This is a retelling of the Jokers Origin, and how he becomes the Red Hood. This Joker is an Original version that I made up. The Batman could be best described as the Christen Bale Version, (Whose Awesome).

I hope that you enjoy, thank you.

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January 14th, 2011...

It was January, the holidays had ended, debt piled up and it marked the four year anniversary since the Batman's arrival in Gotham. And Salvatore Maroni wasn't happy about it.

The Italian mob boss was having a meeting with his advisers about what to do with his pest problem. They weren't very helpful, and it annoyed him to no end. Maroni held up his hand when one of his men was in the middle of a sentence. "Stop. Just stop. Why is it that not a single one of you can give me a way, a good way, to get rid of the Batman."

Maroni's personal bodyguard, Joseph Crass spoke for the first time since the meeting started. "As you know, we sent Balsef to supervise our shipment last night. It didn't go well." Crass turned to face the man know as Balsef the Gauntlet, who sat near the door with his arm in a sling. "Did it Balsef?"

Balsef was an unnaturally skinny man, who wore an all black power suit that covered him from completely from head to toe. "The Bat..." Balsef said with his Argentine accent. "Is no man. He is a monster. He is one with the shadows and makes thing appear from nowhere. He beat and broke all of our men. Even me..." He waved at his broken arm.

Maroni stopped him. "Then tell us what happened then."

Balsef sighed, then begun to tell the story...

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January 13th, 3:41 A.M.

Balsef the Gauntlet was over seeing the Maroni's shipment of illegal drugs at the Gotham harbor. The hired help was unloading them from shipping containers into white vans. For a while all was quiet, that's when the first of the men disappeared.

A minute later a second one disappeared. Balsef had sent the men to search for them, and that's when he appeared. The Batman. The Batman dropped down in the middle of the group of thugs. Balsef watch as the Batman tore through his men like scissors through paper. Arm's and leg's were broken, organs were ruptured, and conciseness was taken out.

Balsef was the Batman's next target. The Batman ran to him, Balsef threw a punch, but the Batman blocked it with his elbow. The Batman punched him in his stomach, making him stagger backwards. Balsef recovered and tried to hit him with a spin kick, but the Batman dropped under his leg's arch. The Batman grabbed Balsef's arm, spun him around and put him in an armbar. And with a twist, the Batman broke his arm.

The last thing that Balsef remembered was The Batman grabbing him and slamming his head into the concrete ground, knocking out his conciseness.

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January 14th

"He is unnatural." Balsef said to Maroni. "Nothing in Gotham can stop him."

Maroni was quiet for a long time, then he said. "Nothing in Gotham can stop him?" Maroni questioned more the repeated. "Well then I guess that I'll have to get someone that's lives out of Gotham." Maroni took out his cell phone, dialed a number, put it on speaker and placed on his desk. "Then I guess that it takes a monster, to kill another monster."

Taken aback, Crass said. "You can't be serious?"

"I only have to call upon him when we are desperate." Maroni said as the phone rang. "The Batman has made us very desperate."

{Hello?} A calm male voice answered on the other line of the phone.

"Jack?" Maroni asked.

The mans voice changed to a more cynical tone. {What?} He snapped.

"It's Sal. We need you to come to Gotham immediately. I have a job for you."

For a long minute, Jack was quiet. Then he said. {I'll be there tomorrow.} Then the man hung up his phone.

Crass repeated himself. "You can't be serious Sal."

"As a heart attack. If we don't deal with the Batman now, then the family has no chance of survival." Maroni paused. "Jack is our last option."

"How do you know that Jack will be able to take on the Batman?" Asked Julius Zimmer, Maroni's banker and accountant.

"Jack is as unstoppable and unstable as his father was. If he can't bring the Batman down, then no one can."

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