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PhantomJoker's Revenge.

So Long, and Thank you for all the Insanity.


Ri came to, two days later.

Barsad had asked Bane to keep her. Barsad had been his second for a long time, so Bane granted him his request. Besides, he couldn't let this strange, innocent girl out on the streets. Somebody might find her and do unspeakable things to her, and he couldn't let that happen, especially because she might tell somebody about their hiding place.

So the girl stayed in Barsad's room, until she woke up from her faint.

Ri didn't open her eyes yet, but she could hear everything around her. She needed to get out of here. There was a whitecoat, and strange men that could hurt her. She had gotten so far, she wasn't about to give up now. Ri could hear a man humming a small lullaby next to her from time to time, the constant drips from a hole in the ceiling two centimeters out from the right wall. She could hear him explain, that her wounds had reopened, and they had had to stitch them back up. He would talk sometimes in a language that Ri didn't understand, but she liked it. Ri cursed the stupid scientists that didn't make sure that her wounds wouldn't reopen. It wasn't exactly helpful to have wounds close, and reopen. Stupid fucking whitecoats.

Ri waited until she knew that the man who sang her lullabies was gone. She opened her eyes and leaped from the bed, letting her animal instincts take over her senses, but not her mind. She needed to stay focused, and letting her animal instincts control her mind wouldn't help her mission to escape.

She had been changed into a black longsleeved shirt and cargo pants. Someone had changed her, which was bad. No shoes, which was good. Ri took out a spring from the mattress, and slashed two long slashes into the back of her shirt. That way she could use AngelFire quicker. She noticed a pair of fingerless gloves on the back of a chair next to her bed, and she slipped them on. Ri took a deep breath, scenting the air, and ran out the door. The faster she went, the less likely people could catch her. She heard shouts from behind her, a few gunshots but she dodged those easily. The sewers were made in a snail type shape, so she just kept on going up, which was the best possibility to escape. The thunder of boots behind her were getting farther away as she picked up speed. She was reaching the inhuman speed that would unlock AngelFire, whether she wanted to or not. She turned a corner and ran up a hall, sensing the light that was ahead, she could hear water as well, like a waterfall. She ran and just as she was nearing the railing that she was going to jump, the masked man jumped out with his muscular arms spread out.

Quickly, with inhuman reflexes, Ri dropped to the floor, using her arm as a swivel, rushed underneath his outstretched arms and jumped back up, parallel to the railing. He turned as well, and they were facing each other. Ri panted harshly, and felt her hands twitching, she wanted to use AngelFire so badly. The masked man was in a fighting stance with his hands open and knees bent.

Ri growled lowly, in warning. The man growled back, his was deeper and rougher, it reverberated throughout the structure of the sewers, she could feel it inside her. She hadn't expected him to growl back. Ri would have just jumped into the rushing water, but her instincts were screaming at her to fight. Even with AngelFire, she knew she couldn't beat this massive man. AngelFire was the perfect spy program. More evasive than offensive.

Of course, her primitive animal genes took no notice of her human mind's thoughts.

Ri stared into the masked man's blue eyes, and without a second thought, lunged. Ri rolled her wrists, and AngelFire activated. Fire coated her gloves as she jumped up and went to punch the masked man's thick neck. The masked man would be too slow to punch her, although his right fist was on it's way to her jaw. The moment the fire would touch his skin, he would have to take care of the burning before attacking her, which would give her enough time to hit him again, or escape. A centimeter away from his neck, Ri's superior eyesight made out newspaper clippings behind him, on the wall. In between various news clippings, was Joker's face, with black marker circling his beautiful face. He was grinning wildly, that grin she loved. Faltering a mini second, the masked man grabbed her throat, and lifted her up, above his head. AngelFire deactivated as she scrambled to break his hold on her neck.

"What are you?" The masked man's charismatic voice echoed. Ri gripped his forearm tightly in an effort to not suffocate in his hand. His hand was so big that it could grip her neck comfortably.

"No!" Ri yelled wildly.
"No? No to what?" Masked man's voice spoke calmly compared to Ri's animal speak.
"Don't...My Joker." Ri struggled to form words, trying to remember how to speak. The worst drawback to AngelFire, other than being a freak, was the battle between her animal mind and her human mind.
"What are you? What's your name?"
"Ri."
"Ri...My name is Bane, I'm going to ask you one more time, what are you?"
"No...What are you going to do with Joker?!" Ri unlocked her human speech, trying to escape Bane's grip.
"What business is it of yours what I do?" Bane growled, and the sound reverberated up to her throat, where she felt tingly from the powerful growl.
"He. Is. Mine. I will kill you if you hurt him." Ri spit out. She knew it wasn't true. She couldn't kill this masked man, but if he was going to do something to Joker, she might.
"You? What are you going to do against me?"

