Gotham's East End
8:15 PM
...Katara groaned.
What...What happened?
She was...sitting on the ground...
Sluggishly sitting up as her back was leaning against a wall, Katara grabbed her head in hopes of clearing it. Upon rubbing her head, her eyes fluttered open...and they went wide when she realized that this environment she was in didn't look like the Fire Nation Palace courtyard.
In fact, she just remembered their situation!
"Huh?" Katara went on high alert. "H-Hello?" She got on her feet, but not too quickly, lest she wanted to feel a headrush.
Once she gained her bearings, she looked around to see where she was...
It looked like an alley from where she was standing. She also looked up to see that the building in front of her was...tall.
"What in the...? Katara was about to say in awe, but she paused for a moment in her speech. She then said something again, "Uh...hello? Hello? Hel...lo...hello?" she said, testing out her new speech. "...Uh...why...do my words sound so different?"
"Uuugh..." came out another groan, this time coming from her right. She turned her head in that direction to see that a large metal container was there against the opposite wall...it sounded like it came from the other side of the container.
Before she could go over to the person who made that groan, she stopped in her step...and noticed something odd about herself.
"...Huh? W-Wha-...What am I wearing?" Katara asked herself, baffled.
Katara was wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt with a white horizontal stripe on her chest, which the stripe had blue waves at the bottom of it. She was also wearing normal dark blue jeans and purple and white sneakers. Her hair stayed the same, long and wavy with two little hair loops on each side of her head.
What is all this? Katara thought as she felt the fabric of her shirt.
"Ugh..." the voice groaned again, "Wha...hello?"
Katara's head perked up, her eyes lighting up.
Wait. That sounds like...
"Zuko?" she called out to the voice.
"Huh? Wha-K-Katara!? Katara!" said the voice of Zuko.
"I'm right here!" Katara told Zuko as she went over to where he was.
As soon as she got close to the other side of the metal container, she found Zuko...
"Katara!" Zuko exclaimed as he stood up. However, he looked at her new attire oddly, "Uh...wh-what are you wearing, Katara?"
Katara blinked at Zuko, "I...I think I should be asking the same for you, too."
"Huh?" Zuko, confused, looked down at himself.
He was wearing a red shirt with a black printed dragon on it, and baggy white cargo jeans, with black army boots.
"...Oh...uh..." Zuko blinked, "...Wait...my...my words...they sound-"
"Different? Yeah, mine too," Katara finished for him.
"...Huh..." Zuko stood there to think for a second until he remembered their situation. His eyes widened in alarm and he said, "Azula!"
"Azula?" Katara asked. She also remembered the fight they had with the Fire Princess, her eyes widened in alarm as well. She looked around the area they were in, as did Zuko also...
...But they didn't see her in this alleyway.
Speaking of, Zuko asked Katara, "Uh...where are we, actually?"
"Um...that...I don't know," Katara answered, a little confused herself, as she glanced at their surroundings.
Zuko also looked around the area once more and came to the conclusion as he said, "Something isn't right here."
"You're telling me," Katara agreed as she looked down at her jeans.
Looking down at his clothes also, he raised a quizzical eyebrow. "Uh...yeah..." he shook his head to clear it, "Either way, we got to know where we are. This doesn't look like the Fire Nation Palace at all."
"Yeah..." Katara looked to her right to see the alley's exit, "Well, come on, let's get going then! Maybe we can find out if we go further?"
"I mean...it's worth a shot," Zuko shrugged.
They both ran through the alleyway, going straight out it...but they soon skid to a stop when they saw what was waiting outside of the alley.
There were different-looking buildings that reached around four to five stories, and there were even taller buildings jutting out in the distance and lighting up in the vicinity. But the structures that are around them looked decrepit and old, with some buildings falling in and some looking like they'd been broken into. The area looked to be uninhabitable, with only a few people walking on the sidewalks during the night, as well as strange-looking tanks that were parked near the curb of the streets.
Zuko and Katara both looked around in awe at the different structures and their architecture, which raised even more questions for them.
"Whoa..." Katara breathed out, "Just...where are we?"
