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My own retelling of Batman's Knightfall Story Arc, up to his broken back.
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After dealing with the Bomber Robbers, twin bank robbers who specialized in the usage of dynamite and detonators, Batman did three more hours to patrol the rooftops of Gotham city, searching for any signs of crime. He found none. All of his enemies were locked up in either Arkham Asylum or Blackgate Prison, there had been no sign of Killer Croc for weeks and Selina was staying under the radar. He would wait it out and then, when they slipped up, he would find them and bring them to prison. After another hour of scanning the city for signs of crime, Batman decided to head home. With any luck, he would get more than an hour of sleep tonight.
After another hour of searching the city, he found nothing and decided to call it a night. He contacted the Batmobile with his Bat-Remote and drove home.
Two blocks away, on top of a skyscraper, was a man in full body armor who had been observing Batman through binoculars. He spoke into a radio. "Sir. The Bat dealt with the two D-Listers as we predicted and he is returning home. Should we pursue?"
A pause before a deep mighty voice spoke back to him. "No. Not yet. First we will bring this city to it's knees, use him to wear down his enemies and his enemies to do the same." The voice paused before continuing. "We will strike at dawn. Before then, find the snowman's wife and take her to the agreed location. Make it look like the Bat has taken her."
"Yes sir. And yourself?"
"I am going to enrage the crocodile. He will be useful to us."
"Rodger that sir. Over and out." The man in black grabbed his gear and left to join his comrades on their assignment, knowing full well that Bane would handle the crocodile with ease.
Batman returned to the Batcave via the secret tunnel and parked the Batmobile. He exited the car and pulled back his cowl to reveal the handsome face of Billionaire Playboy Bruce Wayne.
He smiled as he saw his faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth waiting for him with a freshly made cup of coffee on a silver tray. "Would you like a refreshment sir?"
"Thank you Alfred. I could use some coffee right about now." He took the cup and sipped it. It felt good after running around in the cold night. "It's good as always Alfred. Thank you. Good timing by the way."
"I believe I am finally starting to figure out your schedule sir. How has your night been?"
"Surprisingly uneventful. The Bombers came back but they were as inept as ever. Which is good, it frees me up to research the new psychologist at Arkham. A Professor Hugo Strange."
"Do you think he might be a budding supervillain?"
"It's hard to tell." Bruce said and sat down at the computer and pulled up the file on Hugo Strange. "His history checks out and nothing about him seems dangerous, but there is just something about him. In the brief meeting I had with him as Bruce Wayne, he was studying me. Not just conversing, but observing me, like I was one of his patients. It felt unnerving....that's never happened to me before."
"And so now you are studying him?"
"Better safe than sorry Alfred." Bruce said and sipped the coffee.
The Gotham City Sewer System. It was dark, damp, cold, filthy and full of sewer water. It was also the usual home of Waylon Jones, the seven foot tall reptile man known to the public as Killer Croc. He had been laying low down here for weeks, eating the occasional homeless that wandered into his lair while he plotted his revenge on Batman for locking him up last time. Croc had been considering moving to a quarry and luring Batman there. He would figure the rest out later. Suddenly, he smelled somebody in the sewer and it was not a scent he recognized. Killer Croc followed it, ready to jump and maul whomever this was. Killer Croc tracked his prey until he came to a wide open area of the sewer and walked up out of the water, glancing around for his prey. "So you are Killer Croc. I expected better."
Killer Croc growled and turned around, ready to rip apart this intruder. "Let's see how much you talk when I'm ripping out yourrrrrr..." Killer Croc paused as he saw the giant of a man staring him down. He was about as tall as Killer Croc himself and built like a tank. He had to be four hundred pounds of muscle, maybe more and dressed in black pants and boots and his torso was covered in some kind of bizarre armor with green tubes of glowing green...something that were going in and out of his body all over his body and his wrist had a red button on it, probably to control the tubes. The man had a black and white mask on his face and his eyes...his eyes were the coldest Croc had seen since Freeze. Croc growled as the two stared each other down. "You...who are you?"
"I am Bane and I will break the Bat."
