Batman: The Animated Series 'Fan Fiction Love Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode # 11 - I've Got Batman in My Basement
It's night in Gotham City and, typically, a crime is being committed. Two thugs swipe a Fabergé egg and attempt to make their escape. Before they can get far, Batman confronts them.
"The boss was right." said one of the thugs.
"Yep. Took about five minutes to get this."
Not just Batman to show up out of the shadows…
"And it'll take you two five years." he said. "With good behavior."
"I couldn't have said it better myself." Megan said as well with her gun out. "Don't move, boys, you two are under arrest and for Batman and me to get the egg that you two have stolen." However, before Batman can attack the thugs, a giant South American Vulture attacks him as Megan tries to warn him. "Batman! Heads up!" While Batman manages to fight it off, the thugs get away. Megan tries using her jacket to slow the giant bird off Batman. "Get off him!" she kept on swinging her jacket around. "I don't want to hurt you, stupid bird!"
With Megan doing that, allowed Batman to kick the vulture off him to go flying off a building and fly away, they were fine. Only for the two thugs with the egg both manage to escape from them.
"Thank you, Megan, I just might have to owe you a date." Batman teases Megan.
"A date? Be happy that bird wasn't going to peek your eyes out. So you're welcome."
"You weren't going to really kill that vulture, weren't you?"
Like Batman had to ask Megan that for her to smile at him.
"Me! I would never hurt an animal." she said to show off her gun. "See? My weapon fires powerful shots to restrain people to only slow them down, not to kill. I got a few rare bullet types for that one."
"Amazing…I'm glad you're not a murderous type. Any who, we better find out where the thugs went."
The only clue left behind is a bunch of birdseed for Megan to spot on her boot.
"Ah, Bruce." Megan shows it to him. "I think we found Hansel and Gretel's trail."
Batman sees that the two men and the vulture had bird seeds left on the roof of the building.
"Bird seeds?" question Batman.
And for that, Megan got out her computer book to aid her partner.
"I'm on it. (What type of boss would have had bird seeds left out? Don't tell me that the vulture was raised by some bad type of person…!)"
Elsewhere, in Gotham's suburbs, two children, Sherman and Roberta, look through a Jr. Detective kit filled with novelty spy items. As they look through it, two older boys, Frank and Nick, show up and start hassling the couple by taking the stuff. For Roberta to defend her friend all the time from the two bullies.
"Can't you find any of your own species to play with?!" she said.
Frank takes the binoculars and sees Penguin's vulture, which he believes to be a hawk. Sherman sees it and decides that its presence is a mystery and he and Roberta follow it. The vulture flies into an abandoned birdseed factory. The children follow and spy on the thugs from the heist before. Soon the Penguin shows up and demands the egg.
"If it weren't for Scrap, you two would be feathering your nest at Stonegate Penitentiary!" Penguin said to the two thugs of his to have the special egg. "Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by this sweet egg, which we have scrambled for?"
Sherman immediately recognizes it as the Vonalster Fabergé Egg, as well as recognizing the Penguin, and decides that they must alert the authorities. Seems that this boy was smart for his friend to learn about this now. For Sherman to ask Roberta that she reads the newspapers or not.
"Don't you read the papers?"
And then she said…
"Do the comics count?"
However, Penguin's vulture, Scrap, notices them and tries to attack, but Batman catches it in a net, with Megan giving the bird an electric feeling from her watch, and buries Penguin and his men in birdseed and Batman pulled the lever.
"(Kids? Well, Bruce and I better make sure that they get out of here alive.)" she said to herself to join with Batman. "We'll be taking the egg with us now, boys. Thanks."
Batman scoops it out of Penguin's hands.
"Batman!" surprised Penguin and his two henchmen.
"So this is the Penguin?" Megan looks up that man on her computer book.
As Batman tells her the rest about Penguin.
"In the flesh himself…His real name is Oswald Cobblepot. Born with a short, wobbly body and a bird like nose, Oswald Cobblepot's appearance made him an outcast in his rich, debutante family. Their rejection drove him to become violent criminal. In keeping with his family's tradition of wealth, the Penguin lives a life of crime and evil, yet executes it with his own self-proclaimed high society class and style. He commits crimes with the theme of the various birds he loves. Unlike most some of the other villains, The Penguin is in control of his own actions and perfectly sane, creating a unique relationship with his arch enemy with me the most. The Penguin's trademark are the various deadly umbrellas he uses to execute his evil plans."
