Chapter 3: Helping hands.

Authors Note: Thank you my reviewers and anyone who reads my story.

Disclaimer: No I don't own Batman Arkham Asylum.

(Dr. Young POV)

I sat in my office on my computer going over Jokers files as I sipped my coffee. It's been a week since Jokers escape, not surprising the police are having no luck finding him. The only reason he gets captured is because he either wants to just so he can break out again or to make Batman angry enough to just end it all. Every time Batman catches him he just breaks out and does something even worse hopping to break Batman. If the TITAN was ready I could have given it to Joker so we could begin his healing process. He's never once shown the slightest interest in getting better, that's when Jayden's talk came into my mind when he mentioned how they accepted the fact they were monsters who didn't want to get better.

"Jayden," I whispered as I clicked out of Jokers files and over to his. I saw pictures of him being yelled at by angry towns' people and being shoved into the squad car. He didn't look angry but he did have a disappointed look on his face as he looked into the camera. He doesn't give me too much attitude like most patients and actually opens up to me about his life. When those alarms rung throughout Arkham and the guards burst in scared and confused I was secretly glad that he was with me. I remembered how he asked the guards to let him out so he could go get him but Boles came in out of nowhere and proceeded to hit him. He stopped when I told him too, that drunk I think he was just passing by when the alarms came on.

"I'll have to report that to Warden Sharp later" I thought as I looked through Jayden's file. He wouldn't need the TITAN formula if things kept going like this. "Speaking of TITAN I wonder if Jack White sent me another donation." I checked my email account to see his name and a bank number. I clicked it and my page was covered in balloons and confetti as big pink letters spelled 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' on it. I shook my head in annoyance as I clicked out and went home.

(Next Day)

"You smell nice Doc." Jayden complimented. "It's got a nice creamy vanilla aroma to it."

His statement caused me to blush in embarrassment. My friends and family were taking me out tonight and I didn't want to waste anytime going home so I just dressed here. I didn't have any patients aside from him so I wouldn't set anyone off.

"It's my birthday," I said. "My parents and friends are taking me out to dinner tonight."

"How sweet," He said. "No boyfriend?"

"No."

"I'm sorry."

"Why?"

"I'm just curious, good looking girl like you I thought you definitely had someone on the outside."

"No, I might be 'good looking'. I quoted. "But I'm also weird and most guys don't find that attractive."

"I do." He said. I slowly looked up into his eyes and felt strange for some reason. "No one's perfect and no one is strange either. If we had met under different circumstances I would definitely date you."

I swallowed the lump in my throat as I tried to continue the interview ignoring the strange feeling in my heart.

"I'm flattered," I said bluntly. "But could we continue the interview…please?" He nodded his head and I continued his interview. "Speaking of family is there anyone waiting for you on the outside."

"Yeah, my siblings." He said.

"But I thought you were an only child?"

"I am, but one night I when I seventeen I was chasing a couple of punks who stole from a grocery store." He explained. "I chased them both through alley ways, rooftops, and abandoned buildings until I cornered them in an alley. They both came at me and attack me with mixed martial arts, they gave me some trouble but I was able to take them down. When I pulled off their masks I saw that they were a thirteen year old boy and a fifteen year old girl." He chuckled lightly. "They had no home and no one to care for them so I took them back to my place and we've been together ever since."

"So you became a brother figure to them."

"Yup, I taught them everything I had to teach them and now they help me clean up this city."

"What are their names?"

"Sorry doc, but I'm not that easy."

"Fair enough, that's all we have for today anyway."

"Wait, I have to give you your present." He said.

He reached over behind my ear and pulls out a quarter. He waved his hand over it and takes a bite out of it. A small portion of it is gone as he shows disgust. "This taste terrible." He said before spitting it out, a small puff of smoke appears as the quarter is replaced by a small rose. He reaches over and places it behind my ear. "Happy birthday doc."

I sat there with a surprised look on my face, after a moment of silence I spoke out.

"H-How did you do that?" She asked. He let out a light chuckle and grinned.

"Magic."

The guards came in and took him back to his cell. Before leaving the asylum I visited his cell.

"Thank you Jayden." I said as I walked away from his cell.

