Author's Notes: Well, time to start the next chapter, lads and ladies. Now, let's get started.
As you can see, this chapter will focus on our 'roided out DC version of Nacho Libre: BANE!
Since Bane's appearance appears right after the Scarecrow scene, this might be relatively shorter compared to the others. Nevertheless, as I always say (to myself): "Quality over Quantity, but it never hurts to have a bit of both".
Also, I like all the theories that you guys posted to me, they were really creative and interesting; BUT! Sadly, you guys are ALL wrong, despite the fact that they seemed logical, on point, and seemed reasonable. But as you guys know me, when have I been reasonable? I just figured out from the last chapter that I was capable of writing horror! Who knew?
Q&A:
TheDeadly-Z: As I said before, sequels (as well as a prequel-sequel, and a prequel spin-off, just to add) have been confirmed. You know what that means? MORE STORIES FOR THE PEOPLE! So yeah, hope you guys are happy.
DragonTurtle3: Heh heh... heh hehehehehehehe hahahahah AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHHHAAAA (Oh Shit! He finally snapped! Get the taser!)! Oh man! (Wipes tears from eyes), that's a good one.
No, no, I actually have something in mind for our dear little Belladonna, a certain villain that I've always wanted to use in this story, but I just need to find the right moment when to use him. I'll give you guys a hint: his weapon is the prey of cats.
Besides, the sequel will actually be a lot better (I have a lot of original ideas for Blake when she's on her own in the big, bad Arkham City).
Guest: Going Joker? You mean like Batman in Arkham- oh shit! I said too much! No spoilers for either Belladonna and the Bat: Knight (That's right, I named it!) or Batman: Arkham Knight until you've played it.
And yeah, I just like to hear myself talk (or read the words that I had cleverly used in my super-powered deduction skills.)
Thegreatjman: I would love to, but I never played any Metal Gear Solid games at all. Besides, I have three stories to focus on.
Guest (possible the same Guest): Yup.
captaindickscratcher (lovely name, by the way): I'M NOT JUDGING YOU! I USE SIMILAR TECHNIQUES! AND I'LL MAYBE CONSIDER YANG VS BANE! BUT THE QUESTION IS, WHY ARE WE ALL YELLING?!
Assassin of Ith: That's my talent, to make the improbably possible very possible. And yeah, I often get that a lot when in regards to my fight scenes.
Guest (Jesus Christ, are you the same guest?): No spoilers, but I never thought of Adam being in her head.
Omnifiction: I'm writing now, that counts...
sparksdonny: Not connected to RWBY, connected to Blake. Specifically Blake.
Now onwards towards the story! Ad Victoriam!
I do not own RWBY or Batman
"I will break you, Batman! Then the "bruja"!"
-Chapter Five: Bane of my Existence.
In the archaic term, the meaning of of the word "Bane" is defined as something that causes death. Commonly, this usually refers to a poison.
But to he who shares the same name of this definition, this is not a curse, nor a cause of misfortune. Instead, it is a gift.
With this gift, Bane was able to perform incredible feats beyond the norms of human strength and skill. One such example was breaking the spine of Batman himself, making the criminal forever known as "The Man Who Broke the Bat".
But despite all that the brute had done to the vigilante, he recovered and persevered from his injuries, even from a wound as crippling as the one that the criminal had inflicted.
As for our newcomer, Blake Belladonna? Let us see her thoughts on the one who has mortally wounded the Dark Knight himself...
As the two continued to walk through the corridors, Blake couldn't help but think about the hallucinations she had just seen. Those... things.
She quickly shook her head from those thoughts, they were gone now and they were only hallucinations, no matter how real they looked, just as Batman had told her. But she couldn't help but think to herself how those things could've happened. What could've caused those events?
They turned the corner to see a dead Arkham guard lying dead in the middle of the hall. It took Blake a minute to realize that this was the same corpse that was in the same place as "the Commissioner's corpse". This was a relief to the pair, proving that Gordon was still alive.
