A/N: Hello, all my wonderful fans! Thank you again for reading and enjoying my story. A few guests who I cannot contact directly have questions or statements I thought deserve an answer, so before we begin, I'll respond to a few of them:
Tron: if you're interested here's an idea for you when you have the time can you make a watching the bat and the blonde arkham asylum fanfic with team rwby, jnpr, cvfy, abrn, sssn, penny, ciel, ozpin, glynda, raven, obeleck, port, ironwood, winter, tai, qrow, raven, summer, sienna, adam, ghira, kali, ilia, salem, cinder, mercury, emerald, watts, hazel and finally tyrian every one reacting to the fic. Up for the challenge?
Well, first off, that is WAY too many characters. That's like the entire cast of the show. A fic where the characters read or watch my story would be awesome, but I already have a lot of other stories to work on. So sorry, my friend. I am in fact NOT up to that challenge. But maybe someone else is up to the challenge... but with many fewer characters. The biggest "? watches ?" story I've ever seen is of class 1-A: 20 characters and not even all of them get a line in every chapter. The whole cast is too tall of an order for even Rooster Teeth if they took on the challenge. And, small thing, you spelled Oobleck wrong.
Baron Bolt: Maybe emerald or velvet would work. Or a younger winter. Love the series thinking about doing origins?
Well, I'm glad you're enjoying the series, but I'm sorry to say, I'm only focusing on Yang's adventures through the Arkham games. Otherwise, I'll be writing pretty much the same stories with a different RWBY character until I was 80. That's why I challenge others to make these stories, to give others a chance to make works just as good or even better than mine. And trust me, a lot of them are certainly giving my story a run for its money.
But for the main question, Velvet or a young Winter would be interesting, but sadly, I don't think either of them have been developed quite enough for a story largely based on them that would require them to have complex emotions of anger, sadness, etc. and Emerald I only see adding to the problem if she gets sent to Arkham, if at all, since she'd probably use her semblance to make the cop let her go. She'd be way more focused on escaping than helping stop Joker. And sorry, but I don't have any plans for Origins. A few others had plans for their stories to start at Origins when they began with Asylum, but mine started firmly at Asylum, so Origins was pretty much out of the question from the start.
But while we're on the topic of other RWBY/Arkham stories, remember everyone: all the girls from RWBY and JNPR have had their turns, but now it's the guy's turn. Ren and Sun have already started their adventures, but let's not forget about the underdog, good ol' Jaune Arc! How will he handle the Asylum? How will Batman handle Jaune's clumsiness? It's up to you. But without further ado, back to everyone's favorite buxom blonde brawler and bat-based bruiser.
Batman and Yang made their way towards the lair of the Joker. They made their way through Amusement Mile, beating up small groups of thugs along the way, before finally reaching the steel mill.
"So... I'm guessing the front door isn't an option?" Yang asked, a bit jokingly, already knowing it wasn't an option.
"No. It's either locked or heavily guarded." Batman explained. They scanned the area and silently made their way to the highest point of the steel mill, looking up at the main chimney in front of them. "Alfred. We need a way into the Sionis Steel Mill." Batman said.
"Have you tried the front door?" The butler asked jokingly.
"Hey, that's my joke!" Yang said.
"Oh. Apologies, Ms. Xiao Long. And thank you for saving Master Bruce." He said.
"Back to the main point, how will we get in?" Batman asked.
"Let's see... if all other access routes are locked down, the only other way in would be... no, it's suicide." Alfred processed.
"Then that's probably what we're gonna do." Yang said.
"The main chimney. Okay, then." Batman said as the two grappled up to it and dove down into it. About halfway down the chimney, they opened their capes to slow their descent and landed on a conveniently placed wire that held the two of them.
"I've always wondered just how fire-proof I was." Yang said.
"Hopefully, we won't be finding out. Besides, it isn't just fire, it's molten iron. And even the steam from the furnace is likely enough to boil us alive. We'll have to cool down the coals somehow." Batman explained as they made their way through the upper level of the furnace, until they reached the end, the railing in front of them and the floor below glowing orange, clearly too dangerous for the two to climb and/or walk on.
