The Darkest of Knights

Cyrah rolled her eyes. "Really? I mean c'mon- all of this trouble for one metahuman? Even if we WERE this evil, then why did I try to heal her? Come on, do YOU even beleive the junk you're saying?" She taunted, arming her sonic cannon and aiming it at Poision Ivy.

"Only proving my point." Seab said causally. Realizing he had been playing with a knife, he holstered it and looked at the speeding landscape outside. Hac however made a small screech at the sudden increase of speed.
"Tell me why we're doing this." Hac said in the the screech.
"Don't know. I'm hoping the guy will be useful." he replied to Hac.

Ivy turned to wind, escaping with a bruise on her back that would definitely be sore later. "Karm, listen to me! Your name is Karmy Anderson. You snap fingers and make portals, you love coffee and glue, and chickens....Your best friend is Alice, and your brother is Casey!" She shouted, telling all the basic facts about Karm she knew. "Poison Ivy is lying to you. It's her word against two other's!"
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Poison Ivy danced around the gun. If she could get close enough she could whisper her threat, one Quinn couldn't here lest she be thrust into confusion again. She decided to reveal it a way that would point at Karm, without pointing at her at all.

"You think my life is easy? The one who killed my best friend is so close, I could get them with one swipe! Quinn was and is my only friend!" She was referring to the old Harley Quinn, not that Karm would know. She would think Poison Ivy was talking about the Riders, and how close they were. She skittered around Cyrah, never staying in one place for more than a second.

[I feel like I'm spotlighting my character o_o;;]

Quinns staff clattered to the ground. "Casey?" her fighting stance fell. "Thats.." she placed a hand to her head and she tried to remember. She had placed her hand over the large wound over her temple and blood began to seep out. "My.." she tried to remember.

"You're bleeding! Karm!" Ivy hustled forward. "Trust me. Please. I can help." She whispered, reaching a hand over to check the wound.

"Your brother." A voice came from the top of a building. Alice had hopped off and landed in between Poison Ivy and Karmy, she unclipped an incendiary immediately and held it up to Poison Ivy, signaling her to back off. She knelt next to her best friend and placed a comforting hand over her shoulder. "Hey, how are you buddy?" She asked with such concern that Karmy couldn't help but look up at Alice. Sunlight sprinkled and bounced off her face in such a way that made her look so sincere. Honest. And she smiled, making it harder to bare, "How are you feeling?" Her voice was none other described as rich, inviting even. She felt terrible listening to it for so long without a price to pay, Karmy felt like she needed to give Alice something to hear it again; her voice was golden. "I can help you Karmy." Creamy even. Alice's arm was around her and it felt so comforting, it felt like she really meant what she was saying, it was an honest hand that was resting over Karmy's quivering shoulder. Everyone was silent as they knew how close the two. They knew how long its been since the two were together; and Karmy couldn't even remember her. The sun was setting quickly, and twilight had already hit.

Batman emerged from the shadows. "Always a pleasure to see you Zero. We should catch a movie sometime." Batman said rather plainly, though it was an intended joke. "You had several memories lost, have you been able to recover any of those memories back? Amnesia seems to be sweeping this city like wildfire. And your help on memory recover would help a lot, Karmy and myself suffer from amnesia. I pray its temporary." He said coldly as the sun had finally set. His features disappearing from his face.

Seab shot a glare at John, hand twitching to a knife on his belt.
"It's not that surprising. This is the scene of a murder. Not to mention a half hawk, half human mutant and a freak in tights just sped into it at god knows how fast." he said, stepping out of the car and looking around. Once Hac flew out of the car, Seab shut the door while watching Hac fly up.
"Next time, I say we just try carrying him through the sky." Hac called foully.
"I'd enjoy it, especially if he panicked, doubt we could though." Seab said as Hac flew down, perching on his shoulder. He made sure to say the last part in English, letting John hear. He walked closer to the building, looking back at John with his cold eyes as he beckoned him forward.

[I can't drag this out anymore after a freakin post like that DX!]

