9555/Sing it!

Sing it!
Date of Scene:	09 January 2022
Location:	The Sing Sing Karaoke Bar
Synopsis:	Harley has a cunning plan. It involved Bryan Addams, Ivy, Batgirl and an emergency. It works as well as one could expect!
Cast of Characters:	Harley Quinn, Barbara Gordon, Pamela Isley

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Harley Quinn has posed:
It has been a while since Harley has been with her green bestie. Too long! And that demands rectification. The kind of rectification that only a night at the Sing Sing can solve! And now that she had finally been unbanned from the karaoke bar it was open season once more! People just get so sensitive because demons are summoned, and it wasn't even her fault!

Anyway, messages are sent. > IVY, I haven't seen you in forever! Come to the Sing Sing Bar! Time for some duets.

But then she gets thinking. She needs to put a twist in this. So ..., what better than... EUREKA! She knows just who else to invite. So she gets to thumbthumb her message to Batgirl. > BATGIRL, are you free? Come to the Sing Sing bar! It's an emergency!

There. No way this can go wrong, right? Oh, Harley ....

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Having Harley send her an alert for an 'emergency' has Babs changing her course in the night.

Her Batmobile rips down some of the back streets, turns down a few alleys, causing people in the alleys to scramble out of the way as headlights rumble toward them in the dark!

When the armored vehicle arrives behind the specified location, the cockpit opens and Batgirl stands up. She looks around the alley behind the Sing Sing, then vaults out of her vehicle, the canopy sliding shut behind her on the jet-plane two-seater-style interior.

"Harley." Babs says in to her communicator. "I'm here. In the back..."

Batgirl hears a few people down the alley reacting to her presence, and her eyes look in their direction, but they're too afraid to approach her, for obvious reasons, so they just stay back, 50 or so feet away.

Pamela Isley has posed:
Pamela's been in one of her sulkier moods, it seems. Oh, she's been brushing it off, claiming she's 'busy with that whole Brotherhood thing', because... well, the Brotherhood spends a lot of time not dealing with things in Gotham, so it's pretty unlikely any of them are going to blab to Harls that Pam's just been watching cooking shows in her quarters.

Which really, just means as she's getting ready after that urgent text, Pam can't bring herself to show up in sweatpants and a hoodie or something, no, Harley deserves her A game, and so she's gone full on classic living vine outfit... admittedly with an overcoat because while the vines and leaves _look_ good, they aren't exactly insulated.

And so, as Barbara's pulling up in the back, Ivy's breezing in the front, coat being shrugged off... this probably isn't going to send the staff and clientele streaming out in a panic, right?

Like, no one's heard about Karaoke being environmentally unfriendly! Surely Poison Ivy's got better things to eco-terrorize!

It's also hard to take this as a serious villainous threat when she's tapping at her phone to let Harley know she's here, while peering around the lobby for her long lost bestie.

Harley Quinn has posed:
The A-Game is on! Because yes, Harley also came ready to rock with her shorty-shorts, long boots and stockings, tight t-shirt that just puts her assets way too prominent. To top it off? A little yellow jacket that she stole off April's wardrobe. Always wear one of your roomie's clothes. That's sort of a rule, isn't it? Well, to Harley it is.

Anyways! Pam's arrival is greeted with Harley being there. "Pam!" she waves effusively. "Wheah have ya been? Watchin' all those cookin' shows you love?" it's like she's a mind reader! But that's besties for you.

"Thought it was time ta drag ya out of whateva hole you got into hidin'. Weah you with those mutants? One o' them called me a unicorn icin' once. That wasn't nice." look, Harley keeps grudges. And she is immediately hooking arms with Pam to drag her into one of the private rooms when she gets a 'beep'. "The other person I invited is heah!" she grins wickedly. It's the kind of 'what have you done, Harley?' look.

"So I got us a private room for the karaoke." She doesn't wait for a response, dragging Pam into that room she has for them and sending a quick message for Barbara, > We are in room 7

She will wait until Batgirl has arrived and then open her arms wide. "Surprise!"

Barbara Gordon has posed:
The message is recieved, and Babs exhales lightly...

The back door to the place swings open, and two guys step out, then both stop at what they see.

"Oh shit!" One of them says, just staring at Batgirl standing there by her vehicle.

"Fuck. I think I had a dream that started like this once." He says, causing his friend to laugh. They're both about to say something else to the caped crusader when she just moves in between them, leaving them drunkenly stumbling out of her way and calling out to her not to leave so soon.

She ignores them.

In her black and yellow armored Batsuit, Babs makes her way through the bar, catching quite a lot of attention as she goes, all of which is similarily ignored.

