Gotham City Hall
21:00 PM
Third-person POV:
A beautiful silver 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 modified made his way towards the reception on the City Hall parking spot, where thousands of the most rich and famous of Gotham were leaving their cars and entering.
It's stopped at the entrance, drawing the attention of everybody who is drinking in such a beautiful car.
And from it came the most hot topic Gotham has been for 2 weeks.
The young Doctor Markus Asklepios and awarded of the night
It's the first time that he has appeared in a public setting, as he never gave his interview after the Miracolus surgery, as it is being called.
He has been talked about even in the news; his handsome looks and his growing reputation as a doctor are really boosting his image even further.
Markus walks out of his car, gives his keys to the vehicle with a very hefty tip, walks up to the passenger seat, and, like a gentleman, opens the door for his date.
and from there came out Doctor Leslie Thompkins wearing a high-class, conservative black dress.
Markus offers his arm to Leslie, and they enter the party while ignoring the press questions and the flashes of photos.
As they enter the city hall, they see a lot of guests already meangling while waitresses walk around carrying glasses of champaing.
Leslie grabs one as they walk around.
The eyes of all of the guests are set on them.
"That's what I told you!" Markus whined to Leslie.
Leslie laughs quietly at his antics.
"Oh, come one, it can be that bad," Leslie says to Markus.
"It's that bad!" Markus tells her
"Those over there are looking at me to get a couple of pictures to get a boost to their reputations, probably politicians," Markus points at a group of some slimy older men.
"Those over there are glaring at me like I killed their puppies-probably some high-end doctors who are not liking how a 'newbie' is being more famous than them." Markus points at another group that has been glaring at him since he entered.
"How can you know that?" Leslie asked him, shocked at how he was right. She recognized some people from both groups.
Marcus points lazily at the politicians.
"Those over there are not drinking Champaing but whiskey; I didn't see a bar, so it means that they have power enough to be able to drink what they want; they are more isolated from the others, but they choose that, and the waiters bow their heads every time they serve their drinks," Markus explains boredly.
Markus then points at the other group.
"One of them has a ring that only the valedictorian from Harvard gained from graduating, and that over there, glaring at my soul, looked at his Pager a couple minutes ago," Markus again boredly said.
Leslie looks at him, flabbergasted at his deductions.
She cannot help but think about Bruc-
"Leslie!" A deep, smooth voice from behind them interrupts Leslie's line of thought.
She turned and gave a small gasp of surprise.
"Bruce!" Leslie says this in surprise and gives a quick hug. Bruce returns.
Bruce then looks at Markus. He puts his hand out to shake Markus.
"Bruce Wayne" presents himself.
"Markus Asklepios, it's good to know you, sir." Markus shakes Bruce's hand respectfully.
Bruce returns the gesture.
"It's good to finally know you as well, Doctor Asklepios; you have been a topic these past days," Bruce tells Markus, evaluating him with his eyes.
Markus has the urge to roll his eyes.
"I still don't get why that is." Markus was exasperated at how his doing his job got him to be the talk in the city.
Bruce and Leslie laugh quietly at Markus antics.
"I take it you are not a fan of social gatherings." The billionaire asks Markus, who snorts
"Only those where I am stared at it like an exotic animal," Markus says while gesturing towards the gazes that his table got since they arrived and got worse after Bruce joined them.
Before they can continue their talk, they hear claps.
They look and see that the mayor has arrived, accompanied by his
Wife and surronded by bodyguards.
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Markus POV:
Expensive clothes and expensive watch
A slight irritation of his eyes, a twitch every time he breathes, and a small smooch of a white powder on his nose
Probably cocaine, by the looks of it.
The way he is holding his wife's hand tells me that the marriage was over a long time ago, and it's only for political reasons now.
And by the. look he give at some of the women at the party; him being unfaithful played a huge part in it.
Not that his wife is any different on the matter.
A very belivable fake smile on her face, an expensive dress, and jewelry
She comes from a rich background, judging by her mannerism.
