East side of Gotham City, 11 P.M.-
The night life gave plenty of cover for the ten men who all converged at the same spot like a group of frat boys out for the night. A local bank was the mark. None of the men wore anything to hide their faces, weather they were worried about being caught or not was unclear. Five of the men carried tools of various sorts. The group of men spread out around the doors of the bank while one man stepped forward and pounded on the door. Years ago Mayor Hill ordered that two guards stay on duty at every bank in Gotham over night to help keep robberies down to a minimum. On this night however more than one bank was being robbed and all in the same manner. A guard on the inside walked to the heavy glass door and peered out the glass window pane. The moment the thugs could see the guards eyes a hand crashed through the glass and wrapped around the guards face.
A loud alarm went off and the guard struggled to scream while his face was covered by a hand. The guard reached for his gun, but as he did so a faint glow of light erupted from the hand of the man holding the guards face. After only a moment the guard went limp, and was dead. The killing blow was something that the men and women of Gotham had never seen before and those that were on the phone calling the police ran with fear. The ten thugs entered the bank and started to spread out, some moving for offices and five went for the vault in the back.
From the shadows a figure moved, silently, skillfully and quickly from shadow to shadow. It stalked the men that had split up, silently grabbing each man and knocking them out until only one man remained. The Batman arrived at the scene shortly after the first guard was killed. He watched and waited for the five men to get far enough apart that they wouldn't be turning back to check on eachother before the dark knight struck. With the intent to harm the last thug in the front lobby in his mind, the Batman reached into his belt and produced a small pellet. He chucked it onto the ground at the thugs feet and a thick smoke shot out of the small pellet. The Batman jumped into it and grabbed the man by the neck. During the ensuing struggle the man managed to grab the Batman's face where his mask did not cover and the light once again erupted from his hand....