Chapter twenty or rather chapter 67 is here and hope everyone is ready! I hope everyone is ready because we're now on the final few chapters for story 3. So, basically the final main missions for the Arkham City game. I can't wait to show you all how this is going to end.
Yeah, I know if you've played the game, you'll get the idea. But with the changes I've made here and there, will it be all the same? I guess there's only one way to find out. But first, what happened last time?
Well, we saw Batman, Batgirl, and Robin arrive to the Joker's lair. They took out his goons and now are making their way inside the facility. We also saw Catwoman make a deal with Poison Ivy to get freed. Will she hold up her end of the deal?
We then saw Thrawn making his move on attacking Abigail's home with Padme, Ahsoka, Lux, and the other senators inside. Will they succeed in stopping him? Will Batman and his kids stop the Joker? And will they be able to stop Protocol 10?
Tune in today to find out and time for the disclaimer. I don't own anything from the DC or Star Wars universe just my OCs. Also: Bold- means thoughts & Italic- will mean what an alien is saying in their native language. Now let's continue with the story and enjoy the chapter!
Story III: Chapter XX
Arkham City
Batman, Robin, and Batgirl made their way through the factory before they made it back into the smoldering room. It took some time, since they found the Joker had left plenty of armed thugs in their path. Luckily for them, they were able to get through without them alerting their boss what happened. A good thing too, since they have to find Harley Quinn, before she can get the cure to Joker and destroys the other vial to prevent Batman from getting the cure.
They stopped in front of the large door that leads into the smoldering room. They made sure there isn't a trap placed on the door before they open it. Thankfully, no trap, but they knew the Joker wouldn't make this too easy for them. Once they made their way inside, they begin scanning the room.
Sure enough, they were right. The room has at least seven armed guards around, and plenty of booby-traps left around for them.
"Looks like they're all pressure-sensitive mines," said Batgirl as the trio hid in the office nearby. "It also looks like two of the guards are setting up more of them."
Robin could see one of the guards setting up a mine against the wall, while pressing a button that causes a laser to appear from it.
"It also looks like they're setting up some with motion detection," so the moment they move past the mines, they'll detonate. "Joker really is trying to do all he can to slow us down."
"Then let's disappoint him," said Batman as he motions for Robin to take the two guards down below, Batgirl takes the two on the catwalk on the left, and he'll take the remaining ones on the right.
The two young sidekicks nod and begin taking off to do their part. Batman, meanwhile, pulls out a Remote Controlled Batarang and throws it. Launching it towards one of the guards with the mines. The weapon ends up hitting one of the mines, which caused the guard to panic. He took off his bag and throws it away before he runs off.
The mine ends up detonating, along with the other mines, causing a large explosion. It sends the guard flying and hits the wall, getting knocked out.
This caused the remaining six guards to begin panicking and look around for the Batman. Robin looks over to see the two guards looking around but didn't see they were close to the mines. So, Robin took out a disruptor remote, which can lock on to the signal of the mines. He presses the button, which causes the mines to begin detonating.
The explosion knocks the two guards to the ground but didn't hurt them or knock them out. However, it did cause a big smoke to cover them, which allows Robin to run over and with his staff, he takes out the two guards before retreating into the shadows.
Soon enough, the other guards saw the explosion and the two on the right begin making their way down. While the left has their guns drawn. Waiting to see if the Batman will appear from the smoke. Unaware that Batgirl is sneaking up on the two criminals.
Batgirl drops two smoke bombs down before placing two devices on the back of the criminals. The devices soon fired two grappling hooks up the ceiling and launched the criminals off the ground. They dropped their weapons and hit the top of the ceiling hard. Knocking them out, before Batgirl retreats into the shadows.
The last two criminals begin panicking when they saw another puff of smoke. They then saw their two comrades being launched into the air, which caused them to open fire. They could be heard shouting for the Batman to come out. To show his face to them.
Both criminals unaware that the Batman is hanging upside down above them. He deactivates the magnetism in his boots and begins flying down. The two men look up before they're both taken out by the Batman. Both knocked out and both disarmed as Batman begins tying them up.
Once that was done, he deactivates the remaining bombs, before he's reunited with Batgirl and Robin, who have finished tying up the criminals too.
"Well, that was easy," said Robin as he wipes the dirt from his hands.
"Let's hope the rest of the criminals will be as easy as…" Batgirl soon stops when she heard a noise coming from one of the men. "What's that beeping?"
Batman kneels to one of the criminals he knocked out and son noticed a device placed on his wrist. A device that helps monitor a person's vitals. It appears it activated once the guard was knocked out. This can only mean one thing.
