Scootaloo ends up in Gotham City in the DC Universe and becomes Batman's next sidekick, where she will now face off against killer clowns, riddle obsessed maniacs, and crime lords who once ruled the Gotham Underworld.
Batman tries to stop a group of criminals who stole a dimensional transporter. The machine ends up bringing a talking Pegasus filly who Batman takes responsibility for, not only will Scootaloo become Batman's new ward, but also his partner in his war against crime.
Inspired by Batman and Scootaloo's father and daughter like relationship in A Dark Knight For Equestria.
Batman belongs to DC and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro. Rated T for swearing and possible gore. New official version Right here
The Batmobile drove as it was speeding through the streets of Gotham. The driver, Batman, had determination to get to his destination as He made a right.
Batman wore a grey tight fitting bodysuit, with a black cowal with white eye lenses and long bat ears, black gauntlets with triagular blades, black boots, a black scalloped cape, a yellow utility belt, and a bat symbol on his chest.
He was heading to a warehouse at the docks, earlier today a dimensional transporter was stolen from STAR Labs, Batman arrived at the crime scene but the criminals got away, but they ended up leaving one of their own behind in a rush.
Flashback
"What did you steal?" Batman said in an intimidating tone he always uses when interrogating criminals.
"I can't tell you!" the henchman said as he was being held by the neck against a wall, his neck in Batman's grasp.
"Talk! Or I break every bone in your body." Batman threatened.
"You wouldn't." The henchman said, but started to believe Batman when he punched his chest, breaking a few ribs.
"Tell me what you stole or I'll break your fingers next."
"Alright, I'll talk. We stole some kind of machine, a dimensional transporter. We also took the guy that was working on the thing with us, his name's Michael Reeves."
"Why did you take the transporter? What use is it for you?" Batman said wanting to get to the bottom of this.
"He told us we're not supposed to ask questions."
"He? Who are you talking about?"
The henchman realised he said too much and cursed under his breath. "I don't mean anybody. I must of mis spoken." he said hoping Batman will fall for it, but he showed he didn't believe him by punching him in the stomach.
"Tell me who your talking about! Now!" Batman ordered
"Alright! I'm talking about the guy who hired us, we don't know his name but he calls himself 'The Demon's Head'." The henchman explained.
Batman's eyes widened for he knew who The Demon's Head was. His face returned to it's angry expression. "Where is the truck going?"
"To warehouse 116 down at the docks. There I told you everything, now are ya gonna let me go?" the henchman asked but Batman punched him in the face knocking him out.
Batman hurried to the Batmobile and quickly drove down to the docks and stop The Demon's Head. There was no sought that this meant that not only is his world at steak but other worlds as well. Batman knew this because he faced The Demon's Head before. He was a someone who wanted to rid the world of humanity. Someone who lived for over 600 years. Someone who wanted Batman to be his successor. He was normally referred to as the Arabic translation for his name, Ra's al ghul.
End of Flash back
Batman exited the Batmobile when he arrived at the warehouse. He pulled out his grapple gun from his utility belt and fired the hook attached to the line to the edge of the roof. Once the hook hit the roof Batman pulled the trigger on the gun again and it pulled him up to the rooftop.
Meanwhile inside the warehouse, Michael Reeves was typing in random coordinates to the dimensional transporter. "Hey doc, you done yet?" henchman 1 asked impatiently.
"Almost, I just got to type in these coordinates and brings something here from another dimension." Michael said annoyed. The dimensional transporter was big, so big a car can go through, and it looked kinda like a frame with no window. To it's left was it's power cell (if hit with a blunt object or shot at It would explode) and to it's right was a small computer like device, it was connected to, that Michael was typing on so he can bring an alien inhabitant here.
Michael made a deal with The Demon's Head that if he gave the transporter to him he can take any inhabitant from another dimension and do research on it.
As he typed in the last of the coordinates he flipped the lever and a green portal appeared, the 3 henchmen looked In awe and Michael was cheering that it worked.
In a few moments something was thrown out of the portal and onto the floor before it closed, it was an orange pony with wings and a purple mane and tale. "A pony? Really? You could bring anything here and it was a pony?" henchman 2 asked.
Before Michael could explain that he got the machine to bring him something random he hears groans coming from the pony and he turns his attention to it. "What happened?" the pony groaned in a young female voice.
"It talks?!" yelled henchman 3
The pony then looked up at them and her eyes widened in fear as she let out a frightened scream. "Humans!" she yelled.
"This is amazing! An in habitant from another dimension!" Michael said with joy exitement in his voice.
"This is freaking me out! Why did I even sign up for this?" henchman 2 said to himself.
Micheal took a crate from the corner and brought it over to the pony. "Come on, get in."
"No! You're not taking me anywhere!" the pony said.
"You, put her in the crate." Michael told henchman 1.
"No way I'm not going anywhere near that thing."
Michael looked at henchman 2 who shook his head no before he could ask.
"Hehe. You guys are really afraid of a talking pony?" henchman 3 mocked.
"Look, were not afraid were just freaked out at seeing a talking pony." henchman 2 defended.
"What ever, I'll put this thing in the crate." henchman 3 said and walked up to the pony.
The pony tried to run but was grabbed by the tail by henchman 3 who started carrying her by the tale which felt painful for her. "Let me go!" she said struggling to break free.
Than everyone present heard the sound of glass being shattered and they all turned their attention to a dark figure dropping from a window on the ceiling and landing on his feet.
"It's Batman!" henchman 2 yelled and pointed his AK-47 at him but Batman threw a baterang from at his hand knocking the gun out. Batman then ran up to the 3 henchmen and punched henchman 1 in the face and kicked him in the stomach causing him to stumble backwards. Henchman 3 dropped the pony onto the floor and ran up to Batman trying to throw a punch at him but Batman grabbed his wrist and twisted it causing the henchman to scream in pain but was silenced when he was punched to the face knocking him out.
Henchman 2 picked the AK-47 back up and fired hoping to shoot Batman but he was too quick as he sprinted and quickly picked the pony up as he ran. The henchman ended up accidently hitting the power cell on the dimensional transporter. "You idiot! You just hit the power cell! It's going to explode!" Michael yelled in panic.
The machine then made electrical short noises and the power cell grew bright red. "It's gonna blow!" the henchman said.
Batman pulled out his grapple gun and fired the line up to the ceiling "Hold on." he said to the pony in his arm, who wrapped her forelegs around his chest. He then pulled the trigger again and the gun pulled him up to the ceiling. As they got to the roof Batman sprinted to the edge. The pony in his arms eyes widened as she noticed.
"Wait! Wait! We're gonna-" but she was cut off as Batman jumped off the edge, making a old scream coming from the pony. The pony kept screaming and buried her face into Batman's chest, waiting for her demise, but it never came as Batman stretched out his cape and landed softly in the Batmobile.
Batman put the pony in the passenger seat. The pony slowly opened her eyes to see that she wasn't a street pizza. "Huh? I'm ali-" she was cut off as she felt the car speed out of there.
BOOM
She then heard an explosion and looked behind herself to see the warehouse now destroyed and fire on what's left of it.
The pony then looked at the strange vehical she was in then at Batman, who kept his eyes on the road.
One The Batmobile was driven to a safe distance the Orange Pegasus was pounding at the Batmobile's windows, trying to get out and away from the creature in grey and black sitting right next to her, driving the vehicle. Batman stopped the car and looked at the pony next to him. "It's okay, you don't have to be afraid." Batman said in a calm tone.
The pony then looked at Batman "let me out! And get away from me!" she begged.
"It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you."
The orange pony didn't listen and she put her hooves over herself, trying to protect herself from him. "If I was going to hurt you, then why did I save you from that explosion?" Batman asked rhetorically.
The pony thought for a moment about what he said and put her hooves down and her face changed from fear to confusion. "But...the stories say that all humans are evil."
"What stories?" Batman asked
"Where I come from humans are told as evil creatures who hurt people for their own selfish needs." The young pony explained.
Batman thought that those stories were half right because some humans do evil things for their own needs, yet their are humans like him who stop those kind of people who hurt others.
"Why did you save me?" The orange pony asked. "You could have left me in that warehouse to die but instead you chose to save me, why?"
"Because it's the right thing." Batman said in his stoic manner.
This puzzled the orange pony. The stories in her world described humans as horrible vicious monsters, but this human, dressed as a bat, saved her from death because it was the right thing? 'Maybe not all humans are bad.' she thought.
"But why didn't you just fly out of the warehouse?" Batman asked but immediately regretted it because the question brought the pony in tears.
The Orange pony wiped her eyes and explained "Because I have a wing disorder, I can't fly. I tried other things but I haven't found anything i'm good at." she buried her head into her hooves as she sobbed.
'stupid' Batman said to himself in his head. He could have just left the question alone, he should have never asked.
The pony then felt two arms wrap around her and she looked up to see that it was Batman. "Don't think you aren't good at other things. Everyone is good at something and you just have to find it. You just have to try."
The pony wiped her eye as she sniffed and smiled gratefully at Batman "Thanks." she said as they broke the hug.
"I'm Scootaloo by the way" she said
"I'm Batman"
"Why do you dress like a bat?" asked Scootaloo as she raised an eyebrow.
"I dress like a bat to scare criminals." Batman explained.
"Why do you want to scare criminals?" Scootaloo asked
"Because I believe fear is the best weapon to use against them."
Batman then put his foot on the pedal and drove the Batmobile.
"What is this thing?" asked Scootaloo, curious about what kind of carriage she was in.
"It's an automobile, which is a vehicle we humans use for transportation." Batman explained to the curious pony.
"So you use this to get to places?" asked Scootaloo, still curious about the vehicle she was in.
"Yes, but most humans just use automobiles, or cars as what people mostly call them, just for transportation, but I don't just use it for that, I also use it for other purposes like defence or assault."
"How would you use it for those two things?"
"There is a hidden missile launcher and a gatling gun, armed with rubber bullets, that I sometimes use against my enemies, but I only use the Batmobile's assault and defence mode for when I am chasing a getaway car or when I go up against something unexpected."
"Batmobile?" Scootaloo asked confused.
"That's the name I give this car." Batman explained.
Scootaloo had other questions about what a missile and gatling gun was but decided to ask him later. "Where are we going?"
"Home." Batman said
After 30 minutes of driving they were driving in a forest, then they were coming up close to a rock wall. "Batman." Scootaloo said but Batman didn't respond. The Batmobile was getting closer to the wall "Batman" Scootaloo said trying to warn Batman but he kept driving the Batmobile closer, Scootaloo braced herself for what she thought was going to happen but it never came. Scootaloo slowly raised her head and saw that they were now driving through a tunnel. She turned around in her seat and saw that there was now what looked like an entrance whiched soon closed. Scootaloo turned back around and saw that they were out of the tunnel and were in some kind of cave, but it wasn't just any cave, it had things that faces didn't have. There was what looked like a giant coin, a giant joker card, a giant lizard standing on two legs, to Scootaloo it looked like a dragon, and there was a giant screen.
The Batmobile parked and there was a man in a tux. He was a little bald on top of his head but there was and he had a mustache and he was also wearing white gloves.
The wind shield of the Batmobile the slid off and Batman and Scootaloo jumped out. The man was surprised by seeing Scootaloo.
"Wow." Scootaloo said, amazed by the cave she was in.
The man was startled by the pony in front of him talking but felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned his head to see that the hand was Batman's. "It's okay Alfred. Just relax."
Alfred regained his composure and looked at Scootaloo, who looked at him as well. "This is Scootaloo, she's going to be staying with us." Batman explained to Alfred.
Alfred reached out his hand for Scootaloo. "Alfred Pennyworth, at your service."
Scootaloo put her hoof him Alfred's hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you Alfred."
After the introduction Alfred took Scootaloo up to a guest room in Wayne Manor while Batman went out to do more from fighting. Alfred opened the door to the guest room and Scootaloo walked in. The guest room had a flat screen tv, a bed that was big enough for one person, a balcony over looking the city and a private bathroom.
"Your bathroom is through that door and for you amusement..." Alfred said as he picked up the tv remote and turned on the tv which imidiatly caught Scootaloo's gaze.
"Push this button to turn off the tv and this if you want to watch something else and push this if you want the volume high or low." Alfred explained pointing at the buttons on the remote and Scootaloo nodded in understanding.
Alfred left Scootaloo to be entertained by the TV. The shows that caught her interest were Doctor Who, Shark Week, and Spongebob. After 2 hours of watching the TV she turned it off, as well as the light, got under the covers, closed her eyes and let sleep take her.
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?"
The question caught Scootaloo by surprise. "Why do you want to turn me human?"
"I'm not asking what I want, I'm asking what you want." Bruce explained.
"What do you mean?" Scootaloo asked raising an eyebrow.
"I mean I'm giving you a choice, you can be a human or stay a pony, I won't force you to be a human and I will respect either discision you make." Bruce said.
"Why are you asking me if I want to be human?"
"You see, earth has scientists who would want to..." Bruce said trying to find a term to not worry the filly. "...take you away, but if you're a human then people would think you're native to earth and not see any reason to take you away, but if you want to stay a pony then we could find another way to keep you safe."
Scootaloo put her hoof to her chin in a thinking manner. After about a minute she said "Can I have some time to think it over?"
Bruce noded "Of course, take all the time you need and remember, I respect any disiscion you make."
1 Hour Later
Scootaloo was sitting on her bed in the guest room she was using, thinking about what discision she should make. Of course she was happy being a pony but this world didn't know she was a pony and if they knew then people might take her away somewhere she doesn't want to go, just like the scientist that brought her here.
She then turned her head to the window looking over the city, she realized she would want to go outside the manor sometime and see what's out there, but if she went out as a pony then people would take her away. Sure she could stay in the manor but she doesn't want to be cooped up here forever, then there was the matter of getting home, what if she came home as a human and everypony would think of her as a monster.
Home. The thought of it made her heart heavy, she may not have a family to go home to but her friends are there. Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Spike, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, they must be worried about her. The Dimensional Transporter was obviously destroyed in the explosion, so she didn't know for sure if she would make it back home. In fact she might never get home and she could be stuck here forever.
A single tear rolled down her cheek and she soon wiped it with her forehoof. Pretty soon a knock was heard at the door and Bruce came in "Scootaloo, Alfred wanted me to ask you what-... Are you okay?" Bruce said noticing the sad look on her face.
"I'm fine, there's nothing to worry about." Scootaloo said innocently, but Bruce didn't call for it.
"Hey, you can tell me." he said comfortingly, he walked over to the her and sat next to Scootaloo.
She sighed and looked at him. "I've been thinking about home, I miss Equestria and my friends, (sniff) they were the only family I had when my parents passed away." she couldn't hold it in any longer and sobbed into her forehooves.
"I didn't have anypony to look after me, I had friends but my parents were what I had until they died."
Bruce could see the pain she was dealing with, he knew how it felt to loose both parents, and the worst part is that it happened in front of him when he was eight years old.
Flashback
It was the seventh time he watched that movie at The Monarch Theater, the seventh time his mother and father took him there to see The Mark of Zorro, the movie that they played there every week because it was the first movie they ever showed, the movie that Bruce would never forget like he would never forget this night.
Bruce's parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, would always take him to this theater to see The Mark Of Zorro because it was his favorite movie. Two things that Bruce was a huge fan of was Zorro from the movie he just saw and The Grey Ghost from his favorite TV show Bewear The Grey Ghost.
The family of three turned to the nearest alley to get to where they parked they're car. "Mom, Dad, thanks for taking me to see that movie again."
"You're welcome Bruce." Martha said kindly.
"Hey Dad, I want to be Zorro when I grow up."
"You would make a great hero son." Thomas said happily to his son.
Bruce then swung his right arm like he was holding a sword. "Take that you wicked tyrant!" Bruce said playfully like he was in a sword fight.
Just then, someone was walking towards them and stopped a few inches in front of them and imidiatly pulled out a gun, they noticed this and stopped in they're tracks. "Wallet!" The man said, his face unable to be seen in the darkness.
"Okay, okay, take it easy." Thomas said pulling Bruce behind him. Thomases voice was calm but he had pleading look on his face. He pulled out his wallet and handed it to the man, who snatched it from him. His eyes then turned to the pearl necklace around her neck.
"I'll also take that necklace you're wearing lady." he said.
"But these are my mother's pearls." Martha said holding onto her necklace.
"Just give 'em to me!" He yelled, pointing the gun at her.
"Leave her alone you-"
BANG
Before Thomas could finish, he fell too the ground dead from the gun fired at him.
"Thomas! Oh God, Tom!!" Martha yelled panicked.
BANG
She too felt a bullet hit her chest and fell to the ground dead.
Bruce watched in horror at what he just saw, both his parents murdered before him. The mugger bent down and snapped the pearl necklace off Martha's neck, letting some of the pearls fall to the ground scattering.
The man then pointed his gun at Bruce but he heard sirens. "See ya 'round kid." he said as he turned around and ran to the exit of the alley.
Bruce knelt down on his knees with a look a horror on his face, looking at the lifeless bodies before him. "Mom, Dad..." He then looked up at the sky above him with tears in his eyes. He then yelled in fear, sadness and rage.
End of Flashback
Bruce couldn't forget that night, he remembered the fear in his mother's voice, the gunshots, everything. He looked at Scootaloo with a look of sympathy and put a hand on her shoulder. She was surprised from the hand on her shoulder and looked up at Bruce. "I know how it feels to lose both parents, it happened in front of me when I was eight." Bruce said sadly. "The man wanted my father's money and my mother's pearls around her neck." he then looked at Scootaloo. "I'm sorry that you lost your parents and that you are separated from your friends, but you are not alone, I will always be here for you."
Scootaloo imediatly wrapped her forelegs around him and buried her face into his chest and sobbed as Bruce hugged her back.
After what felt like an eternity, Scootaloo and Bruce broke the hug and Scootaloo wiped her eye. "Thanks for your sympathy, and I'm sorry about your parents."
"Thank you." Bruce smiled.
"So, what were you going to tell me when you came in here?" Scootaloo asked, moving to a different subject.
"Alfred wanted to know what you would like for lunch."
Scootaloo thought for a moment, then decided what she wanted. "I'll have a grill cheese sandwich."
"Okay, I'll tell him." Bruce said as he got up from the her and walked out of the room.
Now Scootaloo went back to thinking about her decision. Does she want to be a human? After 5 minutes of thinking she decided, yes, yes she does want to be a human since it is the only way for her to go out there and not be taken away.
She walked over to the kitchen and sat in a seat next to Bruce. "Bruce, I decided that I'll be a human."
Bruce looked at her "Are you sure?"
"Yes, if I'm human then I will go outside without having to worry about being taken."
"Alright, if you're certain." Bruce said as Alfred came in with a bowl of salad for Bruce, and a plate with a grilled cheese Sandwich for Scootaloo.
After they are lunch they went to a limo that Bruce had in the garage and Alfred drove them into the city.
"So, how am I gonna be turned human?" Scootaloo asked Bruce.
"I know someone who might have the ability to." Bruce said.
While they were driving in the city, Scootaloo kept her head down so people who are driving by wouldn't see her.
After 40 minutes of driving, they arrived in the back alley of a theater. Bruce and Scootaloo walked out of the limo while Alfred waited in the Vehical.
Bruce and Scootaloo walked up the steps and Bruce knocked on a door. After a moment the door opened to reveal a woman with long black hair, she was in a magician's one piece suit, top hat, she also wore fishnet stockings instead of pants and high heel shoes.
"Bruce. Y'know, when you are dropping by, I always expect to see you dressed as a bat." the woman smiled.
"Wait, you know Bruce is Batman?" Scootaloo asked surprised.
The woman looked down to the source of the voice and her eyes widdened at the sight of Scootaloo. "A Pegasus? Bruce you have a Pegasus? How did you get a Pegasus?"
"I saved her from Michael Reeves, I scientist who built a dimensional transporter and brought her here." Bruce explained.
The woman then remembered a news report on the Gotham Gazzete, that it said that a dimensional transporter that was built by Micheal Reeves was destroyed beyond repair in an explosion. She then knelt down to Scootaloo "Hi, I'm Zatanna." she smiled.
"I'm Scootaloo, nice to meet you." Scootaloo said shaking Zatanna's hand.
"May we come in?" Bruce asked.
"Of course." She said, welcoming them into her dressing room.
"So, is there anything you need?" Zatanna asked, because knowing Bruce, he mostly visits someone for questions for a case he's working on.
"Do you have the ability to transform someone into something else?" Bruce asked.
"Sure, why do you ask?" Zatanna answered.
"We were wondering if you could turn her into a human."
"I can turn her into a human..." Zatanna looked at Scootaloo "...but the spell is permanent, if I turn you into a human, then you will stay a human forever."
Scootaloo thought for a moment and said " There's no way of turning me back?"
"I'm afraid not, are you sure you want to be a human?"
"I don't know if I'll ever get back to my world, but if I do I need a way to prove that it's me. Wait. Do you have the ability to take me back to equestria?" Scootaloo asked realising there might be a way here.
Zatanna shook her head sadly "I'm afraid there's not a spell I have that can send you back to your home, but I can summon an object from another world."
Scootaloo's head lowered in sadness. "Can you summon a picture of my friends?"
"Sure." Zatanna said. She then picked up her wand from her desk and said the incatation for the spell, which was saying the words backwards, and a picture frame appeared in front Of Scootaloo. The picture had the Mane 6, the CMC, and Spike.
A tear rolled down her eye "Thanks. I'm ready Now."
Zatanna then waved her wand and said the incantation, then a purple aura surrounded Scootaloo and a blinding light covered the room. Scootaloo slowly opened her eyes and rubbed her forehoof on her head, she then lowered it to see that it was no longer a hoof, but rather a human hand on a human arm. Scootaloo then stood up on her two human legs, but staggered and almost fell over but thankfully Bruce caught her.
"How do you feel?" he asked.
Scootaloo then looked to her left at a mirror, her reflection wasn't a pony, but it was instead a ten year old human girl, she wore a grey hoodie with rolled up sleeves, and green shorts, she looked down and was that she wore grey shoes with mint green socks.
"I kinda feel weird but I'll get used to it." she said.
Bruce then turned his head to Zatanna, "Thanks for your help Zatanna, we'll be leaving now."
"Any time, feel free to drop by anytime." Zatanna said as Bruce walked Scootaloo out the door. This was now the start of Scootaloo's new life.
It's been a week since Scootaloo came to the human world and turned human. When she was turned human her name was changed to Ashlyn Phillips, because her real name was not a normal name on earth, so Bruce decided to give her a human name. She was then publicly adopted as Bruce Wayne's ward and the school she now went to was Gotham Elementary, there she was a popular kid because she was Bruce Wayne's ward.
Now that she was human she could go outside without having to worry about anyone taking her away. The only people who, aside from Alfred and Bruce, who knew that she was a pony from another world were people that Bruce worked with, such as a team of superheroes that Bruce is apart of called The Justice League.
Alfred and Bruce would take her to the city to show her around.Every night was the same, Bruce would always put on his bat-suit and go out on patrol, leaving Scootaloo and Alfred at home.
Today Bruce was going to take her to Wayne Tower, the tallest tower in Gotham and the tower that was the source of Bruce's company, Wayne Enterprises. Wayne Enterprises was a company that made special technology, medicines, security defences, chemicals, and so much more. It works with other companies as well, such as Queen Industries, S.T.A.R. Labs and Gothcorp but they would always stay away from Lexcorp due to Bruce's knowledge that it's owner, Lex Luthor, is evil because of his battles against him alongside Superman and the Justice League.
After about a 40 minute drive they arrived in a limo with Alfred as the driver. "Wow, this is your tower? It's amazing." Scootaloo said, amazed by the tall tower with a big W on it.
"I'm glad your impressed, I'm anxious to show you the inside." Bruce said. He was in a grey business suit that he normally wears when he goes to the tower.
Alfred parked the limo in the parking lot near the entrance to the tower and Scootaloo and Bruce walked to the entrance. Once they got inside they were noticed by a receptionist at a desk. "Welcome back Mr. Wayne. I'll tell Mr. Fox that you are here."
"No need, he's expecting us." Bruce said politely in his normal voice than in the intimidating gruff voice he normally uses when he's Batman.
The pair walked into an elevator and Bruce pushed the button to the top floor. After a few minutes the elevator doors opened to reveal the long hall of the top floor. Bruce and Scootaloo walked down the hall to dark brown double doors with a label above them, 'CEO's Office' it said.
Bruce opened the doors to allow Scootaloo to walk in. The office had grey marble floors, grey marble walls, dark brown wood corridors, a chest set in the right corner, a book case in the right wall with a bust of Solomon Wayne, Bruce Wayne's Grandfather. There was also a wood desk with a computer on it, sitting at the desk was an African American man with a short beard and mustache, he wore glasses and he was in a grey business suit. On the desk was a label with his name, Lucius Fox.
Lucius looked up from his computer and stood up from his desk. "Mr. Wayne, I see that you brought your new ward for the tour."
He walked over to Scootaloo and held out his hand "I'm Lucius Fox, CEO of Wayne Enterprises."
Scootaloo shook his hand "I'm Scoo-Ashley Phillips."
"It's okay, I'm aware that you are a pony from another world." Lucius said, much to Scootaloo's surprise.
"How did you know?" Scootaloo asked surprised.
"Mr. Wayne told me, don't worry, your secret's safe with me."
Scootaloo signed in relief then looked up at Lucius "How did you believe him by the way?"
"I live in a world where there's a bat vigilante in Gotham, a superman flying in Metropolis, a king of Atlantis in the ocean, an Amazon princess in Washington D.C., and more, so what's not to believe?" Lucius explained. That made a lot of sense.
"So, would you like to see our lab?" Bruce asked Scootaloo.
"Sure." Scootaloo said, anxious to see what Wayne Tower had.
Bruce then walked over to the chess set and moved a king figure to a black tile on the right side of the chess board and put a pawn in the black tile it was on, then the book case moved to the right like an elevator door to reveal a hidden elevator. The trio walked in and it took them down to a secret lab they had underneath the tower.
The lab had a table with batarang's, a graple gun, a net gun, and a taser. "This is the lab we use to make the materials Bruce needs to be Batman." Lucius explained.
"You know that Bruce is Batman?" asked Scootaloo
Lucius nodded "I've known that Bruce was Batman since he started his career."
"Lucius makes the materials I need, he made the Batmobile, the gadgets, the suit, everything." Bruce explained.
"So, what do you do at Wayne Enterprises, aside from making the things Batman needs." Scootaloo asked.
"Well, I'm the CEO, I run the company while Bruce is Batman, we make it look like Bruce is a lazy billionaire who leaves someone else in charge while he keeps spending his money, so that way no one would suspect that he's Batman." Lucius explained.
They showed Scootaloo some more around the tower for the next hour, and they later walked to the entrance of the tower to leave.
"I hope you enjoyed your time at Wayne Tower, Miss Phillips." Lucius said.
"Thanks, you guys make a lot of cool stuff here." Scootaloo said as she and Bruce walked back to the limo where Alfred was waiting.
"Another night of patrol for him." Scootaloo sighed as she layed on her bed, tonight Bruce put on his bat-suit and went out patrolling the streets of Gotham again while she stayed home. During the past week she heard that Gotham was flooded with crime. On the Gotham Gazzete it was reported that there were many breakins, muggins and more, and she was upset about it, about people getting robbed, about people getting murdered, and about criminals escaping prison, she didn't want to sit there doing nothing.
Sure Bruce was out there doing what he can and she heard him say that the GCPD had an honest commissioner, Jim Gordon, but it would take more than them them to save this city.
She felt like there could be something that she could do, but she wasn't doing anything, sure Alfred stayed home but he still helped Bruce by hacking into a signal or giving him info that he needs, through an earpiece Bruce had that was connected to the Batcomputer.
Scootaloo Sat up from her bed, picked up her remote and turned on the TV to take her mind off it. "This is Viki Vale, reporting live, just 30 minutes ago a family was robbed in Gotham park, we are here with them as we speak." the TV showed the family, the mom hugging her crying child in her arms." that was the last straw, Scootaloo imediatly turned off the TV and decided that she had enough, she wasn't going to sitting in the manor waiting for Bruce to get home, no, she was gonna deal with the crime in this city as well.
She got up from her her and walked over to her closet and grabbed a black zip up hoodie and put it on, she went to her drawer and took a pair of liner gloves. She then looked around in the room to see if there was something else perfect for her to wear, then she looked in an empty drawer and found a domino mask "Perfect." She smiled.
