Notes: Batman is owned by DC Comics. This story is dedicated to Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Adam West.
Mr. Freeze went inside of the Clock King's clock store. Mr. Freeze broke out of Arkham Asylum recently, because the Clock King had a business deal for him. Mr. Freeze walked around the store while feeling a little stressed about the temperature. He said, "Hi."
The Clock King replied, "Greetings Mr. Freeze. Thank you for agreeing to visit my charming clock shop."
Mr. Freeze asked, "Do you have an air conditioner?"
The Clock King said, "I want to save money, not waste it on the silly temperature."
Mr. Freeze replied, "Frankly I could care less about all of this clock stuff. What do you want?"
The Clock King patted Mr. Freeze on the head and said, "Lets not waste time with petty comments. Although my clock shop started off with top notch business I've been having lots of trouble recently."
Mr. Freeze didn't have much interest in the Clock King's story. He secretly hoped that the Clock King would hurry up. He asked, "Why has your business been having trouble?"
The Clock King angrily said, "Gotham's pudgy purveyor, the Penguin, has become my most bothersome rival. He recently started selling clocks. Since the Penguin is so good at being a businessman he's been making more at the clock business than I have. It ticks me off."
Mr. Freeze grabbed the Clock King and said, "Frankly your story isn't interesting."
The Clock King replied, "But you have an important role to play in my plan."
Mr. Freeze asked, "What role am I going to have?"
The Clock King said, "I want you to freeze all of Penguin's clocks. Make sure that he doesn't make money selling clocks."
Mr. Freeze sighed and asked, "What will I get from you if I take of your mission?"
The Clock King said, "I'll give you a big check that you can use for your future experiments. You could become Gotham's most successful doctor."
Mr. Freeze replied, "Okay."
A few hours later Bruce Wayne was finishing up a project at his mansion. Bruce said, "I've almost finished my Tony Jay sticker collection." Bruce looked at the sky and saw the Bat Signal.
Alfred Pennyworth replied, "I hate to stress you Master Wayne, but you have a party scheduled here in an hour."
Bruce said, "Cancel the party Alfred."
Alfred replied, "But they'll be dozens of people coming. There's not enough time left to cancel."
Bruce thought about what to do. After a few seconds of thinking he said, "You're going to be tonight's party host."
Alfred replied, "Cool."
Twenty minutes later Batman arrived at the top of the police station. Batman asked, "What's the mission?"
Commissioner Gordon said, "You probably won't like the mission. Tonight you have to help the Penguin."
Batman asked, "Have you lost your marbles?"
Commissioner Gordon said, "No. I keep my marble collection in a safe place."
Batman replied, "I've been a marble expert since I was a kid, but I'm not here to play games."
Commissioner Gordon replied, "Mr. Freeze is attacking the Penguin's clock collection."
Batman said, "The Penguin and Mr. Freeze have teamed up before, but it seems like Mr. Freeze is mad at the Penguin. I better go there before Mr. Freeze gives Penguin the cold shoulder."
Meanwhile Mr. Freeze broke into the Penguin's store, the Iceberg Lounge. Mr. Freeze froze Penguin's shoulders. The Penguin said, "That's way too cold you human ice cream."
Mr. Freeze replied, "Your insults are as cheap as the bird seed you everyday."
The Penguin asked, "What do you want sir?"
Mr. Freeze said, "I'm going to freeze all of your clocks. That way your customers will give you a chilling reception."
The Penguin pretended to be afraid of Mr. Freeze, but he secretly planned on using his umbrella to stop him. Mr. Freeze was unaware that the Penguin's umbrella had sneaky devices in it to hurt enemies. Penguin used the umbrella's heat button to start hurting Mr. Freeze. Penguin said, "You're not going to be able to chill out anymore."
Mr. Freeze replied, "Ironically you're the cold hearted one."
The Penguin said, "Thank you for your dastardly compliment."
Batman arrived before Mr. Freeze got hurt too badly. Batman grabbed the Penguin's umbrella and threw it into the lounge's water area. Penguin walked up to one of his employees and said, "My umbrella's in the water."
