It's been a long time since my last update and for that I apologize sincerely! I won't waste time explaining. I own nothing but the plot! Chapter 15

Normal POV

Batman and Jason made their way outside of the broken-down apartment building that housed the identity thief Hush, who by the way, just gave them the jump on what's been going on with the disappearance of Catwoman. Their next destination is going to be Catwoman's apartment.

"So, Bruce. Selina's apartment, do you know where it is?" Jason asked.

"It's hard to say honestly. She has a bunch of different apartments located all around Gotham for her looted items." Batman said working with the control pad attached to his gloves.

"But she must have one she stays in for sleeping, eating, etcetera right?"

"For sure. I'm almost positive she has an apartment in almost every district in Gotham to put the loot from places she robbed nearby."

"That's pretty risky for someone who wants to stay low-key you think?"

"Selina's no fool. It's because she's so good at being low-key that she can get away with stuff like this. She's not a big spender and picks probably the roughest looking places to stash her goods. She actually has an apartment located right above us. We'll start there."

Batman and Jason used their grappling hooks to spring up into a big caged area.

"What the hell is this?" Jason asked.

"I thought it was something used to keep certain prisoners locked up, until I realized the whole point of Arkham City was to have the prisoners run the streets. Now I believe it was something Selina crafted or had crafted to keep prisoners from getting into her things." Batman explained.

They turned around to see that the apartment opening had been blown up and was completely burned on the inside. Nothing remained.

"What the? Who would've done this? Do you think she tried to get rid of evidence?" Jason asked.

"No. This was a premeditated explosion I'm sure. It clearly happened a long time ago, maybe an assassination attempt on Selina's life which she clearly survived."

"So, you don't think there's anything in there that can help?" Jason asked.

"I wish. But I doubt anything in there would survive a fire burning for so long." Batman responded.

"I agree. What's the next move?"

"There are cameras all around town. I can use the bat computer in the clock tower to tap into them and see exactly where Selina went. Trying to find all of her associated apartments and search them would be too much work."

"Sounds like a plan." Jason agreed.

Batman got back into the Batmobile and Jason got back onto the Bat bike and they made their way out of the super prison with the clock tower on their minds.

"You know Bruce." Jason said on his radio, "I kept hearing Riddler splurge stuff about the orphanage all night, but I never knew Selina was in there. Maybe I could've-"Jason was interrupted.

"There was nothing you could've done. Riddler had a bomb around her neck in the form of a collar. If she so much as stepped in the wrong direction she was done for." Batman retorted back quickly.

Jason remained silent until they arrived at the clock tower. They got off their vehicles and grappled up onto the top of the tower where Bruce entered a code and the shingles separated to open a hatch that the two could jump down. Jason walked over to the bookshelf in the room and picked up the picture of Tim Drake and Barbara Gordon.

"Rest easy Tim. Barbara I will protect you. I swear." Jason whispered to himself.

Batman grabbed the Shakespeare bust's head and revealed a button. He pressed it and the bookshelf and other obstructions moved into the ground and computer screens filled three sides of the room with a control panel in the middle of the room. Jason wanted to ask Batman why he had a clock tower base but decided to stay off the topic considering the events from earlier in the night. Batman pulled up the cameras from all around Gotham but typed in the coordinates of the orphanage. The screen focused in on the orphanage and Catwoman could be heard saying:

"I'm sorry about your parents..but was there really anything you could do?..Bruce please..stop this..you don't have to do this alone anymore..if you really loved me like Luscious said you'd-

Jason looked at Batman from behind and thought to himself

'Bruce loves Selina?'

Batman didn't take his eyes off the screen. The video continued to show Batman grab Catwoman and kiss her. Jason couldn't believe it.

'I felt I've always known Bruce better than anyone..how could this get past me? I would've never guessed.' He said to himself.

Again, Batman's eyes didn't leave the screen. The video continued with Batman speaking:

"I'm sorry Selina..some things you have to do alone. I'm going to turn myself in to Scarecrow. After the Riddler is turned in. It's over."

"Bruce no! Stop please! Don't go to Scarecrow! Please..I've lost so many people I've loved...Bruce..don't go."

That portion of the video ended with Catwoman watching Batman leave in his Batmobile and walking away sulking. Batman looked down at the control panel and kept track of Catwoman as she walked through the streets. She had taken off her cap and goggles seemingly to confuse the thugs of the streets, but it was from sadness and frustration. Batman sped up the film and noticed she walked for a considerably long time, she was really upset. Eventually, she showed up to a run-down building on Bleake Island and entered it. That was her apartment. Now to find out which room she was in. The screen divided up into an 4x4 square filled screen, so Batman could go to a specific square and zoom in. He watched for a few moments but didn't see exactly what room she went into. He zoomed back out and noticed something. A small figure in hospital garments.

"Jason. Look." Batman said zooming in on the bottom left hand corner.

"What is it?" Jason asked.

"Looks like a Dollotron. A zombie like creature Pyg made. Out of real people." Batman said, disgusted.

