Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story. Worm is property of Wildbow. I do not have any interest in offending anyone and only wish to entertain readers.
Note: Bonus points for those who understand the meaning of the title.
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Preparing for Heartbreaker especially with meta-knowledge was quite easy, if I was just taking out for Heartbreaker, but because of his child army and his slaves that he mind-controlled it was very difficult.
I also didn't really want to harm anyone, but Heartbreaker because of the fact that they are victims of abuse, but since they had powers they will most likely lash out at anyone, so I have to be prepared.
I was currently in my Batcave looking over the tools I had designed to deal with and neutralize Heartbreaker. A few drones, some customized sleeping gas that will knock anyone out in an instant, some monitoring devices, a way to literally scramble my presences from technology to prevent anyone seeing and recognizing me.
Though, I have a thing I was missing and that was my Batsuit, I can't be called Batman without it. So I decided to get designing it filled with various tools and advanced technology. It was a hybrid Batsuit x Iron Man suit, taking the best from both worlds. I have to say that it was glorious.
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My batsuit combined the best from both worlds, my suit was heavily inspired by one of the greatest batsuits of all time, Batman Beyond.
It has various features such as retractable wings under the arms to glide on, but I still had a cape just for style points, repulsor technology and electromagnetic superfield generators to achieve flight which was silent, a Heads Up Display (HUD) that displays coordinates, suit status, sensor displays, and various advanced features. Sensitive touch microphone on index and middle fingers that permits eavesdropping through solid surfaces or at a distance. The recording can be played and downloaded into a chip, cloaking devices for extra stealth, a personal AI assistant, and more.
It was also highly resistant to water, electricity, heat and radiation. Though that wasn't its only function as taking inspiration from Tony Stark, I can also use the armor as way to recharge my suit, I'm able to absorb and convert energy sources, such as heat, kinetic energy or energy from the planet itself into electricity, directly into the batteries for recharge. And obviously it was bulletproof.
I also developed multiple useful gadgets such as mute charges which was a vibration-dampening field around itself when activated, allowing the use of loud things even when it's supposed to be a stealth missoin. Within this field, gunfire sounds like a whisper, and even the tremors of a breaching charge being used on a building are diminished so much as to go unnoticed by people in the adjacent room.
Varioius different types of batarangs such as normal batarangs, electric, explosive, and other types I can think of.
Personal communicators, electromagnetic pads in the soles of the boots for adhesion to certain surfaces, retractable claws which could be used to cut or facilitate climbing, and various modes for my vision such as thermal vision, night vision, digital binoculars and an infrared filter, scanners, and more.
I developed every gadget I could think of that I would feel like I needed and while it may seem that there's so many gadgets and how would I properly sift through them in the midst of battle it's quite simple, Amamiya Particles.
It's pretty much the same function as Pym Particles, but I just renamed them, what it does is pretty simple I neatly organize everything I can in my utility belt and I shrink everything down and before I deploy and use my gadget it reverts back to its original mass.
You might be wondering how it works and it's quite simple, I break down the object entirely at its source and reconstruct it in the palm of my hand. It's very complicated to explain but essentially I have very tiny things in my belt and when I want something my belt would break down the object and reform it in my hand in its original form.
It's also not just things in my belt that would teleport to my hand, but also things that I prepared in my Batcave armory would teleport to my hand.
Seeing all my things ready and my suit prepared I headed off to Canada to find Heartbreaker.
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Flying to Canada as a rich person was actually quite uneventful, I sort of expected a terrorist attack, but I guess that there are times where villains are smart and they don't.
Once I headed off my private plane and walked on the private airfield, I was greeted by one of my suboordinates.
"Hello sir, my name is James and I'm here to get you settled here in Montreal." He offered his hand for a shake and I accepted, thanking him.
"Thank you James, I hope you'll take care of me." He smiled and nodded and he grabbed my bags and walked to the car he was driving.
We soon got to the car and he put my luggage in the back while I was in the backseat, he soon drove the car to the place I was staying at, a private house in the city.
He soon drove me to the house I was staying at and once we got there he parked near the front door, got out of the car and grabbed my luggage from the back and I stepped outside to look at the house that I would be staying at and it was that of a classic two story suburban home.
While it might not match my home, it was good enough to do my task. I soon heard a voice call me inside the house.
"Sir, please come inside." I did as he asked and went inside the house and it was pretty ordinary which was helpful to blend in.
He showed me my bags which was in the living room and he looked at me and said, "If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to call." I nodded and he bowed his head and left.
