The last thing Bruce wanted to do today was be called in for a meeting, on a topic he wasn't sure about; a partnership with Gothcorp; it wasn't that he disliked Gothcorp, but there were some things he didn't exactly trust with Ferris Boyle the head of Gothcorp; slimy, smarmy, weasel-like those were words Bruce would truthfully use to describe Ferris; but he did do good humanitarian work.

"Mr Wayne?" a board member said

"Oh, Mr West what was that?" Bruce asked

"I asked what you thought of awarding Ferris Boyle with the Humanitarian of the year award?" Mr West asked

"I think that would be a great idea" Ms Clooney, another board member said; as all of them agreed. Thankfully the meeting ended soon after giving Bruce the break he needed

"It can't hurt Mr Wayne" Lucius suggested.

"I know, but still something's wrong here" Bruce frowned

"I know, I've been looking into him, for some reason Gothcorp has been conducting cryogentic experiments and you know what that means?" Lucisus asked

"Dr Victor Fries, the only man I know who truly knows Cryogenics inside and out" Bruce nodded as he pulled up Victor's file on the computer.

'Indeed, but something went wrong with his wife Nora I believe" Lucius said

"I heard that as well" Bruce frowned.


Meanwhile in a satellite Gothcorp facility, a bald man was wearing high tech red lens goggles as he checked some vitals.

"Yes, yes this is working, hopefully I can keep her asleep until I work on a cure" the scientist said "After that; I have to let people know that Ferris is trying to make cryogenic weaponry" he said as he looked over to a high tech suit.

"Oh Victor, what is this?" a man asked as Victor Fries turned to see none other than Ferris Boyle smiling as he walked into the cryo-lab. He saw that there was a woman in a chamber "Your wife Norah I take it?"

"Stay away from her!" Victor shouted

"Oh please, what are you going to do to stop me?" Ferris asked "After all I'm Gotham's elite and you're nothing but a scientist; one who will get caught up in his experiments, trying to preserve his wife, who had gotten ill during her pregnancy, unfortunately miscarrying' Ferris said "That was a true shame" Ferris smirked.

"DON'T TOUCH HER!" Victor shouted as Ferris walked over and kicked the tube to Norah's cryogenic chamber until it broke, making Freon gas flood the room.

"See you Victor" Ferris said "Enjoy your Frozen tomb!" he shouted knocking Victor into a table of freezing agents, while Ferris left.

"NO FERRIS!" Victor shouted as the room filled up with Freon gas, Victor could feel the cells of his body turning to ice, his skin looking its normal colouration, becoming a frosty blue colour. "I can't, I can't;" he said "HELP! HELP ME PLEASE!" Victor cried as he felt the blood in his veins becoming supercooled. He was able to get out into the hallway; he gasped for air as he felt the blood in his veins heat up. He ran to a thermometer on the wall, he saw it was room temperature. He quickly went back into the freezing cold room, finally inhaling deeply. "BOYLE!" he shouted agonising anger. "BOYLE!" he shouted before he wailed.


"I can't believe I agreed to this" Bruce muttered as the Gotham Humanitarian awards were being held;, all of high Gotham society had shown up, including Harvey and Selina, who were chatting. Bruce knew he could out Selina as Catwoman, but they were friends so her wouldn't. He tugged at his collar feeling sweat build up behind it

"You ready Mr Wayne?" Lucius asked

"As I'll ever be" Bruce groaned

"And here to announce the top award of the night Bachelor Billionaire Bruce Wayne!" the announcer shouted as Bruce put on a smile and walked onto the stage, waving and smiling

"Thanks you, Thank you. I have proudly been asked to present the award for Humanitarian of the year to Gothcorp CEO Ferris Boye, who's advances in the industries of health, security, education and housing has made Gotham a better ci" Bruce paused as he saw wisps of clouds coming out of his mouth, then the room felt colder. "ty"

"What's going on?" Lucius asked

"I'm not sure" Bruce frowned as the doors of the room were blown open and a cloud of cold mist floated in

"Ferris Boyle" a distorted voice said as two circular lights hovered mid clouds "You will learn that tonight revenge is a dish best served cold, for the Iceman has cometh!" The voice said as a man in a mechanical suit walked forward. "where are you?" he voice chilled those gathered

"It can't be" Ferris whispered.

