Taking a little ride [closed]

[acro_bat_ic]

Who: Barbara Gordon and Harley Quinn.
What: Exploring the Space Mountain Car.
Where: Space Mountain
When: Third day
Warnings/Notes: ...Don't try this at home????

"Harley?" Barbara whispered, worrying. Where had the clown girl gotten to this time? She'd been tracking the blonde as best she could, but the woman kept slipping away. She tried not to feel guilty about it, but she knew whatever trouble Harley got into was her fault. The whole reason of traveling with the good doctor, after all, was to keep an eye on her.  At least she was reasonably certain she'd followed Harley to the right place this time, though. 

"Harley!" she called, picking her voice a little. "This is because I complained about your makeup, isn't it?" she glanced around, wondering if she was just imagining the eyes on her. "I mean, it's cute and all; it just seems like a little much..."

 

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[revvinguptheharley]

Harley had been feeling more like herself the minute she set foot in this part of the Arena. And as such she couldn't stop herself from slipping away from her baby sitter as often as possible.

Today she found herself exploring the massive dome that seemed to be the focal point of the area. And as she casually strolled around with her hands behind her back like a tourist. It was here she found a cart rattling and rocking in place like a child eager to go dashing away from it's parents.

"ooooo~" Harley's eyes lit up at the hopes of finally getting to ride something.

[acro_bat_ic]

Baby sitter, body guard - Barbara's goal was to make sure that the words "Harley Quinn" and "death" stayed as far away from each other as possible. Which she could hardly do when Harley was keeping away herself.

At last she spotted the woman,rocking one of the ride cars.

"What are you doing?" she whispered, voice pitched low. It would be just their luck if Harley sprung some ambush while getting into what was most likely a trap.

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley glance up from her work, "Oh hey! This ride still has some juice! I wanna go for a spin!" She sounded as eager as a child and gripped the sides of the cart rattling it. "Come on! Ya scared?"

[acro_bat_ic]

"Of the rocky ride of doom? No way..." She glances back behind her. "You?"

She so is not getting in that thing.

[revvinguptheharley]

"Aw party pooper!" Harley accused and began rocking the cart. "These things are made with SCIENCE! To be super safe. The safest of safe. One might say, idiot proof!"

Ignoring the fact that everything in the park had fallen into disrepair.

[acro_bat_ic]

"That's what I'm afraid of..." she muttered, coming closer to Harley. If the capitol designed this thing, then the last thing she wants it to be is idiot proof.

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley laughed apparently finding that comment hilarious before she resumed her efforts to set the cart free. Leaning over the edge of the cart to examine the wheels.

"Seriously you must have been SO boring back in Gotham. I bet you're a real daddies girl. Always toeing the line. Doing what you're told. No risks no reward Babs!"

[acro_bat_ic]

"Because breaking into hazard-dumping offices is sooo boring."

She shouldn't care what this girl thought about her. But the realization that Harley wasn't eve taking her seriously was irritating.

She came forward, leaning over the car to peek at the wheels.]

[revvinguptheharley]

"Well why would you want to break into a dump?" Harley inquired her eyes scanning around the room for controls and her eyes settled onto a panel of buttons and levers.

[acro_bat_ic]

"They were companies," she amended. "They were poisoning the environment? Until me and Red gave them a taste of their own medicine." And then. Pam had their buildings blown up.

[revvinguptheharley]

That was enough to distract Harley and she turned sharply to meet Bab's gaze again "Woho! Check you out going all green! Poison Ivy would totally approve!" She cackled. "We do that sorta stuff all the time when we hang out!"

Then she leaned forward with a sly look on her rounded cheeks. Apparently the effort made the wound in her side act up because she winced but kept the smile on her face, "But I bet Daddy would never have approved~"

[acro_bat_ic]

"...You knew Pam?" She asked, leaning to tap the wheel of the cart. What did have it stuck, anyway?

"Pops always said she was a bad influence..." Not that Barbara ever got into much trouble from their activities.

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley giggled and fell back in her seat laughing so hard "Did I know Red? Oh boy did I know her! She and I are best friends! She even gave me some of her super special plant smoothie so I don't get sick an' ya know...die when we play!"

This was enough to take her mind off her project at hand and she put her feet up on the seat in front of her.

"Yeah she really is the best friend a girl could hope for. She's taken a bullet for me. And I'd do the same for her in a heartbeat...preferably not in the heart of course but you know how it is. BFFs and all that." She sighed. "I bet she'd hate this place. But maybe we could find her some nice trees or bushes."

