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Chapter 103 - Raiding a Nightclub (Part 1)

While Chad was entertaining Victoria, his clones were making their way to the Iceberg Lounge. Half had gone into the sewer, while the other half waited outside until they noticed movement among the guards. "It's time." My clone, in the form of Gilgamesh, said.

The people waiting to get into the club noticed Gilgamesh walking towards the club along with a handful of men. "Oh, he is handsome." A group of women said as he walked towards the front door.

"Stop, right th-" As the bouncer spoke, my clone pulled a sword out, cutting his head off. It rolled onto the ground, shocking everyone as people screamed and ran. The other guards reached for their weapons only to be rushed by the other clones.

As my clones engaged in combat with the lackeys, I walked into the club as half charged me, and the other half of thugs were making their way down into the basement. As they opened fire on my clone, he dodged the volley of bullets as he started to rush towards them. Cutting three thugs as their bodies fell to the ground.

My clones outside had finished up and started to enter the club as we made our way towards the basement staircase. Running into a dozen goons as the clone rushed forward, cutting them down as the overhead skylight shattered, and my clone looked up, smirking as it spoke. "Join the others. I will deal with him." He said.

Batman landed on the ground, looking at my clone as he quickly threw explosive batarangs. My clone shot out three swords to intercept them, making them explode a good distance away from him. "You have to do a lot better than that, Batman." He said before closing the distance in a blink of an eye, swinging his sword as Batman barely dodged, as his suit showed signs of being cut.

"What are you doing here?" Batman asked, making my clone chuckle. "Nothing, I was just out for a midnight walk. Getting some fresh air and relaxing before my bedtime, Batman." My clone said with a condescending look on his face.

"Fine, if you don't want to tell me. I will beat it out of you." Batman said, making my clone laugh. "You couldn't beat me last time. What makes you think you can do this time?" The clone said, making Batman smirk, as the clone heard the whirring of something flying towards him, and he ducked. An exploding batarang hit the ground, making him jump back and look over his shoulder.

"You brought a sidekick, and it's a female." My clone said seeing Batwoman. "I am not a sidekick." She said. "Could have fooled me." The clone said with a shrug of his shoulders. So it was two against one, the clone thought, pulling out another sword and taking up a stance to fight.

Batman looked on as he could tell Gilgamesh wasn't phased by this. He rushed forward as Batwoman pulled out two nightsticks and rushed my clone from behind as he began to dance with the two bats. 

Batwoman swung one of the nightsticks as he parried the blow and sent a sidekick to her stomach, sending her flying back as she quickly landed on the ground, rolling before pushing off it to rejoin the fight. Batman dodged my sword, sending a punch towards my clone's face as I dodged backwards, and his fist connected with air. Before he sent a kick to his thigh, making Batman stagger back.

Batwoman finally rejoined the fray as she swung her nightsticks, and my clone dropped down, spinning as his legs took her legs out from under her. My clone swung his sword, aiming for her neck as a grappling hook wrapped around the clone's arm, buying her time to roll out of the way as the clone cut the rope.

It now became a three-way stare down, as my clone looked at them. Batman glared at me. "Why are you doing this?" He said, making my clone think for a moment. "Your way of handling crime is faulty. I think it would be more effective if you had a controllable crime rate. People will use drugs like it or not; people will sell their bodies like it or not. Most crime can be controlled if you have the heart for it. I plan to control the city's crime with an iron fist; this way, only the low-level thugs will be an issue. It's that simple." My clone said.

His eyes squinted. "So you are after the Penguin." He said, making me smirk and nod. "Correct, and at this time. He is most likely already dead, as you have been dancing with me for a pretty long time. And, by the way, I wasn't the first one to attack this place. I was just the person to cut off their retreat." My clone said, making him look at the basement door, and the moment he was about to move, my clone sent a fireball.

"Now that's rude, you got all hostile with me, and you just want to run away. That's not very nice, bats," He said with a smirk. Batman grabbed some smoke balls and slammed them onto the ground as my clone pushed off the ground, and the moment Batman swung out of the smoke, a spinning kick slammed into Batman's face, breaking his nose, sending him crashing into a table.

"Batman, I know you want to rush down there to save him. Meaning there are only two ways into his lair, that door and the stairs, so unless you want to take your time leaving the building and then finding a stair entrance, that is the quickest way down there." He said as Batman grunted while getting up. As Batwoman walked over, both of them looked at me.

My clone opened the Gates of Babylon as Batman and Batwoman looked around, encircled by a dome of swords that pointed at them through a golden portal. Batman narrowed his eyes as he spoke. "Batwoman, I think we should retreat for now." He said, making my clone smirk. "Do you think I would just let you go? It would be best to remove you from the equation for now." My clone said.

Batman pulled out all of his batarangs and threw them into the air as he pulled out a grappling hook, shooting it towards the broken skylight window. Lifting off, as Batwoman did the same, as my swords shot out towards them, the batarangs Batman threw through entered the scene, intercepting some as more got closer. Batwoman threw hers, buying them enough time, but one sword cut the rope of Batwoman.

He pushed off the ground as Batwoman was falling, and she reached for another grappling hook, but the clone grabbed her arm and knocked her out. He fell back towards the ground, and Batman looked down at us. "What are you going to do now, Batman? Leave her behind or come back down here?" My clone said 

Batman gritted his teeth. The clone pulled Batwoman's mask off and turned her face, kissing her as she slept, looking at Batman out of the corner of its eye. Pulling its mouth back as he spoke. "If you leave now, who knows what twisted and unthinkable things this woman will experience." My clone said.

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