Batman: Arkham Knight

chapter 9

1 hour later.

Dick wheels Barbara to the front door, gazing at the giant iceberg laying the middle of the club with a live jazz band to the side and a bustling crowded table. Dick whispered to Barbara with a smile " This place always gave me chills." Barbara smacked his hands playfully telling him " Lay off the bad jokes we work to do." A waiter in fancy suit comes to them saying that " we got a table for two ready at the VP Lounge." Dick thanked him and wheels Barb to the side of the table. Dick smiling tells her " You look incredible." Barbara laughed telling him " Thanks but we need to focus on Bruce." Dick leans in telling her
" We are next to the VIP Lounge, Bruce should come by. And the only explanation I have about this that Bruce must be Clayface but he took a bath to the Lazarus pit and never came back. " Barbara replied to him saying " Yeah, I watched it myself. I never thought Ra's would get so
weak it's baffled me. " As Barbara was talking Dick Bruce with a few girls around him accompanied by some bodyguards. Dick then asked
" Barbs how many thugs are with him? " She wheeled around and tapped the side of her glasses which activated her detective vision and she sees 20 orange skeletons she relays this information to him and that the interrogation plan he had isn't going to work but she an another idea, she took a pin-prick from her wheelchair and handed it to Dick and told him
" You can use this to get a sample of his blood. " Dick replied " That what I love about you always quick on your feet " knowing he just said something stupid he rubs the back of his head apologizing. She tells him " You will have time to apologize later. Now get to Bruce before it's too late. " He nods and headed to the VIP area where there was a group of photographers surrounding Bruce asking to take pictures of him with his lovely dates. Annoyed, he yanked some of girls forcing them to stand with him and half heartedly smiles. Dick managed to take a press badge on the table and swinged a camera over his neck walking over to Bruce covering his face when walks closer he uses an accent telling Bruce he's not posing right and to put his hand on his neck to adjust his head, while getting a sample of blood this seemed to be a pinched to him and winces in pain telling tells the reporter " You just pinched me! " Dick stumbled back telling " I'm really sorry Mr Wayne, I'm just trying to get some pictures. " After he snapped some terrible pictures he walks back over to Barbs placing the camera back. She asked him " What was that accent? " Dick chuckled and replied " Why you didn't like it? It was pretty good. " She smirked tells and Dick " I was there long enough, I think we should return to the cave. " He agreed telling her " You couldn't be more right. " As Dick was wheeling Barbara, Bruce got up and spoke on a microphone " I would like to thank you all for your generous hospitality, I wish Oswald would be here tonight as I would had loved to tell him personally. But I guess the news spread soon. You see before the Cobblepots always envied the Waynes and still do today, they blame the Waynes for their downfall but reality it was always theirs. So Oswald built the Iceberg Lounge on the Wayne's owned property, to spite me I guess? But tonight I'm taking what has always belonged to me back. Oswald was always known to be an unhinged terrorist and gunrunner. " Then a waiter shouted from the crowd
" Over Mr Cobblepot's body! " Then the waiters drop a trays l and pulled out their pistols and started shooting at Bruce. He then ran to find cover while his bodyguards also opened fire on what was obviously Cobblepot's henchmen. Dick looks at barbs and tells " We can't to any place nice without gunfire nowadays. " Barbara then tells him " You need to find Bruce and fast. I will do what I can here. " Dick's squeezes her hand for moment and heads up floor barbs wheels and the henchmen as they are too busy firing at the bodyguards she open one of the arms of her wheelchair and pulled out some gadgets, one of the henchmen run past her and was grappled to the metal of the wheelchair thrusting him and knocking him out. She pulled out a mini gun jammer and jammed multiple of the firearms causing the thugs to get knocked out as they open fire. While Dick is sprinting upstairs Tim contacted tell he's coming to help them as he is seeing what's happening. Dick tells him to stay at the batcave as they can handle this and told him he is needed there and to watch out for Jason. He acknowledges as Dick pulled a thugs over his shoulder sending him downstairs as another was running towards him causing both of the thugs to collapse.

Dick sprinted upstairs and saw other henchmen in the hallway, as ran towards them, one charged at him, he picked up a small flower pot and threw it at the thugs making him collapsing to the grown moaning in pain. Then another swinged at bat at him to which Dick blocked the thug's arm disarming him and hit him back with it.

While searching for Bruce, he suddenly got out of a room and fired at him. " If I had any doubt left this was Bruce they had just been killed . " He told to himself in his mind.

He headed downstairs and saw Barbara throwing well aimed batarangs to the thugs knees incapacitating them. Dick then asked her " Are you having fun? " She replied " Yeah, very strangely. " Dick then said " Well me too but we need to get out here before your dad shows up. " Barbara then asked
" wait. But where's Bruce? " Dick then told her " He got away. " Just then they heard police sirens, they both headed out of the Lounge and headed to the batcave.