The New Batman Adventures 'Fan Fiction Love Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode # 110 - Over the Edge
The Police Department, led by Commissioner Gordon, storm the Batcave and shoot at Batman, Megan, Gidget, and Robin. Gordon knows who Batman is and wants him taken down. Huh? What was going on here? What happened...?
"Bruce Wayne! Stop where you are!" he said.
Wait! He knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman?! Megan tries to slow down the cops without hurting them with Gidget doing the same thing.
"Gidget, let's go! We can't risk losing you too!" she gets her robot friend out of safety. "Guess we make a run for it now. (How did we ever get ourselves in to this type of mess? This can't be happening!) Batman! Robin! Wait for us!"
As Batman, Megan, Gidget, and Robin make a run for the Batmobile, but Gordon has it blown to bits by a bazooka-wielding officer and the same to Megan's car.
"There goes both our vehicles." Robin said to be catching his breath.
"Don't remind me, I pay a fortune from my car." Megan said.
So from the gun shooting at them, how will they escape now? Batman? You got anything?
"The hangar, now."
Good call there even pushing the giant coin. They run for the hangar, but Renee Montoya intercepts them.
"Batman, don't!" she said.
For Megan had her gun out to stop Montoya for all four of them were surrounded.
"Montoya, don't do this. Bullock. Gordon...Just hear us out first, please."
"You should've surrender quietly, but you're working for your boyfriend. You know it had to come down to this." said Montoya. "I'm sorry, my friend, but you brought this upon yourself."
With Gordon on their tail, Batman grabs Robin and takes a plunge into the dock for Megan to join with them to hold on to Gidget using her ribbons, where the Batboat is moored. Gordon aims, ready to shoot Batman.
"Oh no, Wayne. No vanishing act this time..." he said to aim and fire his gun at Batman.
However, Gordon misses when Alfred jumps on him.
"Alfred..." Batman worried about his butler.
"Don't, Alfred!"
"No, go on without me. Go, sir!" he said while fighting back. "I'll be fine!"
While Harvey Bullock manhandles and arrests the butler, Batman, Megan, Gidget, and Robin escape in the Batboat, much to Batman and Megan's shock. For Bullock hated to stop Megan to arrest, less to stop Batman to hate a lot more, he wanted to save her.
"Megan..."
After exiting, a police boat pointlessly orders Batman to stop, and then fires rockets at the Batboat.
"Stop this boat now, otherwise we will shoot it down!" said the cop.
Just when the shooter is about to take one final shot at point-blank range, an explosion foils his efforts. Nightwing has come to Batman, Megan, Gidget, and Robin's rescue on a jet ski.
"Alright! It's Dick Grayson to the rescue as Nightwing!" Megan said with joy.
The police open fire at him as well, but Nightwing dodges the rocket and fires two torpedoes at them, bringing the police boat and the chase to a halt. He then leads them to a cave along the shore as their hideout.
"I never thought it would end this way. For us or for Barbara." he said.
"But still, you saved us, Dick, and that's what matters...or would've been if..." Megan got upset to think abut Barbara/Batgirl. "Oh, God! Why her?!"
"We know..."
For Tim/Robin to be upset too for Gidget to try cheering them all up, Nightwing wishes to know every detail that went down today.
"I still don't know everything that happened."
"I'll never forget." said to Batman. "I can see it as clearly as my parents' murder."
There, Batman recalls the events that led to this...Flashback time! The Scarecrow had laid siege to Gotham City Hall. While Batman, Megan, and Robin dealt with his henchmen, Batgirl ran after Scarecrow to an upper level by herself.
"Hey Scarecrow's getting away!" said Megan.
"I got him!"
Batgirl struck at what she thought was him only to find it was part of his clothing on an antenna as a decoy. As she turned around, Scarecrow attacked her and hits her with his staff. Robin, Batman, and Megan arrived too late to save her.
"No!" cried out Robin.
"Batgirl!" same with Megan.
She fell from the building and landed on the hood of a squad car carrying James Gordon and Harvey Bullock. Gordon ran to Batgirl and sent Bullock to call for an ambulance. However, as soon as she called him 'Dad', Gordon realized in horror that the member of Batman's team who was dying in front of him was his own daughter after removing the cowl on her face.
