Batman got in the batwing there was some kind of jammer blocking him from landing the batwing, " Catlin I've got..." " I'm tracking it too. It appears the control towers you use for your auto-nav-system are putting out a jamming signal" she said through the headset. " Storm damage?" Bruce asked her, he thinks for a second before saying " you'll have to go down there and find out for your self Bruce", " got it I'm close to one now" he said before he jumped out of the batwing and landed through the glass ceiling and into the building.
After he saved the hostage's he came to a dead body through a wall, he then set up a crime seance to find the cause of death, he started my identifying the victim
Fingerprint analysis
Name: David Shannon
Occupation: technician
Employer: Gotham optics
Performs: none" Victims name is David Shannon, a Gotham optics employee sent here to repair a faulty network tower. But what killed him?" He said to himself
He scanned the DNA on the wall and found out the case of death."Impact analysis indicates the victim was killed by some kind of explosion, originating at that access panel." He then scanned the panel for fingerprints and found them.
Fingerprint analysis
Name: none
Status: none"Looks like the panel was rigged to detonate when swiped with a key card, someone really didn't want this tower repaired. And it looks like that same someone left a set of fingerprints behind".
He then got to his communicator and said "Catlin, I'm uploading some prints for analysis. Let me know what comes back" he said, Catlin typed on her keyboard and then said "searching now..... And here we are: they belong to one john F. Baker. He's a rather unremarkable criminal. Small jobs, mostly. Only...... That odd"
Bruce looked confused " what's odd?" He asked " baker is dead Bruce. His body was recovered from the diamond district just under an hour ago" " looks like someone's tying up loose ends" he said to her.
After he hacked the door and got to the roof he found what he was looking for " Catlin. Contact the G.C.P.D let them know about the body, Send the details from my analysis too"
"Ok, does this mean you've found the source of the disturbance?" She asked " I think so" batman replies.Batman slammed opens the metal door in Infront of him and saw lots of screens and grabbed his hacking tool but once he was on a voice came on.
"Well, well. If it isn't the king thug himself. Figure it was only a matter of time before you showed up, sorry about the mess downstairs" the voice said, " who is this?" Batman asked as he saw the figure in front of the screen, he could only see green behind the man and the man's glasses, " think of me as a great big mystery! One you're never going to solve"
" Enigma, then" batman replied to enigma "oh ho ho, you must think you're so clever, well how's this for clever, I've taken control of the towers all over the city. As long as they're active, your batwing's useless. And it looks like it's going to stay that way. I mean this one's practically begging to be taken offline and you still can't hack it. Pun intended of course".
Batman started hacking the tower, once it was done enigma came back to the screen, " hmmm - black mask's not going to like this" he said, " what are you talking about?" Batman asked " wouldn't you like to know," enigma said before he left, batman sighted and then heard Catlin's voice " I see you've regained contralateral of the batwing. I suppose it's off to jezebel plaza, then my love?" Bruce smiled and said " that's the plan but then I've also got a lead on enigma" Catlin sighed and said, " don't overthink it too much, we both know you'll eventually wind up doing both".
* Time skipped *
As Bruce jumped from building to building then he heard catlin's voice " I hope you will try to keep a low profile tonight, Bruce" she said as he could hear he sight " trust me, I'll take out those assassin's before they even know I'm there" then Alfred's voice came on " it's not just that, if some curious child looks out to see who's pattering across their rooftop, they'll expect Santa Claus, not a black-clad, bat creature" " I don't patter" Bruce said, he heard Alfred sight and left, " well I'm sure our daughter might be curious about this black-clad bat- creature, if he patters on our rooftop" Catlin said with laughter, " I don't patter, and once again Catlin, it's a boy, it's a boy".
At jezebel plaza, Bruce saw that he was the first one there and went up high so he could stake this place unnoticed. As time went by Bruce waits on the gargoyle, " Bruce are you ok?" Catlin asked him " penguin, not a dime changes hands in this city he can't tell you about. If anyone knows where black mask and his assassins are, It's him. But penguins hard to find, his men are doing a deal here. I'll make him talk" Catlin smiled as she watched him on the camera " I know you will" batman watched the deal go down and saw who he needed to target, " punk in the Santa hat must be in charge".
Bruce jumped down and started fighting the thugs leaving the one I'm the Santa hat for last, after he finished them he throws the thug on the chair he was sitting on along with the case with the money as the thug grabbed it Bruce kicked him thought the chair. "GET AWAY!" He yelled as he landed on the ground, batman jumped at him and grabbed him by the throat lifting him in the air " where's the penguin?" Batman said, the thug tries to talk but his breath was being blocked " Where is he?" Then the thug blacked out " damn" Bruce looked at the roof and an idea came to his head.
" Wake up" the thug woke up not know what happening, he looked up and saw the bat dangering from his leg. He then started to panic and scream " time to talk, where's cobblepot" he didn't want to talk " let me go!" Batman smiled and said, " if you insist..." He lets go and the thug god flying down and into the clock, then there was a ringing noise. Bruce pulled him up and grabbed the phone from his pocket, the thugs begged and said " please ..... Stop, stop, I'll talk. I'll tell you anything you want to know! Please!" Bruce read the text and looked at the thug and said " too late I already have what I need".
He lets go of the thug and watched as he went crashing into the Christmas tree below, " YOUR CRAZY, YOUR FIGGIN CRAZY!" the thug yelled from below. Batman got the chip from the phone and placed it into the divide of his wrist, he tried to get a radio frequency but there was something blocking it. " Catlin, I'm getting interface on my com system. Is that on your side?" He waited for a response " no, honey. I'm seeing it as well. It's from the nearby GCR tower. It's the same signal jamming the batwing's auto-nav-system. I've highlighted the tower on your map" she said to him, he looked at his map and saw the location, " I'll need to stop that signal before I can track down the penguin".
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BATMAN : ARKHAM ORIGIN
RandomBruce Wayne is married and is soon to be a farther but as soon as he begins his journey to farther hood things take a dark turn for Gothem and himself as batman. Book # 1 of the Arkham Series