Chapter 7: Laughing for Being Fearless
It didn't take too long for the Dark Knight and Max Payne to head straight toward the outskirts of Gotham City. But it seem like someone has beaten the punch, as it seems the Joker and Poison Ivy arrived on the scene first. The scene was an entire mess, as Russian mobsters and also their Cleaners soon found themselves targets of various veins which were tying them up pretty good.
"What's going on here?!" cried the Russian don who was the head of the operation.
"Sorry to barge in on this, but we've decided that since our boy Maxie Zeus is heading toward the slammer, we'd like to take a piece of the pie before you folks do" laughed the Joker.
"Listen" cried the Russian don as he noticed the Joker was about to take one of the Valkyr drugs that were in a box nearby, "don't try the drug!"
"Are you kidding me?" laughed the Joker, "I don't need that sort of stuff, but I'm already high on laughter!"
Before the Joker and Poison Ivy could make their move against their former allies, the Batmobile immediately crashed right through the walls of the warehouse to which the Dark Knight himself, along with Max Payne emerged from the vehicle.
"Well, well, well, looks like old Batsy has brought us a helper we can squash together" laughed the Joker.
"I'll be able to handle both of them" replied Poison Ivy.
Suddenly, rumble could be heard underneath to which the Dark Knight got Max right out of the way before veins could attempt to tie up the Batmobile sending it up right toward the roof of the building.
"I'll take on Poison Ivy" said the Batman to Max, "you take on the Joker."
"Don't worry, I'm ready for him this time" replied Max.
"It's just you and me now" said Poison Ivy to the Dark Knight, "please my pet, feed upon this pest!"
Before the Dark Knight knew it, another large Venus flytrap entered the scene as it was larger than the previous one he had taken down with the Batmobile.
"Feed upon that pest!" ordered Poison Ivy to her Venus flytrap pet.
The giant flytrap lunged toward the Dark Knight, yet he managed to leap out of the way to which the giant flytrap crashed against some large boxes to which then toppled upon the flytrap.
"Going to have to do better than that to face me" taunted the Batman to Poison Ivy.
"I have indeed some improvements for my pet" replied Poison Ivy, to which with one snap of the finger, the giant Venus flytrap with the help of its roots lifted up the boxes, "now my pet, why don't you play a game of fetch against the pest?"
While the Dark Knight was having obvious trouble with Poison Ivy, the Joker was running around another part of the warehouse with Max Payne not far behind.
"Ha, ha, catch me if you can copper!" laughed the Joker while taunting Max.
"Time to show you this is no laughing matter" replied Max as he readied his gun he was carrying.
As the Joker turned a corner, the Clown Prince soon found himself at a literal dead end with boxes of the Valkyr drug surrounding the corner which were of course in boxes of bottles ready to be shipped out into the streets.
"Looks like it's a dead end to you clown" said Max as he finally came into the scene.
"Would you not care for a harty handshake for a job well done in hunting me down?" asked the Joker as he extended his arm which of course had his notorious joy buzzer attached.
"No thanks" replied Max as he was prepared to point his weapon to the Joker, "one false move, and I'll certainly make sure you won't be in a laughing mood."
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed the Joker, "You must be kidding, you dno't have the guts to pull something like this on a guy like me."
"Wanna bet?" asked Max.
The Joker immediately then began to finally realized he was certainly trapped. If he made one wrong move toward Max, it would be the end of his criminal career for good.
"You wouldn't dare try to hit me if I had one of these with me?" asked the Joker as he grabbed a bottle of the Valkyr drug.
"Put it down, you don't know what it does!" ordered Max.
"Ha, I'm kind of thirsty" laughed the Joker as he was trying egg on Max while pretending to literally take the Valkyr drug.
"Don't even think about doing it" said Max as he took another step forward.
"Oh, I'm going to do it" laughed the Joker as he was still pretending to egg him on.
Suddenly Max couldn't take it, as he then fired from his gun hitting the bottle of Valkyr drug which was in the bottle. The glass of the bottle scattered on the floor, but one drop of the Valkyr drug accidently dropped right on the Joker's tongue giving an odd strange taste to his mouth.
"Wait a second, this stuff doesn't taste good at all!" cried the Joker to which case the Joker suddenly then began to spin around right where he was.
The Joker then began to laugh hysterically, as if he were seeing the Valkyr angels flying all around him. With one of the Valkyr angels standing right in front of him, which really was Max himself.
"You're not feeling well" said Max to which he then lunged his fist right at the Joker knocking him out cold, "sorry I have to do this."
While Max was picking up the pieces, the Dark Knight was still having some trouble with Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy's giant Venus flytrap was throwing large boxes that once fell on the giant flytrap at the Dark Knight. The Dark Knight did his best to dodge the attacks, to which he then found himself pinned behind a large crate itself. It was then immediately removed by the giant flytrap.
"Yes my pet, finish him off!" ordered Poison Ivy.
The giant flytrap lunged toward the Dark Knight, but before it could reach it, a bullet out of nowhere managed to hit a chain which had a steel box attached to it. The bullet was just enough to send it crashing right on top of the giant flytrap doing in the hideous creature.
"Thanks" said Batman to Max who emerged with a semi-conscious Joker.
"And you're not going anywhere" added Max to Poison Ivy who forced her to surrender.
A few minutes later, Commissioner Gordon arrived on the scene with the rest of the force and promptly arrested the Russian mobsters they rescued along with also the Joker and Poison Ivy.
"Well, seems like you two made a good team" said Commissioner Gordon to Max who was about to head back to his local department.
"Same here, I guess we have more in common than we thought" added Max.
"Come on, I'll be more than happy enough to drop you off at your department" added Gordon as he got into his police car with Max getting into the shotgun seat.
The scene didn't end there as after a few hours, the Joker soon found himself back in Arkham Asylum to which case the Joker had the last image of Max Payne, but also the permanent image of the Dark Knight in his own mind. As the Clown Prince was pushed back into his original jail cell, the Joker began to continue his hysterical laughter, but it was at a darker tone than usual which began to frighten even some of the other prisoners. The scene then fades from there.