Dark Mist: the Shadowed Mercenary Chapter One Escape From Arkham Asylum
Author's Note
Hey guys I'm back with yet another fanfic. I've had the idea for this story for a long time now and I've been trying to forget it, so that I could work on my other stories, but the ideas just won't go away. Now I've forced myself to write this so that I can go on with my other stories without something constantly nagging in the back of my mind.
This is my first Batman and Teen Titans crossover fanfic so please no flames. This will either be a Beast Boy x Harley Quinn fanfic or a Beast Boy x Harem fanfic I don't know you decide.
Summary: This is all my fault. My interference with his assassination of Harvey Dent motivated him to become one of the best mercenaries out there. I'm the reason Dark Mist is known as 'the Shadowed Mercenary, Dark Mist the Shadowed Mercenary (Beast Boy) Was born and raised in Gotham by Deathstroke the Terminator. Dark Mist escapes from Arkham Asylum, witch gets him the attention of 'the Dark Knight' himself for only one reason. Batman wants to train the escaped mercenary.
Disclaimer: I do not own Batman or the Teen Titans as they are owned by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animations
Dark Mist: the Shadowed Mercenary Chapter One Escape From Arkham Asylum.
Arkham Asylum
Gotham City New York
Saturday
26th of November 2015
Eleven Thirty At Morning
In Gotham, the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, more commonly known as Arkham Asylum or simply Arkham, was a prison and psychiatric hospital for men and women who have either turned to a life of crime, gone insane and committed felonies or both. One of these criminals was a green boy, roughly about sixteen or seventeen years of age. This boy's name was Garfield Mark Logan, also known as Dark Mist, or as most people know him 'the Shadowed Mercenary' due to his ability to assassinate a target without so much as being seen.
Sitting in the corner of his cell 'the Shadowed Mercenary' was slowly putting together, what he saw as a perfectly laid out escape plan, or at least that's what his mentor and adoptive father Deathstroke the Terminator had always taught him.
Flashback Begins
Gotham City Central Park
Gotham City New York
Monday
26th of November 2003
Nine Thirty Five Past Midnight
Deathstroke the Terminator had found 'the Shadowed Mercenary' when he was at a very young age of only four years old in the criminally corrupt city of Gotham, Dark Mist being lonely and abandoned at the time, felt afraid when he saw the figure of Slade Wilson coming out of the shadows and approaching him.
Standing up, 'the Shadowed Mercenary got into as good a fighting stance as a four year old boy could, his mind completely set on fighting and possibly winning or fighting and definitely dying at the hands of Deathstroke the Terminator. But that outcome never came.
Deathstroke chuckled at the sight of the four year old boy standing in a sloppy fighting stance before him "Calm down, my boy. I am not here to hurt you" He said in his usual calm and collected voice. Garfield huffed "Whhy should I trusth you? I know whho you are anwd I know whath you do" He said. Slade could clearly hear his speech and realized that the boy hasn't learned how to properly speak, not that it mattered to him. If Slade had things his way, this boy would be able to speak fluently "Because right now I am the only one you can trust, Garfield".
Garfield sighed, he knew what Slade was saying was true. His parents were killed a few hours ago. And right now he had no one he could say he trusted. By what Garfield had heard about the individual standing less than a few feet from him, he was one of the best mercenaries in the world. Garfield being a young boy always found things like, assassins and mercenaries to be cool. He often tried to act like an assassin after watching a movie or cartoon. Now seeing one of the worlds greatest mercenaries in front of him made him cautious and afraid, but he knew that if Slade wanted to kill him, he would have been dead the second his feet touched the ground "Owkay, what do you?".
Slade smiled at the little boy's speech problems. It reminded him so much of how his son Grant spoke when he was a four year old boy, but he quickly got rid of the smile, once more looking like his professional self "I, myself have been a father. I know what the face of a sad boy looks like, but I need you".
