THE TOMORROW KNIGHT'S FIRST NIGHT
Deep within Gotham City, a long-figured sprawled within Crime Alley frayed out, his white eyes opened, and witnessing what stood near him, stood a young guy sporting a high-tech raven jumpsuit, a cowl with extended pointed ears, and a red bat emblem on the breastplate. Terry McGinnis, also known as Batman; The Tomorrow Knight.
Terry rubbed the back of his head as his eye-sights returned he rose from position to standing up and started to widen when he noticed what was around him.
Gotham, but additional and older time than what the teen remembered from his period, pushed his brain to light up regarding what was happening.
'Could I? No, it can't be. I gotta be sure first,' Terry presumed, not panicking as it won't help, and remembered his training. Think on your feet, steady yourself, and then make the jump.
The Tomorrow Knight then grabbed an old brown coat covering his whole body and a brown hat for his head while seizing his mask off for the time being. He then fled out of Crime Alley and saw that Gotham stood in a terrible condition than what he remembers reading from school and learning from the elder, Bruce Wayne.
Terry noticed that Gotham was that New York classic style and additional poor people living on the streets or in ruined buildings. They stand downright fallen and hopeless the glances of it made him nauseous to see this and wonder.
What happened to Bruce Wayne and Batman? His impact should maintain restoring the metropolis. What transpired, and where is Bruce?
Terry hummed in thought and decided to get some answers from a computer to search them up. He located a library that stood closed. Hummed in introspection deciding to a break-in, and wasn't an immoral forte for now at most biased. He unlocked the front door while causing sure, the alarms weren't triggered and started his investigation on a nearby computer.
Terry started to type and search for anything that could with his answers. The start would be what happened to Bruce and the Wayne Family. As he read, the young teen started to feel, like he didn't know and felt hollow about what he found out.
The murder of the Wayne Family never happened and they move out of Gotham due to the failed robbery turned shootout. Bruce would take over his family's company and the CEO in the Europe era while Lucius Fox gave Gotham's Wayne Enterprise control. He afterward married Selina Kyle and the two lived a happy family life somewhere in Europe, away from Gotham and its corruption.
Terry clenched his hands into fists and was close to breaking the computer before him but calmed down as he shouldn't allow his anger to get to him.
A world without Batman existed as anyone's worst nightmare.
Nevertheless, there's always hope as Terry eventually understands and opens his eyes to see the bigger picture.
Terry then left the library while covering his tracks and setting great covers for him in this bizarre and new past world. He stood committed to using everything he was trained by his mentor and lived as a father figure and a fine man to him.
Terry then fired a grappling hook, having himself be pulled upwards and removed the hat/coat to suit up fully for his new path.
"The world will always need a Batman," Terry said, the words that Bruce in his world once advised him to himself as he puts the mask on, starting his new path and giving the world a new Dark Knight, the first one.
Little did he know as he didn't acknowledge it was about to happen momentarily. He started hearing police sirens. High above one of those buildings, two gangsters were standing guard over an open door as their third member came outside through the doorway carrying an open box. Unfortunately for him he suddenly tripped, slopping the booty; gold, diamonds, and gemstones, all over the ground. Two of them were trying to clean it up, however, they weren't anticipating a visitor as a shadow of a bat sailed above them.
Grabbing guns from their jacket, both lawbreakers aimed high at the atmosphere while their third member was having a smoke. A hand tapped the criminal with the cigarette's right shoulder. Turned his awareness rearwards, gasped, and got his lights punched out by Batman! The other two criminals raised their firearms at the Tomorrow Knight or soon-to-be Dark Knight. Batman was kneeling over the downed thug while holding onto his tie. Immediately let go, standing up and turned his attention to the rest of them. "Late night shopping boys," Batman asked/joked.
Shots were blasted at him! Batman, however, was able to dodge them with ease due to his experience. He hurled himself at the two criminals knocking them to the ground. One fell unconscious, unlike his associate who rebounded fast along with his handgun. Batman projected a Batarang, knocking the handgun out of his grip and barking out in pain. As the criminal was comforting his hand that was in ache, Batman trekked toward him. The thug threw the first couple of punches and missed completely as Batman kneed him in the gut and showed an uppercut knocking the criminal, unconscious. Batman was victorious!
A door was booted open all of a sudden gaining his attention. He sees the police coming out of the doorway, armed and ready. There were four of them and one of them was commissioner James Gordon, Barbra Gordon's father! Unfortunately, now was not the time for him to meet.
As soon as they turned their attention toward Batman, he immediately jumped off the building and used his retractable wings to glide and rocket boots to help him fly out of there. One question was running through Gordon's head, 'What the hell was that?'
AN: The first part of it was this world established roughly Batman: Gotham Adventures issue # 33, A world without Batman, where Bruce Wayne's parents stood never killed and how the development happens which Terry teleports into a world of the past and acquire a new life in that world. The second part's based on the animated short "The Dark Knight's First Night" from Batman: The Animated Series. One more thing, this story is based on my version of "New Batman Beings (Batman Beyond & Justice League" by AZ23AJ, hats off to the writer!
