Chapter Ten
Batman and Nightwing rushed down the stairs without barely making a sweat. When they reached the bottom they halted. There was Mrs. Wilder and a whole bunch of other people encased in ice, their horrified faces frozen. Suddenly a voice rang out. "Do you like my art, Batman? If you want to see what I'm planning next, take a left turn at on the cracking icicle.
Batman and Nightwing did so and came face-to-face with Mr. Freeze and a host of cryo-troopers, a. k. a. henchmen. Batman counted sixty.
"What's up your sleeve, Freeze?" asked batman, slowly and secretly getting a batarang from his belt.
Mr. Freeze, who was standing on a large block of snow-covered ice, replied, "I'm taking my new ice-glider for a ride." He pointed at a flying machine a few feet away from him. "I have stored in it four canisters of my freezing gas, which will spread for miles around. Towns will be completely frozen and I shall rule."
"Not if I can help it."
Mr. Freeze laughed, but he was cut short when a batarang suddenly whammed down around ten of his cronies. Nightwing whirled into action and kicked away another henchman, elbowing a second in the stomach. Mr. Freeze ran into his ice-glider and turned it on. A batarang was thrown towards his machine, but it missed its mark.
Batman took out a grappling hook and threw it, barely latching onto the glider. He climbed up and fortunately Mr. Freeze took no notice of what he was doing. Nightwing remained below battling the remaining cryo-troopers.
Batman got to the top of the ice-glider and jumped on Freeze, punching him in the back of the head and then grabbed him around the shoulders, smashing his face into the icy blue metal of his machine. Mr. Freeze flipped over the dark knight and grabbed him by the throat.
"Never more shall you interfere in my plans, Batman!"
Batman was nearly thrown off the ice-glider, but he held on and got back to his opponent. They were now passing over the skyscrapers of Gotham and if anyone fell off, he was most likely to die. Batman punched his cryogenic foe and then kneed him. He was about to make another blow connect with Mr. Freeze, but the villain blocked it with his arm and whacked him with his cryogenics blaster, sending him flying onto one of the wings of the glider. Batman threw a bat-rope at Freeze, getting the criminal an enabling himself to climb back onto the body of the machine. His monstrous foe got rid of the rope and conducted a flying kick, once again nearly knocking off the caped crusader.
"I'm going to freeze this land and in no way will you stop me."
"It's a mad dream, Mr. Freeze. You were always mad. You have to overcome it."
"Don't call it madness!"
Mr. Freeze kicked Batman again, forcing the dark knight to hold onto the machine with his fingers. Freeze stomped on them and he began to lose his grip. Then… it happened. Mr. Freeze had neglected the controls of his glider to beat up on his nemesis and now his flying creation was about to hit a skyscraper.
"NOOOOO!" he screamed as Batman let go of the glider and used his bat-rope to stop his descent. The glider crashed and Mr. Freeze's arm was broken when he was thrown by the force of the collision with the skyscraper into a desk. He lost consciousness. His reign of cold terror was over.