Alright guys, new chapter written by me, Fanwriter83
Chapter 4: Prime-time Gotham to future Gotham
There was a flash and the kids found themselves in Stone Age Gotham. Penguin was with them. They waved at some cave-men who immediately ran away in fear. All, except for one person. It was a girl by the looks of it, but who could tell, right? Also, she was around their age.
She saw the kids, waved back at them with a cheeky grin and Sean said while stroking his chin; "Call me crazy, but that girl looks a lot like you, cat-face."
"No, I think you're right!" Selina gloats. "I somehow feel connected with her. Let's see what's she's doing?"
"Weren't we looking for younger Alfred?" Bruce asks but the three children ignore him and skip to the Selina-look-alike. Then Bruce shrugs his shoulders and follows his friends.
They all gather around the girl and watch how she taps with a pick and a hammer into a stone. A few minutes later, a raw picture of them appears. When she's done, she throws it away.
"Why you do that?" Sean asks, watching the flat rock disappear into the distance. The others do as well.
"Cyla send email," the girl replies, and then giggles; "My name Cyla. Cyla means moon. Cyla likes you and you." And with that, Annie and Selina watch with a grin how Cyla starts nuzzling Bruce and Sean, cat like. Bruce blushes, Sean tries to push her off.
"Yep, she's definitely family," Selina says and Annie nods agreed. "Also, so that's how the first email was send. This is far more exciting than school." Annie nods agreed, again.
Suddenly there's a big roar and Penguin gets chased by a large sabretooth tiger, and the poor Penguin runs their way. Bruce stopped blushing and Sean finally managed to push Cyla off and the two boys ran off together with Annie.
"Sheba, leave man look like bird alone!" Cyla cries and the sabretooth suddenly halts in front of her, and starts purring like an over-grown cat. "Sheba Cyla's pet-cat. Cyla loves cats."
"Me too!" Selina cries gleefully and the two boys, Annie and Penguin watch safely from behind a tree how the two girls start scratching the sabretooth's ears. "Annie, can we take them?"
In a split-second Annie stands beside them, stroking her chin; "I'm not sure if that's a good idea, Selina. I mean, if we take her, we might change the future. I mean, she might never meet her boyfriend, get married, have babies, etc. You might never be born if we take her."
"Whoa, I think that would fix our problem then," Sean says, smirking. "I mean, no Selina is a happy Alfred Pennyworth. Isn't that what we want?"
"You, shut up, and you will be paddled once we get home," Selina growls, shooting Sean a stink-eye. "But it's only for a while. You can always return her later."
"But what if she meets her boyfriend today?" Bruce asks. "If we take her-
"Cyla's boyfriend home!" Cyla cuts the billionaire off with a gleefully smile.
There's a flash… and the kids and penguin zap through time. Landing in the time where computers were as big as an elephants bottom, and the five day wait for downloading, AKA Gotham 1990.
"Wait! Where are home already?!" Cat screeches angrily. "Annie, bring us somewhere else right now, because Jim comes toward us with an angry scowl on his face.
There's another flash and Jim stares bamboozled at the spot where four kids and Penguin stood seconds ago. Behind him, Bullock staring in excited awe to his computer screen that said; '95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%' and then; 'disconnection failed. Try again.'
Bullock grabs the screen from his desk and tosses out the window.
The kids however, found themselves somewhere else in the future and realised there was now broadband and everyone wanted a piece of that. The kids look impressed at the computer screen, so much faster than in 1990.
"I like it here!" Penguin shouts gleefully and wanted to shoo some kids away from their computer when Annie grabbed the shrub of his neck, and there was another flash while Penguin bellowed; "NNNOOOOO!"
And then came super-fast viber. Finest surfacing ever. The four kids scratch the back of their heads as they watch Penguin, mouth-watering in front of a shop window. Then, the poor bird starts counting the money he has with him, and sadly enough, Penguin was one of those people who couldn't afford it. The poor bird bursts into tears.
"Hey guys, look," Sean points to the sidewalk across the street. "That guy looks like Alfred, doesn't he?"
"Easy tested," Selina grins, then cupping her mouth with both hands; "ALFRED PENNYWORTH, JOO-HOO!"
The old man, who also happens to be Alfred Pennyworth halts his regally stroll alarmed and starts scoping the streets. Then, spotting the four kids his eyes fill with fear, stops a cab and hops inside, ordering the cab-driver to drive as fast as he can.
