Damian stepped inside Victoria's room in Gotham General's Intensive Treatment Center with Blake right behind him, they left Laurel and Oliver within the Batcave, just so they didn't over react, Barbara could take care of them without a problem.

His heart began to thump extremely fast, his emotions were running high when he saw her lying in the hospital bed, her eyes were closed, her blonde hair was tussled and the wires from the life support machine were hidden under the blanket. Damian walked over and carefully took her hand in his and gently ran his thumb along the bones as Blake walked toward the machine.

It looked like a typical life support machine, wires were coming from the side, the ticker was beeping and spiking like normal with the orange line, but it was a dark blue almost black with an off and on button and had a timer on it.

"This isn't hospital doesn't make machines like this." Blake looked at it and tapped it with his cane "This is custom made."

Damian looked at him "How so?"

Blake followed the wire down into her blanket and slowly lifted it, when he saw it, he almost vomited "Damian, look."

He let go of Victoria's hand and walked over, his brows tightened and anger began to spread as he saw a large hole in Victoria's chest, the wires were inside and her heart was missing.

"I'm going to kill Black Mask." Damian looked away and stormed toward the door

"Wait a minute, I do know who made this, but you need to find the surgeon who removed this." Blake bellowed

"Who made it?"

"Simple." Blake pointed at the back

The back of the machine had a white circle with a white W in the middle with a C close to it.

"WayneCorp." Damian growled

"Doctor Victor Fries, I recognize his handiwork, he made this thing years ago, but it looks like someone weaponized it."

"Fine, I'll talk to Fries, but first the doctor." He looked at Victoria's schedule and got a name "Thomas Eliot."

"Yes, of course I remember the operation, but I'm not going to talk about it."

Thomas Eliot was a man in his early fifties with red hair that was slicked back and ice blue eyes; he was being dressed in his operating gown and gloves by a nurse who wasn't paying attention to the conversation.

"Then tell me about what Black Mask threatened you with then Doctor." Damian growled "Because I know that's what happened."

Thomas glared at him, he lowered his mask "Nurse, could you give us a minute, I'll be right there."

The nurse nodded and proceeded inside; Thomas looked at the door and continued to have his hands held up so they wouldn't get contaminated.

"Look, I have lived in this city for as long as your dad did, he was my best friend since childhood, even in college at Princeton; I was devastated when he died." Thomas looked at Damian "You look exactly like him, I mean, I'd love to help your girlfriend, but if I do, Black Mask will kill me and my family."

"But Doctor Eliot…" Damian started

Eliot's bottom was opening the door "I'm sorry Mister Wayne, but that's my final word on the matter."

The door swung closed behind him, leaving Damian in the scrub room, he sighed and slammed a fist into the wall as he stormed out.

"Blake, I just talked with Eliot, he won't budge because his family is in danger." Damian remarked

"I had a feeling; the man always was a spineless coward. I called Fox, Fries is in, if you want to go see him, then by all means. He does have medical background as well as a scientific one."

The door opened to the cryogenics department and Batman silently turned the lights on, what was inside surprised to find what was inside.

A large tube sat in the back of the room running on its own generator, the liquid inside was causing the tube to glow a bright blue, various test tubes and beakers were near the tube and a computer was stationed in the back of the room.

His cape swept behind him as he approached the tube, feeling a chill coming from the tubes, his gloved hand moved over the glass and his eyes went wide inside his cowl.

A woman was asleep inside, her blonde hair moved with the water, her skin looked pale as a ghost. A small terminal lit up as Batman approached it, his fingers moved over the keys and he quickly read the data.

"Nora Fries," Batman said under his breath

The figures on the screen showed various notes about her disease called McGregor Syndrome, something Damian would have to look up later.

The door in the back swung open "Sorry I'm late Nora I…"

The man who stepped inside immediately went wide eyed when he saw Batman; he reached for his table, where a gun was waiting.

"Wait, I was told you could help."

"Just get away from my wife!" The man yelled

Batman stepped away, the man had brown hair that was slightly balding on the sides, grey eyes that were magnified by a pair of half-moon glasses and slightly pale skin, his white lab coat over his brown top read the name Victor Fries.

"Doctor Victor Fries? You must be the head of this division correct?"

"Yes, why do you care?" Victor glared

"A woman was attached to your life support machine. I was told you could help." Batman reached for his belt and pulled out a photo

Victor took it and glanced at it, he recognized it which was indicated by his eyes narrowing "This was my first creation, a means to save her." He glanced at Nora

Batman glanced at him "I'm sorry. I never heard of what she has. McGregor Syndrome?"

"It's a rare genetic disease." Fries pressed a hand to the glass "It slowly eats away at the victim's body until it eventually reaches the blood stream and dies."

