before getting up. Tony awoke to lying on a bed in an unfamiliar place, scrunching his face he pulled out a tube which was passed through his nose. Tony looked to his side and saw a cup of water by his side and tried reaching for it only for him to push it down. Tony let out a few coughs before he spotted a man shaving before a piece of glass. His eyes widened before he reached for a bottle, only to feel resistance from his ?h?st. "I wouldn''t do that if I were you." The man spoke, hearing this Tony looked behind him to spot a car battery. He began tracing the wire to his ?h?st and felt something under his clothes. He began ripping his shirt and then his bandage until he finally saw what was under and began taking in shallow breaths. After calming down, Tony was seated on the bed with the car battery before himself looking at the man prepare some food as he whistled. "What the hell did you do to me?" Tony finally spoke. "what did I do? what I did was to save your life, I removed all the shrapnel I could but there was a lot left. It was headed into your atrium septum,here wanna see" the man rose a small container containing the shrapnel up for Tony to see. "take a look", he threw the glass container over to Tony. "I''ve seen a lot of wounds like that back in my village. We call them the walking dead, because I takes about a week for the bombs to reach the vital organs-" "what is this?" Tony cut him off. "That, that is an electro magnet, hooked up to a car battery and it''s keeping the shrapnel from entering your heart." At that moment his thought went to what his friend Jeff said ''aren''t you worried one day your missile is gonna blow up in your face'' how he wished he listened to him then. With that thought Tony zipped up his hoodie. Back in NYC; Batman was at a scene investigating a series of gangsters who got beaten to an inch of their lives. The reason for him being here, the batarangs found at the scene. Which made him wonder just who it was that was impersonating him this time. Check out my Ko-fi ko-fi.com/flowinglightning.. please head over and support me it would mean a lot. Chapter 51 - youre going to train me? *****shoutout to Peter_Glade thanks for your support***** Bats was back in the batcave, with his suit on without the mask. "Oracle pull up all cameras around the area around the time when the incident took place", with his words multiple videos appeared on his screens showing different angles of the place. "There get rid of the others and show me camera 14", the other videos disappeared leaving only a video where by one guy burst out of the building an run into an alley. "follow him", another camera feed was brought up showing the man weaving through alleyways before taking a turn in one without cameras. "sorry sir, but there are no cameras in that alley" "hmm" the scowl on Jeff''s face deepened before he got up leaving with his mask covering his face once more. In a few minutes Batman had arrived at the alleyway, and by the look of things the police had yet to reach here. He headed into the alleyway where he soon found the man, all battered and bloodied laying unconscious. Batman spotted something on the guy and bent down to have a closer look. There was a bat symbol burnt unto the guys skin, Batman stretched his hand out to touch it. Right before he did the guy regained consciousness, seeing the Batman the guy became scared, started screaming and attempted to crawl away but failed to do so with his broken limbs. Batman watched him for a few seconds before calling the police and disappeared. On a rooftop Batman watched as the police alongside an ambulance arrived. "Oracle check the records for people brought in recently, who are branded with a bat symbol", within a few seconds his heads up display had pictures of six people with varying degrees of injuries all having the bat symbol burnt unto them. "where were they found?" The pictures disappeared leaving a map with six red spots representing where each of them where found. "Analyze the material of the batarang" Batman spoke as he looked at the batarang he had nabbed from the scene. The materials used in the batarang where now on Batman''s HUD as he looked through them carefully, when he spotted something odd. The material used was similar to that off a chop saw blade only thing is people don''t use that anymore and have improved the material so... "Bring up old warehouses and and abandoned factories near the six locations" four new spots where added to the map. "Take out the others leave only the one involved in Chop saw storage or production" with that he had only one warehouse left on the map. Batman looked around before moving deeper in, he arrived and found what he was looking for. There were batarangs laid on a table before himself with Chop saws on the other side. Batman picked one up before placing it down and moving to the work bench. The work bench had a power cutter on it which Batman touched only to feel it was still hot. Feeling the heat, he realized that it must have been used recently. Batman''s eyes widened before jumping to the side avoiding a batarang which came from behind and embedded itself into the wall. Batman looked to the source to see a familiar figure in a familiar costume. "Gwen-" Gwen cut him of, " no don''t you dare. You told me you were enough and now my Dad is dead because of you". Her words struck Jeff, as his guilt washed over him once more. Gwen charged at him once more firing batarangs at him, Batman avoided them before ducking to avoid an overhead kick from her. "Argh!" Gwen screamed at him before trying to punch him with Batman blocking her attacks and flipping her into some crates. "Gwen calm down", "don''t tell me to calm down!" She pulled out to batons and charged at Batman once more pushing him back. *shing* her batons were slashed in half by Batman''s batarang, before a knee was sent into her abdomen sending her rolling on the ground. She grabbed a steel pipe as she got to her feet and swung straight for Batman''s head but Batman grabbed it before it could make contact with his head. Pulling on the pipe he brought her close and put her in a headlock. Gwen struggled to get loose, "let me go" " listen to me" his words stunned Gwen. "I understand your pain, trust me I truly do. I can help you get justice but if you really want to do this you need training" At those words Gwen finally stopped struggling, " do you mean... you''re going to train me?" Batman let go of her as she turned to face him. ********* Head over to my Ko-fi to read ahead and support me at ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 52 - youre... youre... Jeffery King is the Batman "This place is awesome!" Gwen exclaimed as she looked around at the batcave. After her conversation with the Batman he had brought her in the Batmobile through a secret tunnel into the Batcave. Gwen moved around looking at Batman''s training equipment before her eyes turned to a the suits which were lined up. Jeff was Batman after all and had a copy of each suit he made but after he improved upon them he kept them down here. Gwen traced her fingers along his first bat suit, before moving on to the others in awe of them. Something sparkled, in the corner drawing her attention but before she could get close Batman cut her off. "So... do I get a suit?" "This is were you will be training I expect to see you here everyday at 4pm." Batman ignored a question and began speaking in a strange tone which was bought calm and authoritative. He began walking to his combat training room with Gwen following after but then she stopped and asked a question which caused Batman to come to a halt. "why did you say Justice? when you came up to me you said you could help me get Justice, not do good or get closure but get Justice. Why is that? The green goblin is dead right so what did you mean by that?" Gwen asked the questions that had been on her mind on the way here. Bats came to a halt before turning to face her. All was silent for a minute or two before he spoke up, "there were people behind Norman". Those words were like a bomb in Gwen''s ears, her eyes widened and stood still with her mouth open unable to utter any words for a few seconds. "what... what do you mean, when you say there were people behind Norman?" Gwen asked as she clenched her fist struggling to keep her voice calm and even. "They are known as the court, Norman was a member." Batman''s words caused her to take a step back as her eyes widened, before she rushed at him and held on to him. "Then why are you just standing here why aren''t you going after them?!" Gwen looked right at him her eyes betraying her emotions. "The people involved aren''t easy to go after it takes time to take them out for good-" Gwen cut him off, "No! no, you don''t give me that. Isn''t that why you do this so you can do what the police can''t, if you can''t do this, then, then what even is the point." Gwen turned to leave after she was done but Batman held on to her hand tightly preventing her from leaving."I will take them out but I want to do it in a way that leaves no remnants who can rise up and do what they did to your father to anyone else, because trust me I understand your pain more than you know." Gwen scoffed before yanking her hand free, "yeah right, how do you expect me to trust a man whose face I have never seen before?" Batman remained silent for a moment before he spoke up, "you''re right." Gwen stood dumbfounded as she expected lots of words but not those two words. Gwen parted her lips to speak but a shocking sight was happening right before her. Batman''s mask had turned to some sort of viscous material and was retreating from his head revealing the identity of the man underneath which cause her parted lips to open wide enough to swallow an egg whole. "you''re... you''re... Jeffery King is the Batman". ********* At Eve''s club; "Hello Eve", Chris had appeared in Eve''s club and made his way to her. "Chris, and here I thought you would be busy with your Bat hunt." "Oh I am, I have somethings in the works but I thought with your help things would go smoothly", Eve rose a brow hearing his words. "What help could I possibly offer you?" Eve questioned him. "I just wanted to know, who is the Batman?" Eve took a swing of her glass before looking him dead in the eye, "I''m sorry to disappoint but I have no idea". Hearing her answer, Chris stared her down both remaining in silence for a whole minute. "A shame, oh well on to the other reason as to why I''m here I need you to convince Sebastian to join us once more." "The boss is retired, I don''t think he''s coming back" Eve spoke up. "please Eve, you and I both know your relationship with him was more than just professional." Eve stood moving away leaving her final words, "he is retired, I have things to do Chris I trust you know the way out." ***** Head over to my Ko-fi to read ahead and support me at ko-fi.com/flowinglightning head over now to read a whole Three chapters ahead. Chapter 53 - Dont waste it... It''s been a month, a whole month since Gwen began her hell Jeff called training. Her only saving grace through the whole ordeal being Sebastian. *huff* huff* Gwen was panting as she stepped out of the simulation room completely soaked in her own sweat. "Thank you Sebastian" she spoke as sh took the towel and bottle of water offered to her by Sebastian. "It''s a p???sur? miss", Sebastian spoke with his kind grandfather smile on his face. The Batmobile pulled in, with Batman jumping out and heading straight for his computer only to be stopped by Gwen. "Hey Jeff! " Batman stopped and turned to face her hearing her call for him. "Where were you?" " taking down an illegal arms market" "okay and the court?" "what about them?" Jeff questioned back. "I thought when you brought me in on this you said we would be going after the court that we would make them pay for what they did to my Dad, but all you''ve done for the past month is stop petty thieves, drug warehouses, and illegal arms markets leaving me here with Sebastian and those annoying bots-" Gwen''s rant was cut off by a batarang which flew straight at her head without any warning. "what the hell?!" Gwen screamed as she caught the batarang mere inches away from her face. "Leaving you here is so you can train and improve yourself, and those things you deem useless are helping to destroy the courts business without their business they begin to run out funds and lose control of the criminal underworld without that, they are just a bunch of old men who are easy to take out." At the end of the Batman''s words he was standing right before Gwen with the pressure he was emanating, causing her to remain silent. "well I could help, I still think I should be out there with you rather than stuck in this cave all the time." Gwen argued back, " you''re not ready" were the only words Batman left Gwen before he received an important call. A few hours before Batman received the call, Somewhere in Afghanistan. Guns were fired in a cave by three men, one stopped to speak to the other when he was hit to the side by a metal arm. The other two didn''t hesitate and continued to fire but their guns proved ineffective against the metal humanoid who proceeded to take them all out. The figure continued walking through a tunnel where it was met with more gunfire, seeing their weapons were ineffective one of them stupidly charged at the metal humanoid whilst screaming and was smacked into a wall. The metal continued his journey tearing through their pitiful defense like paper. Some of the remaining men were able to run and close the metal doors behind them before turning to face it with their guns, praying it could hold back whatever the thing back there was. Unfortunately one man was too late and was stuck behind the gates banging and pleading to be let in. The people heard it but didn''t make a move to open the gates as the heavy thuds got louder signaling the metal humanoid was close. The man''s screams got louder and even more desperate before they came to an end. The screams they heard were now replaced with heavy thuds which caused visible deformations in the gate. The men didn''t hesitate and took to their heels, right in time as the gates were smashed open only moments later. It was chaos as the men run for their lives, during the metal humanoid''s rampage one of it''s arms got lodged into a wall and it began struggling to free it''s arm when one man took notice of this. The man pulled out his hand gun and slowly made his way to the metal humanoid before shooting at its head only for the bullet to ricochet and take him out. The metal humanoid finally took notice of him, but payed him no heed as it pulled it''s hands free. The metal humanoid made it to the entrance only to be fired at with a grenade launcher which fortunately missed, before it responded with a rocket of it''s own. The metal humanoid seeing there were no more injuries came over to the side of an injured man taking of it''s visor, it was revealed that this was none other than Tony Stark. "come on we got to go" Tony spoke to the man who laid on some sacks bleeding. "I''m moving you we had a plan come on stick to it" Tony spoke once more "This was always the plan Stark" Ho Yinsen spoke in a faint voice. "come on, you''re going to see your family get up" Tony continued, " my family''s dead... I''m going to see them now Stark." Ho Yinsen''s words caused Tony to remain silent. "it''s okay... I want this, I want this" Ho Yinsen struggled to speak. Tears began to form into Tony''s eyes " thank you for saving me" "don''t waste it... don''t waste your life" Ho Yinsen left his last words before shutting his eyes. ***** Head over to my Ko-fi to read ahead and support me at ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 54 - My Turn Tony full of grief now slowly walked out of the cave in his Mark I armor coming face to face with his captors, who had formed a line and opened fire immediately they saw him. Tony stood still taking all their fire as they caused him no harm and only produced Sparks. The men after while stopped firing and stared wide eyed. "My turn" Tony spoke as he spat fire at them, incenrating them as well as his weapons with each step. Some of the men who managed to avoid the flames, screamed out in fear. Tony''s steps were soon halted as a man a bit farther away fired his submachine gun, with others following suit they seemed to suppress Tony as he fell to all fours. Tony continued to fight back blowing stuff up, before activating his thrusters to fly away. leaving a flaming mushroom cloud behind. Unfortunately his suit didn''t last long as he screamed all the way down falling into the desert. The suit fell to pieces with the impact but Tony survived, Taking off his helmet he looked around before muttering to himself "not bad". Minutes later, Tony wandered through the dessert before helicopters arrived and he screamed in joy as he fell on his knees. Rhodey run up to him with other soldiers in tow, " how was the Humvee?" Tony responded with a smile as he heard that. Rhodey stretched out his hand to Tony''s shoulders before coming down to eye level with him, "next time you ride with me okay" and hugged. A plane arrived at the airport with Pepper, Happy and Jeff standing waiting for Tony to get off. Tony was escorted by Rhodey down, before Tony waved away paramedics who arrived with a stretcher. "hmm your eyes are red, a few tears for your long lost boss?" Tony came up and spoke to Pepper who was all smiles seeing Tony. "tears of joy I hate job hunting" "yeah well vacations over" Tony said as he turned to face Jeff "you missed me buddy?" Jeff smirked as he answered " first few weeks nah, then I thought what the hell". Tony scoffed at that smiling before they all entered the car, " where to sir?" Happy asked as they were all seated "to the hospital" Pepper spoke but was rejected by Tony. "No" Jeff turned to Tony, "No, what do you mean no?" "exactly Tony you need to go to hospital-" Pepper continued but was cut of by Tony "I don''t have to do anything, I''ve been in captivity. There are two things I want to do, I want an American cheese burger and the other..." Both Jeff and Pepper cut him off, "no" by Jeff and "that''s enough of that by Pepper" "it''s not what you think I want you to call for a press conference" Both Pepper and Jeff turned to face Tony with incredulous looks. Jeff new what Tony was about to do but pretended to be as clueless as Pepper. "Tony, that''s to early Press can wait", Jeff tried to convince Tony knowing it would be futile "yes, what he said. Tony, press conference what on earth for" People began applauding as they arrived, with Obadiah even getting the door for Tony before hugging him as Happy brought the burger which Tony grabbed as he headed in with Jeff and Pepper following after. Jeff stood by Pepper as Tony made his way through the swarm of reporters. "excuse me" a voice from their side caused them to turn when Pepper spoke ?ssuming it was another reporter "yes, we''re not apart of the press conference but it''s about to begin right now." "I''m not a reporter I''m agent Phill Coulson with the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Department" The man spoke up and Jeff almost burst out laughing but held it in "That''s quite a mouthful" Pepper spoke as she took the card he handed. "Almost as though someone wanted to spell out Shield." "I know" Coulson responded with his smile ever present. "you know we have been approached by the DOD the FBI, CIA" "we are separate division more of a specific focus, we need to debrief Mr.Stark on the circumstances of his escape" Jeff began paying attention to the press conference as Tony made all the reporters sit and then talk about his father before speaking about what he saw before standing and making his way back to the podium "... that is why effective immediately I''m shutting down Stark industries weapons manufacturing program" with those words it was pandemonium. head over to my Ko-fi where we are four chapters ahead ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 55 - Get him out now! Obadiah screamed as he caused damage to the office supplies in a fit of rage. "Thing''s aren''t going your way are they?", a voice interrupted his raging causing him to turn around. There stood Chris with a broad grin evident on his face clearly enjoying this. Obadiah let out a deep breath calming himself before speaking up, "What are you doing here?" "your lovely secretary let me in... love her by the way" Chris replied his smile not disapearing for even a second. Obadiah face remained stoic, clearly not in the mood. Chris saw this and went straight to the point, "I saw the news, your boy created such big news immediately he returned." *crack* Obadiah snapped a pen in his hand when he heard that again, "that brat, idiots the whole lot of them. I get them to do one thing and they fail miserably and now his back apparently he seen Jesus or some sh*t, damn it all!" "calm down, your aging you know, stress isn''t really good for your health", Obadiah nearly burst a vein hearing that. "you''re not here just to annoy me, so why are you really here?" Obadiah questioned him. "Your little side project is failing, miserably might I add. let''s work together you help us with the bat problem we help you with the kid aren''t you the least bit curious on how he escaped." Obadiah rose a brow hearing that and before he could ask. "I care about each member and might have some monitoring in place. so what say you? I help you retrieve it and study it and you help deal with a certain flying rodent." There was but silence in the office for a minute or two before Obadiah spoke up, "deal". At the batcave Jeff had returned to Sebastian and Gwen, who started firing of questions as soon as she saw him. "Tony Stark is alive? how did he escape? how did you even get to know him? what happened to him over there? why is he shutting down the weapons program?