Chapter 6

"The things I do for a date" Esra muttered to herself as she continued the long climb up to the top of the police station. Only moments earlier she managed to sneak past a few of the policemen who were having a smoke out the front of the station but a man passing by spotted her heading down the alleyway and somehow assumed she was an escort or hooker because he asked how much, of course he regretted that question moments later as a right hook from Esra left him lying in the alleyway floor stunned and confused.

After 5 more minutes worth of climbing she arrived at the rooftop exactly on 9:00pm, walking over towards the bat signal she looked around but couldn't find any sign of Batman. Sighing she took a seat down next to the bat signal and decided to wait until he arrived "I hope he isn't held up by some robbery or anything else I'd hate to be stood up while I waited here" "And now why would I go and do that to someone who went to all the trouble of arriving here on time" a deep voice came from behind as Esra jumped startled and turned around to see him slowly materialise out of the darkness. "Crap you startled me" "I manage to do that a lot, what better tactic than sneaking up and surprising your enemies from the shadows. But enough about how I beat the bad guys shall we go and see that movie I promised you". As they began to walk back towards the ladder Esra stopped for a moment "There was one thing I was curious about, if we're seeing a movie isn't that in public and won't you be seen" "Ha they don't call me the dark knight for nothing we'll be seeing a movie with other people but they won't even know that we are there".

"I must say this is the first time I've watched a movie from the wooden beams on the top of the ceiling" Esra said looking down from her chair to the unsuspected crowd below. "Nothing really beats this location, best spot to see everything and you don't have to deal with others" "Of course there is the tiny problem that there is a long fall if you drop off the beams" she said looking down at the drop and feeling slightly uneasy. "There's that to I suppose but balance for you shouldn't be a problem considering you managed to scale up the police station which is at least three times the drop from this height which may I say is rather impressive, I've met few people who have tried that let alone just to get a date from me".

After they had finished watching the movie they had exited the cinema through the roof and just before Esra could say she had a wonderful time woman screamed from down below "Help that man has stolen my purse". Sighing Batman turned away from her "Well duty calls just stay here and it shouldn't take too long I imagine", running towards the edge of the building he leapt through the air his cape opening as he drifted down to the ground.

"Shit it's the Bat" the thug said as he heard a swooping noise coming from down above and quickly spun around drawing his gun. Batman never gave him time to open fire though as a batarang flew through the air slicing across his hand causing the thug to drop his pistol clenching at his now bleeding hand, still determined to get away with his prize though he drew out a pocket knife and lunged at the dark knight who easily side stepped the blow knocking the weapon from the man's hand before elbowing across his chin knocking him to the ground out cold.

A clapping came from the alleyway as a familiar voice that Batman knew all too well spoke "Well done Batman but it seems you've managed to fall into my trap". The man stepped out into view and was easily recognised as being somewhat of a unique looking character, his clothes were split in half and completely different to each other. The right hand side was a red suit with a black polka dotted tie while the left hand side was a white suit with a red tie, his face though was the thing that stood out the most one side could be considered a fairly handsome face for a man brown straight hair with sky blue eyes but the other side was a scarred and mutilated face with a sneering lipless smile and a hollowed out eye socket where his glassy giant blue eye stared out his hair was stark white and spiked up. In his left hand he held a coin while in the right was a revolver aimed straight at Batman "Tsk tsk Batman your ability to always help the needy was your downfall what if the needy was setting you up" the woman who was having her hand bag stolen walked over to Batman and grabbed the bag from him before she reached in and pulled out a pistol "Did I do a good job baby" she said as Two face began to laugh "A perfect job why you should take up acting as a career".

More goons moved out of the alleyway all with their guns trained on Batman until he was completely surrounded with no way out "So how will the great Bat manage to get out of this situation, let's see how fate decides your life" Two-Face said and with that he flipped his coin high into the air.

Esra heard the entire conversation from above and peered out over the edge to see Batman surrounded and in a predicament that even he would find difficult to escape from unharmed. She was wondering why they hadn't opened fire yet but saw that Two-Face was standing there about to flip his coin and then it hit her "Two-Face only acts upon what his coin says if it comes down with the scratched side Batman is a goner but if it's the other side he'll be fine but he won't make any action until he sees the outcome of the coin". Realising what she had to do Esra leapt off the edge of the building and landed behind Two-Face who turned around completely stunned by the sudden entrance of this girl he forgot about his coin as it hit the ground and in one swift motion Esra kicked it further down the alleyway. "ARGH CURSE YOU GIRL I CAN'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL I SEE THE COIN" he roared racing off down the alleyway while his goons stood there slightly confused "So ugh what do we do now if we open fire the boss will kill us but if we don't the Bat will attack us" one said as Batman took the slight delay as an open opportunity and threw out batarangs from both his hands as three men stepped back dropping their weapons.

The other three were too slow to react as Batman spun around kicking the gun free from one of the thugs hand before landing a solid blow to his face and he was down for the count. The second one lunged forward swinging a punch as Batman easily avoided the attack and kneed him in the stomach causing the man to drop to the floor winded. Turning back around he saw the final with his gun aimed straight for him and a smile across his face "Lucks run out batty boy" as the trigger on the gun went to off a loud clang was heard behind him as the gun dropped from his hand and he fell to the ground as Esra stood behind him holding the lid of a garbage bin in her hand. Before Batman could say his thanks she hurled it towards him narrowly missing his head as another loud clang echoed around the alley and turning around Batman saw a goon behind him with a knife collapse to the ground. "Yeah there's no way in hell I'm sticking around to get my ass beaten" one of the remaining thugs said as the second one agreed and both of them took off.

"HA I FOUND MY COIN AND TODAY YOU DIE BATMAN" Two-Face's voice rang out from the alleyway as he raced out of the shadows gun in hand to find 5 of his thugs on the ground unconscious and Batman standing waiting for him "WHAT! What the bloody hell happened to my men" "Shows over Two-Face it's time to take you in" "Grrr I'm not going to go that easily let's see the fate of your little girlie friend" he said flipping the coin as he caught it and grinned "Make a choice Batman save your friend or put me away" aiming the gun up Batman instantly knew what the outcome of the coin toss was as a single gunshot echoed the entire alleyway.