Chapter 36-Doomed!
Chapter 36b
SELINA KYLE
The fallout from the whole Joker and Wayne Enterprises ordeal had been massive and despite it being weeks since the whole issue had been resolved things were still not back to normal.
The mayor had been forced to reign once his connection to the Talia had been made public, along with their new DA Harvey Dent who had been the mayor's instrument of attack in all this.
Gotham was still reeling from the shock. Speculation about Batman's secret identity had gotten even more intense, and now there were dedicated TV shows about this whole affair. Thomas planned to have all this speculation end soon, yet forcing news as such down would have the opposite effect, in his words, and they just had to muddy the water.
Thomas had regained control of Wayne Enterprises, even though the main culprit behind the whole affair, Ducard's daughter Talia, had managed to slither away in the ensuing chaos.
"I still cannot believe that you were rescued by Batman," uttered her sister Helena as she sat in her room, huddled up beside her as they had some alone time. Thomas was still at the company, trying to get everything back in order.
"It was nothing special," she replied as Helena looked at her wide-eyed.
"Nothing. You were rescued by Batman. The Batman! Do you know just what kind of bragging rights that gives me at school that my sister was saved by the caped crusader," she exclaimed, her eyes sparkling with excitement. Selina couldn't help but wonder how much more surprised she would be if she learned that they were currently living in the same manner as Batman as well.
"Tell me what was he like?" she bombarded him with questions, which Selina continued to ignore, her eyes still glued to the TV screen where a list of names continued to be spouted as a possible identity for Batman, that was until suddenly the whole broadcast was interrupted.
SHHHHHHH.
SHHHHHHH.
The screen scrambled, making Helena quiet down. Selina frowned. That should not happen.
"Al..." she was about to call Alfred when suddenly text began to appear on the screen once more shuffling greatly as a silhouette of a head flickered as well.
"You are not alone!"
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HARVEY DENT
Harvey Dent had his whole life turned upside down in a month. What was once a promising and stellar career as the chief prosecutor as Gotham's Da had been turned to smoke, and it was all because of one man.
Thomas Wayne.
The rich scion of the Wayne family was the undeclared ruler of the city, using his wealth and influence to get away with things that would have landed any normal person in prison. When Harvey had taken his oath as the Da he had taken an oath to rid Gotham of all evil, including one that seemed to be worshipped by the city.
And when a possible connection with the Mob has showed up he had felt that this was his calling, that this was what he could use to nail this proverbial saint.
He had been encouraged by their mayor to go after the Wayne scion, and he had and in just a few weeks the career he had spent half his life building up had gone up in smoke.
Even the people whom he had called friends, had distanced themselves from him to not incur the wrath of the man named Thomas Wayne.
And now as he sat alone in a shitty bar, sipping cheap wine as his head tumbled, someone sat down beside him.
"Hello, handsome," she called out, and he realized just who it was.
"Don't you think you have enough to drink," she called out, and he noticed how her hair was blonde and straight, and a thick black mascara accentuated her eyes.
"I don't think there is anything as such as too much when it comes to drinking," he said, and as he reached for the glass once more, she pushed it away.
"I tend to disagree," she said sultrily as she leaned forward.
"Why just continue to drink....when you can have much more," she said, and in his muddled mind, he saw her face overlap with another and decided to reach into his pocket.
"Well, why don't we let Chance decide," he said as he showed her his signature coin.
"Heads and you leave me alone and let me drink as I please," he began as he twisted teh coin in his hand.
"Tails and we both leave here together," he said and she smirked.
"Ohh, a man of mystery. I like that," and he missed how the TV screen distorted as he flipped the coin in the air. just as he was about to catch it once again, he was startled by a distorted mechanical voice that made him look up at the TV as the coin fell to the ground.
"You are not alone."
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THOMAS WAYNE
Thomas sat in his office tired from all the messes he had to clear up after the whole Joker debacle, and even now, despite it being a near sleepless week Wayne Enterprises had finally begun to come out of the disaster that had ensued.
The damages caused by the riots were extreme and many in the company had been speaking against the common people for their rage, using this opportunity to pressure him into shutting down all the public welfare programs he ran.
Not that he was going to let that happen. Yes, he was disappointed, but that did not mean he had to abandon the poor and the needy.
Though all that would come later, it was finally time for the vaunted meeting with the one person who had kept avoiding him for quite some years.
He had gone back over his initial research and found many mistakes, many deliberate misleads, that had thrown him off, keeping him unaware of them and some other very important people.
And it had all been done by her. She sat opposite him in a suit dressed impeccably as her eyes scanned the room. Her beauty was regal with a hint of danger and mystery, and her black hair flowed behind her head.
"So, we finally meet," he spoke, and she nodded.
"Indeed we do," she replied as her eyes nodded.
"Now, before I begin, I must ask," he began as he leaned forward.
"Why did you tamper with my search all those years ago, Princess?" he asked, and a pained look crossed her face as she answered hesitantly.
"It was for your own good," she answered, making him frown.
"My own good? How?" he was puzzled as she looked up.
"Have you ever wondered what makes you so unique, Thomas?" she asked, and a chill ran down his spine.
"You are an anomaly, a mistake. One which could unravel this whole reality by his mere existence," she added with pity in her eyes as alarm bells rang in his head.
'She knew,' he guessed.
"I wouldn't go that far. Unlike you and your other friends, I do not have any powers. In truth, I am but a simple human, a smart one, I would say, but human nonetheless," he added, and she shook her head.
"You are anything but simple *****," and her words made him still.
"Why did you hide them all from me, Princess of Themyscira?" he questioned once more, and she did not answer as she looked him in the eye.
And then, before he could react in a blur she was infront of him, as pain ripped through his chest.
"ARGH!" he coughed out in pain and glanced down, and found a sword bulging out of his chest as his shirt began to get cored red.
"Why?" he gasped out as he looked up and found Diana Prince infront of him, holding the blade as her eyes teared up.
"Because the world is not yet ready. Because your mere presence could bring destruction to this whole universe," she said and he was enraged and angry.
"I... I...did....not...."
"I know," she said as she held him tenderly, even as he felt his vision darken and hypoxia began to slow down his brain.
"It is why I avoided you? Because I knew that if we were ever to meet, I would have to do this," she said as she laid him on the ground.
He reached for the sword, trying to pull it away, yet she was a literal demi-god. Her strength made it impossible for him to move as his breath quickened.
"I am sorry for it."
And the darkness overcame as he heard a last whisper.
"Cousin."
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DIANA PRINCE
Diana Prince had always sought family. Sough a friend. She sought the companionship of a person who would realize what it meant to be her.
And now, as she lay the dying body of Thomas Wayne on the floor, she realized that she had ended a chance at that very thing with her own hands. And for what?
For the good of the universe.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she saw the light leave his eyes and the power leave his hand, as she whispered.
"I am sorry, but there was no other way," she uttered.
Yet suddenly, she felt the skies shift as the TV screen in his office shifted, sending a chill down her spine. The screen distorted before a shadowy humanoid figure appeared for a second as the ominous words flashed on the screen.
"You are not alone."
As soon as that voice reached her ears, dread filled her, for she realized that it was perhaps too late.
That she may have just doomed the entire world.
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