the jokers new toy

chapter twenty-eight

PUDDIN... (edited)

I sit on top of the railing of the escalator reloading my gun and popping my gum. I hardly pay much attention to the others as K.C leaves us and goes over to the SEALS, they put down the tanks of air and look up at him, "i'm going with you" he says.

"We got this" one of the guys shakes his head.

K.C takes off his leather jacket, "I'm not asking brah" he reaches over his head and pulls his hoodie off, "I live underground. Y'all are just tourists" he pushes the four guys out of the way before he starts to crawl down the flooded steps.

Flag is checking his ammo, Deadshot is checking his aim which we all know is perfect. Boomerang is checking the sharpness of his knives. Katana keeps talking to her sword in japanese. "愛する夫よ、私がこの戦いで死んだとしても、私たちはついに再び一緒になれるでしょう" my dear husband, if i die in this battle we will finally be together again.

"Man who killed her husband used that sword." Flag says, "his souls trapped inside of it. She talks to him"

"Hey, well, you know what they say about the crazy ones," Boomerang says.
I look over at them "Huh?" Boomerang snickers and Deadshot looks over at me, I grin as I make eye contact with him. Maybe in another life I'll end up with him and not mister J.

Katana slams her sword shut and flag straightens up, "let's do this"

I hop off the escalator, Diablo stands up from the stairs and we all follow Flag, Boomerang is the last to follow. We walked through the damaged subway, the witch's brother did a number on this place. Wow. we take in all the damage as we walk through it. Deadshot is the first to speak up, "you must really love this girl"

"I thought love was bullshit, dead serious. Desire, mutual benefit or whatever... I mean I get that but actual love?" Flag speaks, "You know I rated that UFO. A lot of believers. No proof." he looks over at deadshot for a second, "and then I met June."

"Do what you gotta do. I got your back" he says.

We keep walking, deadshot falls back to walk next to Diablo, "you gonna fight with us?"

"What if I lose control?"

"Then maybe we'll have a chance," he says.

We exit the subway and make our way over to one of the buildings on the side of the witch, so we can have better eyes on her. We all hide behind these thick pillars. I lean in to get a better look, not sure if I'm crazy or not. "Hey, everyone... can see all this trippy magic stuff right?"

"Yeah why?" Flag looks at me.

"I'm off my meds" I shrug.

We all look at the witch, watching as she uses her power to make this huge cloud of stuff. "So that's your old lady, huh" Deadshot says.

"Yeah" Flag looks at him.

"Well, you need to handle this shit, alright? Get in there. Smack her on her ass. Tell her to knock this shit off"

"I do not think that would be wise" he shakes his head, "we're gonna draw out the big one. My boys will detonate the bomb underneath him."

Boomerang turns to Katana, "hey, we should uh... get a drink sometime."

"I've been waiting for you all night" this eerie voice says which happens to be hers, "Step out of the shadows, I won't bite"

I shrug, my gun up by my head ready to use and start to walk, Deadshot wraps his arm around my waist pulling me back to them. He pushes my gun back to my side.

"Why are you here? Because the soldier led you, and all for waller?" she asks, "why do you serve those who cage you? I'm your ally and I know what you want. Exactly what you want."

Suddenly all I can see is myself hitting a button on a dishwasher with a sparkling diamond ring on my finger, and a baby on my hip as I wear a pink jumpsuit with my hair in rollers. I smile up at the man I love and kiss him, his green hair is gone and replaced by a dark brown. He's all dressed up in a suit, I cup his cheek and kiss him. He walks to my side and lowers himself a bit to put his finger in the open hand of another baby in a high chair. He leans in and kisses the baby's forehead. He married me. He married me and gave me his babies with my blond hair.

"I can't change what I did. AND NEITHER CAN YOU!" Diablos shouted words and snapped me out of the haze.

"He married me," I whisper.

Diablos walks over to us, "it's not real."

"I killed the bat," Deadshot says.

"Nah, you don't want that"

"What? I want that" I look over at him

"She's tryna play games with you, man" he points to his head, "IT'S NOT REAL" he shouts.

"He's right. It's not real" Flag looks up, "we gotta kill that motherfucker"

We all walked out ready to face her, "how long have you been able to see?" she asks.

"My whole life '' Diablo says leading us to her, "you can't have them! These are my people right here"

"But it is our time, the sun is setting and the moon is rising. Humans will adapt to change" she says.

"Lady! You are evil!" deadshot shouts pointing a finger at her.

She clearly didn't like that so she called for her brother. "Make them bow to me!" she says in her language.

Incubus is massive, he stalks towards us. "This is bad!" Flag shouts. We raise our weapons to fight him. Weird black and orange magic stretches out from his hands destroying anything it's pointed at. We duck and cover our heads. We take cover as we all try to fight but nothing works

"We gotta get him in that corner!" Flag shouts and motions to the corner across from us, "thats where the bomb will be"

"I'll do it!" diablo interjects, "i'll get him there"

The guy pushes a bench to Boomerang and holds his hand out ready to kill, Katana jumps up out of nowhere and chops his hand off. Incubus is taken back and looks at his missing hand before he grows it back. Deadshot tries to reason with Diablo, "I lost one family! I ain't gonna lose another" Diablo argues.

"Think it through!" he says.

"I got this, let me show you who i really am" Diablo nods. He runs out in front of Incubus, "over here!" he shouts as he pours fire from the palms of his hands. It pushes him back a bit, until he steps forward and kicks diablo away. He grunts as he slammed into pillars into a broken window. Me and deadshot step out, deadshot fires his guns only to end up getting kicked away and not doing any damage. I hit his leg with my bat but I ended up getting kicked away also, I save my landing.

A second later Diablo comes out of the building like a skeleton on fire, "Esta en perra!" it's on bitch!

Incubus tries to kill him but Diablo shoots a whitish fire from his palms now, backing him into a corner. It turns into a fist fight with them going back and forth. Diablo goes back into his human form and yells, "blow it!" when they are in the corner.

Flag looks unsure, "blow it" he finally says into his comms, "now, GQ now!"

"No!" i shout knowing that if the bomb blows it will kill diablo also, i don't want to lose another person.

"Ahora estás jodido" now you're screwed. He says

The bomb blows up creating a huge hole in the ground. "Fo netick alee" brother! the enchantress shouts. She drops to her knees a bit of the cloud brakes.

I lost another person. Not only Puddin but now diablo... 

super sorry for not updating...