The Crow Eternal (E-22)

by Chadw996

Jason and his mother's death was brutal and tragic, a cry for vengeance as the murderers go unpunished. Jason is brought back to do it himself. But he asks the being who did it if he can stay to stop the terrible things from happening in the first place, leading him to be their eternal agent to right the wrongs. (Harem) [DC/Young justice, The Crow, and more horror]

2. CH2: Deaths In Detroit

AN: I don't own DC/YJ, The Crow Franchise, or anything else that will appear in this story

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Chapter Two: "Deaths in Detroit"

Two Years Later, Late October 29th, 2017

It was late as night falls over a graveyard where a blond teenage girl drops flowers that she had taken from other graves because she had no money. She sets the flowers in twos before two graves, Shelly Webster and Eric Draven.

"Later", she mutters to the graves before she puts her hoodie up and goes to leave with her skateboard as it began to rain heavily.

She turns back to the grave as she hears a crow caw as it lands on the grave of Eric Draven.

"What are you, the night watchman?", she snarks at the crow, which simply caws at her.

She leaves before the crow pecks at the grave, before Jason then appears from the shadows in his Red Hooded Ninja gear.

He had come to Detroit after his training with a group known as the All-Caste and gaining the All-Blades as Talia had informed him that Joker's henchman and his mother's... attackers were now here working under a new crime boss.

Jason looks to the girl around his age and then to the graves in contemplation, feeling as though she was familiar.

The girl on the other hand is leaving the condemned church and graveyard. She drops her skateboard and begins skating down the water filled streets.

Elsewhere

An African-American detective that kind of looks like a young and fit Ernie Hudson, recently demoted to a uniformed sergeant on DPD, sat at a hotdog stall as the cook worked on his dog.

"You know, what this place needs is a good natural catastrophe", the hotdog vender says to the cop as he adds condiments to the hotdog, "Earthquake, tornado, you know", as he then adds mustard.

"No, no, no, no", The cop goes to stop the, "Mickey, come on, man. You... you gotta put the mustard underneath first", he gripes about his hotdog.

"Maybe a flood like in the bible", Mickey continues like he didn't try to stop him on the hotdog, "It already rains enough".

"Come on", the cop gripes, "Here, let me do it", he puts his cigarette in between his lips as he takes the hotdog and mustard bottle and begins squirting it under the dog in the bun, "All right. How about some onions?", Mickey does a spoon full over it, "Oh! Come on, man. Don't cheap out on me. Lots of onions".

"All right. Here you go", and Mickey then does a big scoop of shredded onions onto the dog.

"Hey, all right", the cop cheers, "Now we're talking"

The teen girl skates up to the Maxi-Dogs stand, which Mickey sees.

"Hey, it's a Sarah monster", Mickey greets her with a chuckle.

The cop turns to greet her before seeing her board, "How do you steer that thing on a wet street?", he asks her with a smile.

"Pure talent, Albrecht", Sarah remarks before greeting Mickey, "Hi".

"See, now, Sarah, she's a genuine hotdogger", Albrecht tells Mickey before asking Sarah, "You hungry?"

"You buying?", Sarah asks him in good nature, being friends with this cop since last year after what happened to her friends and he was the one to comfort her on the scene.

"I'm buying", Albrecht nods in confirmation.

"No onions though, okay?", Sarah tells Mickey.

"No onions?", Albrecht asks her incredulously, being a fan of onions on hotdogs.

"They give me gas, I don't need that", Sarah rebukes, causing Mickey to chuckle along with Sgt. Albrecht.

Mickey hands her a cup of soda, which she sips from through a straw.

Elsewhere in Detroit, Again

A man stood in an empty arcade with his three men. He had a hair style like an ancient roman or spartan and a goatee. He wore a light brown leather jacket over punkish clothes.

"You know Lake Erie actually caught on fire once in 1969 from all the crap floating around in it", a man says as he light a cigarette, the leader of the gang that raped Catherine Todd while working under Joker, "I wish I could have seen that", before whistling at his boys.

Him and the three other gangbangers began to tear up the place they were in. Smashing and breaking all items they came across with a sick glee in their hearts as they cheer and call out in joy.

The leader looks to his watch before punching a time into the bomb

Back at the Graveyard

Jason knelt before the graves that his crow led him too as the stormy sky rumbled with thunder and lightning. he touches the graves and his tactile empathy. He got flashes of what happened to them almost a year ago.

Eric was beaten half to death as he was forced to watch his fiance be taken against her will and beaten as well. He was then shot twice in the chest and thrown out the main window of their loft to the street below as they finish violating Shelly.

Jaso felt the pain and anguish from the horrible event before he felt ashamed. He recognized their attackers as the same bastards that harmed his mother.

If he had just hunted them down and killed them when he first came back to life, this couple would still be alive and happily married.

He smashes a fist into the gravestone of Eric Draven, cracking it.

Jason sighs as he calms himself, placing his hand over the grave in mourning.

"I will avenge you, for it is my fault for letting them live too long", Jason tells them before standing back up to leave.

Back with the Gang

The five all scream maniacally as they leave the old arcade to their 1973 Ford Thunderbird with a supercharge engine sticking out from the hood.

The leader known as T-Bird whistles to his boys before chanting, "Fire it up! Fire it up!", with them joining in as they all alternatively pump up and down their arms for each word before they all gather into the car.

Back with Jason

Our dark anti-hero was following his crow down an alley, feeling that it was leading him to a base for him to use while here.

Back with T-Bird and Gang

T-Bird was driving the Thunderbird (probably took his nickname from it) as the others were in the car, celebrating their misdeeds.

"fire it up! We busted their machines!", the one in the passenger seat known as Skank. With greasy brown hair in a mess and an unshaven face with a smile of jagged teeth dressed like a homeless man.

In the back behind the driver seat is a blond man with his own messy smile in rocker clothes, known as Funboy.

Next to him was a dark skinned man with dreads in a ponytail dressed in black leather ensemble with a cool leather trenchcoat, known as Tin Tin.

The car rushes down the streets till Skank cries out, "Oh.. oh shit, guys. T-bird, cop car. Cop car!", pointing to the cop car before Maxi-Dogs as they drive up to it, slowing down some as to not draw attention from Sgt. Albrecht.

Albrecht glances to them as they skid passed in their car, "Bad people out on the street tonight", he remarks as Sarah eats her hotdog.

Back at the old arcade, the timer on the bomb counted down to zero and detonated. the doors and windows blew out in a fireball as the walls burst apart.

Albrecht looked to the commotion, "Damn it!', he exclaims.

"Oh my god!", he and Sarah could hear a woman scream in distress.

"What was that?", Sarah asks aloud.

"You wait right here", Albrecht tells her as he makes sure his belt is on and grabs his hat and rushes over.

"Be careful", she calls out to him.

"Mickey, call it in for me!", Albrecht calls back to the hotdog vendor as he rushes over to the burning building.

Back with Jason

He arrives at a fire escape in the alleys of Detroit that the crow sat upon. He climbs up it to the rooftops. He approaches the rooftop door and opens it as it was unlocked.

The crow flies down the stairs and Jason follows it. Trash littered the stairs and hall as the building was long abandoned, for at least a year. One door on the top floor had a skeleton halloween decoration with police tape over it.

Jason tears the tape away and enters the loft.

Looking around, he could see that it's the home of the couple that was killed.

A white cat comes from a room and he crouches to pet it, only to get more visions of the couple as they knew this cat, Gabriel.

He saw the cat hiss and scratch at the gang. He saw how they entered the apartment in force and detained Shelly, smashing up the place, quoting the bible and cutting her up as they violate her till Eric came in and was stuck down to his knees with a thrown knife from Tin-Tin.

Jason came back to his senses before the broken circle window of man size that Eric was thrown out of.

Jason began to take off his ninja gear. The belt of ninja kunai and other tools along with the red hooded vestment. He took off the armored vambraces and shin-guards along with the red face mask and the high-tech goggles. After some contemplation, he took off the gloves as well.

In A Bar Known As The Pit

T-Bird and his boys sit at a table in the bar.

Funboy had tossed up a bullet and ate it before drinking a shot.

"See if you top that, man. Can you top that?", Funboy says to the rest.

T-Bird places a bullet sideways in his mouth and swallows it.

"Look at that, look at that", Tin Tin remarks with a smile as he smokes a cigarette.

"Here's to Devil's Night, my new favorite holiday", T-Bird holds a shot glass to them before drinking.

"To Devil's Night", Skank toasts as T-Bird drinks.

The barkeep was talking to a middle-age woman.

She was blonde with short hair, worn-out, and kind of looked like Sarah in appearance as she was her mother, Darla Mohr.

"Baby you just need... You go over there and talk to your pals", the bartender tells Darla, referring to T-Bird and crew making a scene.

T-Bird then proceeds to put out a cigar on his tongue.

"You sick fuck!", Funboy laughs, jokingly pushing T-Birds arm

T-Bird takes the cigar off his tongue and shows it off to the others, revealing multiple burns from a cigar.

"Are you out of your motherfucking mind, man?", Tin Tin smiles as smoke leaves his mouth.

Skank goes to drink next, but Tin Tin slams his hand onto his and puts the shot glass down.

Tin Tin puts a bullet in his mouth and drinks.

"Tin Tin, look at that!", Funboy cheers.

Skank looks around in confusion as to why he was stopped from going next.

"Pussies go last, man", Tin Tin tells him and chuckles,

Skank stands up while drawing his pistol, a Desert Eagle with two tone coloring of black and silver, mostly black save for the frame, trigger, sidelock, safety, and mag release, and places the barrel to Tin Tin's head.

"Fuck you, Tin Tin", Skank utters in anger at being the butt of the joke.

"Hey", Tin Tin says as he stands up, "Shit ain't even loaded, man", putting a knife to Skank's throat.

Funboy stands up with his Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolver to Tin-Tin's head, catching the second knife wielding hand from Tin Tin, "This one is".

T-Bird stands up with his Taurus PT92 as he holds Skanks gun down to the table, "Which one of you Motor City motherfuckers want to bet this one isn't?", switching his aim two each of the other three, with Funboy lifting his gun up to show they're all cool, "Hey, fire it up!", he cheers while pumping his arms up and down alternatively each word.

