Batman: The Animated Series 'Fan Fiction Love Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode # 25 – Eternal Youth
In the dead of night, a woman runs, panting with fear, through a remote forest, being pursued by a mysterious figure in a jumpsuit. When the woman stops, out of breath, the figure catches up. The woman, Mrs. Thomas, begs for her life, having seen what has happened to the 'others', but the figure sprays Mrs. Thomas with chemical.
"You can't do this!" said Mrs. Thomas. "I've seen what you've done to the others!" she was begging for her life. "Please let me go! I'll pay anything!"
"You've done enough damage with your money."
Who was this mysterious woman? She sounds so familiar...
"You wicked, evil-"
The woman stops Mrs. Thomas from talking.
"Evil, Mrs. Thomas?" the woman wasn't afraid. "I don't control a company that leveled a thousand year old forest for a strip mine! That's evil!"
There is a creaking sound, and Mrs. Thomas becomes completely petrified. The next day, at Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne has an angry phone conversation with a Wayne Enterprises director who made an unauthorized deal with a slash-and-burn operation in the Amazon rain forest, and threatens to fire him unless he cancels the deal.
"I don't care how much money we'll lose! I won't have Wayne Enterprises involved in an operation that will destroy a rain forest! Shut it down, or you're fired!"
Megan over hears the whole thing while finishing up with her swimming laps from outside of Bruce's pool, a good work out for her and such….
"(Great…Which company got Bruce so worked up this time?)" she wonders to enter in the room. "Trouble with the rain forest thing again?"
"You could say that, Ms. Megan." said Alfred.
As Bruce explains to her…
"One of my greedy director solve out from the amazon strikes to be going on to cancel the deal, causing more trouble for business."
"Is like peta, only more violent to do anything to make something bad were to happen." Megan gets the point.
Alfred knows how Bruce feels too like Megan did.
"It's the good thing you got the deal any the other gentleman did."
"I hate it when things slip by me." said Bruce.
Well, he does have a point for crazy people who are too attach of the rain forest business thing 'on some of the parts'.
"And with me helping you to answer your mail, nothing will." Alfred sees one of the letters. "Ah, it says here you just won ten-million dollars."
Ain't that a surprise coming from Bruce Wayne himself?
"That's nice."
"I can see how you get the cool gears just by being Batman." Megan teases with Bruce. "It would make perfect sense."
He smiles for Megan was right to be cute about it. Alfred also has a video cassette tape for Bruce of some special thing to be going on…
"You also have a special tape from the company of a place call, Eternal Youth. Should I have a look?"
Bruce didn't mind at all if Alfred check it for him.
"Be my guess."
"A spa sounds like a lot of fun to go to." said Megan. "Massages, pool, mud baths, saunas, yoga, and such…But not a tanning booth, I hate those. Makes your skin turn into a peach-like color."
Seems that Megan like some parts about spas as Alfred plays the video for Bruce and Megan to watch and listen in. On it, two young women, Lily and Violet extend Bruce a personalized invitation to a free weekend at the spa of a place called Eternal Youth Spa from the Demetrite as it said the name of it. The video was pause when someone was knocking on the door; for Alfred answers the door to his special lady friend, artist Maggie Page, whose morning jog has taken her past the Manor. Sounds and looks like those two are very close than friends, huh?
"Maggie." Alfred was surprise to see her.
"Hello, love." She kisses Alfred on the cheek. "Care to join me for a morning jog?"
Though pleased to see her, he is a little embarrassed by her open flirting in front of Bruce and Megan. And too busy to go out while doing stuff in the Wayne Manor all day.
"Everyone's got a gimmick." said Bruce.
I guess people do have gimmick from time to time.
"Oh, cute! Alfred has a girlfriend name Maggie." Megan laughs to be teasing him a little.
Alfred tries to turn down Maggie's request a little without hurting her feelings.
"I would love to, but Master Bruce wants to be have a look at this tape."
Maggie looks at it.
"Eternal Youth." She said. "Sounds like fun." Maggie comes inside to say hit to Bruce and Megan too. "Good morning, Bruce. You too, Megan."
"Morning, Maggie." Bruce said to her.
