Side Note: First of all I'm going to essentially do my version of the Red, Green, and so on. A lot of the information I picked up is vague and to get more would require actually reading all of those old comics...So, just heads up if you find something wrong!
Harley's hyena's generally just taken the back seat and nothing was said about them and these side chapters will aim to change that.
Enjoy!
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After Ethan left, Pamela let out a long sigh while keeping her eyes on the road ahead.
'I wanted to go too...' The redhead frowned. 'At least I'm not completely alone...' She thought while glancing back at Ethan's room.
'I wonder if she's doing alright?...'
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One would think Harley to be dead as even the loudest noise wouldn't be able to wake her up.
The former villain sidekick was dreaming...
Or so she thought at first.
It was strange, the last thing Harley remembered was being held by Ethan, and the next moment she found herself...here.
It was a jungle.
An enormous jungle with giant trees, exotic plants with colors ranging from bright reds and yellows, but that wasn't what stood out.
What stood out were the animals, Harley swore she could see nearly every kind if she observed the jungle long enough.
"Wow..." Harley said out loud as she walked across the jungle floor, going deeper into the unknown.
Was this a dream?
It seemed impossible for it to be a dream as everything looked and felt real. Every breath she took brought the smells of nature and every step she took felt like she was walking in an actual jungle.
She could even feel the heat from the sun shining above on her...
"WHY THE HELL AM I NAKED?!" Harley screamed at the top of her lungs after looking down to see she was bare without a shred of clothing on.
Suddenly, Harley heard a voice, "You are not naked. You are exactly how you should be..." It said.
The voice was like a whisper and yet it was loud at the same time
How strange...
"Well, I say I am!" Harley puffed out her chest. "I'll only get naked if my Honeybun asks me to!"
"Ah...the abomination." The voice said with a hint of disgust.
"Abomination?..." Harley immediately scowled after hearing someone insult Ethan. "Why don't you show yourself so I can rip you to SHREDS! NO ONE TALKS BAD ABOUT HIM IN FRONT OF ME!!" She shouted as she tried to invoke her transformation power out of reflex, however, she couldn't feel the power anymore.
"Grr...You better be lucky that this a dream! Otherwise, I would kill you!"
"Girl...this is no dream." The voice replied just as a strange monkey hoped out of a tree. It was small, barely the size of a typical house cat with bright red fur. Its yellow eyes glowed with an eerie light as studied Harley from head to toe.
"Now, I know this is a dream. I've been talking to a monkey? I want to wake up now..." Harley groaned, folding her arms. "No, wait I want to kick your ass first! Come here, you bastard!"
The red monkey tilted its head to the side, "What's so strange about a talking monkey? Don't you already talk to those two?"
"Those two?-" All of a sudden, Harley started to hear two voices that somehow sounded familiar, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Hehehehe! See I told you she wouldn't like this." One said.
"Hurhurhur! You're absolutely right...Oh, then why is she here?" Another said.
"She's here because she wants to be stronger. Don't you remember?"
"Ooooh!...no, I don't."
"Ugh...How are you still alive?"
Soon after the conversation ended, two hyenas with red fur walked out of the thicket. One was slightly larger than the other with a bit of mohawk on top of its head while the other had a distinctive black spot over its left eye.
"My babies!!" Harley beamed as she ran over to the two hyenas, hugging them both tightly.
"Mamma!!" The hyena with the mohawk licked Harley's face happily before realizing something. "Er...Lou, why is she naked?"
"Remember where we are Bud, they have a strictly no clothes policy." The hyena with the black spot over its left eye answered. "Bunch of weirdos...And she's not our mother ya idiot. She's our master!"
"Ohhhh! I see!" Bud chuckled as if he understood but...
"...Are we...naked too?"
If Lou could facepalm himself then he would as he couldn't believe the big lug was his brother.
Oh, how he wished he was a bit smarter...
Harley stroked their soft fur for quite a while before realizing the two talked earlier, "Bud...Lou. You can talk?!. This is still a dream right?"
Lou shook his head, "It is and it isn't. You are indeed sleeping, but your soul did a bit of traveling and ended up here."
"Where is here exactly?" Harley asked while taking another good look around.
"We're in the Red," Lou answered. "It's a-"
"We're broke?!" Bud screamed as if he was experiencing a crisis.
"Bud! Shut UP!! I'm explaining here!" Lou angrily growled. "Why are you so stupid!"
The insult was simple, and yet it was critical damage to Bud as he started to whimper with his head down.
"Hey! Don't be rude to Budsie," Harley said, cuddling the hyena while scratching behind his ears and kissing his cheek. "You're not stupid. You're just a little lost, aren't you?!~"
Lou stood there in silence as even though he was the smart one, he was jealous of Bud as he was generally the one that got more attention from Harley.
"Aw, you c'mere too!~" Harley seemed to sense Lou's mood and pulled him close to give him the same treatment as Bud.
The three seemed to be in their own little world until the small monkey noisily cleared its throat.
"Oh, that's right. Lou...you said I came here because I want to be stronger? I can become stronger here?" Harley curiously asked, perking up quite a bit as becoming stronger is what she desperately wanted to do to continue to stay by Ethan's side with no worries.
"You have only scratched the surface of what you can do. The only thing that is stopping you...is that abomination." The monkey said.
"Powers or no powers." Harley gritted her teeth and stood up from the ground." I'm going to kill yo-" unexpectedly, her arms were suddenly tugged back by Bud and Lou, causing her to stop in her tracks.
"Y-you...can't attack him. He'll kill you." Bud said with a bit of a stutter, clearly afraid of the monkey that was below half his size.
" For once..he's right. Although...he can't quite do anything to you because you're protected. The most he could do...is make you wish you were dead..."
"Protected? by.." Harley soon answered her own question as she placed a hand over her chest, feeling a familiar warmth.
It was the brand that Ethan gave her to mark her as his wife and although she was the second, she didn't feel jealous of Pamela...on most days.
However, even though she wasn't the first she wasn't treated any less than the first.
Harley did in fact want to become stronger and if her connection with Ethan is holding her back then...
"The hell with it!" Her eyes flashed dangerous red light. "If you say the reason I can't become stronger is because of my connection with him then I guess I'll just have become stronger my own way."
"You can take your stupid power and PISS OFF!!" Harley yelled.
"You will regret your decision." The monkey replied as the jungle around them started to fade into dust as if it was all fabricated
In its place was an empty plain of red that matched the color of the sky above them, making the place quite sinister.
"That abomination will only bring you more pain and heartache." The monkey said even louder than before as it started to levitate off the ground.
"Do you still wish to follow him?"
"With everything I got," Harley replied without hesitation. "Why don't ya quit yapping and get out of my face."
The red monkey stood there in silence as if it was contemplating something of great importance.
"You will...suffer greatly for this."