"Are you lost, little Bat? Having trouble figuring out what's real and what's just a figment of your twisted little mind? Same here, hee hee hee hee hee... Just roll with it, Bats. It gets easier once you give in. It really does? What about you, Catsy? What are you going to do once the 'ol Bat finally snaps? Will your feeble little mind break with him, or will you have the guts to put him out of his misery?" the Joker asked, giggling at the thought.
As soon as the clown stopped talking, the doors on the other end burst open to reveal three Blackgate thugs, one of the them was holding a lead pipe while the other was dressed in orange, brandishing a pair of knives.
The first man threw a punch at Blake, only duck under the fist and watched as it careened into Batman's chest, which had no effect as the bat-dressed vigilante barely flinched at the attack. Instead, he retaliated by grabbing the man's wrist, twisting it back, and finishing him off with a blow to the head via the Dark Knight's cowl.
Blake, on the other hand, ran towards the knife-wielding inmate, throwing a barrage of damaging blows to the man, who only seemed to shrug them off before retaliating with a quantity of slashes from his bladed weapons. The Faunus narrowly dodged each strike before rolling under the man's legs and kicked his legs out from under him, forcing him to fall onto his face. She dodged a swing from the third man's lead pipe before countering with a right jab to the man's throat, forcing him to double over as he clutched at his neck. With an opportunity now open, she grabbed the pipe from the man's hand with all her might and pried it from him. She finished both men off with a swing to the face for the first man, and slamming the pipe onto the man's back, the two were knocked out immediately on contact, most likely from the pain.
With the battle finished, they wasted no time in moving onto their next objective.
"Listen, no more tricks. Just one last puzzle and you can have Gordon; and a little more, heh heh heh heh. Oh, I can't wait!" the Joker cheered before cutting out from the speakers. The two continued to make their way down the next hallway before coming across a barricaded door. Blake followed as Batman turned to the door frame on the right before passing through the door just up ahead.
As soon as Blake closed the door behind her, the TV right in front of them sparked to life, revealing the Joker dressed in his purple, pinstriped suit.
"Your precious Commissioner is just through the glass. Take a look!" he ordered the two of them.
Blake turned to her right to see a window just on the other side of the room. On the other side of the glass revealed the Commissioner tied to a chair and sitting down. On his right was Harley Quinn, holding a rather large rifle in her hands, ignoring the two behind her.
Batman watched as the Faunus girl beside him slowly drew her sword.
"Ah ah ah! I wouldn't do that. Harley is under strict instructions to kill the old man if any of my guys think you're in the room. They're patrolling down there. I told them you two are on the way. Besides, you're not fast enough to break through the glass before Harley decides to point that gun at the dear old Commissioner and blow his brain matter all across the glass, now are you?" Joker challenged the girl, who only scowled.
"So here's the deal. If you can find a way to get to Harley without anyone realizing, I'll give you your next present. Fail, and the old codger dies. Hell, I may even give you Harley. It looks like you could use a new sidekick, hahahahahahaha!... Too soon? Probably not, now that you have Blake-y!" he laughed maniacally. Blake looked at the screen in confusion before turning to see Batman, who was doing his best to hide a furious expression.
What was he talking about?
She decided not to ask and watched as the man silently pried another ventilation grate from the wall before crawling into it, with the girl following close behind.
"Maybe you don't care about the old man after all... which may be a good thing, 'cause if any of my boys see you, hear you, or even smell the both of you, he's gonna die!" the clown informed them before the room went silent.
Blake continued to follow Batman as they dropped out of the vent and landed in a hidden section of the room, listening to one of the inmate's conversations as they moved through another ventilation tunnel.
"Joker's not messin'. He wants the old man kept safe from Batman. Anyone gets near him and it won't be me carrying the can," one of them said.
"No problem. Nothing's gettin' past me. Batman'll be dead and I'll be famous," another responded with a cocky expression.