"What does he do to them?"

"He seeks to make them "perfect" by making them genderless and performing all sorts of surgeries on them usually on the brain making them immune to pain and obeying anything he says." Batman explained.

"So basically what you're saying is-

"Those people are dead men walking." Batman interrupted

Jason cringed.

"I'm assuming he followed Selina since she left the orphanage. I'm going to go about forty-five minutes further and see what I can find."

Batman fast forwarded the video around forty-five minutes and noticed a police cruiser pull up and out walked Pyg with the small dollotron and a larger one. They walked into the building and it wasn't long before a scuffle ensued. Next thing Batman knew, something was thrown through the window on the 8th floor of the building. That was the room the scuffle happened in. Batman continued to watch until Pyg emerged from the room with an unconscious Catwoman and put her in the trunk of the cruiser, got back in and drove off. Batman continued to track the car as it drove through the city until the cruiser got to the plaza on Miagani Island where Pyg got out and watched Batman's identity be revealed. Batman skipped past the reveal until Pyg finally got back in the car and continued to drive, then all of a sudden the power to the clock tower was cut.

"What the hell just happened?" Jason asked.

"Someone cut the power to the building I need to-

Batman was cut off by Jason jumping in front of him to stop a bullet from hitting him.

"AHH Damn it! Shit this armor isn't worth a damn!" Jason yelled in pain.

"Relax Jason." Batman kneeled down and scanned the bullet and recognized the ammo from a particular sniper an old foe of his used.

"Deadshot." Batman snarled.

Pyg's Hideout

Catwoman stared in shock and fear at the masked man asking her for room on her clearly one person bunk she was on. But what she was more scared of was the fact she watched Pyg kill this man and he's up talking.

"I'm so sorry if I scared you. I don't mean to be a bother." The man said.

"No! I mean…I'm just…I'm so confused." Catwoman stuttered.

"I'm not surprised." The man said getting up and walking towards the door.

"Who are you?" Catwoman asked still scared.

"What am I is a more appropriate question, but then again..I don't even know what the hell I am or what I'm supposed to be." The man said seeming to hold back tears.

"How..how'd you get involved with this freak?..If you don't mind talking about it." Catwoman said softly.

The masked man turned around halfway and looked at her through hidden eyes and turned back around towards the door. He sighed then turned back around towards Catwoman and sat criss cross and she got off her bunk and did the same.

"My name..my name is Mike..I used to be a plumber in California..had a good family. Wife, a kid, just an overall good life. One day my son brings home a paper titled: Come see your biggest fears in person at the circus of strange! I should've known then something about it was just off but I didn't pay too much attention. I was barely home and wanted to do something nice for my son. I had gotten off work early to take my son to the circus of strange and it was just that…completely strange. I saw a man with crocodile scales, a three headed man, and a bunch of other freaks..including that fat crazed fuck that has me locked in here. My son and I sat down and watched the show, but you know, it's ironic he could be a hell of a ring master if he wasn't crazy. No matter how disturbing the show was I couldn't leave for some reason, I just wanted to see more. My son continuously remarked throughout the show that he was looking in our direction, but I believe it was just perception and it only looked like he was looking at us. Boy was I wrong. After the show two of the freaks put chloroform rags on my son and I's faces and the next thing I knew I woke up in one of these disgusting cells. Every single fucking day I'm forced to hear people scream and beg for mercy WHILE HE LISTENS TO HIS DAMN MUSIC I WANNA GO HOME!" The man almost yelled so hard he lost his voice.

Catwoman listened to his story and watched him hold his mask covered head in his hands.

"Take off your mask.." Catwoman said.

"I…can't..it's…it…it's fused to my head." Mike said still crying.

Catwoman rushed in and hugged Mike.

"Mike…I am so sorry you have to go through this..we will get through this together." Catwoman assured him. "How long exactly have you been in here?" Catwoman asked.

"I have no idea. All he has is clocks around the facility but I don't know if the times are right. He got us somewhere in 2015." Mike said.

"Mike..it's..2018.." Catwoman said slowly.

"No. no no no no no no…NO WAY IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS!" Mike screamed. "NOOOOO OH GOD!" Mike was hysterical and on the ground crying.

The next thing they both heard was the door being tampered with. Catwoman hurried back on to her bed and turned around. Mike pretended to be in the same position he was in when Pyg left the firs time. Janoz walked in with a hook attached to a chain. Looked at Catwoman and then Mike. Janoz cocked back and threw the hook into Mike's' back.

"AHHHHHHHHHH OHHH GOD ! NO NO NO PLEASE IT CAN'T BE MY DAY ALREADY! NO NO PLEASE!" Mike screamed and begged as Janoz pulled him out of the room leaving behind a trail of blood.

Catwoman turned around and looked at the grizzly scene. She couldn't keep going through this. She needed to figure something out and find something out fast. If Mike survived and is brought back to her cell she needed to get all the information out of him as she could so she can get away from this monster. And save maybe more people in the process.