Against The Crowd

-POV James Gordon-

Inside Arkham Asylum

I hear one of my men walking towards me so i turn towards him "We have a situation sir" he says with fear, ofcourse there's a situation, when isn't there a situation in gotham.I wish that fear in his voice was from my position in gotham PD, but it isn't, i can tell.

"What's the situation Heckler" I ask because I have seen him scared very few times.

"There are atleast a 1000 civilians blocking our entrance from all sides sir" That i expected but not the number.

I went towards our entrance door with Marvin by my side and i can already hear the loud yelling outside, as we reach the entrance and open it to see atleast a 2000 people coming towards the asylum.

Marvin stands beside me and says "you might want to check your glasses officer Heckler the crowd is bigger than that"

"I expected 1500" i say to marvin.

"You expected too low, it's the clown prince of Gotham we are talking about i expected more than this" Marvin replies ever the pessimist.

"And half of them are minors and civillian's who think joker is some social justice incarnate." I counter marvins argument because half of these people only came here cause of their mob mentality.

"I must say jokers recruitment strategy has degraded, now he recruits by preaching his crazy psycho clown religion to the masses." Marvin states the truth that i don't want to talk about.

"Joker doesn't do the preaching his followers do, and they do it because they want to, they really are following him with religious fervor" i say as the ever increasing crowd surrounds the fence from all sides.

I and Marvin send some of the new recruits to the front line infront of the fence, not on the other side mind you but just standing on the inside.

The crowd is pretty tame right now but they'll go restless in a couple of minutes.

"Hey Gordon i got a call from the mayor, we are not allowed to use guns" "what about rubber bullets" "we have no rubber bullets anyway"

I shout loudly at him with anger in my voice "I made my men stand infront of a crowd of 2000 and gave them police batons, we won't have a new recruit for years if this goes wrong"

"We can't do nothing, one minor dies and your days as commissioner are over." marvin replies.

"Then ask them if broken bones are fine" atleast that can control some of the crowd "ok..They said yes"

I climb to the top of the Arkham entrance the entrance isnt even that big we made Arkham completely underground with only one entrance and exit which is in the middle of the island, but the last time that plant bitch escaped she took all plant life from here and made the ground barren now Arkham looks like a house in the middle of a desert.

We see movement in the crowd as they start pushing against the fence, supported with the weight of 100's of people the fence started bending forward and backward, the front line started falling on their asses seeing the crowd, but one stood right where he was right from the beginning.

"HOLD THE LINE GODAMMIT" Marvin yells beside me and i ask "who's that new recruit?" i don't point my finger or specify but he knows who i am talking about.

"That guy huh Alexander Albon, fucking tough cookie he is, he could arrested almost half of Gotham by himself if we asked him nicely." "and i dint hear about this because?" "because he's got a stick up his ass and refuses to take his gun out no matter the situation unless it is necessary, and beats up anyone who doesn't follow the rules, he crossed path with the mayor's son so his promotion got cancelled and no one wants to talk about the mayor's son out of fear" I nod and leave it at that going after the mayor's son is a death of your career.

The crowd also noticed albon and made a clearing infront of him, and one of the guys threw a molotov at the fence, i thought the guy would jump back or fall on his ass or something but he didn't, i can see the fire almost reaching him but he didn't even flinch.

He was standing there as if fire can't hurt him.

The crowd got bolder and one of them climbed on top of someone's shoulder and threw a molotov near us on the balcony but we moved quick enough to escape.

Marvin couldn't contain his anger and yelled "ARREST THAT BASTARD And...." the crowd yelled louder drowning out his voice "bring him in" he yells with a little less spirit in his voice.

I thought everyone would laugh it off or something but i saw the guy Alexander Albon take off his duty cap, run towards the fence, climb a car parked beside the fence and jump to the other side.

The crowd moved out to clear a space for him to land on and as soon as he landed he started swinging his baton left and right hitting whoever comes in his way clearing path for himself by beating people on all sides, but alas he isn't Superman people started holding him from all sides, but he still stood straight.

I saw people climbing over each other to land punch on him and when he moved from the punchs impact the whole crowd which is holding him in place moved with him.

At last one of the clever ones took a rock and smashed it on his head and we saw him go down, we stood like idiots not able to do anything to save him.

-POV Alex-

"ARREST THAT BASTARD" "BRING HIM TO ME"

the voices kept ringing, the order which i have to follow kept on ringing and as i open my eyes i see that i am in the middle of pile, my right arm which is holding the baton is infront of me, two guys one holding my arm the other my baton, one guy holding my leg while the other leg is free but doesn't have anywhere to move, my left arm is behind me, one guy is choking the ever living fuck out of my neck.

I might die here, i close my eyes with that thought.

"change Gotham" "so that my soul can see something beautiful when i pass by here"

"huuuuuuuhu" I took a deep breath and leave the hold on my baton and grab the ear of the bastard holding my left arm and pull as if i wanna rip it off and he gets out of the crowd i grab the guys who is holding my neck's hand and twist the shit out of it.

Now that i have some breathing room, i grab my baton back and start hitting people infront of me with my left arm still incapacitated the crowd back's out infront of me, so i turn around and twist my left arm out of this fuckers grip and hold his neck i push him back and the 5 people behind him also fall with him but i don't loosen my hold on his throat when i feel a tug behind me.

Someone grabbed my leg and is pulling me out of the pile, while someone is holding my left arm, but my baton is still with me so, i free my arm by hitting his arm and kick the guy holding my leg, but i am not done yet i hit the feet of the guy who was my holding arm with my baton and as he falls down i see my target.

The guy i have to arrest ran to the back of the crowd, i start going towards him hitting the people infront of me but my legs get pulled behind and i fell down, i start crawling not willing to give up when the crowd starts dog piling behind me, i pulled atleast 5 people before someone steps on my baton, i swipe his legs and he falls down, i use on of my arms to roll the crowd that is dog piled on me to the side.

I look towards the fucker i have to arrest and see him infront of a cliff, i can also see an old water tank beside the cliff if i can climb that, i can get the jump on him so i make a run towards it and i start climbing, when i reached the top, the water tank started falling towards the cliff from all the people climbing behind me.

But i jump and reach the top of the cliff where atleast 50 people are gathered, i increase my hold on the baton and start running towards them.

-POV James Gordon-

"This guy is insane" I say but Marvin doesn't reply he just looks at the spectacle.

We haven't seen someone win against these odds like that.

We saw him beating the ever living shit out of a dog pile which is on top of him, we saw him push 5 guys down by holding one guys neck, we saw him crawl with 4 people on top of him and now we see him on top of a cliff surrounded by people and pushing the crowd of 50 with his baton infront of him.

As we see him push the crowd down the cliff, we see him roll down with three people holding him to reach the guy marvin asked to arrest.

"Good god" I hear Marvin beside me say and i think so too.

We saw him somehow bringing the guy back from the back of the crowd to the fence and opening the gate and pushing the guy in before entering inside.

Once inside he slowly walked towards his cap, which was near the water for putting out fire, he washed his face, took his cap, put it on and went back to his place in the frontline and the step he took when he went into position made the crowd move back in fear.

"The crowd scared me but now it doesn't anymore." I say to marvin after a moment of silence.

"Yeah me too because i am more scared of him." We both know who he means by him.