Clayface roared as his army charged forward and clashed with the assassins. It looked to Batman that the clay army along with the hired thugs would quickly overrun the assassins. He was surprised when the assassins began to turn the tide of the battle.

"Who's winning?" Catwoman asked as she walked up along with Robin to stand beside Batman.

"Right now, it's too close to call." Batman replied as they continued to watch the battle that was raging below them. It seemed like hours passed as the battle continued. Clayface's thugs fell quickly but his clay army gave the assassins a lot of problems until the assassins began using grenades, flame throwers, and an ice explosive.

"Where did they get those ice bombs?" Robin asked curiously. Talia grinned at the new boy wonder before she replied.

"Victor Freeze owed us a favor for using the Lazarus Pit to bring his wife back." Talia said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Nora Freeze is awake?" Batman asked as his eyes widened in shock. Talia nodded and grinned at him.

"She is, and she remembers how she got poisoned in the first place. I would watch my back if I were you." The memories came flooding back to Bruce before he could shut them out.

…

"I don't know about this, Bruce. I loved your family and I want to help but when I married Victor I left the League of Shadows." Nora pointed out. "I really don't think I can go back to killing."

"I'm not asking you to kill him, Nora. The truth is that you are the only one that I trust to get the truth from this clown." Bruce replied.

Before Jack Napier had become Joker, he was a crime boss that Batman worked to bring in on many occasions and had succeeded in destroying his criminal empire, but he couldn't get close to the crime boss. Batman received a call from one of his informants and he learned that Jack had a meeting scheduled with Nora the best chemist in all of Gotham City. During the meeting Nora was offered over five million dollars to create a chemical for him. Nora had refused at first but Jack said that he would give her one chance to reconsider before he had to do things the hard way.

"I can't drug someone, no matter what he's done." Nora replied.

"If you go to meet him, he'll kill you." Batman remembered as he watched her look away and sigh.

"Fine, I will make you a dart that will knock him out for two days." Nora said. "After I get him to tell me the truth with a serum I developed he will try to kill me. I will need you to knock him out before he can and then hopefully, if there is any good left in this world, you and he will leave me alone forever."

One week later:

"I was wondering if you'd show." Jack said as he walked onto the catwalk over the chemicals that were brewing below.

"Strange place for meeting, Jack." Nora observed. Jack shrugged and flashed her a wide grin.

"I had to make sure you would be alone. So, did you bring what I asked for." Bruce remembered Jack asking and Nora nodding as she reached into her lab coat pocket. Jack's grin widened and he pulled a gun from his pocket and Nora began to back away.

"You don't need the gun. I was just going to take the vial out of my pocket." Nora pointed out and Jack stepped closer.

"You never can be too careful." Jack said as he stepped closer to Nora and before anyone could react he fired a dart from it that embedded in Nora's abdomen. Nora fell to the ground convulsing and Jack leaned down to search her pockets. Batman in a fit of rage rushed Jack at that moment and kicked him in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. Batman lifted Jack to his feet and punched him again and again breaking the thug's nose and jaw before he let him go and delivered a vicious round house kick to the side of Jack's head causing him to spin in the air before hitting his upper body on the catwalk hard. His lower body hung off of the edge and he began to slide off of the catwalk as he caught a rung and hung on to it.

"Batman help me." Jack said in a desperate tone and Batman walked over and lifted Nora into his arms as he turned to leave. "I thought Batman doesn't kill." Jack called out. Batman turned his head to glare at Jack.

"I will not kill you, but I don't have to save you." Batman replied bitterly as he quickly ran out of the room. Jack fell from the catwalk and landed in a batch of green chemicals below. The alarms went off in the room and the vat quickly drained but it was too late. Jack screamed for what seemed like hours as his skin was bleached a bright white. Jack's hair and eyes changed to a bright green and his face was deformed and he appeared to have a hideous smile permanently etched on his face.

…

"I tried to save her." Batman said. "I took Nora from that warehouse that night and I put her in a cryogenic pod, until I could get her to Mercy Hospital. "

"Then Victor found out they were going to allow her to die and he broke in and stole her." Talia finished for him. "You couldn't have known that was going to happen, Bruce."

"I know that, but…" Batman didn't get the chance to finish his sentence as a large explosion engulfed the alley. Everyone rushed to look over the edge and they were shocked to see that no one was moving. Andrea and Talia hurried down to the ground using their grapples.

"Robin, stay up here with Alfred." Batman ordered and Robin nodded as he along with Catwoman and Riddler used their grapples to go after the two remaining assassins.

…

Batman and the group looked over all of the bodies looking for any signs of life.

"What kind of bomb could have done this?" Catwoman asked as they lifted debris to check bodies that were underneath.

