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phantoms-world-and-more · 1 year

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Jazz in gothem

So danny was visiting jazz's new phyciatritrist business in gothem

From the sounds of it, its going great!!!

Most of the local rouges have been coming in , and from jazz's talks their getting better, she even said she'd introduce him to someone called mr.freeze who has ice powers and is a doctor danny wonders if he could help him with research, but there are 2 problems

Some furries keep trying to hack into her system, break into the building and attempting to get her to break doctors patient confidentiality, though tucker, reinforced walls from their parents and the anti-creep stick dealt with that problem

Though the option of sending danny after them is always on the table

Thats not the main problem though

No the problem is someone called the joker

Apparently he got word of a good phyciatritrist helping the rouges and according to jazz "tried to make them go back to his level" Apparently its a phyciatritrist term for when someone feels like others are getting better and they arent so they want to bring them back down so they dont have to change.

Anyway jazz is refusing to see him for a lot of reasons, the negativity and the refusal to get help being the main 2

So jazz called danny up to see if he could get this joker to leave her alone

Jazz, her clients, batman, red hood and the joker were all in front of her building

Jazz's clients were there because when they got word that the batman AND the joker were there they came running

Joker is there because he wants to distroy this goody-two-shoes fraud of a bitch

Red hood it there because he wanted to book an appointment

And batman is there to try and get information of what this jasmine fenton is up to

They've been talking for about half an hour trying to deflate the situation

After the joker pulled out his gun so did everyone else and this is what got jazz to snap

THATS ENOUGH, you can't barge in here are try to distroy other peoples chance for proper mental health, and you batman cant know whats going on eveywhere its not healthy and is disrespectful to other peoples privacy

The joker fired his gun at jazz and batman was about to try to save the girl when...something happened

A black and white blur got in the middle of joker and Dr.jazz

When the blur stopped ot showed a 16 year old boy with blue eyes, black hair bags under his eyes and he looked as calm as can be

???: you ok jazz

Jazz:yess I'm fine, danny could you please get joker and batman off my property, after i would love to introduce you to my clients

Jazz smiled at the boy and the boy ,now danny, smiled back

Then he turned to face the batfam and the joker

Danny:ok chuckles you have 3 seconds to leave befor i make you

The joker laughed, or he did until danny took 2 steps foreward and ATE him

Dislocated his gaw, opened his wouth wider than it should and ATE him

Danny swallowed the joker turned to the batman and with Lazarus green eyes that they all knew as the pit rage and said

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vln-vibes · 1 year

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The Good Ol’ Switcheroo

GUYS

I know there’s fics out there with switcheroo hijinks with Tim and Danny but imagine this---

Jazz and Babs

and

Danny and Tim

But like at the same time

So the Fentons are visiting Gotham, the reason why is a bit up in the air;

Jazz wants to visit the Gotham U campus, the Fentons have a meeting with W.E for a business deal (they’re sus about the whole ghost hunting thing but it doesn’t hurt to scope out what they’re capable of) or maybe they’re hunting down Batman because they’re sure he’s a ghost. Reader’s choice tbh.

Unfortunately Jazz sprained her ankle the week before while ghost hunting with Team Fenton. This also led to her parents coddling her and she just barely managed to convince them to still go on their trip as a way to get Danny a vacation. The only caveat; they force her on a wheelchair for the duration of the trip.

Spring forward to a random Thursday afternoon during their vacation; Danny and Jazz were dying of embarrassment (in his case re-dying) with their parents antics. They didn’t think Gothamites would blatantly stare at them all things considered but even they had their standards they guess.

Danny bought himself some sunglasses and a coffee while Jazz just put on her reading glasses and just tried to bury herself in her new Spoiler themed sweater.

Of course that’s when the chaos started.

It was just their luck that just as they finally got away from their parents that a rogue finally attacked; where there was a rogue the Batman wouldn’t be too far behind.

