Chapter One

"I can still remember it like it was yesterday." Bruce Wayne thought. "Eight years ago today on this very spot, they were taken from me.

Bruce had come to pay tribute to his parents for the first time since he got back. As he put flowers down on the spot that it happened, he remembered. Bruce, his mom, and his dad were walking through Crime Alley to try and get home faster. The riots were starting, even then. Though they weren't as bad. The Waynes walked down the alley and were confronted by a man wearing a ski-mask.

"Don't do this." Thomas Wayne said. "I, I'll give you anything you want."

Thomas and Martha both pulled out their wallets. Martha even offered her pearls.

"Keep you dirty money away from me!" said the criminal. "You rich are all the same! You keep all the money for yourselves while people like me live in the gutter, scrounging around for food like animals!"

The man shot Thomas and Martha. He held his gun to Bruce's head but couldn't pull the trigger. He hit the young boy over the head with it and ran off. As Bruce laid there in a puddle of his parent's blood, he lost consciousness. He woke up in the hospital.

"Where are my parents?" He asked.

The doctor gave him a grim look.