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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Chapter 11
Illogical Ice
"This is Yin." Police Commissioner Ellen Yin spoke into her car's radio as she sped through the quiet Gotham streets. "Advancing on F Street and 7th, responding to possible supervillainaltercation. No visual as yet."
Dispatch acknowledged Yin's whereabouts. She was assured that backup including Bennett, Robin, Batgirl and even the Batman would soon be on scene to assist. The oriental beauty pursed her lips together. This was serious; serious enough to make the Batman crawl out of hiding after nursing several critical injuries. It was foolhardy that the Batman take up crime fighting again; any person without a medical background could tell you that. Yin only hoped that she got there in time to-
Then something flew out of the sky and fell to the road in front of her.
"Whoa!" Craning the steering wheel over, Yin narrowly missed a block of ice the size of a television as it landed in front of her car.
The car came to a screeching halt. Looking up, she found herself at the corner of F and 7th. The police commissioner grabbed the radio on her car's console.
"I'm at 7th and F. I have visual. Proceeding to confront." Yin hung up the receiver and jumped out of her car before dispatch or Bennett could object. The woman drew her police weapon and hugged the corner.
Yin's back was against the brick wall, her weapon hugged to her chest and adrenaline beginning to rush through her veins. The woman took a breath and glanced around the building; she caught sight of Penguin, Mr. Freeze and Joker. They were down the street and trading blows at a furious rate. Freeze and Penguin were advancing as Joker was defending himself. Her breath seemed to get caught in her throat as she saw the viciousness of the fight; the ice manipulator and master bird-based villain had no mercy for the Laughing Bat. Yin cocked back the hammer of her firearm and stepped toward the confrontation.
Mr. Freeze's hand was clamped firmly over Joker's windpipe. The clown had no smile as the ice manipulator held him by the throat. Though mangled and badly hurt, Joker was too crazy to surrender; something that would surly kill him. To the clown, madness was just that simple and just that hard. It was his style to bite off more than he could chew but laughing about it in the end. It was impossible to imagine Joker ever dying without a smile on his face. Right now was no different.
Though he had the harlequin in a stranglehold, Freeze couldn't block Joker from plunging a Bat-a-rang into the ice encasing his face and head. Freeze threw the clown, wrapping his free hand over the weapon embedded in the ice of his head.
"That's gonna blow your mind, frosty." Joker panted as Freeze jumped off of him. The Laughing Bat rolled to his feet and socked Penguin in the gut.
As Penguin was doubled over, Joker vaulted off of the villain's shoulders and landed behind him. With a kick to the back of Penguin's suit coat, the bird-based villain stumbled forward. He fell onto Freeze. Blinking the pain out of his stomach, Penguin realized that he was on top of Freeze with a ticking Bat-a-rang in his face.
"That thing's gonna explode!" Penguin squawked, scrambling to his feet and jumping away. "Get rid of it, snow cone!"
The ice manipulator tugged at the weapon as he jumped to his feet.
"I know, you little vulture!" Freeze shouted back. Then the weapon fluxed. "Oh-!"
KA-BOOM! The Bat-a-rang exploded; the blast shattering the ice case Freeze's head was surrounded by. In a second, the ice controller was taken to the ground, the explosion rattling his undead, frosty mind. Penguin was blasted off of his feet and to the asphalt.
The bird-based villain was getting thrown around like a ragdoll. Joker was putting up an annoyingly tough fight for a bad guy trying to be a good guy. It was sick, sick; Penguin's fears about the deranged harlequin were starting to be realized. Joker was no Batman, even despite the clown's best efforts. It was that difference from the Caped Crusader that threw everything off. Even with Fries on his team, Penguin was on his back, staring into the night sky. Unpredictable and inhumanly cruel, the Joker was well on his way to winning the battle.
"That's going to leave a mark." The bird-based villain remarked, sitting up. His eye black and swollen and blood slowly oozing from the corner of his mouth.
It was in this blind spot that he never saw the Laughing Bat approach him.
