Chapter 6: Spanish for witch

Authors Note: Thanks to everyone who's reviewed and read my story. Thank you for your review AgedZen-01 I think Shadow will fair quite well in Arkham City which I plan on writing very soon. Now that that's out of the way enjoy my next chapter.

Disclaimer: In do not own Arkham Asylum just my OC's.

I awoke lying face down on the ground not feeling anything. All the pain I had felt earlier was gone as I got to my feet. I didn't feel dizzy or tired I felt perfect like no one could stop me.

"Did it work?" I said to myself as I looked at my arms.

"Jayden are you there?" Ally asked.

"Yeah Breeze I'm fine." I reassured.

"Oh thank God," She sighed. "What about the formula, did it work?"

"I don't know, give me a minute." I said.

I took off my coat and then my vest as I stood in the October night. I felt the cold air against my skin but I didn't feel cold. I even have hypothermia and my bones stiffen badly in the cold air and yet I felt completely fine.

"Controlled body temperature, check." I said to Breeze.

I put my clothes back on and leaned back against the wall of the abandoned building as I looked out to the guard tower. I then ran as hard as I could and as fast as I could as I made it to the ledge and took a great big leap. I flew across the courtyard and landed on the very top of the tower with ease as I jumped off the top and down onto the ground. I landed on my feet creating a small crater in the ground.

"Upper body and lover body strength enhancement, check. One final test." I said as I pulled out one of my throwing knives. I held the small blade up to the palm of my hand and slowly cut across the flesh. I could still feel pain as I left a long horizontal cut across my hand. It poured blood for a second before closing up and being perfectly healed as if nothing had ever happened.

"Regeneration check, and check, the Adonis formula is a success." I said with satisfaction.

"Hold on a second Jayden," Breeze said. "You're regeneration is quick but it only treats minor wounds like cuts, sprains, muscle aches and bruises. Any gunshot wounds or stabs to the head or heart or decapitation will kill you understand?"

"Well I wouldn't want to make things to easy," I joked. "What about strength?"

"You have enough leg strength to jump high and far based on your momentum and it allows you to run faster than before. Your upper body strength has increased but it's not like Banes so don't go crazy and try and take out cars with your body or thinking you can throw boulders."

"Okay, now that I have the Adonis formula I'm off to take down Joker," I said. "I'll contact you later."

"Okay, and be careful." Breeze said as she clicked off.

I ran towards the second tunnel of the courtyard and opened the automatic doors that led to the Medical clinic and the Penitentiary. As I walked through the tunnels I noticed a trail of bodies with nasty bruises, cuts and broken noses. One guy who looked better than the rest staggered to his feet as he grumbled in pain. He didn't have time to get away as I ran up to him and grabbed him by his throat. I picked him up with one hand and held a throwing knife in the other.

"ACK!," he gagged. "Wha-who are you?"

"Every nightmare you've ever had. Who did this?" I asked.

"Batman," He gasped. "He came through here, looking for Gordon he beat the crap out of us and stormed off towards the medical center. That's all I know I swear!"

"Thanks." I said before smashing my head into his face knocking him out cold and throwing down on the ground.

I sprinted down the tunnel towards the clinic while trying to avoid tripping over the broken bodies that lay before me.

"Damn, Batman hasn't been here one hour and he's already wasting half of the asylums inmates." I said to myself.

"Well he does this kind of thing for a living so I guess he's just built for this." Breeze said on the other line.

"But there's over a hundred patients here," I said in disbelief. "And I've come across fifty so far, you'd think he'd be tired."

"He's been doing this since we were preteens he obviously has more experience than you." She replied in a snooty tone.

"Well I have some advantages over Batman too."

"Such as?"

"I'm younger, I use a sword, and I am loaded with a super formula that makes me fast and strong."

"And disadvantages?"

"Excuse me?" I asked in disbelief.

"You have advantages and disadvantages what are they?" I pondered that for a second before responding.

"None,"

"Well I know one advantage he has that you don't."

"Oh and what's that?"

"He's Batman."

I stopped dead in my tracks.

"Are you serious?" I chuckled. "Are you seriously using that as an excuse?"

"Did Batman defeat a giant monster made of clay, or a giant crocodile man or…you?"

"Well his time will pass."

"Why do you hate him so much? I mean you told me but I know that's not your real reason."

"When I get out of here I gotta go now."

"Okay, good luck."

