Hello, my wonderful fans! Before we get started, I'd like to remind you guys of the challenge from the previous chapter: writing a fic where, instead of Blake or Yang, either Ruby, Weiss, Nora or Pyrrha are transported into Arkham Asylum to help Batman restore order. Let's make it happen, people! The idea's there, it's up to you to make it a reality! Can't do this without you! But for now, let's get back to Yang kicking ass in the asylum!
Yang looked in fear as she saw her teammates standing in front of her with weapons drawn and looking at her with the intent to kill. In reality, her teammates were not there, the people standing in front of her were merely a thug with a lead pipe, who she saw as Ruby, a more dangerous red-dressed thug with a pair of knives, who she saw as Blake and one more thug with a shock stick, who she saw as Weiss. Ruby rushed in and swung, Yang blocking it, then jumping back to avoid a lunge attack from Weiss. Blake rushed in and unleashed a small flurry of slashes at the blonde brawler, who dodged all of them and pushed Blake back. "Please! Ruby, Weiss, Blake, it's me, Yang! You're my best friends, why are you attacking me?!" She asked desperately.
What the thugs say...
"Ruby? Weiss? Blake? Who the hell are they?" The pipe wielding thug asked.
"Yo, what the hell are you talking about?" The knife wielder asked.
"This bitch has lost it." The shock stick guy said.
What Yang hears...
"What are you talking about?" Blake asked in an angry hiss.
"Friends?! With you?!" Weiss demanded furiously.
"You abandoned us! Now you die!" Ruby shouted, rushing in.
Yang dodged and blocked more attacks from Blake, rolling out of the way of more attacks, looking back at her friends desperately. "Guys, please stop! I don't wanna hurt you!" She pleaded.
"Oh, don't worry. You won't be hurting us..." Ruby said.
"We're going to hurt you!" Blake said, rushing in and throwing another flurry of strikes Yang dodged and blocked, refusing to fight back.
Suddenly, a large black figure flew past Yang and grabbed Blake, kicking her in the face and sending her flying into a wall, before grabbing Weiss and slamming her back into one of the glass cases, throwing her to the ground and slamming her head into it to knock her out. Finally, he grabbed Ruby and threw her against a wall, sending her to the ground. It turned to Yang, revealing itself to be a horrifying bat-like demon.
What Batman says...
"Yang? Are you okay? You weren't attacking. Is something wrong?" He asked.
What Yang hears...
"You're next..." The figure said in a monstrous voice.
Yang looked down, horrified at seeing her friends lying unconscious and seriously hurt by the figure, before glaring up at him. "You monster!" She roared, rushing in and throwing a punch he narrowly dodged.
"Yang, what's wrong?! Why are you attacking me?!" He demanded, before looking at her eyes, to see they were bloodshot and her breathing was heavy. Quickly switching to detective mode, he saw her heart rate was incredibly high, putting her in a crazed state. "Scarecrow... He said, trying to restrain her. "Yang, calm down! It's not real! You can fight it!" Batman told her, trying to calm her down, but it wasn't working.
"How dare you!" She shouted, managing to break away from him, turning around and slamming her fist into him, sending him skidding back across the floor. "They were my friends, you bastard! Look what you did to them!" She snapped.
"Yang, it's me, Batman. What you're seeing isn't real! It's Scarecrow's fear toxin. You have to snap out of it." He told her.
"I'll kill you!" She roared, charging at him and readying her fist.
"The toxin's messing with her mind too much. Words aren't going to calm her down. I need to jolt her out of it." He said, retreating back down the hall he came, already forming a plan.
"Get back here!" She roared, rushing after him. He burst through the doors to the main hall, the doors closing behind him, only to be obliterated a split second later as Yang burst through them in her pursuit of vengeance against the man she believed hurt her teammates.
