//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 Batcave // Story: Gotham City Heroes (canceled version) // by Batfan98 //------------------------------// Morning now fell upon the city of Gotham and the sun shines through the window to the guest bedroom in Wayne Manor. Scootaloo slowly opened her eyes to the morning sun as she yawned. She stretched her fore legs and hopped out of the bed, she decided to explore the manor for a bit. She walked out of her door and into the long halls of the manor, she came across the library and saw that there were literally hundreds of books. She then came across a gymnasium where she guessed Bruce would go to for exercising, it had a treadmill, a punching bag, and a power rack with weights on it. She thought that she might try it sometime to get her cutey mark. She then came across a movie theater that had a few recliners, a movie cabinet with DVDs and some VHS tapes, and a giant screen on the wall. 'This place has everything.' Scootaloo thought. She walked back into the hall and started looking for the kitchen, but due to how big this place was, she ended up getting lost and it took her 15 minutes to find the kitchen. She walked into the kitchen and saw Alfred cooking up some scrambled eggs and a man, with short black hair, in a blue sweater and jeans, sitting at the table eating toast, eggs, and drinking coffee. "Who are you?" Scootaloo asked the man. "It's me, Batman." he said. Scootaloo had a look of confusion, but soon realised that it was him but without the bat suit she saw him in last night."Oh right, it's you. Sorry, I didn't recognise you without the suit on." "Don't be sorry, you're not supposed to." "Why don't you want anyone to recognise you? Doesn't anypo-i mean anyone know you're Batman?" Scootaloo asked as she walked up to the table and hopped on an empty seat. "No, my real name is Bruce Wayne and I rather keep my identity a secret." "Why don't you want people to know you're Batman?" Scootaloo asked curiously. "I keep my identity a secret because I'm a vigilante and by law: if a vigilante's true identity is uncovered then they will have to stop being vigilante's or be arrested." Bruce explained. "What's a vigilante?" Scootaloo asked, still being curious. "A vigilante is someone who breaks the law to serve justice." "You broke the law before?" "Hundreds of times, but the only laws I break are assault, because I always assault a criminal, trespassing, because I need to go into some places to find evidence even if it's an area i'm not allowed to go to, going over the speed limit so I can chase an escape vehicle or for any other emergency, but I always follow laws that say I can't assault a citizen or I can't kill, because I want to show Gotham that I'm not a threat." Bruce explained. "So, your a superhero?" Scootaloo asked in amazement. "I'm actually a vigilante but yes, I'm something like that." "Cool, and what's Gotham? Is that the name of the world i'm on?" "No, that's the name of the city that I protect, the name of the world is Earth." Alfred then set a plate of scrambled eggs In front of Scootaloo and she began to dig in, using her wing to hold a fork. After a few minutes Scootaloo was done eating. "Can I go see that cave you have?" "It's called 'The Batcave', and yes , I can take you down there." Bruce answered. "Sure, that would be fine." Bruce then led Scootaloo to a room that he always locks, while Alfred went to do some house work, it had a couch, a desk with some papers and a bust of William Shakespeare on it, a book shelf with a glass box that had a pearl necklace in it, and a painting of a man that looked a little big like Bruce, but he had a mustach, and a woman with the same pear necklace from the glass box around her neck, but it had more pearls on it. Bruce then flipped the bust's head backwards to reveal a button underneath, which Bruce pushed, then a ray, coming from the helmet, scanned his eyes. "Identity confirmed" a computer voice that came from the bust said, then the book case opened to reveal an elevator which took them down into the Batcave. Once they arrived in the Batcave Bruce went to the lab area to make more antidotes for The Joker's poison laughing gas and The Scarecrow's fear toxin while Scootaloo decided to look around. Scootaloo first walked up a set of stares that led to what looked like a giant screen with Batman's logo on it, right next to it was what looked like an elevator door, above it was a plack with the words 'Trophy Room' on it. She walked to that door and when she got a few inches closer to it it opened automatically (thanks to the motion senser) which surprised Scootaloo but she decided to head in anyway. Once she walked into the trophy room, her eyes widened to see a giant penny, giant joker card and a robotic trex, which she thought was a dragon. "Cool." she said amazed. Scootaloo walked over to the trex and under it was a lable that said 'Robotic Trex, Used By Toy Maker'. Scootaloo then walked over to the giant penny, under it was a lable that said 'Giant Penny, Used By Two-Face and The Penny Plunderer'. There were other trophies in the room as well, there was a glass box with a ventriloquist dummy in a 1940s gangster suit and a fedora, it also had a scar on the right side of his face. There was a plack that said 'Scarface Dummy, Used By The Ventriloquist' , there was also a tommy gun on a wall next to it with a plack under it saying 'Scarfaces Tommy Gun, Used By The Ventriloquist'. There was also a few other glass boxes, one had an umbrella, it's plack said 'Umbrella Gun, Used By The Penguin.' another glass box had a gold question mark cane and a green bowler hat, it's plack said 'Question Mark Cane And Bowler Hat, Used By The Riddler.'