PPG Go DCU Episode 1: Batman
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Chapter 2: The Heist
Over at Wayne Enterprises, a strange little man is using some kind of device on four mice. He uses them to experiment. One of the mices goes over to a miniture table with tea sups and a pot. He knocks down the tea pot and the man just complains. "Oh my, what table manners." He then uses the device and places it on his head. With the device on his head and the mice with similar devices on their heads react to the connection and are in a sudden mind control. The four mice then sat perfectly around the table and drink some tea. The man laughs with a very high voice. "Bravo! Bravo!"
He takes the device off his head. "Amazing, they all behaved. With this device, ha ha ha, they all behaved very perfectly."
Then a woman comes in. She has blonde hair and wears a blue headband. "Jervis!" She whispers to her colleague. The man looks back and sees his secretary.
"Oh, Alice!" He says as she tries to get back to her work. "Look busy!" She says as Lucius Fox, CEO of Wayne Enterprises comes in with Bruce Wayne and Professor Utonium.
"This is where you will continue your work, Professor. If you have any inquiries you are welcome to talk to our staff." Instructed Fox.
"Thank you, Lucius." Said the Professor.
Lucius then spots Jervis who was hiding his invention from them. "Ah, Bruce, I forgot to mention. This is our technician, Jervis Tetch."
Bruce shakes hands with the stuttering Jervis. "Yes, I heard you study on functions of the mind."
"Believe me, overlooking the mind is as simple as opening it with wonders." Said Jervis. "Oh, sorry, that came out wrong."
"I understand you're a bit shy." Said Bruce. "Let me introduce you to your new co-worker, this is Professor Utonium." It's his first time here.
"Hi, Professor. I'm Alice Littleton." Greeted Alice as she shook the Professor's hand. "It's nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too, Alice." Said the Professor.
"I heard alot about you. You're the scientist who created the perfect little girls, right?" Asked Alice.
Professor is shy about that. "Well, who needs kids when you could make them." Says the Professor.
"Well, we'll leave you to your little chat. Mr. Wayne." Said Lucius.
"After you." Said Bruce. "Be seeing you soon, Professor." Both he and Lucius leave the room, and the Professor is left with Alice and Jervis.
"Well, I better get back to my desk. See you later, Professor." Said Alice as she goes back to her quarters.
The Professor then takes a seat in his desk in his workplace. As he sets up, like putting up a photo of him and his girls on the desk, Jervis comes up to his face due to his small height and the Professor is sitting down on his chair. This spooked the Professor. "AH!" He calms down. "Oh, hello."
He shyfully giggles. "Hello."
The Professor looks nervous about his looks. He starts to make conversation. "So, uh, how long have you been working here?"
"Six months." He answers as the Professor sweats.
"So, you're a scientist. You like to look at the mind, yes?"
"Believe me, Professor, I'd like nothing more than to view the aspects on what goes on inside our little heads of ours." The Professor gulps. "Tell me something. Have you ever wondered what is inside the brain? What it looks like? What do you think it looks like?"
"Umm... the thousands of optical lobes that form around it?" Said the Professor.
"No." Answered Jervis. "Control. What it controls. If you had the power to control the mind, hee hee hee, they'd tell you to do things."
"Like taking out the trash?" Asked the Professor.
"Actually, I'd perfer some manners." Corrected Jervis as he looks at his daughters in the picture. "Are they your daughters? They look outstanding. Tell me, how well do they behave?"
"Well, they're good little girls." Said the Professor.
"But what if they have bad manners, would you punish them, abuse them or hurt them?"
The Professor is not comfortable with this. "Look, I don't know what this is but I'm sure we can discuss about this another time, Jervis." He gets up and walks away. "I'm just gonna go wash my face." As he walks away, Jervis looks a bit dopey and looks back at Alice. He returns to his workplace. He is now shown sitting down on his sofa moaning about his inventions.
