The Bat, The Doctor, The Rainbow & Mr. Carnage

by Infinite Carnage

First published 21st of August, 2012

Four heroes have to team up to stop an evil mega prison but not all is as it seems.

Sequel to My Little Pony: Friendship is Murder.

The 2nd adventure of the universe jumping. Also the unofficial sequel to Mad House. After stopping a vicious serial killer in Equestria that would have brought it to its ruin, Mr. Carnage and his former lover Rainbow Dash are thrown into Arkham City. A sectioned off part of Gotham city that's been turned into a brutal security prison. There he meets the Dark knight himself, the Batman and the time travelling Doctor. Will they discover the cities true intention? Will Rainbow Dash's lingering feelings for Mr. Carnage affect their mission? And will Mr. Carnage be able to resist nerding out over the fact he is teaming up with two of his biggest childhood heroes? Together the four of them will be put to the test in order to find Arkham cities dark secret and try to survive in the criminal infested city for one night.

A quick message from the author (please read this first.)

Attention: I am the author of this story; I would like to thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this however I feel some people will be lost unless I add this, this being a small sum up of two different stories, one written by me and the other was written by an author named SPG Inc. these two lead ups will show you how all the characters got to this stage of the story and how they have reached this particular story, enjoy, (PS Mad House was never finished so I have taken some liberties but it is still a great story!)

Mad House: The Doctor accidently finds himself in another universe but in this one Batman is real and the Doctor has managed to find himself in the middle of Arkham Asylum while the Joker has taken control and locked Batman in. The Doctor tries to leave before getting involved but he hears the voice of an alternate reality Donna Noble on a radio who is trapped inside Arkham too and this convinces the Doctor to save her. Along the way Batman and the Doctor meet and although Batman wants him gone the Doctor won't budge and Batman reluctantly takes him along and along the way he discovers the Doctor's origins and the fact the Doctor knows who he is, together the pair stop the Joker but along the way they discover the plans for a building structure called Arkham city by a man named Hugo Strange. This worries the pair but as the Doctor is about to leave Batman assures him this will never happen, but as the Doctor sets to leave the universe he decides to make sure by forwarding to the time of supposed completion and see for himself.

My little Pony: Friendship is Murder: A detective named Marty Wright is fatally injured and is about to die when he is given an offer by an unknown being, die or become a saviour who travels to different universes that are in peril and save them, he accepts and is given the name Mr. Carnage. One year later he has become a shell of his former self, no longer the comical and fun loving spirit he is now a cold and calculative man but finds himself now a pony and embroiled in a serial killing in the land of Equestria, there he meets a Rainbow Haired Pegasus named Rainbow Dash who gives him a place to stay and becomes his assistant through the case. Throughout the journey the pair fall in love and he starts affectionately calling her Skittles, Carnage also finds his old self again and a new aura of self-belief, in the process of stopping the killer Carnage becomes human again but is drastically altered, he now has razor sharp teeth that can bite through metal, he can generate electricity and now has enhanced strength, in the end they stop the serial killer that would bring Equestria to its ruin but the two end their relationship due to Carnages species change, after an outer body experience where he meets his future self and he declares himself reborn and puts on face paint and the trilby hat Dash bought him and fully embraces himself as Mr. Carnage declaring "Marty Wright died that day and Mr. carnage was born from the ashes." Carnage is about to leave but in a bold move Rainbow Dash grabs on to him and leaps with him and Carnage and RD find themselves in the prison known as Arkham city.

The following is a picture of Mr. Carnage for those who don't know what the character looks like, this picture and the cover picture for this story were drawn by DontWakeTheNeighbour, please go on his page and look at his artwork and stories their very good.

One final thing to note is that Mad House was the fic that inspired me to write my own stories so I would like to extend a personal thank you to the author of that story, you may now continue on with the story, thank you.

Chapter 1: It's gonna be a long night

As Rainbow Dash managed to flicker her eyes open and look around her surroundings she could immediately tell that it was gonna be a long night.

The sky was black and she was lying on something very uncomfortable. She could feel the cold wind blowing against her mane which felt surprisingly comforting but she figured she was used to that because of how high she had flown in the past but it didn't do much to make her feel at home.

