Batman

[tbaron009]

I wanted to post this story that I was working while doing my Cable story. I will be posting both stories at once.
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."Let's crack that safe and get the hell out of here Jim." The first man said.
" Right Frank" The second man replied. Frank stood by the door to the main office of the hardware store why Jim went to work. His plan had to work he thought to himself. It was simple and very well thought out. The past two weeks he had broken the large display window 4 times. When the police came to investigate the alarm they found nothing missing and assumed it was the local gang of kids the store owner had problems with as of late so the time it had taken the police to answer the alarm was longer and longer. His partner Jim had said it was way to much effort for a simple hardware store holdup, but as He had said the owner always had alot of money in the safe on sunday nights. Banks are closed and people would buy things eager to finish whatever home repair projects they needed to before the week. He had promised his friend a large haul and thats what they are going to get.
" I got the safe open!" Yelled Jim
" Great lets bag up the loot and get out of here." Frank said as he threw Jim a bag for the money. The two men began to quickly put the money in the bags. After putting the money in the bags they stood up.
" We did it Jim we fooled the police." Both men could here the police in the distance.
" We sure did they will never get here in time." Just as the two men were about to leave they heard a voice behind them.
" You may have fooled the police but you did not fool the Batman." The two would be robbers froze in their tracks. Both had heard the rumors of a man running around stopping break ins and hold ups. Both had thought it was just a tale started by the police to help stop crime. As Frank turned around he saw how wrong he was. The man was big Frank would give him that. 6 foot 2 and at least 225 pounds, but Frank had taken bigger and if need be he would take this man as well. Frank also took in the mans costume dressed all in grey with black boots, gloves and mask, he also had a yellow bat on his chest and some kind of black underware or speedos like the swimmers wear.on the outside of his pants.
" Give up now and you will not be hurt." batman had said
" I'll tell you what man we will not be hurt anyway." Jim had replied. Jim reached inside his jacket and pulled out a gun but before he could fire it a sharp metal object hit his hand.
" Arggh!" Jim yelled as he dropped the gun. Frank had not even see the man reach into his belt.
" Its called a Baterang, you like?" Batman asked them. Before the men could answer Batman lept toward them and punched them each in the face. Jim hit the ground unconscious. Frank stood up and threw a punch at Batman. Batman ducked it and hit frank in the chest then uppercutted him in the chin. Frank went down as well. Batman had tied the unconscious men together just as the police had pulled up. batman jumped up and ran out the back door of the store and in to an awaiting black car parked in the ally. he took of his gloves and looked at his watch 12:35 am less than 5 minutes the to take down the crooks. He hit the gas of the car and drove away. Gotham City has a new hero The Batman. He smiled to himself. Thomas Wayne liked the sound of that.

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SIX MONTHS LATER
Lt James Gorden stood outside of the city hall building in downtown Gotham. The Building looked very drab and gloomy with the dark clouds over head and the dirty half melted snow on the ground. In fact this whole town was dark and gloomy.
" What the h*** was I thinking taking this job?" He asked himself. The question really did not need an answer. He could not stay in Central City after the death of his wife it was just to hard. He walked up the stairs and into the building.
" I am looking for commissioner Hills office." He told the guard sitting at the front desk. He was reading a paper.
" Upstairs last door at the end of the hall." the man replied without even looking up from his paper. If that man was anything like the cops in this town no wonder a costumed hero was needed. He walked up the stairs and down the hall. He knocked on the door of Hill's office.
" Come in." Said a voice on the other side. Gorden came in
"Grab a cup of coffee and have a seat so we can get started." Hill said as he pointed at a small coffee machine in the corner of the room. Gorden fixed a cup and sat down.
" As you know we have hired you to start a new SCU task force like the one you started in Central City." Hill started " If you look in this file you will see that Gang and Drug crimes are on the rise." Hill handed him a folder and Gorden looked in it.
" You will have your pick from anyone on the force to make up your team, The mayor wants it put together within two months." Hill went on
" What do I do about this Batman I keep reading about." Gorden asked
" If I had my way you can shoot him! That fool does more harm than good in my book." Hill replied
" If I may ask what stops you from bringing him in?"
" Its the Mayor Billings he thinks that Batman is good for the city like the old JSA was in the 40's and 50's." Hill took a drink of his coffee. " Look if you can bring him do it but I doubt you can."
" Why is that?" Gorden asked
" Hardly no one has ever seen him, No pictures or anything all we have is a couple of something the press has dubbed a Baterang." Hill reached into his desk and pulled one out. " Oh well, report to precinct 5 in the morning and report to Captain Morgan he will get you settled in."
" Yes sir I will do my best at this job." Gorden put on his coat and left the office. He stepped outside into the bitter cold and hailed a cab. He wondered if he could really set up a SCU like the one he had in Central City after all there he did not have a Batman to deal with.

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" So what's the deal here Bob?" asked one man
" All I know Bill is that someone came to Phil and I with an offer to rob a bank." replied Bob
" I don't like it." added Phil " It could be a setup.""
" I'll risk it for the kind of money he is offering." snapped Bob The three men walked down a small hallway and stopped in front of a door. Before any of them could knock on the door the door they heard a voice.
" Don't bother knocking gentlemen we are pressed for time." The three men looked at each oter and opened the door. The room was pitch black as they walked in.
" Thats far enough." The voice ordered them. A large spotlight came on above them encasing them in light.
" I really don't like this we can't even see the guy." Phil complained Bill had to agree with that, they could no even see what was outside the light.
" You don't need to see me to hear my offer." the voice said to them " It's simple you three will go into the Second national Bank in midtown Gotham. You will then get a small item out of safety deposit box number 27A."
" Thats it, thats all you want?" asked Bill
" Yea what about the money inside the bank?" Added Phil
" You may keep what ever money is in the bank and keep it for yourself. With the $5000 each i am paying you three you will come out very nice on this deal."
" When do we get paid?" Asked Phil
" When you get back here with the item you get paid not before."
" When you want all this to go down?" bob asked
" Tomorrow night. Do what ever you need to get ready." The voice ordered Now go I have other matters to attend to." the three men looked at each other and left the room in a hurry. The man sat back in his chair and smiled.
" Soon" he said to himself " Soon I will have what I need and than i can take control of Gotham's underworld"

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I'm enjoying both your stories - I just don't comment much, lol.

[tbaron009]

Thank you. I'm glad you like them
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Thomas Wayne stood in front of his slick black convertible, the modifications are done at last.
" It's great, right Alfred." Thomas asked his butler and long rime friend Alfred Pennyworth.
" Yes sir we did a great job if I do say so myself." The two men stood looking at it. They had attached a large metal Bat-face to the front bumper. this was to help protect him if someone ever shot at him from the front of the car. They had also put in a number of on board computes, and the best touch in Wayne's opinion was the read headlights that looked like eyes in the front. It was his Batmoblie and he was done with it. He had also finished the work on his Batcave. A few years ago he had found a large cave about half a mile away from his house, he had decided when he became the Batman he would use this cave to be his headquarters in his war on crime. He had built an underground tunnel from his house to the cave so no one would see him entering and leaving it. he was glad that his wife Martha and five year old son Bruce were out of town visiting her sister Harriet. He did miss them but it gave him time to finish without interruption. His wife understood his need to do what he did but she did not like it. he walked over to the place he kept his costume hanging and looked it over. He loved the newly added cape that he just added it made him look more dark and scary he thought.
" Sir something just came over the police scanner that may interest you." Alfred broke in
" What is it Alfred?"
" It appears that a bank robbery went bad in Midtown. Three gun men are inside the Second National Bank with an unknown number of hostages."
" Looks like I wont get that quiet evening at home to work on the cave after all." He looked at his suit. " Time to go to work."

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20 Minutes earlier
A man sat behind a desk in a dark room watching a t.v. screen. Soon he would know if his plan had worked. A few minutes later he saw three masked men enter the screen . The cameras he had placed in the bank had given him a view of the entire scene. The loud mouth Phil was right they were walking into a trap. Soon they would look in the deposit box for an item that did not exist. it was all to simple. The man picked up the phone on his desk and dialed a number. " Hello police. I would like to report a crime in progress."


Batman drove the Batmoblie as fast as he could get it. He needed to gewt to the bank in time. He felt very uneasy about going into this bank robbery. All of the crimes that he had stopped in the past have been one or two guys tring to rob a person on the street or a store after hours. He had never had to free any hostages. If he did not do this right someone could die, and that is one thing he could not deal with.

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Lt. Gordan stood in the mobile command center outside of the bank. Only three days in Gotham City and he had to lead the police S.W.A.T. team to stop this hostage situation. He had not even gotten his SCU team together yet. He saw a back entrance on the bank blue prints that he hoped to gain his way into the bank. The S.W.A.T. team he was told would be here in about five minutes. Some of the other cops were talking about Batman coming and ending all of this before the police could do anything. It had only been three days and he was already starting to hate the name Batman. In Central City they used police work to stop crime not some masked man looking for gorly. As soon as the S.W.A.T. team got there he was going in. There was no way he was letting that masked freak risk the lives of the hostages and police, not on his watch.

[Batfan299]

Great Story. I love Batman and it is cool to see his dad as thae Batman

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" I knew it. I knew it was a set up!" Phil yelled
" We don't know this guy set up up." said Bob
" Wake up Bob. You are blinded by the money and led us into a trap!" Snapped Phil
" Look we have 10 hostages we can get out of this."
" Bob we are busted. They will never let us go."
" Well as long as we are here me might as well get the thing out of the box that he wanted." Bob told the other two.
" Man, i'm not working for him anymore. I just want to get out of here with are butts intact." Phil told Bob
" Look what ever was in that box he wanted bad enough to pay us $5000 each. thats why I don't think this was a set up. When we get out of this we can charge him more money, Now Phil go in the back with a teller and get that box. Bill you watch the back door. We will get out of this." Bob walked over and grabbed a middle aged women and walked her to the front door and opened it. " Hey cops listen up!" He yelled " We have 10 people in here and unless we get a car in 30 minutes we will start killing them one by one!" The women gasped in fear. " Don't try to contact us. You only have 30 minutes!" Bob pushed the women back to the other hostages and shut the door. He would get out of this and he would get the money promised.

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Batman stood on a roof across the street form the back of the bank. He had parked his batmobile a couple blocks away so he could enter the bank without being seen. He jumped from the roof onto a ledge on the second floor of the bank and opened a window. After finding his way in he opened a door and found a set of stairs leading down. With a quick look he saw one of the robbers standing there with a gun guarding the back entrance. Batman jumped over the railing and kicked the man in the face knocking him out. One down three to go. He went though a door and into a hallway. Looking to one side he saw another man with a gun standing there over about 9 or so people.
" Empty! It's empty!" Batman heard a man yelling from a room on the other end of the hall.
BANG! BANG! Batman heard two shots and than something hit the ground. he could guess what happened. Batman saw the door begin to open so he ducked back into the dark room with the stairs.
" What the H*** happened back there?" asked the gunman in the front.
" The box was empty so I shot the bank teller." the other man yelled back.
" Well knock it off. We will never get out of here if you keep shooting people!" the man yelled back.
Batman got very angry hearing this little exchange. The two man had no care for any of the people just getting out of the bank. Batman hated to see people die for no reason the two men were going down. The gunmen in the back started to walk to the front of the bank, when he pasted the doorway Batman was hiding in Batman reached out and grabbed him. He pulled the man into the dark room. The man punched out into he air hoped to hit his attacker. batman ducked and hit the man with an open palm strike. He heard ribs snap. The man lay on the ground having trouble breathing. Batman walked over to him and kicked him in the face breaking his nose and putting him down. Batman ran out into the hall and stood at the end of it looking at the gunmen. The man had his back to Batman, he had not heard any of the noise from the fight. Batman ran and jumped onto the counter right behind the man, he heard that and spun around. His eyes got wide in shock over the site of Batman standing there looking at him. He raised his gun and shot at Batman. Batman lept in to the air to avoid the bullets. batman landed behind the gunman and before he could do anything Batman id a spin kick to the back of his knees knocking the man off his feet. Batman than chopped him in the neck the man lay limp on the ground. Batman stood up it was over he had won. Before he could enjoy his win he looked over at the hostages one of them had been shot. He could not tell if it happened before he got there or when he was jumping out of the way. He was about to go and look but before he could he heard the breaking of glass behind him.

