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Hey everyone! This is Amy! Your favorite person and main character in Achievement Unlocked, and I have a message for all of you who read this story.
Nick: And this is Nick. Putting my name next to what I say so no one is confused on who's talking. Anyways, I'm here to make sure Amy doesn't fuck anything up.
Shut the fuck up, Nick!
Nick: Guys, I apologize for her rude behavior and her mouth, but to get straight to the point something has happened to the author of this story.
We can't tell you what happened because she never tells us anything. *pfft* Lousy author. I only barely heard her mention about dealing with some major serious life and death stuff, I don't know. Doesn't sound important so who cares?
Nick: Amy she mentioned that it would be dangerous and that there's a chance she could be hurt or killed. You should be concerned!
Oh come on! There's nothing to worry about! She's tough and can handle herself with whatever the fuck she's doing. But since she's gone, I am now in charge of writing the story! Hooray for me! *does a little dance*
Nick: That doesn't mean you get to fuck with the plot or the characters! And she left me in charge of you to keep you from causing trouble or fucking up the story!
Fuck you and your rules! Guys don't listen to this loser. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Anyways R&R, hope you enjoy the chapter and all that good stuff. I DO NOT make bad choices! It was either live or die so I chose to live. Every man for themselves! I'm taking a nap. Bye.
Nick: *sighs* Sorry about that everyone. Amy does make bad choices but doesn't learn from them. Anywho, the author thanks you for the reviews. They really inspire her to keep going with this story. Every time she reads them she feels happy and proud of this story. She made this story for your entertainment and wants all of you to keep her going. The author also hopes all of you equally enjoy the series she's planning on making. She hopes they will surprise everyone that reads them. But anyways hope you all like this chapter. See ya later!
The warm light of the sun was shining through her bedroom window as she sat on her bed, staring at her t.v. with a confused look on her face. She was back in her room, her phone in her pocket, shoes on her feet and her knife secured on the belt loop of her jeans. Amy stood up and scanned the room, touching everything to make sure it was real and not an illusion.
Suddenly her phone began to ring, making her jump from being startled when it rang. She hurriedly unpocketed her phone and answered it. "Hello?"
"Hey Amy." it was Nick's voice. "Are you in town? Or have you not even left the house yet?" he asked.
Amy raised a brow as she left her room, heading downstairs to the living room. "What the fuck are you talking about? I was stuck in Arkham City for what felt like forever and now I'm home. What the hell happened!"
"Stuck in Arkham City? Were you getting high while playing on your xbox?" he asked in a joking manner.
"Nick I'm being serious! I even told you earlier I was stuck there! Why don't you remember!" she shouted, pacing back and forth in the living room.
"You never said that! You must've fallen asleep or something." he replied.
Amy stayed silent, thinking over what he said and was about to agree until she managed to catch a glimpse of her left arm. It still had the cut and was still bruised, but she didn't feel any pain when she moved it. She hung up on Nick and pocketed her phone, heading for the front door. When she opened the front door she stared into an empty black space that went on forever. Just to be sure Amy stretched her arm out into the empty blackness, feeling nothing.
She shut the door and headed back upstairs to her room, not even taking notice that as she headed to her room everything behind her began to fade away into nothing. Upon reaching her room Amy was met with an eerie green glow that seemed to be emitted from nowhere. The darkness behind her quickly engulfed the rest of the stairs and hallway, leaving Amy trapped in her room with nowhere to go.
Amy could hear a faint voice speaking, coming from all around her but couldn't make out what it was saying. "I can't hear you. Speak up louder!" she said, the voice slowly growing louder and sounding very irritated.
"I said, time to wake up you stupid brat!" the voice shouted loudly.
Loud enough to wake Amy from her dream.
Her eyes were wide open and the pain from being hit on the back of the head was very unwelcoming. She couldn't make out where she was but she could see a green glow from lights that were placed around the room, some pointing on her while others had their light pointed below her.
Another thing Amy noticed was that she was hanging upside down.
In her current position, Amy's arms were tied behind her and her legs were tied together by her ankles. The rope that was tied around her ankles was at a considerably good length and seemed to be tied at the end from what she guessed was a rafter or steel support beam of whatever building she was in.
"I hope you're comfortable up there." Edward commented as he watched her from below, swinging his stupid cane as he circled a large metal cylinder filled with what looked like water.
"Unfortunately I have to stare at your stupid ass from up here." she replied, watching as he disappeared into the darkness.
