A/N Takes place two days before the episode The Witch. Also part of the voice over is from a autobiography book about Spike's life. Also part of the fight scene is from the screenplay Batman Year one by Frank Miller. The script had it's flaws but it deserves credit because it made a good read.

Also thanks for all of the reviews. Some of you I've already emailed with the answers to your questions. But to Mystiksnake, I can't give away to much or it'll ruin the surprise. This is one of the side missions I was telling you guys about. I hope you like it.

Chapter 6

Prostitutes and Retribution

The Sunnydale skies let loose a torrent of rain on the dirty and demon infested city. But the redeemer of the night kept a watchful eye. He stood on the edge of a high roof, silhouetted against a giant full moon.

Voice Over

"As a boy growing up, Alfred used to tell me all kinds of stories." Batman said as thunder rumbled in the distance. "Out of all the things he told me only two things stood out in my mind. One was a fact of life and the other a fairy tale" he said as he scanned the darkness of the night, while his cape fluttered behind him by an unseen wind.

"There are moments in our lives that shape the fabric of our very being. A precious tick of the clock that justifies everything that we've ever done and shapes what more we'll ever do." he stopped for a second to let that truth sink into his on head. "Within a single day's time there are 86,400 seconds. That leaves 86,400 chances that today will change your life forever. And I learned that truth the hard way." he said thinking of his parents.

"Now here's the fairy tale. He told me that one day a knight would stand up against the very darkness itself to fight back. And he said that in protest, the devil would open up his jaws and howl."

Suddenly a scream permeated the air.

"Kinda like that one." he said as he jumped off the edge of the building, dissappearing into the night.

End Voice Over

As Batman closed in on the direction where the scream came from , his gaze lingered across the street at a whore house. From the looks of it, he could tell that the sleazy sex venue was once a movie theater. For some reason the place seemed familiar to him. Out front, prostitutes offered their wares to passing johns and a young pimp wearing a yellow suit and felt bell bottoms, slapped a fat whore, making her cry and apologize to him.

Other whores ushered men into the whore house, but Batman's gaze traveled to a window directly across from the building he was on top of. Inside the building, a long, beautiful lean black woman, put handcuffs on a skinny man. She wore tight fitting, black leather. Noticing Batman looking at her, she smiled and gave him a playful wave.

Ignoring her, he scanned his surroundings one more time. Not seeing any immediate danger he was about to leave, until he heard a scream again. Looking down, he saw a man dragging a young woman into an alley. Taking out his grappling hook gun again, he mentally prepared himself for a fight.

"You know the rules Nothing for Free." the prostitute said as her john tried to get forceful. Jerking her arm free, she tried to storm off only for the man to grab her again, spinning her around as he did so.

"Well maybe it's time we rethink those rules." the man replied coldly, making her shiver with the harshness of her voice. Suddenly they both heard a flapping of something, like wings and seeing something over her attackers shoulder, the prostitutes eyes widened.

Suddenly the man was aware that someone was standing very close behind him.

"We want to party alone so..." the man stopped mid-sentence as he turned around, switchblade in hand and saw no one there. "You tried to trick me you little..." he was saying to the prostitute as he turned around and saw a dark figure standing in front of him.

"You were saying?" Batman asked.

"Batman..." was all the thug was able to get out as Batman punched him in the face. But that was Batman's mistake because he slapped the man in the wrong direction, knocking him into the woman he was trying to save.

The force of the push knocked the lady up against the wall, where she was knocked unconcious. At that moment of seeing the woman's prone body and the blood gushing from the back of her head, he noticed two things. One, the prostitute was the wife of the man that had been murdered the night he showed up in Sunnydale and two this was the same alley that his family was killed in.

"What the fuck do you want?" the rapist asked as he stood to his feet with the knife. "I ain't scared of no bat." Batman didn't say a word, as his rage began to build in his heart.

He just delivered an upper cut to the man's rib cage. A couple ribs go. A left hook to his face. The nose shattered. An elbow to the head. The jaw broke. The man stumbled back to the wall, dazed and fell to his knees, from Batman's brutality. With a growl, Batman moved in to continue his justice, until her heard the woman groan.

Looking over at her, in his minds eye he saw his mother lying up against the same wall. As his gaze roamed back and forth from the prostitute from the rapist. His decision made he picked up the still unconcious widow and took off into the night.

