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Batman and Anti-Venom walked towards a door with it's electric field activated, a guard was just waking up from being passed out and deactivated the electric field for them, Batman walked towards the guard as he spoke.
"They came out of nowhere, I dragged Jerry in here, powered up the gate, must have passed out." He said.
"Joker went through that door, what's on the other side?" Batman asked the guard.
"We call it Extreme Isolation, only way in is via the transport system." The guard told him.
"Open it!" Batman said.
"Not a problem, I'll just need to call another cell." The guard said, going to the security system, "Okay, Something's wrong here, all the security loop is locked." The guard told him.
Just then the monitor in the room came on, reavelling Joker, "Having a little trouble up there?" Joker asked.
"Joker." Batman said.
"You were expecting maybe Two-face? Joker asked.
"There's no escape, Joker." Batman told him.
"Silly bat, I don't want to escape, I'm having way too much fun, I even have you and the kid here to keep a smile on my face." Joker said.
"Not for long." Batman said.
"Really, we'll see, ta ta." Joker said. Oh, I forgot to say, just in case you get any idea about following me, I've arranged a little insurance." Joker turned the camera toward a monitor in the room he was in, revealing Commissioner Gordon being knocked out by officer Frank Boles.
"Gordon's on his way to Harley as we speak," Joker said.
"Officer Boles." Batman said, recognizing the officer from before.
"Hahahahahaha, if I see you trying to follow me, He dies, Harley is looking forward to it, maybe I'll film it and post it on the Internet, hehehehe," Joker laughed as the screen went black.
"The transport system is down, best I can do is open the door you two came in, sorry." The guard said.
Batman walked back towards Anti-Venom, "I heard everything." Anti-Venom said, "That backstabbing bastard Boles is going to pay for this."
"We should head back to the holding cells, Boles wasn't too smart, he'll have left a trail." Batman said.
"Let's go." Anti-Venom said.
"Batman, Anti-Venom, what's happening" Oracle asked them.
"Joker's escaped, he's sealed himself off, he's got your father." Batman informed her.
"Dad." Barbara said, worried for her father.
"Don't worry, we're getting him back," Batman said.
"Ok, I know, but she tried to say but was cut off by Vincent, the Symbiote having unabsorbed his head so he could talk in his normal voice.
"It's OK, beautiful, we're getting him back, Clown face won't win, I'll make sure of that." Vincent said, trying to reassure her that they would get her father back. "We're starting from where he was taken, a guard named Frank Boles attacked him, if we find Boles, we find your father."
"Vincent, please hurry." Barbara said. Cutting off communication with them, the Symbiote then reabsorbed Vincent's head.
They started making their way back to the holding cells, when they heard Joker's voice, "I bet you're both wondering how I did it, was it a clue the great detective missed, hehehehehahahahaha, oh, me and Frankie go way back, I got him out of a spot of bother years ago, so when I need security codes or an old man to be clubbed to the ground, I know just who to ask." Joker said.
When they got to the door that lead to the holding cells, they saw two thugs standing in front of the door.
"I'll handle this." Batman said, sneaking up behind them, he tripped the one on the left and elbowed him in the face, kicking him out, the thug on the right tried to attack but Batman was too quick and punched him in the chest stunning him long enough to punch him in the face, kicking him out as well.
"Not bad, Batnut, not bad." Anti-Venom complemented Batman's stealth skills as they entered the door to the holding cells.
"Oracle we're at the holding cells, I'm setting up a crime scene." Batman said, entering Detective mode.
"So what's the plan, isolate something in that in that room unique to Boles?" Oracle asked.
"Exactly." Batman answered, setting up a crime scene in the room that was unique to Boles.
"Boles dropped his flask, sloppy, let's see what the forensic scanner picks up." Batman said, using the forensic scanner to analyze the flask's contents.
When the scan was completed it showed traces of alcohol, "We can follow the traces of alcohol from Frank's bourbon in the atmosphere," Batman said.
"Oracle, we've got a trail," Batman informed her.
"That's great, you two follow it, I'm grabbing every reference to Arkham I can find, might be useful later," She told them. Cutting off communication with them.
