Splicers
Chelsea arrived at school wearing sunglasses. She'd gathered many of the students to show the new image she got thanks to her dad. Over a dozen students were curious to what Chelsea had to show, with some already feeling what she wanted to show.
When Chelsea stood on a bench she called to the crowd. "Check it out." And removed her sunglasses, showing she now had cat eyes.
"Wow! Cool!" Several students said as to their confirmation, Chelsea was allowed to get spliced, which was the new teenage trend in Gotham.
Among the students, Max, Melanie, Terry and Dana saw what Chelsea got, with Dana showing a shocked look on her face to what her best friend got. "I don't believe it. Chelsea, you got spliced!"
Chelsea smirked, seeing it as no big deal and was rather proud of it.
Though it looked a bit beautiful to Melanie, she said. "You must've begged your dad big time to give you permission to get spliced."
Terry however shared Dana's worry. "I don't know, Chels. Isn't messing with your DNA a bit drastic?" He asked while 2 other students bypassed them, showing they had been spliced as well, with the boy having zebra skin and his girlfriend a snake-like skin.
Max agreed with Terry. "I agree. Though it looks cool to all kids at school, eventually you'll get tired of it. Just like tattoos."
Chelsea rolled her eyes. "Oh, please. It's the latest teen fashion. And besides, it's very safe and also easy to remove."
"Well, then why is the city trying to shut it down?" Terry wondered.
Dana answered her boyfriend, as nowadays everything that people are afraid of has laws against it. "Brighten up, Terry. The law is against practically everything these days. You've got to keep an open mind."
Chelsea then handed all her friends over some cards about the Chimera Institute "Here's all the info." Before she then handed over more cards of Chimera to the other students. "Personally, I'd jump on it if I were you guys. As if you're not the first, you're the worst."
Max took a look at the business card, feeling that despite the fact that this seemed 'innocent', it would eventually turn into something nasty.
Later, on the news
"They call it splicing: the new high-tech teen rage that has taken Gotham's youth by storm. But outraged parents and lawmakers call the use of genetic animal augmentation a crime against nature. Some say it's a matter of choice." The news reporter said on TV.
"Splicing is like establishing myself as an individual, you know? Just like all my friends." A spliced teen said before his friends agreed with him.
"At the center of it all, Dr. Cuvier, director of the institute, had this to say."
"Splicing is safe, reversible and utterly beautiful." Cuvier said to the press. "I was the 1st test subject and as you can see, I'm perfectly fine."
Meanwhile, in the Batcave
Max disagreed with that. "Perfectly creepy is more like it. Him and that while splicing business."
"I agree. Something bad will come of this splicing. Something we'll most likely have to clean up." Bruce said in agreement with his protege.
But Melanie doesn't seem to be that worried about it. "It doesn't look all bad. Like he said, it is reversible."
But Bruce reminded Melanie. "But remember, Melanie, you shouldn't always trust things on the outside. Sometimes it's what's on the inside that's bad."
Melanie seemed to understand that. "That's true."
The next morning at Max and Melanie's apartment complex
After getting a few hours of sleep, Max and her girlfriend walked to Terry's place and when Melanie knocked on the door, it opened before a werewolf head and claws appeared and said. "Boo!"
But Max smirked as she took off the mask, revealing Matt. "Nice try, Matt, but I don't get scared that easily."
"Same thing for me, Matt. I've been scared by worse than that." Melanie said as she patted the boy on his head.
"Awww. I was sure it would work on you. It worked on Terry." Matt said with a laugh before he let them in. When Mary came and sat on the couch, he asked her. "Hey, Mom, can I get spliced? I wanna be a real wolf man for Halloween."
"Sorry, Matt, but no son of mine is going in for some freaky body treatment." Mary said with distaste for splicing, especially on 1 of her sons.
"Come on, Mom. What about that little relic from your wild teen years?" Terry asked while pointing to the heart tattoo on his mother's right ankle.
Mary covered it up with her other leg and said. "Oh Ter, please, that's different. A harmless little tattoo is hardly comparable to having antlers stuck on your head."
"You're right about that, Mrs. McGinnis. In fact, if humans were meant to have animal characteristics, don't you think we would've gotten them the natural way and not through tampering with our DNA?" Max asked with equal distaste for splicing, as to her, it was unnatural.
"Well, glad that you agree with me, Max. And you're right. If humans were meant to have animalistic features, we'd have evolved that way." Mary said with a smile.
"Anyway, we should get to school before we're late." Melanie said before she, her girlfriend and friend walked out of the house to head to school.