Danny’s plan was just to hide in a random alleyway or wait until the coast was clear to use his powers and fly them back to their hotel room and wait for everything to die (hah) back down. That’s not what ended up happening.

“There you guys are, c’mon time to suit up”

The duo are too stunned to do anything as they’re dragged off by this random rich guy (Bruce Wayne) and into a really expensive and familiar looking car (the Batmobile). The door folds open and Jazz’s wheelchair is fastened in seconds, Danny just kinda goes to sit next to her (can’t let his sister be kidnapped by herself).

There’s a guy sitting shotgun next to the original alley guy. He’s wearing a mask. Oh shit its Nightwing.

“Looks like Freeze is at it again, Uptown’s already halfway covered in ice. No time to waste Red Robin”

Red Robin? Like the food chain??

In those few seconds the Batmobile is speeding off, the alley guy is now the Batman and they’re passing a speeding RV going the other way. Cue that one Umbrella Academy meme but its Tim and Babs staring back at Danny and Jazz.

A compartment opens up revealing Red Robin’s suit with the cowl.

‘Why the hell not? It’s not like it’ll kill me’ is all Danny thinks while he puts on the outfit, ditching the cowl tho because it looks ugly and instead grabs one of ‘Robin’s’ extra masks that were next to it. He took a selfie and sent it to Sam and Tucker, one also featuring a Done looking Jazz.

“You got that RR?”

“Hn yeah sure”

It isn’t until halfway through their fight with Mr.Freeze, not even noticing how the usually chilly Tim doesn’t look the slightest bit cold, when they meet up with Black Bat that any of them are clued in to what happened.

“Not Red Robin. New brother?”

“What are you talking about Cass, he’s right there?”

Cue to Danny using Tim’s bo staff to propel himself and air kick Mr.Freeze’s helmet.

“Ice to meet you frosty!”

“Yeah no. Our parents may be nuts but we’re not open for adoption” Jazz quips from the comms, strangely not too different from the system Tucker uses when they out hunting for ghosts.

“Wait I thought you were just recovering from the cold!?”

“Twisted ankle actually. On your five!”

Meanwhile Jack and Maddie got a ecto signature at the other side of town. They spotted Danny and Jazz leaving the library, grabbed them (not noticing the yelling crowds running the other way).

They let the GAV fasten the kids in before speeding off to catch the ghost.

In his defense Tim was working on one hour of sleep in the last 48 hours and Bab’s lost her voice from her cold. In all the ensuing chaos Babs dropped her phone and Tim’s just ran out of juice.

They’d thought it was a Standard Wayne and Co Kidnapping until the duo in hazmat suits kept referring to them as Jazz and Dann-o. Hopefully not insane and trying to fake being a family. Hopefully

They take a turn into Crime Alley and the duo look at each other as they see the GPS head towards one of Red Hood’s places.

This would be good

#DP x DC #DC x DP #dp x dc crossover #Danny Phantom AU #Danny Phantom crossover #DC AU #DC Crossover #Barbara Gordon & Jasmine Fenton #Danny Fenton & Tim Drake #Accidental identity reveal #What do you mean we got the wrong kids???#Ooops these regular civies know how to fight???#Wait what do you mean he has black hair and blue eyes?!#Oh no

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polarspaz · 1 year

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Knowing Too much AU - One upside to becoming a eldritch abomination is finally having enough limbs to hold all your crazy siblings - Tim Drake

Tim finds out that the eldritch deity that has connected itself to him and the rest of the Bat-family lives underneath Arkham. Like a weed, it grows unseen roots inside people, slowly twisting them into something inhuman as it feeds off their emotions.

Apparently insane, broken people tend to produce the most exquisite emotions, so the entity hosts people like the Joker, Mr.Freeze, and every other manic villian in Gotham with it’s gifts. The pure chaos and anarchy they produce is a delectable meal, however the main course was by far it’s favorite.

Just as much at the eldritch being loves chaos, it loves retribution, justice. Batman, along with the rest of the family, serve this purpose. They would be the ones to meet out that justice, Transforming those fevered, joyous emotions of those villains into absolute fear and desperation.

