Author's Notes
To JP-Rider, I fully meant for my interpretation of the Joker to be nothing short of shocking. He is a cruel sadist with a twisted sense of humor and an even more deranged set of ideals. This is why Batman has so much trouble with him, especially shown with Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight. I'm certainly glad you liked my interpretation of Bane - I was fearing backlash for not making him dark enough, not the Bat-breaking criminal he was in the comics (or in the Dark Knight saga). This story doesn't have a romantic pairing, it's more RobRae friendship than anything else - I just couldn't write a pairing in (my next story will have several love triangles, so don't fret). Raven definitely didn't deserve any of this treatment. We both know I wouldn't hold back if I chose to bring the story into darkness, especially as shown with my earlier stories (Broken Bird, Too Far, Condemned). You'll see just how kinky the torture gets for Raven soon enough.
To Anonomnom, Raven will get the collar off of her in a little bit. You'll see what becomes of Ivy and Harley as well. Trust me, it should be satisfying.
To shadowyshadow, there won't be a confrontation between Raven and the Titans. I had considered it but there just wound up not enough room in the story for it. I couldn't integrate in well enough. Bane's not gone from the story - he'll make another appearance or two before the end. And regarding the escape, I left it intentionally vague - this chapter you'll see the aftermath, just who escaped and who didn't.
To Taeniaea, thanks for the review.
To Ravenbigfan23, thanks for your support.
Attention all readers: There will be mutilation in the middle of this chapter. Anybody uncomfortable with it should skip over the section of it. As well as a lesbian rape scene. So, reader discretion is once again advised.
Now, let's continue the story.
The Titans and the Gotham Police Department were in the process of cleaning up after the whole storming of Arkham and attempted breakout very early in the morning. They were primarily fortunate as most of the prisoners were contained, including many of the high powered metas and Batman rogues including Hush, Killer Croc, Anarky, Cluemaster, and Firefly. A few prisoners were killed in the fight with the police and Titans, most notably serial killer Victor Zsasz, who went down after being struck with Cyborg's sonic cannon and four 9mm gunshots from a Gotham police officer.
However, there were a few prisoners who had escaped, namely Catwoman, Penguin, and Two-Face. And there was one matter even more pressing for the Titans.
Poison Ivy managed to get away, along with Harley Quinn and Raven, whom they were beginning to doubt could sustain much more.
There were also plenty of wounded, as the injured were quickly given minor treatment before being sent back to their cells for attempted escape and disturbing the peace amongst charges.
The Joker was amongst the wounded, having met a starbolt to his body that left a vicious scar on his stomach. After being treated for his wounds, he was promptly handcuffed and placed in a straitjacket before being placed in his cell, utterly unable to move his arms, something that was agreed to be for the best.
As they continued looking through the cells, Cyborg soon found one cell that had been forced open, near a bunch of dead prisoners. Cyborg quickly pulled out his T-communicator and said, "We've got another one here. I think he's barely alive."
Cyborg proceeded to open the door and saw Bane, laying unconscious on the floor of his cell, his blanket out of place on the ground, and wounds that were bleeding.
As Cyborg began to provide medical attention, Robin and Batman soon followed and arrived in the cell block, watching as Cyborg tried to save Bane's life.
The half-robot stitched up his stab wound, stopping the bleeding there while also removing the bullet lodged in his arm before tending to that injury. With the masked hulk no longer bleeding out, Batman administered a shot of Venom into Bane's arm.
Before that, Robin asked, "Batman, are you sure about this? What if he attacks us?"
Batman replied, "From what I've seen about Venom, this amount will be just enough so he regains consciousness. His aggression would only increase if given a more substantial amount of Venom."
Batman proceeded to inject Bane with the Venom, and after several minutes, Bane finally awoke, arising from his position on the floor to see Batman, Robin, and Cyborg.
Bane asked, "What are you doing here?"
Cyborg responded, "First, trying to keep you from bleeding out. Second, we need some information about last night."
"Ah, from what I've heard, it was in the planning for some time. The Scarecrow had fear gas smuggled into the prison in capsules so he and the rest of the prisoners could take out the guards and have a little fun."
Robin asked, "What kind of fun?"
"I heard them chanting for some girl to get naked. I didn't know who it was at the time, but I soon knew who it was. She's one of yours, right Robin?"
"Raven. She was here."
"Yes, but she was in pain. When I found her, she was crawling on her hands and knees, bleeding from her legs, naked."
"Rob, you don't think what happened..."
"Unfortunately...Cyborg, is it not? It did happen. The Joker had his way with her. I would never have approved of it, so they locked me in my cell. They did the same with Freeze."
Batman inquired, "So how did you get out?"
"Pressure on the tumbler, pushed it to open the door. I was on my way out of here when I saw her. I brought her back to my cell for protection. Gave her my blanket and my bed."
