A Good Life, Good Enough - (1x1 with Silver Kuroi)

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"On it." Lea yelled, being the first to reach the love tunnel. "Guys! Heal the people, I'm going after Batman."

 

"Smooth move." Sora complimented Riku as they ran for the entrance.

 

"Try to keep up." Riku replied.

 

Approaching a wounded man, they quickly cast Curaga before heading in.

 

Riku explored the tunnel, dragging himself through the water. The cave was filled with a dim red light with pink hearts. "Kinda takes you back, doesn't it?"

 

Sora scoffed. "As if!"

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They saw Batman and Joker up ahead, hearing their conversation as Batman punched Joker and grabbed him by his collar. "No more!" He threw Joker overhead and into the opposite wall. He hit it with a loud smack, Joker rose out of the water somewhat dazed as Batman slammed his knee into the clown's chin and hit him again in the face. "All the people I've let die, by letting you go!" Joker smiled at Batman as he spat out a tooth in a bloody wad, "I never kept count." Batman grabbed his enemy and lifted him into the air by his collar, "I did!""I know! And I love you for it!" Joker slipped a switch-knife out of his suit into his hand, and took a slash at Batman.Batman slammed his elbow into the back of Joker's head, as Joker fell into the water he slashed Batman's abdomen in a long gash. 

Batman held his arm across his wound and glared at his hated foe.Joker walked over continuing to taunt Batman, "Its finally here isn't it? The moment we've both dreamed of!" Joker pinned him into the water, the only thing keeping Bruce from being stabbed, his grip on Joker's knife hand.Bruce's vision began to fade in and out, he could hear Joker's voice. "Oh don't tell me you're gonna fall asleep before we finish! You have gotten old haven't you?" 

 

Batman raged as he punched Joker in the face and flipped him into the water, grabbing him by the throat and slamming him against the wall. "Not...quite how I imagined it..but...we can still end on a high note!" 

Joker began to stab into Bat's stomach violently, laughing loudly as the blade entered and exited several times.Bruce thinks to himself, "This would be a fine death....but not fine enough." Batman twisted Joker's head, using Joker's movements against him, as his hated enemy spiraled into the wall.The sound of sirens could be heard outside of the tunnel. But Joker was still alive, and still taunting his greatest enemy."I'm really...quite disappointed in you. I gave you the greatest opportunity....and you didn't have the nerve to finish the job. Paralysis, really? I hear sirens....yes...you won't get far..but then again, it doesn't matter if you do....they'll kill you for this. And they'll never know, you didn't have the nerve." Joker started to twist his neck, "S-see you in hell." There was a loud crack, and Joker's laughter echoed throughout the tunnel. 

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Sora stared with his eyes wide open, reaching them just in time to Joker see commit suicide. "W-what....... no way. Why would the Joker do that?"

 

Riku leered at their dead foe. "He's trying to frame Bats for it. What should we do with the body?" Lea simply shook his head as they approached the exit.

 

"We'll have man in tights after us in no time." Riku noted.

 

"It's not fair!" Sora yelled, his voice echoing through the tunnel. "We're the good guys, so why are we the ones who look like villians?"

 

Lea stared at the boy with a cold, yet sad look. "If there's one thing to learn from today, its that people believe what they want, not what's right. Commit it to memory."

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 "Leave him, we have to go."  Batman said as he headed out towards the exit.

They arrived back at the mansion thanks to Robin's help with the copter, just in time for the lights to go out."Must be having an outage of some sort." Alfred mused."Robin, check your watch." Bruce said to her."Its uh..broken for some reason." Carrie said."No...." Bruce said wandering over to the window, "The entire city....is dark." "Seems that we're under the effects of an E.M.P. Electro Magnetic Pulse bomb, fired from most likely Corto Maltese...that the president has used Clark as a weapon of war against. The prison cells magnetic locks will have been undone, and if I know my city....they'll divulge into full scale rioting and looting in a short while." ---

Robin and Batman rode horses to the city dump, where a group of former mutants with blue bats tatooed on their faces, were getting ready to march on Gotham with deadly force and shotguns.Batman rode up to the mutant in charge and took the shotgun from him, "This is a clumsy stupid thing! These are loud and clumsy! The weapon of our enemies, our weapons," He held up a batarang, "Are precise and quiet! In time I will teach them to you! Tonight, WE..." He gestured to Sora, Lea, and Riku and the Sons of Batman. ",are the law! Tonight, I am the law!" 

