The Doctor of Heroes (DCAU)

Chapter 6: Aftermath

Gotham City
15:35 PM
Markus POV:

'Okay note to myself: What the hell was I thinking!' I belittle myself at watching the thousandth news report of my act on the city hall.

"A New Hero in Gotham?! Just yesterday, The Joker took The Mayor, Doctor Asklepios, and Gotham High Society as hostages and held them at gunpoint on live television, but before any horrible things could happen, a masked man appeared. He dealt with the criminals and saved all the hostages. We also received information that this masked man also had sent The Joker to Arkham psyvault at the Arkham Aslyum and is on suicide watch. The reporter says before I turn the TV off.

After all the whole ordeal, me and the others had given our statements to the police and had a couple of paramedics take a look at the hostages. Almost everyone was okay; a couple of them had irregular paptations, but it was due to doing some lines of cocaine and getting held at gunpoint. But after a few minutes, and in those who had more severe reactions, the use of healing palms, everyone was safe and sound.

The goons were all arrested, and the goon who I had previously put in my control with Genjustsu started to explain to the police officers in great detail about their past crimes and hideouts, much to his companions rage. Thankfully, he will be sent to a security cell instead of a normal cell. I even put a simple protection spell on him to protect him of any represalia.

Then I saw The Joker oker being hauled into a neraby prison van, but he was completely bailing and screaming anguish screams.

I feel a little guilty that I did that to him, but what is going to come out of that will outweigh any remorse that I may have.

After me and Leslie were liberated by the police and said goodbye to extremely thoughtful Bruce, I drove Leslie home before going back to my apartment.

After taking a bath and relaxing, I sensed my cmasked clone arrived by Kamui.

"What you were thinking?" I turn and ask my clone, who is still wearing the costume but with the plague doctor mask.

He just gave a shrug.

"Sorry boss, but I thought that looking like SCP-049 would be cool and scary at the same time to the goons, and when you said to disguise myself, you were very vague about what to wear, so I wore what I wanted." My clone defends himself.

I just face-palm myself but don't say anything because at the end he is me and it will be stupid to fight with myself.
While I don't want to be involved with tights-wearing heroes, wearing a costume isn't very conducive to what I want.

'But I did look cool on that.' I concede mentally to that.

I dispel my clone and sit myself on my couch in thought before rising and going to my room and laying on my extremely comfy bed that I definitely didn't use my powers to make.

'Let's handle this tomorrow; I need a nap.' I think before calming down and falling asleep

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GCPD headquarters rooftop
Batman POV

"Jim!" I greet my old friend while landing softly behind him.

Jim, who is on a call, turns and gives a nod before focusing back on his phone.

"The investigations are still being made, so we can't comment on any current investigation. Goodnight!" Jim says curtly to the other person on the other side of the line before he ends the call.

"Press!" Jim tells me with a huff and I give him a nod.
The press has always been annoying to deal with.

"It's good to see you, Batman. When the mayor was made hostage, I feared when you didn't show up," Jim tells me while giving me a handshake.

'Well, I was the first to get there in a way.' I think back to that nigth, things almost got out of the way very fast.

"How are the mayor and hostages?" I ask Jim

"They are all okay, thank God, no one hurt or killed, which I think is a first, especially with the Joker," Jim explains to me with a bit of anger at the end, but his eyes also have a bit of vindication on them.

I already know what happened.

"What is his status?" I don't have to say the name, as me and Jim know very well who I am talking about.

Jim's face turns cold, but a bit of satisfaction bleeds on his expression.
He then hands me a file.

"The doctors had to sedate him as he started to get more out of control and tried to keep killing himself; they said that after that he just kept wailing until the drugs kicked in," Jim tells while lighting his pipe.

"No traces of fear toxin or any toxin found?" I ask Jim while reading the Joker file that Joker has all the symptoms of a mental breakdown and a major depressing episode.

"Nothing! I asked the medics to redo three times and still nothing came out. The doctors are puzzled; they have done tons of tests, but nothing shows anything wrong with him," Jim explains to me while with a thoughtful face.

The Joker isn't poisoned or infected with any toxin, poison, or fear gas. The suspect was standing across the room and hasn't touched the Joker's physicality; perhaps he used some type of aerosol agent?
No! If he had Doctor Asklepios, he would also be infected.

Perphaps it's something else.
I need to do some tests. Thankfully, Jim already had included samples on the file.

"What about Joker goons?" I ask, remembering the suspect who was confessing to the police.

"Huh! Never once was this easy deal with the Joker crew; that one has been giving us everything; at first we thought this was one of Joker's twisted plans, but after checking we find them to be legit; almost 200 arrests, explosives, drugs, and weapons aprehended; after that, the DA cut a very good deal to him; it's already on the witness protection and looks like he will turn his life a round; let's see if it sticks." Jim says in amusement at the whole situation.

A man of Joker Crew having a sudden change of heart?
Improvable

"Soo, is he one of yours? He really looks the part," Jim asked me, his tone a bit jokingly.

"No, but I will find all I can about him; there is a new player on Gotham, and we don't know if he is friend or foe." I tell Jim, the man demonstrated supernatural powers and amazing speed; I will have to look deeper into him.

"I sure you will," Jim is saying, but I already dissapeared.

"I hate when he does that!" I hear Jim say before leaving back to patrol and after the batcave.

I need to get very deep into this!

End of Chapter

Soo this is a very short chapter, much more short that I normally write but I am very busy at th moment with college and my grandmother is very ill which is taking a huge toll on my family
because of that I may not have enough time to write but I am writing

I may when I have enough time rewrite and expand this chapter more.
To make up for this short chapter I will publish two chapters of a very old story of mine, just to give you all something to read and is also incomplete

Hope you all liked, please vote and comment!

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