The New Batman Adventures 'Fan Fiction Love Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode # 105 - Love is a Croc
On a rerun from Love that Baby, a popular television show from the past, two parents come home from the store with groceries, only to find that their entire house has been flooded with bubble bath foam. Baby Doll? This person again?! The rerun is airing on a television in a Gotham City motel lobby. A married couple currently staying at the motel, the wife half-carrying the husband, walk into the lobby as the man asks if it's the right place as the floor is tilting.
"You sure this is the right hotel?" Harry asks his wife. "I don't remember the floor going up hill."
Is this guy drunk or something?
"It's your head that's tilting." she then sees her husband trying to find something. "What now?!"
"The key. It must have fell out when the sidewalk hit me." His wife responds that it's his head that is tilting, and to her silent infuriation it turns out he lost their room key 'when the sidewalk hit him'; he's clearly drunk.
The woman approaches the front desk agent to explain about their room key. When the childlike woman uses a bar stool, which she's standing on, to get them a duplicate key from the board, the husband recognizes the employee to be Mary Louise Dahl, the former star of Love that Baby. Despite his wife's horrified protest, the drunken lout rudely points out that she is a has-been, and insensitively talks about her condition that doesn't allow her to grow, saying that it caused her 'to go nuts and tried to kill Batman'. He muses Dahl's bun to release her hair and tells her to 'Do something funny'. Having finally reached the end of her patience, she responds in kind by grabbing him by the nose, slamming his face into the sign-in book and slamming the cover on his head. Still angry but with calm sarcasm, she tells the husband...
"Sorry, I didn't mean to." said Dahl. "Why don't they ever understand? I'm not a baby. I'm not a child! I'm just...different!" Dahl stalks out of the lobby and into her room, where she goes into an emotional rage, lamenting how she's 'just different' from everyone else.
She then turns on the television and watches the live courtroom competency hearing of Killer Croc, who pleads to the judge that he has been the victim of persecution because he is 'just different' from everyone else.
"Have you anything to say before I pass judgment?" the judge asks Killer Croc.
"Yeah. I'm a victim of prejudice." he said. "Look at me! Nobody understands how rough my life's been. Just 'cause I'm different."
Yeah, but only because he kills for fun to be so messed up. Dahl lights up, believing she has found a kindred spirit.
"Nevertheless, it is the judgment of this court that you, Killer Croc, are competent to stand trial for murder in the first degree."
Unmoved by Croc's speech, the judge finds him mentally competent to stand trial for first degree murder. Once the judge says that, Croc cuts loose to cause trouble again.
"Competent! Competent? That's an insult, you old bag of gas!" he breaks free. "I'm not just competent, I'm as good as it gets!"
Croc becomes enraged and breaks free from his straitjacket and shackles, causing a panic. Bailiffs and orderlies try to sedate Croc, but his savage strength easily overpowers them. Megan sees this going on to call up her boyfriend.
"Killer Croc again...? Yo, Bruce, it's me. You know what's happening? Good, then I'll meet you there." Megan tells him.
Dahl cheers for him to escape. Croc jumps out a window and begins a rampage but Batman and Megan arrived, knocking his head through the grille of a moving truck even for Megan to give Killer Croc a double kick while she was at it.
"Time to put you in the cage where you belong, Croc." said the Dark Knight.
Croc frees himself then catches a Batarang in his mouth and chews it up, spitting it out at Batman's feet.
"Now that's bad for your teeth." said Megan to see something being thrown at them. "Batman, heads up!"
Croc rips off the grille and hurls it. Dodging it, Batman continues to give chase and manages to tackle Croc into a brick wall, then stuns him with a punch and Megan ties him up with her ribbons.
"Not again...!" Killer Croc said before passing out.
"From us hitting him, it took a brick wall to slow him down. How sad."
With Megan cuffing Killer Croc somehow, Dahl has left the motel and arrives at the courthouse just in time to see Batman and Megan both Sedating Croc with his jet injector, recapturing him.
"Those two..." Dahl wasn't too happy about all of this.
Later in jail, Croc is being held in a special water tank. A guard brings Dahl to see him as a visitor. She feeds him several chickens to get his attention.
"What do you want?" Killer Croc asks her.
"I heard what you said to the judge. I want you to know that I understand about being different. You've never let the way you look undermine your self-confidence. I admire that. I feel somehow that we're kindred spirits."
