1 I am Batman

Year 1509 nearing 1510

North Blue.

Spider Miles.

Inside of a dark abandoned building, Pirate Captain Rhodes with a pistol on his left hand and axe on his right looked at the three young girls in front of him.

He looked at them with lustful eyes, that even the naivest man in the world will immediately realize what is he thinking.

The girls are crouching in the corner of the building, hugging themselves and trembling in every breath and sound the Pirates make, seemingly scared of these vile Criminals.

"Is these the only goods you managed to get, are there no more slaves we can sell?" Rhodes asks the man besides him.

"There are no more Captain, since the Marines are always tailing and snooping on us. I'm afraid things will get too troublesome if we still keep on kidnapping." The man replied.

Hearing the word 'Marine' Captain Rhodes face turn sour.

"Tch! Well it's better than nothing. All right gather the Mens! We will leave the island!" He shouted making the people around him feel excited.

Well except for the three girls who are trembling in fear in the corner, who after hearing him trembled more, getting hopeless when they heard that they will be immediately carried out outside the island. And that the possibility of them getting rescued is almost null.

But. . .

The door that leds outside suddenly shot opened.

The Pirates immediately readied their weapons, while Captain Rhodes immediately aimed his pistol at the intruder.

"Captain! The Men's are poisoned--*Bang!*" The man didn't finish his words when Captain Rhodes fired his pistol.

The man got shot in the head immediately dying on the spot.

"Who's this? Is he one of us?" Rhodes asks the nearest person besides him.

The man in question just raised his shouder shrugging.

"Well, he's just one of the many anyway." He stated as if nothing important happened. But then he remembered what the poor guy said to him.

"Wait a minute.. did he just say the others are poisoned?!" He asks with widened eyes, fully realizing something.

"Men's readied yourself, there's an enemy, we're being intruded!" He shouted on the top his lungs.

The men under his command readied themselves. They grabbed their guns, and swords on their waists, and waited for the awaited enemy.

. . . Seconds passed, while waiting. All of them are frozen on their spots, getting tense every moment a seconds passed.

The girls who were curling themselves on the corner, also curiously looked around the room waiting for the one who may possibly help them.

. . . A few more seconds had passed, And Rhodes are gettibg started to get irritated.

'Is that. . . just a fluke?' He thought. But then one of his men suddenly falls on the ground unconscious. He looked at it with anger.

'Sleeping? Under my gaze! Did this guy want to die?' He thought. But then, one by one his men started to fall on the ground slowly falling unconscious, like a domino.

"Captain. . . I feel, sleepy." one of his men said before falling on the ground unconscious.

Rhodes, seeing this, also felt a sudden sleepiness, that tried to invade his mind.

Fighting it, he bit his lips. Although the feeling of sleepiness didn't really vanish in him, at least the pain he feels on his lips tried to fight it, making him at least barely conscious and able to fight.

"Ohh! There's a tough one here!" A small voice of a child, said from the direction of the door that leds outside.

Rhodes look at where the voice came from.

There he saw a man- no, a child based on it's body proportions, standing in the door wearing a black tight suit armor, that seemingly resembles. . . A Bat.

Or a Cat?

Anyway, he suddenly feels an urge to laugh at the kids ridiculousness of wearing that kind of fancy outfit.

Who does he think he is? A Superhero.

Anyway he didn't, because laughing at the kid right now is like laughing at him and his whole crew, who also falls on the very hand of the same kid wearing a funny costume.

But now seeing the kid who's behind of all of this, he didn't think twice and immediately raised his left hand, aiming his pistol at the kid, then began shooting and exhausting all of his bullets.

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

"Yow! Shit! Wait!--"

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

*Click!*

The pistol in Rhodes hand click hinting that it's already run out of ammo.

There's a short silence after that.

Then, a smile slowly formed in Rhodes face, as he was sure that the kid is dead after seeing it with his own eyes how almost all of the bullets hit the kid wearing a fancy suit.

*Whizz!*

*Thic!*

A three black bat shaped like shuriken, suddenly flies in the air, whistling, and pierced through Rhodes chest and arm, which he used as a shield after noticing something flying in the air that seemingly aimed at his face.

