THE ACE CHEMICALS BUILDING
Batman is searching the building for the Joker. He hears a laughing sound and follows it to the main production facility.
Joker: "Hello Bats! How you doing? Enjoying all that brooding, and beating up thugs? I think you do. Ha Ha He Ha Ho!!!"
Batman punched Joker, and he fell on the floor.
Joker: "That's it Bats! I'm in a position where I can easily be killed! Go on! Stop on my throat! Do it! No? Okay then Bats, it's on!"
Joker got up and threw a punch at Batman. He missed. Batman grabbed Joker's head, and slammed it against his knee, and punched him again.
Batman: "You're insane! Just give up now Joker!"
Joker: Oh, I'M the insane one? HA HA HA!!! Oh, Bats, you're just as insane as me! You dress up as a flying rodent, have an assortment of 'gadgets' and go out to fight crime, thinking you'll make a difference. And even if you beat me, you won't win. Because you won't kill me. I'll be left to rot in the Asylum, but I'll be released. Or escape. And I'll threaten Gotham again. And again. And again. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!"
Batman punched him again.
THE DENT'S HOUSE
Harvey: I'm a murderer. I let myself be... controlled by the coin. This is your fault."
Two-Face: My fault!?! It isn't my fault you look like this! That's what allowed me to come out."
Harvey: "Wait, no. My mood swings. Oh God, no. No!"
Two-Face: "I was always there Harv, but no one saw me. But now, they can."
Harvey: "But it's still your fault. Now all the criminals I put in jail are to be released. Soon the cops will show up, and it's only a matter of time before I'm just another scumbag mugging people!"
Two-Face: "But you don't have to. Get even Harv. Become the first in a better kind of criminal. You'd call us an... anti-hero, right? Who didn't save you in time? Huh?"
Harvey: "Batman. But I won't kill him. not without the one who's really to blame. I want the Red Hood."
The phone rang. Harvey picked up, and an unfamiliar voice said:
"Run Dent. The cops are coming. Or will you stay? Heads or tails. -click-"
Harvey: "Heads, we run. Tails, we stay."
Two-Face: "I like it."
He flipped his coin.
THE BAT-CAVE
Batman has brought the Joker into custody, in the Bat-cave.
Alfred (via radio): "And just why, have you brought him to the Cave?"
Batman: "I can study him here. And it's safer than any jail cell."
Joker: "Do I have any say in where I'm kept? No? Didn't think so."
Alfred: "And need I remind you that DeadShot broke in here when the Hood was hunting you down? And ClayFace just two months ago?"
Joker: "Oh, I'll never get out of this cave! Never see the sun again! Oh, my world is fading fast! I need vitamin D! Oh, what a world! Everything is black!"
Batman: "Be quiet. Now!"
Joker: "Wow Bats! You're care and support for my well being just made everything worse. Ha Ha Ha!"
Batman: "Is everything funny to you?"
Joker: "Yes, except a good joke. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!"
Batman went inside Joker's cell and took a sample of his blood. He went back out and put the sample into the Bat-computer's scanner. It matched the Red Hood's blood, but with chemicals intruding the veins and organs.
Batman: So if he didn't die, the chemicals bleached his skin and drove him to insanity. Hood tried to kill himself laughing. They're definitely the same person."
Selina (via radio): "Bruce, did you catch the Joker? Of course you did. But did you?"
Batman: "Yes, I got him. And his and the Red Hood's blood are exactly the same."
Selina: "Okay Bruce. Now, get up to the Manor. Alfred want's you to call it a night. I think you should."
Batman: "I don't know. Harvey was on the news, I just found out. The cops were after him. I want to check it out."
Selina: "Okay Bruce. I'll see you later."
Batman: "Bye."
Joker: "See ya Bats."
THE DENT'S HOUSE
Batman has just arrived at the house with COMMISSIONER GORDON.
Batman: "What did Dent do?"
Gordon: "Well, he threatened his wife with a gun, and shot Carmine Falcone. He ran before we got here. Damn that Vale lady, giving away our position."
Batman: "I caused this. I let him be scarred by acid and it drove him insane. Damn me."
Gordon: "I don't want you to think-"
Batman: "Don't worry Gordon, I'll get him."
He grappled away. Batman ran across rooftops when...
BANG!
He fell down. Harvey walked up to him.
Two-Face: "I knew sticking close to the house would pay off. Now then Bat. Heads or tails?"
Batman: "Harvey, you're better than this! Fight it! Fight it Harvey!"
Harvey: "I don't want you, I just want the Hood."
Batman: "Joker. Fight it!"
Harvey: "Joker? We'll keep that in mind. Now your fate-"
Two-Face: -lies in the coin."
He flipped the coin. It landed clean side up. Harvey ran.
THE BAT-CAVE
Joker: "Hello! Hello! Anyone home? No? Good."
He got up and opened the door.
Joker: "So careless Bats. Now then, lets look at that computer of his. My blood, Gotham sewer lines, and where Batman is right now. Oh, this is too good. lets see, a small river leading to a sewer pipe! -gasp- Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! Do de do do. Now then, I take some blood, take some more from my body, dump it in, get some more, dump that in, oh this will be glorious!"
He ran out of the cave.
GOTHAM ROOFTOP
Batman and Two-Face are fighting on a roof.
Batman: "Harvey! FIGHT IT!!!"
Harvey: "NO!!! Chance is only fair! I'm doing the right thing!"
Batman: "Harvey! You're not! You tried to kill me, you're wife, and you killed Falcone!"
Harvey: "HE WAS A MOB BOSS!"
Batman: "That doesn't make it right for you to kill him!"
Two-Face: "DIE!!!"
Batman: "You won't kill me! Your coin decided I live. But shoot me anyway. Kill me. Do it Harvey."
He took out his gun. He pointed it at Batman, and shot the other way. Batman tackled Harvey, and they fell 3 floors of the building. Harvey was knocked out. When he woke up, he was in a jail cell.
Two-Face: "I'll kill you Batman! I'll kill you!!!"
Bruce Wayne: "Hi Harvey. I just... heard about you in jail, and I wanted to visit."
Two-Face: "Go the-"
Harvey: "Hi Bruce. I... I didn't want this to happen."
Bruce: "No one did Harv. Selina's here too."
Selina: "Harvey I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
Harvey: "Thanks guys. Now go. I just want to be alone. Or as alone as I can possibly get."
THE BAT-CAVE
Batman: "Alfred, Joker's gone. I'm going out to look for him."
Alfred: "No Master Bruce. Call it a night. You have a fundraiser for Miss Kyle tomorrow, need I remind you."
Batman: "I know Alfred, but this man is a maniac. A dangerous, killing, devious, maniac!"
Alfred: "Just sleep master Bruce. He can't do much harm in just two days now can he?"
Batman: "Okay, fine. I guess that I can go two days. But I'm going after him the second after."
Alfred: "Fine Master Bruce. Now go to sleep."
Batman: "Okay Alfred. I'm coming up from the cave now."
Alfred: "Okay Master Bruce. -sigh- A clown, a ventriloquist, a glob of clay. What's next? A giant crocodile?
Hope you enjoyed! Until next time! Excelsior!!!