Alright everyone here it is the sequel to Injustice Beyond!
I hope you enjoy it!
This is an AU of Batman, Batman Beyond, and Injustice. With some elements of other fandoms.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
My story verse is comprised of DC Comics, Archer, and Blue Bloods.
The Dark Knight of Tomorrow
Chapter 1
The year is 2035. For the past twenty-two years the world has been under the rule of a dictator. A dictator with fist made of steel. Superman and his regime has fallen. Two months ago, the new Batman had defeated them with the aid of the GCPD as well as Aquaman and his Atlanteans. Aquaman has been pardoned with his involvement with the regime because he allied with them to protect his people. Hal Jordan, Diana of Themyscira, and Kal-El have been imprisoned. Each individual is being held in a separate prison to keep them divided. Their trial date has not been set yet. There forces have been divided. Many soldiers imprisoned or have accepted deals to build up the U.S. military once again. The bulk of their army comprised of U.S. men and women.
The world council have been spending these pasts months rebuilding the world. Each country seeing what true dictatorship is like, have all agreed to work together to build a better and safer world.
All countries have ceased using nuclear weapons and are pursuing a cleaner safer energy source.
Even Aquaman has joined the World Council to work together with the surface world and create a truly unified Earth.
But, the Regime's fall has created a power vacuum in the world. And crime is returning with a vengeance.
Gotham City
A jewelry store window is smashed. A crashing sound reverberates through the night. Five masked men enter through the broken window. They start grabbing what they can. Diamond necklaces, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, gold bracelets and necklaces, watches, diamond rings.
"Come on! Let's make this quick" the leader of the groups says.
"Yeah before HE shows up" another says lowly.
"HE?"
"Yeah. A friend of mine ran into him last week. Broke both his legs and rest of his crew were sent to the morgue" the masked thief clarifies.
"You're full of it!" Another thief spits out in disbelief.
"It's true!" The thief tries to persuade his fellow thieves. "They say he can fly" he says in a hushed tone.
"I hear he drinks human blood" another thief familiar with the rumors inserts himself into the conversation.
"I hear he can't be killed" the thief who brought up HIM mutters.
Rumors about HIM have been floating around Gotham since HIS return and His battle with the Regime.
"Enough! Let's get what we came for and go" the leader of the group orders.
What the group don't know is that they are being watched. Batman dwells in the shadows waiting for the right moment. He comes up behind one of the men farthest from the group. He covers the man's nose and mouth and wraps his other arm around the thug in a chokehold. The thug passes out in a matter of moments and Batman releases the unconscious thug and continues his hunt.
He jumps out the shadows and tackles two men that are close together. He begins to beat them into unconsciousness. Once they are the remaining two begin to panic. "OH MY GOD!"
With that the leader of the thieves' bolts through the broken window and runs to their escape vehicle.
Batman pulls out his batclaw and fires it at the remaining thug to prevent him from escaping. It latches onto the man's shirt and he pulls the line and the thug is forced towards Batman.
Batman raises his arms and bashes them into the thug and then punches him in the face. His head bangs on the floor putting him in a daze. He quickly recovers but can't move because of the fear.
The thug says shakily, "What are you?"
Batman grabs him by the front of his jacket. He says in a gravelly voice, "I'm The Batman."
Elsewhere, in a junkyard outside Gotham in an old run-down building is a group of men waiting for their leader. All of them are bald with spiked collars and the like. Also wearing uni-sunglasses. They see their leader enter.
He is big, pale, and bald. He is wearing dark green pants, and black combat boots. He is shirtless and wearing the same uni-sunglasses as the others. He also has spiky nipples and his fingernails are black and sharpened to claws.
The Mutant Leader asks, "Everything ready?"
One of them responds, "Yes, everything is ready, boss."
The leader grins revealing that is teeth are also sharpened, "Good! Time for everyone to know who rules Gotham City."
Across town, the batmobile is chasing after the runaway jewelry thief in an old Volkswagen. The perp is Vincent Fries, a distant relative of the late Victor Fries AKA Mr. Freeze. Batman has been tracking this group for the last couple of weeks.
With the Regime's fall, chaos has risen. Many criminals no longer afraid of Superman vaporizing them on the spot. The many mistakes of the Regime were that they never targeted the reasons for crime.
Poverty. Desperation. Economy.
They just put the fear of them into criminals as well as law-abiding citizens.
Batman makes a sharp right turn and activates the Tumbler batmobile's afterburner. Causing the vehicle to jump and land on the trunk of the old Volkswagen. This causes the car to lose control and goes over a curb crashing into a wall of a building.
The car begins to go up in flames. Vincent crawls his way out of the car and grabs the jewelry he stole from the store he and his crew hit. He runs into the building he crashed into. The building is Gothcorp.
Batman exits his tank and runs after him.
After several minutes he sees Vincent run into a room, oblivious to the warning sign.
Warning Cryogenics Room
Vincent runs through the room and in a panic, he trips over his own feet. He gets up quickly panting. His mask getting soaked because of the perspiration forming on his face. He pulls the mask off to reveal his Caucasian skin and his short black hair.
