Disclaimer: Me: Hi everyone. Here's Chapter One, for my third animated LoSH story. Also, are they going to make a season three?
Title: Bat of the Future
Author: AnimeGirl 144
Chapter 1: Kari Wayne
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"Kari Wayne!" the middle-aged junior English teacher screeched.
The said girl looked up, her black eyes a bit drowsy from her nap. She brushed her coal black hair out of her eyes to see the teacher.
"Yes Miss Norai?" she asked.
"Is my class boring you?" the teacher asked.
"No, the subject is boring," Kari said. "Why should we care about two people called Romeo and Juliet? Those two happened thousands if not millions of years ago!"
"That doesn't matter, right now I want you awake for the rest of my class, understand?" Ms. Norai asked.
Kari sighed.
"Yes Ms. Norai," she said.
"Good," she said, returning to the rest of the class. "Now class, take out your 922 datapad and preform the assignment after reading it."
The class did as ordered and silently did the work.
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"Man Kari, why must you get on Miss Norai's bad side all the time?" Kari's friend Lucas asked.
School was out, and the two walked down the sidewalk in New Gotham. The boy Lucas had short pale blue hair that was lightly spikey with rich blue eyes that seemed to hold a lot of knowledge. He wore a plain black light jacket over a light blue Tee shirt and blue jeans with red shoes. Kari shrugged. Her silky black hair was freely at her waist in a ponytail. She wore a black spagetti starp shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers.
"The subject's so boring! I already know all of it," she complained.
"Yeah, that surprises me," Lucas said. "How can you sleep through the class and still have the highest grades in the whole school?!"
"Correction! I sleep through her lessons, not the work!" she said.
"Maybe it's in the family blood-line?" he suggested.
"You've met my parents haven't you?"
"No I mean-"
"Don't even go there!" she snapped.
"Sorry, it's just, so few people remember, and you and him have a lot in common," Lucas said, knowing to be careful of what he says.
"Oh yes, because he was a boy and I'm a girl. He was man and I am teenager! I can see the resembelence!" she said with sarcasm.
"Well, you're both smarter than average. You both are very strong," Lucas countered.
She sighed frustraningly and stopped infront of the Wayne's Enterprise building.
"Well, I'll see you later Lucas," she said, about to walk in.
"Did you already finish your homework?" Lucas asked, crossing his arms like he knew everything.
She looked over her soulder and stuck her tounge out at him before quickly walking into the busy building. As she walked to the elevators, the staff members continuely bugged her by not only saying "How are you today Miss Wayne", they also asked "Do you need anything Miss Wayne?" It was frustrating!
She quickly walked into an empty elevator and sighed as she pressed the number button "30." When the doors opened on the thirtist floor, she walked out and was happily greeted with the sound of silence. Of course, she was going to ruin the silence.
"MOM! DAD! I'M HOME!!" she yelled.
She walked down the hall and into the living area of the building. Her parents thought they would save more money if they made the top of the building their living area. She didn't really mind, since she had a room to herself. She walked by the living room, only to see that they weren't there. Someone else was though.
"Good day Miss Kari," their personal butler, and Kari's friend, said.
"Hey there Alfred," she said.
(Imagine the Alfred from the series The Batman, I'm too lazy to write up a new one, and doesn't it just bring that Batman feeling to the story?)
She walked to her room with Alfred following.
"So, where's mom and pops?" she asked, plopping her backpack near the end of her twin sized bed.
"Your mother and father are on a business meeting on the planet Nuron," Alfred explained. "They told me to tell you that they need you to go to the United Planets meeting tomorrow."
Kari sighed as she layed her back on the bed.
"Do I have to?" she asked.
"I am afraid so," he said. "And they asked me to make you wear this."
He held out a way too formal outfit that she despised.
"I thought I barried that thing way into my closet," she thought.
Kari sighed and stood up.
"Okay, I'll go, but I'm not wearing that," she said, pointing at the outfit in disgust.
She walked into her closet and rumeged through her closet. She found an outfit that she seemed to like. She showed it to Alfred.
"Whatta you think?" she asked.
He sighed.
"Your parent's will not agree towards it," he said.
"Yeah? Well they're the ones forcing me to go! So, if I'm going to go, then I'm going to wear something that I like," she said, examining it again. "Plus, what they don't know won't hurt them."
Alfred sighed as he turned and walked out the door.
"If you say so miss," he said.
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It was the next day and 10:30 am, and Kari was already bored. It was only thiry minutes into the speech, and Kari felt like she was back at school.
"And to think, only two more hours to go!" she bitterly thought, thinking of how to get back at her parents.