As they were following the trail of bourbon in the atmosphere, they heard the computerized voice again.
"Transport to upper floors is now permitted to staff with correct security clearance only."
They followed the trail until they entered the secure transit area, "stupid, unreliable, how did Joker get free?" the guard in the room asked.
"Be quiet." Batman told him.
Harley suddenly jumped down and sat on the wall, "Uh, uh, uh B-man, Mr J doesn't want you or your friend following us just yet, she said.
The Symbiote unabsorbed Vincent's head, allowing him to talk to her in his normal voice, "Oh, la la, you look hotter in person my hot princess." Vincent said, causing Harley to blush deeply under her clown make-up.
Harley snapped out of her trace and pulled out a detonator and pushed the button, causing explosives to detonate, she grabbed onto a cable that pulled her up as the elevator come down fast.
Anti-Venom shot webs from both his wrists onto Batman and the guards backs yanking them back just as the elevator came down hard.
"How do you like that, boys?" Harley asked, "no way you two are following us now, you two are trapped down there till Mr J and me are ready for you. Harley told them.
Anti-Venom spoke to Henry Smith as he sat down in the chair that was in the room, "I take it this is Joker's doing?" He asked him.
"Who else?" Anti-Venom answered.
"I told them, he's a monster, they should fry him." Smith said.
Anti-Venom leaned over to him so only he could hear him, Don't worry, he won't be anyone's problem anymore when I get my hands on him, because I'm going to do what Bat for brains never would, kill that murderous bastard, once and for all, that is my vow, Anti-Venom promised.
Smith leaned in closer to Anti-Venom and whispered, "I hope you keep that vow, that monster has had it coming for far too long."
"I intend to." Anti-Venom said, shaking his hand, then walked back to Batman.
"Gordon was taken up to the surface in the elevator, if we want to follow them, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way." Batman told Anti-Venom.
"No problem, Batnut", Anti-Venom said, the Symbiote having reabsorbed his head, Anti-Venom grabbed Batman by the waist and fired a web line to the top of the elevator shaft and jumped up, as they were going up, they heard Joker's voice again.
"Hey, guys, I know you can hear me, I've got a little something for the two of you to listen to, Joker said, "Harley and Frank are nearly out of the building with the old man, how are they going to get past all those guards, let's have a listen, shall we?" Joker asked.
The speakers switched to want Joker wanted them to hear.
"Hey Frank, where you been?" a guard asked, "Joker's got more men on the way, they're coming around the front of the Asylum, gotta stop them from getting in, quick, get over there."
"How many are there, Boles, wait, how do you know what."
"Boles, what are you doing? Put it down." Another guard said.
"Quinn, it's clear, get your ass in here!," Boles said.
"You're some piece of work, Franklin, a girl could fall for someone like you." Harley told Boles.
"Stop flirting with the hired help, Harley." Joker told her.
"Don't worry, sweetie, you know I only have eyes for you." Harley said.
"Did you two hear that, sounds like Frankie is working out just fine, another valuable employee for the organization." Joker said.
As they got to the top, they saw five of thugs standing on the floor, "Let me handle this one, Batnut," Anti-Venom whispered so as not to alert the thugs, he the shot a webline from his free wrist and when it got to the thugs the end of the web then sprang five more hitting the thugs in their chests, Anti-Venom yanked the web back, making the thugs crash into each other, knocking them all out.
"Very impressive, Anti-Venom," Batman said, impressed.
Anti-Venom threw Batman to the floor, then swinged to the floor and landed softly.
"Batman, Anti-Venom, how's it going, any sign of dad?" Oracle asked.
"Not yet but we're getting close, Harley Quinn tried to slow us down, dropped an elevator on us." Anti-Venom told her.
"Did it work?" She asked.
"Of course not, we'll get back to you when we reach the end of the trail." Batman said.
Anti-Venom shot web lines at the door, using all his strength, he yanked the door out of it's place and catched it, throwing it to the side, three thugs had already killed the last guard that was in there with them, he then fired three web lines from his left wrist, yanking the guns the thugs had out of their hands, he then fired three more from his right wrist and they hit the thugs chests, yanking the three of them to the wall, knocking them all out.
