Chapter 4

…Wayne manor

Bruce knew that Jason would be coming for him next, so he lay out a plan to stop the killer. Alfred was in the main house, he had locked everything and barricaded the doors, he was armed with an assault rifle and was watching the main entrance, while keeping his back to the study with the entrance to the cave in it. Bruce was in the cave, monitoring every camera for any sign of an impending attacking.

Jason, Talia and Harley were nearby, outside the confines of the Wayne manor. They had several assassins with them.

Talia pointed and the assassins moved. They ran across the estate and to the door. Cautiously the entered, immediately being attacked by Alfred.

The rounds he fired were rubber and not powerful enough to kill, but they did hurt and forced some of the assassins to halt their advance, but some still ran forward.

The first to reach him slashed with his blade, but Alfred dodged, narrowly.

Batman then emerged from the space of the clock. He fought the assassins off, Alfred firing at some of the assassins.

"Alfred, get to the cave" Batman ordered as he tied the assassins up.

*BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM*

Batman reacted quickly, rolling behind a fallen cabinet. Red Hood was standing several metres away, but Batman knew every inch of the house and threw three Batarangs which knocked the guns from his hands.

Harley ran past with her mallet, smashing a few things on the way past, she ran into the cave.

"Let me help you" Talia offered.

"No. Go help her. Bruce is mine" Red Hood ordered her and she complied hesitantly.

Batman kicked him into the wall, then grabbed his arm and tossed him into the opposite wall with enough force to make the paintings fall off and break through it. "I'm taking you in, Jason" he moved to grab him, but Jason kicked him in the shin, then pulled him to the ground and wrapped his legs around his neck and squeezed to choke him.

Batman struggled to lift him. "I'm going to kill you. And when I have I'll become the new symbol for this city. I'll do what you never could."

Batman slammed him on the ground, then lifted, then slammed, then lifted and slammed again.

Red Hood let go. But he didn't give up. The two began to slug it out, both dealing out hits that caused grunts of pain and bones to be broken, as well as wrecking things in the house.

…

Talia and Harley were in the cave. Harley smashing everything she could with her mallet, while Talia approached Alfred slowly. He was out of ammo, and he knew that he couldn't beat her in hand too hand, his only way to win was to buy enough time for Bruce to beat Jason or risk it all and use the Hellbat suit.

He ran to the case that the suit was being held in and took a glove out from inside it, slipping it on he turned lifted a small console and threw it at Talia.

Grabbing the case, he hastily put on the Hellbat suit, confused as to what it was he was putting on Talia hesitated until it was too late to stop him. "No!"

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave" Alfred knocked her into the wall with a single hit, following through with a punch that shattered a massive portion of it.

"Yahtzee!" Harley yelled, cartwheeling to him and slamming her mallet against the hard suit, but it had no effect.

He swatted her aside like nothing, but before he could finish the fight he started to cough up blood from the toll the suit was taking on him. Harley didn't notice, but Talia did. She sprant toward the exit, not the one that led to the house, but instead she headed for the exit that Batman used when leaving by Batmobile.

Alfred noticed and followed, but she evaded his hits, despite her weakened state from the earlier attack she could still dodge just quick enough.

…

Jason and Batman could hear the echoes from the devastating blows of the Hellbat suit. "What is that?" Jason asked.

"No. Alfred, please say you didn't" he ran to the clock, but Jason grappled for his ankle and pulled him to the ground. "Jason!" he yelled in frustration.

"No. We're not done."

"Jason. It's Alfred."

"So, what? He was next on my list" he said bitterly, and his response even surprised Batman. He couldn't believe this was Jason, but that was it. He wasn't the Jason he knew.

Batman threw himself at Jason, his eyes filled with rage. He grabbed the helmet and pulled on it, but it didn't come off straight away and Jason kicked him off while he struggled.

Both grew tired as they continued to fight, but Jason grabbed one of his guns mid fight and when they separated pulled it from his belt and fired two shots which hit him in the chest.

Batman expected them to deflect off his armour, but the rounds were high powered, clearly modified for his armour.

