Chapter 5

Revealed

ACE Chemicals

Azrael traveled to ACE Chemicals, from Cadmus Facilities which was on the other side of Neo Gotham. Azrael summoned the Batmobile from the Batcave.

The Batmobile was much different from the one Bruce used to drive. Now, the Batmobile, instead of having to touch the ground when it drove, it hovered. It can now also fly and the glass is tinted red, not black anymore. It's top speed is also jaw dropping, 495 MPH, 540 MPH after the afterburners kick in. The new Batmobile looked more like a plane, than a car, with its red lights surrounding the curves of it.

Azrael flew to ACE Chemicals in five minutes. ACE Chemicals was were Batman's most dangerous foe, his most craziest enemy, and his biggest mistake, Joker was born. Batman was chasing after the Red Hood, Joker's previous mantle at the time, after gangsters tricked him into being their fake leader. The gangsters were killed by police and Red Hood fell in a tub of Hahnium. The Red Hood's skin turned white, his teeth turned yellow, and his hair turned green. On that day, the Red Hood became the psychopathic sadist, The Joker.

After forty five years, of the Joker, Batman couldn't take it anymore. The Joker had shot Dick Grayson, Nightwing in the eye and made him blind in one eye, paralyzed Barbra Gordon, the first Batgirl from the waist down so she would have to use robotic braces to help her walk, killed Jason Todd and Tim Drake, the second and third Robins, killed Commissioner James Gordon, Barbra's father and the police commissioner, and over two thousand of other innocent lives. Bruce Wayne, the man under the mask couldn't take it anymore, Batman snapped Jokers' neck. After an invasion of opposites of the Justice League came to Earth, the Justice League and any other hero was wanted, this made it much worse.

Luckily now, things are getting back on the right track, civilians are starting to trust the Justice League again, with countless new heroes but with Superman, Kal El of Krypton, still being the leader. But the Red Hood can screw everything up again, so Azrael must stop him.

Once Azrael got to ACE Chemicals, he walked inside and he was on a railing that stood right above tanks of random chemicals. Then Azrael looked up a railing and saw the Red Hood. The Red Hood was leaning over on the bars laughing. This couldn't be the Joker, could it? His appearance was so different from what Joker used to wear, and Joker couldn't have came back from the dead, could he? Superman did it, but he's not human, the Joker was a psychotic sadist who killed thousands but still merely a man.

"Jean Paul Valley. I thought I'd never see you again in the rusted old suit." The Red Hood stated.

"Well you guessed wrong." Azrael stated.

"Lemme guess again! But on something different, little ol' Brucie tricked you into manning the mantle again huh?" The Red Hood guessed, he talked and sounded a lot like Joker.

"No, I know you're working with The League of Assassins, and I'm going to stop you." Azrael said. "I'm going to stop you from taking over Neo Gotham, a thing the League always tries to do when they're in Gotham."

"Oh the League? They've been taken care of." The Red Hood said, his voice sudden changed. The Red Hood turned on a light switch that he was standing next to and hundreds of ninjas were hanging by their necks from ropes, they were all dead. "Talia Al Ghul said she need all her servants, or as I like to call them, ninjas, dead, she said they were all traitors and only her and her son, Heretic could continue the legacy of the League. She was willing to pay me one billion buckaroos, so I was totally in." Red Hood's voice was changing.

"You monster!" Azrael shouted.

"Oh you think that's horrific, wait till you see what I did to your homeless friends." Red Hood said, he turned on a light that shined on a tank of acid, twenty skeletons were floating in the acid. "Oh, and this was just for fun, I wanted to get to you."

Azrael jumped towards the Red Hood, Red Hood got out his knife and stabbed Azrael with it in the stomach. Azrael managed to rip off the mask of the Red Hood. He couldn't look at Red Hood's face though, he was in too much pain to turn his head in the direction of the Red Hood. "Ah, ah, ah, keep you hands to yourself. And no stealing!" Red Hood kicked Azrael in the stomach. Azrael turned his head and he saw the Joker's evil face, it hasn't aged a bit since Batman killed him.

Red Hood grabbed Azrael's face, he knew there was a camcorder recording him this whole time in Azrael's mask. "Listen Brucie, I'm back, and I want you to see this cause I want you to know what I'm going to do in honor of my return, my gift to you!" Joker kissed Azrael where the camcorder was and then shot him in the head. "Now, come and get your dead soldier, protégé, son, or what ever the hell you want to call him, just know, a big present is coming Brucie and you'll love it."