Chapter 12: Revelations

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Shadow was currently sitting on the ground waiting for the antidote to take and affect. He looked over at Sarina who was looking at him out of curiosity. Shadow raised an eyebrow as she continued to examine him.

"What?" Shadow asked.

"Nothing, I was just curious," She said. "They said you looked like Batman but you dress nothing like him."

"I'm nothing like Batman."Shadow growled as Sarina backed away slowly.

"Okay…" She said cautiously. "Um…What are you doing here?"

Shadow shot a glare at her as she jumped a little bit. Shadow got up and walked towards her.

"What am I doing here?" He mocked. "What the hell are you doing here? You could have gotten yourself killed I mean going after the Joker, you are crazier than he is!"

"I know but he told me that if he caught wind of anyone that wasn't me he'd hurt my mom!" She shrieked as Shadow let out a growl.

"Of course Batman would come," He sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "He's the Batman he would always find the Joker no matter what."

"I know that's why I left that flash drive at my house." She said. "When I was brought into the police station Harley slipped a note in my hands. It was a locker and its combination that was in the police station. When I found it I opened it and inside was the file. I went home and poured everything out, but all that was in there were the flash drive and this weird gun." She said as she pulled out the derringer.

Shadow took the derringer away and pocketed it as Sarina let out a huff.

"Anyways, when he told me to come here I figured B-Man would come looking for me so I left the flash drive at my house." She said. "Where is he anyways?"

"He's all tied up." Shadow said.

"What did you do?" Sarina asked in a dark voice.

"Batman tried to stop me from helping you so he could be the hero and make me look bad." Shadow lied. "So I had my friend use his cable to tie him up."

"Why would Batman care if you were a hero or not he works with Robin and Nightwing doesn't he, he also works with the Justice League as well." Sarina said.

"Oh yeah I forgot you're a Batman fan." Shadow sighed. "Look we can either stand here arguing or we can go find your mother, what's it gonna be?" He asked, Sarina said nothing and Shadow took that as a cue that she was on board. "Now, where are we exactly?"

"Below the amusement park," Sarina said as she pulled out a small card. "Along with the gun and the drive I was given this key card as well. It went to an elevator that led me down here. I was about to move forward when you started glowing red and shooting electrify. You fell on the ground and were unconscious for a few minutes before coming too."

"Crane used his poison to corrupt my mind. C'mon lets go." Shadow said as the two moved forward.

As they moved forward Shadow's earpiece started going off. He let out a grunt of annoyance as he clicked his earpiece on.

"Shadow here." Shadow said.

"Jesus, we thought you were dead," Gauntlet said. "What happened to you did you overcome Crane's poison?"

"Yeah, I also gave myself the antidote for good measure," He reassured. "What about everyone else, are they alright?"

"Yeah, Thanatos gave them the antidote, also Reaper found Crane and beat him within an inch of his life. On him he got a card off him that led us to an underground lair." Gauntlet said.

"Yeah, I blundered down here when I went through Cranes poison, I found Sarina as well she had the same card that led down here." Shadow said.

"You found Sarina, thank God." Gauntlet said breathing a sigh of relief. "We also ran into a few thugs along the way and get this. They have the same weapons Two-Face's men had when he stopped him a few months ago."

"The military ones," Shadow asked. 'Was there a connection?' Shadow shook the thought from his head as he responded to Gauntlet. "Listen, Sarina said that Joker had that envelope in a locker at the police station also I find it funny how even though she was a supposed witness not one cop stopped her or reported her missing."

"What are you saying?" Gauntlet asked.

"That the cops probably gave Joker those guns from evidence. When we're done here we gotta find those crooked bastards and knock their heads in." Shadow grinned as he imagined Gauntlet did the same.

"That sounds like fun, but what if Joker didn't steal these guns?" Gauntlet asked as Shadow heard a hint of concern in his voice.

"Then we find the bastard who manipulated Dent and is now using Joker." Shadow said in a determined voice.

"Okay, we'll meet up soon." Gauntlet said.

"You got it, and watch your back." Shadow warned as he and Sarina continued moving forward.

"So…what was that about manipulating Two-Face?" Sarina asked.

"Nothing, personal business I'll be dealing with when I'm done here." Shadow said in a monotone voice.

"So who ya gonna beat up after Joker?" Sarina asked.