The employee replied, "I hope you can get it out of there." The Penguin threw the employee into the water to get the umbrella.
Mr. Freeze's helmet was partially broken, because of the Penguin's warm attack. Batman used a gadget from his utility belt to help Mr. Freeze. Mr. Freeze said, "You saved me Batman. Most people would be thankful for that, but I'm too cold hearted for sentimentality."
Batman replied, "You're wrong Mr. Freeze. You're not as evil as you think you are. You were a nice scientist, until a cruel person turned you into a chilling threat."
Mr. Freeze said, "I'm going to prove that you're wrong Batman." Mr. Freeze started freezing Batman.
The Penguin got his umbrella and noticed that Mr. Freeze was freezing Batman. He was planning on getting rid of Mr. Freeze after Batman got completely frozen.
Batman had a device programmed on his utility belt to keep himself from getting frozen. The device melted the ice that was on Batman. Batman said, "I've melted your chances of winning."
Mr. Freeze replied, "I'm not cool with that Batman." Batman ran up to Mr. Freeze and knocked him to the ground. He briefly took off Mr. Freeze's helmet, threw some knockout gas at Mr. Freeze, and put the helmet back onto the cold villain.
The Penguin walked up to Batman and said, "Thank you for taking care of that snowflake problem Batman."
Batman sighed and replied, "I wish that I could send you back to Arkham Asylum, but you didn't do anything illegal this time Penguin." Batman grabbed Mr. Freeze and ran away.
The Penguin said, "Even though Batman saved me from Mr. Freeze's ice attacks my clocks got too much ice on them to work anymore." He smiled and said, "I'll get more clocks."
An hour later the Penguin broke into the Clock King's shop. The Penguin said, "I'm going to continue to be the most successful clock businessman in Gotham."
The Clock King replied, "I want you to stay away from my store."
The Penguin said, "I'm going to take all of the clocks in this silly store." Penguin used his umbrella to attack the Clock King. After the Clock King fell to the ground the Penguin started grabbing clocks and putting them in bags.
Batman ran into the shop and asked, "What's going on?"
The Penguin said, "I'm getting revenge Batman."
Batman replied, "You don't deserve to get revenge you greedy fool."
The Penguin said, "It seems like you aren't as good of a detective as people claim you are Batman. You didn't realize that the Clock King is a master criminal."
Batman asked, "What did the Clock King do?"
The Penguin was surprised that he had to explain so much to Batman. However it made him feel smarter than Batman so he smiled. He said, "The Clock King hired Mr. Freeze to freeze the clocks that I was selling."
The Clock King got up and said, "However the Penguin is the one who started this situation. I think that over eighty percent of the blame should go to him."
Batman asked, "What do you mean?"
The Clock King said, "I'm supposed to be Gotham's clock seller. The Penguin was stealing my business. That's why I had Mr. Freeze leave Arkham Asylum."
Batman thought about the situation and replied, "You're the real problem Clock King."
The Clock King asked, "What are you talking about Batman?"
Batman said, "Mr. Freeze might of stayed in Arkham Asylum if you didn't cause trouble. Also the Penguin has the right to sell clocks in Gotham. In fact you owe him a lot of clocks for having Mr. Freeze freeze the clocks he was going to sell."
The Penguin replied, "It seems like we agree on this one Batman."
Batman punched the Clock King into a wall. The Clock King passed out. Batman said, "Since the Clock King destroyed your clocks you may have the clocks in his shop Penguin. You're a really lucky bird."
The Penguin replied, "Thank you Batman." The Penguin waved goodbye to Batman. Batman took the Clock King to Arkham Asylum.
Twenty minutes later Bruce Wayne drove back to his mansion. It was 12:30 a.m. so he thought that the party at his mansion would of been over. While outside he saw that the lights were on. He walked inside and saw Alfred wearing a hoodie and rapping. Bruce asked, "What's going on?"
Alfred said, "I was just hosting the party you told me to do Master Wayne. It was so hip that it lasted longer than I thought it would." Bruce rolled his eyes.