Ch. 9: Wasn't Fast Enough
Dick couldn't wait to be back home. It may have been only a few days since he'd been back in his dimension, but that was too long in his book.
"Do you think this is your Master Bruce, Master Dick?" Alfred asked.
"It has to be," Dick answered looking at him. "Bruce would cross the universe if it meant getting me back."
Alfred smiled. "Then I hope it is. You belong with him. I just with my Master Bruce was that way."
"We're going to do everything we can to get him back to normal, Alfred," Gordon said.
"Thank you," Alfred replied smiling.
They sat there for another few minutes before the car came to a dead stop causing everyone to jerk forward. Gordon, who was driving, bashed his head against the steering wheel and was now unconscious while Dick and Alfred got nothing but whiplash. "Good heavens. What was that?"
Dick looked out the front window and his eyes went wide. "Bruce," he said quietly. He then unbuckled his seatbelt, opened the door, and jumped out, which was a mistake because he landed on his bad leg and yelled out.
"Master Dick, get back in the car!" Alfred yelled as he too unbuckled his seatbelt and got out the same door Dick did, but before Alfred could help Dick, Bruce threw a bat-a-rang at Alfred and sliced the back of his head.
"Alfred!" Dick shouted in horror.
Alfred didn't move, the blood coming out of the long, deep gash and pooling underneath him. Dick knew that Alfred was either dead or wouldn't make it very much longer. He looked up at a very angry Bruce. He didn't even look like Bruce anymore. He looked like all the people that have lost their mind and are going off of animal instinct.
Dick tried his best to crawl away from the madman, but didn't get very far. Bruce grabbed Dick's bad leg and pulled him closer. Dick was screaming in pain, tears falling down his face. "You ruined my life! You're going to pay!" Bruce yelled as he pulled another bat-a-rang from his belt.
Dick was now facing Bruce. "P-please, I'm sorry," he begged unable to hide his fear.
"Too late," Bruce said then the bat-a-rang came straight down.
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The police at the manor were watching Batman very carefully. They had heard what he did to Dick Grayson and they didn't want him getting away again. They felt a little more confident that they could keep him in the house until Gordon arrived since they made Batman remove his mask.
Bruce glared at the officer standing at the door. "I need to find my son."
"Sorry, Mr. Wayne, I'm not supposed to let you leave."
Bruce was just about to argue, but heard the officer's radio go off. "Attention all... all squads... this... is Commissioner... Gordon. We've b... been attacked... by... Batman. Re... request immediate... help. South... Maple... and... Chase."
The officer looked at Bruce. "I told you I'm not the Batman from your dimension," Bruce said as he put his mask back on and walked toward the door.
The officer just moved out of the way and just watched as Batman got in one of the cop cars and drove off. It was no Batmobile, but it would have to do.
It took Batman five minutes to get to the scene where Gordon reported. The other cops hadn't arrived yet, so he knew that Bruce was still there somewhere. He jumped out of the car and ran toward the crunched cop car.
When he got closer, he froze and went pale. He saw Bruce standing over Dick's body stabbing him repeatedly with a bat-a-rang in an angry rage. Batman narrowed his eyes and threw a bat-a-rang at Bruce and knocked the bat-a-rang out of Bruce's hand.
Bruce looked up at Batman then roared in anger and charged at him. "How dare you stop me!" he yelled.
Batman dodged the first punch Bruce threw at him and did a sweep kick to knock Bruce off his feet. Bruce immediately got back up and he and Batman fought for what seemed like hours before the police finally showed up. "Which one is he?" one of the officers asked.
All of the officers stood there pointing their guns at both Batman and Bruce not sure which one they should be firing at. "Who cares? I say let them fight it out," another officer said then turned to yet another two officers. "Jake, Paul, go check on the Commissioner."
The two officers nodded and headed to Gordon's squad car. They found him leaning against the steering wheel with his eyes closed. "Commissioner?" Jake asked.
Gordon moaned and tried to lift his head, but immediately regretted it. "Let's get him out of here," Paul said.
Batman landed right on the roof of Gordon's squad car. "Yeah, easier said than done," Jake said.
