Batman Arkham Huntress
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This Fanfiction is co-written with Greking46
Chapter 11
*With Batman*
Batman has been caught into Crane's hallucinogenic toxin yet again but he has gripped Crane by his hood so he couldn't escape "You've ingested enough toxin to drive TEN MEN INSANE! What ARE you?" Crane cowered back then ran off down an elevator into the sewers.
Batman pursued him diving down on top the elevator prying the lid open and followed Crane to the end of the hall "Too late, Batman! One step closer...and THIS goes in the water!" Crane presented a carrying pouch filled with toxin powder "The cave will be filled with your, deepest, darkest nightmares and you'll never get your precious Venom roots!"
"Don't do it Crane! I've already got someone who has the roots." Batman answered
"What? But that's..." Crane wondered then cackled at the prospect of dropping his toxin into the water. But unfortunately he was grabbed by a VERY pissed off Killer Croc. "AH, ARGH!" Crane screamed in terror of being killed by Croc. Batman threw his batarang at Croc activating the shock collar and both Croc and Crane were dropped in the water.
"Why can't any of them just stay down?" he sighed
"Huntress are you there?" Batman asked receiving no answer "Huntress are you there?"
"Y... yea. Sorry, I was surprised by your voice." She smiled
"Have you managed to talk to Ivy yet?" Batman asked
"Yea. The Titan affected her through her plants, calmed her down." Helena reassured/explained
"Well that's good. But I don't know how it affected her." Batman answered
'Oh, I know how it affected her...' Helena blushed
"Neither do I. I'll meet up with you at that 'clown face thing' the Joker has been making all night? I think it's time we ended this." Helena said
"That's my girl. I'll meet you there." Batman answered signing off.
'That's my girl.'
Those words echoed in Helena's mind as she stood there frozen
"Helena? Helena are you okay?" Ivy asked
"I-I...I'm so happy..." Helena answered with tears dripping down
"What's wrong?" Harley asked
"Err...just...nothing. It's nothing, just some good news." Helena answered
"Did he praise you?" Ivy guessed easily
"Yeah...yeah he did." Helena smiled
"Must be some boyfriend to make you smile like that." Ivy answered
"Boyfriend? EW! Oh god no! No! It was...it was my dad." Helena was grossed out
"Your dad?" Harley asked in shock
"Yeah...You know how you called me "Bat-Cat"? Well you weren't COMPLETELY off." Helena shrugged cutely
"You-your DAD is...?" Harley was in disbelief
"Yep." Helena smiled like a kitten
"The Bat and the Cat had a kid." Helena grinned
"God damn..." Harley exclaimed
"And by the way we just played...you've inherited QUITE the libido." Ivy slid her arms around her lover
"Hmmmm. Thank you." Helena smiled
"I better go. Dad's waiting on me." Helena kissed Ivy then turned her attention to Harley, kissing her tenderly. "TRY and stay out of trouble. Please?" She pouted
"Sure." Ivy smiled
"I'll try." Harley grinned
"I'll be back." Helena smiled as she went to the "Clown Face Thing" Harley talked about.
Meeting up with Batman, Helena managed to get herself back to a respectful appearance. "Here they are: the guests of honour. Don't be bad hosts boys, let them in." Joker's voice spoke through a speaker system
The two where on guard as they walked through the place, the inmates cheering
"I know." She nodded, kicking the door open
They were introduced to a fanfare of trumpets, confetti and inmates wearing party hats. Passing through the hall they were met with a television covered head Joker. As he continued talking the television exploded stunning Helena and her father. They shook it off, and continued through a separate room to where Joker was using the Scarface puppet to talk to.
"This ends NOW!" Helena yelled
"Oh my dear Bat-Cat, the party has only just begun!" Joker spoke as he released two Titan infused guards and his own group of inmates
"The beginning of the end." Bruce frowned, pulling out a Batarang
"Oh Bat's, the fun's only starting!" Joker laughed as both started fighting Joker's horde
Helena flipped and kicked as she danced around the room, Bruce sending multiple powerful strikes
With only the Titan infused guards remained. Helena and Batman maintained a strike assault on them but as soon as the Giants were tired the father and daughter leaped on top of them and drove them like a bucking bronco making them smash into each other.
