Batman S3 story idea. SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT PLAYED THE BATMAN GAMES GO PLAY THEM!!!
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Season 3 Batman The Long Knight
Five years have passed since the events of THE ENEMY WITHIN. If Alfred stayed with Bruce, he appears in the first ten minutes of episode one. If he left, he doesn't show up until midway through & returns but still somber. Depending on the player's decisions in THE ENEMY WITHIN, Bruce is either mending his relationship with Selina Kyle, or engaging in serious discussion about being partners.
Season 3 would probably have been 1 or 2 years after we faced the joker and since Alfred is no longer with Bruce, Bruce is having to face problems with his double identity, Selina and he would continue their love relationship and think about marriage or be partners while having her stay with him more at the manor more often, Tiffany would replace Lucius as technology designer at Wayne industries and therefore would make Bruce new technology or she would be a vigilante/outlaw depending on s2 ending, Avesta would be the new president of the Wayne companies board since Regina died in the joker's attack on the tower 1 year ago and everything would go more or less well, Gordon would return to the police as a commissioner and Alfred would return but until the middle of the season, the villains would be, the Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Clayface, Deathstroke, and Man-bat, Selina would also be Bruce's partner as Batman and would help fight crime, Sometime between the events of the second game, Bruce would hold a funeral for Regina. He gives a speech about the Wayne stock dropping & how Regina was a powerful women & how Wayne industries stands for the city it holds to protect & will stop at nothing to make Gotham safer every day, Regina’s children are there but look really upset given the aftermath & tells everyone at the funeral that he will now operate as a co chairman but only for one final year, he then says the Batman is dead possibly lying, & he will rebuild whatever he can to fix the city, the audience claps they bury the body & bruce walks off with some hired beefed up security team members. Gordon is also there and tells bruce he is thinking about retiring, but Bruce tells him he needs him, & his city needs him.
The next night when Bruce comes home takes a drink looks at a photo of Alfred a bit somber, then he goes the Batcave after just reconstructing Gotham & donating funds to rebuild the city for over a year, Bruce or Batman tries to leave & opens the door but is suddenly being hunted down by a mercenary named Deathstroke, who is secretly a gun for hire for the League of Assassins. Meanwhile, Bruce also stumbles across a bunch of fear toxin & follows a trail, only to see a junkie afraid shaking and yelling like a lunatic. The man falls over and faints, but Bruce quickly analyzes the sample and runs off escaping Deathstroke, Bruce throws a pipe to distract him but Deathstroke throws a smoke bomb but misses and runs off as well. Bruce enters his car & drives off. He checks to see if he was being followed & calls Tiffany to make sure he was safe, rest assured he drives home but cant sleep after the experience.
The next day Bruce gets a call from Gordon who asks him to come to GCPD, Gordon tells him theres a lead on an old case, Black mask apparently started filling the void left by Falcone in season 1, with Deathstroke or Killer Croc as his enforcer/henchman and wants him to investigate a man in the street selling drugs, but Bruce tells Gordon he wishes Alfred could help him since he’s got no backup & that he told the city batman was dead. Gordon coughs but says are you sure? We could really use him now more than ever. Bruce says he’ll make a call & get back to Gordon, he hangs up but gets another call to find out Selina is back, he asks her to help him with a sample he found and Selina says maybe…….. but only if you help me first. Bruce agrees but tells her she should meet him someplace safe. Bruce drives off in his car to meet her. The two meet but Selina is worried about him without Alfred he could slip up & needs some serious support or backup. Bruce tells her he is fine then she tells her about a lead she has been looking into & gives him an address.