"Thanks."

We clicked off as I ran towards the clinic.

I entered through the clinic doors to see more unconscious bodies. What a surprise.

"I've been here for a month and I've taken out seven inmates he's been here an hour and he's already wasted half the asylum un-freaking believable." I scoffed as I remembered why I was here. "Young."

I ran through halls only to find the remains of what Batman had left behind when I found another room where a few doctors and guards took refuge. As I walked up to them one of they all pointed their weapons which they probably stole from the inmates at me with shaky hands.

"Whoa take it easy," I said as I raised my hands in defense. "I'm a good guy I'm looking for Dr. Young she's in danger." They didn't lower their guns but one doctor spoke out.

"She just left with Aaron Cash twenty minutes ago after Batman saved her." He said. "He went down stairs looking for Gordon."

"Gordon, the police commissioner?" I asked.

"Yes, Harley Quinn took him downstairs a little while ago."

"What about young where did she go?"

"She said something about lab notes and how Joker couldn't get his hands on them."

A light bulb clicked in my head as I knew where she was going. She was getting her notes on the TITAN formula before Joker I needed to get to her before his men, but first.

"I'm gonna need some help."

I made my way over to the elevator and made my way down to the emergency room from there I could make my way to the basement. As I exited the elevator my throat started to feel sore as I got out and headed towards the basement. I walked towards the doors only for the hallway to be stretched out, I kept walking and walking but I wasn't getting closer. As I kept walking I kept hearing a voice echo through the halls and felt an eerie chill as if death just cast his shadow over me.

I finally made it to the door and opened them only to end up in the morgue. The walls were covered with small metal doors and small medical tables that were covered with small metal tools you would only see in horror movies. The room was empty except for the three body bags on the medical tables in the center of the room. Wait a minute were they…moving?

As I walked forward the doors I walked past started opening and closing rapidly as an eerie voice told me to 'get out'.

I slowly walked over to the first bag on the left and unzipped it, as I pulled the zipper down I started to recognize the person beneath it. My heart froze when I saw the pale white, ice cold skin of my mother who wore her business suit.

"Mom?" I gasped as her head turned towards me.

"Jayden, how could you turn into such a monster?" She moaned.

"I-I didn't," I stuttered, but it was no use as she lay there dead.

I then moved to the next bag and unzipped it to reveal the corpse of my father who wore the exact same suit her was shot in.

"Father…"

"Jayden, why did you use my knowledge to spread death and destruction?" He moaned.

"But you did the same you sold this kind of stuff to the government."

Like mom his body stiffened as he laid there dead.

I moved to the last one wondering who it could have been as I unzipped the bag. Before I could even make it towards the middle of the bag a man with glowing eyes and a red hood jumped out and scared the hell out of me. I fell to the ground in surprise but got up shortly after to see that the being and most of the morgue were gone.

I looked around to see dark clouds spiraling around bits and pieces of the morgue floating in midair and looked down to see a yellow vortex possibly leading to nothing. I jumped over to the ledge of a nearby floating morgue piece as I felt the ground rumbling from beneath me.

"What the hell, there's no ground." I stated.

Just then a giant being stretched his hand whose fingers were syringes with an orange liquid in it towered over me. He let out a high pitch laugh as he held out his arms.

"Welcome to my world Shadow," He said in an evil voice. "You're in my world now, now let's see how long you can last before your heart stops from fear and torment." He laughed as his eyes acted like flood lights as they let out two orange rays of light burning everything he looked at.

"Crane." I snarled.

He then started circling around repeatedly as if he were trying to find me. I looked over behind him to see a light shining down a sword sticking out of a stone on a higher piece of the morgue.

"Excalibur." I said. I don't know why but a voice inside my head was telling me to go to that sword. When he would go to circle around again I would make my move.

He circled around staring down the broken pieces of the morgue looking for me as lightning lit up the sky. Being as careful as possible I ran over to a nearby corner before he could see me and molded my body to it avoiding his burning gaze. When his back was facing me I climbed up onto another ledge and started to sprint to another corner, but as he was starting to turn around I ducked down and slid across the floor just avoiding his gaze. I stood there trying to catch my breath as I he started to examine the floor above me and the way I just came from. I looked over the corner to see a leaking gas tank and decided to use that to my advantage. I pulled out a throwing knife and threw it as hard as I could at the tank, as it hit it created a spark and blew up distracting Crane.

