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Sitting in the shadows The Joker chuckled to himself as he watched outside a window over the sleeping city of Gotham. It had been two full years since anyone, even Bats himself had seen any site of his paint caked face. A high squeak of a laugh escaped his throat as he watched a small little explosion happen in the south end of Gotham. Right on time. Within minutes the ever famous Flying Rodent symbol was seen floating in the sky above him. Tonight was his. "I've been gone for way too long. I'm taking back my city." Grabbing his knife and automatic pistol and shoving them into his pockets of his purple suite, the Joker walked out of the condemned building on the outskirts of Gotham. The cool night air blew a few strands of his greasy green hair into his face. Licking his lips he let out a bone chilling laugh and listened to it echo in the night air. An evil grin spread across his scarred face as his green eyes glowed in the night. Tonight was his night.

Batman arrived at the scene of the explosion before the rest of the crime unit. The once busy gas station was now a pile of rubble and soot. Flames danced around him as beads of sweat started to form on his face. Looking around a piece of paper caught his eye. Frowning Batman walked over a picked it up as his eyes widened. It wasn't a piece of paper but a Joker card. I knew it. You son of a b***h. So you really a back? Staring down at the card a message was scratched on it, but was too faint to read due to the burns on it. The card crumpled and soon fell apart in Batman's hands as the faint sound of sirens grew closer as the crime unit started to arrive.

The police commissioner sighed heavily as his car pulled up to the destroyed gas station. “Good God,” he muttered under his breath. He sighed heavily before he climbed out of his car, his unit arrived on the scene after him. “Spread out! Search for any wounded!” he ordered them all. He ran a hand through his graying hair as his eyes locked onto a group of fire fighters that just arrived and started to set up to take care of the fire.
“So much for a quiet night.”
He scratched the back of his head and peered around him at his men; he was missing someone. But who? He took a mental roll call, and rolled his eyes once he figured it out.
“Ashlea, why are you always late?”

It wasn’t her fault she was late. Or atleast that what she said, but Ashlea Hart was never one for being on time, for anything. She had been at a 7-11, drinking coffee in its parking a lot, inside her candy apple red mini copper. She was off the clock, and was enjoying herself. That was until she got the call about the explosion.
She was only a couple blocks away she should have been the first one there, but as always, she was late.

Gordon watched as the mini copper pulled beside his car. “Your late.” He stated as he watched Ash basically jump from out of her car, almost spilling her coffee.

“What are you talking about? They haven’t even got the fire out. I’m early.” She smirked and handed him some coffee before she skipped away onto the scene.

Batman walked up to where Gordon was standing. His deep gravely voice sounded above the roar of the flames. "It's him." He stood motionless as another mini explosion erupted behind him as fire caught to a gas tank.

The Joker chuckled as he skipped down the road past Imari's house giving the girl a wink and continued on humming a little tune. "Everything burns. And tonight it's going to be Bat." Suddenly he stopped in the middle of the road pondering. He turned to look back at Imari. "Is my tie straight?" He pursed his lips as he tried to hold back laughter. "Y-you see I wanna look good for my date with Bats. It's been a while since we've been together." He raised an eyebrow and waited for her response.

Gordon frowned when the bat inform him of that. He had really hoped it was just from freak accident, but nothing here in Gotham was an accident. It just had a lot of freaks. “Do we know for sure this time?” he asked as he watched some of the flames begin to die down as the fire fighters started to take control of the fire, and the fires on the surrounding buildings.

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Ash started to search the surrounding area for any wounded, lucky she didn’t find any. She saw some people on the streets near a apartment building that had been near the explosion. She saw a group of fire fighters taking care of the scene and she decided to try and question the tendents, maybe they saw or hear something that would give them a led.

“Hey Gordon I-“ she started to yell but she cut herself off when she saw who was beside him. The infamous Batman. She knew that the bat probably didn’t want her around while he was talking to the commissioner so she whistled over to Gordon and motioned to him where she was going, she waited until he nodded until she finally crossed the street towards the building.

“Did everyone make it out ok?” She happened to stop by Alex and Max as she looked up at the now smoking building.

Max sent her brother a smile and pulled away a bit. "I'm okay, Alex," she said. "You worry too much."

"You don't worry enough," Alex mumbled. He hadn't really meant for her to hear it, but he knew she had when a small giggle escaped her throat. She pointed down the road, and I looked to see fire trucks arriving.

Max sent a small smile in Ash's direction. "I think so," she said. "But we can't be sure.."

Batman remained silent for a bit until he heard a whistle behind him. "He left a note. A card." He took a deep breath inhaling smoke. "There was a message on it, but it was already too burned. I couldn't read it." Annoyance could be heard in his voice as he watched Gordon's eyes drift off to the person that whistled at him. He turned around to see Ash talking to some residents of the building next to the burning station. His gaze seemed to soften but he quickly shook it off as he turned back to Gordon. "It won't be long before it gets worse."