Meanwhile Pamela Isley, & Kirk Langstrom, are both scientists secretly working for a rival company under Wayne Enterprises in different branches, In stark contrast to other depictions of the character, Pamela Isley is a old, unattractive woman who uses plants to make herself young & more beautiful. Deathstroke & Black mask argue that Gotham has gotten worse than it was 5 years ago since the aftermath of joker/john. Mask is intrigued and hires Deathstroke to find more about this joker character. Deathstoke agrees but says he better get paid double for this job, Black Mask nods and tosses him money then Deathstroke leaves, but Poison ivy asks how long the next job will take? Mask tells her to not worry and he will have Gotham in his hands by midnight then walks off into his office.
Depending on Bruces choices he and Selina would follow her lead or follow Gordons lead, but bruce has a new disguise so no one will notice, if they follow Selina they will encounter a abandoned warehouse with the fully mutated version of Man-Bat who is not the animalistic incarnation seen in most continuities, but more along the lines of the articulate and eloquent creature from Jamie Delano and John Bolton's MAN-BAT graphic novel he also appears to be VERRY thin… and more like a vampire, Bruce follows a blood trail and analyzes the blood saying its fresh, a body falls in front of him but he dodges hiding behind a tank. He finds a bloody rag that came from the body and throws it to distract the creature. Selina gets nervous and tells him she didn’t sign up for this but Bruce grabs her and asks her to call Gordon. Bruce puts on his suit & throws a batarang it flies up & knocks out Langstrom. Batman calls Gordon & tells Jim to bring the whole team, but suddenly Langstrom/Manbat flies off with one of Gordans men. Gordon covers his eye & says Jesus what was that thing? Bruce tells him it looked like some kind of half vampire half man. Gordons team leaves but hopes to get the rest of the cops patched up & healed by the hospital. Selina either says you did good, or gets upset wishing Bruce hadn’t gotten hurt.
Rumors of Batman not being dead… spread through the city, by Black mask who leaks documents coming up from older rumors of Wayne secretly funding Wayne tech with Romans money, & would either be increased or stolen depending on the games outcome with (Kirk ie Manbat) guarding the vault, the value of the stock or cash, went down when roman attempted to transfer the money between romans personal offshore account, & the Wayne foundations, leaking data on various online forums and networking services. Mask puts out a viral message saying "tick tock"... to those who want the money, Gordon asks his men to find this maniac & the cops race off to find mask. Mask puts out a video telling Batman to show his face or he will ruin everything he loves trying to blackmail him. Tiffany swiftly hacks Romans account moving his money back into the Wayne foundation before it got leaked to the public but gets caught by Manbat who steals Romans virus but Tiffany kicks (Kirk-MB) in the jaw. Batman saves her & the two try to call Avesta to beef up security, while Batman knocks out Manbat & tying him up the two discuss how Batman is gonna need lots more help/backup, sadly Bruce agrees.
Selina & Bruce look for Alfred & convinces him he needs more help, Bruce calls Tiffany to put out a search for Alfred who is relaxing by a pool in a hotel. Bruce calls him & apologizes for the pain he caused & Alfred reluctantly agrees & comes home saying he must be in control if he returns. Bruce agrees & the two hug & brings him up to speed on what’s happened. Alfred tells Tiffany to use her drones for any clues of masks whereabouts. The 4 split up & search for Mask, Deathstroke & Ivy.
Bruce starts Digging deeper into his father's past to find out who Roman/Mask is, but Bruce unearths troubling connections between Thomas Wayne & Roman, but angrily hides it until he can find out more clues. He asks Alfred if he can find out who this Mask character is. Alfred looks up and finds a name “Roman Sionus sir”, & by the looks of it he is wanted in several different cities beyond Gotham. Bruce wonders if there could be a connection between the sample and Mask. Selina also tells bruce she doesn’t want a repeat of what happened 2 years ago with Harley & joker, bruce reassures her then she says she may try to sneak into Romans office & hack into his computer.
