A/N: Before you read! I know it was short, but thank you for voting for my newest story to be the first one of 2019. I highly suggested this one since this is when the Batman Beyond timeline begins, and I thought it would be interesting. I want to thank everyone who has supported me over the years. I really love my art, and the fact that so many people love me writing my stories makes me feel very happy because I've always wanted to be a famous author when I grew up.
I would also like to thank the many people I RP with who help make this possible, such as thunder pony (Atticus), Scrappy Doo Fan (who RP'd this one with me), AnnaleaseTurner (Katie Kat), and CartoonNetwork90sFan (also known as Cathleen) who help make my stories possible. I also want to thank the many reviewers I've had over the years, such as RustyPete12 who isn't just an avid fan, but also a very good friend of mine who helps make me feel better in my times of need. I really wish more reviewers could be like him. Thank you everyone, not just my reviewers or my collab partners, but everyone in my life for help making me the author I am today, this is really fun, but you all make it worthwhile when you want to see more of what I can do.
Anyway, Happy New Year, looking forward to showing you guys more of my talent in 2019 as we part ways with 2018. Enough mush for right now, you wanna read a story. Before we get into Return of the Joker, enjoy this short part, think of it as a Pixar Short before you can enjoy the main story which is adapted from the short also known as Twisted. And as always, thank you, and remember to Read & Review! Yours truly, PerkyGoth14.
It was a dark and gloomy night in another Gotham, and Batman stealthily glided over a fence and landed on his feet before walking into a warehouse. Naturally, his goddaughter, Gothika, and her boyfriend Bat-Mite were also with him. Apparently they were investigating a string of disappearances, and their search had led them here.
"Stay close and remember to keep quiet." Gothika told Bat-Mite, sounding dark and mysterious, though it was like he was the only person around who never made her feel sick or disgusted about humanity in general.
"Rodger-dodger!" Bat-Mite whispered as he saluted, as he floated over the ground with ease.
"And now, here we go..." Gothika said as her tone always sounded dry and uncaring.
Batman approached a refrigerator nearby, and opened it. Inside were 12 severed heads inside plastic bags...as well as a bottle of "grape soder".
Bat-Mite's face turned green. "I think I'm gonna be sick..." he groaned.
"Eh, you'll be fine." Gothika said, shrugging off the heads like they were nothing to her.
Bat-Mite shuddered. "Y-Yeah...you're right...I'm a superhero! We see uglier stuff than this on a regular basis!" he grinned. "Thanks, G!" He picked up a severed head. "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well!" he recited, before rolling the head back into the fridge.
Gothika glanced over that. "Someone's in here... I can sense it..." she then said, a bit strongly.
So they headed further into the warehouse, and found three giant jack-in-the-boxes. Batman opened one, and out popped a giant jack. Bat-Mite openes the next one, and out popped...a dead guy's upper body, dressed up to look like a jack-in-the-box clown. Bat-Mite turned pale-white at that.
"That's just sickening." Gothika said in a nearly stoic tone.
They soon heard shaking and knocking from another box.
"I knew it!" Gothika glared at first, and she soon opened up this one to see a tied up and gagged woman inside of it. She soon stood the woman up and took the tape off her mouth.
"Thank God! I thought it was her..." The woman said shakily.
"Relax, lady; you'll be okay." Bat-Mite urged, pulling out a Swiss-army knife and cutting her ropes.
"We'll get you out of here." Batman promised.
"She... She's behind you!" The woman whimpered fearfully.
Bat-Mite whipped around. "What the-?!"
Harley Quinn's shadow soon came right up behind them with her trademark mallet and they dodged out of the way and she hit the dead guy instead. She soon dragged it behind her as she saw she missed them and soon grinned manically and got ready to try again.
"Go, lady, go!" Bat-Mite urged, as the woman ran away, up the stairs and into the night.
Harley came closer.
"Yeah... No." Gothika muttered before kicking Harley Quinn down on the floor.
Bat-Mite grabbed Gothika and quickly scrambled away as fast as he could.
"You let my plaything get away, Batman and Friends..." Harley said as she soon went to follow them, looking at the shattered mirrors. "THAT WASN'T NICE! Just because you guys are such gloomy guses doesn't mean we all have to be that way!" she then checked her teeth before she kept going. "Now that poor bitch will go back to her drab little life, WHEN I COULD'VE MADE HER FUN FOREVER!"
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that, ya psycho broad..." Bat-Mite sneered.
Harley growled as she heard that and looked around. Batman was soon clinging to the ceiling and swooped down on her only to get whacked away by the hammer, crashing into a mirror.
"Yeesh, he'll feel that in the AM..." Bat-Mite cringed. "We hafta do sumthin'!"
"Hmm..." Gothika paused as she tried to brainstorm. "We gotta bring the hammer down and then get her." she then quietly suggested to Bat-Mite.
"Bring the hammer down, eh?" Bat-Mite smirked. "Leave it to me!"
"If you insist..." Gothika allowed.
Harley Quinn soon came to hit Batman one more time, and not in the way that Brittney Spears means it.
