The day did not start well.
Alfred had to take him off because of an unfortunate incident that had happened with one of Gotham's latest editions to villains against Batman and against Bruce Wayne as well. Alfred was back in Gotham resting after he had reassured him that he tended that there would be no action and that he would leave the Batman suit behind. This was the only way that Alfred would agree to the terms of him going to the party without any help from him as for his visits he was only a civilian and no more.
He was arrested on the Friday night which would mean that he would be stuck in his jail cell for the night three nights. He would not be able to get out on bail over the weekend that was if he was able to last that long without any more suspicions or leave with his life intact.
As far as he knew it Alfred was not aware of the situation and he would not be able to reach out to help him or go to the board of members of Wayne Industries to help. He used his one phone call to call his lawyer(s) and they were not able to help him in the current situation he was in or represent him due to "personal reasons". It was clear that he would not be getting help from any of his Lawyers any time soon or that anyone was motivated to help him.
His arrest for Vigilantism was one of the outcomes that he had outweighed would come to be. Far more likely to be expected was to be his death rather than his retirement or forced retirement. But this outcome was something that he had not predicted or even thought of that he would be arrested for wrong identity.
The world right now thought that Bruce Wane was The Green Arrow and not The Batman. If he was not sitting in a jail cell right now he would be laughing like a maniac of the irony of it. He could only laugh on the inside because it was the only thing he could do and it was too hilarious to even think that he would ever be The Green Arrow.
He would never wear something so colourful and an outfit that would be for Halloween based on a fictional character in folklore. Of all things to wear did Oliver really have to go with something so childish that it was just baffling that the old Ollie would just laugh at the mere thought of wearing tights. The thought of it made him chuckle just a little.
His date(s) for that night had cancelled when they was an article circulating about his dating life and his personal life. It was rather idle gossip that started the moment that he had gotten to Star City and started to hang around with his friend Oliver Queen and Oliver's friend Tommy Merlyn. It was a hack job done by an unknown person looking for a name for themselves and it looked a half ass job to him but no one else seemed to think this and that is just what those people want you to think. And that gossip reporter was now Tommy Merlyn's date for the night and it was obvious who the unknown source was for the article and it was clear as day that it was being rubbed in his face.
But his job tonight he was just the dumb idiot that likes to drink the night away and get the party started even if there was not a party to be started.
And without a date he had no other choice but either talk to Oliver or have a nice little chat with the others and that did not always go well. It seemed that the Merlyn's were suspicious of him and immune to his charm.
'Tommy' Merlyn did not approve of Bruce's relationship and friendship with Oliver Queen out of sheer jealous and fear that he would lose his friendship with Oliver. Jealously was a natural emotion to have and gives a person a reason to hate someone. But he did not see Tommy Merlyn as a threat but a tool that he could use to his advantage, using his jealously and rage against him.
He saw Tommy Merlyn as somewhat similar to his Brucie persona and somewhat they both had that in common with each other. Tommy was as seen to the media as a Rich and entitled trust fund brat that lives off their parent's money and just parties all the time.
Oliver had joked that he was his date and that they would be spending the night together. It Probably had to do with the fact that he had "stolen" Tommy Merlyn's potential girlfriend the first time they had met as teenagers and it had not well from there with other women on both sides of the fence. With Malcolm Merlyn it was common business rivalry and Merlyn would mostly lose business to him or the business would go to Wayne Enterprise. But it had all started with his Father and Malcolm Merlyn not getting along because of personal reasons and business but mostly on how each of them handled their business and how they ran them with their influence.
He thought that this was just another party that he was going to but that was his mistake was far more than that. There were far more powerful people here than he was inspecting or was lead to believe by Wayne Industries who insisted that he attend this swell party to make the company look good, for business sake. Now he was realising that he was truly sent here to do business for the company and make them look good or to make him look bad to people in the company. He was not sure yet but suspicions was not telling him someone/something was going on inside Wayne Industries that he was not aware of, yet.
His first mistake started when he had mistakenly attended to the Fundraiser at Merlyn Global Group without a second thought or being fully prepared for what might happen. He would have been better going to Merlyn Global as his better half having that being more effective and also getting more results.
And with Lex Luthor here and attending the party it was not difficult to assess what the situation was.
And Malcolm Merlyn was a completely different deal entirely and was the main reason why he was here in the first place. Rumours circulating when he was training with The League of Shadows, rumours about a man named "Magician" that led to an all too familiar name. Then the latest tip/suggestion that he was given about the kind of man he was and the potential threat that he was. If he did know the truth about Malcolm Merlyn then there was a chance that he would also know the truth about him and that was a risk that he could not take.
He was being observed the whole night from the guests to Malcolm Merlyn and Lex Luthor who were keeping their eye on him the whole night. He had but little option to intake some actual alcohol and beverages that night with all the chitter-chatter and conversations that they were having with each other including the obnoxious toasts.
Tonight turned out to be a private and closed auction for the latest business deal with a private section of the government. They were looking for a company that they could do business with and it seemed that they were able to gather everyone together. He was just not aware of what the business was or what they would be doing in the first place.
He had no interest in doing business with the government especially with the sounds of it not entirely legal. All he knew that it would be good for the business and whoever got the deal would be making millions maybe even billions by the sound of it. But he could not take the risk of the government being so close to his business and keeping a close eye on him.
