Nightmare in Arkham:
Chapter 10: "Dark Reunion"
-Alice was disoriented. She was fully conscious but had no idea where she was. Everything was black, but her environment was sweltering hot. Then light slowly started to illuminate in her surrounding. It was a dark, red shade and when the light became brighter a dark outline appeared in the center. Then the outline took on the shape of a man. Then Alice's vision became clear and she saw Freddy standing over her. His face was less than a meter over hers' and he was smiling a wide grin showing all of his filthy, rotten, blood covered teeth. "Wakie! Wakie! Eggs and Bakie!"
-Alice screamed in horror and she instinctively shot her fist up in Freddy's face. It made a loud "thwak" when it made impact and Alice leaped to her feet. She kicked Freddy in the crotch and when he leaned over she constricted her arm around his neck as tight as she could. Her fear had now turned to rage. "You're dead! You're dead!" She screamed. She then kicked Freddy in the leg causing him to fall onto one knee. Alice kicked Freddy in the back of the head causing his hat to fall off and she pinned his head against a boiler pipe with the sole of her boot. The pipe sizzled against Freddy's flesh and he screamed in agony. Alice pushed against his head with all of her might and she soon managed to crush Freddy's head like a piece of fruit under her shoe. His body slid down the side of the boiler spurting blood out of the headless stump. Once the body was on the floor it caught fire from the heat of the boiler and became engulfed in flames.
-Alice sobbed. "Stay dead! Stay dead, you fucking bastard! WE KILLED YOU!" Alice's scream echoed through the boiler room.
-"If you killed me…" Freddy's voice sounded from nowhere. Suddenly, Freddy sprung up from under the floor right under his hat, which stayed on his head even as he descended in midair, "then why do I feel so alive?!"
-Alice ran at Freddy and took a swing at him but, in a dance fashion, Freddy dodged the blow, spun around, grabbed Alice's hand with his left hand, and swung her into a boiler. Freddy kept his grip on Alice's hand as he flung her around the room in a coupled dance like manner. After a few seconds of throwing Alice across the room like a rag doll, Freddy spun around pointing his index blade at Alice causing her to freeze in place. Freddy then brought his finger up, motioning Alice toward him. Alice's body was abruptly, and involuntarily, flung toward Freddy, who grabbed Alice's hand and held it high up in the air while groping his gloved hand around her waist. Freddy then shifted his weight over Alice, causing her to bend her back. "Just a little something I picked up from Jonathan Crane. It's called 'violent dancing'".
-Freddy spun Alice around and threw her forward at a railing, which she flipped over and fell about 15 feet off of a ledge. Alice hit the hard pavement on her back and a shockwave of pain jolted through her body. Alice slowly got back on her feet as she tried to regain her posture. Alice's body would only allow her to limp for a short distance before the pain subsided. When she was able to walk again, she made her way through the nightmare realm she thought had long since been destroyed and stumbled upon Barbara Gordon's catatonic body encased in its glass prison. Alice slowly approached the containment and gazed in both shock and amazement. The image of Barbara hovering in her red-misted prison looked so surreal, even for something inside of a dream.
-As she got within an arm's reach, Barbara's body turned its back to Alice and she saw the cuts in her back. Alice gasped and backed away. When she turned her head Alice saw the screen of victims Freddy still had displayed on his wall. At first, Alice could not make out the faces she was seeing on the wall, when she took a few steps toward it she could clearly see all of her patience in Arkham. "No", Alice quietly exclaimed.
-While gazing at Freddy's hit list, she stumbled upon Scarecrow and Mad Hatter's pictures, which were both marked with an X burned across them. Then, at the very bottom, she noticed a picture with only a / burned across it. After gazing at the picture for a short time Alice realized it was Batgirl. Then something clicked in her head and she turned back Barbara. It's her! Oh God, she's the Batgirl. She's the one Batman's trying to save.
-Alice knew she had to get Barbara out of the containment. Maybe then she would awaken from her coma in the real world. Alice looked around for something hard and blunt she could use to shatter the glass. After a short time she spotted a long, thick crowbar leaning against a wall, perfect. She grabbed the crowbar and ran toward the glass with the bar raised up behind her shoulders as she built up momentum for a hard impact. Right as Alice reached the glass and started to swing, four enormous spikes shot up from the ground in front of the glass and blocked her path. "Ah, Ah, Ah. You can look, but ya can't touch," Freddy's voice called out. The spikes then fell toward Alice with the speed of a bear trap snapping shut and Alice barely managed to jump out of the way in time. When Alice looked back, Freddy was standing right in front of Barbara's prison.