With him gone I began to plan and took out all the things in my luggage. I used Hank's idea of shrinking my stuff and putting it in cases. I took out my tiny batsuit and tiny utility belt the size of an ant and put them in an open area for them to return to their original size.
I began doing that for all the stuff I packed and I planned to wait till dark because I knew that nighttime was the best to find Heartbreaker.
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Night passed and it was already past 10 P.M. and I decided that it was time for me to go out. I decided to use the roof instead of using the front door.
I was now on the roof and because of my training I was able to comfortable be on it without fear of falling. I began to use my gauntlet to display a holographic projector of the entire city of Montreal to see if I can find the location of Heartbreaker.
(Think Batman: Arkham Knight whenever Batman has to communicate with an ally)
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I soon began to float and there was no little jets of flame to signify I was flying, I was just floating as my thrusters don't really generate heat. I soon took off into the sky patrolling for some crime.
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Flying was quite exhilarating, especially when you're doing on your own and not a vehicle. I was flying around the city and because of my tech I prepared in advance I went unnoticed.
Given that it was nighttime there wasn't that much happening, which was a bit surprising but I guess even villains need their rest.
I flew around Montreal looking for Heartbreaker and his place of residence and I even hacked the CCTV network of the city to find out where he is and it took a bit of time, but I did notice something strange.
There was a lady walking around at night dressed formally as if she just got out of work and she was carrying groceries. Looking closer at her, I noticed her eyes were blank which could only mean that she was mastered, and there's only one very well-known master in Canada that masters women, Heartbreaker.
With a grin I started secretly following her to lead me to where she was staying and boy was it quite easy. With my stealth tech I easily stalked her at night and soon she led me to a fancy and large house in the richer part of the city. I figured that's where Heartbreaker was staying, considering he does lay low in the houses of the women he controls.
She soon entered the front door and closed and I figured that this was the time for me to sneak in. Seeing that there was no chimney for me to get inside of and I haven't really developed phasing tech, which I know have to do, I decided to sneak in the old fashion way.
I decided to sneak on the rooftop and enter one of the windows after peeking inside and noticing that no one was there I decided to secretly cut a tiny hole in the window and after doing so I used the Amamiya particles to shrink myself and enter it like a door.
Now that I was as small as an ant I grabbed the small window piece and put it back in place and I used some tiny glue to stick it back to the window.
(Note: Where he got the glue simple, the Utility Belt, it has everything a Batman needs)
Now with my tracks covered I began to fly once more, while still staying the same size. I realized I was in some kind of bedroom, but no one was in it.
I flew towards one of the vents to explore this house and so began my journey of exploring Heartbreaker's base.
Surprisingly, there were very little defenses in the house, but considering his narcissistic personality and power then it made sense. As I was exploring the vents I peeked thorugh one of them and saw his entire family of unpowered children, his mastered harem of women, and his Heartbroken eating dinner.
He had around 12 kids, I'm not sure who had powers or not but I'm not taking any chances. The women he mastered was also there and they looked like they were happy, but I knew they were just being mastered, and the bastard himself eating smugly.
The dinner was quiet, but I knew that this was the best time to strike. I began to prepare my gadgets and I brought my own modified sleeping gas grenade that's meant to take instant effect and my Amamiya Particle Disk that was meant to enlarge things.
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I steadied my nerve and I knew that I had one shot at this and so I dropped my tiny sleeping gas grenade and as it began falling, once it hit the perfect distance I threw my disk that was going to turn my tiny grenade to the size of a pillow and it did.
The moment the sleeping gas grenade became big, the smoke instantly poured out knocking out the women and children nearby and it crashed on to the table and more smoke began exiting the giant grenade.
Though Heartbreaker and his Heartbroken immediately stood up and tried to get distance, it was too late as they too were knocked out and fell asleep.
I considered that successful for my first ever outing.
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Author's Note: The second chapter of Batman Zero Year is finished. Like I said my update schedule will be on Sundays every week, but maybe on Saturday if I finish early.
With college starting there might be times that I will go on long hiatuses, so sorry about that, but I will not drop the book.
DementionMan_626: It's the main 616 Reed-Richards
Workman: It's pre-canon, I'm not sure what year yet, but it's before 2010 at least. For the JL, I'm not sure yet.
If you're wondering why there was no fight scene it's because the MC didn't want too much attention on him yet and because Heartbreaker was a pure master and didn't really have any other abilities other than his emotional manipulation within his line-of-sight and so it was quite easy to take him down, when he didn't know where his enemy is.