Chapter 9
1 Hour and 45 minutes till detonation
"How the hell are we supposed to find which floor he is on?" asked Boomerang.
"We got a look out," said Deadshot.
"Who is it?" asked Killer Frost.
Deadshot looked at her with a smile.
"Why me?" moaned Killer Frost.
"You have a broken arm. It's best you stay out of combat unless you really need to," said Deadshot, holding out a pair of night vision goggles to her, which she took.
"Fine. But if it gets crazy, which it will, I'm gonna be there," said Killer Frost, going over to an empty building.
"Alright, you know what to do. We go in, take out Joker and take the bomb and set it off at Waller's facility. We take out anyone that opposes us," said Deadshot, checking the ammo in his guns.
"Let's give that son of a butch what's coming to him," said Slade, putting his mask on and pulling out his combat staff.
"Finally gonna get some action," said Boomerang, pulling out two razor sharp boomerangs.
"That's not the only action you got," said Slade.
"Shut up," said Boomerang.
They entered the building and looked around.
"Place looks abandoned," said Deadshot, aiming his guns around, checking for enemies.
"Guys, I saw Joker execute one of his henchmen about 20 floors up from you," said Killer Frost.
"You know, I've never seen the Joker in person, but He's is one scary looking guy."
"He's just a clown, what's so scary about him?" asked Boomerang when they reached the tenth floor.
"Trust me, he's pretty bad," said Deadshot as the went up several more flights of stairs.
"Yeah, pretty scary."
A young man came crashing down on top of Boomerang.
"Hey boys, planning on killing Joker?" asked the Red Hood slyly. "Your gonna have to wait, I've been in line for a long time."
Slade charged at him and attempted to hit him with his staff. Red Hood countered it and smashed him around the head.
"If he's here, Batman's here," said Boomerang, getting up and rubbing his head.
Red Hood threw Slade behind him when he was hit with a boomerang on the back of the helmet, cutting his white hood.
"This is my favourite jacket! Don't you have any consideration for others property you shit?" yelled Red Hood.
Boomerang threw four more boomerangs at Red Hood. He pulled his handguns out and shot each boomerang with precise aiming.
"What kind of villain throws boomerangs? No wonder Flash beats your ass all the time," laughed Red Hood.
This villain," said Boomerang coldly, pulling out an explosive boomerang and throwing it at Red Hood.
"Shit," said Red Hood.
He ran away from the bomb but was blown forwards by the bomb, and out the window. Red Hood pulled a grapnel gun out from his belt and fired it at the building. As he did this, a blue light hit the rope and froze it and broke.
"You bitch Frost!" yelled Red Hood as he fell to his doom.
A black figure soared towards Red Hood and caught him around the waist, crashing through the windows of another building. Red Hood groaned as he got up and helped the big figure up.
"Cheers big ears," joked Red Hood as he brushed dust off of his armour. He pulled his fallen hood back over his helmet.
"Did you manage to see where Joker was?" asked Batman.
"No. The Suicide Squad was there, including Killer Frost," said Red Hood.
"Dick and myself took her out after she froze your rope," said Batman.
"Speaking of dick's, where is he?" asked Red Hood.
"Nice language," said Nightwing, who had just swung into the building.
"I try," said Red Hood sarcastically as the trio grouped together.
"We haven't got long till Joker's bomb goes off, we need to get into that building," said Batman in his usual dark voice.
"Joker's army isn't a problem, it's the Suicide Squad that is," said Nightwing.
"I think we may have another problem. Look down there," said Red Hood, pointing to the bottom of the construction yard.
Around ten armoured trucks and vans had arrived, filled with men in high tech armour. Several military helicopters have also appeared, fully armed with the latest weaponry.
"I thought you told the GCPD not to enter the construction yard?" asked Nightwing, addressing to Batman.
"There not GCPD, there A.R.G.U.S," replied Batman.
"What are they doing here?" asked Red Hood.
"Amanda Waller started the Suicide Squad. I don't think things have gone to plan," said Batman.
"Great. Just fabulous," said Red Hood." Now we have another problem. Is anyone making a list to go along with this? What's next, Mr Freeze will go on an icy rampage? Firefly will burn a couple of buildings down? Please tell."
"No, but there's someone you probably don't want to see," said Nightwing, pointing to the streets.
Screams from citizens erupted as explosions and loud noises where made.
"What is it?" asked Red Hood.
Batman kneeled down and pressed a button on his cowl. He zoomed in on the street and saw a large figure destroying cars and attacking people.
"I'll go deal with the problem down there. You two make sure you destroy that bomb and stop the Suicide Squad from killing Joker," said Batman, releasing the button and walking over to the edge of the window.
"Do you know what the problem is?" asked Nightwing.
"Killer Croc," said Batman before he jumped out of the building.
He dived towards the ground and pulled up into a glide, towards Killer Croc. He thought of ways to stop him as he glided towards the monster. He dropped on the street where Gotham's shopping plazas where. Cars were smashed into the windows of shops and were flipped over on the street, some blown up. Several shops had fires in them. There was also human bodies that littered the streets, motionless. Killer Croc finished devouring another body and turned around, noticing Batman at the other end of the street.
"Batman. Are you here for my feast? You'll be main course," said Killer Croc, licking his tongue as blood dripped from his mouth.
"Your not even human anymore, your just an animal. And animals need to be caged!" yelled Batman furiously.
"Yeah, if anyone ever called me human," said Killer Croc. "Now let's end this, I'm hungry!"
The two enemies charged towards each other. Killer Croc threw a car at Batman, which he used as a launch pad to attack Killer Croc from above. He pulled out Batarangs and held them between his fingers, preparing to strike his foe.