Chapter 7 is here and thanks again guys for all the support for the story. I appreciate it guys and I hope everyone is ready for this. Last time we saw our hero Batman confront a masked figure who turns out to be Shiva. Meanwhile we have Anakin Skywalker go up against Cad Bane and the monster Killer Croc.

Will things go well for our heroes in this chapter? What will happen? What is the enemy up to? And why did they come after them?

Check out the chapter to find out. I don't own anything of the DC or Star Wars universe just my OCs. Enjoy the third chapter everyone and I hope you like it. Also: Bold- means thoughts & Italic- will mean what an alien is saying in their native language.

Chapter VII

Coruscant

Obi Wan and Master Plo Koon arrived at the abandoned factory where they were told the Batman was going to show up. Tarkin had send the Clones to assist the Jedi, but after what felt like hours have passed they figure the tip they received was false.

"It appears he isn't coming," said Master Plo who sat nearby looking over the information they received. "Was Tarkin sure the informant was reliable?"

Obi Wan nods in response. "Perhaps his informant finally gave a bad tip. If it's true then we should head back."

Master Plo nods in agreement as he turns towards Commander Wolfe. "Commander, call back the men and tell them we are heading back."

"Yes sir," said Commander Wolfe as he begins rounding up the men.

Obi Wan gave the same order to Cody as the Clones begin pulling back from their spots. He's glad that the Batman didn't show up, especially with all the good he is doing despite how he is doing it.

"You seem relieved that the Batman did not show up," said Master Plo as he sat up and approaches Obi Wan. "I assume you are a supporter of his?"

Obi Wan didn't bother to lie since he knew a few Jedi who support the Batman. "I don't support his methods, but I am pleased to hear he doesn't take the lives of the criminals he fights. It shows that he is isn't a crazed vigilante like many in the senate make him out to be."

Master Plo nods agreeing with the comments knowing that many senators among the senate fear the Batman and believe him to be dangerous. However, he knows some of the Council members believe him not to be a threat to the people. They don't agree with his methods or how he does things outside the law. That is why the Chancellor wants him arrested otherwise it will cause other vigilantes to appear to do the same thing and might kill someone in the process.

"Tell me, Kenobi. Do you believe the Batman is actually making a difference with what he is doing?" he asked curious to hear his response.

Obi Wan thought about the question for a moment and then replied. "I believe if we assist him then things can change. Our involvement in this war has caused many people to lose their trust in us, even those that used to be one of us."

Master Plo knew who Obi Wan is talking about and lets out a small sigh. "I assume Skywalker or you haven't heard anything from her?"

Obi Wan shook his head in response. "I know Anakin has been trying to find her ever since she left. At least so he knows she is okay, wherever she is. He hasn't been able to find her or has heard anything of where she could be. The good news is there has been no report she has been captured by the Separatist."

Master Plo was happy to hear that. "That is good news. I assumed it is because of what Skywalker taught her that she has been able to avoid trouble. She will be able to use that to stay hidden until hopefully the war is over. Perhaps by then she might return."

"Do you believe so? Even after what the Order did not believing her?" Obi Wan asked knowing that was one reason why she left. "And let us not forget what Barriss Offee did. I could sense her betrayal towards her friend hurt Ahsoka deeply."

Master Plo knew that was true. Ahsoka and Barriss were good friends, so to find out what she did to her made her lose her trust. "You bring up a good point. Still, I assume Skywalker hopes she will return?"

Obi Wan nods in response. "He does."

Commander Cody ran in carrying some information. "General, we have received a message that there was a bombing at Senator Amidala's place with General Skywalker being sighted in the area."

Obi Wan turns towards Master Plo. "I have to go. Inform the Council what is wrong and send backup."

Master Plo nods as Kenobi takes off with Cody before he turns towards Wolfe. "Commander, patch me through to the Council."

