Sky Asylum
Chapter:4 Her sins are your sins
Gotham City, Connecticut GPD building
USA 20XX 0:12:00:0 hours mid night
It is a cloudy night as the moon is barely visible, buildings stand tall at night including one in paticular that is still on fire due to of a explosion of some sorts. Echoes of many sounds can be heard in the night something had transpired many hours ago that shocked a city and still is. This place is a hub and hot bed of crime, corruption, financial, along with a great deal of things.
Including a few certain costumed people that dwell in a city such as a stature like this, along with famous and infamous people who live here as well. The wind is blowing in the night to whatever direction the wind wants to go, more like the winds of change. This city is known as Metropolis's ugly step sister.
A city known as Gotham.
Gotham City is one of the oldest Eastern urban centers in the US. It nestles at the mouth of the turbid Gotham River upon islands once peopled by the vanished Miagani tribe of Native Americans. A Norwegian mercenary founded Gotham City in 1635, but the British later took it over. It was also the site for a major battle in the American Revolution. There is also a story that 17th-century Gotham Village's first dwelling was, in fact an asylum that predated city's infamous Arkham Asylum.
A man called Hiram was first building a chapel but his partner in crime of murder insisted it to become a sanatorium. Gotham´s 19th-century patrons envisioned their community as a concrete and steel stronghold for pious righteousness and booming industrial growth, and for many generations the wealth and business ventures of Wayne family bolstered the city's economy, but it is best known for its soaring crime rate, urban legends and Gothic spires.
Throughout the years, the architectural appearance of Gotham City has varied greatly. Currently, Gotham is portrayed as having a mix of Art Deco, Neo-Gothic and Post-Modernist styling, characterized by enormous sky-scrapers, high-reaching spires, and the presence of gargoyles and other iconic statuary.
A spot light is seen in the skies above the city, that shows a symbol a symbol of a bat for what reason would this symbol be shown shining above the night skies. To summon the cities protector and savior of the masses, the spot lights current location is on top of a building a newer building of the Gotham City Police department. A middle-aged Caucasian male stands alone on top of the building of the GCPD, he is tall with red hair and mustache he is wearing a trenchcoat and a tie along with a suit, and he wears a fedora. But who is this man.
His name is James Gordon.
Comissoner of the GCPD.
"Can I help you with something Comissoner." spoke a dark raspy horse like voice from out of no where.
James Gordon didn't flinch as he turns to his right to see a figure before him who he has known and worked with for many years. The man is tall and muscular, dressed in black and gray with a belt wrapped around his waste and gauntlets. This is a costume with a cape and cowl with a symbol of a bat upon his chest.
He is known as a vigilante, a savior of some sorts. The masked vigilante known to many as Batman but under the mask is the billionaire play boy known as Bruce Wayne. Who just went through hell several hours ago and now with a new suit on he was out on patrol.
"We did Joker's autopsy." said Gordon "And we discovered a small note in his pocket, which reads this." He handed the note to Batman
"Her sins." said the dark knight. "Are your sins, 0:12:01:0 Am"
"That right now." nodded Gordon "any idea what is means."
"I will find out once—" said Batman
He is interrupted as everyone's televisions, view screens, radios and any other hand held device goes silent for a moment. The both of them see a view screen from the across the street from the GCPD. Then finally five words are showed on that very view screen and other places that people are watching with much interest.
Her sins are your sins
Then a song is heard everywhere
Boom boom, boom boom
Gonna shoot you right down
Take you in my arms
I'm in love with you
Love that is true
Boom boom, boom boom
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
When you walk that walk
And you talk that talk
You knock me out
Right off of my feet
Come on and shake (Shake it baby)
Shake it up baby
(Shake it baby)
Come on now baby
(Shake it baby) I don't mean maybe
(Shake it baby)
You're drivin' me crazy
(Shake it baby)
Come on, come on, yeah (Shake it baby)
Come on and shake
(Shake it baby)
Shake it up baby (Shake it baby)
Ahh, shake (Shake it baby)
I don't mean maybe (Shake it baby)
Come on, come on (Shake it baby)
Alright, alright
Come on now baby
The way you walk
The way you talk
When you walk that walk
When you're talkin' that talk
You knockin' me out
Right off of my feet
I need you right now
I mean right now
I don't mean tomorrow
I mean right now Come on, come on
Come on, shake it up baby
Come on and shake (Shake it baby)
Shake it up baby
(Shake it baby) Come on now baby
(Shake it baby) Come on now baby (Shake it baby)
Come on and shake (Shake it baby)
Alright, alright Yeah,
Come on, come on and shake
(Shake it baby)
Shake, shake, shake it up baby (Shake it baby)
Whoa, shake (Shake it baby)
Shake, shake, shake it up baby
(Shake it baby)
Come on now baby (Shake it baby)
Alright, alright.
