Author's notes: If you played the Batman Begins videogame for PS2 back in the day, I'm sure you'll recognize what Batman had done to the cops before the Doctor enters the docs here.


Bears and Rabbits

''Whatever that thing was, it must have jumped over the TARDIS,'' the Doctor said taking a look of screen on the console. ''She must have seen something.''

The footage shown on the screen showed a figure Clarissa had already described jumping from the other rooftop to another or at least trying. It didn't make it to the next roof and just fell to the fire-escape. After struggling to get on its feet, it went inside the building next to it.

''What was that?'' Clarissa asked looking at the Doctor.

''It could be anything,'' the Doctor said ''from an alien to another human. I heard it talking with Sergeant Gordon about Falcone's shipments and about taking him out.''

''So he was a vigilante?'' Clarissa asked.

''An amateur vigilante and not a good one obviously,'' the Doctor said turning to his companion. ''If he is going up against the likes of Falcone, he's not going to make out of it alive. But he had done some fantastic reconnaissance.''

''What?'' Clarissa asked.

''That vigilante knows that Rachel Dawes is the right DA to prosecute Falcone,'' The Doctor said, ''but that doesn't matter. What matters is that Falcone is the one bringing the contaminated flowers here and I'm going to destroy those flowers.''


Over the course of the next two days to the next shipment's arrival, the Doctor and Clarissa made their own reconnaissance work in getting to the flowers and keeping an eye on Rachel Dawes. By doing that, the Doctor managed to map out the docs of Gotham City harbor and Clarissa learned to walk around Gotham without getting into trouble. Actually when she was tailing Dawes, the Doctor was keeping an eye on her and giving the evil eye to everyone who seemed to look at Clarissa funny.

Eventually the big night of the next shipment came and while the Doctor had to go to docs to destroy it, Clarissa went on to shadow Rachel Dawes and keep her from dying. It also was the first they had to work separated in Gotham City and didn't have each other's backs. Clarissa was all alone protecting the Assistant DA and the Doctor was facing Falcone's hired help at the docs. A girl dressed in retro fashioned clothes and a man in black leather-jacket all on their own against the Gotham Underworld.


The Doctor walked into the docs at night time and saw police cars tilted and topped over. Scanning the surroundings with the sonic screwdriver, he found traces of sewer pluming been turned on full pressure, which had caused the pipes under the streets to shoot out hot steam in such a force that the cars had flown over.

''Impressive,'' the Doctor said admiring the work of whoever it was who had done it.

The deed had scared the corrupted police officers away and left the criminals exposed. Walking in to the shipment containers was now to some extent easier. All that the Doctor needed to do was to evade Falcone's thugs while going there.

Evading was actually easy or it just got harder the deeper into the Doctor managed to get. Falcone's hired help seemed to be only a very few people or they had skipped on coming to work. Or possibly someone was picking and them out, one by one. Either way, the Doctor managed to get himself to the cargo-ship and found the containers holding the shipments. Using the sonic screwdriver, he opened one of the containers and began to research the drugs in there.

The drugs were hidden in teddy bears and toy rabbits. Back in his third incarnation, the Doctor would have needed a whole lab to analyze the drugs to compare them to the flower he had brought from the Himalayas. Now he just needed to scan both the drugs with the sonic screwdriver and compare the readings from them to the flower's radiation. They matched.

''Fantastic,'' the Doctor said.

Finally he had found the remnants of Nightmare Child and was one more step closer to ending Daleks' weapon to harm anyone anymore. Now the Doctor just needed to find a way to destroy the drugs. He stepped out of the container to look for a way to, maybe dump them off the ship and to waters, only to be faced by six armed thugs pointing their guns at him. The Doctor's poker-face fell and he smiled at his own stupidity of not making sure the coast was clear.

''Take me to your leader,'' the Doctor said putting his hands up in the air. ''He must hear what I have to say about my findings.''


Detective Arnold Flass walked into the docs. Carmine Falcone's thugs were already unloading the shipment of drugs. The sight of a cop actually frightened the hired help and even more when he began to browse through the teddy bears and toy rabbits.

''What's this?'' Flass asked humored ripping the bears open and pulled out the small plastic bags filled with drugs. ''Heh-eh, continue.''

Flass threw the bears back to the pile and walked to the limo at the end of the line of containers. Carmine Falcone was sitting inside with someone else in a black leather-jacket.

''Detective Flass, you remember our dinner partner from Maroni's two nights ago?'' Falcone said pointing to the person sitting next to Flass in the limo.

''Yeah, he had that sweet looking date with him and they were sitting few tables from us,'' Flass said looking at the man in leatherjacket. ''She here too?''

''No, but my guys found him snooping around the ship's containers,'' Falcone said leaning closer, ''looking for a way to dispose my merchandise, claiming to be a doctor and that it's contaminated with some… space voodoo.''