Scootaloo put on the mask and pulled her hood over her head and went down into the Batcave, any moment Batman would call Alfred through the earpiece they had, so she had to be quick, she then walked into the old storage room and looked around for a belt she could use and she found a belt in a rack that was labeled "Dick Grayson's gear" which had a few utility belts and some gadgets on it, Bruce must have kept it all for memories.
She found a belt that was her size, she assumed Dick wore it in his early days as Batman's sidekick, which was when he was young.
Scootaloo then picked out about 15 batarangs, a grapple attatched to a rope, 5 smoke pellets, and 5 pairs of bat-cuffs. She was ready.
She then got out of the Batcave and then walked out the door of the manor, she sprinted through the yard but stopped when there was a wall in front of her. She pulled out her rope and threw the book over the wall, she pulled the rope until the hook reached the top edge of the wall, she tugged the rope a few times to make sure it was tight and climbed up the wall, she then got on top of the wall and put her rope back in her belt. She then jumped off the wall and landed on the ground on her feet "Not bad." she said, proud of herself.
She then walked down the road to Gotham, it took her 20 minutes to get to the city and she ran to the alley of a building and pulled out her rope, she then swung it upwards but it fell down, she swung it upwards again but it fell down again, happened five more times until the hook finally grabbed a hold of the edge of the building and she walked up the wall while holding onto the rope and just as she was almost to the roof, a woman with red hair and glasses (The Lost Narrator) poked her head out her window and looked at Scootaloo surprised. "Why are you rope climbing up the building?" she asked.
"Let's just say, I wanna get to the roof." Scootaloo said.
"Why didn't you take the stairs?" The Lost Narrator asked.
"What?" Scootaloo asked confused.
"Look to your left." Scootaloo did so and she saw a fire escape staircase that she could have used instead of going through the trouble of getting her hook to the roof. She face palmed then looked at The Lost Narrator.
"That never happened." Scootaloo said as she began to continue rope climbing up the wall.
Meanwhile
Alfred was dusting the old storage room and was about to dust the rack that had Dick's old gear and then noticed that some things were missing. The belt Dick wore in his first two years as Robin was gone as well as some batarangs, smoke pellets, bat-cuffs, and a grappling hook attached to a rope was gone.
'Who could have taken them?' he thought. He then figured since he and Scootaloo, or Mrs. Phillips as he now called her, might have taken it, but didn't want to jump to accusations until there was proof.
He went took the elevator up to the manor and walked to Scootaloo's bedroom. He opened the door and found that no one was in the room. He then started searching around the manor "Mrs. Phillips?" Alfred called but tyre was no answer "Mrs. Phillips?" still no answer "Mrs. Phillips?" still no answer.
He then confirmed that Scootaloo was not in the manor, he took the elevator back down to the Batcave and went to the Batcomputer to look at the security footage to see where Scootaloo was.
The Batcomputer showed some footage of Scootaloo, rope climbing over the wall, wearing Dick's old utility belt and the Domino mask that was part of Bruce's Zorro Halloween costume he wore when he was a kid 'Master Bruce is not going to like this.' Alfred thought.
Meanwhile
Scootaloo sprinted from rooftop to rooftop, looking to see if there was any trouble. She the stopped when she noticed 3 men in an alley and eaves dropped on their conversation. "Why do we rob places when we have a money machine that can print money?"
"Did you even listen to what the boss said? It's broken, and we need to get things to sell so he can get the money to fix it, and once it's fix it, each of us gets paid 40 million."
"Okay, and why did the boss tell us the warehouse number at the docks when we know it already?"
"Cause some of us forget, it's warehouse 41."
"Oh okay, I have one more question." the man asking all the question said much to the other man's annoyance.
"Sigh, okay, what is it?"
"why do we need to fix the machine again?"
"Are you really this stupid?! I just told you."
Scootaloo decided she heard enough and jumped down, landing on one of the men "Alright, put your hands up." she ordered but the man she landed on got up behind her and grabbed her hood, he was very peeved at her.
"Well, look at what we have here, some kid who thinks she can take us on." one of the men said mockingly.
"Yeah, I'm shaking." said the other guy.
Scootaloo then pulled out a batarang "Take this!" she said as she threw it, but it ended up hitting a wall, nowhere close to any of the men.
One of them chuckled at her failure "Nice throw."
'Oh man, what should I do?' Scootaloo thought until an idea popped in her head.
She pulled out one of her smoke pellets "Hey guys, you look stressed, how about I give you something to SMOKE." she said as she threw the pellet on the ground. It exploded on impact, causing a giant cloud of smoke. The men coughed from the smoke causing the man holding her to drop her.
She turned around to him and punched him in the gut and uppercutting him, remembering some martial arts technics Rainbow Dash taught her a few times back in equestria.
She couldn't see the men in the smoke cloud but she followed the sound of their coughs. She ran up to one man and kicked him in the face, then punching him in the stomach causing him to stumble back, he then pulled out a gun from his pocket and was about to shoot Scootaloo.
Scootaloo gasped, for she did not plan that far ahead. Before the man could pull the trigger, a batarang was thrown at his hand, knocking the gun out of it. Scootaloo wasn't the one who threw that batarang, she looked in the direction it came from and saw the person who threw it, Batman.
Batman ran up to the man and punched him right in the face, then the other man ran up to him and tried to throw a punch, but Batman was fast enough to turn around and block his punch and kick his knee, breaking it. The man screened in pain the Batman punched him in the face, knocking him out.
The man Batman fought first pulled out a knife, thrusted it towards Batman's stomach, but he caught his hand and twisted it, breaking it, causing the man to call to his knees, gripping his hand but Batman kicked him in the face, hard, knocking him out.
Batman turned to face Scootaloo but saw that the third man was holding her back, pointing a gun to her head. "Stay back, Batman, or I kill this son of a bitch! I don't care if it's a kid!"
But he didn't notice Batman slowly pulling out a batarang, which he threw at his face, causing him to let go of Scootaloo, then Batman ran up to him and punched him in the face, knocking him out.
Batman then turned to Scootaloo, with anger on his face "That was reckless! What were you thinking?! You would have gotten killed!"
Scootaloo put an arm on her arm and looked at the ground sheepishly.
"Where going home." Batman said, turning around, expecting Scootaloo to follow, then an idea popped in her head.
"Wait. I heard these men say that they were stealing things to repair a money machine they have. I also overheard them say where their hideout is, and I'll tell you if you let me tag along." Scootaloo said, bluffing at that last part.
Batman stopped in his tracks and processed everything Scootaloo said. He needed to know where those men's hideout is so he can bring them to justice. "Tell me." he said, turning around.
"Take me somewhere, far from Wayne Manor so I'll know you're not setting me up and going to the hidout on your own." Scootaloo said, crossing her arms.
Batman sighed, that's what he planned on doing because he didn't want Scootaloo to get hurt, but then he came up with an idea, he knew and trusted someone who knew his identity and lived far away from Wayne Manor. "Alright, deal."
This surprised Scootaloo, she was expecting a protest, but he was willing to bring her along? She then followed Batman to the Batmobile and hopped in.
After driving for a little while, Scootaloo saw that they were driving far from Wayne Manor and decided to tell Bruce. "Okay, they are hiding out in warehouse 41 at the docks."
"Thanks." Batman said
After driving for 23 minutes, Batman arrived at a terraced house and got out of the Batmobile with Scootaloo. "What are we doing here?" Scootaloo asked.
Batman didn't answer and knocked on the door, after a moment a woman that looked to he in her 50s opened the door. "Bruce?" she asked.
"Hello Leslie, I need a favor."
Dr. Leslie Thompkins was one of the people Batman trusted, she was considered as both a family member and friend because she was the first person to comfort him on the night his parents were killed. The other two people who felt great sympathy were James Gordon, who was a detective at the time, and Alfrd Pennyworth. She helped Alfred raise Bruce, which is one of the reasons she was considered a family member to him.
"Okay, what is it?"
"Can she stay here until I get back a little while later?" Batman asked, referring to Scootaloo.
"Wait! You said that I was coming with you on this case." Scootaloo said angrily.
"Sure, Bruce, I can watch her." Leslie Thompkins said
Batman then hopped into the Batmobile. "Wait! I still have to tell you where the warehouse is." Scootaloo said.
"You already have." Batman said, turning his head to Scootaloo.
It was then, Scootaloo realized it, Batman set her up and was going to fight those criminals alone. "You set me up, you son of a-"
"Language." Batman warned as he closed then screen and drove off.
"I can't believe he set me up!" Scootaloo said angrily as she entered the house.
"He's only trying to keep you safe." Leslie said as she closed the door.
Scootaloo then marched up to a guest room upstairs while Leslie stayed downstairs to let her cool down.
Scootaloo slammed the door shut and Kent up to the bed and buried her face in the pillow to scream in anger. After a moment, she lifted her head from the pillow and sighed. She wasn't going to give up. She then opened the window and was about to climb out until she noticed the docks. "Bingo." Scootaloo said as she climbed out the window and slid down the water spout like a fireman on a fire pole.
She figured that she would walk on top of the roof tops to get to her destination faster. The next building was a few blocks down but there were so many people in the streets. She put pulled The bottom of her hoodie over her utility belt to hide it and walked through the crowd.
She then got to the Building and walked up the fire escape stare case, she got to the rooftop and started sprinting and leaping from rooftop to rooftop.
After her long sprint, she made it to the docks and headed towards the warehouse, only problem? Their were armed guards. 'Oh boy.' Scootaloo thought.
These guards were armed, if they saw her then they would kill her, but she couldn't back out now, she refused to back out.
She then walked over to a crate, with her head down. She peeked over the crate and saw that there were 3 men at the entrance, one at the door, two one at the left and one at the right.
Scootaloo had to think of something, she needed a distraction. She then noticed a small rock and threw it over to the right at some barrels, knocking them over in the process.
"What was that?" the guard at the right said while he and the left guard went to check it out, while the guard at the entrance turned his head to where the noise came from. Scootaloo had her chance now, she quickly sprinted to where the guard was and hid behind the wall at the left side of the warehouse, she then looked at her belt to see if there was something she could use, she then pulled out one smoke pellet and threw it far to her left, making a cloud of smoke, catching the guard's attention and walking towards it.
While the guards were distracted, Scootaloo got inside the warehouse through the door. Once she got inside, she saw 5 men in their and she ran to crate and ducked behind it.
She then peeked her head from the crate and saw that one of the men had a suit, he must have been the boss. She then looked up and saw Batman on one of the railings and the window in the roof open, assuming that he got in through that. She then thought of her plan of attack, she decided to wait for Batman to strike and when he does, she will charge in at the 3 other men, who were closest to her.
After a moment Batman glidkicked a henchman and started fighting them off, now Scootaloo ran into the fight and jump kicked one thug in the back, knocking him over. Batman then saw Scootaloo "Oh no."
One henchman ran up behind Batman, but he quickly turned around and punched him in the gut then grabbed his let and threw him into two other henchmen.
His attention was drawn back to Scootaloo and he saw her kick one henchman in the gut, causing him to bend over, clutching his stomach, then Scootaloo uppercutted him, knocking him out. She turned to face Batman and noticed on of the henchmen pointing a gun at him, Scootaloo reacted quickly by pulling out her batarang and throwing it at the henchman's hand, knocking the gun out of it. Batman turned to him and punched him in the face, knocking him out.
"Hey, I got it." Scootaloo said, happy that she didn't miss this time. But behind her, a henchman with a baseball bat was about to hit her with it.
"Look out!" Batman yelled.
Scootaloo quickly turned around and just as the bat was coming down on her, she quickly grabbed it and kicked the henchman in the gut, causing him to let go of the bat, then Scootaloo swung the but of the bat to his head, knocking him out.
Now that all the henchmen were dealt with, Batman then pulled out his explosive tell and sprayed it on the money machine. Then the leader of the group ran up to Batman and threw a fist at him, but Batman quickly ducked and punched him in the stomach. He then grabbed the man by the collar of his shirt and held him up against the wall.
"Wait, I'm sorry, please don't destroy the machine? I can pay you, whatever you want, I got it covered."
"Do you really think I care about money?" Batman said as he pushed the detonator and the explosive tell exploded, destroying the machine.
"Well, it looks like the only thing you're gonna be paying for is your bail, that is if you still had a money machine." Scootaloo said hauntingly.
"No! That's it Batman, when I get out of jail, I'm gonna kill you. I'M GONNA KILL YOU AND THAT KID!!" he then turned his head to Scootaloo "YOU HERE THAT KID?!?! I'M GONNA KILL BOTH OF YOU!! I'M GONNA-"he was then cut off by Batman punching him in the face, knocking him out.
"I was going to suggest for you to do that." Scootaloo said.
Batman turned to Scootaloo, with an angry look "You we're supposed to stay at Dr. Thomkins' place, you snuck out, got last the guards I was gonna deal with later, and fought off these men with me, putting yourself in danger." He then smiled "You impressed me."
Scootaloo was surprised by what Batman said. "I'll take care of the guards and we'll go home. Tomorrow your training begins." Batman said as he walked out the door.
"Yes!" Scootaloo shouted, overjoyed, pretty soon she was gonna be a crime fighter.
"Now kick." Bruce commanded and Scootaloo threw a kick with her left leg. "Now punch." Bruce commanded and she did so with her left arm. Bruce was training Scootaloo in the Gym, Scootaloo was training for a month, she was eager, yet patient to become a crime fighter.
She was wearing a karategi and practicing the skills Bruce taught her. Sure, she knew a few fighting skills from Rainbow Dash, but what Bruce taught her improved her skills and she learned knew skills as well.
"Know do a jump kick." Bruce ordered.
Scootaloo jumped a few inches above the floor and kicked the air with her right leg.
"Know do a different kick." Bruce ordered.
Scootaloo then jumped up, spun in the air and threw a kick as she spun.
"Very good." Bruce said.
Alfred walked through the door and held it open for a young man who looked like he was in his early 20s to walk in. He wore a black short sleeved shirt and shorts. "Hey Bruce."
"Dick, thanks for coming." Bruce said, shaking his hand.
He then turned to Scootaloo "This is Richard Grayson, he was my first ward and partner. He is also aware that you are from another world."
Richard walked up to Scootaloo, offering a hand "Hey, call me Dick."
Scootaloo then shook his hand "I'm Scootaloo, nice to meet you Dick."
"He'll be teaching you acrobatics." Bruce explained.
"Alright, so, when do we get started?" Scootaloo asked.
"Now would be a good time." Dick said.
Now it's been 3 months, Dick was teaching Scootaloo everything she needed to know about acrobatic skills, she learned good and she soon became an acrobatic expert. Bruce taught her how to fight some more, but didn't teach her how to do attacks that would break someone's bones because she wasn't ready for that. He was also teaching her how to use the gadgets properly, like how to throw a Batarang.
"Pull your arm back" Bruce explained as he pulled his arm back with a Batarang in hand "aim" he said as he focused on the target in front of him "and throw." Bruce said as he threw the batarang, hitting the target "Now you try."
Scootaloo then picked up a batarang from the table, unfolded it, held back her arm and threw the batarang, hitting the target.
"Very good, keep practicing and you'll get better."
Scootaloo was also learning how to use a grapple gun, smoke pellets, and other gadgets she will use in the future, she also learned how to glide, using a cape that is normally used for training, to her it was like flying.
A few weeks later, she was now in the Batcave and training holograms were on, they were holograms of thugs, the holograms were made by Lucius Fox, they were made for training and what made them useful for training was that they looked real and even felt real, perfect for training. It was a lot like flying to Scootaloo, she was never able to fly when she was a pony because she had a wing deformity, but she was happy that she could do something that was like flying.
One thug ran up to Scootaloo, throwing a punch, but she quickly ducked and kicked him in the stomach, then uppercutting him. Another thug ran up behind her but she grabbed his arm and slammed him onto the floor. One thug then ran up to her, throwing a punch, but Scootaloo blocked it and tried to punch him in the face put he blocked her punch, Scootaloo then kicked him in the knee, causing him to almost fall over and she punched him in the face, knocking him out.
"How did I do?" she asked Bruce, who was watching.
"You did well. Now it's time, follow me." Bruce said as he turned and Scootaloo followed.
They then walked to a corner in the cave where there was a table that was holding a cardboard box and a lit candle. Bruce then lifted his hand like he was saying an oath and Scootaloo did to.
"Do you swear to always follow in truth and justice?" Bruce asked.
"I do." Scootaloo replied.
"Do you swear to never take a life and never go down the path of vengeance?" Bruce asked.
"I do." Scootaloo replied.
"Do you sewer loyalty to what is right, and to never alley yourself with the forces of evil?" Bruce asked.
"I do." Scootaloo replied.
"Then you are now part of this war against crime." Bruce said as he handed Scootaloo the box.
She took the box and opened it to see what her costume looked like, on it was an insignia that she saw on other suits in the cave, but never knew what it meant.
It was 8:30 on a Saturday night, tonight was the night, tonight was Scootaloo's first night crime fighting. She always knew that she was gonna be something awesome in the future, but never knew that she would be a crime fighter. The superhero identity she had was Robin and she thought that name sounded cool and was glad to keep it.
Robin was who Dick, Jason and Tim were before her. She just looked up who Robin was and turns out, he was Batman's sidekick, he was also the person that wore those red tunic suits Scootaloo saw in the Batcave.
She was in her bedroom, smiling at herself in the mirror, in her costume, it had a red tunic tunic and an R on the upper left side of the chest, a short cape that was black on the outside and yellow on the inside and went down to her knees, red pants, a yellow Utility Belt, black gloves, black boots, short black sleeves, and a black domino mask with wight lenses that made her eyes under the mask unable to be seen, like the lenses in Batman's mask, thankfully though, she could see through them perfectly.
She red up that Robin was referred to by many as The Boy Wonder, but now that she took the mantle it looks like that would be changed to The Girl Wonder.
She quickly ran out of her bedroom and took the hidden elevator down to the Batcave. There was Bruce in his bat-suit, with his mask off, Scootaloo was about to run up to him, but decided to sneak behind up on him and surprise him. So she was about to sneak behind the Batcomputer until she heard Bruce say "If you wanna sneak up on me, try not to be noticed."
Scootaloo got out from behind the computer and sighed. "How did you notice me?"
Bruce faced her "Because I'm Batman." he winked. He then wanted to change the subject "The suit, how does it feel?"
Scootaloo smiled with joy "It feels awesome! Look at me! I'm Robin! I can't believe it, I'm a superhero sidekick. Come on Bossman, we got some sorry butts to kick." She said, excitedly as she ran to the Batmobile "This is by far, the most greatest day of my life!"
Bruce smiled as he put his mask on and hopped in the Batmobile with his new Robin, and drove off to fight some crime.
After driving through the woods for 7 minutes, they arrived in the city, when they arrived they drove for 10 minutes and parked the Batmobile in a nearby alley.
They both hopped out of the car and pointed their grapple guns to the edge of a roof and pulled the triggers again, letting the grapple guns pull them up. They reached the rooftop and looked over the city.
It had tall buildings, busy streets, search lights, three blimps in the sky, and had a gothic feel to it. To Batman, it looked filthy. Then a moment later, they saw a light shine in the sky, but this light wasn't like any light, because it had a bat on it, the same bat logo on Batman's chest.
"What is that Bruce?" Robin asked.
"It's the Bat-signal, it means there's trouble." Batman said as he and Robin jumped off the building, stretching out their capes, gliding, because the building where the Bat-signal was coming from wasn't far.
A man, who looked to be in his 50s, was on the rooftop of the GCPD Building, standing next to the Bat-signal. He had short white hair, a mustach, and glasses, he was wearing a light brown trench coat, light brown pants with a leather belt, and black shoes with white socks. This man was Commissioner James Gordon. Gordon was an honest man who was a detective when he first came to the GCPD, he was one of the few honest cops on the force because years ago the police force was corrupt, it had a corrupt Commissioner, Commissioner Gillian Loeb.
Loeb worked with Mayor Hamilton Hill, a corrupt mayor, and the source of the corruption in Gotham, a crime lord named Carmine Falcone, A.K.A. The Roman. For years the Falcone family ruled the Gotham underworld. Gordon wanted to bring down Falcone but wasn't able to. Until Batman first appeared, at the time Gordon was Lieutenant, and targeted Falcone's operation.
Gordon was ordered to find Batman and expose his identity, but he couldn't bring himself to do it because of the good Batman was doing, so he secretly made an alliance with Batman to take down Falcone and expose Mayor Bill and Commissioner Loeb.
Pretty soon, they did so, and Gordon was promoted by the new Mayor as Police Commissioner. When Gordon became the Commissioner, he cleaned up GCPD and there were now less crooked cops and more honest cops on the force, he also made his alliance with Batman public and even though the mayor didn't like having a vigilante running around Gotham, he thought it would be better to have Batman around because he took down not only Falcone, but other rogues like The Joker, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Firefly. And so he made the Bat-signal, it's purpose was to call Batman over to the GCPD and inform him if there was any trouble that they think only he can handle.
"Jim." He heard a voice say and he turned to where the voice came from, the person who spoke was Batman. "What's the problem? Whatever it is we can handle it."
"We?" Jim asked confused.
"He means him and me." he heard a young female voice, it sounded like a ten year old. He turned to where the voice came from, in front of him was another Robin, but this time, it was a girl.
Jim turned to face Batman "Another one? And it's a girl this time?" he then walked up to the 2nd Robin and offered a handshake "I'm Commissioner James Gordon."
Robin shook his hand "Nice to meet you Commissioner, I'm the new Robin."
Once they finished shaking hands Batman asked "What's the problem Jim?"
"Well, Black Mask has been robbing banks across Gotham, think you can handle it?" Gordon said.
Batman then walked towards the edge of the building with Robin and glided off it. "I guess that means a yes." Gordon said as he turned off the signal.
The Dynamic Duo glided to the Batmobile and drove threw the city. "Alfred, we need you to hack into the security camera's at banks in Gotham that haven't been reported robbed." Batman said to Alfred, who appeared on a small screen, next to the turning wheel.
After a few moments Alfred said "The cameras at the First National bank shows Black Mask and his men, I doubt they are there to put money in their bank accounts."
Batman then drove the Batmobile to where the First National Bank was.
Once the Dynamic Duo got to the bank, they snuck in through a window and saw 5 men, four of them wearing black suits and black masks, and the leader, wearing a white suit and a black skull like mask, Black Mask.
Batman threw a smoke bomb the the group and performed, what he called, a fear multi take down on 3 of the henchmen, he turned on his Detective Vision, so he can see through the smoke, and soaked and enemy down to the floor, knocking him out, and jumping to another enemy, doing the same thing to him and another enemy.
There were now two left, Black Mask and a henchman. Robin ran up to the henchman and kicked him in the stomach "Take that!" she yelled as she jumped a few feet off the floor and kicked him in the face, knocking him out.
Black Mask pulled out his gun, but Robin pulled out a batarang and threw it at the gun, knocking it out of his hand. Robin then ran up to him and punched him in the face, then Batman fired a bat-claw at him, pulled him towards him and slammed him on the floor hard.
"Hey Black Mask, why do you wear a mask? Do you wear it to hide your ugly face?" Robin taunted.
Batman then put the bat-cuffs on Black Mask and put his finger to the earpiece in his cowel. "Penny-One, call the police and inform them of what went on here."
"Of course sir." Alfred said, Penny-One was a codename that Batman gave him.
The Dynamic Duo grappled up to the ceiling and left the building. "That was awesome! Did you see me? I took that one guy down."
Batman slightly smiled at his new sidekick, she was destined to be the new Robin.
Last night went well for Scootaloo, she and her new boss stopped Black Mask, a few armed robberies, and a few muggings. Scootaloo was sitting up in her bed, picked up her remote and turned on the TV to the Gotham Gazzete, on it Vickie Vale was reporting "Last night, rogue criminal and crimeboss, Roman Sionis, A.K.A. Black Mask, was attempting to rob the First National Bank, but was stopped by Batman and he claims that there was 'a new Robin' who helped Batman stop the robbery. This new Robin was also involved in stopping some other crimes that went on last night, along side Batman. Witnesses say that this new Robin was a female this time, it looks like Batman has recruited a 4th Robin, but this time, it's a female."
Scootaloo smiled at herself, she was now a hero, fighting along side another hero, cleaning up the streets from crime. If only her friends back in equestria could see her now.
"In other news, Harvey Dent, A.K.A. Two-Face, has escaped once again from Arkham Asylum" Vicki Vale said as a mugshot image of Two-Face appeared on the screen. Scootaloo's eyes widened at the person in the mugshot image, the left side of the man's face had grayish purple scarring, and there was a stretched out opened mouth and bulging eye. It looked like he had two faces.
'What happened to his face?' Scootaloo thought. It was no wonder why they called him 'Two-Face'
"If you have any information on Two-Faces whereabouts, please call the authorities immediately." Vicki Vale continued as Scootaloo turned off the TV. She then took the hidden elevator down to the Batcave and walked over to the Batcomputer. Bruce taught her how to use it, so she typed in Two-Face and an image of Two-Face appeared, in the image he was wearing a suit that was orange on the right side, and purple on the left side. He wore a glove on his left hand and was flipping a coin. The bio said read:
Two-Face Real Name: Harvey Dent. Past: Gotham city district attorney, was first honest man in Gotham's political office, then horribly disfigured. Relatives: Christopher Dent (Father) Occupation: Professional Criminal Crimes Committed: Murder of 2 hostages, Murder of 10 Police Guards, Robbing Second National Bank, Robbing The Bank of Gotham. Allies: The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin, Bruce Wayne (former), Batman (former), Commissioner James Gordon (Former). Enemies: Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, GCPD, Batwoman, Salvatore Maroni (The Boss). Maine Enemy: Batman. Associate: Hired Henchmen. Origin: Boss Maroni thrown bottle of acid in Harvey's face, horribly disfiguring him, developed a split personality and became Two-Face. He commits crimes based on the flip of a coin.
Scootaloo then looked up Two-Face's coin and an image of a silver dollar coin appeared on the computer screen. There were two images, showing both sides of the coin, it was heads on both sides but on one side, there were scratches and burn marks.
Later, night fell upon Gotham and Scootaloo put on her costume and went out on patrol with Batman. They were searching for Two-Face, but couldn't find him anywhere. They were in the Batmobile, speeding through town.
Robin was in her passenger seat and turned her head to Batman, who was at the wheel. "So, how many times did you go up against Two-Face?"
"Many times, he's one of the top rogue criminals in Gotham." Batman answered, not taking his eyes off the road.
"Rogue criminals?" Robin asked.
"As in criminals that are different from other criminals." Batman said.
"Who are the other top rogues?"
"There's four, Two-Face is one of them, there's also The Riddler, who always leaves a clue at the end of his crimes to test one's intelligence, then there's The Penguin, he's a crime lord who sells illegal weapons and sometimes he robbs museums and banks, and then there's The Joker, he stands out on top of the others, thanks to his unpredictability, he is also the most feared criminal in Gotham and my greatest enemy."
"Do they escape from prison a lot?"
"Actually, only Penguin goes to a prison and the other three go to Arkham Asylum because they're insane, and to answer your question, yes, three of them do break out, but Penguin mostly pays bail."
Robin grew more curious. "How many times does someone break out of Arkham?"
"Unfortunately, the asylum's not very secure, so most times someone breaks out once or twice a week."
Now it was clear that Scootaloo was gonna face a lot of Batman's foes, due to their many escapes, but she wasn't afriad. Then a voice came from the police radio Batman had in the Batmobile "All Units, All Units, Two-Face is at the Second National Bank, he has hostages, I repeat he has hostages." Batman turned the wheel and headed for the bank.
Once they arrived, there was a dozen police cars and police officers with their guns ready. One of the people there was a large man, wearing a trench coat, black tie, and fedora, he was Lieutenant Harvey Bullock. "A right Dent, your surrounded, let the hostages go, come out with yer hands up an I promise you that things won't get ugly." he spoke into a megaphone.
"Bullock, what's going on?" Batman asked as he and Robin approached him.
"Dent broke into the bank, he an his goons got four hostages, we're afraid he might kill em if we charge in." Bullock explained.
Batman nodded in understanding "Me and Robin will sneak in, save the hostages, and deal with Two-Face and his men, don't engage until it's safe."
"Aright, we'll stay here until you say it's good." Bullock said. He then looked at Robin "You think you can handle this kid?"
Robin nodded "Sure, I've been trained by the best." she said as she followed Batman to the bank. They grappled up to the roof top and walked across the roof and decided to go through the back exit. There were two thugs at the exit, both holding double barrel shotguns.
"You take the one on the left, I'll take the one on the right." Batman said and Robin nodded.
