Chapter One
Batman was enjoying this summer. Gotham had been having snow through the end of March, and everyone was praying for warm weather. It had finally come in mid-June. One advantage the summer gave Batman was that the sun stayed up longer. That meant the nights were shorter, and most of the criminal element struck during the night, shortening Batman's patrol time.
The dark knight of Gotham swung on his bat-rope. The bat-signal had shown earlier, and Batman immediately went to Commissioner Gordon, who reported a large gang of criminals robbing from the vault of rich man Benjamin Cass. Cass had been knocked out by one of the members of the gang and after gaining consciousness, had called the police as soon as they left.
Batman landed on a roof, running towards another one. As he leaped off the building, he noticed five cars full of shooting gang members and two police cars. The dark avenger of Gotham swung onto the top of the leading car. The criminals, upon hearing something land on their getaway speedster, started trying to see what was going on. One stuck his head out of a window and was quickly grabbed by a gloved hand. Being held by his collar, his poorly shaven face was met by Batman's fist.
An audacious lawbreaker managed to get onto the top of the car and watched in amazement as Batman used a nail-gun to hit the tires. The car screeched to a halt and the lawbreaker fell off, hitting the hard cement of the street.
The other cars stopped and over fifteen gangsters and gunsels ran out, firing volleys of bullets at Batman and the police. Three cops were hit while Batman was protected by his Kevlar. As the criminals shouted Batman made an angry face. These criminals never cared about innocent lives, about how their crimes harmed the city.
As he thought about this, the dark knight used various fighting styles to take down most of the goons. During one part of this fight, two strong men had held his arms while three advanced towards him. The Batman kicked two of them, and then knocked the other back eight feet in the same manner. He then easily flipped over the criminals holding him, letting them hit their bodies on the street. One of them had tried to hit him on the head with a crowbar, but he quickly grabbed him by the arms and flipped him over onto another gangster. One thug held a grenade in his right hand, ready to blast up the caped crusader.
But Batman wasn't that easy to take out.
He whipped out a batarang and threw it, knocking down four goons. He caught the grenade before it fell. As the policemen went after the remaining scum, Batman quickly looked over the grenade. The pin was pulled. He quickly threw it down an alley, letting it explode without harming anyone.
After recovering his batarang, he decided to go back home to his bat cave and mansion. He didn't know what the following weeks were going to be like, but Gotham's endangerment was soon to be revealed.