Chapter 15:

"What?" I asked them innocently as I walked past old Frank Bole's body towards the doors to inspect them. Chained, great, with a lock that seemed pretty unpick able and secure by any standards. Now what? Obviously we'd have to find another way out, which I guess will involve some more vents. Brilliant! Just plain brilliant. I turned back to them, to see their mouths moving as they struggled to find the words to express themselves. "Look, I was completely bluffing you know. I don't know jack about your identity B-man and quite frankly I don't give a damn. All I want is out of this place and that's all. I owe none of you any allegiance and quite frankly it's ticking me off that you're thinking that. So without further ado, let's leave this hell hole and be on our merry way, comprende?" They looked at each other, silently deciding to look out and not trust me anymore I bet, before leaving the subject alone for a while. "Oh, and B-man? Would you mind trying to figure out how to use this blasted thing? I'm no tech expert and it would really mess up my day if it exploded in my face!" I passed him the weird gizmo thingy from my arm so he could inspect it. B-man is after all the closest I have to a computer geek. Ha, computer geeky B-man. How weird?

"This is Wayne tech, but it's been adapted slightly by someone else. It seems to be connected to the Wayne satellite through a secure relay station which masks the trail. The satellite is taking thermal and nuclear scans of specific areas of the United States and using them to plot the movements and locations of life forms onto a map. But this technology shouldn't have even been prototyped yet even at Wayne tech so how did you steal it?" First question; what's a Satellite? Or Wayne Tech? Or the United states for that matter? Why is everyone talking about stuff that means absolutely nonsense to me. Second question, like what Batman said; did I get this thing? If it's just a theory by this Wayne tech thingy then I shouldn't have been able to get one. So how did I get it? Questions, questions and even more questions. I get now why the Riddler went insane (he is, though he won't admit it), because quite frankly it is enough to drive a person crazy.

"You do know that you're talking to a freaking amnesiac you know? How the hell would I know where I got the thing?" I grumbled honestly, for the first time I might add. He hesitated in giving me back the device but eventually, and slowly for that matter as if he was handing me back a small bomb, he handed me it back. Ok, equipment check.

- Two 22. Caliber automatic handguns, unused with full cases of bullets.

- 2 sharp daggers, also not used.

- 1 device thingy, that from here on out I'm dubbing the 'The Hailey Positioning Device Communicator' or the HPDC for short as that name is more cooler and official-er.

- 1 high-class thief who is kind of like a mom/criminal mentor/nutcase to me.

- 1 high-class brooder who kicks ass and mops a lot. And I mean a lot.

Ok, let's get after one of the world's most crazy and psychotic serial murderers who will most likely want to beat and kill us - not necessarily in that order. I feel safer all ready! (Que sarcastic rolling of eyes)

"Over here!" I whipped my head around to the source of the shout, completely startled. Inmate? Harley? Joker? Alien? Nope, just a guard. Thank-god!

The guy was standing behind a heavy-duty door that was partly opened to reveal a passage out of the room. I felt like dancing, no vents! Yay! No creepy confinement in a tunnel that smells and looks more awful than Killer Croc's … you know I'm going to stop right there if it's ok with you. You know what I'm talking about anyway and if I did continue then I'd need someone to murder my imagination. So yeah, no thinking about THAT!

The guy was completely bold and had a pretty sweet goatee that looked well-groomed while his uniform was slightly creased signalling to me that he had recently been involved in psychical exercise - most likely trying to kill Joker's whore and her traitor ex-buddy. "It was a massacre. Boles came walking in telling everyone to cover the front entrance. Said something about Joker's army coming through the main gate! Two of my guys moved to the exit and Frank shot 'em dead. They never stood a chance!" Shows how much these guards know about how to guard an asylum. I mean it would be obvious to me if a guy said that the Joker had an army coming for him that the guy was lying. Joker doesn't operate that way, it's not his MO. However, I will give them the fact that Boles was a dirty, rotten coward who betrayed his own team when they had trust in him. Not their fault the guy is - well was - a traitor.

"Was Boles alone?" The Batman's brooding voice cut in straight for the information he needed. Nice and direct, good on you batsy.

"Though he was, then I saw Harley Quinn. She was surrounded by Blackgate prisoners. They were just killing everyone in the room! I had no choice! I got in here. Locked the door. I could see it on the security feed. They had someone with them, it looked like the commissioner!" Ok, the Gordon guy was alive when they took him out, that we now know. That gives us a timeline of events we can follow. Right now, Harley probably has taken Gordon out of Intensive Treatment and into either the Medical Facility, Penitentiary, Botanical Gardens or Mansion to lead us away from the Joker and buy time for his stupid plot. I wouldn't say that Harley would go to the Gardens as that's not her style but the other three are more likely. I'd hate to go to the pentitentiary anyway. The only reason I wasn't stored there was because all the guards, inmates and doctors were men and me being female would not be a good mix considering I was pretty weak around that time and most inmates hadn't seen a woman in years. Trust me when I say it would not be pretty if I go there. Not in the slightest.

"Boles is dead! They carried on without him. Must of outlived his usefulness!" His usefulness being that he was a basic key to get Harley out of here. I started fidgeting with the HPDC device on my arm to get a better idea of the population of the island. Although it's hard to tell with some areas as they are underground and hidden from me, I'd say most of the prisoner population is in the Penitentiary while the Gardens are the least populated. So the safest place is in the Gardens, if we get into any trouble.

Good to know.

"Good! He was scum!" I'm with this guy, Frankie boy was in fact total scum. The guard moved away from the door and went inside to kneel beside a fallen comrade who looked very dead. "I'll look after Maria, I promise!" whose Maria? The guard or one of his kids? No idea but this is getting depressing so we'd better get out of here and look on the bright side of things.

Boles was dead.