Chapter 2
Robin and me landed into the batmobile and Robin said, "Oracle needs to be told what's happened." I ignore him right now I need to focus on whoever this wannabe assassin is.
Robin says to me a strong voice, "She needs to know it's her farther Bruce." My first priority has to be protecting Gotham I can't let my emotions or hers change that I have a job to do. It's what Gordon would want and it's what Selina would have wanted as well.
I say to Robin in a commanding voice, " We have a job to do we can't let our personal feelings interfere with the mission when it's over I'll explain but our priority now is the crime scene at the charity event it may be connected." I can see the distress forming in Robins face but he remains quite. Always loyal.
I say to him in a tender tone, "I know how you're feeling Tim because I feel the same."
I start the engine of the batmobile and start racing off to the crime scene. Little sound came out of the engine even at the top speeds I was going in, benefit of having your own applied sciences division. Alfred appeared on the batmobile's screen and he asked in a concerned voice, "Master Bruce are you sure you're alright?"
My silence to Alfred's question tells him exactly how I'm feeling. I say to Alfred in a dark voice, " Whatever you do Alfred don't tell anyone about Gordon's death or Selina's I need everyone to be focused." I can see the apparent shock stapled on to his face but I give him a forceful glare to make sure he understands that's not a request.
I say sharply to Alfred, " I need you to start cross-referencing anything that connects any of those twenty people together once you've done that tell me I'm heading over to the crime scene." I turn off the screen and make a few sharp turns and then I arrive at the crime scene. Both Robin and me get out of the car and walk over to the police tape. A small station of police officers are there including Harvey Bullock.
I say to him, "what do the witnesses say?"
He pulls out his cigarette and says, "Unfortunately whoever this jackass is he threw a smoke bomb in front of the stage no one could see anything till the smoke cleared and the audience saw there dead bodies and panicked."
Harvey continues on saying, " Some of the security were on the stage as well but there all in intensive care and won't be in any condition to talk to you for some reason this assassin didn't kill them." Why didn't the assassin kill them? Surely if he's fine with killing twenty innocent people he wouldn't blink an eye to some security. Something doesn't make sense.
This assassin may be smart but let's see how smart he is. Robin and me walk through the hall to the stage. The first observation I make is how they've been killed; none of the victims would have suffered a great amount of pain from this assassin they were all killed with brutal efficiency. I turn on my detective vision and I see the various footprints but it's clear who's the assassins footprints are. Because by the time he had killed all the adults the children had hid in the corner meaning that the third and largest foot prints would have to have been the killers footprints.
I analyse the footprints and I can see that there size 11's but the footprints end there. As I walk away I'm confused how could he have escaped. I suddenly stop when I see the light from the window landing on the stage and I turn around to see the window is broken and I can see the marks that were left when the assassin used his own grappling hook gun. I turn to Robin who's looking over one of the dead bodies and I say, "what is it?"
He slowly rises from one of the bodies he was studying and says, " This assassin must have some skill to kill twenty people that quickly with swords and his bare hands … I don't like this he's dangerous."
I say to Robin, "We've stopped Psychopaths, Superhumans and well trained assassins we can stop him now let's go to the roof that's where his footprints lead to." Both of us fire our grappling hooks at the window and get on to the roof where I see there are more footprints. Annoyingly this doesn't lead to anything else. We go over the crime scene for over an hour and don't find anything new so we head off into the batmobile to the cave.
As were getting closer to the cave Tim bursts out with, "I'm telling Oracle she deserves to know." I don't say anything because I know I can't stop him even if I wanted to and I don't want to.
I get out of the batmobile and head over to Alfred who's using the bat computer and I say, "Have you got anything?" Alfred puts a hand on his forehead and I look up on the computer to see that all of Gotham's richest have connections to one man Black Mask. What does this mean? Is Black Mask being targeted? Or did he order their assassination? Is Gotham heading into another gang war? Was the attack on Gordon and Selina a threat to me?
I say to Alfred, " I need to talk to Black Mask."
