"SPARROW!" She yelled out to me. I noticed then the large gun that the Joker had aimed at her. I knew then what I had to do. I ran over and pushed her out of the path, just as the Joker pulled the trigger.
I thought that it would be a simple mission. All I had to do was fake being an apprentice to The Joker, then gain all of his plans. However, with my life as hectic as it is, I should have figured I would be this close to death. Now, I'm fighting for only one person: Her. But before I start here, I should probably start at the beginning of my story.
When I was five, my parents abandoned me in front of Wayne Manor. I didn't even know that I was being left there, I thought they had to grab something from the car. I managed to sneak into the place, and fall asleep in the middle of the library. After I awoke in one of the rooms, Mr. Wayne told me that he would be taking care of me from then on.
At the age of twelve, I found the Bat Cave. I was able to put the pieces of Mr. Wayne's life together, and that he was Batman. He already had some kid named Dick Grayson working for him, but I was older, so I got more advanced training. I even got to pick out my costume: a half light blue and half pure white bodysuit, with a collapsible spear as a weapon.
Most recently, as I am now age twenty, I decided to put an end to The Joker, Mr. Wayne's arch nemesis, from the inside. I managed to pull off the act, with Joker saying, "We're going to have a lot of fun!" He got me in a costume that resembled a court jester, minus the hat, but with added colors.
"Why do I look like a man who still believes in Magic?" I asked him.
"Because, You're my apprentice, and what I say goes."
"Whatever. So, what are you going to call me?" I asked him.
"Hmm. I'll call you, 'The Executioner.' 'The X' for short." He stated.
"Super. So, what are we going to do first?" I stated, already bored out of my mind.
He smiled, then said, "We get to destroy something today!"
We went to the train station, where there were lots of people. The Joker handed me several charges, so I ran and placed them on the ceiling supports. When I was placing the third, my communicator rang, and I saw that it was the Bat Cave. "Sir, I can't talk right now. I've infiltrated Joker's group, and I'm going to take him out from the inside." I told him.
Batman looked as if he was in thought, then said, "That would be helpful. If you need backup, you know what to do."
"What I need is for you to please inform the other superheros about what is going on so they don't blow my cover." I explained, priming another charge.
"Got it John Maschief. Good luck." Batman said, signing off. I put the thing away and started to work on another charge.
"This is not going to go well with Commissioner Gordon." I said to myself as I finished the final charge and jumped back down to where the Joker was. "Alright, they're all set up." I said to him in a monotone voice.
"Oh, come on, X, I want to see you smiling...no plan is good unless you smile!" The Joker said to me, holding up the detonator. He pushed the button, and the entire platform exploded. We fled the area, and I saw firsthand experience why Batman had to see Alfred after every meet up with this guy.
"You're a psychopath..." I said to him.
"I know. But we're going to have soooooooo much fun!" He said. I ignored his antics and just followed him back to the abandoned apartment complex that he used as a base.
After an hour of his moronic laughter due to the completion of his terrorism, he finally gave me what he was going to let me use as weapons. "These things are stupid." I said when I was in the room he gave me, holding the collapsed swords in my hands. All they looked like were hilts with a round top, but when I hit a special button, the razor sharp blades would instantly shoot out. "This is the strangest idea for a weapon that I've ever seen, and I've seen peanut guns..." I said, hiding the compressed swords in my sleeves, then looking out the boarded up window. I saw the many crimes being committed at this moment. I saw people selling drugs on one corner, and prostitutes on another. "There's too much garbage in this city..." I said, turning from the window, ignoring all the murder that must have been happening.
"Who the hell are you?" Asked a woman in a jester's outfit and jester makeup, standing in the doorway of the room I had been given.
"I'm being called 'The X'. Who are you?" I asked her.
"Harley Quinn. So, what does Mister Jay want to do with you?" She asked me.
"I'm his new apprentice. If you don't like it, too bad." I said, turning back to the window.
"Mister Jay having an apprentice? That's strange, even for him." Harley said to me.
"Doesn't surprise me. The man's certifiable." I said to her.
"Yeah. Well, looks like we'll be working together." She said to me.
"Yep." I said, looking past the window to see that this building was pointed in the same direction as Wayne Manor.
"Well, just to let you know, I don't help out noobs. So you're on your own." She said, walking out of the room.
"Fine by me." I said to myself. I returned to looking out the window, keeping my vision to Wayne Manor.
Three hours later it was dark, and I decided to try and communicate with Batman. Due to not knowing if the Joker had bugged my room, but knowing that the man was insane, I decided to head up to the roof. If anyone asked me why I was up there, I would just tell them that I needed some fresh air. As I turned a corner, I ran into something, which caused me to fall onto my ass.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" Harley said to me, wearing some neglige.
"One could say the same to you." I replied.
"Whatever. What are you doing anyway?" She asked me.
"I needed fresh air. You?" I asked her, standing and helping her up.
"N...nothing!" She said hastily.
"Okay. Well, I'll see you." I said to her, walking past her. After a while, I found the roof, and after securing the door, I pulled out my communicator. "Sparrow to Batman, Sparrow to Batman, come in Batman." I spoke into it.
"Batman here. What is it?" He asked me.
"I've found Joker's hideout. It's an abandoned apartment complex, with clear view of Wayne Manor. I'll work on getting the exact coordinates at a later time." I said.
"Understood. I've got it on my cameras. Wave." Batman said.
"You know if he tries to find me, and sees me doing that, I'm dead, right?" I asked him.
"Right. But he's drawing up plans now. I can see him as well. So wave." Batman said to me. I looked at Wayne Manor, and waved at it.
"Alright. I'll call you again when I have more information." I said to him.
"Alright. Batman, out." He said, turning off his end of the communicator. I hid the device again, and looked at the moon, taking in it's radiance. It was the same moon that I was abandoned under, and the same moon I kept as a friend, when I couldn't tell Dick or Bruce. It was my first, my best, and my only true friend.
"Thank you, for being there Moon..." I said to it, closing my eyes.
"Uh...why are you talking to the moon?" I heard from behind me. I quickly brought out a sword, snapped it out, and was swinging before I realized who spoke, which made me stop at the last second.
"Harley. Don't sneak up on me like that." I said, pulling the sword away from her neck, she still in the neglige.
"Sorry. So, why are you talking to that large, floating rock in the sky?" She asked me.
"The moon helped me as a child..." I said to her.
"How?" She asked.
"When I was five...I was abandoned...The moon helped light up the sky where I was. When it was on dangerous nights, he wouldn't show. He helped me pick out easy meals and wallets. He was my only friend..." I said to her.
"Oh...Sorry about calling it a rock..." She said.
"It's okay. You didn't know." I said to her.
"Well, come on. You'll catch your death of cold up here, and I don't want Mister jay's new apprentice to be extremely dead on his next mission." She said, waving her arm to the door that lead up here. I walked up to it, then stood out of the way.
"Ladies first." I said to her.
"How gentleman-like of you." She said, walking down the stairs, me following her and closing the door. After a while of roaming the hallways, she stopped. "Well, this is my room. Goodnight, X." She said to me.
"Whatever." I said back, walking back to the room I had been given. It took me all of five minutes, and I managed to get in there without any confrontations from the Joker. I sat on the bed I was given, and then started to undo the heavy and hot clothing I was given. After I was stripped down to my pants and boots, I laid down on the bed, and went to sleep faster than the Bat-jet.