Trapped Pt. I

Batman was in his Batmobile, listening to the silent roar of the engine. He turns the news in the Batmobile's built-in monitor to listen to any updates on the Red Hood Gang's recent heist from Gotham National.

"This just in, the Red Hoods have just taken three hostages from the streets, all are identified as male-"

Batman then turns on the police scanner to pinpoint their location.

"The Hoods are heading southeast on 2nd and Broad, they just rammed through our barricade. Cut them off on Hawthorne-"

Batman then starts the Batmobile's thruster and speeds through Gotham's streets.

Flashback

Neutral Site of the League of Assassins...

Bruce, now going by the name Al-Xu'ffasch (the bat) from his fear of bats, was climbing up a snowy mountain behind Al Sa-Her, who had become close comrades among the League. Bruce had become very well-known over the two years he has been there, being trained by Ra's al Ghul himself.

Ra's only had one apprentice besides Bruce and that was Al Sa-Her's teacher Al-Owal (The First), this prompted the two to also be great rivals among the League along side a woman named Shiva, who was a natural at hand-to-hand combat.

Bruce, dressed in an all black assassin attire, and Al Sa-Her made their way to the top of the mountain, lit with a circle of torches, to see Ra's standing firm along with his daughters, Nyssa and Talia, and their right hands, Ta-er al-Sahfer (Yellow Bird) and Shiva. Al Sa-Her walked off into the crowd of assassins as Bruce kneeled down before Ra's and his company.

"Rise Al-Xu'ffasch." Ra's spoke, Bruce doing so, "You have been with us for many moons. You have eaten with us, trained with us, slept with us, but you are not yet one of us."

Ra's walked toward Bruce who stood firm with his hands behind his back.

"You came here with much anger, I taught you to turn that into survival. You came here with much hate, I taught you how to channel and control that hate through combat. Now, it is time for your final test." Ra's said as he made a gesture, nudging two assassins forward holding a handcuffed man in rugged clothes, pushing him down to the ground.

"This man betrayed the League and sought to do ill against us. You will defeat this man in a Trial by Combat, earning your rightful place by my side." Ra's says before walking back to his company.

The mountain was surrounded by assassins, an audience for Bruce as this was a big moment in the League, being officially initiated. Bruce puts on his face mask and black hood and takes off his trench coat and robes as the person must be bare-back by League law, before walking to the traitor. The man was badly beaten, bloody, probably imprisoned for months before the trial.

Bruce knew of Ra's and his "ways", Ra's told Bruce that justice came in many different forms and Bruce did not like his form of "justice".

"اختيار سلاحك" Bruce says to the beaten man. (Choose your weapon.)

The man had been in the League for years, so he knew how things went. The man took off his shirt revealing scars of his own as he made his way to chest with various swords. The man chose a katana while Bruce drew his sword from the hilt on his waist.

The man turned around and tried to catch Bruce off guard, but did not work as Bruce blocked his opponent's sideward slash with his saber before kicking him in the chest, causing the traitor to fall backward on the freezing snow.

The traitor kicks himself back up, showing great athletic ability, and continued his attacks performing a combination of sideward and downward slashes mixed with thrusts, all in which Bruce parried effortlessly.

The traitor went in for another thrust with his katana in which Bruce side-stepped and hooked his arm over the traitor's wrist. Bruce then lifts his arm with the traitor's trapped wrist upward and breaks both of the traitor's arms, the traitor yelling in pain as he drops his weapon.

Bruce then lets go of the traitor's broken arms and sends a slash to the man's legs, making the traitor fall to his knees. Bruce takes off his mask and hood and looks down at the badly wounded man, then looks up to Talia and shoots her a smile in which she smiled back before Bruce diverted his attention to Ra's, who was very pleased.

"Very good Al-Xu'ffasch, you have beaten the traitor. Now finish him." Ra's says.

Bruce looked up to Ra's confused at his request.

"What? This man is defeated, he will never be able to use his arms again." Bruce states.

"You know of our laws Al-Xu'ffasch. Treachery is not tolerated. You told me you would do what was necessary to fight injustice, this is a necessary action."

Bruce looked down at the traitor who was still in pain and crying out. Bruce waited a couple of moments before holding his saber over the prisoner's head and lifting it to the sky, about to decapitate his opponent.

Batman was parked at the gang's location where the Red Hood's GPS on the car had stopped.

"Robin, ETA." Batman said to the Batmobile's monitor.

Robin was on a red motorcycle speeding through Gotham's streets when he heard Batman come through in his helmet.

"ETA 10 minutes Batman."

"You have 5." Robin heard Batman state state as he floored his bike.

The Red Hoods made their way to an abandoned warehouse full of crates where they set up and waited for their ride to arrive. The main Red Hood, wearing a red helmet that covered half of his face and a suit while the others wore red ski masks and suits, made his through his gang and got on the phone.

"C'mon, pick up you son of a bitch." He said frustratedly, "Dammit, we might be on our own boys."

"You think the cops got'em?" Another Red Hood asked nervously.

Suddenly the gang heard what sounded like wings flapping above them. They all looked up but could not see through the shadows on the ceiling.

"Shit he's here, everyone load up!" The main Red Hood said as he and his men changed their magazines.

The gang spreads out and covers most of the warehouse. One of the Red Hoods hears something behind the crates and go to check out when a figure glides down behind him. He turns around to see Batman deliver a viscous uppercut, knocking the gang member out cold.

Another Red Hood sees Batman and goes to aim his rifle when Batman charges him, grabs the barrel, and sends a right hook the gang member's jaw and taking his weapon and breaking the butt of the rifle across the face of an oncoming Red Hood.

Two more spots Batman and starts shooting, Batman grabs his gas-powered grappling gun from behind his belt and shoots it across the warehouse, allowing him to dodge the gunfire. As the grapple gun propels him to the shadows of the ceiling he throws two batarangs which lodges into the barrels of the two Red Hoods' rifles, making them explode as the tried to fire them and severely burning their hands as Batman quickly glides down and takes them out.

Batman turns around just in time to see the main Red Hood and three of his men fire at him. Batman evades behind a set of crates and holds up three batarangs. He times the gunfire and throws them, one lodging into the main Red Hood's barrel and the other two flying past them before turning around and knocking two of the Red Hoods out, leaving only the leader and another Red Hood.

The main Red Hood and his gang member runs off and Batman follows before being stopped by a Red Hood standing high on top of the crates with an RPG aimed at Batman.