He said, walking over to the young boy until he was standing right in front of him "I need you to be my friend, I need you to trust me, I need your assistance, I need you as my apprentice and in return I will adopt you as my own, I will care for you and I will protect you from harm, unless you want to be taken into an orphanage and be taken care of by an organization called 'The Bruce Wayne Welfare Organization' I hear they take good care of orphan children in the city of Gotham, but you know what Gotham is like when you are taken care of by nurses. They never give you their full attention, not like I can" He said, kneeling down to Garfield's level.
Garfield looked up at Slade, from a certain angle Slade had a pretty good fatherly atmosphere around him. Garfield brushed Slade's newly placed hand off his shoulder and walked past him not even bothering to make eye contact (No pun intended) "Awre you gowing to stay on your knees? Becwause according to whispers gowing around Gotham, the infwamous Slade Wilson never goes on his knees" Slade gave an unseen smirk of pride "You know of me, how interesting" Garfield gave a boyish giggle "I whatch a lot of news" And with that Slade got to his feet and led the future 'Shadowed Mercenary' to his new home.
Flashback Ends
With the Shadowed Mercenary's mental flashback coming to 'its' end, he took one glance down at his plan, written on toilet paper since the prisoners were never allowed to have actual paper in fear of them using it to escape somehow, he sighed. Now this was where his patients was tested. In order for his plan's first phase to go into working, he would have to wait for a specific time, a time when he was free to move around much more then his cell would let him, a time when the guards would be too busy guarding the gates, he needed to wait for yard time at exactly twelve past midnight witch if his calculations were correct, was in precisely three minutes.
Three minutes later a horde of guards walked up to the prison cells and unlocked them, then led the prisoners outside for yard time. Dark Mist's face displayed a wickedly devious grin as he walked out of his cell and followed the prison guard to the yard, where the first phase of his well constructed plan would be set into motion. Allying himself with Harley Quinn.
Wayne Family Manor
Gotham City New York
Saturday
26th of November 2015
Eleven Fifty Seven At Morning
Bruce Wayne otherwise known as the Batman, sat on his couch in his mansion, watching a news bulletin about 'the Shadowed Mercenary' himself on his giant flat screen television.
"Breaking news in Gotham City, earlier this morning the well known mercenary Dark Mist 'the Shadowed Mercenary' was arrested during a battle against Batman and his two sidekicks Batgirl and Robin.
'The Shadowed Mercenary' was taken to the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, accompanied by close to one hundred armed police officers, where he remains in solitary confinement. We bring you more of this story as it develops. From Channel 13 news, I'm Monique Write saying, stay safe citizens of Gotham" And with that the flat screen television automatically switched off leaving Bruce Wayne to his thoughts.
'I still can't believe I was almost beaten by a sixteen year old mercenary. I know he was trained and raised by Deathstroke the Terminator, but power like his shouldn't be in the position of a teenager' He got up from his couch. And walked over to a wooden panel wall witch he placed his hand on making the wall slide up, exposing the secret entrance to the Bat cave.
Entering the Bat cave, Batman always being one for quick movements hurried over to the Bat Computer to do some research on 'the Shadowed Mercenary'.
'The assassin known as Dark Mist is a well known mercenary and hitman who resides in the city of Gotham.
Dark Mist, recognizable to most people by his alias 'the Shadowed Mercenary was born in Gotham into a severely tough life, losing both his parents at the age of four in an accidental fire that started and burnt the house down.
Dark Mists miraculous escape from the burning house fire wasn't the pinnacle of his life, as later on he would be adopted by Deathstroke the Terminator.
Following his adoption Dark Mist was taken to one of Deathstroke's secret bases of operations, completely hidden from the people and life in the Gotham streets.
Taking his first mercenary contract from a wealthy business owner at the tender age of thirteen, 'the Shadowed Mercenary' was overeager to start the 'game' and kill his target, the ex District Attorney Harvey Dent.
