After avoiding the impact of the crash, the elevator was destroyed. Spider-Man and Batman both got up to witness how the elevator was destroyed already. Unfortunately, there was no way to repair this quickly. Then suddenly a voice was already heard from the intercom.
"How did ya like that? No way you're following us now. You're trapped down there 'till me and Mr. J are ready for ya," said Harley Quinn and she added a laugh to mock them. Batman checks to see if the guard is okay. Then went to check if Spider-Man was okay. "You okay?" When Spider-Man heard him, he groaned and nodded at him. "Yeah I am...Sucks that we can't get up here. Unless...I can crawl up the wall to get up." He had suggested the idea to maybe crawl up the wall to get up. But how would that help Batman? This makes Batman interested. "You can crawl up the wall?" Spider-Man nodded at the dark knight. "Yeah. One of my powers I was granted with." The dark knight took note of this and he had an idea. "Gordon was taken up to the surface in the elevator. If we want to follow them, we need to do this the old fashioned way." Spider-Man nodded at Batman after hearing his idea. While Batman used his grappling hook to get up, Spider-Man starts crawling up the wall. Joker's voice was spoken on the intercom.
"Hey Bats! I know you can hear me. I've got a little something for you to listen. 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?"
The two started to hear voices on the intercom. A guard spoke, "Hey Frank. Where you been?" Frank Boles answered the question with, "Joker's got more men on the way. They're coming around the front of the asylum. Gotta stop them getting in! Quick! Get over there!" Spider-Man was surprised to hear them on the intercom and continued listening with Batman. Frank continued, "Dammit! C'mon. Everyone! Cover the main entrance!" But just then they heard more in the intercom. "How many are there Boles? Wait, hang on, how the hell do you know what-" asked the guard but was cut off when he was shot by Boles. Another guard was shocked to see this. He spoke, "Boles! Frank what are you doing?! No! Put it down!" Then he was also shot by Frank and another was also shot.
Then he yelled, "Quinn! It's clear! Get your ass in here!" Harley replied to him, "You're some piece of work Frankie. A girl could fall for someone like you." "Stop flirting with the hired help Harley," exclaimed Joker. Harley replied, "Don't worry sweetie. I only have eyes for you" "Did you hear that Bats? How about you bug boy? Sounds like Frankie is working out just fine! Another valuable employee for the organization," said Joker as he cut off the intercom. Spider-Man chuckles while saying, "Sound's like someone's jealous." Batman replied, "The Joker only cares about himself. He's just wanting her to focus." The web crawling hero thought, 'Jeez. Ever heard of a joke?'
They got up and sees some inmates in the way. Batman asked Spider-Man, "You think you're up for this?" Spider-Man nodded as he quickly web-zipped to one of the inmates to attack him. Batman rushed towards another and fight him off. The other inmates try attack Batman, but he countered him and attacked very fast. Spider-Man quickly kicked an inmate at a wall and shoots his webs to make him get stuck. Then Spider-Man quickly launch an enemy up and shoots his webs to yank him down. Then he shoots webs at another thug and yank him towards Batman. Batman quickly sees this and threw the inmate down to knock him out. Then grab the last inmate and bring him down to break his arm.
"You seem to be handling yourself well for someone at 16," said Batman. Spider-Man took this and nodded . He smiled under his mask. "I have to ask, Why did you save that criminal back where we cleared that room of Joker gas," asked Batman. This made Spider-Man's eye lenses widened. Then they returned to normal. "It's because I made a promise to someone close to me." After saying this, Batman nodded at him. Peter sees this and wonders if he knew what he is talking about or at least know how he felt. Batman then opened up a vent and they both went inside to head to another room. When they reached, they hear gunshots. When they look they saw a couple of guards get shot. One of them spoke, "Please! I've got a kid! You don't have to-" He was cut off by getting shot by one of the Joker goons. "You're right. I don't have to. I just want to." He started laughing then.
This made Peter very upset and angry. When they went out of the vent. Peter was about to get in there to stop them, but Batman grabbed his arm before he went out there. Then Batman starts to call Oracle with his earpiece. "Oracle, Joker's men have taken control of the Cell Block Transfer corridor," said Batman. Peter then hears Oracle again with his earpiece. The woman spoke, "That's not good. I patched into a guard radio. It sounds like Joker's crew have got their hands on weapons." "I know. I'll calibrate the cowl's vision to isolate armed henchman." Though Oracle asks, "What about the kid? Doesn't he need this as well?" Batman looks at Spider-Man and starts to think to himself. Maybe he can be trusted. He then pulled out a strange device and bring it right up Peter's face. It helped scanned his eye lenses and he was confused. He asked, "What are you-?" He was cut off and Batman said, "This can be able to help you tell whether someone is armed or not. And it can help you scan anything with it." Peter was confused until he mess with his earpiece and saw that the room looked weird and that he saw through the walls that there are enemies in red. Which means that they are armed. There were 4 of them. Three of them guarding the area. The other is in a control room.