When she arrives at the private room, She graces the door and looks to the greeting Quinn.

"This doesn't look like an emergency...." She softly says as she steps inside it now...

Pamela Isley has posed:
Pam jolts, "I... uhh.. what?! N-no! I mean, a bit! But like... not _all the time_ or anything!!"

Seriously though, it's not her fault the Brotherhood asteroid has a better cable package than her place in Gotham did. But even Pam's self-consciousness can't resist Harley's enthusiasm and friendship, and she can't fight back a little ghost of a grin that would count as a beaming smile for anyone else.

She sighs out and even allows her arm to get hooked as she's dragged along, only for her eyebrows to perk at the mention of inviting someone else... Selina? Some random cashier from the grocery store? Probably not one of those ninjas they ran into in NYC awhile back. But still, it could be _anyone!_

Pam's mouth falls open as she just stars at Barbara, "...She uhh... didn't invite you by turning on one of those giant spotlights, riiiiiight?" She does her best to put a cheery 'Please don't kung fu us, Batgirl' tone in her voice...

Harley Quinn has posed:
"It's gonna be a big surrrppriiiseee..." Harley says in that teasing way of hers that's scary in it's own right. She does seem very enthusiastic though, even giving Pam a hipbump while they wait. And then the door opens and there's Batgirl. "Batgal!" arms still open wide. "Come in, and it's an emergency alright! The singin' kind, I realized we hadn't bonded at all just yet, just ya know, kicked ass togetha but that's borin'..." she tells the crime-fighting vigilante.

"So I came with this idea.." She gesturing around the room, jumping up onto stage with an appropriately dramatic flair, "A karaoke room just for us! It's booked for the night so ..., we gotta use it."

Looking between them she then grins. "Also, ya two have met right? Pam, this is Batgirl..., well, one of them. She's also Oracle. And this is Pammy. Or Ivy. I never know who has met who.." she lifting her shoulders in a shrug.

"But anyway, she's turnin' a new leaf in her career too, so you should meet her." She is already starting to fiddle with the karaoke, looking for a song.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Harley and Ivy together... it certainly at least warrants keeping an eye on.

Even after Harley introduces her, Babs just dips her cowled head at the green leafed woman. "Ivy." She says, having full well knowledge of who she is and what she's known for.

But it's all about rehabilitation, right? One can hope.

"karaoke..." Babs says, showing a visible frown at the idea. But she doesn't turn and leave. She does glance over her shoulder, then shut the door as people were looking inside after trailing behind 'where was Batgirl going' style.

"I don't think I'm in the singing mood. But I am eager to hear what the two of you have been up to. Specifically you, Ivy."

Babs has been following Harley's 'new leaf' but Ivy's has been a bit off the radar, at least in comparision.

Pamela Isley has posed:
Pam seems about enthused at the idea of trios karaoke as Babs, eying Harley with blatant skepticism and stage whispering, "Are you _sure_ you don't just want a tussle? I mean... it's... it's so much more dignified than karaoke."

Ivy's hands shoot up as Batgirl asks what she's been up to, "Hey hey! I've been good! I mean, I haven't like... vine'd anyone in weeks! Months even! Except those ninjas, but they started it! And I even saved some mafia guy they tried to ninja star! I've been uhh..."

She clears her throat sheepishly, "Kind of out of town? I wound up running into the Brotherhood of Mutants and discussing our mutual views on some things, and I'm trying to be a little less... overenthusiastic in my methods of punishing corporations that keep damaging the environment."

Still, when it seems clear this isn't going to devolve into immediate punchings, Ivy sighs and slinks her way over to one of the seats to sink down into it, legs crossing at the knee as she shrugs, "I mean, my old way wasn't working, and I needed a change of pace."

She heaves out another sigh and shrugs helplessly, "So yeah, I'm just... drifting? Not a lot of opportunities for reforming eco-terrorists... unless Gotham U is _really_ desperate for professors. But if I'm trying _not_ to go on a rampage, I don't think surrounding myself with frat boys and other college students is a great idea. Maybe in the fall."

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Don't be like that, Pam." A lil bit of pouty lips from Harley. Because who can resist those? Certainly not her friends! "What about the time we weah singin' the Titanic song!..." then she demonstrating it by singing loudly, "..., my heart will go on..." she finishing it with a pirouette. "Or the one time we sang Boss Bitch togetha!" more pouty lips out of the clownette. "No bettah way ta bond.."

"The booze helps too." Admittedly, everyone knows the best singing comes when one is drunk.

She lets the two of them get comfortable, even gesturing for Batgirl to go join Pam on the couch. "Ya know what, I will start..." singing, that is.

