The Oceana entrance was a large boat with what appeared to be a dive bell attached to a thick wire, from above, two figures took in the view as the snow began to fall from the sky.

"So, what's the plan? We go in and commit full attack?" Lady Arrow whispered

Batman lowered his binoculars from his eyes "Seems like a suicide mission, there's no way we're both going in there."

"What?" She almost screamed "You want to go in there yourself?"

"If I fall, then you can come in and do the finishing blow." Batman growled "I need you to coordinate with Oracle to find Nora Fries, if we plan on calming down the walking snowman, we'll need her."

"Damian…"

"Tori, I'm not going to debate on this. I need you to find Nora." Batman stood

Lady Arrow stood up and looked up at him, a look of concern in her eyes, Batman could only smile and stroke her cheek.

"I'll be fine, this suit can get one more battle out of it, besides, and I got a bit more of a plan this time."

"And how do you intend to survive?"

"Simple." Batman stood "Endure…listen Tori, incase this doesn't…"

"Don't say that." She stood and cupped his covered cheeks in her hands

"Please, just make sure my mom is okay."

Lady Arrow nodded quietly as she walked off, leaving Batman alone.

Getting into Oceana was easy; no security on the outside, but everything was covered in a thick sheet of ice, from the windows giving off the view of the ocean, to the floors and the dome like roof, if Freeze had created a fortress, this would definitely be the place to make one.

He calmly walked down a small step platform into what he believed was the central chamber of the amusement park, a series of buildings were on the outside, almost they were nothing more but illusions, in the center stood a metal disk with a large TV in the background.

Batman silently stepped closer to the disk and tapped his ear "Oracle, I need the details on this…"

The screen lit with life and Freeze's face appeared with a bright light "Hello Batman."

"I'll call you back." He removed his fingers "Freeze, where are you? We need to talk."

"I know we do Batman, step on the platform and I'll meet you there."

Batman looked down at the disk and raised his left foot, the disk felt cold against his boots, he decided to take the plunge and stepped on, his cape draping over his shoulders, with a large hiss the disk began to descend down the narrow tube it was built on.

Lady Arrow drove on the Batpod, she was grateful Damian let her use it while he used the RAPTOR, still, trying to find Nora Fries in such a big city like Gotham was going to be more difficult than she thought.

"Barbara, any thoughts?"

"Hang on; I got the serial number on Fries' cryotube, tracking its location now."

Tori nodded and pressed on the break; the Batpod slid up a building, hung in midair for a split second and rotated, placing its front in the way Lady Arrow just arrived from.

"Got it, the tracking number was traced to the Falcone shipping yards."

"I'm on it." Victoria smiled as she started up the engine of the motorcycle

Her target was well guarded, Nora Fries' body was still in the cryotube, but it was guarded by many of Black Mask's thugs, they carried M4 rifles and their masks were worn on their faces, Tori sneered and drew her bow.

She primed an arrow and fired, landing on the ground between the men, they looked up and she leapt into the fray and went on the offensive, using her bow as a club and slammed it into their bodies and ducked as bullets began to fly, she primed an arrow with lighting fast speed and fired, slamming it into the shoulder of one of the mercenaries, then using her father's reflexes she kept striking, knocking each one down one at a time.

There was one left, he primed his gun but she went on the offensive, she performed a roundabout kick and sent the rifle flying into the air and landed on the ground a few feet away, he began to back away slowly and she crept up closer and closer until she was able to grab him by the throat.

"Who sent you? Why are you watching her?"

The thug grunted as Tori continued to squeeze harder "I…I don't know! All I was told was to get the frosty bitch away from the snow man!"

"Who?"

"Bla…Black Mask!"

Tori's eyes went wide as she released his throat and slammed a foot into his face, knocking him out. She walked over to Nora and began to check the small screen.

"Hey Barb, any chance you could hack into this thing? I can't make heads or tails of it."