"Prove it, Bane. Prove you were with Raven."
"We talked for quite a while, talking about our troubled paths. She mentioned she was the Gem of Scath." Upon saying that, Robin knew Bane was telling the truth. That fact wasn't public knowledge - only Batman, Slade, and the Titans knew that Raven was half-demon. Ivy didn't know, Harley didn't know, none of the League knew. The only person that could have told Bane was Raven.
"What happened after that?"
"The prisoners swarmed the cell, trying to take Raven back to Ivy. I fought them off as long as I could, but they eventually outnumbered and overpowered me. Harley delivered the knockout blow before taking Raven back to her misery. I should have...I should have stopped them."
Batman kneeled down and placed his hand on Bane's shoulder. "Without your Venom, you couldn't have held them off forever."
"If only I had gotten her collar off sooner, we could have gotten out of this."
"You did what you thought was right, which is better than most of the people here. This does seem a bit weird coming from me, but thank you."
Batman arose from the ground and continued, "Robin, continue here with Gordon to finish up with the prison clean-up. Cyborg, we're going back to the Cave to break through BioGrant's files. Starfire and Beast Boy are going to continue tracking Raven and Poison Ivy."
Back where Raven was being held captive, the half-demon sat quietly in the corner of her cell, as naked as the day she was born, covered in sticky male sperm where they ejaculated on her and blood which had stuck to her legs. She held her knees up to her chest, trying to stay as warm as possible in the bitter cold that flooded through her barren cell. Her hair remained pitch black from the hair dye Harley had given her and her lips had some of the bright red lipstick on them from before. [1]
She could not believe what Poison Ivy had done to her - had her brutally raped and beaten, as well as naked in front of hundreds of perverts at Arkham. This was without question the worst day of her life, with her spirit continuing to break. Raven could only hope to make it out with some part of herself untainted, if she made it out at all.
The Titans had yet to find her and Raven couldn't fight back with the collar suppressing her powers. She could only wait for the inevitable, for her soul to break, leaving her Ivy's shell.
Her thoughts were soon broken by the arrival of Harley Quinn, who screamed, "Come on servant bitch! Get a move on!"
Raven slowly got up, covering her breasts with one arm and covering her genitalia with her other, trying to avoid touching it where she had been stung by the whip only hours earlier, before moving quickly so Harley wouldn't molest her.
Unfortunately, that was only a fool's hope as Harley quickly took Raven's arms and held them behind her lashed back before peering her head over Raven's shoulder, looking down at all of Raven's body, her violated, tortured body.
Harley licked Raven's chin before working her way up to Raven's ear, making her uncomfortable as her tongue glided its way across her body.
After a few moments of walking, Raven found herself in Ivy's throne room, where Ivy so happened to be waiting for Raven with a small silver tray laying next to her.
Harley sat Raven down, holding onto her arms with one hand and then placing her other hand between Raven's knees, preventing her from moving them together in order to hide her vagina from Ivy.
Poison Ivy walked down from her throne and approached Raven. She asked, "Well, bitch, how do you feel?"
Raven replied, "Awful, violated. Why did you do that, Mistress? Why did you hand me to him?"
"It wasn't me. It was Harley, actually. I merely approved the idea."
Harley giggled as she whispered in Raven's ear, "I told you we'd be taking it."
"And now, Raven, I think it's about time we remind you of your place."
"What do you mean, Mistress? And where are my clothes?"
"You'll get your clothing back momentarily. As for the first, Harley would you come here for a second?"
Harley obliged, releasing her grip from Raven before walking up to Poison Ivy, and the two of them walked over to the silver tray. Raven quickly tried to cover herself up, but realized that it wouldn't matter as they'd simply expose her...again.
The two of them came back towards Raven, both of them now brandishing knives, surgical knives. Raven quickly tried to move away but was held back by Ivy and Harley. Ivy asked, "Do you want the left arm or the right?"
Harley replied, "You can take the right."
With that, Harley moved so she was in front of Raven, holding down on her left arm while Ivy moved behind Raven and held down on her right arm.
Raven could not help but scream as the two perverted, twisted, torturous criminals began cutting into Raven's upper arm, moving precisely, deadly, and painfully, as she noticed the blood coming out of her arm and dripping down towards the floor.
The two then finished their work and gave Raven a mirror to look at what they did. She gasped upon seeing the results. On her left arm, Harley Quinn had carved the word BITCH into it while on the right, Poison Ivy had sliced in WHORE.
With the painful incisions finished, Ivy grabbed a bottle of rubbing alcohol before pouring it on Raven's arms where the cuts were made, burning Raven and causing her to scream as the wounds sealed, stopping the bleeding but preserving them into her skin.
Taking in the scent of the alcohol and examining Raven's body, Harley suggested, "Ew, Ivy, I think she needs a wash."
