The next day the rogues where in the rec room, the Joker had just joined them earlier in the morning after the bat family spoiled his fun at the mayor's house. Harley was still loose so Nigma knew they would all be free shortly, after all Harley couldn't survive long without seeing her 'puddin'. Now here he was sitting watch Crane reading in the corner, Tetch talking to Joker about his new 'Alice', Two-face flipping his coin, and then there was S.D. as they called her now sitting in a corner in her straightjacket.

She had attacked the guards who tried to take it off, so Sharp ordered her to be in it at all times. He was bored, he had read all the books in the room a dozen times, the news was playing clips from Joker's escapades last night, and Crane wasn't talking to him so they couldn't play chess. None of the other rouges could match his wit for chess except Crane, but he was still pissed from the incident at breakfast. If Harley didn't break them out soon he would go insane. Laughing at his little joke, he looked over to Crane who he now notices was looking up over his book at S.D. He let a small smile slip over his lips, this could be fun. Walking over to Crane, he sat down in the chair next to him.

"You think Harley will be here soon," Nigma said, as Crane snapped his book shut and moved to stand up. "Now, now Jonathan what happened at breakfast was not my fault."

"No but you didn't have to encourage HIM," Crane replied, glaring at Joker who was laughing at some joke he made. "I was picking out oatmeal out of my hair all morning."

"I did not know where his farm joke was going," he replied, as Joker went to steal Two-face's coin which caused a fight and they were both sedated and dragged back to their cells. "He is unpredictable."

"Well next time don't respond," Crane said as he watches Tetch aimlessly wander around the room. "Since we are speaking shall we play?"

They broke out the rarely used chess board. Fifteen minutes later Enigma was looking for his next move when he saw Crane's eyes move quickly to glance at S.D.

"New play thing?" Nigma asked as his white knight took out Crane's black rook. "Check."

"How can I play with something that doesn't do anything?" he replied as his bishop took out Nigma's knight.

"You make it do something," he said as he stared at the board. "Life is a chess game you just need to find the right move."

"I think she's sleeping," he noted as Nigma moved his queen.

"Check," Nigma said as he looked over to her. She was staring over the top of her mask they put back on her after she tried to bite a guard, her strawberry blond hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Her eyes were staring out unblinking, as he watched her chest rise and fall at a rhymed pace of someone who was sleeping. "Can't be healthy for her eyes to sleep with them open like that."

"You left your king open," Crane noted as he moved his knight to take out Nigma's king. "Maybe you should have focused more on the game then her."

"I was distracted by you, who kept staring at her," he growled as he knocked the board and pieces on the floor. "We need to get out of here, I have things to do, places to rob, riddles to leave, a bat to stump."

"Calm down before the guards sedate you they have been syringe happy lately," Crane informed him as he noticed the guards' attention on them. "They will probably knock me out just for sitting next to you while you are agitated."

"I'm not agitated," he huffed, crossing his arms over his chest. "I'm bored."

"Then go pick a fight with Jarvis," Crane said as the guards came in to take them back to their cells.

Nigma watched as a guard approached S.D. and she blinked once before she stood to be lead out with the rest of them. Following behind them, Nigma felt her staring at the back of his neck. He would be glad when Harley finally busts them out of here.

Crane woke up at 3 am hearing scratching noises. Sitting up he looked across the cell from his. The straightjacket S.D. was wearing earlier was lying on the floor, and he could see her shadow moving behind the thin curtain that they all had in their cells for privacy. She was crouched down the scratching noise coming from her cell, he was curious to know what she was doing. Suddenly she stood straight up, dumped something in her hand into the toilet and flushed it. Walking from behind the screen she pressed her index finger against her lips signaling him to be quiet. Winking at him, she picked up her jacket and went to put it back on.

Shaking his head at her antics, he heard something else, a ticking. He then noticed Joker was awake, standing and smiling at his cell door. Realizing Harley must be on her way, he reached for the concealed guard baton he had stolen earlier in the week and hid in his mattress. He was ready to get the hell out of Arkham for a while, hopefully that bat wouldn't find him right away. She was staring at him again; her jacket was hanging loose on her shoulders almost like she knew what was about to happen.

Then ticking stopped, and then there was a pop followed by a loud blast in the hallway outside their ward. Suddenly the wall in the empty cell at the end of the hall crumbled.

"Hi PUDDIN'!" Harley screamed as she entered the cell.

"Harley you idiot you are locked in a cell!" Joker roared as he

"Oh," Harley replied, then she smiled wickedly as she pulled out a big mallet and pressed a button that opened the head of the mallet and a boxing glove burst out slammed against the bullet proof glass of the cell door then ricochet off and smacked her in the face knocking her out.

"Buffoon," Riddler sighed, as his hopes of escape lied unconscious on the floor.

Five of Joker's henchmen chose that moment to break through the wall at the end of the hall. They used a device to unlock the Joker and Harley's cells then his own. After he was free he snatched the device from the henchmen's hands and unlocked Nigma, Dent, and Tetch's cell. He saw S.D. standing at her cell's door, waiting for him to unlock it; he almost just dropped the device and let her stay. The guards where clearing out the debris to enter there ward, he only had moments left when Nigma yanked the device out of his hands and opened her cell door.

"At least someone knows how to be a gentleman," she stated before she ran out of the ward behind Joker's crew.

"You were taking too long," Riddler informed him before they ran out.

He saw there had been multiple explosions throughout the island and most of the inmates of Arkham where running wild. They Rogues of Gotham ran to the run down docks at the back of the island knowing boats waited for them. Knowing their chances of escape from the bat increased if they were all free, they knew to split up once they hit Gotham's shores. Noticing S.D. wasn't on any of the boats, he saw a figure swimming away from then. Foolish girl, he thought but then focused on the city coming closer to him. Seeing the lights of Gotham tinkling off the water, Crane began to think of his next plan to take over Gotham and show them what real fear was.