Ultimate DC and YoungD16 Presents…

ULTIMATE BATMAN

Author's Note: Thanx for all the reviews, it's nice to know that someone likes my story. After this chapter I have some big plans for ULTIMATE BATMAN so keep reading. Thanx

RECAP: Bruce escaped from one web of certain danger only to enter another. This time he'll be confronted by a friend…Selena Kyle, soon to be known as CATWOMAN!

Case 5: Catwoman

Bruce's body froze and all he could think about was how he had spent the last four and half years fantasizing about the woman who now lay motionless on the sea of television monitors. Poisoned, Bruce thought suddenly. His heart pounded hard and painfully. His body, still in a frozen state, remembered how it felt when it thought of Selena Kyle. Now Bruce almost couldn't believe his eyes, she was dead…

Bruce slowly walked over to towards the body. He couldn't believe it, he wouldn't; it was too much. Sweet Selena who lived alone in WayneTech apartment 45. Bruce would have been considered a stalker if she hadn't liked him as a friend. Now all he could think of was the fact that she wasn't breathing. He walked to the body and suddenly saw that she was alive…

In no longer than a second a hand wrapped its way around Bruce's neck, squeezing harder and harder. Bruce could feel the nails digging into his flesh, blood slowly leaking out. That bitch, she was very much alive and it seems as though she and Bruce are not on good terms. Her hand tightened around Bruce's neck. Her eyes glared into Bruce's and he could feel the change that had occurred in her body. He could feel the change in Selena's heart; he could feel his own heart tearing the more she tightened on his neck. What happened to you, he thought as she rose him into the air.

Alfred had little time to react; he spotted a chair and threw it at the woman who was attacking Bruce. Whatever Bruce had done to this lady, he was regretting, thought Alfred; how wrong he was. Alfred didn't know that Selena had been in contact with the "big cheese" of Gotham City, Jack Hart.

It was Hart that changed her, much like he controlled and raised his own henchmen. Hart sought her after Bruce's "disappearance", she had no real purpose other than to serve Mr. Wayne but now she was unemployed it would seem. Jack had many uses for her of his own but decided that his scientist at WayneTech could use a woman with such chorizema and such a physique for their on-going experiments with steroids. Experimentation went on and eventually Selena's immune system was failing. She was washed up. Suddenly there was change in her, she began to posses keen senses and an uncanny amount of agility.

Alfred would have socked her good but she quickly dropped Bruce to stop the chair. Bruce gasped for air then quickly got to his feet. Alfred grabbed Bruce and they bolted out the door.

"Not here." Alfred said, as they bolted down the hallway.

They reached the end of a hallway but like lightening Selena ran right after them. There was a sick feeling in Bruce's stomach; she would be a bigger challenge than the Croc was. Bruce quickly ran down the hallway with Alfred, but Selena caught up to them and with one hand clawed Bruce's back, taking out an inch of him.

"Ah!" Bruce yelled.

"Ha, ha! What, cat got your tongue, Mr. Batman?"

Alfred grabbed one of his gadgets out and wasted no time in trying to use it, only problem was Ms. Kyle, she was too smart for that. She kicked Alfred's gadget away.

"What were you going to do with that old man? That toy was much too small for me…"

Selena snickered and pounced on top of Bruce's back and slammed Bruce's head against the clean tiled floor of the science department. Bruce could feel something crack in his mouth. A pain shot up his back and below…

"What do you want?" Bruce shrieked in pain.

"I want to play. That's all I want to do. What about you?"

"I want to kill you, you f…!"

"Hey that's not a very nice thing to say, Bats."

Selena dug her sharp nails into Bruce's right butt cheek. Bruce whaled in pain. She quickly ripped her nails out of his bottom and laughed. There was still blood on her fingers from digging them into Bruce, she licked it off…

"You sick bitch!" Alfred yelled as he hurled his body toward her with all his strength.

She jumped up and nearly touched the ceiling. She landed on all fours beside a box outside the door that read "Chemical Department". Bruce and Alfred lay on the ground stunned by Selena's agility.

"My name isn't bitch, its Catwoman!"

And from the way she was acting she could have passed for some kind of animal. She was wearing her white suit she wore to drive Bruce around. The suit was worn out, wholes and smudges, mostly dark red where blood had been.

She walked slowly over to Bruce and Alfred, one leg crossing over another with each step. Her hips moved side to side with every step and she flaunted her stuff. She had defeated the Batman, someone who had up until this point been a fictional character the streets dreamt up. And the old man that was with him, well, he was no challenge, she thought. She walked closer and could smell the blood from Batman; she liked it and began to favor it more than her recent addition to fresh fish blood.

