Bruce Wayne sat in the bat cave looking at the evidence you've gathered, show all the abduction sites he's investigated, there were some similarities between all the abductions, one such being no sight of a struggle almost like the people who were kidnapped went willingly with their abductor, another link between the objections is it all abducted were children, more specifically children from abusive households.
His playback of what his body cam got was interrupted by the batwave, he cooks a button and on the back computer is shown a news report," breaking news, Infamous Criminals The Riddler and the Joker have disappeared", Bruce's eyes widened as he turned up the volume," you heard that right folks, according to testimony from guards at Arkham, the two super criminals we're not in their cells when the guards came to give them dinner, The Joker cell was like it was when he was there, but on the other hand the Riddler's had a pile of Crow feathers next to a window", Batman flicked off the TV before the news reporter could continue got up from his chair and strutted to the Batmobile
on his way to Arkham Asylum, Batman calls and asks if they still have the feathers from the Riddler's cell, they say they do and when he pulls up to Arkham he's a shield Inside by two guards I'm taking directly to where they have the feathers
back at the Batcave Bruce's analyzing the feathers, and it's as he suspects, Bistro there's a phone some of the penguins birds
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The Iceberg Lounge is silent but Bruce can see a light in all his words office, Silently climbs up the wall, what's up the window to see if anyone is there, he sees Harley Quinn and Oswald sitting on the couch both drinking, talking about something, " oh ozy I'm just so worried about J, he was supposed to break out to have lunch with me and ivy for me and hers Friendship anniversary, but then I saw the news, and I had to come here to see if you were okay", Harley said before taking a Swig of the wine. " we could only help they're okay, you know today has been the weirdest week, first some of my crows disappear, and now this" Oswald said for taking a swig of the wine himself," hey, you think your disappearances are connected to the disappearances of all those abused kids, I heard somewhere that bird feathers were also found at some of the kids rooms", Oswald says as he pours Harley and him under the glass," who knows, this is Gotham anything can happen here" holy pause to rub her hands together breathing into them before continuing " it's kind of cold in here I think you left a window open you mind if I close it" as well just waved his hand as Harley gets up and goes to the window, but Bruce is already back in the Batmobile and driving off
after hours of pacing Bruce eventually decides to call the night and goes up to his room, but sleep does not come easy, and he dreams of something quite peculiar. He dreams of Selena in her Catwoman outfit caressing and kissing him, but as the two make Love Selena begins to change, when the transformation is done the woman that lays beneath him has pillowy breasts, the middle is soft and made to be squeezed, her hair is red as blood, and when she opens her lips to get out of my phone the voice that comes out is English ,and the teeth that are revealed by the gasping are sharp and pointed at the canines, and before he knows it the teeth of synced into his neck and he wakes up screaming
as he looks around he sees a shadow at his window, it comes into the light revealing the woman from his dreams, but before he can say anything she begins to speak " my new pet clown seems lonely, I heard he likes your company, now be a deer
And come to me
Bruce's mind begins to frog, but he sinks quickly and pulls a crucifix from beneath his pillow pointing it at the figure, the woman flinches back hissing before grabbing the scared of her dress and twirling around, transmogrifying in to mist and flying out the window, Bruce just sacked in bed people quickly getting up I'm going down to the Batcave, when he was at the bat computer he called up Arkham to ask some questions
"hello, can you connect me to the warden" he said when the receptionist picked up, when he was connected he continued" hello Warden I like some information about the missing patience, did either of them say anything about weird dreams before they disappeared", describe the warden to give a hum before answering " oh yes they did". " did either of these dreams involve beautiful redhead", this elicited another hum for the warden answered again " only the Joker Saw a redhead but it wasn't a girl, mr. Nigma dram of a tall brunette man who he said was wearing a black cape and had the eyes of a bird of prey, he said he knew this man's name instinctually", Bruce pulled up a search engine before replying " what was the name
" Jonathan crane"