They both jumped down at the same time, landed on both thugs and slammed their heads against the cement floor, knocking them out. They walked in through the door and saw one thug with his back facing them. Batman snuck up behind him, grabbed him, thrown him on the floor and punched him in the face, knocking him out.
Batman and Robin then walked behind the banker's desk and saw that there was Two-Face, four thugs, one armed with a baseball bat, and the four hostages that were tied up. "Please let us go." One of the hostages pleaded.
Two-Face then flipped his coin then looked at it in his palm, seeing that it landed on the damaged side. "I'm sorry, I would let you go." he then showed the damaged side of the coin. "But the coin says other wise. " he said in a threatening raspy voice.
Batman and Robin then ran out from the spot they were hiding in and Batman punched one thug at the back of his head as Robin jump kicked another one in the back of the head.
"So, it looks like our old friend, Batman showed up, and he brought along that new kid he has." he said as he looked at them. He then flipped his coin and caught it in his palm, looked to see what side it was on and saw that it was on the damaged side. "Kill them." He ordered and the thugs did so, two of them went for Batman and the other two, one of them being the one wielding the bat, went for Robin.
One thug threw a punch at Batman but he was fast enough to grab his hand, twisting it and breaking it, making the thug scream in pain, only to be silenced by Batman punching him in the face, knocking him out. The other thug tried to swing a punch, but Batman blocked his punch, kicked his knee, and punching his stomach then uppercutting him, making him fall to the floor, unconscious.
As for Robin, she grabbed one that's arm when he tried to punch her, then kicked him in the stomach and slamming his head to the floor, knocking him out. The next thug swung a baseball bat at her, but she ducked and slid her legs under his, causing him to fall over, once he was on the floor Robin stomped on his face, knocking him out.
The Dynamic Duo then turned to Two-Face, who was pointing a gun in his right hand and holding his coin in his left. "Alright Batman, let's see what the coin has decided for you and your new partner."
As he flipped his coin, Robin pulled out a Batarang and threw it at the gun in Two-Face's hand, kocking it out of his hand. Batman then quickly pulled out his grapple gun, firing it at Two-Face, pulling him back and body slamming him to the floor, knocking him out. The coin then landed on the floor and it landed on it's good side.
Batman put a finger to the earpiece under his cowel as Robin went to go untie the hostages. "Bullock, Two-Face and his men have been dealt with, the hostages are safe." Batman informed.
Officers then came in the bank, arresting Two-Face and his thugs, then Batman and Robin grappled their way out of the bank.
Night had covered the city of Gotham, Batman and Robin were standing on a rooftop overlooking the city. It was a quiet night, there was not a lot of crime happening, but that was about to change at this very moment. They noticed a dark figure walk into the Gotham Museum, through a back exit door that she picked the lock to.
Batman and Robin grappled over to investigate. Inside the museum, the dark figure saw a few security cameras, the dark figure pulled out a whip, lashed it to the ceiling, and climbed up. The person who was climbing up the whip was an attractive woman, she was somewhere in her late 20s or early 30s, she wore a full body leather suit, a mask with cat ears, red goggles over her eyes, and leather gloves with blade claws on the finger tips.
She was an expert cat burglar, she was the most famous cat burglar in Gotham. People didn't know her real name, Salina Kyle, instead they knew her as Catwoman.
Catwoman was now high above where the cameras could see her. She waited for the cameras that were looking at the diamond to look away, now was her chance. She swung herself to a glass box, that contained a white diamond. She pricked the claws on her glove into the glass, turned her hand clockwise, and took off the glass that was now in the shape of a circle.
She took the diamond and whipped herself up to the roof and crawled through the top window. Catwoman was on the roof, looking at the diamond that was in her palm, smiling at her victory.
"That doesn't belong to you." she heard a gruff voice that she knew anywhere. She turned around and saw the person she expected, Batman. She then noticed the new Robin that she heard so much about on the news.
"So, is it take your kid to work day or did she decide to sneak out and see what the grown ups are doing? You better go home kid, it's past your bedtime." Catwoman smirked.
Robin's face grew red with anger "Why i otta-" she was cut off from Batman putting a hand on her shoulder.
Catwoman chuckled at the kid's anger "Y'know I expected the next Robin to be a boy, not a girl."
"Yeah, well this girl learned some new skills that will help her kick your butt." Robin said, cracking her knuckles.
"Try me." Catwoman said, ready to fight.
Before Robin could make an attack, they all heard a voice "Well, well, if it ain't the pretty cat lady who likes to steal from us."
They all turned their attention to the person who spoke. He had a purple mo hawk, wore a leather jacket, jeans, and a black T-shirt that had a skull on it. He had a few other men with him, who also wore black T-shirts with skulls on them, some of them were armed with baseball bats with nails in them.
"Aw shit." Catwoman cursed.
"So you thought you could get away with stealin from us, cat? Looks like you're outta luck." he said as his men ran in to kill Catwoman, but Batman was quick enough to grab one guy and throw him into the others. "You shouldn't stick yer nose in our buisness, bat." he said as his men then ran up to all three of them.
One guy swung a bat down at Robin, but she quickly moved and kicked him in the stomach. Another man with a bat ran up from behind Robin with a metal pipe and swung it at her, but she ducked and he ended up hitting the guy that she kicked in the stomach, knocking him unconscious. "Oh shit, sorry Frank."
Robin then punched him in the face knocking him out. One thug tried to punch Batman, but Batman grabbed his arm, punched his stomach, then his face, knocking him out.
One thug pulled out a knife and was about to kill Catwoman 'Easy.' she thought. She pulled out her whip and whipped him across the face, then ran up to him and kicked him in the face, knocking him out.
All that was left was their leader, but he was gone. Batman, Robin, and Catwoman ran to the edge of the roof to see that he just got into his car and drove off, but thankfully, Batman threw a homing device onto the vehicle. "Who were those guys?" Robin asked.
Batman and Robin both turned to Catwoman "Care to explain?" Batman said, remembering that they were after Catwoman.
"They call themselves The East Side Skulls, they're a new gang. I stole money from them in the past and now they seem to be on my back." Catwoman explained.
"Well what'd ya think was gonna happen?" Robin exclaimed.
"Not a small fry running around in her pajamas, that's for sure." Catwoman said, being a smartass.
"Ha ha" Robin said sarcastically. Now it was official that Catwoman was getting on her nerves.
"I tried avoiding them, but almost everywhere I go, they go, looks like I need to get them off my back."
"I put a tracker on the car, we can follow it to the hideout. Come on Robin." Batman said as both he and Robin turned to go but were stopped by Catwoman, who stepped in front of them.
"I'm coming with you, I don't wanna be the kind of damsel who just lays back while the man does the work." she said, crossing her arms.
"We're not gonna take her with us, aren't we?" Robin whispered to Batman.
"Fine, you can come with us, on one condition."
"Name it." Catwoman said as she put her hands on her hips.
"You have to give back the diamond you stoll." to this, Catwoman furrowed her brows.
"No." she said.
"Fine, suit yourself, looks like you can just sit down as the damsel as we, the big strong heroes," Robin said, flexing her arm "will take care of the crime fighting." she said teasingly.
Catwoman signed "Fine."
"And we wanna make sure you keep your word by putting the diamond back now." Batman said, crossing his arms.
Catwoman groaned in annoyance "Fine." she said as she went back into the museum. In the museum she pulled out, what looked like the diamond, and put it in the glass box. "Ha, does he really think I'm going to give up the diamond that easily?" she said, for the diamond in the box was a fake, and she quickly sprinted to the back exit, but made sure to avoid the detection of the cameras, and opened the back door, where a black cat was waiting.
She then put a strap around the cat, holding the real diamond. "Alright, Isis, you know where the way home is." the cat then walked back to the apartment, where Catwoman lived.
Catwoman then ran back into the museum and walked back up to the rooftop "Y'know, your gonna owe me for putting back that diamond." The trio then ran from rooftop to rooftop to where the Skull's hideout was.
They reached their destination, which was an old two story building. They snuck into the building and saw the leader and a few of his henchmen. "Maybe you should let the grown ups handle this, kid." Catwoman said looking at Robin.
"Yeah, well maybe I should take a batarang and shove it up your-"
"Focus!" Batman said, cutting Robin off.
"But she started it!"
"I said focus."
Robin sighed, she looked at Catwoman, who smugly smirked at her. Robin groaned in anger under her breath. They then jumped down onto the floor, Batman and Robin stretched their capes and landed softly on their feet and Catwoman jumped down and landed on her feet.
"Wasn't smart of you to come here, cat." the leader said.
"Yeah, but it wasn't smart of you to follow me." Catwoman said.
"You're one to talk." then the fight was on.
One thug swung a fist at Batman, but he blocked it and kicked him into a wall. One thug then grabbed Batman from behind, but Batman pulled out a tazer and electrocuted him.
One thug pulled out a knife and thrust it toward Robin, but she quickly moved, grabbed his arm and threw him into the floor.
Catwoman then lassoed her whip around the leader, pulled him to her and pushed him down onto the floor, holding him there with her leg. "Never follow me again." she said as she slashed him across the face, giving him a scar.
She then brought her knee down and knocked him out. The trio then walked out of the building and were on the rooftop, seeing the cops arresting the East Side Skulls. "See ya 'round, small fry." Catwoman said to Robin.
"My name's not small fry!" Robin said angrily as Catwoman left.
"The King Diamond was stolen yesterday from the Gotham Museum and was replaced by a decoy, the diamond is nowhere to be seen, unfortunately." Viki Vale said, as she was on the Gotham Gazzete. Bruce and Scootaloo were watching the report in a living room in Wayne Manor.
"I can't believe she tricked us!"Scootaloo said.
"Yes, miss. Kyle seems to do that a lot." Alfred said as he walked into the living room with a cup of lemonade on a silver tray, that Scootaloo asked for.
"Miss. Kyle?" Scootaloo asked.
"He's referring to Catwoman by her real name, Selina Kyle." Bruce explained.
Alfred then handed the lemonade to Scootaloo "Thanks al." Scootaloo said as she took the lemonade from the tray.
"In other news, The Joker has once again escaped from Arkham Asylum, if you have any info on his whereabouts, please notify the authorities immediately." Vicki Vale said, as the TV showed a mugshot of the Joker, Grinning creepily.
"Wow, I wonder who we're gonna be searching for tonight." Scootaloo said, sarcastically.
"Oh, by the way, you better get ready for the party." Alfred said.
"Oh, Bruce do we have to go?" Scootaloo groaned.
"I'm afraid so, but we're not gonna be there long, since we have to search for The Joker." Bruce said "Now go get ready."
"Fine." Scootaloo said, with displeasure as she headed up to her room. She and Bruce were invited to a charity gala, and she really didn't want to go, she has nothing against giving charity, the reason she didn't want to go was because she would have to wear a dress, and she hated wearing dresses. She got to her room and started to change into her dress, it was a green violet dress with a purple skirt and straps that went over her shoulders.
She also wore two pink high heels on her feet and a fake rose in her hair, that came with the dress. She looked at herself in the mirror. 'I hate this.' she thought as she frowned.
She walked out of the manor and into the limousine in the parking space with Bruce, who was wearing a tux, in the car and Alfred as the driver. Once Scootaloo got in, Alfred drove off. "Sigh, i can't believe I'm doing this, I wish you didn't have to wear a dress." Scootaloo complained.
"Don't worry, we're not gonna be there long." Bruce reassured.
They soon arrived at the party, there was fancy music, there was also a table with a bowl of punch, plastic cups, wine glasses and wine bottles. There was also a small table that held a basket with a ton of money in it, it was the charity money and people were putting dollar bills in it.
"Mr. Wayne, fine seeing you here." said commissioner gordon, who was wearing a tux, just like some of the other people at the party.
"Commissioner Gordon, fancy seeing you here." Bruce said in his normal voice, shaking Gordon's hand. "I'd like you to meet my ward, Ashlyn Phillips."
Gordon and Scootaloo then shook hands "Pleasure to meet you, Miss. Phillips."
"Actually, feel free to call me Ashley, or just Ash." Scootaloo smiled.
"Attention everyone, may I have your attention please?" said a blond haired woman, in a red dress, she spoke with a thick Brooklyn accent. Everyone turned their attention to her "Ladies and gentle men, we have a very special guest here tonight, he is considered by many a freak, but in my eyes I see him as a hero, who wants to spread laughter and fun. Please welcome the one, the only, Joker."
The doors then opened to reveal the Clown Prince of Crime himself. Everyone gasped, this was the first time Scootaloo was seeing him in real life. He was wearing a purple suit with a green vest and orange shirt underneath, he was also wearing purple pants, black leather shoes, and purple leather gloves.
"Good evening everyone! It was so nice of me to drop by." Joker said.
"GCPD! Freeze." Gordon said, pulling out a gun and pointing it at Joker, but a henchman snuck up behind him and hit him in the back of the head, knocking him out.
"Ha! Looks like our favorite commissioner thought he could arrest me that easily, how cute." Joker said.
Bruce and Scootaloo quickly made it to the backdoor. They stepped outside of the building and Bruce put an ear to the earpiece in his ear. "Alfred, there's trouble inside, we need our uniforms now." he said in his gruff voice.
Alfred then drove the limo to the alley and opened the trunk, which contained Bruce and Scootaloo's Batman and Robin suits. They changed into their outfits and ran inside the building.
"Batsy! I'm so glad you dropped by, but it was pretty rude of you to come uninvited. Honestly, who does that? Oh wait, I just did. HA HA HA HA!" Joker laughed. He then turned his attention to Robin "So, it looks like I get to meet the new Robin, hmm and it's a girl this time, wow some things change everyday. HA Ha. Ooh, maybe instead of you being a Robin, maybe your a chicken instead. HA HA HA HA HA!" Joker said, laughing at his own joke.
"Hey! I'm not a chicken." Robin said, offended.
"Sorry, but it looks like you are, Chicken Girl." Joker taunted.
"Chicken Girl?! That's it!" Robin said, offended. Being called small fry was one thing, but being called a chicken was another.
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot. I left a little surprise for you in the back room, bye bye, bat-brain and chicken girl! HA HA HA HA HA!" Joker said as he and his henchmen, and the girl in the red dress (Harley Quinn) escaped the building.
"Come on!" Batman said as he and Robin ran to the back room to see what Joker put in there, because Batman knew that whatever surprise The Joker left behind, it wasn't good.
The Dynamic Duo opened the door to the back room and what laid in there was some TNT tied together and a clock on it, said to go off in one minute. Batman quickly pulled out a rectangular shaped object with letters on the screen. After about 20 seconds, Batman finally cracked the code and the timer stopped.
Meanwhile
"Babies, we're home!" Harley Quinn announced and two hyenas ran up to her and started liking her face. "Aw, ain't you the sweetest things."
Joker and his four henchmen walked over to a table, where he then dumped the stolen money onto. "Let's see what goodies we have fellas."
"Glad that tonight went well boss." one henchman said.
"I'll be in my humble office, so no one disturb me." He said, warningly as he picked up some money.
He then walked into his office, which had a desk with some playing cards on it, a few pictures of clowns on the wall, and a mirror, which Joker walked over to, smiling at his reflection "I could stare at that wonderful sight all day." he then sat at his desk, opened his desk drawer, and pulled out a blue piece of paper and a pencil.
He tapped his chin with the pencil in a thinking manner. He then thought of the perfect plan and called Harley over. "Yes, puddin?" Harley asked as she came into the office, wearing her normal clothes, which was a dress with a knee legth skirt and straps on her shoulders and was red and black in a jester costume pattern. She also wore fingerless gloves with the same color. She had white makeup on her face and black lipstick, and she wore a domino mask, her hair was tied in pigtails with red and black bows.
Joker then pulled out a piece of paper and doodled on it. "I need you to drop this off at GCPD headquarters tomorrow night." he said, handing the paper to Harley.
"Right-a-rooney, Mistah J." she said as she walked out the door.
Tomorrow night
The Bat-Signal shined in the sky and the Dynamic Duo came. "This just popped up here an hour ago." Gordon said, handing them a piece of paper.
Batman took it from him and looked at it "What is it?" Robin asked.
"It's an invitation." Batman said, showing Robin the paper. It said 'Bats, you are cordially invited to Joker's Fun House at the old laughy toy factory, there will be fun, games and loads of laughs, hope to see you there! -J' there was also a doodle of Batman with a mustach and a missing tooth and a doodle of robin with a beak and chicken wings. 'p.s. bring chicken girl with you.'
Robin gave an annoyed sigh "He's never gonna stop calling me chicken girl, is he?"
She and Batman then made their way the Batmobile and drove off.
They soon arrived at the factory, which had a clowns face on it and two smoke stacks with candy cane stripes on it. They walked up to the door and it was unlocked. Batman and Robin walked inside, ready for anything because it was obvious this was a trap.
They walked down a red carpet, everything was quiet, too quiet, until they heard a ticking noise, they followed the noise to a corridor, they turned to see a TV screen titled J TV, on it the Joker appeared. "Well, looks like I have a bat in my belfry and a chicken in my coop." Robin groaned in anger. "I hope you love the present I gave you."
"What present?" Batman asked as he pushed a button on his gauntlet until it made a beep noise.
"Look to your left." The Dynamic Duo did so and they was a bomb, set to go off in 15 seconds. "It's good to leave it on that side right? It's great that I had it LEFT out for you. HA HA HA!"
Batman and Robin quickly pulled out their grapple guns and grappled to the glass ceiling and broke through and glided off the building and when they were a distance away, it exploded. They safely landed on the ground and Batman pushed a button on his gauntlet, summoning the Batmobile.
"Computer, track this signal." Batman said to the computer screen, right above the police radio. After a moment, it showed a map to where the signal came from.
"What'd you do?" Robin asked.
"I highlighted The Joker's TV signal and transmitted it to the computer, now we know where it came from." Batman said as he put his foot on the pedal, driving off.
They soon arrived where the signal came from and it was an old theater called the Mark & Hamill Comedy theater, where people use to go to for comedy stand ups until it closed down.
Batman and Robin then walked up to the door and Batman kicked it open. They walked inside to see The Joker, his henchmen, and Harley Quinn.
"Hey you didn't have to kick the door in, now I'm gonna have to kick you out. HA HA HA!" Joker joked.
"Enough jokes, let's get serious." Robin said as she pulled out a batarang and threw it at a henchman's face, knocking him out. The fight was now on.
One henchman tried to punch Batman, but he was quick enough to block and upper cut him. Then another thug came up and tried to kick him but Batman grabbed his foot and twisted it, breaking it.
Harley Quinn held her mallet in her hands, grinning statistically. "Let's play a game kid, it's called beating the red chicken with a hammer."
"Groan, will you people please stop calling me a chicken?!?!" Robin yelled, angrily.
Harley swung her mallet at Robin, but she ducked, she then pulled out a grapple gun, fired it at Harley, and threw her against the wall "Okay kid, looks like you need a spanken."
"It looks like you need to shut up." Robin said as she ran up to Harley and kicked her into the wall, then slamming her head into it, knocking her out.
Now that all the goons were dealt with, Batman and Robin turned to The Joker. Batman walked up to him.
"Hey, do you mind giving the new kid a present that I got her?" Joker asked as he pulled out a rubber chicken, but Batman punched him in the face, knocking him out.
"Hopefully that'll stop him from calling me a chicken." Robin said, crossing her arms.
Batman and Robin were overlooking the city of Gotham as night has fallen upon it once again, it was peaceful until they heard an explosion and went to investigate. At the explosion, it was at the right side of a club, and it made a hole in the wall. Two young women walked in, in purple one piece outfits, green high heels, purple bowler hats, and black domino masks, one had long blonde hair and the other had short black hair, they then started taking money from people and put it in pillow cases, they were carrying.
Next came in a scrawny man wearing black pants, a green suit jacket with a green vest underneath, a purple tie with a question mark on it, a purple domino mask, purple leather gloves, and a green bowler hat with a question mark on it, he also held in his right hand a gold question mark cane.
"Riddle me this! What kind of building do you use as a weapon? Answer: a club." he said, smirking. Then, some kind of object came spinning in the air, hitting a gun out of one goon's hand. It was a batarang, which could only mean..."Batman." The man in the green suit said as he turned to see the caped crusader himself, along side his young partner. "I should have expected to see you here."
"You didn't think that this would go unnoticed, Riddler?"
"No, I thought we would be in and out quickly, before the police and you show up. Query, Echo, take care of our problem." Riddler called the two women.
The blonde haired woman (Query) began to speak "Sure thing-"
"-Boss." the black haired woman (Echo) finished for her.
They then started to fight Batman and Robin. Query tried to punch Batman, but he blocked her arm and elbowed her to the face. Echo tried to kick Robin, but she grabbed her leg and slammed her against the floor.
While the fighting was going on, Riddler pulled a small green envelope from his pocket and set it on the floor. He and his goons then loaded the pillow cases of money into a van they had, which was green and had a purple question mark on it. Riddler then whistled for Query and Echo "Girls, our work here is done."
The two henchwomen then ran over to the van and Batman and Robin would have chased after them if they didn't try to spray them with gunfire once they got to the van, forcing them to take cover.
The van then drove off, leaving Batman and Robin at the crime. Robin then noticed the green envelope on the floor "Hey, Batman, look at this." she said as she handed it to him.
They then got into the Batmobile and drove off. Robin then opened the envelope, to pull out a green piece of paper with writing on it. "What kind of place does water go to for fun?" she read aloud "What's that supposed to mean?" she asked, looking at Batman.
"It's a riddle, The Riddler always leaves a clue at the end of his crimes." Batman explained.
"Why?" Robin asked, curious.
"Because he thinks he is smarter than everyone else, he leaves a clue to test one's intelligence."
"Oh, so do you know the answer to this riddle? Cause I have no idea."
"The answer is a water park." Batman said.
Robin thought for a moment and realized the answer, she looked at the paper and there was another riddle on it. "There's more, 'What town is made out of tea cups?' okay, these riddles are confusing."
"The answer is China Town."
"What do these riddles mean?" Robin asked, confused.
"They mean that the Riddler is at the China Town Water Park." Batman said as he turned the Batmobile to where they were the water park is located.
Once they arrived, Batman picked the lock open and they walked in. Then something hard landed on their heads, knocking them out. Above them was Query and Echo on a staircase, they just dropped heavy sand bags on them.
"Nice work girls." Riddler said.
"Thanks-" began Query.
"-Boss." finished Echo.
After about 45 minutes, Robin woke up to see nothing by darkness, she groaned as she woke up. "Hey boss-" "-the kid's awake." She heard two female voices say as she felt someone pull a bag off her head. She saw the two henchwomen from the club.
"Rise and-"
"-shine, kid."
"Who are you?" Robin asked, she was tied to a chair.
"I'm Query." The long blonde haired one introduced.
"I'm Echo." The short black haired on introduced.
"And you're about to meet someone, here he is..." Query announced.
"The Prince of Puzzlers." Echo announced.
"The King of Conundrums." Query announced.
"The Riddler." They bothsannounced in unison as The Riddler walked in through the door, cane in hand.
"Hello, girl wonder, I am Edward Nigma, you may refer to me as Mr. E, Mr. Nigma, The Riddler, just Riddler or-"
"Okay, I get it!" Robin said but then got slapped by Echo across the face.
"Don't talk to-"
"The boss like that."
"Thank you girls." Riddler said. "Now, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted by some feather brain in red, you may also call me The Prince of Puzzlers, The King of Conundrum, or Mr. E Nigma."
"What do you want?"
"Why, to play a game of course." Riddler answered, smiling. "You are a new opponent I have but I wanna see how smart you are?" Riddler said, poking Robin's head twice. "But even if you have the brain of a genius, it's not that smart compared to mine." Riddles said, proudly.
"Smart? You think you're smart when you left a Riddle, showing us where your hideout was and having these two bozzos work for you?" Robin said, smirking but was punched across the face by Query.
"Watch what you say kid." she warned.
"Thank you Query." Riddler smiled.
Robin winced at the pain at the side of her face, but quickly recovered. "How are you going to test how smart I am?"
Riddler smirked "Riddle me this. What kind of game does water like to play?"
Robin raised an eyebrow in confusion, then Query and Echo turned the chair she was in to face the left and in front of her was a pool full of water, and next to her was Batman tied to a char, bending on the edge of the pool, being held by three ropes.
"Answer: pool." Riddler said as he walked over to Batman. "Here's the game, I will ask you a series of riddles and if you win, then you and Batman go free, if you get a riddle wrong, then I will cut one rope." he said, pulling out a knife."Ready? Let's begin."
Robin wasn't ready for this, she was terrible at riddles, but she had to try in order to save Batman.
"Since you're new at this, I'll make your first riddle easy." Robin smiled happily. "Riddle me this. What kind of chicken wears a yellow cape and an R?" Robin's smile turned into a frown, for she knew the answer but was to hesitant to say it.
"Sigh...me."
"Correct." Riddler smirked.
"Joker told you that, didn't he?" Robin asked, annoyed.
"He told everyone in Arkham." Riddler answered, smiling.
Robin then gave an angry groan. "JOKER!!!" she yelled, angrily.
Riddler chuckled and asked the next riddle. "Riddle me this. What kind of aircraft likes to eat?"
Robin tried really hard thinking of this one, she didn't know a lot of aircrafts, she wasn't from this world. "Uhhh...a plane with a mouth?" Robin asked, hoping it was the right answer.
Riddler smirked "Wrong answer! The correct answer is, a chopper." he then cut one rope. "That one was easy, looks like your stupider than I thought." Riddles teased.
"Riddle me this. Without hands, I strike, without legs, I run, my favorite letter is S, what am I?" Riddler asked.
Robin thought really hard "Uhh...a deformed animal?"
Riddler cut another rope, indicating it was the wrong answer. "The answer is a snake. Boy I love this game."
Robin cursed herself, that riddle was easy, how did she not figure it out.
"Alright, one last riddle. Riddle me this! I always come, and always pass by, I never stop, I can run out, people can gain more of me, what am I?"
This riddle was hard. Robin thought deeply into this one, what never stopped but can run out, what can people gain more of? She looked around desperately for any answers, then noticed a clock on the wall, it took her a moment before she realized what the answer was.
"Time! It's time!" Riddler looked surprised by her answering the riddle correctly. "People can run out of time, people can gain more time for something they need to get done, it never stops, and it always passes by."
Riddler looked furious "You cheated! You must have cheated!" Riddler accused, but failed to notice Batman using the sharp edges on his gauntlets to cut his bonds, which is what he was doing the whole time.
"No, I didn't cheat, I figured out the riddle." Robin defended herself as Riddler marched over to her and shook he by the shoulders.
"YOU CHEATED!!!! There's no way you could have figured out that riddle when you were doing so terribly!" he yelled as he stopped shaking her.
"Or maybe you're not as smart as you think." Robin said. Riddler's eyes widened and his brows slowly furrowed and his face changed to a look of furiousness. He then back handed Robin across the face hard, leaving a red mark on her cheek.
"How dare you?! I am the smartest being there is! No one is smarter than me! YOU HEAR ME!?!?! NO ONE!!!" he readied his fist, about to punch her, and she just closed her eyes and prepared for it. Riddler then felt a hand grab his arm, he looked back to see that it was Batman, free. "How did yo-?!" Riddler was cut off by a hard punch to the face, giving him a bloody nose and he stumbled to the floor.
"Hey! Watch-"
"-the boss!" Query and Echo said, but we're then both punched in the face, knocking them unconscious.
Batman then cut Robin's bonds with the triangular blades on his gauntlets. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks." Robin said, then noticed Riddler stumbling back up. Batman wanted to punch that freak again so hard for slapping his young partner, but saw Robin walking up to him.
She grabbed Riddler by the collar of his shirt. "Riddle me this, Riddler. Who wears green and thinks he's smart? You." she said as she punched him in the face, knocking him out. She wiped her hands together "Who's stupid now, Riddler?"
Summer had just ended and It was time for the school year to start. It was Scootaloo's first day of school, she stepped out of the limousine Alfred parked in front of Gotham Elementary. "I hope you have a good day, Mrs. Phillips." Alfred said.
"Thanks Al, see ya later." she said as she walked into the school, wearing her backpack, which was black with a yellow lightning bolt on it. She put her hand on the door and took a deep breath. "Okay, Scootaloo, you are not a pony anymore, you are a human, your name isn't Scootaloo, it's Ashlyn Phillips. Just blend in." she then opened the door to the school and walked in.
As she walked through the hall, all the kids stared at her, whispering to each other. "That's Ashlyn Phillips, Bruce Wayne's ward."
"She lives with Bruce Wayne, she's loaded."
"She's a rich kid."
Scootaloo tried ignoring the stares and made it to her class room. She opened the door and stepped in. There were a few other kids at their desks, waiting for class to start.
