Now back inside the city I began to search for somewhere to claim as my new abode; considering I'd be spending the rest of eternity here, I needed to find someplace comfortable. Preferably with a four star rating, maybe a lobby breakfast and room service, and close to a dry cleaners. After all the fun I've had today, I look like hell, and I need to look sharp if I'm to make an impression. So far there haven't been any apartments in this part of the city, but a variety of other buildings crammed full of vices. Mostly alcohol and sex, nothing that really interested me. Various demons passed me by, each one colorful in their design and look; I still didn't quite understand why some look the way they do, or why others actually look like the red demons all parents warned their children about. Maybe it has something to do with how they died? It almost makes sense, considering my new state of being. Regardless, I walked deeper into the city, buildings and people and cars passed me by. I had no idea where I was, as most everything here looked the same, much like the cannibal colony I left behind. I could tell I wasn't in the part of the city where I first walked with Bruce, which seemed entirely centered on themes of lust. That was something I picked up after leaving the cannibal town, is that every area has its own theme it likes to stick to, as for why that still eludes me. It reminds me of simpler days in Gotham, when us rogue's gallery held a piece of the city in our hands, and we modeled it after ourselves. I would take the amusement parks, Penguin would have the higher society districts and his Iceberg Lounge, Ivy her gardens, Two-Face the financial district, blah blah blah. All divided until someone had something, I have a feeling something like that is happening here too, and what fun it will be to tear it all down.

After what felt like half an hour of walking, I managed to work my way through the city, past all the various stores, into a residential area filled with different apartments. The area here was still busy, but slightly quieter compared to the noises in other parts of the city. Not as many cars drove by, and most people were either sitting in bus stops or on their way inside their respective homes. The apartments themselves towered over me, at least thirty stories high, and went on for miles. Looking to the left and right of the intersection at which I stood I saw the same thing, endless rows and columns of buildings. They were lined up like dominos, hopefully more structurally sound. I guess Hell must be pretty full, I thought to myself smiling. Walking across the street I decided to go into the first apartment in front of me. After all it was the closest one and seemed accommodating enough, what with its brown brick structure that looked no different from the hundreds of apartments surrounding it. And I'm sure if they're all filled up, they'll be able to make space for me.

I walked up to the double doors that made up the building's entrance and pushed one open, stepping inside. Immediately I was greeted by the friendliness of what I could only assume was a current tenant.

"Alright bitch you listen to me! I've been working all damn day and when I come back to my home to relax I want to watch my fucking shows! So I have every right to be pissed off when there's no Voxflix, where the fuck is it?!" The man shouted, beating a fist against the wire divider separating him from the person managing this building. He was a stockier demon, and looked like a dark blue bi-pedal dinosaur; he wore only a black tank top and khaki shorts, and his eyes were filled with rage.

"Look sir, this building doesn't offer Voxflix for free, I told you this multiple times. All we offer is a free trial period. If you want Voxflix past that point, you have to pay for it. Shouting at me won't change that fact," a female voice replied. From where I stood just past the front door I couldn't see her, but I heard her clearly.

"Oh yeah? Well then," the dino-man angrily fumbled into his pockets for a second before producing several sheets of crumpled-up paper, "why isn't that on the fucking lease?" He slammed the papers onto the ledge sticking out of the wire divider. "I read this shit front to back and it says that ALL amenities are provided, including Voxflix! Ain't nothing said about a trial period!"

I had no idea what a Voxflix was but he sounded very impassioned about it. I heard the woman sigh heavily, possibly rolling her eyes as well, "I'm glad you read that sir, but Voxflix is in fact not an amenity we can provide. The best we offer for free is basic cable. Again, if you want Voxflix, you have to pay for it. You want more than that? Take it up with Vox."

The dino-man responded by slamming both his hands onto the divider, wrapping his fingers through the holes in the wire. "Or how about I take it up with your fucking insides once I rip them out of you?"

I widened my eyes, smiling at the free entertainment, not expecting what was going to happen next. Almost as soon as he was done finishing his sentence, as his muscles tensed ready to start prying the wire apart, his entire body locked up and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. His jaw clenched tightly and he spasmed every other second. Then as soon as this attack occurred it stopped, his fingers loosened on the wire and his mouth opened, pouring out black smoke. It was then it hit me he had been electrocuted. He fell hard to the floor, convulsing at random intervals and barely maintaining consciousness.

