Knighthood Part 2
"There's something out there that's taken out all of the guards," says the criminal.
The leader with frustration in his voice "Then I suggest you go and kill it." Suddenly the lights go out in the bank. Dent looks up. "Did you install the bombs?"
"Yes, sir."
"Tell everyone to leave the money and get each other's back."
"But, sir." Dent looks down to the man as puss comes out of one of his checks. "Yes, sir." The man runs off and Dent walks towards the door.
The men crowd around each other covering all their sides. They aim their guns at nothing, hoping that it will be aimed at the thing that is hunting them. No one hears a light tap behind them until it's too late. A gas erupts and one by one the men drop to the floor.
Batman looks over to see one of the criminals escaping. He runs after him.
Outside Caroline, Michael's sister is about to walk home to see her brother. She holds a present in her hand that she bought for him. Suddenly someone grabs her by the throat and points a gun to her face. Her legs jerk and she quivers in fear as she sees her captor is horrible disfigured. "Whatever you are," the thug says, "if you come any closer I'm gonna splatter her brains all over the pavement."
The Batman stops outside the bank. "Don't do this. You have a choice."
"No, no I don't." The villain holds up a coin with a burnt side. "If it lands on the burnt side she dies." He flips the coin over. "If it lands on the other burnt side she dies." He flips the coin and it lands on the burnt side. He smiles sinisterly. "She got lucky." He throws the woman near the Batman. Thinking she is safe the Batman runs to her. Dent pulls out a detonator and pushes the button. Part of the bank explodes and falls onto the Batman and his sister Caroline. Dent looks over to see a fireball in the sky. "Cape is comin'." He looks over at the rubble. "Heh, at least I got rid of that vigilante." Dent jumps into the escape car and drives off.
As the car turns the street corner some of the rubble moves as Batman pushes over a boulder. "Caroline," the Dark Knight yells. "Caroline!" Holding his side and using what little strength he has left he moves boulders to find his sister. He sees a hand poking out of one of the boulders. He rushes over and using his entire body he pushes the boulder over. He sees his sister on the ground. The Batman checks his sister's pulse. "She's alive! But barley; I need to get her to a hospital." Batman pushes a device on his belt and the Batmobile roars as it comes to life.
Firestarter stops in the air to see a huge vehicle pull up to a man dressed as a bat. "Who in the world is that?" She watches as the vigilante places a girl in his car before he drives off.
Michael is driving the Batmobile staring at his sister. "It's going to be okay. I'll take you to the hospital and everything will be fine. Right Caroline?"
Caroline coughs up blood.
Michael stomps the pedal into the floor making one of the fastest vehicles made go even faster.
Dent shoves open the doors walking into the abandoned church. A man walks up to him. "How did it go Mr. Dent."
Dent flips a coin and shoots the man in the face. "Anybody else want to ask some dumb questions?"
The crowd stands silent. Someone in the shadows asks, "What happened, brother?" A man with a face that could seduce any woman walks out flipping an unmarred coin.
"A man dressed up as a bat came and disrupted the whole thing."
"A man dressed up as a bat?"
"Yes, and they call me crazy."
"What do you suppose we do about it?"
"Oh, I have a couple of ideas."
Michael in civilian clothes sits next to his sister while she sleeps in her hospital bed. Alfred the robotic butler puts his hand on the boy's shoulder. In a low voice the boy says, "It was my fault Alfred. If I didn't attack those people that man wouldn't have taken a hostage and she wouldn't have gotten hurt."
"That is not entirely true, sir. He could have grabbed her anyway. You may have saved her life."
"I don't need to be pampered. Tell me the truth."
Alfred sighs, "Your actions caused her to be in this condition, but did you not expect that when you went on this crusade of yours that the people you loved wouldn't get hurt."
"But I don't even know why I did this in the first place."
"That is what Master Bruce was trying to tell you. If you don't have some idealism to hold onto then there is nothing that helps you put on the cape and cowl."
"What are you trying to say Alfred?"
"With all due respect sir, I'm saying that maybe its already time to hang up the cape."
Alfred walks off to leave Michael alone with his sister. Michael stares at his sister. He's right.
The handsome Dent asks his subordinate, "Is everything ready?"
"Yes, sir."
"Good," the disfigured Dent says, "Let's give the bat a party he'll never forget."