"You know? I'm getting pretty sick and tired of that gosh darn playground!" The Riddler remained in the line of inmates trailing down the hallway. "I mean, we're grown adults; who does that Bartholomew think he is?"
Two-Face flipped his coin in the air, caught it, looked at it, and turned towards Edward. "My feelings exactly."
"Not to mention it's almost a hundred degrees outside!" Harley complained. "Slides get really hot when thuh suns been beatin' down on them all day."
Jervis dusted the top of his hat off. "We'll probably have to go on it tomorrow once they clean Johnny up!"
"Wait? Your against the playground?" They all asked in unison.
"Of course I am! I'm not mentally six years old!"
Croc pushed Hatter out of the way to get a word in. "Who cares? Isn't Leland coming back from her visit to that one place, today?"
Eddie sighed heavily. "No Croc! She's coming back next week!"
"Oh."
Poison Ivy budded in getting the inmate's attention. "Do you know what I just noticed?"
Edward's eyes lit up. "AHA!"
The others turned and gave him a mix of a very questioned and a very confused look.
"Well…" He chuckled. "It's pretty obvious what Pamela's talking about, but I'll have you guys figure it out on your own."
"Ooooookaaaayyy…" She continued. "Well since half the hospital is trying to take Bolton down and reattach Scarecrow's arm, I think it might be the perfect time to escape…as a TEAM. The only thing we need to do is distract the guards and Bart."
Harvey flipped his coin and paused. "Good idea! We'll get Bart and you can kiss the guards with that weird poison stuff on your lips."
"Wait? Why do I have to get all the guards? Shouldn't all five of you do that and I kiss Bartholomew…wouldn't it be a heck of a lot easier?"
"Hey! There's six of us 'ere!" Scarface flailed his puppet arms in the air.
"Six…Yes…" She glared.
"You can take Harley with you, Ivy. Trust me, it WILL be easier to take them down the way kind-old-lil-Harv elaborated for us." Edward stroked his chin.
"Are you sure Edward?" She asked suspiciously. What were they planning?
"I'm positive."
"Fine! C'mon Harley, let's go take down the guards."
"YAY! We're gonna escape and meet Mistah Jay on the outside!" She bounced along.
"So…how are we gonna take care of Barty over there?" Croc threw his small rock pile to the side.
"I got it." Jervis made his way through the group and tugged on the side of Bartholomew's lab coat.
"Yes Jervis?"
"Um…" He looked up with his huge blue eyes shimmering in the hallway light. "Where…where do babies come from?"
"Uhhhhhhhhh…" Bartholomew stared off; he had no idea how to answer that question. "Well you see Jervis…well…uh…when…um…"
"C'mon guys, lets go." He instructed the group. "He'll be trying to think of an answer to that question for the next two hours."
"Or….we could've just…punched him." Croc mumbled.
The doctor continued pausing and stuttering while the rest of the guys started tiptoeing away. They snuck around the corner and soon, were running full speed down the hallway. When coming to the possessions closet, everyone but Edward agreed that he would be the one to sneak inside and retrieve their old costumes. After a few arguments Edward agreed, snuck down the hall, and picked the lock. He came stumbling back down the hallway, arms filled with various costumes.
When they finally retrieved their outfits, a sigh of relief was let out amongst the six of them. "Good old coat-WHAT THE HECK!" Jervis flipped his outfit away from him, letting it hit the floor.
"What is it?" Harvey bent down and picked it up. Rustling threw the jacket; he found a green hat that was made to look like a Velociraptor head. "That son of bitch…he must've left this behind when he escaped." He handed the coat to Jervis and put the hat in the hatter's pocket instead of leaving it on the floor.
"What are you doing, don't put it in my jacket again! I swear that's the only hat in the entire world I do not want!" He glanced over to the side, something catching his eye.
"We'd better get going before Bart snaps out of it." The Riddler hurried them along out the front door. "From what I've observed, we could take an ambulance back to Gotham without any suspicion." Eddie made hand gestures to elaborate their escape plan, "Are we clear?" Jervis grabbed what he was looking at in the room and hurried back to the huddle, "I'm good."
"Alright then, let's hea-"
"Wait" Croc had his same old dumb expression plastered on his face. "What'll we do in Gotham?"
"We'll get the mayor!" Edward exclaimed.
"Why the heck would we get th' mayor!" Scarface asked.
"If you listened you'd know, Woodchips!"
"What'd ya call me?!"
"If any of you paid any attention at any point in your lives, then you'd know that the mayor obviously had something to do with the whole playground idea!"
If Edward had been paying any attention at this point in his life, he would have noticed the other four had already run down to the end of the hallway. When they came to the ambulance, Harvey broke open the window and Jervis ran in trying to re-wire the car.
Meanwhile…
"Did ya get all the guards?" Harley stood on top of a pile of security guards she knocked out a few minutes earlier.
Poison Ivy stepped out from the hallway looking around to see if she missed anyone. "Yeah, I think I did…"
"Well that's good, we'd better hurry to meet up with the guys though. They're probably waitin' for us."
"They'd better be." Suddenly sirens could be heard outside. She grabbed Harley's hand and sprinted down the hall, passed Bartholomew, and busted out the door. For a moment she stared in shock, before an expression of utter disdain and rage.
The six Arkham inmates had already driven the ambulance through the front gates and were already down the road. Those sons of bitches.
Hanged out of the window, Riddler waved shouting, "What is not allowed in an awesome party? The answer is a you two!"
"HAHAH! See you later alligator!" Croc yelled out.
Two-Face also waved back with an evil grin. "Sorry ladies, coin landed on the other side!"
Harley looked as if she was on the verge of tears while Ivy, obviously irritated, muttered under her breath. "I hate men."
Laughter bustled from the ambulance as it drove over the hill and out of sight.
