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Chapter 24 - Intruders in the Batcave

Harleen:

Drawing a thick, curly mustache on the picture of the man, I turn to Selina.

"Hey Cat," I chuckle, capping the permanent marker and putting it in my pocket. "Look at this. What do you think of him now? Not so tough anymore, are you Senor Sunglasses!"

"Funny," Selina says, her arms still crossed and her foot still tapping. "Come on Harleen! Enough with the doodle. Let's just get what the guy wants and get out of here. I don't like being here."

Peeking around the corner, Selina and I see a bunch of One Earth soldiers and betas walking around, patrolling and protecting some dorky nerds. For some reason, they all seem focused on a bunch of new computers in front of them, their eyes practically glued to the screen.

"What are they looking at," I ask, narrowing my eyes. Looking like footage of something, something I couldn't really see, I stop when Selina hits my shoulders.

"This is going to be tough," Selina starts, stepping back. "I have no idea how we're going to do this. With all these soldiers and betas, we'll be dead within ten seconds if we have to fight them all."

"Don't suppose these new thingies Sunglasses gave us will help, do you," I ask, pulling out the small, black discs we found a while ago on the dashboard with the video.

"Maybe but I'd rather not try them just yet. I don't trust that guy. Something about him just makes my skin crawl."

"Yeah, like what's with the sunglasses? That's a really lousy mask."

The:

"Yeah well screw you too," I say, injecting Jason with the vaccine.

"What," Jason asks, rubbing where I injected him. Applying a bandage, I then open a nearby drawer and grab a cherry-flavor lollipop.

"Oh, nothing. Here. Enjoy."

Slowly taking the lollipop, Old guy's partner jumps off the table and joins the other with bandages and lollipops.

"Hey," the doc asks, putting the gas masks away. "How come when you gave me the vaccines, I didn't get a lollipop?"

"Because the only lollipop I had at the time were those giant, colorful ones that spiral. And I don't give them out. Those are mine."

"Hey," Cold asks, tapping Buggie and offering his lime-flavor lollipop. "You want to trade?"

Catwoman:

"Hey," I whisper, pointing toward a bunch of new generators in the cave. "Look over there. That's a lot of power. More than I remember."

"Superman must have added them when he took over the hub," Harleen says, peeking around the corner and seeing a bunch of noisy, smoke-blowing, bouncing generators with wires attached to them. "Wow. Almost a dozen more than before."

"Yeah," I say, still looking at the dozen generators. "Hmm. You know, that gave me an idea. Harleen, don't suppose you brought some explosion with you?"

"Always," Harleen says, smiling and pulling from her pocket some tied-up sticks of dynamites, a short fuse sticking out of each of them. "What's the plan?"

"I somehow get over to the generators and set it off without killing myself or anyone else in the process."

"Wow," Harleen starts," That is not comforting in the slightest. Why not just save the two of us some time and set the dynamites off now? From where we're standing right now, I think we can knock out a few lights, scare some nerds, and maybe even block this entrance to the cave. Of course, there are a few more so maybe it won't really matter. On the bright side at least-"

Before Harleen can finish whatever it is she is saying, something screams, and it echoes throughout the cave, almost bursting my eardrums! Dropping to my knees, my hands slamming against my ears, I look up to see a giant man-sized bat fly toward us! Reaching for my whip, the bat knocks me into a wall and tackles Harleen.

"What the hell," I say, looking to see Manbat standing on top of Harleen, his entire body covered in glowing purple wires. Spreading out his giant brown wings, he raises his head and screams, his shriek echoing throughout the liar and drawing a lot of attention.

"Nnooo," I scream, hearing footsteps and turning around. Seeing a bunch of betas and soldiers turn the corner and aim their weapons at us, I once again reach for my whip. However, something hits my hand and I drop my whip. Holding my hand, I look to see Batman swing through the air before landing in front of me.

"Bruce," I scream, reaching for my whip.

"And Manbat," Harleen groans from underneath Manbat's foot. "Don't forget Manbat!"

"Yeah, I haven't."

Charging toward me, Bruce tosses on the ground a smoke pellet that blankets the area. Coughing and trying to wave the smoke away, Bruce kicks me out of the smoke and into the Batcave's garage. Rolling backward before landing and pushing himself up, I enter a fighting stance.

"Bruce," I say, looking him right in his dead, emotionless eyes. "I'm sorry."

Harleen:

Looking at all the soldiers and betas as they advance toward me and Manbat, I reach for my gun in my back pocket and fire a few shots. The shots not hitting Manbat still startle him enough that he steps off of me! Moving fast and swapping my gun for the sticks of dynamites, I lit the fuse.

"Fall back," one of the soldiers screams as I chuck the TNT! Running away, the betas disappear into a cloud of smoke and fire, I turn back in time to see Manbat flying right into me. Grabbing and carrying me through the Batcave for a bit, he then drops me onto a metal bridge, a few bones cracking when I land.

"Oh Kirk," I chuckle as I grab the railing and pull myself up. "How I have always hated you."

Landing on the other side of the bridge, opposite to me, I wipe my mouth and pull out my dual pistols.

"Let's go! Me versus you, Ugly!"

Aiming my guns, I unleash a hailstorm of bullets toward Manbat! Jumping back and dodging out of the way of the hailstorm, he then leaps into the air, spreading out his wings and taking flight. Flying toward me, I look down the barrels of my guns. About to squeeze the triggers, Manbat begins to cough something up. Actually throwing it up, something brown and sticky hit my hand and pin me to the bridge!

"What in the living hell," I scream, looking at the sticky stuff. Both my hand and gun stuck to the bridge, I try to pry it loose but can't. Grabbing one of my feet with one of his, he then pulls me free of the brown sticky stuff and spins me around for a bit before letting me go. Slamming into the handrailing again, the railing bending, I only had seconds to recover and push myself out of the way of Manbat as he slammed into the railings, destroying it!

While ripping the railings apart, I shoulder charge right into him!

Catwoman:

Backflipping out of the way as Bruce tosses batarangs after batarangs, I stop for only a second to grab a nearby toolbox and toss it at Bruce! The thing rolling toward him, he kicks it out of the way but is so focused on the toolbox that he doesn't see me running to him!

Swinging a hard right hook, he blocks it with his left arm. Our arms lock together, I swing a hard left hook and manage to punch him! Stumbling back, I rush toward him again and jump into the air, spinning around and kicking him!

Stumbling further back, I charge toward him for the third time! Swinging a hard left, Bruce blocks it this time and twists my arm behind my back!

Screaming as Bruce kicks out my leg and slams me to the floor, he then drops his knee onto my back! Twisting my arm even further, I try to get him off but can't!