Chapter 10: The Clown Of War
(Opening A/N: Okay, I can't resist. I'm going to bring in my personal favorite character from the Suicide Squad: Harley Quinn. And she was sent to deal with the Black Guard as well on behalf of Amanda Waller. And this whole chapter is going to be through her point of view. But like I said when I did Cassandra's chapter which I will continue down the road. But if you didn't get the memo, I'm a dude and it's kinda hard for me to understand what goes through a woman's mind, especially Harley's demented little mind when she joined the Joker. But the Joker's dead and Harley has joined the Suicide Squad. Small Note: Since this story is post Arkham Knight, I'll be using the Arkham Knight version which happens to be my personal favorite version of her in this story, As it turns out, Waller has sent Harley to see if she can bring back the Black Guard's corpse. So without further ado, here's the next chapter!)
[Harley's POV]
For all of you who don't know, my name is Harleen Frances Quinzel. I used to be a psychiatric doctor at Arkham Asylum, and I happened to be the lover of Mr. J or as you guys should know him as the Joker. We had fun together, robbing banks, killing people, that was until Mr. J was poisoned the titan venom he induced, the poison lingered in his body and he died in B-man's arms. I felt there was no hope for me left. That was until I met Amanda Waller, she was the head of Task Force X or more commonly known as "The Suicide Squad." She offered me a chance to clear my criminal history as long as I kept in line. So, Waller sent me to Thailand along with Floyd "Deadshot" Lawton to deal with this copycat Arkham Knight who calls himself, "The Black Guard." Word is, this guy is working with a Triad boss by the name of Mr. Chang.
"I'm in position Waller, awaiting further orders." I informed the Squad leader, she sat there sipping on a glass of bourbon.
"Alright Harley, by any means necessary, rescue batman and also try to bring down the Black Guard as well." Waller ordered and that's when I pulled out my trusty baseball bat.
"Ready or not B-man, here I come." I said as I jumped over the gate in which held both the Black Guard along with the Batman.
There were guards patrolling the area, and inside I could hear screams of torture happening within the building, and I could recognize the screams, they were B-man's.
[Meanwhile, with the Black Guard and Bruce…]
Bruce was stripped to nothing but his underwear, and he also had some acupuncture pins stuck in his chest. Attached to the pins were alligator clamps connected to an electrical source which a torture specialist could turn up voltage at the turn of a crank.
"Why are you doing this? I mean why are you trying to be the Arkham Knight?" Bruce asked, but the Black Guard knew that the Arkham Knight was nothing more than a pipe dream to get Bruce to acknowledge that Jason Todd was still alive.
"Well you see your second lackey, Jason didn't find it in him to kill the only person that he truly called a friend. But I'm going to tear your little family like wings off of a fly, or in your case, a bat." Black Guard said as he pulled out a cordless drill with a sterile yet really sharp drill bit.
The digital villain then placed the drill bit against Bruce's left ankle and gently squeezed the trigger making the drill bit pierce through the skin and muscle making Bruce scream in pain as blood poured out of the wound and when it got to the bone, it made an audible crunch and the Black Guard was just enjoying the moment of torturing the dark knight. But, Bruce didn't yield to the Black Guard, he blocked out the fact that he was being tortured by the same person that killed Tim Blake. Just then, a couple of backdrop mercenaries brought in Bruce's partner and fellow CEO of Wayne Enterprises Lucius Fox into the torture chamber to see Bruce Wayne get tortured in the name of total Anarchy. He signalled the torture specialist to begin the electroshock torture, the specialist flipped two switches and turns a crank causing 20,000 volts of electricity to pass through Bruce's body, Bruce began to scream in pain. And Lucius was forced to watch the man who helped protect Gotham City from criminals as he was being electrocuted from the acupuncture needles that laid in his chest, if this kept going, he could die.
[Now Back To Harley…]
Looks like I stepped into the viper's nest, and I'm looking to squash a certain snake for harming B-man. And for some weird reason, I forgive B-man for killing Mr. J. But before my rescue mission for B-man began, a group of at least seven armed mercenaries came to see if they can take me down a peg.
And it turns out that Floyd is with the second bird brain Jason Todd, Mr. J said that he killed him as a personal message for B-man. Soon after, Jason turned himself into the Arkham Knight, Spoiler Alert by the way, and after a friendly confrontation with B-man, he adopted the name Mr. J used and became the Red Hood.
"Hey boss, it's seems we got a clown lady here, and you're not going to believe this, it's Harley Quinn." The mercenary informed his boss, and this was just becoming more and more sweet.
"Look, I'm not here for much, I just came here to get B-man. Along with the corpse of your boss. So either you can hand 'em over, or I'll take 'em by force." I said as I begun swinging the baseball bat around.