"What do you want?" Lucius asked

"Ferris Boyle" the voice said "Give him to me and you all will be spared" the voice said, his helmet was covered in condensation obscuring who was inside it.

"What, who are you?" Ferris panicked before a beam of ice hit his feet. "NO, NO, NO!" Ferris shouted. The crowd started to scream and run for the exits, only to have the doors freeze shut.

"No one leaves" the man demanded.

"Who are you?" Capt Gordon shouted as he drew his firearm and aimed it at the man in the suit, before the man pressed a button on his suit's belt making the helmet clear up, revealing a man with pale blue skin and glowing red goggles.

"Victor?" Ferris gasped as he backed up

"You left me for death" Victor said as he stomped forward, the light from his goggles shining in Ferris' face. "Time to meet the cold grip of Death's embrace."


The ice surrounding the doors shatter and bat shaped blades flew it, hitting Freeze's suit, making cold gas puff out of the holes.

"No" Fries panicked as Batman rolled in and glared at him, only to looked shocked

"Victor Fries?" Batman asked shocked

"That was my name once, but no longer. For now I am Mr Freeze" he declared shooting at Batman, where each shot landed spikes of ice would appear. Batman pushed a table over and hid behind hit; only to have it covered in ice.

"What happened you to?" Batman shouted

"I was in the middle of an experiment to save my wife...my snow angel; Norah when Ferris walked in and sabotaged it! Covering me in coolants and freezing agents" Mr Freeze relayed. Several people there automatically glaring at Ferris. "I was trapped in there for days until I converted my shielding suit into a containment suit, it becoming the only way I can leave a sub-zero environment. Can you imagine it Batman; to have the pleasure of life being taken away" Mr Freeze scowled as the police got the civilians out of there. "The warmth of a summer's day, the hot wind blowing on your face, the sand between your toes gone because it would kill you!"

"I'm sorry, but that doesn't mean you can do this" Batman said as he drew out more batarangs and threw them, only for one of them to hit the glass of Freeze's helmet causing it to crack, the cold inside started to leak out.

"No, no!" Freeze panicked as his suit's helmet closed and he fled.

"That wasn't the last we'd seen of him" Batman scowled.


The next morning Bruce marched into Gothcorp's headquarters and slammed a pile of papers onto Boyle's desk.

"What is this?" Boyle asked

"A hostile takeover" Bruce sneered. "I've had my in-house forensic accountants looking over your books. Each and every one of them; Not single decimal point was missed! You've been cutting corners on the projects that you've work with Wayne Enterprises on" Bruce scowled. "Then the money you saved from cutting those corners were put into a personal bank account; you've been embezzling from MY company. And not to mention the cryogenic weaponry experiments you've been doing out of Sector 19. And then there's the shit with Victor Fries! I have no idea what he or you were up to but something happened. What it was will be discovered; so you better tell me now or else!" Bruce ordered

"He was working on cryogenics, apparently his wife got sick and he was using my money to fund a highly experimental procedure to put her in some sort of cryogenic chamber, suspending her until a cure for whatever she has could be found." Boyle sneered

"You mean the money you stole from Wayne Enterprises" Bruce glared

"So I pulled the plug on it" Boyle admitted shocking Bruce. "not sure if she died or not"

"Well I will found out" Bruce snered "And by the way, the announcement that Gothcorp is under the control of Wayne Enterprise will be announced in two hours, pack your things and GET OUT OF MY COMPANY!" Bruce slammed the door.


"I heard he was a genius in cryogenics is I remember correctly" Alfred frowned as he pour a cup of coffee for Bruce and placed it on the special table connected to the batcomputer

"Indeed, he was actually considered for a Nobel prize in science; only for Boyle to take his life, or should have." Bruce frowned

"How are you going to guard against that?" Alfred asked

"I've had Lucius prepare a special Extreme temperature batsuit" Bruce informed him showing the stats

"I see, you can use that to counter the freeze ray he developed correct?" Alfred said

"Yeah, I heard Gothcorp was going to use it to prevent meltdowns at nuclear power plant, by super cooling the reactors. But Freeze must have discovered it and retooled it into his freeze gun" Bruce frowned as he tried to find the designs for it in the Gothcorp files.

"Are you sure about this?" Alfred asked as he placed a paper down, showing that Gothcorp had been acquired by Wayne Enterprises.