"None of your fucking business." Shadow snapped.

Sarina let out a huff as she started walking ahead of Shadow. Shadow let out a sigh of annoyance as he tried to catch up to her before she got herself killed.

Just then clown thugs jumped down from the darkness above armed with pipes and knives surrounded the two. They started attacking the two as they sprang into action. Sarina dodged a thug's pipe as she rose up and landed an uppercut with her foot into his face. He fell back as she landed a punch to another guy's throat, he let out a gag and Sarina landed a punch to the center of his face breaking his nose. She started getting an adrenaline high as she started chuckling lightly when another thug snuck up behind her and wrapped his arms around her and hoisted her up. She struggled to break free but failed as his strength was greater than hers. She kicked her feet around wildly when her foot landed in his groin. He let out a groan as she broke free from his grip and moved around his back. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and placed pressure on his throat. The guy thrashed around with her on his back before letting out a grumble and slumping down on the ground unconscious.

When she got up she saw that Shadow had already beaten down the rest of the thugs and was currently cracking his knuckles. She looked at him and gave him a glare as he turned and continued walking down the dark corridor.

"Hey, what the hell?" She yelled. "I almost get killed and you don't do anything to help me?"

"I knew you were a black belt in karate and Joker had said that you had taken down a few thugs." Shadow said in a calm voice. "I had complete faith in your abilities."

"Oh…well at least lend a hand next time?" She said sheepishly.

"Don't worry I would never had let you suffer any real damage." Shadow reassured.

Sarina started following him again as she walked over the broken bodies. She noticed that the floor was covered in blood as she saw a cut across one guy's throat. Her throat went dry and her breathing stopped as she walked up to Shadow.

"Um…Hey just one quick question. Have you ever killed anyone?" She asked timidly.

"Yes." Shadow said with no hesitation.

"Oh…do you ever you know…feel anything?"

Just then he pulled out his magnum and fired six shots straight ahead into the darkness. Sarina massaged her ear's to suppress the pain as she looked ahead to see six thugs with assault rifles.

"No." Shadow said as he flipped out the barrel and exited the empty shells over the lifeless bodies.

"Oh…okay." Sarina said in a weak voice.

Joker and his team were currently moving equipment around the secret underground lair as Joker was currently walking with someone. He wore a black metal plated suit and mask that was orange on the left side and black on the right side.

"So that's the deal," The man said. "We give you the equipment to take down Batman and the Shadow Warriors and you can have Gotham and the girl."

"Hmm, that easy huh?" Joker asked in his cocky tone. "You just give me all this secret Government equipment not to mention those robot suits and all you ask is for me to kill a bunch of pesky kids and the Bat?" The Joker asked in a mischievous tone as he leaned in closer. "What's the catch?"

"The catch is for Batman and The Shadow Warriors to be gone." The man responded in a monotone voice. "What happens to you is of little concern."

"Oh, so I'm bait, how clever." Joker giggled.

The man remained silent as Joker leaned in closer to him.

"Helloooo?" Joker said in a sing song voice as he tapped his metal helmet.

Just then the man pulled out a P99 and aimed it backwards and fired a single round. Everyone looked at the man and looked to where he was pointing. Up on a catwalk someone fell to the ground revealing it to be Hitgirl. Reaper appeared out of a large doorway and pulled her to safety as Joker's thugs started firing.

The rest of the Shadow Warriors remained behind cover as the man and the Joker started walking away.

"It seems your position is compromised." The man said as he handed Joker a syringe. "If you really want to beat Batman then this will help you."

Joker looked down at the syringe and back at the man and grinned.

"Well Deathstroke I guess you'll be leaving now?" Joker asked rhetorically.

"Yes, I am not ready for them yet." Deathstroke said as he continued walking away.

"Mr. Jay," Harley squealed. "The kid and that Shadow guy are heading trough the arena."

Joker looked over at the doorway where the Warriors were and grinned as he knew how to keep them busy.

"Giggles, Pouty," Joker yelled as two of the bionic suits slowly walked out.

They were jet black, armor plated suits just slightly underclass compared to Thanatos. They wielded mini guns with ammo packs on their backs. Their helmets were painted with yellow as Giggles had a smiley face and Pouty had a frowny face. Psychotic laughter came from Giggles as weeping came from Pouty as eerie carnival music played from their suits.