-" "Gwen" Jeff cut Gwen off "today''s training is over go home". "wait what?" Gwen spoke about to argue but was cut off by Jeff "see you tomorrow." walking away with those words leaving Gwen who stood still for a while before relenting. "How was master Stark sir?" Sebastian spoke up after seeing Gwen huff and storm out. "Tony is... Tony " "so what now sir?" "I have gotten information on a club apparently a lot of the courts money is hidden there." Jeff spoke as he began to suit up "hmm, when I was in charge I left the financials to Chris so I''m not exactly sure, but if it really is there then this would cripple them and force them out of the shadows." "exactly and when they do come out, I will finally be able to deal with this threat once and for all. What?" Jeff asked as he saw Sebastian with a concerned look on his face. Sebastian hesitated but eventually said, "nothing sir, do come back safely". Music was blaring at full volume as people kept moving their body to the best with some others indulging in alcohol and drugs. A typical scene at a club was happening but this scene was soon interrupted as the lights and music suddenly went out. The people were confused with some grumbling out in annoyance and some thinking something was wrong. A gunshot resounded soon after and chaos ensued as people screamed as they tried to escape the place. The gang bangers and security rushed in with their guns to deal with whatever was going on, but unfortunately for them in the cover of darkness, the Batman was invincible. Batman picked them off one by one before soon arriving in an office an taking out a man who tried to ambush him. The manager at this point was scared as sweating bullets as he raised his hands in surrender. "Where is it?" Batman questioned in his distorted voice. "I... I... I don''t know wh-what your talking about." The man stuttered as he responded. "where is the money?" Batman questioned as he took a few steps forward. "don''t... don''t know" he shook his head vigorously but his eyes kept shifting to one side. Batman followed his eyesight before punching him and knocking him out. He turned his attention to a book shelf which the guys eyes kept shifting to, pushing it away a secret entrance was revealed. At this moment Sebastian received a call. "hello" "Sebastian hurry, call the Batman back Chris has a set a trap, I wasn''t told anything my spy just got information. You have to get him out now!" head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 56 - Im bullet proof. At this moment Sebastian received a call. "hello" "Sebastian hurry, call the Batman back Chris has a set a trap, I wasn''t told anything, my spy just got information. You have to get him out now!" Batman walked into the dark underground safe with night vision allowing him to see clearly but he was stunned. There was nothing . At this point all his muscles tightened before he quickly ducked avoiding a wide swing for the back of his head before grabbing it and twisting it. A shriek of pain was soon head before a thud knocking the ?ssailant out. At this point Bats had entered a battle stance as he was surrounded. The men charged but before they could get close Bat''s suit spread out taking them all out, engulfing the room and pushing Bats out all at the same time. Bats rolled out his suit returning to his base state as he looked around, countless men had Batman surrounded. The men were all dressed in a special uniform, with a symbol on their ?h?st catching Batman''s eye. The was a short stare down before all the men rushed Batman with cold weapons. Batman moved through them with ease blocking their attacks before trading blows whilst firing Batarangs at them. Batman had managed to make a gap in his encirclement and was about to deliver a heavy punch when a gunshot was heard and he was sent into a wall. Batman grabbed his ribs as the pain was excruciating, looking at the men who were about to rush him once more but he failed to see the shooter. He was now concerned, his suit was undoubtedly bulletproof so he was sure that whatever that was that sent him flying into was not a normal bullet. The shooter couldn''t kill him but could definitely hurt him (A/N I know there are going to be comments about the gunshot harming Batman, so let me explain this weapon is not a normal weapon but one of the many prototypes developed to deal with our green friend with anger issues, will probably go more into this next chap) At this moment Batman was in the cross hairs of a scope, as the shooter planned another shot this one at his head but just before he could pull the trigger a cable wrapped around his neck and pulled him away. From the shadows Gwen jumped out in her own batsuit and before long was back to back with the Batman. " What are you doing here?" "Agent S said you needed help." "I can handle this." "Clearly" At this point Batman turned her around taking a bullet before firing a batarang at the shooter. In a few minutes they Batman and Gwen were the only ones standing, with Gwen having a few scratches here and there and visible damage to her suit while Batman stood totally unscathed. Gwen turned to Batman expecting her ''thank you'' or ''Good job'' instead she got,"You were and are not ready for the field". "Excuse me! I just saved your arse, your welcome by the way." Gwen snapped at Batman. Batman remained calm without the slightest fluctuation in his tone "I didn''t need your help, I''m bullet proof and impervious to a whole array of weapons. They couldn''t harm a hair on my head even if I stood still." His words finally caused Gwen to actually pay attention to his suit and the fact that it didn''t look like he just walked out of a battle. "How... when do I get a suit like that?" Gwen questioned but Batman ignored her as he payed attention to the special weapon that actually hurt him before his eyes were drawn to the wiring of the place along side some pipes. Batman''s eyes widened before he turned, grabbed Gwen and jumped out the building with Gwen asking what the hell was going on. She was soon answered as the building the just jumped out off was blown sky high with turning the night sky bright orange. "wow" was all Gwen could say. In another place Chris and Obadiah could be seen watching a screen with the video being shown, being the building being blown sky high. "Your plan failed", Obadiah spoke up but Chris just smiled and took a sip of his drink before speaking up, "did it though?... we now have more information on the Batman and his sidekick and we also got some interesting data on his suit... now you can''t tell me you are not interested in that suit." Obadiah looked him straight in the eye and the greed in his eyes could not be hidden. Seeing that, Chris smiled now the next time we strike the Bat won''t be escaping. Chapter 57 - who is the Batman? Batman walked into the Batcave with Gwen in tow. "Sir..." Sebastian began but was cut of by a loud bang that resulted as Batman punched the wall leaving a clear fist print with web like cracks around it. Sebastian remained silent seeing this while Gwen''s eyes jumped as she began just how much force was behind that punch. "miss Gwen could you give me and master Jeff a moment." Sebastian spoke up with his tone even. Gwen wanted to argue to stay but the fist print clearly present there discouraged her. Gwen nodded before walking away from them and deeper into the Batcave. Sebastian watched her until he could no longer see her before he turned back to face Jeff whose cowl had retracted to reveal his face which spoke millions of how he was feeling that moment. "I should have known" Jeff began as he paced the room. "sir", Sebastian tried to speak up but Jeff ignored him continuing his rant, "Batman should have known it was way to easy to get that info. Batman should have realized that the atmosphere was wrong, that the guy was deliberately hinting that place" "That everything was a trap, I should have known!" Jeff exclaimed as he slammed his fist into the table "Jeffery!" Sebastian shouted finally drawing Jeff out of his rant and self loathing. "who is the Batman?" Jeff scrunched his face in confusion hearing Sebastian''s question, "what?" Sebastian repeated, "who is the Batman?" "I am!" "Are you? because as far I''ve seen you have kept referring to him as though he is someone else" Sebastian argued taking a step closer. "That''s because he is, because when I put on this suit I become something more, I become the Batman." Jeff took a step not backing down. "No" "No?" Batman questioned with his brow raised. "I have watched you put on that batsuit for years and I know you are lying." "what?" "from the day you told me about all of this no before that when you first met Stark, you changed. It''s like you were lost like you were trying to prepare for something with all that training but not knowing how..." Sebastian continued, " but then when your parents died-" "don''t" Jeff''s face became cold at the mention of his parents but Sebastian pushed on. "When your parents died and you came back that stormy night, your eyes were different like you decided on a path. Then you left for years and came back and showed me this, all this", Sebastian motioned to the Batcave with his hands. "Remember, I asked you why you chose to dress like a bat. At that point you lied, I have known you from the day you were born and I am absolutely sure you are not, afraid of bats! every night you go out in that suit is like you''re someone else. You''re not pretending to be the Batman, but who you think should be wearing that suit." Sebastian''s words hit hard causing Jeff''s face to regain an emotion as he took a step back. "You try so hard to be who ever this person is, I don''t know who he is and I don''t know why you try so hard to be them but whoever they are they aren''t here. They are not the ones risking their lives fighting for a city which doesn''t want them, you are, you are the man under that suit..." " You, Jeffery King are the Batman not who so ever you think is so start acting like the man I believe in, like the man that girl chose to believe in cause that''s the man we decided to follow not whoever you think we should follow." Sebastian turned and walked away after his rant, leaving the silent Jeff alone in the Batcave. Jeff turned to the bat computer and as he saw the dark screen, what looked back at him wasn''t his reflection but rather Bruce Wayne who looked a lot like Christian Bale. The image caused him to jump back, and take in deep breaths to calm down. At this point he thought back to what Sebastian said and he knew he was right. When he was reborn, he tried to adapt to a new life and even accept his new family but then he met Stark. One of the most famous characters in the MCU, Tony Stark and then it hit him. It hit him that he wasn''t enough that he needed to be something more to survive but he didn''t know what. He was average in his past life and so he was lost and latched on to all the training he could get. But then Hydra came, and he lost his family at that point he related to someone, to Bruce. An ordinary human like himself who with training and self determination brought himself to the point where he could challenge the Gods. And so he mimicked him tried to be him, the were other ways maybe even better and easier ways to gain power. There was no guarantee the Ancient One would have taught him magic as his thoughts were confused at that point in his life but he could have tried but he didn''t cause Bruce wasn''t a sorceror, he defeated them a lot but he wasn''t one and so he didn''t try at all, but Sebastian was right he wasn''t Bruce Wayne no matter how hard he tried he couldn''t be him and it was time he accepted that. A beep drew him out of his thoughts, looking to the screen schematics for the gun that shot him was brought up, including all info that could be drawn from all databases available about it. From the info Jeff found out it was a prototype developed by the government and by the government, SHIELD alongside Stark industries and it is apparently made as one of the many counter measures for the Hulk. That explained why the suit was b?r?ly enough, and also meant Obadiah was involved in the trap. Jeff was about to call for a trace, but then he saw the image of Bruce once more and grabbed his head thinking to himself he needed to take some time to think. Turning away he walked out of the Batcave. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 58 - sometimes you gotta run before you can walk It had been a few days, since the explosion and Jeff had that conversation with Sebastian. Jeff had been unable to put on the suit to go out leaving the public to wonder where the Batman had gone. That was not all, as some people had put their attention on the explosion trying their hardest to figure out what exactly had happened. "Hill, what have you found?" Fury turned to face Hill as she walked into the control centre where he stood, with his eye combing through screens. "Sir, we have been unable to find out what exactly happened in the building. We did find some interesting things", at this Fury turned to look her right in the eyes with his eye. "First of all the Batman wasn''t alone, security cams around the building were deactivated around the time the explosion happened, but one of our own caught something." Hill spoke as she brought up an image of Batman jumping out with Gwen in his hands. Fury''s eye narrowed seeing this, "Batman seems to have a sidekick." "how is the task I handed you earlier going?'' Fury asked "Still no luck sir, but with this we think we might have something", Fury nodded motioning for her to continue with her early report. "Among the wreckage we recovered this" another picture was brought up and Fury''s scowl got even deeper as he saw it. "This is ours is it not? explain?" "Yes sir the weapon is indeed ours it''s project SLING." Hill nodded confirming this. "Then explain to my why the hell a weapon supposed to be looked up in a secure location is now found in the wreckage of a building that just exploded." "we are working on it sir" Hill spoke up. "well work harder! Tell me you at least have something!" "We did pick up a new lead, we discovered traces of a group who call themselves the Court". "The court? I''ve never heard of them, we are SHIELD! how am I now hearing of this court?!" Nick took a few steps forward staring Hill straight in her eye. (A/N don''t forget the members of the court are almost all former SSR and are really good at hiding) "This group has been completely silent this was their first visible attack that has brought them to the light." Fury remained silent for a few moments before speaking up. "Find everything about this court, the Batman seems to be in a war with them. The last time the bat got in a war with someone it began raining bombs in New York. I don''t care who you find, wether it''s the bats or this court I want them off the streets!" Hill nodded before turning around and leaving. In Stark''s Malibu mansion. Tony took a few steps as his suit was screwed on to him. He spoke as he was picked his face plate, "Jarvis you there?" "at your service sir" his AI responded. "Engage heads up display" "check" "pull all preferences from home interface." "will do sir" "Alright what do you say?" "I have indeed been uploaded sir we''re online and ready" Jarvis responded. "Okay start the virtual walk around" "importing preferences and calibrating virtual environments." "check on controls" Tony ordered, "as you wish sir". After a minute Jarvis spoke again, "test complete preparing to shut down and begin diagnosis" "Erh.... yeah tell you what do weather and ATC checks start listening in on ground control" Tony interrupted Jarvis. "Sir there are still terabytes of calculations needed before actual flight is-" Jarvis tried to argue but was cut off by Tony once more. "Jarvis, sometimes you gotta run before you can walk, ready and 3,2,1." Tony spoke before getting into position as propulsion began lifting him off the ground. "Yeah!" Tony let out a shout as he flew out. After a minute of flying Tony grinned like a kid before saying, "handles like a dream" and speeding off. Tony soon came close to a ferris wheel and zoomed in to see a boy whose ice cream fell as he spotted Tony his disbelief clear in his eyes. Tony gave the kid a salute before flying higher, "okay let''s see what this thing can do. what''s SR-71''s record." "the altitude record for SR-71s flight is 81000 feet sir". "Records are meant to be broken." Tony shouted before speeding higher unfortunately soon there was a build of ice. "sir there is a potentially fatal build up of icicle" Tony ignored it and tried to power through but the suit couldn''t handle it and went off, causing him to plumet. "The ice stopped Jarvis! deploy flaps!" Tony exclaimed but there was no response. "Jarvis! we got to break the ice!" Tony exclaimed once more before manually opening the flaps just in time allowing the suit to come online and narrowly avoiding a fatal fall. "Haaaa ha ha ha" Tony laughed out in relief as he flew back home he slowly descended on his roof and just as he was inches away from the roof he ordered, "kill power". Tony fell straight through the building and into his garage, destroying one of his sports cars. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 59 - You were sloppy ****Thanks to Peter_Glade for your support. It means a lot to me***** It''s been a while but Tony had given the MKII a new paint coat and was now before his T.V with a glass at hand. On the screen it showed the devastation the ten rings were causing in Afghanistan. The picture made his blood boil as he remembered his time in captivity as well as Ho Yinsen. His face hardened as he made a decision and placed the glass on the counter. In Afghanistan; Missiles fell from the sky causing deafening explosions along with giant dust clouds. Screams resounded as women took their children and tried to escape from the gunfire. One family rushed into a building to hide but were spotted, two men rushed after them. The terrorist soon began round up the women and children and lined up the men before a wall. A man tried to stick with his family but he was pried off as his children and wife were moved to a truck. His son called out to him as he rushed to his side. The son managed to get to his father''s side to give him a hug before the leader came over and ripped him off before pushing the man to the ground and stomping his ?h?st a few times and ordering hi man to have the man kneel. A gun was then pointed to his head with his family watching in terror, but just before they could pull the trigger a sound was heard which drew their attention. Looking up they saw a sight they were sure to never forget, above them was a flying human shaped metal man. The metal man landed right before a terrorist, in the iconic superhero pose. The terrorist looked the metal man look right at him and panicked, he pulled on the trigger releasing a hail off bullets but his gun caused no damage. Ironman ignored it and slapped him into a building, that became the fuse. Everyone began firing at Ironman who ignored it and raised his arms firing repulsor blasts at all the terrorist. Ironman watched them for a few and placed his hands to his side. In his HUD he locked on to all the terrorist and before they could react launched mini rockets taking them all out. All the hostages remained silent, all scared of this metal man. The boy restled his way out his mother''s arms and rushed to hug his father. The boy watched as Ironman walked to a building and smashed his hand through a wall and pulled out the leader flinging him on to the ground. "He''s all yours", Ironman left those words as he flew off. Ironman soon locked on to the Jericho missiles but before he could destroy them he was shot down by a tank. Ironman climbed out of the pit, before avoiding another blast from the tank. He aimed at the tank and destroyed it with one rocket. He turned ignoring the pitiful resistance from the terrorist and took to the skies destroying the last of the Jericho missiles and then flying away. In New York, Eve''s club. A report about what had happened in Afghanistan was handed over to her. After glancing through she had but one word to say, "impressive". Eve was interrupted by Chris walking into her office. "Chris... to what do I owe this unexpected visit?" "how long have we known each other?" Chris asked a question which confused Eve. " I don''t know years? I mean, we fought Hydra together" "Right, we were all in that squad under the captain. We even got to meet Captain America a few times didn''t we?" Chris spoke with a smile as though recalling fond times. "Indeed we did, why are we recalling old war stories though?" Eve asked a sinking feeling forming in her gut. "Eve, Eve, Eve I am just reminding you that I know you so well. A few nights ago I set a trap for the Batman but... he got help, someone came to help him, did you know?" "I had no idea." Eve responded to which Chris began to chuckle. "You are a good liar, I''ll give you that." Eve put on a puzzeled look, but it changed soon