I was up reading the files to the other members of the team I was less familiar with, using the moonlight turned sunlight as my light source. Waller had told me during the trip through a headpiece where to locate the suit case with files and Duela's mask. I was reading up more on Livewire's days as a radio jockey and even had an audiotape of an old broadcast featuring Leslie Willis herself. I listened to it as she ranked her personal Mount Rushmore of rock n roll and got into fights with various fans calling in. Her list involved Kiss, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, and Jimi Hendrix. Notably, when asked about Elvis and The Beatles she got into a heated fight with the caller and shouted "I'M SORRY THAT I'M NOT ONE OF THE BABY EATING WACKOS FROM OTHER RADIO SHOWS THAT WILL SIT HERE AND LET YOU WORSHIP A FUCKING PEDOPHILE!" She apparently had to issue an apology for saying fuck and also calling Elvis a pedophile next broadcast. She apologized for saying the f word but refused to apologize about Elvis and was suspended for a month, her first of many. Honestly, she was really entertaining and funny from what I heard. If it was a YouTube livestream and not a radio show I feel like I could've watched and been a fan.

We were back on the road. Vertigo somehow ended up behind the wheel again.

"Hey, Firefuck. You've met him before, right? The Joker?" Jane asked Firefly.

"Yeah again, back when he started out. He kidnapped Black Mask and pretended to be him. Put out a hit on the Bat. I didn't care he wasn't Sionis, I just wanted revenge for these." Firefly showed his burns on his hand off. "Getting paid for it by the clown was just a bonus."

"What was he like? In person?" Duela asked. She leaned forward interested in the conversation.

"He's not nearly as creepy as people make him out to be. First thing I saw him do was push some nobody out a window. Electric-Killer or something stupid like th- KAFF KAFF that. He'd already been on the news for poisoning the city water supply a couple months before at that point. He didn't really scare me. I knew if I cared enough I could kill him."

"So you're going into this awfully confident, aren't you?" Livewire asked.

"I didn't say that. This was years ago when he was still a nobody. I thought his name was The Jokester that whole night even though I only called him 'clown' when I talked to him. Now he's got an army and an ominous weapon of mass destruction."

"What about you Livewire? You knew Harley before Belle Reeve. You ever meet him?" I asked her.

"Yeah. I ain't like MothMan here, though. I'll admit he kinda got under my skin. He wanted to put an end to the ladies night we were having with Poison Ivy. He starts off acting like a total clown and slowly gets more threatening the longer the conversation on. What got me was at the beginning when he shook my hand, he had a joy buzzer on and he shocked me. He shocked me! I felt like I was actually shocked! I could only imagine what that would feel like to someone not made out of 85% electricity. And what about you? Actually, before we even get into if you met Joker or not, who are you? Are you even in the alphabet when it comes to A-Lister, B-Lister, etcetera? You've got about as much rep as Maxie Zeus but you're team leader? What gives?"

"It's must be something to do with that I.9.K thing Joker has. He seemed very knowledgeable about it. What have you done to end up in Belle Reeve, child?" Copperhead asked me.

"I guess the short story is I killed The Scarecrow." I shrugged. Everyone looked at me shocked except Cleo who already knew, Jane who probably didn't know who Scarecrow was, and Duela for some reason I couldn't figure out.

"Scarecrow's dead? You killed him?" Vertigo asked.

"Cut his head off, yeah. And I fed one of my classmates to some rabid dogs, convinced another person who was afraid of computers taking over the world he was playing against an AI that then blew up his house among other acts." These details caught Jane off guard.

"You fed someone you knew to rabid dogs?"

"Well yeah. Werewolves don't really exist I didn't have a lot to go with for that. It was either that or break ManBat out of prison and hope he didn't see the wings and that would've been a bigger hassle. Training rabid dogs was a bit of a problem too but with a little organ robbing and a lot of patience you can go a long way."

"You? Stole people's organs?" Copperhead asked now.

"A lot more than organs. You can get away with a lot when everyone except your mother thinks you're dead." I said. I noticed even Cleo seemed a little unnerved by how casual I was being about this. I never went into full length on the detail on the systematic murder of  my old friends before. Duela was smiling and leaning closer to me.

"Wow. So this is what you're really like. Did you use actual blood in the cellar or did you use the stuff from Carrie?" Duela asked. I looked to her shocked myself.

"I never said anything about that."

"We figured it out a while ago that you were the guy that inspired us to do the stream with my old classmates. Dad said you had too much kill and not enough joy. That we could do it better." She explained.

"Who is we?"

"Dad. I even told you when I had my face that I wanted to see your real one. And you didn't disappoint! Just hearing you reminisce about Halloween Night got my blood pumping, Y'know?" Duela said.

"The real you? Is that the voice Dr. Harrison was talking to earlier?" Jane asked.

"He's not. The real. Me." I said through gritted teeth.

"I call bullshit. I think that's your good side and he just wants to stop you from doing shit like that again. He was talking about holding you accountable for your actions and-"

"That thing is not (Y,N)'s good side!" Cleo defended me. "The idea that that monster is the better half of (Y,N) is insane!"

"You say that but he's not the one reminiscing about feeding his friends to fucking dogs!"

"If you want to get into semantics then I only killed Scarecrow and everything else was the Ghost like how you're in prison for Sun Daddy blowing up a city in Florida or whatever the fuck! If you think what I did was repulsive then imagine half the United States being driven to do the same thing because of I.9.K!"

"Excellent, we can talk about that now instead of all this pointless scwobbiling. What is this I.9.K exactly?" Vertigo asked.

"I.9.K is a scarecrow fear gas that recreates the same chemical imbalance found in schizophrenics that once had a dash of Joker Venom infused but I think it's safe to assume in the hands of the clown that part of the formula has been turned up to eleven."

