John Blake watched his apprentice on the top of the old Wayne Tower via the security feeds from a satellite, he felt bad, he could relate, there was a time when he was Nightwing that things just seemed hopeless and he didn't feel like he could love anything aside from his duel life.

"John, I think you should talk to him."

Blake shook his head at his wife "Barbara, I'm not going to talk to him. He made this mistake and he needs to be the one to correct it. I'm not going to hold his hand and tell him it's going to be okay." He shook his head and turned his back on his wife

No one did that for me.

"I still think you should, at the very least, he deserves to know something." Barbara pleaded with her husband

"No means no." Blake shot back sternly

Barbara straightened herself up "Then if you won't tell him what happened to Batgirl and Robin. Then I'll tell him myself."

"You really would…"

"He deserves it; you haven't been exactly honest with him about all of this, everything you did. If Bruce and Selina could tell him everything about their lives…"

"He's their son; he's not my child….he's not Tim."

"No one can be Tim Drake John and you know that." Barbara replied sternly, her hands placed in her lap "He doesn't know what happened to him or me….how we ended up this way, why you need a cane."

"I'm sure Bruce knows…."

"I don't think so; Damian seems pretty out of it when it comes to….oh what did we call it…? The killing joke." Barbara glared at Blake again

"Barbara," he rubbed his temples in annoyance "please don't go there."

"I'm sure Damian would love to know what happened to Joker, why he's not locked up in the asylum."

"Barbara, I swear to god…" Blake started but was soon interrupted by the communications link that opened up "What's wrong Damian?"

"I need to pay a visit to the Asylum; I need some answers only one of the inmates can give."

"Fine, Barbara wants you to come down to the GCPD to talk about a private matter." Blake rolled his eyes

"Fine, I'll stop by after lunch tomorrow."

Arkham Asylum had been moved from its old location in the Narrows sometime after Bane's break in, it now was an abandoned building but the new location was connected by a small bridge on an island in the Gotham Bay.

As Damian drove his rolls up the road of the bridge, he was stopped by a man in all black that looked like the mercenary he fought with Black Rose when he was taking on Mad Hatter a few months back.

"Identification please and reason for visit." The soldier spoke

Damian held up his driver's license "Damian Wayne, I'm here to see Jervis Tetch for former employment questions regarding WayneCorp."

"Of course sir, please proceed through, entrance one."

Damian nodded and rolled up his window and drove forward down the main path heading for the Intensive Treatment Facility, his eyes saw what he could of the island, what little there was viewable was only the front entrance.

"Oracle, what can you tell me of the Asylum? What other facilities are there?"

"Plenty, the island was originally the home of the founder of the Asylum Amadeus; it has a garden, medical facility, a medical facility, a penitentiary and an old mansion that was once the home of the founder." Barbara spoke through the communicator

Damian nodded "Alright thanks, is Queen in place?"

"He's waiting for the signal."

"Good, wait until I get in, my face needs to be seen before we put into motion what we have planned." He parked the car and immediately got out

"Ah, welcome Mister Wayne, I do hope your ride here was easy enough." Hugo Strange smiled at Damian as the pair of men shook hands

"Wasn't hard to find, it's an island in the middle of the bay." Damian nodded as Strange led Damian down the halls

"As you can see, the Asylum has expanded over the past few years; we now have more room for criminals, though these are not the major criminals that have plagued Gotham."

"Kind of like Bane and Joker?"

"Exactly." Strange sneered

As the pair of men walked down the hall, Damian noticed a cell that said RIP with various clown symbols along the walls of the cell.

"Mister Tetch is right down the hall, I am surprised someone from Enterprises would want to ask him employment questions."

"We just want to make sure things he did with the chips won't come back to bite us later on."

Strange nodded, as he turned his head back, the lights went out with a thump, Strange looked up and sighed.

"Emergency generators online now." Strange spoke into the walkie on his belt

There was no response on the other end, something that caused Strange to hit his walkie again.

"Control room…respond now."

Damian stepped into the darkness and drew something from his belt, with quick precision, he struck Strange in the neck, and the taser he used knocked Strange out along with a smack to the head.

He slipped a ski mask over his face and walked down the hall until he found Tetch's cell, he slammed the door with his foot and it hit the wall with a thud.

Tetch looked up at him "Who…who…"

"Who do you think Tetch?" He sneered with the best Batman's voice he could

"Batman!" Tetch flew into a corner

Damian walked over and grabbed Tetch by the neck, slamming him into the wall "Tell me, Black Mask captured someone six months ago, a young woman, did you use one of your chips on her?"

Tetch's body twitched "Si….please….I…."

Damian threw Jervis to the floor and slammed his foot on his arm "Tell me!"

"Yes! Yes! I did!"

"Why?"

"She…she was going to kill Roman, I had to save him! He was the only one who saved me from this hell!" Tetch cried

Damian frowned "How do I remove it? Surely it must be different."

