Elsa's tour of Gotham City started out well, Jim showed Elsa the GCPD building, the light that they shined to signal the Batman, and many of the city's historical buildings. But then Jim made the mistake of showing Elsa Wayne Enterprise, and before Jim knew it Elsa ran off to try to fine Bruce Wayne.
"Where's Bruce Wayne!" Elsa demanded to the secretary working the front office. "I need to speak to him at once!"
"I'm sorry but Mr. Wayne is not here right now, I can take your name and set up a appointment?"
"Queen Elsa of Arendelle!" Elsa said making the woman gasp when she heard Elsa was royalty. "Your boss Mr. Wayne promised me he would send over a construction team to my kingdom to build some new firms and I don't like promises being broken. Now I'm going to ask again, where is Mr. Wayne!"
"I don't know your majesty." The secretary said in a nervous tone "He is a really busy man and often goes places without telling anyone. But I'm sure his business Manager Mr. Fox can get you what you want."
"I don't care about Mr. Fox!" Elsa shouted startling the poor secretary "I care about Wayne! He was the one that I talked to, that I had a meeting with. So he needs to be the one that upholds his promise, not anybody else. Do you love your job Miss?"
"I love my job." The secretary said
"Good, If you want to keep it than you better get a hold of Wayne somehow. Because If he hasn't had anybody started on building that firm that he promised me by the end of the month, neither you nor anybody that in this building will be having a job for much longer!"
Elsa stormed out of the building leaving the secretary frozen in her seat in fear, her eyes widened and her mouth hung low not knowing what to say. It was right then that Jim walked up to the desk.
"Have you seen the Queen of Arendelle."
"She just left." The secretary said still sporting a terrified look on her face.
Jim walked out of the building and saw Elsa waiting for him by the car. Her arms crossed and her back leaning against the passenger side of the door.
"Gee, what did you do in there to get that girl so terrified?" Jim asked.
"I'm just making sure she gets the message out to Mr. Wayne."
"Well by the look on that woman's face I think you got the message out loud and clear." Jim said "Anyway there is one more thing I want to show you. You ever been to a football game?"
"I've been to a few in Arendelle, it's a pretty popular sport there."
"Well then you need to see A Gotham City football game while you are here."
Gotham City's version of football was nothing like what Elsa knew. For starters all the players were wearing so many pads that she couldn't tell what the players even looked like. Plus instead of nets they had two huge yellow tower like things that they called goal post. And the field was marked by yards. The thing that surprised Elsa the most however was that instead of a perfectly round white and black checkered ball, they had more of a oval shaped ball and was brown.
"This is not football." Elsa said
"Sure it is."
"No, where is the nets, the goalie, the white and black checkered ball? What is this?"
"Oh yeah," Jim said "Silly me, I forgot that you other countries have a different version then ours. The sport you are referring to is called soccer. This here is American football."
"They hardly even use their feet though." Elsa griped as she noticed the majority of the game was played with there hands. "How can you people call this football when you hardly use your feet, this is more like rugby why don't you call it that?"
"I didn't name the sport, I'm just a fan of it." Jim said. Elsa couldn't understand why anybody could be a fan of something so violent. Players where tackling people to the ground, colliding into each other and ramming into other players heads.
As Elsa was still trying to find the joy of the game she noticed a man on the row below her yelling curses at the referee every time he threw a flag on Gotham's team. It didn't matter if the flag was justified or not either, every time a flag was thrown the man would cry out how stupid and blind the ref was and unleash a wave of swear words that were not appropriate for a public gathering like this. The man didn't even care that there was couple with two small children in the seats next to him that was very uncomfortable with the man's language and covering their kids ears. After the man cussed out the ref again, dropping the F bomb as he called asshole, Elsa finally had enough and approached the man.
"Hey can you please watch your language sir? There are kids here that you are making uncomfortable."
"Oh I'm sorry, am I offending you with my language?" The man mocked, "Why don't you go stuff a sock in your ears then if you get bothered by a little bit of language then little. Or better yet leave so us grown ups can enjoy the damn game."
Now usually Elsa was a calm person, but one thing she couldn't stand was being disrespected. And not only was this guy disrespecting her but the people around him who he was disturbing with his language. Elsa had to put a stop to this and so she turned to the family who the guy was disturbing and whispered in their ear softly enough so Mr. Potty mouth couldn't here her. Then Elsa took the drink Jim bought her for the game and chunked it at the referee. The drink hit the ref in the back and the ref instantly turned around and demanded to know who throw it.
"He did it." Elsa said pointing to Mr. Potty mouth.
"What?" The guy said "No I didn't it was the lady!"
"It was to him ref." The family all said together.
"All right sir, get up and leave." A security guard said forcing the man out of his seat.
"They're lying, that bitch threw the drink!" The man continued to gripe as he was led out of the stadium. Elsa just smiled as the mother thanked her and went back to enjoying the game in peace.
"Well I think you just created Gotham's next super villain." Jim said as he watched the whole thing "But I can't say the guy didn't had it coming." Elsa just chuckled as she turned her attention back to the game, thankful that they wouldn't have any more problems the rest of the game.