"Dear Agni..." Zuko softly said in amazement, "This...I can pretty much say we're not in the Fire Nation anymore. At least, I don't think we are..."
"Uh...yeah, no, I don't think this is the Fire Nation," Katara confirmed, "I mean...does anything from your Nation have such tall...buildings?"
"I mean...the North Pole and Ba Sing Se had some tall buildings," Zuko noted, "But...I guess nothing like this..."
Katara looked to her left and right at the street they were on, "Well, I think right now, we need to find someone who can tell us where we are."
"Uh, okay, but where do we start?" Zuko asked her.
"Well, anywhere, really!" Katara said, shrugging. She spotted a woman coming out of a brownstone building, wearing an expensive fur coat. "Oh, uh, hey! Um, excuse me, Miss?"
"Hm?" the woman, who had short raven hair that was stylized as a bob, turned to look at the waterbender, "Yeah? Can I help ya, kid?"
"Oh, well, my friend and I here want to know where we are at this moment?" Katara asked her.
The woman raised an eyebrow, "Uh...if you're talking about which area you're in, you're at the East End."
"East End?" Katara repeated in confusion.
"East End?" Zuko asked the woman, "The east end of what?"
"...Of Gotham?" The woman looked at them oddly.
"Gotham?" Katara asked in surprise, "What-uh...where is Gotham?"
The lady looked at her like she told her that there was such a thing as a flying bison.
"...Okay, look, I just got done with a happy client who gave me a good transaction, so as of right now, I am not in the mood for kids that are high on drugs harassing me at the moment," the woman said as she made her way down the stairs.
"Client? Transaction? …Drugs?" Katara asked as she blinked at the words.
Zuko also blinked, but his face went red as he soon realized...
Oh Spirits, I...I think she's a prostitute!
Katara then asked the woman, "What do you do?"
The woman, who was on the sidewalk now, turned her head to her and gave her another raised eyebrow. "What does it look like, kid? I get paid to have sex with men!"
Katara's eyes widened as her mouth dropped, her face all red. "What!? Wha-how can you-I mean, sex isn't something you can just get paid for! I-It's supposed to be a sacred bond between your lover!"
"Oh great, a druggie who's a preacher," rolling her eyes, the woman walked off away from them, "If you hang with your boyfriend there long enough, then you'll understand."
Now Katara, along with Zuko turned beet red.
"What!? I-no, h-he's just with me! I-I mean, we aren't, uh-w-w-we-!"
"U-Uh, Katara, let's just go," Zuko told her, as she grabbed her arm and they rushed across the street.
"Wha-hey!" Katara exclaimed.
The woman glanced at the two teenagers as they rushed through the other side of the street. "...Hmph. Looks like that guy couldn't wait any longer."
The two teens went through another alleyway and made some turns to find themselves in another alley. As soon as they stopped, Zuko let go of Katara's arm and sighed a breath of relief.
"Man..." Zuko looked at Katara, "Sorry, Katara, but I had the feeling that she was a prostitute."
Shaking her head, she sighed, "No, it's okay. I just...I can't believe someone would go through all that and get paid for just doing...y-you know, that," Katara said with a cringe.
"Yeah...it's not very honorable..." Zuko frowned, "Although we now know where we are...kind of."
"Yeah. What did that woman say? East End of Gotham? What's a Gotham?" Katara asked him, a little confused.
"I don't know, but I'm getting the feeling that...this all...this may not be our..." Zuko looked down, bothered.
"May not be our what?" Katara asked him, concern written on her face.
"...Katara, this may sound...well, this will sound odd, but...well, do you believe in other worlds?" Zuko asked her.
Katara looked at him, puzzlement shown on her face, "Other worlds?"
"I mean, like...other worlds that have...people on them?" Zuko tried to sum it up.
Blinking at that, Katara was pondering on what Zuko meant by that...and once she got the assumption, it made her eyes widen in surprise.
"Wait...are you saying...that...that we're in..." Katara faltered there until she found the courage to say the next words, "Another world?"
"...Yeah," Zuko looked a little unsure as he stood there thinking about it. Soon, he nodded resolutely and said, "I think that's what's going on here."