Penguin's umbrella had a lot more than from its looks.
"So I could tell from my computer book." said Megan. "Well, I'm glad we got the egg and the vulture at his place for payback."
Now Penguin was mad at his two enemies to try stopping him again. Well, for Batman and Megan being the first time seeing her.
"Get that Cape Crusader and his girlfriend!" he orders his men.
Penguin had to say that part of Megan as Batman's woman and all, since they work together to stopping crime and all for the rumors to be spreading a lot.
"Girlfriend?!" As Penguin and his two henchmen had trouble getting out of the birdseed pile, Sherman and Roberta try to escape, but accidentally activate a conveyor belt leading to a grinder. "Batman! The kids!" Megan points it out to him. "We need to save them! Of all places, they ended up is a factory to still be working!"
Batman manages to save the kids for Megan turns off the machine by hacking into it in time.
"Wow!" Roberta was amazed. "Batman in the flesh and Megan Tsuki the bounty hunter. Are you sure you two aren't going out?"
"What?" Megan was still lost. "At least you two kids are not hurt."
Batman kicks down the door to let the two kids escape safely from the danger.
"Get out! Now!"
"Y-Yes, sir!" said Sherman.
Once Sherman and Roberta were out of the building, Megan and Batman advance on the Penguin, but is hit with a gas pellet from the umbrella that causes Batman to weaken.
"Stop right there, bird brain!" Megan had her gun out.
"You should've taken your own advice, Batman."
In coming fire from Penguin's umbrella.
"Get back, Megan!"
Penguin fires it at Batman for he shoves Megan away from the danger in time.
"Batman? Batman, no!" Megan panics. "Hang in there, let's help you back at the Batcave to get you treated. Let's go…!"
Staggering and retreating outside to get into the Batmobile, he collapses. Sherman and Roberta, who are nearby, shove him in and get into the vehicle themselves for Megan couldn't do it alone.
"Batman's in trouble. We have to help him out." Sherman lens Megan a hand.
"I'm not so sure about this, Sherman." so says Roberta.
Megan sees the two kids coming back to help them out.
"It's you two!"
"Sherman, reporting for duty, Ms. Tsuki. And this is my best friend and partner, Roberta."
Given that Batman needed some help, Megan allows it.
"Okay. Stay close to me and help me put Batman in his Batmobile." she orders them.
But then, Penguin and his two goons rush outside of the building to stop them.
"Grr…! It's the little brats! Stop them!"
Megan uses her baton to hold the other goons and Penguin too off while Sherman and Roberta got themselves and Batman out of danger.
"You kids go." she said. "Get yourselves and Batman out of here! Keep him safe!"
"But what about you, Ms. Tsuki?" ask Roberta.
"I'll find a way. Just hurry! I'll catch up somehow…!"
Here comes trouble…
"Get them!" shouted Penguin.
Sherman and Roberta get inside 'and they didn't want to leave Megan' only to save Batman first.
"Then let's get going!" said Sherman.
"Do something!" Roberta panics.
Desperate to close the car while Megan was fighting off two of the men alone, Sherman starts erratically pushing buttons and eventually manages to get the car shut just before the crooks get there.
"(Yes! Nice one, you two!)" Megan punch and kicks the two men since the gas weaken them. "(Next time, Bruce, make a booklet on what works your Batmobile…)" However, Penguin and his men climb onto the car and try to break in. Frightened, the kids start the car and take the criminals on a wild, hazardous ride. Good for Megan to see Batman and the two kids getting out of the mess alive, but still too dangerous to be driving. "Ah! Sherman! Roberta! You two don't know how to drive!"
Eventually, the criminals are thrown from the car, and the kids manage to escape. This was Megan's chance to track Batman down by using her watch to help him out and quickly in her car.
"Be-fouled by a couple of fledglings!" angered Penguin to see Megan making a run for it.
With Megan tracking Batman, down to know that the Batmobile drove Batman, Sherman, and Roberta to safety somewhere in town for her to head on out.
"(I better find Batman.)" she was then tied up. "Ah! What the-?!"
Until Penguin uses his other umbrella part to have lots of ropes tie her out, for the two henchmen grab hold of her and capture by gun…Or an umbrella point for the Penguin had a hostage to get to Batman and using her computer book to hack into anything.
"Megan Tsuki, the mysterious bounty hunter of Gotham and Batman's pretty partner. I caught you…I have a forceful favor to ask of you."
