Chapter 1
Humanitarian of the Year
AN: And as promised, here is the first chapter of TSADOTD. Beneath the Author's quote is the quote of one of the best episodes of Batman animated series to date. I'm gonna use some points of the plot of BAA DLC Cold Cold Heart which is actually based on Heart of Ice. Now Enjoy the chapter.
"This is how I shall always remember you: surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love. The monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish... best served COLD." Michael Ansara as Mr Freeze from Heart of Ice, Batman Animated Series
"Phew, that was close." Mike sighed in relief as he loaded the cryo tube into the truck, they just done a job of retrieving a body from Gotham General. The job was from an anonymous source that wouldn't give his name but he promised by the
"Tell me about it." Jerry agreed as Mike started the engine and got the hell out of there "We barley passed the security guards. But we got the job done. I better call it now." his friend pulled out his cellphone and dialed the number, after a few minutes the caller picked up the call, "We got the package. Repeat, we got the package."
"Terrific. And as promised, a check of 30 000 dollar will arrive shortly at your location when you exchange the body." The caller declared pleased of their work. he then told the location, he hung up on them.
"Mr. Boyle, Mr. Wayne is here to see you." A redheaded woman in early 20's said, he put away his phone and addressed his secretary.
"Send them in, Mandy." He said, Mandy nodded in acknowledgement as she left his office. He plasted on a fake smile when he saw Bruce Wayne coming in, "Bruce! It is so nice to see you."
Three days later
Jericho was sitting in his secluded room at his apartment looking into his computer for any activates or events that has happened all over the world. Since the The Battle of Blackgate as news called, things crime rate is at its lowest for the very first time. The population had never ever felt safe in a very long time and that's saying something. Back then when the city was named the most corrupted capital in the US with the highest crime rate, the motto was "don't call 911, just bribe them" and you can't even go out of your house for 5 minutes without being mugged, kidnapped or worse. But that was then and this is now and things are looking brighter. he looked past the window to see the moon glowing at its finest.
"Do you know why the moon is lonely?" Jericho asked as he, his sisters and Sara watched the moon shining in Nanda Parbat, Nyssa had her arms wrapped around Sara's waist while glancing up to the moon.
"No. Why?" Sara asked, curious along with his sisters.
"Well, apparently the moon had a lover, Keehcajoo, they would wander the skies together. But one of the sprits, the trickster was jealous because he wanted the Moon for himself. so the trickster suggested Keehcajoo that would come to our world and pick her some wild roses."
"Never trust a guy named a trickster." Sara chimed in, Jericho punched her arm playfully and Sara returned the favor.
"Anyhow, what he didn't realize was once you leave the sprit world, you can't never go back. And every night he looks up to the moon and howls her name doomed to live among the mortals for all eternity."
"So long story short, Koo-koo-ka-choo got screwed." Sara summed it up while trying to pronounce the name Jericho smirked a bit while shaking his head.
Keehcajoo." he corrected, "The Wolverine."
"What you're doing?" Barb asked as she entered the room and rolled to his left side.
"Just reading some news across the globe." Jericho answered, turning the computer off and gave her a peck on the lips "You?"
"I just got a call from Bruce. He invited us to the Wayne Foundation humanitarian of year party in Starling City." she told him,
"Right, Ferris Boyle is getting the award for being the man of the people." he scoffed in disbelief, "Please, he's not a man of the people, he's a fraud." There was no denial that Jericho disliked Ferris Boyle for many reasons. One, for being dishonest, two: being a hypocrite. Three: A sociopath who has no empathy whatsoever. He was born and raised in Starling City but moved to Gotham and started Gothcorp. He created an image of Gothcorp that represent the people and are compassionate about cleaning Gotham up from corruption and crime when in truth, it's just a façade for many illegal weapon manufacturing operations. He's been suspected in many of cases although not bought in for questioning because the evidence was not substantial and the witnesses either ends up dead or disappear without a trace. So the fact that he's been elected to be the Humanitarian of the year makes Jericho even more suspicious of his motives.
"Look, I know that you don't like Ferris but please don't anything embarrassing on the party." Barbara said with a sigh,
"You're right." Jericho agreed, "Which is why I'm not going."