"...But..." Katara shook her head, "Okay, hold on! That sounds...a little out there. Like, what makes you think this isn't our world? And why would you think there are other worlds filled with other people for that matter?"
"Well, for the second question, Fire Nation scholars study the stars for information about the vastness of space. Some even theorized that there are other beings who live on different planets," Zuko said.
"And...you believe that?" Katara raised an eyebrow.
"I mean, not really...but I feel like this is something that calls for it," Zuko said as he rubbed the back of his head as he looks around his surroundings.
"Well, how can you tell this is another world? Like, it could be someplace that we haven't discovered or...something..." Katara faltered again, this time not thinking of anything else to add.
Zuko looked at her in slight disbelief and sighed, "Katara, look at us. For one thing, these aren't our clothes," he gestured to the clothes they are wearing, "Second of all, we're speaking in some form of...speech? Language? Either way, we can speak and understand these words now. And third, we're surrounded by so many buildings that are way too tall for my liking. I mean, I don't think these are even Fire Nation or even Earth Kingdom architecture."
"...Okay. Those are...um...some pretty valid reasons..." Katara looked around the area they were in as well. Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she then continued to say, "Well, I mean, if that's the case, then what are we here on this world for?"
Zuko stood there as he contemplated that. "...That, I don't really know."
"...Well..." Katara sighed in bewilderment, "...Great. We were fighting off your sister at the Fire Nation Palace, and now, the next thing we know, we're dropped somewhere completely foreign."
"...You sounded like your brother when you said that," Zuko said with a hint of a smirk on his face.
Katara turned her head at Zuko with a scowl and a pout, which made Zuko shrink back.
"Don't joke about that," Katara warned him.
"...Okay. Yes ma'am," Zuko said with a slightly sheepish smile.
Katara gave him one stinkeye, but couldn't help but smirk as well. However, she remembered something, something that she saw and witnessed in their world before they were transported into this one. "...Were you gonna jump to deflect the lightning bolt Azula was shooting at me?"
Zuko froze and started to flush a bit. "...Oh...um...I...I think I remembered something like that..."
The waterbender glanced down with a blush of her own. "...Were you...going to deflect it back, hopefully?"
"...Y-Yeah..."
Katara looked up at Zuko, expecting him to say more.
"...I mean, of course! Of course I was gonna...uh, do...d-do that..." Zuko stayed silent, with no other words coming out of his mouth.
"..." Katara looked to her right, "Well, that's...that's good. I mean, you don't want to jump impulsively and...u-uh, you know…"
...Zuko blinked.
Upon not hearing anything back from Zuko, Katara turned her head to him and rambled some more, "I mean, if you did, you...you wouldn't be Fire Lord...I mean, I'm not saying that that's the most important thing to you or anything, I was...well, it is important, to you even, and to the whole world even! I mean, you can stop this whole war! I was just...saying that you didn't want to like...risk your life and...y-you know..." she blushed a little bit more, looking down in embarrassment.
"...Katara. Even if...um, even if I wasn't going to deflect it and jumped in to shield you from Azula's lightning, it...it would have mattered."
Katara blinked, "Wh-What do you mean?"
"...Well, I...I would be saving a good friend," Zuko said genuinely.
Katara looked at the firebender in shock. "R-...Really?"
Zuko looked at her seriously. "Of course," he said determined, "You're my friend now, Katara. And...well, I wouldn't look at myself ever again if anything had happened to you...a-and to my friends!" he added the last part quickly.
"...Oh…uh...th-thank you, Zuko," Katara looked down, raising her hand to tuck back a strand of her hair behind her ear, the blush still emerging on her face.
"Um…n-no problem..." Zuko said as his face got a little hotter.
...Awkward silence followed...
…Until Katara said, "W-Well, we should probably see how to navigate this 'Gotham'."
"Oh, yeah, uh, r-right," Zuko agreed with a nod.
"Yeah...uh, right," Katara nodded, "Well, uh, after you?"
Zuko smirked. "Heh. Thanks."
They walk down the alley in silence.