Meanwhile

Batman listened to what Shiva has been telling her, while keeping his guard up around the woman. She explains she is an assassin that was hired along with six others that have been hired to kill the Batman. The one that hired them is a criminal crime lord named, Black Mask and how the hunt would begin in three days. Shiva came after the Batman not to kill him, but to test him to be sure he was worth her time.

Batman had heard of Black Mask, who is one of the most dangerous crime lords in the galaxy. He controlled much of the criminal underworld on Coruscant and was also someone the Hutt Family respected, but also feared. For a few months Batman had taken down several shipments that belonged to Black Mask. He figures the crime lord has decided to hire some assassins to come after him.

Though he didn't expect him to hire so many to go after him. He figures Black Mask isn't messing around with him and wants to take him out. Shiva gave him the information or rather the names of the other assassins. Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke, Waylon Jones aka Killer Croc, Garfield Lynns aka Firefly, Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot, Copperhead, and Bane.

Batman had heard of all of them and knew this is going to be tough. He is going to go up against the best assassins in the galaxy and against enemies he has never been up against. If he is going to stop them he'll need to be ready for them and get some information. But first he needs to deal with Shiva.

"So you don't plan to try getting the award early then? 50 billion credits is a lot of money for anyone to try to claim."

Shiva scoffed at the response from the Batman. "I have no interest in the money. I am only interested in you, Batman. I want to fight you and prove my skills against the one those I used to work for are interested in. I came before you tonight to test your skills and see if you are worthy. You have proven you are a challenge and I will wait to see if you can survive the six other assassins before I fight you once more."

"I see, so you don't care if say the other assassins get to me before you do?" he asked not sounding surprise by Shiva's response.

"If you die against one of those weaklings then you will disappoint me," she replied as she puts her weapon away. "In three days, Batman. The fight will begin and it will consume this planet. There will be chaos, destruction, and death. And if you manage to survive all that is thrown against you then you will have to deal with me."

Batman didn't want to risk war breaking out on the planet and see innocent lives being killed. However, he knew if he tries luring the fight away many of these criminals will stay to cause harm to the people just to lure him back to fight. He'll need to find them first then and then end it before any lives are lost. He could fight Shiva right here and right now, but knew he had to wait for the right time to do it.

Shiva is soon approached by one of her followers informing her of a situation. "The bounty hunter is going back against his word."

Shiva sighed thinking Croc has dealt with the bounty hunter and the Jedi by now. But she put too much faith in the idiotic reptilian. Meanwhile the Batman began receiving a message through his cowl and knew what it was. Knowing he needed to end this soon he tosses down a smoke bomb that covered the entire rooftop.

Shiva has her followers appear to find the Batman. By the time the smoke was gone, the Batman and the hostages were gone.

"It appears we'll need to settle this another time," said Shiva as calls for her followers to retreat. "We will let the Batman deal with Croc and the bounty hunter. One less problem to deal with if he gets rid of them both."

Padme's apartment

Cad Bane looked around for the senator and her friend, while he carried Skywalker's lightsaber in his hand and his blaster in his other hand. "Come out, come out, wherever you are," Cad mocked trying to find the women.

"Are you in here?" he points his blaster at a nearby door and opens fire blasting several holes in it. Opening the door he finds no one is inside.

"No, I guess not. How about, in here," he ignites the lightsaber and thrusts through the door. Opening it he finds no one is inside either. "Not that one. Where could you be?"

As Bane turns the corner he finds Abigail holding a knife in her hand, but is alone. "There you are. Now, where is your friend?"

Padme appeared behind a furniture with her blaster in her hand. Abigail told her she would lure the bounty hunter to her to distract him, while Padme sneaks up from behind. Padme aims her weapon at him, but Cad could sense something is off and turns around using the lightsaber to cut the blaster in half. Abigail seeing her friend is in danger tosses the knife hitting the bounty hunter in the shoulder causing him to drop his blaster.

She runs at him and before he can use the lightsaber she kicks him right in the face knocking him down. "Run!" she tells Padme as she grabs her hand and they try to escape, but Cad uses his rocket boots to cut them off and aims the lightsaber at them.

