A new kind of crazy.
In Arkham it was a well known fact that the children's ward was probably one of the more dangerous areas of the Asylum. Many of said children were almost old enough to be moved into the adult wards but for the mean time, they were locked up in their own section of Arkham with their own rec-room and cafeteria, not allowed to mix with the adults in case they gave them any bad ideas.
It was a waste of time since whenever the kids broke out they would go looking for their mentors and work with them anyway, since they were their friends or in some rare cases family.
One of the most notable of all the kids that were locked away in this ward was Jester. A crazy clown girl with a love of the theatrics and black humour. She was, for lack of a better term, the top girl of that part of the asylum, far to crazy for anyone to mess with and quite frankly non of the others were too keen on being that crazy anyway.
But that didn't stop them from trying.
Their rec-room was allowed much more in it then the adults because the Doctors took on the view of, they're kids, what could they possibly do? The guards would argue that they could do a lot as Target once showed when he used a chess piece to blind a guard when the guy had beat him down far too much. In some ways some of the guards agreed with what Target did because the man was a bully and was beating Target down even after the boy had stopped resisting, it was probably because the guards agreed with his decision that he was let of lightly.
Now in recent times a new inmate had been placed in Arkham, Jester's BFF if she was going to decided out of all the crazy kids she knew and there she was sitting at the chess bored with Alice sitting opposite her, Jester grinned and walked over, taking a seat and sitting to the side of the bored.
"Heya' E'," the clown girl grinned and she rested her head on the arm head rest of the chair. "How ya been?"
Enigma Terry, also known as the computer hacker Cr055w0rd online or Crossword in everyday criminal activity glanced up at Jester and frowned.
"I was fine until your antics got me locked up in here. I don't deserve to be in here, I am completely sane!"
"Wow," Jester mumbled her eyes wide in mock shock. "It's uncanny how alike you and ya father are. Eddie says the same thing."
"My father is a genius," Enigma declared with a small smile on her face. "I am honoured to have him as my father."
"Yeah he was such a genius that he named ya Enigma, the only name I can never find on a mug… then again Luna is also pretty hard to find too."
"Oh and where is dear Moonbeam?" asked Alice who was still staring at the chess bored in slight confusion as to where she was going to move next.
"Ah.." Jester waved her hand around the air before dropping it and shrugging. "Around. Some place in the facility… I have no idea, I just know she hasn't gotten out."
"I could get out of here easily."
"Then please, E', please do," Jester grinned at her. "Because I think you and I both know that if you had worked a way out of here ya would of done it by now."
"I'm biding my time."
"Until you come up with an idea."
"No!"
"I heard a yes there, did you hear a yes Alice?"
"I heard a no… dear me Jester are you hard of hearing or has too many explosions gone to your head?"
Jester blinked before frowning and shaking her head, a smile tugged at her lips. "Probably."
"That wouldn't surprise me," Enigma deadpanned as she went back to the chess bored. "Alice have you even moved yet?"
"No little riddle I have not. Still deciding I am afraid to say."
"It's Enigma."
"Don't bother," Jester waved her off. "After Jervis went cuckoo, Alice went further down the rabbit hole, ya get me?"
"No, but for the sake of you not talking any longer I will say yes."
"Remind me again why I'm friends with you."
"I haven't the slightest idea."
"Yeah, funny that, neither do I."
"Oh!" they all turned to see Gecko and Target walking over to them, Target the obvious one who had spoken. "Chick fight, chick fight!"
"That is a very rude thing to say," Alice informed him as she finally moved her piece and Enigma quickly moved hers.
"I'm just stating the obvious," Target smirked. "Besides, I love it when you girls fight, it's hilarious."
"So is cutting people's arms off," Jester grinned at him, as Target automatically moved his hand to the amputated arm as Jester continued. "And by the looks of things, ya have one spare to go."
"You have no sense of humour."
"I have a perfect sense of humour," she giggled as she tilted her head to the side. "Just you don't like it is all."
"Ya got that right."
Gecko sighed and shook his head. "Can't you two ever get along?"
"Depends."
"On?"
"Weather I wake up on the wrong side of the padded cell or not."
The lizard boy gave her a dull look before he shook his head and turned to Enigma with a toothy grin on his face. "Well, well, well, little Enigma, back to join our merry crew?"
"Unfortunately," Enigma mumbled before she turned to the two boys and smiled. "But it's nice to see you again, Gecko, you too Target."
"Thanks Enigma, it's good to see you too."
"You playing chess with Alice? Ya sure that's a good idea… she is a little… ya know?"
"Dear Gecko, whatever do you mean?"
"You're crazy," Gecko deadpanned. "Really crazy."
"Not crazy, mad," Alice explained with a smile. "Mad as a hatter, or maybe madder? Only time will tell, speaking of which it's time for tea."
Gecko shook his head. "Not for another half an hour it ain't. Can you even tell the damn time?"
"It's always tea time in Wonderland but there are six different times at one time in Wonderland. It can become oh very confusing."
"You're telling us," Target mumbled.
All through this Jester had been exhuming the pieces as Enigma moved another one before she frowned. "Why'd ya move the horsey?"
Enigma took a moment to calm herself, taking in a deep breath before finally talking again. "It's called a Knight."
"That don't look like no Knight to me."
"Well it is a Knight!"
"And the Castles?"