 

The Sons didn't even try to argue, they got on the horses and began to ride out to Gotham.

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"We'll make sure to stop them then." Sora reassured, refusing to let more people die.

 

"Good thing our keyblades aren't magnetic. I'd hate to run around with a baseball bat." Lea cheered cynically.

 

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Sora tried to maintain balance on his horse, unused to riding one. "H-h-h-hey! Boy! Slow down!"

 

Riku and Lea sat calmly on theirs.

 

"Stay calm. Pretend you're the one being rode." Riku advised

 

"Calm, my butt. I'm getting off!." Sora moaned.

 

Lea sighed. "I won't even offer help on this one."

 

As Batman finished his speech, the horses set out for Gotham, along with the mutants.

 

"They really are your fanclub now." Lea joked.

 

"Stick to restraining magic for now. No explosions." Riku said. "Collateral damage to a minimal."

 

"Guuuuuuuuuuys! Help!" Sora shouted, riding backwards on his horse.

 

The two teens were speechless as they continued to gallop through the night.

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Batman and the others got there just in time for a splinter group of mutants to rush a group of looting civilians.Batman and the Sons of Batman lasso'd most of the looters and mutants, and put them on the sidewalk as Batman rode past them beginning to speak, "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. I'm here to appeal to your community spirit! Those who won't help will stay tied up, those who are willing to cooperate will be allowed to split into groups of three, this is OUR city, and I'm sure you're all eager to help!" Slowly, the mutants from the prison took off their visors and looked extremely guilty as they all began to help put out the fires and the food was split up between everyone in the groups.

 

----A few days later----

 

Bruce had one day unexpectedly received a visitor in his sitting room. He made sure that Carrie, Sora, Riku and Lea were there in attendance. Their visitor as a man with one arm, and scraggly white hair.

 

He lit a pipe and clenched it between his teeth as he greeted the youngsters, "Name's Oliver Queen, I'm sure Bruce has told you all about the old days when I was Green Arrow." As Oliver sat down in an armchair he began to talk to Bruce in the opposite chair, the others were seated in the other chairs surrounding the two."You've always had it wrong Bruce, Giving them such a big target, sure, you play it mysterious, but its a loud kind of mysterious. You got to learn how to make those sons of bitches work for ya. Look, its been five years since I blew outta prison, and you know I've kept busy." Oliver grinned at Bruce and the others. "And they, the government that is, have been covering up my escape, Sure they'd love to frost me, so long as they can do it without admitting I exist, but Bruce....man they have to kill you." 

 

Bruce glanced out the window, the sun was still hidden behind the clouds of overcast sky...and the snow hadn't stopped yet in all these days. It was rather gloomy. "What is it you want, Oliver?" Bruce asked.Blowing pipe smoke out his nostrils, Oliver smirked. "I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue schoolboy. World's not big enough for the two of ya. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him..." Oliver glanced down at his empty sleeve, "Just a piece, for old times sake, seems only right." 

Edited February 17, 2015 by Zachy1993

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Sora smiled as Batman calmed down the mutants.

 

"He's really changed, hasn't he?" Sora asked Riku.

 

"I guess we're rubbing off on him." Riku replied.

 

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Lea looked at the old man, trying to make sense of his way of speaking. However, the teens all understand what he meant."Heh, so you're Green Arrow. Way to stick it to the man all this time." Lea said, approving of being against Superman.Sora frowned at how Oliver's arm was gone due to Superman. "So I guess we'll really have to fight Clark. Do you think we can take him on without..... killing him?"

 

Riku shrugged, trying to come up with an answer. "If he's been working for the government all this time, then we won't be able to put up much of a challenge. I assume you have a plan, Mr. Queen?

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Oliver smiled at Riku, "I don't, he does." Oliver pointed at Bruce, who turned to address some of the teens concerns. "Don't worry about not being a challenge to him. Since you all three can do magic, you already have something that has caused him trouble in the past. He's weak to magic, and I happen to have a stock of something else he's even more weakened by." Oliver grinned, "So you kept a stock of it all these years...just in case." 

 

"Of course!" Bruce switched open the false bookcase door, and waved them all to follow him down to the cave. 

