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Batman walked towards a poorly put together wall and he heard the opera behind it. If this was Lazlo Valentin behind these murders Batman wasn't going to go easy on him. In fact this man would probably get one of the worst beatings that any other henchman, soldier, etc. have gotten tonight. Six people dead, and mutilated at the hands of this man. He punched the wall with all his might and it shattered to pieces. The opera grew louder as he walked down the stairs and it got darker and looked like a dungeon. Batman used his detective mode to scan the room. He saw a large man appearing to be cutting into somebody while they lie there. Batman can hear the muffled screams of the man or woman on the table.
"Please stop! I can't take it anymore!"
The person yelled, before they just stopped talking. And it appeared they stopped breathing. Another victim. Batman wasted no more time getting to the opening in the room. When he walked in, the man was humming an opera tune in bad key. He was as mentioned a heavy set fellow, with a striped shirt and jeans rolled up to the bottom of his knees. He work yellow green house shoes. And had yellow gloves on that stretched up his forearm. He wore an apron that had leftover blood on it. It appeared his suspenders were duct tape. And last but not least he wore a pig mask that covered all but his mouth, like Batman's mask, but his, held to his head by thin string and it appeared to have been broken a bit and worn out. Maybe by a victim who decided to fight back. It didn't matter, Batman entered the room and didn't waste anytime letting him know he was there. As Batman walked into the room he looked up and notice captives. Nothing appeared to be wrong with them, only major trauma from witnessing this man kill people and sing while doing it. It was enough to drive any man insane.
"You're done here Valentin. Let them go." Batman said demandingly.
Valentin looked up and snorted and wailed like a pig. Maybe due to his nasal problems or he could just be that demented.
"Noooo no no no no no no no no no. Pyg not ready yet *long snort* she's all unique and wroooong." Pyg said while rubbing the corpe's left leg. Pyg lifted up the body's left arm and said, "All messed up. Inside out" Pyg then dropped the arm and leaned forward shaking saying, "PYG make her better! Pyg make all of us better!
Batman had dealt with this level of crazy before, well not this crazy, but around that area. He didn't let him deter him. He kept his pace towards Pyg.
"It's over." Batman said sternly.
Pyg retorted fast.
"But Pyg can fix you too. Just like the others, ehhhh a heh heh heh heh." Pyg had a small smile face on his face as he said this.
"You're insane." Batman said still walking towards Pyg.
Pyg must have taken offense to this as his entire mood changed. *Angry snorting* "AND WHAT ARE YOU?!" Pyg said pointing at Batman.
"I'm here to stop you." Batman said, still, walking towards Pyg hoping to just quickly grabbing, but he was afraid of what Pyg might do to the person on the table.
"Ohhhh bad bad bad ohhhhhh Pyg is like clay! PYG IS LIKE GOD!...Pyg is here to fix us all!" Pyg said while backing away from Batman and holding up two "ok" signs with his hands.
Batman looked at Pyg then scanned the body on the table. Detective said they were deceased but Batman checked for a pulse anyway, and just as he touched the body's neck, it jumped up and grabbed him! Pyg had retreated into a back room and locked the doors so Batman couldn't run.
"ARISE MY PRECIOUSSSSS!" Pyg yelled in an opera tone.
The zombie like person stood there staring until it tried to hit batman with a right. Batman grabbed the punch with his right hand and pulled it in and landed a viscous elbow to the white mask that covered it's face. Too easy. Batman looked over at the crazed man behind the glass and he didn't look concerned.
"Arise my precious! The bad man cannot keep you down!" Pyg screamed.
Next thing he knew the creature was standing on it's feet like Batman didn't do anything to it.
'It's like they're immune to pain. I need to make sure they stay down.' Batman said to himself.
Right after his thought ended the creature swung and Batman ducked and flipped it over his shoulder. He noticed there was an air conditioner right above it and jumped onto it and used surprisingly very little strength and tore it from the wall and launched it right at the poor soul.
'It appears blunt force trauma is the key to keep these things down. If there are more, I know how to beat them.' Batman thought to himself.
Batman turned around to the sound of glass breaking. Pyg had just jumped through the window and held two meat cleavers. Pyg started to sing in an insane opera tone, "Pyyyyygg coming for youuuuu BAT!...cooommiiiinnnnggg too makkeeee youuu perrrfeeeeeeeeeeeeeect!"