Batman dodged a few more punches and rolled out of the way of several rounds, making his way towards the Warden's office, which was surrounded by a steel cage, with the exceptions of two entryways that were both blocked by the electric security gates. Batman positioned himself in front of the gate on the stairs, waiting for Yang's next move. She let out another scream of fury, before launching herself at him, readying a fist. "I'm sorry, Yang." He said, grappling up to a gargoyle, avoiding the punch and causing Yang to slam her fist into the security gate, sending an electric shock through her body. At the same time, she had managed to fire a round from her gauntlet, blasting the security door, knocking herself back and destroying the electronics that produced the security gate, causing both of them to power down. "Yang!" Batman said, running up to her, crouching beside her and lifting her head up. "Are you okay?" He asked her.
She groaned in pain and discomfort, before looking back up at him. "Y-yeah... I'm sorry... I thought I saw you attacking my friends. I let the gas mess with my head and... I'm sorry. I should've known it was an illusion and my friends aren't really here." She apologized, realizing her mistakes.
"Scarecrow's been working on perfecting his serum for years. No one can resist it that easily. It still effects me more than I'd like to admit." He reassured her. "Besides, you made up for it by giving us a way in." He said, gesturing to the destroyed security gates and the door behind them leading to the Warden's office.
"I guess it's good for something, then." She said as she got up.
They hurried through the doors and down the hall, stopping when they saw a thug in front of the door with a shock stick. "You try and get past me, Bats and I will fry you! You, too, Blondie!" He warned, getting ready for an attack.
"I got this." She said, walking up.
"The hell are you doing, kid?! You want me to zap you into next week?" He asked.
She raised her hands up in surrender as she continued to walk towards him. "Hey, come on. I just wanna talk! There's no need to be so upset... Although, you're kinda cute when you're upset." She said with a sly grin.
"R-really?" He asked, surprised.
"Totally! In fact, if you put that shock stick down, you might be cute enough to kiss." She said, walking up and leaning forward with her licks puckered up.
"O-okay..." He said, shocked. She was a little young, but he hadn't kissed a woman in who knows how long. He put the shock stick in his pocket and leaned in, about to kiss her.
"What is she doing?!" Batman asked in disbelief. Why would she lower herself to kissing him? Did she suddenly decide to change sides? Or was it a trap?
Suddenly, she leaned back and replaced her lips with her fist, knocking him back into the door and knocking him out. "Oldest trick in the book." She said with a smirk.
"Hm... That almost reminded me of Catwoman." Batman said, looking back at a display case holding Selina Kyle's tools of trade.
"Who?" Yang asked.
"If we keep working together, you'll meet her eventually." He explained.
Suddenly, the TV's around them came on, revealing Joker. "Oh, there you are. I've been waiting for you, listening to Zsasz make the good doctor scream while Blondie played around in Scarecrow's world. How was it this time? Learn anything about yourself? Oh, tell me! Pull up a seat, talk to me! I'm all ears!" He said, looking at Yang in particular.
Yang growled as she remembered the visions she was forced to see because of Scarecrow's toxins, believing she saw her friends horribly beaten by a bat demon that turned out to be the man helping her all this time. "I learned that I'm gonna kick your ass when I find you!" She snapped at him.
"Ooh, feisty as ever, Goldilocks! You'll have to wait a little longer, though, I'm afraid. Oh, the ears thing reminds me. I'm pretty sure Zsasz is cutting her ears off! Certainly sounded like it!" Joker said with a sadistic laugh, then laughing even harder just to taunt them before Yang blasted all the cameras in the vicinity. This alerted a thug in the bathroom, who came rushing out at them, but she stomped towards him and smashed her fist into his face, knocking him out.
She panted heavily, mostly out of anger. before Batman put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down. "He'll get what's coming to him. For now, focus that anger on Zsasz." Batman said, to which she nodded as they walked through the door, greeted by the scene almost ripped from a horror movie as Zsasz dragged Doctor Young into the main room of the office while she begged for help.
"Stay where you are, Batman! You too, Blondie! Listen to me CAREFULLY." Zsasz ordered.
"Help me! Please, somebody help me!" Doctor Young begged as she was dragged into the next room.
