How the carrot got it's name.


Mist had woken up to what she had hoped was a normal morning. She was very much mistaken, she soon discovered, as she walked down stairs to the kitchen to see the twins consouling their father who had his head in his hands.

She frowned and walked over cautiously. Had it been another nightmare? If so how come she hadn't heard anything? Come to think of it she didn't actually remember Edward coming to bed that evening or the evening before that either.

"What's going on?" she asked, walking over and tilting her head to the side.

Cleo looked up as she rubbed her father's back. "The carrot got away."

Ah. There it was. The deranged mutant carrot or one of them at least that had sneaked it's way into their house by their shopping. Last she heard of the carrot, Edward been threatening it with a knife and staring it down in the bathroom, after that she assumed he'd dealt with it.

She frowned slightly to herself. Of course he hadn't got it. She should've known better. There hadn't been a months worth of gloating over defeating the stupid thing, she should of known something was wrong.

"I see," she said carefully before giving Edward a critical look. "Where is it now?"

"I don't know," he mumbled into his hands, before looking up and she winced slightly at the sight. He looked worse for wears, almost as bad as he had on Halloween when the Arkham Knight, well Jason, had attacked. Bags under his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot too and he had some slight stubble growing.. okay how long had this been going on?

"Edward…?" she asked carefully. "When's the last time you slept?"

He stared at her like she was the crazy one. "Can't sleep. Have to find it. Stop it. Deranged vegetable in the house, it could gut poor Cleo and Trivia. Have to find it."

The twins looked up at their mother.

"Could the carrot gut us in our sleep?" Cleo asked.

Mist sighed and rubbed her eyes. It was too early for this.

"No, Cleo," she mumbled. "It's a carrot, not an assassin," she pointed out, directing her eyes to Edward.

He stared back at her. "You didn't see it. Not properly. You don't know what it can do," he suddenly had a haunted look to his face, like he was having flashbacks. "You weren't there…" he whispered before shuddering slightly. "Onions everywhere, pumpkins falling from the sky…. carrots jumping for your head! My only defence was a broom!"

Mist blinked, before walking over to the counter. She needed coffee.

"Okay, listen. I promise when I come back home from work I'll.. help you get it."

"I am perfectly capable of catching a damn carrot, Mist!" Edward declared, but she gave him a disbelieving look.

"At this moment in time, Edward, I don't think you're capable of making yourself breakfast."

"He wasn't, we made it for him," Trivia declared.

"My point."

Edward rolled his eyes. "I can catch it. I will catch it. Does it think it's smarter then me? Ha! I am the smartest life form there is! Nothing can beat me!"

"Except Batman," Mist mumbled into her cup.

"What was that?"

"Nothing dear."

He slowly got to his feet and began to wonder away from the counter, looking under the sofa. "I will catch it," he declared as he began to search.

Mist sighed and put her coffee down. "Edward, dear. Don't you think you're getting a little obsessional?"

"I'm not obsessed."

She raised an eyebrow. "Uh-huh."

"I just have to find it. It's annoying me. Taunting me. It keeps moving my socks."

"No… I think that could just be me, putting your socks away…"

"It's moving my socks!" he yelled standing upright, a crazed look to his face as his eye was twitching slightly.

The twins and Mist looked slightly startled at his sudden reaction and features.

"Mummy, I'm scared…" Cleo whispered.

"Yeah… you're not the only one…" Mist whispered back.

Edward suddenly pulled out a giant white board with various calculations and diagrams drawn out on it, a few had been slightly rubbed out.

The last time she'd seen sketches like this was when he was a fear years younger, but they were for catching Batman, not a carrot and that was scarily the only difference.

"Okay…" Mist mumbled deciding now would be a good time to leave. "I'm going to get ready for work."

"Don't you want to stay for breakfast Mummy?"

"Oh hell n- I mean, no thank you sweetie," she smiled at Cleo. "I'll… get drive through."

Mist quickly ran up the stairs and began to get dressed, slipping on some quick make up, before she grabbed her coat, slipped her shoes on and went running down the stairs as fast as she could in heels.

She quickly finished her coffee off and gave Trivia and Cleo quick kisses on the forehead, turning on her heel and running to the door.

"Edward?" she called as the man walked over to her and gave her a kiss, she blinked before shaking her head. "Appreciated but not what I meant. Remember to drop off the kids at school."

"Yes, yes," he waved her off as he turned back to his equations. "I will do."

"Okay, good," she smiled at the twins. "Be good you two, I'll see you later, I promise I will be back as soon as I can," she shut the door and quickly left, taking the elevator down before heading to her car.

She uncaringly tossed her bag and the folder into the back seat before, getting in the front and driving off. Honestly… Edward could give her a headache sometimes, with his obsessional nature.

Sometimes it could be sweet. Other times.. it was an annoyance she couldn't get rid of and didn't know what to do with.

She went to work, which was uneventful. Lucious was always very nice to her, she was his personal assistant, she refused to be called anything else. The last man who called her a secretary, she'd promptly staple gunned their hand and asked them very nicely not to call her that again.

Mist sighed and packed away her things, she'd ask to leave early to look after one of the children at home, she just never mentioned that the child was a grown man.