 

Where he led them was a secret room none of them even knew existed in the batcave. He performed a retinal scan to bypass the heavy security, and led them into an extremely high tech room with extra Batsuits lining the walls. They were black and red, (Think Batman Beyond's batsuit.) But above all else there was a massive tank of a batsuit for Bruce, that looked like he would have trouble walking in it."The batsuits that I designed for you three stretch to any size so don't worry about them fitting you. They'll increase your strength, speed and enhance any powers you already have..such as magic. They are equipped with nightvision, thermal vision, and a lock on targeting system. I want you three to wear them, not only because of the specs that I just mentioned. But because they each will tone down how much damage Superman will be able to deal to you...should he target you that is." 

 

Bruce turned to Oliver and waved him over to a large wall lined with file cabinets. Bruce pulled open one of the drawers and a green glow filled the room. Oliver laughed, "So I was right, you do have kryptonite!" Bruce shook his head, "Sorry...isn't the real stuff. The government made sure to eliminate all threats to their super-weapon a long time ago, this is synthetic stuff...that I designed myself. When the time is right, and by that I mean hold off on your lust for vengeance for a short bit while we wear him down and get his back turned to your position, you will have one shot and one shot only...with a kryptonite tipped arrow." 

 

Bruce looked over at Sora, "It won't kill him, but it'll weaken him enough that I can get my point across."

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 Sora and the teens stared at the batsuits in awe, surprised at Batman's list of functions. Sora's mouth dropped open as he pressed his hands against his face.

 

"I.... I gotta write all that stuff down!" He half joked, half considered.

 

Lea smiled at the suit, nodding his head. "Pretty hot. And I'll be sure to keep those functions memorized."

 

"Clark won't know what hit him." Riku said, considering the enhanced magic.

 

As Bruce showed the synthetic kryptonite, Sora gave a sigh of relief. Lea shook his head, taking in the plan.

 

"If we can convince him to join us, then we've practically won the war." Lea said.

 

"There's no going back once we fight. It might be our hardest. You guys ready?" Sora asked.

 

"Yep." Lea answered, cracking his knuckles. "I've wanted to give him a peace of my mind anyway."

 

"Just make sure you use the bathroom first." Riku joked.

 

 

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Bruce was in the central chamber of the batcave when they came out in their custom batsuits. 

 

He held up a green pill to show them all, "This pill is a modified version of what prisoners of war use to make them appear dead so they can escape. It slows a person's heart down to an undetectable crawl and for all intents and purposes I will be dead. It will not kick in once I take it, for over ten minutes. Just enough time to get things across to Clark. It will last long enough for a funeral, and for Alfred to leave the country and all my stocks to be sold and my fortune to be put to good use as making the mansion an orphanage..which is in my will. Once the funeral is over and all of you and Robin are alone in the cematary, you'll need to dig me up and pry open the coffin. Gruesome I know but-" Bruce was interrupted by Alfred clearing his throat for attention.Bruce turned to his loyal butler and closest friend, Alfred's eyes were moist with unshed tears. "I never wanted this for you. I always dreamed that you'd grow to have a family of your own, maybe a few kids. But I suppose this is the last time I'll see you?" Alfred cleared his throat awkwardly and held out his hand. Bruce stared at Alfred and pulled him into a gentle hug. "Thank you for everything my friend." Bruce said, his voice somewhat breaking.Alfred patted Bruce's back and shed the held back tears.

They seperated, and Alfred picked up his suitcase and put on his coat and hat. "Goodbye Bruce, Its been an honor serving the Wayne family all these years." 

 

"As per my will you will receive what hasn't been used to open the Wayne Family Children's Home. Which should be a considerable amount, enough that you'll be able to see the world like you always wanted." 

 

Alfred smiled and walked over to the trio and Carrie, "Thank you for all that you've done for him.. I've enjoyed getting to know you all." 

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"This suit is awesome!" Sora cheered, moving around. Accidentally using the night vision, he tripped on the floor.

"Klutz." Riku sneered.

 

Sora smiled. "You wanna duel?"

 

"Wait, Bruce is talking." Lea interrupted.

 

After listening to Batman's plan on faking his death, the teens frowned. Alfred's farewell brought moistness to their eyes, as well.

 

"Wait..... so we'll never see you again?" Sora asked, surprised by the plan.

 

Lea shoved his hands into his pockets, giving a facade of indifference to hide his shock. "Well, it's been real, Bats. Glad to see you've changed for the better."

 

Sora remained silent as Riku walked forward, giving a handshake to Batman.

 

"Even if we're far, we're still connected by our hearts." He said to Bruce.

 

"....and our friendship." Sora added slowly.

 

Lea cleared his throat, trying to find the right words.

