Author's notes: Hello readers! A little while ago, I got a review asking about the appearance of Batman/Bruce Wayne in this Fanfic, specifically if I am using Kevin Conroy's likeness since he had a cameo in the "Crisis on Infinite Earth's" crossover. This is not the case since I see that Bruce Wayne as an alternate version with a different appearance.

The Batman/Bruce Wayne in my Fanfic is based on Scott Adkins, a martial artist and actor that some may know from movies like "Undisputed 3," "Ninja 2," and others. When I saw his movies, from the way he looks and how good he was in martial arts, I thought he would be a perfect actor for the role as Batman in a live action movie. So, this is a scenario in which Scott Adkins is playing as Batman.

I hope this cleared things up for the reviewer and all those who had a similar question. I hope you all enjoy this latest chapter and have a good day!


Disclaimer: Based on characters and references created by DC Universe and the CW, which I do not own. Enjoy!


Suddenly, as Kara and J'onn were about to enter the Warden's office, alarms go off all around them. Then, the cell doors behind them open up. All the prisoners rush out, either tackling down guards, using powers against them or each other, or finding the nearest exit.

"How did THAT just happen?" Kara asks aloud.

"It doesn't matter," J'onn responds. "We should change in the Warden's office and then contain the situation."

Kara gives a quick nod before they run off into the empty office. While J'onn changes into his Martin self, she quickly takes off her glasses and rips off her shirt, which hid the family crest of her super suit.


Barry casually walks around the asylum as he was told to do. Clark and Older Barry do the same thing, keeping the perimeter safe. That was until they hear faint alarms coming from inside the entrance they were just passing.

"What's going on?" Barry asks.

"Trouble," Clark responds with a firm, low tone.

Suddenly, a gust of wind enraptures all three of them. When it passes, Barry is in the Green Arrow suit and Clark and Old Barry are in their respective Superman and Flash suits.

"Guys!" They hear the voice of Oliver call to them. They turn around, seeing him in the Flash suit. "Deegan just released prisoners from their cages. They're all running rampant and there's a chance they'll get outside."

"What do you need us to do?" Superman asks.

"I need you to come with me Clark so we can link up with Kara and J'onn in the East Wing. Barry and Barry, stay here and detain any stragglers. William will fight the ones inside the West Wing."

"But you guys are facing a horde of crazy guys in there," Barry points out. "William can't possibly take down all of them alo—"

Suddenly, they hear what seems to be a jet engine above them. They all look up and see a black plane hovering in front of one of the top floor windows. From the plane come two shadowy figures, no doubt Kate Kane and Luke Fox, who break through the window and head inside.

"Don't worry," Oliver assures them. "He won't be alone for long."


As Red Arrow turns the corner towards the entrance, he sees about a dozen criminals beating down two armored yet defenseless guards.

Guards won't last long. Need to take them all down quickly. First, jump in and fire three simultaneous concussion arrows.

Red Arrow takes a few steps back and takes out three concussion arrows before he runs and jumps over the stairway. Now in midair, he aims and fires the three arrows, two at inmates who were beating on the guards and one who was just watching it happen. As he lands, he takes down another inmate with a shoulder tackle that he rolls out of.

Next, throw smoke pellet and take down as many as I can quickly.

Red Arrow puts on his face mask, turns around and throws down a smoke pellet. While everyone else is blinded, his detective vision quickly kicks in, showing him the remaining hostiles. He manages to take down five of the eight remaining inmates, one with quick punches to the gut and face, another with a throw and a punch once he is down on the floor, the third he leg sweeps followed by a concussion arrow, and the final two he rolls between to get behind them, grab their heads, and smash them into each other.

Three remaining, One is unarmed, another with a shiv, and the last one has a pipe. The unarmed one is starting to charge at me. Good.

Red Arrow prepares himself for the inmate charging at him. But, suddenly, a batarang appears out of nowhere and hits him on the side of the head, knocking him out before he got too close. Not long after, someone clad in some familiar silver armor flies towards the inmate with the pipe, kicking him across the room. The vigilante quickly jumps on top of the inmate and knocks him out with a punch.

Before the inmate with the knife could react, another person in a familiar suit, this time a long-haired woman in black, grabs the wrist and spins them around. As the inmate becomes unbalanced, the vigilante aggressively angles his wrist downward, causing him to fall down in turn. She then twists it inward to disarm him of the knife and then kicks him in the face to stop the screams of pain he lets out afterwards.

As the fighting dies down, Red Arrow can now see both of them clearly, the Bat Symbols on their chests confirming what he already knew. Kate Kane, aka Batwoman, and Luke Fox, aka Batwing, just came to his rescue.