They others join in the chant, "Fire it up! Fire it up!", with the arms pumping.

Darla cautiously approaches them with a tray of more shots, "Here's your shooters", as the four begin to calm down and sit down, "Put your guns away, huh, guys".

"How you doing?", Funboy asks her before they kiss.

Back at the Draven-Webster Abandoned Apartment

Jason looks around the place while the crow lands on a cockroach to eat. He soon sits at Shelly's dressing table and mirror with candles that he had lit and placed upon from around the apartment. From the mirror hanged a mask that looked remarkably like his Crow face.

"Talk about fate...", he remarks before touching the mask and then getting flashes of Eric joking around with his fiance while wearing it.

He proceeds to touch everything on the dressing table, getting more flashes of their lives together and how much they loved each other. He even gets flashes of Sarah spending time with them. He looks through photos that were stored in the drawers as he gets more flashes till he gets to that night and punches the mirror, shattering it.

He angrily pushes the candles away and stands up as his Crow form comes to be before he gazes out the circle window as his crow companion lands on his shoulder as the lightning from The storming night flashes over his form. The crow than flies away to find his targets.

Roughly The Same Time, Gideon's Pawnshop

Tin Tin arrives at a pawnshop and hands over to the clerk, "Couple more rings. That's 24k", handing them over

The clerk, Gideon, was a short fat man with a balding head with black hair and a matching groomed mustache.

"24k, huh?", he utters as he inspects the rings, "It's 18k. It's crap. It's probably fake".

"Leather purse. Leather", Tin Tin says to persuade him.

"Geez", Gideon sighs before inspecting the purse, "Oh, what's this, Tin-Tin? A blood stain that's on here?", causing Tin Tin to sigh as he steps to the middle of the counter.

"I'll give you 50 bucks", Gideon says as he tosses the purse back down onto the counter and begins searching his pockets for his cash before quickly pointing to Tin Tin, "And I hate charities", taking his money out and flipping through it for the required amount, "Now, you, take it or leave it", placing the 50 dollars on the counter, "Right there for ya".

Tin Tin sighs as he looks up to the distance, before then glancing to the money as he taps his fingers then to Gideon.

"Decisions, decisions", Gideon utters to him as he smokes before Tin Tin finally takes the money.

Tin Tin looks directly at him as he begins to leave, "Cheap ass, chrome dome, child molesting, saprophyte motherfucker".

"Close the gate when you go out!", Gideon yells.

"Oh! I close this up for you reeeeeeeal good, massa", Tin Tin jokingly responds, "Fuck you", as he flips him off then closes the door behind him as Gideon chuckles.

"Yeah, sit on it and twirl, you dirty scum", Gideon mumbles as he smokes some more while sorting through his spoils.

Tin Tin closes the gate in front of the shop and locks the padlock on it, unaware of the crow that watches him from above.

"Lucky I don't stab your fat ass", Tin Tin grumbles as he leaves while the crow takes off.

The Rooftops

Jason is soon running along the rooftops for the location, the crow soon flies passed him to guide Jason to his victim. Before long the crow lands on the edge, looking into an alley.

Jason could see what it sees, showing Tin Tin walking down it towards the more open area. While the knife wielder stops before a burning barrel to light a cigarette, Jason swan dives and lands on his back in a pile of trash, a lot like the assassins of Assassin's Creed.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!", he releases a maniacal laugh, spooking Tin Tin as he now looks around, before seeing Jason now coming towards him from.

He chuckles once he sees Jason's face, "What the fuck you all painted up for, crackhead, huh?", he laughs before taking a puff of his cigarette, "Halloween ain't till manana", before flicking the cigarette away and taking out one of his knives, "Come on", before kicking the barrel towards Jason.

Jason side steps it and tackles him to the ground into a puddle. He flips Tin Tin over, drowning him a little as he pries his knife away, before lifting him up and throwing him into a nearby wall.

Tin Tin coughs for air and to spit out water before sucker punching Jason, only for him to remain unaffected. Jason throws him to a perpendicular wall, and goes to grab him again before Tin-Tin ball kicks him away.

He slides another knife out, "I'll kill you!", and slashes at Jason, who easily dodges them before catching his arm and delivers a palm strike to Tin Tin's face.

Tin Tin delivers a left hook with Jason again being unaffected as he stares the man down. He knocks the knife away before delivering some blows and then grabs him by his coat and throws the knifeman away into a grated wall across the alley.

The crow caws as it flies over to a light overhead, egging Jason on as he grabs Tin Tin.

"Fuck you, murderer!", Jason growls as he goes to punch him, flashes of what happened to his mother and the couple that had died appear in his mind.

"I ain't murder nobody, man!", Tin Tin denies, "I don't even fucking know you! Man, what the fuck you want, man?".

"I want a lot from you", Jason stifles his rage, "But let's start about a year ago, a man and a woman in a loft".

"You're out of your motherfucking mind-", Tin Tin goes.

"Listen!", Jason cuts him off, "I'm sure you'll remember. You killed them. On Halloween".

"Yeah, yeah, man. Okay. Halloween, yeah. Some dude, some bitch, whatever, man", Tin Tin goes, only to get slapped.

"You cut her, you raped her", Jason lists off, "And it wasn't the first time. Three years ago, you did the same to the mother of Robin".

"Yeah, yeah. I shanked their pink asses and they loved it!", Tin Tin taunts before headbutting Jason and getting up, grabbing a pipe and beating into Jason.

"Murderer", Jason groans as he gets up.

"Murder?!", Tin TIn questions before throwing the pipe to the ground, "Let me tell you something about murder", he takes out some knives, "It's easy", he does a little knife dance as a show, "You gonna learn all about it", he walks away, taking off his coat to reveal his vest of knife holsters, "I'd like you to meet two buddies of mine. They never miss".

Jason gets up before dodging a knife throw, he begins stalking towards Tin Tin before he throws another knife, which Jason slaps away.

"Try harder. Try again!", Jason taunts as he approaches the man.

Tin TIn yells as he throws anther knife but Jason catches it before throwing it back to Tin Tin, stabbing him in the shoulder, Jason then rushes forward and holds him against the wooden crate pallets behind Tin Tin.

"Victims. Aren't we all?", Jason claims as he takes a knife from Tin Tin's vest before stabbing him.

Club Trash

T-Bird enters into the club, passing by a photo of Eric Draven and his band, and heads through the crowd as a band plays with Skank in tow.

"Look at this mess! What's the world coming to?", T-Bird remarks with a smile at the degenerate party goers before turning to Skank, "I got to go upstairs, Report from the front", Skank nods and goes to the bar for a drink while T-Bird pushes his way through the crowd to the stairs.

He heads up, stopping on the landing before the door into the room before a black man who looked like Tony Todd that was the bodyguard and main enforcer of the boss. He usually wore some kind of black suit, glasses always adorned his face so he could see. His name is Grange

"Hey, guess what? Arcade games fell down, went boom", T-Bird informs.

"Boom", grange repeats his he fixes his glasses.

"Can you imagine that? It's tragic", T-Bird remarks with false care as he then lights a new cigar for himself

"Gather your soldiers. You're on for tomorrow night. No sweat", Grange tells him.

"Is the man in?", T-Bird asks.

"He's taking a meeting", Grange shares with a wink.

Within the room, the boss sits on the edge of the bed with a naked woman behind him.

He had long black hair with wisps of facial hair along his jaw. He wore a black silk robe as he olds and gazes at a snow globe that held something within. He is known as Top Dollar.

Nearby, a woman with black hair and asian features was in the open shower, a tattoo of some kind was on her back. She is known as Myca.

She exits the shower and dons her own black robe and approaches him. Top Dollar hugs her from where he sat, against her abdomen and chest.

"You're thinking about the past", Myca remarks in a breathy tone before sitting beside him.

"Dad gave me this...", holding the snow globe to her, "fifth birthday. He said, "Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die"."

Myca holds up the globe to see a graveyard, with a tree behind a crucifix gravestone. She then kisses his forehead in comfort.

"Is she asleep", Myca asks, referring to their bedmate.

Top Dollar reaches over and turns her to them to reveal her open and lifeless eyes.

"I think we broke her", he says before sniffing

Myca grabs a wicked dagger and brings it to the dead girls face as she lays over her, "I love her eyes. Pretty", before bringing the dagger down.

Elsewhere

Sarah was skating down the streets on her board.

"Hey, bitch, get the hell outta the road!", a driver yells as he passes her.

She kick flips onto the curb and gets to her feet, lifting her board up to carry, before heading down into The Pit. The bar was practically empty with five to seven patrons. She looks around and sees her mother with her lover and heads over to them and sits down at the table.

Sarah clears her throat, stopping her mother's dry humping and look at her.

"I told you to stay out of here", Darla tells her.

"So I guess you're not gonna be home til a lot later, huh, Darla?", Sarah rhetorically asks.

"She's busy", Funboy retorts, "Why don't you go surf the streets".

Darla takes her tips out and sets them before Sarah, "Go get yourself some food, huh?".

"Somebody already bought me dinner. The police", Sarah tells her, causing Fnboy to side eye her before she takes the money anyway and leaves the table.

"Somebody already bought me dinner. The police", Funboy mockingly mimics before chuckling as he goes back to making out with Darla.

Gideon's Pawnshop

Gideon is counting his money for the day on the counter before seeing a shadowy figure over the glass front door

"Who the fuck is this now?", Gideon asks himself, "Hey! Piss off! We're closed!", only for the shadow to band a hand on the gate for entrance, "Go sleep it off somewhere else, dust-head, unless you want to get mutilated", mumbling the last part to himself, only for the gate to be slid open by the shadow.

Gideon quickly takes out his revolver and rushes around the counter, "I'm going to blow this guy's dick off", he grumbles, "Goddamn creatures of the night. They never learn".

The eyes of the Crow Form gazes through the glass and knocks directly on the door.

"Hey! Hey!", Gideon yells, aiming the gun at the door, only for Jason to smash on through, causing Gideon to fall back from the glass, dropping his gun. Jason's Spirit Crow flies passed him and Gideon, scaring the latter.

Jason now wore Tin Tin's leather coat for himself.

"Suddenly I heard a tapping, as if someone gently rapping...", Jason quotes Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven.

