The Audience will watch a tribute of two Legendary Bats fighting to the death for supremacy in the DC universe. The Batman and Count Dracula.

I hope I do this tribute justice.

Tribute by Michael Harlan

Cast

Bruce Wayne/The Batman: Jaune Arc

Count Dracula: Himself

Alfred Pennyworth: Klein Sieben

Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin: Hei 'Junior' Xiong

The Joker: Tyrian Callows

Viki Vale: Lisa Lavender

Enjoy

"Now, we're going back to the DC universe," Darth Anarchus stated.

"What's this going to be about?" Harriet asked.

"A tribute to one of my favorite crossover battles," the Host replied. "The Batman of Vale vs Count Dracula."

At the mention of the Batman, most of the Audience grew excited before tensing at the mention of Count Dracula.

"Which variant of Batman?" Willow asked. "This variant is Jaune Arc." Darth Anarchus replied.

"Sweet, we're going to see Fearless Leader kick the vampire's ass!" Nora cheered. Pyrrha and Ren smiled in pride while Jaune rubbed the back his neck bashfully.

"The tally for missing persons has spiked DRAMATICALLY in Vale this last week," a newscaster reported as Klein Sieben cleaned some silverware. "With Vale PD no closer to uncovering who or what is behind the mysterious disappearances of these Lost Ones, a cloud of fear hangs over a city."

An adult Jaune Arc is shown dressed in his bat costume save for the cowl, brooding in his Batcave.

Both Weiss and Pyrrha blush at the sight of Jaune. He has grown to be mature, they both thought.

"Damn, Vomit Boy, you really grew up to be a Lady Killer." Yang jokes.

"Well, she isn't wrong," The Host shrugged. "Most variants of Batman have a playboy persona with the help of them being richer than the Schnee's." (1)

Raven, Ironwood and Glynda sighed thinking that that part of the Batman fits Qrow perfectly. Qrow had an urge to bonk his sister on the head, which was strange because that was childish and that he hasn't done that in years. Robyn and Winter smirked slightly, storing that tidbit of info for later.

"Ooh, a playboy, huh?" Saphron and Terra teased Jaune. The blonde stuttered. "That's not me!"

Ren rose an eyebrow. "Didn't you flirt with both Pyrrha and Weiss before Initiation?" he asked.

"Wow, Jaune. Both Schnee and the Invincible Girl?" Cardin drawled. "I guess my respect for you has risen."

"I-It didn't even end well!" Jaune protested. "Really? How so?" Cardin asked.

"I got pinned to the wall by a spear!"

"I said I was sorry!"

Willow meanwhile scolded Whitley for being a playboy and the young Schnee protested that it wasn't really him.

"What's Blonde Knight brooding about?" Mercury asked. "He thinks the Joker's dead." Darth Anarchus replied. "One thing you see among most Batman variants is that they have two rules. No matter what the criminal has done or how dire the situation is, the Batman will not kill or use a gun."

Many looked at the Host with eyes of surprise and disbelief.

"You must be joking!" Jacques said. "Surely some exceptions must be made."

"Well, he only reserves the no-killing rule for humans and Faunus and Bat Qrow is one of the only variants that knows how to use a gun," the Host shrugs. "The older the Batman's get, the more blurry the line becomes and one variant that often ignores the rule but yeah, it's true for almost all Batman variants. Trust me, it's for the best. With their childhood trauma, them killing someone won't be good." He leans forward with a grim expression. "And believe me, the most terrifying thing I have ever seen in the Multiverse is when the Batman starts smiling and laughing at his enemies." (2)

Some of the Audience gulped and glanced at Qrow, Whitley and Jaune. The two teens rubbed their necks sheepishly while Qrow leaned back. The older the Batman's get, the more blurry the line becomes, he repeated in his head while looking at his flask. Well, he's not wrong in that. Guess that's something my variants have in common.

Count Dracula, The Penguin (Junior) and a Vale cemetery Night guard are then shown standing at the edge of the graveyard. "I've been at rest for quite some time," the Count mused in a raspy voice. "Transylvania has changed."

"Oh, O Dark One, you're not in Transylvania anymore," Junior said. "This is Vale City."

"I understand that Mr. Xiong is a criminal," Glynda said. "But why is he working with Dracula of all people? That's something I'd expect from them." She gestures to Salem's followers who shrug in response.

