Batman Begins: Enter Seto Kaiba

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Master Bedroom, Kaiba Mansion--Morning

Kaiba awakes from his nightmarish hallucinations and sees that he's back at home.

"How long was I out?"

"Two days. It's your birthday, sir. Many happy returns...including Mokuba."

Mokuba hands a glass of water to Kaiba to drink after his suffering. (Mokuba's about 23)

"Take it easy, big brother."

"I've felt these effects before, but this was so much more potent. It was some kind of hallucinogen, weaponized, in aerosol form."

Suddenly, Roland appears before the bedside replying to what he heard Kaiba just said.

"You have been hanging at the wrong clubs, Mr. Kaiba."

"I called Roland when your condition worsened after the first day, sir."

"I analysed your blood, isolating the receptor compounds and the protein-based catalyst."

"Am I meant to understand any of that, Roland?"

"Not at all. I just wanted you to know how hard it was. Bottomline, I synthesized an antidote."

"Could you make more?"

"You planning on gassing yourself again, Mr. Kaiba?"

"Well, you know how it is, Roland. You're out at night, looking for kicks, and someone's passing around the weaponized hallucinogens.

Smiling, Roland answers back, "I'll bring what I have. The antidote should inoculate you for now. Arthur, always a pleasure."

"Roland."

"Does Mokuba know, Arthur?"

"Yes, he knows. So does Roland."

"I see..."

Kaiba Mansion--Sometime in the afternoon

Arthur is talking with Téa who had just arrived.

"You sure you don't want to come in?"

"I have to get back. I just wanted to leave this gift."

"Thank you."

Then Seto Kaiba sees Téa nearby the entrance.

"Téa?"

"Looks like someone's been burning the candle at both ends. Must've been quite an occasion."

"It is my birthday."

"I know. I'm sorry that I can't come tonight. I was just dropping off your present."

"You've got better plans?"

"My boss, Tristan Taylor, has been missing for two days. Which in this city, means I should probably start by looking at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

"Téa..."

Then Téa's cell phone rings abruptly. Ring Ring Ring

"Excuse me. Téa Gardner. Who authorized that? Get Bakura down there right now. Do not take no for an answer, and call Dr. Miho Nozaka. Tell her that we'll need our own assessment on the judge's desk by morning."

"What's wrong, Téa?"

"It's Gozaburo Falcone. Dr. Bakura moved him to Arkham Asylum on suicide watch."

"You're going to Arkham now? It's in the Narrows, Téa."

"You enjoy your party, Seto. Some of us have work to do."

"You be careful."

"Happy 28th birthday."

Téa then gets outside the Mansion and starts her car for Arkham Asylum.

Seto opens up the small box that Téa gave him. The note says "Finders Keepers" and inside, is the 4th Blue-Eyes card that she had 20 years ago. He smiles.

Seeing Téa's car leave, Seto quickly runs over to the main hall of his vast Mansion.

"But, Master Kaiba, the guests will be arriving."

"Keep them happy until I arrived. Tell them that joke you know."

Seto gives Arthur a gentle slap on his left arm.

"He's going, isn't he, Arthur?"

"Yes, Master Mokuba, he is."

Kaiba Mansion--Study

Kaiba steps to the grand piano and presses 3 keys on it, and immediately the bookcase swings open. Kaiba then walks inside.

Kaiba descends down a stone stairway to where a metal spiral staircase is. He goes in the dumbwaiter of the spiral stairs and turns a lever to plummet down to the cave grounds.

Batcave--moments later

The 'elevator' drops down gently on the grounds, and Kaiba opens the gates and moves towards a padlocked closet.

Inside it, is the Batman costume. A dark face stares towards Kaiba's and immediately he grabs it.

Kaiba Corp--Applied Sciences Division

Roland is manufacturing more antidotes for the hallucinogens in his lab, until he sees Earle coming in.

"Having fun, Roland?"

"Lector, what's big shot like you doing in a place like this?"

"I need the information. The Kaiba Corp 47-B, 1-ME."

"1-ME? It's a microwave emitter. It was designed to vaporize an enemy's water supply. Rumor was they tested dispersing water-based chemical agents into the air, but isn't that illegal?"

"I want all the information on the development of this project: All data, files, and backup discs on my desk right away."

"Did you lose one?"

"I'm merging your department with Archives, and I'm firing you. Didn't you get the memo?"

Arkham Asylum--Near Falcone's cell

Téa is watching Falcone held by his 'bed' with restraints, saying, "Scarecrow, Scarecrow, Scarecrow."

"Miss Gardner, this is most irregular. I have nothing further to add to the report I filed with Judge Mako."

Immediately, she turns and sees Dr. Bakura walking towards her.

"I have questions about your report, Bakura."

"Such as?"

"Isn't it convenient for a 52-year old man who has no history of mental illness to suddenly have a complete psychotic breakdown just when he's about to be indicted?"

