Fear Will Be Your Enemy

by Arkham Master

A loner named Jacob, who lives in Gotham and idolizes Batman, finds a magic crystal that takes him to Arendelle, where he meets The Frozen Cast. After getting to know Queen Elsa and her life in solitude, they begin to fall in love. Meanwhile, Scarecrow returns to expose all of Gotham and Arendelle to his fear toxin. The Frozen Cast teams up with Batman to stop the psychotic doctor.

25. Chapter 25: The Last Laugh

Fear Will Be Your Enemy Chapter 25: The Last Laugh

The toxin had completely taken over Batman's mind and his worst fear was being brought to life in his head. The same medical restraint gurney that had Batman strapped to it was currently in a clearing in The Narrows and was in front of Penguin, Two-Face, Killer Croc, and The Riddler, along with hundreds of goons pointing their guns at him, but instead of Batman, it was The Joker. "So, what are we waiting for? Let's get this done.", said Riddler. "No, no. We all need to do this right. He needs to face justice.", said Two-Face. "This son of a bitch killed fifty of our men.", said Penguin. "I just wanna eat his flesh and bones.", said Croc. "Shut up, Croc!", said Two-Face. "I say we finish him before he wakes up. He's too dangerous.", said Riddler. "We've got a hundred guns trained on him. He's going nowhere!", said Two-Face. Joker was waking up and once he fully came to, he said, "Guys! Guys! Guys! it's so good to see all of you! I've had a devil of a time tracking you down.", said Joker. "Tracking US down? We caught you!", said Penguin. "Oh, Cobblepot. Always cruel, but never cunning. Croc, old boy, you might wanna duck!", said Joker. A Joker-themed version of The Batmobile with green, purple, and white painting with a red-lipped, smiling and actually laughing mouth on the front bumper called The Jokermobile then came out of nowhere and drove right through the buildings behind Joker. Croc scurried away and the other 3 villains went inside a building. The Jokermobile then broke Joker free and he then jumped in the car. The car then turned into a battle tank. "This'll be a killer! Hahahahaha!", Joker said as he began shooting and blasting at all of the goons. They were all being shot dead or blown sky high because of The Joker's crazy killing tank. Within a minute, all the goons were dead and then Joker got out of the car and said, "So much more fun with my hands on the controls!". He then went after Penguin, Two-Face, and Riddler with a shotgun. "Guys, where did you go?", he said. He then saw that before croc scurried away, he lost his hand and it was in the rubble of the buildings. "Guys!? Guys?! I just want to talk! About shooting you! With this gun! Which I'm going to do when we're done talking!", he said. Joker then busted the door of the building and went inside. He first saw Penguin and then the short crime lord said, "It's me! Please! What'll it take for you to stop?". Penguin was cowering for his life as Joker was pointing the shotgun at him and said, "Please don't shoot! Think of all we've been through!". Joker then shot Penguin dead and said, "I'm not one for groveling, Cobblepot!". The Clown Prince of Crime then kept moving. He saw Riddler next, who was trying to take a hostage. "You, come here. No, no, no, stop struggling!", said Riddler. The hostage said, "Get off me!". "You'll have to get through her to get to me. There still must be some sanity left in you.", said Riddler. "Now, put down the gun!", he said. Joker then shot the hostage and she fell on the floor dead and lifeless. "I can't believe you….", Riddler said, but didn't finish because Joker shot him dead next. "Riddle me this, Eddie: Why would I shoot both the hostage and the guy with the gun? Answer: Because I wanted to and it's fun!", said Joker and then he laughed. A record player was playing something, but then Joker shot it for it to stop playing. Joker then got to the next room where Two-Face was. "I can't let you leave here alive after what you've just done.", said Two-Face. "Hahahaha! I'm the Comeback King! The Clown Prince of Chaos! The Jester of Genocide! You can't stop me!", said Joker. Joker then shot and killed the former district attorney of Gotham. "I didn't even need to flip a coin to make the decision to kill you, Harv!", said Joker. He kept walking and then