"You're trespassing, and you owe me a fuckin' new door!", Gideon tells him, quickly grabbing his gun again as Jason looks down on him.

"I'm looking for something in an engagement ring", Jason tells him, "Gold".

"You're looking for a corner, shit-for-brains", Gideon retorts as he aims his revolver and shoots through Jason's chest.

Only to then see the wound vanish to leave only a open hole in his shirt that showed white skin.

"Oh, shit. Oh, shit on me!", Gideon utters in terror while Jason looks at him with a deranged smile, "Shit on me. Shit on me!", his gun now shaking in his hand before Jason grabs him and throws him over his shop counter into the steel fence of his merchandise.

He grabs a bat and takes a swing at Jason as he jumps over the counter only to miss. He then turns to see Jason hanging upside down from a light.

"Mr. Gideon. You're not paying attention", Jason remarks before hitting Gideon with said bat and causing him to fall back against the fence again while losing his hold on the bat.

Jason toss the baseball bat away and flips to one knee onto the counter as gideon bounces off the fence onto it. Gideon goes to back hand him but Jason catches the arm. Jason punches through the glass counter and grabs a knife that was for sale.

"NO!", Gideon yells before Jason stabs it into the hand he held ito the counter's wooden frame, "My hand!", before Jason then places his own hand over Gideon's mouth to muffle his voice.

"I repeat. A gold engagement ring, yes?", Jason asks, as Gideon nods through his muffled screaming.

He releases him as gideon cries over his hand.

"It was pawned here a year ago by a customer of yours called Tin Tin", Jason continues to explain as he passes through a gat into the back area, "He confided in me before he ran out of breath".

Back in the Alley

Tin Tin's body was being taken away as cops move through the area with a helicopter in the air. The coroners being unable to close the bag due to the tremendous amount of knives sticking out his chest.

Albrecht takes a smoke of his cigarette as the body passes before the detective approaches him who wore the dark slacks, dress shoes and dress hirt with tie most wear in his position, a brown coat that reaches his knees was worn over it.

"Who's this sack of shit?", Detective Torres asks him about Tin Tin.

"That's Tin Tin, one of T-Bird's little helpers", Albrecht informs him as torres jots it down, "I think you can rule out accidental death", before taking another puff while Torres chuckles.

"Don't any of your street demons have real grown-up names?", Torres humorously asks him.

Abrecht looks around, "This could be a turf hit, but it doesn't look like our usual gang crap".

Torres snorts dismissively, "Come on, Albrecht, spare me. You're a beat cop now, so be a beat cop", as Albrecht looks at him with contempt.

"I'm supposed to thank you for that, right?", he asks as he takes another smoke.

"Word of the wise. Watch your ficking mouth", Torres warns before looking passed him, "What the hell do you call that?"

Albrecht turns around to look at the crude crow design that was drawn with Tin Tin's blood that was being photographed.

"I call it blood, Detective", Albrecht remarks, "I suppose you'll write it up as graffiti".

"You can leave my crime scene now, okay?", Torres tells him.

Albrecht just saunters off without a care.

Back at Gideon's

Jason his tossing things around as he moves among the items, "Warmer?", he asks of Gideon.

"What are you doing?", Gideon cries,

"Don't you know this game?", Jason rhetorically asks.

"What game are you talkin' about?", Gideon cries again trying to pry the knife from his hand only for Jason to toss more stuff around, "Okay, I'll tell you about the rings! They're in that metal box! It's under the shelf there!", shakingly pointing towards it.

Jason looks and slid open the panel shelf and finds the box.

"Take 'em! Take your fucking rings!", Gideon cries out to him, "And you can choke on them, you son of a bitch!"

Jason opens the box and begins sifting through it, feeling all the horrors that each went through before finding the Draven-Webster one. He sees flashes of how Eric proposed to Shelly.

Jason gazes at the ring. Small and gold with two curls to the diamond that was small but was filled with Eric's love for Shelly. He slips it onto his pinky and then takes the case full of the other rings.

He grabs a Mossberg 500 Cruiser shotgun and loads it. He then kicks open another gate door, knocking over a barrel and cans of lighter fluid as he does.

Gideon finally gets the knife out of his hand and from the counter.

Jason sets the metal box onto the counter and aims the shotgun at Gideon.

"You have one chance to live", Jason warns.

"Take anything you want", Gideon says in an attempt to spare his life.

"Thank you", Jason tells him.

"Take anything!", Gideon repeats in fear, wrapping a white cloth around his hands.

Jason grabs a can of lighter fluid and dumps it all over the counter, Now you're gonna tell me where to find the rest of Tin Tin's little party pals".

"The Pit. They all hang out at that bar called the Pit", Gideon tells him, "All of T-Bird's little potato-heads hang out there. Funboy! He lives there upstairs, alright!" while Jason tosses a pool ball up and down.

"Funboy", Jason remarks before remembering the blonde fool that tortured his mother and the couple, causing him to kick the front cases of the counter, shattering the glass, "A whole jolly club-".

"Stop! Please!", Gideon begs before Jason kicks the other one in.

"-with jolly pirate nicknames!", Jason continues before he shatters the counter top next to him.

"Oh, Jesus Christ in a taxicab!", Gideon cries out.

"Hold still!", Jason demands as he aims the shotgun back at him, causing Gideon to freeze up.

Jason grabs a handful of the rings from the box he had set on the counter, "Each one of these is a life", he then begins tossing them one by one at Gideon, "A life you helped destroy".

"I'm beggin you. Spare me", Gideon utters in despair, kneeling before the counter as though he's praying to him.

Jason lifts the gun away, "I'm not going to kill you. Your job will be to tell the rest of them that death is coming for them, tonight", before grabbing some of the rings left and sliding them down the barrel of the shotgun, "Tell them The Crow sends his regards", renaming himself with an alias.

He goes to leave, taking an all black electric guitar that caught his eye on the way.

"You walk outta here, they're gonna erase your sorry ass!", Gideon yells, getting brave again, "You're nothing but street grease! You hear that? Street grease, you motherfucker!", as The Crow looks to him.

"Is that gasoline I smell?", The Crow rhetorically asks him.

Gideon looks around at all of said liquid that coats his shop and back to The Crow.

"No, man, no!" Gideon begs before The Crow finishes stepping out of the shop as his crow flies passed him, aiming his gun back at said shop causing Gideon to book it for the back door, jimming the locks open. The crow fires the shotgun, sending buckshot and a barrage of rings flying into the fuel coated shop before it then explodes into a fireball. Gideon is sent flying through the back door with a yell as fire coats his back.

Gideon rolls around and stomps his legs to put out the fire that coats him.

The Pit

Sarah was sitting at the bar as the music from the jukebox kicks on.

"It's on the house kid, you know that", the bartender and owner tells Sarah as he sets a soda before her, "One root beer", having taken to having soda for her after they moved to Detroit years ago and her mother started working there.

Sarah looks back to see Darla and funboy heading upstairs.

"I can't do anything", the bartender tells her, "You mom, technically, she's off right now".

"Yeah, way off", Sarah agrees as she goes to her drink

Before The Destroyed Pawnshop

The Crow drops the shotgun and walks away across the street with the guitar.

Police!", Albrecht says as he steps from the driver seat and aims his gun, the classic Glock, at The Crow, "Don't move!", as The Crow looks to him, walking down the street some." I said, "Don't move"!", stepping to The Crow as he stops.

"I thought the police always said "Freeze"", Jason remarks with a smile.

"I am the police and I say don't move, Snow White", Albrecht responds while insulting his currently pale white skin tone, "You move, you're dead".

The Crow sets the guitar behind his back using its strap.

"And I say I'm dead and I move", The Crow tells him, raising his arms up and stepping towards Albrecht.

Albrecht trains his gun on The Crow's head, "Not one more step", he then flicks the safety off,

I'm serious".

"Then shoot, if you will, Officer Albrecht", The Crow bows to him.

Albrecht looks at him crazy, "What are you, nuts? Walking into a gun? You high?".

"No, never", The Crow responds, remembering the ordeals of his mother's addictions, "But I must ask if you remember?"

"What are you talking about?", Albrecht asks in confusion.

"About Eric Draven and Shelly Webster? Do you remember them?", The Crow asks him.

"They're dead, my friend", Albrecht shakingly says, "I want you to move over to the curb. Real nice and easy", gesturing to where he wants him to sit, "Move it!", The Crow moves over with the guitar, "We're gonna wait here for backup", as The Crow then sits, "It's gettin' too friggin' weird for me".

"Oh, it gets better", The Crow remarks, "Do you know someone named T-Bird? He had a friend who shouldn't have played with knives. Like the coat?"

""You're the guy that murdered Tin Tin", Albrecht states at the reveal. before hearing looters raiding Gideon's.

"He was already dead", The Crow tells him, "He died years ago", Albrechts looks between him and the looters, "They're all dead. They just don't know it yet".

Having enough of the looters, Albrecht looks to them, "Get away from there!", he yells, missing The Crow vanishing.

He looks around as the looters scurry away at the sight of a cop.

"Oh, great. Great", Albrecht utters at his loss of Tin Tin's murderer, "Guy shows up looking like a mime from hell... and you lose him right out in the open", more police arrive on the scene, "Well, at least he didn't do that walking against the wind shit. I hate that", holstering his Glock.

"Little early for Devil's Night", one cop remarks as he sees the fires of Gideon's Pawnshop since it was the before midnight into the day of October 30th.

Club Trash, Office Area

Top Dollar looks through the window till his asian half-sister, Myca, speaks.

"You are very restless", she notes his behaviour as she lounges on the meeting table with a chalice of fire before her.

"Just wish I was a little hungry again. That's all", he tells her.

"Careful what you ask for", she cautions him.

"Yeha, you may get it. I know", he says as he sits at the head of the table. In front of him, next the chalice, was a silver platter full of heroin powder, a dark wine glass and a cigar ashtray was on the other side of it. With Myca's dagger next to the chalice by the ashtray.

Myca leans forward over the table pass the chalice, tossing something in to help burn the eyeball within it, before becoming face to face with Top Dollar. She rubs her nose over his before lifting back.

"There are energies aligning against you", Myca tells him, running her finger from his brow down his cheek.