A cloud of mist coalesces into a room filled with sleeping children, it takes the shape of a beautiful redhead who walks between the rows of beds containing her sleeping children, as she walks the Halls of her and her husband mansion she thinks fondly of snatching the children's from unworthy parents and bring them to nest in a more loving environment. She stops at a door labeled the Clown Room, she peeks in to see her porcelain faced pets sleeping in their beds, her newest pet clown lift his head up to look upon his mistress, he scratches at his caller causing the J TAG on it to Jingle slightly, he gives a yawn before putting his head back down and falling asleep again, the woman closes the door before continuing down the hall and as she walks for form begins to change, it is that of a man
when he gets to his husbands bed Chambers, he lightly opens the door to see his husband drinking from one of the newest servants, one hand pulling the man's dark hair to the side, and his Husband notices him she pulls back from a man's neck and whisper something into his ear, the servant gets up from the bed shuffles out of the room as Jarvis walks over to the bed and slips in to snuggle next to his husband
" oh darling, moving to Gotham was the best idea, so many wonderful children for us to raise, and so many cute new pets and playthings", he said dreamily as he thought of that obese man they had in their torture basement, and how beautifully he screame. " unfortunately I couldn't get my new pet the play thing he wanted, seems he's more strong-willed than I supposed" he said as he gave a sigh, he smiled a little as his husband wrapped an arm around his middle and started speaking " do not worry my love, no one can resist us for long, you have yourself a pet bat soon enough, now we sleep but love it we've much to do in the morning" his husband said has he put a hand in his hair, Jarvis gave up exhausted sigh, before closing his eyes and drifting to sleep
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Harleen quinzel lies in bed, having less than peaceful sleep, her mind is dreaming up any number of horrible scenario The Joker could be going through, the Montage of Macabre is interrupted by a sound waking her from sleep
Her eyes adjust to the darkness and in the shadows she sees the silhouette of the bat, before her hand can slip under her pillow to reach for her gun the bat raises his hands in a placating manner before beginning to speak
" no need for violence Miss quinzel, i'm not here to bring you back to Arkham, i'm here because I need your help", this elicits a confused hum from Harley which quickly turns to annoyance
" and why should I help you?"
" because I know where the Joker is, and I know who stole them"
The warehouse the back brings her and Oswald to is cold, which isn't made any better seeing as he didn't even let them change out of their pajamas
" so why exactly did you need to bring us here" oswald begins annoyance very evident in his tone
" because Mr cobblepot I needed a blank wall to show you my findings" the Batman replies before pressing a button on the very high tech looking he's standing next to
In a flash of light the wall the projector was facing is imprinted with an image of a man with long brown hair and a face that looks about and it's 30s, but eyes that look much much older
This is Jonathan crane... He's a vampire" this is elicits a gas from Harley and a shocked oh God not again from Oswald
" for my research I found it but he was turned and wild west times and I speculate he's the guy who stole the Riddler, but he didn't take the Joker" the back continues before clicking a button Shifting the photo to the next slide
The next photo is of a red-headed who has a very soft face and similarly soft eyes and smile
" that honor goes to them, this is Jarvis tetch, as you can guess they're also a vampire,and if my findings are accurate they're Jonathan's partner, they visited me in a dream in" he pauses clicking to change the photo again
The new photo is that of a woman in a blood red dress, her hair is similar bloody red, her eyes and face all the same type of soft as the other photos were,"this form, in my research I found that he has a pension for stealing clowns and telling them into his petshe Intended to give me to the Joker as a reminder of his old life to keep him company and his new one, luckily i've dealt with vampires before and I had a cross stored in my bedroom just in case"
" but what does this have to do with all those stolen kids?" inquires the penguin, his question is answered when the bat changes the photo again
The photo is now a collage of missing posters of many children, some are dated recently and show some of the children that were stolen from Gotham, others are dated father back in the years and photos of stolen children from other parts of the states
" my snooping across the internet has given me the information but these two have been snatching children from unworthy parents for a long time now" the bat says as he flicks off the projector and turns to face the two people in the chairs
" any questions"
" yeah, so what exactly is the plan here?, I mean we don't even know where they are" harleen questions
" well I do, they set up base in the abandoned orphanage, just a couple miles away from here, and as for the plan" the Batman answers, he then pulls out a steak from his utility belt," I think you can guess
The orphanage dance silent as oswald tentatively comes to its entrance, he grips tightly onto the cross and one of his hands and sheepishly knocks on the door, he's about to knock again when it creaks open
