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he Dark Knight – Heir to the Demon – Prologue – Part 14
To save this man’s life I grab hold of him and lift him up off his feet. Saying he wasn’t best pleased would be an understatement, but he knows that his only options are to stay in close proximity to my person or be shot by Talia. Needless to say it can be assumed he isn’t a big fan of being shot, then again aside from Clark who is? Thus, in order to save his own skin, he chooses to not put up much of a fight. Normally that would be quite alarming. If an opponent suddenly stops his attacks, it’s never a good sign. Often it means they have something that will tip the odds in their favour. In this case though I appear to hold all the cards. It’s either lose to me or be shot by Talia. I don’t approve of using death as a method to force compliance but in this scenario I have no choice. My suit is in poor shape and I can’t afford another drawn out fight with him so I have to end this now.
Sadly, for him the end of this battle isn’t good for him in either scenario. The only difference is that with me he’ll walk away with his life.
”Get out of the way! It’s him or us.”
”I won’t let you indulge in your father’s tactics Talia. If you use his methods, you’re no better than him!”
”Move Bruce, don’t make me fire on you!”
It’s a bluff. At least I hope so. Talia may have no quarrels with taking a life, but she doesn’t have a major blood thirst unlike some of the other members of the League, in part due to her not being overexposed to the Lazarus pit. Perhaps that’s why Damian was so willing to kill anyone in his path, not because of his training but because of his exposure to the pit’s effect. It’s hard to know given my lack of knowledge as to the extent of his training.
Maybe I’m just telling myself that in the hopes that he can be redeemed. After all who wants their son to be a willing serial killer. Huh. Funny. That’s the first time I’ve actually referred to him as my son. I only wish it was under better circumstances.
After a few quick punches to the chest, the assailant is all but defeated. The only thing needed is to restrain him. Originally I had intended to simply drop him to the ground and use a pair of the handcuffs on the floor, from when I forced my belt to empty its contents, and leave him for Jim. But that all changes as he reaches for a small knife on his leg holster. Just like their katanas , this knife is able to cut through the armour of my suit as if it was simply paper.
Needless to say, in a moment of both shock and anger I quickly throw him to the other side of the room causing him to slam into the chest of drawers where Talia pulled her gun from. Evidently I threw him with a large amount force, more so than I thought at least, as he smashes the chest to pieces whilst being rendered unconscious.
A quick inspection of the wound allows me to see how deep the cut is. Amazingly, he was able to cut through the bat symbol on my chest with ease as if it were nothing. Thank goodness it’s the most reinforced part of my whole suit or he’d have done a tremendous amount of damage. This, this is just a flesh wound. It’ll heal in a month…..assuming I’m still here in a month’s time.
Talia takes a moment to inspect the wound and panics when she sees blood coming out of the opening in my suit. It’s only when I show her the thickness of my armour plating that she calms down…..somewhat. It doesn’t stop her from slowly walking over to the unconscious assailant and putting her gun to his head.
”It’s over Talia. You don’t need to take his life.”
”If you cut down a tree but leave the roots, it will grow back eventually. If we leave him alive he’ll come be back and he won’t be al…”
As she stutters Talia loses her balance. Clearly the painkiller is starting to wear off and the pain is coming back to her. Sadly, I’m somewhat relieved by this as horrible as it sounds, because it stops Talia from taking another life. Though at the same time this does worry me. I expected that the painkiller would give her body time to heal using the residual Lazarus in her body. The fact that her body doesn’t appear to have healed itself at all is…. interesting…. though I doubt she’d agree with me on that remark.
For a moment it looks like she’s able to overcome the sudden rush of pain, but then almost immediately after it looks like she’s regained her composure she stumbles. Before she has a chance to collapse I race to her side and help support her.
”The painkiller is wearing off. I need to get you back to the cave so we can remove the bullet.”
”So I’m finally going to meet the infamous….Alfred…..Pennyworth….after all this time.”
Despite the situation I can’t help but crack a smile for Talia. Both to put her at ease and also knowing that at long last, she gets to meet Alfred. It doesn’t sound like a major thing, but after how much I talked about him during my time with the League, Talia’s been desperate to meet him if only to know who was the poor man that had to put with raising me for all those years.
”You are Talia. You are.”
