"How much longer until all the data's been transferred, Kuttler?" asked the impatient Arkham Knight.
"Two minutes. Probably less if you'd quit asking that." Responded the Calculator. Arkham Knight decided not to respond, wanting to speed up the process. He was still waiting on the guest of honor to arrive.
Whoosh
"Right on time." He said, turning towards the sound. "Batman, it's been too long- who the hell are you?"
"Your worst nightmare." Said Batwoman, immediately firing at the Arkham Knight, but the bullets just bounced off of his armor. Calculator, however, instantly ducked down, but Firefly stepped in front of him and blasted at Batwoman, but she dodged and Arkham Knight put his arm in front of him.
"Not yet, Firefly." He said, scanning the area.
"Why wait? Let's just burn the place! We don't need Batman for that!" urged Anarky, and Firefly huffed in agreement. Arkham Knight ignored them.
"Zebra-Man, Copperhead, find this 'Batwoman' and kill her. Kuttler, finish transferring the data." He ordered.
"Yes sir." He said, returning to his work as Zebra-Man and Copperhead left to follow out their orders. From far up above sat the Batman, scanning the scene. He counted eight villains, seven of which he had fought before but had never considered much trouble, the Calculator, Firefly, Killer Moth, Zebra-Man, Anarky, the Electrocutioner, and the new female Copperhead. They were being led by a man Batman had never seen in person before, but there had recently been several reports about the "Arkham Knight".
"So what's the play?" asked Batwoman, suddenly appearing next to him.
"The play is you get out of here and leave this to me." He said, not at all startled.
"Yeah right, you need me and you know it."
He grimaced. "Fine. You help me take them down now, then you and I need to have a discussion."
Without another word, she was gone and he sighed, jumping down from the beam and kicking Killer Moth in the head.
"Ah! Batman! I've been waiting too long for this." said the Knight.
"Do we know each other?" he asked.
"In a way. I wouldn't expect you to remember."
"And people say I'm cryptic."
"Ha! Here I was thinking you didn't have a sense of humor." He joked, lunging at Batman, but he jumped back, barely dodging the punch.
"All data transferred!" shouted Calculator.
"Good! Moth, get Calculator out of here!" ordered the Knight, and Moth grabbed Calculator, flying out of one of the holes in the ceiling. "Firefly! Anarky! Light it up!"
"Now we're talkin'!" screamed Firefly as he flew up and began burning the whole place, but Batwoman shot him in the head. Luckily, his helmet deflected the bullet, but it still phased him. He turned to her and blasted, but she dodged and continued shooting.
Copperhead ran behind Batman and slashed him in the back of the neck and he backed away from the Knight, grasping his neck, screaming in pain.
"Batman!" screamed Batwoman.
"I'm fine!" he screamed back, but the Knight punched him in the face, knocking him to his knees, and he kicked him in the stomach. Zebra-Man came running and controlled one of the rods holding the place together to rip out of place and hit Batman, causing the warehouse to begin crumbling. Zebra-Man then forced a bit of the ground to rip out and form a platform and he levitated towards Copperhead, picking her up, and they then floated towards Anarky, who had just finished settling in his final bomb. He was a bit reluctant to get on, but Zebra-Man forced the metal on his costume towards them. Lastly they floated to Electrocutioner, who was zapping Batwoman. She collapsed to her knees and he hopped on. Zebra-Man looked at Arkham Knight, but he was too busy wailing on Batman to notice, so he lifted the platform up and they followed after Moth.
The Knight threw another punch, which Batman caught and he kicked the Knight in the stomach, but he yanked Batman forward, throwing him into a wooden box that he caught fire. His cape lit on fire, which quickly would have reached his costume, but he ripped off the cape and turned towards the Knight, getting ready to throw another punch, but he was caught off guard by the Knight lunging a knife directly into his chest. Batman coughed out blood and look directly at the Knight, who opened his helmet to show Batman his true face. They both stood there in silence, but Firefly flew down and said "We gotta get out of here! The place is gonna blow!"
Reluctantly, he removed the knife from Batman's chest, allowing him to fall to the ground and let Firefly carry him out. As soon as they were gone, Batwoman ran over to Batman and helped him up.
"We're gonna get you out of here." She promised. It wasn't very hard to get up to the nearest exit due to Batman's sheer will to survive, but as soon as Batwoman opened the door, Batman looked back and saw the explosives were close to zero. He looked down to see the large amount of blood pouring from his chest, and he made an impulsive decision to shove Batwoman out the door, sending her falling into the river by the warehouse. He clutched his chest and stumbled back into the railing.
"I always thought it would be the Joker." He said as the bombs all hit zero, blowing the warehouse to smithereens.