Later The Joker has been moved from Arkham to a smaller psychiatric institution maybe Blackgate, under the personal supervision of a new warden. The security is intense and has locked him in 3 different vaults with unbreakable locks & eye scans. The warden tells John/joker he will find this cell very quiet, and walks off, Two security officers walk into their door and lock everything before turning the lights off. Suddenly a storm surges & is raining downpour, but joker sees a shadow assuming its batman he looks through the window but sees a different man. Deathstroke sneaks past the guards and looks for joker. Deathstroke asks him where the bat is?.. But Joker cackles & tells him he hasn’t seen him in ages, saying the bat is gone giggling mysteriously, Deathstroke angrily tells him he’s not in the mood for his tricks, & throws a smoke bomb. The joker cackles & coughs but finds a ribbon that Deathstroke dropped he tries to use it to escape.
While Bruce, or Batman, & Selina, search for more clues, he gets a call from Avesta in Wayne Tech saying Bruce needs TO COME IN RIGHT NOW!!!….. since theres been a break in, Bruce sighs then agrees he will be right there swiftly he runs the engine & drives off. Bruce arrives but half of the Wayne bodyguards/security start shooting a mysterious intruder. Avesta is one of the hostages, but Bruce rescues her, Bruce finds out its Deathstroke from before the two fight vigorously & Deathstroke hurts bruce, Later he offers Bruce Wayne the choice of either being inducted into their ranks (partly out of respect for Thomas, one of their most valued and trusted members), or have his entire fortune swiftly destroyed saying he knows more then Bruce thinks he does. Bruce sneakily hides to find his suit a game of cat & mouse ensues, then he puts the Batman suit on disagrees and knocks Deathstroke out with multiple punches saying he wont EVER GIVE IN to the scum of Gotham, a live feed of Batman punching Deathstroke leaks by mask…… with Deathstrokes bloody Helmut fallen off, but batman uses smoke & disrupts the video disabling the feed. The bloodied Deathstroke coughs up blood & says something bigger is coming but then Deathstroke faints… & the episode ends, with a stinger scene afterwards The bodyguards bring the body out for batman into his car & clean up the rest of Wayne industries.
In the next episode Batman escapes & Alfred argue about how he should not have beaten Deathstroke so badly & control his anger. Bruce takes off his Helmut but grimaces to reveal a wound & says, “he was hiding something.” Alfred sighs stitches his wounds & reminds him of the deal the two spoke of.. Bruce tells Alfred he cant be both a billionaire co chairman, & a vigilante at the same time, Selina gasps runs to Bruce asking what the hell happened? Bruce tells her everything is ok but he ran into more trouble than he thought he could take. The two argue about their partnership but she tells Bruce I need to leave, & Bruce says, “Selina please”……… but she runs off telling him to not wait.
Bruce runs to the manor looking at a a photo of his parents, gets teary and pours himself a drink, Alfred tells him his parents would be proud of the man he is, Bruce nods but three minutes after the phone rings, Bruce picks the phone up, its Gordon he tells Bruce “I NEED BATMAN NOW!!… & tells bruce that his men found a trail with poisonous gas, & they could be using Joker as a doomsday weapon/bomb to directly be hit at the Gotham bridge, or else they'll hold hostages ransom to be a trump card against Bruce himself unless he stops the attack on the bridge. Bruce agrees & tells Jim to block off the road for any civilians, gets his suit ready & Alfred gives him an upgrade a sonic shock device to deactivate the bomb. Bruce thanks him & runs off to find Selina.
At the bridge Batman finds a group of henchmen guarding the bomb with ebony masks similar to the one Sionis wears. He takes out the guards but sees ivy walking with Black Mask he hides. Ivy uses her plants to grab the bridge & twists the wires with its long green vines, The evergreen climbing vine with variable leaf shapes, all consume the bridge leaving batman to call for backup. Batman calls Selena & tells her he’s sorry but needs her help. She agrees & brings her cats to distract mask. A cat runs down the bridge but ivy picks it up & says “I always hated cats”…… & throws it off the bridge. Batman grapples down saves the cat & brings it to safety.
