If you're keeping up with my story, Batman Beyond: The Cosmic Joke, then the context of these blurbs will be obvious. These are ideas that I had for the story, but scrapped in my final versions. I like them, though, so I thought I'd put them up for you to see. These are not part of the story, so they really have no bearing on what is happening in that. I just thought that maybe someone could use them, or that they might provide inspiration for others. Feel free to use these in your own stories.
P.S. I do not own Batman Beyond, or related characters. They belong to DC. Batman was created by Bob Kane.
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Where's Terry?
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Bruce picked his way carefully through a maze of rubble and pits. Smoke and dust made it even more difficult to maintain his footing; though it did hide the fact that he was using his cane. He didn't want to make it clear how very weak Batman had become. He wasn't sure why exactly he had come; after all, he couldn't help the rescue workers pull victims from the rubble. He couldn't lift the thick slabs of concrete to make paths to other victims. He could barely see well enough to avoid rescue teams, let alone find clues about what had happened. He wasn't sure what had even possessed him to put on the suit again. Except that Terry wasn't here. Batman wasn't here. So Bruce had temporarily put on his old Batsuit and come to this place where he wasn't of any use whatsoever. What had he been thinking? He should have stayed home. But something had nagged at the back of his mind; something that had buzzed at him like a mosquito until he'd come. Now that he had come, though, he felt foolish. What exactly was he doing here?
And, for God's sake, where was Terry? There was no way he could have missed that explosion. Not if he were anywhere in the city. It had, after all, destroyed half the business district. He should have been there by now. Even retired members of the Justice League from halfway across the country had made it by now, and Gotham's own defender hadn't shown? Terry had better have a good reason for not being here. A really good reason.
