Chapter 7: DCEU: Escape Games Part II

With Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman noticed that this part of the chamber looked like a ballroom out of a Disney movie except there was a desk in the corner with a mirror in front of it. She went over to it and picked up a photo of a ball that was on top of it. It was a photo of the same ball she had seen in the painting in the last room. On the photo was the date and time it had been taken which was March 17, 2017 at 4:13 PM. She also saw a piece of paper on the desk. She picked it up and read it aloud.

"In order to escape, find the right object to open the gate." Wonder Woman search the desk for clues and found one of the drawers with a padlock on it. She tried the date from the photo 0317 but the lock didn't loosen. She tried the year, 2017, and the lock unlocked. She opened the drawer and found a red rose. Wonder Woman placed it on the desk and looked around the room for a hint to where the other objects might be.

With Cyborg

While his first room had been a crowded room full of papers, the second room was a neat and clean office. Cyborg saw a paper from yesterday by the Daily Planet on the desk, also a radio, and a notecard with writing on it. He read,

"In order to escape, find the right object to open the gate." He looked back at the newspaper on the desk. "That must be one of them. Now to find the other ones." He looked around the "office" and saw a safe with an old-fashion rotating dial. "Probably something in here. If only I knew the code."

With Batman

Batman's next room looked like a backstage area of a stage or performing area. There was also a bookcase on the opposite wall from where he was standing and next to it was a cooler.

"Odd that a place like this would have a bookcase," he said aloud. Batman went over to the bookcase and saw a keypad on one of the shelves. Batman took a step back to see if there were any clues that were actually ON the bookcase. He then noticed that there were numbers engraved in it. Batman started on the left and read the numbers left to right. "2-2-7-5-9-5-3." He typed that it and the bookcase slid over revealing a small room the size and shape of a sliding door closet. He went inside and saw on the floor a plastic water bottle and on its wrapper was the word circus written in green Sharpie. Batman saw that there was a glow from glow-in-the-dark paint coming from both sides of the room. He turned his head to the right first and it said 'WRONG SIDE! TRY THE OTHER SIDE!'. The word other had been underlined several times. Batman turned his head to the left and read,

"In order to escape, find the right object to open the gate."

With Aquaman

He found himself in a room that looked like an old abandoned submarine.

"Okay you're just mocking me," he said. "First the fish tank and crossword puzzle and now a submarine. What's next fish plush toys?" He then noticed dark blue wall stickers and read the following. "In order to escape, find the right object to open the gate. What's that suppose to mean?"

"Would fishboy like a hint?" Riddler mocked.

"Call me fishboy again and you're dead when I get out of here," Aquaman threatened.

"I'll that as a no then," Riddler said before going back to radio silence. Aquaman looked around the room for clues and he found that one of the "windows" had a keypad next to it. He went over to it and saw that on the rim were the letters N-E-M-O. He looked at the keypad and saw numbers and that there were letters in small print underneath them.

"So if I change the letters into numbers I get…6-3-6-6." The "window" swung open and he found a clownfish plush toy. "Seriously?! Riddler! You are going to be in big trouble when I get out of this!"

With Superman

The next room in his chamber was made to look like a baseball field and it even had the diamonds on the floor. He looked across the room and sprained on a black wall with white paint was,

"In order to escape, find the right object to open the gate," Superman read. He then noticed that there was something under first base. He flipped it over to find a guitar key chain. He picked it up and looked around the room for more clues.

With Flash

Flash was in a "fight" with a Parademon and was VERY thankful that he was allowed to use his powers otherwise he would not have survived. It was very easy to dodge the monster but he wasn't much of a fighter so beating it was a challenge. Then an idea accorded to him. He went over to the Christmas lights and waited for the monster to attack. He stayed there until the Parademon flung itself at him. Flash moved when it had causing the Parademon to make contact with the Christmas lights and making it blow-up. The slime got all over Flash.

"That was gross," Flash said. He walked through the doorway and was sprayed with water and cleaned off the slime off his suit.

"You're welcome," Riddler said. Flash walked into the room and noticed that it looked like a diner. He then saw that on a table were pancakes cut into shapes.