He sprints making his way to a walkway and runs on it but stops as a black batarang embeds itself into the railing of the walkway right in front of Vincent. He tries to back the way he came but another batarang embeds itself the railing in front of him as well stopping him short.
He sees Batman glide onto the walkway and starts to walk up to Vincent.
Out of fear, Vincent backs up onto the railing and loses his balance and falls over the railing.
Lens covered eyes widen and Batman runs attempting to catch him from falling.
But it's too late as Vincent falls into an open cryogenic tube just as a power surge goes off. The tube activates and glass casing closes locking the thief inside and begins the freezing process as he is simultaneously electrocuted.
He screams, "Noooooo!"
The thief's scream soon become muted as he is frozen.
Batman looks on as it's too late to help him. He picks up the discarded jewels and walks away. He will report this to the Commissioner he will see to it that maybe Vincent Fries will get some help.
GCPD Headquarters
Frank Reagan sits in his office, he is a middle-aged man, with short black hair and a mustache, dressed in his dark suit, with a red tie, looking over some paperwork as his phone rings. He stops what he's doing and looks to see who's calling him.
It is his daughter, Erin. An ADA for Gotham City.
He answers, "Hello?"
"Hi, Dad" Erin greets.
Frank looks at his watch and sees its after nine o'clock at night, "Working late?"
Erin sighs, "Yeah, no rest for a prosecutor."
"You should head home, who's watching Nicky?" Frank asks but already knowing who.
"Grandpa" Erin says simply. "I'm heading home anyway. I'll pick her up and head home. I'm just checking in on you, Dad" the young woman says expressing her concern for her father. He has been working a lot and longer than he did before since he became commissioner. But, that just goes to show you how much work people must do since Superman and his regime are now gone. Everyone in a high-ranking position have been working in overdrive since the regime's presence in Gotham has vanished and Gotham is free now.
"Don't worry about me, Erin" Frank says with a smile.
"I always worry" Erin says happily. "Goodnight Dad.''
"Goodnight" Frank bids goodbye to his daughter for the night as he hangs up.
He leans back in his office's black leather chair and sighs. He can actually feel the wrinkles on his face without touching his face with his hands. This job might just kill him. It's exhausting. His partner has been helping him out here and there and it has been welcomed. His partner has been honoring his word not harming criminals too far. But, the equipment Batman gave him the GCPD to help overthrow the Regime is depleted. Maybe Reagan should ask Batman for more equipment. Doesn't appear the city council can spare anymore funds. Most of the funds are being used to help repair the city.
He sighs again. Back to work.
Gotham City Courthouse
Gotham City Courthouse also known as Solomon Wayne Courthouse, ancestor of Logan Wayne, the current heir to the Wayne fortune, located in South Gotham. It has Roman pillars in the front as well as the top floor with a door to see over the balcony. And on top of the Courthouse resides the upper half of Lady Justice holding the scales of Justice, wearing a blindfold.
Exiting the courthouse is Erin Reagan, dressed in a black dress suit with black pants, heels, and a blue blouse. The brown-haired woman has her black purse around her shoulder and a black leather briefcase in her left hand. More than eager to go home and sleep.
Unaware to the prosecutor, five mutant gang members hang around the corner observing her. Staring at her through their red uni-sunglasses. Even though it's nighttime.
Erin turns the corner leading to behind the courthouse to get to the parking lot where her car is waiting.
One of the mutant's cell phone vibrates. The mutant looks at the text he just received from the leader of the gang. A simple message is written.
Do it.
The mutants smirk toothy grins and looks around to his fellow mutants. He gestures his head to them. The plan is a go.
They walk over to the courthouse and follow the brown-haired woman down the alley.
The hairs on the back of Erin's neck stands up. She hears several footsteps behind her. She subtlety hastens her walking.
Immediately, a white van pulls up in front of her it's tires screeching. The side doors open revealing mutants inside.
Fear quickly takes her. She turns to see her stalkers are mutants too. She is trapped.
"Don't scream" one mutant says with a sickly smile.
"But fight" another says. "I want you to fight."
She tries to scream but a pale hand wraps around her mouth muffling it. The other mutants begin to grab her limbs as she puts up a fight. She drops her purse and briefcase on the cold concrete ground as she is shoved inside the white van.
The mutants jump in and shut the white paneled doors and the van shoots off.
The mutant in charge of this operation responds to the previous text the mutant leader sent him.
Got her.
Everything is going according to plan. Time for the next phase.
GCPD Headquarters
Frank Reagan sits in his office pausing in reviewing the paperwork he needs to look over. His aide, Abigail Baker, a young blonde woman and first grade detective, had just left him another stack of papers to look over. He sighs, this job is going to kill him. Two months after taking this job as commissioner and he feels like he's dead in the ditches.
He just got off talking to his daughter ten minutes ago and he is still no closer to going home tonight then he was ten minutes ago.