"Well, I'm not much for emotional talk, so I'll get to the point. I'm seeing you in a different light now. We won't forget you, so don't forget us either. I'm Lea, got it memorized?"

 

"Heh. Nice speech, Axel." Sora tried to ease the moment.

 

"It's Lea! I just said Lea! Get it memorized!" The boy with red spikes complained.

 

Riku nodded his head towards Bruce. "So.... we'll be heading out now. Thanks for the suits."

 

Sora stumbled again, trying to look around. He knew he was ruining the mood, but he couldn't help it. "Someone turn off this night vision for me?"

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Batman nodded and he and Robin led them to the Batmobile. He helped Carrie inside and once she was he stepped up to the trio, "Listen, don't think of it as you won't see me again, in fact I've got a few things in mind so that we won't have to say goodbye so soon. I'll explain later, right now we're headed to Crime Alley, its ironic that we're headed there for my last stint as Batman, seeing as it was there that this all started...when my parents were murdered." Batman took the wheel once they were all in, and they drove to crime alley. Seeing military helicopters overhead and snipers on the roofs,Bruce smirked. "This will be a great way to go out, Bruce Wayne may meet his end here, but Batman will live on forever. Long ago my master told me something that I didn't understand at the time. He said that men can be destroyed, but ideals and legends live forever. I've set up a test for the big boy, some missiles that will be triggered by his X-ray vision, to see how strong he is without the sun and after being hit with that bomb. Speaking of which, Superman has been known to lift as much as twelve tons. And be sure to look out for his heat vision. The suits you're wearing will mimic his strength to a certain degree, as does mine though mine's an older model. You should be able to lift as much without a struggle."  Bruce spoke into a microphone in the batmobile "Oliver, do you read me?" "Loud and clear!" Oliver's voice said over the speaker."Have you reached the rooftops of Crime Alley yet?" Batman asked."That's a negative! I'll be there soon enough!" Oliver said.Batman shut off the microphone for now, and they arrived on the block, just as the missiles began knocking Superman through the sky, Batman rushed out of the batmobile and took up his position behind a wall.As Superman landed in front of the Batmobile, Carrie took her position at the cannons, and hit him with one, knocking him into a wall. Carrie grinned deviously as she fired another.That he took like it was nothing by punching it, causing it to blow up, as he flew towards the batmobile and flipped it over onto its side. He tore open the hatch and glared down at Carrie and the others. "Isn't this a school night?" He asked with a frown.They heard Batman's voice call out to their enemy. "Clark! This is between you and me!" Batman approached Superman, as he flew down from the batmobile, they stood there in front of each other. The Man of Steel and the Dark Knight.Superman stood in front of the flipped over Batmobile, "We don't have to do this, Bruce." Bruce glared behind the white slitted helmet, "Of course we do!" Batman revealed a sonic gun, and blasted Superman with sound waves, the effect on him was surprising, he fell to the ground and his nose began to bleed.Angered, Superman ripped the gun from Batman's hand and crushed it easily. "Bruce, be reasonable, you know what my orders are!" "Your..orders!?" Batman growled, taking Superman's hand and began electrocuting him, causing him to kneel in pain as Batman clamped both electro-fied gauntlets over Clark's head. "You say you answer to some sort of authority! They only want me dead cause I've shamed them by doing what they can't!"Superman managed to sever Batman's connection wires to the connection post, and flipped him over his head and into the batmobile. "It doesn't matter what you say! Its THEIR world and they won't stand for you anymore! If its not me it'll be someone else!""That's right keep talking Clark, you always knew what to say to anyone with a badge, or a flag. But still, I'm not getting even a hundredth of what you truly are, I think its time you finally learned what it means to be a man." Batman charged Superman, using the thrusters on his boots to provide him with an extra burst, he hit Superman in the face, hard, sending him spiraling through a wall into a construction yard.Batman called to the trio, "Boys! Lets go!" 

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Lea smirked under his mask, summoning his keyblade."Aw, Clark. You really are loyal to orders from the government. It makes me SO FLATTERED!" Surrounding them with a pillar of flame, it rose to the sky due to the enhanced suit.

 

Standing on top of a bulldozer, Riku leaped into the air, sending out three dark firagas. The result was a dark mega flare which rose to the sky as well.

Sora ran towards Superman, throwing his keyblade at Superman, then doing a quick spin as he caught it again.

 

"Take this! Lightning!" Sora yelled, summoning a huge thundaga bolt to strike their enemy.

