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`Alice was simply in her cell now, laying on her cot-like bed, which had large tan colored straps on it in case a patient needed to be held down for some reason. Sadly for her, Alice did not have a blanket, someone must have snatched it up earlier when she wasn't in here. Yeah. She was still bare-foot as she tapped her feet softly on the end of the cot-bed's railing. Small metal thuds sounding off. The Doctors did not make her take off her black nail-polish which was painted onto her fingernails and toenails. It was pretty, and Ms. Ivy had painted the color on, well she had wanted poison green but Alice wanted black, just like her eye-shadow, which was lighter black with hints of gray-silver and glitter. Who let Arkham patients have make-up is beyond our knowledge.
That's when sirens blared off, different shades of red shining everywhere as the other lights turned off, leaving this wing and probably the other as well near pitch black forgetting about the alarm lights. There were screams and cries coming from everywhere now, nearly louder then the sirens. Alice's eyelids slowly opened as she was now awake once more. She knew exactly what the sirens had meant. The Joker had escaped. Again. Alice only moved her right arm, letting it slip off the bed, fingertips almost brushing the cold marble floor then touched something very soft and fuzzy. Alice quickly grabbed it and pulled it back to her, that right arm wrapped around Teddy on the bed. Alice didn't like looking under her bed. Not at all. She was afraid Scarecrow would be there. She didn't like him. He had hurt a lot of people. A lot. Including Batman.
There was worry and fear gleaming in Alice's eyes by now, clutching her teddy bear closely when she heard gun-shots fired, a loud and quick sob escaped her mouth and her eye-lids squeezing tightly shut.
"Alice!" Marissa Garcia's voice rang, but it was more snappy, holding authority. This wasn't Marissa. It was Ally. Alice had secretly wondered why Joker didn't get confused, he called Marissa and her both 'Ali ' and 'Ally'. You'd think it'd get confusing after a while.
Alice re-opened her eye-lids quickly, shivering as if cold, her blue eyes dazzling as she sat up on her cot. Staring at the unbreakable plastic wall in front of her cell, seeing Marissa, well Ally, across the area in the other cell, then a explosion sounded off, as debris and and dust flew on the so-called unbreakable plastic wall caved in Alice was already in duck and cover mode with Teddy there with her. All this being normal in Arkham Asylum. Normal.
"Maris—Ally!" Alice screamed, then dust covered the whole area and someone yanked her roughly off the bed and out of the cell area, she coughed harshly and whimpered as she noticed she had dropped teddy somewhere back in her cell. He'd be so alone without her. She could barely see the two large wooden doors of the wing but they were open and she was dragged through quickly then the doors slammed shut and poor Alice was still hacking up a fit, tears running down her cheeks and onto her now-dirty t-shirt.
There was Issac Renaldi, breathing heavily and then straightening up to full height, still holding onto Alice's left wrist but barely, his nails were so squeaky clean like his hair, it was nearly scary. Alice stared at him, dirt specks still in her eyes which made her twitch a little.
"Do. You. Have. Any. Idea. How many germs are in one speck of dust or dirt?"He hissed at her and her blue eyes widened in fear
"U—Um, millions?" She guessed and he nodded a moment later, not missing a beat
"Exactly." He hissed then looked around the corner there, staring up at the now-broken stairs, which were on fire as far as could tell.
"Did he do that?" And by he she meant Joker and then some Doctors appeared at the top
"You two, stay there!"They yelled and started down the stairs but were delayed do the fire, Issac was already yanking Alice down a long hallway, the moonlight shining in from the barred up windows now, both of them barefoot and breathing heavily but that did not matter right now. None of it did. Arkham Asylum was going into chaos. Again.
The floors were dirty and disgusting but Alice ran down them, not caring that her feet would get dirty too, her black lipstick was getting smudged too but she let Issac drag her about like rag-doll, cause she was fragile like that. Issac pulled her around a corner, shoving her against the freezing old wall, the railing hurting her back but Issac just looked around the corner, pinning her in place "Stay here."