Flass chuckled to this.

''Not that I'm actually buying any of it, but if his girl is also somewhere out there knowing he is here, I can't have him killed with someone alerting of disappearance here during my men being here too.''

Flass nodded and the Doctor gave both an evil eye.

''So, the bears go straight to the dealers?'' Flass asked changing the subject.

''And rabbits to our man in the Narrows,'' Falcone said.

''I hope that's to clarify that I'm telling the truth,'' the Doctor said, to which Falcone shook his head. ''Then why the hell are you splitting them up?''

''Not your problem, Doctor,'' Falcone said, hiding his nervously. ''And you, detective, shouldn't trouble yourself with the affairs of scary people.''

''Scarier than you?'' Flass asked.

Falcone didn't answer. There seemed to be some kind of commotion going on outside. Flass stepped outside and returned back quickly.

''Something's going on, you better bail.''

Flass left, leaving Falcone alone in the limo with the driver and the Doctor. Falcone stepped out to see what was going on while the Doctor attempted to make his escape from the mobster's hands. He had gotten his hands free and was opening the door as Falcone returned. Not even paying attention to the Doctor, he seemed more occupied in loading a shotgun.

''What the hell are you?'' Falcone muttered nervously as the Doctor opened the limo's door and jumped out, just in time to see whatever it was causing the commotion pulling Falcone through the limo's skylight and answering his question.

''I'm Batman!'' growled a huge figure in black with horns in its head and a flowing cape in its back.

It hit Falcone to forehead, knocking him out. Then looked at the distance and growled: ''Nice coat.''

Then it lifted up into the air with Falcone, vanishing into the darkness. As the Doctor got on his feet, looking up to where they had disappeared and then at a vagrant, possibly to whom the creature had spoken to.

''Thanks,'' the vagrant uttered, taken aback by the creature's hospitality.


Clarissa had been following Rachel Dawes for hours since she gotten out of work. Actually hour plus the time she had to wait for Dawes to get out of work. She had kept her distance not to stand out from the crowd, but now in the monorail, the crowd had turned into four, no, two people and them. It made Clarissa intimidated on how she could have protected Dawes and not to stand out anymore.

Eventually Dawes got off the monorail and as Clarissa was about to follow her, another passenger beamed after her. Clarissa kept tailing on and landing down the stairs to street level, she saw two thugs surrounding Dawes. Dawes hit the one behind her with her purse and pulled a tazer on the other one.

''Hold it!'' Dawes threatened at the other guy as Clarissa jumped down the stairs to assist her. As she landed, a black swarm of some kind attacked the thug.

The swarm moved slower as Clarissa got her vision clearer and she saw it was the vigilante that she had seen jumping from the roof of the police station. The ski-mask was changed to a horned mask and he had a cape that gave the vigilante the look of a bat. He beat the thug quickly in front of Clarissa's eyes and then turned to face Dawes. The thug she had had at tazer point had also seen the vigilante beating the other thug and ran away with Dawes thinking she had scared him off herself. As she turned around and saw the vigilante, she got frightened and shot him with her tazer. The tazer-wires hit the vigilante into the bicep, but thanks to the armor they didn't affect on him and he just pulled them out.

''Falcone sent them to kill you,'' the vigilante growled to Dawes.

''Why?'' Dawes asked shaken as Clarissa watched.

''You rambled his cage,'' was the vigilante's answer, before he threw some pictures to the ground near Clarissa's feet.

''What's this?'' Dawes asked, gesturing Clarissa to pick the pictures up and bring to her.

''Leverage.''

''For what?''

''To get things moving.''

''Who are you?'' Dawes asked as Clarissa brought the pictures to her.

''Someone like you, someone who rambles the cages,'' the vigilante growled as the two women looked at the pictures.

They showed an important looking middle aged man getting into a car with some blond.

''Judge Faden?'' Dawes said and looked back at the vigilante only to see him gone.

''So, blackmail?'' Clarissa asked and Dawes turned to her. ''I'm Clarissa, by the way.''


At the docs, Sergeant James Gordon joined his fellow officers and saw a bunch of thugs cuffed and a load of drugs, enough for conviction.

''Falcone's men,'' an officer told him.

''Does it matter?'' Gordon said frustrated. ''We couldn't connect him to this any way.''

''I wouldn't be so sure of that,'' the officer said, nodding his head towards a spotlight.

Falcone had been tied onto it and when looking up to clouded night sky where it was pointed up to, one could make up the symbol of a bat.

''We also have an eye witness,'' the officer said pointing to a man in black leather-jacket giving a statement to an officer. ''He says he's a doctor.''


Author's notes: Nightmare Child. That was the name of Davros' flagship during the Time War and it is what has contaminated the flowers Falcone uses for his drugs and League of Shadow to create Scarecrow's fear toxin. That is the reason for the Doctor is getting himself involved to these events.

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