Chapter 3 Arkham Asylum 3: Fear and No Pain, but Bane
Red Robin waits in the main Medical wing lobby or the Sanatorium, seeing the doctors he saved safe and sound for the time being. He will still need to save Jim, that was still somewhere in this building and needs to find him.
"Red Robin! We've got another problem," Cash called out, getting hero's attention and saw Dr. Young walking with him.
"I need to get back to the mansion. All my research notes are there. We can't risk Joker getting his hands on them," Young said but the hero didn't like that.
"It's not safe, Doctor. The island's a war zone. You won't stand a chance," Red Robin said, not liking the idea of someone risking their lives for their hard work and be capture for some twisted game from the clown has in mind..
"It's my life's work. You really don't have the authority to…," Young snapped, sounding a little scared all the sudden but stopped herself as guard spoked out.
"I'll get here there, Red Robin. If you ask me, it's about time for a little payback," Cash said, knowing he will protect the doctor and beat a few of Joker's men.
Red Robin groaned a little, not liking this one bit.
"I don't like, but…Who called the elevator!?" Red Robin asked, hearing the elevator powering up and someone was coming to the Sanatorium.
"Wasn't us. It's coming from the lower floor," The red doctor answered, seeing the lights beep from the elevator's door sides.
"Cash take Dr. Young. Get her notes and then find somewhere safe to hole up. Everyone else, go to the Observation Room and barricade yourself in!" Red Robin ordered as he used his grappling gun and hooked onto a stone rafter, having everyone do as ordered and waited for armed men to walk in.
Three armed men walked out of the elevator, breaking up and were alone. Good and leaves them wide open.
Red Robin slowly goes behind one of three and silent takedown him by covering up his face, making lose his air and out cold within seconds.
The bird themed hero moves towards the second, doing the same silent takedown and moves towards the last one. He grabbed the thug's head and smashed his head up against a glass window, taking down the last of them and have the room clear out form the henchmen.
Now that was done, Red Robin could go into the elevator and see where the lower floors lend to as he walks, and the left goes down to the next floor.
As soon the elevator moves, Joker comes on the TV and said, "Too easy! Think about it, I've got you trapped in a little metal box. Hanging precariously over a deadly drop. What say I just blow the emergency brakes and drop you like a sack of puppies?"
Red Robin don't move an inch, waiting to see where this little joke game plays at form himself.
"Say good night, birdy," Joker said before speaking out again, "BOOM! Only kidding."
The bird themed hero knows the clown won't take away the fun this easy. No, he wants the hard way and gains more fun from that.
Soon enough elevator starts moving again and towards the lower floors.
"Got a few more surprises in store for you. Prepare to face your fears. All of them!" Joker called before ending the TV.
Before Red Robin could saying anything, he started coughing uncontrollable as he heard hissing sounds coming within the elevator and started to lose himself some type of gas. It wasn't poison has his healing factor would stop it and clear out his system of any poisons harming his cells.
The elevator opens and the bird-themed hero heard some calling out, "Please, Dr. Crane, don't do this!"
"There is no Crane…" A familiar voice started.
Red Robin walks out of the elevator too see people behind a glass window panicking in fear and were losing themselves.
"Only Scarecrow!" A fearful and demonic voice spoked, getting everyone in the room to be more fearful as the gas in the room makes them lose their minds to their own fears.
"Get me out of here!"
"They're all over me!"
"Make it stop!"
The screams of the fearful people caused the hero to wonder and know who was here as he saw a figure from his shadow, causing the bird-themed hero moving towards bars and saw the Master of Fear himself running by, Scarecrow.
Now Red Robin will have too be twice careful with as Scarecrow was very will minded mastermind, close to Joker and few others, but use Fear Gas then strength to his edge. Now he wonders if he wasn't affected by the Fear Gas or not, but he needs to be careful.
"Oh, it looks like the good Doctor has started early. Your appointment isn't for hours but I'm sure you'll be buzzed through when he's ready. Tell me, birdy. What are you really scared of? Failing to save this cesspool of a city? Not finding the Commissioner in time? Me in a thong?" Joker asked more like joked on the last, causing him to laugh.
