Chapter 6 Arkham Asylum 6: Riot
"Oracle, Dr. Young is safe and has given some useful information. She told me there's a production plant hidden somewhere in the Gardens," Red Robin called in.
"That's great to hear and good news so far. Hmm, the Wayne and Whirlpool Tech security protocols seem to be hack-proof. Lucius and Mercy did a good job. It's a two-part biometric sequence apparently generated by the Warden, using a code sequencer," Barbara informed.
"And Joker destroyed that. Harley Quinn has the Warden, and he's the only chance we have to get past these gates," Red Robin said as his DV starts with the scan he found earlier from the cane and was his trail he can follow.
"Okay, good luck Naruto," Barbara said, ending the call and allowed the hero to his work.
"Well do Barbara," Red Robin said with a small smile on his face before going to his work.
The bird-themed hero follows the trail that leads out of Arkham Manor and outside towards somewhere the hero will find out soon enough.
The trail soon leads towards the Medical Facility Visitor Center Penitentiary, not a bad place to hide the Warden and the bird hero was going in.
The bird themed hero walks down the hallway of the Cell Access to see three armed thugs by the front and had no clue that the hero was here. He pulled out three birdarangs and launched them towards thugs' heads, knocking down but not out for now.
Red Robin walks over to one thug before punching him in the face and crashed into floor. He later did the same thing to the other two thugs and kept moving on. Some riddles here and there but nothing new for the hero to handle as he moves from the Cell area towards the Main Cell Block to find many crazies that had their lives destroyed by either the Joker Gas or Scarecrow's Fear Gas.
The bird hero felt sorry for them as he kept walking to follow the DNA trail from Quincy Sharp and leave the main cell area to the next part of the building, being cell block area called the Green Mile and soon met a familiar figure that the bird knows all to well.
Pamela Isley aka Poison Ivy.
She soon stood up when seeing a familiar bird before and said, "Stop! Stop! Red Robin! Please! You've got to help my babies!"
Red Robin was surprise at the red-haired woman cries for help and used his Sensor, the ability to read people's emotions to see if they are lying or telling the truth. He found out that Poison Ivy was telling truth, and something was going on, but he can't let her escape. It's part of his job, but that doesn't mean he can look in to it.
"Ivy, please calm down. While I may be busy with Joker, I'll investigate what's going with your babies," Red Robin said, making the woman sigh and smiled at his kindness.
"Thank you. Why do you let me out? So that I can show my thanks," Poison Ivy said in a flirty and sexy tone of voice.
"Hmm, could, but work first," Red Robin said, starting to take leave and allowed Ivy to relax a bit.
Red Robin shared one last look at Pamela and remember the first met they had which forms into many more meetings. He wanted to help her and showed the kindness she never felt before. To that sudden kindness and caress, Poison Ivy unleashed a lot of poisons into her lips and kissed the hero to his death but was shock to found out that he had a healing factor and could withstand large amount of toxins. The two met a few more times, talking to one another and share a few things, but this stopped as a center Dark Knight lock her in Arkham and she gets visit from her favorite bird that bring her flowers.
The bird hero sighed as he walks towards the next room, being the Security Control Room and heard the Warden calling for help. Yep he was here and in the right place as the hero walks upstairs to save Sharp, but the gates suddenly turn as he walks up and knows he was trap in here for now at least.
Before Red Robin could save the Warden, the camera by Poison Ivy's start playing to show that Harley open the cell and allowed her friend to leave. The bird themed hero knows that the two have good history and with a cat thief that formed the Gotham's Sirens which he knows all the three members very well.
Soon enough Joker comes on TV and said, "I could watch those two all day! What a riot? And speaking of riots…here's a bit of civil unrest I cooked up just for you!"
With that said, Joker pushed a button and allowed the crazies from their cells to escape. Great move problems to deal.
Red Robin soon cuts Sharp free with talons and allowed the warden to speak.
