The Right Side of Wrong

New Gotham: Part 2

Veronica's POV:

I have no idea how long I've been stuck like this, but for however long it's been, the Injustice League constantly teases and torments us from the outside.

Two Face: "If you'd just played the game, you wouldn't have ended up like this."

Mr. Freeze: "You did this to yourselves."

Penguin: "You'll never be one of us. Either of you. You're just sad, pathetic clowns.

Harley's POV:

Riddler: "Riddle me this. Who's the biggest fool of all? You! For wasting your only chance to rule Gotham."

Veronica's POV:

Riddler: "I'm sorry, Veronica, for everything. Someday, if you're willing to give me another chance, I promise. No more lies, total honesty, and we'll be equal partners. Because, believe it or not, I always loved you, and I never stopped."

I wonder if he's telling the truth or another lie as he did before. Well, I have an eternity in ice to figure it out. Or not. Finally, Ivy breaks the ice away around our faces. After that, they slide us down the hall to fight off Penguin's goons before we accidentally slide up to meet him face-to-face.

Penguin: "I always thought you were sidekicks. Goons with names. But I was wrong."

Harley takes a swing at him with her bat, but he quickly disarms her and traces the blade of his umbrella along her neck.

Penguin: "You're mistakes. Mutations. Thankfully, nature has graced us with a solution to the Quinzel problem, survival of the fittest."

Harley chomps his nose off while I melt down the rest of our icy prisons. She grabs her bat and swings at him, but he dodges, and her bat snaps against the edge of a pool table.

Penguin: "Without your bat, you're just a defrosted gymnast."

He uses his umbrella to fire grenades at us, wrecking the place as we hide for cover.

Penguin: "I knew we should've killed you two from the start."

Me: "Yeah, you really blew it."

Penguin turns every which way to determine from where our voices are coming.

Harley: "Over here. No stupid, over here."

Me: "Oh, sorry. You missed us, fucking idiot."

Harley: "Ugh, you're so fucking stupid."

We sneak up on him from behind before Harley squeezes the life out of him and sticks the handle of her bat through his head.

Ivy: "Hey, guys, are you-Oh, yikes."

Me: "Can we go get coffee?"

Ivy: "Uh, sure."

{Time skip}

Harley vents her frustrations over what happened to us.

Harley: "They put us on ice and an hour later the goons crawl back to the bosses?"

Ivy: "Harley, this might come as a shock to you, so I wanna say it as delicately as I can-"

Clayface: "You've been trapped in the ice for two months."

Harley: "Two months?!"

Me: "Good to be back at least."

Ivy: "Nice work, Clay. We've been trying to break you out the whole time. Also, Ronnie, how are you not freaked out by that?"

Me: "Call me crazy, but being trapped in your subconscious while visions of your friends, family, and ex-boyfriend verbally abusing you for seven days was a little more Earth shattering for me than two months of listening to 4 assholes slandering you and said ex-boyfriend promising that the second time's the charm."

Harley: "Do you believe him?"

Me: "Honestly, I want to get better."

Ivy: "But?"

Me: "But I have a hard time 'believing' anything is real, honest, or whatever. I want to believe, but there's still this voice in my head saying that no one could ever recover from what I went through."

Harley: "Veronica Quinzel, you and I have seen a lot of mentally troubled cases from our time as psychiatrists. But I've never seen them push through all their pain as you have. You are getting better, and we can still have our sessions."

Harley places a hand over my own.

Harley: "But, if this has anything to do with trusting the wrong person as I did, I believe you'll do what's right for you. Whatever that is, I'm here for you."

Ivy: "We all are."

Me: "Thanks. So, did anything else happen in the last two months that we have yet to discover?"

Ivy: "Just, come with me."

Harley & I follow Ivy up to the roof.

Ivy: "So, after the goons fell back in line, the Injustice League carved up the city. They call it New New Gotham."

We look over the edge to see the city split up into five variously designed, multicolored sections.

Harley: "You were right all along, Ive. I shoulda taken control from the start. Riddler, Two Face, Freeze, Bane. I'm taking 'em all down. And when I'm done. Gotham is gonna be mine!"

Ivy: "Cool."

End of Season 2, Episode 1