บท 403: 403. A Little Bit of Chaos ~No Man's Land Part III~...
Group 2: Bruce, Peter, Rick, Morty, Nick, Monroe, and F.F. all wake up in a basement of a tall building that is still holding up. This building is a stronghold, about 7 floors high and covering about 200 acres.
"Where... Where are we?" asked Peter.
"What's weird is that we all woke up at the same time!" smiled F.F.
Yurielle is revealed to be deaf as blood had blocked her ears.
Irene is surgically removing the blood from Yurielle's ears.
"Y'know what would be cool?" smiled Irene. "If during a fight, when we're being strangled, we'd suck our enemies' thumb and freak them out. THEN we kill them!"
"WHAT!?" asked Yurielle.
Irene frowns.
Mercuria and Victoria are helping Princess Bubblegum and Marceline Abadeer mix together potions to heal Yurielle's injury.
"Bonnibel," said Nick. "Where the hell are we?"
"The evacuation failed," said Princess Bubblegum. "But other soldiers and Superheroes are in the city right now still fighting the Dark Quartz Organization."
"Right now, we need you to protect her," said Marceline, pointing at Bubblegum.
"What? Why?" asked Nick.
"Because she's the only one who knows how to kill that thing that just attacked us," said Bruce. "And she's the only one who knows the passcode of the dome. Other than Ibarra...Shit... He's got, Ibarra..."
"We know... But he won't talk," said Bubblegum. "What we need you to do right now is to protect me."
"So, what? You need us to keep the building safe?" asked Rick.
"Yeah..." said Bubblegum. "Right now, there are anarchists in the city... Everywhere... And they're planning to take the dome down...I have my memory in the Memory Gun..." Bubblegum shows them her Memory Gun.
"Why not just destroy it?" asked Morty.
"And cause the Memories to enter the real world and go rogue?" asked Rick.
"R-Right..." said Morty. "S-Stupid question."
"Keep this building safe and we'll keep my memory safe," said Princess Bubblegum.
Bruce, Peter, Nick, Monroe, Rick, F.F., and Morty all stand on the ground floor of the building.
"Y'know..." said Peter. "I'm glad I have a healing factor... My ribs aren't very broken-to-pieces anymore."
Nick sharpens his axes.
"So... Nick... What's it like to be a Grimm?" asked Peter.
"Y'know... Nice body... Nice life... Then the next day, you gotta go chop some heads off..."
Peter's goggles dilate.
"He's joking, right...?" asked Peter.
"No..." said Monroe, fixing his watch's gears with some equipment.
"Hey, Mr. Wayne," said Peter. "Why'd you decide that quarantining the city is the best thing to do?"
"Because the city was ambushed... Peter," said Bruce. "By multiple enemies."
"Why haven't we done that before?"
"Peter, every time multiple villains attacked the Crusaders, the JoJoRunners, or even the fucking JoJoCorps, the city closed down. It's just that Bill was there to disrupt the domes with magic. That's why I made a stronger dome that's made of Anti-Magic. Not even Ibarra can get out. Only people could get in, except for of course the evacuees."
"What gave you that idea to quarantine a whole city when a bunch of rogues attack?" asked Peter.
"My son dying," said Bruce.
Peter pauses in horror. "O-Oh... I'm... Sorry... Dick, right?"
"J-Jesus, man... Compensating much?" laughed Morty.
"Morty, his son's name is Dick," said Rick.
"O-Oh... Sorry for calling your son a penis."
"Go fuck yourself, Morty," said Bruce.
Morty turns to Rick.
"I'm not *BURP!!!* defending you for that, Morty. You really fucked up right there," said Rick.
"What happened to him anyway?" asked Peter.
"Arthur Fleck, my half-brother, shot him in the head when in an ambush led by The Riddler. I ended up doing my first kill right then and there. I tore apart Jonathan Crane, aka, Scarecrow," said Bruce.
"The... Joker...?" asked Peter. "He actually killed your son? His nephew?"
"Yeah..." said Bruce. "I'm glad that I'm getting therapy from Ghost Jedan. If not, I would've gone back killing again."
"Why did you kill Crane?"
"I used to think I wanted to scare my enemies by killing him. To set an example. Well, there was another reason. I did it because I finally gave in... I was too angry... Too heavy on myself. I became a villain... I hated myself for that. I still do. At some point, I stopped pulling my punches... I became bitter. I became rageful."
Peter looks at Bruce, remembering someone who said the same thing.
"And that's why you took me in..." said Peter. "So that... I wouldn't end up like you. Right...?"
Bruce went from :( to :|.
"Did... you just smile?" asked Peter, laughing.
"If you consider this smiling, then you're in dire need of a parental therapist," said Bruce.
