Superman POV
Bruce is alive. I've known him too long to believe that he could have been killed by a seemingly random series of explosions set by an unknown assailant. If there was one thing that I could say about Bruce, it's that he's always prepared for whatever comes his way. He's got a contingency plan for every possibility, so there's no way that he would let Wayne Manor be destroyed so easily.
Nightwing had promptly gone and told Tim and Barbara about what I had noticed, and the three had gone to investigate the wreckage of the manor to see if there was anything left. In the meantime, I am doing investigations of my own; not as a superhero, but rather a concerned reporter from the Daily Planet.
"Clark Kent, Daily Planet. I've been assigned to investigation of Wayne Enterprises by Perry White," I say, flashing my media badge to the security guard at the door of Wayne Tower. With a nod, he opens the door.
"Wait here, I'll call down Mr. Fox to speak to you sir," the receptionist says as I once again repeat what I had said to the security guard.
A few minutes later, the elevator dings and Mr. Fox walks in, clearly having not slept for a long time. "Lucius Fox," he says, shaking my hand. "Please forgive my fatigue. I was not expecting more reporters; after all it's been a couple weeks since Mr. Wayne's funeral. Please follow me to my office," he says, gesturing to the elevator.
When we have entered Lucius's private office, I cut to the chase. "I assume that you helped Bruce design all the gadgets."
"You are correct, though there isn't any news company that really hasn't figured things out," Lucius replies.
"So you knew Bruce well? Knew of both sides?" I inquire. The weapons designer tugs at his collar, somewhat uncomfortable by the line of questioning. "Please, I need your help. I'm one of Bruce's closest friends. I know him too well to believe that he could be killed by bombs planted in his home. Batman wouldn't be killed by something like this."
"A-are you one of them?" Lucius asks, unsure if he should say anything. To answer him, I undo the first three buttons of shirt, revealing the S shield underneath.
"Does that answer your question?" I say. "I trusted you with my identity, as I'm sure that Bruce did so many years ago when the crusade against Gotham began. All I want to do is see if there are any clues as to where he could have went. He isn't dead. I know he isn't, and the emptiness of his coffin confirmed that there was no body to salvage from the ruins of Wayne Manor."
"Very well…" he says, straightening his tie. "What do you want to know?"
"Did he say anything on October 31st? Anything that could help?"
"Nothing that I recall. One of his foes took me hostage, but Bruce took him down, and that was that. He didn't return to Wayne Tower after that," Lucius says.
"Anything seem different about him?"
"Nothing out of the ordinary; he was quite his normal self."
"Do you have any idea where he would have went?"
"No idea, there are a few dozen properties that Bruce could inhabit, though he surely would have told us by now where he would have went."
A few more questions later, I ask if there was anybody who managed to access Bruce's banking accounts, and thankfully this question bears fruit.
"Well, the earliest hours of November 1st saw a complete withdrawal of money from two sub-accounts labeled 'Babel' and 'Shadow Sight,'" Lucius answers.
"Any idea what these two sub-accounts could be for?" I ask.
"Babel and Shadow Sight are two projects that Bruce had told me to save up for roughly five years ago. Babel has seen a few withdrawals from Mr. Wayne over the years, each time being roughly ten to twenty thousand removed to fund his gadgets, but now all $5 million dollars from the Babel account and the $7 million in Shadow Sight's account have both disappeared. The digital footprints of whoever had stolen the money are untraceable." Lucius explains.
"Hmm. I'll bring this to Oracle to investigate further," I tell him.
"Good luck," Lucius says. "If Bruce is alive, I trust that you will find him."
Thank you for those who support this story, I will try working on this as much as I can. Each chapter of After Arkham Knight will be narrated by a different character, and there will be more besides the investigation of where Bruce Wayne could have gone after the Knightfall Protocol, such as what happens to the Gotham gangs after Bruce 'dies.'