Terror of FutureTech

Chapter 1: Joker's Hi-Tech Gear

It was a typical bank robbery committed by none other than the Joker himself and his henchmen, this time however, they were well equipped with hi-tech weapons. The tellers in the bank, however, still refused to surrender money over to the Joker and his goons.

"So, you're not going to hand me my money?" asked the Joker.

"You won't be able to harm my employees with this bullet proof glass" said the bank manager in a defiant mood.

"Is that so?" laughed the Joker as he then took out his hi-tech weapon, "Stand back kids, this one is going to hurt your ear drums!"

The Joker then implements what seemed like a shockwave that was powerful enough to shatter the bullet proof glass that protected the tellers and the bank manager himself from any harm.

"Now, as I was saying hand over the loot" said the Joker as he took out a regular gun.

But as the Joker was going to receive cash as he had his bag ready, a Baterang came out of nowhere, knocking the regular gun right off of his hand.

"You're bank robbing days are over Joker" said Batman as he stood firm against the Joker.

"Boys, turn up the shockwave for Bats" laughed the Joker.

Joker's henchmen did indeed do just that, the shockwave sent the Dark Knight flying across the room and crashing against a wooden desk.

"He doesn't look so tough now" laughed one of the Joker's henchmen who picked up the Dark Knight.

But before the Dark Knight could be harmed by the Joker's minion, a blue laser out of nowhere knocked the minion right down. The blue laser belonged to none other than the Blue Beatle who came just in the nick of time to rescue his hero.

"About time you made it" said Batman.

"Yeah, I get to fight against the Joker!" laughed the Blue Beatle.

"Well, you're out of luck kid" said the Joker as he aimed his hi-tech weapon at the Blue Beatle hoping to knock him out of the sky.

But before the Joker could do just that, a teller that the Joker scared earlier took the cash register from its position and smashed it right on the Joker's head.

"I guess he was asking for the money" laughed Batman as he was fighting some of the Joker's henchmen.

As the Dark Knight and the Blue Beatle cleaned up the rest of the Joker's henchmen, the Dark Knight found an odd logo on the Joker's new hi-tech toys, as he examined it further, it belonged to FutureTech, a company that had supplied the Allies during the war.

"Say, Bats, what'd you have there?" asked the Blue Beatle.

"Nothing that'd interest you" continued Batman, "at least for now."

As the Dark Knight hopped onto the Batmobile and took off with the Joker and his henchmen arrested by the Gotham police, Batman was quite interested in knowing why FutureTech's technology would be in the hands of his arch enemies like the Joker. He quickly decided to contact the Question who was already doing some research on FutureTech.

"Yeah Bats?" asked the Question on the other line.

"Question, I know you've been doing research on FutureTech" said Batman.

"Aw, yes, have you run into anything interesting?" asked the Question.

"The Joker used some of FutureTech's hi-technology to rob a bank" continued Batman.

"Hmm, very interesting, I'll meet you at the Bat Cave for further study" said the Question as the screen went black after that transmission.

About a few hours passed, and there was typically a press conference held about FutureTech's current allege wrongdoings where its arch spokeswoman Kelly Weaver was there to greet the press. It just so happened that the Question arrived at the Bat Cave helping Batman analyzing the hi-tech weapon that Batman had acquired earlier at the crime scene.

"I can assure you" said Kelly on the television screen in the Bat Cave, "we have nothing to do with this."

"But, the Joker was using one of your new experimental weapons" said a journalist in the background.

"I'm sorry, our company boards of directors have no knowledge of this whatsoever, but we'll do everything we can to ensure there'll be no more leaks to the public on our technology, whether or not they're good or bad" continued Kelly.

As the two continued to watch Kelly Weaver do her best to defend FutureTech's name, the Question had supplied the Dark Knight a profile on her.

"I've been doing some research on their spokeswoman" said the Question as the Dark Knight put the television on mute.

"And?" asked Batman.

"Well, it says in her profile, she's a close friend of Lex Luthor, one of Superman's arch enemies" said the Question.

"So FutureTech is working with LexCorp?" asked Batman.

"Something like that" continued the Question, "but we're not sure, we already know Lex would do something like this already with his company."

"And FutureTech?" asked Batman.

"Not sure yet, but it is suspicious on how the Joker was able to get his greedy hands on FutureTech's weapons" continued the Question.

"It seems I'm going to have to pay a visit to this Kelly Weaver" said Batman.

"Be careful" said the Question, "FutureTech has connections to the Pentagon and also to the White House. Don't do anything rash that might pin you up as a traitor."

"And if they do it anyway?" asked Batman.

"I may have some contacts from the outside that'd be some help to you" continued the Question.

"Well, I'll indeed pay a visit to this Kelly Weaver" continued Batman as he was leaving for his Batmobile again.