The Ex

4. The Joker

"Why would Talia break the Joker out of prison?" Dick asked.

"There's many reasons. The question is, which one matches Talia?" Tim answered his question with another question. "She's trying to get to Batman to get Damian, the Joker loves Batman. Our worries just grew though."

"Why did our worries grow?" Damian asked as he came back down to the batcave.

"Your mother just broke the Joker out of jail." Tim was far to happy to explain. "All for you."

"Shut up, Drake!" Damian yelled.

"Damian! Tim!" Bruce exclaimed. "We need to figure out what is going on, so stop yelling at each other and grow up!'

"Ooo, someone made daddybats angry." Dick snickered to himself.

"Where's Jason?" Bruce continued.

"Searching this city for a fricken churro." Jason stated as he entered the cave. "What'd I miss?"

"Talia broke the Joker out of prison." Tim explained.

"Did she now? That makes things personal." Jason said as he loaded one of his guns. "Thanks for the little family reunion, I'm going to go kill someone. Buh-bye." Jason walked towards the door but Bruce stopped him.

"I know you still have a grudge against the Joker, but we still don't know what they are planning. And once we find out where they are, we need to go in together." Bruce said.

"Fine." Jason caved. He removed the bullets from his gun and put them back in his pocket.

"Bruce!" Tim yelled. The batcomputer started blinking brightly and an alert popped onto the screen. "The Joker is robbing Gotham bank."

"Any sign of Talia?" Bruce asked.

"She's not on the scene, but the Joker might be able to tell us where she is." Tim continued.

"Alright. Let's go." Bruce ordered.

The four heros and Jason went straight to Gotham bank to find the Joker. When they got there, they found exactly what they suspected. A crazy psychopath in a hostage negotiation with the police.

"Batman!" Commissioner Gordon yelled. "It's the Joker. He's got seven hostages and a boat load of money in there."

"Understood Commissioner." Batman nodded. "Nightwing, Robin. Secure the hostages and get them out of here. Red Hood, Red Robin. Take out the henchmen. I'll take care of the Joker."

The vigilantes split up and started doing what they do best. Stopping the bad guys and saving the day. All was going well, until Nightwing and Robin got inside the bank. They rescued all the hostages and managed to sneak them put of the bank and to the police while Batman, Red Robin, and Red Hood distracted everyone else. But Robin insisted on double checking if they got everyone.

"I'm going back in. If there's any other hostages still inside, I'll bring them out." Robin stated.

"Alright, be quick." Nightwing replied.

Robin went back inside the building to see if anyone was still there. Luckily, no one was. But unluckily, it was a trap. As soon as Robin entered the vault, the league of assassins attacked him. Robin started fighting as hard as he could, but he was once more far outnumbered.
Just as the league was about to subdue him, Nightwing showed up to help.

"I left you alone for five minutes and this happens." Nightwing joked.

"Now is not the time Nightwing!" Robin yelled.

They both continued to fight until every last assassin had been taken down. When they were finished, they went out to report to Batman and to see if Talia was sending anyone else.

"Batman! It was a setup." Robin exclaimed.

"Talia and the Joker must've set this whole thing up to catch Robin." Nightwing continued. He was a little uneasy when he saw that Batman was alone. "Where is the Joker?"

"He got away. Red Robin and Red Hood managed to stop most of his henchmen, but none of them know anything." Batman sighed.

"We stopped all the assassins. They're in the bank vault." Robin explained.

All three of them went to the vault, but when they arrived, every single assasisin was gone. Not even one remained.

"What? But they were out cold." Robin gasped.

"They must've been faking. Wanting us to believe they were knocked out so they could retreat as soon as we left?" Nightwing wondered.

"Or maybe Talia is switching up the game." Batman stated. "She's working with the Joker now. This is either part of a bigger plan in which the Joker gets something in return, or she's changed her mind completely."

"What do we do now?" Robin asked.

Batman looked down at the boy. "We, do nothing."