5 Taking control
(Uncle Philip POV)
Bruce woke up. Finally, after more than a week of being unconscious, he woke up. I can't say that I was not hoping to get all of Wayne Enterprises, but I am still happy that my nephew is alive and awake now. I never had much of a bond with him but now that he is awake, I will have to change that. We will grow closer ... somehow. I have no idea how to raise a child. I will hire someone to do that for me. A new butler and a maid as well. Some teachers ... yeah that could work, then I don't have to deal with him.
I walk to his room and knock.
"Come in.", I hear Bruce's voice say on the other side.
"Hello Bruce, how are you?", I ask him as I step inside his room. I look at him and see ... nothing. There is nothing left of the young boy I knew fleetingly. No emotion at all. I was expecting him to be sad and full of grief, but apparently, that is not the case.
"I'm alright.", he says.
"Well, I'm glad to hear that. I am here to take you with me. Now that your parents ... aren't here anymore, I ... well I am planning to take care of you. Is that alright with you?", I ask him. I don't know how to talk to a child. I want him to feel comfortable but, I just don't know how to do that.
"... It's ok. As long as I get to leave this bed now.", he says.
I smile at that and nod.
"Yeah, let us leave here."
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He doesn't have anything here in terms of clothes. He was brought there in an emergency. But it doesn't matter, the little he does have can be carried in one hand. I do that for him, always want to make a good impression. We leave the hospital finally and enter the limousine, that is waiting for us. I instruct my driver to drive us to my house but Bruce stops me.
"I wanted to ask whether we could make a stop at home ... just for a short moment. I ... would like to get something from there.", he says. He doesn't look at me right now and I can tell that it pains him to go back there. So the thing he needs has to be important. And if it's important to him, it's important for me as well ... at least on the outside.
"Of course we can Bruce. Euwin, please get us to the Wayne Manor."
"Yes, sir."
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The ride is very silent. Neither Bruce nor I say anything. He for obvious reasons and I because I just don't know what to say. Anything I have to say would be awkward and I just don't want such a situation.
After 20 minutes we reach the Wayne Manor. Bruce steps out and looks at his home. He doesn't move for a few minutes and only looks at it. I stand next to him and also look at the house. I put my hand on his shoulder and tell him.
"Shall we try it? You don't have to go in. I can have Euwin get your stuff if you wish."
"No! I only want you to come with me ... I ... have something to tell you.", he says.
"Alright then. We can do that. Euwin please wait here for me to come back.", I say to my driver and he nods.
Bruce and I walk into the house and he looks around. He has a goal, I can tell. With purpose, he walks upstairs and into the Bathroom. Normally I wouldn't follow him there but he calls for me to enter.
I enter as well but what I see makes me stop dead in my tracks. There stands a man in a ... costume? An Owl costume ... the Court of-----
"Good night ... Uncle..."
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(Bruce POV)
"Do you have the tools?", I ask the Talon. He nods and hands me all of the things I need. In a bag, I find tools for surgery as well as the technology I created last night. The new and improved version of the Mind Control Pin is already in use of course. Now we only need to do the rest.
"Is the driver ...", I begin.
"Knocked out.", the Talon finishes my sentence.
"Good. That gives me all the time I need.", I say and get to work. I put on my Surgical gloves and lay down my Uncle on the floor. I make sure to work as sterile as possible. But it doesn't matter either way, as I have prepared for that already. I made a special gel I like to call 'healing gel'. The name is as bad as the gel is effective.
What it does is literally in the name. It heals wounds of many different kinds and works as a disinfectant as well. So no matter how much dirt or microbes and bacteria get into the wound when I work, it won't matter in the end.
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I begin with the surgery. For the thing that I have planned, I need to open up the man's skull and lay out his brain for me to work on. It is not a very elegant but effective solution to my problem. I was thinking about leaving my Uncle and just forging my parent's testament to give me another guardian that I would create, but I refrained from doing that. Too much work for the same result as this.
I have created a receiver and a transmitter last night. The receiver will go into my Uncle's brain and after I wire everything correctly, it will function off of the electricity that the cells produce themselves. I think there used to be a movie trilogy that did this.
