Chapter 13

World's Finest pt.1

Thirty minutes later

Batcave

Black scalloped gauntlets thrust onto purposeful hands. A dark cloak whipped around strong shoulders. Xander then placed his graphite cowl over his face. Grabbing a handful of batarangs they all quickly clicked as he spread them out around his utility beltt. Running into the dark void of the cave, bat's fluttered as the loud engine of the Tumbler kicked to life.

Summers Residence

Dawn wrapped herself in Buffy's arms, as they layed back on her bed and watched a movie. Every since, Buffy had saved her life the two had started to get close. Dawn would still annoy her at times, but she knew it was all in fun.

Passing the popcorn over to her little sister, Buffy suddenly sensed somebody watching her and looked at the window.

"Dawn could you go downstairs and get me something cool to drink?" Buffy asked, only for Dawn to look at her in confusion.

"But you already have a soda." she pointed out.

"I know but it's um...flat." Buffy lied. "Please sis..." she said putting on her best puppy dog eyes.

"Fine." Dawn said in a huff as she sat up. "I'll be back in a minute." she said as she walked to the door.

"And bring lot's of ice!" Buffy yelled out to her as she opened her window. "What are you doing here?" she asked as Batman climbed through her window.

"I...I don't have alot of time to explain." Batman said quickly. "The Batman in Gotham is in trouble and I have to go and save him."

"You're shaking." Buffy noticed as she looked at his body. 'And it looks like he's been crying.' she noticed as she saw wet spots on his cheeks.

"I'm fine." he replied as he handed her a cellphone looking device. "That's a communicator so you can call Batwoman if you need assistance. Goodbye Miss Summers." he said as he started to climb out of her window.

"Take care of yourself." Buffy said worriedly. She had never seen the Dark Knight like that before and it unnerved her a bit.

"Count on it." he said as he jumped out of the window.

The Jokers Lair

"Joker why the hell did you call us here?" a figure asked as they sat around a table, in the dark.

"That's what I would like to know?" a female voice stated. "Just what the hell are we doing in this rinky dink town?"

"This rinky dink town is also home to many secrets." Joker started.

"Yes, demons." the male voice spoke again. "We know all about that."

"Oh, I wasn't talking about just demons." Joker clarified. "I'm talking about all the money and gold that's transferred through Sunnydale and then to different states."

"What are you talk..."

"This place is just used for a cover to ship america's gold through." he interrupted. "Now I need to know who's in to help steal those shipment's because there's one tomorrow night."

"I'm in." Poison Ivy said as she leaned into a narrow shaft of light.

"And I..." the other voice said as he flipped his double sided coin in the air. But strangely only one side of his face could be seen. The other was still hidden in shadow. Seeing that it landed on the scarred coin face, he smiled. "...am in." Two- face said as he smiled. And for the first time he leaned into the light and his hideously disfigured, acid burned face was shown.

"And what about you?" Joker asked as he and the others turned to the last member of their party.

"Your leadership skills leave much to be desired." the voice said almost monotonelessly. "But, I'm in." Mr. Freeze said as he looked at them with cold eyes.

"Good." Joker said as he produced a map. "Now just in case the bat shows up, this is what I want you to do."

First Municipal Bank

The next afternoon

7 P.M.

Buffy stood in the long line at the bank and let out a sigh. 'God, why couldn't mom come here and make the mortgage payment?' she thought to herself. 'And who is that with that bad BO.' she thought as a fat man in front of her turned around and gave her a wink.

Suddenly the sound of machine gunfire filled the air, instantly making people scream and duck for cover. Looking up, from her place of hiding, she saw the clown prince himself strolling through the front door, with his cronies right behind him.

"I love seeing fear late in the evening." Joker said as he lowered, the still smoking barrel of the machine gun as he walked over to the front desk. "Now start filling these bags with money NOW!" he yelled to the teller as he and some of his goons threw some bags on the counter.

Seeing that the Joker was distracted, Buffy reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out the communicator that Batman had given her. Making sure the Joker wasn't looking, she pushed a button.

Wayne Manor

Selina's bedroom

"Mommy when is Uncle Xander coming back home?" Selina asked, making Diana pause in picking her clothes out for school next week.

"I don't know honey." she said as she went back to looking through her clothes. "Why are you asking?"

"Because, I keep feeling that him and Grandpa are in trouble." she told her worriedly.

'Wait until Bruce hears that grandpa crack.' Diana thought to herself with a slight chuckle. "Don't worry about them honey. Xander's just gone to check on Grandpa and he'll be back soon." she said as the computerized watch she was wearing started to beep.

"What's that?" Selina asked as Diana pushed a button to cut off the noise.

"Oh, um...It's just something to help mommy remember to take her...vitamins." she lied. "Stay here, I'll be right back." she said as she quickly ran out of the room.

