Chapter 1: A Visitor

Harley's POV

I hate Arkham Asylum. I slapped a guard for hitting on me, so I'm strapped to the bed in one of the isolation cells. Figures, the one time I tell the truth, I get punished.

"Hey Red! You think I'll be able to get out of here anytime soon?!" I yelled.

"The Asylum, or just Isolation?" She replied through the wall.

"Isolation." I clarified.

"If you show good behavior." She answered.

"Even when I do, they still think I'm bein' bad." I sighed.

"That's because you do the wrong things for the right reasons." Ivy reasoned.

"Too bad I can't seem to do the right thing. Eh Red?" I responded.

"Oh well. If they can't accept that you're trying, it's their loss." She reasoned.

The door to my cell suddenly opened.

"Hey Quinn, you've actually got a visitor." Frank tried to hold back his laughter.

"Unless it's Mistuh J, Selina, or Red, I don't care." I rolled my eyes.

"I think you'll care." He smirked as he stepped aside to let whoever it was in.

Two familiar faces walked in slowly.

"What do you want? The money in my foreign bank account?" I laid my head back casually.

"Actually, we wanted to genuinely see you." Ma sat in the chair the doctors sit in.

"Yeah." Barry agreed.

"Says the deadbeat who wanted me in here, with the 'clown I shack up with', or 'wherever the hell I live'. And the mother who won't give me a second chance even though she gives them to everyone else." I countered.

"Why can you stand up to your family, but not the Joker?" Ivy wondered out loud.

"Who's that?" Barry was confused.

"Thess walls must be thin." Ma commented.

"Totally different situations Red." I talked into the wall.

"Whatever." She sighed.

"Attention residents of Arkham. Joker here. I'm leaving today, but I need a few friends. Will my thugs go get Harley, Croc, Catwoman, and Ivy? If you don't, I'm going to give you some of my Joker Gas and carve smiles on your faces." Mistuh J announced.

"Oh hell no." Ivy said as a plant vine crashed through the wall between us.

"I thought they confiscated your plants?" I looked up at her.

"I still have underground plants." Ivy brushed the dust from the wall off of her.

"Can ya free me Red? I don't want to break out, beacause they'll make me a wanted criminal again. But my Puddin' will force me to leave even if I don't want to." I said.

"Finally, something rational involving the Joker came out of you." Ivy undid the straps on my bed.

"Come on Ma, Barry. The thugs'll kill ya for fun, and I don't think you'll want that." I prodded them along.

"We'll go underground with the plants. Joker can't follow us there." Ivy suggested.

"Your friend's hot." Barry stared at Ivy.

"Don't even think about it. Harley told me about how you're a lazy, deadbeat dad." Ivy glared at him.

Ma looked reluctant, but she and Barry eventually followed us underground. Not too long afterwards, we heard noises.

"No! I hate him! I will eat the Joker! Ahg!" Croc yelled from the other side of the sewer wall.

The buzz of his electric collar was very distinctive.

"Yeah, well Joker told us to come get you, and we have control of the shock collar." An inmate laughed.

"Not for long." Batman's voice was muffled by the wall.

"Let's go before he finds us and thinks we're escaping." Ivy suggested.

"Good idea Red." I agreed.

So we continued walking until we reached the Botanical Gardens.

"Ivy, are you there?" Selina whispered loudly.

"What do you want Selina?" Ivy let Selina see us.

"Batman told me to come find you. He figured you wouldn't go with the Joker either, so you'd protect me." Selina explained. "Why aren't you with him Harley?"

"Where did you get all these hot friends Harleen?" Barry questioned.

"I don't want to be a wanted criminal who stays here for multiple life sentences." I shrugged.

"Fair enough. Who are they?" Selina pointed at my family.

"My ma and brother. They were visiting before we heard Mistuh J's announcement." I answered.

"Oh Harley? Where is my harlequin?" Mistuh J laughed from somewhere close. "I assume Poison Ivy dragged you and Catwoman here?"

Ivy and Selina clamped their hands over my mouth. Then we turned to see two thugs holding Ma and Barry.

"Oh, there you are! Why didn't you wait for my boys?" Mistuh J asked. "Ooh, and who are these citizens I get to kill?"

"You can't kill them, that's my Ma and brother." I stated.

"Who says I can't kill them?" Mistuh J hit me.

"Please don't Puddin'." I begged.

"Too late." Mistuh J pointed his guns at them.

Just before he could shoot them, I jumped in front of them. But instead of feeling bullets go through me, I fell to the ground. Batman was on top of Mistuh J and landed one final punch before Mistuh J went unconscious. Robin and Nightwing were holding the thugs who had my family. Ma and Barry were sitting a few feet away from where they were.

"Are you okay Harley?" Ivy helped me up.

"I'm fine Red." I brushed myself off.

"Are you sure? That was a pretty close call." Selina seemed concerned.

"I'm fine." I waved her off.

"Tie those thugs up and then drag the Joker to Gordon. He's waiting near the entrance." Batman ordered.

"Okay." Nightwing agreed.

"Whatever you say." Robin smirked.

Selina went up to Batman and kissed him. Robin and Nightwing snorted on their way out.

"Hello Selina." Batman caught his breath.

"Hi Br-Batman." Selina stumbled over her words.

"I have to go." Batman walked out of the room.

Ivy sprayed a toxin near Selina. "Who is Batman?"

"Br-" Selina started. "Anyone who wears the cowl. Don't even get me started on all the Robins."

"Then how do you know if it's the Batman you love?" I questioned.

"I've memorized mine." Selina answered.

"Harleen, did you just save us from that clown freak?" Barry stared in awe.

"I thought you loved him?" Ma stared at me.

"I did, and I do. And he's not a freak." I sighed.

Then I walked out to see what Gordon was going to do to Mistuh J.