Summary/The source of Batman's migraine was a matter of poor timing, drugged orange juice and the promise of four blissful minuets of peace. Of course not to mention bad cave entry codes and a four year olds ingeniousness and arrogance a long with a grandpa bats love. Now what's left to wonder is how will Batman handle granddaughters?
Disclaimer/I don't own batman, Little mermaid, Tangled, or Die hard.
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It was no secret Rashel was not allowed into grandpa's cave. The four year old knew clearly she was not allowed. Whether it was uncle Dick telling her or his daughter Kayla telling her every five seconds! Or even sometimes it was grandpa who told her. And Bruce let her do anything she wanted.
People said he spoiled her, but he saw nothing wrong with buying her five thousand dollar gifts or naming an island after her. After all he didn't understand (nor believe) the whole fuss about her being a disobedient little brat. She listened….but then again she only listened to him and great grandpa Alfred.
So when she made him watch the little mermaid over and over again Bruce maybe understood a little bit about where Kayla and Dawn went about how she was evil. He turned to his youngest granddaughter. She was wiping away tears when King trident destroyed all of Ariel's things, and melted. She wasn't evil.
His stomach grumbled, "oh…" he muttered turning to the little girl who was staring at the screen intently. He ignored it, maybe it was all the popcorn and animal crackers she made him consume. He wasn't used to those kind of things. He stomach did another flip and a sharp pain ripped trough his stomach. He grabbed the cracker box what was in those things! "Argh!" he said shooting up, his granddaughter looked towards him "shhhh," she hissed. "Ursula is giving Ariel legs!" He nodded and sat back down shifting uncomfortably. "Shelly? I'll be back I got to go to the potty." She nodded distracted.
Running to the nearest restroom the Batman left her all alone. The little girl grinned and hopped off the couch. "To the Batcave!" she said and ran down the hall giggling. Nobody was going to stop her now! Kayla the busy body had disappeared upstairs and Dawnie uncle Tim's Daughter did too. She imagined they were in Kayla's room talking about Superboy or the Flash. Skipping she halted there was still one in the cave she needed to worry about.
Cautiously she glanced around she had to avoid Patricia Todd…Tip toeing she was much more cautious while going for the big grandfather's clock. Speaking of the devil! While trying to be sneaky she bumped into the one teenager she didn't want to. Her eyes widened into saucers. "Shelly?"
The little girl looked up into curious blue green eyes placed in a pale face, framed by wine colored hair. "Pattie!" The four year old exclaimed startled. The teen Was looking down at her with a suspicious look. "What are you up to?" The little girl bit her lip "umm…." Pat raised an eyebrow "where's grandpa?"
The little girl brightened she knew how to answer that one! "Oh, he went to the potty he really had to go." Something passed behind the little girls eyes thoughts about orange juice and a visit in GG Alfred's medicine cabinet (to be exact) Shelly beamed. Pat stepped back, though she had no idea about the devious thoughts passing behind her baby cousins head, she knew she didn't want to be around when bats hit the fan. "Oh well…if you want we're upstairs. You know if you want to give gramps a break. We're in Dawnies room watching movies."
The little girl nodded, it was a once in a lifetime offer they never wanted her around. But then again so was the Batcave. "It's ok Pattie, me and grandpa we're gonna see Tangled and then Die Hard!" The redhead smiled "weird combination…" Shelly sighed small talk why didn't the girl just leave? "Yea ok bye!" She shoved at the girl, and soda sloshed in the three cups she was trying to juggle. "Okaaaay," the older girl said carefully climbing the stairs.
Shelly watched her go narrowing her eyes, when she was sure she was gone the little girl ran to the Clock. Grandpa had to be done already! Unless….he really needed that medicine
Putting the time on the clock like she saw Uncle Tim do tons of times, the real tricky stuff began. She had to guess the other code right. What could it be? She thought to her self. Grandpa Bats had to install a new form of security, when the trio upstairs hit their tweens and stole the Batmobile for a joyride.
The three idiots had crashed into a gas station when Kayla decide they needed doughnuts. "Idiots!" she hissed when she got the code wrong. They couldn't park…who couldn't parallel park? Well she couldn't but she was four besides it cant have been that hard, if uncle Dick could do it….
After another few dozen failed attempts she began to get annoyed and really started to think. If the password was not Clark Kent or Alfred, Diana or even The Batman! What could it be? It had to be something completely uncrackable but easy to spell, since well uncle Dick still had to get in. She pondered her little head, it began to go into overdrive. What if it wasn't something completely random or bizarre like Kayla's password. What if it was something super easy! What if….
