//------------------------------// // Chapter 20: Saving Commissioner Armor // Story: Batmare: Arkham Asylum // by TheDarkMare16 //------------------------------// Before I leave this unwanted place, I quickly spotted a jar on a surgical table. The jar is filled with plasma and it contains carnivorous teeth, jaws, ear and nose. I used my Environmental Analysis to solve a riddle: What silent killer of the oceans can be found in a tiny jar?” “Another one, can it be? No, there’s no way, you can’t find them all, it’s impossible,” Trixie exclaimed shockingly and angrily. This unlocked one of my minor criminals: The Great White Shark or Barren White, a former bank accountant who was accused of embezzlement and fraudulence. He tried an insanity plea to avoid getting sent to Blackgate but he was sent to Arkham Asylum, which he was tortured and ostracized until Cranky Doodle Doo froze his face so extreme that his facial features began to degrade into a shark-like appearance, hence his name. I wasted no time of leaving the dreaded Morgue and entering back in the Lower Corridor. Hopefully, the Fear Gas’s after effects resided since I escaped. I notice green arrows have been painted on the floor leading to a door at the end of the Corridor, the thugs must’ve have painted it to lead me to another trap. When I met at the fork of the Corridor, I spotted a dead Arkham security guard in the haunches position I was in earlier. “It wasn’t Shining Armor; Zecora’s gas must have affected me more than I thought,” I said to myself. I was ticked off that I spotted another dead corpse but thankful that it wasn’t my brother, means that I am close of finding my brother. Then, I heard a very annoying voice on the intercom. “Are you lost, little Bat? Having trouble figuring out what’s real and what’s just a figment of your twisted, little mind? Same here, just roll with it, Bats. It gets easier when you give in, it really does,” Mane-iac said, trying to influence me to give in to the insanity. I used my Detective Vision and saw arrows pointing at a door that leaves the Lower Corridor with Mane-iac’s face painted on it. On the other side of the door, banging is three Blackgate thugs. I can end this effortless fight easily. The thugs burst open the door. One is an Earth pony, one a Unicorn, levitating a lead pipe and another of the high security thug, a Pegasus, wielding two knives. I punched the first thug three times and quickly performed a Cape Stun on the two thugs and knocked them down. I knocked out the thug with a Ground Takedown and knocked down a thug that is recovering. I stunned the high security thug and performed a Ground Takedown on the thug. I finally roundhouse kick the last thug, ending the fight. “Listen, no more tricks! Just one last puzzle and you can have him, and a little more, oh, I can’t wait!” Mane-iac announced giddily. I destroy three of the chattering teeth before following the arrows. I spotted a little update that I have destroyed all 20 teeth all inside the Medical Facility. “What do you call somepony who has failed to solve a quarter of my riddles: a Batmare?” Trixie asked teasingly. I had solved 25 percent of riddles, interview tapes, teeth, and Riddler trophies all over Arkham. I still have 75 percent to complete before tracking down her whereabouts. I open the door and enter the farthest area in the Medical Facility: the Experimental Chamber, where patients have been experimented on to test on psychotherapy medications. I spotted the monitor in front of me and it switched on to her. “Your precious commissioner is just through the glass, take a look! Bon-Bon is under strict instructions to kill the old pony if any ponies even think you’re in the room. They’re patrolling down there and I told them all you’re on the way. So here’s the deal: if you can find a way to get to Bon-Bon without anypony realizing, I’ll give you your next present. Fail and the old codger die. Hell, I even give you Bon-Bon; it looks like you can use a new sidekick!” Mane-iac announced, taking the situation lightly. Out of anger, I threw a batarang at a monitor, shattering the screen so I don’t have to see that despised face. I looked through the glass and spotted my brother, alive and well, tied to a chair with the stupidly gullible Bon-Bon walking around with a machine gun. I used my Detective Vision and spotted four other armed threats down there in the Chamber. This is where my Predatory skills are necessary. I saw another map with green question marks on the layouts of the Medical Facility, I picked it up quickly. “A map will always