Boss, if I ever make it back to the surface, I'm going to kill you.

You sent me down here with these things, whatever they are. Why? If the Riddler came down here, he's a dead man.

I think I saw one just now. Hardly more than a shadow and a scuttle of claws on stone. It didn't notice me. I think.

I can hear them moving in the dark.

I've gotten turned around. Where's the exit? How do I get out of here?

Just waiting for them to pass me by. Just waiting.

If I die down here, I'm going to haunt your ass.

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Came on a nest of them. They were…eating.

I have two new bits of information.

One: these things are shadows. With teeth. And claws.

Two: they like salad. Poison Ivy has a stake in this, or did, an hour ago. She's not going to be happy about what they've done to her plant-person.

Is she after the Riddler, too? If so, why? If not, why did she send one of her babies down here?

What are these things? Where did they come from?

Boss, do you know the answers to any of my questions? Any of them? I'm starting to get a little miffed. We've got to learn to open the lines of communication.

Here's a good question: what the hell am I still doing here?

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Hear them.

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Found someone else down here. Someone alive.

He's a kid. Maybe fifteen, sixteen years old. George Rickman. New muscle for Scarface. I never liked that little termite farm.

The kid's down here on some kind of initiation. It seems a lot of masks are after Edward Nygma, for a lot of different reasons. Scarface figures there must be phat lewt to be had, so he sent the kid on a little recon mission. The other hunters would lead him to the Riddler, and the Riddler would lead him to the dough.

Only he hadn't figured on those things eating everything that moves.

I know everyone's heard the stories about mutated albino alligators in the sewers. At first I thought this might have something to do with Killer Croc, but according to George, my first impression of these things was right. They're only shadows, intangible except for their teeth and claws. I've never seen anything like this.

No, I take that back. When I was six, I had this recurring nightmare about a monster chasing me through a dark cave. When I tried to fight it off, my hands passed right through it. But then it picked me up and started cutting me to pieces.

I had some damn vivid nightmares when I was a kid.

Well. There are more people down here looking for our pal, Eddie. George has promised to help me find the others. Something tells me nobody's going to find the Riddler and get out of here flying solo.

I figure we can divvy up the corpse and make all our bosses happy.

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You know who's always kind of creeped me out? Two-Face.

Apparently, he and the Riddler wanted to hit the same bank. Riddler got there first. Should he take his revenge or let the guy go? The Riddler lost that coin toss. So would he follow him into the sewers, or have a couple of henchmen bring him out into the harsh light of day?

Enter Ned and Ted. A freaky pair of twins if ever I've seen one. Ned is blond and blue-eyed. Ted has dark hair and brown eyes. Other than that, they're practically identical. They have this disconcerting habit of speaking together and finishing each other's sentences. They must be Two-Face's henchman poster child…children…guys.

They're tough guys, probably very good at what they do, topside, but down here, they're as lost as I am.

I really, really want to go home. But I'm not quitting. And neither are they.

I'm already thinking about a double cross.

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Freak convention.

We saw a guy in a bright green bowler hat wandering around like a zombie. I tried to stop him, but he walked right past me, like I wasn't even there.

I tried to stop him.

He walked right into a group of them. He didn't stop until they ripped off his face.

The hat turned him into a zombie. I'm guessing the Mad Hatter sent him. As for why he'd want the Riddler…revenge, maybe? Riddler just escaped Arkham about a month ago. The Mad Hatter nearly escaped along with him, but the guards caught up with him just outside the gates, and the Riddler left him behind.

I've seen what that kind of thing can do to a friendship.

Well, so much for that guy. Georgie says he's seen one more walking around down here. Let's hope this one still has higher brain function.