Chapter 6

Several policemen covered the yard of the Travis home. Cops were inspecting the house for any dangers. With the Joker involved, people have to expect the unexpected. With the police flooding everywhere, Commissioner Gordon was surveying it all, and talking behind the house in the shadows to someone. Probably Batman figured the girls, as they waited outside, as many police investigators were asking them information on what happened.

"This has been the weirdest ass night ever." Said Mara to Nicole, who was looking all over the crime scene that was her house.

"Yeah. It was, wasn't it?" replied Nicole, who was rubbing the back of her head.

"What's wrong?" asked Mara.

"My head is kind of sore. Probably when Psycho the Clown slammed me to the wall"

"Which time?"

"Shut up."

"Heh he. Oh, and speak of the devil."

The girls looked behind them to see big policemen pulling along the Joker, who still had the bat cuffs on him. He was trying to wriggle free, but no such luck. When he caught glimpse of Mara and Nicole, he quickly showed undeniable anger in his eyes. He struggled harder, but couldn't get free. He was yelling while he was being taken away.

"You two little brats! You'll pay for this! Sometime soon I'll escape, and when I do, you both will be first on my hit list! Both of you will die a slow death. You hear me?! A slow death!!"

With those final words, the police slammed the door when they put the Joker in the prisoner van, on its way back to Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

Mara looked at Nicole. "Gee. He looked mad, didn't he?"

Nicole replied with a fake sweet tone. "Just a tad, I think."

The two teens then laughed. It was amazing how these kids could keep their humor intact. Most girls would probably be too traumatized to even speak. But, like I said earlier, these two were not normal girls.

"Nicole! Nicole are you okay?!"

Nicole turned around when she was ambushed into a very tight hug by her mother.

"Mom, choking…not breathing!"

Her mom let go of the out of breath teen. She looked at both of the girls with extreme worry in her eyes. "Are you both okay? The police called me and told me what happened. I rushed here as soon as possible. Did that monster hurt you?!"

"Mom, chill out! We're both fine. The Joker was arrested and the police and Batman handled it."

"And we hit the dude with a bat." smiled Mara.

"Oh yeah, that too."

"Well, all right. I called your father and your parents, Mara. They should all be here tomorrow. Wait a minute. You hit him with a bat?!"

"Ummm……" the girls both started to say.

"Excuse me, ma'am." A big man came and said to Mrs. Travis. He was overweight, had a grey trench coat and matching hat, and spoke with a Brooklyn accent. "I'm Detective Bullock. I 'm gonna have to ask you 'couple question, all right?"

"Well yes, I suppose. I'll be right back girls." Mrs. Travis said while walking off with Detective Bullock to answer questions.

"Whew! Saved by the cop." Sighed Nicole happily.

Mara chuckled. "Yeah… Wait, she called my parents? Ah, great! They're going to be so worried, when they see me, I'm going to have to call the cops so I don't die of suffocation!"

"Speaking of calling the cops, what took you so long to call the police upstairs?"

"Well, at first they didn't believe me. They thought I was some punk playing a prank. But once they heard the shouting downstairs, I managed to convince them."

"They didn't believe you because you played a prank on them before, didn't you?"

"Only once……or three times."

Nicole slapped her forehead. "Why am I not surprised?" then she looked up at her friend. "Where did you hide from the Joker, by the way?"

"Under the bed, where else?!" Mara said as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Aaahhh." Nicole said as she got it. She then looked back where they saw the Commissioner was talking with Batman before, who is now talking with other policemen.

"Come on." Nicole nudged Mara to follow her around the back.

When they finally came around back, they looked all around the yard.

"Looking for me?" a dark voice asked/stated.

The girls turned around to find Batman staring down at them.

"Uh, yeah. We just wanted to thank you again for saving us. Without you, we would probably be dead or worse right now." Said Nicole

Mara looked at Nicole. "What do you mean "or worse"?!"

"Shush."

This made the Caped Crusader chuckle deeply. "You don't have to thank me. You two did pretty well on your own. Other people have been in your situation and never made it out alive. Good job… to both of you."

"Well I don't like to brag or anything but…" Nicole hit Mara in the arm before she could finish. "Oww!"

"It was nothing really." Nicole said in her not so modest friend's place.

"Here" Batman gave Nicole and Mara two batarangs.

Mara's face lit up brightly. So did Nicole's. "Cool!" they both exclaimed.

"Nicole! Mara! Where are you?!" the girls turned around and saw Nicole's mom looking for then in the front.

"That's my mom. I guess we have to……go?" The girls looked back and saw the Dark Knight was gone.

"That is totally strange, yet really sweet." Mara stated to her friend.

"Yeah…….. We should go before my mom goes crazy looking for us."

The two 14 year olds went back to the front yard, unaware of the shadowy figure watching them leave. Batman was amazed of how resilient these kids were. They survived a night with the Joker, and even saved his, the Batman, life. And they still had their sense of humor.

"I call shot gun!" he heard Nicole shout as they were running towards a police car, probably to be asked more questions down at the station Batman guessed.

"No way! I get to sit in the front!" he heard Mara reply.

"Neither of youse gets to sit in the front. Get in the back with your mother, kids." Bullock responded.

"Awwww!" the girls both moaned.

Batman chuckled to himself. "Kids." Gotham's Guardian then proceeded to leave, returning to the city where he was needed.

As soon as Mara and Nicole got in the back of the police car, along with Nicole's mom, they began the drive to Gotham Police Department. They both hoped this was the last thing to deal with after this whole scenario. They thought they had enough adventure to last them awhile. Too bad they didn't know, it has only just begun.

You guys thought it was over didn't you? JOKE'S ON YOU! Please R&R for comments or advice.