Homefront Pt. II

Bruce holds the assassins off the best he could before they got the upper hand. Sending various punches and kicks to the body of Bruce before an assassin finally kicks Bruce down the stairs, rolling back to the rotunda. Bruce quickly gets up and blocks an oncoming kick, sending one of his own. Suddenly a small arrow hits Bruce in the back of the shoulder, making him yell in pain as he pulls it out.

He turns around to see Talia was the one that shot the arrow.

"I'm sorry Beloved, you knew this was bound to happen eventually."

"You haven't felt sorry yet." Bruce says before throwing the arrow back at Talia in which she swiftly evades.

The arrow lodges in the shoulder of an assassin standing behind Talia as Bruce barrel rolls under Talia's kick. Bruce takes the assassin's sword as Talia draws her own katana and the two clash. Bruce blocked and parried every one of Talia's attacks as Talia did the same with his, the two almost dancing around each other's blades, a consequence of being around each other for so long.

Talia lodges her sword in a nearby lamp and launches it at Bruce, Bruce knocking it away with his blade before Talia dropkicks Bruce in the chest, making him lose his balance and roll backwards onto his feet where he then started fighting surrounding assassins.

Bruce uses the butt of the hilt to knock out one assassin then punches another before engaging Talia again, this time Bruce kicking Talia in the gut and sending her backwards. Talia caught her balance and saw Bruce was about to strike when cables wrapped around Bruce's wrists and ankles, spreading them apart and making him drop his weapon.

A voice comes from behind Bruce and gets closer to him.

"Well Al-Xu'ffasch, this is a nice home you have here."

"Nyssa!" Bruce gritted as the dark-haired woman walks in front of him.

"Too bad it, along with you, must be destroyed. Burn it down!" Nyssa commanded, the assassins shooting flaming arrows all around.

Suddenly two arrows zip past Nyssa's head and into the shoulders of the assassin's holding Bruce's locked cables. The crowd turns to see The Arrow and Arsenal walking in unison with their bows pointed as they draw another set of arrows and fires them at Nyssa, the Heir blocking both of them as she charges the two vigilantes.

Bruce takes this moment to escape the cables and gets back to battle as well, taking out a couple of assassins as Talia ambushes Bruce again. The two lock blows and pulls toward each other, the two once lovers now face-to-face.

"You don't have to do this Talia, you can stop now and call your men off without anyone else getting hurt."

Talia pushes away before Bruce sends a hard side kick in which Talia acrobatically jumps over and delivers a spinning leg sweep in which Bruce simply lifts his leg over before locking blows and pulling toward each other once more.

"You of all people know my loyalty to my father, nothing can betray that. Not even my love for you!"

"I know you Talia! I know the guilt you will face when you relize what Ra's is trying to do!"

Talia pushes away again and fakes Bruce out with a punch before deliver a solid kick to the groin of the billionaire and a solid punch to Bruce's jaw, sending him to the ground. Talia then holds the edge of the blade to Bruce's neck, Bruce still trying to recover from the kick to the groin.

Before Talia could deliver the final blow, Arsenal runs up to Talia and acrobatically kicks her to the side, catching her off balance and giving Bruce some breathing room. Bruce knew Arsenal would not stand a chance against Talia so he gathered himself as much as he could, blood still pouring from his wounds, and got into the scurry with Arsenal and Talia.

The Arrow was holding his own well against Nyssa and the assassin's that helped her. The flames were growing more and more intense as the battle ensued between the heroes and the League. The Arrow turned to check on Arsenal and Bruce, he saw that Bruce was doing well in keeping Roy safe until Talia delivers a hard kick to Arsenal, sending him into a nearby suit of medieval armor before sending another straight kick to Bruce's gut.

Oliver saw that the kick hurt Bruce bad and saw that Talia was about to finish him. The Arrow ducks under Nyssa's sword and gets enough distance to pull out an arrow and shoot it at Nyssa, the arrow explodes and a cable wraps around the Heir's torso before Oliver turns and draws his bow at Talia.

Bruce sees Oliver's intentions as he sees the arrow goes flying toward Talia.

"NO!" Bruce yells as he catches the arrow, surprising both Oliver and Talia.

Talia hesitates for a moment before spinning and delivering the butt of the hilt to the side of Bruce's head, knocking Bruce out. Arsenal gathers himself as he sees that Bruce was lying on the floor and pulls an arrow and shoots it in front of Talia. The arrow makes a beep before exploding, sending Talia to the ground.

An assassin sneaks behind Arsenal and as he turns to defend himself, a red circular shaped shuriken flies past him and lodges into the shoulder of the assassin. Roy and Oliver turn to see Dick who was sporting more wounds.

"This way!" Dick yells.

Oliver runs over and lumps Bruce over his shoulder as Arsenal and Dick cleared a way through the remaining assassins. When Oliver cleared out, Arsenal shoots an arrow at a giant chandelier hanging above the rotunda. It falls and crashes on top of a couple of the assassins and also blocks any attempt for them to follow.

Dick looks at what Roy had just done and sighs in disbelief as he see's the destruction at the manor.

"Aw man, Bruce is gonna be so pissed."

"Come on Red Bird, we gotta get out of here." Roy says.

"Right, come on."

Roy follows Dick as they meet up with Oliver who was still holding Bruce on his shoulder. Dick pulls the red book on the bookshelf and it opens. They enter the elevator and start descending. As they descend,Oliver sets Bruce down as he regains consciousness. He looks up to see Dick who pulls him up.

Bruce looks at Oliver and Roy and gives them a nod, Oliver knowing that was his way of saying thank you. The elevator arrives and the door opens to reveal Alfred, war-torn and bloodied as well, holding his shotgun at the crowd.

"Woah Al! It's us." Dick yells, Alfred putting his weapon down.

"Master Bruce thank goodness you're ok." Alfred says as Bruce places his hand on Alfred's shoulder.

"You as well Alfred." Bruce replies.

Bruce looks around to see that the cave was also totaled. The computer had exploded, the suits were destroyed as well as the museum part of the cave, the only thing that wasn't destroyed were the Batmobile and the Batwing.

"We tried to save the cave as much as we can, there were too many." Dick says to Bruce.

"All that matters is that you two are ok." Bruce says, "We need to move, the manor is going to collapse soon."

"Where are we gonna go?" Roy asks.

"Wayne Tower. It's a home away from home." Bruce says.

Everyone turns around to see the elevator was about to close, the League figuring out which one summons it when Oliver pulls and arrow and fires it into the elevator before it completely closed. A loud explosion broke through the doors, making the elevator useless.

"Dick, can you pilot the Batwing?" Bruce asks, Dick nodding yes.

"We need to go. Now." Oliver says as he sees the shafts above starting to fall.

They run to the vehicles, Dick in the Batwing and the rest with Bruce in the Batmobile. Assassins finally make their way to the cave, Nyssa and Talia watch as the Batwing speeds off through the waterfall. Nyssa draws her bow and fires at the Batmobile, but the arrow simply bounces off as the Batmobile speeds off through the waterfall as well.

"Sister, we must return to Nanda Parbat. Al-Xu'ffasch is crippled, his home is destroyed. He should not present us much of a problem now." Talia says.

Nyssa watches in disappointment as she motions the assassins out of the building as large blocks of burning wood and metal started drowning the cave.