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Chapter 7: The Raid
Five months since first night.
In a privately owned gym in Gotham the red-headed Kate Kane was letting out some pent up aggression onto an unsuspecting punching bag. Since her attempted kidnapping 3 weeks ago she had stopped her patrols to enable her body to heal from the attack. While this was sensible it meant that she had become more and more irritable every day that she was benched. The punching bag now took all of the aggression and judging by the state of the poor thing her aggression had boiled over.
With a final punch the bag burst open and collapsed onto the ground in pile of padding. Smirking over her accomplishment she turned to her bag for her water. As she took a gulp of the cold liquid the door opened and in strode Samuel MacEntee, in gym gear with a bag slung over his shoulder. Stopping in front of the ruined punching bag, looking at it blankly. He then turned his head towards Kate, who only shrugged her shoulders at his blank look. He turned once more to the heap in front of him before sighing;
"OK, I'll shut up. You're fine." Kate mearly widened her smirk.
"Told you. Up for a spare?" She replied as she returned the water bottle to its original home.
"Sure." The pair moved to the sparing area in the corner of the gym. Samuel removed his trainers and hoody to show the AC/DC t-shirt and the bindings around his legs and arms. Kate herself corrected her MMA gloves. They both got into position and prepared. Kate threw the first punch, a left hook at Samuel's face. Samuel blocked but before he could strike, he had to block a kick from Kate, keeping him on the defensive.
Kate has sparred with Samuel many times before and from those she had learned that she could not give Samuel an inch in a fight as he could exploit any opportunity given to him, using it to his advantage to end a fight quickly. While this was great on patrol it was a major pain in her ass when she sparred with him. She was in no mood to end up on her arse today.
So she kept up the attack, not giving him any opportunity to counter. Punches and kicks kept flying at Samuel, who was forced to block and dodge in succession. He could tell that Kate was angry, and deciding that aggravating her further would be hazardous to his future wellbeing, he decided to just take it.
Another succession of blocking and dodging continued until the spar ended when Kate grabbed Samuel's arm, pulled him over her shoulder, thanks to her height advantage, and slammed him onto the ground, pinning his arm behind his back painfully.
"OK, OK I give." But Kate didn't. Instead she pulled his arm back further.
"You let me win."
"What? Arrgh."
"You let me win. I messed up plenty of times but you never used it. You always take advantage of mistakes. So why not today?"
"You're angry and I kinda like to live."
"Hmm." Kate let go of Samuel's arm and backed away as Samuel got up. Fixing himself he turned to Kate.
"Listen I know you're angry so I thought I'd bring you some good news. You remember Tommy Iroh?"
"Yeah the guy who tried to kill me." Kate replied sarcastically.
"Yeah I've been talking to him."
"I would have thought that he would have been cut off or killed?"
"Both. I had to save his ass from a couple of hitmen when I went to talk to him. Had to fight our way out. I think he got shot in the arse. Anyway when we got out we talked. And he gave me a name of another lieutenant. Guy by the name of Jimmy Knox." Kate's eyebrow rose at the name in a manner that said "Really?"
"It's his real name. So after I dropped off Iroh with Maggie and had him under protection I went to talk to Knox. After some of what you would call 'intense' negotiations I got him to see things our way. There's a meeting tonight with the big boss and his lieutenants. Knox gave me the location and made sure that the guys believed that the hitmen got Iroh. So basically, we're ending this tonight."
Kate looked at Samuel, stunned into silence by what she has been told. Blinking until she regained herself, she smiled like a Cheshire cat.
"So everybody is going to be there?"
"Yep. Word from Knox is that the boss has hired a pretty skilled mercenary to help protect him and I think I know who that guy might be."
"How?"
"Let's just say the guys who trained me are true neutrals."
"Right, can you handle him?"
"Probably. I kinda have a little beef to settle with him. Trouble is he doesn't work alone. He has his own team. Bout thirty men and highly trained."
"Add that to whoever is working for the boss and that means we have to face a small army."
"Yeah." Samuel sighed as he realised this would be hard to do with only two to fight it.
"Alright we need backup. You wanted to meet him. Tonight's you're chance."
Six hours later
At the docks of Gotham at midnight various limousines and SUV's were beginning to arrive. Opening the doors, stood various mob and gang bosses of Gotham city, who have been forced into servitude by a mysterious new boss. If they refused they were killed. If they accepted they lost half of their fortunes. They couldn't even order a hit as the guy was protected by some kind of ninja army, who would kill the one who ordered the hit.
So far to say, the bosses of Gotham really wanted this guy to disappear.
Speaking of which, a fog horn blew and all bosses stood to attention as a cruiser came into port. Once docked, out poured 30 men, each armed with both assault rifles and swords, dressed in ninja style with hoods and bullet proof jackets. They looked round once before one gave the all clear into a radio.
