Batman: The Animated Series 'Fan Fiction Love Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode # 37 – Moon of the Wolf
It's a peaceful night in Gotham Park and a man, John Hamner, quietly walks his dog. Along with Megan who was going for her nightly jog.
"Hi, John." She said and his dog. "Hiya, buddy."
"Good night for walking, huh? Be sure to walk back home safely, Ms. Tsuki. Of course, for you defending yourself from anyone or anything's no problem."
"I will, thank you."
Suddenly, as Megan was about to leave…the dog starts to get agitated and growls at an unseen creature.
"What's the matter with you?" ask John.
The man dismisses the dog's fears, but he is soon confronted by a hulking man-wolf for it was going after Megan to not see it coming at all.
"John? Dog?" she sees the man-wolf. "What the heck?!"
Trying to fight back at the wolf, he overpowers her from his monstrous strength of his as John and the dog spotted her; for the dog jumps in to be thrown and then escapes in fear. As John tries distracting the beast for Megan to escape to following them…
"Run, Megan! Don't look back!"
"Don't you think I'm trying not to?!" she said in fear. "(Wait…! Is that thing really a werewolf?! What does he want with me?!)"
But the werewolf was too strong stopping them from going anywhere. The werewolf prepares to kill Hamner, but Batman arrives and saves him and Megan in time.
"If it's a fight you're looking for, try starting one with me!"
Batman kicks down the werewolf saving both John and Megan in time. Trying from her gun, using her baton, and the watch to shock the beast, nothing was working to break, chew, and to move fast. Not good!
"Batman! This thing's been stalking me for a while now late at night times! You know, the one I've been telling you about." Megan tries to stay close to Batman's side.
"That's him, huh?" he jumps on top of the werewolf. "Masquerade party's over, hairy!"
Seems that this thing's too strong to stop Batman easily 'since it was real to be no costume' and drowning the out cold John for Batman to save him from the lake in time, as Megan tries to help for the werewolf to grab hold of her to be carried away. She tries to struggle her way out she tries using her boot with a knife to stick out.
"Hands off…Fido!" Nice hit! Leaving a cut mark on the beast to freeing Megan in time while Batman saves John in time, the werewolf, however, manages to escape. Batman tells John that he was lucky 'and his dog too' while Megan was shaken up in fear for having a stalker to be a real-life beast for he was bleeding real blood with fur on it. "Megan?" Batman checks on her.
"Batman…I don't think it was a costume of some kind…Otherwise, why would a costume be having real fur with a blood of an animal?!" Proof enough to know about that so far…Batman and Megan too both go to see Commissioner Gordon and tells them about a 'mugger in a werewolf mask' who was stalking on Megan. "Hey, Gordon."
Gordon sees Megan entering in his office.
"Oh, Megan. What's the problem?"
He then sees Batman with her.
"We need to talk." He said.
"I wish you would stop doing that." He tells Batman that.
"Just want to know about the mugger in a werewolf mask who's been stalking Megan. I try to stop him, but he threw a guy off a bridge."
"And he almost carried me away like in a Wolf Man movie!" Megan was freaking out too much.
For you see, this girl never had much of a stalker going after her before…
"Megan…Well, anything to you?" ask Batman.
"Hmm…a werewolf mask? Let's look." Gordon checks the files, but only learns that a couple of Alaskan Timber Wolves were stolen from the Gotham Zoo. "Only thing on this computer is the stolen of two Alaskan Timber Wolves. Stolen from the city zoo last Friday."
Megan and Batman still need to find their answers on this one.
"Two wolves stolen from the zoo…?" Megan looks it up on her computer as well. "It does smell, look, and feel real from this one doesn't it, Batman?"
"That victim name was John Hamner." Batman tells that to Gordon. "From his uniform, I say he works for the zoo."
Megan remembers that part.
"Yeah! He does! This whole thing can't be from cheer luck."
"Then I'll get Bullock on it, Megan." said Gordon. "We'll stop this stalker of yours in no time."
Gordon calls up Bullock on his phone. And remembering that the victim was a guard from the Zoo, and finding some genuine fur on Batman's gloves, he and Megan soon realize that it might be an actual werewolf.
"Ah…Batman?" Megan freaks out even more. "(I never wanted to have a man who likes me to be a stalker like this one! A real life classic Universal monster's after me!)"
"What's wrong?" ask Gordon.
"Just having a disturbing thought for us two." He puts the evidences in his belt pack. "Just saying if the wolf was real? And not some guy in the mask?"
That'll be ten times worse than.
"Oh, come on! Really!"
Gordon sees Batman leaving for Megan to not like anything about this at all.
"Megan?"
"I'm fine, Gordon!" she said to be leaving now. "We'll find out about this soon enough. Real or not, something's going on."