Batman stood up on the car and threw three or four bat-a-rangs at Bruce. Bruce dodged all but one of them which went right into his left leg. Bruce cried out both in pain and in anger then ran toward Batman.
Gordon was on the verge of passing out when he looked up and saw Batman and Bruce punching at each other. "Unmasked," he said.
Paul looked up at Jake then back down at Gordon. "What?"
"Enemy... Unmasked... Batman," he said then passed out.
Paul and Jake looked at each other then drug Gordon over to the other squad cars and went to talk to the officer now in charge. "The Commissioner said that the Batman without the mask is the one we need to take down," Paul said.
"Everyone aim for the unmasked Batman," the officer yelled.
Once Batman knocked Bruce away from him, all the officers opened fire on Bruce. Batman just ignored them and ran to Dick's side. "Dick?" he asked looking over the boys new injuries. "Dick, come on, wake up." He pushed the hair out of Dick's face then pulled down his mask. He had tears running down his face now. "Come on, Dick." He then noticed that Dick wasn't breathing.
He leaned down and listened to see if his heart was still beating. It wasn't. He began CPR and the tears just came down faster. "No. No. Come one, Dick, don't do this to me." He continued CPR until one of the ambulance attendants came over and took over.
Batman looked over and saw that Bruce was dead then looked back at Dick. He was about to go to Dick's side again, but a Paul and Jake came up behind him and began pulling him back toward where Gordon was laying. "Come on, the Commissioner would like a word with you," Paul said.
Bruce just watched as the ambulance attendants stuck a tube down Dick's throat, put him on a stretcher, put him in the ambulance, and then drove away. He knew that the officers here would let him follow Dick, so he just allowed Paul and Jake to take him to Gordon.
"Bruce, I'm terribly sorry about Dick. I tried to convince him to stay at the hospital, but he was determined to get to you," Gordon said as he tried to sit up.
"Commissioner, please, don't sit up," one of the ambulance attendants from a second ambulance said as he pushed Gordon back on the stretcher. "We really need to get you to the hospital so we can take care of that head of yours."
"Where are they taking him?" Bruce asked.
The ambulance attendant just looked at him. "Gotham General Hospital."
Bruce nodded then turned to Gordon. "I'll meet you there, Jim."
Gordon nodded and allowed the attendants to wheel him into the ambulance.
"I'll give you a lift to the hospital, Mr. Wayne," Jake said.
Bruce just nodded and followed Jake and Paul to the squad car.
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It was two hours before he got to see Dick. Now he was sitting in a chair next to his bed. He'd just got done talking with Gordon, now all he wanted was to hear Dick saying his name. The doctors told him that Dick almost didn't make it, and that they weren't entirely sure that he'd wake up. "You're strong, Dick. Wake up, please."
"This should've been me." Bruce jumped and quickly turned around to see the Dick Grayson from this universe standing there. "I should've been the one to get stabbed to death. I should be the one that's meeting my parents."
"Don't say that," Bruce said. "He's not dead, and it wouldn't have been any better if it was you."
Dick huffed. "Yeah, except for the fact that I was in the cave when we switched and I knew I shouldn't have been in there."
"You didn't know that you two were gonna switch. There was nothing you could do about it," Bruce tried.
Dick just nodded and looked at the other Dick Grayson. "Since you don't really have money in this dimension, I'll pay for his stay and everything here."
Bruce smiled. "Thank you. As soon as he wakes up and is able to leave, we'll go back to our own dimension."
"If he wakes up." He looked over at Bruce. "I heard that he might not wake up."
Bruce looked away sadly. "He will."
"Look," Dick began, "I'll pay for however long it takes, but if he doesn't wake up in a week, the doctors said he probably won't ever wake up."
"He will," Bruce said again.
Dick sighed. "Look, Barbra's here to see her dad. I'm gonna go sit with her for a while." Bruce just nodded and looked back at his Dick Grayson. "I really hope he does wake up."
When he finally decided that he wasn't going to get anything else out of Bruce, Dick, with the help of Jake, went to Gordon's room.
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