Here we go with chapter 19 and I hope everyone is looking forward to this chapter. Yep, in the last chapter we saw the Joker making his move. Attacking the Jedi temple, while sneaking into the Senate building. Will our heroes stop him before lives are lost or will things end in chaos? Check out the chapter to find out.
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Chapter XIX
Coruscant
Outside the Senate Building, Mace Windu and his men continued fighting off against the armed criminals, who somehow got control of their gunships. Earlier he sensed something was wrong and tried to contact his companions inside, when the Clones opened fire.
At least they thought they were the Clones, when they found out they were criminals disguised as them. Mace Windu and his men were able to push the enemy back, until they got control of some gunships and opened fire.
They took cover as Master Windu uses the Force to open the door and they go in. Once in though they are shot at by the criminals, who are trying to take over the building. Meanwhile, Obi Wan left the security room as he joins the Clones to assist them in retaking the building. He spots Captain Rex and his men pinned down and joins in to help push the enemy back.
"Captain Rex, where's Anakin?"
"Last time we saw him he was fighting a big masked guy," Captain Rex replied as they begin pushing the enemy back. "We lost sight of him though when they began fighting elsewhere. Should we go assist him?"
Obi Wan was about to reply, when he notices the criminals have brought in some droids to assist them in the fight. The droids also seem to be equipped with their own shields, which helped deflect the blasters back at their enemy.
"We'll have to deal with this first before we go assist Anakin," Obi Wan replied as he deflects the blaster shots away. "Don't worry though. Knowing Anakin, he has the situation under control."
Meanwhile, Bane tossed Anakin through a wall as the fight between the two continue. During the fight, Anakin tried using the Force to help him against the masked criminal, but it didn't work for long. Whatever he did to his body, made trying to move him feel like moving a building. No matter how much he pushed him he couldn't knock him away.
Anakin gets up and dodges Bane's attacks. Thankfully he still had his speed to help him, but each time he threw a punch or kick at the criminal it would unfazed him. Bane would then grab his limb and toss him away or punch him. Even his robotic hand was not enough to take him down.
Anakin jumps back and uses the Force to lift a nearby table and tosses it at him. Bane smashes it away with one hand and charges at him. Anakin slides between his legs and uses his robotic hand to punch one of the legs. The attack knocked Bane down as Anakin jumps over and lands on his back.
He punches him in the head, but it wasn't enough to knock him out. He goes for it again, but Bane catches the hand and tosses him away. Bane charges at him again, but Anakin uses the Force to stop him in his tracks. However, the masked criminal continues pushing towards him, despite Anakin using the Force.
Anakin tries to keep him back, but he knew he wasn't slowing him down. He looks behind him and sees a window. He soon forms an idea, but needed to wait for the right moment to do it. Once Bane was close enough he lets him go, ducks, and lets Bane fall out the window.
Bane however, grabs Anakin's arm and the two fall out the window together. Anakin though managed to punch the masked criminal and have him cushion their fall as they crash into a vehicle. Anakin slowly got off of Bane and falls over to the ground. Despite using Bane to soft his landing, he was still hurting.
He begins coughing up some blood as he tries getting up, remembering Padme is still in trouble. But as he began to move, he hears Bane moving out of the vehicle as well. He gets up and turns towards the Jedi, who tried to get up. He picks up the destroyed vehicle and lifts part of it up.
"I commend you, Skywalker. It's been a long time since I fought a Jedi who lasted this long against me," said Bane as he lifts up the vehicle and moves to crush him with it. "I can see why they are interested in you, but too bad you won't be alive to see their plan."
Just as he is about to crush him, Anakin uses the Force to push him back. The force of the attack caused Bane to fall back with the vehicle landing near him. He gets up, impressed the Jedi still had some fight left in him. Before he could do anything, shots are fired from the window where they fell through.
A few Clones came in and opened fire on the criminal, who took off towards the building as they came down to check on the Jedi. "You all right, General Skywalker?"
Anakin nods in response as the men help him up. "I'm fine. Are the senators safe?"
