This is the final chapter of my Secrets in Arkham City book. I want to thank everyone who read my book and all of the people who reviewed it, especially KDHanson for her feedback. I plan to write a sequal to this, which is where Sidesie goes back to the Asylum, I will write some and post it in due time, I don't think I will be very realiabe with when I update for that book, but I'll try my best. Thank you everyone again, I know present to you, the final chapter.

Chapter 18

Sidesie

I took Lukess through all of the streets, having a nice stroll with him. He had him arm around me, while I held onto his hand that was around me. We didn't say a word, each other's company was all we needed right now. Not a lot of prisoners were around. Penguin guards have disappeared weirdly, Two'Faces men have moved to the rooftops o they were of no trouble.

Me and Lukess were standing right outside the back of the theatre. Outside the theatre was a metal ladder leading to the top of the building. I climbed up the ladder and waited for Lukess to climb up too.

Afterwards, I walked Lukess over the trapdoor on the building.
"Keep up the good work." I told the snipers who were on the lookout for Batman. They turned back to me quickly to salute me. After a quick salute back, I climbed down the trap door and landed in a dark old storage closest. I waited for Lukess to climb down as well, before I linked my hand in his again and lead him into the huge dark hallway in the theatre. After a bit of a walk, we came across a little old balcony, which had a view of the theatre.

The balcony had a huge hole in the middle of the wooden railing, perfect for us to see and not distract Daddy J.

Lukess and I sat in the balcony silently watching as Daddy J entered the building with the mysterious girl. As soon as Daddy J walked in, I knew that the show was going to start soon. Daddy J led the girl onto the old stage using his gun, ready to shoot her brains out any moment. I linked my fingers between Lukess' who was sitting before me, peering into the whole in the edge.

"The fun is about to begin." I whispered to Lukess happily.
"Can't wait to watch the greatest thing in Showtime history to go down with you." He said as he linked his fingers into mine. Then, Batman entered the building.

I then heard the door open.

Batman walked in through the double doors and onto the new battle floor. I could hardly hold my excitement, I had to bit my bottom lip to keep from screaming out of joy.

Batman walked to the middle of the floor and looked up at Joker, with his usual strict no-emotion look.

Daddy J turned around to face Batman and smiled devilishly. "Hurry up and take a seat Batman." He growled while pacing back behind the girl. "The shows about to begin." He said in a cheerful voice. He kicked the girl in the back of her knees causing her to fall to the ground on her knees. I was liking this already.

"Let's just talk about this." Batman said strictly.

Daddy J gave off a amused chuckle at his answer. "Now you want to talk?" He walked closer to the girl and bent down behind her and put the gun to her head. "To late Batman." He growled.
"Give me the cure!" Daddy J demanded.

"But you already got the cure!" Batman growled back.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, the girl sprung to attack him. She knocked Daddy J's arm into the air and half onto his wrist and bent him in an awkward angle. She was able to grab the sword from behind him, and point right in the middle of his back.

"Talia, no!" Called out Batman almost taking a step forward but it was too late for Batman to do anything.

Talia drove the sword swiftly through Daddy J so the blade was sticking out the other end of him, Joker made a sort of dying sound, wheezing and his face turned into a frown.

I didn't even flinch, I knew how this was going to end, I just had to be patient and wait. I felt Lukess flinch a bit, but I looked over and met his eyes, winking at him not to worry. Obviously from the way that Lukess eyes lit up, signified that I knew what was going on and not to panic. He stayed calm and continued to watch the show.

Talia kicked Daddy J's dying body off the stage and onto the ground. He face planted on the floor.

"Problem solved." Said Talia brushing dirt off her hands. She walked past Daddy J and walked pass Batman.

"You didn't need to-."
"Why?" Said Talia cutting off Batman and turning around to face him. "You would never do it, you left me not choice." She reasoned with him.
"There is always a choice." Batman argued.

She walked closer to him a pulled out what looked like a small vile. "I had to save you."
THE CURE! She had the cure and was about to give it to him! Daddy J better hurry up with his plan. "Harley Quinn stole it for him? I took it back."

Batman walked a few feet back over to the body and bent over, examining it. She rested a hand on his right shoulder and spoke words that were anything but true.
"It's over."

She was naive to think that anyone could stop The Joker. 'The World's greatest detective' Should have figured it out by now.

"Talia!" He called hopping up from the floor and swiftly turning to her. He had figured it out.

The sound of a gunshot echoed through the whole theatre as Talia arched her back from where the bullet hit here right in the middle of her back. She grunted painfully as she fell, but Batman caught her, and looked down at her. "I'm sorry my beloved... I didn't know..." Her head leaned back and all of her body loosen up, and she dropped the cure. She was shot down by my real Daddy J.

I could hear his laughter coming from the top balcony facing the theatre.
"Encore! More! Bravo!" Daddy J called out as he clapped, still holding the gun.

I looked at Lukess with a excited smile on my face. He looked so surprise, he was not expecting such a fantastic entrance.

"It was never you." Batman said turning away from his girlfriend and looking up at Daddy J.

