Batman and Robin Reborn
Part 3
Dawn of the Knight
Part One:

Two-Face yelled as he pointed his Tommy into the air. "Get these pompous pincushions in the vaults, now! Gotta protect our most valued merchandise!"

Two-Face was yelling down to the lower part of the banquet hall. There were thugs a plenty, but most noticably two men picked up the instructions. One was a short man in a suit. He had a long skinny nose and a monacle over one eye. "Quiet you, schizophrenic simpleton! I'm well aware of the urgency of the situation."

Two-Face considered putting a bullet between the man's eyes right then, but working with this buzzard was manditory for completing the plan. The other man who took the order was a much larger man. He was called Bane. He was a monstrosity of strength and a fearsome example of cunning. He was getting paid, and had no argument, save picking up the nearest elites and tossing them into the vault, which lay open a good 50 yards away.

That was three. 'Where were the others?' I wondered.

"Aren't there supposed to be five?" Robin asked me, standing right behind me as I looked through the skylight. It was too easy. It seemed the floor below the skylight stayed clear. Robin kinda noticed this, but she was more likely to expect them to be able to react quicker. I knew better, because if I were them, no Bat protégé would ever get past square one.

Moments later.

The skylight above cracked, crashed and was smashed through by a sizable force. Two-Face and Penguin looked up with big grins on their faces. The grins faded quikly as an AC unit from the roof crashed through the electric net set for the Bat-kids. Short circuiting it and bringing it down with a crash. That short circuit browned out the entire floor.

"Oh, damn." Two-Face growled. Bane simply narrowed his eyes.

He grunted. "It matters not, I will still break the Legacy of the Batman."

Penguin shook his head as his umbrella became iridescent, lighting up his immediate area. "Come on little Bat... I'm ready."

He turned around and before him stood a young woman in the Robin costume.

"Ah. The littlest bird... I've often longed to take you under my wing, to teach you as your father has failed..."

Robin narrowed her eyes and reached into her belt. Penguin moved quickly for a man of his body type, he pointed the umbrella at her and bullets began flying, amidst screaming from the surrounding darkness. Robin was just fast enough, bullets caught in her cape as she threw a barrage of Bataragangs at the man, she disappeared into the darkness. Penguin laughed.

"Flying away so soon?"

"Not likely..."

Penguin looked up, only to get caught in the face by a boot with an 'R' on the bottom.

Elsewhere. Two-Face lit a match and threw it on the ground, setting fire to the carpet here, and in a way, condemning the building. As the flames lit up the area, the figure of the Batman opened before him. This Batman was younger, more vigorous, possibly more stubborn. He wasn't the same. There was something not quite right about him. He wasn't really the Bat? Not really, a pretender, the next in line.

"Batman, you ain't." Two-Face laughed as he pointed his gun at Batman. Batman simply narrowed his eyes.

Two-Face pulled the trigger, but Batman was already out of the way and diving over the edge of the railing. Two-Face fired blindly he stayed away from the ledge though.

"Bane! Hagan! Where are you!? Get the Bat out of here!! " Two-Face yelled.

That was exactly what Batman wanted to know. There were five members... Two-Face, Bane, Penguin, Clayface and... the last one was their other trump card. If Two-Face was wondering where Hagan was, then that mean the man had changed shape and was one of the party-goers. Allowing him to be anywhere.

Batman glanced around, he heard a board creek and moved just in time. A massive fist came crashing down on the spot where he had stood a second ago.

"I will break you!" Bane yelled as he ripped the carpet from the ground, tripping up Batman a little. Bane's other strikes met with Batman's cape and batarangs, but it was obvious that Batman was being chased.

"You cannot win, little bat..." Bane boasted as he backed Batman into a corner.

Batman now stood his ground. Cape still, hiding the rest of his body, he didn't flinch. Bane attacked with speed only sink-sized muscles could produce. Batman roared into action, releasing a large dose of dense gas, eliminating visibility. Bane wasn't fooled for a second. He was killer and a lack of vision didn't slow him down at all, it did cover Batman's next move.

As Bane continued his narrowly dodged attacks, Batman fired off his grapples. Bane swung...

'snap'

A thick cable wrapped around his wrist and yanked him into the air. Batman sped off into the room. It was blazing now. Even as Bane rose again everyone realized that this fight was ending really fast.

Bane looked through the flames at Batman. Deep down, Batman wanted the fight. He wanted to prove that he was indeed Batman. A flame flared momentarily and Bane was gone. Batman looked around. Two face appeared out of the shadows, then fell to the ground, tied up. Robin appeared of the shadows, being the one who dropped him.

Batman and Robin looked at each other. They looked at the room. The people had been evacuated. The floor was collapsing. They began to run.

Moments later they were swinging out into the night. Robin was carrying two hostages and she landed on an adjacent building. Batman was lifting Two-Face and Penguin. Batman continued his swing so that he could land on top of the Police Department. The thugs were still more or less unconcious. Robin landed shortly after and the two cops on the roof looked at each other incredulously.

The turned their heads again and Batman and Robin were gone.

Next time... the conclusion...