"Oh no, Jane! Scarecrow is appropriating your culture how do you feel?" Duela said.

"Is she seriously the one talking right now?" Jane asked pointing at Duela.

"At least her personalities are madeKAFF KAFF up people and not psychopaths she's never met before." Firefly said.

"It was originally supposed to be a way to cure schizophrenics." I explained.

"That doesn't sound like Scarecrow." Copperhead said.

"It sounded like Professor Crane to me. I didn't know he was The Scarecrow until it was too late. I helped him with his research. Of course he neglected to tell me he was also the Scarecrow and combining the fear gas or the venom. Essentially the gas makes you believe your greatest fears are coming true and they never leave you alone. Either running from them gets you killed or you slowly accept they're not there and lose your sanity in the process. I can't imagine what Joker's compound makes you see. You're probably living in a psycho circus Wonderland for eternity."

"And we've got dick all for a location." Livewire said. "Tell us, oh great leader, what are we even going to do when we get to Gotham?"

"If anyone knows anything about what The Joker is planning it's Batman. When I was getting ready for the day I found out Bruce Wayne is throwing a charity event for the DA of Crest Hill, Rachel Dawes. I'm thinking that we crash it-"

"Nothing like a little mayhem to bring out the Bat. I like the way you think." Firefly interrupted me.

"Ahahahahahaha I can't wait for round 2 with that piece of shit! We blow up the shindig and he'll come barreling in!" Duela said.

"I can work off my rust from being cramped in Reeve for so long!" Livewire cracked her knuckles.

"We aren't blowing up the party! I'm going to attend under the alias Waller gave me and just ask Wayne my questions. If he wants a fight we'll give him one but if hopefully he'll realize that I'm only trying to help."

"Why are you going to talk to Bruce Wayne?" Copperhead then asked.

"Oh, wait that's right you guys don't know. Bruce Wayne is Batman." I said before Vertigo slammed on the breaks. Everyone stared at me practically jaw dropped except for Jane who looked like she didn't care.

"Hey, buddy, April Fools was yesterday. Even if you were telling the truth, how the fuck would you know that?" Livewire asked me.

"God dammit I didn't even get to manipulate any of you guys with it yet." I said before turning into gas and moving to the front of the bus next to Vertigo. "Long story short, freak accident turned me into fear gas and I can enter people's minds. When Batman caught me I didn't go down without a fight and I saw his greatest fears included repeating another failure like the death of his adopted son Jason aka Robin, failing his parents The Waynes, and funnily enough Bats. Honestly I think he is proof of Scarecrow's fear state hypothetical as well as me considering he now practically lives in a Batcave and I've seen on the news that he's summoned dozens of bats with one of his gadgets. That is of course if you don't include how we're both mentally unstable, one of us dressing up like a bat and the other one also having his own moments of murdering Russian generals."

"Holy shit Bruce Wayne is Batman." Duela repeated.

"So I think 2 of us should go to the event, but we should know if Joker makes a move that night. I'd say easiest way of doing that without facing Joker head on is someone taking a police car and listening to the feed.  And then the everyone else doing recon along Wayne Manor in case Joker got the same idea and wants to turn the one percent of Gotham into his Guinea Pigs."

"Not the worst plan considering we don't know shit." Jane complimented me.

"So who's going with you to the party to talk to Wayne. And by the way. I still don't buy it." Livewire said.

"Well Copperhead is a snake, Firefly is fairly recognizable especially to the person who has arrested him a dozen times, so is Vertigo, Duela was only caught less than two months ago so she's too recognizable, and you're blue. Cleo didn't rob banks in Gotham City and I don't believe he met her when taking on her father and Jane was never really a criminal nor has she been in Gotham. It'd be up to one of them."

"Is this you pussyfooting around asking me out and masking it as part of the mission?" Jane asked in a disgusted tone. "Because I- 𝒲𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒! 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝓈𝑜 𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒾𝒸!" Karen interrupted Jane's sentence. She then turned into Penny Farthing, which looked just like Jane except with ash covering her like she was working as a chimney sweeper. "unlєѕѕ ít'ѕ α dαncє! í-í-í'm nσt rєαllч αll t-thαt gσσd αt d-dαncíng, ѕír!" She said in a British accent.

"Penny I don't plan for it to be like that and Jane I'm not asking you out I'm asking for backup to take on the man that has kicked almost all of our asses." I explained. "And also someone who can keep me in check." I muttered.

"In check about what?" Vertigo heard me.

"I have a... list. Batman is on the list. I feel like once we get there, part of me can't resist the chance to face him when he's lacking any fancy gadgets on his person in a crowded area where he can't just run off and swap costumes if I throw the first punch before a Joker attack."

"ís víσlєncє rєαllч nєcєssαrч, sír?" Penny asked.

"No. That's why I'm trying to avoid it." I explained. Jane came back.

"Alright, fine. You've covered your dick well enough that I don't have to strangle you."

"Of course we'll need the money and proper attire for a gala like that."

"Rob a bank! Rob a bank! Rob a bank! Rob a bank!" Livewire chanted.

"If we were, we need to do it in a subtle way where no one will no any of us were involved so say someone like The Flash doesn't track us down and stop us before we get started."

"Aka not letting your crazy ass go in shouting 'I'm Livewire' and electrocuting everyone." Firefly clarified. Livewire started to pout.

"I could do it." Cleo raised her hand.

"But you're not even going to have fun doing it!" Duela whined.

"Exactly. So she won't make an ass out of herself." Jane backed Cleo up.

"So Cleo's getting the money at the next bank we see. I guess the question now is which one of you are going to the event with me,

Jane or Cleo?"