CADMUS HQ, Richmond, Virginia, 18 hours ago, The Suicide Squad is getting a breifing about working with the sperg crew from their handler, one Amanda Waller (voiced by CCH Pounder)
Harley: You always need a different perspective. Take Amanda Waller. Ms doom gloom.She made us the Suicide Squad, and unlike the movie, she made a smart call, but with a name like that, you have to look on the bright side. Maybe we're not heroes, but sometimes, you need bad people to do the right thing
Amanda Waller: Gotham has become hell on earth. I'm not going to sugercoat it. I have no idea how any of this is possible, and neither do the fifty people I pay to know how anything is possible.
Waller pulls up footage of the events of Chapter 3
Amanda Waller: Three days a go, a giant mountain grew out of the center of downtown Gotham City, teeming with impossible energy. Last night, that energy field expanded to take over the entire Gotham metropolitian area, and the city started to change. What it's changing into is a mystery that I need solved now. Our statalites are blind to it. I need eyes on the ground. I need you to get right to the heart of the madness, and if whatever happened to Gotham is spreading, I need you to stop it. No matter the cost.
Croc looks crestfallen
KC: No…
Croc cracks his neck and roars
KC: NOT MY CITY!
Harley: Damn straight.
Fast forward to now, King and John are standing back to back, the former having just summoned out Phoenix Gearfried and the latter, Dark Magician, cutting down armies of Man-Bats, as blasts of fire and magic permeate the desert, alongside the occasional arrow, as they are on top of a moving bus
John: King, we're gonna die.
King: Really? What makes you say that, dude?
Inside said bus, Robin and Harley are bickering, as Croc is just along for the ride
Harley: Yo! Robin! Get off! Yer too young to drive, and it is my civic duty as a responsible, crazy, hugely attractive adult with a giant mallet to-
John: You'll kill us all, Quinn, you god-damned lunatic! That's a huge chasm dead ahead!
KC: Croc hate school buses…
Harley smirks
Harley: All passengers, please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position!
Damien: That's airplanes, not Buses
Harley: Oh yeah!
King and John's faces turn deathly pale
King: Oh shite… She wouldn't.
John: She would, King.
They drive off the chasm
Harley: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! FLYIN' HIGH AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!-
A record scratch is heard and Alice Carol (Voiced by Carrie Savage) walks on screen and bows to the reader in a polite manner
Alice: You know, reader, with hands over eyes. I'm amazed to think that in this brief oasis moment of frozen Lucidity, amist the Tumult and Metalica music, that they're actually going to make it. They are definitely going to make it. She's an excellent driver. And now back to your regularly planned chaos.
She walks off and time resumes, as the bus falls
Harley: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! WHO'S FUCKING IDEA WAS IT AGAIN?!
Damien: QUINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
KC: CROC DON'T WANNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Something breaks their fall, and John faceplants onto a… plant
John: Ugh… slowly gets up, trying to shake the cobwebs
Harley: We… Uh… Seem to have hit something that has, like, totally broken our fall… Smells like Broccoli.
King: Oh, you just now noticed that?
Arrow hops down on the forest of plants, and Damien slowly crawls out, and readjusts his shoulder, which popped out of its socket
GA: Hay, nice job, Quinn. What? You saw all this down here and figured it'd catch us
Harley: Erm… Yeah, that was exactly my plan, green arrow.
King sneezes
King: Damn hay fever… Where's that witch when I need her?
the vines come to life and pulls the rest of them out
GA: Look out!
Nightwing: They're alive!
John: Oh, hold on a minute… This power… I know what's goin' on here. Get ready for the grand entrance.
Out of a giant bud, struts Poison Ivy (Voiced by Taisa Valenza), who looks at her prey, with one snatching her interest, the Red Demon, the man she spent time looking for
King: Ya know her, dude?
John: Yeah. It's all good. It's Poison Ivy, and she's got two Godzilla sized monstrous plants.
Ivy: Who dares enter my green realm of death? Prepare to be consumed and transformed into bio-organic fuel for the glory of the Green.
KC: Croc is green.
GA: So am I.
Nightwing: I don't think that counts, Green Arrow.
Ivy struts past the others, and looks at the Red Demon
John: I'm guessing you made this ring yours?
Ivy: Smart as always, darling.
Harley: Bestie! OMG! That's why you caught my flying buss of doom. You were saving me! There's some good left in this stinking city after all!