"In order to escape, find the right object to open the gate," Flash read. "Well the pancakes are probably NOT one of them. Then where would they be?" He looked around and settled on trying to look in the place's fridge. He tried to open it but it wouldn't. "Good. It's locked that means I'm on the right trail." He saw a digital Sudoku puzzle near the door handle. "Great another puzzle. Why can't it just be a lock with a missing key?" He had mumbled that last statement.

With Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman looked around the room for a clue where another object might be and she couldn't find anything. She knew there was a clue in regards to the mirror but she couldn't figure out what it was. She was still in front of it but she wasn't looking directly at it.

"You're not giving up are you?" a voice asked. Wonder Woman perked up and looked around the room to figure out who had spoken.

"Who's there? Show yourself!" Wonder Woman demanded.

"Princess, I'm in here," the voice said. Wonder Woman looked back at the mirror and saw her reflection wink at her. "That's right. I'M talking to you.

"How…"

"Enchanted mirror," her reflection answered. "Happens to play a big part in the movie that this room's puzzles are centered around. Also arguing with one's reflection happens a lot in movies and in CERTAIN stories based off this room's theme that we like. Like one of our guilty pleasures."

"What do you want?" Wonder Woman demanded. "Are you here just to mock me?"

"Partially," her reflection answered. "Is it working?" Wonder Woman shook her head. "Well how about we talk about…Steve. You failed him. So sad, boo hoo." Diana's hands made fists. "Working? No? The wound's too old. I should've known it wouldn't work." Diana walked away. "Wait! What about…Bruce?" Diana stopped. "Does he know how you feel about him?… I'll take that as a no. Always falling for mortals, aren't we Diana? And doomed to outlive them. And out of all the mortals it had to be the infamous Dark Knight. The one with an emotional black hole of a heart. Boo hoo." Diana smashed the mirror and watched as its shards fell onto the floor. "Yeah! You broke me!"

"You wanted me to?" Wonder Woman questioned.

"Of course!" her broken reflection exclaimed. "Why do you think I was being such a pain?! I wanted you to break me and get the flower. Now see you later, me! Though do yourself a favor and tell Bruce how you feel! You won't regret it! Sorry about being annoying!" When her reflection stopped talking, Wonder Woman noticed the lily that was in a compartment in the wall. She took the lily out and then looked at the glass.

"I wonder if the last episode is out yet?"

With Cyborg

"So listening in won't work," Cyborg said. "So maybe there's a clue here somewhere." He looked around the room and looked through the "Daily Planet" article. He looked through it several times and didn't find anything those first few times. When he looked through this time he looked with his cybernetic eye and caught sight of three letters faintly unlined. They were, in order, a-p-p.

"I doubt it's app and even if it is that than in what way do I turn the dial and how many times? Besides, the room's theme seems to be newspapers. Hum." Cyborg thought through it then he heard singing from the radio on the desk.

"I'll be either dead or dreamin'. Just look at that pap with my face beamin'. Tomorrow they may wrap fishers in it but I was a star for one whole minute!" Cyborg then realized that the word was pap and the sequence was in the page numbers. He went over to the safe and started on 7 for p, turned the dial twice to the left before settling on 2 for a, he turned the dial five times to the right, and then settled on 7 for the last p. The safe opened and Cyborg found an old, crumbling article by "The World".

"Don't ask me how. Fortune found me, fame just crowned me, I'm the king of New York! Look and see!"

"How long's that been on?" Cyborg wondered. "It didn't even seem on when I came in."

With Batman

Batman left the closet-size passageway and look around the room for clues. He decided to try the cooler that was near the bookcase. He opened it and saw a glass of juice inside. He put in next to the water bottle on the bookcase. Then something began playing over the speakers of the room.

"Right here. Right now. I put the offer out. I wantya chase you down, I know you see it. You run with me and I can cut you free out of the drudgery of walls you keep in."

"Since when is Riddler into musicals?" Batman muttered.

