Present day

"Where are we going Butch?" asked the injured drell. He was still draped over the large krogan's shoulder. The thief was injured from the crash and the run in with the man clad in black armor.

The krogan grunted under his helmet, giving no indication where he was heading. The brute was walking with a quick pace to the bottom of the building where their cargo truck crashed. Near the bottom of the building was a parking area. The krogan waddled its way to another large cargo hover vehicle. The vehicle was black and red and was larger than the previous truck. He activated it via a remote on his belt and opened the back cargo doors.

The krogan lifted the drell off his shoulder and effortlessly threw him into unit. The drell landed with a thud, holding his right leg and breathing heavily.

"What's going on Butch?" snapped Snider.

The krogan's helmet lights pierced through the darkness of the back of the cargo truck. The blue eye lights flared as krogan spoke through its helmet voice filter, "You had one job, Snider; you had a list of people in that ball to abduct." The krogan took a deep breath and continued, "They were people our boss needed to…persuade to join us. And now you have to tell her why you failed."

The drell's dark eyes widened, "What? No…I can't go to her." Snider tried to get out of the cargo bed by approaching the doors. Butch waited until he was close enough and grabbed him by the collar and held him up off the bed. Snider struggled forcing the krogan to head-butt him with his powerful head. The drell fell unconscious as Butch tossed him in the truck bed and closed the doors. The krogan snorted as he made his way to the front of the vehicle.

Several hours later Snider woke up in a vibrant garden. He was not bound or cuffed in any way as he slowly tried to stand. He winced in pain from his leg and looked around the large garden. He limped as he explored the garden, it had plants that he had never seen before and others he recognized. He was mesmerized by the garden.

"Do you know why you are here, Snider?"

The drell whipped his head around looking for the source of the sensual voice. It was a female's voice that seemed to come from every direction. He continued to scan the colorful garden as he shakily answered, "Yes, because I messed up, but it wasn't my fault!"

"Of course it wasn't" the woman's voice resonated through the drell's head.

"Some guy…ambushed us, we didn't stand a chance…please there was nothing I could do" the drell lowered his head, looking down at the floor.

Suddenly his head was lifted up by a soft hand pressing gently on his chin. He looked up to see the most beautiful asari he had ever seen. She blended in with the garden around her, as she herself had light greenish skin. Draped around her was a revealing green dress that barely covered her. She had an aura about her that seemed to make her glow.

She smiled as she continued to caress the drell's face with the back of her hand. "Why are you so afraid of me, Snider?"

The drell was entranced by her beauty, but he still had terror in his eyes. "There are…rumors"

The green asari smiled and tilted her head slightly. She walked to her left to a bed of exotic plants. She reached out and gracefully touched one of the large flowers, "Do you want to know why I love plants so much?" The drell said nothing as he just watched her caress the large red flower. "They are the only thing I can get close to," she stopped touching the flower and made her way back to standing in front of the drell, "without killing them." She then grabbed the drell's head with both hands and pulled him to her.

Their lips locked and Snider's mind was flooded with overpowering feelings. He wanted nothing but her, to do anything to please. The asari dominated his very being as she let go and stepped back. The drell dropped to his knees; ignoring the pain in his leg, and looked up to asari with his mouth gaped open.

"Snider, I want you to do something for me"

The drell spoke in a monotone, "Anything for you."

"Tell me everything about this man who stopped you today"

Never breaking eye contact with the asari, Snider started "He wore black armor and had wings. He moved like a shadow and had a terrifying voice. He was a creature unlike anything I had ever seen."

"He is just a man" the asari said to herself. She stepped in front of the drell, helping him to his feet. "Do you know what my enemies have nicknamed me?" The drell nodded. The asari leaned and kissed his lips once more, taking his breath away.

The drell fell back to his knees, trying to draw air into his lungs, "Poison…" he started as he fell on the floor with a dead stare in his dark eyes "…Ivy." With his last breath gone, the drell fell silent as his mind crumbled in itself, causing dark blood to drip from his eyes and mouth.