"Seeing is believing, isn't it?", Top Dollar retorts.

Myca blows out the fire and Top Dollar whaffs it for a sniff before licking his pinky and dipping it into the heroin before sucking it off as the door to the office opens.

"Yummy", Top Dollar remarks at the heroin to Myca before he notices Grange and T-Bird walking up to them.

"Gideon's Pawnshop just burned down to the foundation", Grange informs him.

"Nobody cleared this little event with me", Top Dollar states, moving the heroin around with a knife, before gazing to T-Bird.

"I didn't have nothing to do with that" T-Bird tells him, stepping forward.

"I'm sure you must be awful disappointed", Top Dollar snorts dismissively while Myca shifts to lay on her back.

"I got trouble", T-Bird continues, "One of my crew got himself perished".

"Yeah? Who might that be?", Top Dollar asks with litta scowl and a curious gaze.

"Tin Tin", T-Bird answers, "Somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order".

"Well gentlemen, I think we ought to have an introspective moment of silence... for poor old Tin Tin", Top Dollar sarcastically remarks before snorting a line of heroin as Myca gets up from the table and stands at his side..

"You're working for me tomorrow night, right?", Top Dollar asks wiping his hands as he sits back in his chair.

"Whatever you say. I can do", T-Bird confirms.

"Good. That's very reassuring", Top Dollar remarks as he lines up another line of heroin, "I still ain't heard the story on why Gideon's burned down", he looks to Grange, "Is that a natural catastrophe or act of God or something? Call it my need to know".

Grange goes to leave to find out while T-Bird follows him out for his own things to do, while Top Dollar snorts another line as Myca plays with his long hair.

Outside The Pit

Sarah had her hood up as she leaves the bar her mom worked. She makes it to the street and goes to skate, only for a car to appear to hit her. Before it could, The Crow grabs her away and pulls her to safety, but Sarah feared he had worse intention.

"Hey! Let me go, you creep!", she yells while kicking at him.

The Crow sets her down and releases his hold as he gets flashes of her time with Sheely and Eric before going further into the past when she was in her single digits. He saw her in the streets of Gotham playing with a familiar boy that he used to see in the mirror. She had lived as his neighbor in the shitholes of Park Row, otherwise known as Crime Alley, before she moved with her Mom to Detroit.

"You need to slow down, dickhead!", Sarah yells at the driver that nearly hit her as they left before turning to the hunched over man with a guitar that was looking away from her.

"More like you need to look where you were going. He couldn't have stopped", The Crow tells her.

"He was an ass-face", Sarah waves off in denial, "I could've made it", she notices the marking's on his face, "What are you supposed to be, a clown or something? Hope you're not looking to the Joker as a role model...".

"Not in any lifetime", The Crow says.

Sarah steps off the curb to retrieve her board, "It's more like surfing than skating. I wish the rain would stop, just once", stepping on the edge and grabbing hold of it

"It can't rain all the time", The Crow remarks.

Sarah suddenly stops at that line of dialogue. Only two guys have ever said that to her to try and cheer her up when the rainy weather got to her. One was Eric Draven, who even wrote and released a song about it. The other was her old childhood friend from the streets of Gotham before she moved, who this guy sounded like...

"Jason?", she questions as she looks back to The Crow, only to see him gone.

At Albrecht's Police Precinct

Albrecht was at his desk, looking through files, as the bullpen was a rush of comotion of work from his fellow officers.

A woman in a matching uniform and lighter skin tone with a messy curly hairdo sets a file on his desk.

"Don't thank me", she smiles to him, causing himt snort before he begins looking through the file, "Are we fighting the good fight?"

"Double homicide a year ago", Albrecht tells her, "No convictions", before grabbing a paper and handing it to her, "Annie, look at this".

Annie takes it and begins to read it aloud.

"We, the undersigned tenants of 1929 Calderon Court Apartments- What is this, a petition?", she looks to Albrecht.

"A big "kick me" sign for a very nice girl who found herself a cause. The cause got her killed", Albrecht tells her.

"She was fighting tenant eviction in that neighborhood?", Annie asks incredulously.

Albrecht nods, "Shelly Webster and her nice rock-and-roll boyfriend, Eric Draven", looking to a picture of Eric with his band called Hangman's Joke in a car for a promotion of their songs.

"The last time you went snooping on a case is when you got put back on the beat", Annie reminds him.

"I know. Torres keeps reminding me", Albrecht retorts.

"I bet he does", Annie chuckles, "You're going to wind up workin a school crosswalk".

"I'm cool", Albrecht smiles.

Annie leans over, "You didn't get that file form me, okay? And don't tell me you owe me one", before she then leaves his desk.

"I owe you one", Albrecht calls out.

"Yeah, right", she waves off as she leaves him.

Above The Pit, Funboy's Apartment

Cool rock music plays while Funboy readies a needle of morphine for Darla. He was only in his striped pants that looked like pajama bottoms while Darla was in a black silk negligee. Darla had already wrapped her arm with a dark rubber tie as Funboy lowers the needle to her inner elbow to inject her.

As he does, he laughs, "Tomorrow night we can get high... and watch this whole fucking city brun from that window", nodding to a nearby one as Darla's mind begins to drift.

Just outside on the fire escape, The Crow was crouched on the railing of the platform nearby with his guiding crow on his shoulder before it flies to an open window to Funboy's apartment.

Funboy is kissing Darla before the latter notices the crow flying in and perching on his old TV.

"There's a big fuckin' bird over there", Darla chuckles through her high.

Funboy looks over to see the crow cawing, "It's a squab", he jokes, causing Darla to laugh lazily. Fuboy laughs as he reaches a hand out to the crow, "Come here, bird. Hey, bird. Hey, bird. Bird. Birdie".

The Crow sees the the crow's eyes to see Funboy calling out to the Corvus bird before he comes in through the window.

"Here, Funboy", The Crow jokingly calls to like he did his crow as he soon stands in the archway to the kitchen and dining area of the apartment, with the light from the bathroom through the open door frame framing his form.

"What the fuck?", Funboy utters at the sight of gothic being that was tall enough for the light bulb of the hanging light to move with the top of his head.

The Crow then quickly moves forward while picking his guitar, releasing a nasty metal sound that hurt the ears.

"Ah! Man, don't do that! You nearly gave me a fucking heart attack!", Funboy yells out.

Darla could only giggle in her high as she mumbles to Funboy, "Look at the guy".

"Don't sweat it", Funboy tells her as he then grabs his revolver.

The Crow could only look on in exacerbation at having to deal with drug addicts again before he then hangs the guitar by its strap on a nearby coat rack.

Funboy aims the gun at at The Crow, "It's time for you take your bird and leave, freako".

The Crow looks to him in suppressed anger as he then drags a wooden chair to before the mattress on the floor where funboy and Darla lounged. The Crow its backwards in the chair, facing them. Funboy pulls back the hammer of his magnum revolver before Jason places his palm to the barrel.

"Take your shot, Funboy. You got me dead bang", The Crow tells him with a psycho look.

Funboy looks at him like he's crazy, "You are seriously fucked up. Did you look in the mirror? You need professional help", causing the Crow to smile before Funboy pulls the trigger and blows a hole through the Crow's hand .

The Crow yells out in pain and stands up, backing away from them while blood had splattered on Funboy and Dara

"Bingo!", Funboy cheers as he stands on his bed while Darla starts woozily loses the joy of her high, "He shoots! He scores!"

The Crow then looks at him as he begins to laugh, looking through the hole in his hand, "Whoo!", before turning his hand to show Funboy it healing and the blood becoming ash that falls away, "Whoo-hoo!".

"Jesus Christ!", Funboy utters in horror while Darla barely reacts doe to her high.

"Jesus Christ?", The Crow questions before getting an idea, "Stop me if you heard this one. Jesus Christ Walks into a hotel", before Funboy shoots him again, causing The Crow to stumble back while Darla falls off the mattress as she was disoriented by the blast sound.

The Crow looks to him in annoyance, "Ow", as Funboy laughs a little.

"He hands the innkeeper three nails, and he asks-", The Crow continues before Funboy shoots him again.

"Don't you ever fuckin' die?", Funboy utters in fear as The Crow is still standing.

""Can you put me up for the night"?", The Crow finishes the joke before slapping down on Funboy's gunhand as he pulled the trigger, causing him to shoot himself in his leg above his knee.

Funboy falls back in his bed, holding his injured leg as The Crow then hops onto it and over him while Darla now stands back against he wall to the left of the archway before she moves over to the bathroom as fear overtakes her high, closing the door behind her and locking it's bolt.

The Crow takes the revolver, "Does that hurt?", he asks the inured blonde.

"Fuck, yes, it fuckin' hurts!", Funboy cries, "Oh, god", he looks around in his high, "Look what you've done to my sheets", and falls back as though he passed out.

The Crow rolls his highs and pockets the gun in the coat. Not wanting him to die yet without suffering more, The Crow grabs Funboy by his injured leg and drags him to the bathroom. He kicks up the door, breaking the lock and sees Darla crying at one corner of the room.

Ignoring her for now, The Crow drags the unconscious Funboy to the other end of the bathroom to the bathtub and places the man inside it.

Darla grabs the old school razor that Funboy had on the back of his toilet to defend herself for if The Crow went after her too.

The Crow turns on the shower head to soak funboy awake before then looking to Darla. Flashes of meeting her in his youth as well as her behaviour to her daughter appear in his mind. He then stalks towards her.

"Stay away! Stay away from me!", Darla cries, swiping the razor at him to defend herself but The Crow was unharmed and grabbed her arm before taking the razor away with his other hand.

He picks her up as she cries, noting all the bruises and track marks, showing that Funboy wasn't only drugging her but beating her for his own amusement.

The Crow stands her before the mirror holding her had up and her drugging arm out.

"Look", he demands of her, which she does, "Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand?", Darla could then see the veins of her arm pulse as the morphine is pushed out from the old injection points before they heal completely, "Morphine is bad for you".

The Crow then hugs her close as he shows her images using his Tactile Telepathy, "Funboy and his crew... they raped and tortured your old friend Catherine and Sarah's friend Shelly", showing her images of what they did to the girls, "They killed Eric as well", showing how Eric was beaten, forced to watch Sarah get raped, before then being shot and thrown out the window, "Helped Joker torture Catherine's son, Jason", showing her how he himself suffered from a 3rd person perspective.

