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| “ | You coward. We are at war with these animals! You think you're better than him!? You let the Joker keep on killing! You couldn't save Lois, or Jason, or anyone!
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Damian Wayne is the biological son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul (making him the grandson of Ra's al Ghul). However, Damian was born without his father's knowledge and trained with the League of Assassins until he was a young teenager. After his training was completed, Damian was finally revealed to his father, who accepted him as his newest Robin, hoping to put the child's training with the League to a better use.
When Superman killed the Joker as revenge for the deaths of Lois Lane and the citizens of Metropolis, as well as instigate the formation of his Regime to kill all criminals starting with Gotham's rogues, Batman initially worked with Damian and Dick Grayson (Nightwing) to prevent this from happening. Unfortunately for them, Damian has betrayed their location to Superman's regime and there is a clash. When Harley releases the prisoners to instigate a riot, Superman and Batman's groups put their differences aside to fight them off. Damian's violent behaviour towards Arkham's criminals ticks Dick off and when the latter scolds him for this, Damian throws an eskrima stick at Dick causing Nightwing to fall over some rubble and tumble to his death. With this, Batman and Damian fought and although Batman bested his sidekick, Damian escaped the asylum with Superman.
Following this clash, Damian permanently severed his ties to Batman and joined Superman's regime, seeing Superman as a better father figure to him. As part of Superman's Regime, Damian helped the new Justice League combat any and all superhuman-level threats to Earth as well as keep Earth's people in line with the authoritarian dictatorship.
Battle vs. Kai Leng (by BattleGames1)[]
Inside Superman's Fortress of Solitude
Dick seemed unhappy despite his focused walking. He wanted to join Supes, Victor and Adam in quashing another rebellion but apparently this one was led by the Green Lanterns trying to defend the Martians. But Superman did say that the Fortress needed some additional protection in case one of the Society or Insurgency got out of their imprisonment in spite of Batman's conversion.
Damian traipsed across the icy floor carefully, scanning around to see if there were any signs of impending threat. Nothing seemed unusual at first - it was all the natural hum of the ice walls and the blowing of the chilly air that filled the space. Damian sighed and was about to call for Clark when all of a sudden...
THUD! pitter patter pitter patter
Sounded like someone was outside the Fortress ready to break in. But that would almost be impossible given the geometry especially of the Fortress's roof. Whoever it was, it sounded to Damian that the person or thing coming in from above is very cunning and dangerous. Damian turned his back for a second thinking it's a trick but then, a part of the roof shattered. Medium-sized ice shards fell to the icy floors followed by a cracking noise. Damian could easily see that some of the ice on the floor was discoloured in the shape of a foot. Taking out his long eskrima staff, he held himself in a battle ready condition.
"Forget the invisible cloak nonsense. You know I can see you" he exclaimed as the invisible man uncloaked himself. He was facing the opposite direction from him but that didn't matter to the opponent.
Kai stood up from his ninja pose and flexed his futuristic armour... that to Damian looked almost like his own except it ain't blue or red but simple black and white. Then Kai turned to face his opponent with a leer.
Damian asked Kai "Are you another one of my grandfather's lackeys? I thought I told him I didn't want in on the Assassins"
Kai simply took a step forward and aimed his palm blaster at Damian, charging it up and lining the shot. Damian however could see the charge. He was not dealing with a LoA lackey sent by Ra's, after all. Just some wannabe armoured vigilante who probably has beef with the Regime.
By the time Kai fired his blaster, Damien already leapt out of the way. Straight up into the air and swinging his staff down towards the assassin. Kai raised his hand and just like that, his biotic shield activated and stopped Damian's swing. Not wanting to waste his momentum, Damian flipped over Kai and landed on his knee on the space in front of Kai.
"Arrogant kid..." Kai smirked before raising his sword and charging at the boy. Damian sensed the charge coming and at the right moment, swung around and swatted at Kai's side, sending him flying towards the icy wall. Kai hit it with a thud and dropped his sword. He struggled to get back up as Damian readied himself to finish the job. Acting on his instinct, Kai raised his palm blaster and fired it at Damian, hitting him in the leg and causing Damian to drop to the floor on his back.
Kai got back up onto his feet before Damian did, and by the time Damian rose, Kai was charging at him with the sword and closing the distance fast. Thinking quickly, Damian planted his staff on the floor and twirled around it, kicking Kai in the chest. Soon it was Kai's turn to land on his back but he quickly recovered with another back flip.
