Freeze and Penguin
After Shawn and I met at the warehouse and he helped the doctor getting out of Arkham, I heard someone calling for help from the Gotham FM Buliding. Not wanting to be I went to the building when a man appeared from nowhere frightened to death.
"Please, you gotta help me."
"Don't worry, everything is gonna be alright. Just try to calm down." I asked the stranger. "What's your name?"
"Jack Parker."
"Jack, why are you here in Arkham city?" I asked in a calm voice. Parker was a man who had lost some significant weight due to lack of sleep. He wasn't a typical Arkham City Inmate.
"Strange, that vindictive bastard." Parked hissed with venom. "I tried to prevent Mayor Sharpe from building Arkham city in the first place. But Strange bribed everyone at the congress, so when Sharpe was elected and Arkham city was built, Strange arrested me and put me in this godforsaken place. He made me even work on the Wonder tower for six months." He gestured to the huge tower near the gates.
"Do you know who's following you?" I questioned,
"Yeah, it's.."
Bang! A clean shot through the head. Blood splattered across the white snow as his body crumpled to the floor. "Sniper, shit." I muttered looking around for where the shot came from.
All I can hope for is that he didn't hear the shot that killed him. I need to set up a virtual crime scene by using the glasses Shawn made for me. Shawn works for the Science Division at Wayne enterprises which gives me access to lot of latest technology. I took out the glasses and created a crime by using Waynetech. I gotta thank Shawn for setting me up with it. I scanned the bullet hole on the metal chimney to trace the trajectory of the shot. I followed it to a set of generators near the Steel Mill. I spotted shell near the generator to the left. I picked it up and saw two small initials on it. D.S. There's only one man who can pull that shot, especially from a long range. I scanned it and uploaded to the safe house's computer. I contacted Shawn via ear comms. Hopefully he would be back in the Safe house by now.
"Shawn. I want you to look at the data I just uploaded."
I waited patiently for him to be finished. "Holy... Deadshot is in Arkham City?!" Shawn Exclaimed.
"Yep. And it looks like he is here on his own will." I replied.
"So, the World's deadliest assassin against the Son of the Demon's head. Who's gonna win?" Shawn Mused.
It won't be him. I can assure you. Deadshot may be one of the best but his pride will be his downfall. "Do a background check on Jack Parker. Deadshot wouldn't kill a random person just for the sake of it."
"Not a problem." Shawn complied and soon enough he pulled up Parker's profile. "Well, this is interesting."
"Interesting how?"
"Well, Jack Parker's sister Sara was one of Sharpe's major supporters in his campaign. She was suspected of money laundering, though she was never charged." He informed. "I checked her bank records; she emptied her account 6 months ago, meaning that when Arkham City was opened, She fled town to avoid being rounded up by Strange's goons. Unfortunately she was shot and killed at a café in Miami three weeks ago, same M.O. as her brother."
Looks like Strange is tying up any loose ends that would incriminate him. "Deadshot is taking out any political prisoner that was sent here to Arkham City on Strange's orders." I concluded.
"Looks like it. Hang on." Shawn said. "There's been an another shot that matches Deadshot's distinctive sniper rifle near the Amusement mile. I'll send you the location where I've triangulated the bullet impact sound."
Damn. Deadshot has struck again and I didn't even know it. I went to follow the location of the second victim. After a thorough search I discovered some interesting clues. I went to where he took the shot and found a lead that may lead to Deadshot.
"Deadshot made a slipup."
"Really? That's definitely not a part of his M.O."
"He doesn't even know it. He used a tripod to steady the shot, which was fortunately for us because he left a trail. The trail is some sort of a metallic compound, it means that wherever he stored his weapon, must be made of that compound." I explained.
"So what are you waiting for, analyze the particles and isolate the area they came from." Shawn suggested. If only were that simple.
"This isn't our first day at the job, Shawn. The particles contain a small volume of a specific lead compound that was used in paints for a short period of time several years ago. Even if I could do that, it would be too many locations to check. Deadshot's getting sloppy, so when he makes another mistake like this, we capitalize on that." I told him.
Moments later, I found another body, this time it was outside of a camp. The victim was hiding behind a car when he was killed. I examined the crime scene and found a bullet hole on the road rail. After I scanned it, Shawn called me.