Pyg started running towards the operating table and put his left hand on it and held a cleaver in his right hand.
"Come my precious dollotrons! Teach the big bad man to not mess with daddy!"
So these things were called dollotrons. Batman made a mental note of this and prepared to fight. There were at least six of them, he had to inflict a larg amount of damage to their frontal lobe if he wanted to take them out. Just then one of them threw a left kick at Batman, he checked it and got ready to throw a very hard right, but a dollotron grabbed his arm, he spun around and threw the dollotron into the one in front of them. Another one ran up, Batman gave him a right and a left then grabbed it's head and threw the hardest knee he could. The sound of the impact send chills up the captives above them spines. The dollotron dropped like it was lifeless. Batman was grabbed from behind by another, but he flipped it over, grabbed it's arm and snapped it like a twig then stepped on it's face. Pretty brutal for things that used to be human, but they can't feel pain, so no long term damage should be done. Two down. Four to go. The other two were just rising to their feet and Pyg sat in the middle of the room. Batman knew he had to beat these dollotrons to get to him.
Two dollotrons came running at him and Batman clotheslined them both then dropped double elbows on their heads. Another one ran up and headbutted him, Batman pretended to be rocked by it and let his head fall back, he then used this to gain momentum for his own headbutt, which broke the dollotrons mask. Batman stopped for a minute and looked at the dollotron. Somebody's husband or wife. Laying here, no genitals, no fingerprints...no face. As he looked at the dollotron that lie there, another one punched Batman in the back of the head, it didn't effect him that much and when it threw another punch Batman spun around the punch, grabbed the dollotron by the back of the neck and ran its face right through the glass. Out cold. All that remained was Batman and Pyg.
"You will pay for hurting my children!" Pyg yelled. "After your death Pyg will get to play with the bats flesh! Ohhhh ho ho ho!"
Batman walked towards Pyg and Pyg started throwing cleavers at him, he blocked them easily and caught the last one, he threw it back at Pyg and it hit him in the nose. Clearly stunned Batman attempted to grab him but he kept strumbling out of his reach. Batman losing his temper launed across the table and threw Pyg in the air and down through the table then landed a punch right into Pyg's nose. Breaking it. And his mask. Batman looked down at the unconscious man that was responsible for these unidentifiable people and the murder of six others. Then he looked up at the captives and over at the wall in front of the room. There was a circuit box. He went over two it and tore off the covering and grabbed a yellow wire and a green one , the yellow one for the security doors and the green one for the cages. He sparked them together and the doors opened and the cages came to the floor. The captives let themselves out.
"You'll all be safe here. Nobody knows you're here but me. I'll send over GCPD officers here to collect the dollotrons and you. You're safe for the night."
A woman started crying and screaming. But she was comforted by another man who was held captive. Batman picked up Pyg and exited the building. Batman put Pyg in the back and hopped into the front of the bat mobile and drove off. After a few minutes Pyg snorted a few times and spoke weakly and nasally through his broken nose.
"Where..where are you taking me? Pyg go back to his circus!" Pyg said.
"I'm taking you where you won't hurt anyone else. I'll make sure of it." Batman's voice got deep. He was serious. This was one man he didn't want to see day light again. Pyg replied almost instantly.
"Pyg doesn't hurt?...Pyg heals! Pyg fixes! My dollotrons...are works..of art!" Pyg spoke with confidence. As if he really felt he were really helping those people.
"Those people..are living a fate worse than death-" Batman wanted to say more, but was again cut off by Pyg.
"Not death. Pyg makes life worth living!" He said cheerfully.
"And the ones you murdered?" Batman retorted angrily.
"Too broken for Pyg to make better. Too imperfect for Pyg to fix. BLECH! They make mother angry..ohhhhhhh they make Pyg feel SICK!"
"You know. Those things you couldn't change. It's how I identified the bodies. It's how I caught you. It's why you failed." Batman responded.
Pyg had a flashback of his mother violently beating him, nearly to death for failing her, and Pyg became angry and worried at the same time.
"No...Not fail! EhhhhhhhAhhhhhh! I'll show you sick! Ehh would you like to see?!" Pyg's anger could be heard in his voice. But he wasn't a threat in his current situation.
"You've got problems Valentin." Batman said. Before stopping at the GCPD.
