Batgirl didn’t have time to think as the various brainwashed beauties pelted\nspherical objects with sharp and jagged spikes in her direction. She quickly\ndogged and ran, kicking a few of the women down and finding an exit to run down\nthrough. As much she Batgirl didn’t want to kick helpless, hypnotized women that\nwere secretly being mind controlled by The Riddler, she had no other choice.
\nFor now, she had to find the source that was behind the chaos. She had to find\nThe Riddler.
\n“How can you run home from first base when you haven’t hit a home run, Batgirl?”\nRiddler’s voice taunted from the intercom before laughing hysterically.
\nTrying to shut out the mocking laughter, Batgirl ran faster, trying to find\nanother hallway to escape down. Before she knew it, she was surrounded by cells\nholding the likes of The Joker, Two-Face, Clock King, and every other baddie\nGotham had ever seen.
\nAll except for the female prisoners, Batgirl reminded herself, seeing some of\nthe cell doors opened and hearing the ballplayers in pursuit of her, still ball\nshaped throwing weapons in her direction. Riddler’s freed the female prisoners\nphysically, just to entrap their minds under his control.
\nHis control. The Riddler traded their physical prison for a mental one. Now,\nthey were all on his ball team, all wearing his softball uniforms with their\nnames on the back and his question marks. How long had Riddler planned this, to\nhave the names of not only the captured athletes, but the female prisoners,\nguards, nurse and staff as well?
\nHe’s diabolical. A diabolical genius.
\nBatgirl darted to the left, and then the right. A fly ball missed her head\nbarely and was now embedded in the wall by razor blades extending from it’s\ncontoured surface. Batgirl was reaching the end of one of the hallways, and it\nwas hard to find another exit.
\n“Looks like plates are loaded and you have nowhere to go, Batgirl!” Riddler\nshouted from the intercom.
\n“I admit things are hazy, Riddler,” Batgirl shouted back.
\nReaching into her utility belt, Batgirl turned around and threw gas bomb balls\nat the oncoming ballplayers. Hazy indeed! The hallways filled with smoke as the\ngirls started to cough, dropping their balls and falling to the floor. Batgirl\nused the opportunity to run past them and try a different door- a door she knew\nled into the heart of Arkham.
\nThough the gas balls slowed a lot of the women down, there were still others in\nhot pursuit. They were further away, but if Batgirl didn’t rush to find the\nRiddler, and fast, she would be in terrible danger.
\nGoing up a winding flight of stairs, Batgirl searched frantically for the\ncontrol room of Arkham. Where else would an egomaniac like The Riddler be but in\nthe heart of the Arkham Asylum, screaming and laughing like a lunatic over the\nintercom. He has said many strange, cryptic things in her sprint, but soon, he\nwould be eating his words, for with a strong kick, her mighty boot knocked the\ndoor of the control room open and-
\nThere was the woman standing there. Puzzelina was her name. Beautiful,\npenetrating blue eyes, spiky red hair, brilliant. No wonder The Riddler fell in\nlove with her... or merely just fancied her with all the adoration a narcissist\ncould offer outside of himself. She held the gun up fiercely, her expression\njust as angry and tense as her hands on the weapon.
\n“Stop, Puzzelina!” Batgirl shouted. “It’s over. You’re done.”
\n“Nothing’s done, Batgirl! Me and the Riddler were having a gas before you showed\nup, and now, you will too!”
\nA gas gun. It shout a heavy cloud in Batgirl’s direction, but the bat beauty was\nready. She had her gas mask raised to her nose as she sidestepped through the\nheavy cloud, kicking Puzzelina in her stomach. The malicious moll fell on her\nbutt with a loud PLOP! The gas gun sailed from her hand and skidded to the\nfloor. Some of the approaching ballplayers instantly smelled the gas and went to\nsleep before Batgirl closed the door, barring access to anyone else that may\nhave wished to come in.
\n“Okay, Puzzelina... let’s settle this like gentlewomen. Where’s The Riddler?”
\nBut Puzzelina couldn’t offer any answers. Apparently, when she went down, her\nhand didn’t move fast enough to protect her nose again. She was knocked out with\nher own gas.
\nPolice arrived at Arkham Asylum as fast as they could. All of the women were\ngone.
\n“The Riddler’s plotting something with them,” Batgirl explained to the police.\n“They’re still in his mental control, and still in trouble.”
\n“This is horrid,” one of the officers stated.
\n“Don’t worry... I’m hot on his trail. He won’t be getting his kicks for long.”
\n“There’s no kicking in softball, Batgirl! You played dirty.”
\nThe interruption came from Puzzelina. She was in handcuffs now, being escorted\nby other police officers. Now, exiting the building and approaching Batgirl on\nthe lawn as she was surrounded by Gotham’s finest, Puzzelina didn’t seem so\ntough. She still had those striking features, but she was weak in bondage,\nushered by those police as her arms were restrained. The fire that seemed to\naccompany those icy blue eyes were gone.
