Chapter 13:
"Did you really think it was going to be that easy, Bats? I've sent a few more of my boys your way! Let's see how you deal with these odds!" I whistled once to signal to batman my location, and hilariously he span round to spot me. I waved in a slightly amused manner before noticing him rolling his eyes and taking out his grapler. A few seconds later, he was perched on an ugly gargoyle statue like some sort of ... bat ... ok? Wait! Why in the world is there Gargoyle here? Isn't this supposed to be a hospital? Oh, you know what I'm not going to even ask.
"Joker wants him found! Spread out!" Ugly number one grunted in a voice that defiantly sounded that he had gargled gasoline. Ok, three more inmates to take down. That's not too hard.
"He could be anywhere!" Ugly number two responded with a look of pure fear in his eyes. Where does the Joker get these pansy clowns? Get it? Clowns ... Joker ... Joker's gimmick is a clown. I don't know why I bother.
"Then keep your eyes open. Now move!" Ugly number one is on my hit list, the B-man can have the other two. If it's something I won't have, its sheer idioticacy and this guy is the poster child for idiots everywhere. I mean seriously, idiots are boring. Clever people are more entertaining as they can at least be artistic when they are trying to kill you, and generally more interesting to talk to. I look at Batman, catching his eyeline, before pointing from Ugly one to me and then him at Ugly 2 and three. He got the memo and took off to tango with his assigned targets. I slipped down off my little roof top hiding place and went after Ugly one who was rearing off to the left away from his pals. I started stalking him, noting he had the same gun as the other inmate but found his lack of shirt pretty weird. Doesn't evil get cold sometimes?
"He's nothing. Not even sure he's real. I mean, I've seen loads of people dressed up in my time, but who knows? Even one of you could be the Batman!" Gee Joker, paranoid much? Oh well, let's get cracking skulls. I took to a running sprint before using a move that occurred to me on the spot. As he turned around and began to raise his gun in an almost pathetic attempt to shoot me down. I darted forward and used my momentum to do a Headscissor take-down on the poor guy, landing in a primal couch, before running forward and finally taking him out with a final kick to the head knocked him unconscious.
"C'mon, he's just a loon like the rest of us. I mean, have you seen what he wears?" Joker's annoying voice pierced through the tension filled silence like a sniper's bullet. Ugly one's bleeding nose gave me momentary satisfaction before a bullet embedded itself in the wall a mere two inches away from my face. I whirled around to find my attack, Ugly number three, with his finger on the trigger on the parallel platform to myself. I spied the Bat tangling with Ugly one still, before launching myself over the edge of the platform and quickly grasping the floor of the other. The guy moved to shoot me but I managed to spin myself into a sideways flip and knock away the gun. My hands were slightly bruised by the effort but I was in the moment, so I didn't notice. He fell back and I was about to attack him when he pulled a knife from his jumpsuit. I had to fall back to avoid his swipe at me, causing me to drop to the floor - which HURT!
He lunged at me but hands appeared behind him, forcing him into a choke hold while the hands covered his mouth. He fought for a few moments before blacking out due to a loss of oxygen to his puny mind. "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to hurt a girl?" Selena smirked before dropping the guy like a very heavy anvil. Oh Selena, I've never been so happy to see your furry face. Especially when it knocks crazy, knife wielding idiots out who try to carve me up like that prisoner everyone keeps going on about who has that funny name and self-mutilates himself. I smiled back, for real this time.
"Don't be scared, boys! He's just like you and me, just crazier. I mean, if anyone deserves to be locked up, it's him!" He's crazy, of course but at least he's the sort of good kind. It's pretty funny really how both Selena, Joker and Batman are all insane in their own little ways yet I still trust two out three of them at times. I seem to attack insanity, so I suppose it's inevitable but still it's weird. Weird, the word that describes the story of my life. Now available at any good asylum, 'the tales of Hailey', the weird girl with a weird back story who has weird friends. Contains: cruelty, sarcasm, amnesia and teddy bears. Now priced as only one bad decision to follow some woman around a madhouse for no good reason. Quite a page turner really. Ha, ha, ha.
"They were just like family. How could you? I think I'm going to cry!" Joker laughed like the psychopath he is while B-man applied to finishing blow to the last guy. I rubbed my neck and arms, which freaking ached from all this fighting, before following Selena and Batman towards the room's exit. One set of psycho's down; a whole island full to go.