A/N: SO sorry that I didn't update earlier!!! Pleease forgive me!!! Lol. Sorry! I bought a PS2 so I was kinda b-z with it! lol. SORRY guys! Well, without further dew here is chapter 8!

CHAPTER 8:

The night was cold. The wind was rapid. The clouds, smashing together to darken the already dark night. Lightening flashed across the skyline, shedding light towards the dark gargoyle statues. And beside one of them . . . a creature moved. This was no ordinary creature. He was the night. He is vengeance. He is Batman.

And before him, stands the famous Gotham Clock Tower. Also known to the 'super hero' world as Oracle's Lair.

Batman stood up to his feet, aiming at the tower. And without warning, he shot a rope towards his target.

"Hmm, now lets see . . . what should I do with you my little crippled pigeon? Should I paralyze your arms too? Or should I break your neck? Or maybe I could just eat you up!" The Joker laughed at his evil mind. Barbara was tied-up in front of him, her hands and legs spread across the table. And a tape on her mouth prevents her from screaming. On the other room, Tim was screaming, cursing at the clown prince of crime. But what was the use? He couldn't even reach Joker because of Bane's mighty arms. Dinah tried to escape a few hours ago . . . but soon was caught and knocked out unconscious. Her numb body lay on the chair- tied.

"There, there my precious," Joker said with a pity voice, circling Barbara's face with his index finger, "Uncle J won't hurt you . .. won't hurt you at all! . . . well, maybe a little . .. but JUST TO GET THE PUNCHLINE! HA!" Her eyes widened as Joker moved his hand towards her shirt . . .

The Asylum

Dick fell hard on the ground after receiving two hard blows to the stomach, two to the jaw and two again on his guts.

"He, he, he, he, ha, ha." Lock-up chuckled at his fallen enemy, "Had enough loud-mouth? Well, too bad. I haven't even BEGUN!" He leapt towards Nightwing, only to get hit on the stomach by his cocking legs. Slamming to the wall on the opposite. Nightwing flipped to his feat and did a round hose kick to Dead-shot's head. Lock up quickly grabbed him by the arms as the terminator –AKA- Dead shot targeted Dick's head. "Fare well . . ." He said and pulled the trigger.

Like a split second, everything froze . . . the bullet hit the appropriate target. Nightwing could've died. But as luck would have it . . . Lock-up fell to the ground. Blood poured down from his brain . . . his body shaking to the effect.

Nightwing looked back up to see a confused Dead-shot. "You missed." Nightwing's voice slowly confirmed.

TBC

A/N: OKAY! I know this is short . . . and that the last part is a bit cheesy. But I'm not that good on explaining the action-packed scenes! If you review then I'll get the ideas about how to improve them! thanks. The reviews I got on 'crow' was really good. SO I used the same technique! Anyways, about the torture thing . . . I got 3 'no's and 2 'yes'' so I guess I'm gonna stick with NO! (and its MUCh easier to write! : )

Ok? A note to the Chosen One: Sorry man! Yeah, I agree with your theory. When it's the Mistah J, its torture! But my readers agree with no torture so please try to understand! (Hey! The Chosen one = Liu Kang and ME as in Shang Tsung! Lol j/king!)