\nA smirk came onto Puzzelina’s face. “But I like it when they play dirty.” She\nwas just close enough to kiss Batgirl on the cheek.
\nThough repulsed, Batgirl maintained a cool and serious face looking back at\nPuzzelina. “Sorry, Puzzelina... but I don’t bat for that side of the team.”
\n“That’s what they all say,” Puzzelina said with a grin. “Well, I guess I’m going\nto jail, Batgirl. If I’m lucky, I’ll be deemed insane and get to wait on my\nfuture husband, The Riddler, here in Arkham.”
\nBatgirl nodded. “I wish you luck. I doubt a man like The Riddler would ever want\nto get married when he drops his molls like flies.”
\n“I’m nothing like them, you hear me!” Puzzelina shouted with insane fury. “I’m a\nroyal puzzle, babe... the real enigma. The Riddler will never get enough of me.”
\n‘So they all say.”
\n“Okay, lady, let’s go,” one of Puzzelina’s restraining officers ordered as they\nwalked her to the car.
\n“Just you wait, Batgirl! You haven’t heard the last of Puzzelina! I’ll make you\nbow down and kiss your heels when I’m back on the streets!”
\nBatgirl sighed before she looked back at the officers. “I’ve wasted enough time.\nI need to find The Riddler.”
\n“Puzzelina did a good job of using my patented Rid Lipstick on that poor sap of\na football player... but now the game must be taken to different heights.”
\nAlexis leaned into Riddler’s face and stared with those zombified eyes of hers.\n“What do you mean, Master Riddler, Supreme Riddlemeister of Riddle City?”
\nRiddler nodded, pleased that the brainwashing equipment he used had linked the\nladies so perfectly to his brain. They were so on cue. “Well, Alexis... now that\nI’ve ditched Puzzelina at the Arkham Asylum to take the fall, there’s no doubt\nthat she’ll be apprehended by Batgirl and in police custody now. Oh well. It’s\nnot like I don’t have some of the craziest women in Gotham under my control,\nthanks to you and your athletic pals.”
\n“No sweat, Riddler, my amazing king of Riddle City. Everything we do is for\nyou.”
\n“Precisely. And now what we are going to do is have our first ball game in\nGotham. Show them what female softball players can do and why they should be\ntaken more seriously in the world of sports.”
\nAll around the ballfield, the women chanted in agreement, “Yes, Lord Riddler.”
\nRiddler grinned. “Good. Now grab some bats and go wild in the streets, ladies.”
\nIt didn’t take long for Batgirl to wonder where the chaos was going to strike\nnext. It was everywhere. Catwoman was swinging bats at cars and smashing\nwindows. Marsha, Queen of Diamonds was smashing out jewelry store windows and\nstealing diamonds. Some Arkham nurses were seen snatching purses from women and\nthreatening them with sluggers. Luckily, no one had been hurt.
\nYet, Batgirl reasoned. Just think if any of those held up victims says no to\nthose brainwashed ladies... then a murder rap could be on their hands.
\nBatgirl couldn’t get lost in the chaos. The person to find was The Riddler. But\nwhere could he be? Where could he have gone?
\nHe’s abandoned the woman that’s supported him this whole time... and he’s taken\non a softball team in their place. A whole army. What could be the headquarters\nfor a softball team?
\nBatgirl had another idea. Although she was taking another shot in the park, her\nidea to go to Arkham earlier had proven to be right. Maybe this idea would as\nwell.
\nThe Riddler hummed to himself as he pressed strapped a few more bombs to a hot\nair balloon in the middle of a baseball field.
\n“What are you doing now, Riddler, my love?”
\nRiddler turned to Alexis and offered her his award winning, devious smile. “Why,\nit’s quite simple, Alexis. This is the rocket I’m going to send your father on\nfor his last bon voyage.”
\nSuddenly, the muffled sounds of a man were making their way closer to Alexis and\nThe Riddler. The Riddler looked away from the hot air balloon to see Mr. Johnson\nheld by a three strong members of his ball team, former Arkham guards. He knew\nthey would be perfect for this task.
\n“Why, if it isn’t my friend, Mr. Johnson!” Riddler shouted as he approached.\n“And you’re just in time for the big ceremony. I knew my teamsters would find\nyou in the Hap Cat. It’s the one place you can always go to when things get a\nlittle overwhelming.”
\n“No matter how many times he gets thrown out, he keeps going back,” Alexis said\nmindlessly.
