2. The Secret Council

Sean and Selina lie with their faces turned to one and another staring at the tiny bundle between them. Her chest rising and falling as she sleeps.

"I like how she has your hair color," Selina said with a smile then strokes with her index finger gently through the girl's tiny hairs.

Sean smiles and replies; "I like how she has the color of your eyes."

"And your nose," Selina said.

Sean grins; "And her chin is as chubby as yours."

"I don't have a chubby chin!" Selina spat and pierced her green eyes angrily into Sean's before punching the arm he had wrapped around the baby.

Sean quickly sends an apologetic smile at his girlfriend then stretching his arms and legs, saying; "She's yours all day. Jim needs me to find Fish Mooney and her gang."

The young father throws the sheets off before hurling his feet over the bedside and reaching for his pants that lied on the floor.

Selina looks at her boyfriend's back and says; "You never guess what Luna and I did yesterday. We saw that new reporter, Valerie, harassing you and Gordon at the dinner about Fish Mooney. When you two left, I told her where to find Fish, but send her to the other side of the city."

"That explains why we didn't see her all day," Sean said and stands up on his feet then pulling his pants up and buckling his belt before strolling to the bathroom to do his morning routines.

Selina snuggles herself and Luna a little further under the warm covers then listening to the running water in the bathroom. She would have fallen to sleep again if it wasn't for Annie to storm inside, without knocking first.

"Selina, is Sean still here?!"

Selina moves up in a sitting position then replies; "He's taking a shower, why? What's wrong?"

"There's something wrong with Alfred! He's lying on the study floor, unconscious!"

Then Loïc enters; "We can't find Bruce!"

"SEAN!" Selina screamed in alarm then jumping outside her bed and grabbing for her morning-robe before taking her little daughter off the bed as well.

By then Sean came outside the bathroom dripping wet and wearing a towel, asking; "Selina, what's wrong?"

"Alfred is unconscious, and Bruce is missing!"


After being kidnapped from his home, Bruce Wayne woke up while being slung over someone's shoulder who then slumps him into a chair before removing the sack from his head.

Bruce pants with fear while checking his surroundings turning his head from left to right when suddenly a female voice called out his name.

The young billionaire looks at his right spotting a fancy dressed woman with blond hair which is neatly comb into a tight knot. She was also wearing an owl's mask. The man who kidnapped Bruce takes his position behind the boy, tall and regally.

"You wanted to talk," the woman said piercing her masked eyes into the boy's. Bruce keeps staring at her baffled. Then she chuckles sarcastically; "Forgive me."

The woman takes off the owl's mask and places it on the table they are sitting at, then asking; "Better?"

"I know you," Bruce said borrowing his eyes suspiciously, but calmly. "I've seen you at Wayne Enterprises events. You've been inside my home."

The woman simply smiles, never taking her eyes off the young heir; "My name is Kathryn. I represent the group you've asked to speak with."

"You didn't have to hurt Alfred," Bruce said angrily then remembering all the other things that had happened the past few months; "You were behind Indian Hill. Hugo Strange was hired by you."

"Is that why you here, Bruce? To ask questions you already know the answers to?" Kathryn asked with a slight taunted undertone in her voice.

Bruce ignores her question and shoots back; "Who are you? What do you call yourselves?"

"Our name is unimportant." Kathryn rises to her feet and starts walking down the room still keeping her eyes on Bruce as she comments; "Now, you made a threat. Referring to evidence you'd uncovered of our existence. We would like to know what you found."

Bruce kept his eyes on her locked as well, then replying blankly; "Nothing certain." Then adding after a short, intense pause; "Until now."

"A bluff," Kathryn said not even hiding the impressed tone in her voice. "Nicely played."

Bruce burns his eyes into hers and says; "It wasn't just a bluff. The more I studied my company's doings, the more there were things that could only be explained by your existence. Still, I had to know for sure. Now I do!"

Bruce takes a deep breath before adding all the other proof he had collected over a short amount of time; "I began all this because I wanted to solve my parents' murder. Two months ago, I concluded your organization responsible."

"Have you changed your mind?"

"NO!" Bruce said firmly then adding; "But there are other considerations."