"Yes sir," said one of the Clones. "They're still locked in the room, but we can hear they're all okay."
Anakin sighed in relief, glad they're okay, but knew right now being in that room is a safer place for all of them to be in. "Keep them in there until we take back the building and make sure to keep some of them alive. I want to know who this Joker guy is where what he's up to."
Jedi Temple
Batgirl dodges more of the shots that are being fired on her and she figure her attacker must be Deadshot. She was told earlier before the temple was attacked that he tried to kill Batman. So she figures he would be send here to try killing the Jedi. A guy like him who doesn't miss is the perfect man to try taking down the Jedi.
However, she managed to lure him away from any Jedi and has to find a way to get to him. "I just need to find out where he is exactly."
She would contact Katana, but she knew she was busy in another part of the temple. She managed to drive off Firefly from the temple, but had to assist in taking out the bombs he set up. This left Ahsoka alone and without backup. So, she'll need to stop Deadshot and keep him from hurting anymore innocent lives.
"Batgirl, you there?" Batgirl can hear Oracle speaking to her and sighed in relief.
"I'm glad to hear from you. What happened?" Batgirl asked as she finds some cover, while trying to find where Deadshot is at. "Actually, never mind. Joker's men are here and Deadshot is here with Firefly. Katana went to deal with the pyro maniac, but I'm pinned down from the other assassin. Can you tell me where he's at?"
"Give me a second," Oracle begins hacking into the cameras near where the shooting is at and finds him. "He's on a gunship, but it looks like he's coming to you. I guess he wants to try shooting you closely."
"I figured," Batgirl replied as she hears a gunship flying over and landing nearby. "If I remember correctly where their landing is in the archive room."
"Looks that way, there are a few Younglings in there and it looks like Deadshot's men got to them," Oracle replied as she gets an image of the Younglings and an old lady who is with them.
Batgirl knew where to go to get to the library, but would need a plan. "I'm going to need some assistance in order to get the hostages out."
"Mind if I assist you?" Batgirl turns around to see Ventress standing behind her. "So, this is what you do now that you're not a Jedi, Tano? I must say, I think it suits you."
"Ventress? How did you?" Ahsoka is shocked that Ventress knew who she is and that she is here.
"I had a feeling when we spoke and because of these," Ventress points to Ahsoka's headtails and her lekku. "You really should be careful with those and when you use the Force around those who know you."
Ahsoka sighed knowing she couldn't lie to her about this. "I didn't tell you because…"
"I know, but don't worry I won't tell," Ventress replied as she crossed her arms and sighed. "So, you and your friend got a plan?"
Batgirl nods as she speaks to Oracle. "Oracle, I got someone that will help get the hostages out, while I take care of Deadshot."
"Be careful," said Oracle as she sees what's going on in the room. "Deadshot has set up some lasers around the room. If it touches you then he will know where you are and might kill the hostages."
Batgirl nods in response knowing the risk and knew they had to save the hostages. "We know, let's get going."
Ventress nods in response as they head to the library, unaware they are being followed.
Senate building
Bane headed towards the office of the Chancellor to speak with the Joker. He recovered from his fight with Skywalker and knew it wouldn't be long before the Jedi took back the building. He contacted his men and had them be ready so they can leave. That's of course after he deals with the Batman.
He hears the elevator door opening, but sees no one inside. He looks around before looking up at the ceiling. He thrusts his hand up and grabs someone who is hiding up there. He brings that person down and finds it is the Batman.
He picks him up and throws him to the wall breaking it. He picks him up again, then slams him into the other side of the wall, then the other wall, and then threw him through the door where the Joker is waiting for them.
"Nice of you to drop in," said the Joker as he sits near his table, while playing with a rubber ball. "And just in time," he replied before tossing it away.
Batman sees they are in the office of the Chancellor, with some bodies nearby. One of them belonging to the Chancellor, who has a big grin on his face. Batman knew he was too late and the Joker has killed him. The same he did to the banker last night using the same toxin that killed her.