With Aquaman

"Why is that everyone LOVES mocking me?" Aquaman exclaimed. "My power to talk to fish IS USEFUL." He sighed and looked around the room and he saw that there was a loss tile on the floor. Aquaman lifted it and found a ladder leading down into a passageway. He climbed down and found a door with a rusty wheel on it. Aquaman struggled to turn it but with effort he managed to loosen the wheel and turn it to the left. The door unlocked and Aquaman went into the room. When he walked inside he found himself somewhere else.

"A dentist's office?" he questioned. And it was, chair and all. Aquaman first went over to the chair to inspect it. He noticed a clear tab exposed on the chair and he pulled it. The chair's cushion came up and he found a goldfish plush toy surrounded by water. Aquaman took it out and water dripped out of it. He rang it out and then put the chair's cushion back down.

With Superman

Superman saw that there was a door on both sides after scanning the room several times, without X-ray vision because the place was lead-lined. He over to the left first and discovered a keypad lock. Above it were the numbers 7664.

"Too easy," Superman muttered. "Maybe there's a clue in it if I convert them into letters." He looked at the keypad. "It has to make an actual word so q is not the first letter, since u always follows. The first letter is either p, r, or s. P-O-M-G? No. R-O-M-G. No. S-O-M-G. No. Wait! SONG. That has to be it so how many songs are in the play? Okay, there's "The Opening", "Schroeder", "Snoopy", "The Kite", "The Doctor Is In", "Beethoven Day", "The Book Report", "My New Philosophy", "The Baseball Game", "The Rehearsal", "Little Known Facts", "Suppertime", and "Happiness". That's 13." He typed in 0013 but it didn't open. "Maybe I forgot one?" He typed in 0014 and the door unlocked.

The room looked like a locker room. He saw the baseball equipment all lined up and either on a rack or on a hook. He looked through all the stuff and found a piano key chain in the catcher's glove.

With Flash

"FINALLY!" Flash exclaimed. The fridge swung open and Flash found a plate of scrambled eggs. Flash placed the eggs on the counter and began looking through the cabinets. He found one that was locked with a keypad.

"Hum. I wonder," Flash muttered. He went over to one of the cabinets and pulled out the flour. "Maybe I can dust for prints on this." He took a handful of flour and carefully applied it to the pad. Flash then took a washcloth and carefully took off the extra flour. He then saw fingerprints on the numbers 3-4-5-6. "Okay. Now in what order? 6-4-5-3?" It worked and he found a plate of bacon in the cabinet. "Okay. So one more to go."

"What makes you so certain?" Riddler asked.

"Because it's always three," Flash responded. "Three blind mice, three musketeers, three little pigs, three…"

"Okay I get it!" Riddler exclaimed.

With Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman continued to search the room but she couldn't find anything and she was had 30 minutes left.

"Diana think!" she told herself. "Where haven't you checked?" It was then that she noticed the chandeliers. "Up. I haven't looked up!" She checked the chandeliers and saw that there was a daisy hanging over the edge of one. "Great. Now how am I suppose to find it without flying?"

She looked down at her lasso and smiled. She took it off its hook, aimed it at the daisy, and caught it. She lowered it down and put the lasso back in its place. She put the daisy on the desk.

"Now which one'll open the gate?" she asked herself. She thought back to everything in her chamber. The ballroom, the enchanted mirror, the years 1991 and 2017, and what her reflection had said about mirror-selves talking in a retelling that was APPARENTLY a guilty pleasure for her. She then remembered what the guilty pleasure was that had a creature talking to his reflection and what it was loosely based off of. Then it all fell into place.

With Cyborg

After scanning the room again he settled on searching the desk. Cyborg found a lock on one of the drawers and saw that it was five number dial padlock.

"Okay, maybe there's a clue in another drawer." He looked through the drawers and found a notepad, he opened it, and he found a riddle on the first page and it said, "It was on the wall, but not in the hall. I'm in a song, and I was near a fall. I have a paper, my newsbearers became makers. Who am I? Would you like to know?" He looked back at the five dial padlock and then the notepad. He noticed that W-O-R-L-D were faintly underlined and had easer marks. "Looks like he changed his mind about underlining the letters. Now let's put that into the letter padlock." It worked and Cyborg pulled out an article of the New York Times on Pearl Harbor. He placed it on the desk along side the other two newspapers.

