Boston's Dark Knight: Volume Two: Chapter Five
Maura continued to remain tied to the chair by the brown rope and was surrounded by barrels. The Joker sat in front of her, the chair's back being leant on by the Joker's front. The room had very poor lighting, but Maura could make out the thickness of the rope at her ankles. Escape was impossible.
"Why?" Maura asked, shocked by what she just heard. "Why would you do that to your own brother?"
The Joker just looked at Maura, raised her eye brows and shrugged. "Desperation, my dear doctor. Have you ever been so desperate to get rid of a loved one's pain, but you couldn't do anything?" Images of Hoyt flashed across Maura's mind, but she buried them as quickly as possible.
Instead, she shuffled around in the wooden chair trying to find some comfortable position where the ropes weren't so painful to her wrists and ankles.
"No," the Joker sighed, "didn't think so. Privileged people like you don't have those kinds of problems I guess."
"That's not true!" Maura exclaimed, wanting to remove the stereotype that being financially stable would decide a person's lifestyle conflicts. "I have had lots of problems, and I don't think you –"
The Joker stood up while pushing the chair forwards, creating a loud screeching sound as the metal legs screeched across the concrete floor. "Yes doctor, I'm sure what you think of politics is very interesting, but as you may have noticed, I have a bat problem to deal with. Feel free to talk to your boyfriend on the phone. But keep in mind, it's a pay phone. I say you have about… a few hours…"
"Why are you doing this?!" Maura asked, desperation in her voice.
The Joker turned round and smiled. "Because I can."
And with that, the Joker and her henchmen left the room.
God damn it! Jane cursed in her head as she glided off of a tall building in south Boston. I should never have left her alone! Now where the hell am I going to find this Joker freak?! Maybe the local drug dealers will have a lead… Jane wondered in her head.
Leaning to the left, Jane descended towards the top of a small block of apartments, pulling upwards so she was virtually hovering, Jane landed gracefully on the roof and started to walk towards to the edge of the building.
A small beep alerted Jane of Korsak's call.
"You got something?" Jane asked.
"No, sorry Jane. Maura's phone is in the police station. Frost's as well."
Shit! Well there goes the normal way of tracking down your best friend who's been kidnapped by a psychopath. "Ok, guess we'll have to do it the old fashioned detective way. Follow up leads."
"Ok Jane, I'll be on standby."
"Did ya hear about this new joker girl? Breaking into court rooms and shit. Recon she's gonna take down Boston, replace Doyle and Big T and the rest!" A voice echoed in an alley way, Jane moved stealthily to the source of the voice, using the dark night as a cover in order not to be seen.
It was a group of four men. Two in jogging bottoms and a tracksuit top and the other two in denim jeans and jackets. They looked to be between nineteen to twenty three years old.
"Yeah brov! She got some proper Hench guys though on her team… I was wondering if I might apply!"
"Dude. Professional muscle. Not professional ugly."
"Ooooo, dude that was such a burn!"
"Oh shut the –"
Jane jumped off of the building and as she fell, her boots connected into one of the two men's shoulders. Swinging her left hand, her fist connected into the other man. The three just stayed on the floor. Jane turned round to see the man in the jeans and jacket.
"How would you find the Joker?" Jane asked in a rough gravely voice.
"Your- your – you're the –"
"Where's the joker?!" Jane roared, as she shoved the man up against the wall.
"I don't know! I swear! I really…." The man trailed off as his eyes moved away from mine, onto another part behind me. I turned around and saw what he was looking at, it was a bright spot light shining into the sky with… what looked like a bat.
Shit… Jane realised that this situation may have just taken a turn for the worst… and not at all in her favour.
"Maura! Can you hear me?!" Frost's voice echoed round the room.
"Yes Barry, I can! Where are you?" Maura asked, feeling a sense of panic, yet at the same time a sense of relief, that she wasn't alone.
"I don't know, I'm surrounded by barrel drums! And I'm tied to a chair in a warehouse." Frost said, "are you alright?"
"Yes Barry I'm fine, what about you?" Maura asked, hoping Barry was ok.
"I'm fine, listen is there anything sharp near you?"
"No, there's nothing, I've been checking! The Joker said that we only have so much time left and –"
"Maura I know, I can see the clock in front of me. I need you to listen to me…"
The Joker stood in the middle of the road, surrounded by a dozen or so thugs, all armed to the teeth in weapons. Too many to take on, too slow for one by one. How the hell am I going to do this? Suddenly, Jane had an idea.
"We can see you batman! Come on down! Don't be shy!" The Joker taunted from below. "Unless of course you don't want your doctor friend and Mr. Frost to go home in one piece…" sighing Jane dropped down to the middle of the road.
"Where are they?" Jane asked. Glaring at the woman with the face of a moon.
"Ya know, I'm no professor, but coming here without back up wasn't one of your best ideas."
"Where are they?" Jane asked again. Not moving as the Joker started to casually stroll towards Jane.
"Ya wanna know how I got these scars?"
The sound of a helicopter overhead become louder. "Drop your weapons and put your hands in the air!"
Eight different sirens started to come closer towards Jane's location.
"Who said I didn't come without backup?" Jane asked at the Joker.
And then the fight began, shots were fired, punches were thrown, police officers and thugs ran at each other like charging bulls.
Screams echoed around the city.
The fight must have lasted for about twenty minutes, Jane noticed that more and more bodies were starting to pile up on the ground. Finally Jane got back to fighting the Joker, and Jane soon had the Joker pinned.
"Where are they?!" Jane shouted.
"Doesn't it frustrate you? That with all you strength and power… you can't get me to talk?" Jane through a strong punch against the Joker's face.
"Where are they?!"
The Joker fell to the floor laughing, "oh alright I'll tell you, but you have to choose, see?" Jane noticed Cavanaugh running towards them. "He's at two hundred and fifty second street, and she's at avenue x." Jane through the Joker to the ground and ran.
"Which one are you going for?!" Cavanaugh called out.
"Maura!" Jane shouted back, running towards where she had parked her bike in the shadows.
Speeding down the streets, Jane's heart thumped so hard in her chest it felt impossible. Maura's life was on the line. And Jane wish she could go faster, she wished she could maybe press the reset button and take Maura away from all of this.
Snapping out of her fantasy, Jane pulled up next to the street and ran into the building.
Jane kicked the door down, and her eyes widened at what she saw in front of her.
Sooooo ideas? I was never gone!