Suddenly the green lights were shut off only to be replaced by the main lights of the building. Unfortunately the lights revealed a large question mark pendulum that sat vertical and was only a few feet from where Amy was strung up. She could clearly see that the question mark was a very sharp blade. /Is he planning on slicing me open with that thing?!/ But there was something off in this picture. /Wait a minute. If he is using that to kill me then what's he using the water tank for?/
"Do you like it? My own idea I came up with. It turned out better than I thought." he said, marveling at his work and genius.
"I'm sorry but is this supposed to scare me?" she asked. "It looks boring and lacks creativity from my point of view." she said, letting out a giggle. /The blood rush is already getting to me./
Riddler gave Amy a cold glare and walked over to the wall of what looked to be the front door of the building. The building itself wasn't that big and did not have much inside it. The lights were bright, although some were broken or burnt out. A few were hanging by just from wires that were still connected in the ceiling. There were some large boxes and crates lying around near the corners, some of the floor tiles were cracked or had some weird stains splattered in several spots. Amy could only guess what those stains used to be.
Suddenly a loud whirring sound shook Amy from her thoughts and her attention was now back on the pendulum. It slowly began to move side to side as the whole contraption itself started to move towards Amy. She felt like a victim of Jigsaw, vaguely remembering a trap almost like this in one of the movies. Mainly the pendulum part of the trap. /Maybe all I have to do is answer one of his stupid riddles and he'll let me go./ It was a long shot but it was worth a try to save herself.
"If I can answer one of your riddles can you let me live? I'm sorry for mouthing off earlier at you!" she said, hoping he would give her a chance.
Riddler was truly confused by this girl. First she mouthed off at him in the church. Then she insulted his genius. Now she was begging him to let her live along with apologizing? How stupid did she think he was? But then again he wanted to see just how smart Amy really was and what better way to find out than now. He highly doubted she would even be smart enough to answer any of his riddles, but even if she could somehow get the correct answer he still wouldn't let her go.
"Alright then. If you can answer this riddle, I will let you go." he spoke, sounding very confident that she would fail. "But if you answer wrong, you will be left here to die." his voice suddenly had a dark tone to it. "And if the Dark Knight tries to save you, I have a little surprise in store for him."
"Okay. Cool. Whatever. Just tell me the goddamn riddle!" she said, obviously very impatient due to the pendulum of doom sitting in front of her.
"Does the word patience mean anything to you?" he asked in an irritated tone.
"Nope." she replied with her creepy smile. "Not at all."
"Fine then. What eats crow, yells uncle and tosses sponges?" he asked, walking back over to the steel tank, waiting for Amy to answer.
Unfortunately Amy was confuzzled. She had no clue what the answer was, although she had an answer but highly doubted that it was the right answer. "Uh...can I get a hint? Or maybe phone a friend?" she asked.
"No hints." he replied quickly, giving her a glare. "Did you even try to think of the answer?" he asked.
"Sort of?" she said. "Unlike some people I don't spend the rest of my life obsessing over pointless riddles to prove how smart I am." she muttered the last part and continued to try and think since time was not on her side. "Okay..I might have an answer."
Edward crossed his arms and stared at Amy expectantly, a little amazed that she had an answer instead of giving up straight away. "What is your answer?"
Amy prepared herself and did her best to stay confident with her answer. "The answer is...Ray Narvaez Jr. from Achievement Hunters!" she said proudly.
Riddler could only stare at Amy with a clear look of disappointment on his face. "No...you are incorrect."
"What!" she said with an upset look. "But that has to be the answer! You said sponges goddamnit!"
At this point Riddler wished he had a gun so he could put an end to this stupid girl. "Well you are wrong." he spoke with a hint of anger and malice. "The correct answer is a loser. You lose."
Amy blinked as she stared down at Edward, staying quiet for a few seconds. "Did you just call me a loser?" she asked.
"Yes! And because you foolishly answered incorrectly, you are going to die!" he shouted, his patience having worn out in dealing with this idiotic girl. Walking back over to the wall, he pressed a switch that was near the door next to another switch.
As soon as he pressed it the pendulum blade began to move faster as well as swing faster. Seeing that pushed Amy to the verge of panicking. The moment she tried to struggle a large amount of pain hit her, almost shaking her to the core. Her injured arm, being in the current position it was only made the pain worse if she moved it. And the blood rushing to her head grew worse, causing her head to pulse and intensify the pain she felt.
