I knew that the joker wasn't dead. That was the obvious part, but finding him proved to be the real difficulty. For three months I've gone with no lead at all towards the were abouts of the joker. All I knew was that he was probably going to try to make a big return, which means bombs. Fortunately, a lead found me. A man named Ryan seeked me out last night and informed that a five building complex would be blown up the next day in broad daylight, but he wasn't sure of what time all this would take place. I had know idea if this guy could be trusted or if his resources were liable, considering the fact that he didn't tell me how he found out about this. I couldn't take any chances. So now I'm here standing in front of a girl holding the joker by his coat and the heap of ruble that was once the complex.

"O! Batsy! Looks like your a little late! You missed the big finale!" He said and twisted free from the girls grip.

"Your sick joker." I advanced towards them and the girl took a few steps back getting ready to make a run for it. I looked over at her and she immediately froze. "Don't move" She looked up at me and smiled sheepishly.

"Wouldn't even think about." she said in a surprisingly steady voice. I looked her over carefully. She was fairly tall and athletic looking. Her brown hair that was a couple inches above her shoulder framed her face with eyes that were blue with flecks of green in them. She wore dark boot cut jeans, a white tee-shirt, and a navy blue jacket. Around her neck was a silver chain with a silver circle that the letters FLP in graved in a fancy script. I guessed those were her initials.

After I made sure that she wasn't going to run off, I turned back to the joker. "How long have you been planning this?"

"Hee hee! That's a good question. You see, since I faked my death three months ago I've been planning to make a rather loud return." he took a step away from me. I quickly moved forward and grabbed him by the arms and restraining him.

"Why bother faking your death if later on you would want all eyes to be on you again?"

His smile faded and he began talking seriously. "Because of you that's why. I wasn't getting anywhere fast with you and Gordon always on my heels, so I had to do something to get a little space. Honestly I didn't think it would actually work since you couldn't find a 'body' any where. You guys are actually more stupid than I thought. All you saw was some footage of me being shot on the news." He looked over my shoulder at the girl standing behind me. "I would have been back a little sooner if it wasn't for her running around tearing apart my bombs. By the way, how have you known when and where to be every time?" he directed the question at the girl.

She looked up and smiled mischievously. " I have my ways."

the joker rolled his eyes back at her. "What a great thing those 'ways' are even though you let five buildings blow and a hundred people die.'" He smiled back at her. I could she her face light up in anger.

"Why this building joker?" I said quickly before the girl could react.

The joker looked at me and shrugged in my grip. "I don't know random choice."

"random choice?" I repeated "There was no particular reason for this building?"

"Do I look like a guy of reason?" he said. He was right. He had no reason for what he did. He just did what he thought would be fun. "But you know, now I have reason to go after her now. since she did kinda piss me off. Maybe I could sneak a little bomb into her apartment or house or where ever she lives." he looked back at her and grinned. I made the mistake of looking over at her too and received a hard kick in the stomach making me double over, letting go of the Joker. He took off running in to the shadows of the ruble calling back, "You better watch out little girly!" Now I knew he was serious.Who ever this girl is was in a huge mess of trouble. I stood all the way back up and turned back to the girl who was now running in the opposite direction of the Joker towards a white and black motorcycle far out of reach of the collapsed ruble.

"Wait!" I called after her, " If you leave he will find you!"

She pulled on a black helmet with white sides fading back into black as they wrapped around to the back. "I can take care of myself!"She called back and drove off. I knew I had to find her again before the Joker did.

I managed to make it back to the abanded apartment building in the narrows, that me and my crew were using as a hide out, in one piece. I wasn't expecting for the bat boy to show up in broad daylight, but I was expecting to find the little rat who was tearing apart my bombs for the last three months. I'll admit I was surprised that it was girl doing the dirty work. This time I managed to fool her though. I knew that somehow my plans were getting leaked out to her, and I knew It had to be someone in my crew.

I purposely told the crew that the bombs would only be planted on the first floor of each building. Later, after the crew had done it's job , I went and put my own bombs on the second floors of each building and waited in the fifth building to catch the culprit.

I had no plans to kill who ever it was at that moment. That wouldn't have been any fun at all. I would have rather messed with heads for a little and watch them squirm. Then, I would have killed them. But, no! The bat just had to come in and ruin everything . Just like he always does. Know I have to wait and track down that girl before I can cause any damage, but I always do like a good chase.

Walking up to my greasy apartment, I couldn't help but think of a way to find the rat in my pack that keeped tipping this girl. I pushed open the raggedy door and entered the living room area of the apartment. The walls were gray with a few pieces of flowered wall paper peeling off. The carpet was also gray with stains of sorts on it. Three men were sitting on a once navy blue couch with a pizza box laying on the floor next to two more men. The five men were my crew. Occasionally when the job needed it they would pick up some more for it and later they were taken out.

I walked in front of them and in between the couch and a old TV they had been watching. "Okay men. I have another little job for you." I smiled down at them and they all flinched. "It seems we have a rat here with us and intend to find out exactly who it is." I pulled out a gun and held it up to face them, "You have two days to bring him to me. If you don't find him, I will kill each everyone you. Got it?" I keep smiling at them.