The red lamborghini is seen slowly parking just outside of Iceberg lounge. The reporters and paparazzis started to gather around the car. A man in a navy suit, with black short hair and grey eyes, raised an eyebrow as he watched everything unfold.

???: Who's that?

He asks the guard next to him as the doors of the car slowly open.

Guard: You must be new.

The guards pointed his finger at the person who softly pulled a woman with his hand out of the car. Next to him stood what looked like that man's son.

Guard: That is Y/N Todd.

~~~

"Today, exactly 13 years ago, the mantle was passed onto me."

Y/N is seen standing in front of his batman suit. He was preparing for another night of fighting crime. No matter how long he wore it, he always questioned himself; how did he manage to become Batman?

"It's another night to remind Gotham what this symbol stands for."

Y/N fires his grappling gun and swings away as bullets fly behind him.

"What we stand for."

The same thugs who were firing at Batman a few moments ago were met with red birdarangs and pinned into a wall behind them. Both Batman and his sidekick Redbird landed in front of them, both sharing a father-son fist bump.

~~~

Different Batman was now present. He had black and grey suit with his mask covering his whole face.

Batman: Helena, get out of there right now! That's an order!

He yells into his comms as he jumps from one roof to another, avoding or killing parademons which terrorized Gotham. Some members of the Justice Society were fighting the same threat on the streets below and helping people evacuate.

Batman: God damn it!

He curses as he gets nothing but static coming through the comms. His heart skips a beat when he sees the two pairs of lasers coming out of the building, sending the upper part of the skyscraper down.

Batman: HELENA!

After Darkseid's invasion was defeated, Batman was seen standing in the center of the collapsed skyscraper. He picked up injured Helena who was in her Huntress suit and started to walk between the corpses of victims who didn't survive the fight between Darkseid and Superman in that skyscraper. He glared down at heroes of Justice Society, who were standing down in the street surrounded by cheering crowds. He knew they caused more damage to the city and caused more deaths while fighting the parademons than the parademons and Darkseid himself.

~~~

And now the curtain rises.

~~~

From the writers who brought you:

Dark Love

Brother of Robin

Webs Have Been Multiplied

I Don't Mind The Rain

~~~

Barbara: A massacre happened in Frank Miller's Opera house yesterday night.

Y/N in his Batman suit and Redbird land onto the rooftop which is overlooking the Opera house from which red and black smoke was coming out. Sun was slowly rising in the distance as the wind picked up their capes.

Barbara: The victims were left... horrific state.

Batman slowly walks past the police officers as he enters the stage from the back. He was instantly met with corpses and body parts splattered around the seats. Instead of blood, black and red roses were seen. It was hard to guess who from the victims had the worst death. He saw a pile of black roses on the stage next to him. He moves towards them and steps on the roses. What was just piles of roses instantly turned into a pile of blood.

Y/N: Oh God...

He silently whispers as he realizes that roses were just the illusion which was hiding the true horror under them.

~~~

TV: There have been sightings of what appears to be a Batman imposter.

Sound of guns firing echoed loud enough to be able to hear them on the streets. Police cars quickly came in front of the warehouse from which the sounds were coming from.

TV: Interestingly enough, this imposter appeared the same night when the massacre in Millers Opera house happened.

The police officers were running through the hallways of the warehouse as they wanted to reach the part of the building where the gunfight started to get more silent with every second.

TV: GCPD suspects this imposter is the one behind the massacre.

The officers ran into the scene where they were met with corpses of people who wore white masks on their faces. Some had their limbs cut off, others were killed by bullets and the rest had arrows in their heads. They only found one person alive who had a batman symbol marked on their back.

~~~

The stage is set.

~~~

Y/N: The letters meant for me, messages left on the crime scenes, don't get me started with the clues...

He sat down on the couch in front of the fireplace. He sighed as he glanced at Raven who was sitting next to him.

Y/N: I feel like I inspired this imposter?

Raven didn't say anything as she moved closer to him and put her arms around Y/N. The scene transitions to Bruce, who now looks older, sitting in his chair inside the Batcave.

Bruce: It is always how it starts.