She was happy though with her outfit, that even Alfred had to admit was very nice looking. She wore a turquoise shirt with many blue circles that looked like the top half of a kimono, blue sweats with a breathable blue mini skirt over it, and blue dress slippers. Strands of her black hair was pulled back into a small ponytail, it laying against her other hair that was not up in a ponytail.
She sighed outloud, getting a "shh" from the overweight female represenitive from the planet Konshi (made up 'cause I needed it). Kari just slitted her eyes at the woman and glared at her.
"If I wanted to be shh'd at, I'd just go to Saturday school," Kari said, rolling her eyes.
Instead of returning her eyes to the President of the United Planets, her eyes verted to the areas around the coloseum that the meeting was being held in. She noticed that there were no Legion of Superhero members to be seen save for Phantom Girl, the President's daughter, and Chameleon Boy, the Earth President's son. All she did see were guards that probably weren't that good at their job.
"Let's see, one... two... three... four... five... six... and seven," she counted. "You'd think with all these important people here they'd have more guards or at least a couple more Legion members."
Her eyes widened when the sudden explosion in the upper left corner caught her attention. There was confusion, screaming, chaos, and smoke everywhere around her. She looked up to see weird little creatures come down and throwing weird sphere's around the colosseum. The guards around them were hit by the orb attacks. One of the creepy little things came her way, it's hand turning into a claw. She ducked into a fighting stance and did a round house kick, nicly hitting it square in it's face.
She smirked as she watched it fall to the ground unconsiously. The people around her ran off, screaming in chaos.
"Please, can no one keep it together?" she asked outloud.
"Move it kid!" a voice yelled.
"Huh?" she said, turning.
She saw another creature about to hit her, but the one who called to her, swooped down and litterly swepted her off her feet. She looked up to see who saved her and her eyes widened when she saw the symbol across his chest.
"Ba...Batman?" she asked.
She looked up to see the so proclaimed Batman looking forward, but could see that the man was not a young Batman, but a more older Batman. There was an explosion close to them, forcing the grappling hook string to snap and the two fell to the ground, the Batman falling to the ground first with Kari falling on him in the middle of a fire that was in a circle. She got to her knees and looked at the Batman, who was having a hard time breathing.
"You okay old-timer?" she asked.
He shook his head with a grunt, obviously in pain.
"Don't worry," Kari said, "if I get hold of the Legion, they'll take you to a hospital."
She got up and stood ready to attack the creatures that appeared from behind. The Batman tugged at her sweats, making her look quickly. He held up his yellow utility belt.
"Use this," he said in a hoarse tone.
She turned her back.
"Trust me, I won't need it," she said, placing her fists up and getting into a fighting stance. "I just hope these weird creatures know a good doctor."
The little monsters lunged at her. Kari did a series of moves, succesfully getting rid of them without a scratch. She looked in the sky to see Phantom Girl kick one of the creatures in mid-air. Kari whisteled as loud as she could, sucessfully getting Phantom Girl's attention. She waved her hands.
"Hey, this old man needs help!" she called.
Phantom Girl looked at Cham.
"Cham, go get the man, I'll take care of the rest of these creatures," she said.
Cham nodded as he flew down to where Kari and Batman was. Cham looked at Kari with a blush, but she looked annoyed that he wasn't helping Batman. She placed her hands on her hips and snapped one of her fingures.
"Hey! Didn't you hear me? I said, help the old-timer!" she snapped.
"Oh, right!" Cham said, before turning to help Batman.
He picked up the old man and was in awe. Like Superman, Batman was another legend that everyone idealized.
"Whoa, Batman," he awed.
"Would ya get going!" she demanded.
"What about you?" he asked.
"I'll ride from my spacecraft," she said.
Cham nodded and took flight to the sky, momentarily telling Phantom Girl where he was going. Phantom Girl floated down next to Kari, with Kari being only an inch higher than her.
"You sure you don't want me to fly you out off here?" Phantom Girl asked.
"No way! I have to take my spacecraft home, or else my parents will kill me," Kari said.
"Well, okay. Thanks for the help," she said, turning to the emergency crew that just showed up, along with the Science Police.
"No problem," she said, heading to the loading dock, to see that aside from the emergency crew and Science Police, she was the only one here.
She got into her spacecraft and headed home. Wait 'till Alfred heard about this one!
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"...and then I came back here," Kari said, finishing her explination.
"My dear, you took those creatures all on your own?" he asked.
"Sort of, I did get help from two Legion members and the old timer Batman," Kari said, grabbing a drink.
"Batman?"
"Yep."
Suddenly, a transmission came in from the tv screen in the living room. A doctor from New Gotham's local hospital came onto the screen.