"It is! Only an electrical burst can disable it long enough to remove the chip from Miss Queen's neck."

"Thank you." Damian slammed a fist into Tetch's face, knocking him out

He slipped out of the cell and walked down the hall, the door opened and Oliver stood and nodded as the power turned back on.

The pair ran to Damian's car and the engine started just as the mercenary security ran to the door as they drove.

The night soon descended and Batman stood on the roof of the major crimes unit of the GCPD, with the Bat-signal lit in the sky.

Detective Gordon walked up the stairs and closed the door "Thanks for meeting me so soon."

Batman nodded and didn't say a word as his cape surrounded his lower body, his eyes focused on Gordon.

"I have a list of names, these men are…I believe they are corrupted cops who are reporting to Black Mask, I have tracked their emails and phone records and they take back to Black Mask's thugs. One of which, Rhino, you brought him in with a human smuggling case a few months ago…he got released from Blackgate a few days ago."

Batman took the list from Gordon and didn't let his face leave Gordon. "Do you think you can do something about it?"

"I'll see what I can do."

Gordon turned his back to the signal and flipped the signal off "Change is coming to Gotham again, seems almost funny when you think about it. That's what you fought for right?"

He turned to Batman begin gone again "God damn, I hate when he does that."

The six police officers stood around in a corner of Gotham's lower side, they were waiting for something, and Batman couldn't figure out what it was.

He sat in the Raptor with the camouflage unit turned on and just watched them; he needed to know what was going on and why GCPD members were working with Black Mask.

A black van pulled up and Black Mask descended from within, followed by two of his associates from the False Facers, one he recognized as Rhino, the other he didn't know. Batman turned on the speaker and allowed the audio from outside to come in through the speakers.

"How much longer until we gotta stop with the uniforms?" One of the cops asked

Black Mask walked out onto the snow "It won't be much longer my friends, all we need to do is just wait. But, I'm afraid you will not be a part of it."

Rhino and the other associate approached the six cops and pulled out a gun, immediately opening fire, though instead of bullets, they shot out tiny needles that landed in the necks of the men.

"They're laced with poison, you lot will be dead in a few minutes." Black Mask pulled out a piece of paper and let it fly in the wind as the bodies dropped one by one

As they pulled back into their car and drove off, Batman immediately gave chase, keeping on them like fly on wax.

The van drove toward crime alley, Batman couldn't understand what was in there for them, but keeping pursuit was the most he ever used this car since Fox gave it to him.

As they drove down the street, a series of men stood blocking them with what appeared to be heavy submachine guns. As the black van drove into a side, Batman kept back, turning on the cloaking and flipping on the audio.

"What is the big deal here?" Rhino bellowed as the men climbed out

The leading man, black hair, a thin goatee around his lips and a black business suit approached "I will only speak with Roman Sionis." His Italian accent was thick

Batman's eyes went wide as Black Rose stepped outside beside her boss; Roman kept his mask on his face.

"Well, well, I thought I drove you out of town years ago Alberto."

Alberto smirked "You know me Roman; I am here to claim what is mine."

"The Falcone crime family belongs to me now, and you know that." Black Mask smirked under his mask

"Well now, I'm giving you by sunrise tomorrow morning to pack up and leave, these men you see here are just a small amount of the force I have gathering, if you don't leave Gotham, I will kill you all."

Batman frowned and drove off toward the Batcave, he needed to end this or at least slow it down.

Damian sat down in his house, he had returned the cape and cowl back into the cave and just needed some time to think. He checked his phone and there was no sign from Victoria at all.

His phone went off and Damian picked it up "Damian Wayne?"

"Since when do you have to be this formal with me?"

He smiled "Sorry Tori, it's just what I normally do when I pick up the phone."

"It's okay. Listen, I'm going to be busy for the next couple of days, work has picked up."

"Tori," Damian stopped her for a minute "I uh…met your parents. Oliver and Laurel are in Gotham."

"Did they say why?" She sounded a bit annoyed

"They uh…came because they were worried about you." Damian sighed "They think something happened when they had you go after Roman."

The line went dead, Damian sighed and almost felt like crying his theories were proven right.

He clicked his phone again "Blake, we have a problem. The Falcone's are back."

Michael Akins sat at his desk in the GCPD as the door was being knocked on "Come in!" He called

Detective Bullock stepped inside "Sir, six of our officers are dead in Crime Alley, Black Mask and what appeared to be Alberto Falcone were seen as well, this was found near the bodies."

Akins took the piece of paper and growled, crumbling it in his hands with a look of fury and anger.

"Sir?"

"Get the SWAT team together, Batman must die, along with Falcone and Black Mask. Tomorrow, we end this."

Okay, so chapter 12 is up! This one I had major writer's block to write, I have thirteen done already, so that'll be up extremely soon, fourteen will take awhile due to it hopefully being the biggest and best fight scene I've ever written, so expect that by the fourth of July!