"What do we do?" Yang asked in a worried whisper.
"Don't worry. I'll handle this." Batman said, moving along the wall between the room they were in and the next, crouching around the corner, readying a batarang and waiting.
"If either of you come any closer, I'll paint the room crimson with her blood!" Zsasz warned, peeking his head out from behind his hostage in order to see what was happening.
That split second was all Batman needed, flinging the batarang around the corner, slamming into Zsasz's scarred forehead with enough force to knock the psychopath unconscious. "Whoa. Nice aim." Yang said.
"It was more about timing than anything else." He explained as they rounded the corner to assist Doctor Young.
The doctor was apparently having a small breakdown, beating the unconscious man as she cried. "You monster! You evil, evil, EVIL monster!" She cried as she pounded on his chest.
"You don't have to worry about him anymore, Doctor." Yang said softly, trying to calm the doctor.
"He's not going anywhere. You can stop now." Batman said, helping her to her feet. "I say Bane." He told her, now back to his normal deeper, more threatening voice.
"I know. I-I-I... Joker threatened me. I wanted to stop the experiment. I tried to give him his money back!" She explained.
"Joker doesn't take no for an answer." Batman told her.
"He wants an army. A horrible, twisted force to destroy Gotham! But he couldn't do it without the formula! I hid it, but..." She started.
"Zsasz got it out of you." Yang figured out.
"And now he has Venom. And your formula." Batman finished.
"God, he has gallons of the stuff! There's a lab, hidden in the gardens! It's locked off, but the security codes for the whole island are in the Warden's safe!" Doctor Young explained, moving to the safe and starting to open it.
"What if Joker got to those, too?" Yang asked. "And what if he left something?" She asked herself quietly, mentally preparing herself.
"What else is Joker planning?" He asked.
"How should I know? You think anything he says makes sense?" She asked, opening the safe, revealing a green face, along with some confetti and noise makers that shot off. "Oh, my god!" She said in horror.
"Get out of the way!" He ordered. Suddenly, at the same moment he shouted his warning, Yang launched herself towards the doctor, grabbing her and turning her back to shield her from the blast. "Yang!" He called the instant before the explosion. Then, everything went black.
Batman groaned as he slowly drifted back to consciousness, looking around, trying to assess the situation, hearing small grunts and screams from a voice he recognized as Dr. Young's, before Harley stepped into view. "Boy, that Dr. Young is one lucky broad... Can't say the same for you blonde friend, though... And that means Dr. Young's luck ran out! You know how Mr. J hates a squealer..." Harley said as Batman looked up in shock to see two of Harley's thugs handling Dr. Young while Yang was up against the wall with smoke and powder burns on her, not moving.
"No..." He said horrified.
"Talking about squealers..." Harley said, walking up to the Warden, who was gagged and held in place by another thug. She then took his cane and cracked it across the poor old man's face, then jabbing him in the stomach with it.
"Oh, please! Someone help me!" He pleaded. With a shout of exertion, Harley once more cracked the cane across the Warden's face, breaking the handle off and drawing blood.
"That old loony actually thinks he runs this place! Talk about crazy! Well, Bats! Places to go! Get 'em, boys! If he gets up, knock him back down, but not too hard! Mr. J needs him at the party." She said, leading the Warden and Dr. Young away, before looking back at Yang. "We're already crossing one off the list." She said before leaving.
Batman attempted to get up, but as instructed by Harley, the thugs knocked him back down before they could, especially the thug with the shock stick, who prodded the Dark Knight with the stun baton any time he so much as moved... That was until a blast hit him and another thug in the back, sending them flying across the room. Everyone, Batman included, turned in shock to see Yang standing in her fighting stance, still more than capable of continuing the fight. "Miss me?" She asked with a wink. (considering everything else she tanked, that bomb seems like nothing. Even Weiss and Flint were able to survive LAVA!)
"No way, she's alive!?" One of the last two standing thugs said.
"But a freakin' bomb went off in her face!" The other shouted.
