Batman fights the joker, who has a new weapon designed by Lex Luther himslef. A world eating bomb. Defeats said nemesis, in doing so triggers the bomb. He finds himself by a river, his suit has been shredded. Looking around he sees he is in gotham. He finds some clothes on a line, and takes them. Shielding his exposed skin from the cold gotham air. He is lost and confused, everything looks similar but strange. Did the explosion mess with his head? Down an ally way he strolls, things become clear to him. He sees a family.... A mom, a dad, and a young boy leave through a back door. He thrusts his hands in his pocket. It's there he thinks to himself. Knowing his choices, he only makes one. He grips the cold python in his coat and draws it out blasting the mom and dad leaving the kid in a pool of his families blood. Broken, he rushes towards the gotham bridge. Into the ice cold water he plumits. Everything goes black.... Minutes pass, he is fished out by a man who saw him jump. The man asks why? The now broken batman just laughs and his cold frost burned cheaks crack his mouth open and rip his skin into a smile. He replies in a sinister all too familiar voice. The jokes on you. And laughs as he beats the man to death.... [spoiler]batman is thrown back in time, has to kill his parents so he can become the batman to save the world. Then goes crazy and becomes the joker who threatens the world and sends him back in time on purpose....[/spoiler]