Barbara sighed again while rubbing her forehead, this was gonna be harder than she tought "I get it. You don't like going to parties and frankly so do I but maybe this time it will be different. Who knows? Just please consider it." she gave him a pout while . Jericho kept a stern look as if he knew what she was trying to do.
"No." he told her,
"Fine." she huffed in defeat as she was about to leave him but then she got a brilliant idea of how to lure him in, "By the way, Talia is going to be there and she would be very sad if she knew that her brother wouldn't be there."
A look of fear etched on his face at the mention of Talia, Barb wouldn't dare,"But… she wouldn't stop bugging me. Come on…" he tried to plead his way out of the predicament but Barbara had a stern look and an raised eyebrow on replicating Jericho's look earlier and in that moment, Jericho was beaten.
"Crap." He muttered crossing arms in defeat, looks like he was going to the party after all, "Fine. I'll go. When do we leave?"
Bruce stepped out of the Elevator of Queen's Consolidated buliding, it's been awhile since he was here of course, the last time he was here it was a few days prior before the late Robert Queen stepped on Queen's Gambit with his son Oliver Queen and Sara Lance. He walked towards a desk where a woman in her mid 20's with bleached blonde hair and a pair of glasses was doing some paper work. he cleared his throat and the woman looked up to him.
"How may I be help you?" she asked nervously as he noticed her cheeks turned red, he offered a genuine smile
"Hi, I'm here to see Moira Queen." He said,
"OH uh, Mrs. Queen is unavailable." Mr…?"
"Wayne. Bruce Wayne, Wayne Enterprises." He introduced, her eyes were on the edge of bulging out of her sockets.
No freaking way is that Bruce Wayne. the Gotham playboy Billionaire? Wow, TV doesn't do that man justice.
"You want me to go to what?" Oliver asked her mother Moira Queen in his office as he tired to wrap his mind of what his mom just told him, her mother had just started her campaign for mayor after her release from Iron Heights prison thanks to persuasion from Walter Steele, her ex husband and her children's former step father. And To say that this news came a bit of a surprise was bit of an understatement.
"To a event hosted by Bruce Wayne tonight. Ferris Boyle had been selected to be the Humanitarian of the year by the board of the Wayne Foundation." The Queen family was no strangers to the Wayne family. Robert Queen had worked with Bruce in the past one some projects before the company started their own science department and the Gambit incident that took Robert's life and captain's life. So when Moira was sentenced for her involvement in the Glades Earthquake, Bruce was the first person to call to.
"And why does this to do with us?" Oliver asked,
"Well, Ferris was a native here from our beloved city but he moved to Gotham due to some financial issues and he started Gothcorp which blossomed to a multi million dollar company. He has a main office here and in Gotham." She explained,
"Mom, in case you've forgotten, our family does not have a good track record when it comes to charity events or parties." Oliver reminded his mother bitterly and that was true. But Moira continued to encourage Oliver to go with her.
"I know, Oliver. But try to behave this time. This family has been through enough as it is."
"Fine, Mom." Oliver sighed in resignation, seeing of no point of arguing any further, she smiled in relief, "Anything else?"
"No, that would be all, dear." She shook her head no, just then Oliver's secretary Felicity Smoak allowed herself to come in with a knock for an urging matter.
"Sorry to intrude but ah…Mr. Wayne is here." she told them and on cue Bruce Wayne, billionare playboy from Gotham entered the office as Felicity went to exit.
"Hello, Bruce. I'm so glad that you could come." She greeted with a kind smile, "I never thanked you for your support during my trial."
"My pleasure, Moira." He returned the smile kindly, "And I'm sorry if I haven't come and see you after…."
"I understand." She nodded in understanding, and then she noticed that Oliver was still here. "Bruce, you know my son Oliver." The men shook their hands firmly. "So, you'll be attending Wayne Foundation Humanitarian of the year ball?"
"Yes, I will along with my fiancé and some of my acquaintances." That seemed to surprise Moira a little given her knowledge of his reputation as a billionaire playbiy "I'll take it you'll be there too?"
"Yes with Oliver and my daughter Thea." She answered, "So you're engaged? Who's the woman that's fortunate to date you?"
"It's a long story." He replied, that wasn't a lie considering the circumstances.
