"PRINCESS ANNA!" Batman didn't know how long he had been out before he finally pushed the fallen rubble off of himself. "KRISTOFF , ROBIN!
Batman looked to where the castle ceiling once stood and saw a giant cloud of fear gas hovering over the kingdom. He couldn't stop Scarecrow from releasing his gas onto the kingdom, but he would be damn sure to stop as many fatalities as possible, starting with the royal family.
"Princess Anna!? Kristoff? Robin!?" Putting a respirator over his face to avoid breathing in the fear toxin Batman dug through the fallen roof debris looking for the royal family and his sidekick. Eventually he saw what looked like a feminine hand sticking out from a piece of debris. Lifting off a big piece of debris he saw Anna laying unconscious, some blood spilling from her nose and mouth and a few visible scrapes and bruises on her arms and legs. Batman checked for a pulse and to his relief she was alive. As long as Anna was asleep the gas wouldn't affect her, but Batman wanted to make sure that she would be safe when she woke. Taking out a respirator, he strapped it over her mouth and laid her gently on the palace floor for when she woke.
After taking care of the princess he continued his search and after a couple of minutes he stumbled upon Kristoff. Like Anna he was unconscious and had a few visible scrapes and bruises but alive. Dragging him onto the floor he put another respirator over him and then begin looking for his sidekick
"Robin? Can you hear me Robin?" After a few more minutes of exhausted searching he found Robin, like the other two he was unconscious, but in a lot worse shape.
"No?" Batman gasped as he picked up his partner and friend. "Robin?"
"Is this your biggest fear Batman?" Batman growled and turned around to see the Scarecrow sitting at the top of the castle, his cloak blowing in the wind as the fear gas blew across Arendelle "Losing another sidekick, watching helpless as a entire kingdom chokes on it's own fear knowing you couldn't stop it?"
"I swear Scarecrow!" Batman growled as he pulled out a batarange and aimed it towards Scarecrow "You are not going to win this!"
"Look around you Batman, I already have." Scarecrow turned towards the village to admire his work. "An entire kingdom running in fear, attacking each other, brother killing brother, all because of they think they are seeing their biggest fear come to life. You was not my target this time Batman, all you had to do was stay in Gotham while I took care of some personal business and your Sidekick wouldn't be on the verge of death. But I'm glad you came, so you could witness my masterpiece up close. Don't worry though, if you lose him, I'm sure you'll find another one, you always do."
Batman roared at that last statement and grappled up to where Scarecrow was perched and delivered a blow across his face, causing him to fall off the edge. Jumping off, Batman grabbed Scarecrow and they landed on the ground. Once they landed Scarecrow wrestled himself away from Batman's grip and injected his syringes into his chest, injecting him with fear toxin.
"You can't fight fear Batman," Scarecrow hissed as Batman started to fumble for the antidote. "Eventually you will give in."
Batman grabbed the antidote but Scarecrow kicked it out of his hand and tackled Batman to the ground. "What do you see Batman? What do you see?"
Batman closed his eyes as he saw the Joker beating Jason Todd multiple times across the face and shoulders with a crow bar, he saw himself trying to reach him in time but failing as the bomb Joker planted blew up, killing Jason. He also saw Joker breaking into Barbara's apartment, shooting her, raping her and paralyzing her, all to get at her father. Two instances where Batman failed his team, Barbara survived but was paralyzed for three years. Jason wasn't so lucky.
"Give in Batman! Give in to your fear!"
Suddenly a jet flew over Scarecrow's head causing enough of a distraction for Batman to kick Scarecrow off of him and take the antidote. Both of them knew who was in that plane, and both were glad to see her show up when she did.
"So, the runaway Queen has returned to see her home die!" Scarecrow laughed.
Inside the plane Elsa looked out the window and gasped when she saw it was already consumed in fear gas. People was attacking each other in the street, one person was wrestling another with a knife, with a look of terror on his face. Arendelle, her home, was under siege.
"Oh my god," Elsa gasped "We are to late."
"Then we better act fast," Huntress readied her crossbow. "Be careful, in their state of hallucinated terror they will think you are their biggest fear and attack you. They may not be violent people in their right mind, but they are not in their right mind right now and will try to kill you thinking they are fighting off whatever they are hallucinating. Do not let them come near you and if they do, knock them out."
"These are all good people," Elsa cried looking at the mass terror going on underneath them. "What could make them do this?"
"Scarecrow's toxin has a way of making even the most sane person mad." Katanna replied
"How are we going to get rid of this gas?" Black Canary asked, "We can't just let it run it's course it's to powerful, half the city will kill each other."
"Don't you have antidotes and respirators in that belt of yours Barbara?" Huntress asked
"Oh yeah like I packed enough in case a whole kingdom was covered in the stuff?" Batgirl replied sarcastically as she tried to find a place to land the plane.
"I might be able to do something." Elsa replied "When we fought Bane I was able to freeze the chemicals inside his tubes. This gas may not be liquefied anymore and gone air born but if there is still enough water particles in the clouds I might be able to freeze them."
"This gas spreads around the entire kingdom Elsa, you think you can handle this?" Batgirl asked
"I once froze my entire kingdom and was able to undo it, I think I got this." Elsa then walked over to Batgirl and grabbed a respirator out of her belt and put it over her the lower half of her face sticking out of her visor. Then she walked over to the door and opened it, looking up at the gas cloud above her.
