Edward nigma grumbled in annoyance in the grip of two muscular guards as he was being dragged through the asylum, his face contorts and confusion when the guards pass his usual cell, and twisted even further when he spots a glimpse of a feathered head sitting in the cell that was supposed to hold the ventriloquist
The glimpse of a human sized gray parrot is one he gets for only me a seconds as the guards continue to March him further through the asylum, soon he stands in front of the wardens office the door opens to a real not Jeremiah Arkham at the desk but a man with a cat-like smile who rubs a gem that's perched around his neck by a Golden Chain, the sound of crunching snaps Edward's eyes to see Jeremiah is in the office but he's sitting on the floor shoveling would appears to be Beatles contained in a bucket into his mouth
"What the fuck is going on" Edward yells at the lounging Michael, his smile stretches not enough to be his usual jaw splitting kind but getting real close, " what I'm doing here is using this baby", he pauses to present his gem before continuing," to make this place the beginning point of my first Conquest that will soon spread to the entire entire American continent, and you're going to help me make the machine that will spread this gems converting power through the entire city"
" and why would I help you", the smile on the purple suit wearing man's face finally reaches its usual jaw splitting length and he lets out a laugh at the cliche response he's gotten
" God I was wishing someone would ask me that" and with that a purple laser shoots from The Amulet around his neck impacting into Edward, when he feels that the beam has done no physical pain to him he clickedly finds brown fur sprouting from his wrists, before he can say anything something slips around his neck and his mind goes fuzzy
"Thank you tetch" Michael says as the aforementioned Rabbit Man pulls back from the mind control dog collar he's placed upon Edward, " I'm glad to be of service my king" he cutsies after this comment both of their attentions are drawn to Jeremiah who's still on the floor, he bangs his now empty bucket on the floor, some Beetle goop still clinging to his lips
"jervis could you take Jeremiah out into the yard for his walkies" the bunny man does so leaving Michael with the still transforming and colored Edward," Edward you have another purpose in this plan, use that smart soon to be doggy brain of yours, and to make sure no one sees any social media posts from Gotham City into after the complete conversion is finished, we don't want the government meddling in my perfect Utopia plans, now do we?", the man whose hands and upper arms had completely become a dogified gives an entranced nod
And so he gets to work his new pod hands not giving me too much trouble, and after a couple hours of hacking stuff the job is done and Edward is completely transformed
Michael slips off the Mind Control collar and Edward only has a couple seconds of lucidity before a hand in his fluffy head fur sends a wave of dog like pleasure through his body," who's a smart boy?" Michael asks, and the Riddler's new doggie tale Wags as he Yips out, " is it me, it's me isn't it"
"Yes it is, you're a smartest boy in all of Gotham" Michael continues to pet the Border Collie mans head, the pure doggish joy in the man's brain keeps him from noticing some other changes being done, though it might be that the mental changes were only some amplifyings of romantic feelings for certain fellow who was soon going to resemble his namesake a lot more
The clothing changes also went unnoticed, his clothing had changed into much more nerdy attire, complete with a very garish looking question mark patterned bow tie wrapped around his neck like a dog collar, " hey buddy you did real good, I think you deserve... A treat"
Edward shakes and delight at the idea of a treat, and is already spasming tail nearly goes into the speed of light when Michael pulls a dog biscuit from a suit pocket, he whimpers and disappointment when his effort of grabbing it was his mouth from the man's hand is sorted by the man lifting it
" not yet, do some tricks for me" Edward hops to task doing the usual things, like sitting on the floor, laying, and reciting the square root of 3
" impressive, here you go champ" Michael throws the treat which is snap from the air by the excited Border Collie, the man choose the treat as he lays on his back on the floor and after he's got down he pants into light when a hand rubs his shirt and belly, all this rubbing soon tuck him out and he's fast asleep
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Later that night after the transformed Riddler is taking off to rest up in his cell, Michael stands in his newly required wardens office pulling a a multicolored gem from his pocket, whispering swimming Plantation the gem projects a light screen and soon he's on a magical Zoom call with his siblings
" I have called to inform you that my beginning base has been set into place, I found someone to build my conversion machine, and when the conversion of this City is gun I will have a very important asset to both make more conversion machines and to infiltrate the superhero community " Michael says the frown on Peter's face deepens at his eldest brother's success, Elizabeth's smirks in Pride, and fhilip is having some connection issues the sound of the sea surrounding him comes and bits and pieces
" well my day's effort has only netted me a beginning base, though it is a good one being the royalties Castle, so it won't be too long until I have the Royal Engineers under my sway" Peter says fiddling with the gem attached to the cane he's holding lazy in one hand
" will I already have three conversion machines, you know these Japanese Engineers really work fast, and that pop music is absolutely killer" Elizabeth says pridefully before beginning to hum one of her new favorite jpop songs
"i- have- good time- atlanteans- big muscular shark man" and then fhillips feed cuts out
" well I'll call him back later, anyways you're free to call anytime to ask for any assets I may require, and I will do the same if I so need, cuz we're family and family helps each other" and with that final thing the call ends Michael sits at his desk and ruminates on the great Utopia his Macintosh as well as those of his siblings will create from this world, he looks at a chuckle which soon turns into a full laugh and he continues to laugh as the city which will soon be his sleeps in the night, watched over by a group that will soon answer to only his signal
The end