"I'm sure it's a good story." Moira replied, just then the other CEO Isabel Rochev came in.
"The infamous Billionaire playboy is engaged. Make that for the headline news." she drawled,
"Bruce, I'll like you to meet the CO CEO, Isabel Rochev." Moira introduced, her smile faltered a bit when Isabel came into the office, just as things were going so great.
"Как это Готэм лечения вы до сих пор, мистер. Уэйн." (How's Gotham treating you, Mr. Wayne?)
"о вы ожидаете, преступность и коррупция в его самом прекрасном." (About you'd expect, crime and corruption at its finest.)
"What did they say son?" Moira asked her son not understanding what they were saying but she knew that they were talking in Russian.
"Nothing important, mom." he replied, this just turned a bit interesting.
"Ok, so now that Bruce is at the QC, what do we know about the family?" Jericho asked, he and Barb decided to hit the town and let's just say that Starling City was kinda different from Gotham. Sure it has crime and corruption but it wasn't that bad as Gotham is or was... but also the Hood who appeared a last year after Oliver Queen, the billionaire playboy was found alive after spending five years on a secluded island in south of China. So being the world's greatest detective that Bruce is, he put two and two together. They visited the Starling City aquarium and were amazed by the sea creatures that resided there. then they visited the Bisque Museum.
"Well, aside from being one of the richest families in the country, they have a long history of breaking the law on several occasions. Oliver Queen was arrested four times for DUI, assaulting paparazzi, stealing a taxi and urinating a police officer." She grimaced the last part,
"How in the hell did he do that?" Jericho asked in disbelief,
"Well, let's just say that when I read the report, it involved a lot of alcohol an I mean a lot." Barbara explained "and of course when he was accused of being the Hood. as for Thea, she was arrested for public intoxication, breaking and entering and was recently in a car crash. The police found traces of narcotics in her blood system and then she was arrested and sentenced to community service at a law firm."
"Huh. At least she wasn't sent to prison." He commented, "What about their mother?"
"Oh, I was just getting to that and trust me, she was sent to prison for conspiracy to murder and involvement of the Glades earthquake which leveled the east sector. It took 503 lives that day including the Merlyn family. but the most disturbing part was Malcolm Merlyn had an affair with Moira Queen"
"Which was revealed on her trial. But despite that, she somehow was declared not guilty on her trial and now she's running for mayor." He finished, rubbing his chin in deep thought, "That's bit fishy don't you think?
"Exactly, someone must've bribed the judge because the evidence was pretty solid. She was looking to life in prison. Whoever did it, must've had deep pockets."
"Yeah." He chuckled, "So, any plans to our upcoming wedding as of late?"
"What?" she asked confused before catching on, To be honest, she hadn't planned at all, not after everything that has happened on the holidays, "Oh, No. Not exactly, I've been kinda busy with stuff."
"Is it about Dick?" he questioned, he wasn't dumb, he knows about her relationship with Dick, Bruce's adoptive son and how badly it ended when they broke their engagement.
"A part of it." she admitted, ducking her head away, it wasn't a total lie. Just that she doesn't want a relapse of Dick Grayson whom she loved dearly, a constant reminder of who she once was. She won't admit it, but she's afraid that eventually he'll be just like Dick. Isolate himself from the ones he cares about. "Can we not talk about it now? I just want to enjoy this moment." he nodded in agreement dropping the subject as he drank his coffee. she knew that they would talk about this later.
Little did they know that someone was watching the whole thing from a distance, he had a black trench coat with hat and sunglasses. He took out his cellphone and pressed on speed dial for a call.
"Hey, it's me. I got some news. The subject is here. I repeat, the test subject for Project Wolverine is here in Starling City." he reported
"Perfect. I'll inform miss Rochev about this. Excellent work." the caller complimented and then he ended and left somewhat satisfied.
"Brother! I'm in need of your assistance." Nyssa called as she ran up with an unconscious blonde woman to the training room of their headquarters in Nanda Parbat where Jericho was learning the newest members the art of jujitsu when he heard Nyssa. He asked one of the experienced comrades to take care of his class and quickly ran up to her.
"What's going on?" he asked and the looked at the woman in Nyssa's arms, she was bleeding badly, a large gash on her forehead "Who's this?"