Selena eyed Batman; she wanted him for some reason. Could it be the body? Could it be that she hasn't had any in forever? Or was it that the trill of being with danger was somehow attractive? What ever the case may be she felt the pull; the impulse. Who was this man, this mysterious intruder she had enjoyably defeated? Who is it that hides behind this mask? What does he have to hide? She couldn't stop the impulse. She reached for the mask of Batman and removed it…a shocking truth was revealed.

More than a minute had gone by but to Selena it was a mere second. She was many things at that time; shocked, confused, angry, and lustful. She couldn't distinguish between any of those emotions she just knew that she had to act and act fast. Bruce Wayne, someone she had cared for for some time was her enemy. A feeling of disappointment and strange excitement overwhelmed her and she raised her hand in the air. Something was telling her "no" but her body was telling her "yes". Her body was tense and Bruce looked so helpless lying on the ground. Could she go through with this? Killing Bruce would mean what for her? Nothing, but she felt that impulse, her animal instincts. Something bad would happen if she did not kill Bruce now…

"Bruce, I'm so sorry…" Selena prepared for a deadly blow.

Suddenly Bruce jolted up and grabbed Selena by her neck, squeezing harder and harder just as she had done to him. Selena couldn't breathe; she freaked out and started to scratch Bruce franticly. Blood splattered on her face as she tore the skin of Bruce's forearm open. Bruce quickly let her go but in an instant punched her in the gut and grabbed her by her hair. Selena shrieked in pain and became even more frantic, so much that she quickly ripped away from Bruce's grip leaving chucks of her hair and small pieces of her scalp in Bruce's hand.

"Ah! I'll kill you bastard ass son of a bitch mother f---…!" Selena freaked out and started to claw at her face in reaction to losing some hair and some scalp. Streaks of blood covered her face as she scarred it. Her wild yellow-green eyes shimmered despite the horrible things happening.

Alfred and Bruce were frightened, they had never seen a nervous breakdown before and didn't know what to expect. Selena started to claw at herself which scared Bruce. This was someone Bruce had known for a long time and to them in this state of mind was too much. Bruce grabbed Alfred and ran. They ran fast and hard through the hallways, finally reaching the stairs. They suddenly heard a voice shrieking from not far behind, "I'll kill you Bruce, I'll kill you!" Selena was not done with them yet. They hurried up the stairwell and disappeared up the many levels the building offered. They finally stopped at the corporate area, Jack Hart would be near now; so would the Jokers…

Bruce and Alfred quickly moved through conference room after conference room, surprisingly they had been undetected. It was dark everywhere, any minute now the Jokers could pop out of nowhere but surprisingly there was nothing. It was too weird, someone must have known that he would be on his way to WayneTech. Did they come prepared?

They reached Bruce's old bedroom, the CEO bedroom, it still looked same. It was dark but Bruce had liked it when there were knights he needed to stay in the corporate area. It was room with many memories, including the next few minutes… The light suddenly flicked on and Harley Quinn greeted Alfred and Bruce once again. Her long peanut colored legs slowly walked towards Bruce and Alfred. Her haunting eyes watched them with "cruel intentions", she was a ruthless woman; a geisha girl had to be it would seem. In her hands were two knives of some sort, she was sent to do Jack's work apparently. Bruce could take her, he thought.

"Where's Hart?" Bruce said trying to sound intimidating.

Harley just grinned, showing the white of her teeth. More lights came on and there were two other figures in the room. Jokers, thought Alfred, it's a trap. And indeed it was a trap they had sprung into and it was up to them on how they would get out. The two Jokers that appeared in the room were big, bulky men with face paint on that made them clown-like. Fake smiles painted onto their faces and black paint under the eyes. Now all they needed was to find out where Jack was and they would be set. But the Jokers would make it that easy, Bruce and Alfred would have to work for that.

"I said, where's Hart, don't make me repeat myself. Batman is getting restless…" Bruce said not realizing his mask was gone; he had gotten to used to it being on.

Harley just grinned and looked at Bruce with no compassion. Bruce turned around and saw that someone had Alfred in the headlock. Someone strangely skinny and strangely pale, like someone had painted their skin white. The shadows of the unlit portion of the room covered the figure's face. Alfred looked scared as he felt the knife that was underneath his neck. Bruce could hear a sound, it was faint but it was there. It sounded like a snicker but that couldn't be. But it was, there was laughter coming from the figure that held Alfred hostage. The laughter grew louder and louder until it hurt Bruce's ears.

"So you're the famous Batman, ah Brucey, you're the famous Batman." said the figure in the shadows.

Bruce felt his face, the mask was gone he must have lost it when he was fighting Selena. The voice of the man in the shadows sound sinister, it sounded deadly. The figure slowly moved out of the shadows and was revealed to be none other than the man himself…

Bruce's father.