"Well, as you can see for yourself, there is nothing convenient about his symptons."

Téa looks at Falcone, then back to Dr. Bakura.

"What's 'scarecrow'?"

"Patients suffering delusional episodes often focus their paranoia... on an external tormentor, usually one conforming to Jungian archetypes. In this case, a scarecrow."

"He's drugged?"

"Psychopharmacology is my primary field, I'm a strong advocate."

Meanwhile, Batman is hanging onto a nearby window, tuning his 'ears' of his cowl to listen to the conversation.

"Outside, he was a giant. In here, only the mind can grant you power."

"You enjoy the reversal?"

"I respect the mind's power over the body. It's why I do what I do."

"I do what I do to keep thugs like Gozaburo Falcone behind bars, not in therapy. I want my own psychiatric consultant to have full access to Falcone, including bloodwork. Find out what exactly you put him on."

"First thing tomorrow, then."

Both people enter a elevator.

"Tonight, I've already paged Dr. Nozaka at County General."

Dr. Bakura places his security key into the elevator access pad.

"As you wish."

The elevator descends and the doors open to a deserted wing of Arkham, probably forgotten.

Arkham Asylum--Deserted sub-level wing

"This way, please, Miss Gardner. There's something I think you should see.

Bakura opens a door nearby and inside it is a vast room filled with dozens of inmates and armed thugs. Téa sees tables filled with bags of white powder, and the inmated handling it. Some of the inmates pour infected water into the broken sewer pipes in the ground.

"This is where we make the medicine. Perhaps you should have some, clear your head."

Téa turns around and starts running away towards the elevator. She enters it and presses all the buttons, but it's dead.

Suddenly, the doors open up, revealing Bakura in his scarecrow mask. He immediately releases his 'fear' toxin on her and the poor girl is suffering through the gases.

"Boo!"

"AAAAHHHHH!"

Arkham Asylum--Vast factory room

Some thugs hold onto Téa and carry her in the room, and onto a table. She's still hallucinating and moving her head around her. Scarecrow appears before her and asks her a question violently.

"Who knows you're here?"

She doesn't answer due to her fear of 'scarecrow'.

"WHO KNOWS!"

To Téa, she sees maggots and worms crawling all over his face.

"AAAAHHHHH!"

Immediately, the lights go out.

Bakura's thugs looks around with their armed guns, uneasy. Bakura takes off his mask, and flips his white long hair.

"He's here."

"Who, Bakura?"

Bakura replies, "The BATMAN."

"What do we do?"

"What anyone does when a prowler comes around. Call the police."

"You want the cops here?"

"At this point, they can't stop us. But the BATMAN... has a talent for disruption. Force him outside, the police will take him down. Go."

"What about the girl?"

"Ah, she hasn't got long. I gave her a concentrated dose. The mind can only take so much. Now go."

The thug runs off, calling the cops.

"The things they say about him. Can he really fly?"

"I heard he can disappear."

"Well, we'll find out... won't we?"

The thugs ready their guns out to take out the Batman. They hear a noise, a cape fluttering about near the high windows.

Suddenly, a black shadow appears in the back of the first armed thug. As the criminal about to open fire, the figure quickly immobilizes him temporarily, while the second thug finds the 'enemy'. The dark defender uses his first victim's own gun to stun the other, then finishes him off. Shortly, the second one tries to shoot again, but the giant bat pulls him up with him into the darkness. The poor thug tries to fire at the figure aimlessly, and fails.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!"

BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA!

While the 3rd thug is aiming in any direction, Batman appears in back of him and he knocks him out with an fierce uppercut.

The last thug walks over, avoids the unconscious body, and immediately, he's getting crushed by the Dark Knight's powerful fighting skills. Almost immediately, another goon tries to go against the masked shadow, but he too is beaten mercilessly.

Scarecrow bursts from under the small staircase and aims high at Batman's face to gas him again. The dark figure ducks away from the white smoke, while grabbing Bakura's arm. Elbowing Bakura's arm down, Batman rips off Scarecrow's mask. He twists Bakura arm, grabs his white hair, in a hold who's now in pain.

"Taste of your own medicine, Doctor?"

Ripping out some of Bakura's toxin bladder, Batman releases the gas onto him. Coughing now and suffering the same hallucinogen he pulled upon his victims, Bakura now sees Batman as a demonic devil. Black eyes, dark fangs...

"What have you been doing here? Bakura, who are you working for?"

"Ra's...Ra's al Ghul..."

"Ra's al Ghul is dead, Bakura! Who are you really working for? Bakura!"

Bakura just keeps staring at Batman, smiling.

"Dr. Bakura isn't here right now, but if you'd like to make an appointment."

Hearing police sirens, Batman becomes enraged that he can't get anymore information about Bakura's boss. Immediately, he grabs Bakura again and knocks him out near a stone corner.

To be continued...