"Meh. I've taken worse." She said, dusting herself off. "So, who's next?" She asked.
The two of them were so shocked looking at her, they were completely oblivious to Batman getting up and grabbing their heads, smacking them against each other and knocking them both out. He then looked up at her. "You're... Alive." He said, unsure of what else to say.
"Yep. The biggest threat of an explosion is usually the heat and fire, but that doesn't hurt me. I CATCH ON FIRE if I get too angry. As for the force of the explosion, I was smashed through a couple bridge support pillars before. No biggie." She explained like it's nothing, only leaving the Dark Knight in further shock of the girl's abilities and physical prowess, before shaking it off. "My clothes got a bit torn up, though." She said sadly, looking at some of the scratches and tears in her clothes.
"We have to get to the Gardens." He said.
"But Dr. Young said they're sealed off." Yang said.
He nodded, before putting his finger up to his ear. "Oracle, have you figured a way around those security gates? Dr. Young told us there's a production facility in the gardens." He explained.
"Yeah, I blew up one gate, but that's not the best idea for all of them." Yang added, fingers up to her own earpiece.
"The WayneTech security protocols seem to be hack-proof. Lucius did a good job. It's a two part biometric sequence, apparently generated by the Warden, using a code sequencer." Oracle explained.
"And destroyed by Joker in the safe explosion." Yang figured out.
"Harley Quinn has the Warden. And he's the only chance we have to get past these gates." Batman finished.
"Okay. Good luck." Oracle said, before cutting off.
"So, how are we gonna find him?" Yang asked, sitting down on a nearby desk, before noticing she was sitting on something, lifting her rear enough to pull said object out from under it and observing the large paper she found. "Hey, this is a map marking all the places Riddler left his trophies!" She said, shocked.
Batman took the map and scanned it quickly, adding all the locations to their digital map and tossing the map away. "Good work." He said, before entering Detective Mode. "As for how we find the Warden, Harley made the mistake of hitting him too hard with his cane. She drew blood, which gives us a fresh trail right to him." He explained.
"Wow, nothing gets by you." Yang said as she followed him, pulling down her goggles, allowing her to follow the trail as well.
They returned to the main hall, finding 3 armed thugs in the middle of the room, waiting for them. Quickly grappling up to a gargoyle, they each chose a different target and moved accordingly to take them out. Batman went for the thug in te very back, silently dropping behind him and choking him out and Yang took the other two, dropping down on the one in the middle, behind the furthest one, knocking him out by dropping on him and firing a round from her gauntlet to take out the last one. They gave each other a nod of approval before continuing to follow the trail. Heading through the doors, they suddenly heard an announcement. "Let me go, you crazy bitch!" The warden snapped as he attempted to defy Harley.
"Um... Sharpie said a bad word. Mama spank!" Harley teased, followed by a scream of pain from the warden. "Hey, Bats! Gonna join the party, or what?" She demanded.
"She must still think you're dead. She'll be in for a surprise." Batman said. It was pretty common by now for their plans to kill any member of the Bat family not to work, but someone getting back up after a point blank explosion was still a first.
"Yeah. I'm looking forward to it." She said.
They hurried ahead, dealing with a few more thugs along the way until they reached the penitentiary building, Yang somewhat shocked and angered to see the thugs beating up on a doctor, an innocent man who's supposed to keep them healthy and alive. "Wanna take my pulse now, Doc?!" One of the thugs demanded, kicking him again.
He was swiftly knocked out by a hammer fist on the top of his head. "All of your heart rates are about to drop after I knock you unconscious!" She snapped, quickly moving from one thug to the next, taking them all down with a barrage of punches with the occasional blast from her gauntlets. "Let's go." She said, Batman nodding as the two went through the doors. They proceeded through the doors, looking ahead to see three thugs. Moving slowly closer to them, Batman waited for the right moment and threw 3 batarangs at them at one, knocking the three down and leaving them open. Yang knocked out the first one with a ground takedown she picked up from the Dark Knight while Batman moved quickly and repeated the action on the other two.