"Miss Wayne, one of our patients here wishes for you to come and speak with them. You may come if you wish," the doctor said, before the transmission ended.
Kari sighed.
"Might aswell go see what's up," she said.
"I'll drive," Alfred said.
Kari agreed and the two walked ot the garage that held the flying vehicles. Minutes later, the vehicle parked in the parking lot as Kari walked into the hospital. She went up to the nurse at the front desk.
"Um, I'm Kari Wayne. A doctor said something about a patient wanting to see me?" Kari said.
"Miss Wayne," the doctor's voice said, stopping the nurse from saying anything.
Kari turned to see the doctor. He motioned for her to follow him.
"This way, the patent is ready to see you," he said as they walked into a random room.
Kari held in a gasp when she saw the the man was the Batman. The doctor walked to the door.
"I'll leave you two alone," he said, closing the door.
When the door was shut, Batman opened one eye to see Kari. She saw his real face, since they took off the mask, and she saw that he did infact have white hair. He motioned with his fingers to come over to him. She obeyed and stood to the right of him.
"Kari Wayne, correct?" he said in a hush hoarse tone.
"Yes sir," she said.
He smirked.
"You're a spitting image of him," he said.
She groaned in annoyence.
"So I've been told," she said.
He chuckled a bit.
"Here, I want to give you this," he said.
He handed her the utlitly belt he had offered her earlier today. She blinked and held it in her hands. She guessed that if she were to wear it, it'd fall off. Batman saw the expression and chuckled, taking the belt.
"Sorry, wrong one," he said. "Here, this one might work better."
He handed her another belt, this one a bit more feminie for her to wear. She blinked.
"Why are you giving me this?" she asked.
"Since the first Batman surfaced, there has always been a number of Batman's throughtout history, I'd hate to think that the legacy would end," the Batman said.
"So because I'm a blood relatice of him, I become the prime person, correct?" she asked.
He nodded.
"Listen carefully," he said, "there must always be a Batman."
"Why?"
"No one knows, there just must," he said.
She sighed.
"So, this is it?" she asked.
"Yes, that fall broke my spine, and the doctors say I've got at least an hour," he said.
"Well, no surprise. It was bound to happen with all the late night duty the Batman's have to do," she joked, getting a chuckle from the dieing Batman.
"Yes, that's true," he said.
"So, do I have to be Batman, er... Batgirl?" she asked.
"No, it is a choice," he said. "Just keep it in mind."
She smiled a bit.
"Okay old-timer, you just get some rest," she said.
He nodded, and closed his eyes, his heart trying to settle. Kari stayed for atleast a minute more, before going walking outside and walking back to the car.
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"No way! You met Batman!" Lucas cried Monday afterschool.
Kari smacked him in the head.
"Owch!" he yelped, rubbbing his head.
"I swear, I can't tell you anything anymore, can I?" she said in a low tone, avoiding the stares given to her by passer-byers.
"Sorry, it's just, wow! And he even gave you the-"
"I said shut up!" Kari said.
"Okay, well, I just think you should go for it," he said, in a lower tone. "You know, go into the family business as-"
"As Batgirl?" she finished.
"Well yeah!"
"No thanks," she said. "Too boring."
"Wait a minute! You say English is boring, and now being a superhero is?" Lucas asked as the two stopped infront of Wayne's Enterprise.
"One, I wouldn't be a superhero," she said. "And two, yes. Now, I gotta go, see ya."
"Yeah okay, see ya Kari," Lucas said, walking off.
She walked to the elevator and walked to her parent's office to speak with them.
"Mom? Dad, I'm - huh?" she gasped as she saw a man with a laser gun pointed at her parents.
"Why are you here?" her mother asked.
"No reason," the man said, shooting the two in the heart without warning. "Just wanted to make sure that Batman was gone."
"MOM! DAD!" she yelled.
The man turned, a little startled. Kari didn't see the face, but she charged at him, her eyes reading that she was ready to kill. The man jumped out of the building, missing her punch. She looked out the window, seeing that she couldn't see him. She growled, but looked at her dead parents with tear-filled eyes. She walked over to them and fell to her knees, freely crying. Alfred heard the screaming and came in, only to gasp at what he saw. He walked over to poor Kari and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I am so sorry miss," he said.
That night, Kari sat on her bed, looking out her window at the moon. Her eyes still looked ready to kill.
"I'll found whoever did this," she said through clenched teeth, "and make them pay."
She held the yellow belt in her hands.
"I swear it," she said.
To be continued ...
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Me: Yeah, I finished my first chapter. So, we've met Kari Wayne. Will she take on the "family" name and become the new Batman... er Batgirl? And will she get revenge after the death of her parents? Please continue to read to find out. Please review.