Issue #52: Ballroom Blitz

Deadshot and Caitlin were distracted by the lightning bolts coming from the clear sky and the sounds of shotgun blast and... what sounded like the faint sounds of Captain Boomerang swearing while falling downhill.

"Spider, Quinn, what the hell is going on over there?" Deadshot asked. However, they were a bit distracted. Livewire had taken Black Spider up to the roof of Wayne Manor and started shooting multiple lightning bolts at him but he was now dodging them. He was able to graze her with bullets but every time he did she just teleported to the other side of him and began shooting again. Once the sixth bullet caught her in the shoulder she growled holding her sizzling wound. She then split up into multiple copies of herself and surrounded him.

"Dodge this you fucking fairy!" She said before shocking him on all sides.

. . .

Meanwhile Harley dodged two shots from The Joker's Daughter before kicking the shot gun out her hands and tackling TJD to the ground. Before she could land a few hits in, The Joker's Daughter quickly and seemingly pulled a switchblade out of nowhere and cut Harley's cheek while also cutting one of her pigtails in half. Joker's Daughter tried to then shove the knife right into Harley's throat but Harley backed up away from TJD. Harley dodged a few more swipes before elbowing TJD in the face. She landed another punch and another, but TJD started laughing just like him which caused her to stop and flinch. She remembered a time where she flipped out on him leaving her for dead and punched him multiple times, and how he laughed at her causing her to stop in confusion only for him to pull out an elongated pistol and shoot her in the stomach point blank, it was her first true near death experience at the hands of The Joker and the first time since becoming Harley Quinn she felt he was actually trying to kill her. But then she quickly snapped back to reality and saw TJD actually pulled out her own Smith and Wesson 617 aimed for her stomach point blank. She backflipped and kicked the gun to aim for the sky as TJD shot it. They stared at each other as TJD giggled.

"I have to say you have let me down but that's the story of your life isn't it? Disappointment."

"What do you know about my life? You're sick. And comin' from me that's sayin' something."

"I'm not sick. And I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve." Harley again flinched at the use of a Joker quote. For her, The Joker's Daughter felt like The Crimson Ghost. While fighting her she was also fighting the painful memories that were coming to the forefront every time TJD spoke, every time she laughed, every time she smiled. Her mannerisms were even perfect. It felt like every Livewire blast in the background made her switch between a girl wearing a decayed face and the clown Prince of crime himself. She was actually slightly panicked but had to keep telling her TJD was just a girl.

"Awwwwww Harls, don't cry! I'm only kidding around with you! We were just starting to have so much fun! I didn't mean to toy with you!" TJD said before tossing Harley her Joker plushie. Harley caught it and was frozen staring at the plushie, accidentally squeezing it and causing it to laugh. She then realized the plushie felt a little heavy and threw  it before it blew up in the sky. She looked back and caught a crowbar right to her chin. She could've swore she had a tooth knocked out and her vision was blurry but saw TJD winding up so she rolled out of the way and to her own duffel bag. She grabbed her mallet and met TJD's third swing with one of her own. The two struggled for control of the situation before both elbowed each other in the face. They both staggered before they both went in for a headbutt, causing both of them to fall on their asses. They then both fell on their backs before kipping up. TDJ started to giggle.

"Stop copying me!" Harley shouted.

"Stop copying me!" TDJ mockingly responded.

Meanwhile with Captain Boomerang

"Oof!"

"Ow!"

"Bugger!"

"Ah!"

"Ow!

"Fuckin'!"

"Ow!"

He's still working down the hill.

. . .

"Somethings going on over there and Black Spider and Quinn aren't responding. Go take care of it." Deadshot told Killer Frost.

"What about our friend over in our neck of the woods?" Caitlin asked. With this Firefly knew there was only a matter of time before the two found him. So he decided to make it a little easier for them.

"Hey!" He called out causing the two of them to look up at him. "I'm not your friend, buddy!" Before shooting a huge fire blast at them and the ground. Deadshot rolled out the way as Caitlin jumped back. The ground quickly caught fire and started spreading to the trees before Killer Frost started cooling off the flames with her ice powers. She then looked up at Lynns who started flying in the sky.