He was able to get away from the others because of this having a private game with Tommy Merlyn and two other ladies that night. Or rather what Brucie was having with the drinking game that he had made and the night was just beginning "Every time a pretty girl walks by you that one drink and if she smiles you also take a shot". He had made the game in his teens and now the game had become infamous because somehow he ended up playing with Tommy Merlyn that night.
Neither of them had the best track record and it would all be too easy using them for his alibi with them 'naturally' falling asleep. This would give him time to search for what he needed to search for evidence of the illegal activity that was going on.
There was another archer in town that was attacking and murdering certain type of people and this archer was not Green Arrow. Someone of the people that were killed was innocent people that just got in the way or were just witnesses to the dark archer's crimes. He had went up against the Green Arrow and then soon disappeared after that contrition and Oliver ended up in the Hospital.
With Tommy out cold he was able to get his private key to the private evaluator to the only floor in the building that no one else could get to expect for the Merlyn's, naturally.
There were no cameras up here apart from the elevator camera that would caption him going in and out. But the cameras would not be able to see that he had indeed gotten off the town floor unless they carefully checked. All they would see someone that was drunk and had slipped their drink over themselves and was looking for a place to clean themselves up looking for the bathroom and muttering about it.
Heard the noise downstairs and he knew that he had to flee his position as fast as he possibly could. The evaluator then went off along with the other electronic devices including the security alarm which immediately set off the security to lock everyone in the building.
He was able to pull himself out of the evaluator and make to the floor just below the floor that he was already on.
Unfortunately when he looking around for what he needed there was an attack going downstairs.
Incidentally he ran down the stairs the alcohol was starting to hit him and hit him hard making him slip down the stairs. He was able to grab onto the railing just on time before he feel down the flight of stairs.
Things were dizzy and his balance was off the moment he stepped onto the next flight of stairs so much that he could walk in a start line and knocked down a trash can. He knew that he had drunk some alcohol but he was able to water it down when no one was looking. Someone had either spiked his drink or there was more alcohol in it than he was told and what was on the label. Either way he was not fazed by the alcohol and he needed to get sober fast as he could or he would end up a target.
He did not notice right away but inside the trash bin was a green hood along with the outfit to match. The only thing that he could think he could do was to put it back in place as he heard someone running up the stairs knowing what they would logically think upon seeing him holding it and they would naturally lead to the same conclusion he would.
He quickly gathered everything together and then hid in the closet as he watched Oliver come up the same flight of stairs he watched Oliver going through the trash bin and take the outfit out and then run up the stairs putting it on.
He had seen Oliver before with the hood on before but this was the first time that he had seen him put on the hood himself. There was no longer denying it and he had all the evidence that he needed to face him in the near future if he ever needed to.
A man named Floyd Lawton, also goes by the name Deadshot an assassin for hire that never misses his target. Hired to assassin people auctioning for the latest business deal and Bruce Wayne was one of those targets and he had gone missing. Deadshot was stopped by the Green Arrow by an arrow through the eye.
Green Arrow had taken another life this left him little choice or alternative The Batman was going to have a conversation with The Green Arrow about his latest activities and what would happen if he was continue to go down this path.
Within a couple of hours the police should up his hotel room with a warrant for his arrest for vigilantism and murder. But the surprise had come when he had heard the charge of murder because Batman's one rule of not taking a life.
He was cuffed and the remarks the police made which made him realise that they had thought he was The Green Arrow and not The Batman. He could not be more surprised and could not help but react to this.
"You think that…I am the Green Arrow!" he could not help but laugh at this statement.
The police had taken this remark as a confession as they read him his rights.
He was then footage of him with the trash bin with the hood in his hand just before the camera had cut off. His fingerprints were upstairs were the dead body of Floyd Lawton was located and there was no other ones found other than The Merlyn's so the police had all the evidence they needed.
This time was in trouble.
Identity Fraud was one of his expectations that might have befallen on him to his arrest then this event fall down as Batman found. One of these scenarios was Matches Malone's arrest which would lead to the police finding out that he was Bruce Wayne. This would eventually lead to the obvious that he was The Batman and his downfall.
Sitting in the jail cell overnight had given him time to think and mistakes that he knew that needed to be corrected. Plans that were made would need to set in emotion if the truth was revealed or if he was found guilty because either way it would be the same results.
Looking at the handle bars and the walls it would be all too easy to escape from this cell within mere hours. He had been watching the guards all night and it was all too easy because he had known their shift back and forward.
He knew when how many of them and which one of them he needed to look out for and which ones he did not. The ones that were the dirty cops, from the ones that were the lazy ones that just fell asleep on their shifts, the ones that were dedicated and the ones were just there for the paycheck just waiting for the time to be up.
He knew their routine all too easy and predictable that there was rather a little effort or thought put into it. He had noticed the gap in time when they changed shifts. Who and when they went on a break or a typical smoke break. It was all too easy and it would be easy for him to get out of here in no time at all in many other ways.
Breaking out would be all too easy. But what was after was the hard part because there was he would be a fugitive and naturally he would on the run for the rest of his life. Waiting would be the best option.
His life was already screwed up and now it was just getting worse.
"You have a visitor" said the guard.
And he was surprised by his visitor because it was someone that he was expecting at all. He had not seen this man since the day after his parent's funeral after the arrangements were made for Alfred to be his legal guardian.