Batman moved as quickly and efficiently in securing Two-Face's unconscious men as he had in subduing them. The
click
of the last handcuff snapping into place coincided with the echo of the last falling shell casing finally settling into place. Now all that remained was the small eternity it would take for the GCPD to come and sort out which were going to Blackgate and which were going to Arkham—as if it made a difference.
Batman picked a flattened 9MM slug out of his body armor and flicked it away. The bruise underneath, where he had taken the hammer-blow of the stopped shot, remained tender, but he could ignore it until he was back at the Batcave for another lecture from Alfred.
At least this time, he wouldn't have to justify himself too much. Two-Face had taken hostages. If Batman hadn't cleared Harvey's hide-out, it was literally a toss-up what might've happened to them.
He penetrated deeper into the abandoned aquarium with its drained sea tanks, seeing what appealed to Harvey's warped sense of duality in all the dry, desiccated exhibits meant to showcase ocean life. His scans of the hideout had shown him where the hostages would be waiting for him... in a reverse aquarium, a pirate-stylized ship inside a whale-sized tank that allowed guests to lower themselves into the hold and look out at the surrounding sea.
Only without the water, his stomping footsteps echoed strangely. Announcing his arrival to the hostages, who struggled and cried out anew at his entrance.
Coming into the interior of the pirate ship and actually seeing who Harvey had taken prisoner, Batman felt compelled to stop and ponder life's little ironies.
Poison Ivy. Catwoman. Harley Quinn. All deadly, but all exquisitely female. Somehow lovelier than ever while bound and gagged—perhaps because it removed the threat that otherwise nullified their beauty.
Selina was tall and statuesque, like a fashion model, her unzipped catsuit showing pert, proud breasts accentuated by the tightness of her dominatrix-like costume. Ivy, of average height but voluptuous roundness, made even more exotic by the green tint to her skin. The ropes that cut across her body pulled her barely-there costume out of what modesty it once had, giving him peeks at dark green nipples and labia lips the color of jade. Then there was Harley, the most enthusiastically struggling. She was petite, but hardly short on curves. All her wiggling made her nubile breasts and tight little ass jiggle enticingly. For all her lack of refinement compared to the goddesses of seduction that were tied to either side of her, Batman sensed that her shameless verve might make her the best fuck of all.