Ascension 2

Chapter Fifteen: Nightwing Rises Part Six. 

In a cavern deep below Stately Wayne Manor in Gotham City, there was a secret chamber that housed some of the most high tech equipment that money could buy, up to and including a state of the art computer. A figure stood there in the shadows, dressed in a sleek black costume that blended in perfectly with his surrounding, while working at a lab.

Bruce Wayne was a millionaire playboy that many people considered to be an empty headed fop by day. However, he was far deeper than that, seeing as how by night, he prowled the city as the vigilante crime fighter dubbed by the press as the 'Bat Man.'

Which was accurate enough he supposed and with this suit, he could see where they got the name from. He was still a bit raw around the edges though and as a result, made a couple of costly mistakes. One of which he could see clearly from where he was working.

Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes, his childhood friend, was currently strapped to a gurney, screaming, shrieking and speaking in tongues, while she thrashed wildly against her restraints.

Currently he was hard at work analyzing the sample of blood that he gotten from Rachel, in the hopes of synthesizing an antidote. He'd been down in the cave all night and through most of the morning as a result. The chaos at Blackgate was being reported on the news from a television in the background, although given what he saw with his own eyes, it seemed like the very worst of it was being suppressed by the GCPD.

He wasn't having much luck on the antidote though. While he had traveled all over the world studying several different disciplines and sciences, he was far from a master in any and this fear toxin seemed to be a particularly demented masterwork.

He went to try something else, only to be interrupted by the ding of an elevator arriving, which heralded the entrance of his faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth into the cave.

"Master Bruce, Penelope brought over a package for you from Mr. Potter, he appears to have concocted an antidote with the help of Ms. Isley," Alfred stated, understanding the urgency of the situation after his niece conveyed it to him and not wasting a moment with pleasantries.

Bruce rose to his feet and crossed over towards him, his face still covered by the mask. Even though he was in the cave, he wanted to hold onto the proper mindset, which meant that the mask had to stay on at all times. He was only Bruce Wayne when he was in the mansion above, when he was down here, he was something different.

He was this "Batman" as the press had dubbed him. That was about as good of a moniker as he was going to get right at the moment. Never the less, while he was far from the World's Greatest Detective at this point in time, but he did see that there was a note attached to the package.

Bruce,

I Figured that you might need this given all that's happened.

A friend of mine has a club and one of her workers was exposed to it. She brought a sample of her blood to me and I was able to get together an antidote with Pamela and Lucretia's help quite quickly.

Given the fact that you've gained a reputation, they might use this drug to take advantage of you and that will leave you in a vulnerable state, given that whoever exposed to it is prone to delusions. 

This antidote will put a person out for approximately four to six hours if the poison is already in their system, because their body needs to be in a state of rest while the toxin's purged from it. It will hurt a lot if done while awake.

It seems to be getting dangerous out there, so watch your back.

Harry.

The letter was short, sweet, and to the point, and Batman didn't detect anything wrong with the explanation. The young detective opened the package carefully and saw four state of the art injector tubes containing the antidote laying within. Turning he saw Rachel on the bed and the sight wasn't pretty.

Her whole body was shaking like as if she was having a seizure as she gave off another scream. Even though he'd sedated her, she was still in a pretty awful state. At this rate she wouldn't last much longer.

He pulled out a vial of the antidote, carefully handling it as not to drop it. He held it in between his fingers as moved over to inject her with it.

Paying careful attention to what he was doing, he injected it into Rachel's right arm. There was a soft hiss followed almost immediately by a full body shudder, then her body went slack and she went into a state of deep sleep. He would have her moved to Gotham General once he was sure it was safe to do so.

Bruce paused for a moment before injecting himself with the second dose of the antidote. He felt some immediate drowsiness, but given that he didn't have the toxin in his system, it wasn't as much of a shock to his system as it would be for someone that had been exposed to it like Rachel.

Be that as it may, he figured that it would be prudent to be prepared for what was happening. Harry was right in the sense that he could be in danger given the crowds that he hung around with, although perhaps not in the sense that Harry imagined, then again if anyone would be able to figure out his nighttime activities it would be Harry Potter.

"Just to remind you, Master Bruce, of your other obligations you might have forgotten about while you were running around playing Detective," Alfred commented with his usual dry British wit.

"I haven't forgotten them Alfred, merely...shoved to the backburner," Bruce stated as he looked up towards to the ceiling for a moment, before turning around and offering his faithful manservant a ghost of a smile. "Make sure Rachel is moved to Gotham General."

"I'll take care of it Master Bruce, she might relapse if she wakes up in this place, it doesn't exactly invite warm fuzzy memories," Alfred dead panned.

"Of course, Alfred," Bruce commented in response, waving off the sarcasm.

"That said, tomorrow night Wayne Industries is holding an event, a party I believe, you do know what those are Master Bruce, or have you forgotten due to your recent nocturnal activities of dressing up as a brooding specter of the night?" Alfred questioned him.

Bruce responded without missing a beat. "I remember, it's to celebrate the company going public, and….many of the elite of Gotham City will be there, including some of the seedier elements."

"Yes, well, security will be amped up, so I doubt any of them will be foolish enough to try anything, at least not on that night, but then again this is Gotham," Alfred commented dryly. "Whatever's affected Miss Dawes….well, it can wait and it would be quite a bother if Bruce Wayne didn't make a public appearance at the party."

"Don't worry, Alfred, I understand my responsibilities, I'll be there," Bruce said as he prepared to get out of character or technically speaking, get into character, because the person wearing the suit was closer to his real self than the playboy billionaire that was the life of the party.

"Some days, I hope that this is just a phase he is going through, but I do suppose that Gotham City needs a protector," Alfred muttered to himself while shaking his head.

'Wayne Enterprises stock is a pretty hot commodity right about now,' Faora thought to Harry while he worked out. He wanted see how much his body held up under the strain of everything that happened recently.

"Yes….I can...see that," Harry commented as his finished his set, putting the weights down he looked over towards Sersi who was sitting in the corner, waiting to conduct some business.

'Wayne's going to want to buy up as much as he and you know, this would be a perfect opportunity for you to do so as well,' Karen added.

'I'm way ahead of you, I've got things set up through the goblins to buy up as much of Wayne Enterprises stock as possible the moment it goes public,' Harry offered her as he stretched carefully to work out any kinks in his muscles before they could develop. 'A lot of people are going to be selling their stock in LuthorCorp beforehand so they've got the capital to buy Wayne when it goes public. So if I buy it at the bargain basement price it's likely to go at I'll be able to get more of their stock at the same time.'

'Are you sure that it's going to work that way?' Patricia asked Harry and Kara was the one who answered the question for him.

'It's just the way that things are going, LuthorCorp stock took a bit of a dip over the last couple of quarters. Their were a couple articles recently that caused their public relations image to take a hit.'