Megan pats Maggie on the back gently.
"How's it going?"
Playing the rest of the tape, showing of so many things there…from nice baths, fresh handmade meals, to sports, and hiking too. So it says on the two by two of the woman with the special doctor involved of it all. To be young again in this program and such for Maggie seems to like it.
"You should try this, Bruce. From all of the work you do during the night times."
"I'm afraid my weekends are too busy for me." He said. "But if you and Alfred would like to go in my place."
Oh, boy…lovers together on this one, huh? Megan agrees with Bruce on that one.
"I could've said it better myself. Do it!"
Alfred stops the tape to try to say no.
"Thank you, sir, but I couldn't accept it." He said. "That's way too kind for you to offer to us."
"But I thought they said it was for free." Bruce had to tell his butler that part.
It was a free few day weekend alright.
"They did." Maggie said to him. "Alfey, don't be a silly old fool. A little fresh air will do us both some good. Megan will take care of Bruce for you. And…You've promise to take me somewhere." Alfred's face turns red to say this to Maggie.
"I'm afraid that's out of the question!"
Alfred stiffly declines, but Maggie is delighted and drags a less than enthusiastic Alfred along with her, or Megan tries to make him go with her.
"Ah, just go already, you love birds." She said. "I got everything all set, I worked at an orphanage to do some chores and protect Bruce. So you two have fun!"
So off Alfred and Maggie go there instead of Bruce. When they arrive at the spa and announce they are there to take Bruce's place, Lily and Violet confer with their boss, hidden in the shadows. The boss tells the girls to let them in — someone must pay for Wayne's crimes. The new guests at the spa are treated to a welcome lecture from the spa's founder, Dr. Daphne Demeter. She has invented a new compound, 'Demetrite', which has been imbued into the spa's food, drink, water, and air, and has miraculous restorative properties. Its Poison Ivy!
"After years of research in my lab, I have developed this enzyme, Demetrite, the secret of eternal youth."
So says Ivy to become someone name Dr. Daphne Demeter.
"Doesn't she look wonderful?" Maggie asks Alfred.
"Not a day over ninety."
Continuing on...
"Here you'll find Demetrite everywhere. In the water, the food, even the air you breathe at night." said Dr. Demeter.
Thought Alfred says this instead…
"What a relaxing thought."
Alfred does not hide his skepticism, but is pleasantly surprised by the tastiness of the water and fruit samples they are offered. At night, Gordon has been getting some bad reports to tell Batman and Megan about it right away in his office.
"It's a real brain buster, my friends. No ransom note, no goodbye note…no nothing."
Megan looks at the paper with Batman standing next to her to see what Gordon was getting on about. No doubt about, that someone was wrong from a woman name Mrs. Thomas was one of them.
"Hmm…Ms. Thomas of the industrialist person of a famous business building on landscaping." Megan reads it to her computer book. "Yeah, I've seen this woman before. A couple of some thugs tried robbing her money, and paid me to stop them which I did. And now she has gone missing, Gordon? Not good, she's a very nice lady to be my aunt if she was related to me."
"And she's not the only vanishing industrialist either." Gordon said. "Three more were reported this week."
He was right for Megan to look it up the rest.
"From product items, car sells dealers, and fashion designers. He's right, Batman, this is serious."
And with that, Batman and Megan knew what they had to do right away.
"We'll search at her penthouse."
"Good luck." Gordon hopes that they can find something. "We put that place under a microscope, and all we got was eyestrain. Maybe your bat-radar can-" he sees Batman has already took off. "Pft-Never mind…Megan, you and he know what to do."
Megan takes off outside to meet up with Batman.
"We're on it!" Ans so, there goes the two to do just that. In Mrs. Thomas' penthouse, both Batman and Megan find another promotional video for the spa. "Wait…Mrs. Thomas' gotten the same video you did, Bruce, look." Megan shows it to him.
They play the tape to see that it was the same place Alfred and Maggie went to. The next morning…Bruce calls Alfred at the spa, who duly inquiries about Mrs. Thomas and is told she left unexpectedly a few weeks earlier. Alfred adds that he is having a wonderful time, and will return to the Manor a new man, but Bruce is not entirely convinced.
