Two years ago I wrote a Frozen/ Batman crossover entitled Cold Blooded. It was supposed to be a stand alone story but two years later with the sequel to Frozen on it's way I have decided to write another one. If you haven't read Cold Blooded I would suggest reading it first but if you already have, please enjoy Cold Fear.
On a island right off of Gotham sat Arkaham Asylum, a federal prison meant for Gotham's most deranged criminals. Most of them were put there by Gotham's Dark Knight the Batman, who pursued Gotham's most dangerous criminals each night unleashing his war on crime on anyone who dared to harm his city.
In one cell sat one of Arkham's scariest patients, Jonathan Crane, also known as the Scarecrow. Two years ago he was placed in Arkham by a couple of Batman's wards, Nightwing and Batgirl. It wasn't them two that fueled his anger for the past two years though, it was the girl who was with them, the Snow Queen. He had no idea where this girl came from, she just barged into his business dressed in the dumbest looking attire he had ever seen, a mech suit made of ice with a full helmet and visor with a snowflake emblem. But the suit nor the fact that she barged into his business wasn't the worst part. It was that she actually had ice powers, freaking ice powers, and it didn't look like she could control them that good. The second she got a whiff of his fear gas her powers went crazy and nearly killed him, resulting in his capture by the Batman's sidekicks. That is what fueled his anger for these past two years, and as he stared into the blank walls in his cell he kept pondering just how to get even with this Snow Queen.
Two months ago the answer came, a mysterious woman visited his cell claiming to know the identity of the Snow Queen. The Snow Queen, the mysterious woman said was actually Queen Elsa of Arendelle. The woman also claimed she could also help get Crane escape from Arkham and get his revenge if he told her what he needed. Crane had no idea who this woman was or how she could help him, but he had been waiting two years for his revenge and was not going to turn away anybody who was willing to help him.
That is where his plan came in. Before he could bust out he wanted to send the Snow Queen a little gift. Giving the woman the orders she retrieved a dried version of his infamous fear gas and sneaked it to him in form of a letter. Next, being super carful not to touch his own fear gas and get a taste of his own medicine, he scraped it onto the edges of a sheet of paper of his own that he got from the guards. Then he wrote a letter of his own. It wasn't a welcoming letter either but one he aimed to strike fear in the heart of Arendelle's little Snow Queen, "Fear is Coming".
Handing it to the guard, now he waited, knowing his new assailant would be busting him out later that night.
At the stroke of midnight the van pulled up. The woman was now dressed in assassin attire, along with twenty other men and women, each one of them held a katana blade in each hand. With ninja like skills they leaped over the gates of Arkham with little trouble, before they all stormed the building.
One of the Assassins leaped onto a gargoyle right above a unsuspecting guard standing at the front entrance. Removing both blades from their sheaths she jumped down from the gargoyle and ran both her blades from the guard's neck slitting his throat. The guard fell to the ground in a pull of blood dying immediately. The head of the assassins walked over and starting digging through the guards pocket pulling his key card.
"Let's make this quick," The woman replied. "My father had big plans for Crane. The woman held the card up for the scanner to read, then the doors opened.
"Kill all the guards," The woman replied "But only Crane is to be released."
"You heard her, let's go!"
The second the assassins broke in the alarm was sounded, a dozen heavily armed guards ran up to the entrance their guns loaded and ready to fire.
"Stop now and put your hands in the air," One of the guards ordered "We will fire!"
The guards never knew what hit them, before one of them could even pull his trigger one of them lunged at full speed and swung her sword decapitating the guard. The rest of the assassins suddenly charged at full speed, despite the guards being armed with heavy assault rifles the assassins were too fast to get a shot off. As soon as they got a sighting of a assassin they moved and then killed the guard before they could fire. Only one guard actually got a hit, shooting a female assassin in the shoulder. But that action was soon followed by a blade through the guards back.
"You okay?" The leader of the assassins asked.
"I'll be fine, for the league!"
"For the league!"
Soon the last of the guards at the front entrance as slain and the assassins made their way to the next hallway. They were greeted by one guard pulling out their gun but a assassin quickly pulled out his sword and ran it through the guards chest. Several more guards ran after the assassins, but the assassins were just to fast moving. None of them were able to shoot down a single assassin before the assassins ran their katanas through every last guard.