Then when the meal is finished, the being will usher the insane back to it’s burrow at Arkham to rest until the next meal.

Finding out that your basically part of a eldritch god’s diet plan is bad enough, but realizing there is nothing you can do about it is even worse. Tim can see those roots in his family and they are deep, so deep that if you tried to rip them out they would immediately die.

Tim fully lost his humanity when he found out what role he played in this mess. He gave the people hope, and while hope was a sweet emotion, despair to the entity was even sweeter.

#Tim Drake #knowingtoomuch au #my art #DC comics #batfam #dick grayson #cassandra cain #stephanie brown #Damian Wayne #Jason Todd #Monster #eldirtch

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illustratedartist · 5 months

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Jervis Tetch A.K.A The MAD HATTER 🎩🫖

OK So someone sent me an ask on here and unfortunately I can't find where it disappeared to-SO I'M VERY SORRY!

This person asked if I could make a reference sheet of my Hatter and share some headcanons, if I had any. I've never really done this before, or even had many headcanons so please bare with me lol. I didn't go into too much detail, Im not really a writer so I just tried to get the main points through.

Down The Rabbit Hole:

Has paranoid schizophrenia, and often hallucinates, especially when stressed. He mostly sees characters from Alice in Wonderland, seeing the Cheshire cat or “Alice” the most.

When very stressed or feel like hes losing control of a situation, he begins to stutter horribly. His words get jumbled in his mind, and thats when he starts reciting quotes or poems from AIW relevant to the situation hes in. Before he became the Mad Hatter, and became a criminal he stuttered constantly while speaking to anyone.

Jervis controls people by drugging and hypnotizing them, But the strongest form of mind control he has are the masks he puts on his “Guests”.

For goons or regular street thugs he manages to get, he mostly uses cards on them instead of wasting materials to make masks for them. Figuring It would be easier than having Batman break them and forcing him to constantly remake the same ones over and over.

Also its a chance to call his thugs the “Card Guards” which amuses him.

His goons don’t matter much to him, but if he assigns you a specific character, you are highly important to his “Tea Parties” and are at risk of being forced to attend indefinitely.

For his “Tea Party” guest list, he has crafted actual masks for them to wear, in correlation to the Character he assigned to each guest. He does make sure the guests are drugged with his special tea before putting the masks on them. Wouldn’t want to risk having you manage to break free of his control during the party! Or ever.

March Hare=Scarecrow, Dormouse= Riddler, White Rabbit= Ventriloquist, Cheshire Cat= Catwoman, The Dodo= Penguin, Mock Turtle= Mr.Freeze, Queen of Hearts= Poison Ivy, The Walrus= Bane, The Jabberwocky= Batman

He customizes the masks so they even resemble the actual people.

His closest friends are Jonathan Crane, and Edward Nygma, his March Scare and Dorrat.

Jonathan was a psychologist so he knows how to handle Jervis, and can tolerate him for the most part. Edward on the other hand may think Jervis is a useful ally, but he's not nearly as patient with him as Jonathan is. Neither of them like being called by their "nicknames" Jervis gave them.

Jervis fell in love with the woman he had been working with, before he became a criminal, that put everything into motion. Her actual name wasn't Alice, but they both bonded over their fondness for the story, and he started to call her Alice as a fun nickname or inside joke. Though his obsession with her had already begun.

After losing it, and becoming a criminal and kidnapping "Alice" he was defeated by Batman, (Much like how it happened in BTAS). "Alice" fled Gotham after this, but Jervis doesn't know that, and is too far gone to realize that she would leave him. SO he roams the streets of Gotham looking for his beloved "Alice".

OK THAT'S IT! At least these were all I could think of. Obviously my Jervis is heavily based off the Arkham series and BTAS. But I love this little crazy guy.

