The metal poles clanged against each other, Damian and Blake kept with equal pace of each other, and their moves matched each other perfectly, though Damian could tell Blake was trying to change up his game.

The younger vigilante swung and Blake dipped his upper body back long enough to dodge it, as Damian recoiled; Blake slammed one of the metal rods into Damian's lower back.

"Keep your focus Damian." Blake bellowed

"Alright, let's do it." Damian rolled his wrists and they began again

Their moves were perfect, almost like fighting a mirror, but Blake changed up his tactics and slammed his hand into Damian's jawline.

"Keep up your focus, your enemy moves like you do, change it up, don't let him surprise you."

Damian gave a low growl and swung forward, losing control, the last few days had been just torture, watching Selina slowly die in the hospital, trying to maintain his relationship with Victoria and be Batman all at the same time, the good news was that with Black Mask locked up in Arkham Asylum, Batman was only on night patrol every other day, instead of every day.

Blake sighed and dipped his entire upper body as Damian attempted to get into a face shot; Blake slammed one of the poles behind Damian's knee cap which sent him to the ground.

"Don't let your anger get the better of you." Blake reminded moving the rods into one hand "How many times do I have to tell you that?"

"Yeah, yeah, sorry if I'm a bit worried about everything going on." Damian stood "Not every day my mom and girlfriend are in the hospital."

"Doesn't Victoria get released today?"

He nodded "Yeah, in a few hours."

Blake's feet took him to the Batcomputer where it was loudly beeping with an alert; he tapped a few keys and read the report.

"Looks like you may not be able to meet her." Blake looked at Damian "That radio you took from the GCPD has come to good use; someone broke into the Gotham Museum."

"Why the museum?"

"I don't know, the criminal is looking for something. Stop him."

"Stop right there or we'll shoot!"

His body moved with heavy steps, his body encased in heavy black armor, tubes attaching to points along his stomach began to glow a bright white, small sections of his upper arms began to glow a bright white, a glass bowl encased his head and red goggles surrounded his eyes.

Bullets began to fire and bounced against his armor, the cops began to look on in fear as the new figure pressed a button on the small gun which had tubes attached to the suit, he aimed and fired, a jet of white fired from the gun and struck one of the cops, after several seconds, the cop was frozen in place.

As his associates looked at their frozen comrade, they were caught off guard as the target grabbed the second cop by the throat; his throat felt crushed and slumped to the ground with a broken neck.

With a snap of the target's fingers, two of his associates, dressed in a white fur coat, sunglasses and black boots grabbed ahold of the final cop.

"Please, show some mercy!" The cop begged

"Mercy?" The target bellowed in challenge "I'm afraid," His gun began to charge and the associates backed off "my condition has left me cold, to your pleas of mercy."

With a click of the trigger, the gun fired another burst of white and froze the final cop, a smug smile spread on the attacker's face as he turned to his target, a series of diamonds held behind glass.

He moved toward it, his boots adding an additional shock to the ground as he raised a fist and slammed it into the glass and retrieved the diamonds in his hands.

"We have what we came for. Move out…"

As he turned to his men, they were on the ground knocked out, Batman bent down and slammed the final mercenary's head into the ground; he stood and looked at him.

"And now what should we call you? Ice man? The Snowman?"

The attacker charged his gun "Mr. Freeze."

Batman's eyes went wide as the gun fired, he immediately jumped out of the way and threw a batarang at Freeze, who fired his gun again at the batarang, which froze and broke into a million pieces.

The Dark Knight knew he had to act fast, if not, he was going to lose this fight.

Victoria Queen stood outside the hospital, she checked her cell phone again and Damian was late, it wasn't like him, though she did remember what he told her when she first woke up.

When you get out of here. meet me at the Palacades, Thomas and Martha memorial boys home, go inside, find the piano, press three keys, when the book shelf opens, go inside.

She still didn't understand what that meant, what did a boy's home have to do with what he wanted to tell her? Maybe it was that he planned on reopening the home, or maybe he was going to work it so he could move into Wayne Manor, or was it something else?

A car pulled up and her smile brightened as she approached "Damian, what…"

Blake sat inside the driver's seat, a determined look on his face "Get inside Mrs. Queen, we need to talk."