Red Robin didn't pay attention as he used his Explosive Gel on a weak wall and opened a new way to walk. He walked what looks like an old cave path way, maybe doing the old days when the asylum was being built.
The bird themed hero kept moving but stopped when he saw a familiar person within an air vent.
"Please, help me, Red Robin!" Jim called out as he was being pulled away by someone and caused the bird to hurry.
Red Robin rushed towards an air vent, breaking it down and quickly moved in it towards where he found a dead body of Jim Gordon before him.
He checked for any heart beats but found none as he lowered his head and closed eyes of the dead body.
"I'm sorry Jim," Red Robin said, lowering his voice and felt like he failed to save someone.
The bird themed then heard something, causing him to turn around and follow where that sounds came from.
"Barbara? I…I'm sorry. I was too late," Red Robin said in a defeated tone of voice.
He didn't get an answer but a message ring tone and wonder what was going on. The message line ended as the hero walks towards where the noise came from, being Morgue room and open the door to that room to find something very off.
Two body bags on tables and caused the hero to wonder who it was as he reaches for the first one on the right.
Snipping the bag down, Red Robin comes face to face someone he knows all too well, Hinata Hyuga.
"Hinata!" Red Robin called out in shock on what he was seeing before him.
"Help me, Naruto! Please don't leave me again! Don't be a coward! Just join me as we can be together!" The dead body of Hinata called, causing the hero to shake of this sudden appearing of his past friend.
Red Robin backed up until he hit the table behind, taking deep breaths and shook his head, not believing what was going on or seeing. He moved towards the last bag to open but stopped when Scarecrow popped out of the bar and stabbed the hero with more Fear Toxins.
The bird themed hero groans as the poison moves around his veins and opens his eyes to whole new world, he was unfamiliar with, being one from a nightmare.
"Fear…that's it. I was drugged in the elevator and now Crane has added more, making the affects doubling by the second but there is a way out of this nightmare world and get the Fear Gas out from within me," Red Robin thought as he stands up on his feet, having his will and healing factor fighting the toxins within him and fight this nightmare off.
There are limits to this healing factor and now the hero was testing them out against the Master of Fear's toxins.
"Poor little bird! You're in my world now!" A giant monster Scarecrow shouted out as the world changes and laughs, thinking the hero was done for, but he was wrong.
By being careful and avoiding Scarecrow's lights as he moves towards, Red Robin moves around of this nightmare world until reaching to where he need to go, being the light single of the symbol and family he fights with, the Bat single.
"What are doing, little bird?" Scarecrow called out, looking around for the bird and failed to see the hero was behind him.
By a flick of a switch and pushing it down, the bat single shines a powerful blue beam of light and pushed all the nightmare away. The light was embodiment of his will and healing factor has done its job.
Red Robin gets up too see he was still in the Morgue room and the Fear Gas was out, giving him a sigh of relief.
"Can you hear me? Naruto! What's going on?" Barbara asked, trying to get an answer from the hero.
"Barbara, I'm okay," Red Robin said, being happy to hear a familiar voice and happy to talk to her.
"What happened? I lost contact. Are you sure you are all right? Have you found my dad?" Barbara asked.
"I'm fine. Had a little run-in with Scarecrow, slowed me down, but I'm fine now and will get back to you in a bit," Red Robin answered, ending the call for now and started to make his way back towards where he found the body.
If he was drugged in the elevator to the Morgue room, then he must have some fear of what he didn't want to see and needs to see for the dead body was now while answering two riddles before moving on.
Without wasting time, Red Robin rushes out of the room towards the hallway and found a dead body of one guard, not being Jim Gordon. Crane's gas must have worked during that and now the hero can start his search, but he noticed that doors were smashed, and some guest were coming.
"Are you lost little birdy? Having trouble figuring out what's real and what's juts a figment of your twisted little mind? Same here, but just roll with it, birdy. It gets easier once you give in. It really does," Joker said over the speakers as his men burst into the hallway and rushed towards the bird.