"It had to be done, even though he has done some good, he was not the right person to run it anymore" Bruce frowned before he brought up the files on Victor and Nora Fries "Macgregor Syndrome" Alfred gasped as he read Nora's condition.

"You've heard of it?" Bruce asked

"I have, there's a chance that I may get it one day, but that is due to a family history of it" Alfred frowned. "Thankfully Wayne Enterprised medical division has helped greatly in my earlier years" Alfred explained "They gave me something to prevent it if I did have it"

"I see" Bruce frowned before he read over the files.


Back in his lair Victor Fries was fixing the damage done to his helmet from Batman's attack. He looked at the chamber holding Nora.

"I am sorry, the man who did this to you is still out there, and I will obtain revenge from you" he said as he saw Gothcorp was taken over by Wayne Enterprise. "I must thank Wayne, And a part of me wishes I took my research to him instead of Boyle" Freeze said as he reinstalled the helmet as he walked around the icy environment. "Once I have what I need then we will be together" he sighed as he shed a single tear, only for it to freeze half way down his face. "Why do I suffer why he is celebrated?" he asked before he finished his helmet and walked over to his suit, grabbing a small puck like device and plugging it onto his chest, making him inhaled deeply as he turned and got in his suit, making it close around him, it started to power up and it showed blue neon lights as he got up and clenched his hands before he looked at the mirror composed of ice in front of him "Ferris Boyle killed the man I was once; now I shall do the same to him" Freeze coldly said.


"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP HIM!" Boyle shouted from his home office. "GOTHCORP IS MY COMPANY!"

"He bought most of the stocks of your company and then bough the company out right" the lawyer on the phone with Ferris said

"THEN FIND A LOOPHOLE, ANYTHING TO MAKE SURE I DON'T LOOSE CONTROLL OF IT" Boyle raged

"I can't sir. You've already breached the contract with Wayne Enterprises by embezzling" the lawyer said

"Great, anything on where Freeze's main base is?" he asked instead

"We're working on it, but I was wondering why you want to find it?" the lawyer was nervous, you could hear a vocal quiver

"He used my company to make that cryo chamber, so I'm going to retrieve my property" Boyle growled

"Just have the mercenaries I have on standby" the lawyer said.

"Yes sir" the lawyer said a she hung up. Ferris reclined in his chair, he exhaled, only to see his breath. He exhaled again, his breath was more prominent.

"No, no how did?" he asked before the massive window shattered in glass and ice, as a heavy thump was heard as Mr Freeze walked into Ferris house and stared at him, his red eyes boring into his soul.

"Victor, you're looking well" Boyle gulped

"You don't seem to happy to see me" Mr Freeze said as he walked close, the sheer cold from his boots making his footsteps freeze.

"Why are you here?" Boyle asked

"I think it's time I repaid you" Freeze said as he covered the room in a light frost

"NO NO!" Boyle shouted.


An hour later Batman walked out of his vehicle and walked over, seeing the shards of glass and the fact the room was wet. Frowning Batman activated detective vision to see if he could find clues. The first thing he picked up was the impressions in the carpet

'Freeze was here, looks like he patched up his suit, he turn to the window "looks like Freeze entered here, the blast of cold shattered it, giving him entrance into the room. He also used it to get out, and judging by the drag marks he pulled Ferris out of there and into a van of some kind' Batman though deactivating his detective vision and saw a small blinking light on Boyle's phone. He pressed it

"Um sir, I got the location of Fries' lab and I've sent the men over there; they should be there soon' the voice of the lawyer said before Batman heard the location of the Freeze's lab. He raced back to the Batmobile and got in, driving off. "I just hop e I'm not too late" Batman said as he pressed a button on the dash of the Batmobile, making a holographic overlay appear, on it was an outline of tyres, showing him the trail of Freeze's van.

"Thankfully I just have to follow these to Victor's lab" he said.


Upon getting there, Batman got to a vantage point where he frowned and looked down, seeing that there were 8 men in military gears, including semi automatic rifles. He frowned

"Those must be the mercenaries that Boyle haired to take Victor out, well I hope they enjoy having some fun with me" batman said as he leapt off the vantage point, unfurling his cape to give him the ability to silently glide down. He landed behind the mercenary at the back, acting quickly he slammed an elbow into the merc's neck and then knocking him out. Reaching into his belt he pulled out a gun like device and pumped it , aiming at the next mercenary, he placed it against his shoulder and fired an electrical round, shocking the mercenary a, forcing him to the ground, The others turned around, only to feel something pulling their guns out of their hands.