Certain parts of her memory were starting to click into place at last and she remembered a lot of blue and disappearing. It was all a blur right now but one thing she could definitely remember was somepony called Carnage. She scanned through her brain for a mental image and she received a handsome pony and a weird looking humanoid creature.

It then finally clicked for her and she remembered Carnage completely. He was her former lover and she had just practically thrown her own life away just so she could travel with him and in the moment of remembrance she finally sat up and took in her surroundings fully. She had never been to a place quite like this, it was sought of like Canterlot in size but only bigger and bleaker. There was something sad about this city but she just couldn't put her hoof on it.

There were a lot of signs around the place and a lot of them said the word Arkham so she assumed that this was what this place was called. She didn't really like the name though, to her it didn't roll off the tongue like Ponyville or Trottingham or Los Pegasus as it was a dark name. In some weird way she felt like the name had some sort of dark history and actually found herself shivering, whether this was from the cold wind or the word she in all honesty could not say.

Everything in her head had pieced together now and she realised that Carnage should be close by. She looked around for a moment but instead of Carnage, she found a very large box in front of her. It looked very familiar to her, it was a big blue rectangular box and that's when it hit her, this was the one that Doctor Whooves lived in. He called it a Tardis or something like that but she didn't understand how he could be here, Whooves said it travelled through space and time but nothing about it going between universes.

Dash didn't want to think about it too much, she started to slightly panic when she still couldn't see her former lover but then she turned around and breathed a sigh of relief as she saw him standing at the edge of the building they were standing on with his hair flowing in the breeze while he held on to the hat she had given him on his head. But then he turned around to face her and although she could see a look of concern in his electric blue reptile like eyes she could also see a very excited smile from his Painted face, just from this look alone she could safely confirm her suspicions that the pair of them were in for a very long night.

Bruce Wayne's plan hadn't exactly gone the way that he wanted. He hadn't realised that Strange was this sure of himself to the point where he was willing to kidnap important people like himself in the middle of press conferences and now that he had been left by Strange and he looked at himself in the mirror he could tell there and then he was in for a long night. Well longer than usual for him anyway.

It was meant to be simple and this time in wouldn't involve him getting into a physical confrontation. He was confident that despite the cities flaws that there was no way it would allow what was going on behind Arkham's walls any further, many had already heard the stories and despite the fact that the now mayor of Gotham, Quincy Sharp had become a serial killer in Arkham Asylum (which Batman had no proof for) he was surprised that even he would allow what would inevitably explode onto the streets of Gotham.

He was handcuffed and he knew he couldn't escape now so his best bet was to get some sought of foothold in the city. He would need to get a way to monitor conversations amongst the lower level guards at least. Wayne remembered the promise he made the Doctor, it had suddenly crossed his mind, he knew he had lied back then as he wasn't truly sure what would happen and he was glad that the Doctor wouldn't be in this hell hole with him because he could already tell this was going to be worse than the Asylum.

Then he realised something. The floor had a trip sensor for any prisoners trying to escape and the guards would constantly be listening out for any noises. All he had to do was fall off his chair and set it off and this would give off enough sound as well, then a guard would run in to see what the problem is, this would give him the chance to take the guards encryption key from his radio so he could at least hear any conversations from the helicopters were monitoring around Arkham.

He had to make sure he did this right as he only had one shot at this so he blocked out any worries like Strange knowing his secret identity or the fact he was completely alone now, he could take care of it by himself like he always does.

He started to rock his chair back and forth to the side in an attempt to fall down gaining momentum with each swing to eventually he fell off his chair and a moment later a siren went off. One of Tyger guards entered to see what had happened and this time everything was falling into place for the dark knight. The guard shouted at him "What the hell are you doing? Did you think we wouldn't hear you?"

Little did the grunt know he had played right into Wayne's trap, as the guard attempted to kick him Bruce Wayne grabbed his leg and snapped the bone. The grunt cried out in pain and Wayne head-butted him knocking the guard out cold. Wayne quickly grabbed the guards radio and removed the chip inside it and hid it in his hand so no one could see. He didn't have time to do anything else as another guard entered and hit him in the head with the butt of his gun, the guard then smashed Wayne's head into the closest TV causing Wayne to become disorientated.

