Batman Begins: Enter Seto Kaiba
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Batcave
Bursting through the waterfall, the vehicle slows down to a halt, using the cable lines to attach itself to the cave's support structure. Stopping completely, the cockpit doors open up, to reveal Batman and a dying Téa. Quickly, Batman rushes out and towards the antidotes that Roland gave him earlier. Opening the canister, he takes 1 antidote shots and flies back to the "Burst Stream". Injecting Téa with the antidote, he can only hope for her to make it on her own.
Arkham Asylum
Several water technicians are checking the water supply that the demented Dr. Bakura had dumped his "medicine". Mutou walks up to one of the technicians and checks what will happen.
"They get any of this crap in the mains?"
"Oh yeah."
"Then notify the water company, there has to be a way to isolate the area."
"You don't understand, they put this all in. They must've been at this stuff for weeks. Domino's entire water supply is laced with it."
"Why haven't we felt the effects?"
"Must be a compound that has to be absorbed through the lungs."
Batcave
Téa who's now starting to wake up from her "sleep", looks around the cave and is astonished of where she is.
"How do you feel?"
Simutaneously, she turns her rested head around and sees the dark figure standing near the table.
"Where are we? Why did you bring me here?"
"If I hadn't, your mind would now be lost. You were poisoned."
"It was- It was Dr. Bakura."
She starts to stand up, but Batman stops her.
"Rest, Mutou has Bakura."
"Is Sergeant Mutou your friend?"
"I don't have the luxary of friends. I'm gonna give you a sedative. You'll wake up back at home. When you do, get these to Mutou, and Mutou alone. Trust no one."
He shows her the antidote.
"What are they?"
"The antidote. One for Mutou to inoculate himself, the other for mass production."
"Mass production?"
"Bakura was just a pawn. We need to be ready."
He uses the sedative on Téa to make her sleep again. He stares at her and waits to take his cowl off. He continues his way to the padlocked closet.
Kaiba Mansion-Study-Moments later
Stepping out of the secret bookshelf, Seto Kaiba makes his way towards Arthur, who was getting ready to serve his friend. Setting up his tuxedo for his party earlier that evening, his old friend tells him something rather humorous/dramatic. Meanwhile, Mokuba arrives shortly after. Silent.
"When you told me your grand plan for saving Domino, the only thing stopping me from calling the men in white coats, was when you said it wasn't about thrill-seeking."
"It's not, Arthur."
"Then what would you call that?" asks Arthur.
They point to a TV nearby, which covers the news report of the helicoptor's view of the Batmobile chase on the freeway.
TV: "The Police gave chase, but the vehicle..."
"Damn good television."
"It's a miracle that no one was killed."
"I didn't have time to observe the rules of the road, Arthur."
"You're getting lost inside this monster of yours, Master Kaiba."
"I'm using this monster to help other people, just like my father did."
"My father?" remarks Mokuba.
"Our father, then..."
Arthur helps Seto with his Tuxedo coat piece.
"For Thomas Kaiba, helping others wasn't about proving anything to anyone, including himself."
"It's Téa, Arthur. She was dying. She's downstairs sedated, and I need you to take her home."
"Well, we both care for Téa, sir, but what you're doing has to be beyond that. It can't be personal or you're just a vigilante."
He sees Seto Kaiba starting to walk down the mainhall to where his party guests are.
"Is Roland still here?"
"Yes, sir."
"We need to send these people away now."
"Those are Seto Kaiba's guests out there, sir! You have a name to maintain!"
"I don't care about my name."
"It's just not your name, sir. It's both Mokuba's and your father's name, and it's all that's left of him. Don't destroy it."
Kaiba Mansion-Party room
Seto Kaiba starts to walk in the room before him, and he's suddenly hearing that his guests are sing the birthday song for him.
"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Seto, Happy Birthday to you!"
He smiles and decides to pretend to have some fun like Arthur told him to do, when he's not doing his nightly activities. He takes a drink nearby and Lector starts walking towards him and greets him politely.
"Mr. Earle."
"Happy Birthday, Seto."
"Thank you. How the stock offering go?"
"Prices soared."
"Who was buying?"
"All kinds of funds and brokerages. It's a bit technical. The key thing is... our company's future is secure."
"Great."
Smiling, Seto grabs his glass and puts it up.
Kaiba Mansion—Outside-Rolls Royce
Mokuba, who's helping Arthur put Téa in the car, struggles abit in the passenger seat, lands on one of Kaiba's golf clubs. 2 workers of the Mansion are watching the two men, and are curious.
"A little the worse for wear, I'm afraid," says Arthur.
Arkham Asylum-Bakura's cell
Mutou, who's holding onto Bakura's Scarecrow mask, is interrogating him to know more about his toxins.
"What was the plan, Bakura? How were you gonna get your toxin into the air?"
While restrained on his 'bed', Bakura replies in fasination, "Scarecrow, Scarecrow..."
"Who were you working for, Bakura?"
"Oh, it's too late... you can't stop it now," answers the demented doctor, with sickly grin.
Disgusted, Mutou walks out of Bakura's cell.
"Here," says Yugi as he hands the burlap sack to a nearby cop.
Kaiba Mansion-Party room
Kaiba makes his way towards Roland, who's nearby the serving tables, eating.
"Happy birthday, Seto," greets one Kaiba Corp board member.
"Thank you. Thanks. And thank you for that item."
"You're welcome. I know you'll put it to good use."
"I already have. How long would it take to manufacture on a large scale?"
"Weeks, why?"
