Hello my darlings! It's that spectacular time of the week! Well, here we are, this is Batman's POV of what happened two chapters ago. I feel bad for Robin in this chapter, its depressing. Lets start your weekend right with a brand spankin' new chapter of Our Dark Knights!
Two Faces, three hostages
Batman P.O.V
"Ya!" Tim yelled as he preformed a flying kick at me. I rolled out of the way, and kicked his feet out from under him. He fell on his back, and I jumped on top of him.
"Ow!" Tim tried to wriggle out from under me, so I pinned his arms down. Tim continued to struggle, and then kneed me in the groin.
"Ugh!" I grunted, and fell over sideways in pain.
"Sorry! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-" Tim said hurriedly, jumping to his feet and kneeling down by me.
"Don't apologize for that. Apologize for letting your guard down," I said, and before he could move, I swung my leg around his neck and pulled him into a leg chokehold. Tim wriggled around, sending pain to my already throbbing groin. After a few seconds he tapped his hand on the ground, and I released him. I jumped to my feet and held my hand out to him. He took it, and I helped him up.
"Ready for round five?" I asked him.
"Nah, I think that's enough training for today for today."
"You only beat me one round." I pointed out.
"See? Progress." He said happily. I couldn't help but laugh a little.
"You're right. Good job Tim, I'm proud of you." I said, and he beamed.
"Thanks. By the way, I'm sorry for kneeing you in the, um," he went to say.
"Don't apologize, it was a good tactic. But you always need to keep your guard up; you never know when an enemy might be faking." I said sternly.
"Yeah, I should've known even a knee down there wouldn't slow you down," Tim said, grinning.
"Master Bruce, master Tim. I have freshly baked cookies. Would you care to try any?" The instantly recognizable voice of Alfred said. There he was, standing in the middle of the training room holding a tray covered with cookies.
"Is the sky blue?" Tim responded as he sprinted over to Alfred and began to eat the cookies. Tim continued to eat like he had never eaten before in his life
"Would you like one Master Bruce?" Alfred asked me.
"Um…" Tim said, and I looked over to see all the cookies gone and crumbs covered Tim's face. I chuckled and shook my head.
"No thanks Alfred."
"Thanks Alfred. Sorry Bruce." Tim said, and sprayed crumbs everywhere. Alfred sighed and went, presumably, to get a broom from Wayne Manor, which was above us. Just then, the Batwave alarm rang through the Batcave, alerting us of a crime.
"Come on!" I said, and Tim and I ran to the elevator. We got in and I pressed button labeled 'Computer Room'. After the short few seconds it took the elevator to go up, the doors opened.
We sprinted to through them and stopped at the huge computer. I quickly read the crime report. It said that Two-face had released all the criminals being held in the old Gotham Pump Station, and was holding hostages inside. I hit the communicator button and Alfred clicked on.
"Yes sir?"
"Alfred, Two-face is holding hostages at the old Gotham Pump Station."
"Where are all the other criminals? Weren't they temporarily being held there?"
"Yes. He set them free once he took over the place. I need you to call Jim Gordon, tell him I had a last minute business meeting."
"Right away sir," Alfred said, and clicked off.
"Suit up," I told Tim, and we ran off to the changing rooms. Tim went into his room, and I went into mine.
My gray and black bat costume stood on it's stand up against the wall. I took off my black training shirt, followed by my black training pants. I left my underwear on; the batsuit is made of all metal and body armor, and metal underwear does not feel good.
I walked over to the batsuit stand and grabbed the suit and put it on. Then I put on the black sub liger, then my black boots and gloves. Followed by my black wrist gauntlets with the spikes on the side. Then I pulled on my utility belt filled with gadgets. Finally, I put on the black cowl with the cape attached to it. I walked outside my training room and a few seconds later Robin walked out of his.
"Lets go." I said, and we ran over to the Batmobile. I hit a button on my gauntlet, activating the open mechanism on to Batmobile. The top of the huge, black car slid open, and we jumped inside. I hit the button again, and the top closed. I pushed the start button and hit the gas pedal, and we sped off through the tunnel that would lead us out of the Batcave. We drove in silence for a while, then Robin spoke up.
"Wasn't Barbara supposed to be at that dinner thing tonight?"
"Yes, that's what Jim said. I'm surprised you remember her name," I said, glancing at him.
"Well, she goes to Gotham High, so I was just hoping to make a friend before I transfer there. Considering no one like me at Gotham Prep." Robin said with a sigh.
"Alfred will reschedule it for tomorrow. And people did like you at Gotham Prep," I said, although that wasn't very truthful. Robin had had a rough time at his former school, Gotham Prep. That's why I transferred him to Gotham High, and he started this Monday, which was three days from now.
