Chapter 1

Welcome to Hell

(Jericho's POV)

Strange lowered his head to see my face, I couldn't stand him. He had a big evil grin on his face.

"You put up quite the resistance back there. Unfortunately the numbers were too great. Now that you are here, Protocol 10 is ready to begin. It will be glorious I will do something that Batman has failed to do."

"And what is that?"

"Erase the evil of this world. Now one simple question before I leave, are we going to do the easy way or the hard way? Strange demanded

"Since when have I ever done the easy way? I'm a troublemaker." I said with a smirk

Hugo chuckled lightly: "Indeed you are." With that he left the interrogation room.

A few seconds later, lights went on, blinding me momentarily. I looked around for any exit when I saw a welcome to Arkham City by yours truly Hugo Strange himself on TV screen as if weren't embarrassing enough. So I swung around to get out of the damn chair, I succeed of course. But to my displeasure, it set off the alarm and a guard came at me.

"What the hell are you doing, you trying to escape?"

Guard tried to kick me in the stomach but I caught the leg and broke it in two and knocked him out. I quickly got to my feet but out came another guard, he blindsided me and smashed my head into the wall. "Welcome to Arkham City Jericho."

He shoved me to entrance to Arkham. "What do we have here? Fresh meat, boys." A prisoner said

I mocked him by sniffing him "And what's that smell?" Did you indulge yourself in ass?"

It pissed him off of course. But before he got the chance to attack, one of the guards shot him in the leg preventing that from happening. "You're in Line A, Jericho. Move your ass there." S

o I did reluctantly and saw Black Mask struggling against the guards when I saw Bruce Wayne, why is he here? If he was captured by Strange, then he must have a reason for it. "Hey Wayne, I heard Penguin put a prize on your head. I'm cashing you in." Another prisoner said. He ignored it of course. "Move out the of the way. Wayne, Jericho, get your asses moving."

We went through the metal detector and it beeped for finding something metallic. Two guards attacked Wayne and me but Strange stopped them. "Lower your weapons; Mr. Wayne won't be any trouble will you?"

"What about Jericho?"

"Same, he's harmless. Now the handcuffs can stay, we don't make it too easy, do we?" The guards pushed us into some large chamber and saw some political prisoners who one of them was Jack Ryder. "Bruce Wayne? Here I was watching your crumby press conference and now we both are, that will teach you for getting into politics won it. And who are you by the way?"

"That's none of your business Jack, would you please shut that mouth of yours just for once? We got to stick together, If we are separated, we are sitting ducks out there"

" You better listen to what he says. Just stay close to us." Bruce agreed

"You think I'm taking advice from couple of guys who's never been in a fight." Jack said as the doors opened up.

"Stay calm, they're trying to scare us."

"Sorry man, it's everyman for himself." We entered Arkham City, the infamous super-prison. There were some inmates waiting for us. Some tried to attack us but we counterattacked them despite we were in handcuffs. I was surprised by Bruce's fighting skill for a second, but I shook it off. An inmate was beating Ryder to a pulp. As much as I enjoyed it for a moment, I had to help him; luckily Bruce was one step ahead of me. He knocked out the inmate and we helped him get up. Just as we thought it was over, the gates opened to revealed Penguin, the ugliest and the most disgraceful SOB in Gotham with a couple of his friends.

"Well, look who it is. Welcome to hell, Brucy-boy." He said as two inmates assaulted us from behind with lead pipes and hit us in the back of the head.

"Nighty night." Was the thing I heard from Penguin before I passed out. ' Damn you, Strange.'

10 minutes later.

I woke up with a severe headache. Man that hurts.

I looked around only to realise that I'm surrounded with Two Face's goons, four to be exact outside of Monarch Theatre and I'm still in handcuffs. "Well, look we got here, fellas. Christmas has come early for us. Penguin gave you to our boss Two Face and he flipped his coin to decide your punishment. "

"And what's the verdict?" I asked as I slowly got up.

"Beat you to a pulp. You got off luckily, unlike Catwoman and that you are in handcuffs will make it so much easy."

"Bring it assclowns."

One of the goons attacked me but I counterattack him and broke free off my handcuffs in the process. Then I did what I do best. Kick ass. Each fell one by one. Last one was a tricky, he had a knife, trying to stab me every single. But I saw an opening and grabbed his wrist, twisting and then headbutted him. Too easy, now it was time for interrogation.

"Where is Catwoman, don't make me repeat that question."

The thug gulped in fear. Good. "She is in the courthouse, two face got her."

"Good boy." I knocked him out cold, broke his jaw probably. Now I have to save Catwoman. But first I'll need to get my gear, so I contacted my childhood friend Shawn by earpiece. "Shawn, can you hear me?"

"Barely, man, but I got your position."

"I need you to get my stuff and meet me on the roof of an apartment building next to the the courthouse right now."

"Not a problem, I saw what happened to ya at the press conference on TV. Was it planned or improvised?" Shawn asked with a smirk as I made my way to the building.

"A bit of both actually and I got some lovely one on one time with Hugo Strange."

"How did it go?"

"Bad, He knows Ra's Al Ghul is my dad and he also mentioned something Protocol 10 will succeed in what Batman has failed to do." I said as I made it to the building waiting for Shawn.

"What is Protocol 10?"

"Well, I'm about to ask that same question to Catwoman. She is being held by Two Face at the courthouse as we speak." I told her.

"You're joking right? Are you gonna save her?" Shawn inquired with a bit of concern.

"Do I sound like I'm joking?"

He sighed. "No, just be careful. She has always something up in her sleeve."

"I know, where are you by the way?"

"Behind you." I turned to see him standing in front of me with a special delivery.

"Thanks man, I'm glad you brought my stuff." I said as he gave me the gears.

"No problem. Are you sure about this?"

I nodded grimly. "I'm afraid so. Catwoman is the only one who knows what's really going on here."

He nodded. "Yeah, you're right. Be careful, ok? Strange knows who you are, what happens if he tells…"

"Trust me, I'll find a way, I got some help." I assured him.

"Who?" Shawn asked confused.

I pointed to the Ace Chemical building above us. He saw the large container with a hug bat sign on the rooftop.

"B-man's in the house?"

"B-man's in the house. Go to the safehouse, I'll let you know more after I've talked to Catwoman." I said to him.

"No problem, be careful out there." With that he left as I opened the bag and quickly changed to my suit.

I had a long leather coat, black trousers, gloves, Kevlar vest and Timberland shoes. My weapons were a black sword ofsolid steel that is unbreakable along with some explosives, flash bangs and 45 Magnum don't get me wrong, I like my gunbut I have don't kill people rule like Batman. Also I had a grapple gun designed by my contact at Wayne Tech and for the finishing touch, my customized glasses, calibre to follow any trail, fingerprint for DNA and many more. "Game-time." I muttered as I went to the courthouse. It was going to be one of those nights.