DC- New Age

8 months. This was the time Blitz had to spend in the arkham asylum.

Experiencing prison life changes men (or women) people say; The geniuiness of this statement could be proven by Blizt's cold, calculative face filled with hidden rage. Especially when the prison was THE arkham asylum! where the criminals are considered to be either mentally insane or just too evil to be controlled or reformed.

However, not everything that happened was bad, for one, he discovered that he too had superpowers. Infact, after this discovery, he realized that he had had this ability ever since that accident, he just didn't realize it. Though whether it was due to the chemicals or due to his rebirth, he was unaware. For all he knows, that rebirth might even be because of his powers. However, one thing he was now sure of was that all the beatings by the police was healed due to his powers and not due their "techniques". One more thing that was confirmed was that he "could have healed just fine without that bastard constantine's help".

Even though, finding out that he had a superpower was a thing to celebrate, Blitz didn't feel even an ounce of happiness. Why you ask? Let us just take a breath and think. How exactly does one find out that they have a superpower such as regeneration, in a PRISON!. You got it, no pain no gain.

There were multiple incidents where he was picked on or beaten to near death, but he somehow always managed to heal back to full health in a short period of time and just credited it to the injuries being superficial. Howerver, he only truly started to notice his abnormal rate of recovery a few weeks back, when one of his broken ribs, managed to heal in just a few hours, thus having him earn a few beatings from the guards for faking an injury. However, that was only the beginning. Injuries such as broken bones, took only a few minutes for complete recovery after a few more days. Just 4 days prior, he had recieved a knife stab wound to the leg, which had miraculously closed up and even regenerated his lost blood in just a few seconds. This however didn't shock, but instead riled up his new mentally ill roomie who just started repeatedly stabbing his unkillable flesh dummy for more fun, while laughing with a bone chilling and creepy "Ha...hahaha". Though the roomate was skinny, pale and weird to look at, his hand-to-hand comabt skills, flexibility, knife work and scheming was inhuman as Blitz couldn't even evade his strikes, much less land a hit on him in retaliation.

One more thing to note was, due to his increased regeneration, healing torn/sore muscles was a piece of cake. Hence in this 8 months, Blitz had gained quite an upgrade in his strength due to continuous workouts, as any inury and soreness would disappear quickly. Especially in the last 2 weeks, he trained like crazy and couldn't seem to keep up his workout routines to his regenration, due to lack of sufficient weights. The then lean and skinny Blitz, now looked like the non-venomized version of bane from prime earth.

On release, even the prison guards were shocked and wary of Blitz's transformation fom one of the skinniest pervets (their point of view) into one of the top dogs in the asylum along with joker, penguin, mr freeze and the rest.

"Haaah" Blitz breathed in the fresh air for the first time in 8 months "I'm finally out".

"Now where should I head to first?" Blitz thought as he held his chin with his right hand and glanced downwards as he tried to decie his next course of action.

Initially, he had decided to go get revenge on those responsible for his arrest, however when he realized his regenration, a spark of hope appeared in his eyes.

So he first went to a costume shop and bought a sking tight suit which accentuated his build and a mask to cover his identity.

The mask was egg shaped and orange in colour (almost like death stroke mask) and had a creepy smile plastered on it. The suit on the other hand was a dark (almost black) shade of purple and made of latex. He didn't think about buying an armour as he knew he could just regenerate, which was a much more affordable option as compared to replacing an expensive armour almost twice a week.

"That would be $58.12 sir" said the shopkeeper. "What! that's daylight robbery" Blitz was shocked at this high price "Absolutely not sir, $30 and $28.12 for the suit and mask respectively are cheap compares to others where it is being sold for upto $80 for just a slighly higher quality. The mask too is a made with high quality, tear and wrinkle resistant material." After a bit more haggling, the price reduced to $53.75, thus leaving Blitz with $156.25 for his other necessities.

Just as he was walking out of the shop, he heard a gunshot not too far away, so he immediately rushed out to an isolated alley to change as changing in the shop might give away his identity.

