The city of Gotham was shrouded under a thick veil of darkness. The full moon eerily rose and sat above the city which was well known for its active night life from drinking at the cities packed bars, to gambling at Gotham's finest casino's. Several helicopters passed over the city, as the city continued to spew noise loudly.
But despite the good and classiness, there was a dark side to this wonderful city. Gotham was full of crime, and there was one hero fully dedicated to squashing that crime. Or as the police would say, this vigilante was getting in their business.
The bat-mobile sped through the packed and busy streets of Gotham, as the bat himself clicked several keys on the bat mobiles control panels. "Enabling autopilot for the bat-mobile." Batman said in his rich modified baritone voice as the vehicle came to a screeching halt in the middle of a quiet alley.
The roof and sides of the vehicle opened as the hero quickly jumped out of the vehicle, the bat-mobile speeding off into the distance. Batman grunted to himself as he watched the vehicle speed off down a side-street as he quickly pulled his grapple gun from his utility belt, shot it towards a rooftop and after hearing it click, grappled himself onto the walls and rooftops of Gotham.
A figure stood on top of a spike jotting from the side of a tall skyscraper in downtown Gotham, as hundreds of stories below police sirens blared as they raced towards the city hall building in a hurry. His red mask was visible by the bright lights of the city, and the moon peacefully sitting in the sky. With a small whirring of his eye lenses, the skinny vigilante quickly jumped off the ledge of the tall building, and with a raise of his arm shot out a thick strand of web towards a building opposite of himself.
Spider-Man began to make his descent downward as he quickly pulled up, swinging through the city. The teens eyes focused on the police cars speeding through the lively city, 'Let's see what's going on in the neighborhood."
Six mercenaries, dressed in violet and black uniforms exited the elevator on the top floor of Gotham city hall which contained the mayors staff cubicles and the office of the mayor, the building was silent and all lights turned off as the mayor and his staff had left several hours ago.
The quiet mercenaries walked though a small red laser attached to the carpeted floor, their foot triggering a silent alarm that notified the Gotham city police, as well as a big vault that closed over the door to the mayors office. The metal door encased the mayor's oak wooden door, as the leader of the mercenaries quickly looked at a grunt and gave a terse order, "Get that open quick."
The mercenary he ordered quickly pulled out a buzz saw and began to saw against the locks of the steel door. While the mercenary sawed at the bar locks on the door, the leader spoke to the four other mercenaries, "Patrol the entire floor. Make sure there's no other traps waiting for us like this, we'll be out before anyone can stop us."
Two mercenaries walked side by side, inspecting the large room, checking each cubicle, as one said to the other, "Do you think he's gonna show up?"
The second mercenary chuckled, "I'd ask which one, but I think we are fine."
One mercenary grinned as he stood at the elevator, latching it open, on the ready to guard the elevator if need be. It was completely convenient timing, as several swat teams and the regular Gotham city police forces completely swarmed the main lobby.
Lieutenant Gordon, seeing the one dead city hall guard on duty in the middle of the lobby with a single bullet hole in his forehead, about puked. "Oh Christ... they shot the poor man." Gordon commanded the police officers under him as he glanced towards the main lobbies elevator, "Move in."
Gordon narrowed his eyes, as the lieutenant walked towards the elevator. A normal police officer had pressed the down button on the elevator, the elevator beginning to tick downwards at a moderate level.
With but a simple cut of the elevators main wires from a grinning mercenary who was keeping a watch on the now open elevator shaft, the ticking began to increase in speed.
As the elevator position began to quickly count down, Gordon's eyes widened. "The hell... get back!" The lieutenant quickly shouted and jumped away from the elevator, several police officers following his lead as any nearby officer jumped down to avoid any incoming debris. Not a second passed as the elevator had finally hit the farthest down it could go, the elevator exploding, rocks and metal flying into the lobby.
