"We're nearly there, get ready" Deathstroke said as he looked at those he brought along: El Diablo, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang and Arkham Knight, he was unsure what was going to happen with the Joker there, so he brought in the closet thing they had to an expert with Arkham Knight. But it was a gamble bringing in the other expert Harley Quinn; that girl was all sort of messed up and so was the Joker, so bringing her into this situation was the worse thing that could be done "Todd, I want you up top. I need an ace in the hole and your it"

"Got it Wilson, but why me; why not Lawton?"

"Call it a gut call" Deathstroke said as they exited the paddy wagon and raced inside with the rest of the squad following him while Arkham Knight grappled up to the roof. Once he was on the roof he activate his detective mode and frown at what he saw

"Why isn't Akane doing anything?" he asked


"Tsunemori! AKANE!" Ginoza said as he tried to get his handler to respond

"She's frozen!" Kunizuka said arriving

"What's going on?" Deathstroke asked

"She's not responding" Kunizuka said, Deathstroke was panicking. He soon looked at Akane and saw something in her eyes

"Shit" Deathstroke said

"What is it?" Deadshot said

"PTSD" Deathstroke said as he drew his gun and aimed it at Joker "Let the girl go"

"I think not" Joker said as he pressed the tip into Kaori's neck making a pearl of blood appeared

"Let her go, otherwise I'll put a round in your heart

"And I'll make you meet my namesake" El Diablo said igniting fire in his hands

"I agree" Boomerang said s he flicked his boomerangs into the air and aimed at Joker

"Uh huh" Joker said added pressure to the neck of his hostage

"KAORI!" Akane said

"Relax, we'll save her" Deathstroke said comforting her.


"So here's what is going to happen" Joker said "You're going to let me go and then maybe, just maybe I'll let the girl go

"What's the catch?" Deadshot said

"Whether or not if she lives or not depends if you follow me"

"I knew it" Deathstroke said "Weapons down boys" he begrudgingly said as he placed his weapons on the ground with the others doing the same

"There, now back up slowly" Joker said as they did what he said

'Hopefully our trump works then we'll be able to save her' Deathstroke though

"Now bye-bye" Joker started before hearing something embed it in a pillar nearby him. Looking at it made the Joker worried

"Deadshot" Deathstrok

"wasn't me" Deadshot said

"Boomerang?" Deathstroke asked

"Not me mate, besides I don't own one like that!" Boomerang said as the object in the pillar was shaped like a bat. Looking up The Joker flinched

"You" he said before he threw Kaori forward and bolted

"Who's that?" Ginoza asked

"A legend mate, someone you really don't to mess with mate, that was the Dark Knight Batman!" Boomerang

"Waller didn't freeze him, did she?" Deashot said

"Who knows, but we have something else to discuss" Deathstroke said


Joker looked over his shoulder to see whether or not Batman was still chasing him, which he was when he looked up through the various skylights to see the Dark Knight chasing him

"So you're here too, I'm surprised that you didn't attack those criminals in the suicide squad" Joker shouted out as batman overtook him and vanished. Joker pulled out an old magnun and cocked the hammer before looking around when a crash was heard and Batman was standing in front of the Joker growling before reaching behind his back and pulled out to massive handguns, one of them having four barrels and aimed at the Joker. This shocked him a bit before smiling "You're not the Batman"

"Maybe I am, Maybe I'm just this Time's Batman" Batman said

"Oh really" Joker said as he started to fire, while Batman did the same, and during the gunfight the sprinkler activated and sprayed water everywhere, and it affected the surrounding holograms, making small squares of light representing blocked data, he also noticed the same type of squares on 'Batman' who stood up and typed in a command on his wrist deactivating his holo revealing the Arkham Knight

"The Boy Blunder" Joker said

"You psychotic clown!" Arkham Knight said as he aimed at the Joker "Its time I do what he never had the balls to do!"