Diana opened her eyes, as she heard a horrible screeching sound, followed by the flapping of wings. As her eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room, she was in, she immediately screamed as she saw bats flying around. Getting up off of the cot she was lying down on, she looked over her shoulder as she ran and bumped into a tall solid body.

With a shiver, she looked up and nearly fainted again as she saw a large black demon in front of her. Screaming her head off, she attempted to run only for the thing to grab her by the arm.

"Let me go...let me go.." Diana screamed as she tried to jerk her arm free.

"It's going to be alright." the thing said to her in a calm voice, making her turn around. Then as her eyes adjusted to the little light that the cave or where ever the hell she was in, she noticed that it was only a man in a costume. A man named...

"Batman?" she asked confused.

"Yes..." he replied as he let her arm go and stepped back a little.

"What are you doing here in, Sunnydale?" she asked, as her heart calmed down a bit.

"I'm here to fight evil and injustice." Batman replied, only for her to slap him in the face. 'Why do girls keep slapping me?' Batman thought to himself. As he was about to ask her what she thought she was doing, she beat him to the punch.

"If that's true, then why weren't you there for my, Thomas?" she asked, thinking of her husband as a tear came to her eye.

"You'll never know how much guilt, I feel because of that." Xander replied as he pulled off his Batman mask.

"You..." Diana said as her eyes widened in recognition. 'It's the same boy that me and my husband saw down that alley.'

"I lie awake some nights because of what happened. I keep thinking what if I could have been faster. Done something different.."

"I'm sorry." Diana said cutting him off. "I had no right blaming you for that. It was the crooks fault, not yours." she said as she stepped closer to him and looked at his face. "Wait a minute, you're Alexander Wayne. But the news report said..."

"I'll explain, later." Xander told her. "But what I want to know is why you're out there selling your body?"

"We all can't be born into wealth." Diana snapped.

"I...I didn't mean it like that." he replied. "I just meant you..."

"No need to explain." she cut him off again with a sigh. "Me and my husband were living check to check and in California that's a very bad thing. With me going to medical school to try and be a nurse took up our money too, but when Thomas died..." she stopped as she felt choked up.

"He didn't have life insurance and we were already behind on all of our bills. His funeral alone cost almost eight thousand dollars. And with me taking care of Selina, I didn't have much of a choice."

"I see." Xander said thinking. No matter what she said if it wasn't for him being slow, her husband would probably still be alive. So he owed her. "I tell you what I...I need somebody around here to help me."

"Help you?" Diana asked with a raised eyebrow. "Help you do what?"

"You said that you were studying to be a nurse. Well with my nightlife job, I think I need somebody with your experience around."

"What's the catch?" she asked suspiciously. In her experience as a twenty six year old woman, no man offered something for nothing.

"The catch is you and your daughter stay at my mansion and I want you to go back and finish medical school."

"But...but..."

"No but's." Xander said sternly as he thought about something. "Wait, where's your daughter?" he asked causing her to look down. Once she told him, she saw a look of something she had never seen before as he put on his mask.

Downtown Sunnydale

The Martini Club

Scantily clad girls walked around as armed gang members played cards at a table. At the service entrance, a guy heard a knock and drawed back the peep hole on a reenforced steel door just as - CLANG. The door flew off it's hinges and skided, sparking across the parking lot on a chain behind the Tumbler. Startled about what they saw the guards rushed outside, guns at the ready. The Tumbler then did a skidding 180 dragging the heavy door and the Batman accelerated, then stomped on the brakes, making the heavy steel door fly past him and smashing into the gang.

Meanwhile, attracted by the noise, more armed men rushed down the staircase of the club. As they walked towards the door, Batman entered with a sneer on his lips.

"Two options." Batman said as he looked at the men in turn. "Tonight you men can go to prison or to the prison hospital, the choice is yours." with a growl the first goon to recover leveled a shotgun at him. Hearing the click of the weapon Batman threw a vicious kick to the guy's crotch before he could fire. "That's the one I hoped you'd pick."

With that said Batman leaped into the fray. A batarang sank into a man's shoulder drawing blood, he screamed as he was then thrown through a window. Another thug swung a bat and seeing the weapon, Batman kicked him in the chest, grabbed his bat from mid air and flung it, making a crunch noise into the face of another gunner across the room.