"Where the hell did you learn to do all this?" Damian shouted as Kai once again primed his sword into the combat position. Kai responded "Cerberus perfected me kid. And your people made it no longer exist!" before yelling and rushing straight towards Damian.
The youngster had no time to process the information he heard as he once again twirled his staff to parry the ninja's sword strike. The two weapons clashed hard but they held together... until Damian once again swung his staff and stomped on Kai's foot. Kai stumbled backwards but still stood on his feet, sword still in hand. Still enraged by the youth's perseverance, Kai rain for one of the crates in order to get the higher ground. Damian thought about rushing to tackle the ninja but he thought of something better.
Kai had one foot on the box but couldn't get the other one up in time before he felt a surge of electricity jolt him and make him stumble into the other boxes. He could barely make out the shape of Damian planting his staff firmly on the ground with electricity and blue light emanating from it before another box fell on top of him. Lucky he shielded himself in time or he would have been unconscious.
He pushed one of the boxes out of the way only to find see Damian drop one of his batarangs and seemingly vanish in a puff of smoke. Kai figured that the little brat is hiding in the shadows, so after gracefully sliding out of the mess he was in, Kai activated his own disappearing trick with the cloak. For a while, it appeared to Kai this worked. "Little brat. Thawne told me that you wouldn't make this easy. Now you and your friends will all die!" he exclaimed in rage.
In amongst the echoing of the Fortress's walls, Kai noticed too late the sound of something whirring towards him... actually 3 things flying towards him. On instinct, Kai leapt backwards to avoid them connecting and lucky for him they didn't... they happened to land by his feet. He smirked and leapt over them, failing to notice that the batarangs were all beeping. By the time he got in front of them, he was rocked forward by an explosive force, followed by another slam of feet onto his back.
Damian jumped over the ninja and landed on bended knee, the staff he held onto to keep steady. As he got up, Damian retorted "What makes you think you can take down Superman if you can't get past me?" Kai got onto his feet too and instead of replying, he charged forward and planted his hand on the ground with mighty force. Activating his own electrical attack, Kai was able to crack the floor of the Fortress wide open sending sparks flying towards Damian.
Damian however was quicker on the take and leapt into the air to avoid the shock. Kai looked up and saw Damian ready to slam the staff onto him... so he held up his sword and hoped to parry the stick strike. At that moment when the sticks collided with the blade, the sword shattered into pieces. Simultaneously, the staff appeared to snap in half. Kai staggered back and was stunned at the sword being broken. He looked over at Damian and expected him to be as shocked as he is about his broken weapon. Alas, he was mistaken; for Damien intentionally split his weapon into two.
Despite his shaking, Kai still tried to aim for a shot with his palm blaster. Alas, Damian was able to get to him quicker and bashed his sticks against the biotic shield holding him. Damian tried to fire his palm blaster but Damian was able to dodge the shots.
Eventually Damian was able to break down the biotic shielding... but he wasn't done yet showing off to the poser ninja. Kai bent over a bit to clutch at his sore torso before he saw Damian charge at him and strike at his upper torso as if his weapon was a sword. Then, at lightning speed, Damian swished and bashed at Kai's torso before uppercutting his neck and standing back for the grand finale.
When Kai was not looking, Damian threw some of his remote batarangs off to the distance... and now they came back... striking Kai's chest and legs, digging deep into the now fragile armor plating. These batarangs too beeped; and before Kai knew it, he was blinded by light...
Damian smirked as he turned around and saw what was left of Kai. His now shredded armour, the hilt of his sword... and some giblets here and there. Wiping his face, Damian at first gave thought to Kai's words about the broken future that Thawne complained about. But he shrugged his shoulders and decided to forget about it. After all, the Regime really made a comeback and to his mind, made the world a whole lot better than the damned future that this Cerberus organisation came from.
Winner: Damian Wayne
Expert's Opinion[]
It was no surprise that Kai was to be given yet another loss to his record. Voters for Damian simply put that the former Robin was just very well versed with his weapons and skills than his arrogant and cocky opponent. They also noted that despite the emotional volatility that he inherited from his father, he was actually the more cool-headed individual since he was able to think tactically compared to Kai who proved to be tactically unsound with the tools he is given.
If you think this battle is unfair in any way, shape or form, please feel free to ask me for permission to rematch this.