Gordon momentarily collected himself, but picked his radio he dropped up as over the radio the monotone voice of Batman called out to him, "Gordon, they're on the 52nd floor. I'm going in." Gordon in exasperation after batman ended his transmission called out over his radio, "Hey, wait! Wait for backup!"
A few seconds later he received Batman's reply, "Don't need it." Gordon looked up at his officers and quickly spoke to them, "Take the stairs, with caution."
In the mayors office the thug continued to saw at the steel door, as a nearby mercenary was speaking about their greatest threat. "I've heard stories about him, you know? He sent three home in an ambulance, and the rest in body bags."
Another mercenary spoke up quickly after the other thugs last sentence, "No wonder the cops want him dead." The mercenary sawing at the steel door spoke up soon after, "You ever see him?"
A mercenary with an inner city accent chuckled quietly, "Yeah, Gotham Zoo, with all the other flyin' animals."
On a building opposite to the mayors office, a large billboard sat on the roof of the lit up building. With the words, "Vote Harvey for mayor!" inscribed in the billboard, the light hitting the billboard slightly wavered as a person in all black landed in front of the billboard gracefully on his feet in a crouch.
Slowly standing up, the figure revealed himself to be Batman as the lights of Gotham reflected off of the vigilante's dark bat suit. The Batman held his hand over his grapple gun for just a moment before quickly pulling the gun out, and aiming it at least ten feet over the window leading to the mayors staff office.
Pulling the trigger, the grapple quickly shot and descended to the mayors building, efficiently hitting where he wanted the grapple to hit, as it tightened up on it's own end. A mercenary who had been patrolling near the window the Batman was planning on entering noticed the grapple land.
The mercenary looked up in curiosity at what the object that had attached to the building was, "Huh?" Without a thought escaping his mind, Batman jumped off the building he had landed on, and flew through the air with the grapple tightly in his hands. In a flash, Batman kicked through the glass window, the force sending the thug back onto the ground disoriented for a slight few seconds.
The thug quickly stood up and turned around only to come face to face with the one and only Batman. The Dark Knight gave an impassive face at the thug, and imposed himself over the man. Without the thug being able to get out of his fear, batman quickly bashed the thug across the face, his fist being the last thing the mercenary saw.
The thugs "Ahhhh!" resounded throughout the office as several mercenaries ran towards the scream. "Shit!" One mercenary shouted as four of the mercenaries made it to the now broken window, as their boots crunched on the floor full of glass.
"The hell he'd go?" One mercenary asked as another mercenary looking around responded stiffly, "Whatever got in, keep it out." The mercenaries turned on their flashlights connected to their assault weapons as two of them began to patrol in the same area, searching for their hidden foe.
A mercenary who was standing in between four cubicles looked towards a computer, as behind him, Batman quickly and stealthily ran to another side of the room. The mercenary did hear the bat's feet if only slightly as he turned around only to see more cubicles, "What was that...?" the man questioned openly with paranoia.
The violet clad man began to walk in the direction he could swear he heard the noise from, and was quickly shocked to see another mercenary tied up in a chair unconscious. While the mercenary began to try and untie his friend, from the dark corner in the room behind the thug, a pair of full white lenses revealed themselves in the moonlight.
He pulled out his grapple gun, the red glow of the technology emanating with what seemed like dark power. The grapple hit the leg of the mercenary trying to untie his comrade, as the man looked down at his leg in confusion. The man quickly hit the ground with a notable oomph, "Huh? Ah!" the man cried out as he was dragged into the darkness, and quickly fell into the disabled elevator shaft.
Two mercenaries who were following the man on the ground viewed the elevator shaft with contempt as one began to fire his automatic weapon at the shaft in hopes of killing the hidden assailant.
But the mercenaries by the elevator were too late to stop their foe, as a few seconds later the black violet clad mercenary tied up in the chair now behind them was pulled up by the same grapple gun onto the ceiling.
The mercenary by the elevator quickly shouted strategic orders, "Back to back, circle up!" The two other mercenaries left quickly heeded that command as the three of them were now back to back, facing the dark room, waiting for the hidden vigilantes next move.