Kathryn smirks; "Such as your life. The lives of those close to you. Why did you want to see us?"

"I'm here to offer Wayne Enterprises," Bruce said.

Kathryn laughs; "You cannot give someone what they already possess."

"I'm not finished," Bruce said firmly then adding; "If something happens to me, my shares will be turned over to the federal government. Investigators will comb through every file, every asset. Are you prepared for that kind of scrutiny?"

"That would be unfortunate, but we would weather the storm," Kathryn replied with stone cold face. "What else?"

"The Wayne name still has meaning. For a group such as yours, I could provide a useful distraction."

Kathryn eyes Bruce up and down, saying; "You are an impressive young man. Still, your offer is not sufficient." The woman starts walking back to her seat while adding; "We will also require that you cease all investigation into our existence and your parents' murder. Any violation of that, in the slightest, and our agreement is void."

Kathryn had sat down by the time she was finished and Bruce hears the soft noise of liquid being poured from a bottle. When he looks over he sees his kidnapper add a few droplets of narcotic substance onto a cloth.

"I need your answer now!" Kathryn said, then suddenly loud noises came from outside the room. Then a man came flying through the door and landed near them on the floor.

More grunts, pants and fighting sounds echoed through the building. A man yells something, but it's hard to hear what he said. Kathryn looks at Bruce's kidnapper then signaling to him to take a look on what's going on.

The kidnapper rushes to the door, but then another man dressed as himself and his other colleague collapses into him with a painful thud.

Kathryn rushes toward Bruce and grabs him out of his chair and holding him in front of her like a human shield then waiting for whoever came inside.

The noises stop and Bruce can feel Kathryn shake in fear as she wraps her arm around his neck from behind and holds a knife against his throat. Where the weapon came from, Bruce didn't know, but it made his heart race like a speeding car.

They both look at the door then a young boy wearing a black pants, white shirt and black leather jacket saunters inside, grinning from ear to ear.

"SEAN!" Bruce exclaimed happily.

The street boy ignores his friend then piercing his eyes into the person behind Bruce and snarls; "Kathryn. I should have known you had something to do with this!"


Jim is eating his breakfast in his favorite local dinner when suddenly someone slides into his boot. When he looks up he finds Valerie Vale.

"Surprised to see me?" she asked when she saw Jim's surprised face.

Jim clenches his teeth and replies; "Not really. What do you want?"

"I have a proposition."

"Not interested," Jim said coldly then taking a bite from his eggs and bacon.

Instead of taking that as a cue to leave, Valerie moves her face closer to Jim's and whispers; "Come on. Think of it as a way to say 'I'm sorry for handcuffing you to a car door."

"Except I'm not," Jim answered with a smug then taking a big gulp from his coffee. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find my partner and catch ourselves a few-

"Monsters?" Valerie filled in with a grin. "Look I don't know why you rather stroll around the city with some famous billionaire street boy to grab monsters instead of helping me to find Fish Mooney. I mean, I'm an adult and that boy is, well, still a teenage boy."

Jim sighs deep before replying annoyed; "Look, you don't know Sean Ornelas. He saw far more horrible things than you. He's not 'just a teenage' boy."

Valerie sits back in the boot and folds her arms before commenting slightly taunted; "And here you are taking Sean to find Fish Mooney so he can see more horrible stuff?"

Jim ignores her words then asks; "And why do you want to find Fish so badly? What's in it for you?"

"A story," Valerie replied then noticing Jim's surprised look; "It shocks you that I love my job and I want to be good at it?"

Jim shrugs; "Kinda. But why not bring her in yourself?" Valerie looks away and Jim suddenly gets it. "Ah, you lost touch with your source."

Valerie rolls her eyes and spits; "I did not lose touch with my source. I just have no way of contacting her. She found me."

"Who's your source?"

"She looked like a petty thief with a baby," Valerie replied. "I bet a teenage street girl who became mommy a little too early. I like her though, she's got style."

Jim looks mildly interested and asks; "What's her name?"

"Selina Kyle. You two ever cross paths when you were a cop?"

Jim smirks; "Once or twice."

"Great," Valerie said beaming a smile. "So you know where she lives."

"No, not a clue," Jim lied standing up from his seat and walked to the door. "This means you have to do it on your own, Valerie. I have to find my partner."