"What about that girl that's followin' around the Bat?" the first one asked, Blake's ears twitched in concern as she began to listen to the conversation more intently.
"What girl? Ain't no one here beside Harley and-"
"Shut up and let me talk, will ya, Mikey? That girl, the one that we passed by when we were in the Asylum while that asshole cop was keepin' a rifle aimed at our backs."
"I don't remember no girl," the second grunted.
"Well, there's this girl that was with Batman when the Boss-man broke out. She wears a bow, has these glowing yellow eyes that seem like they're looking into your soul, and carries a freakin' katana on her back; and on top of that, she's fightin' with the Bat, meanin' that this girl probably kicks some serious ass," the first explained.
"Yeah, now that you mention it, one of the guys told me about someone that kicked his ass, slammed his face into a window while he was supposed to keep watch on that bastard, Cash."
"Oh shit! That sounds pretty brutal," the first inmate exclaimed.
"Yup, what makes it funnier is that he got beaten by a girl. That's roasting material in my book."
"Wait a minute, aren't you the same guy that got your pelvis broken by fightin' Catwoman?"
"Shut up! You can't prove nothin'!"
"Both of you shut up! We just need to keep an eye out for the Bat and that little friend of his, okay? Lenny, you go look over there. Richy, just stay there and make sure that no one gets through here, got it?" a third voice scolded the two of them.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Hey, she hot?" the second asked once more.
Blake recoiled in disgust at the obscene mention of her as they continued to travel through the tunnels.
"Dude, she looks like a teenager, I bet she's not even legal!" the first yelled.
"So?"
"That's fucked up, man."
"Hey, what's got you so riled up?" the second asked.
"I have a daughter probably around her age, that's why I'm so uncomfortable," he explained.
There was silence for a few seconds, "...Is she hot too?"
"Man, fuck you!"
"What the hell did I just say?!" the third demanded once more.
"Sorry," they both said.
As soon as the conversation was finished, the pair crawled out of the tunnel, only to be greeted by the back of an inmate with a shotgun in his hands. Batman looked at Blake and pointed at one of the other thugs walking around a large glass building, then pointed at another tunnel just on the opposite side of the room.
It took Blake a while to understand before nodding, the plan was now clear to her.
Not long after that, Batman crept towards the man and quickly wrapped his arms around her face, beginning his process of knocking the man out, who had dropped the gun and began flailing his arms about in an attempt to get free. While Batman was busy, Blake took the opportunity to pass by the two of them and into the tunnel just beside them. Inside the ventilation tube, she quickly made her way to the other end of the tube, which was barricaded by a grate, and on the other end of the grate was the other thug slowly walking away.
Crouching inside the vent, she unsheathed Gambol Shroud and began to loosen the metal grate by sticking the blade between the wall and the metal, pulling slowly at the sides until it began to separate. In a matter of seconds, she grabbed hold of the bars and pushed. The grate slid off and was pushed to the side, allowing Blake to crawl out and sneak towards the inmate.
Blake slowly sheathed her blade and crept closer to him as he continued to walk, now moving in front of the entrance to the glass building. When she finally got close enough, the Faunus leapt onto the man's back and used her weight shift his balance, forcing him to the ground. Before the criminal could cry out in panic, she finished him off with a kick to the face, knocking him out instantly.
Batman, on the other hand, had finished knocking out the first inmate long before Blake had acted. Instead, he crouched and began to stalk towards the third man on the lower level. He watched as the last man continued to walk around the glass building. As he continued walking around the building, both he and the Dark Knight heard a noise nearby.
"Huh?" the thug grunted as he quickened his pace towards the noise, with Batman following close behind.
The Dark Knight activated his Detective Vision to see that the inmate was making his way towards Blake, who had just finished off the second guard. He was impressed by her skill and finesse in the art of stealth, but this was an unfortunate exception, the kick that she had delivered sent a cracking sound emitting from the man's head, who had, of course, survived the final blow.
