Arkham Chapter 9

[b]Thank you. Now back to Azumi once more, with some input by Doc with Scarecrow. This one will probably prove to be relatively short.

[center]Chapter 9: Fateful Knight[/center][/b]


[font=Chalkduster][u][i]CRIME ALLEY[/i][/u][/font]

Azumi glanced at the sign in front of this alley near the theater. She would have time to look over the wrist-mounted silenced guns later, but for now she had put the set back in her rucksack. One thing did bother her somewhat, however.

[i]Who names a place [b]Crime[/b] Alley? Do you just [b]want[/b] to get robbed?[/i]

Enough of that. She could see something weird on the pavement. Climbing swiftly, the soldier vaulted over chain link fence between the sign and the alley itself, walking over... and saw.

It appeared to be a chalk outline of two people, a man and a woman, one having fallen on top of the other. There was a red rose on one side, a bouquet of flowers on the other, an audio tape in a recorder and a small note on the latter.

Intrigued, she walked over, kneeling next to the bouquet, and read the small note. Just a short sentence and a name.

[b]It will end where it all began.
-- Hugo Strange[/b]

What was this place? She did not disturb the flowers, just picking up the tape, and hit the button, watching the outlines and the buildings around her in the process.

Predictably, the smug, British voice of Professor Hugo Strange came up. [i]"How does it [b]feel[/b], Wayne?"[/i] Okay, so he knew the identity of Batman. Something she already knew he would. Moving on. [i]"To [b]stand[/b] on the very [b]stones[/b] that ran with your parents' [b]blood[/b]? Do you feel sad...? Full of [b]rage?[/b] Or does that [b]outfit[/b] help [b]bury[/b] your feelings, hiding your true self?"[/i]

Rest assured, she was upset and angry that anyone would do this for any person's parents. He [i]redrew[/i] several decade old chalk outlines? Remade the scene of the crime? All just to taunt him?

[i]"Oh... you are a truly [b]extraordinary[/b] specimen. I look forward to [b]breaking[/b] you."[/i]

And it finally ended. She stayed down, crouched, shaking for several seconds. That complete [i]ba*****[/i]. The absolute nerve of anyone to do this... how [i]he[/i] was not the one locked up here was beyond her.

She only just heard the sound of air caught up in the fabric, turning swiftly to him, tense.

[Description and possibly Pre Ass Kicking One Liner]

[FIGHT]

- Beaten up by Batman in the process.
- Scarecrow wandering into Crime Alley pestered by Riddler who is continuing to talk to him.
- Found by Scarecrow and blame it on "Wraith", then telling him he's not doing any actual "science".
- Also tells him about Penguin's TITAN to get for the Collective in response for info on Freeze.

- Changes back into "Wraith" suit when he's gone, and use all interrogation takedowns on a group of others to show competence

[u]3 hours to Protocol 10[/u]