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The Dark Knight: Knight of Gotham #53
“Stand down. Without your healing factor you have no advantage here.”
I close in on him and place the tip of my blade against his torso. He turns his head to look at me clearly weighing up his options at the moment. Come on, do the right calculations, you know you can’t win this.
“You can’t win this. Stand. Down.”
"Can't I?"
He quickly smirks before forcing his elbow into my chest knocking the wind of me. Before I can stagger back to regain my bearings he forces his blade forward and it pierces the armour of my suit. Almost instantly he follows up with a left to hook to my head and then kicks my torso, sending me flying to the end of the room. I manage to smash through one of the Mayor’s display cases he hit me that hard. Worst of all he made a point of ensuring his kicked me on the wound he just inflicted. I’ll give him one thing, he may be over confident in his abilities but he is a skilled combatant.
I take a moment to inspect the wound, at best the wound is two inches deep though I fear it’s far worse. Despite this I don’t have time to properly treat it, so I remove a painkiller from my belt and inject it close to the wound. Hopefully it will keep the pain at bay long enough for me to deal with this guy. I might be drawing blood from my wounds but so is he. All I need to do is ensure that for every wound I receive, I give two back.
“Come now Bruce. You know you can’t win this. Just stand down. Take that mask off, and accept your fate.”
Desperately, I search the room for my blade. Sadly he spots it before I do and kicks it away from me. Great. Just what I need.
He places his blade next to my chest before mocking me one more time.
“You gave it your all, but in the end the father must step aside and let the son take his place.”
“You’re….no son of mine.”
“Still rejecting that eh? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. First Mother. Now you.”
Talia rejected him too? How can that possibly be? If she rejected him then why would Ra’s have allowed him to live? He’s a man with few principles but he will do anything to protect his family. That’s part of the reason Ra’s didn’t kill me the moment I refused to go through with the final test, because Talia put herself between myself and his blade. Were it not for her intervention there would be no Batman. The mere concept that she would reject him seems remarkably out of character. The Talia I knew would never reject any child of her own.
Therefore he can’t be who he claims to be. If he was then there’s no way Talia would reject him. His claims of me being his final test is a lie. This is a matter of proving his worth to be made heir to the Demon by slaying the man who held that title before him.
“Fortunately I have no need for either of you anymore. Once I’m finished with you she’ll be next for all her interfering in my ascension.”
“Interference?”
“What a vial of lazarus suddenly turns up at your house and leads to a miraculous recovery by your body and you don’t thin you had help from within the league? I expected so much more from the world’s greatest detective."
Talia was the one who brought that vial into the cave that revived Jason? That means I’ve underestimated the amount of lazarus in his body. If Jason has had two exposures to lazarus then that means the amount of lazarus I calculated being present in this guys body is only half of the actual lazarus content. But more pressingly that means Talia is somewhere in Gotham, maybe she can shine some light on all this.
“Talia is in Gotham.”
“For the moment. Once I’m done with you, she’ll be the next to fall and I’ll return both your bodies to Nanda Parbat where they will serve as a warning to all.”
“Over my dead body.”
“That’s the idea Father. Now enough chit chat, let’s get this over with.”
He again raises his sword ready to deliver another slash no doubt intending it to be a killing blow. Before he can complete the swing though I force myself up off the ground and charge towards him narrowly managing to grab hold of hand before the blade connects with my cowl.
Come on then junior. If you are who you claim to be then prove it. Let’s see if there's a bit of Bruce Wayne in you…
The Dark Knight: Knight of Gotham #53
“Stand down. Without your healing factor you have no advantage here.”
I close in on him and place the tip of my blade against his torso. He turns his head to look at me clearly weighing up his options at the moment. Come on, do the right calculations, you know you can’t win this.
“You can’t win this. Stand. Down.”
"Can't I?"
He quickly smirks before forcing his elbow into my chest knocking the wind of me. Before I can stagger back to regain my bearings he forces his blade forward and it pierces the armour of my suit. Almost instantly he follows up with a left to hook to my head and then kicks my torso, sending me flying to the end of the room. I manage to smash through one of the Mayor’s display cases he hit me that hard. Worst of all he made a point of ensuring his kicked me on the wound he just inflicted. I’ll give him one thing, he may be over confident in his abilities but he is a skilled combatant.
I take a moment to inspect the wound, at best the wound is two inches deep though I fear it’s far worse. Despite this I don’t have time to properly treat it, so I remove a painkiller from my belt and inject it close to the wound. Hopefully it will keep the pain at bay long enough for me to deal with this guy. I might be drawing blood from my wounds but so is he. All I need to do is ensure that for every wound I receive, I give two back.
“Come now Bruce. You know you can’t win this. Just stand down. Take that mask off, and accept your fate.”
Desperately, I search the room for my blade. Sadly he spots it before I do and kicks it away from me. Great. Just what I need.
He places his blade next to my chest before mocking me one more time.
“You gave it your all, but in the end the father must step aside and let the son take his place.”
“You’re….no son of mine.”
“Still rejecting that eh? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. First Mother. Now you.”
Talia rejected him too? How can that possibly be? If she rejected him then why would Ra’s have allowed him to live? He’s a man with few principles but he will do anything to protect his family. That’s part of the reason Ra’s didn’t kill me the moment I refused to go through with the final test, because Talia put herself between myself and his blade. Were it not for her intervention there would be no Batman. The mere concept that she would reject him seems remarkably out of character. The Talia I knew would never reject any child of her own.
Therefore he can’t be who he claims to be. If he was then there’s no way Talia would reject him. His claims of me being his final test is a lie. This is a matter of proving his worth to be made heir to the Demon by slaying the man who held that title before him.
“Fortunately I have no need for either of you anymore. Once I’m finished with you she’ll be next for all her interfering in my ascension.”
“Interference?”
“What a vial of lazarus suddenly turns up at your house and leads to a miraculous recovery by your body and you don’t thin you had help from within the league? I expected so much more from the world’s greatest detective."
Talia was the one who brought that vial into the cave that revived Jason? That means I’ve underestimated the amount of lazarus in his body. If Jason has had two exposures to lazarus then that means the amount of lazarus I calculated being present in this guys body is only half of the actual lazarus content. But more pressingly that means Talia is somewhere in Gotham, maybe she can shine some light on all this.
“Talia is in Gotham.”
“For the moment. Once I’m done with you, she’ll be the next to fall and I’ll return both your bodies to Nanda Parbat where they will serve as a warning to all.”
“Over my dead body.”
“That’s the idea Father. Now enough chit chat, let’s get this over with.”
He again raises his sword ready to deliver another slash no doubt intending it to be a killing blow. Before he can complete the swing though I force myself up off the ground and charge towards him narrowly managing to grab hold of hand before the blade connects with my cowl.
Come on then junior. If you are who you claim to be then prove it. Let’s see if there's a bit of Bruce Wayne in you…