Bruce was dragged out to the courtyard and he could hear a load of the inmates starting to callout to him, "What are you doing here Wayne?"

"Did you kill your butler?"

"You're going to die in here rich boy!"

"Your mine!"

One of the guards shot an inmate to shut them up. Using fear tactics like Batman used only more vicious, it wasn't a surprise to him that the inmates knew who he was since he was meant to be the billionaire playboy. Another guard called out to him, "What are you waiting for Wayne, Line A, Move it!"

Wayne looked at the right corner and he could see Black Mask trying to fend off a load of the Tyger guards to no avail as he was soon tazered and subdued. The guards were brutal and they appeared to have a zero intolerance policy, he made no further resistance and simply followed the instructions given to him. There were more jeers from the inmates and the guards and Wayne felt himself being boxed in as he walked down the line. The other inmates moved out of the way for him but when he reached the end of the line he received another hit from a guard for his troubles, Strange intervened, "Lower your weapons, Mr. Wayne will not be any trouble, will you, Mr. Wayne?"

Bruce Wayne didn't answer his question and carried on as Strange told the guards to leave his cuffs on as that would make it to easy. Wayne was pushed before a large door and saw two other inmates but these ones were wearing blue and appeared to be political prisoners like him. A man in glasses turned to him and Wayne recognised his voice, "I can't believe I'm going to die in here, Bruce Wayne? Great."

It was Jack Ryder who was a presenter of a TV show that Wayne never watched but he remembered his voice from the radio in Arkham, Ryder started to almost lecture Wayne and in some weird way he was blaming Wayne for all his problems. Although he was annoying he couldn't let the man die so he said "Listen to me carefully. When they open the door do not panic, stay close to me."

Ryder just shrugged him off as the large door began to open, it was like the gates of hell had just opened before them as they could see wild screaming prisoners behind a thin metal fence and a pathway that led to another gate. Wayne called out to Ryder, "Stay calm, they're trying to scare us."

Ryder just ran and said "Sorry man, it's every man for himself."

That was the last thing Bruce Wayne wanted to hear as he saw the inmates climbing the fence. They immediately took out Ryder and the other prisoner and went for Wayne but he was ready, he had built his body to be ready for any situation. An inmate tried to get him from behind but Wayne flipped him over and Wayne dislocated his hand. The other inmates were a little surprised but charged at him anyway. The other three were taken out in similar fashions with either dislocated or broken bones in their arms or legs but this only fuelled the wild screaming from the prisoners and Bruce went to pick Ryder up knowing the other prisoner didn't make it, "On your feet Ryder."

He had to make sure he got this man out alive at least, "I said get up!"

The now injured and disoriented Ryder grabbed on to him and Bruce helped him towards the final gate but as the gate opened Batman heard an all too familiar voice. "Well look who it is, welcome to hell Brucey-boy."

Batman felt a led pipe hit him from behind and he fell to the ground in pain letting Ryder fall as well. He tried to get up but felt the same led pipe hit him in the back of the head.

The world slowed down as a mixture of pain and numbness started to overtake Bruce Wayne. He couldn't hear the Penguin anymore but saw his foot about to collide with his face. The last thought that went through Bruce Wayne's mind was that it definitely was going to be a long night…

The Doctor had finished setting his course and had safely landed the Tardis in position. What appeared on the monitor before him showed what was outside the Tardis and the worst possible scenario had indeed happened. Arkham city had been built. He could tell just from the little he saw on the monitor that he was in for a long night.

He turned off the monitor in frustration and he swore he could hear some sort of electric like sound outside the Tardis but he blocked it out as he was just too frustrated. He began to talk to himself which he sometimes did when he had no companion to accompany him, "Stupid humans. they never do listen do they, I always tell them stuff like 'Don't wonder off' or 'Don't touch that' or 'Don't let an insane psychiatrist build a city wide time bomb' but nope none of them listen do they."

He let out a heavy sigh. He was tired and lonely, he only recently lost Donna twice now as he had to leave her behind again since this was her reality and the rules of the universe stated a Timelord was not allowed to purposely take another to a different universe. Luckily last time with the Cybermen he got there by accident, he wondered if he had caused enough damage already and the thought came to him that maybe he should just leave now.

