Batman Beyond 'Fan Fiction Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode# 37 – Where's Terry?
Terry, Gwen, Dana, Maxine, and Howard walk out of the Majestic Theater after watching the classic movie Casablanca.
"So what'd you think of it, Howard?" Terry asks his friend.
"Been there, done that."
Howard thinks Terry was talking about the food.
"He was talking about the movie, Howard, not the snack bar." Max tells him.
"It beats better than getting too hungry..." said Dana.
"Or seeing movies with real powers like mine." Gwen shows off her works. "In fact, I never felt better on my fire to be so well done."
It was cool for Gwen to be in self control of her fire powers for the other four to watch.
"It's great." said Dana. "You know, Gwen. I thought at first you would be trouble, to then not liking you, to slowly getting it, but now I see you're a good person to Terry. You two make the right couple. I was wrong about you and I hope we can still be friends."
"Sure, Dana, we two got to care about Terry differently, right?"
"For caring and understanding, we both do. I will love someone again. For now, I'm glad to be friends."
Terry and Dana do hug it out to still love as friends they are and always will be.
"I'm happy you two are getting along." he said.
"Hey, Dana...Maybe we can go out sometimes...?" Howard tries asking Dana.
Well, she'll just be friends with Howard for him to have a girlfriend of his own one day.
"Do't push it, Howard." she said to him.
Almost losing balance for Gwen to fall, Terry catches her in time to almost getting burned.
"Sorry!"
Shocking to the others, Terry wasn't even hurt.
"Are you kidding me, Gwen? This is nothing. I'm quite use to it."
Seems to have no affect on those fro Gwen to truly care about. The others then laugh to see Gwen's other cool tricks.
"Please don't scare us like that, Terry." Dana tells him.
"Oh! Gwen!" Howard had an idea. "Do the thing I like!"
"Okay..."
She does a trick of making animals shadow puppet shapes of many to not stop for the others to like seeing it.
"Do mine!" Max tells her.
Gwen then does a silly face thing of many emotions.
"Now mine."
With Terry asking next, Gwen does a fart sound to make fire burst up in the air to be funny to watch and had the others laughing. What a fun time to be with friends for Gwen to go out with her boyfriends and other she cares about.
"This is fun." Dana said with a smile.
Terry and Gwen begin to talk, with Gwen revealing it was nice to spend quality time together, but is upset of how both of their jobs interfere sometimes.
"Hey, Terry, it's nice to get out like this a lot. You and I with good friends during the night."
"It is when we're not busy so much." he said. However, Terry reassures her that despite his job and hers, he reveals that she is more important to him. "Still, you're most important to me, Gwen, so much I can't be away from you for one day."
"You're so cute when you say sweet things to me..."
Terry and Gwen then share a sweet kiss, before Terry heads off into the subway.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Gwen. Night, you guys."
"Night, Terry." Gwen said to be smiling and blushing so much.
In the subway, Terry notices a suspicious looking individual dressed in a trench coat and hat. Terry follows the man into the tunnels and loses him as a train goes by. However, he continues in anyway. Not good! The next morning, his mother notices his bed is still made and believes Terry didn't come home. At school Dana begins to worry for Terry since Gwen starts to get scared from her boyfriend being this late, but believes that Terry must be sick, though Dana remains worried.
"(Oh, boy...Boy troubles.)" said Gwen's inner self.
"Terry, please be all right..."
Dana and Max had to say something to her.
"I'm sure Max is right, Gwen. Terry might be a bit sick today. A little stomach bug." she said. "I wouldn't worry about or I'll get worried for having you worry too much."
"I know, Dana, but I love him a lot to worry to keep my powers cool down. There's so much for our relationship to grow..."
"Love is love after all." Max tells her friend.
Dana then gave a good tip and advice of love to Gwen for her to remember something.
"Let me tell you something about love, and not from my dates...Love is a strong thing how a guy and a girl meet up. Slowly to see what they like to get to know each other well to go up to a few steps of the five. One is sweet talking, the second is holding hands, to then three to go to the hugging part, the number four will be kissing, and last is five – where you two can do many touching of a making out type to do all at once. The last step is what you'll be getting to first.
"And let's not forget the bonus one..." Max said.
That last part Gwen doesn't get at all.
"And what's that?" she asked.
Dana tells her to be careful on the last one to sound serious.
"No! Not unless you want to, don't let any guy like Terry force you to!" said Dana. "Do not do the bonus step if you don't like it!"
I think we all know what it means...Ha!
"We're taking a slow time with us...I get it, Dana, thanks." Gwen gets back to her studying. "(Maxie, looks like you and me will have to see how Terry's doing later on after school. This isn't like him to miss class without a very good reason. What happened to you."
Out at the Batcave, Bruce finds he can't contact Terry. Worried, he leaves Wayne Manor.
"Megan, I can't contact Terry. Could you help me find him?"
"I'm on my way to your place now, Bruce." she said. "Whatever has happened to him, we'll find Terry."
Meanwhile, Max and Dana talk over the phone 'since she was worried about Gwen' and share information that Terry hasn't been home all day.
