Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Batman: Arkham games, except for this idea of story. I also do not own Scarecrow's quote about welcoming Joker to his world, it is from Freddy vs Jason, said by Robert England in the role of Freddy Krueger. And I thought it would be a good idea to mention Freddy as Crane's idol, since they have much in common.
Author's notes: Sorry for the delay, but I get lots of exams at school these days. I will be free to write after next week I think. Keep up the habit of reading, and please review if you have the time. I'd like to know your thougths about my work as an author. Also, if there's some of you, who didn't know it: Scarface can't spell the letter B, because it's to hard for the Ventriloquist to pronounce, so he uses G instead. He often calls Batman, Gatman. Just to make sure, you don't take the puppet's speeches as if they're filled with mistakes. BUT ON WITH THE STORY.
Joker fell to his knees, screaming as the toxin started to affect his mind, Crane walked slowly over to him, grabbed the back of his head, looked him deep in the eyes, and quietly told him.
„Well, as my idol said once: „Welcome to my world BITCH!" – He left the screaming clown to face his worst fears and quickly called Jervis through the handmade radio Riddler gave him. – „Jervis!" – On the other end, there was a 'thump' as Jervis fell from his chair, probably scared to death. – „ Wha-. What?!"
„Get your ass out of your cell. We're starting this thing now." – Crane told him as he walked out of his cell, scythe in hand, pistol strapped to his belt, pitchfork on his back and his gauntlet on his right hand, loaded with fear toxin . He paid no attention to Joker, or Harley. He got fed up with the place, and decided to leave, no matter how.
„ But. But…" – Jervis stammered. – „ We planned it on Saturday, I have a tea party going on right now."
„ Look, Joker broke out of his cell, killed a guard and came to my cell to kill me. If we do not escape now, they'll search my cell, find the weapons and put me to solitary confinement. We do this now, or never!" – on the other end of the line, there was a sound of bricks being removed and some objects put into place as Mad Hatter readied himself – „ You open the cells on your level. That means you free Harvey, Floyd, Scarface and Black Mask. I'll do Freeze, Nygma, Zsasz, Penguin and Hush. The others will get fee when Nygma gets to the control room and hacks into the security lock system. Understand?"
„Y-Yes, of course." – came the nervous answer from Tetch. – „I'll just go and do my part then."
As Crane walked through the cell block, his eyes searched for the name tags on the doors. He found Riddler quickly, opened the cell door and quickly briefed him on the situation, while Nygma gathered his green suit, cane, and glasses . Edward started in the direction of the control room and Crane began his search for the cells of the other maniacs on his „escape team" list.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the asylum, Mad Hatter had just let Black Mask out of his cell and gave him some guns, when two guards appeared at the end of the corridor and aimed their guns on Jervis and Sionis.
„Freeze motherfuckers!" – one of them yelled. – „You ain't going anywhere." Hatter was about to raise his hands into the air, when Black Mask came up with an other plan. He quickly pushed Jervis into the cell, and hid behind the doorframe for cover, all the while shooting at the guards. He managed to hit one of them in the shoulder, and the other in the leg. The two guards collapsed to the floor and Sionis, using this opportunity to finish the fight, emerged quickly from behind the door and shot both guards in the head.
Tetch slowly crept out from the cell and immediately reminded himself not to anger Roman Sionis. Black Mask was kneeling next to the guards. He had already taken their pistols, and was currently searching their corpses for ammunition. When Jervis approached him from behind, he looked at the little man in the enormous hat, quickly smiled under his skull mask, and asked. - „So? What's the plan?"
Jervis looked around, at the name tags on the doors nearby and when he saw none of the ones he was looking for, he turned to Sionis and said. – „We're escaping, but we need some people in order to success. Just take these keys and release as many goons as possible." – he handed Black Mask one of the master key's copies he made. – „Just remember to be ready for teatime." – With that, he turned on his heels, and began strolling through the long corridor, in search of Two-Face, Deadshot and The Ventriloquist.
In the cell of Scarecrow, lay two people. Joker, finally stopped screaming, and was just lying on the floor and whimpering about Scarecrow and his worst fear. The other one was the slim body of Harley Quinn. She had been lying there since Joker dropped her from his grip. When she fell to the floor, she hit her head and had fallen unconcious. But now, she was waking up. She blinked a few times as the World came back into view. She sat up and nearly fell back again, when she saw Joker. She stared at him for a few seconds in confusion, until she remembered what happened before she passed out.
