The girl slowly opened her eyes and she got up on a bed while she grabbed her head because she was experiencing a headache.
Max: about time you woke up.
His voice snapped the girl to attention and she looked ready to attack but the two made eye contact and max saw that her eyes were blue but he can also see a bit of madness behind her eyes.
And right now max analyzed the she was above 17 or 16 because she looked about his age.
Max let out a sigh because this might be a challenge.
Max: look I'm not gonna do anything to you I just want some information about the bastard that threw you here. I'm gonna assume that he looks like a clown and had a big fucking gun?
That seemed to calm her down but she was still in defense.
Max: well like you I'm a victim of the clown asshole and I want to know anything that might help us get out and go back to our individual homes.
She slowly started to let down her guard but not completely.
Max: let's start introduce ourselves. I'm max McKnight. You?
She looked at him up and down and didn't sense anything hostile and she family spoke.
It's Harley Quinn.
Max: okay good you I was worried that you were a mute.
Harley scoffed at that.
Harley: I'm the opposite of a mute. So you had a run with that clown?
Max: yup I've been stuck here for 6 days and you were out for a day.
Harley looked around the hotel and she saw the window and she did a double take on what she saw.
She got out of the bed and walked towards the window and she saw a city littered with black and white bears and with corpses of teens and adults.
Harley: what the hell happened?
Max: oh yeah that. Well believe it or not this was caused by kids.
She looked at him like he was telling her a joke but he didn't change his expression.
Harley: are you fucking serious?
Max: yup. You see those bears they control those bears and they assigned to kill any adults and teens and leave anyone who's a kid alone.
Harley looked at the carnage and she couldn't help but let out a small laugh of irony because she once wish happened but it didn't but now that she sees it in reality it feels a bit ironic.
Max was a bit concerned that she laughed about it but he guessed the it was her wild side laughing.
He wasn't a psychologist but he can tell that this girl has some screws loose so he will have to be careful.
Max went to a bag and pulled out two guns and other weapons like swords bats and batons.
Max: hey I noticed handguns gun holster on you and I bought two handguns for you. As for the weapons you can choose between the three there weren't much in terms of melee weapons.
He tossed the two guns at Harley and she caught them and she didn't like that they were plane but she will take what she could take.
While max was getting up he felt hostility and he turn around while pulling out his revolver and came face to face with Harley with both of her guns aimed at his head with max also aiming at her head.
Max didn't say a word because he expected this because Harley didn't have anything on her so she would have to play nice but now that she's armed she feels some sense of control.
And so this was the outcome.
Harley: listen maxi I can tell that you were telling me the truth about kiddos taking over the joint. But how do I know that you ain't working with that clown bastard? It's a bit too inconvenient that I got dumped in another dimension and I meet someone who's willing to help me.
Max: I'm not working with the clown and besides before I even met you I was about to enter the portal you went through but you got thrown into me and I was stuck here and since I have nothing else to do I wanted to ask you if you know anything about him.
Harley looked at max's face and she didn't felt like he was lying to her especially his face he didn't see any noticeable habits overtime she learned that when people lie they have odd habits. Like looking away or something in their voice or anything else.
But she didn't see any hint of deceit which was rare all the people she encountered only lied and lied with a cherry on top.
Harley for once in her life decided trust someone but it was a microscopic level of trust she just met this guy.
Harley put down her guns and decided to make something clear first.
Harley: I'm making this clear you do anything to stab me in the back. I'm gonna make you regret it.
To her surprise she didn't receive a snarky comment but instead she saw that max looks relieved.
Max: thank god you actually have a brain and not a crazy chick.
Huh?
What else could she say she was completely confused on why this guy looked relieved max noticed and explained.
Max: well you are literally the only person who knows I'm from another dimension or whatever and I honestly felt lonely I was really hoping not to kill you because I need information and someone to talk to.
Harley blink once.twice and thrice
She was expecting the guy to call her out but instead he was saying that he honestly wanted some company and it sounded way too genuine and she didn't see any signs of lies.
Max: okay but seriously do you what do you know about anything about that clown? Literally anything.
Harley shook her head and thought of the time she encountered him and it started to clear up.
Harley: well when i met him the bloke he called himself Krash with a k and he wanted to recruit me to some big empire but while he was in my world other guys were with him.
Max: he wasn't alone?
Harley: nope and i saw them and they looked like knights with all this black smoke thing coming from them.
That got his full attention. Was she talking about lost knights? Did he recruit them from his world?
Max: what did they look like?
Harley: well they were black with a few red here in there.
That confused him because lost knights don't have any colors other than black or grey were those knights alternate versions of his world? Now that he knows that the multiverse exists is it hard to believe there's alternate universe of his world?
Harley saw his expression taking shift into a thinking one and this guy was suprising her more and more because most of the people she meet are either idiots or psychopaths not that she has any right to say but at least she has a brain.
While max was distracted thinking she noticed something that the pistols weren't loaded.
