Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:15:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Author James <authorjames2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Return of a Real Dark Knight 42

Disclaimer: This story is fiction.  There are two celebrities who will
appear from time-to-time.  The other characters are fictitious.  Any
similarities to persons living or dead are completely coincidental.

In this story, I have continued the adventures of Batman, my Batman, which
his story first began in "Tales of a Real Dark Knight" in the Boy Band
section of this archive.  It spanned 250 chapters.  You will find many
universes merging, as the above copyrights reveal.  I hope you all enjoy
this.

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Copyright Anne O'Brien Rice.

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Chapter 42 Clean-Up

	The Flash, having discovered through the Black Canary that there
was another Batman, dashed off in the direction she indicated.  Within
milliseconds, he was coming up on Batman.  Batman, however, was ready for
this.  After all, he had been followed by people before, and he encountered
the scarlet speedster when he was Catman.  Noticing the blur of red in his
mirror, Batman reached down and flicked a switch on his bike.  Oil spilled
out behind his tires and coated the road.  The Flash, not noticing this,
ran through, slipped, and slammed into a parked car, denting the side and
slumping to the ground unconscious.
	Batman then turned and headed in a different direction hoping that
his trail would disappear before anyone else decided to pursue him.  After
zigzagging through the city, he pulled up to the address in the phonebook,
the address of the man who purchased the VHS tapes for the pornography.  As
he parked the motorcycle, he realized how primitive this was.  Nobody used
these types of media any more.  He shrugged it off and went around the back
hoping to sneak inside.
	As Batman rounded the corner, he saw two men standing by the only
door.  `This is going to be fun,' he thought as he flipped out two small
balls.  He tossed them to the door and they exploded on impact releasing
clouds of smoke.  The two men coughed and rubbed at their eyes.  Batman
went to work and within minutes both men were tied up and sitting beside
the doorway.  Batman opened the door and went inside.

	Superman and Wonder Woman landed in the alley and walked over to
the two guys tied up by the door.
	"He just went in," Superman radioed to the others as he used his
x-ray vision to see inside the building.
	"Keep watch.  He's tricky," Canary answered.
	"Are you sure about this?" Green Lantern asked.
	"We won't know for sure until we see what he does," Superman
answered.  "He might have been sent by the first Batman to do something for
him.  He might have only attacked because he doesn't know us.  Trust isn't
easy to come by in this world."
	"True.  Just be careful."
	"We will."
	Wonder Woman stepped up to the door and turned the knob.  It turned
easily.  She stepped inside followed by the boy from Krypton.

