Ok this started as a sketch... superheros are fun to draw. I sort of came up with a character and well this idea came together. This is going to be based on the New Batman Adventures. Why? Because I don't have enough idea about the DC comic world to write it from that point of view... So I'm going to write about the tv show... hurray!

I do not own Batman

Chapter 1

The sky was dark gray, clouds heavy with rain however without them you wouldn't be able to see the stars anyway with all the bright lights of the massive city bellow. Two shadows flew across the dark cityscape; people looked above them gasping as they saw the two.

"Mummy who's that?" One boy pointed as the shapes swang past him on their seemingly invisible lines.

"That's Batman and Robin" His mother explained pointing to the larger and smaller shapes in turn.

As they swang around the corner and landed on one of the many skyscrapers of Gotham City. The larger darker clad man pulled a small communicator out of his belt.

"Batgirl?" He said, the boy next to him glanced up fiddling with his mask slightly.

"Batman the Joker's setting off a bomb in the nearby Shopping centre! He has hostages" The girl hurriedly explained.

"Alright we'll be there" He quickly shot out his grapping hook and his partner followed suit only seconds later.

They were lucky. The shopping centre was not far from their position and they were on the roof next to the large building within minutes, using their binoculars to try and get any information they could. Bellow them the police were huddled around the entrance and above was a helicopter. The boy next to Batman was feeling anxious trying to stop a particular unwanted but simular memory from coming to the forefront of his mind.

It was just another night patrolling for himself and Batman having already stopped a few bank robberies and busted a smuggling ship, they were just about to head back to the Batcave. When they saw six police cars and three fire trucks heading in the opposite direction and they knew their night wasn't over yet.

The Joker and his henchmen had taken hostages in a large thirty story building and had a bomb ready to blow. It didn't seem to be a robbery, just a cold blooded murder.

The duo carefully made their way in though one of the twenty-sixth story windows and while Batman went after the Joker; Robin went to help get the hostages out of the building. After a very furious search he found where the hostages were. They were in the twenty-seventh floors office section; he found one of the henchmen down and the other three shooting at one of the hostages. It was a girl who had somehow gotten herself free.

It wasn't hard to dispatch the rest of the henchman since the girl was doing a very good job of distracting them. Once they were out the girl proceeded to help Robin untie the rest of the hostages, there was only four including the girl when a voice ran though the security system.

"Hello all party guests! Seems like we have a few unwanted crashers, well if they are so eager to see the big fireworks show... Let's have it ahead of schedule!" this was followed by the Joker's signature laugh. Panic ran though the small crowd of hostages as Robin thought quickly. Pulling out his grapping hook, he shot it and tugged it to make sure it was secure before taking the hand of the closest hostage and swinging her with him to safety. When he had returned the others had tied the unconscious henchmen up and what followed was the agenising minutes of uncertainty of when the bomb would go off.

However soon there was only the girl and one of the henchmen left. The girl insisted on going last, helping the boy wounder secure the henchmen and swing away to safety.

When he landed on the roof next to the building and turned to swing back he was greeted by a loud boom and the sight of the building falling as the bomb went off. Batman landed next to the boy the Joker tied up and knocked out over his shoulder.

"Is that everyone?" He asked, Robin shook his head knowing as the building fell there was no way the girl could have survived that.

In the present he felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up he saw Batman looking down at him.

"I'm fine" the boy said as convincingly as possible "let's get the Joker!" he shot off his grappling hook and Batman followed.

Crashing though one of the second floor windows they were greeted by the sight of many more of the Joker's henchmen and Harley Quinn sprinting off to tell the Joker that Batman had arrived. Dealing with the brutes the duo began to look around for the hostages.

"Why if it isn't Batman and the boy blunder" queue the laugh, the two turned to see the Joker dressed in his usual purple suit with Harley Quinn next to him.

"Joker where are the hostages?" Batman yelled, the Joker and Harley looked at each other.

"Hostages? Oh you mean those corpses out the back there? Yeah they weren't any fun" He laughed again. Batman took a step forward when the Joker held out his hands and shook his head "wait, wait Bats! The adults shouldn't have all the fun! Decks come out here and introduce yourself to the Boy Blunder!" As the Joker and Harley ran away laughing, Batman followed. As Robin took a step a playing card, ten of hearts embedded itself in the ground right by his foot. He looked up.

There was a girl sitting on one of the pillars out the front of the Greece themed shop. She waved at him as she jumped down.

"You must be Robin, nice to meet you" Robin narrowed his eyes as he sized up the girl. She was about his age, thinner and shorter. She crossed her arms over her loose fitting top shirt. Robin threw a batarang at her, she narrowly dodged, the bat shaped weapon cutting straight though the club on the left side of her shirt, revealing the black undershirt beneath it. The girl moved forward aiming a punch at his chest, which he dodged and tried to counter. She ducked performing a high kick which worked only because Robin was momentarily distracted by the fact she was wearing a skirt. Robin stood up, red in the face as the girl winked from behind her black mask "ready for round two Boy Wounder?" she smirked pulling at her skirt slightly revealing a tiny pair of black shorts underneath.

Both charged straight at each other again.

"Let's play hide and seek!" The Joker called from within the labyrinth of a men's ware section. Batman kept his guard up. Harley Quinn leaped out at him only to be tackled by Batgirl.

"Thought you could use some help" she explained as she began to fight the red and black jester. Batman moved on to find Joker who was on the other side of the cloths maze and up an escalator in the electronics section.

That was where the bomb had been set up as Batman climbed the escalator he could see Harley and Batgirl's fight as well as Robin's against an unfamiliar opponent he assumed was the 'Decks' person Joker had mentioned. Batgirl seemed to have Harley on the ropes but Robin seemed evenly matched with the new foe.

As Batman ran to where the Joker was standing his back to him. He pulled the man back revealing a manikin as a timer started. It's mechanical voice started from thirty seconds and counted down, Batman began to try and stop it, trying to hack into the system as the Joker ran away stifling a laugh.

Harley Quinn did the same while Batgirl was distracted she sprinted off out of the clothing section down to where Decks and Robin were fighting.

"Come on kido!" she said pulling Decks arm along with her as she ran. The girl pulled away from the clown looking annoyed but continued to run beside her. They dodged down as the two heroes tried and failed to catch them and went through a hidden exit that they had prepared themselves meeting Joker on the other side.

The three jumped into the Joker's purple car and drove away two out of three laughing.

There was only three seconds left and Batman had tried everything he could think of, he unplugged the system as it hit one. Instead of staying on one as he had hopped instead he was given a message that said 'April Fools' with some confetti thrown up by the machine and he threw a batarang at the message smashing the screen. Robin and Batgirl appeared moments latter and the three returned to the Batcave in silence as the police entered the shopping centre.

"Why would Joker do that?" Batgirl asked taking the cup of tea Alfred offered her "Generally he'd just blow the place up" Robin shrugged

"Maybe that's why?" The red haired girl shrugged herself glancing over at Batman who was typing into the large computer in the Batcave.

"Found anything on that Decks person yet?" she asked, he stopped

"No, she's not a known criminal at least not under that name" he looked over at the teenage boy "did she remind you of anyone?" the boy shook his head.

"Nope, she was fast though and she fought dirty!" he sounded like his pride was hurt.

"Seems like she's Joker's new toy" Batman remarked returning to working on the computer.

Remember folks don't flame unless you have an extinguisher!