As he tries getting up, Bane comes into the room and knocks him down. "He's mine, payaso," said Bane as he grabs the Batman by the throat then picks him up.
"Eh-eh. Remember, you gave your word," said the Joker as he places his hand on a detonator that has the name of the hotel they are in written on it.
Bane growled in anger before punching Batman. "You have, one minute," he replied before he begins walking out of the room.
"Do they even have manners where he comes from?" the Joker asked a disoriented Batman as the clown gets up from his seat and walks over him. "You see, it's a tradition in my house to open one present each during our birthday."
The Joker then turns towards the table where there are other detonators with other names on them. "Hmm…how about…this one?" the Joker pressed the button, which causes a building across from them to blow up, destroying everything, shattering the windows in the room, and the Joker begins to laugh. "And a very happy birthday, to me!"
Batman seeing what the Joker just did filled him with anger as he gets up, grabs the clown by his shirt collar, and lifts him up. "How many lives did you just take?"
"None-I think," said the Joker unsure himself if he did take any lives or not. "That was just a little stocking-stuffer-a construction site blocking my view."
Batman slams his hand to the table, which seemed to only make the clown laugh, and then he threw him across the table knocking away the other detonators.
"But this one isn't," said the Joker as he picks one up.
Batman grabs it, breaks it, and then hits the Joker with it. He then proceeds to punch him several times, before Bane came back in and punches him away.
Before he has a chance to recover, Bane brings his hand down on the Batman's face keeping him down. "I've long waited for this moment. With your death, I will find peace."
He lifts his hand up and punches him in the face again. He picks him up, then throws him through a wall into the outside to a patio near another part of the office.
Bane jumps out and lands in the room near Batman. Batman begins to recover and get ready to fight the most dangerous member of the assassins.
Jedi Temple
Deadshot and five of his men were on guard when they heard Batman was in the temple. They weren't sure where he is, but they knew he would come, especially with them holding hostages. They captured four Jedi Younglings and forced the librarian, Jocasta Nu to surrender or they would kill them. She agreed and now they have all five of them in the middle of the room.
Deadshot placed restraint collars and handcuffs to keep them from doing anything. She took their lightsabers away and stayed nearby to shoot them in case Batman arrived.
"Get back to work!" he ordered his men. "I want the Batman!"
"No problem, boss. We got this," said one of the men as they kept an eye out for anything.
The Younglings were gagged so they wouldn't speak, but it was mostly so Deadshot wouldn't have to hear them yelling at him. As his men continued looking around and keeping an eye out for the Batman, one of them hears something. Looking around he wonders who it is and wonders if it's a Jedi. He sets his weapon for stun since he knew they could use more hostages.
As he goes over to where the archives are kept, he is grabbed and lifted into the air. The other men and Deadshot hear a scream as they go to check it out. As their attention is turned away from the hostages, a masked figure is seen nearby. The Younglings and Jocasta see the figure, but don't make any noises when the figure motions to keep quiet.
"What happened up there?" Deadshot asked wondering what is going on.
The four men go to where their friend was last seen and look up to see him hanging upside down, unconscious. "Sir! He's here! The Batman is here!" one of the men shouted since they knew a Jedi wouldn't do this.
"Well, go find him then you idiots!" Deadshot ordered as he cocks his wrist guns. "You know Batman I don't know what I'm more excited about. Killing you or telling people how I did it."
As Deadshot looks around, one of his men looks over the railing when he heard a noise. Something grabs him and tosses him into a nearby table crashing on it. His scream and the crash attracts the attention of the criminals and Deadshot as they go to check it out. This left the hostages alone as the figure goes to them and frees their cuffs.
The figure then removes the gags, but motions to keep quiet and to follow him. Jocasta was unsure about trusting this figure, but she knew the Younglings were important to get to safety. They follow the figure as they are lead out of the room. Once they are clear the figure turns towards Jocasta.
"Take them somewhere safe and wait until backup arrives," said the figure as they hear some shooting coming from down the hall. "I'll lead them away, while you get to safety."
