The green liquid bubbled violently in the darkness of the cavern, casting an odd glow over the stone and the dark figure that stood at the edge, blinking green eyes into the water with a calmness that seemed to only come from looking to the natural pit itself.
The man wasn't old, but not young either, the slight gray of his side burns giving him a more modest appearance.
He lifted his hands slowly, reaching to undo the bandages on his hands, the gauze slowly falling away to wrinkled and broken skin that fell away with the light breeze through out the cavern, the pain of this having passed years ago when his mind hadn't yet been lost like his body to the Lazarus pit.
It had given him so much life, so many years of full conquest and battle and bathing in glorious fire and sun over the months, years, decades. Yet now, it was failing him, and failing him quickly, his body deteriorating slowly and this time would indefinitely be the last, all of his plans, all his hopes to see the worlds future had come to an end and now, there was only one way to rectify that.
He had lose ends that needed to be tied.
"Ra`s."
"Ah." He hummed, his voice now rough and scratchy and when he turned to face the dark cloaked man, no, teen before him, his knee almost gave out as his bones slowly developed holes and gapes that could no longer be filled, naturally or chemically.
Before him stood the teen, much different from the other Batman but similar in only ways a twin, or a son could be and he could only smile at the teen, his grandson.
"I was just thinking about you."
"I`m not here to banter with you Grandfather." Damian growled, white optic lenses narrowing and the large coat-like cape swishing over the stone floor, fist tightened dangerously, "Where are they Ra`s, where are the bombs."
"All in good time Damian." Ra`s nodded slowly running bony fingers over his own crinkling skin and Damian glanced at his hands, blinking once before frowning.
"Time doesn't seem to be on your side."
"Oh, that's where you're wrong," Ra`s said, reaching up and pulling at the lapels of his robe and letting it drop to the floor with a dull thud, his fingers moving to unbutton the top of his shirt as the eight teen year old narrowed his eyes further, yes, just like his father.
"Even when I am gone, my name will ring around the world for years to come," he said slowly, his fingers working roughly at the buttons as he slowly lost all feeling in his hands. Thick gauze, the same covering his hands, wrapped his bare chest thickly just to keep his organs from falling out of his paper thin skin, "even long before you were an idea Damian, I had plans, plans to change and cleans this world, to rid it of the evil that you see fit to fight every night with your demented family, I would of preferred to do it without suck unnecessary blood shed but my boy the Lazarus pit has shown me the truth-,"
"Your insane Ra`s." Damian growled, teeth barred like a rabid dog.
He shook his head chuckling lightly as his shirt it the ground with his bottle green cloak , a warm smile on his face that looked odd with his wide green eyes, "No, No Damian, your father was wrong, all those moments spent trying to push the insanity away was useless, it wasn't insanity my boy, it was truth, you see the pit has shown me my errors, that there can not be a world without immoral blood shed with out the blood having already be shed!" He chuckled loudly as he pulled at the gauzed, "I assume the phrased 'you cant make an omelet with our breaking a few eggs' will suffice in this situation and it is ingenious is it not?"
"Ra`s, I swear on my life you will not leave my sight, you wont get to the detonator-,"
"There is no detonator." He said, pulling the last of the gauze from his chest and letting it fall limp on the floor, "I am indeed out of time, and even if I do not see it I will know that this day-,"
"Ra`s-,"
"That on this day, the blood paid would allow new life to spore and create the true vision of not mine but of the Lazarus pits, the true light in which the world will under take is a course that cant be altered or changed my dear boy-,"
"What did you do!?" Damian asked, eyes wide as he pulled his cowl back to stare at the older man, Ra`s slowly backing away into the pit.
"I am saddened that I wont see the new world that I helped create," Ra`s huffed as now, instead of healing him, the Lazarus pit stung his rotting skin painfully as he sank deeper into the green bubbling liquid, a sizzling sound echoing off the cave walls along with the darker chuckle from Ra`s, "but more so that I wont get to see your entire world burn with you."
"RA`S!" Damian yelled before static sounded in his ears, he pressed a gloved finger to the communication device as Oracle came online.
"Damian! We found the third device and getting a location from the forth, the Justice League is in-,"
"Oracle! Don't!" he yelled, "There is no reverse Manuel! They're all going to detonate."
"In the next four seconds if my memory serves me right." Ra`s hummed leaning back to sink finally into the pit, "Your move, 'detective'."
"Oracle!" He yelled.
"Dami-," the red headed woman`s voice suddenly cut off to nothing but static and that wasn't good as there were satellites keeping the bat-family coms in line which meant that more then one receiver in the city had to of been taken out, Gotham was in trouble!
Instantly the ground started to shake and tremble, rubble falling from the ceiling of the cavern and Damian growled violently, pulling his cowl back on as he turned back to the pit, "RA`S!" but when he looked, he saw nothing but the bubbling of the green goo of the pit and he yelled his frustrations loudly ducking as a boulder fell and landed close by.
It wasn't just Gotham! It was every where!
With rush of his cape he ran out of the tunnel ducking past the falling derby, the dust coating his suit as he rammed his shoulder into the cellar door before racing up the steps and into the building, a place that had once been his home, or a home, one of them in the first ten years of his life, but that was eight years ago, and he had to focus now, sentimentality would get him no were!
He instantly hit the floor, sliding under the falling beams of the ceiling before he raced into the first room, pulling out his grapple gun before jumping out the window, trying to ignore the violent shaking of the mountains as he spun mid air and shot out at the overhead black plane that hovered over the building.
His com piece flickering on, only because of the second passenger in the Batwing, who opened the top hatch as he pulled himself up with a hiss and into the front seat, the red haired girl gaping at him, "Batman-,"
"Not now Carrie!" He snapped, grabbing the controls, eyes narrowing, as his partner continued to gape at him, her eyes wide behind the green lenses of her domino mask.
"We have to get home," he said, "We have to get home right now."
It wasn't just Gotham thought, is wasn't just their home that had burst to flames and been rocked to it`s core, no, Ra`s had lit several atomic bombs along certain points on the earth to set off a chain reaction, it wasn't just Gotham, no.
Their world was on fire, and there was nothing they could do...
A/N: Future fic! Yay, this has been in my head for a while now and I thought I`d get it out, see how it went. note there there will be some things that will be kept secret until they are reveled at the right time, and this is, as I said a future fic so roles will be different, exp: Damian-batman (yay) and Carrie Kelley(Robin). So theres that, and if things get confusing just hang in there, things will be explained.
You should also note that this story literally takes off seconds after this chapter, where as said several atomic bombs went off around the world creating mass hysteria and destruction, and all that. So there will be instant character deaths (which his story will be filled with as there will be lots of violence)
Another note: Dark themes.
Last note: each chapter will be separated by different POV`s so if you would like to see more of someone`s POV, go ahead and ask. Thats all thanks for reading, please review and I`m already working over the second Chapter so hang in there. ;3
