Prologue

They ran out of the bank, money thrown over their shoulders, to the sound of police sirens and the cocking of guns. Ivy rolled her eyes.

" I told you two we wouldn't make it. . ."

Catwoman laughed.

"You never said that!"

"Guys! We kinda gotta a situation here!" Harley yelled over their argument while pulling out her giant mallet.

One of the cops pointed his gun at her.

"Drop the weapon! Now!"

"I don't think so!" She yelled back, and then ran up, and before he could shoot, she whacked him hard in the head.

More cops cocked their guns and aimed them at the "defenseless" harlequin.

Ivy and Catwoman both looked around. Then Ivy looked at her two friends.

"I think we should make a break for it!" She yelled.

Harley quickly dropped her mallet and then they all ran for it. And, as they didn't expect them to run, the cops didn't get a chance to shoot before the three criminals were out of sight.

The kept on running for quite a while, then stopped in a nearby alley to catch their breath.

"I think we're safe . . . " Ivy huffed.

"Yeah . . . That was pretty intense." Harley said back.

"Do I smell . . . BAT?" Catwoman cried out just as Batman swooped down from the rooftop, his cape fluttering gently behind him.

"Going somewhere?" He squinted his eyes, scrutinizing them.

Harley laughed nervously, then pranced up to him, and leaned against him, batting her eyelashes adorably.

"Don't worry, B-Man, we're just . . . Shopping . . . Yeah! And we had to go to the bank to withdrawal some money."

He grabbed her by the wrist.

"You're going to Arkham!"

She laughed and tried to pull away.

"You wish." She retorted.

He sighed, thinking to himself. "I'm tired of being so nice to Gotham's scum . . . I'm just going to take care of this quickly . . ."

He kept a tight hold on her wrist, and then with his other hand, punched her hard across the face, knocking her smooth out. He stopped her fall, and then sat her on the ground.

Ivy looked at him with an expression of pure anger on her face.

"Don't you know that you aren't supposed to hit girls?"

She ran up to him and went for a punch to the face, but he caught her fist in mid-air, then twisted her wrist and arm, making her involuntarily turn around and put her hand behind her back.

"Hey! Let go!" Poison Ivy yelled.

He quickly grabbed her other arm and yanked it behind her back. He then cuffed her hands and kicked her legs out from under her, making her fall down.

Catwoman looked at him, and in her most seductive tone, said " Now Batman . . . You wouldn't do that to lil' old me, would you?"

He laughed a little.

"Sorry Selina," she smirked slightly that he used her real name, "It's my job."

And with that, he threw a bolo, and it wrapped itself around her. He then stuck all three of them in the Batmobile and sped off towards Arkham Asylum.