"How long has Nora had it?"

"Ten years, I've had her in this for the last four. She was diagnosed with stage two. I tried my best and I managed to find a cure for stage one, but now I can't seem to stabilize it to find a cure for the second."

"Does WayneCorp know you have all this?"

Fries nodded "Yes, they allowed me to work on this alone, I wanted it that way, no one else was going to help my wife but me….she's all I have."

"Fighting for a cure for your wife? I find that very noble Victor." Batman smiled "But I need your help, the woman who has been attached to your machine….she means a lot to me. Is there anything…"

"Yes, yes I can. She's at Gotham General is she not?" Fries looked at the picture "I recognize the drape on the side, Nora spent years there."

Batman nodded as Victor grabbed a bag "I'll get down there and take care of her. What are you going to do Batman?"

He opened the door and turned his head to Fries "Put an end to an old friend."

Black Mask stood inside the meeting place; seven men were with him, each one armed with an M4 assault rifles, he was ready for when Wayne arrived, knowing not only how much he wanted to take Batman out of commission, taking out the son of the Prince of Gotham would definitely secure him, with the False Facers in Blake Gate, he would have to start all over again.

He felt no remorse for what happened, no regret for leaving them including Deathstroke, who by now was half way to Mexico, if Joe Wilson was anything like Slade, he would have some form of common sense and run, of course while Slade had the brains and the bronze, Joe was nothing like that, preferring to fight and kill rather than let the fight continue onwards by a different tactic.

Footsteps echoed along the snow covered floor, for early December, Gotham was experiencing a snow storm like no other, the first in decades from what Black Mask could remember. He looked out as a figure stood in the shadows, no distinguishing marks, nothing but a figure.

"Damian Wayne!?" Black Mask called out

He nodded "Yeah, it's me, I have what you want, now just promise me she'll live."

"Oh she will, now give me the money."

He nodded again and tossed a briefcase into the air, its leather casing slid along the floor of the warehouse and landed at Black Mask's feet.

"Good, now die." Black Mask picked up the briefcase and snapped his fingers

Assault rifle rounds from sixteen separate weapons fired on his location, no one could see it, but once everyone reloaded, he smiled as his body fell to the floor. He tossed the briefcase to one of his associates.

"Make sure he's dead."

The men silently walked out to where the young Wayne's body silently sat, as they disappeared from the light within the building the door slammed shut behind them.

Black Mask looked in horror as he heard the screams of his men cry out in agony.

"He's here!" He called out

Batman was here, Black Mask knew this was the end for him, but how could Wayne have called Batman here?

As he looked, his associate opened the briefcase and was met with a face full of smoke screen; he coughed hard and dropped the case which still had smoke coming out of it.

A hand grabbed the thug by the back of his head and pulled him into the darkness, Black Mask could hear bones snapping as his final guard lay on the floor.

"What do you want!?" Black Mask called out drawing one of his revolvers

"Your life." Batman growled

Batman approached, coming out of the darkness, Black Mask aimed and fired, Batman's body moving in such precision that he dodged it and threw one of his batarangs at Black Mask, the bat shaped projectile slammed into the barrel of the gun and as the trigger was pressed, the gun exploded, taking off one of his gloves, burning the sleeve of his coat and having him draw away in pain.

The caped crusader took the moment and pounced, moving with such accuracy that by the time Black Mask drew his second revolver; Batman knocked it away and grabbed him by the throat with one hand.

"Knew I'd catch you sooner or later." Batman growled "Now, I end you."

"Sure you will Batman, you may take me down, but what I have set in motion will only cause Gotham to freeze, I won. You lost." Black Mask started to laugh

Police sirens rang outside as Batman threw Black Mask onto the floor, the door burst open and members of the GCPD had their guns at the ready, Michael Akins walked through the crowd with Bullock.

"Get something to hold him." Akins ordered pointing at Black Mask then turned to Batman "Arrest the Batman."

"Sir…" Bullock looked at Akins "He did just hand us the biggest crime lord of the city."

"I don't care, I ordered his immediate extermination, now arrest Batman!" He ordered

By the time the two were done debating, Batman was already gone from sight, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of an engine roaring in the background. Akins growled and slammed his fist into his hand; once again, Batman was gone once again.

Alright! Black Mask is finally done! Now I can move onto the main villain of this story! With Nora's condition of McGregor syndrome, it is actually a plot line from Batman and Robin, but since we all know how terrible that movie was, I wanted to make it seem more realistic with a Nolanverse kind of feel.

There will be some more DamianxVictoria content next chapter as well as the Queen family reunion in sixteen which should be up this weekend. So until then, see everyone soon!