Wonder Bat

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   Through the skies they flew on a mission. There was the shape of a bat in the sky as well as another figure which appeared to be a woman. They both landed on a rooftop. They looked around, searching for the criminal they lost. The bat-like man suddenly turned his head and knocked the woman down. He covered her with his cape as a gunshot fired through the air. The bat-like man grunted. He had been hit. It couldn't have been a pain unfamiliar to him but it still could not have been a warm and fuzzy feeling either. In fact, it probably hurt like crap. He attempted to cover the woman completely from the man with the gun but she would not have that. She clambered out of his grasp and walked toward the man.

"How dare you hurt him! You will pay for this and you will receive your punishment under the hand of Wonder Woman!" Wonder Woman walked toward him as he frantically searched for a way out of this mess that he had gotten into. Wonder Woman grabbed him and held him up by his throat. She shoved him up against the wall of the entrance that lead to the rooftop. She pushed harder on him until he almost couldn't breathe at all. Just as he was about to choke and lose all grip on life, the shadowy, bat-like figure grabbed the arm of Wonder Woman.

"Let him go!" Wonder Woman immediately did as she was told. The man slumped to the floor, unconscious.

"Why did you stop me? I was this close to giving him what he deserved!"

"Diana, you lost all of your control. Why did that happen? You are usually the most calm and patient person in the team. As for why I stopped you, when I took up the title of Batman, I vowed never to kill anyone. Not even a worthless piece of trashy scum like you see before you." Diana's expression calmed a bit.

"I'm sorry but I couldn't help it. He hurt you, Bruce. I couldn't just sit there and let him do it again." Bruce looked at her for a moment.

"You should've let me handle it." He started to walk away.

"You're not even going to thank me? Unbelievable." Batman stopped and turned his head toward her.

"Thank you, Diana. I really do appreciate it." He jumped off the roof and glided. Diana walked toward the spot where he sailed off.

"You're welcome. People protect those that they love." She then took off through the sky, heading back to her apartment.

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"I don't understand, sir. Why must you deprive yourself of love? Miss Diana would make for an excellent partner for you. In your Batman life and your Bruce Wayne life," Alfred said.

"Alfred, I'm afraid. Afraid to give her my heart because once I do, she could do anything with it. She could break it, like every other woman that I started a relationship with."

"Sir, you know as well as I do that she would never do anything like that. Diana truly cares for you, Master Bruce. Go out and get her. There are very few people like her in this world." Alfred realized that Bruce was wearing his Batman outfit.

"There is no one in this world like her." With that, Bruce headed toward the entrance to the Batcave. Alfred watched him.

"Miss Diana will do him good. He'll see that when he visits her," Alfred thought as he started dust off the wood surfaces. Suddenly he heard a knock at the door.

"Yes?" Alfred answered the door and his jaw dropped to the floor as did his duster. Not many things surprised Alfred, but this took the cake. There in front of him was Talia al Ghul.