Disclaimer: I do NOT own Batman or anything else in this story but my original characters. I am also, in no way, making money from this.
A/N: Hello there! Welcome to the craziness I call The Knight's Shadow! I'll keep this short because it's only the prologue, but I'd like to thank my awesome beta and friend, midnightwings96, for helping me get through rough patches in the story. I couldn't have done it without her! Well... actually I could have, but then it would suck and no one would read it. Anyways... on with the story!
Prologue: Secret Identities
It was a complete accident. She never intended on finding out who was behind the mask. In fact, she would have preferred not to know at all. That is, until she did find out. Now, she just had to figure out how the knowledge could be used to her advantage, but there was one thing she knew for sure.
Bruce Wayne was Batman
Misty Matthews was completely and utterly astonished.
She intriguingly looked from folder to folder, sure that she had misread, but the more she looked, the more it was confirmed. She hadn't meant to find out Batman's identity.
It had just been simple research; background information for her work trip to Gotham. She found out everything she could about Bruce Wayne; his life as a child, his parents' deaths, the work he did, even his shoe size so she would get the idea of how her new business partner ran things. It wasn't until she started research for her other job, that things started to get exciting.
Her other job was one that was done in secret. When she put on the mask and suit, she became someone else; she became Shadow: night stalker and unsuspecting hero. This job was not Shadow's usual. In fact, she didn't want to do it at all, but she had to.
No one tells the Joker no, especially if you owe him.
Shadow owed him two lives: her own and her ex-fiancé's. He didn't save them—of course he wouldn't, but he did miraculously spare their lives. That, she was grateful for. Now, it was time to pay her debt, but it didn't mean she liked it in any sense of the word. She would much rather stick to kicking the asses of the local scum: gang members, robbers, kidnappers, the usual. On the bright side, the job she had been "hired" to do was not difficult and would not directly cause anyone permanent damage.
Distract Batman.
Not hard at all, but she feared at what might happen to Gotham as she kept the Dark Knight busy. Either way, there was nothing she could do besides what she was told. Just to be prepared, she searched for information on Batman to see what she was exactly up against.
As she began to read, she felt as if she had already seen some of the dates, but for a different cause all together. The year Batman made his debut in Gotham was what made the bells in her head go off.
Where have I seen this before?
Misty's watchful eyes wandered to the folder titled, 'Bruce Wayne: Wayne Enterprises'. Her dark eyebrows pulled together in suspicion. "Surely not," she quietly said to herself. She opened up the folder and passed the first page that held a picture of handsome Mr. Wayne, and looked for the year he took over Wayne Enterprises. Her curiosity peaked even more when she saw that they matched. As she went back through the file, she found inventory documents from his own company that she had over looked before, thinking they were unimportant. Now, as she looked closer, she saw that they were the opposite. Items from the Applied Sciences division had been taken out by the billionaire himself. These material and weapons—if you knew what you were looking for—would be perfect for someone who wanted to fight crime.
Not only was it the items that were taken out that caught her attention, but also the head of the Applied Sciences division. It was the same man that Misty had grown up calling Uncle Fox, though they were not really related. It was the same man that had helped her become Shadow. Misty gave an astonished laugh at her new found information.
"Looks like I've just caught myself a bat!"
As she eagerly packed her bags for the trip, one thought ran through her mind: This is gonna be one hell of a time!
A/N: Confused? That's okay. It'll make more sense later. There is more, but let me know what you think so far.
Love,
nightangel96
*edited by midnightwings96*