Valerie watches agape at the bounty hunter who walks out the door.

Meanwhile, in a different part of Gotham, a young woman lies at the shore of a riverbank. Then she suddenly jolts awake and coughs up water.

While looking at herself and her wet clothes, the young woman stands up her feet and walks further a shore then walking cautious toward a parked garbage truck before looking in one of the garbage trucks side mirrors.

Suddenly a man of her age walks around the garbage truck and stares at her worriedly before asking; "You all right?"

"I'm thirsty," she replied with a dry throat.

"I-I don't have anything on me, but I live just up the road," the man said pointing in a direction. "What's your name?"

The young woman thinks for a moment then replying warily; "Pamela. My name's Pamela."

At the same time, in another part of Gotham, Bullock is still extremely busy to help his partner in finding his sister's kidnappers when suddenly a van stops near them and a woman wearing more leather than Selina ever worn, lingers toward them.

"Detective Bullock," she said her voice sounding weird due to the mask she was wearing in front of her mouth.

Bullock eyes the woman interestingly then smirking; "Yeah, that's me."

"Fish Mooney wants to see you," she said and the two men frown momentarily when suddenly a gust of wind blows in their necks and someone grabs them from behind.

Bullock can only think of one person who's that fast, grumbles and turns one-eighty; "Annie, I'm telling you- Then noticing it's not Annie but an angrily looking teenage boy with white hair and dirty clothes; "Alright, alright, alright! I'm going."

The leather wearing woman grabs Bullock temporarily partner while the fast kid grabs Bullock and push the both of them inside the back of a van and onto the seat parallel of Fish then driving off while Diefenbaker runs after the van as fast as he can to save his friend and his friend's weird smelling partner.

"Hello, Harvey," the ex-mob queen said while eyeing her old friend up and down. "Long time, you even lost weight I see."

Bullock grins casually; "Hey, Fish. How you doing?"

"Not so good."

"Sorry to hear that. You know, there's a lot of people out there looking for you."

Fish shrugs; "Yeah, well I'm looking for that bastard, Strange."

"Yeah, well, you know I can't help you with that."

"Oh," Fish said moving closer to her old friend in a flirtingly manner then touching his cheek; "Yes, you can. And you will."

Then the two of them start to make out for like five minutes straight when Bullock mumbles dazed; "I'll help you find Strange."

"Good boy," Fish smirked then looking over to Bullock's partner; "So, who are you?"

Will smiles politely and replies; "My name is Constable Will Fraser from the Royal Canadian Mounted police. I came to Gotham on the trail of my sister's kidnappers-

Fish puts her hand up to shush Will and spits slightly annoyed; "I asked you're name, not the reason why you're in Gotham."

"Understood, Ma'am."

"Now, are you going to give me troubles?"

Will thinks for a moment then looking at Bullock who still looks at Fish as if he's a little school boy in love then looking back at Fish and replies wisely; "Not at all, Ma'am."

"Miss Mooney?" the chauffeur of the van said through his ear-phone. "A white dog is following us ever since we grabbed those two."

Fish grunts tiredly then asking Will; "That dog that's following us, is he yours?"

"Yes, Ma'am, but he's actually a wolf and-

"Marv, drive faster will you!" Fish barked to the chauffeur and ignoring the Mountie. "We have to catch a crazy professor!"

Marv obeys immediately and speeds the van down the streets and almost running over Pamela and the construction-worker.

"Yeah, some people should never drive a vehicle," the construction-worker. said when he noticed Pamela's shocked eyes and helped her crossing the street to his house then opening the door for her. "This is it. Nothing special, but it's home. You're hungry?"

Pamela walks cautiously into the house straight to the kitchen where she finds lots of dried plants, mumbling; "Just thirsty."

"Beer? Pop? Tea?"

"Water," Pamela replied touching the brown leafy plants then mumbling; "So sad."

The construction-worker. fills a glass with water then hands it to his guest and says; "My ex-wife left a box of clothes when she moved out. You're welcome to take something to change."

"Okay," Pamela said taking a tiny sip of water before pouring the rest into the plants.

The construction-worker. looks at her for a moment then clearing his throat as he says; "If you need to use the phone, go ahead."