"What are you doing?" Batgirl asked
"What you trained me for, I got to clear this gas, I can do this."
"Be careful," Black Canary called out.
"You girls trained me, you know I will be." Activating the jet pack on her suit Elsa shot into the clouds.
Landing the jet, the Birds of Prey put on their respirators and stormed out of the plane.
"We need to find Batman, and Scarecrow now!" Batgirl cried out. Just then a fear induced villager attacked Black Canary from behind causing her to slam him into the ground and knock his face into the dirt.
"And not get attach from poor fear induced souls."
Inside the cloud Elsa closed her eyes and focused on the cloud and her powers. Elsa had to admit this was the biggest thing she had ever done in her life. Sure she accidentally froze all of Arendelle when she was scared of her powers, but she didn't have control of them then, she does now. She didn't want to admit it to the other Birds of Prey, but she was nervous.
"Come on Elsa, the entire kingdom is counting on you," Elsa said to herself "EVERYONE, is counting on you." With a scream she shot her ice into the clouds, hoping beyond hope that the cold would cause the gas to freeze.
On the ground Batman took a swing at Scarecrow only for Scarecrow to dodge and inject Batman with more fear toxin.
"I don't think we were done with our last session Batman!" Scarecrow taunted as Batman started rubbing his forehead. Suddenly due to the affects of the hallucination the kingdom suddenly turned into a giant creepy looking graveyard.
"Bruce," a familiar voice called out.
"Mom?" Batman turned around to try to find what sounded like Martha's voice but saw nothing.
"Son,"
"Father?" Bruce turned to his left this time, out of the shadows came zombie like version of his parents slowly walking toward him.
"You have failed us Bruce, you have disgraced your family with this mad crusade of yours!"
"No!" Bruce cried out "I am honoring your legacy, everything I am doing is for you!"
"You think becoming a criminal vigilante is honoring me?" zombie like Thomas Wayne replied "I failed you as a father if you honestly believe that."
"No," Batman tried to fight this vision, he knew it was a hallucination,but it came across so real. "This is not really happening, this is all a hallucination, I will not let you win!"
"Pathetic," Scarecrow laughed as he saw Batman get on his knees as he struggled to beat his nightmare, "The great Batman, done in by his own fear." Scarecrow pulled out a gun and pointed it at the caped crusader. "Let's put a end to your nightmare."
Suddenly a batarange came flying from above and knocked the gun out of Scarecrow's hand. Then a arrow made it's way through Scarecrow's shoulder causing him to scream in pain and fall to the ground.
"Let's give you a taste of your own damn medicine Scarecrow!" Huntress growled as she grabbed Scarecrow's right wrist and forced his own toxin through him.
"Wait?" Scarecrow cried out as soon he saw shadows of the Batman surrounding him everywhere, along with thousands and thousands of bats swarming around and above him. "Wait, no, no , no, NO!"
Black Canary kicked Scarecrow in the face, knocking him unconscious as Batgirl gave Batman the antidote.
"You okay Bruce?" Batgirl asked
"I'm fine," Batman replied catching his breath. "Where's Elsa."
"Trying to get rid of the gas."
"How?"
"She's inside the cloud," Katanna spoke up.
"What?"
Inside the cloud Elsa was using all of her energy to try to get the cloud to freeze, but despite several minutes she wasn't even seeming to make a budge.
"It's no use," Elsa cried out over her earpiece "I ain't making even a dent in this cloud."
"Elsa don't give up." Batgirl replied over her earpiece. "You was the one who stopped Nora from freezing Gotham two years ago, you were the one who finally gave Mr. Freeze the piece he always wanted. You have always had the hero in you, I believe in you Elsa, just don't give up, Let it go."
With those words Elsa found the energy and momentum she needed, and with one more scream she released her full power and started freezing the clouds, as the clouds began to freeze the gas that covered Gotham started to dissipate and soon the entire clouds was frozen in ice. Then with the wave of her hands she shattered the clouds destroying them and the fear toxin, clearing the skies.
"Nice work Elsa." Batgirl smiled
"That's my girl!" Black canary sang.
"I underestimated you Elsa," Batman replied when Elsa arrived back on the ground. "You had what it took to be a hero all along."
"Well I appreciate that Bruce , but I don't know if I would have reached my full potential without the help of these four," Elsa turned to the Birds of Prey who smiled at Elsa's recognition. "They showed me how much more I could be. I really don't know if I could have done what I did without them."
"I think you do have what it takes to defend your kingdom after all." Batman responded.
"Good, because Ra's Al Ghul is waiting for her!" Suddenly a assassin spoke up from the rooftop, as the five looked up Elsa gasped as three assassins appeared on the rooftop.
"No!" Elsa cried when she noticed one assassin held a knife up to Anna's throat, one to, Kristoff's, and one to Robin.
"You could have been the greatest leader the league of Shadow's ever had!" Ra's Al Ghul appeared from the shadows drawing his blade and pointed it towards Elsa's direction. "But instead you fell the way of the Batman. So this is your final test Elsa, strike me down, kill me and take my place as the head of Demon's or your family and the Boy Wonder dies where they stand!"
And we have now reached the final climax. We only have two chapters left then we are done with this story so don't go anywhere. It's not like you CAN go anywhere right now anyway.