Trick Question. (Open)

At Jump City Hospital, security was patrolling about the parking lot and found a body laying by the ER. The one security detail then ran over to the downed person and began to check his vitals while calling back up. The victim looked to be young, but was wearing a hood and some kind of mask over his face. The security asked him if he was ok, and then the boy weakly replied...

"I am worn high around the neck, but do not extend to the breast. Some mistake me for a collar, but I am meant just for her, what am I?"

As the mystery teenager spoke the security guard just looked at him rather confused, meanwhile, more back up arrived. Then the answer was then given.

"Give up? A choker!"

Suddenly as gas grenade flew into the crowd of men and they all began to laugh uncontrollably for about 15 seconds until eventually all of the security detail fell to ground and collapsed with wide teary eyed gleeful expressions on their face. It was laughing gas; the type the Joker uses and the boy from before had been unaffected by it thanks to his gas mask covering his face. Upon noticing all the security was down and out, the teen then stood up and removed his civilian attire and gas mask, revealing a boy who somewhat resembled the Riddler. However, he was obviously not the famed villain, due to his age. Then from the corner angle of the screen another approached, she was female, and dressed like a clown; kind of looked like the Joker, but indeed was too young and of a different gender. She gleefully skipped towards the boy and smiled at him while looking at all the scattered men about them with a oogling expression. Around her waste she had about four more gas grenades strapped to a belt and a sick grin that matched that of the infamous villain she was modeled after upon her face.



"See I told you it wouldn't be too over the top."

"Yes. Well next time you be the one who has to wear the gas mask and do the acting."

"Awww, cheer up Kwizy! Once we get to those patients I'll cheer them up with some laughter and then you can challenge their noggin with one of those little puzzles. Trust me, it'll be great, the sick love to have their mind taken off the fact that their dieing with pointless junk."

"That's where you're wrong Harlequin. My goal is not to test the minds of some ill hospital patients. They're just a means to reach my real target audience; The Teen Titans. I want the test this so called junior Justice League in a game of witts and taking over a hospital will guarantee were not ignored."

"Whateve's as long as I get to hit them with the punch-line I'm all for it."

That being said, the Enigma themed hero just looked to her as if to say should we go in? Harlequin in response took two laugh gas grenades off her belt and then turned to approach the ER with her accomplice right behind her.

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About an hour later a news helicopter could be seen flying overhead the hospital as a hostage situation had arisen. A top the hospital was the same male teen villain form before and down below was JCPD SWAT with a crowd of people, plus spot lights blaring upon him from all angles. From there the super villain took out a megaphone, which was attached to the hospitals PA system so everyone around the vicinity could hear him.



"People of Jump City, welcome....This is an invitation to your city's heroes. A challenge to decipher my puzzle, if you will. I challenge those you champion to rescue these patients."

Suddenly the drapes in six of the hospital windows would drop and at each one a laughing patient wearing nothing but a bed sheet was pinned up against the window for everyone to see. There were three boys and three girls, each of a different age; an old man, a middle aged woman, an adult man, a young adult woman, a teenage boy, and an adolescent girl. Also, the rooms they were in were lighting up in green, rhythmically like a game of simon flash.

"The game works like this. The heroes come and they engage me in my little challenge. If anyone else tries to stop me, I detonate the bombs within each of the patients rooms. If anyone tries to go in through the other entrances, my cohort Harlequin will detonate the entire bottom floor to the hospital destroying it's foundation and collapsing the entire structure on top of itself. So logically, that leaves really only one choice, doesn't it?

Come Titans, come heroes, I will confound you with my clues. Bedazzle you with my puzzles. Rack you with my riddles, for I am; Kwiz Kid!"

Kwiz Kid stood with his arms folded as he waited for Titans to approach and to his dismay only one did. However, this one might be enough. He was Scope; the sharp shooter of the Titans. However, would he be sharp enough to match witts with the genius of Kwiz Kid. Only time could tell and that was something that was a bit of a commodity if he wanted those hostages to stay alive.

"Well hello Titan, I see you are very bold indeed. That, or you think you are very bright."

Scope the answered Kwiz Kid in a confident manner. However, he would soon find out to even come near his intellect it would take all 5 of the original Titans and himself put together plus his entire idiotic team to come close to even cusping the tip of his IQ. However, he was then cut off by another teen resembling a thanagarian child. Kwiz Kid assumed this to be a new Titan because he himself did not know of the boy. No matter, two should be enough to get this game going.

"Ahh, but that is not how this game works. Here's what's going happen gents, I kwiz Kid, will puzzle your mind with one of my dazzling riddles. You will have exactly 1 minute to solve the word puzzle; the riddle refers to if you should save a male or a female hostage and it will have to be one that has the light flashing on it at that moment and time or you risk blowing them to...well...I'm sure you get the idea. Should you both fail, I will detonate the bombs in the hostage's room that the riddle was referring to. You will have 6 tries for 6 minutes total; 6 peoples lives on the head of 2 would be heroes and the game begins...Now.

What is it that travels on all fours in the morning, on two legs at noon, and three at twilight?"

That being said, Kwiz Kid stood in front of the men making a tick tock motion with his finger. He also neglected to mention how they were supposed to save the hostages in the windows. They were heroes after all. He'd let them figure out that part out on their own. Down below the windows of each patient lit up green in a pattern, they had to remember they could only free the ones with a green light in their room.

"Ahh, but you see hero this is a game. However, in this one you get six lives and when they're all gone there is no restart."

Time was running short for both Scope and Raith, when all of a sudden the answer came in the form of a loud yell from below by a man with a megaphone. A new player, eh? And he seemed to be well versed in simplistic riddles unlike these two. A Titan? No, although another did show up this man was not familiar to Kwiz Kid.

"Stranger. What is your name, for indeed you have solved my riddle, but it wasn't meant for just any would-be passenger. Although, I assume your no ordinary mindless cretin like everyone else who has approached me so far. Therefore, I ask you your name and then remind you that just because you have indeed solved my riddle the game is not over yet. There's still five more hostages and you still have to rescue one of the men down below within...Ohhh I'd say about thirty seconds now?"

No doubt the heroes would then scramble to rescue the man with a green light shining in his window within moments after Kwiz Kid said this. Which was fine, because he still had five more chips to gamble with while adding more new comers to the situation only would make it more difficult for their cause. Contrary to belief, three heads are not better than one if all of them be dolts and one wrong guess can cost someone their life.

"Greetings new Titan Hotwire, you're just in time. You see gentlemen and mystery man the point of this exercise isn't to be a fun game, but to test you all. Since each one of you consider yourself some kind of superhero I decided to put you to the test by adding a common occurrence in the hero community; endangered and helpless people in need. I do this not for sport, but to prove a few points. One being that you all are just children as he below us stated and secondly, are no more special than the most untrained mind in the area when compared to my intellect. When this game ends and all but a few of patients are dead, I will have made my point that I am superior and shown all the world that teenage heroes are just a farce."

The entire time he was talking the time was going down. If someone didn't save the male hostage soon or rather by the end of Kwiz Kid's monologue most likely the explosive would go off by now.