The Doctor was just a little bit over 900 years old. He was in his 10th form from his 9th regeneration, the fact that he was getting old wasn't lost on him and whenever he thought about this it just made him more tired. He figured that Batman would likely have some sought of foothold on this place whether that meant he was here or was at least monitoring could make whatever he had to do a lot easier but then he asked himself what does he have to do.

It wasn't a case of whether Batman needed help, last time to even the Doctors surprise he actually had to save the Dark Knight but Batman must be prepared this time and he doubted Batman would have been caught off guard again but also this world wasn't any of his business. Although he was one to break the rules on occasion the one set of rules he always kept was the rules of time and space. He had been taught since he was a child living on Gallifrey that he had no business in any other universe. He had broken that rule at least twice now, once when he was trapped and had no choice and the second time when he let his emotions get the better of him, in all honesty he was one switch away from leaving and avoiding any more damage to the barriers between universes but then he heard four knocks on the door.

He looked up in suprise. The only thing that passed his lips was a "What?"

He spoke again "What?"

He couldn't believe it, no one ever noticed the Tardis let alone knocked on the door to see if someone was inside. he fixed up the black suit he was wearing and put on his large brown overcoat and when he opened the door the two beings before him told him that he was in for a long and unusual night.

As Carnage focused on the sign that read Arkham he knew for sure that he was in for a long night. Despite this though he found himself smiling, even a little laugh managed to escape his lips, it was so ridiculous but at the same time all so wonderful.

About one year ago Marty Wright a seventeen year old detective wannabe was killed when he stopped a serial killer once and for all. But from his death was born a new persona, Mr. Carnage. He put on face paint to give himself a new identity and now he was reborn. He was now stronger, had razor sharp teeth that can bite through steel and could even generate electricity although he hadn't used it much since gaining these abilities. He figured that he might be smiling because he knew he was in a world of people, stupid, ignorant, imaginative, wonderful people.

It didn't make sense to him as Batman and Doctor Who have never existed in the same continuity but they existed in different forms of media in his world and someone was bound to have done a fanfiction he thought. He then considered that Rainbow Dash might have actually been on a show but he would have not likely heard of it, he imagined a show about pastel coloured big headed ponies wouldn't really appeal to him or gain a large cult following but he accepted the possibility as stranger things have happened.

For some reason Carnage felt a song coming to his lips, and he didn't know exactly why but he started to sing this…

Run to the hills,

Run for your life,

Run to…

Then Carnage spotted his Cyan companion had awoken from her slumber. He put on a big smile for her so she wouldn't be scared of this strange world around her. Despite how Rainbow Dash nearly always acted he knew better, "Well hello there sleepy head, how are you there?"

Dash looked around a little more. She had an idea what this place was called but hoped that Carnage could provide a further explanation, "Carnage where are we? Do you know at all?"

"Well it appears that the area that we are currently standing is part of some form of prison complex created from a section of a city and I'm guessing the cities name is Gotham city. Basically the place we are at is called Arkham city, it's all over the posters around here which appear to have been created for intimidation purposes. Lovely place isn't it apart from… well… everything but never judge a book by its cover you never know the locals might genuinely be lovely people."

Then from the distance the two heard a blood curdling scream of a man who would make his final sound. The two looked at each other again and Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow, Carnage conceded, "Very well Skittles, were in a shithole. I hope that makes you feel better, damn it Rainbow Dash why did you do that?"

Rainbow tried to play innocent but she knew exactly what he was referring to, "What? What did I do? You better have something good detective."

"You shouldn't have jumped on me like that, now you're here as well and I don't know what I'd do if something hap…"

Carnage stopped himself before he said anymore. Dash looked up at him in wonder, "If what happened Marty?"

"Don't call me that… I'm sorry, you don't know how happy I really am that I don't have to do this alone anymore it's just… I don't want you to die because of me, that would kill me Dash."

"I made that decision not you, I wouldn't die because of you and I'm loyal to my friends. I don't abandon them."

"What about you're other friends? How are they going to react to your disappearance?"