"Oh, my God...Barbara..." Gordon hugs Barbara to try saying something to her father, but couldn't.
"Dad, I-!" she then dies.
No...Seconds after Batgirl died, Batman descended, but Gordon was angry because, after all these years of hard work and trust, he was never told about this, and blamed Batman for her death to really happen. Megan goes up to Barbara to see that she was found out the hard way to mourn for her death.
"No, Barbara...! Gordon, forgive us please...!" she was crying in Batman's arms. "We tried. Scarecrow's to blame for this, and her secret...she wanted to aid us..."
"Jim, I'm sorry."
But like Gordon will listen to reason now.
"How could you, Batman...I trusted you on everything and this is how you repay me? She was my only daughter that I ever had. My daughter..." he said in tears.
Before Batman could comfort Gordon, Bullock held him at gunpoint and ordered him to surrender, thinking that Batman really killed her.
"Bullock, what are you doing?" Megan asks him.
"Megan, get back." he pulls Megan away from Batman. "It's for your own good. This low life's no good for you. That's as far as you go, murderer. Play times over, you freak. Lose the mask and the belt, now." Bullock fires a warning shot. "I said now!"
"Stop this, Bullock!" Megan tries to talk to him. "Batman, say something to these guys! Please! Gordon, please believe in us...Gordon! Make Bullock stop!"
For Gordon, he does want Batman arrested now. Oh, no...! With Robin's timely intervention, they managed to flee.
"Batman! Come on!"
They escaped for Megan to give Bullock a throw down for the cops to lose Batman and Robin with smoke bombs after that.
"Don't do this, Megan, you'll get arrested too!" Bullock warns her.
"Bullock, Batman needs me as I need him, I love Batman. If I turn against you guys, then so be it. Bounty hunter or not, I'm not leaving my boyfriend's side!"
Bullock was prepared to throw the full weight of the police force after the two and Megan to try to reason with her, but Gordon stopped him, knowing that the effort was futile. Gordon decided to do what he wished he had done long ago. At Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne, Megan Tsuki, Tim Drake, Gidget, and Alfred Pennyworth were mourning over the loss of their friend Barbara when a call came from Gordon.
"Hello." Bruce answers it.
Megan knows what it was for Gidget to alert them too late.
"No...Bruce, don't answer that!"
But ti was to late now...
"Wayne."
"Commissioner, what can I do for you?" he asked.
"Drop the act, Wayne." said Gordon. "Megan should've been quick to warn you soon enough, it makes sense how you and Batman love the same woman a lot, but that's not how I know who you really are. Drop the act. Ten minutes on Barbara's computer told me everything. Like a fool I allowed you to run wild on your private crusade. A psychotic misfit playing masked hero. Now I've payed for it with Barbara's life."
I guess Gidget felt that Gordon hack into Barbara's computer at police headquarters to know about the rest. Bruce tries to explains reason to him...
"Jim, believe me. I know how you feel."
"You can't." he said. "And because of Megan being with you, she's a criminal just like yourself."
"You know how I lost my parents." Bruce tries to reasons with Gordon. "The only way I could hold on to my sanity was to take matters into my own hands. The same thing goes with Megan, she had the worse one against a number one enemy."
Well, Gordon was taking this a bit too hard if you ask me.
"That makes us even."
Gordon revealed that he'd been on Barbara's computer and knew the truth about Bruce's secret identity. Bruce tried to justify his vigilantism by reminding Gordon of the fact that his parents were brutally murdered, but this only gave Gordon inspiration and validation for his very own vendetta against Bruce and maybe some to Megan the most.
"Here they come, we better go." said Megan. "Suit up, you two."
"Not good." Tim goes into the Batcave first and then Gidget.
"Merciful Neptune." said Alfred to follow.
As the police broke down the door, Bruce opened the door into the Batcave for Tim, Gidget, and Alfred, and before going in himself, Bruce took a moment to apologize to his parents' portrait, asking for their forgiveness.
"I'm sorry."
The GCPD stormed Wayne Manor, leading to the fight in the Batcave and then back to the present. And that's what happened...
"Everything gone, just like that." said Nightwing. "I still can't believe this."
"I still can't believe I'm being hunted down like a real criminal to stop them myself, and all because they won't listen...!" Megan crushes a rock from her powers again. "This is freakin' insane!"
