Please note that this story will be a crossover between Batman, (Nolan-verse) and Michael Grant's Gone series.
The story is compatible with the first five novels in the series and some time after the Joker.
I am not good enough to write for the Joker.
If you have not read the Gone series, this story may be confusing to you, but I will try to explain things as I go.
I know that this idea is weird and confusing and probably downright WRONG, but I hope it works and is enjoyable to some people.
I know I'm writing it only for fun.
This could either be pretty cool or a complete fail. I suppose that's the bargain one must take in life, though.
I do not own the amazingness that is Batman and the awesomeness that is Gone.
It had been two years since the Joker had taken Gotham by storm.
Two long, long years.
The psychopath had killed many in brutal ways, driven Harvey Dent's face mercilessly into the fires of hell, (literally), and single handedly turned every living soul in Gotham against Batman.
The spotlight that once proudly displayed a huge steel bat now lay dormant, collecting dust.
Not long after the Joker's suspicious death in Arkham Asylum, a horrifying and mind-numbing phenomenon hit the world head on.
No one understood the massive grey barrier that hid over ten miles of land, and even more disturbing, children, from the prying eyes of the world.
Scientists couldn't give anyone a lick of good news, and after the disgusting emergence of a couple of children, everyone naturally assumed that all inside the Anomaly was dead.
Nonetheless, they hoped and prayed that the "fishbowl" would disappear, bringing their beloved children home.
That was until the barrier suddenly became opaque and all inside was revealed.
Every disturbing detail.
Kids with insane, impossible powers.
Kids who killed without a second thought.
A malevolent alien, trying to take everything for itself.
Now every human on the outside world hoped and prayed that the barrier would never come down.
As Gotham was the biggest and closest major city to the Anomaly, it quickly became a massive security force, ready for every scenario possible.
Should anything change, Gotham would be the first to know.
It was 2010.
Life was as quiet as it had ever been.
Peace never lasts.
Gordon's POV
Bile rose in my throat when I heard the shout.
"The Anomaly is down, I repeat, the Anomaly is down!"
Red lights were flashing, alarms buzzing.
"When did it disappear?" I joined the gradually growing crowd that had gathered around the single huge monitor proudly displaying an image of the barrier.
"It isn't gone, it's…down…I don't know how to accurately describe it…" George, the scientist on duty, was grasping at straws as he tried to find a way to tell us little folk what was happening.
"It's like there are parts of it that are weak. Much weaker than the rest of it. There's one place in particular. Its force is so weak that I'm almost sure someone could walk through it."
There was a dead silence in a room filled with screaming sirens.
"Has there been any movement anywhere around the barrier?" I asked.
Please say no, please say no.
"…Maybe…"
"What does that mean, 'maybe'?"
"There was movement about fifteen seconds ago, but it was so tiny that it could have been an animal."
"An animal from in there is going to be a threat." I said, shuddering as I remembered the frighteningly massive coyotes that had one day walked up to the see-through barrier. "Dispatch a squad of men to start searching for anything abnormal around the barrier! George, if anyone calls about anything, tell me immediately. You know my number."
I took off for the roof of the police station, hoping that the spotlight would shine as bright as it had once.
Batman's POV
The bat-light was flashing incessantly, as if someone was clicking the power button on and off.
…the hell…?
It had been years since I'd seen my symbol high in the dark clouds of Gotham, and I almost dropped the drug dealer I'd been…interrogating.
"You're a lucky man". Dropping the sobbing kid, I leapt off of the fire escape and sprinted to the Bat-pod.
While it was nice to see my symbol on display again, I knew that its presence meant something was very wrong. Gordon would not use it unless he absolutely had to.
I sped off into the night.
Gordon was frazzled to say the least. He was hunched over the power switch to the spotlight when I arrived, hand practically cramping as he turned it off and back on again with a speed that impressed even me.
I had to shake him to get him to speak coherently after he saw me and started pacing, mumbling like a lunatic.
"Gordon! What's. Going. On?"
"Something went wrong. With the Anomaly. It got…I don't know, weak or something in certain places and in one place it got so weak that apparently someone could pass through it and George saw movement!"
My heart leapt to my throat. Just what I didn't need.
"Gordon. I want you to calm down. Stay in the police station and I will go there to search and communicate back to you."
"But how will you-?"
I disappeared into the shadows and smirked as I caught Gordon's last sentence.
"Hasn't changed a bit".
Apparently the outside appearance of the barrier had not changed, because when I arrived I was pleased to see no reporters and very little tourists.
"Batman, are you there yet?"
It seemed that Gordon remembered how to work the little black cell phone I had given him a year and a half ago, when the barrier first appeared.
"Yes."
"Seen anything yet?"
"No."
"Okay, so the weakest point, the point where there was movement, is at-"
"It's where clifftop hotel was cut off, I know."
"Right…my men are on call in case anything goes wrong. Gordon out."
Switching on the night vision screen built into my mask, I started to scan the area.
The forest floor leading up to the abandoned hotel was empty, not even a squirrel willing to live near the barrier. I pushed ferns out of my way as dead leaves crunched underneath my feet.
A thud just ahead of me.
I looked up at the entrance to the hotel, but saw no movement. I continued forward, more cautious than ever as fear started to make itself known in my gut.
There was a tiny whistling sound and all of a sudden my eyes went dark. Cursing, I clawed the tiny broken screen out of my mask.
Oh yes. There was something strange out here.
A crunch to my left.
"Batman?"
I whipped around.
"Stand by".
"What is it? What's going-"
"Shut up!"
I inched forward, hand on my Taser.
"Who's there?"
A crunch to my right.
"I'm not going to hurt you…"
I turned my Taser up.
"Where are you!"
A sudden whooshing sound and then something collided with my chest.
Fear escaped in a shout that sounded more like a roar and I threw the thing from me with as much force as I could muster.
"Batman! What is going on?"
A high-pitched cry of pain.
Oh no…
I switched on the flashlight hidden in the wrists of my armor and frantically brushed away thorny bushes and green plants turned black in the darkness.
An abnormal shape suddenly appeared, stumbling towards me. I flashed the light towards it.
And stopped breathing.
"Batman! BATMAN!"
The figure stood before me, dazed from the light and the fact that I had hurled it into the barrier.
I dove forward as it collapsed.
"ANSWER me, Batman!"
"Gordon."
"Yes! Finally! Are you all right? What did you find?"
I looked down at the unconscious white haired girl in my arms, the wings on her back brushing the dirty forest floor.
"Nothing. There's nothing here."
Author's note: I know Gordon destroyed the bat-light or whatever it's called in The Dark Knight, but lets just say that didn't happen. I also don't know which state Gotham is in, but for the purposes of this story, it will be in California.
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