Jason and Dick crashed down threw the roof window and into the same small room that had been on the camera. They looked around the empty room and instantly ran over to the table that held a body, blood leaked from the bodies fingers and over the edges of the silver table, hands and feet were strapped down and messy black hair was covering the boy`s blood smeared face.
"Robin..." Dick said pressing a hand to the boy`s still chest and grabbing the fabric. Jason frowned and walked over quickly and roughly pushed the black hair from the boy`s face to see someone who wasn't Robin, this wasn't Tim.
"Surprise!" Yelled a voice in the speakers Dick and Jason got back to back and all they could do was wait for something to happen, their eyes where trained on the door and they weren't prepared for the floor to open under them and they hit the fragile wooden floor.
Jason growled and tried to push himself up when his hand brushed a familiar fabric, he looked over and gasped seeing Robin laying beside him and Nightwing and Jason reached from Tim and shook him, "Robin, come on time to get up."
Tim`s fingers twitched slightly and Jason growled looking around the dark room, he hosted himself on his arm and slapped Tim across the face, "Robin!"
Tim`s eyes snapped open and sat up faster then he could blink, "Wha- your- you guy should never have come." he said his voice stuttered and uneasy. Dick tried to push himself up, "We`d never leave you."
The floor creaked under their weight and with a sudden jolt it broke under them and they tumbled down hitting dirt and mud and water as they stumbled down the hill like hole, they hit rock bottom jumbled up against each other. Jason hissed and tried to regain the air that had been knocked out of him, they were in a small muddy dirt floored room, no light except from the place they had just fallen from.
"What is this place." Dick growled threw gritted teeth as they felt around the walls for something, anything.
Tim found a small handled and pulled on it opening a door way to a narrow hall, they had no real choices, it was this way or stay. They walked down the hall. there were three doors at the end with a smile painted on the front of each.
"What is this." Jason hissed.
"Just call it my own personal investment you wont cheat pumpkin." Joker`s voice sounded loud and clear on the hidden speakers. The three stood there sharing a quick look before glancing back at the wooden doors, "that's you que to open the doors sweeties, sigh they just don't make common sense like they used to."
"A little impatient aren't we?" Tim growled looking around.
"Tsk tsk Boy blunder, it`s all part of the party but you have to open the surprise first!" Joker giggled cheerfully.
Dick rolled his eyes behind his mask and nodded to them counting down with his fingers, one, two ,three. All three of them grabbed onto the door handles and it lit up like a light shocking each one of them until they fell to the floor unconscious.
Jason`s head hit the ground and as hard as he tried to make his limbs move it was no use, and then he was out.
XX
Jason`s head rolled against the hard ground, he groaned against the ach in his bones as he pulled rolled onto his back and sat up looking at his tied legs and he could feel the rope rub against him raw skin.
Dried mud stuck to every inch of his skin and his suit, it didn't take him more then a minute to realize his Jacket, guns, and gloves were gone, the water that had been on them when they were shocked had given the shock and extra voltage.
IT took more out of him then he thought, Jason growled as a light turned on above him and his eyes got wide as a small robot standing over him brought down a crowbar, he rolled away and onto his tied feet. another robot came out of the shadows and swiped under him and Jason jumped up and kicked off of the bot making tit crash into the other one.
"Ah your awake, hm, you boy`s always make so much racket." Joker`s voice sounded threw the room loud and clear but it seemed to bounce around making it impossible to pinpoint.
Jason pulled against the rope breaking on his hands before pulling the rope off his legs before standing up and getting a good look around the room, it was smaller but there was no denying this was meant to look like the ware house...where he was blown up.
"Do you like the décor? I Personally it think it`s could use a little...red." Joker laughed and Jason ignored the man looking around, he didnt see Nightwing or Robin. So where were they?
"I`m not playing your sick game of hide and seek Joker, come out and fight me like a man you piece of shit!" Jason hissed threw gritted teeth.
"Tsk, Tsk, Red, is that any way to treat a friend, besides i bruise easy." Joker giggled, "Besides this is a party so lets have some fun."
"The only fun I`m going to have is when rip out your throat like i should have done I moment i saw you." he spat, Jason walked over to the door and found it was lock, just like before, funny. He took a step back and kicked the door open and Joker Laughed his still impossible to pinpoint in the hall way.
"Wow and you`ve sure gotten graphic red, oh this is going to be fun! Hold that thought red big in blue is waking up, oh good!" the halls instantly got quiet and Jason was able to focus on the task at hand, finding the others and getting out of this hell hole.