As Zuko walked next to Katara, he can't help but take a glance at how form-fitting the outfit she was wearing was...
...What kind of attire is that? I mean...I don't know how to feel about it. It's just...well, Katara looks good in it, but...does it have to insinuate her whole body? I mean, what kind of stuff do these people here wear? The pants she's wearing are really tight-looking and it makes Katara's posterior look-
...
...Just keep walking, Zuko.
Meanwhile, with Katara...
...Zuko looks really...I don't know, different with that outfit on? But...in a good way? Like...a little mature-ish? Actually, a lot more mature-ish? ...Either way, it's not really a bad look per se. It's...kind of nice...it makes him a lot more handsome...I mean, I'm not saying Zuko is bad looking at all, no way. In fact, with that outfit on, he looks way more handsome in gener-
...
...Just keep walking, Katara.
And they kept on walking, hoping to somehow navigate and know more about this East End, as well as this Gotham...
Gotham's East End
8:25 PM
- Katara and Zuko -
While walking up a couple of graffiti-sprayed back alleys and taking a couple of turns through street blocks in the East End, they soon realized that they are not in a good area in this city called Gotham. There were filthy-looking people that looked like they were all homeless, and women walking around in coats that looked like they had too much makeup on, obviously prostitutes. As soon as they made a turn and passed another block, they came upon a street that had a rundown apartment complex on the other side of it. It has an outside courtyard, which was filled with more prostitutes and homeless people, the latter group sleeping on benches, on mattresses on the ground, and even some that are heating themselves up against a fire in a metal barrel. There was even more graffiti sprayed all around the area, and trash was littered everywhere.
"Wow...this place is...kind of dirty...and smelly," Katara says as she looks around with her nose crinkled in disgust.
"Yeah...this place feels like it has a lot of poverty," Zuko noted as he looked around the area.
"I wonder what we're here for?" Katara asked out loud.
"I'm really starting to wonder that myself," Zuko said, as he glanced at a prostitute who was giving him a wink and gesturing him to come over to where she was at. Grimacing at the notion, he grabbed Katara by the arm and said, "Come on."
"Wha-hey!" Katara exclaimed.
They ran across the street and were about to enter the courtyard of the complex...when one of those tanks came driving up to block their path.
"AH!" Katara yelped as she and Zuko abruptly halted.
The tank was black and white, as well as blocky, and had something on top of it, the object having two tipped colors on each end, them being blue and red. It also has some markings on it that they could somehow read, the markings saying, "Gotham City Police".
The two just stared at the tank and saw that there was a window exposing a man who seemed to be driving the tank. He was wearing some kind of black-blueish uniform, and there was another man in the tank who was wearing the same thing. One man of them was in what looked like the driver's seat and had short-cut black hair, while the one next to him had short hair as well, but is blonde.
"Hey! What the hell are you kids doing out here this time of night?" asked the black-haired man who was driving the tank.
Zuko and Katara both blinked, the former speaking up saying, "Uh, w-well, we-"
"Yeah, this area is dangerous," said the blonde man, "Are you both lost?"
"Um..." Zuko didn't know what to say to that, as they were lost, but they didn't know where to go.
However, Katara spoke for him, "We-uh, we kind of are!"
"Hmph. Well, you two need to watch yourselves around here," the driver said to them. He turned to the man next to him in the vehicle. "Hey, rookie, think you can drive these kids to the nearest precinct from here?"
"Huh? I-I mean, yeah, sure, I, um, I can," the cadet said, "But, uh, what about you?"
"I'm gonna scout this area to see if anyone is dealing with anything they shouldn't be dealing with," the officer opened the driver's door(which surprised Katara and Zuko a little) and got out. He stood tall and broad, obviously a strong-looking individual. The officer opened the other side door next to the driver's seat behind him and told them, "Get in. Cadet Blake will get you to one of Gotham's precincts."
The two teens looked at the opened back seat, Katara with unease, while Zuko was cautious.
"Uh...well, we, um...we're not...that lost...I mean, w-we can guide ourselves around here just fine!" Katara said to the officer.