"Hey Batman," the Joker could be heard speaking through the intercom in the room, which caught the attention of the masked heroes. "You took out those idiots like a man who hasn't only hours left to live. Well done. I'll be seeing you soon. I can't wait."
Batman, Robin, and Batgirl soon realized that the Joker has his men monitored through these devices. To let the Joker know they're here, which means he's ready for them.
"Let's go," said Batman as they rush towards the door.
Once they're sure it wasn't booby-trapped, they made their way into the assembly line. They stopped when Batman activated his cowl vision and detected a sniper in the main room. Right outside this office. He silently motions for the kids to follow him up to the vent towards the other side, where they have the crates moving into the assembly room.
Batman, Robin, and Batgirl make their way up to the vent, without being spotted by the sniper. They made their way towards the crates, before Batman empties one for the kids to both in, while he gets in the second one.
As the crates begin moving out into the assembly room, they could hear what the sniper, along with an unseen partner are saying.
"How's it going in there, anyway?" asked one of the guards, who isn't in the room with the sniper.
"It's all good. I'm in position, the room's mined and if I see Batman or his brats…BOOM!" said the sniper as he keeps his eyes out for the Batman and his sidekicks.
"Hope you're right. The Joker looks like he's getting ready for a war. If Batman's out of the picture, we may actually win it," said the guard through the sniper's com-link, believing once Batman and his allies are gone, they'll take over.
"I've worked out how to beat the Bat and his brats. They use the gargoyles, right? I just need to take them out too. Boom! Batman and his brats on the ground and I'm putting a bullet through their brain.
"Nice. Let me know when their dead. I want to come down there and have a little fun with the corpses."
"Get in line. I'm having the mask. You can have what's left. If I get Batman or his brats in my sights, they won't even know what hit them," said the sniper with so much confidence.
Unaware that while he was speaking to his buddy, Batgirl and Robin snuck up behind him once the crate had moved all the way around the guard. Without him ever noticing them. Both heroes take the criminal down, quietly, while Batman is able to locate where the other guard is at. In the office next to them, but they'll have to go in through above in order to catch him off-guard.
Batman motions for his kids to follow him as they head to the top of the office, when they made a big discovery. They found Harley Quinn, tied up and gagged to a pipe. Batgirl and Robin look on shocked that they caught up to Harley, who looks like she's been here for a while. Since there's no reason for Joker to have her tied up, since he might have some use for her against them.
"Well, this is unexpected," said Robin who isn't going to complain that they caught up to Harley. "But who could have done this?"
Batgirl goes over to the struggling Harley, as the crazed woman yells at her to back away. Although with the gag, it was all muffled. Batgirl begins checking her but couldn't find the cure. She sighed wondering if whoever attacked Harley, took the cure.
If so, who?
Batman walks up to Harley and removes the gag, to see what Harley can tell them.
"Well look who it is. What do you want, B-man?" said Harley who clearly sounds annoyed and pissed off. "Come to stick the knife in some more? Well go on then, I don't care. I'm not telling you nothin'!"
"Where's the cure, Harley? Who took it?" Batman asked wanting to know who did this.
"Didn't you hear, B-man? My Mister J has it and is feeling so much better. As for the other vial, well, I destroyed it," Harley replied while laughing. "So, looks like you came all this way for nothing. Soon, my Mister J is going to break out of this sticking prison and then we're going to…"
Batman soon places the gag back to silence her. He knew it was pointless to interrogate Harley at this point, especially if she's just going to try wasting their time.
"Whoever did this must still be here with the cure. We need to find them before it's too late," said Batgirl who knew they need to look for Harley's assailant.
"But who would do this?" Robin asked who knew if it was a friend, they'd be here waiting for them. "What if they took off with both the cures and we're just wasting our time here?"
"Because whoever took the cure, must know what they are and likely knew we're looking for it," said Batman as he checks the time to see they don't have long before Protocol 10 begins. "We'll look for them later. Right now? Let's stop the Joker."
Batgirl and Robin knew they should go look for the person who took the cure, but they knew their father is right. If Joker is planning to make his move to break out of the prison, then they need to stop him first. They'll look for the cure after they finish and then go stop Thrawn. Before he can go through with his plans.
They make their way down to the office, where they took down the armed guard. Once he got taken out, they head into the loading bay area. They knew they're close. Close to where the Joker is held up and where Batman was poisoned.