I heard the woman sigh again, "I hope there's still enough battery left in this thing, the third time I've had to use it today."

I slowly walked up to the dinosaur man, giggling to myself. This must've caught the woman's attention.

"Hello? Did someone walk in?" she asked.

I ignored her question for a moment, tapping the man below me with my foot, getting a groan and cough in response. Keeping my smile I straightened my bowtie and walked in view of the wire divider to my left so the woman could see me. Looking inside I met eyes with a bee woman; like the man below me she also stood on her own two legs but she also had four arms and was colored black and yellow. Antennae came out the top of her head, through her jet-black hair; the face itself however looked human enough, instead of giant mandibles she had a normal mouth, and normal eyes. No wings either but from this angle I couldn't really tell.

Upon seeing me she perked up slightly, "Oh, hello sir! Umm, do you live here? Sorry for asking but I don't think I've seen you here before."

I put up my hands, "Oh no need to apologize, no in fact I am not a resident of this fine collection of abodes."

"Ah, I see, so what do you need?"

I looked back down at the man still groaning on the floor, "Well, I was going to say entertainment but it seems that's already been provided, heh."

She looked past me to check on the man, "Oh you saw that huh? Yeah, nobody knows the wire is electrically charged until about 70,000 volts is being charged through them. Non-lethal, of course, would be bad for business if we killed every person here who got angry, and we'd have a lot of empty apartments."

"I can only imagine," I responded. Clapping my hands together I continued, "Anyways, to the real reason I came here, I'm interested in getting an apartment. Don't really have anywhere else to stay at the moment."

The woman looked at me apologetically, and I already knew what she was going to say. "Unfortunately, all requests for residency go through the landlord, and they're out at the moment. And even if they were in, they'd have to decline as all apartments in this district are occupied."

I looked at her surprised, "All of them?"

"Yeah, this district is made up of over 300 apartments, each 30 stories tall, and every room is filled. Suffice to say, we have a bit of an overpopulation problem," she said, then mumbled, "although that's being taken care of."

I put my hand on my chin thinking, not paying attention to the last thing she said. Alright well, if they're all taken, I guess I could just kill someone here and take their room. Really didn't feel like doing this but if there's no other option then there's no other option. I smiled again and looked at her with expressionless eyes. Before I could speak I felt a hand on my shoulder shoving me aside.

"You… you heard her… no rooms. Get… lost…" The dino-man was now up again, breathing heavily as he limped back up to the wire. With that my decision was made for me, now I just had to find the right moment.

"Well look who's up," the bee-woman said sarcastically. "Are you ready to take back your crap and go back to your room?"

The dino-man weakly shook his head, "Not… not until… I get my… Voxflix." His hands shakily laid themselves back onto the wire mesh.

At that moment I saw the bee-woman's arm go down below her, presumably to whatever switch activates the electricity on the wire. "Sir, let's not repeat ourselves here, just take your papers and go." The dino-man responded by shaking his head again, I saw the bee-woman's arm move, but nothing happened. A slight look of worry passed over her face, her arm moved again several times, in the motion of pressing a button. Nothing happened. Fortunately the dino-man was too dazed to realize what was happening so the two stared at each other in silence for a moment. Now's the time.

"Excuse me sir!" I said, addressing the dinosaur.

He slowly turned to face me. "The fuck… do you want?" He was starting to regain his senses, I had to speed this up.

"Sorry for being in your way earlier, but I thought I could help you come to a resolution on this… Voxflix, issue."

He looked up at me with confusion. "Oh… oh yeah? Why's that?"

I smiled and said, "Well I have a lot of experience in making deals, why once I signed off on ownership of an entire circus! The previous owner was simply delighted to give it to me! I have no doubts that if I look through your lease we'll find a loophole that'll benefit you."