His phone rings, stopping Reagan from enjoying his short break. Caller ID says it's an unknown number, curious the mustached man answers, "Hello?"
"Commissioner Reagan" a raspy twisted voice is heard over the receiver. Reagan doesn't recognize it. "This is the Mutant Leader."
Eyes widen in Reagan's skull. The mutant leader calling him, he must be very confident that the call won't be traced. Reagan reaches for a button on his office phone that is designed to trace his incoming call. But before he could the mutant leader interrupts him, "Don't bother tracing the call. You'll find my location somewhere in China." Reagan chooses not to.
"I've got something to talk to you about, Commish" the mutant leader informs the man.
Suddenly, he hears his daughter, Erin's voice. "Dad. Help!"
Before Frank could respond to his daughter plea the mutant leader takes over the call, "I believe I have your attention" he says smugly.
Frank nods dumbly, unable to belief these animals would go after his family, "Yes" he says through gritted teeth. These mutants had issued a statement to the press last week saying that they are the rulers of Gotham.
Their brutality getting out of hand in the last few weeks.
"Good" the leader states. Reagan can practically hear the smirk in his voice. "I have demands."
Reagan nods again, eyes closed. Anguish written on his face. He can't believe this is happening. His daughter is being used as a bargaining chip by psychopaths. "What are they?" Bite heard clearly.
"Careful, Commissioner" the mutant leader says teasingly. "You don't want the next time you see your daughter's face is when her head is mailed to your house."
Reagan pales, "What do you want?" Reagan repeats and adjusts his tone.
"Better" the leader applauds. "I want you to release the twelve mutant brothers your cops arrested a few weeks back" the leader demands.
Reagan remembers the case. Those twelve mutants were arrested on the charges of armed robbery, and eight counts of murder. "I can't do that." Not even for his own daughter.
"You don't seem to get it do you! This isn't a request. It's a demand. You don't release my men and I start sending your daughter home in small parcels" he threatens.
"There is no way the DA will authorize your men's release" Frank maintains.
"Well, I guess I start chopping" the mutant leader says nonchalantly.
"Please don't!" Reagan begs. "I'll see what I can do" he relents.
"Good. Oh, and don't be telling anyone about this. No cops. No bats. I see or hear a peep of either of them on my groups case" he begins. "Well I guess I should start getting some boxes together" he laughs.
Reagan takes a deep breath and exhales, "Okay, paperwork can be lost."
"Good, Commish" The leader praises as if Reagan was an obedient dog. "You work for me now, Franky. You work for the King of Gotham now."
"I understand" Reagan says through grit teeth. The mutant hangs up as does Reagan. Fear wells up inside. Anger pushes past through the fear. How dare that animal do this. He will not be bullied into serving some animal who thinks he's king.
He takes a deep breath attempting to calm down. He needs to think clearly. He can't release those criminals back on the streets. It's the first hit they have made into taking down the Mutants. But this is his daughter.
He knows what he must do. He pulls out his keys from his pocket and searches for a particular key on his keychain.
He finds it and puts it into the bottom draw lock on the right side of his desk. He hears a click signaling it opening. He pulls out the draw and searches for what he is looking for. He moves some things around and finds a black cell phone on the bottom of the draw.
He grabs it and sees there is a small blank black screen with a green accept button and red reject button. It was another way for him to contact his partner in the event the batsignal was no longer an option.
He turns it on and dials the only number saved to the phone. It rings. Once. Twice. On the third ring a deep raspy voice answers, "Speak" the voice commands.
"I need your help" Reagan pleads. "The mutants have my daughter. They are threatening to harm her if I don't release the mutants we have in custody. I can't allow the only hit we made in the mutant gang to get off scot free. Can you help me?" Reagan pleads with his partner.
"Where was she last seen?" the voice asks.
Reagan gives a sigh of relief, he knows he will take the case. He wouldn't be asking if he wasn't interested.
"I talked to her a little after nine. She said she was leaving the courthouse." He takes a breath, "Please find her" he asks.
Silence. Then, "I'll look into it" the voice says. "Reagan" the voice says slightly softer, "your daughter will not die tonight" the voice promises.
Frank nods, "Thank you." He knows she will be in good hands.
Gotham-Across town
Batman stands perched on a gargoyle overlooking the city he has claimed as his home and its protector. Draped in his black cape, his armored batsuit, with his black utility belt, black knee high armored boots, black gauntlets mounted with three blades on each arm, a black bat emblem outlined in red mounted on the middle of his chest. His armored cowl with a pair of long pointy ears on his head, white lens covering his eyes. The armor covering his jaw as well as black kevlar covering his mouth leaving an opening for his mouth and lips to move allowing the Kevlar to move along with his lips.
He puts a hand to his right ear, "You there?"
"I'm here" an electronic disguised voice is heard in his cowl comms. Oracle, Barbara Gordon, after being shot by the Joker ending her career as Batgirl, she had taken up the name of Oracle. Batman's tech support and friend. With the original batfamily gone after years of fighting the Regime, she is now back aiding the new Batman in his war against crime as well as getting the world back to normal after over twenty years of being under the Regime's thumb.