Pamela frowns; "Why would I need to use the phone?"

"Someone's got to be looking for you. I mean, a beautiful girl like you must have a-

"You think I'm beautiful?" Pamela asked while her frown grew more. The construction-worker. looks slightly awkward then watching at the young woman how she turns her attention back to the plants, muttering; "Poor things."

"I'm gonna get rid of that," the construction-worker. said while grabbing the plant off the kitchen bench and threw it in a bin. "I've never been good at taking care of things."

Pamela watched in shock then gasping; "What are you doing?"

"Relax," the man chuckled. "They're just plants."

A murderous glare grows in Pamela's eyes when her hand moves slowly to another plant, ready to pick it up and...


Kathryn's eyes grew wide in shock when she saw the Ornelas boy walk in after pummeling most of her talons to pulp, including the one who abducted Bruce, because soon he tried to crawl from under his colleague and attack Sean from behind, the boy swung his elbow back and knocked the talon in the face.

"Sean Ornelas," Kathryn said nervously while taking a few steps back and pulling Bruce with her. "They said you died when you were a little boy. They shot you and you fell in the cold waters before drowning."

Bruce rolls his eyes; "You haven't been watching the news lately, haven't you?"

"You, shut up," Kathryn said shaking Bruce like a rag-doll. "And no, I haven't. I returned only a few days ago, because they said I had to represent them." Then turning her eyes back to Sean who closed in on her slowly; "Even Mark Ornelas was sure about your dead."

Sean halts his steps instantly. His eyes grew wide soon he hears his dad's name then scowling; "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that Mark survived the attack," Kathryn said while holding Bruce tightly. "Mark was so angry for losing his wife and son, and he wanted answers. Mark wanted to know who hired the gang that attacked them and who was the leader and that's why he joined our group. Mark Ornelas wore the same mask you see there on the table."

Kathryn darts her eyes to the table where she had left her mask. Sean followed her eyes, his face slowly turning pale. Then he shakes it off and bellows angrily; "You're lying!"

"You think I'm lying?" Kathryn spat back, her eyes burning angrily into Sean's. Then her eyes dart to the door on the left side of the room and she says; "Just open that door, Sean Ornelas, and you will find all the answers to your dad. You will finally realize who you are and who you're meant to be!"

Sean meets Bruce's eyes which fill with fear then scowling to Kathryn; "What I want is for you to stop shielding yourself behind my friend!"

"Bruce Wayne is not your friend, Sean! Bruce is your enemy, like his father was Mark's enemy!" Kathryn laughed. "But if you insist..

Kathryn pushes Bruce away who looses his footings and trips to the floor with a thud. Then she pushes a button that's located under the table and all the doors, especially the one where Sean came through, are getting locked with steel doors.

"You can't leave this mansion, Sean," Kathryn said gloating slightly when Sean's eyes fill with fear. "Not before you've seen what life you're dad wanted for you."

Kathryn walks to the door she mentioned earlier and opens it with a key-card then press a four number code which moves the steel bars out of the way.

Sean and Bruce share a look then looking at the other door, their only way out if it wasn't locked. Then their eyes move to the windows which are bolted as well.

"There is no way out, boys," they heard Kathryn say in a taunted tone of voice who waited for them to follow her inside the next room.

The two billionaires know they have no other option to let Kathryn have her way until they figured another way out. They follow the woman slowly inside finding a room with on each side display cabinets filled with what looks like owl masks.

Kathryn walks down the room then over to the fourth display cabinet on the left and stops in front of it, brandishing her arms and says; "This is where we keep Mark Ornelas's mask. You can see it for yourself, Sean."

Sean scurries closer not knowing what to think then seeing a framed picture of his dad. The mask on the standard in front of the picture says; 'Mark Ornelas' and Sean's heart skips a few beats in shock. This couldn't be true, right?

"That box you see there," Kathryn said while pointing a shelve lower; "That's where he kept his researches and findings. It's all in there, Sean. All your dad's secrets and wishes about how he wanted you to live your life if you hadn't drowned."