As she entered the Batcave, she went to the computer and saw that the signal was coming from a nearby bank.

"Buffy must be in trouble." she muttered to herself as she ran into the costume room to change. Running back upstairs, she peeked into Selina's room and saw her softly sleeping on her bed. Not wanting to disturb her, plus since she was wearing her costume, she quickly jotted down a note telling her to stay put and left to help Buffy.

Five minutes later

"Boss don't you think we should leave now?" one of the Joker's thugs asked as he looked around the bank.

"Not until we have every single dime in this place."

"But what about the police?"

"Don't worry about them." Joker said flashing him an evil grin. "Thanks to an old friend of mine, I have the police under my thumb. Hey, sit back down!" he yelled to a blonde that tried to stand to her feet.

"Wait, don't I know you?" he asked Buffy as he walked up to her.

"With an ugly face like that, how could she forget?" a voice asked. Turning he saw Batwoman standing proudly on top of the bank counter, with her cape billowing dramatically behind her.

"You!" Joker growled as he and his other cronies opened fire on her.

Loud bangs and whistle's of bullets filled the air, as she jumped from the counter and ducked behind the counter. Almost a hundred bullets were fired, before the Joker and the others decided to stop shooting. Not seeing or hearing any movement from behind the counter, he smiled.

"Todd, go and check things out." Joker ordered as he pushed one of his thugs ahead of him.

Hefting up his gun, Todd slowly walked over to the bullet hole riddled, desk and leaned over. He quickly regretted it however, as Batwoman grabbed him by the collar, flung him over the desk and knocked him unconcious.

"I'm getting out of here." one of his thugs said as he and the others turned to flee.

Standing up from her place of hiding, Batwoman flung a handful of steel ball- bearings across the tiled floor. The minion that spoke, tumbled to the floor and landed hard, losing his breath. While the second one managed to roll up, pulling his other gun out in the process.

Seeing the weapon, Batwoman hurled a batarang and the thug suddenly found his gun hand pinned to the wall by the twin prongs of the weapon. With a grin, she strided briskly toward them, businesslike, taking her time. She grabbed a handful of the first hoods hair, lifted his head off the floor, knee'd him in the face and turned to the second hood. As she went over to him, a drug-tipped blade sprung from the end of his glove. Jumping back, to avoid his knife slash, she reared back punching him hard on the chin, making him slump against the wall, unconscious.

"You stupid, Bitch." Joker growled out. "You're trying to ruin everything." he said as he lifted up his machine gun. Before he could open fire, Buffy did a leg sweep that sent him sprawling to the ground.

"Do you kiss your mom with that potty mouth?" Buffy asked as she stood side by side with Batwoman. Both of them in fighting stances.

"She's dead." Joker said with a wince as he stood to his feet. "Just like the both of you are gonna be in about thirty seconds."

"Let me handle them boss." a hulking figure said as he entered the room and pushed the Joker to the side. The man had to be almost 6 ft seven, wearing a clown outfit and muscles that would put the incredible hulk to shame. "I ain't scared of these little girls."

"Ladies, let me introduce you to Juggles." Joker said as he slapped him hard on his muscled shoulder. "Have fun." he said as he picked up a large sack of money and ran out of the building.

"Why does it always have to be clowns?" Buffy asked as she glanced over at Batwoman.

"Freakishly big clowns." Batwoman muttered as Juggles started to advance on them. "Let me handle him." Batwoman said as she stopped Buffy from moving forward.

"I tell you what Batbitch." Juggles said as he stopped five feet from her. "I'll let you have the first hit." Not having to be told twice, she punched him as hard as she could in the gut. And to her dismay he didn't flinch or even bat an eye lid.

"Is that all you got?" he asked with a short laugh. "The great..." and he stopped talking as he heard a beeping sound. Looking down to his belt buckle he saw a little black device on it. Before he could remove it, it suddenly sparked and started sending a volley of electricity through his body. As the device stopped, he fell bonelessly to the floor unconcious.

"The Joker's long gone." Buffy said as she ran to the door and then looked back at Batwoman.

"I figured as much." she said as she removed her device from Juggles and placed it back on her utility belt. "Now come on let's..."

"Wait, I have to do something first." Buffy replied as she reached into her pocket and ran past the people still cowering on the floor. "Hi Mr. Packard, this is my mom's mortgage payment for this month."

"Tell..." Mr. Packard said still trembling. "Tell your mom not to worry about the mortgage for the rest of the year, Buffy. We'll cover it." he said with a smile as he passed out to the floor.

"So what was the Joker doing robbing a bank?" Buffy asked, as the wind ripped through her hair, on the back of Batwoman's motorcycle.

