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Daughter Of Batman 3 Chapter 3
A conflicted heart feeds on doubt and confusion. It will make you question your path, your tactics, and your motives. When you stare ahead and darkness is all you see, only reason and determination can pull you back from the abyss.
This is the situation Danika finds herself consumed by in Bruce's absence as an anchor.
It's her role as Lunar Rose and Dick stepping in to help that is preventing her from crossing over the brink.
Matters in Gotham City have escalated to a dangerous level at the breaking point.
In Batman's presumed absence, many of the criminal element believe him to be dead, and with only the Gotham City Police Department to contend with they simply view the entirety of the streets as a free-for-all.
The crime boss Black Mask is one of them.
Black Mask, at present, is down at the shipping yards near the warehouses, surrounded by stacks on stacks of shipping containers. Making an effort to try and remain inconspicuous while hiding in plain sight. He's in the middle of an arms shipment purchase. One he believes will give him an edge over the rest of the competition in Gotham City.
Particularly that Heretic fellow and his faction.
Black Mask is determined not to be pushed around in what he views to be his territory by any outside sources.
Unbeknownst to the crime boss there are those deep in the shadows biding their time for the perfect moment. So overconfident is Black Mask in his arrogance that he's oblivious to any onlookers to this arms deal.
Taking one of the heavy-duty guns in hand, Black Mask declared "New guy thinks he can move in. I'm gonna show those punks whose top dog is around here. Gotham's my bitch."
Time to step into the light.
"Which makes you mine, Mask."
All heads snap upward to discover Batman alive and standing high above them wearing one of the older costumes, tall and proud. Lunar Rose stands readily beside him.
Scathingly, Black Mask sneered "You're supposed to be dead. Let me fix that for you."
Black Mask and his goons all open fire on the pair. Batman and Lunar Rose separate in opposite directions to divide and conquer. They work on the gunmen and drivers first before targeting Black Mask.
Eventually, Black Mask ends up cornered, knocked against one of the cars with the gun tumbling from his grip when Batman and Lunar Rose approach.
Glaring up at them, Black Mask admits "I bet 50 grand you were dead this time."
Bending down to one knee, Batman said "You lost."
Chuckling darkly with his eyes flashing, Black Mask said "Always bet on black."
Turns out Black Mask had more of his security detail hidden, waiting in the wings as a backup plan. They're positioned on shipping containers for the high point. As they open fire Batman and Lunar have no other choice but to disengage from Black Mask to dodge the rain of bullets and focus on them in turn. Distracted from all directions neither of them was paying any attention to Black Mask himself.
A fatal mistake.
An error that could've ended with either of them seriously hurt if not for what occurred next.
Black Mask regains his footing and is aiming for Lunar Rose, who is the closest when a familiar sai shoots down from above and becomes implanted in his gun. The weapon promptly explodes in Black Mask's face. The close proximity to the blast sets part of his mask on fire, blood seeping from it as he screams in agony.
Black Mask opens his eyes to find neither Batman nor Lunar Rose had been the ones to attack him.
Robin.
"Robin? Somebody kill this freaking kid," shouted Black Mask, furiously.
Damian?
Eyes wide Danika spins around upon hearing this declaration and finds her eyes are not playing tricks on her. It really is Damian. He's back.
A goon goes to strike Danika as this information resonates with her, but Ao leaps from his shoulder directly onto his face, scratching and biting for all he's worth in defense of her.
No time for greetings.
Damian takes off in hot pursuit of the truck with the many crates of weapons contained inside it, barreling at full speed.
There are plenty of henchmen for Lunar Rose and Batman to go around to beat up. So, Damian is left to handle the truck alone while they're so busy.
Only when all that is safely handled do Batman and Lunar Rose rush over to join him there.
No words need to be spoken between the three of them. Batman makes his way inside the truck to disable the men inside while Damian and Danika work in coalition to stop the getaway driver. The driver attempts to shoot them off with a pistol, but Damian is much faster. He punches the driver hard in the head causing the truck to violently swerve multiple times. As a result of this, the truck topples over, skidding on the concrete. Because of the speed the truck was already moving at it makes its way down the wharf and into a warehouse where it explodes.
From where he's standing Batman groans, placing a hand over his eyes.
Damian and Danika make their way over to him, Ao having his tail wrapped around the latter's neck.