"I think I've found the link between Deadshot's victims."
"Let's hear it out. He's killed again. We have to stop him." I told him grimly.
"Well, Jack Parker was not just a political protester. He was also a specialist in wireless broadcast technology. Strange made him work on the Tower communication system."
"And the other one?"
"Can't find anything on him, which is suspicious if you ask me." Shawn added to the pattern. "But he was previously hired in several military projects specializing in advanced weapon delivery system."
It confirmed what I had already suspected. "Deadshot is definitely cleaning up Hugo Strange's mess. I'll track the shot to see where it came from. Good work."
"Any time."
I found the location of where Floyd took the latest shot. and it turned out that he lied down for the kill shot. Luckily I scanned the spot and found traces of that compound, we nailed him.
"We got him Shawn. I've isolated several distinctive plastic base particles and identified the items that used this material in their construction."
"So looking at the possible alternatives, my guess is that you decided to check out the substations, correct?" Shawn asked.
"You know me so well, brother. Cross referencing this against locations that was definitely contained the metallic compound from the second crime scene gives us.."
"Three locations, you did it. You're going to get that son of a bitch." Shawn finished.
"I let know you what happened, mark the map on my cellphone." I said as I took out my IPhone and went to check out my map. Three red dots. These are three locations that matches the forensic profile, meaning that Deadshot could be on any of these three. I left to find the substations the first two was useless but the last one that was outside of Iceberg Lounge was definitely used by Deadshot.
When I opened it, I found a PDA inside and hacked it. I found a list of names which confirmed a theory I had earlier. Strange smuggled him to Arkham city and gave him his hit list of anyone who posed a threat against him. Alright, he's down to three targets. Bruce Wayne, Batman and Jack Ryder. But that wasn't the problem.
"Son of a bitch." I hissed. Deadshot's on a tight schedule. Jack is his next target, if I don't save Jack in three minutes, he'll have a long obituary on the morning newspaper. So I ran to the city block where Jack was outside of the main gate hiding from any potential attackers. Just when Deadshot pulled the trigger, I got there in time; Jack's life was saved. We hid behind a wrecked car.
"Get out of here now. " She nodded and helped jack to get out of Arkham.
Later I was hiding behind a brick wall while deadshot was on a platform carrying some weapon artillery.
"Where are you, you little Batman wannabe?" Deadshot demanded.
I had to move quickly once his back was turned, using my stealth training. I went under the platform and waited for the perfect opportunity.
"Where the hell are you?" Deadshot asked as I appeared behind him.
"Here." I whispered to his ear that startled him and knocked his lights out, down for the count.
"Too easy, baby. Too easy." I smirked over my victory.
I locked him up in an old cart hanging near the museum. "You don't look so tough now, Assclown."
Floyd Lawton banged on the door in anger, not believing that he just got outsmarted by a rookie. "Wait until I'll get my hands on you, ya punk! You will regret the day you messed with Deadshot!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah blah blah. Enough with the threats, you'll bore me to death. Seeiah, don wanna be ya.." I joked leaving him to his fate.
I got a call from Alfred via ear comms. "Master Jericho. There's someone who wishes to speak to you at once."
"Who is it?" I asked cautiously.
"Do you have any idea how worried I was?!" It was Barbara and she is really pissed.
"Hey Barbara." I said nervously, Yep, she's going to kick my ass after this.
"Don't Barbara me, you're in deep trouble, mister." Oh yeah, she is definitely going to kick my ass after this, I'm screwed. "
"I'm sorry I didn't call you, but listen after I'm done with this, you can yell at me all night long. I deserved it."
Barbara let out a sigh. "Fine, but we're not done talking about this. Be careful out there."
"I know. Can you put Alfred back on line, please?"
"Sure."
"Alfred, have you heard anything from Batman? It's been 20 minutes and I haven't heard from him since I left." I asked the former Mi6 agent about where the Batman.
"No, unfortunately I have not."
"Alright, I'm heading back to Steel mill, hopefully…." I trailed off as I heard glass shatter from the Steel Mill. "Never mind." I wasted no time to go there. I found batman lying outside of what may looked Joker's office. He had a cellphone strapped to his chest, so I took it. I helped him up and gave the cellphone to him.
"I'm listening." Batman talked to the joker via face cam.