The werewolf heads out a smashes his way into Dr. Milo's, cabin. Milo is unconcerned, however, and waits for the werewolf to revert to his human form.
"Oh, please. Spare me the melodrama. In precisely seven seconds, all your fearsome growling won't mean a blessed thing." He said to the stranger.
He assures the man that everything will be over soon now that Hamner has been killed, but the man tells him that he failed due to Batman's interference or to him wanting Megan for himself. Milo is outraged and decides that the werewolf has a new target. He takes Batman out and gets Megan for himself, then Milo will somehow change him back, behind the werewolf thing then I see…Also, the person who's the werewolf's a famous person. Later, a radio announcement states that the Olympic champion Anthony Romulus will be donating to a charity and will double it if Batman himself arrives with Megan with him to receive the check. Megan hears about this too while working out where Bruce was at with Romulus 'being the wolf man'.
"(Romulus wants Bruce as Batman and I to give him the money? And it was announced on the radio just like that?)" she questions herself. "(What's up with that?)"
Talking to Romulus, Bruce asks about the interest in Batman and Romulus claims he wants to meet 'Gotham's second best athlete'. The two men have a talk about Megan while she was minding her own business, and ignoring Romulus who seems to have a thing for her than the other girl who helps him train every day at the gym.
"Amazing…isn't she, Bruce?" he asks him.
"Oh, yes! Megan! She is alright, she is my best bodyguard around to protect me." Bruce goes along with it. "For someone as beautiful as her, I can see why Batman loves her a lot."
"I know, right? Lucky him. It makes me jealous to be with a woman like her. Megan only sees me as a friend though. Too bad."
For Bruce sees that both him and Megan might've found their stalker and wolf man already thanks to those hints to go out.
"What a shame, Romulus." He said. "I'm the same as you are, but we're fine to stay as friends for me."
"Well, I guess…If I had my way."
Bruce tries to see if Romulus was alright.
"Excuse me?"
"I said, if I had my way better to be with other girls to fall for one in no time, then I would." said Romulus. "But I can't with Megan. And I get, Bruce, really I do."
The two men continue with their run inside of the gym for Megan sees the cut mark she left on the world to be on Romulus hand there, and not by an odd chance – it was very real. Taking some pictures of it to see the DNA matching from her bag camera to her computer book; for later she and Batman look up from the data base and the background check on Alaskan Timber Wolves on TV.
"Bruce, look at this video about Alaskan Timber Wolves here that Gidget gather up for us." She plays it. "Thanks, buddy."
Gidget was happy to be doing a fine job.
[The Alaskan Timber Wolf hunts in pairs or in packs. Contrary to the way this predator is commonly depicted in wildlife adventure films.]
For the wolves are told with this much detail - he northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf, Alaskan timber wolf, Canadian timber wolf, or northern timber wolf, is a subspecies of gray wolf in western North America. It ranges from Alaska, the upper Mackenzie River Valley; southward into the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan as well as the Northwestern United States. Along with C. l. nubilus, C. l. occidentalis is the most widespread member of the five gray wolf subspecies in North America, with at least six different synonyms. The subspecies was first written off by Scottish naturalist Sir John Richardson in 1829. He chose to give it the name occidentalis about its geographic location rather than label it by its color, as it was too variable to warrant such. Phylogenetic analyses of North American gray wolves show that there are three clades corresponding to C. l. occidentalis, C. l. nubilus and C. l. baileyi, each one representing a separate invasion into North America from distinct Eurasian ancestors. C. l. occidentalis, the most northwestern subspecies, is descended from the last gray wolves to colonize North America. It likely crossed into North America through the Bering land bridge after the last ice age, displacing C. l. nubilus populations as it advanced, a process which has continued till present times. Northwestern wolves have been responsible for a few notable attacks on humans, with at least two fatal attacks in the 21st century in which both victims were partially eaten: in 2005, a young man was killed in Points North Landing, Saskatchewan, Canada while in 2010, a young woman was killed while jogging near Chignik on the Alaska Peninsula. After that, Alfred made a joke to the two.
"Thinking of acquiring a new pet, Master Bruce?"
"Not likely, Alfred." answered Megan. "At least not this type of wolf."
"Like Megan said, Alfred." Batman was still working. "From her stalker, we're trying to figure out the difference here. From the zoo keeper officer, the two stolen wolves, and the odd wolf man wondering around. The hair does belong to the wolf itself, for us to believe that Shaggy had found some good ones for his costume."
Megan then had something from her photo and DNA search.
"If that's so, Bruce, then how do you explain this?" she shows him. "I stabbed the beast on the hand from my boot knife, with Romulus having the same cut on the same spot of his hand. Not to mention he likes me way too much like the Wolf Man as well. Don't tell me that you think that thing isn't real? I even checked the blood to be the same to be not just than some rubber suit!"