"And so will this, Pengy." The short red head never had any time close his mouth and hold his breath when he was blasted in the face by a cloud of Joker-gas.
Penguin lashed out with his umbrella and struck Joker in the side, knocking the masked harlequin to the asphalt.
Penguin stumbled to get to his feet, coughing. It was in that second that the incontrollable, gut-busting laughter came to him. Penguin chuckled, then giggled, then laughed and then guffawed. He laughed so hard he lost all strength to keep himself off of the ground. Suddenly the laughter evaporated as his mouth curved into a twisted, cripplingly painful smile. Penguin saw Joker get to his feet and stumble over to him. The bird-based criminal's last glimpse was of the harlequin standing above him before everything went dark.
Joker caught his breath as he watched the effects of his gas take hold onto Penguin. Neither bird-brain nor Freeze went down quietly. They nearly had him believing that he was in over his head! Imagine that! A situation that was nearly too hairy for the Clown Prince of Crime! Joker gave a wide smile.
"Silly me." The harlequin snickered to himself. Just then he caught movement ahead of him.
Looking up, he was the commissioner of police running toward him, her pathetic police weapon drawn.
"Joker!" Her big dark eyes were wide. The Laughing Bat quirked an eyebrow at her terrified look.
The oriental beauty rushed up to him and pressed her hand to his shoulder. There's the answer to that.
"You're bleeding." Yin rushed, her head craning around. Then she spotted the sidewalk; she had to keep him still. "Hold your hand here."
She took the clown's hand and pressed it to his left shoulder. There was a hole in Joker's shoulder that you could fit your fist into. If the man didn't get help soon, he'd perish right there.
"Cool!" The Laughing Bat felt his own vital juices seep through his costume, into his glove and down his arm. Then he gave her a dirty smirk "You can see right through me, commissioner."
Yin ignored his flirting and she blamed it on the loss of blood and the inevitable amount of shock his body was going through.
"Quick, over to the sidewalk. I'll radio hel-." They started to walk toward the sidewalk when a pillar of ice hit Joker. Yin's hand was instantly frozen while the clown was slammed to a building wall.
As Yin let out a surprised yelp, seeing her hand in a block of ice, she craned around. Freeze was getting back to his feet, the ice around his head growing back over him. His outstretched hand held a blast of ice that extended across the street and pinned the Laughing Bat to a building's wall. Joker's head and hand were still visible as he was suspended just above the ground by the frozen water.
"Nice try, Joker!" Freeze spat, obviously peeved to the extreme measure. "You've taken down Penguin. Congratulations; you're able to handle a mouthy, over-blown loser. But you are by no means enough to defeat me."
Joker smiled.
"Am I sensing some burning anger from the overgrown ice-maker?" The harlequin quipped, laughing a little at his own joke.
Freeze narrowed his eyes as he formed ice daggers on the tips of his fingers.
"You're about to experience how cold blooded I can be." Freeze hissed, approaching and slashing the air. The Laughing Bat's smile waned, suddenly realizing how vulnerable he was, frozen to the wall.
As the ice controller raised his hand to strike Joker, a bullet grazed his arm and another clipped a chunk of ice off of his head. Turning, he saw Commissioner Yin holding her smoking gun to him, her left hand frozen in a block of ice.
"On your knees!" The oriental woman commanded, pointing her weapon threateningly at him. "NOW!"
Freeze glared at the woman. He'd make sure she would be frozen solid for that! Thrusting his free arm upwards he shot a shaft of ice at her. Yin tumbled to the ground and narrowly avoided being flash frozen; her iced hand slowing her down.
The ice manipulator was through playing games. He wanted all headaches out of his life. He opened fire at the female officer, intent on icing her; permanently. As Freeze had his sights on Commissioner Yin, something hit him in the back and punctured his suit. As ice hissed out of his damaged containment suit, he realized a bullet had struck him. Spinning, he saw the chief of police, Ethan Bennett crouched on the ground with his firearm pointed at him.