"He's taken control of the security overrides. I have the sequence generator, but without the terminal in my office, it's useless," Sharp said in defeated tone of voice.
"Your terminal has been destroyed. Give me the sequence," Red Robin ordered, having Sharp confused and but did it anyway.
"Of course," Sharp said, handing the hero his card key.
The bird hero turns the warden off as he scans the key card with his scanner and create a new tool for him to use, being the Cryptographic Sequencer or CS that allows to bypass security systems.
"There's always a way out. Always," Red Robin said to the warden as he starts to use his CS to work.
By using the right frequency, the gates unlock for the hero and take his leave.
"You stay here and lock this gate when I leave," Red Robin ordered as he walks downstairs.
"Good idea. Can't have someone of my stature falling back into their hands, now can we?" Sharp agreed as he locks himself in the room and watched the hero leave.
Red Robin make his way back towards the Main Cell Block and find the Mistress of Clowns herself standing before him.
"Surprise!" Harley shouted with a bow before coming back up to speak again, "You know, Bird, I always thought there was a spark between us."
Before Red Robin could answer that, Harley jumps from the cages until she up on the catwalks above him and saw her kick a control box.
"Well, now there is!"
The floor before the bird hero was on, starting to power up and shock anyone that touches the floor.
"I know, I know. You're shocked! Come and get me, Bird. I double dare you!" Harley called out, getting the hero to take the challenge up.
Grappling hook towards the catwalks, Red Robin was on the platform and see thugs coming at him to start a fight. Harley allowed her men to fight the bird and watched the fight take place from a chained light to swing on.
The fight broke with the bird hero started punching or kicking thugs down into the ground, taking down the first three easy and smashed one thug into the gun box to knock him out cold. He jumped to one thug, grabbing and soon slamming him into the ground hard.
Red Robin punched the next thug in the face twice before breaking his legs into two and swing his leg to kick the last thug in the face. He knows this was too easy as Harley doesn't make it easy for him and soon her taking her leave.
The Mistress of Clowns jumped off the light to grab the door way and swing towards the other side of elector floor, having the gates close behind her.
"Was that as easy as it looked? Hmm, well, it won't be so easy trying to catch me," Harley said before blowing a kiss too the hero and take her leave.
Knowing where to go and follow Harley, Red Robin walks towards the guard control room to use his CS on the controls and shut down the floor to the gate. Now he can follow the clown and knows for a fact that things will get inserting.
Small Time Skip
It took some time and doing small things, but Red Robin had found a good number of riddles and saved two guards from being killed.
"You expecting congratulations? C'mon. Try and catch me," Harley said in sing like voice from the speakers, getting the hero's attention and follow her.
Red Robin walks towards the Main Cell Block area, having an idea where his target was going.
"C'mon, keep up! Don't keep a lady waiting! You're getting warmer!" Harley called out from the speakers as the hero make his towards where he needed to go.
Soon enough, Red Robin found himself in the Extreme Incarceration area, well one of them at least and saw Harley in the control tower.
"Here he comes, Mr. J," Harley said as the TV turns on and starts pushing a few buttons on the controls.
"Excellent! I'll leave it to you then my dear," Joker said, leaving the Mistress of Clowns to deal with the bird.
"Get him!"
With that ordered, the doors open and allowed thugs to rush at the hero.
Red Robin then noticed that the floors were turning on all the sudden, meaning the electives was coming and this gives him an idea. He doesn't need to fight these low life thugs. The floor will do the work for him.
The bird themed hero used his grappling to pull himself towards the other floor that was off and had some of thugs be elective, being knock out due to a shocking event. Some did try to attack the hero but was countered which later gains broke bones and have their lights knock out by the hero.
Maybe the fight shouldn't take place where the floor can shock someone and maybe the fight will be long but it is what it is.
"He's done it again. I don't believe it. I'm on my way now," Harley said over the speaks and started to leave but until something happens.