"I found her at the seashore. She's barley breathing." Nyssa explained There's still time to save her. prepare the Pit."
"But Nyssa, we can't use it to save an outsider. You'll violate the rules." He scolded,
"Please, brother, she doesn't have much time left." Nyssa insisted,
"Nyssa. Father will hear this and he will be not pleased." he stated,
"I don't care. I got to save her."
"fine, come with me." he relented, he led them back to their headquarters.
Jericho's cellphone ringed as he and Barb were back in their hotel room at Starling City Plaza Hotel.
"Yeah." He answered, "OH hi Bruce. How did it go? Really? Ok." He then rolled his eyes at what Bruce told him to wear Yeah, I'll wear a suit tonight. Alright, see you tonight." He then ended the call and put his phone back into his pocket. He glanced at Barb who had a inquiring look on her face, "He didn't get much answers regarding the Undertaking nor why she was found not guilty but she admitted her affair with Malcolm. So that's somethin' to start "
"Yeah." She murmured, it was a bit disappointing really because she would really love to get the details. Blame the detective side of her personality. "So what now? we have about three hours before the Ball tonight."
"Well, we can do enough." He shrugged with a suggestively grin on his face.
"No. NO." she shook her as she backed away as if she knew what he's up to,
"Oh yes." He walked slowly towards her like a predator ready to attack its prey. She squealed as he scooped her up from her wheelchair and carried her to the bed.
"Jericho, put me down." She yelled in laughter
"No. Stop fighting me, woman." He commanded,
Jericho led Nyssa to the Lazarus Pit who was still carrying the mysterious blonde hair. The guards were taking a break so they had to do it quickly before their return.
"We don't have much time. Make it quick." He commanded, Nyssa nodded in acknowledgement as she stepped into pit with the blonde woman. She released her body letting it sink into the pit for a good few minutes before the woman gasped rising up from the pit with eyes that were completely white without no irises for a split second before returning to blue eyes. Nyssa grabbed her by the waist in an attempt to prevent her from falling into the pit again as she passed out again, Jericho went down to the pit and grabbed the woman's legs helping Nyssa out.
"People caring for people. Compassion. That's the foundation that I proudly built Gothcorp on and that is why we're called the People company." Ferris Boyle was having the speech of acceptance as he was standing on a podium holding an award where the crowd was applauding to what he was saying much to the disgust of Jericho who was at the bar drinking scotch, his ego was skyrocketing right by now. The crowd was the crème de la crème of the influential people, like Queen Family with Matriarch Moira and the mayor candidate Sebastian Blood. The Co CEO of Queen Consolidated and , Isabel Rochev was standing next to him in a red glittering dress with black high heels while Blood was in a black tuxedo.
"So is it true? The Subject For project Wolverine is here in Starling City?" Sebastian asked,
"Yes. One of the informants spotted him in café downtown." She confirmed, "We're one step closer to our goal."
"I hope so. My patience is running the . The past subjects all died of cardiac arrest or metal poison of adamanitum because of the wolverine formula falied to process. This is our last shot."
"I know, but Slade told me back at Blackgate, this one is different." She assured, "and I take his word for it."
Barbara came to him after talking to some people that weren't interesting. She wore a green dress.
"So, drinking alone here mister?" she asked,
"Maybe." He replied, "Can I get you a glass of champagne?"
"Well, since you asked so nicely." She obliged, he signaled one of the waiters for champagne. He took two glasses of it and handed one to Barbara.
"Thank you." She thanked him taking the glass. They tapped their glasses and took a sip. "So, where's Bruce and Talia?" she questioned
"They're out in the crowds, congratulating You-Know-Who." He answered with distain
"Still don't like him, do you?" she stated,
"Nope but look at the bright side. I haven't done anything stupid that would ruin the party ." He replied,
"That's a something." She agreed, "So What now?"
"Right now, I want you to tell me about Oliver Queen's bodyguard John Diggle and his secretary Felicity Smoak." At the questioning look he got from Barb he told her the reason. "Bruce wanted me to do a background check up on them. Here" he handed her his IPhone from his pocket and immediately, she went to check info on Diggle first.
"Alright, John Diggle born in 1978. Former Army soldier, spent three tours in Afghanistan and some time in special forces. Married once with Lyla Michaels, a fellow soldier but they divorced due to a fallout back home."