And in one swift move, they were down
"You know...you two are REALLY starting to mess up my party! But what about the commissioner?" Joker commented as he brought down on a rope a tied up Jim Gordon.
"JIM!" Bruce yelled
"... Didn't he get off the Island?" Helena muttered
"Please Bat's I run the show here! No one leaves without MY say so. Besides he looks tired, let's pep him up!" Joker explained pulling an injection gun from his jacket poised to shoot Jim.
Bruce ran at full speed, pushing Jim out of the way as Joker pulled the trigger
Batman was hit with the dart meant for Jim "Batman/Dad!"
"Dad? A-ha! Wow Batsy! Never knew you had it in you; but you've ruined months of planning! All straight down the crapper!" Joker yelled
Bruce growled and pulled out the antidote, staggering as he clearly seemed to be fighting the Titan
The Joker's body fell back, seemingly dead, as Bruce stabbed the antidote into himself, injecting the medicine into his bloodstream
"You okay?" Jim asked
"I should be." Batman groaned getting up hoping the antidote will activate quickly
A cackling laughter sounded from Joker's body as it began to twitch, stretch, then tear and grow.
"... Not good." Helena muttered, pulling out her crossbow
*outside the asylum*
Helena and Bruce were flung by a Titaned Joker "Smile Bats! You're on camera!" Joker laughed
Helena groaned as she pulled herself up and looked around, they were in a makeshift arena with a helicopter flying above them
Bruce glared at the helicopter's spotlight before he turned to the now 18 foot tall Joker
"Now, here's the fun part Batsy!" Joker threw Batman to the ground with such force Bruce thought he was flung from a car.
"DAD!" Helena yelled as she ran to his side
"I'm fine." Bruce sighed
"A-HA, HA! Show time boys! Where's Harley with that camera? I want to remember this!" Joker called out asking for his assistants
Helena held her crossbow ready, unfolding her mother's whip as she cracked it "This'll be fun." She grinned slightly darkly
"Ooh, kinky aren't you? Of course if you've got a dad who wears nothing but black leather you outta get THAT sort fetish won't you?" Titan Joker laughed
"Don't say ANYTHING about my father!" Helena shot a bolt at Joker
Joker growled as her arrow pierced his arrow in the EXACT same spot she had shot EARLIER that night! She then wrapped her whip around Joker's neck and pulled him off the tower he was standing on as Bruce charged in
The Dark Knight used his Cape to Stun Joker before he began a Beat-Down. His fists flurried as he slammed them into the Joker's mutated stomach and face
"Alright ENOUGH!" Joker slammed his fists into the ground causing a small shock wave shaking off Helena and Bruce.
Bruce stumbled back but kept his footing, and threw five batarang's at Joker which cut into his face.
"GAH!" Joker yelled in pain, his large clawed hands shooting to his face. The Batman then charged, dropping to the floor, and sliding between the Joker's legs. As he did so, he fired his BatClaw... Into the Jokers balls "Oooooooh!" The mutated Joker gasped, falling to his knees as Batman stood back up behind him and threw down a smoke-bomb
"Same old tricks Batman! I've evolved!" Joker proclaimed attacking the air. Only for the smoke to fade, revealing he was holding HELENA and not her father
"Peekaboo." Helena grinned before she raised her legs and slammed her heels into his face making him drop her. She fired arrows into his knees before she wrapped her whip around his neck, strangling him so Bruce could get to work
"This. Isn't. Over. Bats!" Joker choked
"No. It IS!" Batman fought into him, punching him straight down into the catacombs of Arkham Asylum.