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batfam-nalu-onepiece · 8 months

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Mr.Freeze: Haha I will turn Gotham, into An Artic Wasteland where only I can thrive!

Signal: Dude, have you every thought of just moving to the Artic? Or some place colder? Like why stay in Gotham where it’s too warm for you to live, and where Batman and all of us know your M.O and easily stop you and send you to Arkham

Mr.Freeze: I..hm

Signal: Here’s a one way ticket on a boat to Antarctica. Bring your wife and all your equipment that you use to try and save her with you. If you need more supplies, I’m sure if you help any of the research teams there, they will be happy to get you some or at least establish a trade route

Mr.Freeze: Thank..you?

Signal: No no, my pleasure. I’m tired of you making it an everlasting winter once a year. I like it warmer. Plus, you do it in the summer! Not even December around Christmas time.

#Next comic is Mr Freeze working to save his wife with penguins #batfamily #batfam #Mr freeze #duke Thomas #signal #batman #Robin

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shiranui7 · 1 year

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I am doing a rewatch of The Batman 2004 and oh my, the nostalgia!! This series is sooo cool. Here's some reasons why:

Batman gets wrecked by all of his enemies before developing a good technique to beat them;

He actually does detective work;

He cares about everyone, even his enemies;

Alfred is savage as fuck;

Some of the villains have absolutely rad designs like Man Bat, Killer Croc, Mr.Freeze, Scarface, Firefly..(I also LOVE Joker's design btw);

Ellen yin is a badass woman;

They replicated twoface's story with another important character;

The opening music omg;

Every villain is smart, even though they have been stripped of all their PhDs (something I disliked);

Joker is not abusive toward Harley, except in their first meeting, then they seem to get along well as partners in crime;

Albino Bud and Lou!!!!!!

Joker is actually funny and not an overpowered incel;

The animation is so fluid, especially during fights;

Catwoman is not sexualized;

Every episode has a compelling story;

It shows perfectly how difficult is it for Bruce to be both himself and Batman;

Batman almost gets killed because of a raccoon;

JUST WATCH IT!

#the batman 2004

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ficreadergirl · 1 year

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Part-2 *Jason shows off his fighting skills when he sees you* Y/N: Are you really showing off in middle of freeze mission?? Jason: What the fuck you're talking about? I fight this way all the time. 🤨😉 Y/N: You're being careless idiot!! Jason: No I'm not *shoot mr.freeze's righthand man who's about to shoot you without breaking eye contact* Y/N: Jason!! Stop it! Jason: Why? Do I look like a damn-hot-guy to you?😉 Y/N: No! You look like stabbed! *Jason finally realize his stab-wound on his abdominal* Jason: 😳 Fuck!! Y/N: Yeah!! Fuck!!

For other chapters click here

#batfam #jason todd #jason todd x reader #jason todd x y/n #red hood x reader #red hood x y/n #dc #using emojis to show audience their faces...#🤭#incorrect quotes story

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not-another-robin · 1 year

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Hello nars not-another-robin very important question do you think the league has ever gone ice skating, either on a mission somehow or for fun? If so how would everyone do? Sincerely your friend cyanbeetle

Laughs maniacally and rubs my little hands together. YES

I think the league has to do ridiculous stuff on the daily for missions, and one of them was definitely ice skating. An ice planet somewhere, Mr.Freeze and Captain Cold had a turf war, whatever. Ice everywhere. Gotta get across it.

Batman is of course, prepared. Blade extensions in his cold weather bat suit. He's beauty and he's grace.

This is John's time to SHINE. He has been playing hockey since 3rd grade. Full lantern ring induced hockey gear, they don't stand a CHANCE. No penalty box in crime.

Shayera HATES this case. Cold ass slippery ass stupid fucking. Fuck mr.snowcone whatever the fuck. She keeps face planting whenever she touches down and John will NOT stop laughing.

The only reason Wally's not laughing is because he's eating ice left and right, running + slippery is not a good combination. He has never been more acquainted with the wall.

