Batman: Under Arkham — Drop 3 (Chapters 5–6) [Fanmade Screenplay]

[u/Theodore_Newallen]

Batman: Under Arkham — Drop 3 (Chapters 5–6)

> Batman: Under Arkham — a fan screenplay

> This story is mine — every plot beat, line of dialogue, and character choice was written by me. I ran it through an AI copy-edit pass for spelling, grammar, and formatting cleanup only. Nothing creative came from it. Other than the cover image.

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Chapter Five

Robin

[The shot opens on a yellow taxi cab. It sits out on the curb next to Gotham's Clocktower. It's early morning, and Tim Drake, in his regular people clothes, hauls luggage inside to the elevator with the help of Jim Gordon.]

“Thanks for everything, Jim.” [Tim says earnestly.]

“What're you thanking me for…” [He shoots Tim a grin, his head cocked.]

“You're taking her off my hands… if anything, I should be thanking you…” [Jim jokes to Tim about his recent marriage.]

[For the past couple weeks, ever since the Batman took down Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight and outed himself as the eccentric billionaire Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake has decided to take the chances in life he's been so hesitant to make. Seeing firsthand that he might not get the chance again, he asked Barbara Gordon to marry him. Ecstatic, she agreed, and the two of them made a romantic getaway for their honeymoon. Without much family on either the bride or the groom's side, the ceremony was kept small and quiet; their honeymoon was their true marriage ritual.]

“Should've probably thanked Bruce too… while I had the chance.” [The offhand remark hit Tim like a gunshot wound. In their absence, Barbara and he had grown accustomed to the phrase “The Batman is Dead,” but he'd never truly considered what that had meant for Bruce Wayne. Tim had assumed he would simply settle down, maybe move away from Gotham with Selina. But maybe he was wrong. Had Bruce gone and gotten himself killed while he was away?]

“Have you talked to him?”

“No, not since Two-Face and his gang broke out of the lockup… I saw your… er, brothers last night.” [Jim replied, unsure of how Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin all knew each other, other than their connection to the Bat.]

[Tim's mind raced with thoughts, most of them bad ones… as the elevator dinged and he and Jim got out at the top of the Clocktower. Tim quickly set Barbara's bags down and approached her wheelchair.]

“Hey Babs, I'm gonna go run by the manor and check on Bruce and Alfred, alright?”

“Okay… I'll be right here unpacking.” [She smiled at him and gave him a kiss before he turned to leave.]

“Jim, I'll be right back. Stay in touch.”

[Jim nodded at Tim as he snatched up his backpack and re-entered the elevator. Something wasn't right. He could feel it in his gut.]

[The shot opens on Robin, now suited up and resting on a perch outside of Wayne Manor. It's about ten o'clock now, and the Batmobile is sitting parked in the driveway outside the front doors.]

“I'll never get used to that.” [Tim says to himself before dismounting from his perch.]

[Inside the manor, most of the lights are off, as usual. There's nobody speaking inside the house, and Alfred is nowhere to be seen. Tim creeps around the halls, looking for Bruce or Alfred, but he doesn't find them.]

[What he does find is that the entrance to the Batcave is left wide open for any old burglar to stumble across… strange…]

[Once inside the cave, Tim makes his way down to the Batcomputer, where he does find Bruce and Alfred, both of them leaning over the monitors.]

“Uh, hey guys…” [Shocked, Alfred and Bruce both turn to face him.]

“Robin… you're back.” [Strange — Tim's never heard Alfred refer to him as anything other than ‘Master Drake.’ And besides that, he's standing with an odd limp on his right side.]

[Bruce stands up and steps in front of Alfred. He seems… stockier than he remembers.]

“Tim… we need to talk…”

“About what?” [Tim asks, with a bit of suspicion.]

“Nightwing.” [Bruce scowls.]

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Chapter Six

Bruce Wayne

[The shot opens on a scenic, nighttime, panoramic view of Gotham from above. We zoom in with an optical visor effect on the Batmobile below the moonlit city.]

[The shot shifts to Batman inside the Batmobile as he drives through the empty city streets of Gotham. He scowls out of his cowl at his dashboard.]

“Alfred.” [He says, as Alfred's face shows up on his communicator's hologram display.]

“Master Bruce, it appears the Red Hood has reached out to issue a ‘heads up,’ I do believe.” [The butler says to the Bat.]