"Tough talk big man. But you're not leaving here, I'm going to eat your heart!" Killer Croc got ready to attack and rush Bane who simply raised his hand and pressed the button. Before his eyes, Bane started to grow, his muscles bulging even more as he started to become even taller, inflating like a musclebound balloon.
Killer Croc frowned as he found himself looking up at Bane and took a step back. "Oh...this is going to suck!"
"Indeed." Bane rushed him.
"So, it looks like all checks out." Bruce turned off his computer. "I'll try and arrange a meeting with him soon. I just want to be sure."
"I would recommend a full night's sleep first sir."
"Of course. Thank you Alfred."
"Very good sir."
Bruce changed out his costume and walked upstairs to get some sleep, and the whole time, wondering if he was just being paranoid at all. Maybe all this quiet was getting to him.
Killer Croc smashed through a solid brick wall and looked up to see Bane standing over him. He kicked Croc across the face and then Bane knelt down, grabbed him and began to viciously assault Killer Croc, striking him across the face and thrashing him while he threw the alligator man around like a rag doll. After a several minute long beatdown, Bane wiped the blood off his hands and walked away, pressing a button and powering down as he walked. "W-wait. WAIT!"
"You are still alive. Good."
"Good? Do you...do you think...that I'm just going to let you go?" Killer Croc asked as he tried to follow Bane, blood streaming down his face and dribbling out of his mouth.
"You survived my attack. I am sufficiently impressed. If you wish to face me again, you must first kill the Bat and bring me his head and then you will have earned the right to fight me once more. But not before then." Bane climbed up the ladder as Killer Croc collapsed on the ground and hoarked up blood from his mouth, his ribs broken and his scales cracked and his vision blurring. He would do it. He would first kill the Batman and then...then he would find Bane and take his time tearing off his limbs.
Admin wrote:On his way to Gotham City, Batman thought about who could be behind this. The explosives had caused fires and while there were injured civilians, no fatalities had been reported yet. In addition, with the erratic nature of the placement of the explosives, it came off as less of an attack and more of a distraction. Batman immediately called Alfred. "Alfred! Have there been reports regarding Arkham Asylum yet?"
At the cave, Alfred checked the computer for any signs of attacks or breakouts regarding Arkham. The news he discovered made his face turn pale. "Oh dear, Sir...we have a Code Red."
"What happened?"
"Two complete breakouts sir. One at Arkham Asylum and the other at Blackgate prison. Every single criminal has escaped!"
"All two thousand, five hundred sixty nine prisoners at once and that's not even counting the psychotics of Arkham...then, the bombings were a distraction to make the police divide their forces." Batman turned down a street and started racing to the police station. "I have to speak with Gordon!"
Commissioner James Gordon ran into the GCPD Building. It was a madhouse. Police Officers yelling at each other, answering panicked calls on phones, trying to understand what was going on in the city. "What is happening?"
"Sir! The city is under attack by....freaking everybody!" Ramirez exclaimed. "We've got people dealing with the fires now and checking out Arkham but we do not have the numbers to deal with this many criminals at once!"
Jim started running through the building and heading to the stairs. "Call the SWAT Team and put the city on lockdown! I'm signaling him!"
"Batman? But, sir, are you sure that we-"
"We need his help!"
Arriving up at the roof, Gordon was met by Batman. "I'm here. You already know what's going on right?"
"Yes, what-do you have any plans?"
Batman looked off into the distance briefly before turning his attention back to Gordon. "The majority of the Blackgate prisoners will be splitting up into their old gangs and mobster affiliations. While most of the psychotics will gravitate to their usual hideouts, there will also be a number of them rampaging out in the open. We'll need to focus on them first before we can hunt down the rest."
"And that will give the rest time to set up and make plans of their own." Bullock pointed out as he arrived at the roof.
"We don't have a choice. We have to focus on the ones who are attacking right now.We don't have the manpower to go after all of them." Gordon said. "So where are you going first?"
"Pied Zephyr. It's a very vulnerable area."
"Right. Then we'll go to Amber Nook. Keep in touch and watch your back out there Batman."
"You too." With that, Batman swung off.
