Fear Will Be Your Enemy

by Arkham Master

A loner named Jacob, who lives in Gotham and idolizes Batman, finds a magic crystal that takes him to Arendelle, where he meets The Frozen Cast. After getting to know Queen Elsa and her life in solitude, they begin to fall in love. Meanwhile, Scarecrow returns to expose all of Gotham and Arendelle to his fear toxin. The Frozen Cast teams up with Batman to stop the psychotic doctor.

11. Chapter 11: Elsa's Worst Fear

Fear Will Be Your Enemy Chapter 11: Elsa's Worst Fear

Batman was on his way toward Chinatown, still thinking about the people he just encountered. They of course, seemed like good people and he was actually pretty impressed with that kid's determination, but he wanted them out of Gotham for their safety because of Crane's toxin. He was even more fascinated by the woman with ice magic. He's dealt with ice-related danger thanks to Mr. Freeze and he's seen powers like Poison Ivy's and Clayface's, but this woman seemed determined to help like the kid and those others that were with them. Powers like those could be beneficial tonight, but he wants Scarecrow stopped and thrown in Arkham, not frozen. Of course, she most likely would not hurt someone unless she needed to. That's why she blasted Bruce because she thought he was going to hurt him, but he wasn't going to in the first place. Batman got a beeping on his gauntlet, which meant that Oracle was trying to get to him. "Are you at his penthouse yet?", asked Barbara. "Not yet. I'm just about there. I was held up a little bit, Barbara. I just met that one kid who stopped quite a few minor crimes around the city and he said he wanted to help fight Scarecrow.", said Bruce. "Really? I gotta admit that kid's got guts!", said Oracle. "Not just that, but also there were a group of other people with him and one of them was a woman with ice powers like the kind from Victor's freeze gun, but from her hands.", he said. "That's weird! I assumed like him, she and the rest wanted to help take on Crane too?", asked Barbara. "Seemed that way. She struck me with a blast when I was approaching the kid. She thought I was gonna hurt him, but I wasn't.", he said. "Of course you weren't, but it is nice for a citizen to want to do what's right.", she said. "True, but I couldn't risk them getting hurt and another strange thing is that they came out of a portal and said they were from a kingdom in another dimension.", he said. "We always deal with weird stuff all the time.", she said. Anyway, we have bigger things to deal with. Like I said, I'm almost there. I'll let you know what I find there.", he said. "Sounds good.", she said. Batman was just about to get a move on when a voice said, "Woman with ice powers?". Bruce turned around and saw his occasional sidekick, Richard "Dick" Grayson, who was the first one to take on the mantle of Robin, but now he goes by Nightwing, who now protects the city of Bludhaven by himself, but like what was discussed in the last chapter, Oracle sent Nightwing to help out with the situation. "Hey, Dick. Barb said you were going to help me tonight.", Batman said. "Both me and her thought you would, but you said something about a woman with ice powers?", asked Nightwing. "Yeah. There was, but never mind her. We got bigger problems on her hands. We gotta find Crane! Now!", he said. "Right behind ya!", Nightwing said as he got out his escrima sticks. "Oh, God! Look! There are lots of rioters around here.", he said. "With everyone in the city evacuated, they think it's the perfect time for riots. We should take care of them before we go to the penthouse. Let's make this quick!", he said. The two partners leaped off the rooftop and went to deal with the rioters and by deal, I mean beat the living shit out of them until they lost consciousness. At the same time, Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, Sven and Jacob made it to Chinatown before Batman and Nightwing did. They climbed up the back way to the rooftop because there were guards at the front. It was Jacob's idea to climb to the roof because of what he heard about Batman. They had trouble pulling Sven because he didn't have any hands, just hooves. The group climbed down and got into the penthouse. "So, what are we looking for?", asked Kristoff. "I honestly do not know, but I am just assuming anything, especially out of the ordinary. Detective work is not easy. I'm sure not even for Batman sometimes. This is my first time doing something like this. I just have heard a lot of Batman's methods and also I watch a lot of cop and detective shows on TV.", Jacob said. "I don't know why we don't have stuff like that back home?", said Olaf. "Look, bud. We'll talk about