Chapter 17: Kiss Of Death

Harley dragged Batman until there were no witnesses. She then dropped his leg down and he layed there still out cold. She looked down at him with a sinister smile on her face and holding her bat in both hands. "If only I can cause you the pain that you caused me, B-Man! My puddin' would be so proud of me for finally putting an end to you! Have fun in Hell, Bats!", Harley said as she raised her bat. But before she started to beat him to death, her inner voice started to speak up. "Harley, don't do this! You know this isn't right!", her old self, Harleen Quinzel told her. "Shut up, Harleen! You're not going to spoil this moment for me! This bastard killed my Joker!", Harley said to her inner thoughts. "You know Joker was already dying from the disease and that's what killed him. But more importantly, you can't let Ivy destroy so many lives for her eco-terrorism.", Harleen told her. "Why not? The world's better off without Gotham anyways!", Harley said. "Listen to me, Harley! Show that you still know right from wrong and know that if you kill Batman, Gotham will be lost!", Harleen said. "I said be quiet, Harleen! Best thing Mistah J ever did was put you away!", Harley said as she was getting ready again to kill him. But her better self got to her and she decided not to go through with it and dropped the bat. "I'm really proud of you, Harley!", Harleen told her. "Don't talk to me!", Harley responded. All of a sudden, Jacob and Elsa came around a corner and yelled once they saw her. "Harley! Don't do it!", Elsa begged. "Relax! I decided not to. We better wake him up if we're gonna stop Ivy.", she said. "What made you change your mind?", Jacob asked. "I guess I'm just tired of being a crazy girl and want to do something right for a change.", Harley said. "Well, that's good. You're doing a good thing, Harley and the city will definitely appreciate it.", Jacob told her. Harley felt slightly flattered after he told her that. "What about you? Are you not Ivy's slave anymore?", she asked. "Nope. Elsa freed me.", he answered. Elsa then woke him up and he was still a little groggy. "What's going on?", Batman asked. "Sorry if I double-crossed you, Bats. But I'm back on your side now. No hard feelings, right?", she said. "I don't have time to be angry about that, Quinn! There are more pressing matters to attend to!", Batman said. Then, the rest of the Frozen gang showed up. "Hey, guys! We got a decent amount of people out of the area. Gordon and his cops took care of the others on the island.", Anna said. "What did we miss?", Sven asked. "Not much. I broke Jacob out of Ivy's control.", Elsa said. "Great! Where is she?", Kristoff asked. "She's probably in her garden getting the TITAN ready. We gotta hurry!", Harley said. "Well, come on, guys! Let's go save the city again!", Olaf said. About 5 minutes later, the heroes were searching through all the tunnels, but they didn't know where they were. "Damn! I think we're lost!", Elsa said. "Did we go that way already?", Anna asked sounding confused. "Maybe. I don't know.", Kristoff said. "Let's try to keep our cool, everybody!", Sven said. "Hey, I'm the Queen of cool!', Elsa said. "Point is, I'm sure we'll find the right way to the garden.", Jacob said. He wasn't aware that another root crawled up from the ground and wrapped around his leg. "Oh, crap! Not again!', Jacob said as the root started to pull him under. After the root dragged him down, the soil covered up the hole where he was pulled away. "Jacob!", Elsa cried in horror. "Great! Now we gotta find him again too!", Harley said. "Let's find him first and then get back to finding Ivy.", Batman said. Meanwhile, the root pulled Jacob down to Ivy's garden and held him in place once he was right in front of her. "I see you have failed me. That really hurts me.", Ivy said. "Shut up! I didn't fail anyone! Don't try anymore of your voodoo bullshit on me! You don't control me anymore! You mean nothing to me!", Jacob yelled at her. "We'll see about that.", Ivy said as she blew more pheromone dust in his face. He just shook his head and it did not have any effect this time. "Doesn't work on me anymore! Because I know who I truly love! Elsa was the one who broke me free of you trance.", he said. Ivy was truly blown away how his love for her blocked him from being under her control. That must be what true love is. She wouldn't know because she's loved nobody except herself and her plants. "I guess I underestimated that frosty bitch.", Ivy said. "Don't you dare call her that! If anything, that's what you are! You're nothing but a heartless evil witch and you won't get away with this!", Jacob said angrily. "If you won't be under my control, then I guess I have no further use for you.", Ivy said. "What's that supposed to mean?", Jacob asked. "Since you claim to know so much about Gotham's rogues, I'm sure you know what happens when I kiss someone.", Ivy said with a sinister grin. Jacob then became nervous and begged, "No! Please don't!". "I'm sorry, Jacob, but you leave me no choice! If you won't join me, then you must die!", Ivy said as she strutted closer to him. The root held both his body and head in place as he struggled to break loose. Ivy grabbed his face and said, "Pucker up!". She then placed her lips on his as she kissed him. She did make it slightly passionate to make it more evil. Jacob's heart was racing with terror as she kissed him. They then separated lips and the root let him go. Jacob spit as much as he could, but it was no use. The toxins from Ivy's lips seeped into his body and started to shut him down. "What's wrong? Afraid I have cooties?", she teased and then chuckled. He began to find it harder to breathe and became weaker as the poisons spread throughout his body. Within a minute, he collapsed on the ground and was no longer breathing. The toxins had officially killed him. "You're dead and buried, darling!", Ivy said as she blew a kiss at his body. The root then told her that they should get a move on and Ivy responded, "Right! Let's go!". Ivy then left with his body behind her.