The danger past Danika wraps her arms around his neck. Damian returns the embrace in a one-arm hug. Damian didn't need to speak any words to convey how much he missed her, too. Either way, Damian has never been the most expressive type of person regarding emotion.
Catching the glare Batman is aiming at him, scowling, Damian says "What?"
Not believing the truck was handled in the best possible way, Batman said "Lunar Rose and I could've handled this alone."
Smirking, Damian said "If that's your best, Batman, you're not gonna fool anyone. Grayson."
Cringing, waving her hand repeatedly at her brother so no eyes are drawn toward them, Danika said "Hush."
Lip corners upturning slightly in response to this, returning his voice to normal out of the Batman persona, Dick said "Maybe you'd like a megaphone to announce that."
Sirens wailing in the distance are all the trio requires to know it is time to beat a hasty departure.
Piling into the Batmobile they tear out of there to allow the police to handle the cleanup.
Condescendingly, Damian said "There's no way you're gonna pull this off without my help even with Danika with you."
Sarcastically, Damian said "Modest as ever, I see."
"I'm more Batman than you'll ever be," stated Damian. "Just follow my lead."
There's a beeping on the console.
Danika presses a button to show what's on the Batmobiles rear camera.
Batwoman is following them on her motorcycle.
Eyes narrowing, Dick said "We're being tailed."
Danika's teeth grit and fists clench in anger.
Both Damian and Dick are surprised by the level of agitation radiating off of her.
"Danika, what is it," broached Damian.
Danika hissed "She's the reason Dad's not here."
Interesting.
Authors Note:
For those of you on fanfiction I'm sure you've been facing the many unwanted ads when you're reading a story. Well, yesterday, I finally had enough, and I got an adblocker app. It worked! No more ads on any level! The one I got is Adblock Pro: Safari Ad Blocker. It really works. Just follow the instruction video that it attached to it.
Heads up everyone there's someone on fanfiction you need to seriously watch out for. Early a couple of months ago after I woke up I was checking my email and I saw I had a new guest review on my A Dog's Purpose Is Strange Magic 2 sequel. I took a look at it and got a very big shock. Some random person I've never spoken to before on here or anywhere else in my life was basically threatening me. Intimidating and practically ordering me to write a threatening letter to someone on their behalf, telling to stay off of for life or else they and everyone else close to them would be killed, disgustingly telling them to kill themselves. And at the bottom of the message this crazy person wasn't done. Warning me that if I don't send the letter then they would kill me and for confirmation to email them to make absolutely sure I complied with their demands. Of course I did nothing of the sort. Instead of doing what they wanted I reported them to the website, sent copies of this deplorable guest review message to police officer cousins of mine so they could have it on file, and I went to a nearby police station and reported it.
When I spoke to the police officers and they checked everything on the message they saw, that while the address and names of business were accurate the people and their names were not. They agree it was more than likely a scam because of the email address on the bottom in order to perhaps get access to personal information or potentially hack my computer. Despite that I'm still very happy they took it seriously as I showed and told them everything. All the same I'm still very happy that I brought this to the attention of law enforcement. Even though the entire thing might be fake I'm still very happy to have brought this to the attention of those who can do something about it if it was legit in some way. This may have been a scam, but it's obvious these people are beyond irresponsible if they try to goad people into sending death threats to random strangers just to get access to info.
Be that as it may if this does unfortunately happen to you do not send any messages to the email addresses they put down and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you bring the message to the authorities immediately whether it is legit or not.
Because it's a guest review it might not be visible for a couple of days as it loads if it is sent to you. But when it does you should definitely pressing the report abuse button and send it to the email that leads to the support staff that is available.
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I hope you all like this one! I certainly did while writing it for your vast enjoyment! ;D
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Stay safe everyone. Especially with all of these crazy natural disasters occurring a lot lately due to global warming and climate change everywhere for sure. I swear it's like they're getting worse and worse all the time and it's like officials are simply just ignoring it or pretending it doesn't exist entirely just to go on with their daily lives. Especially those in multi-million dollar companies that rely on certain elements of our planet that we rely on to naturally keep us safe instead of adapting and finding new safer ways to keep in business. There are so many options out there where they can adapt, but they just refuse to see it because all they care about is money. Climate change is altering so much faster than anyone can really keep track of.
So, in light of all this, it is important to live life to the fullest as much as anyone can.
I know I am. ;) See you guys next time.
