"Ivy?"

"Who were you expecting? Baby Doll?" She asked before walking towards a bush in the park across the street.

"Look, Ivy, I appreciate the assist but I've gotta get back to the Lounge. I-"

"Oh, sweetie, you don't know yet? What you've 'gotta' do is get off the streets of Gotham before you die." She said before pulling off a bush to reveal a pink car with a license plate that said "Rose Bud" on it.  "Now get in." Despite all my inner instincts telling me it was probably a bad idea to get in with Ivy being a hero and all now, something compelled me to get into the car with h- HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!

"DO YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF MIND CONTROL LIPSTICK ON!?" I shouted.

"Guilty as Charged." She shrugged as she hopped in the driver's seat.

"I thought I was immune to your poison shit!"

"I made a new formula. It's been a while." She said before beginning to drive off.

"Listen, Ivy, I have three friends in some serious shit right now that I need to go back for."

"Honey, I'm going to be honest with you; I don't really care about your friends. They aren't my priority. Honestly, you're lucky I somehow cared enough to rescue you even though we've only had one interaction ever, and not gonna lie, wasn't a great first date." Ivy said.

"You tried to kill me!"

"I tried to kill your friend because she killed  my children, and then you killed my babies after." She said looking over at me for a second to glare. "But hey, forgive and forget. I mean, if I didn't, you'd be dead, and I'd be at home watching Little Shop of Horrors and not making an enemy out of that meathead."

"Bane?"

"That'd be the meathead. Whatever you did to him pissed him off. He's even shelved his whole 'City of Bane' plan."

"His what?"

"Rumor was he was gathering all the goons he could to raise as much hell on the streets as he could to draw out Batman, like when he first showed up those years ago, and then something about doing the one thing Batman has never been able to do, which was save the city from us. However thanks to whatever stunt you pulled he's put a rain check on those plans and is putting all of his resources into hunting down and killing you." Ivy explained. As she did we drove out to city limits. "He's been a lot more friendly towards the other rogues as of late, offering them large sums of money to capture (Y,N) (L,N) and any members of the Bat Family for some reason, as well as a high ranking spot in The City of Bane. Most of them have curved the knee to Bane however I have no interest in allying myself with that brute, or with money, or with seeing you dead."

"Uh... thanks, I guess." I said as we drove up to an abandoned forest park. Well, I'd say abandoned if the hedges hadn't been well attended to and there wasn't a clear road to a comfy looking home with solar panels around it.

"Don't thank me yet. You're still a dead man until you figure out how to kill Bane yourself." Ivy stated.

"So how'd you know I was gonna be at Penguin's?"

"I didn't. It just happened to be good timing. I was already in a meeting with Ozzy over some new toxins I had been dabbling in when I went to the ladies room. I was going to walk out when I heard  Penguin tell one of his goons to let (L,N) in and that they were about to become stinking rich. I lured one of his other thugs into the bathroom and gave him a kiss, told him when they attacked you to shoot all of the other thugs, and here we are." We got out of the car and began walking to the cabin before Ivy opened the door.

"One more question: how does Bane know my real name and how do you know my real name?" I asked.

"Can't answer the first one but for the first one I was told by-"

"PUDDIN'!" I heard a familiar voice squeal before a girl pounced on me and held me tight with a familiar smell that was a mix of banana cream pie and gun powder. "HOLY CRAP ARE YOU OKAY!? DID ANY OF 'EM GETCHA!? ARE YOU A GHOST!? DOES MAMA HAVE TO GO OUT AND SHOOT UP EVERY JOINT THAT LOOKS LIKE THE PLACE SOME MEXICAN DRUGGIE WOULD HANG OUT AT!?"

"Yes, No, Not in the technical sense but I can still turn intangible, and I think that's not only overkill but I also think Bane isn't Mexican." I said. "By the way, I missed you too, Harley." I added before hugging her back. The heart warming reunion was cut short when I heard three maniacal laughs and saw three big ass hyenas run into the room. Harley looked over at them.

"NO! MOE, LARRY, SHEMP! STAY! THIS ISN'T DINNER!" She shouted at them. They all slowed down for a second before beginning to run again, only to get thwacked by three different vines, making them run back out.

"I hate those mutts." Ivy stated coldly.

"Sorry about that. They aren't exactly trained yet." Harley said.

"Wait, Moe, Larry, and Shemp? What happened to Bud and Lou?" I asked.

"When we were in Belle Reve... Joker wasn't exactly the best babysitter..." She stated sadly. I hugged her tighter and she also tightened her grip before we finally let go. "So anyway, where's Frosty? Somewhere where Bane can't find her, right? I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to her!"

"Oh... we broke up. She tried to kill me."

"THAT COLD HEARTED CUNT I'LL FEED HER TO THE HYENAS!" Harley shouted.

"Harley!" Ivy snapped at her. "Indoor voices, remember?"

"Oh yeah, sorry." Harley said.

"Well, I guess we have some catchin' up to do."