"I'm glad you two like your new toys now how about killing those pesky kids with them." He said. The two responded by revving their guns and pointing them down the hall and firing multiple rounds at the warriors.

Bullets whipped past them as they hid behind the walls.

"Well, anyone have any ideas?" Phoenix asked.

"Thanatos, do you think you can withstand those rounds?" Reaper asked as he held his scythe gun.

"No, those suits are mark four heavy duty suits," Thanatos explained. "Those guns are loaded with sabre rounds and two of those guns with tear through my armor like tissue paper."

"Dammit, Gauntlet can use fry them." Reaper turned to Gauntlet who nodded.

He pulled out his personal magnum and charged his power through it and fired a round at Giggles. The impact knocked him back but all it did was make him laugh louder and continue firing. The rest of the thugs pulled out high powered shotguns and assault rifles and opened fired at them.

"Dammit, what the hell are we gonna do?" Breeze yelled.

Just then a blue and red batarang flew out of nowhere and exploded when they hit the two. The warriors looked behind them to see Nightwing and Robin dash pass them and start attacking the thugs. Red, Phoenix, Ronin, Dusk and Reaper jumped out and started attacking the thugs while Breeze, Thanatos and Gauntlet looked after Hitgirl.

They had taken down every last one of them before Giggles and Pouty started shooting again.

"Well back to square one again." Ronin said.

"I can't believe you guys didn't prepare for this." Nightwing grunted.

"Oh and what about you bird boy, you got a robot killing mechanism in that belt of your?" Ronin asked rhetorically.

Nightwing grunted as Robin moved over to Reaper.

"Hey, where's Sarina?" Robin asked.

"She's safe, Shadow is with her." Reaper said as he fired a few rounds at the two mechs.

Robin let out a grunt. Of all the people she had to be with Shadow, now he had to tell Batman and things were sure to get ugly. Robing contacted Batman and told him what he knew as he could only imagine what would happen when the two met. Hell every time Shadow and Batman met it was always ended with one of them injured.

Robin wanted to go help Sarina but was pinned down by Jokers men. Back with Breeze and Gauntlet Hitgirl had just pulled the bullet from her vest. He rubbed the inside of her vest to soothe the ache from the gunshot as Gauntlet came up with an idea.

"Thanatos, did you and Reaper ever install that energy shield you were working on?" Gauntlet asked.

"Yes, but it hasn't been fully tested. If I take too much damage from those guns I'll only be able to buy us three minutes." Thanatos explained as Gauntlet radioed Reaper.

"Reaper how much damage can that gun thing do?" He asked.

"I hit them a few times they looked like they hurt." Reaper said.

"Okay, tell Phoenix to create a firewall between us and those two freaks." Gauntlet explained. "And when I give the word come up behind Thanatos and when we get close enough we'll blast the crap out of them."

"Got it." Reaper said as he told Phoenix the plan.

Phoenix nodded and placed his hands on the ground. In a few minutes the ground between the two gunners and the warriors turned orange before a burst of fire rose between them.

"Now!" Gauntlet roared.

Just then a blue shield wrapped coted Thanatos's armor and as he pulled out his shield. He went out first as a few rounds from the gunners started bouncing off him. Blind by the fire the gunners fired wildly almost hitting Reaper as he ran over to Thanatos. Reaper, Gauntlet and Hitgirl followed behind Thanatos shielding them from the blind fire. When they were close enough Gauntlet ordered Phoenix to put the wall down.

The second it went down the gunners started firing at Thanatos. His shields were rapidly draining as Gauntlet pulled out his magnum, Reaper readied his scythe gun and Hitgirl took Thanatos's energy rifle.

The three moved out from behind him and opened fired upon the two. Rounds and burst of fire hit the two and tore them to shreds. They stopped firing to see that the two were broken out of their armor revealing them to be young women. They were still alive but barely breathing as Breeze rushed over to them.

"They need a doctor immediately they need medical attention." Breeze said.

"Hey those two are the girls who were abducted from Arkham." Ronin said. "They were former experiments from what I heard."

"Yes, as you can see they used those suits with ease." Thanatos said. "Sometime these experiments take their toll on their victims."

"Who would continue these experiments?" Reaper asked.

"Slade." Nightwing said.

"Yes, I know who he is," Red Crosshairs said. "He worked with the Kremlin's down in Russia. There's also a rumor that he has a young woman with a deadly power working for him. She's the reason I came here looking for him."