"Is someone feeling a little down?" Joker mocked him. What did I miss?
"What do you want?"
"Relax, it won't kill ya, oops." Joker joked then laughed manically at his self made joke. I did not find it funny.
"Where is the cure? Who has it?" Batman demanded. Cure? What?
"I had our cold blooded Freeze making, but he's gone dark on me."
"We'll find him." I said.
"I'll bet you would…" Joker trailed off as batman took a chip from the cellphone and put it into his cowl, probably because he would call us soon enough.
"What the hell happened back there?" I asked with some concern.
"After you left, I went to Joker's office to confront him and Harley but it was a trap. He strapped me to wheelchair after He sedated me and told me that he was dying from an overdose Titan. To ensure my cooperation, he injected some of his tainted blood into me and has shipped it to every hospital in Gotham for weeks."
Of the all the crimes Joker has committed over the years, this had to be worst of the lot. Shipping his tainted blood to every hospital Gotham? "Jesus. So it is true of what the Doctor was saying, Joker's really dying?"
"Yes."
I let out a light sigh and my hand ran through my dark short hair. "Ok, we're going to find Freeze and find that cure, but how? He needs to kept at sub zero temperature to survive."
"Don't worry, I calibrated the cowl to follow his trace. It will lead us to the coldest point in Arkham City." Batman assured me.
True. After all, this was according to weather news, one of the coldest winter nights in a century in the middle of winter.
We move quickly to find Mr. Freeze whereabouts. It turned out he was in the old GCPD precinct using one of the old forensic labs. We went to a gate when I found a body there. "Hmm, that's one of Penguins men, looks like they took him. I can hack in to their frequency and find out what's going on." Batman said as he took out an encryption key from a hand radio and used his sequencer to get into their communications.
"Good thinking." I replied. He used remote charge to open the gate. So when we entered the building we heard someone talking over the radio. "Everything is under control, Mr Cobblepot." We hid quickly.
"Good, make sure that Batman and his new bloody friend doesn't get here and ruin the fun. I don't want them to find the iceman."
"Don't worry boss, it won't happen, we'll make sure of that."
"How many are there?" I asked silently.
"Four and I'm seeing some sort of a heart monitor on their arms. If one of the men's heartbeats goes down, it will alert the others.."
"Son of a bitch." We decided to split up once again, I took care of two the on the ground knowing that would cause panic. Batman took down the third while the leader was scared. So I snuck behind him and smashed his head to the table, Batman joined me a few seconds later, it was time for questioning, I hold him by placing my foot to his chest preventing him from getting up and drew my sword pointing to his face.
"You see this sword? Now if you don't tell us where Mr. Freeze is, I'm stick this where the sun doesn't shine, Junior."
He was literary scared to death. "Ok, ok. He's in the museum, Penguin got's him."
"I'll have to cut that tongue off ya mouth, boy." Penguin was not happy at the com, he doesn't like a snitch.
"No please, they made me tell them" I stomped his chest and kneed his face.
"You can have him, boys. I'm safe and sound in my museum. I have loads of surprise waiting for you." Penguin spoke up over the speakers.
"Don't bet on it, you stupid walrus." I snarled as we heard explosion outside the building. "That doesn't sound good" Batman said as we moved to the door only to discover it was locked.
"Damnit, how are we going to get out?" I asked.
Batman pulled his remote charge and opened the gate with ease and left.
"Show off!" I shouted at batman and grinned as I followed him.
After a long walk from GCPD, we finally made it to the museum which was far end of town, It was in Penguin's territory. It always has been since the Supermax Prison was opened for the last year. The Tyger Guards reported it to Warden Strange months ago but those on Penguin's payroll didn't give a shit.
I chuckled bitterly. "Ironic isn't it?" I said.
"What is?"
"This was the place that I took Barbara out for our first date three years ago. Had a good time with her." I let out a sigh. "Let's get this over with." I said as we entered the museum. Batman looked concerned. "What is it?" I asked.
"This seems too easy, like he was expecting us." He noted and it turned out that he was right as metal bars blocked us off from going into museum.
"Son of a bitch!" I yelled.
"Relax, I'll go to the reception desk and hack into terminal." He said as he pulled out some kind of frequent sequencer, crouching down and began messing with the controls.