He then shows her Sarah, "Your daughter is left without anyone to be there for her", showing how alone her daughter is. He turns her around and grabs hold of her face, "Your daughter is out there alone on the streets waiting for you", before guiding her out the bathroom.

She soon runs for the door as she cries, grabbing her clothes off the ground and bolting out the apartment, with The Crow looking after her as she left.

He spots a serious of drugs on the counter near the bathroom and gets an idea on how to deal with funboy as he then picks up a needle injection

The Pit

Gideon sits at the bar, chugging a glass of booze, before tossing the ice away, "If I wanted ice, I would have asked for ice!", before slamming the glass onto the counter, "Now fill it up!"

The bartender simply sets the whisky bottle on the counter, "Fill it up yourself, macho man", before heading over to another customer.

Gideon goes to open the bottle, struggling to do it with one hand as the other was injured, before Grange appears beside him and grabs the bottle. Gideon glances at him before Grange uncaps the bottle, causing Gideon to set his glass closer to him to pour it in for him.

"All right", Gideon signals to say the pour was good enough and to stop for him to drink.

Grange sets his short top hot on the counter as he looks to Gideon while the balding man takes a drink.

"You burn yourself playing with matches?", grange asks as he sees soot and burnt clothes on Gideon.

"Fuck off", Gideon retorts as he nurses his drink.

"You have an appointment", Grange tells him.

"Well, shit on me", Gideon remarks, knowing who it was with.

"Drink up", Grange tells him, expecting the worse for Gideon, prepping a cigarette to smoke

"This is a first", Gideon says, "Do I bow or do I curtsy?", before looking to the bartender, "Get my friend her a glass of blood".

Before Darla is then see running down the stairs in nothing but her black negligee, pushing past a fellow waitress and makes for the front door to leave.

"Good night, Darla", the bartender calls out to her with a smile, finding it karma for her treatment of Sarah.

Grange noticed the panic and fear in Darla, and grabs his hat, "You stay put right there", placing the hat on Gideon, who flinches in pain due to his burns, before Grange heads for the stairs.

Upstairs, Funboy's Apartment

Funboy becomes lucid again as The Crow takes him out of the shower. He takes him to the only light on, right next to the mattress and places a knee on him with a needle in hand.

Grange soon arrives about a minute later with his gun out. He enters to see Funboy on the ground with a shit ton of needles injected in his chest in one spot where his heart is with a bloody crow mark that covers his whole chest

Grange sees The Crow with his guitar and a stolen speaker shush him before vanishing out the window. Grange rushes over and looks out it but can't find the Crow anywhere. Grange returns to Funboy to see the mark on his chest as he twitched from OD'ing.

Albrecht's Apartment

Albrecht was looking through photos for the Webster-Draven case while the news talks about Devil's Night. Albrecht notices a billowing sound and walks over to his room, setting the photos down on his dining table, and looks into his room to see a window open.

He gazes to the window as he wonders how it was open, unaware of The Crow behind him.

"Freeze!", The Crow yells, freaking Albrecht out as he looks back to him, dropping his can of beer.

"Jesus, don't ever do that, man", Albrecht utters as he tries to calm down, "Fuck".

The Crow steps to him and grabs the grayscale photo of Eric Draven that Albrecht had sketched The Crow's markings onto Eric's face.

"Good suspect. But I'm afraid not", The Crow comments.

"Then who are you?", Albrecht asks, "Why would you get involved in what happened to them?"

"Was search in my vengeance, and started getting revenge for them", The Crow remarks, before looking back to Albrecht, "You still have your hat on", referring to the fact Albrecht wore his officer out with only his white shirt and boxers on under it.

Albrecht takes it off, "I got to sit down", he sighs and heads for his couch. The Crow heads into the kitchen and grabs a beer bottle form the fridge and heads to the couch.

Albrecht looks to him, "Say, are you some kind of... Metahuman?".

"More of an undead", before The Crow opens the bottle and hands it to him, which Albrecht accepts and he sits. The Crow heads over and sits in a chair across from him, "I came here because I need to know more about what happened to them".

Albrecht sighs, "Well, Eric took a six-story swan dive out of a window. She was beaten and raped. Died later at the hospital", he then notices The Crow's intense gaze, "You asked, man", he sets the beer down, stands and points over to the table, "Read the file", he heads over to grab them, "Shelly Wester held on for 30 hours in intensive care. Her body finally just gave up", grabbing the files and turns back to The Crow.

The Crow gets back up and stands before Albrecht, who holds the files to him. Instead of taking the files, The Crow grabs him by his head and gets memories of Shelly in the hospital, feeling all the pain of those 30 hours.

He backs away from how intense they are.

"Hey", Albrecht says in worry, going to help him.

"Don't touch me!", The Crow yells, not wanting to get more emotions and memories, before falling to the ground and holding his head.

"You okay?", Albrecht asks.

"I saw her. I saw her through your eyes", The Crow says as he looks up to him, "You stayed with her the whole time".

Albrecht sits on his coffee table before him, "I was hoping she would come out ot it, you know...", grabbing his cigarettes for a smoke, "give me something I could work with".

"Why didn't you do something about it then?", The Crow asks.

"You think any of the other tenants in that building were going to talk after what happened to those two? Even the ones who signed the petition?", he lights his cigarette, "Kept asking questions and finally got busted for sticking my nose where it wasn't wanted".

The Crow sees a picture of Albrecht with a woman, "Your wife?", he asks him.

"Yeah, we- Well, not anymore. We're getting a divorce", Albrecht sighs.

"Has someone who has lost loved ones, I say you should make up with ehr in anyway you can before it's to late", The Crow tells him before taking his cigarette and taking a puff, "You shouldn't smoke these", he puts it out i the ashtray nearby, "It'll kill ya", before standing up.

"Are you going to pull a Batman on me and vanish into the thin air again?", Albrecht asks.

"I thought I'd use your front door", The Crow retorts.

Albrechts stands up, "Look, man... I don't agree with the killing. But if it's the only way these assholes will pay, I'll let it slide for now".

The Crow nods to him and heads for his front door.

Club Trash, Offices

"I was stabbed! I shot the son of a butch! I watched the bullet hole close by itself", Gideon explains to the others with him as he sits in one of the chairs around the meeting table, "And then my business gets blown up real good. other than that, my day sucked".

Grange paced behind him while Top Dollar paced on the other side of the meeting table with Myca sitting in the ornate chair at the end of the table next to him.

"Yeah", Grange agrees as he drops his thin cigar and stomps it out, "I saw hi too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he vanished out a fourth-floor window like he had wings".

"He winked at ya?", Top Dollar asks with a raised brow before, "Tsk. Musicians", before looking to Gideon, "What else did you see?".

"So far I haven't heard shit about what you're gonna do about all this crap!", Gideon gripes, "I mean, what do I get? My livelihood got flushed away and went swirling", lowering his head as Grange hovers over him.

Top Dollar leans over the table to him "You ain't lost everything", remarking on how he still had his life.

"Yeah? And maybe you're not such a big shot either!", he goes to stand but grange keep him seated, "Ow! Jesus!", yelping in pain.

"Fair enough", Top Dollar agrees, "Catch", tossing Gideon something.

He catches it and then sees it's an eyeball, dropping it on the table with another yelp of disgust, "Jesus", looking to Top Dollar like he's crazy.

"Say hello to the last fellow who wouldn't cooperate with me", Top Dollar retorts before waling away from the table.

"Are you- Are you tellin' me this thing is real?", Gideon fearfully asks after him.

"Al the power in the world resides in the eyes, fella", Top Dollar calls back as he approaches a metal wardrobe that was built into the wall, "Sometimes they're more useful than the people who bear them", and he opens it to reveal a plethora of swords and knives.

"You're directly outta your fucking mind! You know that?", Gideon yells, with Grange still holding him in his chair.

Top Dollar takes out a rapier with a golden guard that curled around the handle, "Yeah", he agrees with Gideon before continuing, "Eyes see. It's one of the most important things I learned from my sister", as he comes back to the table while Myca now sits on said table by Gideon.

"Sister? She's supposed to be your sister?", Gideon asks him about Myca before laughing a little.

"My father's daughter. That's right", Top Dollar confirms before tilting his head, "What's the matter, you don't see the resemblance?".

Myca blacks her hell to Gideon's shoulder while Top Dollar ais the rapier at him.

"Now, let's take it from the top, friend", Top Dollar goes, "With a lot of detail. What do you say?"

"He had a bird with him", GIdeon tells him while glancing at the sword, "Nearly pecked my face off. He told me to tell T-Bird that death was on its way. Whatever the fuck that means. The Crow. He said The Crow sends his regards", he nods to him, "You want to relax that thing now?"

"This bird man, he just happened to let you live, huh?", Top Dollar questions before smirking, "You sure you ain't making all this up just to save your own ass?", forgetting the fact Grange saw him too.

Gideon glares at him, "I ain't making all this up. I ain't twist like you two fucks.

Myca lifts her foot away and onto the table.

"Alright", Top Dollar accepts, lowering his sword and grange releases Gideon, causing gideon to smile at it being accepted.

top Dollar looks away in thought, "A boy and his bird. Awful touching", causing Gideon to laugh. Top Dollar shared his amusement before thrusting forward with the rapier and piercing deep into Gideon's neck. At Gideon's continued moving and gurgling, Top Dollar looked on annoyed, "For fuck's sake, die, will ya?", he looks to Grange, "Give me that thing", and taking his gun before shooting into Gideon, who finally falls back dead. He hands the gun back to Grange, "Thanks".

"Funboy said he saw a black bird too", Grange tells him, "A big one".

Top Dollar kisses the side of Myca's head, who had her gaze trained on Grange who had her attention.

"Then he choked to death on his own blood", Grange finishes before saing, "I'll have the janitor come on up", heading for the door

Above The Webster-Draven Loft

Jason sits on the small platform of a roof over the circle window of the loft with his crow beside him, playing a rift on his new guitar using the speaker he had procured from Funboy, having a little fun before the next attack on those that harmed his mother.

