Hello, my wonderful fans! I'm sorry it's been so long since I updated this, but due to technical difficulties, I was having issues using my computer at all, let alone updating. But now, those problems are solved and I'll try to update this more regularly.
Luckily, there's a new RWBY/Arkham story for you guys to cut your teeth on waiting for my updates. It's called The Young Wizard and The Bat: Asylum by Praxus84. This author did something I didn't even consider: giving Oscar a chance in the spotlight with the Dark Knight. GENIUS! There's only a few chapters so far, but those chapters are amazing. Go give them a look.
This reminds me, my challenge is still going: Ren is now the only member of team JNPR who hasn't teamed up with Batman. Sun is also probably the best choice to work with Batman out of the Ruby cast, but hasn't had his time yet. Penny is also an option because, come on, it's Penny. I hope someone out there is willing to take the challenge.
But now, let's get back to our favorite blonde bombshell fighting alongside the Dark Knight!
Batman and Yang returned to the lobby of the museum with Penguin in tow, Freeze observing the League of Shadows assassin in one of the display cases. He must have sensed the heroes coming somehow, though. "Where is Cobblepot?" He demanded, anger clear in his voice despite how restrained he seemed.
"One flightless bird ready to be put on ice!" Yang said, tossing Penguin to Freeze's feet.
The crime lord looked up at the scientist with a smirk. "Well, if it ain't Mr. Freeze-" He started, before Freeze stepped on his broken hand, applying pressure with his heavy metal boot, causing the diminutive criminal to scream in pain.
"Enough!" Batman said, but Freeze wouldn't let up. "Freeze! Enough!" He demanded.
"Of course." Freeze said, getting his foot off of him and grabbing him, smashing him into the case the ninja girl was in. "You will regret what you did, Mr. Cobblepot." He said, dragging the unfortunate mobster over to a case meant for Bruce Wayne, throwing him in and closing it as Yang now took a turn observing the ninja girl.
"I wonder what Blake would look like in an outfit like this?" She wondered, before sighing at the thought of her dear friend.
"The cure, Freeze." Batman said.
"There isn't one." He said.
"What?!" Yang and Batman both demanded.
"What, did you never plan to cure Joker in the first place?! All that work to save you was for nothing?!" Yang demanded.
"Perhaps I should elaborate." He said, making a display with his suit. "Creating an antidote to the disease that afflicts the clown was easy. Unfortunately, the cure degrades too quickly. It needs a restorative element. Some kind of reforming enzyme. Without it, it breaks down before it can help its host." He explained.
"I've seen this before." Batman said.
"Finding a suitable enzyme is not the only problem, It needs to be adapted, bonded to human DNA. It would take decades. Time it appears Gotham does not have." He said.
"No... All those people. They're doomed." Yang said, looking at Batman worriedly.
"What if I told you I knew a man who's been exposed to these enzymes for centuries?" Batman questioned.
Freeze was instantly intrigued. "Take me to this man." He ordered.
"Centuries..." Yang pondered, before she realized. "Wait, you don't mean..?" She started.
"Ra's Al Ghul is dead." Batman informed the frozen physician.
"Then you have no hope." Freeze told him.
"Hey, don't count us out yet. And Ra's has quite a few tricks up his sleeve. All he needs is to take a quick dip and he's good as new." Yang said.
"All I'll need is a sample of his blood. Then I'll be able to make the antidote." Freeze instructed.
However, as this was happening, the ninja woman in the nearby case heard their plan and became furious at their plans to desecrate her master. She began slamming against the glass and eventually crashed through it. "Blasphemers! You are not worthy to speak the name of the great Ra's Al Ghul!" She snapped, using her agility to leap for the exit.
"Hey! Hold it!" Yang snapped, launching herself after the ninja girl with Ember Celica, pushing off the walls or anywhere she needed to and launching herself again, managing to grab the ninja woman and take her down to the ground.
"Unhand me, you insolent child!" The woman snapped, clawing Yang across the face with her nails. Luckily, Yang's aura protected her pretty face from the nasty nails, but the pain still forced her to let go, allowing the ninja girl to kick her back and escape.
"Congratulations, Light Dragon. It appears you let Gotham's only chance for the cure escape." Freeze said condescendingly.
"Not quite. I've still got some tricks, too." Yang said, bringing her GPS that Batman helped build in to Ember Celica, revealing a white dot on the map of Arkham City. It turned out, as Yang tackled the ninja girl down, she managed to sneak a tracker onto the back of the woman's neck, hidden by her ponytail.
Batman nodded in approval. "Excellent work, Light Dragon. Now if Ra's Al Ghul is in Arkham City, we know exactly where to find him." Batman declared.
"Alright, let's get cracking and start tracking!" Yang declared, cracking her knuckles and heading out.