"And now he serves as a bodyguard for one of the richest families in the country." He stated,
"In a way, his late brother Andy was a bodyguard too. He was killed in duty by poison laced bullets. The police never found the killer though and soon the case became cold. He left behind a son and his wife Carly."
"That's rough." He said,
"No kidding." She replied, shaking her head sympathetic
"Now… what about Felicity?" he questioned,
"Let's see.." Barbara went to google her name on wifi and instantly got a hit. She went on to read the biography.
"Felicity Meghan Smoak, born in Vegas 88, her father abandoned her and mother who was waitress at a young age. Top of her class at MIT. Worked as an IT Support at the Queen Consolidated before becoming Executive assistant of Oliver Queen." She informed
"Pretty impressive. Kinda like you actually minus the abandoning father who is the police commissioner ." He said,
"You know what, I was thinking the same thing." she declared in agreement, then she looked at the time at his cellphone,"Oh shout, it's almost midnight. Come on." she nudged him to follow her as a female hostess came to the podium where Ferris was talking to the press regarding about his plans for the future.
"Now it's almost midnight and you all know what that means." The hostess declared, "it's time start this new year with a…" suddenly she started to feel cold so she rubbed her arms as she breathed out a icy fog. Soon everyone was feeling cold.
"Forgetting to pay the heating bill?" she joked meekly and then chaos erupted in form of an ice wall freezing the hostess and some from crowd as the crowd backed away when a group of armed thugs stepped out of a hole that was in middle of the ice wall.
"Happy New Year, everybody!" one of the men yelled, firing a round from his rifle. Then a bald man in a mechanical suit stepped out of the hole and fired from his cryotech gun. He stopped by a person who had his leg stuck in ice. He tried to get his leg out as fast as possible but the man backhanded him flying over the stage and used his icegun to freeze the man along with a few others. It was Mr. Freeze.
"Bring me Ferris Boyle." He demanded, Bruce and Talia left the crowd in a hurry along with Jericho and Barb outside to suit up. There is no quiet night apparently in Starling City.
"These Penguin's men. What the hell are they doing here and why are they working with Freeze?" Barbara asked as they headed down to the parking lot, they turned left and went to their limo where their suits were in the trunk.
"Three good questions, darlin'. We're about to find out." Jericho said, "Got our suits, Bruce?"
"Always." He confirmed, opening the trunk to reveal three sets of suits. Time to go to work.
"Oliver, who the hell are these guys? They're not like I've seen before" John asked as he and Oliver snuck unnoticed by Penguin's men to the backdoor.
"I'm not sure. But they're being led by someone in a mechanized suit. I need to find Ferris before they do." Oliver stated,
"Well, you're no good to us dressed like that. Better put on your other suit before this place turns into a freaking ice Age." He advised,
"I know, get these people to safety." Oliver instructed as he took off, John nodded in acknowledgement as he went back.
"Hey! Move it!" one of the men that invaded the award com ordered Thea and Moira to move along . but they didn't budge so he roughly grabbed Thea's arm.
"Thea!"
"Get off of me." She warned, she bit his hand hard which caused him to yelp in surprise. He shook his hand back and forth to get rid of the pain
"You spoiled brat, you'll regret that." he spat as he was about to slap her face but his hand was caught and he turned around to see a man in a black kevlar suit with a bat sign on his chest. He wore a black cowl with pointy ears that covered the upper half of his face leaving his mouth open.
"Don't." he warned in a threating tone, the thug gulped in fear fully aware of who he is. It was the last person he'd expect to see here.
"Batman!" he yelled to alert the others, Batman hit him with his own hand before twisting his arm behind him, the thug bent over in pain allowing Batman to knee him in the face.
"Go." He ordered, Thea and Moira got the heck out of there as Batman blocked an attempting kick from behind, he elbowed his attacker and rammed his head into his knee. He spin kicked third thug almost taking his head off.
"What the hell are you waitin' for? A invitation?!" another Penguin henchmen exclaimed in disbelief to the rest of them, "Kick the Bat's ass!" they did as they were told but then the were hit with kicks to their chests by a woman wearing a black leather outfit with black boots. She flipped over and landed on her feet with one hand on the floor as the two men landed with a thud. She rose up as more of Penguin's men surrounded her. She ducked a punch and quick jabbed him. Talia caught an upcoming kick, kicking his thigh and punched him. she then roundhouse kicked a fourth thug. She went on to jump midair and split kicked two more in the face at the same time.