"Woah... this is cool," said the teenager as he then sees the enemies in red. Then Batman explains, "I am trusting you to handle these three to yourself. Can I trust you?" With this Peter nods and goes to crawl up the wall. He crawled up to the ceiling and heads off to get behind them without being seen. Then he dropped down behind them silently. He tapped the guy's shoulder and he turned, but Peter quickly knocked him out quietly. He went to the next guard, web pulled him down, and shoot webs at him to make sure he is staying on the ground. Then he web zipped to the third guy and knocked him out while saying, "Sleep it off..." Batman walks to him and says, "Impressive." Peter nods as they quietly heads to the other guy quietly. When they are close, the thug was talking to Joker on the screen. Batman silently knock him down and Joker sees the two. He said, "Oh look who it is! Are your pointy ears burning? Well I suppose I'd better warn my boys you're on your way... Hey maybe I won't... It'll be a nice surprise!" He starts laughing before the screen went off.
They then opened a vent and headed through it. They headed in the next room and saw a couple of armed guards there. Once they got out, Batman quickly went to one of the guards that is alone and grabbed him to do a silent takedown. Spider-Man quickly web zipped to another and knock him down. "Night night," said the teenager quietly. Batman threw a batarang at the last guard before knocking him out. Though it seems Joker decided to make this more interesting. "Did you really think it was gonna be THAT easy Bats? I've sent a few more of my boys down there to handle you and bug boy. Let's see how you deal with these odds," said Joker. The webbed warrior's eyes lens widened from what he and Batman heard. He said, "That can't be good."
Before they could spot them, Batman quickly grappled to a gargoyle and Spider-Man web zipped to the ceiling. Spider-Man hanged on to a web upside down while slowly pulling himself down. When he gets close to a guard, he tapped his shoulder. When the thug did, he shoot webs at his face and bring him to the ceiling to be stuck to there. Batman waited for a guard to walk under a gargoyle. When he did, he quickly get down and grabbed the thug. "What are you doing," exclaimed the guard before Batman let him go to be hanging from there. When the last thug hears and looks at the gargoyle where Batman was, he was gone. Now the thug was terrified. Batman then spoke to Spider-Man on his communicator, "On my signal." Spider-Man was confused by what he meant by that until he finally gets what he meant. Batman glide towards the last guard and gave him a kick. When the thug flew, Spider-Man quickly swinged to him. he shoot his webs and pulled him to the ground, before Batman knocks him down.
"Impressive work, "said the caped crusader. Spider-Man nods at him before they both headed head towards the main they got there, they walk forward and saw that Office Boles was dead. A green smile was painted over his face. Peter was shocked to see this. Batman starts to explain, "Joker must have figured out how we were tracking Gordon. Officer Boles' trail stops here." Peter figured that Batman was right about this. Boles did betray Arkham, but that doesn't mean he deserved to end up like this. Before Spider-Man starts to speak, static was heard from their communicators.
"Can you hear me Batman? I know you can. Yes it is I, Edward Nigma, The Riddler! And more importantly... your intellectual superior," said the voice on the communicators. Spider-Man was confused and looks at Batman. He asked, "Friend of yours?" Batman look back and answers, "His name is Edward Nigma. Known as the Riddler. He's a very dangerous egotistical criminal that uses his intelligence as a way of hurting others and getting what he wants." Spider-Man hears this as it made his eye lenses widened in surprise. "Seems like he is a nutcase," said the teen superhero.
Riddler hears this and got said amusingly, "Ah! A nutcase? Such an idiotic and childish insult. Too bad this wouldn't mean nothing to me. Though maybe you can entertain me by solving one of my riddles." Peter groans as he had no time for this. Considering that he still needs to help stop the Joker. Might as well play along to his little "game." So he says, "Fine Riddler. I'll play your game," said Spider-Man. Riddler smirks before saying, "Alright. Let's see if you can be able to solve this one without your little bat friend helping you. Now... be careful. Don't CUT yourself on this SHARPLY observed portrait."
Peter thinks about this as he looks around the area he is in. Batman watched as the teenager was trying to solve this for himself. Peter than notice the picture frame of Quincy Sharp as it could be the right answer. "Is it... the portrait of Quincy Sharp," asked the web-swinging hero. Riddler replied, "Finally you did it. I would've expected Batman to be able to solve it quicker then you, but a mere teenager like yourself managed just fine. How about we make this fun... Try to solve all of my riddles and collect all of my trophies around the island while you're dealing with such unimportant distractions. Though I even hardly believe a child like you could help out."
As soon as Riddler cut off communications, Spider-Man looks at Batman. He asked, "Was he always this annoying?" Batman answers calmly, "You get used to it." Then behind them, a door opens and out came William North. He exclaimed, "Batman! Over here! I saw you and the kid cleared the room." They walked over to him to talk to him. Officer North starts explaining, "It was a massacre. Boles came walking in telling everyone to cover the front entrance. Said something about Joker's army coming through the main gate. Two of my guys moved to the exit and Frank shot 'em dead. They never stood a chance." Batman asked him, "Was Boles alone?" The officer continued, "Thought he was. Then I saw Harley Quinn. She was surrounded by Blackgate prisoners. They were just killing everyone in the room! I had no choice. I got in here and locked the door. I could see it on the security feed. They had someone with them, looked like the Commissioner."
Batman tells him, "Boles is dead. They carried on without him. Must have outlived his usefulness." Then Officer North replied, "Good. He was scum." As he went to check on a dead arkham guard, Batman and Spider-Man went on walked through more of the building as they notice a building. They went through it and was in a cave. Then they walk through the cave until they were now outside onto Arkham Island seeing it close to them. From the Botanical Gardens... to the mansion.