Later on in an elevator
A press conference held by D.A Sam Young was being held on its screen, for he was speaking out against Splicing. "As your D.A, I'm making it my top priority to outlaw Splicing completely. As tests clearly show a rise in aggressive behavior."
But that was when a Ram-turned teen broke the screen by ramming into it before he turned around and addressed the people behind him. "How's that for breaking news?" He asked as a Snake-turned teen rose to his feet and took off his coat to show everyone his body.
He high-fived his friend before he added. "Nobody can stop splicing. It's the future. Whether you scared norms like it or not!"
But that was when Max and Melanie stepped up. "How about not, Snake boy?"
"Listen up, norm, don't even think about messing with us." The Ram-turned teen threatened.
"Why don't you go chew on a can, Goat boy? That's what goats do, isn't it?" Melanie said with no fear.
That only got the Ram-turned teen angry before he and his friend tried to attack the 2 girls' but Max grabbed the Bull-turned teen by the horns and threw him into a holding rail while Melanie used the rail to spin kick the Snake-turned teen into the upper part of the door before she gave a bystander's bag to her, much to hers and everyone else's relief as they applauded the 2 teenage girls.
"So, will you petting zoo rejects need a doctor or a vet?" Melanie while cracking her knuckles.
When security came in, the Ram-turned teen and his snake friend got up. "Your time will come, norm. You'll see. You'll all see." He warned before they ran out of the elevator, scaring a woman and knocking down objects in the process.
And it was at that point where Melanie was now completely convinced that something was way off about Splicing. "Looks like you and Bruce were right, baby. Something's definitely wrong with this Splicing shit."
"Definitely. Looks like we'll need to pay Chimera Institute a little visit…with some friends." Max said while looking at the card Chelsea had given her.
Later, at the Chimera Institute
Max and Melanie had asked Terry and Dana to go with them to the Institute, with the Asian girl and the blonde girl checking out which animal skin would be great for them, going over cat eyes to fur with black eyes and yellow pupils and horns on their heads, with help from Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant.
But both Melanie and Dana didn't really like it at all. "I don't know about this, Terry."
"Come on, Dana. You told me to keep an open mind to new things." Terry said with a smile.
That was when Dr. Abel Cuvier himself spoke from behind them. "Personally I think the young lady would look stunning in spots and the blonde would look very good in scales." He said before he walked up to them and switched the screen between a leopard skin for Dana and a lizard skin for Melanie. "You're all smart to come in now. If my critics have their way, splicing might go the way of the dinosaurs. Not that I don't plan to fight them tooth and nail."
That was when the Ram-turned teen, who'd arrived with his Snake-turned friend, spoke to his assistant. "Yo! We need to see the doctor right now!"
"Please excuse me." Cuvier said as Max and Melanie covered their faces to keep from being seen while he took them to the splicing room.
When Dana typed a few buttons, she decided that this wasn't her thing. "You know, Ter, as cool as this is, I just don't think it's for me."
"Me too, actually. Let's go." Terry said before looking and seeing that Max and Melanie were gone. "Where'd Max and Melanie go?"
"Don't know. Maybe they decided to go 'cause this really isn't their thing either." Dana said with confusion.
"Yeah. You're probably right. Let's just go." Terry said before both then left the building, holding hands as they did so.
A bit later in the splicing room
Cuvier was working on the Ram-turned teen as he spoke. "It's all over the news. Those scared stiffs are gonna shut us down."
"Then we must strike tonight." Cuvier said as he picked up a splice gun and walked up to the Ram-turned teen and put more bull serum into him. "The Splicers revolution cannot be stopped. If the norms are determined to drive us underground, so be it. But we'll take 1st blood from the throat of D.A Young." He said while Batgirl and Nightwing were invisibly spying on them.
But then, Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant smelled something while Max contacted Bruce quietly. "Bruce, we're in the Chimera Institute. Bruce, are you there?" Before she and Nightwing were blindsided by Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant, who knocked them into electrical wire, hurting them greatly!
"Max! Melanie!" Bruce yelled with concern for his 2 proteges before Cuvier unleashed his minions on the 2 Dark Knights.
A bit later
When Batgirl and Nightwing regained consciousness, they saw that Cuvier had restrained them and had injected them with something. "What'd you just do to us, Cuvier?!" Batgirl demanded
"Why you've been spliced, of course." Cuvier answered. "With a little something I cooked up in case Gotham's new Dark Knights came sniffing around my business. You see, splicing isn't just style, Batgirl, it's lifestyle. Something that will literally change the world."