Diana gets the hang of it because of course she does. Maybe after a bit of fumbling but by the end of the fight she's got her barings and kicks ass.

Clark is ... Flying. Like he's skated once or twice but is not quick on his feet by any means. J'onn is in the same boat, they're hover bros at the moment.

After the case is done and wounds are patched, John DEFINITELY bugs everyone about going ice skating properly. They do, eventually, and they have a good time.

Also - in my heart, Bruce did figure skating in his teens. Go figure.

Thank you bestie for indulging my fictional filler episodes <3

#narspeaking #justice league #i dont feel like taggin unfortunately

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muse-the-multi · 8 months

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so I know in the game DCUO when the Joker is the mentor he treats the player like his own kid I can put some quotes that does fit at least

"You know you're like the webbed toed mutant child I've ever had. Keep it up Junior I may even leave you the family fortune." "Oh I love the way you make everyone cower in terror neat trick.Keep practicing." "Kiddo you're doing swell,Keep this up and Batman will forget all about me can't have that now can we." "My dear budding Psychopath congratulations you've taken your first steps on the road to be public danger number one." "I have news for you and no it's no joke, The sociopath,psychotics, and greedy little masterminds of the society have made you an official member, congratulations. I think." "Aren't you the devious little psychopath, springing Freeze's men,Beating on cops,after that little act Mr.Freeze must think your his new best friend, I have Calculator arrange a meeting for you with one of Freeze's men nearby play along until he lets you in the hospital then we'll show him what friends are really for." (Here's some redirect ones) "Hey Sparky look at your map you're in the wrong place." "Ok we're done here nothing to see keep moving look at your map, Now there's a good Psychopath."

#joker #the joker #batman #dcuo #dc universe online #dc

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josnhoes · 1 year

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Lol I laughed at the reply on it, it'll be bit more funny if the child asked why they do this and wouldn't be more beneficial if say poison ivy use her power to regrow deforestation and maybe Dr Freeze to used his cryo things to help out cancers and illness if he could probably reverse engineering his tech and used a different formula to actually used it like logically thinking

To be more funny when they say " fuck the government and fuck capitalism! Like all this shit that the world gone through the daily basis no fucking wonder why this planet is a shit hole as it is because fixing cities are not cheap in the first place let alone said villains and heroes won't suck up their god-damned pride and have one mutual agreement"

The logical Knak reader is much more ignored. I fully believe rogues like Ivy and Freeze *know* they could be going about things differently they just also know that trying to do it the nice way isn't going to work.

Ivy can grow as many plants and trees to fix the issue and people will just tear them down and keep doing what their doing. The way she sees it a bandaid isn't going cut it.

Mr.Freeze is trying to fund his research to cure his wife. And as optimistic as it is to think he'll find another way to fund this he has to tell you that fact too. He doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as he can cure his wife.

As for the fuck the government reader who is obviously angry and tired of the world well I can see rogues taking it as a chance to get her to work for them. Either as a sidekick of sorts, a new family member, or an inside mole in the Wayne household.

If the Joker grabs you don't do either. He is not safe to an extreme level. Positive attention or negative you will be hurt. Just stay quiet and try and stay calm, maybe a little crying so he doesn't get curious how a kid is staying so level headed.

#DC knak au #batfam #batman #yandere #platonic yandere

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anjuschiffer · 1 year

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Repairing a Broken Hero (if you can even call me that...)

...hi? (Eve, I did the thing :D) and no I’m not dead, adulting has taken over my life QQ

Prompt: The hero finally snaps after losing everything they loved. They fall, sobbing into the villains arms. The villain is shocked, but understands the pain. They wrap gentle hands around the hero, combing a hand through their hair. Telling them that everything will be okay. The hero continues to sob and all the villain could do is repeat that phrase: “it’s okay.”

TAG: @theatreandcomicfreak @damianette-is-life @toodaloo-kangaroo @elijahcrevan @vixen-uchiha @nathleigh @startouchedqueen1318

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Being backed into a small parking space behind apartment buildings wasn’t something Victor saw himself ever being cornered into.