Poison Ivy smirked, "Just what I was thinking."
Harley Quinn grabbed Raven by the waist, encircling her arm across her stomach and partially onto her back, proceeding to head off to the same washroom where Ivy gave Raven her "washes".
Depositing Raven on the shower floor, Harley went back to get the hose as Poison Ivy came in to watch. Raven lay slumped on the floor, not moving out of both pain and fear, trying to conceal her private regions to the two women.
That unfortunately did little to stop them as Harley then proceeded to activate the nozzle and spray Raven with water, and she could not block the water as it pounded on her skin.
Ice rained down on her skin, covering her naked lithe form from head to toe in cold water that sprayed off the filth of male ejaculation forced upon her at Arkham as well as the blood of her hymen, the last trace of her virginity gone forever as it washed off her leg.
Raven struggled to move, hammered by the hose as it struck her arms to wipe away any trace of the rubbing alcohol and any last blood from the cut wounds.
Once she was all cleaned up, Harley turned off the hose before walking up to Raven, who futilely tried to get away, only for Harley to grab her by her legs and pulled her over, leaving Raven fully visible to every inch of Harley's wandering eyes.
She stared at the carvings that she and Ivy had made on Raven's arms, looking at the sharpness of each letter. Harley commented, "Hmm, you're certainly a bitch, but the whore part...maybe we weren't exactly thinking right."
Raven deadpanned, "Is this some sort of apology?"
"Hell no, servant bitch. We need to make sure that both statements are accurate." Harley arose from Raven before taking off her boots and then pulling off her pants, leaving Raven highly uncomfortable as she saw Harley's genitals, with a groomed strip of black hair around her womanhood. Harley squatted down before barking, "Eat my pussy, you bitch. Suck on it until I climax!"
Raven was incredibly uncomfortable with what was happening but found herself forced to comply, sticking her tongue out and moving it into Harley's privates, licking around before Harley lowered herself so that her thighs were right next to Raven's face.
She continued to lick and suck Harley, moving her tongue around inside of her. While Harley was moaning in apparent pleasure, Raven's face had an expression of absolute terror, which Poison Ivy noticed from her position.
Raven's tongue continued its work, trying to finish this hell as fast as she possibly could, especially since it was starting to be a lot less pleasant for Raven as the taste of woman got into her mouth - this perverted, sadistic woman. No, she wasn't a woman. She was a monster, a beast.
Her tongue was as deep as it could go in Harley, swirling around until Harley felt her orgasm arrive, spilling her female juices all over Raven's face, pouring onto her lips, chin, nose, and cheeks with some going onto her eyelids.
Harley got up from her position atop Raven before putting back on her pants and boots. As Harley moved away, Raven quickly went to wipe Harley's cum off of her head, getting it out of her eyelids but much of the rest was sticking to her face, making it a lot harder to get off.
Before Harley left, she told Raven, "I know you liked it. Didn't you? You don't want to admit, but you did like it. And by the time we're done with you, you'll be begging to suck us."
After Harley departed, Poison Ivy walked back up to Raven before tossing her the green leotard and boots, ordering her, "Get dressed, then make me food!"
Raven nodded, "Yes, Mistress", quickly placing the leotard and boots on, welcoming their coverage, even though they weren't the most comfortable things to wear. At least she wasn't naked anymore.
She got up and proceeded to the kitchen in order to make Poison Ivy her food. As she did so, Raven began to remember what had happened once Ivy had broken her years before.
It had been well over a year and nine months since Raven first met Poison Ivy, now her Mistress. And now, after months of servitude, beatings, and other horrors, Raven's will had finally cracked. She could no longer oppose Ivy any more and now feared every moment of her life. Raven no longer cared about the Prophecy, her fate as Trigon's Gem. All she cared about was not getting beaten by Poison Ivy for messing up.
Waiting in her cell again for her next task, Raven shivered from the cold as her leotard lacked sleeves. She had already cooked Ivy her dinner and watered all of her plants. She just hoped she could get some sleep as she seldom got more than six hours of rest (she normally got less than five) - if she could get eight hours she would be fine.
Starting to fall asleep, Raven was suddenly interrupted by Poison Ivy's arrival, as the door opened. Immediately, Raven awoke and stood up as she had slowly been conditioned to do, staring right at Ivy. Her Mistress commanded, "Follow me."
With that, Raven followed Ivy as they wound up heading towards Ivy's bedroom of all places, where Raven immediately suspected she would be licking her Mistress's privates again. Those suspicions would be confirmed as Ivy stripped out of her dress, leaving her naked, exposing her bare ass to Raven. Turning her head towards Raven, and looking with disdain, she signaled Raven to do the same.
Just as she was always ordered to, Raven slipped out of her leotard and walked over towards Ivy, preparing to kneel down so her face would be right in front of Ivy's private region. However, unlike most times, Ivy instead hopped onto her bed.
