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Chapter 5
Battle of Frights

Previously, Nitori, Nue, and Kogasa had showed up in the nick of time to save Batman from Solomon Grundy, who was brought to this place by Scarecrow as a weapon against the Dark Knight. "Let's see how you like this!" said Nitori as she took out a futuristic-looking gun and fired green beams at the zombie. It hit him in the head and the chest multiple times and did nothing more than annoying him. He angrily declared his hatred towards her, as when he does whenever someone hurt him, and ran at him. Kogasa freaked out at the sight of this and ran, but Nitori unleashed a large boxing glove from her backpack and punched the zombie hard, sending him backwards and knocking him on his back.

Nue then jumped at Grundy and stabbed him in the chest with her trident to pin him down, and then she fired laser beams from her wings at him rapidly. Grundy roared in anger as he caught her by the waist and then threw her away. He stood back up and removed the trident from his body before throwing it at Nue, who was able to dodge it.

Batman threw some exploding batarangs at him from behind, grabbing his attention. Grundy was going to go after him when Nitori caught him by the waist from behind using mechanical arms coming out from her backpack. "We'll deal with this guy! You go and get the smaller guys! They're more on your league!" Nitori told the Dark Knight, who nodded before turning to Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter.

"Don't think you can win so easily just because you have friends!" Scarecrow angrily said to Batman. "We're the ones who will still prevail in the end!"

With a shout, Nitori flung Grundy to the side and against the wall. She then took out some blue cylinders and threw it at him while he was down on the floor. The cylinders exploded into bursts of blue energy and damaged him and destroyed the things around him, but he was able to stand back up afterwards. Grundy angrily approached Nitori, but Nue got in front of him and fired lasers at him rapidly. While doing so, she summoned small blue UFOs that circled the zombie while shooting him with energy balls rapidly.

The zombie cried in anger while swinging his arms all over the place to get rid of the UFOs, which he was eventually able to do so. He was immediately punched by Nitori's giant boxing glove afterwards and pressed against the wall over and over. Nitori kept on punching him with it nonstop, but he was eventually able to catch the boxing glove and tear it off, much to the kappa's surprise. Grundy charged forward, and Nue got out of the way. When he came close to Nitori, the latter used all her strength to wrestle against him and held her place against him. They pushed back and forth, trying to overcome each other.

"Think you can beat a kappa in a sumo wrestling match? Think again!" Nitori said to him before lifting him into the air and hurling him across the room, right on top of some of Scarecrow's henchmen. "Take that! I win!"

Meanwhile, Batman was easily beating up Scarecrow's other henchmen. The only ones were left were Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The two fat guys proved to be more resilient than normal people, as they were able to endure what Batman threw at them better than anyone else. They swung their mallets around in an attempt to flatten the Dark Knight, but the latter was no slouch at dodging their swings and blows.

While this was happening, Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter slowly inched towards the staircase leading out of this place. As much as they hated to admit things, their plan was going south at the moment. They would have to bail for now and come up with some other time carry out their plan again. Before they could get up the stairs, however, a long tongue blocked their entrance. It came from Kogasa's umbrella. "Surprised? You're not going anywhere!" she said to them.

"Get out of the way!" Scarecrow said to her while spraying her with fear gas. Kogasa, however, shielded herself from it by closing her umbrella over herself slightly so that the gas didn't enter her nose. She then swung her umbrella around herself to make water spray out everywhere, and said water dissolved the gas. She then jumped at Scarecrow and Mad Hatter and swung her umbrella. The former ducked underneath it, but the latter got hit in the face and fell back. Scarecrow got back up and made use of this opportunity to rush up the staircase.

"You're not getting away!" Kogasa shouted as she gave chase. Batman saw her following Scarecrow and told her to stop and not do anything reckless, and then he avoided another mallet swing from Tweedledum. He swiftly moved to the back of the fat guy and planted a bat-shaped device onto his back. He tried to reach for it, but before he could get it, the device exploded in a burst of spark that propelled him forward slightly and made him fall on his face.