"I wouldn't do that" Joker said

"Why not?" Arkham Knight asked

"Well, let's just say...let's not blow" Joker started showing a series of grenades "this out of proportion. As you can see I'm rigged with explosives, the same with the building; only there bombs set to a specific sound, and that is these grenades going off"

"You're mad" Arkham Knight said

"I know" the Joker chuckled before dropping a smoke bomb. Arkham Knight quickly activated his scanner mode but it was useless, the Joker was gone already

"Slade's not going to like that" he muttered


"OKAY!" Deathstroke shouted as he entered Division 1 and threw his helmet of Shimotsuki's desk

"Hey" she said

"Don't give a shit" Deathstroke said flipping her off. "Now can we please talk about why Akane FROZE UP!"

"Yuki" Akane sighed

"And she is?" Deadshot asked

"She was one of her best friends. However she was killed by Shogo Makashima before we could get to them" Ginoza said

"I see" Deathstroke said "So what happened?"

"Makashima had a similar condition to yours, only the more violent and cruel he was the lower his crime coefficient. So he declared what he was going to do and the Dominator wasn't able to judge him. But Makashima had given Akane a shotgun" Ginoza said

"And let me guess" Deathstroke said

"She grazed him and in return" Ginoza paused

"He slit Yuki's throat right in front of me" Akane said

"Giving you PTSD" Deathstroke said

"What's that?" Hinakawa said

"Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" Deathstroke said "And I guess the same happened when you're Grandmother...passed away" he said seeing Deadshot nod. But what didn't escape the notice of the two mercs was Shimotsuki's expression

"But it never keeps me down for long" Akane smiled

"We can see that" Arkham Knight said placing a cup of tea on Akane's desk

"WHOA!" they all said

"So you can do that as well" Deathstroke said

"Took a while" Arkham Knight said

"Joker?" Deadshot asked

"Gone, turns out he rigged a detonator from a grenade, meaning he could have destroyed the entire building" Arkham Knight said

"What about Batman?" Akane asked

"You mean?" Arkham Knight said as he activated his Bat holo revealing himself as Batman "Me?"

"That was you?" Deadshot asked

"Yeah it was" Arkham Knight said

"Cool costume" Hinakawa said sheepishly

"Thanks" he said walking out.


"DAMN IT" Jason said as he removed his helmet and slicked back his hair

"Hey" Shimotsukie said

"What!" Jason snapped making Shimotsuki gasped

"Your face" she said looking at it, it was scared from the bottom of his right eye to his chin, a small 'j' branding on his left cheek. Quickly putting the helmet back on he looked at Shimotsuki "What happened?" she asked

"I was tortured, The Joker had his gang destroy a hospice so I took action, so I tracked him down to Sarajevo in Bosnia. A fight broke out and I was quickly subdued and knocked out. When I came to...Harley shoved a hot piece of metal into my face and said 'That I was now Mistah J's bitch' before Joker launched into beating me with a crowbar; it lasted what seemed like an hour. And once he stopped he left with Harley in tow. Once I was back on my feet a bomb went off...and I died; how am I alive you ask. Back then there was a mystic by the name of Ra'

"Ra's Al Ghul. The Immortal of the Pool of Lazarus; it's an old fairy tale I read from time to time in school. One of the stories was call the arisen Robin. I'm guessing that was you" She said

"Yeah it was, the pool drove me insane! Since Joker took something from me, I took something from him: I became the Red Hood an earlier alias of the mad clown! Over time I became a more militant Batman and took the name of the local asylum: The Dark Knight of Arkham, which in other words is the title Arkham Knight" Jason said

"I see, and how did you become a part of the squad?"

"That my dear inspector is a tale for another night, I'm needed back at Division X's compound" Arkham Knight said walking off.


Joker was smirking, which meant he was scheming and if he was scheming people would be dead. He walked over to a white board and wrote on it before kicking back on his chair and took a slug of whiskey all the while a smirk was on his face.

"You know, I feel like telling a joke, an old joke but a good one. In fact this joke is my favourite joke. You see"