With the sudden weight of guns in her hands she didn't think to check.
Max noticed this.
Max: what did you really think I let you shot him with live rounds? Please ever since I took it I didn't load it. Then again even if you did try to shoot me it wouldn't work.
Harley was baffled by this guy's confidence sure she met people who dodge bullets but the way he said it was like he was talking like it wouldn't work in general.
Max grabbed the blunt weapons and brought them to attention.
Max: so what do want?
Harley: the bat. I'm more used to bashing skulls.
Max looked at her and Harley looked back with a raised eyebrow.
Max: okay you know what I need know who I'm dealing with. What did you do before coming here?
Harley's brow raised higher.
Harley: why do you want to know?
Max: I'm getting a lot of mixed vibes from you. One moment you threaten to kill me. And your eyes and body screams that your not exactly right in the head. And now you said that you are "used" to bashing skulls I need to know who I'm dealing with because for all I know you're playing nice and the next second you go full psycho mode on me.
Harley's eye twitched at this because he was directly calling her out but she breathed in and out to calm down.
Harley: do you really want to know?.
Max: yeah.
Harley: I'm a freelance criminal.
Max: freelance? Aren't you just a criminal in general?
Harley: no you dumbass I mean that I do some jobs here and there and sometimes I have to deal with other criminals stealing my stuff or my rewards and the police too.
Max: so what? Are you some crime lord? Or queen in this case.
Harley: please I wish but I did kill and stole from a few rich folks but they themselves weren't good people.
Max: uh huh.
Harley: what the hell is with that look.
If you can't tell max has an uninterested face because when it comes to criminal and normal everyday politics that have nothing with the spiritual side of the world matters little to him because what's more dangerous a guy with a knife or gun? Or a literal monster that eats your soul? And plus he stopped caring about it and if this chick was just a small time thug then she wasn't a problem but he remembered how she healed from a scratch on her head
He just shrugged.
Max: nothing I just thought you were a crazy bitch with no standards
Harley had enough of this guy and she aimed her pistol at him but the moment she pulled the trigger.
*click*
There was an awkward silence with max looking at the gun aiming at him and then at Harley who looked at the gun remembering that it was empty.
Max: you forgot that-
Harley: shut up.
He once again shrugged and threw the bat at Harley who caught it and she was unsatisfied that it was a plain metal bat but she will take what she can get.
Max: so let me ask you something important. Do you know Japanese?
Harley: huh? Japanese? Why?
Max: we're in an alternate Japan that his this place towa city and I learned Japanese from my mom and we might encounter survivors.
Harley: no I don't I've never learn and plus I never even been to school.
Max: why am I not surprised.
Harley: shut it it's not like I had a choice to begin with.
Max just raised an eyebrow and Harley just looked away not wanting to talk about the details.
Max took the opportunity to do his "magic" with out Harley noticing.
A white snake appeared behind him and it spit out a chain wristband with a talisman that is a translator.
Mikado is the name of my mom and she has the ability to create talismans that have different properties like control the elements and simple stuff like translation or pain relief for alcohol stings for medication purposes.
Max: here.
He once threw it but this time Harley wasn't prepare but caught it.
Harley: would you stop throwing your shit at me!?
Max: calm down you caught it so why are you complaining?
Harley: however about I bash your skull in to get your head fix.
Max: pod meets the cattle black.
Harley: shut up!!
She then looked at the chain bracelet in her hands and saw a talisman tag.
Harley: what the hell is this?
Max: it's a translator talisman put it on and you will be able to understand me.
Harley looked at max then to the bracket she was tempted to throw it away but she got a strange feeling from it and put it on and she had to admit it looked good.
And she felt nothing guess she had all her hopes for nothing.
Max: you're already dead.
Harley: huh?
Max: I just spoke Japanese and you understood me.
Harley: no you didn't you talked in English.
Max: take it off by a few inches. And put back to prove my point.
Harley was skeptical of this guy but she was a little curious.
She took the bracelet off by a few inches and max started speaking in Japanese which to her sounded like gibberish.
But when she put it back on she actually understood what he was saying of course this could be him pulling her leg but her brain is telling her that she's understanding exactly what's he's saying.
Max: satisfied?
Harley: how the hell is that-
Max: magic sister.
All Harley could do was gawk because this felt like magic and she has never once seen something like this of course it could some form of tech but the bracelet didn't look mechanical all it is a chain with a talisman tag.
While Harley was gawking at the talisman max grabbed a backpack and gave it to Harley who snapped out of her trance.
Max: you will need a way to get that bat or get other stuff if anything catches your eye.
All she did was nod and put the bag on her back.
While put her bat on a small open gap she made on her backpack she looked at max who was grabbing a pipe he picked up on the way before Harley woke up.
She gets a weird feeling from this guy isn't normal.
But then again none of this is normal and at least this could have some benefit at least she won't have to worry about hired mercs to kill her and not also being chased by the cops.
Guess it's goodbye Gotham and hello new lifestyle.