Chapter 5

Slade touched a button that caused a group of men to contort giving way for the Mirakuru serum to do its work, with all that's been going on, he rather enjoyed bombing those institutions and he had other freaks who owed him favours so the army wouldn't entirely be useless and of course Brother Blood would be angry as to why his disciples were being administered the Supersoldier serum and not him.

The latches on the chairs they were on were starting to break and Blood so entertained by the agitation and screams of pain sniffed raising his hands full of ecstasy his eyes enlarged revelling in the times that would begin anew.

"Yes, yes revel in the glory of Brother Blood"

"It's the serum you doofus," Slade said as the process was finally complete although others

went haywire and killer croc had no choice but to terminate them, most did rip off his limbs and tail and Slade rolled in twisting a soldier's arm and most experimented on had been subjected to insanity, the non-powered soldiers combated them but to Blood's approval were severed with blood spilling everywhere, he didn't know how long it took but he put them in a cage fashioned by experts to be almost impenetrable. The latches were made of the same constructs too so they weren't completely ineffective.

There was a random man with brown who could at least get a hold of himself, he broke off the latches and snarled stepping in front of Brother Blood with bloodshot eyes, blood was streaming down his face then he kneeled with his head low.

Blood shuddered with exhilaration breaking into a rather sinister laugh.

"With you and these punks, I can't even tell the difference" Slade folded his arms while the cultists cleared the bodies and the lab that looked drab with cables and light dangling.

Batman received calls from the warden that some of them were missing and still running around, the visitor may be certain but he was still a liability to their mission, he was calling for backup when Dick arrived on a motorcycle then slid down turning to the side.

"I suppose I'm too late," He said through clenched teeth and grimaced at Deadpool in a bat costume lying down with his feet up reading a book about The Insomniac with headphones on.

"Who is this chump?"

"What's it to you? Anyways you missed out on the fight, it was brutal" Damian clenched his fist then softened at the stare Batman was giving him then faced Grayson

"What gives, most of the institutions belonging to Wayne industries" He whispered that part

"He can't hear us," Batman said to him

"were rigged, you don't suppose the bombings might have been a distraction?"

They turned when Brother Blood hacked into their computer with an evil grin

"Oh, the bat family's all here"

Deadpool scrambled up from the tube to have a look at the distorted face of the man in a ridiculous red cassock fashioned to suit modern times and Slade Wilson, his eyes rounded.

"Papa?"

"I've come to warn you that not even you can stop the era that is coming, soon the world shall know the name of Brother Blood."

The monitor shuffled to the news where there were clips of people getting slaughtered on the streets of Gotham and the police weren't handling them any better than Batwoman was, their eyes rounded at Bat Wing's Wing Suit being ripped apart.

"Gotham City is in turmoil once again and citizens are questioning their safety.m since what appear like mere mortals slaughtering civilians with their bare hands even the allies of The Dark Knight can barely keep up. In other news the Warden of Arkham has advised citizens to stay indoors, in his own words 'grobbel and pray as your life depends on it, I'm afraid_"

"She's doing a bad job of laying low," Robin said after turning off the news.

"I'll handle the prisoners, you stay here with Robin until I get back"

"What the f_"

"Master Grayson please" Alfred cut in, Batman touched his shoulder

He was getting alerts from Gordon that the prisoners made it to Gotham City Police Department and were raiding the weaponry, which didn't sound good that unstable soldiers were harnessing them.

He jumped into the jet and started the engines gripping the wheels and zoomed off when the domes opened. Gritting his teeth as a few hopped on his jet punching the glass, it could take a few shocks as the cracks formed but sooner the alarm red light pulsed and he ejected himself from the jet glided down with his cape open then used a grappling hook with ropes that went both ways sliding down the slope then rolled off overlooking the buildings there were burning, broken into and dented

He staggered with a punch from behind him and turned to face his opponent, he grinned poised in a red costume with black leather shoulder patches and an excess of red fabric with his leg open on a split, it looked like one of Blood's cultist

"There you are you grimy little bat, oh and it's Anvil by the way"

"I didn't ask"

Batman swept his feet from under him and kicked him across the road opposite from a general Hospital, he slid down the streets and recovered wiping blood off his face then growled spearing him, Batman groaned when his back hit a rail by a bus and it tottered over, he looked up when the man attempted to drop on him and raised his boots to knock him on the face.

The others were coming and he evaded them and kicked one to the face, knocking heads together, they were overcrowding him and he used smoke pellets to escape them with the grapple gun swinging out from the huddle.

He groaned when met the man in the red costume twisted his leg, hearing bone popping sounds

"You would be a great collection to Blood's army"

Batman stabbed a few with nerve toxins and at every corner, he met more super-powered prisoners, he rolled on the floor when Anvil grabbed him from the neck weighing down, he fell with him to the ground but Anvil persisted latching on trying to suffocate him, Batman tried to reach for his utility belt and grunted when Anvil's leg curled around his arm and groaned when he knocked Batman's shoulder out of its sockets the toxin bounced to the far end away from him trapped in the leg lock that threatened to snap his neck.