Chapter 3

Penguin and Deathstroke

"We're looking for Black Mask. Where is he?" Jericho asked as they walked towards the Electrocutioner in the bolier deck room.

He laughed in abusurdity, he just wanted to fight, "I ain't here to talk I'm here to your asses."

"One. Last. Chance." Jericho warned, Electrocutioner ignored the warning as he went to punch them but they dodged him quickly. Electrocutioner swung his punches wildly at them but they ducked very one of them avoiding the electric shocks. He was a brawler and he was using his fists instead of his brain and they took advantage of that. Jericho connected his fist and Talia connected a kick to the jaw. Then they did a double team by super kick him in the face. He was knocked out cold, which stunned the crowd, especially Tracy. Mr Cobblepot will not be happy about this.

"Who wants to show us where the Penguin is?!" Jericho yelled,

"Alright, you lousy mugs. Time t'earn your supper." Tracy commanded, 8 men came down to the floor and attacked the Jerichos. Jericho blocked two punches from some fight and doubled handed them in the ribs, below the belt and smashed their heads togeth . Talia punched left and right before spin kicking other guy's head off before kneeing the fifth one in the stomach and rolled on his back before kneeing him in the face.

"However that hurts, you'll hurt more if they get to Mr. Cobblepot!" Tracy warned, Jericho caught a kick to the stomach from another thug, he kicked other leg and then dislocated the leg he was holding.

"Did your mum teach you to fight like that?" Tracy asked somewhat sarcastically as more men came down but Jericho and Talia kicked their asses within minutes. Penguin needs to find better fighters. Tracy got the hell out of there to the Casino to warn Penguin about Jericho's.

Once done fighting, Jericho questioned a fighter that was still conscious. He held him up by the throat.

"Where's Cobblepot?" Jericho demanded,

"I ain't tellin' you jack." thug replied,

"Little more pressure and I'll crush your larynx. What's it going to be?"

"Al right, al right. he's in his office, ugh. Only way in is through the theater…. On the other side of the Casino. But you'll never get past Tracy."

"Tracy is not a problem." Jericho stated as he headbutted him out cold. They got what
they needed.

Jericho's POV

That worked a lot better than the last interrogation. after we examined Lester, we left the boiler deck room, we went through the medical room to the deck access corridor when Tracy's voice boomed through the speakers.

"If Mr Cobblepot finishes with 'is guest and finds out that you numpthy prats let the Jericho's spoil his boiler deck fights- what do you think he's gonna do to you lot? Think about it, lads." Tracy warned, the corridor was like a maze, hard to find a door around but we got to the Upper deck of this ship when Tracy delivered a message on the speakers from Lester Buchinsky

"Oy! I got a message for the Jericho's. From your mate the Electrocutioner. Back on 'is feet he is and he says that you may won this round but the fight is far from over. He'll be back for ya, watch your arses." Tracy stated. Damnit. We should've tied him up and called the cops on him.
I pressed my handsfree cellphone to contact Barbara.

"Oracle. We had a run in with one of the assassins… Lester Buchinsky." I said,

"The Electrocutioner. Are you and Talia alright?" she asked,

"Yes. But he escaped. His gloves put out a strong electromagnetic pulse…"

"And you want me to isolate the signal so you can find him. Already on it." I smirked of how quickly she understood me. God, I love her. "Where are you two off now?".

"To the Final Offer's casino. We're gonna make his assistant show to her boss." I told her, we went to the front door to the Casino but it was blocked so we had to go through the ventilation system to get in via bar and to the casino. We spotted Tracy up in the control room and she was not happy to see us again.

"Aren't you a persistent pain in me bottle? Mr Cobblepot ain't takin' new visitors and there ain't no way I'm lettin' you into the theater to see'em. So you can be on your merry way. Show 'em the door, lads." Tracy said as four men ran out of the elevator and tried to attack us but we beat them up with in minutes. After that, the control room went under lockdown and there was no way she would let us in to the theater. So we had to go through a vent to a room that led to the elevator.