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Gordan stood in the MCC with the leader of the S.W.A.T. team going over the plan of entering the bank when he heard gunfire from inside.
" All units we have shots fired inside the bank we have shots fired." Came the voice over the radio.
" It's Batman!" Gordan heard one cop yell. Gordan grabbed his gun and started to run to the bank. He looked back to the S.W.A.T. team and yelled " Come one we are going in!" The team followed his lead and ran to the front doors of the bank. The men busted though the front glass doors guns drawn.
" Do not move! Every one freeze!" yelled Gordan. Gordan stood there looking at Batman " Do not move!" Batman reached into his belt and pulled out a small metal ball and threw it on the ground. The room started to fill with smoke. Gordan fired at Batman. He saw him grab his arm and run off. Gordan tried to chase him but the smoke was to thick, For now Batman got away

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NICE, keep it up

[tbaron009]

Batman walked down the ally back to his car. Things had not gone well tonight at all. Two people dead and him shot in the arm. As Batman got closer to his car he saw the one thing he did not expect to see, a man sitting in the front seat. At first Batman thought it may have been a bum but when he got a better look he saw the man had a mask on.
" Get out of my car." He ordered He watched as the man slowly stood up and got out of his car. He got a good look at the man now, He wore all black and had a red hood.
" Who are you?" he asked
" Me, I'm the man who set up your little night of fun." The man replied
" Why?"
" I wanted to test you. See how good you are. And let me say this i'm not impressed Batman."
" This was just some test. Why?"
" It’s simple I want to rule the mobs here in Gotham and to do that I need you dead."
" Well it is not going to be as easy as you think." Batman jumped at the masked man who just side stepped out of the way. Batman turned and threw a punch at him. The man blocked it. Batman threw many punchs and kicks at the masked man who in turn blocked them all.
" You are not good enough to beat me Batman." the masked man reached out and grabbed ahold of the arm that Batman had been shot in and squeezed hard.
" Arggh!" Batman fell to his knees
“ I could kill you hear and now but I will not." He reached down with his other had and grabbed Batman's costum. He pulled and tore off his bat symbol. "This town is mine and if you want to live you had better stay clear of me." The man let go of batman's arm and he fell to the ground. " Remember Batman the Red Hood is taking over." He kicked Batman in the face and walked away. Batman just laid there watching the Red Hood walk away.

It worked. The plan had worked. He drew the Batman out, fought him,beat him and took his symbol.
" I did not just beat him." The Red Hood thought " I took his idenity. He will now not be any problem for me as I take over the mobs." The Red Hood stood on a nearby rooftop. He had heard about a mob meating going down in a day or so to talk about the Batman problem. He would be there and he would show them all what he had done. He still had more plaining to do if he was to take over. Despite his win over the Batman he douted the bosses would lay down and give him control. It was all just really starting and the Red Hood was going to love every minute of it.

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Thomas sat up in his bed and looked at the clock 6:47 a.m. He only had an hour or so before his wife and son got home form the trip they had been on. Alfred had already left to pick them up at the train station. He would have went himself but he was still in pain from last night. he rubbed the bandage on his arm. Alfred had gotten the bullet out and stitched up his arm. He was glad Alfred had been able to do it, a trip to the hospital would have gotten him many unwanted questions. He walked down stairs to get a cup of coffee and take a pain pill that Alfred had left for him. He turned on the t.v in the kitchen and began to pour himself some coffee that Alfred had made before leaving.
" Today on Good Morning Gotham we are going to talk about the Batman and his impact on the city. We will also talk about if the need for Batman is so great that the police are going to over look two dead people killed when Batman tried to stop the bank robbery last night." thomas turned off the t.v. he did not need some morning show host to remind him of his failure last night. He should not have been there in the first place. He felt uneasy going out last night and that may have led to mistakes. On top of that this Red Hood had beaten him, and beaten him very easy. Thomas could not help but wonder if that win was a fluke or not. The Batman had his first real villain and he was worried.
Jim Gordan had climbed up the long stairs to the top floor of the station. It had been given to him and his team. He was very tired he stayed up all night after the bank robbery to get his team together he did not want to go in unprepared again. The news was all over him for the two people who died inside the bank and very few of them even said the Batman was there. The cops also seemed to blame him as well. Some of the cops in this town mad Gordan sick, most of them loved The Batman thinking he was the answer to the problems that this city had. In Central City the cops did their jobs without and help form so call super heroes. Batman had to be stopped for the good of the city and so the cops could regain their respect and do the job they needed to do. His team would be here soon and than this town would be free of the Batman. He walked over to the board in the back of the room where they had the top 5 most wanted in the city. He took down the picture of the number one guy and replaced it with The Batman.
“ Soon masked man you will be behind bars with the rest of the scum in this city”
Martha Wayne busted though the front doors looking for her husband. She heard about the bank on the news and Alfred had filled in the blanks for her. She went into the kitchen and found her husband sitting there. She ran up and gave him a large hug.
" Thank god you are o.k." She looked him in the eye. " Are you ready to stop this now?" she had asked
" Stop. I can't stop now. Not with the Red Hood out there." he replied
" you have been shot this time. it was only the arm but what about next time you could die doing this. For god's sake Thomas think of your son!" she yelled at him.
" It is for my son that I do this. I can not live in Gotham city and look him in the eye while people are being hurt. Not if I can stop it. And if this Red Hood does get control of the mobs in the city no one will be safe." Thomas looked his wife in the eye as she started to cry. " I promise that after The Red Hood is stopped I will hang up my siut" Martha looked at him.
" You promise that?"
" Yes I promise. But I have to stop this man first." Thomas turned to look at his son Bruce who had come runnig in. He picked up his son with his good arm.
" Come on big man let's go get you cleaned up for breakfast and you can tell me about your trip." Thomas walked out of the kitchen with Bruce, Alfred walked over to Martha and put his hand on her arm.
" I'm scarded Alfred and you keep encourgeing him. Soon he will have to chose between Batman and me." Martha walked out of the kitchen very upset.
Two hours later Thomas stood in his Batcave looking over his suit. He saw the red blood and hole in the left arm where he was shot. Alfred had already started to sew the arm back as Thomas looked on. "When i'm done with the arm sir I can sew on the bat symbol to your chest."
" No Alfred. The Red Hood took it from me. I can't just have another one sewn on I have to beat him and win the right to have it back." He was mad and he would use his anger the next time he fought the Red Hood.

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The Red Hood walked into a small room In his warehouse hide out. The room had a large table and many bottles filled with many types of Chemical that were being worked on by a small man.
“ Well Mr. Crane is everything going as planed?” Hood asked the man
“ Sir the compound that you asked me to mix is very unstable. I am having problems getting the mixture just right.”
“ Mr. Crane I hired you for this task because I was told you are the most promising student in the Chemist field at Gotham U. If you can not get the job done than you are of no use to me, and belive me Mr. Crane you do not want to out live your usefulness.” With that said Red Hood left the room. Johnathan Crane was glad to be alone. The only reason he took this job was so he could learn much more than he ever learned in class. He would use this knowage for his own use later in life. Still he did not like The Red Hood very much, but on thing he was sure of The Red Hood scared him and for some reason that made Crane very happy.

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Four of Gotham city’s biggest crimelords sat around a table in a penthouse apartment. Eachone had a bodyguard there but no one else was there or even knew of this meeting. Rupert Thorne stood up to start the meeting.
“ We are all here for the same reason. The end of this nut calling himself The Batman.” Another man John Biggs stood up
“ That’s right. Profits are down right now. My drug dealers right now will not go on certain streets any more because of this man.” Another man Maxwell Gar spoke up
“ I say we kidnap this new guy, Gordan. He has to know who this Batman is.”
“ Yea good idea. He is there new top guy.” The man known only as Lefty added
“ No No.” Thorne broke in “ That’s no good. I’m sure that by now we have all turned our police informents out for information. We have to find another way.”
“ No I think it’s a good idea. No one here has anyone that high up on their payroll.” Gar said. The other two men agreed.
“ No that would bring on more heat from the police. Not to mention that if Batman is in good with Gordan than he would be all over us.” Thorne pointed out
“ I’m going to put a price on his head. That wil keep the Batman busy.” Lefty said.
“ This plan will never work. I want no part of this.” Thorne protested. Biggs stood up and walked to the door.
“ Than you will not reap the rewards of this plan. Soon Thorne, when Batman is out of the way than you will be left behind.” He said before he left. The two other men stood up and left as well. Thorne walked into the other room where he had a small bar and poured himself a drink.
“ Fools, the whole lot of them. We need to work together to stop The Batman.”
“ Let them go Thorne. With my help you and I can run this town together.” Thorne turned at the sound of this new voice. He saw a man wearing all black with a red hood. He went to pull out his gun. The man threw up his hands.
“ Hold it. Hold it.” The man said “ I am not here to hurt you. I am here to offer you my help.” Thorne kept his gun on the man and called into the other room
“ Ken! Ken! You out there?”
“ You friend out there is not going to answer you I’m sad to say.”
“ What did you do to him? And how could you do it without me hearing?”
“ He will be fine in awhile. He is just knocked out. My name by the way is The Rood Hood. And with my help we can get rid of the Batman for good.”
“ And why would I belive that you can do that?” The Rood Hood reached one hand down to his front pocket.
“ May I show you something.” He pulled something out.
“ What is that?” Thorne asked. Red Hood gave the small piece of cloth to Thorne who unfolded it. He dropped his gun from shock. He had just been given the symbol of The Batman covered in blood. “ Where did you get this?” Thorne asked. He had heard descriptions of Batman from his men and had no doubt that this was the real deal.
“ That failed bank robbery two nights ago was my doing. I set it up to test The Batman. I fought him, beat him and took that from him. I left him laying there a bloody beaten mess.”
“ Why did you not kill him?”
“ I decided that I want to have fun with him first. When the time comes I can kill him and then no one would stop us as we took over the mobs. Partner.” Rood Hood held out his hand. Thorne took it and shook it
“ Partner.” He said to Reed Hood. If the man thought he could kill The Batman than Thorne would let him try. And when Batman was dead than Thorne would kill Red Hood and be in sole control of the town. Little did Thorne know that Red Hood had the same plan.

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“ Mayor Billings will not allow this Jim.” Said Hill to Gordan.
“ I’m not asking him. You brouht me into this town to clean it up. I can’t do that if all your cops praise the Batman.” Gordan was getting upset. He knew that he would not have the mayor’s support in this but Hill hated Batman as well.
“ Look Gordan I know that your upset about what happened at the bank but” Gordan cut him off
“ The Bank. Your darn right I’m upset about it. If the Batman had not shown up I could have talked them out. But The Batman had to show up and two people end up dead. And I take the fall for it. If you want me to do this job than I’m taking down the Batman. If the mayor wants he can fire me I don’t care. I’ve only been in this town for a few days and I’ve heard more and more cops talking about how Batman will help stop crime. Hel! At the bank a few were taking bets on who would get the robbers first Batman or me. And I will not stand for it anymore!!” Gordan stormed out of Hill’s office. He walked around city hall until he found the press room. A whole team of reporters were ine there for a large part of the day in case of any news or anything like that. As soon as Gordan walked in the reportes all stood up. Gordan had refused to talk about what happened at the bank for the past two days now it seemed he was ready. He walked over to the platform
“ Ladies and Gentleman I am here for one reason only. From this point on The Batman is not welcome in this city. He has 24 hours to turn himself in after that I will use what ever force is needed for my SCU to bring him in.” Gordan walked out of the press room. It was done. Gordan would insure that Batman would not be able to show his face in this town again.