"Oops! Change of plans, kiddo," Joker said, having the doors locked.
"But I tried my best," Harley begged.
"Sorry, but there is no price for second place. I'm afraid you're off the party list. Better luck next time," Joker said, ending call and left Harley broken down of what just happen.
Red Robin didn't like Joker took such a nice woman and made her become like this. And later beats and threw her away like a toy. It makes him sick and his thoughts as he saw Harley in front of him.
"Die, you big, stupide bird!" Harley called, running at the bird with cartwheels and swung with her right leg, but was counted as the hero grabbed her leg and threw to her to floor.
Red Robin tried to up Harley on her feet but was pushed away from that and the hero saw something.
"Hey! Hands off the merchandise!" Harley snapped.
The bird-themed hero didn't pay attention as he saw something in Harley's cleavage, not pervert mind you all. He saw a paper list and used his right hand to take the list but something else happen at the same time.
Harley all the sudden moaned and her face heated up from bird touching her breast. Red Robin didn't mean for this as he takes the paper list with small blush on his face and open the list up.
"If you wanted to grope me birdy, all you had to do was ask and buy me dinner first," Harley flirty remarked as she stands up on her feet.
Red Robin rubbed the back of his head and said, "Sorry."
He then read the party list, having names with smiles next to them and most of them were Batman's Rouges that here in Arkham Island, but the rest won't here in prison, and this caused the hero to wonder.
"Why the smiles next to certain names?" Red Robin asked, changing the topic.
"You're the detective. You tell me?" Harley asked as she leans on the rails behind her, having mix thoughts on what to do.
One on hand, Harley could try to punch the hero in the face when his guard down. On the other hand, she couldn't and see what happens next. And she did the second chose.
Red Robin puts the list away and gently grabs the Mistress of Clown's right hand, scanning for fingerprints for his DV and started to take his leave, shocking Harley to the core.
"Hey! You are not going to put me a in cell?" Harley asked, getting the hero to turn around and face her.
"I could…but I won't. I have what I want and could guess that Joker is hiding somewhere in the Botanical Gardens, being a secret hind out to work on Titan," Red Robin answered, being a guess on where the clown was hiding and will get the answer soon enough.
"How did you know that Mr. J is hiding in the secret lab in the Gardens and…oh crap," Harley asked, but change as she knows she just give the location on where Joker was at.
"Yep, now I know…and before that," Red Robin said, turning his head at Harley one last time to speak again, "This is your last chance to leave Arkham. You can leave and I won't go after you, I promise."
Harley was so shock that this hero, someone that she has mix feelings towards and her friends talk about so much would just let her go. Just like that with no cuffs or anything. Like giving her chance to do right, but the question was why. Why do this for her after all she has done tonight?
Red Robin saw the puzzled look on Harley's face which caused him to sigh and said, "Harley, the reason why I'm allowing to leave is because I believe you could turn over a new leaf and do something far better in your life than some puppet following Joker. I don't like how the way he treats you and still follow like some puppy. I hope you can make the right call."
This caused Harley to smile with tears coming down her eyes of this sudden kindness the hero showed to her. It wasn't the first time this kindness came up, but she would turn him down and now she wasn't going to.
Before Harley could say another word to the hero, she saw that the bird was gone like a certain Dark Knight does.
"I hope Bird doesn't become like B-man. He's too cute to be a Bat," Harley thought, commenting of her favorite bird before giggling and started to take her own leave.
Small Time Skip
Red Robin had made his way out of area and started to call in his friend, "Barbara, I'm done. Harley is…subdued, and I have her prints to scanned."
"So, you can find the secret lab in the Gardens," Barbara said.
"Yes. Harley has been everywhere on the island, so I'm calibrating the scanner to only show prints that have traces of chlorophyll," Red Robin informed, having his DV scan for chlorophyll fingerprints.