that later.", said Sven. "Right.", agreed Olaf. "Are you sure this is a good idea, Jacob? I mean you heard what Batman said.", said Sven. "Like I said, he's not gonna stop us, but if we stick together, we can try to do something.", he said. Anna came across a glass case at the end of the room and saw one of Scarecrow's men in there and asked, "What's wrong with him?". They all walked over to the glass and after a few seconds, the guy started screaming and shaking all over. "Get them off of me! Get em' off!", he screamed, but there was nothing on him. Within a few seconds, he died of mass panic. Both sisters put their hands over their mouths in horror at what just happened. "What just happened! No one even touched him!", said Elsa. "Well, you see that's what Scarecrow's Fear Toxin does. It works on your mind and makes you see things you're afraid of. He must've seen bugs or something crawling on him and he died from being scared so much.", Jacob explained. After a couple minutes of looking around, Elsa came across a table with a set of blueprints on it. "Hey, guys! I think I found something!", said Elsa. The rest came over to the table and saw what Elsa found. "It talks about something called "Cloudburst".", she said and gave the plans to Jacob. "You have any idea what that means?", Kristoff asked Jacob. "Not sure, but I kinda do have a bit of an idea and it's not a warm and fuzzy one. It's more of a dark and bad one. But at least we found something. Let's go!", he said and they were on their way to leave. "Actually, you're not going anywhere!", one of Crane's thugs said as they entered the penthouse and cocked their guns. "Oh, shit!", said Jacob. Everyone stood in fear, waiting for them to shoot. "The boss isn't going to let you get away with those plans! He'll be here soon!", said another. Within five minutes, a helicopter landed on the rooftop of the penthouse, with Scarecrow's men waiting on it. Scarecrow stepped out of the helicopter, who apparently had a knee brace from when Croc broke his leg, and his goons escorted him inside. Once Scarecrow and his goons got inside, they saw the group of friends with guns pointed at them. "Well, it seems we have guests.", said Crane. He saw Jacob had the Cloudburst plans in his hand and walked over and took them from him. "Who are they, boss? Friends of the Bat?", asked a thug. "I recognize one from the papers, but the rest I do not. I highly doubt their with the Dark Knight.", answered Scarecrow. "We don't need him to deal with you!", said Jacob. Scarecrow slightly laughed upon hearing this and said, "Foolish boy! You have no idea what I have planned! I must admit, you seemed to show no signs of fear or hesitation to come down here and try to steal these from me. I'm actually impressed, but now you will meet your unfortunate demise! Take care of them!", he ordered. "Sure thing!", said a thug as he was readying his gun. "I wouldn't do that if I were you!", warned Elsa. "How about you just shut up and die, bitch!", said the thug with the gun. That fueled Jacob up big time. "What the fuck did you just call her?!", he said. "You heard me! What are you going to do about it?", the thug asked/taunted. "How about me beating the shit out of you right here and now!", he warned. "Well, you're not gonna get a chance to if there's a bullet in your brain!", he said as he was about to fire. Before he could, Elsa said, "You'd better hold tight, boys. Because it's gonna get chilly!". She emitted her energy and blasted the thugs and knocking them unconscious. "What the hell?! Shoot her!", said one guy and he fired his gun, but before the bullet made it across the room to hit her, Elsa froze the gun to the shooter's hands and the bullet was frozen midway out of the gun. Elsa easily knocked the rest out with her ice blasts, leaving them all unconscious, except for Scarecrow. "Wow! Talk about giving someone the cold shoulder!", Jacob said and smiled at Elsa and she smiled back. "Amazing! I've never seen anyone with abilities like yours. I'm certain you struck fear into the hearts of my men before rendering them unconscious.", Scarecrow said. "Well, I did it to protect me and my friends and family.", said Elsa. "Elsa, don't talk to him! He's a maniac!", Jacob said. "I'm wondering were you in some kind of experiment that gave you your cryokinetic powers or were you born with them?", he asked, wanting to know what scares her. "Born, but if you think you're going to get away with whatever you're planning, you're wrong!", she said. "We'll see about that.", he said menacingly. "Elsa, look let's get out of here!", Anna said, but before they could move, some more of Scarecrow's men entered the room and knocked Anna