"Frank Reagan's daughter, Erin Reagan has been abducted by the mutants. Last known location was leaving the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. I want CCTV footage from a ten-block radius of the courthouse from the last hour" he informs as well as orders.
"On it" Oracle replies already getting to work.
Batman jumps off the gargoyle and activates his cape's glider function gliding down to the street. He lands in front of an alley where his Tumbler batmobile rests. The top opens and he jumps inside, the top closes and he speeds off. He is about thirty minutes from the courthouse. With the Tumbler he should be there in twenty depending on traffic. The batmobile is a tank. There is only so many cars the black tank can jump over.
"Batman" Oracle 's voice comes over the comms.
"What?" The dark-clad man asks his comrade as he continues to drive to the courthouse.
"I found some mutants loitering around the courthouse within the timeline you gave me. I also found a white panel van pull in right in front of an alley leading to the courthouse parking lot. It had no license plate" she says their lead appearing to lead nowhere. "But," she continues, "the van matches the description of a stolen van reported last week. They must have removed the plates" relief in her voice signaling that they might have a chance to get the hostage tonight.
"What brand are the tires?" Batman asks more concerned with the tires if he knows what brand they are it will speed up the search.
"Uh, Goodyear. 2020. Why?" Oracle asks confused. She never knows what he's thinking.
"The Tumbler has been equipped with a forensic scanner. With it I can follow the tire tracks" the new Batman replies.
"Clever" Oracle praises. "One more thing" she says catching Batman's attention once more. "These mutants don't appear to be afraid that they got caught on camera. They might be using Miss Reagan as a way to boost their rep. Which means they might not even let her live even if they get what they want" she states concerned.
Batman's hands clench around the controls of the Tumbler, "These mutants are cocky and arrogant."
"Not unlike anyone I know" she says humorously.
Batman eyes narrow at that but he ignores her comment. "I've been studying them. I know how they think. The hostage will be safe and at home tonight" he promises.
"Be careful out there" Oracle wishes.
"Batman out" the vigilante signs off. And approaches the courthouse.
"Somethings never change" Oracle huffs behind her work station in the Clocktower.
Solomon Wayne Courthouse
Batman pulls up in the Tumbler in front of the courthouse. He presses some buttons of the console within the tank and pulls up the footage outside the courthouse. He watches as Erin Reagan heads into the alley followed by a group of mutants. A few minutes pass as a white panel van speeds off out of the alley and making a left turn.
Batman activates the forensic scanner inside the Tumbler scanning the skid marks left by the speeding van. A path made by the tires appears on the monitor of the Tumbler batmobile.
Batman proceeds to follow said tracks to lead him to the hostage. After about ten minutes the trail leads him to an abandoned warehouse in Old Gotham.
Batman exits the Tumbler and fires his grapple gun the claw connecting to the roof once secured the grapple gun sends him flying to the roof of the warehouse.
He activates his thermal imaging in his cowl causing the white lens eyes to glow white and identify the hostiles.
Fifteen armed hostiles located on the third floor. Hostage undetermined. He needs a better look. The new Batman jumps off the roof and while in midair he fires his grapple gun embedding into the broken windowsill on the second floor. The grapple does its job pulling Batman through the window shattering it with a crash and broken glass flying all over the floor. The dark-clad man returns his grapple gun to his black utility belt on his waist and activates his thermal imaging this time finding the hostage in a back room with two armed guards.
He looks and sees that the armed mutants' heartbeats are pounding in their chests. They move around a little anxiously.
They are nervous.
Good.
When criminals are nervous they get scared. When they're scared they make mistakes. When they make mistakes, Batman can take advantage of the opportunity they present and bring them down. Hard.
On the third floor, the mutant guards inside the back room hear a crash. The two-armed mutants look at each other. One gestures with his head to the locked door to the right of them. The only way in the room.
One mutant dressed in a black open vest with tears around the shoulders suggesting the man ripped the sleeves from the cloth, wearing a green shirt underneath, dark pants and boots, with no hair and wearing uni-sunglasses. The identifier for the mutant gang.
The other mutant also has the same uni-sunglasses, but with a long sleeve yellow shirt with the collar opened and dark pants and boots. He is also bald.
In the corner of the room there is Erin Reagan, sitting in an old rickety chair with her wrists duct taped to the arms of the chair as well as her ankles to the legs. Her hair and clothes are disheveled, tears in her eyes and a piece of duct tape on her mouth keeping her quiet.
The vest clad mutant walks carefully up to the double doors of the back room and places his ear against it listening to what is happening in the main room of the third floor.
He listens for a few moments then looks back to his fellow mutant and shrugs his shoulders. "Must be nothing" the mutant says out loud.
Outside the back room the other fifteen-armed mutants walk around the room cautiously. They heard a noise they need to find out what it was. Their boots thud against the wooden floorboards echoing across the room. All around the room are old wooden crates. Some with items purchased by the company that used to own this abandoned warehouse. Others just filled with hay. Many staked on top of one another. Others alone.