The Mohr Residence

Sarah arrives to her apartment and heads into the living room and activates the music player, putting in the only CD Eric's band had published when he was alive.

She soon notices a crow in her open window sill, "You again", remembering it from the graveyard earlier that night, "Are you lost or hungry?", she soon stands before it, "Hi", before it flies away.

The song Eric wrote about the rain begins to play and Sarah looks to it as she reminisces about Jason.

How he was her only friend in Gotham and protected her from the more bastard like street rats. They had no choice at first since both their mothers go high together but they became fast friends. Up till the day Jason was taken in by Bruce Wayne after his mother had seemingly died from OD'ing. Her and her mother moved from Gotham to detroit within that same year before hearing about how Jason and his mother were found dead in a warehouse by Batman. And not long after that, Funboy and his posse join up with them in Detroit, ruining Darla's life again along with Sarah's.

Elsewhere

The Spirit Crow flew through the air till he sees T-Bird and Skank on the sidewalk, it lands on a telephone wire and looks down on them with its sight being transmitted to Jason.

"You know how long it took us to put this together", T-Bird vents to Skank, "Then some piece of rat shit made Tin Tin into a fuckin' voodoo doll!"

"Tin Tin was a dick", Skank remarks.

"Tin Tin", T-Bird sighs, "Man, we've all been together for years, man, even in Gotham. Till we had to run from it for Detroit when Batman was hunting our asses after what Joker did to Robin".

"Fire it up! Fire it up!", the duo chant to pep themselves up again before stopping.

T-Bird looks to his watch than back to Skank, "No Funboy".

"Probably still banging' away on Darla", Skank jokes, humping against a parking meter.

T-Bird whistle sof rhim to stop and points to the convenience store, "Smokes and road beers. Be quick, before heading for his car.

"I'm on it", Skank confirms before heading inside.

T-Bird sits in his car and begins to smoke a cigar while skank scrounges around the store for the items while also messing around. The crow soon lands on the exposed engine, drawing T-Bird's attention.

The Crow rises from his backseat and grabs his arm while aiming Funboy's revolver to his head to stop T-Bird from aiming his own gun.

"What the fuck are you supposed to be, man?", T-Bird asks as he sees The Crow's face.

"I'm your passenger", The Crow retorts, before taking the cigar from his mouth and dropping it on the floorboard before then taking t-Bird's gun, and redirecting his gaze forward, "Drive".

T-Bird sets his key into the ignition and starts his car, causing the crow to fly off it.

Skank gazes out the window with chips in his mouth as he sees T-Bird with a gun to his head, "What's all this happy horsehit?", before the car drives, "Hey, T-Bird!", he yells as he rushes out the store onto the street, "T-Bird!", only to get hit by a red car.

"What the fuck's the matter with you?", the driver yells as he gets out of the car, "Stupid ass-hair!", he picks Skank up, "You hit my car!".

Skank knees him in the crouch before then sucker punching him across the face and getting into the red car to drive after T-Bird.

In T-Birds car as it barrels down the streets, T-Bird tries to talk to The Crow, "What do you want, man? Money? Drugs? I got it", knocking over a barrel as he drives past it, "We could use you. You did in Tin Tin. This is business, right?"

The Crow switches to T-Birds gun and cocks it, "Faster", The Crow orders him to drive faster, causing the Thunderbird to zoom down the streets.

A police squad car was sitting in an alley as the cops inside were on a coffee break before seeing the Thunderbird speed by and the driver rushes to give chase after ditching his coffee, leaving his partner to get scalded by his own as it spill over him from the rough pursuit starting.

"Oh, look. Makin' us popular", T-Bird remarks as he sees the lights of the police behind them and hears the sirens, "When they flash us like that, they ain't friends".

The Crow keeps his gun easily trained on T-Bird, holding his head still with his other hand so t-Bird can't move it to try and save himself.

The car races down the street with the police in pursuit and more pathetically followed by Skank in his stolen car.

"You got something personal, amigo, we can work it out. Right?", T-Bird tries to disway The Crow from shooting.

T-Bird has to drive more wildly due to the chase, swerving around a corner to evade the cops, Going through trainyards and pass warehouses. All while Skank was suffering unlucky situations that kept pushing him further back and taking a shortcut through an alley till he spots t-Bird's thunderbird.

"T-Bird! I got you, man", Skank cheers and speeds up, only to get T-boned by the cop car that was pursuing them, with the cops getting knocked out from their airbags.

Skank opens the driver's door after they all stopped moving and falls out of it to the road.

On The Docks Nearby

The Crow gets out of the car, having tied T-Bird in place with some bungies and a ton of duct tape he had in the back along with over some important parts of the car.

"Remember? Yeah. I remember everything", T-Bird tells him, "Yeah. I remember them. We needed to put some fear into the little lady. She wasn't going along with out tenant relocation program", unaware of The Crow searching his trunk of explosives for Devil's Night, "Then her idiot boyfriend shows up and turns a simple sweep-and-clear into a total cluster fuck! Who gives a shit? It's ancient history!", as The Crow grabs an incendiary grenade from the trunk before closing it and heading to the driver's seat.

"Then what about years before that than, with the Joker?", The Crow questions.

"What? What do you mean? What does that have to do with anything?", T-Bird asks in confusion before getting a clearer look at his face, before recognizing him, "I know you. I know you. I knew I knew you", as The Crow takes off some duck tape, "But you ain't you. You can't be you. You burned in that warehouse. There ain't no coming back. This is the really real world", The Crow leans in and forcefully tapes his head to the headrest while making him face forward, "There ain't no coming back. We killed you dead! There ain't no coming back".

Skank was limping across the edge of a distant dock and sees the car.

"There ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back!", T-Bird cries before The Crow tighten a bungie that forces T-Bird's foot onto the gas pedal and the car's engine revs, ""Abashed, the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is"", he quote a verse from the bible, ""And felt how awful goodness is"", feeling death approach him.

The Crow pulls the pun on the grenade and tosses it onto T-Bird's lap before leaning over and shifting the car gear into drive. It speeds down the path to the dock edge.

The Crow takes out a lighter fluid bottle and squirts it onto the ground in a specific manner as the car speeds away.

"T-Bird!", Skank utters in confused fear as he sees the car speed for the edge of the docks.

The Crow flicks a lighter to fire as the car then blows up as it reaches the edge of the docks, releasing a massive fireball from the trunk as it then crashes into the water. the Crow drops the lighter onto the lighter fluid trail he made and it create a fire image his a crow.

He walks away with his crow landing on his shoulder, cawing as if telling him he did a good job.

Morning, After Sunrise, October 30th Mohr Residence

Darla was making eggs sunnyside up as Sarah begins to wake from sleeping on the couch.

Sarah sees into the kitchen to see her mother almost happily working in the kitchen and smiles at her once Darla realizes she was awake.

As Sarah gets up from the couch, Darla asks her, "Do you like them up or over? I can't remember", setting the plates and civilware down on the table in the kitchen.

As Sarah gets up and heads for the kitchen, "What are you doing? I don't even like eggs".

"Really? You loved eggs", Darla says, pouring some apple juice into a cup.

"Yeah, when I was five", Sarah retorts.

"So, what do you want now?", Darla asks, "French toast? Pancakes? Black coffee and cigarettes?", ending it with a joke.

"What did you take last night?", Sarah asks, getting a little freaked by Darla's behavior as she places pancakes and bacon onto Sarah's plate.

Darla looks hauntedly at her for a second before answering, "Oh, it wasn't drugs. Someone kind of woke me up", before flipping her eggs over in the pan.

"Who?", Sarah ask her.

"Um...", Darla goes as she doesn't know how to talk about The Crow, "It was nuts" adding pepper to her eggs.

"You're acting weird", Sarah says as she's not used to this behavior, "Did you win the lottery or something?", causing Darla to deflate.

"I was never good at being a mother", Darla utters, "And I want to try again before it's too late", as tears fall before she hurriedly goes to throw the eggs away.

Sarah quickly stands to stop her, "Over easy", drawing Darla's attention, "When I do eat eggs, I like 'em over easy, Mom", causing Darla to smile.

"Well", she looks to the eggs, "Good thing I already did that".

Albrecht's Police Precinct

Albrecht walks in for his shift only to be stopped by Torres.

"Hey, Albrecht", Torres calls to him from his desk before walking up to him, before holding up a file, "This is the third hit in your hood in 24 hours", before handing the file to Albrecht, "We just fished this out of the river. He was fused to his own car", as Albrecht flips through the evidence photos, "We're gonna have to ID his teeth".

"His name is T-Bird", Albrecht tells him as he recognizes the car through the wreckage, "Arson was his specialty. Looks like he zigged when he should have zagged and got blown up by his own tools of his trade", he hands the files back to Torres, "Case closed".

"Bul-fuckin'-shit", Torres retorts, "Come here", beckoning him into his office which Albrecht steps in, "You're holding out on me", drawing a furrowed brow from the demoted officer, "I got a goddamn vigilante killer knocking off scumbags left and right and you're covering up for somebody", causing Albrecht to sigh at the accusation, "Who's the cartoon character in the painted face?"

"Hell if I know. Some Joker wannabe that follows more closely to Batman's teachings?", Albrecht retorts.

"Okay", Torres sneers, "Gideon's blows to hell, and you're having a chitchat with some weirdo who winds up in T-Bird's car when it zigs instead of zags. Then you steal one of my case files from Homicide and you're saying this is just a fucking automobile accident? Come on!"

"Yeah. I was doing guess work from the photos. The case file was because the pale faced guy mentioned it", Albrecht tells him, Good speech though. You should write it down".

Torres slaps the files down in his desk, "Alright, smartass. The captain's got a little love note waiting for you. Welcome to the first day of the rest of your suspension".

"Suspension? For what?", Albrecht demands.

Torres side eyes him, "Misconduct", calling into the lab as Albrecht leaves.

Later in the Day, The Loft

Sarah crosses the street and heads into the abandoned building the Sherry and Draven lived before they died. She would come here during her free time to hang out and remember the duo.

Jason sits in said loft already, having a fire going as he burns some old wood. in the fireplace. He had the coat off as he used electrical tape to patch his outfit and adds more of a flair to it.

He hears Sarah come in and sees her petting the cat.