out with the back of their gun to her head. "Anna!", shouted Kristoff. Kristoff was next to get hit in the head and knocked out, then Sven, and then Olaf. Elsa saw this and Jacob knew he was next. He started attacking the men, but they easily pinned him down soon. "Elsa, get the hell outta here!", he said. "I'm not leaving without you guys!", she said. "Just go!", he said. Behind Elsa, Crane was getting the syringes on his hands filled with his fear toxin and slowly walked towards her with her back still turned. Jacob saw this and screamed, "Elsa, look out!". When Elsa turned around, Scarecrow said, "Tell me, Elsa.". Scarecrow injected the syringes on his hands into a little below Elsa's collarbone and she screamed in pain. "God, no!", shouted Jacob trying to get out of the thugs' hold to help her. "What do you fear?", he asked menacingly. Elsa's eyes went wide with fear and horror. Her beautiful blue eyes became orange because of being infected with the toxin. Crane retracted his syringes once they were empty. Elsa fell to her knees once the toxin started to get inside her head. She started to see her greatest nightmares. First, she was taken back to the night when she accidentally blasted Anna in the head. "Slow down!", Young Elsa told Young Anna as she threw a blast. The blast hit Anna in the head and rendered her unconscious. Elsa went over to her sister and said, "Anna?!", to see if she was alright, but she was out cold. "Mama! Papa!", shouted Elsa to her parents. The whole room turned to ice because of how she felt and she said to Anna, while holding her, "It's okay, Anna. I've got you!". Then, she was seeing her parents looking at her in fear and blaming her for what happened. "Elsa, what have you done? This is getting out of hand!", said their father running towards the both of them, along with their mother. "It was an accident. I'm so sorry, Anna.", said Elsa while still holding her unconscious sister. Next, Grand Pabbie telling her about both the beauty and danger of her magic and that fear would be her enemy and death it's consequence. Then, she was taken aback to when her parents told her to conceal her magic with her gloves and then they died on their sea voyage. Next, she envisioned her coronation as Queen of Arendelle, when everyone found out about her powers and The Duke Of Weaselton screaming, "Monster!", and her citizens looking at her in terror. As well as her losing control and blasting Anna in the heart. The look of pain and hurt on her face right after that happened still haunts her. Also, the Duke's guards trying to kill her in her ice castle. Finally, Hans telling her, "Your sister is dead! Because of you!". "No.", she said and then fell on the ground. She heard the sword being drawn, but did nothing because she felt like she deserved it and thought that there was nothing to live for. Anna got in the way while screaming, "Noooo!", while being entirely frozen, the one thing she never wanted to happen and the blast knocking Hans out. Once Elsa saw this, she screamed, "Anna!", and then began to hug her now frozen sister while sobbing uncontrollably. Of course, everything turned out okay, but this time in Elsa's mind, Anna fell completely apart into ice cubes and when she screamed, "Anna, no!", Hans got back up and tried it a second time and killed her, leaving Arendelle all for himself and her citizens thinking he was the hero, when he was really the villain. Elsa was shaken almost to death and whimpering like crazy, while freezing the entire room because her powers become uncontrollable when she's scared. Scarecrow seemed extremely fascinated with his newest "patient". Jacob couldn't take it and head-butted both goons that were holding him down in the face and they released their hold. He went over to the fallen queen and said, "Elsa! God, can you hear me? Whatever you're seeing, it's not really happening!". But she was lost in her fear. Scarecrow picked up one of the thug's clubs and knocked him out like the rest. More men came into the room to escort Crane out. "Ready to go?", said one guy. "Yes. I have what I need, but bring her. She seems to be quite interesting and I do wonder what's going on inside her mind.", he ordered with the plans in his hand. "Yes, sir!", said a guy as he and the rest grabbed Elsa and left the room. "What happened in here? It looks like The North Pole! Did she do that?", asked a thug. "Yes.", Scarecrow answered. "Are you sure it's a good idea to take her?", the goon asked. "Maybe. Maybe not. But her torture has just begun and soon all of Gotham will follow. As well as Batman!", he said as they left the room, leaving Elsa drugged and kidnapped and her friends and family knocked out.