Staring confused, Raven simply remained there uncertain about what to do. Ivy decided to simply wait and see what Raven would do next, or for how long she would simply stare there in confusion, until either of them fell asleep.
Ivy then barked, "Just get on the damn bed!" With an order, Raven complied. Now, it seemed that Raven was utterly under Ivy's thrall, unable to do anything without her order.
Sitting on the bed now, Ivy then ordered her to curl up in between her legs. Doing so, Raven stared directly at the inner flesh of her Mistress's insides and slowly began to lick as she usually did. Inwardly, Raven slowly realized that she had truly become Ivy's bitch and now, the term "servant bitch" completely fit her. There was almost no more of Raven's spirit remaining - all that was left was her loyalty to (or fear of) Ivy, that she had only her in her life.
And that was what now Raven feared the most about her Mistress. [2]
Back at the Batcave, Cyborg continued to work on breaking through BioGrant's files but could not seem to break through the firewall concealing their assets, including their locations around Gotham.
No matter what method the half-robot tried to penetrate the firewall, it seemed to adapt itself against any move Cyborg tried to make. He asked, "Who the hell designed this?"
Batman replied, "A long-dead computer programmer. It adjusts itself to any method to break through, making the system impenetrable. His secret went to the grave, so we can't break into their files using these methods."
"So how do you suggest we try to get into the files?"
"I know somebody who could help us. We're going to need to talk with Gordon though. Unfortunately, I have to attend to matters elsewhere so you're going to have to go speak with him."
"What kind of matters are you talking about?"
"Board meeting at Wayne Enterprises. I can't afford to miss it."
Batman proceeded to walk away from Cyborg, intending on changing into his business suit for the meeting - nobody could know his secret identity was Bruce Wayne, so once he was dressed in civilian clothing, he took off in one of his cars towards the city.
Outside of Arkham Asylum, Starfire and Beast Boy were working to figure out what direction Poison Ivy went in after taking Raven. The changeling had found faint traces of her scent in the courtyard on the rear side, and tried to work from there.
If Cyborg couldn't break through BioGrant's files, then it would be up to them to locate Raven before it was too late. Unfortunately, they weren't sure if it was too late, having been informed of what had occurred at Arkham earlier that night.
The alien and the shape-shifter continued trying to detect any trace of Raven or Ivy, but after around two miles, the trail had gone cold. Once Beast Boy could no longer detect Raven's scent, Starfire got high in the air to see if there were any notable landmarks, any buildings that they could have scampered off into.
She exclaimed, "I have found a building!" She flew off towards said building, searching to see if Raven was there. Noticing the locks on the doors, boarded up windows, and overall deteriorating condition of the place, she sensed it was abandoned, and a very viable location for Ivy and Harley to be.
Starfire blasted a door down and floated through the building, trying to find any trace of life within. As she searched, it became increasingly dark, so she held up a starbolt in order to see where she was heading.
She searched high and low in every direction, hoping to find her missing friend before she was lost forever. Eventually, the alien came in to the heart of the building, seeing if there were any clues to finding out Raven's location, or if Ivy was there.
Starfire had no such luck as she saw that labels all across the building indicated that this was not BioGrant property. It was a private warehouse owned by the Cobblepot family until Oswald (aka Penguin) was arrested for drug and sex trafficking.
Raven was not there. Nobody had been there for several years now.
As Starfire flew out of the desolate building, Beast Boy found her and asked, "I bet you found nothing."
"No, I did not Friend Beast Boy. Friend Raven is not here. Did you have any luck?"
"I can tell that the direction you went off in was a red herring."
"How can a path be a colored fish?"
"Red herring means a false lead. Ivy knew we'd be searching so she masked the scent of the real trail and gave us a fake one to follow, leading us here. We've got no way of figuring out where they went unless we knew precisely what masking agent Ivy used."
"We need to acquire a sample and bring it back to the Cave of the Bat for analysis."
With that, Beast Boy and Starfire left the abandoned building and went out to the trail, going out to where the trail had gone cold, noting where the red herring trail had been placed to throw them off.
In order to get a good sample of what it could be, Beast Boy grabbed a bag he kept in his belt and proceeded to grab a fistful of grass, placing it inside. The computer back at the Cave would give them a breakdown of what had been on the grass, giving them an idea of how Ivy eluded them, and then what to look for in order to find her and Raven.
[1]: This is a line new to the story, showing that Raven's "makeup" from the night before had yet to come off.
[2]: This flashback is new to the story - I wanted to further explore the twisted dynamic between Ivy and Raven, how Raven could not live without her Mistress, almost akin to the Joker and Harley's relationship.
Okay, we're getting close to the end of The Poison of the Raven. Four more chapters and then we're done.