Chapter 5: Rich Boy Blues

Authors Note: Thank you everyone who's read and alerted my story. And thank you sgt surge Im glad you enjoyed it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Arkham Asylum.

After I finished equipping my weapons and tools I left the evidence room and begun my search for Dr. Young. If Joker was looking for TITAN he would need Young to make it and he would be willing to do anything to get it. Just the thought of his men putting their filthy hands on her made my blood boil. I hooked up my small ear piece in my mask to the radio in my belt and contacted Alexandra.

"Breeze," I said, she chose the name Breeze due to how swift and gentle she moves in the night. "Breeze, come in."

"Shadow?" She asked. "Did you escape Arkham Island yet?"

"Change of plans kiddo, Joker has taken over Arkham Asylum and is looking for the TITAN formula. I'm going to find Young and get her off the Island and then kill the Joker."

"Shadow…Do you really think that killing Joker will solve anything?" She said in concern, I sighed.

"Breezy dear, we've been over this he's an evil bastard who doesn't deserve the precious gift of life." I explained. "We need to end his madness once and for all and tonight is the perfect night to do it."

"Jayden…"

"Did Dusk," Dusk being Jason. "Get me the formula over the wall?"

"Yes, he buried it underneath a set of seesaws near the main gates of the asylum."

"Okay, I'll call you when I get it."

"Just, be careful the Adonis formula hasn't been tested and there's no telling what it will do to you."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine."

We clicked off as I made my way through the asylum. It had only been twenty minutes and Joker and his men have already rigged the security system and killed all the doctors and security guards. I prayed that Young was still alive.

I ran through the halls of the intensive treatment trying to find my way to the main doors but all those damn Wayne-Tec doors were blocking my way making it hard for me to get out. I had begun hacking into the terminal when I heard a low chuckling from behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see the familiar short stocky bald man known as Oswald Cobblepot.

"Well, well, well," He said in his stupid accent. "Lookie what we got here. It's the Batman imposter that screwed up my deal and sent me to this hell hole."

I looked at him and saw that he was wearing a heavy black robe with matching pajama pants and slippers. He was accompanied by five men who still wore their asylum clothes and were now wielding pipes and knives.

"Cobble pot," I greeted. "Last time I saw you, you were face down in a pool of your own blood." I took a step forward as his men stepped in front of Cobblepot. "And I am nothing like Batman…I'm worse."

He let out a dark chuckle as he put a cigar in his mouth and one of his men came over and lit it for him.

"No lad, you're not and to prove it," He snaps his fingers. "You'll be the perfect warm up for my boys when they take down the real Batman."

His men came forward three of them had pipes while the other two wielded knives. I slowly drew my sword and did a few twirls before stabbing the tip into the ground and drawing a line.

"I won't even have to move." I taunted.

They all screamed as they charged at me, one raised his pipe at me but I delivered a thrust kick to his stomach and smashed the butt of my sword onto the back of his head knocking him out cold. The next one swung his pipe at my side but I ducked out of the way and delivered an uppercut to his face knocking him on the ground I walked over to him and brought my foot on his face knocking him out. Another guy came from behind me and swung his pipe at my back, but I blocked it with my sword and swung around him holding my sword at his throat keeping the remaining two at bay.

They both walked in opposite directions blocking both sides trying to surround me. One on the left raised his machete and charged at me. I threw my hostage at him as the one on the right brought his blade down at me. I blocked as he slashed at me like a mad man, damn rookies with no experience. As he brought his blade down for the hundredth time we locked blade for a moment before I smashed my head against his and knocked him back. The other two came at me with everything they had but it wasn't enough to stop me as I kicked one in his stomach and blocked the others machete with my sword and brought my fist to his face breaking his nose. Using all my might as if time had slowed down I jumped in the air and did delivered a spin kick to the last guy's head knocking him out cold.

I looked over on the ground to see that I was a few feet behind the line. I shrugged my shoulders as I walked towards Cobblepot. "Well, not everyone is perfect."

"No lad," He said as he reached behind him and pulled out an umbrella. "They aren't." Before I could blink a flash came from the tip of his umbrella and something hard hit me in the center of my chest. I lost the grip on my sword as I went flying back I landed hard on the ground as I tried to slow my breathing. Cobblepot strutted over to me as he opened his umbrella and held it behind his head he let out a chuckle.

"You're right you are worse. Old Bats could have seen that one coming a mile a-"

Before he could finish his sentence I grabbed his ankle and gave it a nasty twist. He hollered out in pain as I got up and sprinted towards my sword. Cobblepot grabbed his umbrella and opened fired on me but missed every shot. I disappeared into the darkness of a nearby boiler room as he staggered to his feet.

(Cobblepots POV)

That dirty bastard I think he broke my damn ankle, some doors opened up as more of my men walked in. Four of them had assault rifles while one had a small shotgun and an asylum guard.

