Authors note: I know this fic might be a little out of the ordinary, but its
been on my mind for a while and might as well get it off my chest.
Disclaimer: I do not own Batman or anything related to him (Though I do wish I
owned Robin. LOL.) I only own Rachael and her world.
Ch.1: A dream and a wish
I'm another run-off-the-mill average teenager, another nameless face in the
crowd. Though deep in my heart there is an extraordinary dream.
Everyday in my life goes by without any sort of action. No climax, a boring old
plateau of a life. But for some reason today felt different. It was late at
night, and mom was writing her notes on the couch as I finished a fanfic that I
was writing in front of the TV.
'Yes done. It took me a year and a half, but its finally done' I yawned and
looked up at the clock over the entertainment center. 11:30 pm. 'Man that late
huh. Oh well, I hear there's a meteor shower out to night. Might as well check
it out.'
"Mom, I'm gonna go outside for a few minutes," I told her as I got up, taking
off my reading glasses and brushing my long auburn hair out of my face.
"Okay. Be careful and you might as well feed the dog tonight, save you some
trouble of doing it in the morning,"she said never looking up from her notes as
I rolled my eyes. Parents. They could be so... so...arghhh.
Like I NEED to be careful. We live 15 minute out a small town in Texas. Nothing
EVER happened out here. I walked out the back door and stepped out to porch, My
faithful dash hound, Lady, trotting behind me. I lay down lazily in the grass
and looked up at the sky as Lady rested near my legs. 'Well a least there ONE
good thing about living out in the country, the stars are easy to see. But I'm
still more of a city type person.' I sighed.' Guess Ill have to wait till
college to make my escape.'
I lay quietly still a few minutes, letting the wind caress my body. I wear a
black top with mid-forearm sleeves and black sweats. My auburn/brown hair comes
to my butt. My eyes are a glistening hazel, easily turning either brown or
green.
It seems like a thousand stars go by and then something weird happens. An orange
star, just slightly larger than the others goes by. But I pay no heed to the
strangeness of it and close my eyes to make a wish.
'I wish that I lived somewhere where there's never a dull moment, but at the
same time some place I feel like I belong.'
I leave my eyes closed a few minutes longer. A very strong wind blow by and I
hear my dog cry out. My eyes burst open and I scramble to my feet as a large,
scratch that, HUGE vortex builds up in front of me. The rest of my world is
frozen in time, even Lady. As it starts to pull me in, ignoring my struggle.
" Somebody, Help me," I scream out in the cold as I get my last look of my world
and my first of Gotham. "HELP MEEEEeee."
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Batman snaps his head in the direction of a scream, from where he and Robin are
perched on the top of a building in a dark corner of an alley. A young girl
around the age of fifteen and with a strong, yet lean and feminine, muscular
build falls out of a wormhole that appeared out of nowhere. She lands on her
right shoulder, scraping it badly and gritting her teeth in pain. A gang of
common thugs gathers around her as she starts to stand up, no longer noticing
her injured shoulder.
"Robin, did you see that?" Batman questioned his young protege as he grabbed a
bat-a-rang from his utility belt. His eyes never leaving the scene at hand.
"Yeah, How could I miss it. Weird." Robin gawked at the portal as it closed,
never to be opened again. He started to pull out a d-cel line, ready to jump in
as soon as Batman gave the go.
"Hey pretty lady. What's a girl like you doing out in Gotham at an hour like
this," asked the leader as Rachael backed away from his cronies and into his
deadly arms.
"D-did you say Gotham," Rachael stuttered as she panicked. She tried to calm
herself down so she could reassess the situation to no ado. She had a year in
Martial arts where she had learned Tae-kwon-do, Hopkaido, Judo and boxing all
under one master sensei who was well known in the martial arts world. But none
of it was of any use if she to stunned to think strait.
"Well it sure ain't Kansas. Babe." The leader wrapped one of his arms around her
neck to strangle her incase she tried to break free.
Rachael's eyes burned with fire. She hated to be hit on. A guy at her local gym
once hit on her and she had him down on the ground in under 2 seconds. This punk
had made a fatal mistake by calling her Babe.
"Don't call me babe," she mumbled under her breath. She closed her eyes and
knitted her eyebrows together.
What was that...Babe," the leader of the gang tightened his grip around her
throat. The street light above casted a sinister glow on his evil face. The rest
of his pack snarled in laughter.
"I said--" Rachael chocked out loudly.
Batman narrowed his eyes 'the kids definitely up to something. But she's way out
numbered.'
"Robin, when I give the signal I want you to grab the girl and get her out of
here and get her to the Batmobile."
"Gotcha." Robin nodded as watched the ongoing crime more and more intently.
"Don't call--," Rachael jabbed the loser in the chest with her left elbow as she
yelled and caused him to loosen his grip on her.