After failing his assassination attempt due to an intervention by the Batman, Dark Mist returned to Deathstroke's secret base with anger and self-disappointment in his heart. These feelings would later be used by the Shadowed Mercenary as motivation to accomplish his future tasks'.
Batman stopped reading for a moment, then looked at the last paragraph to make sure that he read it right 'After failing his assassination attempt due to an intervention by the Batman, Dark Mist returned to Deathstroke's secret base with anger and self-disappointment in his heart. These feelings would later be used by the Shadowed Mercenary as motivation to accomplish his future tasks. It was me. This is all my fault. My interference with his assassination of Harvey Dent motivated him to become one of the best mercenaries out there. I'm the reason Dark Mist is known as 'the Shadowed Mercenary, it is because of me that Dark Mist is inside Arkham Asylum' He thought as the events of that night came into his mind's eye.
Flashback Begins
An Abandoned Apartment
Gotham City New York
Tuesday
19th of May 2012
Eight Thirty Five At Morning.
The abandoned apartments in Gotham city proved itself as an excellent hideout for the half good half evil Harvey Dent also known as the coin flipping villain Two Face, who had decided with the help of his coin to relocate his base of operations to a more private and unexpected location as not to gain any attention from the Bat Clan while he was busy planning for his future attacks on the city of Gotham, but the Bat Clan wasn't the only reason why he chose to hide and do his planning there.
Two Face had recently had a small negotiating problem with a very important businessman, the owner of the Gotham City Mining Company, a company witch thanks to Gotham's rich soil makes a minimum of 12 000 Dollars a month adding up to a grand total of 144 000 Dollars a year. 2028.
This put Two Face on edge, he knew that businessmen were very wealthy and hated to lose a very important business deal, they hated it enough to hire one of the world's top assassin to assassinate the business partner that he had a disagreement with. He didn't even realize how right he was.
Entering the library room that had a fireplace, he noticed something that seemed odd to him. The glasses that were set on the oak wood table seemed to have what looked like water and a yellowish brown liquid, presumably from an alcoholic drink and melted ice cubes.
Looking over to the fireplace he was a computer type chair with its backside turned to him. In a state of panic he grabbed the bottle of whiskey and gripped it tight, ready to strike when "I wouldn't do that if I were you Two Face or should I say Harvey Dent" Said the intruder, by the sound of his voice Two Face could tell that the person he intended to strike with a bottle was at a very young age.
Setting the bottle of whiskey down, Two Face quickly moved to stand in a dark corner being cautious as he did not know what this boy, who entered his private hideout without being detected was capable of "I see you are careful around me, you fear me simply because I am here".
Two Face straightened his posture as not to give the young boy the impression that he was scared "I don't know who you are boy, but I can assure you. In order to be certain of it that the condition of your health remains as it is, it would be best for you to leave now" He said, his voice heavily shaky.
Dark Mist laughed at Two Face's fear "Oh, pardon me. Where are my manners? My name is Dark Mist. Learn it well, for it will be the last name you will ever hear" Dark Mist announced as he lunged forward towards Two Face, sword held firmly in both of his hands.
However, before Dark Mist could land a hit on Two Face, a Bat-A-Rang flew towards him. Using quick reflexes and abnormally quick thinking, Dark Mist block the airborne Bat-A-Rang and landed only a few feet away from Two Face.
Dark Mist was in a great state of shock, Batman had just shown up and prevented him from killing one of his villains. Hes eyes were wider than the moon, his breath caught in his throat, his heart stopped dead in his chest and his blood ran as cold as ice. How did 'the Dark Knight' himself find them? Dark Mist tried to think of the answers himself by re tracing his steps of how he got here. He didn't see or sense anything, there were no people following him and there definitely wasn't the Bat Signal in the sky so how did Batman know where they were?.