enough when Chris showed her a video. In the video a man was being tortured , the reason Eve had a panicked look on her face. The man in the video was one of her many informants she had at Chris side to obtain information, and this guy, was the one who told her about the trap that night. "Oh Eve, you were sloppy." Chapter 60 - Its about to go down "Oh Eve, you were sloppy." Those words seemed to be a trigger as soon the sound of gunshots were heard, along with the screams of her people outside. Eve did not hesitate to flip the table before her, which turned out to be a great decision. The table was flipped right on time to serve as shield from a hail of bullets. "It doesn''t have to be live this Eve, just tell me, who is the Batman?" Chris asked as he slowly walked over to Eve. " yeah... no!" Eve pulled out a flash bang which blinded Chris, enabling her to run out her office. Eve pulled out her gun firing at Chris''s men who all aimed at her trying to take her out. Eve managed to evade most gunfire but still took a bullet to her shoulder. She run down a hallway, stopping before a wall and pressing on a part to reveal a secret pathway which closed behind her as she made her way through. Chris and his men arrived soon after, just missing her, before they continued down the hall unaware of the secret entrance right by them. After a few minutes of making her way through the underground tunnel she came up in a warehouse. Moving to a corner she began to take care of her wounds before taking out some bandages and bandaging her wound. Pulling down a tarp, an SUV was revealed. She got in the driver''s seat and proceeded to open the glove box and pulled out a phone, dailing a number. "... Chris is on to me." At a classified location. An agent rushed in an office where Agent Hill was before a computer with a solemn look on her face. "ma''am we just got information on the court." The agent''s words got Hill to look up from her screen and right at him with a questioning look. In a few minutes she had arrived at Eve''s club which was surrounded by the police. She made her way looking around at the place which was riddled with bullet holes. "Who does this club belong to?" Hill questioned he agent by her side " a lady called Eve Monroe", "Eve? I want all of this woman''s information, I want to know just why the court is after her." Hill ordered "Yes ma''am" the agent nodded before walking away. Hill stood alone in the club with a sinking feeling that something big was about to happen. In Afghanistan; Obadiah arrives to meet Raza and the ten rings who have managed to gather pieces of the MK I and plan to trade with Obadiah for weapons. "Obadiah, I''m glad you could make it." Raza speaks up as Obadiah descends from a helicopter. "Raza", Obadiah responds with a smile "I hear you have something for me?" "Indeed I do." Raza nods to his men behind him who bring over a few crates. Obadiah steps forward to open one and seeing what was inside the smile of his face became even brighter. Raza seeing he was satisfied took this as his opportunity to speak up. "This is what Stark used to escape. I''m pretty sure you would gain a lot if you were to understand the technology." "Indeed I would", Obadiah responded closed the crate and turned to face Raza to hear what he had to say. "We are running low on weapons, we would appreciate a few Jericho''s and I am sure that is enough to pay for a few, am I right?" Obadiah turned to look at the crates which Raza was pointing at. His smile had gone back to a false one at this point, " indeed they are just... I asked you to kill Stark, so why is he alive?" with those words the atmosphere turned tense almost immediately. At this point Raza realized something was wrong, before he could take any action gunshots resounded as the courts army surrounded them. Raza eyes widened realizing it was all a trap, he turned screaming at Obadiah, "What is the meaning of this?!" Obadiah was waiting with a gun pointed at Raza, "I told you, I want Stark dead, you failed" *bang* Obadiah shot Raza right in his head, killing him. "Start moving this", the army obeyed Obadiah''s orders and began transporting the crates. One soldier came over to Obadiah and handed him a phone, "hello". "I take it you succeeded" Chris voice came from the other end of the line. "Indeed I did, and you?" "No, the bitch managed to escape" "No? then why do you sound so happy?" "Oh Obadiah, you don''t know Eve like I do. She is a professional, for her to betray us, whoever she is doing this for is extremely important and there is only one person alive who is important to her. So you see, I have yet to fail." head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 61 - Bonfire Night Eve''s car pulled up before King''s Manor where Sebastian stood waiting for her. "Nice to see you Eve", Sebastian spoke up as she stepped out of the vehicle. "You owe me a club", was Eve''s clever response. "so what''s the plan?" Eve questioned as they made their way into the Manor. "We can no longer take things slowly, now we have no chance but to engage them in a head to head battle." "Okay, so where do I fit in?" Sebastian came to a halt at that. "I have some safe houses whe-" "No!" Eve cut Sebastian off, "You don''t get to sideline me, Chris just tried to kill me and destroyed my club. So I''m not leaving until Chris and the rest of those bastards are six feet under." Sebastian wanted to argue, "let her fight" but a voice resounded drawing their attention. As they turned to the source, they saw Jeff walking down the stairs. "Jeffery King, an honor" Jeff soon stood right before Eve and stared her in the eye, "Eve Monroe". "okay sir, then-" *boom* an explosion cut Sebastian off and sent the three of them to the floor. They began to struggle to their feet, "we are surrounded." Jeff spoke up as the soldiers of the court began to march into the Manor. Sebastian pressed on a part of the wall causing it to move and reveal a whole slew of weapons. "Woah" Eve''s eyes widened as she saw all the weapons on display. Sebastian grabbed twin blades and passed then over to Jeff and then passed an ?ssault rifle to Eve before taking a shotgun. The nodded at one another before going their separate ways. Jeff soon came before four people who didn''t hesitate to pull the trigger. Ducking and rolling he managed to avoid the gun shots and got into their midst. Slicing at one of their legs one was sent straight down, Jeff spun quickly moving behind on the men and using him as a shield against the others. Jeff pushed his human shield into one of them, before moving before the other and slicing their throat. Rapid punches where then delivered to the soldiers guts before Jeff snapped their neck. With Sebastian bang after bang was heard as the members of the court were blasted by Sebastian''s shotgun. Sebastian ducked behind a pillar avoiding a spray of bullets from soldiers who marched in. *ting*ting*ting* Sebastian looked down to his side to see a grenade rolling over. He jumped away immediately to avoid the blast which was only seconds later. Using his shotgun, Sebastian bashed one man in and grabbed his weapon and fired at the others. *Bang* a gunshot resounded behind Sebastian, looking behind, he was in time to see a soldier of the court falling with Eve standing there with a pistol at hand. "you''re welcome." Eve smirked. The battle continued, getting more intense with each passing minute. All three of them Eve, Sebastian and Jeff had gathered in an office. Jeff kicked one more soldier away before locking themselves in. "So now what?" Eve questioned the others, both Eve and Sebastian turned to Jeff whose clothes were damaged but was otherwise unharmed. "We retreat, I have this sinking feeling that if we don''t get out soon, we might never be able to" Jeff spoke up. Sebastian nodded before pulling a book revealing a secret tunnel, "Just how many tunnels do you guys have in this place?" Sebastian smirked before they run through the tunnel. Halfway through their retreat a loud boom was heard followed by massive tremor. "what the hell was that?!" Eve questioned as she looked behind. They came up from another exit and looked to the source. Where the Manor once stood was now nothing more than flaming ruins, seeing this Jeff could not help but remember that night. "sir, are you okay?" "yeah Sebastian, let''s head to the Batcave. The court will pay for this." There was a solemn silence after that for a minute or two before Eve spoke up. "You guys have a cave?" With Pepper Potts. Pepper was doing the task that Tony had ?ssigned to her. She begins to discover some digital trails and soon discovered something more terrifying. The ten rings didn''t plan on kidnapping Tony, rather it was an impromptu descison. Stane wanted to kill Tony, "oh my God, Tony." At this time Obadiah realized something important as well, his scientist were too dumb and couldn''t duplicate Stark''s reactor. That left Him with one option, getting it from Stark himself. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 62 - Suit up Jeff arrived at the Batcave with Sebastian and Eve in tow. "This place is great", Eve spoke up while looking around at the Batcave. Jeff ignored her and went straight to Bat computer, right before he opened anything an alert popped up. Jeff wrinkled his brows before clicking on it, doing so he found out the reason. Pepper had found out the truth about Obadiah and contacted S.H.I.E.L.D there was then a confrontation. The result being lots of S.H.I.E.L.D agent''s being injured and Obadiah flying off in the war monger armor. Jeff held his chin as he began to put things together, the fact that he was attacked tonight and Obadiah was done with the suit this night as well and Chris going for Eve. " I know what they are up to", Jeff made it to his feet as he turned to face Eve and Sebastian who were just confused. Jeff was about to speak when Gwen rushed in and hugged him, "Oh my God! you''re okay I heard of the explosion and fire and I thought, I thought..." "Hey, it''s okay I''m here, we all are and we are okay", Jeff comforted Gwen whose grip was tightening on him. "I was scared, I didn''t want to go through it again... I, I don''t want to loose you too." Her words touched Jeff''s heart as he looked down at her, "I''m fine, I''m Batman remember" Jeff comforted her. Gwen had a smile on her face hearing that, seeing she was okay Jeff gave his orders. "Okay you three head out" Jeff gave his order before heading to a mannequin which had his suit. " wait where are we going?" Gwen questioned. "If I''m not wrong there will be a big explosion soon enough and Chris will be there", Jeff explained. "Wait who is Chris?" Gwen asked, "The current leader of the court." Eve responded to Gwen''s query. "Ooh... wait who are you?" Gwen started off with a look of realization and ended with a brow raised. "I''m Eve" Eve had a grin as she introduced herself. "you say that like it explains who you are and why you are here", Gwen spoke up but Jeff wasn''t having any of it. "We don''t have that much time, Sebastian and Eve arm yourselves and Gwen suit up." "Okay", Gwen responded moving for her bag with her home made costume. "not that one" Jeff stopped her which caused her to look at him in absolute confusion, he pressed. a bu??on causing a part of the cave to move and reveal a new Batsuit. Gwen''s eyes widened as she rushed to touch it, the suit was a black suit with a golden bat symbol with gold lining on the cape along with some gold stripes on the gloves,"is this?" "yes, it''s yours now suit up." Jeff spoke as he put on the watch and activated his suit. "Where are you headed sir?" Sebastian questioned as he realized Jeff wasn''t coming with them. "I''m going to help a friend" Batman left these words before jumping in the Batmobile and speeding off. In Stark''s home; He begins to walk around searching for his phone which he soon finds in the couch under a pillow. He checks the caller ID to see it''s Pepper and answers the phone as he sits, but before he can let a word out a buzzing sound is heard as he looses control of his body and becomes paralyzed. Obadiah rips the phone out of his hands and cuts Pepper''s call, "breathe" Obadiah speaks as he lays him down in the couch. "you remember this one right", he waved the device which caused the paralysis before Tony. "it''s a shame the government didn''t approve of this. There are so many applications for causing short term paralysis" Obadiah moved before Tony and took out his ear buds. "Ah Tony, when I uh... ordered the hit on you..." He moved with a device to extract the arc reactor from Tony''s ?h?st. "I worried that I was killing the golden goose... just fate that you survived that." "urgh... " Tony let out a groan as Obadiah began to extract the arc reactor. "you had one last golden egg to give". Obadiah brought out the arc reactor and showed it to Tony who was now struggling to breathe. "you think just because you have an idea, it yours? your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb, now what kind of world would we live in if he was as selfish as you." Obadiah had a wide grin as he spoke. "Ahh beautiful, this is a masterpiece, this is your legacy", Obadiah sat at Tony''s side as he said that as he now had the whole thing at hand. "A generation of weapons with this at it''s heart... how I wish you could see my prototype, it''s not as conservative as yours. Too bad you had to involve Pepper in this, I would''ve preferred she lived." Obadiah left as he had the arc reactor in a briefcase. *Crash* the was a loud crash soon after as Batman jumped in but saw Tony who was now extremely pale, "Stark!". Chapter 63 - Tony meets the Bat Tony made it to the elevator looking as pale as a sheet. The elevator sent him down and he struggled as he made his way to his workshop/garage. His feet gave out, causing him to have to crawl the rest of the journey. He arrived under the table which held his old arc reactor but he had no strength to reach it and laid resting against a desk. Tony began to think that was it, and slowly accepted that this was where he was going to die, but then he saw something. He saw a hazy image of a giant bat looming over him, "hallucinations, that''s... unexpected" Tony thought chucking the image to his imagination before the memories of the legendary Batman popped in his head and he realized, before him stood none other than the Batman. Batman grabbed the case which held the old reactor and smashed it taking the reactor and plunging it into Tony''s ?h?st which caused him to take in a mouthful of air. "Stark, are you okay", Batman asked but Tony remained silent still staring. "Stark are you okay?" Batman questioned once again, "shit, you''re real" was Tony''s clever response. Batman seeing he was okay took a step back to give him room, when Tony''s eyes widened in panic and he tried to get back to his feet. "Pepper... She''s in danger!" Tony spat out as he finally made it to his feet. "Tony!" Rhodey''s shouting along with hurried footsteps were heard. Batman and Tony turned to the source only to see Rhodey with Agent Maria and a few SHIELD agents who didn''t hesitate to fire as soon as they saw the Batman. Jeff turned around raising his cape to protect Tony from any stray bullets. Batman fired a batarang which flew past the agents before giving of a purple glow and attracting the weapons out of the Agents hand, they all turned to see what happened but when they looked back Batman was gone leaving only Tony who was still squatting with both his arms above his head. "Tony",Rhodey rushed to Tony''s side calling out to him. "Rhodes", "yeah it''s me". "What with the suits?" Rhodey proceeded to explain after hearing Tony''s question. "Pepper along with some SHIELD agents went after finding out the truth about Obadiah so she called me and told me to come over." "When I arrived so had these guys, apparantely Obadiah had taken out the SHIELD agents and kidnapped Pepper." Tony eyes widened hearing this, "What how did he did power the suit he just got the arc reactor from me?" "we are not clear about that?" Maria Hill cut in at this moment, her eyes drawn to the arc reactor in Tony''s ?h?st. Tony realized this and spoke up, " okay you guys can go" Maria Hill rose a brow at that, "what?" "You heard me, Obadiah already got what he want and thinks I''m dead so highly doubt he going to come back. So shouldn''t you guys be out there looking for him." "He''s not the only one we are after." Tony tilted his head as he heard her words showing his confusion. "The Batman." "What?, he just saved my life, from you guys who were shooting at me by the way." Tony defend the Batman. "You might not know this but Obadiah is not working alone and those he is working with are in a war against the Batman. From what we''ve seen in the past when the Bat goes to war against someone, Innocents suffer so we''re taking anyone of them in... dead or alive" Tony had a short stare down with Maria after hearing that before he spoke, "you can show yourselves out." Maria nodded to her men before they left. Batman who was hiding above the building heard the entire conversation through a bug he left behind. The conversation had answered some questions that popped up in his head. Batman was confused as to why Warmonger suit was in operation before Tony''s arc reactor was stolen but now he could guess somethings. The court became a huge variable which led to events to playing differently. Looking up the Batwing was here enabling Batman to jump in flying into the city search for Obadiah. *Boom* A loud explosion, the signal they had all been waiting for, went off causing them all to turn to that direction. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 64 - Final battle pt1 A few minutes earlier, In an office. Members of the court were present and seated around a huge table. They had each recieved a call from Chris telling them to meet here as he has something important to tell them. The members looked to an empty seat where Chris was supposed to be seated. It had been ten minutes yet Chris had yet to arrive, they members began speaking to one another coming up with their own speculations as to why they were called. The office was soon filled with murmurs but all murmurs came to a halt when he door was opened. All eyes were drawn to the door as Chris stepped in. Chris was dressed in a tight fitting combat suit, whilst armed to the teeth, with his hood pulled back. The members of the court followed Chris with their eyes, all having a bad feeling as he made it to his seat. "Gentlemen, I''m glad you all could make it." Chris spoke as he sat, making himself comfortable. " Chris what is going on?" one of the members spoke up as he stared at Chris face which had a smile that gave him chills. "You see gentlemen, I feel the court has not been fulfilling it''s full potential. We run but a mere city but I believe we could do a whole lot more and so I''ve been thinking on what exactly is the problem, but then it hit me" Chris continued despite the looks on their faces, " the court has too many useless people in it and it is time for some cut backs." *Bam* A member slammed the table as he stood and shouted at Chris, "What the hell are you going on about!" Chris calmly looked the guy in the eye and continued, "earlier tonight, I killed Sebastian and Eve and now it''s time the rest of you joined them in hell." "Chris!" The man who stood screamed as he attempted to charge at Chris, he was soon brought to a screeching halt as a knife was sent straight into his eye. The others seeing the fate of their partner attempted to leave but alas the moment they set their foots into this place their gates where sealed. Countless soldiers of the court appeared with their weapons aimed at them. Another member tried to reason with Chris, "Chris this is madness ! without us you won''t be able to properly control the court." Chris dashed the hope that had began to form within the eyes of the members of the court. "That was the case before, but now I have transferred all your ?ssets to my name. Your ?ssets will contribute to the future of the court but as for you, your services are no longer required." His words scared them as the all wondered how it is he had done what he said, but they would never figure it out as they were killed the next second. Chris walked through the corpses that now littered the office floor, taking a last look at them he turned to the soldiers at his side and ordered, "burn this place to the ground". As he turned back around though the smile along with the crazed look in his eye dissapeared. Before him was the Ghost Bat alongside two people he did not expect to see ever again. There they were, Sebastian and Eve alive and walking. "How?" Chris couldn''t help but question as he saw they were alright. "You should know by now it''s not that easy to kill me", Sebastian responded causing Chris to clench his fist. "I know understand that saying, if you want something done you have to do it yourself." Chris pulled out his sword as members of the court all popped up by his side. "Just like the old days huh", Eve spoke as she readied her gun. "Yeah, just like the old days" Sebastian sighed and turned to face Gwen, "are you ready kid?" "This bastard is also responsible for my dad''s death, I''m gonna kill him" Gwen spoke in voice which seemed devoid of emotion. Sebastian nodded and began to fire at the court alongside Eve, while Ghost Bat rushed with two batarangs held firmly in her hands to meet the members of the court who rushed at her with their own cold weapons at hand. Obadiah at this time had arrived at his new base and hooked up the arc reactor to his Warmonger suit. He should be happy that he had suceeded in obtaining the arc reactor but he was worried as he checked the time. Chris should have called to say he was on his way but nothing, the fact he was unable to contact him didn''t help at all. "Tony is going to stop you", Pepper spoke from her corner where Obadiah had kept her drawing him out of his thoughts. "Quiet! Tony should be dead by now so no, no one''s coming and you have just outlived your purpose" Pepper eye''s widened as she heard what Obadiah had just said. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 65 - Final battle pt2 Pepper eye''s teared up as Obadiah''s words hit her, "you''re lying" Pepper whispered before she screamed "you''re lying! Tony is not dead! he can''t be" Pepper whispered the last bit. Obadiah attempted to move closer to her when there was a boom followed by debris falling to the floor. Pepper''s turned away to shield herself from the debris. After a few seconds she turned to have a look and there he was, in the iconic superhero pose was Tony in his Ironman armor. "hey Pep, you don''t look so good" the familiar voice came out of the suit and Pepper couldn''t help but smile when she heard the familiar voice. "oh my God Tony, he told me you were dead", "me, now that''s some bullsh*t right there" Tony responded. Pepper laughed at that but her eyes widened as she tried to warn Tony but was too late. Obadiah in his Warmonger suit sent Tony into a wall. "You should have just stayed dead Tony", Obadiah spoke as he rose his arm and aimed at Tony to blast him but Tony ducked and flew straight into Obadiah sending the both of them through the building and finally into the streets busy with traffic. Cars came to a screeching halt as the drivers stared wide eyed at the two figures in the middle of the street. Obadiah was first to make it to his feet before turning to look at Ironman who was making it to his feet. Obadiah looking to his side spotted a SUV which was at his side and raised it over his head to smash it on Ironman. Obadiah felt the same resistance and looked above only to see the Batwing in the air with two grappling hooks locked on to the SUV. *Crash* the back of the SUV was ripped out before the inhabitants of the car were pulled out safely. The mother held her children tightly before looking to the one who pulled her out with pure disbelief. One of her children seeing the figure spoke out, "mommy look, it''s Batman" The Batwing released it''s grip on the SUV before it exploded with the resulting force sending Obadiah rolling. "Get to safety", Batman turned to the woman and her kids who modded and quickly moved away. Ironman flew to Batman''s side before speaking up, "I had that". Batman just gave Ironman a look after hearing that, before Ironman could speak again Obadiah was back on his feet and pissed. Batman and Ironman entered into a battle stance seeing this. ***** Gwen was jumping through the members of the court showing the results of her training as she sent batarangs into any one who got in her way. Sebastian and Eve on the other hand had shifted to cold weapons, after running out of bullets but they were just as deadly. Chris didn''t hesitate any longer and pulled out twin blades, before jumping into the midst of the battle and swung his blade at Eve who b?r?ly rose her weapon in time to defend herself but in the process she lost her weapon. Eve grabbed another person and brought the person in front of her as a human shield from Chris who swung his blade sharply. Eve managed to grab a short blade and charged at Chris who blocked her easily. "Eve, oh Eve you''ve never been a match for me." "oh shut up you conceited prick!" Eve spat at Chris. Sebastian heard Eve''s scream and bobbed to the right avoid an attack but snatched a knife and fired it at Chris. Chris moved back just in time as a blade came before him and slicing at his face allowing for Eve to jump back and escape. . Chris held his face which now had a blood red line which cut across it, before looking to the source. There he was fighting in the midst of courts soldiers his face was still cold, at this moment Chris remembered the old days and just why he was so afraid of Sebastian back in the day. "Ghost Bat you handle him, me and Eve will deal with rest then join you." Sebastian ordered Gwen who flipped and run across the court soldiers and jumped to face Chris. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 66 - Final battle pt3 Chris reacted in time pulling out a sword to block Gwen''s punch, "you? I wanted Batman himself, although it seems like you got an upgrade I guess you''ll have to do" Gwen had a deep scowl on her face as she fell and swiped at Chris feet but he jumped back to avoid it and strikes down hard with a sword at hand. Gwen pulled out a batarang as sparks flew out as Chris sword made contact with her batarang. "not bad" Chris mocked to which Gwen responded by gritting her teeth and pushing him off her. Wasting no time she moved towards him with a kick for the head but he was quick to avoid by sidestepping it. The two engaged in a fierce battle with Chris and his sword and Gwen having two batarangs in hand as daggers. **** With Batman and Ironman; Ironman flew straight at Obadiah delivering a punch at his head but he grabbed it just in time and slammed him into the asphalt before blasting him once more. "contingencies detected", Jarvis reported "yeah detected that too Jarvis" Tony responded before his eyes widened, seeing Obadiah''s fist coming down he rose his arms in defense. Obadiah grit his teeth and tried to blast Batman with his other hand but Ironman came before him and fought back with his repulsors. "Oh Obie what''s the matter, need a hand?" Tony mocked Obadiah as he was pushing him back before his repulsors suddenly went out. "Jarvis what just happened." Tony questioned to which Jarvis showed him multiple warning signs and spoke up, "power at 4% sir" Batman pulled Tony out of the way from Obadiah''s attack with his grappling hook. "Thanks man" Tony thanked Batman. "What happened?" Batman questioned, "kinda running low on power right now" . "I''m going to rip you both to shreds" Obadiah roared but Batman ignored him focused on one thing before he spoke to Tony who was by his side, "I have a plan". ******* Chris had lost the mocking smile he had on his face earlier and was now pissed. He now had countless wounds delivered all over by Gwen who was otherwise unharmed. To make matters worse, Sebastian alongside Eve had taken down almost all of his men and his was certain once they were done they would join this brat and end him. Chris lunged at Gwen but she avoided it and spun around Chris, disarming him before kicking the back of his leg hard. *crack* a sharp sound was heard followed by Chris scream as he went down on one knee. Gwen didn''t let up her advantage and followed with an axe kick to Chris shoulder effectively rendering that arm useless. With a few more moves Chris was now completely immobile as Gwen stood over him. Gwen stared him dead in the eye before she began to land blow after blow on him. Sebastian and Eve took out the remaining men in another minute and turned their attention to Gwen and Chris. Sebastian watched for another minute before he stepped up and held Gwen''s shoulder, " that''s enough... he''s already dead" Gwen came to a halt and looked down at the bloodied Chris who had stopped breathing a while ago. Gwen looked at the corpse but she didn''t feel like she thought she would. She had gotten revenge but that hadn''t changed anything, her dad wasn''t coming back. She stood and turned to face Sebastian who knew what she wanted even with the mask on. "come here", he embraced Gwen who after close to a minute of silence spoke but two words, "thank you". ****** Tony had entered into a fist fight with Obadiah who could tell that Tony was running on steam and would soon be out. "You should have just stayed out of my way Tony" Obadiah pressed down on Tony. Obadiah''s had a wide grin on his face but his expression soon changed as tons of warnings appeared on his screen before everything went black. "What the hell!" It was only at this moment that he realized Batman had taken advantage of the situation to slip away and then mess with his suit but it was too late as Batman now stood by Tony''s side with the arc reactor. Obadiah wanted to curse once more but Tony fired a charged uni beam at him essentially ending him. Tony watched the Iron monger suit that was now down and smoking. "Now that''s what I call a team up... where did he go?" Tony turned to give Batman a high five but all that was there was the arc reactor with Batman no where to be seen. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 67 - New Era Eve had gotten into a car and just finished hot-wiring it and was about to drive off but was stopped by the gun aimed at her head. "What did you steal?" Sebastian with the gun still aimed at her head questioned. "Now what would give you that idea" Eve turned to face him with a smile on her face. "Would you stop with the lies. When you started to help us so easily I had my doubts, you knew Chris well enough to know he would try to kill you when he found and yet you took the risk. You''re not the kind of woman to take risks if there is nothing to gain." "Do you really think so low of me Sebastian, with the history we share" Eve tried to talk her way out but was stopped by Sebastian. "It''s precisely because of that history that I know you so well." They both shared a look for a minute before Eve sighed and pulled out a thumb drive. "what''s on it?" Sebastian asked. "Chris couldn''t kill the others if there was no way to control what they had" "I''m guessing how to do that is on that" Sebastian spoke in understanding to which Eve just nodded in agreement. They remained where they were for a minute before Sebastian lowered his gun. "what now?" he asked her "Don''t worry you and your little... bat family is safe. You have my word, their identities shall never leave my lips." Hearing her words Sebastian turned to leave, "Don''t you miss it?". Eve called out causing Sebastian to halt, "don''t you miss us Sebastian?" Eve asked once again. "I do", Sebastian turned with a fond smile on his face. "Then come with me, I would be Queen and you would be King, join me" "then this is good bye, see you later Sebastian." saying so she wasted no time and drove off with Sebastian watching her leave. ********** Shield Helicarier; "Hill, tell me what the f*ck is going on! Stark and Batman were spotted fighting Obadiah in the streets. An explosion happened across the city followed by a battle with another Bat, Eve and and unidentified individual fighting what seem to be ninjas, so I ask again what the f*ck is going on?!" Fury screamed into his coms. Before Hill could respond though, a voice responded from the shadows behind him. "We destroyed the court." Fury turned to the source and saw the figure who stepped out of the shadows. "I see you changed your suit" Fury spoke, "and you got an eyepatch." Batman and Fury stood toe to toe staring each other in the eye. "why did you send your people after me?", "you were waging war against the court and this city can''t afford any more casualties" "I save lives" Batman argued, "say that to the lives lost in the Goblin incident." The was a moment of silence between the two, "the next time you send people after me, I won''t hold back" Batman spoke as he stepped back into the shadows and dissapeared. At this exact moment Tony was having a conference to deny the rumors of him being Ironman but Tony being Tony changed the plan. In the Batcave; "Did he just reveal his identity?" Gwen asked as she watched Tony utter the three iconic words that started a new era. "Wait does that mean we''re going to do same?" Gwen turned to Jeff who was bench pressing. "No, that''s his way but it is not ours" saying so he put his weights down before moving before the screen which had some red dots showing. "This world is about to face many threats and we must be prepared but before those threats arrive we will deal with the old enemies who have managed to survive till now. From now on I am Batman." Jeff stood before the screen with both Gwen and Sebastian by his side. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 68 - We meet again *gunshots* alongside the blaring sounds of alarms resounded through a facility. The guards kept firing into the distance as fear overwhelmed them like a blanket. "Damn what the hell are these two?!" one of them questioned his friend but all he received for an answer was a scream. The guards turned to the source of the scream to see a pair of white eyes staring right back at them. The guards attempted to aim at the figure but she rushed at them closing the distance. Her elbow went straight to the throat to one of them before she grabbed his gun and sent it into the guy of another who she then flipped into another. Avoiding an attack from behind she quickly moved on to the others. The next minute Gwen stood in full gear with the guards sprawled out around her feet. In an office filled with monitors showing what was happening in the facility a man saw what was happening and cursed as he took a brief case and headed for the exit but before him was none other than the Batman. "Dammit!" The man screamed as he grabbed a gun an aimed at the Bat but before he could fire a batarang flew and knocked the gun right out of his hands. His eyes followed the gun as it slid away before bringing his sight back and as he did he realized Batman was now only mere inches away from him. Batman grabbed him by the throat and questioned, "what''s in the case?" The man struggled before he uttered two words. "Hail...Hydra" the man managed to utter before foaming at the mouth and dying. Batman dropped the corpse and watched it coldly before taking the case and disapearing. Batman and Ghost Bat where on the roof top of a building opposite the facility as they watched police cars surround the facility and officers rush in. "Splendid job master Jeffery, mistress Gwen, may I offer you a cookie?" Sebastian offered as Batman and Ghost Bat made their way into the cave. "No thanks Sebastian", Batman refused as he headed to the bat computer. "I''ll have a cookie", Gwen reached for one. "mmm, these are good! Jeff you really should try these" Sebastian smiled before leaving the plate of cookies with Gwen and moving to Batman''s side. "I take it tonight was a success?" Sebastian asked, "indeed it was, another Hydra site has been taking down." "That''s nine this week alone sir", "Hydra has been hiding in the shadows for years and have infiltrated almost all levels of government" Batman continued as he tried to unlock the case before him. "Going straight for the head in this case wouldn''t work with them. If I tried without pulling down their mask I would have Fury and all the others thinking I''m the enemy. It wouldn''t affect me all that much but if I can deal with Hydra in a much more efficient way I don''t see why not" *click* a sound was heard as the briefcase was unlocked. Inside the case a device was revealed, "muam mwnan", incroprehensible sounds were heard from Batman''s side. Both Jeff and Sebastian turned to the source which was Gwen who had a mouthful of cookies. Looking at the two who were staring at her Gwen realized and spoke once more after emptying her mouth, "oh sorry, I said what''s that" "This is an external hard drive" Jeff spoke up before connecting it to his computer but of course it was encrypted. ""It''s encrypted with a military grade encryption." "That reminds me, the past few months the news about you has changed and when I say you I mean Jeffery King." "I realized it''s time I stopped pretending to be something I''m not." Gwen scoffed before turning to leave. Batman took one last look at his computer which had a timer for twelve hours on it showing it would take twelve hours to fully decrypt the Hard Drive, and then proceeded to leave the cave as well. The next day countless vehicles arrived at the King Manor which had been rebuilt once more as Jeff was behind a podium giving a speech. "...and that is the reason I''ve decided to start the King foundation which will provide cheap affordable housing as well as education and homes to the street children of this city. I believe that if one has the means the they should provide to those in need, thank you. My people will answer all questions you might have." Applause alongside the camera flashes resounded once Jeff was done. "well well it seems what I''ve been hearing about you is true, you''ve changed my friend" Tony came up to Jeff''s side. "Now that''s rich coming from you, according to the papers you''ve become some sort of symbol of peace." Jeff responded, "what can I say, the people love me." Tony had a smug look on his face. Jeff chuckled at that before continuing, " I heard the state''s sending you to court" "Just some old bald heads trying to take my suit, wanna come watch me take them down a notch" "Who knows if I''m free then I wouldn''t miss the show" Their conversation ended when Tony walked away and Hill appeared before Jeff, "we meet again Mr.King" Chapter 69 - Im going to Budapest "Ms. Andrews, nice to see you again" Jeff responded with a smile on his face. "Please, call me Susan" she had a charming smile on her face as she uttered those words, "then I suppose it''s only fair you call me Jeff" The two proceeded to have a question as Jeff put in depth thought into the whole situation. The last time he had just popped up in Fury''s office with no warning as a way to scare him and tell him he could find him wherever he was. From the fact that Hill was here once again, and still ?ssuming this false identity, Jeff could infer Fury was even more desperate to obtain his identity now. Jeff even had a strong hunch that Fury wanted to return the favor by probably appearing at his base when he least expects just as he did with Stark. The conversation between the two somehow ended with Jeff now having a date with Hill next weekend. "she looks like a lovely lady" Sebastian came up to Jeff''s side as Hill walked away. "She''s with S.H.I.E.L.D " Jeff cut off Sebastian. "Oh dear", "Indeed, I just need to convince her that I am not the Batman so all this can be put behind me." "Yes sir, I''ve made contact and have made plans to see each other next weekend. There is a high chance that Jeffery King is the Batman." Hill who was hidden behind a pillar spoke to Fury through a hidden ear piece. "Good job Hill, keep me updated on all that happens." Fury ordered, "Yes sir" Hill responded before blending back into the party. A few more hours had passed and the people had left including Hill leaving Jeff and Sebastian back at the Manor. As luck would have it, an alarm went off signaling Jeff that the decryption was complete. Jeff made his way back to the Batcave and began to go through the files. "Based on the information on here, Hydra has plans to work with a man called Dreykov." Jeff told Sebastian what he had discovered. Sebastian held his chin as he thought that the name sounded familiar, after a few more seconds of thought Sebastian finally remembered where he had heard that name. "Dreykov, if I remember correctly he was the one who was in charge of the red room, but if my memory serves me right he should have died in Budapest." (A/N MC has only watched up to infinity war and therefore does not know about the events of the black widow movie.) "Well it says here that Hydra has dealings with him apparently providing him some sort of chemicals." Sebastian crinkled his brows hearing what Jeff said. "So what now sir?" Sebastian finally questioned. "clear my schedule, I''m going to Budapest" "right away sir" //Budapest// Jeff had arrived before a coffee shop. He was fully disguised as he stepped into the shop, the shop was almost completely empty with but four patrons and a barista. The barista took a good look at him before directing him to a table with her eyes. Jeff made it to the table with a cup coffee in his hand. As he sat down Jeff could feel all the eyes focus on him, but he ignored the looks. After a whole minute one of the patrons stood and started to head towards Jeff but before she could get to him, Jeff noticed something at the door. Two people were about to enter with guns at hand but Jeff saw them and quickly got under the table using it as a shield. Gunfire was soon heard as the two people who had hoods on with ?ssault rifles at hand as they lit up the place. The people in the bar tried to fight back but the two took them all out. One moved the gun to where Jeff was hiding but before they could pull the trigger Jeff smashed the table at them. He quickly moved to the next aiming the gun away before punching the person in the gut which caused them to let go of the gun and fall back, causing their hood to come off to reveal the person under the hood was a young lady. Jeff sent his gun into the others hand causing her to drop her gun before he followed with a well timed kick to her jaw which knocked her out. He quickly moved to the other and stomped her hand which caused her to scream out in pain "I have some questions and you are going to provide me with answers". Chapter 70 - Oliver "I have some questions and you are going to provide me with answers". After moving to an apartment which. was apparently their hideout Jeff