"Batman, no one liked me, I had no friends. That's probably how it will be at Gotham High too," he said sadly. That hurt; I hate to see him so sad.
"Well, Barbara's very nice, I'm sure you two will be friends," I tried to convince him.
"What kind of stuff does she do?"
"Well, she's quite the athlete." I said and smiled to myself. Tim had no idea that Barbara is Batgirl, and Barbara doesn't know that Tim is Robin.
"She is?"
"Yeah, she's working on getting into the Olympic gymnastics."
"Wow, that's cool. You know, Batgirl's a good gymnast too," Robin said thoughtfully. Uh oh.
"I guess," I said, and thankfully, we arrived at the Gotham Pump station a few seconds later. Police cars surrounded the building, and I quickly spotted Jim Gordon amongst the cops.
"Lets go," I said, and we jumped out of the Batmobile and walked over to Gordon. While we were walking over to him, I heard many 'look, it's Batman' and 'what's he doing here's.
"Commissioner," I said once I got near him, and his back was to me.
"Wha- oh, Batman. Good thing you're here, Two-face is-" he went to say.
"I know. Stay here, I'll stop him. You need to focus on capturing the criminals Two-face set free."
"Good idea. Batgirl just got here a minute ago." Jim said.
"She did?"
"Yeah, she got in… well, I don't how she got in, but I'm sure you'll find a way. Two-face barricaded himself in." Jim said, looking at the doors to the Pump Station.
"All right. Come on Robin!" I said, and pulled out my grappling gun and fired it at the top of the building. Zipping up to the roof of the six story building, I landed on the roof and looked around for a way in. Robin landed behind me.
"Look." There was a door on the roof that lead into the building, only the door was open. After careful inspection I noticed there wasn't any sign of forced entry. Batgirl must've picked the lock.
"Come on," we walked through the door and down the stairs it lead to. The stairs then lead to a hallway, and at the end of the hallway were more stairs. But in the middle of the hallway were two unconscious men lying on the floor.
"Batgirl's been busy," Robin said. I pressed the tiny button on the side of my mask, which activated my Detective Mode. Lenses slid down in front of my eyes, allowing me to see people's skeletons highlighted in blue through walls. Everything else was unclear and blurry, but being able to see people through walls is very useful.
Looking down, I saw many people on floors far below Robin and I. Detective Mode said that there were '28 beings' nearby, and one of them is armed. People who are carrying any type of gun show up orange with Detective Mode.
"Three of the people are hostages, and another one is Batgirl. Let's go!" I told Robin, even though he had probably scanned the room with his Detective Mode. We ran down all six flights of stairs until we got to the basement. There was a door marked 'Pump Station', which lead to the basement. When I opened the door, there was a short hallway that hid us from the rest of the room's view. The rest of the room was a large, open area, with pipes that pumped water to a big portion of Gotham all over the room. Batgirl was crouched by the end of the hallway, looking around the corner to the rest of the room, which contained Two-face and his thugs.
"Hey," Robin said. Batgirl jumped back and prepared to kick, but stopped when she saw it was Robin.
"You scared the crap out of me. Now be quiet, Two-face is talking to his thugs about taking over this place… or something." Batgirl said. She sounded upset, probably because I didn't contact her about this situation. Then how did she find out about it?
"Ok, let's rescue the hostages, then take on the thugs." I said, and pulled out a batarang. I flipped Detective Mode on and looked through the wall we were hiding behind.
Two-face was standing on a large pipe a couple feet above the ground. Three hostages had their hands bound by ropes and were hanging by them farther above the ground. Twenty-three thugs were standing in front of Two-face; as long as Two-face is unarmed this should be easy. Robin pulled out two if his r shaped shurikens, and I pulled out another batarang.
"Go!" I yelled, and we jumped out from behind the wall and threw our weapons. Both of Robin's shurikens cut the ropes of two hostages, and they fell, free, to the ground. One of my batarangs cut the last hostage free; the other one successfully knocked the pistol out of Two-faces hand.
"What the hell? What's Batman doing here? How'd he get in?" Several thugs shouted.
"Ah, Batman is here. Pull his face off boys!" Two-face screamed, clutching his wrist where my batarang cut it. The thugs charged us, and we prepared to fight. Robin pulled out his bow staff, which is normally one foot long, but with the push of a button, the ends extend to a total length of four feet. He pushed the button, and began to twirl the metal weapon in his hand. Batgirl raised her fists, looking uneasy. I pulled out more batarangs, and threw them at the thugs nearest me. They hit them, causing the thugs to stumble back in pain. This gave the opportunity to attack, which I took. I began to punch and kick, throwing batarangs, while keeping a close eye on Batgirl and Robin. Batgirl and Robin had a sort of back-to-back maneuver going, and with Robin's training and Batgirl's gymnastics they made a great team. A thug threw a punch at me, and I grabbed his arm and twisted it thrice, breaking it into three different parts. He fell to the ground and passed out from pain. After more punches and kicks, back handsprings, flips, and bow staff hits, all the thugs lay unconscious on the ground.
