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2. The antics between 8.30 am and 11 am
Barnes sits in the office glancing every now and then at the teens that sit their detention out in the school's lunch room. So far it looked like neither of them were writing the essay he gave them, but the captain didn't care. They had all day to do, so if they rather wanted to spend a few hours in nothing but boredom, that's their choice.
The bald captain placed Sean's cell-phone onto his desk then suddenly noticed it was nothing like the cell phones he's used to. It has a touch screen instead of buttons.
Barnes frowns confused. Where did Sean find it? Or better yet, who did he steal it from?
The GCPD captain decides to leave that question for later and dropped it back on his desk then starts to scan through some police files he had taken with him as reading material.
In the lunchroom each teen was doing his or her own thing. Selina was using her street knife to carve an image of a heart that said; "Selina hearts her kitty toys" then added below; "Stay away or else…!" then she proceeds carving flowers, cats, more hearts, and kisses until there was no empty spot left to carve.
Jack was carving words as; "HA, HAA, HAAA!" on his desk while Johnny made sketches of scarecrows and made the dandruff in his hair snow down onto the sketches. Sean is drumming a lovely tune with his pencil on his desk while Bruce connects two ends of both pens onto his lip and pretends to be a walrus. He even makes the noises without realizing it. The poor billionaire stops abruptly when everyone in the room looks bewildered at him.
Selina scratches some more hearts and cats in her desk before she bellows frustrated; "I'm bored!"
"I TOLD YOU; NO TALKING!" Barnes hollered as he pushed himself far enough to peek through the open door and have a clear view on the teens in the cafeteria. "BRATS."
Barnes jumps up his feet and walks over to the file cabinet in the corner of the room and loses his view on the teens for a while and that's why he also doesn't notice the icy stink-eye Selina threw at his back. Then the girl grins and leaves her seat to skip over to Sean's and Bruce's.
A few seconds later she lies flopped on her back on their table and demands them to belly-rub her, thoroughly. The two boys figure there's nothing else better to do so they obey her.
Selina purrs satisfied, and Jack turns around on his seat to face Johnny and his sketch. For a few moments the crazy boy looks at the sketch and then a smirk curls up his lips. Before Johnny realizes what happens, Jack snatches the sketch from under his hands and starts drawing "HA, HA, HA" on it.
"You know, we can do some fun things when that bald dude can't see us," Jack laughed when he gave the sketch back to Johnny and turned one-eighty to face Selina who dangles her head down Bruce and Sean's tables.
Jack jumps to his feet then walks over to the open lunchroom door. Barnes is still too occupied with reading through the students file to notice anything.
Jack glances at Barnes's back then crouches beside the candy machine and grabs behind it taking out a pack of balloons.
"I just hide those in here for special occasions," Jack grinned.
Selina knows exactly what to do with it and smirks excitedly before snatching them from Jack's hands and skips over to the drinking fountain in the corner.
A few minutes later while Barnes is snooping through Sean's and Selina's student files, the teens (except Silver, and Johnny) sit in the windowsill and throw water-balloons at unaware pedestrians. Who said detention couldn't be fun?
Suddenly Sean stops throwing balloons and darts across the lunch room and over to the large double door and takes the screw out so the door can't stay open. Bruce, who saw it all happen, gasps; "Sean, that's school property and now you broke it. You'll be in so much trouble."
"Oh, he's always in trouble when I'm around, so I don't see the problem," Selina grins as she throws another water-bomb outside the window. It lands straight onto Jim Gordon's head as he walks up the steps to the front doors. The reason for him being there is because there is a problem at the GCPD and he needs Barnes advice.
Detective Gordon looks up to the window with so much hate in his eyes then the teens quickly duck to the floor. Bruce gasps; "Did he see us?" They all shrug in sync.
Sean saunters nonchalantly back to his table making brief eye contact with Silver. The girl instantly batters her eyelashes sweetly and sends a smile. Sean stares back with blank expression.
"Everyone, sit down!" Selina cried in fear. "Jim is here and he will tell Barnes about our water-bombs!"
Sean quickly turns to a random table and sits down. The other teens take random seats as well. Then the double door swings open with force.
"WHY IS THAT DOOR CLOSED?!" Barnes bellowed then scopes his angry, cold eyes through the room meeting the teens eyes, one by one.
Jack lifts his head up from his table then stares at Barnes, warily. Sean scratches his ear, Bruce scratches his nose, and Selina yawns openly. Silver twirls a string of her hair around her finger while Johnny keeps his head slumped down onto his table top.
The door bursts open and Barnes hollers, infuriated; "WHY IS THAT DOOR CLOSED?!" His angry and cold eyes scope like a torch through the cafeteria and meets the teens eyes, one by one.
"WHY IS THAT DOOR CLOSED?!"