"Oh, no…!" Megan panics. "(Bruce…)"
This was bad here…Back in Sherman's basement, Batman is laid upon a couch and manages to force out the word of Megan's name to be worried about her and the word… 'cap... sule'. The kids don't understand his meaning and Batman tries to further explain but only manages to say 'visor'. This doesn't help anything either. Roberta decides that it's time to call the police, but Sherman refuses, claiming they must protect the identity of their client. On the streets of Gotham, Penguin drives around to find the Batmobile as he uses Megan's computer book to try finding them both.
"Keep looking for that car and Batman himself, boys." Penguin order the two men to keep on driving around.
"Right, boss!" the two said at the same time.
Megan was all tied up to do anything to get herself out of this mess.
"Untie me, bird brain! And hands off my computer book!" she had trouble breaking free! "I won't let you hurt Batman and those kids!"
"Why? Because your boyfriend saved your life and you owe him one by stopping me?" Penguin mocked Megan to shows a sword umbrella thing pointed at Megan's neck to move around slowly. "I'm touched. Well, just a little…But I want to thank you for letting me use this gadget of yours, good tracking device on my arch-enemy. I think I might keep it."
And hacking into it for a villain like Penguin was bad enough.
"So…? What of it?!"
"Women these days…" Penguin was still tracking down Batman. "Those little brats…Lucky to save Batman, but they shouldn't have gotten too far. I should know."
One didn't think that they'll get the egg back by finding Batman first.
"But, boss, what about the Batman?"
"Batman's a worm, less than nothing. A worthless pest to seek a mate to be crushed in the end like Megan here, a cockroach." said penguin. "Well, using her as a shield is worth having with us."
Megan hated bugs to be call one to get on her nerves a little, but was more worried about her safety, Batman, Sherman, and Roberta's more.
"(A cockroach?! Me?!)"
"And besides, the gas I used on him will keep him out for a week." Penguin sees that his pet vulture was finding Batman for his owner. "A powerful stun gun for humans to use differently on animals, I made it myself."
Man, Penguin's mess up! As Sherman's mother leaves the house for now, to tell her son and Roberta on what they were doing right now.
"Sherman! What are you doing down there?"
Sherman comes up with something to answer back to his mother.
"Nothing, Mom!" he said.
"You're not trying to make gun powder again, are you?"
Sherman tells the truth on one part.
"No, Mom."
Then Roberta says this to Sherman's mother.
"We just saved Batman's life, Mrs. Grant, and now, we're protecting him from some bad criminals." Roberta tells Sherman's mother.
Well, seems like they were playing from the sound of it.
"That's good. Just don't make a mess."
Later, Frank and Nick show up and discover the Batmobile after knocking over the boxes that hide it. While playing around in it, they discover a package of capsules under the car's visor. Sherman suddenly realizes what Batman meant and takes the capsules, but Scrap arrives and sees the Batmobile. Sherman manages to run inside and is followed by the older boys. Upon discovering Batman, they try to unmask him, but Sherman stops them. Penguin, his men, his vulture, and Megan arrived.
"Sherman! Roberta! Get Batman out of there-!"
Penguin fires an acid gun of his umbrella at a trash barrel to be melted in seconds to do the same to Megan's legs next if she kept quiet, not good at all and to get dragged out of the car with them.
"Please don't shout, Megan, or I will hurt your limbs…" he was serious about it. "But not your face, I'm thankful for the odd book of a computer to hold on to for myself. Now come along, my dear."
Soon enough for Batman to be treated, the Penguin and his men 'with Megan as their hostage' arrive and disable the phones, thereby preventing the kids from calling the police.
"So much for making a call now, huh boss?" one member said while laughing.
The trio breaks in and begins to search the place.
"(Batman…!)" Megan was worried. "(Please get better or Penguin will hurt the kids next to be ten times worse!)"
"Sounds like no one's home." said another member.
"Yeah, the place is locked up tight."
Like that'll stop Penguin.
"Like that'll stop us from getting the egg back. I know a way in…" Penguin uses his umbrella to break off the doorknob. "Gentlemen, after you. And Megan, stay in front of me to make sure that no one won't give us the funny business. Or else…!" already he tears up the house. "Oh, how bourgeois. Tearing this place apart could only improve it!"
As they do Megan had a feeling that the kids with two more of them had some tricks up their sleeves, they run into traps set by the kids using equipment from Batman's utility belt to try saving Megan's life. Unfortunately, the traps only prove to be minor delays. One by one it was happening and Megan was enjoying the show.