"Batwoman, Batwing," Red Arrow says with a smirk. "Took you long enough."

"Well, we certainly missed a lot," Batwoman sarcastically points out while she checks the pulses of the beaten down guards. "We arrive only a couple of minutes late and already a prison riot has broken out."

"This was all Deegan's doing," Red Arrow explains. "He's buying himself time."

"Do we know if he's in the building?" Batwing asks as he throws both guards over his shoulder.

Remembering the tracker, Red Arrow turns on his gauntlet's GPS and pinpoints Deegan's location.

"No, he hasn't. He's currently heading towards the bottom-right part of the Central Wing."

"That's in the direction of the evidence room," Batwing says. "Maybe that's where he's keeping the book."

"Well then you need to tail him," Batwoman says. "We can handle the rest."

Red Arrow nods, but also warns, "Still, be careful."

Batwoman and Batwing head towards the infirmary while He then goes to find Deegan, intent on stopping him from using the book to change reality again. Or worse.


Oliver and Superman arrive at the first cell block of the East Wing, where they are witness to a mob scene. Supergirl holds some of them at bay with her ice breath and heat vision, punching any stragglers that get too close. J'onn, meanwhile, turns into all sorts of forms, knocking them down and pushing them back towards their cells. Other prisoners are either blasting, throwing, or beating down any guard that tries to detain them.

"We need to get the pressure off Kara and J'onn," Superman says. "Speed in and take the knocked-out prisoners to their cells quickly."

"Got it," Oliver agrees.

Oliver heads in first, speed running towards the inmates on the floor and throwing them into the nearest cells. The gusts of wind he leaves behind confuse the other inmates and even threw a few of them off balance. Taking advantage of this, Superman flies in and uses his frost breath to his fullest, knocking a majority of them down. As soon as he stops, Oliver comes in and quickly throws them back into their cells.

"Superman!" J'onn calls out as he lands near them.

Superman places a hand on Supergirl's shoulder. "Are you okay?"

Supergirl, with an assuring smile, nods and answers, "Yeah. Thanks for the rescue."

Across from them, they hear the yells of the inmates who were abusing the guards now focused on them. Oliver comes to a stop and says, "It's not over yet!"

One of the inmates up front shoots fire from his hand. Superman quickly stands in front of the blast, acting as shields. The fire sputters, making the inmates behind the pyro-meta afraid to move forward. But the meta slowly walks up to Superman, the width of the fire blast growing as he came closer.

"I'm invulnerable, but we can't outmaneuver them!" Superman yells. "You need to get around them somehow!"

"The fire's is blocking more of the sides by the second," Oliver points out. "I can't get around it."

"I have an idea," Supergirl says. "Grab onto my arm."

Oliver does as commanded. She then grabs hold of his arm, flies up and yells, "Try and land on your feet!"

"Wait! Wha—"

Before Oliver could ask, Kara throws Oliver over the fires and towards the back of the group. Trying not to panic, he looks towards where he will land and maneuvers himself to do so without breaking his legs.

As soon as his feet touch the ground, he turns around and takes out the guys one by one, landing solid punches since he is too fast for any of them to react against.

As soon as the flaming inmate reaches Superman, he stops and turns back yelling, "Now's your chance! CHAR—"

His words trail off as he sees Oliver punch out and escort the last inmate back to his cell. The pyro meta laughs nervously as he slowly backs away. He then runs to the last empty cell, screaming that he surrenders and begs them to not hurt him.

Superman chuckles. "I guess they're only brave when they have bigger numbers."

"Were they the only ones?" Oliver asks.

Supergirl shakes her head. "Some of them got out while we were preoccupied. They're not metas, but probably still dangerous."

"They're most likely outside by now," J'onn deduces.

Oliver looks out to where they entered, remembering that the only ones out there are both Barry's, and one of them only has some basic understanding of their abilities.

Well, we can only hope the two of them have the situation under control.


Barry shoots another couple of concussion arrows, knocking more inmates out quickly. However, when he reaches into his quiver and draws the next arrow, he finds a sharp arrow in his hand.

Oh, come on! Don't tell me I've run out.

He can see more prisoners charging at him. But before they could get close, Old Flash comes in and runs around and in between them. They twist and turn, flailing their arms around trying to hit him.

Barry can tell that this is just a distraction to give him time. So, he aims his sharp arrow and waits.

Aim for the shoulder, Barry. Aim for the shoulder.