"You're going to pay for that," said Cad with the lightsaber being pointed at Abigail.

"Why don't you turn that off and try fighting us without your toys?" said Abigail trying to trick the bounty hunter.

She wishes she had brought something to help them against a criminal with a lightsaber, but didn't expect something to happen. Thankfully she had send a signal to her brother to come back, but to help deal with the monster Skywalker is fighting. For Cad, she has someone else in mind.

"Sorry, not going to happen," as Cad goes to stab her, a woman appeared with a sword and cuts his hand off causing him to scream.

He looks over to see a woman wearing black full-body costume, black armor on her chest, knees, arm, boots, and white mask with a red dot on the forehead of the mask. In her hand she is holding a metal sword as she moves it near his neck.

"Good timing, Katana," said Abigail happy to see Tatsu has arrived. "Any luck with security?"

"They are dead, my lady," said Katana as she turns towards Cad Bane. "His associate killed them."

Padme recognized the woman to be Abigail's bodyguard and is surprised to see her wearing this strange outfit. She looks down to see Anakin's lightsaber and grabs it.

"Where is Anakin?" she asked towards Katana. "Is he all right?"

"He is safe," they look over to see Anakin making his way towards them, but looks injured. "Are you okay?"

Padme is relieved to see her husband is alive, but is concerned when she sees his wounds. "We're fine, but what about you. Are you all right?" she asked as she approaches him.

"I'm fine," he replied as Padme hands him back his lightsaber. "I'm just glad you're safe."

Abigail noticed something between the two and how they were acting. She had an idea what it was, but didn't want to say anything while the bounty hunter is here.

"So, did you take care of his buddy?" she asked towards Anakin.

Anakin nods as he turns towards Bane. "Who hired you?"

Despite being in pain and trying to keep himself from bleeding out, Cad kept his cool. "I don't know what you are talking about."

"I know you and that monster didn't come here to kill me for free. So, who hired you?" Anakin demanded tempted to use the Force on him or something else to get the truth out of him.

"I wasn't hired by anyone to kill you Skywalker and I'm sure that worthless beast would say the same thing," said Cad as he goes for the blaster hidden behind him.

Before he could reach it though, Killer Croc broke through the floor behind Skywalker as he lets out a loud roar. Anakin pushes Padme out of the way just s Croc swings his arm at him and sends him towards the wall. Abigail helps Padme up and backs away as Katana moves in front of the women to protect them. Cad begins getting up as he takes out his blaster and aims it at the women.

"Good work, but I'll take it from here," said Cad as he aims his weapon at the women. "You can go kill Skywalker if you want, but they are mine."

"No," said Croc as grabs Cad and slams him against the wall. "I will devour all of you!"

Cad tries to break free, but Croc had a tight grip around him. He tries to shoot him, but Croc bites the blaster away and destroys it.

"What are you doing?! We're on the same side!"

"Who says we were on the same side in the first place?" Croc asked as he notices the blood. "Besides, it appears you have failed in your mission and now I will finish the job, but first I think I'll have a little snack."

As Croc goes to eat the bounty hunter, he feels something hit him in the arm. Looking over he sees what appears to be a bat-shape weapon that sends an electric volt all over his body. He lets out a loud roaring scream before freeing Cad Bane. He removes the weapon and looks over to see who attacked him.

The women also looked over where the monster is staring at and Padme is shocked to see the Batman standing across the room. He was exactly how she expected him to look like and could see how intimidating he looks.

"Killer Croc," said the Batman towards the monster.

Killer Croc let's out a hissing sound when he sees who attacked him. "Batman, so we finally meet."

"I suggest you give up now or else this is going to hurt," said Batman as he presses a button on his wrist gauntlet that begins causing static to appear on his hands.

Killer Croc begins to laugh not taking the threat seriously. "I think not. I'm going to enjoy ripping the meat off your bones, now die!"