"Well, what are we doing standing around," Ronin said. "Let's go after him."

"Okay, Breeze you and Hitgirl stay here with the girls. Everyone else lets go after Slade." Reaper said as everyone moved out.

(Meanwhile)

Shadow and Sarina ran down the hallway as they finally stumbled into the middle of an open area. The entire room was black as they slowly walked into the middle.

"Who makes these stupid rooms seriously?" Sarina asked.

Shadow recognized the layout of the place and looked around cautiously.

"This isn't an ordinary room, it's an arena." Shadow stated.

Just then lights started to come one as they soon realized that they had stumbled into a steel caged arena surrounded by thirty of Joker's thugs. Some were armed with knives, bats and pipes while the rest used their bare hands.

"Welcome to both of you." Joker's voice said up on a balcony. "Sarina I must say you've really impressed me. You came here all alone, you beat up most of my thugs, and left evidence so Bat's would find you and you've formed an alliance with Shadow a known killer. You really are smarter than you look."

"W-Where's my mom?" Sarina asked as brave as she could. Even with Shadow at her side she was still horrified of Joker. "What the hell do we have to do with this anyways?"

"Your mom is his therapist," Shadow said. "He's doing this to torment you by using your mom until you snap and drives you to kill him. That's why he gave you the gun."

"Oh close but wrong," Joker said in a dark voice. "You see while I do enjoy seeing poor little Sarina struggle to find mommy dearest I have a different plan for her."

"What the hell do you want from me!?" Sarina yelled.

"If you survive this I'll tell you. Get them boys." Joker ordered.

The thugs started to close in on them as an explosion erupted from the roof above. Just then a dark figure fell down and stood between Shadow and Sarina.

"What took you so long?" Shadow said casually as Batman drop the cable that restrained him. The ends were scorched as smoke emitted from the ends.

"This cable was harder to scorch through than the chains I'm usually tied in." Batman gloated as he raised his fist. "Sarina, I've seen you fight but try and stay back and let us take care of them."

"I can handle myself just fine." Sarina grunted.

"I know but here." He said handing her some batarangs. She took them as her face lit up as she held them up. "They'll give you an edge."

"Thanks." She said as they started fighting.

Batman rushed over and decked a thug in his face and then did the same to another. He then pulled out three batarangs and threw them at three thugs and knocked them down on the ground. Shadow swiped his sword across one thug's stomach and across another thug's leg. He blocked an oncoming pipe and cut it in half along with the man's arm. Shadow the activated his power using his ice power this time and placing his hand on the ground. The ground froze causing them all to slip and fall as Shadow used his super speed to finish them off.

Sarina ducked under a thug's pipe and landed an uppercut to his face. She breathed a sigh of relief but didn't relax long when another thug started to attack her with two switch blades. She pulled out some of the batarangs Batman gave her and started to block the attacks. She deflected a few times when the blade got to close and cut her finger. She let out a gasp as she dropped the batarang and was sent to the ground after he had kicked her. He stood over her and held the blade with a sick pleasure as he slowly walked towards her. She looked down at the batarang in her other hand and acted on instinct. She held up her batarang and threw it as hard as she could at him. It smacked him across his face and knocked him out cold.

Batman held a hand out towards her and helped her up. She nodded at him as the three started hearing slow clapping. They looked up to see Joker back at the balcony as they stared daggers at him.

"Well done well done." He congratulated. "Now, your reward."

He then pulled out a detonator causing Batman's eyes to widen. He rushed over to Sarina and wrapped his arms around her hiding her behind his cape. An explosion went off as the floor below them collapsed beneath them. The three fell to the unknown darkness followed by Joker's laugh.

Sarina awoke to see rubble and fire around her. She let out a heavy groan as she slowly stood up and limped over to see Shadow lying on his back unconscious. She saw his gun in his left hand and his sword in his right. Not really wanting to go find her mother with nothing but aches and bruises she decided to take his weapons and continue on.

She walked out of the doorway not seeing Batman anywhere. She assumed he was alright and left the two there to go find Joker. She had to move on though she had to find her mother. As she moved on she saw green arrows along the hall and continued to follow them. She finally found what the arrows were pointing at a small metal suitcase on a mantle. Sarina was cautious to open it as she knew that Joker probably rigged it to blow or spay laughing gas or some other sick crap.