It was making those weird noises and he raised an eyebrow. "Huh." That doesn't sound good.
"What?" I asked.
"Something's blocking the frequency. I can't get in to the museum until I find out what it is."
"Awesome." I said sarcastically, it just went from bad to worse.
"Jericho." Shawn called inside my ear. "There's something I should tell you, I stumbled across a huge machine. It was guarded by one of Penguins men."
"What does it look like?" I asked as Batman walked over to me and pressed his fingers to his side of his mask to listen.
"Well, it has a satellite and tons of computer on it, must of cost a lot of money for that."
"It must be what Cobblepot's using to block out my equipment." Batman said.
"Hey, Batman. Anyway should I ask him why?" Shawn inquired.
"He's all yours." I said with a grin as we listened to Shawn questioning the thug about it.
"Ok, he said that Cobblepot set these up to prevent you and Batman from getting into the museum. They have three of those, one on roof of the museum, one here and the last one in the old subway tunnels."
"Good, demolish the first, we take care of the rest." I ordered.
Boom!
We winced at the high pitched sound.
"Way ahead of you." He gloated.
"Ok, try to gather every political prisoner and get them to the church. It's the safest place there." I informed.
"No problem, good luck guys." Shawn said as he ended the line. I took care of one on the rooftop while Batman went to the old subway tunnels. Of course henchmen guarded it but I beat them up easily. I examined the machine and it fit the description, looks like some sort of micro jammer. How the hell did he got a hold of it? I planted some explosives on it and backed away from it. I detonated it and bye bye micro jammer.
I went back to the front door waiting for Batman to return when I remember how I met Barb.
3rd POV
Flashback
4 years ago.
GCPD
"Hi, my name is Jericho Brown. I'm here to see Commissioner Gordon." Jericho said as he was in the 13 th precinct.
"Do you have an appointment?" the receptionist asked,
"Not really." Jericho shrugged, the receptionist pointed to the waiting room saying you're gonna sit there and wait like everybody else. Jericho sighed as he walked to the waiting room and sat down on a chair for a good 20 minutes. He was getting bored until someone startled him.
"Sleepy much?" he turned around to see a redhead sitting in a wheelchair next to him.
"Not really. You know even after 4 years, the police still hasn't getting rid of corruption and sleaziness." Jericho muttered,
"Tell me about it. When the Joker killed Commissioner Loeb and my Dad replaced him, I thought that the system would get rid of the flaws but bad habits die hard I guess."
"Hmm." Jericho agreed on that note and then he turned around at the mention of Dad and Commissioner putting them together, "Wait, you're Barbara Gordon, right? the daughter of Commissioner Gordon."
"Guilty." She confirmed, "So, what you're doing here?"
"Well, I'm here to see your dad. He was a friend of my moms. He has some things that belonged to her."
"Want me to lead you to him?"
"Really?" She motioned him to follow her to the elevator but the doors were too small to allow her to fit so Jericho helped her to get in to the elevator.
"So how long have you been back here?" Barbara asked, admiring the handsome man in front of him. " He does have a nice ass. Damnit, Barb! Don't think like that !"
"A few weeks. I've been traveling around the world for the past 4 years, been to lovely Paris, Barcelona, Algeria and the list goes on. Now I'm here to settle in good ol Gotham."
"Wow, really?" She asked a bit in awe, he nodded, "huh. So, um I was thinking since you've been gone , I was thinking that maybe we could go out together someone…" Barbara asked, lowering her head but quickly corrected" as friends? Nothing more."
"Are you hitting on me?" Jericho asked raising a eyebrow, he's been hit on by many women in the past but by a woman in a wheelchair, that's new.
"No! I can assure you that I am not!" She quickly defended as her cheeks turned a deep red, " Come on, Barb! You've fought thugs, criminal masters and lunatics. But yet you still get cold feet when you're trying to ask a guy out."
"Sure." Jericho chuckled as he took out a pen from his pocket and wrote his number on her hand, "Call me anytime, then we can go to the place of your choice. Now where is your dad's office?"
"Last Door on the left." Barbara said as they stepped out of the elevator and she led him.
Two weeks Later.
Gotham Museum.
"Walk with me, Lord" I pleaded to God to end this torture as Barb and I listened to a boring lecture about the evolution at the museum.
"Stop complaining it was either this or the zoo." Barbara said.