"Alfred, are you okay?" he asks him on the phone.
"Never better, sir!" Alfred said over the phone. "Everywhere I turn, I see another sign of nature's-" Alfred sees Maggie naked and covered in mud. "Uh- beauty."
Megan just happens to overhear it.
"Wow…New happy Alfred sounds way different than the one we know of."
It would seem that those two lovely couples were having a good time, for Megan and Bruce were having trouble believing in this whole thing.
"Something's wrong."
"You're telling me, Bruce." Megan agrees. "Something is very wrong with that place; I just know it."
Indeed, when Maggie drops Alfred off after their weekend, he bids her a fond goodbye, complete with a kiss on the cheek.
"You know, Maggie, it's never occurred to me before how dreary this place looks."
The new Alfred is a bit…too cheerful to me.
"Small wonder, after where we've been." said Maggie.
"Ah, well. Thanks for a splendid weekend." Alfred gives Maggie a long kiss on the cheek before leaving.
Maggie blushes.
"You are feeling younger, aren't you?"
Such a cute couple they are. Later that day, Batman pulls the Batmobile 'with Megan tagging along' into the Batcave and is taken aback to see Alfred decorating the cave with potted plants.
"What in the…?" surprised Bruce.
The two got out of the Batmobile to be a weird forest-like state within the Batcave right now.
"Okay, since when did we have a garden of weirdness here?!" Megan was freaking out.
Now a firm believer in Demetrite, Alfred takes a dose in a glass of water, and suggests that Bruce and Megan do the same. Looks like he was still designing the place with even more plants to go around, lots more.
"Good to see you, sir !And you too, Ms. Megan!" said the happy Alfred.
Bruce and Megan never seen Alfred look or acted this happy before.
"You too, Alfred." said Bruce.
"Ah…likewise…?" Megan tries to put a smile on her face. "(Is he okay?) Ah…can we ask on what's with the jungle?"
Bruce must know too.
"Do tell."
"I thought this drab old cave could use some color." he answered. "How does it look?"
Really, Alfred? Aren't you overdoing it, just a little…? Bruce could only give Alfred this answer.
"Green." Bruce/Batman answer.
"Yes, so lovely." He said to get some water to drink. "All this work is making me very thirsty."
Alfred pours himself…wait…its that even water? It looks all green.
"What is that?" Megan asks him. "That's not water, more like something from a slug's slime."
"But it's special spa water, Ms. Megan. With a drop or two of Dr. Dr. Daphne Demeter's special stuff." Alfred drinks the stuff all the way down. However, he suddenly sways, and feeling faint to pass out.
"Alfred!" Bruce panicked. "Megan, give me a hand and get some DNA from him!"
"On it!" Megan uses her pen to get one drop from Alfred's blood from his finger. "Okay, now we'll bring Alfred upstairs to rest up and then we check that weird thing out…(Now everything's pointing out to that Eternal Youth Spa.)"
As Bruce and Megan must help him upstairs into bed, lucky to be okay to rest up on Alfred's end so he'll be fine.
"Really, you two, it was all from working very hard for me is all." said Alfred. "Or my weekend has been more tiring than I realize."
"Still, Bruce and I have to do some investigation." said Megan. "Right, Bruce?"
"While you get some rest." Bruce said so too. "Megan's right, we need to look it up to see for ourselves."
"Get some sleep now, Alfred! Later." Suspicious, the two take a sample of the Demetrite for analysis. For Megan smells the stuff to be dropped in the drink for that strange looking bottle that Alfred just took. "Ah! Sick!" she was gross out.
"Is it that bad?"
"Oh, big time! Smells like dead eel." Megan gets to work with Bruce. "Let just study this thing-!"
She'll be fine. The next morning, Alfred rises from his bed, takes in the morning sunshine, and instantly feels better. He sees Maggie outside his window, and they agree that they are sharing the same thought — they want to return to the spa. In the cave, Batman and Megan both test the Demetrite by combining equal amount of the enzyme with human plasma.
"Computer log continuing…the data with the formula is combine with the equal amount of the enzyme with human plasma." Bruce/Batman puts in to his computer.