Killer Croc charges at Batman, who jumps over his head and land on his back as he grabs his face sending volts of electricity to his body once more. Croc let's out a louder scream as he tries grabbing the Batman, but the shock to his head was keeping him from getting a grip on him. Anakin begins to recover and sees the monster being attacked by the Batman, the one the Chancellor is after. He was tempted to stop him, but he knew the monster had to be stopped first.

So he uses the Force to send the monster towards the wall, while Katana charges at him with something in her hand. It turned out to be a rope with three metal spheres attached to them. She tosses one at Croc's legs knocking him down and it sends more electricity to his body. She takes out another and throws it trapping both his hands together as electricity is used once more on the monster.

Soon Croc begins to feel weakened and Batman jumps off of him, then punches him right in the face knocking him down, and knocking him out. The electricity stops shocking him and Batman turns towards Katana.

"Thank you," he replied to her.

She nods her head in response, but then sees Anakin activating his lightsaber and moving it near the Batman's neck. "You are under arrest," he said towards the masked vigilante.

Katana moves her sword near Skywalker's neck and speaks to him in a stern tone. "Release him."

Padme sees this and tries to calm everyone down. "Everyone, stop. Anakin, put away your weapon. He just helped save us."

"He's a criminal, Padme. He needs to be brought in to justice," said Anakin as he turns towards Katana. "Lower your weapon or you will be arrested too."

Katana however did not budge as Abigail approaches them. "So, you're telling me despite the Batman saving us and even yourself you will not let him go? Wow, it looks like you're not one to return the favor."

Anakin ignored her comments and turns towards the Batman not wanting him to get away. Batman wasn't worried or concerned about Skywalker threatening him. He presses a button on his wrist gauntlet that causes the lightsaber to deactivate. Anakin looks confused and tries to get it to work, but it wouldn't activate.

"What did you do?"

"Took away your toy," Batman replied.

As Padme tries to calm the two down, Cad Bane appears from behind wrapping his arm where he lost his hand around her neck and his blaster to her head.

"Drop your weapons, now," he demanded towards the Jedi, Batman, and masked woman.

Anakin sees Bane aiming his weapon at his wife's head and wanted to help her, but he knew if he did she will be killed. So he drops his weapon and raises his hand. Katana did the same dropping her sword, but also stood in front of Abigail, who was taking out a small device from her pocket. Batman noticed this and kept a folded batarang hidden in his hand waiting to use it.

"Let her go," he demanded towards the bounty hunter. "We both know there is nowhere to go. It's over."

"Wrong, it's over for the both of you," Cad aims his weapon at the Batman and fires, but it wasn't working. "What is wrong with this stupid junk?"

Batman tosses his batarang hitting the bounty hunter in the face causing him to free Padme. He tries to escape using his rocket boots, but Katana tosses a shuriken damaging one of them. As he gets up, Anakin uses the Force and sends him flying out of the building and towards the ground. Abigail and Batman were shocked to see him kill the bounty hunter.

Anakin walks over to see where Cad crashed to make sure he didn't escape. He soon realizes what he did and knew he should have just knocked him out. He put too much force into his attack and killed him. A part of him is glad since he won't harm anyone again, but he knew it went against the Jedi way.

Turning around he sees the Batman is gone, while Padme is being tended to by Abigail. He looks back outside and lets out a small sigh as three Republic gunships are seen heading their way.

Meanwhile

On top of a nearby building, a drone is seen recording everything and being broadcast to a hidden room where a masked figure is watching what just happened with much joy. "Looks like we just found a new contender to join in on the fun," he said as he begins to laugh softly at first, but soon the laugh begins to escalate and the laughter grew louder before it echoed all around the room.

Cad Bane is dead and looks like there is now one Bane in the galaxy for our heroes to deal with. I hope everyone liked the chapter. Yeah, the fight with Batman and Killer Croc wasn't long, but I hope it was still good. I want to thank my friends for their help and thanks to you all for the support.

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