And by the looks that she is exchanging with one of her bodyguards
She is having an affair with him.
God
This is like House of Cards Gotham Edition.
And now they are walking up to us.
Oh Joy! Please note the sarcasm.
"Look at that! The Man of the Hour," the Mayor cheerily said as he arrived at our table and put his hand out to shake.
I put on my most presentable smile that Gamer Mind helped maintain and shook his hand.
"It's good to meet you, sir." I say to him that my tone is formal and respectful.
While doing my best to ignore the lustful gazes that his wife is sending me,
Sorry, lady, but it's not going to happen.
"Oh my! Such a gentleman, we need more doctors like you!" The mayor comments in a boisterous voice and laughs, and his entourage laughs too.
I looked at the group of doctors from earlier, and now, thanks to that comment,
They are even more pissed off.
The mayor thankfully turns his attention to Bruce and starts sucking up to him, probably for help with his reelection.
I tuned out after that.
I started to scan the famous and rich city of Gotham.
Having Sherlock Holmes skills and supersenses makes it extremely easy for me, but annoying as well.
It isn't a sensory overload but is rather unpleaseant.
Being in a room full of people, you can see every single detail of every person you look at.
Thankfully, I can tune down or turn off my supersenses.
After looking, I came to a couple of conclusions.
60% of the couples here are cheating on each other.
Some of their affair partners are at this party.
Two have already found some isolated rooms and are going for it.
Others are doing it on the men's bathroom stalls.
A group of ladies are doing lines of cocaine in their bathroom.
I sigh inward.
'the top of Gotham' I think as I continue to look around.
Then something grabbed my attention.
A waiter that's holding a plate with champanhe glasses
He's between 35 and 40 years old.
Some scars on his face from a knife with a serrated blade or a broken bottle
A couple of tattoos badly covered up in make-up
His heartbeat is going out of the roof, and he keeps glancing at his watch every 60 seconds.
And he has something heavy in his right pocket.
Okay, something is happening.
'Sorry, dude, but you are suspicious' I think before using my X-ray vision on him.
And lo and behold!
He has a pistol hidden in his pocket.
Okay, time to go.
"Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom," I say quickly and leave abruptly.
I can feel their stares on my back, but I ignore them.
I walk up to him and take a glass.
I activate my Sharingan as he looks at me.
Before he can panic, I put him on a Genjutsu and start to scan his mind.
His name is Travis Anderson.
Joker's Thug
The Joker is going to invade the party and make the mayor hostage before he can reveal that I am his real target.
Then he is going to execute me live on television.
Just dandy
I am so honored by it.
I put a mental command on his mind and ended the gentjutsu.
and deactivate my Sharigan
All of this in less than a second.
I love my powers.
I then walked to the bathroom.
I see the stalls and mictorics; one of the stalls is closed and shaking, and grunts and moans are coming from inside.
I started to knock on it.
"Hello, is any man here enjoying the company of a woman who is definitely not his wife?" I ask out loud.
"Shit!" I hear a whisper coming from inside of it.
Then there was the sound of clothes being put on and zips being closed.
Then a middle-aged man and a young woman came out of it, their clothes and hair disheveled.
They both look like they just got hit by a tornado.
"We aren't doing anything." The married man tries to lie to me, but unfortunately, I am on a busy schedule.
"You should go; your wife is looking for you; 2 minutes max before she comes here," I say, and I see his eyes widen comically as he starts to try to fix his head and clothes and leave in a hurry, completely leaving his company behind.
I look at her.
And she looks at me.
She looks like she is doing a female joker cosplay with her blurry make-up, but a slutty one.
"Your husband is also looking for you," I say, making her leave as well.
I scan the bathroom with an X-ray.
Nobody is completely alone.
I quickly made a shadow clone.
And another me puffing in on existence
"Sup Boss," he said to me.
"You already know what to do!" I tell him, and he nods.
"Already own it, boss!" he says to me and gives a salute.