Commisioner Gordon grabbed Joker's leg, who was on the floor instead of Two-Face, and who was dying. "Stop. Stop this madness. Please.", said Gordon. "Shhhhh! Time to go to sleep, Jimbo!", said Joker as he silenced Gordon by placing his finger on his lips and then shot him dead. He then went outside on the balcony and saw the destruction and chaos he made. All of Gotham was on fire and the sky was darkened and orange. "This may be my finest work yet!" Ha!", said Joker. Alfred then came in over the intercom in The Joker's ear and said, "Please listen to me! After all the good you've done for this city. Think about what you're doing! Sir, I'm begging you! Master Bruce….BATMAN, you have to listen to me! Think of your family, Bruce, your father, what would he say if he saw you like this? Please, please stop this rampage and come home!". "Oh, Alfred! Sweet loyal Alfred! Master Bruce is gone. But don't worry, your new master will be the one who's coming home! Hahahahaha!", said Joker. Joker was taken back to what was really happening and was still strapped to the gurney. Scarecrow was circling around him and said, "Do you know what I'll do when that mask is off of your face, Dark Knight? I'm not going to kill you. In fact, I'm going to set you free. Free to see the city you swore to defend tear itself apart. Free to see everyone you love hunted down and killed.". Scarecrow then grabbed Joker's face and said, "Every scream, every death, vengeance for all that you've done.". "Good.", said a smiling Joker. Scarecrow let go of his face in shock and confusion once he said this and asked, "What? Do you not understand? It is over!". "Get ready for the encore!" Hahahahahahahahaha!", said and then laughed Joker. "Why aren't you scared?!", said Crane as he filled his syringes and injected Joker with more toxin. Joker was laughing like Hell as the toxin was filling his mind. Joker went back to Gotham in flames and destruction. "Huh. Guess I'm toxin proof! Hey, Bats, you still here?", said Joker. Then all of Gotham's lights began to turn off and the city was becoming dark and empty. "Bats? Is that you? Oh, Bats?", asked Joker. The whole city became completely black and Joker couldn't see anything. He then turned on the flashlight on the top of his shotgun and saw that he was in some sort of old ruined stoned building, like maybe a mausoleum. The first thing he saw was the painting, "The Duality of Man", but with Batman and The Joker, which showed how Batman carried The Joker's dead body out of Arkham City. "Ah! Good times!", said Joker. He turned around and saw his dead body going into the incinerator and said, "Ooh! Crispy! I outgrew that body anyway. This body is so much better!". He then started to walk down rows of tombstones, which all read, "The Joker", on them. "Are you trying to tell me something, Bats? I'm not dead! I've never been so alive!", said Joker as he kept walking. He then came upon a statue of himself. The head then fell off the statue and he then said, "Oh, wait a minute. This? This isn't my grave! It's too small! It's all overgrown! Where's the head?". "It's-oh, right! I get it! They forgot about me! Very funny, Bats! But it's not gonna happen!", he said. He then kept walking and said, "You know, some jokes can be in bad taste!". He stopped and turned around and standing right in front of him was a statue of Batman. He shot the statue to bits and pieces and said, "See, old boy? You aren't the death of me.". He then came to a viewing/funeral room with a bunch of chairs, but nobody in any of them. There were also roses all over the floor and heard sobbing. He moved to the center of the room and saw Harley Quinn kneeling in front of an urn, which held Joker's ashes from being cremated, which was painted with smiles and hearts. "Harley! You call this a wake? Where is everybody? You forgot to send the invites, didn't you?", asked Joker, but Harley couldn't hear or see him. She just kept crying and then he said, "Harley! Stop your sobbing and rustle me up a wake!". "HARLEY! HARLEY!", he said, but she still couldn't see or hear him. "I know what you're trying to do, Bats! You and your toxin. You think this scares me?!", asked Joker as he left the wake and kept moving. He went into an office-like room with a radio. He then saw a newspaper that had a headline that