WayneTech: A Fortress is IBM

Bruce Wayne inherits his father's company in Gotham City and also becomes the masked vigilante known as Batman, but a surprise visitor might add a modern twist to this American vignette.

It appears I will after all retire from short-story writing with another Batman (DC Comics) fan-fiction, so I hope everyone finds it a good read!

Thanks so much,



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Bruce Wayne inherited his father's lucrative company Wayne Industries after his father, Thomas Wayne, was murdered by a thief. Bruce was devastated and decided to travel to Nepal after graduating from Princeton University to train himself to become a master vigilante and seek vengeance against all those who made his hometown city, Gotham, a place of random crime and corruption. Bruce witnessed his father being killed as a youngster and then was raised by his family butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Alfred tried to persuade Bruce to just peacefully become the new head of his father's company Wayne Industries and give up his vengeful mission to become an extreme vigilante, but alas, Bruce Wayne had his own dreams...and nightmares.

When Bruce returned from Nepal, he was a chiseled and pensive man of forceful action, ready to fight crime and insanity in Gotham as the city's fantastic new masked vigilante knight of the night, Batman. Bruce's secret identity as 'Batman' facilitated him going under cover of darkness to tackle Gotham's new breed of masked crimelords, terrorists, and masked maniacs, all the while hiding his normal-life identity as Mr. Bruce Wayne, Princeton graduate and new CEO of Wayne Industries. While 'Batman' tackled Gotham City's vile maniacs such as Scarecrow, Joker, Poison Ivy, and the Red Hood Gang, 'Bruce Wayne' managed his father's company and made creative and bold networks with business magazines, charity groups and major invention-driven think-tanks.

Batman was therefore the 'dark knight' of Gotham evil, while Bruce Wayne was the 'capitalism prince' of Gotham success. This was fine until one day a monkey-wrench was thrown into this otherwise anti-Orwellian equation. A man arrived in Gotham and went straight to Wayne Industries to seek a meeting with Bruce Wayne himself. This man wore a fake beard and mustache and sunglasses and hat and was camouflaged until he revealed himself to Bruce in Bruce's office. When the man removed his beard-and-mustache disguise, Bruce was shocked to discover the man was his identical twin. The man introduced himself as Edward Wayne, the estranged son of Bruce's father, Thomas!

Edward Wayne was separated from Bruce and their father Thomas in Switzerland when they were both babies, so Thomas could have another butler, Alfred Pennyworth's own brother Wilfred, secretly raise Edward to hide from Thomas' corporate enemies that he had two twin identical sons of whom either could become the heir to the throne of Wayne Industries. If Edward and Bruce were raised separately, there would be less of a chance that a corporate enemy of Thomas Wayne could seek to undermine the beneficial bestowment of the company to one or both sons. In fact, there were street rumors in Gotham that Thomas Wayne was murdered by a henchman of one of his corporate rivals while Bruce was a young boy to hinder the lineage of Wayne Industries leadership evolution.

Bruce was shocked to hear this revelation from his newly-discovered twin brother Edward Wayne. Bruce and Edward now decided to run their father's company, Wayne Industries, together, and the first thing they did together as co-CEOs, after Bruce introduced Edward to the press and presented him as a co-head of his father's lucrative company, is established a technology division of Wayne Industries called WayneTech. Bruce and Edward established a key computer and material development contract with the American computer company IBM. This move helped Wayne Industries soar way ahead of its rival companies, and meanwhile, Gotham now boasted two secret masked vigilantes in Bruce and Edward Wayne --- Batman and Shadow. The future looked smart for Gotham!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)