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Batman is based on both the cartoon/s, comics, and whatever else I see... 

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"I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives."

 -The Long Halloween

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'I.

Am.

A.

Murderer.'

 "But he told me that Joker was still alive."

'I'm going mad.'

 "He lied."

 'I need to get out…'

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Sitting in the shadows of his room with the curtains drawn shut and the lights off, Bruce held the knife out in front of himself. He glared at the tip of the knife directed towards his heart then dropped it to the floor with a sigh. The blade of the knife seemed to shine despite there being any light, 'You tried it before, and look where it got you.'

 Standing up, he padded his was passed the knife to the built in bathroom and slammed the door shut.

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 The clouds slowly moved across the sky in a rolling motion, a storm was brewing. Thunder rumbled in the distance and the clouds began to turn from a soft fluffy white to a dark angry black.

 Logan pulled himself into a sitting position and sniffed the air; a slight scent of gunpowder and gasoline was in the air. Climbing to his feet he stretched his senses out as far as they would go, something was in the distance and it defiantly wasn't a storm, no, not yet.

 He tilted his head as he heard the front door opened and closed. It was Bruce fully dressed in his Batman costume; some how he could sense what was going on as well.

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~I tried to kill the pain
but only brought more
I lay dying
and I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
am I too lost to be saved
am I too lost?~

Rogue frowned; Kitty's music was on full blast and giving her a migraine. Tossing her notebook onto the floor along side her pen, she climbed off her bed and went over to the wall and pounded on it.

 Nothing happened.

She pounded on it again, "NOT EVERYBODY WANTS TO LISTEN TO EVANESCENCE RIGHT NOW!!" She shouted and this time the music turned down.

 "Like, what do you want Rogue?" Kitty asked poking her head through the wall, "I can't like, think with you pounding on the wall."

Rogue rolled her eyes, "Will ya just keep your music down? Please?"

 "Yea, okay." Kitty smiled and disappeared back through the wall.

Sighing, Rogue turned around walking back to her notebook. She glanced out the window and stopped, standing in the middle of the yard was Bruce Wayne… or Batman since he was dressed in his costume. His cape flapped gently in the breeze as he stood as still as a statue watching something out of her sight. Logan trotted up to his side and fell into a fighting stance, something was terribly wrong…

 ~X-men, report to the Danger Room immediately!~ Xavier's mental voice was panicked and full of worry.

Glancing once more out the window, Rogue headed to the Danger Room in a full out run.

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 "You sense it too, don't you bub?" Logan grunted, his eyes narrowed as he listened for any new sounds.

Bruce didn't move, after a moment of silence he took a step forward, "There's more dust in the air than usual."

 "How can you tell? You've only been here fer a couple of days, an' ya haven't even been outta the mansion!" His voice was harsh and throaty, almost like the anticipation of what was to come was making him anxious. 

 Bruce didn't care to dignify his question with an answer.

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 DEFCON 5.

The whole mansion was closed down, and locked. No one could get in, and no one could get out. There were people stationed on each side of the mansion, while the younger students were inside the mansion in underground rooms. Only four people stood outside in the front yard, Rogue, Wolverine, Feminity, and Batman.

 The rumbling sound of a fighter plane's engine echoed in the distance, moments later the sound was joined with stomping feet.

 "What did you do to get them this angry?" Batman asked, his eyes narrowing when the first line of soldiers became visible.

Wolverine snorted, "It's the start of a war, and it isn't gonna be pretty," He unsheathed his claws with a sound that sounded like SNIKT,  "Think you can handle it?"

 "Done it before."

Glancing back at the mansion, Rogue swallowed thickly as she tried to tap into the powers she had stored inside herself. After several long years trying to control her own power, she had stumbled upon controlling the powers she had stored inside herself.

 ~They're coming from all sides~ Jean sent out, snapping Rogue from her own thoughts.

 "Logan?" Virginia whispered meekly, her usual arrogant/ happy go lucky façade washing away like chalk in the rain, "I don't think my powers are going to be very useful."

 "You are the element of surprise, Red," Wolverine smirked slightly, "Now get ready." He growled, his smirk turning into a snarl, as the row of soldiers grew closer. Then suddenly they broke apart, over twenty of them disappeared into the trees as a fighter plane flew over spraying bullets everywhere.

 The group dodged out of the way of the trail of bullets and took cover behind anything they could find. Wolverine let out a feral growl and took off for the woods.

 "Logan no!" Rogue screamed only to be ignored. 

 Batman reached into his belt pulling out several knockout grenades, an explosion caused him to stumble and drop one, setting it off. Cursing loudly he kicked it towards a tree where it exploded in a cloud of white smoke.

 "What the hell is that!?" Rogue shouted shooting ice at the plane as it flew by again; she managed to get the left wing sending it crashing to the ground.      

 As soon as the plane hit the ground the sky above tore open and unleashed a torrent of rain.

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