Soon enough, we arrived at the location where Penguin had Harley. "Alright, we're here." I said, before noticing it was still only Batman, NVRmore and I. "Just us? Where are the others?" I asked.
"Superman and Diana were on there way, but then Metallo began attacking Metropolis. They're busy handling him. It's only us." Batman said.
"Fantastic. Three people without powers against gods know how many people on par with Bane." I groaned, before looking back at NVRmore. "Oh, right. Well... At least someone here has powers. That's SOMETHING." I said.
"How about you stop bitching and let's get some work done, alright?" NVRmore said angrily before walking through the walls.
I growled at this. "Bastard... It's like he's taunting me. Because he still has his powers and I don't." I snapped.
"You relied too much on your powers. You became careless and arrogant. Taking them away was suppose to teach you to be cautious and think about your actions. But NVRmore's right. You'll only ever think about yourself." He said, grappling to an open window, ziplining up to it.
I growled at this, but then began to think about what they said, trying to think of moments that proved them wrong. And not very many where coming up...
NVRmore hid himself in stealth once he was inside the building. Batman did the same, hiding in the rafters. Meanwhile, from outside, I had an idea, banging into the side of the warehouse once, before also grappling my way up like Batman had.
"Hey, did you hear something?" One thug asked.
"Yeah, it's coming from outside. Let's go check it out." Another said, the two leaving the warehouse to investigate the sound.
"Guards are gone. Let's move." I said over the earpiece Batman had given everyone.
"Alright then. Let's hurry." NVRmore replied, moving in.
The three of us then made our way into the main room, where Penguin was observing as a machine continuously sucked out Harley's blood. "This is a good day. Raking in thousands from selling this demon blood, making my men stronger and sucking the life out of the clown's girlfriend! It couldn't get better!" The avian obsessed criminal laughed.
"Typical villain monologue." I said to myself.
Harley growled at this. "Mr. J's gone! I ain't his girl no more! But I'll still make you pay for this, birdie!" She snapped. But then, due to the angle of the operating table, she was able to see Batman in the rafters. "Bats! Good timing! Get me out of here!" She yelled.
"What?!" Penguin asked, wheeling around and looking up, spotting Batman and I as I made my way up to the Dark Knight. "It's the Bat! And the Blade bastard! Men! Get in here and kill them!" He shouted.
"Damn. Our cover's blown." Batman said.
"Oh, you're fucking kidding me." I groaned.
Since NVRmore didn't appear to have been noticed, he moved to behind the machine and started dismantling it.
Batman and I dropped down as thugs began to pour in, all mutated by the demon blood. "What have you done, Penguin!?" Batman asked.
"What's it look like?! I've been making my boys bigger and better. As well as anyone else who can fork over a few hundred. A small price to pay to be able to knock around Batman like a ragdoll." He laughed.
"Maybe, but you know who can still knock THEM around? My kids." I said, having been secretly sending a text to my kids this whole time. In an instant, Saphyra, Saeka, Nasai, Nash and my daughter with Erika, Seri, appeared in front of us.
"What the?!" Penguin asked, shocked.
"You called your kids to fight demons?!" Batman demanded.
"Hey, they'll be doing it as a job in a few years, best to get a head start. Now, gather 'round, Children! Daddy's set up a play date for you!" I told them.
"Awesome! Who are we beating down!?" Nash asked.
"That's the spirit, son! Now, make sure you share your toys, don't leave Daddy's sight... And bring me the bodies. But most importantly, have fun!" I told them, watching as they rushed off. "Ahh, just warms your heart watching your kids at play." I said, wiping a tear away.
"And no killing!" Batman shouted after them.
My children unleashed a barrage of fireballs, separating the oncoming thugs into groups, before separating themselves, each one rushing in at a group of about 5 thugs.
Background Music: "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" by The Offspring
Nasai jumped into the middle of his group, doing a breakdancing headspin, turning his legs into blood whips, lashing and cutting them rapidly as he spun, before blasting the legs out from under one of them with a fireball from both hands. The force from the fireball launched him into the air, allowing him to get back onto his feet. He then turned his hands into dragon-like claws, which he then set on fire, rushing in and stabbing the tripped up thug, flinging him into two more and shooting a fireball from his mouth and both hands at the same time, engulfing the three in a pillar of swirling fire, leaving them charred and unconscious, but alive. He then rushed at the remaining two, slashing them with blinding speeds, before stabbing his claws into the ground and raking them forward, creating a wave of fire and demon energy that sent them flying back into a wall behind them, unconscious.