The sound of wire zipping back to its place was all Mr.Freeze heard as he felt himself jerk forward, only for hissing to replace the noise filling his ears.

Mr.Freeze hissed as he looked down at the tube that flailed about, the chlorofluorocarbon gasses leaking out of his suit.

“Do you know how much that cost?” Mr.Freeze yelled, feeling his knuckles ache as he propped his gun back up to his enemy. “Thousands of dollars! All wasted because of you!”

Meanwhile, a girl simply smiled back, a craze filling her eyes as she remained crouched from the dumpster she was resting on.

“You act as if that actually came out of your pocket when we both know it didn’t. And even if it did, I still wouldn’t have given a shit.” The heroine cladded in black and red sassed back, fiddling with what looked to be a blade in her hand. “You are my target and I did what I do best: neutralize.”

He watched as she twirled it once more before placing it back onto the belt she had on, the wire rope loosely dangling.

“It was made out of steel.” Freeze seethed. “A small, thin girl like you shouldn’t be able to-“

He barely managed to speak another word, something quickly zooming past his face, hearing something creak towards his left, noticing the blade missing from her waist.

While he only turned his head a bit, he couldn’t help but fully turn to look at the massive wedge missing from his glass helmet. Only a few millimeters of glass was left to stabilize the rest of it to prevent it from completely shattering. “You little-!”

He watched as a trashed television came his way, Freeze quickly dashing to the side to avoid it.

“Come on Mr.Freeze! Don’t tell me that’s the best you’ve got, is it?”

That set him off and he hated that he gave her the pleasure of knowing it. After all, that stupid grin wouldn’t leave her damned face!

He began to shoot at the girl, watching as she jumped around the area, flipping herself off walls, ladders, cars, well…everything!

He froze up incoming debris, trash bins, some plants that were out on the fire escapes and even some loose bricks the heroine found laying around. “Stay still!”

“Why should I? You’re the one who chose such a bulky weapon in the first place!”

“You really are a huge pest!”

“I’m not the one who has a hard time aiming, now am I? Maybe try a little harder?” The heroine suggested, her grin growing wider as Mr.Freeze froze another car instead of her. “Ooo, how’d you miss me? I’m literally standing still right now! Hell, I’m standing two meters away from you! Shooting me shouldn’t be hard, you know.” She laughed as Freeze missed another beam, pulling herself up a fire escape.

“Stay still, you little bug!” He noticed her scrunch her nose at the name.

“Please don’t ever call me that.” She warned, twirling a yo-yo about. What happened to the blade from earlier? “Only my friends get to call me ‘Bug.’ You only get to call me Red Beetle. And for the record, I stopped being a “little girl” years ago.”

“You are barely towering five feet and are as small as a bug. But don't worry, soon, you’ll be- argh!” Mr.Freeze fell to the floor, his helmet almost completely cracking upon his head hitting the floor, feeling his suit start to hiss thanks to the increase in temperature.

He tried to get up, only to feel his legs bound up, noticing Red Beetle’s first weapon around them. “You arrogant chi-”

“Shut it.” Red Beetle growled, towering over him as she rewrapped her weapon. “You don’t know a single-!” Red Beetle let out a scream, Freeze grinning as he finally landed a beam on her, watching as frost began to form on her arm, the ice slowly crawling up to her shoulder.

He lowered his arms, grateful that he decided to modify his gauntlets into ice cannons.

“Not so cocky now, are we?” He shot another beam directly at her body, hearing Red Beetle screech louder, watching as she collapsed to the ground, watching as she tried her best to breathe. “Now, I suggest you stay down and- argh!”

Mr.Freeze didn’t expect Red Beetle to launch herself at him, feeling as she managed to rip one of his gauntlets off his suit. “Get off me!” Mr.Freeze yelled, throwing her off of him, watching Red Beetle collide with the wall, Mr.Freeze watching as she slid to the floor.