After 2 minutes of struggling, as getting in and out of a latex was a pain, Blitz rushed to the spot, to already find a kid in red and yellow suit with only underware, just about to finish off 4 thugs armed to the teeth. however, when he was about to finish off a thug in front of him, another rose up behind him with a dagger in hand. "Oh no you don't" Blitz shouted and rushed towards the kid, to push him away, just as he was about to be hit, however the kid after making short work of the guy in hand, evaded Blitz's grasp and doged the knife from the guy behind him and kicked him away. Blitz on the other hand, stood still, seeing the kid's fighting skills. However, he was soon shocked out of his state with a kick to his abdomen, which actually lifted him off the ground and made him fall backwards.

"urgh!" Blitz soon collected his bearing and got up to see that it was the kid who kicked him.

"Oooh, you still have some fight in you, guess your'e not a small fry like them. So who might you be? I am robin, apperentice to the dark knight by the way" asked the kid, with some pride and excitement.

"I am...The Deadly Joke" Blitz replied to robin as he had already come up with a name which perfectly described him and his life which he has experienced till now, a big fat and fatal joke.

"However, I think you are mistaken, I am not affiliated with the...." However, whatever Blitz wanted to say was left untold as he was forced to block a drop kick from the kid.

"Oh really? Why don't you tell me a few jokes then Mr. The Deadly Joke." Robin sneered and made fun of Blitz. This comment seemed to pop something inside Bliz, who had just been through hell.

"You want joke do you, I have two." Blitz laughed maniacally and said "No. 1, My life till now. No.2 your non-existent childhood, for being apprenticed to the bat."

This seemed to strike a cord, as Robin went berserk and attacked Blitz in a frenzy. He even tried to slice Blitz in his throat and other fatal areas, with a bat shaped blade a few times. However, this was easily doged by Blitz. "Is that all boy? even my mentally challenged roomie in the asylum could weild the knife better. You are not fit to even slice through butter." Blitz sneered and commented on Robin's subpar knife skills, followed by a punch with all his weight behind it. Though the punch was blocked by Robin, a few cracking sounds could be heard. "Aaargh!" Robin shouted out in pain from his broken arms "Serves you right for having trying to kill me even though all I tried to do was push you out of harm's way, now you suffer the consequences".

However, this didn't mean Robin would take his advice lying down, instead all it resulted in was Robin screaming "I'll kill you ahole. I'll find you and put you behind bars back in the asylum where you truly belong". Being threstend with prison in the asylum, brought back the bad memories, thus pissing Blitz off even more. With rage filled eyes, Blitz started to crack his knuckles (a bad habit) while walking towards the fallen bird. However, just when he had raised his hands to deliver the final blow, an elastic whip like rope wounded around his raised arm, thus stopping it. When Blitz looked at his arm and used more force to pull the wire, a masked figure appeared in front of him and took robin in his arms and jumped back a few meters.

This was none other than Batman "Gotham's Dark Knight" himself.

"I couldn't help but overhear your consverations and I must apologise on my apprentice's behalf for his hasty and unprofessional behaviour and action." The bat apologised in a deep husky voice to Blitz, after having retracted his grappling hook. "We shall be taking our leave now" with that the bat was about to leave with robin in tow, in his batmobile, when suddenly "Br...Batman! how could you apologise to that low life? He insulted me and even attacked me. He must be put into asylum, where he rightfully belongs!" Robin shouted, still not understanding his situation. Blitz was angered once more, however, before he could do anything, "Enough!" Batman had actually scolded his own apperentice "Stop being a whiny brat and learn to keep that big mouth of yours shut and locked away, before you get yourself deeper into any more mess!". This seemed to shut Robin up, who was dropped into the back seat of the batmobile, which soon sped out of sight.

"Well, there goes my superhero career" Blitz sighed to himself thinking of his blight future as a superhero. However, he then thought why not use his powers for his own benefits than being a hero like Robin. Infact, being a hero was just a fantasy he had not even given much thought to.

"Being a mercenary, hired thug or creating a secret crime syndicate/organization sounds much more benefitting" Blitz thought to himself while walking away from that scene.