Once they've made it in the room, they found five armed men inside. Three on the ground and two in the office on the upper level. Both armed with sniper rifles. Batman motions for his kids to go take down the three criminals down below, while he takes out the snipers up on top.
Batgirl and Robin head over to where the three criminals are at, before seeing Batman heading under the office. Once he saw the guards below didn't see him, he flies up to the two snipers, grabs them, and launched them out of the office. They both fell to the ground, but Batman wraps two cable wires around their ankles, before the two men hit the ground. The three criminals saw this and prepared to open fire on Batman, when Batgirl leaps over and wraps her legs around one of the criminals.
She then launched him towards the wall and knocked him out. The two guards see this and go to attack her, when Robin leaps over, wraps his arms around their necks, and with his full body weight brings the criminals down. Hitting the ground and knocking them both out. Once they're all down, Batman has them tied up and they head to the office.
Batman, Batgirl, and Robin keep their guards up as they look inside. Seeing no one is around.
The only thing around is the medical equipment that the Joker was using. Along with Harley's old nurse outfit from Arkham Prison. A picture of the Joker, covered in lipstick kisses. They looked around wondering where the Joker could be, while seeing any clues of Harley's assailant being here.
No sign of where the Joker went or Harley's assailant, but Batgirl did find plenty of boxes. Small pregnancy test kit boxes. With half being having positive and half being negative. Making her wonder if Harley is pregnant.
Robin took notice of this and wonders the same thing. In Joker's condition, he doubts that would be possible, especially if he's sick.
It was then they saw glowing green arrows begin to appear on the ground nearby. The arrows pointing to a wall, which Batman noticed when he was in here wasn't there before. Walking over, he kicks the wall, which is revealed to be a fake wall. It fell over easily, revealing a hallway that leads towards a door. Batgirl and Robin didn't need to tell their father that this is clearly a trap.
They knew it, but they don't have a choice.
They made their way through the door, where they found the whole room is filled with large train tracks. Along with colorful lights and balloons, making it seem like a carnival. Looking across the room, they see the Joker with what looks to be a large mirror. He can be seen leaning against it but couldn't see what he was doing.
The Joker can hear the door open and knew his guests have arrived. "Well, well, look who finally showed up," said the Joker as he leans off the mirror and begins fixing his bow tie. "You know, when one is going to show up late, they would let the host know this. Otherwise, you end being very rude for showing up late to the festivities. And then who would look like the bad guy?"
"Enough games, Joker," said Batman as he steps forward. "It's time to end this."
"Oh, but my dear pointy eared friend…" the Joker soon turns to face the trio, looking completely cured. "The games have just begun," he soon begins laughing, which echoes across the room. "Now that you're all here, we can begin with our little fun."
Robin throws a birdarang at Joker, who dodges it and laughs. "Naughty naughty, bird boy. I think you and your little friend need to be taught a little respect with your elders," he then takes out a familiar crowbar and runs his fingers along it. "As tempting as it would be to use my old friend on you two, like I did with old Skywalker…" he snaps his fingers and soon entering through the door behind them is Mr. Hammer.
Batgirl and Robin stood on their guard, while Batman has his attention turned to the Joker. He knows his kids can handle the brute, while he handles the Joker.
"As for you, Batsy. I may need to teach you some respect too. Breaking into my home, doing something horrible to my poor Harley, which by the way is my job, and having your kids rudely attack me," the Joker leaps down from the platform and twirls the crowbar.
"There's nothing you can teach me," said Batman as he stood on his guard.
The Joker laughed as he moves his right hand behind his back and presses a button. "Oh, come on. There's always something to learn. Let's start with 'Getting your ass kicked 101'. Seconds out! Just you and me, Batman."
Batman wasted no time and charges in. He avoids a swing from the crowbar before grabbing it. He kicks the Joker in the chest, causing him to lose his grip on the weapon. Batman tosses it away and begins punching the Joker. The clown prince tries to fight back, but Batman was clearly the better combatant.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hammer swings his weapon down at the kids, but they both dodged the swing. Robin leaps on the hammer and then jumps on the back of the criminal. Trying to choke him, but his small arms did little to slow the tall muscular man down. Mr. Hammer let's go of his weapon and grabs Robin, but Batgirl runs between his legs and using her wrist blades, slashed at the legs of the clown giant.
Mr. Hammer yells in pain as he tosses Robin away and tries to grab Batgirl, but she was always to avoid him grabbing her. Robin extends his staff and charges in as Mr. Hammer grabs his hammer to use it. Robin leaps in the air to avoid the swing from the hammer, and swings his own weapon, hitting the criminal across the face. It managed to make him stagger, but not enough to take him down.