"It's already happening," Sersi stated offering her professional opinion, at the same time she couldn't help but notice Fleur cleaning out of the corner of her eye. The Veela tart had her skirt halfway up her ass revealing her lacy white thong quite clearly and the goblin princess couldn't help thinking that she should teach her a lesson. "That said, at the same time I'm sure Lionel Luthor is trying to find a way to get his hooks into Wayne Enterprises."

"Which is why we need to make sure that he doesn't buy up all that much stock, if at all," Harry stated to her and Sersi nodded in agreement, which was why she'd spent the better part of the last several months working up close and personally with him in order to get things into place.

Harry smiled as he completed his most recent set, this workout seemed to be going well so far. He would have to run a couple more tests later, but the chemical was out of his system and the antidote didn't seem to be having any negative side effects. Not that he thought that it would.

'So, did you work yourself hard enough?' Faora thought to Harry. 'Tomorrow night…'

'Yes, I know, the Wayne Enterprises festivities tomorrow night, the big event were all of the stars will be out in force, trust me Faora, despite all that's happened, I haven't forgotten,' Harry thought to her and Faora offered a brisk smile in response.

'I didn't think that you did, but it's important….'

'I know, trust me I know how important it is,' Harry commented and there was a slight amount of amusement in his voice.

'Well with that' settled, we're going to get ready for tomorrow,' Diana commented. And by 'we' Harry figured that she meant the Alphas, along with a few others. He knew for a fact the twins, Lily, Rose, and Jaime were all going to be putting in an appearance, and they weren't the only ones.

'Let me finish my work out, I've got a few things to check out tonight, but trust me, I haven't forgotten about tomorrow night,' Harry thought to the girls in the bond.

He checked his vitals again and found that everything continued to be working well. That was a really good thing and he couldn't help but smile.

Standing up to stretch once more, he noticed that Fleur was bent over and Harry thought that despite the workout with Faora and Kara the other night, he should probably run some further tests on other vital parts of his anatomy.

"So, we've got all the paperwork in order, all they need now is your signature, I know you have big plans, but….people have lost gallons of galleons by jumping into something too quickly," Sersi warned him and Harry nodded.

He knew that Sersi knew what she was doing and that she would always act within his best interest, but he always took a close look at the documents he signed. His green eyes scanned over the documents and he smiled, before signing off on them.

"Harry, the last batch of the antidote has been synthesized," Lily informed Harry after stepping into the gym, she'd been making use of the lab down in the subbasement to brew potions and Harry's smile got even wider upon hearing that.

"Excellent, we're right on schedule," Harry told her with a wide grin. "Let everyone know that the plan remains the same."

Lily nodded at his words before slipping out of the room, there was a look on her face that indicated that she understood what needed to be done better than most.

"So, everything is in place," Harry told Sersi after that brief interruption concluded and she nodded.

"Excellent," Sersi commented, thinking that Harry made an intelligent choice. It was a long term plan that would bear a great deal of fruit in the future.

"Yes, a great job," Harry stated as he pulled her into an embrace and her lithe young goblin body pressed against his. "One that I think deserves a reward."

She smiled at him brightly, barely able to keep the triumph she was feeling hidden. "Oh? What do you have in mind."

Wrapping his arms around her ass, Harry lifted the young goblin's up off the ground and she wrapped her legs tightly around his waist when he kissed her deeply, before slipping his tongue into her mouth. The young goblin closed her eyes and returned the kiss with a fury, before breaking it so that she could suck on Harry's lip.

Harry smiled when he saw Fleur bent over with her ass sticking out as she dusted. Walking over, he pulled up her skirt and smacked her thong clad ass.

"You're mine as well," Harry whispered to her and she parted her legs in anticipation, she was bent over, dressed in her French Maid's uniform wet, willing and ready for him.

"Eat me," Sersi commanded as she sat on Fleur's face, bare from the bottom down.

The Veela had no choice but to comply with this complain. Her Veela tongue worked into the goblins' tight snatch. She closed her eye as she was licking and slurping at her.

Harry smiled as he rubbed his fingers at the edge of Fleur's entrance, teasing her just a little bit. He was getting her ready for the invasion that was to come and she was soaking wet. Her smooth mound was presented towards him and he reached over, grabbing one of her breasts.

The Veela moaned at Harry's efforts, he teased her, made her body pretty much burn with desire and he was working his hands over her thighs, teasing her but stopping just short of any insertion. That caused the blonde vixen to whine as Harry started to work his fingers into her dripping center. She lifted her hips up.

"Further, further!" Sersi demanded as she offered a strong grip to Fleur's tit, roughly fondling it. "That's it, Harry, you know what to do, make the bitch beg for it!"

'Please, Harry, I need your cock inside me,' Fleur panted but his tongue teased her center which escalated her torture level up.

She felt his cock press up against her dripping mound. She tried to push her hips forward but Harry backed off.

'Please master, please master,' Fleur chanted mentally and Harry pushed himself up, dragging his throbbing length up against her smoldering hot entrance. The blonde was about to accept him inside her, all Harry needed was one more nudge.

Her hips spasmed as Sersi unleashed her juices on Fleur's faces.

"Lick me clean or you won't be getting any of Harry's cock," Sersi ordered her and the goblin despite being around five feet tall exerted her dominance on the Veela who was a bit over six feet tall.

Harry hovered over her entrance and when Sersi gave him a nod, Harry took the plunge, stretching out Fleur's walls with his monster cock.

The blonde's walls snugly tightened around him and Harry pushed all the way up and worked into him. Her lips wrapped around him and Harry kept going into her. The blonde's legs hooked around his hips and the green eyed wizard was pushing himself into her. The blonde clamped around him and he kept working into her, using his swift thrusts to bury himself into her.

"Oh yes, yes, yes," Fleur panted as Harry kept going into her. His cock was buried deep into her quim and plunged deeper.

She realized that Sersi was now off of her face for now and she slid back, fingering her pussy at Harry pinning Fleur down and having his extremely wicked way with her. His throbbing cock entered her tightening cunt and Harry worked into her. The blonde's walls clamped around him and Harry ran his hands over Fleur's delicious tits.

"Oh, so hot, so hot," Harry muttered as he kept working into her gushing hot cunt and worked into her. The woman's walls closed around him.

Sersi found her hands removed from her hot cunt and Harry brushed his massive rod against her entrance.

"Harry," Sersi breathed as she watched Harry pull out of Fleur.

Fleur whined at the loss of Harry's cock but she was flipped over. The blonde's pussy was being manipulated from behind, his finger pushing in and out of her. The woman's panting escalated and Harry rubbed his cock head against her entrance, teasing her from behind.

Fleur wondered if Harry was going to take the plunge into her ass. She watched him, waiting for him, wishing for him to take it.

Harry's thick hard rod plunged into her tight rectum and Fleur mewled with delight as Harry plowed her into the table. His balls slapped against her ass.

