Characters do not belong to me except Ruby she's mine
Penguin raced out of the museum when a black shadow dropped into his path. "Going somewhere Penguin?" Batman asked.
"Actually Batman, I was" Penguin replied. He pulled out his umbrella, pushed a button on the handle, and held up the umbrella as it turned into a propeller. Penguin flew upwards; Batman reached for his batarang but was kicked in the side by one of Penguins Kabuki twins.
When he stood up all three where gone. "Great" thought Batman "just when the day was on the upside."
Penguin returned to Cobblepot Manor; he dropped off his newly acquired jewels and sat down in the tattered parlor. He was reading a book when he heard the door open. "Who's there?" He said picking up his umbrella.
To his surprise some one answered back "Thomas Kren" Penguin walked to the hallway and was surprised to see a five foot tall brown haired man in a black business suit carrying a black Briefcase.
"What do you want?" asked Penguin
"I have important news for you Mr. Cobblepot" Thomas answered.
"Oh yeah? Is it good news or bad news?" Penguin asked
"It depends on how you feel about learning that you are not the last of the Cobblepots."
"What!?" Said Penguin "Not the last but how could that be?"
"That's right Mr. Cobblepot you have a sister."
Bruce Wayne was sleeping; he had had a long night and had fallen asleep at his desk in Wayne towers. Mr. Fox came into the office and smiled slightly when he saw Bruce sleeping at his desk. Mr. Fox shook Bruce's shoulder "hmmm?" mumbled Bruce
"Mr. Wayne?" Mr. Fox asked
"What is it Fox?" Bruce asked
"Well, Joker escaped from Arkham and you have a visitor."
Bruce Wayne sat up quickly. "Well? Who is it?" he asked quickly.
"A lady here says that she has something important to tell you" Fox answered
"Ok, well send her in." Mr. Fox walked out and about 2 minutes later a young woman stepped in. She was a little over 5 feet tall with black hair, green eyes, and a pale complexion. "Hello, please have a seat" said Bruce gesturing to the chair in front of his desk.
The woman sat down and said "Good evening Mr. Wayne, my name is Abigail Gaten. I have something to tell you Mr. Wayne."
"Well, please continue" said Bruce in response to her pause.
"Ethan Bennett has requested your presence at Arkham Asylum." "O- Ok tell him I'll be there at five." Abigail nodded stood up and exited the office. Bruce leaned back in his chair deep in thought.
Penguin hurried down the street "552 Sycamore Street." That's where the Kren guy had said his sister was. "Sister…" He still couldn't get over it; his head was reeling "If I do have a sister why did I never know…" He stopped 552 sycamore street was right in front of him. He walkedup to the door and knocked, an older woman in her early 40's opened the door.
"Oh, hello Mr. Penguin we were expecting you."
"Erm, yes well I'm here to see my… my sister."
"Of course" the woman said politely "follow me." Penguin followed the woman upstairs to a room. The woman knocked on the door "Ruby? There's some one here to see you." The door handle turned and when the door opened Penguin couldn't have been more surprised. What he first found himself looking at was a hand… a hand very much like his own with only three fingers except they were skinnier. He looked up at the girl, she was about a foot taller than him and quite skinny, but she had black hair like his moms and blue eyes like his and his dads. Her nose was hooked it was shorter than his but still longer than average, there wasn't much doubt that she was his sister.
"Hi! You must be Penguin, I'll admit when they told me I had a brother I didn't quite believe them." She reached out her hand and he shook it. It felt strange to shake hands with a person with almost identical hands thought Penguin. "They said you would be offering me a place to stay."
"Uh yes" said Penguin finally able to speak "I have a house, it's a bit of a fixer upper but it's livable"
"Oh good, anyplace is better than here" she said happily. "Just let me get my pet."
"Pet?" thought Penguin he hoped it wasn't a cat. She returned and to his surprise she had an extremely large raven perched on her shoulder. She picked up her suitcase and they walked downstairs and out of the building.
"So you like birds?" said Penguin
"Oh yes I just love the little darlings" she said stroking her raven.
"Maybe we're more alike than I thought." "So what's his name?" He asked gesturing toward the shiny black bird on her shoulder
"Oh him? His name is Henry" she said. The bird cocked his head and looked at her at the mention of his name.
"Nice name" said Penguin smiling for some reason even he didn't know.