He then activated Mangekyo Sharigan and Fazes through the wall.
I stay there for a couple seconds.
Then I leave the bathroom.
'I hope everything goes right with the plan' I think or pray as I return to my table.
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Third-person POV:
"We are here today to honor and celebrate the work that Doctor Markus Asklepios has done these last few weeks." The mayor says this while on the stage.
"Ever since we have been in this crisis thanks to that diseased manic," the mayor says while two people in the audience kind of sigh at his poor choice of words
"Our hospitals have been closed-."But before he could continue, he was interrupted by gunshots coming from outside.
And before everybody could start to get even more panicked, the doors were kicked open, and armed men wearing clone masks entered, quickly rendering the bodyguards and taking their guns.
Then a man entered the room.
He is wearing a purple formal suit, a green undershirt, and an antique purple butterfly tie.
His skin is pale white, his hair is a sickly shade of green, and he has a maniac smile on his face.
"Excuse me! This diseased maniac here would like to have the word! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" The Joker crackles maniacally, drawing screams of fear from the audience hostage.
Markus looks at him curiously.
'William Dafoe body but Mark Hamill voice, basically every DC fan wet dream for the Joker' Markus thinks to himself as he watches the situation unfold.
The hostages are rounded up and tied up by the henchmen with zipties, including everyone's favorite billionaire and The Doctor.
Bruce Wayne touches a special button on his watch, sending a distress signal to the batcave, waiting for someone to receive it.
"Now that everyone is in your seats, let's start the show!" The Joker said while maniacally grinning.
He snaps his fingers, and his goons get to work.
They bring up the poor cameraman who was here to cover the award and make him start to transmit the image.
"Helloooo Gotham!!" Joker said with a sick grin on his face.
Markus can hear the people's reactions to the live feed.
"It's been a while since our last talk. I always have great care about my exact words, and I think that my exact words were, 'If any hospital is working, I WILL START BLOWING UP GOTHAM!!" Joker screams, drawing terrified screams from the hostages, a look of rage from Bruce, and an eye roll from Markus.
The population watching from home was scared by the lunatic on the TV.
"Then everything was going perfect; people were dying on the street and panic eating everybody. HAHAHAHA, ISN'T THAT PERFECT!!" The joker started maniacally laughing.
'Even I got unerved by that,' Markus thinks as he sees the madman laugh. The hostages are all terrified and panicked on their faces.
Then Joker suddenly stopped laughing.
"Then suddenly that stopped; no more people dying or panicking on the streets. I first thought that the hospitals had reopened, but they hadn't. Then I heard this rumor that a doctor was working and basically doing miracles. Lady and Gentlemen, please receive Doctor Markus Asklepios!" Joker says like a showman
Markus is grabbed by two Joker thugs and brought over to him and the live stream.
All of Gotham were now watching Doctor Markus being held by two thugs and next to the Joker.
Those who had met or were treated by the young doctor were afraid for him being the Joker target.
His patients were praying that he would come out unscathed.
"Good night, doctor! Is it so nice to finally meet you? I hear much about you. I apologize about my boys rough treatment; they aren't known for being delicately." Joker made a little nape that fell completely flat as Markus was giving him a bland expression.
Not a single emotion was on his face.
"Joker" Markus acknowledges him.
"Such a poliety Young man, I was afraid your generation had completely lost respect for their elders, but enough of that, how has being your night been surronded by the high society of Gotham?" Joker asks Markus like a reporter.
"Well Joker It's been a very slow night. A lot of people talking up to others, some doing lines of coke in the bathroom or cheating on their spouse. It's my first time at such a party so I stayed at my table most of the night." Markus answered truthfully, very truthfully.
This stuns everyone at the Young Doctor, honestly.
Even Joker was stunned but started to laugh at that.
"HAHAHA!! NICE ONE KID!!!" The Joker laughs maniacally at everyone's dumbfounded face.
Markus just shrugged with a blank face.