An explosion went off as his fist met Joker's face, Bruce having sprayed explosive gel onto his glove and detonated it as the punch connected
"We did it." Helena panted
"You're right. We did." Batman answered
*Time Skip*
"Where is she?" Bruce thought aloud as he waited outside of Arkham Asylum, his daughter having disappeared
"Sorry, had to talk Ivy into going back to her cell." Helena smiled as she landed next to her father
"...Is that red and black lipstick?" Bruce deadpanned, pointing at the two different kinds of lipstick smudged onto Helena's pink lips
"Huh? Oh, no. Probably came off when Harley was helping Ivy." Helena lied
"Huntress...!" Batman stared at her
"... Yes?" Helena gulped
"I'm going to ask you again. And I want to hear the truth: Is that red and black lipstick?" Batman asked like a stern father.
"*Gulp* Y-Yeah..." Helena confessed
"And WHY is it on you?" He glared
"I...err...Reasons?" Helena shrugged cutely
"H-" Batman begun but was interrupted by Commissioner Gordon.
"Thank you. The both of you. Joker and his goons are locked up tighter in Arkham." Gordon spoke
"No problem Jim." Batman quickly turned his attention to his friend
"Yeah, it's what we do." Helena smiled
"If I were you, I'd rub those smudges off your mouth. You look a bit like him over there..." Jim pointed to a broken jawed and missing teethed Joker. But what he was indicating was the red smile Joker was famous for.
"Thanks." Helena muttered, wiping away the lipstick
"You the 'new Catwoman'?" Jim asked
"N... no! My costume and gear was damaged, so I needed to get something else." Helena blushed
"Ah well...here." Jim handed her his jacket.
"Thanks Commissioner." Helena smiled
"Bruce." Barbra suddenly said as Bruce and Helena got into the BatMobile, Helena's costume put into the trunk
"What is it Oracle?" Bruce asked
"Two Face is robbing Gotham National." Barbra said simply
Bruce was silent as he looked at Helena, who was tired from not only Arkham but ALSO from the patrol at her own time/world just before she arrived. He, himself, was also feeling a bit sluggish. He was about to answer when...
"I will do." a weak, Asian voice said over the coms making Helena jump
"JESUS! H... Have you been on the coms all night?!" Helena yelled
"Yes." Cassandra Cain nodded simply
"A-ha...How much have you heard?" Helena asked
"Enough." Cassandra answered
"Oh Aunt Cass, you are crazy." she groaned
"I won't say anything if you don't want me too. I know the value of a secret." Cassandra answered
"Thanks Aunt Cass." Helena smiled
"We will see you at the end of Patrol Cassandra." Bruce said seriously
"This conversation isn't over yet, Helena." Bruce pointed at his daughter
"I know." Helena answered
'Oh god... this is going to be HELL!' she thought with a deep sigh as Bruce took off for the cave, feeling VERY awkward
Inside the Cave Bruce had removed his helmet and revealed his real face. "So...Is there anything you want to tell me?" Bruce asked
"Err... No. Nothing really." she blushed
"Helena, we're alone, you can trust me. You didn't come back from Ivy for over ten minutes, what WERE you doing?" Bruce tried to understand.
"... Making out." she muttered
Bruce rubbed the inside of his ear with a non-gloved hand "Sorry, I must have miss heard you. But it sounded like: making out?"
"Yeah..." She admitted
"With... Poison Ivy?"
"Yea." she nodded again
"Whoa." Dick Grayson muttered, neither Bruce or Helena having noticed him when they entered
"Uncle/Dick!" the two gasped
"You...You made out with POISON IVY?" Dick asked
"Y... Yes." Helena blushed, looking away
"Bloody hell...Next thing you'll tell us that you had a tryst with Harley Quinn!" Dick commented
"Erm..." Helena blushed
"Oh God..." Bruce face-palmed himself
"SERIOUSLY?!" Dick yelled
"She's a lot different when she's not with Joker!" Helena defended
"So are GOLDFISH!" Dick answered
"I... I'm what?"
"No, you're not a goldfish, what I MEAN is: Quinn was a respected psychologist before Joker got his claws into her and scrambled her brain!" Dick explained
"And I'm helping her."
"Helena...even if you help them...what's to say she won't slip?" Bruce asked
"If they slip, I will catch them. And it is easy to stand from a slip, harder to stand from a fall." Helena said seriously
Bruce looked at his daughter "Do you care for them?"