On his right, however, he spotted the skeletal figure of a man hanging like a sort of puppet. He narrowed his eyes at the sight before turning back to the man in front of him, who was currently his first priority in saving the Commissioner.
Before the last conscious criminal could catch sight of the cat-eared girl, Batman quickly reacted by kicking the man behind the knee, causing the armed thug to stumble back. The vigilante caught the man by his neck and fell back onto the ground, knocking the man out as soon as his face made contact with the floor.
He walked up the stairs to see Blake, who was standing over the unconscious man, "Where to now?"
Blake watched as Batman looked towards the flight of stairs on his left, to which Blake mirrored his action. She followed behind as Batman walked up the stairs.
As they reached the top of the stairs, they spotted a door frame guarded by an electric gate. Batman pulled out his grapple gun and fired above it, where was then sent above the room. Blake followed close behind with the help of her Semblance.
She watched as Batman crushed the Riddler trophy that sat just above the room with his boot before he stood on top of the glass that was just above the Clown's partner-in-crime and Commissioner Gordon. It was at this point when Blake figured out what the Dark Knight was about to do.
In less than a second, he jumped a few feet into the air before slamming onto the glass below him. The ceiling immediately shattered and sent him into the room and onto Harley, who was knocked out as soon as she hit the floor. Blake dropped into the room just a second after and walked towards the Commissioner, unsheathing her blade and cutting the ropes that bound his hands.
"Well, you two took longer than I thought," he grunted as he stood up, rubbing his wrists with his hands.
"He's out of control. He's trying to prove something. I'm not sure I can stop him this time," Batman sighed, earning a surprised look from Blake.
He's... doubting himself? Blake thought in surprise. This came as some sort of news to her. It was proving that even though he had made it this far, and for who knows how long he's been doing things like this, he was still human. Even if the wounds that he currently sported was proof enough.
"You'll do it, Batman. Listen, we're not alone. He's got something down there. I don't know what it is," he said the Dark Knight.
"What a blabbermouth! Spoiling the surprise!" the Joker appeared on the television.
"Shut up," Blake growled, her ears twitching underneath her bow in annoyance.
"Oh, am I getting to you too! Am I? Good! I knew you'd turn out like the ol' Big Ears beside you! Becuase you two are going to love this next bit!" Joker laughed as they left and walked down the stairs, "Hey Blake, even though the surprise was only meant for Bats, don't worry! I got something in store for you too! Just you wait!"
She tuned out the man's voice and continued to follow after the two in front of her, who were currently walking towards the small, glass building in front of them.
With a near-dramatic push, the doors swung open, allowing the three to enter. As Blake walked into the room, she waved away at the smoke that was blinding her from the rest of the room, with only things she saw being a police Commissioner and a vigilante dressed in a black, bat-themed costume.
Gordon turned and started typing away at a computer, Batman continued to stare through the smoke, while Blake began to take notice of the X-ray photos behind the television screen, concerned as to why they looked so deformed.
"It wants Dr. Young's log-in," Gordon asked, still staring at the screen.
"Never mind that. Both of you, get behind me. Now!" Batman commanded, a strong sense of distress empowered his voice.
"What, why?" Blake asked before turning to see what the vigilante was looking at.
"Bane," was the only thing that the Dark Knight said, the smoke subsiding to reveal what he was looking at.
What they saw was a man, 'Bane', as he was called, hanging by what appeared to be a large quantity of red tubes that ran into a large tank. His face was covered by a mask, his arms held back by two, ridiculously large bracers that covered the majority of his forearms.
"What the Hell...?" Blake could only say, her eyes widening at the sight and her mouth covered by one of her hands in shock.
"I thought he broke out of Blackgate!" the Commissioner exclaimed.
"Cut... me... down," Bane said, his voice thick with a foreign accent, as well as weakened and pained, more than likely from his current condition. He then turned to see Blake, his eyes widened slightly in surprise.
"Gato... you are here... as well?" the man asked. Blake gave the man a strange look before realizing that he was referring to her.