"How are we supposed to know?" Sean asked then takes his finger from his ear and rubs the sticky substance onto Silver's table top. The silver-haired girl becomes hysteric and then faints.
Sean doesn't take notice of the backstabber and continues, looking very innocent; "We aren't supposed to move, remember?"
"WHY…IS…THAT-
"Look, baldy, we are just sitting here like we are supposed to," Selina cuts the captain off with a tired eye roll. "Can you please leave, I need my beauty-nap."
"WHO CLOSED THE DOOR?!" at this point, steam is coming from the GCPD's ears and nostrils. In the meantime, Jim stands in the doorway and keeps the door open, and Barnes bellows again; "WHO?"
Bruce moves slightly to the edge of his seat and says calmly; "I think a screw fell out of it because it suddenly just closed, sir."
Barnes eyes dart from Bruce to the grinning Selina and slowly over to Sean who was smirking from ear to ear. The captain pierces his eyes deep into the street boy's and hollers; "GIVE ME THE SCREW!"
Sean stares at the captain with a fake, dramatic gasp; "But, sir, I don't have it."
"DO YOU WANT ME TO YANK YOU OUT OF THAT CHAIR AND RATTLE IT OUT OF YOU?!"
Selina hisses between clenched teeth and with clenched fists; "Yeah, touch him and the last thing you see is me popping your eyes out!"
Barnes ignores Selina and her threat then slowly closing in on Sean and his table; "GIVE ME THE SCREW, YOU BRAT!"
"Ehm, excuse me sir, but why would anyone steal a screw?" Bruce asked politely.
Captain Barnes bald head turns around so quickly you could think he's an owl, and spits annoyed; "He's a street thief. They steal whatever they can get their hands on."
"Uh, we only steal useful stuff," Selina snarled with an eye roll. "You better find a solution for that door, baldy, because we don't have the screw."
Barnes throws a very angry scowl at Selina before turning on his heels and stomps back to the door to shove Jim out of the way. Then he grabs a folding chair, unfolds it and places it in front of the door.
Sean looks at what the captain is doing then guffaws; "The door is way heavier than the chair!"
Sean barely could finish his sentence because the door closed with a thud and the chair smashes together as a sandwich.
The bald captain opens the door from his side then looks very thoughtfully and then beckons Jack and Bruce to come and help him with something. Jack stands up with a maniacal grin while Bruce scurries closer with the biggest frown, imaginable.
"Hey, why are Jack and Bruce allowed to get up?!" Sean hollered.
He knows Barnes allowed them to but he tries to irk the GCPD captain by pretending he doesn't know. Maybe the captain will become crazy enough and kick him out so he doesn't have to fulfil his detention.
Barnes throws an icy stare at the street boy before demanding Bruce and Jack to drag a heavy file cabinet to the double door he's trying to keep open.
Sean, watching the two cops and his fellow students at what they are doing then gasps, overdramatically; "What if there is a fire? I think violating the protocols and endanger all the students in here would be really stupid."
Barnes shoots his eyes dangerously to the street boy who grins widely.
Selina decides to back up her kitty toy and sits down on his lap and nods agreed while purring; "Kitty Sean is right. I start to wonder if it would be wise for the GCPD to keep a dangerous man like Barnes as their captain."
Captain Barnes smacks Jim against the back of his head and says angrily, as if it was his idea to move the cabinet; "GORDON, THAT KID IS RIGHT! YOU AND YOUR STUPID IDEAS! I SHOULD FIRE YOU, RIGHT HERE IN THIS SPOT!"
Jim glares at his captain, angrily. The bald man proceeds demanding the two students to move the cabinet back in place before stomping back to Sean and grabs Selina off his lap then pushes her into her own seat.
Then the captain faces Sean and scowls; "THE NEXT SCREW THAT'S FALLING OUT WILL BE FROM YOUR BRAINS IF YOU DARE TO PULL ANOTHER STUNT!"
Barnes stomps back into his office and beckons Jim to follow.
Sean laughs; "Don't do any M-rated stuff, boys!"
Barnes and Jim are so caught up in a heated discussion about a work case they don't realize a certain street girl sneaks outside the lunchroom to pull an antic. Nor they know that Jack is spitting paper wads at the ceiling.
Suddenly a familiar cat-like screech echoes through the school and everyone stares baffled when the street girl charges back into the lunch room dressed as an blue M&M. Why blue, you ask? It's Sean's favorite color.
"The skittles are coming! The skittles are coming!" Selina keeps yelling as she runs into circles for far too long and then sinks to the floor, exhausted.
Barnes and Jim come rushing from the office and the egg-head captain hollers; "MISS KYLE, GET UP, RIGHT NOW!"
Selina snaps her eyes open and mutters, warily; "The only thing I understand about algebra is that I look at the X and wonder Y."
After that, she keeps muttering the same thing, over and over as if she just turned nuts.