"And I'm not your buddy, guy!" Caitlin responded shooting an ice beam at him that he narrowly flew past. He started flying all around like a psychotic moth making it hard for Caitlin to hit, but the radius of his fire blasts caught the bottom part of her jacket on fire as well as her shoes. After taking off her jacket and putting out the ground beneath her once more she realized she had to in some form meet Firefly at his level and created a pathway of ice that she slid up almost like a reverse slide. It melted after she past, not using too much energy to create a long lasting bridge but it got her where she needed to be. Firefly shot a fire stream right at her but she raised up an ice wall that quickly melted. Firefly stopped shooting for just long enough that Frost was able to create an icicle and lunge it at his shoulder. Firefly groaned in pain before a second before shaking it off before flying towards her quickly and kneeing her in the stomach, knocking her off her ice.

. . .

Croc and Copperhead were still brawling, and while Croc had been cut a few more times and started breaking through Copperhead's skin himself, neither were slowing down. Croc picked him up and tackled him through a brick wall in the sewers. He grabbed Copperhead by the head and started to squeeze it like a grape, but Copperhead spit out acid right into Croc's eye causing Croc to throw him and hold his eye as he roared in pain. Copperhead was starting g to get winded but he saw Croc getting weaker. He now had two weak points to exploit and it was a matter of time before his venom started affecting the monster. Copperhead hissed in excitement before getting out the water and quickly rushing to Croc. However as he jumped up Croc swatted him out the air and his head broke through the brick wall and he was trapped.

Croc was slowing down, but he was still a survivor.

Meanwhile with Captain Boomerang

"Bloody Hell!"

"Arg!"

"How many bleeding-!"

"Oof!"

"Feet is this-!"

"Agh!"

"Fuckin' mountain!?

. . .

Harley was on the ground and The Joker's Daughter was close to smashing her crowbar right between her eyes, but Harley turned her head just in time. TJD winded up again and Harley kicked her in the gut before sweeping the leg and crawling over to punch her repeatedly in the face while The Joker's Daughter laughed.

"Shut up! Stop laughing like him! You don't even know him!"

"Doooooon't tell me what to do!
And doooooon't tell me what to say!
And pleeeeeease when I put a knife in you!
Roll up in a ball and decay away!" The Joker's Daughter sang before taking her switchblade and jabbing it into Harley's side. Harley fell off of her in pain before ripping the knife out and they both got up. The Joker's Daughter's nose was now bleeding and she had a grin ear to ear. "I gotta say Harls, you're even more pathetic than I expected. I thought you were smart enough to not get hit by that, but you really took everything my dad taught you and threw it out the window to try and be a good guy. How's that working out for you again? 17 more life sentences to serve? Hehehehehehehe..."

"What could you... possibly know about... what me and him had?" Harley asked out of breath.

"I know you were weak. Pathetic. Sloppy. A complete and utter failure. You were supposed to be the next generation of joy in this city in case the old guano man finally lost his cool, haha! Instead you threw it all away." The Joker's Daughter then spread her arms out and curtsied as another lightning strike from Livewire went off behind her. "That's why he chose me! Only I see things the way they're meant to! I see the funny side like him! And you're a boring, cynical critic just like the rest of them! You couldn't roll with the punches and you were weak! I'm everything you should've been but better. Even better looking, hahahahahaha!"

"He what!?" Harley shouted before tackling The Joker's Daughter again. The two got into an all out brawl, pulling at each other's hair and punching each other in the face repeatedly. The Joker's Daughter quickly pulled up Harley's left hand and bit her index and middle finger, seemingly trying to rip them off before Harley punched her in the gut twice with her free arm and uppercutted her off. She reached for her mallet and smashed it into TJD's head. TJD crumpled up into a ball on the ground and started to whimper. It sounded like she was crying as Harley approached her.

"How could you!?" Duela asked in tears, not looking up. "I just wanted to be loved! How could you?" Harley actually felt sympathetic for a moment because it was at this moment that Duela reminded her too much of Harley. She lowered her mallet.