Batman got out and got Pyg out of the back and walked him into the building. They made their way to the maximum security cell where other criminals were already waiting. Pyg snorted crazily like a Pyg and said,
"You will see me again Batman and not only will I succeed in making you a dollotron, you will watch your closest ones become dollotrons and I will torture you and them until you tell me I have not failed, you will-"
Pyg was interrupted by Batman grabbing his shirt and pulling him into the cage, knocking him out.
"Oh come on Bat! Ya didn't 'ave to do that to the lad!" Penguin said.
"Quiet Cobblepot, or your next stop is the morgue." Batman said seriously.
"Empty threats Batman! Heh heh we all know you don't kill!" Penguin and the other inmates laughed until Batman knelt down and stared Cobblepot straight in they eyes.
"I'm not feeling myself tonight." He said coldly.
" Ehhh alright! Get away from me please!" Penguin said.
Batman stood up and walked away from the cell, past the main holding cells until a padded one came into view. Above the cell read "John Does." And in there. Seven dollotrons. They were all shaking violently. Batman used his detective mode to check their current status. And it read 'terrified' Batman jumped, and the detective mode deactivated. He stared at the dollotrons and them back at him.
Batman knew something was off. He told a rookie cop to go get Cash. Seconds later Cash showed up.
"What's up Batman?" Cash said.
"Make sure nothing happens to these people. I feel like there's something we can do with them. I just don't know what yet." Batman said.
"Alright Batman. Sure thing." Cash responded.
With that, Batman left the GCPD and got into the Batmobile to confront his final obstacle, The riddler..
"Alright Alfred. One more guy left. Riddler." Batman said sort of tired but firmly.
"Good Master Bruce. Finish this and then you can go finish Mr. Crane." Alfred said quickly.
Batman didn't need to be told anymore and immediately sped through Gotham, back to the orphanage. Back at the orphanage Catwoman was still sleeping on the roof. The light drizzle of rain hitting her face. When she woke up, she was on the stairs of the orphanage, it was dark out and the rain had completely vanished. The grass was healthy and the orphanage appeared much younger.
"What the..?" Catwoman asked herself. "What is this?"
Catwoman's thoughts were cut off by a little girl crying on the steps of the orphanage. She had on a black t-shirt and black jeans with long black hair that stretched down to her shoulders. She word ankle socks and ankle high shoes. Confused, Catwoman walked over to the little girl and attempted to talk to her.
"Hey. Are you okay?" Catwoman said.
The little girl didn't say anything, but she did look up. And grabbed her suitcase. Catwoman looked back to see a car that had just pulled up. As the little girl walked toward Catwoman she wiped the tears from her eyes and Catwoman moved out of the way. Catwoman then realized she was dreaming. About the day she left this sick orphanage, but not only that, this day felt really familiar and just like that Catwoman saw a gun point out the window of the black car pointed at the little girl who Catwoman realized was her as a child. Catwoman ran towards the girl who had just dropped her suitcase and BOOM!
A loud thunder roll woke Catwoman up. And she sat up immediately and looked around. She took off her hat and rubbed the right side of her neck where a bullet wound was found. One of her scars from the night she was shot by one of her father's enemies who went after her to presumably end her family tree then and there since her father was dead and her mother as well. Catwoman then realized she may have been sleep for a while and hopped up and looked around and got worried thinking she missed Bruce until the riddler popped up on a big screen.
"Oh Batman, exactly how long do you plan to keep me waiting? You've finished the riddles so come on back to the orphanage, so you can be crushed under my mechanical masterpiece! Unless you plan to just give up and admit that I am your superior in intellect!" The Riddler spoke in his usual arrogant tone.
Just after that Batman came speeding back up to the back of the orphanage. It was time to speak to him after hours. But then she thought, she didn't want him to lost focus before fighting riddler so she watched him go in and watched from the window located on top of the orphanage to know how the battle went. After this, she could finally speak to him.
Inside the orphanage Batman pressed a button in the front of the floor riddler used to escape earlier and it lit up. A board with a number popped up, it started at one, and continued to grow fast as the question mark shaped lights on the platform simultaneously lit up. 297 lights in total. 297 riddles completed. Seconds later the lights turned off and the floor opened.
"Well Batman it seems you have earned the right to DIE at my mechanical hands. This will be your last fight with me detective. You will die here. And to make sure you know now, you will be neither missed, nor remembered." The Riddler said coldly.
The riddler brought up his shield and sent in a wave of robots towards Batman. The fight had begun.