"It's a good invention. The mind needs to know more. I need to find out what it can also do. Wait! That's it!" He jumps up and to his devices. "I can use these to tell apart from one mind to the other. Hee hee hee hee hee! It's glorious. But that would be illegal. If this device can control the human mind the what good is it gonna do if it controls it for the wrong reasons." He looks at his poster hanged up on the wall, which is 'Alice in Wonderland'. He looks at the image of the Mad Hatter character and gets an idea. He giggles insanely out loud. Alice can barely hear it from her desk but the Professor could easily can. He sweats as if he doesn't like his looks.
Later in the afternoon, Bruce offers the Professor and the girls into his Mansion called, Wayne Manor for the time being until the Anniversary is over. The Professor reads the news paper on the couch as the Powerpuff Girls come home with worried looks on their faces. He sees them as they come home.
"Oh, hi, girls! How was school?" He greeted them as the girls look at each other and make up their day.
"Oh, it was great, Professor." Said Blossom.
"Best school ever." Said Bubbles.
"I never felt better in my life." Said Buttercup.
"Oh, good. Just good." Nersously said the professor.
"Is there something wrong, Professor?" Asked Blossom.
He hides his face in the magazine. "Oh no! My day was great as well. Call me crazy but I met a lot of wacko people here as far as I know." The girls look at each other.
"Well, look. We're going to go and talk to the Mayor of Gotham and ask him about our services. So, see you back for dinner!" Blossom says right as they start to fly out of the room but are stopped by an old man in a butler's outfit. He is Alfred Pennyworth, the mansion's servent. "Uhhh, hi." Confused Blossom. "Who are you and why are you in our way?" Aggressively said Buttercup.
"My, what a dreadful mouth you have, young lady." Said Alfred. "But I'm afraid that you cannot go out of the house without Master Wayne's permission."
"What?" Said Bubbles.
"Don't you know who we are?" Asked Blossom.
"Well, let's see: Motion floating, big googly bug eyes, some missing attachments to your bodies. No, I don't think I've ever met such disfiguring people like you."
"Ugh!" Grunted Blossom. "We're the Powerpuff Girls! You know? Dun dun da dun dun da dah! Ring any bells?"
Alfred shakes his head. "Aparently not."
Buttercup gets even more aggressive. "Look, old man. We don't have time to play with you. Just let us get out so we can see the Mayor."
"Not without Master Wayne's permission, and trying to be aggressive isn't going to let you through." Said Alfred. "Have you tried a more subtle approach, like being nice?"
Buttercup looks with a distinctive look on her face. "What do you think?"
"It's alright, Alfred. They can go." As Bruce comes in without a shirt as he looked like he has been working out.
"My my, sir. You look exhausted. You need to rest." Said Alfred.
"Thanks, but I should get back to my work." He and Alfred walk off and the girls have the chance to fly to the Mayor's office in Gotham. They sky rocketed out through the main doors leaving behind streaks of pink, blue and green light along their trail.
In Mayor Klass's office, He is talking to Commissioner Gordon on the phone.
"Listen to me, Gordon; you worry about your job and I worry about mine. But don't worry about this city! Harvey Dent has got everything under control."
In the GCPD, Gordon is in his office talking to the Mayor.
"I'm afraid Falcone will disagree. I heard he's got a lock on Dent."
"Falcone can rot for all I care about. There's nothing we can do about it." Said Klass.
"If we don't take it easy on the actions that Dent is progressing on, it will be his ass on the line, not ours." Said Gordon. "I'd say we call our 'friend' to see through it."
"Keep your pet bat out of this. He is an outlaw just like many other so-called superheroes. Especially the Powerpuff Girls."
"You don't trust them?" He speaks as he places the file of the Utonium family in his cabinet. "They are true heroes. Heroes who could be trusted."
"Say what you wish, James. But I still resent the action against vigilantism and heroism. Goodbye."
He hangs up and his secertary comes in.
"Mayor Klass?" Getting his attention.
"What is it? I'm busy."
"The Powerpuff Girls wants to talk with you. Should I send them in?"
The Mayor isn't surprise. "Go ahead."
The girls walk into his office.
"Hi, Mayor Klass. We wanted to talk to you." Asked Blossom.
"What I'd like from you though is to open up and realize what you are really doing." Responded Klass. Blossom continues to speak.
