The Goal

On the roof of the Gotham City's Police Department HQ, there was a figure silently smoking a cigarette as she exhaled the smoke with a sigh. He was the Rookie Detective of the GPD, Jim Gordon.

"You shouldn't smoke that much" came a gruff heavy voice from his back prompting Jim to alert and looking back with vigilance only to see a costumed figure to emerge from the dark.

"Jesus, You f*cking scared me" he said as he lighted another light for having dropped the previous one in panic. Taking a whiff and exhaling it he continued.

"So what is the new vigilante doing here. You know we aren't exactly close and I can very well get a promotion and a big bonus if I arrest you." he said with a serious look signifying there being some strain in their relationship.

"Anyways I heard you got a new side-kick, yeah was it Robin" he said only to receive a sentence.

"I want an update on the Falcone Bertinelli turf war." said the figure famous as the Batman.

"Huh, you're a criminal and you're expecting me to cooperate with you." said Gordon in annoyance.

"Hmm" was all he got as he looked back at the figure who's stirring fear in the heart of these criminals and somehow reducing the crime rate but he still had a mixed feeling about him. On one part he was helping Gotham and on the other he was a criminal or rather a vigilante which was illegal. Finally after thinking for some time he relented to the question and answered.

"The Bertenelli's somehow are getting info on all the hideouts of the Falcone family and the same for the Falcones as well. Now this arises two conjectures. One they both have spies in each other's family or two" before Gordon could finish Batman intervened.

"There's a third party."

Impressed with his deduction Gordon turned around lighting his cig as he said. "So we have to possibly look into who is profiting the most out of this and I think you..." as he turned around to continue further he was left dumbfounded of the figure disappearing as he continued. "... I hate it when he does that but how?"

***

On top of a building three blocks away there is a figure standing listening to the ongoing conversation between the Rookie and the vigilante, Marcus Dwight Astrea.

"They're really the best detective duo in this world but unfortunately they met with me and it's not like I'm going full villain on them to have a plot armor on me. I doubt I have such thing in this verse." he said in whisper as a small grin appeared on his face.

"Time to bring more families to this mess." He said as he disappeared from the roof in clear sight.

***

In the next month the situation of the Gotham barreled from bad to worse and further as slowly other factions of the underworld got themselves pulled into the gang war irrespective if they wanted or not either by coincidence or through Marcus's mechanisms. This left most of the Gotham underground forces weak and at constant threat to annihilation from the government but having their people in and around various parts of governments served as a leeway for them to escape.

But this leeway didn't stand long when the news of the Mayor of Gotham being assassinated came out which was done by the Boogeyman in secret. This caused mass public de-rest and protests leading the central to immediately give orders on arrest of all involved and encounter if any retaliation is observed.

Since then for the next month the Gotham was in a strange sense of peace with decrease in rate of organized crime and the rise of a new Corporation, The Astrea Corporation who had a $250 Million deal in it's new weapons including IMR and Stinger M7 for the marines and KF5 for the special forces marking the rise of another giant from the city of Gotham which further came into news with the establishment of it's Bio-tech and Security division.

Though this led to the suspicion of a certain bat costumed man into thinking it's involvement in the recent chaos in the Gotham underworld but lacking in any conclusive evidence or anything to remotely relate to the Chairman or CEO who was a complete mystery to the public.

Though unknown to anyone Marcus had his men secretly invade the third world country's administration that were on the verge or ongoing war and take key positions and establish the foundation for his plan in the next two years. Taking key government positions, infiltrating the local underworld and marking it's roots under the Boogeyman, taking all the orphanages under him and secretly influencing them to become loyal to the Astrea all for the end goal of making it the corporation with the largest standing private armed forces in the world.

His plan was simple to create many independent yet under his control security companies all over the world and recruit as many people as possible and then join them all singly under the hands of the Astrea corporation.

***

Meanwhile,

A certain green skinned red headed woman came out of hiding from a jungle island after the recent attacks by the security forces and came to know about the happenings of the world, it was then when she came upon the name of the Chairman and CEO of the Astrea Corporation.

"Marcus is it really you, love." she thought with a single tear. "I want to come to you and embrace you but I have become a monster. Will you even look at me." she wondered as she cried silently.

***

Astrea Corporation HQ, Gotham

On top of the 70 storey HQ in the penthouse a man stared at the reports of the sighting of a green skinned red head beauty causing devastation of an entire island but what he focused is on the woman.

"I finally found you Pammy." he said as the woman sleeping naked behind him woke up and embraced him from behind as she said.

"Is that Pamela." she said with some jealousy and expectation.

"Yes" the man replied.

"Hmm, my sister's beautiful."

"Yeah she sure is."