"I think I've got an idea." Yang said, pulling out her grappling hook and firing it onto the hatch in front of them, easily yanking it open and causing water to pour our and cool the lower levels to the point our heroes could progress without injury. They continued on their way, crawling under the floor of a large room where all of Joker's thugs were, voicing their own opinions of Joker's supposed illness until Harley appeared from the office above them.
The two of them got to a point they could see just well enough that they could spot Harley holding a doctor by her arm as her wrists and ankles were bound with rope. "I promised you some entertainment. Right, boys?" She asked, to which they cheered.
"Please... I did my best." The doctor pleaded.
"No... You don't think?" Yang asked.
"She failed Joker, so Harley's throwing her to the dogs." Batman growled.
"I thought they lost the hyenas." Yang said.
"Yang, not now." Batman said as the two hurried ahead to find a way to get up and save the doctor.
The doctor's pleas fell on deaf ears as Harley cast her down to her thugs below. "That useless quack has failed Mr. J! And you know what that means!" She said as the thug's cheered for the massive one-armed Mr. Hammer as he swung his sledgehammer down towards the doctor, who scurried back just enough to avoid it. But she was now right up against the wall, unable to dodge as Hammer prepared to bring down the hammer.
"No!" Yang said quietly.
"Stop!" Harley ordered, everyone ceasing their activity. "Change of plans! Take her to the smelting chamber. Mr. J wants this one to suffer a little longer!" She explained.
"Well, at least we've got an actual chance to save her now." Yang said.
"But she's STILL in danger. We have to hurry." Batman said as they continued through the corridor.
"Right. To the smelting chamber. Maybe we could even make some bigger batarangs when we get there!" Yang said.
"They'd be too heavy and wouldn't fit on our belts as easily." Batman explained.
"Right then, the rest of you idiots get out of here! You know what you got to do! Go and get the snowman and bring him back here right NOW! He's gonna pay for screwing over Mr. J!" Harley ordered, half the henchmen clearing out.
"Snowman... Mr. Freeze? What does he have to do with this?" Yang asked.
"If Joker really is sick, he likely asked Freeze to make him a cure." Batman theorized. The two of them made their way through the grates and tunnels, finally in the floor right below the henchmen.
The two of them erupted from the grate below, both grabbing and slamming a thug to the ground with a takedown, getting back up and fighting. Batman rushed in and knocked a thug down with a jumping round kick, spinning and knocking another one down with a similar kick, sending the next thug flying with a palm to the chest, then rushed to another one and grabbed his leg, lifting it into the air and kicking his other leg out from under him, snapping the leg he still held, causing the goon to pass out from pain. He then knocked two more thugs down with and elbow and uppercut respectively, before leaping towards another thug preparing to throw a box at him, hitting the criminal in the face with an axe kick, knocking him out.
Yang, meanwhile, kicked an approaching thug's leg as he tried to kick her, knocking him off-balance, allowing her to grab his arm and pull him further off-balance, ducking and delivering a sweep kick to take him off his feet, rising and slamming him down into the ground with a downward punch to the gut. Another swung a lead pipe at her, but she dodges with a cartwheel in order to kick his arm away and doges another swipe before kicking him away. Another thug runs and grabs a fire extinguisher to throw at her, but she smirked and flung a batarang at him, hitting him in the face, causing him to hold his face in, letting go of the fire extinguisher while it was above his head, causing it to fall on his head and knock him out.
After Batman had kicked the thug trying to hit him with a box, he countered an attack from another inmate, spinning him around and wrapping an arm around his neck from behind, slinging him over his shoulder and to the ground, knocking him out. More thugs came at him, only for their attacks to be countered, Batman bringing each of them down with only one hit afterwards. One thug was only knocked to the ground when Batman hit him, but this allowed the cape crusader to execute a ground takedown, the final thug of his group backing away, only to be grabbed and thrown to the ground, Batman breaking his arm and knocking him out.
