Black Maniac

*Black Maniac was a season 11 character who did not survive.*

Prologue:
All I remember the day I hit my head was waking up and hearing the voices inside. They told me that I was to exact justice and vengeance upon the world and that I knew who I truly was... that I did. I am Batman. I woke up alone that day. No one was around. I asked myself where civilization was and where I was. The voices said Gotham. Something else told me that this wasn't Gotham, and something felt very wrong like I didn't really know who I was, but what was I to do? I soon donned the "black" as I have no idea who I really am to this day.
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Main Entry 1:
I met a friend who was recently robbed by those who wear a yellow armband. I knew they needed to be brought to justice, so I ran to a part of Gotham I didn't recognize, Novodmotrovsk. Sounds kinda Russian to me. I took my shotgun and loaded rubber slugs because I have a no kill rule. If I killed than it would make me just as bad as the criminals were. I shot into the sky hoping they would come out of hiding. I had a feeling they would bring me closer to the Jokers location or his whereabouts but soon more men wearing white armbands came and put me into arrest. Dirty criminals. They robbed me of my stuff and left me on my way with some words of advice, the blue armbands are the criminals. So, I left on my way and investigated more into these blue armbanders.

Main Entry 2:
I found myself in the woods near the coast. Ahead of me were two fully armed soldiers I went to ask them where we were and when I did, I heard sniper shots fly past our heads. They helped me to escape and led me to their base. Come to find out they were the ones I was looking for. Although the white armbanders said they were bad people, I had a feeling they weren't after all they gave me food, water, and gear to help me survive. I discovered the names of a lot of the groups at that time. Blue armbands were the Outlanders, and there was also a group known as the Red Army who were also friendly to me. Sadly, neither group had the whereabouts of the Joker or the Riddler and I would have to investigate more.

Main Entry 3:
I decided to form an alliance with the Red Army as I needed someone to trade with and during this war time no one would trade with me. They asked me to go on a mission of sorts with them to infiltrate the White armband base and beat some information out if them on the Jokers whereabouts. Of course, I said yes. As we were getting there, we noticed something was wrong. We weren't infiltrating the white armbands; we were infiltrating a random group we had no knowledge of capability wise. That night was horror. I watched as a majority of us died, we could hardly even kill one of them. I soon realized I was alone and decided to exit the fight for another day. I would be back though, for vengeance. On my way back to base I fractured a bone in my leg and had no way of fixing it. So, I laid still in wait. As I looked at Gotham (someone told me this was Chernarus but I didn't believe them) I thought to myself, vengeance won't change the past. What the people need is a symbol of peace. So that's what I've become. Justice.

Main Entry 4:
With the last entry in mind, I've decided that if I want any real work to be done in Gotham, I'll need a team. I recruited only the best of the best protectors and vigilantes that will do anything for true justice. Once I recruited my team, I branded is the new Gotham Knights. We needed a place to stay, so where better than Wayne Enterprises? For some reason everyone called it the Sanctuary, but I knew that wasn't true. Me and the Gotham Knights spent days building up and defending Wayne Enterprises from criminals roaming the streets. Yesterday we finished but there was an issue. We were attacked by the yellow armbands. Those rotten criminal scum were here to shut us down, but I wouldn't allow it. After missing many shots on us they decided to run away making me realize that if this keeps going on, it may lead to war.

Main Entry 5:
A lot of time has passed since the attack by yellow armbands and there has been no sign of mention of them other than when other groups mention that they also hate them. The Gotham Knights has been going well and Wayne Enterprises has been completely rebuilt. I did though recently run into an issue. I partook in an event known as "Fight Night" and during the event I was trying to lighten the mood in between fights by shaving people beards in secret, although I don't know how you wouldn't know if someone's shaving you or not. Some people were very angered by this and decided to try and kill me. It didn't work. Although they did get too close to dealing serious damage than I would've like so I've formed a contingency plan. Whenever I die this journal will be released to the public and it will expose all injustice in the world.

Side Entry 1:

SECRET UNRELEASED INTEL REGARDING "THE DON"

Danny the Don as we know is not a great human being, if you can call him that. Recent Intel has shown us that he has been replaced with a Xeno clone. His influence has spread deep throughout the oasis by be-friending other allied nations thru trade and then secretly removing their leaders with the use of the red army to have them replaced with Xeno clones loyal to the alien cause. Extremely suspicious that the group who loves aliens would fund a research project that would affectively kill off many of its own species. That is of course unless that research itself was all a charade. Intel within other factions has shown Danny tightened his grip around these other factions and forced them to hostilities against the human race and EDF. We have obtained En-crypted messages showing just how far that influence and deception has spread, and we will be publishing them on our own accord. With this knowledge I am hoping you may spread it to those of us who still are genetically human and not modified by the Xeno. The Vikings talking about slavery was all a precursor to the enslavement of the human race and was an attempt to try and show why people should become indentured servants for no benefits other than death. The Leshy have been executing anyone who goes into gas zones. The reason they have something to hide. 99.99% of all "research subjects" who go to the Leshy for their research are killed, the latest being one heroic and most caring man Demetry Maskesk, he was lured in and executed the moment he told them what he saw, a man without a gas mask in the alien zone? How peculiar is that, that the other man survived, and Demetry was killed in the name of science. The EDF might not have the cleanest slate and with the permanent removal of general nova and general McCarthy the EDF seek to be that cornerstone for humanity and the good of the people once more.

**Note on Intel:**
This unreleased news article tells of the Outlanders using the Red Army for their dirty work but in reality, the Red Army was using them. I have evidence of the Red Army killing Outlanders in secret and stealing from them much like the Vikings are now.

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Side Entry 2:
Today someone attacked Wayne Enterprises, no correlation, and a news article was written on it.

Monday Gotham News;
Today we here at Wayne Enterprises are sad to announce the destruction of the super-company that to be honest was the only thing keeping Gotham afloat. We are here at the crime scene from yesterday where everything has appeared to have been completely destroyed with explosives of some sort. Whoever decided to do this didn't want any conflict or attention because they chose to do it when everyone was asleep. Although they did leave one last message behind on a wall, this message read: "For the Batman: What's black, blue, and dead all over?" Police are still on the lookout for whoever did this and have come up with no answers so far.

Main Entry 6:
Something maniacal is brewing within Gotham, I just hope I'm not too late to stop it. First it was news on the Don being evil and power hungry, then it was Wayne Enterprises being bombed. I know the riddle left over wasn't from the Riddler because he's been in Arkham for a very long time now. It's something else, something more sinister. Whoever's doing all of this wants it all to come to an end. They want the fall of Gotham itself and I know the answer to the riddle. Outlanders. The answer is the outlanders themselves. A majority of them wear black, with blue armbands as indicators. One of them is going to die on fight night and as much as I dislike their leader, I have to stop this criminal-- no, this villain.

Main Entry 7:
As part of my contingency plan, I'll need to meet up with an old friend. He's a joke. Once I get what I need from him I will bring the Gotham Knights into positions to prepare for the assassination. I can't tell anyone because it will cause to much panic, and we'll lose our lead. The villain is already steps ahead. He wants to give me a challenge, make me work for the goal while he watches from a far at my struggles. He put a bounty on my head for a $1,000.

Main Entry 8:
I don't have much time, but I couldn't warn them before the killer got to them before me. During the fight I got shot and as I crawled my way to the woods, I pulled out my contingency plan as a final last-ditch effort... I took the Joker toxin.