Jason looked around and suddenly the floor opened beneath him and Jason gasped grabbing the edge, he wasnt falling down not again! he was pulling himself up when suddenly the wall he was facing crashed into him and he had no choice but to hand on the floor.
All around shown mirrors here and there, he walked around eyeing every corner cautiously, this was a maze, so he had to get threw this, this game that the Joker had made up for his own insane reasons to show he was still prince of crime.
Suddenly something jumped out next to him and Jason spun and punched hitting the glass and earning a think cut on the back of his hand but he ignored it the best he could as he looked around behind him, this were mirror's he dealing with if he saw one thing here it had to be somewhere else. he saw it, it was a standing cut out of the a clown, someone, Joker obviously was pulling switches in this mad house and that meant trouble for everyone.
he walked over to it and something brushed against the front of his ankle and his took a sharp breath when he heard a hard, solid, clink. He didn't bother to look so he settled for his best option, he pushed himself over one of the mirrors and crashed into the walls, they were the weakness part of the building and it was his only escape before the room blew.
He rolled feeling pieces of glass hit against him like rain. it cut against his bare hands hand and cut threw his suit not getting anything important but it stung like hell.
"Shish you never heard of a door kid?" Joker pouted but it didn't last, "carry on, and try not to blow up any more of my rooms if your not in it, this stuff isn't cheap you know."
"Screw you." Jason growled getting up and carrying on down the hall.
"hey Red," Joker grinned into the speakers, "What really goes bum in the night."
Jason blinked and opened his mouth when something slammed into his side and he was throw threw the wall and into the next room, he got to his feet coughing and looked up as another trigger somewhere was pulled and a net of bricks smashed into his side as he tried to jump out of the way, Jason hissed as he hit the floor and rolled to a stop.
"Fucking...hate...clowns." he hissed out of breath, he groaned when he tried to move his sides, he`d broke something, weather it was his dignity in not being in control of the situation of his ribs, dunno. but it hurt.
"Does that refresh your memory champ?" Joker snickered, "Hm, watch out for dropping birds."
"What?" Jason hissed in confusion at the remark as he pushed himself to his feet, the roof above his head opened and he hit the floor again when something landed on him, the floor opened under him and Jason tried to catch himself before he, and who he assumed was Robin and now Nightwing, before they even hit the floor the ground under Dick`s feet open and Jason grabbed Dick`s hand and Robin`s while Tim held on to the edge while Dick gasped at the vat below him, bubbling and hissing with hot steam they rose up.
"AGH!" Tim cried, he was supporting to grown men with one arm, sooner than last his arm was going to either rip from his socket or he`d dislocate it.
Dick looked up at him and swallowed, "Drop me."
Jason blinked he knew what Dick was asking he swung Dick to the side twice before they let go and he made it on the edge of the vat and jumped off of that part landing elsewhere. Jason looked up and reached for the top as Tim tried his best to help pull him up and not lose his own grip. Jason pulled himself up faster then the younger boy and grabbed the back of his cape and roughly pulled him up and they got to their feet, Tim looked exhausted.
"No time to slow down Golden boy." Jason said grabbing the boy`s shoulder and running down a few steps, Tim stumbled to keep up but he was out of breath and had probably been beaten around just like him, not to mention Dick who was probably just below them.
"What is this place?" Robin gasped as they ran around a corner.
"An abandoned hotel." Jason said.
"Hu?" Tim blinked almost tripping on himself, "how`d you know that?"
"This is the old theater motel, it`s been a crime house even before they shut it down, I came here a lot when I was on the streets as a kid, this is crime ally Robin." he said, "If I can remember there`s a stair case here!" Jason said as he shoved himself into a planks of painted wood over a door way.
BANG!
Jason stumbled back, and slumped against the wall, "Owch."
"RED!" Tim leaned down beside him and pulled off his hood, right then he was glad he had the eye mask for precaution, Tim`s face was flashing in and out of context, it was either the lights or his eyes, he had no idea witch ones though. "Oh god, Red speak to me."
Tim patted Jason`s cheek lightly as if to try and wake him, "I-I`m kay." he hissed and he grabbed Tim`s shoulder and the boy helped him to his feet. "Your bleeding."
JAson nodded and held a hand to his abdomen and looked a the blood on his hand, "That's what usually happens when you get shot."
Jason looked up at the door way and saw a shotgun placed close to it, probably for precaution if they tried to take the easy way out. figures. most of the bullet fragments had been caught in his suit, thank god for Kevlar, but some larger pieces had the momentum to get him. "I`ll be okay." he took a deep breath and walked back threw the door, no doubt there were more booby traps laid here, but they had to get to Nightwing, regrouping was the first thing they could do before they found the mad man and killed him.