"Well underneath it all he's still a two bit criminal, Miss Summers."

"But he was mumbling something to his cronies about gold." Buffy replied as they whipped down another street and towards the outskirts of town.

"I'll look into it." Batwoman said as she revved the engine getting herself prepared. "Now hold on!" she said, making Buffy look up and see a waterfall, covering over a rock face.

"I'm never gonna get used to thissss!" Buffy yelled out, with closed eyes, as Batwoman made the jump.

Thirty minutes later

"Sorry for leaving you down here." Batwoman said to Buffy as she walked down the stairway and into the lab area. "I just had to check on a few things." she said, reffering to Selina, who was still sleeping in her room.

"That's okay." Buffy said as she looked up at her. "I was just bonding with your bats." she said sarcastically as one flew by her face and screeched.

"Before I left I checked the computer for references with gold and Sunnydale." she said as she sat down at the computer and started to type in it. "It said that there's an unusually large amount of gold being transferred through Sunnydale every month and later to other states abroad, from a private banking agency."

"But that still doesn't explain why the Joker was robbing that bank of it's money." Buffy pointed out.

"Unless it was a diversion." Batwoman figured out. "Maybe he had somebody else robbing the agency of it's gold, while he tried to lure out Batman or myself."

"It's worth checking out." Buffy said as she stood to her feet.

"Alright, let's go." Batwoman said as she walked over to her motorcycle.

"Do we really have to go through there again?" Buffy asked with a pout as she pointed at the waterfall.

Gotham

The sametime

Thunder rumbled across the jet-black sky, as the lighting crashed, casting Gotham City in stark relief. Sirens wailed and car alarms screamed as another crime was commited. This place was no longer the city of tomorrow. It was a city that was slowly dying. A city that had only one protector...

The Batman climbed up a black iron drain pipe in the rain, on the side of a very tall building. It was dirty, slippery dangerous work and as he looked down he saw Gotham City spread out, glittering and twinkling, far below.

As soon as he had got to Gotham, he had called Alfred. Alfred in turn told him that Bruce had returned a little worse for ware that night, but safe. Debating on whether to turn back home or not, Alfred then called him back and informed him that Bruce had left again hours later, and didn't come back, nor answer his communicator.

And that's what had the Batman of Sunnydale, scaling the side of this high building. He had tracked his father's communicator and it led him to the top of the building he was on. Hearing someone grunting from the top of the building, suddenly pushed him out of the fatigue he was feeling. Seeing that he was almost to the top, he took out his grappling hook gun and fired it. Seconds later he was on the top side of the building and what he saw almost made him want to turn around.

There was a hulking man, that looked like a wrestler, wearing a black and white mask, with muscles bigger then tree trunks and wires coming from his back to his head standing there holding up something black, ready to bring it down on his outstrecthed knee. As he looked at the man closer he recognized the man from the files of criminals that his father had sent him. He was looking at Bane. As he squinted his eyes more to see what he was holding over his head, he saw that it was Gotham's own, Batman.

With lightning speed, he took a batarang out of his utility belt and hurled it at him, before he could break his father's back. To his satisfaction, his weapon sank deeply into Bane's arm making him drop the Dark Knight, with a thump to the ground.

"Another Bat!" Bane growled out as he turned, his red eyed gaze over, and took the batarang out of his arm, sending it clattering to the ground. "Hopefully, you'll be a better challenge then him." he said as he ran full speed at the new threat.

Standing his ground, Batman X stood unflinching until the last possible second. Vaulting over him, Batman X threw out a kick, making Bane fall over, screaming off the side of the building. As he looked down, he saw the massive man, crash through a large truck an lay sprawled out on the street.

Hearing a grunt, snapped him back to reality as he saw Batman. He was broken, beaten, and he could tell that his right leg was useless, as he tried to haul himself up to his feet. Just the way he looked, Batman X could tell that his father should be dead. Dried blood caked his face and cowl, his chest and his costume was torn in places, exposing blood underneath.

He was dizzy, exhausted, his body strained to the limit. As he slumped against a wall to steady himself, he reached into his utility belt for a painkiller forcing the capsule back onto his dry, swollen tongue. Quaking all over, he tried to draw himself erect... and toppled over. A mere second from falling on his back, he felt a pair of strong hands catch him. Opening his eyes, he saw what he thought was his father looking down at him.

"No..." he muttered out as he touched the man's face.

"Dad." he heard his father say. But it wasn't his father's voice. It was...

"Xander." Batman asked.

"Dad what the hell happened to you?" Batman X asked, as he sat him up straighter.

"Xander...y...you shouldn't be here. The Joker..."

"Is being taken care of." he informed him. "I left Batwoman in..."

