Italic means the character is thinking to themselves. I do not own any character or location.
The Search…And the find
"We are wasting our time here…" Batgirl said to Batman as they were searching the place where Bruce was attacked earlier during the day. I just wish he'd let it go….
"We are not leaving until we find…"
"Help! Someone help!" A voice yelled from afar, but they still heard it.
Both dark crusaders rushed to the location they heard the voice but before they could see the owner they heard the slam of a car door. As they arrived they saw a car driving away and heard a few impact noises. Batgirl looked at Batman for a second.
"I'm taking care of this, you continue your investigation."
Batman was about to protest but then he thought that it was the opportunity to let Batgirl "fly" on her own for once. Even if he was a little worried, he saw her in action before and he has faith. I will just rejoin with her after my search, I'm not taking any chances that this "Spider-man" vanishes.
"Fine, but keep radio contact at all time, I want to know if something goes wrong or if you find something important, understood?" Batman answered with a grave tone while looking at her directly in the eyes.
"Understood" she answered, not really fazed by the stare that scared most of his opponents. She then started to follow the trail of the car which luckily left burn marks, visibly in a hurry.
Unaware to the both of them, someone watched them from afar…
"Those two won't be a problem, Gotham is finished and so is the Bat family.
Elsewhere…
Batgirl followed the car's trail to a weird warehouse which seemed full of activity for the middle of the night. She watched the warehouse from an adjacent building. She used her grappling hook then glided to silently land on the roof of the place where the car seemed to have stopped.
"Move, don't waste time! We already failed once, we need to succeed this time." A grumpy voice said from below.
Barbara watched below and saw Cobblepot aka The Penguin entering the warehouse. She went to one of the windows and silently opened it. But just before she went through it she thought she heard something and turned around. Nothing, great Barbara, the second you are on your own you start to hear things.
She went in and quickly grappled to a metal beam to watch from above, what she saw almost paralyzed her, without her training with Batman she would have fainted. All here, they are all here, never thought I'd say this, but I wished Batman was there for once. Batgirl almost gawked as she counted roughly one hundred men walking around with various crates. Two of the men were dragging a man whom seemed in bad shape and threw him on his knees in front of Penguin. After a good look she saw that the man in question was one of the men that tried to kidnap Bruce yesterday. She pressed a button on her wrist and she whispered.
"Batman, this is Batgirl, I found Penguin and about a hundred of his henchmen in a warehouse, join me when you can, they seem to have kidnaped…Well one of the men that tried to kidnap Bruce Wayne, I'm watching for now, Batgirl out." With those word she closed the incorporated radio.
"You do realise it was troublesome to get you out of your cell mate?" The Penguin said to the kneeling man. "That cop asked for a lot of money to let you out, we got you out for just one reason: How in the hell did you fail to capture an unarmed Bruce Wayne!?" The man flinched a little at the yells of the little man.
"It…It was my partner who had the weapon, we were caught by a guy in a costume!"
"Don't lie! The Bat does not show up during the day and the police doesn't have the guts to risk shooting Wayne, much less follow you while having a hostage!
"It wasn't the Bat, it was some guy who calls himself Spider-man, and he got the drop on us."
"You saying some costumed clown took down the both of you without touching you? You had no wounds, not even a bruise, when we got you out." He made a small sign to some of his men. "Get rid of this guy, maybe the next time I will get someone competent that can capture a regular man and not lie about it."
As Batgirl was about to jump down she heard her wrist radio blink, she answered.
"Batgirl, you may want to hold back, the police is on its way, they received an anonymous tip that there was criminal activity in the warehouse. I am close, we will get them together, don't do this on your own." Batman warned over the comm. Barbara nodded but then the beam she was on suddenly half-collapsed and, caught off guard, she did not have time to grapple up and landed on the ground, just a few meters away from Penguin.
"What do we have here? The Bat's little sidekick, and on her own no less." Every men turned to her as she got up and in a fighting stance. "You don't stand a chance against all of us alone Batgirl."
He's right, but I just have to fight until Batman and the police gets here.
Just as she was about to start fighting a yell was heard then a man yelled and fell to the ground.
"It's the Bat! He's here!" Penguin shouted to his men.
"No, it's just the lie your man told you" a young voice said from above.
Everyone looked up at the same time and Spider-man was there, hanging upside-down from a web line. One of the men threw a crate at him and at incredible speed he jumped away and, to everyone's stupefaction, stuck to the wall he arrived on. Everyone was staring at him, including Batgirl who was relieved and slightly afraid that the man they were searching for was here. He was just slightly bulkier than her, but his tight costume showed he was incredibly muscular for his size and youth.
"Seriously guys? I mean I know that picking on girls is easy, but I would have thought that the Penguin himself would be capable of fighting his own battles, and not relying on dumb brutes…Not that you're any smarter, you did not even thought to watch the news?" Spider-man mocked in a cocky voice. "Well I guess you can't be smart while being lazy. The car your guy used was leaving marks all over the place, did not have enough funds to get good tires?"