Batman was ready for this, as he stood on a metal heater vent attached to the ceiling, and held a metal cube in his hand. He let it drop between the thugs, as the red glowing cube began to release a tear gas that would incite them to cough and become disoriented.
The plan showed its immediate working as Batman grappled another thug up and quickly tied him to the vent with a punch to knock the robber out. He then grappled another mercenary and did the same thing, quickly neutralized the two men.
The last man left was the one who had commanded the other men before and had seemed to know what he was doing, if not ever so slightly. The mercenary ran to the thug still sawing at the steel doors midriff. The thug who had survived the smoke and grappling was now guarding the door man, as he began to fire off shot after shot at the ceiling in hopes of ending this scary assault.
Batman, as calm as ever took out one of his trademark batarangs, and flicked the batarang at the thug effectively removing the weapon from the mans hands. The mercenary leader was feeling fear as ahead of him, the 4 men under his command were tied by ropes from the ceiling but all of them were unconscious and hanging in the air.
From the smoke still being dispensed on the ground by the vigilante's technology, Batman landed inside of the smoke in a crouch. Batman stood tall as he faced the mercenary staring at him, instilling fear inside of the mercenary who was practically waiting for the vigilante to walk to him.
"uh.. C'mon!" The mercenary shouted, practically declaring the battle to begin as he pulled out his pistol and began to shoot shakily at the bat themed hero. Batman quickly ran towards the mercenary, using his steel bat gauntlet to block several bullets that almost hit his face as he quickly roundhouse kicked the mercenary in his face.
The tough mercenary quickly recovered as he swung with a right uppercut at Batman who quickly dodged the blow, who quickly ducked to the right side of the crook as he punched the mercenary back, completing his fist's entry into the mans skull.
The mercenary was hit so hard he fell against the now visible door, the steel barricade having been removed. Batman quickly took action and roundhouse kicked the mercenary in his stomach, slamming him through the door breaking the wood into pieces.
The mercenary stood up and attempted at kick at the Bat, only for Batman to dodge the kick, with his fist smashing into the mercenaries mask, breaking it into pieces in several areas of his face. He forced the mans head to smash against the mayors desk, and looked up towards the mayors wall vault which gave a beep and opened up as he quickly noticed someone else in the room.
What appeared to be the slim and well curved backside of a woman in a black leather outfit was currently looking in the vault. The woman turned around revealing her eyes, were covered and protected by a pair of tinted red goggles, as her head piece reminded the vigilante of a cat.
"Didn't your mother teach you to knock?" The woman asked with a wry smirk as Batman stared at her with pause. "Behind you big boy." The woman added, as Batman's eyes widened, hearing a saw coming closer from behind him.
While the Cat-woman continued to snoop in the vault, Batman quickly dodged the last mercenary with his saw as the saw landed in the mayors desk. Cat-woman grinned as she held an information drive in her hand. "Payday." Cat-woman said with a grin, as Batman noticed what she was holding and went to go after her, only to be stopped by the saw wielding thug.
As the mercenary charged once more with the saw, Batman dodged the man, and quickly holding the mans neck with his arm, brought the thug to the ground. With the saw wielding mercenary on the ground, Batman quickly knocked him out with a kick to the face.
Catwoman quickly ran past Batman out of the office, through the cubicles as she pulled out her purple glowing cat claw. Batman having just finished off the last violet painted mercenary gave quick chase to the fleeing thief. The beautiful vixen quickly jumped through the half open damaged elevator shaft which was only held together by a wooden chair, as her cat claw device quickly attached to the metal walls of the elevator shaft.
The thief grinned as she pulled out her whip and quickly flicked her hand towards the wooden chair as her whip successfully wrapped around a chair leg. She quickly gave her whip a pull as the chair pulled through quickly and began to fall down the long drop.
Batman cursed his luck as the door closed on him, and the cat thief began to ride her way to the top of the building. The vigilante quickly ran to a nearby staircase only to see cops on the other end on a staircase below him who were climbing upwards.