Back with Yang, another thug tried to engage her in hand-to-hand, but was knocked down with one punch. Yang used Ember Celica to block a strike from another pipe-wielding thug, before uppercutting him. Yang then delivered a left twirling kick to a trio of thugs that tried to attack her from behind. There was only one left who actually had a knife. She launched herself towards the doomed thug, who tried to slash at Yang as she got closer, but she used her left Ember Celica to twirl over him, before she used her right fist to deliver a powerful strike that knocked the inmate into another thug that got back up, only to be knocked down again. With all the inmates down, the fight was over.
"Jeez, you'd think by now they'd know they can't beat us." Yang said.
"But they also know Joker will kill them if they don't at least try." Batman explained as they looked towards the door of the elevated office, only a few Christmas-like lights and what appeared to be a desk lamp keeping the room lit, most of it filled with darkness.
Harley emerged from that darkness, distraught and furious. "What the hell are you two doing here?! You're supposed to be dead!" She cried.
"You mean your lame trap at the church? Sorry, but that kinda BOMBED." Yang taunted with a smirk.
"URGH! I hate your puns! It's like you're rubbing it in our faces!" Harley whined.
"Because I am." Yang said.
"Well, there's no way you're getting to Mr. J. We're safe and sound up here. You can just stay down there and burn!" She snapped, storming back into the office, the doors automatically closing behind her.
Yang raised an eyebrow at this. "Why would we burn? We're not in the furnace anymore!" Yang called after her.
Batman ignored this and contacted... "Alfred, Joker's holed up in the manager's office in the steel mill." He explained.
"I'm sure you and Ms. Xiao Long will find a way, sir." The butler said.
"Of course we will. Some of his goons dragged a doctor away. Were going to find her first, then we'll deal with Joker." The Dark Knight explained.
"I guess you could say things are really... HEATING up? Eh? Am I right?" Yang asked. Batman simply rolled his eyes as they continued.
The two of them continued through the building, before using there Detective visions to find a couple of thugs waiting and aiming at the door they'd have to come through to enter the room and another thug patrolling. Quickly finding an alternate route via the conveyor belt, the two snuck into the room, perching on some kind of overhangs. Batman waited until the patrolling thug was out of the line of sight of the others, before Yang made her way around and dropped down behind the two thugs, knocking them both out.
The two of them gave a nod before continuing onward, Yang diving through the window to the next room, executing a 3-point landing as Batman simply came through the door, giving her a glare as if to say "really?". She simply shrugged and they proceeded through the doors into the smelting chamber. They quickly scanned the room, before jumping into action. Batman crept forward and grabbed the thug coming out of the room the doctor was held in, flinging him over his shoulder and silently choking him out, before creeping up to the thug in front of him at the corner of the walkway they were on, wrapping his arm around his neck and slowly bringing him to the floor, unconscious.
Yang then grappled to the other side of the room, dropping down behind a thug and wrapping an arm around his neck, kicking his legs out from under him, choking him out and silently laying him to the floor. She then dropped to the level below and crept up on the thug down there, doing a similar over-the-shoulder takedown to Batman. She then slid through a grate into the other part of the room while Batman grappled up to an overhang as the two remaining thugs in the room with the doctor noticed something was wrong.
"Hey, it's gotten quiet out there." One of them said.
"Stay here. I'll check it out." The other one said, exciting the room. He walked out of the room and rounded a corner, passing below Batman, who dropped down and grabbed the thug via inverted takedown. Meanwhile, after the thug had left the room, Yang had made her way into the area above the room the doctor was held in, now standing on its weakened roof, which she simply fired a round from Ember Celica into the roof, along with Yang herself, dropping down on the thug and knocking him out.
"What's up, Doc?" Yang said, untying her as Batman walked in the room.
"Light Dragon! Batman! Thank you!" The doctor said, relieved.
"Can you stand?" Batman asked.
"Give me a second." She said, slowly making her way to her feet. "What's wrong with these people? That crazy woman thinks I can fix the Joker." She said.
"I don't think there's any real fixing that guy. Especially not in mental health." Yang said.
"What's wrong with him." Batman asked.