A familiar peace, like the one she had experienced in her dream, came over Quinn. She felt.. safe. She had not felt this when she was with Poison Ivy. She had always felt rushed and in danger when she was with her. But now.. "How.." she stammered, her body felt suddenly weakened. "How can you help me? I thought you were trying to kill me..."

Alice smiled nastalgically in sweet reminisce. How she wanted to forget that. "I haven't tried to kill you in six years Karmy. I wasn't lying when I said you saved my life. I was in the clutches of Slade; I wasn't at the point of death, but you pulled me out of Slade's grip. You talked me out of it. You saved me. You don't remember this?" Karmy shook her head sadly. Alice thought for a moment, as soon as Rose chickened off Alice became furious and tried to find her but bumped into the Insomnios. They gave her articles of Karmy's attire that made her Karmy. She pulled them out. "I think this belongs to you." She handed a neatly folded headband and bag to her.

"Personal conversation. Just don't get to idiotic and you'll be fine." Seab said, a small smile showing.
"Now are we going to do this or what?" he rasped, taking a knife from his belt and toying with it.

The lithe blond sorta just stood there for a long time, staring at the tracer and the the twenty in her hand, her large eyes twitching slightly as she realized quite suddenly she was all alone, on a street with a burning cab crunched up in a crater. Her brows rose as her free hand reached into her palm, grabbing the tracer between her fingers and staring at it intently.

F*ck these idiots! Screw them all! How could they leave her all alone so suddenly!? They were having a conversation and then they all just ran away! Like cowards!

Mame crammed the tracer into her money pocket along with the twenty, hot molten tears dribbling down her cheeks and chin, pattering against the lapels of her jacket as she stumbled out into the ruined street. Her foot snagged on a pot hole, ripping the plastic strap of her flip flop out of the hole on the bottom, ruining the shoe. She let out a weak growl as she fell to her skinless knees, the coagulated blood shluffing off onto the dirty rubble covered street.

She sat there in the middle of the street, letting the flames of the cab lick at her shivering frame as she ground her teeth so tightly her gums began to bleed. Her fists were clenched, her nails cutting into her palm as she rocked back and forth. Suddenly the din of the flames was muted, the sound of cars in the distance and people screaming and shouting all lost to her as she arched her head back, tears streaming down her dirty face as she screamed to the sky, screamed in fear and sorrow, why was she so alone all of a sudden!? It was too fast! Too frightening!

Mame was not used to things changing to rapidly, it was terrifying, it made the neurons in her brain ebb and spark with painful volts of electric chemicals, forcing pain into her skull, almost as if someone had just unloaded a bullet into her eye sockets. She stared up at the sky, wide eyed and screaming, she screamed until her teeth vibrated and her throat felt like it would tear, her lungs straining, begging her to breath in. She would not, she needed someone, anyone, throwing her little tantrum just to cope with the sudden change into loneliness. It as the only way she could cope with the situation without her brain losing function, she didn't want to go unconscious, not now!

All she could hope was that she could scream out this mental agony and hope to god that no one found her, which was contradictory, but in all honesty she wasn't able to comprehend that concept, not at the moment.

After she finally inhaled, unable to keep screaming without losing consciousness she slammed her palms into the asphalt and coughing loudly, finally catching her breath enough to start screaming again, crying out to whatever bloody gods dictated her to ease this horrible pain, to ease this loneliness, even as much of a sociopath as she was, this pain, she would wish it upon no one.

Mame hated being alone

Poison Ivy cursed. That speech of whatsherface's was too pure and kind. Much more sincere than anything Poison Ivy could've faked. "Well, to hell with it." She murmured to herself in decision. Of guns she had none, but a well pointed vine with thorns worked just as well.
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Ivy nodded, urging Mercy onwards with her kindness. If anybody could break through to Karm, it would be Alice Mau.

"I'm not saying you should be afraid." Seab said shrugging, honestly not caring...yet.
"As for a plan, I didn't quite have one. Usually I'd try to fly to the roof and work from there. Obviously we can't do that." he muttered, staring at John.