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“ This is great.” The Red Hood thought to himself “ I plan and pull of the robbery at the bank and the Batman takes the heat. Now he will be to busy with the police to stop me.” The Red Hood turned off the T.V. that he was watching the news on and walked out of his office that he set up in his new hq. This place was a small two story office building on the water front. Of couse the man who owned the building was not happy to find the Red Hood there when he opened up the next morning, but Hood took care of him. He had Crane board up the bottom windows put up an out of bisness sign and clear out the first floor and basement. Hood walked down the flight of stairs into the basement. He had Crane convert most of it into a small lab to mix what he needed. With the space left ove he put in a small cage, a cage that held the owner, his wife and a five of his employes who came in despite the call not to. All of this only took one day
“ Mr. Crane get in here please.” Hood said. Crane stepped thought the small door that devided the lab part of the basement and the rest of it.
“ Yes sir. What can I do for you?” He asked
“ Bring me a small contaner of the gas mixture I have had you working on. That is if it is done.”
“ Yes sir it is done.” Crane walked back into the other room to get the gas. The Red Hood walked over to the cage and produced a small key. He unlocked the cage and told the owner of the building a 60 year old man of average build and height to get out of the cage.
“ No you will take him know where.” Yelled a young man yelled as he ran to the Red Hood. Hood rolled his eyes side stepped the man. He brought his knee up into the man’s stomach, the man fell onto his hands and knees.
“ Everyone is a hero now a days.” He said to himself. He grabbed the mans head and twisted it. The cage of people were sicked by the sound of the man’s neck breaking. “ Now you old man get over here now.” The man did as Hood ordered and came out of the cage and stood in front of Hood.
“ Now, oh I’m sorry I can not remember your name.”
“ Crumwell.. My name is Fred Crumwell.” He said. The man was scared, Hood could tell.
“ Now I’m sure that you want to do anything to keep the rest of these people safe, you lovly wife included.”
“ Yes sir I will. I don’t want anything else to happen.”
“ Than I want you to do something for me.” Crane walked back into the room and gave a small jar to Hood. “ I want you to sniff this for me.”
“ But why? I don’t understand.”
“ You don’t need to understand just do it.”
“ No I won’t do it.” Crumwell said. Hood pulled out a gun and pointed it at the cage
“ Yes you will.” Mr. Crumwell took the jar and opened it. Hood pushed it up into Crumwell’s face grabbed his head and forced him to breath in the escaping gas. Crumwell caughed and fell to the floor. Hood picked up a small knife and handed it to Crumwell on the floor and Crane opened the cage and got Crumwell’s wife from it. Hood said something into Crumwell’s ear and stepped back.
“ Now do you understand me?” Hood asked
“ Yes master I understand.” Fred Crumwell could not belive he had just said that. He stepped forward towards his wife. He could not stop himself. He was fully aware of what was happening but he found that he could not stop it.
“ Fred. Fred what are you doing Fred?!” His wife yelled. Fred kept coming and when he was face to face with his wife he plunged the small knife into her chest. Hood looked on very happy, the mind control gas had worked. The people in the cage watched in horror as their boss and long time friend killed his wife of 30 years. Her blood came up and hit his face that was stone cold. The people watching would think that he did not care at all about what was happening.
“ I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” Was all Fred thougt as he killed the love of his life. Hood now knew the test had worked and with this gas he could control all of Gotham.

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“ Did you see the news this morning Master Bruce?”
“ I did Alfred. I can’t belive I am getting the blame for the bank robbery three days ago. I need to tell this man Gordan I am here to help this city.” Bruce was lifting weights in the workout area of the Batcave. It had been three days since he had been shot, and even though his arm was still very sore he had to work it out. With this arm and his wife breathing down his neck he had not had a chance to go out and patrol the streets.
“ I don’t think he wil listen sir.” Alfred laid out the Batsuit “ Will you be going out tonight sir?”
“ Yes I will. I have not been out in the past three nights I need to patrol the streets. Try and get a handle on this Red Hood thing.” Bruce sat up and took a drink of water “ Who is he? Why did he target me? I could tell by the way he set this whole thing up that he is no fool.” Bruce walked to the door of another room in the cave that lead to a shower “ After I get cleaned up I’m going out to shake up a few mob boys and learn what I can about The Red Hood.”
“ What about Gordan and the police?” Alfred asked
“ I am not going to let this man get away. If that means I have to go thought the police than I will.” He jumped in the Batmobile and drove to the city. As he left Alfred had a feeling that it was going to be a rough night for Batman.

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James Gordan was about to leave his office for the night whe he got a knock on his door. He looked up and saw a young man in a suit standing there.
“ Come in.” He said. The man came in and held out his hand
“ Hello Lt. I’m Harvey Dent with the DA’s office for this precint.”
“ You. Your so young.” Jim said standing up to shake his hand.
“ I’ve only been on the job for about six months.” Dent replied
“ What can I do for you Mr. Dent.” Jim pointed to a chair across his desk and Dent sat down.
“ I heard your statement to the press this morning. I must say that it aised a few eyebrows downtown.”
“ Yes I know the Mayor is not to happy with me right now. He said he may make me take back what I said today.”
“ I hope not.” Dent broke in. “ The maryor may not be happy with you, but I for one love what you did. And I’m not alone. My boss thinks it’s great as well.”
“ You mean the DA is on my side? Why is that?” Jim asked
“ Yes he is on your side. It is not the same reason you have. He feels the cops in this town have always been lazy. His and mine is based on the fact that we have a hard time holding the people that get caught by Batman.”
“ Why is that?”
“ You ever seen Batman show up in court? Unless we have a picture of these men commiting crimes we can’t prove that they did most of the time.”
“ Yes I bet it would be hard to nail them.”
“ It is. I just wanted to drop by say hello and tell you that you have the backing of the DA’s office. And if you need anything feel free to ask me.” Dent stood up and held out his hand once again
“ Thank you I will.” Jim shook it and Dent left his office. Gordan got in a little bit better of a mood. “ Maybe everyone in this town was not so bad.” He said to himself as he put on his coat and left his office. Maybe with the help of Dent he could bring down the Batman.

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To all those reading this story and my Cable story. I know I have not posted in a whjile. My comp messed up and I have to rewrite all the stuff I had. I'll post more in just a couple days.

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Batman drove the Batmobile and parked it in a place called the Bottoms. It was a very slummly part of town by the Gotham river filled with run down bars and clubs. It was a place that the local crimails hung out. Batman was betting that one of them had the heads up on what was going on. He climbed to a small roof top and decided to wait until he could grab one of the men and shake them down. After about an hour of waiting he saw one man leave a small bar. Batman knew who the man was. His name was Tim Barton, Batman brought him down before a couple of months ago with a few others during a drug bust. The man was a rat but he did seem to know a lot of things about what was going on in the cities mobs. The other good thing about this man was that he was a coward. Batman took out a thin piece of nylon rope and looped it to a pipe on the roof. He stood on the edge of the roof and jumped down. He swung down and grabbed the man and swung back to the roof of the building.
“ What… What.. What do you want with me?” the man asked in a shakey voice.
“ Good he is scared.” Thought Batman He leaned in close to Tim. “ I need to know everything you know about the Red Hood.”
“ Hood I know nothing about Hood.” He tried to back away. Batman grabbed him and pulled him to him
“ What do you know about what is going on right now.”
“ All I know is that three of the families are getting together for some reason.”
“ What three and why?
“ I don’t know.” Batman lifted the man up and held him over the side of the building. He could not hold on to him very long because of the pain in his arm.
“ Tell me what I need to know or I will let you go.” Of couse Batman would not really let him go but Tim did not know that.
“ Alright. Biggs, Gar and Lefty they are getting together. They put a price on your head but I don’t think that is why they got together. That’s all I know. I swear.” Batman beklived him and pulled him back on to the roof. Batman jumped off of the roof and swung away leaving Tim on the roof.
“ HEY IT’S THE BATMAN!!” He heard Tim Yell.
“ Blast I should have knocked him out.” Batman said to himself. He landed on the ground when he could not use the rope to go any futher. When he landed he saw four men coming right for him.
“ The price on my head.” He thought to himself “ Oh well maybe one of these men may know where the Hood is at.” The group of men started to come at Batman. Batman reached into his belt and pulled out a gas pellet and threw it onto the ground in front of the men. The smallest of the men who was cought right in the gas cloud went down knocked out. The three other men started to cough but kept coming at him. Batman jumped into the air and landed behind the man closest to him and puched him in the back of the head taking him down. He than jumped back to where he was trying to keep some distance between him and the others. One of the men pulled out a knife and the other pulled out a gun. Batman pulled out one of his Baterrangs and threw it at the man with the gun knocking it out if his hand. The man with the knife ran at Batman. Batman sidestepped the man grabbed the back of his shrit and slamed him against a wall. He fell back his face bloody. The last man had picked up his gun off of the ground and shoot two shots at Batman. Batman threw another Baterrang and it hit the man’s hand once again.
“ Oww!” The man yelled.
“ It hurts worse the second time around.” Batman said as he jumped in front of the man. Batman did a spinning kick and took his legs out from under him. The man fell to the ground. Batman reached down, grabbed the man by the front of his jacket and lifted him up.
“ What do you know about the Red Hood.”
“ Hood?” The man asked “ Nothing. I know nothing about him. I don’t work for someone named Hood.”
“ If I find out your lying to me I’m goimg to be very angry with you.” Batman said Dropping his voice as low as he could get it to make himsrlf sound imtimadating.
“ Make all the threats you want masked man. As soon as the boses get down with your buddy Gordan we’ll have all we need on you.”
“ Gordan. Lt. Gordan. He has nothing to do with me.” Batman told the thug
“ Right like I would belive you. Well the bosses will find out when they grab him tonight.” Batman had to find Gordan before the bosses did. He pinched the man on the neck knocking him out. He had to get to the police station quickly. He knew it would be a waste of time to try and call Gordan but he would try as soon as he got to the Batmoblie. If Gordan gets hurt because of him than there was no way he could get a moments rest from the police in this town. He got into the Batmobile and drove off as fast as he could hoping to get there in time.