Batman made short work of the robots as expected, knocking some down and just punching through others. The robots had a blue light in their 'stomach' areas which signified that they were batman programmed robots. This fight wouldn't be too tough for Batman, which dealing with Riddler it never really is tough. But The Riddler was only letting him get comfortable and used a laser to reprogram robots to have the red lighting. Catwoman programmed robots. Batman threw a robot into the air and grabbed the one in front of him and ripped the head off, then he caught the one that was falling, slammed it and crushed the head with his foot. But there were more robots. All red. The Riddler had been talking to him as he fought the robots and Batman's attention wasn't where it needed to be. Batman had to worry about these all red robots while avoiding Riddler's lasers from his robot suit. This was a battle he couldn't win. And Catwoman noticed this from the outside.
"Ugh. I knew it was a good idea for me to find Bruce before he fought Edward." Catwoman said irritated.
She crept through the window and landed on a wooden beam and watched for a few more seconds as Batman dodged the red robots and Riddlers machine. She knew he couldn't keep this up forever so she reached to her side and grabbed her bolas and threw it as hard as she could at one of the robots and it knocked it's head off. Batman and The Riddler looked up at Catwoman.
"Cheating Eddie? Look who can't follow their own rules." She said as she dropped down.
The Riddler's eyes filled with rage.
"NOOO! You're not supposed to be here!" Riddler yelled angrily. He knew he'd have to reprogram robots for Batman to fight so that he can't bother him. Batman and Catwoman were taking out robots left and right. Catwoman slid under one and tripped it, then she grabbed its head and threw it in the air where Batman caught it and slammed it down onto another. Riddler couldn't keep up and eventually his suit gave out.
"Nooo! Stay away from me." Riddler said terrified.
Catwoman lunged at him, but Batman jumped after her and caught her leg and threw her towards the ground. She did a back flip in mid air and stuck the landing. She wondered why he did it until she realized that Riddler's protective glass covering his body was a blue color. Batman landed on Riddler's robot and completely went off. He hit Riddler it seems 100 times, even though that's a huge exaggeration. The Riddler used his Robot to grab and throw Batman and the protective glass turned red, Catwoman used this opportunity to pounce on Riddler and deliver a few punches of her own. Riddler also grabbed her with his giant mechanized arm, but he was choking her. Already weakened from events of tonight her air was leaving quickly until Batman dropped down on top of Riddler from no where and delivered a few punches and pulled him out of his robot suit and threw him into the air where Catwoman escaped the robot's claws and caught The Riddler in mid air and slammed him into the ground landing on his back, where Batman delivered the final punch to his temple.
"Jeez Batman, are you sure you didn't kill him?" Catwoman said jokingly, but serious at the same time. The force of that punch probably could have killed him. But it was weird talking to him knowing his secret identity and his feelings towards her. Things she would get to the bottom off.
Batman didn't say a word. Just looked at her and picked up The Riddler and made his way outside. Once they got outside Batman put The, still regaining consciousness, Riddler in the back seat of the Batmoblie. Catwoman was agitated at Batman ignoring her and said without thinking
"THANKS SELINA, for the daring last minute rescue! It was verry heroic!" Catwoman said walking towards Batman.
"It was under control." Batman said.
"haha sure it was..." Then just looking at him and thinking about his true feelings Luscious revealed a voice inside her said, 'Now, be a good damsel. And bestow a kiss on your gallant hero..'
Without even knowing Catwoman had her arms on Batman's shoulders leaning in to kiss him. Thinking he'd kiss her back a small smile formed on her face, but her fantasy stopped when Batman grabbed her shoulders. This upset her, how could this guy supposedly like her, but not kiss her? Oh yeah, he can't get too lovey out here in the open. Still, Catwoman was upset about this and attempted to slap him, he easily caught her hand and said,
"Play nice." Batman said in a calm tone.
"But you're not playing at all!" Catwoman retorted.
Batman thew Catwoman's hand to the side and said to her in a serious voice, looking straight into her eyes,
"No. I'm not. Not anymore."
Catwoman's heart sank. She didn't know what to say. But the only thing that came out was,
"And what's that supposed to mean?" She asked worried.
"It means this is the end Selina. It means we can't—I can't." He said softly but sternly. He was dead serious.
"I..I will see you again..right?" Catwoman asked nervously.
She wanted to ask him about everything. She had it all planned out. But seeing him now, after what seemed like ages, knowing she could ask him..she choked. That question is all that came out.
