Wow…Hey, guys…I'm alive…I just really haven't been able to figure out where I'm going. Summer's been pretty dull, so far, so I'll be updating a lot more. Hopefully. I came to a conclusion…That this story will probably be finished in two more chapters or so. I don't know just yet.

I want to say a quick thank you to those that have added me to their alerts, again. I appreciate it a lot.

Let's not drag this out, hmm? Onward!


C-Tech stood in the door way to the basement with an odd expression on his face. The men that had brought in his things had nearly destroyed them. Computer monitors lay on top of one another, wires were tangled in knots that would take hours to undo, and all the keyboards, twenty in total, were on the floor, their keys loosely hanging from their bodies. His eye twitched and his mouth hung slightly open. Killjoy stood next to the thin boy with her body leaning on the door frame. Her face was analytical and she had her arms crossed. "...Wow..." Was all the villainess could say. C-Tech seemed to snap out of whatever daze he was in, and stepped into the room while muttering.

"Idiots have no idea how to handle delicate equipment..." He began picking everything up, and putting things back together in their new homes. Killjoy watched the spectacle with an amused expression on her face as C-Tech grumbled.

"Need any help?" She offered. C-Tech seemed to have missed what she said, for he kept arranging things. "Guess not." Again, there was no response. Getting agitated from not being acknowledged, Killjoy stepped toward him. "Hello...?" She tapped him on the shoulder, and his body snapped upright. C-Tech spun to face Killjoy and looked like he was going to snap at her. Killjoy had an eyebrow raised when he stopped himself. He noticed how close she was to him and faltered. He had never been that physically close to anyone in his life, and he didn't know how to react to it.

"Y-yes?" He managed. Killjoy smirked at his obvious discomfort. She decided to have some fun with it, just because she could.

"I said...Do you need... any help?" She smiled sweetly at him. C-Tech had inched back and bumped into the desk behind him, causing his glasses to shift where they sat on his nose.

"W-with what?" He asked in return. Killjoy's smile grew. She leaned forward and pushed his glasses into place with a slender finger. She pushed forward, even closer than C-Tech liked. 'If Joker could see us now...' Killjoy thought to herself. She reached forward and behind him, grabbing a loose computer mouse from the desk. She dangled it between their faces.

"With setting up?" She asked slyly. C-Tech's face seemed to relax and he forced a smile.

"Oh...Sure."

"Well then, let's get started." Killjoy smiled and walked toward a monitor to begin setting up.

"...Do you realize how cruel you are?" C-Tech asked. Killjoy's laughter was the only response that he got.


"Well, that should be it...Let's see if this all will work..." C-Tech said, standing. He and Killjoy had been setting up his 'office', as C-Tech called it, for over an hour. Killjoy mostly handed him tools, due to C-Tech not wanting her to mess anything up. He dusted his hands off on his pants, and took a remote from Killjoy. "Ready?" He asked her.

"Why not." She shrugged.

"Okay...Here it goes..." He held the remote up dramatically and pushed the red power button. The computers roared to life, making beeping sounds, their internal fans starting up.

"Success!" C-Tech said, pumping a fist into the air. Then, the room lit up, sparks flew, and a circuit popped. A pitch black blanket seemed to have been draped over the warehouse. Agitated voices could be heard in succession throughout the building. Miss-E had let out a shriek, and the Joker had let out an angry yell. Killjoy drew in a breath to comment, but C-Tech stopped her. "Say nothing."


Another hour later, things were up and running. Killjoy had since gone back upstairs to spend time with her best friend, and partner in crime, and C-Tech had set to work on the task given to him by Killjoy. He was so engrossed in his typing and searching, he hadn't heard the Joker come down the steps and stop behind him. "So, ah, what are you up to?" C-Tech jumped and spun in his chair. Again, he found himself stammering.

"I, uh...Was just...Working on something for Killjoy..."

"Were you? How, ah, nice of you. Are you trying to get on her good side?" Joker asked C-Tech, leaning close to his face. C-Tech could have sworn he saw the Joker's brown eyes turn black.

"If me being on her good side means not being dead, then yes..." C-Tech bravely said. Joker's mouth twitched.

"You act so, ah, brave. But I can see the fear in your eyes. You want to fit in here? You want to, ah, be one of us? Then, ah, do as you're told."

"...I am..." C-Tech said weakly. "I'm doing what Killjoy asked..." Joker laughed and grabbed C-Tech's shirt collar. His laugh was cut short and his face seemed to be distorted.

"You think she would like you? She's mine. She does what I tell her to and says what I want her to."

"Excuse me?" Said a new voice. The Joker stood up straight and looked over his shoulder. Killjoy was standing there, her hands on her hips."Are we really going to go through this again?" She walked toward the Joker, and placed a small hand on his back. "C-Tech is a friend, Joker. And he's doing me a favor. Don't tell him what to do, since he's working for me. And, don't tell me what to do. You know I don't take orders well. Besides, if I'm yours, then you are mine as well." Killjoy said. Joker looked at her, and she kissed him to prove her point. The Joker seemed to crumble at this, and he gave one final, threatening look at C-Tech. He looked back at Killjoy.

"I, ah, expect you in my room tonight." After he had left, Killjoy looked back at C-Tech.

"Don't have a heart-attack. He won't hurt you. Joker knows you'll be useful." She said to C-Tech while she spun his chair back to face the screen.

"What happens to me when I finish with what you need?" Killjoy looked at him, and then back at the screen. She spoke quickly.

"...Let's...not worry about that just yet, hm? What's that little mark there?" Killjoy pointed to something on the screen.

"Which?"

"The blinking one." She specified.

"That..." C-Tech lifted his hands into the air in front of him, and spread them out, causing the screen to zoom in on the blinking dot. "...I think that's the people you were looking for. I knew they were somewhere in downtown Gotham, but I didn't expect to find them that quickly...So, Killjoy, what's the plan now?" He spun in his chair, and found that he was talking to himself. C-Tech sighed. "...Why does this keep happening to me..."


Okay...So, I HOPE that this was worth the drawn out wait...I'll update as soon as I can.

XOXO

~Killjoy