Batman Beyond: Sons Of Batman

Blight

Chapter 25

Blight

Downtown Gotham

Bruce grappled to the Batmobile and drove around Gotham. He couldn't find anymore survivors. He got a call from Barbra.

"Batman, I hacked into the U.S. Satellites. Scans are picking up a non infected zone in Downtown Gotham. It's moving around Gotham. It seems as the epicenter moves, the whole zone moves." Barbra said. "Go to the Power's Tech building. That's where the non infected zone is. The zone is about 100 yards wide and 100 yards long."

"I'll check it out." Bruce replied.

"Get this, there are small unidentified radioactive waves being released. They're not deadly but it's unusual to have radioactive waves out of nowhere." Barbra said.

"Ok, I'm heading over there now." Bruce said. He hung up.

Bruce arrived at the Power's Tech Building. He saw fifteen men guarding the building. They weren't infected. The men were armed with automatic rifles. They were bad business.

"Fifteen armed men." Bruce thought, "This'll be easy."

Bruce looked around for vantage points. There were six. He looked for floor grates. They were all over the place. Bruce knew he wasn't as strong or as fast as he used to be. He knew he had to be careful.

Bruce grappled up to a vantage point. Two men walked below him. Bruce dropped down and bashed the heads of the two men together.

Bruce activated Detective Mode. A thug heard the heads bash together and was heading Bruce's way. Bruce went into the floor grates below him and hid from the non infected thug.

"Omigod... Get your asses over here! I found two guys, I think they're dead!" The thug shouted.

Bruce knew the thugs weren't dead. The thugs weren't smart, Bruce had the advantage. Bruce got out a weapons disruptor. The device would let him disable the four firearms. If the disabled firearms were used, they'd explode.

Bruce disabled four firearms and let himself be seen. The four thugs with the disabled firearms tried to shoot at Bruce but their firearms exploded in their hands. The broken pieces of the firearms knocked the thugs out.

There were nine thugs left. Two of the thugs stuck together. "Dammit! We're going to die in here." One of the thugs said. The thug had just discovered the four knocked out men.

"Just stay alert." The thug stated.

"Who the hell is after us?" Another thug asked.

"I don't know. Just take him out." A thug from across said.

Bruce dropped down under the floor grates. Two thugs walked above him. One was a taller, black male and the other one was a shorter white male. Bruce jumped up from the grates after the second thug passed him. Bruce grabbed the second thug and bashed his head against the floor.

The white male turned around. "Oh my god it's Batman!"

Bruce threw a Batarang at the white male to stun him. Then Bruce bashed the white male's head against a wall.

There were now seven thugs left. One of the men was using an earpiece to speak to someone. Bruce hacked the the earpiece with his remote hacking device to hear who the thug was speaking to.

"Sir, Batman's here... He's taken out eight of our guys." The thug stated.

"Why didn't you tell me this earlier!?" An unknown voice was on the other side of the line.

"I'm sorry sir-," The thug couldn't finish.

"You better put a bullet in his brain before I get to you..." The unknown voice stated.

Bruce ran the voice against his voice synthesizer. The voice belonged to Derek Powers.

"Powers? I thought he died." Bruce thought to himself.

Three men lurked below his vantage point. Bruce attached himself with a rope to the vantage point and dropped down. He picked up the two of the men and grappled back up to the vantage point. Once he got back up to the vantage point, he dropped the men with wires attached to their feet.

After Bruce jumped down to take the other thug down. He wrapped his arms around the other thug to cut off his air circulation. Bruce took him down silently but the two men hanging from the vantage points were a dead giveaway.

The four men who were still conscious ran over to the vantage point where the other thugs were hanging from. Bruce hid behind a corner. Bruce waited for the men to come closer to the corner.

"What the hell happened to you two!?" A black male said to the thugs hanging from the vantage points.

"He's using the gargoyles as vantage points! Shoot them down." A thug hanging from the vantage point commanded.

Before the four men could leave. Bruce jumped on two of the men and bashed their heads against the ground. After, in a split second Bruce threw two Batarangs at the last two men to stun them. Next, he threw one man into the other to one. Bruce then kneed one of the men to knock him out.

Bruce grabbed the last man by the neck and punched him in the face but didn't knock him out.

"Why isn't this area infected!?" Bruce questioned.

"Screw you." The thug said. He tried to punch Bruce but Bruce countered the punch and threw him on the floor.

Bruce stepped on his face. "I'll give you one last chance before I break every bone in your body."

Suddenly a green beam hit Bruce in the back. Bruce fell on the floor but quickly got back up. Bruce turned around to see a taller man standing in front of him. The man had grey hair and was older.

"I'll tell you why this area of Gotham isn't infected." The man was Derek Powers.

"Powers." Bruce gritted. He clenched his fists.