"No one will Selina. It's over. My time as the Batman is done." Bruce said staring off in the distance.
Tears formed in Selina's eyes. It wasn't supposed to go like this. Here is this man that she is told loves her, and with everything Tommy told her, she just wanted to know why he turned out like this, why he takes things on his own. Now here he is telling her is leaving for good.
"Why...?" Catwoman said through a shaky voice.
Batman stopped walking towards the car. He didn't turn around. He just waited and listened.
"Why do you keep doing this? Giving me lectures and then going off to disappear and I only see you when I'm in danger or in trouble? Luscious told me you loved me..he told me who you are..I just want to know Bruce..Why do you keep taking on this challenge alone?! Why don't you let me help you? I don't want to see you die at the hands of these villains! Why wouldn't you let the one you love help you so you don't have to carry on this burden..? Tommy told me down in the cells below Wayne manor that you blame yourself for everything..why would you do that..why would you put all of this on your shoulders?..and I-" Catwoman was interrupted by Batman.
"Where is Tommy?" Batman asked turning around.
"Where is Tommy? What does tha—I let him out of his cell so he could-" Catwoman was again cut off.
"How could you let one of the most dangerous men loose? He tried to steal my funds and almost killed Luscious-" Batman this time was cut off by Catwoman.
"DOES THAT REALLY MATTER BRUCE?!" Catwoman yelled for probably the first time in her life. Batman was taken by surprise and stared at the crying young woman.
"IF IT WEREN'T FOR HIM I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SAVE YOU FROM THE RIDDLER JUST NOW! PROOF THAT YOU CAN'T DO THIS ON YOUR OWN! ANSWER ME BRUCE! WHY DO YOU BLAME YOURSELF FOR TOMMY'S EXISTANCE? FOR THE REASON GOTHAM IS SO CRIMINALLY RUN? FOR-"
"BECAUSE I COULDN'T STOP THE BULLET!" Batman yelled back. Catwoman had been yelled at by him before..but not like this.
"Bru-"
"I COULDN'T SAVE THE TWO PEOPLE THAT MATTERED MOST TO ME AND THE CITY FELL APART! I WAS TOO BLIND TO SEE TOMMY WAS JEALOUS OF ME AND I COULD'VE PREVENTED HIS PARENT'S MURDER! ALL OF THESE VILLIANS ALL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON! IF IT WEREN'T FOR ME THEY WOULDN'T EVEN BE HERE! THAT'S WHY IT'S MY DUTY AND MY DUTY ALONE TO STOP THEM!"
Catwoman's tears continued to fall. She remembered Tommy telling her about Bruce's parents death and she also remembered hearing about it, but she had no idea Bruce was there with them the night it happened. He watched his parents die. And because of that feels he needs to end all crime in Gotham.
"Bruce.." Catwoman said to Batman who was now facing the sea again, "I'm sorry about your parents..but was there really anything you could do?..Bruce please..stop this..you don't have to do this alone anymore..if you really loved me like Luscious said you'd-
Catwoman was interrupted by Batman pressing his lips against hers. His left hand wiping the tears off of her cheek. She hugged him and even though it was the cold, wet plating of his suit, it didn't matter to her. After they parted Batman spoke.
"I'm sorry Selina..some things you have to do alone. I'm going to turn myself in to Scarecrow. After the Riddler is turned in. It's over." Bruce said walking to the Bat Mobile.
"Bruce no! Stop please! Don't go to Scarecrow!" Catwoman said chasing him and finally wrapping herself around him. "Please..I've lost so many people I've loved...Bruce..don't go."
Batman broke her hands from around his waist. And continued to walk to the Bat Mobile. He looked back at a crying Catwoman on her knees. Make up running down her face.
"Goodbye Selina." Batman said as he got in the car and drove off.
Selina stared off in the distance. She didn't know what to do now. Her love had gone to turn himself in. And there was nothing she could do. She finally stood up and looked into the sky. The stars were out and the rain clearing up. She wiped her eyes and started her long walk home.
Out in the distance watching the scene unfold a small figure in hospital clothing, with bandaged hands, and a white emotionless masked face, watched Catwoman as she began to walk home.
Alright of course that was chapter six! Hope you all enjoyed and just a little note, I know Pyg kidnapping Selina kind of took a while to get in motion, but we didn't wanna start in the climax right? Next chapter Pyg escapes prison and his plan unfolds! Stay tuned.