If Only
(It is dark. The faint sirens of the GCPD can be heard in the distance. A child is seen running in an alley. Sounds of damp puddles being stepped as the child sets his foot on the pavement. He is breathing intensely with fear.)
Man: Where you goin kid! Get back here.
Child: Go away!
(The child trips on a trash can and falls. The man now only walks to him)
Man: Ain't no where to go pal. Just you and me.
(Suddenly a shroud black figure dives behind the man. He grabs him by the back of his neck and pulls him back so he can him)
Batman: Wrong.
(Batman slams the man's head against the wall thus causing him to lose consciousness. Batman helps the child up)
Batman: What happened here?
Child: My parents…they took my parents.
Batman: Where?
Child: The old chocolate factory. Please…please help them.
(Batman answers by turning his back and heading straight to the problem. Meanwhile at the factory, the parents are tied up on chairs with two guards watching them with rifles)
Guard 1: Boss, how long till the cops come with the money?
Mob Boss: Any second. Get ready boys. I'm expecting somebody dressed in a cape soon.
(A batarang is thrown at one of the guards. Batman than attacks the other with a dive. After pummeling the two he than approaches the Mob Boss)
Mob Boss: You think I'm stupid? I figured a guy like you would mess things up in a situation like this.
(He then snaps his fingers. A big huge guard enters with the child)
Mob Boss: Touch a hair on me and the kid's parents get to see their blood covered son.
(Batman only stands watching the Mob Boss and the big guard. Suddenly lights flash behind the two men)
Gordon: Hands in the air!
(Gordon and SWAT team of men aim their guns directly at the Mob Boss and the guard. The Mob Boss gives up and lets the boy run off. Gordon then handcuffs them. As this happens, the Child runs to his unharmed parents still tied to their chairs.)
Child: Mommy! Daddy!
(The child embraces them. As Batman watches he does not give any sign of emotion but deep inside his mind could shed a tear as he saw a family together again. He gains a flashback of his parents lying on the street with himself on his knees covered in their blood. But he then looks at the street again and sees the child and his parents embracing one another on the same exact spot Batman's parents died.)
Batman: If only
End