"Now what?" ask Robin to see that they have to hide. "You're kidding!"
"He's right, we have no choice, but we need supplies."
For Nightwing to go out alone to take Gidget with him.
"It's too dangerous." Batman tries to warn his partner.
"I'll be in and out before the cops arrive. Gidget, come with me." he said to take off next. "Megan, I need to borrow Gidget for a bit."
"Understood. Just come back, both of you."
As Batman decides to remain hidden, Nightwing and Gidget to lead the way both go back to his loft for supplies, only to find Montoya and other officers waiting for him.
"Freeze!" she had her gun out. "Richard Grayson, you have the right to remain silent."
Nightwing then does a pose to fight back.
"Waived."
Nightwing resists arrest and fights his way out, but outside he is confronted by three police helicopters that open fire at him. Same with Gidget to be gunned down and destroyed in seconds. This is really bad here! For the poor robot to be place in storage on researching the parts, Dick and Alfred are both eventually taken into custody and questioned by the police. After watching the news of his arrest, Tim wants to extricate both Dick and Alfred from jail to put the team back together and rally.
"No...!" Megan was upset even more to see two guys caught and Gidget was destroyed. "No! Not like this..."
"Megan..." Tim helps her out. "I know it's sad to see Gidget bone, but we have to keep on going. Alfred and Dick need us." he tells Batman the same. "I say that all three of us break in, save the two, and escape to think of something to prove our innocents."
However, Batman calls it quits, admitting that Gordon's reaction may be warranted.
"No."
"Bruce?" Megan was lost.
"What do you mean?" same with Tim.
Don't tell me that they're going to give up just like that? Huh?
"It's over, Tim. Gordon feels betray. He won't give up until he gets me." he then tells Tim to do something the easy way out. "You have to leave me now. Give yourself up. No one will blame you for what happened."
He orders Tim to give himself up, believing no one would blame him for what had happened. The two go their separate ways, with a distressed Tim running away into darkness.
"And what about you?"
"I don't know..." Bruce/Batman answers back.
Seems that Tim does so to get a better home after that for Megan couldn't say or do anything now. Batman retreats into the shadows to Tim run away after that. And what about Megan?
"Tim, wait...!" she couldn't stop her little friend in time. "There he goes like the others. Bruce, we just can't hide forever, we have to think of something and fast."
Well, that was another problem for Batman to do something alone without his girlfriend's help on this one.
"I'm sorry...Megan, I'm sorry for everything we both have been through."
"What do you mean?" Megan asked.
For them to embrace to kissing each other, Batman uses a spray to put Megan a sleep for a while to let her rest safely as he'll handle the mess alone. That's suicide!
"I love you, Megan, but I have to do this without your help this time. Live on." he kisses her hand and then leaves. "Forgive me."
Mayor Hamilton Hill talks with Gordon about the consequences of Barbara's connection to Batman being made public.
"My heart goes out to you, Jim." said Mayor Hill. "Believe me. If it had been my child..."
His son Jordan, remember him? Good times...And still this was upsetting to Gordon more than anything else.
"It wasn't."
"No, and while I feel for your loss, you have to realize how bad this makes us look."
Mayor Hill informs Gordon that the District Attorney's office wants to investigate, for which Gordon has to step down from his post of duty. During the discussion, Bullock and Montoya watch a television talk show wherein a complaint are made by Harley Quinn, the Mad Hatter, The Riddler, and the Ventriloquist & Scarface 'from a while back', who plan to launch a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Bruce Wayne now that they know that he's Batman. They blame him for their lives of crime. Or as the lawyer would say something like this...
"If the bat's on a spree, Wayne must pay the fee."
How stupid! Hill leaves, and Gordon realizes that if he doesn't resign now he'll face a grand jury hearing, so he decides to take matters into his own hands even further. This made Bullock and Montoya worry about their boss even more.
"I'm worried about Commissioner to lose more than his job, but his mind." said Montoya. "I don't like this one bit."
"Heck, I'm more worried about Megan to be on the run with a bad boy like Batman." and Bullock. "I hope the Commish doesn't hurt her."
Gordon then meets with an inmate at Stonegate Penitentiary and bargains for his assistance in taking down Batman. If the inmate will help Gordon bring Batman to justice, he will receive a commuted sentence. The inmate silently accepts. Megan wakes up to see that the cave was empty for Batman to leave her like this...