"Going up." I said as I pushed a button and we went up to the control room hearing where Tracy was talking to Candy, another secretary of Cobblepot.

"They're not some ponces in fancy suits. They're naughty. And they're mopping the floor with our best and brightest. Not that saying much." Tracy said,

"I don't know. Just handle it, sista!. He's calling me back in." Candy replied as we stepped out of the elevator and went to the desk that Tracy was sitting at. She knew that we were behind her. so she reached for her baseball bat but as she swung in an attempt to attack us, Talia slapped the bat away and grabbed Tracy's arm putting it in a hammerlock as she shoved Tracy into a small cell.

"That's not lip gloss, girl." I mocked her wiggling my finger in a girl voice. I took out a USB and installed it into Tracy's computer, it took seconds to disable the security system which unlocked the door to the theater.

"Now that's settled with that… I don't how to describe that woman…" Talia shook her head in somewhat disgust "shall we go to the theater then?" I took out the USB from Tracy's computer and we left the control room. We were about to exit the casino through the front door when we were send a few feet away by an enforcer along with his buddies.

"Allo. You know you ain't welcome 'ere. And you know what we do to trepassers. Well you're sbout to find out, ain't ya?" he stated,

"Bring it on, Pop eye." I taunted, that was about to bite me in the backside as he charged at me. I was shoved into the wall and tossed into a table. I doubled kicked his face, kicking back up to my feet while Talia was busy dealing with his pals. He tried to head butt me only to ram his head into a slotting machine. I took advantage of hitting his stomach repeatedly. God it was like hitting a concrete wall. Then I kicked his knee and jumped grabbing his head as I bashed his head into the floor.

"Sorry, Pop eye. Looks like you don't get your bonus." I taunted as Talia backhanded the last one that was trying to attack her from behind.
Time to pay a visit to an old friend.

Third POV

Penguin was walking to Alberto Falcone who was tied up in a chair with evil intentions in mind.

"Now… Candy, where were we?" Penguin asked as he pretended to remember.

"You suggested Alberto over here..." Candy began as she picked up a notepad, then glanced at Alberto, "Hey Baby. Try to convince Harley Quinn to stop stealing your guns. He disagreed and called you a…Let's see. A psychotic little bastard."

"Thanks love." He grabbed a stun gun and went to stun him for a moment. Alberto screamed in pain and Penguin enjoyed every bit of it, "Now you best listen, Falcone. What are you gonna tell Goldilocks?"

"That the deal is off. I'll make sure that Harley leaves the weapons business." Alberto replied,

Penguin laughed, "I see your lips flappin' Berty, but they ain't making the sound I wanted to hear."

"Too bad it won't happen, walrus." Jericho spoke as he shot away the stun gun. Penguin yelped as he spotted Jericho and Talia, Candy went to hide in her spot.

"Don't stand there, you numpthy prats. Kill'em!" Penguin ordered his men, a thug who had a knife went to attack from behind but Jericho saw it coming as he blocked the attack and headbutted him out cold. Talia blocked a kick and swift the opposite leg before breaking the first leg from another thug before roundhouse kicking the last one, almost took his head off.
After that, Jericho and Talia went to advance on Penguin who was cornered now.
Jericho made his first move by grabbing Penguin and tossed him into the window.
he grabbed the Penguin and rammed face first into the floor.

"As much as I'll love our reunion, let's get down to the business shall we?" Jericho said,

"Black Mask. Put a bounty on our heads. Where is he?"

"I don't keep tabs on every geezer with a grudge. You two aren't popular blokes in this town."

"Wrong answer." Jericho said as he picked Cobblepot up and held him up high.