Batgirl pulls out and extends her tonfas (traditional Okinawan fighting weapon used for blocking and striking) and charges in. As Mr. Hammer swings his weapon to attack Robin, Batgirl would go for the injured legs to attack him, then ducks and dodges his hammer when he turns to her. Robin would then attack him when he's distracted, going for his back and only arm. Both young heroes dodging, attacking, and assisting the other if their foe tries grabbing them.
Meanwhile, the Joker used his flower to spray acid at the Batman, who uses his cape to block it. The cape is acid-proof, so it was able to protect him. But the Joker used this chance to pull out a blaster and opened fire. Batman dodges the blasts before kicking the weapon away and grabs the Joker's right hand when he throws a punch.
The Joker pulls back, revealing the hand to be a fake and laughs when it begins to beep. Batman throws it in the air as it explodes, knocking Batman away. The Joker grabs the crowbar and begins swinging it. Repeatedly hitting the Batman as the Joker laughs at the pain he's causing. However, Batman caught the last swing and slams it into the face of the Joker, before hitting him across the face with the crowbar, knocking the Joker to the ground.
"Please…stop. I can't take it anymore," said the Joker as he begs the Batman to stop, while shielding his face. "You win! You beat me."
Batman though isn't buying it as he bends the crowbar and tosses it away. "No more tricks, Joker. Give up. You've lost."
"Tricks? Oh no, you won't get any tricks from me, but these guys?" suddenly two trains above them begin to appear, along with two others down below. Out from the trains, stood at least twenty IG-100 MagnaGuards, all painted to look like the Joker. "Time for round two, Batman!"
Batman sees the former Separatist Droids charging in at him, but Batman throws down some smoke bombs, clouding the area around him. Allowing him to activate his electric power gloves, before he punches out two of the droids, and destroy them. He avoids getting hit by the electrical staffs that the droids have, while he tries to take out the remaining 18.
Meanwhile, Batgirl and Robin duck a swing from Mr. Hammer, who was starting to get worn down from what these kids were doing. Batgirl and Robin look over to see Batman is in trouble. So, they knew they have to end this soon before they can help him. Mr. Hammer noticed where the two kids are looking at and knew he can't let them get involved.
Mr. Hammer throws his hammer at the kids, who avoid the attack. But he counted on this as he charges it and grabs Batgirl before launching her towards the wall, before she fell down on the train tracks, knocking her out. Mr. Hammer soon focuses his attention on Robin as he tries to take him out. Robin managed to use his speed and agility to avoid being grabbed as he tries to find a way to take him down. But Mr. Hammer was too strong for his physical attacks to completely take him down.
Robin tries to use one of his electrical gadgets, but Mr. Hammer grabs his hammer and slams it down. The shock from the hit caused Robin to lose his footing and causing him to fall. Mr. Hammer slams his foot down on Robin's chest, before lifting his hammer. Robin knew he was caught but he looks over to see one of the trains is heading towards Batgirl, who's still out of it.
He knew he can't get killed here and has to save his sister. Remembering one he has one of the cryo-grenades, he pulls it out and throws it at Mr. Hammer's arm, freezing it while he has it in the air. Mr. Hammer tried to get his arm freed from the ice, but Robin knew that wasn't a good idea. Unlike the cryo-grenades they've used before, Victor made these extremely powerful.
So, the moment Mr. Hammer tried to force his arm down and free it from the ice, it ends up breaking his arm off. The ice froze his arm to the point that the weight of the hammer and him trying to force it down, caused the ice to break his arm off from his body. Mr. Hammer yells in pain from this and staggers back, allowing Robin to jump up and deliver a strong kick to the face of the criminal. He then fires a grappling hook towards the train track and glides up to save his sister.
Robin grabs her and jumps off just as the train missed them. However, Mr. Hammer staggered back in the path of the tracks down below, so the moment the door behind him opened, the train came right towards him, and crashes.
Robin lands on the ground and checks on his sister, who begins coming to. "You okay?" he asked as he gets a small nod from Batgirl.
Batgirl groans a little as she rubs her head and begins coming to. She looks to see her brother Robin, who she assumes saved her. Looking behind him, she sees a destroyed train, with Mr. Hammer on the ground, dead from being hit by the train. She didn't know what happened leading to him getting hit, but knew it wasn't important right now.
She managed to shake off what happened and turns to see their father fighting against the IG-MagnaGuard droids. Rushing over, the two kids come in to assist their father, who managed to take down five more of the droids.