Now Blake was shocked by how this man knew her as well. First Joker recognizing her, then Batman figuring out that she was a Faunus while the bow was still on her, now this?! How!?
"I'm sorry, I don't know you," Blake only said, watching as the man gave her a hard stare before the look diminished.
"Who did this to you?" Batman asked.
"Dr. Young. The Bruja, she drained the Venom from my blood. Must... stop... her..." he growled weakly.
"Sorry, Has-Bane. The good doctor won't be a problem much longer," the Joker leaned in closer to the screen, pulling out a remote detonator, "How do you like my puppet? What say we cut him down?"
As soon as he pressed the button, the lights inside the room turned to a shade of red.
Blake looked up at the man, wondering what the Clown was up to now. She then watched as a strange green liquid began to flow from the tubes and into Bane. His body began to take on a green tint, as well as his formerly brown eyes changing color to match the hue of the liquid. In only a matter of seconds, the man's muscles began to grow and expand, making him heavy enough to get free of the tubes that originally suspended him.
"Gordon! Run!" Batman yelled to the Commissioner, who only watched for a split-second before leaving, "Blake! Get back!"
He grabbed the girl by the arm and pushed her out of the way as Bane charged after him.
Blake picked herself off the floor and watched as Bane swung a pair of heavy punches at the Dark Knight, who dodged both with ease before landing a hit of his own, but it barely did anything to the larger man. Bane barely even flinched from the blow as he proceeded to pick Batman up and throw him through the wall, sending him further into another room.
He turned to look at Blake, who was running towards him at an inhumane speed. Bane turned back and swung the back of his fist at her, but Blake used her Semblance to avoid the attack, only to receive a kick to the stomach, sending her towards the wall adjacent to her.
She grunted in pain as she collided with the wall, clutching at her side as it was then healed by her Aura. Blake looked up to see the muscle-bound man point a finger at her.
"The same trick will not work twice on me, Belladonna," he then turned away to look at the Dark Knight, who had just picked himself off the floor, "Stay out of this, this is between me and the Bat."
"Play nice, ladies," the Joker laughed, watching as Bane now faced Batman, eager to kill the vigilante.
Blake shook her head from the disorientation and began to witness the fight between the two men; watching as Bane roared at the vigilante before charging at him. The Faunus watched as Batman pulled out one of those bat-shaped projectiles and threw it at the man's face. The reaction was almost instantaneous, the charging bull of a man covered his face after the object impacted his head; with his already charging self, along with his temporarily blinded self, he charged face-first into the wall opposite of him, sending him stumbling back.
She ran out into the room in an attempt to join Batman in the ongoing fight, as soon as she left the room, the wall collapsed, leaving it blocked off by a mountain of bricks, if she were any more late, she would've been at the bottom of that brick pile. She turned to face the Dark Knight, watching as he placed a set of strategically placed strikes against the man's body before leaping onto him and swinging his arm across the set of tubes on his back. Bane yelled in rage as he threw the Dark Knight off of his back and slammed his fist onto the floor, creating a shock wave that tossed back anything within his vicinity. Fortunately, Batman rolled away from the counterattack.
"I WILL BREAK YOU, BATMAN!" he roared in a fit of rage.
"I went through all this trouble and that's the best you got, Bane? Help him out, boys," the Clown Prince of Crime commanded. Blake watched as a large number of Joker thugs dropped from the higher levels above the three fighters.
"Batman!" she yelled as a thug ran up to Batman in an attempt to wound him, but he responded by blocking the attack and delivering a powerful blow into the man's cranium.
"Blake, I need you to take care of the inmates," he ordered before looking at the giant, masked man in front of him, "I'll deal with Bane."
The Faunus nodded and turned to face the group of thugs surrounding her, while Batman dealt with Bane, who tore a portion of the debris out of the wall and faced the both of them.
It took less than even a split second for Batman to realize what the man was about to do, "Blake, duck!"