"What?" He gasped as I rushed up the ledge and over to the sword. I reached over and grabbed the handle with both hands and with all my strength I was able to pull it out. He must have heard me because he started turning towards me, I held the sword over my head and with all my strength threw it at his face. He screamed in pain as the world around us turned to nothing.

I awoke right outside the basement doors as I slowly got to my feet. I shook off Cranes poison and slowly made my way into the basement as I heard glass shattering. I ran over to see the man of the hour standing over a knocked out Harley Quinn and a tied up commissioner.

"You took longer than I thought." Gordon joked as Batman walked over to untie him.

"He's out of control," He stated. "He's trying to prove something I'm not sure I can stop him this time." That's when I stepped in.

"Yes, if only you had killed him when you had the chance," I wept sarcastically. "None of this wouldn't have happened if you had acted fast enough. I guess this is the second time you've failed at your job."

"What are you doing here?" Batman snarled.

"Same reason as you to save Gordon."

"Who are you?" Gordon asked.

"Shadow, at your service."

"Oh yeah you're the one we arrested for killing all those thugs a month ago."

"It was the Joker he framed me they were his thugs." I explained.

"Whatever, look," He said pointing at the small pavilion downstairs. "We're not alone there's something down there."

"Yeah I know I've been here before," I snipped. "In fact I know what The Jokers plan is."

Batman grabbed me by the collar of my coat and slammed me against the wall.

"Don't toy with me Shadow," He said in a low voice, well lower than normal. "Tell me what you know." I just chuckled as he held my throat.

"Or what? We both know you don't have the balls to stop me."

"Yeah Bats," A TV came on to show the Jokers ugly face. "Do us both the favor of eliminating that little pest so we can go back to the way things were."

"Be quite," He snarled.

"Oh, am I getting to you?" He asked sarcastically. "Am I, good." Batman turned back to me.

"Now what is he planning?" His tone sounding like he was running out of patience.

"Go down there and all your questions will be answered." I said as he dropped me to the floor.

He and Gordon walked down stairs with me following them. We entered the small pavilion as Gordon moved to Dr. Young's computer as I stood next to Batman.

"It wants Dr. Young's log in." Gordon said.

"Never mind that get behind me, now." He said as Gordon got off the computer and moved behind us. Batman's eyes widened as we saw the skinny figure of Bane with multiple tubes coming out of his arms and legs. "Bane."

"I thought he broke out of Black Gate?" Gordon exclaimed.

"Cut…Me…Down." Bane said in an exhausted tone of voice.

"Sure right after you help me big guy." I said as Batman pushed me back.

"Who did this to you?" He asked with a little horror in his voice.

"Dr. Young the Bruja," He explained. "She drained the venom from my blood, must stop her."

"She was trying to cure you Bane," I explained.

"Cure ME!" He grunted. "You call this being cured?"

"Better than what I had in store for you. Now if I help you have to help me stop Joker and save Young."

Jokers face appeared on the computer terminal and let out a chuckle.

"Sorry has Bane and Sha-dork the good doctor won't be a problem much longer," He said. "How do you like my puppet, what's say we cut him down?" He then picked up a small remote and pushed the button on top.

Just then the lights and machines behind Bane started to turn on as a green liquid flowed through his tubes. He started to scream in pain as his veins started glowing green and his muscles started expanding and his eyes glowed green.

"Gordon RUN!" He yelled as Gordon ran out of the pavilion.

Bane broke out of his restraints as a cloud of smoke blocked our vision. Bane sprinted towards us and tried to tackle me. I ran towards him and jumped on his head and ran down his back, he didn't seem to care as he charged towards Batman. Bane swung his right fist at his head But Batman casually dodged it as Bane brought down his left fist and tried to squash him. He again jumped out of the way and delivered a few quick jabs to his head. Bane shook it off and proceeded to pick him up and throw him through the wall.

"Play nice ladies." Joker chuckled as Bane climbed through the wall.

I ran towards him and with all my strength delivered a drop kick to his back. Bane flew a short distance and fell to the ground. He staggered to his feet as I jumped through the wall.

"You're TITAN formula is good," I complemented as I cracked my knuckles. "But my Adonis formula is better."