He had an amazing feel around his cock and her ass squeezed him. The blonde's ass snugly tightened around him.

The green eyes of Harry Potter flowed with lust and he squeezed her tits from behind, which caused her moans to escalate.

"FUCK ME!" Fleur begged.

Sersi's legs wrapped around Harry's hips and her slit rubbed against the tip of his cock. She slammed her goblin body down across his member and she rocked herself back and forth. There was a loud and lustful moan that was coming through her body.

"OH FUCK!" Sersi moaned as she rocked herself backwards and rode him. His cock was splitting her small body in half.

She threw her head back and grinded against him. She pulled all the way up and lowered her tasty ass down upon his swelling balls. She rose herself again all the way and brought herself down onto him.

Harry felt her juices drain and lubricate his member as she pushed her thighs apart. There was a few seconds where she closed her eyes and kept rocking back and forth onto him. She clenched his hard rod and he went into her tightening quim.

"Fuck, so great," Sersi moaned as she rocked her hips down onto him.

Fleur meanwhile was in paradise and that paradise was twelve inches of Harry's cock wedged firmly between her ass cheeks. He groped her tits as he continued to plow her and he escalated his thrusts, jackhammering into her ass. She closed her eyes and threw her head back, with a moan, in addition to another moan.

"Oh, oh, yes, yes, yes, YES!" Fleur shrieked at the top of her lungs as her anal cavity clenched his ass and she suddenly felt another Harry slide into her.

"Suck," a third Harry ordered, an erect cock in her face and Fleur clenched the massive member in her hand and she placed it between her lips, applying a delightful amount of suction. "Better get every drop, or you're going to have a nasty mess….to ah….clean up."

Fleur nodded with her mouth full of Harry's cock and tried to say that she wouldn't do it.

"Poor form….fucking talking when your mouth is full," Sersi moaned as she watched the erotic sight and worked her hips around his rod, squeezing her tight cunt around him.

She could not say much more than that, due to her pussy clamping down onto his rod and having an amazing orgasm that caused her to see many stars. She saw them behind her eyes and reared her head back. There was a lustful moan that escaped her lips and she kept rocking down onto him.

"Oh, yes, suck me harder."

Fleur was determined to drain his balls of all of his cum, in several of her holes. She was going to be drowning in so much cum but if that was the way than she was going to go, then that would be going out with a bang to say the least. She was being rocked in every single one of her holes, deep inside her pussy, deep inside her ass, and in her mouth.

All three cocks caused her pleasure centers to hit an overdrive and her heart sped up, drumming against her ribs. She was moaning at the top of her lungs she kept working them over.

Sersi was getting to the edge, she did not know how much longer she could hold on but she knew that she wanted to hold on for a while. Their loins connected with each other with the expression of pure desire. Her walls tightened around his member and rocked against his member.

"Cum, I need your seed, oh I need your seed," she panted as he stretched her walls out. She felt delight, she felt desire, she felt all of Harry inside her, buried inside her.

"In a moment, Princess," Harry grunted as her walls wrapped around his large prick and she continued to work around him.

"FUCK!" Sersi moaned.

All three Harry dupes deposited his load on the young Veela. She got pumped full of her ass, her pussy, and her mouth with cum. The explosion of cum had caused her body to be racked with pleasure. She spasmed with completely pleasure.

Sersi could feel her orgasm through the bond, of course proximity made it stronger. Her cunt clamped his hard rod like a vice like grip. This little action inspired Harry to inject his hot seed into her tightening cunt and she rolled her eyes into the back of her head.

Both a goblin and a Veela had been put through the paces and Harry offered a smile at the thought of what happened. He'd accomplished a lot today, but as always, his work only was just about to begin.

A nice breakfast in the aftermath of his fun, allowed Harry to recharge his batteries, so after eating he headed down to his lab in the subbasement of the tower. He was curious about something that he found during his investigation the other night and he was going to see if he could replicate it. If he could, it would be a revolutionary, if he couldn't, well, at least he'd tried to do something really interesting.

"Okay, let's see if we can get this working," Harry whispered to himself as he kept his eyes locked onto the project before him.

'What exactly are you doing?' Jaime asked curiously, she got a brief hint of it over the bond, but she had no clue about what exactly he was doing.

'Trogg had the blueprints for a miniaturized aerosol bomb on his desk, it's about the size of a shoebox normally, at least that's what the plans indicated,' Harry thought back to her as he looked over them carefully. 'It's revolutionary technology, far greater than what many humans are capable of.'

'And what are you trying to do….'

'I'm trying to figure out if I can make it even smaller, without any hocus pocus or anything like that,' Harry thought preemptively, answering Amanda's question before she could finish voicing it. 'I want to streamline it even further, just to prove that I can.'

Kara's curiosity was brimming. 'Exactly how streamlined are we talking about?'

Harry enjoyed talking about his projects when people honestly seemed interested in them and a smile crossed over his face. 'About the same size as a grenade, if at all possible.'

'Is it possible?' Kara asked, it's not that she didn't believe Harry, but at the same time, it seemed to be a bit….well, it seemed to be impossible using human tech.

'Kara, the impossible is very much possible,' Harry thought as he continued to look over the blueprint and tried to piece together everything in his mind.

If it worked, well it was going to be an amazing tool, and if it didn't, well, it's not as if people were expect it to in the first place.

'That's very true, some of the greatest inventions could be thrown together in the cave with a box of scraps, but that wouldn't make them any less amazing,' Karen stated.

'Still, you've got to believe what Harry trying to do is insane,' Hermione stated with skepticism burning through her voice.

'There's a fine line between insane and genius honey, although Harry does seem to trend it more often,' Charlotte commented to her daughter as she watched with rapt attention. She was interested in seeing if Harry was going to be the one to pull this off or not.

'If that isn't true….I don't know….actually, I don't know what else to say,' Rose commented with a slight smile on her face.

Harry continued to work carefully on the device, trying to get everything together through his fluid efforts. If this worked, it would be revolutionary, he couldn't state that fact enough. His green eyes were focused forwards, pretty much fixated on what he was doing.

'Such suspense,' Amanda commented idly.

'Mandy,' Harry thought back to her in warning and she bit down on her lower lip, with a pout.

'Sorry, Harry! I'm so sorry,' Amanda said to him while shaking her head. 'Please continue….don't worry, I won't get upset even if you tell me to shut up.'

'I'll tell her to shut up if you want?' Emily chimed in, hopefully.

'Do you enjoy trying to assert your authority over me at the most inconvenient times?' Amanda questioned her younger sister with narrowed eyes.

'Girls, be quiet, or I'll give you a spanking,' Harry stated, but it was more of an absent minded comment.

'Ooohh...is that a promise?' Amanda questioned hopefully and Harry sighed.

'Just behave yourself, Amanda,' Harry commented.