Everyone just stares at the girl with their own famous expression. Sean grins happily, Bruce frowns worried, Silver makes a 'she's nuts' gesture, Jack laughs maniacally like his craziness had rubbed off on Selina, and Johnny was whimpering in fear.
Jim shares a bamboozled look with Barnes who's face turns murderous and kicks against the girl with his boot, shouting; "I SAID, GET UP, RIGHT NOW!"
Selina stops muttering about algebra but suddenly shoots her eyes at the two cops and proceeds muttering; "Oh, no, the skittles are here, the skittles are here."
Jim frowns; "Did she just called us, skittles?"
"You now," Sean grins. "This is what happens when you lock up a cat. They turn crazy. First you violate school's safety protocols and now you violate animal rights."
"YOU, SHUT UP!" Barnes points aggravated at the street boy before turning back to the girl on the floor. "I SAID-
"ATTACK!" Selina suddenly hollers and jumps to her feet. "M&M"S, ATTACK THESE SKITTLES!"
For the next thirty minutes the skittles, aka Jim and Barnes, run for their lives when a pack of angry M&M'S pursue them, violently screaming and shouting. Then the two cops run stupidly into an hallway that was an dead-end.
With their backs against the wall Jim and Barnes try to convince the teens they are not skittles. Selina is the first one who reaches them and Barnes, seeing she's coming for him first, recoils against the wall and meets Selina's suffocating cat-hug.
Barnes stares disturbed to Selina's nuzzles, finally un-recoils and shouts, angrily; "GET OFF OF ME!"
Selina however, keeps purring a nuzzling the bald captain, excitedly. Jim however, had start running for the crowd again because he sure didn't want to get hugged or kicked by either of them.
After being almost nuzzled to pulp by Selina, captain Barnes had enough of it and forces her to return to the lunchroom and sit back behind her table. Jim tries to do the same thing with the other teens.
Luckily for Jim they all sit down obediently, but Selina isn't done yet with irking captain Barnes. Instead of sitting down like her fellow detention students, the girl dashes up to the window with an awe-stricken look on her face.
Barnes starts to heat up like a tea-kettle and Jim tries to keep a hold on him to avoid any further attacks and then asks, frowning; "Selina, what are you doing there?"
Selina turns around and faces them with a pouty face, claiming; "Sorry, I thought I saw the Bat-signal."
Jim slaps his forehead and Barnes asks confused; "WHAT IS A BAT-SIGNAL?!"
Jim chuckles awkwardly and replies; "Selina had an encounter with the producer of the TV show called Gotham. The man claimed we are all bat-man comic book characters, so Selina thought it would be fun to collect and read a few. According to the comic books Bruce becomes-
"AAH!" Selina suddenly screamed then grabs a tissue at the same time and starts pretending she just turned insane. They all turn to face her and see how she's staring at the item.
Jim, totally forgotten what he wanted to say about the comic books and or Bruce Wayne frowns and asks instead; "What are you doing this time?"
Not taking her eyes off the tissue Selina replies; "I'm having a staring contest with this tissue and I'm sure I'm about to win."
Barnes slaps his forehead, but then turns to Jim and asks; 'WHAT DID YOU WANTED TO TELL ME ABOUT BRUCE?!"
Jim opens his mouth to reply, but suddenly there's a chewing sound and Sean hollers with a fake panic tone of voice; "Oh NO! Selina is going to eat her arm. Do something!"
The two adults look up and find Selina perched on a table and chewing on her arm, violently. They decide to ignore it and continue their conversation, but then the girl grabs Bruce's head and starts chewing his ear.
"Selina, why would you do that?!" Jim exclaimed with a shocked gasp and then looks worriedly at Bruce. There is definitely something wrong with the kid, because it seems he's either not aware of what his friend is doing, or he simply is used to it and doesn't care anymore.
Selina stops the chewing long enough and releases the ear with a wet plop sound and grins; "Because it tastes like ice cream, dah." Then she proceeds licking Bruce's earlobe.
"STOP WITH THAT AND SIT ON YOUR OWN SEAT!" Barnes bellowed and grabs the girl around her waist before dropping her butt onto a seat. Then he turns his red face to Sean and spots the cell-phone in the boy's hand. "HOW DID YOU GET THAT?!"
Sean looks up; "I stole it of your desk, dah."
Barnes snatches the cell-phone from Sean's fingers and stomps off, halting halfway the room because Sean suddenly asked; "Why can't I keep my phone?"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE IN DETENTION, AND IN DETENTION YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE PHONE CALLS!"
Sean guffaws; "I wasn't planned to make a phone call. I made a snap-shot of Bruce and Selina and wanted to post it on my instagram page with the text this happens when you don't feed your cat."
"YOUR NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO DO THAT EITHER! ALSO, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS INSTAGRAM!"
Sean snorts; "Not for those who can't afford a futuristic phone."