"Huh? Bruce? Bruce?" she doesn't find him. "Oh, no..." Megan then uses her watch to track him down to do that while making out. "(Oh, no. I won't let you get the best out of me. Not like this!) Batman!"
At Barbara's funeral, Gordon has officers on the lookout for Batman. As soon as they spot him, Gordon is alerted and goes after him. Gordon is so obsessed with Batman at this point, he literally runs away from Barbara's casket to give chase. Batman jumps to the roof of police headquarters and is engaged by Bane. Not him again! Megan arrives to see this villain once more to might be hers and Bruce/Batman's last battle.
"Bane." surprised Batman.
"Bane?!" same with Megan to have her gun out. "Guess I'm going all out now!"
"Megan?" Batman didn't think that Megan would find him so soon.
"Hey, you left me with no choice! Plus, someone needs to take this freak out!" she said. "Don't move!"
"Ah, the beautiful Megan and her boyfriend both a billionaire and a crime fighting her at some point, come now. Join the party." He conveys his pleasure in their mêlée, during which he taunts and torments Batman with a sociopathic relish, calling him a 'killer of children'. "I'm pleased you remembered me, Mr. Wayne. You can't believe how I've look forward to this. Though I was hoping for more of a fight...though what should I expect from a killer of children. We fight to the death?"
Trying to kill Batman, Megan tries to stun Bane with her watch to electrocute him with not enough juice to fire gun shots at the man, but fails.
"Oh, come on!"
"Now, now, Megan, let a hug make you feel better." he tries to hug Megan a lot to hurt her.
So Batman uses his own spray to hurt Bane's eyes to let him and Megan go as she uses her boots with a knife to cut him a few, leaving Batman to use his cape to hit the big giant with rocks in them. Team work!
"Still didn't need me?" ask Megan.
"Thank you." he said.
Almost working, Bane still fights back.
"You would fight to the death?" Bane questions the two.
"It makes no difference now."
Batman is almost knocked out during the fight and Bane is ready to kill him and to have Megan for himself again — which was not part of the agreement. The Bat Signal light was pointed at them.
"Gordon!" shock Megan to hold her fire if she has to. "Drop your gun now!"
"Sorry, Megan, I can do something about your case just to make Bullock happy, but not to your boyfriend. You might as well say your goodbyes to him." he said. "There's nowhere to run, Wayne!"
Bane arrives to corner both Batman and Megan with no way out.
"Good...I wanted to finish him slowly. Megan, be sure you're watching this. Don't blink."
Gordon shoots at Bane's feet and says he wants Batman alive to spend the rest of his life surrounded by his enemies in Arkham Asylum.
"I want him alive!" Gordon stops Bane. "Alive to rot away in Arkham, surrounded by the monsters he's created."
"You can't mean that!" said Megan. "Wait...Gordon, did you hire Bane to do this? How could you?!"
And for Bane's answer...
"Poetic, but no!"
Bane just jumps in to attack Gordon to lose his gun, so much for teaming up with a super villain, bad move there.
"We had a deal!" said Gordon.
"Thought about it, didn't work for me." said Bane to keep on attack Gordon. Bane double-crosses Gordon and tosses him to the ledge of the building. "Please, give your dear Barbara a kiss from me."
"Now, Batman!"
As Bane is about to send Gordon over the ledge he was hanging on, Megan tells her boyfriend to strike back as Batman fights Bane off. And Megan using her ice spray to try holding the giant off as long as it can hold up, only for Bane to have the upper hand against the Dark Knight.
"Time to die."
"You first." Batman said back.
Ultimately tossing Bane into the Bat-signal, which effectively electrocutes him with its circuitry.
"Yes, we got him." Megan was happy. "Come on, Batman, we need to save Gordon." she helps him out. "I hate on what you did, but we can help you out to believe in us now either way."
Batman reaches his hand out to pull Gordon and Megan from the ledge and pleads him to accept his help 'for Barbara'.
"Please, Jim, for Barbara."
Gordon ultimately takes his hand, but before Batman can pull him up, a weakened Bane uses his last bit of strength to rip out the remains of the Bat-signal and shove it toward them before collapsing dead.
"Batman! Gordon! Look out!" Megan warns them too late.
