A/N: Hello readers! Welcome to chapter three of A New Batman! We hope you like it! Thanks to MaxGentlman 1 my friend and co-author!
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Terry stood on the top of the building as they had agreed, and waited he was not sure how he felt about the whole situation, but he knew that with how the police in Gotham were for right now Batman may be the best bet for this.
"You came alone?" Said a voice from the shadows and Terry turned and found Batman staring at him.
"Uh, yeah I of course I did. I found this disk hidden in one of the pictures from my dads place. Something stinks in WaynePowers, and I think it cost my old man his life." Terry said as Batman took the disk and slid it into a device in his gauntlet copying the information before he handed the disk back to Terry.
"I'll take a closer look into this, get this disk to Commissioner Barbra Gordon, she can be trusted and she can act in a more official capacity than me."
"Alright. Glad to be of some help," Terry said, looking at the ground before he felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking up, he looked into Batman's white eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure your father's avenged," He assured.
Terry was quiet for a second before smiling, "Give 'em hell," He said before Batman headed to the edge of the roof and jumped off, deploying his wings and activating his rocket boots, flying off into the city.
"That is so shway," Terry said with a smile before looking down at the disk, "Barbra Gordon. Got it," He repeated before heading down the stairs of the roof before coming to the elevator and taking it all the way down.
He exited the elevator and headed down through the front door sending his mother a message that he had some quick errands to run and headed towards the police station, walking at a leisurely pace as he went suddenly a limo pulled up in front of him and Derek Powers rolled down a window; "Hello Terry, you ever had a ride in a limo?" He asked opening the door and dropping stairs for Terry to enter.
"No, and thanks for the offer, but my dad taught me never to take rides from strangers." Terry said suddenly on the defensive just in case; "Who's a stranger Terry? Besides your dads not here anymore." He said and Terry glared backing away only to bump into a man three times his size behind him. He was large in both height and muscle with dark skin an all black suit and brown coat over the top of it his left eye was also all white and Terry was almost sure it was some augmentation.
"Let's cut to the chase Terry, your father had a very important disc of mine and I want it back I know you have it. SO, just hand it over and we can all move past this." Powers said smirking.
"Alright, alright IF, he lets go." Terry said nodding towards the lkarge man and Powers nodded as Fixx let go Terry reached into his sock and pulled out the disc and before Powers could take it he threw it away from them and hit Fixx in the gut before making a break for it. Fixx raised a blaster and took aim only for a black and red Batarang to come flying in and knock his aim off so the shot only landed near Terry's foot.
Batman came gliding in and slammed into Fixx knocking him backwards and into Powers limo and several armed men came out of the limo and started firing on them both. Batman leaped back and seized Terry by the jacket and pulled him off the ledge and towardss the ground before he could get hurt.
"Don't worry, Ter I got you." Batman said and Terrys eyes widened as the jet boots activated and they managed to glid far away landing on a building a ways away.
Back on the ledge Powers spoke; "That's enough! The boy is no longer an issue nor is that Batman I have what I need lets go." He said simply as they all piled in and left.
-Batman and Terry-
Batman landed on the building and set Terry down; "Are you okay?" He asked.
"About as well as I can be after being nearly mugged by a crooked Billionaire." Terry shrugged and Batman nodded; "Good take the elevator down and head home McGenniess I have things from here on my own." He siad preparing to take off.
"Hey wait a second earlier you called me Ter, only my friends call me that so...do I know you? Like outside the suit?" Terry asked as unknown to him Bruce was screaming in Batmans comm, Batman said nothing as he took off.
-Later, at the Batcave-
"Stupid! Idiotic! Rookie mistake!" Bruce yelled as he beat Michael with his cane.
"Ow! Dad! Look, I'm sorry!" Michael tried to say between being hit.
"I'll make you more than sorry, you moronic dolt!" Bruce continued yelling before stopping, clutching his chest as Diana came running up to him.