Portable lights here and there for the mutants to see. Some loose wires hanging around some of the walls and ceiling. The decaying walls falling apart as some sheetrock and wood are visible.
Five mutants all wearing the signature uni-sunglasses and baldness stand in front of the double doors leading into this floor. They all have their assault rifles pointed at it waiting.
Some of them swallow. Others fidget with their fingers on the trigger of their guns. Their hearts beat faster. The waiting is getting to them.
All of a sudden, the floor beneath their feet explodes creating a hole in the floor and a dark shadow flying upward onto the beams connected by columns on the ceiling. Batman crouches on to the scaffolding to blend in with the shadows of the room.
The five mutants fall to the wooden floor. Some stunned from the explosion and hitting the floor. Others unconscious.
Two mutants rise from the floor frantically looking around for the shadow after the explosion sent them to the ground. One of them walks over to the hole the shadow made in the floor and starts firing.
The other ten mutants in the room who were patrolling the other sections of the room come running.
Batman seeing four mutants approaching, pulls out from his belt four discs. He throws them, and they connect to the side of each assault rifle the approaching mutants have. They pause looking at their weapons wondering what hit them because of hearing a clicking sound from their weapons.
They see a disc flashing red. Perplexed they look at each other. And after five seconds the discs explode breaking the assault rifles in half and sending them to the floor.
The first rule of fighting armed opponents. Batman's father taught him. Disarm. Then pick them off.
Batman fires his grapple attaching to the ankle of the firing mutant and he jumps down trading places with the mutant, who drops his rifle, and is now hanging upside down. He flails his limbs struggling to break free, but his movements begin to get sluggish until he passes out due to blood rushing to his head.
Batman grabs the other mutant who stood after Batman's entrance. He quickly breaks the mutants arm with a sickening crack, who cries out in pain. Batman then uses the mutant's rifle against them as he turns the mutant and his weapon to the approaching mutants and fires aiming low putting up a barrage. They quickly duck behind some wooden crates but gets two mutants in the shins. They fall to the ground in pain dropping their weapons.
Once the weapon is out of ammo, Batman looks at the mutant he is holding, the mutant whimpers clutching his broken arm. All the gang member sees are glaring white whites.
Batman delivers a quick headbutt to the mutant having no reason to hold him anymore. The young gang member falls to the wooden floor with a thud and an unconscious groan.
The dark-clad man sees more mutants approaching. He quickly pulls out his batclaw and fires it at an armed mutant taking aim at him. The claw latches on to the mutant's clothes and Batman pulls with all his strength. The mutant gives a cry of surprise as he is flung into the air being straight toward the vigilante. His limps flailing in the air as Batman swings his left arm hitting the approaching mutant who gives a groan as the breath is knocked out of him as he is hit in the chest and goes sliding onto the smooth wooden floor until he reaches the hole in the floor Batman made during his entrance. He falls in and lands on his left arm breaking it and passing out from the pain.
Batman turns his head and sees an armed mutant standing up again having regained consciousness. The vigilante pulls out a black batarang from his belt and hurls it at the mutant disarming him as well as hitting him in the head. He is unconsciousness once again.
Another armed mutant approaches and takes aim next to the dangling mutant hanging by his ankle. The mutant fires at the dark-clad man, who sprints to the firing mutant. He uses his cape as a shield, which is composed with light fabric allowing for him to glide as well as having Kevlar on the outside of the cape for defense.
Batman stops and delivers a swift kick to dangling mutant, who is knocked from his dangling position and lands into the firing mutant who falls to the ground.
The mutants realizing that assault rifles won't stop The Batman they switch to knifes and handguns.
Batman goes after three mutants armed with knives, he tosses one to the side. He pushes another one to the floor with his left arm. Using the blades on his right dark armed gauntlet he knocks the handgun out of the mutant's hand and hits him in the face with his left elbow.
The mutant Batman pushed to the ground comes at him with a knife. Batman ducks low as the gang member attempts a slashing motion to cut his throat. He changes to a stabbing motion, but his arm is quickly captured and lays on Batman's right shoulder.
The vigilante wraps his right arm around the mutant's clavicle and hoists him up with one arm and then slams the mutant into the floorboards smashing them and causing some to shoot upward.
Two mutants fire their handguns at Batman until they run out of ammo. They drop them and switch to knives and holds the knife in a pending stabbing position.
Batman quickly sprints to a knife wielding mutant standing in front of a wooden crate. He leaps over the crate feet first and captures the mutant by his face and slams the gang member's head into the crate as Batman lands on the ground in a crouching position.
He fires his batclaw embedding into the crate behind him and pulls with all his might that he has in his right arm and the crate goes over his body and explodes on contact with a mutant.
Suddenly, Batman drops his batclaw with a clank and gives a cry of pain. He turns his head and sees a mutant shooting at him with a handgun. He turns his right arm and sees a bullet embedded into his armored gauntlet.