"Me," she the elbow she used to jab him and twisted in a little to wrap it
around the opposite side of his waist.
"Babe," She manages to shift his weight to her hips and throw him over her
uninjured shoulder in a dog pile.
The rest of the gang started to close in around after they saw what she did to
their Boss. But she didn't care anymore if they beat her to a pulp. The
adrenaline racing through her body urged her to fight on. She quickly got into
fighting stance and flipped her hair out of her face, ready to take them on
whether she really could or not.
"Now," Batman told Robin quickly but calmly as he threw a bat-a-rang at one of
the thugs, knocking a gun out of his hand.
Robin aimed his line at a nearby skyscraper and quickly swooped down and swept
the girl off of the ground, seconds before being pulverized.
"So' Kay your safe now," Robin instructed the girl gently, not wanting to spook
her. He chanced a glance at her. 'Heh. Kinda cute for a tough girl.' He nearly
blushed at the thought. But she paid no heed to him and continued to stared back
a block away where Batman easily handled the dozen or so punks.
"Thu-there's no way," she stared wide eyed as Robin gracefully swung from the
line with one hand and cradled her close to his body with other as both of her
arms hanged tightly around his neck.
He smirked smartly "I wouldn't be so sure of that if I was you." She turned her
head to stare at her savior as her bottom lip moved up and down as if trying to
say something but nothing would come out. A slight red color ran across her
light olive brown cheeks.
They landed a few blocks from where they started. He gently placed her back down
on the ground and motioned for her to follow him. They continued to foot it as
fast as their feet would carry them.
"This way." He instructed her as they rounded a corner leading to another
alleyway where the Batmobile and the redbird were hidden.
Robin leaned against the redbird and Rachael bent over to catch her breath.
"You mind explaining that back there;"Robin interrogated, never leaving his spot
against the car.
Rachael stood back up and began to shift her weight from one leg to the other
nervously. "Y-you mean that portal,"she asked. She didn't even know how to
explain it to herself.
"No. That question we'll leave for when Batman get here. What I want to know is
where you learned to fight like that. He questioned, raising an eyebrow
underneath his mask.
'He's kind of hot when he's serious,' She thought as she bit her lower lip to
suppress a smile once she realized the he noticed her admiring gaze. 'This has
to be a dream' she thought as she looked at both the redbird and the Batmobile
in awe as she spoke "I trained under a well-known martial arts master from where
I come from for nearly a year. I got my Blue belt just last week."
"O-kayy. Yeah well here comes Bats so you better have a good answer to the rest
of the stuff that went on back there.
Almost as if on cue, a large figure emerged from the shadows. "Who are you?" For
a minute Rachael stood there to scared to speak.
A cool wind blew through and aggravated the open wound on her shoulder. 'Okay.
Last I knew, dreams didn't hurt' she winced as she noticed the scrape the first
time since the fight as realization washed over her.
"I just wanna go home."Rachael whimpered out in pain. She covered her right
shoulder with her left hand as a long trail of blood ran down her ripped shirt
and dripped to the ground.
Robin gave she a small look of sympathy but Batman's face remained stoical.
"Robin take care of that wound," Batman said, a little aggravated that the girl
hadn't answered his question.
"Yes Sir," replied Robin as he removed some supplies from the first aid kit
hidden in the sleeve of his costume.
"Now, answer me. Who are you?" Questioned Batman.
"Rachael, My name is Rachael Leigh Simmons," She grimaced her jaw, furrowed her
brow and squeezed her eyes shut as Robin applied peroxide to the shoulder,
determined not to scream.
"In my world this one is no more than a comic book or I should say 'Books'
actually since there's so many D.C. heroes, then theirs Marvel, and not to
mention all the other companies and spin-offs they have," Robin stops what he's
doing. And he and Batman look at her like she's crazy.
"Ok, before you call the Commissioner and have him reserve me a spot at Arkam
Asylum, hear me out. I have proof," she began again. Robin went back to dressing
the wound. "If this WASN'T a comic book where I come from How would I know that
you Batman are Bruce Wayne and Robin, well the current one anyway, is Tim
Drake."
Batman narrowed his eyes even further. Robin finished wrapping the wound and
looked at her stunned.
"I also the vigilante identities of Dick, Barbara, Dinah, Cassandra, Helena, and
Stephanie, as well as the identities of the former Young Justice, The JLA, the
former Titans, and a lot of the JSA." Rachael noticed that Robin was done
dressing the wound and mumbled "Thanks" as he let out a long whistle to show
that he was impressed.
"So...,"Rachael rubbed the back of her neck with her good hand. "Where do we go
from here?"
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R&R PLEASE. This is my first batman fic so please tell me how I did. Flames will
be used to cook my dinner.
been on my mind for a while and might as well get it off my chest.