Bruce didn't say that he didn't believe in Megan, for he always does.
"I know, Megan, believe me I know. I just come up with the same directions with no leads."
"And how do you think I feel?" ask Megan. "I want to solve this as much as you do too."
Alfred had trouble believing in the wolf werewolf business to be fixing the Batmobile while he was at it.
"Hard to know if whoever it is really likes Ms. Megan a bit too much." He said.
"It just enough to think things through while we pay Romulus a visit tonight." Batman gets into his Batmobile. "Come on, Megan."
"Alright, let's take care of the check thing with him first. But he better keep his distant away from me."
Batman and Megan arrive to meet Romulus, who seems friendly enough…
"Batman." He knew they were coming. "And the lovely Megan Tsuki, I'm glad you two are here." Trying to kiss her hand, Megan stays with Batman's side on this one.
"Yeah, yeah, let just take care of this already."
"I heard you had something for us." He said.
"Yes, I was accepting you two. Please make yourselves at home." said Romulus to locking the door and window to use something from the deck. "I'll write the check down. And do you two care for something to drink?"
Now staying calm to have them in his trap.
"No thank you. Can we get this over with?" ask Batman.
But they then discovers that the room is filled with a knockout gas.
"Batman…?" Megan was feeling weird. "Is it just me or is it getting hot in here?"
"Hot?" questioned Romulus. "Why no, I don't believe so."
Getting the check, Batman and Megan were getting weaker.
"It is hot…and the room has a weird air going around…" said Batman.
Megan feels out from her blow dryer air detector for it was knock out gas.
"Not good…! It is knock out gas… Batman!"
Batman gets Megan to protect her.
"Stay with me, Megan." He tries to fight it. "I don't know what…you're trying to do to us…but you leave Megan alone…I'm not going…!"
The two tried to put on their gas masks but is too late and they both pass out. Milo then arrives and puts the second part of his plan into motion and Megan to see it as Romulus carries her body with him and Milo somewhere to kill Batman off.
"I'm sorry, Batman, but you really should have taken the doctored drink." Mile chains up Batman.
And not good for Megan to be stuck with the Dark Knight either.
"Now I got you, my sweet Megan…" said the creepy Romulus.
Megan now sees what was going on to then blacking out too.
"Dr. Milo…" she got angry. "You again-!"
And then she was out like a light. While the two men wait for Batman to awaken and Megan all tied up for Romulus to do something to her while tied up, Romulus ponders on the unpleasant task of killing Batman, and confronts Milo over the evil he's made him do to get to Megan who he loves so much to have all the power for it.
"Milo, you're a worse animal than anything that I turn into." angered Romulus.
However, Milo reminds him that he's the only one with the cure to Romulus' condition recalls how all he trained to become an Olympic champion, but he wasn't satisfied. Wanting a guaranteed win, he went to Milo for an undetectable performance enhancer. Milo showed him a serum derived from steroids and wolf estrogen. Romulus immediately snatched the vial and gulped the serum down. It proved to be a success and Romulus won at every event he competed in. With the fame, he amassed a fortune, but he turned back on Milo's deal and refused to share the profits. This proved to be a mistake as the serum infected him with lycanthropy all to have Megan for himself to never love him back. Romulus went to Milo to seek out help, but was tricked into drinking a formula that completely turned him into a werewolf. The price for the cure was complete loyalty and obedience. Luckily for Megan to wake up and she could read lips to know what Milo and Romulus were talking about.
"(I should've known…! All this to win me over from Dr. Milo's lies to get the money if Romulus was his werewolf?! That sick little…)" she wasn't too happy. "(It makes sense on how and where the wolf form came from! Bruce, we need to get out of here!)" Megan tries to do that by using her watch to be use as am magnet to reach for a hammer to cut the ropes with on her end.
Meanwhile, at the Gotham Zoo, Hamner is confronted by Harvey Bullock, who discovers that Hamner was bribed to leave the wolves' cage unlocked and taking photos of Megan Tsuki to be stalking her all for Romulus wanted with payment.
"What do you want?" he asks Bullock.
"About them two wolves somebody boosted. There was no sign of forced entry here, y'know? So I'm figuring somebody must have unlocked the cages and looked the other way!" Bullock slams Hammer against the Timber Wolves' cage. "I've been checkin' you out, Hamner. Seems last week your bank account suddenly got bigger by a few grand. So what's the story? I want the truth before I decide to feed you to your furry friends here who's stalking Megan by the way. You two sicken me...!"
However, he doesn't know who hired him, and is arrested. Ha! Well, this made this guy jealous to help her out in the end. Nicely done, Bullock. Back at Milo's cabin, Romulus' condition takes hold and he transforms. However, instead of killing Batman like he was supposed to, he goes after Milo. In fear, Milo drops the antidote, which makes the werewolf very angry. In his rampage, the werewolf smashes the cabin and causes Milo to fall into a ditch unconscious. With Milo, out of the way, the werewolf goes after Megan next to make her his.