"It also shows that it does slowly affect the human's mid-brains as well." Megan found out from her computer book to get some more information.
So now comes to the testing…
"Megan, give me the human plasma to test it with the enzyme. Hold it study while I pour in the other."
Megan does so for Bruce to do the rest.
"Pour away then…" The testing begins…It causes a violent chemical reaction, and a vine grows out of the test tube and catches Batman's arm. And more to Megan to be straggling her from her face to get covered up and was unable to break free from it, for it was still growing really fast! "AH! Bruce! Get this thing off me!"
"Megan!" Batman breaks free on his end. "I got you!" Batman breaks free to getting Megan out of there by using her watch to use a laser pointer with it to break, and he get the rest bare handed to freeing Megan to breathe again. Batman kept Megan close to him without leaving her side at all, she or him could've died! "Easy, Megan, take some deep breaths. You're all right."
Megan was freaking out a little.
"Same with you too you know." She said. "That was close! That thing came to life to be more effected on humans the more they have the…Oh no...Alfred!"
"Alfred?!" Bruce goes to check on his butler. "Alfred!"
Meaning that this mess has now turn very serious, the two rushes out of the Batcave to warn Alfred; however, he finds an empty bedroom. Not good for Bruce and Megan to see Alfred and Maggie both went back to the spa, they were in danger! As of everyone else was too.
"Alfred! Alfred!" Megan didn't like the looks of this at all. "(He and Maggie aren't the only ones in danger on these things they've been eating and drinking at the spa. This is bad!)"
Alfred and Maggie return to the spa, telling Dr. Demeter about what a difference she has made to them. With a sinister smile, Demeter backs away and says the couple is ready for the 'final treatment'. She motions Lily and Violet forward, revealing she is Poison Ivy. Alfred, too late, realizes the danger and orders Maggie to run, but the two henchwomen spray Maggie and Alfred with gaseous Demetrite, petrifying them both. Somehow, Megan knows where the spa was at with her placing a tracking bug-like device on Alfred's car to find him, Maggie, the other people, and the area itself.
"You found it?" Bruce asks her.
"Got it! A few blocks down the streets if we drive that's in the middle of nowhere…Let's go, Bruce." She was ready to go. "And yet, I have a strange feeling on who's behind it all."
Entering the spa's cathedral-size greenhouse at night 'for Batman to use his Batarang to cut the glass to make a hole from it carefully to enter in the place', Batman and Megan were surprised and taken prisoner by Violet and Lily. Then they hear a voice from behind them with her arrow out being Poison Ivy's doing 'saw that part coming'!
"You two go after the wrong people, Batman and Megan."
They see her…
"Should've known…" Megan saw this part coming.
"Poison Ivy." same with Batman. "Only you've devote yourself into denial to saving as the Goddess of Plants."
"More like a psycho path towards them if you ask me. Like I said, she's like a peta type of member!"
Then both Violet and Lily appear to be working for Ivy of course.
"Hey, high school grantee and his girlfriend!" said Violet with her weapon out.
With her and Lily all geared up to surround Batman and Megan with no way to stopping them now.
"Batman…What do we do now…?" Megan drawing her gun out.
But the two girls stop them from doing anything.
"Don't even think about it!"
"Now, now, girls." Ivy said to them. "Just tie up Batman and watch him, same with Megan too but I would like to have a word with her."
As Violet and Lily, do so for Batman was tied up and Megan too was brought to Ivy once again, what for this time?
"(What does she want with me…?)" Megan was lost. "Well, some forest you got here from the looks of it."
"Unusual trees." Batman said to Ivy.
Ivy herself appears and reveals that the Demetrite is a special growth enzyme extracted from a rare South American tree she has cultivated.
"A very rare type of tropical tree I picked up on. As rare as winter roses, Batman. And Megan…" she pats her on the face a little. "Why work with someone like him? To understand the ways that the two of us are the same? You should join me along with Violet and Lily too."
Ivy wants Megan on her side and not Batman's? Not good…!
"What? Join you?!"