Batman backs away as he begins coughing a little. He can feel his vision getting blurry as the poison in his blood was starting to affect him again. This allowed the MagnaGuards to hit him with their staffs, wearing him down even more. However, Batgirl and Robin came in to help their father.
Robin takes out two Birdarangs, which he then placed together to form a sword. He slashes through one of the three droids, before blocking the attack from the second. With Batgirl rushing in with her weapons, which begin emitting electricity. She smashes her weapon into the head of the third droid and destroys it, before rushing to her brother.
She hits the droid in the left leg, allowing Robin to slash off its right arm, dropping its weapon. Batgirl then jumps over and kicks the droid in the face, knocking it to the ground. As Robin leaps over and brings his weapon down on the chest of the droid, destroying it. Leaving only ten droids left.
Once Batman regained his strength, he begins joining in the fight. The three heroes soon charged in as Batman begins acting as a shield for the kids, blocking the attacks of the droids with his wrist gauntlets, while Robin and Batgirl attack with their weapons.
Batman punches one of the droids and then kicks it backwards, before Robin leaps over behind the droid and rushes over slashes its head off. One of the droids tries to hit him with its staff, but Batgirl leaps over to hit the droid in the face with her knee, allowing Batman to leg sweep the droid, and Robin jumps over to slash it in half in mid-air.
Batgirl dodges the attacks from two of the droids, before Robin and Batman rush in to block the attacks from the staffs. Batman and Robin then kick the droids back, before bending over. Allowing Batgirl to leap over the two heroes and jams her weapons into the chest of the droids. Destroying them both, before she pulls the weapons out and blocks the attacks from two more droids.
She pushes them back and jumps backwards, allowing Batman to come in and deliver a roundhouse kick to the head of both droids. He then bends down, and Robin jumps off his dad's back, before slashing the heads off of the droids.
Batman grabs one of the staffs and uses it to block the attacks from two of the droids, before Robin leaps over to slash their heads off.
Leaving only four droids left as they stood ready to finish the heroes off. Batman though took out a cryo-grenade and throws it, freezing the legs of the droids. As the droids try to get freed, another train appeared and crashes into all four droids. Destroying them and the train itself.
Batgirl and Robin begin to regroup, when they saw the Joker with his blaster preparing to fire it at Batman. Robin throws a Birdarang and knocks the weapon away, before Batgirl leaps over and tackles the Joker down. The Joker pushes her off and grabs one of the staff and goes to use it, but then stops when Batgirl stood up. Batgirl took notice of the Joker stopping, which he's never done or would ever do.
The Joker appear to be struggling with using the weapon on her, as he begins muttering under his breath. However, Batman gave him no chance to actually attack Batgirl and tackles him down. Batman begins repeatedly punching the Joker, before he punches him one more time and knocks him to the ground. Robin rushes over to his sister and sees their father having beaten down the Joker.
With no signs of any reinforcements coming in to assist the Joker, it appears the fight is over.
The Joker begins coughing as he looks up at the Batman, looking defeated. "What are you waiting for?" the Joker asked as if waiting for the Batman to finish this. "Finish it."
Suddenly, the four of them heard something coming from outside. It sounds like an explosion. A rather large one, that could be heard echoing outside of the building. Just then, the ceiling above them begins coming down on them.
Batman rushes over and grabs his kids before pushing them towards the nearby door. The Joker, meanwhile, begins taking cover as well as more of the debris falls down on them. Batman tried to roll out of the way from the debris but wasn't quick enough and soon got crushed. The debris kept on pouring down, before finally it stopped.
Once the dust began to settle, the Joker begins getting up. Pulling out a knife as he makes his way to where he saw the Batman. Sure enough, he found the Batman trapped under a piece of the debris. He sees him trying to get his free hand up, but the Joker places his left foot down on the arm.
Looking over to the door where the kids got thrown, the Joker sees it's been blocked off by the debris. This means, they won't stop him from finishing off the Batman.
The Joker begins to laugh as he leans down towards the Batman. "It looks like whatever our good friend Thrawn is up to, he's finally gone through with it," he moves the knife close to the Batman and smiles. "Any last requests? How about a joke?"
"How about a trade?" Batman and Joker look over to see a woman walking into the room. The woman appears from the shadow and is revealed to be Talia al Ghul. "Let him go. Take me in his place."
The Joker scoffed at what the woman said, since he didn't know who she is and didn't seem interested in her offer. "I'll handle the jokes around here."
"Talia, what are you doing?" Batman asked wondering what she's doing here and why she's offering herself to the Joker.