\nRiddler was quite impressed with the brainwashing software that he was using.\nThey were zombified enough to follow his orders, but cognizant enough to offer\ninformation and interact with some independence... but not too much. “Yes,\nAlexis. Your father can’t stay away from the bottle. The same way he can’t stay\naway from gambling. Which is exactly why he’s sent you upstream for his own\nbenefit.”
\nThe Riddler ripped away Mr. Johnson’s gag, a bandana that had held his mouth\nshut.
\n“Damn you, Riddler, give me back my daughter!”
\nRiddler laughed crazily as he hugged Alexis to his side. The girl stared with\nempty eyes at her father as her new master gloated. “Foolish Johnson! Alexis is\nold and wise enough now to make her own decisions!”
\n“And I’ve made them, daddy,” Alexis added. “I’m done with the row team. Done\nwith college, and done with you. I’m a Riddle City Punster now.”
\n“No,” the father murmered with pain in his eyes. “No, Alexis, you don’t mean\nit.. this man, he’s filled your head with lies-”
\n“You filled your pockets with money at the expense of our family,” Alexis\nretorted with soulless eyes.
\nThe father shook his head. “You don’t even sound like yourself... it’s like\nyou're reciting a script, like your some kind of a robot-”
\n“I told that riddle before,” The Riddler said with a sigh. “On our first date,\non the lake. Your cramping my style. Just... get him on that rocket!”
\nThe ladies listened immediately. They placed the man on the rocket and strapped\nhim down. The Riddler grinned and chuckled as he pressed a few more buttons,\nactivating the bombs for merely a few minutes.
\n“What are you doing, Riddler?”
\n“Preparing you for a flight. Alexis and I have a wedding to plan, and we can’t\nhave an embarrassing drunk like yourself ruining the occassion.”
\n“No...”
\n“So we’ll pick up your wife and have her mentally readjusted as well. I’m sure\nshe’ll have some wonderful wedding plans.”
\n“Riddler, please! This is crazy!”
\n“I know.” The Riddler laughed hysterically, kicking on the ground with manic\nglee before standing up and giving a final salute. “Hope you know like\nfireworks, Johnson, cause you’re getting a first class seat!”
\nRiddler raised a finger to the launch button, ready to press it-
\n“Stop right there, Riddler!”
\n“Batgirl!” Riddler whipped his head around and looked at the purple menace.\n“Bah! Always interrupting my plans. Well, not this time!” Riddler’s hand went\nfor the button-
\nSMASH! A baterang landed in the control panel of the rocket and short circuited\nit.
\n“You fool!” Riddler shouted. “Those bombs are going to explode in less than\nthree minutes and we’ll go with them. Ladies, get her!”
\nBatgirl was already cursing herself. Why didn’t she think there were bombs on\nthat thing? Either way, she would have to act fast, because the ball players\nwere going after her.
\nExcept for Alexis. Alexis was snatched by Riddler quickly. “Not you, my darling.\nWe need to make haste.” Riddler ran the girl quickly out of the ball park,\nletting Batgirl deal with the brainwashed nurses.
\nBAM! POW! BAP! Batgirl didn’t want to hurt the brainwashed women, but they were\ncoming, and so her fists and kicks had to do a lot of maneuvering. In the\nmayhem, she was able to throw more baterangs at the visible bombs and short\ncircuit them without hurting Mr. Johnson, but she had to move closer. The closer\nshe got, the more she could see the bombs. Mr. Johnson kicked and screamed for\nhelp as those bombs were short circuited by flying batarangs. All the while,\nBatgirl kept knocking the women away from them, trying to get them off of her.\nIt was chaotic.
\nTwo fists to the foreheads of two of the women finally knocked them out. One was\nstill active, but by then, Batgirl was free enough to throw a batarang in the\nfinal bomb. Another fist to the back of the final nurse finally got her passed\nout. With relief, Batgirl ran up to Mr. Johnson and freed him.
\nJohnson rubbed his wrists after being released from the rocket. “Please hurry.\nPlease find my daughter!”
\nBatgirl nodded before running off in The Riddler’s direction.
\nThe Riddler was running down a big underground, dragging Alexis behind him.
\n“Where are we going, Riddler, King of-”
\n“Take a while and can it, Alexis. Your husband is thinking.”
\nAlexis immediately obeyed orders as The Riddler looked further into the whole.\nHis frantic nature was making it harder to keep a firm control on the ladies. I\nbetter keep this mental gear in tack or-
\n“Freeze, Riddler!”
\nRiddler growled as he turned around and saw Batgirl standing many feet behind\nhim and his future bride.
\n“You really are troublesome,” The Riddler acknowledged. With that, The Riddler\nput his figners to his lips to whistled loudly.
\nSuddenly, emerging from the opposite direction of the tunnel was Porshia and\nLisa, the other two brainwashed sports beauties. Two steel bats was in Lisa’s\nhands, one in Porshia’s.