Making the Joker lose his smile
"I said, 'nice one kid', aren't you going to laugh and leave me laughing all alone? I take it back. Your generation truly lost their manners. I think you need to be disciplined." Joker says with a mock, hurt stare
The two goons who were holding Markus kicked the back of his knees, which they felt like kicking a rock, but made him kneel on the ground.
The Joker then picks up a crowbar from a nearby goon and walks while twirling dramatically, much to the horror of the hostages and those at home.
Bruce was in a world of anger because of the Joker. Bruce still remembers watching that dammed tape of Jason, his son, being beaten to death by that maniac with a crowbar.
And now he was going to have to watch the Joker do that to another innocent.
He isn't going to allow that.
But when he tries to stand, a goon sees him and headbutts him with the butt of his rifle and points it right at him and the other hostages.
"Move again, and everybody dies rich boy." The goon threatens Bruce at gunpoint, stopping Bruce from interrupting.
The Joker then points the crowbar at Markus and raises clost to Markus cheek
Markus just kept a blank, almost bored expression on his face, which infuriated Joker.
"Let's teach you some manners, boy!!" The Joker screams as he raises the crowbar.
FUUU!
Just as Joker was going to swing down the crowbar, all the lights turned off.
Stopping everyone in place
But Joker and his goons recovered fast.
"IT'S THE FREAKIN BAT!!!" A terrified goon screams in fear.
The goons scarily move around the hostages, pointing their guns at them while keeping their eyes on the shadows.
"It's you, bats! Or the side kicks?!!!" The Joker shouts at the shadows.
Bruce sees an opportunity in a nearby goon.
He goes to attack.
FUUU!
The lights suddenly turn back on, surprising everyone and stopping Bruce from attacking.
Even the Joker was surprised.
And before anyone said anything,
"Well...isn't this a surprise?" A new voice sounds on the room, the voice
Everybody turned to see where the voice came from.
They all see a figure of a man dressed in an elegant black vest suit with a blood-red tie, black Oxford shoes, black gloves, and a black leather plague doctor mask with a black fedora on top.
The man was just comfortable laying on a leather chair, completely unbothered by the goons and hostages situation before him.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" Joker shouts angrily at the newcomer for stealing his thunder while pointing both the crowbar and his purple pistol at him, with his goon following as well.
The hostages were also looking at him, surprised, wondering, and hoping that he was a hero here to save them.
Bruce is also looking at him in surprise and intrigue, searching his memories to see if any leaguer matches his description.
"Me?... I was passing by and saw you Lot entering and decided to check out!" The man shrugs at the joker.
This also enrages me even more. The joker pointed at the man in a nonchalant tone.
"FIRE!!" Joker snarls at his goons and starts to fire at the man, his goons also joining
The man just sighs at them while standing up and raising his left hand.
And all of the bullets stopped right in front of him, and more kept appearing as they kept shooting.
This lasts for 10 seconds before every goon exaggerates their bullets.
Every single person was looking in shock at the wall of bullets stopped in the middle of the air.
The man lowers his hand, and the bullets fall to the ground harmlessly.
The Joker and his goons are all slack-jawed at that.
"Now, if you all kindly put down your weapons and surrender, after all, there's no need for anybody to get hurt." The masked man asks for education.
One of the goons drops his rifle on the ground, then a pistol and a knife, then falls to his knees in surrender.
The other goons all look flabergasted, but then rush at him to fight him.
The masked man groans loudly at that.
Before the goons could reach him, he suddenly phazed through the ground, drawing gasps of surprise from everybody.
Before they could say anything, a lot of pairs of hands came out of the ground and grabbed every goon's feet.
"AAAAHH!"
"HELP ME!!" Screamed some of the terrified goons.
Then they started to get pulled into the ground, and no matter how
No matter how much they fought or tried to move, they kept sinking to the ground like quicksand.
But to their relief, it stopped shallowing them when they reached their neck level, completely immobilizing every goon.
Then the masked man started to come out of the ground, his clothes not having even a speck of dirt.