Ivy: I caught all of you as a spider catches the fly. You are food to be first liquidized and then consumed.
John: Ivy… This isn't you…
Ivy: I know, that's why I wanted his help, so that nothing can come between us.
Harley: This city… It's freaking me out, red. It all feels like him. Y'know. I could really use a friend right now. Please…
Ivy thinks it over
Ivy: Eat the insane one first.
Ivy's plants snarl and pounce at Harley
Harley: You're the crazy one right now! Not me! This ain't you.! I know this ain't you! Whatever's going on here, gimme my friend back!
Ivy: Ah, the futile screams of the doomed meal...My realm shall grow and rise and-
Blasts of fire hit Ivy, freeing Harley from her fate as Demon Starfire (voiced by Hylden Walch) lands down, snarling like a rabbid animal as Volt (Voiced by Travis Willingham) rests his sword over his shoulder
Volt: Prepare to hear your plants burn! He has ordered me to retrieve these souls, for Lord Beo has plans for them.
Nightwing: Volt… What did you do to Kori!
Harley: The evil's got Starfire.
King: No Harley, Beo created a demon from her DNA, she's safe in Shang Tsung's Island.
Imps and Minotaurs then charge in, tearing the plants apart as Walk with Me In Hell by Lamb of God starts playing
Ivy: No! Don't hurt my beauties!
Harley: Uh, those freaks're actually facilitatin' our escape.
Fire starts burning around them from this mess
John: Don't question it, JUMP
John jumps, landing on a brittle plant bridge, which falls apart under his weight
Nightwing: I have to get Starfire. Wherever this island is, I have to make sure she's safe-
Harley: Uh, I hate to be the one to keep the team on mission and all, but we got a mission, Nightwing. We gotta get to that damn mountain.
John: Harley's right. We don't want whatever Beo did to Starfire's DNA to happen to us. Batman will be at the heart of darkness. We have to move fast
Harley: I am? Whoa
Nightwing: Okay, Robin. We find Batman, we save them all. We climb.
John: Right. Ivy? You said nothin's gonna come between us right?
Ivy: Yes.
John: Time to put up or shut up.
using vines to cover their escape, the ragtag group lifts themselves up upon a rockface, Imps and Kuroinu goons trying to impede their progress
Harley: Best friend tries to kill ya, so no way to go from that but up, right?
Nightwing and John get up to the top of the chasm
John: Huff… Okay, we're up. We made it, we…
John sees demon versions of the rest of the titans, Suicide Squad and Goliath, all corrupted by Beo's DNA, or rather "Created" by said DNA, as Painkiller by Judas Priest starts playing
King: Dude, what's up- Oh bloody hell…
Dark Damian: That's right, you fool. Tell them, tell the others. The end of your story is already here. There is no hope left in Gotham
Robin: The teen titans… My whole team… Goliath… WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THEM, YOU MONSTER!?
MCP!Exe: Simple… We introduced them to Beo's DNA…
Nightwing's head throbs harder then normal, like it's going to burst like a balloon
Nightwing: Ugh… Batman? I don't understand…. What am I… Seeing?
A flashback shows Batman conversing with the former Robin
Nightwing: No… Batman…
Dark Damian: Batman? You want to know what happened to your batman? Let me tell you, Robin to Robin.
Meanwhile, Harley is squaring up to the evil Kori
Harley: Okay. Query. What's more powerfu? A demonic alien space princess or a really big mallet?
the demonic Kori fires off a blast of Argent Energy at the mallet, blasting it appart
Harley: Do tell, do tell…
A demonic version of Beast Boy (Voiced by Josh Myers) meanwhile, is fighting against Croc and King
Demon!Beast Boy: Interlopers shall pay the ultimate price!
KC: Inter-what? This is my city!
King: Damn right it is. And besides, Nami's lookin' for a new fur coat anyways.
Meanwhile, John and Green Arrow are fighting against Demonic versions of Deadshot and Captain Boomerang (Voiced by Chris Cox and Liam McIntyre respectively)
John: Huh. Evil Versions of the Suicide Squad? I mean… What's the difference.
Green Arrow: Come on then, freaks!
The two duke it out, John summoning Lich Lord, King of the Underworld, and getting into a long range fight with the evil Deadshot, and winning, while Ollie throws down with the nightmarish Captain Boomerang, when a demonic version of Enchantress (voiced by April Stewart) charges dark energy
Demon!Enchantress: Your struggles are for naught! Gotham descends into the blood dance of-
Nightwing drop kicks the eviler mage
King: Okay, it's official. We've gone full prog rock.
