by Shadowman » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:55 pm
- Motto: "May God have mercy on my enemies, because I sure as hell won't."
Keep in mind, we're talking about the kind of Predator you'd find in an Arnold Schwartzeneggar movie, not like on Dateline.
A Predator has been in Gotham for a few weeks, picking off people he thought would make good kills. Around the same time, the Joker broke out of Arkham Asylum, so Batman naturally places the killings on him.
After easily putting away the Joker, the Dark Knight couldn't help but notice that the victims didn't have gigantic, unnatural grins on their faces, thus entirely missing the Joker's MO. Instead, they were missing skin, and several internal organs. Forensics note that the skin and organs were likely removed AFTER the time of death, as the bodies either had large slash-wounds, or plasma scorching. Further study showed that they were either criminals, or police, and not necessarily corrupt ones. (Thus removing suspicion of a vigilante)
That night, as Bruce hung up his cowl he ever-so narrowly avoided a peculiar looking bladed disc that would have hit his head had he not dodged it.
So here we go: the fight takes place in the Batcave. The rest of the Justice League is out fighting on Apokolips, so there's no back-up coming. And Batman has no preparation other than knowing the Predator prefers long-range combat, and is invisible. However, he has access to everything in the Batcave (Including his own weapons, and weapons confiscated from his Rogues Gallery, like Mr. Freeze's gun), provided he can get to them before getting hit. Also, he's not fully suited-up, and doesn't have his utility belt, although it's very close to him.
There, that's the set-up, who wins?