I’m not going to lose you Talia. Ra’s may have stolen the son I never knew I had, but I’m not going to let him take you away from me again.
he Dark Knight – Heir to the Demon – Prologue – Part 14
To save this man’s life I grab hold of him and lift him up off his feet. Saying he wasn’t best pleased would be an understatement, but he knows that his only options are to stay in close proximity to my person or be shot by Talia. Needless to say it can be assumed he isn’t a big fan of being shot, then again aside from Clark who is? Thus, in order to save his own skin, he chooses to not put up much of a fight. Normally that would be quite alarming. If an opponent suddenly stops his attacks, it’s never a good sign. Often it means they have something that will tip the odds in their favour. In this case though I appear to hold all the cards. It’s either lose to me or be shot by Talia. I don’t approve of using death as a method to force compliance but in this scenario I have no choice. My suit is in poor shape and I can’t afford another drawn out fight with him so I have to end this now.
Sadly, for him the end of this battle isn’t good for him in either scenario. The only difference is that with me he’ll walk away with his life.
”Get out of the way! It’s him or us.”
”I won’t let you indulge in your father’s tactics Talia. If you use his methods, you’re no better than him!”
”Move Bruce, don’t make me fire on you!”
It’s a bluff. At least I hope so. Talia may have no quarrels with taking a life, but she doesn’t have a major blood thirst unlike some of the other members of the League, in part due to her not being overexposed to the Lazarus pit. Perhaps that’s why Damian was so willing to kill anyone in his path, not because of his training but because of his exposure to the pit’s effect. It’s hard to know given my lack of knowledge as to the extent of his training.
Maybe I’m just telling myself that in the hopes that he can be redeemed. After all who wants their son to be a willing serial killer. Huh. Funny. That’s the first time I’ve actually referred to him as my son. I only wish it was under better circumstances.
After a few quick punches to the chest, the assailant is all but defeated. The only thing needed is to restrain him. Originally I had intended to simply drop him to the ground and use a pair of the handcuffs on the floor, from when I forced my belt to empty its contents, and leave him for Jim. But that all changes as he reaches for a small knife on his leg holster. Just like their katanas , this knife is able to cut through the armour of my suit as if it was simply paper.
Needless to say, in a moment of both shock and anger I quickly throw him to the other side of the room causing him to slam into the chest of drawers where Talia pulled her gun from. Evidently I threw him with a large amount force, more so than I thought at least, as he smashes the chest to pieces whilst being rendered unconscious.
A quick inspection of the wound allows me to see how deep the cut is. Amazingly, he was able to cut through the bat symbol on my chest with ease as if it were nothing. Thank goodness it’s the most reinforced part of my whole suit or he’d have done a tremendous amount of damage. This, this is just a flesh wound. It’ll heal in a month…..assuming I’m still here in a month’s time.
Talia takes a moment to inspect the wound and panics when she sees blood coming out of the opening in my suit. It’s only when I show her the thickness of my armour plating that she calms down…..somewhat. It doesn’t stop her from slowly walking over to the unconscious assailant and putting her gun to his head.
”It’s over Talia. You don’t need to take his life.”
”If you cut down a tree but leave the roots, it will grow back eventually. If we leave him alive he’ll come be back and he won’t be al…”
As she stutters Talia loses her balance. Clearly the painkiller is starting to wear off and the pain is coming back to her. Sadly, I’m somewhat relieved by this as horrible as it sounds, because it stops Talia from taking another life. Though at the same time this does worry me. I expected that the painkiller would give her body time to heal using the residual Lazarus in her body. The fact that her body doesn’t appear to have healed itself at all is…. interesting…. though I doubt she’d agree with me on that remark.
For a moment it looks like she’s able to overcome the sudden rush of pain, but then almost immediately after it looks like she’s regained her composure she stumbles. Before she has a chance to collapse I race to her side and help support her.
”The painkiller is wearing off. I need to get you back to the cave so we can remove the bullet.”
”So I’m finally going to meet the infamous….Alfred…..Pennyworth….after all this time.”
Despite the situation I can’t help but crack a smile for Talia. Both to put her at ease and also knowing that at long last, she gets to meet Alfred. It doesn’t sound like a major thing, but after how much I talked about him during my time with the League, Talia’s been desperate to meet him if only to know who was the poor man that had to put with raising me for all those years.
”You are Talia. You are.”
I’m not going to lose you Talia. Ra’s may have stolen the son I never knew I had, but I’m not going to let him take you away from me again.