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scans_dailyMen working for the man he was after chased him.
That man, atop the Monument, took his call.
Batman accused him of orchestrating the end of the world through the works of Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and the Mad Hatter.
He said that those were only a lesson.
" I was showing you the three most likely ways the world would end.
" Cataclysm.
" Plague.
" Solipsism.
" Those are the ways the world would have ended, in a year, maybe five, if it wasn't ending here now. Tonight. In a fourth way. My way. "
He aimed his sniper rifle at Batman, who was closing in.
He asked what it was that'd pointed the way to him.
" ..
" I found a ' daemon. ' "
He pulled the trigger, shooting Batman's cycle out from under him.
He, Ra's al Ghul, watched Batman and the cycle's wreckage fly through the air.
He saw the people directly below him, the protesters scared of the death threatening to consume the world, the darkness that he'd engineered and that almost everyone else knew nothing of.
" Look at how easy it is, doing it this way, from the other side of the battle field..
" How could I have been so blind for so long? "
" Times change, sir. " said the loyal Ubu beside him.
" Cheers, Ra's. " said Bruce Wayne, Ubu unconscious behind him.
Ra's figured out that he'd been watching a decoy lead his men on a chase.
(It was Catwoman.)
" No, it's like you! "
Ra's lunged at Bruce.
Bruce threw him aside and grabbed a musket from a nearby exhibit.
(He handles a swordcane well.)
He kicked Bruce out the window.
" .. I'm taking my damn title back. "
Bruce caught onto the scaffolding surrounding the just-reopened monument.
League of Assassins Man-Bats swarmed him.
As he kept them away with his musket, Ra's monologued about the " demons " around the world, the little things that lived in so many big ones.
He sent a signal to them from his phone.
The alumnium cap atop the monument amplified his broadcast.
Nuclear plants in Tehran went into meltdown.
Trains in east Asia hurtled flaming down their tracks.
Oil pumps in Russia exploded.
" Everyone is asking who's to blame. But no one knows. That's the genius of it. "
(That first balloon should be trailing the other way.)
Ra's had his Blackhawks kill Duke, then took in his triumph.
" It's perfect.. "
(That's an apt weapon.)
(I love the suddenness of that Man-Bat evac.)
(The reality of the Blackhawks is currently a thing in Dark Nights: Metal.)
Bruce answered Duke's call.
Duke confirmed that he was okay.
As Bruce looked around at things calming down, a woman driving nearby noticed him and took out her phone.
(That's just a dramatic echo.
Pagecount's roughly 7 and 1/3rd of 22 from All-Star Batman #9.)
That man, atop the Monument, took his call.
Batman accused him of orchestrating the end of the world through the works of Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and the Mad Hatter.
He said that those were only a lesson.
" I was showing you the three most likely ways the world would end.
" Cataclysm.
" Plague.
" Solipsism.
" Those are the ways the world would have ended, in a year, maybe five, if it wasn't ending here now. Tonight. In a fourth way. My way. "
He aimed his sniper rifle at Batman, who was closing in.
He asked what it was that'd pointed the way to him.
" ..
" I found a ' daemon. ' "
He pulled the trigger, shooting Batman's cycle out from under him.
He, Ra's al Ghul, watched Batman and the cycle's wreckage fly through the air.
He saw the people directly below him, the protesters scared of the death threatening to consume the world, the darkness that he'd engineered and that almost everyone else knew nothing of.
" Look at how easy it is, doing it this way, from the other side of the battle field..
" How could I have been so blind for so long? "
" Times change, sir. " said the loyal Ubu beside him.
" Cheers, Ra's. " said Bruce Wayne, Ubu unconscious behind him.
Ra's figured out that he'd been watching a decoy lead his men on a chase.
(It was Catwoman.)
" No, it's like you! "
Ra's lunged at Bruce.
Bruce threw him aside and grabbed a musket from a nearby exhibit.
(He handles a swordcane well.)
He kicked Bruce out the window.
" .. I'm taking my damn title back. "
Bruce caught onto the scaffolding surrounding the just-reopened monument.
League of Assassins Man-Bats swarmed him.
As he kept them away with his musket, Ra's monologued about the " demons " around the world, the little things that lived in so many big ones.
He sent a signal to them from his phone.
The alumnium cap atop the monument amplified his broadcast.
Nuclear plants in Tehran went into meltdown.
Trains in east Asia hurtled flaming down their tracks.
Oil pumps in Russia exploded.
" Everyone is asking who's to blame. But no one knows. That's the genius of it. "
(That first balloon should be trailing the other way.)
Ra's had his Blackhawks kill Duke, then took in his triumph.
" It's perfect.. "
(That's an apt weapon.)
(I love the suddenness of that Man-Bat evac.)
(The reality of the Blackhawks is currently a thing in Dark Nights: Metal.)
Bruce answered Duke's call.
Duke confirmed that he was okay.
As Bruce looked around at things calming down, a woman driving nearby noticed him and took out her phone.
(That's just a dramatic echo.
Pagecount's roughly 7 and 1/3rd of 22 from All-Star Batman #9.)
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