Everything was in place for the breakout. The following morning Joker hid the knife under his pillow and waited patiently for the morning guard to check on him for role call. Joker just laid on his bed pretending to be asleep once the guard started passing by.
"Rise and shine Joker." The guard knocked on Joker's cell to get him up. No answer, the guard knocked again louder. "Joker, get your ass up now!" Still no response. Frustrated the guard unlocked the cell and marched to Joker's bed and pulled off the sheets. "If you don't get up like I ordered you right this second I'm going to put you in..."
Within the blink of an eye Joker shot up from his bed and plunged his knife in the guards throat. Joker put his index finger over the guards mouth to prevent him from making a sound as the life quickly drained from the guard's body. "Shh... You'll wake the other prisoners."
The Joker laughed once the guard fell dead. Joker grabbed the keys and gun from guards pocket. He walked to the other cells and quickly started to unlock them.
"Good news everyone, your all getting early parole!" Joker laughed "Let's all give the Arkham staff one giant thank you party!" The prisoners all ran out from their cells. The guards stormed in and tried their best to contain them. But in the fuss Joker slipped by, laughing to himself as he made his way down the many Asylum hallways.
"Freeze Joker," The Joker suddenly heard a guard call out from behind him. Joker slowly turned around and calmly shot the guard in the head before calmly continued to walk down the hallway. "Uh, uh, no party poopers allowed at my party."
The news of the prisoner breakout quickly made it's way to the Arkham doctors. The Asylum was put on lock down and whatever guards was not busy handling the prison riots was busy gathering up the nurses and therapists.
Harley was calmly going over paper work in her office when a frantic knock was came from her door.
"Harley there's a prisoner riot going on," Sarah replied, opening the door frantically. We got to get to safety. The Joker is out!"
"What?" Harley gasped, Doing her best to put on a surprised act, hiding the fact that she was the one who helped organize it. "Okay, let's go." Harley took Sarah's hand and slowly made their way to the Arkham panic room, two guards standing behind them for safety.
Suddenly two gunshots were heard and the guards fell down dead. Sarah and Harley slowly turned around to see Joker standing behind them with his gun pointed in their direction, a sadistic smiled curled on his face.
"Dr. Strong, Dr. Quinzel," Joker replied calmly. He bent down towards the dead guards and took their guns. "I hate to barge in so rudely like this, it's not really gentleman like but I just have to take one of you dears hostage." Joker grabbed Harley by the arm and pulled her up to him. Wrapping his arm around her as he put his gun to her temple. Harley put on her best terrified act, knowing the Joker would not hurt her. "It's nothing personal my dear but I need leverage if I'm going to get out of here."
"Sarah, contact Batgirl, hurry." Harley cried through fake tears.
"Joker if you harm her in anyway I swear I'm gonna!"
"Uh, uh, uh... you better watch what you say next toots. I'd hate to harm a hair on that pretty little face of yours."
"It'll be okay," Harley cried "Just get Batgirl, hurry!"
"Well it's been a fun party and I would like to stay longer but I've got to be going! I'm driving!" Joker walked off the same way he came, leaving his gun pointed at Harley the entire time.
Once the Joker was out of sight Sarah frantically took out her phone and called the police.
"Commissioner, this is Dr. Sarah Strong, your daughter's room mate," Sarah cried "The Joker's broke loose, he took Harley!"
The Joker's escape quickly spread across Gotham. Every Police Officer in the city was sent to search Joker and Dr. Quinzell. Joker had Harley drive her out of Arkham in her own car, still keeping his gun pointed at Harley.
"You can put that gun down now Joker," Harley replied as she drove. "We are out."
"We are not out of the woods yet my good doctor. The cops will no doubt be on their way, and we all know the Batgirl will be here soon too. Got to make this look real."
The sound of police sirens soon got their attention, Joker turned around and saw ten police cars heading their way with their sirens flashing.
"Well speak of the devil. Step on it good doctor, I'll take care of these boys." Harley sped up the car going twice the legal limit. Joker took his gun and started firing at the police's direction. One bullet went through a window and hit a officer in the shoulder. Another hit one of the car tires, causing it to spin out of control and crash into a bridge.
"Hold your fire!" Commissioner Gordon replied through the police radio. "We don't want to risk harming the hostage."
"Sir, Joker is not going to let up. We got to do something."
"Try to run him off the road but do not open fire. That is my daughter's room mate he has and I am not going to risk her getting hurt in any way! That is an order!"
Joker pointed his gun at Jim's car, he lined his gun up with Jim's head, he pressed the trigger aiming to finish him when all he heard was a soft click of the trigger.
"Well how do you like that," Joker chuckled. "No more bullets." Joker tossed the gun out the car window and pulled out a pair of handcuffs. "Get ready to jump doll face."
"Jump?" Harley yelped in surprise when Joker put one cuff around her wrist and cuffed the other end to his own wrist.
"He's out of ammo, let's run this bastard off the road," Jim laughed. Jim's eyes suddenly widened with surprise as Joker and Harley both jumped out of the speeding vehicle. Jim slammed on the breaks to avoid hitting them and got out the car gun drawn as Joker and Harley ran to the edge of the bridge. Joker wrapped his arm around Harley again and saluted the officers knowing for a fact that they wasn't going to fire and risk shooting his hostage.