got the gist of the situation. The two before him were former widows, apparently after Natasha escaped, Dreykov got pissed by her betrayal and decided pyschological control was not enough. He began researching into better ways of controlling them and he recently discovered a chemical that allowed him to perfectly control each and everyone of them. The two before him managed to avoid that fate but they are also trying their hardest to rescue the other girls. They came up with the idea of using the reagent to reverse engineer everything and free the others but they ended up meeting Jeff. Looking at them closely for a minute Jeff decided they were telling the truth and put down the gun which was aimed at them. The two girls looked at him with confusion, "I''m not with Hydra, I followed some clues and ended up at that cafe. what are your names?" The girls looked at each other before one of them turned to Jeff and spoke up, "you can''t expect us to tell you our names when you won''t tell us yours." The girls were met with silence and Jeff''s patented Bat glare which caused them to break out in cold sweat, ""Kaycee, Jessica."" the two blurted out. "Your real names", Jeff''s cold voice caused their eyes to widen for a moment before they spoke once more. "Anya, Inessa" the two decided to mention their names. "How sure are you, that if you have the reagent you could make a cure." Jeff asked an important question after they had given him their names. The two exchanged looks once more before Anya spoke up. "I have a friend who has a lab, he''s at least 70% sure that if he has his hands on the reagent he would be able to help us." **** At the Cafe where the shootout took place countless officers had surrounded the place and were trying to figure out what exactly had happened and who was responsible. Opposite the a Cafe, a young girl was watching the scene through binoculars, she had blonde her which was tied behind her into a ponytail. She was decked in an all black combat suit, just as the other four girls in the room with her. The young girl moved her hand to her ear and began to communicate with someone. "They are all dead", she reported. "What about the attacker?" The voice from the other side questioned, "we have been unable to confirm but we suspect it might have been Anya and Inessa" the girl continued to report. "Those traitors... find them and kill them" The voice gave a final order. The girl who had now put away the binoculars turned to face the other girls who all stepped out the shadows with an emotionless look on their faces. ***** "So your name is Oliver?" Inessa questioned Jeff as grabbed a pistol. Jeff just looked her in the eye and spoke up ignoring her question. The girls were now attentive as they listened to the information released by Jeff, "we can go there and get what we need. I advice we do it quickly as well since the two of you were not exactly subtle at the Cafe. I''m sure the red room probably has a few widows on your trail as we speak." The two remained silent, they knew he was right but in their defense this wouldn''t have happened if he didn''t show up. Their plan was to attack the supplier and obtain the reagent from them but he had impersonated the supplier, derailing their plans. Jeff seeing they understood the danger they were in as well followed the two who had packed up and left the apartment. An hour after they had left the widows had found the apartment and began to comb through it but of course they were unable to find the girls. Seeing that they were unable to find them, the girls began to search through all that was left in an attempt to figure out where they were gone. The blonde widow soon found a document which detailed what the girls new about the chemical controlling them as well as their ideas on how to stop it. The blonde widow''s hand moved to her ear as she reported her findings. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 71 - Oleg Jeff alongside the two girls were in a van before the Hydra facility. "Are you sure this is the place? I mean there aren''t even any guards. " Anya questioned as she looked at the supposed facility which to her looked like a normal warehouse. In response to her question, Jeff motioned to her to look ahead. On a bench not far away from them sat two people who seemed to just be talking to one another, but to the trained eye of the three in the van they realized they were watching the warehouse. "Look closer, at their jacket." Jeff brought their attention to bulges that could b?r?ly be seen, "guns" Inessa realized. "I''ll deal with those two" Inessa offered before she stepped out of the Van. Oliver and Anya shared a look before they stepped out of the van as well. Inessa approached the two men who had now noticed her and turned their attention to her. Her widow training kicked in as she pretended she was lost. The men were suspicious at first as the placed their hands on their guns but as their conversation continued their guards were let down. This was the moment Inessa was waiting for as she quickly took out her gun and fired two quick shots. Seeing they were dead, she moved closer to them and arranged their clothes in such a way that it just looked like they were sleeping. After doing so, Inessa moved to the other two who were before the warehouse waiting. Inessa stared into Jeff''s eyes, and as Jeff stared back at her he saw something in her eye but he said nothing. The three made their way into the warehouse and began a shootout. The Hydra agents within were completely shocked when the three barged in gun blazing. Gunshots resounded as the agents scrabbled to grab their weapons so as to fight back. Jeff saw one them and blasted their arm off before rushing in and putting a bullet into their head. In a room where the reagents were kept, an agent grabbed all that was left and began heading for another exit but before he could escape a knife appeared before him. He turned back to source to see Jeff who was standing there. Jeff had run out of bullets, making his way there. "I need that case" Jeff spoke to the man who only responded with the two words, "Hail Hydra". Jeff grabbed him by the throat and brought him closer to his face, "Where is Dreykov?" The man gained a weird smirk but before he could do what he wanted Jeff shoved his hand into the man''s mouth and ripped out the cyanide hidden in a false tooth. The man screamed out in pain as he did so, "you don''t get to decide how you die." Jeff slammed the guys face into a table before leaving him to fall with a bloody face. The girls walked in at that moment and saw the man on the floor groaning in pain with Jeff holding the case with the reagent in it. The two had a go with the man before finally killing him. "do you feel better?" Jeff''s voice came from behind, "no, I will when I free the others." "Let''s go" Anya spoke as she took the lead to leave the facility. All three left and got back into the van before heading to the friend who had his own lab. "Oleg!" Anya calked out to her friend as they hugged each other, "Anya, you brought Inessa alongside... who is this?" Oleg questioned as he looked at Jeff with a questioning look in his eye. Oleg was a skinny guy with glasses which looked like they were a size too big. Jeff just stared him down with a look that seemed to be judging him. "He is helping us out, so we got the reagent are you sure you can do it?" Anya asked once again interrupting the stare down between the two men. "Of course I can", Oleg nodded as he got to work in a few minutes one vial was ready and from the way he jumped and shouted yes! the other three were sure it was a success. As Jeff took it before he could have a closer look he saw someone come out of the shadows. "Get down!" Jeff shouted as he ducked for cover. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 72 - The Widows attack *Bang* Gunshots were heard followed by Anya''s scream, "Oleg!!" Jeff peaked to see Oleg fall to the ground with blood seeping through his lips. Jeff attempted to fight back but gunshots resounded from behind as well, at this moment he was sure that they were surrounded. Placing the vial in his pockets he grabbed Inessa who was by his side and jumped out the window by his side. Both of them fell to the ground outside as they tried to make it to their feet. *Crash* the sound of glass breaking was heard again and they looked up in time to see Anya jump down as well, followed by the widows. "Split up!" Jeff ordered to which the girls responded with a nod before running in different directions. The widows who landed at this time had abandoned their guns opting for more lethal weapons, their widow bites. A hole was made in a wall by Jeff''s side which caused him to widen his eye before continuing to make his way through the alley with two widows on his tail. Another two widows chased after Inessa, as the final blonde widow chased after Anya. Jeff performed a flip over the wall before pulling himself over a ledge and running on top of a building. The widows after him had no problem keeping up with him and began to fire from behind. Jeff rolled forward in time to avoid the blast, and as he made it back to his feet he managed to fire a batarang which caught the widows by surprise and killed one of them as it went into her throat. The other widow seeing this did not stop but increased her attacks on Jeff. Jeff jumped down on the street as the widow landed before him. As she did she pulled out her batons which produced sparks. Jeff entered his own battle stance as he motioned for her to come at him. She rushed at him swinging at his head but Jeff managed to avoid it by going down and swiping at her legs but she also managed to avoid it. Jeff using his kick managed to perform a kick up and appeared right before the widow, grabbing her arms he quickly disarmed her before he sent a kick into her gut which sent her into the wall and followed it up with an elbow to her face. The widow''s back slid against the wall as she fell down leaving a tiny blood trail from the back of her head. Jeff seeing this checked her pulse, as he did so he confirmed she was still alive just unconscious. After doing so Jeff moved on to help the others, soon he arrived just in time to help Inessa who was double teamed by the widows and was about to loose. Jeff jumped down taking one out and suprising all present. The other widow seeing this wasted no time and charged at Jeff with her baton by he avoided it and proceeded to flip her to the and smashing her own charged baton at her head. "Are you okay", Jeff questioned as he gave Inessa a hand and helped her to her feet. "thank you Oliver" Jeff nodded at that before continuing lets go help Anya. Inessa smiled at that but lost that smile a moment later. The blonde widow had returned and was standing before them. They all knew what this meant, Anya was most likely dead. Rage overtook Inessa''s mind and before Jeff could stop her she charged at the blonde widow who easily took her down and shifted her attention to Jeff. Jeff seeing this first focused on Inessa who''s ?h?st moved rythimically proving she wasn''t dead. After making sure, Jeff put his attention on the blonde widow, he could tell she was a level above the rest. She killed Anya and had easily taken down Inessa telling Jeff this fight wasn''t going to be like the others. The blonde widow tilted her head as she stared before pulling out two batons. Jeff placed one hand in his pocket as he prepared for battle. The blonde charged at him and quickly put Jeff on the defensive, he avoided a swing and quickly managed to disarm her. His actions didn''t seem to faze her though as she continued to attack with a series of kicks and punches. As she moved forward with a wide swing Jeff quickly moved behind her and injected her with the vial. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 73 - Yelena Belenova "what... who..." the blonde widow looked at Jeff with confusion in her eyes but as she looked around the confusion seemed to vanish from her eyes and was soon replaced with one of realization and horror seconds after. "Keep it together" Jeff grabbed her by the shoulder seeing that she was about to freak out. "We need to move now cause I have a sick feeling that they know your free and they''re probably coming here right now." Hearing this the blonde girl nodded before rushing to her feet and running to leave the narrow street they were on. Jeff was right on her tail grabbing Inessa who was still unconscious and slinging her over his shoulders. Moving onto a main street they took a car and left the scene, "so I know of the girls but who the hell are you?" the blonde questioned Jeff as they drove away. Jeff looked at her before giving her the fake name, "I''m Oliver, Oliver Queen". "Yelena, Yelena Belova" Jeff almost came to a halt as he heard that name, he was sure that name was important but he didn''t know who exactly she was he couldn''t remember her character from the MCU movies or shows meaning he probably got her name from a comic he read once before. "What, is there something on my face?" Yelena questioned Jeff as she saw him staring at her. "was wondering where we are headed?" Jeff answered her question with a question. Yelena thought for a moment and spoke up, "I know a place." Dreykov had people retrieve the bodies of his widows alongside Anya''s body. A widow handed a report to Dreykov on what had happened, "One of my widows is dead and my best widow is now missing. So explain to me why the Batman is in Budapest and what the hell is he doing with the traitors." Dreykov questioned as he raised the batarang which was retrieved from the scene, "also how did they release Yelena you ?ssured me our control was perfect." Dreykov turned his attention to his scientist who were in his office, the scientist exchanged looks with one another before one of them stepped up. "The was a fight in a lab with a dead scientist who was friends with Anya, we think he may have made whatever they used on Yelena... but he is dead and what they used of Yelena might have been their only one." The scientist tried to reassure Dreykov, "might? The Batman is in Budapest and Yelena is with him she is a successful result of whatever they tried and on her and with that they can do it AGAIN!" Dreykov slammed the table. Taking in deep breaths he adjusted his glasses and gave out and order. "Get the Taskmaster" ***** Jeff looked around when he noticed holes on the wall, which he ?ssumed where bullet holes. "What happened here?" Jeff spoke up. Yelena who had changed into new clothes and was now behind Jeff spoke up, "no idea, it has been there since my sister was here last." "Your sister sounds interesting", Jeff turned to Yelena. "yeah sure" Yelena spoke in a disinterested tone which Jeff was quick to take notice of. The awkward silence that quickly began to form was interrupted by groans from Inessa who had now regained consciousness. "Inessa are you alright?" Inessa tried to respond but then laid eyes on Yelena and remembered that she was the one who killed her sister. Completely blinded by rage she charged for Yelena and sent her back straight into a wall. Yelena let out a grunt before grabbing her arms and flipping her sending both of them rolling on the fall with Inessa trying to kill Yelena. Jeff seeing this stepped in and separated both of them holding Inessa back. "Let me go!" Inessa screamed out, "she killed Anya" as she said this tears began to form in her eyes. "Listen, I understand what you''re going through right now but Yelena was not responsible she had no control over her actions. The one behind all this is Dreykov and she is just a victim, remember." Inessa''s mind understood what Jeff said by when she saw Yelena her heart couldn''t accept it. Yelena stared at the clock and spoke up, "I liked that clock." head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Posted a new fan-fic Old Ben, please check it out. Chapter 74 - Taskmaster "Now what do we do?" Inessa asked after she had finally calmed down. "we know that using the reagent we can free the widows for sure, she is proof of that" Jeff spoke as he pointed at Yelena who was scavenging the place for food but to no avail. "well so what, even it works that was our only one and we left all the reagent back at the lab-" Inessa began to rant but was cut of by Yelena. "But did you really", both of them turn to with questioning looks. Yelena sighed before pulling out the reagents which were tied together in a bundle. "Ta da!" Inessa''s eyes widened as she saw this. "When did you?" "oh when you guys jumped out the window to escape, I grabbed it." Yelena said with a shrug. "And you didn''t think to say this earlier", Jeff questioned her. "meh, no one asked" Jeff could see a minor tick forming on Inessa forehead. Jeff was certain if he didn''t change the topic soon enough Inessa might charge at Yelena again. "Well that solves one problem, we have the reagent but now we need someone who can make more of the cure." Jeff''s attempt was a success as Inessa seemed deep in thought. Jeff turned back to Yelena who had now sat in her chair with a defeated look on her face as she was unable to find any snacks. "Do you know someone who could help us?" Jeff directed the question to Yelena. "hmm,well my mother could..." *crash* something broke through the glass drawing their attention. As they saw what it was their eyes widened before the jumped for cover. *Bang* an explosion resounded soon followed by ringing sound. Jeff looked through the hole formed by the explosion. At this point a figure walked in with a skull mask and a shield at hand. Jeff recognized who this person was as he saw them and recognized who they were. This was Taskmaster, another one of the many villans in Spiderman''s rouge gallery. Jeff dropped a smoke bomb obscuring Taskmaster''s view. Taskmaster made a quick scan of the room and began to move towards the reagent. Inessa charged at Taskmaster and attempted to tackle them, but in one quick movement they grabbed her and flipped her into a wall. *ting*ting*ting* the sound of bullets as they made contact with the shield. "oh come on!" Yelena exclaimed before she rolled away and avoid the shield with came at her bounced off the floor and into their hand as they turned around and blocked an attack from Inessa who was back on her feet. Yelena took aim for another shot but the gun was knocked out of her by a throwing knife. Yelena was stunned as another came right for her face but was stopped as a batarang collided with it. Taskmaster tilted their head to mock Batman but the batarang in their hand exploded with the force sending them straight out the apartment. "let''s go" Batman spoke as he grabbed the reagent and turned to leave. "you''re Batman?" Inessa looked at Batman with her shock clear in her eyes. "Cool suit" was all Yelena said before she put her gun away under her clothes. "That guy isn''t going to stay down" Batman spoke once again before making it out of there with Inessa and Yelena in tow. "so where is your mother?" "what?" was Yelena''s brilliant answer to Batman''s question."your mother, where is she?" Batman questioned again as they all entered a van. His suit dissolved back into his watch, as they drove away. "oh... her, yeah I don''t know." "what?!" Inessa who was at the back seat screamed. "I haven''t exactly been in touch" Yelena carried on with her nonchalant attitude. "How exactly do we find her?" Jeff questioned. "Is your name really Oliver?" Yelena questioned with suspicion in her eye as she stared at Jeff. Jeff responded to her question with silence "should have known". "I don''t know how to find her but I do know how to find my Dad." "Okay where is he then?" Outside the apartment Taskmaster had made it back to their feet and activated the tracker they had slipped onto Inessa and got on a bike to follow after her. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 75 - Too many pockets "what are we doing here again?" Inessa questioned Yelena as she picked out clothes. "shopping of course" Yelena spoke in a duh tone as she moved in front of a mirror to check out herself with a new dress but frowned as she put it back and went ahead to look for new clothes. "how could you think about shopping at a time like this?" Inessa asked as leaned against a pillar with her arms crossed before her. "What wrong with shopping now?" "a whole lot of things considering the fact that the entire red room and that guy in the skull mask are after us!" "Ehn, that doesn''t mean I can''t shop" Yelena shrugged as she finally picked up a vest with a wide smile on her face. "what do you think?" she turned around and showed Inessa the vest. "That honestly look like it has more zip than material." Inessa replied with a deadpan look on her face which Yelena responded to with a pout, "you''re just jealous I picked the only one, this is cool". Hearing what she said Inessa looked at her with an are-you-serious look on her face, "look I could put my weapons here, a knife here and here I could put a phone, yes a phone oh by the way what phone should I get" Yelena tried to defend her choice. Inessa quirked her brow at her and turned to leave, Yelena soon followed after wearing her new vest. Yelena had a wide grin on her face as she was happy about the article of clothing which she had picked out for herself. "so when did you join the red room?" Inessa turned to face Yelena when she heard this question with a look on her face that said, did you really just ask that now. As she stared at Yelena''s face though what she saw was not what she was expecting. Yelena eyes were clear and filled only with childlike curiosity, Inessa was stunned for a moment before she sighed. "I was nine, an orphan on the streets of Sokovia with Anya when they approached us we had nothing to loose and made the worst mistakes in our lives... what about you?" "It''s always been the red room for me",Yelena responded in a matter of fact tone. Inessa seemed shocked about that and asked, "what about your family? your sister, your father and your mother?" "They were all Red room", Inessa''s eyes widened as she heard that but before she could ask the hundreds of questions that popped in her mind Jeff appeared before them. "I''ve got a car let''s go" Jeff spoke as he looked at them and noticed Yelena''s vest, seeing this Yelena beamed "do you like?" "too many pockets" was all Jeff said to her before he turned to leave leaving Yelena to pout as she followed after him. Inessa who saw all of this let out a chuckle before following them. They arrived before a Nissan Jeff had borrowed, "I call shotgun" Yelena shouted out before she jumped into the front seat. "Seriously, just how old are you?" Inessa questioned Yelena who replied by sticking her tongue out. Jeff watched their antics and shook his head as he started the car. At this moment he noticed someone walking towards them and with a closer look the individual was revealed to be none other than the Taskmaster. "hold on!" Jeff exclaimed to the girls as he pulled the car back and quickly drove on to the streets to escape. Taskmaster of course did not let them escape easily as he began firing at them. *Ratatata* the sound of the ?ssault riffle as it put bullets into the body of the car was heard. The girls had ducked to avoid the gunfire that had destroyed the windows. Jeff sped away with Taskmaster still firing at them until they were out of range, when they were Taskmaster held the gun by their side and began to head for their bike before following after them. "What the hell just happened?!" Inessa exclaimed as the sped on to a highway. " The guy with the skull mask came and started shooting at us" Yelena spoke in a matter of fact tone. "Thank you because I clearly couldn''t see that", Inessa spoke with her words dripping with sarcasm. "you''re welcome" Yelena spoke as though she couldn''t detect the obvious sarcasm. "Check yourselves" Jeff''s words interrupted the banter between the two and caused them to look at him with hints of confusion. "we ditched the old car to throw off the people chasing us yet that guy still found us and also when we were driving away they didn''t look like they were in a hurry or afraid they will lose us so one of us definitely has a tracker on them so check yourselves now." Jeff ordered. Sensing the commanding tone both of them didn''t argue and diligently search themselves. Inessa soon found the tiny tracker that was previously hidden on her. "found it" just as she said that the sound of a bike could be heard as Taskmaster had caught up to them. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 76 - Mason *bang*bang* gunshots resounded through the night as Taskmaster fired at them. Taskmaster got even closer pulling to their side, at this moment Inessa opened up her sending Taskmaster to the ground. But as the went down Taskmaster fired a throwing knife into one of the car''s tires taking it out of commission and causing the car to go of road and straight into a three. "ow... what the hell!" Yelena exclaimed as she held her forehead which was now bleeding. All three of them stumbled out of the car to see Taskmaster who was heading straight for them with a shield at hand. Jeff who was already in full gear fired a batarang at Taskmaster''s head which they rose their shield to guard against. In doing so though they temporarily blocked their line of sight, pulling the shield away they saw to feet right before they made contact with their face. The resulting force sent Taskmaster flying back but they used their shield to bounce back to their feet. Batman didn''t let this opportunity go as he came with a batarang and sliced down at Taskmaster but Taskmaster moved to side to avoid the strike not forgetting to fire his shield at the girls. Batman and Taskmaster began to engage in hand to hand combat and he experienced Taskmaster''s ability first hand as he felt as though he was fighting himself. The scowl behind his mask grew deeper as Batman made some space between them and sent an explosive batarang straight at Taskmaster but the shield returned to thier arm at that moment, allowing them to block it. Yelena took advantage and tried to rush them, but Taskmaster reacted quickly delivering a few jabs alongside a kick to her side before flipping back and landing in a pose with the shield at their back. Yelena came to halt as she saw that posture, in that moment a figure overlapped with the image before her, which caused her to just stand there and stare. Inessa on the other hand didn''t hesitate to fire her gun at Taskmaster. Taskmaster nimbly avoided all the shots and came at Inessa with a strong right hook but Batman fired his grappling hook which wrapped around Taskmaster''s fist before sending right through the woods. "Come on" Batman pulled the two girls along as they ran straight through the woods. "what now? that guy''s going to come after us soon" Inessa questioned as they made their way through the woods. "I have a plan" was all Batman said. Taskmaster soon arrived at a Clif and looked down, below was a river. Taskmaster checked the tracker''s location once more and confirmed it''s position was in the river before jumping in. Seconds after jumping Batman alongside the girls at his side appeared where Taskmaster stood. "we''ve got to go, it won''t be long before they realize we ditched the tracker" Batman turned around soon after. "What do we do now? I mean we don''t have a car or anything how do we get out of here" Inessa asked the important question and Yelena who was unusually quiet spoke up "I know a guy". A man soon arrived in a car to pick all three of them up, " hello Yelena been a few years", "hey Mason" Yelena greeted back before getting in. Jeff who had taken off the suit stared at the guy called Mason. "so Mason how do you know Yelena?" Jeff questioned as Mason started the car and drove them off. "I helped her sister some time back and got to know her then." Jeff quirked his eyebrows hearing of this mysterious sister again, Jeff wasn''t sure but he had the feeling he might know her. "Oh yeah, Mason we need chopper to go find my father" Yelena remembered that they need a helicopter if they were going to get her father. "A helicopter huh, don''t worry I got you" Meanwhile with Taskmaster, they walked out of the river with a tracker in their hand as Taskmaster realized they ditched the tracker and escaped. Taskmaster crushed the tracker before making their way into the woods, but came to halt once when they received a call. "Is it done?" "They managed to escape, but I am on them." Taskmaster responded, but was cut off by the other person. "you''re ordered to return to base" Taskmaster kept silent for a minute before responding, "understood". head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 77 - Prison Break "so where exactly is your father?" Inessa questioned as she wore a combat suit. "Seventh circle prison" Yelena spoke as she wore her jacket over her combat suit. "So it''s a prison break", Inessa stated with a brow raised, "fun huh" Yelena spoke up before moving her gear into the helicopter prepared by Mason. With a sigh Inessa moved into the helicopter as well where Jeff was waiting in his Batsuit. "Let''s go" Batman ordered as they set off. ****** In Seventh Circle Prison. Alexei was called by the guards, arriving before them he was told he had fan mail as well as a package. Taking them Alexei moved back to the seat to read the letter and as he did a smile grew on his face. He proceeded to open the package which contained an action figure as well as an ear bud. Taking a quick look at the guards who weren''t paying any attention he placed the earbud in, " Hello Crimson Dynamo, miss me?" Alexei broke out in laughter hearing Yelena''s voice. His laughter drew the attention of the two guards who looked at him in pure confusion before sharing a look amongst themselves believing he might be loosing it, after all he wouldn''t be the first. "You know what to do?" Yelena questioned, "hehehe of course" with those words he stood and walked to the two guards who were now curious. Alexei who had ducked for cover stood once more to look over them before laughing and following the directions Yelena gave him through the earbuds. Alexei made his way through the hall but was spotted by other inmates who began shouting as he kept running, "the Red Guardian is escaping!" alarms resounded throughout the entire facility. Coming before a steel door, Alexei blasted it off its hinges with one Spartan kick. Making it out to the cold yard and took in a deep breath before looking up to see chopper waiting for him. "move it super soldier!" Yelena spoke up once again as countless prison guards run outside to contain the seemingly endless swarm of inmates who were pouring out. At this point with a run up alongside the super soldier serum running through his veins, Red Guardian made a giant leap and held on to a railing trying to pull himself up but a guard rushed up and tazed him causing him to let go and fall back to the ground. "ooo that''s going to hurt" Yelena spoke up as she saw what had happened. After watching for a few more seconds Batman stood and went to the entrance, before turning to look at Yelena one more time. "hold it steady, I''ll go and get him." With that Batman jumped in landing between two guards who were first surprised but then rushed at him but he quickly stopped them grabbing one''s arm and using him to taze the other before chopping him in the back of the neck and causing him to fall unconscious. Tens of guards began rushing in from both sides but Batman didn''t flinch, after all he is Batman. It wasn''t a fight, no it was a beat down. The men stood absolutely no chance what so ever against the Batman who took them all down in mere seconds, before jumping into the yard where none dared approach when they saw the Batman standing right before them. Inessa at this point saw this and called out to Yelena who was staring down at the Batman below. Seeing the attack she manuvered away and avoided the rocket fired at her but although the rocket had missed the helicopter it made contact with a mountain and caused an avalanche. Looking at the avalanche Yelena couldn''t help but say, "that is a cool way way to die". The inmates and the guards noticing this rushed backed to the prison meanwhile Batman grabbed Alexei before firing his grappling hook at the helicopter pulling them both in. The helicopter managed to fly off before the avalanche came over the yard albeit b?r?ly. They flew straight over the avalanche. "Hahaha" Alexei let out a burly laughter and opened his lips, everyone ?ssumed he was trying to utter words but they couldn''t hear anything over the sound of the rotor. Yelena pointed at her headset which Alexei stared at for a moment in confusion before he let out a sound of realization and put on one himself, and shouted "can you hear me now!" "I liked him better when he didn''t speak" said Inessa immediately having an intuition this guy was going to be noisy the whole trip. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 78 - Melina Vostokoff "Aha! I knew you would come for me Yelena. I mean you did take your time and left me there, prison food is horrible by the way... hmm that''s right where is Natasha" Alexei began ranting before stopping to ask an important question. "I thought she would have been with you or-" Alexei was cut of by Yelena who lost her playful tone, "she left". "What, what do you mean she left?" Alexei asked confused as to what Yelena meant. "I mean one day she was here next poof she was gone." Jeff who was at the side watched all this and began to connect things, Natasha was Yelena''s mysterious sister he had heard a lot about and from the way Yelena spoke about her just now they had some unresolved issues. Jeff also had a strong feeling that the Natasha they were talking about was the Natasha he had in her mind. "where is mom?" Yelena questioned her father changing the subject. "your mother? hmm where was it she said uh wait, I try to remember... uhh Peto no santa no pelio no wait I swear I know this... yes Saint Petersburg!" Alexei exclaimed the part as he remembered where she was. "Saint Petersburg? what is she doing there?" Yelena turned to Alexei with a questioning look on her face. "I don''t know, last I remember she said something about pigs or sheep or something." Yelena quirked her brows at that before turning away to focus on the flight realizing she couldn''t understand anything what exactly he was saying. The flight continued in silence, the only sound being heard was that of the helicopter''s rotor as they flew for saint Petersburg. But said silence was short lived as Alexei began to question Batman on a whole lot of random questions which Batman responded to with silence. "Not much of talker eh" Alexei spoke up seeing Batman was not uttering a single word. After that he began to talk about himself as the ''great'' Red Guardian which caused Batman to look at him carefully, wondering how a super soldier got into such a shape. "Oi guys I don''t think we are going to make it", Yelena called out to them but Alexei spoke up, "no, we will make it". Yelena took a look at the fuel gauge before shrugging and continuing to fly. *** The helicopter fell straight down, they all stepped out as Alexei turned to Batman and spoke up, "you should have brought the Bat jet" to which Bats responded by narrowing his eyes and moving. The four began their trek to find Yelena''s mother, Inessa was by Yelena''s side as the moved and spoke up. "So I have been meaning to ask but why did you say that?" "say what?" Yelena asked as she turned to look at Inessa. "when the Avalanche was happening, you said this would be a cool way to die, what did you mean?" Inessa clarified. "oh, that... yeah I meant it would be a cool way for me to die you know." Inessa came to a halt hearing that before she continued to walk once more, "no, I don''t know" she exclaimed as she returned to Yelena''s side. "well I have been thinking lately" Yelena began to explain, "everyone dies eventually no, so if I''m going to die I don''t want to die in a lame way. I want to go out in a cool way" Inessa took one good look at Yelena before looking at Alexei then muttered to herself, "please don''t let the mother be as dumb" In a farm Melina had a smile as he tended to her farm animals, an alert went off on her tablet. She quickly got the animals back into their pens and then pulled out a case before moving to another place to set up her sniper and looked through the scope. As she did her eyes widened in surprise seeing both Alexei and Yelena alongside another lady and even more suprisingly the Batman. The four soon arrived at her place, before Alexei could knock Melina opened the door. "Have I not taught you both nothing about alarms" "There were no alarms" Alexei argued but had a tablet shoved in his, "you tripped every single alarm I have, I could shot you over ten times". "Nice to see you again dear" she turned to Yelena with a smile on her face then to the other two "welcome to my home, it''s a p???sur? especially you Batman, come in" The four made their way in to her apartment and as he saw a picture he confirmed something, this was Natasha Romanoff''s family. Chapter 79 - What makes you so different? "I was just about to have dinner, join me". Melina spoke up as she headed in with them following after her. "so I was wondering did you keep it?" Alexei spoke causing them to turn to look at him in confusion wondering just what it was he was mouthing on about this time. Melina on the other hand had a smile on her face as she motioned to a room, Alexei broke out in a wide grin before heading in with large strides. Batman took a glance at Alexei''s back before focussing on Melina, "I heard you were a doctor". "scientist but yes you can refer to me as a doctor" her smile remaining on her face as she stared at him, "so what can I help the Batman with". "This" Batman brought out the reagents, "we are here to free the widows but we need your help" Melina took the reagents and took a long look at them before looking back at Batman. The smile which looked like it would be ever present, dissapeared at this moment. *** Half an hour later Melina in her personal lab had brewed a batch of cure and although Batman didn''t show it he was absolutely surprised by just how little time it took her to complete this feat. "Here you go" she spoke as she packaged them into a case and handed it over to Batman. "I made the cure into an aerosol, that way you''ll be able to get it to more widows and reduces the difficulty in applying it" Melina explained as she took of her lab coat. "Now would you mind joining us for dinner" Melina asked once more. As they made their way to the table, Alexei finally made his way out of the room dressed up in a uniform that was definitely a size to small. "How do I look?" Alexei asked as he got into an iconic superhero pose with both arms on his waist and ?h?st out... or in his case gut out. "You look amazing my love" Melina complimented him with the most obvious lie ever but Alexei didn''t notice why that was Batman had no idea as Alexei proceeded to try to show of his muscles. At this point the girls could hold it in no longer and broke out laughing mocking Alexei, who tried to defend himself with his so called great tales of his time as the Red Guardian. At this everyone broke out in laughter, although Batman didn''t laugh alongside them he had a smile hidden behind the mask as he saw the girls getting along. "Okay, okay settle down so we can eat alright" the trio soon calmed down after hearing Melina words also because of the dishes that were soon delivered to the table. Batman''s mask moved away from his mouth allowing him to eat as well. Melina payed attention to the little bit of his face she could see before focussing on the food on her plate. "so what happened?" Alexei asked which caused Melina to pause for half a second before she spoke up, "I decided I was and left Dreykov" "So Dreykov just let go of his best Tactician and they say I''m the stupid one" Alexei mocked Dreykov as he heard that but Batman was even more wary against Melina. They Both shared a look which was broken by Inessa asking a question, the one they all wanted an answer to. "Where is the Red room''s headquarters? me and Anya searched for it on our own but we came up with nothing" Melina turned to Inessa and spoke up. "I really don''t know, after I cut ties with Dreykov I''ve not received any information whatsoever from them." They seemed to buy that but soon enough Inessa, Yelena and Alexei were down leaving only Batman and Melina seated at the table. "I''m impressed but I''m curious how?" Melina asked still calm, "I''m immune to most if not all poisons" Batman responded in an even tone. (A/N he has attained immunity to almost all poisons but not all as there might be one or two poisons out there, who knows.) "A man who is always prepared huh, I should have known considering another mask under that one. What you thought I wouldn''t notice? I''d have you know I''m pretty good at making those kind of masks myself." Melina had a smirk on her face as she continued to stare at Batman. "How much time?" Batman asked, "In thirty minutes to an hour they should be here to collect all of you" Melina responded. "You don''t want to do this" Batman spoke once again making it to his feet, "you speak as though you know me" Melina made it to her feet as well with a gun trained at Batman. "Dreykov never let you go infact Alexei overestimated your importance, you are like the others aren''t you? under his control" Melina''s finger had now moved to the trigger. "I can help you take him down and let Yelena live a better life", Batman offered. "people before you have tried they only made things worse, what makes you so different?" "I''m Batman" head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 80 - Attack on Dreykov pt1 Four airships flew through the clouds, within these ships were red room operatives alongside four captives. Yelena, Alexei and Inessa who were still unconscious were left on the floor with the widows seated around them. Batman on the other hand was bound first with handcuffs then with cable around his torso. He was then seated in front off Melina who was in her fully black widow combat suit and armed from head to toe. The journey was a relatively silent one, interrupted only by the snores from Alexei. After another half hour, the widows at the controls spoke some words to confirm their identity before flying even higher. Before them was the widows base which was hidden above the clouds. A flying base, with a greyish silver exterior, a part of it opened to reveal a hangar which the airships flew into in an orderly fashion. As the airships landed the doors opened with Melina being the first to step out followed by Batman who was bound and escorted by two widows and then the others. Melina looked to the girls that surrounded her and gave an order. "Take these three to the cells as for the Batman bring him