Dark Mist straightened his posture and kept his twin stretched out in front of him, a lopsided grin exposed one of his fangs that hung out. Deathstroke had always told him stories about the masked vigilante who the people of Gotham call the Batman, 'the Dark Knight, 'the Caped Crusader or 'the Big Black Bat'. According to Deathstroke, Batman was quite calm and as patient as death. Now Dark Mist felt it was his turn to see if what his adoptive father had told him was indeed true, or just another over exaggeration on the part of a frustrated at the time Terminator "Wow, I'm impressed. You showed up here without the Bat Signal having to shine. Why, if I didn't know any better I'd say you are a stalker" Dark Mist chuckled to himself 'Let's see how 'the Big Black Bat reacts to that ha, I'm a poet and I didn't even know it'.
Batman ignored the future Shadowed Mercenaries words and charged at him, looking for a fast take down to end this quickly and arrest Two Face, but it didn't happen that way. Dark Mist Jumped over Batman's head, landing behind the Dark Knight then swung his twin katannas at the Bat's head.
Rolling out of the way to his left in order to avoid the attack, Batman jumped up and swung his fist at Dark Mist, causing the Shadowed Mercenary to do the same as Batman did a few seconds ago and roll out of the way "I'm doing you a favor Bats, let me kill Two Face, then you will never have to deal with him again".
Batman charged at Dark Mist again, this time trying to coax Dark Mist into making a mistake "You can't fix one problem with another problem in the event of that should I let it happen, then I would just be creating a bigger problem" He said as he sent a spinning roundhouse kick to the Shadowed Mercenary.
Dark Mist barely dodged the Big Black Bat's attack and decided to send the Dark Knight a roundhouse kick of his own, this time it connected hitting the Batman square on the jaw sending him backing up into a wall "I must say, you are a whole lot tougher than Deathstroke said you would be, I give you credit, you have earned your name and position within the superhero community, but unfortunately I do have a contract I need to do and a target I need to get to" Dark Mist said, but before he could leave Batman through a smoke bomb at his feet causing the room to fill up with a dark smoke and temporarily blinding the Shadowed Mercenary. When the smoke cleared Dark Mist was frustrated to find that both Batman and Two Face were gone.
Flashback Ends
Arkham Asylum
Gotham City New York
Saturday
26th of November 2015
Twelve At Morning.
Dark Mist sat at a bench in Arkham Asylum's prison yard, his eyes scanning the entire yard while still keeping a close eye on the prison guards surrounding the fences and standing with high velocity rifles at the gates.
Getting up from the bench, the Shadowed Mercenary decided to do a physical search seeing as it is that his current method of searching for Harley Quinn wasn't paying off for him at all After approximately thirty minutes of careful and thorough searching, the Shadowed Mercenary found Harley Quinn talking to another inmate, her best friend Poison Ivy.
Ducking to hide behind a wall so that he could easily ease drop without being seen, Dark Mist was delighted to hear the two villainesses' entire conversation. "I don't know anymore, Ivy Mistah J is sweet at times, but lately I don't know. He has been paying more attention to escaping and then killing the Big Black Bat then he does to me and I just don't know what I'm going to do" Harley Quinn said as her voice cracked and she started to sob into her hands.
Poison ivy walked to stand next to her and brought her into a tight hug "Hey, don't worry about the Joker, okay? Tell you what, why don't we get you a new man? One that won't treat you like a piece of trash, huh? What do you say?" Poison Ivy asked her best friend, who's voice was too cracked to answer so instead she just nodded, then began to rapidly wipe the tears from her badly tear swollen face, her eyes red from the tears.
Dark Mist gave a wicked smile that only Deathstroke could match 'Well now, if Harley Quinn needs a new boyfriend then I'd better be sure that, that boyfriend is me, hahaha. This makes my plan so much easier to accomplish and so much, much more fun too, hahaha. Oh I could not have planned for this any better then it happened' He mentally, evilly chuckled as he watched Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy greet and go their separate ways.
