The GCPD surrounded the building; the call came in at about midnight of female shrieks coming from lower Gotham.

Detectives Gordon and Bullock investigated the building as Akins stood with the other GCPD members.

"Canvas the houses; I want a statement from every neighbor on this block." He told a set of officers "I want a copy of the deed of this house from City Hall; I want to know who owned this building."

As Gordon and Bullock left the house's front steps, Akins glared at them in frustration.

"What's the situation gentlemen?"

"It's the same MO as the last three call Commissioner." Bullock grumbled "Three girls murdered, all wearing same clothing as the last three calls, youngest one was four years old."

Akins sighed as Gordon looked around, his eyes spotted something in the back alley "I'll be right back, think I saw something."

Bullock looked at Gordon "You need any help?"

"I can handle it." Gordon snapped

As he stepped into the alley, he calmed himself and walked into the shadows "You were at the last one too."

Batman stepped in front of Gordon "Your partner seems almost annoyed doing this job."

"Bullock's okay, bit crooked, but he's okay." Gordon replied

"What are the details of this one?"

Gordon sighed "Same as the last one, three girls all murdered, blonde haired, we found them in the same blue dress as before. Now it racks up to nine."

"At least whoever did this have a type." Batman looked out at Akins and Bullock

"It gets worse, this part only the GCPD knows, the women were brutally tortured, raped and murdered."

"Raped and murdered?"

"Throats were slit, and some of them we haven't even found."

"Do you have any leads?"

"No, but the situation seems the same as a few years ago, I'm going to look into it, but I do appreciate that your looking after Gotham."

As he turned to look at Batman again, he was gone out of sight.

"So that's what that feels like." Gordon shrugged

"Sounds like an old foe from my past." Blake sighed as he looked at the Bat computer "Personally, I hoped I'd never see him again."

"Who is he?" Damian leaned against a nearby table

Blake turned back to the computer and began to type on the computer; the screen above them came to life as a small man with thinning long brown hair, green hat and a green suit.

"His name is Jervis Tetch, a former neuroscientist working for WayneCorp, a subdivision of Wayne Enterprises developed by Derek Powers."

"Neuroscientist? He studied the nervous system?"

Blake nodded "Yes, he was one of the best, he developed a mind control chip that was originally designed to create the perfect soldier for the military, and they failed out however."

"Why?"

"The soldiers were dedicated to the cause and that's just it, they were too dedicated, some of them turned into suicide soldiers, others died while taking on impossible odds facing a hundred soldiers to one, the chips made them not human anymore. Ultimately he was laid off and during his time he went mentally insane, I faced him a few years ago, he tried brainwashing Barbara but I managed to take him down and sent him to Arkham."

Blake pressed a few more keys and the screen on the right displayed a few medical files "He was diagnosed as being insane and schizophrenic, seventeen women were kidnapped, seven of them were found raped and dead, while the other ten…" Blake felt himself release a breath "were never found."

"Why?"

"Tetch has many connections with the slave trade in Gotham, selling off the women to some third world country to be the warlord's sex toys seemed to be how he paid the bills, not to mention he is a known criminal now."

"How does he kidnap these women?" Damian folded his arms over his chest

Blake sighed and leaned back "I need to tell you the whole story first. About fifteen years ago, WayneCorp opened as a military project building, there are several divisions of the building, cryogenics which is run by Victor Fries, he's a good man, always brings donuts in on Tuesday and brings people over for football bar-b-q on Sundays, but he's obsessed with his work as of late. Then there's Robert Langstrom, he's a biologist who specializes in bats. Finally, there was Jervis, neurologist and developer of mind control chips."

"About ten years ago, when I was still Nightwing I tried to find the shipment after the project failed, the last shipment, after they failed they were smashed to pieces, the last box was coming in from Iraq and they were intercepted. I found Tetch, but not the shipment."

"Well it seems like they've been found." Damian growled "How many were in the box?"

"Five hundred, based on the nine that have gone missing these last few weeks, add onto the seventeen that were gone when I was around, we're down to a little over four hundred and seventy."

"I think I know someone who knows more about these projects."

It had been awhile since Damian had gone into work, he half expected Luke to be mad at him, but when he walked into the archives, a warm smile spread on the ex-boxer's features.

"Let me guess…more free soloing?"

Damian smirked "No, today is Orienteering."

"Is that like navigating?"

"Kind of." Damian pulled out a tablet "Do you know what these are?"

"Oh yeah, I remember these. Nasty little buggers." Luke Fox examined the tablet in his hand "Tetch was always a problem in the past, even at work, he had this obsession with his co-worker, it even went to the point she filed a sexual harassment suit against him."

"Who was his co-worker?" Damian asked

"Her name was Alice Church, nice girl, but she filed a report with the GCPD sixteen years ago about her fellow co-worker stalking her and being obsessed with her."

"That bad?"

"He had her picture in his office, the background on his phone and had her number on speed dial. Alice was kidnapped eight months later, a day before her wedding, someone found her a week later brutally attacked, raped and drugged."

"Do you have a picture of her?"

Fox nodded and pressed a couple of keys "After this ordeal, she and her husband moved to Alaska to live out their lives, I still get post cards from her every month."