[acro_bat_ic]

"Does she... still have my bonzai tree?" she asked, most definitely not living in Harley's direction... before doing a double take that set the car rocking all over again.

"Wait. Play?" Not to mention die. Last she checked, Poison Ivy wasn't that dangerous. Just a little bit... sporey. And kinda evil. "As in... play?"

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley looked puzzled at the question and then grinned wickedly catching an innuendo from the question. Before she could get her answer though the cart lurched forward again and Harley scrambled to sit up properly in her seat. "I think this is showtime!" She declared and scooted over in case Babs wanted to jump in. Sure enough the cart started rolling forward, set free either by luck, or just inconvenient timing.

[acro_bat_ic]

She jumped in, hands looping around Harley to try and keep them both in the cart as it started to fly its way down the track. Crud. How had sh actually ended up in this deathtrap?

Without even an answer to her question!

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley planted her feet firmly against the seat in front of her jamming her back against the other seat using her powerful leg muscles to wedge her body into the seat. She purposefully didn't lower the safety bar out of suspicion.

"This is gonna be fine! I built a roller coaster once!" Harley shouted over the rattling of the cart on the tracks. The rumbling and clanking getting louder as they passed through the archway into the darkness. She winced as once again her bite wound was aggravated by tensing her body and wrapping her arms around Barbara. But with any luck the excitement and adrenaline would help her forget.

[acro_bat_ic]

"Did it work?" she asked, feeling the cart rocking beneath them. She was certain that this was going to send them all flying off to their doom. Of course, they'd come back afterward, but she would really rather not say she suffered her first death on a ride...

"Let me guess... death trap?"

[revvinguptheharley]

"A tribute!" Harley declared and before she could explain the cart suddenly dropped and she was screaming with glee. It was a sharp drop, then a turn and a jerk up the hill which almost threw them out.

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

[acro_bat_ic]

She squeezed tighter, pressing up against the blond now as she glanced around.

"Is the ride supposed to be doing this?" she asked. For that matter, would they be better off flying free from that stupid thing?

[revvinguptheharley]

"Who cares?!" Harley squealed as they took another sharp turn that spun into a corkscrew. They're eyes were adjusting slowly and they could vaguely make out the rails ahead of them. But most of the world around them was darkness.

[acro_bat_ic]

Barbara cared! She was more worried about the shaking of the cart as it dipped and fell, swerved and swung them about. She was definitely going to go flying.

[revvinguptheharley]

Sooner then they thought. "End of the line!" Harley shouted pointing at where the tracks very clearly ended. She planted her feet firmly on the ground and launched them up out of the cart. But momentum was carrying them along at such speed they were going to have trouble from sliding off the tracks anyway.

The cart itself flew into free space while they watched it vanish into the shadows and crash somewhere below.

[gamemakers]

And up from that below suddenly appeared a mass of tiny, blinking lights that seemed to grow closer by the second, a sound like rattling laughter coming with it. It's nearly impossible to tell what it is in the darkness of Space Mountain, but whatever it is, it's approaching fast.

[acro_bat_ic]

Barbara's hands reached out, trying to feel for the edge as her breath caught. She was a little shocked that htey had survived this part. The blinking lights weren't exactly helping, either.

"Tell me you hear that?"

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley was gripping the edge and digging her heels into the track, legs twitching from effort.

"I hear lots of stuff. I'm crazy remember?" She muttered slowly inching back onto the track where she could find better footing. It wasn't easy in the dark.

[gamemakers]

The massive swarm of firefly muttations engulfs both girls, their collective, rattling laugh near deafening at this proximity. Do fireflies sting?

These do.

[acro_bat_ic]

Barbara swats at them, stumbling backward in surprise. "I thought these things were harmless!" she complained, trying to keep the edge in mind.

[revvinguptheharley]

"OwiehahaowiehahaowiehahaOWIE!" Harley shrieked and cackled and grabbed at her skirt ripping it clean off, flapping it around wildly trying to swat away at the bugs. She spun perilously on the edge of the tracks risking a plummet to darkness.

It seemed laughter was a conditioned response to pain for her, go figure.

[gamemakers]

Their purpose complete, the blinking mass disappears into the darkness of Space Mountain once again, that horrible, rattling laughter leaving with them.

And the girls may be starting to feel a little... strange.

[acro_bat_ic]

Strange? She just hoped she wasn't going to catch Harley's case of the giggles.

She fell onto her bottom. "Ow..."

[revvinguptheharley]

"Hee hee hee...hee...whatta rush." Harley spun around once, leg in the air, and flopped onto her back spread eagle on the track.

"That was NUTS!" She exclaimed out loud hearing her voice echo in the darkness.