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Superman was quite stunned at the teens powers, but he'd been through worse than what they had to offer. His suit was damaged, and he had burns from the lightning and flame burns. But he spotted Batman and grabbed a wrecking ball from a crane and threw it at them. Batman flipped out of the way and grabbed the rollers of the bulldozers, and ripped them off their hinges and charged Superman. He began pummeling Superman with them until they broke into bits. Grabbing Batman by his helmet and holding him up easily, he glared. "Bruce this is idiotic! You're just meat and bone, like all the rest!" Delivering a palm strike which imprinted his hand on Batman's armor, he sent him flying through a wall and skidding to a stop on the very street where his parents died.Looking around, he realized he had lost his helmet, just as Clark landed on him with both feet. "AARGH!" Bruce cried out as he was picked up by his throat and spun around, then thrown back at the trio. 

 

Clark landed in front of Bruce, who dodged out of the way of another bone crushing punch. Clark stood back up, "That was THREE ribs just now, Bruce!" Bruce stood back up though, his armor nearly broken. "Just surrender quietly and it won't have to be this hard!" Superman said, taking long strides towards Bruce. Bruce looked angered, "Come on now Clark, you know me better than that...." then proceeded to spit a big glob of saliva on the 'S' shield on Clark's chest. 

 

Superman looked infuriated, "Very well..." At lightning speed Clark flew at Bruce and grabbed him by his throat, beginning to choke him. "I'll try to make this quick and painless as possible." Clark spoke."I wurrgh!" Bruce choked out. "What did you say?" Clark asked. Bruce grinned widely at his rival, "I said....I won't!" Then proceeded to spray acid directly into Clark's eyes, from a secret compartment on his gauntlet. 

 

He then pulled a large cylinder from his utility belt and slammed it onto Clark's chest as he was let go of. 

 

The cylinder beeped and blinked and then exploded in Clark's face. 

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The teens ran to Bruce, reaching him as an explosion erupted the scene, "You alright?" Sora yelled, casting Cura in Bruce's direction. As the green glow worked its magic, Riku and Lea surrounded Clark on both sides.

 

Lea lit a flame circle around his body before charging straight at Superman with his Flame Surge. "Hehe, I'll enjoy this!"  After charging their adversary, he waved his keyblade, summoning down a meteor right above their heads. "EAT THIS!" He yelled, getting blasted back in the process.

 

Riku fired a seething orb of darkness at his target. As it flowed toward Superman who was still recovering, the orb split into thirteen, surrounding the man of steel before exploding. Leaping into the air again, he aimed his keyblade at the ground as it glowed dark brown. "Quake!" Superman was surrounded by rocks as Riku charged in for a quick blitz.

 

"Don't forget me!" Sora said, holding his keyblade behind him. In a split second, the Zantetsuken allowed him to make a slash at Superman before Riku could even land his attack.

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Superman was now struggling to stand, he was bleeding from his mouth and nose, and had several bruises on his body. His left eye was now swollen shut  and he advanced on the team, zapping Sora with his heat vision.He was too distracted to hear Bruce saying into his gauntlet, "Oliver! Now! It HAS to be now!" Unknown to anyone, Oliver had made his way to the construction yard and had pulled back the bowstring with his teeth, the kryptonite arrow loaded and then.TWANG!The tip of the kryptonite arrow lodged itself in Superman's leg, and exploded with green energy surrounding the Man of Steel. Clark gasped in a ragged breath and collapsed to the ground, struggling to breathe. Bruce walked past the teenagers and stood over the fallen Kryptonian."It wasn't easy to make, Clark. It took years and it cost a fortune...luckily for us I had both." Bruce delivered a good punch to Clark's lip, causing his lip to break and leak blood."We could've changed the world for the better. But now look at us, I've become a political liability and you, you're a joke." Bruce sneered.As Clark gasped for air and his vision blurred, Bruce spoke again, taking notice of the synthetic kryptonite's effects. "You're feeling it now aren't you? What the rest of us loathe every single day....your own mortality. Don't worry about dying, the kryptonite will work its way out of your system..." Kicking Superman in the chin over on his back, Bruce grabbed him by the throat and leered into his eyes."I want you to remember Clark, I want you to remember my hand on your throat. In all the years to come in your most private moments, I want you to remember the people who beat you." It was clear to everyone that Bruce was struggling to say these final words to Clark, with each word gasped like he was out of breath all of a sudden.Bruce dropped Clark suddenly, gasping for air he collapsed on the ground, for all intents and purposes...dead.The military men could be heard rolling their tanks up to the area. Just then the Batmobile roared into sight, Oliver rushed to Bruce and heaved him over his shoulder. "C'mon we have to go!" He called to the trio before climbing into the batmobile with Bruce. 

