Just as the Joker is about to continue his fun using an exposed electric wire, Batman crashes through the roof. He looks at the clown's face, which was first stunned in surprise and then fear after seeing the Batman's gaze.
"YOU!" Batman yells in a tone full of anger and hate at the lunatic.
"So glad you could drop by, Bats. I'm about to continue my fun. You can watch but only if you behave yourself" Joker spoke in his comical voice. "Subdue him, boys, but don't be too rough."
"I want him to watch what's next on the menu..." he said in his menacing voice, followed by an even more menacing laugh.
As 6 brutes started running towards Batman, he drew 6 taser batarangs and threw them each at one of the brutes. The shock of the batarangs lasted for 10 seconds. This time he calibrated them to hurt, a lot, before incapacitating.
Menacingly walking towards the lunatic who had captured his wife, he clenched his fist hidden behind his cape. The Joker in a misguided attempt to stop him grabbed Wonder Woman's black hair and pulled her head up displaying his readiness to shove the wire into her throat, but before he could even speak a word of the threat he intended, Batman fired his grapple at the mad mans arm. The 3 pronged 'hand' of the grapple squeezed Jokers lower arm with such force that he dropped the wire, his bones nearly snapping under the gadgets grip.
Pulled with such force that he nearly flew in Batman's direction, his face met a very displeased Batman's elbow. Before he could regain his footing, he felt Batman's gloved hand around his neck. The fingers pressing on his spine, the thumb pushing upwards into the muscles under his jaw. The force of the grip was unimaginable. A little more effort would have snapped his white neck like a twig.
Glaring his clenched teeth, anger seeping out of his eyes, Batman drops the no longer grinning madman. Before The Jokers feet even touched the ground, Batman's knee hits the purple dressed maniac's groin furiously, followed by an immense punch just below the ribs. As the Joker leaned over in response to the punishment he received, he felt his hair being grabbed and before he could even make that out completely, Batman's knee was driven right into his nose, forcing the Clown Prince of Crime into a straightened up position, and it probably would have made him lean over backwards had Batman not continued his assault.
Continuing the motion of his leg from the knee strike upwards, Batman brought down a powerful axe kick on the lunatic, breaking his right collar bone. Several punches and elbows into the head, that made Jokers face turn in the opposite directions of each respective strike, were followed by a round kick that certainly cracked at least 3 ribs. Retracting his leg, he spun his body so that he could execute a side kick with the same leg right into his chest that likely broke 2 more ribs on the opposite side of the Jokers rib cage.
Before he could even fly of he felt his right arm being grabbed and pulled back. Just as it straightened out, Batman brought down his other arm on it, smashing and twisting the elbow in the opposite direction. Not waiting a single moment after that, he threw the Joker on the ground, still controlling his arm, resting his knee on the mad man's scapula, using it as a leverage point to rip the broken purple suited arm's shoulder out of its socket. Finally, the Dark Knight let go of his opponent and stood up, his figure a black shadow.
"Wow... You seem a little angry, Bats... Was it something I did? Hehe..." the Joker tried to act funny, writhing in pain, but enjoying the fact that he finally managed to provoke an emotional reaction from the Bat.
His anger reignited, Batman smashed his palm into the Jokers head, pressing it into the concrete. His fingers compressing the mad man's scalp and nearly denting it, he pulled the Jokers head of the ground so high that he also brought his chest up as well. Preparing to smash it into the very same place it had lied just a few seconds ago. Just as he started the head's path towards the concrete he was stopped.
"No! Stop!" he heard her voice. That angelic, melodious sound dissolved the blood haze in his eyes. After lowering the Jokers head to the ground, he turned to look at Diana, just barely conscious.
"Well what do you know? Looks like she likes me... Heheh…" Jokers comical voice stated, interrupted by a cough, angering the Caped Crusader just enough to bring his head up slightly and slam it into the concrete, knocking the Joker out, at last.
Rising up, he instantly made his way towards Diana, releasing her from her elaborate shackles. She simply slumped into his arms. Just before she fell unconscious, she placed her hand on his cheek and whispered through a week smile: „Bruce."
He aims his grapple at the roof, puts her in a position more comfortable and safe for him to hold her and goes up to the hole in the roof through which he had entered. Upon climbing up on the roof, he looks at Diana, unconscious in his arms. As he raises his eyes from her, he notices the concerned gazes of Superman, Shayera and the Flash. They have noticed Diana is unconscious and, as that is no small feat to achieve, their concern was well founded. Superman also noticed the blood on Bruce's gloves, but he didn't say a thing about it.
"What happened?" asked the Flash, in obvious disbelief at what he is seeing.
"Where's the Joker?" asked Superman, no less concerned, but slightly more concentrated than Wally.
"Down there. You can go take a look, but I'm taking Diana to the infirmary with Flash" Bruce exclaimed in a tone of voice none of them could quite make out what it was conveying.
"Alright. We'll stay here and do clean up. See you on the Watchtower."
"Flash, as soon as we land, I want you to take Diana to the infirmary as fast as you can" Bruce spoke as they made their way to the Javelin.