As the cadet named Blake got out of the car from the other side, he walked around the front of the car. His stature was tall as well, but a little bit on the lanky side. He told the teenagers, "Hey, no worries. We're police officers, the good kind."
"Police officers?" Zuko questioned.
"The good...kind?" Katara said, now feeling cautious herself.
"Don't creep them out, Cadet Blake," scolded the officer. He turned to the teens, "Look, hop in and the rookie here will get you someplace safe, okay?"
Zuko looked at the man for a moment and turned his attention back to Cadet Blake. Each of them, the officer and Blake had different expressions on their faces. While the officer had a hard and stone-cold look on his face, Blake had a calmer and kinder face that felt like he was honest.
"...Um...alright," Zuko turned to Katara, "Come on, Katara. I think we can...uh, ride...with Blake?" he sounded a little unsure how that sounded.
"Uh...okay..." Katara then went into the car first and sat in the right back seat, while Zuko sat next to her on the left back side of the car.
As soon as the officer closed the door on them, he turned to Blake and quietly said to him, "Careful with the kids. They could be druggies."
"Wh-What?" Blake blinked, "Wha-What makes you say that? They look like they're pretty clean."
"They're behaving like druggies. Not knowing where they are, slow to respond, sounding dumb? They've clearly taken something."
"Well...o-okay," Blake said, "I mean if you think so."
"I do know so, rookie. I'm not a sergeant for a reason," the man said with a hard tone.
"U-Uh," Blake gulped and nodded, "Y-Yes Sergeant Bolles. Sorry."
"Hmph. Pick me up at this spot around thirty minutes from now. I'm gonna patrol this area, alright?" Bolles told him.
"S-Sure thing, Sergeant Bolles!" Blake assured as he saluted. He then got into the driver's seat and closed the door, driving the teenagers away from the scene.
Bolles looked on at the cop car going down the street and walked up to the complex.
Zuko looked back at Bolles from the rear window as he saw him walk off from their sight.
Katara looked at Zuko and saw the direction he was looking at, and glanced at the back window as well. "What's wrong?" she whispered.
"...I don't know. I just didn't like how that guy looks."
Katara glanced at Zuko oddly, "You don't like how he looks?"
"He looked...well, rough looking, I guess?" Zuko explained as he turned his head to Katara, "I mean, he kind of looked...I don't know, a little dishonest?"
"Oh...well, I mean...he did look a little stern..." Katara gave another glance back at the window and turned her gaze back at the Fire Nation Prince, "But hey, at least he's not coming with us, so you don't have to worry about that," Katara told him.
"Hmm..." Zuko turned his head to face the front, "Yeah..."
Before Katara tries to put him more at ease, Blake speaks up, "So, how did you two get lost at the East End?"
"Oh, uh, well..." Katara faltered there. Seeing that she couldn't think of anything, she turned to Zuko who gave him a pleading smile.
Zuko looked at her with a deadpan stare and sighed, "We, uh...we're...trying to find some people that we know."
"Really? What, um, what kind of people? Friends? Relatives?" Blake asked them.
"Um...I guess both?" Zuko said as he looked down in thought. He then briefly thought about his uncle Iroh...
Uncle...I wonder if he's okay.
Katara was also thinking something along those lines as well.
Sokka...I hope he's alright...
"Oh...uh...well, what happened to you two that made you get to where you are?" Blake asked them, his tone sounding almost a little suspicious.
"Um...we, uh..." Zuko paused for just a second until he thought of what to say, "We were looking for my sister."
Katara glanced at Zuko in surprise.
"Oh! Well, what's her name if you don't mind me asking?"
"Um...it's Azula," Zuko told him. He might as well dig himself into a bigger hole here.
"Okay. What're your last names? Oh, actually, what are your and your friend's first names?"
"Last names?" Zuko blinked in question.
"First names?" Katara also asked quizzically.
"...Uh, what do people usually call you two?" Blake asked, his tone now a little...alarmed.
Zuko noticed this briefly, and said quickly, "Uh, I'm Zuko, and, um, this is Katara," he introduced themselves.
"...Okay..." Blake then went quiet as he drove the car.
