A/N: This one is super short, I know. I had a hard time splitting it up into chapters because of how I wrote it.

The next morning, every news, radio, and paper blared the same headline:

"Joker Escaped from Police Custody!"

Joker looked around his hideout a few days later. Most of his goons hadn't returned yet, but that was fine by him. He needed the alone time. He lay back on his thin mattress and thought back to his meeting with the Bat. Joker hadn't gotten much from the man, but what he did get, lifted his hopes unimaginably. Bats was coming back! How soon, Joker didn't know. But Bats was definitely coming back . . . and for him!

Joker got up, it was time to start thinking about all the delicious chaos he could cause.