It had to be something super easy then! She looked down at the glowing keypad and at the numbers more specifically. What was the best day of grandpas life? "What does he love?" she said out loud and almost laughed. It was so simple how could she have not know this sooner? "Me! Of course" she typed in her birthday and then there was the sound of air being released. The stairway leading down to the bat cave was revealed, she had to stop herself from running down.
Take it easy she told herself, savor it. Besides the last thing she wanted was to trip over her pajamas and munch it. Stepping down carefully she breathed in the cave with a big sniff and coughed! "Eww it smells like gym socks and bats!" she said in disgust" It smells like a boy!" Crossing her arms the dim glow of the bat computer made her perk up. "That computer is huge! I wonder if it has games!" She ran towards it and began slapping keys, it came to life instantly. The bouncing batsignals that went corner to corner disappeared, and blue prints appeared on the screen.
She stepped back, that looked like it belonged to uncle Tim and she didn't want to touch them if they did. He was a genius, and probably needed those really bad. So instead she looked all around in awe. A huge machine was right behind her. It was also glowing but it looked broken, pieces lay around it. Maybe she could fix it for uncle Tim! He would be so happy!
First she decided was that she was going to have to turn it on. She looked around for a switch and found something that needed to get plugged. She hunted the cave for an outlet, and found one underneath the bat computer. She plugged in the strange machine and it began to hummed. The lights glowed brighter. Walking back towards it she studied it….It needed to get turned on, where was a switch? She didn't find one but instead a button. It was bright shiny and red, she pressed it. A light bulb at the top of the machine lit green. She stepped back. The machine looked kind of funny…like a door.
She walked back towards it and stuck a hand through it. It tickled! She giggled and decided to go completely through it. So she did and her belly flopped, the world began to spin and it felt like the coolest rollercoaster,
It only lasted seconds but then the thing was spitting her out. She fell out through the ceiling and then it wasn't so much fun but terrifying, she began to scream. The hard floor of the cave glared at her like a black abyss and she was dropping towards it. She was falling quickly and she was going to hit the floor hard. What was going on? She panicked what did she do!? She was probably going to die.
Hands grasped and caught her out of thin air, and she huddled towards a warm chest whimpering. "I wont touch it again," she said. "Okay…" a familiar voice said, "Touch what?" She looked up into the face of a mask less Nightwing, she hugged his neck. "The machine!" She cried. Uncle Dick patted her back awkwardly, "alright little girl."
Little girl? She thought indignantly. Did the idiot not know her name? Of course he did! He's the one who started calling her Shelly, besides he was probably just mad at her. She hugged him tighter, maybe if she showed him how much she loved him he wont tell anybody or get mad at her. After all she was really happy and she did love him a lot, he saved her from being a pancake.
"How did you get into the Batcave?" Dick asked trying to pry her off his neck, to no avail. Either he told no one…or her told no one. "I went in through the clock." She said evasively, "Ok how did you get into Wayne manor?" She looked towards a tanned face that looked slightly different though she couldn't comprehend how. "Grandpa is taking care of me so Daddy and Mommy can have…uh alone time. Don't you remember? You said they were working on baby number two and then GG Alfred smacked you, when I asked how they were doing that. Then uncle Tim explained they were filing papers to the storks to perhaps bring me a brother." She began to rant and Dick looked down at the crazy little girl. "I'm sorry come again."
She jumped down from his arms and looked around, "I'm going to look for grandpa." Dick followed her, "Little girl?" She turned to him so fast, she almost gave him whiplash. "Stop calling me that I don't like it!" He raised his hands in surrender, "Then tell me your name."
She blinked, "what? You know my name uncle Dick." She frowned and looked around the cave why was everything so different? "Uncle Dick, why are you being so weird?" He looked down at her "I'm not your uncle." Something collapsed in her chest, "Is this because I disobeyed your orders?" she said in a small voice. "What orders?" he stepped towards her, and she backed away. "Little girl?"
She turned and ran away, up the stairs and out the clock. She crashed into GG Alfred and hugged his legs. "Alfred oh Alfred!" She cried. "Uncle Dick is being mean and weird, he's pretending not to know my name and me!" The old man grabbed her chin and gently tipped her face upwards. "Child I am sorry but I don't understand. Who are you?" Her face crumpled "not you too."
Ok that was the end of this chapter.
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