"You heard the man! Let's get to work people!" Gordon said to his fellow officers.
Batman was right to rush to Pied Zephyr Streets defense. As the civilians of Gotham City were stepping outside to either go to work, a howling mob of armed prison escapees came running down the street and they were out for blood. The fortunate few that were not shot outright just barely made it into their homes and locked the doors but the criminals started banging on the doors and shooting up and breaking down windows to get inside and ransack the homes and drag out the families into the streets and violently beat them with their fists and gun barrels and crowbars.
The criminals were interrupted by batarangs flying out of nowhere and hitting several of them one after another before circling back around to Batman. Batman swooped down and landed in the middle of a group of thugs and set off a shockwave to knock the five of them backwards and then throwing out the batarangs again while tossing out sleeping gas grenades from his other hand to knock a team of grouped together thugs out, following this by leaping straight at another team before they could bring their guns up and began violently thrashing them all while his batarangs flew through the air and hit others, causing distractions.
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Gotham City Bank was quiet and locked up...until the doors were blown open by an explosion and, of all the lunatics and weirdos in the city to barge in, came The Conniving Cowboy of Crime himself: Shame and his gang of Outlaw Gunmen
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The Trigger Twins
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The lovebirds: Okie Annie and Calamity Jan
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Colt and Dollface
http://billiebob72088.deviantart.com/art/Colt-and-Dollface-99290212
Gunshogun
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And Kung-Fu Kid
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Kung-Fu-Kid-Ref-and-Bio-315134706
Along with their squad of henchmen
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Gnome was on the roof taking care of the silent alarm.
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"Nobody Move! This here's a Bank Robbery!" Shame called out as he pulled out his multi-barreled handguns and his team started taking hostages.
Batman watched from the top of a building and sighed. "Of all the people to run into...."
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http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/072/7/c/void_and_just_it_by_sayeh_roshan-d3bizum.jpg
Gotham City Bank was quiet and locked up...until the doors were blown open by an explosion and, of all the lunatics and weirdos in the city to barge in, came The Conniving Cowboy of Crime himself: Shame and his gang of Outlaw Gunmen
https://2img.net/h/i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/bebop3/cowboy224t.jpg
The Trigger Twins
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/28355/918851-trigger_twins.jpg
The lovebirds: Okie Annie and Calamity Jan
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs24/i/2008/223/d/c/WANTED__The_Gunslinger_Girls_by_dwwrider.jpg
Colt and Dollface
http://billiebob72088.deviantart.com/art/Colt-and-Dollface-99290212
Gunshogun
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/306/4/f/steampunk_samurai_cowboy4_by_theendofallthings-d4evx80.jpg
And Kung-Fu Kid
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Kung-Fu-Kid-Ref-and-Bio-315134706
Along with their squad of henchmen
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/147/7/4/umvc3_moveset__john_marston_by_anti_ho0f-d652y71.jpg
Gnome was on the roof taking care of the silent alarm.
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/216/e/c/cowboy_by_pixelpirate-d59r5ft.jpg
"Nobody Move! This here's a Bank Robbery!" Shame called out as he pulled out his multi-barreled handguns and his team started taking hostages.
Batman watched from the top of a building and sighed. "Of all the people to run into...."
While Batman made his way inside, the villains prepared to spread out. "Alright boys and girls, here's how we're doing this. Annie and Jan, you two guard the entrance and these varmints here." Shame gestured to the two janitors they had at gunpoint. The Kid was tying their arms behind their backs. "Say, you boys know if anybody else is working this fine morning?"
"Uh-uh...there are...security guards and-and two more janitors."
"How many guards?"
"Five to guard at night and then the rest come in during the day."
"Alright then boys, we've got a plan. Twins, Dollface, Colt, ya'll secure the guards and janitors. Gunshogun, go with the gunmen and empty out the registers and grab any extra money you find. Kid, you're with me. We're cracking open the vault. The rest of you go back up Gnome. Clear? Good. Let's get to work."
The gang of criminals spread out as Batman watched from the shadows.
