"Alright, dickhead, lunch time. Get the fuck up." One of the guards said. I was laying in my bed looking up into nothingness up until that point, using the tiles on the ceiling as gridded paper, finishing up the blueprints of a mechanical noose to shoot out of my sleeve.

"Hey how's that coloring book I ordered coming along? Any idea when it's coming in?" I asked him.

"Shut the fuck up and get to the lunch hall." He ordered. I walked past him and whispered "Four."

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" He asked me but I kept walking. "Hey! I'm talkin' to you!" I continued on my way until I heard him go "CAZO! WAKE THE FUCK UP!" I looked back over remembering that's the last name of my new neighbor. He banged on the door to her cell before opening it up. Then a few rats seemed to jump out and started mauling him. He screamed in agony and I chuckled in amusement before another guard came over and kicked the rats away, picking the other guard up from the floor.

"Three." I then whispered to myself.

"CONTROL YOUR FUCKING PESTS, FREAK!" He shouted as Cleo walked out of her cell rubbing her eyes and yawning.

"I can't do that without my device Ms. Waller only lets me use for missions." She replied. She took a step forward before realizing she stepped on something. She looked down under her shoe before picking up what she stepped on and handing it to the guard. "You dropped this." She said handing him his tongue.

"JUST GET THE FUCK TO THE COURT SCUMBAG!" The second guard shouted. Cleo shrugged and threw the tongue into the toilet in her cell. She walked over towards me almost like a zombie and it seemed like she didn't even realize I was there until she bumped into my chest.

"Sorry, I'm still half asleep." She told me. "Good morning."

"It's two in the afternoon but alright." I said. "Cleo, right?"

"Mhmm." She hummed. "You're the one who they brought in yesterday, right?"

"That would be me. (Y,N) (L,N)."

"Keep it moving, you fucking animals!" We looked behind us and a third guard had come to take the place of our newly mute friend, pointing a gun at us. We shrugged and kept walking down to the food court. Before we got too far we heard squeaking and a rat scurried up Cleo's leg and onto her shoulder.

"This is Sebastian. Say hello, Sebastian." She said. Sebastian stuck his hand out like he wanted a handshake. I cautiously moved my index finger towards him and he actually shook it, causing Cleo to lightly chuckle. "No one's actually taken his handshake before."

"Well, I'm sure not too many people are really fond of rats. I wanted one as a child but mom was petrified of them." I said. We walked past the cell of Polka Dot Man as the door opened and he walked out.

"Hello, Abner." Cleo said.

"Hey! Polka Dot Boy!" We all looked over at a girl with white skin and blue hair I hadn't seen yet. "I consider myself a bit of a trend setter so I thought I'd give you some advice: try wearing anything besides Polka Dots and maybe then you won't be such a stupid fucking loser! Or you could just kill yourself!" She said before laughing to herself. She was nudged in the back with the barrel of a gun and kept walking after flipping off one of the guards.

"I wish they'd let me." Polka Dot Man muttered.

"Well aren't you just a ray of happiness." I said. We walked further and past TDK's cell. Something I had noticed was that we all had different little changes to our prison uniforms that made ours unique from the others. I was the only one with a black undershirt, Cleo had her shirt still open as it seemed she had lazily put it on after waking up and had a tank top on underneath, Abner wore a long sleeve white wool shirt underneath his shirt and it was covered in polka dots, and TDK had the sleeves ripped off his top.

"Hey, new guy, right? What's your name again?"

"(Y,N) (L,N). The Crimson Ghost."

"Never heard of you."

"And I'm sure half the people here could say that about TDK." I said in an irritated tone. "I've only done one thing and that was this last October."

"So what's your gimmick? Why The Crimson Ghost?"

"Ever heard of the forties serial films?"

"They made movies about cereal in World War 2?" TDK asked. I looked at him dumbfounded and I felt like I was about to have an aneurysm.

"Don't mind TDK, he suffers from a severe case of stupid." Killer Frost said as she walked out of her cell. Dr. Snow was wearing a long sleeve jumper. "The fact I've had to sit next to This Dopey Kid's cell for the last three months has been hell for me and my IQ."

"That's not what TDK means, it's-" TDK began to say before flinching and screaming a high pitch screech like a girl as Frost cocked a fist pointed at him.

