Tai was jarred out of his sleep by the sound of laughter from somewhere in the asylum. It has started as a low chuckle, but soon it was so loud it felt as if the person was sitting next to the inhuman in the cell!

Sitting up, he walked to the door of his cell and peeked out, his eyes widening with confusion as the other inmates seemed to be glued to their cell doors, wanting to get a peek at something coming down the hall. Harley however was one of the strangest of all; her face was contorted into a grin that was both happy beyond words and somewhat "lovey-dovey" and she hugged her pillow tightly.

"Mista' J. is back!"

Before Tai could ask Ms. Quinn about what she was talking about, the door leading to the Gallery burst open with a bang and the insane laughter echoed off the walls and doors. A small army of security guards ran down the hallway and ended up at the heaviest cell door he had ever seen.

"Good morning, Arkham! Where's the electro shock therapy?! I'm in the mood for a shocking good time!"

The laughing continued and soon a clown with green hair and a purple suit was being pushed through the hallway. Every step he took, he was either chuckling or laughing to himself or to the other inmates. His hands were handcuffed in front of him and the chains and cuffs themselves looked to be made of some of the heaviest and sturdiest metal the inhuman had ever seen.

The look of the clown made Tai's skin crawl. Something about him…didn't seem right at all.

As he passed, the inhuman and the clown locked eyes. Time seemed to slow to a crawl as the Joker grinned at Tai, his eyes narrowed to slits menacingly.

"A new face added to the Gallery, eh? Well, the more the merrier as I always say!"

His mood changed when he looked toward Harley's cell and grinned, "Harley! So that's where you were; I was wondering where my little helper was!"

Harley seemed to swoon in her cell and grinned lovingly at the clown as he passed. If this was some sort of comic book or cartoon, Tai swore he would have seen floating hearts above the harlequin's head.

By the time the notorious clown had made it to his cell, all of the inmates had become the butt of one joke or another. But none had even considered talking back to him in some way or another, they all seemed…cautious. That is what word Tai was thinking of when he saw their faces.

They were all cautious of the purple suited clown. Either that…or they were terrified…

Something glinting near Joker's cuffs suddenly caught Tai's attention. No sooner had the cell doors opened did Joker smile maliciously and raised his hands up above his head.

"Whew! I am so stiff in these! When do these mousetraps come off, chief?"

The lead security guard's lip curled, "They come off once you are in that cell, you psychopath."

Joker made a gasp and put a hand to his chest, seemingly offended. But when he did so, the cuffs slowly fell off of his thin white wrists. And before the guard could respond, the Joker made a slashing motion and the guard crumpled to the floor, his throat slit open.

With a gleeful cackle, the clown began to spin in a circle and swiftly took a gun out of his coat, pulling the trigger quicker than any human Tai had ever seen. But instead of bullets, a green gas seemed to pour out of the barrel that enveloped the guards around him.

The other inmates hid their faces from the gas and covered their mouths as best as they could. Tai followed his example and to his surprise…the guards started to laugh. It started as a few chuckles but soon every guard was holding his side, their faces contorted into sinister grins that no human could ever be able to make naturally.

As the guards fell down either unconscious, or dead as Tai feared, The Joker danced about his work and lifted the lead security guard up so they were eye to eye.

"Aw, seems someone couldn't hold in their gas! Better lay off the beans for a while, Jeeves!"

Dropping the man at his feet, Joker strode towards the door with a jig in his step, grinning from ear to ear at his handiwork.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen, it's been fun but I fear I must leave so soon! Got a date with-"

His words were cut off as a dark shadow seemed to loom over the entire Gallery. Joker himself had stopped in his tracks and stared at what was looming in the doorway leading to the rest of the asylum.

The shadow had belonged to a huge pitch black figure with white glowing eyes and pointed ears. Around its body was some sort of wings…or was that a cape…

"It's the bat!" Two-Face seemed to snarl.

In a movement as quick as or quicker than Joker had pulled the gun, the demonic bat had seemed to glide towards the clown as he backed up slowly.

"Ah, bats! Wonderful to see you, but I was just leaving…"

The Joker threw his arm to punch the shadow in front of him, but it simply dodged and threw a punch of its own. Tai heard the wind being knocked out of the clown's chest and he grunted, holding his stomach in pain. Another punch came soon after and the clown was on the ground, blood dripping from his mouth.

"Whaddya think ya doin to Mista' J. you ugly bat?!"

Harley had leaped to the cell door and was glaring at the Bat with a look that would kill if words had that power. The bat however simply turned slowly to Harley and its eyes narrowed to slits, making the harlequin bite her lip quickly.

"I gotta say pointy ears…" Joker chuckled and tried to rise back up, "You still got the punch in the ol' punch line!"

The Batman leaned down and grabbed Joker, raising him up before he started dragging him across the floor toward his cell.

As it passed Tai's cell, the Batman looked at the inhuman before turning his gaze back to the cell door. Tai felt himself shiver, that gaze could freeze someone's heart cold.

After being thrown into the cell, the Joker grinned evilly. No words were exchanged between the two as the doors slammed shut and the shadowy Bat started walking out of the Gallery. As it passed the cells, the inmates sneered or snarled at him, clearly unhappy about his appearance.

No sooner had the Bat walked out of the Gallery did another group of security guards had come in to clean up the mess Joker had made. They all shook their heads at the head guard and mumbled things to themselves as they worked.

"It's soo hard to find good help nowadays isn't it?"

The Joker's voice was heard through his heavy security door and even though Tai couldn't see him, he knew he clown was grinning from ear to ear as he chuckled cruelly at his joke.