Circus of Strange
Summary: Going by the alias 'Riddler's Daughter' the Girl holds Red Arrow hostage for the Team to rescue him. But Why?
Gotham City
October 4, 20:16 EDT
Roy Harper rose from unconsciousness and finds himself in a dimly lit room. He is tied up with each of his arms tied to poles, his legs tied to each other and he had a tape gag on his mouth, preventing him from speaking. Most of his clothes are taken away except for his underpants and his mask.
His quiver and bows are no where to be seen. He looks around and see's a door and a control panel and a window that is barely open.
The door opens and the Girl enters the room. She was still wearing her purple clown suit and was carrying a suitcase.
"Well helloo salty goodness." she said flirtaciously, "Took away your clothes just incase there were ways for you to get yourself out of your 'tied up' situation. Well and there was also a tiny bit of wanting to see beneath those clothes."
Roy just glared at her.
"Oh don't be so upset honey," she comes closer to him and bends over to meet his eyes "I was planning on kidnapping Aqualad at first, but you were just so damn handsome that I decided you would look good in ropes instead of him."
"Mmmpphh…" Roy muttered.
"Shh, shh, quiet now. Time for you to sleep. I'll send you to your room now." She kisses him in the neck and injects something in his wrist.
Roy realizes he is being drugged and he falls unconscious.
80 minutes later…..
Roy wakes up again. He feels his weight pulling him down. He is tied to the support beams of a roller coaster, still half naked and gagged.
He looks up and sees the Girl's figure in the control room apparently dressed up like the Riddler.
He hears the soud of an engine and looks at the toher way to see Miss Martian's Bioship approaching.
"Alright Team, let's move!" said Aqualad as they landed down on the Circus.
Aqualad , Robin , Artemis, Miss Martian and Superboy came out of the Bioship, prepared to battle the mysterious Girl who attacked them individually.
As they walk around the Circus, they see a banner that reads:
"It's good you arrived Sidekicks, and I expect the Justice League aren't around and it's just you kids. I have your friends on for a roller coaster ride. With a few surprise twists of course.
Welcome to the Circus of Strange"
The Team spots Roy on the roller coaster and a few explosives strapped to the support beams.
The Team rushed towards the roller coaster which were approximately 50 steps away. As the approach closer a wall of fire blocked their way.
Miss Martian suddenly backed away in fright due to her weakness to flames.
Aqualad uses his power to put out a quarter of the fire wall for the Team to get through, Miss Martian however refused to walk through.
"I can't, I just can't…" said Miss Martian. She puts her hands on her head and slowly kneels to the floor. She was still traumatized by the recent nightmares she had involving a flaming scarecrow.
"M'gann take my hand!" said Superboy, he reaches out his right hand to her and she takes it and together they got through the fire wall.
As they approach the roller coaster, a cart came from the direction they are heading. Superboy quickly realizes that there were explosives on it.
"Everybody down now!" yelled Aqualad.
As everyone crouched down, Miss Martian used her telekinesis to create a forcefield to shield her teammates from the explosion.
Miss Martian and Superboy were able to get to Red Arrow quick but as they got closer to him, an explosive on the rails of the roller coaster was set off and it exploded.
The explosion blew Miss Martian and Superboy away and they fell, Superboy was particularly unfortunate as he fell on the rails again and set off another explosive.
"We've got to be careful, some of us don't survive explosions." remarked Robin. He used his scanner to detect the hidden locations of the bombs.
As the Team are inside the roller coaster area, the roller coaster seats started moving. Now the chances of the explosives detonating are high and Red Arrow's life is in more peril.
"We have to hurry, point out the explosives' location Robin." said Aqualad.
"I've located a few, they are attached to the support beams of this roller coaster, some of the explosives are attached to the seats as well!" replied Robin.
M'gann got over her fear of fire and began ripping the bombs and the seats of the Roller Coaster along with Superboy. While Artemis used an EMP arrow which rendered explosives in its range deactivated.
Aqualad runs towards the power generator of the Roller Coasters and uses his electrocuting abilities to shut down the Roller Coaster, the remaining seats suddenly stopped at its tracks.
Superboy got to Roy first and pulled him out of his bonds. Roy was still weak from the poundings he got from the Girl.
Artemis rushes to the control room, kicks the door and immediately fires an electroshock arrow at the figure of the Girl she sees. The figure suddenly explodes.
As the flames and the force rush towards her to grievously injure her, Artemis could sense a force-field enveloping her to protect her. She sees M'gann who already knew that the Girl was actually replaced by a dummy strapped with bombs.
After the Team regrouped, they noticed….that Robin is missing.
"He must have been captured or something!" said Artemis.
"We must find him!" said Kaldur.
Gotham City
October 4, 20:58 EDT
Robin rushes to the meeting place that was sent to his hologram computer. Back at the Circus, he received a message which was obviously from the Girl to meet him in the Alley where a Zeta Beam to the Cave is located. The message says:
Bird Boy, get to the phone booth where a Zeta Beam to the Cave is located, don't take your friends with you, don't even think of leaving a trail for them to follow or else, I'll detonate the whole Circus and kill your friends! And don't take your chances on whether I'm bluffing.
As he reaches to the location, he sees the Girl, dressed in yet another outfit, a suit actually, a black suit with long two drapes stick at the end. She also carries an umbrella which had a sharp pointy end, good for stabbing people to death.
"Catch the Penguin's Daughter if you can, Bird Boy!", she runs into the Zeta Beam inside the phone booth, transporting herself to the Cave.
"No!" yelled Robin, as he follows her into the Cave.
As he is transported to the Cave he sees the Girl holding Zatanna hostage. "Come near me and she dies!" says the Girl threateningly.
"No, Zatanna! "
"It's alright Robin!" said Zatanna reassuringly.
Where's Kid Flash?" asked Robin.
"He's in the Infirmary asleep." Replied Zatanna.
"How can you two talk so calmly?" asked the puzzled Girl.
Zatanna then makes her move. "Teg siht Lrig ffo morf em!"
The Girl was pushed back and shot a puzzled look.
"Teg taht allerbmu ffo reh dnah!"
The umbrella flies off the Girl's hand depriving her of a weapon.
Annoyed the Girl kicks directly at Zatanna gut and knocks her down almost fast. Robin throws wingdings at the Girl who skillfully dodges it.
She pulls a piece of cloth from her suit and grabs Robin as he was close to her and puts it into his mouth.
"Mmph-.." Robin begins to feel drowsy and realizes he was chloroformed. His vision grows weaker, and his surroundings fades to black.
To Be Continued.
I'm terribly sorry for taking ages just to update this story. Was a bit busy and was a bit lazy. Well mostly lazy. Hope I write this final chapter well...
Please gimme reviews! :D
Note: working on a fic which is basically a, Young Justice meets Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.