"No...no you don't understand." he said as his father coughed out some blood. "I uncovered a plot tonight. The Joker broke out every prisoner in Gotham as a distraction, so I couldn't help you. Someone in Sunnydale hired him to specifically kill you and now he...he has Poison Ivy, Two Face, and Mr. Freeze in Sunnydale. They are probably destroying it as we speak."

"Damnit." Batman X muttered as he helped his father to his feet.

"Even...even though I couldn't join you, I sent an old friend of mine to help you."

"Don't worry about that now, dad. Right now I need to get you..."

"Don't worry!" Batman asked angrily, causing him to spit out some more blood. "Damnit don't worry about me, especially when the Joker is out there.Get back to Sunnydale, I can get home myself. Go... NOW!"

"No."

"Xander..."

"I said NO!" X yelled back. "I lost my parents because, I couldn't do anything and I'll be damned if I lose you too."

Batman then looked at his son hard. He saw that his boy had finally grown up into the man that he had always dreamed him to be. Seeing that he couldn't realistically make it back home himself, he fell into his son's arms.

"This is the police!" they heard someone yell out as the wind picked up, sending torrents of rain water everywhere, as a spotlight shone on them. Looking up, both Batman saw a police helicopter hovering over them. "And we have you surrounded.

Reaching into his utility belt, Batman X hurled a batarang at the helicopter, knocking out the spotlight.

"Dad, hold on." he said over the noise of the helicopter.

Seeing that his father held on tightly to his neck, Batman X jumped over the side of the building and glided down safely through the open hatch of the Tumbler. Making sure that Batman was as comfortable as possible beside him, he kicked the Tumbler into life and drove off into the night.

Sunnydale

The Sametime

"So this is the place." Batwoman said as she and Buffy stepped off of her motorcycle and looked at the two story bank. Before the Slayer could answer a large explosion, destroyed the side of the building.

Looking over towards the damaged part of the building, the Bat and the Slayer saw Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy, walking out of the middle of the fire. Not noticing the superheroes, the two started to load bricks of gold and sacks of money into a large ice truck, that looked to be modified into a sort of tank.

"Fuck." Batwoman said as she took a step back.

"These guys don't look so tough." Buffy commented, not understanding, Batwoman's apparent fear. "I'll take the red head, you take Mr. Goldfish bowl head." she said as she ran forward.

"Buffy no!" Batwoman tried to warn her. "Damnit." she said not having any choice but to jump into the fray.

"This has been the easiest robbery ever." Poison Ivy said as she used her control over a giant plant to throw another bag of money into the back of Mr. Freezes truck. "One thing puzzles me though." she said as she turned to her companion. "Why did you decide to join up with us?"

"Not that it's any of your concern." the emotionless man said to her. "But I'm trying an experiment to save..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Ivy was lifted off her feet by a viscious drop kick. Reaching over to help her, something whistled, causing him to reach up and snacth the batarang out of mid-air.

"A Bat woman." Mr. Freeze said as he threw the batarang to the ground and cocked his head to the side. "How interesting." he said as he advanced on her.

"You must be the Slayer, Joker was telling me about?" Ivy asked as she ducked under a rainbow kick from Buffy. "He never mentioned that you were such a snappy dresser. You have to tell me where you got that blouse?"

"Oh, I got this at...hey!" Buffy yelled in outrage. And that distraction cost her, as poison ivy vines came out of nowhere and grabbed her by the arms, legs, and her head, lifting her off of her feet. As she struggled uselessly against them, two batarangs were thrown, snapping them off of her arms. Looking up she saw that Batwoman had thrown them.

And looking behind her, she saw something else.

"Batwoman..." but it was already to late as Mr. Freeze blasted her with his freeze gun. Reducing Batwoman to nothing more then a sculpture of ice. "Noooo..."

"Yes." Mr. Freeze said as he pointed his gun at her. Suddenly out of the blue, a red and blue blur ran into Mr. Freeze knocking him over twenty feet in the air, where he crashed and fell unconcious on the top of his truck.

"What the hell..." Poison Ivy managed to get out as the same thing happened to her. With a scream, she was knocked to the side of his truck and hit her head, knocking her unconcious as well.

Buffy looked around confused and didn't know what the hell was going on. As the vines snapped off of her legs, she stood up and saw someone standing about ten feet in front of her. He was standing in a patch of darkness, with his back to her, but she saw his cape billowing softly in an unseen wind.

"Batman?" Buffy asked.

"No ma'am." the man said as he turned around, revealing a large S on the chest of his blue shirt. "My names, Superman."

A/N I wanted to say that I'm sorry for such a short chapter, but it couldn't be avoided. So what did you guys think of he surprise of Superman showing up? Also whenever both Batmen are together in the same scene Xander will be Batman X and Bruce will be either called Batman or the Dark Knight.

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