But suddenly, Bat-Mite zapped the hammer's edge, making it too heavy to lift. "NOW, GUYS, NOW!" he shouted, using his wings to dart around like a dragonfly.
Harley tried to lift the hammer back up only for Gothika to punch her right away against another mirror. Batman and Gothika sneered as Harley was dealt with, but they knew that couldn't have had been the end.
Bat-Mite flew through the broken mirror and glanced down. "A welcome mat? But...what for?"
"Our doooom~" Gothika said in a cartoony voice with crossed eyes before looking over and yelped. "Gah! That's worse!"
They soon saw what looked like a stereotypical happy family from the 1950's, but they appeared to be rotting corpses that were dressed up like dummies in a museum, and there was a place on the couch for 'a sister' with two parents, a grandmother, and a little boy in front of the television.
"Okay... Now I am DEFINITELY gonna be sick..." Bat-Mite groaned. "This lady's a grade-A sociopath!"
"NO SUPER-CREEPS ALLOWED IN MY ROOM!" Harley grinned sadistically as she appeared with a chainsaw, but missed them and instead, sliced off the head of the old woman's corpse, beheading her instantly. "Grandma..." she then whispered.
"Apologies, ma'am." Gothika said as she took the head before tossing it.
"SHE WAS GONNA BAKE ME COOKIES!" Harley screeched in anger.
"Yikes...all she needs now is a hockey mask..." Bat-Mite shivered.
"Now, we run." Gothika said.
And so, they all ran while Harley tried to hack them with the chainsaw, but luckily, mutilated the corpses and not them.
"Better them than us." Bat-Mite commented.
"I've never envied the dead more than I have before." Gothika replied.
Eventually, Batman shoved the TV near Harley and she got out of the way, but got her chainsaw stuck in the sofa before running toward them as they stood in front of an iron pole.
"Hey...she's stuck! Now's our chance!" Bat-Mite grinned. "Let's get DANGEROUS!"
Harley snarled as she soon got unstuck before running to them.
"SCATTER!" Gothika called out and soon ducked out of the way with Batman and Bat-Mite and the chainsaw soon hit the pipe which brought the blade off and bounce against her stomach, slitting against it.
Bat-Mite took out a gas gun and fired it at Harley. "Suck my gas, evildoer!" he snarled.
"That sounds nasty for some reason." Gothika stated drearily.
Harley groaned from both pain and disgust as she reached severe discomfort.
"Game over, Quinn." Bat-Mite smirked, reholstering his gas gun.
"All right, all right already! I know when I'm licked!" Harley replied out of annoyance before looking at them. "Go on, take me to jail, Coppers."
"Hm... Jail..." Batman smirked. "Gothika, you want this one?"
"I could go for something actually..." Gothika said before smirking to Harley, showing her fangs. "I do feel rather... HUNGRY."
"Ooh, I wanna feed too! Can I, please?" asked Bat-Mite, flashing his fangs.
"You two can share." Batman allowed.
Harley's eyes widened. Gothika and Bat-Mite soon both sank their fangs into Harley's bare neck, making her scream as the crimson liquid leaked from her neck as they fed upon her.
"Now THAT's good eatin'!" Bat-Mite snickered, licking their faces clean.
"Finger licking good." Gothika added as she licked one of her fingertips.
"Eh, nobody's gonna miss her." Bat-Mite burped, licking some spare blood off Gothika's face.
Gothika let out a little broken chuckle from being tickled, but she actually did enjoy it, and was just mostly dark and brooding that it came off as awkward. Bat-Mite smiled at her.
Batman soon helped them both back up as Gothika looked down to Harley's lifeless body. "Wow, I was right, if she got any paler, she'd be white as a sheet." she then commented darkly.
"Good thing she can't come back as a vampire... Right?" Bat-Mite asked.
"She shouldn't..." Gothika said as she wiped her mouth a bit. "At least, that's not what I intend for."
"Right then." Bat-Mite sighed, unaware that they were being watched by their counterparts...their evil ones.
"Whoa, nelly, that was a gore-fest!" Owl-Mite chuckled.
"Ooh... Such violence!" Sunshine gasped melodramatically. "I simply cannot even!"
"But it was a hoot!" Owl-Mite giggled.
"Ooh... The puns~..." Sunshine commented, in an almost ditsy fashion.
"Well... What next? I mean, you can pick if you wanna..." Owl-Mite replied.
"Onwards!" Sunshine proclaimed. "To the future to 2040!" she then smiled. "With those Dee Dee twins played by the lovely Melissa Joan Hart... What a wonderful actress who I'll always remember as Sabrina Spellman."
"Of course, milady!" Owl-Mite nodded, setting the viewer-cam for these coordinates. "You...DO like me, right? Like, more than friends?"
"Weeeeeell~..." Sunshine paused like she was thinking about it.
Owl-Mite's face fell at that.
Sunshine let out a small giggle. "Of course I like ya!"
Owl-Mite beamed at this. "Oh, thank you, I needed the validation!" he grinned. "Anyways, let's take a look at Gotham City of the future!" he continued, as it showed the landscape of the futuristic Gotham City.
Sunshine laughed and hooted like a certain Looney Tune duck as the scene changed.