"Kid, look I-"

"How could you be so stupid?" The Joker's Daughter turned around with a smile on her face and a sock puppet of The Joker on her hand. Black buttons made the eye sockets and green marker made the hair and eyebrows, but what made this sock puppet disturbing was the teeth made of nails. And what was even more disturbing was she could actually do a really good impression of the Joker with it as well.

"Don't you know Harley? Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger!" The sock puppet said before The Joker's Daughter jumped up and the puppet bit into Harley's neck. Harley pushed her away and pulled the sock puppet out of her neck before charging at The Joker's Daughter once more.

. . .

Black Spider groaned in agony as he was shocked in all areas. He had to act quick before he was toast, he already knew his back was in serious trouble considering his lack of protection. He was able to get out enough shurikens to throw at each copy of Livewire, causing the fake ones to disappear and the real one to get nailed in the nose.

"YOU FUCKING LITTLE- AGG!" Livewire shouted in anger and pain. She tried to pull the shuriken from the bridge of her nose but Black Spider ran at her full speed, tackling her off the manor. As they fell, he shot a grappling hook at the roof and the two of them boomeranged back into the building.

Speaking of Boomerang

"Ow!"

"Ugh!"

"Ah!"

"Oh!"

Boomerang reached the bottom of the hill with a "fuck!" After falling for so long and hitting his head so many times Boomerang was dazed. He wobbled to and fro for a second as he regained his bearings.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaah! My bleedin' hea'!... Izzit bleedin'?" Boomerang asked himself as he started walking around the manor on spaghetti legs trying to regain his balance all the while continuing to groan.

Cleo was watching (Y,N) tear up the Wayne Manor library and the surrounding areas with a bit of nervousness. She was worried for his safety now that it sounded like they were surrounded and was more worried about him than herself. That was until she heard someone begin to moan. She looked behind her and saw an ominous figure covered in branches and dirt looming over her and groaning. It sounded like it was speaking some form of broken English to her.

"We'er yer dern 'ere?" It said as it outstretched its arms like it was going to strangle her. She let out a quick scream before activating her trusty device and pointing it at the creature, causing a swarm of rats to appear out of nowhere and attack the monster. It tried swatting the rats away as they gnawed at it's flesh and caused him to run around trying to find a way out of this.

It was just not Boomerang's night.

As he ran away, Cleo completely unaware it was her fellow Block A cell mate, she looked back into the manor and saw Bruce Wayne fighting off Jane. Now she started to get a little panicky. She then got on her comms.

"Guys, (Y,N) and Jane are in trouble! We have to act!"

"I'm a little busy here!" Firefly said as he and Killer Frost were now in an all out beam struggle of fire and ice.

"Same- Ack!" Copperhead began to say before as Croc drove his claws into Copperhead's stomach. It seemed like Croc wanted to grab his neck and rip him in two afterwards but quick on his feet, Copperhead bit the palm of Croc's hand as it got closer to his face. Croc detached himself from Copperhead's stomach and dragged Copperhead across the walkway, leaving a blood trail from Copperhead's scraped back before throwing him in the water.

Livewire didn't bother answering as she charged up an attack on Black Spider who was on his comms.

"Waller, come in!"

"What is it dammit I was in the middle of something!"

"Waller, I have a stowaway here! An inmate from Belle Reeve in Gotham! I believe she goes by Livewire!" He snitched.

"Livewire!? Do not engage, Black Spider! Do you understand!? She's on another mission for me!"

"Another? Why do you have two teams in Gotham!?"

"Know your role, convict! I don't have to tell you all my missions! I gave you a direct order, dammit!"

"The problem is we've already made contact and I believe she has the looks to kill!" Black Spider said as the lights flickered.

"Referencing Mötley Crüe ain't gonna save your life anymore!" Livewire growled.

Back at Belle Reeve it was very obvious things were not going as Waller hoped when she sent her teams out to Gotham. When Waller started swearing like a sailor someone was close to getting their head blown up.

"MOTHER FUCKER!" Waller exclaimed. She looked at Ecnonomos. "Switch me back to Team C!" She ordered him.

"Yes ma'am!" He quickly responded switching the comms.

"Livewire stand down now!"