"Well, we just want you to know that we have dedicated our lives in fighting crime and saving lives of the innocent. And we'd thought you can..." Rubs her feet along the ground. "I don't know... give us a call sometime if trouble lurks." Explained Blossom.
"We have our own hotline." Said Bubbles as she pulls out their tradmark hotline phone. "And you can call us anytime."
"So that we can beat up some bad guys or put out a fire or maybe even-" Buttercup speaks until she is interupted.
"That's not necessary."
They stop upon hearing that.
"Listen, I know you live in a fantasy land where you would make the world a better place. But thankfully we have our own opperatives and we don't need your service."
The girls are stricken at what he said. "But... we're superheroes..." Weeped Bubbles.
"And that's the thing about you." Said Klass. "Sorry, girls. But the city doesn't accept rules above the law. That's how the book goes. Now, would you kindly leave."
The girls are saddened as they leave. "Oh!" The girls stop with smiles and look back at Klass. "And if you use your superpowers in the city limits, you will be charged with a one-thousand dollar penalty." The girls float down to the ground and walk out of his office.
Later that night, the Comedian sits in the bar looking at the time, it's 8 o'clock. He needs to meet up with Falcone's men in one hour. His hand shakes. "Hey, pal. I need some scotch." The bartender gets him a bottle of scotch and a little cup. As he poured some in he listens to a group of bar-goers.
"Did you hear? The Powerpuff Girls are in Gotahm."
"No way, that's impossible." The man is awfully being too drunk. "There's no such thing as Powderpuff Girls."
"Not Powderpuff, you idiot, Powerpuff!"
"Oh, well excuse me... for living! AH hahahahahahaha! Hahahaha!"
The comedian listens to the laughter of that drunken wreck. He feels nervous about the laughter as his hand shakes even harder. He keeps muttering "I can do this." about five times. The phone rings and the Bartender answers it. He listens and calls out to the people. "HEY! Which of you is some guy who looks like a washed up comedian."
"Me?" Said the comedian. "Phone call for you." The bartender gives the phone to the comedian and after listening to it he gets a shocked look on his eye.
He arrives back in his apartment from a cab and sees a paramedic team swaming the apartment he stays in. He sees some medics bring a body bag. The comedian talks to one of the medics overlooking.
"What happened?" Asked him.
"An accident. Some lady was using an electric bottle feeder and dropped in it into a sink. While the cord was still wrapped around her legs, it gave off an electric shock and died." Explained the medic.
"Who's in the bag?"
"The victim. Someone named Jeannie."
The comedian is in deep horror and runs to the body bag. "JEANNIE! JEANNIE!"
"Stop, sir! You have to stay right there!" He gets in a struggle with the other medics.
"NO! JEANNIE! JEANNIE!" He gets the medics clear from him. "OUT OF MY WAY! JEANNIE! Jeannie..." He opens the body bag and sees his wife's deathly face with a little grin on it. He is deeply traumatized and shouts her name many times out loud. He continues shouting as the medics and officers remove him from the perimeter. Hard to believe his wife is now dead. He breaks up into tears and shouts her name one last time.
"JEEEANNIEEEEEEE!"
Later that night, at Wayne Manor. The benefit party is happening. Many fancy guests are here having a blast. Playing in the casino rooms. The Mayor of Townsville talks to Ms. Bellum, and the Professor is being greeted by many guests who know him.
"Nice to meet you, Professor."
Over at the other end is Mayor Klass speaking with a man. He sees the Professor.
"Ah, Professor!" He calls out to him. "Enjoying the party?"
"Well, most of it." Responded Professor.
"Let me introduce you to another scientist. Professor Utonium, I'd like you meet Robert Langstorm." He brings in the man he was talking to.
"Call me Kirk." He says as he shakes the Professor's hand. "I've heard many things about you. First from being a wacko scientist to an icon of the world."
"Well, they used to think I'm crazy." Said the Professor.
Kirk laughs. "You have a very great sense of humor. I heard you got kids. Where are they."