"Bon Voyage coppers." Joker then jumped, him and Harley both landed in the river below. Several officers ran to the bridge and noticed that they were nowhere to be seen.
"Contact Batgirl!" Jim demanded "I want the Joker found and Dr. Quinzel brought back safely, now!"
"Have there been any sighting of them since?" Once the news of Joker's escape spread, Gotham went into high security mode. Barbara was working in her office when the TV broke with the news of his escape. She instantly shot up from her chair and ran for the exits when she found out that the hostage he took was Harley. Thankfully Lucius allowed Barbara to go with Harley being her room mate. The minute she left Wayne Enterprise she changed into her Bat suit and drove to GCPD to find out info.
"None since they went into the river," Jim answered Batgirl. "We have every cop looking for Joker but nothing has came up. This is my daughter's roommate Batgirl. I know she's not family but my daughter is good friends with her and sees her as family so you need to bring her back alive. For my daughter's sake."
"I will," Batgirl promised. "You keep trying to see what you can dig up from your end."
"I suppose you already have your own leads your going to check out?" Batgirl didn't answer, she just jumped off the rooftop of and glided to a nearby building and made a call to Alfred.
"Miss Gordon, I heard the news about Miss Quinzel. It's a terrible situation indeed and I only hope that she is alright."
"Alfred, I need the names and locations of every one of Joker's men, if any of them know where Harley is I'm going to find out."
"Sure thing Miss Gordon but it may take a few minutes, Joker has men scattered across all of Gotham."
"Just give me the one closest to GCPD and I will do the rest."
"I see, one of Joker's men currently lives in a small apartment about twenty miles south of your location. Goes by the name Joseph Kermit. Police knows him better though by his street name Lefty. May be a good place to start your search. Sending you his location now." Once Joseph's address came in to Batgirls wrist gauntlet she shot her grappling hook and swung her way toward his location.
"Hold on Harley, please hold on."
Joseph wasn't the only person in his apartment when Batgirl arrived. Staring through a pair of binoculars Batgirl could make out about six other men. They were all wearing their clown getup revealing to Batgirl that they were in a meeting. Perfect, if Lefty didn't talk she had six other's that would.
"So what's the word from the boss now?" One of the thugs asked.
"Joker said just wait for the Batgirl to show up,"
"Why weren't we invited to the party? I would love to have taken a shot at the new bat in town. I still am pissed over my last fight with Batman. He broke my arm in three places."
"Well Joker wanted some of us to stay behind and lure her out. The Joker wants Batgirl to find him, he figures Batgirl isn't going to find him unless she beats somebody up first."
"Well I hope it's one of the poor fools from some other part of Gotham."
"You and me both."
The window suddenly crashed in and one of the thug's face met with the soal of Batgirl's boot. He fell to the floor, his head spinning in a daze as Batgirl took out a batarange and tossed it at another thug, hitting him in the shoulder before grabbing him by the back of the head and smashing his face in the wall.
"Stop her!" A thug cried pulling out a knife and swinging it in Batgirl's direction. Batgirl grabbed the thug by the wrist and pulled the blade out of his hand. She leapt into the air and cut the chain to the chandelier hanging above his head. The thug didn't have time to move before the chandelier came crashing down on top of him.
Batgirl punched another thug in the gut, grabbed him by the collar, flipped him over her shoulder slamming his back to the hard wooden floor and delivered a single punch to his face. Batgirl followed that up with a elbow to another thug's gut. She kicked him backwards, causing him to trip and topple over a glass table. She then leapt in the air and delivered her boot to his chest, the force of her boot shattering the table.
Lefty had left to grab a baseball bat from his closet. When he arrived back to the living room he swung the bat at Batgirl's head, she quickly dodged the bat and delivered a punch to Lefty's gut. She grabbed the bat and hit Lefty over the head with it, swung around and delivered the final thug a uppercut to the chin with the bat as well.
As the last thug fell Batgirl walked up slowly to Lefty, who was laying on the floor moaning in pain. She put her right boot to his chest and pinned him down.
"Where has Joker taken Quinzel?" Batgirl growled.
"Screw you Batgirl!" Lefty replied. Wrong answer, Batgirl grabbed Lefty by the leg and drug him to the window. She lifted Lefty over her shoulder and help him out the four story apartment window by his feet. "Oh God! Don't let me fall, please!"
"Then talk!"
"He's taken her to the new Gotham mall Cinema. Joker said he has a surprise waiting for you. He sounded pretty eager to meet this new Batgirl." Batgirl pulled Lefty back in and tossed him to the floor.
"Tell your boss, I'm looking forward to our meeting." Batgirl jumped out the window and glided off. Next stop Gotham mall "I'm coming for you Harley, hold on."
I was going to make this chapter longer and have the fight between Joker and Batgirl in this chapter but I sort of ran out of time. On the plus side this gives the the chance to make the first meeting between the two longer and fill up a whole chapter so it still works out.