Nightwing was disgusted by Cuvier's insane plans for the people of Gotham and the entire world. "Have you considered checking yourself into Arkham for the rest of your fucking life, Doc? 'Cause you're fucking insane in our opinion."
"You're both welcome to your opinions in the short time you'll be human enough to have them." Cuvier said with an evil smile.
But then, both Dark Knights broke out of their restraints and Batgirl held Cuvier by the throat. "Call off your animal turned friends, Cuvier or so help us–" She tried to threaten but she, along with Nightwing were already feeling the change begin to take effect, making Batgirl let go of him as he grinned.
"What's the matter, Dark Knights? Not feeling quite yourselves?" Cuvier asked tauntingly as he brought out his claws. "Don't worry about the D.A. He's already dead meat, and so are both of you." He said before he sliced them with his claws a few times before the 2 Dark Knights looked up and saw a glass window in the ceiling and used their jet boots to fly out of it. But Cuvier wasn't worried, not knowing that 2 of his claws were gone. "It won't matter! It's too late for you 2 to save Young or yourselves!" He said with a confident evil grin.
Later at Barbara and Sam's house
As Sam was continuing to work on his campaign to shut down Cuvier and his Splicing business for good, Barbara walked up to him with a hot cup of coffee. "Sam, honey, maybe you should take a break. You've been at it since 5 this morning."
Sam took a sip of coffee and said. "Can't be helped. Putting Cuvier out of business is going to mean a lot of long nights. Right now I just can't relax knowing that Cuvier and his goons are out there doing God knows what."
"I bet I could relax you." Barbara said with a smirk.
But that was when Cuvier's minions bursted into the house. Sam tried to grab the nearby fire picker from near the chimney but the Snake-turned teen stopped him. "Evening, councilor." He said before punching him away.
Barbara helped her husband as the Ram-turned teen walked up to them. "Hello, Commissioner. Looking good."
Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant walked up to them. "But not for long." She said before leaping for the kill but Barbara kicked her away.
The Ram-turned teen was impressed by the skill of the old woman. "Whoa, Sammy, your hon's got some sweet moves." He said as his Snake-turned friend grabbed Sam from behind while he restrained Barbara. "Too bad you can't stop us. Anymore than you can stop Dr. Cuvier's dream." He said before telling his Snake-turned friend. "Break him in half."
But that was when Batgirl and Nightwing, still human, flew through the window and Nightwing punched the Snake-turned teen away from Sam while Batgirl kicked the other 2 away from him and Barbara. While Barbara went to check on her unconscious husband, Cuvier's minions advanced on the new Dark Knights and pounced on them.
But, to Cuvier's minions' surprise, they easily got them off before their teeth began to turn into animal teeth as they began growing. "Whoa! What's with them?"
The Snake-turned teen picked up a chair and hit Batgirl with it, but with the change she was slowly going through, she didn't even feel it. Nightwing then grabbed him and Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant and threw them away from her girlfriend, allowing Batgirl to pounce on the Ram-turned teen and begin beating him very badly.
But Gordon rushed to her and grabbed her arm. "Batgirl, stop, you're killing him!"
But both new Dark Knights, having almost lost their sense of reason, were beginning to succumb to the animal DNA inside them and began to destroy the furniture while Cuvier's minions took the chance to flee. "Come on. Those psycho flyers will finish the job for us." The Bull-turned teen said as they fled.
And as Batgirl and Nightwing were advancing on Barbara, she tried to get through to them. "Batgirl! Nightwing!" She yelled before using their real names. "Max! Melanie! What's gotten into you both?"
But Batgirl and Nightwing, with what little sense of reason they had left, flew out of the broken window to protect them both before Barbara looked at her still unconscious husband.
A little later, at the Batcave
Bruce was working on the antidote to reverse the Splicing and had just finished making plenty, along with 2 guns to shoot the darts with when the Batcomputer got an incoming message. He walked up to the computer and answered it. "Wayne."
"Bruce, it's Barbara. Are Max and Melanie there?" Barbara asked with concern for the 2 teenage girls, despite her dislike for them.
"No. I've been trying to contact them all night."
"Bruce, listen to me. There's something wrong with them. Something terribly wrong."
That was when Ace began growing and barking, making Bruce look in his direction before he walked a few steps. "Max? Melanie?" He asked with worry before a few bats flew past him and he saw their shadows.
"Bruce." A deep female voice called out before the masks of their suits were thrown at Bruce's feet and they came out of the darkness, with Max having fully turned into a bat and Melanie fully turned into a leopard!
"Help us…Bruce!" The Leopard-turned Melanie pleaded with her mentor.