Outside the stadium Nightwing was watching Elsa through a pair of binoculars while he sat on a rooftop. With Barbara off having to get her apartment ready for her dinner guests she left Dick in charge of keeping a extra eye on Elsa in case something happened.
"Anything?" Barbara asked Dick over his earpiece. Barbara still had her earpiece in so that she could keep in contact with Dick and Alfred while she got her apartment ready.
"Nothing." Dick said "So far Elsa and your father are just enjoying the game."
"Good, let me know if something happens"
"Master Dick, I hate to bother you but something has come up." The two suddenly heard Alfred come in.
"Talk to me Alfred." Dick said
"Scarecrow is back again and was spotted on Logan Avenue."
"Logan Avenue..." Dick caught on "That's where Professor Max Fletcher lives."
"Then I suggest you get a move on Master Dick." Alfred said
"I'm coming too." Barbara said
"But what about...?"
"Dick, Scarecrow has proven to dangerous to be taken on single handily. I've already done it twice and it has cost two lives already. I'm no going to let there be a third. I'll meet you there, hold on."
"I'm afraid she's right Master Dick but Miss Gordon I do suggest you hurry."
"I'm putting on the cowl and heading out as we speak, now go Dick, hurry, I'll meet you there."
When the two arrived at Professor Fletcher's house the two already heard screaming coming in from inside.
"Shit, he's already struck." Batgirl complained, Nightwing wasted no time kicking the front door in as the two of them searched around for both Fletcher and Scarecrow. Unfortunately Scarecrow was nowhere to be found.
"Crane is gone," Nightwing noticed "He's got away." The two heard screaming coming from Fletcher's room.
"We can still save Fletcher though." Batgirl said hurrying over to his room. Batgirl tried to twist the doorknob but noticed the door was locked.
"Dr. Fletcher," Batgirl said in a calm voice, "Please open the door."
"Get away from me demon!" The two heard Fletcher cry from inside.
"Dr. Fletcher there is no demons." Batgirl said trying to get Fletcher to calm down. "It's the fear gas, it's making you hallucinate. Please open the door."
"Get away!" Fletcher continued to scream.
"He's not going to open it." Nightwing said, "Maybe I can get through to him through the bedroom window."
"Okay, but be careful and take this." Batgirl handed Nightwind a Batarang.
"What is this for?"
"Fletcher is in a state of panic, he might be armed."
"Good point." Nightwing stuffed the batarang in his belt and sneaked out the front door and made his way to where Fletcher's bedroom was believed to be. As Nightwing reached Fletcher's bedroom he peaked threw the window and saw Fletcher standing at the door with a gun in his hands.
"Looks like you made the right call on the batarang, he has a gun in his hands."
"Be careful Dick."
Nightwing slowly worked on trying to open the window, unfortunately Fletcher saw him and starting firing his gun, causing Nightwing to duck and the glass to shatter.
"Dick, are you okay, I heard gunshots."
"I'm okay." Dick got up and threw the Batarang knocking the gun out of Fletcher's hand. Nightwing then leaped threw the shattered window and tackled Fletcher onto the ground as he pulled out a syringe with the antidote to the gas.
"Sorry Fletcher," Dick said as he injected him with the antidote. Nightwing refused to get off Fletcher until he knew for a fact that Fletcher was calm. When Fletcher finally stopped struggling and his breathing calmed Nightwing finally got off and gave him some space.
"Where's Crane?" Fletcher growled.
"He got away" Nightwing said "Don't worry, we'll find him. Your safe now that's what matters."
"He made me saw my deepest fears. I thought I was going to die."
"Dr. Fletcher is there any other professors that Crane could be targeting? If so you need to tell us, it will save lives.
"Um, yes Professor Chuck Webster."
Batgirl then crawled through the window to join Nightwing and Fletcher "I'll contact the Commissioner right away, you stay here and call the police, tell them everything that Crane did to you."
"Oh, I'll let the Police know everything that man did to me."
Once Nightwing and Batgirl left Fletcher's home Batgirl got a call from Alfred.
"Miss. Gordon I have some info that might interest you on our mystery killer.
"Talk to me."
"Well the bad news is It's not Lazlo Valentine. He's serving a life sentence here in Blackgate. But there is one other name that is of interest. He currently isn't in any prison databases but I will look into him further before confirming him as our top suspect. A man by the name of Barton Mathis. I'll let you know more when I find out more."
"Keep up the good work Alfred." Barbara let out a sigh of relief. Not only did they actually save one of Scarecrow's potential victims but they could be making some progress on who their mystery killer is. Maybe, just maybe, they could be stop these two after all.
I hope you don't mind how much time I'm giving to the rest of the Bat family, mainly Batgirl. I always loved the fact of Batman working with a full team and it only made since he would need the extra hands when taking on cases outside of Gotham. After all, he's not Superman so he can't be on the other side of the globe in the blink of the eye so he would need a team to handle things in Gotham while he is away. Hope you are liking what I'm doing and you will probably see Batman again next chapter.