"How much is that Russian scarface paying you to off the boss?" The lead mercenary asked, but I had no idea who he was talking about.
"A Russian scarface, I have no idea what you're talking about. Now my only question for you is, where are you holding B-man?" I asked and they all had their guns pointing at me.
But having those guns pointed at me was a big mistake. So, I had my trusty baseball bat ready, it was time for me to knock some sense into these idiots!
"Attack!" One of the mercenaries ordered and they all charged at me and I slammed my bat into the face of the first mercenary as he dropped to the ground with a shattered face.
The second tried to punch me but I jumped over him and sweep kicked his legs making the guy land flat on his back. But I doesn't done there just yet, as soon the second guy was flat on his back...I slammed my foot so hard that it shattered his face. Numbers three and four had no luck because I stuck a pair of hand grenades into their mouths and pulled the pins. The grenades exploded and both men were decapitated from the force of the explosives, as the blood and brain rained to the ground, it was a sense of nostalgia I was sensing. But these guys deserve death, and they can be tortured by Mr. J for all I care. The fifth guy had his pistol drawn at my face and I grabbed the pistol before he had a chance to shoot me and I used it on him shooting the guy right in the right eye blowing his brains out. The corpse dropped like a sack of potatoes. The sixth and seventh mercenaries dropped their guns and placed their hands behind their heads.
"We'll tell you what you want to know, if you're looking for the Batman, he's being held as a torture guinea pig for the Black Guard." The sixth mercenary said so I pulled out a pair of stun guns and tazed the two mercenaries leaving them alive.
Then I was getting a call from Waller, what does she want?
"Harley, I found where they're holding Batman, he being held in the main office, it turns out that the mercenaries were right, the Black Guard is torturing him." Waller said, and I had no time to lose.
The question on my mind was, why the hell is B-man being held and tortured by a techno-villain? So I began to head to the office where he was holding the Dark Knight. But the P.A. came on and there was a robotic voice followed with this.
"I can't believe that I'm wasting my resources on a clown girl. It's really nice of you to join us Harley." Black Guard said, and it turns out he also was planning for me as well.
"I don't plan on staying long, just give me B-man and I'll be on my way." I said, and there was a maniacal laugh over the speakers.
"Come and get him if you dare!" He replied, and I began to run to the office where he was holding B-man.
[Back to the Black Guard and Bruce]
"I can't believe that Waller sent two of the Suicide Squad members to eliminate me." The Black Guard said, he then holds the microphone to the P.A. system in front of Bruce's mouth. "Right now, I want you to scream for me." He added as the torturer began to crank the voltage of electricity. The voltage caused Bruce to scream in antagonizing pain.
Aaaaaaaugh!" Bruce screamed, he knew that this was just the start of sending a message to those who oppose Chang and the Triad along with the Black Guard.
The scream echoed over the P.A. and I knew that I needed to hurry to B-man and rescue him.
"You hear that Harley? I'm doing something that you and your pudding never did. I'm torturing Batman." The Black Guard bragged, and that just made my blood boil.
I needed to rush to B-man before he dies, and if he dies, then there's no hope for Gotham. There was no other mercenaries trying to stop me, which was good. I'm going to beat some sense into that Arkham Knight copycat. As soon as I got to the main office which was on the top floor of the building, I kicked the door open and I got shot in the stomach. Trying to suppress the bleeding, he pointed the pistol at my forehead.
"Leave Harley out of this!" Bruce snapped, and it turns out that the billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne is the Batman.
"Don't worry Bruce, I'm going to have a little bit of fun with the clown girl." Black Guard said as he grabbed me by the neck and began to choke me.
"Was it...really worth it? Killing...the bird brain?" I asked in a choked up voice, and I kicked him right in the family jewels making him release me. As soon as my foot connected, his grip on me released allowing me to get some air into my lungs. As soon as I did, I freed B-man and he pulled the pins out of his chest.
"We'll deal with this another time, also, give Red Hood my regards." Black Guard said as he tossed a smoke bomb and disappeared.
"Looks like we got a war on our hands." Bruce said, and by the looks of it, I have to agree.
"Yeah, and if the Black Guard wins, lots of people will die." I added, knowing that I'm now an anti-hero looking to protect innocent people but killing all the guilty ones.
If it's a war these bastards want, then I'd say, let's give them one they'll never forget!
[To Be Continued...]
(A/N: Next up is going to be act two: The War! And it seems that I'll be adding another hero into this story as well, Oliver Queen AKA Green Arrow. And hopefully if this becomes a success, then I'll hopefully do a sequel! But for right now, leave a review if possible. Faves and/or follows are still optional so hopefully people out there want to see some more! And until the next chapter...this is the master of chaos, the commander of the legion of corpses, the aficionado of gratuitous violence, BloodyDemon666 signing off!)