The Last Knight

The Corrupted 🔫

Bruce and Carrie were brought safely back to Wayne Manor. "We need to help the GCPD!" exclaimed Carrie. "I know we do," Bruce replied with a grunt.

They used the elevator to go down to the Batcave. "Time's running out!" Carrie said. Bruce walked over to his one Batsuit. "I kept one because I didn't know when to retire or not," he told Carrie. She was already getting dressed in her green and red suit. She was the new Robin.

They got into their vehicles and sped out of the Batcave. Batman used the controls of his Batmobile to accelerate faster. A few citizens screamed for help, as a few Italian criminals cornered them with machine guns. "Carrie! Take care of them while I go to this area of Gotham. I'm scanning lots of activity here," Batman exclaimed.

Carrie drove her speeder bike over to the Italians mocking and jeering at the frightened citizens. She sprung off the bike and landed perfectly behind the group. "Ahem!" she said to them.

The Italians turned around and aimed their rifles at her. Carrie wasn't scared at all, despite her young age. Suddenly, the Italians observed Carrie's ridiculous and colorful Robin costume and laughed at her.

Carrie ignored their offensive and persuasive strong language in Italian. She learned many languages over the years under Bruce's teaching. She then took out her own specialized grappling gun and it pierced one Italian in the arm.

As he screamed, the others started firing. The citizens were scared, as Carrie told them to escape. She jumped over the rain of bullets, and tripped another Italian. She then grappled the others, smashing their faces against a brick wall.

"What is it with you guys?," she uttered at them. Carrie then choked another Italian, and shot her grappling gun at the others. Finally, she was able to knock them all unconscious.

"Batman! I secured this area of the street. Where are you?" she called him on the speeder bike's transmitter. "I'm arriving at the Gotham Hospital. Some sort of commotion is going on here. Stay put," he answered back.

Batman parked his Batmobile in the dark alleyway. He staggered out of the shadows on foot and confronted the commotion. A group of Italians were praising their new leader, who was perched on top of a burning taxi car.

The man was wearing a white and black tuxedo, holding two machine guns in the air. "What the fuck?" uttered Batman. The Italians were throwing fiery Molotov cocktails into the abandoned hospital, cheering.

"SILENCE!!!" their leader exclaimed and shot into the sky. The Italian Corps grew silent for their leader to speak. The man turned around, and revealed something hideous about his appearance.

The man was scarred on one side of his face, and the other side was normal. Batman realized this man may have been burned in some earlier accident and survived. "Your savior is here!! We all have waited for this moment. Gotham is dead," the scarred man exclaimed.

The Italian Corps cheered loudly as the scarred man silenced them. "Our parents before us and their parents have tried for years to bring down this corrupted city. We want to reform balance in this city, take control of the money and the shipping!! Gotham has finally gone down in a bitter battle. We must continue with our fucking plan in order to achieve full victory of the city!! WHO'S WITH ME?!!!" the scarred man announced.

He shot more countless bullets up in the air. "You may stand victorious. But you have one fucking man standing before you still," yelled Batman. He raised his fists up weakly, but stayed confident.

"The Batman...how lovely to see you again," exclaimed the scarred man. Batman was confused. "What? You don't remember me? Harvey Dent," he added. Batman realized who he was now.

Harvey was his financial competitor in Gotham. Dent Industries was located on the south end of Gotham, forgotten. Dent tried to raise a monopoly with his business, but Bruce's company easily took over and renamed the sole building to Wayne Industries. The building was destroyed anyway by Joker years later.

To make matters worse, Harvey barely survived a fiery explosion at the Gotham Diner tragedy. It took many lives including Vicki Vale, but he was a good friend of her deceased husband. He was severely burned on one side of his face. Dent blamed revenge on Batman never saving him.

"You fucked me up. This city was meant to be protected by someone like you and you failed. I rose to power after gaining trust from the Italians. Now it's too late to save your city," Harvey announced to Batman.

"You're two-faced, Harvey! Don't do anything fucking stupid," Batman yelled back. Harvey growled in anger and took out a nickel. "Heads we shoot you down, tails you get the head-start," he said.

Batman's heart beat faster as he gripped his fists. Harvey flipped the coin up in the air and landed it smack on his trembling hand. The coin read 'tails'.

"Well fuck that," Harvey said to himself and pointed his machine guns at Batman. The bullets started firing at him. The Italians followed through, shooting directly at the Dark Knight.

"Argh!!" Batman yelled as he used his bulletproof cape to deflect the bullets. Instead of bouncing off his cape, they were absorbed into his cape. The Batsuit was revealed to be made of kinetic energy.

Batman heard police sirens arriving, but ignored them. He then tossed a smoke grenade from his utility belt to stun the Italians.

As they were distracted, Batman tried to shoot one of them with a grappling hook but missed due to his poor aim.

Harvey then told his Italians to evacuate, hearing the police sirens arriving. "Fuck it! Let's get going!" he yelled at his gang.

They then escaped just in time before Commissioner Yindel and the GCPD arrived. Batman weakly ran away, before Yindel could catch him.

He called up Carrie to meet up with him in the dark alleyway. "Okay!" she called back. Batman hopped into his Batmobile, panting of exhaustion.

Before Carrie can arrive, he quickly tested out his blood pressure. It was high. His blood sugar was low as well, making him dizzy. "Argh...fuck," he whispered to himself.

Carrie rode her speeder bike back to Batman's Batmobile. "Okay I'm ready to go. Want me to lead the way?" she asked him.

He nodded in reply. Carrie then led the Batmobile safely through Gotham to head back to the Batcave at Wayne Manor.

The mission was a pointless failure, but Bruce and Carrie now knew who was the aspiring leader behind the Italian Corps: Harvey Dent/Two-Face.