Nemesis Swap
As the Nemesis of the Heroes talked, they chose to swap for a week. They would attack the hero of the lottery.
The Joker, Luthor, Cheetah, Reverse Flash, Vlad Plasmius, Black Manta, and Sinestro
So Joker left to hunt; same with the rest.
Vlad at least warned the other Villian, while Phantom is a child. He would attack ferals, and if they were not careful, they would lose a body part. He doesn't get that normal people break like sticks.
So while Vlad was fighting against Green Lantern,
Joker against Green Arrow,
Cheetah against Superman
Lex Luthor vs. Aquaman
Black Manta vs. Batman
and
Reverse Flash against Wonder Woman
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Sinestro was actually doing pretty well with Plasmius enemy; he was confused about who he was, and as he learned, he was an alien.
The boy didn't even try to fight him and only wanted to hear his stories and similar ones.
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Water drips down in the corner, the steady dop drop drop— does wonders for the bat.
Batman has been taken, tied up, and undressed of his utility belt. It takes him a second to figure out who took him, by the large but empty and run down warehouse, the sound of the shore not far away.
The docks. He shuffles, bound and comm off.
Then, the steel enforced door slams open and Joker enters.
"Batsy!" He calls, overjoyed. The man walks to the bound vigilante and crouches to his height.
"It's been so long, hasn't it been?"
The vigilante grunts. "Joker."
"Today will be different." He goes on, "today, we have," the crime Prince drums his fingers on Batman's thigh. "A guest!"
He freezes at that, Joker has a civilian.
(Oracle sends out the message, her voice firm, and the coords are shared to the rest of the clan in seconds as she looks at her monitor. Batman's red dot at the harbour bright.)
"I'm a guest now?" The voice of a child asks, it brings slight confusion that the boy wasn't tied nor harmed in any way.
It's relief that he seems okay, but the danger of standing next to the Joker has Batman wiggling in his restrains.
"Is that a promotion or demotion for son?"
A brief look of annoyance enters Joker before being smoothed out, the boy is dealing with a delicate time bomb. Uncomfortably close to the madman.
(He hurries in the process of breaking free.)
"My son! My blood!" Sings the clown, throwing his hands around the boy's shoulders and prancing around.
Which brings another question.
Son?
Cool lighting hits the boy's head and the tuffs of pink, blue and green become more obvious, hidden beneath black hair previously.
Joker and Harley have a child. A son.
He will visit harley later. The boy comes first.
"Dante! Danyal! Daniel?" Joker croons, shaking the boy. "What was it again?" He stops, turning his son toward him with a grin.
(Robin drops down behind him, hiding, katana ready to be swung.)
"Danny, actually," the child— Danny– shrugs off the hands and steps back. Unflinching from the judging stare, simply waving off the hands creeping to his throat.
"Danny," the name is tested, and the Prince of Crime hums to himself. "We can always replace it as Joker Jr! It fits you better than Danny."
(Red Robin and Spoiler get on position above them, ready to pounce from the construction pillars.)
"Yeah, I don't know about that." He chuckles nervous, catching Batman's eyes and—
His eyes alone scream of fear, scared– scared—!!
"We will get you an acid flower, a new suit as well, the hoodie looks horrible on you." The man notes, humming.
"I prefer hammers." Danny replies with tense shoulders.
Joker clicks his tongue, "You always went after your mother." he hisses, outright glaring at his son now. His hand tightened around the crowbar he'd gathered not long ago.
"I mean," he hesitates, eye trailing off the Joker and over his shoulder. "I did come out of her."
The sound of a loaded gun shatters the silence, and Joker is pulling Danny, switching their positions and pushing him right in front of the gun in Red Hood's hand.
"Always a coward, hiding behind others, aren't you." Danny stops himself from squealing. That's the Red Hood!
(Escrima sticks light up with electricity as Red Hood speaks.)
Joker is ticked off, party ruined and surrounded now that he looks around.
Oh well, he can get his son on his villain path another day.
Cackling, he evades the escrimas, dodging the wonder boy and evading the twin attacks from above.
He pulls out a trigger and presses the bright red Button.
"Have fun bats and birds!"
The warehouse is completely flooded with fear gas, scarecrow wouldn't be mad he sacrificed one of his warehouses, will he?
It's all blurry. In one moment, his view is shrouded, and he's coughing. In another, he gets picked up and brought outside, the Joker gone.
An oxygen mask is placed on him by a paramedic, being handed off to an ambulance that had been called.
Peeking around, he sees Red Hood (!) still lingering around. Danny catches his eye and with a wave, the man is walking towards him.
He simply crosses his arms and tilts his head, waiting.
"Could I get a picture?" Danny blurts out, flushing after and coughing, holding the oxygen mask in his lap.
Red Hood makes a show of his shoulder sagging before crouching down and leaning toward him.
Later, Danny will look at the picture with a boyish grin, crooked and charming.
.・゜-: ✧ :-
A continuation
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AU where Green Lantern is pissed off one day at Batman's constant war with the Joker, and decides to slap an Indigo Ring onto the Joker and ship him off to Nok.
Hal: Look at that, I found a non-lethal permanent solution to your clown problem that gets him off Earth. You're welcome.
Bruce, already planning the wedding: Hm.
Bonus points for the Batkids being both thrilled at no longer having the Joker around and kinda disappointed that he didn't die in a fire.
Didn���t die in a fire *yet
It could still happen
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The concept of the Lazarus pit affecting those it revived with rage is all well and good but here I will instead propose an alternative.
(this is just a concept I thought of btw don’t attack me with why it’s not accurate)
The Lazarus Pit does not cause rage, it deteriorates and harms emotional processing and control.
Jason Todd is submerged in the pit and rises immediately filled with a strange mix of feelings: terror, fear, confusion. He doesn’t know where he is and he’s definitely not anywhere near home. He’s not filled with rage, he��s conflicted.
He was betrayed by his mother, he was beat by the Joker, and he had been fighting with his dad and brother days prior. Jason is hurt and confused and scared and he wakes up and he can’t process all of those feelings, he’s overwhelmed. His family is nowhere around him and he’s terrified and everything is this sickening green.
In another instance he might be able to sort his thoughts, prioritize, but he’s a teen, and all of his feelings and thoughts are pounding in his head and the only way things start to go away is when it starts to turn into anger. Anger is considered a secondary emotion: or an emotion fueled by other emotions. It’s easier to be angry.
Eventually this rage subsides, after a long time fighting and training and getting used to seeing green.
But the emotions don’t.
He remembers his mom smoking a cigarette just a few feet away from him and his heart hurts so much he can’t breathe.
He remembers calling his big brother and it going to voicemail and his eyes sting until they’re bloodshot.
And he remembers fond memories too.
He remembers tea with Alfred and he smiles but then the memory is tainted green as the thought that he’ll never do that again crosses his mind.
He remembers a stupid joke Bruce made and he starts laughing but the sound of laughing just pulls up memories that plague his dreams and the laughs turn to sobs.
When he returns to Gotham he’s harsh and quick and stubborn and he sees the whole city as green.
A mix of emotions that confuses him and consumes him and he can’t think straight and he’s hurting people just like Talia said he would and he’s green too.
But he’s not. He’s red. Red is angry. And it’s easier to be red, to be angry, than it is to be green, to be confused and hurt and every emotion fighting each other at once.
So he’s red.
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