(Jayden's POV)

Young had walked away before I could say anything to her. After she left I dangled a small metal key from my middle finger. "No, thank you doc."

I waited a couple hours into the night as Boles made his rounds. As expected he came to my cell for my annual beating. He let out a belch as he entered my cell, the smell of bourbon filling my dank cell.

"Ready punk." He said with a voice reeking of booze.

"You have no idea Mr. Boles." I said with a calm tone of voice.

He swung at me with his night stick aiming at my left hip, but I stepped back as he stumbled forward readying his stick for another attack. The next attack he aimed for my head but I blocked his wrist and pulled him forward as I wrapped my arm around his neck. I put pressure on his throat putting him in a sleeper. In just a few short minutes Boles body went limp as I dropped him on the floor.

After putting on his uniform and finding a spare helmet I was able to walk around freely without suspicion as I made my way to Young's office. It took some time as I walked out of intensive treatment and over to the mansion trying my best to be as casual as I could. Most of the nut cases were in intensive treatment anyway so there wasn't as much security as I thought. I found my way into her office as I picked the lock and crept inside. I hacked into her computer but found nothing on her TITAN formula.

Almost nothing.

Apparently there is a patient she had brought to her from Blackgate prison and has been operating on him by pumping him full of TITAN. I scanned through her files as I came across the patient's name, well his alias anyway. He was known as Patient X and was being held in the bottom of the medical facility under no surveillance.

"Hmm, what are you up to Dr. Young?" I asked myself as I shut off her computer. I looked around her office some more as I found her wall safe hiding behind her diploma. It took me a couple of tries but after a while I cracked the safe and dug around for anything of value. I stumbled upon what I was looking for as I found the TITAN formula, I scanned through the notes real quick and copied down everything as fast as I could. I put everything back in the safe and put back anything that I may have moved as I left the office.

It took me a good thirty minutes before I managed to arrive at the medical facility where more of Young's secrets lay hidden beneath the ground. I approached the doors of the facility as two guards blocked my path.

"What's your business here?" The one on the left asked.

"Sorry, but the doctors are having problems with the crazies from below intensive treatment so they sent me to get some sedatives." I said as I tried my best to sound like a regular guard.

"Ugh, those lunatics," The guard on the right grunted. "I don't even know why the doctors even bother with them there nothing but a bunch of mindless dogs."

"And yet were the ones serving them right?" I joked.

They both let out a small chuckle as they went back to me.

"How come they sent you though?" The left one asked. "Shouldn't they have enough meds down at intensive treatment?"

"Those lunatics eat the crap like cough syrup," I snorted. "The docs need something stronger. So can I go in now please?"

"Yeah sure," The right guard said as he stepped out of my way.

I thanked them as I proceeded into the building. It was pretty much empty except for the guards patrolling the main lobby. I went down to the lower level and made my way towards the elevator. I clicked the button to the basement but when I pressed it nothing happened. I looked next to the button to see a keyhole.

"Dammit!" I swore, but remembered I still had Young's key. I pulled it out and looked it over. "Worth a shot." I shrugged as slid it into the keyhole. It fit as I turned it, the elevator doors closed and I was heading down to the lower levels.

When the elevator reached its stop I hid in the corner in case there was any security. Surprisingly there was no one down there weren't any doctors, security or patients. The basement was just as dark and depressing as the rest of the asylum as I looked through the lower level. I walked downstairs to see a small lab in the center of the room. I walked in but couldn't see anything as there was too much fog or something it was freezing as I walked in so I assumed I must be in some sort of fridge.

I walked in a little further as I saw something big hanging from the ceiling. I looked around and saw multiple tubes hanging on the wall and leading towards one spot. I walked closer and saw what looked like someone's head hanging low from exhaustion then its arms each bigger than a human body. I walked up so close to him that we were eye to eye.

"Bane…" I whispered. "They said you broke out of Black gate a month ago." His eyes shot open as I jumped back in surprise. He wearily looked around at his surroundings before looking down at me.

"Who are you?" He asked, his voice sounded scratchy probably from the cold environment.

"My name is Shadow." I introduced. "Your Bane right?"

"Yes," he nodded. "Now what do you want?"

