A/N: Thanks for the feedback all, the interest in this story has made it really fun to write.

I'm basing some of Batman's cases loosely on the comic books The Long Halloween and Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. If you haven't read them, they both are really good stories. (and from what I hear they helped Christian Bale with his portrayal of Batman in the upcoming movie)

Monday morning came too soon for Clark, after Bruce had left the cave, he had continued to work on the Batcomputer. Alfred had stayed near by and was impressed with how much Clark had picked up in one day. Clark had written searches on Kryptonite, Krypton, Smallville and just about anything else that interested him.

Alfred had just knocked on his door to let him know that breakfast would be ready in 20 minutes. He got up and made his way to the shower. He was as strong as steel but after being thrown on his ass a million times yesterday he hoped the shower would loosen his muscles up.

When he had returned from the shower, he found that Alfred had laid out a nice suit for him to wear to the office. Smiling and shaking his head he put on the pin stripe suit with the tan shirt and blue tie. If the guys could see me now, no more plaid jokes! He thought as he made his way down to breakfast.

"I trust the suit fits comfortably?"

"The suit's great Alfred. How did you ever guess my dimensions?"

"I am a mind reader, young sir." Alfred said in his dry British humor, "Of course I called your mother and got them from her. She said that you are to call her today or else."

Clark laughed and sat down to join Bruce at the table. He was sipping his coffee and reading the morning paper. A flat panel on the wall showed the current stock market prices and had a commentator talking about some new wonder drug that should boost the stock price of a company.

"I saw your searches on the computer Clark. Good start."

"Master Bruce you have a 10:30 meeting with Mr. Fox. We should be going if we are going to get Mr. Kent settled in at the office.

The drive to the office in the Mercedes was fairly quick. The rush hour traffic was long over. They pulled into the underground parking garage under the Wayne building and into Bruce's reserved spot. Alfred opened the door as the two got out and the trio made their way to the private elevator that would take them to the executive floor. Bruce handed Clark a keycard.

"This card will get you to the floor, your office is one floor below mine, and into my office. It will also take you to the roof where I store some costumes and other gear." Bruce told him as he swiped the card and pushed the 30th floor button.

The doors opened to an impressive suite. There were big doors on either side of the hallway and then at the end was a huge window that looked out into the city. They went to the end of the hall and turned right into Bruce's outer office. Clark was introduced to Maya, Bruce's Assistant. She was an attractive woman in her early thirties, long black hair and smooth light chocolate skin. She wore a dress that was conservative but still managed to look very cute.

Maya followed them into Bruce's interoffice and put a stack of folders on his desk as well as a pile of phone messages. She then updated Bruce on his schedule pointing out some changes since he was last in the office. Alfred poured Bruce and Clark a cup of coffee as Maya closed the door and returned to her desk.

"Clark here is your first research assignment." Bruce handed him a fairly thick folder.

"We are researching a company called GothChem for a possible buy out. We need to know everything we can about them. And this is where your training from last night comes in. Your desktop and my desktop here are linked to the computer in the cave, giving us a lot more access to information that might otherwise be secret. I want you to begin with regular Internet search and phone calls the company reps and then move to the Batcomputer link and see what you can dig up."

"GothChem, they were the company being talked about on the stock news. They are the ones with some new wonder drug."

Bruce gave Clark his impressed smirk. "Yes, and I have a hunch that it's too good to be true. Any questions email me or give me a call. I need to prepare for my meeting so I'm going to have Maya show you to your office."

As if on cue Maya knocked and the came in.

"Ready Mr. Kent?"

Clark nodded and followed Maya back to the elevator. They went down a floor and the doors opened to another floor that was similar to the one they had just left except that it had smaller offices and more of them. They walked about halfway down the hall towards another huge window overlooking the city and then Clark saw his name on the door on his left.