"Hey. How you doing Gabriel?", she asks the cat as she goes to pet him, "Good to see you're not dead", picking him up to properly pet him. She looks around and sees the burning fireplace.

"What the...?", Sarah questions before releasing Gabriel and looking around, "Anyone here?", before seeing the crow fly in from the broken window that Eric fell from, "You again? What, you were with...".

"Forgive my friend", she hears The Crow say as he appears from the window as well, the sun shining through the rain, "How are you, Sarah", as his transformation vanishes to reveal the grown version of her long dead childhood friend.

"Jason?", Sarah utters at the sight of him, "Jason!", rushing him and hugging him tight with Jason returning it.

Club Trash, Early Evening

Grange had retrieved Skank from the streets after T-Bird's death. Skank went on to animatedly explaining what had happened to Top Dollar and Grange at fast speeds.

"Maybe we oughta just videotape this, play it back in slow motion", Top Dollar comments at the buffoonery of Skank as said psycho chugs a bottle of whisky in memory to T-Bird.

"Fire it up! Fire it up!", Skank chants while crying and dancing.

"Find anything?", Top Dollar asks Grange.

"Nothing. But it's obviously a vengeance job", Grange tells him, "None of our other guys have really suffered much aside from Gideon".

"Three outta four", Top Dollar remarks as Skank was the last of that group.

"He's working his way back to this speed freak right here", Grange theorizes.

"It's Funboy's fault", Skank accuses as he approaches them, "He was outta control. Always making it worse just so he can have fun. Now this guy's going to get my ass next".

Top Dollar was starting to get annoyed and bitch slaps him away as he stands up. Grange catches him and holds Skank up before setting him into the chair while Top Dollar walks around the table to the approaching Myca.

"They have all arrived", Myca informs him.

"Watch him. We might need him", Top Dollar orders Grange to watch Skank.

Maxi-Dogs, Early Sunset

Sarah was sitting at the counter with Gabriel at her side with a half finished hotdog while in deep thought as Albrecht arrives in his car and gets out as he walks up to her in a more casual outfit.

"He like his plain or with onions?", Albrecht asks Sarah as he sits down beside her, referring to Gabriel the cat, Only for Sarah not to respond, "Fine. Don't talk to me".

Sarah pets Gabriel as she asks, "When someone's dead, they can't come back, can they?".

"Not usually", Abrecht replies, "But we live in a world with aliens, amazonians, atlanteans, and real life magic. So anything is possible", he looks to her, "You thinking of anyone in particular?"

"No one you'd know of", Sarah retorts.

"Someone from Gotham?", Albrecht asks her, to which she nods, "Even more likely, if the rumors I've heard are right about that hell hole", he looks back to her, "Who want me to walk you home?", with her nodding again.

Roof Of The Loft, Sunset

Jason was playing his guitar in an epic solo as he watches the sunset in honor of Eric Draven as it acts as his signal to start the rampage again in his hunt for Skank, ending the solo with an awesome shred.

Club Trash, Nighttime

The crow flies through the skies to the next location, with a usual wild party going on in the main club area. In the office area, many gang members, about 20 of them, were at the table, with guns and cash and drugs, prepping up for Devil's Night.

Grange comes in with Skank held in hand, and Top Dollar with Myca come to the head of the table.

"Boys", Top Dollar greets as he then sits down in his ornate chair, "It seems ou friend t-Bird won't be joining us this evening on account of a slight case of death", causing some to laugh before he looks to Skank and Grange, "You wanna sit down?", and grange forces Skank into the seat next to him.

"Well, well, well. Devi's Night is upon us again", Top Dollar begins, "I thought we'd throw a little party, start a bunch of fires, make a little profit".

"I like the pretty lights", Myca adds in, causing most to chuckle.

"Problem is, it's all been done before. You see what I'm saying?", Top Dollar continues.

"That's no reason to quit", one guy says.

"Wrong", Top Dollar retorts, "Best reason to quit. Only reason to quit", before then standing from his seat, "A man has an idea. The idea attracts others... like-minded", he he begins walking down the table around them, "The idea expands. The idea becomes an institution. What was the idea?", he turns and walks back down around the table, "That's what's been bothering me, boys. But I'll tel ya, when I used ti think about the idea itself, it'd put a big smile on my face", standing at the head once more, "You see, gentlemen... greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy-", a smile spreads on Top Dollar's face, "now that's fun!".

"What bout Devil's Night?", another guy asks.

"What about it?", Top Dollar repeats, "My father started the first fires in this goddamn city, taking me with him in my early years. before I knew it, every charlatan and shit-heel was imitating our work. Do you know what they got now? Devil's Night greeting cards", laughing the very idea of such a thing, "Isn't that precious?".

They were all unaware of The Crow looming right outside their open window.

"The Idea has become the institution, boys", Top Dollar tells the criminals, "Time to move along".

"You don't want us to do "Light my Fire" time for the whole city?", yet another guy questions.

"No", Top dollar shakes his head before continuing, "No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods will notice us again. That's what I'm saying", with mururs of agreement around the room, "I want all you boys to be able to look me straight in the eye one more time and say, "Are we having fun or what?!", he then turns to Skank, "Hey, you! What's your name? Skank! You don't feel that?"

"I feel like a little worm on a big fuckin' hook", Skank answers in fear, causing everyone to laugh.

""I fell like a little worm on a bug fuckin' hook"!", Top Dollar repeats as he laughs, "Well, boy, your mama must be damn proud of you!"

Suddenly, a certain crow lands on the opposite end of the table, drawing everyone's gaze, especially Myca's

"How the hell did that get in here?", Top Dollar questions in confusion, Grange reaching for his gun.

The crow flies away as The Crow enters into the room.

"Gentlemen", he announces his presence as he walks towards the table.

Skank freaks out and tries to duck under the table but is stopped by Grange while everyone else sans Top Dollar and Myca pulls out a gun on The Crow. The Crow arrives at the table, knocks over the ornate chair at the opposite end of Top Dollar's, and sits criss-cross on the table's end.

"You're him, huh? The avenger", Top Dollar notes his appearance matched the description by Gideon and Grange, "The killer of killers".

"I just want him", The Crow says, pointing to Skank, who freaks out even more.

"Well, you can;t have him", Top Dollar denies him.

"You've made your decision? I accept her terms", The Crow says as he stands on the table.

"This is already boring the shit out of me", Top Dollar remarks before ordering the others, "Kill him!"

Everyone then opens fire on The Crow till he finally falls over off the table.

"Ooooh! That had to hurt", Top Dollar comments, causing most around the table to laugh, "Well, that's that", grabbing a bottle of booze.

One guy goes to check the body, only to not find it. At this time, Myca goes to grab the Crow but it flies off before she could touch it.

"He's gone", the guy that checked says before a gun shot comes from under the table into his temple.

Another guy is taken out from udner the table and they all shoot under it for The Crow, only for the killer of killers to roll out and stand before firing T-Bird's and Funboy's guns at them, killing some while Grange leads Top Dollar and Myca out of there. Skank was hiding off to the side behind a side table near the love seat window viewed.

The Crow flips over as he fires into more guys. Skank rushes and grabs one fo the few woman in the room as entertainment and uses her as a shield from The Crow. The Crow sees this and tosses the guns away in anger before approaching him. Skank pushes the woman into The Crow's arms and he spins them to the ground to avoid gunfire.

"Stay low and crawl away", he tells her as he then gets up again.

He follows after Skank, kicking a guy in his way before chopping into his neck and throwing him onto the table. He takes the next guy by the arm and spins him around to hold him from behind before forcing him to shoot more guys while being a shield that The Crow doesn't need, one of the guys falling through a window that falls down to the dance floor.

Skank had dived under the table and was quietly hiding.

Another guy tries to swing on him, but The Crow grabs a knife and slices the guy's neck. The Crow then grabs the next guy and throws him over the table to the remaining shooters. The light fixtures breaking as he is riddled with holes before the Crow flips over the table to the remaining enemies, grabbing another gun as he rolls on the ground before standing and shooting to more guys dead. He shoots at those left standing before taking out a katana from the open metal wardrobe, slicing into the bellies of two more guys, before then upward slicing the chest of another.

"You're all going to die", The Crow tells the last few remaining.

He tosses the sword away, landing blade tip first into the top of the table. He backhands a guy over a piano before drop kicking another onto a chair and out a window down to the dance floor.

The dance floor of the club finally realizes that shit was going down in the club and evacuate in a panic.

The Crow slips on the table and fires two guns at a guy in the walkway above the meeting table before flipping back to his feet and shooting two guys by the windows.

All left alive in the room were the Crow and Skank, with the girls having run from the room, after Top Dollar and his sister, with his bodyguard went out a backway.

The Crow stalks down the table as he hears the whimpering of Skank under it. He reaches the point where SKank was right under him and pushes down the Katana that was right before him, resulting in the blade appearing right before Skank.

"Aah!", Skank yells and rushes out from under the table, with The Crow hopping off the table and grabbing hold of him and drags him near the window.

"Guess it's not a good day to be a bad guy, huh, Skank?", The Crow says to his next victim.

"I'm not Skank", Skank denies, "There's Skank right there", pointing to a nearby body, "Skank's dead".

"That's right. Skank's dead", The Crow agrees before throwing him out the window.

Skank yells as he falls down several stories before landing on an arriving cop car, dead.

Police soon burst into the room, "Freeze!", bringing the Crow's gaze from the dead Skank.

"That's all she wrote! Move and we shoot!", one cop tells him as they all have their guns trained on The Crow.

The Crow lifts his hand in a 'don't shoot' manner before side dancing away like a cartoon character. The police open fire as The Crow then jumps out the window onto the fire escape. The cops on the streets open fire on him and he heads for the roof to avoid them.

The runs along the rooftops as a helicopter gave chase, missing with their air artillery. Jason loses them when he jumps down and alley and disappears among the homeless before ducking into the darkness.

Later, Along An Elevated Road

"Look at that out there", Top Dollar says as he and his sister look out the window his the car while Grange drives, "The whole city oughta be in flames right now. Sky oughta be red".

"The crow is his link...", Myca cryptically says as she plays with a crow feather, "between the land of the living... and the realm of the dead", drawing Top Dollar's attention.

