In a city called Mute, crime has been an hourly thing for many years. It has become overridden with fear of the Underworld and all hope has become lost. However, crime has ultimately created its worst enemy, who will soon become known well among Mute City.
It was a dark night in Mute City. A family traveled down an alley way, feared for their lives at what may lie behind each and every corner. Suddenly, out of the darkness, came a pair of thieves, guns in hand, and knocked the man to the ground and pointed them at the woman and her child. One pushed them against the brick wall while the other searched the knocked out man.
"Hey, lady, do the kid a favor," the thief said, "Don't scream."
Shortly later, the two men were sitting on a rooftop, going over what they had just stolen. After they were done, one of them said, "Let's beat it, man. I don't like it up here."
"What are you scared of heights?" Asked the other.
"I don't know," the first said, "After what happened to Jimmy Jogs…"
"Look, man, Jimmy Jogs got ripped and took a walk off a roof, alright?" The other said, "No big loss."
"No, man, that ain't what I heard at all," The first said, "I heard that the bat got him."
"The bat?" The other asked, in annoyance and disbelief, "Ah man, give me a break, will ya?"
"He dropped straight down. There wasn't no blood in the body!"
"It was all over the pavement!"
"I'm getting out of here!" The first said, but the second stopped him, saying, "Listen to me! There ain't no bat!"
"Well, you shouldn't have turned the gun on that kid!"
"Hey! You want your cut of this money or not? Now shut up! Shut up!"
Suddenly, they felt something standing above them. As they looked up, they saw a man who could only be described as a giant bat! They got up in a hurry and ran they got some distance from the bat and shot at him. He seemed unaffected as he raised his cape and swooshed it down. They two stood in terror as the bat kicked one, sending him through a wooden door. The other tried to run away, but the bat brought out some sort of boomerang/hook that had the shape of a bat as the boomerang and threw it, swooping it around the thief's leg, sending him to the ground as the bat pulled him back. He detached the boomerang and grabbed the thief by the collar and carried him over to the edge and held him in midair.
The thief pleaded, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me, man! Don't kill me! Don't kill me, man!"
"I'm not going to kill you," the bat said in a monstrous voice, "I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me."
"But what are you?"
"I'm Batman!" He said as he threw the thief onto the rooftop floor and jumped off.
All right, so here it is. I noticed no one else had done a parody of Batman before, or any superhero for that matter, so I decided, what the heck? This series will for the most part be a remake/parody of the Tim Burton series and the DCAU, though this volume will be inspired mostly from Batman Begins. I will try and get a new chapter up every monday, so stay tuned. Also, I dare you to guess who Batman is. I've already decided, but I'm curious to see what the reviewers think when they think of the possibilities. Happy Presidents day!