"Dracula needed a servant to guard his crypt while he slept," Darth Anarchus replied. "So, he hypnotized Junior for the job."

"Huh, I wonder who's watching the bar," Roman muttered. Probably the Malachite twins, Neo signed.

The scene changed to the Count and Penguin in a cave with two new vampires. "A man who dresses like a bat?" he questioned. The Penguin tries to tell him that while the Dark Knight may 'look the look,' he has none of Dracula's mojo. "I am nonetheless intrigued," Dracula mused. "My legacy has been quite influential." He was then shown watching the morning news hosted by Lisa Lavender.

"I don't like it, but Junior's right!" Yang stated. "Batman's nothing like Dracula."

"Yeah, if anything Dracula should be like Batman!" Ruby said, with some students agreeing. "Batman not Bad man," Adrian said, getting many to coo and gush at the infant. Darth Anarchus decided to be silent on that matter.

"I don't know," Salem said mockingly. "They're both bats, aren't they?"

The Audience see Dracula in his more human form. He looks rather handsome with a black and red cloak over his dress clothes. One would not think he's a bloodthirsty vampire. "Truly magnificent," he says seductively to Lisa who was standing next to Jaune.

Unaware of who she's talking to, she thinks that he's complimenting her necklace. "Oh, my necklace? It's a family heirloom."

Blake shuddered. "This is exactly like the vampires I read. They look charming but they're just bloodthirsty monsters in human skin."

"Huh, I would have thought you would read the more romantic side of vampires," Yang teased.

"She did," Adam said from where he sat. "There was one series but it was cringy and terrible." Next to him, Ilia shuddered just thinking of that particular vampire series.

"And you are?" Jaune asked the man who flirted with his date.

"Alucard," Dracula introduced with a bow. "Dr. Alucard."

"Jaune Arc. I don't believe we've met." Jaune said, a little suspicious. "I'm new to Vale. A recent transport from eastern Anima." The Audience see a glimpse of how Dracula came to Vale. People near his castle had revolted and shipped his crypt off on ship.

"Really? What line of work are you in?" Jaune asked.

"Culture anthropology," Dracula replied as he was shown holding a jar before it went back to him raising his cup in front of Jaune and Lisa. "I am here to study your city's Batman."

The Batman was shown on a ledge.

"Huh. Our city's?" Lisa repeated. "You mean to tell me Oniyuri has a dark knight too?"

Both the Count and Penguin were shown before the Audience see Jaune running after Dracula has he leaves Arc Manor but the Count vanishes. The blonde approaches an elderly woman. "Pardon me," he says apologetically before taking her lipstick and a waiter's food tray.

"What are you writing?" Klein asked as Jaune uses the lipstick as a marker. "His name. Alucard." Jaune replied before turning to the mirror. Both he and Klein see that with some letters backwards, it spells Dracula.

"And that is why Batman is called the World's Greatest Detective," The Host stated with an impressed expression. Everyone else was also impressed with Jaune's counterpart's detective skills.

Sun and Neptune appeared by Whitley, Jaune and Qrow's side, with Sun using his Semblance. "Hey, Ice Prince, Jaune, Crow, want to work on some cases with us?"

"Why is everyone calling me Ice Prince?" Whitley asked.

"Uh, sure!" Jaune said.

"My name is with a Q and no." Qrow said bluntly. This caused Raven, Winter and Robyn to chuckle while Summer giggled and Tai smirked. Qrow held his finger in their direction. "Zip it," he said.

Raven just made a emotionless expression but there was amusement in his eyes. Robyn just smiled at him slyly while Winter winked. Summer and Tai began to laugh as did Ruby and Yang.

"Too bad his love interest Lisa didn't catch that," Darth Anarchus said. Upon getting the confused looks, he elaborated. "Lisa heard from an eyewitness who mistaken a vampire for Batman. So she concluded that Batman was behind the Lost Ones' disappearances and this made the public turn their backs on Batman with the PD ordering a manhunt against him. Someone in the press went as far as saying that Batman was the Son of Dracula.

"Well, this puts a kink in their relationship," Klein said sheepishly, unintentionally quoting what his counterpart had said.

Pyrrha and Wiess frowned at the mention of Lisa being the love interests before frowning more at the mention of Batman being accused of kidnapping when it was really Dracula turning them into vampires.