"It belonged to Joker." Batman growled through gritted teeth. "This explains how the Joker survived that night. Ra's must have saved him."

"That I did, Bruce." Ra's said as they approached a pile of rubble and noticed that Ra's was pulling himself out from underneath the large pile. "The clown was brought to me from the chemical factory the night you left him in the factory, my warriors brought him to me and I saved him, he survived and supplied me with weapons until you killed him." A very loud roar sounded, and the group turned around and saw Clayface's body grow until he was the size of the buildings around him and he lunged towards the group. Batman grabbed Talia's arm and pulled her out of the way as he fell backward, and she fell on top of him just as the rest of the group dodged out of the way.

"Now you die." Clayface's body lunged forward and changed into a giant talon. Before Ra's could move the talon ripped into the old man's chest and went through him until it pinned Ra's to the ground. Talia and Andrea stared in horror as the talon changed into a large pike that held the leader of the League of Shadow's in the air as his blood ran down to the ground. The pike quickly began to dissolve and began to reform as Clayface's body as the group began to pick themselves up. Talia got up first and reached down to help Batman up.

"Bruce, I got your signal." The group all heard in their earpieces. It was then Talia noticed the flashing red light on Batman's belt. The group all looked up and saw a red and blue blur heading straight for them. Just as Clayface finished forming Superman used his arctic breath to begin freezing him. Clayface slowly stepped forward as he put his arms up to try to ward off the freezing breath. Talia leapt forward and pulled her father away before the creature could step on him.

"Robin, get the case." Batman called out and Robin quickly ran for the batmobile just as ice began forming along Clayface's body. Clayface struggled to get free but couldn't change his form as the clay froze quickly.

"You betrayed me." Clayface shouted as Batman and Talia walked up to face him alongside Superman. "I will kill you." The group suddenly heard a gunshot and all but Superman turned suddenly and saw one of Clayface's thugs drop his gun and fall to the ground.

"Thanks Alfred." Batman said. "Catwoman take Riddler and Andrea to search for anymore survivors." After a few minutes Robin returned with a large titanium box and opened it. Batman pulled out a large bag that glittered in the light shining from the light shining on it from the newly risen sun.

"That should do it." Superman said as Clayface's body completely hardened turn white from the ice. Superman leapt up and brought both hands down hard on Clayface's head causing his body to shatter into pieces that fell straight down to the ground.

"Quickly, grab the pieces and put them in this bag." Batman said as everyone began to quickly pick the pieces of clay up and put them into the bag that Robin was holding.

"I think I should point out that a bag will not hold Clayface for very long." Riddler pointed out as he helped pick up the pieces.

"The bag is a titanium-mesh and if somehow it were to get ripped, the box we're putting the bag in is a solid titanium and when we put the bag in Superman will seal it with his heat vision, so it will be completely seamless." Batman replied. As the group finished collecting the pieces Catwoman got a call and stepped away from the group.

"Bruce, can I talk to you for a moment?" Riddler asked and Batman nodded as they stepped away while the bag was placed into the box and Superman began to seal it.

"Our deal still stands. If you go straight then you are free to go. I appreciate what you did tonight." Batman said as they stopped just out of earshot of everyone but Superman.

"I was hoping that I might get my old job back." Edward said as he removed his mask. "It's difficult to go straight, but without a job it would be nearly impossible."

"I'll talk to Lucius. I'm sure we can find something for you to do." Batman replied and Edward breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, if you need any help with cases I'll do what I can." Edward promised as the two walked back towards the group just in time to see Superman hurl the box into space.

"Thank you for your help Clark." Batman said as he shook hands with Superman.

"Anytime Bruce…" Superman said as he leapt into the air and flew away.

"What will you do now?" Batman asked and Talia shrugged.

"I'm not sure. I spent so long following my father that I don't know what to do now." Talia said as she looked at her father's body. "He can't take another Lazarus treatment. His body has endured too many." Before Batman could respond Catwoman walked back towards the group looking shaken.

"What's wro…" Batman began to ask but Selina removed her mask and wiped tears from her eyes.

"It's my sister, Bruce. Something has happened and now she's missing." Selina said as Batman walked up and hugged her close to him. "I have to go, I have to find her and make sure she's alright."

"I can go with you." Batman offered but Selina shook her head.

"I have to do this alone. I haven't told you about my days in Europe and I want to keep that private, for now." Selina replied as she stepped back. "I'm booking a flight now. I'm sorry I won't be there for the wedding." Selina pushed a button on her belt and her motorcycle rode up to her.

"Which country are you going to, maybe I can help search for her in the database." Batman asked. Selina shook her head.

"I'm sorry Bruce, but this really is a private matter." Selina said as she started up the motorcycle and rode away as fast as she could.