Elsewhere in a fish cannery, another hero of the night entered via a sky light.
*
Cupid lead his assistants out to the next hero. He stopped at the entrance to an alley way and held up his fist and made hand gestures.
“Ah what does that mean boss?” one of the others asked.
Cupid slapped his face and spoke.
“Just stay here and watch!”
Cupid sneaked into the alley way and saw the man in the black outfit held another guy with his hoody over his head in the classic Hockey hold and punched him repeatedly in the gut.
“Maybe she is just a homeless crazy,” the man in black slammed the guys head into a brick wall, “But that is no reason to knock over her cart of cans! Now help her pick them up or I will get real mad!”
“Castle, Frank. He is right here on your list of hard cases boss,” one of Cupid’s assistants whispered.
“We’ll come back to this one,” Cupid backed off.
*
“Clock tower come in,” Batman called over the commlink.
“Right here boss,” Barbara responded from her command center.
“Patch into the building’s security feeds,” Batman ordered, “Find me the intruder.”
“Intruders,” Barbara said, “Plural. I have them in the main hall. Oh god, thankfully you don’t have a Robin with you.”
Batman made his way to the main hall and looked at the fight. He put his hand over his face and sighed, he then prepped himself for the entrance… but something told him to be more theatrical this time.
“You three are lucky I don’t have a Robin with me tonight,” Batman’s voice echo across the cannery’s main hall.
Lucia “Thornn” Callasantos looked at Selina “Catwoman” Kyle and then over at White Tiger. White Tiger looked back and forth and tried to listen for the source of the voice.
“Oh son of a…” Selina couldn’t stand it, “Catfight! Catfight puns! Damn it now I have them in my head!”
Batman and Cupid tossed their gas bombs at the same spot and they exploded at the same time enveloping the three cat women together. Batman waited a second and then jumped down letting his cape billow and create a pressure wave to push the gas out. Landing he found the three women not doing anything.
“What is going on here?” Batman intoned in his best command voice.
“Well sexy I was here to get some of the stones that were being smuggled inside the fish here,” Selina purred licking her lips.
“Knights of Wundagore were scattered,” White Tiger said taking off her mask, “It is hard to get food in Human World with cat markings on face.”
“And being covered in fur,” Thornn agreed with White Tiger.
“Are you getting this?” Batman tapped his commlink.
“Sending data now,” Barbara pulled the files, “the strays are White Tiger, no other name, and Lucia ‘Thornn’ Callasantos. Long and short, WT is a tiger that Mr. Evolution made human and Thornn is a mutant that became a cat lady.”
“So this is about food?” Batman asked.
“Was…” White Tiger licked her lips.
“Suddenly I am more interested in other jewels,” Selina eyed Batman’s cod piece.
“I’m not greedy,” Thornn said, “I can share.”
“Ahh Boss,” Barbara called over the commlink, “That’s how the cats look right before they mate outside of the library.”
“I noticed,” Batman responded.
All three moved closer and started to strut for Batman.
*
Cupid was confident that his work was done here and that things would sort themselves out shortly.“Let’s see,” Cupid looked around, “Oh this it too good!”
*
“Madame Sin,” the Hydra agent said, “We lost contact with the perimeter security.”
“The Bat must have located this location,” Sin said running her hand throw her red dyed hair, “Get ready!”
Sin waited until the agent had left then tossed off the sheets and got out of the bunk. The plan that the agents had been given was to form circles of defense and they would take down the Bat, Sin just got dressed and was going to sneak out a hidden passage while the fools bought her time. Leather pants, corset, pistol belt, boots, bag of goodies and a jacket. She moved the bunk in front of the door and went down into the passage bellow. As she approached the first turn in the total darkness, she saw stars as she got punched in the face. Sin fell to the ground and that was when Cupid decided to add his contribution to the talk about to take place.
“Erica Holstein,” the voice said, “Real name Sinthea Shmidt, alias Sin. Daughter of and right hand girl to Red Skull. Just like daddy you are cutting and running rather than face a fight you might not win.”
“Says the man with the Night Vision,” Sin felt weird.
“My ‘dad’ taught me not to run from a fight,” the voice continued, “But to be prepared to handle it no matter what turn it might take.”
Sin was blinded for a second when the voice popped a road flare illuminating the tunnel. As Sin’s vision cleared she looked up at the man holding the Machinepistole on her. One hundred and eighty three centimeters tall, and over a hundred kilograms of muscle, custom boots, tactical cargo pants, open black leather biker jacket, armored vest with a red bat on the chest and of course the custom red hood.
“Of course now that you have me,” she said with a sadness in her voice, “You will kill me.”
“You are the most sick and twisted bitch I have ever laid eyes on,” Red Hood intoned, “And number two if we make this any gender, but I think you know what kind of evil sits in the number one slot! By all rights I should just put you down like the rabid animal you are… But I need the information in your head so I am going to pump it out of you one way or another!”
Sin’s nipples stiffened and her crotch became warm and wet at the thought of being pumped.
“Do I get a last request?” Sin asked.
“What?” Red Hood asked.
“Can I see your face?” Sin wanted to see the man behind the malice for some reason.
“It won’t save you,” Red Hood took off the armored helmet, “See Now it is nighty night time.”
“See you in my dreams prince charming,” Sin muttered.
Red Hood kicked her in the head knocking the woman out.
“Prince Charming? Who does she think she is talking to?” Red Hood put his helmet back on, “Nightwing is off in the dog house by the clock tower.”
*
Batman pinched the bridge of his nose, clearly this was going nowhere fast.
“OK,” Batman intoned to the horny women, “If you want to be with me, we are not doing it here. I have a safe house for you with showers and food.”
“And a big bed?” White Tiger purred.
“Yes, now into the Batmobile,” Batman said.
As Bruce Wayne he had the rep of being a humanitarian and a lover, but that was not often associated with his Bat personas. The moral dilemma here wasn’t really a dilemma. Three women under the effects of a love spell and they were not able to function properly. In addition two of them were malnourished to start with and in need of showers. Driving to the alternate Batcave Batman kept the windows blacked out and watched the road via cameras on the outside of the Batmobile transmitting to his cowl’s visor.
“Control,” Batman called over his commlink, “I am moving the three suspects to site Epsilon for holding and evaluations.”
Batman rolled his eyes as the tag for the Epsilon alternate batcave changed to “Cathouse.”
*
Cupid smiled to himself, Red Hood and Red Skull junior would be the perfect pair for each other. Bat now had his pet cats to love. Spiderman would be a great influence on the Sirens. And Cheetah would retire in favor of being the Princess’ consort. There was still the problem of the so called Punisher… But he looked at the note his helper handed him and thought about Mr. Righteous and some lost ladies that needed some guidance on being good. But there was also that naughty Nightwing who needed to show his one true love some slavish devotion!