"Ha!" she laughs. "This is what you get for messing with Batman's fans who are kids, Penguin! They're clever than you think they are!"
"Like this will stop us!" Penguin kept Megan as his shield. "Try stopping us, you little brats! I dare you! Give us the egg and Batman, of his lady friend here gets it…! Nothing's distasteful than cheap furniture in this house hold!"
With Frank and Nick helping Batman get up, Roberta and Sherman run downstairs to uses the other weapons to throw some stun gas and rope around Penguin.
"Charge!" said Sherman. "Now, Roberta!"
The bird's been tied up, and Roberta uses a knife from Megan's watch to cut her loose.
"Let's go, Ms. Tsuki!"
"Nice shot, you two!" Megan slaps Penguin in the face to get her computer book back. "Told you so, and I'll be taking this back. Thank you."
Megan was saved thanks to Roberta, Sherman, Nick, and Frank's team work.
"Batman will be alright now as you are too, Me. Tsuki, stay close to us." said Sherman. "Be careful, Roberta, don't get to close to this certain type of Penguin."
Megan high-fives the two kids.
"You two did it!"
After being ineffectually assaulted by the kids…Penguin breaks free by using his umbrella.
"Ah, how cute. Two children or more protecting their nest. Not bad!" he breaks free. "But…No more! Grab those pest and Megan too!"
Megan uses her yo-yo's to tie the two men up, to slow them down long enough for her to get Sherman and Roberta downstairs of the basement.
"Run, you two! Let's go!"
The three runs down the basement in time to lock the door and Penguin cuts his men loose to be free and try breaking down the door, Megan sees Batman was doing fine for the pill to be healing his body and to wake up at any moment now.
"Ah, man…" Frank was freaking out.
"Batman!" Megan runs up to him. "Is he okay?"
"He's not awake yet?" ask Sherman.
Nothing yet so far…
"Frank thought he saw Batman's eye blink." said Nick to see Megan in person. "Wow, you're Batman's partner…?"
"She pretty…"
Well, Megan let's both Frank and Nick down gently.
"Sorry, boys, but neither of you two are not my type." she said. "You two will get yourselves girlfriends when you're older." Megan heard the door breaking down to be ready this time. "(Oh, no!) All four of you, get behind me! Keep Batman safe until he wakes up! (I must try! I need to stop Penguin and save them all!)"
Penguin and his men finally break into the basement, where Penguin finds the egg and tries to kill Batman with a blade from his umbrella.
"Well done, little ones." said the Penguin. "All of you may had outsmarted us, but in the end, I win. I always win! Now back away!"
Megan fires a warning show at the three men right near their face with her gun.
"Get back! All three of you!"
But the two men had their weapons to surround all four of the kids.
"Don't make me hurt the little ones, Megan, lower your weapon." Penguin gets his egg back. "Ah, it's safe. A nice tasty egg, with a slice of ham…"
Penguin was about cut Batman into a ham-like state for Sherman, Roberta, Nick, and Frank were stuck to watch the horror happen.
"No!" cried out Sherman.
"Stop!" Megan warns Penguin.
He just laughs to know that he has this fight in the bag.
"Megan…Your weapon, or the children's lives…?"
Having no choice, Megan drops her gun on the floor to see Batman get hurt than the kids.
"No…" Megan was worried.
"Good girl. And now…!" Penguin goes in closer to Batman. "Farewell, Bat-Vermin…"
However, Batman finally snaps out of his stupor and attacks as Megan kicks Penguin from behind to get hit from the sharp weapon, allowing Batman to crush it with his bare hands in time. The weapon was no more than a broken umbrella.
"Batman!" Roberta was happy.
Megan's hand was cut but she'll live to make Batman a bit angry on what Penguin almost cutting her face off.
"You're okay, Batman!" she gets her gun back by using her foot to kick it back into her hands. "Now then…!"
"Megan." Batman grabs hold of the Penguin. "Back off, Penguin…!"
Penguin's thugs try to stop the two…
"Gentlemen, please stop those two." he said. "Take no prisoners!"
Megan easily manages to beat Penguin's thugs for Batman's sake.
"Oh…! No! You! Two! Don't!"
She gives one a throw down with her fighting skills to pistol whipping one, as the other uses a huge plank for her to hold down without getting whacked; only for eyes to glow strangely again to somehow break the weapon in two and punches the other one many times to the stomach. As well as using her baton to his him on the head to fall on top of his partner to the floor. The four kids were loving this.