He growls. He charges the last remaining mutants all armed with knives. Leaving his gadget abandoned.
The mutant who disarmed the vigilante drops his emptied handgun and walks up to the charging man. His confidence skyrocketing because he managed to disarm the Bat. He believes he can beat him.
He's wrong.
As the mutant confidently walks up to the dark-clad man he is stopped short as Batman delivers a palm heel strike to the gang member's gut. Causing the wind to be knocked out of him. He doubles over clutching his stomach groaning.
That's one out of the way for the moment. Batman now has three knife wielding gang members left.
One of the three takes advantage of the vigilante momentarily distracted with the doubled over fellow mutant. As he swings his knife at the Bat.
But, a swift elbow to the chest stops him from reaching the dark-clad man.
Batman's attention is brought back to the doubled over mutant who has recovered. Batman karate chops him in the face. Just as he does that a remaining mutant slashes the back of the armored man's neck. But the armor holds up.
Batman ignores him for a second while a mutant in front of him attempts to attack him. A punch in the face ends his attempt.
The vigilante finds himself surrounded by the four mutants. All working together to bring the armored man down.
One mutant raises his knife above his head and brings it down in a stabbing motion. Hoping the momentum will pierce Batman's armor.
A black gloved hand captures the mutant's wrist and squeezes it. The mutant cries out and his grip of the knife is lost. He drops it clanking to the wooden floor.
Batman delivers a palm thrust to his chest sending him to the ground and out of his face for the time being.
Two mutants work in tandem slashing away at there dark enemy.
Batman uses the blades on his dark gauntlets to block them sparks flying as blade against blade clash.
The third stabs at him but the vigilante is too fast and catches his arm with his right hand. He delivers an uppercut causing the mutant to fall on his back.
Another of the mutants Batman is engaging attacks him with his knife but captures the gang member's arm.
The vigilante notices another of the four mutants coming at him in his peripheral. He delivers a quick kick to the mutant's leg. But that doesn't stop the mutant. He comes back for more.
Deciding on a different tactic. Batman wraps his left arm around the mutant, he captures, throat and moves behind him clutching the mutants right arm that is holding the knife.
The approaching mutant brings his knife down as Batman uses the captured mutant to block it with his knife. Sparks flying once again.
Batman kicks the mutant away and with all his strength pushes the mutant's outstretched arm into his thigh causing the knife to embed itself there. The mutant cries out. Batman quickly releases him and attacks another gang member.
The knocked down mutant tries to gather his senses and his eyes widen as he sees something on the ground. His senses return he sees a discarded handgun. He smirks.
Uppercutting him, Batman turns back to the stabbed mutant clutching his leg. Groaning with a cry mixed in. He looks up and sees the dark-clad man staring at him. Tears begin to well up in his eyes his standard issue uni-sunglasses having fallen off during the fight.
Batman decides to put the mutant out of his misery. He delivers a hard punch to the mutant's face sending him head first into the wooden floor. As his head makes contact with the wooden floorboards causing them to collapse downward.
Some mutant attempts to surprise the armored man and rushes him. But, Batman sidesteps the charging man and pushes him to the floor and proceeds to wale on him. Batman grimaces and grits his teeth as he delivers blow after blow to the mutant's head.
The once knocked away mutant grabs the handgun and stands up. He aims.
Batman delivers another punch to the now unconscious mutant. He raises his arm again to deliver another punch but pauses as he hears a whizzing sound and pain as his cowl clad head jolts to the left.
He touches the right temple of his head with his right hand pressing against it. He removes his hand and gazes at it. There is no blood. The bullet just grazed his cowl. He turns to where the shot came from and sees a conscious mutant. The gun in his hand shaking.
Batman rises slowly and menacingly leaving the mutant he was pummeling to his nightmares.
He's pissed.
He's on the gun toting man in a flash. He struggles to get the gun away from the gang member. He keeps pointing the gun away from his head. Unsure if his cowl can withstand a point-blank shot to the face.
The gun goes off. Batman grunts, ringing going on in his left ear. His cowl is reinforced to protect his senses such as sight and hearing. But it is to a point.
He's beyond pissed now.
He grits his teeth. He grabs the mutant's arm with both hands and throws him over his shoulder crashing into the ground. The mutant grunts the wind knocked out of him.
Batman then twists his arm causing the mutant to cry out. He keeps up the pressure until a sickening snap is heard. The mutant's cries become louder as his arm is broken. The mutant loses consciousness from the pain.
Suddenly, Batman is caught off guard as some remaining mutant kicks him in the chest causing him to stumble. He doesn't fall until he is pulled back by another mutant who pulled on his cape.
The vigilante falls to the ground, his limbs flailing. He sees the mutant who pulled him to the ground ready his knife and brings it down. It is immediately parried by the blades on Batman's left gauntlet. Sparks fly.
The one who kicked Batman comes at him but like with the other mutant his knife is parried by Batman's right gauntlet causing sparks.
The mutant on his left comes at him again but Batman parried again as he uses his legs to push himself backwards attempting to stand up. They have him at a disadvantage.