\n“You girls join me after Batgirl is dead.”
\n“What about me, my king?” Alexis asked The Riddler with concern.
\n“You worry about that after you finish The Batgirl,” Riddler demanded.
\nLisa handed a steel bat to Alexis as The Riddler ran deeper into the tunnel. The\nthree girls looked at Batgirl.
\n“Look, ladies,” Batgirl started, “you don’t want to do this. You’re under the\ncontrol of-”
\nThe women started rushing in Batgirl’s direction. Batgirl ducked and dodged as\nbats swung at her. The Riddler had disappeared in the tunnel.
\n“I’m not going to fight you, ladies,” Batgirl shouted. “You have promising\ncareers and a college life to fini-”
\nSMASH! Batgirl narrowly escaped a steel bat crashing to the ground. Her boot\nkicked Porshia’s hand, removing the bat from her grasp with a clang.
\nAlexis and Lisa both aimed for Batgirl. Batgirl did a double kick, knocking both\nof the ladies down as their bats skidded on the tunnel’s surface. Reaching into\nher utility belt, Batgirl pulled out her gas mask and strapped it on.
\nThe ladies reached for their bats and ran to Batgirl for another go.
\nBatgirl dropped more pellets at the ladies. Sleeping gas sputtered in a thick\npink smoke. They coughed for a moment before collapsing.
\nBatgirl ran off.
\nFurther into the darkness of the tunnel she went. Riddler was fast, but she\ndidn’t doubt she could gain on him, especially in the dark underworld of\nGotham’s sewer system, a place that was easy to navigate. She had been down here\nwith Batman when times called for drastic measures, and even by foot, she could\nhandle it.
\nShe saw The Riddler preparing an inflatable boat with a green exterior and black\nquestion marks. Batgirl acted quickly. Her batarang was thrown at the floating\ndevice, and it quickly sputtered air, deflating fast.
\n“Trying to make a getaway, Riddler?”
\n“Why must you punch holes in my plans, Batgirl?” Riddler shouted as he pulled a\ngun from his belt.
\nBLAM! BLAM! BLAM! Batgirl ran and dodged the shots as quickly as she could.
\n“Drastic measure, Batgirl!” Riddler shouted before laughing maniacally.
\n“Why don’t you take a plunge, Riddler, if you’re so desperate to get away?”
\nRiddler made a sick face. “Are you kidding? In that filthy water?”
\n“What’s the matter, Riddler? Afraid you’ll short circuit your device?”
\nBefore Riddler could respond, he felt a strong thud knock his head back. A\nbatarang had landed in his secretly metallic face mask. Scared, The Riddler\npulled the domino mask off as quick as possible. He pulled it off at the right\ntime, for at that moment, his mask let off sparks and electric fuses, dancing on\nthe ground in fury before short circuiting and going dead. Smoke rose from the\nruined mask.
\n“You... you ruined it!”
\n“And I freed those poor girls,” Batgirl said as she started to walk closer to\nRiddler. “I had thought about it when you put me in that suit, Riddler. Just how\nwere you brainwashing those ladies? It was a riddle that confounded me... until\nI solved that trap of a riddle you caught me in. Seeing how the mask responded\nto my mental control of the trap allowed me to see exactly how you controlled\nthose ladies- through psychologically manipulating and digitally linked\nalgorithms operated by your face mask!”
\n“A lucky guess!” Riddler said with a scowl, afraid he would fall into the sewage\nwater at any moment. Batgirl had him cornered on the edge. “I surely make things\nfar too easy for you, Batgirl.”
\n“And now you’ve released a lot of dangerous prisoners into Gotham, and ruined\nthe lives of innocent people!” Batgirl’s batcuffs wrapped around The Riddler’s\nwrists.
\n“Blast it,” Riddler cursed with rage. “So now, you have humiliated me and ruined\nmy plans to remake Gotham in my image.”
\n“It’s not that bad, Riddler,” Batgirl suggested. “Think about it. If you’re\nlucky, Puzzelina may be deemed insane and reside in Arkham with you. You may\neven have neighboring cells.”
\nRiddler scowled.
\nThings were as close to normal as they could get in Gotham once again. Three\nkidnapped college athletes were now freed and back in action on campus, Arkham\nstaff members went back to their jobs, and the following week, Gotham college\nfootball fans got to enjoy watching a game against Metropolis, dedicated to the\nhonor of deceased quarterback Duke Patterson.
\nStill, many female inmates had escaped from Arkham. Though most were found, a\nfew of the most notorious, Catwoman, The Siren, and many others, remained\nmissing.
\nBarbara Gordon sighed as she put a few more library books back on the shelf. The\nlibrary was about to close, and Batgirl would be ready to fight crime yet again.
\nBatgirl’s work was never done.
\nEnd
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