A bat in Bayville's skies
Chapter 14
Night had fallen in Gotham, some scared citizens where moving as fast as they could to get home before the gangs decided that they wanted to go out. One young woman was running as fast as she could, she turned in an alley "God I'm so late" she muttered as she tried to walk even faster "I should be there by now" she stopped a second to catch her breath but felt a hand gripping on her shoulder "Don't move or you´re dead" she gasped and started to tremble in fear when she felt a gun in the back of her head "Your purse give it to me" she did as she was told "This is it!?" the criminal yelled at her, the poor woman started to feel her eyes water "I'm sorry but it's all I have, I swear!"_ "then you`re no use to me" she waited for the worse but the gun didn't fire, she turned and saw the man struggling with his gun "Blasted thing why don't you…" the gun flew off his hand and started to levitate, both of them stared at it in awe before the gun turned and pointed at the criminal "WHAT? What's going on!?"-"People like you disgust me" a voice interrupted his ramble, now both of them where frozen in fear. A dark shadow descended, a purple cape could be seen moving gently with the wind "People who think they can do as they please just because they have a gun on their hands" with a flick of his wrist the gun fell to the floor, but whit the other he smashed the robber with a trash container squashing him to dead, the young woman gasped in horror "leave before I change my mind" she grabbed her purse and ran as fast as she could, the dark figure scoffed "Humans" magneto master of magnetism levitated once more and looked at the place he wanted to go in the first place "Ah there it is the Falcone house" he landed on the gates to the mansion, he opened them triggering the alarm, a dozen of armored goons pointed their guns at him "Gentlemen please drop your weapons, I just want to talk to your boss"-"You can go to hell!" magneto sighted and shook his head "Humans are so narrowed minded"-"Who are you calling human freak!" Magneto didn't acknowledge him and continued to walk to the door of the Falcone mansion "Open fire!" all guards fired their weapons at him but Magneto simply raised his hand, all the bullets stopped in mid air and with a flick of Magneto`s wrist all the bullets where sent back to those who had fired at him. Magneto opened the door where he found a scared Falcone holding a gun aiming at his head "Look I don't know who you think you are but if you think you can just walk into my house and…!"-"I can do as I please" Magneto interrupted him as he took the gun out of his hand "I´m Magneto and I am looking for something and I'm sure that you will help me get what I'm looking for" Falcone looked down "What do you want? Magneto smirked under his helmet "Not much, just the adamantium that you have in your vault"-"WHAT!? No way, that cost me a fortune"-"And I´m getting it for free, lucky me, oh and also how to contact the best assassins in the world, I know people like you have their numbers" Falcone looked at the ground in defeat fuming with rage "Damn you"-"I`ll take that as a yes" Falcone sighted in defeat and signaled Magneto to follow him, he opened his vault and took his adamantium "I could have sold the adamantium in millions in the black market" Falcone said as he admired the stone that had cost him so much, Magneto extended his hand impatiently and made the rock move towards him, Falcone tried not to show it but he was very unnerved by the man that was next to him "The assassins" Magneto reminded the mob boss. Falcone sighted and grabbed his notebook, he started to write down the numbers "What do you need assassins anyway?" he asked as he wrote down the numbers "I need to get rid of someone but I can let myself be seen, it would make my plans go slower"-"He must be a real pain" he finished as he handed him the paper. Magneto nodded at him and levitated opening a hole in the roof as he left "for your sake may we never meet again" Falcone sat
Down in a nearby chair, holding his head in disbelief at what he had just seen.