Bane roared in anger as he charged towards me, I ran towards the wall and ran up it. I wall climbed and jumped off ready to deliver a jump kick to Banes head, but before I could reach he swung his massive right hand at me and sent me flying across the room. I rolled on the ground painfully as Bane charged at me. As he was running Batman readied one of his batarang's and threw it at Banes head. Bane rubbed his face as he swung his fist around blindly while I drew my sword and charged at one of the three large tubes on his back. I jumped up on his shoulder and swung my sword across his back and cut through one of the tubes. Green liquid splattered all over the place as Bane screamed in pain, I looked over to Batman and gave him a smirk.

"Just cut him off from his TITAN and he'll be weak again, simple even for you." I joked.

"I know unlike you I've actually fought him and beaten him multiple times." He grumbled.

Bane roared at us getting our attention as he charged at us. I gave batman the 'after you.' Hand jester as he just casually pulled another batarang out of his belt and threw it at his head again. Bane charged at us blindly as we both jumped over him, I cut threw another one of his tubes as Batman kicked off his last one.

Bane crashed into the wall as I looked at Batman.

"Not to gloat but I did do most of the work." I gloated as he shrugged his shoulders.

"I've fought him many times before his moves were too predictable." He said. "It looked like he gave you a little trouble though."

"Hey why don't you suck my-" I was cut off as Bane started smashing the wall and ripping off a huge chunk. He lifted it over his head and threw it at us, Batman jumped out of the way but I stood my ground. Before it could hit me I held my arms out and grabbed it, using all my strength I launched the boulder back at him. He was taken by surprise as he swung his arm and smashed it to pieces before it could hit him. He was blinded by the rubble that he didn't see Batman dive at him and deliver a series of punches to his face before delivering a final blow to his head.

The whole room started to shake as bits and pieces started falling from the ceiling and proceeded to bury Bane. Batman pulled out his Batclaw and grabbed me by the waist and launched us towards an emergency hatch. We exited and found ourselves near the docks as Gordon walked up to us.

"You two okay?" He asked.

"Yeah we're fine Jim where's Quinn?" He asked.

"Gone, must have slipped out while Bane was throwing you around."

"You should get off the Island now Gordon." I said as I walked over to the docks.

"Hey I'm no rookie I can handle myself."

"Yeah, I could see that. By the way was Quinn too much for you?" I asked in a cocky tone of voice.

Before he could argue Bane crashed through the walls and swatted me away and grabbed Batman. He held him close to his face as he shouted.

"I will break you Batman and you to boy then the bruja!" He roared.

"No Bane," He grunted. "This time I break you!"

Just then Batman's car flew out of nowhere Batman pushed himself off of Bane with his feet as his car crashed right into Bane sending them both to the bottom of the lake. The three of us walked over to the edge to see the bubbles slowly stop coming up.

"Damn, I was gonna steal that car." I complained.

"Only in your dreams," Batman said. "Now tell me what you know."

"Aww, and here I thought you rescued me because you liked me," I pouted. "Fine, only because you helped me. Young created a formula hoping to make the insane members of this shit hole sane. She was getting funding's from Joker who took the alias Jack White, but when she found out that he was planning on turning her formula into a super chemical like what we saw back there she stopped the funding and well …look around you."

"He's planning on making more of that garbage?" Gordon said.

"That's what he told me, he was furious when he found out Young wanted out so now I can only imagine that he's going to take the formula and make it himself."

"This is bad, earlier tonight I fought something similar to Bane," Batman explained. "It wasn't as strong but it was extremely violent and I don't think he could talk at all."

"Well then we should get looking for Young then." I said as I started to walk away but was stopped by Batman.

"You're not going anywhere, you're going with Gordon." He growled.

"So sorry but…" I grabbed his wrist and swung him around throwing him at Gordon. "This is Jokers last laugh and I'm not going to miss it."

He looked at me in confusion as he got to his feet.

"Did Young give you a similar formula?"

"No although her research did aid me quite a bit this formula comes from my father making me the better warrior."

"What have you done to yourself?"

"Made myself better in every way," I said as I walked away. "The Joker is somewhere on this island Batman, I wonder which one of us will get to him first." I said as I turned on my cloaking device as walked off into the night.

Batman walked Gordon over to a boat and convinced him to go back to Gotham and keep the city calm.

"Good luck batman, you can't let Joker or that other guy win."

"They won't Jim, I won't let them."

"Bane also kept calling Young a Bruja what does it mean?" He asked as Batman walked away.

"It's Spanish for witch."