Tim kept close following with out question but kept his eyes wary and open for more unseen traps, and gimmicks. He and Robin knocked a few out of place, along with another gun pointed at a door like above. they burst threw into a smaller darker hall way, the walls were slick and concrete telling him there would be no more make shift rooms they couldn't handle.
"Where`s Nightwing." Tim asked obviously worried as he looked around the hall, Jason headed the only way they really could, it was the way Nightwing would have gone the halls mimicked the ones down here and it wasn't hard to memorize any more if he paid attention. Joker was a real piece of work, pulling all of this together, getting them here, there had to be more though, Joker always had to end with a bang, figuratively or literally.
He pushed open a steel unlocked door.
"RED!" Jason blinked seeing Dick holding a man in a head lock, and pulling him to the floor before jumping up and away from the others reach. Dick handed next to them and the three instantly leapt apart as the group of me came closer to them. Their mouths were stretched wide and they held the small demented exasperation as the Joker, with out the make up and bleached skin. this was Joker toxin, the cynical laughing that came from each one was most like a cry for help.
"We need to regroup." Tim yelled from the middle of the room and he swung from a hanging light to get an extra boost in a face kick.
"we need to kill Joker that's what we need!" Jason spat punching the closest man in the gut and then grabbing him and throwing him over his should to stop another few right next to him. They were losing and running around and no matter what they did Joker had them on a leash, they were all trapped in this hell hole and there was not way out, Joker probably had some type of idea if they mad it out.
"AGH!" Nightwing hissed punching another man away with an uninjured hand, "We have to leave! Batman can help us."
Jason growled and jumped up shoved bother feet into the mans chest and flipping back to land beside the others once more, "Fine." he forced out of his pinched lips.
They held back the men who were losing their fight in them, the gas would wear off but if they didn't get medical attention once they collapsed they could end up dying, who these people were didn't matter, they really couldn't take the chance that they might be regular men in the world or street rats that got in over their heads working for Joker.
Tim slipped between his older brothers and reached for the door only for it to slam shut and lock automatically.
"NO!" they yelled in unison. the other men in the room slowly stopped fighting and fell to the floor, eyes rolled to the back of their heads. Jason`s fist hit the door, "I will not be trapped in this hell hole, not again, not again!" his yelled. Joker`s laugh was the only thing they could hear on the intercom, louder then anywhere else, the sounds bounced and jumped around the room like an echo. same as the Bat cave.
"Ha, having fun kiddies?" Joker giggled darkly his voice hitting even harder on their ears as Jason stepped aside and let Dick try and pick the door. with a small nail that he had pulled from the wall.
"Hello, am I alone here, answer me when daddy talks to you boys!" Joker howled into the com making them cover their ears and gasp at the volume. "Okay, I`ll take that as a yes, listen kido`s I was thinking why don't you just come and find me? Hm, try it, my hands are tied, well not literally, don't want to give any advantages now, but come on. I`m waiting," Joker said, "are you scared? is it true that you kids are really brats in tights with out your bat dad, hell maybe I should have gone after the girl she might have been more fun that you three!" Dick lose concentration at that and the nail broke in his hands, Joker continued not noticing the slip up Dick made, "does Daddy still tell you how scary it is out there? Hmmm? under all that macho grandee act you three are still helpless, (sigh) maybe I should just go get my crowbar and we can hope for round to, because if you cant beat me then how can you even help yourself? All of you just get in the way of me and Bats fun. How many times do I have to kill you bird boys to get the point across, how many people and going to die before you give up?"
Jason, Tim and Dick shared looks, confessed ones, was this mad man saying the only reason he was killed, the only reason everyone was killed more and more over the years was because of the Robin legacy and the weird fascination he had with Batman? it made a bit of sense and guilt seep into them, what Joker said, they couldn't beat him, could they? Not with out Bruce, the man probably the same amount of crazy as Joker knew this man, and how, because he couldn't get under his skin when he got threw theirs.
"Hey, don't leave me sitting here all night, do something I`m getting bored." Joker sighed, "Come on birdy boy, first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the treasure chest doesn't apply here, or was it hairy chest?" Joker smiled challenging Tim to do something. Jason opened his mouth to tell the clown off but Tim placed a hand on his upper arm, "I think I know where Joker is."
"How?" Dick and Jason asked in the same uncertain tone, Tim looked around, "His voice is bouncing here, more then usually, the sound is traveling threw the walls somewhere."
"Hm, boring, how about this if you cant find me in the next five, no four minutes then I fill the room with gas and you three fight to the death, just remember, bats are to the left and crowbars to the right." Joker snickered cutting off.