For Dahl, she understood Croc to not give up. But still, does she really want to trusts a criminal like him?
"Too bad we didn't meet sooner, babe. They're sending me up the river tomorrow night. My number's up."
"Don't lose hope." said Dahl. "Maybe fate will take a hand."
Dahl tells Croc they are kindred spirits because they both know the pain of being 'just different' from everyone else. Croc tells her that he'll be sentenced to death the next day, but Dahl tells him not to lose hope. I think Baby Doll's coming back again...By the next night, Mary Louise Dahl has officially checked out and Baby-Doll is back. As authorities are transferring Croc to state prison in a police van, Baby-Doll poses as a child in the middle of the road, causing them to swerve off the road and roll down an embankment. Baby-Doll electrocutes the guards that are still standing and liberates Croc. Baby-Doll hugs her 'precious' and professes her love for him. Croc is confused with her behavior, but he's not about to turn down a 'get out of jail free' card. With Megan hearing about this once Gidget showed her the news on the screen, it didn't look good for her to learn about it and then Batman.
"What the?!" she reads it. "Killer Croc escaped with Baby Doll at it again...? (Anyone but her!)"
Sometime later, Baby-Doll and Croc have made a home in the sewer, patterning it after a fifties family home.
"Hey, Babe! I'm home!"
Baby-Doll runs up to Killer Croc to be hugging and kissing him.
"*Gasp!*" she said. "Crocky Wockle! Where have you been? Baby miss her precious so-o-o-o much!"
Now that's messed up!
"All right, all right!" he tells her. "Enough of the mushy stuff."
Croc, however, soon grows tired of the 'mushy stuff' and shows her a newspaper that describes them as 'Gotham's Bonnie and Clyde'. Croc opens a cupboard containing piles of money and stashes some in his overcoat, telling her he'll be back for dinner. Baby-Doll tries to convince him to stay, but her nagging just pushes him out the door that much faster. Croc departs angry, leaving behind a sad and confused Baby-Doll. Megan tells her boyfriend Bruce/Batman already about what was happening 'even for Baby Doll to fall for someone like Killer Croc', later on Batman also explains to Batgirl, riding in the Batboat, that Baby-Doll is basing all their crimes near water, playing to Croc's strengths.
"Any leads?" Batgirl asked.
"It would seems that those two are near water to rob the closes areas by far."
"Looks that way." Megan shows them from her computer book. "From Baby Doll as back up with the smarts, leaving Killer Croc to be all the muscles...and yet, I think that crazy girl's in love with this guy." she was gross out. "That's mess up."
No kidding, which leaves to question Batgirl about something...
"What do you suppose they do on a date?"
For Megan and Batman to look at each other to be dating well as a couple, only for those villains is more mess up. For him to pause and answers to have no clue at all.
"I don't want to think about it." he said.
"Me neither!" Megan aid to be holding Batman's hand. "At for our love is much different than theirs, huh Bruce? I'm kind of worried that Doll's heart will break. For some woman to fall for Killer Croc's bad news to me."
For the two to be holding hands, their love was much better than the other two bad guys.
"I agree with you on that one, Megan. Love is a strong thing to let feelings get in the way when heart broken." said Batman. "I think I know where their next heist's going to be."
Megan hacks into the system to learn of another hit from the waters tonight.
"I got it! Luxury cruise liner just south from us. Let's go." she said.
Meanwhile, on a luxury cruise liner, Baby-Doll distracts a female security guard and Croc robs the casino on board.
"I'm sorry, honey." the officer tells her. "Children aren't allowed in the casino."
"I'm not a children. I'm all growed up!" said the acted Baby-Doll.
Croc and Baby-Doll empty the money into a sack, and everyone in the casino runs out screaming. Noticing the commotion, Batman, Megan and Batgirl board to stop Croc and Baby-Doll from making their escape.
"There's our odd couple." said Batgirl.
Soon Killer Croc and Baby Doll were stopped by Batman, Megan, and Batgirl to be standing in their way.
"Not good."
"Don't move, you two!" Megan had her gun out. "Doll, step away from Croc peacefully. He's no good for you and he murders people. Hello?!"
The two lovers of crime make a run for it.
"Time for some hide and go seek, Crocy." Doll had a plan.
Batgirl's Batarang cuts open the sack spilling the money and slowing the crooks down, but Croc physically bests Batman by tossing a big six wheels at him.