"Huh? Bruce what're you saying?" Helena and Dick asked
"Do you love them?" He said seriously
"Yes." Helena answered simply and honestly.
Bruce stared at her for what seemed ages "Alright then."
"Alright? Alright? Seriously Bruce?!" Dick deadpanned
"Seriously." Bruce nodded "I trust your sister Dick, you should to. Now, she must be tired. Alfred's making pancakes take her up and lead her to her new room. I need to put this event into the database, and will then wait for Cassandra to come back."
Helena hugged her father. "Thank you dad." She smiled and cried slightly on his back.
"Go get some sleep." Bruce smiled
"Okay." She nodded, kissing his cheek "'Day!" She waved, running upstairs
"She's going to be a handful Bruce." Dick commented
"She's family Dick. We're ALL a handful." Bruce commented
"Dick, Dick are you there?" Oracle asked
"Yo Barb I'm here. What's up?" Dick answered
"Me and Helena have got something for you to listen to." Oracle added
"Oh no..." Bruce groaned as he knew what was coming.
"Sure, go ahead Babs." Dick shrugged
*With Helena*
Helena walked straight up into Wayne Manor, it was just as amazing as she imagined it from her mother's description of it from years ago...which could be considered yesterday if you consider time travel. 'I...I...it's amazing...' She couldn't speak and formed tears of joy.
"Miss?" Alfred asked as he walked towards her
"Alfred..." She whispered with joy and hugged him
"Oh...I take it you're a friend of Master Tim's or Master Dick's?" Alfred asked
"No. I'm Helena Martha Wayne, Bruce's daughter from the future." Helena smiled
"Oh..." Alfred looked funnily at her "Would you like some pancakes?" he asked kindly
"Love some." Helena smiled as they headed to the kitchen
"It's great to finally meet you, Grandpa Alfred." She smiled as they reached the kitchen
"G-g-GRANDPA Alfred?" Alfred froze in shock
"You're my dad's guardian. So...Grandpa Alfred." Helena explained
"Thank you my dear." Alfred smiled, hugging her
"A-ha, ha, ha, ha!" Dick's laugh could be heard.
"Sounds like Uncle Dick has heard Dad's jokes." Helena giggled
"Master Bruce made jokes? Oh my, you MUST be a positive influence on him." Alfred smiled as Dick emerged from the grandfather clock entrance
"I can't, I can't *stiffed laugh* oh...that's made my day..." Dick laughed
"I know." Helena grinned
"Ah, Master Dick. I hope you'll participate for breakfast." Alfred smiled
"Sure I will." Dick smiled
*in the BatCave*
Bruce sighed as he sat the BatComputer, looking at the screen. On said computer, was the picture of the one woman who may change his life: Catwoman, Selena Kyle.
'Helena...my daughter and hers...it's not IMPOSSIBLE...' Bruce thought
He brought a hand up and put his hand on the screen, over her face
'Would she even...*sigh* Even after EVERYTHING...' Bruce thought thinking on Selina, how many times they ran into each other in combat and love...sometime the love WAS combat...his uphold of the law and her breaking them...how could they have a daughter like Helena? But he noticed something in her: she was a Wayne, not only that she was HIS daughter! She never killed and she did ALL she could to make her father proud. Damn the taboo that would transpire, he loved Selina and he loved his daughter. He'd try to love Selina one more time, hopefully to get it right.
"I hope I get this right." He sighed
"Sure you will. I'm proof aren't I?" Helena arrived down to the cave with a plate of pancakes in each hand, handing one over to him.
"... Thank you." he smiled as he took the pancakes, Helena smiling as she sat next to him
This was a picture: father and daughter eating breakfast. Obviously you HAD to get a picture because you hardly saw Bruce eat or have any time to relax. But Helena had that effect on him. While he thought on about Selina and how he'll get her back. Helena was thinking about...someone else. Her uncle: Jason Todd.
She knew he would come back, there would be blood... and Damian would follow in his wake.
All... in the Insane City.
The End
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