The man continued to look at me, his eyes a little more clear but he was still slightly out of it. He looked back at the bee-woman, then back at me and reluctantly nodded his head, having unwisely weighed the options available to him. My smile grew and I walked up next to him and looked down at the crumpled pieces of paper that laid on the wooden ledge, pretending to analyze them. Throwing in a couple of "hmmms" and "interestings" I put on the whole act of an amateur lawyer. The bee-woman caught on quick and smiled at me, clearly amused by my charade. Much like what happened minutes ago to me, what I did next shocked her.

Pointing a finger into the air I said, "Aha! There we are!" I looked to the dino-man to my right to see his expression; he looked back at me clearly interested in what I had supposedly found.

"Well? What is it?" He asked.

"According to this fine print here," I placed my finger onto a random spot on the paper, "it says your Voxflix will be provided for you on a permanent basis, no free trials!"

"Really?! Lemme see!" He scooted up close to me and began scanning where he saw me pointing. Slowly, I reached a hand behind my dino-plaintiff, my smile never wavering.

After a short moment of silence, he broke away from reading and said, "I… I don't see it… wait. This page is about fire safety, why would it be here?"

"Oh come on, it's as plain as the scaly snout on your face! Here, let me show you." In that moment I grabbed the back of his head, and before he could react and sent his face down into the papers, slamming him into the ledge. His face collided with a resounding slam. Pulling him back up, I could see blood pouring over his mouth as it dripped out of his now-broken nose.

"Still don't see it? How about now!" I slammed his face into the ledge again, the sound of bones breaking was more audible now. Pulling him up I looked into his eyes, once again returned to a state of dazed confusion. Placing my other hand behind his head I slammed him down again.
"Now?!" His arms dropped to his sides limp, he was completely knocked out this time, but I didn't stop. My smile turned to a snarl and I glowered at the body in my hands.

"NOW!"

Slam.

"NOW!"

Slam.

"NOW!"

Slam.

With each thud into the ledge I heard bone grind against bone. Blood splashed all over the windowsill and against the wires. The bee-woman looked on in shock as I ceaselessly slammed the dinosaur man's face into nothing but chewed up bone and muscle; she herself was covered in blood as it was sent through the wires. Eventually, with some heavy breathing of my own, I pulled the dino-man back up for one last look. His face was completely pressed flat, broken bones and teeth intermingled with the grinded muscle that was once his face to make him something completely unrecognizable. Still propping him up I looked at the bee-woman, who silently looked back at me with fear. I then let go of the man and his face slammed down onto the ledge one last time, bouncing off and leaving him crumpled on the ground, dead.

I took a few moments to catch my breath, the woman continued to watch me silently, trapped in her box as her only exit led out into the lobby where I stood. I looked at my bloodied hands and wiped them off as best I could onto my suit pants. Then, carefully, I filed through the now-bloodied paperwork the man left behind, flicking off pieces of brain and muscle as I picked them up. Shuffling them together I placed them into a neat stack in front of the bee-woman. Coughing into my fists, I cleared my nose and straightened myself. Returning back to my earlier smile, I addressed her politely.

"It seems you now have a vacancy."

A long pause was drawn between us as we just looked at each other. Nobody moved. Eventually she replied, "It would… appear to seem that way."

I raised my hands in delight, "Ah excellent, I knew we could work something out. Well in that case, I'll need a room key. Oh and don't worry about the paperwork, I got it all right here." I patted the bloodstained papers.

"Of-of course. Here, room 194, it'll be on the 19th floor," she reached beneath her again and pulled out a keycard and slowly slid it underneath a hole at the bottom of the wire. I slammed my hand onto the card, nearly touching her hand. She quickly retracted her hand and stepped back, eying me frightfully. I met her gaze and slowly slid the card towards me, then placed it in my pocket. I grinned and began to laugh maniacally.

Stifling it I said, "On second thought, keep the paperwork, or, hell, throw it out! I don't care what happens to it. It's not like it's mine anyways, hah! Thank you for your hospitality, and I'll be sure to see you tomorrow for breakfast, take care!" With that I walked off to the right towards the first floor hallway, making my way down to the elevators.
Behind me, the woman, known by her friends as Bethany, sank to the floor in shock. Many thoughts raced in her head about the events she was forced to witness, but the most prevailing thought at that moment she said aloud.

"I need to find a different fucking job."