...It became silent in the car...
...Katara turned to Zuko and whispered, "I don't like this situation we're in right now."
"...To be truthful, I'm not either," Zuko whispered back, "And to be fair, I don't even know where they're taking us."
"You don't?" Katara whispered with wide eyes and shock, "Then why did we agree to be transported in this...thing with this guy driving it here?"
"I...I don't know! I mean, can you blame me? We're in some sort of new world and these weird people tell us that they'll help us out, and we're now being interrogated! I mean, I'm not a fortuneteller!" Zuko whispered frantically.
"Everything okay back there?" Blake asked.
Zuko winced and said to Blake, "Uh, yeah! W-We're good!"
"..." Blake said nothing for a moment...until he said, "Um, I want to ask you two something. And I want you all to be honest with me when I ask this," Blake said a little seriously.
Zuko and Katara's eyes widened a little bit in dread, not knowing what the officer would ask them.
"...Are you under the influence of drugs?" he asked.
...Both teens blinked in bafflement.
"Drugs? What are those?" Katara asked.
Blake took a glance at them in the rearview mirror with a raised eyebrow. "Uh..."
Once he turned his attention back to the road, he was at a 4-way stop intersection to stop where he was. And when he was about to pass the intersection...
ZOOOOOM!
"WHOA!" exclaimed Blake.
"WHOA!" Zuko and Katara exclaimed also from the sound and the speed it was going through.
"What was that!?" Katara hollered.
Blake then looked serious at that moment. "I don't know, but he didn't stop at the four-way stop intersection! Sorry kids, but hold on tight!" he turned on the siren, which freaked out Zuko and Katara.
"AH!" Katara yelped.
"What the!?" Zuko exclaimed as well.
"Hang on!" Blake said to them as he turned to the right to follow the car.
The car swerved and Zuko and Katara went shooting to the right side of the car, ramming against it, as well as Zuko slamming against Katara to his right.
"ACK!" Katara yelled.
"AUGH!" Zuko yelled out as well.
And the cop car followed the speeding car down the streets of Gotham in the East End...
...And apparently, Zuko and Katara forgot to put their seatbelts on.
Industrial District
8:23 PM
- Aang and Toph -
When Aang took a step back, Deadshot fired.
BANG!
...But as Aang stepped back, he slipped and fell back thanks to being on the edge of a building.
So in other words, the bullet whizzed past just below Aang's face as he fell off the building!
Meanwhile, Toph, who felt the presence of Deadshot emerging there suddenly but didn't want to say anything to alarm the men in the alley, stood right up and yelled out in a panic after hearing their conversation and the gunshot.
"AANG!"
"What the!?" Two Face looked behind himself, "Another one!?"
"Son-of-a-!" Black Mask exclaimed as he got his gun out.
Then, as Aang was falling, he maneuvered himself and flailed his arms around to make swishing airwaves to somehow stop and soften his fall on the ground.
The airwaves basically pushed the two mobsters slightly downward, bending over and shielding themselves from the airbending.
"WHAT THE-!?" Black Mask yelled as he felt the rushing wind blowing down on them.
"WHAT IN THE HELL!?" Two-Face yelled out.
As Aang had done that though, gravity was still taking effect and he succeeded in only landing on Black Mask and Two-Face, bringing them down with him.
"AH!" Aang exclaimed as he landed on them.
"AUGH!" Black Mask yelled out.
"AUGK!" Two-Face yelled out as well.
PLA-PLOP!
The four henchmen who were getting the merchandise, as well as the other four who were guarding the situation, all looked shocked at what transpired.
Toph held onto her breath, hoping, maybe even praying for the first time that Aang wasn't...
Then, a voice...a voice that belonged to-
"Whoa! Wha-What just happened?!" Aang exclaimed in shock as he was on top of the crime lords.
Oh Spirits, thank Earth! Toph thought. I don't know what happened up there, but whatever that sound was, it sounded way too deadly!
And it was time she decided to get into action.
"Hey, leave my friend alone!" Toph yelled out as she got into an earthbending stance.
Man, these pants feel weird when I do an earthbending stance!