Tim and the others instantly started to searched the walls running their finger threw the walls, splinters and forming blisters were already forming on their palms from every thing but it didn't stop them from looking for an escape, Jason got close enough to Dick to see the older boy was counting down keeping track.
Apparently that was over-rated now a days, The man man`s voice sounded back on the inter com, "3:00, 2:59, Hmm 10 ,9 8," the joker said a smile clearly on his face. Suddenly Robin jumped up and grabbed the dangling light and pulled his feet up hitting the ceiling as hard as he could, "Up!" he hissed, just as he did green smoke entered the room and Jason got down on one knee as Dick jumped off his back and flipped in the tight space pushing against the ceiling and breaking it a bit.
Joker`s laugh only grew to an insane level as his brought his foot on Dick`s fingers, Dick instantly stumbled back and crashed on top of him making it easier to breath in the green gas. Jason giggled a small laugh as he pushed himself up and bit his bottom lip not holding back the growing smile on his face, "ha ha ha." he smiled, Tim hung from the ceiling and ripped away a large chuck of wood as Dick sat on his knees holding a hand over his own mouth and laughing like a child.
"Hurry, hehe, up." Jason laughed pushing Dick away forcefully as he stood up laughing uncontrollably, Dick wrapped his arms around his legs, tripping him and then the older boy sat on top and punching him laughing, "hurry! haha" Dick cried out in an amused gasp. the smoke was turning them on each other and making them act like idiots while they killed each other.
Jason lunged up and wrapped his hands around Dick`s neck, he fought to loosen his grip as much as he could as Dick grabbed his neck with one hand and dug his fingers into his side pressing on his bullet wounds, Jason pulled him into a head but and let go of his neck punching him twice in the face before Dick grabbed his hand and twisted it with a small crack. the only noises that came form them were the sounds of laugher.
Jason pulled up his legs and flipped Dick over but they broke apart and were on their feet and Jason kicked out hitting Dick in the chest and then spun back around catching him in the jaw. Dick flipped over him and spun him around and threw him into the wall shoving his elbow into Jason`s shoulder, Jason flipped over and shoved both elbows into Dick`s sides to hard and ended up hitting the wall too.
Jason laughed as Tim ran at him. he flipped over him and when he turned around the teen jumped up and punched him and threw a kick into his side, Jason chuckled and grabbed the teens raised leg and pulled him loser punching him in the face and spinning the younger boy around and putting him in a head lock chocking him out. Dick ran over to them and jumped over and his feet collided with Jason`s face and after Dick shoved his Knee into his jaw and Jason dug his fingers into the older boys side Dick wall being pulled up, Jason instantly jumped up after him smiling.
Once he was out of the green smoke his head started to clear eve if just a little to see Joker smiling and leaning against the computer whipping a bit of blood from his lower lip, Tim must have gotten to him first and gotten a few good punches in. Jason instantly felt heat rise in his chest as he lunged forward and wrapped his hands around Joker`s throat, the man giggled and laughed and pulled a bat from behind the computer and hit him in the face. Jason stumbled back and Dick instantly took his place in front of Joker beating his face in. Tim pushed Jason to his feet and Jason kicked the mad man in his second wind.
The laughing Joker kept doing was only fueling their hate and anger and they threw punch after punch after punch.
Tim grabbed the collar of his shirt and Jason and him helped Pulled the man threw the connecting door and out of the building, "I win." Joker laughed every few seconds. Dick placed a foot on his chest and grabbed the man`s jaws and leaned in close, "How, How do you think you`ve won." he hissed not caring about the blood dripping from his mouth and lower lip.
Joker burst out laughing hysterically, Jason rolled his eyes and clenched his teeth kicking the man in the face, "were not done."
"Oh goodie more fun." Joker smiled, "Just remember, green and purple go great together only if you have the make up to go with it." he laughed over his lungs and Tim dropped him, "What do you mean?"
"Your more like me then you`ve even realized, I broke you in two and molded you into something like well...ME!" Joker burst out laughing and Jason picked the man up and threw him against the wall, and shook him, "We are NOTHING like YOU!" Jason yelled.
Jason punched Joker between the eyes and the man was out cold, it was only then that each of them got the chance to look at their red bloodied hands. Jason his hands threw his hair and didn't hesitate to pull Joker out of the building as Dick and Tim helped each other out, each of Jokers words seeping in deep.
A/N: Sorry it took so long to update, I`ve had this head ack for a few days and all I`ve been wanting to do is sleep after school, back to the old updating thought :)