Batman: Arkham Knight

chapter 11

Alfred pulls out a limo in the drive way in the cave with Dick, Jason and barbs after dropping them off, he took the car to the garage. Dick wheels Barbara to the batcomputer. Dick handed Barbara the pin-prick as she put it into the analyzer. Tim then asked " So anyway how did the chaos at the Lounge went? " And Dick replied " Well barbs was a quite badass taking down thugs left and right. " Barbara smiled saying " It's good return back to the field again it's been so long. " Lucius walked out asking " Did the chair supplied you with what you need Miss Gordon? " Barbara smiled and replied " Yes, thanks Lucius. You designed it perfectly. " He replied back " Well perfection is in my work Miss
Gordon. " As Alfred exited the elevator his asked
" Did you figured what's going with this man resembling Master
Bruce. " But as they were about to answer him the computer screen dings having at match, the blood wasn't Bruce Wayne's at all but was in fact from Thomas Elliott's. Tim asked
" Alfred is this Thomas Elliott Bruce's childhood friend ? " Alfred replied " Indeed Master Tim It's the very same Thomas Elliott, I figured this out for a while that it could have been him. " Dick asked him
" What do you mean by this? " Alfred replied " Back at Arkham City Bruce found Thomas who was at the time called the identity thief. Last time Bruce saw him he was wearing a grafted on face that was identical to Bruce Wayne. He might have gone hiding until this Arkham Knight kidnapped Bruce. " Barbara then asked " So it is it possible that Astrid and Thomas Elliott are working together. " Alfred replied
" I'm afraid it is or could be a huge
Coincidence. I'm also fearful for Bruce's safety. Mr fox have been able to locate his tracker? " Lucius shaked his head but told him " I'm still trying but nothing came up. "

Just then a blip on the computer went off, Lucius accessed it and said
" Bruce's tracker is online and says... He's here? " Oracle typed away seeing the security system was disactivated. The screen blipped again saying he is right here. They all turned around as they here a stomp and batman is standing right behind them. Dick called out to him ssking
" Where have you been Bruce? What's going on? " He stands there in silence his hands gripped into fists that begun to twitch, Dick walked to him and called out again. Batman saw that he was in crime alley his parents dead under him and Joe Chills making his way towards him. Chills' eyes became red and begun talking but his voice became deep like a monster.

Crime alley started to crumble around him and Chills puts his hand on his shoulder telling him that everything was going to be alright. Bruce put his hand on Joe's pulled it back so far that it sprained it and threw him on the ground. Joker came to him with a staff and begun attacking him but batman blocked it and proceed to perform a beatdown on him but then, Chills get back up and tried tackling him to the ground but when he wrapped his hand around batman he lifted his arms in the air and slams them onto his back. Joker then swinged his staff at him and was able to hit him on the face, batman stumbled for a bit but when staff came at him again grabbed it breaking it in half and using the two pieces to hit him in the leg and the face. Chills got up and charged at batman who countered his attacks by flipping over him and kicking him in the back. He then stomped Joker on the face and grabbed Chills by the collar and slammed him down knocking them out. He continued walking down the alley where he sees Jason on a chair head down, he then stumbled but when Jason lifted his head he saw he had a demonic face who pulled out a batarang a threw it a him, batman dodged it and kicked Jason in the chest sending the chair slide back and pulls over. He then sees two henchmen that he grabbed and slammed their heads together knocking them out. Bruce's head begun to sear in pain he grabbed it and make his way out to the light out to the end of crime alley. Dick losing consciousness sees batman running back to the darkness and saw two blue slits coming to them before passing out.