"But--" Issac was already running down the hallway to the left and then was gone just like that "I don't wanna be alone." Alice whimpered as she heard screams again, slowly sliding down the hallway, her hands on the metal railing behind her. Everything thing then got really quiet, too quiet. Alice stepped only about four inches away from the railing, she was hugging herself in fear as she whimpered again. She didn't like it when it got quiet.
She could hear someone walking down the hallway, the one she had ran down with Issac, footsteps echoing all throughout the area, intimidating. Alice slowly backed way, breathing heavily, she shivered as she could see her breath now in the air. It. Was. *That*. Cold. She bit her lower lip then but felt someone grab her from behind.
"Shh. Shh!" A dangerous voice whispered into her left ear, it was low and warm, it tickled her skin "Don't. Say. A. Word."
"Crane!" A security guard yelled as he turned the corner, Alice and the figure holding her turned around quickly, the man holding her close chuckled in amusement.
"Oh no. Not Crane." He waved a finger once, as if scolding the security guard, titling his head to the side "Scarecrow." The Guard reached for his gun and Crane, well Scarecrow in this matter, grabbed her in a choke hold from behind then "I wouldn't do that if I were you."Scarecrow taunted, backing up with Alice still in his hold, his grip tightened so harshly that Alice could barely breath, that's probably why she was coughing now. Tears were starting to drip down her cheeks now, that dust from back in her cell probably wasn't helping her breathing either, nor was Scarecrow here. He let his eye lids droop as he looked down at her. See the thing about Scarecrow is that, he doesn't need his mask for you to know who he is at the moment. You can just tell by looking at him. His blue eyes gleamed with the moonlight for a moment before darkening and his eyes flashed back up at the Guard who was still moving forward "Guess some dogs just don't get the memo in time." Then he let go of Alice, just tossing her quickly and without a second thought to the ground, moving forward at the guard, a puff of smoke appearing as Alice re-covered her face. The man gasped and hacked for air for a few moments before looking back up at Scarecrow "You look a little stressed out." But in the guard's eyes Scarecrow looked like thousands of spiders right now, and he fell back onto the floor, crawling back quickly away from both of them, screaming in horror, ghastly noises.
Scarecrow stood up straight, looking at the man disgusted then snapped his eyes back as he heard fearful whimpering, staring at Alice for a moment with drooped eye lids before walking over with a few quick steps, a steady pace, normal even on whatever you consider normal nowadays. Now, he stood in front of her then, staring down at her "What are you doing?" When Alice looked up, he still looked disgusted and quirked an eyebrow at her. She looked at him innocently, her blue eyes widened slightly, tears sparkling against her pale skin, her makeup somehow staying in place now. She looked dazzling but Scarecrow didn't have time for things like this.
"You scared me?" She whispered in response, Alice here forgot how to move for the moment and he just walked off then, Alice got up to her feet right away and scurried on over, trying to catch up with him now for some stupid, oblivious reason "C--Can I come with you?"
"If you want." He responded in uninterested tone, he really couldn't care less if Alice did come or not, all she had to do was stay out of his way. Alice slid back behind him, walking slowly, trying not to be clumsy and bump into him. That's when they heard this.
"Good Morning, Arkham Asylum." Angelina Falcone's voice rung all over the Asylum, from the speakers"It's exactly one am now. I'd like to thank those who aided in taking down many of the Guards and Doctors. Also, I need Scarecrow and Riddler to go to the West Wing to find Marissa Garcia and Lizzie B., please. Thank you. By a round of screams, who's still alive?" There was a pause by only a few moments before screams were heard everywhere, and if Alice and Scarecrow listened carefully they could hear the faint sound of Angelina Falcone's chuckle "Time to play."Then there was silence that followed, more screams heard but some sounded unhuman at the time. It frightened Alice. Scarecrow walked over to the elevator, looking around as if trying to find something then he reached over as he had found it. Keys.
He stood back up, holding them in his right hand and pressed the down button, after a few moments Alice stood behind him again and the elevator doors opened, Scarecrow stepped in and turned around, not really caring if she was coming or not, but Alice hopped right on in for the ride. The elevator doors shut close, Scarecrow and Alice now out of view. They were both heading to the West Wing of course, which was on the far-left of the Asylum too. It was gonna be a very, very long morning.
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