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“ When is he going to be out?” Asked one man in a stolen cab with two others.
“ He’ll be out soon enough stop your whinning.” Another man said.
“ I’m not whinning I just have better things to do than wait for some cop.”
“ Both of you shut up. You don’t have anything better to do because we are being paid to get this Gordan for our three bosses and that is what we are going to do. Now when Gordan gets out of the building and hails a cab you pick him up. Than drive down two blocks and get us. It is very simple.” The man who spoke was named Harry the bosses put him in charge to get Gordan and now he could see why. The other two men Johnny and a fatter man called Sammy the Slug were both very dumb. They wanted to bust into Gordan’s home and get him there. This was much better. No broken down doors or trail for the cops to follow. Harry and Sammy the Slug got out of the cab and started to walk down the street.. Harry had no idea why they called this man the Slug. Sammy claimed it was because he shot a man so many times that all that was left in his body were slugs from his gun. Harry thinks it is because the man was so fat and slow. Harry looked back to the man
“ Will you hurry up they should be coming soon.”
“ I’m coming relax.” Sammy shot back. Bringing the three gangs together in the past two days to bring down the Batman was not going good. Haryy just hoped that he would have the chance to kill Sammy before it was all over. That would make him feel better.
Gordan left the station and walked down the stairs. He checked his watch and saw that it was aready close to nine. He waited by a cab stand and hailed a cab. One pulled up and he got inside.
“ Take me to Gotham Tower apartments.” Gordan said The cab drove to the end of the block and turned right and drove down two blocks. When it stopped at a red light two men walked to the cab and got in one on each side of the cab.
“ Whats going on here?” Gordan demanded.
“ Our bosses want to have a little talk with you Mr. Gordan.” Harry said. Gordan reached for his gun. Harry punched him in the face and Sammy pulled out Gordan’s gun.
“ Look pal don’t fight us on this. We don’t need to make this any harder than it needs to be.” Harry said. He looked out the window. It was very simple. Two blocks to a parking garage. On the roof of that garage was a hilicopter that would take them to the other side of Gotham. They would be done with Gordan before anyone knew he was gone.

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Batman tried to call Gordan but there was no answer in his office. He parked outside of the station that Gordan worked at and waited for him to come out. He would watch over him tonight and than make a call in the morning and warn him of the danger. He saw Gordan come down the stairs and get into a cab. He followed the cab at a distance. With the few free minutes that he had free in the house in the past three days he and Alfred worked on the car so that the large metal Bat-face slid under the car at the push of a button. It made it very easy for his little back car to follow others at a distance. He saw the cab drive two blocks, at that point he saw two other men get in. It was going down. He flipped the switch on his car and the large metal Bat-face moved to the front of the car and he speed up. He would get Gordan back.

“ We’ve got company.” Jimmy said from behind the whell of the cab. All three men in the back seat and saw the Bat-moblie driving up behind them fast. Sammy open his window and fired his gun. The bullets bounced off of the metal Bat-face just as Batman had intened for it to do.
“ Get in the car you fool can’t you tell that is not working!” Yelled Harry “ It looks like you buddy Bats is coming after you. It seems the bosses were right about you two.”
“ Is that what this is all about?” Asked Gordan. “ I don’t want anything to do with Batman. Don’t you people ever watch the news?”
“ An easy way to cover up your little team up.” Sammy said.
“ Relax.” Said Harry. “ We only have a couple of blocks to go then we can get away.” Harry reached into Gordan’s coat and grabbed the pair of handcuffs that he had in there and hancuffed his hands behind his back. He than hit him behind his head knocking him out. The car bust though a small entry gate into a parking garage. Harry turned around and saw Batman was still behind them.
“ When we get out Sammy you fire at Batman. When Gordan is onboard I’ll fire and cover you so you can get on.” Ordered harry
“ Right.” The car came to a stop and Harry grabbed Gordan and pulled him out of the car. He saw Batman stop his car just a few feet away. Sammy got out and fired his gun at the Batman’s car. Jimmy came around and helped put Gordan in the coptor. Harry turned and saw Batman getting out of his car. He was crouched behind his open door to keep Sammy from shooting him. Batman stood up and threw a Baterrang hitting Sammy in the hand knocking his gun away.
“ Take off.” Harry ordered.
“ What about Sammy?” Asked Jimmy
“ He is not our problem any more.” Batman lept into the air and drop kicked Sammy ine the face knocking him out. Harry pulled out his gun as the copter took off. He aimed it at the roof of the garage and fired three times. Hitting the knocked out Sammy all three time. Jimmy grabbed his arm.
“ What did you do that for?”
“ Now he can not tell any one about us.” Harry replied. “And I have been wanting to do that from the first time I met him.” Harry thought to himself. Sammy was dead and Batman was left behind. They were in the clear, they had Gordan and Batman was on the roof, nothing could go wrong now.

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Batman watched as one of the men shot his own partner. He got out his small grapling hook from his belt and threw it. It wrapped it self around the left side runner of the copter. He held on as the copter lifted into the air and took him with it. He begain to pull himself up on the rope. He was about half way up when one of the men noticed that he was there. He pulled out his gun and fired at Batman. Batman begain to swing on the rope back and forth to avoid being shot. The pilot flew in a zig zag type pattern trying to shake Batman off. Batman saw that the copter was getting higher and his grip was getting weaker. He knew that he could not hold on much longer and if he fell from much higher he may not survive. Batman looked up and saw the man trying to cut the rope. He reached into his belt and produced a small tracer device and threw it. It hit the bottom of the copter and stuck there. Batman felt the rope go slack and knew that it had been cut. He begain to fall. The momentium of his fall aimed him right at a building. He flipped around and cruled into a ball. He flew into a large window of an apartment roll acroos the floor and hit a wall. Batman stood up and looked around. A couple of people were watching tv and looked at him in shock. Batman ran out of the apartment. He had to get back to the Batmoblie. When he got to the roof of the building he noticed that he was about five blocks away. He pulled a remote from his belt. It was the remote to his car, he could sit on the roof using this and drive it to the building. He heard police cars the people in the apartment must have called the cops. Batman felt a sharp pain in his arm. He looked down and saw that the fall had torn his stitchs from his arm and he was bleeding pretty bad. He also had a few cuts in other places on his body. He put the remote back in his belt when he got the Batmoblie to the building. He used a rope propelled himself down to his car got inside and drove off as the police stopped in front of the building. He turned on a screan and saw a map of the city with a blinking red dot. Gordan’s kidnappers were still on the move. He put the car on auto drive and started to clean up and bandage his cuts. He still had a long night ahead of him, he still had to bring in Gordan and bring his kidnappers behind bars.

[Mr. Fantastic7]

Good stories. Keep posting them and I'll keep reading them.

[tbaron009]

Yes sorry I have not posted in awhile. I have had to deal with school finals and a ton of over time at work. I will post on this and my Cable story in the next day or so. Thanks for reading.

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Hood walked into Thorne’s office.
“ I have heard that Gordan has gone missing.” He said
“ I must say you have much better infromation than I give you credit for. I only just found out.” Thorne said.
“ I have my ways Mister Thorne.” Hood said. Thorne did not really like Hood. He had only met him two days ago and he really did not like him at all. He was hiding something, but than again so was everybody in this town. He also noticed that Hood had taken Batman’s symbol and has it sewn into his own shirt.
“ Why are you here Hood?” Thorne snapped
“ I am here Thorne.” Red Hood sat down in a chair across from Thorne’s desk “ For the men you had promised me.” Part of his deal with Thorne was that Thorne would give him the men needed to carry out his plan to kill The Batman.
“ So you are ready to move forward? It has been two days since you came to me and I have not even heard of your plan.”
“ I am getting there. Despite what you think Thorne a smart plan takes time to work itself out. I will get Batman as I said. You just sit back and provide me with the thugs I need. When he is gone you will have the rewards from it. And with Gordan getting kidnapped by the other bosses. With the haet they have brought on themselves they will soon be out of the way.” Hood stood up and walked to the door “ Get me the men and have them here. I will pick them up in the morning. Hood walked out of the office. Hood thought a little bit about Thorne. He wanted the Batman killed right away. He did not seem to understand that this would be a process. The Hood wanted to have a little bit of fun but he was setting up for something bg. He could wait and plan, that is what made him better than Thorne and why in the end Thorne would lose.

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Hood walked into his wherehouse hq and walked down to the basement. He saw Crane busy at his table mixing up more of his gas. He opened up the small door that seperated the cage and the lab and walked in. The four people that were left alie were huddled into the coner of the small cage. Hood smiled, the four left alive had been broken by the sight of their boss and friend killing his wife. And the after effect of the gas was one that Hood was most proud of. After a set time, depending on the amount of gas, the skin on the face would start to melt away. And the blood under the skin would move to the surface making it look like the victim had on a real life red hood. He had Crane mix up more of this and another from of it that killed the victims right away. Hood dragged the bodies of Crumwell and his wife into the cage as a grim reminder that he was in charge and they would never get out alive He had not killed the other four just yet. He had plans for them. He walked back though the door and closed it behind him.
“ Well Mr. Crane it seems you have been busy.” Hood said looking down at another body with the same bloodly melted face. “ What did you learn from this man?”
“ Well sir you were right about him being a top level man in Lefty’s mob.” Hood shook his head
“ Lefty. What an unorignal name. Go on.”
“ He told me where the bosses were taking Gordan.”
“ Where?”
“ In a small wherehouse about one mile upriver. He did not know if the bosses were going to be there.” Crane finished
“ Good. I’m sure that Batman may make an apperance there. Crane I am going to be gone for the night, mind the store and be ready if I need you.” Hood grabbed a few viles of the newer gas and left his base and headed for the place where Gordan would be taken. He may be able to take out the bosses at one time. He would have to show up before Batman however, it was still to early to face him a second time. He still had much more to do before bring down The Batman.

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Gordan awoke and found that he was tied to a chair. His hands were bound behind the back of the chair and his legs were tied to the legs of the chair. The rope was tight and it dug into his wrists as he tried to move them. He could not get out of this or fight back. He looked around the room and saw five men stading there. Two of them he knew because they were the men that had kidnaped him and brouhgt him here. The other three he knew of only from their pictures from the police station as the mob bosses of this city. Maxwell Gar, Lefty, and John Biggs, these men had never spent more than a few nights in jail as nothing could ever be proven. Well Gordan could now get them for this, if he lived though it that is. Maxwell stood up
“ I’m glad to see you are awake Mr. Gordan. I hope you are comftable.” He said mockingly
“ What am I doing here Gar?” Gordan demanded
‘ The new man in town knows who I am. What else do you know Gordan?”
“ I know that your files claim you three are very careful and have never done anything like this before, you three have never done something this stupid why start now.”
“ Desprite times Mr Gordan. Now we have brought you here to tell use who The Batman is.”
“ I don’t know who he is. If I did the freak would be behind bars right now.”
“ So you claim. Now I will give you on more chance to tell me. After that well then I can not be to sure what my men will do to you.”
“ You my as well kill me now. I have nothing to say to you.”
“ We shall see about that. I’m not one who likes the site of blood so I shall leave. However my friends here want nothing more than to watch you die so I’ll leave this matter to them. By the time they are done we will know the name of The Batman, and if not, than the head of the new SCU will be just as good.” Gar left the room. Gordan watched as two of the men that were in the room advanced to him. Gordan hated to admit it but he sure could use Batman right about now.

