AN ( It's Sarah as you've probably guessed. Woo, I forgot how much fun it is to write these things! My min d ids brimmin GC with ideas so my loyal readers, there's a lot in. Store for your entertainment. NOTE: I don 't own ANX of the fandoms and characters in this story)

Chapter Four- A hole in the hand is worth a favour

The farmer stood in te startlingly white building adjourned in a white beaded cloth she had found on a table in Tahoe entrance hall and wound round her like one of those dresses Sian women wore. At least she looked presentable. And she matched the furniture which was ni e. Getting on had not been too hard. Someone had assumed she was a cook and told her to go through to the scullery. Instead she hid under the table until everybody had gone and then took the cloth off adorned herself and made her way up the moving box thing to the party i n the penthouse.
The room was full of npeople, and yet it didn't seem croweded as it was so big. The farmer had never seen so m uch class. In the senter was a croup oif people sat on a square sofa, laughing an d telling jokes. Aroun d them, people were socialisin g and drinking wine. In a corbner came the sweet sound of a conerto, played wonderfully by a four piece quornet. The farmer's heart started to burn in excitment as she made her way over to get. Better view. Her heart fell. M ikhail was not one of them. She had come all this way and he was not here. She felt so. Disapointed, but still, she assured herself, she had n ever seen buildings, people or even furniture like this. Far from the secluded and sheltered life and customs of the Valeey, she had no idea what other things could be out there. It seemed so noisy in this part off the world that compared to what she was isis. She thought is would be good o explore and learn what these people were like and maybe pick up some leads of her darling violinist. She sauntered over to the food tab le and foun d that a lo fo it she recognised, like sushi and teriyaki udon. There was an array of things she head not seen before. She piled a plate full of food as she had not stern. In two days and went to sit down by the group of people on the sofas. They stopped talking as she sat down and gave each other in creible looks at the amoun t of food she had piled on under plate (in the valley, everyone worked so hard that food gatherings it n o social rules on the amount you could eat . Nobody judged and all food was expected to be eaten. The man with the trim med goatee beard cleared his throat.
"Hun try are you.?" The farmer looked up just as she was in the process of slurping a steaming hot bowl of udon. Noodles. They hung out of her mouth, sauce dripping all over her white toga-rest outfit. She hooded and hummed her agreement, trying to eat the food as fast as she could so that she would be able to talk top these poodle.
" hast thou met Mein personage thou hungry wench?" Enquirer a man with very blonde her and a long ever coat. The farmer should her head.
"I.." she began, but suddenly a fight fell i nto the room masonr yexploded everywhere as turned people rolled into it through the wal heap. One was wearing a black mounded suit with grey underpants over his back trousers and a mask with a cape. the other two wee dressed like some sort of strange circus performers.
"Tony1 i foun d these two breaking into the building downstairs! They had killed everyone! They are trying to kill you too!" Said the man in the cape. The other two people man aged to get up and revealed themselves yo be a man and a woman with face paint and brightly coloured clothes . The people on the couch suddenly pounced into action. The man took a gun. Out of him purple coat and face it at the man called tony. The man in the cape yelled NOOOOOOOOO and threw himself in from t of it , pressing his palme asgaint the barrel. There was a horrible banging squish sound nd the bullet passed through the mans hand and bounced of his leather body armour. There was a rower from behind everyone as parts of the ceiling suddenly came cascader down . A giant green man stormed past everyone and punched the assailinats out of the window. The red haired woman from the couch rushed over and started holding the green monster's hand while singing a russian opera song so that he eventually shrunk back to his own side and colour, although his clothes had been so stressed in his transformation that they fell off him and he was naked. Tony threw a jacket at him which he tied around his wait like a loin cloth before hurrying to the Gigi system and jamming some headphones onto his head, the sound of Lay Mis blasting out of them and a look of relief on his face. Tony picked batman up and Ryan his hand under the tap.
"It'll be okay" he said as water fell through the bullet hole and out of the other side in a crimson waterfall that splattered the sink. Tony stuck a plaster on it and handed batman a drink. Of whiskey.
"I'd go to the hostpistal if i wear you." He concluded as batmanu necked the drink. He leaned in and whispered " i owe you one bruce." Discreetly in his ear and went back o the party.