The Bat-turned Max, saw the gun and, with all the mental sense she could muster, held her Melanie tightly as she tried to attack their mentor and his loyal dog. "Bruce…hurry! Cure…us…now!"
Bruce quickly grabbed the gun and shot Melanie 1st before Max let her go and allowed Bruce to shoot her next before she herself passed out.
A bit later
Max and Melanie woke up and saw Bruce and Ace, who whimpered before he rubbed his head against Max's hand, making her smile. "Happy to see you as well, Ace."
"Can't really blame him. You held back Melanie to buy just enough time to cure you both." Bruce said with a smile.
"Fuck, I feel like I've just woke up from a really bad dose of heroin." Melanie said as she rubbed her hair.
"Cuvier spliced us both in his lab." Max said with a growl.
"With a massive overdose of bat serum for you and a massive overdose of leopard serum." Bruce told them. "I figured we were going to need some mutagen antidote. Although it was shorter than I expected."
"Thank you, Bruce." Melanie said softly.
"You're welcome, Melanie." Bruce said before he turned on the Batcomputer to show them the news. "Barbara told me about the attack."
"Batgirl and Nightwing foiled the assassination attempt on D.A Young. Police then raided the Chimera Institute, but Dr. Cuvier and his followers had already fled into hiding." The reporter said.
The screen then showed Sam, who was giving a statement. "I can assure you that Dr. Cuvier and his followers will be found and prosecuted for this attack."
Bruce turned it off and said. "Cuvier will be deadlier than ever now that he's being hunted." Before he noticed something on the belts of their suits and picked it off. "What are these?"
"Cuvier's claws, but we can't track him with them." Melanie answered.
"We can't, but Ace can." Max said while looking at the great Dane.
A bit later
"All right, boy. Here's a chance to show us what you can do." Nightwing said softly while rubbing the dog's head before holding Cuvier's claws to his nose.
Ace sniffed the claws before picking up the trail of the owner and running very fast as the 2 Dark Knights followed him all the way to the old Carnins Taxidermy studio.
"Good boy, Ace. We'll handle things from here." Batgirl said with a smile while rubbing his head, only for Ace to whimper in concern and worry, as he'd really begun to like both Max and Melanie.
"Don't worry, boy, we'll be alright. Promise." Nightwing with a smile before she and her lover loaded their antidote guns.
Inside the old building
"Please, doctor." The Ram-turned teen pleaded as Cuvier held him by the throat. "We tried to kill him, but Batgirl and Nightwing…"
"Forget the new Dark Knights! It was your weakness that ruined my plans!" An furious Cuvier said before throwing his minion down.
This scared the others before Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant sniffed the air. "What is it?" Cuvier asked.
"Prey."
As Batgirl and Nightwing had their guns ready and looked for Cuvier and his minions, seeing stuffed animals, Cuvier's minions ambushed the new Dark Knights, 1st the Snake-turned teen by scaring them a bit, Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant by leaping down and kicking them in the face and the Ram-turned teen by ramming them down to the bottom floor!
"We could smell your human scent a mile away." The Snake-turned teen said as he crawled down the wall.
Batgirl and Nightwing then grabbed their guns and shot at the Snake-turned teen but he dodged using his snake-like abilities before rushing and biting Batgirl on the right shoulder before the others jumped in while Cuvier hid and began injecting himself with more mutagen.
Batgirl punched the Snake-turned teen away while Nightwing fought with Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant by elbowing her in the ribs, kicking her knee and punching her away. The Ram-turned teen tried to ram Batgirl but she used her suit's 20x strength to stop him and threw him into a wall before punching the Snake-turned teen to the floor and shot him with an antidote dart, turning him back into an ordinary human while Nightwing restrained Cuvier's Cat-turned assistant, allowing Batgirl to do the same to her.
"What'd you 2 do to her?" The Ram-turned teen demanded.
"Let's just say we've put the animals in them down for good, asshole." Nightwing answered.
"No! I'm never going back to being a nobody! You 2 hear me?!" The Ram-turned teen said with anger.
But Batgirl punched him hard in the gut with her increased strength and pulled out his nose ring before Nightwing used her gun on him. "Have a dose of normality, you brainless asshole. You need it." Batgirl said as the Ram-turned teen turned back to normal.
Both of the new Dark Knights then saw Cuvier run through a door and followed him, while being prepared for anything. "It's over, Cuvier! Your pets are put down."
"It's just you and us right now, ugly. Why don't you come out and fight us; women to freak show?" Nightwing added after her partner and lover.
But as they searched for Cuvier, seeing several mutagen injectors on the floor, they were suddenly attacked by something big that hit them hard and sent them flying back before Cuvier, having mutated himself into a bigger form: mix of several animals; particularly, a hawk, a tiger, and a snake.