"What took you morons so damn long?" I grunted as I limped over to them.

"Sorry mister Cobblepot," The main grunt said as he threw the security guard on the ground. "This damn guard was being stubborn with the keys to the armory and we had to break one of his hands."

"Never mind him, that damn Batman imposter came in here and broke my damn ankle. Search the room for him." I ordered as I checked my umbrella gun. "And give me a gun."

"Yes, mister Cobblepot." He said as he motioned for one of his men to give a spare assault rifle to me.

They all split up as I sat up against a wall aiming my new gun at the guard. It didn't take one minute before one of my men went flying across the room and slammed against a nearby wall. Everyone rushed over as one of them checked his pulse.

"He's out cold." He stated.

"Oh really?" I snarled. "Hurry up and find him!" I ordered as they all ran into the room.

"You're not Batman you know," one of my men taunted "You're just-"

He never finished his sentence as spark glowed out of his back.

"He's been stunned." One man shouted.

I heard a loud bang as I looked over to see an unconscious man lying near a dented wall. Another man ran over only for that man to do some of his fancy acrobatics and plant a drop kick into the man's chest knocking him onto the ground. When they landed he raised his fist and planted it square in the man's nose. I raised my gun and fired everything at him as he ran away.

"He's over here get'em!" I shouted.

The only men I had left was my man with his shotgun and the skinny man with his assault gun.

"Oh yeah, he's in a corner there's no way out." He shouted as he chased after him. "Die you bastard!" He shouted as he open fired. After he emptied his clip he looked at the corner in confusion before turning to us. "He's not there."

"Impossible that's just an empty corner there's no way out." I yelled as he loaded a clip.

"Maybe he is like Batman you know? He's there one second and the next-"

His sentence and breathing was cut off by some unknown force and he struggled for breath.

"Hey man, are you all right?" My last guard asked.

He didn't answer as his entire body turned around and his gun opened fired on the man's legs. He fell back screaming as he fired a shot into the ceiling and went into shock. The last guy's head went flying into the wall as I heard footsteps walking towards me. Before I could fire a small throwing flew out of nowhere and blocked the barrel of my gun. Then the footsteps got louder as the rifle I had went flying out of my hands and I felt something hard hit the center of my face.

(Jayden's POV)

After taking down Cobblepot and his men I walked over to check the guard.

"Are you okay?" I asked. He groaned in pain as he clenched his wrist.

"Ugh, they broke a couple of my fingers." He said in a weak voice.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Ugh, me and a couple of my friends were just doing our rounds when all of a sudden we were jumped by a bunch of the patients." He explained. "They took me because Frank was the only one who didn't kill me."

"Frank…Frank Boles?" I asked.

"Yeah, he was with Harley Quinn they gave me to Cobblepot hopping that he would participate in some kind of party."

"He isn't going to be partying ever again." I said as I picked up the nearby man's shotgun and aimed it at Cobblepots head.

"Wait!" The guard said. "You can't just kill him while he's down. It's not right it's not how Gordon would have wanted it."

I was hesitant at first but I decided against it and dropped the gun.

"There's no sport in it anyways." I grumbled.

Just then four more guards entered with nightsticks and were about to attack me when the wounded guard stopped them.

"It's okay he's the one who stopped Cobblepot and saved me." He said.

"Okay, let's get you to safety." One guard said as he and the rest of his men armed themselves and handcuffed the criminals and I took Cobblepot.

We all walked to a security room were some men were holding up with shotguns and machineguns. We threw all the criminals into a holding cell and locked them in as Cobblepot started to come to. He let out a chuckle as he looked at me.

"Didn't have the stomach to do it did you?" He snorted.

"No I could have but the guard whose hand you broke for your own selfish needs convinced me to let you live." I explained. "Next time you won't be so lucky."

"Tell me something, what was all that back there?" He asked. I chuckled as I pulled back the layers of my coat to reveal a black utility belt with a red Kanji symbol representing shadow in the center. I pulled out a small device and with a flick of my wrist it transformed into a small stun gun.

"This is stuff I got from your good old friend Mr. Wayne," I joked as he growled in anger. "This is a stun gun that has the same range as a 9mm pistol they use clips that hold four stun spikes and can knock a guy out before they know what hit them. And this," I said referring to my belt. "Is a cloaking device that can completely turn me invisible for a good five minutes before being depleted, it takes ten minutes to charge back up and just makes it more easy to take down your stupid thugs as you saw firsthand." I chuckled as his growls grew louder. "Wayne-Tec sold me some pretty cool gadgets right? Though I use the word sell loosely."

"When I get out of here…" He growled.

"I'll steal some new gadgets from Wayne and kick your ass twice as fast. Now, if you don't want me to break anymore bones in your body you'll tell me where Joker is."

