To say that Bruce had been frustrated would be a bit of an understatement. That would be like saying that a rattlesnake bite is a minor annoyance, no this was big and his frustration level was through the roof. As he got back to the batcave though he was exhausted from the night's activities and after slamming his batsuit to the floor a naked Bruce Wayne headed up to the main part of Wayne Manor and made his way to his room to take a shower and clean up. The shower helped with his sore muscles, but of course it would take a little bit, along with some of Alfred's salve, to make his muscles feel much better. The one advantage to being exhausted was that he slept soundly despite dreams of the Joker raping him and beating him in combat over and over again.<br/><br/>The next morning came soon enough, not exactly in a pleasant fashion as sore muscles were tight and joints were stiff. Still there was the fortunate news that he did still have his life and health. Of course if the Joker had her way who knew how much longer either of those things would persist. Bruce got dressed in some grey sweats and a grey hoodie, then he made his way down to the batcave where the computer had an alert for him to check out. The alert was about the website that the Joker had put up. "Fuck," he said out loud to no one since Alfred was somewhere in the house having just returned from vacation recently. Quickly Bruce got to work trying to take the site down. It was not an easy thing to do, and it seemed that the Joker had marvelous skills in getting the domain to remain despite some of Bruce's best attempts. There was another route to go though, and that was to give the site a nasty worm, something that would give visitors who clicked on a link a nasty problem that would not be picked up by even the best computer security software. He finished it up after a couple of days and attached it to some of the recent pictures that were uploaded. One click on the pictures and the user would unknowingly download a worm that would bog down their network and corrupt any sensitive data, like usernames, passwords, banking information, etc. that it could find.<br/><br/>Alfred came down to the batcave holding an envelope right after he had finished. "Sir, this arrived for you." Bruce got up from his chair and took the envelope, opened it up, and read the message that the Joker had left for him. It seemed he finally had some more work to do. Of course he would get the opportunity to possibly negotiate a truce of some kind to get the worm taken down if it meant the website died as well. "Looks like it is time for me to head to a party Alfred. Don't wait up for me." Bruce dressed up quickly in his batsuit, a fresh one, and the numbers were dwindling just a bit. He hopped in the batmobile and took off.<br/><br/>The ball was fancy, that much was sure, and Batman entered with his stiff and stoic macho look. He made sure not to smile despite the fact that he had a plan. He saw many people who would love him and looked up to him, and then there were others he didn't recognize, but he wasn't too suspicious of them. Then there was the Joker, he saw her in the elegant gown and waited for her to approach while standing in the middle of the dance floor. If asked to dance he would do so with her or anyone else and play along, for now.