Hi! so my first story, please review and help me improve my writing! Also i don't really know a ton about batman beyond so sorry if they seem a little odd.

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Chapter 1-Shadows

Terry McGinnis cringed; this was definitely going to get him scolded. a lot. In fact Bruce was already yelling in his ear to get moving. Why is he getting yelled at, you ask? Back up about half an hour. This was supposed to be simple; his shoulder was still a little off after getting shot last week, so tonight was supposed to just be a snatch-the-stuff-and-go type thing. But noooo the new scarecrow just had to have anti camouflage tech, so Terry had gotten shot at and proceeded to get hit once in his thigh and another grazed his ribs, but the worst one was in, you guessed it, his other shoulder. So here he was, behind a large stack of crates in an abandoned warehouse, while at least 30-40 of scarecrow's goons closed in. The new scarecrow was a man named Anthony Forester, he was just your everyday crime lord until he'd somehow come across the journal of the Jonathan Crane, the original scarecrow, which had included the recipe for his fear gas. Back to hiding behind a bunch of crates-Terry had come to stop the transfer of the components and some tech (like the anti-camouflage stuff) to the scarecrow's gang. Scarecrow himself was nowhere to be found but now Terry was surrounded by his goons. Also there were way too many to fight and Bruce wasn't helping by yelling in his comm. Just as Terry was about to jump out and attempt to fight them anyways, something small hit the ground and smoke billowed everywhere. He heard shrieks of surprise and bodies dropping to the floor. When the smoke eventually cleared he looked around nervously. Then his jaw dropped in a very un-batmanish way. Every single one of the goons was either tied up, unconscious, or a combination of both. If that wasn't enough, the scarecrow himself was also tied up at his feet. Terry saw something move out of the corner of his eye and when he turned he saw a medium height man, he couldn't really tell anything else about him because he was nearly completely hidden by shadows, the stranger raised two fingers in mock salute and vanished, flipping out the window.

When Terry got back to the cave he instantly started getting bombarded by Bruce, but Terry soon started explaining to Bruce about the stranger at the warehouse. They were both confused and concerned by a number of things, who was this person? Where did he get training? Why did he help Terry? They went over the footage again and again, but whoever this was, he was good, very good, none of the security cameras saw him at all and the cameras on Terry's suit weren't much help as they only saw a dark shape in the shadows. Terry eventually gave up for the night and went home, but the questions still whirled in his head.

A month later Terry found himself fighting someone who called himself strongman, this strongman apparently had some kind of performance-enhancing drug, similar to venom except it seemed to make the user just want to destroy anything that moved. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but this guy had a lot of thugs to help him. So now Terry was at the docks fighting a Bane knock-off and an insane number of idiots helping him who apparently just wanted the opportunity to take a piece out of the bat. For whatever reason criminals had gotten the notion that, hey batman is only one guy so let's all get together and see if we can shoot him! Not that it had been to unsuccessful before, but really, it seemed that all of the bigger criminals had a large number of goons to try and get rid of Terry. He was moving through the mass of 70 or so hired thugs and not doing too bad, but strongman soon got tired watching batman take down the goons and started shooting at batman himself. When strongman started shooting at Terry he soon started to think, uh-oh, because the guy was apparently a good shot and had soon gotten several glancing hits in. Soon most of the thugs were down and Terry started fighting strongman himself, but when he rocketed away a short distance after getting a rather nasty hit and landed in just the right spot for his adversary to get a shot in… The gun goes off twice.