Scootaloo sat at an empty desk, which was the third desk in the second row of five desks. A few minutes later, more kids came into the room and sat at their respective desks. The bell rang and the teacher walked in, she was in her 40s, had long brown hair that went down to her shoulders and she wore glasses, a violet skirt, and a blue shirt.
"Good morning class, welcome back to school. I hope you all had a great summer." she said. "Today, we have a new student, come on up here." she said, waving for Scootaloo to come up there and she did so. "Why don't you introduce yourself to the class?"
"I'm Ashlyn Phillips."
"Do you have questions for her, class?" the teacher (her name is Mrs. Elmira) said to the class.
"What's it like to live in a mansion?" one kid asked.
"It's cool, there's a lot of space." Scootaloo answered.
"What's it like to be famous?"
"Awesome, it's cool to be recognised by a lot of people."
After a few more questions Scootaloo Sat back down in her chair. "Alright students, we are going to start the day with a little math. Now I will hand you your pencils, papers, and calculators." Mrs. Elmira said as she passe out the items.
Scootaloo looked confused about the calculator. "Mrs. Elmira, how do you work this?"
Mrs. Elmira told Scootaloo how work the calculator and she understood. Mrs. Elmira walked back to her desk as Scootaloo began to work on the first math problem. It was 2 + 8, she knew the answer to that and put the pencil in her mouth and started to write with it, she then heard giggles and snickers around her and she looks up to see some kids smirking at her and some stairing at her awkwardly.
Scootaloo saw that they only held pencils in their hands and quickly put the pencil in her hand, grinning sheepishly. She then worked on the answers and after 5 minutes, the teacher took the papers and put them on her desk. "Alright class, we are going to be learning the history of Gotham, starting with it's founding in 1784."
After about an hour, it was lunchtime, Scootaloo had a fruit salad, baked beans, and mashed potatoes on her tray and decided to sit at a random spot. "So, you're the new kid." Scootaloo looked up and saw an African American girl, wearing a blue T-shirt and grey pants and a Japanese girl with long hair, she wore a purple hoodie and a purple skirt, both girls appeared her age.
"Hi." Scootaloo greeted.
"Hey, name's Chloe." said the African American girl. "And this is Kiki." she introduced the Japanese girl.
"Hello." Kiki greeted.
"So, you're new here to Gotham?" Chloe asked.
Scootaloo didn't know much about Gotham, so decided to go for that. "Yeah. I use to break a few laws when I was on my own, so I snuck on board a train and came to Gotham."
"I'm new to Gotham too, I moved here two months ago, my dad switched jobs and started working at Wayne Enterprises as an engineer." Kiki said.
"Me, born and raised." Chloe said.
It looked like Scootaloo had new people to call friends. "Call me Ashly or Ash."
"Call me Chlo."
"Call me Ki."
Scootaloo then bent her head down and big into her mashed potatoes and looked up to see Chlo and Ki looking at her awkwardly. Scootaloo smiled sheepishly and picked up her fork and used it to eat.
"Alright boss, we're ready." a man in a scarecrow mask said.
"Excellent, now let's begin." another man said, his accent sounding British.
Two men in scarecrow masks stepped out of a white van and climbed a ladder up to the rooftop of the Bank of Gotham, holding air tanks over their shoulders, they were followed by their leader, he too wore a scarecrow mask, he also wore a noose around his neck, a tattered brown suit jacket, and a witch hat. He also wore a glove on his right hand that looked kind of like Freddy Krueger's bladed glove, except instead of blades, it had syringes with an orange liquid inside.
The henchmen connected the gas tanks with an air hose and sprayed it through the vent. After a few minutes, they heard screams of terror and they walked down the ladder and walked through the front door of the bank. The scarecrow masks they were wearing were gas masks, so the gas didn't affect them.
The gas affected everyone in the bank, they we're all screaming in terror like they were seeing their worst fears. "Get them off of me!" one guy yelled.
"To away!!!" one woman screamed, fright in her voice.
The 3 men walked to the vault and suddenly, a batarang hit the wall next to them. They looked behind themselves to see Batman and Robin, wearing gas masks. "Batman, again you foil my plans." the leader said.
"No matter how hard you try, Scarecrow, I will always stop you." Batman said.
"Get them." Scarecrow commanded and his two henchmen ran up to fight them.
One henchman threw a fist at Batman, but he ducked and punched his stomach, then uppercuted him.
The other henchman tried to throw a kick at Robin, but she blocked, then he grabbed her gas mask and tore it off. Robin accidentally breathed in the gas and coughed. Batman looked at his partner. "Robin!" he yelled worryingly and ran up to her and held her in his arms.
Robin looked at Batman and her eyes widened in horror. She saw Batman as some kind of bat demon, with fire in his eyes and mouth. "Get away! Get away!" she yelled fearfully.
"It looks like your child has taken a dosage of my fear toxin, now she is facing her fears, she now fears you." Scarecrow said as he and his men got away.
Batman wanted to make Scarecrow suffer but he had to focus on helping Robin. He held a struggling Robin down as he pulled out a syringe with antidote He used for Scarecrow's fear toxin, he stuck Robin's wrist with it and it got her to stop struggling, but she was still shaking in fear. He carried Robin in his arms and ran out the bank and summoned the Batmobile and drove off quickly, back to the Batcave.
On the way there, he told Alfred to prepare the hospital bed they had in the lab. When Batman arrived, he took robin out of the Batmobile and put Robin in a hospital gown and put her on the hospital bed.
Alfred ran into the lab "Master Bruce, what happened?"
"Scarecrow's fear toxin, it's affecting her. I gave her the antidote I carry, but it wasn't enough to stop the affect completely." Then, Scootaloo's eyes shot open and she sat up from the bed, screaming. Batman held her down and stuck the antidote into her wrist, as well as a sedative drug, making her close her eyes, but she was still shaking in fear and her forehead was sweaty.
Batman went to work on a cure while Alfred stayed to watch Scootaloo.
Scootaloo saw herself in darkness, everything around her was pitch black. "What are you doing here?" asked a familiar voice. She turned around and saw that it was...
"Rainbow Dash!" she said with joy as she ran up to her but was pushed down.
"Don't touch me!" Rainbow Dash yelled, angrily.
Scootaloo was both confused and hurt. "R-rainbow...? Why...-"
"Don't you dare speak to me! You are nothing but a disgrace!"
Scootaloo looked more hurt, her eyes starting to water. "Rainbow..."
"I was wrong to take you under my wing! You are a coward who can't even fly!" Rainbow yelled, angrily.
Scootaloo started choking down sobs.
"You are a disgrace to equestria, to Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Spike, Sweetie Belle, Apllebloom. And you're a disgrace to me. You mean nothing to me so anyone!" Rainbow yelled, angrily.
Scootaloo then woke up, breathing heavily, and found herself in what looked like a hospital bed. She noticed that she was not in her Robin suit but instead she was wearing a hospital gown. She looked up and saw that she was in the Batcave and Alfred and Batman standing next to her bed.
"Are you alright?" Batman asked, concerned for her.
"What happened?"
"You were drugged from The Scarecrow's fear toxin. It makes you hallucinate whatever you're afraid of, It was a new formula he made, the antidotes I already had were enough to slightly call you, but wasn't enough to cure you of the toxin." Batman explained. Scootaloo turned her head with a look of sadness. "Are you okay, what did you see?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Bruce nodded in understanding "Am I still affected?" Scootaloo asked, worriedly.
Batman shook his head "No, I made and antidote and cured you."
Scootaloo signed with relief "Hey um, I'm not being lazy but can I take the night off? It's just that...what I saw, I could use a night off."
Batman nodded "I understand."
That night, Scootaloo couldn't get the hallucination out of her head, sure she knew it wasn't real, but it felt real. "You are a disgrace!" she remembered toss words and she dreaded thinking about them.
She kept thinking about it the next day, her friends asked her is she was alright but she said she was fine. When she came home she tried to get her mind off it to watch TV, but that didn't help.
"Hello Scootaloo." Bruce said as he walked to the Batcave entrance.
"Hey Bruce..." Scootaloo said in a sad tone.
Bruce noticed this and walked over to her. "Are you alright? Is there something wrong?" he asked as he sat next to her on the couch.
"Nothing, it's just that...it's been a long day at school." Scootaloo lied, not facing Bruce, but he knew better.
"Scootaloo..." he said as he put a hand on her shoulder. "please, tell me what's wrong."
Scootaloo signed "Remember when I got drugged with Scarecrow's fear gas?" Bruce nodded "Well, I had a hallucination about Rainbow Dash, you know, the pony I talk about." Bruce nodded as he remembered Scootaloo talking about her a lot. "Well, in my hallucination, she said I was a disgrace to her." Scootaloo turned her head to Bruce, water filled her eyes "Am I a disgrace to you?"
Bruce wrapped his arms around her "No, you're not a disgrace, what you saw is what you're afraid of, not anything from the real world." He looked at her in the eyes "If your friends saw you, they would be proud. They would never think of you as a disgrace, and I don't think you are a disgrace, I'm proud of you. Just always know that what you saw was only what you are afraid of and is not the real thing. Don't think you're a disgrace, don't let your fear blind you from reality, know that I'll always be proud of you and me and I will always be here for you."
After a few minutes, they broke the hug "Thanks Bruce."
Then the TV screen turned black, and flashed a picture a few times, until it finally showed there on the screen. On the screen was The Scarecrow. "Attention citizens of Gotham City, I have a message for you." he walked over to a timer with two giant glass containers, containing an orange liquid. "This is my latest concoction of fear toxin, the timer is set to go off a midnight, once it does, the entire city will be clouded with enough fear gas to tear it apart. However, if I receive 30million dollars soon, then I might reconsider, just drop it off in crime alley, if not then this whole city will be consumed by fear." then the TV turned black.
"Come on." Bruce said as he and Scootaloo made it into the Batcave, where Alfred was. "Alfred."
"Yes sir I saw the broadcast, myself. I am now tracing the broadcast signal, and I will upload it to your map." Alfred explained.
Bruce and Scootaloo then changed into their outfits and drove off into the Batmobile. They followed the map on the computer screen in the Batmobile and later found a warehouse. They snuck in and saw Scarecrow with his two henchmen.
"So boss, when we get the money, do where do we put the bomb?" one henchman asked.
"Maybe we'll put it storage." the other henchman swirl
"No, once we receive the money we will detonate the bomb anyway." Scarecrow explained. "I want to show Gotham nothing but fear."
"Don't bet on it, Scarecrow." Robin said as she and Batman jumped down from where they were hiding and started to fight Scarecrow's men. Batman was fighting Scarecrow's henchmen and Robin approached Scarecrow.
"Let's see what you're afraid of." Scarecrow said as Robin threw a punch but Scarecrow grabbed her arm and injected his syringe glove in it. Robin winced at the pain and punched Scarecrow to the floor, and she fell to her knees. "You think you're a hero." Scarecrow said, getting back up. "But my toxin shows what you really are, a coward in a pit of darkness, a fearful child who is scared of her deepest fear."
Robin saw an image of Rainbow Dash "You are a disgrace, you're weak, you're pathetic." Batman noticed that Robin was injected and was about to help her out was being held back by Scarecrow's henchmen.
"Robin! What you see, don't listen to it, it's not real." Robin had a fearful expression on her face. "Robin, look at me." Batman said and Robin turned her head to Batman, she saw him as a demon but she listened. "You are not a disgrace, you are one of the most bravest kids I have met. Every night, you are out there defending the innocent. I am proud of you Robin."
Robin looked at her hallucination and her fearful expression slowly turned to a stern look. "I'm not a disgrace." she got up. "You are not real, she doesn't really think that about me. I am strong, I am brave, I am Robin. And no matter what someone says, I will not give into my fear." then the hallucination disappeared.
"No! Impossible! How did you overcome your fear?!" Scarecrow asked, shocked that someone got over the fear toxin so quickly.
Batman the elbowed one henchman in the stomach, making him let go, then Batman punched the other henchman in the face, knocking him out. Robin then ran up, kicking the henchman in the face, knocking him out.
"No, you will be afraid." Scarecrow said as he ran up behind Robin to inject her with more fear toxin from his glove, but she quickly turned around, grabbed Scarecrow's hand that had his glove, and injected the syringes in his neck.
Scarecrow stumbled back, eyes wide. "No..."
"What's wrong Scarecrow? Scared?" Robin smirked.
Scarecrow took the syringes out of his neck and his eyes widened in fear. He saw walls crumbling, cockroaches crawling on the floor and he saw Batman as a Bat demon with fangs and Robin with fire in her eyes and mouth and cockroaches crawling all over her. Scarecrow screamed in fear at what he was seeing. Batman walked up to him.
"No! Get away! Get away!" he yelled in fear but was silenced when Batman punched him in the face, knocking him out.
Batman turned to Robin. "Are you okay?"
Robin smiled. "Yeah, I'm fine."
Batman smiled, happy that his partner was alright. He deactivated the bomb and put Scarecrow and his men in cuffs. "Hey Batman?" Robin said.
"Yeah?" Batman asked.
"Thanks for what you said, and thanks for believing in me."
A man in a black suit sat at his desk in an office with a huge window overlooking the city. The man was in his late 50s, he had short white hair, a mustach, and had three scratch marks on his right cheek. He was Gotham's notorious crime boss, Carmine Falcone, A.K.A. The Roman. He looked at the city, through the window.
Gotham was a city full of crime, there were a lot of criminals but the criminals that stood on top were the Rogues Gallery. There was a lot of rogues, but the ones that stood on top of them all was The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin, and Two-Face, but The Joker was the most feared one out of the bunch. But Gotham didn't always have rogues, before the Rogues there was, and still is, mob bosses in Gotham.
Gotham's most greatest crime families were the Maronies and the Falcones. The two leaders of the mobs, Salvatore Maroni and Carmine Falcone, fought each other for control over the Gotham criminal underworld and Falcone always came out on top.
Carmine named his criminal empire The Roman Empire, because of his alias. He was an untouchable crime lord. He worked with the corrupted mayor, Hamilton Hill and the corrupted police commissioner, Gillian Loeb in his pocket. That was until Mayor Hill and Commissioner Loeb were exposed to the public by Batman and James Gordon, who was lieutenant at the time. But Falcone didn't believe in giving up.
Falcon kept running his operation but it was starting to call thanks to Batman and Gordon. But The Roman Empire fell even more when The Joker showed up. At first, Falcone didn't take him seriously, he thought of him as the same thing he thinks of Batman, a costumed freak.
Joker escaped Blackgate prison one month after Batman sent him there, and when he escaped he started targeting Falcone's operation. He stole 20 million dollars from him, made some of his men join him, and destroyed a few of his warehouses where he kept the drugs and weapons he was going to sell. Now Falcone started taking him seriously and hired a hit man named Deadshot to kill him, but he was stopped by Batman.
Joker was not only a threat to Falcone, but to every bit mob boss there was. Other rogues have rised, they were Poison Ivy, Firefly, The Riddler, Catwoman, and Mr. Freeze. Everyone in Gotham became more afraid of the Rogues than they were of the mob. Falcone tried to get help from two of his allies, Roman Sionis and Oswald Cobblepot, but instead of helping him they decided to become Rogues themselves.
Falcone remembered when they became Rogues. It was twelve years ago.
Flashback
"What the hell do you mean 'our partnership is done'?!" Falcone asked, angrily.
"I mean that we're done bein partners. It's over, Carmine." Roman said, he was wearing an orange suit and was holding a black skull like mask in one hand and an orange fedora in the other.
"You see Carmine, it's high time that we became something bigger than we were before." Oswald spoke in a cockney accent. He was wearing a tux, a monocle, and a top hat. He held an umbrella in his right hand.
"What do ya mean, Cobblepot?"
"He means that now that these rogues showed up, people are starting to be more afraid of them than they are of us, you see, the best way to run a mob is through fear and intimidation." Sionis explained. "Some tried killin these rogues but no one was able to bring them down." He then put the mask and fedora on. "So we thought, if you can't kill em, join em, and that's what we're gonna do, become Rogues."
"So, you gonna give up yer business and become freaks?"
Sionis chuckled. "No, we're gonna keep our business and be rogues runnin a mob. People will still know us as Roman Sionis and Oswald Cobblepot, but they'll also know us as Black Mask and The Penguin." He and Cobblepot, now known as Penguin, left.
End of flashback
Carmine hated those two for joining those psychos, for becoming freaks. Since they could no longer help him, he had to strike a temporary alliance with his rival, Salvatore Maroni, A.K.A. The Boss. But even that didn't help. The Joker was unpredictable, which is how they fell. Of course they were still powerful mob bosses, but not as powerful as before.
Falcone looked at his reflection in the window, he looked at the scratch marks on his cheek. He remembered how he got them.
Flashback
Catwoman was turning the lock on the safe, and put her ear on it, listening for the combination, after a few minutes she opened it. She was about to take the money out of it but felt a gun touch the back of her head.
"Alright, I've had it with freaks like you crippling my operation. No one steals from me and lives." said Falcone as he was about to fire the gun. Catwoman quickly spun around and knocked the gun out of Falcone's hand and slashed her hand across his face, giving him a scar. The slash caused him to yelp in pain and fall to the floor.
"See ya Falcone." Catwoman said as she escaped through the window.
End of Flashback
Falcone put his hand on the scar as he remembered that night. That cat became one of the people he hated most, other people he hated most were Gordon, The Joker, and Batman.
After a few moments, the phone on his desk rang and he answered it. "What?" Carmine said, annoyed.
"We arrived at the docks sir, things are going good so far." someone said on the phone.
"Good, and if anyone shows up, kill em." Carmine ordered as he hang up the phone.
10 Minutes Earlier
Batman and Robin were standing on a rooftop, overlooking the city of Gotham at night. They then noticed some guys coming from an abandoned building, walking into a van, carrying bags. Batman and Robin turned on detective vision in their lenses, which was a mode that can help them see through anything, and they saw that in those bags were drugs , that made it obvious for Batman that these men were drug dealers.
"What's in that bag?" Robin asked
"I'll tell you about it when your older, but let's just say it's illegal." Batman said, knowing that someone Robin's age should not know about drugs.
They turned off detective vision. "So, any plan of attack?" Robin asked.
"No, we follow them instead." Batman said as he pulled from his belt a small pistol like object, a med it at the truck and pulled the trigger. The pistol like object shot out a small chip that was in the shape of a bag and it hit the fan as it drove off. "Let's go." Batman said as he and Robin glided off the building and followed the truck but the lenses in their masks showed the van on a map thanks to the chip, which was a tracking signal, that was on the van.
They followed for ten minutes until it finally arrived at the docks. But when they arrived, they saw a dark figure standing on a rooftop of a warehouse. "Who's that?" Robin asked.
Batman turned on detective mode to identify who it was. "It's a friend." Batman said as he glided to the figure and Robin followed. They landed on the warehouse and approached the figure. "What are you doing here?" Batman asked.
"I listened to who Falcone was talking to on the phone earlier and came here." the figure explained. She turned around and revealed that she appeared to be a female figure. She wore an black bodysuit with a yellow hat symbol on her chest, a yellow utility belt, a black cape, a mask that covered her face, and like Batman, her mask had hat ears. She noticed Robin. "So, your the child from another world."
"Uh...yeah, who are you?" Robin asked.
"Robin, this is Batgirl, also known as Cassandra Cain." Batman explained.
"Oh, well it's nice to meet you." Robin said. Cassandra had a stoic personality like Batman.
"So, you said Falcone is responsible for this?" Batman asked.
"Yes." Batgirl confirmed.
Falcone, Robin remembered that name from the bio when she read up on The Joker, saying he was his rival. "Who is Falcone?"
"Carmine Falcone, A.K.A. The Roman, is Gotham's biggest mob boss. He was the ruler of the criminal underworld before The Joker and the other rogues appeared." Batman explained.
Then a car pulled up to the van. Two people stepped out, one was wearing a brown suit jacket and brown pants and he had short blonde hair, the other had short brown hair and he was wearing a blue buttoned short and black pants. They were Arnold Flass and Howard Branden, two people who were dirty cops on the GCPD before Loeb resigned.
"So, ya got the stuff?" Branden asked. One of the men nodded.
"A'right, here's the cash." said Flass as he was about to hand them the money.
"And here's a kick to the face." Robin said as she glide kicked Flass in the face. Branden pulled out his gun but a batarang knocked it out of his hand. Batman and Batgirl then glided down and fought the thugs. Brandon and Flass both ran up to Robin, but she jumped up and split kicked them in the face and jumped forward doing a front flip, then threw a bolas at them, tying them up.
Batman punched one thug across the face, causing him to turn and he kicked him in the back, making him fall forward and Batgirl kicked his face as he fell down, knocking him unconscious. The next two thugs ran up to them and Robin jumped over them and landed in front of them and punched them both in the stomach, making them bend over, clutching onto their stomachs and Robin double uppercutted both of them, knocking them out.
One thug ran behind Batman but he turned around quickly and dodged his attack then grabbed his arm and twisted it, breaking it, then punched him in the face, knocking him out.
One thug pulled out a knife and thruster it forward, towards Batgirl, but she grabbed his arm and kicked him in the stomach, making him clutch it. Then Batgirl kicked him in the face, knocking him out.
The tremendous trio then walked over to Flass and Branden, who were tied up thanks to the bolas. "Brandon and Flass. It's been a while." Batman said.
"Batman." Flass stated, hatefully.
Batman put a finger to his ear. "Penny One, call the police and tell them about the drug dealing at the docks."
"Of course sir." Alfred stated.
"Have fun in jail." Robin said as she, Batman, and Batgirl grappled to a rooftop to a warehouse.
"Alright, now we need to arrest Falcone." Batman said as he pressed a button on his gauntlet, summoning the Batmobile. He and Robin got in.
"Hey, you coming?" Robin asked Batgirl.
Batgirl then walked over to an alley and a few moments later came driving out on a black motorcycle with a yellow hat symbol on it. They then drove off to The Roman's Penthouse.
When they got there, they grappled up to the roof of a building right next to the penthouse. The Tremendous Trio saw through a window, that Falcone was sitting at his desk, smoking a cigarette. They then glided over, breaking through the window, sending glass everywhere.
"Damn bat!" Falcone said as he pushed a red button under his desk.
"It's over Falcone." Batman said.
"Yeah, so why don't you just give up?" Robin said, crossing her arms.
"You got a lot to learn kid, cause the Falcones don't give up easily." Falcone said. Just then five men in suits came running into the office. "Get 'em." Falcone ordered.
One thug came running up to Batman, about to punch him, but he grabbed his arm and threw him onto the floor and stomped on his face, knocking him out.
Two thugs came running up to Batgirl and she bent down and slid her leg under their legs, knocking them over. She jumped on one thug and punched him in the face, knocking him out. She got up and so did the other thug, he ran up to her, but Robin leaped and kicked him in the face, knocking him out.
"I could have handled him." Batgirl said.
"Your welcome." Robin said, sarcastically.
"Screw this, I quit." the last thug said as he ran out of the office.
Now only Falcone was left. Batman grabbed him by the arm and cuffed him. "You think this'll work? You think I'll stay locked up? I'll get out of the slammer, like always." Falcone said as Batman called Gordon to come and arrest Falcone.
The next day, Scootaloo read that Carmine Falcone payee bail and was no longer in Blackgate. "What?! How is this guy out of jail?!"
"Falcone's rich. He has enough money to pay bail not long after he's arrested." Bruce explained.
Scootaloo put down the paper. 'I swear, the next time I see Falcone, he better stay behind bars.' she thought.
Carmine Falcone walked into a warehouse, about a few hours ago he got a message saying for him to meet at this warehouse. There was a round table with three chairs, two sitting right next to each other and one on the other side. The Roman sat down in one of the chairs.
"Well, it's been a while, Falcone." someone said in an Italian Brooklyn accent. Carmine turned his head to see a man with short brown hair, he wore a black suit with a yellow tie.
"Maroni." Falcone said, hatefully. His rival, Salvatore Maroni, A.K.A. The Boss, sat down in the chair next to him. "What'r you doin here?"
"I got a note tellen me to come here." Sal said. "Whatcha doin here anyway?"
"Same as you." Falcone said.
The two rivals glared at each other hatefully. "Ah, I'm glad you came." said a voice, getting the attention of the two mob bosses. There was a man wearing a spandex costume, purple shirt and green and orange striped pants, he had orange wings on his back, an orange moth symbol on his chest, a yellow utility belt and a green moth masks.
"Who the hell are you?" Falcone asked.
"I'm Killer Moth, one of the greatest and most famous rogues in Gotham." he stated, he then sat in the third chair, facing them.
"Never heard 'o ya." Falcone said, unimpressed.
Maroni chuckled. "Oh, I heard o this guy, he's one of, no, the worst rogue in Gotham."
"What do ya want?" Falcone asked, wanting to get this over with, this was a wast of time for him.
Killer Moth crossed his arms. "I heard you're dealing with a hat problem, like all the other crooks in this town. And that new kid is part of the problem."
"Go on." Maroni said.
"I am willing to protect the Gotham Underworld from Batman, I'll especially protect you two, if you pay me ten million dollars in cash." Moth said.
Falcone and Maroni looked at each other, then back at moth. They then burst out laughing. "You think we're gonna want protection from a loser like you?" Maroni laughed.
The two monsters were done laughing and got up from their chairs. "A'right, our times been wasted." Falcone said.
Killer Moth got up from his chair "Wait, I got some things that are useful, I got a moth copter, a mothmobile, and a mothboat."
"A'right, where is this stuff then?" Maroni asked.
Moth rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Oh, in police lock up. But I got something here." Moth said, pulling what looked like a toy space gun from a holster on his belt. "Behold, the cocoon gun. Batman and Robin won't stand a chance if I have this." He aimed the gun at a wall and pulled the trigger but a gooey substance shot from the back of the gun, into Moth's face, instead of shooting out of the barrel.
Maroni laughed. "Let's get out a here Carmine." The Roman and The Boss then turned to leave.
"Wait! If ten million is too much I'll loser the price to one million." Moth said, desperate that they wouldn't go, but wasn't working. "Okay, it's five thousand." wasn't working. "Two?" Moth said but they were gone. "Oh, this stinks. No one's taking me seriously! How am I not taken seriously? Is it because of my gimmicks? If so then that makes no sense, I mean look at The Joker, he's a clown and look at where he's at."
Moth then decided to read a news paper to get his mind off things, then something caught his attention. The paper said that in Metropolis there was a team of five villains, Bizzaro, Metallo, The Parasite, Livewire, and Mxyzptlk.
"That's it! I need a team. A team of supervillains to protect the criminal underworld, it's perfect." Moth announced.
The next day he stopped by at a bar, asking people if they would like to join him and become a team. Some responded with "bug off" or "seriously?". Only three people joined, Mitchell Mayo, Abner Krill, and Phillip Cobb. "Alright, meet me tomorrow night at 9:30 PM at this warehouse at the docks." Moth said, giving them each a piece of paper, having the warehouse number on it. "Also, make supervillain costumes and become your own supervillain."
The next night they showed up. Mitchell was wearing a blue spandex suit with his underwear on the outside, a green knit hat, black goggles, and a light container with two guns connected to it with cords.
Abner wore a white spandex outfit with multi colored polka dots on it and a white knit hat and a red domino mask.
Phillip wore a red spandex suit with a yellow Zorro mask and a yellow cape with symbols on it.
In other words, these people looked really stupid, but Moth didn't think so. "Great costumes guys, now what are your villain names and gimmicks?"
Phillip spoke up. "I am Signalman, and I create signals tell my allies what to do, and I leave symbols at the end of our crimes."
"Isn't that last part The Riddler?" Moth asked.
Signalman averted his eyes. "Uh...no."
Abner spoke up next. "I am The Polka-Dot Man. I have polka dots all over my suit."
"And?" Moth asked.
Polka-Dot Man froze for a moment unsure what to say next. "And that's it."
Mitchell spoke next. "I am the Condiment King. I use these special weapons to vanquish my enemies with the o so powerful condiments."
"Perfect, together we will be the Legion of Doom." Killer Moth announced.
"Uh...that name's already taken." Polka-Dot Man said.
"Oh, then we will be the Injustice Gang."
"Taken." Signalman said.
"Then...we are the Underworld Squad." Killer Moth announced. "Now, to show that we mean business, we will start a crime wave throughout Gotham, one that is bigger than when Falcone ruled. Now, to the Mothmobile."
The other three looked around. "Where is it?"
Moth realized that it was in G.C.P.D. Lockup and facepalmed. "Okay, I guess we're walking."
