The Struggle of Loving Madness

Untitled Part 8

I just wanna say that I am so sorry this took so long for me to update. Thank you for all of those who have continued to read. 

Harley stared at the paper for what felt like forever before finally being able to add on to it. She mumbles little things to herself. Joker, Batman and Robin go and meet Frost at the base once they got off the ship. Frost gives the Joker a nod of respect before escorting them all inside.

"I haven't touched anything since you left." He points, "This is where they were all shot with the tranquilizer darts."

Batman gives a look to robin and he nods in agreement silently before batman even says what he is thinking.

"I think you are dealing with a group. I know very few people who are skilled enough to take down as many people as you had outside in so little time. Cheetah is well known for tranquilizer darts. I don't know who else it could be."

Robin speaks up, "I'm going to go check on Harley and see if she has made any progress with the list."

He heads over to the ship and boards. He returns with a very calm look on his face but whispers to batman, "You need to go look at the ship... now..."

Batman can tell by the tone that Robin is using that something is wrong so he runs out to the ship. Joker runs after him sensing that something is wrong. Harley is gone and the place is a wreck. The table that she was sitting at had a big 0 written on it in what appeared to be blood. Batman takes a sample of the blood as frost and Robin try to restrain the Joker.

"Where is she?!" he shouts with extreme rage in his voice.

It wouldn't be noticed by anyone who didn't know him very well but there was the smallest ounce of concern in his voice. it sounded as if he actually cared about her and she wasn't just a toy. The blood results come back and it matches two people in the system. Normally blood wouldn't be used for identification but in this case it was worth trying because of all the people with genetic mutations that run around in Gotham.

"Some of it is Harley's blood... that isn't a surprise. She probably fought them. There is a little bit of someone else's blood too. The system says that it belongs to Calendar Man."

Joker storms off of Batman's ship and returns moments later with a machine gun and a belt of grenades. There is a fire in his eyes that is filled with rage and the desire for revenge.

"Nobody steals from me. The sick son-of-a-bitch is gonna pay. Let's go find him and get my Harley back. He is going to suffer."

It is obvious that nobody will be able to stop the joker from getting his revenge and nobody wants to stop him. Everybody on that ship has a reason to have concern to let the Joker handle this on his own.

"Do we even know where to start looking?" asks Frost.

"No, but fuck it. I am going to keep looking anyway." the joker mumbles while staring at a map.

Frost walks closer to the Joker, "look boss... I wanna find her just as much as you do. She's like a sister to me and I wanna protect her but we have to be rational about this. The fact that they seem to be this obsessed with her means that they won't hurt her physically."

"Fuck you Frost! You don't understand! I don't care that they won't hurt her! I care that someone stole something that belongs to me! No one steals from the Joker. NOBODY!" He proceeds to punch a door putting a hole into it.

Frost throws his hands up in the air in surrender knowing that trying to calm down a madman who has just had something or in the jokers case someone who is so important taken away from him.

"Okay boss. whatever you want..."

Batman pins joker against a wall. "You need to calm down. We will find her. I can triangulate a point from anything that has a GPS. Does Harley have a cellphone on her?"

Joker gets enraged again when he sees her bedazzled phone on the floor in the corner of the ship. He grabs it and throws it at the wall.

"Of course they would have left this here."

Frost puts his hand on the jokers arm to try and calm him.

"Boss, didn't you put a chip in that bracelet you gave her?"

"Oh yeah... I almost forgot about that."

The Joker hands over the information for the chip in Harley's bracelet and Robin inputs the information.

"I have a location!"

Joker pushes Robin out of the way so he can see the screen.

"How the hell did they get her there?!" Joker asks with confusion and anger.

Joker turns and faces batman, "i'm gonna need to borrow this ship."

Batman shakes his head, "I'm afraid that I can't let you borrow it. I will have to come with you."

Joker slams his fist down, "bats, this is personal. You aren't coming with me. Let me handle this on my own."

"I'm sorry Joker, I cant do that."

"What? You are saying that you can't give me a jokerized vehicle? You're saying that it's too much to ask for?"

"Yes, anything that I give you you may use against Gotham later."

"THEN MAKE IT NON-LETHAL FOR FUCKING SAKE!"

"Everything I have is nonlethal but that doesn't mean that you cant change it..."

"For fucking sake! give me something foolproof where the design can't be changed!"

"Even if I agreed it would take days to do and you will need backup."

"Then will you just give me something fast? Something to get me there without you? And I'll have backup since Frost is coming with me."

"Then why did you call me? did you really think that you could do this all on your own?"

"Yes, I just needed your help to find them."

Batman lets out a sigh, "I'll let you take the plane. But first we are going to need to make a stop to get some special gear that I've been working on. It's still in test phase but it should only take about a day or so to adjust it to you. "

Frost looks at Joker, "just remember that she will be okay."