"Okay, listen. Be careful, I re-routed a satellite to show thermal scans of the island. The Gardens are showing up hot. Something bad is happening there," Barbara said before ending the call and keep running scans on the island for anything that comes up.
Red Robin nodded his head and kept moving towards where he need to go in order to stop Joker before he makes his army, but it may be too late for that. However, this hero was going to stop the clown.
The bird-themed hero wonders around bit before going towards the Botanical Gardens that was somewhere at Arkham North, dealing with some crazies and knock their lights out, getting some riddles and thinking some things over. He also heard Joker calling in his men to test the Titan formula and be part of his main army. So, it looks like that this bird needs to hurry and fast.
Once Red Robin entered the Glasshouse Entrance, he turns his DV back on and starts following the trail that was left for him. He can't waste time in finding the Titan Production Facility as he follows the fingerprints.
The bird hero soon stops at the corner, hearing two thugs talking about their boss's formula he was working on and caused the hero to pull out two birdarangs for the two. By launching the birdarangs at the thugs' face, it caused them to fall into the gates that was on and zapped them. That was easy and now time to unlock the door as the hero used his CS for the job.
As he entered the Botanical Glasshouse, Red Robin heard armed men wondering around and grappled onto a stone rafter, seeing his odds and plan an attack out. He saw one armed henchman below up, doing an inverted takedown and hang him upside down by the rafter, causing him to scream of this sudden jolt attack.
The bird-themed hero moves towards another rafter and did the same takedown onto another thug that was wide open to him, getting the last three thugs to be nervous on what was after them. The hero then throws a sonic birdarang to unleash a sonic blast, knocking the thug out and left his friends alone.
Red Robin hide until taking down last two with little trouble and soon keep moving on.
"Really? He beat you all. Again. What does it take? An army of monsters?" Joker asked over the speakers before laughing and working on his project.
The bird-themed hero keeps moving towards an open room that had water and saw Joker across his way with a guard, holding him with a knife at his throat.
"You need to stop this now. Before it goes too far," Red Robin warned, but knows that clown will not listen and will give a beatdown.
"Stop? But everyone's dying to see what I do next!" Joker said as he brings the guard close to the edge.
"Let him go, now!" Red Robin ordered with his eyes narrowed and hands clenching.
"Really? OK, if you say so, Bird," Joker said before kicking an elective box down in the water and soon throw the guard in the water, killing him within seconds.
"NO!" Red Robin called out, seeing the guard dying within a second before his eyes.
Joker kept laughing before bring something out to push and said, "You really need to speed things up, birdy."
The door blows up, cutting a way to follow the clown, but there's always a way around that and the hero saw it.
"At this rate, you'll never catch me," Joker said, laughing again before leaving the area and back towards factory.
Red Robin can't move on from here as the power was on and will need to shut it down before moving on. The power boxes should be around in the Statue Corridor and that's where the hero will go to shut the power down.
The bird hero soon found himself in the Glasshouse Generator Room and saw thugs guarding the room, paying a little attention to the hero that just walked in. Such idiots and will get a beatdown.
Red Robin walked up to the two first thugs to grab their heads and slamming them together, knocking them out and caused the fight to take part. The bird threw punches and kicks to send the thugs away from him as he starts giving them the beatdown they were asking for.
One thug rushed at the hero but was counted and threw into the floor to only have his right leg be broken into two by the bird. The next thug rushed at the bird but was stopped when Red Robin punched his ears to make them ring and pulled his legs that he soon broke them.
Another thug rushes at the hero to punch him but failed as the hero saw this coming. Red Robin counted the punch and threw two punches into the gut before launching a powerful downwards punch to the face, knocking his lights out. The last rushed over to hit the alarms but was stopped and slammed into the wall by the bird.
Red Robin then walked over to free hostage and allowed him to stand up.
"Thanks. Are you okay?" The janitor asked, rubbing his wrist.
"I'm fine. I eat punks like these for breakfast. What were they doing here?" Red Robin answered/asked.