"Please…? Join me. I'll show you why, I'll show you and with him as well." Ivy shows her work to them of her little lab. "I tab my sap for my growth enzyme. Which you two see here, in its purify and most concentrate form; the secret of the eternal youth, but you two haven't seen my most amazing trees." she laughs to show them some more. "Well, as I said to you, Batman, you and I are surprisingly alike. And Megan, I always like her skills on what she fights for more. I need more women like that on my team."
Megan had to ask Ivy for her and Batman were both force to walk with the two other girls for their boss to show them more.
"And how are we a lot like you and I?" ask Megan.
"Why you ask…? All three of us. We both strive to see evil-doers punished! But while you, Batman, have your gallery of rogues…" Ivy shows behind the curtains. "I have my grove."
With it, she has produced her 'collection' — her victims, all of whom own companies that have committed some environmental crime, and all of whom have now been transformed into humanoid trees.
"This can't be!" shock Batman.
"Oh…my…God…!" same with Megan too.
But why was she doing to all the rich and famous people for? All of this for the saving of the lands and plants? What a nut job!
"This dog of a dogwood leveled enough trees to shade a small state." She goes from one statue to another. "And weep not for this willow. She slaughtered an ancient forest to produce cardboard—CARDBOARD!" Ivy calms herself down after that. "Of course, I still owe Bruce Wayne from that slash and burn outfit. But for now, I can settle things well by having hold of his friends."
She claims to be after Bruce Wayne for his part in the slash-and-burn operation (not knowing it was one of Bruce's directors), but for now is content with his friends. She shows him Alfred and Maggie among the trees, enraging him. This was horrible for Batman and Megan to see them end up this was as everyone else was.
"Maggie! Alfred!"
Batman and Megan couldn't believe in this at all.
"Right now, the bark is only in exoskeleton." Ivy said. "It'll take some type for the spray to take full effect for it to be reversible. But of course, I have the patience of a redwood."
Not to those two don't see that, this made Batman upset right to the grin of his teeth.
"And the convictions of a fanatic!"
"Well, if you're not going to be part of the solution, Batman, then you're going to be part of the problem." Ivy then turns to Megan. "Come, Megan, you don't need him. A friend is all you need than a man in your life. Only plants to love like we do, so join us. Together, we can make Gotham into a beautiful place fill with life of beautiful plants. What do you say? Leave him and come with me."
Will Megan join? Well, she would never leave Alfred, Maggie, Ms. Thomas, or Batman behind for someone of a mess up plant lover like Poison Ivy was. With this, Megan has made her decision for she knows that she and Batman already have a plan in mind…
"Thanks for the invite, Ivy, really I'm flattered. But no thanks." She stands by Batman's side to be hugging him."You're a crazy witch that I hate and some of your plants too, so I rather be a tree with Batman or any danger with him than be part of your plant loving group! You stupid red head!"
Ouch! Ivy just got burned!
"Megan…" Batman knew Megan would stay with him. "I couldn't agree with you more."
"Thanks, Batman."
Seems that Megan was starting to like Batman little by little now, and being held by her. Well, how will they get out of this mess now? Ivy wasn't too happy about this.
"I see…Then prepare to become my new tree, Megan…! And Batman to be chop to tiny pieces only! Oh, ladies…"
Ivy sees that she must stop them both and orders Violet and Lily to spray them with a triple-strength mixture that should transform him almost instantly.
"Ah…Batman…!" Megan panics.
"Stay close to me, Megan!" he said to her. "It's fine, remember? Just trust me."
Megan trusts Batman no doubt and for them to get sprayed.
"This spray is triple in strength, Batman and Megan!" Ivy said to them. "It'll start the trans formation within seconds!"
It doesn't work on Batman or Megan at all, and the Dark Knight advances, explaining that he analyzed the Demetrite and coated himself and Megan too 'as she drank it' and his suit with an herbicidal antidote. As well as Megan gets Batman undone by using her boot as a hidden knife in it to free him and then Batman was doing the same for her next.
"Those two should be sprouting leaves by now…"
Think again, Ivy! Megan and Batman were both free.
"I don't think so, Ivy…" she had her gun out to walk through the spray. "Right, Batman?"
"You may have out done yourself on the stuff, Ivy! However, I coated my suit with an herbicidal antidote and gave something safer for Megan to drink out of to not get effected either!"
