Rise of the Bathound

Chapter 1: Hyenas' Prowl

It was rather a quiet night in New Mobotropolis, but something was obviously stirring in the shadows, a group of hyenas in masks blew up part of a Mobian bank and began to overrun the bank.

"The hi-tech technology the boss managed to steal from the Dark Legion a few weeks ago works like a charm" laughed a heavy set hyena as he managed to throw in some bags of money into a van.

"Come on, we have to get the rest into the van before the cops show up" said another hyena.

As the hyenas got into the van and headed off, they were unaware that the Bathound was right on their trial. Since it was quite the obvious that other Freedom Fighters were a bit too busy with their own affairs, the Dark Hound as the Bathound was referred to was often called for duty by New Mobotropolis.

"We better hurry or the boss won't be happy" said the hyena at the wheel.

But as the escaping hyenas were trying to get toward their hideout, the Bathound ended up landing right on their roof of their van.

"What the heck was that?" cried one of the hyenas.

"Who cares, just drive!" shouted another hyena.

The main driver of the van then began to drive erratically trying to get whoever was on the van's roof off the van.

"Must be one of those Freedom Fighters, I guess they couldn't keep their noise out of local crime" laughed one of the hyenas.

"Who cares who it is, just get him or her off this van!" shouted another hyena.

The van ends up crashing into a tree but luckily the driver was not hurt nor anyone else in the van.

"Alright, get outside and see who decides to joke around with us!" said the hyena who was the driver.

As the hyenas went to investigate who crashed their getaway van, out of the shadows, a shadowy figure swooped down and nailed one of the hyenas to the pavement. Two hyenas then charged at the shadowy figure who easily managed to defeat both of them quite easily in hand to hand combat. The driver of the van, a rather large hyena began to approach the shadowy figure.

"I'm going to make you pay for what you did" said the large hyena.

The large hyena charged at the shadowy figure, but the shadowy figure ended up delivering a punch to the stomach to the large hyena, and then delivering a brutal uppercut. As the large hyena tried to get up.

"Who are you?" asked the large hyena.

"I'm crime's worse nightmare" said Bat Hound who revealed himself to the large hyena to which the large hyena fell unconscious.

As the police quickly arrived on the scene, the Dark Hound fled as mysterious had he just came. News recently spurred around New Mobotropolis of a new unofficial Freedom Fighter known as the Bat Hound being reported to take a bite out of crime. That news obviously didn't please the Joker, the head hyena of the operations.

"Bat Hound" grumbled the Joker as he glared at the newspaper of his henchmen being arrested by the police, "it has to be his work!"

"Oh Mister J, don't feel so bad" said Harley Quinn who was also a fellow hyena of the Joker's pack.

"But it's the fourth time this week the Bat Hound has stopped my schemes!" roared the Joker, "He's worse than those Freedom Fighters fighting that Eggman fellow!"

"So, what are we going to do in silencing the hound dog in putting him to sleep for good?" asked Harley.

"Good question!" laughed the Joker, "By getting the big bad boys like Eggman involved! All we need to do is obtain one of that Eggman's robotiziers and transform Bat Hound into a mindless robot which will be under our command!"

"But how are we going to obtain it Mr. J, we both know Eggman has his Swatbots roaming around his base" continued Harley.

"Which is exactly why it was a good thing that I raided that Dark Legion camp a few weeks ago, their propaganda wing is rather so stupid in blaming the Freedom Fighters for the raid" laughed the Joker.

"Yea, we're going on a field trip!" laughed Harley.

As the Joker was setting up his mission to raid one of Eggman's bases in stealing a robotizer, the Bat Hound had returned to his Batcave. Ace Wayne had taken off his Bat Hound mask and began to monitor the crime reports.

"Anything at all Master Ace?" asked Alfred, a rather older hound dog than Ace.

"Nothing yet" said Ace, "I stopped the Joker trying to steal massive amounts of wealth."

"And have you found out how the Joker has obtained the hi-tech weapons?" asked Alfred.

"There was a report a few weeks ago that a Dark Legion camp was raided by the Joker and his henchmen, but the Dark Legion has gone to blame the Freedom Fighters instead" continued Ace.

"Why on Earth do you think they want to do that?" asked Alfred.

"I don't know, but it sounds like they don't want to admit they were taken by surprise by someone like the Joker" continued Ace.

"Looks like you should be the one demanding the questions" said Alfred.

"I'll get to it" said Ace as he then headed off.