"Holy crap!" Megan freaks out from seeing that part. "Oh, man…! I'm next!"
Breaking free in time she tries going after Batman to free, only for the werewolf to stop her.
"Megan!"
Looks like the beast can speak. Trying to out run the creature on foot, he was too fast and Megan uses a hammer to hurt his face to growl in sadness and angry to not winning her over. Seems that Romulus can't go back to normal now but the only thing left to do was to win her over the hard way.
"A talking strong werewolf, huh? Well, Romulus, you're not my type. You think this would win me over? Well, think again!" she slides under the werewolf to save Batman in a hurry. "I'm coming, Batman!"
Only for the werewolf strikes back at Megan to go down for the count, and was about to get dragged away by him, she had to call for Batman to save her now.
"Megan!" the werewolf cried.
"Ah! No!" she couldn't break free. "Batman!"
Batman wakes up to be chained up and seeing Megan was in danger.
"Megan!" seeing a pin on the ground he manages to get free of his chains.
Right on time to use his Bat Grappling Hook to pull Megan away in time to try saving her.
"Batman!" she hugs him. "Thanks for saving me."
"You okay?" ask the Dark Knight.
"Yeah, I'm fine, though that throw was strong…Listen, Batman, that is Romulus for Milo made him a drug to become a werewolf for hire and to get hold of his money. All this to be famous only to love me. Now he wants you dead because of it!"
The two-stayed close to stopping the werewolf as a team. Batman wrestles with it again for the two couples to see and call for help right away, however, Batman is no match for the creature. Or Megan either to almost getting clawed at to move away and was unable to lay a kick or punch at it. So, Batman uses a piece of wood to hitting the beast.
"Do me a favor, Shaggy..." Batman starts slugging the Werewolf with a 2 by 4. "Stay down!" but the beast breaks the weapon from Batman. "Guess not."
This thing was too strong and fast for them, or even to out run but Megan manages to kick the werewolf straight to a metal pole to the face.
"Ha! I wanted to hit you and I did!" she said to figure out something to do next. "Batman! Up here!"
Up they good with the beast to start following them.
"If we can't take you on ground, then we'll just have to go up." Batman stood by Megan's side. "Just stay close, Megan, I will protect you."
"But I can manage this thing too." She said. "I'm not someone to always be saved sometimes."
Looking to even the odds, Batman and Megan climb up to the top of the stadium where the beast was chained.
"Your move, Harry." said Batman.
Bullock and other officers arrive, and he orders them to hold their fire to not shoot Batman only because Megan was up there with her partner. The chains were holding the beast down a bit, but then goes flying…Batman uses the heavy hook on a crane to stop the werewolf, who manages to grab hold of the crane. With Megan having another idea in mind to use her shocking taster-like watch.
"Oh, no you don't! Bad dog!"
One fire from it and the lightning to strike it and the werewolf falls into the river to call out Megan's name one last time.
"MEGAN!"
Well, that takes care of it Romulus as the werewolf, but was he dead or did he escaped?
"Play dead!" Megan said to be making a peace sign.
Milo is taken into custody, but the werewolf is nowhere to be found.
"You know, my friend, I'm innocent." said Milo. "They can't convict me of a thing."
Like Gordon cares about Milo's little threat.
"Don't bet on it."
Megan finds of no traces of Romulus at all for her and Batman call it a night back at their hang out after leaving the area.
"Talk about a stormy night, huh?" Batman asks Megan. "At least he won't be bothering you anymore."
"Don't remind me, Bruce, just don't…" said the tired Megan. "I know that Romulus has been put in his place, but is he really dead? That's a question that's hard to answer there."
Batman then stands there Megan's side to be worried about her from this event that just happened.
"I'm glad you're all right. You had me worried."
Well, he was holding Megan from behind to enjoy their moment right now.
"I had you worried? Romulus almost killed you from his jealously over me!"
"Who would be though?" he said. "From the person, I know and care about a lot…Megan, you mean well."
"Bruce…?" she was feeling weird right now.
From Batman holding Megan from behind – from arm wrapped around her waist, the other holding her arm up, as she places her arms around his head, and chest too in front.
"I won't let anyone hurt you."
"Oh, Bruce. (Thank you.)"
Well, seems that Milo was in jail now as Megan will be fine to no longer getting stalked anymore. With Batman, around, she'll be fine. Later, Romulus has disappeared and his house is sold to pay off his creditors. The buyers ask the Realtor where he went, but she says that no one really knows. They also wonder why someone who had 'just about everything' would suddenly give it all up. With Romulus running around with the other wolves…yeah, the call of a wolf's howling. It must be a sign.