"So what's your real name?" she asked suddenly "Not to be rude or anything but I'd like to call my brother something else than a flightless bird".
He looked at her and smiled "Oswald Cobblepot" he said simply.
"Nice, so… are we going to walk all the way to your house?" she said stopping and looking at him.
"Hmm? Oh no far from it, my umbrella here will take care of that."
"Your umbrella?" she said looking at him incredulously.
"Yes" he said opening it and placing it on the ground "Hop in" he said.
"You're crazy" she said but hopping in anyway, she grabbed him in surprise as the umbrella lifted up and they were flying, Henry cawed in surprise and gripped her shoulder tightly. "Wow, did you design this yourself?" she said sounding impressed.
"Yep and this isn't my only umbrella either, I have several each with different functions."
"Cool, hey do you have any pets?" she asked
"Yes I have quite a collection of birds from all parts of the globe" he said
"Wow! That's amazing" she said smiling. Penguin noticed that she had a set of teeth quite like his own as well. The umbrella landed "Is this your house?" She said hopping out of the umbrella.
"Yes it is" he replied
"Well fixer upper is right, but it's lovely compared to where I was living" she said shortly. She picked up her luggage and walked up the driveway.
"Huh, she's not bad, not bad at all" Penguin thought, maybe it wouldn't be to bad having company around besides his birds.
Bruce Wayne walked up the crumbling sidewalk towards Arkham Asylum. "I wonder what Ethan wants to talk to me about." He hadn't seen Ethan since he had captured him and escorted him to Arkham, only he hadn't been Ethan then he had been Clayface. Bruce was escorted through the hallways of Arkham by two guards toward Ethan's cell. On the way he could hear all too familiar sounds for him as the Batman, Joker's evil laugh, Riddler swearing revenge, Scarface and the Ventriloquist arguing about an honest living, and the growling of Arkham's newest inmate Killer Croc.
When they arrived at Ethan's cell Ethan stood up and walked over to look, when he saw Bruce he said "hi Bruce" he said quietly.
"Hi Ethan "said Bruce "You wanted to see me?"
"Yeah, Bruce I just wanted to say I'm sorry, I'm sorry for becoming, well, a monster."
"It's alright Ethan you know you might be able to get out of here soon."
"Yeah I know, so how have things been in Gotham Bruce?"
"I don't know about as normal as Gotham will ever get."
"Yeah I miss it though craziness and all" Ethan said thoughtfully.
A guard coughed and Bruce said "Well I guess my times up Ethan, Bye."
"Bye Bruce" Ethan waved as Bruce walked out of sight.
"I hope he's alright" Bruce thought to himself as he walked on.
Penguin watched her with interest as she inspected the mansion. She was looking at everything from the dusty chandelier to the ripped up curtains. Eventually she came to the aviary doors "What's in there?" she asked.
"Just my birds, don't disturb them right now though" He said bluntly.
"That's fine I need to get changed anyway this dress is annoying me." She grabbed her suitcase and headed upstairs. He wondered what had been wrong with the dress she was wearing, true it lacked class but it was pretty enough. He went into the parlor and watched the T.V he had recently stolen until he heard her come downstairs. He turned around and she was standing in the doorway, what she was wearing stunned him. Her dress was a long and black just touching the floor with its ruffled edges. It had a diamond collar and a raven shaped out of rubies studded on the side. She was wearing probably about one million dollars worth of diamonds and sapphires on her fingers, and finally perched on top of her head was a classy diamond and emerald tiara.
He spent about three minutes taking this in before asking "Where did you get that?"
"Oh, this I well, I stole it" she said shrugging her shoulders.
"You stole it?" said Penguin
"Yes" she said as if getting ready to defend herself.
"That's great!" he said enthusiastically
"it is?" she said confused
"Yes! Follow me" he said. She followed him to the aviary, he pushed open the door and she gasped. There was an enormous pile of jewels sitting under a large tree filled with birds of every shape and size.
"Wow!" she said, she rushed over to the pile of jewels took off one of her sapphire rings and replaced it with a bigger one.
"You like my little collection?" he said grinning
"I love it! Who knew we had so much in common? I guess it's just cus we're both related" She said, now she was smiling too.
"You know what I'm thinking?" He said
"Full out crime spree?" she said
"Exactly."
OK don't get confused about Lucius saying Joker had escaped and then hearing him later in Arkham Lucius just said it to get Bruce alert.