Chapter 27: Arms Race

A man in a long coat with a hat on walked through a hallway. The sounds made from the soles of his shoes coming in contact with the tiles being the only sound through out the hallway.

The man had soon arrived at the end of the hallway and opened the door before him. In the room were six individuals seated around a round table.

The man ignoring the gazes now on himself walked to the seat before himself, sharing a look with the lady who sat at his right which turned out to be none other than lady Eve herself, and took a seat whilst taking of his hat and placing it on the table.

"Let the meeting begin." the man who is Sebastian spoke up.

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In the city Batman had arrived at an abandoned warehouse where an arms deal was about to go down.

You would think with all the talks about the batman, criminals would avoid this part of New York right, yeah no they keep coming one after the other all as though trying to prove something.

"You got the stuff?"One of the men who had just arrived spoke up, he was a small timer seeing as the bat couldn't recognise him immediately. He had seven guys around himself, who from the way they carried themselves Batman was certain they were all armed.

"You got my money?" the leader of the guys who had been here earlier spoke up, he was scruffy looking with his jacket and cig in his mouth he embodied the meaning of the word shady.

The newcomer looked at the cocky grin on his face before signalling one of his men who walked back to one of the cars they came in and popped open the trunk returning with a briefcase at hand.

The shady looking guy gestured for the case to be open, the guy look towards his boss who nodded at him before opening the case to reveal the stacks of cash within.

The shady looking guy whistled as he laid eyes on the money, "there we go" taking a puff of his cigarette he called to his men to bring over a crate.

"That's the stuff?"

The shady looking guy looked at the newcomer who asked the question, before beginning to explain. "This stuff is not like anything you've ever seen. This makes Ak's look like toys, with these babies at hand no one can stop you on these streets be it the police or the so called Batman with one blast from these babies they're all history." he pat the crate as he spoke.

That was it the Batman had heard enough and it was time to take them down, with that Batman dropped a couple of flash bangs and smoke bombs which all went off at once. The shady dude was confused as to what was going on, "What the hell?!" but unlike him the local criminals were feeling fear as they knew exactly what or rather who was here.

"Sh*t! the batman is here!" They shouted out as they began shooting into the smoke but it was to no avail as they couldn't see anything and were still disoriented from the earlier flash bangs.

Bats appeared before on of them grabbing his hand which held the gun raising it to face the ceiling before releasing quick jabs to his side and breaking a few ribs before flipping him into another guy and then firing a batarang which accurately disarmed two thugs. He then moved in to beat them both down and slid behind another guy cutting behind his legs with a batarang and forcing him to his knees before delivering a knee to his jaw.

The boss grabbed his suitcase of money and tried to high tail out of there but one batarang hit him behind the head sending him face first as his last two were swiftly taken down as well.

At this point the shady guy and his men were shocked. It had been at most ten seconds and all was now silent and being unable to see anything made the whole situation even more scary, " f*ck what are you waiting for, fire. fire god dammit"

The shady guy gave his orders as he and a few men placed the crate back in the car and began to drive off.

Batman had taken everyone else in the warehouse down and run out just in time to see the car speeding off, wasting no time he fired his grappling hook jumping above a building rushing after them before they left the warehouse District.

With a well aimed explosive batarang the vehicle lost a tire. The shady guy began cursing sending his men out but soon the gunfire stopped and all he heard were the screams of his men, his heart began to beat in a rapid fashion and his face as white as a sheet.

Prying open the crate he grabbed ahold of one of the weapons within and aimed it at the entrance and just as he expected Batman soon appeared but with one shot the bat was sent flying.

He began laughing like a mad man as he climbed out of the car which had fallen on its side. "hahaha not so though now are you" he mouthed off as he aimed at the bat who was struggling to get up after being blasted by God knows what. When Batman heard a weird sound and with his instincts telling him it wasn't anything good, rolled away just in time to avoid a blast from the weapon.

The shady kept firing whilst laughing like a mad man, with bats barely avoiding fire before firing a batarang at the guy who sneered and fired at batarang which promptly blew up creating a wall of fire before himself which in turn caused to take a step back as Batman came through the flames one hand taking the weapon away and the other hitting the guy away.

As the guy fell to the ground, Batman came over tying a cable round the guys neck before passing it over a beam and then wrapping it around a small protution and pulling causing the guy to be raised up by his neck hanging.

Batman grabbed his leg with his other hand preventing him from being hung to death. The shady guy began gasping for air while holding his neck.

"what was that weapon?"

"Go...f*ck... yourself."

Batman released his leg and pulled on the cable more for a few seconds before loosening it once more and grabbing his leg again "what was that weapon?"

"go... to... hell"

At that Batman repeated his action once more, this time not stopping till the guy's face began to turn blue. "you...won't... kill... me" the shady guy struggled to speak. "your right I won't. it's precisely because I don't kill that I know how to make you suffer without killing you, you'll be surprised how much the human body can take."

With his words, the shady guy broke into sweat before speaking up, "okay... wait. wait, I... don't know...all I know is... boss... brought them... in... from some... place." "Who is your boss?"

"He..." the guy began but Batman heard a familiar sound and ducked just a blast came from behind, going through the guy and destroying a building causing the ruble to fall on them both.

After a minute the was movement in the ruble, as Batman came out covered in a force field. He looked to where his attacker should have been to find no one, shifting his attention to the crate he saw it was destroyed as well, all that was left was the weapon the shady guy had used.

The sirens were soon heard as Batman picked up the weapon and disappeared into the night.