On her way home Mist had called in to one of the local sweet shops and picked up a bag of aniseed balls for Edward since he liked them and they calmed him down. Honestly she could do with him calming down, this obsession was getting ridiculous.

She'd only just opened the door to their apartment, pen in mouth, when she stopped short and stared at the various strings and contraptions decorating the entire apartment.

Very slowly she took the pen out of her mouth and placed the things down on the ground, closing the door behind her, just as Edward popped up from behind the kitchen counter, staring at her with a defiant look on his face as she faced him with an exasperated one.

"Well I see you've had a very productive day," she commented, glancing around the room.

"Mummy it was fun!" Trivia cried as he popped up next to Edward.

"Yeah we helped make traps!" Cleo cried as she popped up on the other side.

They were both still in their pjs.

Mist rubbed at her eyes. "I thought I told you to take them to school?"

"This was more important," Edward argued.

"How was it?" she demanded, glaring at him.

Edward looked back at her with tired and pleading eyes. "I need my sleep!"

Well… she couldn't argue that. It was clear on his face he needed sleep, but did he have to drag Cleo and Trivia into it?

Mist sighed, rubbing at her eyes again, mumbling something along the lines of 'why me?', before looking at him through her fingers. He'd even put that god awful Hawaiian style green shirt with the black and white question marks printed on where ever he felt like.

"Are you trying to relive the glory days by hunting a carrot?"

"No! I'm trying to catch an annoyance so I can sleep!"

"You don't sleep anyway," she reminded him.

Edward scowled. "Maybe. But this is not helping!"

She wasn't going to win.

Carefully, Mist navigated the maze of wires, string and god knows what else over to the counter, looking over the other three who were looking at her with two grinning faces and one tired and worn out looking face.

"Have you tried just leaving a jar propped up with some bait underneath it?"

Edward scowled at her again. "As if it would be that simple."

"When you eliminate the possible, anything, no matter how improbable, must be the truth," Mist quoted.

Edward sighed and bowed his head. "I can't… I can't argue with Sherlock Holmes. You know that."

"I know, which is why I used it," she countered, before walking over to a cupboard and pulling out a glass jar, propping it up, before placing some meat under it. Now all they had to do was wait.

It didn't take long, soon enough there was a glass chime as the jar came down, followed by intense banging on the glass as they looked over at it and came face to face with an anthropomorphic carrot.

Mist smirked smugly, turning to look at Edward glared at her, before he huffed and threw his hands up.

"I don't care!" he declared. "I'm going to bed!"

She watched him walk upstairs to their room, before looking back at the twins who were staring intently at the carrot as it growled and snarled at them.

"Mummy, can we keep him?"

Mist raised an eyebrow. "Why on earth would you like to keep it?"

"No one else has a pet carrot," Trivia pointed out.

She couldn't argue she supposed.

When Edward came down in the evening rubbing at his eyes after his sleep, the twins were sitting on the sofa with Mist watching tv, but that wasn't the worst bit, the worst bit was the snarling and growling from the carrot in the decorated jar in front of him.

Edward blinked before his thoughts caught up with him.

"Why is it still here?!" he screamed.

Trivia and Cleo turned round and grinned. "We liked him."

"His name is Jerry."

"Jerry," Edward deadpanned. "You named him Jerry."

They nodded at him.

"Edward, would you mind cutting up some of the vegetables up please?" Mist called as Edward grinned and picked up the jar with the carrot in. "Not Jerry."

"I wasn't going to," he placed the carrot in front of him as he began to hack away at the vegetables.

Mist raised an eyebrow. Great. Now he was being sadistic towards a carrot.

"Daddy," Cleo piped up. "Jerry doesn't like it when you chop the vegetables in front of him."

"Well, Daddy didn't like it when Jerry jumped for his head," Edward snarled before looking back at the carrot who was glaring up at him with glowing yellow eyes.

It would seem, 'Jerry' was going to be staying for a little while.

THE END.


Note: Okay so this was just me wrapping, what I have grown to call the 'Jerry the carrot arch' and yes he is now an official pet in the Riddler household XD Jerry will also be making a guest appearance in my friend McStaken's wonderful story titled 'Boss?' Jester is also going to be making an appearance in there too at some point :D
But yes,
everyone meet Jerry XD

As for the next chapter it's another request and one I am really look forward to, going to be leaving the Riddler family alone for a bit, but up next we have the one and only Warren White! AKA the Great White Shark. Wonder what he's been up to? What dasterly deeds could he be doing trying to live and survive as a normal every day citizen?!
Open a sushi restaurant, what else? Ex-rogue discount for sure! :P Safe to say.. things aren't going to go according to plan... especially when one of your closest allies is... a rodent obsessed crazy who will not kill the rats you asked him to catch XD
Oh it's gonna be a doozy! XD

See you guys soon, also feel free to give more then one request I need the creative juices guys, but a pre-warning I have my final major project for my art degree at college coming up, so I'm going to be putting all my concentration into that, which is why I'm trying to chug out stories as fast as I can and as well as I can. I will not post a story if I am not happy with it.
I hope you enjoy this one! :D stay tuned for more!