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Sora was thrown back, barely managing to break his fall. "I'm alright!"

 

"Nice shot, Oliver!" Lea said, giving a thumbs up. The arrow had crippled Superman easily.

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As Batman died, Sora and the others fled with Oliver into the batmobile.

 

"That was a.... heartfelt speech." Riku commented. He was sure it would affect Clark in some way, for better or worse.

 

Lea sat in silence, feeling his suit. "We still get to keep these?" He then shrugged playfully.

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In the days following, the media was baffled as to the disappearance of Bruce Wayne, the government was claiming that he died in a battle with the military, but some people weren't buying it.Now the trio were being led by Oliver and a group of former mutants and Sons of Batman. Oliver stopped, "Get a lamp up on that ledge! And you, one there too!" Oliver ordered the Sons, pointing his bow at the places. 

 

He laid a couple blueprints of the place down on the rocky floor, "There's a fresh spring under here, I want our water supply ready in one hour. We ain't got forever people!" Oliver called out to everyone."Sure we do!" A familiar voice said out of the darkness of the tunnel behind. It was Bruce and with him Robin. The group of mutants and Sons of Batman formed two lines apart from each other, to let them through. The ones who weren't wearing visors, the blue bat face tattooed Sons, looked so shocked and in amazement that it made Robin chuckle a little.Bruce and Robin made their way to the front of the group, who gathered around him in awe, in their eyes, he had conquered death itself.Bruce looked around, winking at Sora, Riku, and Lea.

 

"Starting now I'm going to teach you everything." He said addressing the gathered mutants and Sons. "All of my ways, all of my skills, all of my secrets." The group of teenagers looked like they'd just woken up on Christmas morning and found their favorite toy under the tree.Bruce continued, "You will be my army operating in the shadows, keeping Gotham safe. And we're going to take, as long as we need." "Now do what Oliver says, and get to work." Bruce ordered them."Right boss!""You got it boss!"-- 

Oliver approached Bruce, "Heard the schoolboy found you out." Bruce smiled as he knelt to look at the blueprints, "It'll be alright, I think the message got through to him. As long as we stay quiet and careful, he'll leave us alone." Oliver smirked, "You gonna be okay with this?" 

 

Bruce grinned at Oliver, "This quieter mysterious?" Bruce smiled a genuine smile as he stood up and led them all over to a ledge."I spent all these years looking for a good death. But this'll be a good life." Bruce said as he looked at the mutants hooking up monitors and various other technology. Turning around and smiling at his teenage friends, "Good enough..."

 

As the Bat symbol appeared on the monitors, Oliver walked back to make sure the Sons weren't having too much trouble.

 

"Riku, Sora, Lea? I want to thank you for all of your help. And there's only one thing that can measure up to show how much I'm grateful. Come with me. Oh and by the way Lea, you can all keep the suits, think of them as souvenirs to remember my world by when you're all off kicking heartless butt." Bruce smiled as he led them to a chamber behind the one they were currently overlooking.Placing his hand on a panel of rock that revealed itself to be made of metal not rock. The rock wall opened up like two double doors and Bruce ld them into a room filled with technology he'd got over the years."I confiscated a lot of these from villains I encountered over the years. But there's one that might interest you above all the rest." He led them up to a podium which had what appeared to be a floating metal orb on it."This is something I've kept secret for years. I'll try to explain it as best as I can. I'm sure you're all three familiar with traveling different worlds. But this right here, is a key to different realities that exist on this plane you're in right now. Think of it as a way to not only stay in contact with me, but get to see alternate realities where none of this tragedy you've been told about and experienced first hand over the time you've been here, happened in the first place." 

 

Bruce continued, "I'm in particular interested in sending you to a reality where the league has never been disbanded, and Clark...well...Clark is an entirely different person than he has been here. He helps people, on his own terms, not any government's. I've actually used it before, discreetly though. Its quite an experience." Bruce smiled at them, "Interested?" 

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"Quite an army you got there." Riku nodded.

 

The teens still couldn't believe that the mutants followed Bruce so easily. As they split into a line of two, Sora had to surpress a giggle.

 

"They're so proud of you. Don't let 'em down." Lea said.

 

"And may the Sons of Batman live on forever" Sora whispered.