"Where's Damian? He's supposed to meet me."

"He sent me Mrs. Queen." Blake smiled "I'm his head of security."

"Is everything okay?"

"Yes, but right now, I need you just to come with me."

Batman dodged another shot from the freeze gun and dove into a corner hiding.

"Oracle, I need help with this, I don't think I can take him." Batman growled "I can't get close enough."

"Give me a few minutes and I'll get it figured out. Blake has Victoria."

"What!? Why?"

"He's going to tell her what's going on, since you're not here."

"I'll get back as soon as I can. I just…"

The sound of a gun click interrupted his conversation as Freeze stood over him, a smile spread on his face "Now your time to freeze has come Batman."

Batman growled and sent a set of kicks into Freeze's chest, then slammed a fist into the glass, Freeze got temporarily distracted and with that amount of time, Batman managed to slip away, he clicked a button on his belt and the lights went dead.

He blended in with the shadows as the glowing from Freeze's suit gave him away, Batman used this to quietly move away, his training from Selina taught him to blend in with the shadows and not to let the enemy hear him, though something gave him away, he just needed to figure it out.

"You cannot hide from me Batman, I know exactly where you are."

Not for long.

He drew his grapple gun and fired upwards, luckily the museum had two floors to this section, he allowed it to pull him up and he disappeared from sight.

Damian, I have some things to tell you.

"Go ahead Oracle." Batman whispered

Okay, first, Victoria and Blake are almost here, second I figured out where that suit came from. Its WayneCorp technology, it was stolen early last month.

"And the rest of it? What does he need diamonds for?"

"I don't know, still trying to figure that one out, but that suit was originally meant for finding terrorists in artic conditions like on Mount Everest, it can track targets by heat signatures from their feet."

"Their feet?" Batman looked down at his boots "Well, this definitely isn't good. Any weaknesses you can find?"

"Still working on that, Boyle has online security heavier than the actual building, but nothing I can't handle, give me some time."

The lights turned on again and Freeze pointed his gun at Batman "Hurry up Oracle; I don't think I have much time left."

He leapt off the second floor and flew downwards toward Freeze, his body straightened and he flipped around, raising his feet, he slammed them into Freeze's chest, which sent him backwards, Batman leapt forward and slammed his fist into the glass, then sent a series of cobra strikes into Freeze's chest, his suit activated and sent a pulse which sent Batman backwards and onto his back, Freeze stood up and grabbed Batman by the throat.

"My suit also increases my strength three fold Batman, you don't stand a chance."

"Maybe, but I still have back up." Batman grunted as he slammed a fist into Freeze's bowl

Freeze smiled behind his glass bowl "Prepare to die…"

He walked over to the wall and slammed Batman into the wall and aimed his gun and prepared to fire, Batman tried to react, he kicked the gun out of Freeze's hand, the wire disconnected and the gun flew a few feet away.

As Freeze slammed a fist into Batman's stomach, he roared in pain as Freeze walked over and grabbed his gun aimed and fired his gun at Batman.

Blake pulled the car to the front of the manor, Victoria looked at him "Blake, why are we here?"

"Everything will be explained soon enough." Blake got out of the car

He gently opened the door for her and helped Victoria out, he walked her into the manor, Victoria looked around at the various items covered in sheets, but she knew following him would be the easier part.

Blake pressed a few keys on the piano and the library door slid open, revealing an elevator, Tori looked surprised as he motioned for her to follow to which she silently did.

The door in front of them closed and the elevator slowly descended downwards.

"Blake…where are we going?"

"Your questions will be answered."

The door opened and Tori took in the sight of the Batcave, her eyes were wide as she looked around and she wondered what was going on, and where was Damian?

"Barbara! It's time."

"Batman? Batman? Respond." Barbara didn't hear Blake as she tapped the earphone on her right ear "Damian, come on pick up."

"Damian?" Tori asked

Oracle turned to Victoria Queen standing along with Blake "Oh no."

"Is he okay?" Blake asked

Barbara shook her head, moving her red hair away from her face "I…I don't know."

Alright, two chapters in a row are up and running! With me having the morning off, I decided to try and bang this out, nineteen will be up this week, I want to try and finish this as fast as I can so I can move onto the next one.