help those who are stuck,” Trixie said. I spotted a grate and pulled it quietly and crawled in the ventilation duct to enter the Chamber. I crawled through the narrow ducts until I drop from a little drop with another open duct in front of me. I heard rough voices on the other side of the weak wall with cracks and holes in it. “Mane-iac’s not messing. She wants the old pony kept safe from Batmare, anypony gets near him, it won’t be me carrying the can,” a thug said. “No problem, nothing’s getting past me. Batmare will be a dead pony and I’ll be famous,” another thug bragged. “Whatever get over there and keep looking, now go!” the leading thug ordered the others. I crawled through the duct and open the grate silently and sliding the loose grate to the side. I am directly behind a thug. I grabbed his muzzle and his back legs kicked helplessly while his muffled screams are silent. “Listen up, boys! The Commissioner is just dying for one of you to spot the Bat-freak. Whatever you do, Bon-Bon offs the old pony. I got a shiny prize for the one who sees her first!” Mane-iac announced. I exit out of the duct, right behind a second thug. I quickly grabbed his head and kicked his legs, his protesting subsonic and silent in seconds. After dealing with the first two thugs, I crept behind the railing to see a thug that is doing his rounds in the Chamber. In the very center, a small chamber-like building with obscured fog, blocking whatever is inside the chamber, but I’ll find out later. “Mrs. M won’t let anything happen to me, boys. She loves me too much to see me hurt. You guys, maybe not so much,” Bon-Bon spouted. I waited for the thug to go down the ramp so I can get in behind him. He obviously doesn’t see me behind the corner of the railing. As soon as he is down the ramp, I crouched quickly from the corner and grabbed his head and kicked his feet. His pathetic screams are of naught and his hoof is in the air, wanting air desperately. I let him have air when he is sleeping. I saw that the last thug is on the walkway on the other side of the Chamber room. He is looking over the railing, not noticing me in the corner of the chamber itself. I heard Bon-Bon’s laughing and humming, which is annoying me and my brother. “You think anything you got to say matters to me?” Shining asked irksomely. I continue to wait for the last thug to finish observing over the railing so I can get in behind him when he starts to turn around. For a few moments, the thug turned around to go to the right, giving me the opportunity to crouch faster to get in behind him before he turns back around. “Bon-Bon’s got the old pony on top. You see the Bat or anypony coming around, he dies,” Mane-iac announced repeatedly. I continue to crouch until I’m on the upper walkway behind the thug. I grabbed his head and kicked the back of legs without any noise whatsoever. Not too long, the thug went silent into a sleep. After finishing the thugs, I galloped up the stairs to the control room where Bon-Bon and Shining are. “Mrs. M told Batmare that we’re going to get married, it’s going to be so cool,” Bon-Bon said dreamily to herself. I saw that the doorway in the room is barricaded, so I grappled up to the roof of the control room, directly above Bon-Bon on the glass roof. Without a moment too soon, I jumped up and smashed through the glass roof, alarming Bon-Bon. She didn’t have time to react when I smashed my two hind legs on her head, knocking her out. Shining looks at me with approval that one of the tedious clowns has been taken care of. “You took longer than I thought,” he said. I walk up to him and untied him. “She’s out of control; she’s trying to prove something. I’m not sure I can stop her this time,” I replied. Shining rubbed his hooves to tend for his long hours in the ropes and stood up alongside me. “You’ll do it. Batmare, listen, we’re not alone. She’s got something else down there, I don’t know what it is,” Shining replied. We walked to the large window of the control room and saw the chamber with ominous mist in the building. We could barely see any electronic equipment that is obscured by the mist in the building. Next moment, we heard the same irksome voice. “What a blabbermouth, spoiling the surprise!” Mane-iac exclaimed teasingly. “Be quiet,” I ordered quietly and angrily. “Oh, am I getting to you, am I? Good! You’re going to love this next bit,” Mane-iac asked and said before switching off. Shining and I exit out of the room with the barricade down and walk down to the chamber to see what insidious trap the demented clown got in store for us.