"Bruce, you shouldn't exert yourself like that. Your heart can't take the strain," She said.
She nodded as Bruce turned to her; "Do you think that Terry is going to rat Micahel out?" He asked Diana unlike Bruce had actually met Michaels friends at various points while he was in school so she would know and sighed but smiled.
"Terry is a trouble maker, and he has a bit of a temper control issue, to be honest I would prefer that Max be the one of his friends to find out, but he's a good kid he's just at a confusing point in his life. So, no I don't think he's going to tell anyone if he figures out for sure. It might even help." She said seriously.
Bruce sighed and stared at the screen as Michaels feed started to come in; "I worry, any time anyone found out who I was they became a part of all this eventually whether they wanted to or not." Bruce sighed and she nodded; "I know, for now though this is our problem." She said watching their sons feed.
-With Batman-
Batman had decided that first he needed to know what Powers was going to do with the nerve gas, so he was at present landing silently and hidden outside the window of Powers office as he saw the leader of a country who had been visiting Gotham sitting in the office with Powers and Fixx.
"It's the latest in germ warfare. A viral mutagen so quick acting and completely invasive, that no healthy cell can possibly resist bonding to it," Powers explained to the Kasnian ambassador, "It all began with experiments on plants," He continued, taking out a remote and bringing up a monitor.
The video showed gas being pumped into a glass container that held a potted fern. Once the gas was introduced into the container, the fern began to wither before turning brown and then finally shriveling into dust.
"Impressive, but we are looking to do more than wipe out our enemies crops, Mr. Powers," The ambassador said with a smirk.
"Oh that is just the begining this is our first test with live stock." Powers said smirking as he showed a groosom video of a cow being reduced to nothing but bones.
"Impressive though how does it work on humans?" The man asked; "Well officially speaking we aren't allowed to test them on humans, but a week or so back there was a situation one of my workers terrible thing lab accident; "Here's what he looked like the next day, two hours later, an hour after that." He said showing a man increasingly covered in burnt wood black spots.
"and well..." He trailed off the last picture just showing a pile of ash.
"Ashes to ashes." Powers said simply as he smirked.
"I will expect my dilivery soon, can you arange that?" He asked and Powers nodded; "Of course I can and my personal assistant Mr. Fixx will see to the delivery." Powers said.
"Very good Mr. Powers, I will pay when it arrives." He said and Powers nodded before Batman took his listening device off the window he heard a voice beside him; "Little early for Halloween huh?" It asked and turning he saw several security troops with blasters pointed at him and he smirked; "Maybe but just in time for Fall." He said dropping backwards off the ledge.
"Someone sound the alarm!" The head guard yelled as the group of security guards opened fire on Batman, who opened his wings and glided to the ground. Once Batman landed on the ground with a somersault, he made a run for it toward one of the storage warehouses. Meanwhile, Powers and Fixx were on their way to the loading dock when the alarm activated. Powers then heard his cellphone go off. Taking it out, he opened it and put it to his ear.
"What the hell is going on?!" Powers yelled into the phone over the alarm, "... Batman?" He asked.
"Or at least someone dressed like him, sir. We won't let him escape," The guard said on the other end of the line as he chased after Batman.
Powers then hung up the phone and turned to Fixx, "Apparently Batman is on the premises," He said with an amused smirk.
"Interesting I hear he's been causing some attention lately all over Gotham." Fixx said seriously.
"Yes, well hopefully he won't be able to from whatever hole I put him in whe we're done or who knows maybe you'll have a new partner after all, everyone has thier price." Powers said.
-With Batman-
Batman had hidden himself away in the shadows of a large store room and was waiting for the security to come in, he wasn't disappointed as soon enough a group of eight officers came into the room; "Fan out and find him! Powers wants him alive preferably." The man said.
'Interesting.' Batman thought to himself activating his cloaking for better hiding and deciding to take the men out one by one to send a message; "Dad always said fear is a powerful agent.' He thought smirking as he took a few steping front of the first man before uncloaking; "Boo." He said and the man leap backwards screaming out once before he knocked him out and attached a device that would both not be seen and make the man hover off the ground.