One of the police officers pulled out their gun as they shouted at the caped crusader, "Stay where you are! You're under arrest!" Batman scoffed on the inside as he quickly pulled out his grapple gun, aimed it up the the very farthest up it could go and pulled the trigger.
Within a few seconds Batman was cruising his way up to the top, as Catwoman herself had made it up to the roof with a grin as she threw a crowbar down after using it to open a roof door. She pulled the drive she had stolen from her backpack attached to her shoulder and grinned as she looked at it and began to walk further across the roof, "Without a scratch."
"So Far." Came the monotone reply from the bat themed vigilante as he pressed a button on his suits neck allowing him to speak with a deeper tone to disguise his real voice, "That doesn't belong to you."
Catwoman gave a slightly surprised gasp but quickly stifled her surprise as she turned around and looked behind her as Batman was in a crouch position on a roof air vent. "I was wondering if we'd cross paths." Catwoman said as Batman quickly replied as he raised his fists, "You broke the law, here I am."
The woman gave a scoff as she waved him off, "Cut the shit, the law? Don't tell me that's why you do all this." Batman remained composed as he continued to speak, "Gotham needs a hero, someone to hunt down people like you."
Catwoman gave a wry smirk, "So that makes me what? A villain? Sounds fun." She walked several steps towards the Bat as she challenged the winged vigilante. "Gotta admit it though, you give a good chase. Maybe someday, you'll actually catch me."
Batman growled as he got into a fighting stance, "Tonight." Catwoman gave another cheerful smirk, "Are you sure? Don't you know not to corner a wild animal? It's dangerous." Batman remained impassive as he got ready to begin this tussle, "Then let's put you in a cage, cat."
Catwoman held her fingers out in a come at me motion as she said in a suddenly all to serious tone, "Bring it bat." Batman accepted the Cat's challenge as he quickly ran and jumped off the vent he had stood atop, as he landed beside the Cat themed thief as the two became locked in a duel of fists, the two either punching, or dodging each others strikes.
The vixen quickly dodged Batman's frontal fist strikes as she quickly got on the ground and attempted to under-sweep the caped crusader with a lower leg kick. Batman quickly showed his agility as he quickly jumped above her leg strikes. The two rebounded from their first bout of fist fighting, as Catwoman gave a visible humph, and the woman quickly pulled out her whip from her belt.
Catwoman quickly flicked her whip at Batman's feet, her whip successfully lassoing Batman's right boot, as she pulled and the vigilante fell down onto his front. As soon as the woman tried to use the whip for a crippling blow across his face, Batman used his winged shaped gauntlet to dodge the blow and cut the woman's whip in half rendering it useless.
Batman stood up and quickly charged for another bout of fisticuffs, as Catwoman attempted to swipe her claws across the mans face. Batman dodged her stealthy swipes as one of his brutal punches connected to the woman's left eye, the left side of her goggles breaking as the millionaire vigilante knew the woman would have a nasty bruise for that strike. Catwoman quickly tripped Batman, as she ran past him attempting to escape off the roof.
A news chopper with Gotham News at night painted on it's side hovered above the buildings rooftop at least 30 feet above the roof as it shined it's lights down on the two animal themed individuals. "C'mon get a closer shot, do you see that, are you getting this?" someone in the chopper said to their camera wielding colleague, as the Cat who had stopped running due to the light of the chopper tried to face away from the chopper and hide her face, and the Bat had regained his composure and continued to charge towards her.
Batman quickly took advantage of Catwoman's blindness as he pulled the woman over himself in a grand slam as he pushed himself on top of her. "It's over." Batman said passively as Catwoman growled at him and quickly replied, "I wouldn't be so sure."
Catwoman scratched Batman's cheek with two of her suits claws, and quickly took her cat claw, turned it on and hastily attached the whirring wall climbing device to Batman's gauntlet and slammed the device against the roof surface as Batman was pulled off of the thief and sent 20 feet from her.
