Well this is part 4. Thanks for all of you who have reviewed and read my story. I hope you like this chapter!

Part 4

Batman raced quickly through the city streets to the crime scene. He was burdened with pain after fighting the Man-Bat.

All he could think about was who got killed?

Could it have been Selina Kile? Could it have been Barbara Gordon? These thoughts went through his mind.

Then he realized who the most probable person was: Vicky Vale.

He finally got to his destination: an old, run down, apartment.

The police were there investigating and asking questions.

"Oh, it's the bat. Why does he have to be here?" Harvey Bullock said aloud.

"He's the world's greatest detective. I'm sure he could figure who killed her." Detective Montoya replied.

"Oh. You're here. Well, you can't really tell by the damages caused by the bullet wounds…"

"Bullet wounds?"

"Yeah. She got shot 7 times with a 0.9mm pistol."

Batman's heart sank. There was absolutely no way the person could have lived through that.

Renee walked over to the body, and pulled off a blanket that covered her.

It was an old woman. Batman sighed with relief that it wasn't someone he knew, but was still angry inside that someone died.

"We found this piece of paper covering the bullet wounds. It is blank, but we figured that you could find some worth in it.

"Thanks."

Batman went back to the Batcave.

"Why did you have me waiting for you for 4 hours!" Nightwing asked.

"Vicky Vale got kidnapped."

"Oh, Well, um, sorry."

Batman put the sheet of paper in his computer.

"Interesting. This note could only have been decoded in a super computer like this."

He read the note:

WE HAVE BARBARA GORDON. IF YOU WANT HER, WAKE UP EARLY FOR WORK, MR. WAYNE. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. ANYWAY, GO TO THE WAYNE FOUNDATION TOWER AT 2:00 A.M. TOMORROW. IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO, SAY GOOD BYE TO BARBARA. THAT IS ALL.

Batman thought for a second, and then asked Nightwing if he saw anything interesting.

Nightwing replied: "I picked up this footage from outside the cave. One of the same goons who have been trying to kill us came to the cave entrance.

His car had a symbol on it. The symbol was a circle with the letters 'L C'"

"It all makes sense now. The letters stand for Lex Corp. and Lex Luthor is the one who has been trying to kill me all along. He knows who I am and also says he has Barbara Gordon." Batman figured out.

"How does Lex know that you are Bruce Wayne? He must have one of your enemies working for him. It could be the Joker. He escaped last week."

"Let's hope not."

"So are you going to rescue Barbara?"

"He doesn't have her. It is a trap. He is trying to kill me once and for all."

The news just then appeared on one of the computer monitors. It said that a bomb went off in the Netherlands.

"That must have been for us, because Lex thought we might have fell for his bluff that Ra's Al Ghul was trying to kill us and we went to his hideout in the Netherlands."

"So are we going to go to Wayne Tower?" Nightwing asked.

"We? Your not going, Dick. It might be too dangerous. Anyway, you have to be here to tell me if anything new is happening. As for me, I'll go there at midnight to see what they're planning."

Batman went to a corridor at the side of the Batcave. He pressed a button, and a hidden door opened in the side of the rocky wall. Inside, was his weapon selection.

He took an assortment of Batarangs and other non-lethal weapons.

Then he said good-bye to Nightwing, and walked toward the Bat-Plane.

That's part 4. Please review.