As soon as Old Flash stops running, the inmates are disoriented, exhausted, and confused. An excellent window of opportunity. Barry shoots at an inmate's shoulder, which forces him down for a knockout.

Now, pick up the pace a bit.

Barry gets a bit faster with each inmate, knocking them down one by one with a shot to their shoulders. With each arrow, he channels his dark emotions and trauma. The deaths of his mother, his father, his friends Ronnie and Stein, all focused into his aim.

Eventually, the last inmate goes down, all of them either out or groaning in pain. Barry takes a few deep breaths, feeling himself slowly becoming calm and his thoughts being pushed aside.

"You're getting better," Old Flash says optimistically.

Barry nods, but feels bitter after all the trauma that flooded in him.

How do you do this Oliver? How do you deal with all this anger feeding at you?

"Barry, come in," Oliver's voice echos in Barry's ear, causing him to jump a bit. "Is the outer perimeter secure?"

Barry was about to get on his earpiece, but Old Flash beat him to it, saying, "All entrances are secure. We both saw to that."

Barry answers hastily, "Uh, yeah. What he said. Is the inside secure?"

"We secured the East Wing. Kate Kane and Luke Fox found us and confirmed the same for the West."

"And Red Arrow?"

"Unknown. He went to the evidence room to get Deegan and hasn't radioed in since. I'm heading there now."

"I'll meet you there." Barry turns to Old Flash. "Can you get these guys to their cells?"

Old Flash nods. "Leave it to me. Now, get going."

With that assurance, Barry quickly runs back inside, hoping Red Arrow is okay.


Deegan rushes down the stairs and towards the shelf full of his collectibles, or what the idiots in this Asylum called evidence. He crouches down and takes out the large box which is labeled "DO NOT OPEN," which he wrote to dissuade any curious eye from touching his prized possession.

He removes the lid, laying his eyes on the book given to him by the powerful entity. He can feel strands of it's power emanating already as he picks it up. He grips the book tightly, giggling.

"Here you are," He whispers excitedly.

"That's funny," A familiar, female voice says.

Deegan jumps and turns around, seeing a few of his subjects in front of him. Jonathan Crane, Victor Zsasz, Edward Nigma, and Nora Frieze stare him down with snarls and devious smiles.

"We were just about to say the same to you," Nora finishes, summoning a wisp of ice from her fingertips.

"Riddle us this, John Deegan," Nigma asks as he retrieves his cane from the shelf. "Who is staunch, more egotistical than I, and about to get what he DESERVES?"

Deegan slowly moves back. "S-subjects. Y-you don't understand. What I did, I did for the betterment of you and all of Gotham."

"And yet you infected me with my own formula OVER and OVER," Crane angrily says as he takes out a bottle of his fear toxin and his scarecrow mask from the box with his name labeled on it.

"B-but the overexposure eventually made you immune," Deegan points out. He then points to Nora Frieze. "And you Nora, I awakened the potential inside you."

"I NEVER wanted these powers!" Frieze yells, the wisp of ice turning into a mini snowstorm. "And I never consented to your 'experiments' on me."

"Or on me," Zsasz adds, scrapping two shivs together as he approaches. "You locked me in a room with nothing but slideshows of criminals and reasons they must die for HOURS."

"Which was more than you deserved!" Deegan yells in a fit of rage. "I thought I could actually make you into a DECENT weapon against crime, when really you should have been given the death penalty a long—"

Suddenly, Deegan feels something grab the back of his leg and trip him. As he falls, the Book of Destiny slips from his fingers and flies towards one of the shelves on the wall. But also, he sees William Queen, dressed in his Red Arrow persona, his bow aimed and his other arm close to his body. He quickly looks down and sees an arrow, it's shaft somehow strong enough to trip him. Deegan looks back and sees Red Arrow shoot another arrow at the ceiling just above him.

"We don't care about your reasonings," Jonathan Crane says as he puts on his mask, which looks to be a straw bag with eye holes cut out of it. The blank canvas for someone's fears to appear on. He slowly opens his bottles of toxin as he says, "We just want to see you suffer and then END your miserable life. So tell us, Dr. Deegan. What is it that you—"

Before he could finish, the arrow on the ceiling shoots out and grabs Deegan by his shirt. It then proceeds to whisk him away, leaving him dangling high above everyone.


Deegan's out of the way. Now to focus on the four inmates. Three normals, one meta. What's worse, that meta is Nora Frieze, who Deegan experimented on in the video. Somehow, his experiment succeeded. She'll be a liability. Luckily, I still have two of the power dampening arrowheads with me. But Crane still has fear toxin and Nigma's cane carries a hidden blade. Zsasz doesn't have anything new up in his sleeve besides the shivs. Still, I can work with this.