"Oh, my girls are over there. Handing the food out." He points to the girls on the ground, because of the Mayor's law, holding plates up high from their tip toes to their wrists. The guest would have to bend down to reach the plate. Blossom trips over a bit and a piece of olive falls from her plate. But then a hand catches it.
"You know, you should be more careful. Otherwise such great food would be better off spoiled." He eats it.
"Uh, thanks. And you are?" Blossom asked.
"Oh my, my manners. The name's Nigma. Edward Nigma." He shakes her hand.
"I'm Blossom. I think I heard about you. Some of it. You used to be some Carney at a fairground. Trying to cheat some money out of your earnings."
"What a lucky guess. How did you found that one out?" Asked Nigma.
"Because I remember one time when me and my family were at that same carnival you were at. Bubbles wanted a cute monkey doll, by solving the most impossible riddle in the world. 'What has three tubes, two connections and finally a beat.' Buttercup was struggling because you'd had to be smart to know that riddle." Explained Blossom.
"Intriging, and what was answer to the riddle?"
"A heart. Because it is connected by the lungs and it has many tubes connected to your pulses."
"Very good. I'd say we could become very great adversaries, my child. But unfortunetely you can't top your intellectuality over mine." He backs away from the crowd and disappears within them. Blossom is confused about what just happened.
It's nine o'clock and the comedian arrives at an abandon carpark, still depressed about his wife. He continues to sob as soon as Falcone's men arrive. They see his expression.
"You came in the nick of time." Said Antonio. "What's wrong with you? You're acting like a crybaby?"
"My wife is dead. She's dead!"
"You can forget about your wife." Said Sal. "Now, listen up."
"DON'T YOU GET IT! SHE'S DEAD, DAMMIT!" Yelled the comedian as he grabbed Sal by the coat and yelled at him. "I didn't get to say goodbye. I should've been there for her. It's my fault. I'll never be a father now." He cries in dispair and Grissom comes clear to him.
"She's dead. So what? You're a free man, right?" Said Maroni and the man stops crying for a while. "Now's your chance to pull yourself together and pull this job for us. And if you don't, bad things are gonna happen." Said Antonio, The comedian wipes his tears away and calms down. "What do you want me to do?" He says.
Antonio brings in a box from his car. "We're gonna raid the Ace Chemicals Plant and steal some money and files on the place. We go in, grab the stuff and go out without a sound. Simple as that." Explained Antonio.
"But... that's where I got a job for the first time." Shocked the comedian.
"Well, now, you're gonna give them hell. And don't worry, you'll be wearing this to keep your cover safe." Said Sal, as Grissom opens the box containing a red bowl and a red cape.
"What's this?" Asked the comedian.
"You're new name." Exclaimed Antonio as the comedian is about to step into the life of crime.
Sal Maroni gets into his car with the comedian but Grissom decides to walk home.
"Aren't you coming in?"
"I'm walking home."
"Suit yourself."
They drive off and as soon as Grissom is alone, he gets a cell phone out of his pocket can calls the Police Station.
"Police Department."
He exclaims "Get me Detective Bullock." and smiles.
Back at the party at Wayne Manor. Commissioner Gordon is talking with Harvey Dent. Dent sees the Professor.
"Hey, Professor! Professor Utonium." Called Dent and Professor comes over.
"Where are your girls?"
"I'm sorry gentlemen but the girls are past their bedtime at this hour." Answered the Professor.
"Well that's a shame, I was looking forward to meeting them. Well give them my regards." Dent speaks as a cop whispers in Gordon's ear.
"No problem, Harvey." Said the Professor.
"Bullock?" Shocked Gordon. "Excuse me Professor but I'm afraid I have to go. Police Business." Gordon leaves as the two sees him off.
"Jim's really got to stop getting into these situations." Said Harvey.
"What do you mean?" Asked the Professor.
"Gordon is the city's Commissioner of Police." Said Dent. "He's the greatest cop there ever was. But with that determined attitude, it would probably get him killed. Worse even."
"I see." Said the Professor.
