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My first creepypasta! ~ Batman Arkham City.
Batman Arkham City: Joker's Body.

Spoilers Alert. *****

You. You are new to gaming, specifically to the Xbox. Recently you have become bored with your Nintendo systems and the mountain of games you've collected since 2004. Upon trolling YouTube, you discover the Xbox has different games that you'd like to try. Games more violent, gory and mature than the kid friendly Wii games you've been playing lately. And that's the final straw, you order your Xbox online from Future Shop, and head out to buy games. Your purchases include Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Minecraft and Batman: Arkham City. Within days you receive your Xbox and immediately begin to set it up in place of your Wii. You start with Left 4 Dead, play through some campaigns before getting bored of the zombies and constant cry of "reloading" and decide to try out the Batman game that you've anticipated the most. You are aware you didn't purchase the first in the series, but right now that doesn't matter to you. You're amazed by the graphics, and upon hitting start you know this game is going to consume your life until you've completed it 100%.

In the game you play as Batman and Catwoman, defeating the livable villains you've come to know and admire. It isn't long before you meet everyone's favourite psychopathic clown, the Joker, and learn he is extremely sick. The image of Joker with kissing hair, a dirty suit and disgusting, oozing red sores covering his body is burned into your mind.

Playing along, all that’s running through your head is “Joker cannot die, this is impossible. There would be no Batman if there’s no Joker.” When you finally retrieve the antidote from Mister Freeze, you sigh in relief, the game must have a happy ending.

After some hours of constant game play, you’ve reached the final boss fight. Knowing Batman has cured himself, you expect him to give Joker the remaining of it. But when the vile breaks, a streak of panic hits your body, your mouth open in shock as you watch Joker die on the screen. The game play breaks into a cutscene of Batman carrying Joker’s body out to the crowd of people. A tear streams down your cheek, you cannot believe this.

Knowing you can’t leave the game with this emotional backlash, you decide to see what other options the disc has. You search through unlocked character trophies, concept art and interview tapes, finding nothing of interest. There’s Riddler challenges and Harley Quinn’s Revenge, but fighting more thugs does not appeal to you right now. Then you come across a file called “What ever happened to Joker’s body?” Curious, you click on it.

This file is somewhat different from the main title screen. The graphics weren’t as define, and the music was quieter. You are slightly concerned, thinking maybe, just maybe you’re walking into a creepypasta that’s real. Cautiously, you press start as the screen is prompting you. A cutscene starts with a slow zoom into the Batcave. Batman is there, putting away his suit as he turns back into Bruce Wayne. The cut scene ends and you can now move him around the Batcave. As you wonder mindlessly, something catches your eye in the far end of the cave, there is what seems to be a hospital stretcher. You move your character towards it, inching slowly like the game was real life. There’s a sheet on top of what appears to be a body. You think it could be Alfred. You jump in shock slightly as another cutscene starts. Bruce removes the sheet slowly, your eyes widen in horror as Joker’s decaying body is relieved, inch by horrific inch. You end up staring in awe as Bruce interacts with the corpse, gently grazing his fingers along Joker’s ever degrading purple suit. You want to turn away, but some unknown force is making you keep on looking. The song “Only You” which Joker sings during the end credits of the main game is playing now, and you can faintly hear Bruce humming along. You are utterly disturbed by this game file, that you look at the controller, searching for the home button, but just before you can press it, you hear Bruce whisper, “there is no Batman without his Joker.” Shaking your head in disbelief that this had happened, you remove the game from your xBox and return it to its case. You then pick up your laptop, searching for other accounts of this extra content on game sites or youtube. Nothing. You then wonder, maybe you’re the first person to discover this hidden file, or maybe you imagined the whole thing. You laugh nervously to yourself, “I’ve just been playing too much,” you say inaudible. You decide to call it a night and head off to bed, your dreams filled with demonic laughter and a dead beloved clown.