Batman: Arkham Asylum (Pre-Edit)

Chapter 9 - Guns and Roses

The Gardens. Rather nice plants here and there. Little spots of overgrowth. Batman passed through a double-door, and found Joker on the other side of a small man-made pond, with old statues and vines dipping into the water. "You need to stop this now," said Batman. "Before it goes too far."Joker turned around, holding an Arkham guard, with a knife to his neck. "Stop?" laughed Joker. "But everyone's DYING to see what I do next." "Let him go, now!" Batman ordered."Really?" asked Joker. "Okay, if you say so, Bats!" Joker pushed an electrical circuit into the water, electrifying the water. And then he pushed the guard into the water. "See?" said Joker."NO!" yelled Batman. Rage built up inside him like a skyscraper. Joker giggled and walked down yet another corridor. "You really need to speed things up, Bats." Joker pressed a button, and the ceiling of the corridor collapsed, leaving Joker and Batman a fair distance apart. "At this rate, you'll never catch me! Ha ha ha ha!"I need to shut down power to this room.Following wires in the ground with his Detective Vision, it lead him into a Janitor's room, with the Janitor himself being held hostage by goons. Doing them over, Batman freed the Janitor. "Thanks." he said. "Are you okay?""I'm fine. I eat punks like these for breakfast. What were they doing in here?" asked Batman."The ones that weren't hitting me went over there and started doing something to the power controls. I have no idea what they were doing."Batman scanned the modified security console. Looks like Joker has booby-trapped this control box. This is going to be tougher than before, but it's a risk I'll need to take."A timer started, putting Batman under pressure. There were three biometric sequences that needed to be hacked, Batman got through just in time. The power to the Gardens switched off, allowing  Batman to pass. "Well, aren't you the persistent one, Bats? Always one step ahead." said Joker. "It won't be long before I have an army of TITAN monsters at my fingertips! Oooh! Just imagine! Me, being carried through the streets, stepping over the corpses of all those innocent citizens! It's going to be glorious! Oh, I can't wait!"Returning to the same room before, Batman opened a vent, and climbed through. He entered a ruined tunnel, with bricks all over the place, and cobwebs hanging in ceiling corners. He blasted a wall up, and proceeded into an abandoned chamber. Wood was rotting and rock crumbing, metal rusting and vines browning. Joker's voice echoed in the background. "A drop of that... A little red... A little green." Finishing his stroll through the chamber, whilst listening to eerie singing from Joker, he left the chamber, and entered the flooded corridor, which made sense, as everything in the room was waterlogged and damp. He climbed through a short vent, and saw two goons leaning over another Janitor. Attacking them, Batman approached the hurt janitor. "Are you OK?" asked Batman."Do I look OK?" said the janitor, rather rudely. "They were gonna kill me. We were in the Aviary, and they came in with Joker, and they were shooting up the place, and loading us into cages.""Are they still in there?""No, man. No one's come out since. You got to help them!""Stay here."Batman continued his journey to find the lab, but Harley's prints only led him into the Aviary. "Help!" yelled a doctor. "Get me out of this thing!" Goons had doctors and orderlies trapped in large bird cages above an abyss. "Listen," said Joker. "The Bat is on the way. If you see him, send the annoying doctors to hell. That's the down one, right?""Yeah," said the Head Henchman. "They're going down.""Good. And remember, if an alarm goes off, Batman's here."Joker's men had a collar around their neck, which activated an alarm if their heartbeat got too low. Batman has to avoid this, or the hostages will die. He has to take out the Head Henchman first, to clear the room. He finds a way past all henchmen, and makes it to the control room. HE snuck up on the Head, and took him down. After everyone else was unconscious, he returned to the control, and let the cages down safely. The doctors stumbled out and collapsed in shock. Regaining the fingerprint trail, it led to a grate in the wall. Batman pulled it off, and it revealed a booby-trapped security console. Hacking it carefully, part of the solid stone wall moved back and upward, revealing a security door. It opened, revealing Joker, only a few feet away. He was accompanied by a few henchmen. They had TITAN containers everywhere. Barrels and gallons of the stuff. "Well!" said Joker. "Look who's discovered our secret lab! Since you've made it this far, allow me to show you what I've cooked up!" The bridge behind Batman retracted, leaving only a bottomless pit. The two henchmen approached Batman, looking confident. Joker got out an unfamiliar gun, painted green. It contained TITAN darts, which contained the chemical itself. Only a small dose could trigger a Bane-like reaction. Aiming it at Batman, he change his aim, and shot it into one of the henchmen's back. The other turned around in fear, and was shot in the gut. Joker laughed as the transformation kicked in. Their muscles began to expand greatly, and green veins flashed across their skin. They growled inhumanely. Their spinal columns exposed themselves, and their eyes flashed green. Bones obtruded from their arms, and skin split, displaying raw muscle.