Tweedledee ran at Batman and brought down his mallet, but Batman got out of the way before using a batarang as a knife to cut off the hammerhead. He then punched and kicked the fat guy over and over nonstop until he finally fell on his back. He then looked at Nue and Nitori and saw that they were still fighting Grundy. "Grundy doesn't like fire!" Batman called out to them, hoping that they would be able to make use of this weakness somehow.

"Oh really? Thanks for the heads up!" Nue said to him.

"I'll leave him to you! I have go after Scarecrow and also stop Kogasa from getting herself killed!" Batman told them.

"Don't worry about us or anyone here! We'll deal with them all by ourselves!" Kogasa told him. Batman nodded before running out of the place.

"He's weak to fire, eh?" said Nue after Batman left. "Let's give him a good scare, then!" With that, fire came bursting out of her body, a sight that surprised Grundy.

"Grundy hates fire!" cried the zombie in fear he began backing away from the burning Nue. "Fire is bad! Fire go away!" In reality, Nue was not on fire. It was nothing more than a harmless illusion, but since Grundy didn't know what she was capable of, he was terrified and thought she was indeed on fire.

"C'mon! Want to play with me?" said Nue with a smirk as she slowly approached him. The false fire around her burned even more fiercely than before, thus terrifying the zombie even more. The fire also began to take the form of a demonic face that seemed to be cackling at the zombie.

"GRUNDY HATES FIRE!" cried the undead while shielding himself with his arms. "FIRE GO AWAY!" He then picked up a nearby chair and threw it at Nue, who didn't see this coming and was knocked out by it. The illusion was dispelled as a result.

Nitori stretched her mechanical arms at Grundy and grabbed him by the neck before zapping him with electricity. The zombie cried angrily as he pulled the arms away from him and ripped them off. He charged at Nitori and swung down his fist at her, but she rolled out of the way while leaving behind a blue cylinder in her place. It exploded, blasting the zombie towards the ceiling and hitting it so hard that it cracked. Nitori then took out a pair of guns and fired green laser beams from them rapidly at Grundy. The undead roared angrily before charging at her again. This time, she countered him by releasing a drill arm from her backpack and plunged it into his body and drilled through it. Grundy cried in pain as the drill bored its way out of the other side. She pulled the drill back out before delivering a powerful punch to his face and knocked him on his back.

"How'd you like that?" she asked him. She was surprised to see the hole on Grundy's body slowly healing until it was gone. The zombie got back up and angrily said how much he hated her. "Yeah, yeah... I hate you too!"

Grundy dug his fingers into the floor and pulled up a piece of the floor to throw at her. Nitori used her drill to shatter it and then ran at the zombie to use it against him. He swung the drill while it spun like a sword and left behind gashes on his body. She attacked intensely nonstop and didn't give him the chance to fight back at all. She eventually thrust the drill into his body again to push him back several steps. Grundy then found himself surrounded by several red, blue, and green UFOs. Under Nue's command, the UFO's fired energy balls and laser beams at him all over the place nonstop. Sparks were sent flying every time he got hit, and he was hit so rapidly that they pretty much concealed his presence. Nitori also joined in on the fun by firing from her guns.

Eventually, she took out handfuls of blue cylinders and threw them at Grundy while he was still being shot by the UFOs, and they exploded.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The powerful explosion caused by multiple cylinders at once rocked the place and sent everything and everyone flying. However, the audience and football players upstairs didn't realize this at all due to them being too immersed in the ball game. This was probably for the best.

The Mad Hatter had originally gotten back up after being knocked out by Kogasa, only to be knocked out a second time by the explosion almost immediately afterwards.

Nue and Nitori sat up and were slightly charred from the explosion. "That was a reckless move you pulled off there..." the former said to the kappa.