Once he was certain they were all gone from the main room, Batman dropped down next to the two janitors who were laying against a wall. He signaled for them to be silent, grabbed them and grappled back up to the fourth floor where he untied them. "Find a room to lock yourselves up in and call for the police. I'll handle them."
They nodded and ran to find a hiding spot. With the others roaming the halls now. Taking a few steps back, Batman then took a running leap back down to the lobby. He spread out his cape and swooped down on Calamity Jan and kicked her in the back, sending her sprawling. As Okie Annie was turning around and pulling out her guns, Batman tossed Batarangs her way to distract her but she moved fast, dodging one and shooting two others out of the air. She trained her handgun on Batman but the Batarang she had dodged circled back around and hit her in the shoulder, surprising her and giving Batman the opportunity to spring forward, catch the Batarang and slam a heavy fist against her face but she still managed to pistol-whip him with her gun. The hit did little damage and Batman tossed her away. By this time though, Jan had recovered, picked up her Calamity-Rifle and aimed it at Batman. She opened fire and a large bullet shot out of it the same one that had blown down the door to the bank. Batman dodged her aim though and the bullet flew against a wall and caused a small explosion. "You okay Anne?"
"Never better, darlin'." The two took aim at Batman, who threw down a couple of smoke bombs to give himself cover.
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http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs18/f/2007/159/6/8/Bank_to_be_Dust_Biting_by_Evexoian.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/072/7/c/void_and_just_it_by_sayeh_roshan-d3bizum.jpg
Gotham City Bank was quiet and locked up...until the doors were blown open by an explosion and, of all the lunatics and weirdos in the city to barge in, came The Conniving Cowboy of Crime himself: Shame and his gang of Outlaw Gunmen
https://2img.net/h/i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/bebop3/cowboy224t.jpg
The Trigger Twins
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/28355/918851-trigger_twins.jpg
The lovebirds: Okie Annie and Calamity Jan
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs24/i/2008/223/d/c/WANTED__The_Gunslinger_Girls_by_dwwrider.jpg
Colt and Dollface
http://billiebob72088.deviantart.com/art/Colt-and-Dollface-99290212
Gunshogun
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/306/4/f/steampunk_samurai_cowboy4_by_theendofallthings-d4evx80.jpg
And Kung-Fu Kid
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Kung-Fu-Kid-Ref-and-Bio-315134706
Along with their squad of henchmen
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/147/7/4/umvc3_moveset__john_marston_by_anti_ho0f-d652y71.jpg
Gnome was on the roof taking care of the silent alarm.
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/216/e/c/cowboy_by_pixelpirate-d59r5ft.jpg
"Nobody Move! This here's a Bank Robbery!" Shame called out as he pulled out his multi-barreled handguns and his team started taking hostages.
Batman watched from the top of a building and sighed. "Of all the people to run into...."
While Batman made his way inside, the villains prepared to spread out. "Alright boys and girls, here's how we're doing this. Annie and Jan, you two guard the entrance and these varmints here." Shame gestured to the two janitors they had at gunpoint. The Kid was tying their arms behind their backs. "Say, you boys know if anybody else is working this fine morning?"
"Uh-uh...there are...security guards and-and two more janitors."
"How many guards?"
"Five to guard at night and then the rest come in during the day."
"Alright then boys, we've got a plan. Twins, Dollface, Colt, ya'll secure the guards and janitors. Gunshogun, go with the gunmen and empty out the registers and grab any extra money you find. Kid, you're with me. We're cracking open the vault. The rest of you go back up Gnome. Clear? Good. Let's get to work."
The gang of criminals spread out as Batman watched from the shadows.
Once he was certain they were all gone from the main room, Batman dropped down next to the two janitors who were laying against a wall. He signaled for them to be silent, grabbed them and grappled back up to the fourth floor where he untied them. "Find a room to lock yourselves up in and call for the police. I'll handle them."