"Wait, who are you?" Jocasta asked when she noticed a lightsaber on the figure. "Are you a Jedi?"
The figure stood silent for a moment, before replying. "Could have been, now go."
Meanwhile back inside, Deadshot finds another one of his men has been taken out. He kept calm and continued looking around for the Batman. The three remaining criminals stuck together not wanting to be taken out by the Batman. Suddenly a figure came down from the ceiling landing in the middle.
The figure drives their elbow into the back of the heads of two of the criminals, then kicks the third in the gut. The figure drives its knees into the face of the third criminal knocking him out. The other two took out their blasters to open fire, but the figure kicks them away and jumps over them. The figure wraps its arms around the back of the necks of both men then flips them over.
The figure then punches them both knocking them out, but then is shot at by Deadshot. The figure tries to escape, but Deadshot spots it with his laser and hits its mark. The figure is knocked over the railing and lands on the floor. Deadshot jumps over and lands in front of the figure aiming his guns at it.
"Finally got you, Batman," however Deadshot soon sees it's not the Batman, but rather a female version. "Who the hell are you?"
"Batgirl," she replied as she tries to find a way to get out of this situation. "Sorry to disappoint you, but Batman is not here."
"That's a shame," Deadshot cocks his weapons. "I guess I'll have to kill you then."
Before he can open fire he is sent flying towards the wall. Batgirl looks over to see Petro and Katooni coming in for the assistance. She was happy to see them, but then focused back on Deadshot. He began to recover, but before he can open fire, Batgirl throws two Batarangs at him.
They hit the wrist guns and send an electric shock through his body incapacitating him. Batgirl turns towards the Younglings and approached them.
"Thanks for the assistance, but you two shouldn't have come here. It's not safe," she replied knowing it wasn't the first time they assisted her in a dangerous situation.
"We know, but we saw you help our friends so we wanted to return the favor," said Petro as he hears what sounds like Master Secura along with the Temple Guards coming from outside the room. "You should get going though before they see you."
Batgirl nods in agreement as Petro goes to buy some time. She turns towards Katooni and smiles at her. "Well, thank you again for your help, young one."
"Your welcome…Ahsoka," Katooni replied surprising the former Jedi Padawan. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone and it's good to see you again. We miss you."
Batgirl smiled again and nods her head in response. "I missed you too."
Katooni took off as Ahsoka turns towards Deadshot who is coming to and ties him up. "It's over. You're going to jail."
Deadshot began to laugh when she said this. "Don't be so sure about that. I got out of prison before and I'll do it again. When I do, I'll be coming for you."
"We'll see," said Batgirl as she uses her grappling gun and escapes, as the Jedi come in to find the captured assassin.
Senate Building
Bane charges at Batman the same way he did with Skywalker. Batman however, dodges the attacks and goes for direct hits. Thanks to his suit, which increases his strength he manages to deliver some hits that did affect the masked assassin. Batman used his quickness to dodge, block, and counter Bane's attacks, knocking him back.
Bane seemed somewhat impressed that the Batman was strong, but he knew the fight has just begun. He removes his jacket revealing some sort of pack that has three green fluids inside, that are attached to tubes, and are flowing inside his body. He presses a button causing his body to increase in mass and size. Batman knew whatever he just did to his body has made him stronger.
Batman dodges the punches from Bane and punches him in the face, but his blows barely did anything. Bane punches him and knocks him across the room. Bane grabs him and lifts him up. "You will break."
He lifts him over his body ready to bring him down, but Batman punched him in the face several times freeing him from his grip. He grabs his arm and delivers an arm drag knocking him down. He then ducks a swing and grabs one of the tubes from the pack. He pulls on it and breaks it from the pack causing the liquid to be poured out.
Bane however had more tubes in him and from his pack, so he wasn't worried if one got ripped off. However, Batman knew if he could rip them all out then his strength might leave him. He just needs to get close enough again to rip them out. Though he knows he'll need to be careful.
Alfred who has been watching the fight began contacting him. "Sir, you need to get out of there. He's too strong for you."