"And then you guys can sing aftah. Or if you know this one feel free ta sing along!" she fiddles with the remote to get the song on before looking at the other two. "I joined the Birdies, Pam. Officially. I even got the multipass to prove it." she tells Ivy, "Aaaannd, theah's also bounty huntin'. It gives good money! And I need a partner."

The music then starts, slow and mellow. "Look into my eeeyeeeeeesssss..." nothing like some Bryan Addams classic to start it up.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Batgirl sweeps her eyes from Ivy, to Harley, then back to Ivy... She listens to her story unfold, and starts to approach where the leafy one has seated herself. When Harley starts on her song, Babs looks to the clownette again, even cracking a smirk at her song choice. But, ultimately, her eyes go back down to where Ivy is sitting.

"You could join us." Babs says over the song. "You're talented, Pamela. You're capable when you focus your energy in the right ways. Plus... we could help you find where, and how, to focus it."

Another look is given to Harley before she returns her stare down to Ivy as she stands there, looming like a armored monolith beside the green toned woman.

"I could use your help keeping this one..." She motions toward the Princess of Thieves. "... from getting herself in to too much trouble."

Even a Bat can tell a little joke from time to time.

Pamela Isley has posed:
Pam lifts her eyebrows slightly, chewing her lower lip, pensive, thoughtful. "I'll... think about it. I mean, it's... a pretty big change to go from what I was to like... I dunno, being all team cape and cowl and grim seriousness."

Because if Ivy's anything, it's definitely not prone to dour seriousness of course. She groans softly and winces as Harley begins to belt out a few bars, "Heyheyhey! What gets sung on karaoke night stays on karaoke night!"

She crosses her arms over her chest and huffs out, "And I don't think we _can_ keep her out of too much trouble... I feel like if anyone ever stops Harley from getting into too much trouble it'll break some universal rule and unleash hell or something."

Still, she can't fight back a crooked little grin, "And... hm, Harley and Ivy, bounty hunters, huh?"

She tilts her head thoughtfully and mumbles, "I'm pretty sure _that's_ going to lead to another episode of that terrible TV show that ripped me off last time buuuut... well, we can give it a shot..."

And then she's putting on her best encouraging face for Harls! After all, karaoke night is _also_ about cheering your friends on, even if you're distressingly sober for it.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Seaaarch youuh heaaaarttt..." Harley's voice rises and she opens her arm to the side, winking at Batgirl and Pam as she continues to sing, moving to the edge of the stage. "You can't telllll meeee, it's not worth tryin' fooooh...", beat, "Oooh, Pammie, look into yoh heaaaarttt... and you willll fiiiinnnnd..." another pause, ".. that you neeeed ta give us a tryyyyy and joooin the Biiiirrddss..." now Harley is going full off the intended song.

Or maybe it was the song she had in mind all along. One does not try to put logic in madness.

"Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' foooh, oh Pammie!" pause due to the guitar solo going on now. It's a bit long but she doesn't mind.

"I can't helllpp it, wantin' you by my siiideeee..." She continues her singing. "There's nowhere, unless you are theeeereee. Bounty huntin' or Birdy'ing!" another wink.

"Come on, sing with me you two!" She says in that infectious enthusiasm of hers.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Ivy's response gets a single nod from Babs as she stands there observing the woman. "Fair enough." She adds at a moment of softer melody in Harley's song. "Reach out if you need help. I'll be there." She tells the other before her eyes go up to Harley's Grammy Award Winning performance.

A soft smile is shown to the clownette. "You're all the singing any of us could ever need, Quinn."

That is a compliment, for sure!

"I've got to go though. I have work tonight."

Batgirl starts to step backward then, turning half way back to the exit of the private room. "You two have fun with this though...." She says before reaching for the door and opening, to several people standing outside with their phones up. Ugh.

Babs triggers an interference system in her suit, causing their video recordings to all lock up and erase themselves...

She moves to leave then, back the way she'd come.

Pamela Isley has posed:
Pam does her best to provide silent, sincere support for Harley's singing, while still nodding to Babs and grinning crookedly, "Will do... uhh... if you need something from me, just call Harley I guess? She can text me. It'll work fine I'm sure!"

She perks an eyebrow and clearly wants to ask if Barbara has work, or 'work', but... well, she can be nosey another time.

Instead she just offers a little wave as the vigilante begins to head off, and claps for Harley, "Oh yes! We'll totally hunt some bounties! Toss some mobsters around or something. We'll even take some bounties that are alive only! You know, to prove we're _really_ responsible crime fighters!"