The vixen quickly attempted to escape from the rooftop, but Batman coolly pulled out his grapple gun and shot it at the fleeing thief. Her backpack was quickly latched onto as he pressed the gun again, as Catwoman was pulled back to him roughly and they were now only feet apart ready to go into another burst of fighting.
Four police officers burst through the roof door, with Lieutenant Gordon in front of them. "Two of them now? Jesus!" One officer said as another had his pistol aimed at the vigilante and the thief. "I got them!"
Gordon quickly got in the way of his unit and quickly enforced order among them, "Wait, wait, wait, do not shoot! Let this play out."
Batman and Catwoman had already began another bout of skirmish as the two ignored the police backup, more than ever the two began to use martial arts as a way to one up the other. The two were well matched together and would dodge each other's strikes as much as they could, while attempting to fire back a jab or two.
Batman used strategy while fighting the woman as he distracted her with a right jab, while his right hand tore off Catwomans side leg pack from the woman's left knee. The dark vigilante quickly threw it at the roof wall near them, as he flicked a batarang which hung the pack against the metal wall.
The two had stopped fighting for a moment, as Batman asked a legitimate question that had been on his mind this entire fight, "Why go to all that trouble, for this?" Batman questioned as he held up the electronic drive Catwoman had stolen in the first place.
Catwoman had a look of distaste on her visible face as she muttered, "Shit."
Suddenly, a trigger happy police officer shot at the vigilante, effectively causing a bullet to rip through batman's right side. "Agh..." Batman muttered deeply in shock as even Catwoman gasped at the sudden turn of events. "Dammit no!" Gordon shouted at his officer as the police and Gordon became focused on the trigger happy officer for the moment.
Catwoman quickly took this as her chance to escape as she began to sprint for the other edge of the roof. Batman grunted and shouted at her to stop as he had more questions, "Wait no!" With his plead not working the injured Batman began to run past his pain and chased after the woman.
Batman quickly pulled out a taser disc from his utility belt, and flung it with accurate aim at the fleeing thief. Catwoman grunted in pain as she felt electricity surging throughout her body from the disc that hit her back. The woman quickly became unconscious, but the thief had unfortunately been on the edge of the roof with her wall claw device ready.
Batman's lenses widened as he ran to the edge and jumped after the thief to save her. Batman quickly picked up Catwoman's glowing claw and began to descend down a steel part of the buildings wall to catch up with her safely, but the mans eyes widened behind his cowl.
Out of nowhere, a web shot and connected itself to the base of the nearby Gotham metro-rail which ran through Gotham city 24/7, transporting passengers as several rail cars passed by the building the bat and cat had just fought on.
Batman quickly glanced and was stunned to see Spider-Man's red and blue well emblazoned form flinging through the air, with grace and acrobatic skill showing as the web slinger quickly scooped the falling unconscious Catwoman in his arms saving her, and the new vigilante continued to sling through Gotham city with the thief in one arm, and his web hand focusing on holding them both in the air.
Batman gave a gruff sigh and pulled his grapple gun out and quickly pulled himself onto another buildings roof. The caped vigilante walked a few steps before slowly falling onto his knees, "Ahh."
The Bat vigilante slowly made his way down to ground level despite bleeding out profusely. "Alfred." Bruce said as he tapped his communication device in his cowl and then tapped a holographic key on his gauntlet that summoned his vehicle, "I'm summoning the Bat-Mobile, I've been shot by a police officer, I may need help in taking the round out."
Half a minute later, Alfred quickly replied to Bruce's call for help, "At once, I'll have my medical kit ready master Bruce."
Peter felt a feeling of dread and anxiety in his chest as he had flung himself through the air, diving faster and faster to save the cat themed woman falling through the air.
Spider-Man was late for the fight, but he only saw the aftermath, seeing Batman electrocute the poor woman causing her to fall to her potential death.