"There's something in his blood. Some kind of toxin. It's killing him. He blames something called Titan." The doctor explained.
"TITAN?" Batman asked.
"Aww, man! I thought we were done with that stuff!" Yang groaned.
"Oh, you know what he's talking about? He kept saying something about his last laugh." The doctor explained.
Suddenly, the Harley bobble-head statue sparked to life. "Uh-uh, Doc. Isn't that information supposed to be confidential?" Harley's somewhat garbled voice came through the machine.
"What's happening? How does she know what we're saying?" The doctor asked.
"It must be some kind of radio or transmitting system." Yang guessed, approaching it along with Batman.
"Get that door sealed up nice and tight, boys! We don't want that vermin or the lizard escaping, now do we?" Harley asked as the three turned to see the door they'd come through being fused together by a blowtorch or welder.
"Oh, come on, Harley! Don't blow a FUSE over this!" Yang said.
"Wrong kind of fuse, lizard breath!" Harley snapped.
"I know, it's all I had..." Yang admitted in defeat.
"At least they won't be getting in. We're safe, right?" The doctor asked.
"Should be, yeah." Yang said.
Batman looked around and noticed some kind of electrical device. "Wait here, doctor." He said as he opened the devices hatch and ripped something out.
"What the hell are you doing?" The doctor asked.
"We need to get out of here. Someone needs to stop Joker." Batman explained as he somehow turned whatever he took into some kind of gun. (one more reason he'd be fine using Ember Celica. He's legit using a gun right now.)
"What?! Were did that even fit?!" Yang asked in disbelief.
"It's me, remember?" He asked, before turning to the doctor. "Stay here. You'll be safe." He told her.
"Later, Doc. Try not to catch a fever in here." Yang said as they took off.
"If you hear anyone coming, hide. We'll be back." Batman said. "Let's go, Light Dragon." He said, walking out.
"Hang on." Yang said, uppercutting the head off of the Harley statue. "Coming!" She said, following him.
The two of them found a door that was sealed with metal shutters, but Batman fired at the bar above the door, retracting the shutters, doing so again at the end of the hall to access a pair of doors behind the shutters. They went through and then used a vent to reach a group of 4 thugs standing behind the welded door, preparing to attack if the two managed to get through. Batman silently kicked off the grate and the two dropped down.
Batman silently taking down the thug farthest in the back, Yang blasting two of them in the back and knocking them out, the last thug turning around, only to be shot by Batman's electric gun, stunning him and allowing Batman to slam his head into the door, knocking him out. "Well, I bet he found that... SHOCKING!" Yang said, Batman groaning and going back the way they came. "Oh, come on! That was a good one!" She said, following him.
The two of them continued their way back, destroying a few more Harley heads on the way before finally re-entering the room below the office Harley and Joker were in, the female jester looking down at them in anger and disbelief. "How did you two get out of the smelting chamber! What'd you build? Tell me, tell me!" She demanded.
"Sorry, Harley. It's a secret. You're gonna have to come down if you want to know!" Yang said.
Harley growled at this, pulling out her signature giant gun. "Why you..." She snapped.
"Harley! Get back in here! I think I'm dying!" Joker called out weakly from within the office.
"He really must be sick..." Yang said quietly to Batman.
"Remember, fooling people is his specialty." Batman said.
"Now see what you done?! Scream, heroes! Coming, Mr. J!" She called, hurrying back into the office, which closed behind her. This time, however, the heroes were prepared, as Batman used his shock gun to trigger an electromagnet, pulling a hook towards it, then pushing it away to rip open the office. "What's wrong with you, B-Man!? You come into Mr. J's home and start smashing it to pieces?! Don't you know he's sick?!" Harley demanded.
"He should've thought of that before he shot at us in the courthouse and tried to blow us up in the church." Yang said.
Batman tried to grapple up to the office, but as he pulled himself up, he was kicked back down by a massive, muscular man missing his left arm, wielding a large sledgehammer. "Surprise, B-Man! Meet Mr. Hammer! He's gonna teach the two of you some manners while Mr. J and I find some place quieter for him to rest!" Harley said.
