Batman dashed down the only opening in the rocks.
It must be a crocodile.
Gotham and the GCPU forces had supposedly exterminated all crocodiles
in Gohtam's sewers years ago, but it seemed that Alexis had found out differently.
He just hoped it wouldn't be too late.
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Lexi struggled, suspended above the room.
It was like a round waterfall with the scum-filled water flowing into the abyss below.
Her "rescuer" stood across from her on the oposite side of the falls.
Cans full of toxic waste sat around him sending the stench of sulfur into the cavern.
He smiled.
"Only a few minutes more. Batman's to quick to not figure this out. He'll
be coming to the rescue any minute."
He paused and ran a claw down his jaw.
"Unless... No, he couldn't know. Too soon."
"Know what?"
"That I've got..." It suddenly dawned on Croc's small mind what she was doing
and he chose his words carefully. "Contacts."
"Who?"
He could feel a headache coming. Too much thinking.
"None of your business."
Lexi swung back her head to remove the hair that had fallen in her, now unmasked, face and
then spoke again.
"If you plan on letting me die anyway why not tell me?"
Logic wasn't one of Croc's strongpoints and his head was already spinning.
What she said made since.
Once dead she couldn't leak information.
Then he understood.
"I SAID SHUT-UP!"
He picked up a can and almost hurled it at her, then remembered he needed her
as bait and tossed it into the chasm.
It hit the bottom and, after hissing and oozing it's contents, let out a slow trickle of smoke.
Lexi whinced as the smoke enveloped her.
When it cleared, Croc was gone.
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Terry raced through the twisting tunnel till he came to a solid metal door marked
with an old caution sign rusted on.
"Think this is the place?"
"You don't have time to find out. Only one hour left till your legs go out."
"Oh, that's encouraging."
Terry pulled a small laser from his belt and blasted the hinges into metal sludge.
"So," he started just before he lunged at the door."who'd you say this guy is?"
The door smashed into him and he was pinned against the wall face to face with...
"Killer Croc..."
He clawed Terry's face leaving bloody streaks across his face and continued.
"...At your service."
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It must be a crocodile.
Gotham and the GCPU forces had supposedly exterminated all crocodiles
in Gohtam's sewers years ago, but it seemed that Alexis had found out differently.
He just hoped it wouldn't be too late.
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Lexi struggled, suspended above the room.
It was like a round waterfall with the scum-filled water flowing into the abyss below.
Her "rescuer" stood across from her on the oposite side of the falls.
Cans full of toxic waste sat around him sending the stench of sulfur into the cavern.
He smiled.
"Only a few minutes more. Batman's to quick to not figure this out. He'll
be coming to the rescue any minute."
He paused and ran a claw down his jaw.
"Unless... No, he couldn't know. Too soon."
"Know what?"
"That I've got..." It suddenly dawned on Croc's small mind what she was doing
and he chose his words carefully. "Contacts."
"Who?"
He could feel a headache coming. Too much thinking.
"None of your business."
Lexi swung back her head to remove the hair that had fallen in her, now unmasked, face and
then spoke again.
"If you plan on letting me die anyway why not tell me?"
Logic wasn't one of Croc's strongpoints and his head was already spinning.
What she said made since.
Once dead she couldn't leak information.
Then he understood.
"I SAID SHUT-UP!"
He picked up a can and almost hurled it at her, then remembered he needed her
as bait and tossed it into the chasm.
It hit the bottom and, after hissing and oozing it's contents, let out a slow trickle of smoke.
Lexi whinced as the smoke enveloped her.
When it cleared, Croc was gone.
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Terry raced through the twisting tunnel till he came to a solid metal door marked
with an old caution sign rusted on.
"Think this is the place?"
"You don't have time to find out. Only one hour left till your legs go out."
"Oh, that's encouraging."
Terry pulled a small laser from his belt and blasted the hinges into metal sludge.
"So," he started just before he lunged at the door."who'd you say this guy is?"
The door smashed into him and he was pinned against the wall face to face with...
"Killer Croc..."
He clawed Terry's face leaving bloody streaks across his face and continued.
"...At your service."
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