Chapter 15: Dick discovers the Batcave

(Later at Wayne Manor…)

Dick searched fruitless Bruce and Alfred disappeared to he knew he didn't just hallucinate them going in the study.

"Where are they, Hudini?" Dick asked.

Dick then hears a noise he hid behind Bruce's desk.

The Grandfather clock opened like a door and Alfred comes out Dick didn't know how that was possible.

Soon as Alfred left the room Dick rushed towards the clock before it closed he pulls open and gazes at the dark staircase.

"The hell is this? The basement?" Dick asked.

Dick descends the stairs and it got darker the deeper he got and was startled by the minute streak of bats.

Dick ducks as the bats flew over him and soon as they were gone Dick looked in front of him.

Lights and systems turned on automatically with a computer voice chanting:

Intruder Alert!

Intruder Alert!

Intruder Alert!

Dick could not believe his eyes when he had discovered the Batcave and the identity of Batman.

"Freaking A! Bruce Wayne is Batman?!" Dick was shocked.

That he is.

Dick explored the cave amazed at everything he saw.

The Batcomputer.

The empty space where the Batmobile would be.

And the container that held the extra Batsuits from Returns.

Dick was finally understanding why Bruce was MIA a lot.

"So this is where you've been spending your night Bruce. Late night meetings my ass." Dick said.

Dick then had the idea that Bruce being Batman could give him an advantage to get Two-Face.

He went to a backroom we haven't seen in the first two movies, a room similar to the one that held the Batsuits in the Schumacher films, only THAT room contained prototype suits designed like the Batsuit.

Dick then smirks.

He takes a suit and puts it on. It felt heavy than it looked.

Upstairs Alfred received the Intruder Alarm on his watch making him frown; they never had an intruder before and had a bad feeling about it.

Alfred rushed back to the Batcave only to see Dick…

…ride off on a Bat-bike.

"Dear Lord…" Alfred said.

Alfred feared Bruce would be fired for this.

(Meanwhile…)

At a Construction site we join back with Two-Face.

And his men.

They had the workers hostage and the goons were planting bombs Two-Face sort of… BURROWED from the Riddler.

"The only way to show the Bat some manors is to even the odds." Two-Face said.

"How do you tend to do that? Blow half his face to bits too?" Harvey asked.

"Depending on what the coin says." Two-Face said.

"None of this feels real. I still don't understand why we're fallowing in Nygma's schemes when he's the one that did this to us." Harvey said.

"Hate that guy but least he opened our eyes." Two-Face said.

As time passes Two-Face saw the Bat-Signal in the sky and he glared at it with hate in his bad eye but sadness in the good one.

Suddenly when the goons nearly finished up they started getting snatched into the shadows…ONE. BY. ONE.

Two-Face turns around seeing a goon being kicked at him.

Two-Face pulls out his gun looking around hearing his men screaming.

And before Harv knew it…

…..Batman appeared behind him from the shadows.

Harvey turns around pointing the gun but Batman knocks the gun out of his hand.

"It's over Harvey." Batman said.

"It's not over till you're dead Batman!" Two-Face said.

"This isn't you. Why are you doing this?" Batman asked.

"Why? You have the NERVE to ask WHY? I think WE should ask why you set us up!" Two-Face said.

"'We'? What'd you talking about?" Batman asked.

"He means me and him, Batman. He's not really me. Another personality with a will of it's own!" Harvey said.

"Shut your pie hole Harv!" Two-Face said angrily.

Batman feared his friend has really lost it.

"Harvey, you're sick. Let me help you." Batman said.

"OH NOW YOU WANT TO HELP! Well it's too late for that. If you wanted to help me you wouldn't be so jealous!" Two-Face said.

"Of what?" Batman asked.

"That Gotham looked up to me more than you. You took down Joker and Penguin but Gotham thanked me for it and not you!" Two-Face said.

"That's not true." Batman said.

"It ain't huh? That's not what the coin said." Two-Face said.

"You make your own choices Harvey. Not a coin. Whatever the Riddler told you, don't listen to him." Batman said.

"It wasn't up to me Batman…" Harvey said.

"It was up to chance!" Two-Face called.

Harvey holds up the coin.

"Just like it's up to her…what happens from here!" Two-Face said.

He flips the coin: BAD HEADS

Two-Face pulls out a detonator as Batman charges at him.

He sets it off setting off Riddler's bombs around the construction site.

"BOMBS AWAY BATMAN!" Two-Face yelled.

They all exploded causing Harvey to run and Batman back away trapping him to be caught in the explosion.

Two-Face retreats with his remaining men as Batman was left behind but suddenly he felt being pulled out before the rubble and titanium would fall on him.

To Batman's surprise his rescuer turned out to be…

…Dick in the body armor he dressed in earlier.

"Surprised?" Dick asked.

"What'd you doing here?" Batman asked.

"Ever heard of a thank you?" Dick asked.

Batman wasn't happy how this could mean.

Dick being there in an armor suit only means he knows his secret.

(Later at the Batcave…)

We cut back to the Batcave where Bruce and Dick changed out of their suits.

But Bruce wasn't letting Dick off that easy he was furious that he put his life on the line like that.

"What the hell did you think you were doing out there?" Bruce asked.

"Hey don't give that father lecture crap. I just saved your life. If it weren't for me Two-Face would have blown you to bits." Dick said with a smile.

"It wasn't worth risking your own hyde." Bruce said.

"Come on. Would a little gratitude kill you Bruce? Look I'll do whatever you say if I get into the superhero gig too." Dick said.

"We're not superheroes." Bruce said.

"Well you definitely dress and fight like one. I'll still need a hero name. Bat-Might, Nightwing. Which do you like better?" Dick asked.

"I prefer Dick Grayson College student." Bruce said.

"Screw you! I just want to help you." Dick said.

"I don't need you!" Bruce said angrily.

"Say who? You and I both lost our families to maniacs. Why should it be any different with me?" Dick asked.

"Because you still have a choice." Bruce said.

"And I'm choosing this so I can kill Two-Face!" Dick said angrily.

"And then what?! Huh? You ever killed a man before kid? I have. Jack Nappier killed my parents before he became the Joker. And then…I got him. But you know what it left me? Nothing. Nothing but this cave. The suit. And all of Gotham's most wanted! It didn't accrued to me till I saw Selina kill Max Shrek. I don't want to see you make our mistakes." Bruce explained.

"It's too late for that. I'll kill Two-Face if it's the last thing I do." Dick said.

Dick storms upstairs leaving the Batcave with Bruce sinking in his thoughts.

To Be Continued…