The Rise of Two-Face Part 1

Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. the Batman, was certainly having an interesting evening.

First off, his butler Alfred had warned him that his health was going to suffer if he didn't start eating right. His former protégé Nightwing had told him that he'd gotten involved with a woman that Batman might not approve of. And just now, Catwoman had somehow managed to sneak up on him, in the darkness of the night.

"You're slipping, Bats," Selina Kyle told Bruce Wayne with a delicious purr, as they stood together on the roof of a high-rise building. "Time was, I could never have snuck up on you that way."

"What do you want, Selina?" Batman said in that low, rumbling voice.

As always, Catwoman did the unexpected. She threw herself into Bruce's arms and kissed him full on the mouth. Her tongue forced its way passed his teeth, and Selina grabbed hold of Batman tightly until oxygen became an issue for both of them.

"Would you believe it if I told you that I came to find you, because I wanted you? That we should go to your Batcave or back to my Cat-lair, and make love to one another until the sun comes up?" Catwoman said, after Batman finally tore his lips away from hers.

"No," Batman growled irritably, fighting temptation as he pushed her away.

"Well, then, Bruce, you're obviously no fun," Catwoman smiled, knowing just how tempted he'd been right now. Not that she wasn't in the mood for it as well, as Batman was the only guy who could ever keep up with her – even if Selina could never quite bring herself to give up her thieving ways for Bruce, in order for them to be together openly.

"Why did you come after me tonight, Catwoman?" Bruce asked, no longer willing to use her real name.

Selina sighed. "Because someone thought they could bribe me to keep you busy until dawn. The intermediary didn't know much, just that the plan involved Arkham Asylum..."

With a loud whooosh, Batman was gone.

"...and I knew that as soon as I told you that, you wouldn't be in the mood for us to be all snuggle-you anymore," Catwoman said with a sigh. "One of these days, Bruce, I swear..."

At the same time, Bane broke into Arkham with henchmen wearing the uniform of the supervillain known as Zorpox.

BOOOMM! Bane's fist smashed into the outside wall, easily creating an opening for them. In a blitzkrieg maneuver they ran across the courtyard, killing anyone who got in their way. They then made their way inside as guards ran to the cell area, guns out and ready to shoot.

"We need backup in cell block 85!" said a guard into a walkie-talkie.

Just as Batman was on his way to Arkham in the Batmobile, the attackers decided to kick it up a notch into high gear. BANG! BANG! BANG! The henchmen fired and killed the guards.

Bane grabbed the bar door of Drakken's cell. With his obscenely huge strength, he ripped them loose and tossed the bars into a wall! BAM!

"Stay the hell away from me!" Drakken yelled in fear of Bane. He knew who the villain was, after all.

Hearing this, Shego blasted out her way out from her own cell nearby. "Hey, you ugly son of a bitch!"

"You're dead," said Bane emotionlessly, as he turned around and faced the female criminal.

Shego smiled, and fired green balls of fire at him. BLAST! BLAST! BLAST! BLAST!

But after Bane took the hits, he was still standing. Shego couldn't believe it, no one had ever been immune to her powers before!

Well, apart from that one time...

Bane punched her and she went flying into the air. SLAM! Shego hit the floor like a broken sack of potatoes. The floor actually creaked under her impact. Luckily for Shego, she had excellent healing powers or she would have been killed from the impact.

Bane threw two new guards out of the away. The henchmen knocked out Drakken, then took him with them as the bad guys made their daring getaway.

Batman was too late to stop them. "What happened here?" he demanded in his gravelly voice as he finally arrived on the scene.

"Bane and some men wearing black costumes with a Z on them, they took Drakken," one of the surviving guards said. "Drakken's flunky, Shego, she got away as well."

Batman grunted, then whirled around and left. He saw the Bat Signal in the sky, and knew what to do next.

After talking with Commissioner Gordon, Batman left the rendezvous point. High above, a henchman that had been shot in the leg during the prison break saw Batman though his red lens goggles. He pulled out his gun and started aiming at Batman.

Without looking up, Batman threw a bat-shaped boomerang. The henchman's gun got knocked out of his hand.

Batman flew up to the roof with one of his technological gadgets and grabbed the henchman by his costume. "Where's Drakken?"

"You don't scare me," the goon spat back hatefully.

Batman lifted him up off the ground. There was utterly no humanity in his voice as he said, "You should be scared. Because I'm not a cop, I have my own ways of dealing with scum like you."

The henchman looked like he was going to shit himself. "The others took Drakken to the old municipal building in Middleton!"

Batman threw the henchman aside, and he fell unconscious as his head hit the ground. Leaving, the Dark Knight quickly drove off towards Middleton.

In the abandoned old municipal building, the henchmen were tying Drakken's arms and legs to a chair, while they were setting up a metal gasoline barrel with a bomb on top of it. A henchman started the timer for the bomb, while another removed the duct-tape off Drakken's mouth.

"OWW!" Drakken yelled in annoyance. "Imbecile! That hurt!"

He looked at their costumes. They were wearing the same one that Zorpox, a.k.a. Ron Stoppable, had once worn. "So, he's back? Unbelievable. I mean, I can't believe that the buffoon actually has henchmen, that is," Drakken sneered.

"Once the bomb goes off, you're a dead man," said one of the henchmen. "Now shut up and die!"

They left and quickly vanished outside of the building. At the same time, Shego was racing down the street on a black and green motorcycle.

"Who'd have thought Kimmie's sidekick could hire Bane, and have planned all this out?" Shego said to herself. "I KNEW there was a reason why I was kinda frightened of him, way back when..."

Batman got out of the Batmobile, as he arrived on the scene. Realizing that their plan was now in jeopardy, the henchmen came out of hiding in order to fight Batman.

Too bad for them, all that accomplished was to get their asses kicked!