Harvey continues to talk. "But if Gordon was to ever be a man of honor, he would have to try and save someone's skin for his own. He's done alot of good in this city, I'd hate to see him during retirement." He drinks his wine and as the rest of the party continues.
We then shift up stairs in the guest bedroom where the girls are staying in, sounding asleep. Buttercup however is awake, as she peeks to see if her sisters are still sleeping. She gets out of bed gets changed into her dress and sneaks out into the window. The lights click on and Buttercup stops to look back and see that her sisters were awake.
"Buttercup! Where are you going?" Asked Blossom.
"To fight crime, what else?" Answered Buttercup.
"But, we can't go out and fight crime. We'll get a penalty." Said Bubbles. "Bubbles is right, we can't use our superpowers, the Mayor said so." Said Blossom. "Forget about the Mayor!" Yelled Buttercup.
"I'm bored, I'm tired, I can't sleep and I can't think. The only thing I want to do before going to bed is some freaking action. Whether you girls like it, I'm going to fight crime, penalty or not." As soon as she is about to leave her sisters stop her. "Wait!" She stops again. "What now!" She becomes asstonished at seeing her sisters already in full clothing ready to fight crime with her. "It's not the Powerpuff Girls with only one girl, right." Said Blossom. Buttercup smiles.
The girls fly out of the mansion and into the city as back at Wayne Manor, Underground is a cave. Not just any cave but a bat-cave. In the cave is a large computer and a black car, along with many other terminals that are operational. Bruce Wayne is working there and Alfred comes in.
"Master Bruce, Commissioner Gordon was compelled to leave unexpectedly."
Bruce uses a camera device to view many of the Mansions halls and sees the tape of Commissioner Gordon getting informed. He plays the tape.
"Sir, the Police have got the Ace Chemicals Plant locked down. A robbery's in progress." Said the cop.
"How come I wasn't informed? Who's in charge?" Asked Gordon.
"Bullock, sir."
Gordon yelled "Bullock! Excuse me, Professor but I'm afraid I have to go. Police Business."
Bruce stops the tape and wonders for a second and sees that the Powerpuff Girls are out of bed and into the streets.
"Alfred... Get me suited up." Determined Bruce as he gets ready to go out.
At the Ace Chemicals Building, Sal Maroni, Jimmy, Harry, Mickey and the comedian are at the entrance. Sal provides him with the red hood he will be wearing.
"I have to wear that?" Questioned the comedian. "It's only way they won't know who was the man in charge. Your identity will remain unscathed." Said Maroni and he gives him the red helmet. "What if I tumble onto something? This looks heavy." Asked the comedian. "You won't tumble." Corrected Maroni as he places the helmet on him.
The comedian now known as the Red Hood sees nothing but red in his vision while wearing the helmet. "I can barely see, and the entire background looks really red. Like blood red."
The gang draws the guns out. "Let's do it, boys." They go inside the plant with the Red Hood stumbling behind. "I can't see where I'm going." He hits the wall. "Ow! This is not funny! You hear me? Not funny!" He walks with them as the Police appear from the entrance. Sirens going off and cop cars pulling up. Harvey Bullock gets out to call his men out. "Alright, boys! Gather round! This is the man we're after." He shows a picture of Sal Maroni. "Shoot to kill."
Inside the factory of active chemicals, the gang goes inside the vault room with the Red Hood guarding the entrance. Sal and his men found the safe and start to crack it. The Red Hood is getting impatiant and starts to worry. "Hey, how long are you guys gonna be?" He asked, no answer. "Guys?" He gets agitated and breathes heavily. Harry cracks the safe by cutting the combination tab with a circular saw and opening it. "Hey, where's Grissom?" Asked Mickey. They opened the safe to see that it's empty. Sal gets mad and groups with the boys, gun drawn. "We've been ratted out, boys." He says and looks back. "Watch it!"
They get out and Red Hood follows. "I'm starting to hate this." He complained.
"Keep your guard up, we might've been followed." Warned Sal and the Red Hood panics. "Followed by who?" He gets startled by the loud gunshot. They both turn back to see Mickey shot through the chest and is bleeding. Mickey falls over dead. "Oh, dear God!" Panicked the Red Hood. "RUN!" Shouted Maroni. The gang ran for it as many bullets fly across the room. It's the police force and Bullock out to kill them.