"I left them a note…"

"OH GOD DAMN IT DASH YOU DON'T THINK ANYTHING THROUGH DO YOU! NOW YOU'LL PROBABLY NEVER SEE EQUESTRIA AGAIN"

Dash recoiled slightly, she rarely heard Carnage raise his voice especially to her. Carnage tried to calm himself down he placed his hands on his face so Dash couldn't see his expression. He whispered inside his own head, What's done is done, don't get mad at her as she's helped us so much. Hell I loved her and I still kind of do, just go back to happy Carnage at least for her. He pulled his hands from his face and now he was wearing a smile, he also spoke with exuberance, "Well what's done is done so we might as well make the best of it. So where shall we go?

Dash was relived he had calmed down but now a question was on her mind. "Well what do we do then, how do you know what to do?"

"Well that's very interesting actually, you see what normally happens Skittles is that the problem kinda comes to me, like when you found me and I heard the scream of the first murder victim, there's always an obvious clue that leads me on an adventure… and I just realised that it has been staring me in the face this entire time."

Carnage pointed to the Tardis before them, it was so obvious to him now that he felt stupid for not realising it sooner. The Doctor in his show always managed to find himself in one adventure or another and this would likely be no different. "Skittles, basically we have to follow the man or Timelord in that box and he will eventually lead us to whatever we are supposed to do."

"And you know this how?"

"Because I said so and after all I am Mr. Carnage."

He winked at and Rainbow Dash who responded by rolling her eyes. He stepped up to her and stroked her mane and said "Trust me alright. I know what I'm doing, now let's see which one it is."

Dash was confused again, what did he mean which one. "Hey what do you mean which one?"

"The Doctor regenerates his body. When I left my world he was on his eleventh form so it will be interesting to see the man behind this door."

"Really which one is your favourite?"

"All of them."

"They can't all be your favourite."

"Oh yes they can. It's like if I asked you for your favourite Daring Doo book. You wouldn't be able to decide which one was the best, each doctor is so unique in every way and so wonderful in every way… but in all honesty if I had to pick a favourite it would have to be number 10."

"Why is that?"

They had reached the front door to the Tardis and Carnage was so excited that he forgot to answer Dash's question. He knocked four times on the door and the man he saw open it caused Carnage to grow the biggest smile on his face.

To him even if this was truly destined to be a long night, it might also be one the greatest nights in his entire life…

Ra's Al Ghul watched from the building above. He was weak but he could still see. He witnessed Penguins goons starting to drag Bruce Wayne or how Ra's knew him better, Batman, into an alleyway presumably for a beating but Ra's laughed to himself knowing that they had no idea what they were bringing upon themselves.

He also witnessed a mysterious blue box appear on top of the building below him. He had lived a long time, more than 500 years, and he recognised it as an old police box from England but why and how it appeared was lost to him but he found something far more worthy of his notice.

A couple of seconds after the blue box had materialised what looked like lightning striking the roof left two beings behind. One looked somewhat like a blue pony with a rainbow mane, she also had wings so he figured that she must be a Pegasus by the way she looked but the person beside her was what really caught his notice.

His fashion style was unique, his Trilby hat, his blue shirt and black tie, his black vest and black jeans, he stuck out to say the least but that wasn't what caught his eye. It was his face paint, that style was familiar to him.

His daughter Talia joined him now with several of the leagues assassins. she asked "You wanted to see me father, you should not be out here you are weak. What if we lost your body we can't revive what we don't have."

Ra's ignored his daughters questioning, "Do you see the man lying there?"

"Yes, wait is that Bruce?"

"He is not important right now."

Talia was shocked to say the least. Her father had tried to initiate Batman for years as he wanted him to become the new leader of the league of assassins. "Father why has this… unusual looking man been given priority over Batman?"

"All will be revealed soon my daughter but for now I want an assassin tracking his movements at all times. I need to know what he is doing, for now he is top priority."

"Would you not rather us take him now why he is vulnerable if he's a threat."

"No! Do not worry Talia, we shall see him soon. Now let us return I must rejuvenate my body in the pit."

Ra's Al Ghul and his protégées made their way back. Just before he left he turned around and whispered under his breath "I will see you soon Mr. Carnage…"

Next chapter, Mr. Carnage meets the legend himself, the Dark Knight, The Batman, what will the Batman's reaction be to a man who he doesn't even know knowing his secret identity.

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