"You will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. You have given me your last order." Freeze slammed his hand into a fist
The vial burst in a million pieces of glass, the blue liquid fell onto the floor. Batman growled and prepared to charge. Freeze primed his gun and aimed it at Batman, he fired and the dark knight flipped back into the stairwell he came from.
"Oracle, Freeze is attacking me. Get me the schematics from Wayne Corp now!" Batman ordered
"You got it, just try and avoid him attacking you; this will only take a minute."
Batman jumped out of the way and hid in a corner, he looked out of the corner cover and spotted Freeze…and he was heading right for him. Batman continued to move, not wanting to stop, if he stopped, Freeze would kill him.
The tubes on Freeze's suit began to spark with life, glowing a bright ice blue, he aimed his gun and fired a rounded burst at Batman's location who managed to jump out of the way and threw a batarang at Freeze, another shot and the metal throwing bat froze and broke in a million pieces.
With lighting fast accuracy, the caped crusader drew his grapple gun and aimed at the roof, hitting a button on the side he was quickly throwing upwards and into the shadows of the domed roof.
"Batman, hope you're ready, I got the schematics."
Damian gave a sigh of relief as he grabbed onto the metal frame with one gloved hand, the other tapped his ear while he watched Freeze. "Hit me Oracle."
"Freeze's suit is a former suit used by front line army soldiers, the suit would adapt to any type of situation and any form of damage taken to it."
"Then it's unbeatable?"
"Not exactly, while the suit can be adapted, it can't keep up a constant strike of attacks against it, every time it takes eighty percent damage, it reboots itself. The time it takes for this reboot to completely give energy back is longer and longer until…"
"Until the suit can't charge anymore, anything I use can defeat him?"
"Pretty much everything, your line launcher, your gun jammer, and just no batarangs."
"Not to mention the little secret weapon Morgan developed." Batman readjusted his belt
"Even that one, I would use it last."
"Tap into the security cameras and get back to me about where the damn cure is. I'm not letting my mom die because of him."
Selina's vitals began to dim, Leslie looked at Selina Kyle with fear, the young girl she had saved all those years ago and brought to her clinic after her father had finally killed Maria Kyle when she was no older than seven years old was now dying because of a disease that her son knew the only doctor who cured it.
Come on Damian, hurry up already damn it.
Bruce Wayne waited outside the hospital, in the back seat his daughter Maria slept soundly, unaware that for the last month her mother had been dying, he was furious with the whole situation, while yes, he was proud of Damian for what he had done in Gotham so far, but he was worried sick for Selina, the woman he had come to love over the years had been through enough, now she had to deal with this.
A knock on the window knocked him out of his thoughts; he lowered down the window and let the cold air enter his SUV "What are you doing here?"
Batman readied himself, he adjusted his position and glared down at Freeze who was still searching for him, though now a loud noise followed by an arch like blue light, the paint on his armor would stop him, the light was going to scan for any life forms.
"You cannot hide from me forever."
"I don't need to." Batman bellowed "I do my best work in the dark, but now it's time for winter to end."
Batman leapt off the side of the roof and flew downwards using his cape for support, just when he was about a few inches over Freeze, he let himself drop, his feet made impact as Freeze hit the ground hard, a loud beeping echoed through the halls as his suit began to shut down, Batman went on the offensive, landing a few quick cobra punches into Freeze's chest and finally slammed a fist into the center of Freeze's helmet, noticing a small crack forming.
Rebooting system, rebooting system.
A pulse was sent out of Freeze's suit, knocking Batman off his feet and sliding into the ground, he looked up to Freeze standing up again, his suit glowing, he flexed his hand and closed it into a fist as he primed his Freeze gun. A thick mist began to spread throughout the battlefield originating from the slots in Freeze's suit.
Batman dove out of the way and jumped into cover as Freeze fired again, missing by a narrow inch of Batman's cape. A sigh of relief came from him as he took out his gun jammer.
He jumped out of cover and held his hand behind his back "Freeze! What do you think you're going to do after you kill me?"
"Simple, when I kill you, then I will move onto the rest of Gotham, freezing it over and sentencing the people into an icy grave." Freeze turned to Batman
Batman looked behind him for a split second to see the gun preparing to fire, the lights glowing and the gun beginning to glow the same icy blue as the tubes in Freeze's suit. He pressed the button and heard a beep as Freeze pressed the trigger.