He watched as she tried to prop herself up again, only for arms to give in.

“All you heroes are the same.” He slowly made his way to her, noticing how blood was seeping from the corner of her mouth, but besides that, she looked fine. How was she still in almost pristine condition?

“Are we really?” Red Beetle croaked, finally finding the strength to sit up. “Are we really the same?” She asked him again, this time, looking straight at him as she did, her eyes boring at him, causing a shiver to run down Mr.Freeze’s spine.

Her dull eyes got ingrained into his mind, as if she saw things he has yet to see. Or maybe it was her drastic change in demeanor that was causing him to doubt his advantage?

No.

She’s doing this to throw him off…he should know better than to let his guard down.

But her face…her eyes… she wasn’t smiling or grinning as she said it. She wasn’t brimming with confidence or arrogance as her other fellow heroes would sometimes hold when they told him those same words.

The way she said those words…he couldn’t help but distinguish the hint of anger, disgust that lingered behind the question.

It was as if she was testing him or rather, testing what that phrase meant to him…to her…

“All of you heroes talk about justice and peace, blabbering how violence isn’t right and how it should never be the way to handle a problem and yet, here you are. Punching, kicking, destroying your surroundings, your beloved cities all in the name of justice. All of this violence to justify saving those you love and want to protect-“

He didn’t expect her to laugh, the girl going into a laughing fit with no end in sight only to be left dumbfounded when tears began to fall from her eyes.

How they started to pool onto the floor as she hung her head. How her tiny frame kept shaking with each laugh she let out.

“Protect? Me?” Her giggles began to cool down. “Doing all of this in the name of justice…” She suddenly stopped, as if she hadn’t just been laughing moments ago. She then snapped her head to look at him, contempt raging in her eyes as tears kept spilling from her red eyes. “I’m not doing this to protect anyone. Hell, today was my first day here in Gotham. I don’t know anyone here besides Batman.

And even so, I only met him for an hour max. So I don’t really care about him to be completely honest. And don’t get me started on the Justice League. I’ve only known them for a few weeks.

So to have someone to protect?” She let out a scoff. “I have no one. The only reason I’m even here today was because they wanted me to prove myself to be worthy of being part of the Justice League.

I never asked them to fight you.

They made me fight you.

Can you imagine? Having to prove an international league of heroes that just recently came to being not long ago that I can be of some service to them? That I have to take one villain down today to get them to acknowledge the fact that I’m someone who wants to be on their side? To prove my worth?

Because apparently saving Paris from a domestic terrorist that has been manipulating people for seven years wasn’t enough.

That seven years of having to balance my life and hero work was worthless to them.

But can you really blame me for taking that long to unmask the villain?

When I was given this mantle, no one was there to help me. There was no Justice League to reach out to.

I had to learn the ropes myself, I had to figure out how to unmask this villain by myself.

I spent days learning how to code, how to hack, restore damaged video footage, assemble listening devices, nano tech…

Do you know of any teen that can hijack an entire company’s security in mere minutes?

Of a teen that not only had to teach herself four different types of martial arts and then show her team the same thing because it turned about that she wasn’t the only one who was given this task in her city?

Of a teen who had to let go of her entire team to prevent endangering their lives?

Or what about a teen that not only remembers every face they’ve ever had to save, but also remembers the faces of the people they’ve had to bury because they were just a few centimeters away from saving them?

What about being able to suppress any emotion they’ve ever felt because even the slightest show of emotion can make you a possible pawn for your city’s villain?” She asked him, a scowl growing by the question.

Mr.Freeze didn’t know when he had lowered his weapon, his mind too fixated on the person in front of him.

“And to top it all off, even after I showed them the aftermath of my battle with this villain, of the effects that are still lingering in Paris because of this asshole, one of the League members had the audacity to say my evidence wasn’t enough. That I had to do something else to prove myself simply because he couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that I can’t let magic -not even any magical evidence for that matter- to just linger around for some other asshole to abuse.