"Not always." He laughed and added a few deathly coughs. "Well sometimes." He said, coughing again. "Confusing isn't it? I know I would want to just what the hell is going on if I were you." He laughed weakly. "Let's just say: in times like these, it's important to keep up appearances. But first, if you would be so kind? Hand, over, my cure." He growled as he pointed to gun right at Batman.

I looked over at Batman who was laying Talia back on the floor. As he did, the fake Joker began to move, not just physically, but appearance too. He body slowly began to turn to clay, as he rose in side of his body.

"Ladies and gentleman, for one night only, standing in for yours truly, and doing a damn fine job of it, I give you... Clayface!" Joker announced as Clayface finally switched out of his acting role and into his true self. I was giggling excitement as it was all coming together for the Batman. He probably never saw it coming.

"You were never supposed to be in here Karlo. Why sign up with Joker?" Batman addressed Clayface.

"Easy..." Clayface moaned in his deep voice, forming his hand into a hammer shape. "The role of a life time!" He roared, slamming his hammer fist down at Batman. Batman dodged him by rolling back, away from him.

"One, last, chance." Said Batman wiping blood from his mouth.

"Oh lighten up Bats! The final act has just started!" Laughed Daddy J. "It's a doozy." He said in a low evil voice.

Batman pulled out something that looked like a grenade and threw it right at Clayface. The grenade went straight threw his stomach and had no effect on him at all. He just stood there for a second and looked at the spot where the grenade entered him.

Clayface took 3 punches at Batman, stretching out his arm so they would reach Batman's distance, unfortunately, Batman dodged all three shots, and contined to throw a few grenades at him. Clayface made one of his fist into a hatchet like blade and swung it across the floor and hit Batman. Batman fell to the ground and grunted in pain. Clayface laughed at his failure, as did Lukess and I.

But it didn't stop him, Batman threw more and more grenades at him, they were starting to slow him down by the tiniest bit.

Clayface leapt up from the floor and sore threw the air towards Batman. He slammed his fist onto the floor where Batman was suppose to be. But Batman dodged to the right, avoiding him.

More and more grenades were thrown at Clayface.

Clayface began to meth down to the ground, only to rise again taking a shape as a sphere. He took on a horrible face that was implanted into the clay sphere as he charged towards Batman. I prayed that Batman would get run over, but Batman dodged and lead Clayface into one of the bomb stacks in the corner of the room. Clayface exploded into clups of clay and flew across the room and landed in the middle of the floor. He regrew back to his true form. But there was no denying that he must of token too much damage.

Batman kept the grenades going, soon Clayface began to freeze slowly. He soon froze in his spot and I groaned in frustration. I hoped up from the little corner I was in and pulled out my gun to shot down Batman once and for all. I wanted to so badly, but I just remembered what Daddy J said to me. Batman's death should be nothing but a masterpiece, performed by me! I put my gun away and sighed. I placed my hands on teh wooden railing and dug my fingers into the wood, to keep myself from ripping a chair out and throwing it at him.

"What are you doing?" Growled Daddy J at Batman who climbed up the frozen Clayface and grabbed the sword that was lodged into his back. Batman began to cut into Clayface. He was slicing off pieces of Clayface! He began to cut off his right arm, then his right leg, then work his way from his head to his chest, leaving nothing but half of his left leg.

NO! This could not be! Clayface better have a backup plan!

"You're making me late for my spa treatment. I mean, It's not like you got a girl to save anymore is it?" Daddy J laughed. "Oh, I'm sorry, too soon?" He said in a sarcastic tone. Daddy J then began to pull out what looked like a switch with a giant red button on it. "Would a change of scenery help ease the pain?" He pushed the button, triggering many bombs that were on the floor to light up and make beeping noises.

In a flash, Batman climbed up the stump of clay right before the floor exploded, causing Batman to fall down a giant hole in the floor with the sword and clumps of Clayface following closely behind. I grabbed Lukess' hand and climbed down the front of the balcony and stood in front of the huge hole. "We're not missing out on the actual death." I told Lukess. I climbed down each of the levels of ground with Lukess following behind me. I stopped on a floor just above Batman and sat there with Lukess, leaning forward with eager waiting for Batman to get squashed like a bug!

Batman got up from the floor and was up for round two with Clayface. A huge mud pile of Clay was formed near one of the edges, with clay mutants emerging from the clay, this was getting so entertaining. Batman quickly picked up the sword and began to lash out at the clay mutants. They were extremely easy to kill form the looks of it, but they just kept coming.

Clayface began to half-foam again in the clay mud pile and was growling at Batman. He began to shoot huge clumps of clay at him, some actually hitting him. Batman recovered from the shots and still continued to throw the stupid little freeze grenades at him.

More clay mutants appeared. More freeze grenades were thrown, more clay clumps were shot.

Soon enough, Clayface froze up again, and Batman took a chance at him. Batman jumped into his huge open mouth! Batman were seriously dead at this point, no way could he survive that. There was a moment of relief for me, nothing was happening, Clayface began to relax, but he was wrong. Batman began to stick the sword out all over Clayface's body, causing him to grunt and groan in pain. Batman then shot up between Clayface's head and shoulder, causing him to go limp and quiet.