and follow me", The girls around nodded and began to follow orders. Melina made her way through the base, with two widows escorting the Batman behind her. They passed by a room which had a group of young girls training. *tap*tap* the sounds of their footsteps as it made contact with the metalic floor underneath was heard throughout the hall. Soon they arrived before the an office, pressing a bu??on the door slid open allowing them to enter. In the office sat a middle age man who had his eyes glued to the large screen before himself. "Hello Melina, great work" Dreykov spoke before he turned to face them. Dreykov shifted his face to the Batman who was still unconscious and bound up. "Why is he still masked?" Dreykov asked Melina, "we had some issues and were unable to take it off" Melina told him. "Intriguing" was all Dreykov said before he motioned for the other widows to leave. The widows in turn bowed their heads before leaving the office, leaving but Dreykov Melina and Batman alone in the office. Dreykov stood from his seat and took slow but confident strides towards the Batman who was on the ground and had a closer look. "Truly a work of art, this suit" Dreykov reached out to touch it. "Vibranium alongside a material I haven''t seen before... hehehe with this the widows will reach new heights and soon even Hydra will fear us" Dreykov stood after saying this. "You have truly done a great work Melina or should I say Inessa" Dreykov turned to her with a smile. Inessa reached out to her back to try to take out a weapon to harm Dreykov, but she was unable to perform the action. "Confused aren''t you, before I came up with the new serum for better control, I still took preventive measures with every widow." Dreykov stood mere inches away from Inessa with a mocking smile on his face. "you are physically incapable of harming me, now you are probably thinking if I knew you weren''t her, why didn''t I do anything earlier? Well you see I am interested in what you know and how you exactly you came with that ''cure'' of yours, so please have a seat" Dreykov ended as he took a seat with Inessa taking her seat before him. *** In the cells; after the widows had gone Inessa who was Melina in disguise awoke and tore her mask off. "Alexei, Alexei wake up" Melina whispered as she lay against the wall that divided them both, all she got in return were the snores of Alexei. Melina sighed before kicking the wall hard, which was enough to jolt Alexei awake. "Huh, huh what the?!" Alexei looked around in confusion. "Alexei, we are in the widow''s base we don''t have that much time" Melina spoke to him before moving her hand to her ear and speaking to Yelena who was still unconscious. Yelena was strapped to a table in a lab, with a dotted line drawn over her forehead. The doctors around her had been ordered by Dreykov to find out how exactly it was she had been freed from his control and figure out a way to stop it. "Yelena wake up!" Melina''s voice awoke Yelena right in time as the doctors were about to cut through. She broke her restraints and took out the doctors in mere seconds before speaking to Melina. "what the hell is going on?" she questioned, "we are taking Dreykov down" was all Melina said in response. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 81 - Attack of Dreykov Pt2 Melina brought out two pins which she hid and pulled out the panel and began working on her lock. Alexei put his hand to ear and spoke but a word but was cut off, "You don''t have a comm in your ear". "what?" Alexei questioned as Melina unlocked her door and began working on Alexei''s door. "why not?" "Not enough comms" Melina gave a concise answer while she thought to herself ''you talk too much''. In a few more seconds Alexei''s door was unlocked. Melina straightened herself and spoke into her comm, "okay we are out, it''s time". After uttering those words she turned to Alexei, "I''m going to take down the engines. I need you to get us a ride out of here.... and a distraction while you are at it". "I''m on it" Alexei put his helmet on and gave Melina a kiss before both of them split up. *** Back at Dreykov''s office their conversation was cut short as Batman broke out of his bindings. Both Dreykov and Inessa snapped their head to his direction, Dreykov''s hand moved under the table and placed the entire facility under alert. Sirens rung across the entire facility, Melina who was before the panels she needed alongside four bodies at her feet looked up with a smile on her face before overloading the turbines which would explode by her estimate in twenty minutes. Smiling at her work she run out onto a the bridge which led out of the control room and over the turbines below. Before her were guards who were rushing for her direction with guns and other weapons at hand. "of course, why can''t things ever be easy?" Melina muttered to herself before firing her widow bites at them while running back avoiding gunfire. She grabbed one of her earlier victims and used him as bait as she charged at the guards to engage them in close combat. She turned to the others who now had to put away their guns seeing as they couldn''t get a clear aim. Living up to her a title as a widow she moved through the guards easily sending her knee into one guys throat she flipped him into the others and continued her battle. With Alexei, he run into a hallway only to discover there were guards on both sides. The was a moment of silence as they stared at each other. This silence was broken by Alexei shouting, "the Red Guardian fears none!" And so ensued a brawl where Alexei showed he was truly a super soldier by mowing through the guards like a bowling ball through bowling pins. "Yes, Again!" Alexei shouted as one of the guards managed to land a hit on his jaw. The shout caused the guard to pause for a moment and think to himself "what was wrong with this guy." **** Yelena was the only one who had a bit of peace and quiet. She had armed herself once and put on her vest which she admired in the mirror, nodding at reflection. After all that she retrieved the cure which was in the lab before snooping through some computer files while having a sandwich. Yelena soon came to halt when she read up on something. "guys" Yelena began speaking through her comm, "Dreykov is thinking of expanding the widows, he has been buying a lot of orphanages and foster homes on a global scale" (A/N so if one has watched the Black widow movie you know what Dreykov had planned. This is more like the prelude as this event is now happening years before it should) "uh oh" Yelena turned to the door as someone tried to break in. She stuffed the rest of the sandwich in her mouth and grabbed everything. *bang* the door was kicked open by the guards who looked around but failed to find anyone. In another hallway, a grille was kicked down before Yelena dropped down and began running after taking a quick look around. Back in Dreykov''s office, Dreykov had a smile on his face as Batman and Inessa were surrounded by at least a hundred widows. "Good bye Batman" Dreykov spoke as he left through a back door but came to a halt once he opened it. "Oh and girls, make sure none of them leave here alive. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 82 - Goodbye Inessa Batman and Inessa stood back to back as they were slowly surrounded by the widows. "Inessa go after Dreykov" Batman ordered, "what? what about you?" Inessa questioned. "Don''t worry about me, now go" Inessa hesitated for a moment before running through a gal to chase after Dreykov. The widows close to her tried to stop her but a grappling hook wrapped around one''s throat and pulled her back, while Batman flew forward and delivered a knee to the back of her head knocking her out. Batman calmly turned around to face the other widows who were now fully charging at him. Batman quickly grabbed a Bo staff that was aimed at his head and flung the widow who was holding into a wall. He spun the staff around as he blocked countless attacks that came at him. With the Bo staff, Batman delivered sharp counterstrikes before sweeping a widow of her feet. With that Batman jumped straight into their midst breaking the staff into two and continued to takeout the widows who dared got too close to him. With a sharp kick Batman caused a widow to keel over before Batman rolled over her and delivered a Spartan kick to a widow and sent her into three other widows. Batman fired the pieces in his arm to two other widows before pulling out a smoke bomb, covering the entire office in smoke. *bang* bang* strikes could be heard alongside the grunts and screams of pain. In another minute the smoke cleared as Yelena barged in and stood stunned as she watched the scene before her. "what the..." before her was Batman who stood over the countless widows who remained on the ground groaning in pain. "The cure?" Batman''s voice brought her out of her stunned state, "Right here" Yelena responded before throwing down three vials which released a gas. After inhaling the gas the widows finally regained their senses, seeing this Batman went down and helped a widow back to her feet, "you and the others have to get out of here this entire place is going down". The girl nodded her head and helped the others up, but before the left Yelena handed the vials over to them keeping only two to herself. The girl nodded before rushing out, Yelena and Batman shared a look before attempting to follow after Dreykov and Inessa. When the door opened though they both came to a halt as before them was Taskmaster. "You again, really!" Yelena exclaimed before they engaged in battle. At another place in the facility Melina was reunited with Alexei as she run into a hallway just in time to see Alexei knock someone out with a headbutt. "you sure took your time" Melina spoke up as she got closer to him looking at the hallway filled with the bodies of guards. "There were more...guards...than I thought" Alexei spoke in-between pants. "All right super soldier, let''s go get a ship" Melina spoke up before the continued their journey to claim an escape ship for themselves. *bang* bang* gunshots were head as the guards protecting Dreykov fired at Inessa who took advantage of the walls to avoid their shots and jump them, sending her daggers into their throats. In a few more moments there was but Inessa and Dreykov left standing in the hallway. Dreykov looked at Inessa with an annoyed look in his eye, "what part of you can''t lay a finger on me don''t you understand!" Dreykov looked at his bloodied tooth which was punched out of his mouth while holding his jaw, before turning to Inessa with a look that clearly said ''how the hell?'' Inessa motioned to devices which were in her nostrils, "I can''t smell your pheromones anymore Dreykov". With that said Inessa pulled out a baton and wanted to beat him up but she froze as a loud bang was heard. looking down Inessa saw a bloody hole in her abdomen. "I always have a backup plan" Dreykov spoke as he made it back to his feet and looked down on Inessa who had fallen down with a hand on her wound. "goodbye Inessa" Dreykov''s left behind those words as he turned to walk away. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 83 - Make that monster suffer "hiyah" Yelena exclaimed as she delivered a kick to the side of Taskmaster''s head sending the rolling backwards. Batman and Yelena double teamed Taskmaster preventing him from being able to land a solid hit on any of them. Yelena attempted a drop kick but was stopped by Taskmaster''s shield, but in blocking her attack Taskmaster left themself open to the Batman. Batman not letting the opening go delivered a heavy hit to gut which resulted in a few sickening crunches. Taskmaster let out a gasp of pain before moving back to put more space between them. Batman changed at them once more which Taskmaster was able to block but Taskmaster was unprepared for what followed. Yelena used the Batman''s shoulders as a boost to perform a jump landing behind Taskmaster and delivering a low kick to the calf. A scream of pain escaped Taskmaster''s lips as the pain travelled from their calf to their brain. With their stance loose Batman took advantage and sent the shield out of their hand and over the bridge the stood on. Taskmaster watched the shield fly off before nimbly moving avoiding a joint attack from both Batman and Yelena who moved in sync. Gaining some space between them once more Taskmaster entered a stance that was both familiar and strange to Batman and Yelena. Upon closer inspection it seemed Taskmaster had combined both Batman and Yelena stance. In that split second Batman and Yelena prepared themselves for what was coming a knife flew into their midst causing them to move from one another. Taskmaster moved in at that moment and locked on to Yelena raining hit after hit on her but majority of this attack were blocked by Yelena who was by no means an easy target. Taskmaster with one quick and smooth movement appeared behind Yelena and pushed her forward to serve as a shield from Batman who came in at that moment with a kick. Batman seeing Yelena quickly stopped his kick spun around and fired two batarangs at Taskmaster who responded in kind by firing two throwing knives and falling to the iconic widow pose as a mini explosion went off above them. "Poser" Yelena called out before rushing with Batman to engage the Taskmaster. Taskmaster rushed in to meet them head on, but was stunned as Yelena moved out of the way and flipped him off. Taskmaster eyes widened in surprise as a bo Staff hit them square in the chin sending them over and down below. Yelena had served as cover while Batman had pulled out two batons and combined into the staff to deliver that surprise devastating hit. Batman took one last look at where the Taskmaster had fallen before saying to Inessa, "let''s go". Before them was Inessa whose combat uniform had been dyed red by blood around her abdomen with the blood even pooling under her. Yelena''s eyes widened in disbelief as she saw this, "no, no, NO!" Yelena began in a whisper but ended screaming. She had not known Inessa long enough and they had not started on the best terms, but she had begun to like her just like another sister. Batman saw the crazy look that had began to take over Yelena''s eyes and turned to look at her, "Yelena, go join Alexei and Melina." Yelena quickly whipped her head to stare at Batman, "what? no, I''m coming with you" she argued. "This whole thing has started to go down, it''s best you go join them. Leave Dreykov to me." Batman stared down at her with a stern look. "I can just walk away, I-" Batman cut her off "I know you can help but I need you to trust me, Inessa will not go unavenged." Yelena stared at Batman sharing no words she turned away and took a few steps before stopping once more, "you better make that monster suffer" "I will" Batman responded. Yelena took off in one direction to catch up with the rest as explosions continued to resound throughout the place alongside the blaring alarm sounds. Batman turned to face Inessa before squatting and closing her eyes. Taking to his feet once more Batman noticed an arrow Yelena had drawn on the floor with her blood. Even as she was dying Inessa still tried her best to help in taking down the bastard. Batman looked to where the arrow pointed before taking confident strides down in that direction. Down below Alexei had the shield while the other widows supported Taskmaster who was no without the mask and revealed to be none other than Dreykov''s daughter who was presumed dead. As she was also controlled like the widows the cure had worked just as well on her. They made their way to the jet as Yelena made it to their side and joined them sharing a look they nodded at each other before making their way into the jet. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 84 - The end of the red room. Dreykov arrived before his plane with four of his men at his side as he boarded his escape jet, before both his feet made it on the jet however a batarang flew in. The batarang took out all the four men surrounding him, following the batarang Dreykov saw it fly back into Batman''s hand. "You" Dreykov grit his teeth as he laid eyes on the caped crusader. "kill him, now!" Dreykov screamed his order as two of his men inside the plane came by his sides and pulled out two miniguns and aimed at Batman. Performing a quick forward roll Batman avoided the first few shots. The jet took off as the men continued to try and ventilate the Batman with their ironically named miniguns. Batman relying on his own insane agility avoided the shots and fired his grappling hook at the belly of the jet. The platform where the were mere seconds ago exploded alongside the rest of the facility which was making a beeline to the ground with the aid of gravity. "sir I think-" the man was cut off before finishing his report to Dreykov. "Aaah!" a scream b?r?ly escaped his mouth as his feet was yanked sending him flying out the jet. The man behind the other minigun shared a look with the other three guards in the jet before leaving his post and heading to the entrance to look down with his pistol at hand. His action proved to be a foolish one as Batman yanked him from above before swinging in and sending another man flying through the other exit. The other two tried to tackle the Bat down but he was quick to take down with but a few jabs. Dreykov pulled out his gun and fired a headshot at the Batman, but it was absolutely useless. Seeing this Dreykov''s eyes widened as he realized he was completely defenseless at the moment. Before his mind could think of any way of escape he and the Batman were sent flying out of the Jet. They plummeted to the earth with Batman''s hands on Dreykov''s throat. Their fall was broken by a large chunk of the facility, making it to their feet the two men stared each other in the eye as gravity kept hurling them to the earth at rapidly increasing speeds. Exchanging no words the two rushed at one another, Dreykov was first to throw a punch at the Batman but the Bat avoided the punch aimed for his jaw and ducked delivering a quick jab to Dreykov''s gut. Batman was quick to follow up that attack with a knee to Dreykov''s jaw. The hit caused him to spit out blood and take a few steps back. Batman not wanting to waste this opportunity attempted to rush him but came to a screeching halt as another flaming piece of the facility fell between them splitting the chunk they stood on. The piece Batman stood on went from being horizontal to diagonal causing him to fire a grappling hook to hang on. After b?r?ly stabilizing himself Batman looked to Dreykov who was b?r?ly holding on to the edge of his piece which was rotating. Narrowing his eyes Batman made a decision before releasing his hold on his piece and flying at Dreykov who was not expecting this. Bats sent Dreykov flying into another piece slamming him head first and using a batarang to hold on. Batman proceeded to bring the b?r?ly conscious Dreykov to his face and stared him dead in the eye. "This is for Inessa" Batman spoke as he slit Dreykov''s throat with his batarang and jumped off, just in time too as a mother piece collided with that piece and caused and explosion putting an end to Dreykov. Batman''s back soon made contact with another piece, as he rolled back on to his feet and jumped on to another and performed a barrel roll to fly through two others before activating his cape. Stepping out after landing they all witnessed everything coming down in a heap of metal and flames. "I can''t believe it... it''s really over" Melina was the first to speak up as she looked upon the wreckage. All the others remained silent as they took in everything. "So, what now?" Batman''s question broke the silence. Melina turned to him before turning to the other girls behind her, looking back at Batman she spoke up "some girls have homes, so we will return them there as for the others..." Melina kept quiet as she wondered what she was going to do. "I can help with that. I have an Island, no one knows about but it could be yours, you could start over and even give other girls without a home a home" "a home huh.." Melina spoke as she thought the situation through " I love it!" Alexei spoke up, "now Yelena" Yelena turned to Batman with confusion, while Batman and Melina locked eyes remembering their conversation. That night in Melina''s house; "...after we take out Dreykov I want you to do something for me." Melina spoke after coming to an agreement on going against Dreykov. "what?" Batman asked curious as to what Melina would ask for. Melina did not immediately speak up but rather moved to Yelena and run her hand through her hair. "Yelena has been through a lot of suffering, you might be the farthest thing from normal but I believe she deserves at least some semblance of normal" Turning back to Batman with a serious look, "when we succeed I want you to take Yelena with you. Let her experience normal." Back to the present; "you want me to go with you" Yelena asked completely surprised by the Batman''s proposal. She turned to Melina and Alexei to see Melina nodding. After another moment of hesitation she agreed, "okay you guys have to leave now S.H.I.E.L.D will be here soon, this flash drive contains the coordinates for the island I mentioned." Melina and Alexei gave Yelena a last hug before heading to the jet, before he stepped in Alexei turned to Batman, "what about you?" "I have my ways" with those words the Batwing made its appearance, "this is cool" Yelena stared at the Batwing in awe. As everybody left the area a convoy of S.H.I.E.L.D vehicles arrived at the site. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 85 - What is downstairs In the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarier; footsteps could be heard as Hill''s boots made contact with the metalic floor beneath her feet. She soon made her way into a room full of screens, before this screens stood Nick Fury who stared at multiple with his one eye wide open. "You called for me sir" Hill spoke as she behind Nick Fury. "How is your investigation going?" he questioned not turning round to face her. "I''ve narrowed down the list sir to but a few and I am confident that by the end of the month I will know who the Batman really is." "Hmm, in just one week, one week events have occurred in so many places all at once. Stark and his friend fought against Ivan Vanko destroying the expo and strengthening the governments d?s?r? for Stark tech." "In New Mexico a God descended and had a family dispute which flattened an entire town, and in our very own Harlem to monsters had a brawl destroying more than a block and causing countless casualties but the one I found most interesting is the fact that the Batman just broke someone out of prison and left a massive mess for us in a field in Russia. Now how did I not find that out before anyone else when I have an agent supposed to be keeping an eye on him". Nick spoke turning around with his last words, Hill''s eyes widened as she looked to a screen where the Batman could be seen in a Soviet prison combating it''s guards in a manner that awed her. "I''m sorry sir but I promise I will find him" "good because he was just flagged an international criminal and it is imperative we find him first before any other." Fury spoke before turning back to face his screens, "sir do you still plan to make the Batman an avenger?" Hill asked Fury her question. "Find him Hill, that''s all you need to concern yourself with." Fury dismissed Hill with his words refusing to turn to face her. Hill bowed her head before turning to leave. At the King Manor on the other hand Jeffery King introduced the newest addition of the family to Sebastian. "It is a p???sur? to meet you mistress Yelena" Sebastian spoke with a grand fatherly smile on his face as he looked down to Yelena. "Mistress Yelena, I could get used to that." Yelena spoke up causing Jeff to chuckle at her antics. "Sebastian please help show her to room", "sure master Jeffery, oh and mistress Gwen is waiting for you downstairs" Sebastian responded emphasising on the word downstairs. Yelena took notice of this as well as the look shared between Jeff and Sebastian and couldn''t help but ask, "What''s downstairs? huh is the Batcave isn''t it, you actually have a Batcave." Jeffery cut of Yelena who was getting more excited with each word she spoke, "yes, you will get to see it later though" ignoring the pout that formed on Yelena face at his words, he looked to Sebastian who led the young lady to her room. Jeff soon made it to the Batcave where Gwen was waiting, "I heard you were back" Gwen spoke as she saw Jeff "here I am, what happened in my absence?" with that Gwen began to narrate the events that had happened mainly being Iron Man 2 as well as the events of the incredible Hulk which Jeff was surprised to find out that Gwen actually took part in the battle of Harlem. Although she was irrelevant in the actual battle she did actually save countless lives making the name Ghost Bat become even more famous in the streets of New York. After looking through the files Batman got a scowl etched in his face, with this events happening including the one in New Mexico which S.H.I.E.l.D tried to hide just proved the first major event of the MCU the battle of New York would be happening in but a few months. But it wasn''t all bad news as he found something he spent close to a year searching for, The tesseract AKA the space Stone. And according to the files S.H.I.E.L.D had started plans to research on it by inviting Dr. Seilveig. "Bingo" Jeff uttered the words as the location was displayed before him. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 86 - The prelude Dr Seilveig was brought to a facility, his recent encounter with the god of thunder had opened his eyes to things he thought to be but myth, it had also allowed him this opportunity. He was approached by S.H.I.E.L.D who told him of an energy source like no other as well as extended to him the invitation to lead the research. "Here we are doctor," Fury spoke up as he led Dr. Seilveig through the facility. Dr. Seilveig took in everything with awe surprised by the sheer size of the facility hidden below ground. "Keep moving doctor it''s right through here" Fury motioned to Dr. Seilveig as he was brought to an object that caused his mouth to be agape, "wh..ho..wh.." "Amazing isn''t it" Fury spoke up as Dr. Seilveig stuttered as he stared at the universal marvel before himself. "The cube was first discovered by Hydra back in 1942 in a small town, went on to be used by them until they were stopped by captain America" "This cube was hidden away until your hammer welding friend decided to pay us a visit we dusted up old plans. We will need your help to bring those plans to fruition" Dr. Seilveig took a step forward to have a closer look at the cube, "what say you doctor?" Fury''s question resounded in Seilveig ears. "I agree... I''ll help you" Seilveig responded. Unbeknownst to the two of them as well as the many other Shield agents in the facility someone had snuck in. In the shadows above the rafters Batman watched everything that was happening below, his eyes locked on to Fury and Seilveig who after exchanging a few more words were now moving away from the tesseract. Being swift and silent Batman managed to make it to the tesseract while avoiding detection. Standing before the Tesseract, Batman placed a device b?r?ly noticeable on the Tesseract before disappearing the way he came. The next day a press conference was held as Jeff introduced Yelena to the world as his daughter drawing the attention of countless reporters to her. "Still don''t understand why we are doing this" Yelena whispered to Jeff, "I''m Jeffery King and so if someone starts living with me it''s going to draw attention". "so I''m your daughter?" "Press is already used to painting me as Playboy I''m going to guess they paint a picture of me having a child with a Russian lady" "Bleh" Yelena spat her tounge out at the image that had formed in her head, "I''d watch your image more with cameras and all" Yelena gave pout at that before putting on a fake smile for the cameras. Elsewhere; Natasha was walking when she laid eyes on a picture that caused her to stop. "Nat?" Clint who was walking with Nat stopped to look at her confused at the expression on her face. Nat who had the paper at hand was staring at the picture of Yelena who stood by Jeff''s side. "I have to do something" Nat spoke up prepared to leave. "Nat, what''s going on? do you need help?" Clint asked Nat realizing that something was going on, "no it''s nothing... I can handle it" Nat brushed Clint off "I''ll meet you seen" Nat tried to reassure Clint who pretended he was okay with it as she just dissapeared. In the King Manor Jeff walked into his study before coming to a halt and looking to a corner, "you can come out now" Natasha walked out of the shadows to stare at Jeff who had his Batman scowl etched on his face. "so you''re the Batman" were the first words that came out of Natasha''s mouth, "I figured you would be here after Yelena was revealed to the public." "what are you planning?" "nothing, I just made a promise to Melina and decided to keep it" "..." "I truly mean no harm to Yelena" "If you hurt her I don''t care if they call you a legend or whatever, I''ll kill you myself.... also no need to worry I won''t tell Fury who you are" With those words said Natasha left the way she came leaving Jeff standing alone in his study after a few more seconds Jeff also took his leave from the study. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 87 - Avengers begins The months passed like normal, Yelena joined the bat family on patrol taking a code name of her own ''the Orphan ''. She gained a suit designed by both Jeff and Sebastian. The suit was made of carbon-Nano fiber incorporating most if not all of the technology present in both his and Gwen''s suits into her own. And so the streets of New York now had three members of the Bat family patrolling it and combating street crime. Batman also continued his visits to the facility where the Tesseract was being stored. Inspecting his own device and making adjustments as necessary all without the knowledge of Nick Fury and Seilveig of course. The days passed like this until the D-day arrived. Jeff sat before the bat computer as Gwen and Yelena engaged in a sparring session in the background, suddenly an alert popped up. Clicking on it the address revealed was none other than the location where the Tesseract was located. Wasting no time he activated his suit and got into the the Batmobile leaving the girls confused as to where he was headed. At the facility Batman made it in time to see the people evacuating the facility, heading in Batman spotted Nick Fury who was trying his best to stall Loki but his attempt was foiled by Clint Barton Aka Hawkeye. Loki reached out to grab the Tesseract when Batman made himself known by firing a batarang knocking the Tesseract away. This action caused all to look in his direction as he rushed out of the shadows firing his grappling hook he managed to retrieve the Tesseract while everyone was still stunned by his appearance. Pulling down the cape Batman gave Loki a look which made him freeze up for a moment, Batman quickly moved his head back though to avoid an arrow aimed at his head but the arrow which had missed his head split into a smaller arrow which knocked down the Tesseract from his hands and into those of Seilveig. With the Tesseract now in their hands, Loki gave Batman a smirk before they all disappeared at the exact same moment as the facility collapsed. Nick Fury made it out but let out a few coughs as he had inhaled a bit of the dust cloud that had formed. Maria Hill rushed up to his side to help him up, "are you okay sir?" "Loki... *cough* Loki took the Tesseract and turned Barton... Activate the avengers initiative" Fury gave his orders to Hill who quickly spoke into her comms before moving into a car. Fury turned back to face the wreckage that was once was his facility, looking for Batman who he thought was still trapped inside. Unbeknownst to him the man he searched for was on a building behind him watching him with a small device in hand. The device was the same one he had placed on the Tesseract earlier, he had managed to grab it before Hawkeye fired the Tesseract out of his hands. "Oracle analyze this" Batman ordered his A.I who got to work immediately. "Sir the mission was a success", hearing those words a grin appeared on the Batman''s face behind his mask as he put the device away. Elsewhere Nat was tied to a chair when one of her interrogators put a phone to her ear, Nat''s expression remained unfazed until she heard the news about Hawkeye. "Hold on" with those words the Black widow went to work on the men surrounding her. Within a minute the chair she was tied to was broken and in another minute the men lay at her feet groaning in pain. She took the phone once again and continued her conversation with Coulson, after hearing the details she responded with "I''m on my way" "no" , "no?" " you''re on the big guy, bring him in" as Coulson cut the call Natasha remained silent for another minute before dropping the phone in her hand and kicking one man who tried to get back to his feet. At a boxing gym a blonde man stood before a punching before delivering continuous punches to a sand bag before delivering a hard punch which sent it off its hook, the man just took one look at the sand bag with a gaping hole in the middle and picked up another sand bag. "Can''t sleep" a voice came in from the back as the man turned to see Fury walking in, "I slept for seventy years sir, I''ve had my fill" "Then you should be out celebrating, meet some people, see the world" "when I went under the world was at war, I wake up they say we won. They didn''t say what we lost" "we''ve made some mistakes along the way some very recent" Fury began, "you here with a mission sir?" Steve asked seeing where this was going "I am" "trying to get me back into the world" "trying to save it" Fury handed over a file to Steve who took a look with curious eyes and saw and object he was all to familiar with, "Hydra''s secret weapon" And so events were set in motion. head on over to my Ko-Fi to read ahead and support me ko-fi.com/flowinglightning Chapter 88 - To Stuttgart they go A jet flew through the sky before landing upon a ship, the jet opened up allowing for Steve who was led by Coulson to step out and into the ship. Natasha walked up to the two of them as Steve looked around, "agent Romanoff, captain Rogers" Coulson introduced them to one another as Natasha stood before them. "Ma''am" Steve nodded to her, "hi" Natasha gave a concise response before turning to Coulson. "They need you on the bridge" "See you there" Coulson turned to Steve before leaving. "It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was going to swoon" Natasha began as she and Steve began walking. "Did he ask you to sign his captain america trading cards yet?" "Trading cards?" "Their vintage, he is very proud" "Dr Banner" Steve called out to Bruce with his arm outstretched when he saw Bruce. "oh yeah.. hi" Bruce responded as he moved to shake his hand. "They told me you''ll be coming" Bruce spoke as he took a good look at the man before him. "word is you can find the cube" Steve spoke as they retrieved their hands. "Is that the only word you''ve heard?" Bruce asked nervously as he looked Steve in the eye. "Only word I care about" was Steve''s response. The two proceeded to exchange small talk when Natasha walked up to them, "you might want to get inside it''s about to get hard to breathe out here". The two men shared a look as they began to feel movement under their feet. "Is this a submarine?" Steve questioned. "Really they want me in a submerged pressurized container" Bruce let out a chuckle after hearing Steve''s words. The two moved to the edge when they saw them, and finally realized the truth as they began to take off. "Oh this is much worse" were the words to escape Bruce''s mouth after realizing his situation. The Helicarier took to the skies as Steve and Bruce were led through the Helicarier and into the command center. Steve took a moment to appreciate everything with a smirk on his face. *** Steve Natasha and Bruce were briefed about Loki and what he had done before his current location was revealed. "I need you to go over there and get him" Fury gave his orders after the briefing. "Oh and captain, your gear is out back" Steeve moved to where Nick motioned and saw his suit behind glass alongside his shield. In Stuttgart Germany, Classical music filled out the hall as men and women spoke to one another. Outside another building, two men stood guard when one who stood atop saw his partner below fall down. He moved in for a closer look when an arrow flew into his throat and sent him thinking to the ground. Clint Barton moved past the body and handed his bow over to someone else as he pulled out a device and brought it before a scanner. In the hall filled with classical music, Loki appeared. Above a staircase stood Loki who had a coat on with his scepter at hand as he made his way down the steps. Walking with slow but steady steps as though he belonged. A guard noticed him and tried to get him but was knocked out with one guy from Loki''s scepter. The people of the party look to Loki after hearing the commotion, one man tried to speak to Loki. A smirk crossed Loki''s face as he saw the man''s face, with a few quick steps Loki grabbed the man and slammed him on to a statute. With a smirk Loki pulled out a device and jammed it into the guy''s eyes causing all the others who stood watching to scream and run out. Loki watched their frightened faces with a sadistic grin on his face. With Clint, a holographic eye formed activating the scanner and opening the door. Back with Loki after completing his goal he began to walk out amongst the people who run out into the streets screaming. A smile graced Loki''s face as he walked out with his clothes transforming into his armor. The sound of sirens were heard as a police car made a turn rushing for Loki, with a blast from his scepter the car was flipped. At this point everyone in the street was screaming trying to escape. Loki appeared before them causing them to take another direction, soon Loki appeared all around them rounding them up. "Kneel" Loki ordered but due to the screams of the people they were unable to hear him. "Kneel! to me!" Loki screamed causing everyone to stop and look at him before obeying his orders causing a wide grin to appear on his face. Chapter 89 - To Stuttgart they go pt2 "Is not this simpler, is this not your natural state. It''s the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright life of freedom diminishes your lives joy in a mad scramble for power, by identity you were made to be ruled. In the end you will always kneel" Loki gave his speech as he walked through the crowd with a wide grin on his face. Loki''s smile soon dissapeared replaced by one of curiosity as he noticed an old man making it to his feet. "Not to men like you" The old man spoke after finally making it to his feet fully. "There are no men like me". "There are always men like you" "Look to your elder people" Loki rose his scepter as he spoke. A look of confusion crossed the old man''s face, "let him be an example" with those words Loki released a blast at him. His blast was sent back to him sending him to the ground as captain America landed before the man with his shield at hand. "You know the last time I was in Germany I saw a man standing above everyone else. We ended up disagreeing", the captain spoke as he made his way to Loki. "The soldier" Loki chuckled as he made it back to his feet. "Man out of time" "I''m not the one who is out of time", just as the captain finished a Jet pulled up. It opened to reveal a gun aimed at Loki, "Loki drop the weapon and stand down" Natasha''s voice could be heard as she ordered Loki but he only smirked before releasing an energy blast at the jet. The jet moved away to avoid the blasts from Loki as Captain America sent his shield at Loki causing him to stop firing as he rushed him. The two exchanged a few moves before he was sent to the ground by Loki''s scepter making contact with his gut. Steeve looked up making eye contact as he sent his shield at Loki but it was knocked down. He tried engaging Loki with his face but was sent to the ground was more, Loki came up to him placing the bu?? of the scepter to his head as he spoke but one word, "Kneel". "Not today" Steve spoke as he moved the scepter away and spun to deliver a kick to Loki''s head. Natasha above tried to get a clear shot, but was unable to as the two men were too close. As she fell deeper into thought a voice came over her P.A system, "miss me agent Romanoff" the voice spoke making it all to clear who he was. After Tony spoke his words an AC/DC track began playing though the PA confusing the two on the ground below. Ironman flew in sending a blast into Loki which sent him flying. Ironman stuck the iconic superhero landing before making it back to his feet and pointing his weapons at the God of Mischief. "Make your move reindeer games" Tony teased as captain America walked to his side, his shield at hand. Loki looked at the two of them before retrieving his armor and raising both hands in surrender. "Good move" Tony put his weapons away "Mr Stark" the captain thanked Stark seeing it was all over. They tried to retrieve the location of the tesseract from Loki but he remained numb. *** Loki now tied up was placed in the jet as they flew back to the Helicarier. During the flight lightning flashed around them, as Steve looked around curiously his eyes landed on Loki. "what''s the matter? scared of a little lightning." Cap teased to which Loki replied, "I''m not overly fond of what follows". His words caused Tony and Captain America to share a look of confusion, suddenly there was a this that drew the attention of all in the jet. Tony quickly picked up his helmet putting it on, opening the door to head out Steeve asked what he was doing. As the door opened Thor appeared before them holding mjilorn?r. With a hit Tony was down, before Thor proceed to grab Loki and fly off. "Now''s there that guy" Tony spoke as he made it to his feet. "Another Asgardian" Natasha explained, "I think he is a friendly" Steeve continued. "It doesn''t matter, If he kills Loki or frees him the tesseract is lost" Ironman spoke as he prepared to go after them. "Stark we need a plan of attack", Cap tried to reason with him. "I have a plan, attack" with that he was flew after them. Steve took a deep breath before grabbing a parachute and strapping it on, "I''d sit this one out Cap" Natasha''s spoke to him. "I don''t see how I can" "These guys come from legend their basically gods." "There is only 1 God ma''am and I''m pretty sure he doesn''t dress like that" Cap said his final words before jumping out.