Prometheus - A DCAU Fanfic.

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GCPD Headquarters - 21:11

   "You cheated!" - Riddler sneered, as he struggled against the two Gotham Police Officers who were trying to pull him into the building in a pair of handcuffs. - "You must have cheated! There's no way you found and solved all my puzzle-boxes... No way my superior intellect was bested by a neanderthal like you!"

Batman and Red-Robin stood by the Batmobile outside of the steps that led up to the station's front-door.

"Save it for your Psychiatrist, Nygma." - The younger of the two heroes shouted as the two Officers finally got him inside. The reinforced doors, automatically slamming shut behind them. - "Lets go."

The top portion of the Batmobile's opaque red-visor retracted into the back of the car, allowing the two vigilantes to jump inside, once they'd buckled their seatbelts, Batman let off on the clutch and pushed down on the accelerator and the car shot forward.

On a typical day, the drive from the Gotham Police Headquarters to the Batcave would take Twenty-Five minutes, when accounting for traffic and the luck of the lights. Though the Batmobile routinely made the journey in roughly Fifteen minutes, mostly due to the advanced navigation system which tapped into the Wayne-Tech traffic surveillance network and planning the optimum routes using it.

Though it was a short drive, it was an awkward one, as neither man wanted to talk about the conversation they were soon going to be having with the rest of the family.

 After about ten minutes, the Batmobile was crossing the 'Robert Bill' bridge that stretched across the Gotham river and connected the City to mainland New Jersey, two miles past the end of the bridge and at the top of Wayne Hill, stood Wayne Manor, the ancestral home of the Wayne family for the past twelve generations.

Soaring straight past the Manor's front gate, the Batmobile drove another half-mile, before turning onto a side-road.

Driving straight towards a section of rocky-wall that made up the base of the hill, Batman hit a button on the Batmobile's dashboard, causing a section of the rock-wall to open up, allowing the vehicle to speed through before it closed behind it.

Passing through a long tunnel, carved out by Bruce alone, and illuminated by hundreds of blue LEDs installed on the metal road that spanned the various caverns that made up the Batcave, the supercar came to a screeching stopped on the lazy-susan, which repositioned the car to face the cave's entrance as the two heroes exited.

The other members of their family were already waiting, stationed around the Batcomputer, even Barbara who normally only attended meetings online from her own supercomputer in Gotham Clocktower, was present in her wheelchair.

"Everyone's here. Good." - Batman remarked, removing his cowl as he crossed the cave and took his seat at the Batcomputer. - "Let's not waste any time. I've known that Damian was Prometheus since me and Cassandra visited Lady Shiva."

To Bruce's surprise, there was no uproar or argument, just a tense silence, which Dick broke.

"Why did you think it was smart to keep this from us?"

"Because I've let emotions get in the way of too many cases. Harvey Dent, Thomas Elliot, Victor Fries, emotions cloud judgement and clouded judgement leads to mistakes."

"You're wrong." - His oldest son fired back, but Bruce didn't let him continue.

"Is that so?" - The moment Raven learned who Prometheus is, she tracked him down and joined his team. Then when you discovered what was happening, you lied for her, making it much harder for us to take him down."