A young girl appeared on the screen, blonde hair with bangs that hung down to her eye brows and blue eyes.

"Wait…" Damian looked at the screen "She looks just like…"

"All the young women who have been attacked? Yeah, they say Tetch has developed a type he enjoys, he claims Alice is reincarnated in every woman he's attacked, he doesn't even remember attacking them."

Damian frowned, so this was why Tetch was attacking women all the time, everything seemed to be explained "Anything you want to show me Fox?"

Fox smirked "Actually, I've got a few things in mind."

He led Damian from the computer to the main floor of the archives and opened up a brief case, inside was a long projectile like device.

"Line launcher capable of firing a steel cable from both ends, attaches one side to the other, the launcher acts like a guide and moves along the cable."

"How much weight can the rope support?"

"About three hundred and fifty pounds."

Damian smirked, this was going to be a fun gadget to use in combat, especially jumping down on enemies from a line they would have no idea where he was coming from.

Fox led him to another case, much smaller than the others, inside was what appeared to be a detonator "prototype gun jammer, when pressing the yellow button disables a gun within a length of five feet away."

Damian looked and held the jammer in his hand, it was lightweight and it had a belt clip on the back "How long does it take to recharge?"

"Usually about two minutes, it's a minute per discharge."

"I'll take them."

His phone rang as he walked out of WayneCorp; Damian checked the caller ID and smiled when he saw who it was.

"Hey good morning."

Damian couldn't see it but Tori was smiling on the other end "Good morning yourself handsome, busy?"

"Nah just left work."

"I was thinking, if you weren't busy tonight, dinner and a movie at your place?"

"Why not at your place?"

"My place is still being unpacked, can't get around to finishing."

"Sounds good to me." He smirked

The night soon descended and Damian paced the floor of his house for the fifth time, he knew eventually his feet would wear the floor down, but he was scared, this was the first time he went on a second date, his mom told him he was just like his father, a complete and utter playboy who charms women a lot.

There was something about her though, something about Victoria Queen that not only scared him but also intrigued him and attracted him to her, it scared him because of him hurting her with his secret identity of Batman but he knew being the daughter of Oliver Queen had its advantages.

The doorbell rang and Damian ran a hand through his locks and readjusted his black t-shirt, a trait he inherited from his mom was wearing black, he walked over to the door and opened it, Tori stood on the other side, dark green with a black stripes on the sleeves, blue jeans and her blonde hair was held back in a ponytail.

"Hey you." She pecked him on the cheek

Damian smiled, he still can't get over how beautiful she was, and even causally she was beautiful.

"Pizza showed up a while ago, been waiting." Damian smirked at her as she followed him into the living room

"Sorry, work took too long and I got caught up in traffic." Tori smirked as she lay on the couch

Damian brought the pizza in and sat down next to her, he felt weird, almost strange having a second date, he didn't know what to do, but for some reason he felt extremely happy with her around.

The movie they were watching was Les Miserables a French film Victoria had liked, one thing Damian noticed was that Tori looked a lot like Cosette, same hair color, skin tone, eye shape and eye color.

He looked over at Tori, who was silently wiping tears away from her eyes as the movie drew to a conclusion.

"Well, someone's a bit too sensitive." He smirked playfully at her

Tori glared at him playfully "Sh-shut up!"

Damian smirked "its okay Tori, I cried a bit at the end."

"Then where are your tears?"

"Oh I wiped them away by now." He said boldly

Tori slapped his chest "Sure you cried Mister Millionaire."

"It's billionaire Tori, millionaires are so last year."

"Teaser." She smirked at him

Damian did something drastic, something he never thought he would do, as they laughed at his joke, he leaned forward and kissed her fully on the lips, Victoria smiled, her eyes gave a look that said what took you so long?

Their bodies melted against each other, Damian truly felt at peace, everything seemed perfect, he had a home of his own in his city and a beautiful woman by his side, he felt like he could put Batman aside, even if it was just for one night.

Jervis Tetch stalked the alley ways of Gotham, it was a nightly prowl, and his pupils were dilated, his target was in sight, a blonde woman walked down the streets, her red trench coat slumped over her body.

He began to move, a needle in his hand, as he drew closer, his breath began to hitch, he could tell she wasn't alerted to his position, let alone of his existence.

He silently approached and tossed a small pebble from the nearby sidewalk, the blonde woman felt it and her purse slid off of her arms as she caught herself from tripping.

Tetch immediately ran over to her "Are you okay ma'am?"

"Yes I'm fine, thank you very much."

He smiled and began to slide some of her contents of her purse back inside "What is your name ma'am?"

"Elisa."

Tetch smiled wider, exposing his buck teeth and drew something from his pocket; he placed it on the back of her neck and pressed a button on his cufflink.

Elisa's blue eyes dilated as she stood where she was, Tetch smiled and slammed the needle into her arm, as the drugs began to take effect she collapsed onto the ground.

The Mad Hatter took her by the arms and dragged her into the alley way he just came from "Alice will be there soon my friends!"

Well I hope everyone will enjoy this chapter, this was a major brain fart for me to write, sickness and work really have kept me down these last couple of days. Part two will be out this week I promise you all that.