Chapter One
Ever since comic books were invented, children, teens, and even some adults wish to be able to jump into them and fight along their favorite superheroes or fall in love or own a cat (don't ask) but one day one teen got their wish. I may have been because of her heart of gold, or of how desperately she wanted to meet her heroes, or maybe God was so sick and tired of listening to her drone on and on about what she would do in the comics that he just got sick of it and granted her life long dream.
Meet, Serendipity Gates.
Or as the people in school like to call her, The Blue Haired Comic Freak.
Ever since Ser saw her first Batman episode, she had loved Batman to the core and vowed to find out everything she could about the brooding extraordinaire. She read all the comics, watched all the episodes of all the batman television shows, watched all the movies, and search all over the internet for everything Batman.
Serendipity loved Batman.
Maybe that's why he always had such great luck?
Okay, maybe not especially the day Ser got sucked into the world of Batman.
Unlike what you may think, she didn't get sucked into the TV while watching a Batman movie or into a Batman comic book. This was during a her one (of millions) moment of complete stupidity.
This was the day she tried to be Batman.
"Okay," She had whispered to herself none too quietly. "This is it. This is the moment you have prepared for. You, Ser, have watched all episodes of Batman's The Batman, Batman Beyond, and Batman The Brave And The Bold (even though it sucked) to prepare yourself for this moment along with watching a bunch of martial art movies like The Karate Kid and Kung Fu Panda. You are ready. You are now ... Blue Bird, the winged savior of the night!"
If you can't already tell, this wasn't going to end well.
Serendipity snuck passed the door of her sleeping parents and out into the city to become the superhero she always dreamed to be.
Which turned out to be super boring. She didn't find any crime to stop. No robberies, no muggings, not even a little old lady needing help to cross the street.
Well there was an old lady but apparently she didn't need help, instead hitting Ser multiple times with her cane like she was train in Kane Fu. So Ser-er 'Blue Bird' wandered around the city, probably getting hopelessly lost but not realizing as she sulked and pouted. This was so boring! How was she suppose to earn a superhero title if all she did was meander the streets looking like a homeless lady in black and blue rags calling herself Blue Bird.
But the problem (even though it might not seem like a problem) was that she did not in fact look like a homeless lady but instead like a robber especially to the cop sitting in his car watching the girl walk back.
"Hey you!" He shouted out, opening up his car door.
Serendipity froze for a moment, looking at the lights from the car that nearly blinded her. Oh no, it's the fuzz! Her heart started racing to the thought of police questioning her and as the cop slowly approached with his partner in tow she wondered WWBD?
What would Batman do?
Batman would probably throw down a smoke pellet and disappear but unfortunately Ser was all out of smoke pellets.
She decided to just run like a bat out of hell.
Fitting for the Batman fanatic.
Se ran and ran and ran which, she had figured out, was a lot harder than it looked on TV and when she faked an injury during gym and just watched the other girls run. She ran around many corners, not even listening to hear if the cops were still following then she ran down an alley ... with a dead end.
But low and Batman behold, there was a dumpster close to the wall. Ser had seen it so many times when Robin (Batman's fateful sidekick) had jumped onto the dumpster and over the alley's-
Oof!
All the air left her as she hit the side of the dumpster and some sticky substance got all over her hands and the front of her black sweater.
And her grandma had bought her that sweater!
She fell to the ground, sitting on her legs as she caught her breath. In a mad realization she figured out that the cops had stopped following her and were now long gone ... and she was even more lost she had ever been. She couldn't even tell where she was!
Then again, when you're lost you don't really know where you are or else you wouldn't be lost, right?
As she let out one sorrow filled sigh, for one moment she thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea and that superheroes were only for comic books not for a nerdy blue haired girl like her and that this obsession she had probably wasn't very healthy.
And then the damn building on the left of the alley just had to be getting robbed right at that moment. Oh, how fate hates everyone.
But how serendipitous for Serendipity, eh?
She bolted up from her depression position and sprang out of the alley way to see what was happening and oh how serendipitous it was!
Ser knew exactly where she was because the place being robbed was the Superhero History Museum where she had been countless times! This had to be a sign that she was destined to be a hero!
She jumped into the store like a starved lion pouncing on a fat and sluggish zebra.
Holy thievery, Batman!
She almost snarled as she looked at the two perpetrators trying to steal ... from the Batman section!
WWBD? WWBD? She thought desperately as she stared at the two thieves.
"Hey!" She finally shouted out causing the two men dressed in black to stop loading their bag and stare at her. "You ... you chumps!"
The taller one turned to his partner, pointing to Ser as if to say 'Can you believe this dame?' as he sneered. "Who the hell are you, girly?"
WWBD? WWBD?
He would state his name of course! Right ... ?
"I am ... The Blue Bird." She informed them in the coolest tone she could have possibly managed.
There was a moment of silence ... minus the alarm system blaring in the background.
The shorter thief bit his lip, the other covered his mouth with his gloved hand but as the watched the younger girl take up a fighting stance as if she was some ninja moving through the night they couldn't contain their laughter and it bellowed into the night as they clutched their stomachs and slapped their knees. Seren straightened from her Karate pose (the crane move she saw on Karate Kid) and looked at the men curiously.
Now what would Batman do in a time like this? She was pretty sure no one fell to their knees in laughter in the sight of Batman ... maybe at Joker but-
No! Was this because she was more like Joker? Was she destined to be a bad guy? She loved the Joker-he was the best super villain of all time but she didn't want to be him! Though it would be cool to have-
Hey! They were still stealing stuff! Right in front of her!
"Hey! Stop! I'm here to stop you and you should before I have to ... to ... snap your necks or something because ... I will! I will beat you up! You feel like spaghetti noodles tomorrow morning ... when you're in jail! Cause I will put you in there. Don't touch that!" She screeched as the taller one broke a glass case and grabbed what looked like a TV controller from inside.
"Yeah?" He snorted. "Whatcha gonna do, shortie?"
Ser tense, her fist clenched.
There were three things Seren hated most in the world: Louis Lane, someone dissing Batman, and someone calling her short.
You never call Serendipity short.
Seren snapped and grabbed for the controller, trying to tug it out of the man's colossal hands. "Let go!" She yelled but he only held on tighter.
"No! You let go!"
"No, you!"
"No, you!"
"No, you!"
"You!"
"You!"
"You!"
"You!"
Seren gave it one last yank, her thumb jabbing some random button and for a moment everything went completely blank, all white around her like someone smacked her in the face while she had her eyes close. Her head felt dizzy and she was afraid that if she moved she would fall into a million pieces. All she wanted was to close her eyes in rest.
But it seemed that God and a totally loud and obnoxious siren didn't want her to.
"Sir," A male voice rang out with some kind of accent that at the moment, Serendipity couldn't place. "It seems as if you have a visitor in the cave."
Holy unexpected miracle, Batman!