Chapter Three: Night on The Town.
Mirajane groaned as she came to, she didn't know how long she was out but she could tell at least this she was going to be having an hard time on escape with her hands bound. With or without magic.
Raising her head she began to look around in the hope of finding something that she could use to get out of this mess, her gut was screaming for her to get out of here and thanks to the past three years at Hogwarts she was learning to listen to the feeling and she planned on splitting when it was possible and her arms and legs weren't tied to a chair.
"Well looks like sleeping beauty is finally up." The red masked man from earlier said to her as he moved into his line of sight.
Mirajane felt her emotionless mask slip on as the Red Masked man stared at her, she couldn't show fear to this man. She lived against tougher odds than a psycho like this she couldn't give him any satisfaction about anything.
The masked man closed in on the distance between them letting the Masked man get inches from her face.
"Look at you. The newest of the Bat Brats. First Dick, then Babs and now you the little entitled princess, what did you beg Bruce to let you in on his child killing crusade?" the Masked man said making no sense.
"I don't know what the hell you are talking about. What does Batman have to do with Dick, Babs and Bruce? Who the bloody hell are you anyway!" Mirajane shouted.
The Red masked man seemed to have stopped at the young witch's declaration when he froze for a moment before he started to cackle like a madman.
"What the hell is so funny you psycho!" Mirajane shouted once more becoming unnerved at how the man was acting.
"You don't know. Ha! Bruce is Batman. He might not tell you now but when he does he'll drag you into his pointless little crusade against Gotham's trash. And you'll end up dead with bullets in your head if you are lucky." the masked man said as he began circling her. "You'll be a little solider fighting a war simply because Daddy Dearest told you to."
"You're wrong Jason" Mirajane said before the Masked Man seemed to have snapped as he suddenly had a fist full of herhair that he was pulling her head up with making her face him.
"I'm wrong tell me what am I wrong about." he snarled.
" That I would join Bruce on his crusade just because he told me to. I will only defend Gotham for the good in this city. Nobody will tell me what to do ever again, I live my life the way I will want. So if i put on a mask like Bruce Dick and Babs it will be my choice and no one else's." Mirajane said clenching her teeth.
"You may say that now, But you'll see you'll end up by the side of the dark knight it'll only be a matter of time. So how do you know I was Jason?" the Masked man said as he undid something on his helmet that hissed as he took it off revealing a young man with dark hair with white fringe that framed his blue eyes.
"There may be a chance, but it will be on my time and on my terms, no one else's. I knew you were Jason because I guessed. I've never met you before but all i can say about you is that you have a hell of a grudge against Bruce/Batman. So at this point you could kill me any time you want, so i have nothing to lose at this point." Mirajane said keeping a neutral face. "My only question is want is your problem with Bruce."
"MY PROBLEM is that he let the sorry sack of shit that got me kill live! I can admit that I jumped the gun at chasing after the joker that day. I made a mistake and it cost me." Jason said his grip on her hair loosening some before tightening once more. " But he let the Joker live and I'll never forgive that,"
"I can actually understand why you're so pissed. You were, by the sound of it brutally murder and the guy is still breathing air. I feel the same about the guy who killed my parents" Mirajane said
"It's sounds like you are Bruce if we're making comparisons." Jason quipped in.
"Yeah, point there but the point is that the guy only came after them because of me and now my parents are dead while the man who killed them is still out there as an disembodied spirit who still wants me dead for no reason that I know of. So truth be told I want the rotten bastard as much as you want the Joker dead so yeah I can understand of the feeling of wanting someone dead and someone who had the power to stop them didn't do."
"Disembodied spirit?" Jason asked with a tilt of his head.
"Don't worry about that, anyway you have to understand about how Bruce must have felt. I'm sure that Bruce wants nothing more than to kill the Joker but to be honest I think he's scared to kill the clown bastard." Mirajane pipped
Jason just looked at her like she had a third head before throwing his head back laughing.
" Bruce Wayne, The Batman scared."Jason scoffed. "Whatever tea you have been drinking I think you need to lay off it's obviously making you crazy."
"Not everyone can kill so easily, everyone has lines that they are determined to never cross. No matter what for Bruce it's killing. Taking a life is never easy."Mirajane said trying to reason with her captor. "He must be afraid of what he'll become if he steps over that line."
Whatever Jason was going to say next was lost to her as suddenly she was free from her restraints and was now across the room by the window with Jason holding a gun to her head as the door was breaking off it's hinges as the City's Dark Knight burst into the room.
If Mirajane was honest with herself she could have thought it was the coolest thing to actually see, especially since she really couldn't remember the first time she was saved by Bruce/Batman and Dick/Robin (if Jason was telling the truth) thanks to blood loss, but the coolness of the moment was ruined with her life being threatened in the form of Jason holding a gun to her head.
"It's been nice chatting Mira, but time to get this show on the road." Jason said before he threw her out of the window before beginning to open fire at Bruce before following her down in the free fall. "Catch us if you can Bruce!"
