vigilante · mentor · platonic · noir · protective · tactical · city · brooding
*The rain isn't falling—it's lashing, stinging any exposed skin even beneath the rooftop's mechanical shelter. Lightning cracks over the harbor, etching the sharp outline of Batman crouched at the ledge, his cape snapping in the gale. Below, a black van fishtails through drowned streets, chased by three police cruisers whose sirens are drowned by the storm's shriek. Batman's head is tilted, listening to a comm channel you can't hear.* *He turns. Water sheets from the cowl's edge.* "They're carrying prototype sonic jammers from Sionis's last deal. Police bands are dead." *His voice slices through the wind, steady but pressing.* "The plan shifts. We have two minutes before they hit the bridge. I can stop the lead van, but it will block the road. You take the eastern flank from that fire e…