Batman and Spider-man

Chapter 12

The rest of her day was a blur. She recalled Bruce and Dick arguing about her in the Batcave, Dick storming off and Bruce going back to his work. She recalled giving her mum and by extension her dad a half-hearted excuse by telling them that she was at her friend's house for the night. She the text she got from Peter, replying with an It's okay that felt like it took her ages to type.

Barbara didn't realise just how exhausted she was until she sat on the seat. Every muscle in her body was yelling at her to rest but every time she tried to close her eyes all she could see was the corpses of all those GCPD officers and Wilde's face forever trapped in an expression of fear.

And to make matters worse there was another Joker announcement just as they entered the Batcave. It was posted on YouTube of all places found itself on a lot of d-list sites before it was taken down. The video was titled: HOW MANY PIECES OF DYNAMITE CAN A MAN FIT IN HIS MOUTH?!?

"Hello and good evening, Clownies," The Joker said in that annoying voice that made the anger in Barbara flare up. The Joker was in some unidentified warehouse. GCPD officers stormed the warehouse minutes later to find a corpse and a broken phone.

"Now before I get to the video," the Joker said. "I'd like to give a shoutout to the sponsor of this..."

There was muffled crying.

"Oh, shut up, you," the Joker said. "Yes, I know this is annoying but a man's gotta eat. I swear if anybody skips past this part, I'm going to kill..."

There was the sound of something clattering on the floor. The Joker sighed. "Oh, come on."

The Joker was off camera for a while before he came back.

He sighed. "Speaking of money. Thanks to the YouTube algorithm, The Joker's Daily killings will be on hold for a week." The Joker feigned a sad face. "I know, I know. I'm sorry. It's just a time sink you know? I spend too much time on those videos and YouTube just removes them and quite frankly I'm a little burnt out."

The Joker stared at the corner of the screen. "What do you mean there's a YouTube policy guideline? Do you see the other videos they post on this site?"

The Joker stood up. "But you came here because you read the title, didn't you and you're curious?" the Joker said. He picked up his camera and swung it to a man tied to a chair, beads of sweat running down his face and his body shaking like he was having a seizure. "Before I do that, I'd just like to say daily killing." The Joker cringed. "Not really daily is it? If it's returning next week?" The Joker shrugged. "Anyways, daily killing will be returning next week with a bang! Believe me when I say our next host is going to be a brute of a man."

The Joker laughed maniacally. "Now let's get back to what we all came for, shall we?"

The man started letting out muffled screams, shaking the chair he was sitting on as the Joker started strapping pieces of from a purple giftbox onto him.

"Ooh, poor little man wet himself," the Joker said with a shrill laugh. "He's quite a stinker!"

The man let out desperate cries as the Joker strapped pieces of dynamite on him.

"Can we have a round of applause for Desmond Cain," the Joker said. "You'd have to be nuts to have this much dynamite strapped onto you."

After emptying out the box to the point where Desmond was wrapped in an armour of dynamite save for his pale face trapped in fear. A type of fear that could only be seen as a man facing something he has never seen before, the type of fear of a man facing a monster.