Once this was sent two new figures stepped down the catwalk from the boat. The one further back was dressed similar to the guards, only he wore more traditional martial arts gear, in black with silver outlines, complete with hood and a mask over the mouth. He carried a large guan dao weapon. He looked to be six feet tall with a wolf symbol on his chest. The man in front of him was only five foot, six inches in height and wore a blue pinstripe suit. He looked to only be a teenager. When he reached the large group of gangsters he immediately began barking out insults;
"You fucking, idiotic, nimrods. What the hell is happening? I wanted to be in control of this city a month ago! Instead you guys are getting your fucking asses handed to you by a bunch of dickheads in spandex! Give me a fucking reason why I shouldn't kill all of you right now?" All of the bosses kept their heads down, for fear of the small man's rage.
"It's not spandex!" Suddenly two shuriken and two batarang's flew from the shadows straight at the boss. Before they hit the larger man jumped in front of the other and smashed the projectiles out of the air with his guan dao. However the shuriken exploded in a bright flash, blinding the two men.
As this was happening Batwoman and Green Dragon entered the crowd and began taking down all of the goons. They worked through the crowd, taking down the bosses and the thug's. Dragon hit out with his mars hammers, while Batwoman used her batarang's and fists. Soon most of the regular thugs were down, but the two blinded men regained their site and the taller ordered his men to attack.
Assault rifle fire and sword slashes pushed the pair back and soon they were pushed back against the wall of a nearby warehouse. The trained men had surrounded them as they were back to back in the fight. Assault rifles surrounded them as the two bosses walked towards the group of fighters. Most of the other thug's and bosses were either unconscious or had ran away. The circle of fighters separated to allow the two to enter and stand in front of Batwoman and Green Dragon. Upon seeing Dragon the taller man folded his arms and a scowl could be seen in his eyes. He finally spoke;
"Green Dragon."
"Silver wolf." Hearing the exchange Batwoman turned her head to look at the man known as Silver Wolf.
"So this is the guy you were talking about?" Green Dragon answered her;
"Yep." Turning back to Silver Wolf;
"So how much are you and your pack being paid for this job?"
"$250,000 per week."
"Yeah you're making the Ty Lee proud."
"Hey they just trained me. They don't care what I do with it."
"Sure they don't." Batwoman could just hear the eye-roll accompanying his answer. Her attention then went to the smaller man standing next to Silver Wolf. He seemed to be getting more and more annoyed by the second.
"Are you two nearly finished? I kinda want to kill these two fucking pieces of shit!" Batwoman merely rolled her eyes, preparing to enjoy what was about to happen.
"Can't you be patient Mister James Bomorough?" That got the desired effect as the man's eyes grew to twice their normal size and his mouth gaped. Silver Wolf raised his weapon as his men stiffened up. After a few seconds James regained his voice.
"What did you call me?"
"James Bomorough. That's your name isn't it? Son of wealthy Metropolis hedge-fund manager Jonathon Bomorough? Decided to play gangster with daddy's money?" He had fully regained his thought processes and had gone as red as humanely possible.
"That's it. Kill them. KILL THEM!"
"Thought so. NOW!" As Batwoman shouted a large roar of an engine flew through the air, a roar that was familiar to every Gotham criminal. Suddenly a large black car flew towards the group, who had turned to fire at the vehicle. However some kept their gun's trained on Batwoman and Green Dragon, but just as they pulled the triggers the pair were lifted up into the air, as the bullets flew into the wall.
Looking up they saw Robin flying, holding them up, amazed that he could fly. Looking back down the pair saw Batman fighting through the goons and Silver Wolf escorting Bomorough away.
"Hey you guys aren't having all the fun. Drop us!" Batwoman shouted out.
"tt, whatever." Robin dropped them, with Batwoman gliding towards the large group and Green Dragon gliding towards Silver Wolf.
"We have a score to settle." Green Dragon stated as he landed in Front of Silver Wolf as he drew his hook swords.
"Yeah I guess we do." Silver Wolf replied as he swung his guan dao at Dragon who deflected it. Dragon swung his own swords which Wolf dodged. Dragon threw out a kick but was blocked by Wolf.
As they fought Batwoman and Robin entered the large brawl with Batman. Batwoman kept moving, throwing batarangs, punches and kicks. Robin on the other hand just threw single punches that made the goon's fly. Both swords and bullets bounced off him. When Batwoman got near Batman she asked the all-important question;
"So good to see him back but what the hell happened?" Batman grunted as he answered;
"Some things happened and he has superpowers."
"OK what type of things?"
"Still trying to work it out. How's he doing?" Gesturing towards Green Dragon.