"Good. You're learning fast." He told her as they went on, heading through a set of doors, before finally stopping at another set of doors where, thanks to their Detective Modes, they were able to see dozens of people in the next room. "Get ready. This might be a little disturbing." Batman warned as he went through, revealing the figures in said room to be crazed lunatics, barking and screaming like mad dogs. Yang did have to admit, the sounds and the vicious, feral looks on some of their faces were somewhat disturbing, but she managed to block it out.
They went through an open security gate and walked up to a large cell in the middle of the room, filled with some strange form of smoke. And sitting inside was so far the 3rd strangest person Yang had seen in the asylum, with green skin with vines all over her and long, flowing red hair, somehow moving on its own. Yang blushed a bit, seeing the woman dressed revealing enough to put even her to shame, the strange green woman dressed in a small red Arkham shirt that revealed a good amount of cleavage and only a pair of leaf-like panties to cover her lower body. "Stop, Batman, please!" The woman said as she hurried up to the door.
"Who's that?" Yang asked, somewhat shocked someone like this existed. Sure, her world had animal people, but none of them ever had green skin.
"Poison Ivy. An experiment went wrong and turned her into a living plant. And since then she's tried to destroy humanity to protect plants." Batman said.
"That's awful!" Yang said, looking at the woman harshly.
"Batman, please! You've got to help my babies!" She pleaded.
"I'm really not interested in a bunch of flowers, Ivy." Batman told her.
"They're in pain! Crying for help!" She pleaded again.
"Just stay where you are. Last thing we need is you running free." Batman told her.
"Poor babies. I'll save you... And everyone will pay." She said, looking at the dangling vines in the top of her cell to provide her with... plant stuff to live? I don't know.
"Wow. She's really lost it." Yang said.
"Like I said, she's not someone we want running free." He said as they continued ahead.
They proceeded onward, looking into the tower in the middle of the room, where they could see the warden. They started moving towards it, but Yang was then shocked to see Officer Cash in the cell in front of them. "Batman! It's me, Cash! You need to let me out!" He said.
"How'd he get trapped in there?!" Yang asked, about to help, but Batman stopped her.
"It's not Cash. His name is Basil Karlo, AKA Clayface, he can change his appearance to look like almost anyone. He's another person we don't need getting out." He explained, before they headed up to where the warden was, Joker laughing as he sealed the security gate behind them.
"Wonderful..." Yang said annoyed as they headed up to the warden.
They then looked onto the screens to see Harley heading down the hall away from them, when suddenly Ivy ran up to the glass. "HARLEY!" She shouted, startling the blonde girl.
"Ivy? Jeez, you look like crap! Maybe I can sneak you some shampoo." Harley said.
"The plants, can't you hear them?! They're crying out in agony!" Ivy said, incredibly depressed.
"Yeah? Well I really don't have time for this." Harley said uncaringly.
"Please, you have to let me out! They'll die without me!" Ivy pleaded.
"I don't know, Red. You're not on Mr. J's party list..." Harley said, pulling the list from her cleavage and inspecting it. "Oh, well..." She said with a shrug, putting it back and walking off.
"PLEASE!" Ivy begged.
Harley stopped and turned around. "Eh, what the heck, I'll cut you a break." She said, heading over to the controls for Ivy's cell, swiping a card to release the plant woman.
Ivy stepped out and instantly perked up after stretching. "That feels so much better." She said, shaking her head to let her hair flow better, before sauntering off, turning around to blow Harley a quick kiss.
"She's a good kid." Harley said, walking away.
The screen suddenly changed to Joker, kicked back with his feet on a desk. "I could watch those two all day, what a riot! And speaking of riots... Here's a bit of civil unrest I cooked up, just for you!" He said, leaning in towards a camera and hitting pulling out a trigger, pressing the button. Suddenly, the doors opened, unleashing the crazies, allowing them to run free and attack whatever they wanted in their mad frenzies.