The mutant on his right comes at him again and Batman responds with another parry.
The mutant on his left attacks again and Batman blocks. Still not letting up.
Batman decides to make his move. As he blocks the mutant blade on his left, he rolls onto his left side and slams his right forearm into the mutant's chest pushing him away.
Batman turns over to see what the mutant on his right is up to.
A kick to his chest is his answer as he falls flat on his back against the floor.
Immediately, the mutant on his left stabs Batman in his left shoulder causing him to cry out.
Pain shoots itself into his pain receptors.
But, he has been taught to work through pain.
Batman's cry immediately stops as he bares his teeth. He sends the sole of his right dark boot into the shin of the mutant on his right.
The force of the blow causes the mutant to fall onto the floor.
Before the mutant on his left can respond, a dark knee is delivered to the side of his head sending him to the floor.
The knee blow manages to get Batman back up to a crouching position.
The vigilante turns his head back to the mutant on the right coming at him with a knife again.
Batman blocks with his blades on his left gauntlet. Followed by his right arm swiping his opponents right leg out form under him. The mutant falls face down.
Batman turns back swiftly to the other fallen mutant, who is trying to stand up. The dark-clad man reaches to the knife embedded in his shoulder and pulls it. A wet sound is heard as the knife is pulled out. Blood drops falling to the floor.
He stomps over to the kneeling mutant and grabs him by the collar of his shirt and lifts him up.
Batman slams the mutant into the sheetrock wall and stabs the knife, the mutant used on the vigilante, into the mutant's left shoulder. He gives a cry as the knife staples him to the wall.
Batman hears something behind him but is unable to react as the remaining mutant punches him in the back. Batman doesn't show a reaction. He turns to the mutant who appears nervous and takes a step back.
Batman delivers a knee to the mutant's gut and throws him to the ground. He picks him up to the dark-clad man's knee by the back of his shirt and throws him into the sheetrock wall creating a hole in his causing dust and sheetrock to escape from the destroyed wall.
Batman now takes a deep breath. He stands back to his full height and slowly turns his head to the impaled mutant.
The mutant whimpers and holds out his hand in a vain attempt to fight off Batman.
Batman walks over to the mutant menacingly.
"Please!" The mutant begs.
Batman knocks the mutant out with a blow to the head.
He then takes a deep breath and exhales. He must calm down. He's angry. Anger makes you sloppy. He can't afford to be sloppy now. The hostage is still in danger.
He turns his head to look around and sees all the mutants down.
He clutches his left shoulder and releases it. He puts his hand in front of his face to see the palm covered in blood.
Amateur. He scolds himself. Lucky amateur.
He clenches his blood-stained hand. He has a hostage to save.
In the back room of the abandoned warehouse, two mutants stand guard over the kidnapped lawyer.
Erin Reagan sits duct taped to her chair.
They all heard the commotion outside the room. The guards pace around the room nervously.
They pace around more until one guard stands behind the hostage and the other stands in front of a worn-down wall.
He aims his assault rifle at the door waiting for them to be forced open and the mutants can fill the intruder full of lead.
Their hearts pound in their chests. They swallow. The waiting is killing them.
Suddenly, a black gloved hand emerges through the wall. Then another. The mutant with his back to the wall stares at the gloved hands. They grab onto the mutant and pulls him through the wall causing the wall the collapse. Dust going everywhere.
Erin and the mutant behind her shut their eyes to protect them from the dust. When the dust dissipates they open their eyes to see Batman standing just outside the broken wall. His left arm wrapped around the other mutant's throat, who has passed out, his arms hanging limply.
Batman's cape covering his right side. He stares at the gang member with those white eyes. Daring him to try something.
The mutant overcomes his shock and aims his weapon at Erin. "I'll kill her!" The mutant spits out. "Believe me man I'll do it" he states.
Batman clutches the black batarang in his right hand concealed by his cape. He releases his hold on the mutant and the unconscious man slumps to the floor.
"I believe you" Batman rasps out. His cape whirls as he throws the batarang in his hand at the gunman upward.
The batarang collides with the barrel of the assault rifle sending it upward and firing into the ceiling dust falling downward.
Erin gives a cry muffled by the duct tape on her mouth.
The mutant attempts to get control of his weapon but doesn't get the chance as Batman tackles the mutant into the wall. The gunman's head hits the wall rendering him unconscious.
Batman backs off now that the threat is over.
He turns to Erin, who tears up and whimpers. She's scared of him.
That is to be expected. His suit has scratches from knives. Bullet holes here and there. Some even embedded in his armor. And he's covered in blood, as he glances to his bleeding shoulder. Not to mention the suit is designed to scare people combining with his height. He looks like a huge monster.
He walks over to her, her whimpering increasing.
He's not good with comforting another but he plays it as he has observed from others, "Easy" he tells her. He uses the blades on his gauntlets to cut the duct tape from her ankles. Then to her wrists. "Your father sent me" he informs her. That seems to do the trick as she calms down and removes the duct tape from her mouth herself.