Disclaimer: I do not own Batman or anything related to him (Though I do wish I
owned Robin. LOL.) I only own Rachael and her world.
Ch.1: A dream and a wish
I'm another run-off-the-mill average teenager, another nameless face in the
crowd. Though deep in my heart there is an extraordinary dream.
Everyday in my life goes by without any sort of action. No climax, a boring old
plateau of a life. But for some reason today felt different. It was late at
night, and mom was writing her notes on the couch as I finished a fanfic that I
was writing in front of the TV.
'Yes done. It took me a year and a half, but its finally done' I yawned and
looked up at the clock over the entertainment center. 11:30 pm. 'Man that late
huh. Oh well, I hear there's a meteor shower out to night. Might as well check
it out.'
"Mom, I'm gonna go outside for a few minutes," I told her as I got up, taking
off my reading glasses and brushing my long auburn hair out of my face.
"Okay. Be careful and you might as well feed the dog tonight, save you some
trouble of doing it in the morning,"she said never looking up from her notes as
I rolled my eyes. Parents. They could be so... so...arghhh.
Like I NEED to be careful. We live 15 minute out a small town in Texas. Nothing
EVER happened out here. I walked out the back door and stepped out to porch, My
faithful dash hound, Lady, trotting behind me. I lay down lazily in the grass
and looked up at the sky as Lady rested near my legs. 'Well a least there ONE
good thing about living out in the country, the stars are easy to see. But I'm
still more of a city type person.' I sighed.' Guess Ill have to wait till
college to make my escape.'
I lay quietly still a few minutes, letting the wind caress my body. I wear a
black top with mid-forearm sleeves and black sweats. My auburn/brown hair comes
to my butt. My eyes are a glistening hazel, easily turning either brown or
green.
It seems like a thousand stars go by and then something weird happens. An orange
star, just slightly larger than the others goes by. But I pay no heed to the
strangeness of it and close my eyes to make a wish.
'I wish that I lived somewhere where there's never a dull moment, but at the
same time some place I feel like I belong.'
I leave my eyes closed a few minutes longer. A very strong wind blow by and I
hear my dog cry out. My eyes burst open and I scramble to my feet as a large,
scratch that, HUGE vortex builds up in front of me. The rest of my world is
frozen in time, even Lady. As it starts to pull me in, ignoring my struggle.
" Somebody, Help me," I scream out in the cold as I get my last look of my world
and my first of Gotham. "HELP MEEEEeee."
__________________________________________________________________________________
Batman snaps his head in the direction of a scream, from where he and Robin are
perched on the top of a building in a dark corner of an alley. A young girl
around the age of fifteen and with a strong, yet lean and feminine, muscular
build falls out of a wormhole that appeared out of nowhere. She lands on her
right shoulder, scraping it badly and gritting her teeth in pain. A gang of
common thugs gathers around her as she starts to stand up, no longer noticing
her injured shoulder.
"Robin, did you see that?" Batman questioned his young protege as he grabbed a
bat-a-rang from his utility belt. His eyes never leaving the scene at hand.
"Yeah, How could I miss it. Weird." Robin gawked at the portal as it closed,
never to be opened again. He started to pull out a d-cel line, ready to jump in
as soon as Batman gave the go.
"Hey pretty lady. What's a girl like you doing out in Gotham at an hour like
this," asked the leader as Rachael backed away from his cronies and into his
deadly arms.
"D-did you say Gotham," Rachael stuttered as she panicked. She tried to calm
herself down so she could reassess the situation to no ado. She had a year in
Martial arts where she had learned Tae-kwon-do, Hopkaido, Judo and boxing all
under one master sensei who was well known in the martial arts world. But none
of it was of any use if she to stunned to think strait.
"Well it sure ain't Kansas. Babe." The leader wrapped one of his arms around her
neck to strangle her incase she tried to break free.
Rachael's eyes burned with fire. She hated to be hit on. A guy at her local gym
once hit on her and she had him down on the ground in under 2 seconds. This punk
had made a fatal mistake by calling her Babe.
"Don't call me babe," she mumbled under her breath. She closed her eyes and
knitted her eyebrows together.
What was that...Babe," the leader of the gang tightened his grip around her
throat. The street light above casted a sinister glow on his evil face. The rest
of his pack snarled in laughter.
"I said--" Rachael chocked out loudly.
Batman narrowed his eyes 'the kids definitely up to something. But she's way out
numbered.'
"Robin, when I give the signal I want you to grab the girl and get her out of
here and get her to the Batmobile."
"Gotcha." Robin nodded as watched the ongoing crime more and more intently.
"Don't call--," Rachael jabbed the loser in the chest with her left elbow as she
yelled and caused him to loosen his grip on her.