Red Robin throws one right uppercut punch towards the first henchman in the chin, sending him flying and used his cape to stun the second thug coming at him. The bird hero swung his left leg in the ground, causing the third thug to fall into the ground. He soon turns his attention towards the stunned thug and grabbed his left arm, breaking it and kicked his face to knock him out.
Before the last thug come up on his feet, the bird themed hero grabs him by the shirt and punched his lights out with his left fist. He then got up and walked in the hallway to hear Joker speaking again through the speakers.
"Listen, no more tricks. Just one last puzzle and you can have Gordon. And a little more, oh I can't wait."
Red Robin knows that it can't be too easy as Joker never makes this easy for Batman or him. So, he will need to be careful to what's ahead of him and save Jim before anything happens to him. The bird themed hero had solved the third quarters of Riddle's questions and made his way towards the next hallway to see a TV turn on.
"Your and Bat's precious Police Commissioner is just through the glass. Look!" Joker called out as the hero looks a glass window to see what the clown was talking about.
The bird themed hero walks down the hallway too see the same room from awhile ago and glass window that had Harley with a shotgun and guarding a tie up Jim.
"Harley is under strict instructions to kill the old man if any of my guys even think you're in the room. They're patrolling down there. I've told all of them you are on the way. So, here's the deal, if you can find a way to get to Harley without anyone realizing. I'll give your next present. Fall and the old codger dies. Hell, I may even give you Harley. It looks like you could use a sidekick like Bats," Joker informed over the TV/speakers of the little game taking place.
Yep is not easy with Joker and the bird knows it. He will need to very quiet in getting to the room and not have anyone of Joker's men find him. The bird themed hero needs to rescue Jim without being detected and that part fits very well with him as he was once a ninja that was hard for many to find him.
Red Robin walks over to an air vent, opening very quick and quietly before sliding it too the sides and claws within the vents to the next opening.
The bird themed hero grabbed the first thug he sees, covering and holding him down before moving the knock out body towards the corner, making sure no one saw him and find the body. He needs to be very smart and careful if he wants to save Jim. So that means no gadgets and have quick takedowns.
"Remember! You even smell a man in tights and Harley kills the old man!" Joker called out over the speakers.
As if need the hero needs a reminder.
The bird themed hero moves into another air vent and claws slowly inside to see his next target which he doses and silent takes him down quickly. He lowers himself as he takedown the thug and looked for anyone nearby which he doesn't see anyone around him and was find for the moment.
Once he was done, Red Robin lower himself to make no one sees him as he rushed careful to the next target and silent takes down the armed thug. He soon counted one more armed man, being nearby which makes the first part easy to save Jim now.
By moving quick and quietly on his feet, the bird themed hero comes up behind the next target and grabbed him down, silent takedown and knock his lights out. Now he can save Jim from Harley.
Red Robin walks upstairs to the room where Jim was held at but noticed that the door was lock and Harley will hear him if he uses the door. So, he climbed onto the building and see glass window opening view towards his target.
Without wasting time, the bird themed hero breaks through the glass and knocks his target.
"Heh, you took longer than I thought," Jim commented as the hero unties and allows the cop to stand on his feet.
"He's out of control and trying to prove something. I'm not sure if I can stop him this time alone," Red Robin said, admitting that he wasn't so sure that he will stop Joker.
Sure, he has before but with Batman and Robin, working together but this time was different and alone.
"You'll do it, Red Robin. I know you can," Jim said, having the hero relax a bit before the two looks at something off to them.
In the room outside where the two where at, has medical room filled with gas and the bird themed hero hears a heartbeat, meaning that someone was there.
"We're not alone. Joker's got something else down there. I don't know what it is," Jim said, remembering what Joker was saying when his men bring in here.
The TV turns on, showing Joker and said, "What a blabbermouth! Spoiling the surprise!"
"Be quite!" Red Robin threated as he and commissioner walks out of the room and towards the medical room.
"Oh, Am I getting to you! Am I? Good," Joker said with some laughs and spoked, "You're going to love this next bit."