"Thank you" she says timidly. He nods. He goes over to the mutant slumped against the wall and searches him.
The mutant leader ordered them to abduct the commissioner's daughter, they must have a way to contact him. He finds a cell phone on him and proceeds to look through it but is stopped when a passcode is required.
Batman will not be deterred.
"What are you doing?" Erin asks rubbing her wrists.
"Pursuing a possible lead" the dark-clad man says simply. He pulls out a square USB like device and pushes it into the phone.
It immediately hacks into the phone breaking through the passcode lock. He searches through the phone logs and sees a call was made around the time Erin Reagan's abduction.
He opens his commlink and presses a hand to his cowl clad ear. "It's me" he answers speaking as little as possible with Erin in front of him. "Trace the call history of the phone I just hacked into" he orders in his raspy voice. "It should be uploaded to our systems."
He cuts his comms and turns to the brunette, "Come with me" he commands as he leaves the room. She dumbly nods and follows him.
She gasps as she sees what Batman did to these men. Some bleeding. Some have broken bones.
How can her father work with this man?
"Keep up" Batman says irritably. He stands just outside the doorway of the third floor. She whips her head to look at him and hurries to him.
They make it out of the warehouse and Erin wonders what happens now. Batman pushes a button on his left gauntlet, his right one was damaged in the fight.
A rumbling of an engine is heard as the Tumbler bolts through the chain link fence and speeds to the pair's position.
Erin gasps as the black tank doesn't appear to be stopping. She turns to Batman who doesn't look the least bit concerned.
The Tumbler stops right in front of the two. It's head lights on top shining. Erin puts her hand in front of her face offering some shielding from the light.
The roof of the tank opens revealing a cockpit. Batman starts walking to the Tumbler, "Get in" he orders.
She glares at his tone but doesn't say anything. He helps her into the vehicle before he climbs in himself. He straps himself in and tells her to do the same.
Erin is forced back into her seat as the Tumbler speeds off.
Batman reaches over to the console and presses some buttons.
Ringing can be heard, and Oracle's electronic voice can be heard, "What's up?"
"We have ears" Batman states informing his comrade that there is an outsider in his presence and real names are forbidden. "What do you have?" The vigilante asks.
"I got a location on the number you wanted traced. It might be the mutant leader" Oracle says cheerfully.
"Where?"
"At the old junkyard. The one with the sewer drain in it" Oracle informs the new Batman. The old junkyard is an old scrapyard half a mile outside the city. No one goes there anymore. No profits. As well as its too hazardous to be around.
"Good" he growls. He ends his call with Oracle and dials another number.
"Yes?" Commissioner Frank Reagan's voice is heard next.
"It's me" the vigilante states. "I have her" he hears Reagan breathe a sigh of relief. "I'm dropping her off at the nearest precinct. Send a few squad cars to the abandoned warehouse district in Old Gotham. You'll find a group of mutants who were holding your daughter hostage" he informs. "Might want to get them to a hospital" he advises. "They wouldn't go quietly."
"Understood" Reagan says quickly. He doesn't seem all that concerned with Batman's violence. Must be more concerned with his daughter's safety than a few armed goons.
Batman makes a sharp turn then continues speaking, "Also have every unit head over to the old junkyard with the sewer drain" he orders. "No sirens. Have your men surround the area until I scope out the situation. Do not engage."
"Not sure many will comply with that" Reagan mutters.
"You're the Commissioner" Batman says irritably. "They follow your orders. I know how these mutants think, Reagan."
"Alright" Reagan sighs, "I'll tell them."
Batman nudges his head getting Erin's attention, "Talk to him" he says lightly.
"Dad?" Erin begins.
"Erin are you okay? You hurt?" Frank says concerned.
"I'm fine, Dad. They didn't hurt me."
"Thirty seconds until the nearest precinct" Batman interrupts.
The Tumbler stops in front of the GCPD precinct in the area. The roof opens, and Batman jumps out and offers Erin his hand.
She hesitates, but then takes it. He helps her out of the tank and walks her to the steps of the building.
"Let them know about the warehouse mutants in the area" Batman orders. "They won't get away with what they've done."
Erin nods, and enters the precinct.
Batman quickly runs back to the black tank and jumps in. The roof closes and he hits the accelerator.
The tank speeds off.
Next: Batman vs the Mutant Leader!
The warehouse battle was taken from BvS. Affleck was awesome in that scene!
The batarangs are all black right now, not the black and red ones used in Batman Beyond, Logan is building himself up to that.
Vincent Fries is an OC. He will be taking the mantle of a future villain. Can you guys figure out which one and where this particular origin story comes from? Hint: its from a Batman cartoon.
The courthouse was taken from Batman Arkham City. Apologies if I didn't describe it enough.
If there are still people confused with my OC Batman cowl. Just search Batman Arkham Knight: Batman Beyond skin to see what I'm trying to describe for the cowl. Just no red parts on the cowl. Again my apologies if I didn't describe it properly.