Chapter 2: Zeus' Secret Henchmen
It was finally the night of the banquet for which a certain Maxie Zeus was about to profess how he had been reformed by the system which originally placed him in Arkham Asylum. But while that was going on, a few miles away was Gotham National Bank, for which the Joker along with Two-Face and also Poison Ivy were ready to strike. The trio of villains were busy plotting the bank heist in the alleyway close to the bank itself.
"You sure about this?" asked Two-Face to the Joker, "This sounds a bit risky, even for the likes of me."
"You should be lucky to thank our friend for using his wealth to release us from prison" replied Joker
"Come on, let's get going here then" said Poison Ivy.
Meanwhile, at the bank itself, two security guards were just outside on their normal patrol. Suddenly, veins out of nowhere came, entangling the two security guards and lifting them up right in the air. More veins then sprouted up, destroying the glass of the bank and sounding a silent alarm.
"Time to send the remaining guards in a laughing stock!" laughed the Joker as he had some sort of a gas mask on along with Poison Ivy and Two-Face.
The Joker immediately threw what seemed like a grenade right into the bank, but instead of exploding right on the scene, it released some sort of laughing gas to which the remaining guards and bank officials began to simply laugh themselves off.
"Come on, let's go get the loot our boss wants" said the Joker as he and his two compatriots went into the bank unchallenged.
"So, you're saying these dealers of the Vaylkr drug need this sort of amount of cash?" asked Two-Face as he was standing guard watching the remaining guards and bank officials fall to the ground while still laughing as hard as ever.
"Of course" replied the Joker to which he was handing large amount of cash which were in bags to Poison Ivy who was then loading them on a large Venus flytrap she had created and storing the cash in the mouth.
"I'm just not surprised that Gotham's so-called finest haven't come to bring in reinforcements" said Two-Face, "that's all."
While the bank robbery was going on, back in at the banquet it was finally Maxie Zeus' turn to speak toward those attending the banquet itself.
"I would like to thank Bruce Wayne for allowing me to host this event" said Maxie as he took the podium, "if it weren't for him, I would have not been reformed. I know he's had a hard life here, but I think we should really do a lot of good work in reforming Arkham Asylum inmates."
After Maxie made his statement, he signaled Bruce Wayne to come up to the podium. Bruce was quite nervous to debate if those he secretly locked up as the Batman in Arkham Asylum should ever be reformed back into society. But as Bruce was about to get to the podium, Jim Bravura, Max Payne's superior then whispered to Commission Gordon who was in his chair about the silent alarm that went off in the bank not far from the banquet itself.
"Sorry ladies and gentlemen" said Commissioner Gordon as he stood up, "but there is urgent business afoot, a bank robbery is in progress, and we need all the local law enforcement units available on the case."
"Ladies and gentlemen" stated an announcer as he stopped Bruce, "we're sorry but this banquet has been canceled due to other circumstances."
"Well, it seems like it's time for me to make my disappearing act" replied Maxie as he secretly slipped out of the scene.
Meanwhile back at the bank, the entire vault of the bank had already been taken out.
"Come on" said Two-Face as he began to hear the sirens in the distance, "we better get the heck out of here while we still can."
"You know, you're right on that" said the Joker, "come on, let's go pick up our friend at the banquet."
"Come on my pets" said Poison Ivy to her Venus flytraps that were carrying the loot in their mouths, "let's go and get Mr. Zeus."
But as the trio of villains headed outside the bank, police cars immediately appeared with one of the police cars had Commissioner Gordon in it, and a second one with Jim Bravura and Max Payne.
"Put your gas masks on" said Commissioner Gordon to Jim Bravura and other members of his department, "you're dealing with the Joker, and I got reports he's been using laughing gas to get through this robbery."
"Ah, Commissioner Gordon, it's been so long since we last came face to face" replied the Joker.
"I'll handle this clown" said Max to Jim Bravura as he took out his weapon after he placed on his gas mask.
"Where do you think you're going to?" asked Commissioner Gordon to Max.
"I'm going to show you how I deal with these sort of thugs" replied Max.
Max Payne then took a bold step in ignoring any of Commissioner Gordon's pleas to not go toward the trio of villains who were surprised with this lone on again, off again rogue cop.
"Hey, look, looks like old Batsy is having some competition in who is being the rogue vigilante" laughed the Joker.
"Alright, am I going to have to do this the hard way or the easy way with you three surrendering?" asked Max to the trio of villains.
"How about putting it there!" laughed the Joker as he used his electric joy buzzer on poor Max giving him quite a shock, sending Max collapsing to the ground unconscious.
"For someone who acts tough, he sure doesn't sound like it" commented Poison Ivy.
"Come on, let's make a pathway already!" cried Two-Face.
"You got it honey" replied Poison Ivy.
Suddenly an earthquake then began to happen, to which a large tree root came right up, lifting up the police cars and sending the other police officers running from the scene. It gave the trio of villains an easy passage, which the police officers were unable to stop. Meanwhile, back at the banquet, Maxie Zeus was waiting in the dark portion of the parking lot for the arrival of his trio of henchmen, along with also a representative from the local Russian mafia circle from the Cleaners.
"What's taking your three friends so long in arriving?" asked the representative to Maxie.
"Patience" replied Maxie, "you'll meet them soon enough, and then from there you'll be able to discuss on having the Valkyr drug make an open comeback on the streets."