Batman walked out of the building right after Yang, but contacted Oracle to give her an update. "Oracle, change in plans. We're going after the League of Assassins." Batman explained.
"Why? What do they have to do with all this?" Oracle asked, before catching on a bit. "Wait, does this have something to do with Ra's? Or his daughter?" She questioned.
"Penguin had one of the League's assassins imprisoned in the museum. I recognized the insignia. She's a member of Talia's elite guard." Batman explained.
"Can't help but notice that didn't answer her question." Yang said sassily.
"I knew it. What is it about that woman that makes her instantly the most important person in your world?" Oracle questioned.
"Oracle, chill out. We need Ra's blood. He's got an enzyme that's the last piece of the puzzle Freeze needs." Yang explained.
"Oh. Okay, that makes sense then. Then you need to go after them. Just stay focused, Bruce. Don't let her get in the way again." Oracle warned him.
"Hey, don't worry, Babs. He's got me, remember? I'll make sure he behaves himself." Yang assured her.
"That's what worries me. You don't have the best definition of 'behaved'." Barbara said.
"Hey!" Yang snapped, but Oracle had ended the call.
"Let's keep moving." Batman instructed. typing something into his gauntlet.
"I see you have sent a data request on the League of Assassins to the Batcomputer... Oh, another equipment request as well. Tell me, did you ever consider a bigger belt?" Alfred asked.
"Gotta love that Alfred sass." Yang giggled.
"I did. It was too heavy. slowed me down. Let me know when it's here." Batman instructed.
Yang looked up the requests and raised a brow. "The Line launcher? What do we need that for? With Ember Celica for lift and our capes to glide, we can get anywhere the line launcher could take us." She said.
"Maybe, but we can get on the wire of the line launcher if we need to stay in the air. Our capes and Ember Celica can only keep us up for so long." Batman explained.
"I guess I can't argue that logic." Yang admitted as they made their way to the rooftops, dealing with handfuls of thugs along the way.
Suddenly, they found themselves ambushed by three of Talia's elite guard, one tackling Batman to the ground, the other grabbing and twisting Yang's arm, bringing her down to one knee and putting her sword against Yang's neck. "You both only continue to live because the great Ra's Al Ghul allows it!" The one pinning Batman declared.
However, before she could do anything, a whistle rang out and a metal pole hit the one not holding one of the heroes, knocking her down. It was revealed to be Robin, who twirled the staff around. Using this distraction, Yang borrowed a play from Torchwick's playbook and blasted the roof directly at her feet, launching herself back and knocking the assassin down and blasting the assassin on top of Batman. "Looks like Ra's just allowed you guys to get your butts kicked!" Yang taunted.
"Do not follow us!" The assassin snapped as they all jumped off the roof.
"What are you doing here?" Batman demanded, storming up to Robin.
"It looked like you could use some help." Robin said.
"Looks can be deceiving. It was all part of the plan." Yang said.
"Riiiight. Well, Alfred was worried about you. Both of you." Robin explained.
"We have the situation here under control. You're needed in Gotham." Batman explained, before handing Robin a vial of blood. "Take this, get it analyzed and start searching the emergency rooms. Any patient with this blood in them will be dead within 24 hours." He explained.
"Who's blood is it?" Robin asked.
"2 guesses. And if it's not someone wearing all black, dressed as a bat, you're crazy." Yang told him.
"Oh..." Robin said as realization dawned on him. "I'll get it to the hospitals and come back. You need my help." Robin told him.
Yang put a hand on the boy wonder's shoulder. "He has my help. Gotham needs yours, Robin." She assured him, then smirked. "So, if anything, Gotham's getting the better deal" She said jokingly, actually getting a chuckle from the other two.
"Okay... But what about Strange? If he really knows who you are, what will happen if he tells everyone? How will you..." Tim started, before Batman moved Yang and placed his hands on Tim's shoulders.
"Trust me. I'll find a way." Bruce assured him. Robin nodded and then handed them each a line launcher, before jumping off the roof.
"You know he just wants what's best for you, right?" Yang asked.
"I know. But what's best for me may not be what's best for Gotham. Or him." Batman told her.
"I get it." She said as they continued to follow the tracker. "Too bad my friend Yatsuhashi isn't here." She said.
"I remember you telling me about him. A second year at Beacon, well-built and wields a giant sword? How would that help?" Batman asked.
"His semblance. He can erase memories. So, if he was here, we could get him to erase all of Strange's memories about Batman or Bruce Wayne." She explained.
Batman thought about that for a minute. While they still couldn't reach Remnant and therefor wouldn't be able to retrieve this Yatsuhashi Yang mentioned, Batman was certain he had a memory wiping agent back at the Batcave. "You may have saved me again, Yang." Batman said.
"I seem to be pretty good at that." She said. However, before they could continue, Batman heard a payphone ringing. "You expecting a call?" She asked.
