White Knight-Batman SI (Bruce x Rachel)(OC x Selina Kyle)

Part 33

Chapter 33

THOMAS WAYNE

The news in Gotham was all reporting on the same thing.

~Brother's Feud turns bloody!~

~Thomas Wayne, and his Villain Fiancee! ~

~The Fight to control Wayne Enterprises! Gov. Steps in!~

~Thalia Ducard! Who is Bruce Wayne's estranged wife~

There were a hundred different forms of the argument, yet all of them boiled down to the same thing. That somehow, in the fight for the Wayne fortune, he had killed Bruce and was now on the run.

Thomas himself was in his bunker, watching the city unravel as doubt crept into people's hearts and the city prepared to tear itself apart. This was carnage.

"I did not know Mr. Bruce ever had a wife," Lucius added from behind as they bunkered down in a secretive underground facility.

"No," he replied. When news of government interference emerged, and he had not received any signal from Bruce's tracker, he realized that something might be wrong. He had ordered the man to either relocate or dispose of all their secretive inventory as a precaution.

An action he was quite thankful for, given how everything had turned out.

"Neither did I," he said as he watched the live feed of Thalia Al Ghul addressing the press and telling them how she was Bruce's estranged wife and had been called back by him because he felt that his life was in danger.

"But what will we do now? The Police suspect us for murdering your brother, and without him, there is no Batman to solve this whole mess," Lucius pointed out, and Thomas nodded.

"The league was not alone in this," he replied, referring to the feeds from various Gotham prisons. The video showed several individuals wearing joker masks helping the inmates escape.

Thomas sighed as he plopped back into the seat.

"The league has made it so that I cannot act as Thomas Wayne, and with both Selina and Bruce captured, I have to be very cautious in how I act," he said. Even now, he was using their recently launched satellites to look for both of them, monitoring every digital signal in the air.

"Though I understand the necessity of it all, I still find it highly inappropriate," Lucius said as he looked over the massive screens, and Thomas sighed. He could sympathize with that sentiment.

"Truthfully, I do not like using it as well. But we are living in interesting times, and I refuse to hamper myself for my loss would mean my enemy's victory, a victory that would result in the loss of thousands of lives," he said as the computer pinged.

"Found them!" Thomas smiled at the first good news of the day.

"Selina is in the city, though Bruce is in a plane moving out of the country," Lucius pointed out towards the moving dot.

Then he saw all the news networks shift and a video began to play.

~Hello, Everyone! ~ and it was the Joker. The camera shook violently as the Joker smiled into the camera.

~I Hope you haven't missed me~ he said as he kissed the screen, smearing its edges with his red lipstick.

"Try to angulate the location of the feed," he said, and Lucius nodded as they tried to find the location of the transmission.

~Today, I have a special guest for you. She was delivered to me by some very special friends! She is feeling a bit down, so I would like for all of you to give a warm welcome to~ and Thomas felt a chill run through him as the camera shifted and showed a face much familiar to him.