"Those stupid cops!" Nora shouted. "Nora, no shouting." Ren said sternly but adding, "But she isn't wrong."

"That's rough buddy," Yang said to Jaune. (3)

Jaune looks up old newspaper clippings and articles of Count Dracula in the Bat-Computer.

"So the folk tales are true," Count Dracula says as the Batman turns to face him on a rooftop. The Count stands with his cape flapping lightly in the wind. "There is another Bat in Vale."

A SWAT officer turns and sees Dracula upside down. The Count's blue eyes glow as he commands his Children of the Night. The Penguin is seen hiding from the Vampire King the night they first met.

"I'd really hate to waste a life when it can be spent in servitude to me," the vampire says to Batman with a close up to his fangs.

"Life or living death?" Batman spat back before a glimpse of the Joker as a vampire was shown drinking blood at a blood bank.

The Batman is the first to attack. He throws his Batarangs at Dracula who dodges them with superhuman speed.

Many grew excited at seeing Count Dracula meeting the Batman. The king of vampires meeting a superhero sounded exciting to the younger Audience. Though some grew disturbed at the sight of the Joker as a vampire.

"Oh great, as if he wasn't creepy enough," Roman said and Neo signed, Insane and a Vampire? Terrifying combo.

"Take him down, Jaune!" Nora, Ruby and Velvet cheered.

"Put a stake in his heart!" Coco said.

"Make him eat garlic!" Sun said, getting looks from those around him. "What? Vampires don't like garlic."

"Well, that is what Klein did." The Host said. "Dipped some Batarangs with garlic and filled Batman's smoke bombs with garlic plumes." This got the butler to blush while the Schnee's chuckled, even Jacques.

The Batman is seen backing up in fear from Dracula in a cave. "You have no concept of the harm in which I am capable." Dracula says as he walks to the Dark Knight from the shadows before the Audience have a zoom in of his eyes.

Dracula carries Lisa to his crypt in a attempt to resurrect his wife. "If my bride cannot have your soul, Lisa Lavender," Dracula sneers, his appearance more animalistic. "I shall have your blood." his lips curl in a malicious grin.

"That evil bastard has a bride?" Tai said in shock that was shared by everyone else.

"Yes, Cupid managed to hit an arrow in a heart black as his," Darth Anarchus said. "Carmella was a vampire like Count Dracula."

"Wow, match made in Hell?" Adam rose an eyebrow. The Host nodded. "Indeed. Her bloodthirst rivaled his own. At some point she was exposed to sunlight, which Dracula explained is an almost permeant death compared to a wooden stake to the heart. He tried to give Lisa's soul to reanimate her before the Batman stopped him."

Dracula's eyes snap open when the Joker opens up his crypt.

Hissing, the Count attacks Batman who barely dodges and the Vampire's claw-like nails scratch his chest. Dracula then strikes Batman in the chest with his palm, sending Batman flying back until he slams into a brick wall.

"I thank you for keeping my legacy alive in my absence," Dracula says as he approaches Batman.

He spreads his cape in front of a young man. "But now there's only room for ONE Bat man in Vale."

His shadow casts over the Batman in his own cave before Dracula was shown holding the Batman by the throat.

"Yeah, you're right." Yang said in agreement, confusing those around her. "There is room for only ONE and it's going to Bat-Jaune!"

"Yeah, besides he was in Vale first!" Nora said, getting Ren and Pyrrha to sweat a little. They remembered seeing a glimpse of Dracula being transported by a ship post-Great War, so that meant Dracula was in Vale before Jaune was born in this universe.

Dracula turns around with his fangs exposed in a snarl.

Adrian and Ruby were one of the few to whimper in fear at the sight of Dracula's animalistic appearance even if it wasn't frightening as the other Dracula.

The Audience see Batman crashing onto the windshield of a car after being thrown by Dracula like a doll.

"Jaune!" most of the blonde's friends and family cried out. "Yeah, that tends to happen when a normal human fights a vampire when the vampire has superhuman strength." Darth Anarchus said drily.

"Uncle Jaune!" Adrian cried. "Hey, I'm okay, buddy." Jaune said comfortingly to his nephew. The baby simply hugged him tight as he could.