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Batman Stood on a building over looking the two story building that the tracer said Gordan was taken to. The Copter was on the roof proving that Gordan was there or had been there. Batman watched as the back door of the building opend and a man walked out. He got into the back of a car and drove off. Batman saw on the roof there were three men men each had a machine gun in there hand. They would walk to the edge of the roof and then back. Batman waited until they were all together and jumped in the middle of them. With a spinning kick to each of their faces he brought them down. Using some rope he had he tied them up and left them on the roof. Walking over to a skylight window on the roof he looked down and saw nothing. Opening up one of the panels he dropped down a rope and slid down into an empty office. Opening the door slowly he looked out. He saw a walkway that went around the whole inside of the building and a large open space that he could see down on the first floor. Looking down he saw no one there. He did hear voices coming from behind a closed door on the other side of the walkway. Jumping off the walkway he started to run to the other side of building.
“ Who the Hell!” Batman heard someone behind him yell. Batman turned around and saw three men sitting at a table playing cards. They were sitting under the walk way so Batman did not see them. The three men started to get on their feet. Batman threw on of his Baterrangs and knocked the gun out of the first man’s hand. Batman jumped and landed in front of the three men. He punched the first man and knocked him back. The second man pulled out a knife and lunged at Batman. Batman stepped aside and grabbed his wrist. With a twist the man dropped the knife. With another twist Batman felt the mans arm break.
“ Aghhh!” The men yelled in pain. Batman kicked the third man in the stomach as he ran up behind him. Batman let go of the second man’s wrist and brought his hand down on the third man’s neck, knocking him out. The first man who had picked up a wrench swuung it at Batman. Batman ducked and came back up with an uppercut to the man’s chin sending him flying back. He laned on the table breaking it. Batman then puncjed the second man in the mouth sending teeth flying out of the man’s mouth as he hit the ground. Now that these three men were taken care of Batman ran acroos the room and when he got to the other side he jumped onto the walkway rolled and crashed though the door. Standing up Batman looked around and saw four men and a bloodly Gordan tied to a chair. The two men by the desk Batman knew as John Biggs, and lefty. Batman knew who they were, before he put on the suit he gota rundown of all the major players in the Gotham mobs.
“ Don’t just stand there! Get him you fools!” Biggs yelled. Both men started going towards Batman. In this small room none of the men ad much room to move around in. batman ducked the first punch thrown at him nad puched the man in the jaw. Batman then jumped up and did a kick to the second man’s face. After landing he gave a kick to the first man he punched as he tried to stand. He looked and saw Lefty had already left the room though a door on the other side of the room Biggs was trying to get to the door but Batman threw a a baterrang and hit Biggs in the back of the head sending him down. Batman walked over to Gordan.
“ You ok?” Batman asked
“ I am fine.” Gordan said bitterly “ Leave me and go get Lefty.”
“ After I cut you loose. If these men come to and you are still tied to the chair they will kill you.” Batman cut the ropes loose and Gordan fell to the floor.
“ Let me help you.” Batman reacheddown to help Gordan up, but Gordan jerked away.
“ I can do this myself.” Gordan stood up weakly. Batman shrugged and starked walking to the door. He had to get Lefty before he could get away.
“Batman!” Gordan yelled. “ This changes nothing between us. I am going to bring you in” Batman left the room. He had no time to deal with Gordan right now.
“ Argggghhhh!!!!” Batman heard Lefty yell. Someone had gotten to Lefty before he could. The question is who?

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Lefty saw Batman crash though the door and stood there shocked. He had noidea how Batman had found him.
“ Don’t just stand there! Get him you fools!” He heard Biggs yell.
“ A lot of good that will do.” Lefty thought to himself. Lefty opened a door close to him and ran down the stairs that led to the back door. He hoped that the men in the room could hold off Batman long enough for him to get away. He got to thebottom of the stairs and opened the door, but he could not get though it, someone was standing there. “Batman here no way.” He said to himself. But he did notice that the man had on a red hood
“ Where you think you are going?” The man asked.
“ Who are you? You work for Batman?”
“ Don’t make me laugh. I am not working for Batman. I have plans to kill him.”
“ Good. Than let me go.” Lefty said as he tried to move past him. Red Hood blocked his way.
‘ I do not work for you. But the man I work for wants you dead.” Red Hood reached into his pocket and pulled out a vile.
“ What is that?” Hood pulled the lid of the vile and threw it at Lefty, the vile hit his face and busted open. “ Argggghhhh!!!!” Lefty yelled as his skin began to desolve and melt away.
“ Well that puts me one step closer to my goal” Hood smiled. He was about to turn and walk away when he heard Batman behind him.
“ Hood! Hold it right there!” He yelled.
“ Oh, Batman how nice to see you again.” Hood said like he was saying high to an old friend. Batman saw his symbol on Hood’s shirt like it belonged there.
“ Why did you kill him?” Batman asked
“ You know that I want to take comtrol of the mobs. But in truth I just hated his name. I mean who names them selfs Lefty. Come on.” Batman was shocked by Hood going on. It was like he was not even there.
“ How did you do this?” Batman pointed at Lefty
“ What is with the third degree here? If you must know I used this.” He pulled out a glass vile and threw in onto the ground. Batman stepped back as the gas floated into the air.
“ See you later Bats.” Hood ran out the door to make his escape. Batman did not know what kind of gas this was but he saw ow it had effected Lefty. Putting his cape over his face he jumped jumped out of the door. Once outside he heard police cars in the front of the building. Gordan must have called for backup on the phone on the desk. He saw Hood climbing up a ladder on antoher building.
“ You will not get away that easy Hood.” Batman ran andstarted to climb a ladder on another building. The plan was to cut him off. He was in better shape than Hood so he should have been able to beat him to the top, but because of the cuts he ad gotten from his fight earlier in the night he moved slower than normal. He made it to the top of his ladder at the same time as Hood made it to the top of his. Batman Ranacroos the roof and made a running jump and landed on the roof Hood was on.
“ Nice jump Batman.” Hood walked over to the edge of the building “ I bet you think you got me. There are two things I can do to leave here. The first is slap you around a little like I did before. But you may get lucky and beat me.” Hood reaced into his pocket and got a vile out. “ You I could drop this on all of those people there who came to see what the police are doing here.” Batman looked and saw there was a crowd of people down there watching the police round up the people who held Gordan. “ That’s right Batman a whole crowd of people who would die when I drop this.”
“ I jumped though your gas and came out just fine so I doubt that one vile will kill off a whole crowd.”
“ Can the same be said for Lefty.” Hood joked “ And you are right I may not kill the whole crowd with one vile. But I may get lucky and kill one or two people.” Hood let go of the vile and it begain to fall to the ground. Batman could not take the chance of that vile hitting the ground, he jumped off the roof to get the vile before it it the ground. He threw his grapple rope and hooked it on the roof. He swung down, grabbed the vile, and swung back p on the roof. Hood was no where to be seen. He got away again. Batman looked down and saw the crowd of people looking back up at him.
“ Look it’s the Batman.” One person in the crowd yelled. Batman turned around, ran and jumped onto another roof top. This night was not a total loss, he did save Gordan, even if The Red Hood got away again.

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Gordan sat in the back of a police van as the EMTs checked him out.
“ You really should be at the hospital Gordan.” Captian Morgan said
“ I am fine. Besides I want to go back to the station and interview these guys find out what they know. This is my big chace to get the mobs in this city and I am going to do it.”
“ The mobs? Lefty is dead and we got Biggs. Who else is there.” Morgan asked
“ Garr was there but he left before Batman got there. And Thorne. I find it hard to belive that all the mobsin town had a part in this but Thorne was no where in site.”
“ I say you put your effort into getting the Batman for Lefty’s muder.”
“ I do not think he killed Lefty.’
“ What. You said that he followed Lefty down the stairs and that is where we found him. Dead.”
“ I know that, but in six months Batman has never killed anyone.”
“ Not that we know of.” Morgan butted in
“ I will still try and get him, but Garr has moved to the top of the list.” Gordan grabbed a police radio. “ This is Gordan I want the SCU to meet me at the station in 20 minutes. And get cops to every airport train station and bock dock in the city. Have them look out for Maxwell Garr. If he tries to leave town stop him at all costs.” He said into it
“ What do you think you are doing?” Morgan asked
“ I am going after Garr. And I am doing it tonight before he has a chance to skip town.” Gordan got into a police car and drove off. By the end of this night Garr would be his.

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Batman sat in his Batcave while Alfred stiched him up and redid his bandages.
“ I must say Master Thomas that your wife is not going to be happy about all of these cuts.”
“ You try being slamed though a large window and see if you some out of it without a cut.”
“ My your in a mood tonight.” Alfred said as he put the last bandage on.
“ Well I have no idea why. Red Hood got away again. Gordan is still on my back. Why would I be mad.”
“ Well maybe your wife is right sir. Maybe it is time to give up the Batman.”
“ No!” Thomas yelled as he stood up. “ I will not run and hide from this man. I will beat him.”
“ How?”
“ His ego. For some reason he has not killed me even though he had a chance. And he did not fight me on the roof tonight. He has a plain Alfred and for some sick reason he needs me alive to see it happen.” Thomas clinched his fist “ I will find out his plan and stop him. I swear this on the life of my sone I will stop tis madman.” Alfred looked very worried as Thomas walked off. Being the Batman has changed Thomas over the past few weeks. And the changes were not for the good. If Thomas did not stop being The Batman, than being the Batman would kill Thomas Wayne.

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Garr slamed down the phone.
“ Those fools! How did they blow this!” Garr stood up and looked at his right hand man O’Fallin “ Get my car ready and bags packed I have to leave this city. Tell the boys if any one comes to the gate kill them. I don’t care if it is a cop.”
“ Yes sir.” O’Fallin left the room. Garr got his gun from his jacket and made sure it had a full clip. All Garr had to do was get out of the country, thanks to most of his money being in off shore accounts he would live like a king in some other country and run things until it was safe for him to come back. He had good laywers he did not think it would take long.
“ No. To hell with coming back. Let Thorne have this blasted city and Batman and Gordan and all the problems that come with it. I can start over else where.” Garr took one last look from his second floor office windowand looked at the country estate that he had called home for many years. “ I sure will miss this town.” He thought to himself as he left his office. “ Than again, not that much.”

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Gordan stood in the Parking lot of the station with the ten members of his SCU team. The SWAT teams from two districts were also there to back him up. He stood around the group of men with a large map of Garr’s Estate.
“ The main armored truck will go though the front gate. The truck will hold up to small arms fire, so if they shoot the men in here will be safe. They will be followed up by four cars with the SWAT and SCU members. Once on the grounds we bust into the house and get Garr.”
“ The men in the Estate will not just sit back and allow us in with out a fight.” Said Ben Tucker. He was one of the first men that Gordan had picked for this team and will become Gordan’s right hand man.
“ No they will not. That is why we have two police hilicopters they will have cops in them firing down tear gas at whoever is on the grounds. Each one will also have a sniper in them to take out anyone that we may miss.”
“ The city is going all out on this one.” Commented one of the men from SWAT
“ The Mayor wants to send a message that kidnapping a cop is off limits in this town. We hit them hard and fast. Let’s go.” The men all got into their assigned cars and two copters took off from the roof. Gordan was very happy despite the fact that an hour he was almost killed. He would get Garr and make a name for himself and his team. And he would do it with out Batman’s help.

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Thorne woke up in his bed and saw Hood standing there.
“ What are you doing here!?” He yelled at Hood. Hood walked over to a mini bar in Thorne’s bedroom and poured him self a drink.
“ I just wanted to tell you the good news in person Thorne.” He sat down in a leather chair. “Very nice” after sitting down. Thorne did not know if Hood was talking about the drink or the chair. Thorne got out of bed and put on his robe.
“ What good news is that?”
“ The good news about Lefty being dead and Biggs in jail.”
“ Great. How did that happen?”
“ Well I went there and killed Lefty after Batman ran him out of the building.”
“ And the Batman? Did you kill him?”
“ Nope. He lived. But one the plus side all of the bosses in this city are dead in jail or running scared.” Hood stood up. “You and I can now move in and pick up the pieces and run this city.”
“ Not until Batman is dead you fool!” Thorne’s face was getting red. Thorne looked at Hood.
“ But you said you had a plan and I will let you work it out, after all the rest of the bosses no longer are a threat and I have you to thank for that.”
“ Yes you do.” Hood added
“ I will call the boys and we will start taking over tomarrow. And the men you need will be at my office in the morning as well.”
“ Good I will do my thing why you and your boys do yours.” Hood stood up and started to walk out of the room.
“ And Hood one more thing. If you ever come to my house again I will end this partership in a second, you understand?”
“ But than how could I ever come over for Fourth of July Parties or parties where you give money to the city for city centers for the kids?” Hood said mockingly
“ Never again Hood!” Thorne said
“ Fine fine.” Hood walked out of the room. Thorne was glad to see him gone. Seeing Hood to times in one day was to much for him. There was something wrong with Hood, it was like he was in his own little world where ever thing was some kind of joke. But he did get away from Batman two times and beat him one of those times. Thorne just wished Hood would kill Batman and get it over with.
“ What are you waiting for Hood?” He asked himself. The sooner Batman was dead the sooner Hood would be dead and the sooner this town would be his for the taking.