'Yes, Daddy,' Amanda stated, before she bit down on her lip with a faux innocent expression on her face that didn't suit her at all.

Harry hunched over once again, his green eyes fixating on some minute detail for a moment and then he shook his head. Putting the finishing touches on the device and prepared to test it out.

'Okay, time for the moment of truth,' Harry thought after some time had passed, only half paying attention to the bond traffic around him.

'Do you want a drum roll or not?' Kara asked him.

'It's not needed,' Harry offered as he ran his fingers over the device. He thought that it would either be a complete marvel or a complete flop, depending on how it well worked.

Harry would only need to test it out to find out. He thumbed the primer and launched the device, slowly drumming his own fingers against the table while counting down from three, unable to help himself from doing so.

BANG!

'DAMMIT HARRY! It's loud enough that I'm pretty sure people heard it going off in New York!' Ginny muttered while she tried to rub some feeling back into her ears. She shook her head in disbelief at just how loud the device was when it detonated.

'Well, that just proves one thing, it's going to work out pretty well once I work the kinks out, a bit louder than I would have expected, but no one is perfect,' Harry explained o her.

'But you are,' Amanda offered to him as if it was the truest statement in the world.

'Mandy, no one likes a kiss ass,' Emily hissed at her as she shook her head.

'You kiss his ass just as much as I do Emmy and don't try telling me anything else to the contrary,'Amanda countered and there was a few seconds where it was obvious that the two girls were about to go at it yet again.

'Ladies,' Lily commented sternly and her two daughters fell back into line.

'Not exactly subtle but it works, I should be able to work out the noise problem with a bit more tweaking,' Harry thought to himself as he mentally went back to the drawing board.

'And if there is anyone that can get this working perfectly, it would be you,' Faora commented with a bright grin on her face and that was a sentiment appreciated by everyone.

Harry decided to shelf it for now and take a look at the news, so far there was nothing major, he had been hitting a bit of a wall lately in his investigation into Zombie. The Blackgate incident and what exactly happened with Falcone, well it was being suppressed for the most part.

'Apparently the Media doesn't know much more than the common man on the street about the situation,' Narcissa thought.

'Given how corrupt a good portion of the GCPD is, I'm honestly not surprised,' Pamela chimed in. 'You know, the fact that they're trying to keep everything under wraps for the most part means that it's something serious.'

Harry didn't say anything in response to that, he had to keep himself busy until it was time to make his next move this evening, and he had to wait until the cover of darkness to do so. That's when he would make his move.

'There we go, this is the last one,' Harry thought to himself from where he hung in costume upside down underneath a GCPD zeppelin, making sure not to lose his balance. It took a combination of stealth and skill not to be seen.

He had been going from police zeppelin to police zeppelin and the highest buildings in Gotham City, all throughout the night, one district at a time. He knew that no one had seen him, at least not yet. Each device needed to be place for everything to work properly later.

Darkness had fallen over Gotham City and he got a pretty good view of the city from where he was. Although, it wasn't really the view that he was hanging around for, rather it was something far more practical.

'With that done, there's one device attached to the tallest buildings in each district of the city, along with the Zeppelins,' Harry thought as he shifted his hold. He heard the siren start wailing suddenly, but quickly noticed that there wasn't a spot light on him, which meant they hadn't seen him yet. 'The network to distribute the antidote is ready, not sure if I need to do this, but hey, given what happened the other night, it's better to be safe than to be sorry. Gotham City is a crazy enough place without everyone losing their fucking minds due to terror.'

'Hear, hear,' Pamela chimed in with a smile on her face.

Harry decided to test out another function on the suit while he was up here. Letting his hold on the undercarriage go, he flew off of the Zeppelin.

Harry plummeted towards the ground and when he'd fallen about halfway, he activated a pair of glider wings that were normally hidden within his suit. They allowed him to land safely on the railing of a nearby balcony. A nearby balcony with an open sliding glass door.

"Yes, General…I know it's important!...I'm keeping a close eye on her!... Do you want me to handcuff myself to her or something?!"

Harry was about ready to glide down off the railing, but hearing a voice like that so suddenly, caused him to look towards the open door to see a girl standing there. She looked to be about twelve years old with brunette hair and violet eyes. She was also staring at him in all his costumed glory.

Her mouth fell open as the phone slid out of her hand to clatter onto the floor. The two of them locked eyes for about ten seconds and time seemed to stand still.

It was one of these moments in time where neither one wanted to say anything. Harry brought the pointer and the middle finger of his right hand up towards his forehead, before flicking them towards her. Then without another word, he fell backwards off of the balcony.

The girl rushed towards the railing, nearly slipping over a rug in the process. Her eyes wide since she couldn't believe what she just saw.

"What just…."

"LOIS!" screamed a voice over the discarded phone which caused the girl's head to snap around to face it, she'd nearly tripped over her own two feet and broken her neck, but she shook it off and went to pick up the phone.

Harry landed on a train heading towards the other side of the city and a wide smile crossed his face.

'I would have to say that the initial trial run was a complete and utter success,' Harry thought to the girls keeping him company over the bond tonight.

'And you caused her….well, you caused her to lose her shit for lack of a better term,' Kara chimed in with a gleeful grin spreading over her face.

'You know, she did look kind of familiar now that you mention it,' Zatanna commented and the dark haired sorceresses statement was one of surprise. 'She might have been the same girl that ran into you at the mall the other day.'

'Funnily enough, I thought the same thing, although I suppose it could be a coincidence,' Harry thought as he leapt off the train so that he could glide over Gotham, free as a bird.

'Well, I'd say that you made quite an impression on her,' Karen commented with a smile and there was much laughter throughout the bond link.

'Oh that's for sure, she looked shocked, to put things mildly,' Harry thought back to her as he continued to move throughout the city towards her next destination.

'So with all of the devices in place, you should be able to make it back home with time to spare,' Faora concluded.

'Yes, Faora, I'll be back shortly, they're all in place, including the master device on top of the highest building in Gotham City,' Harry thought as he continued his descent downwards, before shifting his body weight which sent him gliding back upwards. 'And the wings work great.'

'Yes, it's a pity you can't fly or anything,' Amanda commented in a mock thoughtful voice. 'Oh! Wait….'

'Mandy, if I used my powers all of the time, that would take the challenge out of everything, I'm trying to be prepared for anything, which includes situations where I don't have access to them,' Harry told her.

'Okay! Okay! Don't have a cow!' Amanda stated defensively, before crossing her hands over her chest.

Although they did take some amusement during Harry's run in with that young girl, who was looking like she was close to freaking out. Harry was pretty sure that it was going to be an interesting story for her to talk about, once she recovered from the trauma, if any.

Harry had one more quick stop to make and he would be able to head home for the evening. The GCPD building awaited and after landing on the roof, he slipped inside quietly.