Following Harley, Dark Mist saw her sitting on a bench and approached her "Pardon me if I am mistaken, but aren't you Harley Quinn?" He asked taking a seat next to her. Harley looked at him and her heart raced out of fear. This was him. This was, no is the Shadowed Mercenary Harley had heard many stories about this particular individual, many gruesome stories. This is the boy who was trained by Deathstroke the Terminator himself, this is the boy who had miraculously escaped a raging and destructive fire, this is the boy who had been hidden from the people of Gotham by Deathstroke the Terminator and above all this is the boy who took on and held his own against both Batman and Two Face at the same time. This is Dark Mist the Shadowed Mercenary.
Harley swallowed a lump in her throat "Yes, I am her who you think me to be" She said in a proper manner, it really is amazing who fear can change a persons way of speech. The Shadowed Mercenary sent a bone chilling smile at Harley Quinn "Good to know, we have much we need to discuss" He said witch made Harley Quinn almost drop to her knees and beg for her life, fortunately Harley was never good with begging and had a public image and reputation to uphold so she decided not to beg or show weakness "What do you mean, big boy there is nothin' we have ta discuss" She said, her inner conscience telling her that she was going to die in approximately less then three seconds, but that horrible fate never came to claim her.
Dark Mist raised an eyebrow and chuckled, amused by Harley Quinn's nervousness and fear and decided to use that to his full advantage "Oh, but we do my dear, sweet Harley Quinn. But, before I explain allow me to ask you a question. If you had the opportunity to escape from this mental institution in a little less than six hours without the joker, would you" He asked and he could see that the question had gotten to Harley Quinn.
Harley Quinn was stunned at the option and opportunity she had just been given. A chance to escape from Arkham Asylum, A chance to get away from the Joker and leave him here to rot. She liked the sound of that and with the Shadowed Mercenary on her side, there was no way that this plan could fail.
Looking at the shadowed Mercenary again, Harley Quinn gave a devious smile "A way to escape?" She asked to make sure she heard him correctly. Dark mist nodded "Yes" She kept questioning "And the Joker can't escape, we won't help him in any way?" She asked again, using the Joker instead of Mistah J. Dark Mist nodded again causing Harley Quinn to smile with absolute pleasure " Where do I sign up?" Dark Mist smiled in satisfaction, satisfied with her answer "Listen closely... partner".
After discussing the plan Dark Mist and Harley Quinn went their separate way, each leaving to prepare for their part. It had been decided that Dark Mist would attack and kill one of the prison guards while the guard escorted him back to his cell, while Harley Quinn would seduce the other guards in the area, thus dragging their full attention to her and not to the guard that was being attacked, creating a perfect phase one.
Arkham Asylum
Gotham City New York
Saturday
26th of November 2015
Twelve Thirty At Morning.
After yard time all the inmates of Arkham Asylum walked in a straight line to their cells, Dark Mist and Harley Quinn shared a look and Harley winked, then immediately went to work on her part of the plan, while the prison guard escorted Dark Mist back to his cell.
Turning his back on Dark Mist, the guard saw Harley Quinn trying and succeeding in seducing the other guards. Moving forward in an attempt to get their attention, the guard cleared his throat as if he was ready to say something, but Dark Mist got his attention before he could speak by choking him to death from behind with a piece of wire.
Quickly and quietly Dark Mist dragged the prison guard under his bed and made his escape into the further halls of Arkham Asylum, being extra careful by hiding in the Shadows as not to be seen by anyone else.
Harley Quinn watched her partner and potential future boyfriend as he killed the prison guard with the piece of discarded wire, then carefully dragged him under his bed and then quietly make his escape, into the shadows of the Arkham Asylum's halls completely blending in with them 'I can't believe it. Its just like in the stories, I never thought I would see it with my own eyes, I guess this means phase two is a go then. Good luck Shadowed Mercenary' She thought as she bolted through the main doors looking for a safe way to escape the building and the yard.