Nash relied more on his dragon heritage, sprouting Draconic wings and a tail, his arms and legs also changing his hand and feet to claws and rushing in, slashing at the thug in front of him with his claws, doing a backflip and kicking him in the face and uppercutting the thug with his tail, launching them both into the air, before flipping forward and slamming his wings down into the thug, sending him into the ground. He then landed and folded his wings in, before opening them out at high speeds, the wind pressure launching away the thugs to his left and right. They crashed through a support beam, slamming into and stopping against the next one, where he bombarded them with blood bolts from his hands. One thug rushed behind him and tried to attack, but he jumped over him, wrapping his tail around his neck and slamming him headfirst into the other thug, knocking them both out.
Seri found herself quickly surrounded by the thugs, who all jumped at her at once. "Kaioken!" She announced.
"Kaio-what?" A thug asked, before she knocked all of them away with a massive round kick, flinging them all in one direction and pulverizing them with an onslaught of ki blasts. She rushed forward and unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks to one of them, locking her fists together and slamming him into the ground and used All Clear to send another one flying into a wall, knocking them both out. The other three hit the ground and recovered, rushing in at her. The first one threw a punch, but she disappeared and blasted him from behind Evil Explosion, sending him to the ground, unconscious. She turned around and perfectly countered the attack of the next one and pulverized him with Meteor Crash. "I've got you brat! I'll hit you harder than dynamite!" He shouted.
"Dynamite, huh? Not a bad idea..." She said, disappearing to dodge his next punch and reappearing behind him. "Mega-Ultra-Super-Hyper DYNAMITE KICK!" She announced, beating the mutated thug with a barrage of punches and kicks, before lighting her foot on fire and delivering one final and literally explosive kick. "We may be kids, but we're still Blades!" She said, doing a pose similar to Jaco's.
Saeka rushed in at the first thug, her legs on fire as she hit him with a flying kick, doubling him over. She then did a front flip and knocked him down with an axe kick, creating a katana of pure fire and slashing the thug's back, the flames spreading over his body, but his healing factor saved him and repaired the damage, but at the cost of draining too much energy for him to stay conscious. She then creates another fire katana and slides under the legs of another thug as he rushes at her, slashing his legs to stun him, before kicking him into another thug, beginning to circle the two while spinning and slashing with her blades, searing and cutting the two until their healing factors, too, were overworked and they passed out. The last two rushed at her, but she turned the flame blades into fireballs and launched them at the thugs, engulfing them in flames and leaving them charred, before they passed out.
Lastly, Saphyra used her metal powers to make herself titanium ninja garb and rushed at the thug in front of her with a scimitar, slamming the butt of the handle into his forehead, stunning him before slashing him and knocking him down, creating and pinning him with 2 spears in each limb and knocking him out with a kick to the head. Two thugs rushed in from behind her, so she morphed the scimitar into a hammer, spinning and slamming them into a wall, creating a second hammer and flinging both into each of their heads, knocking them out. The next one rushed at her, but she created a katana, rushing in and slashing his waist, dropping him to his knees in pain and shock, before turning the katana into a mace and smashing him in the head with it, knocking him out. The last one charged as well, only to charge into a puddle of molten iron she created, which then encased his feet, welding them to the floor and trapping him, allowing Saphyra to create an anvil above his head and let it drop on him, knocking out the final demonized thug.
End Music
"Yep. No doubt about it. Those are my kids." I said.
"Make sure they don't go too far." NVRmore stated, having dismantled the machine.
"What the!?" Penguin asked, looking back to see the machine dismantled, Harley falling to the ground, free from the machine.
"Hey... Thanks, new guy... Nice mask..." She said, before passing out.
"Uh... no problem." NVRmore said awkwardly before confronting the Penguin. "You're going to jail, Penguin. Your whole operation is over."
"I don't think so, freak!" Penguin said, pulling out a vial of demon blood from his pocket and injecting himself, his muscles growing dramatically. However, unlike the others, who gained muscles, but not height, Penguin began to gain height as well until he was roughly the size of Killer Croc.
"What?! No... That's not right! Low-tier demon blood can't cause a transformation like that... It has to be mid-tier blood... At LEAST." I said.
"Dad!" My kids all shouted, rushing in to help, but I held a hand out.
"No, kids! Stay back! This one's ours." I said, rushing in.
Background Music: "This is Gonna Hurt" by Sixx A.M.
NVRmore turned intangible and dared Penguin to attack him. Penguin instantly rushed forward and tried to grab the vigilante, only to find out he couldn't. "Blast you, little wanker!" He growled, before looking at Batman, who was in the process of bringing down the final thug. "Fine. If I can't get you, I'll finally kill the Batman!" He snapped, storming towards the unaware Dark Knight.
"Batman, watch out!" NVRmore called out, chasing after the transformed villain. He turns tangible and grabs Penguin into chokehold, tightening his grip.