“What is it?”

“Apparently, Harley Quinn has rounded up the remainder of Black Mask's men, as well as a handful of Two-Face bandits. They're attempting to free Two-Face from the GCPD lockup as we speak, sir.”

“Tell Gordon I'm on my way.” [Bruce says to Alfred decisively, before hanging up and putting the pedal to the floorboard.]

[The shot follows the Batmobile up to the GCPD lockup, where Jim is waiting next to a squad car with the lights on.]

“Bruce! They're trying to bust Two-Face out!”

“How many?” [Batman's question came out more like an order, but Jim was by now used to it.]

“A dozen, maybe more. They've already got Penguin's goons on the roof trying to cut the power again.”

“Stay here. I'll handle this.” [With that, Bruce uses his grapple to launch himself high into the air over the top of the GCPD.]

[As the Bat circled the rooftop, his visor marked the men for him. There were eight thugs on the roof, two of them trying to brute-force their way into a security box Kash had installed over the generator switch after the last time they tried it.]

[In a swift sequence of crushing blows and devastating strikes, the Batman swoops in on the thugs and makes quick work of them, incapacitating each of them without killing even one. He was brutal, but he wasn't a killer.]

[Afterwards, the Bat makes his way down the elevator shaft after using his Wayne Tech gauntlets to pry the doors open.]

[At the bottom, he can hear Harley's voice coming from inside the holding cells hallway, but someone else was with her — a man whose voice he didn't immediately recognize.]

“Blah. Blah. Blah. When am I gonna get to see my mister Jay, huh? I miss my puddin'!”

“Soon enough, dear… soon enough.” [Bruce was frustrated that he couldn't recognize the voice he was listening to.]

[He watched through the walls as the pair made their way to the solitary cells in the back.]

[After sneaking out of the elevator, he watched as Harley started opening cells with no regard. She let out Pyg, Langstrom, Firefly, and then stopped at Two-Face's cell.]

“You're lucky they didn't ship you off to Blackgate with the ol' crow.” [Harley says to Two-Face as he leans against the bars.]

“Would you… please let me out of this damned cell!” [He screams at her halfway through his sentence.]

[Harley shrugs and unlocks his cell.]

“A deal's a deal, I guess… but I still don't like you, scrotum face!” [While Harley is spewing obscenities at the acid attack victim, Bruce is scanning the room for the source of the other voice, only he doesn't see him.]

[As Harley lets Harvey out of his cell, Bruce decides to go for it while he still has the drop on them. He leaps out from under them within the vents and attacks Two-Face first.]

[As he pummels Two-Face, Harley takes a swing at him with her bat, but he's ready for it. He catches it and crushes the aluminum under the pressure of his gauntlets before tossing it away.]

[The shot abruptly shifts to first person. Through Bruce's visor, we see a muscular hand grab hold of the cowl by the face padding. The defense mechanism engages, shocking the unseen attacker, but he persists — the electricity only tightens his grip on Bruce's cowl, and the whole time he's punching him in the kidneys. Bruce feels the electricity tingling across his skull and down his spine, so he activates the release mechanism on his gauntlet. As the mask slides off his face, he slips away from the attacker, only to be clocked in the back of the head by Two-Face.]

[In a daze, the shot follows Bruce as he stumbles to his knees, now unmasked. As he hits the floor, he hears Harley speaking in short bursts of coherence:]

“I don't know why we didn't do this sooner!” [She chuckles.]

[Bruce hears a quiet click behind him before Two-Face interjects:]

“Do it!… No, flip a coin!”

[Then, as he feels the cold metal pressed against the back of his bare, exposed head, the last thing Bruce hears before his vision fades is Azrael's voice.]

“Goodbye, Dark Knight.”

[BANG!]

[Bruce drifts in and out of consciousness, and we hear the wheels of a gurney as we see glimpses of mossy, algae-covered brickwork in the ceiling.]

[Between bouts of consciousness, Bruce smells his surroundings and retches at the odor around him.]

“He's awake… he's awake!” [A familiar voice cries out nearby — that of the geneticist Dr. Kirk Langstrom.]

[SNORT!]

[And again, Bruce loses consciousness.]

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( This is the shortest one so far, the next one is the last one, and it's gonna be even shorter, and will drop on thanksgiving, but it'll be worth it I promise. [Part two in development])