"I didn't know it was going to be boring"
"Suck it up, you're such a baby."
I sighed "fine". When the lecture was over, I grabbed her wheelchair and escorted her to a café for ice cream. "So how is the life of being the daughter of the Commissioner for GCPD? I take it must be hard for you."
"It is, I wanted to be a police officer just like my dad, but he forbid it of course. He didn't want me risk my life everyday because I'm daddy's little girl. But when I got shot which made me crippled, he blamed himself for not being there in time for a while. It was pretty hard to see him broken."
"Well, if someone who understand tragedy, you're looking at him. My mom was killed when I was 17 and I became catatonic after that. It was a difficult time for me. On my 18th birthday I got a letter from my biological father."
"Wait your dad wasn't involved when you grew up?" she interrupts
"He didn't know that I existed. He and my mom had a fling a while back. He wanted to see me in person so I traveled to Siberia because he lives there. He had a daughter which means that she is my half sister."
"How did it go?"
"Surprising well, actually. I spent the next 4 years getting to know them. It was good until I found out that he wasn't the man I thought he was."
"I'm sorry to hear that." she gave me a sympathetic look.
"Thanks, you're the first one person to say that with honesty. I like that." I gave her my most charming smile, which worked. She blushed.
We made our way back to the museum after we destroyed those jammers and Batman deactivated penguin's security system which included the bars, all of sudden a dinosaur came from nowhere. "AHH!" I jumped while Batman stood his ground. I know what you're thinking. Why the former league assassin who lives in a city filled with your worst nightmares is scared of dinosaurs? Everyone got's their own fears. Don't judge me
"Jumpy?" Batman said in slight amusement.
"Shut up" I replied while he shook his head. Then we saw a couple of penguin's men surrounding a hostage, so I took the initiative and threw a flashbang and it stunned them momentarily, so B-man took advantage and knocked them all out. It turned out that the hostage was member of Commissioner Gordon's strike team who was sent to Arkham City on his orders, we promised him to find the others. I spotted a female assassin mediating inside a case. I recognized the insignia on her arms. A member of my sister Talia's elite Guard. If she's there, That means... Oh yeah, family reunion here in Gotham. Looking forward to it.
When we walked further into the museum, we heard yelling and cheering when we entered of what looked like a gladiator arena. Then we saw a horde of two face's men on one side, joker's thugs on the other like wild animals locked up. Another member of the Strike team appeared and he was in not a good condition. "Help me." He said but before we could save him, he was shot in the back, and died.
And the shooter was other than Oswald Cobblepot, he was enjoying this, that sick sadist. If there was one guy you can go to for money or weapon, it's Cobblepot. What he lacks in stature, he makes it up with his aggressive ruthlessness in criminal underworld.
I pulled out my magnum 45 while Batman drew out a batarang only to the little man to shake his head. "Uh huh, I wouldn't do that if I were you. Show them what we got." A ginormous henchman with one arm missing held a cop by his throat with a sickle. You could see the fear in the cop's eyes while Penguin was gloating. "So, you're here for the cops, the iceman or me?" he asked
"I was only here for Freeze and the hostages, but now I'm taking you down too." Batman said.
"Well, aren't you scary?" he said making a fake shiver.
I rolled eyes at that. "I heard a rumor that billionaire Bruce Wayne made you his bitch earlier tonight." I bragged while others chuckled and Penguin gave me a death glare.
"Sod off," he yelled, "Rich boy got lucky, it's all. He'll be dealt with soon enough." He said while a taking a smoke from his cigar to calm himself down. "You see, I'm what you might call a collector." He began his rant. "If I want something that someone else has it, I'll take it. If I don't, then I want it. So here's the thing back there, I got a cabinet with your name on it Batman and as for you, punk, I made an extra just for you. Look around, murders and criminals dying to join my gang and tonight in order to join me, they have to kill you two. So are you going to be good boys and give up nicely?" Penguin ordered us while we stared him down.
"You're not giving anymore orders, Cobblepot." Batman answered.
"If anyone who dares try to take us out, we're right here. Come get us, your cowards." I stated.
"I was hoping you would say that. Come out lads. It's initiation time." He opened the gates and out came 20 goons surrounding us.
"Ready to do this old man?" I asked.
