Rogues vs The Rogues.
In the life of a criminal, rogues would move from place to place. They would often stay in one city and then for a vacation they would move, try out a different super hero, test them, see how good they really where and quite often, in fact more often then non they got beaten as per usual and put in that prison before being transferred to their proper one.
This had recently happened and it had caused a stir in Arkham, leaving many Arkhamites disgruntled and angry, not to mention put off.
Riddler, Harley, Firefly, Killer Moth, Scarecrow, Sphinx, Man-Bat and Mad Hatter all stood and glared at the new comers, heck even Kirk didn't think they belonged here so the others definitely didn't.
They got a glare equally as strong back at them, by The Rogues.
Mirror Master, Trickster, Heatwave, Weather Wizard, Captain Cold, Golden Glider, The Top and Pied Piper.
Scarecrow was the first to speak as he glared at the new and quite frankly invading group of rogues.
"Is it just me or does the rec-room feel a little… crowded?"
"I agree," Edward nodded as he glared at Mirror Master who equally glared back at him.
"Trust me," Captain Cold interjected as he narrowed his eyes at Scarecrow. "Being here isn't exactly a summer getaway for us. We're just as annoyed about this as you are."
"Doubt it," Firefly hissed.
"You've got some attitude with you!" Heatwave snarled as he took a step closer, Garfield doing the same as he glared at him equally.
"I ain't the only one."
"So," Mist muttered as she looked across at the quite frankly baby rogues. "Your pyro's a hot head too?"
"Funny," Glider smirked as she folded her arms across and rested her hip to one side. "I was just about to say the same thing about yours."
"Mic!" Leonard hissed and the other pyro backed off as Drury quickly pulled Garfield back.
"So," Jonathan said, a smile creeping it's way up his face. "You have you're loyal dog at the end of a leash, how charming of you."
"And you have yours."
"Oh do you know how close I am to setting one of you alight!"
"I was just gonna say the same thing, hot head!"
"I'm the hot head?!"
"GAR!"
"MIC!"
The two pyros grumbled but complied all the same.
"Look," Snart hissed as he took a step towards Crane, the taller of the two looking down his nose at the other. "This is simply temporary, so there doesn't need to be any… fights between us, yes?"
"I don't see why not," Crane smiled crookedly. "After all… you are on our turf."
"Not that you may have noticed, the amount of times you've been hauled in here I think you should realised by now that," Cold took a step closer and glared up at Crane, a smile of his own playing on his lips. "Gotham has never been your turf. It's always been the Bats and even when you beat him, he still came back and took you all out."
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Edward growled out making Mirror Master smirk and chuckle lightly. "Did I say something funny?!"
"Yes," Mirror Master agreed as he looked up at him grinning. "You can't even take down a man who has no super powers."
"He ain't a man!" Gar growled in protest. "He may be mortal, but he sure as hell wasn't human!"
"I think that the only un human thing here, would be Doctor Langstrom over there," Leonard smirked.
Kirk glared before he took a step forward and Harley quickly stopped him.
"OH!" Trickster beamed as he jumped into the air and stood just behind Piper. "You just got burned!"
"I'll burn you in a minute," Firefly hissed. "You leave Kirk alone! He ain't like the rest of us!"
"Yes, the scientist… a tragic mistake," Cold tilted his head to the side and smirked. "I guess that will teach you to mess with things you don't understand."
"Then maybe you should take your own advice and not mess with me," Kirk hissed and the other Arkhamites smirked at the rogue's shocked looks.
Obviously some of their personalities were rubbing off on Kirk and he was learning to stand up for himself.
It was a nice change that they didn't have to stick up for him as much now and with the threat of being able to turn into a giant bat it made things a lot safer for him too.
"This is getting us no where," Weather Wizard hissed as he took a step towards cold. "If we stand around truing all day, what are we even arguing about?"
"Yeah," Drury nodded in agreement. "They're still like us, bad guys, so… why are we even arguing with them?"
"Yeah, Drury, in that statement please remove yourself from that equation."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're no rogue," Mirror Master shrugged. "Even Axel is better then you and that's saying something."
"Yeah- hey wait what!? What the hell do you mean by that, Sam!?"
Hartley put his hand on Axel's shoulder as the younger of the two tried to grab at Sam from where he was standing.
