Chapter 15: The Girl Who Laughs (Harley Quinn)
(Our heroes are about to face a new threat. The threat is known as the Society led by Gorilla Grodd. Now Shazam, Green Arrow, Harley Quinn, Black Canary, Jaune, Virginia, Powergirl and Team Hanzo are seen at the Slaughter Swamp watching Deadshot and Scarecrow arguing.)
Deadshot: Can you and your boys hurry up? I don't need Grodd to blow my head up because boys are so slow!
Jaune: I wonder who else is playing on Grodd's team.
(Then a spear almost hits Virginia, but Shazam catches it. Then the girl Jaune didn't want to to see again has come.)
Pyrrha: Hello again!
Jaune: (growls) You...
(Then Poison Ivy appears)
Poison Ivy: Well, good work, Pyrrha.
Jaune: Wasn't it enough for you to expose my transcripts? Now you join this Grodd guy?
Poison Ivy: Is this how you treat your friends, Jauney Boy?
Virginia: She stopped being his friend after betraying him!
Harley Quinn: You are dead to him, redhead!
Poison Ivy: Harleen, why don't we let them solve their problem while we solve ours.
Harley Quinn: Just a question, Ivy. Why?
Poison Ivy: All I do is for the green, Harleen.
Harley Quinn: (laughs) I was hoping you would say that.
(They fight. Though Ivy has her vines and toxins to help, Harley is too fast and tricky for the human plant.)
Harley Quinn: No more sleepovers for you.
(Harley runs over to see Green Arrow and Black Canary choking in fear gas while the rest of the heroes are still fighting Pyrrha. Then Scarecrow walks over and sprays more of the gas at Harley.)
Scarecrow: Face your fears...
Harley Quinn: (inhaling the gas through her nose and then sneezing) Please! I used to huff this stuff for kicks!
Scarecrow: Then you'll appreciate my new formula. (sprays Harley more)
Harley Quinn: (groggy) Hey... (falls over)
(Harley gags as she looks up to see an even scarier Scarecrow.)
Scarecrow: You have a high tolerance... but everyone has SOMETHING to fear. Just like your Arc friend.
(They fight. Despite being doped up on fear gas, Harley shows that Dr. Crane is no match for the former clown princess of crime.)
Harley Quinn: (holding her head) Ugh... instant hangover...
Scarecrow: (sitting up) We're not... done yet...
(Scarecrow throws a gas bomb at Harley's feet. The smoke envelops her as she collapses. When she comes to, the swamp has turned into an amusement park. And in front of her is the gaping maw that's the entrance to a house of horrors. From inside the house, a very, very familiar laugh is heard.)
Harley Quinn: (dazed) Puh...Puddin'?
(Out of the darkness of the maw and the fear gas smoke steps the Joker, dead these last several years...but still very much sadistic-looking. He slowly
approaches Harley as she looks almost petrified.)
Joker: Harley, darling! Look at you! Such a big girl! Cosplaying a superhero. LARPing in the Batcave. But you hear it, don't you?
Harley Quinn: (still dazed) Hear what?
Joker: The REAL you, buried under the floorboards, SCRATCH, SCRATCH, SCRATCHing to get out! (pulls a knife and mimes cutting his throat with it) The one who'd cut her friends' throats... and LAUGH about it.
(We turn to see Batman, tied to a chair and struggling to get out. Harley is now smiling widely...and in her old Harley Quinn costume from her days with the Joker.)
Joker: Hehehehe! THAT's my girl! (As Harley approaches Batman, though, her smile fades, as if she still remembers what she went through during the original Injustice War. She lowers her knife and drops it.) Oh, Harley! (points a gun at Harley's head) Always such a disappointment! Why do I bother?!
Harley: (swats gun aside, with conviction) Ain't no slick fella in a cheap suit and cheaper grin telling me who I am ever again! We had mad love, once upon a time. But now that's OVER, Mistah J!!
(The battle between the two former "lovebirds" is brutal, even considering that the Joker is just a figment of Harley's fears. But she fights through those fears and puts "Puddin'" out of her misery for good!)
Harley Quinn: Nobody puts Harleen in a corner!
(Harley comes out of the state, seeing that she was fighting Scarecrow again. The rest of the team is also conscious and standing by the dock.)
Harley Quinn: Let's go before it's anchors aweigh! (runs to the couple)
(The boats speed off, but Green Arrow uses explosive-tip arrows to destroy them. But, when the explosions subside, a rumble is heard beneath the Swamp. From out of the muck comes a towering Swamp Thing...and he is NOT happy!)
Swamp Thing: This swamp is protected!
Harley Quinn: (surprised) Swampy? I heard you were dead!
Swamp Thing: I guard the Green, the plant life of Earth. As long as it lives, I cannot die! (swats at the tean, with Harley side-flipping over the hand)
Harley Quinn: Swampy, wait! It ain't us you wanna bash--we're the good guys!
Swamp Thing: Good? Bad? I care little for humanity. But I do care when my swamp burns!
(Swamp Thing shrinks in size to about Superman's height, evening things up. But Harley still has a tough time against the man-turned-monster. Still, she does her best...and that seems to be enough as Swamp Thing hits his knees in defeat. The rest of the team has come too and are hiding from gunfire from the henchmen that didn't get blown up.)
Harley Quinn: Mama always said I had a black thumb. NOW ya ready to be all ears? It's Scarecrow and his goons you want. They're mixing toxic gas right in your backyard. We came to STOP 'em!
Swamp Thing: Hmm... I see...
(Swamp Thing raises his arms and, much like they do with Ivy, vines grow out of the swamp and entrap the henchmen. Scarecrow hops on an airboat and speeds away, a henchmen shooting at the trio. But Swamp Thing makes thick vines grow to block the bullets as Scarecrow escapes.)
Swamp Thing: If they return, I will be ready.
Harley Quinn: Aw, Swamp Thing, you are ah-mazing! (punches Swamp Thing's shoulder) If ya ever want on the team, we'd love to have ya.
Swamp Thing: I would consider that...should our interests align. For now, go. This swamp must heal.
(walks away and sinks back into the swamp)
Jaune: To think the past has come to haunt me...
Virginia: It's about that girl, isn't it?
Jaune: The worst thing is that I will still see her again.
Yagyu: Once a backstabbing bitch, always a backstabbing bitch.
(The Society is planning something. And Jaune's past has come to haunt him. What will happen next?)
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