John: Never pegged you as someone who liked that genre.
GA: I thought you'd like J-Pop.
King: Just saying.
A plant erupts from the ground, as Ivy, now super-berserk, joins the fray
Ivy: The Batman who Laughs gave me the card!
GA: Actually, on second thought, nope. Wasn't full, it turns out.
Ivy: This is my realm, Volt, and the Green will not be harm
Volt: Sorry, plant whore, Lord Beo's orders.
Harley looks over at me as we fight Kin and Hicks
Harley: Oh, this reminds me of the time I forgot to water her plants once. She got mad then, too.
John: Yeah? There's a difference between fighting sexist mercenaries, and demons and just forgetting to water some flowers?
Ivy: Need some help then?
John: Yeah.
As Ivy, fed up with the BS of Beo and his minions screwing over her realm, joins the fray, wrapping a vine around Hicks, and slamming him around like a Kuroinu sized pinball, before yeeting him aside, before turning his attention to Kin and blows plant toxins in the mercenary's face. She then turns the stage into a jungle, which is modified by her card whereupon a monstrous-looking Venus Flytrap pulls the opponent in with its vinelike tongue and begins chewing the opponent before she pulls them out of the monster's mouth. The Kuroinu then crashes into his comrade and into a Demonic El Inferno (voiced by Doug Erholtz)
Harley: Wow, Red, that was awesome!
Ivy: Let's focus on getting you out of here.
Meanwhile, Nightwing is now fighting the Dark Damien as Ace of Spades by Motorhead starts playing, as he is getting destroying.
Dark Damien: My father told me to make some new friends in his allies, although you were always up for a good time in my world, C'mon, play with me, Nightwing!
Nightwing barely dodges this freakshow's attacks
Nightwing: Too fast… What ARE you.
Dark Damien: Oh, Richard… I've ALWAYS been faster then you.
Ivy: NO!
She drags the little demon by the legs and slams him like a demonic metronome with a vine, before tossing him into one of the Burning plants, crushing his leg, before breaking down into sobs
Ivy: My child… My Baby… What have they done?
Harley: Red, c'mon. You're still my friend. I can get you outta here. Help us and-
Ivy: Get away from me…
Ivy backfists her friend, causing her to stagger back, as John summons Cannon Soldier, who fires off a blast at a nearby tree, crushing a few orcs as Kickstart my Heart by Motley Crue starts playing
John: Nightwing, you can't fight that thing! It's killin' you!
King: John's right. It'll kill the lot of us unless we run!
Dark Damien slowly gets up, favoring the leg that Ivy crushed
Dark Damien: Tell them the truth, Grayson. There is nowhere to run.
Croc snarls, ripshit pissed off at this juncture
KC: Croc has had about enough of this.
Harley slowly gets up, spitting out a tooth
Harley: Yeah, you and me both, Waylon. Hmm… I've been hit harder, but that hurt
Nightwing: John, you and King go with the others. That thing wants me. I'll give you time to get clear. Find Batman. That… Robin… It's an INSULT to the Uniform! GO!
As The Unforgiven by Metalica starts playing (All 3 parts to be exact), Croc lumbers up and puts a hand on Grayson's shoulder, moving him aside
KC: No. Croc will hold it. If anyone can find the bat, it is you.
King: What? You're Killer bloody Croc! You're going to sacrifice yourself to save our arses? Why?
KC: I don't care about saving Batman, screw him. I care about Gotham. No one eats Gotham.
Harley: Wow, it is akin to Henry V's Agincourt speech.
John: Now I feel the sudden urge to doze off…
GA: I think he's saying he's a hero.
Nightwing's head throbs again
Nighteing: He's coming… I can feel it!
Dark Damien lumbers through the fire, snarling like a rabbid animal before sharpening his claws
Dark Damien: You know the truth, Nightwing. Come join your brother. Give in to the dark metal.
Killer Croc lunges in, spearing the demonic monster
KC: Shaddup with your nonsense! ALL CROC ALL CARNIVORE! EAT YOUR FACE!
Everyone cringes a bit in (understandable) fear
Harley: Croc's gotta have a more family friendly battle cry…
Dark Damien does a step up Enzugiri, knocking him down before stabbing him in his shoulder blades before the monster flips him over his shoulder
KC: They used to call Killer Croc "the meanest bastard in sports entertainment", now when I save Gotham, they'll call me the guy who iced the darkness.
