Batman Beyond 'Fan Fiction Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode# 26 – Eyewitness
While on patrol, Batman and Batwoman see a suspicious delivery being made late at night.
"Well, I saying this much...It's not a special pizza delivery." said Batwoman.
"(No, it's far from it.)" and Gwen. "(Best to be ready for anything, Terry.)"
Bruce warns him not to leap in before he understands what's going on.
"I know you'll be careful, Gwen. And Terry, be sure you know what to do before doing it."
They both read Bruce loud and clear.
"We got it covered, and so do I." he said back.
It's nice for him and Gwen to be spending a nice time a lot since they started dating, huh? Only as themselves to work harder and different as Batman and Batwoman. They both see money change hands, but before the cargo container is opened, he attacks, subduing its driver and several of the gangsters buying it.
"Sorry, boys, but the deal's off where all of you are going!" said Batwoman.
The buyers manage to escape, and Terry opens the container to find...a squad of armed police officers and a furious Commissioner Gordon. And Megan to be helping out.
"Oh, boy... (Bruce, we might have a slight problem...)"
"(Barbara?)" surprised Gwen.
Looks like the other crook was a cop undercover.
"They blew the whole thing, Commissioner." he said. "Well, more from Batman than his pretty partner."
"We didn't know." Batman explains himself to them.
"Sorry isn't going to cut it."
At Wayne Manor 'for Megan to give her husband a heads up', Barbara angrily tells Bruce that Terry has messed up a police sting that was in the works for a year. To say about him and hopefully Gwen won't do worse like her boyfriend. She's also looked into his background and discovered his juvenile record. Bruce vouches for Terry, but Barbara warns him, one more mistake, and she'll put an end to Batman only.
"You can't be serious, Barbara." Megan talks to her friend.
But like she'll listen to reason.
"Megan, I hope you won't hold anything back when it comes down to it."
Once she left fro Gwen to come out of hiding, and more for Terry for them to hear the whole thing.
"If even she's my mother to make me on who I am, she can be very rude." said Gwen.
"And it doesn't bother you that I have a criminal record?" Terry asks his girlfriend.
For her to start dating, it doesn't bother Gwen one bit to leave someone from Terry McGinnis.
"No, I trust you a lot."
"But not as much as we'll talk about not making the same mistake twice, right?" Bruce questions Terry.
I think he gets the message for Megan to let her boyfriend know.
"Come on, Bruce, we'll work this out. Really" she said. Easy there."
The next night, Barbara is speaking at a benefit dinner for her husband, District Attorney Sam Young's, re-election campaign. The dinner is interrupted by Mad Stan, on his latest crusade against bureaucracy and corruption. Batman arrives and engages Stan in a brutal fight, driving him upstairs into a parking garage.
"You're all infected with the disease of bureaucracy! But I know the cure, man! All of you must be destroyed! All of you!"
It was just Batman only, but where was Batwoman at? Weird...Barbara follows with her gun drawn to pass by Megan.
"Barbara?" she follows her. "What's going on?! Where's Batwoman? Why is Batman stooping mad Stan alone? Hey!"
In the garage, they see Stan bring out a massive bomb, which Batman disarms before knocking Stan to the ground. Stan taunts him, saying that he'll break out again and cause more destruction. Batman says he's right—and to Barbara's horror, picks up the bomb and brings it crashing down on Stan's head, twice. What the heck?!
"Drop it!" she fires a warning shot. "Sorry, Megan, but I have to do this...I said, drop it!" She turns her gun on him and orders him to freeze, but he turns and disappears.
"What just happened? Batman killing someone?!" Megan quietly leaves to call up Bruce to see what was going on with Terry. "Hey, Bruce, we got a major problem...Where's Terry and Gwen?"
Other officers arrive and check Stan's pulse, confirming that he is dead. This was really bad! Barbara immediately orders Terry arrested, and, when he isn't found at his mother's house, she goes to confront Bruce herself 'for Megan told her husband the short story to believe in him to say Terry wasn't around or he got a call about Mad Stan either. He claims not to know where Terry is, and Barbara warns him that Terry will be arrested as soon as he is found.