She quickly stood up and moved away from her 'puddin'. The thought of her calling him that made her angry. He used her only as a goon of his, but she loved him too much to realise it. He used her for his insane plans and hurt her every single time he could. She dreamed of him finally proposing to marry her, but now, she cursed herself for even thinking about that.
'Jonathan was right' she thought. 'But I was to stupid to realise it' she kept thinking as she left the room, slowly. 'Wait. Jonathan, I have to find Jonathan.' the name popped into her mind and she knew what she had to do. She peeked out to the corridor and after seeing no guards, she walked out and started thinking about which direction could have Crane gone. 'Hmm. He told me, he was going to free Eddie, Ozzie, Tommy, Vic F. and Vic Z.' she thought, then started running in the direction of Riddler's cell.
It was quiet in the Ventriloquist's cell, although the inmate himself would argue, since he still heard the voice of Scarface in his head. – „Don't just sit here you idiot! We need to get out of here, fast!" – the puppet yelled, with only one minor difference: There was no puppet, only the body of the Ventriloquist and inside his body, the souls of Arnold Wesker and Scarface, the puppet. Arguing, or rather Arnold sitting in place, while his 'boss' kept yelling at him. – „Get on your feet goy! We need to get out of this glasted cell and glow the whole town up!" – even though he didn't have the puppet, he still heard its voice. It's loud, yelling voice as it swore at him from the inside. He tried to make it shut up for a few times, but it just didn't. – „Yes Mr. Scarface. I'm on it." – he said in his own voice, cold and calm as always. – „I just have some slight problems: I don't have anything to pick the lock with, I can't bypass the security system and I don't have any firearms to protect myself." –As if on cue, the cell door swung open and they saw Mad Hatter, standing in the doorway, grinning.
„Well, look what I found! The dummy and his dummy." –he said – „Come on. We're getting out of this place." – he dropped a handgun on the bed for Wesker and quickly ran out to search for others on his list.
„Well, thanks for the he- HEY! WHO DO YOU CALL A DUMMY?!" – Scarface's voice shouted from Wesker's mouth. – „He probably didn't mean to offend you with that boss." – Wesker's calm voice stated as he picked up the pistol, and checked the ammo. – „I don' care if he meant or not. Let's find some dumgasses and shoot them to cheer me up!" – The puppet's voice said again as the Ventriloquist stepped out of his cell and began his search for people to shoot in order to cheer Scarface up.
Meanwhile, at the GCPD headquarters, Comissioner James Gordon sat in front of his desk, looking at the reports of police officers. He started whistling some old songs he knew, to make time pass faster. He hated paperwork, but it had to be done eventually, why not do it sooner.
Suddenly, the phone in his office rang. He picked it up and quickly adressed himself. – „ Gotham city police, Comissioner Gordon, who is this?" – on the other end, he heard screams of agony, shrieks of death from both men and women. Suddenly a young female voice yelled. – „Help! This is security guard Dana Richards from Arkham Island, several inmates broke out of their cells and released the others! It's a major situation out here Comissioner, requesting assistance immediately."
Gordon held the phone away from his ear as loud gunshots could be heard from the other side. – „Richards! Can you hear me? Who is the one leading the breakout?! Joker?! Two-Face?! Can you hear me dammit?!" – He yelled.
At last, a raspy voice spoke on the other side. – „The person you're currently trying to reach is dead at the moment. Please try again later." – Gordon recognised the voice of Jonathan Crane. – „What do you want Crane?" – he asked. – „You know Comissioner." – chuckled Scarecrow. – „ A little bit of madness to be spread over the innocent and unsuspecting city of Gotham." – Gordon listened to the chuckling maniac as he continued to talk. – „I have power, blah, blah, blah, noone can stop me, yadda, yadda, yadda, why don't you drag your ass here and find out yourself." – with that, the phone went silent.
Gordon sucked in a deep breath, and quickly alerted the whole station of the situation. After that, he ran up to the top of the building and quickly turned on the Bat-Signal. – „Just hope you're not on holiday right now." – he muttered to himself as he waited for the dark knight to arrive.