"Definitely." they had strength in numbers but we had experience and skill to even things up. Two of them charged at us but we both delivered uppercuts. Batman threw a smoke bomb and while the thugs were dazed, he threw 6 batarangs at them.
I pulled out my sword and sliced through their legs without breaking a sweat, took out ten of them while he took out seven, now they were down to three. One of them attempted a kick but I grabbed his leg, lifted him up and kicked him right in the stomach. He went across the other side of the room; Batman did a double takedown on the last two. Before we had a chance to re-operate, penguin shot from umbrella-gun to a container with a TITAN sign on it to the ground and out popped a huge monster, a Hulk lookalike. "I guess he's not up for the Hulk of the year award this year." I joked as he charged at us but we dodged him quickly while another swarm of thugs came. I then had a idea, he blindly swung his fist and I jumped on his back. he swung his arms around knocking out the inmates like a sack of potatoes shorting the numbers. After that, Batman landed a series of punches on its stomach and I finished him by running on his back and smashed his head right to the floor. Game over.
After we took a minute to catch our breath I wondered what is TITAN. There's only one way to find out.
"Batman, what is TITAN?" I asked.
Batman sighed knowing I wanted answers. "TITAN is a modified steroidal compound, it's like Venom only four times more potent and more addictive. It was created by Dr. Peneople Young, a Arkham psychiatrist who was getting the fundings from Mr. Jack White."
"One of Joker's oldest aliases." I deduced. He nodded.
"When Dr. Young found out about Joker's devious intentions with TITAN, she declined his payments, which led to that awful night at Arkham Island Last Year. She pay the price with her life. But I destroyed the TITAN production and preventing it from leaving Arkham."
"But apparently you didn't get rid all of it. How the hell did Penguin got a hold of TITAN?" I wondered.
"He's got what?!" That was Barbara; she didn't get the memo of recent events. "How did Joker get TITAN off Arkham Island? What's going on here? Your suit's biometric is spiking."
"How nice of you to join us, Oracle. Alfred, bring Barbara up to speed."
"Of course." Alfred complied to the request
"But…" Batman ended the call.
We left the arena and went to a room that was covered in thick layer of ice. We saw the cop getting frozen by Penguin from the other side that is using Freeze's gun and then tired to take us out across the room. "Feel free to come and join me at the Iceberg Lounge. Enjoy your cop-sicle. "
He went back to the Lounge.
"That can't be good." I said to Batman.
"No, as long as Penguin has Mr. Freeze's gun, we're defenseless, we need to find Freeze now."
"My glasses are picking up Freeze's footprints." I noted seeing the foot prints left behind. "He is in the room to your left."
"Let's go." Batman said as we slowly walked on the thin ice. Then from out of now where, a big white shark attacked us but batman kicked it in the face.
"Ah I see you're have met my personal guard dog. Meet Tiny, he's one big problem solver. " Penguin said from the speakers.
Awesome, just what we needed. And for the second time, Tiny attacked us, but I gave him a series of punches and delivered an uppercut for the finish. "Now stay in the water, you broken down old shark." I said as we went to the war room. We have found Freeze and he's in pretty bad condition. Locked up in a cabinet and the only thing that is keeping him alive is a capsule that contains liquid nitrogen, he didn't have his suit. He looked as he was having trouble breathing because of the heat. Batman looked around as I walked to the maintenance room, which has now a wall. " Funny, why would Cobblepot put a wall here?" I wondered as I was about put some explosives on it
"Jericho, step back!" Batman warned me, but it was too late.
An arm broke the wall and grabbed me by the throat. He threw me into batman and carried a big ass sword. "I shall slice you into pieces American." He said as three men followed him and we got up quickly into fighting stance.
"Not going to happen, Russian." I drawn my sword and charged at him while Batman took care of the thugs but he blocked my attack and pushed me, he swung his sword wildly but I dodged it quickly and sliced it through both of his legs cutting big man off his feet. I then landed a couple of punches and he was already getting dizzy from the blood loss, so l uppercut him with all the strength I can mustered. Batman handled the thugs easily. "I still got it." I said proudly. Batman hacked in to the terminal and opened to cell. Freeze got out, but Lord knows how long the heat has taken its toll on him, he fell to his knees struggling for breath.