	Moving silently through the shadows, Batman listened for movement,
for voices, for any sign that he was getting closer.  Someone came around
the corner and noticed him.  As the man pulled up his gun, Batman let his
grapple fly.  It wrapped around the guy's wrists.  Batman pulled and the
guy stumbled forward.  The masked youth flung his boot up and caught the
man's face when he was within striking distance.  Falling back with the
thump, the man landed unconscious.  Batman, emptying the gun of its clip,
tossed the gun in a laundry chute, and turned into the room from which the
man came.
	The room was nothing special, a simple room with sparse
surroundings; a card table surrounded by folding chairs in the center, a
tattered love seat in a corner facing a television.  The smell of musky
male attacked the masked vigilante's nostrils.  He knew what this room was
for.
	`People either fuck in this room or jack off.'
	He turned and left the room heading further into the building.
Coming to the foyer, he turned and descended to the basement.  To his
astonishment, he found many naked children chained up to walls.  Their ages
ranged from 8 years to 15 or 16.  `A child porn ring,' he muttered.
	The kids looked up at him, most of them frightened as they couldn't
quite see his face due to the darkness.  But his silhouette was easily
noticeable.  And they weren't sure what to make of it.
	"I'm here to help," he said as he approached the oldest boy.
"Where do they take you when you aren't here?"
	"To the rooms," the boy whispered.
	"And once there, what happens."
	"Sex.  Lots and lots of sex.  They video tape us, take pictures of
us.  They hurt us."
	"I'll help you escape."
	A sound caught Batman's attention.  He noticed the eyes of the boy
widen as they glanced over the Dark Knight's shoulder.  With a flash of
movement and a flutter of his cape, Batman spun and threw a bat at whatever
was behind him.  It caught the gun hand of a man and caused him to drop his
weapon.  Without a wasted second, Batman dove at him and knocked him
unconscious.  Searching the man, he found a ring of keys.  Then, he turned
back to the youth.  "Like I said, "I'm here to help."
	After trying several keys, he found the key which unlocked the
young man's chains.  Once free, he told the youth to go and unlock everyone
else.  "Lock the door behind me.  I don't want to take a chance someone
gets passed me.  I'll be back for you soon."
	The youth nodded and, after locking the door behind Batman, went
about unlocking the bonds of the captives.
	Batman ascended up to the ground floor and continued his way to the
second.  The smell hit him immediately and he knew what this floor was used
for.  This is where they filmed the porn, at least, some of the porn.
Walking down the hallway, Batman realized that filming was already in
progress.  He found the door and listened.  The sound of two grown men
moaning and two young children crying out in pain penetrated the door.
Bringing his foot back, he let it fly.  The door flew open and he rushed
in.  The sight unnerved him.  Two grown men were penetrating two young
children, one boy and one girl.  Before he could act, two strong men came
from behind the camera at him.  He knelt and jumped grabbing the head of
the closest man and flipped over him.  He used his momentum to force the
guy out the door.
	Batman landed and swung his head sideways as a fist came at him.
He grabbed the man's wrist, ducked underneath the man's arm and twisted it
behind his back.  Then, using what strength he could muster, he forced the
guy out the door onto the man who was attempting to come back in.  They
fell into the hallway and Batman slammed the door shut.  He turned and
threw several of his bats.  One hit the camera and shattered it and the
others flew at the men doing the raping.  They hit the men in the heads and
knocked them unconscious.  They fell backwards and the two youths, who were
forced to straddle the men, looked over at Batman with tears in their eyes.
	"It will be okay," Batman said as he walked over to them and helped
them off the unnaturally large cocks inside them.
	The camera snuck toward the door and opened it as Batman twisted
and threw a bat.  The man was gone before the bat could reach him.
	"Someone will catch him," Batman promised.
	As if in answer, the man flew back through the door way followed by
the two burly men.  Batman turned in case it was someone who threatened the
children.  It wasn't anyone who threatened the children, however.  It was
Superman and Wonder Woman.
	"These two need to get to a hospital as do the children in the
basement."
	Superman looked down and seemed to focus on the floor.  "I can see
some of them.  My vision is blocked by some of the piping.  We should go
get them."
	"Do that," Batman replied.  "I'm going to find the ass in charge of
this."
	Batman walked passed the two heroes and headed down the hallway.
It didn't take long before he reached the top floor and found several armed
guards waiting.
	"This should be fun."
	"Let me help," Wonder Woman said as she came up behind him.
	"I thought you and blue boy were going to help the children."
	"Superman can handle that.  He's fast."
	"Faster than a speeding bullet?"
	"You should see him some time.  You might be surprised."
	"I'm sure."  After turning their attention back to the guards,
Batman asked, "Can bullets bounce of you?"
	"In a manner of speaking."  With a smile and a wink, Wonder Woman
stepped into the light.
	The two men pulled out their guns and open fire.  Batman was
surprised by Wonder Woman's speed at deflecting the bullets which flew out
of the Tommy guns at lightning speed.
	Batman slipped back down the stairs to the level below and went to
the nearest room.  Using his grappling hook, he threw a line up a level and
ascended the building from the outside.  When he got to the next floor, the
one Wonder Woman was on, he kicked away from the building and came smashing
through the window.  To his delight he landed where he intended.
	The room Batman found himself in was plush and red.  The finest
furniture sprawled around him.  The decorations seemed out of place both
for this time period and the location.  Who would believe such a gorgeous
room was inside such a ruddy apartment building?  He could hear noises from
outside the double doors and he knew Wonder Woman was dealing with the men
outside.  His job was to take the opportunity of the distraction and locate
the person behind this atrocity.
	Quickly, the Batman moved behind a luxurious desk and searched the
drawers hoping to find names.  A click caught his attention and he looked
up to see the barrel of a gun in his face.  Following the barrel to the
hand, the hand to the shoulder, the shoulder to the neck and face, he
looked into the eyes of someone who was obviously in charge.  The clothes
he wore and the demeanor in which he stood indicated his influence.
	"Looking for something?" the man asked.
	"For whoever is in charge," Batman answered.
	"Why do you want me?"
	"So I can throw your ass in jail after beating the hell out of it."
	The man chuckled.  "Do you really think you can do that?"
	"Do you really want me to try?"
	The smile slowly disappeared.  "I don't have time to waste on you.
I've got more pressing issues."
	"Like the fact your men are getting the shit beat out of them by a
girl?"
	"What?"
	The door flew open as the two guards flew into the room.  The
gunman turned to the doors and Batman went into action, grabbing the gun
and pushing it away from his body.  The man, feeling the resistance to his
gun, turned back and was met by a fist in the mouth.  He stumbled backwards
and fell into the bureau.
	Wonder Woman entered to find Batman holding a gun.  "What are you
doing in here?  How did you get in?"
	"I went from the outside."
	Wonder Woman nodded.  She turned to some movement and both heroes
saw the man who held the gun fade away.
	"What the hell?" Batman said out loud.
	"Where did he go?"
	The two looked around for a trap door and some form of eye trickery
but found nothing.  Superman flew through the window and their attention
turned to him.
	"Find anything?" he asked.
	"The organizer of this," Wonder Woman said.  "But he disappeared."
	"How?"
	"Magic," Batman said sarcastically.
	The sounds of police sirens in the distance echoed through the
shattered window.
	"I took the liberty of calling the police," Superman answered their
puzzled looks.  "The authorities should be able to clean up from here."
	"Are the children safe?" Wonder Woman asked.
	Superman answered affirmatively.  "What I would like to know is..."
turning to face Batman he found him gone.  "Where did he go?"
	"He moves silently," the Amazon princess answered.  "Let's get out
of here."
	The two flew out the window and Superman used his telescopic vision
to see a shadow disappear over the edge of a building.  He couldn't be sure
it was Batman, though.  At the moment, he had more pressing issues, like
making sure the children were safely taken some place safe.

	"He disappeared like that?" Green Lantern asked.
	"I thought I saw him," Superman answered.  "But making sure the
children were safe was more important.  I didn't go after him."
	"It's okay.  I'm sure we'll run into him again," Flash replied.
"He obviously knows us somehow."
	"He's a very skilled person," Wonder Woman answered.  "He would
make a formidable opponent if he weren't on our side."
	"We don't know if he is or not," Superman stated.  "All we know is
he was investigating a child pornography ring.  He could be working for
anyone, even competition."
	The group remained silent unsure of which way this new Batman would
go.

To Be Continued...

Only eight more chapters to go.  I would love to hear what you think of
this new Batman.