"This is sad. You're done." He kicked him in the chin and tossed him into a table.

*BLAM*

With that he was dead.

…

Jason crept into the cave and manoeuvred to the main computer where he saw what was happening outside, Alfred was fighting Talia next to the exit.

"Damn. That thing makes him as strong as Superman. How do I beat it?" he searched the files but he couldn't encrypt much. He did find specs for a new suit that Lucius was building for Bruce, it was supposed to be completed soon, but he guessed that with everything that was going on Bruce hadn't found the time to get it.

"If I get that I might be able to fight harder, but it still won't hold up to more than a few hits."

Then he noticed the blood seeping through the head plates. "He's killing himself? But how?" he wondered, but he ran to the exit while pondering why he was bleeding.

"Talia!" he yelled as he slid from the exit and open fired on the suit. Nothing worked.

"Jason! The suit feeds off of him. He won't be able to keep going much longer" she jumped backward, flipping as she did, to avoid another attack.

Alfred was weak. Almost dead, he had almost no strength left, but he triggered the suit so that it would overload.

Jason dove toward Talia, tackling her away from another attack. She smiled at him in thanks.

Harley emerged and hit the suit with her mallet. Then repeated the action over and over, to no affect.

Then a red energy poured from the suit, like a wild fire it expanded, Jason leapt backward with his hand tightly gripping Harley's. Talia was several metres in front of them and he couldn't reach her. The explosion was massive, destroying a massive area. Jason was protected by his suit, which had been severely upgraded. However, both Harley and Talia had been scorched by the blast.

He cursed and picked them both up. There was no one to help, but he got them both to their bikes, he put them on the back of his and drove off. Into the city he went as fast as he could.

…

There was a plane on an airfield near the city. He took them both to the airfield and asked Ras to heal them both. Which Ras agreed to. But Jason remained behind. "I have somethings I need to get first, before I can come back."

Ras nodded and the plane took off, but there was another plan that remained so that he could get back, two assassins were waiting for him.

He went back into the city where he entered the Wayne Enterprises building. Lucius was there clearing out everything that had to do with Batman in the secret lab, but Jason already knew where it was.

"Bit late, isn't it? I mean you should be at home."

"Red Hood. You're looking a bit worse for wear" Lucius tried to hide the things near him but Jason pushed him aside.

He studied the blueprints. They were the schematics for a new range of suits that he was preparing to build. He noticed the pieces of the armour that Lucius had already built in one corner of the lab, although it was hard to tell which piece belonged to which suit. "These could be useful."

"No. You can't-" Lucius protested, but Jason grabbed him by the throat and pinned him to the wall.

"When I saw the schematics for the new Batsuit I figured you'd be getting ready for the next suit, but I didn't expect all this."

"Why… do you even need… all this?"

"I killed the bats, but I still need to purge Gotham and take down Ras. My suit is broken. Obviously so I'll build another, a better one."

"Someone will stop you."

"Not likely. When Gotham is free of crime they'll realise that my way was the best way and then I won't have to worry about the other, annoying heroes."

…Nanda Parbat

Ras placed Talia into the waters of the Lazarus pit, followed by Harley. They both healed within minutes and woke up in shock. "Where is he?" Talia asked when she recovered.

"He stayed behind to get something. I trusted that it was important."

"Must be" Harley declared gleefully.

"Very well. We'll wait for his arrival and your marriage can begin." Ras folded his arms and left the room. Talia went to her room and brought Harley with her.

Talia carefully checked if anyone was nearby and pushed her bed covers against the edge of the door to block the sound, she then moved Harley to the bed. "How much do you care for Jason?" she asked, her tone serious, but her volume low.

Harley just smiled, laughed, and spread her arms as wide as she could, then tried to stretch further.

Talia smiled and then nodded in acknowledgement. "Then I can trust that you'll help us to get rid of my father?"

"Uhuh" she nodded wildly.

I don't plan on doing the next story very soon, but I will do it at some point. Right now I have a lot of school work and my YouTube channel so I want to try and tie up my stories that I have going, at least the shorter ones and only right quicker stories like this one for a while.