Jim and Barnes look both clueless.
"You need wifi for that, sweetie," Selina purred then nuzzles Sean's face.
Sean grins; "Who did you think that dude was and what he was doing in Wayne Manor's backyard? Annie and me kidnapped him from the future then forced him to install viber glass, or whatever they call it. Wayne Manor has now access to hundreds of channels and all in full HD."
"Wait, how come you never told me?"
Sean notices how Selina's eyes turn murderous then quickly says; "Surprise!"
"Oh, you did that for me? But it's not my birthday yet."
"Consider it as an extremely early present then," Sean smirked.
Selina smiles; "Or a 'I'm glad I know you' present?"
"Sure, that will work too," Sean replied nonchalantly.
Jim glances momentarily at Selina who nuzzles Sean like crazy then Jack holds his hand up and laughs; "What about sending threat pictures to my enemies? I just received one from Jerome claiming he's the new joker and I really want to send a threat picture of him being-
"Jack, it's not possible yet to send and receive picture on a cell-phone," Jim grumbled.
Jack guffaws; "Not on your silly jumbo-jet sized phones. But on a smart phone 1-
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Barnes bellowed then also took Jack's phone away. " NOW STAY PUT AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! ALL OF YOU!"
Barnes wants to stomp off with Jim but this time it's Silver that stops him. Barnes faces her with a scowl and roars; "WHAT DO YOU WANT, PRINCESS?!"
Silver yelps; "Well it's almost lunchtime, so I was wondering what we have for lunch?"
Barnes rubs the sides of his head tiredly before growling; "IF YOU GET HUNGRY, THERE'S A BIG PLATE OF TUNA, RIGHT THERE!"
Barnes points across the room and that's when the teens see a plate with tuna salad. They hadn't seen anyone bring it inside, so would that automatically mean it stood there since this morning?
"Uhm, not to criticize your cooking or anything," Bruce says slowly while wrinkling his nose in disgust. "I'm pretty sure it's not a great idea to keep food such as fish outside the fridge for too long."
Barnes zooms his face dangerously close to Bruce's and spits (literally) "EAT THE TUNA OR STARVE! I COULD CARE LESS!"
Johnny holds his hand up and says softly; "I think you mean; you couldn't care less."
"WHAT?!"
"You said; you could care less which implies you do care, at least a little bit."
Jim hides a fit of laughter, but Barnes roars infuriated; "WELL I DON'T!"
"Well then you should have said; you couldn't care less."
Barnes stomps over to Johnny's table, grabs the shrubs of his neck and roars; "HOW DARE YOU TO CORRECT MY GRAMMAR?! I WILL WHOOP YOUR ASS FOR IT!."
Jim grabs Barnes arm and says, soothingly; "think about your first rule, captain. 'no matter how irritating a teen is, we won't spank them, because that won't solve the problem.' So if you release the boy we head back into the office and I make you a nice cup of coffee."
Barnes inhales deep and drops Johnny back onto his seat before strolling off with Jim who says to the teens; "Now you all be quiet and do what's told. I'll be back in a sec."
The teens watch the two adults stroll off and Sean suddenly snorts; "How old does he think we are, three?"
Selina grins and whispers only for Sean to hear; "Yeah, well at least Bruce's batman secret is safe."
Sean nods agreed; "Yeah, your '-I-turn-insane' act really worked. You almost had me fooled when you stare at the tissue and later started to chew on Bruce."
Selina moans hungry and says as she holds her stomach; "Do you know what I wanna eat right now?"
"Salad Pizza with hamburgers and hot-dogs," Sean replied with an equal hungry look as his teeth start to water.
Selina frowns; "How did you know?"
"I feel you, sweetie-pie."
Meanwhile, in a different part of Gotham…
Alfred strolls past Penguin and Ed then notices they are staring at something that happens onto Wayne Enterprises rooftop. The butler looks up and finds a handful of men building something.
"What do they think they are doing?" Alfred gasped in shock.
Penguin shrugs; "Beats me."
"I asked them earlier, and they said a girl with long dirty blond hair and a young boy wearing lots of leather kidnapped them from the future and demanded them to build transmitting towers all over Gotham," Ed said. "They say it will make sending text messages by phone possible."
Alfred turns red in rage then recognizes one of the men; "You, weren't you at Wayne Manor last week?"
The man nods; "Yeah, I was. Those kids wanted me to set up wifi. It took me lots of time, but congratulations, you are the first in this city who has access to hundreds of different TV channels and all in full HD!"
Penguin suddenly starts to gloat; "Can you hook up the same thing for me? I was in the future once and saw this show called Gotham and I want to binge watch it."
"Sure, why not. We will be stuck here for a while, because we have lots of trouble with finding these kids."
Both Penguin and Ed started to happy dance in glee, and Alfred slapped his forehead.