He needed to know what the GCPD had found out so far, including everything they found at docks, the apartment and what happened at Blackgate last night. He had a good idea, but he needed to know for certain, and he could get a full inventory by going straight to the source. But breaking into the files….well...that could be a problem, seeing as how he still sucked at hacking.

However, Harry had a device he hoped would help solve that problem for him. It was like the Red Sun, although far more advanced than the copy he would be putting out. It would be at least ten to fifteen years at the barest minimum, before he put something this advanced out there and even then, that would be pushing thing. He carefully crept through the shadows of the building towards the GCPD server room.

'Master hacker, I'm not….shame Barbara hasn't been able to give me those lessons yet, oh well, here goes nothing,' Harry thought to himself as he prepared to hook the device up to the GCPD database.

As always, with many things that looked far easier as an outside observer, it was far harder to do in the heat of the moment.

'Well, fuck, that's….this is a bit of a nuisance,' Harry thought to himself, he wondered if they had anything in a hard copy, it was worth a shot.

Harry spun around to plan his next move and nearly bumped right into Barbara, who walked through the door at that exact moment. The two of them were about ready to have a meeting of the minds and both of them stopped dead in their tracks.

There was a tense stare down for a moment between the two of them.

'Dun, dun, duh!' Amanda, Astoria, and Ginny chanted in unison over the bond. It was really a mark of Harry's self-control that he was able to keep a straight face through the banter, while having a conversation with someone else, although sometimes it was very difficult.

'Well, this should prove to be interesting,' Zatanna commented in amusement.

"You're….you are….oh my god….your…."

"I'm not Batman," Harry stated, speaking in a calm voice, which was devoid of his normal accent. His eyes weren't their usual vivid shade of green when he was wearing the mask either. They would have been a dead of a giveaway as to who he was, even if he changed is voice. "You know I hear pretty regularly that words are conducive to speaking."

"Right….you're….your….him….the one that brought in Salvatore Maroni and those guys in the warehouse," Barbara stammered, as she managed to stop fangirling for a moment to focus.

'And she doesn't recognize you at all like this, oh this should be interesting,' Kara cackled in amusement, wondering how far they could take this.

'Oh….that's right, she has a job here transferring files from hard copy to the computer system, I forgot….well, I nearly forgot about it, because I've had a lot of other things on my mind,' Harry thought to himself as he tried to figure out what she was doing here. All he'd wanted to do was get inside the system and install a program so he could access the GCPD files through a backdoor he could remotely access from anywhere in the future.

"Right...I didn't….I didn't expect to see you here of all places," Barbara said as she took a good long look at his body and offered a bright smile while blushing slightly. As a teenage girl, complete with hormones, it was hard for her to not to take a good long look at him. She mentally noted to herself that his eyes were a deep shade of green, although far different from Harry's. Not that bad as well, although he did resemble Harry in many ways.

'You've been up too long Babs, you're starting to come up with insane theories,' she thought to herself while shaking her head.

Harry offered her a half teasing smile and he noticed her take a step back to put some slight distance between them.

"Well you see, that's the idea….Miss Gordon," he whispered as he stepped forward the same distance she'd stepped backwards.

Barbara shook her head, she was about to ask how he knew her name, but the lump on her throat that she had to swallow made it really hard to speak. She was up against a wall, literally and perhaps figuratively speaking as well. But, there was something about him that put her at ease.

"So what are you trying to do?" Barbara asked looking towards him, adopting a more business like tone and approach in the process.

"I'm investigating what happened to Carmine Falcone, he was connected to a series of shipments, and I want find out what was in the boxes," Harry informed her.

"Right, well, most of the hard copy files have been moved to the main frame, which is what you were trying to access, weren't you?" Barbara asked as she locked her eyes onto his. Once again, she couldn't tear her eyes away from them.

'Either she's figured it out or she hasn't, which means you've officially entered a love triangle with yourself,' Lily commented lightly with an extreme amount of amusement in her tone.

'How very comic book of you, Harry,' Hermione snickered mostly to herself.

'Oh that's really mature Mione,' Harry thought back to her, before he directed his attention his attention fully to Barbara.

"Okay, we need to find what you're looking for, should be a piece of cake though," Barbara stated with a smile as she started to work through the process. "Should be pretty easy given the fact those files were transferred the other night."

"Right, I'll take your word for it," Harry replied.

"Seems like they got their hands on quite a lot of information," Barbara whispered, as she made her way through the file.

Once again, Harry was pretty sure that she hadn't completely put two and two together, at least not yet.

'So, should I…'

'Actually, it would be far more amusing if she figured it out on her own,' Kara suggested as she bounced up and down eagerly in her excitement. Harry couldn't help but think to himself that she was taking far, far too much amusement in the situation, that or she had too much chocolate.

'If you think about it, you'd be insulting her intelligence if you spelled it out for her,' Karen added.

'Well, you couldn't have made a clearer and more reasonable explanation then that if you tried,' Harry commented with a chuckle and there was much laughter over the bond.

"Just a second, I've got the information right here," Barbara told him, she looked flushed as she turned towards him. "This is so exciting! Someone could come in and see what we're doing at any time….you know that sounded a lot cleaner in my head."

Harry ignored the chortling from the girls in his head, which was making it extremely difficult for him to concentrate and he shook his head to clear it.

"Yes, well…."

Harry paused for a moment, Barbara was in the system, which meant that the advanced version of the Red Sun would be able to work its magic so to speak.

"Someone's….com..." Barbara started to say, before she trailed off in mid-sentence when she saw that her mysterious visitor had disappeared just before she could say something.

Harvey Dent walked inside of the room, looking like he had a long night already so far and it was still quite early in the evening.

"Miss Gordon, I could have sworn that I heard someone in here with you," Harvey commented as he looked around, but much to his surprise it was empty except for the young girl he was speaking to.

"No, I'm just finishing up transferring the hard copies to the system like I was supposed to, sir," Barbara stated, still wondering where the hell he'd disappeared off to.

She slowly slipped the device still hooked up to the system into her pocket, carefully making sure that Harvey or anyone else that was watching for that matter didn't see her do so.

"Well, it's been a long night so far for all of us," Harvey said as he shook his head. The Falcone thing last night was quite frankly baffling, even more so when Rachel appeared at Gotham General out of nowhere, and there was rumors of a ninja in red and black seen halfway across town earlier, although that was the least of the insanity that went down in Gotham City.

Barbara slipped out of the computer, he was nowhere to be seen and she was left with this weird device in her hand, with no forwarding address to return it to him. Then again, Harvey Dent's arrival was ill-timed.

The stars were out tonight for this high society event, some of the best and the brightest in Gotham City.

So naturally, Harry 'Fucking' Potter would have to make an appearance. Although, he could use the diversion as there appeared to be some kind of lull until his enemies made their next move. Never the less, he showed up in force, dressed to the nines in hand tailored three piece tuxedo made of the highest quality material. His hair was straightened out and fell to his shoulders, something that took a very long time to do and would likely be messed up once again by the end of the evening. A stylish pair of glasses rested on the bridge of his nose.