The farmer sat there with wide eyes, eating her way through her plate of edibles and e buoying the action. She watched as batman drained his glass and then jumped out of the smashed window. He suddenly yelled and plummeted to the ground, forgetting that he didn 't have his hotel gliding cape on that night. Tony was o to it before anyone could move. A suit of armour suddenly started to encase his body and he zoomed out of the window. The farmer finished eating and decided that it was time to leave. She snook out past the mass of rubble and went about her search.

In the air, iron man was zoooming after the falli g batman. He crabbed his coat just before his body hand time to fully crunch his arm into the ground. Batman yelled out as the bone snapped in two. Iron man lowered him to the ground.
"I saved your life too. Now we're ev..." he began but suddenly. Batman had yelled again and thrown himself against the suit causing them to go down in a heap on the avement just as a monster truck lorry cam spearing allong.
"Seems I still owe you. " tony said, shaking hands. "Any time you need something brace, i owe you" and he zoomed back up to the penthouse, leaving batman sat near the gutter. Bruce cursed as his my little pony plaster suddenly pinging off as the blood began to pour again.

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Batman staggered towards the bat cave but was in too much pain to hope The door , so he through himself through the waterfall open eing and landed in the pool below. Alfred was there to fish him out with a large net; something that had been necessary when drunken bruce had realised his only hope pf getting into his secret home while in toicted was not by use of a door. He lay sopping wet nad covered in blood as alfred sighed and becagan stripping off his wet armour.
"Albert, why does the place real off bat poo?" He asked huskily. Alfred removed his mask. "It absolutely stinks!" He said, his vice now normal because his mask was removed. Aldrich was now casually removing his rousers and replied
"Oh your car alrm scared the bats sir and they shot their innards everywhere sr. oi was in the process of sorting aat cleaning materials when you dropped in sir." He sat bruce up and looked at his hand.
"Seems oi need the sewing kit sir. One moment". He returned with a needle and thread and became to repair the would. He also insisted on strapping his broken arm to a piece of drainpipe to let it heal straight. When he had finished, he served Bruce tea and crumpets (even though bruce hated tea) and pointed to Mecha Chicken
"Sao sir, what chop think this thing is then? " batman grunted, hot salty but ter running from the crumpet into his bandage and fusing him to yell as it hit the wound. He looked up at the guano-encrusted fowl kart.
" i don't think it's scarecrows as he was approaching it curiously when i was arriving. And he was taunting it. I think it's from another world. " he gingerly took another mouthful of crumpet and watched the butter pool on the floor.
Albert hid the worry in his voice at his master's insane suggestin of Ali's s nad responded with a mere "if you say sir" and began spraying Flash onto the chicken in order to soak through the bat poo. Batman gave up trying to get through the stack of butter saturated crumpets and retired to bed, thinking he should probably it his pijamas on as it was too cold to be sleeping in his still naked condition.

When alfred jad eventualy gpne to bed (leaving the cave and vehicle free from bat droppings) Precill spoke up.
" I thought he'd never leave. Now that we've had our fun tell me eho your are. They seem to think your one of the scarecrows giys but too bee hpnestsx, i wouldn't know why hed make something like you."
"I don't know that scarcrow. I came from a valley of faems and when. He saw me he spewed some sort of gas and i felt weied and everything was pink and floaty ad then it all went blue and i woke up here..."
"Yeas, that's the fear gas. Butto. Us vehicles we get stoed anistead of scared. Well, it's late and i am exhaust after before. So i'l. Talk in the morning. And if thee's anything you need... just let me know." She flicked a sped and then was silent. Mecha chicken contemplated everything to herself. She felt wonderfully clean now that the mans servant had hose her down and got rid of everything from her surfaces. Even the maggots appeared to have disappeared and the smell of industrial grade undiluted bleach wafted past her. (Flash had not been sufficient enough to rd Aldred's fears of disease from spreading.) Wondering what awaited her, she settled down for the nittys and had dreams filed with large packages and at one poin t, lorry.

AN: So, what is bruce going to demand from tony as a favour? Where o earth is Mikhai? It shoudln't be long before questions are answered. My creative juices are gushing guys so there should be more v ery soon.)