batman started to follow the trail of alcohol, it leads him to the secure transit room where he saw an officer who was trying to get the elevator working, the officer hears footsteps behind him and turns to batman before asking, " " how did joker get free?" batman just held out his hand telling the guard to be quiet, " what's going on?" the guard continued as batman looked up to see the trail went up to the top floor. but then Harley Quinn jumps down and lands on the top of the lift before sitting down, dangling her legs over the edge as she said, " uh, uh, uh, uh b-man! Mr. j doesn't want you following us just yet" she then pulls out a detinater and clicks it making the elevator above them drop as harley Quinn went up letting out an evil laugh, " get down!" batman yelled out as he grabs the guard and pushed him away from the lift as it crashes in front of him as he jumps out of the way. batman gets up as the dust clears before he hears Harley's voice from above, " how did ya like that, b-man? no way you're following us now. you're trapped down there till me and Mr. j are ready for you. ha, ha, ha! " she said. but batman smiled as he takes out his grappling hook and started to climb up to the top floor. as he was halfway up he hears joker's voice on the speakers, " hey, bats. I know you can hear me. I've got a little something for you to listen to. Harley and frank are nearly out of the building with the lid man. how are they going to get past all those guards? let's have a listen, shall we?" joker said. then boles' voice was heard talking to some guards, " hey! frank. where you been?" a guard asks as boles walk towards them, " joker's got more men on the way. they're coming around the front of the asylum. gotta stop them from getting in! quickly get over there. dammit! cover the main entrance!" boles said as the guards stood in front of the entrance, " how many are their boles, wait, hang on how do you know what-" but before the guard could finish his sentence batman could hear gunfire. " boles! frank, what are you doing? no! put it down!" a guard yells out before more gunfire was heard, " frank! what the hell?" another asked before more gunfire went off, then there was silence.
" Quinn, it's clear, get your ass in here" bole called out, "you're some piece of work, Frankie, a girl could fall for someone like you," Harley said before letting out a lovestruck sigh, " stop flirting with the hired help, Harley" joker said, " don't worrie, sweetie. you know I only have eyes for you" Harley replied, " did you hear that bats? sounds like Frankie is working out just fine! another valuable employee for the organization". joker said as batman made it to the top floor but saw some of the jokers' thugs talking to each other, "these guards didn't put up much of a fight" a thug said making the others laugh, " joker was right! this is easy" the other said before batman leaped out of his hiding place and took them out. then his ear-peace started beeping, he clicks it and (Y/N) voice could be heard " dad. how's it going? any sigh of barbara's dad?" she asks, " not yet, but I'm getting close. Harley Quinn tried to slow me down. dropped an elevator on me" batman replied, " did it work?" (Y/N) asks making batman laugh a little, " of course not. I'll get back to you when I reach the end of the trail." he said before continuing to follow the trail, he finds a vent and started to crawl through it, but when h came to the end of the vent and saw two guards getting shot, " please, I've got a kid! you don't have to-" the guards said before he was shot as the thug laughs, 2 " you're right. I don't have to. I just want to! ok, boss says no one gets past. anything moves, shoot it" the thug said as batman opens the vent gate before looking around the cornnor to see three thugs armed with guns.
" (Y/N), joker's men have taken control of the cell block transfer corridor," he said in his ear-peace. " that's not good. I patched into a guard radio, it sounds like joker's crew have got their hands on weapons" (Y/N) said as she gave barbara a worried look before looking back at the screen, " I know. I'll calibrate the cowl's vision mode to isolate armed henchmen," batman said before activating his detective mode, he saw the three armed thugs through a wall, they flashed red making batman know that they were armed. " the direct approach is suicide. I need to be smart, find a different way past them." he said to himself before he looked up and saw a gargoyle above him, he takes out his grappling hook and grappled up to it before sneaking above the thugs, he jumped down behind them and silently takes them out one by one, after he takes out the last thug he hears someone talking to the joker, " no problem, boss. the boys are just finishing off. the Arkham chumps never stood a chance" the thug said to joker who was on a screen in front of him, " good. our friendly neighborhood rodent is on his way. you need to set a trap. he must not leave this building. do you understand me?" the joker said, " yes, boss. the bat as good as dead!" the thug replied, batman, sneaks towards the control room where he saw the thug and kept listening, "I hope you keep ypur promises, boy. I'd hate to have to go and punish your family just to teach you a lesson. I can tell you they won't be laughing, hehe-hehe" joker said as he giggled, " but joker-" the thug started but joker cuts him off, " just do it and have fu. i know i will" joker finished as he lets out a sinister laugh before batman takes out the thug, " oh, look who it is! are your pointy ears burning? I suppose i'd better warn my boys you're on the way... hey, maybe I won't.... it'll be a nice surprise" joker said again letting out a sinister laugh before the screen went black.
