Prologue
Comic Vore, GTS/GT, Shrinking, Unbirth
chapter 22
by
copier
· original author:
erik
Three hours ago....
Gotham Central Park, as the same suggests, lies at the center of Gotham City....more or less. It's also an expansive park taking a staggering twenty city blocks. It has all the stuff you might expect to find in such a park; it has hiking trails, it has bridges that go over streams, bridges that go over lower walking paths, it has out-of-the-way places that few, if any, people ever see even if they'd been to the park a thousand times. There were several baseball diamonds, basketball courts and long patches of grass. The park serves as an oasis of sorts. Some place in Gotham to get away from the crime and corruption that chokes the city in a stranglehold. Or that's how those responsible for the park saw it.
Having such a large park in a city that's infamous for crime of all sorts would naturally serve as a meeting place for the less-than-savory elements of the city. There are ideal hiding places in the park for both people and illegal items. The park was open twenty-four hours officially but nobody goes there at night. The kind of people that go there at night are almost certainly a criminal; from a simple purse-snatcher to someone high-up on the totem pole of one of the crime families.
Harley Quinn stood in the middle of a wide bridge that overlooked the small man-made lake near the middle of the park. She wasn't alone either. Standing a little away from Harley were her two pet hyenas, Bud and Lou. It had only been a hour earlier when she had "saved" an old man in a purple suit from being ran over by a runaway truck. The man had been on the small side, no more than four feet tall. He was dressed in a purple suit and had white hair under his bowler hat.
Since receiving the little man's reward Harley had wandered into Central Park. The little man had followed her into the park offering some advice as to how to use her reward. Mr. Mxyzptlk had went on and on about his duels -- as he called them -- with Superman and the people around him. Mxy had hinted that he knew the secret civilian identity of Superman but never actually said. Harley had talked with Mr. Mxy about a myriad of subjects before he discovered that Harley was somehow siphoning more of his considerable power. It was so subtle that Mxy had somehow failed to notice....or that's what Harley had thought. Maybe the little imp knew that Harley was siphoning off his power all along. By talking with the little imp Harley could tell that Mxyzptlk was clearly a trickster.
When Harley had siphoned off nearly all of Mxy's power she had hidden the little imp somewhere where nobody would find him save for her.
Harley had wandered around the park aimlessly. She had tested her newly-minted powers by turning trees into balloons or causing trees to grow abnormally fast. She had arrived at the wide bridge some ten minutes ago. She was looking at the view from the bridge and the city beyond. She was very lost in thought. Perhaps that's how she didn't sense someone coming right at her.
"Excuse me, have you seen a little imp from the fifth dimension?"
Harley turned to face none other than Superman himself standing not even four feet from her. Predictably, her two pet hyenas growled at the sudden intruder. Superman glanced aside at the two hyenas. "One day, you're gonna have to tell me how you were able to tame those two"
"Hey, Supes" said Harley. "what are you doing here in Gotham? Slow day in Metropolis?"
"I'm here because I got a letter from one of my favorite imp from the fifth dimension"
"Oh? I didn't see him write a letter"
"So you did see him" said Superman. It wasn't a question.
"Ya, I've seen Mr. Mixy-pixy" replied Harley. "had some interesting stuff to yak about too I might add"
"In the letter, Mxy told me that he gave his powers to a woman fitting your description" said Superman.
Harley shook her head in amusement. "So the little gnome ratted me out, did he? So what? You're here to play with me instead of him? Convince me to reject godhood?"
"He told me about your special rule about giving back his powers" said Superman. "say his name backwards three times in a row"
"That little--!" Harley angrily yelled. What followed was a string of cuss words that actually came out in word balloons much like in a comic strip. The words were censored with the standard " %?!# " seen in comics. Harley blinked at the word balloons as did Superman. They floated away with the light breeze.
"Well....that's different" laughed Harley. She turned fully towards Superman. "why would I give up being a god when I can do cool stuff like this?"
Harley rapidly spun to face her two pet hyenas and simply pointed at the two. Almost immediately the two hyenas began to what could only be described as mutate. Within moments, the two hyenas had changed into humanoid forms wearing jester clothing. The two mutated hyenas looked at each other and laughed.
"Harley -- " began Superman.
"Play nice with blue boy my darlings" ordered Harley while she leapt from the bridge. Just before hitting the water some forty feet below a pogo stick materialized in her hands. She positioned herself on the pogo stick just in time for her to bounce off the water like it was a solid object. The pogo stick launched a good sixty-foot arc where she came back down only to bounce on the water again.
Superman would've followed Harley but he was a bit busy with the two mutated hyenas which seemed to have his great strength. By the time that Superman had subdued the two he looked around to see that Harley was nowhere in sight.
"Wahooo!!!" exclaimed Harley as the pogo stick did a third arc that landed her next to a sizable fountain. She looked back to see that she had left the lake far behind. She was about to launch herself on the pogo stick again when she gazed at the fountain. "Bang!" she yelled pointing a finger at it and "firing" it off like a gun. In a puff of smoke the fountain was turned into a gigantic jack-in-the-box toy.
"Wow" said a nearby teenager around eighteen at the most. "awesome magic trick"
Harley smiled at the handsome teen boy. "Just for that I'll reward ya with a kiss"
Harley climbed off her pogo stick that vanished into thin air and walked toward the teenager that had a somewhat perplexed expression. Harley kissed the teenager right on the mouth and locked eyes with him. The eyes of the teenager went wide as he broke the kiss and fell backwards on his rear.
"You're..... you're..." stammered the teen. The teen started to babble.
"You should be honored" said Harley giving the teen a wink. "it's not every day that you get to kiss god"
Without further ado Harley flew off just like Superman leaving the teenager gawking after her. It was a scant five minutes later that Superman had arrived at the scene. As soon as Superman landed near the gigantic jack-in-the-box it had already started to crank its own lever. The toy played the standard "pop goes the weasel" tune like any other jack-in-the-box toy. When the tune reached a certain point the box opened up to release a greenish cloud of Kryptonite gas. It wasn't enough to harm Superman but it did weaken him a bit.
"She's toying with me just like Mxyzptlk" mumbled Superman as he flew off to pursue the elusive Harley Quinn.
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Now
"And that's how it all started" said Harley as she strolled down the green hallway with Ivy beside her. A little behind the pair followed Nightwing and the orderly.
"Incredible" said Nightwing. "and you just told us that you can give the power back to Mxyzptlk?"
"To be clear," said Harley. "I just have to say Mxy's name backwards three times in a row. And when I say three times, I mean three times; there can't be a pause....or a delay. It only works as spoken words as well. Meaning that if I see Mxy's name backwards three times it wouldn't work"
"One thing I don't get," said Ivy. "is why you have to make up rules for returning the power. Why would you want to?"
"It's just how it works, I guess" shrugged Harley. "and since I gave Red here some of the power I'm guessing if either I or Red decide to say Mxy's name backwards three times the power returns to him"
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