Batman: Arkham Knight

chapter 4

Few hours later

Bruce woke up in cell dressed in a prisoner's outfit, his left arm seemed to have through surgery as there was it was patched up. He was chained to a chair and looked around and saw two blue glowing eyes looking at him.

Mysterious figure " This place looks familiar ? You never fight fair so, I figured I wouldn't either. Titanium blade dipped with Crane's latest concoction. Worked like a charm. "
Mysterious figure " A bit of the toxic made a lot of punch to it didn't it? "
Bruce " Who are you? Why are you doing this? "
Mysterious figure " Cleaning up Gotham, isn't it interesting how I managed to keep Gotham safer in these nine last month than you ever could as Batman? All its takes is a plan and a stomach to do the right things. "
Bruce spit.
Bruce " You are not a hero, you are just a crime lord working with degenerates. "
Mysterious figure " Yes, you can't stop crime that what you never understood, I'm controlling it. You want to rule them by fear but what about the ones that aren't afraid? I doing what you won't I'm taking them out. "
Bruce " Why do this? Why do this to prove a point? "
Mysterious figure " I'm finishing what you started, after all you created me. "
The knight removed his masked revealing Jason Todd.
Jason " Bruce. "

10 years earlier

Batman is speed through Gotham when Lucius fox informed him that Wayne Tower is under attack by the great white shark and his thugs. Batman tells him he is on his way and noted that he's trying to embezzle the millions he lost went thrown in Arkham. Lucius replied whatever the reason is he needs to be stopped. Batman ignite the nitrous boosting him through the streets with unmatched speed, he went under Wayne Tower to the parking lot smashing dozen of luxury vehicles in the process. Batman ejected from the batmobile and dispatched the thugs guarding the elevator door. Once he arrived at the top floor the thugs open fire destroying the elevator but batman wasn't there, but bursted out of a crate simultaneously, took down multiple thugs with ease. He turned around, threw a batarang disarmed another thug before sweeping his legs and finishing him off with a ground pound, the last thug tried to run away but was pulled back with the batclaw and slammed to the ground. Batman then kicked the office door and saw great white shark holding Lucius hostage at gun point. Shark told batman " Do not take any step forward or I will blow his head off " Batman put down the batarang and told him " Alright you won, I will do whatever you want. " Shark then told him " Go to hell. " As Shark was talking, batman looked at Lucius who nodded, he pulled out a taser from his sleeve and shoved it to shark's leg crippling him, batman then grabbed shark, threw him in the air and slammed him on the table breaking it in half. Bruce then told Lucius " I didn't need to show up since you had it under control. " Lucius responded back " Things would have been different if were not for your brutallity's signiture to back me up. " Lucius then walked outside telling him " I need some air. " Batman followed and Lucius asked him " How are you holding up with Miss Gordon hospitality ? " Batman replied " She is holding on but it will take very long for her to recuperate mentally after the trauma she endured. " Lucius was about to reply but they both heard two gunshots. Bruce told Lucius " I need to go. "

He then dived off the building and headed to sound as he was gliding he heard one last gunshot and saw a flashing light from crime alley. Batman pivoted in the air and dived down dropping onto the grime hidden alley. He looked up saw two dead body side by side and one ahead of a teenage boy no older than fifteen holding a smoking gun, batman told him " Put the gun down, it going to be alright. " The boy turned around and asked " Why didn't you save them? " He lowered his head and said " I'm sorry. " He walked towards him and slowly took the gun from his hand and asked him " Do you have anyone else you can go to ? " The boy replied " No, they were all I had left. " Batman then told him " You can come with me . " The boy shrugged him off and asked " Why would I want to come with you? " Batman replied " I can make you stronger and not afraid of the world around you, you could help to ensure that this doesn't happen to anyone else. I'm giving you a chance to make something positive from this terrible situation you're in. I can help you in a way no one else can. " The boy then violently kicked the robber multiple times and told him " I'm coming with you. " Batman then asked " What is your name ? " The boy replied " It's Jason... Jason Todd . "

Present day

Bruce looked into the young boy's eyes he once knew disfigured and twisted into the monster he was now. " It would have been much easier if I was dead isn't it Bruce ? " Jason punched him on the stomach as he slumped over and asked " How is this possible ? I held your lifeless body in my arms. There's no way. " Jason said " This room is starting to look familiar isn't it Bruce? I had it rebuilt just for this reunion. " Bruce still in disbelief looked around the room still having the remnants of blood from that night. He replied " I buried you right out of the cemetery infront of the manor how could you be gone ? "
Jason replied " That body was a fake Bruce, your carelessness caused this. We wouldn't be here now if you'd done the right thing. Kill the Joker the day you met him. " He pulled out a crowbar and slammed it to the side of Bruce's face. " You know, I don't blame the Joker for what he did to me, he was insane, psychotically evil, killed because he could anyone in his shoes would have done the same to me. I blame you, you've seen with your own eyes the capacity the Joker had for anarchy and you did nothing. You casually swooped in and put him back in Arkham time and again even when he slaughtered children during one of his schemes. What kind of a man doesn't feel the need to end that miserable death-worshipping garbage's life and not just he took thousands of innocent lives but he me away from you. " Wheezing in pain Bruce answered back " I can't allow myself to stand to their levels. I would have never killed the Joker. " Jason replied back " You're pathetic ! " He flipped the switch electrocuting Bruce with a thousand volts " This is useless, the Joker has been dead for almost a year now. " Jason replied " Of course he is because I killed him! " Bruce shot up saying " That's not possible, I watched him die Infront of me it was due to the Titan formula. " " Yes the very same formula I supplied him with two years ago. " All Bruce could say was why. " Because you couldn't, you couldn't take the steps that his madness ended. You would have let him run wild through Gotham for the rest of his life but I have the interest of thousands of lives while you? You only cared about yourself and your twisted sense of morality. " Bruce slumped down and asking " What happened to you? " Jason kicked him on the chest causing the chair to fall down Jason dragged him back up " You mean after the torture that I endured at the hands of that freak and the subsequence explosion that ended my life let's just say my goals haven't been accomplished yet and life has a twisted way of bringing us back to our roots. Ra's Al Ghul had his goons steal my body back at the morge thinking they could bring me back as a weapon to their use. I had ulterior motives and crippled his operations so drastically that the once all powerful eco-terrorist and his operations coward like rats in the sewers underneath Wonder Tower. Using the league's last sliver resources before destroying everything, I tracked the Joker using series of fake identities until an order came out for the delivery of mutated venom codenamed Titan, it was being delivered from Santa Priska so, I hijacked the cargo boat and leaked a corrupted strain into each vat of that crap. It was only a matter of time until he injected himself with it. Everything was working out according to the plan until freeze developed the cure, I was ready to step in and finish the joker myself should the plan fail but it didn't. Harley Quinn was too stupid and let Talia Al Ghul steal the cure from him and you used the last of it on yourself. I did what you never could and yet you have the audacity to say you would have save him. How dare you Bruce? After all he has done you would still have saved him? Joker wasn't the worst criminal in Gotham, it has always been the batman but the batman is finished and in his place stands the Arkham Knight. I'm finishing what we started but not without your help. " Bruce nearly losing consciousness told him " I will never help you, I will take you down like the others. " " I figured you would say that, that why I've taken the liberty to solve the problem. Dr Crane is going to ensure that you are going to be ready for what I need you. "

Scarecrow injected Bruce with his needles and his vision became darkened.