"Your information turned to be really helpful, Mystique did well in recruiting you" Magneto told Croc as he entered the building that he and the beast had decided to meet "Yeah, I used to live in Gotham, know it like the back of my hand" Croc told him as he devoured the remains of his meal, Magneto nodded, he looked around at the place, it was farm in the middle of nowhere, near a river that passed Bayville, obviously the way that croc got here magneto turned to his new lackey "You know that you can't tell anyone that we have met" Croc snorted "of course, I know you don't trust blue girl and her school of rejects" Magneto sighted, he was right, well almost he did have interest in two of the members of the Brotherhood, his son for obvious reason and the young Anne Marie or more commonly known as Rogue, Croc continued to bite down in his meal, cracking the bones of whatever unfortunate creature he had stumbled upon. Magneto made a face at the noises that Croc and decided that asking him a question will get him to shut up "What can you tell me about Rogue?" Croc stopped eating and made a face "She can absorb memories and abilities from other people just by touching them, but I'm sure the smurf already told you that, the thing is that she is scared of using her powers and she usually prefers not to get involved with anyone in the brotherhood mansion, hell she´ll turn in her heal if anyone else is in the room" Magneto frowned, well that was not good for his plans but he had more important things to do "Anything else?" Croc shook his head and stood up "Nah, things have been very boring, the bat shows up once in a while but I have been keeping low"-"Batman will be dealt with, I have sent a message to a couple of assassin, if they kill him we get rid of him and if they don't; he will be distracted long enough so that he doesn't interferes with my plan" Magneto made his way to the exit and nodded at Croc before leaving. Croc finished his food and made his way to the river, the water was cold and deep, perfect for him to blend into the environment, the constant raining had been a blessing too, no annoying campers. Croc moved his tail and accelerated his pace, he had told mystique that he wanted to go out and deal with someone. Mystique accepted his request and let him go, thinking that he was looking for the infamous Doctor Crane. He hated the bastard but he was probably in China at this point, but Croc was sure of something, he will return to try and take down Batman. He knew that Crane hated the Batman and wanted to kill him to prove that he was better than him, but if the Scarecrow returned he will kill him… and Batman too, because he despised him more than he hated Scarecrow. When arrived at Bayville it was night and he still had to make his way to the Brotherhood house. He jumped out of the water; he smelled the air and knew something was wrong "Killer Croc, when I hear of sightings of a giant murdering monster in Bayville I knew it was you" Batman appeared out of nowhere and kicked him in the back. Croc grunted but laughed "I´m glad that you found me, I was hoping for a rematch" Croc tried to grab Batman but he was faster and kicked his hand away and landed a punch in his jaw "Heh that tickled" Croc used his tail and hit Batman in the chest, sending him a couple of meters away from him, Batman grunted in pain but recuperated quickly, he reached for his utility belt and threw some baterangs at Croc stunning him, Batman wasted no time and kicked Croc in the stomach and delivering and upper cut to his jaw. Croc held his jaw in pain but, he managed to recover and used his claws to rip Batman´s chest. Batman grunted in pain, Croc grabbed him and smashed him to the ground. He was about to bite his head off but was meat with fist to the face and kick in the groin. Croc roared but Batman had already escaped and started to beat his opponent. Croc started to panic and grew desperate so he did the thing that most animals do when they are cornered, he bit Batman in the shoulder. Batman screamed in pain and punched Croc in the face until he freed him. Croc saw this as his chance and made his way to the river "You will have to watch your back Batman, when they get here you`re a dead man!" Batman turned to Croc but he was already gone. Batman sighted and looked at his shoulder; it needed to be patched up, he walked to where he had left his motorcycle, he started the engine, it was almost dawn, he had to hurry to get back before anyone noticed. He got in time and locked himself in his room. As he slowly patched himself up, he pondered on what Croc had said "Who is coming?" he asked himself. He heard a knock on the door. "Come in!" he quickly put his shirt back on and cleaned all that might look suspicious. Kitty yawned and rubbed her eyes "Hey Bruce, sorry to wake you" Bruce smiled "I was already awake nothing to worry about" Kitty sat on his chair and grabbed a nearby news report "Giant alligator terrorizes Bayville, think is big ugly and scaly" Bruce nodded "I´m sure" Kitty made a face at the article "Why would he be in Bayville? It's not like he has anything to do here" Bruce sighted, he actually didn't know why Croc was here but he did have a theory "He might be looking for me to get his revenge or something… or maybe he is looking for Crane" Bruce saw kitty tense, he mentally cursed. Right he forgot, Kitty was afraid of Crane, her fear started all the way back when Crane, or the Scarecrow as he preferred, attacked her school and drugged almost everyone in it. Bruce touched her shoulder "hey I´m going to the park later, want to tag along? We can get some ice cream or something like that" Kitty blushed, but nodded excitedly "like, totally will go… I mean sure" she blushed harder and made her way to the door "I´ll be downstairs… eating obviously because its early and stuff… so yeah… ill talk to you later" she exited the door and made happy squeal. Bruce scratched the back of his head, he shrugged off her weird behavior as excitement over finally going out and see town. Croc´s threat still lingering in the back of his head. For some reason it worried him.
A/N: Well…. This is awkward, hi I`m not dead, sorry for not updating this story, but I swear I did not have time, but anyways as you saw, this chapter was setup for things to come. Some of marvels best assassins are coming to town and maybe some lesser DC characters, Crane might make a comeback and all of them are coming for Batman´s head. So please let me know what you think I know this was kind of filler, but I swear I have a plan, oh and by the way you can vote for the assassin you want, Deadpool or whatever. But no Deathstroke he is important later on. Please let me know what you thought and any suggestions you might have. Until next time