"It's Zsasz. He's got at least one hostage. If I don't answer and get to the other phone in time, he'll kill the hostage. I've got to find him and stop him." Batman explained.
"I'll go, you need to get Ra's and that blood. It's too important." Yang said.
"I know. That's why I'm leaving it to you. I trust you, Yang. You can do this. I won't be far behind." He explained, dropping down and answering the phone, before quickly rushing to the next one.
Yang took a few deep breaths, before putting on a look of determination. "Batman's counting on me. I can't let him down." She said, hunting down the signal as fast as she could, finding a destroyed tunnel leading into the Subway Maintenance Access. She landed in the classic superhero landing, ignoring the mild sting in her knee and putting a finger to her ear to contact... "Oracle. I'm heading underground. You might lose my signal." She warned the tech girl.
"You and Batman split up?!" Oracle asked.
"Yeah. He's chasing down Zsasz before he can kill someone. But I've got this. And he won't be far behind." Yang explained.
"Understood. It might be better this way. Talia won't distract him. I'm re-routing additional satellite coverage. I won't lose you. Good luck, Yang." Barbara told her.
Then, as much as she didn't want to, she called the clown prince of crime. "Joker. Freeze needs one more thing for the cure. We're going underground for a bit to get it, so if you can't get a hold of us, that's why. Or we're just ignoring your calls." She said, smirking at the end.
"Oh, thanks for the head's up. I would've worried you cut a deal with Freeze behind my back and ran out on me. But then I'd just have Gotham blown up, so I knew you wouldn't do that." Joker laughed, to which Yang groaned in disgust and hung up.
Yang then rushed through the tunnels and dropped down another hole in the floor, where 3 unsuspecting thugs stood below. She readied her gauntlets and slammed them down on the floor as she landed, creating a shockwave, launching the thugs into the air, landing on their heads and knocking them out as they came back down. She hurried down the tunnels, using the line launcher to get across more precarious spots and eventually coming to a dead end, but noticed the floor beneath her was simple plywood she could easily break though. She also heard voices coming from right beneath her.
So, she simply jumped into the air and stomped down as she came down on the plywood, falling through and landing right on top of a thug, knocking him out. "Mind if I... Drop in?" She asked with a smirk.
"It's Light Dragon! Kill her!" One of the thugs shouted, a few rushing in as some others looked for weapons. Yang ducked under a pipe swung by one and uppercut him, knocking him out, dodging a few slashes from another, before blocking the blade with her gauntlet and knocking him out. One thug threw a fire extinguisher at her, but she simply caught it, aimed it back at him and broke off the nozzle, sending it flying back at him, sending him back into a wall and knocking him out. Two more came at her to attack at once, but she simply blocked both of their attacks, grabbed their heads and banged them together to knock them out. One last thug rushed to a weapon's crate and opened it, but by the time he did so and aimed at her, Yang was already in front of him, grabbing the barrel and bending it to point upwards, before knocking him out with one more solid punch.
She then noticed she was in the subway access and used her cryptographic sequencer to open the gate, allowing her into the abandoned station, where she followed the tracker again to a door on the right-hand side of the station, going through and using her line launcher to get across the large gap, then launching herself up to the floor above the one she was currently on, going through the door that was the only thing left standing on the current floor.
She made it through the doorway, when suddenly, she was contacted by Barbara. "Are you almost there? Bruce's vitals just spiked. It wasn't a huge hit, but he's definitely not doing good." Barbara said worriedly.
"He'll be fine, Barbara. I've seen my uncle drink so much there's no way he didn't have alcohol poisoning, but his aura pulled him through. This poison might be stronger, but Batman's aura should keep him alive for at least a few more hours." Yang explained before continuing on her way.
She then jumped through a window and used the line launched to traverse the gaps in between several destroyed building, zipping into a room with 6 of Joker's thugs. She kicked two in the head as she zipped past, knocking them both down and out, dropping to the floor and running at one thug, jumping into and pressing off of him, sending him into a wall, knocking him out and hitting another thug with a haymaker to knock him out as well. She then did a jumping cartwheel to hit another thug in the head with both her feet, knocking him out as well, then peppering the last thug with punches to knock him out.
She then noticed all the weapons lying around. They were high tech pieces of weaponry that would make Ruby squeal. "Ohhh... THAT'S really bad." She said, quickly calling her teammates. "Batman. Oracle. Joker's got his thugs down here, too. Looks like they were stealing the TYGER guards weapons." She told them.
"That's not good. Those guys are armed with the latest military weapons. If Joker gets his hands on that stuff... Well, you know." Oracle said.
"It won't come to that. We won't let him. Do what you can to disarm them, Yang. I just finished with Zsasz. I'll be there as soon as I can." Batman instructed.