The transmitter is for me to keep, as it will allow me to control my Uncle. Of course, I won't implant it into my brain as I don't trust anyone to operate on me except myself.
I use a few hours to do this. I had the Talon use my Uncle's phone to tell all of his appointments that he was spending time with his nephew. And that wasn't even a lie. He was spending time with me and I was helping him get better.
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After a few hours, I was finally done with my work. I double and triple-checked everything and then made sure that none of this technology would show up in a security scan at the airport. You never know if he has to fly suddenly. On the other hand ... my Uncle has a private jet so that would not have been necessary. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
I close him up and then apply the healing gel on the wounds. It works just as intended and after a few minutes, everything is healed. I am truly a master at this. Imagine if I had good materials.
I leave my Uncle there and check on the transmitter that I built yesterday. It's not a bad piece of technology but it can be upgraded still. It doesn't matter though. It works fine. In the meantime, when I wait for Uncle Philip to wake up, I address my 'slave' right now. The Talon belonging to the Court of Owls that is now under my control has a purpose. I will use him for as long as it takes to complete this order.
"Alton, listen up. You have a task that I want you to complete. You will make sure that you are not found out. I want you to go and observe every member of the board of directors from Wayne Enterprises. I want to know everything there is to know about them. I want to know their likes and dislikes, I want to know how much money they have and where and I especially want you to bring me evidence of any sort of wrongdoing on their sides.
No matter whether it might seem something minor, I want to have a copy of anything that could be illegal. Make sure not to be seen or found out. I don't care how you do it, but get it done. As for the Court of Owls, you will tell them the truth about me. Tell them that I was picked up by my Uncle Philip and that we went to the Wayne Manor first. Tell them that you think something is going on that concerns the future of Gotham and me. But make it very vague so that they don't have a clue about what is going on.
And finally, I want you to create a list of all members of the Court of Owls. I don't care how you do that either, but get it done. You have two weeks for that. Report to me after two weeks and we'll see what you have. Is that understood?", I ask the Talon.
"Yes."
"Good, then go!"
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That leaves me alone with my Uncle and his driver. But that won't be a problem. I begin to walk through the mansion. It is a very big house and I can use it for my work. The Batcave will still be built but I won't sleep there. Now that I am alone in this house, I might change a few things. It's not necessary to have all of these bedrooms. But considering the Batfamily from the comics ... I guess there is a chance that it could come in handy. I will still change a few things and make it more functional.
After another half an hour, my Uncle finally wakes up and I can see how my experiment went. I walk into the bathroom and see him trying to get his bearings. When he sees me I can see that he understands his situation ... somewhat. The technology is working then. I made sure to install a CPU as well as a rather small SSD to have commands saved for certain situations I could see happening.
The most important thing was the self-destruct function if he ever was compromised or said anything about it. Should the circuitry fail, it would quite literally blow his brains out. That was something I made sure would never fall into someone's hands. I was paranoid like that. I guess that comes from being part Azmuth for close to 2000 years. But that is natural for me now.
"How do you feel?", I ask him.
"It is good. No abnormal feelings from what I can tell. All my cognitive functions are slightly better than they were though.", my Uncle answered.
"Yeah, I had to make you smart enough to at least understand when I'm talking to you. Not that you're stupid, but next to me ... you might as well be. Now do you understand the mission?", I continue.
"Affirmative. Lead the company Wayne Enterprises legally and correctly. Make sure to not have others take advantage of us and keep the vultures out. Also, make sure that I am not discovered or I will die."
"Perfect. I can see the promise here. I have installed all sorts of surveillance devices. I can communicate with you through the receiver as well so make sure not to hit your head too hard. Although it would be good data to find out the limit the technology could survive. Anyway, that is all for now. Take your driver with you and send me the papers about my new butler. You know which ones I'm talking about.", I tell him.
"Yes."
"Good, you may leave now. Also, make sure to send me everything concerning the monetary situation. And make sure not to waste money. Now leave."
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Finally, I am alone and ready to begin with my life as Bruce Wayne. I have so many plans and adequate time. Although now that I think about it ... I don't have that much time. I have much to research before I leave on my training journey. But that just makes it interesting.
