Red lipstick…
Glasses…
Hairpin…
Hood…
Gloves…
Bag of tricks…
Everything was ready. All these items Ruby needed for her mission. She loved how some things as simple as a hood and glasses could conceal her face enough to protect her identity, or how something as small as a hairpin could be used to pick the lock to the most secure places in the world.
She slicked back her short hair to keep it out of her face, laced up her comfortable black boots, and stepped out of the car parked in a dense forest… not far from Arkham Asylum.
Ruby had it all planned out. She simply walked up to the gates of the asylum, staying out of view of the guards and the security cameras. She took out of her bag something a regular person would call a smoke bomb, only hers was much more powerful. She dropped it, and a fog set in, so thick and so quickly that the guards didn't even have time to get out their flashlights before Ruby had climbed over the gate (and quite gracefully for a thirty-nine-year-old, I might add). And those stupid guards would just think it was an unusual change in weather.
Taking her time, she walked up the path to the front doors of the asylum. Time to get her acting on. She pounded on the doors and screamed, "Please, somebody help! Help! The monsters are chasing me! Oh God! They're horrible! Please help me!…" If she had a dime for every time she had used her acting skills to get what she wanted, she could buy all of Wayne Enterprise.
The guard at the door came dashing out to help the "deranged" woman. Careful to not let him see her face under her hood, she took a pinch of powder from her back and dashed it in the guard's face. His eyes turned cloudy, and his muscles relaxed. Ruby walked him over to his chair and went on her way.
She found her way to the nearest closet in an empty hallway and changed out of her all-black costume that helped her stay hidden in the night, and into her nurse's disguise. She even had her own swipe card and fake ID for the asylum. She put on a wig, glasses, and a nurse's mask.
"Scarecrow, Joker, here I come."