The Graveyard

Jason arrives in the graveyard that houses the graves of Shelly Webster and Eric Draven. He sees Sarah laying on said gravestones. He wakes her with a shaking of her leg.

"Huh? Jason?", Sarah asks him.

"You shouldn't fall asleep in public places", Jason admonishes her, "Though it might be the safest place to be since everyone else is dead".

Sarah snorts in amusement, "Why are you here?", she asks him.

Jason looks to the graves, "I came to tell them that they can rest in peace as I have avenged them and my mother".

"Your mother? She died with you in a warehouse due to The Joker though, right?", Sarah asks.

"Yeah, but Funboy and his ilk were his goons at the time and had done to her what they did to Shelly", Jason tells her, "It's partially my fault what happened to these two".

Sarah is confused at that, "How?".

Jason looks to her, "I cam back two years ago. I could have killed these fools back then".

"Then why didn't you?", Sarah demands, curious as to why he didn't.

"Cause I went after the Joker first, but Batman stopped me", Jason replies, "A knew I had to train some to make sure he couldn't stop me from killing that fucker for all the wrongs he has done so I did for the last two years. And those assholes killed so many within that time".

"You couldn't have known", Sarah tells him, trying to comfort him.

"No. I should have known", Jason tells her, "This world is a cruel place, filled with psychopaths and idiot superheroes that think that throwing them into a prison will stop them from doing evil things", he looks to the graves, "As long as they live, millions more will fill the graves around the world sooner rather than later".

Sarah looks down, not disagreeing with him since she knows the horrors of this world, before looking back to him.

"Are you going to leave now?", Sarah asks him, "Were you even going to say goodbye to me?"

I would have called at the least before I'd head back to Gotham to eal with the clown", Jason tells her before taking out Shelly's engagement ring, "I found this. I think they would want you to have it", putting over her neck with a necklace he had on him, "This way, you'll always remember them".

She hugs him for what she fears will be the final time before releasing him, "I better go back home before Mom worries".

"That's good that she worries", Jason tells her, "Her worrying is filled with love for you", standing up form the ground with her skateboard and heading for the gate before turning back to him, "Bye", she utters just over a whisper before she continues.

Jason stands and goes to leave as well to head back for the loft for the rest of the night to rest before heading for Gotham.

In the nearby church, Grange looks out from the shadows to Sarah, having seen her talking with Jason. As she passes nearby, he grabs her from behind with a hand over her mouth to muffle her screams. He takes her into the church to Myca and Top Dollar.

Top Dollar had ditched his jacket and adopted a katana like sword was sheathed on his back.

They had come here to see if the Crow would show up since he had talked about the duo buried here.

"So, our Crow friend is close to you, huh?", Top Dollar remarks while Myca checks out the ring that hangs from her neck, "What is that? Some sort of souvenir?", before ripping it away from her, "I'll just keep it for good luck. What do you say?"

Myca rubs her crow feather along Sarah's face before grabbing her face and angling it to see her eyes.

"Her eyes are so innocent", Myca remarks.

Outside, Jason gets the crow's sight of Sarah being taken into the church. Jaso rushes back as he soon becomes his Crow self as the storm strengthens.

He soon arrives while pushing open the main massive front doors with ease as they then slam open against the walls. The crow flies in after him into the cathedral like church. The Crow heads down the center pass all the pews after the crow. He makes it near to the altar, not even seeing Grange in a pulpit of the church. The Spirit Crow lands on a pew, causing The Crow to look at it. Grange changes his aim to the crow, with The Crow seeing the laser dot on it from the gun.

"Move!", The Crow orders it as he knows what will happened should it be injured after two years with the bird before a shot goes off and the crow is clipped and falls from the pew.

The Crow looks to where the shot came from before seeing Top Dollar was now standing where he came from.

"Give me the girl and I'll let you walk out of here", The Crow threatens.

Top Dollar crosses his arms, "Well, Well. Why don't you just give me a minute to think about that, huh?", before turning around and pacing in thought.

The Crow looks to his crow to see it was still alive but injured, so he can't take any chances as he tenses to move if needed.

"Nah, fuck it", Top Dollar says before turning around shooting at The Crow.

The Crow dives to the side, using the pew near him as cover. Top Dollar continues to shoot at it with Grange joining him. Jason moves to the side of the church behind the stone pillars as they can take more gun damage.

Myca comes down the bell tower from where she tied up the unharmed Sarah, hoping to grab the crow during the gunfire.

"Guess your more than just your powers, huh!", Top Dollar remarks as The Crow moves around the gunfire.

The Crow aims for the pulpit to get rid of Grange from the high ground, wishing he had some of his ninja gear right now to make this easier.

Grange notices the crow limping on the ground from his position, "It's still alive", he informs Top Dollar.

"Well then kill it!", Top Dollar yells at him, looking for it as it hides among the pews.

Grage reloads his gun and aims at it, "Bye-bye, birdie", only for The Crow to come up behind him and bash his head into the stone before grabbing his head with both hands and snapping his neck, while Myca grabs the injured crow for herself and heads for the tower again.

The Crow grabs Grange's gun and shoot at Top Dollar, who runs for the tower, but gets a bullet in his leg.

"Aah!", Top Dollar yells as he stumbles into the tower.

The Crow flips out of the pulpit and gives chase.

Top Dollar stops to grab Sarah and gives Myca a gun, "You take that", before they share a kiss before Top Dollar heads up to the roof, leaving Myca behind, who wanted to confront Crow with the Spirit Crow as she was an obsessive occultist.

She shoots down the tower at The Crow, who carefully heads up while returning fire, hitting the bell at the top for luck.

The Crow runs out of ammo before he reach her, so he tosses the gun over the edge down the tower.

Myca confidently stands before him with the bird in hand, "This is all the power you had", referring to the crow, "Now, it is mine. Pity there's not more time...", before raising her pistol to The Crow, "for us".

The crow though, acts. rising up and pecking and clawing out her eyes with his beak and talons as she creams in utter pain till she fall through the wooden railing and down the bell tower, trying to grab the rope as she falls but only causes the bell to ring till she hits the bottom with a wet thud.

The Crow looks to his source of power, "You stay here and rest, stay and heal".

The Crow soon reaches the top and steps out through a broken window onto the roof as Sarah screams for him.

"Help, Jason! I'm scared", she cries, her tears blending in with the rain drops from the storm, Let me go!", she struggles against Top Dollar.

The Crow walks along the flat ridge of the roof that was like a walkway.

"Let her go!", The Crow tells the crime boss of no one left, "You can have me".

Top dollar remains silent before saying all right", and pushing Sarah to the side, causing her to slide down the roof.

"No!", The Crow yells after her before having to dodge a gut strike from the pommel of his katana.

Top Dollar unsheathes his sword and slices at The Crow, who dodges back to avoid it. He side kicks Top Dollar, with the sword wielder barely holding on before slicing at The Crow's legs, but The Crow flips over it and heads for the edge as Top Dollar gets back up and slashes after him.

The Crow grabs a metal spike rod with four smaller spikes lin a equal distance from each other with and ornate wrapped up from it. Lightning strikes it as he grabs it before ripping it off from the ridge edge and it becoming his sword to fight against Top Dollar.

They clash a few times before The Crow ducks behind Top Dollar and stabs him in the back. He pulls it out and top Dollar slashes at him again, only for The Crow to stab him in the chest. Top Dollar falls to his knees as The Crow drives the spike into him. Top Dollar tries to swing on him again, but The Crow grabs it by the blade and rips it out of his holds before tossing it away down the roof.

"You are the one responsible for anything and everything wrong in Detroit, right? Nothing happens without your say so?", The Crow asks him.

"Yeah", Top Dollar utters through his pain as the blood pours from his wounds, "You know, my daddy used to say, "Every man's got a devil and you can't rest till you find him", and I found mine", he laughs, "Dying like this puts a smile on my face".

"Smile after this", The Crow snarls before transmitting the memories and emotions of Shelly Webster's 30 hours in intensive care, "Thirty hours of pain! All at once! Just for you!", before tossing Top Dollar down the roof and he slides before falling over the edge before landing on a demonic gargoyle who pierced through him.

Jason sees Sarah's ring on the ground before him and grabs it before heading down and helping Sarah back up, hugging her as she was safe.

They head back into the church through the window and down the tower till they reach the ground floor.

"You might want t wear this somewhere no one can see it from now on", Jason tells her as they reach the bottom, holding up the ring to her.

"Thank you", Sarah says, "And thanks for coming to save me".

Jason looks to her, "No way I'd let you die when I can do something about it", before hearing sirens heading for them, "Better get outta here before they see us".

"I think that thing you did on the way down will let them know you were here", Sarah says with a crow symbol behind them.

"Let me get you home for the night", Jason tells her, "I'll say goodbye before I leave in the morning".

Sarah chuckles, "You better?"

Later, The Loft

Jason arrive back to the Webster-Draven loft with his healed crow and begins taking off his clothes as they were practically nothing but tatters and tape. He light the fire before he looks around the loft for anything he can use. He soon finds an old briefcase and opens it to see a shirt and leather pants.

Putting them on was easy but they were a little tight to his form but fit him well.

The crow caws at him.

"I needed to help her, I couldn't let her die", Jason tells it.

The crow caws at him again.

"Just because it wasn't my own personal vengeance, doesn't mean I won't help her... or anyone who needs it from the monsters of this world", Jason responds, "There are so many wrongdoings happening and no one is getting their justice due to the revolving door that is the legal system, so their souls can't truly rest", he looks to the crow in the eyes, "After I kill the Joker, let me stay here among the living... Let me stay and get their vengeance for them... You have till then to decide if you will allow this".

The crow remains silent as Jason lays against his duffel bag of ninja gear till tomorrow, when he'll head for his home and get his revenge.

Chapter End

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AN: Finally did this chapter. Follows the first movie from 1994 with some changes for the sake of my story.

For the "Stairway To Heaven" storyline, I'll have it in Gotham after the whole Joker thing. Sarah and her mother will be moving to Gotham soon as well. Whether or not Albrecht will show up or have a DC detective character replace him is a coin toss.

The other movies and crossing over stories will be when he takes trips across the country.

I hope you'll forgive any spelling errors due to this being a long ass chapter and it being late at night for me when I write & upload this.