The rolling Bat-signal hits Batman and Gordon and bowls them off the edge, sending them falling to their deaths...
"Goodbye..."
Megan to see the horror to shoot down Bane to see Gordon and Batman to their deaths while hearing Barbara's voice saying 'no' a lot...Megan lets out one more cry for her powers to make her into her other form to blow up one building in seconds in a flash of light.
"Bruce...! Gordon...! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
And it looked like a bomb was hit to have the end of Gotham and everyone else...Then Barbara said it louder from her pain. Huh? Just then, Barbara wakes up in the Batcave, revealing that this was all part of a nightmarish hallucination. Really? From the Scarecrow's doing to awaken her fear was in a dream? Wow, what a plot twist, huh?
"No! No!" she wakes up.
Gidget helps out Barbara while Megan checks on her.
"Barbara, are you okay? Relax, I think the fear gas is gone now. You were having a nightmare." said Megan to see Barbara staring at her.
"Megan, please tell me that you didn't blow up Gotham."
"Huh?" she was confused. "Gotham's fine thanks to us stopping Scarecrow and saving Hill from the other scumbags. I don't know about a bomb threat. Gidget checked twice today and there was no sign of any."
Gidget was dancing to do another fine job today.
"She's waking up." Robin said to be happy about it.
"Oh, thank goodness." same with Alfred.
All five of them check on Barbara to be up and cured from the gas by Scarecrow's doing just in time. She learns that she'd been asleep ever since the fight at City Hall battling Scarecrow with Batman, Megan, and Robin. Scarecrow didn't hit her, but he did release one of his fear toxins, causing her to experience her worst fear: Dying without ever telling her father about her secret identity. A close call there, huh? No kidding!
"How do you feel?" Batman asks her.
"Terrible." she then hugs Batman and Megan. "Thank God neither of you are dead."
"Dead?"
Now they know what Barbara's fear was.
"Is that what happened?"
For Batman to ask that question, that was a big yes there.
"You and my father were at each other's throats because he never knew about my secrets. Because of this."
For Barbara to be holding her Batgirl costume in her arms was hard enough as it was.
"So that's your fear, huh? Bummer..." said Megan. "What happened was this...You tried to stop Scarecrow to spray you with the fear gas in time to have a stroke, I manage to inject you with an antidote in time, while Nightwing save the other people with a cure, also Hill, leaving both Batman and Robin to stop that loser together. So all went well."
"But, Megan, you were in it too and...I image your powers destroying Gotham itself."
Once Barbara told Megan that, she didn't think that it could happen, but it didn't.
"What? (A dream is a dream, but from that to happen...I really don't want to do.)" she started to worry to feel out on what Barbara was dreaming.
"You've been out all night." Robin said.
She tells Batman that it's time to face her fear, to which Batman expresses understanding.
"You guys, I have to do this alone with my Father."
Batman and Megan get it to standby and hope that Barbara will be fine making a decision like this one.
"I understand." he said.
"Yeah, you go do that, Barbara, be brave." she said back to leave that part out for now. "(Any fear to come true maybe...I hope not for me.)"
Later, when she has fully recovered from the attack (at least, physically), Barbara returns home and invites her father to her apartment for dinner and to talk to him.
"Keep cooking like that, you'll have me looking like Harvey Bullock."
"Dinner's not the only reason I wanted to see you tonight." she said.
"Oh?" he was surprise.
The two sit together to have a talk.
"Dad, this won't be easy to hear. But it's a job that I've been taking a while ago and I-!"
When she's about to open, Gordon stops her and tells her that she is a grown woman capable of making her own decisions. Furthermore, he trusts her and he'll love her no matter what choice she made.
"Sweetheart, you're capable of making your own decisions. You don't need me to approve or even acknowledge them. And in this case, I can't. All you need to know is I love you. All of you." he kisses her. "And that is all I have to say on the subject."
He winks at her, and the two hug each other as Barbara's nightmare is finally over. I guess that Gordon knows about Barbara being Batgirl to keep to himself to know that she just needed to watch her back.
"Daddy."
I think it's good to know that he knows about his daughter who's Batgirl only to keep to himself, what a smart cop huh? And from there, it's good to tell about something to not let that type of fear take over you. At a girl, Barbara, you rule. And your other self as Batgirl.