A/N: The Catwoman for my story has no tail and no whiskers, I liked how she was drawn in Batman:TAS.
Markmark261: Thanks for catching my mistakes, I'll try to go back and correct the spelling in the previous chapter when I get a few minutes. I don't know where I would be without my spell check.
Enjoy!
Before Superman could move to follow Batman's orders, several shots rang out and two of the windows of the Roman's penthouse exploded outward. The two heroes sprang into action; Batman fired a grapple and swung towards the building with Superman close behind. Flying through the broken windows the duo began to quickly disarm the men inside.
Batman took the Joker down while Superman grabbed at two thug's guns. It was then that they saw what had caused the commotion; a girl dressed in a dark purple cat suit ran from the shadows and leapt through the broken windows. Batman secured the Joker and followed her through the window.
"Catwoman, STOP!" Batman commanded.
The girl just laughed and used her whip to swing to a new building's roof.
Batman spread his cape and glided after her.
"Come on Batman! Feeling a little tired tonight?" Catwoman tesased.
She ran across the roof and launched herself to the next roof, Batman was close behind. She fell gracefully through the air and completing a back flip as she landed on top of a tall office building.
Batman threw a bola witch caught around her feet, causing her to collapse to the roof.
Batman pinned her hands down.
"What were you doing in the Roman's penthouse tonight?" He demanded.
"You didn't ask nicely…" She scratched through his glove, causing him to release her arms. She jumped to her feet and jumped off the building.
Batman followed and grabbed her out of the air and fired a grapple pulling them up the side of a building. Catwoman snuggled in his arm.
"Ah, much better. It's been too long, huh Bats." She said kissing him on the cheek.
"You didn't answer my question." Batman said keeping them suspended from the side of the building, trying not to give her an opportunity to escape.
"You need to loosen up; you are too high strung these days. " She leapt from his arms and he tried to follow but couldn't. Looking at his hand he realized that she had zip tied his hand to his grapple. He smiled and pulled a knife from his belt and detached himself from the grapple.
He made his way back to the Roman's penthouse to see how Clark was doing. Gordon and Harvey Dent had just arrived and were helping bring the Roman, Joker and their men down.
"Batman," Dent called, "you'll never guess what happened. The Roman actually shot and killed one of the Joker's men during the gun fight. Between the tape Superman gave us and now this we have the evidence to take him to trial finally."
Batman just nodded and turned to Superman.
"Where's the girl." Superman asked quietly.
"Got away."
Superman was shocked, she didn't look like she was that hard to capture, but realized that he would have to continue this conversation up with Bruce later.
…and a second escape was made by the Joker. This just in: We have confirmed reports that crime boss the Roman was arrested late last night with the cooperation of Batman and Superman with local GCPD…
Clark turned off the TV in Bruce's office just as a blurry picture of him and Batman came on screen.
"Think he'll stay behind bars Bruce?"
"For a few years maybe, Harvey's going to throw the book at him. It will at least give us time to take the rest of the organization down." Bruce said as he signed a few more documents on his desk.
Clark got a soda from the mini fridge.
"So who was this Catwoman last night?" Clark asked.
Bruce didn't respond until Clark came over and stood next to him.
"She's a thief that…I haven't caught." Bruce replied.
Clark caught the hesitation in Bruce's voice.
"Haven't caught or don't want to catch."
Bruce leaned back in his chair and looked up at Clark.
"She and I have…an understanding, as long as she steals in other cities I won't bring her in. She can also give me information that I can't get normally."
"Who is she?"
"I don't know."
Clark was shocked for the second time in 24 hours; the World's Greatest Detective didn't know who this Catwoman was. And it seemed like he didn't care to find out…
Two average looking men made their way into a packed courtroom. One was bearded and wore dark sunglasses and was lead through the room by a young man who looked like his son. They quietly found their seats in the back of the courtroom and waited for the proceedings to begin.
The Roman's preliminary trial went fairly quickly, the opening statements were made and the initial pleas were entered in. The court was getting ready to recess for lunch when suddenly the building began to fill with purple smoke.
"HAHHAHAHHA, The life of the party is now here!" The Joker exclaimed, spraying the courtroom with bullets from his machine gun.
Why would he break the Roman out? Clark thought as he jumped from his seat.
Bruce reached under his clothes a bola and quickly took the clown down as Clark melted the front of the gun. The Joker fell to the floor. The Roman grabbed the clown's gas flower from the front of his jacket and sprayed it at Dent. Although this time liquid came out instead of the Joker's gas. Harvey cried out as the acid ate away at his face.
The Roman made a break for it, or rather started to when he dropped to the ground grabbing at his chest. Clark knelt down next to him and felt for a pulse as Bruce ran to Harvey.
"Dead. He must have had a heart attack or something." Clark looked around, "Where's the Joker?" The clown had disappeared.
"Forget them, get Dent to the hospital!" Bruce commanded.
Clark picked up Dent and flew him out the door. They arrived at the hospital several seconds later and the disguised Clark set Dent down on a bed. The doctors and nurses rushed Harvey into surgery to see if they could save his face. Clark ducked into a storage room and a second later emerged in his suit.
Batman arrived with Jim a several minutes later.
"Did they say anything when the admitted him Superman?" Gordon asked.
Clark shook his head.
"Where is Mrs. Dent?" Batman asked
"My wife went to pick her up; they have become somewhat close in the past couple of years." Gordon replied.
Batman nodded to Gordon and hit a button on his belt.
"We'll be back." Batman said has he left the room with Superman close behind.
The Batwing literally exploded off the ground, OH MAN; he's PISSED Clark thought flying next to the jet. Batman's voice came roughly over the link.
"We are going to find that clown and we are going to make sure he makes it to jail. PERSONALY."
Clark began to scan the area, how hard could it be to find a man in a purple suit in the middle of the day. It was actually fairly hard, it was noon and people were out everywhere going to have their midday meal.
The money! Clark clicked on the link,"The money Batman, he's after the warehouses full of cash. He made the agreement with the Roman and then after being told the locations he came back to kill him so that he could take the money free and clear."
Batman said nothing but changed directions and headed for the warehouse district of the city. Flying over Superman began to x-ray the buildings until he saw one with several men inside loading up a few trucks. A few purple trucks, that was too easy.
Batman ejected from the Batwing and glided down to the roof. Superman joined him as he burst though a skylight.
"Ahhh there he is, what took you so long Bats? And the new pretty flyboy…Get them boys." The Joker giggled.
The heroes quickly dispatched the thugs. Batman seemed to channel his anger through his fists; the thugs didn't stand a chance. Most of them went down with one or two punches.
"He's mine Superman." Batman said through his teeth glaring at the Joker.
The Joker came at him with guns blazing, Batman threw a Batarang and the guns clattered to the ground. The clown pulled a sack of marbles and threw them at the Dark Knight's feet; Superman blew them away towards the high stacks of money behind the Joker. The Bombs went off, instantly igniting the money into towering walls of flames.
Batman grabbed the Joker and threw him into a wall. Picking him back up Batman landed a solid blow to his stomach. The Joker doubled over and Batman kicked him in the head the Joker flew several feet and landed on his back. Batman began to punch him in the face.
"Enough." Clark was instantly at his side. Batman continued to hit the clown. Clark grabbed Batman's hand, stopping it from slamming into bloody and broken face of the now unconscious Joker.
"Stop Batman, he's done." Batman looked up at Superman glared at him for a moment and then walked out of the burning warehouse. Superman raced to pull the Joker and his men from the building.