Black mask uses his megaphone & says, “I KNOW YOUR HERE BATMAN SHOW YOUR SELF……!!!” Batman stealthily takes down Sionis & the two fight, after a bit mask pulls out his gun & says, “you cant kill me I own this city.” Batman uses the sonic shock device & knocks mask out, but ivy escapes. In Arkham Harley watches the live footage from jail from her cell remarking that she thinks that ivy girl has something special. Batman disables the bomb & saves the bridge but the ivy still covers the whole lower side of the bridge. Selina asks why she let ivy get away, & batman says we got mask but suddenly Tiffany put drones out to find Ivy’s location. Gordon rushes to the bridge but suddenly the beam collapses, Batman jumps to save Gordan but gets hurt. Gordon and his unit start evacuating the bridge, Selina pulls batman out & the two see a familiar face. Joker enters & kidnaps Tiffany & tells batman he no longer needs anyone & is about to flood the city with his gas unless batman gives him the sample. Batman either saves Tiffany or gives the sample, but Selina steals it from joker & runs.
Joker forces Batman into a kill-or-be-killed predicament where several innocent lives hang in the balance (or maybe just Alfred's). If the Joker became Batman's enemy in s2, he's simply trying to drag Batman down to his level. If Joker and Bruce became friends, he says he's "being cruel to be kind & that he was always never the true hero of Gotham,” in order to turn Bruce into "everything he's supposed to be." If Batman refuses, he finds another way to defeat Joker while saving whoever Bruce chooses but joker threatens them to be sent to death if Batman wont join him. If he kills Joker, Joker's corpse breathes out a gas that rewires Batman's mind, transforming him into...that's right, The Batman Who Laughs, but Tiffany & Avesta find a serum to cure him. Before his death Joker turns on a nozzle that emits a horrible smelling gas & it spreads throughout Gothams bridge. Batman is too weak to save the city so he asks Selina, Tiffany, & Avesta, who reach the gas & take the serum mixed with the antidote to save the civilians & the city. Alfred rescues bruce & brings him home they discuss the struggles of mortal moralities. All the villains are put into black gate & Arkham but batman fears he has failed the city more times then he can count after killing joker/John.
The rest of the game you would either fully embrace being batman & gordon would make a speech about how Gotham needs Batman & wants to work more closely with him. Batman feels he still has not kept Gotham safe given the casualties & people who were harmed & chooses to either retire for a while & take on one final year as batman, or give up being batman until he can forgive himself, he goes to the Batcave & puts away his suit looking at it & reflecting on his journey. Alfred looks over at Bruce & says his parents would be proud but says that Bruce owes him a cup of tea after the night they’ve had, the two walk back to the manor. Fade away from the Batcave & we see a conflicted Selina trying to find herself, she gets a call from Oracle who says that she has something she may want, Selina tries to strike a deal but Oracle says come in if you want the job hinting at a Birds of Prey team up mission with Oracle, Catwomen, Huntress, Avesta & Tiffany. Selina can either say sounds good I’m in, or I think I’ll sit this one out…. The game ends with the credits & the logo of Batman The Long Knight!!!!
A post credit scene shows Alfred is seriously wanting to retire but needs Bruce to sign documents so that he may legally or officially entrust a safeguard system for Bruce & the manor. The two discuss with a lawyer the terms of how to carefully help Alfred retire & set up a next of kin guardian support system should Bruce ever need to give batman up for good, they sign the papers & Alfred thanks the lawyer shaking his hand, but suddenly the phone rings loudly..... Bruce picks up the phone, saying "Wayne residence who is calling?" An old mans voice starts to speak fast out of breath, "hhheello?... please anyone".... the raspy man speaks faster panting, saying Harvey has escaped & he's on the run... "Dont trust..........." but shockingly Bruce hears loud noises & screaming, suddenly the phone drops, only to hear the words, "IM COMING FOR THE BAT!!!!!!!!!!!" harvey hangs up..... the game cuts to black..... with the message "TBC.... Batman will return!!!"