Batman: Arkham Knight

chapter 14

Once the batmobile arrived at ACE chemicals both Dick and Tim hopped out and saw the old batmobile and dead thugs from both side scattered everywhere only a few of them were still alive but wounded and Dick approach one of them and asked " What happened here? " The thug replied " Dent and the knight it was them... " The thug passed out Oracle then told both of them " How much worse will this get? Alright the layout of Ace is uploaded to your visors I can see the bomb in the central mixing chamber and... Wait Jason and Harley are both in in the chamber with the bomb. You need to hurry now! " Dick asked " Are they working together? " Barbara responded " I don't think so seeing how Jason is taking the thugs out from the shadows and leaving blood pools behind. " Dick cursed and told Robin " We need to get inside before things get much worse. "

Inside the factory

As the knight arrived at the facility he saw 15 thugs armed to teeth. He grappled on a ventage point to plan his attack, he saw two thugs standing together near alone overseeing the thugs. He swinged and landed on an another ventage point above the thugs and dispatched them silently with his arm blade to the neck. He then grappled to a ledge and to which he grabbed the thug standing there and pulled him down and stabbed him in the head. Two thugs cane investigating on what happened to their camarade and were both shot in the head which alerted Harley. She then said " Kill that moron, and go back to your work. " But the only thing she heard was screaming and gunshots. She looked at the door glass and saw the knight stabbing a thug who was crawling away and stomping his head. Harley then grabbed her two pistol on the table next to her and aimed at the door while hands were shaking. Jason kicked the door down and Harley opened fire on him to which he rolled to dodge the incoming gunfire but one hit his shoulder forcing him to put his hand on it. Harley Quinn then said " Well you're not so tough for trying to be batman. " This made Jason angry and he flew at Harley, disarmed her pistols and kicked her on the stomach which sent her flying over the control system table, he looked around and saw something. As Harley got tried to get up she saw him again but with a crowbar this time and he said " Let go back to some old memories. " Harley then said " Wait we cam work something out or you know maybe try become friends. " Jason laughed at her and said " I have a better idea . What about I torture you with this crowbar until last thing you see is me standing over your fresh corpse? " Harley laughed saying " You probably shouldn't do that as the bomb is connected to my heart beat, if it's goes everything goes. " Jason answered back " Oh, don't worry I'm counting on it. I just wanted to have some fun. " Harley face then change from relief to terror. She tried crawling away but he grabbed her leg and slammed her on her back and started beating her with the crowbar the same way the joker did to him left and right, Harley screamed in agony begging him to stop and apologizing. " Please stop, I'm sorry! " She said. " Apologies are meaningless to a man who went through unimaginable pain. " He said as he continued beating her on every parts of her body. " Which hurts more forehand or backhand? " He asked.

Nightwing and Robin then arrived at the control room where they saw Harley being tortured. Nightwing then said " Is that a way of threating a lady? " Jason asked " Why can't you two just die already ? " He grabbed Harley's head and slammed it to the ground knocking her out. Dick told Tim " Go for the bomb I will deal with him. " The knight screamed " Secure the bomb! " Nightwing dived down and kicked him on the chest, Jason picked up the crowbar and swinged it furiously at him while Dick effortlessly dodge the attacks and he told him " Look at yourself, can't you see the damage you cause? How is this saving Gotham? You're destroying it. " Jason replied " Yes, Gotham's criminals have to destroy themselves before progress can be made. " Nightwing asked " How could you let Thomas Elliott die in such a gruesome fashion like that? Weren't you partners ? " Jason answered back " Elliott knew his role and the risks with associating with it but in death, he accomplished his role greeter than he could imagine. " Nightwing replied while dodging an attack " You're are sick in the head, you need help. " Jason responded " What's sick is Gotham in how it's drowning in a pool of villainy and you who are too afraid to act. " Jason went for a right hook but Nightwing grabbed his arm and twisted it and pulled him closer before kicking his helmet causing a crack as he hit the ground. Jason flipped up and spinned below nightwing's punch, sprinted up kneeing him in the face.

In the meanwhile Robin reached the lower level of the mixing chamber where the bomb is and after defeating some of Harley's thugs with ease, he put the drive in the bomb. Oracle told him " Good work Tim, I'm in the system now and will start putting the virus in the bomb. " Then gunshots bursted behind as Two-face and his thugs ran into the room, Tim yelled at them saying " It's pretty stupid to shoot in a room where a bomb is in it. " He open his shield to deflect the gunfire and dropped a smoke pellet which cause them to start coughing and choke as Robin was taking them out by putting snap flash on their back and detonating when they are at close proximity to each other to knock them out or by zip kicking them to walls. As he is dispatching the thugs in rapid succession as he almost took all the thugs out, he saw Dent getting up and taking one of his own thugs hostage and told " Stand down or I kill this man without hesitation." Robin yelled at him asking " What type of a man are you to kill your own ? " Two-face replied " A man who leaves life to chance. " As Two-face flipped his coin, he took this opportunity of distraction to a shuriken at Dent's leg to which he dropped the thug and ran at him kicking the thug face knocking him out. He then pulled out the shuriken from Dent's leg and began choking him out on the ground, Robin looked into Dent's eyes and the latter told him " Go on kill me or I will come after everyone you ever loved. " Everything that was told to Robin in past months begun to flow in his mind as he had his shuriken raised above Demt's head the first was Jason's words " By you killing your enemies you won't have to deal with them ever again and save thousands of lives. Wasn't Gotham safer during those 9 months? " And second Dick words " You will only see Dent's face on other criminals' faces and become a monster, a shell of your former self. " Robin's grip on Two-face's neck got tighter as brought the shuriken closer to his head, Dent told him " Do it or you will only regret sparing my life, I will make yours unbearable. " Robin's hand started to shake as he was clenching the shuriken with all the force he had even a tear went down his eyes. For a moment everything went silent and stopped for Tim as he made the decision that will change his life forever, he lifted the shuriken into the air and two-face told him " See you in hell. " And Tim slammed it down and he said " I would rather see you in jail. " He then punched Two-face on the forehead knocking him out. Then Oracle told Robin from his comms take the virus uploaded was completes and to only manually shut down the room. Robin ran and swinged down the lever of the control room and security system said " The power system have been disactivated, the security system is offline. "

Upon hearing this Jason grabbed nightwing and punched him in the face knocking him down for a moment. He frantically said " Cobblepot, prepare the defenses I'm on my way back. " Just as robin was running upstairs Jason shot an explosive canister causing flame to separate him from nightwing and robin, hé grabbed Harley and fleed thé facility. Robin told nightwing that Oracle disabled the bomb but that they need to get Dent and his thugs and leave facility before they got consumed by fire. They grabbed Dent and his thugs and nightwing saw a shuriken next to Dent's head. He looked at Tim and told him " You made the right decision. " They grabbed the remaining thugs and left the factory as fast as possible and dropped the criminals to the GCPD. As the got back inside the batmobile Oracle told them that Lucius said he had something they will need.