At this point Amy could care less if she was killed; she just wanted the pain to end. The blade steadily approached closer and closer, the sharpness of the blade reflecting off from the lights as it neared her. But it was then that Amy took notice of how the blade was not even close to harming her. It wasn't even set low enough to cut her in half, but it was high enough to cut the rope that was tied to the steel beam above her...
/Wait a minute. If that wasn't meant to kill me then what was-/ Her eyes drifted from the pendulum to the metal tank below her. Amy could only frown. "Oh shit."
She could clearly see a warning label on the side but that didn't tell her what the liquid was inside the tank. How she missed that earlier was thanks to her short attention span. A million thoughts ran through her head on one single question. /What the fuck is in that tank!/ Was it some kind of dangerous chemical? Acid? Water? She didn't know, and she didn't want to find out any time soon.
"Uh...what the hell is in that tank?" she asked, her voice surprisingly calm and collected.
Riddler barely gave her a glance as he fiddled around with his cane. "I'll leave that up to your imagination." he replied.
"My imagination is only making it worse!" she shouted, trying her chance at some kind of an escape plan; although that chance has long flown out the window.
Suddenly the power immediately shut off, engulfing everything in darkness. The pendulum, only inches away from cutting the rope holding Amy had stopped, letting her give a sigh of relief. Everything was quiet for a moment, however that was only short lived when the static sound of a radio frequency broke the silence. The sound of the static radio frequency was coming from the right side where the crates and boxes sat at. Amy looked to the right but couldn't see anything but darkness.
"It seems the Dark Knight has finally arrived to save you. And yet he cheats by cutting the power to save you and make a fool of me." Riddler spoke, seeming to be able to find his way around in the darkness.
"I don't think that's Batman..." Amy muttered, listening to the earsplitting noise as it seemed to move around. "Hurry up and turn the fucking power back on!"
"Are you that anxious to die instead of being saved by Batman?" he asked, a bit confused on why Amy was rushing him in turning the power back on.
Instead of finding a way to turn the power back on, Riddler carefully moved around as he quietly listened, ready to attack anything that made a noise. Movement could be heard around the crates and boxes but it wasn't the sound of footsteps or anything close related to it. But then the sound of the movement ceased and all was silent. He relaxed slightly, thinking it must be a rat or some small animal that happened to find a way inside as he went over to the wall were several monitors sat, some mounted above one another that all sat on a large metal console with a ton of buttons and switches on it. How and why Amy failed to notice this large piece of equipment was a mystery to Edward.
With just a few clicks and another moment of silence in the darkness the power returned, the lights coming back on to brighten the building once more. Amy winced when she was nearly blinded by the lights suddenly turning on, blinking until her eyes were adjusted to the brightness. She happened to notice that the pendulum did not move when the lights came on or she would've fell to the tank below. Amy also noticed a strange object hovering in front of her when the lights turned on but couldn't make out what it was after she closed her eyes so quickly.
Once her eyes were fully open and adjusted, Amy found herself staring at the face of a hellish nightmare.
Hanging in front of Amy with its disfigured skeletal body, sharp teeth, one eye and two heads was Mangle. The radio static coming from Mangle was now increased in volume while being so close to Amy; the noise itself nearly made her ears bleed. Amy said nothing and stayed silent while staring at the monstrosity before her, its maw agape to show off those sharp metal teeth that were capable of taking a nice bite from her. Amy wanted to scream and panic at this point but kept completely still thinking maybe if she didn't move and stayed quiet that it would go away.
Unfortunately the plan was an epic fail thanks to Riddler. "There. Everything is working once again-" he paused at the sight of Mangle when taking a glance at Amy.
Hearing his voice Mangle turned her head around with ease, staring at him with her one eye. Mangle's body itself was currently wrapped around the end of the pendulum, hanging from the middle, but suddenly unwrapped herself from the pendulum and began moving along the contraption. She was moving away from Amy and heading for Riddler instead. The wires at the end of the pendulum had been pulled or torn thanks to Mangle's skeletal parts, some of the wires seen tangled on parts of her twisted and deformed body.
Edward however was completely clueless to what Mangle was, where it came from, why it was here and what it wanted. He gave Amy a sharp glare. "Did you create this to help you escape?" he asked with a angered tone, obviously not happy. "Or did Batman send this failed piece of metal to rescue you?"
"Oh yeah. We both made it when he was off doing whatever the hell he does while I was wandering around aimlessly for hours!" she yelled, immediately regretting it as Mangle's attention was now drawn back to Amy, causing the animatronic to turn around and move towards her. "Get me the fuck down! It's not here to help me it's going to kill me!"