"Oh, no..." Gwen was even more worried.
"Come on, Gwen, we'll find him. I promise. Have you ever written something down to tell Terry how you really feel?"
Gwen has to be a cute poem to try giving to Terry, but she was too nervous to do so.
"I have..."
"Let me see: 'From the moment we meant, that I'll never forget. The best we you saved me, for me to never regret. You mean a lot, Terry, more than the entire world. For you as a very cute boy, and for me the only sweet and special girl.'" she reads the whole thing. "Cute, I think he'll like it."
There's a knock at Max's door and she finds that it's Bruce and Megan.
"Uncle Bruce. Megan." Gwen was surprise to see them.
"Yo!" Megan said. "We came to help you two find Terry."
Bruce asks where Terry is and where he was.
"You seen Terry?"
"Last time Gwen and I saw him was at the train station." Max said to Bruce.
After obtaining this information he heads out to look.
"Let's go, Megan." he said to his wife. "You just go home."
Max goes after him and ignores Bruce's orders to go home.
"But, Uncle Bruce, Maxie has done a lot for us." Gwen tells him. "She can help out."
"There's no point of turning back now..." Megan said. "We're going to need all the help we can get."
Together, they make it to the subway station while Gwen holds on to her poem to give to Terry once he's found.
"(Terry, wait for us...We're coming to find you.)"
Batman wakes up buried underneath rubble staring up at a young boy, who demands to know why Batman's there. Batman explains that he was following someone, he was spotted, then nothing. He asks the boy what he's doing down there. The boy simply says that he's finding Batman the fastest way out. Elsewhere, Ollie notices that there are sound vibrations being picked up by some tracking equipment and signals to Shriek 'he was back again'. He tells Shriek that Batman's still alive. Angered, Shriek dons his suit and attempts to cause another collapse but the tunnels make aiming difficult for him. Still he fires away.
"Still getting back at Batman, what about Batwoman?" Ollie asks his boss.
"If she shows up...then I'll kill her too. One thing at a time, Ollie. I will do this."
Batman and the boy continue to walk on and Batman notes that the boy wants him out pretty bad. Batman deduces that the boy is a runaway, but before they can talk further, Shriek's blast causes another cave in trapping the duo in a dead end.
Bruce, Megan, Gwen, and Max continue to search and Bruce unsuccessfully tries to deter Max from going along with him.
"Have you seen anything?" Bruce asks Max.
She couldn't find anything either like the other two girl were having some trouble tracking Terry down.
"No."
"Then why do I need you?" he questions her again.
"Have you seen anything?" Bruce scowls after Max said that to him.
This is getting way out of hand if they're going to work together...
"Uncle Bruce-!"
Megan stops Gwen from doing anything.
"Ah, let them work this one out, Gwen, trust me." she said. "Bruce may not look like it, but he does care for others like Max of their safety is all."
"I have my reasons." Bruce kisses Megan on the lips. "Like you, Megan, I worry about you every day."
"You're something else."
A group of Ts walks by and Max notices that one of them is wearing Terry's backpack.
"That's Terry's backpack."
"She's right!" Gwen agrees with her friend.
Bruce, Gwen, Megan, and Max follow after the Ts and offers to purchase the backpack at any price. However, the Ts are suspicious and jump them. Meanwhile, the boy goes on about how half the students in his school want to be Batman and he's in the other half, preferring to idolize villains.
"Who do you want to be?" Batman asks the boy.
"Maybe Blight or Spellbinder. Or somebody in the Royal Flush Gang."
He was serious to become a super villain one day. Oh, brother!
"Are you serious?" Batman was shock to hear.
"Hey, they did what they wanted and didn't let anyone tell them what to do!" he said to the Dark Knight. Batman continues to search for a way out and learns that the Gotham River flows around the tunnels and that opening any of the walls will cause a flood. However, the boy indirectly discovers a spot on the wall without condensation and gives out a hollow sound. Believing he may have found a way out, Batman sets up his explosives. "What are you doing?"
"My explosives." Batman sets them up.
This has to work.
"You sure this is going to work?" the boy questions him. "I mean, if you use too much you could blow up..."
"You think Blight would've worried about something like that?" Before activating the explosives, Batman asks the boy his name and learns it to be Dak (short for Darius Arthur Kellman). "I don't even know your name."
"It's 'Dak'." he said.
"Dak? It sounds like a throat lozenge."
Batman then activates the explosives thereby alerting Shriek and Ollie to his presence. Unfortunately, when the wall gives, it reveals that there is a support beam behind it. Fortunately, a hole in the roof breaks open and while it's too small for Batman to fit through, Dak can manage. Dak is surprised that Batman trusts him but Batman tells him it's better that only Dak gets out rather than neither of them. Unfortunately Dak leaves and finds himself confronted by Shriek. Elsewhere, Max gets impatient waiting for Bruce and goes to check up on him.
"Maxie!" Gwen goes with her friend. "Just stay close to me...Uncle Bruce can handle these things you know."
Finding the Ts are about to beat up on Bruce, she gets them close enough to her, and she sprays them with mace. The Ts release Bruce and he manages to fight off the rest of them and Megan helps him out, and Gwen uses some fire to catch him off guard.