"Relax."
"Easy for you to say, he didn't insult you!"
"Axel, he gave you a compliment."
"A slight back handed one don't you think?" Mist cut in.
"Not unlike your man either," Glider smirked as she walked over and hugged Sam who smiled down at her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"I am really starting to dislike you," Mist snarled as she walked over to Edward and wrapped an arm around his.
"Oh, you are up tight aren't you?"
"Not as up tight as you, sister."
Edward blinked and looked at Mist who was still glaring at Glider, who was now thankfully, glaring back.
"Did you really just say sister?"
"Yes I did and we will never speak of it again."
"Right, got it."
"Good sirs and miss, whatever where you doing in Wonderland, surly central city you do miss?"
"Finally talking then, Hatter?" Top smirked at him. "About time."
"Time? Tea time or time for tea, they are very different don't you see?"
Jonathan rolled his eyes and waved his hand slightly before looking at the others. "Ignore him, but he does raise an interesting point, what where you doing in Gotham?"
"What's wrong with a little vacation?" Cold smirked as he spread his arms out wide, still smirking. "All we wanted to do was take a few souvenirs and unfortunately border control wasn't too keen about that."
"You guys got caught by bored control?" Drury asked with a raised eyebrow and Firefly rolled his eyes before he smacked the back of his head.
"No you idiot!"
"Then who caught them?"
"Ever seen a guy with a black cape, pointy ears and a deep growly voice?" hissed Cold, still smirking that cold smirk of his, one that oozed over confidence and smoothness.
"Yeah, I have actually. There's a guy, don't know if you've heard of him called Batman, hey wait do ya mean there's a new hero or-" Gar smacked him again. "Ow! Will you quit doing that?!"
"Only if you stop saying something stupid!"
"And judging by how he's talking that's going to take a while," Heatwave interjected with a small smirk.
Gar went rigid and slowly turned to glare at the pyro. "He's my friend!" he hissed pointing a finger at his chest. "My friend, mine, which means, only I am allowed to call him an idiot."
"A little protective there are we?" Hartley questioned before he flinched slightly at the blazing glare he received from the other pyro. "I only thought Mic could give a burning glare that well, I was wrong."
"Ha," Axel laughed as he stood up. "That was funny, ya know because they're both pyros and you said their glares were like burning and stuff."
"Hey bozo!" Harley yelled with her hands on her hips. "I think that was the point!"
"Hey your Joker's chick aren't ya?" Axel grinned. "I am a massive fan of your work."
"Really?" Harley beamed.
"Yeah girl, ya bubble gum explosion was epic and I loved the laughing fish."
"Oh I loved the laughing fish too!" Harley beamed. "You remember the song right?"
"Yeah of course I do!"
They both grinned at each other before starting off.
"They're silly and funny and oh so delish' they're joyful and jolly, Joker fish!"
There was a moment of silence before they both burst out laughing and giggling leaving the rest of them staring at them in slight confusion before shaking their heads.
"I have to say," Edward mumbled as he glanced over at Mirror Master. "Your tricks with mirrors are quite impressive. Tell me, how do you stop other things from reflecting to give away the illusion?"
"A magician never reveals his secrets."
"I'll tell you some of mine if you tell me some of yours?"
Sam contemplated this for a bit before nodding and letting go of Glider, following Edward to two chairs at the far side of the room as they began to talk about the different illusions both had done over the years of working as super criminals.
"You got any burn scars?" asked Firefly.
"Yeah," Mic grinned. "I got some good ones, got some good stories too as well as some good techniques on showing the beauty of fire."
"Hmm, want to compare notes?"
"Ah, why the hell not? Nice to meet someone who finally understands."
"You're not the only one."
Top glanced around as he noted that the other rogues were starting to walk away and talk to each other. Golden Glider and Sphinx were talking together. Mostly about their boy friends and of course all things gold and shiny.
Pied Piper and Hatter and gone off to play chess together, both taking a like to classical music and literature it only seemed natural, Harley and Trickster were comparing prank notes and giving each other tips on how to create even bigger pranks. Weather Wizard and Killer Moth, being some of the more passive of the rogues were happily chatting about what each other could do. Moth fascinated by Mark's powers and Mark was fascinated at how Moth could fly without having any powers to do so.
