gotham l.p.

49 Drown

Gotham City, Designated Building
Tuesday Dec 29 11:20 p.m.

Caroline

"Now what ?" I asked helplessly as Penguin and that man-like God disappeared up the rusty winding staircase.

"Well we have three options. We wait here or we wait in the basement." He motioned to a door across us.

"What's the third ?"

"What ?" He asked, distracted.

"That's only two options."

"Oh. Right. The third option is we go upstairs and die."

Penguin

"You. Sly. Dog." I smiled as my fellow villain, Mr. Freeze, said, shaking his head in disbelief. "You gotta wonder why they call you Penguin."

"You should have had faith in me." I crossed my arms, looking at who I fetched. The superhero was looking weak now, in this room of 'bad-guys.'

"What's wrong, baby ?" A slick voice approached him like she was walking a runway. "Cat got your tongue ?" She giggled, licking her bottom lip.

"Cat ? What are you doing messing with these guys ?" His monotone voice finally spoke.

"She didn't take my offer. I wasn't gonna wait for her to decide what's right." She said simply.

"Her loss." Another figure emerged from the shadows. Ivy. "Your loss, too, you know." She smiled at him. "What a pretty girl she was..."

"WAS ?" He jumped forward but my two top men the size of guerrillas pulled back his arms. "What have you done to her." He struggled in his captivity.

"You never thought you'd see me again after that night you saved me, didnt you ?" Ivy tempted.

"When I was captured in the forest by Joker. You were probably glad you didn't have to DEAL with me anymore. You always saw me as the girl who tried too hard, and who would NEVER be like HER. Well now she's gone and it was all for NOTHING. How do you feel now, hero ?" She said. I was surprised myself, I never heard Ivy speak like that.

Cat and Ivy exchanged smirks that displayed their proudness of their 'famine power'. He looked down at the floor in defeat.

"Alright, alright. Back off ladies. The poor superhero has had enough." The beggar from the streets I came across and decided to bring to the party. But he wasn't only a poor boy. He was part of a tradition. His father was the Scarecrow, and when it was time, he would take up the position, and pass it on to his oldest son. I thought he would be a good addition since he and his father already encountered this superhero in the alleys before.

"I don't think we're done just yet." I said, nodding to my boys holding him back. "Bring her in."

Nicole

11:30

I slowly regained consciousness, waking from my daze with confusion. My eyes slowly unblurred and my body stopped tingling. When it did, I kind of realized what was happening, but I didn't know why.

My ankles were wet and my feet bare. I was wearing some kind of costume, it was purple and green and looked like something out of a carnival.

I touched my hands to my mouth, there was a dirty cloth obstructing my breathing. Panic arose in me when I felt the water rising in the glass tank I was in. I focused my eyes on what was beyond the glass and recognized some of the faces. Penguin, Cat, Ivy, and Him. The others were new to me, but something looked familiar about the tall poor boy with dirty long caramel hair.

I pressed my finger pads to the glass. By now the water was already up to my knees. I was being drowned.

Mr. Freeze

"Time's a tickin', boy." I paced the room. "Poor Nicole. If only she was a bit taller she would have a few more moments of breath--"

"She doesn't need to be taller. She's perfect." I heard Joker say in a allured way, putting his hands on the glass to meet hers.

"Help ! Please ! Miley !" She shouted in despair. He leaned against the glass, watching her.

"I gotta say. She's my best work yet. She's so beautiful." He said, I have to admit this guy is a bipolar creep. One minute he's drowning her, the next he's in awe of her.

"STOP IT MICHAEL !" The man in black yelled, like it was gonna work. "You've gone mad, 'Joker.'"

"You're OBSESSED with her. Let her GO. Then you can stare at her breathing body rather than her soulless one all you want, creep." He said, gotta admit the kid is right.

"Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity, in the sense that it needs a little push." Joker said, looking at Nicole who was standing in collar-bone high water. "And she, my boy, is my push."

"Just tell me what you did to her, and he'll let her go." Penguin said impatiently.

"I didn't do anything. I just healed her the night of Halloween."

"Lies, lies, lies." Penguin said. "I guess you will just have to sit here and watch your old friend suffer."

"No !" He exclaimed and as Nicole was struggling to take her last breath the sound of a gunshot fired directly at Penguin's big toe, causing him to fall over.

When I looked at the person aiming the gun, I was surprised to see a small young man with ruffled hair and freezing blue-green eyes.

[A.N. SO IVE SPENT A WHILE ON THIS CHAPTER ITS PRETTY LONG FOR ME AND I KINDA LOVE IT SO MUCH IS GOING ON THE SUSPENSEEE !!! HOPE U LIKE IT TOO, IF U WANNA ANSWER THIS;
WHOS UR FAV SUPERVILLIAN FROM THIS CHAPTER ?? XX :]