"Batman!" Megan tries to use her yoyo's to slow Croc down to break them all in half with his bare hands.
"Heads up!"
Killer Croc uses one of the money holders to hit Megan with to go down. Trying to get to Batman's side for Batgirl checks on the two.
"Are you guys all right?" she asks them.
The table hits a hanging neon sign, causing it to fall and explode, throwing heavy debris on them. Baby-Doll and Croc escape with only some the money, but Batman sees them leave a trail of loose bills leading to the pair going into the sewers.
"Serves you right, you mean old Bats and Megan." Doll stick her tongue out at them and leaves.
"Come on!" Killer Croc said.
For the three were beaten up badly to getting back up for the two villains to make their get away, Megan helps out Batman and Batgirl to go after them again.
"They're getting away."
Nice way for Batman to go off and running to see Batgirl was fine.
"I'm fine, thanks." she said to herself.
Megan wasn't too happy to use her powers to control something to hit the two with, so far to be getting better a little.
"Why those...! Ah!" Megan calms down to keep on going. "Batgirl, let's go. (Those two are gong to get it now!)"
Trying to following them out of the ship, as Batman sees the money trail leaving them somewhere to their hide out.
"Where are they going now?"
"Home." Batman answers back to Batgirl.
Inside their hideout, Croc breaks a lamp, angry with Batman and Megan. Baby-Doll tries to stop Croc from leaving again, but he knocks her off his leg with his coat. She follows him and finds out he's been sneaking out to see other women, and plans to, after a couple bigger jobs, to leave Gotham without her. Now that's just low! Leaving someone like that after what they've been through together, ouch...Megan spies on the two and knows what's going on next since she told Batman that she would follow and report back.
"(Oh, that little...! Ugly son of gun's using Doll after all! Stupid Croc! Still, we found their hide out, maybe I can tell Bruce about this-!)" Megan then gets tied up from an odd jump rope. "Ah! Hey!" she sees who has caught her. "Baby Doll!"
She hugs Megan.
"Hi, Megan, my bestest friend ever! Do you miss me?" she laughs like a kid to be in her serious self again. "Because I miss you too, and this time...I won't let go because Baby's not in a mood right now to be questioned...!"
Back at the hideout, she wakes him up to tell him that she's sorry for getting angry with him and that they have one more job to pull. Before leaving, he sees Megan tied up to have her left behind for Batman to slow him down.
"And what about Megan here?" he pulls her hair to see how helpless she was. "Want me to eat her?"
"No, no, let Batman save his girl so he can not follow us. With their love so sweet, our love is even better, right Megan?"
She tries to struggle her way out of the ropes but couldn't since Doll put her items away from the sewer room.
"You two are twisted! Croc, you got to leave Doll-!" her mouth gets gagged to keep quiet.
"No more talking no, Megan, be nice!" she laughs to ride on top of Croc's shoulders again. "Now, come Precious, let go to that heist."
With Killer Croc laughing to see Megan was about to meet her end for him and Doll to leave, this was really bad for Megan had to use her boot with a knife in it to cut herself free. And hurry! Later, Batman and Batgirl find the villains' 'home' in the sewers to be empty, save for a booby-trap bomb with Megan tied up next to it.
"Megan?!" shock Batgirl.
With the doll going off with Baby Doll's voice playing, the toy gator shows a bomb about to go off. As Megan gets free the rest and was able to talk thanks to Batman came to save her, she tells the two...
"Bomb!"
That they narrowly escape by hiding into the waters in time 'and Megan using her air bubble bottle for some air'. That was too close!
"Ordinarily, I don't approve of spanking, but in her case..." Batgirl said.
"Yeah, we get it...Thanks for the save you two." she hugs Batman. "My hero, Bruce."
He hugs her back.
"Now people see why we make a great couple. And Barbara, you'll get your chance." said Batman to get going. "Come on, I think we know where they'll be headed to next."
Before the sewer blew up, Batman finds a drawing indicating that their next target is the nuclear power plant on Mid River Island. Megan tells them on why they were going there.
"Oh, right! We have to stop Doll! She's about to set something off to take her and Croc because he cheated on her! I knew this would happen." Megan puts in the location to track them down. "Batman, lead the way!"
This was surprising to Batgirl to hear about this to not sound so good.
"Wait...! She's going to do what?!"
At the plant, Baby-Doll and Croc have incapacitated the guards, and she tells him how the reactor will blow up Gotham.
