AN: Here is Chapter One, Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: Yep, still don't own it.
12 Years Ago:
"Mummy, can I pretty please go on the roller coaster?" Parker looked up at her mother with large hazel eyes, crocodile tears threatening to spill if that was what it took for her to get her way. Her mother sighed.
"Mummy," she tried again, "This is the first time we have been here and you said we don't have enough money to come again, so PLEASE?" Her mother's response was another sigh.
"Fine, but you have to go alone; I'm not coming wit you." Parker nodded, excited that she was finally going on a big kids ride.
After the ride was finished, Parker could remember nothing of the ride, except for the pounding of her heart, beating fast and hard. Her whole body felt alive and completely happy for the first time in her life. A huge smile was on her face and she immediately went to the next one, going from one to another, each one more terrifying than the last. Parker's laughter would echo loudly.
That night, when she was sure that her mother was asleep, she snuck out of the house and easily slipped through the gates to the amusement park, and joined all the older kids as they went from ride to ride.
"Quite an adrenaline junkie aren't you?" The oldest boy asked Parker.
"I like scary rides!" She replied, still feeling the pounding of her heart.
"Do you want a real thrill?" The boy asked leaning down to her level. Parker nodded vigorously.
"Meet us at the alleyway next to the jewellery store just up the road at 10pm tomorrow night, kay?" as Parker nodded to confirm that she would be there, the boy stood and turned to leave. "Oh, and one more thing, you can't tell anybody where you're going."
"I wont," Parker said as she pretended to zip her lips shut. The boy patted her head, before motioning to her that she should go. The group of teens watched as she nimbly and quietly scaled the fire escape to her room and climbed in her window.
"She could be great if we train her right." one of the boys remarked.
"Yes, the problem is it seems like she is too sweet to do anything bad." Another contributed.
"We'll see, tomorrow night's heist might go well and she may be ready. If not, we just might have to make her snap." The oldest boy said. With that, he turned on his heel and walked away.
Present Day:
"So, did ya do it?" Joker's grin was like a little boy's, all excited for the details. Mayhem nodded and rolled her eyes.
"How dare you insinuate that I can't do everything you ask?" Mayhem crossed her arms and leaned back in her seat in the helicopter. Joker's response was a chuckle.
"I have you know, that I never doubted you, I'm just excited to hear how you did it." was Joker's reply. He lent forward, his eccentric green eyes meeting Mayhem's hazel ones. Mayhem leaned forward too, her elbows resting on her knees, an evil grin on her face.
"I simply snuck through all the highly trained, heavily armed guards. I avoided all the alarms and lasers, placed two drops of our special concoction in the President's mouth and waltzed out of that maze." Mayhem kept it simple, not wanting to let the Joker know all her tricks.
"Two drops?" Joker asked. Mayhem nodded in return.
"Two drops." She confirmed.
"No more?" He asked.
"No less." Was her answer. Joker chuckled lightly. Just then the helicopter began to shake. Mayhem turned to look out the window.
"Well, Mister J, it looks like we have a certain bat following us." As Mayhem half stood out the open door, she could see a jet that could only belong to the Batman himself. In the clouds behind the jet, she could see the infamous Bat-Symbol light the sky. Mayhem quickly ducked back in and strapped herself into a chair. The pilot began to manoeuvre around the buildings, getting dangerously close to every one, and yet, the Bat was still on their tail.
Mayhem began to bubble with laughter as she felt the adrenaline pump through her veins. Joker leaned over to Mayhem and asked her a question that made her already pounding heart beat faster.
"Want to jump?" He asked with a sparkle in his eye. Mayhem nodded and grinned back.
She unbuckled herself and took a running leap out of the helicopter and began her free fall into the streets below. Extending her arm, she aimed her grapple gun at a building and felt her arm jerk as her body changed direction suddenly. Her feet touched the ground and Joker landed beside her, unhooking his parachute at the same time.
"Hi all," Joker addressed the stunned crowd, "Just your friendly neighbourhood Clown Prince of Crime here, and his darling little Clown Princess of Mayhem." Mayhem gave a little curtsy to the crowd.
As she did so, she threw a smoke bomb to the ground and they both disappeared into a side alleyway. Mayhem and Joker watched as Batman and Nightwing appeared in the crowd, looking around for them. As the Joker leaned into to talk to Mayhem, his lips touched her ear. Mayhem was barley able to supress a shiver of disgust.
"I got the Knight," he whispered.
"Good, Mini Bats is mine" She whispered back as she took a step away from him. Pulling a tiny dart gun from her utility belt, she blew a dart, aiming for Nightwing's face. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you looked at it, he turned before the dart reached him. Mayhem waltzed out of the alleyway with a knife in both of her hands. Nightwing spotted her coming and pulled out his eskrima sticks from the holster on his right leg.
As Mayhem approached him, she began to make fun of his, hoping to anger him and throw him off balance.
"Sorry, did we interrupt Daddy Bats and Mini Bats bonding time?" She said, pouting slightly.
"You know, I don't think we have officially met," he said, completely ignoring her last statement. Mayhem tipped her head on the side, and lightly scratched her temple with the knife as she pretended to think.