Penguin, however, easily grabbed NVRmore and flung him into Batman, knocking the two vigilantes down. He walked up and raised both fists in an attempt to crush them, before an onslaught of bullets hit him, staggering him back. "Back off, Big Bird!" I shouted, getting to the two vigilantes and pulling them up. "You guys okay?" I asked.
"You're going to kill him! No guns!" Batman snapped.
"He's fine, look! The wounds are already healed." I said, pointing to Penguin as, indeed, Penguin's flesh healed and pushed the bullets out of his skin. "Oh, that's not good..."
"Guess I'll use the same solution again." NVRmore mutters as he gets and takes out a handful of pellets. He dives at the Penguin while turning intangible, going through leave but leaving the pellets inside him.
The pellets went off, but unfortunately, Penguin appeared to be completely unaffected. "What in the bullocks was that!?" He demanded.
"That won't work anymore. Mid-level demons and higher are completely immune to basically every kind of drug, poison or disease. The only way we're bringing him down is to hit him 'til he dies!" I shouted, before noticing their glare. "Oh, sorry. Until we knock him out." I corrected.
"That piece of information would've been more preferable to hear earlier." NVRmore stated, shooting a taser at Penguin to shock him jolts of electricity.
The taser did seem to shock Penguin, but he wasn't greatly slowed down and continued to charge, but was knocked off-course by an explosive batarang to the face. "Exactly. We need all the information we can get! Unless you're hiding something from us!" Batman said.
"I only thought we were dealing with low-class demons and demon blood." I explained.
"Yeah, well, now we're not. So tell us what we need to know, damn it!" NVRmore shouted, throwing explosive disks at the transformed villain.
"You know everything now. Just keep hitting him!" I said, slashing and shocking him with my Ardat sword, but the wounds seal harmlessly seconds after they're inflicted.
NVRmore let out an annoyed sigh and used his taser again to shock the Penguin. "It's no use, ya bloody idiots! I can take you all down without breaking a sweat!" Penguin snapped, kicking away NVRmore and smacking me away as I began shooting at him with Last Regrets once again.
NVRmore cursed as he got kicked away. As he looked up, he noticed one of the building's steel bars. The vigilante signaled Batman, pointing up to it. Batman nodded, flinging some explosive batarangs at the steel bars and sending them down on Penguin.
NVRmore watched as the steel bars crashed onto Penguin, hoping that they'll be enough to knock him out. They did indeed slow him down, but Penguin wasn't done yet. "It ain't over, Batman! I'm finally gonna get rid of you! Then all of Gotham's gonna bow to me!" He shouted, throwing off the beams, one of them falling on and pinning down NVRmore. Penguin then rushed at Batman and punched him, sending him to the ground. The Dark Knight then pulled out 3 explosive batarangs just as Penguin grabbed him and pinned him to a wall, forcing him to drop the batarangs. "I'm gonna enjoy squeezing the life out of you!" He laughed, trying to crush Batman.
A loud gunshot rang out and Penguin dropped Batman, Looking up, he saw me blasting Penguin with a shotgun, still not doing nearly enough damage to be lethal, but definitely pushing Penguin back. "NVRmore! One more of those discs to his face!" I shouted to him.
"Fine. This better be enough to knock him out." NVRmore said, turning intangible to move through the beam. He turns tangible to throw an explosive disk to Penguin's face. The disc hit Penguin in the face, sending the mutant reeling and, after struggling for a moment, finally going down.
End Music
"Oh, gods, FINALLY." I sighed in relief. "Good work, man." I said to NVRmore. "Bats, you okay?" I asked.
"I'll be fine." The Dark Knight said.
"Great. So, Harley was where they were getting the low-tier demon blood, but what about the stuff Penguin used?" I asked.
"We'll have to ask her when she wakes up." NVRmore stated, gesturing to the unconscious clown.
"Fair enough. You two take them and I'll reconvene with my clan's reconnaissance team and see if they have any new information." I said, walking towards the exit where my children were waiting, before stopping and sighing. "Hey, uh... Good work today." I said.
"You weren't bad yourself. At least you and your kids didn't kill anyone on this mission." Batman said.
"Alright then. I'll contact you if I get any new information." I said.
"Right. We'll do the same." Batman said.
I reunited with my children near the exit. "Great job, kids. Your first mission and you passed with flying colors." I told them.
"Alright! Do you think we can have dragon steak for super tonight?" Nasai asked me.
"You bet, buddy. You earned it." I said before Seri used Instant Transmission, sending us back home.
"Hm. There MAY be hope for him after all." Batman said.
"Maybe, maybe not. We'll just have to see. NVRmore replied.