"What's black and white and radioactive for twenty-thousand years?" Baby-Doll asks Killer Croc a question.
"What?" he goes along with it.
"Gotham City after the big boom, silly!"
Baby-Doll start up the machine for Killer Croc thought at first of doing this will get them the money.
"Uh huh. So now what? We call the cops and demand a pay off, right?" he asks her.
But it doesn't look or sound like it...
"No." Baby-Doll said to sound very serious. "We don't do anything."
He asks if they're going to demand a ransom payoff, but she reveals that she knows about his other girlfriends and that he doesn't really love her.
"What?! What are you saying?"
To his horror, Baby-Doll vows that they will both die together and take Gotham with them. Now she has completely lost it!
"The 'Kewpie Doll' knows all about your little excursions down to the docks." she said. "I won't let you betray me again. When the reactor reaches critical mass, you and I will die together, and take all of Gotham with us!"
Killer Croc demands she shut it down but she tells him to do it himself, which is clearly beyond him. Just then, both Megan and Batman come in and battles Croc, who warns that Baby-Doll is trying to cause a meltdown, but they already know about it.
"She's crazy! She's going to-!" Megan whacks him with her baton.
"Yeah, yeah, I told them already, Mr. Know-It-All." she said.
And while Batgirl knocks Baby-Doll away from the controls. Baby-Doll escapes the control room as the reactor is about to reach critical mass, but Batgirl succeeds in shutting it down safely.
"Can you stop it?" Batman asks Batgirl while fighting.
"In a minute you'll either know, or won't care." she said. "Megan, I could use some backup."
Gidget gets to it as Megan hacks into the rest by using her computer book ad her watch to pepper spray Killer Croc's eyes.
"Hey!" he was in pain.
And with luck, it was back to normal again.
"Done and done."
"I think we've got it." said Batgirl.
"Batman! Doll's escaping and Croc's going to kill her!" Megan gets her gun to go after them. "Gidget, you stay put!"
As Batman assigns Batgirl and Gidget to stay put and keep an eye on the reactor, Croc escapes to go after Baby-Doll, with Batman and Megan in pursuit. Well, at least it won't blow up Gotham anymore. Croc finds Baby-Doll and holds her over a spinning turbine. Megan runs on over with her gun out.
"Okay, Baby, now we're going to play my game."
"Croc! Let her go!" she said. "Doll, it wasn't your fault. But still, you've committed a crime for me to turn you both in."
"Zip it, Megan, it's between me and her." he said. "Say night-night now."
"No!"
He drops her but Batman swings across on his Batline and saves her. Croc then tackles Batman into a wall, which stuns him. As Croc carries Batman over to throw him into the turbine, his jet injector drops in front of Baby-Doll; she uses it on Croc and it gives Batman an opening to punch him.
"Nice lady Megan's right about one thing, love is beautiful not to kill someone like Batman and her!" she said.
"Nice one, Doll!" Megan cheers on.
"Ah!" Croc hate getting shocked. "Why you little-!"
The Dark Knight fights back. Croc tackles Batman down onto the turbine's walkway and tries to push his head into the machine, but the cowl's ears are revealed to be reinforced with metal and prevent it as Megan uses her ESP powers to pull him back up in time. Batman knocks Croc away from the turbine and into a wall near several pipes. Croc tries to pull out a smaller pipe attached to a large one to use as a weapon, but can't see the danger sign warning that the pipes carry pressurized hot water.
"Ah, Batman..." Megan points out the danger.
"Croc! Don't!"
Batman tries to warn him but it's too late; the attachment point fails, causing scalding water to blast Croc across the room and knock him unconscious. Well, Megan gives him a final kick to the head that really took him out and was finally caught again, same with Doll to go quietly this time. Baby-Doll runs over to Croc and tearfully laments how happy they could have been together.
"You shouldn't done it, Crocy, you shouldn't made Baby angry..." she said in tears. "We've could've lived happily ever after...just like on TV."
"Sorry, Doll. I did warn you." Megan said to walk over to Batman and hugs him. "Batman, you were right for some people in the world. Love does make you do crazy things when they are heart broken."
Being held in Batman's arms for Megan to hold his chest, for him to pat her head and say this to her...
"Sometimes, love hurts." he said.
We know that Kill Croc will be back again, and what's to say about Baby Doll? Who knows...it's hard to tell. But I do feel sorry for her 'almost'.