Back with Dark Mist, who had come out of the shadows and now stood in Arkham Asylum's main control room looking at the cameras that showed Harley Quinn making her escape from the building to witch he smile "Excellent, phase two is a go" He said to himself as he went to work on the control panel.
Phase two consisted of the following. After escaping his cell, Harley Quinn would easily make her escape too after she was done getting the attention of the other guards, while he made his way to the main control room via the shadows in the halls.
Once inside the control room Dark Mist would first make sure that his partner in crime had escaped before covering up the security cameras while erasing all of the footage on them.
After erasing the security camera's footage, Dark Mist pressed a button to let all of the other inmates out, thus creating a distraction long enough for him to meet up with Harley Quinn and for them to disappear. For what reason he kept working with Harley Quinn, he did not know. But one thing Dark Mist was certain of was that he definitely liked working with her. It gave him a feeling that he could not completely put into words, it gave him a sort of adrenaline rush.
He approached the window after that task was done and smashed it open with a baseball bat witch he found in the corner of the room laying on the floor and quickly made his escape by jumping out, then turning into an eagle he flew away, far enough to land on a rooftop a few feet away from Arkham and watch as the Asylum that held him for two nights erupted into chaos and finally... it exploded.
Dark Mist laughed as he watched as the flames consumed the asylum "Oops, I guess I probably should have warned Harley about the whole Arkham asylum exploding thing... oh well she's out safely and that's all that matters and besides, what she doesn't know won't kill her" He chuckle as he fled to meet up with his new companion.
What Dark Mist didn't stick around to see, was that a lot of the criminals in the asylum had somehow managed to survive the attack. One of this few was the criminally insane Jack Rupert also known as the Joker "So, you think you can take my girl and get away with it ay? Well we'll see about that Mr little puddle of black smoke. You think you are funny ay? Well ha I am the joker. I make the jokes, I am the funny guy. And what you did isn't funny at all. I will have my revenge haha yes, I will have my revenge and then you will have nothing hahahahaha sometimes it feels so good to be evil" The Joker said before running away.
Wayne Family Manor
Gotham City New York
Saturday
26th of November 2015
Three Thirty At Morning
Bruce Wayne now dressed in a black suit and tie instead of his Batman outfit stood in front of the giant mirror in his living room, fixing his tie and his hair, ready to go to a very important function in the Gotham City hall when he saw the TV automatically go on and the news anchor woman sitting at the desk in front of the camera.
The anchor woman said the following "Breaking news in Gotham City, approximately two hours ago the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, more commonly known as Arkham Asylum or simply Arkham, blew up, that's right ladies and gentlemen Arkham Asylum blew up due to a gas leak classifying it as a gas explosion. We now take you to Jenny Jane Warren who is currently on the scene" Bruce Wayne couldn't believe his ears. Arkham Asylum blew up, Arkham... Asylum... Blew... Up. Swallowing a lump in his throat he called his most trusted friend, butter and father figure Alfred, telling him to record the rest of the news bulletin while he was attending the function at the Gotham City hall, then he left, a thought occurred to him and in an instant he knew who cause the destruction of Arkham Asylum "Dark Mist the Shadowed Mercenary.
Important Author's Note
Well, there you have it, the first chapter of Dark Mist the Shadowed Mercenary I hope you enjoyed reading it. As always reviews are welcome and greatly appreciated.
There is something I forgot to put in the chapter, Dark Mist has green like Beast Boy, but he does not wear his usual black and purple suit, instead he wears Robin's Slade apprentice suit from the Teen Titans season one episode "Apprentice Part 2".
He also wears a cloak similar to the one Raven wears, except his is black.
Again you, the readers must decide what pairing will be in this story. I've also got another question for you, if you could be any member of the Bat Clan witch one would you be? Also if anyone could please help me write this story I'd really appreciate it.
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