"You go, girl!" Frank and Nick cheer her own.
"Wow…I wish I was her." Roberta was loving it.
"All right!" same with Sherman.
Soon it was Penguin's turn to use his umbrella to be a sword instead.
"Looks like I'll stop your girl and I'll clip your wings, you flying rodent!" angered Penguin.
Batman stops Megan for it was his turn now.
"Thanks for the help, Megan, but I got this one."
"But, Batman…" she tries talking to him.
"Just protect the children." said Batman to worry about her. "Your hand…"
"Oh, this cut?" Megan sees it. "I'm fine, but I guess I'll let you have your fun now." she stays close to the four kids. "Give Penguin a beat down for me!"
Batman smiles a bit to do just that for Megan as she does her part in return.
"With pleasure."
Some odd sword fight this was turning out, huh? Penguin almost thought that he had the edge against Batman for Megan kept the kids strong…
"Sherman. Roberta. You two and your other friends stay close to me."
"Still in a daze, Batman?" Penguin mocks him.
And after a brief sword fight for Batman to go against the Penguin (in which Batman uses a screwdriver), he manages to capture the criminal mastermind by kicking him to the ground.
"Not…Really!" Batman fights back.
That he does for Penguin was down and pin down from things falling on top of this birdy for good. As for Penguin's bird, Megan has it covered by using a frying pan.
"Bye, bye, birdy. (Nicely done, Bruce, again you've out done yourself.)"
The kids laugh and joy as they did it in saving the day.
"We're saved!" Frank said with joy.
Just then, Mrs. Grant arrives and is furious to find her house in such a state.
"My house! Sherman!"
Looks like Sherman's mother came back at a very bad timing without knowing what was really going on.
"Maybe you're safe." he said.
"Young man, you got some serious explaining to do-!" However, she forgets about being angry when she sees Batman and Megan.
Now she knows what happened to her home.
"Ah, yeah…Sorry about your house, Sherman's mother." Megan explains. "Batman and I had to save your son and his friends from these bad guys. But it's all good in the end." she patches her hand up.
"Mom, I like for you to meet Mega Tsuki and her boss/boyfriend Batman." Sherman said to his mother. "Batman, this is my Mom."
"Ma'am." Batman said to her.
Seems like Sherman's mother was speechless on how hot Batman was to her.
"Ah...Hello…"
"Say, Ms. Tsuki, are you sure you and Batman aren't dating?" Roberta asks Megan.
With Frank and Nick out of their league, Sherman agrees with Roberta on that part.
"Do you know, Ms. Tsuki?" he asks Megan the same thing. "My Mom likes Batman."
She still didn't get it.
"What with you kids? We're partners in fighting crime, and…" she just drops the subject. "Ah, forget it!"
Later, Sherman hangs up two newspaper articles about the Penguin's humiliating capture and Scrap being taken to the Gotham Zoo. Sherman now has the respect of Nick and Frank and Roberta to still be working with her friend, who are now working with him on his own Jr. Detective agency. As Batman and Megan to be doing just fine to see that and then they take off. Once Batman places his hand on Megan's cut one to soon heal back up in no time.
"I'm glad to see you're doing better, Megan, thanks for saving me."
"No, you should be thanking Sherman, Roberta, Frank, and Nick for saving our lives yesterday." she said. "It goes to show you that kids can do anything that put their minds into it and they did, I'm just happy they saved you from that gas you took from Penguin's doing. I have to fix my computer book from getting hacked by Penguin or his goons ever again."
Megan was doing so right now for she was good at technical things.
"You're right about that." said Batman.
"Ah, Bruce…You can let go of my hand now…"
Bruce does so for him and Megan to feel shy after that to look at each other again.
"Sorry."
"Don't be, thanks for checking on me." Megan said to still be working. "Anyways, we better check on the town from a few more times before heading back home. Still need to fix this…So much repairing to do."
Batman walks Megan out of Sherman's yard to work on her computer book right away.
"I think I can teach you a few things back in the Batmobile." he said. "I know a thing or two in getting computers to work again."
This was new to Megan, but she might've known that since Bruce/Batman was good at those types of things.
"Better than having it hacked by the bad guys again, I don't see why now."
"I have my ways to make it better this time."
Well, from those two as the heroes of Gotham and the four kids as junior detectives…anyone at the right age can do anything! And this episode proves that much, and we already know of children can do anything for sure.