First, approach with grapple arrow. Maneuver around Frieze's blasts until I am in range for the power dampening arrow.

Red Arrow shoots out one more grapple arrow and jumps from the stair railing, letting himself glide towards the group of villains. As expected, Nora Frieze blasts ice from her hands to try and land a hit on him. He swings side to side, avoiding each blast until he is nearly above them. He then takes out his power dampening arrowhead and disconnects the rope from his bow, falling just before Nora Frieze's last blast reaches him.

Next, throw power dampening arrowhead in between the group.

As Red Arrow falls, he throws the arrowhead at the floor in between all of them. The energy field emanates and cloaks itself in a blink of an eye. He lands right next to it and in front of Nora Frieze. She tries to freeze him, but no ice appears from her hands. Still, she struggles to try and summon her power.

First, take down Frieze, since she will be a distraction in the fight, even without her powers.

As Frieze looks at her hands in confusion, Red Arrow gets up and employs an uppercut to her face, which knocks her out almost instantly.

Scarecrow next, so his fear toxin does not come into play.

Red Arrow grabs Scarecrow's hand just as he was about to slam the toxin vial to the ground and infect them all. He quickly yanks the vial away and knee strikes Scarecrow in the stomach before pushing him onto the side of the shelf behind him.

Just then, Zsasz tries to slice Red Arrow's throat with a vertical strike. He dodges it and rolls towards the shelf to quickly put the vial back.

Now to get one other villain out of the way, preferably Zsasz, to deal with the other quickly.

Luckily, Zsasz attacks again, this time with a lunge. Red Arrow traps the wrist and, with one swift motion, kneels down and uses Zsasz's momentum to throw him far away.

Nigma, as expected, removes the ball from his cane to reveal a small, sharp blade. He takes the staff part in both hands and makes a lot of quick but predictable stabs. Red Arrow dodges or blocks them with his gauntlets. On the fifth stab, Red Arrow grabs the cane and pulls at it, which brings Nigma towards him. He then delivers an uppercut to the gut followed by a push kick that sends Nigma flying.

Hearing an angry grunt behind him, Red Arrow turns around, ready to fight who he thought was Zsasz. Instead, it is Scarecrow, who retrieves his toxin and throws it towards Red Arrow. He dodges it and quickly tackles him down. When he rolls out of it, he turns around and delivers a punch to the face, neutralizing him for good.

Just then, Red Arrow hears Zsasz charging in again, but no lunge this time. He just swings his shivs wildly, either being insane or just hoping that the blades will hit something. Red Arrow, as with Nigma, dodges and parries all of them to find an opening.

Huh. Despite looking wild, his slashes are similar to patterns often found in the katas of Kali. Which means I know how to disarm him.

As Zsasz comes in with a vertical swing, Red Arrow blocks it with his arm and guides it in a downward arc. He grabs Zsasz's arm with his free hand before disarming the knife with a hammer fist.

Zsasz then tries to go for a downward stab to the neck. But Red Arrow quickly grabs the arm and throws him to the ground. He then takes Zsasz's wrist and twists in inward, forcing him to let it go and scream in pain. The screams are silenced with a hook punch.

With every villain down, Red Arrow starts to catch his breath. But then he hears someone yell "STOP!"

He looks over to where Nigma is, his hands reaching out for something.

"Please! One more!"

Red Arrow then notices shards of glass near Nigma's face, the bits of Crane's name scattered all over. But he does not see the gas that usually emanates when the fear toxin is released. Most likely, this batch was not potent enough to spread around a large area.

"I AM the superior intellect. I AM! I can solve your puzzles. They are NOT IMPOSSIBLE!"

Red Arrow, anticipating something like this happening, takes out a syringe containing the antidote from his belt. He walks over to Nigma, who is now on his side, curling into a ball and sobbing.

"They're not…I'm not…"

He crouches down and carefully injects the antidote into Nigma's neck.

"I'm not…smart…"

Nigma passes out before he can finish. Red Arrow presses his fingers to Nigma's wrist, feeling his pulse going from insanely fast to normal speeds. Nigma then begins to breathe steadily.

As for Red Arrow, whatever pity he felt for Deegan and his past slowly diminishes. But he tries to not let it eradicate entirely.

Deegan is just as broken as these guys. But…Deegan has made them even more broken than before.

"Excellent work!" Deegan shouts from up high. "I wouldn't expect anything less from someone trained by the Batman."

