Life After Gotham (Batman Fan Fiction)

Chapter 9: Conflicts and Confusion

“So, Whatcha think”, I asked as I ran out of the bedroom and onto the computer desk, so I’m James’ view of the computer.

He’s sitting in the black chair again, while Juliet is flipping through Nigma’s and Crane’s files when I entered the room. When James realized who I was, his mouth dropped in awe while his eyes grew in shock.

I chuckled at this as I crouched over him and say,” What? I thought you liked cats”, as I added a little purr in my voice.

He continued to stare at me in awe, till I took out my whip and used it to spin the chair around; causing him to become dizzy.

I jumped off the desk, next to Julie, who is now laughing, as she said,” I love the outfit, but I love what you did to my brother more.”

“Thanks! But where’s Arthur”, I asked, noticing that he’s not in the cave.

“He went back upstairs to make sure our parents didn’t wake up. He also went to pack our bags”, James replied, sounding like he was about to throw up or pass out.

“Pack our bags for what”, I asked as I walked next to James and stop the chair’s spinning.

“We’re going to Condumdria. This bat kid is going there and we’re going to catch up to him”, James sneered as he shook his head and began to do more research.

“James has never liked this bat guy; actually, he despises him. Mainly, he wants to kill this kid for what Bats did to Crane”, Julie said as she pulled me away from her brother and handed me the files.

“Isn’t that a little drastic? And why is he holding a grudge for something that happened 5000 years ago?”

Juliet only stared at me shocked, as she said,” You don’t know? Well, the Bat is the main reason our world is like this. He’s the reason why the criminals fought and created the separate districts. He was the reason our parents created that weapon in the first place.”

“Ok, I get it; he has a large grudge against what this kid’s dad did or something. Why can’t he just realize that he wouldn’t be here if our parents didn’t create that weapon”, I exclaimed, trying to show the brighter side of the situation.

I heard James sigh and he began walking towards me, as he said,” Listen, I won’t kill the kid, but I’m still going to break his face… And how’s your arm feeling?”

I quickly look down at my left arm and roll my shoulder, to see it didn’t hurt anymore.

“It’s perfectly fine. I forgot about it until you pointed it out. I usually don’t get injured, but it doesn’t hurt that much when I do”, I replied to him with a smile.

James only shook his head in disbelief as he said”, Whatever, I’m going upstairs to help Arthur then go to bed.”

“Me too. Do you want to come with us, Sam”, Julie asked as she began to hed towards the exit.

I shook my head as I walked to the computer desk and said,” I’ll come up in a while. I want to see something.”

They looked over at me in confusion before they shrugged their shoulders and walked into the tunnel. When the sound of footsteps faded, I put down the files and began to scan them; wanting to find a certain one.

After a while of scanning the files, I picked one up and opened it, seeing a photo of a lady, who is a bit older than me, wearing the Catwoman outfit. We look exactly alike, except she’s older and has jade like eyes instead of my aquamarine colored eyes.

I continued to flip through the file until I found a mug shot of the woman holding up a sign that says,” Arkham Asylum, Kyle, Selina.” I began to leave reality as I imagined what she was like; until I heard the sound of rubber screeching into a halt.

I quickly stood up and looked down at the second largest platform to see a black war car in the center of it. As I saw the vehicle being lowered to the area below the platform, I grabbed my whip and used it to swing to the top of the containment units.

When I got on top of them, I moved closer to the wall so I was hidden in the shadows. I turned my attention toward the sound of footsteps, coming from the staircase, to see a guy in a black costume walking up the stairs.

As he got to the top of the stairs, he looked over at the files that I left on the ground, and said,” I’ve got to remember to pick these up wheni’m done reading them.”

‘Why does he sound so familiar’, I thought to myself as I watched the man pick up the files and move them onto the desk.

When the man sat down in the desk chair and focused on the computer, I quietly slid off the containment units and ran to the exit. When I got to the hidden door, I was about to press the button to open it when someone grabbed my arm and turned me around; it was the bat guy.

He examined me before he pressed his index finger to his mouth, telling me to stay quiet. I only nodded as I looked up at his face to see he still had his mask on.

He only nodded his head once as he pressed the button and slid his mask off, as the door opened up to the office. He had to push me out of the tunnel, since I was staring at him in shock. When I was out of the tunnel, he grinned mischievously as he waved at me and closed the door.

Even though the door was completely shut, I was still in the state of shock… The Batman is, well was, my royal bodyguard from Catania…

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Hey Peoplez ^_^ in the last chapter i asked the question " Who are Johnathan's girlfriend and Katrina? And what fan fiction books are they from?"

The person who answered this question correctly was the one and only Suspiriamoon! The answer is Katrina, riddler's girlfriend from SpeakNoEvil's "Riddle Me This, Riddle Me Kat" series, and Luna, Scarecrow's girlfriend from bridge2enigma's series "The Start of a New Reality" series!

For a little fact for you readers, Kat & Luna are teo of my closest of my friends and they will appear in the book later, along with the characters i based them off of ( example, bridge2enigma is Juliet Crane). SpeakNoEvil's character is going to appear in 3 or 4 chapters, just as a heads up :)

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