"Toph!" Aang got up from the two mobsters and air-jumped over the four of Two-Face's henchmen.
All of the henchmen's eyes widened at the display of agility and grace Aang performed from that jump.
Black Mask and Two-Face didn't get to see it, as they were getting up sluggishly.
As Aang landed on the ground, he ran next to Toph and got into an earthbending stance as well.
Two-Face groaned, "Ugh! Just what the hell are you planning here, Black Mask!?"
"Hey, don't blame me! I hired Deadshot to shoot the Bat, not some pipsqueakin' kids!"
Meanwhile, Deadshot was still on the top of the building and looked down at the scene.
"...Damn it. I really got to make this quick," Deadshot then was about to go to a better position and try to shoot the kids, until-
Deadshot saw movement in his upper right peripheral vision.
Raising his cannon that was on his forearm and swinging it to his right to shoot whatever was moving, he tried to fire...but was pushed back forcibly by two pairs of boots that kicked him off the building!
"GAUGH!" Deadshot fell off the building and went into the alleyway...landing on Two-Face's two henchmen who were facing Aang and Toph.
"BLAAUGH!" the henchmen made a resounding cry.
"Oh, of all the friggin-" Black Mask exclaimed, "Deadshot, that's coming out of your fuckin' paycheck!"
Aang blinked, while Toph looked surprised as she said, "Hey! There's another guy up there!"
"What!?" Two-Face looked up at the building next to them, to his right, and then-
Something landed on Deadshot and the henchmen.
PLO-PLAM!
"UGH!" said Deadshot as well as the henchmen.
Aang and Toph all loosened their stances as the former's eyes widened in surprise, while the latter froze in shock, wondering who or what this was.
That something was a man, and he rose up to stand on his two feet on the man pile.
The man stood tall and was facing his back toward the kids. From what Aang could see, he was wearing a black cape, and it looked to be attached to his head, as he had two horns on top of it. His strong figure basically covered the frames of Black Mask and Two-Face.
Then the man spoke.
"You will not hurt these kids."
He said it in a dark and almost demonic voice, that it made Toph blink her sightless eyes in awe.
Whoa. This guy's voice...it sounds weird.
Meanwhile with Aang...he also looked at the man in awe and amazement.
"It's the Bat!" Two-Face's voice hollered.
"Damn it! Can I get one fuckin' thing done here, ya friggin' Bat-freak!" Black Mask exclaimed as he aimed his gun at the man.
The Bat...wait… Aang put the pieces together.
"Hey! You're the Batman!" Aang exclaimed.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
The man jerked back from each shot.
"Hey!" Aang cried out in panic to this Batman. He turned to Toph, who was grasping her ears from all the gunshot sounds that were going on. "Toph! We got to help him!"
"What!?" Toph yelled out to him through the gunshots.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BAAANG!
...The gun was out of bullets...
...And the Batman was still standing.
Aang looked on, while Toph released her ears to finally hear silence after all the shots.
Black Mask growled, "Fuckin' damn it! Two-Face, you got a gun on ya, do ya!?"
"You don't even have to ask me twice!" Two-Face exclaimed, but before he got a gun out-
The Batman threw something at Two-Face, letting it hit him on the left side of his charred face.
"AAUGH!" Two-Face hollered out from getting hit.
Then, the Batman jumped into action, going toward Black Mask first. He delivered a punch at his black skull.
WHAM!
"Urk!" Black Mask exclaimed.
Then, Batman delivered another punch at Black Mask.
WHAM!
"Gah!" The black-skulled mobster staggered on his two feet.
But then, Batman grabbed the fabric of his suit, both hands by the stomach and the chest, and lifted him up and slammed him onto Two-Face against the wall of the alley. He then threw Black Mask over to where the other henchmen were.
The six henchmen from the back all stood there, shell-shocked at what was even happening. It was when Black Mask was flown up to their feet, one of Black Mask's goons said, "What are we doing!? Black Mask will have our hides if we don't protect him!"
"Yeah, and Two-Face will be pissed if we didn't do our job! Get your guns out and kill the Bat!" said one of Two-Face's goons.
