"This is all your fault you know"

"How is it my fault, I simply just wanted to outsmart and humiliate the penguin, but no, you had other ideas"

Riddler and scarecrow were sat on the floor, tied up to the railings of one of the staircases in penguins museum. Penguins goons were stood chatting over the other side of the room and would occasionally move over to them both to try and shut them up from arguing.

"If you had not set off that alarm, we would not be here would we?" Riddler asked scarecrow

"Yeah like your idea was better, eddy"

"Don't call me eddy!"

"Ooh it seems I've struck a nerve"

"Why don't I strike a scarecrow on the head"

Scarecrow was hesitant to speak after that and riddler carried on struggling to untie himself. After about fifteen minutes penguin entered the room with his hentchmen, he had a cigar in his mouth and was carrying his umbrella in his right hand. He stopped in the centre of the room and one his henchmen held his cigar as he spoke. "well well, look what we have e're then, a couple of freaks trying to break into my museum, why are you here then lads, what can i do for you...for a price of course" penguin said with his strong cockney accent.

Penguin bent over in front of them both and moved his face only inches away from riddlers.

"tell me why you are here, edward. And why you have suddenly joined forces with dr crane here"

Riddler moved his face even closer then spat at penguin. Penguin nearly fell backwards in disgust. "arr you bastard, isnt spitting in someones face a litte low, even for you mr nigma" penguin snapped his fingers and his henchman came over and smacked riddler in the face. Riddler grunted in pain and the henchman turned to scarecrow and said "you're next freak" then walked over to penguins side as penguin finished wiping riddlers spit off his face.

Something clicked in jonathans mind, for the first time in ages, the scarecrow felt scared. He feared what would happen to himself and riddler during the rest of the evening, sarecrow remained silent for the rest of the so called interrogation.

C2

It had gone past midnight, scarecrow was half asleep and riddler had managed to untie one of his hands and was now working on the other and struggling out of the rope that he had bounding his ankles.

"Crane...crane wake up" riddler whispered

"...urr what?"

"I've managed to get untied, turn around I'll untie you"

Jonathan slowly turned his back to Edward and Edward got to work on Jonathan's rope around his wrists. Suddenly a loud smash echoed through the room next door, the sounds of penguins men shouting soon followed.

After a few minutes the shouts died down and the room was silent, the doors of the room burst open and about 10 of penguins men marched through, however they were acting not quite like themselves.

Edward noticed the men were all wearing headbands, sticking out the headbands were small rectangle pieces of card...

Soon all the men had gathered round Jonathan and Edward, Edwards heart was pounding, why are these men just standing around them. The men separated in to two groups and in the middle emerged a small figure, possibly around 4"11, well... Maybe taller due to his old top hat. It was the mad hatter of course.