In a hot flash, the gun overloaded and the resulting heat began to fry the controls, Batman took the opportunity to dive forward and tackle Freeze to the ground, he pinned the ice terrorist to the ground and slammed a series of punches into Freeze's face, breaking the glass and slamming a few fists into Freeze's bones.
The suit began to power up again, Batman dove as the pulse exploded out again, Freeze stood up and looked around as he began to turn the power on his gun.
"I learn from my mistakes Batman! Do you!?" Freeze bellowed
Batman sighed, he knew the giant gun was his only hope, he looked out as it prepared to fire, and the barrel of the gun began to spark with life. He began to move silently through the under level of the arena, he drew his sticky launcher out, primed it and fired ahead of him, saying a prayer the bombs landed where they needed to be.
Freeze began to move, his feet were active, but Batman had a plan, he flipped open a compartment of his belt and pressed the button, the lights went out, including the gun temporarily, Freeze's lights were the only source.
"Oh!? You think the darkness will save you from me? I can see your every move Batman!"
"I do my best work in the dark," Batman taunted "You won't find me unless I want you to, which I guarantee you, when you find me, this fight for Gotham's future will be over…and the dawn will take away the ice."
Freeze finally followed his path up a small set of stairs, as he began to move forward, he found his target. He grabbed Batman by the throat and slammed a fist into his stomach, which caused the lights to turn back on.
"Hey Freeze."
Freeze looked at his adversary as Batman removed his belt buckle off and slammed it into Freeze's chest, the bat symbol began to glow red.
"The heat is on." Batman smiled as he kicked Freeze in the groin
The resulting blow caused Freeze to let go long enough for the caped crusader to flip them so Freeze was trapped, as he prepared to move upwards, the bombs timer hit zero and the bombs exploded, sending the gun into overload and causing a series of explosions to rock the arena, Freeze began to receive explosion after explosion, surges of electricity pulsed through his body and the explosions sent Batman flying and hit his head against a railing.
As his eyes began to blur, he could hear someone speaking to him, a familiar voice Damian? Damian? Come on wake up!
Victoria Queen woke up in a small office, she didn't know where she was, all she knew was that her head hurt and the last thing she remembered was a gun being armed behind her head.
"Glad to hear you're okay." A voice entered her ears
She found herself lying in a small hospital bed, she slowly stirred and woke up to an elderly male sitting at the edge of the bead, and his British accent was the most stand out part of him.
"Who are you? Where am…"
"Relax your back at Damian's home." The man spoke up "The gentlemen who tried to kill you was tied up and left for the GCPD, Mister Blake sent me to find you, and your phone gave you away."
"So who are you?"
"You may call me Alfred Pennyworth Mrs. Queen." Alfred smiled
Batman slowly began to rise, his body ached and he finally felt it, his armor began to crack and pieces began to break away, nothing that would leave him in danger of having his identity exposed but the suit would have to be trashed.
He limped over to Freeze, he lay sprawled out on the ground, he had to find it, find the cure and save his mother.
"Freeze, I know your awake." Batman growled
He flipped him over, blood stained his lips and his face as he began to wake up "Leave me to die…at least I'll be with Nora again."
"Why would you want to die when she's alive?"
"You lie!" Freeze yelled
Batman shook his head "Oracle, did you find her?"
"Yup, she's alive, Victoria found her, but Selina…she's running out of time."
"Fries, I need your help, someone has the disease you found a cure for, I need your cure. If there is still any form of the man who dedicated his life to save Nora…I need your help to save a life…so will you…Doctor?"
Fries grunted and pressed a button on his wrist gauntlet, out of his wrist slid the vial with the antidote, along with a second one right beside it "Take two of these…and call me in the morning."
Batman smiled "Thank you Victor."
Selina's vitals flat lined just as the cure was put into her IV, Damian took a sigh of relief as a blue light illuminated the room, he looked to Maria and Bruce who sat on the couch, Maria was passed out and Bruce smiled at his son. To his right, John stood at the door frame, with Barbara smiling, Leslie stood by Selina.
"All we can do now is wait…" Damian took his mom's hand "And hope."
Okay, so we're drawing to the conclusion of this story and I have to say I love this story! I hope everyone is enjoying this, there are only three chapters to go and there will be the set up for the sequel, which will be out soon so stay tuned!