Quinns breath caught in her throat when she laid her eyes on the olive green bag. "Is that.." she said reaching out towards it with her right hand. The one with the mysterious ring on it. "Mine?" she placed at her hand on the bag. An electrical pulse suddenly shot from the ring through Quinns body as soon as she touched the bag and she fell back, but she felt a strong arm hold her steady as memories flooded her mind.

Ivy bursts out in a smile. "Hi! I'm Ivy! It's great to be with you guys!"

'Sure, that's what I was going to do.' Zero said to Karmy...

Luna was pulled to a hug "agh!" but she didnt hug back "uh... why are you hugging me? a stranger..." Luna said

Sky growled at Karmy when she ran into her. With one paw, she turned Karmy in the other direction.

"Karmy, if this is what its like being your friend then I might pass." Malice said with her eyes closed and her hands to her hips.

"Titans..." she smiled. "Go."

"Karmy... you really helped me change my life. I'm glad we met. So why don't we go downtown and kick some butt? Together?"

"Karm, thanks. Thanks for just being crazy." Ivy giggled.

"You took out Ben, helped me find my daughter, told me about my son's fate without beating around hte bush, and now this." Casius said to Karmy.

"Luna hugged Karmy back and whispered to her ear "Its no problem, I owe you." She then let go of Karmy and looked at her neck "It'll take a while, don't worry." She said to Karmy"

"Never give up Karmy."

She remembered everything. Memory after memory. Her mother and father. All her friends. Her best friend. Her brother. She saw the government smash through the window 15 years ago. She saw her brother fall unconscious before the portal closed. She remembered waking up to the smell of tofu and meeting the Insomnios. She recounted walking through her deserted home and stumbling upon the long dead bodies of her parents. She remembered the Titans. The coppery smell of blood filled her memory when she remembered stabbing her biological father to death. She remembered being taken again. She remembered the Midnight Riders. She remembered the last two years. And she remembered the past two days. Remembered every awful thing that she had done. Everything that she had done to her friends...'

Karmy Anderson opened her eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks, to see Alice's smiling face. "Oh god..." a wave of guilt hit Karmy like a ton of bricks. "I'm so sorry Mercy." and, he bag gripped tightly in her hands, she pulled Alice into a hug like no other.

Karmy remembered who had tricked her.

Her eyes snapped open just in time to see a thick thorn vine heading towards them and she snapped her fingers. "YOU!" she screamed as they landed a few feet away. "You manipulated me!" she shouted, enraged. "You made me think that I was someone I was not. You were controlling me." With one fluid motion, she had her bag safely around her shoulders once again. "And now you'er gonna pay." Karmy reached into her with both hands and withdrew the nozzle to a large flamethrower. She aimed it at Poison Ivy, her finger hovering over the trigger.

"Say hello to my little friend." and she pulled the trigger

(Cheesy as hell.)

"What is always there until you say its name? See the flames begin to crawl, upward. Taste the anguish as they fall, unheard. What is heavy forward, but not backwards? I've got a notebook full of misshapen words, I'll never speak them anymore... Except for when I speak them. I have an eye but cannot see, I am stronger than any man but I have no limbs. Whoever makes it tells it not, whoever takes it, knows it not, whoever knows it, wants it not. I am larger than a castle, yet lighter than air, a thousand men cannot move me...." The man recited, twirling his cane in a room decorated with fine tapestry and rather expensive lamp fixtures, classic novels and a fancy bookcase. He rose from his chair still twirling his cane. "What am I?"

(Oh flip flipping fricking frick frack snappadoodles! The riddler is jumping in! =0 )

Poison Ivy rose an eyebrow at the flamethrower. "I don't think I did much to you, Quinn. Didn't I patch you up, give you a home to sleep in, and not kill you?" The villainess said. The corners of her mouth dipped downward into a frown. "In fact, I was much too kind to somebody who killed my best friend. I better make up for that right now." She hissed, more plants and vines sprouting through cracks in the asphalt.
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"Crud." Ivy whispered.

"What are you talking about?!" Karmy shouted and snapped her fingers. "I never killed Harley." she appeared behind Poison Ivy and tackled her. "SHE was the one who slit my throat!" and she pulled out a knife.