"No it seems we haven't," She said. Previous times they had come into contact with each other, she simply fought him quickly before disappearing, just to distract him. Holding both knives in her left hand, Mayhem stuck out her right hand to shake Nightwing's.
"I am Mayhem, the Clown Princess, Joker's protégé." She introduced myself, and curtsied towards him. He raised an eyebrow at her, but didn't shake her still outstretched hand. "And you're Mini Bats, sidekick to Daddy Bats," Mayhem finished.
"It's Nightwing, and I'm not Batman's sidekick." He countered. Mayhem raised an eyebrow and smirked.
"Touchy subject, huh?" Nightwing just stared at Mayhem, not giving anything away. Mayhem shrugged. "OK, Mini Bats, sorry, I mean Nightwing," she drawled out his name, "Let me tell you how this is going to go. I'm gonna kick your butt, you're then gonna bow in front of me and kiss my feet and ask for forgiveness from the Clown Princess. Sound good?" Mayhem's grin was cheeky, tempting him to lash out at her.
"Yeah, that doesn't work for me." He said, shrugging lightly.
"Oh well, more fun for me." Mayhem's cheeky grin turned into a not-so-friendly one before she launched herself at Nightwing.
Mayhem aimed a high kick at Nightwing's head; he in turn grabbed her leg and pulled her off balance and towards him. Using that momentum, she swung her other leg up tonto his shoulders and around his neck. Letting go of her leg he instead grabbed the one that was around her neck. Mayhem wrapped her now free leg around his arms and held one of her knives to his throat, her cheek pressed against his ear, a few inches above her knee.
Nightwing jerked his shoulder, banging her own knee against her chin. Mayhem's vison went blurry and she thought she saw stars, unconsciously loosening her grip slightly. This was all the opportunity that Nightwing needed. He flipped Mayhem forward, forcing her to land in a crouch with her back to him. She had barely landed when she was turning on one foot, the other stretched out to kick Nightwing's feet out from under him.
Nighwing saw it coming and jumped up to avoid her foot. But at the same time, Mayhem stood up and punched him in the jaw as he came down, the force of her punch and gravity pulling him down almost knocked him out.
Mayhem raised an arm to throw a knife at him when a birdarang flew out of nowhere and knocked it out of her hand. She turned to the direction it came from and dropped into a fighting stance.
In front of her stood a young teen, probably no more than 16 if she had to guess, in a red suit with a familiar "R" symbol on his chest. He was also holding a large fighting staff. Mayhem grinned at the teen.
"Please tell me that your staff is electrically charged, it will make this much more fun." Mayhem said to him, a hand on her hip. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see Nightwing slowly pulling himself off the ground and into a crouch.
"Why don't you come here are find out?" He said, attempting to distract her. Mayhem felt more than heard the presence of a third person behind her. She could still hear Batman fighting Joker in the distance so it could only be...
"Hello Batgirl! Long time no see!" Mayhem turned to address the new comer, smiling brightly.
"Mayhem, I would say what a pleaser, but it's not, so I won't say anything." She replied, her steely gaze meeting Mayhem's. Her response just made Mayhem smile wider.
"Batgirl, you know her?" Robin asked, sounding surprised. Mayhem looked over her shoulder at him and laughed.
"Oh we go way back," she said, "Good times," Mayhem's face showed she was pretending to think on all the fun they used to have. Still in the corner of her eye, she could see Nightwing raise his arm to throw something, obviously thinking that she was still distracted. Mayhem reached into her utility belt and threw a smoke bomb at her feet. As the smoke screen grew, she cackled and ran as fast as she could away from the three bats.
Unfortunately for her, they were used to that trick and were quickly on her tail. Mayhem ran into a side street, nimbly weaving her way around bins and passed out drunken people. Jumping up a fire escape, she looked back and saw that Robin was running behind her, Batgirl was on the roof on the other side of the alleyway, so Mayhem knew that Nightwing was most likely at the top of this fire escape. She shrugged and continued up. As she reached the top, she grabbed the edge of the roof and swung herself up into the air into a flip, landing her as far away from the edge as possible.
"That was a pretty good move," Nightwing said, turning to face her. Batgirl landed on the roof next to him, with Robin scrambling up behind them. Mayhem turned yet another grin on them.
"Well, I bet you are all wondering why I gathered you here today." Mayhem bagan, letting a mock serious expression appear on her face. They all just stared at her.
"Just 'cus I'm crazy, doesn't mean you can stare." She said, folding her arms defensively. Robin tilted his head sideways.
"You would familiar, do I know you?" He asked. Mayhems response was a giggle,
"I don't know. Tell me who you are, and I'll tell you if I know you. Deal?" Batgirl glared at her. Mayhem mock sighed.
"As I told your very cute big brother, I am Mayhem, the Clown Princess of Gotham, also known as the Joker's Protégé." She proclaimed loudly, bowing deeply but still holding his gaze.
"We know that your name is actually Parker."
AN: Sorry, but that's where I'm leaving it for today. Tune in next time to see what happens next.