Then the song stopped as an image of a man appeared in the shadows, clapping and walking slowly into the light as the man wasn't in a hurry, then the man stepped into the light and gasped in shock. Batman narrowed his eyes and Gordon widened his. This can mean one thing the Joker is alive, although they don't understand how at first.
"Gotham city." said the Joker "A pitiful excuse for a city, greed, crime, corruption." He laughed in his infamous laugh but stopped himself "I hate laughing like that. I have plagued your city for many years as all of you known and a certain pointy eared friend knows as well. But this time I will make a confession." He sighed "They were not me, as they were merely diversions over the years to find my one true objective."
Batman and Gordon looked each other sharply and glanced at the view screen
"Oh yes Batman we fought and fought." said Joker "until finally I just got bored of you because as a detective and among others failed to find two things." Then he yelled "I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHO I AM AND WHERE DO I COME FROM." Joker puts on a straight "I spent years trying to find those answers and you know what I did…after all these years of plots and schemes like some common criminal in a comic book. So I now know who I am and now I don't need to be the clown prince of crime anymore."
Joker takes off his latex face and along with his purple clothing to revile he is man an ordinary man as no one in Gotham expected this, not even Batman. He has blonde short hair, blue eyes with a gray suit and tie with black slacks and brown shoes. The real question remained on everyone's mind is who the Joker originally is.
"As you can see." said the man "I am a man, a man named when I was born Joseph KerrMawdsley son of Barbra Mawdsley and Alfred Pennyworth."
A certain butler who is watching this gasp in shock as did everyone else.
"Yes that's right son." said Mawdsely "A long story short, I grew up as child idolizing my father who mommy told me he had died on the field. So the child became an agent like my father used to be. A couple of years later I went on a mission with a few fellow agents to the South Sea in Asia, only to be captured, interrogated and tortured by the Chinese army. Oh no my story doesn't end there, a man came in as he was hired by the Chinese. A man named Hugo strange that very man who made be into that idiot the Joker until they released me into the world as the Joker and from there you know the rest."
There is a pause.
"Oh daddy if your wondering where mommy is." said Mawdsely "Sad to say she died and so I did, no thanks to an interference to a rat but not you Batman. But he isn't important right now. Guess your former employers never told you and she never told you that you had a son. Now that she is dead, that means her sins, are your sins daddy. So will be seeing you soon daddy but for now, go do what you like, run around, cry, and so and so. If you're trying to trace this forget it, all you will get is I am everywhere."
Then the focus is shifted to two people strapped to the wall as one of them is Harley Quinn and the other is Cat woman. Joe Kerr Mawdsely pulls out his hand gun from his holster.
"Ah Harley." He shook his head "You were nothing more than hired help, the moment I saw you." he tears off her gag and feels up on her body.
"You mean." said Quinn "I was completely useless to you."
"Such idiocy." said Joe "Soon you will be nothing more than a distant memory in people's eyes, once they find you." He went over Cat woman and un-gagged her as well.
"Why am I here?" asked Cat woman "I did nothing wrong."
"Oh but you did." said Joe "stealing from mommy was wrong and now I say good bye to the both of you." He waves to everyone who is watching "Goodbye Gotham, goodbye Batman….bye bye…see you soon daddy."
The screen fades into blackness
The last sounds that echoed all around
BANG
BANG
All there was is a moment's stunned silence.
"By god." said Gordon "This is insane." He turned to see Batman is gone.
Batman on the other hand had left after the shots were fired and is on top of a roof in silence and brooding, he expected something from the Joker in all these years he had known and fought him. Nothing like this! Then the voice of Barbra Gordon also known as Oracle is heard in his ear piece communicator.
"I cannot believe this." said Oracle "Bruce what are you going to do."
"I don't know." said Batman "Always expect the unexpected from the joker, but from his true self I just don't know."
"I never knew Alfred had a son." said Robin from the ear piece communicator "This is nuts and he is going after Alfred Is this true or not."
"Oracle." said Batman "Find out all information you can on a woman named Barbra Mawdsley. Alfred come in!"
"Can do." said Oracle
"Alfred come in." said Batman "Alfred come in"
"I….am, here…sir." said Alfred
"Alfred do you believe it?" asked Batman.
"I don't know…..I have to go, I have to talk to someone" said Alfred "I just have too, too, go ugh talk to all of you later."
"Robin, follow Alfred if he leaves the mansion." said Batman.
"You got it boss." said Robin "What are you going to do in the mean time."
"Going on patrol and to find Selina." said Batman as he uses his grapping hook to leave the area.
To Be Continued?