Oh how the days fly by. How quickly our time grows nigh. With each passing hour, I grow steadily more tired. More used up. More cold.

Chapter Two

A walk in the park

Enkat stumbled as the world around her spun out of control. She was thrown to the floor, and she instinctively grabbed around at her surroundings. She gripped onto a metal rod and steadied herself. The spinning stopped and she looked up at the people surrounding her. Two thuggish looking brutes sat in the driver's and passenger's seat of the wildly out of control box van. Enkat felt sick as the van jerked again, and she was thrown to the feet of a third occupant. She looked up and saw the red glowing goggles under the glass domed helmet that she had recollected earlier. His armored metal foot passed through Enkat, completely unhindered.

"Stupid cops! It's Montoya, boss!" Said the driver, frantically cranking the wheel left. Mr. Freeze stood in the van, seemingly unaffected by all the crazy movement of the ride.

"The fools won't give up. Maybe it's time we entice them with another offer." Said Mr. Freeze, his voice even more hollow sounding than before. Enkat held on tightly to the passenger's seat, and watched in terror as Mr. Freeze violently kicked open the back door of the van. He grabbed his smoking gun from his belt and pointed it at a pursuing police cruiser. "I hope those are all weather tires, Officer Montoya." He said, as he pulled the trigger.

A glowing bluish white beam erupted forth from the gun in Mr. Freeze's hand, and it began to lay down a frigid sheet of ice wherever it's focal point landed. Enkat clutched one hand tightly on the passenger seat while still holding onto the diary with her other hand, and watched in awe as the police car deftly dodged the arctic assault from the armor clad villain. The police cruiser zipped to the right of the van and then smashed into it's side. Mr. Freeze fumbled slightly and caught himself in the frame of the door.

"What's her problem?!" Yelled the driver. The passenger simply started putting a very warm looking parka on around him, as Mr. Freeze walked over to the right side of the van. Enkat looked up and out of the front window of the van- they were speeding through the southern Gotham streets, luckily it was nighttime, so there few if any people milling about the business district. She turned her attention to Mr. Freeze as he began to speak and adjust the settings on his gun.

"A misdirected sense of justice." Answered Mr. Freeze. Then he slammed his fist through the wall of the van, making the entire vehicle rock. He shoved his gun through the new opening in the wall and shot his gun at the pursuing cop once again- this time the car made a horrible squeal as his beam hit it's mark. Enkat watched as the police cruiser went spinning out of control straight into a parked delivery truck, smashing into the bed of the larger vehicle. A small fire erupted from the cop's car as the box van raced around a corner away from the scene. "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes." Said Mr. Freeze, as he holstered his gun back onto his belt.

"How could you do that?! That cop!…" Yelled out Enkat, tears welling up in her eyes. She caught herself yelling at the ghosts surrounding her and closed her eyes. Of course they couldn't hear her. They couldn't see her, or touch her either. She might as well have been watching a movie of these events. She recomposed herself and continued to cling to the passenger's seat, watching the goons as they nearly hit a few other cars on the roads. "Where in the world did he find you guys? You can barely even steer!" She said with a frown, as she looked at the driver.

The driver in turn looked out into the driver's side mirror, and his face changed to a paler shade than it had been. He snapped his attention to Mr. Freeze and winced as he struggled to say the words that he so desperately wanted not to. Enkat looked back at Mr. Freeze, as a wicked smile curled forth from his bluish lips. The driver didn't need to tell him who was on their tail at all, apparently Mr. Freeze knew all too well who it was.

"Batman." Said Mr. Freeze, as he turned to look out of the still open back doors of the van. Enkat's eyes grew wide with excitement, and she craned her neck to see around the armored villain standing at the back of the speeding van.

"Batman?!" Squealed Enkat, as she hugged the diary to herself even tighter. Her excitement quickly vanished as Mr. Freeze let out a deep and coarse laugh. She frowned and timidly sat down on the floor of the van and scooted her way towards him.

"It's time we took a trip to the Zoo, Mr. Carson" Said Mr. Freeze to his driver. The driver nodded and cranked the wheel, turning the van onto the avenue that led to Gotham Park. Enkat looked up at Mr. Freeze and then out of the doors that he was looking out of. A black mass screamed around the corner that the van had just turned down, a jet engine whining a high pitch as it threw flames behind it. Enkat smiled wide sat forward, forgetting to brace herself against anything.

"The Bat mobile!" She said, marveling at it's sleek design and mysterious occupant. She looked up to Mr. Freeze with a big toothy grin. "Ooo, you're gonna get it~!" She said at his image. He looked unmoved and calm. Then he turned to the passenger of the van and nodded.

"Now." Commanded Mr. Freeze. The passenger wordlessly took out a remote control device and hit a sequence of buttons on it. Enkat looked on in curiosity.

"Now what?" She asked herself. Her answer came quickly, as the air around her chilled at an alarming rate. She watched as ice covered the van first, and the road around it… soon the hilly parklands were freezing too! Snow began to fall from the sky, and the water in the lake froze over in a matter of seconds. Enkat looked back to the Bat mobile, it had adjusted it's tires some how to counteract the slick conditions, and the windshield seemed to be glowing red. Enkat shivered and breathed out a plume of fog. It sure felt real.

Suddenly the van jerked to a halt and Mr. Freeze began blasting his gun in all directions outside of the van. The other occupants bolted from their seats, and Enkat scrambled to her feet to follow along. She reached the outside of the van, cursing her bare feet in the cold snow, and looked up at what Mr. Freeze had been doing. He had created a formidable wall of ice around the road, and she heard the whining jet engine die down.

"A lovely night for a walk, isn't it?" Yelled out Mr. Freeze, as he turned to quickly walk away from the wall. "I hope you brought a jacket. We wouldn't want you to catch your death of cold, now, would we?" He continued. Enkat followed behind him as she watched the ever growing wall around the wooded area. She looked around hoping to see him, the caped man with the bat ears, but he didn't show.

"Come on, I know you're there!" She said to herself, breathing out more trails of fog. Then she turned her attention back to Mr. Freeze. He was still blasting in seemingly random places, but he was taking careful aim as he did so. "What are you up to?…" Asked Enkat. They rounded a bend in the park trail and came to the gates of Gotham Zoo.

"I think you've all been incarcerated long enough." Said Mr. Freeze as he kicked open the gates. His two goons entered behind him, followed quickly by Enkat. "It's time you got a parole hearing." Said Mr. Freeze, as he began to blast the bars of the animal cages. Monkeys began chattering and howling, and large cats started making noise as Mr. Freeze destroyed the cages one by one. Enkat gasped out as a large gorilla smashed through it's icy bars and went crashing out in front of them. She instinctively hid behind Mr. Freeze.

The gorilla huffed out, eyeing them angrily. It slapped it's chest and roared out. Enkat squeaked out in panic as the large primate charged at them, snarling and growling as it bounded closer and closer.