"A few months you say?" Dr. Krishna eyed me meticulously. He hadn't expected such news so soon. "But we just got you. Even with consistent truancy, you have surpassed most of the surgeons we have had, in just a few months."

"Forgive me if I am shocked by the fact that you want to take a leave." He continued.

"I am taking a personal break to pursue something else in Gotham." I pleaded. "Sorry to defend."

"Personal leave my a-. Forgive me" He paused to apologize. "Personal Leave My A$$! What do the hospitals in Gotham have that we don't?"

"E..rr. Nothing really. I'm not transferring as a Doctor." I said.

"Well, enlighten me then." He said with an expectant tone. "What's in Gotham? Family? Friends?"

"Neither." I replied. "My destiny is there though, and I would like to do something technological for a bit. To appease my other half, you know."

"What nonsense?!" Dr. Krishna nearly laughed at me. "You are a man of science. Why could you be saying such things? But you know what? Your destiny is here with us."

"I had an accident once," I started narrating, "and I lost my hands to that accident. While recently my ability to firmly grip the scalpel had returned to me, I fear that it's continuing to be no longer the case."

"I have to quit before I kill someone in the name of surgery." I added. "I can't continue putting lives at risk."

"Hahaha." He laughed, disappointedly. "You will surely do anything to get yourself out of this."

"What will it take to keep you?" He asked. "I can increase your salary if that's what you want."

"Money?" I said, now chuckling. "Oh please. I never did it for the money. The markets have been moving my way, and so has my investment in Wayne Enterprises."

"Who doesn't do it for the money?" He asked shocked. "Saving lives is a good habit, but making money is where the true reward lies."

"And if you leave this hospital, our loses will be immense. I can't let that happen. I must find a way to make you stay." Dr. Krishna shared his resolve.

"You do this for profits?" I asked, my thoughts lingering on what he had just said.

"Saving lives too..." He replied, sounding unsure.

"Hmmh... Then I guess I won't be leaving then." I said, with a resolve in mind.

"That's my man." The doctor celebrated. "I knew it was always for the money."

"You should ring the Chairman of the Board and the shareholders and call the to a meeting, for I will be buying this hospital." I said, standing up to leave.

"What?!" Dr. Krishan gasped in confusion.

"And tell them to get a new CEO in your place. I won't be needing you." I said, now a few meters from the door. "The deal will be sealed before I leave for Gotham City.

I walked out the door slamming it behind me.

I had gone in to offer my resignation politely, figuring that it was better to tie lose ends than earn a bad reputation for not doing so. But then I had come out with a better idea in mind.

I was rarely spending a lot of time in the hospital and only went in for high profile surgeries, barely taking notice of how the hospital was run.

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But I didn't appreciate that the head overseeing of the hospital's activities put money first before people. While the hospital seemed to be excelling in the art of saving lives, who knew what lurked in the shadows. And I desired to find out what and put a stop on it.

But beyond that reason, I had an ambition to own my own company, and a hospital was a good start considering my expertise in medicine. What could be possibly hard in running a hospital with branches spanning worldwide?

"Is true?" A voice caught up with me from behind, as I walked to the elevator.

"What?" I asked as I turned around to see Nurse Thompson rushing to catch up with me. She closed in, about a meter away and started to breathe heavily.

"Is it t..t..rue," she stammered while catching her breath, "that you are leaving the hospital?"

"I don't mean to intrude, but you should work on that cardio routine. You barely jogged towards me. That could cause some serious issues to your heart." I advised.

Nurse Thompson had grown to be fond of me in the short while I had been in this hospital. She would do all sorts of things to grab my attention: gift me cookies, or thank you cards after a successful surgery.

She even played the role of my full time assistant, scheduling, but mostly un-scheduling my surgeries. She even went as far as to stalk me to find out where I lived, only to lose me, mysteriously, in the streets of Greenpoint.

She was however relentless, and one time she even asked me out on a date, which I politely declined. While she was a fairly attractive woman, she just wasn't my type. But that didn't crash her heart, and she remained hopeful that she would get the man.

"Where are we going to next?" She asked, her breathing returning to normal.

"Excuse me?" I asked, a mixture of surprise and confusion clouding me.

"I mean, if you are transferring, then I'll be transferring with you. You are hopeless without your sidekick." She explained, confidently.

"Oh." I realized what she meant. "I am not transferring. I am simply taking a break. I will be back in no time."

"I could use one of those too..." She mumbled to herself. "Where are we going to? Hawaii? Florida? Kenya?"

I just stared back at her, wondering what to say.

"Come on boss." She said excitedly. "Let's take a trip as co-workers to somewhere we both enjoy."

"What do you think about Gotham?" I asked her, hoping to crash her spirit.

"Ooooooo..." she started, "you like 'em dark and broody. I'll make sure to add that to my notes."

"I don't like Gotham because of the obvious, but if it's your choice, then I'm okay with it. You will protect me, my red-cloaked knight." She added.

"Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not taking you, or anyone else with me." I said, seeing that my plan had catastrophically failed. "I'm going to get some me time."

"I thought you already have enough of those?" She said, referring to my consistent absenteeism. "But you won't even notice that I'm there. I'll be invisible the whole time."

"That's an interesting thing to see." I said. "You disappearing. How about we give it a try?"

"Wait, before you do that "vanishy thing" you do, disappearing for days or weeks." She stopped me before I could move my hands. But that's not what really stopped from doing my magic.

"Do you feel that?" I asked, my senses on high alert, detecting something lingering in the air. "That ominous feeling...what is it."

"Yes... It's love!" Nurse Thompson said, her eyes gleaming like those of a puppy, begging for a pat.

"Not the time Nurse Thompson." I said sternly. "You need to get to somewhere you can hide. Something dangerous is going on, and I don't know what it is."

"Yes your Supreme." She said, and I swear she might have even saluted me.

But that wasn't what was concerning me right now. Something was happening... something mystical...and it felt threatening.

The mystical presence lingered in the air, surrounding my whole body and everything around. A mixture of familiar sensations of magic and anti-magic hung everywhere. What was going on.

I opened a portal and jumped into the air, hinging beside the towering hospital building with the Cloak keeping me afloat.

My eyes scanned around to see if anything suspicious was going on.

"Eye of Agamotto, magnify my sight." I channeled the power of the relic to scan even further. The aura in the air felt contagious. An amalgamation of negative and positive energy floating around, even resisting the wind.

"OmniSight Aegis Giganto." I said, conjuring a huge mystical map in front of me. It was meant to show me any magical anomalies using markers that glowed in different colours.

Red markers showed places of strong magical presences while green markers showed places of relatively strong magical presences.

Normally, red markers were rare, and the map was usually saturated with green markers. But this time, it was different. The area representing New York City showed a multitude of ever-shifting red and green markers, all over the place.

The rest of the world remained as it normally was, but New York illuminated with a red and green aura.

Whatever it is that was happening wasn't natural. Something was happening in New York. Was it the work of Felix Faust, or another powerful sorcerer?

In any case, a sorcerer was involved, and it was a powerful sorcerer, one that I couldn't underestimate. I needed to be ready to confront them and find them.