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Garr got in his car, he decide that going out the back gate would save him a lot of trouble. He could hear the police off in the distance coming to his place. He knew it was a good time to leave. His driver pulled the car out of the back gate and down a dirt cover side road. It was going to take longer getting to where he needed to go but with the trees over head it would make it harder for police copters to spot him. And by staying off the main road he could avoid any roadblocks that were put up to stop him.
“ Goodbye Gotham and goodbye trouble.” He said as he left his home in the distance.

Two groups of five men stood by the front gates of Garr’s estate. They were told by Garr’s right hand man O’Fallin that Thorne had stolen a bunch of police cars and vans and was going to attack the estate. It would not be the first time that happened, Biggs had done that once before a couple of years ago and managed to kill six men before they knew what was happening.
“How long you think we going to be out here before Garr calls this off.” Asked one man
“Till morning I guess. You wer’nt here last time when Biggs did this. I will stay out here all night if I have to.”
“Hell Garr’s not even here any more. I say we goback to the house watch a little tv. Call it a night.” The first amn said.
“Of course he is not here. Someone trying to kill you, you get out of town. Now I’m staying and when Thornes men show up I’ll make em sorry they ever showed up here.” The second man said. One of the men lit a cigar.
“Look over there!” the first man yelled. All the men looked over to where he was pointing. Down the hill about a half mile or so they saw police lits. “Here they come boys.” Both groups of five men pulled out their guns.
“Does anyone here that?” Many of the men looked up and saw two copters coming their way.
“When did Thorne get police Copters?” One man asked. He did not get an answer before everyone around him was caughing from tear gas.
“They got us good.” One man said as he fell to the ground. He watched as the front gate was busted open by an armored truck. He could not breath that well, but he would make sure the first man out of that truck would not live to see the end of this plan.

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Gordan and his men put on thier gas masks right before the trucks busted thru the front gates. He felt the truck come to a stop. He opened a side door and his men got out with him. He and his men pointed their guns at the coughing men on the ground.
“Do not move! Put your hands on your head!” Gordan yelled.
“Tell Thorne to go to hell!” one man yelled as he rasied is hand with a gun. Gordan did not wait for him to shoot before he fired his gun at the man. The man’s hand fell to the ground, he was dead. He watched as his men went over to put handcuffs on theother four men. One of the cops did not make it very far before a shot to the head took him down.
“Snipers on the roof! Take cover!” Gordan yelled. The cops ran behind th truck as more shots rained down on them. “We have snipers on the roof can yousee them copter 1?” He asked into his radio
“We do.” Gordan looked on as the copter fired two shots taking out two men on the roof. In this time the other four men had time to catch their breath and run for the trees. Shooting from the trees they tried to hit the cops behind the truck. Gordan’s men returned fire but because the men had trees to cover them they could not hit the men.
“Cover me!” Gordan yelled. After his men started to fire at Garr’s thugs he took off for the nearest tree with a thug behind it. He fired at the thug and hit him with two bullits bringing him down. From his new point behind the tree he was able to help cover another cop as he moved up and took out another thug.
“We are Gotham City police! Put down your guns and you will not be harmed!” Gordan yelled.
“Alright! Alright! Don’t shoot!” Both men who now relized that these were not Thornes men dropped their guns and came out with their hands up. Gordan’s men rushed in and took them away.
“Team two what is your status?” He asked into a radio
“We have five men in cuffs sir. No losses here.
“Three four and five?” They were in the house and told to bring in whoever was inside.
“The place is empty sir. There were only two in here and we got them. No Garr however”
“Tear that house apart and find him!.” Tucker walked up to Gordan.
“Not as rough as we thought.” He said
“One cop dead. I would say that is rough enough Tucker.”
“It could have been worse sir. Much worse.” Gordan had to agree with tat. He did not think it would be this easy.
“Team two take these thugs back to the station. The rest of you men search the grounds if Garr is here we will find him.” But Gordan knew that Garr most likely skipped out of town. This night did not seem worth it. One cop dead and Garr skipped town. On the plus side Three of the main bosses in town were now shut down. And soon he would shut down te Batman. Now that this was taken careof he could spend his time bringing him down.

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Wayne woke up still in pain. Not just from the cuts on the upper part of his body, but from the fight that he and Martha had. She did not understand what he was trying to do for this town. Not her or Gordan. She was right however, he was becoming obsessed with catching Hood. Wayne liked to think that it was for the good of the city that he wanted Hood gone, but the fact was it was because Hood had beaten him. By force the first time and with his tricks the second time. For the past six moths he had been kingof the city, the thugs feared him and the police gave him breathing room to work. Wayne got out of bed and looked at the clock. 11:00 a.m. He had gotten about seven hours of sleep. He put on a shirt and walked downstairs, he saw Alfred dusting one of the selfs.
“ Where are Bruce and Martha?” he asked
“I thinkshe took young Master Bruce to the moives sir. I do belive she will be gone all day.” Alfred replied.
“Good than I have the day to myslef. Bring me some breakfast and coffee to the Batcave.”
“Sir don’t you think you should take the day to heal and rest?”
“No time. I have to find out what is in Hood’s gas and find a way to counteract it’s effects.” Wayne walked out of the room. Hood is not the only one who can use his mind to fight. The first step to beating Hood maybe finding out what is in the gas and using to his advantage.

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TWO HOURS BEFORE
Hood took a hidden elevator to Thorne’s office. He had to take this way, Thorne did not want anyone to see him coming in like they may have done when he came here yesterday. When the elevator stopped and he got off he saw Thorne standing there with four of his men.
“Well Thorne I see that you came though for me.” Hood said.
“I hope these four will do the job for you. I need all of my others to help when I move in on te other mobs.”
“Should not be to hard with most of Garr’s men dead or in jail after last nights raid by Gordan.”
“One day I need to find out how you know all of these things.”
“I know everything that happens in this town Thorne. And here is a tip for you, Donny Walker, Bigg’s right hand man is hiding out in a small apartment on the south side of town. Afraid the law will come after him.”
“Thanks for the tip.”
“Just doing my part to help. Come on boys we have a big couple of days ahead of us.” Hood and the men walked back into the hidden elevator. Thorne ad to admit he had been a big help so far,killing Lefty and telling him where Walker was at. But no matter how usefull he seemed to be he was was still a threat, a threat that had to be handled.

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Gordan sat in his office filling out paper work on last nights events. There was a knock at the door and Captian Morgan walked in..
“I thought I told you to take the day off today.” He said
“I just wanted to finish this paper work. And I was wanting to look into Thorne and his dealings in this town.”
“Thorne? Why Thorne? Non of his men were where you were held, or at Garr’s estate.”
“I find it hard to belive that all of the bosses in town had a hand in this but not Thorne. And even if he did not have a hand in this than I still want to look into what he does in this city. He is a mob boss.’
“Never proven. I will not have you harassing him just on a hunch. Go after the Batman if you want.”
“I inteend to, but I have been brought here to clean up this town and if Thorne is dirty than I will bring him down.” Morgan left Gordan’s office. He walked over to his coffee machine and poured himself a glass. His phone on his desk rang. He walked over and picked it up.
“Lt. Gordan.”
“Listen to what I have to say. I will not talk long.”
“Batman.” Gordan knew the voice from when he talked last night.
“I am willing to work with you Gorgan. We both want the same thing for this city.”
“And that is?”
“To stop crime. I have some info for you that you will find useful. I want to meet you alone.”
“When and where?”
“Gotham City Park. South side by the entrace to the nature trails. 9:00pm. If I see any other cops I will leave.”
“Why now?”
“Something big is about to happen. I may need help to stop it.”
“What?” Gordan did not get an answer just a dial tone. He did want to arrest Batman, but if he did have some information on something happening than he could hear him out just this one time.

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“A meeting with Gordan. A little risky You think?” Alfred asked.
“Despite what he may think of me he is a good cop. I looked at the files on him from Central City.” Batman picked up the vile of gas from Red Hood. “Besides after seeing what is in this gas I will need all the help I can get.”
“What was in the gas?” Alfred asked
“This form of it kills its victim in a matter if minutes. It eats away at the face, a very bad death. That is what happened to Lefty. Who knows how much of this stuff he has.”
“His plans for the city that you told me about?”
“Yes. I feel this gas has something to do with it. I don’t know I was able to jump thought it at the Wherehouse with out getting hurt. Maybe after being exposed to the air with such a small amout weaked it. But I do know if this vile got into a closed space thanIt could do a lot of damage.” Wayne had to do something. He felt in his gut that not only did Hood had more of this gas but other gas as well. And he did know that his plans had to do with this gas. If he did not stop this man soon things would be bad for Gotham.

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Hood sat in a chair in his new office, that was of course Mr Crumbwell’s old office. The four men that he had gotten from Thorne were on a couch watching t.v Hood tried to stay away from t.v. Other than the news to hear about all the trouble he was makingin the town, he had no use for it.
“So when we get to the action masked man?” The first asked looking away from the t.v.
“Soon enough. I want to make sure everything is ready.” Hood replied. “You guys are worse than Thorne when it comes to waiting.”
“Well Thorne told us we would see some action. Not just stand around here like we have been for the past few hours.
“Why complain about it. You have a t.v. popcorn and your getting paid for it.”
“We just want to do something soon is all.” Before Hood could say something back crane came into the office.
“Sir everything is ready downstairs.”
“Good. Gentlemen it istime toget to the action.” The men walked down the stairs and came to the basement door. “Right down the stairs boys. I will be right down.” The men walked down the stairs. Hodd shut the door. “You sure none of the gas will get to the cage where the others are being kept?”
“Yes sir Hood. Everything is air tight. None of the gas will get out.” Hood pushed a button on the wall.
“Now that they can not getout let’s get the gas going.”
“Sir may I ask something?”
“You may Crane.”
“If Thorne gave you these men to use as youwill, than why gas them?”
“Because Crane chances are most of the members of the mobs will take Thorne up on his offer. With no other leader around he will be the best they can do. I don’t want that to happen just yet. After Thornes meeting tonight I will make sure that all that is left of the Garr, Lefty and Biggs families feel double crossed. And than they will fight back. Thorne may win out in the long run but I could use the fun of watching. Besides I need to destract everyone when I do make my move.” Hood smiled under his mask as he heard the scream of Thorne’s men as the gas took effect.

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Thorne’s men walked down the stairs.
“What do you think this man will have us do?” asked the first man
“Who cares. The sooner we get done, the sooner we can get back to Thorne.” Replied the second man. The four men looked around and saw different bottles and test tubes on the tables.
“What the hell is all this?” The man asked. Just than four steel walls slamed down around the room.
“What is this.” The men ran to the wall and started to pound trying to find a weak spot to get out. One of the men noticed gas coming though a vent in the wall.
“It’s a trap!!” The first man yelled.” All four men fell to the ground as the gas over took them. After a few minutes the walls came up and Hood came walking in.
“I think we gave them a bit to much gas. Oh well they will come to soon enough.” Hood walked out of the room. “inform me when they wake up.” He said back to Crane. “I want to get moving on this.”