"Surrender, Fries! You're surrounded!" The bald black man ordered. Victor Fries gritted his teeth.
"Not likely!" The icy supervillain shot back and froze the ground below their feet. Bennett and Yin dove for cover.
In his rage, Freeze ordered spikes of ice to shoot along the asphalt and up buildings. No one would walk away from this but him!
"This is a new era!" The ice controller roared into the air. "The Freeze era! I defeated the Batman! Gotham WILL bow at my feet!"
Just then three explosive spheres fell from the sky, exploding around the supercriminal. Freeze stumbled back, the flash from the blast sending spots through his eyes. He knew it could only be two of three people; the Batman's sidekicks had arrived.
"This is Gotham!" Robin's voice was heard through the street. "And we don't bow to psycho ice cubes!"
Freeze growled, getting very angry. Though still seeing spots, he lashed out, shooting ice to where he thought the teen hero was standing.
From the top of a building Dick Greyson watched Freeze's blind flail; shooting shafts of ice all around in a crazed fashion. He saw Yin and Bennett taking cover behind mail boxes, door fronts and wherever there was no ice. The teen also spotted Penguin on the ground. He could only assume that the bird-based villain got a dose of Joker Gas. Now only Freeze remained. But where was Joker?
Dick checked his belt. He had some of the superheated plasma that Bruce had given him. He had only three slugs of the high-heated material since the last time Bruce used the chemical, an art museum was turned into ash. Three plasma spheres and only three chances to hit the rampaging icicle.
"Make 'em count, Greyson." The boy muttered to himself. Bounding off of the building and dropping to the fire-escape, Dick planned to catch Freeze blindsided.
Victor Fries gritted his teeth as he blasted ice all around him, still blinded from the flash of Robin's weapon. The Batman had pulled this move off too many times for him to forget. What was he expecting from the ward of the crime fighter?
"Don't even think about it, you little boil!" Freeze roared into the air. "I'll freeze you before you even get close enough!"
The ice controller threw his arms to the sky and opened his hands. Instantly there was a bevy of ice. Above his head, Freeze was creating a focused ice storm. Flakes of ice sheeted the ground and nearby area. Dick was still advancing toward the ice manipulator; running toward him with a plasma sphere in his hand. Flaked ice covered his costume when Dick finally threw the plasma. The small by concentrated weapon fell at Freeze's feet. The teen cursed; that was one plasma sphere wasted. To make matters worse, Freeze finally got his sight back.
It took only a second for Freeze to realize that there was super-heated plasma at his feet. The frosty man held his eyes to the plasma as it ate its way through the asphalt before he brought his eyes up to Robin.
"The Batman sends his little fledgling to a fight he himself couldn't win." The ice manipulator's icy voice echoed through the frozen street. "You stand no chance against me, Robin. I'm the man that nearly killed your mentor."
Somewhere, Dick was sure he was angry but he felt a wave of calm come over him.
"Emphasis on the word "nearly", Fries." The Boy Wonder returned. "And as the saying goes, you have a snowball's chance on the surface of the sun. Surrender and come quietly. First and last warning."
The ice controller gave a growl.
"Then you will experience permanent frost." Opening his hand, Freeze summoned a blast of ice. Dick's hand curled around his second plasma sphere; he readied himself to use it.
It was Dick who moved first. The Boy Wonder charged the icy man, intent on driving the super-heated plasma into his face. Freeze formed a curving wall of ice and before Dick even touched him, the teen had to rethink his strategy. Planting a foot on the ice wall, the masked boy did a back flip and skidded backwards on the icy road. Then Yin and Bennett opened fire on the ice manipulator. As bullets kept Freeze preoccupied, Dick caught something strange. Laughter.
But it wasn't just ANY laughter; it was Joker's infamous chortle. Dick craned around, listening for the laughter. Suddenly, the teen was nearly bowled over when he found the Laughing Bat frozen to a building's brick wall.
"Holy-! Joker!" Dick rushed over to the frozen harlequin, stunned to see the Clown Prince of Crime in the block of ice. When he approached, the boy saw that Joker didn't look so good.