"Oh, THAT's just wonderful!" Yang growled.
"What are you waiting for? Cut me free!" The warden demanded. Batman sliced the ropes holding him with his wrist blades and walked around to face the man. "He's taken control of the security overrides! I have the sequence generator, but without the terminal in my office, it's useless!" He explained in a defeated tone.
"Your terminal has been destroyed. Give me the sequencer." Batman said.
"What? Oh! Yes, of course." He confirmed, looking over his person, before handing the card to the vigilante. "It's useless. Half the code won't get you anywhere. We're trapped in here." He explained while Batman inserted the card into a strange gadget, before pulling it out and discarding it.
"If there's one thing I learned while I've been here, it's don't underestimate this guy." Yang said as she observed Batman.
"There's always a way out. ALWAYS." He said, turning towards the terminal behind them. Then, moving around the analog sticks for the device, he somehow locked onto the frequency and overloaded the terminal, causing it to explode and shutting down the gate. He gestured for Yang to come towards him, closing the gate to the room behind her after she walked out to keep the warden inside. "You stay here. Lock this gate when we leave." He said.
"Good idea. Can't have someone of my stature falling back into their hands, now can we?" The warden agreed nervously.
They two heroes then hurried on back to the main room where all the crazies were previously held, Batman dispatching one of them as he lunged towards the Dark Knight. They headed back into the main room with Batman in the lead when Harley suddenly burst from around the corner. "Surprise!" She announced. "You know, Bats, I always thought there was a spark between us." She said, before giggling and backflipping, grabbing the bars of the cell behind her, then jumping off them to another cell, grabbing the bars again and leaping from their to the platform above. "Well now, there is!" She said, kicking a panel that activated the electric floors, frying an unfortunate guard. "I know, I know, you're shocked! Come and get me, Bats! I double dare ya!" She dared.
Yang gasped at this. "You can't turn down a double dare!" She said in shock Harley jumped straight to it. The two of them grappled up, Batman pulling himself up immediately and taking on the thugs, but Yang had an idea. Harley didn't see her before she jumped up there. As far as Harley knew, she was dead, which she could use to her advantage.
She waited a few minutes until the attention of both the thugs and Harley were on Batman, before pulling herself up. She then jumped onto the chain Harley swung from, smirking at the shocked look on the clown girls face. "What the hell! You're supposed to be dead!" She said in disbelief.
"Pretty EXPLOSIVE news, huh?" Yang joked, before rounding the chain and kicked Harley off it, onto the platform, jumping off and preparing to fight her fellow blonde.
"Damn... Boys, get in here!" She ordered, calling in more goons to help her fight Yang. However, even with a number of thugs to help her out, they were no match for Yang. She delivered a round kick to one face, another tried to kick her, but she kicked his leg to knock it back, spinning to knock him into the air and winking before smashing her fist into his stomach, slamming him into the floor. She boxed the next one's ears and knocked him out with a hammer fist, then launching herself forward to headbutt the next one.
"Catfight." Yang said with a smirk.
Harley was shocked at this, looking in fear as both Yang and Batman now faced her, both done with their respective groups of goons. Yang rushed forward and threw a small flurry Harley narrowly avoided with her acrobatics, before jumping away and swinging into a new hallway, the security door closing behind her. "Whew. Was that as easy as it looked? Well, it won't be so easy trying to catch me!" She boasted as she hurried ahead to her next goal.
Batman went into the side office and shut down the electric floors, the two of them following where Harley went, deactivating the security door and continuing their pursuit of the female jester. They rushed into the room ahead of them and were shocked to see a couple of guard strung up over electrified water. Harley then showed herself on the other side of a window in a different room. "Look who decided to show up, The Dork Knight himself. And his new little sidekick. How's it hanging, you two?" She asked.
"You'll know as soon as I'm in there with you!" Yang said, about to punch through the glass, but Harley raised and shook her finger. "Uh, uh, uh, Blondie! Got a little problemo for ya!" She said, pointing back to the officers. "See those two guards over there? I know, shocking, right?! How you gonna save 'em?" She asked.