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"Darn, man in tights is a smart one." Lea shook his head, frowning at how Clark figured everything out.

 

"You heard Bruce. We're okay." Riku replied.

 

When Batman talked about a good life, they felt a warm feeling in their hearts, glad that everything worked out in the end.

 

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Lea smirked gleefully, imagining if he used suit enhanced flame wall against a darkside heartless.

 

He pumped his fist into the air. "That would've taught him not to mess with us!"

 

As Bruce thanked them and showed the orbs, the trio couldn't help but smile at each other.

 

"I'm sure Mickey has everything covered, right?" Sora said, trying to contain his excitement.

 

"Kairi is pretty strong too." Riku said as he gave an exaggerated shrug.

 

Lea crossed his arms, looking at Bruce. "Of course we're interested. As long as there are bad guys out there, we won't rest until we stop them. And we'll make sure it'll be an experience they'll never forget."

Edited February 18, 2015 by Tatsumi

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Bruce smiled and gave them the orbs, "Have fun boys, see you again someday." That was when they all felt their vision begin to blur at the edges, and Bruce and his cave got further and further away until they found themselves going down a tunnel.Visions filled their head, they saw someone being born on a distant planet, being put in a small space pod, they saw the father of the alien boy talking to his child. "Go my son, the hopes and dreams of Krypton travel with you." 

 

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They saw a police conference with a young Jim Gordon, his hair and facial hair were ginger...not the old man they knew from the other world. In the police conference, there were several artist depictions of what the Batman as they called him, looked like.Most of them were dead wrong, depicting him more as a humanoid bat creature than anything else.A man sitting in front of the crowd of cops next to Gordon, spoke up, it was clear he was pretty shaken. "I'm telling you! Its not human! One of the felons I was apprehending shot it point blank range and it passed right through it! It shot these claws at the felons, and they were paralyzed! But it didn' go after me! It singled me out! It chose me!" 

---That was when they found themselves in the batcave, this one was a lot bigger than the one they were used to. It had a sleek look to it, There was a circular area with five different batmobiles on it. None were like the tank they had grown accustomed to, they were more sleek and shiny.Off to the side there was an area where a Bruce Wayne, no older than his 30's, was sitting in a swivel chair in deep thought, the batcomputer was behind him, and it looked a lot more advanced than the one they had seen before.Then they spotted the Joker wandering up behind him out of the darkness. "So its true, you do actually practice brooding, always suspected." "I'm working." Bruce said, not at all worried."With the computer off." The Joker replied.Bruce pulled up a hologram of a grid, "Satisfied? I'm working on testing a new system. A contact lens linked to the computer down here." "And Dick, take off the E.M.P. mask." The Joker's body showed static for a moment, and then a young man, barely older than the trio, appeared in his place. "So...a contact lens with remote access to the bat-computer? Meaning anywhere you go, the batcave goes with you?" Dick Grayson asked."Pretty much." Bruce replied."Now that sounds healthy." Dick joked.

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The trio was disoriented as they arrived in the batcave, trying to make sense of the visions.

 

"That child must've been Clark." Riku deduced.

 

"Gordon looks much younger too." Sora replied.

 

"Batman is not a bat! What are they thinking?" Lea laughed.

 

As they saw the Joker, they summoned their weapons, prepared to fight, until it was revealed to be a hologram. Considering how they should talk, Sora started with a wave.

 

"Hey, Bruce. Would you believe it if we told you we came from an alternate universe where Clark is bad?" Sora asked.

 

"Oh, reeeeal smooth, Sora." Lea joked.

 

"The alternate Bruce gave us a sphere to come here." Riku added. "I'm Riku. That's Sora, and the redhead is Axel."

 

Lea simply groaned. "L-E-A. Get it memorized, geez."

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Both of them turned around, "Hey how'd you get in-" Dick started to say."They're not lying." Bruce said, calming down Grayson.