. Another glass box had a green utility belt with a J on it, it's plack said 'Utility Belt, Used By The Joker', next to it was a glass box that had a squirty flower, a few joker cards and a pistol with a BANG flag hanging out, it's plack said 'Acid Squirting Flower, Blade Joker Cards And Joke Gun, Used By The Joker'. There was also a glass case with a sword that had a dragon's head at the butt of the sword and some kind of markings on the blade, on the case was a label that said 'League of Assassin's Sword, Used By Ra's Al Ghul. At the right side of the cave there was a set of steps that had glass cases with some of Batman's old suits, which Scootaloo decided to look at. The first case had a suit that kind of looked like the suit Batman wears now because it was a grey suit with a black cape and cowl, but what made it look different is that it had purple gloves and the bat on the chest had no ears. At he bottom of the case was a label 'Bat-suit mark 1, worn 2004-2005' the next bat suit was also grey but the bat on the chest was in a yellow oval and the cape, cowl, gloves and boots were blue and like the suit Batman wears now the gloves had triangular blades on them. The label under the case said 'Bat-suit mark 2, worn 2005-2014'. There were a few more cases but these had suits that were different from the other suits. The first one was a red tunic with an R on the upper left side of the chest. The suit had a yellow cape, a domino mask, green boots, green gloves and green short pants that was so short, it kinda looked like underwear which made Scootaloo giggle. The label at the bottom of the case read 'Dick Grayson, worn 2006-2012'. The next suit looked the same as the other, but it was a little shorter, the label at the bottom of the case read 'Jason Todd, worn 2012-2013'. The next suit looked kind of cooler to Scootaloo, it was red and it had an R on the upper left side of the chest like the others but it had black gloves with triangular blades, black boots, a cape that had pointed edges on the bottom edge, like Batman's, and it was black on the outside and yellow on the inside, and the pants were longer. The label on the bottom of the case read 'Tim Drake, worn 2013-2016'. Scootaloo decided she was done looking at the trophies and walked out of the trophy room and decided to look at the screen thing, it under it was a keyboard and chair. "What is this thing?" Scootaloo questioned. She then saw a white thing attached to a cored, it looked like a mouse, and she thought that she would look at it, when she touched it she accidently clicked it and the screen lit up, surprising Scootaloo. On the top of the screen was this word 'Batcomputer'. "What's a computer?" Scootaloo asked herself. The screen also showed some names on it, Scootaloo looked at the mouse and slide it in the desk and saw that there was an arrow moving in the same direction as the mouse was moving. The gears in her head slowly turned and she realized what the mouse did and when she put the arrow on a file titled 'The Joker' she figured that clicking the mouse might help and so she clicked it. The file opened to show a picture of a clown bearing a creepy grin. He had green hair, red lips, chalk white skin and was wearing a purple suit with a green vest and orange shirt underneath. Next to the picture was a profile, it read: The Joker Real name: unknown Past: unknown Relatives: unknown Occupation: Professional Criminal Crimes Committed: Murder of Multiple Civilians, Robbing First National Bank, Robbing Second National Bank, Robbing Sal's Pawn Shop, Impersonating a Police Officer, Impersonating a Doctor, Impersonating a Firman, Impersonating a Judge, Hijacking Police Vehical, Hijacking Fire Truck, Hijacking Ambulance, Identity Theft, Kidnapping Civilians, Kidnapping The Mayor's son, Hold Gotham High School Hostage, Sending Death Threats to City Hall, Hacking Into Multiple Bank Accounts, Abuse, Disturb The Peace, Torture, Aiding Escape at Blackgate Prison, Aiding Escape at Arkham Asylum, Blackmail, Breaking and Entering in Multiple Civilian Homes, Breaking and Entering in The Mayor's Mansion, Shooting And Cripling Barbra Gordon, Kidnapping Commissioner Gordon. Allies: The Riddler, The Penguin, Two-Face, The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, Ra's Al Ghul, Victor Zsasz, Cornelius Stirk, Killer Moth, Tweddle Dee & Tweedle Dum, Black Mask, Killer Croc, The Ventriloquist & Scarface, The Ratcatcher, Mr Freeze, Lex Luthor, Legion of Doom, Firefly, Bane. Rivals: Carmine Falcone (The Roman). Enemies: Batman, Jim Gordon, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Justice League, Batwoman, The Red Hood, Poison Ivy, GCPD. Main Enemy: Batman. Associate: Harley Quinn Aliases: The Red Hood, Jack White, Jack Napier, Jerome Veleska, Joseph Kerr. Origin: Attempted to rob ACE Chemical plant as The Red Hood but confronted by Batman and fallen into vat of chemicals turning his skin chalk whit, his hair green, and lips red, driving him to be completely insane. While Scootaloo was reading the bio, Bruce approached her. "Scootaloo, I have to ask you something." Scootaloo drew her attention to Bruce. "Sure, what is it?" "How would you feel about being turned human?"