Thank you all for being patient with the chapter posting. This chapter is a bit of a slow burn. I got great ideas but I want to build up to them so hope you all understand when reading this chapter. Next chapter should be up next week and things really start hitting the ground then. Please enjoy.
Riddled Nightmares: Chapter 2
Hours had passed. Joey and his crew still feeling the effects of Crane's fear toxin and they were on the brink of madness when sirens started going off and cops busted inside.
Minutes later they were all strapped down on to stretchers and hauled into ambulances to Gotham General Hospital. Gotham Police Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon walking through the scene with the cold, bitter wind blowing and waving his silver hair and mustache uncontrollably as he surveys the scene. "Damn junkies," he says in his usual gruff tone with some resentment in there. He hears a loud whooshing sound and turns around startled. "Oh you. Knew you wouldn't be too far behind," he said to mysterious man hidden in the shadows. The man in the shadows stepped out.
Batman. Gotham City's soul protector and defender of justice who took this task the night he saw his parents gunned down right in front of him. Since then Bruce Wayne has used his intelligence, strength, training, and a vast variety of skills to protect Gotham as Batman. He walked out the shadows and into the very limited lighting of the warehouse to Jim. He began talking in his gruff, growling, and gravely voice. "What happened here Jim?", he asked his old friend. Jim responded, "Well couple of junkies here to score a fix and well deal gone bad. Or right. They've just been shipped off to Gotham General for overnight observation. Though what they were screaming makes it seem like they should be off to Arkham." Batman notices a strange color substance on the ground and bends down to look at it. He touches it and looks very closely to it on the tip of his gloved right hand and rubs it. He reaches into his utility belt and collects the substance into a baggie. "Might have something to do with this Jim," said Batman. "I'll take it back to the Batcave and have an answer for you tomorrow." Jim sighs, "Well thanks. You need any…" Jim turns around to see Batman suddenly gone as usual in this situation. "Help? Why does he always do that?"
Wayne Manor is scary looking. Especially at night due to how it looks. Batman drives the Batmobile back into the Batcave with loyal family butler Alfred Pennyworth waiting to greet him. "Good evening master Wayne," said Alfred in his natural born English accent. "How was the nightly patrol of Gotham?" Batman responded as he exited the Batmobile, "One mugger, four carjackings, and two junkies who are under psych evaluation at Gotham General." Batman removes his cowl and has now returned to being Bruce Wayne. "I have a substance at the scene to analyze. It seems that this happens as soon as Crane escapes Arkham. I have a feeling he is connected to it."