"How do you know?" Dick asked."Remember that time when we got thrown into an alternate dimension? This kinda thing isn't exactly uncharted territory for us." "We'd better get going, the guests will be here any minute." Bruce said."Should I uh...hook our new friends up with some tuxedos?" Dick asked."I almost forgot about that." Bruce said as he pressed a button on the computer and all the boys' clothes changed to fancy tuxedos. "This'll have to do for you three. Sorry....don't have any extra, but thankfully nobody will know the difference." Bruce said as he led the four of them out into the foyer."So how'd I do as him?" Dick asked."Are you asking me if you were convincing as a homicidal maniac?" Bruce asked."Suppose I am." Dick answered."You did fine," Bruce smirked."Score one for Alfred's school of acting." Dick said.The door to the foyer opened and there stood a small boy who very closely resembled Bruce, and a slightly taller boy. "Finally." The smaller boy said, and began messing with his tie uncomfortably."Facial recognition go." Bruce said, and suddenly bits of information on the three boys appeared in front of the trio's faces.The boy with the small younger kid was named Tim Drake, it said he was the former Robin and current Red Robin for a group called the Teen Titans.The smallest boy's info said he was Damien Wayne, and he was the current Robin.Dick's info came up that he was a former Robin and currently a hero called Nightwing.

"Tell me he's not using facial rec for the party." Tim groaned."The party? He's using it to remember who YOU are, Drake!" Damien replied."And....zing!" Dick joked.

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"Glad to see he didn't find us suspicious." Sora sighed, relived."Everything is normal, these days." Riku replied.The trio gasped as they found themselves in fancy tuxedos. As Sora loosened his tie, Riku felt the material of his blazer. "Never seen that tech before." The older teen noted.

 

Lea stretched his arms behind his head, savoring the black suit. "You're much cooler than the other Bruce. I gave 'ya a ten out of ten."

 

Riku shrugged as Dick asked how he was as Joker. "Could've fooled me. I didn't sense a dark heart from you though."

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After reading the information, Sora nodded, taking it in.

 

"So three Robins! That's almost as much Xehanorts we have!" he joked.

 

"Damien looks like you. Is he your son?" Riku asked, using deduction.

 

Lea simply shrugged. "This is much livelier than the last world. I think I'll enjoy it. My name's L-E-A. Got it memorized?"

 

Riku elbowed him. "Just call him Axel. I'm Riku."

 

"Sora." The last boy added.

 

Lea straightened his back, getting serious. "So, a party?"

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"Whats a Xe-ah-snort?" Tim asked.

"Yeah...I'm his son. Pleasure to meet you!" Damien said politely.

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Once they were in the party room, Bruce gave a speech about how with other's help he could change this city for the better, presenting a hologram of Gotham with three new buildings that touched the sky.

Once that was over Bruce and the trio were approached by an Alfred who was not nearly as old as the previous one, who quietly said to Bruce. "Very good Master Bruce, inspiring and thorough. Though you failed to mention any of the new Bat-bunkers you may very well be installing in those new skyscrapers." 

 

"Must've slipped my mind." Bruce replied.

That was when the window behind the podium where Bruce had gave his speech shattered into thousands of pieces, and a man dressed in all black lunged through. 

The figure spoke directly to Gordon of all people. "James Gordon...the Court of Owls has sentenced you to die." 

 

Throwing a knife that lodged itself in Gordon's chest, Gordon fell to the floor, bleeding as the guests panicked. 

Grabbing the dark figure in a headlock, Bruce attempted to crush his windpipe. 

"What the....it only takes eleven pounds of pressure to crush a windpipe. I'm using a hundred and this freak's not hurt at all. Some kind of drug, a new kind of venom?" He murmured to himself, just as the assassin stabbed two knives into Bruce's sides.

As Bruce staggered back, the hooded figure spoke again. "If you interfere with The Court, you will die as well." 

Raising a knife to stab Bruce again, the figure found a hole in his mask blown through, as Gordon weakly shot him in the back of the head.

The figure stumbled and fell to the floor.

 

With all the guests gone, a heavyset man wearing a brown trenchcoat and matching hat burst into the room, gun drawn. "What the hell's going on in here!? We're gettin' reports of some kinda freakshow throwin' knives!" Harvey Bullock shouted, two beat cops flanking his sides.

Gordon grinned weakly, "You're a bit late Harvey..." 

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"A really old guy who has lots of clones." Lea simplified."Nice to meet you. Didn't know Bats was the romantic type." Riku replied.----------After listening to the speech, Sora and the others clapped at his eloquence."Whether young or old, he sure knows how to make a speech." Sora said.As the figure attacked, the trio summoned their keyblades and set into action, but were to slow. "A hundred pounds? What is he?" Riku yelled as he ran over to Bruce. Fortunately, Gordon fired a shot before anyone else could be hurt. While Riku and Sora healed the two men, Lea stood over the now unconscious enemy."Kinda late, guys." Lea murmured to the cop. "This man is pretty strong. Don't let him escape easily."