"When he comes, you have to hand him over." she said. "Let see Megan try to get all of you and Gwen out of this one."
"If you take him in, it'll expose his secret. And mine. And yours." Bruce tells her.
Bruce points out that doing so will expose his secret identity, which will in turn expose theirs as well.
"What other choice do I have...do we have? Believe me, I'm acutely aware of the ramifications. I have a husband running for reelection. How long do you think that'll last once this hits the Web? No one can protect us this time, Bruce. He went too far."
She knows that well, especially that doing so will likely sink Sam's campaign, but she feels that there are no other options. And for Gwen to get a call from Megan for Bruce wanted her to find Terry to stay with him.
"I got her, Bruce." she tells her husband. "Gwen, get in."
She does to feel out something was wrong with Terry.
"Is Terry all right? Why was Barbara so angry to see Uncle Bruce?
"I'll tell you on the way there."
Megan drives Gwen somewhere to her boyfriend's location. For Terry is hiding out with Max.
"It's Gwen." Max said.
Once Megan leaves to help out Bruce to have Terry trust in them and not Barbara for the time being.
"Gwen?" Terry was surprise to see her. "Why are you here?"
"Megan told me everything on what Barbara told Uncle Bruce, and she brought me here at Maxie's place." she tells her boyfriend. "I was worried to be working to hear the news, you or I would never kill anyone like Mad Stan, just stopping him!"
Gwen's inner self even says so.
"(We don't go too far, even I know that!)"
When Bruce calls Terry, he is shocked to hear the accusation. Bruce asks him to explain Megan and Barbara's eyewitness testimony, and he swears he only knocked Mad Stan out while Gwen was on standby to save the people.
"Bruce, I'm hacked in." Megan helps Bruce out. "Just tell me what to do."
Both Megan and Bruce review the video from the surveillance camera, and finds interference blocking the view of the crucial moments.
"Having some trouble?"
"I can't seem to scan through the rest of the parts...I got the one from Terry knocking Mad Stan out to be alive." Megan kept on trying. "The screen cuts off for five seconds until it comes back when Barbara shoots at Terry."
They soon realize something strange is going on behind the scenes, and deduces that Terry has been framed.
"Let's keep on looking for more clues, Megan." said Bruce. "I'll work on the frequency, you work on hacking a bit more to clearing some parts out."
"I'm on it. We'll prove in Terry's innocence in no time. (Good times, only to help out a close friend on this mystery.)"
On his order, Terry leaves as Batman and Gwen goes with him as Batwoman to examine Mad Stan's body.
"Let's go...Burning passion. Batwoman!" she transforms.
Breaking into the morgue, Batman finds that Stan's body is gone.
"It's gone."
"Gone?" Batwoman sees it for herself. "(He's right!) Ah, Bats, how can the body just leave? Huh?"
Then an invisible intruder trips the alarm.
"(Is someone there...? Terry, we got trouble! Someone invisible person is following us! I can feel it!)"
Batman is cornered on the roof by the police for Batwoman to be stuck in the middle too.
"We're surrounded!" said Batwoman. "And I don't wan to go to jail from setting a helicopters by the cops to lose my crime fighting job!"
Barely managing to escape for Batwoman uses some tricks of smoke and gadgets without hurting anyone 'from Gwen's quick thinking', she and Batman is guided by Bruce to the old Majestic movie theater, where there is an underground tunnel, but Barbara is waiting for him.
"Stay out of this, Megan! Or else I'll arrest you too."
Megan steps in to try talking to her friend while Bruce does the rest of the work on what Bruce's wife to leave out for him to figure out the rest.
"(Let's get out of here!)" said Gwen. "(Batman, this way!)"
Gwen does her best to keep her boyfriend safe from harm, and himself to getting away from the cops.
"Barbara, stop!" said Megan. "I won't let you hurt them. I was being played like you did! Batman's innocent for Gwen to feel it, you know that!"