"I know, but I found a way to stop him," said Batman as Bane grabs him and tosses him out the window, but Batman uses his grappling gun to stop his fall and have him get back up.
"Sir, I don't want to see you get hurt," said Alfred as he notices the Jedi and Clones are taking back the building. "You need to get out of there or you'll get arrested."
"I've got this," said Batman refusing to let Bane or the Joker get away. "If I don't stop them now, then more lives will be lost."
Alfred sighed knowing he needs to get Daniel out, but he knew he was right. "Sir, just be careful."
As Batman prepares to continue with his fight as he activates his wrist gauntlets that begin letting out electricity. After his encounter with Electrocutioner her thought these might come in handy. Bane charges at him, but Bane jumps over and grabs him by his head as he sends an electric shock into him. He then grabs one of the tubes, but Bane elbows him off before he can grab it.
The Joker appears through the window and began laughing as he watches the fight. Bane grabs Batman and slams him to the wall and tries to punch him. Batman drives both feet into his chest knocking him back. He then delivers several electric punches to the gut of the masked assassin.
Bane goes to grab him again, but Batman ducks and uses his wrist blades to cut the second tube in half. Bane kicks across the ground in anger as he sees him losing more of his venom.
Batman turns towards him and then sees something heading their way. "Looks like you just ran out of time."
Bane turns around and sees three Republic Gunships appearing. It appeared there was a base left that wasn't destroyed and found out what is going on.
"Stand down! I repeat, stand down!" one of the pilots ordered towards the criminals. "Face down on the ground or you will be fired upon."
The Joker however, found this to be more fun. "Now this is what I call a party!" the Joker opened fire at the gunships, while laughing as he does this.
Bane's men also joined in on the shootout as they opened fire on the ships. However, the gunships were unaffected and opened fire killing some of Bane's men. Some of the blasters hit Bane's venom backpack causing some of the venom to leak out. It wasn't badly damaged, but he knew he would have to finish this later.
"This rooftop's getting too hot."
Though the Joker didn't seem to care as he continued opening fire at the gunships. Soon more gunships begin to arrive, but they ended up firing at the other gunships destroying them. It is revealed the arriving gunships are piloted by Bane's men. One moves towards where Bane is at as the door opens for him to get in.
Bane turns towards Batman and leaves him with some words. "You got off easy."
Before he got on the ship, Batman threw a tracer so he can track him down later. As Bane got on the gunship, the Joker saw this and opened fire on the gunship.
"Just where do you think you're going? Huh?"
Bane's men give him a rocket launcher, which he took and aimed it at the Joker. He fired the rocket, but the Joker didn't looked worried or concerned.
In fact, he actually looked like he accepted his fate, dropped his weapon, and waited for the embrace of death. The rocket missed him, but it blew up from behind knocking him off the building towards the ground, while the clown began to laugh.
The Batman saw this and without a moment of hesitation jumped off the building as well. He then glides his way towards the Joker and grabs him.
"Oh back for more eh?" he asked as he tries punching Batman.
Batman counters and then head-butts him as they continued to fall. However, Batman takes out his grappling gun and fires a grappling hook as it stops them from falling. Until it broke up and they fell through the window, but the loss of momentum, and the chandeliers they hit helped slow their descent.
Enough for them to crash on some sofas and survive the fall without any serious injuries. The Joker however, was not amused that they survived as two of his men came in aiming their guns at the Batman. The clown finds his blaster and grabs it as he gets up angrily.
"Now…why? Why? Why would you do that?" he asked as he moves his blaster towards the Batman's head. "Newsflash: I'm the one who's trying to kill you."
The Joker aims his blaster at him, but then shoots down two of his men. Batman goes to hit him, but the clown moves his gun back at him. "Those were two VERY bad men. The things they've done…You really don't want to know. They deserve death. Just like me" said the Joker as he moves his gun to his head.
The Batman stops him and punches him as the clown lets out a laugh before being knocked to the ground. The door to the room opened as Anakin Skywalker came in with his men aiming their weapons at the two criminals. Unbeknownst to them, Batman pressed a button from his glove to signal the Batjet.