Red Robin and Jim walks into the medical room with the doors swing open for them, noticing that gas was not gas but fog and saw a few computers that wanted some logins.
Jim walked towards the computer and said, "It wants Dr. Young's login."
"Never mind that. Get behind me. Now!" Red Robin ordered, seeing a familiar figure he knows all too well and soon enough the cop did too as he backs him.
"Bane," The bird themed hero said, seeing a weak version of Bane being right in front of him in groaning in pain.
Bane was now a weak little man with big tubes into his body that were pumping tubes out the blood out of his body and becoming more paler by the second. He wore a black and silver mask with green eye holes, and the suit was same color as his mask. (Bane's looks from Injustice 2)
"I thought he broke out of Blackgate," Jim said, being shock of seeing the man that broke the bat being weak and here in Arkham.
"Cut me down…," Bane spoked weakly with groans.
"Who did this to you?" Red Robin asked, wondering what kind of a monster will play god and do this to one of Batman's greatest enemies.
No matter what someone has done, they shouldn't suffer like this. No one should and will not.
"Dr. Young, the bruja. She drained the Venom from my blood. Must…stop…her…," Bane replied the best he can, wanting revenge on the doctor that did this to him.
Before the bird themed hero could speak again, the TV by him turns on and shows the Joker.
"Sorry, Has Bane. The good doctor won't be a problem much longer. How do you like my puppet? What say we cut him down?" Joker asked as he pushes a button and starts something up, being the room where the hero was at.
The machine starts, having the lights turn red and started pumping the Venom back into the host, Bane. As the Venom comes back to little man, he starts to grow back to his full body, having his veins turn green and started roaring as his muscle grow.
"Gordon run!" Red Robin shouted, having Jim running away and leaves the two alone.
The bird themed hero slowly backs way out of the room as Bane breaks free from the tubes and roared at hero before running at him.
Bane swung his left fits, but Red Robin ducks and moves in time to dodge the right downwards swing and punched the face twice. This caused the hulk-like man to roar and grabbed the hero before throwing against the brick wall, breaking it down and follow him.
"Play nice ladies!" Joker called out before laughing at the fight that will take place.
Red Robin rolled int the ground into another wall and stopped himself. He grunted of a few bones boke and won't move with his wounds, but changes as he cracks his neck, having his wounds heal quick and bones snaped back in place, being fully healed in a second. (Wolverine)
Yep, he was in the fight of his life as he gets up back on his feet and stands a few feet away from Bane.
The bird themed hero noticed they where in the Boiler room all by themselves and was great for Bane as he wants to fight the bird in front of him.
Fighting head on was a bad idea and the bird hero knows it. So, he will need to be smart and take the Venom tubes down before beating the man, remembering his training from the Dark Knight if he comes across one of his Rouges one day.
Bane laughed before roaring and charging at the hero, but Red Robin throws a Birdarang in the giant's face and moved out of the way. The hulk-like man crashed in the wall with grunts and give the hero an opening to take down his enemy's weak spot.
Red Robin jumped onto Bane's back, flicking his right hand for his gloves to turn into talons and swung it towards one of three tubes. Cutting the tube off with his talons and razor blades, Bane roared and groaned in pain of the lost of his super Venom leaving him all the sudden.
The hulk-like man smashed his fits into the ground, causing an earthquake and rushed at the hero, not falling for the second trick twice and the bird themed hero knows this.
Red Robin kept dodging the massive punches that were flying at him and soon throw some caltrops into the giant's face, having small explosion blowing up and caused the giant man to be blind. The bird themed hero rushed at Bane, throwing two punches towards the face and right kneed the chin, causing the hulk-like man to grunt in pain.
Red Robin soon jumps behind Bane's back and cuts the second main tube off, stopping this new super Venom from giving his target more strength and landed back onto the ground.
"I WILL BREAK YOU!" Bane roared out loud, having his fits smashing the ground and caused the whole Boiler room, meaning that the two will die if the fight doesn't finish in time.
The bird themed hero didn't waste time as he brings out his bo staff and circle around his target, waiting for to strike. Bane turned around to face the bird hero and started throwing raged attacks, being punches and were missing which caused more anger to rise.
