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"There is not a monster more dangerous than a lack of compassion."
- Master Splinter, (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
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(Previous Chapter Note: Okay, so of you complained about a couple of things in the last chapter, mostly about the ill effects of the NZT-48 and the unneeded stupidity that resulted from it. I think it was my fault that I couldn't explain it completely through my writing. So, here's another try from .
NZT might be an OP drug since it increases your intelligence by a huge margin by forcing the brain to operate at its maximum capacity but it is also equally dangerous not only because of its negative effects on one's health which Bruce took care of using the vaccine but because of how it suppresses the empathetic side of the brain, only giving way for the cold logical side of the user to reign supre. It makes the user a fearless and mostly emotionless person who operates through cold hard logic.
Bruce had an idea about this but didn't know just how much this apathy would affect him and that was why he didn't want to use it despite having perfected the vaccine. The NZT high Bruce was absolutely sure he would win. That was why he took the risk because it wasn't a risk at all for him, it was a known result. Even in the 'Limitless' movie and the show, the drug almost gives birth to a separate personality of its users due to the absence of empathy in them after taking it, a personality that is driven purely by greed and an ambition to grow.
After its effects wore off, Bruce got back his emotions along with his fear of death while losing part of his increased intelligence along with the logical reasoning that forced him to do the ritual under NZT's effects. To the regular him, it was an unneeded risk, but that doesn't change that this is going to help him, in the long run, a LOT, sothing that his smarter self, realized.)
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"Hey Ace, don't you think that we have destroyed enough of the Wiggles gang's hideouts? They have even retreated from the area where our mansion is located. I think we can let them go this ti. At this rate, we will be destroying the entire rat population of the city if we continue our raids. I have heard so humans on TV say that destroying any one animal species in a particular area sotis causes disbalance in the biod... umm, you know nature." Whiskers, the cute orange cat expressed his worry as he and Ace continued to slowly walk through the sewer.
"Are you sure we are going the right way? We have been wandering through this dark basent for the last ten minutes. I just hope that Bruce is okay" Nyssa exclaid her worry and impatience as she ran in a rush alongside Talia and the hovering drone that was being piloted by Cortana.
"Okay? He is fighting our father. I just hope he is still alive. Maybe we will be able to defeat Ra's if the three of us fight him together. Cortana can even give us artillery support." Talia muttered her plans as she brainstord the best way to get rid of her father without letting herself or her sister get badly hurt.
Right now, they had almost gotten complete control of the entire Nanda Parbat branch of the League of Assassins. The assassins who had pledged their loyalty to them and had fought for them in the battle were now along with the drones overseeing the rest of the takeover.
"Bruce should be in this direction. The last I knew he was fighting Ra's Al Ghul but for so reason, his communicator got completely destroyed, so I have no way of knowing his current exact status." Cortana said in what sounded like an emotionless voice to the two sisters.
But the truth could not be further from that because right now, she was almost frying her servers with worry. She knew about Bruce duking it out with Ra's Al Ghul in the Lazarus pit. But soti during the fight, his bracelet had gotten destroyed by the acidic water of the pit along with his clothes and everything he had on him. So she had no way of knowing if Bruce was truly all right. All she could do was just hope for the best while preparing for the worst and that was exactly what she was doing by having her drones prepare a special dical camp for Bruce outside.
Suddenly Talia who was keeping a watch on the Lazarus Pits in the basent yelled in surprise.
"Wait, I see sothing. That big Lazarus PIt in front of us, it is shining."
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(A/N: By the way, a Rat king (the one defined in modern science, not the old superstitions and folklore) is a rat that is captured by humans and forced to repeatedly fight and eat other rats for survival through starvation. The Rat King is basically a cannibal rat that is prepared by humans and then released in the wild to hunt and eat other rats. But of course, Gotham being Gotham, this Rat King was a little bit of a freak who established his own gang.)
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