"Well, Joker, would you consider surrendering now?" The masked man calmly asked the madman
"NEVER!!!!" The joker snarls at him.
Joker looks around and sees the still kneeling form of Markus, who was watching the trapped in amusement.
The Joker wastes no time and goes behind Markus, putting his revolver against his head.
What nobody knew was that both Markus and The Masked Man both rolled their eyes at the joker.
"Move, and the good doctor here will gain another hole to breathe!" The Joker threatens with anger in his voice at the man.
He just ruined his show, and Batsy didn't even show up.
Hearing this, the masked man was still, his mask covering any expression that he may be making.
"With what?" The masked man asks in an honest and carefree tone.
Hearing this made the joker want to shout in anger.
"ARE YOU STUPID? WITH THIS GUN!" The Joker screams and cocks the revolver.
The Masked Man tilts his head a little to the right, and his mask lens, which is normally dark, suddenly becomes red.
"What gun?" The masked man says it with a cold voice.
this stun Joker, and he was going to pull the trigger when he realized that the trigger was soft and squishy and the gun was light.
Joker looked at his hand and saw a...
Banana
He looked at it in disbelief.
Markus uses the opportunity to kick Joker in the middle of his legs, run to the hostages, and start to untie everybody.
Joker felt like he was sladghammered in the ball and was wheezing for breath on the ground.
The masked man then walks calmly to the groaning Joker and crouchs down to look at him.
The Joker looked back in pain and anger, but it turned to fear when he saw that the Masked Man's eyes through the lens were a scarlet red and suddenly gained a geometric design.
"You're going to be tough, but what is life without challenges?" The man says calmly, much to Joker's confusion.
"Kotoamatsukami!"
Then the Joker knew no more.
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Markus (Clone) POV:
Now that I understand the boss's reluctance to use the Kotoamatsukami
It literally allows me to rework the mind of anybody at will.
The Joker's mind is exactly as anybody can imagine.
A chaiotic and horrible mess, twisted beyond measure, his memories and personality broken and twisted, his backstory is similar to the killing joke storyline, but his childhood was more like the Joker movie, horrible and full of abuse and pain.
I command the mind to put itself back, reparing and reinforcing his broken mind, and put a simple command to all be working every single second.
'BE SANE!'
This mental command is burned inside his brain. No matter how much he tries or how anybody tries to take it off, it isn't going to turn off.
Then I withdrew from his mind.
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Third-person POV:
The Joker suddenly started to scream in pain, staring at everyone.
His screams were almost inhuman, then they became uncontrable sobs while he lay curled up like a ball on the ground.
The hostages, including Bruce, who were being untied, watched in shock at seeing the clown of the crime breakdown.
The masked man stood up and straightened his immaculated suit of any wrinkles.
"Well! I believe it's been a very busy night for all of you, but it's finally over. It's going to arrive in three minutes, speaking of the police." The man says this before turning to the lonely, still kneeling, mind-controlled goon from earlier.
"When they arrive, please kindly confess every crime committed by you and your friends under Joker's command and leave no detail behind." He says this, and the goon nods his head robotically, much to the anger of his captured friends.
He then turns to the hostages and gives them a head nod.
"Well, it's now my time to go, ladies and gentlemen. Pleased, to make you all acquainted, have a good night." The man says his goodbyes.
Then the space around him started to bend and twirl like a vortex, engulfing his figure and
he dissaperaded
Everyone was shocked at seeing him disappear out of thin air.
A silence permitted the place to be broken only by Joker sobs.
Exactly 3 minutes later, the police arrived and secured the place.
But a question was on everyone's mind.
'Who was that man?'
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Hi Guys! i hope you like it the new chapter
It was hell to write, I write mainly on my phone and I accidently let it drop on the ground and now my keyboard is faulty, doubling the amount of time to write
This chapter was a kinda of debut of sorts to Markus, while he isn't going to be a superhero he will still have a suit and if the situation demands he will intervene
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