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Walker sat in his run down apartment. Cracks all over the wall, a black and white t.v. with a fuzzy picture and the place smelled of old beer and body oder. This place was hell. But with the police looking for him he had to be here. Who wouldthink to look for im here. He had a large house, wife kids, fast cars. No one would think to look for him in a cheap flophouse like this. There was a knock at the door. It was more than likely that drunk who came by twice in the last our lloking for money. One of the men next store said he did that every couple days doing this. Walker stood up and walked to the door. He pulled out his gun. This would be the last time tonight the drunk would come to him for money. A good scare will see to that.
“Alright rummy this is …” his word trailed off as he opened the door. Standing there was Thorne.
“Put the gun down walker I am not here to fight you.” Thorne and his bodyguard walked into the apartment. “Not the high life you are used to.” He said.
“I have to hide somewhere. The cops are all over me.”
“Yes I bet. With your boss behind bars because of what he and the others did to Gordan. I bet a smart man like you would not make that mistake.” Trying to pet Walker’s ego a bit.
“I told him it not to do this. Hell begged him was the word. Told him the law would be over us.”
“Well that is true. Bigss is in jail. Lefty dead,Garr out of town. Now there is no need for you and your men to take this hit.”
“What do you mean?” Walker asked
“I mean it is time for a new leader in the mobs.”
“I’m guessing you are that man?”
“I am the only one smart enough not to get involved in this mess.”
“What is the offer?”
“Go to your men with me. Tell them I am taking over. Tell them this Gordan mess will be taken care of.”
“What about me?”
“You will be taken care of. I need a new right hand man. Myother one was killed last week in jail. Seems he was going to talk.”
“I can do this.” Walker replied as he held out his hand.
“Good meet me in one hour with the top men from each gang at my pentouse in two hours. Do notbe late.” Thorne shook Walker’s hand and left the apartment. By the end of the day he would have control of Gotham’s mobs. He was now the most powerful man in the city. Who could stop him now.

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I will not be able to post on this story or my Cable story for about a week. My last comp crashed and I lost all the work I did not them both. I will get my new comp set up and start posting again soon. Sorry to the people reading this

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Thorne stood in the middle of his penthouse living room looking at each of the three men in the room. Walker did keep his promise, he found the other two men in the mobs. There was Walker, Bolton who is Garr’s third man in charge, and lastly Stewart who was Lefty’s man.
“I first off want to thank all of you for coming here to meet with me today.” Thorne started
“Walker here said you had an offer for us.” Bolton said. “Now what is it?”
“Simple. You turn over all your men and operations to me. I am the last boss left in town and I think it would be best for me to rule.”
“Why you? My boss is not here anymore but I can always take over.” Stewart jumped in.
“I was the only one smart enough to stay out of this Gordon mess. When your bosses jumped into this head first with no thought what so ever I stayed out of it.” Thorne pointed out.
“Because you were a coward.” Steward shot back at him.
“I saw this plan for what it was. A huge mess. And I was right. Your boss in jail with no hope of getting out for sometime. Your boss dead, and yours gone.” The men just sat there, they knew deep down that he was right.
“What about the Batman? What are you doing about him?” Stewart asked.
“I have a plan in the works right now. He will not be a problem soon.” Thorne said.
“And what is that?” Stewart asked.
“I will not say at this time.” Thorne answered. Mostly because He did not know what Hood had planed. But he did not say that. “Look I am trying to save us all a lot of time and trouble here. If I wanted to take the mobs by force I could. The fact is that none of you can stand up to me. Now what is your answer?”
“You know I am in.” Walker said.
“As am I.” Added Bolton.
“And you Stewart?”
“I need some time to think of this.” He said
“You have until noon tomorrow. If you are not for me at that time, Well keep in mind that I now control three of the mobs in town.” Stewart stood up and left with his bodyguards. “Come gentlemen, I want you to tell me about what you have going on.” Thorne pointed to a table. It is time to see what he had just gotten and to make plans.

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Hood walked into Crane’s lab.
“How our my men doing?” He asked
“Very well. They were given enough gas to keep them alive long enough to get done what you want them to do.”
“Good.” Hood walked into the room where the cage of people was. He looked and saw his four newest men standing by themselves. “Come here.” He ordered. The four men walked to the front of the cage. Hood opened the cage and the men walked out. “I have a job for each of you.” He smiled as he told each man what to do. “Now go.” Each man left the room. By the end of this night Gotham will be in the middle of a gang war that would tear this city apart.
Walker sat at his bar drinking a cold beer. He was glad to be out of that rat hole place he was at this morning. Thorne had told him it was safe to go back to his bar, he said he would take care of the police problem. More than likely a bribe to a high level cop. He had been at Thorne’s palce for the past three hours setting up the final details of their deal. He would not mind being in Thorne’s mob, in fact it was a great deal that he would have been a fool to pass up. He looked at the clock. Five p.m. This place on any other day would be full of people and music playing. Not today however, today he wanted to just sit back and relax. At the start of the day he was in some rat hole apartment and now he was back in his bar drinking with his friends.
“Sir there is someone here to see you.” A man at the door said to Walker.
“Who is it?”
“He says he is from Thorne. He has something to talk to you about.”
“Let him in.” Walker stood up and turned to the door as the man walked in the bar. “What does Thorne want?” The man just stood there looking around the room. “I asked what Thorne wanted?” Walker demanded. The man reached into his trenchcoat, Walker knew what was about to happen. He dove behind the bar as the man started shooting a machine gun across the bar. Walker’s men also dove for cover as two of Walker’s men were shot and killed. The man who stood by the door pulled out his gun and put two bullets in the back of the attacker and he fell to the ground. Walker stood up from behind the bar and looked around. “Nice shot Shane. Get this bum out of here.” Walker saw two of his men dead on the ground and his Bar shot all to hell.
“He is good.” Walker thought to himself. “He had me thinking he wanted me in on this. When I told my men that Thorne was in charge he tried to kill me.” Walker called to Shane as he and another man picked up the shooter’s body. “Call my men. Get them down here. If Thorne thinks he can do this to me, he is dead wrong.” Walker knew he had to hit Thorne fast and hard if he was to have a chance in this gang war. “Thorne was a dead man.”



Hood sat in a car across the street from the bar as the shots started. He smiled. “The war has begun.” Hood got on a small phone in the car. “Crane Send the other three on their jobs.” Hood drove off thinking of Thorne’s face when he figure out what was going on.

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Bolton stood around some of his men.
“Look Biggs is in jail, I run the show now and I say this is our best bet.” Bolton said.
“All I am saying is that Biggs would not give into a deal like this.” Said one of his men.
“I am in charge now. The fact is Biggs is in jail and I am taking this deal.” Bolton turned to a man standing behind him, “In fact we have on of Thorne’s men here to talk to us about this. He just showed up a few minutes ago.” The man stepped forward.
“I have something here that Thorne wanted me to say.” He reached into his coat. “He wanted me to say that the deal is not going to happen.” He pulled out a gun and started shooting at the crowd of men. Three went down with a shot to the chest. Bolton pulled out his gun and shot the man in the back three times. While the attacker was on the ground he fired one more shot into his head.
“THORNE THINKS HE CAN TO THIS TO US!” Bolton kicked the shooter. “Bring in the boys, we are going hunting.”
Stewart did not like it at all. He did not want to go in with Thorne, but he knew that he could not stand up to him in a fight. Lefty had the smallest gang in town and Stewart knew he could not take down Thorne. “I will call Thorne in the morning and tell him I give in.” He said to himself. There was a knock at the door. He stood up. That was more than likely one of his boys from down stairs. He walked over to the door and saw two men standing there, Greg was one of his men and there was another man there.
“This man is from Thorne.” Greg said.
“You can tell Thorne he gave me till noon.” He snapped at the man.
“Deal is off.” The man pulled out a gun and shot Stewart in the head killing him. Greg pulled out his piece and killed Thorne’s man.
“Boys get up here fast!” He yelled down. The others that were down stairs ran up.
“What do we do now?” One man asked.
“We go to war.” Greg said.

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Thorne closed the front door to his house. He had decided to come home early, besides with every mob in town under his control he could take some time off. He looked over at his bodyguard.
“Make reservations for two at that Chinese place my wife loves so much. I am in the mood to celebrate.” Thorne took off his coat and walked toward his bedroom. “Alice, Alice are you home?” He heard a noise from his bedroom and walked inside. He stopped and looked at what he saw. One of the men he sent with Hood holding a gun to the head of his wife
“What is this!” He yelled at the man.
“I ditched Hood and got a better offer from the other mobs. They say you want this town it will be over their dead bodies.”
“You hurt my wife and I will hunt you down and kill you very slowly.”
“I don’t think you will let me live after this so oh well.” The man pulled the trigger and Thorne’s wife fell to the ground dead.
“NOOOO!!!” Thorne ran to the man and grabbed him around the man’s neck. “YOU KILL MY WIFE I KILL YOU AND EVERY BOSS IN TOWN!” Thorne’s bodyguards ran into the bedroom. Thorne removed his hands from the lifeless man and stood up. “Get this trash out of here. Tell every one of the boys wars on. Kill everyone not working for me.” He knelt down over his wife. “AND SOMEONE FIND ME HOOD!”

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Gordon sat at his desk looking over some papers that were flooding into his desk. There had been shootings all over the city. A gang war. Gordon told his men to be ready for this. He knew what was going on. Thorne is trying to take advantage of the weakened mobs. He looked at his watch, it was 8:15 P.M. time to go. He was not sure what to expect from this meeting with the Batman but if he really did have info that he needed than he would meet with him. Than he would do what he had promised to do, get The Batman.
“Tucker, get the team ready to move into the park on my orders. We will have the Batman tonight.” He walked out of the door. Part of him felt bad for breaking his word, but he needed to free this town of The Batman.
Gordon stood by the entrance of the nature trails and looked at his watch, 8:59.
“Where is he?” He asked himself.
“Behind you.” A voice answered. Gordon turned and saw a man standing behind him.
“Batman, how long have you been there?”
“Long enough for me to see the men you have waiting for outside the park.”
“And you still came?”
“I told you I have information for you.”
“Ok what is it?”
“The bank robbery the other day, the one you shot me at. A man named Red Hood set it up. He set it up to test me. He wants to take over the mobs in this town.”
“That makes a little bit of sense. There have been gang shootings all over town.”
“Hood killed Lefty last night.” Batman reached into a belt at his waist and pulled out a vile of something Gordon could not see. “He did it with this gas and I am sure that he has more.” Batman handed it to Gordon. “Have your people look at it and they will find what I have found.” Batman told him what he told Alfred about the gas.
“That is not good. Not good at all.” Gordon said.
“It gets worse. When I broke it down I saw that one of the chemicals in it is a mind control agent.”
“A what?”
“It enters the sub conscious of the mind. It allows someone to tell this person what to do. They have no control of it. When the gas wears off than it kills the person in the way you saw Lefty.”
“My god.” This shocked Gordon a great deal.
“I believe that Hood as a lot of this gas and has plans to use it on this city.”
“How do you know this?”
“I don’t really it is just a hunch.”
“Who is Hood?”
“I don’t really know. He claims that he is here to take over the mobs, but I am not sure if that is his true goal. He could have killed Lefty just to make trouble.”
“Could explain the rash of gang shootings that have been going on the past couple hours.”
“If Hood does want the mobs than Thorne would be where he hits next.”
“Thanks for the information Batman. Let me ask before you leave,”
“Why am I doing this?” Batman broke in.
“Yes it does not seem like it is doing you any good.”
“Gordon I will level with you in the hopes that you may understand me. I have a son and a wife I do not want them to live in a town run by mobs. And unlike other people I can do something about it.”
“Why not become a cop?”
“You are new here so I will tell you this. The cops and the mobs one in the same in this town. I hope that maybe you can change that. I have seen your file, you are a good cop.” With that Batman was gone. Gordon turned on his radio.
“Attention men Batman is leaving the park.” Gordon paused and then finished. “Stand down and let him pass. I repeat do not pursue the Batman.” Gordon needed time to sort out what Batman had told him. If he was right that Hood was more of a danger to this town than Batman.

