Chapter 10

Batman watched the carnage below.

Things were getting out of hand quick, too quick.

"Everyone" Batman spoke into his wrist communicator. "The plan won't work now. We're going on full attack, clear the grounds and wait until I give the order to head into the factory".

And with that, Batman leaped from the building and was diving towards the ground. As he came near the third storey, he spread out his cape into wings and glided towards the factory; Clowns and Riddler thugs immediately began shooting at him.

Batman did mid air somersaults and spins, avoiding the thousands of bullets whizzing past him. He landed on top a thug, crushing him into the ground. He immediately threw punch after punch at the clowns and thugs running at him.

They were taken out one after the other. Beaten down by elbow attacks, kicked in the gut, their lead pipes and baseballs bashed back into their faces.

Batman picked a clown up and threw into the crowd. A gap was made as the attackers toppled over each other, he seized the opportunity and threw a pair of batarangs out; they hit their targets scare in the face, knocking them out. Batman then rolled into the gap and leaped back up with his legs pummeling a riddler thug down.

The gap behind him quickly closed back up, either clowns or thugs surrounding him, or fighting each other. He was surrounded by chaos. That's fine; he lived over two decades in it.

On the other side of the factory, the Red Hood began his attack.

He fired twin hand guns into the crowd. Clowns and thugs went down in pools of blood.

A clown with a sub machine gun took aim at Hood. Hood rolled under the sudden flurry of bullets, came up beside the attacker and kicked the gun out of the clown's hands. He caught the gun and smacked the butt of it into the previous owner, sending him to the ground. Hood twisted his body side to side, pouring bullets into the guts and faces of his targets.

The gun clicked; out of ammo. He threw it away

A clown with some oriental background stood standing amongst the dead bodies. He held a katana, giving Hood a death stare.

"Eh" Hood said, taking out the knife strapped to his leg. "I always wanted to fight one of these guys"

The two observed each other; studied their opponent.

The clown suddenly raised the katana above his head, yelling as he charged at Hood.

Hood stood still, knife held in front of him. As the clown neared, Hood took out his handgun and shot the clown in the face; the clown back flipped and the katana skidded to Hood's feet.

Hood picked it up. It was a good sword; he liked it.

Around the corner from Red Hood's position, the battleground was being frozen.

Mr. Freeze stood on top of an overturned truck and turned everyone and everything that charged at him into ice; there was nothing that could get through to him.

He hopped down from the truck and walked towards the factory. There was no resistance; all of his foes were frozen.

As he neared the factory, he spotted a large, brutish looking Riddler thug waddling towards him. The thug was carrying a machine gun turret that looked like it weighed a ton.

Freeze wasn't in range to freeze the thug, but the thug would soon be in range to tear him apart with that turret. If Freeze moved towards him, he'd be dead in a second.

Freeze looked up. He was standing near one of the factory chimneys, which towered right over the factory itself; he smiled. Freeze touched his gun to the chimney and fired, the lower half of the chimney quickly turned to ice.

Satisfied, Freeze pounded a strong fist into the ice and it cracked. He frozen chimney started to crack and sway, suddenly it fell.

Shards of ice flew across the factory grounds as the chimney came crashing down onto the turret wielding thug.

"A good way to break the ice" Freeze chuckled.

On the roof, Catwoman watched over the battle. Her skills weren't made for a fight like this, so she decided to find the Riddler inside the factory.

Before she could head into a vent beside her, a purple helicopter suddenly hovered over the factory.

The door's opened and Joker revealed himself, spotting Catwoman.

"What's up pussycat?" Joker called out. He lifted a rocket launcher onto his shoulder, aiming it at Catwoman. "Time to take a cat nap!" Joker laughed out, and fired a rocket.

Catwoman leaped from the roof. It exploded behind her, twisted bits of corrugation and chunks of debris flying after her.

Catwoman turned in the air to face the factory. She whipped her whip at one of the outdoor balconies and it caught onto one of the railings, she swung towards the factory and landed on the balcony below the one her whipped had latched onto.

"Here kitty kitty"

A Riddler thug with a sniper rifle was already on the balcony, and took aim at Catwoman.

Catwoman jumped; legs wide apart. The thug fired and the bullet whizzed under her, she closed her legs around the thugs' head and knocked him out.

Catwoman tugged on her whip and pulled it down. Another thug came around the corner ahead of her, a 4x2. Catwoman cast out her whip, it tangled around the thugs' neck and she pulled him towards her as he struggled to get free. Catwoman high kicked the thug in the throat as he neared and he was out cold.

"Sorry boys, but this kitty's taken" Catwoman taunted, pulling her whip off from her foe.

Back down on the ground, Batman beat down his last foe.

Panting, Batman looked around for any more clowns or Riddler thugs. There were none, the rest were being cut up by Red Hood and his newfound katana, or frozen by Mr. Freeze.

Catwoman leaped down from the balcony and joined batman by his side. The other two soon joined up.

The battle was over.

"don't think this all over so soon!"

They looked up, and saw Joker hanging out of a helicopter. He fired a rocket from his rocket launcher, it was heading towards the hero's.

Mr. Freeze fired his gun at the rocket. The rocket froze, fell and shattered on the ground.

Batman fired his grappling gun. It impaled the helicopters tailed and he pulled, the helicopter spun out of control towards the ground.

The helicopter crashed and skidded across the ground. The propellers all broke off and flew across the factory grounds; the wreck of the helicopter stopped in front of the hero's.

Dust circled around the wreckage, but Batman could make out the shadow of Joker.

….

Inside the factory, there was a loud roaring on the ground floor.

"Marshall isn't looking happy boss" a thug told Riddler, who was heading for the roof access room.

"of course not" Riddler agreed. "He's just been injected with Venom, the same formula that gives Bane his super human strength"

"No, I mean like he's out of control. He's just torn apart half the guys holding the chains around him, and we tried to get him to talk, all he's doin is roaring…are you sure the person who takes that stuff is still in control of themselves?"

Riddler squinted. He took out the vial of Venom he had taken from Bane, something was wrong. The Venom was not it's normal color of green.

Riddler chuckled. "Well played Bane" he said. "It seems that the Venom Bane gave us was not complete. Marshall is on a highly concentrated but unfinished dose of Venom. Set him loose now, and get anyone left out of the factory" he ordered, continuing for the roof access room. "But lure Joker in here, he's girlfriend is dying to see him"