They nodded and ran to find a hiding spot. With the others roaming the halls now. Taking a few steps back, Batman then took a running leap back down to the lobby. He spread out his cape and swooped down on Calamity Jan and kicked her in the back, sending her sprawling. As Okie Annie was turning around and pulling out her guns, Batman tossed Batarangs her way to distract her but she moved fast, dodging one and shooting two others out of the air. She trained her handgun on Batman but the Batarang she had dodged circled back around and hit her in the shoulder, surprising her and giving Batman the opportunity to spring forward, catch the Batarang and slam a heavy fist against her face but she still managed to pistol-whip him with her gun. The hit did little damage and Batman tossed her away. By this time though, Jan had recovered, picked up her Calamity-Rifle and aimed it at Batman. She opened fire and a large bullet shot out of it the same one that had blown down the door to the bank. Batman dodged her aim though and the bullet flew against a wall and caused a small explosion. "You okay Anne?"
"Never better, darlin'." The two took aim at Batman, who threw down a couple of smoke bombs to give himself cover.
Thinking fast, the two raised up their guns and aimed for Batman only for him to dash out of the smoke and throw Bolas at Anne's feet. She flipped over them and Jan fired her rifle at him again but Batman dodged before she could shoot and jumped in the air and tossed anesthetic gas pellets into the air in between the two of them. The pellets burst open and the gas started spraying out. They fell back and started coughing and covered their mouths. Finally, Batman tossed Batarangs at both of them, hitting both of them in the face and knocking them down. Breathing in the gas, Anne soon passed out while Jan rolled away and tried taking a shot at Batman, only to be kicked in the face and knocked backwards against a pillar while Batman took away her gun and flung it away. She pulled out a knife and slashed at him but Batman leaned backwards to dodge it and punched her twice, swiped at her with his cape and then landed a beatdown combo on her and flung her down to the floor. With those two out, Batman turned on his detective vision and saw the henchmen rushing to his location. That was fine with him. He quickly ran over to the hallway entrance and sprayed his exploding gel down in a bat shape and then grappled up to the ceiling to watch.
It didn't take long for the minions to reach his location and Batman blew the gel, knocking them backwards with the explosions and stunning them. Dropping down, Batman knocked out the henchmen, retrieved his batarangs and continued inside.
Batman kept quiet as he searched for the remaining criminals. Putting his back to a corner, he saw more of the henchmen patrolling the hallways. Silently pulling out his batarangs again, Batman jumped out from behind cover and threw three Batarangs out, knocking down three thugs, whom Batman proceeded to knock right out. Glancing back up, Batman saw another henchman rounding the corner. He started to pull out his gun but Batman was already rushing him. Batman evaded a bullet from the thug and hit him with three brutal punches before kicking him down.
"Ahhh sir? We might have a problem."
"Come on man, spit it out!"
"Well, I know you heard the explosions and gunfire and, well, the girls haven't replied back yet sooo...I think it's safe to say that Batman's here." Gnome spoke to Shame.
"Tarnation, why did he have to show up here? You know what, that's fine. If you see him, fill him with lead. There's a special bonus for the man or woman that does it. Happy hunting boys!"
"Very generous of you sir."
Batman soon discovered Colt and Dollface who had cornered a pair of janitors. He silently approached them from behind but Dollface suddenly turned around and fired her high-powered repeating crossbow at him. Batman caught two of the arrows and dodged a third before dropping them and dodging Colt's aim and throwing a Batarang at her but she rolled to the side to avoid it and came up shooting again. While Batman was avoiding her aim, Dollface was also shooting her crossbow at him. Dodging a shot, Batman raised up his gauntlet and used that to block the arrows while throwing Bola's at Dollface's feet, tying her up and causing her to fall over. Batman's shoulder was grazed by a bullet from Colt who quickly reloaded and shot at him again, or she tried, but she was stopped by flashbangs being flung right in her face. This caused her to yell and flail around, blinded. Batman ran over and quickly brought her down with a series of heavy punches and grabbed her and threw her away. By this time, Dollface had gotten free and ran over, leap-frogged over Colt and fired the crossbow at Batman again, who dodged the arrows and hit her with a batarang before closing the distance and taking her down quickly.
Retrieving the batarang's, Batman continued on and pulled out three smoke bombs. It didn't take long for him to encounter the Twins. As one, they pulled out their guns and started shooting at him but Batman threw down his smoke bombs and evaded their gunfire and got ready to fight.
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