"The ones that weren't hitting me went over there and started doing something to power controls. I have no idea what they were doing," The janitor replied.
Red Robin nodded his head before pulling out his CS and walked towards the control panels but stopped for a second and saw that Joker had booby trapped the control box. Hmm he will have to be careful as he starts, doing a three-way frequency and soon the power was off in the room where the hero needs to go. Now he goes back to the room before and keep moving forward.
Red Robin was back in the room and the other side to rip the vent down, going into the long way and see where it leads too. He walks through some old abandoned chambers to hear something was going and keep moving forward to find out.
The bird themed hero soon saw bodies being dropped into the chamber, seeing deformed bodies and show some signs of Venom towards Titan. He will need to hurry as Joker hasn't perfected the formula but that won't last long and started kicking it up to hurry.
Red Robin opens a massive door that leads to the Flooded Corridor and can tell that he was getting closer to where he needs to go. Due to beating two thugs easily and found out from a guard that some people were trapped in cages which the hero was going to save as moves towards where he need to go.
Before going into the next room, the bird themed started doing some upgrades on his gadgets and be ready for anything that might come up. Its good to be ready for the unseen these days.
Once going into the Aviary, Red Robin saw hostages in cages and hide into the shadows, planning a way to save the hostages without anyone seeing him to warn armed henchmen.
"Help me! Someone! Get me out of this thing!"
Joker laughed at the panic hostage and said, "Listen, the Bird is on the way. If you see him, send annoying doctors to hell. That's the down one, right?"
"Yeah. They're going down!" The thug agreed with a smile on his face.
"Good. And remember, if you hear a collar go off, Red Robin is here," Joker informed, making his boys understand their hostage mission.
Red Robin knows that all of Joker's men are wearing security collars and will take out the operator first before the other thugs and save the hostages. He walks towards an air vent opening it very quietly and moves in. The bird did the same on getting out and moved in the shadows towards the operator/control room.
The bird-themed hero silent takedown threat by incapacitating him, but knows the hostages are still in danger and moves towards the other armed men. By moving in the shadows, the hero takes down the thugs one by one before they even noticed he was even here and freed the hostages by having the cages moved to a safe area.
Once the doctors were safe, Red Robin picks on the fingerprints trail again with his DV and finds the hidden door. He used his grappling hook towards an open cave and found something very interesting, three silver metal panels and pushed the first one which opens the control box that soon opens the hidden door next to the hero.
Without wasting time, Red Robin walks into the hidden room to see Joker and two his men.
"Well, look who's discovered our secret lab. Since you've made it this far, let me show you what I've cooked up," Joker said before pulling out drat gun of his color.
The clown then shots his men, shocking the two and soon their bodies were transforming into muscle monster men. Joker laughed at seeing his work done and left room for the bird to deal with his first part of his army he was planning.
Two monster men roared at the hero before dashing at him, but they were blindsided by a birdarang to the face and crashed hard into the wall.
Red Robin started throwing punches onto the two monsters, getting the angry and had an idea on taking them at the same time. He moves out of way when the two started punching the ground and backward towards the Titan was being held, waiting his foes to come at him.
The two rushed at the hero but again were blindsided by birdarangs and crashed into the Titan formula, getting more that stuff onto the monster and they felt weaker as green steams hits their bodies. The hero saw this and waste no time in attacking them once more.
Red Robin used his right knee to knee the first monster in the face before jumping up in the air and throwing a downwards strike on the monster to cause him to slam into the ground. The second monster was almost up, and the hero got behind him to have his cape wrapped around him, making him lose air and soon passed out within a full minute.
The bird-themed hero sighed as he gets his cape back and knows that first part was done in stopping Joker. The clown escaped with an enough Titan to cause more problems for the hero and knows how the clown was making the formula. If that's the case, then the bird will need to ask one person on Arkham Island for help. This night keeps on getting better by the second.