"So," Top started as he glanced over at Man-Bat, who glanced back at him with a raised eyebrow. "Ya know your wings… can you create a gust of wind or something with them?"
"I don't know, I haven't fully practiced with my powers yet, simply testing that they work and if I can control my ability."
"Maybe if you flapped them at the right speed, taking into account all other things that may factor in, you could create a gust that could take people off their feet."
"Equally with you," Kirk acknowledged. "If you span fast enough and then was to stop and some how direct the air around you, you could also create enough force to knock other people off their feet."
"Want any help in controlling your abilities?"
"If you could lend a hand, yes."
Captain Cold and Scarecrow observed their fellow rogues and noticed how well they were getting on with each other. Of course, this was only temporary, there was no way they would stay in good company for long, not after they left anyway.
There was no point in causing a fight now, since they all knew who would win and they would never openly say it, never say that they would loose, always that they would win.
But deep down both parties knew that actually if they started a fight here the person who would win would be Batman and neither of them had any desire to see him any time soon so..
"Do you play cards?"
"Depends, what's the prize?"
"We use food here. Piece of corn, two pieces of carrot… you understand?"
"Sounds good," Cold picked up a packet of cards and smirked slightly. "My deal?"
"House rules," Crane stated holding his hand out for the cards.
"Well, when you put it like that," Cold placed the cards in his hand and walked with him to the couch and the cards began to be dealt out. At first it was just Cold and Scarecrow playing but gradually the others joined in and began to play.
It was a nice game, up until the point somebody won.
"Cheating sonuva-!"
"Ya know I knew we couldn't trust you visitors!"
"Ya all gonna burn!"
"Hey that's my line!"
"Come here!"
"Ow!"
"OUch!"
"SKREEE!"
"SHUT UP KIRK!"
"OH god, he ain't Kirk, he ain't Kirk!"
"Everyone run!"
"Trust me, you did not have to give me that order."
"Never mind that, Lenny, run!"
"You wanna piece of this!?"
"MIC!"
"Now is not the time to blow your top."
"Shut up Hartley!"
"OH MY GOD, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!"
"This coming from the guy locked in an insane asylum."
"Axel, I swear, I will cut your tongue out."
"Geez, Nigma chill out."
"Wait, you think we lost him?"
"I can't see him."
"That doesn't always mean anything with Kirk, let me tell ya."
"Where are the guards when you need them?"
"Drury, we don't need no guards!"
"Easy for you to say!"
"I think we lost him."
"SKREEE!"
"AHHHH!"
Needless to say that was the last time The Rogues came to Gotham.
THE END.
Note: Flash Rogues... gotta love the Flash Rogues :) Okay so yeah, maybe not my best but my god, writing the Flash Rogues was difficult and I am really not used to writing them and it needs a lot of practice in doing so. Anyway how this came about is by watching, finally watching, the Flash tv show. Since I live in England it didn't come over so I had to wait for it to come out on DVD, very much annoyingly. I loved it and enjoyed every episode and now can't wait for the next series. Whilst there hasn't been all of the Rogues on the show yet, I thought I would have a go at writing them, so I did some research about the ones that I hadn't seen and hey presto this was born. One thing I did notice was how similar in personalities certain characters where to each other, not to mention their gimmicks.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed this one and sorry for my bad writing but it was my first time and well... I did have a lot of fun using different characters :)
Up Next, well we have a request for more of my own characters especially little Jester :)
And I thought so people don't get confused these are the requests I have so FAR:
1)Jester and other OCs
2) Pyg creating the perfect christmas gift for the rogues
3) Another one with JJ in it
4) Harley trying to wake up Eddie after being tasered.
5) Organising a new years party as therapy going horribly wrong when Julian Day joins in
6)The adventures of Otis, Drury, Garfield and of course Otis's rats, with special guest Anarky!
7) Killer Croc dealing with his current situation after the season of infamy DLC
8) Riddler and Hatter torturing some poor soul with rhyme
9) Scarecrow and Ivy paring (because why not, I ship them anyway)
10) Copperhead, Magpie, Scarecrow and Two Face, with the girls taking interest in the guys work and themselves.
So yeah this is the upcoming Arkham Life... Episodes? Can I call them that...? Anyway this is what's coming up and you guys can keep up with your requests! :D