"Yep, something tells me that was definitely Alfred Pennyworth," Annie smiles. Also, something tells me he's still grumpy and we haven't succeed Selina's plans yet."
"Eh, Annie, why are we still standing here?" Selina smacks her friend against her elbow, then hopping on her back. Cyla hops on too, and the two boys clench themselves tightly around the girl as well. With the four of them, they speed off.
"Ehm, guys…" Penguin looks lonely to the blur, disappearing in the distance. They left him, again. Oh well, they will figure it sometime, so this will give him the opportunity to explore the future a little more. Penguin waddles off.
Meanwhile, the kids arrive at Wayne Manor and everything still looks the same. Talking about creepy, right? Anyway, the kids sneak inside like they always do, through the patio window. It's quite surprising, that after all these years, Alfred still doesn't close it properly.
The kids stroll inside and look around, noticing… "B, you leave right now. This is something you don't want to see, trust me!" Selina pushes Bruce back through the window, and the boy falls with a thud on the ground outside.
"Hiya, Future Bruce Wayne!" Selina prances up to tall man, dressed as a bat and clenches herself around him. Warley the man stares at her, and then to the other kids. Sean waves sheepishly, then turning on his heels and disappears through the study door to find Cyla, who had wandered off.
Annie closes the window to avoid Bruce from getting inside and flops down on the couch, smiling widely at the scene before her. An awkward looking tall man, struggling with a happy purring Selina.
A few minutes later, there was a huge guffaw scream coming from the kitchen, indicating Sean and Cyla had found Alfred Pennyworth. The butler roars; "Miss Kyle!"
"What did I do?" a young woman with curly brown hair and wearing leather walks inside, staring bamboozled at the angry Alfred, and then spotting the two kids…"Hiya Cyla and Sean."
Sean's mouth drops open, then clutching Cyla under his arm he darts around Selina and heads back to the study, hollering; "Annie, we have to leave now before Selina sees her older version!"
"Yeah, I definitely want that!" Selina jumps of Batman's lap and about to dash out the study when Annie grabs her and…
…They are back at the streets where they left Penguin. The bird was leaning casually against the alleyway wall with an enormous box and the picture on it said it was a flat-screen TV.
"Don't tell us you stole that!" Annie exclaims, and Penguin grins; "No, course I didn't. I saw a big, and not very large man with a large nose waddling down the streets. I told him I knew his deepest secrets and I promised to keep them if he bought me this, and he did. Isn't that great?"
"You do realise you bribed yourself, didn't yah?" Annie says with a grin. Bruce, Sean, Cyla and Selina laugh their heads off.
"Of course that was not me, silly girl," Penguin guffaws. "I don't smoke cigars. They stink too much."
Back in 1990…
The kids had dropped Cyla off in her own time and now they are having a nice visit at the museum with Alfred, Bullock and Jim. Suddenly they stop in the Stone age department. They look in awe at all the stuff archaeologists had found over the years, but then they reach their newest addition.
"WTF!" Bullock bellows staring through the glass window of the world's 'first send email' and they all come running toward him. That's when they see a large flat rock with a drawing on it. It's a raw picture, but they can tell the kids in the picture are Selina, Annie, Bruce and Sean. Two tiny letters in the corner of the rock said; 'C.K.'
"Who's C.K?" Jim frowns.
"Cyla Kyle!" Selina hollers in reply, skipping to the manager's office. "Your yelling have to wait Alfred, because I first have to talk with the guy who owns this place, because that thing belongs to me, made by my ancestor. It won't be hard to prove it, because our face is on it!"
Meanwhile, in Penguins apartment…
"Look mommy, I bought this with some crazy kids from the streets." Cobblepot skips excitedly with the flat-screen into the living room, showing it to his proud mommy. "Okay, according to the manual, this goes in here, and that goes in there and we are attaching this to the wall so the flat-screen can hang."
Excitedly Cobblepot hangs the TV to the wall, brandishing his arms widely as he turns to face his proud mommy. Sadly enough, Penguin is not a great handy-man and the TV drops to the floor, on top of him.
"A little help here, mother!" Penguins muffled voice says, and Mrs Katapult scurries over to her son, helping her son to get the flat-screen off of him.
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