"I t-t-thought y-y-y-you'd n-n-never s-s-spo-o-o-spot me, peewee." The clown was shivering violently and his face was fogged over with pain and injury. But he managed a laugh.
"Just hang loose, Joker. I'll get you out!" Dick dug for his warrior's baton in his belt. When the boy finally retrieved it, the Laughing Bat stopped him.
"Behind you!" Just one word from Joker in that serious tone made Dick roll to the side. A monster icicle screamed through the air and busted the sidewalk where the boy was standing just half a second ago.
Dick was on his feet and saw that he held Freeze's attention once more.
"Don't worry 'bout me, pipsqueak! Just don't DIE!" Joker called at him. The teen didn't have a choice but to move again as the ice manipulator attacked.
The masked teen was determined to get Joker out of his frozen bonds. The Crime Clown was likely suffering from hypothermia and going down hill fast. Dick charged at Freeze again, ready with his plasma spheres.
Barbara Gordon was breathless. She nearly ran half the city to get to 7th and F. When the red-headed teenager finally made it to the area, she found a hard battle being fought. Dick, Ellen Yin and Ethan Bennett were squaring off against Victor Fries. The ice manipulator's icy heart seemed to have permanently frozen over by the way he was fighting. Barbara's heart was pounding in her chest as she readied a Bat-a-rang and joined the fray.
Freeze finally got his icy grip on Bennett, freezing the police chief solid. Commissioner Yin wasn't too happy about that. The ice controller took advantage of her rage and emotional moment to freeze her as well. Now he was looking at the teenage Robin grasping his last super-heated plasma sphere.
"You want to be a crime fighter so bad? Then I'll treat you like I did your mentor: with a shallow, icy grave." Victor Fries raised his hands. Dick watched the delayed ice blast forming on his gloves.
Yin and Bennett had shot Freeze so many times that his pressurized suit was leaking ice from every bullet hole. Dick knew that if he scored a plasma sphere on Freeze's chest or back, he'd send the ice manipulator to his knees. Also in his mind was on Yin and Bennett. If they were not unfrozen soon, they would die. And he never forgot about Joker. The clown was still in that block of ice, shivering and going into hypothermia. Dick needed a miracle.
Suddenly a Bat-a-rang flew through the air and hit Freeze on the back of his head. As the man's head jerked with the force, a second Bat-a-rang hit him in the back and exploded. Freeze was taken to his knees. At that moment, Dick could have kissed Barbara for her timing.
"Batgirl! Take care of Joker, Bennett and Yin!" The teen boy ordered. Then he rushed forward, seeing that Freeze was on his knees.
Now he could plug him with the super-heated plasma.
Barbara rushed over to Joker. The madman was shivering, his head bowed and eyes closed; he looked to be the worst.
"Joker!" The girl called to him and patted his face with her hand. "Joker! Are you still in there?"
To her relief, the clown opened his eyes and looked up at her. Joker was so weak that he couldn't manage a smile. Barbara's heart was in her throat.
"I'll get you out of there." She breathed. Breaking out a Bat-a-rang, the girl began chipping at the frozen water.
The masked teen girl broke the ice around Joker's right arm and was about to continue. In that second, she heard a wet gasp and the crackling of ice.
"NO!" Barbara heard Joker's voice. When the teen girl finally stood and whirled around, she saw that Robin was frozen mid-step; Freeze's hand on his chest.
The girl gasped herself at seeing her best friend turned into a block of ice. Victor Fries got to his feet and gave the frozen boy a push. The block of ice fell to the ground. Freeze put a foot on Robin's icy body.
"Now you shall know what the Batman suffered through, Robin." The icy man hissed at Dick. The boy and his final plasma sphere were frozen solid.
Barbara was motionless like a statue. This fight was absolutely out of control!
"Robin!" The girl ran toward her fallen friend. Then, to her horror, she saw Freeze's eyes settle on her.
Barbara had time to exhale before she too, was frozen.
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