"But it did something, right?" asked Nitori, hoping that Grundy was defeated after this. The smoke slowly cleared away to reveal the zombie down on his back on the floor. He was groaning and twitching slightly, but he didn't get back up.

"Grundy pain all over..." he quietly said before passing out.

Seeing that he wasn't getting back up, Nitori and Nue sighed with relief, knowing that they finally won the fight. They now wondered how Batman and Kogasa were doing.

When Scarecrow exited the basement and the stadium, he rushed for his truck as fast as he could. Kogasa came out just in time to see him taking off at a fast speed. Instead of flying after him right away, the karakasa threw her umbrella at the truck. With precise aiming, she was able to get it onto the top of the truck's back. After the truck went farther and farther into the distance, Kogasa suddenly faded out of existence. She reappeared on top of the truck, right next to her umbrella, however.

Inside, the villain grumbled angrily at things not going his way, but it mattered not. He still had the fear gas containing the nanobots with him. He would have to put them to use some other time. For now, it was time to escape and hide until Batman stopped looking for him.

"BLEEEEEEEEEH!" Without a warning, Kogasa lowered her head from the front of the vehicle with her tongue sticking out. This sight shocked Scarecrow so much that he went crazy with the steering wheel, and the truck traveled down the path fast and in a wavy path, eventually hitting the sidewalk and crashing into the wall. Kogasa fell onto the pavement as a result and hit her head, and she sat back up while rubbing it. "Ow..."

Scarecrow got out of the truck and angrily pointed his gas sprayer attached to his wrist at Kogasa. "This is the last time you're making fun of me!" he angrily said to her. "I'll make sure that you die from heart attack after having the shock of your life!" When he sprayed the gas, Kogasa instinctively jumped out of the way. She swung her umbrella to fire a large blob of water at Scarecrow, dousing him from head to toe. The tongue of her umbrella then wrapped itself around him and lifted him into the air. "Hey! Let go of me! I command you!"

Kogasa laughed as he swung the struggling and frightened Scarecrow in the air over and over nonstop. She then flung him into the air, and he fell back down on the umbrella, which Kogasa was spinning constantly, to keep him balanced and bouncing on top of it. After spinning him for about a minute, she dropped him onto the floor and laughed as she watched him trying to regain his senses. "Hahahahaha!"

Scarecrow wasn't down for the count, however. He immediately sprayed his fear gas at Kogasa, who was too busy laughing to notice this. She coughed as she breathed in the gas, and then illusions of people started to appear in front of her. "She's not scary at all!" said one of them.

"Yeah! Let's show her what real fear is!" said another one while cracking her fist.

Hearing this, Kogasa started to tremble in fear. She backed away while telling them to get away, or else she would give them a huge scare. Those people's appearance started to become more and more grotesque as they approached her, their skins becoming rotten and blood flowing down from their eyes. Such a sight terrified the karakasa, and she screamed out in terror. The frightening-looking people then threw themselves at Kogasa and started beating her up violently. The karakasa cried for help as she struggled to push them out of the way.

From Scarecrow's point of view, he was seeing her down on the pavement with wounds appearing on her body without an explanation. He laughed as he got close to her and enjoy watching her suffer. "Haha! Take that! Let this be a lesson to you!" he said to her. Suddenly, Kogasa kicked him in the leg, causing him to bend down in pain. The terrified karakasa screamed as she got up and, in an act of self-defense, swung her umbrella around like crazy and unintentionally hit Scarecrow multiple times. He fell on his back, and Kogasa kept on screaming as she smacked him over and over with her umbrella. From her point of view, she was attacking her attackers as an act of defending herself.

The Batmobile came to a stop, and Batman jumped out of it. He rushed over to Kogasa and Scarecrow to get a better look at what was happening. He couldn't help but be surprised that Kogasa was beating up Scarecrow, and the latter was actually having trouble defending himself. Judging from the wounds appearing on her body, Batman could tell that she was affected by the fear gas, though with her beating up her opponent like this, people probably couldn't tell.

TO BE CONTINUED