"Here you go Mr. Kent. If you have any questions or problems you can talk to Debbi, she has her desk just around the corner next to the copier." Clark thanked her and then sat down at his desk. He booted the computer up and checked his new email account. There were a few already in there. One was a welcome note from HR with a link to all the company policies. Another gave instructions on how to setup his voice mail. And the last was a note on the upcoming company party, with more details to come.

Clark ignored the rest of his emails and began to read through the file on GothChem. It would have been fairly boring stuff if it wasn't for Bruce's notes. He began to see how to read between the lines, to see how Batman saw the clues that were not there.

He ran the regular searches on the internet not finding much more than was in the file. He called the rep over at GothChem, they were very pleased to hear from Wayne Enterprises and quickly took his information down to send him a free informational packet on their new product.

Clark then logged into the Batcomputer and began to program the complex searches. As the data came back with more dead ends he saw that Bruce's hunch was right. GothChem was a front for something, now he just had to figure out what.

Bruce came down around lunch to see how Clark was doing.

"Clark, John Newman, CEO of GothChem, just called to invite me to the Ritz Gotham for a lunch meeting. Seems like he wants to kiss my ass some more. Since you have been doing the research why don't you come along and see what you can glean from the conversation."

"Bruce, from what I see GothChem is a company on paper only." Bruce looked pleased.

"You are catching on fast. Have you finished with the Batcomputer searches?"

"I just started them before you came in. They should be finished after Lunch." Clark said as he locked the computer.

"Good work. Lets go get a free lunch." Bruce said walking out of Clarks office towards the elevator.

The lunch was fairly boring to Clark, he didn't learn anything new about GothCorp but he did enjoy the pasta at the Ritz. The rest of the afternoon flew by as he looked over the searches from the computer and prepared his report for Bruce. Probably not much here that he doesn't already know, Clark thought to himself. He emailed the file and made his way up to Bruce's office.

"Hey Bruce." Clark said entering the office.

"Clark good timing. Ready to head out?" Bruce said gathering his things into his briefcase and started walking towards the door.

"Yep." Clark responded following him to the elevator doors. It had gotten dark outside and Clark noticed the Batsignal in the sky through the big windows.

"Bruce looks like it's a little early to head back."

Bruce turned and saw the light in the sky. 'Batmode' switching on.

"Follow me."

They entered the elevator and Bruce slid his access card and then pushed the floor numbers 10, 4 and 3. A small panel opened and he pressed the lighted button inside. The elevator took off towards the roof and when the doors opened they stepped into a small room.

"This is one of the many places in the city where I store extra equipment." Bruce told him as he headed towards a rack that held his costume. He handed Clark a pair of black cargo pants and a long sleeve black shirt and a pair of leather gloves.

"Change into those." Clark did what he was told with a big smile on his face. He was going out with Batman tonight.

"You are coming with me, but you will only be my backup. My rules, my way." Batman said as he pushed a button to call Alfred. "Alfred, I'll be home late. Kent is with me."

"Yes sir, I saw the signal."

Batman flipped a switch on the wall and the outside cameras on the roof showed him it was clear. He handed Clark a ski mask to cover his head and face. As Clark put it on he heard the sound of a jet engine approaching. When Batman opened the door of the little room they were in he saw the Batwing hovering just above the roof. Clark followed Batman and jumped up on the wing and then climbed into the back seat in the cockpit.

Batman guided the Batwing through the downtown maze of buildings with the ease of walking. They arrived at police headquarters in less than 3 minutes. The Batwing hovered next to the building as Batman jumped out. Clark followed him at a distance.

"Jim." Batman greeted Jim Gordon.

Gordon jumped a little. Its fun to watch him do it to someone else. Clark thought to himself. Gordon shrugged off his surprise.

"We just received word that the Roman is moving. One of our informants notified us that he is going to be hitting the Maroni family tonight."

"Where?"

"The Santi, their family restaurant. I have my men alerted but I wanted you to go in first. We need to nail this guy." Noticing Clark for the first time. "Who's your friend?"

"Introductions later, we need to move." Batman said climbing back into the Batwing.