"Dr. Young was working on something called TITAN I came here to find out what it was."

"That bruja," Bane snorted. "She had me abducted from Black gate and brought me here for her TITAN formula. She pumped all the Venom from my body and had it replaced with her formula."

I walked over to a computer terminal on a nearby table and hacked into her files. Most of it was records of her funding from some guy named Jack White and how she caught Bane but what caught my eye was a list she had labeled candidates. I clicked on it as a long list of names came up.

Harvey Dent aka Two-Face

Waylon Jones aka Killer Croc

Edward Nigma aka Riddler

Joker

Jonathan Crane aka Scarecrow

Jayden Warney aka Shadow

My eyes went wide as I saw my name. There were plenty more but I decided to leave it at that as I looked for Young's info on Banes progress.

After ten minutes of scrolling I downloaded everything into a flash drive I had a buddy of mine smuggle in and ran out of the medical tent.

"Hey, where are you going?" Bane growled. "Free me!"

I ran over to him and pumped him full of sleep medicine. He mumbled swears at me as I patted his head.

"Sleep tight big guy." I chuckled as I ran out of the basement and out of the medical center.

When Frank Boles woke up he looked around confused of his surroundings as he let out a yawn. He saw that he was in the break room with his flask of bourbon spilled on the floor.

He didn't remember a thing.

Meanwhile across Gotham City Penelope Young had just gotten back from dinner with her parents and friends and was gonna get ready for bed.

She walked into her bedroom and was about to get changed when she saw a giant box sitting on her bed. She cautiously walked up to it and saw a giant To and From card hanging on the side. She yanked it off and red the writing on it.

To: Penelope Young

From: MR. Jack white

She set the card down on her nightstand and proceeded to open the large box. She ripped off the paper and took off the box cover to see a dirty old teddy bear. She picked it up and saw a faded name on the white tag sowed on its left leg.

Bane.

Her eyes widened as she dropped the bear. She reached over to her nightstand and grabbed the card. She looked at it carefully and noticed that the first three letters were capitalized she placed her thumb over half the name to see what it spelled.

MR. J

She gasped as she threw the present off her bed and climbed on it into a fetal position.

"It can't be…" She sobbed.

The next day Jayden had some visitors that morning as the guards led him to the waiting area. When he got there he saw a young seven-teen year old boy with messy brown hair and wearing a red hoodie with blue jeans, and next to him was a twenty year old girl with blonde hair which she kept tied up in a ponytail wearing a similar outfit only her hoodie was pink. They both saw him and ran up to him wrapping they're arms around him.

"We've missed you so much." The girl said.

"I've missed you to Alexandra." I said.

"Eh I've been having more fun without you." The boy said in a cocky tone of voice.

"Jason, you better not have gone out without me," I scolded. "If Batman stopped me he will stop you."

"Don't worry," He reassured. "He's been busy looking for Joker ever since he escaped."

"Still be careful I won't always be there to bail you out."

"Yeah, yeah…" He mumbles.

I then turned to Ally and pulled out a small flash drive and Dr. Young's formula and handed it to her discreetly. She took it and examined it carefully, she looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

"What is this?" She asked.

"It's a formula that has similar ingredients compared to the super solider project my father was was working on." I whispered. "I need you to add this formula to my father's formula and create it. You still have your workshop right."

"With all the equipment you stole from Wayne-Tec." She chuckled.

"Okay let me know when you've finished." I said as I turned to Jason. "And you, I want you to sneak it in here to me when it's ready." Jason nodded.

"Okay, I'll get it to you." He said.

I put my hand in the center of the group and they did the same.

"This is the time to put that training to good use guys."

"What about you though?" Ally asked. "Shouldn't we get you out?"

"No, don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

They both were hesitant as they left and the guards escorted me back to my cell.

As I sat there in my cell I hummed a small tone with a big smile on my face.

"Soon I'll be free and Joker will be dead." I hummed, but then I looked at the small picture on my prison wall. I plucked it off to see that it was a newspaper about Batman and how he brought me down. I grumbled as I crumpled the clipping. "And when I'm done with him I'm coming for you Batman."

I threw the clipping away and plopped down on my bed and fell into a fitful sleep.