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Leslie Thompskin entered the Batcave once again, believing that John had once again hurt himself. But she was pleasantly surprised to see him sitting at the computer just scanning through several images. The images showed a man and a woman walking through a busy city street. She walked over to the computer screen and stared at the pictures. "It this what you called me for?"
"No, it's another case I'm working on." I John made a few keystrokes on the keyboard and then the pictures disappeared and its place were pictures of the dead security guard from the question mark murder. "I called you for this."
Leslie winced at the gruesome pictures, of the battered and bruised man, much cleaner than last night. "Oh my, what happened?"
"I got this from the GCPD database. This is a security guard was murdered last night at the Wayne-Power building."
How did you get into their database?"
"The computer already seemed to have access to it. I wanted to see if you can find any details the police might have missed."
The doctor went closer to the screen to examine the body, and begin to list through all of the damage she noticed. "Obviously the green blood is interesting; he might compartment syndrome, lactations around the shoulder and chest, bruising on the arm, chest and head, cut on the left side of the neck, and finally eyes severely punctured." Leslie steps back from the computer taken back by the carnage.
"Anything that seems out of the ordinary?" asked John. "Besides the green blood."
"Now that you mention it, look at his shoulder. " John and Leslie began to examine the shoulder. The shoulder seemed to have a small bruise around the laceration caused by the throwing knife. "That bruise looks very odd. It looks like something is hemorrhaging there.
"I'll go see what it is." John got out of his chair and walked over to the rising glass case that contained the batsuit.
"You mean sneaking in to the GCPD?" asked Leslie.
"Don't worry I've been at the GCPD long enough to know how to sneak into that station."
"Robin, you act like it's sneaking into the kitchen to get a cookie. This is a police station, filled with cops who will kill you."
"I'll be fine." He responded as he grabbed the Batsuit and made his way out.
GCPD - Morgue
It didn't take a great amount of difficulty for Batman to enter the GCPD building, it was not getting caught that was giving him a bit of strife to get through the building undetected. But Batman made it to his destination after he crawls his way out of the air ducts and makes his way through the dark morgue. Batman began scanning the room looking for the right drawer that contains the body. There he saw it, number eight. He opened the metal drawer and there laid there, the dead security guard.
Batman looked down at the pale, lifeless body and started check the hemorrhaging shoulder. The shoulder itself had changed since the picture was taken. No longer was it a small dot, but a large blotched that look like a disease spreading throughout the body. Batman took off his gloves and replaced them with rubber gloves. He then grabbed a scalpel and started to slice his shoulder. An outpour of blood began to flow out of the dead guard's body.
As he navigated through the thick blood, he suddenly felt a piece of plastic. Batman took a small pair of tongs, and pulled out the piece of plastic. He inspects the plastic for a moment trying to identify it and then he realized what it was. Then he heard someone from down the hall. Panicking he ripped of the rubber gloves, grabbed his gloves and ran to a dark corner. He reached down to his utility, pressed a button and then all the lights went out.
"Can't you let me get this file in peace?" Cried one of the voices.
"Just one coffee." Said Jean-Paul. As him and Barbara Gordon open the door to the morgue.
Barbara turns to him and answers his request. "One, my dad would kill you. Two, office romance is such a bad idea."
"A lot of people start relationships from a work relationships." Added Jean-Paul.
"You want a relationship?" Barbara then flicked the lights, but then didn't go on. "Great must have blown a fuse." She then grabbed her flashlight and began to look for the file cabinet.
"I'm not saying I want a relationship. I'm saying-"
"Someone is here!" said Barbara taking out her gun.
"What?"
"Look!" She pointed her light at the dead body. "Someone is snooping around."
Jean-Paul then followed Barbara by taking out his gun and light and the two began inspecting the morgue. Both split from each other and started to check corners. But as Jean-Paul goes for his next corner. Batman grabs Jean-Paul's gun and takes it from him, in a quick movement and pointed the gun at him. Barbara hearing the skirmish turned to the two and pointed her gun at Batman. But she hesitated as she saw Batman pointing the gun at Jean-Paul. "Don't move." said Batman.
"Just keep calm sir." Said Barbara. Then as her light began to shine at Batman's face. She took a moment to recognize Batman's appearance and slowly lowered her gun. "Batman. You're alive."
Jean-Paul looked at Batman still unconvinced. "Batman? How do we know this isn't copycat?" asked the skeptic cop.
"Cause I've seen Batman before and he is Batman." Batman dropped the Gun seeing that Barbara was doing the same. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm investigating a murder."
She checked the body that he was investigating and recognized it instantly. "The one that happened at Wayne-Powers?"
"Yes." He said simply, as he held up a small USB drive. "I found this in his body."
"What is it?" asked Jean.
"A flash drive."
"Our superiors need to see that."
"That is not going to happen." Batman said firmly. The three then began to tense up, knowing that their very brief cooperation was over. As they both prepared for a confrontation, they heard loud banging come from the outside the morgue.
BANG, BANG, BANG!
Several voices cried out in desperation as the more shots rang out. "Shoot her! Shoot her!"
"Looks like this will have to wait." Said Jean-Paul. The three hurried out of the morgue and made their way to the bull pin of the GCPD.
To their shock they watch as Lady Shiva taking down officers left and right. Jean-Paul brought out his gun and turned to Batman. "Who is that?"
"Don't know but she has to be stopped." Said Batman. "Gordon, you and Valley get injuried and get them out of here. I'll take care of her."
As Shiva disposed of another police officer, she suddenly felt a sharp pain hit her back. She reached for the item that was protruding from her back. In her hand was bat shaped shuriken covered in her own blood. She slowly turned around to see Batman. "You dare!"
He stood there with a shuriken in his hand ready for a fight. "This ends now." He said simply.
He made the first move, he first threw the shuriken in his hand, but Shiva was quick to dodge it. He went in for a flurry of quick punches. However all were blocked by Shiva, then she quickly grabbed Batman's arm and violently struck the back of his arm.
Batman cried out in pain as he broke off from Shiva's assault and held onto his arm. From there Shiva began her attack. She began lay numerous punches on Batman as she starts to back him into a corner. Batman fell on the floor in pain.
From there she landed another thunderous kick to the head, and grabbed Batman's arm. She twisted his arm and pulled it until it was on the top of her shoulder. As Batman cried in agony, she took the arm across her shoulder and tossed him over her shoulder landing him on the floor. She quick kicked him in the head, knocking him out cold.
Shiva turned him over ready to give him a killing strike. But then a gun shot rang out and struck Shiva's knife. She turned to see Barbara Gordon gun aimed at her firing shots. The assassin began to dodge the bullets left and right, she made her way to the exit but not before throwing a shuriken at Barbara Gordon. The shuriken zoomed by Barbara only knicking her face, and planting itself in the wall behind her. Barbara turned back to Shiva to see her gone, but quieting beeping could be heard behind her.
"Get down!" cried Jean-Paul as he tackled Barbara, just in time before the Shuriken explodes causing a small explosion. The two get up off the ground and make their way to Batman. They lift him off the ground and make their way towards an exit. "Let's get him out of here!"