"Mess with Bruce Wayne, then you T's mess with me!" Megan fights back. "Booya!"
Bruce then interrogates the remaining T and learns where Terry had been the night before.
"He found it at the subway station."
"You sure he's telling the truth?" Max asks Bruce.
"Yes." he answers.
As Megan, Gwen, Bruce, and Max head out to the subway. For both Megan and Gwen hack through the underground train station again topick up on something.
"I got something..." she leads the way. "Follow me, people."
"Maybe Terry's down now. I'll be ready to go as Batwoman once we're there." said Gwen. "Let's go!"
Back in the tunnels, Batman quietly sits and thinks about his next move. Shriek calls out to him and threatens to kill Dak if Batman doesn't show up.
"Idiot. Nobody sacrifices their life for somebody else." Dak tells Shriek. "Not in this world."
Like this type of villain cares.
"You don't know Batman."
Dak claims that Batman can't show up because he's trapped, accidentally revealing that he knows where he is, and Shriek threatens him into showing him where to find him. Max continues to follow after Bruce, Megan, and Gwen in spite of the fact that Bruce keeps telling her he doesn't want her there, not because of his pride but because of his conscience.
"See, Gwen...?" Megan tells her. "I told you Bruce cares about Max's safety."
Max still refuses to listen but the debate is cut off when they notice that a repair crew has cut off the tunnel.
"How we going to get in now and to transform without anyone seeing me?" Gwen was worried even more.
Bruce tells Max to sneak into the tunnel while he distracts the workers.
"I can distract them while you sneak in, Max." he said.
"Are you sure...?"
However, when Max tries, Bruce points her out thereby getting the workers after her and giving himself ample time to sneak into the tunnel himself.
"Uncle Bruce!" Gwen sees what Bruce was doing.
"Let's go, Gwen, it's time to have Batwoman to guide me the rest of the way. Megan has Max, she'll be fine."
She takes care of it.
"Later, boys." she said. "Max, it's fine. Bruce and Gwen will handle the rest."
And with that for Max to leave the rest to the other two...Gwen transforms.
"Burning passion. Batwoman!"
Dak takes Shriek to a wall covered in condensation and says that's where Batman is. Shriek destroys the wall, thereby allowing the river to flow inside and is swept away. Dak tries to escape but he too is swept away in the flood. Fortunately, the flood further opens the hole and grants Batman a chance to escape. He follows Dak's cries for help and saves him from falling to his death. Unfortunately, Shriek catches up with him and prepares to kill his enemy.
"Why do they always talk so much?" Bruce, however, shows up and defeats Shriek.
"Hey, Shriek, what's cooking?"
Batwoman fire set his suit on fire to remove it, and stopping Ollie as well in a beat down to go down in seconds. Ha! With those two arrested and Terry/Batman found, Megan gets her bounty and Max helped by calling the cops to high fiving each other.
"All right!" the two girl said.
With the ordeal over, Dak heads for home and Bruce and Terry talk things over. Bruce explains that he's spent most of the evening with Max and the two finally came to an understanding for Megan and Gwen to witness it all. Below, Max is led away by Subway Security once Megan too care of the rest.
"Ah, Uncle Bruce...?"
"Like I said, Gwen, she'll be fine." Bruce tells her. "Good work today."
Yeah...As Gwen and Terry had some alone time again, for her to read the poem she made for her boyfriend to be too nervous to read it.
"Terry...I made this for you..."
Having trouble, Terry looks at her paper.
"A poem for me...? You made this?" Terry reads it. "Gwen, you don't have to write silly things to have me fall in love with you even more."
"I don't?" Gwen was lost.
"No. I love you just he way you are." he hugs Gwen. "I love holding you in my arms, spending time, fighting crime, kissing, and maybe...Well..."
He was blushing to have trouble saying something too.
"What? What is it, Terry?"
"Maybe take our relationship to the next level if you want." he said. "And maybe later, you can move in with me. I'll talk to my Mom about it first."
From the place Megan and Bruce use to hang out in to become a nice apartment, it'll happen soon for Terry and Gwen.
"Really? You mean it?" surprised Gwen. "I didn't think it could happen if I didn't find you but we all did and...Terry, I love you so much."
"I know. I love you too, Gwen."
They kiss for Gwen's fire powers to spark up in the air like fireworks to be a strong and beautiful one to behold. A nice thing for Max, Dalk, Bruce, and Megan to see of Gwen and Terry's over to be so lovely to behold.
"Oops!" she stops. "That part I have trouble controlling sometimes. Hate to put some places up in flames."
But it didn't happen at least.
"Hey, it's fine. See?" Terry points out. "It'll be fine, Gwen."
"I know it will, Terry, I know."
A sweet love, to go all five steps so far, right? Terry finally makes it home and prepares to get some much needed sleep but his mother catches him. She takes his holding the blanket as a sign that he's started making his bed in the morning and is relieved to know he's coming home at night. Satisfied that all is well, she sends Terry to eat his breakfast. Oh well, he does get to good night sleep early after today, you know...He last for one more day.