"Quite the turn out," Kara stated from where she stood next to him, dressed in a red dress that wrapped snugly around her nubile frame. It showed enough cleavage to be modest, but also offer a hint of her assets. Her dazzling legs were on full display as she finally managed to learn how to walk in heels. It took a lot of practice, but she finally accomplished it, that said she couldn't fight in them like Diana could yet.

"Yes, including a few people that...aren't that appealing," Karen whispered softly, she wore a dark dress that snugly wrapped around her body. It was something that she had for a couple of years, so it required a couple of charms to make it fit a little less snugly, than it would have when you factored in her massive breasts. She wore a red wig that fell down to her shoulders to hide her short blonde hair, along with a pair of glasses.

"Well, it's one of those nights," Diana offered as she stepped over to join them. She was dressed to kill, wearing a nice form fitting silvery black dress, low cut and backless that sparkled like the night sky. She wore a pair of glasses and had her hair tied back.

Faora had entered the room alongside her, she wore a longer black dress of her own, the material snugly wrapping around her body. It looked like her breasts were about to spill out and her nipples stick out, if she felt so much as a cool breeze and it was slit up the sides to show off legs.

"The resident jackass of Star city is stumbling our way, seems like he started drinking on his way to the party," Faora whispered to her brother.

"Well, it's just one of those things….I wake up in bed with three different women, naturally…..I don't know how we even got here, but I'm sure that it's been a wild night," Oliver commented to the people around him, who offered some lighthearted chuckles.

'Well he's about as charming as Dinah indicated,' Harry thought to his Alphas and he saw a glimpse of Bruce Wayne over on the other side of the room.

'Is that baby Falcone?' Faora thought as she grabbed Har-Zod by the sleeve of his jacket and turned him the direction she was facing.

'Yes, that's him,' Harry commented, he was a bit surprised that Alberto Falcone turned up tonight, given what happened to his father.

Then again, he figured that someone from the Falcone Family would have to make an appearance. He was an unassuming young man with dark hair and he was dressed in a nice suit, along with a pair of thick glasses. It looked like he was being escorted by a couple of women who didn't look to be the most reputable in the world.

'And there's Rupert Thorne….he's been up to some dirty dealings over the years,' Harry thought as he looked over towards the middle aged silver haired businessman. He looked the type that Vernon Dursley would do business with, which would put him on the seedier end of the scale.

'Nothing proven though,' Jaime said as she turned up seemingly out of nowhere beside him. She was wearing a pair of glasses and a strapless green dress, the same shade of her eyes, which adhered to her body like a second skin.

"So, with the rumor of this Bat running around, I can't help but wonder what the GCPD is doing about such a thing," a silver haired man with a faux warm expression commented while leaning in towards a balding middle aged man with graying brown hair, who was a bit on the plump side, making it look he'd been stuffed into the GCPD dress uniform he was wearing. "Commissioner Loeb, I would be quite…concerned if this so called Bat ruined business."

"Now, Mr. Stagg, I'm sure that this Bat-Man is merely an urban legend," Loeb said, although he was a bit uncomfortable with this line of conversation.

"Merely a rumor? Apparently he's been sighted down at the docks, and attacked Carmine Falcone," Thorne replied injecting himself into the conversation, although he was pleased by the incident in question, Falcone had been a business rival of his in the past and the less competition, the better.

'Simon Stagg,' Pamela thought with a look of disgust on her face as soon as she noticed him.

'Not a ringing endorsement, I take it?' Harry asked her.

'Given that he flaunts environmental laws more often than a Captain Planet villain, obviously not,' Hermione added for his benefit.

'That bastard,is far worse than Lionel Luthor and that's saying something, he's killed off several forests for development,so yes, it's far worse than that crap that Lionel calls fertilizer,' Pamela explained to him.

'Isn't fertilizer technically….'

'Not now, Amanda,' Harry reprimanded her gently, as he saw his mother and aunt walking in. They both looked gorgeous in matching green dresses the same color as their eyes.

Harry walked over to get some punch for his ladies, after scanning it to make sure it was on the level. Although they had all take an antidote for the fear toxin, he wasn't taking any chances. It would be quite easy to poison something left unattended.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going."

Harry smiled at the young female standing before him, she looked to be rather close to his age, perhaps a bit older. She had gorgeous blonde hair that shined in the moonlight and beautiful blue eyes that shined like sapphires in the night sky. Her skin was creamy and free of any blemishes. She was wearing a nice white dress that pushed up her high and firm breasts, along with it snugly wrapping around her ass.

"No problem at all, it happens to the best of us," Harry told her with a smile. "And your name is…?"

"Sapphire Stagg," she commented with a smile, she'd been momentarily distracted by his gorgeous green eyes, but was able to shake if off.

"Harry Potter…."

"Oh I know! Your the head of the RAO Corporation, Daddy mentioned you once or twice," Sapphire replied, although it'd had been more of a discussion regarding various top business owners around Gotham City.

"Well, the owner of Stagg Industries talking about me….that's something, I don't think I've had a chance to meet your father personally, so anything that he says about me is likely hearsay," Harry said to her.

'I've met him before, wish that I hadn't,guy's a swarmy bastard, even more so than Queen….at least Queen has mostly noble intentions when he's isn't trying to get into someone's pants and then leaving them the next day,' Faora replied in abject disgust.

"So, it seems like you got dragged along to this party," Harry commented to Sapphire.

"Yes, I did," she agreed as she managed to tear her eyes away from her. "Although….a lot of these people….even if it's just business really, they're ethics make my skin crawl."

Harry smiled at her, which lifted her spirits up a little bit.

"Just hang in there," Harry told her with a smile and she nodded.

"I know, I know," she offered as she looked around the room. "There seems to be a lot of people who want to talk with you."

"Well, I think that there are," Harry agreed, then he took her by the hand and kissed it lightly. "Until next time, my lady."

'Smooth,' Jaime commented from where she watched the entire scene play out. 'Did you deliberately do that when you knew her father was watching you, or was that just a complete accident?'

'What do you think?' Amanda asked, laughing in amusement from the corner were she stood with Emily. It was a surprise that they even got to come given that they were the youngest guests at the party, but Harry pulled some strings.

'Well, if anyone deserves some grief, it's Stagg,' Faora commented in an approving voice.

"Well, Well, Well, look what the cat dragged in."

Harry turned around to see her standing there in the moonlight. Her shimmering black hair extended a bit past her shoulders. Her green eyes locked onto him with a burning passion, her rosy red lips were moistened with a not so subtle amount of desire. Her cheekbones were soft and high. The black dress she wore showed off a bit of her cleavage and extended past the midway point of her thighs. She topped off the esamble with a pair of black boots that emphasized her shapely legs.