Turning a guy got the drop on Batman with a machine gun. He threw out a maiming side-kick into a guy's hip, shattering the bone. Sensing someone else coming up behind him, Batman put a foot between another's shoulder blade and - CRACK - jerked both wrists back until they crossed.

Guys then kept pouring down the stairs, leaving Batman to wonder if he would make it out alive or not.

10 minutes later

Batman threw another gang member over the staircase rail . Another went through a window and a third got crushed underfoot as he continued to climb to the top of the building. It's been a tough fight for Batman. His costume had been ripped in many places, blood sat on the corner of his mouth, and he had lost his cape but the action only made him stronger.

According to Diana, the gang members worked for the top men, so he had to take them out before he could reach them. Making it to the roof access, he walked on the roof, saw the warehouse he had to go to and swung there on his grappling hook line.

Prostitutes laughed and grinned as the gangsters leered at them and payed them money. Everyone was having a good time all except Nick Travers. Something about tonight just seemed off to him. Like something wasn't supposed to be.

"Come on, Nick." one of the girls said as she sat on his lap. "Loosen up and have a little fun."

"Yeah, man." one of his thugs said as a girl put a grape in his mouth. "Get one of these bitches and have fun."

"I don't have time for fun." Travers said as he sat back in his seat. "The boss wants his money tonight, but something just doesn't feel right."

"It's because you heard Batman is in town isn't it?" the thug asked. "Look man, we're the ones with the guns, what the hell can he do?"

CRASH! A shower of glass dropped from an overhead skylight and a dark figure landed on Travers desk. He was a terrifying demon of the night. A pure menace, that was bleeding.

"Gentlemen, I'm here to ask you a few questions." Batman told them.

The men were stunned, paralyzed by fear until Travers pulled an uzi from a holster and fired a volley at Batman. But he was gone. The bullets struck one of his goons in the chest and he went down. Then Batman was in the air, somersaulting over the men on the sofas. Smoke Bombs then flew from his fingers. Then it was all shadows and confusion. Guns fire. BAM. BAM. BAM. Bones CRACK. People SCREAM. Guns - CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. - empty.

Finally a body smashed through the plate glass onto the warehouse floor. The smoke, no longer trapped, was quickly sucked out the broken skylight, leaving Batman and Travers the lone people on two feet. Travers, in shock, clicked his empty gun, while the women broke for the door and scattered into the night.Without ever removing his eyes from Travers, Batman drew a knife from his desk and stabbed it into Travers hand.

"I don't have time to play around." Batman said as he started to breathe heavily. "I want to know two things. One of them is where is Selina Kyle?"

"She's...she's in that room asleep." he said as he pointed at a door behind him.

"Good, now who is your, boss?"

"I can't tell you." Travers said as he began to shake. "He would kill me."

"I might kill you!" Batman growled as he grabbed the man by the collar. "Now talk!" Eyes going wide, Travers eyes rolled up in the back of his head as he had a heart attack. Before Batman could help the older man he died in his arms. "Damnit!" he said as he let him go.

Not seeing any important papers in the drawers of the desk, Batman walked into the other room, picked up a beautiful eight year old, blonde haired little girl, and took off with her into the night.

The next day

early saturday morning

Finally coming around out of his fit of nightmares Xander's eyes fluttered and then snapped completely open. He was momentarily confused and as his eyes fully adjusted to the light, he saw Diana sitting nearby drinking a cup of coffee.

"Thank you, for bringing my little girl to me." Diana said as she put down her coffee.

"Not a problem." Xander said with a wince. "I just wish, I could remember how I did it."

"I don't blame you for not remembering." she replied as she handed him a glass of water and aspiran. "You were pretty out of it last night. When you came back to the batcave, with Selina, you changed into your regular clothes and passed out. It took me nearly an hour to get you in your car, out of the batcave, and to your house."

"You're looking spiffy." Xander commented with a grin as he looked at her clothes. "You didn't steal my credit card when, you tried to find out where I lived did you?"

"No. After I brought you here and bandaged you up, I went back to my house and got clothes for me and Selina."

Xander then looked down at his bandages around his rib cage and stomach. 'Not a bad job.' he thought to himself, as he tried to sit up.Seeing that it was too painful, he layed back down.