"Oracle, Joker men have taken control of the Cell Block Transfer corridor." Batman said.
"That's not good, I patched into a guard radio, it sounds like Joker's men have got their hands on weapons." She warned him.
"I know, I'll calibrate the cowls vision mode to isolate armed henchmen ." He said, calibrating his cowls vision mode to isolate armed henchmen.
While in Detective mode, he spotted one more thing on the second floor, "I'll handle him, you get the other door open." He told Anti-Venom.
"Fine."he said.
Going up the stairs, Batman saw the talking to Joker on a monitor in the room, "No problem boss, the boys are just finishing up, the Arkham chumps never stood a chance." The thug said.
"Good, our friendly neighborhood rodent and his ugly hulking friend are on their way, you need to set a trap, they must not leave this building. Do you understand me?" He said.
"Yes boss, the bat and his friend are as good as dead." The thug said.
"I hope you keep your promises boy." Joker said as the monitor went black.
Batman sneaked up behind him and grabbed him by the throat applying pressure to his windpipe, letting him go as soon as he passed out,he then went back to Anti-Venom, who did the same thing he did with the first door to the second one.
Just then they heard Joker's voice through an intercom, "Joker here, with a quick update on what's new in the Asylum, attention, we have two escaped patients, one is dressed like a bat and the other one is a hulking figure with white skin and a very large spider on his chest, what idiots , should be considered costumed and dangerous, personally, I think the only solution is to put them out of their misery, it's the only reliable cure,"
After taking down all the thugs in the room, a guard named William North came out from behind a door, holding a weapon they approached the guard and talked to him.
"it was a massacre, Boles came in telling everyone to clear the front entrance, said something about Joker's army coming through the main gate." North told them, "two of my guys moved to the exit and Frank shot them dead, they never stood a chance."
"Was Boles alone? Batman asked him.
"Thought he was, then I saw Harley Quinn, she was surrounded by Blackgate prisoners, they were just killing everyone in the room." He answered. "I had no choice, I got in here, locked the door, I could see it on the security feed, they had someone with them, it looked like the Commissioner." He said.
"Boles is dead, they carried on without him, must have outlived his usefulness ." Batman said.
"Good, he was scum." North said.
The door was too small for Anti-Venom to walk through, so the Symbiote unabsorbed his whole body, becoming Vincent Brooks once more, they then walked through the room, going through the door that lead to the Utility Corridor, walking through it until they heard a radio.
"We apologise for this interruption to our regular broadcast, Jack Ryder is live from the Gotham Bay area with breaking news."
"This is Jack Ryder, with breaking news in the Gotham Bay, we're getting reports of an armed siege on Arkham Island, two minutes ago Joker broadcast to all news channels this chilling message," he said.
"Greetings Gotham, this is the voice of your new master, I'm in control of Arkham Island, and you can all consider out of bounds, if I see any lawmen, vigilantes, or do gooders in tights coming this way, I'll start detonating random bombs around the city. Joker's message said.
They continued on and entered a door, once inside they saw a vent which Batman broke off from it's place, crawling through the vent they reached the end and Batman broke off the other door with his left foot, getting out of the vent.
The Symbiote reabsorbed Vincent again, turning him back into Anti-Venom once more, they webbed and grappled up to the next ledge and found themselves on the island surface.
"OK, Batnut, here's my plan, we split up, cover more ground, and meet back up when we can. Anti-Venom said.
"Fine." Batman said.
They then went their own ways, each with a different thought on their minds.
"If Anti-Venom gets to Joker before I do, he'll Kill him, I'll have to find Joker fast before he does." Batman thought, wanting to stop Anti-Venom from becoming like Joker.
"If Bat for brains finds Clown face before I do he'll surely spare that homicidal bastard, just so he can break out and kill more innocent people, I'll find him before he does, and when I do, I'll make sure that his death will be slow and agonizing. Anti-Venom thought, wanting to finally red the city of that murderous clown, once and for all.
Longest chapter I've done so far, don't forget to rate and review, helps me out alot, if anyone has any ideas I'm open to suggestions, see ya next chapter guys.