Removing Gotham's curse (1)

Vishal and Carla met in the restaurant and ordered food.

"How did you know I am Phantasm?" asked Carla in a low voice.

"Let's just say along with healing I have a power which can read souls." replied Vishal.

Carla raised an eyebrow and asked "You asked that I go on a date with you when we reach 18 years, right?"

"Yes. If you have someone in your heart I will stay away but if you don't all I ask is give me a chance." said Vishal.

Carla kept quiet and thought for a bit.

"What about Ventriloquist? You said that you would give me his location." asked Carla with a serious face.

Vishal took out a file from the back of his shirt and given it to her.

She opened the file and all the information is present in it.

"How did you get it, Mr.Vishal?" asked Carla.

"Red Hood. You should thank him if you ever meet him because he is the one who brought this information." said Vishal.

Vishal made up a half truth because he only asked Red Hood to find details on Ventriloquist's location and history because he already knows where Ventriloquist is hiding.

She skimmed through the file frantically and finally found the current location.

"So, he is being held in Belle Reve even though he is not a metahuman?" asked Carla.

"I am not surprised. Ms.Waller, the head of Cadmus is performing many questionable things there. if the information were to spread about this then people will bomb the white house because she is doing things completely against human rights." said Vishal slowly.

"They have already created Superboy from the DNA samples of Superman. They are placing nanite bombs on some of the criminals to do dirty work for the government." said Vishal.

"So I am supposed to back out of this?" asked Carla unable to digest it.

"Nope. You're family needs to be avenged. There is a guy who can help you with this." said Carla.

"Who?" asked Carla with desperation.

He waved her to come near.

She put her ear near to his mouth and he whispered "Vigilante."

"How am I supposed to find him because even Justice League doesn't know where he comes from and goes to?" asked Carla.

"Wait for him to make an entrance again while you patrol in your Phantasm outfit. Meet him and talk things out." said Vishal.

Since Carla had no other choice she had to agree with his words.

"Now, about the date?" asked Vishal.

"I accept." replied Carla with a smile.

Vishal gave a charming smile and they started talking about lighter topics about their interests, hobbies etc.

He dropped her at her apartment and asked her to move to the apartments under the company. She agreed and went on with preparations.

"One last thing to checkout: Gotham's curse and I can concentrate on Supervillains outside Gotham and other countries too. After the countries are done I'll enter the universe and make corrections. Before going on to villains in other countries I'll wreck the amazons first for releasing a spell killing billions." Vishal planned things in mind.

There are many things going on in his mind because Gotham is the most crucial city to change things. Once it is done, other cities are like a breeze for him because villains there are metahumans rather than cunning and intelligent ones.

"One of the guys I need to be careful is Vandal Savage. It's not that I can't destroy him but that guy has immortality too. As for Ra's Al Ghul, he may have lived for centuries using the pit but he doesn't stand a chance against my powers."

The car reached the house and he went to bed.

The next day...

"I need to first kill the old warlock sleeping in the tomb and then I'd have to use a powerful counter curse to nullify such a complex spell.

He is seeing the structure of the spell cast by Dr.Gotham which is invisible to others as he is seated in the office.

He heard Gordon's Police force approaching and smiled.

He came to his father's cabin and said "It's time for a publicity stunt."

"It feels negative if you put it that way." said Ravindra.

"There is nothing good about the situation. All we can do is limit the damage and make it look like the company helped the Police." replied Vishal.

Ravindra sighed and went with Vishal to meet Gordon.

"Good to meet you again Mr. Ravindra." said Gordon.

"Likewise. Now if you would..." said Ravindra.

Gordon waved to his team and entered the conference room and arrested the guys.

Other board members were shocked and demanded an explanation.

Vishal came and showed them the evidence regarding the embezzlement done by these guys and many other crimes.

The media arrived with Vicki Vale on tow.

"Mr. Vishal, what do you say about your board of directors committing such crimes?" asked a reporter.

"I have known about their misdeeds and have been collecting evidence regarding their crimes during this time. After collecting the required evidence we have already submitted it to GCPD and thanks to Commissioner Gordon's swift action we were able to stop these guys from causing anymore damage to the company and the customers.

I apologize to the people of Gotham because I could not act quickly against them because collecting evidence against them took time and significant damage has been done to the company and the customers." said Vishal wording it in such a way that it would not damage their reputation but invoke sympathy towards them.

His magic with words worked because many Gothamites already know about the father and son duo. In fact 90% had positive opinions on them for collecting evidence and presenting it to the Police. Other 10% are other companies, Politicians and some lawyers who are under payroll of these arrested guys.

"The company will release the evidence to the media tomorrow." said Ravindra and the next day they released the evidence which put the light back on the company increasing the positiveness.

"Having high luck always benefits during such times." thought Vishal.

After 1 month...

The one month was hectic because there is a lot of paperwork and damage control that needed to be done.

Finally things settled down. "Now I can concentrate on getting rid of the curse because I don't want situations to revert back to Old Gotham." thought Vishal.

That evening he donned Vigilante outfit and made way to the "Breed building". Using invisibility he infiltrated the basement and saw large door blocking the tomb.

He used Cyborg's powers to hack and open the door and in the middle of the large room he saw his resting place.

Vishal went and opened the lid covering the coffin and saw an old guy resting inside. The guy opened his eyes and asked "How much time has passed?"

"You need not know you bug fucker." said Vishal caught his head and slammed it back into the coffin.

"Soul magic. Soul annihilation." mumbled Vishal and screams echoed the tomb as Dr.Gotham's soul is destroyed and his body withered.

Vishal poured oil onto the body and lit it on fire until the body turned to ashes.

"Now that this guy is dead, it would weaken the curse upto some extent. But the scoundrel is a powerful warlock so he was able to construct such a spell which compels people's minds towards crimes or make them lunatics." Vishal mumbled.

"Looks like I would have to borrow some angelic powers and cast a powerful counter curse to increase the power of the spell. But before that looks like I have some company." said Vishal as he saw a girl with red hari and a white mask appear with eldritch beings in tow.

"What are you doing here Vigilante?" asked Strega.

"Guess." replied Vishal.

She looked at the coffin and saw ashes. "How dare you?" she shouted and started summoning skeletons.

"Yeah, saw this trick in many mangas and manhwas. A pain in the ass to deal with mumbers." thought Vishal as he got ready to fight.