"Freeze!" Anakin ordered as his men surround the Batman and the clown. "You're both under arrest."
Don't move, freak!" said one of the Clones.
The Joker continued laughing as he turns towards Batman. "I think he's talking to you."
Suddenly the Batjet appeared as Batman uses his grapping gun to make his escape before the Clones or Anakin could stop him. His men opened fire and he tries using the Force to stop it from leaving. But the vehicle began to disappear and takes off into the night. Anakin scowls in anger as he turns towards the Joker.
"Cuff him," he ordered as the Clones begin arresting the Joker.
Obi Wan came in noticing what happened and looks up at the sky. "So, you met the Batman I see," he replied as his friend turns towards him. "Let me guess, he got away?"
Anakin didn't respond to that question, but he did respond when his men finished checking the clown. "We got one of them at least."
Jedi Temple
Batgirl made it out of the Jedi Temple where she sees more Clone soldiers showing up to help take down the criminals. She sees Firefly flying away, meaning Katana couldn't stop him. Speaking of who, she sees her nearby carrying something on hand. She goes over to her and checks on her.
"You all right?"
Katana nods in response as she puts the items down. "Firefly planted these explosives around the Jedi temple. They were placed in key locations and had enough force that could have cause the temple to come apart."
Batgirl takes a look at the explosives and began scanning them. "All of them filled with nanobots…upgraded versions with some sort of chemical substance on them. Good thing you got to them then."
Katana agreed with her friend, before noticing the Clones capturing the criminals. "It looks like order is being restored. Where's Ventress?"
"She took off," Batgirl replied as she lets out a small sigh. "I was hoping we could have captured one of the criminals and find out where Firefly is at."
They hear a groaning sound nearby and go over to see a tied up criminal, with a note on his forehead. Batgirl took it and read the message. 'Tell Batman, next we meet we should go out to somewhere nice, when he isn't saving the day.' And underneath the note has a small drawing of a black cat.
Katana reads the note and looks confused. "Who send this?"
"I don't know, but right now let's just focus on getting what we need before heading back," said Batgirl.
Unaware the two are being watched by Ventress and her friend from afar. "Did you have to write that note, Selina?" Ventress asked.
Catwoman smiles at her and shrugs her shoulders. "I don't see why not. Maybe if you do the same, you and Kenobi could end up together."
Ventress rolled her eyes. "Whatever, let's get going."
Senate Building
The Clones are seen arresting the criminals who gave up, while the medics check on the injured and the senators. Master Windu is seen speaking with Obi Wan and Anakin about what happened. They were informed about the attack on the Jedi Temple and how they captured the assassin Deadshot. The Jedi prepare to leave to speak with the Council and interrogate the criminal.
Captain Rex and his men begin escorting the prisoner towards the gunship, while the Clone Captain interrogates the clown. "Where'd he go? Huh?"
"Who?" the Joker asked.
"The Bat! Your partner," Captain Rex replied.
The Joker began to laugh as the Clones strap him inside. "My partner?"
"Who else would jump off a building to save your sorry ass?" said one of the Clones as they begin getting ready to take off.
The Joker became a little silent at first very curious about what happened moments ago. "You know, officers…" he looks up and laughs a little looking confused. "…I was wondering the same thing myself."
Hope you all liked how the chapter and like the return of one of the six Younglings from the Clone Wars series. I hope you also enjoyed the fight with Batman and Batgirl against Bane and Deadshot. How will things go next time now that they captured the Joker, but with Bane still on the loose? Will things go like from the video game?
Well, so far yeah it has been going like the game, but who knows it might go differently. If you all liked how this went then please leave some reviews. Just nothing negative please. If you didn't like this then don't leave a review.
Thanks to everyone for the reviews and support of the story. I appreciate it guys and glad you all liked how this went. Also thanks to my friends for their help on the story and I appreciate the assistance. Take care everyone, be safe, and see you all next time.