The Underworld Squad then walked to the Gotham Museum, where a banquet was being held to celebrate it's fifty year anniversary. Bruce Wayne and Scootaloo A.K.A. Ashlyn Phillips attended.
Scootaloo moaned in frustration. "Why did I have to wear a dress today? Next time, Bruce, came we go to a party that doesn't have a fancy dress code?"
"Bruce, didn't know I'd see you here." they heard a voice say. They turned to the direction of the voice and it belonged to a woman with long red hair and glasses, she was in her 20s and was wearing a black dress and was sitting in a wheel chair.
"Nice of you to come Barbra, Ashlyn this is Barbra Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter." Bruce introduced and Babs and Scoots shook hands.
"Great to meet you." Barbra said. Then whispered "y'know I thought I would meet you when your in your costume." she winked.
"Wait, you know that..." Scootaloo asked surprised then Babs nodded.
"You see, Barbra communicates with me through the earpiece in my cowal and hacks into places and gives me information. Her alias is The Oracle." Bruce explained in a whisper.
"Wait, if you work with Bruce, then do you know where I come from?" Scootaloo asked.
Barbra nodded. "I won't tell anyone." she assured.
"Alright! Hands where I can see them. Now!" everyone turned to the person who said that and standing at the door way was the Underworld Squad.
"Who are you?" a man asked.
"You all know me as Killer Moth, this is The Polka-Dot Man-"
"Actually, I think Mr. Polka Dot is a better name." Polka-Dot Man interrupted.
"Anyway, these people are Mr. Polka-Dot, The Condiment King, and Signalman. Together we are the Underworld Squad." Killer Moth announced. He was expecting everyone to cower in fear, but instead the whole museum aroused with laughter.
Moth pulled out his cocoon gun. "Give us your cash, jewels, and anything else that is valuable, or taste the state of my cocoon gun." he pulled the trigger but the substance fired from the back of his gun and into his face, making everyone laugh again.
Scootaloo laughed too. "Ah ha ha ha. Seriously? Do they think that we are gonna take them as people who want to hurt us?"
"Come on." Bruce said as he and Scoots walked out of the back exit and called in Alfred to drive his limo there, containing their suits so they can change.
A few moments later, the Dynamic Duo came into the museum, ready to stop Moth. "It's Batman and Robin, we need to move now!" Moth said as they ran and the chase was on.
They ran through the city and through a crowd of people. Batman and Robin ran across the rooftops as the Underworld Squad tried to go through a crowd of people.
"How do we escape from them?" Condiment King asked. They then saw a parked car, Killer Moth broke the window and pulled the lock.
"Get in." they all got in the car and Moth hot wired it and drove off. "Ha ha. Try to catch us now, ya flying rodent."
Batman pushed a button on his gauntlet, summoning the Batmobile and they got in and drove after them.
"They're gaining on us." Signalman warned. Moth had to do something, he drove the car out to a the bridge and drove onto a road in the forest. He kept driving but the Batmobile was still on their tail and was catching up. Moth then saw that he was coming up on some train tracks and a train was coming.
Killer Moth put his foot harder onto the pedal and drove right past the train as it almost hit the car. Batman saw the train and quickly stomped on the breaks. "Whoa!" Robin exclaimed as she was pushed forward from the force caused by the Batmobile stopping so quickly, thankfully her seatbelt held her back.
"Are you okay?" Batman asked.
"Yeah, fine." Robin said.
The Underworld Squad got back to their hideout. "Alright squad, our first night didn't go well but pretty soon people will start taking us seriously." Killer Moth said.
Signalman then noticed a searchlight in the corner. "Hey, do you use this, Moth?"
Moth then saw the searchlight "No, why?" he asked.
"I think it's time you put it to use." Signalman then took the searchlight and took a bucket of paint and painted something on it. After five minutes he brought it over to the rest of the squad. "If Batman has a signal, why can't we? Behold, the Moth-Signal!" on the searchlight was a painted moth emblem on it. "Killer Moth could use this to call everyone here when he has a plan for all of us."
"Perfect." Killer Moth said.
The next night, Killer Moth lit the Moth-Signal in the sky to summon Signalman, Condiment King, and Mr. Polka-Dot. They showed up. "Alright, what's our next scheme?" asked Condiment King.
"I'm glad you asked, King. We are going to break into G.C.P.D. headquarters and take back the Mothmobile, Mothcopter, and the Mothboat." Killer Moth explained. "Here's how we get them back, Mr. Polka-Dot you will-"
"Actually I prefer it to be Polka-Dot Man now." Polka-Dot man interrupted.
Killer Moth sighed in annoyance. 'Couldn't this guy make up his mind?' he thought. "Alright, Polka-Dot Man you will be disguised as a police officer and you will go into evidence lock up and get the Mothmobile first."
"The only place you'll be getting them back is in lock up." they heard a voice say. They looked up to see that it was Robin who jumped down and landed in front of them, then Batman followed.
"Looks like you did a lot of hard work finding our hideout." Killer Moth said.
"No, it wasn't hard to find. We found it by following the Moth-Signal you had." Robin explained.
Killer Moth realized his mistake. "Damn."
Signalman then ran up to Robin and got into a boxing stance. "Alright, put 'em up. Even though you're a kid I won't go easy on ya. Come one, show me what ya got."
Robin looked at him blankly then punched him in the stomach, making him bend down and clutch it, giving Robin the opportunity to uppercut him, knocking him out. "Huh, that was...easier than expected."
Polka-Dot Man then stood in front of Batman, in a kung fu position. "Alright, Batman, prepare to suffer the awesome power of-" he was cut off by Batman punching him in the face, knocking him out.
"You, do something!" Killer Moth said to Condiment King as he ran behind him.
At first Condiment King was scared, but quickly gained the courage and pointed his ketchup and mustard guns to the Dynamic Duo. "Prepare to suffer the wrath of-" but was cut off by Batman punching him in the face, knocking him out. Now only Killer Moth was left.
"Wait! Wait! Not the-Not the face!" Killer Moth said and Batman put him in cuffs.
"Really? These are the kind of rogues in town?" Robin asked, in a humored tone. She then laughed.
"Oh, to ahead and laugh, kiddo." Killer Moth said annoyed.
It was twilight hours in Gotham City. Batman was standing on a rooftop while Robin was dangling her legs over the edge. Sometimes they would go out patrolling a little early, whenever they went out early it was always during twilight hours. They were on top of a building that was in an area where there were digital billboards, it was like times square in New York.
"Well, looks like it'll be a quiet night." Robin said. Then the digital billboards suddenly turned off and after a moment turned back on to show The Joker.
"Hello, Gotham City and thank you for tuning in for J TV. I have a very special announcement." Joker said as everyone in the area stopped what they were doing and looked at the screen, afraid of what Joker's plan is. "I have implanted three bombs in Gotham, and they will go off once I push this detonator." Joker then pulled a detonator from his pocket. "If anyone tries to disarm my explosives, I will push this button and BANG! People in those areas will go up into tiny little pieces. And I have something for Batman, because I know your watching bats."
Joker then whistled for someone and Harley Quinn brought over someone, tied to a wheelchair and with a bag over the head. The person seemed female and was wearing blue jeans, a white shirt and a brown leather jacket. Joker pulled the bag off her head. She appeared to be Latin American and her hair was tied in a pony tail.
"Care to introduce yourself, nice lady?" Joker asked. The woman responded by spitting in his face.
"To to hell." she said.
Joker wiped the spit off his cheek with a green handkerchief. "Rude, alright I'll introduce you. Please welcome, Detective Renee Montoya. Bats, you and your chicken buddy have until midnight to find out where I'm hiding. Arrive too late-" Joker then put a knife to Renee's throat. "-and you'll find a red puddle on this nice clean floor." a map then flashed quickly on the screen. "Good luck. Bye bye." The screen then turned off.
Batman put a finger to his ear. "Oracle, I need you to send that broadcast to the Batmobile."
"On it." Oracle said on the other line.
"Come on." Batman said to Robin as the grappled down to the Batmobile. They got in and Batman turned on the computer screen and replayed Joker's broadcast. He fast forward to where the map flashed then played it in slow motion.
When the map flashed Batman paused and saw a jester's head on a part of the map. "There." he said as he put his foot on the pedal and drove off. "We'll go rescue Montoya and capture Joker, when we do we make him tell use where he hid The bombs and disarm them." Batman explained to Robin.
The Dynamic Duo arrived at the location, which was an abandoned amusement park. They walked in and walked slowly through the park.
They then heard what sounded like muffling and found it to be Montoya, tied in a chair, with a gag in her mouth. Batman and Robin ran up to her and Batman was about to remove the gag when- "Joke's on you, Batsy!"
Joker jumped onto Batman's back and put a small mask over his mouth, releasing a green gas. Robin was about to help but felt someone grab her cape, pulled her back and put a mask over her mouth, also releasing a green gas.
Batman pushed Joker off and was about to save Robin, but he felt weak and fell to his knees then passed out, because of the gas.
The person who grabbed Robin let go of her and she turned around to see that it was Harley Quinn. "Sweet dreams, kiddo." she heard her say before her eyes felt heavy and fell to the ground, passing out.
After a few hours, Robin slowly opened her eyes. She found herself in a chair, her hands tied together, behind her. Montoya was knocked out and tied to a chair next to her, she must have been knocked out from the gas. Her and Batman's utility belts on a desk and a curtain in front of her.
"Good." said Joker as he walked up in front of her. "Hello, so glad you're awake, now we can get acquainted. Last time we met we hadn't had the chance to get to know each other, so how about we get acquainted, hmm?" he smiled.
Robin struggled but there was no use, she then pulled out a batarang from her glove and started cutting her bonds, without Joker and Harley noticing.
"Where's Batman? And where are the bombs?" Robin demanded.
"Ooh, anxious to know the surprise are we? Well alright then, the bombs are planted under the Gotham bridge, Gotham park, and in the subway. You can see them in these cameras, chicken girl." Joker then showed three screens that showed where the bombs were, they looked like purple boxes with jesters on them.
"Hey..." Joker said, rubbing his chin. "let's blow them up, shall we?" he then pulled out the detonator and pushed the button.
"No!" Robin panicked. But the bombs opened to reveal a Jack in the box come out.
"Ha Ha Ha Ha! Got ya." Joker exclaimed.
Robin sighed in relief then looked at Joker in anger. "You started a panic when there wasn't a real threat? Why?"
Joker shrugged. "Because it's funny."
"You're insane." Robin deadpanned.
"Thank you, my intentions." Joker smiled.
"What do you want?" Robin demanded.
"Why, all I want is some fun, laughs and to kill you, just like I did to that other Robin." Joker explained.
Robin raised her eyebrows. "What do you mean?"
Joker's smile grew wider "Oh, you don't know? Looks like batsy's been keeping secrets from you. Well, I'll tell you the story." he sat on her lap as Harley sat on the floor with her legs crossed and listened. "Ooh, I can't wait to tell you." Joker then smiled creepily "You're going to love this."
Flashback
Robin was beaten, his forehead was bleeding and he had a bruise on his cheek and a black eye. A crowbar then hit him across the face, pushing him to the floor.
"Wow, that looked like it really hurt." Joker said. He then hit Robin with the crowbar again, a little harder than the other hit. "Woop, now hang on, that looked like it hurt a lot more." He grinned. "You know, you've been a very, very bad boy, looks like uncle J needs to teach you a lesson."
Joker then started hitting Robin repeatedly with the crowbar and laughed the whole time. After about five minutes of beatings, he stopped. He put down the crowbar and headed to the door.
"Anyway kiddo, I got to got, it's been fun though, right?" Joker turned to Robin, but he was on the floor, not saying a word. "Oh, well maybe it was more fun for me than you. I'm just guessing, cause you're being awful quiet." he opened the door and turned back to face Robin. "Anyway, he a good boy, finish your homework and he in bed by nine. And hey!" Joker smiled. "Please tell the big man I said...hello. HA HA HA HA HA HA HO HO HO HE HE." he then left out the door.
End of Flashback
"...and when I left I made sure his parting gift was a real blow out...literally." Joker said in a sinister voice. "And that's how I killed the second Robin."
Robin had a face of shock. One of the Robin's was killed. Tortured. Beaten. She knew Joker was crazy but she didn't think he was this crazy.
"And I plan to do the same to you." Joker grinned, evilly. "But before we get to that..." he got up from Robin's lap and over to the curtain "I got something to show you. Ladies and gentlemen!" Joker announced like there was an audience "Tonight, I bring to you something you haven't seen before in your life, there will be suspense! Danger! And most importantly, possible death! I give you..." he and Harley opened the curtain "the death defying stunt of Batman!"
Batman was in a straight jacket, hanging upside down in a glass tank with a hose attached to the bottom.
"Will Batman escape from a close death, or will he be sleeping with the fishes?" The tank then started filling up with water. Batman was now moving in the straight jacket, trying to escape.
Robin started cutting fast at the rope that tied her hands together. Batman then got out of the jacket and tried to push the lid open, but it was shut tight.
Robin finally cut herself free and grabbed Harley's hammer and tried to break the glass.
"Hey, no touching." Harley shouted and ran up to her but she punched her in the face, knocking her out.
"What are you doing? Can't you see that you're ruining my fun?!" Joker said angrily. He tried to grab Robin but she kicked him into some crates.
Robin hit the hammer against the glass, creating a huge crack. Joker then got up, grabbed the hammer from her and hit it against her ankle, spraining it. "AAAH!!" she helped in pain and fell to the floor.
"Now sit back down and watch the show!" Joker growled.
Robin then saw Batman kicking on the crack, making it bigger. She needed to distract Joker, she then saw the hose in the tank, perfect. She grabbed the hose and sprayed it in Joker's face then got up and ran out, trying to ignore the pain in her ankle.
"Hey! Come back!" Joker yelled as he ran after her.
Batman kicked the crack harder and harder until it finally broke, releasing all the water and pouring him out. He panted and took deep breathes. He grabbed his belt and took a syringe gun that had a medicine that can wake people up from Joker's knockout gas and injected Montoya in the neck.
She woke up and rubbed her neck. "Montoya, call Gordon and tell him where we are."
"On it." Renee moaned, she was still tired from the knock out gas.
Batman then grabbed Robin's utility belt and ran after Joker, in hops of rescuing her from him.
Robin was trying to run from Joker, but do to her sprained ankle, she was running slow. She saw a rollercoaster and hid in one of the carts.
"Well, looks like I need light to see where this chicken is easily." She heard Joker say. Then all of the power to the amusement park turned on, Joker just have used a generator. She was about to crawl out of the rollercoaster and run for it, despite her ankle. "There you are." she heard Joker say as he grabbed her by the arm.
"Let go of me! Let go!" Robin struggled to break free.
"Come here you little brat!" Joker snarled. "You made me miss the show! For that, I'm going to beat you senseless." Joker was about to punch Robin but he noticed Batman running up to him. "On second thought..." Joker said as he jumped into the coaster with Robin and pulled the lever. "I love a rollercoaster." he smiled.
The coaster was now driving away on the track and Batman jumped onto the last cart. Up ahead, Joker pulled the handle down and tied the seatbelt around Robin, tightly. She tried to stop him but he stomped into her sprained ankle, making her wince.
"Seatbelts, kids." Joker grinned. He looked back and saw that Batman was crawling over the carts. The coaster then started going up the track, Joker then pulled out a doll with a grenade ring. He pulled it out then turned to Batman. "You win the prise, Batman! Now catch the dolly." he then threw it down and it landed in a cart behind Batman and exploded.
The coaster then dropped down and Batman held on tight to the cart. The coaster now was turning upside down from the track and right side up.
"I got a present for you, bats! And it's right here!" Joker said as he threw another doll, which again exploded. The coaster then made a loop we loop. "You just don't like to play with dolls!" Joker pulled out another doll. "Do ya?!" he was about to throw the doll but Robin hit his arm, making him miss. Joker growled "Why, you miserable little brat!" he then noticed that the track up ahead was not finished and saw that right next to them was the ocean, at this hight he would survive the fall.
Joker got up from the cart. "Welp, that was fun. See ya next time, chicken girl! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" he jumped off and landed into the water.
Batman then crawled closer to the cart Robin was in. "Robin! Grab my hand!" he reached out.
Robin tried to but was stuck from her seat belt being tied in a tight knot. "I can't! My seatbelt!"
Batman then crawled up to the cart and cut the seatbelt with his batarang. He pulled her up and held onto her. "Hold on." he then pulled out his grapple gun, fired it at a part of the track, next to them and jumped off. The rollercoaster then drove off the track and was demolished on impact to the ground.
Batman was hanging onto the grapple gun and holding Robin in his other arm.
The Batmobile drove into the Batcave and Batman exited, letting Robin hood onto him because of the pain in her ankle. Alfred walked over to them, concerned.
"What happened?" he asked, worriedly.
"Joker sprained her ankle with Quinn's mallet. Get the medical ward ready." Batman ordered, to which Alfred obeyed. They got to the ward and Batman put robin onto the bed.
Alfred took off her boot to look at her ankle, it was swollen. He pushed his finger on it. "Ow!" Robin squealed.
"Sorry, I have to see how bad it hurts. I'll put a cast on that." Alfred walked over to a table and took a foot cast and put it on her foot. "This'll make it easy for you to walk until it's healed."
"Thanks Alfred." Robin said as she took off her mask.
Alfred nodded. "Do you need help with walking up to your room?"
"No, I'll manage."
"Do you need anything?"
Scootaloo thought for a moment. "No, I'm good thanks."
Alfred nodded then left. Batman came up to Scoots bed. "How are you holding up?"
"I'll be fine, thanks." Scootaloo's face then turned to a face of sympathy. "Hey, Bruce?"
"Yes?"
Scootaloo turned her attention to Batman. "Joker said he killed one of the Robin's before me. I'm sorry about him."
Batman lowered his head in sadness.
"Why didn't you tell me? I thought we were supposed to be partners." Robin said, but she was still calm.
Batman looked at her. "I'm sorry. I couldn't bring myself to tell you about him. I lost him, because it was my fault." he said sadly.
Scootaloo cursed herself for bringing up the Robin that died. "Look, I don't know what happened that day, but what ever it was, it wasn't you."
"Yes it was. I let him go after Joker alone. If I wouldn't have let him go alone, he would still be here." Batman lowered his head as he remembered that day.
Flashback
Batman punched one of Joker's men as Robin kicked one in the face, knocking him out.
Joker was standing in the doorway "Welp, I gotta go now. See ya." he said as he ran out the door.
"You're not getting away this time, Joker." Robin said as he ran after him.
"Robin! Wait!" Batman said, but was grabbed by one henchman, who punched him in the face. Batman had to take care of these guys first. He grabbed the henchman by the collar of his shirt and punched him in the face, knocking him out.
Another henchman picked an AK-47 up from the floor and started shooting. Batman leaped out of the way of the bullets and threw a batarang at the gun, knocking it out of the man's hand. Batman then shot his bat claw at his shirt, pulled him hard and slammed him onto the floor. Once he was on the floor, he stomped on his face, knocking him out.
Batman now ran out the door to get to Robin, but he and Joker were nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, there was the sound of a vehicle driving, Batman looked in the direction it came from and it was a white van. "Jason!" Batman said, that van must have Robin in it.
Batman summoned the Batmobile and drove after the van. The van gained speed, but the Batmobile was faster, Batman didn't want to shoot a missile or drive the van off the road cause that might hurt Robin. So he pushed a red button and the car fired a line with a hook on it and it hit the van.
Batman slammed his foot onto the breaks, causing the van to forcefully stop, due to the line. The driver tried to drive the van away but the line was to strong and the Batmobile was pulling it in. Batman stepped out of the car and walked up to the van.
He opened the door to the driver's seat, the driver pulled out a gun but Batman was quick enough to grab his arm and break it, making him scream in pain but was silenced with a punch to the face, knocking him unconscious. Batman then looked in the van but Robin was not in it. "Dammit!" Batman yelled in anger, he was so stupid, he should have known that this van didn't have Robin.
He searched for Robin for three days but couldn't find him anywhere. That was until the third night he got a message.
The Bat-Signal shined in the sky from the roof of the GCPD building. Batman grappled up to the roof to find Commissioner Gordon. "Jim?"
Gordon handed Batman a piece of paper. "This arrived a half hour ago, it's for you."
Batman looked at the paper. It said 'Batsy, you've probably been looking for you're lost bird. Please come to warehouse 210 for a special blow out. -J'.
Batman wasted no time in getting to the Batmobile and driving to the warehouse. After about thirty minutes, he got there it was just up ahead, he could make it. BOOM!! The Batmobile stopped just when it was close to the warehouse as it exploded.
"No." Batman said, he was too late "No." how could he be too late, he couldn't be too let, Jason can't be dead "NO!!" Batman quickly ran to the wreckage of the warehouse. "JASON!! JASON!!" he searched through the wreckage.
He then noticed something at the corner of his eye. He turned to it's direction and saw something under some wreckage. No, please, not him. Batman quickly ran over to it and moved the wreckage off, and to his fear, it was Robin, there were so many bruises on him, he must have been beaten.
There were also scorch marks from the blast. Batman turned on detective vision to find a heartbeat, to his fear it said...deceased. He lowered his head in sadness, he failed to save him.
Batman picked up the body, putting one arm under his back and the other I need his legs. He looked at the lifeless body in his arms in dispare. "Jason..."
End of Flashback.
Batman then looked at Scootaloo. "I should have protected him. He died because of me."
Scootaloo lowered her head in sadness. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up." She then looked up at Batman. "But look, you couldn't have predicted it, I'm sure there was nothing you can do to stop it." Batman didn't look like he believed that. Scootaloo had to think of something to cheer him up, an idea then popped in her head. "Maybe you could tell me about him, maybe how you met."
Batman thought for a moment. "Alright." he then told the story.
Flashback
Batman layer a rose on the sement ground, the ground in crime ally, the same ground that ran with his parents blood. Today was the anniversary of their deaths, he did this every year, he was haunted by the memory, the gun shots, the pearls falling to the ground, everything. He stood there for about five minutes the turned to leave.
The Batmobile was parked close, he walked to it and saw something he never thought he'd see, a kid stealing tires off the Batmobile. Now, when someone would try to steal tires off the Batmobile, they would fail, but the kid removed two tires from the car and was working on removing the third.
Pause Flashback
"Wait." Scootaloo interrupted "He stole tires off the Batmobile?" she asked, surprised.
Batman nodded.
Scootaloo's eyes widened in surprise. "How?!"
Batman nearly chuckled at her reaction. "I put new tires on, but I didn't finish redesigning the hub caps, leaving the lug nuts exposed, and the Batmobile's sensors were down, giving him the perfect opportunity."
Flashback
"Unreal." Batman said in a stunned tone.
The kid heard Batman and turned his head in his direction. "As shit." he stood up, He appeared to be fourteen or fifteen years old, he had short black hair, wore a black jacket, red T-shirt, and brown jeans. "I...uh...I was just..." he stuttered, nervously.
Batman walked up to him. "Where are your parents?" he thought that instead of turning him over to the police, he'll make sure his parents will punish him, since he didn't want to put a kid in jail.
The kid crossed his arms. "My bastard dad left when I was six and my mom...well..."
The kid trailed off but it confirmed for Batman that this kid's mom has died. "I'm sorry."
"I live on my own." the kid said "So, ya gonna turn me over to the police?"
Batman thought for a moment. "Tell you what, if you put the tires back on my car and come with me I won't turn you over to the police."
The kid thought about it for a moment. "Why do you want me to come with you?"
"Because I want to give you a better home, a family."
"Yeah right." the kid said "You're just saying that because you want to use me for something, there have been people who said they'd take care of me, but instead used me as someone who could help them with work, like drug dealing or shoplifting then throw me out when they think I'm not useful anymore."
Batman looked at him, sympathetically. "I'm sorry people treated you like that, but I promise that I won't treat you that way, I will treat you as family."
The kid thought about it for a second then looked at Batman. "Ah, what the hell. Even if your not telling the truth I'll just leave." he then started putting the tires back.
"What's your name?" Batman asked.
"Jason, Jason Todd." the kid introduced.
"How long have you been on your own, Jason?"
"Two years, I've been on my own since my mom died." he looked at Batman "But I can take care of myself, I uh, borrowed money from people and got food and I've been living in a condemned building."
Batman felt sorry for Jason. He had no home or family and had to do illegal jobs and steal money from people to survive. It was obvious that Jason was lying when he said he borrowed money, judging by how he said 'borrowed', but he knew he did it for a reason and never considered him as a criminal, but instead a kid who had no one.
When Jason was done putting the tires back on, Batman took him home, from this moment on Jason became part of Batman's life.
End of Flashback
"Jason was strong, he was confident and brave, I've always been proud of him." Batman said.
Scootaloo smiled at that story. "So, after you took him in he became your ward and became Robin?"
Batman nodded.
"So, good thing he had you." Scootaloo smiled. "He must have been a great kid."
"He was." Batman smiled "He was, he was like other teenagers, he was stubborn but he was brave, heroic, selfless, and loved the thrill of being Robin."
Batman then looked back on the memories of Jason, how he was brave and heroic, but he gee sad knowing that after he died and was resurrected he changed into something else, something Batman tried to keep him from becoming. He couldn't bring himself to talk about it.
Later, Scootaloo walked up to the glass case that had Jason's Robin suit. "Hey, Jason. I know I'm not gonna be you, I know I can't be great as you, but I'm gonna make you proud."
After a few weeks, Scootaloo's ankle got better and she was ready to go back out there as Robin. It was twilight hours and she and Bruce thought that it would be okay to go at this time.
Bruce and Scoots took the elevator down into the Batcave and walked over to a glass case, next to the Batcomputer, which contained their suits. They changed into their outfits and drove the Batmobile into the city. "So, bossman, what problem is there to solve?" Robin asked.
"Alberto Falcone has been kidnapped, we're going to his apartment to investigate, that's where the kidnapping took place." Batman explained, not taking his eyes off the road.
"Who's Alberto Falcone? Is he related to The Roman?" Robin asked.
Batman nodded "Alberto is one of Carmine's two sons. He wants to catch whoever kidnapped his son and kill him."
"Well then, we gotta find the kidnapper before Falcone gets to him." Robin said.
They soon arrived at the apartment building known as 'Comfy Homes'. They grappled up to a balcony where Alberto's apartment was. Batman slid the slide door open and he and Robin entered.
It was a fancy apartment, with a white ceiling and wall and a marble floor. "Alright, let's see what happened here." He turned to Robin. "Start looking around for clues."
Robin nodded "Sure thing, bossman." She started looking and Batman did the same. Robin first saw a broken vase on the floor. "Found something."
Batman scanned the broken vase with his lenses. "The finger prints on it belong to Alberto. He was using it as a weapon."
They then saw a blood trail on the floor, leading out the door, it was wide open. The lock was broken, maybe the door was kicked open but if it was then there would be a dent in the wall from the knob plus there was a scorch mark on what was left of the lock. "The lock was shot off." Batman concluded.
"Hey bossman, look what I found." Robin said and Batman turned his attention to her. On the floor was the start of the blood trail and there was a bullet hole. "The blood belongs to Alberto." Robin said, scanning it with her lenses. "And the bullet was a 9 mm, what's that?"
"A kind of bullet that's used for a hand gun." Batman explained. "Alright, I think I know what happened. Someone came in by shooting the lock off. Alberto took his vase to use for defence, but was shot in the leg, went clean through. Made him drop the vase. He was dragged, there's no other blood on the floor, which means whoever did this wanted Alberto alive." Batman concluded.
"But, who would want to kidnap Alberto Falcone?" Robin asked.
Batman thought for a bit, then thought of the right person. "Salvatore Maroni, A.K.A. The Boss. He's carmine Falcone's chair rival for control."
The Dynamic Duo then followed the blood trail to the entrance of the building but it ended there. Batman pushed a button on his gauntlet and drove off to confront Sal Maroni.
Batman and Robin soon arrived at a resteraunt with the Italian flag on the window, as well as the name: 'Maroni's Italian Restaurant.' the duo grappled to the rooftop and waited for Maroni to walk out, since they thought taking him by surprise was the best option.
Maroni walked out and headed to his car. "Maroni." Batman said as he and Robin jumped down.
Maroni turned to them. "Damn, not this again."
"Kidnapping Alberto Falcone, you were responsible."
"Oh, so that's what you and yer runt is here for." he looked at Robin as he said runt. "You got a good guess that it was me bats, but for once you're wrong, 'cause I wasn't part 'o kidnapen Falcone's kid."
"Pff, sure." Robin said, sarcastically.
Sal looked at Robin. "Listen kid, you and the hat got no proof I was there."