Yang groaned at this. "Ugh, where's Nora when you need her!" She said.
"Get ready, you'll know what to do." Batman said. She looked at him, then the guards and nodded. He turned towards the control panel and hacked it, causing the electricity in the water to turn off.
"No fair, Batman!" Harley whined.
Yang quickly launched herself forward and cut down the first guard by burning the ropes. "You guys never play fair, so we have to even the playing field." Yang countered.
Batman hurried to the next outlet and shut down the power, Yang hurrying and freeing the next guard.
"Time for me to go, Bats! I'll miss you. NOT!" Harley said, before pretending to look at a watch. "Oh and now you have only 30 seconds to get out. Buh-bye!" The harlequin taunted, walking out of view.
"Hurry, the door!" Yang said.
"Already on it." Batman said, preparing to hack the door. After a few seconds, it was open and everyone hurried out.
"Whew. I thought we were both gonna die in there." One of the guards said, relieved.
"You're safe now." Batman assured him.
"And we're going after Harley for what she did here!" Yang said.
"Good. I saw her head out the door as we got out of the room." The guard explained.
"She won't get away. We'll stop her, then her boyfriend." Batman said.
"Good. I'll try to get the ventilation system back online. If you find her, don't go easy on her, for me!" The guard said.
"With pleasure." Yang agreed.
The two then backtracked to the main cell block, Yang knocking out one of the crazies with a single punch, before they found the path Harley obviously took, blocked with a security door. "Come on, you getting tired? Let me help ya!" She said, shutting down the door. "You're getting warmer..." She said teasingly as they proceeded down the path, until they reached a security door.
"The panel must be in the office up there." Batman said, firing at the vent at the bottom of the office and pulling it off, causing a crazy to drop down and lunge at them.
"Eek!" Yang let out a shriek in surprise, blasting the crazy back with a round from her gauntlet. "Okay, I'm getting sick of those guys." She said, panting a little to lower her heart rate.
"It comes with the job." Batman explained, grappling into the office and shutting down the gate, meeting Yang in front of the next set of doors into the extreme incarceration room.
"Here they come, Mr. J!" Harley announced happily to Joker from the tower in the center of the room, while the clown prince of crime observed through the screens.
"Excellent. Well, you're looking a little worse for wear, there, Blondie! I heard you took that bomb I left in the warden's office like it was nothing! She's certainly got more going for her than one of the old Robins..." Joker said, Batman growling at the subtle dig at Jason Todd. "Oh well, we'll just try something more old fashioned next time. Like beating you to death!" Joker finished with a sadistic laugh.
"Why don't you show your face and see if you can back up those words!" Yang snapped.
"We'll see... But for now, I leave it to you, my dear!" Joker said, looking at Harley.
"Get 'em!" She ordered, sending out four thugs to attack the two heroes.
Background Music: "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica (it's the only song about electricity you can fight to)
The thugs split into groups of two to fight the vigilantes. Yang launched herself forward with an elbow to hit the first thug, bringing her fist up into his face and staggering him, before throwing the other fist forward and sending him back into the door to the tower Harley was in. She then dodged a punch from the next one, launching herself into the air while throwing an uppercut, taking the thug with her before blasting a round behind her with her foot extended to deliver a powerful kick, sending the thug flying. Meanwhile, Batman threw a batarang at one of the thugs running at him to knock him down, landing several powerful hits on the thugs still standing, before knocking him down, quickly moving back to the first thug before he could get up and knocking him out with a ground takedown. "Whew! Easy peasy!" She said. Suddenly, the floor began flashing and charging up electricity. "Except for that." She said, annoyed.
"Move!" Batman said, the two of them quickly jumping to the right section of the room.
