PART SEVEN
At Gotham City Penitentiary, the Joker and the Riddler looked up irritatingly from their chess game as they heard the cellblock open up, and yet another costumed criminal was led inside to be locked up with them. They heard the screaming and the yelling as the five officers restrained the Goblin and pushed him kicking and screaming to his jail cell. The Penguin peered through the bars of his own cell as their new inmate proved to be more a nut than a criminal mastermind.
"No, I won't go!" Jason Pryde screamed. Still in costume, except for his mask, he wrapped his legs around the bars of the Egghead's cell as the police pulled him off the cage and fought tooth and nail to lock him up in the prison. Once his legs were unwrapped, he bounced off the Catwoman's cage and grabbed the bars on the Archer's cell. As mad as a the Hatter, Pryde's voice became even more cartoonish and even more outlandish as he spread his legs against the doors of his cell and refused to be imprisoned.
"I don't wanna go, you can't make me, I ain't going in." He screamed.
"As looney as a March Hare…" Mr. Freeze stopped reading Robert Frost long enough to peek out the tiny window of his air-conditioned cell. The police guards jerked Pryde back a second and tossed him in hard as they slammed the door. They watched as he jumped up and climbed up the bars as some crazed monkey. Standing on one of the horizontal bars, he let out with one of his loud psychotic laughs as if he were a mad sadistic clown released from a circus of the underworld.
"Shut up in there, and get down from there!" One of the police guards screamed as he fought to catch his breath. Each of the police guards were pressed to their limits and exhausted dragging this lunatic through the prison. All through his arraignment and fingerprinting, the Green Goblin had gone nuts and nearly escaped twice. The other guards finally gasped and relaxed knowing that in the almost two hours since being caught that the Green Goblin was behind bars.
Pryde just continued laughing as he watched the guards leave him. Bouncing off the bars, he landed on his bed and tore it apart. Giggling and laughing at the mess he was making, he began pounding the steel bed to the wall and ripping apart the mattress.
"It was quieter in the women's wing." Catwoman looked up from her cell.
"Shut up!" The Penguin screamed at their new bunkmate. "Joker, is this one of your relatives?"
"Never saw this crazy fool before in my life!" The Clown Prince of Crime scowled as their new inmate went quiet and began bending one of the mattress springs. Pryde started humming to himself as he reached out the bars with the bent spring and began picking the lock.
"Riddler!" Pryde screamed. "When is a teenage boy like a prison?"
"When he breaks out!" The Riddler began laughing too as the Goblin pushed his door open and passed him his pick and several other bent springs from the trashed mattress. Everyone was cheering and laughing as the Joker sprang out along with the Penguin, Book Worm, Catwoman and everyone else from their indivudual cells. Pryde had sat on the floor, pulled a blade out of his boot and began sawing at the iron grill in the floor. He passed out other blades as they crowded around the grill and finally removed it. The Goblin sprang first to lead the way then stopped and looked up.
"If you meet a pizza-eating turtle wearing a mask," He giggled. "Kick him in the face!"