The thugs with white masks were looking around the room, pointing their guns at any dark corner in the warehouse they were in. They knew he was here.

Bruce: Fever.

The thugs were too busy looking at the dark corners that they completely forgot about the glass ceiling above them, which shattered when black and grey silhouette flew through it. Directly going towards them.

Bruce: Rage.

Batman lands onto one of the thugs and gets up as quickly as he entered. He lifts his right arm out of the cape. Two barrels of a wrist gun were seen on the arm, and a second later, bullets started to fly from it.

Bruce: It is what turns good men...

One of the thugs gets cut perfectly into two halves. Both parts fall on the opposite sides which reveals Batman with a bloodied blade equipped on his left hand.

Bruce: Cruel.

The last white masked person was violently pushed up the wall. He looked down in fear as he was able to see a full black mask with grey eyes staring directly at him.

Batman: Where IS HE?!

~~~

The audience awaits.

~~~

???: Ah, all of you are sooo boooring with trying to rule this city from the shadows.

The members of the council of Court of Owls looked down on the stage to see a man slowly walking into the center of the room. He had a white mask with a smile and one eyehole covered while they were able to see a brown eye in the left eyehole of the mask. He wore a black suit meant for orchestra conductors.

???: When will you learn he is the shadows.

Y/N grabs the hand of one of the Talons and swings his body at another Talon. Y/N ducks as the blade of the sword passes above him.

Grandmaster: So what are you proposing?

The Leader asks the intruder as three Talons are sneaking up on him from behind.

???: It's very simple.

Y/N comes to a halt as he lowers his hand from the comms.

???: Let the Batman, kill the Batman.

On the opposite side of the catwalk Y/N was on, his imposter was standing and staring directly into him with his blade out.

~~~

Our performance begins.

~~~

Barbara: Can we even trust them?

Barbara asks the group which surrounded her. The group was made up of Bruce, Y/N and Collin.

Barbara: He may be Batman from another Earth.

Y/N sighs in relief as he puts the last Talon which was attacking him down.

Barbara: But.. that cruelty.

Y/N glances to the side to see the other Batman pierce one of the Talons into its throat with his blade. He then throws the same talon to the side as blood sprays out of the neck.

Collin: It is for you to decide, dad.

He replies as all of them turn to look at the other batman who was on the other side of the Batcave, putting bandages around his sidekick's leg. Camera zooms into Y/N's face as he thinks of a decision.

~~~

A costume, some make up, a spray of blood.

~~~

???: The Greatest performance in history of the multiverse

Just when Y/N was able to tackle the masked conductor, he felt a familiar sensation of cold metal getting around his leg. He is then suddenly pulled back.

???: Red and Black versus Black and Grey

The masked conductor was seen dancing around the room while playing a violin, the explosions releasing red and black smoke on the left side and black and grey smoke on the right side.

???: Vengeful Justice versus Order in Chaos

Y/N is seen sending powerful punches towards the other batman who was being pushed back towards the edge of the catwalk.

???: Trained from the best versus Killed the Best.

Y/N groaned as he fell on the glass which cracked from his fall. Y/N eyes widen when he sees the other batman jumping on him. The other batman lands on Y/N and send them both through the glass down on the stage bellow

???: Son of Mafia Versus the Damned Prince of Gotham

Screeching sound of metal could be heard as a blade gets stuck between Y/N's gauntlet blades. Both of them were now in a standstill.

~~~

My genius will be understood, eventually.

~~~

Raven: Your mad.

She comments as she tries to get out of the metal shackles , but to no avail as they were enchanted.

???: I'm an artist, all artists are mad.

~~~

Y/N: What.. is this?

Y/N hears the chuckle coming from behind as he goes through all the pictures, newspapers which were presented in front of him. The masked conductor approaches him slowly as he also glances at what Y/N was looking at.

???: You see dear Y/N. Behind every mask, is another mask.

~~~

Batman: You took the persona of a bat too seriously.

He tells Y/N as he looks around the gigant Batcave which was their base. Collin looks up at his dad's imposter which was standing next to him.

Collin: And you took the persona of Dracula too seriously.

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