"Selina," Harry said, greeting her with a charming grin.

"High society is out in force tonight, both the high and the low points of it, so I thought I'd crash the party," Selina said as she looked at Harry. "I must have missed you come in, although I should have looked towards where all of the best, brightest, and most beautiful women were crowding in."

"That might have been a good idea," Harry offered after thinking about it for a moment.

"Perfect," Selina said with a bit of a purr to her voice as she looked at him closely, and boy, did he look good enough to eat. This hot summer night in Gotham City was just going to be a bit hotter. She smiled at Harry. "So how have you been holding up?"

"Just trying to keep busy, how about you?" Harry asked.

"Well, business is business, there's nothing more I can say than that," Selina said and noticed someone trying to catch her attention. "Well, I'll see you soon, Harry."

"You too, Selina," Harry said as she slunk off into the shadows her ass swaying all the while, to be replaced by someone who was very much less appealing to the eyes.

Earle made his way over, brushing past a redhead gentlemen who oozed slime.

"Dr. Potter, I hope you're well tonight," Earle stated to him as he shook his hand.

Harry felt like he should be counting all of his fingers in the aftermath, but never the less, it was the polite thing to do.

"This is Philip Kane," Earl informed him, introducing him to a man with silver hair who stepped over and prepared to shake Harry's hand.

"Oh, that's right, Bruce's Uncle, I believe I've heard your name come up," Harry commented to him.

'Uncle Alfred doesn't approve of him at all,' Penny stated lightly through the bond link. 'He's a bit of a corruptive influence, there's was a rumor that he'd been accused of some shady dealings, all cleared up of course.'

'Doesn't seem like that it's much of a problem to get shady dealings cleared up in Gotham City,'Zatanna chimed in from afar.

"And this gentlemen is Lionel Luthor."

'Well, well, well, the prince of darkness himself has come out tonight,' Patricia chimed in lightly from the bond. Given that her family, the Queens, the Luthors and the Teagues had been involved in the same secret society, she knew them all too well.

"So, this famous Harry Potter?"

Harry turned around to see a man in his late thirties standing there behind him. He had long brown hair that went down past his shoulders. He was wearing a pair of glasses and he peered out from behind them towards Harry, with chilling blue eyes. He had well trimmed beard and was dressed in a black suit that looked to be custom made.

"You'd be surprised how often that I get that," Harry said without missing a beat. "So, you're the infamous Lionel Luthor."

"Yes, well, I recently learned about your….business dealings with Doctor Swann and have been wanting to meet with you for quite some time," Lionel told him.

'Man gets straight down to the point, doesn't he?' Kara thought although given that he was asking about Doctor Swann, she edged over to join her husband. This could lead to questions about Kal-El, so she needed to know what was said first hand.

"Yes, what about them?" Harry asked, his voice was calm and casual, but there was an undercurrent of caution that indicated he was keeping a close eye on him.

"Well, a merger like that seemingly out of nowhere….I must say, I was surprised, LuthorCorp has been trying work together with STARR on a deal like that for years, but Doctor Swann refused to sell to me," Lionel informed him.

"Yes, you must have hit just the right cord, how did you do it?" Phillip asked with narrowed eyes as he looked towards Harry. "Obviously the price was right or if you're in bed with the right people."

'I'm not sure I like what he's trying to imply here,' Patricia commented, she hadn't technically gotten in bed with Harry, until after the deal was signed, sealed, and delivered.

'Well, he's certainly implying something,' Harry thought back to her, as he looked at both business men with icy coolness in his emerald green eyes.

"I can tell you that everything was done on the level," Harry offered as he sipped his drink.

"But surely, you know….about certain reason's why STARR was founded," Lionel commented, hoping to prod Harry into revealing information that Swann had kept from him regarding the Traveler.

Harry's smile was one that indicated that he knew far more than Lionel thought that he knew, although he hid it under the guise of taking a drink.

"Well, well, well it's Lionel Luthor, long time, no see!"

Lily showed up to join them and Lionel looked like he'd just seen a ghost.

"Lily….well...this is….this is...quite the surprise….I thought...I thought you were dead...I have a call that I need to take, one moment please," Lionel stammered out, while trying to keep cool as he nearly knocked over silverware in his haste to get out the door.

'Dare I ask?' Harry thought to his mother, but she was too busy cracking up on the inside to really give him a straight answer.

'Long and quite amusing story actually,' Rose chimed in with a knowing smile, although she didn't know quite the exact particulars of Lionel's past encounter with a younger Lily either. All that she knew that he did something to enrage her and in response she did something that left quite a lasting impression on him.

'Well, I'm sure it will be interesting to learn the full details about someday,' Karen stated as she listened carefully for any snatches of interesting conversation, but the party was just a lot of talk about the mysterious Bat-Man and whether he or not was real or whether he or not he was an urban legend.

"Well, I'd be pretty surprised if he isn't just another urban legend cooked up by the press," Bruce commented as he sipped from the drink he was holding. "And besides, why would someone want to be a brooding avenger of the night?"

"Very true, Brucie darling," a blonde woman with striking brown eyes stated, although there seemed to be about three or four high class floozies trying to stake their claim on the billionaire playboy. None of whom seemed to have half of a dozen brain cells to rub together by the looks of things.

Granted, that would make it fairly easy to get into their panties, Harry noted, but that was beside the point since he liked a challenge, quantity never matched up to quality.

"I apologize for my brother's behavior, he tends to….engage his mouth before speaking."

A middle-aged gentleman in his mid-forties with a shaven head and dark eyes, dressed in a military dressed uniform, stated as he moved over to speak with him.

"Well, I'm used to dealing with people like that, so I just let it roll of my back," Harry said to the man with a smile. "Harry Potter."

"A pleasure to meet your, Mr. Potter, I'm Jacob Kane….I don't believe that you've had the pleasure of meeting my younger sister, Kathy yet."

Harry smiled, he hadn't had the pleasure of meeting her yet in fact and he couldn't help but smile. She stood there, with a curtain of dark hair framing her gorgeous face. Her brown eyes looked at him with interest and she was wearing a blue dress made up of expensive material that wrapped around her snugly, along with sheer nylon stockings that covered her shapely legs nicely.

"A pleasure to meet you, Miss Kane," Harry stated as he reached forward to take the hand that she extended, before giving her a slight kiss on it.

"You as well, Mr. Potter, and please, it's Kathy," the young socialite offered him with interest in her voice as she kept her eyes locked onto him. "….This is Bette, my niece and ward, Bette, come over here and say hello to Harry."

Bette Kane walked up with a smile on her face. She was a teenage girl with long blonde hair that flowed around her face and vibrant brown eyes, along with rosy lips just like her aunt and high cheek bones that showed off her elegant and high breeding. She was wearing a red and gold dress that matched her perfectly along with high heel shoes.