Ivy frees for she tells the two girls to stopping them.
"Keep spraying!" she then takes off.
Violet and Lily back away, still spraying, but Batman and Megan subdue them both. Megan grabs Violet by the hair to throw her down and ties her up with her silly strings that were a cement type of thing to make her stuck.
"Batman! The other one's getting away!"
Of course, Batman uses his ropes to tie up Lily in time before she escapes. So those two were down for.
"I got her." He said.
"Ah…yeah. Never mind." She catches up with Batman. Ivy somersaults through the branches, firing her crossbow at Batman. Well, from being hung up from the foot to almost getting an arrow to the face, Megan fires her gun to get him out to fall in the bushes. "Batman!" she catches him in time. "Glad I got you out."
More arrows to avoid from Ivy's doing for them to dodge them all.
"It's time we both got ourselves out now."
They must not get it, for Megan stays close to Batman's side.
"Good point!"
Ivy was mad at them now…
"And I thought you believe in justice, Batman…!" angered Ivy. "And you, Megan…! How dare you mock my plants!"
"Justice, yes." Megan said.
And as Batman added…
"But not the vengeance of an eco-terrorist. You're as destructive as those you punish."
She manages to pin both Megan and Batman too against a tree.
"Batman!" Megan had her jacket stuck from the arrow to Batman's cape. "I'm stuck!"
Ivy was mad for her to shoot at her own plant to blame the two heroes for it. Man, lady, get a life!
"Look what you two did to my poor defend less tree!"
Just as she's about to shoot them, Megan tries using her powers to pick up a bucket in the air to grab it by hand to give it to Batman. She has an idea…
"(Hey! I did it! These powers…I think I can control it.)" Megan then gives it to Batman.
"You're getting good at that." He said to her.
"Thanks…Now hurry, Batman, throw it!"
Batman picks up a bucket of tree sap and throws it at Ivy. He misses, but luckily ends up shattering a container of the enzyme in her laboratory, spilling the enzyme onto the ground of the greenhouse.
"The enzyme!" shock Ivy in horror.
"Payback time, Ivy!" Megan said to her. "Want some more plants? Then you're getting a bigger one!"
Instantly, an enormous tree grows out of the ground at an accelerated rate, scooping up Ivy and her henchwomen in its expanding branches. Ivy is apparently crushed between the growing tree and the spa's roof, but when the growth ends, Batman and Megan only manages to find Ivy's victims and henchwomen — Ivy herself was nowhere to be found.
"She escaped." said Batman.
"Yeah, but at least we stopped her to getting the stuff to make an antidote with it." Megan arrests both Violet and Lily. "With these girls to be put behind bars, we can now save the others. So let's do some real garden work, and not the mess up kind of way."
Ivy's victims are treated, and Alfred and Maggie share some rest time at the hospital.
"Alfred, do you realize this is the second weekend in a row we've spent together?" Maggie said to her boyfriend Alfred. "This relationship is branching out!"
Well, he needed a break after almost becoming a tree. I can't say I blame him.
"Maggie, please. After our encounter with 'Joan of Bark', the last thing I want to be reminded of is trees."
And soon enough, Bruce and Megan both enter with a flowerpot to brighten their room, and both Alfred and Maggie recoil.
"Hey, good news!" Bruce comes in the room. "Megan and I just heard that all of Poison Ivy's victims will soon recover."
Poor Alfred and Maggie, guess from those two to try staying away from plants will be a while for them and the others.
"Please, Bruce, the plant…" said Maggie. "Must you…?"
"Yeah, Bruce." Megan helps him out. "Put that thing away for them." She laughs.
"Oh…Better leave this outside."
Bruce apologizes and takes away the bouquet and Megan waits for him to come back, to which Maggie remarks to Alfred
"Nice man, but not too bright."
"Well, that's Master Bruce for you." said Alfred.
For them to be spending some time and without plant business this time, for the lovers as the butler knows of Bruce as Batman and Megan saved them both and they will stop Poison Ivy again some other time. I never liked her…But it goes to show you about one thing, spas can be fun on what type, favorite, and where you go to for a fun relaxing time. I would want to, and not turning into a tree statue thank you very much.