"Wait…" Cobblepot croaked as he gasped for breath,"Lacey towers…. There was a murder... It was supposed to be his safehouse but Ol' Black Mask…'e's got problems of 'is own, I'd say. Someone broke in and–"
before he got a chance to finish his sentence, Jericho was dropped to the floor and was dragged by some kind of remote claw. Talia went to help him but Candy attacked her from behind with a notepad

He was hanging above the boiler deck when Deathstroke appeared in front of him with a sword with the intentions to kill him. but as he went for the kill, Jericho blocked it and took his sword to cut off the rope. He glided to the boiler deck room and landed perfectly. Deathstroke jumped down and rolled his landing. He took out another sword as Jericho twirled his and put it away, stalking the assassin. The tension was in the air as they were in a stare down.

"It appears that the game is over before it even begins." Deathstroke stated,

"I'm not playing games, Slade." Jericho snarled as they seized each other up, ready to fight.

Talia stirred as she shook it off the pain and stood up back in Penguin's office

"Aw, what's matter? Not so tough without your big brother, eh?" Penguin taunted, Talia chuckled slightly darkly,

"You have no idea of what I'm capable of, Cobblepot." Talia said as Candy tried to attack again but this time she anticipated it. She blocked the cheapshot and went for armbar takedown before dislocating Candy's shoulder. Candy cried out as she held that shoulder in agony

Then Tracy came in and went swinging punches at Talia but she grabbed both of her wrists and twisted them, causing Tracy to yelp in pain and delivered a headbutt taking a page from Jericho's book. She kneed Tracy in the stomach and punched her in face.

"Oh, bollocks." Cobblepot muttered as Talia tossed Tracy away like a ragdoll and then approached him with devious intentions. He was in big trouble.

Meanwhile Deathstroke hit Jericho's face with his staff and went for his gut but Jericho quickly recovered blocking it and shoulder tackled the mercenary assassin. He spin kicked his face and then delivered monkey flip but Deathstroke recovered and struck with his staff but Jericho dodged the attack and kneed his face.

"Surprising." Deathstroke stated as he backed away and dropped a flash bang blinding Jericho. While he snapped out of daze, Deathstroke jumped down and struck with his staff left and right, but Jericho was shielding his head before blocking it and head butted the assassin, knocking the mask off. Deathstroke roared in anger as he hit Jericho's head first time but Jericho dodged the second one and tossed Deathstroke to the floor. Deathstroke jumped 7 feet direct attack him but Jericho again blocked it and used his staff to toss him across the room. Deathstroke jumped again this time firing his remote claw to Jericho's chest, which launched a line to some explosive sending towards the vigilante. But Jericho caught the explosive and tossed to Deathstroke. A explosion erupted as the explosive contacted with Deathstroke.

"I see you take more. Fair enough." Deathstroke stated as he dropped another flashbang. He jumped attack only this time, Jericho countered with a thrust kick to the jaw. Deathstroke dropped the staff which Jericho caught it and broke it in two with his knee. Deathstroke took out his sword as Jericho did so. Jericho went for a bicycle kick while attacking with his sword but Deathstroke blocked the attacks and tried to do a flying kick but Jericho dodged the kick and went to punch him. Wilson rolled out of the away and tired to take him by the surprise from the side but Jericho saw it coming, blocking the attempt and he backhanded the assassin. Deathstroke was no pushover, he took Jericho to the limit.

"Is that all you got?" Jericho taunted, that upset Deathstroke as he tired to attack with his sword but Jericho blocked it with his own. He disarmed deathstroke of his sword by kneeing him in the stomach and uppercut his face. Then he thrust kicked Deathstroke to a nearby wall.

"Game over, Slade." Jericho said trying to regain breath.

"What are you?" Deathstroke asked, he didn't answer as Jericho tossed his sword missing Slade Wilson's head by an inch to the wall. He delivered a superkick and a spinkick after it, knocking Slade out cold. Talia came up the ramp dragging the unconscious Penguin. Jericho looked up to Talia at the ramp.

"Having problems with the walrus?" Jericho joked, Talia scoffed,

"Please. I've dealt with barbarians and brutes compared to him." Jericho chuckled as he handcuffed Deathstroke and took Remote Claw for trophy. Finders keepers. Now, where were they?