Before the first thug could even strike her, she followed his command just to see that a large flying chunk of brick smash into several of the thugs that had surrounded her, knocking them onto their backs, as well as knocking them out on contact. With most of them gone, the rest proceeded to attack her, with one cocky enough to throw a punch at her while another was right behind her. The result? Blake dodged the man's fist while it careened into the other's face, knocking him out from the sheer force before the Faunus girl knocked him out with a high kick to the throat.
Batman, on the other hand, pulled out another batarang, readying himself as Bane prepared for another charging attack. He threw the projectile once more and leaped out of the way as Bane proceeded to run into the wall ahead of him.
A thug attempted to punch the Dark Knight from behind, but he saw the attack and caught his fist before it could make contact. He brought the man closer and pushed him into Bane, right as the giant attempted a blind punch at Batman; this caused the inmate to go flying from the impact and into the wall, creating a man-sized crater.
Unbeknownst the vigilante, Bane already recovered. To which he responded by grabbing the Dark Knight and lifted him over his head.
"Argh! Blake!" Batman called out as both of his shoulders felt as though they were being pushed together by a trash compactor.
"There will be no one to save you, Batman. I will break you, AGAIN!" Bane shouted, lifting the man higher, ready to bring the Batman crashing into his knee, paralyzing him once more.
Fortunately for the Dark Knight, that did not happen.
*SLICE! SLICE!*
Instead, Bane immediately dropped Batman from what had just happened. And what had happened? Blake had heard the Dark Knight's call and came running to help him, ignoring any and all thugs that had attempted to attack her.
She had seen Batman deliberately rip out the tubes extending from the device on Bane's back, so Blake knew she had to do the same. With an Aura-propelled jump, she leaped high into the air and landed on the giant's back. Blake unsheathed her sword and removed the sheathe before slicing the red tubes extending from both sides of the muscle-bound monster's back.
"I TOLD YOU TO STAY OUT OF THIS, GATO PEQUENA!" he screamed in fury.
But she could not stay on for long, as she felt a gigantic hand grab ahold of her and fling her off of him. Luckily, she was caught by Batman just in time.
With the green substance draining from his blood, as well as the machine on his back; combined with all the damage he had caused, the two black-clad individuals knew that the result would be catastrophic. They watched as the room around them began to shake, pipes and debris began to come undone from the damage that the giant brute of a man had caused.
Bane fell to his knees as the concrete slabs and loose pipes began to fall on him. With the place coming down, it would only be a matter of time before the place around them bring the same misfortune on them as well.
"How do we get out of here!?" Blake shouted from both falling debris and the man roaring in anger.
She watched as Batman hastily looked around the place before pulling out his grapple gun, grabbing ahold of Blake's waist, and firing, pulling the both of them out of the place and near a manhole. There, Batman lifted the cover and climbed out, with Blake following closely behind.
As Blake climbed out, she noticed that Batman was pressing a set of buttons on his wrist before both of them finally stood up.
"Batman, Blake, you okay?" the Faunus jumped at the sudden noise behind her, reaching for her sword, she turned to see Gordon standing behind them, to which Blake let out a sigh of relief.
"We're fine, Jim," the Dark Knight responded, "Where's Quinn?"
I nearly forgot about her, Blake thought. Seriously, where was she?
"Gone. Must've gotten loose while Bane was throwing you two around," Gordon answered.
As though he had forgotten, Blake saw as the Dark Knight looked to her and nodded at her. It took her a minute to realize that this was a 'thank you'. If she hadn't been there to actually save him, who knows what could've happened?
He then turned to face the Commissioner, "We need to get you off the island."
"I'm not a rookie, I can handle myself," Gordon refused.
Immediately after that, as though fate itself was throwing them a curveball, Bane burst out from the wall, throwing the three back against the pavement, and grabbed ahold of the Dark Knight.
"I will break you, Batman! Then the 'Bruja'!" he screamed at the man.