Batman turned on detective vision to see his heartbeat to see if he was telling the truth, it read honest. "He's telling the truth."
Just then, they heard what sounded like helicopter blades moving, but quieter then that. They turned to the direction it came from and it was a drone, which then flew away.
Batman and Robin grappled up to the roof and headed to the Batmobile and drove off.
"What was that?" Robin asked, she still wasn't all that familiar with earth's technology.
"It was a remote control object called a drone." Batman explained, in an easy way for Robin to understand. "It looked military, the only two people who could have such a thing, one of them being Bane, who's in Blackgate."
"So, who's the other?" Robin asked.
"The Penguin. He's been trying to get rid of Falcone and Maroni. Must of used the drone to try and spy on Maroni. I know the place he could be at, his club The Iceberg Lounge."
After about twenty minutes, they arrived. Above the door was a sign with the name on it, as well as an iceberg and a penguin in a tophat, holding a ciggerat holder in it's beak and an umbrella. The Dynamic Duo grappled up to the ceiling, there was a window on the ceiling that revealed the inside.
There had been people in fancy clothes. There was a bar in one cornor and in another corner was a stage with a long haired woman in a dress singing betcha never. In the center was a pool with an iceberg model and seals and penguins.
Robin then noticed someone, it was a short overweight man with a beak like nose. He wore a suit, a tophat, white gloves, and black leather shoes, and a monocle. He carried a purple umbrella like a cane. That must have been The Penguin. "Hey Batman, look."
Batman saw Penguin. "That's him."
"Huh, he kinda looks like a penguin." Robin said.
Penguin walked into some double doors, must be his office.
Inside his office was a man tied to a chair, he had short hair and broken glasses. It was Alberto, he had bruises on his face and a bloody nose, a bandage was wrapped around his leg.
He was guarded by two men. Penguin came into the office. "Now, tell me Falcone." Penguin said in his cockney accent, that he normally speaks in. "What are you gonna tell your father?"
"That we're getten outta the buisness, leaven Gotham." He said.
"And?" Penguin asked.
"And that Gotham belongs to the rogues, not us anymore."
"Very good." Penguin then pushed a button on his umbrella and the tip of it made an electrical noise, it was a taser. "I see your lips flabben, Berty, but they ain't making the sound I want to hear." He then grew a wicked smile and started fading Alberto.
He shrieked in pain as Penguin laughed. Then a batarang bit the umbrella out of his hand. It was Batman and Robin.
One man ran up to Batman, but he punched him in the face, knocking him to the floor. Another henchman ran up to Robin, this one with a hat and swung it at her, but she front flipped over it and kicked him in the stomach and smashed his face into her knee, knocking him out.
Three other men came in. One man tried to punch Batmanbut he grabbed his hand and punched him, making him stumble backwards. One man tried to kick Robin, but she grabbed his leg and kicked him in the stomach, then throwing him into the table.
One henchman tried to punch Batman from behind, but he ducked and elbowed him in the face, knocking him out. The man on the floor got up and pulled out a gun but Robin threw her holes at him, tying him up.
Penguin pulled out a black umbrella and fired a shot Robin, she fell to the floor. "I'm fine." she said before Batman asked if she was fine.
Bats threw a batarang at the umbrella, knocking it out of his hand then punching him in the face, knocking him out.
Batman went to check on Robin. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." she said, thankfully her suit was bullet proof.
"Get me outta this thing." Alberto said, impatiently.
Batman cut the ropes. "What did Penguin want?"
"He wants to get rid of my family and the Maronis. Thinks Gotham belongs to freaks like him."
Batman put a finger to his earpiece. "Oracle, call the police and tell them Penguin has Alberto."
Not long later, cops showed up and Penguin was arrested.
The school belle of Gotham elementary rang as the doors opened and kids were walking out. Three other kids walked out as weel, Scootaloo and her two new best friends, Chloe and Kiki.
"And that is why Green Lantern is the coolest superheroe." Chloe finished. The three girls were talking about which superhero they thought was the coolest.
"Superman is cooler because he can fly and he has super strength." Kiki said.
"Superman's not the only hero who can fly, Green Lantern can fly too, he also has a ring that can make anything from his mind, plus there's more than one." Chloe said.
"How many?" Scootaloo asked.
"Three, but back in the 40s there was this one with a cape and blonde hair." Chloe said. "Which superhero do you think is cooler, Ash?"
"Batman." obviously.
"Eh, Batman is pretty cool, but he don't have superpowers."
"Yeah, because he doesn't need any." Scootaloo smiled, she then saw Alfred pull up in the drive way in a limo. "That's my ride, see ya."
"Later." Chloe said and Kiki waved goodbye.
"How was school today, Miss. Phillips." Alfred asked as Scootaloo got in the car.
"Eh, it was alright." she shrugged.
As Alfred was driving Scootaloo was looking out the window, leaning back in her seat. She then saw something that caught her by surprise, some ice covering a building.
"Ice?" Scootaloo said. "Alfred, park here."
Alfred parked the limo on a curb and he and Scootaloo got out to see the ice. A lot of ice was frozen on a building that looked like a research facility. What's weird about it was not only the amount of ice, but also it was the middle of spring.
"How odd." Alfred said.
There was some police investigating the area as well as some police tape to keep the people outside of it out.
"What happened?" Scootaloo said out loud.
Later, she and Alfred got back to Wayne Manor.
"Hey Bruce, you won't believe what we saw on our way home. There was some ice covering a building." Scootaloo said.
"I know, I saw on the news." Bruce said.
Scootaloo crossed her arms and smirked "I'm guessing you wanna look into it, huh?"
Bruce nodded and they headed down to the Batcave.
Once they got down there Bruce typed in the image of the news report and it showed up on the screen. "There's only one person who can cause this."
"Who?" Scootaloo asked.
"Mr. Freeze. A man in a high tech suit that allows him to survive outside of sub zero temperatures and is armed with an ice gun." Bruce explained.
"Why did he turn to crime?" Scootaloo asked.
"He turned to crime because when he worked at GothCorp as Dr. Victor Fries, his wife, Nora Frieze, was diagnosed with Huntington's Chorea, a terminal disease. Victor cryogenicly froze her so he can have time to find a cure, he used Gothcorp's resources to make the Cryogenic Freezing Chamber to freeze Nora and make a cure. The company's CEO, Ferris Boyle, interrupted the experiment and knocked freeze into these cryo chemicals and took his wife, left him for dead. The chemicals didn't kill Victor, they altered his metabolism, he can only survive in sub zero temperatures, so he built a refrigeration suit that can help him survive outside of sub zero temperatures."
Scootaloo felt guilt for Freeze and anger for Boyle. "Was Boyle arrested?"
"Yes. I found evedance against Boyle and showed it to the police, I also found out that Boil was also responsible for the creation of Clayface, Firfly, and Poison Ivy. He used them as human guinea pigs for illegal testing. Once I showed the evidence to the police, Boyle was arrested and removed from his position as CEO."
Scootaloo felt a little better knowing that this Boyle guy was in jail.
Bruce looked at the image on the screen. "According to this image, Freeze attacked a GothCorp research facility. Question is Ferris is in costudy, so why would he still attack a GothCorp facility?"
Bruce then had images of recent news articles pop up on the screen. "Acording to these articles, Mr. Freeze attacked other GothCorp facilities in the past week. He stole these items." images of techonological items. "With these items built together, they can make a bomb that can create an explosion of ice, enough to freeze an entire building, there's just one thing missing. And only one GothCorp facility makes it."
That Night
Two GothCorp guards were keeping an eye on the surveillance cameras, no trouble so far, until some kind of icy blast destroyed a wall in the technology research lab.
"What the...come on." the guards ran over to the lab and they tried to open the door but it was veiled shut.
On the other side, the door froze from a gun that fired a blue beam at it. The person holding the gun was Mr. Freeze. He wore some kind of robotic high tech suite, he wore a glass dome helmet on his head and red goggles. "There, now we have time to grab what wee need." he sounded like he was speaking through a machine of some kind.
Two men in winter coats grabbed a container with some kind of blue liquid inside. They put it in their truck. "All set."
"You know what else is all set? Your prison cells." they turned to the direction of the voice and it was Robin satanding next to Batman.
One thug tried to punch Batman but he kicked him back. Another thug tried to grab Robin from behind but she elbowed him in the stomach and punched him in the face.
"Stay out of this. This doesn't concern you." Mr. Freeze said.
"You're attacking research facilities and stealing, it is our concern." Batman said.
"Very well. If you protect my enemies then you leave me no choice." Mr. Freeze then fired his ice gun. Batman and Robin dodged the beam.
Robin then pulled out her bolas and threw it at Freeze, tying him up.
"Looks like you're tied up at the moment." Robin smirked.
"You are a fool to think this can hold me." Freeze said as he spread his arms, breaking the rope. "This suit tripples my strenght."
Batman then ran up behind Freeze and used a stun attack and punched him repeatedly in the back.
"Enough of this." Freeze said as he turned around and punched Batman into a wall. He then froze him to the wall.
"Batman!" Robin ran over to him but Mr. Freeze froze her feet to the floor.
"I have no desire to kill a child, so I tell you to stay out of my way." He said as he and his men left in a van. Robin thankfully threw a homing beacon at the van.
Batman the strength in his body to break out of the ice. He walked over to Robin and stomped on the ice, freeing her feet.
"I put a homing beacon on the van. We can follow them." Robin said.
"Good work." Batman then pushed a button on his gauntlet, summoning the Batmobile and they took off.
After a while, they arrived at this warehouse in the warehouse district. They snuck in and as Batman expected, it was cold.
"Burr, it's freezing in here." Robin said as she wrapped herself in her cape, like a blanket.
They then crawled through this vent, they arrived to the end of the vent and Batman kicked it open. They jumped down into a room with a TV hooked to a video player, next to it was a tape.
Robin put the tape in and a video played, showing a bald man in a lab coat and glasses. "Hello, I am Dr. Victor Fries. Behind me is the CC-100." Behind him was some kind of technological case with a woman in it, who appeared to be asleep. "It is also known as a Cryogenic Freezing Chamber. It was designed to cryogenicly freeze someone who is diagnosed with a deadly disease. Subjects like my own beloved wife, Nora. As you see-"
"Open this door. Open it!" the door behind Victor was kicked open and a man with black hair and white sideburns came in with two security guards. "Shut this place down."
The guards were doing as they were told.
"No please, this is my experiment." Victor pleaded.
"Your unauthorized experiment. I ordered findings suspended weeks ago. I'm three million in debt thanks to you." now it was obvious for Robin that this man was Ferris Boyle. Ferris turned to the guards. "And take that freezing chamber, it's GothCorp property now."
Doctor's eyes widdened "No, please. My wife is in there."
"So bring her out."
"I can't. She's infected with Huntington's Chorea, if I bring her out she'll die." he pleaded.
Boyle thought for a moment. "Alright, she doesn't have to come out. She's GothCorp property too."
The guards then we're about to wheel the freezing chamber on a gurney. Victor then grabbed a gun from one of them and pointed it at Boyle.
"NO! Murderer!"
"Victor, I'm sorry, it doesn't have to come to this, we can talk." Victor listened to reason and lowered the gun. But then Ferris kicked him into these chemicals in a table, covering him in them creating a steam cloud.
"AAAAHHHH!!!!!" he screamed as the guards wheeled the chamber out.
"NORA!! NORAAAA!" the video then ended.
"Sweet Celestia." Robin said.
"Yes." said a voice. Batman and Robin turned around to see that it was Mr. Freeze. "If I had tears it would tear me to shed." he then shot them with his ice gun, temporarily freezing them.
After a few hours they woke up to find themselves upside down, their feet frozen to the ceiling and their hands frozen together. They were in a room that had ice and snow and their belts were gone.
Mr. Freeze walked into the room too. "The snow is beautiful, clean, uncompromising."?
"And cold too." Robin said.
Freeze turned to her. "Yes, like the hand of vengance I am about to pay tonight."
"What do you mean, Freeze?" Batman demanded.
"The new CEO of GothCorp, Martin Lee, has my wife, like Boyle he thinks that she is GothCorp property. He took her from me and I am here to take her back, as well as give Lee the icy touch of death." Mr. Freeze explained.
Robin then figured out why Freeze built an ice bomb. "So you're going to use the ice bomb to freeze the whole building so not only you can get to your wife, but also kill Martin?"
"Correct." Freeze said.
Robin looked at him sympathetically "I know what happened to your wife. I'm sorry. But she wouldn't want this."
"No, she wouldn't. She would want a life outside the glass, in the warm sun, her hand in mind." Mr. Freeze then furrowed his brows in anger "But that life was taken, I can give to her once I destroy the man who took her from me."
"Even if you have to kill everyone in the building?"
Freeze nodded. "Their deaths will be unfortunate but is it means I will kill Martin, so be it."
Freeze then left with his men.
"How do we get out of here?" Robin asked.
Batman then noticed an ice sickle on the icy floor below him. He used his strength to break his bonds and grabbed the sickle. He used it to break the ice freezing his feet to the ceiling and did so. He then used it to break the ice holding Robin then broke her bonds.
Meanwhile, Mr. Freeze and his men arrived at GothCorp. "Get the bomb ready."
The men did so, they stuck the bomb to the wall. "All set, now we need to push this button and-off!!" he was cut off as Robin leap kicked him to the ground.
"No!" Freeze said as he fired his ice gun but Robin leaped out of the way.
Batman then grabbed one henchman and punched him in the jaw.
Robin grabbed the bomb and threw it to the van.
Mr. Freeze saw that his men were occupied at the moment. "Very well, I shall do this myself." he then fired his gun below his feet, creating an ice platform that took him up to the office as he kept firing the gun, making the ice taller.
Batman grabbed his utility belt from the van and put it on, he grabbed Robin's and tossed it to her, she caught it.
One thug tried to swing a bat at her but she ducked and kicked him in the gut then uppercuted him, knocking him out. She then grabbed one thug and slammed his face into her knee, knocking him out.
One thug tried to punch Batman but he ducked and grabbed his leg, making him fall to the ground and twisted his foot, breaking it. One thug ran up and tried to kick Batman but he punched his stomach and upercuted him, knocking him out.
Meanwhile Mr. Freeze got to the CEO's office and broke through the window.
"What the...!" he said.
"Where's my wife?!" Freeze demanded.
"What are you talking about?" Martin said, fearfully.
Mr. Freeze grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. "Nora!! Where is she?!"
Martin realized what he meant. "She's GothCorp property."
Freeze then fired his gun at Martin's legs and up to his waist, freezing him in ice.
"Rethink your descision."
"All right." Martin said, intimidated. "She's in the storage room. The storage room."
"Very good." Freeze then aimed his ice gun at him.
Martin's eyes widened "Wait! I told you where she is!"
"Yes, but you took her from me, and for that you must pay." he then felt something hit his back.
He turned around to see that it was Batman who threw a thermal charged Batarang at him. Robin standing next to him.
"You again. I grow tired of you interfering with my plans, especially when you brought another child into this."
Batman then ran up to him and turned in his thermal charged gloves. He punched Freeze and it weakened him. Freeze then grabbed Batman by the neck. "Feel it Batman, fell the icy touch of death."
Batman tried punching Freeze but she was doing his best to ignor it and tightened his trip around his neck.
Robin then pulled out a thermal charged batarang and threw it at Freeze's helmet. Due to the heat of the batarang it broke his helmet into pieces.
It also hurt Freeze, making him drop Batman and fall to his knees.
Robin was about to try and free Martin from the ice.
"No." Batman said. "It won't be enough to kill him, but it is enough to leave him for the police."
Robin did as he told and she and Batman left.
"Goodnight...CEO." Batman said as he and Robin left.
It was night in Gotham City. Batman stood on a rooftop while Robin dangled her legs over the edge. "Quiet night so far." Robin said "Not many crimes happening, i think we're good."
But then they heard the sound of police sirens. Below them were three police cars chasing a blue Corolla and the Dynamic Duo jumped down and glided to it. They soon landed on the hood of the car to find a muscular man with short hair driving it.
The man turned the car but the Duo grappled away before it crashed into a wall. It was a violent crash but the man ran out like he was fine, no bruises, no blood, no limp, nothing. He ran into a nearby alley and the police chased after him as well as Batman and Robin.
They soon found that there was a dead end and the man was no where in sight. Robin then noticed something moving on the ground, it looked muddy and light brown "Is that...clay?"
Batman and the officers noticed it too and it went down a sewer grating.
"What did that man steal?" Batman asked a cop.
"He broke into the Gotham Bank and stole thirty five million." as the cop turned The Dynamic Duo was gone.
Batman and Robin were on a rooftop. "How did that guy survive that car crash?" Robin asked "I may not know everything about a car, since I'm not from this world, but I'm pretty sure that no one can survive that crash."
"Unless you're made of clay." Batman said.
Robin looked at him confused "What?"
Batman didn't answer and summoned the Batmobile and they jumped down into it, spreading their capes giving them a soft landing.
"What made you say 'unless you're made of clay'?" Robin asked Batman
Batman clicked on the bio on the screen above the police radio. "Because after we saw that man come out of the car fine, we saw clay move on it's own."
"So, he's made of clay?" Robin asked, because she has seen a lot of bizarre villains in her career, even though she is still new to crime fighting since she's been Robin for a few weeks.
"Yes. And I know who." the screen then showed a bio with a picture of a big person with yellow eyes and...wood teeth? What surprised Robin the the most was that this person looked like he was made of clay, he looked all muddy and there was no human appearance. "Basil Karlo. A.K.A. Clayface."
"He didn't look like that earlier." Robin said, remembering that he looked normal.
"Clayface is a shapechanger, he can take the form of anyone." Batman explained.
"Kind of like a Changeling." Robin said.
"What?"
"A creature that can take the form of someone you love and feed off your love." Robin explained. "By the way, how'd Karlo become Clayface?"
"Basil Marlo was a famous actor but then he got into a car accident that damaged his face. Desperate, he immediately became the first test subject of an illegal experiment with a radioactive clay like substance to fix his face. It worked but he became addicted and started to use more than he needed, because of how much he was taking it absorbed into his body, turning it to clay and he took on the persona of Clayface. The same name he used in a horror movie he stared in, The Terror." Batman explained.
"Who made the offer?" Robin asked.
"Ferris Boyle."
Robin then remembered that yesterday he said that Boyle was responsible for a few rogues, and Clayface was one of them.
The next night the Duo was out searching for Clayface and couldn't find any trace of him. They then noticed a scrawny man with short hair walk into an ally. A group of men were in the alley and surrounded him.
"Hand over some cash." one thug said, pointing a gun at him.
Batman and Robin were about to jump down to the rescue until they noticed the scrawny man's hand suddenly grow big and appeared to be made out of clay and punched the mugger into a brick wall. One other thug pulled out a gun and shot him in the head but instead of blood and pieces of a brain being shot out it was...clay?
The scrawny man's eyes turned yellow without irises and pupils and he turned brown and gooey then grew into a bipedal clay monster.
"Clayface." Batman said as he and Robin jumped down. The thugs ran off and Clayface turned to Batman.
"Batman. Stay out of my way, this don't involve you." Clayface said.
"You've committed a robery, it does involve me."
"I only committed that Robert to get money to fix me."
"Karlo, Wayne Tech is doing everything they can to make a cure."
"Yeah, but how long it's been? Eleven years, can't wait longer, if Wayne Tech can't make a cure, I'll find someone else who can, thanks to the right money." he then turned his right hand into an axe blade.
He then brought his axe hand down and Batman and Robin leaped out of the way. Now Clayface tried to swing the axe at Robin, but she leaped over it, then threw a batarang at him but it absorbed into him on impact.
Clayface then turned his hand into a fist and hit Robin into a pile of trash. Clayface then grabbed Batman. "So long bats. And just so you won't get any ideas." he then tore Batman's utility belt off and shoved him into his waist, letting it swallow him up like he was sinking in quicksand.
Robin rubbed her head and saw what Clayface did and her eyes widened "Let him out!"
"Forget it kid. Pretty soon he'll suffocate. I can feel his heart slowing." Robin saw Batman's arms sticking out from inside the clay, meaning he was struggiling under the clay, but they were slowing.
Robin had to do something. She then looked at her belt to see if there were any gadgets to use, then an idea popped in her head.
"YYYYYAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Clayface heard Robin tell a battle cry as she ran to him at full speed.
"What the-" he was cut off by Robin leaping into his stomach. He laughed "Stupid kid." BANG "AAH!!" Clayface screamed in pain as he felt something fire out of his shoulder. Robin zipped, holding onto a grapple gun and carrying Batman.
Once they got out, Clayface healed himself but was very peeved off. "Alright kid. I'm gonna kill you."
Robin smirked "I don't think so."
Clayface then felt something explode inside his stomach, then felt cold inside out. His arms and legs turned to ice and so was his entire body. He screamed as he tried to move but was silenced by the ice freezing his head.
Robin wiped her hands together "And they said you needed the elements of harmony to defeat someone."
Batman looked at her "How did you-?"
"I used a freeze blast grenade and he'll be frozen for about three hours, enough time to call the police to take him to Arkham." Robin said.
Batman was driving the Batmobile, with Robin in the passenger seat, through the streets of Gotham as night fell. "All available units, we have a robbery in progress at the Gotham Bank. Please respond." They heard on their police radio and Batman turned to the direction.
At the Gotham Bank, there were thugs wearing hats of different kinds and had blank faces. There were two men with actual face expressions, they were a little short and slightly overweight, they wore red and yellow striped shirts, red overalls, and black bow ties.
They looked very identicle, the only way to tell them apart was that one wore a red and yellow propeller hat and the other one wore a red and yellow flat cap.
"Are we all set?" asked the one in the propeller hat.
"Yes sir." said one of the men in a hat, returning from the vault, as well as some others with bags of cash. He sounded emotionless and kept a blank face.
"You're not going anywhere with that." exclaimed a kid's voice. The two twin like people turned to see Batman and Robin.
"Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. This isn't something you do on your own, where's your boss?" Batman demanded.
"Ha! Ya think we're gonna just tell you? Get 'em." Tweedle Dum (the one with the propeller hat) said.
The people in hats surrounded them.
"They're being mind controlled by the hats. Don't hurt them." Batman told Robin. She did not understand by decided to ask questions later and obey.
The mind controlled people tried to throw punches and kicks at them but they were blocking everything and removing the hats.
One man in a bowler hat tried to punch Robin but she blocked it and quickly snatched the hat off, freeing him from control. A woman in a safari helmet tried to throw a kick at her but she dodged to the right, and took the hat off.
"Alright, who's next to be freed from mind control?" Then suddenly Robin felt something be put on her head. It was Tweedle Dum, he put a black headband with a bow on her head.
"Alright, we got her. Now let's take her to the boss." Tweedle Dum said as he and Tweedle Dee carried her out to their van.
Batman noticed the Tweeds carrying Robin away. "Robin!" he tried to get to her but the mind controlled zombies held him back.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum carried Robin to their van and drove off. As they did Batman leaped over the mind controlled zombies and threw a homing beacon onto the van.
After a half hour they arrived to this warehouse and took the mind controlled Robin inside. "Boss, we got her just like you said." Tweedle Dee said.
He was talking to a short man wearing a green tail jacket, pants with an orange and yellow checkers pattern with overalls, white leather gloves, black leather shoes, a red bow tie, and a green top hat with a 10/6 card.
"Excellent." he said in a British accent with a whimsical voice. "Approach, my dear." Robin obeyed and stepped toward him. "Perfect, now go over there and put this on." he gave her a dress and she walked into a room to change in it. The man rubbed his hands together "She will be my Alice."
Later
Robin groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. In front of her was a long table with cakes, tea cups, and tea pots and a clock. She looked down and saw that her hand and legs were tied to a chair. Not only that, but she also noticed that she was not in her Robin costume anymore, but instead was in a blue knee lengthed puffed sleeved dress with a white pinafore and ankle strap shoes with long white socks. She squinted her eyes shut and opened them to turn on detective mode, which is how to turn it on, to make sure that she was still wearing her mask and thankfully she was.
"The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand." said a voice. "They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand."
Robin turned off detective mode and looked up to see the person on the other side of the table. It was the man in the green top hat.
"If this were only cleared away they said it would-" he cut himself off when he saw Robin awake "Ah, Alice, you're awake. Would you like some tea?" he smiled.
"Where am I? What's going on?" Robin asked.
"Oh, you're confused. Just like how you are with Wonderland, Alice."
"Who are you? And why do you keep calling me Alice?"
"I am Jervis Tetch, but please, refer to me as The Mad Hatter." he said, taking off his hat in a respectful manner. "Pleased to make your acquaintance, my dear."
"Why are you keeping me here?"
Mad Hatter chuckled "Because, you are my Alice. I want you here at my tea party. Tea?" he offered.
"Uh, no thanks." Robin frowned. "Why didn't you bother to take my mask off?"
"A young lady needs her privacy." Mad Hatter said in a sing song voice.
"How'd you get me here, anyway?"
"Quite simple actually. I had Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum put a teeny tiny idea in your head. You're mine now, you're my Alice. Oh you're not going to drink your Tea? It's my special tea, my special tea. Specialty. Hehehehehe." he giggled crepily. It was clear to Robin that this man was absolutely crazy.
"You're crazy."
"Crazy? No, I'm not crazy. I'm mad, there's a difference and its..." Mad Hatter tried to think of an answer "hmm, I don't know. Hahahahaha." he grinned "Now, it's time. Time for you to experience my Wonderland, Alice."
Hatter then used his hat to use the headband On top of Robin's head to put her in a trance.
Robin saw herself falling down a hole. "Down, down, the rabbit hole you fall, where madness bounces from wall to wall." she heard Hatter's voice say.
She then landed on a checker floor with doors surrounding her. In front of her was a table. Curiouse, she walked up to it and saw a bottle on it. She picked up the bottle and it was labled 'Drink me.'
Atfirst, Robin was unsure about it, it could be poison, but if it was then why would Hatter try to kill her when he didn't already? She drank the bottle and the liquid inside tasted like lemonade.
"Hmm. Not bad." then suddenly she noticed that she was shrinking. She was almost the same hight as a doll. She walked over to a small door and tried to turn the knob, but it was locked. She looked at the table and suddenly a key was there.
"Huh? That key wasn't there before." she then walked over to it but couldn't reach it due to her size. She then noticed a glass box next to her with coockies inside it. She opened it and the cookies were labeled 'Eat me." in chocolate chips.
She took a bite of one and then started to grow, but she grew into a giant. She picked the key up in her big hand and drank the bottle and shrunk down to a small size again.
Robin picked up the key and unlocked the door. She opened it to reveal a weird world. There were mushrooms and tea pots, there was also a tiny Dragon with fly wings. A Dragon fly? There was also a butterfly but with bread wings with butter on them. A bread and butterfly?
There were also flowers with faces on them, giant cards, and a dodo playing croquet with a flemingo as the mallet and a hedgehog as the ball.
If there was one thing this world had, it was...madness.
"Discord would love this place." said Robin.
"Frabjous day, caloo colay, Alice is here, it's time to play." Mad Hatter's voice said.
"Where are you?!" Robin said, sharply.
"I am here, over there, I am everywhere."
"What is this place? What am I doing here?"
"You are in my Wonderland, Alice. I put you to play a game. Go through one two three opsticals and you will go free, if not you belong to me." Mad Hatter rhymed. "Just follow the white rabbit in a waist coat, he'll take you through like a travelling boat."
"White rabbit? What white rabbit?" she then noticed a white rabbit in a blue waist coat, carrying a pocket watch. It then hopped down a path and Robin follwed.
She followed it to a small house she walked in and it was gone, not only that but the inside was bigger than the outside. There was a marble floor and a giant mirror. Suddenly, people with rabbit masks ran out through the mirrors and a fight was on.
One man threw a punch, but Robin grabbed his arm and slammed him on the floor and stomping on his head, knocking him out. One man tried to grab her from behind, but she dodged and punched him in the face, knocking him out. One man tried to kick her, but she grabbed his leg and kicked him in the stomach, then punched him in the face, knocking him out. The next man tried to throw a punch, but Robin grabbed his hand and threw him to a wall and slamming his face into it, knocking him out.
The white rabbit then appeared again and Robin followed it out the door, and she was suddenly on a beach. "What the? But wasn't I in some kind of mushroom forest?"
Then from behind her, someone swung a sludge hammer, which she dodged and turned to see a carpenter holding the hammer and a walrus standing on two legs and wearing a waist coat.