A tear streams down Sean's face as he looks at the framed picture of his dad. It looks very recent, but there is no doubt it's his dad. Not that Sean remembers much about how his parents looked like, but the eyes said enough. It was like he was staring into his own eyes, and he always knew he had his dad's eyes. Selina told him once when she and Annie traveled back and forth to celebrate Bruce's birthdays.

"It's all yours, Sean Ornelas and all you have to do is taking your dad's place in our group like he wanted you to," Kathryn said, and then her eyes land on Bruce; "Once you read all those letters your dad wrote, Sean, you will understand what I meant with; 'Bruce is your enemy'. You will finally find out who hired the gang that attacked your family."

A cold shiver runs down Bruce's spine when he she burned her eyes into his when she said that. Why did she look at him like that? He was not Sean's enemy, and neither was his dad an enemy to Mark.

"I need your answer now, and if the answer is what we want it to be, this key to the cabinet is yours."

Sean finally pulls his eyes away from the framed picture and slowly meets Kathryn's eyes, then demanding firmly; "You're going to tell me who hired them!"

Kathryn nods; "I will, after you decide to stay here with me."


A dark van drives very slowly toward a dark mansion that is guarded with two security guards. Inside the van sits Fish Mooney with a few members of her gang plus the lackadaisical detective and the Mountie.

"This is where I dropped Strange off a few months ago," Bullock said glancing through the window then meeting Fish's eyes.

The woman smirks; "Alright, show time." Then she opens the back of the van and hisses to the cop before he steps out; "Anything funny, and your new partner gets a bullet in his head."

Bullock nods understandably then sauntering casually toward the mansion and the two security guards; "Hey, fellas. Detective Bullock, GCPD."

"Where is your badge?" one of the guards asks suspiciously.

Bullock searches his pockets then smiling; "My badge? Oh, man, I must've dropped it. I'm here to see Strange."

"We haven't heard anything," the other guard said also suspiciously.

Bullock frowns; "You haven't? That's strange." Then smirking and adding quickly; "I mean strange weird, not the guy Strange."

Instead of replying the lackadaisical cop, the two guards look at something behind him and when Bullock turns he sees the fast, white haired kid strolling up to them with a big smirk.

"Hold it!" one of the guards said while aiming his gun, but the boy just kept walking toward them. "I said hold i!"

Then suddenly the spot where the boy stood was empty in a flash and the two guards look around to see where he went to when the boy pops up just as fast, but this time behind them.

The boy disarms the two guards then kicking one of them unconscious before grabbing the gun off the ground and aims it the second guard. Bullock quickly hits the guard to the head with a stick then grumbling; "No reason to kill them, right? Unconscious they won't do much."

"Yeah, well, I just like-

"Sid, get inside!" Fish barked to the young boy when she, Marv, leather woman and Will walked toward them. The boy rolls his eyes, but obeys quickly and Fish mutters to Bullock; "Could you ask that Wayne butler if there is room for one more teen? That kid drives me crazy, I don't know how he can contain seven of them."

Bullock shrugs; "All you need is a strong arm and a great aim."

Fish gasps; "No?!" Bullock nods rapidly, and Fish adds impressed; "Wow, I never thought the butler had it in him."

"Well, a bunch of un-ruly teens can give you a whole other perspective on raise and punish them properly," Bullock grinned.

Fish enters the mansion walking straight to the room where they keep the nutty professor imprisoned. After opening the door she finds Hugo surrounded with four walls made out of bulletproof glass.

"Professor Strange. You and I have some unfinished business."

Hugo walks over to the glass wall and cries in glee; "Look at you. You look so amazing, my beautiful daughter."

"Whatever you did to me and the others is making us very sick," Fish said with a scowl on her face. "But you're going to make me better, Daddy. And when that's done, you're going to make me an army, so I can have this city at my feet."

Hugo's face turns sad before he says; "But I can't fix you."

Fish clenches her fists angrily. "I strongly advice you to rethink your answer."

Then the angry woman turns on her heels and leaves the room with her gang of monsters and Bullock. She needs him to call off the police who's sirens she can hear in the distance.

Not far from the mansion a wolf picks up the scent of the van he's been chasing for the past few hours and directs him straight to the place it went to.

Diefenbaker skulks around the house the sneaking inside through a broken window. Once he's inside he starts sniffing the floor to pick up his human friend's scent.