"Sorry, Warden! I can't let this slide! No one turns the lights off on Livewire!" Leslie responded as a giant electric ball was forming in between her hands.

"Except me, and I'm currently hovering over a red button with your name on it, so Stand. Down." Waller warned her. Livewire stopped in her tracks hearing the threat before angrily relenting.

Another person who missed out on Cleo's call to action was The Joker's Daughter. She was too busy laughing as she and Harley practically had a lightsaber duel with her crowbar and Harley's mallet. Harley had gotten much more aggressive and The Joker's Daughter loved it. They battled up to Harley's motorbike before Harley drop kicked her over it. The Joker's Daughter knocked the motorbike over and began to stand up before Harley jumped off the side of the motorbike and smashed the mallet over TJD's head. And by smashed, it broke a hole through the mallet causing TJD to practically wear it like a helmet before she fell over limp.

"Good riddance." Harley said, she wasn't foolish enough to feel sympathy again. She simply pushed the body away from the motorbike and brought the motorbike to stand up right. She winced at the stinging feeling from her stab wound as she mounted the bike.
She turned it on and started to rev it up but didn't notice The Joker's Daughter's corpse seemingly sit up, nor could she hear her start to giggle. She took the mallet off her head and then put a hand over her mouth to stop Harley from hearing her laugh before standing up. She clipped her crowbar back to her belt before picking the mallet back up and jumping onto the back of Harley's motorbike, laughing as she strangled her with the mallet's handle. Harley then floored it involuntarily before trying to punch The Joker's Daughter off her back.

. . .

Deadshot did not care. Black Spider was attacked, he did not care. Harley and Boomerang hadn't been talking, he did not care. One side of him had frost building up and the other had ash starting to build, he did not care. He had a job to do and a plan to go with it and none of this really stopped him.

He brought out the squad on a mission to stop The Joker no matter the cost. And he decided the cost was a high profile murder to draw out The Batman in an attempt to not only get some intel on Joker, but to blow the whistle on The Suicide Squad. He knew Batman couldn't let something like this go without bringing Waller to justice for her war crimes caused through Task Force X and as thanks for helping take down the Joker, he'd bust Waller and help Floyd go free to see his daughter. He even bought walkie-talkies so his team could communicate without Waller finding out where he was going and what his plans were.

And his plans required someone to die. He had it all planned, Bruce Wayne was having a high class party to promote an old friend in some political bullshit Floyd didn't care about, so as the squad took out security and looked for any Joker goons to dispose of as well, he would pick off one of the politicians and then when Batman came to investigate, let him know the plans. The only tricky part was deciding who to kill.

His first plan was Bruce Wayne himself, but with all of these uninvited guests he had to improvise. He was able to set himself up in a position and decide from the clearest shot. Luckily it did happen to be Bruce Wayne as he was fighting off some drunk making a mess in his house.

"HEY, DEADBEAT! A LITTLE HELP!?" Killer Frost shouted at him.

"You can't beat a crippled burn victim with a backpack on? Aren't you a walking North Pole!?" He responded. He resumed aiming before he got another call.

"Lawton what the hell is your problem!?" Waller yelled at him.

"Stopping The Joker." He said deadpan.

"And what the hell does that have to do with Wayne Manor!?"

"What makes you think-"

"Don't play stupid with me! Black Spider ratted you out!" This ruins the plans. "I have no idea what you think you're doing but I want you and your team out of there right now do you hear me!?"

"Oh yeah, I'm listening." Deadshot said as he aimed the rifle at a brunette woman in a dress. She was arguing with Bruce Wayne so she seemed important enough to kill if she wasn't trying to impress Bruce. So he steadied himself and took aim. He was getting ready to pull the trigger before he heard a motorbike coming towards him. This not being his first rodeo he took the shot before looking at his distraction, missing the fact that the "drunk" from earlier was (Y,N) (L,N) and he turned into smoke before pushing his target out of the way. Deadshot turned around to see through the fire and ice came Harley and The Joker's Daughter, with Harley driving erratically. The two had driven around the woods of the manor and up to Deadshot's side of the hill before flying down the hill and into Wayne Manor,

which is right where (Y,N) truly came back into the fold.

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