Big Problem, Little Time

Chapter VII: Vertigo

As Oliver ran upstairs he saw the Clock King beat Bruce down with the blunt end of an ax. "I'm going to kill you!" The King screamed. He lifted the ax and started bringing it down hard. "Not so fast." Ollie Mumbled. Ollie blocks the ax with his bow and drops smoke. He then goes to grab Bruce and feels the blunt ax hit his back. He screamed and then passed out, the last thing he saw was Bruce and Connor fall right next to him.

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Oh God. Oliver felt terrible. Where was he? What time was it? Where was Bruce and Mia and Connor? To many questions were swirling in his head. He saw who was sitting across from him on the floor tied tight to a chair asleep in his boxers. "Roy?" Oliver said weakly. "Are you dead?" He said again. "He will live, but you will be out soon." Said Count Vertigo. "He is high on Vertigo and you soon will be. Oh, and by the way, the bloody one and the little brat are in the other room." He said with a crazed look. "What about the Bat?" Oliver said. "Dead." The Count says simply. Oliver knew he was bluffing, Bruce had survived the Joker, Killer Croc, even Bane, someone with two needles and a homemade drug can't stop him. He had to stall so Roy could wake up. Oliver started to act sad and even shed a few tears. "This is the end, the end!" Oliver blubbered, fake of course. "Indeed it is, you fool." Said Vertigo approaching the hooded hero with his needles, as soon as he got close enough Ollie ripped his feet free and kicked, but one of the needles pricked him and he saw green and finally pure black.