Good and that what was the hero was looking for.
Red Robin soon duked the massive fist and breaks his staff apart to starts his own attacks. He japed the leg, caused the hulk-like man to groan in pane and fall onto that knee.
Bane roared and swung his next punch but missed and the hero strike at the other leg, causing the giant man to be on his knees and be open.
Red Robin started attacking with his night sticks and hit Bane's face many times while dodging any attacks coming out him which it soon caused the monster man to lose motion and was open.
The bird themed hero jumps on the back one last time and used his bo staff, that put back together, and broke the last tube off.
Bane was starting to lose his scenes as the new Venom left and was longer five time as big, but to his normal state and was open the rocks that landed on top of his body.
Red Robin rolled and moved quickly out of the break down Boiler room, not wanting to be crash and started escape with his grappling hook towards an old sewer hatch. He sighed for a second as he leaves and was outside the Medical building but thought for a second and knows that Bane won't stop from some earthquake. He was too strong for that and the hero needs a plan just in case.
The bird themed hero pushed a few buttons on his control risk to his car, giving it a few commands and have it power up to his location for a trap he has in mind.
"Red Robin, you are okay?" Jim asked, putting his hand on the hero's shoulder as he gets up on his feet.
"I will live, Jim. Where's Harley?" Red Robin answered/asked.
"Gone, she must have run off when Bane was throwing you around," Jim replied, getting a smile from the bird hero.
Harley was known to leave when something big happens and knows her limits which this one was fighting a giant hulking man. The bird themed hero know he will find her again and soon thought of something, Gotham and what panic it was in.
"We need to get you off the island," Red Robin said.
"I'm not a rookie. I can handle myself," Jim said.
Before the hero could spoke again or have cop speak, the brick nearby them breaks down and has Bane rushing out with anger in his greened eyes. He roared and was piss from the looks it. Very mad indeed.
Red Robin turns around from the ground to see Bane grabbing him by the shoulders with his hands and started to crash him in his grip, getting the hero to hold back the pain he felt.
"I will break Red Robin! Then the bruja!" Bane shouted as he incased his grip harder onto the hero and failed to notice something was coming at him.
The Tumbler was driving at high speed towards the location it was told to and soon activated its high-power weapon, starting to aim towards where the giant man.
"No Bane…. this time…I break you," Red Robin said through his clenched teeth and used his legs to kick Bane's chin, allowing to be free and away from the weapon that was firing.
The Tumbler fires a strong not lived round at the hulking man, causing to fly backwards and right into the water by the docks.
Red Robin and Jim walked towards the cliff where Bane was launched, seeing no signs of him but know he will be survived this. If he can survive from being thrown out of plain too Batman's beatdown, and he will sure be survived from a high-powered round.
The bird themed hero pushed a button on belt which caused the Tumbler to go back into lockdown mode and parked for now.
"Jim get back to the mainland. It's too dangerous here," Red Robin said as he and Gordon walked onto the docks for the boat waiting for pick up.
The bird hero promised Barbara that he will save her father and the best way for it was him be at Gotham to help the panic people.
"I don't like leaving you here alone," Jim said as he climbs into the boat.
"The radio claims he's planted bombs all over Gotham. Gotham will panic and Batman must know what's going on here, you're needed there," Red Robin informed, making good scenes, but the Commissioner didn't like.
"We're ready to go now, sir," The officer said, getting nod from his boss to get going and had his mind made up now, but still had one question that was begging him since they saw Bane.
"Bane called Dr. Young 'bruja'. What does it mean?" Jim asked as the boat pulls away.
"It's Spanish. For witch," Red Robin answered in his eyes narrowed and voice lowered, not liking what he founded and wanted some answers.
To find answer, one must go home and only one room was here in Arkham Island that the bird hero help made sometime ago.
Naruto's Harem (So Far): Batgirl. Harley Quinn. Poison Ivy. Catwoman. Rest TBA
AN: I should say this now and not forget later. This story was inspired by KuronoDono12 and Bladewolf101 DC work/stories.