"Cuvier?" Nightwing asked with a raised eye.
"No longer, Nightwing. Now you face a true Chimera." Cuvier said before grabbing the 2 Dark Knights by the legs. "You both bring out the beast in me." Before pounding them to the floor and throwing them. But they righted themselves and called on their suit's full strength and rush punched him hard and the face with team punches, hurting him a bit before they tried to fly but he jumped up and caught them both with his tail and brought them to the ground before landing a few blows on them. "Look at me, Dark Knights. The abilities of the entire animal kingdom are at my command. What can a blind little bat and a bird do against that, even if working together?" He asked with arrogance.
Batgirl and Nightwing spotted more mutagen injectors and grabbed several of them before answering. "The best we can, you insane, ugly freak."
The 2 Dark Knights then began injecting Cuvier with all the mutagen they'd grabbed on different parts of his body, making him let go before they grabbed more and injected him with it before he swapped them away and got the injectors out of him.
Cuvier advanced on them for a killing blow. "The hunt ends, Dark Knights. Now you both die." He said…before he began to mutate even further into a giant creature that no longer resembled any living being. "Can't…control the changes."
The now more ugly Cuvier then used a scorpion-like tail he'd sprouted to attack the 2 Dark Knights, only to hit a conatser of a flammable substance before he barely hit them with his ugly crab arm, stunning them enough to grab them in both his claw and hand.
"What have you fools done to me?!" Cuvier asked with great fury before he tried to devour them.
But that was when Ace showed up and bit the now hideous monster on the head, making him fall to the floor and let go of his master's proteges before he let go and jumped in front of the 2 Dark Knights to defend them, only for Cuvier to swipe him away with his claw, making the dog cry out as he flew into the support beam. Cuvier then grabbed Ace with his claw and tried to stab him with his tail but Batgirl stopped him by leaping in and grabbed it while Nightwing got Ace free.
"Never hurt our dog, you ugly, heartless freak!" Nightwing said furiously that Cuvier was so heartless as to hurt a dog, as to her and Max, hurting almost any animal was a vile act of evil as with some animals, they almost always have no way to defend themselves.
Batgirl then used her boots to fly to Cuvier's back and stabbed it with his tail, making the insane transformed doctor spin around until he hit electrical wires with his claw arm, sending sparks that hit the substance and starting a fire that spread to the containers. And as the 2 Dark Knights got out with Ace, the old building exploded, killing Cuvier in the process and ending his reign of terror on Gotham forever.
Later
As the fire department was putting out the fire and the police were loading up Cuvier's minions, Gordon saw Bruce's proteges in the darkness. "Gibson? Walker?"
Max and Melanie came out of the darkness. "We're fine now, Gordon." Max said with a serious face.
"Listen to experience this once, you 2. I really do appreciate what you both did tonight, but ditch the costumes, for your own good. You both can't do this forever and you both know it. It's a thankless existence and the rewards are small, if any."
"Save the speech, Gordon. It's not gonna work on us." Melanie said with a glare as Ace came up to them and nuzzled them both, having great admiration and fondness for them even more now.
"And like we said to you last time, we don't need your approval. We will protect this city and continue Bruce's work, and take care of the people we love, with or without you." Max added after her girlfriend as she and Melanie rubbed Ace's head. "And if you don't like it, stay out of our way." She said before they both left with Ace, leaving behind a glaring Gordon.
Later, at their apartment
After taking Ace back to Bruce, Max and Melanie headed home and walked through the door of their apartment. And after taking a shower together to clean themselves before drying themselves up, they then sat on their bed, completely naked and began making out before they stopped for a few minutes.
"Guess what Bruce said was right, baby: never judge things on the outside, it's always what's inside that counts." Melanie said softly. And after everything we just went through together, I like myself just the way I am: au natural."
Max smiled and kissed Melanie lustfully before speaking. I do too, baby. And to prove it to you…" She said seductively before touching her girlfriend's pussy. "I'm going to give you a very passionate fuck."
Melanie loved that idea. "Oohhh, I would so love to fuck you really good right now, baby." She said seductively before they embraced and kissed lustfully again, beginning their night of very lustful, hot and passionate sex.
There you go, my dear friends, the Splicers episode/chapter is complete. Next will be the Earth Mover episode.
Also, my Mom told me that the stuff for the internet will be at our new apartment on Wednesday, so I'll be back on schedule with my stories much sooner than I expected. Just wanted to let you all know.
Rate and review and I'll see you all next time, my dear friends.