"They're trying to escape." Batman said.
"Go! I'll hold off these guys!" Yang said.
"Be careful." Batman said, grappling back into the office.
"The bat's leaving!" One of the thugs shouted.
"Forget the bat! We got a DRAGON to play with!" Mr. Hammer said.
Yang smirked at this. "Just a warning. I play rough." She said.
One thug ran in from behind her, but she turned to him and planet her foot in his face, leaping off and hitting Mr. Hammer in the face as he prepared to swing at her, the force of the punch turning him and redirecting the force of the hammer to knock down 3 unfortunate thugs standing too close to the action. Two more thugs ran in and attacked her. She countered their attacks, but before she could strike back, she had to jump and roll away as Mr. Hammer tried to bring his hammer down on her.
"What's the matter, Dragon? I thought you played rough?" The one-armed enforcer snapped.
Thinking quickly, she fired a round from her gauntlets behind her, launching herself forward and sending the two thug's flying with a powerful haymaker, before peppering Mr. Hammer with a barrage of body blows, an uppercut staggering him and again taking his hammer off-course, causing it to hit another unfortunate thug. The last two thugs ran in at her, but were defeated with a twirling kick, putting her back to Mr. Hammer, who recovered and tried to hit her with a horizontal swing, but Yang blocked it with her left arm, grabbed the head with her right hand and used her left hand to smash the head from the shaft, tossing it in the air, catching it by what little of the shaft remained blow the head, spun around and hit Mr. Hammer in the head with it to knock him out.
"That's done. Now to get back up to Batman." She said.
"Not quite, lizard lady!" A thug called as two of them stood to the side with assault rifles, a Titan standing in between them, roaring at Yang and charging.
"A titan?!" She demanded, jumping and flipping over the beast, rolling out of the way as the thugs shot at her, blasting one of them with a round from Ember Celica, knocking him out, making it safer for her to rush in, zig-zagging to dodge the bullets and taking the thug down with a couple of punches to the gut, followed up by an uppercut to knock him out. "Alright, then. Time for you big boy- WHOA!" She shouted, rolling out of the way as the titan had picked up an unconscious thug and thrown him at her.
The titan then roared and charged at her once again, but this time she met the charge with a powerful right haymaker, an extra blast from Ember Celica pushing the titan back, allowing her to rush in and hit him with an uppercut, powered up with a downward shot from Ember Celica to launch her up, spinning in the air and sticking her leg out, blasting back to hit him with a rear kick, staggering him. He shook off the daze from the punch, just in time to look up and see the round from Ember Celica slam into his face, knocking him onto his back, unconscious.
Yang panted heavily for a second, before looking around. "Any more surprises?!" She demanded. Finally, it seemed like all of the thugs were defeated. "Alright. I'm coming Batman." She said, launching herself up and into the office, just in time to see Joker, quite sickly looking indeed, kick Batman, strapped to a wheelchair, out of a window. "No!" She called, ready to fight.
"Oh, hello there, Blondie. Oh, you look angry." Joker said. "I hope you don't plan to fight me right now. Poor Batman might need help out there." He said.
Yang growled at this, before sighing, realizing he was right and dove out the window after her partner. Fortunately, there was a ledge where Batman landed, instead of the massive river only a few feet away and the Dark Knight was already getting to his feet. "Batman!" She called as she landed beside him. "Are you okay?" She asked.
"No... I've been poisoned." He explained.
A/N: And another chapter done! I hope you all enjoyed it. I'm sure you're confused as to why Yang wasn't poisoned as well. It's pretty simple. It's the only way the scene would've worked. Clayface-Joker only had one of the gas things he used on Batman, so he wouldn't have also been able to gas Yang and, even if he had and they were both dosed, it's likely the two of them together still would've been able to overpower Harley and escape before they passed out, ruining Joker's whole plan and the story. Or Clayface would've had to step in and ensure they were captured, still kind of ruining the plan, as they would then be aware of the plan and known Clayface was on Joker's side and could prepare for him.
So, again, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next one.