read, "JOKER'S DEAD AND NOBODY CARES!". "No! They'll always care about me! After all the destruction I've brought to this city!", said Joker who was actually beginning to feel a little scared. "RIDDLER AND HARLEY QUINN MARRIED AND EXPECTING FIRST CHILD!". Joker couldn't believe what he was reading and screamed, "WHAT?! How could Harley leave me and have a little brat with that boring puzzleman?!". He then heard Vicki Vale over the radio saying, "Welcome to Good Evening Gotham, with me, Vicki Vale.". "And me, Glen Woodburn.", said some random guy who Vicki was talking to. "So, Glen, in a few months, it'll be the one-year anniversary of The Joker's death. Any thoughts on this?", asked Vicki. "Sorry, who?", asked Glen. "The Joker, you remember?!", asked Vicki, who sounded surprised. "The question mark guy, he's dead?", asked Glen. "What?!", said a shocked and pissed-off Joker. "No. Not him.", said Vicki. "Sorry, Vic, you gotta help me out.", said Glen. "You know what, let's forget about him and move on.", said Vicki. "Yeah, let's forget about him.", said Glen. "In other news, a museum dedicated to Batman and his arch-nemesis….", Vicki trailed off. Joker interrupted and said, "Ooh! Let me guess? Me?", said Joker. "…The Penguin, opened on Bleake Island today.", said Vicki. Joker then shot the radio and it fell to bits and pieces. "I always thought she sucked as a talk show host and reporter. You think that's scary to me, Bats?! When I get outta this maze, I'll write my name in blood on every street corner! I'll carve it into every corpse! I'll-I'll…Nobody is going to forget me!", said Joker and then he kept walking. He then got to an empty room where there was a lone statue of Batman, but then he shot it to pieces. He turned around and then there were two, then three, then four, then eight, then fifteen, then twenty, then the whole room was filled with Batman statues. Joker kept shooting at them, but then one came to life and turned out to be the real Batman and then knocked him out. Shortly after, Joker came to, and then he blasted a hole through a weak wall, and then went through it and left the room. "Ha! So long, Bats! Hell of a ride, but I'm getting off now.", said Joker as he got out of that dreaded maze. He came upon a lever that said, "Exit.", and he then pulled it down. "You know, you almost had me scared back there! Ha! What have I got to be afraid of?!", said Joker. As soon as he pulled down the lever, lights came on and he saw that he was at Arkham Asylum, with a bunch of cages in the air. A door in the wall of the Intensive Treatment opened and it brought out a cage. Once, it got to the platform that Joker was standing on, it opened and Batman came out. "You're afraid of being ashes. You're afraid of being forgotten. And you will be forgotten, Joker. Because of me!", said Batman as he menacingly walked towards Joker. Joker began to shoot at Batman, but it did nothing as it seemed Batman's body was made up of a swarm of bats that protected him from the bullets. Batman knocked the shotgun out of Joker's hands. Joker then asked, "Just who the hell do you think you are?". Batman then held him in the air by the throat and answered him by saying, "I am Vengeance! I am The Night! I am Batman!". He then head-butted Joker to the ground, but Joker quickly got back up and said, "Alright, rich boy! You want a piece of me? Come and get it!". Batman easily beat the crap out of Joker until they were right in front of the cage. Batman tried to get Joker in the cell, but Joker was holding on tight and said, "No!". Batman kept beating up Joker, who was still holding on, until he finally let go and landed in the cell. Batman was closing the door to the cage. Joker saw this and tried to stop this, but ended up not stopping it. "No! Bats! Wait!", said Joker. Batman closed the door entirely and then Joker said, "No! Nooooo!". "Goodbye, Joker!", said Batman as he had his hand on the cage and was about to push it back into the wall of the Intensive Treatment. "No! Bruce! Don't leave me!", said Joker, who was shaken to the bone with terror. Batman then pushed the cage into Intensive Treatment. Before, the cell went into the wall, Joker said, "I need you!". Batman had conquered his greatest fear, which was becoming his worst enemy and was ready to be brought back to reality.