As the men came around the corner he vanished leaving the first man floating there.
"What the hell is...AHHH" One man screamed being pulled upwards and into the shadows as they all fired at the ceiling trying to hit Batman who's voice seemed to ring out from all sides; "Two down six to go." He said.
"Stick together! He...he can't get us that way." The leader stammered; "We'll see." Batmans voice said sounding menacing and intimidating as they tried to turn on the lights only to find they couldn't come on.
"He, cut the power sir." Onre guard said terrified before Batman popped out of the shadows and pulled him away too; "Seems like your running out of men." Batman's voice said as the man he had just grabbed appeared unconcious and against the wall.
As the men looked about in a panic, one of the guards spotted a silhouette above them.
"There he is! Waste him!" He yelled as the guards took aim and opened fire at where he saw the outline of the Batman.
After a few seconds of sustained fire, they ceased their shooting and slowly made their way over to where they thought the body would be.
He found nothing there, and then Batman leapt out from the shadows grabbing one man around the head before shooting a grapple out of his wrist and wrapped around the tow other men pulling them into the shadows and knocking them all out.
"You're loosing men." Batman said using a device to make his voice echo around the room.
The three remaining men were all looking around terrified only for Batman to decend from the roof and barb two of the men and drag them up so they were hanging upside down by their feet. The last man the leader fired up into the shows the light only showing his suspended and uncontious men.
"No...No..WHERE ARE YOU!?" He demanded firing around him until a voice spoke from behind him; "Here." He whispered before choking the man out.
Once the last guard was down, Batman looked around at his handiwork.
"Well that was fun," He said with a smirk.
"There's no time to admire your work, Michael. You've lost too much time taking out those guards," Bruce said over the com link.
Suddenly, there was the sound of more guards headed Michael's way.
"You know any way out of this place?" Michael asked.
"I was the one who built this place. Of course I know a way out," Bruce said, "There's a broom closet on the north wall. Once inside, push against the far wall as hard as you can," He explained.
"As hard as I can because, I'll break the wall." Michael pointed out.
"Not that hard, you know what he meant." Diana said and he nodded running over and pressing his hands against the wall and slipping through to the passage just as the guards slipped in. He walked over to the railing over looking the large empty room; "Okay so now we know where he's loading the stuff up, but the question is do I go there directly?"
"What do you mean?" Bruce asked.
"I mean even if I can charge in there like that, I won't have any proof to bring down powers." Michael pointed out.
"Stopping this right now is more important, Powers will give us another chance to get him men like that always do, but if you don't stop those canisters from getting out there's no telling how many will die." Diana said
"She's right. We can bring down Powers another day; for now, the main priority is stopping that virus from leaving the hover-pads," Bruce said, "The hover-pads should be in the northeast sector."
"Right, wish me luck," Michael said as he vaulted over the railing while doing a front-flip before running off in the direction of the hover-pads.
"Good luck... Son," Bruce said quietly once the com link was off.
Michael smiled to himself as he ran off to the Northeast sector he snuck in through a hatch in the cieling and used his boots to stick onto the wall as he made his way down to where he could now hear Powers;
"I don't care what happened to them you find this Batman and bring him to me!" Powers said seriously before hanging up the phone he was on.
"Mr. Fixx, I need you to take over as the pilot I can't have this Batman mucking things up!"POwers growled and Fixx smiled; "No problem after all I took care of McGenniss didn't I?" He asked smirking as Batmans eyes narrowed. Then Someone opened fire on him. Dropping from the rafters he gilded down and kicked away the nearest guar landing in front of the two men.
"You're out of business, as of now! And Fixx I'm taking you in for the murder of Warren McGeniss."
However, before Michael could do anything, he was slammed in the side by a pincer lift. Seeing his chance, Fixx drew a pistol from his coat pocket but had it taken from him by Powers.