There in front of him stands Edward his eyes glassy, when those classy eyes meet his some recognition shines but only for a second, "this better work" oswald mumbles as you host the steak and pulls out a cross necklace, slipping it on to Edward's neck his eyes gained life again and he blinks confusedly
" what- where am I" he looks down to see oswald in front of him," ozzy, what are you doing here
Before the other man can answer a mist steams into the room behind eddie, it forms into a man, the same man from the slideshow
Jonathan crane
Edward turns around at the look of Horror oswald shoots behind his back, when he sees Jonathan he murders a " wait. you're the guy" but he is interrupted by Jonathan letting out a beast like hiss when his eyes fall upon the cross on his neck
Edward can only get out a confused noise, before Jonathan singing the teleports in front of him rips the cross off of his neck and grabs his face with his other hand
Edward only has a couple seconds of confused Consciousness before his eyes go glassy again and he falls unconscious, jonathan Snaps his gaze to Oswald, the anger of a man who's lived for longer than any man should live is etched evidently on his features
He narrows hes eyes and Oswald can almost feel a presence in his mind searching for answers, soon the presents leaves and Jonathan gets a less angry but still annoyed look on his face
" if you want them back so bad you can have him" he says and he raises his hand to snap his fingers but is interrupted by window a couple meters next to the front door being burst through by harleen who is brandishing across and begins angrily ranting about the Joker and returning him
Oswald attempts to calm down the ranting woman but she continues every sentence of her pissed off tangent ads another layer of anger into Jonathan's face
"Silence!"
And the room snaps into silence, harleen shakes in horror, with some calming breaths jonathan begins to speak
" you mentioned something about a joker, if you want him back you going to need to talk to my partner, if I know them there probably in the Clown Room watching there fools do their tricks, come on follow me"
Jonathan leads them into a very colorful room where sits clapping his hands excitedly as a joker does funny tricks, like juggling or balancing in a ball while reciting hilarious poetry, sitting in chairs play snuggly into each wall of the room all the other clowns, silent and pale as dolls
Jonathan gets their attention by loudly clearing his throat, jarvis turns with a look of annoyance on their face which turns quickly into excitement when there eyes fall upon harleen
" oh Johnny, you got me a new toy, look at her she's beautiful" jervis squeaks in excitement as examines harleen taking it every stitch and sew of her outfit " oh goodness her outfit is just lovely, and look at the stitching on that hood absolute Masterwork"
"oh thanks I did my costume" harleen begins but then realize that she probably shouldn't be taking complements right now," wait a second, i'm not here to be a toy, get my best friend back" she says and points to the Joker
" will you can't have him, he's mine and he's going to stay mine forever,so" but before Jarvis can continue the interrupted by Jonathan growling the name and a warning tone, their eyes dot to the partner in pleading but the partner stays determined and was a sigh the gays drifts back to harleen
" fine I guess you can have him, but I'm keeping the others, anyone that could have missed them is long dead so they're all mine" they say in a huff before dragging The Glass Eye Joker to harleen, who with a snap of Jarvis's fingers Falls unconscious
Back outside of the orphanage Batman waits for the signal to coming for any backup they may need, his eyes not through the front door when it opens and out strolls Oswald, harleen and the two kidnap super villains looking no worse for wear, though The Joker Is unconscious and being carried by harleen
" so are The Vamps dead?" the Batman questions
" nope, they handed over please two overs with no complaints" harleen begins but before the bat can say anything else she continues" well there was some complaining from the redhead, but other than that he didn't put up much fuss in handing the Joker over
"Well... That's good.. I guess" the Batman finally responds after some awkward silence
Later that night in the orphanage, jarvis sits and pouts, still grumpy at having to give away his newest and at that point favoritest pet clown
His head turns when he hears a creaking from his bedroom door and his grumpy pout just gets deep but when he sees Johnny, he turns away was a huff and grumbles a get out
" pumpkin pie, I know your disappointed but I got you something to cheer you up" jervis turns his head see Jonathan standing next to a rotund black haired man who drove his recognizes as a man who tormented both his favorite pet clown and the X newest servant, and he knows right away he's going to do something more fun than watching fools do tricks
He's going to get to use all of his torture devices that he got all shiny and clean, and he smiles cuz he knows it's going to be oh so fun