Alter-Ego (Batman fanfic)

Chapter twenty nine- penguin

Chapter twenty nine- Penguin

BRUCE'S POV:

The happiness of my night ended when I watched Harmony disappear into the night, headed to her car. After that there was a very long night ahead, thought the night was not for a food-covered Bruce, it was for Batman.

I went straight back to the mansion, showered, and got into my suit as quickly as I humanly could. The only way I could keep my mind of Harmony is if I tried to forget about her by doing my job. Right now that consisted of trying to find the man who wanted me dead. The mysterious Penguin.

Alfred came rushing after me in the bat cave, he was panting and had to stop to catch his breath before he could speak to me.

"Alfred, what is it?"

"Fox-" he took several large gasps "fox said he found-" gasp "the penguin."

"What?! How! Where is he?"

"Give me a moment, I ran around the whole manor looking for you."

"Sorry to be rash Alfred, but I don't have a moment to spare."

He sighed, his breath back with him "alright, I will try and explain it to you as quickly as I can. Lucious said before that he believed the man who hired someone to kill you might have been Harvey Dent, well it turns out that Harvey had a few under-the-table dealings with a high level crime syndicate, run by a man they call the Penguin, however, the Penguin and Harvey seemed to have gotten closer right after the accident and before he was killed, so the Penguin's real name was written down in transactions made between the two of them."

"What's his name?"

"Cobblepot, Oswald Cobblepot."

"Cobblepot, Slade said that name, where have I heard it before?" I thought aloud.

"I have the answer to that as well, the Cobblepot family invested in a large portion of the new subway system that was going to run through Arkham, however, when your parents were killed the project lost the funding and the subway work was abandoned, it left them penniless."

"So what does all of this have to do with Fox finding him?" I asked.

"The unfinished subway system, it's supposed to be sealed off, however Fox has received news of it being reopened, that's where Cobblepot is hiding, somewhere in that subway tunnel."

Great, now I'm going to be searching a two mile long abandoned subway all night. There was no real way to get the tank down there, that was even if it was working. so what could have took me two minutes is going to take hours. It was worth it though, if I can finally stop looking over my shoulder for hired guns and get back to work.

"Subway, is there any way we can narrow the search area."

"Sir, if I may, I believe Fox has a solution to your ride problem."

Alfred moved aside and behind him was a surprise I certainly wasn't expecting. I was expecting a motorcycle or repaired tank, or even a car like a Lamborghini that was just enough to get me to where I needed to go. Instead I was faced with a dune buggy.

"Fitted with a top of the line stun grenade launcher, and a fully loaded heavy machine gun," Lucious said walking from behind the buggy.

"What is this?"

"Something the national guard hasn't even heard of, the military needed something fast and small to get into hard to reach places, this is what they got. However the military lost funding for the prototype, and that's when I got my hands on it. Made a few modifications of my own."