"He seems to be doing well. First time I've seen him in a proper dual though."
She stole a look towards Green Dragon, who had just dodged a blow from Silver Wolf. As they fought Bomorough hid behind some barrels, clearly scared out of hell, and shouting orders at Silver Wolf. As they fought Wolf made some quips.
"So are you still annoyed that I left you in that restaurant?" Wolf dodged a powerful slash from Dragon that answered his question.
"You promised me a fancy dinner, said I wouldn't have to pay, ordered the most expensive dishes and then left when the bill came. What the hell do you think?" He then shot out a mars hammer, which Wolf just managed to deflect.
"How did you sort that out anyway?"
"I had to wash dishes for a whole week you prick." Dragon deflected another strike, sending his own towards Wolf and locking the pair together in a pushing match, neither of them letting up. Suddenly a beeping sound rung through the air which caught Wolf's attention more than Dragon's.
Silver Wolf jumped apart from Green Dragon, pausing their duel. He then took out a smart phone, which was the source of the alarm, and began looking at it. After an 'hhm' he turned towards Bomorough, who was still hiding behind the barrels.
"Mister Bomorough you owe us another payment for our services." Bomorough stuck his head out from the barrels, still terrified.
"What the hell are you doing? Kill those fucker's."
"You owe us another payment. My men don't work until they are paid."
"Do you know who I fucking am? Kill those fucker's or I'll kill you!" Silver Wolf narrowed his eyes before turning back towards Green Dragon who was wondering what was going on.
"Till next time Dragon." He then turned towards his men. "MOVE OUT." With that he and his men threw down smoke grenades blinding all those around. When the smoke cleared Silver wolf and his men, conscious and unconscious, were gone leaving the heroes, Bomorough and the unconscious gangsters. Seeing how he was now alone Bomorough made a run for it, but a pair of bolo's stopped him flat as Dragon approached.
"Prick."
Batman, Robin and Batwoman took this opportunity to begin tying up the unconscious goon's. When he reached the group Dragon dropped Bomorough in the middle of them, with him shouting profanities all the time.
"My father is going to sue you. I'm going to fucking destroy you." Batman approached, showing one of his worst bat-glares, which shut Bomorough up.
"You really think you're going to get away with this. You have killed to try and take control of my city. You never stood a chance." Bomorough was now wide-eyed with fear, keeping quiet. Satisfied with how he was now terrified, Batman turned away. Once turned he heard a punch being thrown and once he turned round he saw Bomorough unconscious and Batwoman rubbing her fist. Looking towards Batman, Batwoman shrugged.
"That was for kidnapping me."
One hour later
Once the GCPD arrived Bomorough and all the captured goon's were arrested. All the goon's hated Bomorough so all agreed to testify against him. Maggie relayed that there was no way he would be getting away with what he did, even with his Father's money and lawyers.
Batman, Robin, Batwoman and Green Dragon now stood on the roof of Green Dragon's apartment. Robin was busy pulling various bullets out of his uniform while Batman talked to Dragon;
"This Silver Wolf. Is he a threat?"
"Not right now. He only fight's for money. You're OK so long as someone doesn't hire him. Heck you could hire him."
"And how do you know him?"
"We were trained by the same people around the same time. Difference is I have a goal. He only wanted a way to make money. Hated him then, hate him now."
"So what was that about dinner?" Batwoman asked.
"Hey it was a good restaurant and he promised me dinner. How can I say no to that?" Batwoman seemed satisfied with this answer as she kept quiet. Batman however narrowed his eyes and asked the question that he knew the answer to.
"You want Ra's l Ghul?" Green Dragon straightened up and looked directly at Batman.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"You god damn know why."
"You want to kill him."
"Yeah. Him and only him."
"Would you really stop at him?"
"Yes I fucking would." Batman looked at Dragon, scrutinising every part of this man, seeing a familiar rage in his heart. Robin looked at him as well, this man who wanted to kill his Grandfather. After a few moments he moved away.
"Ra's keeps moving. He has no set location. I have no idea where he is right now. If I find anything you will get it."
"Thank you."
"It may be a while."
"I'm not going anywhere." With that said Batman grappled away as Robin flew away. Green Dragon sighed as he removed his mask to breath. Batwoman moved towards him, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"You okay?"
"Yeah just expected a bit more."
"That man is the most paranoid and stubborn man in existence. Just have patience."
"Okay."
"Here let's get changed. Head out for a drink. We've earned it."
"Sound's good."
Next Chapter: The red bird hunting.
A/N Sorry for the wait but I only got time off this week. Also this story follows the New 52 story, which is why Robin has powers due to Robin Rises Alpha. Sorry for anybody who hasn'tread it yet.