-Freddy chuckled and turned to Barbara. "Beauty, ain't it? Little Barbie girl in her very own little…" Freddy placed the tips of all 4 of his knives on the glass, "…Barbie world". Freddy scraped his claw down the glass and it gave off a bright white flash. Then it showed a sort of video projection in which Gotham was being torn asunder by the Arkham villains. Harley was shown brutally and remorselessly massacring frightened civilians by the dozens while giggling like a bubbly child, Poison Ivy was shown strangling and poisoning small children with her plants, and Two Face was flipping a coin to determine whether or not to detonate a bomb that would kill thousands of people held up in a building, and Bane was shown fighting Batman on a rooftop. Then Commissioner Gordon was shown on the screen angrily shouting in the chaos to all the villains, "That's right! Do what you must! Just so long as you kill Batman! Kill him, like he killed my daughter!" After this, Bane grabbed Batman, held him up in the air over his head, and then slammed him down over his knee, shattering his spine before hurling him at Gordon sending him and the broken Batman plummeting off of the rooftop to their deaths. Barbara was shown sobbing as she was forced to watch the events. "Please stop! Make it go away! Make it go away!"
-"Let her go!" Alice angrily demanded.
-"Oh, I can't do that", Freddy responded "I made her a promise that I'd 'save her for last'. Besides...It's my body. And I'll do what I want with her."
-Freddy turned back to Alice. "In the meantime, you and I have some catching up to do. How long has it been, Alice? You've grown on me. Last time I saw you, ya looked like this little bitch right here", he said pointing his thumb to Barbara.
-"Thirty years. It's been 30 long, agonizing years," Alice said angrily.
-"My, my, I have been gone a long time. Not that it matters. I got all the time in the world now".
-"Jacob killed you. He killed you!"
-"Sorry hon, you're gonna have to be a little more specific. Quite a few people have killed me. Which one was he again?"
-Before Alice could answer, Freddy interrupted, "Oh! You mean your little rugrat! How could I forget him? He was the only one who killed me the proper way. How is he? Last time I saw him he had be held up inside of a room at my old humble abode with a bomb inside the room."
-Alice's face began to flush red with furry. "Oh, now that's a shame. Poor little Jacob, gone in a fiery inferno. Like father like son, eh Alice?"
-"SHUT UP!" Alice screamed. She ran at Freddy with the crowbar raised and took a swing at him but Freddy vanished before the impact and the crowbar swung back around Alice's shoulder. Alice heard a whistle almost directly in her ear from behind. When she turned her head Freddy was on top of the crowbar standing on only one finger from his left hand. His legs were spread apart in the air. He brought his middle blade straight up from his backside and wiggled it between his legs. "Strike one," he said.
-Freddy then leaped into the air using only the finger that was holding him up and kicked Alice in the face. She fell to the floor and the crowbar fell from her hands, landing right beside her. "Strike two".
-As Alice was lying on the ground 5 metal roots sprung from the ground and bound Alice to the ground by her arms, legs, and neck. Freddy stood over Alice, smiling evilly. Suddenly, he heard a beeping noise off to the side and he turned his head. On his list of victims, Harley's profile had lit up. Then it showed video footage of her sleeping on Alice's couch with the light from the TV cast over her. Freddy looked back at Alice, his smile even wider. He leaned in so that his face was directly over hers'. "Strike three", he stated, "you're outta here". Freddy brought his glove up and flicked all 4 blades straight up in front of Alice's face.
-Alice abruptly woke up in an ambulance. Her body shot up and she gasped in shock. "Whoa there, take it easy ma'am", said a doctor inside the vehicle. "You had quite a nasty bump there. Just lie back down and relax. We're just taking you to the hospital to make sure you don't have a concussion or anything."
-"No. No, you have to pull over! You have to let me out! He's going to kill her!"
-"Ma'am, just calm down. You just hit your head is all. Everything is going to be alright".
-"No! You don't understand-"
-"Ma'am-"
-"No! No! Let me out! I have to save her!" Alice sat up and kicked the door to the ambulance wide open.
-"Fuck! Are you crazy?!" The doctor shouted. Without thinking, Alice leaped from the ambulance and landed on a grassy slope. Her body was flung down the hill and her arms, feet, shoulders, back, and head slammed into the ground as she descended the slope. Once she finally reached the bottom her body was wracked with pain but she had no broken bones. She weakly stood up and saw that her neighborhood was only about a quarter of a mile away. Ignoring the pain, Alice began to make her way to her house as fast as she could.