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[manofmyword]

Tonight, you're all gonna be a part of a social experiment.

Through the magic of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate, I'm ready right now to blow you all sky-high. If anyone attempts to get off their boat, you all die. Each of you has a remote to blow up the other boat.

At midnight, I blow you all up. If, however, one of you presses the button, I'll let that boat live.

So, who's it gonna be? Harrvey Dent's most wanted scumbag collection – orrr... the sweet and innocent civilians? You choose!

Oh—and you might wanna decide quickly, because the people on the other boat may not be quite - so - noble.

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"Oh, y'made it!" the Joker exclaims, turning away from the window overlooking the water. "I'm so—thrilled."

He doesn't sound it. He sounds pissed the fuck off, actually.

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[manofmyword]

"I took Gotham's white knight and I brought him down to our level," he pronounces with glee, arms windmilling as he twists in the air. "It wasn't hard. See, madness, as you know, is like – gravity. All it takes is a little," he shoves the empty air towards her in a grand gesture that sets him swinging on his hook, "push."

And then he starts to laugh.

[gothamsheiress]

She goes cold.

Harvey Dent, pushed over the edge. There's one obvious place where he would go.

The place where he thinks Rachel died.

The Joker is neutralized for now, and there are enough SWAT teams in and around the building that even they can deal with him. The police won't be looking for Harvey; it's up to her.

She rises, ignoring the bites and bruises, and turns in a swirl of fabric. 250 52nd Street is close.

[manofmyword]

This is going to be beautiful. He only wishes he could be there to see it.

But oh, well. There's something to be said for staying, too. The inverted posture and his slow spin are making him dizzy; he hurts everywhere she has pierced him with sharp things and there is blood running down his leg, his neck, his jaw. He keeps laughing, with all the breath he has left and then some.

[gothamscitizens]

A couple of SWAT members see the Bat rush past them, but given what happened to the last team that tangled with her, they give her a wide berth. She doesn't seem interested in them, anyway.

It's the clown left hanging for them that they focus on.

. . . Nobody can quite believe that he's actually neutralized, though. Especially with the laughing.

[manofmyword]

The sight of armed and armoured law enforcement personnel creeping nervously toward him does not exactly do anything to halt his hysterical giggles.

As it turns out, hanging upside-down for extended periods isn't very good for you, and laughing until you can barely breathe doesn't help. It's not long before his cackles turn to wheezes, then to silence. Perhaps he will be less fearsome when he is unconscious.