"Come on, stay still for a moment." Another henchmen aimed his rifle at Talia who was beating most of his friends but he couldn't get a steady shot at her.
"I don't think so, junior." Jericho spoke as he grappled the armed thug and went for an inverted DDT. He went on to thrust kick another man and spin kicked him off his feet.
He back kicked the last one in the groin who tried to sneak up on him. he joined batman and Talia once penguin's men was taken care of.
"Oracle, can you hear us?" Batman asked as he pressed into earpiece of his cowl.
"Loud and clear."
"Have you found Ferris?" he questioned,
"Yep, I've hacked into the security cameras. Ferris is on the lower level, grand hallway. But you better hurry. Penguin's men is holding him hostage"
"Thanks, we'll be in touch." He replied as they left the room. They went down the stairs to the elevator where they spotted more of penguin's thug, they needed to get to Ferris before Mr. Freeze does so they disposed of the thugs quickly. they continued down to the grand hallway where they spotted Penguin's men beating the crap of Ferris Boyle.
They were taking turns of beating Boyle who was put in a full nelson lock by a big brute with a beard.
Thinking fast, Jericho pulled out his remote claw and fired at a fire extinguisher to hit one of the thugs momentarily blinding them. That allowed Ferris to get away from them and Batman to strike first. A fight broke out and and in a few minutes, once the smoke cleared out Talia, Batman and Jericho were the ones standing over knocked out penguin thugs.
"We're gonna get you out here." Jericho said,
"I think not." Mr Freeze begged to differ as he arrived from the other side of the hallway and froze three of them with his cryogenic gun. Ferris Boyle had a look of disbelief when he recognized Mr Freeze and his face went a bit pale.
"I have no quarrels with the three of you." he said,
"You crashed into the wrong party." Batman declared
"Fries?" he whispered as Mr. Freeze walked past the vigilantes and picked him up, Jericho wondered if there's any history between Freeze and Boyle because if they had history, as he struggled to break free from the thick ice. "What do you want with me?"
"Just require a moment of your time." Freeze replied as he took him away but suddenly his mechanic suit was hit by an arrow on his back.
"Let him go." Man in his late 20's was in a dark green outfit that had long sleeves with gloves. He had a metallic bow and arrow on his quiver. He had a mask that covered his eyes along with a hood. Freeze fired from his freeze gun and the hooded man avoided it just barley and fired another arrow, this time though Freeze froze it in mid air. But it allowed Freeze to escape with Ferris Boyle. Jericho finally broke free of ice, Batman and Talia not along after.
"You must be The Hood." Jericho declared,
"You must be Jericho." Arrow countered, lowering his bow down "I've heard about you."
"Did you huh?" Jericho asked, "Well, as much as I love to sign you an autograph, we got business to take care of."
"What about Freeze?" The Hood questioned,
"He's our. You focus on Ferris, we'll handle the rest." Batman replied not giving the Arrow a chance to have a say as they took off. But they stopped in front of the doors as it was covered in thick ice. It's frozen shut. One of Penguin's men must've gotten access to Freeze's ice guns. That can be problematic.
"Oracle. We found Ferris." Jericho reported as he tapped into his earpiece to inform Barb.
"Great, did you save him?"
"There were complications. Freeze got to him first before we did and now one of Penguin's men got his hands on some of his obtained cryogenic weapons. The door in front of us is frozen shut" Jericho informed,
"That's not good. the weapons are the latest in cryogenic technology if Freeze gave it to them willingly, that means…"
"Let's not get a head of ourselves Oracle. Besides, we won't let them. Freeze is heading towards the main entrance. I'll get back to you when we found him." He replied as they went to the wall shaft. Jericho ripped it open before crawling into the ventilation. He wondered why Victor would team up with Cobblepot considering what happened in Arkham City, when Penguin kidnapped Freeze and tortured him for fun while using his ice gun for amusement. And why would he take Ferris Boyle? There's more than a simple kidnapping. He beat the grate away before jumping down out of the ventilation shaft. Batman and Talia came out of there and The door that was frozen to the main entrance exploded, sending the door away. The Hood stepped out of the hole with his bow raised.
