Chapter 4 begins...NOW

Kaito Kid stared, dumbfounded, at the young detective.

"H-how did you know?"

Conan smiled and answered smartly, "It's simple. You have a Japanese accent, and even the voice modulator attached to our outfit doesn't mask it."

~XXX()XXX~

Soon afterwards, Kaito Kid, Conan Edogawa, and a newly freed Alfred Pennyworth sat in the Batcave, contemplating on their plight. They had no idea as to what was going on outside, and Alfred was especially worried about his two young heroes. Conan, on the other hand, could care less about the freaks in jump suits and underwear, he just hoped that the Black Organization didn't find him. Kaito, as usual, was scheming on one thing or another in his head.

Kaito was thinking about snatching a couple of those costumes or trophies when Conan broke his thoughts.

"Say, what are you doing here anyways?" Conan inquired.

"Well, I-"

"Could it be that you were hired by the Penguin?" Alfred Pennyworth inquired, suddenly taking the spotlight from the main characters. I know that Batman thinks that The Penguin is plotting another heist, and you look VERY suspicious."

At least someone can think, other than another certain detective, Conan thought.

Kaito began to sweat. "Eh-well-you see, I-"

"Of course, you're too smart to be manipulated like that, right?" Conan asked, smiling wryly. "Even if you ARE working for him, you probably have a plan to outsmart him, right?"

Kaito Kid planted his face into the wall, completely saddened that his plan was figured out.

~XXX()XXX~

Batman and Robin had rushed out of the mansion, expecting lowly, street-fighter type bad guys when they saw some criminals that were completely out of their league. A pair of men in black trench coats were outside, guns in hand, facing them. They immediately got to the point.

"Give us the CD, or die," Gin said, who was planning on killing him anyways.

Robin was prepared to rush out and use some new martial arts Batman had been teaching him, but Batman reached out a arm and stopped him.

"No," Batman said gravely. "These guys look tough."

Gin grinned. "Now hand it over," he said, taking a step forward. At that moment, Robin leapt into the air and landed in Vodka's face, taking the pair by surprise. Batman ran over and knocked the gun out of Gin's hand, but Gin quickly recovered from the shock and demonstrated great physical ability by punching Batman in the gut so hard he was knocked over.

Vodka, however, was not faring as well. In a classic sidekick versus sidekick battle, Robin successfully flipped Vodka over and threw him into Gin. Gin, however, was smart, quick, and agile, and used the momentum from Vodka to push him into Batman, who was by Gin's gun. Gin then ran over to the gun and recovered it. However, Batman and Robin had successfully neutralized Vodka, at least for the moment.

Gin grinned. "You don't know what you just got yourself into," he said, smiling.

At that moment, shivers ran up Batman's spine. He immediately dropped the unconscious Vodka and pushed Robin into a bush. And not too soon, as a bullet whizzed past him, landing a hole in his cape. After taking cover in the bush with Robin, he immediately analyzed the situation. Apparently, this guy has some crooks with him, somewhere on a roof nearby with sniper. The important thing was to get out and run for it, for he was a sitting target, but that guy with really long hair could just easily shoot him if he did that.

What Batman did next was truly unexpected, but Batman knew he had to do something out of the ordinary to get out of this. He knew that the snipers couldn't risk shooting their comrade, so he picked up poor Robin and threw him into the guy with long hair. The guy's eyes opened wide, and before Gin had even hit the ground Batman had jumped out, picked up Robin in the air, and dashed to the hill.

~XXX()XXX~

A convention of criminals were meeting at a candy factory called the Jolly Jack. In this meeting were the world's most famous, wanted criminals, minus a couple of people who were raiding a mansion.

The Penguin chuckled as he walked into the factory. The main room was covered with promotional posters of the worst and most epic villains in anime and cartoon history, such as the Akatsuki, Lupin the 3rd, Bluto, and Charles Montgomery Burns. The Penguin's favorite happened to be Lupin the 3rd, though he never had he sexiness to be able to steal something on his own, or even get a woman.

The large convention being held in the sacred room of Promotional Posters included several characters that many may recognize. The Joker, for one, was hosting it. Also attending were the legendary imbeciles Team Rocket, a very fat Dr. Egg man, a very ambitious Loki, and some other various villains in random cartoons and anime.

When the Penguin walked in, everyone stopped their blabbering and looked at him, except for Shredder, who was busy beating up the teenage mutant ninja turtles in the newest video game.

The Penguin ignored everyone walked up to the Joker.

"Regarding Batman," he whispered. "I just guaranteed us a valuable ally."

I'm not going to say anything this time except for a few notes not regarding the plot line.

1. I realize that many are coming back to read the new chapters, but not much reviews are being written, so I will keep writing this, but at a much slower place. There are other projects I'd like to work on. ^.^

2. I like pie.

P.S. I'd say the next Chapter would come in 3 weeks to a month.