Dark Damien: Wishful thinking, you overgrown snakeskin boot.
As they fight, GA sees that stupid T-Sphere
GA: The floating metal ball… It's back.
Croc then feels the Dark Damien slash his legs, before he drops
KC: GO! RUN! SAVE GOTHAM!
Dark Damien then knees Croc down and lunges, viciously and violently clawing at the scaly opponent's abdomen, effectively tearing him open, as Harley fights the urge to cry.
Harley: Aw rats, now I got the feelings…
King: Quinn, let's go!
They gun it, with Ivy following them, willingly giving up her card
Harley: Red… I realized somethin'.
Ivy: What is it?
Harley, fighting back tears, just sits down as they make it to Nightmare Wonderland
Harley: Maybe this isn't a place for heroes. Maybe it's not even a place for crazy… Maybe this really is a suicide mission. We can't keep doin' this… This place… It's… It's like a nightmare.
King is busy fighting a big ass Cheshire Cat, manned by hostile versions of the Card Soldiers (AKA dudes dressed as said soldiers)
GA: One you can't wake up from…
King: Yeah.
King summons Illusionist Faceless Mage, who fires off a blast of energy that sends them all flying
Nightwing: We're finally getting closer to the Mountain…
Nightwing falls on his hands and knees, screaming in anguish
King: Nightwing, Don't give me that stoic "I'm fine" shite. You've been actin' like more and more of a psycho the closer we get.
Mad Hatter, who owns this circle, tips his hat up, a shit eating grin on his face
Mad Hatter: If you are mad, come join us! There's room for more… Many more… Heh heh…
Everyone looks at each other, then at Mad Hatter, then at each other again, hopelessly confused
King: The bloody hell is he on about?
John: I… I dunno…
Harley: Mad Hatter! Now we're talkin'! My kinda part-
Ivy wraps a vine around bother her legs as John summons Hyper Hammerhead and hops on
John: Quinn!
they head away from the fun
Harley: Spoilsports…
Nightwing: I… I don't know how to explain this, but I've been seeing things. Visions, So many of them, each one different then the last. The Dark Robin… Robin, it's you from some other world. A darker world
Damien: What are you talking about, Dick?
Nightwing: His Batman became some kind of monster, and he chose to follow him.
Damien: I Wouldn't…. I would never…
John: What… What did he mean when he said "tell him the truth", What truth?
Ivy: Is there something you're not telling us, boy wonder?
Nightwing: I think… I think I've been seeing Bruce… Our Bruce… And he's sinking into the metal, it's consuming him… He's screaming…
Damien: No…
John: Damien, I'm sorry… I don't think we're going to find him here… I don't think we're gonna find him anywhere… He saw Batman… He's dead.
Damien: No! You're wrong. You're not his son! You wouldn't know!
John: Robin… I…
Damien: Batman is not dead! He's not… He's… He's…
John hops off and breaks down into tears, sobbing
John: I-I'm sorry.
Harley: This place, Red, King… Croc a martyr, Red tryin' to kill me, Batman dead…
King: It's crazy… Gotham's gone bloody psycho.
Ivy: No, it's worse.
Harley: Yeah. This is like wakin' up from a nightmare, only ta find out you're still awake.
King: Yeah… I know from experience, Harley. Trust me.
Harley: It's what he would want, Mistah K. My puddin'...
John: Okay, what's next?
Harley: That's the thing about Mistah J. You can't ever tell, but you know it ain't gonna be good.
Twiddle-Dee and Twiddle-Dum, the two henchmen of the Mad Hatter charge at the sperg and former intern
Twiddle-Dee (voiced by Sam Reigel): Now Tweedle-Dum, Cut these intruders down to Size-
They both get hit by a massive blast of energy, yeeting them in an instant
Mr Terrific: There IS a way out, Dr. Quinzel. But it may mean going even deeper into the rabbit hole. The name's Mr. Terrific.
Ivy: Impressive. This part of your plan, John?
John: You could say that…
Mr. Terrific: We're gonna bring fair play back to this city! Who's with me?
GA: Now that… That's crazy, Right?
Harley: Well, Mistah G, it's all about how ya look at things, ain't it?
Ivy rolls her eyes and facepalms as John sighs and Damien just tisks