"You know, I wonder how a Mountie fits in all of this," Hugo said looking at Will.

Will turns one-eighty and looks at Hugo then replying with a very angry look in his eyes; "I came to Gotham on the trail of my sister's kidnappers who I learned was hired by a man named Hugo Strange. That's you, so you better tell me what you've done to her before I break through that glass wall and force it out of you!"

Hugo shrugs; "Look, I kidnapped lots of people. Lots of women, so it would help if you gave me a name."

"Melanie Fraser," Will said piercing his eyes murderous into Hugo's.

Hugo smirks wickedly; "Yeah, I do remember her. Strong, stubborn girl she was. Even though she had no idea on who she was, and no matter how many times I tried to give her a new name, she kept disobeying me and demanded me to tell who she really was. She was nice to the boys though."

"Where is she?"

Hugo shrugs; "I don't know. You see, the cops broke into my secret laboratory named Indian Hill and they destroyed all my researches. I tried to escape with a few of my experiments including her, but that woman over there stole my bus and crashed it. I have no idea what happened with my babies."

"You did that to her?" Will asked pointing at the door where Fish disappeared through earlier. "I've heard you mixed her DNA with a cuttle fish. What did you do to my sister?"

Hugo smirks; "You don't wanna know!"

Fish Mooney makes a phone call to the GCPD and Barnes answers it, hollering relieved; "Harvey, you all right?"

Fish laughs; "Oh, he's fine. But this ain't Harvey."

"I want to talk to him!" Barnes demanded angrily.

"Sure," Fish replied then handing the phone to Bullock.

The lackadaisical cop looks at her and says dully; "You don't control me anymore."

Fish stares at the cop and simply says; "Sid."

"Hey, Cap!" Bullock cried gleefully into the phone before Sid could even hurt him. "How are ya?"

Fish puts the phone back to her own ear and spits; "So, this is how it's going to be. One cop comes within 19 feet of this place, and Harvey, although I love him, will eat a bullet."

Then the woman closes the cell phone with a snap.

Meanwhile, Jim figured all by himself where Fish possibly would go to and arrived at the mansion. Sadly he wasn't the only one. Penguin also had used his brains and arrived a little earlier than Jim and was steering up the crowd of angry citizens.

Jim quickly ducks into the shrubs and walks around the mansion then climbing inside through a broken window. Quietly he sneaks down the room, opens the door to the next one and creeps through the darkness when he suddenly hears the click of a gun.

"You killed a lot of our friends, Gordon." Jim looks over and sees a young teenage boy with white hair and gun. The bounty hunter rolls his eyes slightly, and the boy snarls; "Now we are going to kill you."

Before the boy could even pull the trigger the door across the room opens and reveals a fierce woman and a very scared Hugo in the background. The woman snaps; "That's enough. Bring him in."

The young boy grabs Jim's shoulder and pushes him toward the door then inside and the bounty hunter spots his ex-partner instantly. Bullock sees him as well and asks confused; "Jim, why are you here?"

"Saving you, I thought that was obvious," Jim replied.

Bullock frowns even more; "Really?"

"Totally."

"Thank you."

Fish rolls her eyes and in case the two ex-partners would start hugging as well, Fish cuts between them quickly and asks; "Why are you here, Gordon? Did your little cop friend send you to get me to turn myself in? 'Cause that's not going to happen."

"I'm here on my own," Jim replied clenching his teeth. "I only want Bullock."

Fish smirks; "Really? You'd risk your life for this broken down old thing?"

Bullock glares at Fish and spits offended; "Thanks."

"He'd do the same for me," Jim said.

Bullock nods; "I would, it's true."

Fish ignores the cop and says to Jim; "Well, you've helped me, 'cause now I have three hostages."

"Barnes won't see it that way," Jim said with a hardened face. "You hurt me, he'll probably thank you. I've been nothing but a pain in the ass to him."

Bullock nods; "Also true."

"Then you better give me one good reason why I shouldn't have my friends kill you," Fish said zooming her nail dangerously close into Jim's face.

Jim doesn't even flinch and replies; "Because I can get you out of here."

"And exactly how do you plan to do that, considering this whole place is surrounded?"