"I represent the great Ra's al Ghul. Head of the Demon, master of the League of Assassins," said Talia as she introduces herself to the Joker, in the hopes her title will help save her beloved.
"Well, bully for you," said Joker who didn't seem to give a damn who she is and who she works for. "But I don't really care."
"Perhaps you will care about what I have to offer. Free Batman and we will give you the secret of immortality," said Talia as she makes the offer, she knows the Joker can't refuse.
Batman knew Talia has lost it if she's offering the Joker the Lazarus Pit. "Don't do it, Talia. He'll be unstoppable."
The Joker hears what the Batman said, giving this woman not only credibility, but also makes what she's offering legit. "What? You mean she's telling the truth?"
The Joker turns to the woman to see her offering her sword to him. Showing she's not only serious, but if what the Batman said is true, then she's really offering immortality.
"Immortal?" the thought of being immortal is something that the Joker would be crazy enough not to actually take.
"Do we have a deal?" Talia asked.
The Joker looks down at the sword and the woman, before putting the knife away, and takes the sword, accepting the offer.
"No!" Batman tried to get up, but the debris was too heavy for him to lift alone.
"Oh, shut up!" the Joker walks over and kicks the Batman across the face, before turning to the woman. "After you, my dear."
Talia walks over towards Batman, before looking down at him. "We offered you this chance, Batman. Now follow your heart," Talia motions to her chest, before showing she's wearing the tracker that Batman had used on one of her guards.
Showing that this is part of her plan. To help save her beloved's life and make sure once he gets freed, to be able to find her so he can stop the Joker.
Talia soon leaves with the Joker, as Batman struggles to get the debris off of him. All the while, Batgirl and Robin can be heard on the other side of the door, struggling to get it open. Struggling to get to their father and help him. All the while, explosives can be heard echoing outside of the building, showing that Protocol Ten is finally under way.
A few minutes ago
Selina Kyle aka Catwoman really should thank Ivy in person when she sees her again. She not only kept her word using her plants to attack the storage facility where the vault is kept, but she managed to take down a few of the TYGER Guards too. Allowing Selina to make her way down below, towards the large hole that the plants had made. Selina knew this will make things much easier than if she had tried doing this on her own.
She knew this area, is where Thrawn had confiscated the valuables of the criminals who've been locked up in Arkham City. Money, jewelry, art pieces, and anything of value to the criminals that've been arrested. Selina knew this was perfect. Not only does she have the chance to be set for life once she steals everything from the vault, but she'll have a chance to get away from this prison city.
She knew there's an exit that will lead her to her freedom and away from the hellhole she's been stuck in.
She walks into the security room and finds the control panel. She can see through the monitors, several armed TYGER Guards, all guarding the large vault. Selina begins entering the computer systems to see if she can get it open from here. It seems though that Thrawn has made this a little bit more challenging for her.
"Looks like a standard three card security protocol," said Selina as she sees the only way to open the vault, is by gaining the three cards from the guards in the room. "I'll need to be quick and stay out of sight. One wrong move and the failsafe will trigger, and that vault will lock down: permanently."
Selina knew she'll need to rely on her stealth in order to get the keys without the guards noticing her. If they find out she's here, the vault will be locked up for good and she'll have to deal with the reinforcements that will come after her.
Looking up, she spots a vent that will lead into the room. Leaping into it, she begins making her way into the room, quietly. Using her claws to help her move along the ceiling. Making sure the guards down below won't see or hear her.
As she made her way around, she begins using her goggles to help her detect the guards with the security cards. She managed to find the three men with them and knew she'll need to make her move when they're alone and with their backs turned.
She moves around following one of the guards, who walks over to a room. Quietly leaping down, she pickpockets the card from the guard, before quietly leaping back up. The guard turns around, believing she heard something, but saw no one around. So, she begins resuming her patrol.
Selina moves through one of the vents, to the other side of the room, where she spots another guard with the card. Quietly moving over, she leaps down and takes the card too. She then leaps up, just before the guard heard something. He begins looking around but couldn't see anyone. He looks up but sees no sign of anything that could have made that small noise he heard.
Selina had to quickly enter the vent quietly when the guard looked up. Once she saw him moving on, she sighed in relief and begins making her way towards the third guard. Thankfully for her, he was moving over towards the shelves filled with boxes that contain contraband. Selina made her way over and using the shelves, she managed to quietly move around towards the guard.