"Two-face, you do know you need to make this hard for us in order for you to beat us, right?" Batgirl mocked Two-face, who stood angrily on the pipe.
"Yeah, now you don't even have a gun!" Robin said, but then Two-face pulled another gun from a concealed holster inside his suit (that was half white, half burned and scarred to match his skin.)
"It's called a spare, bird brat!" Two-face yelled, pointing the gun. I pulled out a batarang and went to throw it.
"I wouldn't do that Batman, this won't go good with Gotham's water supply!" Two-face said, and pulled out a vial filled with green liquid, which I assume is poison. The pipe he was standing on had a hole carved into the top, so Two-face could pour it into the hole, which would poison Gotham's water.
"Dent, stop right now!" I yelled, trying to think of a plan.
"I down think so Batman, there's no way you're taking us to the new crap hole of a prison!" Two-face screamed, with emphasis on the 'us'.
"Put the poison down Dent, and tell me what you're talking about this 'prison'!" I said, now confused. Prison? What new prison?
"Two-face, think about what you're doing!" Batgirl said anxiously.
"We're not putting the poison down, this plan is too perfect to pass up. And we're not telling you anything about the prison, Batman. One of my boys stole this pretty little PDA in my pocket, and that's how we know what's going on. Don't bother trying to find him, he doesn't know what's on it." Two-face said harshly, patting his pocket. That could useful. But I need to stop him first.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll just dump this into the water supply." Two-face said, and began to tip the vial full of the green fluid. No! But before I could do anything, none other than Catwoman dropped onto the pipe Two-face was standing on from nowhere.
"Whoopsie!" She said, and kicked the poison and gun out of his hands. Then she tackled him off the pipe, and took something out of his pocket and stuck it into the chest of her suit.
"What the hell are you doing here, you cheating bitch!" Two-face yelled at her,
"That's no way to treat a lady. Tsk tsk tsk…" she said, and kneed him in to face, knocking him out on the ground.
"What are you doing here?" I asked her, and she turned around to face me.
"No kiss? Disappointing Batman, and to think I just saved your cute little ass, and I can't get a little hello!" She said as she walked up to me and left about two inches between us.
"Hello Catwoman. You didn't save my ass, Two-face was threatening to pour that poison into the water supply, which would poison half of Gotham's water supply. The chemical reacts in water, and it is extremely deadly when combined with water. It makes any contact with the contaminated water instantly fatal." I explained.
"Well aren't you boring? All that knowledge, and not a bit useful. Hmm, what's the point in stopping a criminal when I don't get to save your cute little ass?" she said, and circled around me, stroking my lower thigh as she moved around behind me.
"Um, would you two like a moment?" Robin said uncomfortably a little distance away.
"No. What were you doing here Catwoman?" I asked her, trying to ignore where her hand had just traced. Catwoman and I kept up a persistent, flirtatious relationship, but our views of the law often get in the way of that.
"I heard that Two-face had some information about the new prison. Guess I was right." She said, looking over to Two-face's unconscious body.
"What did you find out?" Robin asked, walking over to us followed by Batgirl. Batgirl looked amused, yet awkward about Catwoman and I. The two had met only once before, only Catwoman and I weren't on great terms then. Robin had encountered her many times, and often teased me about being 'whipped', which did fit the situation nicely.
"Nothing, yet." She said, inspecting one of her claws, and then retracted them with a flex of her fingers.
"Catwoman, if you know something, you need to tell me." I said roughly.
"If I find something, handsome, you'll be the first to know. Well, if get to me fast enough. Gives you a reason to come and get me. Well, another reason." She said.
"By the way, hey Batgirl." She said to Batgirl, who looked surprised by the greeting.
"Oh, hi." She said awkwardly.
"Later handsome," she said again to me, and headed back through the basement door.
"Lucky she was here! Especially for you, thigh boy!" Batgirl said to me, who had apparently forgotten her resentment for me earlier. Robin laughed before responding.
"Yeah, but what about that prison Two-face was talking about?"
"I think she knows something, or at least she will. Remember that PDA Two-face talked about? I think she stole that from him. I'm going to visit her, you two go home." I said to them.
"Ah, you'll need some 'alone time'," Robin said, grinning.
Now to find Catwoman.
Aww, who feels bad for Robin? ME! And wow, things got intense from Batman's POV with Catwoman. Although, he's not up to anything like that at the moment due to Tim's knee XD. By the way, a sub liger is the underwear Batman wears outside of his suit
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