"When my Aunt died... I started hating... growing bitter..." said Peter. "I almost killed Fisk. I'm really glad... You and Murdock were there to keep me in check.
Bruce nods to Peter. "It's a pleasure, Spider-Man."
"How about you two?" smiled Peter.
"What?" asked Nick.
"What brings you here?" asked Bruce.
"Father was killed in a car explosion. Turns out the Seven Royal Families in the world set it up and had them killed," said Nick. "Later, they sent someone to kill my mother... to capture the person I was protecting..."
"Why?" asked Peter.
"Because of my blood. Because I'm a Grimm," said Nick.
It starts to rain outside.
"I thought clouds can't get in..." said Peter.
"They can't," said Nick. He goes on to continue to sharpen his ax.
"What about you?" asked Peter.
"Oh... I'm just a clockmaker who he tried to kill," said Monroe still repairing his old-fashioned watch. "Then we talked. Then we became friends. Here we are now..."
"Why?" asked Peter.
"Because I'm his prey," said Monroe.
Peter's goggles dilate. "Can you show us what it looks like?"
"I'd rather not..." said Monroe. "If I'm your first Wesen, that would really make you all paranoid and stuff."
"I've fought Vampires before!" smiled Peter.
"Those aren't Wesen... But fine," said Monroe.
Monroe gently puts down his equipment and closes his eyes.
He woges and reveals his Blutbaden self.
"WHOA!!!" yelled Peter, jumping up as his goggles dilate.
Morty shrieks in fear.
Rick and Bruce are unaffected.
"Wow!" smiled F.F. F.F. walks into the room. "By the way, the building's clear!"
Peter and Morty are frozen in fear.
"Whoa, whoa... Holy fucking shit!" yelled Peter. "Peter Tingle's acting out! WHOA!!! Are you a werewolf!?"
"No..." grunted Monroe.
"Kinda..." said Nick.
Monroe growls at Nick. He woges back into his human form and continues working on his watch.
"Can you do it again?" smiled Peter.
"Wha-? No!" yelled Monroe.
"Right! Sorry! I can tell that it's personal! Don't wanna pry and whatnot..." said Peter.
"It's not... personal..." said Monroe. "It's just a thing I do."
"Is it.... like breathing....?" asked Peter.
"More like a slightly painful muscle flex... But you get used to the pain, though..." said Monroe. "But when you do you first few woges? Geez!"
"So... Woges... (Whoags....)" said Peter.
"Woge (Voh-Gah)..." said Monroe.
"Right... What happens if you do it all the time?" asked Peter.
"We get more... animalistic and beastly..." said Monroe. "We only woge in emergencies like in fights or to get out of situations only when necessary. Never to exploit humans and other Supernaturals."
"Do you go to Church?" asked Peter.
"Yeah," said Monroe. "We're just people, too! Just... y'know... Different... hobbies...?"
"What about you?" smiled Peter, turning to Rick and Morty.
"We're fucking sociopaths," said Rick. "Do not trust us!"
"Y-Yeah... Th-There is nothing redeeming about the two of us... W-... We've killed people... Particularly bureaucrats," said Morty.
"And I'm a Plankton Girl!" smiled F.F.
"So... How do your powers work...?" asked Peter, turning to Nick.
"There are two woges, right? Erstewoge and Wahrewoge? So... I can see both woges," said Nick.
"Oh!" smiled Peter. "So... It's like you could see them any time?"
"Yep... Makes 'em dangerous..." said Monroe. "Also, they're Super Soldiers."
"Oof," said Peter.
"What's weird is that Bruce, here, beat the shit out of me," said Nick.
"I was lucky..." said Bruce. "Next time, I won't, because I will know exactly what to do."
"Don't you have contingency plans for all of us?" asked Peter.
"He has WHAT!?" asked Nick.
"It's fine. I have one for myself, too," said Bruce.
"Oh... Alright...?" asked Nick. "Wait..."
Peter and Nick sense something at the same time. Then Monroe and F.F. can't pick up anything.
"There's someone out there..." said Peter.
"There are people who are moving... The air is flowing around weirdly... But no breathing..." said Nick.
Suddenly, eyes peer out behind Bruce.
"MR. WAYNE!!!" yelled Peter.
Bruce activates his Iron Knight Armor as the creature bites into his armor.
Bruce strikes the creature with the back of his fist.
It's a Vampire.
Around five Vampires appear surrounding them.
Rick activates his armor. So does Morty.
Nick electrocutes one Vampire, spins, and decapitates him.
Monroe woges and attacks another Vampire, slowing down their durations.
F.F. shoots at the Vampires with her finger.