As the police close in on Batman, Bruce's computer finishes cleaning up the footage of the alleged murder: it confirms Terry's version of events.
"Yes?" Barbara answers the call.
"It's me."
Bruce tries talking to Barbara.
"You're not authorized to use this frequency. Get off it. Now!"
"Barbara, you have to listen to me." Bruce looks closer at the video and sees a shadowy figure in the background. Bruce tries to contact Barbara, but she refuses to listen.
"Wrong." she said. "Those days are long gone, Bruce."
Lots of shooting to be going on from the cops and some stranger.
"Bruce, tell Gwen and Terry now!" Megan fires back. "I'll hold off...whoever's shooting at us...!"
Bruce contacts Terry and tells him the intruder is likely there.
"I found out who's behind all of this." he tells them. "Gwen, you feel him too, right?"
Gwen does to be the shooter himself in the area they were all in.
"(Yes, Uncle Bruce...The invisible person's here! But how do we prove to Barbara?)"
"I know." Terry/Batman has a plan. "Gwen, trust me on this one."
Let just hope it'll work...
"We got your back." said Batwoman. "Just don't slip up."
Batman pretends to surrender to stop the police from shooting, then throws a batarang to reveal Spellbinder hiding behind Barbara, using an illusion to make himself practically invisible. Megan uses her powers to try to make the villain not run away.
"See, Barbara? Here's your real criminal...Spellbinder!" she gets her gun out. "Don't move! Because I won't let you."
He used his illusion technology to trick Barbara into 'witnessing' Mad Stan's murder.
"From the garage place and right in front of you."
"(He almost got away with it too.)" Gwen said to Batwoman.
"It would've been so easy..." He is taken into custody, but not before mockingly informing Barbara that she was so ready to believe the worst in Batman that tricking her was easy.
"Lock him up." she said to then fixing her mistakes with the others next. "Megan, tell Bruce thanks. Gwen, I didn't mean to get you mix up on something that could've been worse."
"We both get it." said Megan. "And so does my lover."
Batwoman herself gets it.
"It's all good."
Barbara apologizes to Batman stating she messed up and accepts her apology, as he has made his share of mistakes.
"And sorry, kid, I guess I blew it." she said to Terry/Batman.
"I've been there." he said back.
The two fly off for Gwen to show herself to Terry to be holding hands while flying, and then...Terry wanted to take his girl for a flight ride.
"Terry?"
"Just relax, let us have fun in the night skies both you and I." he said. "I'm glad we got out of this mess alive."
A nice moment for them to be alone like this, huh?
"Yes, you're right." she said back.
At Wayne Manor, Terry calls Bruce, revealing as a way of further apologizing, Barbara is presenting Terry with a civic service award, earning him kudos from his mother as well for Gwen joins in to go out with her boyfriend to get to know Terry's mother and brother a lot more. Terry also thanks Bruce for believing in him.
"Don't forget about me too!" Megan said on the phone to hug and kiss her man. "It was team work that saved the day to believe in you, Terry. You, your family, and Gwen go have fun tonight."
"What she said."
The two were having their own time tonight.
"(Barbara's a good person, she knows of Terry to trust him even more and Gwen to get to know each other little by little. I love when things do work out afterwards.)"
Bruce also mentions that the police have found Stan, alive and well: inside one of Spellbinder's illicit virtual reality parlors, he sees himself blowing up City Hall, having himself a jolly old time.
"Finally, an end to the bureaucratic nightmare!" he laughs insane-like and triggers his bombs, leveling City Hall. "No more graft! No more payoffs! NO MORE JURY DUTY!"
Dissolve to outside Spellbinder's virtual reality booth, where the police are looking at Stan, still laughing maniacally).
"Wonder what he's so happy about." ask one of the officers.
Well, let just leave him like that while taking him to the police when Mad Stan was day dreaming, yeah...But Megan does get a fair payment once she got her bounty. Some super villains can be weird sometimes.