Hearing that made Riddler smile. "Well then if that's the case this will be interesting to watch." he replied.
"Edward you fucking douche!" Amy shouted, not even realizing that she called Riddler by his real name. It surprised him since he was rarely called him by his first name by anyone.
Suddenly Mangle moved faster than she had been previously and made her famous kill scene attack. Amy had closed her eyes and waited to feel the pain, smell her own blood gushing out from her body as well as her face after Mangle was through attacking her. /This is it...again. I'm going to die in a gruesome horrifying way by a disfigured animatronic fox with two heads!/
But the attack never happened.
At this moment several things happened.
As soon as Mangle attacked Amy the inside of the building was suddenly engulfed in a thick cloud of smoke, making it difficult to see anything. Mangle had managed to take a bite at Amy but only succeeded in biting at the rope that kept her arms bound, allowing Amy to grab her knife which was miraculously still in her sheathe.
Riddler was taken by surprise when the building was engulfed with smoke, checking the monitors to see who the intruder was but already had a guess. "So the Dark Knight has finally decided to join the party? I hope he likes the surprises I have waiting for him." Unfortunately he couldn't see anything on the monitors but quickly made his leave out the door. The door automatically locked after he left thanks to spending an hour rigging it to lock once he was finished.
Sadly Amy was still hanging in her position, swinging her knife at Mangle and managing to get in a few good hits but missed most of the time thanks to the smoke. Mangle would let out a loud static cry when being struck by the blade of the knife, also trying to bite at Amy. So far the animatronic missed, snapping her metal jaws only to bite air instead of Amy.
Until Amy failed to dodge Mangle in time.
An intense pain erupted from Amy's right shoulder, making her scream out as loud as she could. "OW! OW! OW! OW! LET GO! LET GO! LET GO!" she yelled, thinking if she said it enough that Mangle would let go.
Unfortunately the fox only bit down harder, refusing to let go of her. Amy began stabbing wildly at the animatronic, stabbing it anywhere she could to make it let go. But she failed to notice that all of the movement and struggle they were both causing made her swing back and forth, allowing the rope that kept her from falling to be cut inch by inch from the pendulum blade because it was close enough to touch. It wasn't until she felt a jerky movement that Amy managed to look up in time to see the rope break thanks to the added weight of Mangle.
They both fell into the acid filled tank below.
The static cry of Mangle could be heard until it was cut off by the acid.
Amy was now being held a couple feet above the tank, blood pouring from her newly received wound into the acid below. She gave a glance above her to see a man? No, a teenager maybe? He looked 17...maybe 18 or 19. He was well muscled and had his arm wrapped around her waist.
Suddenly the sound of explosions were heard as the boxes and crates exploded from the bombs that had been hidden inside of them. The rush of air and the heat of the explosions hit Amy with such force that she almost slipped from Robin's grasp. Luckily he made sure to hold onto her tightly as he carried her out through a broken window that Robin had used to get inside. As he ran across a couple rooftops while holding Amy the building he rescued her from exploded and crumbled to the ground, sending large amounts of debris in every direction. Fire lit up the night that was quickly covered by a large cloud of black smoke rising from the flames.
Blood loss began to kick in and Amy let herself blackout.
Batman was surprised to see a fresh wound on Amy's shoulder, the blood making the hoodie she wore wet and sticky. "What happened to her?"
"I followed her phone signal to an empty building where Riddler was keeping her. He got away but I managed to save her." Robin answered. "Something attacked her. Some weird robot animatronic with a tangled body. I don't know what to call it."
"I have an idea of what it is. But I won't be sure until she recovers." Batman said, taking Amy from Robin, carefully holding her. "She knows what these things are. Maybe she knows how to stop them."
Robin gave a small grin. "Well the one that attacked her was taken care of by a tank of acid. So it shouldn't be hard to take care of however many are left."
"If you see any more of them do not attack them until we know more about them." Batman said in a stern voice, watching as Robin left with a look of frustration.
Bruce looked down at Amy and stared at her wound. He couldn't tell if it was life threatening since the hoodie was covering it and there were no lights bright enough to see. So without a word he hurriedly made his way straight to Freezes' hideout, hoping he would make in time for Freeze to save this girl. Her life was in his hands and hanging in the balance by a thread. If Bruce failed to make it in time he would never forgive himself for Amy's death.
From the darkness a pair of large blue eyes watched the Dark Knight in silence.
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