"Somebody's planning to disperse the toxin using the water supply."
"The water supply won't help you disperse an inhalent..."
"What?"
"... unless you have a microwave emitter powerful enough to vaporize all the water in the mains. A microwave emitter like the one that Kaiba Corp just misplaced."
"Misplaced?"
"Earle just fired me for asking too many questions about it."
"I need you to go back to Kaiba Corp right now, and start making more of that antidote. I think the police are gonna need as much as they can get their hands on, okay?"
"But my security clearance has been revoked."
"That wouldn't stop a man like you now, would it?"
"I suppose not."
Immediately, both men walk in opposite directions, one who's manufacturing the antidote, the other who's about to find the man behind the madness.
An old lady nearby, grabs Seto and tells him that there's someone here that wants to meet him.
"Seto, there's somebody here you simply must meet."
"Not now, Mrs..."
"Now, am I pronouncing this right, Mr. Ra's al Ghul?"
Seto, who sees a tall, bald man in front of him, whose back is turned, starts turning around and he sees an asian man in his fifties.
"You're not Ra's al Ghul. I watched him die."
The elderly socialite nervously chuckles, and is led away by the imposter Ra's. A familiar voice appears behind Seto.
"But is Ra's al Ghul immortal? Are his methods supernatural?"
Seto turns around and sees Pegasus behind him, the real Ra's al Ghul
"Or cheap parlor tricks to conceal your true identity... Ra's."
"Surely, a man who spends his nights scrambling over the rooftops of Domino wouldn't begrudge me dual identities."
"I saved your life."
"I warned you about compassion, Seto."
"Your quarrel is with me. You let these people go."
"You are welcome to explain the situation to them."
Using his new playboy image of a stupid rich kid, Seto decides to "act".
"Everyone! Everybody!"
He stands in the middle of the room. The musicians stop suddenly, while some of the party guests silence their conversations.
Acting drunk, he says, "I... I want thank you all for coming here tonight and drinking all my sake."
Several guest laugh at his "joke".
"No, really... There's a thing about being a Kaiba... that you're never short of a few freeloaders, like yourselves, to fill up your Mansion with. So here's to you people. Thank you."
"That's enough, Seto," says a Kaibacorp boardmember.
Drinking the last of his sake. ("sake" isn't real sake, he faked it) he continues on insulting his guests.
"I'm not finished. To all you... All you phonies, all you two-faced friends, you sycophantic suck-ups who smile through you're teeth at me... please leave me in peace, please go. Stop smiling, it's not a joke, so please leave. The party's over, get out."
"The apple from the tree has fallen very far from the tree, Mr. Kaiba," says Roland, aware of the billionaire's
"drunk episode."
"He's turning into a jerk," mutters some of the departing guests.
Seto sees that all his guests are leaving his Mansion, while he notices several of his guests are the remnants of the League of Shadows.
"Amusing, but pointless. None of these people have long to live. You're antics at the asylum have forced my hand."
"So Bakura was working for you."
"His toxin is derived from the organic compound found in our blue flowers. He was able to weaponize it."
"He's not a member of the League of Shadows?"
"Of course not. He thought our plan was to hold the city to ransom."
"But really, you are going to release Bakura's poison on the entire city."
"Then watch Domino tear itself apart through fear."
Arkham Asylum-Security Control Room
2 SWAT members walk in and knock the security control worker out, it's obvious that they're part of the League of Shadows. The second member activates the switch to release all of Arkham's inmates.
Kaiba Mansion-halls
"You're gonna to destroy millions of lives."
"Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Kaiba. Crime. Despair. This is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Everytime a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance."
"Domino isn't beyond saving. Give me more time, there are good people here."
"You are defending a city so corrupt that we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure."
Arkham Asylum-Corriders of the inmates' cells
All the inmates start to walk out of their cells, one of which... is serial killer, Marik Ishtar, can be seen with his veiny and psychotic face. Bakura's cell door opens up, and 2 League members enters, and throws the scarecrow mask to him.
Bakura looks up from his straitjacked position.
"Time to play," states one of the League Members.
Kaiba Mansion-halls
"When I found you in that jail, you were lost, but I believed in you. I took away your fear, and I showed you a path. You were my greatest student. It should be you standing by my side, saving the world."
"I'll be standing where I belong. Between you and the people of Domino."
"No one can save Domino.'
Ra's al Ghul nods to his League Members to burn down the Mansion.
"When a forest fire grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural. Tomorrow the world will watch in horror as it's greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time."
"You attacked Domino before?"
"Of course. Over the ages our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Domino, we tried a new one, Economics. But we underestimated certain of Domino's citizens, such as your parents."
Seto, now shocked at what he heard from Ra's al Ghul.
"Gunned down by one the very people they were trying to help, Seto. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself, and Domino has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job, and this time no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart."
Suddenly, a League member drops down and tries to kill Kaiba with his sword, while at the same time Ra's al Ghul (Pegasus) takes out his sword from his "cane". Seto quickly knocks out the League member. Then knowing what Ra's will do the same, he turns around and holds the sword downward.
"I am going to stop you."
"You never did learn to mind your surroundings! Or that your compassion is definitely a weakness!
He has his men to show a tied up Mokuba.
"Mokuba..."
Instantly, Ra's pushes Seto back and he get's crushed by a burning piece of wood that falls from the ceiling.
"Justice is balanced. You burned my house and left me for dead."
He looks at Seto's unconscious body lying beneath the burning wood.
"Consider us even."
To be continued...