"Me," she the elbow she used to jab him and twisted in a little to wrap it
around the opposite side of his waist.
"Babe," She manages to shift his weight to her hips and throw him over her
uninjured shoulder in a dog pile.
The rest of the gang started to close in around after they saw what she did to
their Boss. But she didn't care anymore if they beat her to a pulp. The
adrenaline racing through her body urged her to fight on. She quickly got into
fighting stance and flipped her hair out of her face, ready to take them on
whether she really could or not.
"Now," Batman told Robin quickly but calmly as he threw a bat-a-rang at one of
the thugs, knocking a gun out of his hand.
Robin aimed his line at a nearby skyscraper and quickly swooped down and swept
the girl off of the ground, seconds before being pulverized.
"So' Kay your safe now," Robin instructed the girl gently, not wanting to spook
her. He chanced a glance at her. 'Heh. Kinda cute for a tough girl.' He nearly
blushed at the thought. But she paid no heed to him and continued to stared back
a block away where Batman easily handled the dozen or so punks.
"Thu-there's no way," she stared wide eyed as Robin gracefully swung from the
line with one hand and cradled her close to his body with other as both of her
arms hanged tightly around his neck.
He smirked smartly "I wouldn't be so sure of that if I was you." She turned her
head to stare at her savior as her bottom lip moved up and down as if trying to
say something but nothing would come out. A slight red color ran across her
light olive brown cheeks.
They landed a few blocks from where they started. He gently placed her back down
on the ground and motioned for her to follow him. They continued to foot it as
fast as their feet would carry them.
"This way." He instructed her as they rounded a corner leading to another
alleyway where the Batmobile and the redbird were hidden.
Robin leaned against the redbird and Rachael bent over to catch her breath.
"You mind explaining that back there;"Robin interrogated, never leaving his spot
against the car.
Rachael stood back up and began to shift her weight from one leg to the other
nervously. "Y-you mean that portal,"she asked. She didn't even know how to
explain it to herself.
"No. That question we'll leave for when Batman get here. What I want to know is
where you learned to fight like that. He questioned, raising an eyebrow
underneath his mask.
'He's kind of hot when he's serious,' She thought as she bit her lower lip to
suppress a smile once she realized the he noticed her admiring gaze. 'This has
to be a dream' she thought as she looked at both the redbird and the Batmobile
in awe as she spoke "I trained under a well-known martial arts master from where
I come from for nearly a year. I got my Blue belt just last week."
"O-kayy. Yeah well here comes Bats so you better have a good answer to the rest
of the stuff that went on back there.
Almost as if on cue, a large figure emerged from the shadows. "Who are you?" For
a minute Rachael stood there to scared to speak.
A cool wind blew through and aggravated the open wound on her shoulder. 'Okay.
Last I knew, dreams didn't hurt' she winced as she noticed the scrape the first
time since the fight as realization washed over her.
"I just wanna go home."Rachael whimpered out in pain. She covered her right
shoulder with her left hand as a long trail of blood ran down her ripped shirt
and dripped to the ground.
Robin gave she a small look of sympathy but Batman's face remained stoical.
"Robin take care of that wound," Batman said, a little aggravated that the girl
hadn't answered his question.
"Yes Sir," replied Robin as he removed some supplies from the first aid kit
hidden in the sleeve of his costume.
"Now, answer me. Who are you?" Questioned Batman.
"Rachael, My name is Rachael Leigh Simmons," She grimaced her jaw, furrowed her
brow and squeezed her eyes shut as Robin applied peroxide to the shoulder,
determined not to scream.
"In my world this one is no more than a comic book or I should say 'Books'
actually since there's so many D.C. heroes, then theirs Marvel, and not to
mention all the other companies and spin-offs they have," Robin stops what he's
doing. And he and Batman look at her like she's crazy.
"Ok, before you call the Commissioner and have him reserve me a spot at Arkam
Asylum, hear me out. I have proof," she began again. Robin went back to dressing
the wound. "If this WASN'T a comic book where I come from How would I know that
you Batman are Bruce Wayne and Robin, well the current one anyway, is Tim
Drake."
Batman narrowed his eyes even further. Robin finished wrapping the wound and
looked at her stunned.
"I also the vigilante identities of Dick, Barbara, Dinah, Cassandra, Helena, and
Stephanie, as well as the identities of the former Young Justice, The JLA, the
former Titans, and a lot of the JSA." Rachael noticed that Robin was done
dressing the wound and mumbled "Thanks" as he let out a long whistle to show
that he was impressed.
"So...,"Rachael rubbed the back of her neck with her good hand. "Where do we go
from here?"
_____________________________________________________________________________________
R&R PLEASE. This is my first batman fic so please tell me how I did. Flames will
be used to cook my dinner.