Soon the floors was stained crimson with the guard's blood. The smell of blood overtook the hallways, but the leader of the assassins made her way to Crane's cell, stepping over the bodies of the deceased guards along the way. Finally reaching Crane's cell she grabbed the keys and unlocked Crane's cell.
"Nice to see you finally arrived," Crane replied as the woman unlocked his cell.
"Let's go," The woman replied "The guards were sure to have notified Gotham's finest before they died and I don't want to wait for them to show up.
"May I ask you one question real quickly then? Who are you, and why have you been helping me the past two months?"
"My name is Talia Al Ghul, daughter of the Demon's Head and my father has plans for you."
"Well it would be a shame to keep the man who helped free me waiting, as long as I get my revenge I'll do whatever he says."
"Oh trust me, my father's plan involves the home of that Snow Queen."
"Well then," Crane let out a wicked grin, "Lead the way."
Two weeks later
Elsa found herself running through a thick and dark forest, a crow was chasing her throughout the forest, it's bright red eyes beaming down on her like a spot light.
"Get away!" Elsa screamed as she fired a blast at the sadistic bird. "Get away!" The ice struck the bird but it did little to stop the pursuit of the bird as it continued to chase after her.
Elsa looked down at her hands, her powers were useless against this thing. Turning and continuing running the crow was gaining ground. If she didn't escape it soon it would surely capture her.
As she ran she soon froze in her tracks as she reached her kingdom. But it was what she saw of Arendelle that caused her to scream. Arendelle was on fire, her castle was crumbling to the ground right in front of her. And hundreds of her subjects laid in the streets in a pool of blood, dead.
"No!" Elsa screamed.
"Elsa!" Elsa turned around and saw Anna running towards her terrified. "Elsa help!" Suddenly the ground opened up and swallowed Anna, right in front of Elsa's eyes.
"Anna!" Elsa turned around and saw the crow was right on top of her. Elsa froze in terror and screamed as the crow swooped down on her. "NO!"
Elsa gasped as she shot up from bed, panting heavily, her whole body sweating from fear. It had only been a dream, but lately for the past couple of weeks she had been having similar dreams, all of them bad, and all of them ending with the same thing, death!
Elsa heard a knock on the door. "Elsa are you okay?" Elsa let out a sigh of relief as the door opened and Anna poked her head in.
"I'm fine Anna."
"You don't look fine," Anna walked in and set next to Anna on her queen sized mattress. "You look like hell honestly. You still having nightmares?"
"Every night since that letter arrived. I don't know what it means or who sent it but it's all I've been thinking about since it showed up. I'm afraid to sleep knowing that I'll just have more nightmares. I'm exhausted throughout the day, I'm barely eating. I don't know what to do Anna?"
"Have you talked to Bruce? He's coming back to Arendelle for the grand opening of his new Wayne Tech facility."
"No I can't get Bruce involved he has enough on his plate with the crime in Gotham. Besides it's probably just paranoia."
"This is not paranoia Elsa. You and Bruce are business partners now and he just happens to be the freaking Batman for Gods sake. The ribbon cutting ceremony for Wayne Tech Arendelle division is tomorrow, at least talk to him and let him know what is going on. You can't keep going on like this or you are going to soon get sick."
"Anna I…"
"Elsa please," Anna pleaded "For me."
Elsa sighed "Fine, after the ceremony though, I am not going to worry him with this until the celebration is over."
"Deal," Anna said "Now try to get some sleep, you got a big day tomorrow."
"I don't think I can, not after the nightmare I just had." Elsa yawned and walked pass Anna towards the castle kitchen. "No need for you to lose any sleep over me though. Go back to bed Anna, goodnight."
Anna was worried for Elsa. Elsa had dealt with stress before being Queen. She was hoping with the economy finally better that Elsa would finally be able to relax. But now this letter had shown up saying fear was coming and now Elsa was dealing with nightmares. She prayed that whatever was happening Bruce would be able to solve it, otherwise she feared what would happen to Elsa health wise if he couldn't.
I would like to personally thank Menatron for encouraging me to make a sequel when originally planning on Cold Blooded to be just a stand alone story, and also for casting the League of Shadows in this story. I hope this story is everything you wanted for the sequel and maybe possibly more.