Batgirl almost choked when she heard him openly insulting a crime boss with a massive amount of men with him. Then she saw Penguin's face, as red as a tomato.
"Everyone! Squash this bug and bring me his head NOW!"
With these words, Spider-man dropped on the ground in a flip and landed in front of the men, looking relaxed while all henchmen charged at him, completely forgetting Batgirl, who took advantage of it and turned to Cobblepot, only to find out that he fled in the confusion. She silently cursed and turned to the hero, expecting him to be overwhelmed. But what she saw made her almost take a step back.
He was jumping all around, ricocheting everywhere at blinding speed, she could barely follow his exact movement, and he did not even seemed fazed by the amount of men.
"Such bodyguards you are! Not even capable of squashing one little spider." He jumped over a guy, using his momentum to kick the man in the back, sending him on the ground. "I've fought kids that gave me more trouble than all of you, combined" "I think you may be able to punch me once, because I'm gonna fall asleep of boredom!"
When the mass of men finally lessened, Batgirl joined the fight and started to fight with him, still amazed by his speed and the fact he did not seemed to tire out even with the acrobatic moves and speed he was displaying. After a few seconds there was only the frightened man on the ground looking at the two heroes in horror. Spider-man casually walked to him…shot a web on his foot and threw him up, sticking him upside-down like last time.
"NO! Not again…" The man complained before fainting.
Spider-man threw webs with both his hands and stuck the mass of unconscious men together then turned to Batgirl. And neither of them talked, they gave each other a look-over. Batgirl walked closer to him, not certain of his reaction, but far less cautious about him than before.
I don't know if its luck or bad luck that made me help the richest man in town then the prettiest hero I ever saw in my...What!? Why did I think that? Peter thought while being thankful that his mask hid his face.
"Thanks for the help Spider-man." She said. "Can you tell…"
Spider-Sense! Spider-man looked up and saw the beam over them completely collapse, in a split second he pushed Batgirl out of the way…but did not thought of anything after. And the heavy steel beam fell and crashed on him, blocking him from Batgirl's view.
"Spider-man!" She screamed after the initial shock. She tried to lift the beam but she was far too weak on her own. Then she heard a small "woof" behind her and when she turned she saw Batman looking at her with his eyes displaying obvious displeasure, more than usual anyway.
"Help me lift this Batman! He's under it." Batgirl asked, Batman nodded but before they could start trying they saw the beam move and took a couple steps back. After a few seconds the beam started to go up, revealing Spider-man, slowly lifting the massive beam on his own. His grunts showed his pain nonetheless.
He is very strong, he could be a serious threat to anyone, that beam must weigh at least five tons. Batman thought. His train of thought was interrupted when Barbara went to him and kicked the beam while Spider-man pushed, letting the beam fall on the ground on their left. Spider-man was panting. Bruce was still watching.
"Don't worry about me, Batgirl is it? You're okay that's all that matters." The web-slinger said, slowly recovering but holding his left shoulder with his right hand.
Batman however, while grateful to him for saving Batgirl, still stomped over to him and gave him his death stare. Then looked at Batgirl.
"Why did you fight those men? I told you to wait."
"The beam was damaged and loosened just as I closed the communicator and I fell. Spider-man arrived and saved me, god knows what they would have done to me Batman."
"You're Batman?" Spider-man said while looking at him. "Finally it worked. I've been looking for you for…" He was starting to feel dizzy, the Bat-themed heroes noticed it and Barbara caught him as he fell forward. Barbara's behavior was strange to Bruce, he could not put his finger on it. Just then they heard police sirens outside the warehouse.
"Let's go before the police sees us, they might get the wrong idea." Batman said gravely and picked Spider-man from Barbara's arms, noticing that she, because of her size, would not be able to carry him and be mobile at the same time. They then grappled up and used the Batmobile when far enough away.
Later
The three of them arrived in the Batcave and Alfred was quite surprised to see the colorful-suited hero unconscious with them.
"Master Br..Batman I hope that it is not you that hurt this young man?"
"No, he pushed Batgirl out of the way of a steel beam but took the blow himself, he somehow still managed to lift the beam on his own before collapsing as well." As a form of respect and thanks for saving Barbara, he did not remove his mask while he was unconscious.
"What sort of injury did he sustain sir?"
"Dislocated shoulder and internal damage, coupled with the sheer strain of lifting a five ton beam. The beam somehow did not completely broke every bone in his body but the point of impact on his left shoulder was enough to damage the muscle and cause minor internal bleeding." Batman said with no emotions. "When he awakes, we will have a long talk.
A/N: So this is the third chapter, again longer than I anticipated, I think I'm just going to write them long from now on. Hope you enjoyed, leave a review it always help.