Victor Fries was his real name. A former employee of Gothcorp who was using their resources behind their backs to try find a cure for his wife's fatal illness but the then corrupt CEO Ferris Boyle found out and suspended the fundings for his own selfish reasons.
3rd POV
Nine years ago
Gothcorp Science division.
"Open this door! Open it Now!"
"No." Victor gasped, fearing the worse. The door was blown away by the guards who entered the lab and they were soon joined by Ferris Boyle, he did not look happy.
"Get away from that equipment!" Boyle demanded, He ordered the guards to shut the lab down, something that Victor wasn't going to let them do it that easily.
"Stop! This is my experiment!" Fries protested.
"Your unauthorized experiment." Ferris corrected crossing arms with a frown, "I ordered funding suspended weeks ago. I'm already 3 million in debt, thanks to you." This was nothing like the man whose facade was a man of compassion. But here, he was showing his true colors. An uncaring, self-interested, unsympathetic man that was Ferris Boyle.
"You can't stop it now. My wife is in there." Victor reminded a with pleading look.
"So bring her out." Ferris Boyle inquired.
"You can't interrupt the process now."
"Open it." Boyle commanded one of the guards, the guard walked over to the freezing chamber to do just that.
"It's her only chance!" Victor tried to reason with the CEO but his request was denied by the corrupt CEO.
"This is my equipment! Mine !" he stated with a venomous tone in his voice, "I have every legal right to use it or not use it as I see fit. I say this project ends now !" In a last ditch effort, Fries grabbed a revolver from one of the guard's holster and aimed at the supposed "Humanitarian" Ferris Boyle. He raised his hand as if he was trying to calm Victor down.
"No! Stay away from her, murderer!" Victor demanded,
"Victor, I'm sorry. I lost my temper. It doesn't have to come to this. We can talk." For a spilt second Fries thought that he meant it lowering his revolver but it was only a false sense of security as Boyle sucker punched Victor, he stumbled back to a table of cryogenic chemicals soaking him with cold liquid.
"Get out! Get out!" Boyle got out of the dodge with the security guards, Victor's skin was starting to ice blue as his core temperature was and the last thing Victor did before passing out was his hand reaching for Nora's unmoving body in a cryochamber he put her there to slow down the progression of the fatal disease as they escaped.
1st POV
Gotham Museum.
Arkham City.
Batman walked forward with me following him and grabbed his head and pushed him up. I stood by his right side letting him do the talking.
"Joker's cure, where is it?" Batman demanded. He's all business now.
"Forget clown, I want Cobblepot. He has my suit, my weapons. I'll end him for what he has one to me." Freeze said while recovering from his incarceration.
"Penguin is mine. You focus on that cure or innocent people will die." Batman wasn't playing around.
"You don't understand, I can't complete my work without my suit. Everything depends on it." He explained as he sat down while staring at us with his blue eyes. "Everything"
"Penguin is using your gun to hinder your efforts, tell us how to stop it. If you don't then you won't have much time to live." I told him. "Plus you won't be able to find a cure for Nora without your suit."
"Leave my wife out of this! We are not friends." Freeze snarled. Time to get my hands dirty.
"Have it your way then." I said as I picked him up and ripped the vital out of his chest.
"Please give it back to me!" Freeze pleaded
"Today is really not a good day to piss us off, Viktor." I snarled as I poured out the some of nitrogen on the floor.
"Stop!" so I did, eventually.
"There's a security override chip. I built it in my suit in case my weapons were used against me."
"And look how that turned out." Batman said while looking a bit impressed but still taking the situation seriously.
"Why don't you find out for yourself?"
"It's been a pleasure, Viktor. Focus on that cure, I'll get your suit back" Batman said as he left.
"Who are you?" Freeze asked me.
"Jericho." I said as I gave the vital back to him and I went to follow Batman. "Hey wait for me."
We went to another room, which was called the torture room and saved the rest of Gordon's team. Also we found Mr. Freeze's suit, Batman took the chip form his plan and put it into his disruptor. I took one of the vitals that contained liquid nitrogen. "Officer, when we leave, wait here in ten minutes. After that give this to Freeze, he won't be dangerous." I said as I gave him the vital.
"No problem." He agreed.
We headed to the Iceberg Lounge there was Cobblepot waiting for us and to make matters worst, he had some hostages from Gordon's team.
