Heretic Saga

### Performers

League of Shadows:Ra's al Ghul, Heretic, Deathstroke, Talia al Ghul, Various agents of the League

Batfamily:Batman, Catwoman, Robin, Red Robin, Batgirl, Alfred Pennyworth, Black Bat

Ousiders:Red Hood, Huntress, Arsenal, Batwoman, Troia

Birds of Prey: Oracle, Huntress, Black Canary

Titans:Nightwing, Velocity, Troia, Tempest, Spider-Man, Arsenal

## History

A war that broke out between Bruce Wayne and Ra's al Ghul due to the many defeats against the Dark Knight, with Ra's plan to break Gotham during No Man's Land had failed he often stayed in the shadows often avoiding Batman's radar. He began putting his plan into motion by weakening the crime organizations in Gotham to have the Bat's full attention.

### Background

In 2014, Tim Drake had begun his undercover operation to bring down the League of Shadows from the inside, going under the moniker of Richard Haskins and began his various thefts as Red X. After gaining the trust of Ra's al Ghul, Tim learnt of the various operations and plans of the inner circle, however Damian al Ghul grew weary of this new recruit. Though by the time he discovered this Ra's al Ghul was arrested.

Deciding upon herself to led a breakout with the help of Slade Wilson and David Cain to break her father out, there Talia along with Malcolm Merlyn would lay the ground work for her father's plan having faked another bomb threat by the League. As a way to buy out her freedom along with Merlyn's she revealed the truth about Bruce's son, Damian.

Deciding to lay low along with the chaos of the Manhunter attacks, Talia along with those who had escaped laid low as she worked under The Light along with Lex Luthor to form a plan to ensure her father's escape, during this time Hush had shot Bruce in the back during his rescue attempt to save Selina Kyle as she had gown missing. Talia was the one who founded his body and kept him under the radar which caused the hero community to rise in worry.

Upon Dick's discovery of this he and Bluebird had taken Elliot and interrogated him to discover the whereabouts of Bruce. Though Talia would arrive with the information of Bruce currently being in her care as she would return him once he was fully healed. However Thomas would need to pose as Bruce for a couple more months until Bruce was fully healed, with Dick needing an obfuscation charm to begin his undercover mission in ARGUS.

### War has Begun

Upon Dick's return to Gotham, Ra's was able to hid his escape and began the final steps of his plan with him beginning his assault by leading an attack at Mt. Justice, there he had also began the cloning of Damian Wayne after deciding that he wouldn't return to the League of Shadows.

The following month this new villain had broken into a spare cache containing a unused batsuit after fashioning it for his own purposes he had tracked Red Hood and Nightwing where he was able to easily hold his own against the two former Robins, along with hacking into our servers was able to track all the information the heroes in Gotham and Bludhaven. Having given a beat down to both Vic Sage and Renee Montoya they only thing that she remembered was his name, Heretic.

Not long after Heretic seemed to be able to nearly burn down the hero community, having beaten a majority of the Titans, breach into Oracle's Clocktower along with the Batcave, put Batwoman out of commission for nearly three weeks, blew Luke Fox's cover in the Son's of Batman, beat and impale Robin, and fought Batman to a standstill before poisoning him and leaving him for dead due to Joker's toxin. Though after the defeat of Ra's and his agents he went underground and was untrackable for the better part of a year.

### Aftermath

With all this said and done, we figured that what Heretic needed was something to remove the League's brainwashing much like Damian, this proved to be wrong however as Heretic sought to prove himself though not to Ra's but rather to the Light instead. There he sought after Ra's title as the Demon Head, so in 2017 he went through with this plan after the OMAC Crisis. Deciding to rebuild the pieces of the League that were scattered due to them not fully reforming.

This failed however due to Outsiders discovering this plan of Heretic and after defeating him had his suit removed though a side affect of removing it was the matter of Heretic constantly being exposed to chemicals that were easily addictive causing him to go through a hard relapse and recovery because of this. Not long after he was selected by an unknown force that had taken him away for all reports we haven't found him since.

## Trivia

* I took the liberties of using Earth 82's fandom of Bruce Wayne's and Ra's al Ghul's war along with various aspects of Phil Cho's Earth-27 to form my own narrative, in which I switched a couple of things with Heretic actually being Damian's clone much like the comics along with my own added elements such as there not being a Suit of Sorrows but actually the various chemicals having an addictive property instead.