"Now which one'll open the gate?" He remember everything in his chamber. The Newsies boycott, "King of New York", the other painting of the Earth with a book inside, the riddle, and then he noticed that a different song was playing on the radio.

"Even though we ain't got hats or badges we're a union just by sayin' so. And the World will know!" Cyborg made his choice.

With Batman

The song continued to play and didn't even stop when it was over. The song was on loop. Batman found some cabinets on the bookcase below the shelves and these were lock and key.

"The key has to be in one of the books," Batman said. "But which one?"

"Or you can do like me. Stay in the cage or you finally take the key," he heard from over the speakers. Batman looked through the books for one about cages on the shelves and found one called Cages and Traps. He opened it and found a golden key in between the two table of content pages. He used the key on the cabinets and found something on the sixth one he tried. It was a small glass filled with some of liquid. He took it out of the cabinet, put his finger in, and tasted it.

"Whiskey," he said. He put the glass next to the other drinks. "So which one'll open the gate?"

"Whiskey and misery. And parties and plays." The song continued on.

"They were at a bar," Batman reminded. He knew then he knew which one would open the gate.

With Aquaman

He looked around the "dentist office" and found a padlock on a cabinet under the table where the fish tank was.

"What is it with this guy and locks?" Aquaman wondered aloud. "There's gotta be a better way to challenge us." Aquaman decided to look around for a clue to the code for the lock. He found a photo in a frame and the photo was of a young girl with brown pigtails, braces, and she was holding a dead goldfish in a bag. She had a nametag and Aquaman had to squint to see it. It read Hi, my name is Velma.

"That has to be the answer," he told himself. He then changed the letters into numbers and got 83562. It unlocked and he found a swordfish plush toy. He then took the toys and went back up to the "submarine" area.

"Okay, so which toy is the one to get me out of here?" Aquaman asked himself. He thought through everything that had been in the rooms. He realized that there was only one of the fish was in the first room, all throughout both parts of the one he was in, and whose combination to unlocking it was its own name. "I've got it!"

With Superman

Superman went to the right and found that the door was already unlocked. He opened it with ease and headed inside. He found that the room looked like a classroom. He quickly checked all of the desks and found nothing except for an already mixed rubic cube.

"Great," he muttered. He struggled with it for ten minutes before he solved it. When he had, it opened up to reveal a violin key chain. Superman then went back to the "baseball field". He looked at all three key chains, the guitar, violin, and piano. He knew which one to pick in a heartbeat.

With Flash

Flash found that the waffle iron had been on and that there was batter inside.

"When did that happen?" he wondered. "I don't remember… Oh, I better take them out before they burn." He tried opening it but it wouldn't. He sighed. "Another puzzle."

"Indeed," Riddler said. "Now how many more seconds does it need to be in if it's been in for 1 and…40 and counting."

"It's been four seconds," Flash said. "Better set the timer." He got to the timer and had it ready for eleven more seconds so when it reached 1 and 49, he started it. When the timer reached zero, Flash put the waffle on a plate and put it next to the other food items. He thought through the possibilities for each before deciding.

"11 loves waffles," Flash muttered. "So it's…"

With Wonder Woman

"The rose."

With Cyborg

"The World"'s newspaper."

With Batman

"The whiskey."

With Aquaman

"The clownfish."

With Superman

"The piano."

With Flash

"The waffle."

With Third Person

Each one placed their chosen item in a tray that was on the exit door and they were all correct. When they walked through the door, they found they were all there and in front of someone.

"I am Mongol of War World," he said. "And you have provided us with great entertainment. But now you die."

What to guess what the theme of each room is? If no one guesses I'm not revealing until this story is over or ever.

Anyways, PLEASE NO flaming about the puzzles and such. This was a hard chapter to write and took A LOT of planning on my part to get this thing done. So please no hating on certain things especially the mirror thing.