The Gotham Connection II
By PaBurke
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended. I own neither of the universes nor the characters. I was curious to see if a NUMB3RS / Batman crossover was possible and this is what happened.
Summary: Is it possible to steal for good? If so, what would be in a Vigilante's shopping cart?
Distribution: The Nook
Spoilers: None really.
Word Count: 600
Larry entered Charlie's office shaking his head. "Just when I thought that our communication had improved, Charles."
Charlie looked up from his position over Amita's shoulder. "Larry, what's wrong?"
"If you had a problem with my math for my super-gravity equations, why didn't you just tell me instead of changing it yourself?"
Charlie was confused. He and Amita had spent every spare minute the last weeks trying to track down the spybot that had been on her computer. Though they hadn't followed the trace to Gotham yet, they were sure that the trail would end there. "Larry," Charlie said slowly, "What are you talking about?"
"My research, the math has been changed, one of my constants has been changed by a whole order of magnitude. It is changed in such a way that supports my theories, but don't you think I would have liked to be consulted before you changed it?"
Amita stared up at Charlie, "You don't think…"
Charlie was already out the door, "…That our mysterious Gotham snoop was in Larry's computer as well? Yes, I do."
Larry looked at Amita, who was hurrying to follow her boyfriend. "What is going on?"
"You know about the spybot that has been copying all Charlie's work for the FBI?"
"And Charles is worried that someone will use his work for ill, yes."
"Well, when I was running a search for some of the code, the computer found it in my computer. Though the code is similar, we are pretty sure that the answer lies in Gotham."
Larry could follow this train of thought easily. "And now you believe that this same snoop has been tracking my research? Of what possible use could super-gravitational theory have for someone in Gotham?"
By this time, Larry and Amita had entered the physicist's office to find Charlie hunched over the keyboard. Charlie looked up at the two of them. "It was definitely our Gothamite. And I hate to say it Larry, but it looks like he…"
"Or she…" Amita inputted.
"Or she," Charlie corrected himself, "to into account a variable that neither you nor I did."
"The elliptical rotation," Larry remembered. "It was sound theory, which is why I first thought of you. I apologize, Charles."
"It's okay," Charlie grinned. "Not everyone could have come up with that connection, or knows your research well enough to realize that it was missing."
"It does answer one question that we've had," Amita said.
Charlie was already reaching for his phone to update Don. "Our spy is smart enough to use our work any way he pleases."
*****
Bruce Wayne sat down at the Bat Computer, a super computer that had no equal. He checked a couple of open programs. Then he read a low priority message, the CalSci professors were stubborn in their tracking of him. In all honesty, Bruce wasn't worried. The professors were definitely the tops in their field, but Batman was the top in his. Wayne industries had sold or distributed most of the computers in the city and to a good portion of the East Coast. There was a back door that made it seem that the Bat Computer was anyone who owned a Wayne computer.
Aha, it seemed that Fleinhart had found his corrections to the professor's research. And accepted them.
Good.
The Justice League had barely returned home alive from that –in Alfred terms- beastly mission, which had involved a black hole. The sensors in the Javelin had given Bruce enough to back calculate a correction to Fleinhart's gravity theory. It was nice that something good came out of that debacle.
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