Chinatown Bank

3:15 AM

Two armed criminals managed to thwart the bank's silent alarm system and successfully enter the vault without the police being alerted.

But they didn't need the police's attention to get noticed.

While in the middle of filling their duffel bags with money, a voice behind the two criminals caught them off guard.

"forgot your credit card, huh?"

The two criminals quickly whipped around and fired at the voice's source. The two bullets bounced harmlessly off the Red Hood's armor, but ripped his jacket in the process.

"God dammit." Red Hood muttered, drawing his deagles while approaching the two criminals. "This was my favorite jacket!"

Red Hood quickly aims at the two criminals and shoots them both in the head, killing them. As Red Hood began to exit the bank, he heard footsteps behind him. He quickly turned around and fired.

But there was nothing there.

Then the sound of someone dropping from the ceiling.

Red Hood turns around slowly, and sees a dark figure that had a familiar look to it.

"Batman? It that you?" Red Hood asks.

Suddenly, Batman's eyes become burning red slits, and he begins to grow bigger. Red Hood draws his pistols, but then begins to loose his strength. A small cloud of greenish gas surrounded him, causing him to begin coughing. He fell to the floor, gasping for air, before the Bat-like figure punched him, knocking him out.

He woke up to a strange smell.

he thought he had opened his eyes, but it was still dark. He then realized he was blindfolded and tied to a chair. He sat there struggling for a moment, before loosing hope.

Then he heard footsteps behind him.

"Batman? Is that you?" He asks.

The blindfold is ripped of his head, and he hears the voice of someone all too familiar, a voice that haunts his dreams every night. a voice that seemingly came from the depths of hell itself.

"Batman's not going to save you, Jason!"

It was Joker.

Jason turns to look at Joker, and scowls at him. "Go to hell!" He shouts, and spits at the floor in front of Joker.

"Now there's what I want! You're a real chip off the old Bat block!"

"Why won't you just kill me?"

"You think I want to hurt you? I'm not going to hurt you! Well, not yet anyway"

"Leave me alone!"

"Aw, that's no way to treat the man who's shown you his hospitality!"

Joker raises a crowbar he's been holding. "I think it's time I teach you a lesson!" he says, before whacking Jason with the crowbar.

Red Hood wakes up.

He's back in the bank, lying on the floor. The lights have gone out and the dark, bat-like figure is gone. He begins to sit up, groaning. "What the hell was that thing?" He says to himself. "If I'm going to find out, I need to talk to someone with experience. Someone who knows Batman."

Red Hood collects his pistols and begins to walk out the door. "It's time I visit Barbra."