Broken : The Joker Deaged |Slow Updates|

nine

"Damn it!" Bruce screamed as he smashed yet another glass on the wall.

"Master Wayne, please calm down" Alfred heaved a sigh.

"How do you expect me to, Alfred?! They took him away! All because of those assholes who think they own the world! God knows what they are going to do to him!" Bruce yelled as he held onto the table, shaking with anger.

Alfred didn't know what to do.

He couldn't blame Bruce. He considered the boy as his own child.

"Master Wayne, I suggest you talk it out with the rest of the League members" Alfred opined , only to be ignored by Bruce.

"If they can't do it my way, they will face the consequences" Alfred could only watch as Bruce stomped his way down into the batcave.

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Batman spend twenty minutes in front of the bat computers, trying to find a hint to where they took Jack. But he couldn't find any lead. What confused him was, none of the surveillance cameras in Gotham had the footage from that specific time. It looked like someone had purposefully wiped them away. And they did a great job that not even the world's greatest detective couldn't find a hint.

"Dammit" Batman cursed under his breatge and pulled his cowl down.

He felt someone approaching and in a swift moment, he threw a batarang behind him.

"You really thought this was going to hurt me?" Superman shook his head as he crushed the batarang between his thumb and index.
"It doesn't even have a kryptonite in it"

"Get the heck out before I kill you" Batman grimaced, turning his chair back to the computers.

Superman heaved a sigh, but kept his distance. "Bruce, I came to talk"

Silence.

"See, I get it. You might have grown fond of the boy. But that doesn't change the fact about who he is"

"He is Jack Napier. A nine year old orphan who had nowhere to go. He doesn't have to be anything else. He is pure and innocent. He was a scared little child. And now you took him away from what he was starting to call a home" Batman snapped.

"Bruce-- You of all people should know him. What if this really is a trick. We can't risk anything"

Batman didn't say anything and Superman decided to get closer. He walked over to stand beside Batman by his table. He was shocked to see something similar hurt on that face. "Hey--" Superman reached out to place a hand over his shoulder.

"Atleast tell me where you took him"

Superman swallowed his own throat. He knew he shouldn't say it. But as he looked down at the other man's face, all he could see was a father crying out for his son. He couldn't help it. "Cadmus"

Batman's head jerked up with shock. "What!?"

"Bruce... We had to make sure...." Superman's voice was lowered to a whisper and he could barely look Bruce in the eye. He felt ashamed.

Bruce hurriedly typed away something on his computer and the footages inside the Cadmus lab popped up.

Superman lifted a brow. "You have assess to those in the Cadmus?"

Batman said nothing as he searched for something and Superman realised the answer himself. "Oh right, you're the batman" he mumbled to himself.

Batman clicked on one of the footages and both the men went visibly pale.

Jack was tied to a bed, his face looked so exhausted and his body was injected with a number of medical wires. Some device was attached to his head and the boy looked like he was being treated inside a lunatic centre.

Just when Bruce was about to click back, Jack's lean figure underwent some rapid spasms and someone came over to inject him with something, calming his down.

Batman found himself flaring up with anger.

"What--what have I done…" Superman couldn't help the tight feeling in his chest.

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Uh... Guys????

Okay, I'm not dead.

I know it's been more than a year and I'm really sorry -_-

I hope I can update this more often from now💀