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Batman sat in his Batmoblie 25 minutes after his meeting with Gordon. He was sure that the police would try and capture him, but Gordon had told them to stand down. He must have gotten through to him. Batman decided to check out a few of the local mob hangout to see if he could find out anything. Before he could drive off he saw three police cars with their lights on speed past. He turned on his police radio and heard that two groups of men were having a shootout outside of a bar. He knew the bar was one of Bigg’s places, or Walker’s place now that he was in charge. Batman punched the Batmobile into full speed. He was hoping that since Gordon let him go in the park he would not mind his help this time as well.

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“We are pinned down here!” Gordon yelled into his radio. He and two of his team were pinned behind their police car. They had gotten to the bar but the men in the shooting had already run inside and barricaded themselves in. “We need back up here now! I mean right now!” Gordon yelled. He fired a few shots at the bar but did not hit anything.
“Do we know how many are inside?” Gordon asked Tucker.
“Five. Three on the bottom floor and two on the second floor.” Tucker replied. Not that many but enough to keep them from rushing in. The shots from inside stopped.
“I guess they want to try and wait us out.” Gordon said.
“SWAT will be here in about 10 minutes.” Tucker said as he put down a police radio.
“I don’t want to wait. There are only five.” Gordon opened the door to his police car and got out a big metal box. Inside were containers of tear gas. “We are going in.”
“What about the two on the second floor?” Tucker asked.
“Get inside that building and use your sniper rifle to take them out.” Gordon ordered. Two more police cars drove up with two policemen each inside. Gordon was going to get these guys. No one shots at him in this town. “It’s time these punks learn who is in charge of this town.” Gordon said as he reloaded his gun.

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Batman stood on the roof of the bar. He got there right as the shots stopped. He noticed Gordon getting the box of tear gas from the back of his car. Batman watched as Tucker ran into the building across the street. He knew what was going to happen. He hoped that after his talk with Gordon that he would not mind some help to night. Batman tied a rope around a pipe on the roof. Jumping off the roof he swung into the second floor window with one of the gunmen. Both Batman and the gunmen hit the floor. Batman punched the man in the face knocking him out. The second man fired his gun but was so shocked that he missed Batman with both shoots. Batman did not want to give the man a chance to get lucky. He rolled over and with a spinning kick to the back of the gunman’s knees he took him off his feet. The man jumped up faster than Batman expected. The man took a swing at Batman who ducked it. Batman punched the man in the face sending him flying though the door and down the stairs. The men on the first floor had to know he was up here. Batman heard shots and ran down the stairs. He looked and saw Gordon and two other cops were crouched behind a table shooting at one of the gunmen who was also behind a table. They other two gunmen were on the floor, Gordon must have taken them out. Batman crawled on the floor to behind the guy. Batman reached up and chopped the man in the back of the neck. The man fell to the ground. Gordon stood up,
“Thanks for the help” He said to Batman.
“No problem.” Batman turned to leave.
“Where you headed now.”
“I am going to check out some leads. This gang war is only going to get worse, I need to find out where Hood is at and bring him in.”
“When you find him you get a hold of me. We have a better chance of keeping him jail if a cop brings him in” but when Gordon looked up he saw Batman was gone. Gordon could not help but wonder if he made a mistake letting Batman go.

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The Red Hood walked down the stairs to Crane’s lab. He was ready to move on to the last part of his plan. He had hoped that the police and Batman were tired after chasing down the different gang members shooting each other all over town, it was going to be a long night for those two. He had seen to the continuing gang violence by trying to kill the bosses. But the death of Thorne’s wife would insure that Thorne would not be part of any truce until the last three bosses were dead. Hood saw Crane finishing up the last batch of his gas. He had worked on it all night long to get it ready for the days events.
“Well Mr. Crane I am glad to see you are ready.”
“Yes sir. The gas is done as ordered.”
“Give them enough gas to keep them alive for the rest of the day so they can do what I need for the plan.”
“Sir can I ask what this plan is? You have been talking about it for some time but you never really seem to act on it.”
“My dear Mr. Crane I am acting on it right now. I have been working on it for many months now.”
“This just seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through to take over some mobs.”
“Mr. Crane I will tell you this. I was never after the mobs. At least not at this time.”
“What do you mean this time?”
“Everything I am doing will help me in the future. I think of the long term that is all you need to know. Give the last three the gas, I will be back in awhile.”
“Where are you off to now?”
“Thorne has been telling his people to find me. I will go see him, find out what he needs.” With that Hood left the room. Crane wished that Hood would just do what he needed to do.
“What ever he is going to do is going to be bad.” Crane thought to himself as he turned on the gas to the other room. “With this kind of build up it had to be.” He heard the screams of the people as the gas over took them.

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Thorne sat in the chair in his living room, it was 5:30 am. The coroner had come for his wife’s body a few hours ago. He sat with a mix of rage and grief. His men had been out killing of the other gang members for most of the night, yet they had not been able to get Walker, Bolton, or Stewart. Thorne told his men to take them alive so he could deal with them for what they had done. He looked out his window and saw some one moving. He pulled out his gun and stood up.
“No need for that Thorne.” He heard a voice from out side.
“Hood? Is that you?” He asked.
“Yes it is. You had men on the front door, I did not want to be killed or anything.”
“Get in here we have to talk.” Thorne demanded. Hood climbed in the wino and stood in front of Thorne.
“Word on the street is that you want to talk to me.”
“Yes I do. I want to know how one of the men I gave to you came to me and killed my wife. What happened when you left? And what is going on with your plan for the Batman. I am tired of waiting.”
“First off my plan for Batman will work itself out. 24 hours from now Batman will not be a problem for us.” Hood stepped away from Thorne and over to a small bar. “Drink?” He asked as he poured bourbon in a glass.
“Answer my first question Hood.” Thorne had an angry edge to his voice.
“Of course. I left here with your men and took them back to my place. I then gave them each orders. And I must say they carried them out to the letter. You train your men well.”
“So if you gave them orders than how did my man get here!!” Thorne yelled.
“Because he followed my orders.” Thorne stepped back.
“I do not understand.” He said.
“Than my friend let me spell it out for you. There are four bosses in town and you gave me four men. I sent the first three to each boss and told them to try and kill them. I sent the forth here. Only not to kill you but your wife. I knew your anger would send you to kill off each boss. And now that I am done with you I will make Batman jump though my hoops just as I did to you and the bosses.” Hood mocked. Thorne pulled out his gun but before he could fire Hood knocked it out of his hand.
“This was never about getting you control of the mobs. This was always about me. You are a fool Thorne and I look forward to killing you.” Hood punched Thorne knocking him down.
“Boys get in here. Kill the Hood!” Thorne yelled. Three men ran in the room but just stood there. “Do some thing you fools!” Thorne ordered.
“They will not listen to you Thorne. It seems they have switched sides.” Thorne ran at Hood. Hood stepped aside and kicked Thorne’s feet sending his across the room. Thorne crashed into a bookcase sending it crashing down on top of him. “You are pathetic Thorne. You wanted instant results on the Batman. You could not wait for my plan to workout.” Hood kicked Thorne in the face breaking his nose. “That is why I am better than you. I think of the long term. I will control Gotham soon enough. And you will be left with nothing.”
“It is you who will have nothing.” Hood heard from behind him. He turned to see Batman standing there.
“Batman. How kind of you to join us. But I am afraid I am not ready for you yet.” Hood bent down to Thorne. “You lucked out my friend. But I will be back for you later.” Hood punched Thorne knocking him out. “Get him men.” He said as he left. The three men ran at Batman. “I will see you later Bats.” Hood ran out the door leaving Batman with the three men.
Batman stood facing the three men. Hood had run out of the room and Batman could not get to him with these three men blocking his path. Batman did a quick spinning kick to the three men’s hands knocking their guns away from them. In hand to hand combat Batman knew he knew he could take the three men. But he still wanted to give himself some distance from them. Batman grabbed a chair and threw it at the men. The ones on the side dodged it but it hit the one in the one in the middle head on knocking him back many feet. Batman ducked a punch thrown by the first man and punched him twice in the stomach he doubled over, but before Batman could hit him again the second man grabbed him from behind. Batman reached back and got a hold of the man. He filled the man over him and onto a table that broke under the man’s weight. With a kick to the man’s chest Batman broke many of the man’s ribs and kept him down. The first man was back up. He swung at Batman. Batman grabbed the man’s arm, punched the man is the face three times, spun him around and threw him though a set of glass doors and onto the lawn outside. BANG!! BANG!! Batman turned and saw Thorne standing there with a smoking gun in his hand and the third man on the ground, shot in his back two times.
“He had a knife in his hand and was going after you.” Thorne explained. Batman looked down and saw a knife on the floor.
“I am surprised that you did not let him have me.” Batman said.
“Hood sent a man to kill my wife. I was not going to let someone working for him kill you. That is my honor.”
“Do you know where Hood is at?”
“No I do not. He never told me.”
“Mr. Thorne you lost a wife to your way of life. And I do not think you want to lose your child if Hood comes back here. Take your son and leave Gotham for a while. Let the police handle these two.”
“You would just let me walk out, just like that?”
“I do not think the police could hold you for long if they got you tonight. Now go.” Thorne walked past Batman. Batman grabbed his arm as he passed. “If I were you I would rethink what you are going to do when you get back in town. I will beat Hood and still be here.”
“Why should I listen to you?”
“Your son lost his mother tonight. I think he should get to know his father.” Batman turned and walked out of the room leaving Thorne standing there looking at the mess in his living room. Thorne picked up his phone.
“If that masked fool thinks I am just going to leave town he is wrong.” Thorne dialed a number on his phone. He was calling his brother who ran a gang in another city. He told Thorne about a hitman that would help with his Batman problem. He did not want to use him until after he saw if Hood could make good on his promise, now he had no choice. “Hello Carl. Get me in touch with that hitman you told me about. And see if he can be here today.”

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Batman parked the Batmoblie in the Batcave, it had been a long night and he needed to get some rest. Alfred met him as he was getting out of the car.
“Good morning sir.” He said as he handed Batman a cup of coffee. Batman took of his mask and took a sip.
“Where are Marta and Bruce?” He asked.
“She went back to her sister’s house with young Master Wayne Sir. It would seem that her sister has taken ill again. She left you a note upstairs.”
“She is still mad about me being Batman. I am going to take a shower and get some sleep. Wake me in a few hours.” Wayne walked to the pathway that lead to his house. Alfred hoped that he would be able to sleep. From everything that he was told about this Hood Alfred knew that Thomas would need to be well rested to take him down.

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It was nine in the morning as the manager of 2nd National bank of Gotham opened the doors for the day. He was in a very good mood today. It was the last day before his vacation, his first one in two years. He was going to take two whole weeks with his wife and visit his son and his new wife. They just had their first child and he was looking forward to this trip very much. He watched as a stream of people walked in and waited at the windows for the tellers to wait on them. He went to his desk to fill out some paper work that he had been putting off. In fact he would not even be here today if he had done all of this last night. As he filled out the paper work he saw a man in a red hood walk into the front door.
“Oh no.” He thought to himself. He pressed the silent alarm button on his desk as the man pulled out his gun and fired into the air. The people in the bank hit the ground screaming and he ducked under his desk. He may look like a coward but he wanted to survive this to go on his vacation. One thing he did think as he crouched under his desk. H