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Chapter 7 - The Batcave

Jackie stepped out of the taxi car and stood for a moment to take in the view. He was in the far western outskirts of Gotham City, a place that had been forgotten by time and ravaged by neglect. The buildings, once proud and imposing, had been reduced to ragged shells, their windows boarded up and their walls crumbling. In the distance, he could see a vast expanse of grassy fields, in which nothing moved but a few scrawny cows.

But one building caught Jackie's eye—it seemed out of place amidst the ruins. It was an old, two-story structure, with a single, arched entrance and a few broken windows. He could tell that it had once been grand and imposing, but now it was neglected and forgotten. He could hear the wind blowing through its broken windows, and he could almost imagine the ghosts of the people who had once lived and worked there, now gone.

Jackie walked slowly toward the building, His curiosity aroused. He stepped cautiously through the entrance and saw a hole that led all the way down. And so he jumped with no fear or panic on his face down the hole and used the power of the shadows to stop his fall when he reached the bottom. Jackie looked around and all of a sudden his eyes widened in surprise. It was a large, circular chamber, its walls lined with an array of strange, archaic machinery. And in the center of the chamber, Jackie saw it—the unmistakable shape of a bat.

Jackie couldn't believe it, He had stumbled across what looks to be a base of operations for the Batman.

Jackie stood still for a moment, overwhelmed by the enormity of the discovery. Of course Jackie went out searching for information about the Batman but he never expected to end up in his destroyed hideout. He had never imagined that it could be this extraordinary. He could tell that millions went into building this if not billions. And that's when he made the connection that Bruce Wayne was Batman. Considering how they both disappeared at the same time and how one would need millions of dollars to build a place like this.

He took a few steps forward, and his eyes fell on an old, rusted safe in the corner which has already been opened. He stepped closer and started to check it out only to find out that it exploded from the inside. He frowned and started looked around the room, wondering what else he might find.

Suddenly, his eye caught a glint of light coming from beneath some debris in the corner of the chamber. He stepped closer and saw a narrow, winding tunnel leading down into darkness. He bent down and peered inside, and he could just make out an ominous glow coming from the depths below.

With a surge of excitement, Jackie scrambled down the tunnel, barely able to contain his curiosity. He walks for what felt like hours until He emerges into a large, domed chamber, and he stepped cautiously forward. His eyes adjusted to the darkness, and that's when he saw it—the Lazarus Pit.

It was a large, circular pool, filled with a glowing green liquid which had a sign next to it that said the Lazarus pit. Jackie stepped closer and saw that the pool seemed to be boiling and bubbling as if it were alive. He couldn't believe what he was seeing—there was something supernatural about the pool, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder and awe.

He stepped back and took a moment to take in the sight. He knew that he had found something extraordinary, something that was meant to remain hidden from the world. He stood in silence for a moment, feeling the weight of the moment. "What's a Lazarus pit I wonder what else I might find around here". Jackie said out loud in the cold area, Before summoning shadows out of the corners of the room he's in and make the shadows devour the liquid storing it in the realm of The darkness.

Jackie figured out that he could do that a couple days ago by willing the shadows to converge on one spot and suck everything in.

Jackie heads back up through the tunnel and looks around a bit more and ends up finding a bright green glow in the corner of the cave. He goes to see what it is and see that it's a green rock of some sort so he Holds it up and look at it. He notices a faint greenish hue, and wonders what exactly it is. He also wonders if it's connected to the Lazarus pit.

He turns the rock over in his hand, marveling at its beauty and its enigmatic mystery. What was it? What was this strange rock he had found? He had never seen such a thing before, never heard mention of it either. Tentatively, he slips it into his pocket, feeling a curious thrill of excitement at his discovery.

Wasting no time, Jacket continues his exploration of the destroyed Batcave. He searches through the wreckage, scavenging for whatever he can find. Through the shadows, he finds a collection of broken glass vials, each containing a different colored fluid. His curiosity piqued, he collects the vials and stores them safely into his pocket dimension.

Jackie sighed as he stepped out of the remains of the destroyed batcave. He had searched, but had found nothing else of value to aid him in his quest. He knew the destruction must have been done deliberately, but he could not fathom who could have caused such destruction. He took one last look at the crumbled walls, the broken equipment, the scattered debris. He shook his head and sighed he then made his way back up the tunnel, And hopped back back into the taxi cab that took him back to the main part of Gotham City.

The city bustled around him as he returned to the surface, the sun barely peaking out through the thick layer of smog that hung in the air. He had to find himself a phone, so he made his way over to a small electronics shop. He found a decent phone at a decent price, paid for it in cash, and set off towards his hotel.

As he walked, he kept his thoughts on the green rock he had found in the destroyed batcave. He had no idea what it was, or how it could have ended up there. He also thought about the Lazarus Pit. he wondered what exactly it was and what it was doing in the destroyed batcave. He wondered if there was a connection between the two, but he had no way of finding out.

Finally, he reached his hotel and went straight up to his room. He logged onto his phone and started to search for information on the green rock and the Lazarus pit. He read article after article, but none of them provided any useful information. He was about to give up when he stumbled across a blog post written by a researcher, claiming that the Lazarus pit was believed to be a supernatural water that could heal any wounds or bring back even the Dead. Jackie read the post eagerly, And was excited because he might have just found a way how to make a lot of money, which will fuel the development of his making of his family.

Jackie happy about his research he shut his phone off and decided to take a break he left the hotel and went for a walk around the city. He ended up making his way towards the iceberg lounge to see if he could find Harley and ivy. Sadly they were nowhere to be seen so he decided to go back to the hotel and think about his next order of business.