"Sure, just give me a minute."

"By the way, you promised Damian and me donuts while we were on stakeout."

"Really Tori? You're thinking of donuts right now?"

"What do you want from me? I'm starving."

"We'll handle it when you get back. I got the computer on my screen, looks like Nora's alive."

"Great! I'll tell Damian." Tori smiled then her mind reflected back to what the thug told her

Black Mask couldn't be alive…it was impossible.

Four hours earlier

An explosion rocked Arkham Island, the entire place was up in flames, prisoners were being evacuated by almost the entire police SWAT force, someone had caused it, but no one could find who.

"Do we have everyone rounded up?" Gordon asked

"Almost all of them." Bullock responded "We're missing Crane, Zasz, Tetch, and Croc."

"What of Black Mask?"

"Sionis' body was found by suicide, he hung himself right before the explosions, but here's the funny thing Jimmy." Bullock looked at his partner "His mask was gone, and a large number of his men were pulled out on parole."

Gordon sighed as he glanced to his side; his eyes went wide when he saw what appeared to be Batman standing off to the side.

"I'll be right back Harvey, do a body count again." Gordon walked off

As he dipped into the side, Batman immediately stood his ground "Seems like you always know where to find us."

"Nothing more than following the flashing lights."

Gordon smirked "Well, I'm glad you're here, we can't make heads or tails of this. We don't know if they got lost in the fire and died or they escaped and now we can't find any traces of them."

"I'll look into it." Batman looked at the Asylum "What will become of Arkham Island?"

"We're going to rebuild, we can't keep them in the old building but we can find a means to hold them in Blackgate and what remains of the Asylum."

"You sound concerned."

"You know Commissioner Akins has a new task force set up to bring you down." Gordon sighed

Batman nodded and didn't a word as Lady Arrow watched from the caped crusader. They had gotten the call in the middle of the night and she was still exhausted.

"Well I'll try my best to throw them off, but if they get word…"

"I'll make sure nothing happens."

Victoria sighed as she clicked on the monitor "Alright Oracle, Nora is secured."

"Good job Tori…"

The signal went dead; Lady Arrow tapped her earpiece "Oracle? Oracle?"

The sound of a safety being removed came from behind her "Get your filthy hands off of that." A raspy, yet familiar voice spoke

Batman dropped down onto the bottom floor, around him, the ground began to shake, from what he could tell, they were rising upwards, from below, he saw him, Victor Freeze was typing away on a computer, a large cannon was mounted in the corner with his men surrounding it.

"Hello Batman." Freeze spoke gently

"Victor." Batman walked down the stairs "You don't have to do this."

"They took my wife away Batman, Gotham City took everything away from me, the life I once had…"

"Based on nothing but obsession." Batman growled "Your McGregor Syndrome cure, give it to me."

Freeze turned to face him "What makes you think I have it?"

"I know you do, this is not a time for negotiations."

"Oh I think it is, if you want the cure," Freeze clicked a button on his suit

Beside him, a small, rounded cylinder rose, showing three vials of a navy blue liquid in them, Freeze held one in his hand.

"You will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. You have given me your last order." Freeze slammed his hand into a fist

The vial burst in a million pieces of glass, the blue liquid fell onto the floor. Batman growled and prepared to charge. Freeze primed his gun and aimed it at Batman, he fired and the dark knight flipped back into the stairwell he came from.

"Oracle, Freeze is attacking me. Get me the schematics from Wayne Corp now!" Batman ordered

Sorry for the lack of updating people, work has been kicking my butt lately, but on a good note, this story is almost done! We're looking at about another four chapters until the ending. Plus I have a big announcement. For all of you DC comic fans who read my work, your in luck, I am planning a Justice League series of books based on the children of the famous members of the League, I'm not telling you whose next yet, but I promise it'll be good!

Anyway, stay tuned for future announcements of my series and my sequel to the Coldest Knight which is still being planned.