บท 6: War in The Mayor mansion
Bruce Wayne starred at his hand to see a crumpled paper. When he unfolded it, his eyes suddenly become sharper. It was a warning message.
"Suit up. It's time to become a real hero"
"So it was him after all" Bruce thought while letting out a small smile for a moment before focusing again "That message though....Did he know that I already have my costume ready? No that's impossible, but how then? Well, will see that later, like he said what will happen, will happen in no time"
Bruce put the paper in his pocket and took his phone. "Alfred? Meet me in the east alley and bring the suit, it's time for Batman meet with the powers of the city"
After the lieutenant Gordon and Diggle get out of the toilet, they directly went to met with the others. When they arrived, Diggle directly suggested Barbara to go dancing on the dance floor with James. Thing that she agreed with enthusiasm and without his support, tooke his husband who was couldn't even try to refuse. When they went away, Diggle starred intensively at Mallory like he wanted something. The later immediately understood the meaning and closed her green eyes. When opened them again, they turn deep purple in colour. Mallory then started to stare at Marisa for almost five seconds before her eyes returned green. "In ten minutes" She said while turning her head to look at Diggle. The later nod his head and whisper "Let's go" before saying to his mother that they were going to play with the other children. When Diggle's mother agree, they didn't linger around and directly run in the direction of where the other children were playing.
When their mother shift her eyes from them, they changed their direction right away and went in the opposite direction. In the direction of the back Door.
When they reached the door it was locked, but Diggle quickly unlocked it but at the same time, a thought crossed his mind "If that door normally reserved for the staff member is locked, it's means that apart from a few, nobody is supposed to survive tonight"
The back Door Leeds on Backyard full of car. It was the cars belonging to the guests, but when Mallory looked at them she asked "Is it normal that all cars have missing tires?" When he heard that, Diggle started to look at them too and true, all cars had their tires removed! "No it's not, but that just show how much they want the people here to be killed tonight"Diggle replied disgust by their ruthless way of doing things. He then look at Mallory with concerns "Mallory, are you sure you want to be there? This wouldn't be a gameplay anymore you know? People would die there. We won't be able to save them all even if we want to, and.....you can be injured for real or even be killed so are you certain? Because after that, there's no turning back"
Even if Diggle promised to make her a hero, Diggle didn't want her to become one. Even if he knew that people with super ability in DC universe cannot have a normal life no matter what, he couldn't help but try to convince her and himself to the contrary. Mallory was only seven, but he knew that sometimes, because of her power, she will have nightmares and see something that a kid at her age should never see or anyone else. And due to that, she came to mature more quickly than the other in her age and understand that no matter how much you are super, you will never be able to save everyone.
But it didn't mean that she stopped believing of being a superhero, on a contrary. That why, when Diggle asked her if she wanted to stop, she directly said "I'm determined to save as much life as I could save tonight. And I will never allow auntie to be killed..." She didn't finish but internally said 'like my parents'.
Diggle just sigh at her answer and lead her to their mom's car "Well, remember what I said this morning. Mom knew our outfit, and they are tailored so no matter what, she can never see you. At no time, you hear? You take the enemy down, you lead her in a safe place, but don't be seen by her" Mallory nodded and get in the car causing another sigh from Diggle "Well let's do this then"
Ten minutes later, on the second floor, in a spacious room, twenty or so hooded peoples could be seen with guns in their hand, and knifes in their pockets not moving and waiting for something, when someone knock the door. "I have a message from Salvatore Maroni to whoever is inside. The message is 'ready, go!'" said the voice of server, not knowing that what he said just condemned him. On the same floor, another server, was also knocking at a door also full of people.
"Yes? What is it?" said a voice inside. "I have a message from the Roman 'It's time'".
The same thing was happening in the other upper floor of the Mansion, but while everyone was preparing to going out, unknowingly to everyone the mayor was nowhere to be seen since a while now.
In The Ballroom, the guest were all happily chatting with each other and dancing, when suddenly, someone break-in the room in scream. Causing everyone to focus on him. And what they saw, was a man wearing the white smocking of servers tainted in blood. "They are coming!! An army of Of the armed people are coming here, Run everyone!!!"
That statement from him start to cause a big commotion among them, but nobody moved, that was until several armed men hooded enter after him and shoot him with a rifle.
That hit followed by a minute of silence with neither side moving before scream could be hear everywhere. The Ballroom was a circular room and possess seven exit. The main one being guarded by those knew uninvited guest, everyone start to run to the other exit. But what welcome them when they opened the other doors was bullet flying though them, killing and injuring a quarter of them in a second. When the first group noticed the others, instead of pointing their gun to the guest, they pointed to the other doors.
"I see that everyone is here, but my group can handle a bunch of bureaucratic people, so you can all get the hell out and let us do our job, we.don't.need.you." Said one of the first group with a tone full of hostility towards the others.
But like they didn't hear him, no body did as he said even more, someone retorted to him "You took us for fools? If we don't stay, you and your group will killed everyone including our boss and leave only your boss. 'think that's gonna happen? Hell no! You stand down let MY group do the job"
"And who's saying you will not do that instead?" replied another group, causing everyone to engage in conversation until someone couldn't take it anymore and shoot at one the other parties. And just when they were going to counterattack, all the light in the mansion suddenly shut off. Causing everyone to jumped in surprise and even one to shoot some someone.