Because how the fuck do you expect someone to not be attracted to magic? To leave it alone?

Was Hawkmoth not enough to prove to the world that magical artifacts -hell, magic itself- being lethal when in the wrong hands? Am I not evidence enough that even with a team of magic retainers, it is not enough to defeat a single person who knows more about magic than the heroes themselves?” She asked, gripping at chest, or at least tried to.

Was this all true? If so, the Justice League shouldn’t be putting down this girl for her efforts, and even if there wasn’t solid evidence about the Hawkmoth villain, then shouldn’t they at least investigate the situation themselves?

They have the modes and money to do so, so why don't they?

Mr.Freeze continued to watch the girl in front of him, watching as she was trying to bring herself back into reality. “Do you know how old I was when I was given this job?”

It took him a while to register those words, a few seconds more to realize this wasn’t a rhetorical question.

“H-How old were you?”

“I wasn’t even 13 years old yet, a few months shy from it… do you want to know how old I am now?” She took his silence as a yes. “I recently turned 19.” A chuckle escaped her. “Just last week actually…I spent it by myself at the League’s dormitory…

Seven years…I spent seven years being a hero…

But I never asked to be a hero.” A scowl rose to her face again. “ I never asked to be burdened with such a duty.

I didn’t ask to be robbed of my childhood.

I never got to enjoy what we’re supposed to be some of the happiest years of my childhood…my life…

Instead, my time was taken from making memories with my friends and spent taking care of someone else’s responsibilities.

I was supposed to waste time at slumber parties, talking about boys, hanging out with my class on trips, studying for exams, planning my career, falling in love, spending time with my parents…”

Tears began to fall down her face again. “My parents…” A sob escaped her.

But that was it, and he knew.

One sob was all it took after all.

Soon, he saw how Red Beetle began to wail, screaming as she probably recalled her parents.

He watched as she furiously scrubbed the tears that escaped her, watching as she screamed out for her parents.

“Maman! Papa!” Screaming like a child who lost her parents in the supermarket.

But unlike that scenario, she will never unite with them ever again…

Just like him…

They’ll never reunite with the people who meant so much to them…their world…

He never dropped to his knees so quickly, Victor quickly bringing Red Beetle into a hug, feeling her freeze at his action, how quickly she silenced herself.

“It’s okay.” He softly spoke, hearing a hiccup escape the girl. “It’s okay.”

And that was enough to make her bring back down her barriers. Bring back up the sorrow she had been holding in for so long.

He found himself astounded when Red Beetle reverted to her civilian identity, left with a teen in his arms, pouring her soul out as if her life depended on it.

“It’s okay.” He found himself saying, rubbing circles on her back in hopes of soothing her. “It’s okay.”

But he knew it fell onto deaf ears.

Red Beetle cried until she couldn’t, her sobs slowly coming to a soft hic, her head leaned onto his shoulder, her hand welded into his armor as if she feared he would leave her here on her own.

In his arms, she looked nothing like the person he fought an hour ago…

Nothing like the hero he thought she was…

She was just a child…

A child forced to be an adult…a hero…

Heroes…is the Justice League truly worthy of that title?

“Red Beetle, are you feeling okay?” He softly asked her, not hearing a single indication of an answer from the girl. He pulled away from her ever so slightly, surprised that the heroine had fallen asleep. “Of course you would sleep after crying like that, but it’s alright.” He told her, lifting her up with ease, wondering if she was eating enough. “It’s okay now. I’ll make sure you’re safe until you wake up.”

And I’ll make sure they don’t force you to be a hero again.

“REPORT: Red Beetle OFFLINE.

REPORT: Red Beetle OFFLINE.

REPORT: Red-” The automated voice loud continued to say as the members of the Justice League continued to stare at the blaring red letters that engulfed the room in red light.

They couldn’t believe it…

She just reported to them just half an hour ago…

What happened to Red Beetle?

Where did she go?

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