"Ahh!" Rhodes, groan in pain looking down and fell on one knee. The feeling of sleepiness that subsided earlier, started to kick in again, but now it's more stronger than before.

Then in his peripheral vision he sees a shadow running towards him. He look at it, but he's been met with a kick pushing him back causing him to sit on his butt.

Getting a liitle awake by the kick. He stood up. Tightened his grab on his axe, and swung it towards the shadow humanoid.

But instead of dodging, or retreating a few steps back, the shadow lept towards him, block his arm holding the axe using its arm, causing the force of momentum in the swung to lose.

Blocking his attack, Rhodes immediately balled up his other hand readying himself to lunch a counter punch.

But, before he can launch his fist, the shadow immediately launch his. A right hook in the face, followed by a left hook on the other side, then an uppercut in the jaw. It happened so fast, that it didn't even take a three seconds.

But he's not done yet. Grabbing his head, the shadow pulled his head down towards his knees, launching a one successful knee strike that broke Rhodes nose.

Rhodes immediately fell down on his knees. Holding his bleeding his nose, he looked up towards the shadow humanoid that towers him.

A moonlight shone through a nearby window, hitting the shadow humanoid that who's now been revealed as the same kid he shot earlier. The same kid who's wearing a fancy costume.

Rhodes eyes widened at this revelation. The kid was seemingly unscathed by his shots earlier, based on how he moved while fighting him earlier.

"Aissh! Finally!" The kid breathed a sigh of relief.

"You know what, I said 'wait' earlier while you're shooting at me, but you didn't stop shooting. Guess what, that's what you get for not listening to me." The kid said, putting his hands at his hips scolding Rhodes like an angry Mother.

'W-what the-- H-how?'

"I really didn't wanna do this, but you made me-- Ohh! Is that a vintage wine? Ohh, I love vintage wine." The kids demeanor suddenly flip upside down, from a costume wearing kid superhero wannabe, to a extreme wine enthusiast.

Seeing this under his gaze, Rhodes feel scared and terrified. 'who is this crazy kid?!'

"W-who? Who are you?!"

Hearing this, the kid froze on his place.

He remembered the way he acts earlier, on how Un-Batman he acts and that one of his goals on becoming The Dark Knight has been instantly ruined.

He suddenly feels an urge to facepalm, or to hit his head on a nearby wall or table. But doing it will just this things more complicated.

'Should I kill him?' He thought, but he immediately abandoned the idea since that is not so Batman like.

'Forget it. Maybe overdosing him on the prototype 'fear gas' may ruin his head, and hopefully make him forget about my un-so-Batman behavior earlier.'

'Either way, time to introduce myself on a very Batman like manner.'

On the other side, under the very eyes of Rhodes, the demeanor of the Batman wannabe suddenly changed again from the foolishly goofy kid, to a wine enthusiast, to a very serious, grim, man that emits some kind of oppressive aura that suddenly drowned him in fear, making breathing more hard to him.

"Who I am? . . ." The Batman wannabe asks Rhodes, in a very deep voice in a very Batman like manner.

"I am Vengeance."

"I am Night."

"I. . . Am Batman."

*Thud!*

The Batman wannabe curiously looks at Rhodes, who's now unconsciously lying in the ground, unmoving.

The effect of the sleeping gas, with the Batarangs that pierced Rhodes also bathed on it, really work their magic. But the real factor here, is the opressive force the Batman wannabe emitted.

That kind of pressure really pushes Rhodes unconscious, but this is unnoticed by the kid Batman wannabe.

'I hope he heard me before he falls unconscious so that he knows me. . . Mehh! Who am I kidding? He's going to forgot all of this when I drowned him in my fear gas later.'

"Now, what I should do to this hostages?" He asks himself, looking at the three unconscious girls in the corner.

He used a potent sleeping gas earlier, making everyone except for Rhodes go unconscious.

Thinking about it, and looking around him, he decided to tie up first these dangerous Pirates before he rescued those unconscious girls in the corner.

It's dangerous if even one of these Pirates manages to get awake without him knowing, so it's better to be more ready and safe.

'Thats very Batman like.' He thought.