"Rooks."
Jester blinked and looked back at the pieces, picking up the rook much to Enigma's dismay and slight panic over. "E', that's a castle. You can't tell me it's anything but a castle."
Enigma glared at her for a long time before she snatched the piece off her and put it back on the bored. "It's called a rook, therefore it is a rook!"
"But it looks like a castle."
Enigma slammed her hand down on the bored. "It isn't a castle! How many times do I have to say that!"
"No more, sheesh, E', ya take things way too seriously."
Enigma muttered something about clowns and explosions and a few other not very nice words before carrying on with her chess game.
"Besides, why ya even play chess, it's boring."
Enigma rolled her eyes moving another piece before she turned back to Jester. "It's about strategy and planning. Something sadly you lack."
Target giggled slightly before leaning on Jester's chair and pointing at the bored. "Say, if that's true, why's Alice playing it?"
"Yeah," Jester agreed before glaring at Enigma. "And I plan."
"No you don't."
"Well you plan, sure, but look where that got you!" Jester grinned as her best friend glared at her harshly before she continued. "Besides, think of it this way, it should be my game, it's black and white… like me!"
"Anyway," Gecko interjected before the argument could get any worse. "Any of you guys seen Scorch? Guys meant to be in here, but I haven't see him at all."
"I think he's just keeping a distance from everyone," Jester informed as she picked up another piece and held it up to the light. "This looks like a pointy thing."
"Besides," Target muttered as he looked up at his friend. "You know Scorch, he's always been an outsider, he never mixed with anyone."
"He always sat at the back too," Enigma acknowledged before she reached across the table and snatched the piece out of Jester's hand. "Now give me that, it's a bishop!"
"Bishops don't where pointy things on their heads… they wear dresses."
Gecko and Target chuckled as Enigma glared harder at Jester and squeezed the piece in her hand before she calmly placed it down and shook her head. "Anyway," she mumbled. "Maybe Scorch has a different time table to us."
"Dear friends, he does not!" Alice cried as she pointed across the room as Scorch walked in , his face looked slightly worse. Obviously he had been taking Garfield's advice way too much.
"Ya think we should talk to him?"
"One thing I learnt about Scorch," Gecko muttered as they watched the boy take a seat on the sofa, switching the telly on before he leaned back and stared at it. "He don't really like being with no one much, if at all."
"Always been a loner," Target agreed. "Guy never speaks to anyone willing if at all."
"You do know I can hear you."
They froze and glanced over at Scorch who hadn't moved from his seat and was still watching the telly.
Jester blinked before grinned and stretching her arms out. "He lives!"
"Say, Scorch," Target grinned cautiously. "How you been?"
"I've been fine."
"That good huh?"
"Pretty much."
Gecko shook his head and stood to his full hight. "Mind telling us what happened to your face?"
"My beautiful flames thanked me for creating them and gave me a loving caress. I feel honoured," Scorch answered as he continued to sit there without turning around. He seemed bored if anything. But that was not a new thing. He always seemed like that.
Jester however was still examinening the chess bored. "What's the crowny thing?"
"You mean the king?"
"That's a king?"
"Yes," Enigma sighed and turned to see the clown girl grinning at her. "You're just doing this to drive me up the wall aren't you."
"That a statement or a question?"
"You know which one it is."
Scorch finally turned around to look at them all and he raised an eyebrow at them. "Why are you playing chess with Alice, of all people?"
"She's the only one who understands the rules."
"And can probably stand you boasting when you win," Jester shrugged before she giggled. "Either that or it's because she's just trying to be polight."
"It is always good to be nice," Alice informed them all smiling at them with a look that screamed that she wasn't completely there. "One never knows when one shall need a helping from the many others that surround us."
"Surprisingly smart of you," Enigma muttered as she gazed at the bored before smirking. "And check by the way."
"You really need to get a new hobby Enigma," Scorch mumbled as he stared at her before glancing at the bored and looking utterly confused and slightly disgusted by it's very presence. "Either that or I'll burn the chess bored. Then again I might do that anyway."
"You can't burn the chess bored!"
"Who's gonna stop me? You?"
"No, I'll set her on you," Enigma stated, while nodding to Jester who looked behind her and stuck her tongue out laughing.
Scorch grimaced. "You threaten anyone with that thing and they'll automatically back away from you."
"Hey!" Jester glared at him before holding up a finger. "I resent that remark! I'm as sane as any of you, if not saner!"
"You are not sane and when did sanity even come into it?"
"I dunno," Jester shrugged before she looked back at the chess bored. "Move the horsey, E', it's the best one to go for."
"For the last time it is a knight!"
Everyone rolled their eyes and the two boys wandered over to Scorch and sat with him to watch the telly as Enigma and Jester re started the argument again.
Jester rolled her eyes at Enigma's shouting before she smirked at her once the young riddle lover had stopped.
"Enigma, I heard ya, ya don't have to shout oh and er," she stood up and moved one of Alice's pieces in front of Enigma's king grinning. "Check mate."
THE END.
Note: Here we go then! Some more of my characters! :) I hope you enjoyed this one and we even had a few new faces in it, how about that. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this and up next we have Pyg trying to make the perfect gifts for the rest of the rogues... it's not gonna end well is it, you can kinda tell :P
Anyway, requests are still open and you can put in anything you want I will write them! :D
