The sound of soft footsteps cover the cold ground of the darkness in Gotham.
There is a woman strolling down the block, she hears a soft cry coming from the alley way.
She turns the corner, trying to figure out what had made the noise.
She walks slowly, breathing softly, and tucks her hair behind her ears and adjusts her coat that's two-sizes too big for her small frame.
A small crack of the door is left open.
She gently sneaks over where the crying is heard again, and peaks her head in.
There's a man there, in the back of the abandoned building, he has green hair and red scars along his cheeks, holding a knife around a boys throat and wraps his other arm around the boys waist. Another figure walks over and interrogates the boy, this man has burns running down one side of his face.
He starts yelling and slaps the boy in the face after he refuses to speak.

The woman peeking into the door makes a small yelp and runs as fast as she can away from the door, noticing that the man with the burnt face has started walking towards her, glaring at her through the small opening of the door.
She runs as fast as she can and trips over a few pieces of rocks, the burnt-man catches her and refuses to let her go. He holds a gun up along with a coin. He speaks softly in her ear, saying she has a chance to live if his coin flips a certain way.

A dark figure jumps off of the nearby building, wearing a massive cape and a bat-shaped cowl.
He slowly speaks with a deep tone "Two-face, You'll leave her life up to chance?" he threw a batarang at the man, tossing his gun away from her.. he was stalling Two-Face.
There was another figure emerging from the dark alley, wearing a armored-body suit that has a blue bird painted on his chest. The young man in the body suit snuck up behind Two-Face and wrapped his arms around his throat, pulling him off the woman.
"Batman" he calls out, wondering what move to make next while Two-Face struggles in the mans hold.
"Nightwing, hold him down until the cops arrive, I have all ready alerted commissioner Gordon."

The woman starts to run off down the street, not knowing that the green-haired man was waiting for her around the corner. Batman glides down the street after the woman, he notices the green-haired figure drive a knife into the womans chest, he's slowly driving it in and pulling it back out.

Batman runs towards him and growls, "Joker!"

The man starts building up a laugh from the pit of his gutt and turns the corner, disappearing from the caped figure. Two-Face manages to pull another gun out of his sleeve, and Nightwing kicks the gun out of his hand and throws his fist into the back of the burned mans head, causing him to pass out on the floor.
Nightwing races towards the woman where she has fallen on the cold concrete, grabbing on to her chest and coughing up blood.

"Batman! I have to get her to a hos-" He stops speaking and notices the caped crusader has disappeared as well. The cop car races around the corner and Nightwing clamps his hand over where the fresh wound is on the womans chest, he picks her up and slides her in to the back of the Bat-Mobile.
"Is everything okay, Nightwing?" An older-sounding man speaks through the inter-comm of the car,
"Joker just stabbed someone, I have to get her to the hospital, Alfred!" He shuts the door of the mobile and speeds off.
"Bring her here, Nightwing, You can't take her there, not when you're still in costume, Batman would be very dis-pleased if you showed up anywhere you could be noticed!"

Nightwing jumps out of the car and lands on the marble-like ground of the cave, picks up the woman and sets her down on to the table.
"Where is Batman, Nightwing?" He starts pulling off her jacket, and slips his gloves on.
"He ran off, chasing after the joker.." Nightwing pulled out the aid-kit that Alfred had brought in and set it down on the table.
"As well, And you better go hit the showers, Nightwing. I'll do what I can to save her."
He glanced over at the middle-aged man and noticed the glare he was giving. He surrendered to Alfreds stare and escaped off into the mansion.

Alfred softly sighs, finishing up the last of the stitches and puts her under a respirator. He softly smiles, noticing that Batman has strolled in through the opening of the cave.
"Have you seen Dick? The Bat-Mobile and him both -" He instantly swallowed his words and stopped dead in his tracks, noticing Alfred was hovered over the woman from earlier. Alfred turned around to face the bat, "Master Dick brought her here. sir.. Oh, Don't worry Master Bruce, She is unconscious and won't be able to hear a thing."
"Is she going to be okay, Alfred?" The butler softly turned his face down and closed his eyes, regretting the words he was about to say.

"The Joker got her, Master Bruce, it is a small chance of her survival.. if he had been any closer, he would've ended up slicing her heart in two."
Suddenly the elevator of the cave made a small noise, right as a young-boy walked out with Dick.
Bruce ignored their entrance and continued his talk with Alfred.

"Have you checked to see if she has a wallet? I.D.?" He groaned in pain of knowing the Joker had gotten away with another killing.
"Indeed, her name is Crystal Brown, Sir."

"Crystal Brown?" The boy asked, as trying to reassure Alfred's answer.

"Yes, Master Timothy, Why do you ask?"
Timothy rushed over to the table where the woman was laying, and he placed his hand on hers, trying to comfort the unconcious figure.
"She's stephanies mother.."
Tim was cut off by the sound of the monitor Alfred had hooked up to her. The screen showed a flat line, Bruce swiftly made his way to the woman and started to press his hands against her chest and get her heart beating again. He refused to let the Joker win over another life.

"Master Bruce... We've tried all we can in the past hour, she's gone.." The heart monitor still read as flat, she had no pulse, no warmth to her body.
Tim picked up his cell phone and slowly started dialing a number.