The henchmen agreed and got their guns out.
Aang saw that some of them were getting their weapons out(called guns?), which let Aang decide that he needed to do something fast.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" Aang called out as he pounded the ground with his foot and shifted it to lead his earthbending around the man pile of Deadshot and other henchmen, and then towards the henchmen from the back. The earthbending also was led up to the brick wall, as the bricks were jutting out like a wave, coming towards the other henchmen.
Deadshot, who was getting sluggishly up from his fall and injury, sat up and saw the bricks moving just in time to see what it was going to do.
Once the bricks moved over to the henchmen, Aang forced his hands to go right, and then-
CRA-CRAC-LAM!
The bricks came out of the wall and pelted the henchmen hard!
"AACK!" the henchmen got hit with bricks, each of them being hit in the head. They all fell down unconscious as the bricks piled on them, the wall on the left becoming a hole where Aang bent the bricks.
Deadshot's eyes went wide and turned his attention to Aang and Toph. He stood up, albeit in pain, and raised his arm cannon at them and said, "What the hell are you, kid!?"
Before Aang could reply, Toph slammed a foot on the ground, raising a small piece of earth and shooting it at Deadshot.
The mercenary didn't have time to react, as it hit him in the stomach and made him fly back down the alley to the other pile of henchmen who lay unconscious, rendering him knocked out when he landed on them.
While that was going on, Batman saw Deadshot fly above him while he was dealing with Two-Face after punching him and sending him against the wall where he sat. Even Two-Face looked at the spectacle in awe as he sat there.
And that's when Aang could see the front of him for the first time.
The appearance of Batman was indeed very strong looking, and he had some sort of insignia on his chest, but his chest was also littered with marks that looked like he was...shot? Although, what he was wearing looked like it stopped them in time.
But his face, or the bottom of it, was the only thing that looked…human.
Either way, his whole attire gave him a menacing feel to it.
Batman looked at where the rock was shot from and saw the hole that was on the other side of the alley. His expression was a mixture of shock and intrigue.
That was when Toph shouted out to Deadshot, "That's what you get for trying to hurt my friend!"
Batman quickly looked at the kids and asked, "How did you do that?"
Aang and Toph turned to look at the Batman.
"Uh..." Aang looked a little sheepish, "Bending?"
"Hey!" Toph called out, "Who are you!?"
"Wait, Toph, this guy saved our life!" Aang told her.
"Saved our life? I could take care of these guys! Besides, you helped him out as well!" Toph informed.
"I won't ask again. How did you do that?" Batman asked them in his deep dark voice.
"And what's with that voice? That can't be your voice! It's too...fake?" Toph tilted her head at Batman in curiosity.
"Toph, wait! This guy is who I needed to look for!" Aang told her.
"Huh? Look out for? What do you mean?" Toph asked.
But then, while that was going on, Two-Face, who was roughed up a bit, was trying to get his gun out quickly, but he thought of something.
Whatever the hell those kids did, I should probably eliminate them first.
Two-Face then got his double-sided coin out.
Heads the girl, tails the boy.
He quickly tossed it and grabbed it in the air. Looking down at the coin, Two-Face made a decision.
Swiftly getting his gun out, he aimed and began to shoot at whoever he decided to shoot.
Upon remembering Two-Face, Batman turned around quickly to see that the mobster was about to fire his gun.
Aang looked on in horror as he saw Two-Face aim and let his eyes guide him to where the trajectory was aimed.
And Toph...
BAAANG!
"AAAUGH!"
Heads it is.
…was shot.
End of Chapter 3
Aaand Toph is dead! D:
Nah, now that I wouldn't do. XP
But don't worry, she'll get the medical help that she needs! :O As for Zuko and Katara, they'll meet some Bat Villains, one in particular, as well as meet up with some vigilantes soon! :D
I hope I did well on this chapter! I'm not really good with gunfights and fight scenes in general, so I hope I did well on all this!
Either way, tell me how I did! Review, fave, follow, all that good stuff! ^_^
Thank you all for reading and until next time, keep on rocking everybody! :D
-TSP