*PEW!!! PEW PEW!!! PEW!!!*
Peter activates his Iron Spider armor and uses his legs to stab the next few Vampires.
"Oh, dear God!" yelled Peter.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!" yelled Morty, as he eradicates several Vampires with his UV Light.
Bruce uses his UV Light in his suit to dust the Vampire.
"MR. WAYNE!!!" yelled Peter. "WHY'D YOU-!?"
"They're already dead," said Bruce. "Unless they're daywalkers, hybrids, or daywalker hybrids, these guys are fine to kill. Karen. Activate kill mode."
"Activating Kill Mode..." said Karen. Suddenly, Peter's Web-Shooters glow with UV light.
Peter shoots one Vampire with his Glowing Web and kills it.
"WHOA!!!" yelled Peter.
Peter kept on shooting at the Vampires, killing several of them.
*BZZT!!!*
Liquid heat vision is shot at Peter, but Peter jumps up and dodges the attack.
Nick simply decapitates the Vampires and electrocutes them, dusting them to pieces and burning them alive.
Nick shoots a fire tornado and kills several of them.
Monroe, as he slowed their durations, takes out his UV Flashlight and dusts them out.
*BZZT!!!*
Nick dodges the Vampire's attack, but the Vampire freezes his feet to the ground.
Nick then melts the ice with a tiny fire tornado and decapitates the Vampire.
Nick looks into the eyes of one of the Vampires.
"Grimm..." hissed the Vampire. "I'm not afraid of you..."
"I don't care." Nick headbutts the creature and then burns the creature from the inside out by blowing a fire tornado into its nose.
It shrieks in pain as it disappears.
"BLUTBAD!!!" yelled a Vampire, as it bites into Monroe's neck. Monroe, however, blasts the UV light into its eyes and kills it.
Bruce keeps on burning the Vampires with his UV light.
Rick and Morty easily burn the Vampires into dust.
Suddenly, F.F. is strangled by one of the Vampires.
F.F. blushes and bites the Vampire's thumb, sucking it.
"What the f-!?" asked the Vampire, pulling his thumb out of her mouth, as F.F. shoots him in the face, blasting his head open. She then kept shooting the creature and used the bioluminescence of her plankton she absorbed from the sun to photosynthesize new sunlight, burning the creature into dust.
"Yay! Lewdness does work!" smiled F.F.
*PEW PEW!!! PEW!!!*
Morty just stands around as Rick is killing a Vampire behind him. However, from his left, a Vampire shoots him in the chest.
Morty kills it with a single UV light.
*BZZT!!!*
"FUCK!!!" Rick falls into Morty's arms as his chest bleeds from the Liquid Heat Vision.
"Oh Geez! RICK!!!" yelled Morty.
"You know... You could've shot the Vampire in the face right then and there."
"I thought you had it!"
"You're a fucking idiot, Morty. I know that we're trying to be healthy and all, but WHAT THE FUCK!?"
Suddenly, the Vampires begin overpowering the group.
Nick and Monroe are struck to the ground.
Bruce and Peter are pummeled into the ground.
F.F. is kicked by a Vampire to the ground.
They all enter a circle around the trap door that leads to the basement.
"Oh... shit..." said Morty.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" laughed a Goblin voice.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" laughed a Clown voice.
"Oh... Goddamnit..." said Bruce.
"Hello... Bruce..." The Joker grabs Bruce by the neck.
"Hello, narcissistic sociopath," said Bruce.
The Joker pummels Bruce to the ground.
The Vampires move forward, but The Joker halts them.
"Does the Spider-Man want to play...?" whispered Green Goblin.
Peter simply stares at him with nothing but annoyance and rage.
"Well! This was really fun! Watching these soulless pale animals going CRAZY at you!" roared The Joker. "I can see your son's little replacement over here is still shining like a scarlet ruby!"
"I'm not his replacement..." said Peter.
"Of course, you are!" yelled The Joker. "And he knows that... Look at you... thinking you could change the world's fate... LOOK. AT. ALL. OF. YOU!!!" he roared. "Thinking that you can change what can't be changed. You thought you could save Osborn. Sadly, Goblin took control of his body forever. And you thought I could change, Bruce... Even after you had the boy wonder do a man's job..."
Bruce stays calm. But Peter gets annoyed.
"Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter..." said Goblin. "No good deed comes unpunished. And here you are... stricken down... protecting a fucking door... Like a dog protecting its bone... A slave to the population! But you know very well that you chose wrong... Go on... Kill me... I know you want it..."
"Peter..." sneered The Joker. "Come on, Peter... Ha... Ha... Ha... Ha... Peter..."
"Don't listen to them..." said Nick.