Eventually, the middle section shut down and the right section was about to be activated, prompting the vigilantes to move back to the center, where 4 more thugs waited for them after coming from the left side. Yang rushed in at one of the thugs, planting her foot into his face and knocking him down after she pressed off, throwing another kick to take down two more as Batman grappled another thug, pulling him in and clotheslining him, rushing at the last standing thug and throwing a few punches to stun him, before picking him up and throwing him at the clotheslined thug just as he got back up.
"Let's turn up the heat! Anyone up for friend bat wings?" Harley asked, activating the middle section again, which the heroes dodged by going to the left section.
The next group of four came from the right section and jumped to the middle as soon as it was safe, starting to rush at the vigilantes. Batman started to move towards them, but Yang held up your arm. "Hang on. I got this one!" She said, running and jumping onto the rail, leaping high into the air and readying her gauntlet. Batman actually smirked as he remembered what came next: the first technique he'd ever seen her use, a devastating ground pound that send a shockwave through the entire floor of the middle section.
She then jumped to the right section as the middle one was electrified, separating her from Batman as a group of six thugs ran in at him from the left side. "Then I guess it's my turn." He said, rushing in at them. A few of them tried to attack, but he dodged and left a spray of explosive gel in the middle of all of them, activating it and blasting them into the air and then onto their backs, dazed and open for three of them to receive a batarang to the face, knocking them out. The other three got back up and rushed at Batman, who headbutted the first one to stagger him and leave him open for Batman to pick him up and throw him at the other two. The first one ducked, but the other got hit and both thugs were knocked unconscious. The remaining thug looked back at them in shock and horror, before turning back in time to see Batman swing his cape in his face, stunning him and allowing Batman to land a swift barrage of punches, ending in a powerful uppercut.
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"Nice work." Yang said with a smile as Batman rejoined her in the middle.
"You weren't bad yourself." He said, before they both looked up at Harley.
"They've done it again! I don't believe it! I'm on my way now!" Harley said, about to leave, but...
"Oops! Change of plans, kiddo!" Joker said, to which Harley pouted.
"But I tried my best!" She pleaded.
"Sorry, but there is no prize for second place!" Joker said.
"There is and it's called silver!" Yang said, remembering what Ruby would say when someone said a similar version of Joker's claim.
"Yeah! What she said!" Harley agreed.
"Regardless, I'm afraid you're off the party list! Better luck next time!" Joker laughed evilly.
"Nooo!" Harley whined as she threw a tantrum, before rushing down to them. "Die, you big, ugly bat!" She snapped, doing a series of flips and cartwheels as she rushed in towards them, but mostly aiming for Batman, eventually throwing a kick at him, but he caught it and threw her into the railing. He reached down to pull her up, but she pulled away. "Hey, hands off the merchandise!" She snapped.
"Hey, what's that?" Yang said, reaching towards Harley's cleavage and pulling out a list, handing it to Batman.
"Hey, that's my party list!" Harley snapped.
"Quiet." The Dark Knight told her as he inspected the list. "Why the smiles next to certain names?" He asked.
"You're the detective, you tell me!" Harley snapped.
Batman put the list away in his belt, Harley using the presumed opening to try and land a punch on Batman, but she didn't pay attention to Yang, earning her a fist in the side of the head, knocking her down once more. "You're gonna have to do better than that, Harley. Even if it was just him." Yang said with a smirk.
Batman then grabbed Harley's wrist and turned up her hand to scan her fingerprints, before leading her to a nearby cell. "Get in." He said, pushing her in, the door closing behind her.
"That's supposed to hold her? She could slide right through." Yang said, looking at the obvious flaw in cell, as the bars were at least two feet apart, more than enough space for someone as slender as Harley to fit through. Hell, Yang would bet even Professor Port could fit through the bars if he sucked his gut in enough.
"She won't." He said.
"And you won't find Mr. J! He's in the secret lab in the gardens and-" She started, before realizing she spilled the beans. "Oh, crap!" She said, mentally hitting herself.
"Yep. I know." Batman said as they started to walk away.
"Jeez, why does the Joker trust her with anything important?" Yang asked.
"Because he's out of his mind." Batman answered simply.