"You gotta be kidding me." Jericho mumbled shaking his head, he would wonder later about how did the Hood just do that when there are more important issues. They spotted MR Freeze getting into a van with Ferris and they took off. damn, they'd just missed them. some of the Penguin henchmen stayed behind to ensure that they would put some road blocks for the vigilantes and one of them was equipped with a cryogenic gun, Barbara's fear had come to fruition.
"Damnit. We just missed them. One of Penguin's men must know where that van goes." Jericho thought as he pulled out his handgun and shot the cryo tank, making it leak cold fluid.
"Get them!" one of the men spotted Jericho charging, he landed a punch and ducked two blows as he gave the two of them stereo blows to stomach before uppercut. He kicked another guy in the chest twice before jumping on his back, breaking the vertebrae. The henchmen tried to freeze but his ice gun didn't work due to malfunction. The thug cried in extreme pain as Jericho approached he last remaining henchmen who dropped the ice gun and raised his hands in surrender.
Jericho pushed him against the wall for interrogation while Batman and Talia along with the Hood walked past the knocked out henchmen.
"Where is he taking Ferris?" Jericho questioned,
"I… I don't know, I promise!" he lied and Jericho saw it through, that whimp knows some valuable information.
"Do you have any idea how many of your friends I sent to the hospital on Christmas?!" he threatened and like all others he eventually caved not wanting to end up with a broken back like his friend.
"One of Penguin's dealer. He's doling out the weapons Freeze gave us. He must know. We were supposed to meet in Orchid Bay." He revealed,
"You can meet up in the emergency room, instead." Jericho said and then head butted the henchmen out cold.
"Let's go. It won't be long before SCPD shows up and they won't not be friendly to us as GCPD are." Batman stated as he heard the police sirens from a distance.
"I agree, beloved." Talia obeliged, "Although you must admit, GCPD weren't your allies at one point, so it's hardly a surprise."
"True." Batman agreed as they took out their grapple guns and grappled on a ledge of a nearby building exiting center stage.
"And here I thought I was the original." The Hood commented. He had a feeling that this won't be the last time he would be seeing them and he would proven to be right on the money. But Right now, he wants Felicity to dig up info about Mr. Freeze.
Sara stirred as she opened her eyes to see that she wasn't in the Amazo, all she remembered was that a missile hit the Amazo, then she was separated from Oliver during the blast and nothing.
She was lying in a small but comfortable bed and she wasn't wearing her clothes, she looked at her body to see if she sustained any injuries and surprisingly there were none. What happened when she was unconscious?
"I see you're awake." She turned around to see a woman in red garment clothing with dark black hair with olive skin. She had brown eyes with a voice smooth as silk. Startled by the presence, Sara pushed her back against the headboard in panic feeling that "Please do not fret, I do not wish you any harm." She spoke with a calm and sincere voice.
"Where am I?" Sara asked cautiously as she slowly realized the woman wasn't going to hurt her or do anything bad. She reminded Sara of Shado, with her dark hair, olive skin and the brown chocolate eyes.
"Nanda Parbat. Tibet." Nyssa told her,
"I'm in Tibet?" she asked in disbelief, Nyssa nodded in confirmation. Yeah, she's not in Kansas anymore. Sara took a moment to process the new info.
"So the sleeping beauty is finally awake." A man declared as he dropped by her room, he was tall, short black hair with a pair of crystal green eyes he wore some sort of a outfit that resembled a monk. He was very attractive. "I'm Jericho, her brother. I see you've met Nyssa."
"Sara. My name is Sara." She told her, "Where did you find me?"
"I found you on the beach. You were in critical condition so we had to use the Lazarus."
"Lazarus?" she questioned not following her, What is Lazarus?
"Long story. But neverless, we saved you." He replied, then she got from bed and hugged Nyssa out of appreciation. Nyssa was surprised by the gesture but slowly wrapped around her waist.
"Thank you." Sara whispered into her ear and in that moment, something in the back of her mind told her this was just the beginning.
And there you have it, the first chapter. I hope I did good.
Let me know what you think of this chapter.