The carpenter swung his hammer, but Robin dodged, grabbed the hammer, and swung the butt of it against his face, making him stumble backwards. The walrus charged forward with his tusks and tried to impale Robin, but she grabbed the tusks, just inches away from her chest. She then kicked him in the stomach, making him stumble backwards.
"The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand." said Mad Hatter's voice "They wept like anything to see such quant-"
"Shut up." Robin said as she punched the carpenter in the gut, then threw him at the walrus, who ducked. Robin then ran up to the walrus and punched him in the gut repeatedly. The walrus tried to bring his sharp tusks down on her, but she was quick enough to dodge and slam his head into the ground, knocking him out.
"No, no, no, no. This isn't right, this is wrong. Upside down, counterclockwise wrong wrong wrong wrong." Mad Hatter said in disbelief.
"Ha. Well looks like I'm more skilled then you think." Robin said.
The white rabbit then appeared again and she followed it across the shore line to a maze. In the maze she found herself in an open are, there was the door on one of the bushes. Robin was about to get to it but heard running steps behind her. She looked behind herself to see a card with a spear charging at her. She grabbed to spear, punched him in the stomach and threw him to the ground.
There were cards with arms, legs, and heads, holding spears and a woman in a red dress with hearts on it, black hair, and she was wearing a crown.
"Off with her head!" she yelled and the cards ran at her.
One card thruster his spear, but Robin dodged it and kneed him in the stomach and uppercuted him, knocking him out. One card swung his spear, but Robin ducked and slid her legs under his, making him fall to the floor and kicked him in the face, knocking him out. One card grabbed her from behind, but she kicked his leg, making him cal on one leg then spin kicked him across the face, knocking him out. One card then thruster his spear at her, but she dodged and spin kicked him across the face, knocking him out.
"Off with her-" the queen of hearts yelled but was kicked in the stomach by Robin.
"Off with her shut up!" she then uppercuted her, knocking her out.
"NOOOO!!!" Mad Hatter yelled "You've ruined everything." he said in a sobbing voice.
Robin then walked to the door and opened it to see a blinding light. It disappeared and Robin found herself back in the chair at the table.
"No! No!" Mad Hatter yelled. He then pulled out a knife and held it to Robin's throat. "If you can't be my Alice, then no one can have you!"
Then they heard the sound of punches on the other side of a double door and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were thrown through. The person who threw them stepped into the room. Batman.
Mad Hatter kept holding the knife up to Robin's throat. "Batman." he growled.
Batman then pulled out a batarang and threw it. It was thrown behind Hatter's head and then turned back and hit is head from behing, knocking his hat off. Batman then ran up to him and punched him in the face, knocking him out.
"Sigh, Thanks." Robin said as Batman used a batarang to cut her bonds.
"Are you okay?"
"Yep, fine."
Batman gave Robin her costume.
"Thanks. Now I can get out of this dress." Robin said, since she hates dresses. She went into a backroom to change.
"AAAAHH!!!! Sombody help!" a woman in an alley yelled, falling backwards to the ground. She was surrounded by three men, one pointing a gun to her.
"No one's comin', lady." the one with the gun said. Then, a batarang knocked the gun out of his hand, surprising them.
"Actually, someone did come."
They looked up and saw that it was Batman and Robin. They both jumped down as Batman stretched his cape to have a soft landing and Robin front flipped onto the ladder of a fire escape, which slid down and she front flipped, landing on her feet. The acrobatic training from Dick really paid off.
"So, who's gonna get their butt kicked first?" Robin said, cracking her knuckles.
Batman fired his grapple gun at one thug, yanked him over and body slammed him to the ground, then stomped on his head, knocking him out.
One thug pulled out a gun and as he pulled the trigger, Robin grabbed a metal trash can lid and the bullet fired and didn't go through. Even if it did go through, she wouldn't die because of her bullet proof suit, but it would still hurt. She then threw the lid like a frisbee, knocking the gun out of the thug's hand.
"My turn." Robin said, running up to the thug, kicking him in the gut then spin kicking him across the face, knocking him out.
Batman punched the last thug in the face, making him stumble backwards. Robin then jumped up, grabbed his head and brought it to the ground, knocking him out.
"Perfect team takedown." Robin said.
She then walked over to the woman and offered a hand "You okay?"
The woman took her hand, then Robin helped her up "Yeah, thanks."
"No problem." Robin smiled.
"No, really. You saved my life. Your real heroes."
Robin put her hands on her hips "Na. We're just doing out jobs." she shrugged.
The woman reached into her purse and pulled out a twenty "Here, I owe you."
"Keep it. We work with no charge." Robin said, pulling out her grapple gun. "See ya." she then fired it to the edge of a two story building and zipped up there and Batman did the same.
He was real proud of her. Scootaloo's been Robin for a couple weeks and she was doing well. She's been confident, humble, brave, and determined to bring justice. She enjoyed the thrill of being Robin, the fighting, the acrobatic skills, the gadgets, she loved it all. But she was always serious when needed and even though she was skilled in martial arts and acrobatics thanks to her training, she was always careful. Scootaloo never questioned orders either, she always obeyed without question, and she sometimes called him by a nickname "Bossman."
Not only was she happy to know skills she didn't know before, she was also happy bringing justice and doing her best to make Gotham a better place.
Scootaloo still missed her friends from back in equestria, but Bruce and Alfred were always there to comfort her. They gave her what she always wanted, a family. Bruce was like a father and a mentor to her and Alfred was like a grandfather to her.
"So Bossman, what's next? Stop a robery in progress? Save the Mayor? Save hostages?" Robin asked, enthusiastically once they got up on the roof.
"Help! That man's got my purse!" they heard an old lady yell.
They ran to the edge to see a man running off with a stolen purse.
"Save old lady's purse then. I got this." Robin said as she grappled to a lamp post and front flipped to the ground, landing on her feet in front of the theif. "Going somewhere?" she teased.
The man pulled out a gun, but Robin kicked it out of his hand.
"No you don't." she then kicked him in the stomach, making him stumble backwards. Robin then pulled out her bolas and spun it "Hey, looks like your tied up at the moment." she then threw the bolas at the man, tying him up, and making him fall to the ground on his back. Robin then walked over to the man and picked up the stolen purse "I'll be taking that, thank you." she then walked over to the old lady and gave it to her "Here you go, miss."
"Thank you deary." the old woman said, taking the purse from her.
The people in the area applaud and cheered as Robin grappled back up to the building.
"Good job." Batman said, stoicly.
"Hey, I learned from the best." Robin smiled. "C'mon. The night's still young and we got lots more to do." she said in an enthusiastic tone. She then grappled to another building and swung over "WooHoo."
Batman slightly smiled at her and grappled to her.
It was twilight hours in Gotham and everything was quiet so far. Scootaloo was sitting on the couch in the living room in Wayne Manor, whatching the flat screen TV above the fireplace, scrolling through the channels, while Bruce was sitting in a chair reading a newspaper and Alfred preparing dinner. He was making French onion soup tonight, one of Scootaloo's favorite foods in the human world, she started eating meat not to long ago because she was curious about what it tasted like.
Scootaloo had the same facial expression she uses in school during a lesson. "Oh, I'm so bored." she groaned.
Bruce looked at her "There's always reading."
Scootaloo looked at him, still keeping her bored facial exression "No thank you." she scrolled through the channels until she came to the Gotham Gazzete.
"Now, back to our top story." said Vickie Vale "There has been a break in last night in the Gotham City Bank."
That immediately caught Bruce's attention and he looked at the TV.
"Eighty million dollars was stolen from a high Tech vault, made by Wayne Enterprises, and trajecly, Robert Thomson, the bank manager, was killed by the culprits."
Scootaloo turned off the TV and looked at Bruce "Looks like we got another job to do."
Bruce and Scoots then made there way down into the Batcave and made their way to their suits in a glass box next to the Batcomputer.
Now changed, they make their way into the Batmobile. Batman flipped a switch to put the atomic batteries to power and another to put the turbines to speed. VROOM!!!
They later arrived at the bank to see police cars there and police tape at the entrance. Batman lifted the tape over his head as he and Robin walked in to find a few police officers, Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock, and Renee Montoya.
Gordon noticed the Dynamic Duo walk in. "I thought you might show."
"Have you found anything?" Batman asked in his stoic manner that he always speaks in.
"We were about to get started."
They noticed Montoya walk up to them "Hey, never got to say thanks for saving my life." she then looked at Robin "So, you're the new kid. I'm detective Renee Montoya." she offered a hand.
Robin accepted the handshake "Nice to meet you."
They then walked over to a body on the ground with a blanket over it. Batman lifted the blanket to see lifeless man with blood behind his head. He lifted his head up to see a bullet hole.
"Cause of death was a shot to the back of the head." he then saw bruses on the man's face "He was beaten. Probably to make him tell them the code to the vault."
Batman and Robin then turned on evidence scanner, in their lenses, and replayed what happened by showing slender computer generated figures.
The scanners showed the door being kicked open by a buff figure and six figures ran in, four carrying guns and one being held like a hostage.
"The door was kicked open by someone with enough strength to do so, then five people came in with a hostage." Batman stated. The hostage figure was then pushed to the vault. "The hostage was Robert Thomson." Robert typed the codes on the key pad and the vault slid open. BANG A bullet came in the back of the head, making him fall dead. "He was then shot, the bullet came from one of the men."
The figures then walked in and were emptying the vault. Batman was looking to see if any of them left a finger print behind. He kept looking until he found a finger print on One of the metal drawers of the vault.
"The men were wearing gloves. One of them had a hole in his glove and left a finger print here." a loading line then appeared under a word 'scanning' until it said 'complete'. A file then appeared.
"His name is Eliot Ford. Reports say he was arrested multiple times for drug dealing and many break ins. His file says he likes to go to a club called 'Night Shine'."
"Well, looks like we should pay him a visit." Robin said as she and Batman turned off their evidence scanners.
"I'll send someone over." Gordon said.
"Don't need to." Batman said as he and Robin turned to leave.
They arrived at the club and looked through a ceiling window. There was a dance floor, flashing lights, and people dancing to dubstep music.
At a table was Eliot. "Hey doll, get me another drink will ya?"
CRASH
The sound of glass breaking was heard as Batman and Robin landed on the table. Batman toward over a frightened Eliot.
"Eliot. We need to talk." he said, his voice like venom.
Little did they know that one man was sneaking behind them and was slowly pulling out his gun, but Robin noticed and used a batarang to knock it out of his hand. They turned back to the direction of Eliot, but they found an empty chair.
SHUT
Eliot was panting as he ran down the sidewalk and into an alley, only for Batman to be there. He spun around, but Robin was in front of him. "Going somewhere?"
Eliot then felt a claw grab the back of his shirt and was yanked backwards, then spun around to face the dark knight, who grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
"The robery at the Gotham Bank. Who hired you?!" Batman spoke in a volcanic voice.
"Uh...no one. That was our own gig." Eliot lied, hoping Batman would buy it. He didn't.
He then noticed Batman pull out some kind of gun and pointed it upwards and it fired out a line.
"Wait...what are you-AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" he screamed as he was zipped into the air and landed on a food's edge. He turned around as Batman held him by the collar of his shirt, leaning him back. "No! Please! Don't drop me!!"
"Then answer me. Who's your boss?!" Batman said, losing patiance.
"I can't tell you! He'll kill me!"
"Then I'll do worse then that." Batman growled.
Eliot couldn't take it anymore "Alright! It was Scarface! Scarface! He's at the warehouse district! Warehouse eighth four!"
"Thank you." Batman said in a non happy tone as he let goed of Eliot.
"No! No!" he yelled as he was leaning bacwards. Then fell off the edge. "AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" he was just a few feet above the ground as he suddenly stopped falling, thanks to a line on his legs.
Batman then jumped down, stretching his cape, giving him a soft landing.
Batman then pushed a button on his gauntlet and in a few moments, he and Robin heard the engin of the Batmobile as it drove into the alley with them jumping inside it, then driving off.
They soon arrived at the district and snuck through a window and hid behind some crates. They saw four men dressed in black suits and fedoras, they looked like 1920s gangsters. One of them was a buff man with a rhino sewn into the shoulder.
"Hey Wesker." the buff man called. A man, who appeared to be in his late forties or early fifties, walked through a door. He wore a white buttoned shirt, brown pants, black leather shoes, a brown suit jacket, a red tie, and some glasses. He also had white hair and a bald spot on top of his head. "Get the boss."
"Um...of course." Wesker said meekly. His meek nature reminded Robin of Fluttershy.
He then walked up a stair case to a door.
"Dummy! I told ya not to disturb my geauty sleep! I'm tryin' to get some shut eye!" An Al Capone like voice said.
"Sorry, Mr. Scarface. The men wanted to speak with you."
"Aright, aright. Take me down there. Careful not to drop me, if you do yer a dead man."
The man then came down and he looked like he was holding something. Once he came down the stairs, he revealed he was carrying a wooden dummy with a scar on it's left side of the face. It wore a dark blue suit, black shoes, and a grey fedora. It carried a Tommy gun in it's right hand and a cigar in it's mouth.
"Aright you louses. Getter have a good reason to wake me."
Robin was surprised by the puppet. She thought Scarface was a person, not a dummy. She did see the Scarface dummy in the trophy room at the Batcave, but always thought it was a model of a real gangster.
The buff man approached the dummy "Eliot just left the gang."
"Oh he did, did he? He thought he could gack out in this gang. Thought he can get away with it Scott free?" Scarface said.
"What do we do about it boss?" asked the buff man.
"Well Rhino. We gotta make sure no one gacks out of dis gang and stays healthy. Looks like we sould, take him out."
"Take him out? You mean kill him? Mr. Scarface, please give him another chance?" Wesker, known by many as The Ventriloquist, pleaded.
Scarface looked at him "Dummy, hold my hat will ya?"
"Of course sir." Ventriloquist obeyed, only to get headbutted by the dummy. "OW!"
"Dere, anythin' else ya like to argue wit' me about?" Scarface asked with a venomous voice.
Ventriloquist shook his head as he put the hat back on Scarface's head "No sir."
"Good. Now, yous gonna go get Elly, gring 'im gack here, Rhino you knock 'is glock off repeatedly, make sure you get da face, and I waste 'im. Ya got that dummies?" Scarface instructed, receiving nods from his men.
"Are you ready?" Batman asked Robin.
"I was born ready." Robin said as Batman fired his batclaw at one of the thugs, yanking him over as Robin threw a fist to his face, putting him in an unconscious state. The gang quickly took notice of this.
"Well looks what we got here goys." Scarface said "We got a Gat and a gird. Get 'em."
One thug ran up to them at full speed, but Batman grabbed him by the arm and brought him to the floor, hard.
One thug tried to punch Robin but she blocked it, then smashed her fist into his face and kickeing him backwards. She then fired her grapple gun at him and swung him over to Batman "Here you go boss."
He ran into Batman's fist, putting him to the floor as Batman brought his foot to his face, knocking him out. All that was left was Rhino.
Rhino charged at the duo, but they flipped over him landing on their feet. Robin brought a jump kick to his back, but wasn't enough to bring him down. He turned around and received fists to the stomach, but was taking every punch.
Robin looked up to see that her attack wasn't working. She gave a nervous chuckle before Rhino punched her in the face, making her stumble backwards and giving her a bloody nose, but she was able to stay in the fight.
"We'll have to attack him together. Perform a team takedown on him." Batman stated.
"Sure thing." Robin said as she wiped the blood from her nose.
Batman then made a sprint towards Rhino as he tried to throw a punch, but he ducked and punched him in the chest, didn't hurt him too much, but he stumbled backwards as he was then met with a kick to the face from Robin.
He groaned as he opened his eyes to see The Dark Knight and The Girl Wonder give a jump kick to the chest, making him fall into a pile of crates.
"Yes." Robin said with a sense of victory.
"I can't gelieve it!" Scarface angrily exclaimed "Dese louses are freakin' useless. Useless! Aright. If ya want somethin' done right, ya gotta do it yer self." he then opened fire with his Tommy gun.
The Dynamic Duo quickly sprinted behind a few crates as bullets were being sprayed at them. Batman pulled a batarang from his belt and threw it at Scarface's hand, choping it off.
"*gasp* I'm hit!" his head then fell off from a batarang.
"Mr. Scarface!" The Ventriloquist exclaimed, worriedly.
"C'mon! Don't just stand dere! Help me, goddammit!"
Wesker was about to pick up Scarface's head until he saw Batman tower over him, making him cower.
"A right! C'mon let's dance! You an' me Gatman and Rogin!" he was then silenced as Robin found some dukt tape and put it over his mouth.
"So, is Scarface really alive or is Wesker the real mastermind?" Robin asked Batman.
"Neither. Ventriloquest has a split personality disorder. One side of him is meek and the other side is ruthless. The ruthless side is shown through the Scarface dummy and Wesker's unaware of his split personality." Batman explained.
"Huh. First people in black masks, then killer clowns, and now a guy who doesn't know he has a split personality. What else do you have? A crocodile man who lives in the sewers?" Robin rhetorically asked.
The night sky was shining its stars above the city of Gotham, where there were busy streets, tall buildings and searchlights. Inside GCPD headquarters, Commissioner James Gordon was sitting at his desk looking over reports of some arrests, some arrests in the earlier night were of criminals with black eyes, bruises and broken limbs from a certain bat vigilante.
"Commisioner." said Renee Montoya as she opened the door to the office.
"What is it Montoya?" Gordon asked.
"We received a call that the Mayor is missing. He was last seen at his mansion and, I am not kidding, claw marks were found." Montoya reported.
"*sigh* Another night like this." Gordon said. Honestly he could never get a break. "Alright. I want a squad there and I'll send the right guy." Gordon got up from his desk and put on his light brown trench coat and fedora.
"Who...oh right. Him. I'll get a squad over there right away sir." Montoya said as she left the office.
Gordon made his way to the rooftop where a searchlight with the bat logo on it was waiting. Gordon pushed the button on the searchlight, turning it on and shining a bat symbol into the sky.
Meanwhile at Wayne Manor.
Bruce and Scoots were eating their spaghetti dinner, made by Alfred, at the long dining table they have in the dining room.
"Master Bruce, Miss. Phillips. You received a call." Alfred said as he came in.
"Who called? What do they want to talk about?" Scootaloo asked.
"The Commissioner called. It's rather ergent." he said, turning his direction to the window.
Bruce and Scootaloo turned their heads to the window to see the Bat-Signal shining in the sky.
"Well, looks like we got a job to do." Scootaloo said as she and Bruce made their way to the Batcave, changed into their suits and drove to the signal.
At the Bat-Signal, Commissioner Gordon was smoking from his pipe, waiting for the caped crusaders to show up. As he turned, he saw Batman and Robin standing there.
"Hmm, you'll never believe how much that use to startle me." Gordon chuckled.
"What's the problem, Jim?" Batman asked stoicly.
"Mayor Micheal Logan was kidnapped from his mansion not to long ago. We don't know who it is but claw marks were found at the scene of the crime." Gordon explained.
"We'll look into it." Batman said as he and Robin glided off the building and landed a few meters from the Batmobile.
"Claw marks?" Robin asked curiously.
They later arrived at the masion to find Montoya with a police squad there.
"Montoya. What've you found?" Batman asked her.
"Well. There are claw marks inside, as well as this ran some note." she handed a white piece of paper to them.
If you are reading this, I have the Mayor and i won't give him up until I get five hundred million dollars and leave it in Gotham Park at nine fourty PM tomorrow night. If I don't get the cash, Mayor Logan dies.
"Any ideas?" Montoya asked.
"We cooperate with the culprit and me and Robin will be there waiting for him." Batman planned. "We're going to look at the claw marks to see what we're up against." The duo then made their way into the mansion.
There were big claw marks on the walls, looked like they came from something big.
Batman turned on evidence scanner to scan the mark. "Hmm, schematics show that these claw marks appear to be reptilian, yet there's human DNA in them." Batman said. He then put a finger to his earpiece "Oracle, see which patient is not currently in Arkham."
"Let's see, hold on just a second." a few moments passed "Okay, there are three escapees. Joker, Riddler, and Killer Croc."
"Thanks, Oracle. See if there have been reports lately about Killer Croc. See if there are any witnesses."
Moments later "Sorry, but there's none."
"Thanks anyway." Batman said, removing his finger from his earpiece and making his way out the door with Robin.
"Who's Killer Croc?" Robin asked.
"When Waylon Jones's mother was pregnant, she was drugged with genetically enhanced pills from scientists at Peña Duro, a prison in Santa Prisca. She was thought she was taking Tylenol, the pills affected the baby. When Waylon was born he had a skin condition and the abilities of a crocodile. When he turned twenty five he turned to a life of crime, giving himself the name 'Killer Croc.'" Batman explained.
When they got into the Batmobile and drove off. Robin typed on the pad in front of her and Batman and Killer Croc's bio appeared. Killer Croc was a tall, had green reptile skin, a crocodile snout, fangs, and a tale. He also wore Brown pants and a French coat, which is what he normally wears.
"Know crimes committed" Robin read out loud "Armed robbery, cannibalism, homicide, grand theft." with grand theft and armed robbery he sounded like an average criminal, but with the other two crimes he sounded like a psychopath.
The Next Night
It was nine thirty eight PM at Gotham Park, a brief case with money sitting under a tree. A claw hand opened a sewer lid and a green scaled figure with a crocodile monster appearance climbed up onto the surface. Killer Croc.
Killer Croc walked into the park where the money was waiting. He was about to go get it until his nose caught a certain smell. He sniffed and it was two scents, one scent was new, but the other one he knew all to well. "Batman." He growled. His voice was frightening, it sounded scratchy.
The scents then came closer and closer, it was coming fast. As it came close, Croc swung his tail at the direction as Batman swung forward from his Bat-Rope. Batman and Robin felt a tail hit them against the ground.
"You shouldn't have come here." Killer Croc said "You and that new kid. Stay out of my way or I kill you both." he said as he grabbed the case and ran.
Batman and Robin quickly got up and chased after Croc.
'This guy's huge.' Robin thought. She though she's seen it all.
As they got to the street, Croc grabbed a car the hood and went it tumbling towards the Dynamic Duo. Batman fired his grapple gun to a near by building and was pulled into the air as Robin did a high front flip over it, landing on her feet.
Croc ripped open a sewer lid and jumped down there.
"Are we really going after him down there?" Robin asked, sounding nervous. She didn't mind facing him in the park, but facing a giant monster in a dark area that's like a maze where he can pop out of nowhere is another.
Batman gave her an answer by jumping down into the sewer.
"Oh man." She groaned as she followed, her feet landing in the water that went up to her torso. "Ugh, I'm gonna have to have a shower after this." she liked her crime fighting career, but being in sewage was not fun. Thank Celestia that she and the other cutey mark crusaders never came up with an idea like this back in equestria.
They walked through the sewage, keeping an eye out for Croc.
"Help! Somebody, please help!" They heard a voice and ran into the direction. They ran into a corner that showed a much wider sewer tunnel. There was a dock over on the other side, on it was an African American man in a grey suit, tied up in rope. It was Mayor Logan.
Batman and Robin climbed up the dock. "Are you alright?" Batman asked as he used a batarang to cut the rope.
"Yes I'm fine. Thank you."
"Don't thank us yet. We still need to get you out of here."
Then suddenly, something jumped out of the water like a shark and landed on the dock on two feet. Croc punched Batman into a wall, knocking him unconscious and grabbed the Mayor.
Croc then hit his tail against Robin, knocking her into the water.
"You're coming with me." he said as he took the Mayor into a sewer tunnel.
SPLASH "*gaaaasp*" Robin rose her head up from the water quickly, wet from sewage and gasping for air. She crawled up onto the dock to check on Batman. She quenched her eyes shut and opened them, turning on detective mode and checked Batman's heart beat. It read unconscious. Robin then quenched her eyes shut and opened them as detective mode turned off.
She then saw Killer Croc's shadow in a sewer tunnel.
"Batman. Wake up!" she shook Batman, but to no avail. He must have been out cold. Robin kept shaking him to wake him up. She didn't want to face that monster alone. He was big and she was small, no way she would stand a chance. "Come on, there has to be some way to wake you up." she couldn't think of anymore options. There was only one option and she didn't like it. She had to face Croc alone.
Croc had the mayor. She couldn't let him die. "I can't do it I can't do it."
Batman dealt with Croc longer than her. She lowered her head feeling defeated. She sat up against the wall, holding her knees in front of her chest and buried her face. She was worthless, she was pathetic, she was a coward.
She looked back on the time she fought Scarecrow. She was afraid when she was gassed. She felt useless. Until Bruce told her otherwise.
If your friends saw you, they would be proud. They would never think of you as a disgrace, and I don't think you're a disgrace, I'm proud of you.
Those words touched. They were words that showed her that there is somebody proud, and she can't let him down. Not ever. She can't let her fear get in the way.
She lifted her head from her knees and stood up. She looked at her belt, it would take more then batarangs, a bolas, a grapple gun, or smoke bombs to take this monster down.
She then remembered that Batman always carried a taser. They'll do. She walked over to Batman and fumbled her hand on his utility belt until she found a taser. Bruce wouldn't let her have one due to her age, but this was an emergency.
"I hate to be stealing from you, bossman, but I got a Mayor to save." she said as she ran down the tunnel Croc went into. As she ran she set the taser's volts to a high enough level. Wasn't enough to kill him, but was enough to knock him unconscious, perfect.
As she ran deeper into the sewer she still felt the fear inside her, but ignored it and kept going.
"Croc!" she yelled. "Wherever you are, come out and face me!"
After a few moments, Robin heard the sound of a crocodile hissing. It was getting closer and louder. Until it stopped. Robin kept the taser ready in her hand as she stood in a fighting stance. She felt scared, but she refused to back down. The Mayor's life depended on it.
SPLASH "Roooooaaaaarrr!!!!" Croc gave a beastly roar as he splashed out of the water.
Robin gave a startled jump that she accidently dropped the taser into the water. "No!"
Before she had time to pull it out, Killer Croc tackled her into a wall and brought his sharp teeth forward. Robin held his snout, trying to keep his from eating her.
She headbutted the front nose of the snout, causing Croc to stumble backwards in pain, but quickly ignored it. Robin tired looking for the taser in the water. "Alright kid. If I can't eat you, I'll drown you."
Killer Croc then grabbed the back of her head.
"You smell funny. You need a bath."
"Oh yeah? You smell even worse." Croc growled at Robin's comeback and pushed her bed down into the water.
Robin struggled, trying to break free from Croc's grasp and trying to hold her breath. She then saw the taser just a few inches in front of her and grabbed it.
"Heh heh. Looks like I can feed on yer corpse-AAHH!!" he felt something shock his foot, making him let go of Robin as she emerged her head from the water, gasping for air.
She turned around, but the taser was knocked out of her hand by Croc and he held her up against a wall, giving her an angry stare.
"I hope you taste good, 'cause I'm hungry." he then opened his mouth, about to chomp on Robin's skull.
Killer Croc then felt something get thrown into his mouth, then exploded into smoke. He screamed in pain as Robin grabbed the taser.
"Good thing those smoke pellets worked." Robin said as she brought the taser to Croc's chest, electrifying him into unconsciousness, fall in backwards in to the water.
Robin was breathing heavily, that was one heck of a fight. She pressed her back against the wall and slid down in a sitting position. Sure she was in sewer water, but she was covered in in it anyway so it didn't matter. She kept her head slump back, taking heavy breaths.
She soon got back up and walked down the tunnel where Mayor Logan was.
"Mister Mayor." She put her hands on her knees and breathed heavily from the right "I...took care...of Croc."
"Thank you Robin. I thought I was done for." He said as he and Robin made their way out of the tunnel.
Batman groaned as he slowly opened his eyes. He got up and remembered what happened. He also noticed Robin was gone.
"Robin?" Batman called. He can't lose another partner.
"Over here, Batman." Robin called as she and the Mayor made their way out of the tunnel. She was wet with sewer water.
Batman ran his way over "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"She saved my life, Batman. She took on Killer Croc." The Mayor said.
Batman was surprised. Robin, a ten year old girl, took on a giant crocodile man.
"Yeah um. I took your taser. Sorry, thought it was the perfect weapon against Croc." Robin said.
Batman gave a small smile "Good work."
"Thanks." Robin breathed "Now uh, can we go home? I'm gonna need a fourty minute shower to get this stench off."
'GIRL WONDER SAVES MAYOR' The news paper article, in Scootaloo's hand, said as she used a pair of scissors to cut a picture from it with a paragraph talking about the article next to it. It was a picture of her, as Robin, shaking hands with the Mayor with Killer Croc being put in the back of an Arkham Asylum patient transport truck.