The green beauty looked down at the dead drell. She had no emotion on her face as she touched a metal bracelet on her wrist. Seconds later a large krogan made its way through the garden. "Lady Ivy" said the Krogan as he stood over the body of the drell he had brought in only minutes ago.

"Take that helmet off" commanded the asari.

The krogan reached up and took off the helmet revealing a scarred face with piercing blue eyes. The krogan had a mouth mask on that covered his entire mouth and had straps going around his large head. Two tubes were protruding from the mask leading to a medium sized tank on his back. The tubes had a red mist flowing through them. Whenever the krogan breathed out, a small cloud of red mist came from the mask.

"Bane darling, remove Snider and find this 'Bat' man and bring him to me" Ivy said as she made her way back into the deeper parts of her jungle. Bane bowed his head and grabbed the dead drell with one hand and started towards the door.

"AAAUUUGGGHH!" echoed through the dark cavern like room. Casey still dressed in the Batman armor, minus the helmet, sat on a med table as four metallic arms set his shoulder back into place. He rotated it around afterwards; if felt sore, but he'll be fine. "Thanks Alfred" he said under his breath as he made his way to a large chamber across from the med corner.

Inside the armor was taken off of him by similar metallic arms. A shower was inside the chamber as well and as soon as the Batman armor was off and he took a shower, Casey stepped out wearing black shorts a towel draped around his neck. He strode towards a large console with several screens already lit up.

The large room was filled with tech and several black vehicles. The entire room was set beneath Kane Manor on the Citadel. The Citadel has many mysteries that most of the races living on it do not know. Before the Kane's inhabited the home, the manor was likely a home for rich smuggler, who ordered the warehouse to be built underneath the manor. It was totally hidden from anyone on the outside of the building and had several security systems to keep it that way.

It had taken Casey some time and a lot of money to get the makeshift tech cave to work, but it was worth it. Now he had a secret place to work with no distractions and to store the various tools he needed to be Batman. The cave had a large area dedicated to different vehicles Casey had acquired including a Bat shaped personal hover plane, which had wires hanging out of it; still under construction.

There was the med corner outfitted with everything Alfred would need to patch Casey up as well as the armor chamber. Next to that was a workout area, with all kinds of training equipment at his disposal.

The cave squeaked at times, because of the bats Casey had imported into the cave, which made their home there quickly. Casey liked having them there; they calmed him while Alfred cleaned up after them.

In the center of the cave was the extravagant computer display. It had a chair that was surrounded by holo screens and analyzers. Casey sat in the chair with a sigh of relief. He didn't have much to go on, but started finding out as much as he could on the drell Snider. He began his extensive search when Alfred chimed in.

"Feeling better, Master Kane?"

"I'll live; you pick up anything from the run in with the krogan and drell?"

"Nothing you don't already know, although when cleaning your armor I did find trace elements of red sand in your helmet's air filter."

Casey knew of the drug, a potent drug that was poisonous, but also dramatically increases biotic power. He wondered how it had got in his filter. Neither the drell nor the krogan displayed any biotic abilities, but that didn't mean they didn't possess them. He made note of it and dug deeper into the drell's history.

C-Sec had files on him and suspects that he works for a larger criminal organization. Casey had heard of a supposed criminal underworld working through Citadel space, but he still needed more information. Rumors suggest that the empire is being controlled one person, someone codenamed 'Poison Ivy'.

Casey thought more on the case and thought back to the red sand when he came across new information. There was a report that a fuel/check depot officer tried to stop a ship smuggling a huge amount of red sand. The Alliance was already in pursuit of the ship, but Casey was more concerned about where it was going and coming from.

He rechecked the report which stated the destination was unknown, but that the ship originated from the crime capitol, Omega.

"Prep the Bat-fighter, Alfred."