"Hey, you shoot my man! Everyone, take them down!" as the man from the first door shout his command, the other as well, and then start a shooting contest in the dark. All we could see was the light create by guns and rifles while scream and shout of vengeance could be heard I less than five minutes. No body knows who was shooting who, no knows if they were aiming right, but because they fellows were falling one after and other, they kept shooting.
And for the Guests, it was a nightmare. They were all regroup in the middle of the room hoping to not being touch. But things never happened like planned and sometimes, we could hear a scream of agony among them indicating that someone had been hit. But like sheep circled by a bunch of Wolf, nobody dares to try going out of the group to try a breakthrough. Chaos was everywhere, and unknowingly to everyone, three separate shadow were moving from group to group. And strangely, every time they moved to another group, three to four people will be down without a speck of bullet going through them. It was unknown of how they were suddenly unconscious. The three shadow were moving without making a sound and were working efficiently but they were nonetheless outnumbered and couldn't take them all in a few minutes. And because more and more people were killed, someone finally made a mistake and didn't properly Knocked out his opponent giving him the time to shout one sentence that cause everyone to stop firing in an instant "BATMAN IS HERE!"
The one who shout that, was the leader of the first door, and normally, someone like the Batman wouldn't take knocked out the one at the front but, that was if there were still some people beside him. Because most of the others gangs members from the others doors were contracted their fire on the first gang, reducing their members by half, it didn't take long for Batman and his acolyte to take down the other members.
The news of the Batman began to caused stirs among the villains and cheer from civilians.
"White Knight to Red eyes" Whispered a voice to a talkie-walkie while on the big Candlestick in the Ceiling. It was a man with a black assassin outfit covered by the dark of night and shadow of the candlestick. "I will divert their attentions with Batman, you will wait three seconds before taking the civilian with you"
There was it this moment, no sound to be heard in the whole room. Being civilians or villains, everyone was holding their breath to have the vain hope of hearing the sound of the wing from the Batman when everyone heard above their head a "Copy that!"
"He's on the candlestick!" Shout someone. Immediately after, all the gangsters pointed there guns on the candlestick and start shooting. But before they could hit their target, a shadow had already moved from that position. In a moment though, the sound of gun being triggered could be heard, the moment of a blink, the candlestick was reduced to smithereens. When they saw that, but not the sound of a body dropping, everyone stopped shooting while foolishly looking around to see that body, but it was nowhere to be seen.
"Did we miss him?" asked someone astonished by that simple fact. But he can't be blamed for that, when they heard the voice, they immediately shoot at him. And while a good part of every parties were ko or killed, there was still twenty villains conscious! Meaning that it was normally impossible for them to miss one single target And yet it happened. Everyone was dumbfounded. But their nightmare just started.
Someone cried, and the next moment, everyone locked at his location, and shoots. But all they did was killing a member of their own already incapacitated. But it didn't stopped here, soon others crie could but hear. One of them was suddenly protected Upstairs because their feet being hung with wires, the other was wrapped outside the room into the exit. Someone suddenly shoot recklessly due to his nerve dropping him and the newt moment, one sound of a wing, one soud of something flying and he was down too. Everywhere it the panic, nobody was carrying about the Guests anymore, they where all caring about their own security. Something that could avoid or pass through bullet firing by twenty people, appearing from one corner to the other in a blink of an eyes, and taking down an army like a walk in park without a sound in their heart, it couldn't be a human.
"I heard that no matter how dark it was, he could always find you, I didn't believe it at first, but now..."Said someone trembling.
"Who said that the Batman was human?! It's clearly a ghost!" Shout someone while looking around nervously. "Yeah"Adds someone else" My friend said to me that no matter how many times you shoot at him, it will never work because he doesn't have a real body. And I have the nerve to laugh at him..."
In the minds of everyone present in the room at that moment, they all thought that Batman was everything possible, except being human. They couldn't explain otherwise what happened until now to them. For everyone present here, a human couldn't possibly have that kind power.
Reaching this point of thought, all the gangs remaining were all thinking 'we can't beat that invincible monster' extinguishing all fighting spirits possibly remaining in them. Taking that chance, Mallory who was already back in her civilian suit start to urge other people to leave by the front door. It didn't take any effort to get them all run to the exit when they saw the broken spirits of their opponents.
When they saw the civilian went away, they didn't try to stop them, instead they all start run away themselves not wanting to deal with the Batman anymore. And in one minute only, except the unconscious bodies, the Ballroom was empty.
In the rooftop of the Mansion, two shadow were facing each other in this night without moon.
"Nice work out there White Knight, or maybe I should say Diggle Troswer?" said the Batman with an evil smile. His correspondent just ignored his mocking remark and replied "Nice work you too. But this story isn't over, we stopped the first wave, but there would be another one"
That sentence made once again Bruce trun serious "We would see the damage tomorrow, because even if they said that, the main goal of those gangs weren't to kill their rivals but the unprotected and uncorrupted people involved in the Arkham project. In the first wave of shoot, even though its seems like they were shouting randomly, all the people who were killed didn't have any backing. Now we have to wait to know who survived in this purge" something at what Diggle replied plainly without looking "Yeah...sigh.... You should probably return with the others, the lieutenant Gordon never stopped looking at you in the whole night. He will get suspicious if he don't see Bruce Wayne around" when he finished, he turn to look at Batman to hear his reply, but he was already gone 'Sh*t, I've been Batmanized" he cursed in his mind as he shook his head.
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Arikawane Be Kind please this is my first time writing a full action chapter. I'm not used to it yet. But don't hesitate to pinpoint any mistakes u may see. Hope u enjoy the chapter ^^
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