"I know what you're talking about. My father and I would watch old serials from a projector we had found from an abandoned movie theatre in Portugal." Cleo said. She looked at me with these kind eyes like she really wanted me to continue talking about my name. I started to feel weird in a way and I didn't like it. I hit myself in the heart before continuing on.

"Right, so the name comes from that essentially. One year for a prank on Halloween my friends and I got a bunch of skeleton masks with different colors, and I kept it and used it the night I killed Jonathan Crane."

"Waitwaitwaitwait, you killed The Scarecrow?" TDK asked.

"Yes."

"When?"

"...Last Halloween."

"...How long have I been here again?"

"Can someone shut him up!?" Terra walked out of her cell chucking a rock up and down. Her sleeves to her shirt were ripped off but her white undershirt underneath's short sleeves were still in tact. "I'm so sick of listening to limb loser over there ramble on and on!"

"It's not limb loser it's-" TDK began to say before Terra threw the rock at him and it went right through his eye. "AHHHHHH!" He screamed in agony as guards then grabbed Terra.

"Yeah, Yeah, I know where to go! Get your stupid hands offa me! I can take myself to solitary confinement!" She shouted. Other guards grabbed TDK and dragged him away.

"Wow, I think I like her a lot." I said watching as they dragged her away.

"Sure if you like unhinged teenaged girls with daddy issues." Frost said.

"You should've seen who I took the prom senior year." I joked.

"I didn't go to my prom. Forty percent of teen pregnancies happen on prom night and mother didn't want grandchildren." Abner said.

"Holy shit, you're still here?" Frost asked. "Anyway, so you've got a red skull mask. Why don't they call you the Red Skull?"

"The Crimson Ghost also had a skeleton mask. He just had a red cloak." Cleo chimed in.

"Close but no. The reason I go by The Crimson Ghost besides paying homage to the movie is that I can turn myself into smoke particles and essentially, that makes me invisible and able to go through small cracks which is almost like walking through walls. So, I'm like a ghost." I finished the explanation. In more ways than one. I thought to myself. Just as I finished explaining we got to the lunch area and were pushed into line.

"Well, That was certainly the most eventful walk to the lunch room I've ever been on. Well, second most." Frost said.

"What was the first?" I asked.

"The Circle Guy here once kicked the crap out of Captain Kangaroo." I looked over at Abner with shock. "It was the saddest fight I'd ever seen. Like a make-a-wish cancer patient fighting Forrest Gump over who has the worst life, or in this case, the lamest super power." We were served our food. Undefinable grey slop and a worm inched out of Cleo's. She winced in disgust and Sebastian went down and grabbed the worm before eating it. "Well, anyways now that's out of the way, you already know this since you geeked out yesterday, but I'm Caitlin and be sure to leave me the hell alone." Miss Snow added before walking away with her tray. Someone cat called at her and she shouted "Do that again and I freeze your cock off'!" And sitting at a table by herself.

"This isn't the best place to be without any friends." Cleo said. "The other inmates like to try to eat the new guys alive. Belle Reeve's death rate isn't just because The Suicide Squad live here. The others aren't the nicest and the doctors here aren't the best at their job... Do you want to maybeeeee sit with me and Abner? You know, as friends?" It seemed like she had to fight to muster up the courage to ask that, although I'm sure I was just making that up in my head. Wishful thinking really but I don't do the friends thing anymore considering the whole thing with last Halloween. I looked at her and Abner. Cleo is nice enough but I don't know how much help she'd be in a fight with the crocodile man and I still have no idea what the fuck "throwing polka dots" as a power really means in terms of effectiveness, even if he did win a fight against Captain Boomerang, it's not like that's a hard fight to win. But I looked at Cleo's almost pleading eyes. My heart was doing a thing again and I hit it once more before responding.

"... Alright, sure. While we're eating maybe you can tell me where the name 'Ratcatcher 2' came from. I'm sure there's as many little reasonings for it as Crimson Ghost has." I joked making her laugh. "And maybe you can tell me where 'Polka Dot Man' comes from." I added as Cleo and I continued to laugh.

"I throw Polka Dots." Abner said in a deadpan tone.

"No! Is that really where it comes from?" I asked in a sarcastic tone as Cleo continued to laugh and Abner actually let out a chuckle.