Once thrown out of the window Mirajane took a second to thank whatever god was out there that was a much shorter building for her to land out and not be a pancake on the sidewalk or alleyway. The landing was rough but she was alive, she attempted to run but once again Jason seemed to be a step ahead as she was now more or less being dragged across the tops of buildings. She had a feeling this would be lasting a while.
Mirajane let out a hiss as she sat down on the ambulance's rear with a blanket wrapped around her shivering form. It had been three hours since her abduction from Bruce's Charity ball, and it ended with her taking a dip in the Gotham bay after jumping off a bridge to avoid being turned into swiss cheese by Jason or Red Hood (as he is known in Gotham now) who apparently had planned running her ragged through Gotham with the Dark Knight chasing them only for the night to end when she had a bullet in her head. But he didn't take into account that she would be willing to do something crazy like jumping off a Bridge that was over 250 feet in the air.
After all this she was just glad to be alive and not covered in bullet wounds. After her jump being near freezing and sore was something that she could live with.
She looked over to where Bruce was talking to Commissioner Gordan, Barbara's dad, and couldn't help but wonder if what Jason was saying true was Bruce Batman? If he was did that mean Barbara and Dick were Batgirl and Robin?
The raven haired teen just let out a sigh as she tried to sort through the night in her head, it was just all too confusing.
"So Mira how you feeling?" Dick asked materializing beside her.
"Good considering I pretty much skinned my legs with a psychopath threatening to shoot my brains on the pavement to seen a message to the Batman. Before I took a dip in Gotham bay salt water with bleeding legs." Mirajane said as she clutched the blanket around her tighter. "Although I can wait till we can leave so I can change into something warm and get out of soaking wet clothes."
"Your blunt honesty you're definitely going to be okay." Dick grinned.
"Don't worry Mirajane we're done here so we can go home and you can get into something dry." Bruce said interrupting anything that Mirajane was going to say next.
Both Mirajane and Dick nodded. The car ride back to the manor was quite, with Mirajane avoiding any questions about the Red hood with claims of being tired and confused by everything that went down.
Within the hour of being back at Wayne Manor Mirajane took a hot shower and got into some warm clothing and found her falling asleep soon after while trying to think if she confront Bruce and Dick about what Red Hood aka Jason Todd had told her. When she woke up it was a little past midnight and her window was open.
upon checking around her room to make sure that Jason wasn't about to pop out of nowhere for about round of keep away for Batman she saw a note that was written in her journal that was suppose to be sitting on her desk on the opposite side of the room was now on the window seal being what kept the window open. she picked it up and closed the window confused about what was going on more so when she realized her jornal felt heavier than it was suppose to be.
Inspecting it she saw it was caused by some blade sticking out of the middle. opening it up she saw it was a batarang and a note from Jason.
So Little Raven I figured after tonight you still wouldn't be believing that Brucie is the big bad bat so I thought I should tell you how to get to the cave to prove that I'm right. Go to the clock in the main hall on the ground floor and turn the hands to 11:30 and wait for a click before trying to move the clock. After that there will be a door with a keypad type in the date 0626 then follow the stairs after that you should believe everything I've told you then.
That was how Mirajane soon found herself following the note to find out once and for all if what Red Hood said was true about Bruce or not. Was Bruce really Batman or not?
She took the Batarang and her grandmother's special gloves on the chance that Jason was going to take the chance to finish off 'making his point to Bruce'.
She slowing crept down the hallway making her way to the stairs making sure to stay as quiet as she could and thanking her lucky stars that her room was oddly the closest to the stairs. Which allowed her to get to the clock with ease.
Mirajane felt her heart pick up as she began to move the clock hands to say 11:30, once done she waited to hear a click which happened just moments after she finished positioning the hands. sliding the clock had been an easy task as she finished following the directions for access to the near mythical batcave.
Once the staircase was in sight Mirajane was surprised when her heart wasn't popping out of her chest yet. She walked down the stair into the damp chilly air half expecting someone or something to pop out.
When she reached the last step she seemed to have activated the motion sensors for the lights (hopefully only the lights) as the apparent cave was suddenly lit up with a dim light.
The young Witch quickly noticed the cylinders off to the side that held various customs that she was quick to see where the costumes of Gotham's masked heroes. There were Batman, Batgirl, and two different Robin costumes.
"So you finally found the cave?" Bruce's voice said from behind her, making her jump and turn around on her heel in surprise.
What greeted her was Bruce looking at her in exsasprations, Dick grinned like the imp he is, and Barbara looking impressed.
"Um, this may not help but case but it was more I was told then I found." Mirajane said hesidently. "Jason/ Red Hood stunk into the manor and put a not in my journal telling me about this place. He seems to want me to see you as the bad guy."
Bruce seemed to be even more displeased about the situation.
"I'm in trouble aren't I?" Mirajane said before Barbara and Dick just looked at each other and nodded.
"Oh yeah."
Here's the next installment for the crazy in my head.