"No, Bane. This time, I break you!" Batman countered, putting his arms together and kicking himself off the man and backflipped onto the ground, away from Bane.
Blake watched as a bright light on her right appeared, speeding towards Bane. She then realized that it was actually Batman's car. The Batmobile, as it was named, immediately collided with the giant man and drove off into the water, bringing them both down.
She watched as the two slowly began to sink to the bottom of the waters below.
"My God..." she whispered, her eyes then widened as she turned to face Batman, who was pressing more buttons on his arm, "I thought you said you didn't kill people!"
"He'll live," he only responded before a boat appeared just minutes after, slowing down and stopping at the docks just up ahead.
He looked at her, then to Gordon, "Come on."
They walked towards the boat before coming to a stop, "Jim, get back to the mainland. It's too dangerous here."
"I don't like leaving you here," Gordon responded, crossing his arms and gave the man a stern look before he climbed onto the boat, an Arkham guard standing right next to him.
"The radio claims he's planting bombs all over Gotham. Gotham will panic, you're needed there."
"We're ready to go now, sir," the guard behind the Commissioner informed.
"All right, but what about her?" he said, motioning to Blake.
The Dark Knight looked at her for a second before turning back to the Commissioner, "She stays with me, she and I have to talk."
Both the Commissioner and the Faunus behind him gave him a strange look, "Alright then. By the way, Bane called Dr. Young 'Bruja'. What does it mean?"
The boat began to drive off, to which Batman answered loud enough for him to hear, "It's Spanish, for 'Witch'."
Blake watched as he walked off, "And what about that word that Bane called me: 'Gato'?"
"It means 'Cat'," he simply responded.
As soon as he answered, Blake nearly felt her heart stop at the response.
H-how do they know that I'm a Faunus?! Blake screamed within her mind, confused and shocked by the fact that almost everyone in this world seemed to know her secret. But seriously! HOW!?
"Oracle, go through the city's computers. Pull up all you can find on Dr. Young. I'll go through anything you find once I get to the cave," Blake snapped out of her own thoughts as she listened to Batman talking to Oracle.
Wait a minute... cave?
"A batcave? On Arkham Island?" Oracle asked in both of their earpieces.
Blake rolled her eyes at the name. Seriously, did everything he had have to be associated with bats?
"I built it years ago. It's best to plan ahead for situations like this," Batman explained as they continued to walk.
"How'd you manage to keep this a secret?"
"It's me, remember?" he responded. Blake could almost sense humor in his voice, but she shook the thought aside.
"So do you think Dr. Young is experimenting with Venom, the same chemical that turns Bane into that animal?"
"Yes, I'm worried. Bane seemed more powerful than usual. Joker wants the Venom, and that could only be trouble," the Dark Knight answered.
Blake did not want to encounter something like Bane again. As for the man himself... she didn't know what to think of him. If anything, he was the sanest villain in this place she met so far (besides that fact that he's a steroid-induced powerhouse), the only thing that he was driven by was revenge. Revenge for whatever Batman did to him.
"I'm heading to Dead Man's Point in Arkham North. I'll contact you once I'm in the Batcave," he then looked at her, "You're coming too."
"Wait, Blake?" Oracle asked.
"She's only managed to survive with her instincts. I need her to be prepared for what is to come next," he explained before his hand left his cowl.
"I'm right here, you know," Blake said in an annoyed tone.
"I know," the Dark Knight said as they continued to walk towards this 'Dead Man's Point'.
Batman knew that Blake was a capable fighter, and that's why he trusted her, among other things that happened before. So he knew that she was going to need more than a few somethings to help the both of them.
Specifically, NON-lethal somethings. Which can only be found at the Batcave...
Disclaimer: Well, that seemed pretty good. Now that that's good and done with, we'll move onto the more better bits of the story.
I don't have anything more to say other than what I usually say: keep an eye out for the next chapter and let me know what you think of this one.
In the meantime, stay beautiful, ladies and gents.