batman saw a vent that leads to the intensive treatment room, as he was crawling through the vent he hears joker's voice again on the speakers, " ding ding ding dong. Arkham Asylum is now under new management. here's a quick update on what's going on. attention. we have an escaped patient. dresses like a bat. what an idiot! should be considered costumed and dangerous. personally, I think the best solution is to put him out of his misery. it's the only reliable cure" batman opens the vent gate and crawls out before looking around to see three armed thugs looking around the room, he silently takes them out before joker's voice was heard on the speakers again," did you really think it was going to be that easy, bats. I've sent a few more of my boys your way. let's see how you deal with these odds". then four of joker's thugs walked in, " joker wants him found! spread out!" the thug said as they split up to find batman.
batman smiled knowing that this was going to be easy and takes them out one by one. once they were dealt with, batman came to the main entrance and saw three dead guards and dead boles on the same table that joker was strapped to, " joker must have figured out how I was tracking Gordon, officer boles trail stops here." batman looks around for any clue of were Gordon could have been taken, but then he hears some interference in his earpiece, " can you hear me, batman? I know you can." a voice said, (Y/N) hears this and started to try and trace the broadcast location is as the voice said, " yes, it is I, Edward Nigma, the riddle and more importantly your intellectual superior." then (Y/N) after see finds the broadcast location she smiles as the computer shows her...
tracing broadcast location
signal encrypted with 512-bit cipher
she leans back in her chair as she and her dad kept listening to the riddler " my genius has allowed me to easily hack into your primitive communications. my goal is simple. you complete a series of amusingly taxing challenges and, well, you'll see." the riddles voice disappears as batman hear a door open and looks to his right, " batman over here!" a guard called out as batman runs into the small control room as the guard closes the door before batman turns tot he guard, "your safe, can you tell me what happened?" he asked the man. the guard sighs as he turns to batman " it was a massacre, boles came walking in, telling everyone to cover the front entrance. said something about joker's army moved to the exit, and frank shot'em dead. they never stood a chance" the guard said in sadness as what he witnessed, " was boles alone?" batman asks him snapping the guard out of his trance, " 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, locked the door. I could see it on the security feed. they had someone with them, it looked like the commissioner." batman nodded his head, " boles is dead, they carried on without him, must have outlived his usefulness." batman said making the guard smile, " good. he was scum" the guard replied as batman looked at the security camera to see the main door closed, " is there a way through the main entrance??" he asked the guard. " yeah, through that door," the guard said pointing to the door across the room the leads out of this room, batman nodded his head before he began to walk to the door but was stopped by the guard who said, " oh, and if you find joker, punch him in the face for me." batman nodded his head before walking through the door and making his way out of the building and making his way to the east wing of Arkham.
meanwhile back in the Batcave, (Y/N) was working on the bat computer as barbara was reading a magazine and was asking questions to (Y/N), " okay, here's a good one. if you had to pick one thing you like about a man, would it be his. A. smarts B. strength or C. his kindness?" she said. (Y/N) thinks for a moment before saying " can't I have all of them?" barbara smiles, " well you can, but what if you had to pick one, what would it be?" she said. " kindness" (Y/N) replied as she kept typing on the computer. " why?" barbara asks, (Y/N) looks at the neckless around her neck, it was the letter J.T with a red feather hanging next to it. it was from Jason when he was alive, he got it for her 17th birthday before he was killed before she could say anything to her friend the radio goes off and the news came on, " we apologize for this interruption to our regular broadcast. jack Ryder is live from the Gotham bay area with some breaking news" the news reporter said, this caught catlins attention as she walks in, she turns up the volume on the radio, " this is jack Ryder with breaking news in the Gotham bay. we're getting reports of an armed siege on Arkham island. two minutes ago, joker broadcast to all news channels this chilling message" jack Ryder said before they played the message joker broadcasted.
" greetings Gotham. this is the voice of your new master... oh hang on... I've skipped a bit. joker here! I'm in control of Arkham island and you call all consider it out of bounds. if I see any lawman, vigilantes, or do-gooders in tights coming this way, I'll start detonating random bombs around the city. what'll it be? a kindergarten? a hospital? a billionaire's mansion? choices, choices, choices"
once the joker's message finished playing, catlin looks at her nightingale outfit and sighs knowing that she can't help for now. " all access to the island had been restricted airspace is closed off and early reports suggest that batman himself is trapped on the island. we'll be right here, reporting live on any developments back to the studio" jack said before the news reporter came back on," thanks, jack. more as it happens" the new reporter said before the radio music came back on. Catlin turns to her daughter who had a worried look on her face, she saw the fear in her eyes. catlin then walks up and hugs her knowing that (Y/N) was scared that her father might die in the same place that her boyfriend died too. " don't worry honey. he will be okay, I promise" she said as (Y/N) nodded her head, " I know"