Not A Hero (MCU x Reader x Dark Knight Trilogy)

11. Chaos in Gotham

(Y/N) set Rachel down, and looked out at the Narrows. Fog, flames, and screams consumed it. The rest of Gotham was waiting.

"They're going to unleash the toxin on the entire city," (Y/N) said. "I have to find the microwave emitter..."

Rachel remembered something. "They were lifting a machine up to the tracks."

"Of course. The monorail. The track runs directly over the water mains. He's going to drive that thing straight into (L/N) Tower and blow the main hub, creating enough toxin to blanket the entire city."

He looked over the edge, towards the monorail tracks. He had to stop it.

"Wait!" Rachel called after him. He turned, and looked back at her. She reached up and placed a hand on his cheek. "You could die. At least tell me your name."

"It's not who I am underneath..." (Y/N) said, quoting her words to him. "But what I do that defines me."

(Y/N) stepped away, towards the ledge.

Rachel suddenly realized... "(Y/N)..." Her oldest and closest friend, who she thought was unchangeable, was really Batman the whole time.

But he was already falling...

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(Y/N)'s cloak went rigid, in the shape of a bat's wings. He glided down towards the monorail, pursuing the train, diving.

He collapsed his cloak and dropped onto the train.

Ra's heard the thump of (Y/N) hitting the roof. The ninjas around him loaded their machine guns, ready.

(Y/N) held on as the train hit a sharp turn and bullets tore through the roof. The combined force of the two knocked him off the roof of the train, but he was fast enough to pull out his grapple gun and fire it.

He was hanging from the train by the cable, dodging stoplights and shop awnings and the train sped towards (L/N) Tower.

He struggled to fasten his grapple gun to his utility belt, but the train was moving too fast.

A truck came towards him, filled with ninjas. One of them loaded an RPG, ready to fire it at (Y/N).

Suddenly, the truck was knocked away by a small car. (Y/N) looked at it long enough to see Gordon at the wheel.

Gordon himself looked up in time to see (Y/N) latch the grapple gun to his belt, and shoot off towards the train.

(Y/N) jumped into the rear car, firing his grapple gun at a ninja and taking him down. He downed a second with an elbow to the head. He then leapt for the door between the train cars, but a ninja was able to lock it from inside.

(Y/N) smashed through the window, grabbing the ninja and dropping him to the ground and climbing back onto the roof. (L/N) Tower was visible now, the train streaking towards it.

Ra's climbed up onto the roof at the front of the train. He marveled at (Y/N) as the latter collected himself and stood.

"You took my advice about theatricality a bit too literally, don't you think?" Ra's remarked to (Y/N).

He drew his sword, and swung at (Y/N), who was able to parry the attacks with his gauntlets.

Ra's swung the sword's sheath at (Y/N), who trapped it in his scallops and sent it flying away. Ra's thrust his sword at (Y/N)'s chest, and (Y/N) dodged left, leaving himself dangerously close to the edge. He ducked at Ra's swinging, leaving the latter at the front edge of the train. (Y/N) regained his footing as Ra's struck at his head. (Y/N) caught the blade in his scallop blades, holding.

"Don't you have anything new?" Ra's asked.

"How about this?"

(Y/N) moved his arms in opposite directions, breaking Ra's' sword in two.

Ra's stumbled back, losing his footing and slipping onto the roof, sliding back towards the rear.

(Y/N) looked ahead at (L/N) Tower, then leaned over the front of the train. He fired his grapple gun at the front wheels, which jam as the cable unspooled from the gun.

"What're you doing?" Ra's called, standing.

"What's necessary," (Y/N) said as he tossed the now-useless grapple gun at the wheels.

Ra's dived at (Y/N), smashing him against the roof and closing his hand around (Y/N)'s neck.

"Are you afraid?!" Ra's asked.

"Yes... but not of you."

(Y/N)'s cloak went rigid, yanking him away from Ra's grip and into the air. He watched as the train flew off the tracks, just short of (L/N) Tower.

The microwave emitter exploded, leaving no trace of the train or Ra's Al Ghul.

Finally.