"Peter..." said Bruce. "Think about this."
"You know..." said The Joker. "People used to call me crazy... They did... Because they didn't know what I could do. And I did things that no normal person can do. I destroyed Gotham's spirit. And I will destroy yours..."
Suddenly, MJ, tied up with tape on her mouth, drops to the ground.
The Joker points a gun at her.
"Arthur... Don't do this... Not again... You, piece of shit..." said Bruce. "Arthur... I will fucking kill you this time if you do this again. ARTHUR!!!"
Peter tries to attack The Joker.
Note: Read the Dark Knight: Origins Chapter 9. This is where Bruce failed last time...
The Joker tuts. "Ah ah ah ah ah... No, you don't... If you do..." The Joker reveals that he has grenades stuck inside of his jacket tied to a single string which he taunts to pull. "We'll have that passcode in no time."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" laughed Green Goblin.
"I'll kill you..." said Peter. "If you do this, I'll kill you."
"Let's see who kills me first..." The Joker laughs. "HAHAHAHAHAHA-!!!"
Bruce immediately tears the Arc Reactor out of his chest and throws his Arc Reactor at MJ's chest. It attaches to her chest.
*BANG!!!*
Suddenly, The Iron Knight Armor protects MJ. The suit blocks the bullet.
Bruce no longer has his Arc Reactor, so his armor breaks down, and he now only has his Batsuit.
Peter tackles The Joker and crashes him into the next building.
"RAUGH!!!" yelled Peter, punching The Joker in the face over and over again.
He webs his face and knee kicks it. He then grabs The Joker's back and body-slams him to the ground.
Then, Green Goblin tries to take out his pumpkin grenade.
Bruce throws a Batarang into it and deactivates the explosion. Instead, the grenade pops, and some of the shrapnel is shot into Goblin's eye.
"GAH!!!" yelled Goblin.
Bruce punches Goblin over and over again.
"What the fuck!?" asked Goblin. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-!!!"
"STOP FUCKING LAUGHING!!!" Bruce angrily gouges one of Goblin's eyes out.
Goblin then grabs Bruce and crashes him into the ceiling as Bruce drops to the ground with his ribs instantly broken.
"Why should I be scared of you!? You're just a man in a fucking HALLOWEEN COSTUME!!!"
"Look who's talking," said Bruce.
Suddenly, Goblin's eyes widen as he sees a Batarang lodged into his bleeding leg. It injects poison into Goblin's body. Goblin ends up kneeling on the ground.
"What the fuck is in that shit!?" asked Goblin.
"5 Gallons of Compressed Horse-Tranquilizer," said Bruce.
The Green Goblin drops to the ground and passes out.
The Vampires then attack as Bruce takes out a tiny light bulb. He throws it in the air as it creates a giant flash of light, dusting all of the Vampires at once.
"Why didn't you use that before...?" asked Monroe.
"You knew that there were more Vampires out there and you had to wait for them to all enter the fucking room like idiots, didn't you?" asked Rick.
"Yep," said Bruce.
:( to :|
F.F. bites into one of the Vampire's mutilated fingers.
"Don't eat that," said Rick, slapping the finger off of her mouth. "You'll turn into one."
Peter goes on to beat The Joker in the face over and over again. "NEVER!!! DO THAT!!! TO MJ!!! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!"
Peter continues beating The Joker as blood splatters all over the ground.
The Joker kept on laughing and laughing.
Peter then takes out The Joker's dagger and prepares to stab him in the face with it.
Bruce grabs Peter's hand.
"I can break your fucking arm, Mr. Wayne," said Peter.
"Yeah... But I know you won't."
"Let go of my hand."
"If I do, what will you accomplish?"
"Let. Go."
"What will you accomplish?"
"LET GO!!!" roared Peter, with his voice breaking.
"What. Will. You. Accomplish?"
Peter is about to cry.
The Joker laughs. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Peter drops the dagger and kneels down, one leg after the other.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Stop laughing..." whispered Peter. "Stop. Laughing...."
Bruce sits down next to him. "Don't worry... He'll tire himself out after an hour or two."
"How... How do you live like this...? Do you fight this guy every day...?" asked Peter.
"Yeah..." said Bruce.
"How'd you not kill him after so long...?"
"I don't know," said Bruce. "Maybe... he brings out my humanity... He just brought out yours."
"He brought out the worst in me."
"Yeah... But then I was here to stop it, right? I was here to remind you of what it means to be a hero. Right?"
The pair stay silent as The Joker kept on laughing.
"You killed people... What did it feel like?"
Bruce pauses. "It felt like you became what you swore to destroy. You became chaos. Then again, there's a little bit of chaos in all of us."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *cough! cough!* AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
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