"WHAT THE!" the leader said before he felt his nose break as an armoured knee was flung into his face, the next closest Merc was blinded by Batman's' cape and got three punches to the stomach, solar plexus and thing taking him down

"OH SHIT ITS THE FREAKING BAT!" one of them said as Batman grabbed him and threw him into another one, dodging the swing of a third merc. One of them though he would get lucky and ran for the pile of guns, only to be shocked by the charged. Suddenly he felt something grab his belt and pulled him back towards Batman, only for him to be knocked out and dumped on the ground. The last standing merc just simply raised his hands. Surging over Batman grabbed him and glared

"What was Boyle planning?" Batman asked

"I don't know, I SWEAR! All he wanted was Freeze's location and then we were to move in and grab something, something Fries invented

"The cryo-chamber" Batman growled.

"Yeah that" the merc said before he was knocked out. Turning around Batman pulled out his explosive gel and used it to enter before he opened the back of teh batmobile, revealing something he need.


"Where am I?" Boyle asked waking up, unable to move as he was held in place by ice.

"In the realm of Jack Frost" Mr Freeze said as he held a giant gun with glowing parts,

"What is that?" Boyle nervously asked.

"This is my Freeze Cannon, a enhanced version of my Freeze ray, it generates an energy field of absolute zero, meaning your cells with freeze an accelerated rate then mine did" Freeze glowered at Boyle. "You shall feel in seconds what I felt in hours"

"Victor; I'm sorry" Boyle panicked

"You're not!" Freeze snapped "You took delight in ruining my life, nearly killing my Nora"

"So what?" Boyle spat.

"I think it's time to feel the icy chill of winter" Freeze coldly told him as he charged up his cannon. "Enjoy your prison"


"FREEZE STOP!" Batman shouted as he walked in, wearing a heavier looking suit, the joints glowing orange.

"Batman, I see you upgraded" Mr Freeze said "I shall demonstrate what will happen to him on you!" he said as he opened fired, a beam of sheer cold hitting Batman, which turned into a large cloud of steam. "Impossible" he gasped as Batman walked forward.

"Stop this Victor, if you freeze him here and kill him then you're not better than him" Batman told him

"Then what, I am still in this iron coffin, my Nora is still in that chamber and he is walking free" Freeze snapped.

"Not for long, Wayne Enterprises has sent every instance of Boyle's criminal activity to the GCPD" Batman said

"That bastard" Boyle sneered, only to be punched by Batman, knocking him out

"And what about My Nora?" Freeze asked.

"Believe or not Wayne's Butler has a chance to get a less aggressive form of your wife's disease and he has been managing it. I'm sure with your research Lucius Fox could finally create a cure. All you would have is surrender" Batman said

"And where would you put me?" Freeze asked "Anywhere outside of my suit is a death sentence"

"We've prepared a specialised cell in Arkham for you, one where you can assist in the curing of your wife" Batman told Freeze; who in turn looked at his wife who was locked away. He dropped the cannon and walked over to her chamber, placing a hand on it. A tear rolled down his cheek, only this time it didn't freeze.

"I accept your condition" Freeze said "And thank you"


"How she doing?" Bruce asked

"Not good, if Freeze didn't put her in cryo sleep she would be gone." Lucius said

"Can you help her?" Bruce asked worried

"I can, and I will thanks to the research Victor has supplied us" Lucius smirked. "But I am curious why you gave him the ability to work from Arkham"

"I felt sorry for him" Bruce sighed looking at a picture on his desk of his parents, happily smiling at each other clearly in love.

"very well; anything else Mr Wayne?" Lucius asked smiling

"No, that's all Mr Fox" Bruce smiled, turning his chair to face Gotham City.


G'day Guys Grizz here, and of course I pull out the most complex character in Batman lore next to the freaking Joker. I'm not sure why but I figured why the heck not and while I'm at it why not make it a bit sadder by mentioning they were going to have a kid. Now I hope I nailed Freeze here I'm sure the AI/commission beggers will tell me I did but I hope normal people will too, and yes I took the disease Nora had from one of the most notorious Batman films only because I couldn't think of any others.

So until next time I'll catch you on the flipside