Chapter 8- Catching The Mastermind

The tracker point was moving. Whoever has the data is also on the move. But he is driving while following the traffic rules. From his estimation, he can catch up with him in Long Island City.

As he was reaching the location, the tracker vanished. It had only been 20 minutes. He could not have found that he is being tracked. Then the only other possibility could be he found that the data has missing components.

At this moment his AI informed him someone contacted Wayne Manor.

He asked his AI to record and trace the call.

Now, most if not all phones have a 911 Locator Chip in them, it is very easy to trace a call. But his AI could not trace the call easily. The call was made from a public payphone. Now if a normal mobile phone is broken or even if it's switched off, there is no way to trace a call. At least not fast. But that is not the case for a payphone. It is always active. But if the phone is broken by someone forcefully, there will be an alarm sent to the police. And that is what the caller did. He broke the phone in frustration.

Bruce asked for the record to be sent to him.

Alfred- "Hallo. This is Wayne Manor. Who am I speaking with?"

Caller- "You have guts. Don't you care about your family's lady? How dare you send me false data? Do you think I don't dare to do anything to her? You did not listen to me. For that reason, the punishment will be one of her hands. Which one do you like? Right or left?

Alfred- "If you can send us her hand I will be most surprised. As she is already in our protection."

Katie- "Hallo Kidnapper."

Caller- "No that is not possible. Shit. Shit. Shit..."

*BANG*

The recording stopped here. At the finish of the recording, there is a loud sound of something being broken. Bruce can easily guess that it is the sound of something being broken.

Bruce reached the place where the payphone was. He looked around and found two video surveillance cameras recording around the payphone.

He hacked into one of the cameras. He saw the man on the screen in his car. A middle-aged, half bald, normal man. He is not someone who looked like someone who would plan for kidnapping. He came in a Black Sedan. Stopped the car near a payphone. Made a call. Broke the phone in his frustration with a punch. He screamed after breaking the payphone with a punch. Both in anger and pain. Went towards the car holding his hand. The car door closed. The car stayed there for at least 1 minute. Then the car made a U-turn. And then he vanished again from the screen.

Bruce told his AI to hack into all nearby traffic cameras. And as he predicted he showed up in some of them. But that middle-aged man was clever than he thought. After taking a U-turn he took two right turns to shake off anyone who would follow him after checking the surveillance camera.

But if he was that clever, then why did he not hide his face when he called from the payphone. There can be three possibilities.

1st. His face is not real. He had a special mask or maybe he can shapeshift.

2nd. He was mind-controlled. But here is a contradiction. If he was mind-controlled then why did he showed the emotion of frustration?

3rd. Someone took possession of his body. Like mind-switch or mind-transfer. This is the most probable cause here.

And if someone did mind-switch or mind-transfer, his body must also be close by. Maybe inside that Black Sedan.

Bruce drove his car as fast as he can on these busy roads. He analyzed from the location he could catch up to them from the locations they have already passed, and now he is going to stop them head-on.

After nearly 5 minutes Bruce was sure now he can confront their car. There was a place nearby which can be called Dark Zone. There is no surveillance camera nearby. He decided to confront them at that place.

When they both reached the place, Bruce drove his car directly in front of them for a head-on collision. But at the last moment, he drifted his car. The driver of the other car had also pushed the break hard. But Bruce's back of the car hit the front of the Black Sedan.

*BANG* *SCREECH*

After the collision, Bruce's car made a 360 ° beautifully. Bruce got off his car and reached the Black Sedan. The middle-aged man was unconscious. But the driver was groaning in pain.

Bruce decided that the driver should be the mastermind. That middle-aged man was also a victim. Now that he caught the culprit, all he need to do was interrogate him, Batman-style.

Although no one is afraid of him yet, he has his methods. But first, he needs to calm down. Or the mind control could affect him and that would be bad.

Bruce dragged the driver out of the car. He had a wound on his forehead. He is bleeding from there. Bruce did not care about it now, because it is not anywhere near lethal. Then he took a water bottle from his car and poured it on the driver's face. He looked like he is in his late 20.

The man woke up from his grogginess, he looked at the masked man and he was scared, which was evident from his face.

Bruce- "Name."

Man- "Leave me alone."

Bruce felt dizzy, but it went away as soon as it came. After a long period of meditation and previous experience of mind control, this is child's play.

Bruce punched the man in the guts.

*BAM*

The man gagged. Then the coughing continued for few seconds.

Bruce- "Your mind control tricks won't work on me."

Man- "How did you do it. No one can resist my power."

Bruce slapped his face hard.

*SLAP*

The man's head got dizzy. One of his molar teeth came loose.

Bruce- "I ask the question, you answer. Now name."

Man- "Harry Wilson."

Bruce- "Why did you target The Wayne family, on whose orders?"

Man- "I don't know."

Bruce held the man's little figure tightly and dislocated it.

*CRACK*

Harry- "AAAAHHHHHHHHHH"

Bruce- "Lying won't help. You still have 9 fingers. After that, I can move on to other body parts."

Harry- "I REALLY DON'T KNOW. Nobody knows who gave the order. There is a bounty on the special machine of Wayne Enterprise. It has been there for the last 6 months. I just acted upon it."

Bruce- "Now how do you transfer your mind to other people."

Harry- "How do you know that?"

Bruce caught another one of his fingers tightly.

Harry- "Stop. I'll tell you."

Bruce- "Speak fast."

Harry- "I have to control someone's mind first. Then when he is asleep or after I give him a command to sleep, I can take over his body."

Bruce- "Hmm. Now you are going to tell everything to the police. If you left anything unsaid, I will find you. Then I will dislocate every bone possible and reset those bones again. I will repeat the process until I am satisfied."

Harry- "Yes. I will tell them everything. Please don't hurt me anymore."

Bruce- "Good Night."

Harry- "Wha…"

*WHACK*

Bruce sharply hit harry's neck before he could finish his word, and he passed out. He then told his AI to call for an ambulance in his location. And also inform the police that the culprit has been caught. Anonymously.

Bruce then hanged a pen-drive marked Evidence from Harry's neck. He collected all the video recordings and interrogation in this drive. After that, he took his car and parked it nearly 200 meters away, and came back to watch what happens next.

He came at a good time. As he approached from the rooftop he could hear the sirens of the Police Car and Ambulance.