They run through many rooms of the Chemical Plant and then Harry gets shot through the heart. Blood splattered all over the Red Hood's helmet and the comedian screams in horror. "Get me out of here!" He shouts as Harry falls down dead. He runs for it and he knocks a canister of flamable gas into a vat of chemicals causing it to explode and causes a hole to break through the ceiling.
Outside, the Powerpuff Girls were flying through the air and they see the Chemical Plant under attack. "Finally, some action! Let's go kick butt, girls!" Buttercup said as she swoops down to the plant. Blossom and Bubbles look at each other and go along with her.
Buttercup enters the chemical plant and sees nothing but gunshots that suddenly fired at her by Jimmy. Buttercup flies right toward him and with a shocked look on his face, she gives him a good punch in the face, causing his teeth to fall out and fall to the ground. "Oh, it felt so good to be back." Buttercup triumphs as Blossom and Bubbles fly inside. They are shot at by the police. "Hey!" They shout and they fly from the gun fire. The gunfire chases them until Commissioner Gordon comes in and orders Bullock to stop. "What the hell are you doing, Bullock?" He said to Bullock. "Sorry, Commissioner but I got this one."
"Stop shooting! Do you know who they are?" Asked Gordon. Bullock replied "Yeah, some no-good freaks." as he continue shooting at the girls. He manages to get Blossom by shooting her bow off. This caused her to scream. Her bows falls to a vat of chemicals but at least she caught in the nick of time. Gordon takes Bullocks megaphone. "This is Commissioner Gordon. Powerpuff Girls, stay down right now and we will go easy on you."
Bubbles is the only one left alone and she gets hit in the head by a wrench wielded by Maroni. She gets up quick before Maroni could strike again and Bubbles used her heatvision to melt the wrench on Maroni's hands and he looks at Bubbles in shock. "How dare you hit me!" Yelled the angered Bubbles and she punches him in the face three times and he falls off the walkway and is caught by hanging wires from the explosion and is left hanging from the ground. He screams for help while hanging upside down. "Let me down! Let me down!" The cops see that Bubbles incapacitated the criminal and she giggles, leaving Gordon in awe.
Meanwhile, the Red Hood makes it as far as possible to a dead end of the walkway. He catches his breath and Blossom spots him. Blossom confronts the Red Hood. "No where to go now, you red thief! Give it up!" He gasps and sees the pink Powerpuff Girl in front of him. "No, don't hurt me. Please. I... I didn't..." He grabs a pipe and tries to strike her head, but she dodges and kicks it off his hand. He tries to punch her but dodges too. Blossom finally lays a punch on his helmet causing a crack. As Blossom comes closer, she gets blocked by the a caped figure. "HUH?" The Red Hood gets real scared to see that the Batman is here to finish him off, which isn't what he wants to do. "Help! What's happening?" He screams. Batman turns to Blossom and says "I'll take it from here." Blossom knows him. "You!" Batman grabs the Red Hood by the collar but he smacks his hands on his head to together causing him to drop him. "AH!" Drop him over the walkway, he screams as he is about to fall. He grabs the rail above him as he hangs from a vat of dangerous chemicals below his feet. Blossom gasps and Batman tries to save him, but Blossom stops him because she thought he was going to drop him. She pulls his cape and his hand pushes the man's hand off the rail and he falls.
The Red Hood screams as he fell into the green pool of chemicals. He splashed right in and Batman and Blossom hit the drainage suction button in the process. Causing the chemicals to drain with the Red Hood inside and down the hole. Blossom is shocked to see that he is gone and looks back at the Dark Knight who at this point disappeared from her eye. The police then surround Blossom and aimed her at gunpoint. "Shoot." She muttered.
End of chapter, stay tuned for chapter 3.
Finding it interesting so far, wait till you get a load of what happens next.
I took some inspirational scenes from the graphic novel, The Killing Joke and the 1989 film Batman.
The next chapters will be uploaded soon. Stay tuned!