The guard stops and yawns before he begins rubbing his eyes to try staying awake. Unaware that Selina is sneaking up to grab the card. Once she got it though, a small noise could be heard behind her. She quietly and quickly moves towards the shadow, which caught the attention of the guard.
"What was that?" the guard asked as he motions for the others to come to him, believing someone is here.
The guards move in on the third guard as they head towards the source of the noise. It appears to be coming from the corner of the shelves. They move their weapons up, preparing to fire at whoever it is. When they saw a small rat appearing from the corner, which caused the guards to lower their weapons.
The guards begin making fun of the third guard for the false-alarm and told him to not do that again.
Selina though sighed in relief once more when she saw the rat nearby. Using it, she has it appear before the guards, to make it seem like it was the rat making the noises.
Who would have thought a rat would save this kitty's life. Selina thought who knew she owed the small rodent for the assistance.
Leaping up to the ceiling, Selina begins making her way back towards the security room. She soon makes her way back and begins putting in the three security cards in the computer system. Deactivating the security systems and opening the vault. The guards took notice of this and knew something is up.
Selina knew now comes the fun part. Taking down these guards. She first puts a drive in the computer, which will allow her to jam their com-links. Preventing them from calling any backup.
Selina makes her way back in the room and begins taking out the first of the five guards. Using her whip, she launches it, and it wraps around the neck of the first guard. She then pulls it down, causing him to fall on the ground before Selina jumps over and curb stomps his head down on the concrete to knock him out. Using her goggles, she sees one of the guards moving over to her position.
Sneaking under one of the empty shelves, she managed to sneak behind two of the guards that came running towards their unconscious friend. Leaping over on one of the two guards, she grabs his head with her legs, and then grabs the other with her hands, before she pulls them both in and cracks their heads together. Knocking them both out at the same time. Leaving now only two guards left.
As she made her way towards the two guards near the vault door, she begins hearing a TYGER Guard speaking through the intercom in the room.
"This is TYGER 54. We have confirmation that target is in the Steel Mill. I repeat: Batman is in the Steel Mill."
On the monitor across the room, the guards and Selina can see an image of the Joker's lair, the Steel Mill. They see what appear to be five TYGER Gunships hovering over the area.
Thrawn's voice could be heard next through the intercom, giving the guards their orders. "Good. Make it our first target. Protocol 10 will wipe out both the Batman, his allies, and the Joker from the galaxy."
Selina knew this isn't good. If Batman and his kin are inside, then they're in trouble. Selina though had to shake her head and mentally tell herself to focus. It's fine, Selina. It's Batman. He's gotten himself and his kids out of worse situations than this. They'll all be okay."
She just needs to get the money out of the vault and get out of here. She leaps down and takes down the two last guards, knocking them out the same way she did with the other two.
As she took them down, she hears the guard from the intercom speaking to her boss. "Target is set"
"Then let Protocol 10 commence," said Thrawn as his master plan is finally underway.
"Understood," said the TYGER Guard before he begins the countdown. "Commencing in 3…2…1…" the gunships soon opened fire at the Steel Mill.
Selina sees the attack going on, but again, had to tell herself its all okay. "Just grab the money and get out of here, Selina. Before they come after you next."
She opens the vault and soon makes her way inside. Finding it completely organized and showing how it's been categorized. From money, jewelry, art pieces, etc. Selina knew she hit the motherload.
She begins grabbing two of the empty suitcases and begins pouring in as much of the credits and jewelry she could fit in both cases. She then turns to find Ivy's orchid. The one she was told to help bring back. Selina was tempted to destroy it, but she knew if she did, then Ivy would really kill her.
So, she grabs it and prepares to take it with her, when the plant got shot out of her hand. Destroyed by armed TYGER Guards that have entered the room.
"It appears we have caught our intruder," Thrawn's voice could be heard through the intercom. Selina looks up and sees a camera in the room, showing that Thrawn was aware she was here. "It appears she must be taught a lesson for trying to steal from us. Batman will soon be dead and soon, you will too, Miss Kyle."
"Not today, Thrawn," said Selina who isn't going down that easily.
Selina knew six armed guards will be tough for her to beat, but she knew she didn't have much of a choice. She throws down a flash bomb, which blinds her enemies. Using her goggles, she then destroys the security camera, before using her claws to slash the blasters. Destroying them and leaving the guards without their weapons.
She leaps up and drives her knee under the chin of the first guard, knocking him out. The other five came charging in, but they couldn't see her well as their vision is still blurry. Selina leaps out of the way and the guards ended up hitting themselves. She launches her whip and grabs it around the leg of one of the guards, tripping her over.