"Will do." Yang said, hanging up and going into the next room. She walked to the edge of the room and out onto a gargoyle to discover Joker's thugs had a doctor hostage. She tried to scan the room and see all of the thugs, but soon discovered one of the thugs had a signal jammer on his back, preventing her from seeing anything. "Crap. Gotta take him out first." She said, pulling out and throwing down a smoke bomb to engulf, blind and disorient the three thugs around the doctor, including the one with the signal jammer. She then dropped down into the group, smashed her fist through the signal jammer, then pulled her fist out and punched him in the face to knock him out. After this, she grabbed the other two thugs in the cloud of smoke and bashed their heads together to knock them out.
"Go hide!" She told the doctor, grappling to a gargoyle while the doctor ran just before the smoke cleared. Another thug came around the right side of the walkway and now unfortunately found himself under the gargoyle Yang had just grappled to, allowing her to catch him with an inverted take down. She checked her goggles and found there were only two left, they came up the stairway to the walkway together and split up at the top, taking both paths in an attempt to find their assailant. One of them yet again passed under Yang, but this time she simply dropped down behind him and knocked him out with a neck chop. The last thug ran around after hearing the noise and aimed at her, but she blasted him with a round from Ember Celica, bringing him down.
Suddenly, Joker's voice came over the intercom. "Now that's just great. Here I am on my deathbed and you you miserable fools can't even stop one little blonde teenager with shotguns on her arms, dressed up like a dragon. I needed those guns! Now how am I going to-" Joker ranted, before stopping himself. "Oops! Sorry, Blondie! Almost gave it away there, didn't I?" Joker laughed.
"Feel free to give it away! I never did like surprises, anyway! Really rather know what I'm getting into." Yang said. Ever since that surprise party Ruby threw with that beowulf cake, Yang never allowed the girls to surprise her again. She should've outlawed surprise parties altogether, though. They were still lucky Neptune managed to save Professor Port.
"Too bad, party pooper! You're just gonna have to wait!" Joker snapped.
Yang growled at this, before walking up to the doctor. "Hang on." She said, wrapping an arm around her waist and grappling to safety.
They reached the room Yang first entered the area in and the doctor got her bearings. "Thank you." She said.
"No problem. So, what are you doing here? Arkham City isn't the best place for doctors." Yang said.
"I'm in Arkham City?! What the hell am I doing here?! I was grabbed outside of the hospital I intern at. They drugged me and I woke up in a building, up there" She said, pointing to the elevator in the middle of the room Yang knocked out the thugs in, then pointing upward.
"Seems like the head honcho of this place has been stealing doctors to try to cure Joker. Guess you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time." Yang explained.
"He's dying, isn't he?" The doctor asked.
"Sure seems like it." Yang confirmed.
"Is it wrong not to feel bad about that?" The doctor asked.
"If it is, I don't want to be right." Yang said. She still somewhat wished they would just heal Batman and Gotham and leave Joker for dead, but she knew Bruce would never allow that. "Stay here and try to stay out of sight. I'll be back. Batman might come through soon, too." She instructed.
Yang then dropped down back into the room, following the tracker and calling up Oracle and Batman. "Guys, this is bigger than we thought. Joker didn't steal those weapons. Strange has been GIVING them to him." She explained.
"Are you sure?!" Oracle asked, shocked.
"I believe it. There is some sense to it." Batman said.
"But why would he do that?!" Oracle asked in disbelief.
"Right, it doesn't make any sense. If Joker and his men have all those weapons, they'd have the resources to break out of Arkham City and they'd flood onto the streets of Gotham if Strange can't stop them. He'd be a failure." Yang said.
"If he can't stop them... I think I may have figured out what Protocol 10 is." Batman said.
"Really?! What?!" Both girls asked.
"I'm not 100% sure yet. I still need to think on it. Just keep going, Yang. I'm not far behind." Batman said.
"Got it. I'll have everything opened up for you by the time you get here." Yang promised him. Yang then pressed forward, towards the den of the League of Assassins...
A/N: And one more chapter finished! I hope you all enjoyed this! I'm sorry it's been so long since the last chapter, I was having computer issues, but thankfully those have now been solved.
I added the Zsasz phone calls for two reasons: one, to give Yang more of a chance to shine without Batman and two, to talk about the mission itself. Let me know in the reviews, how many of you didn't understand the way the Zsasz phone calls worked at first? When I first played, I just thought you had to just get to the phones and listen to Zsasz, I didn't know you were supposed to be following the cursor to track him, so by the time I figured it out, Zsasz had stopped telling his story and was just getting impatient I hadn't tracked him down yet.
Also, I'd greatly appreciate it if you subscribed to my YouTube channel, Sai Blade. I've already played the first Injustice game and plan to buy and play Injustice 2 in the near future. It would really help me out and if I can make a career out of it, that would give me more time to sit around and write more stories.