Dracula lands on another part of the rooftop he and Batman are on. He rises to his full height as Batman turns to glare at him and he smirks back tauntingly. Snarling he charges Batman who jumps over him in a backflip.

The Count leaps to another rooftop before the Audience grabbing Batman by his forehead and slamming his head into the pavement. The Dark Knight rolls just in time to dodge a fist that cracks the pavement.

Dracula was seen jumping rooftops in a single bound, the Batman was chasing after him but falling behind with Dracula moving at superhuman speed.

Dracula snarls as he holds the Batman by the throat, ready to do the killing bite.

Many gasps in worry for Jaune's counterpart before sighing when the scene changed.

Batman jumps in the air, throwing smoke bombs at Dracula who shields himself. Then Batman delivers two punches to Dracula's face and chest, knocking him back.

Dracula's nose twitches as he sniffs a Batarang Batman swung at his face.

The Count's eyes widened as he sees the sun rising in the reflection of the car windshield.

Klein shoots a dose of anti-vampirism with a crossbow.

"Did we just see a butler shoot the king of vampires with a crossbow?" Cardin asked in shock.

"Did it work?" Weiss asked.

"Yes and no," the Host said. "The Batman led Dracula to his Bat-Cave. Klein attempted to hit him with a dose of a cure to vampirism. It did not work because unlike the Lost Ones, in Dracula's words, no earthly medicine could undo a supernatural infliction."

Despite it not doing anything, the Schnee family's respect for the butler grew at seeing the man shoot the Vampire King with a crossbow. (4)

Jaune experiences a vision that motivates him to fight off Dracula's hypnotism.

"You are. . . Jaune Arc," Dracula realized as the Blonde Dark Knight activates a machine that shoots out sunlight in the Batcave. Dracula has no choice but to hide in Batman's shadow, which is bigger than Dracula's shadows earlier.

"And the Batman," Jaune says. "And you're dust." He jumps towards Dracula as he burns in the sunlight and punches him. Count Dracula's ashes scatter in the wind while his skeleton shatters upon impact. The last thing the Audience sees is Dracula's skull on the floor.

"The people of the Demeter have been avenged," Ghira said. Darth Anarchus decided not to say anything. Besides, it's the Multiverse. It could be possible that the Dracula in this timeline did the same thing.

"Damn right!" Most of the students cheered.

"Batman wins!" Nora cheers. "Fatality!"

"Now that is symbolic." Ozpin said, sipping his mug. When he got some confused looks, he went on. "Dracula has clearly believed that the Batman was inspired by his legacy, but the moment Batman's shadow was casted over him in the sunlight, it was also bigger than Dracula's shadow ever was in this tribute. That's because Batman's legacy was something else entirely."

"That of a hero," Oscar says in sync with Ozpin. Both Ozpin's.

Salem rolled her eyes while Darth Anarchus snorted in amusement.

"It's ironic that he had to hide in the Batman's shadow to stay alive in his final moments," Qrow added.

"Oh yeah, lots of irony there," Robyn said in agreement.

"With the help of modern medicine, the Lost Ones were reverted back to normal and lost memories of being vampires," Darth Anarchus explained the ending. "With Dracula dead, the Penguin was freed from Dracula's control and was caught by authorities just as he found buried mob treasure and took the blame for the Lost Ones."

While the students and teachers were glad the Batman's name was cleared, the Villains, most notably the thieves felt bad for Junior not getting the treasure.

"So, what are we going to see next?" Amber asked.

"We're still viewing the DC universe," Darth Anarchus replied. "We'll be viewing about Oscar's counterpart: Superman. Or aka, the Man of Steel."

This got most of the Audience, especially Ruby, excited about learning more about Superman.

I grew up with this movie, it is SO underrated, don't you think? And this version of Dracula.

Plus Vampire Joker used to disturb when I was younger. (Still does.)

Now what was your favorite part of this chapter? Reaction or otherwise.

1) Darth Anarchus isn't wrong. Every version of Batman has a playboy persona save for Flashpoint, Beyond and Owlman.

2)That's my opinion. The Batman who Laughs is the scariest thing I've seen in the multiverse.

3) EPIC FORESHADOWING for the casting of Avatar The Last Airbender (Animated version)

4) Even if it didn't work, we have to agree that Alfred looked badass when he shot at Dracula with a crossbow. Right?

Next the Audience will react to the trailer and clips of Man of Steel.