Hello everyone. I'm writing a new story based on the Batman Arkham games, revolving around Catwoman. Personally I felt there was a ot of potential with playing as Catwoman, and what the game had, wasn't enough for me, as I'm a big fan of the cat. The story came from an idea of extended, additional content for the game, acting as potential plots. It will mostly be written in the perspective of cutscenes, and I'm trying to introduce some elements of gameplay more akin to Catwoman like burglary, since she is the main character. Combat scenes, however, will not be elaborated.

Disclaimer-

I do not own any of the DC characters.

Based on Arkhamverse, primarily based on the games Catwoman appears, City and Knight.

Arc 1 : Roses Are Red's

"Well, now that I've got what I came for, it's time to leave this dump," Catwoman said to herself. As the Cat leaped onto the roof of the next closest building, the factory where the Riddler was working on his Riddlerbots started to burst into flames.

"Eddie, Eddie. Did you really think I'd let you off that easily? If you were a genius then that sure is disappointing. Now... 2.73 million... What to do... What to do..?" she wondered. She looked over to the sky and sighed, "Wow, morning already? Those cheap robots Eddie built wasted my entire night." She turned her gaze towards the bat signal and wondered if Batman was done with whatever he had to do, before proceeding to prowl around the streets of Gotham. Not long later, Catwoman bumped into several groups of thugs, as usual.

"Oh no, it's the Cat again!" one thug whined.

"Ahhh," she yawned, "Usually I'd prefer for some yoga in the morning. But since you boys are here, why don't I conduct a morning exercise for all of us?" she teased as she stretched herself with her whip.

"Aw man, just when I thought we're safe now," another complained, "At least that plant freak is dead. I'd rather fight this pretty face than become some flower zombie for the rest of my life."

"Hold on," she yanked and dragged the thug over with her whip, immediately grabbing him by his collar, "What did you just say?"

"I ain't sayin' nothin' to you, freak!" he scowled. The rest of the thugs took the chance to charge towards the cat, but she was really bugged out from what she just heard and was fixated on trying to get more out of him. Catwoman dropped some caltrops, interrupting the four other thugs.

"Sorry, boys, new game. If you want to be able to go home to your mommies after this, you better tell me what you know about Ivy."

"You don't scare us, kitty cat!" yelled one. "Yeah, you can't do nothin' to us!" agreed another.

"You silly little boys like to complicate things, don't you?" sighed the feline as she readied her claws to strike.

Catwoman took out band of thugs as quickly as she wanted to know what happened to Poison Ivy. Now tell me," she picked up the same one she grabbed earlier, "What did you mean earlier? What do you know about Ivy?

"H-h-h-haven't you heard? Ivy's dead. The last she was seen was at Botanical Gardens. They said she had somethin' to do with clearin' those cloud things and fear toxins from Scarecrow. T-t-that's all I know."

"Ivy's... dead..? No... No... This can't be..." in so much shock, Catwoman released her grip on the thug who then made a run a for it. Slowly walking away, she wondered if Harley Quinn knew of this misfortune. "How is Harl taking this?"

"Bruce? Bruce? Can you hear me?" the feline called through her mouthpiece receiving only static as a response. "Crap. I guess I have to go see it myself." Catwoman set her mark on the Botanical Gardens, as the thug mentioned earlier that Poison Ivy was last seen there. "Botanical Gardens. That's quite a walk from here. And I think there might still be some Militia around the area, and I don't think they're going to give me an easy entry. Hmm... Even today a girl can't depend on a man to do anything. If I want to get inside the gardens, I might need to have to face these men. Kitty's gotta get the right toys before playing the games." Catwoman slid her googles on and made her way back to her apartment, the one in Gotham of course.

There were a lot more tools in this apartment than what she had in Arkham City. The cat proceeded to stock up on more caltrops. A lot more. "I didn't have a lot of these babies in Arkham, that wasn't fun," she said to herself. Her times in Arkham taught her how limited that tool was, and knowing she'd have to face incredibly armored enemies, she couldn't afford to risk it. She brought along so much she won't even run out. Next, she went ahead to pick up some explosives she stole from other of Batman's enemies. "Oh, Oswald and Harvey always have the best gifts for me. Too bad they aren't the generous type though." She scanned through the room and thought, "These guys are heavily armed. And they come in big numbers. I'd have to ambush one individual a few times just to take him down. I'm going to need to find better gear claw through their suits and to protect myself against their bullets." Out of options, she decided that she had to forge some sort of alliance with someone. "These nine lives won't protect this little kitty from guns, do they?" Catwoman figured since she couldn't reach Batman, the next option was to approach Nightwing, plus. he did have a few run-ins with the late Poison Ivy back in Bludhaven.

"Hey, Holly, you there?" called the sultry woman through her mouthpiece as she hopped onto her windowsill.

"Yeah, Selina. I'm here. What's up?" replied Holly.

"I'm low on some gadgets right now, could you help me restock them?" requested the cat as she accessed the best route to get to the Gardens. "I've got some things to attend to, I don't think I could gather them myself for the time being."

"Yeah sure, Selina. Everything will be settled before you even know it."

"Purrfect. I left some cash on the cabinet by the shoe rack. Feel free to spend it on yourself too, honey. Love you," kissed the feline as she proceeded to skip through the rooftops of Gotham effortlessly like her personal playground.

Catwoman found herself overlooking the Gotham City Police Department. "Okay, according to those guys down there, Nightwing came in here." With her goggles on, she scanned through the building searching for the young lad. "Ah... There you are, my favourite boy," she said, watching him from the distance as he juggled through goons at the rooftop. "Wait a minute, now who's that poor bird trapped inside the elevator..? Hmm... Ozzy? Wow, he definitely hired the wrong idiots to help him escape," she mocked. "What now? Should I make a grand entrance now or should I just wait?" she questioned herself, considering the possible outcomes. "If I appear now as he tries to capture Penguin, he might think I'm here to help free Penguin. Ah.. It's already gonna be hard to get him to work with me, all the more I should minimise looking like the villain, right?" Catwoman took a glance to another part of the roof. Where the group of goons that Nightwing just took down, laid several cartons of goods. "Mmmm, look at that. Looks like Ozzy and friends brought along some gifts! I guess I'll just wait out a little bit, then I'll help myself to some of those little precious!"

The cat climbed and crawled her up to the edge of the elevator which Penguin was held in. She stayed behind unnoticed until Nightwing brought Penguin away before she made her way to the cartons. She took a peek at the ones that were already opened, "Let's see... What do we have here? Guns? Guns? And more guns? Gee, these boys and their firearms. How could I pounce around with these weighing me down." So focused on looting, Catwoman did not notice that Penguin's men from the inside the building were making their way upstairs.

"Hey, look! It's the cat," yelled one of the guys, "She's tryin' to steal our stuff! Get her!"

"Well, Selina," Catwoman murmured, "if you wanna win the prize, you gotta beat the losers." Swiftly, she pounced into action and brought the men their second round of defeat, after which, she searched the latter for any good tools she could bring along. After a few moments of scavenging, Catwoman left GCPD, but not before stealing some throwing knives and one of those stun batons, which seemed to be a really popular weapon with those goons.

"Enough wasting time here. Time to for this kitty to catch little wing boy."