The batmobile flies out of the batcave as the world around him became engulfed in flames and black clouds and in his head he hears scarecrow telling " Look at what you had caused around. You let Gotham down to be covered by flames. "
As he was driving through the burning city giant syringe begun to stick out of the ground across his way he speed through the city heading right towards the demons inhabiting the streets. Demonic cars begun chasing him as scarecrow laughs telling him " You are doomed along with your beloved ones. " Scarecrow pops out behind a giant building sizing a skyscraper and shoots beams from his eyes, the batmobile slides around the lasers as cars started to fall from the sky trying to block his path. Suddenly a demonic helicopter shines slight down and batman waste no time firing missiles at it. The first missile misses while the second hit it causing the helicopter to spin in the crashing on a building. Scarecrow jumped out again but this time throwing fire balls at him, the batmobile pulled out a secondary canon and started firing at scarecrow giving him all it got he reeled back from the attacks but kept on being offensive. He then sent more vehicles which the batmobile targeted with missile barrages firing at multiple of them which instantly destroyed them once hit. Batman continued firing missiles after missiles at scarecrow until he went down. However when he went down it ended up spraying a cloud of fear gas knocking the power reserves of the batmobile. Batman quickly launched out of it seeing the city being covered with fear gas. A building comes up from the place scarecrow was hovering over and dozen of skeletons are standing over there . Batman glided over there and begun attacking and putting them down with ease, a few started firing at him to which he used his disruptor to jam their firearms. An another skeleton swiped a knife at him to which he dodged and blocked the arm and hitting the head with his knee. Once he dealt with them he grappled up and overlooked the destroyed city. Then a voice called out to him, he looked down to see a woman shouting for him so he glided down to her rooftop. All he saw was a figure asking him " What are you doing? Where have you been? " Then batman approached her to see who the woman is but her back was turned to him. Her voice was familiar, it was in the back of his mind but he couldn't put the pieces together.
" I've been worried about you. I guess that my suspicions was right something is happening to you. I want to help you Bruce. " He stumbled closer as she turned to him. He sees Talia Al Ghul with the gunshot wound to her stomach standard Infront of him. She tells him ". You were my beloved. You failed me! You should have saved me. " He apologized to her saying " I'm Sorry Talia. I failed you but you know that I loved you. I would have done everything to save you." She replied " If you truly loved me as you proclaim you would have killed the Joker. " He grabbed her shoulder telling her " I couldn't go against what I believed in. " She tells him
" Look around you Bruce, your beliefs are what caused all of this. The city is ruined because of you, because you failed to do the right things. " She turned around and started walking away but he grabbed her shoulder turning towards him and he saw her face was now a demonic one and she attacks him. He grabbed her her arm and threw her over his shoulder and onto the ground she jumped up and leaped at him but he ducked and slided under her attacks and kicked her feet out from under her, she then tried to roundhouse kick him but her leg is grabbed as he twisted it around spraining it and kicked her in the chest. He looked down to see she's knocked out and tells her " I'm sorry." Before gliding off the rooftop.

Days later

Tim wakes up to see he's in a warehouse sitting to a chair and he sees Dick is tied to a pipe and Barbara tied to her wheelchair both of them having duct tape around their mouth. Tim rubs his eyes to make sure what he's seeimg is real but then he puts his hands down he see the Arkham Knight between Dick and barbs " I told you I won't be civil when we meet again. " The Arkham Knight said " And I told you I will not join you and I won't leave Gotham stop wasting time. " Tim replied. " I wouldn't reply so quickly their lives are in balance you have a simple choice to make join me become an Arkham Knight my equal not my sidekick or decline my offer and watch them die right in front of your eyes. " The Arkham Knight told Tim " Why kill them? Why not make them Arkham Knights too? " Tim asked. " They have been with the old man for too long, blinded by his hypocrisy to change. But you? You have only been with him for a few months now. You like how he keeps you on the sideline? Never helping him when he truly need it? I watched you in Arkham City, how you dealt with those ninjas with ease but he still told you to leave and not come back. Is that the partnership you want? To be treated like trash? " The Arkham Knight replied. Tim sat back truly think about what Jason was saying for a moment instead of brushing him off. The Arkham Knight continued with " You're smart Tim a genius. Do you see his method work ? Nights after nights beating and putting the same the cells over and all over again. By killing your enemies you will not have to deal with them again. Looked at what I have been able to do in these 9 months. Isn't Gotham safer? " Tim started to realise something that he had would never thought of but Jason had a point. Bruce's method doesn't always work and there was 9 months of peace in Gotham. Tim tells Jason " But your methods are wrong. How killing solve everything? " Jason then replied " Take a look at the joker, do you really believe he could have been reformed? He was psychotically evil. Remember how he blew a school full of children, didn't you want to end that garbage of human's life ? " Barbara was trying to say something but her voice was muffled by the tape then the knight ripped it off asking her " Trying to talk your way out? " Barbara replied " No I'm Just saying you're insane and disrespectful toeards my wheelchair. " She then pressed a button which dropped a small EMP which disoriented the knight and pulled out a batarang to cut herself free and threw the batarang at the rope restraining Dick cutting it. The knight visor went back online and pointed his gun at Dick but is slammed down by Tim using his bullet shield. Jason flipped back and used a gadget similar to the Batclaw to throw Barbara at Tim, Dick then got up and went blow for blow with Jason. His fighting style was more grounded but brutal while Dick's was more graceful and focused but powerful. As they were fighting the knight via his comms were told that " The assets are ready. You're needed now. " Jason then kicked Dick on the stomach and threw a smoke bomb and vanished in the smoke. While they were fighting Tim helped Barbara on her wheelchair. " Damn it! " Dick said angrily. He then limped to Barbara asking her " Are you ok. "
She then responded " Even in this wheelchair I'm still saving your
ass. " He grinned then heard the ticking of TNT countdown he grabbed Barbara and they grappled up leaving the warehouse which exploded behind them as they are running. Dick looked back at her saying " we are even now. "