"I don't bloody know he just let Harley give me those guns and told me to stay outta the way." He explained. "I was planning on just leaving the asylum until I saw you."

"Well thanks a lot," I sniped sarcastically. "Now if you excuse me I have a clown to beat up."

I walked over to the guards who were barricading the doors.

"Hey do any of you know where Dr. Penelope Young is?" I asked. The broken hand guard came up to me.

"Yeah, she was scheduled to work at the medical clinic." He said.

"Alright, you guys stay here and guard this room I'll take care of this." Before I could walk away I heard a familiar chuckling.

"You know mate, I heard Harley say that they had Young in the clinic." He chuckled. "She was talking to old Joker on a radio and he sounded very excited."

I paid him no attention as I ran out of the security room. It didn't matter if he was lying or not if I wasn't there to protect Young then she was no doubt going to die by Jokers hands.

I ran around the asylum until I arrived at the room where they checked for weapons and noticed a bunch of Jokers goons hanging upside down from gargoyles. I walked up onto the security deck when I noticed something on a nearby balcony. I leaped over to it and approached the body of Frank Boles.

He was strapped to a metal stretcher similar to the one Joker was in earlier , his mouth was held wide open as green paint was smeared all over his mouth and a sigh hung around his neck and spelled 'Dead End'.

"Well, well your bad ways finally caught up ay Boles?" I said as I closed his eyes.

I looked around the room until I found a door leading to a tunnel. I followed it and wound up at the edge of a cliff overlooking the courtyard where security guards were patrolling the area. I clicked on my cloaking device as I climbed down the cliff. I snuck past the guards and made my way to a security door leading to the front of the Intensive treatment building. As I approached the front of the building I saw a very pretty set of wheels.

"Oh, hello." I said with glee as I approached the Batmobile. I ran my hand over the black steel as the damn thing shocked me. "Dammit!" I shouted as I waved my hand around to shake off the pain. "Must be a security device, I'll come back later."

I walked over to the main gates of the asylum and found the set of seesaws Breeze was talking about.

"Breeze, I found the seesaws, where exactly did Dusk bury it?" I asked.

"He said he buried it right down the middle of the seesaw, he marked it with one of your throwing knives." She said.

I looked down and say the small black handle sticking out of the ground I pulled it out and pocket it as I dug through the wet dirt. It took me a minute before I found a small metal briefcase and held it before me. I looked around for a safe spot to where I could inject myself with it until I saw an old collapsed building. I pulled out a grappling hook and shot it at the top floor of the building and flew up to the top.

I walked over to a corner and sat down as I opened the case. There was black foam surrounding a small metal syringe holding the amber liquid that was the Adonis formula. I pulled it out and examined it as I thought about the consequences of injecting myself with it.

"Dad I know you won't let me down," I said. "You taught me everything you know so I would continue your research. I know this will work."

I pulled off the safety cap on the syringe and stabbed the needle in my neck and pushed the button. The liquid felt weird as it spread throughout my body, it then started to go into my head as my eyes started to burn. I growled in pain as my muscles started to ache and my skin started to itch. I then started to twitch as I felt a sharp pain pierce through my brain.

"Shadow?" Breeze said. "Shadow are you alright?"

"I-I can't…" I couldn't finish as my lungs started closing.

"Jayden are you there?" She yelled.

I tried to stand up but fell flat on my face as I my legs gave out. I laid there twitching and drooling as everything around me went black. Before I passed out one thought went through my head.

"Dad, please don't let me die like this…" Then my whole world went black.

Character layout

Shadow

AKA: Jayden

Eyes: Brown

Weapons: Sword, throwing knives, Wayne-Tec stun gun and cloaking.

Bio: Grew up in a wealthy home when his father was murdered he became a warrior of the night. Mastering Jujitsu and sword training he works hard to bring villains to justice while delivering as grim fate upon his worse enemies. He believes himself to be deaths shadow hence the name. Also has studied his father's work in biological weapons and security making him a deadly adversary should he ever encounter Batman.

Breeze

AKA: Alexandra

Eyes: Blue

Weapons: Combat staff

Bio: Grew up in a wealthy family until she couldn't stand it and ran away. Afterwards she encountered a young boy named Jason and took him as a brother. After wards they met Jayden after stealing food and they've been together ever since. While still with her parents they sent her to boarding school where she took an interest in computers and chemistry. She scored top in her classes and now uses her talents to help Shadow fight crime.

Dusk

AKA: Jason

Eyes: Brown

Weapons: Baseball bat

Bio: Abandoned by his parents Jason had to fend for his own giving him an aggressive attitude. After meeting Breeze and Shadow he finally found a place where he felt like he belongs. Being taught by Jayden and admiring the hour of dusk he now fights with his brother hoping to rid the world of evil.