With that, Ri flicked her wrists, and fire rolled out and around her hands that were gripping his forearms. Bane looked at the fire rolling just above his skin, ready to critically burn him at a moments notice.
What is this girl?
What is she?
Just as he was convinced she would burn his arm off, her fire flickered out, and she whimpered. Ri took off her gloves, quickly and laid her cool hands to Bane's skin. She had burned him, from the proximity to the fire she had created. She felt awful for hurting him. Bane watched as a few tears escaped Ri's eyes and traveled down his fist to his mildly burned fore arm, soothing the burn. Bane loosened his grip on her throat in shock and Ri scrambled from his hold and stepped onto the cold floor, holding onto his wrist as she lightly petted his arm, whimpering slightly. Bane let her, it felt good, and it clearly calmed her down.
"I'm sorry." Ri whimpered quietly. She didn't mean to hurt him, just intimidate him slightly. Ri didn't want to hurt Bane. Or anybody else. The whitecoats were the only exception, and that was for the greater good.
"It's all right, Ri. I'm fine." Bane rumbled, this girl was so innocent, she felt bad for hurting him. She was so close to him, and with no fear.

"What are you going to do with the Joker?" Ri asked, as she continued to pet his arm.
"Are you going to stay here?" Bane saw his chance and took it.
"What does that have to do with-" Ri began, and was interrupted by Bane.
"If you stay here, tell me who you are, and obey me, I will set free your precious Joker from his prison."
"You promise?" Ri asked after a few seconds.
"As long as you keep you end of the deal."
"All right. It's a deal."

Bane didn't break his hold on the girl's shoulder, she didn't have any shoes, and for some reason her shirt was ripped in the back, and she might try to run if she got desperate so Bane held onto her as he went to find Barsad. She could be very useful to him.

"Damn it! WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?!" Barsad's angry yell in his mother tongue echoed. Barsad seemed angry, very angry. Bane entered the large open room where Barsad was yelling at some men who looked frightened out of their wits. Instead of shying away, like he expected her to, Ri jumped out of his hold and tapped Barsad's shoulder. He whipped around angrily, but immediately softened at the sight of Ri. With a nod, Bane dismissed the other men. When he turned back after the men had closed the doors and left them, he noticed Barsad and Ri talking quietly.

"Thank you." Ri told Barsad, Bane had clearly only caught the end of their conversation, but Barsad looked pleased.

"Ri?" Bane's voice echoed throughout the room, creating a strange echo.
"You want me to show you now, don't you?" Ri sighed, looking resigned to her fate.
"Yes." Bane seemed to make each word he uttered, come out confidently and absolute.
"I don't have a choice, do I?" Ri asked, and took a few steps back from Barsad and Bane.
"One always has a choice." Bane's eyes narrowed at her stepping away, and he took a step forward towards Ri.
"Yes, but I don't want to die right now, even if that isn't the worst thing that could happen." Ri muttered, thinking of her times in the Lab, where she was tortured daily. Because of her skin, she wouldn't get any scars, which allowed people to beat her as much as they wanted without fear of chastisement.
"What would you know about pain?" Bane's angered voice was right up in her face, his mask was almost touching her small nose, and he held her up in the air, her arms pinned to her sides with his massive hands. Ri flinched away, and Bane's eyes seemed to get angrier.
"Bane..." Barsad began to interrupt, fearing the worst.
"Do you believe in God?" Ri asked simply.
"No." Bane grounded out, what was this girl talking about?
"Good, I wouldn't want you to think I was your guardian angel or something."

With that, Ri let AngelFire go. White wings snapped out of her back, and Bane dropped her like a hot potatoe, watching in awe as her feathers swished to and fro, with trickles of fire dancing in between. Barsad even gasped, and Ri remembered how it felt to be seen as a freak.

You're like my own little angel, Joker used to tell her after she sang him to a dreamy state. If only he could see her now, they would share a laugh out of it for sure.

"Ri, how..." Barsad began to ask. Bane had yet to say anything, he was too busy studying this girl.

"I...I was taken at eleven years old, afterwards...Social services they called it. I was taken at 1:04 in the morning, drugged...put in a plane to Africa...They started experimenting on me, called the experiment, AngelFire. I was made to be the first of an army of AngelFire, a fighting weapon. I broke out, after they had all but wrapped up their experimentation, as you can see the healing of open wounds didn't work out like they thought it would. They were going to start training me into an assassin, they were going to start taking other children...I escaped. And you found me." Ri finished explaining, and let her eyes drift towards the floor.

"Barsad, send a team of Shadow's to destroy this monstrosity." Bane growled, and Ri flinched back, thinking he was talking about her. Of course he was, most people would think she was a monstrosity.

"No, Ri, not you, silly girl, the monsters who forced this on you!" Bane took two steps and lifted her chin up to look into his blue eyes. "We have a deal, and as long as you don't try to escape, I will not hurt you. You have my word."

"All right. But sending a team to destroy won't work." Ri said.

"Whoever they are, we can kill them." Bane said.

"I don't doubt that. It won't work, because I already destroyed all of them."