"How is Selina, anyway?" Xander asked as he finally got comfortable in bed.

"She's doing fine. I picked out a room for her last night and she's still in their sleeping."

"That's good...good." Xander told her. "You can pick out any bedroom you want, I have about ten of them."

"I already did." Diana said as she stood to her feet and smiled. "Oh, and you were out of twinkies in the kitchen, so I stopped off this morning and bought you another box."

"I think I love you." Xander said seriously as he looked at her. But then she looked at him with a pained expression on her face.

"It's never going to stop hurting is it?" she asked as she sat next to him on his bed.

"No..." Xander said knowing immediately what she was talking about. "But it get's less and less painful everyday...if you let it." he said as he pulled her into a hug. "I've been here for awhile now and I haven't even visited my parents grave site yet. Let's say me, you, and Selina go and visit your husband and then my parents?"

"That'll be nice." Diana said as she stood to her feet. "Now enough of this mushy stuff, I'm going to fix us some breakfast."

"I don't have much in the way of actual breakfast food." Xander warned her.

"That's okay." Diana said as she turned to smile at him. "I stole some money out of your wallet and bought some."

"Diana, I think I like you already." Xander said causing her to blush as she walked out of his room.

Deep under Sunnydale

The Master's Cave

"So it is true that the girl is indeed a Slayer?" the Master asked of his servant. He already knew the answer, because she was partly responsible for his favorite Childe's Luke and Darla's death.

"She is, Master." the vamp said as he bowed down before him. "She slayed four of our order just last night."

"Well aren't you in a, pickle?" a pompus voice asked from the shadows. Looking up the Master saw that it was an old enemy that he hadn't seen in over 60 years.

"Mayor Wilkins." the Master said a bit surprised. "To what do I owe this honor?"

"You know..." Mayor Wilkins said with a small chuckle. "For somebody that's been stuck down here for sixty years, I would think that you would be a little less sarcastic."

"And exactly how did you know I've been down here this long?" the Master asked as he lost his smile.

"Simple." Wilkins said with a shrug. "It's because I trapped you down here. You didn't actually think that I would let you take over my city, before I would be able to ascend did you? Golly no."

"The earthquake..."

"Was all my doing." Wilkins said as he smiled at him again. "A little dark magic here. A little sacrifice there and you would be surprised at what you could accomplish."

"And what makes you think, that I'll let you leave this cave alive?" the age old vampire asked, as his minions slipped into their vampiric visages. Ready to attack.

"Because, I've brought a little insurance policy." the politician replied back as two huge all black demons appeared behind him out of the shadows.

"Before, I and my minions rip you apart, tell me what you want Wilkins."

"I want to form a temporary alliance." Wilkins replied as his demons and the Master's kept growling at each other, but temporarily staying in place. "It seems that we share a common enemy."

"The Slayer?"

"No, Batman." Wilkins said as he started to pace. "You see I'm not too worried about the Slayer at all. Batman on the other hand doesn't just care about killing demons, but he has a habit of taking down criminal bosses as well." 'And he proved that, tonight.' Wilkins thought to himself. 'That money should have been mine.'

"So you want to form an alliance to take out the bat and the slayer?" the Master asked.

"You're darn tooten." Wilkins said happily. "Now what do you say?"

"You have a deal." the Master said grinning ear to ear.

"Excellent." Wilkins said as he turned to leave. "Now don't bother getting up, I'll show myself out."

"Master, you don't really trust him do you?" one of his minions asked as Wilkins and his demons walked out of the room.

"Of course not." The Master said as he turned his gaze on him. "With his help though, we can rid ourselves of the Slayer and the Batman. But hear this though, as soon and I mean as soon as I say that the truce is over I want our dear Mayor, my most hated enemy dead!"

"As you wish, Master." the minion said with a dark smile.

A/N I originally planned to do this chapter later, but I had other ideas. Also I wanted to show a darker side to the Mayor. I mean the guy wasn't all wholesome like he appeared to be. What with him eating people and all. Also to anybody that was wondering, the reason why the story is moving so fast is because I'm only going to cover season one. I'm not going to do anymore seasons but I'm going to end this fanfic in a way that a sequel could be made by another authour who wants to take the job. And I know...I know Selina is just a little girl in this fic, well that's because I have plans for her later on.

TBC...

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