Surprised the only thing in it was a file and a tape recorder.

She didn't really feel like reading what was in the files so she played the recorder first.

"Dr. Gibson's interview tape 16." It was her mother. She listened intently. "I have with me Harleen Quinzel."

"Call me Harley." She replied.

"Harley, you can't hide it from him forever." My mother said.

"I'm not going to! I can't wait to tell him! Tonight's the night!" Harley squealed.

"How far along are you?" Dr. Gibson asked. It was at that moment she knew what her mother was talking about. Harley was pregnant. But wait why Joker letting Harley fight, did he not care about his child, was he really that crazy?

"A month!" Harley shouted. She was so excited.

"Have you thought of any names?" Dr. Gibson asked.

"Joker junior." She giggled.

"Poor kid." Sarina muttered as the tape skipped.

"Dr. Gibson interview tape 20." She said. "I'm here with Joker."

"The one and only." He said. Sarina could just picture him grinning with those ugly yellow teeth on his pale white face. It was enough to make her tremble.

"So I suppose Harley told you the news." Dr. Gibson said.

"Yes she did." Joker replied.

"How does that make you feel?" Gibson questioned.

"Curious. I wonder if it'll be stupid like its mother or smart like me." The Joker explained.

"You aren't excited?" Gibson asked.

"You and I both know I won't even both know I'm not even going to see the kid. It'll be shipped out of here the second it's born." Joker said. "Harley's naïve. She thinks we can raise it in an asylum and be one big happy family."

"Are you going to tell her?" She asked.

"Nah, it'll be funny to see her face when they rip the baby right out of her hands." The tape ended with Joker laughing his signature laugh.

Sarina grunted at Joker's disgusting behavior. He was going to be a father and all he thought of was laughing when Harley is trying to hold onto her baby for dear life. Sarina then saw a piece of paper that said 'Change tape' She looked in the case and saw another tape and noticed a date on it. September 10th, 1996. That's when she realized she was using a tape when she remembered her mother buying a small silver tape recorder. The tape started up again as Sarina what had happened to the baby did she get an abortion, miscarriage what happened and what did it have to do with her?

"So, it's a girl." Gibson said as the tape started up.

"So it is." Joker replied sarcastically.

"I hear the baby is going to the orphanage soon." Gibson said in a sad tone.

"She doesn't have to." Joker said with a hint of amusement in his voice.

"What do you mean?" Gibson asked.

"Face it Doc. You're not getting any younger. Clocks a ticking." Joker said. "Anyways, I got no use for her why don't you take the baby and raise her as your own."

"What?" Gibson exclaimed.

"Think about it. The baby goes to a good home and you get to be a mother. What you've always wanted to be." Joker said. Sarina's heart had stopped a few minutes ago when Joker suggested she'd take the baby. "What do you say?" The room went silent and her breathing slowed.

"What should I name her?" Gibson asked.

"Sarina." The Joker said. Sarina nearly had a heart attack and fell to the floor. She felt dizzy as the tape continued. "It's Hebrew for one who laughs." The tape ended.

"No, no, no, no…" She muttered over and over again. "It's a lie he's lying. It's a joker a sick joke!" She screamed as she fell to her knees and started pounding the ground. "It can't be…he's not my…my…"

Tears were streaming down her face as the tape started up again.

"Shh…there there, hush little baby, don't say a word momma's gonna kill for you the whole damn world…" Harley sang on the tape.

Sarina knew this song she remembers it from a faraway dream. She continued crying as the song continued she pulled out the file from the case and threw it on the ground. She couldn't hold it steady with her with her shaky hands as she looked it over. It was a birth certificate and it was all there, blood work, birthday all of it.

It was all true.

If Jayden wasn't there he wouldn't have believed it. He stood at the doorway after coming too and walked in when Sarina had played the second tape. All the pieces of the puzzle were coming together. The kidnappings the tormenting Sarina fighting her way here that was it this case was solved. Joker wasn't tormenting Sarina because she was the daughter of his doctor. It was because he was training her, slowly breaking her until she loses her nerve and kills everyone around her. Shadow was broken from his thoughts as he heard Sarina sob louder. She had every right to, he couldn't imagine a greater shame.

Sarina Gibson was the daughter of The Joker.