"Get that hovercraft into the air!" Powers yelled at his right hand man, pointing at the craft as Fixx did as he was told.
Batman dove behind a few canisters of Powers desease and took out the two guards that were standing there. He made a Batarang come to his hand and threw several at Powers who blasted them all away; "Like shooting skeet. Come on out Batman." He said creeping aroung the Canisters as the craft began to take off.
"Now!' Batman said trying again to hit Powers and failing again, 'Come on Michael think...wait Powers is shooting on reflex! He's not noticing what I'm throwing!' He thought.
Turning around he picked up a canister and threw that at Powers instead.
Just as Michael had guessed, Powers fired at the canister before it slammed into him, knocking him back as the nerve gas escaped its sealed capsule. Going into a coughing fit, Powers opened his eyes and they widened upon seeing the breached canister right in front of his face.
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed as Batman flew away from the gas as he tried to catch the hovercraft that was taking off.
Powers got up and tried desperately to crawl away from the green gas cloud when he spotted a couple of hover-pad workers.
"Help me! Help me, damn it!" He yelled at them. However, the platform workers' survival instincts proved stronger than their loyalty to their boss as they made a run for it.
Meanwhile Batman used his jet boots and just managed to grab onto the ship, using the claw function on his gloves he climbed to the opening hatch and got into the ship. Looking around he could see the canisters all over the ship then he headed to the cockpit and leapt at the chair Fixx was in spinning it around.
He found no one was in it; "Shit." He muttered before Fixx leapt out from above and hit him with electric gloves. Batman stumbled backwards and was hit again. He shook the cobwebs from his head in time to avoid the next set of punches before getting off two of his own to Fixx's gut and jaw careful to not hit him hard enough to kill.
Knocked back, Fixx shook off the injury and spat out some blood from his mouth.
"Not bad. You're pretty strong... for a clown who thinks he's Batman," He said with a smirk.
"I AM Batman!" Michael growled as he lunged at Fixx, ducking under one of his electrified gloves and uppercutting him in the jaw, sending him flying back into the hovercraft's control console, his gloves making contact with the console and causing them to shock him and send the craft flying straight upwards.
The ship shot upwards and started to loop going upside down. It made Batman fly back a little but he managed to activate his boots and claws using them to crawl back to Fixx as the canisters began to fall out.
The ship completed its loop and plunged them into the bay just off Gotham. water started to flood the ship through the open hatch. Batman launched himself forwards , thinking quickly he knocked out Fixx. Turning and thinking his mother for his strength he kicked the windshield out and pulled himself and Fixx out as the ship sank into the darkness below.
He burst out of the water panting but both of them were alive. He swam to shore with Fixx and left him bound to a lamppost: "Dad put in a call to Comissioner Gordon, let her know she has a pick up near the shore line." He said taking off into the skies.
He flew to where the McGuiness family lived and saw that Terry was about to enter the building. Moving quickly he landed beside his friend who jumped then calmed down when he saw him.
"Jumpy, anything I should be worried about?" Batman asked.
"No, no it's not like that it's just I'm not used to guys in suits dropping down from the sky." Terry said.
"I am, but that's not the point of why I'm here. I wanted to let you know that it's okay now, your father has been avenged his murderer should be headed to prison soon enough." Batman said and Terry smiled a slight tear coming to his eye, and to Batman's surprise hugged him before backing away quickly.
"Thank you, I can never thank you enough." Terry said seriously.
"Thank me by staying out of trouble get a hold of me only if there is a serious emergency, got it?" Batman asked and Terry nodded as Batman's wings came out and he prepared to take off. Terry stepped forwards; "Wait! Just, I was wondering...why help me like this? Who are you?" Terry asked.
"I'm Batman." Batman said simply before taking off into the skies and vanishing in the night.
A/N: And so ends chapter three! We hope you liked it, leave a fav, follow, or review if you want. We'll see you next time!