Ignoring him for the moment, Red Arrow goes over to where the book is and picks it up. He then taps a button on his gauntlet, bringing Deegan down fast. He stops the rope just as Deegan reaches the floor. But almost immediately, he starts laughing.

"Was that an intimidation tactic?" Deegan asks as he is lifted up to Red Arrow's level. "You know, you really have to vary your interrogation methods, because that's, like, Batman style 101."

"Tell me how to use this!" Red Arrow demands, holding the book up.

"Or what?" Deegan questions with an amused smile. "You'll take me for another joyride? I did quite enjoy it."

"I have PLENTY of ways to make you talk, and you won't like what I—"

"William."

A whisper of his name catches Red Arrow off guard. He looks around, but sees no one but himself, the knocked out villains, and Deegan.

Shaking it off, he continues, "As I was saying, you don't want to know—"

"William."

The unknown voice appears again, this time echoing louder. The voice is that of an adult female, but it was not Nora Frieze's voice or anyone else here. This voice, however, is still familiar to him.

"William."

Suddenly, from the bottom corner of his eye, Red Arrow sees a blue wisp. He looks down and sees the book letting tiny flickers of its power loose, almost like how it did when Deegan opened it.

"Interesting," Deegan says. "This is different from when I used it. It seems to call to you when it was the sheer power of it that drew me in."

Again, Red Arrow shakes his head and then points at Deegan. "No. No, this is a trick!"

"This is no trick William," The voice calls once more. This time, it comes from somewhere next to him. He turns around, seeing…

"Mom?"

Red Arrow's jaw drops at the sight of Samantha Clayton, his long dead mother, looking the same as she did the day before she died. No scars, no bruises, no burnt skin from the explosions.

"Mom?" Deegan asks, looking towards where Red Arrow is, seemingly not seeing what he is seeing. "The book draws you in with the image of someone YOU lost? Why?"

"Open the book William," Samantha gently commands.

Red Arrow takes a step back, doubting the person before him. "Your…you're dead. You're not real. Besides, what will I possibly gain from opening this thing?"

Samantha walks closer, but he does not dare to move away.

"You'll find me," She answers. When she is close enough, she slowly places a hand on the book. "Open it son. Let me see you again."

He looks down at it, seeing more and more wisps appearing. He wants so desperately to resist the temptation, but finds the prospect of seeing his mother just once more irresistible. His hand inches closer to the first handful of pages.

Don't…DON'T do it. It's not real. She's NOT real. It's not…

His hand grabs the pages, but he does not open the book. He stands there, unsure of what to do.

Don't…just…

He feels a hand on his cheek. His mother's hand, gently touching his trimmed face. It feels so real for something that is not supposed to be. For someone who's supposed to be dead.

"Go on," She says in her gentle tone. "I'm waiting for you."

I…I…

He looks up to his mother, who is still giving him a warm smile. He sheds a tear of joy. Somehow, in some form, she is here.

Without any more hesitation, William opens the book, which shoots out a surge of energy from its pages.


As Barry enters the room, he sees Red Arrow with the Book of Destiny in his hands. It is releasing blue energy as it did with Deegan in the memory the Monitor showed them. Deegan is also there, hanging from a rope arrow by his coat while the current of energy blows him away.

Barry then feels the gust of wind behind him, but not something from the book. He turns around and sees Oliver, looking at Red Arrow with a concerned stare.

"What's he doing?!" Oliver yells over the rumbling of the wind.

"Get us down there and we'll find out!"

Oliver nods and does as Barry asks, grabbing his arm and running straight towards Red Arrow.

As they near him though, the energy's strong current slows Oliver down. It becomes a struggle to take just a couple of steps.

"William!" Oliver calls out. "William, what are you doing?!"

Red Arrow, somehow able to hear them, turns to them with a smile of amazement on his face. One almost similar to Deegan's when he opened the book, but less sadistic.

"I see her Dad!" William shouts. "I see Mom!"

Barry and Oliver look at him with widened eyes.

"What?" Oliver silently asks.

"I can bring her back! She can come back! She…" Red Arrow's smile slowly droops into something more downcast. He looks down at the book and asks, "But…but at what cost?"

Suddenly, the gust of wind from the Book begins to slowly diminish, making it easier for Oliver and Barry to take a few more steps. Inch by inch, they get closer, but the gust of wind still tries to push them back. When they are at arms length, they both reach out for the book, just barely able to touch it.

"It'll take both of us to get the book away from him!" Barry points out.

"Alright!" Oliver acknowledges. "On three. ONE! TWO! THREE!"

In perfect synchronization, Barry and Oliver thrust their hands out, grabbing the top of the book with their fingers.

And then…