Scootaloo then used a glue stick to put the news paper clipping on the page of a scrap book she had. She's been putting together a scrap book of news paper clippings since her career as Robin started, Alfred suggested it then gave her an unused scrap book. The book contained news paper clippings from articles that involved her.
She turned to the very first page, it was about her first night out as Robin titled 'BATMAN RECRUITS FEMALE ROBIN' with a picture of her and Batman swinging through the city and an article mentioning that she is now dubbed 'The Girl Wonder. She smiled at the clipping as she turned the page to an article titled 'GIRL WONDER PREVENTS ATTEMPTED MUGGING '. She smiled as she remembered that the other night.
KNOCK KNOCK
"Come in." Scootaloo called as Alfred came in.
"Mrs. Phillips, dinner is ready."
Scootaloo closed the book and put it in one of her drawers then headed to the dinning room.
She arrived to the long dinning table with Bruce sitting on one side then pulled up a chair on the other side as Alfred came in with two onion soup bowls and set them in front of them.
Scootaloo immediately started to dig in. French onion soup was always her favorite out of all the other foods Alfred made. She even started to eat meat a month ago since she was a human now, she decided to try meat. At first she thought it was gross to see humans eating meat, but after being in the human world for a few months she decided to try it. The look on Bruce and Alfred's faces when she asked for some.
When she finished her soup, Alfred brought a cannoli to her. If anything it was her favorite dissert.
Alfred the noticed a certain bat-symbol shinning in the night sky.
"Excuse me, sir. But Commissioner Gordon is expecting you and Ms. Phillips."
Bruce and Scootaloo noticed the signal and got the message as they headed down to the Batcave.
********
Commissioner James Gordon lit his pipe as he stood next to the Bat-Signal on the roof of the GCPD building, expecting two certain crime fighters in capes.
"Commissioner."
He heard an intimidating gruff voice. He turned his head left to see the man he worked with and his young partner.
"Hmm. You still know how to make an entrance." he slightly chuckled then decided to get straight to the point. "Something arrived an hour ago. It's a..." Jim tried to find a way to describe it "...it's some kind of present. We think it's from the Riddler."
"Why would the Riddler send a present?" Robin asked.
"You haven't seen it yet kid." Gordon turned off the Bat-Signal and led the Dynamic Duo to where they kept this present.
They arrived down to the entrance of the building and Robin widened her eyes at what was there. It was a giant green box with a purple question mark on each side. Officers surrounded it with guns pointing.
The three of them headed straight for the present, Batman and Robin going up to it while Commissioner Gordon stayed behind.
On the front side was a small computer screen with a key pad. The screen said 'Within the mirror you must find a way to stay alive. What is 4+no.5'
"Nine?" Robin guessed as she typed her answer in.
'Incorrect'
"Hmm. How's that not the answer? Four plus five is supposed to be nine right?"
"It says 'find a way'. A way is South. An inverted direction of four plus five is South." Batman explained as he typed in his answer.
'Correct'
Then suddenly the front side began to bend down like a domino about to fall.
"Look out!" Batman called as he, Robin, and the officers ran out of it's direction just before it hit the floor, revealing a giant screen in the box. The screen turned on to reveal The Riddler.
"Well well, if it isn't the shaved monkey himself. As well as the red bellied chicken." he smirked.
"Riddler." Batman growled.
"The one and only." Riddler said with pride.
"What do you want, Nigma?" Robin wanted to get to the point.
"Well, I'm sure you remember our first meeting, Girl Wonder?" Riddler's smirk then turned to a face of anger "You humiliated me! There was no way that a child. A stupid, ignorant, child. Would out smart The Riddler!" his smirk returned "So to prove that I am the smartest, I will play a game with you and Batman. I will ask you two riddles, the answers will lead you to my hideout. And remember, only Robin is supposed to figure out the answers." his expression turned seious "No help." he said slowly.
Robin thought for a moment "Alright."
Riddler grinned "Excellent. Riddle me this: I appear flat, yet I am round, what am I? What kind of number catches you when said backwards? Oh and if you do get help behind my back, I'll kill this hostage." he then turned the camera to an electric chair with a person tied to it. He was gagged with cloth, making muffle sounds. The screen then turned off.
*********
"What appears flat, yet is round?" Scootaloo mumbled under her breath as she remembered Riddler's riddle. "And what kind of number catches you when said backwards?" she's been trying to figure out those two riddles all night. Why did they have to be so hard?!
She was in the middle of a test, but she was so focused on the riddle that she had no attention on the test. She rested her head on her hand in a thinking manner 'what appears flat, but is round?' she repeated in her head. She then noticed a globe the teacher kept on her desk. Wait a minute, that's it.
"That's it!" Scootaloo exclaimed, jumping out of her seat. Her smile disappeared when she noticed all the kids and teacher staring. "Uh, heh heh. I mean that's the right answer." Scootaloo said nervously as she sat back down.
"Okay, next riddle: what kind of number catches you when said backwards?" she then looked at the question on her test saying to rewright a math problem in words. Ten plus five equals fifteen, she wrote. Wait a minute. She looked at the word ten.
What kind of number catches you when said backwards? "Ten. Backwards it says net." Scootaloo mumbled.
*****
"Bruce. I figured out the riddles." Scootaloo said as she ran into the manor, approaching Bruce. "The answers are the world and ten. The world is round, but when your on it It looks flat, and ten spelled backwards is net."
Bruce thought of what she said "Good work. And I know what that could mean. Come on." he said heading down to the Batcave with Scootaloo following.
******
It was the afternoon in Gotham, yet Bruce and Scootaloo still went out as Batman and Robin. To Robin it felt weird since they normally go out at night.
They soon arrived at an abandoned building with a sign on top of the entrance, 'World Net Computers'.
The two grappled up to the roof top of the building. Robin looked over the city. "Wow. So this is what the city looks like in the day. To be honest, I prefer how it looks in the night." she commented as Batman tore open the entrance to the air vent and they both slid down.
"So, you think Riddler's got a trap on the other side?" Robin asked as they crawled on their hands and knees.
"Whatever it is, we'll be ready." Batman said as they made a turn.
After about ten minutes, they arrived at the air vent covering as Batman kicked open then jumped down landing on his feet as Robin did the same.
They were in a room with a giant computer screen on the wall and some kind of chamber in the corner with a table next to it, and a mirror.
"Well well, it appears you solved my riddles." Riddler's voice said as the screen turned on revealing him.
"Alright Edward, I solved your riddles. Now where's the hostage?" Robin demanded, determined to save the hostage.
Riddler smirked "Oh he's right here." he said, turinging to the right to show a man in an electric chair, blind folded and gagged.
"Let him go. I solved your riddles." Robin demanded.
"That remains to be seen." Riddler said as he turned to the screen. "What it takes to answer a riddle as hard as mine is pure genius. Something you don't have, but I will see anyway. Now Batman, please step into my chamber and out your belt on the table?"
Batman and Robin looked at the chamber then back to the screen.
"Do it. Or..." Riddler put his hand on the lever to the electric chair.
"Alright." Batman said as he removed his utility belt, putting it on the table with a microphone with a cord attatched to the chmber, then stepping in the death chamber, the door closing shut behind him.
"Good. Now let's get started, shall we?" Riddler then pushed a button on a desk next to him. Water then started pouring out from the top, filling the chamber fast.
"Hey! Let him out!" Robin yelled at Riddler.
"Oh you stupid fool. You think I can control the door to open? I can only close it, it can only open if you say the answer to the riddle on the screen in the microphine, and Batman is not allowed to help you, if he does then I speed up the water." Riddler said as the screen turned black showing words written in green.
"'Every human has a special weapon, it can help with problem if they use it, but make more problems if they don't use it, what is it?'" Robin read outloud "Oh lord, I don't know. What is it?" she tried to think of the answer.
The clock was ticking each second, every second was going by fast and she still couldn't think of an answer.
'C'mon.' she thought 'Think. Think...wait a minute.' she looked back at the riddle and the word think played in her head. Think, if you don't use it you'll cause problems. "That's it!" she then ran to the microphone "The human mind!"
The door to the chamber opened as water flooded out with Batman stepping out. He walked over to Robin, putting a hand on her shoulder "Good work."
"Dammit!"
They heard a voice yell, it came from that mirror.
Batman walked over to it, bring ping a foot it it, shattering it to pieces, revealing a room with Riddler sitting at a desk with a screen in front of him, showing the room where the death trap was and the hostage in the corner. Riddler looked at Batman nervously.
"Y'know, Riddler for a smart guy that was pretty dumb of you to just yell." Robin smirked.
"Uh...wait I can explain. Y'see-"
PUNCH
Batman brought a fist to his face, knocking him off his chair.
"Save it. You can talk about it in a padded cell in Arkham." Batman said.
At a TV station in Gotham City, the crew was getting ready for an important report. A man with a black suit, blue tie, short black hair and glasses sat at the desk in front of the camera, as well as a woman in an orange suit and long red hair.
"Que music." said the news director as the Gotham Gazzete news came on as told. "Que Vickie." the camera man turned the attention to Vickie Vail.
"Good evening Gotham City. The fashion world was stunned by the deaths of models Candy Walker and Amanda Keeler." she reported as the screen showed two pictures of young women with permanent grins on their faces, no form of life in their eyes. "There has been no confirmation of how their deaths were caused, but it is believed that the murders were caused by none other then The Joker, who is still at large." next to her was then shown a mugshot of The Joker "If you have seen any sightings of him or have any information about his whereabouts, please contact the authorities immediately. Jack."
The camera then showed Jack Ryder "And yesterday Edward Nigma, A.K.A. The Riddler, has been recaptured by The Batman and Robin The Girl Wonder. It looks like he'll be facing more years in Arkham Asylu-"
"Hahahahaha." Vickie laughed, but stopped herself and coughed under her throat. "Sorry." She averted her eyes looking embarrassed.
Jack looked awkwardly at Vickie but turned his attention back to the camera "In other news-"
"HA HA HA HA HA!" Vickie laughed loudly this time, slamming her fist on the desk "HA HA HA HA HA HA!" she leaned backwards in her chair falling on her back, still laughing like she wasn't hurt.
"Vickie? Vickie?!" Jack said worried.
"Kill the cameras." the director ordered while one of the people behind the camera called paramedics and some of the others went to check on Vail who was still laughing, this time like a lunatic.
Then they suddenly heard some kind of commercial music coming from their screen.
The Ace of Knaves himself, wearing a purple fedora, was pushing a shopping cart going through what looked like a grocery aisle. He then pulled from the cart a mouth wash bottle with a green liquid inside labled 'Smiley'.
"New and improved Joker products!" he said happily "Smiley!"
Two pictures of the dead models appeared next to him. "Love that Joker." they said in unison.
What was shown next was a dead man tied to a chair with table of chemicals next to him.
"Uh oh." Joker said, walking right next to him "He's been using Brand X." words flashed above him saying 'OH NO!!!'.
"But with Joker's brand..." he walked over to a grinning dead man in a chair next to a table of various Joker toxins "you'll be smiling again and again and again." he grinned.
"Love that Joker." the two models appeared.
Next cut was a beach with Joker sitting on a beach chair, his fedora gone and instead was wearing sun glasses. The two dead models laying on the sand in a relaxing position.
"That luscious tan," Joker commented "those rubey lips, and hair color, so natural, only your undertaker knows for sure. Hehehehe. Now I know what your thinking; 'where can I get these?'" Joker held up a Smiley bottle "Well, chances are you bought 'em already. HAHAHAHAHA! Now go and put on a happy face! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
That commercial broadcasted on every TV in Gotham, including the flat screen above the fire place in Wayne Manor leaving a stoic Bruce and a stunned Scootaloo.
"Come on." Bruce said as he and Scootaloo exited Wayne Manor through the Batcave.
They soon arrived at Gotham Hospital where Vickie Vale was, laughing, shaking her legs in the air and turning in a hospital bed.
"Mrs. Vale. Mrs Vale please?! Hold still!" said a doctor, trying to hold her down so he can inject a needle with antidote Batman gave them once.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm trying! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!" she laughed, thankfully the doctor grabbed her wrist and injected the needle. Vickie's laugh slowed "HAHAhaha....heh heh heh hehhhhh" then it finally stopped.
"That's it, there. Now please get some rest?" the doctor said as Vale obliged, unbenounst to both two shadowy figures came through the window.
"Mrs. Vale."
She gasped as she heard a gruff voice say her name and saw that it was Batman and Robin.
"We need answers."
"O-okay...what?" she calmed down.
"Did you do any form of drug use?"
"N-no." Vickie answered, truthfully. "But if it helps, I remember brushing my teeth this morning a-and when I did the toothpaste had this caffine taste to it, I was unfamiliar with it because I always used that brand."
"So you think Joker might have poisoned you?" Robin asked.
"Y-yeah, I think so." Vickie answered.
"What product was it?" Batman asked.
"Uh...Colgate? Yeah, Colgate." Vickie remembered.
Batman noded as he and Robin, who was waiting at the open window cell, glided down into the Batmobile driving off.
"Why would Joker poison Vickie Vale?" Robin wondered out loud.
Yeah, why would Joker do that? Then again since when did Joker have reason of anything? "Maybe Vale wasn't his main target. Maybe he meant to poison everyone else." Batman theorized as he made a turn, parking in an alley. He then opened his glove compartment where two pairs of normal clothes were. "Get changed." he handed her a blue skirt, green t-shirt, and Detroit Tigers baseball cap. "We're going shopping."
********
They later returned to the Batcave with mouth wash, perfume, cologne, toothpaste, lip stick, and hair spray. They carried the products in bags and poured a few samples in these vials for the Batcomputer to analyze.
"Analyzing" it said. After a few moments "Analysis complete". Then had a file pop up on the screen.
Bruce and Scoots took off their masks as they read the computer.
"Looks like I was right." said Bruce "Analysis shows that Joker's toxin is in almost every product in Gotham. Effects are uncontrollable laughter and death."
"Wait a minute. I remember that my toothpaste this morning had that weird caffeine taste to it." Scootaloo looked worried. "Am I gonna get affected?"
"No." Bruce said as Scootaloo sighed with relief.
"Wait, if my toothpaste had Joker toxin then how am I not affected?"
"It's a new concoction of his toxin, to help in adapt with the product, but one dose is not enough to kill you, because when adapted, it becomes weak. You'll have to take over one hygiene product in order for it to work. Toothpaste won't do it alone, but if you use both toothpaste and perfume, or any other hygiene product, then that should effect you." Bruce explained.
Sweet Celestia, Scootaloo knew Joker was dangerous but she didn't know that he's be able to do something like this. A look of worry etched onto her face.
Bruce noticed this "Is something wrong?"
Scootaloo sighed "Wow...I knew Joker was crazy and loved to kill people but I didn't know he'd do something like this where like a hundred people would die every minute." she lowered her head.
She then felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Bruce. "I know how you feel. I felt that way when I fought him the first time."
"Not only is he a psycho path," Scootaloo breathed "but a monster as well."
Bruce noded "Yes, but even though he's unpredictable we will find a way to stop him."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because I've gone up against him before and so have you." Bruce tried reassuring.
Scoots looked at the comouter in doubt "Yeah, twice."
Bruce tried thinking of something then remembered the foes she's defeated "You defeated Riddler."
Scootaloo faced Bruce, her face perplexed "Huh?"
Bruce slightly smiled "You were able to answer his riddles and figure out his hardest ones."
Scootaloo thought for a moment then smiled "Yeah, we did beat him, as well as Two-Face, Scarecrow, and others. We also beat Joker before and I don't see how we can't beat him again."
Bruce, satisfied at finally lifting her spirits, then put a finger to his earpiece "Oracle. Send an anonymous tip to the GCPD. Tell them about Joker's toxin, I'm sending you the files now."
"Okay. God, with this he can kill everybody." Oracle said.
"I know. Don't worry, we'll stop him." Bruce assured as he put his mask back on. "See if you can find out what company uses the chemicals Joker put into his latest toxin. In the mean time, me and Robin have to pay a visit."
"Okay, but it'll take some time." Oracle spoke.
"Batman out. Come on, Robin." he headed to the Batmobile.
"Okay, but where are we going?" Scootaloo asked, putting her domino mask back on.
"To pay a visit to the right person who might know of Joker's plan." they hopped in the Batmobile.
*****
VROOM
The Batmobile drove through the streets of Gotham, then soon followed a street that lead into a forest. Robin looked outside the window, the forest was grim and spookey. There were a lot of dead trees and a little fog.
She shivered as it reminded her of the Everfree Forest back in eqiestria.
She then noticed a sign they drove past by. It said 'Arkham Asylum 1 Mile. Hitch hickers may be escaped patients.' Imagine what it would be like to get lost in those woods, then see someone in the distance, at first you think it's just some random guy, but it's actually an escaped patient from a mental asylum. Robin shivered at the thought, but regained her bravery by remembering she had knowlege of martial arts, so if anyone tried to harm her she would kick their butts.
"We're here." Batman said as they were approaching their destination.
Robin looked through her window and looked wide eyed at the asylum. It had some what of a castle-like appearance, but it had a dark and gothic look to it and had a clock in one of the towers. The Batmobile parked close to a gate with the name of the place on top of it, 'Arkham Asylum'.
Batman opened the gate as they walked up to the entrance.
They opened the door to see a Secretary surprised by them. Batman ignored her as he walked past her but Robin just turned her head to her "Hey." She then turned her attention back to following Batman.
They walked down a hallway with cells with glass doors. In each cell there was a patient, some just sleeping, some screaming and some laughing.
Every patient stared as they walked down the hall. Robin saw some familiar faces like Mad Hatter, Two-Face, Scarecrow, and Riddler. She didn't recognize Riddler and Scarecrow, because they didn't have their masks, but she was able to identify them by reading their name plates next to their cells that said 'Edward Nigma' and 'Johnathon Crane'.
She also saw some new faces like a guy who had bandages wraped around his face, a shirtless bald man with tally marks cut onto most of his body, and an attractive woman with light green skin and red hair. Their name plates said 'Thomas Eliot', 'Victor Zsasz', and 'Pamela Isley'. She got the feeling she might cross paths with them in the future.
After walking through the hall and making a few turnes at every corridor for almost ten minutes, they now arrived at a cell that held a young woman with blonde hair held in pigtails. Her name plate said 'Harleen Quinzel'. Other wise known as...
"Harley Quinn." Batman said.
Harley Quinn herself was in the middle of relaxing, but peeked her eye open as she noticed the Dynamif Duo "Well well. If it ain't the dork knight himself." Harley smirked as she got up from her bed and walked over to the glass door. She then noticed Robin "Oh and I see that you brought your play mate along."
"Quinn, do you know anything about Joker's next plan?" Batman interrogated.
Harley turned her attention to Batman "Sorry B-Man, but even if I did know, I wouldn't raddle on my puddin'." Harley crossed her arms. "Y'see, he doesn't tell me his plan until he starts doin' it, 'cause he don't want to risk nobody spoilin' the surprise."
That made sense, there were times when Joker got away leaving Harley behind for Batman to catch, so he wouldn't tell her his next plan and risk her getting captured and spilling the beans.
*******
The Batmobile was speeding through Gotham, hoping to find any trace of Joker, but found none. Oracle then came on the other line.
"Okay, I found that some of the ingredients are stored in an old ACE Chemicals building in Park Row. It's abandoned, but they just left the chemicals there due to knowledge that they can create more, in other words they didn't care. I'm sending you the coordinates."
"Thanks, Oracle." Robin said. "Dynamic Duo out." she noticed Batman looking at her, did she really just refer to themselves as 'Dynamic Duo'? "What? I thought I'd say that due everyone calling us that." she then remembered people refering to Batman with the other Robins as that too.
Batman returned his attention to the other line. "We'll contact your father."
They soon arrived to a six story building with the company name on the roof in green and a vial next to it.
The Batmobile then screeched to a stop as several police cars arrived to secure the building and arrest whoever was inside. Unfortunately, Joker was nowhere to be seen.
*******
"Thankfully, Vickie Vale is recovering well in the hospital." reported Jack Ryder. "In other news: Batman has successfully cracked the case of this so called 'laughing matter', and The Joker's men were rounded up and hygiene products have been removed from stores and police are seeing to that new shipments will be checked."
BANG
A bullet the TV as it exploded.
"Well it looks like Batsy's won this round..." Joker handed a gun to his henchman "...but will he be able to stop what I have next?" he grinned "It's time to step up my game, hmm?"
It was a quiet night in Gotham, hardly any muggings or store robberies. This was very rare for Gotham since it was city full of crime, crime literally happened on almost every night, so many nights that it would be impossible to count them all.
This was a good thing for the city because near city hall, people were preparing for a festival. It was September 25th, the day Gotham City was founded from back in 1784. People were gathering just outside it, eating hotdogs and cheeseburgers, setting up balloons, and on the building hung a banner saying 'Happy Birthday Gotham'.
Even though many people gathered, the festival wasn't as big as other festivals they had. Once a year there would be a festival at city hall, but if it was Gotham's 235th anniversary instead of a 233rd, then there would not just be a festival there, but in other famous places in Gotham. Such as GCPD Headquarters, Wayne Tower, and Gotham Park.
There were still some people who celebrated it at their homes though, but it wasn't as big. However not everyone was looking forward to this night, some remained cautious. The Joker was still at large. After his latest plot, people have been horrified of what he would do next. Heck, every time Joker got out people would still be horrified.
One of those cautious people was none other than Police Commissioner James Gordon, who sat in his office chair looking over reports. The only sound that can be heard in the office was silence, and it was emitting a smell coming from a lit cigarette Jim held in between his middle and index fingers.
He sighed as he looked over the reports. Another drug dealing stopped, good. A recent mugging foiled, good. And a jail break prevented, good. All of these crimes of course were stopped by the legendary Batman and his sidekick Robin.
Every day there were reports like that. Jim was thankful to have a partnership with the dark knight, made things easier and easier. He was even impressed with the kids he recruits from time to time, especially the new one. She was brave and willing to face off against mob bosses like Carmine Falcone and serial killers like the Joker, at a young age.
KNOCK KNOCK
"Come in." Gordon called.
The door opened to reveal officer Renee Montoya. "Sir, the festival has started at city hall. The mayor's expecting you."
Gordon looked at the watch on his wrist. It was nine thirty, the festival started at nine. The commissioner was quick to get up from his chair as he then walked to his coat hanger. He put his arms through the arm holes and tied his belt before resting his phedora on top his head.
"Thank you, Montoya."
The officer noded "Have a good festival, Commissioner."
James noded back before opening the door and closing it behind him.
Mayor Michael Logan was on the steps of city hall looking over the festival, smiling at the people. With him was the councilman and the Districk Attorny. He was waiting for one more guest to arrive.
"Mr. Mayor," said Commissioner Gordon as he walked up the steps "sorry I'm late."
Mayor Logan smiled reassuringly "That's alright, Commissioner. You're just in time for the speech." He then walked up to the podium in front of him. "Excuse me everyone," he spoke into the mike "may I have your attention please?"
It didn't take long for the guests to stop what they were doing and look in the mayor's direction.
"People of Gotham City," Logan began "I'd like to say that it is an honor to be here tonight hosting this festival..." he trailed off as he and the audience heard the sound of the Prince song Trust being played.
They turned to see a parade float in the form of a cake, at the bottom layer was a sign reading 'Happy Birthday Gotham'. At the top was a skinny man in a purple trench coat and phedora sitting in a throne while a few man at his side were holding black bags. Above the float were balloons in the form of a clown and a crying baby in a cartoony fashion.
"Did you authorise this?" asked the D.A.
"No." The mayor answered.
Gordon rubbed his chin as ha looked at the man in the throne. 'Why does he look so familiar?'
The man opened the bags to pull out handfuls of dollars and throwing it to the crowd letting it fly in the wind towards them. The crowd started to roar as they went wild trying to grab the money they were being given.
It went like that until the song ended. When the song reached it's final lyric the man in the throne stood up and took a microphone. "And now folks I like to wish Gotham a happy birthday!"
He received a cheer from the audience.
The mayor had enough of this interruption and decided to speak up through the microphone.
"Excuse me, who do you think you are interrupting the festival?"
The man in the purple suit smiled "Why, I think I'm a handsom man who figured that without me this year's festival would be boring. So I decided to spice it up."
Meanwhile at Wayne Manor, Bruce and Scootaloo were watching the festival on the news.
Bruce quickly recognized the man in the purple suit. "We have to go. Now!"
Scootaloo was confused "Why? What's wrong?"
"I'll tell you about it on the way there. Now come one and get changed."
Bruce and Scootaloo walked over to the study where Bruce pushed back the Shakespeare bus when a scanning light shined in his eye.
"Identity confirmed."
The book shelf then slid open so Scootaloo and Bruce could head over to the elevator and go into the Batcave. When they got there they immediately changed into they're suits.
Robin noticed Batman walking in a different direction from the Batmobile.
"Wait, aren't we taking the car?"
"No," Batman kept walking "I have another ride."
Scootaloo followed him and what was before her was a sight of wonder. Sitting on a landing platform was a bat jet-like vehicle.
"What's that?" Scootaloo marveled.
"The Batwing." Batman answered stoicly before he and his sidekick hopped into the cockpit. Robin sat in the second seat behind where Batman was sitting. Before Batman were controls for the Batwing. Batman pressed various buttons and the cockpit window slid closed as the engines roared.
"So how is this thing gonna drive us to Joker without tires?" Robin asked.
"The Batwing doesn't need tires," Batman replied "it's used for another mode of transportation."
"Like what?"
"Flight."
Robin raised and eyebrow underneath her mask and was about to ask what Batman meant, only to be interrupted by the surprised feeling of the Batwing lifting above the ground.
Robin stared outside the window in marvel at them being lifted above the ground and was caught off guard when she was pushed back in her seat by the force of speed the Batwing going through a tunnel.
"Woooaaa!!!" she screamed before her fear turned into excitement.
Back at the festival, the mayor was getting irritated by the man he didn't know was the Joker.
"Gordon," he turned to the commissioner "get some men up there and get him out of here."
Jim nodded as he was about to gather up his men but stopped up in his tracks when he heard a roaring sound. He looked up to see the Batwing flying above them. "What's he doing here?"
Joker noticed this as well and grinned. He looked at his men "Gentlemen, time to put on the masks."
The henchmen nodded as they pulled gas masks from their jackets and put them on. Joker pulled a gas mask from his coat pocket. "And now," he spoke into the microphone "I believe it is time to put an end to your useless, pathetic lives! But hey, it's like my plastic surgeon always said: if you want to go...go go with a smile."
The makeup disguised clown laughed as he put the gas mask on before taking a remote from his pocket, pointed it towards the balloons, and pressed the button.
The balloons then released a green gas, the sounds of the crowd screaming as the gas filled the area. Many people in the crowd held their noses to keep themselves to breath in the gas, others weren't so lucky as they fell to the ground laughing.
Robin looked out at what was happening below them and her eyes widened. "We gotta do something!"
"Hang on!" Batman pulled the controls back a little as the Batwing lowered. He then pressed a button, releasing a scissor like object from the hood.
The Batwing was right below the balloons and a little above ground. When the Batwing came to the lines, they were caught up in the scissors before they closed, grabbing a hold of them while the lines snapped.
The Batwing was then raised higher into the air before the scissors finally let the balloons go, letting them float away from Gotham and out to the sea.
Batman averted the controls as the Batwing took a sharp three sixty and sped towards the city hall.
"We're about to eject," Batman told Robin "get ready and follow my lead."
Batman then pushed the button and in a split second the window slid open and the Dynamic Duo were shot into the air. Batman moved into a diving position and held onto his cape as Robin followed. The two were speeding towards the ground like a speeding bullet.
They were getting closer and closer, Robin was starting to get nervous, this was her first time doing this.
"Uh, Batman. Now?"
"Wait."
They were right above the float as they got closer and closer until...
"Now!"
The two superheroes quickly spread their capes as their falling slowed. They brought their legs forward as Batman kicked Joker, knocking him off the float and Robin did the same with a henchman, only this time he fell onto a couple of trash cans.
The two landed on their feet as cop cars came in and officers swarmed the place, arresting the Joker and his men.
Commissioner Gordon approached the duo. "Good work, Batman." he looked down at Robin "You too, kid."
Batman gave a nod and Robin crossed her arms and lightly smiled.
"No problem, Jim-I mean Commissioner Gordon." Robin said.
"Kid, just call me Jim."
Robin nodded "Okay, Jim."
The three then noticed Joker being taken away, his caucasian makeup looking smeared off from the kick, revealing his chalk white skin. "Watch the suit, boys." he was then put into a van.
Robin looked at Batman "How many times does Joker break out?"