Jim pierces his eyes coldly into Fish's; "That's my problem. I get you out of her, you give me Bullock and his partner."

Fish thinks for a moment then replying; "Fine. But you better not trick me, because I'm going to hurt your skinny little ass for it!"


Sean looks at the box beneath the shelve with his dad's picture. It contains all the answers he wants, but he never ever would work for a corrupt, terrorist organization and neither would his dad.

The street billionaire looks slowly back to Kathryn, inhales deeply before saying; "I made my decision and there is nothing you can say or do to make me chance my mind."

"I guess that means your answer is no?" Kathryn asked looking disappointed to the boy then to Bruce; "I guess your answer will be same, isn't it, Bruce?"

Bruce simply glared angrily, and she can read the answer in his eyes.

"Very well. You say nothing can chance your mind? How about this?" Kathryn turns around and walks back to the center of the room then facing the boys again before saying; "Thomas Wayne is the one who hired the leader, because he found out Mark was double-crossing him. Soon Mark found out the truth he hired Matches Malone and ordered him to kill your parents. That is why you two never can be friends."

Bruce takes a step toward her spits angrily; "My dad would never do such a thing! You're lying!"

"It's all in there," Kathryn said pointing at the glass cabinet. "And that's where it stays, because you made your choice Ornelas." Kathryn walks back to the two boys before saying; "I'll tell you the same what I've told Bruce. You stop investigating us, that box stays in place along with Mark's notes, otherwise your loved-ones will be in big danger."

Before either of the two boys could say something, two talons had entered the room without their notice and grabbed them from behind. The one that grabbed Bruce covers his mouth with a cloth, and the one that grabbed Sean puts a needle in the back of his neck for a quicker sedation.

"Take them back to Wayne Manor," Kathryn ordered. "And do it quietly!"

The two talons nod obediently then swinging the boys over their shoulder before they head out the room.

Meanwhile, inside the mansion where they imprisoned Hugo, Jim makes a secretive phone call with Penguin and tells him her only way out is through the backdoor that will lead to the woods behind the mansion.

Once the bounty hunter finished his call with Penguin he returns to Fish and tells her the cops are trying to get inside through the front but the back is still clear.

"Excellent!" Fish cried with glee then demanding her men to open Hugo's cage. Will takes a step toward her to tell her she can't take him, because he still needs to know where to find his sister, but Fish aims a gun at him and he takes a quick step back.

Seeing the gun as a threat to his friend, Diefenbaker jumps out of the shadows and knocks Fish to the ground. The woman kicks at the wolf who growls at her in anger.

Fish quickly scrambles back to her feet, grabs Hugo and runs with him to the backdoor while Bullock grabs the gun from the floor and starts shooting after her.

Sid, Marv and Nancy spurt all three in a different direction and start shooting as well, while Bullock, Jim and Will take cover and shoot back. Then Barnes and his men break through the front door saving the day.

Back at Wayne Manor, Alfred and the teens try to wake the two boys who lie flopped out on the couches. After several attempts they finally open their eyes.

"SEAN," Selina cried and launches herself into her boyfriend's arms. "Is everything alright?"

Sean tries to sit up warily then Bruce asks equally warily; "How did we get back here?"

"I don't know," Alfred replied and the others shrug as well. "I got the foggiest. I just came in here to call the police and-and then I found you two."

Bruce gets up his feet and walks down the room while gasping; "I saw them, Alfred. I spoke to them."

"Yeah, and then she told us a bunch of crap and lies," Sean said angrily getting up as well. "I mean, it has to be lies, right? I mean, my dad and Bruce's dad were friends not enemies."

Bruce turns to Sean and shakes his head; "I do think she lied as well. But it's not like we can investigate them further."

"They threatened the both of you, didn't they?" Alfred asked and the boys nod. "Do you intend on keeping your word?"

Sean looks away and Bruce replies; "What other choice do we have?"

"Right," Alfred said then asking; "And how do you know they will keep theirs?"

Sean takes in a deep breath; "We don't. And that's why they also can't know we won't either. I don't know what you want Bruce, but I will get to the bottom of this. In secret!"

Bruce thinks for a moment and then nods; "I think you're right Sean. We can't let this go!"