When Peter caught the woman bridal style, he lost his feeling of dread but the anxiety remained. The woman was warm and sweaty from her fight in his arms, but the innocent vigilante held the thief tightly in his arms.
"You're gonna be safe." The teen quietly mumbled to himself, not that the woman would hear him if she had woken up, as he swung himself and his guest through the air quickly with the wind whipping past the two.
Cat-woman's eyes slowly opened as she attempted to assess her situation. 'I'm not dead?' The thief quietly thought as she quickly felt shivers arise at the cold wind hitting her back and neck.
The vixens eyes locked onto the scene before her in shock as she saw the city going up and down, like she was being flung in the air back and forth!
"Who are you?!" The thief questioned without trust as she attempted to move around, not being able to see who had saved her and was now holding her tightly, especially around her backside.
Spider-Man jolted a bit due to Cat-Woman's movements as he began to feel the woman slipping from his grasp. "Hey, wait a minute! Hang awn!" The teen vigilante shouted loudly as Cat-Woman growled, "I don't need a man touching or holding me, just let me hold on."
Spider-Man slowly let go of the woman as Cat-Woman manually held her arms around the younger teens neck as her legs loosely held onto the young teens legs. Peter was glad he was wearing his suit, because when the strange woman pressed her bosoms against his chest, his teenage hormones sky rocketed and his face was pure tomato.
The wall crawler eventually landed on the roof of a downtown cathedral in a safer Gotham neighborhood. "You gonna be okay?" Spider-Man asked in his inner city accent as Cat-Woman slowly got off of the strong teen and separated from Spider-Man as she looked him up and down.
"Hmm, I'll be fine. What's a kid doing out past his bed time saving damsels in distress though?" Cat-woman asked with a wry smile at the shorter hero, as Spider-man felt his heart skip a beat but the arachnid themed hero attempted to not show his faltering.
"Nah little lady, ain't no kids out past bed time. I'm one hundred pah-cent spidah!" Spider-man said in a comical manner as he performed a dab in front of the older cat thief. Cat-woman slightly chuckled and shook her head.
"Yeah kid, whatever. You probably shouldn't hang around me very often, I may take your innocence away, or steal your lunch money." Cat-woman said with coy voice as she swayed her hips and walked towards the nearest way down the cathedral.
Peter stood there for a few seconds as he was obviously keeping his lenses trained on the older woman's lower backside, until he eventually returned to earth and gave a huff, "I'm not young, you're just old!"
The thief herself chuckled at the teenage vigilante's response as she continued to climb off the cathedral roof, planning to go back to her apartment and get some rest.
Peter sighed as he began to swing through Gotham's downtown area, "I'm late for the Harvey Dent campaign fundraiser, ugh. Vince won't be happy!" Within 2 months since his disappearing act from what he deemed his original reality, Peter was able to get two jobs.
With some of his experience working with cranky old news owner, J Jonah Jameson, Peter was able to get a job working with the Gotham Weekly as a photographer. Peter was also relieved for his income when he got a job as a food stocker at a local grocery chain.
In terms of identity, Peter was a smart kid who registered with a homeless shelter and informed government agents of a fake backstory. His parents died when he was young, and his birth certificate and other documents were destroyed by an abusive orphanage owner. With Peter being a charismatic and innocent teen, he was able to get a government agent to help him out, giving him a new social security card, and a clean slate.
With new identification for this world, and several jobs the spider kid was hopefully going to do alright despite being alone, needing a homeless shelter or abandoned rooftops he would find to sleep and live
'My seventeenth birthday just happened a week ago. And no candles, no family. ugh, and I missed this fight. I think that was Batman fighting Cat lady.' Peter thought to himself as he shook his head and continued his swinging. "Ah well, better get to the fundraiser quick!" Peter said with a grin under his mask as he swung to get the nice clothes his boss gave him to work in near the rich elite.
I apologize for taking so long to update another chapter, and Peter didn't make much of an appearance in this chapter but he will always make some sort of an appearance or reference. He is Spider-Man.