I stared in astonishment as what I just witnessed. I gritted my teeth together, waiting for something to happen. If Batman was going to walk out of here alive, I will kill him myself!

Batman span the swung and placed it in his belt. In his hands he was holding the cure! Daddy J didn't need it exactly, he was going to be immortal soon! But Batman needed it, and that just made him stronger!

I took out my gun again, ready to shoot him in the arm, but I still too late. Batman had open the vile and drank half of the content.

"Get out of my way Bats! I got a date with immortality!" Daddy J announced.

Batman may have stopped Clayface, gotten the cure, and cured himself, but he can't stop Daddy J from becoming immortal. No matter what happens, Daddy J always wins.

Daddy J was just about to jump. This was it, the moment of glory! Batman will die and Daddy J will live forever!

I took a glance over at Batman, who took the sword out from his belt, and threw it straight at Daddy J! But that was impossible! It was against Batman's rule to kill anyone! And now he just decides it's okay?

Luckily, Daddy J ducked before it hit him. Thank god! But instead it landed into a generator that powered one of the electrical generators that Daddy J was standing on!

"Nooo!" I heard Daddy J call out as the Generator swung out of the metal grates and swung back in, hitting Clayface's body into the pit that was suppose to help Daddy J! The water and the electricity caused the Lazarus pit to explode! Sending Batman back from where he was standing and causing him to fly to the floor.

The black smoke that was around the area began to clear, and I could see Batman on the floor twitching a bit. I hope he was dying. Batman slowly got to his feet.

"Quick! The cure!" Daddy J wheezed. He was moments from dying, and I felt myself close to tears.

"Batman! Don't let him die, give him the cure!" I shouted at him.

Batman ignored my pleads.

"What are you waiting for? Come on! I killed your girlfriend, poisoned Gotham and hell, the week isn't ever finished yet!" He laughed a bit.

I felt my tears trickle down my face. I wanted to just jump down there, grab the cure and give it to Daddy J. He was so close to death, but I would only just get in the way. I just want Batman to hurry up and give him the cure!

"But so what? We all know you'll save me."

"Every decision you've ever made ends with death and misery. People die, I stop you, you'll just break out and do it again." Batman spoke.

Through my tears, and the comforting hugs I was getting from Lukess, I felt myself smile. I could see Daddy J sneak up on Batman with a knife.

"This of it as a running GAG!" He laughed. Daddy J jumped onto Batman's back and stuck a knife into his shoulder causing Batman to grunt in pain... and drop the cure, causing it to smash.

"Noooo!" Daddy J screaming in agony. Batman filled Jokwe onto the floor. At that moment, I felt my tears come back to my eyes, and spill over.

I sat there, cradled in Lukess' arms, watching my own dad, crawl the remaining drops of the cure, and watch him helplessly lick it up from the floor.

I began to sob in Lukess' arms as I felt my heart crush like someone was ripping a hole through it. Most of all, I felt completly broken.

"Are you happy now?" Daddy J growled at Batman, looking up at him fron the cure.

"You want to know something funny? Even after everything you've done... I would have saved you." Batman told Daddy J as he began to laugh.

"That actually is..." Joker wheezed out as he fell onto his back and coughed. "...Pretty funny!" Daddy J coughed and laughed a few more times, gasping for air.

He gasped and gasped and gasped, before he let out a long sigh and fell silent.

I then let it all out.

"NO!" I screamed as I jumped down form the floor and ran crying over to Daddy J. "No, no, no don't die on me!" I cried. I looked up from his dead body up at Batman. "YOU!" I hissed. He began to walk away from me as I talked.

"This is all your fault!" I yelled back at him.

I wanted to yell more things at him, but I couldn't, I wanted to curl up and cry near his body.

"You. Die. Now!" I heard Lukess growl. I looked up from Daddy J to see Lukess jumping down from the floor and walking over the Batman, cluthing a knife in his hand. I watched as Lukess lunged forward at Batman with the knife, aiming for his heart, but Batman simply threw Lukess across the room.

Lukess slid across the ground and grunted in pain, lying there for a bit.

"Enough." Growled Batman as he exited the room, leaving Lukess to painfully get to his feet and my to cry over my beloved Daddy J.

I cried and cried, but I paused for a moment to look up at Lukess who was holding something in his hand.

"It's a freeze bomb that I was able to grab a hold of when he threw me across the room."

I then felt it. Daddy J's heart was still beating! Very slowly though, like it was about to go out.

"We can get a cure later, but for now, we just need to make sure, he stays alive, even if it's barely." He told me calmly.

He bent down and reached towards my face to wipe away my tears. I gave a very small smile to him, as he helped me to my feet.

I looked down at the freeze bomb in my hand. It was the only chance I had of keeping Daddy J alive for now. Lukess wrapped his arms around my waist, as I dropped the bomb on Daddy J's body, and I froze him.