Selina leaps over and drives her knees down on the back of the guard's head, knocking her out. She then elbows one in the face, leg sweeps him, and kicks him in the face, knocking him out. One of the guards grabs Selina from behind and tries to keep her from escaping. However, Selina drives her heel from her boot down on the man's foot, causing him to yell in pain.
Selina then does a split before she drives her right elbow back, hitting the man in the groin, before she leans down on her back and drives both her feet into the man's face. Sending him flying and knocks him out. Selina kicks up and jumps over, wrapping her leg around the guard's neck, before sending him flying into the metal containers. Leaving only one guard left, as his vision came to.
The guard pulls out a knife and begins twirling it. Selina gave a small cocky smile, before she uses her whip to wrap around the man's wrist. The man pulls the whip to try attacking her, but Selina intentionally let him pull her in. So, she could avoid his blade as she bends backwards.
She then leaps over and grabs her legs around the man's right arm. She then uses her body's momentum to help flip them over till their on their back, with Selina still holding on to the man's arm. She then brings her left leg up and brings it down, kicking the man right on the face, causing him to let go of the knife and yell in pain. Selina then gets up as the guard slowly made his way up.
Selina runs over and drives her knees into his face. Pushing him towards the wall and knocking him out. Selina stood up and grabs the man's hat before wiping his blood off her outfit.
All the while she begins catching her breath as she recovers from the fight. "Well, that was fun. But I think it's time for me to go."
Selina walks over and sighed as she sees the plant is destroyed. "Now how am I going to explain this to Ivy?" it was then she noticed what appeared to be seeds appearing from the plant. She didn't know how the seeds survived, but she knew this was better than nothing.
Taking out a small bag from her pocket, she managed to put enough soil in the bag, before putting the seeds inside. "Hopefully these will survive, until I can reunite with Ivy…if she survives."
Selina stood up and grabs the cases before she begins making her way out when she heard through the intercom a TYGER Guard speaking. "All units. We have visual confirmation. The Steel Mill is hit. Batman is down. I repeat, Batman is down."
"Good," spoke Thrawn next as he gives his guards their next orders. "Once Protocol 10 has completed, send out a squad to retrieve the Batman's body. And if his kin survived, execute them."
Selina walks up to the monitor and sees it was true, Batman was down. She couldn't see the kids anywhere, but she knew he was in trouble.
A part of her told her to just leave. The exit is literally right down the hall to her right. "You can do it. Just walk right out of here and leave him. It's easy."
The other part of her though told her to stay and save him. She knew it was the right thing to do. "You'll never forgive yourself, Selina. Save Batman, then get out of here."
She then looks up at the monitor again and knew he was in trouble. Yes, the part of her is telling her that he'll be okay. He's Batman. He's survived way worse than this.
But the other part of her told her, no. This is different. He's in real bad shape and knows if she leaves him, he'll die. His kids will die.
It's not like they're your kids. He should have known better than to have them involved in all of this. Selina thought knowing it's true, they aren't her kids and Batman shouldn't have brought them into this world to fight his battles. If he dies, it's on him. Not you. It's not like you love him or anything. We both know what you love more.
But then, she remembers her interaction with the kids. Her teasing Robin and Nightwing, her kinship with Batgirl, and her pestering Batwoman. And her relationship with Batman. It was always just for fun and never was anything serious…despite the fact he risked his life more times to save hers and has been trying to help her have a better life.
No. You're wrong. Selina thought as she stares at the monitor some more, knowing the truth. I do love him. I love him, his kids, and I owe them for all they've done for me. Even if it means giving up the jackpot of the lifetime.
Dropping the suitcases, she begins making her way out of the room as fast as she can. "Hold on, handsome. I'm coming to save you."
That's the end of the chapter and looks like help is on its way. Yeah, this part here with Selina is different than from the game, but let's be honest. Both her and Batman love one another. I honestly prefer them shipped together than the many relationships we've seen with him and other women over the years.
Also, yeah, I decided to bring in General Grievous' old bodyguards for this fight. This time, fighting for the Joker and looking like him too. I also decided not to have them get taken out so easily like in Revenge of the Sith. Can't make things easy for our heroes.
How will things go next time though? Will Batman and his allies be able to stop Thrawn as Protocol 10 has now commenced? Will they be able to save the prison before Thrawn wipes the prisoners out? And will they be able to save Talia in time before the Joker can become immortal?
Tune in next time to find out and you do please leave some reviews. If you didn't like this, then don't leave a flame review. Also thanks again for the support everyone. Take care everyone and see you all next time.