Poison Ivy pushed the girl off, staggering upwards. "HARLEY was an idiot! There is no denying that! I have no clue what the hell she was doing, but you didn't need to kill her!" Her face twisted into an angry expression.

"You call yourself a hero," she spat, "But you kill more people than you save." Vines began attempting to coil around Karm's ankles.

Karmy tried to get away but one of the vines tripped her and started to drag her towards Poison Ivy. "I didn't kill her you psychotic b*tch!" using the knife she began to stab into the vines, in hope to get it to release her. "I call myself a hero because I am one. I have saved more people then you have killed!"

Poison Ivy noted the alarm in Karm's voice. Sincere, honest alarm. She....she...

"You didn't kill Harley." Poison Ivy said, not a question, a statement. Her voice cold and plain. Memories fogged up over the years, but it was returning to her. The vines released Karm. "You. Didn't. Kill. Harley." She repeated. All this time...it wasn't even the hippie. But then, who...?

The memory returned in a flash.

Poison Ivy turned around, and walked away. She left without a fight. Completely peaceful. Anyone could stop her, if they wanted, but it wouldn't do much. The villainess was deep in thought.

It wasn't her....All this time wasted....How the hell did I forget?! The one I'm after, it's not her......
It's demon girl.

(I feel like a total idiot for forgetting who killed Harley XDDDDD I honestly thought it was Karm. Until today. )

"I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!" Karm snapped her fingers and portaled in fron of Poison Ivy and sent a round house kick towards he head. "You manipulated me! You stole and murdered and kept me in the dark about who I really was."

Poison Ivy ducked, her expression angry again.
"With good reason. If somebody killed your best friend, the one who gave the speech so sweet I'm going to get diabetes, wouldn't you freak? Wouldn't you track that vile person down to avenge your friend?" She paused to smirk. "Oh, yeah, you're a hero. You're too good to get your hands dirty and fight a little."

She rose a hand, as if to punch Karm, but instead slapped her straight across the face. "You may not be finished with me, hero, but I'm finished with you." She hissed, turning to depart again.

She had bigger people to go after. More important people to kill. She was not wasting any more time with the hippie.

Even if she did get on her damn nerves.

Alice wasn't about to let Karmy have all the fun, letting out a battle cry, she ran and tackled Poison Ivy and kept running. She ran into a coffee shop window and smashed through the glass. She pulled the incendiary grenade she had out earlier, pointing it over her. "You're going to rot in Arkham.." Alice threatened.

Poison Ivy laughed hollowly. "You people never know when to give up."

I'm....
The villainess staggered back up, shaking slightly and with several cuts on herself. Blood was gushing out in her side, a ruby red stain already developing.
Done....
"How can I rot in Arkham, when there's barely anything left in there?" she replied coldly. Now she didn't care if she was arrested or not. All this time...it was the wrong person....
With.....
"You can call yourselves heroes, fighters of justice and all that crap, but you've all done something you regret. Something evil, I bet. Sure, you save a few lives here and there," She tossed her hands from side to side to demonstrate, "But the little lives you save are almost nothing to the big ones you kill in your eyes." She spat her words out now, angry. "That's the only reason you act like heroes, isn't it?"
You....
"How many of you are actual, honest to goodness heroes? Some of you are no better than the idiots you locked up in Arkham."
(This feels so ooc. T.T )

Poison Ivy had smacked Karmy right in her wound so she fall back, bleeding and dizzy. "You b*tch." she said struggling to get up into a sitting position. "You think that you're any better? How many people have you killed just to get what ever the hell you want. You're selfish! I have given up everything just to help people! What? Did daddy not give you enough ponies when you were a kid? Did mommy not give you enough hugs? You're a selfish prick and all you look out for is number 1!" she threw the knife at Poison Ivy. "At least I try and protect my friends!" Before the knife could hit her, Mercy shoved her out of the way. "Well.. They could help me a bit more!" Karmy stood up slowly. "I could have hit her with that one Merc!!"