"Hi!" she said in a bubbly voice after walking up to him with a smile, as she checked him out, although she was far from the only one doing so. "It's a pleasure to meet you Harry."

"As it is, you, Bette," Harry stated as he lightly kissed her hand.

Jacob was engaged in conversation with someone close by, but then he brightened upon taking notice of someone else.

"And there's my daughter, Kate….say hello to Harry Potter."

Harry smiled as a striking young woman with red hair stepped onto the scene. She had vibrant green eyes, although a very different shade of green then Harry's. She had a smile on her face that got brighter the moment she took notice of him and she was wearing a black dress that wrapped snugly around her frame.

"How do you do, Mr. Potter?" Kate asked as she more or less shamelessly checked him out. While she mostly favored women, she wasn't exclusive to them. But naturally, that was a family secret that was kept under wraps and it was not something to be discussed at parties.

Harry finished speaking with the Kane's then walked over to the buffet to get something to eat. He found himself standing side by side with a seventeen year old teenager with what like to be a shaved head and brown eyes. He was wearing a three piece suit and he seemed to bemused at many of the people at the party, at least just as much as Harry was.

"Good evening," he said, pleased to find someone else here who was in his age group, well, unless you counted Oliver Queen or Bruce Wayne and he most certainly didn't. The both of them were rich fools that gave the rich and the famous a bad name.

"Hello, are you enjoying the party?" Harry asked to him.

"Not particularly, but my father insisted that I came," he said and offered his hand for Harry to shake. "Lex Luthor."

"Right...your Lionel's son" Harry stated as the two young men shook hands and Lex looked a bit sour for a moment.

"So says the DNA test," Lex stated as he cracked his neck a tiny bit and smiled at him as he looked around. "And you're….you're him aren't you?"

"Depends on who you're speaking about," Harry said calmly and Lex jumped in to elaborate.

"Well, no wonder that my father was interested in meeting you, given all of the things….well, it's not too hard to look up that you were the top of your year at Cambridge and you got there fairly young," Lex said, and while he didn't say it outwardly, he was fairly impressed. He did respect those people who actually did something with their lives.

"Harry Potter, at your service," Harry commented.

"Charmed," Lex said to him as he looked around, mostly to see if his father would turn back up. "And I do apologize for some of these people, they make my father look almost decent."

Lex did wonder where his father had ran off to, but then again, Lex had been a bit late getting to the party given that he ran into an incident. At least it wasn't as bad as what happened a month ago when a psychopath trying to stab him over her mother losing her job. As if he had any control whatsoever of Lionel Luthor's business practices.

"It's fine, I'm used to dealing with high society people who think that their own shit doesn't stink," Harry said.

"Haven't heard it quite put that way, but that's highly accurate," Lex stated, he'd traveled to Britain, but he supposed that he didn't run into the right people or rather the wrong people.

The two young men made small talk, but there was another guest at the party who was interested in speaking with him.

"Harry Potter, we meet at last."

Bruce's attention was grabbed by this voice as well the man who showed up, which made Harry doubly interested in him as well.

"We haven't had a chance to meet yet, although you know my daughter quite well, so with that said allow me to introduce myself, my name is Ra's Al Ghul," the man whispered. He had dark hair with the slightest hints of grey at the edges and green eyes that were almost the same shade as Harry's. He was wearing an elegant green cloak and carrying a wooden staff.

"Ah, the Demon Head himself," Harry offered with a smile though his eyes were narrowed, he know exactly who the man before him was and it was that point in time that things became perfectly clear to him.

"Yes, that's the closest translation," Ra's agreed. "I've been quite intrigued by your work and I can see potential within you that you've merely scratched the surface of so far. I've seen a lot in my lifetime and done much more, but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like you."

Ra's turned towards the man standing a little to the right behind him, he was a towering and imposing individual with a shaved head and he offered Harry the smallest of courtesy nods.

"My associate, Ubu," Ra's told him. He was the latest in a long line of men to take on that name in order to serve Ra's Al Ghul. "Ahhh….and Mr. Wayne."

Bruce stared down Ra's Al Ghul, one could cut the tension between these two with a knife.

"It's nice to see that you're in good health," Ra's commented lightly, the last time they encountered each other, Bruce had assumed that Ra's had been left for dead.

Harry looked curiously between the two of them, he was intrigued by what was happening, but never the less, the party offered many more sights and sounds.

"It's ready."

Nightshade stood on a balcony that looked down onto the Gotham City Metro Station, she took in the sights and the sounds of the trains around her. Standing beside her was Zombie and approaching them, with his men and Ubu alongside him, was Ra's Al Ghul.

"Excellent, we must move quickly, before the Detective or the Sorcerer can interfere with our plans," Ra's stated, quickening his pace as he did. "You've done well, Talia, I trust the other team is prepared?"

Nightshade, better known by the name Talia, nodded her head in agreement of her father's word.

"Tonight is the night a cancer is cut free from the fabric of society," Ra's commented as his men nodded, kneeling down before him. "Gotham City embodies the absolute worst of humanity, a putrid acid that burns through that fabric, corrupting, decaying, and spreading its disease through other parts of the world. This city will be the first to be purged from the planet, a new world is upon us. This world will be reborn."

There was a loud round of cheers and the Demon Head's face contorted into a smile.

"We'll begin the cleansing with the most infected areas," Ra's continued. "It's time!…It's time! It's time for the end to come for Gotham City!"

The League watched with rapture in their and they pumped their hands into the air, making some noise.

"The crime! The corruption! All of it will be purged! And the disease will be eradicated from humanity!" Ra's stated as he watched them. "Some sacrifices must be made! But the world will be much better for them and then…."

Ra's speech was cut short when he saw something move from up above. The members of the League of Shadows took note of it as well and Zombie's eyes followed the figure closely.

"It's him, he's up above," Zombie grunted and he prepared to ready his men, but Ra's shook his head.

"Have I taught you nothing?" Ra's asked as he heard a whooshing descend from above. "Do nothing, not yet, not this time."

The dark and brooding figure crashed through the skylight. There was an explosion of glass as he dropped down to the ground in front of them.

He stood there, his face covered by the cowl, with his eyes barely even visible behind it.

"It's over!" he stated in a deep throaty growl.

"You know what to do," Ra's told his men.

The ninjas rushed Batman one at a time. He avoided their attacks, then had to dodge to the side seeing as how Ubu picked up a plank of wood and tried to swing it like a baseball bat to take his head off.

Batman dodged another blow as he saw Ra's and half of his men leave in the direction of a train, while the other half tried to delay him.

He was in for the fight of his life as the League surrounded him with a swords drawn, but he slipped a flash bang from his glove causing an explosion which impeded their vision.

"SPREAD OUT! DO NOT LET HIM REACH THE TRAIN!"

Batman looked down upon the train station from where he was perched on a vantage point above and he knew that his night was far from over, in fact, it barely begun.