Batman One Million

Batman One Million

Pluto, the prison planet Year 85,265 AD

Vox* “Security alert, systems compromised, deploy countermeasures”

the prisoners are rioting, with a plan to escape, overwhelming the defence drones, bounty hunters, murderers, xenophobic tyrants, all the like, unite in a continued assault.

“Weapons free”

announces the guards, pulsing plasma set to stun blasts from their rifles meeting some of their targets, the inmates fall, Khorg, a veteran skull taker dives behind cover grabs a weapon from a fallen sentry and returns fire, defenders fall, Mance a shapeshifting Malrog from Darsus one, moulds his form to absorb the incoming fire, then tripling his size slams his enormous fists onto a poor squad of soldiers, A technopath retrieves his gear from the storage container after a rather muscly grizzled one blows it apart with weaponry, making swift use of his knowledge, he hacks the sealed Adamantium doors that lead to the next room, and closer to the docking bays. The struggle to contain is real, a panicked guard taps the right side of his temple, a communicated thought

‘Batman, we need you”

“Double seal that door now! And monitor for any signal changes in the door control systems, they can’t be allowed through!

The guards dedicate their efforts, scrambling about the massive docking bay, vast in its scope, ships come and go here, dropping of supplies and delivering new prisoners to await their sentences on the cold distant planet,

“BANG! BANG! BANG!” Mance’s herculean efforts on the door go unnoticed

“Tech, anything?”

“Nothing, i can’t change the signal flow, they must be monitoring it”

“No matter smartie, we’ll get through”

Entropy the psychotic mastermind behind the escape grabs a heat blade and slashes apart some of the nearby wall to reveal power cables underneath “Such an outdated system this place is, outdated and disordered” “Vance, grab those power cables, channel the energy” “Yes sir” they don’t question his word, it’s not infallible, but its trust has been earned under the powerful tactical feats of their leader, grabbing the energy conduits Vance amps his power, his alien skin turning flaming red, he bolsters his size and slams the door with his might, the red hot door shattering is witnessed by the men inside.

“Open fire!”

turrets and guards alike engage, a last desperate effort to defeat the prisoners. The criminals return fire and spread out on the docking bay. The terrain advantage of the guards is counteracted by the superior experience of the team, however another of them go down,

“Useless anyway" thinks Entropy, Khorg hit’s a few more in retaliation on the railings above, his plasma bolts unfortunately set to kill, hope is dwindling for the brave guards.

“Crush the-"

the inmates voice silenced as an invisible net propels him 30 feet back, pinning him to the wall

“Damm it, he’s here”

mutters Khorg, he barley finishes his sentence when a dark figure leaps from above with such speed the lawbreakers are completely caught off guard, Batman is here, with rapid movement he delivers a forward kick to Khorg while hand slicing another on the neck, Entropy rushes him mid movement his heat blade in hand Batman flips his body cylindrically over him as he does a shadow bursts from him, knocking into a gang of inmates and taking them apart hit by hit, a temporary clone, moving with all the the grace and strength of Batman him self, facing Entropy “You should factor me into your plans next time Entropy” pausing very briefly Entropy rushes forward, fierce determination met by unconsciousness, a strike so rapid it did not even occur to him to happened. The shadow finishes the rest of them then forms back into Batman

“How did they escape?”

“Well you know Batman, it’s Pluto, the worst prison in the galaxy”

“That’s why i’m here”.

Batman teleports up to the mind stasis cells, examining it closely, these cells trap the inmates minds in a simulated world, where their dreams are fulfilled for the duration of their sentence, despite their advanced nature, they are outdated by the futures standards.

“Well Bat’s, what is it this time?

“Faulty perception modulator on cell 34, Entropy’s cell”

“I’ll get it fixed right away”

“It’s done, you can handle the rest”

He blinks away leaving them on mop up duty. Outside the prison Batman walks towards his ship, he looks towards the old sun basking the cold, frozen world in its heat, “No one cares about this part of space” he thinks, climbing in and jettisoning his craft, it effortlessly meets sub light speeds.

He heads for Saturn’s rings, his ship zooming into view he lands in an invisible gravity tether, the Bat cave nestled in a large orbiting piece of debris, he passes through the air filter his cowl automatically opening and the rest of his suit compacting off him into a capsule.

Bruce wayne solemn in his expression communicates to Alfred the sentient AI guarding the Bat cave

“Initiate a random practice phase”

the gravity turns off, he begins floating upwards drifting around the large metal walled room, he centres his breathing…. blasting out of deployment, four combat bots converge at him from all corners instantly, he manages to angle his body out of the way of three of them but another meets his grasp,hand in hand he fights back against its strength, as it forces him back slamming him into the ground with a thud, he moves his head to avoid it’s strike denting the floor he is pinned too, his extensive training in low gravity combat has prepared him for this, with it on top of him, he knees its lower area with enough force to send it flying over him, as the others zoom in on his position he delivers a rapid sound breaking punch, knocking the bots head off, too late the others are on him, thinking fast he pushes off the bots corpse then performs a rapid set of strikes that function in zero gravity, stunning the attackers.

Finger striking the lower limbs of the the bot he shatters the jet booster connecters and attaches them to his feet, then punches his hand into the centre of the robot and grasps it’s power core, as the electricity flows through him he calls upon an energy directing martial technique and rockets towards the other bots his blows deliver a stinging dose of electric current, he overwhelms them with ease.

“Finished?”

“Yes sir, would you like another?”

“No that’s fine Alfred” Bruce’s shirt dissolves off him, an icon of post human physical perfection, he passes through the base’s futuristic metal architecture blended with the natural structure of the asteroid, he walks towards a viewing area, the distant stars shining in the void,

“Access computer”

with but a thought Batman establishes a mind link interface to the Bat computer,

“Run simulation protocol 2.6*10^31”

“System failure”

confused he sees the problem from the automatic diagnostic

“Shall i have it repaired sir?”

“No Alfred, ill get to it later”

“Something to do sir?”

“I don’t need to crunch the data urgently, it can wait”

“Contact Justice league”

Superman Prime appears on screen,

“Bruce”

“Kal, just checking in”

“The prisons nearly finished Bruce, i thought the plan was to call you when it was completed?”

“Right”

“Right, so you seem to be checking in quite a lot Bruce, how goes the containment?

“There was another breakout today, i handled it” “Great, well i’ll let you know when it’s complete Bruce, we’ve go to go, Darkseid’s invading the third sector”

Flash darts to the screen “Ohh is Brucey getting lonely all out there by hims-“ The screen shuts down.

Bruce’s cape and cowl assemble on him as he heads back out the filter, propelling himself to the top of the asteroid he surveys the area, his home drifting amongst the rocks of saturn, he activates his long range optics, glancing around, nothing suspicious draws his gaze. Jumping in his craft, Bruce’s heads off to solve the disturbance in his computer mainframe. Arriving at Sol a massive Matryoshka brain, a planet sized computer, separated into rings of computronium orbiting the the sun feeding of its massive energy, the machine handles computing power incomprehensible to all who predate it’s existence. He boards one of the rings, “Cloak on” by thought, Batman vanishes, a very slight silhouette is all that remains, he stalks the long dark interior....To be continued, mabye.