"What? Am I not beautiful." the woman pouted as she playfully hit him.

"Hahah, You know you both are completely different types of beauty and you both drive me crazy and that is why I'm so possessive of my women." he said as leapt on the woman to the bed on top on kissed her dominantly.

"Then show me your possessiveness handsome purr~" the woman said seductively with a purr at the end near his ear eliciting a growl from the man followed by seductive moans and screams to sound all around the room for the next few hours.

***

[Breaking News: There are reports coming of some terrorists attacking the Chrysler Building in retaliation of the sanctions imposed by the USA on the Iraq in lieu of the Iraqi-Kuwait war which has led them plunged into an immediate socio-economic crisis due to presence of corrupt elements.

The local NYPD officers has stated that there are a minimum of 20 armed individuals and possibly explosives enough to ground the building and any attempts at break-in has caused the loss of no more than 3 individuals with around a minimum100-200 estimated hostages.]

All around the major news channels were news of a terrorist attack on the American soil and them being unable to take positive steps to curb the problem majorly for the lack of the technology prowess as in the later coming decade.

But there were two individuals who had technology a couple decades in the future. First Batman who would rather have the technological advantage to himself and second The Astrea Corporation who saw it as a chance to grow it's influence and getting a deal of a lifetime.

'Complete capture of the American Defense Equipment market.'

Excessive? Yes but the urge of taking measures and the show of the far higher technological prowess was enough to guarantee them the ticket and now a convoy of the Astrea Security has arrived in multiple Pitbull.

What better time to show the world and those in power what advantage they held plus free advertisement for new defense equipment budgets.

"Alright men, ATTENTION!" shouted Marcus standing at the front of his team of 6 squads armed with ARX-160, Bulldog, KF5, frags, Drones etc fully locked and loaded as to personally see the success of the first official assignment of the Astrea Corp.

"This is our first official mission sanctioned by the NY Administration and this is our chance to show the world our might and how oppressive we can be when it comes to terrorism or anything that threatens the Earth as a hole and this is just the start. So MEN get yourselves READY and move according to the plan already discussed." he said with his men screaming "HOO-AHH" drawing the attention and wariness of individuals close-by and all those that heard the scream thinking of the wild hungry hunting dogs left without a leash.

***

The plan was simple, three squads each would enter the building from the top and the bottom and utilize the insect drones to transmit the location and status of the enemy through the pad carried on each individuals and in the process corner them.

Out of the 6 squads 2 would be solely responsible for the rescue and extraction of the hosts while the other's engaged in combat while Marcus would be the Field Commander from the ground zero keeping an eye on the whole situation.

The first three squads entered the roof with the help of a silent VTOL while the other three went through an underground service tunnel by cutting a hole in the washroom. The ground team then proceeded to their first objective, the control room on the second floor after which each team proceeded to clear the tower floor by floor.

The whole operation took almost 5 hours resulting in successful extraction of all hostages after removing the bombs on a ew of them by getting all sorts of information from the tab through the companies personal servers.

This skirmish was declared success with the death of 17 terrorists and capture of three alive out of which the senior most member was secretly extracted to the HQ for information.

After this incident Astrea Corp had successfully put a mark on the world as the most tech advanced forces available for hire and with that increased it's reputation which further escalated with the launch of experimental bionic arms by it's bio-tech department and the establishment of it's Official HQ in Gotham obviously it being the home turf for Marcus and special economic reforms sanctioned for all companies in the city which were quite frankly generous.

And so started the construction with the acquiring of about 50,000 acres of land with enough to expand in the future and constructing of one of the art buildings over a period of 5 years with completing the Administrative building within a year.

Now that the things had started to take a turn in the right direction he handed the responsibility of the overseer of his projects to Selina as despite being a thief she is very smart though he handed her a satellite phone for emergency contact while he left the States towards Africa to get his hands on possibly the best finds on earth.

Nth metal and Grimoires.

The possibility of gaining immortality and reincarnation through contact with the metal was in itself a huge boon leaving it's other properties to the side while Grimoires, they could be a huge power up for him or possibly even Selina who knows and for his family's safety he ready to risk it all.

[Volume I: Year One(End)]

[With this it is the end of the first volume, hence the long chapter and in the next it would mainly focus on the MC increasing his power and the influence of his company and also the introduction of another or two members of the harem.

AND

POLL TIME!!

So I have been thinking about writing side chapters on romance between the mc and Selina, basically expand and give more in depth development of romance hence there will be lack of action and there will be fluff or cringe stuff. So give your opinion below:

>>Side Story: Romance.

>>Directly next volume.

Either way it'll take time for me to write and stock some chaps. Hope you all give some positive reviews and power stones.

Will Update Soon.]