"Ello, boys. So you finally got the balls to stop me?" Penguin said as he blind fired us, he's not a good shooter, I can tell you that. As we approached Penguin carefully at the catwalk, Batman used his disruptor to jam Freeze's gun. Penguin went for another round but failed. B-man took the opportunity to punch Penguin that sent his sorry ass into the ground below.
"You're finished, Cobblepot." Batman
"Please, don't hurt me." He begged
"Don't count on it, you stupid son of a bitch." I stated
"Me neither." He pulled out a detonator and sent us down to a large chamber.
As we looked around in the chamber, it looked like something out of Van Helsing movie, great movie by the way. "Aw, don't be sad, I got a bit of surprise for you down there."
Then we saw a large man who is bigger than Bane, his face was pale, skin was rot, rotten teeth. He looked like a freaking Frankenstein. He was chained up but then he awakened by some electric power source. "Solomon Grundy" he slowly got up. "Born on a Monday." He moved towards us as we stood our ground closer and closer. "Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday!" He roared as he nearly punched us.
"I found him when I bought this place." He chuckled "Comes in handy."
Then Grundy got out of his restraints off the wall and he was pissed. He attacked us with metal balls chained to him but we got out of the way in time and it looked he wasn't going to give us a break anytime soon. That's when I noticed something that could be Grundy's Achilles heel. Every time he would slow down, he quickly regained his strength by three output generators that feeds him electrical energy. I glanced at Batman who had the same idea; we ran into the platforms and planted explosives on the platforms, detonated rapidly taking them out momentarily, I charged at Grundy which I delivered a sequence of punches on his face and knocked him out for now.
"You're asking for it now. Let's see how much that ugly son of a bitch can take, hahaha!"
Penguin pressed the button a couple of times that activated the generators and provided with the same amount of electric power to Solomon, he regained his strength. But in that process, it exposed his ribcage where lays his heart that is glowing amber, the exposed ribcage gave me a brilliant idea.
"Hey, Grundy. Come get me, you big ugly freak!"
I was trying to provoke him, which I did. While Grundy was busy chasing me with metal balls chained to him that was on fire, Batman used some of his explosive gel on the platforms, he detonated the explosives taking out the platforms instantly for a second time. Grundy was weakened by it and I took fully advantage by giving another round of punches to his ugly face and ended him by giving him an uppercut with all strength I can mustered. "Why you, you can't kill him, YOU CAN'T!" Penguin yelled at us as Grundy fell to the ground. I moved to the corpse pulling out my sword and went to his exposed heart going for the kill. But just when I was about to finish him off, Grundy resurrected and grabbed me with ease. "Well, what do you know? You really can't kill that bastard hahaha!" Penguin said with some arrogance in his voice as Grundy crawled to the main generator and smashed his free hand into it and he got regenerated. I tried to get out his clutches but he was too strong. "UAHH!" the pain was unbearable by the electricity but something tells me to fight back.
"C'mon kiddo, get to work." That voice in my head somehow ignited me and I got a renewed strength and slowly, slowly I was able to get out of Grundy's grasps.
"Jericho, are you alright?" Batman asked as he rushed to my aid.
"Never been better, now I'm ready to kick penguin's ass after we're done with this zombie." I ran to platforms and planted the explosives on the output generators and detonated them, shutting the generators off permanently. I quickly glanced at Batman and nodded, we knew what we were going to do, we charged to Grundy who was weak and punched the ribcage multiple times, exposing the heart even more and last finishing touches was that Batman gave the last punch to heart, it gave out and it was over. Solomon Grundy was finished. "One down one more to go." I stated
"OY!" we turned to Penguin who had a grenade launcher. I wasted no time to make a offensive "Just you and me left, The Bat vs The.." He was interrupted as I quickly disarmed him and took out my frustration on him.
"Would. You. Please. Shut. The. Hell. Up!" I said as I beat him up like a punching bag. I grabbed him by his throat and took him down for the count. "Game Over."
I looked to Batman who looked impressed. "Come on Batman, let's head back to Mr. Freeze. He is dying to get his hands on Cobblepot."
He chuckled. "I know. By the way." He reached out his hand for a handshake. "Good job."
I've accepted it of course. "Thanks." In that moment we both earned our respect and trust for each other.