Freeman's odyssey
Chapter: 2
Old school Bats
Gotham City
California, USA
1968
0:5:30:0 hours afternoon time
Out of thin air a portal opens up in the middle of an alley at a place called Park Row and Gordon Freeman steps out of the portal as it closes behind him. Looking around as he felt like he was in a New York City alleyway however it felt like it is warmer outside and as he stepped out of the alley way he spotted palm trees, along with the city streets that are clean and people dressed as if they are dressing in the 1960's. Gordon walked by several city dwellers as they gave him sharp looks in wondering who this man is and why is he dressed like that. Even the music is 1960's as he recognized some of the music from that time period.
If he had to guess he was in Los Angeles or city 48 in his dimension as the combine laid waste to that city by turning it into a rock quarry. The only things remotely left in Los Angeles or city 48 is the old Hollywood sign, several buildings and the old highway that leads to city 92 called Oakland as that place is a death trap due to head crab zombies roaming the city or what is left of it. Gordon has never been to city 48 or 92 but he has heard stories….bad ones mostly of survival.
"Extra, extra." said the boy holding the newspapers "Read all about it, Batman foils plot by the Riddler."
Gordon raised a brow and thought Batman…..Riddler, such odd names
"Paper Mister." asked the paper boy
"Sure why not." said Gordon as he gave the kid the correct change in a form of a quarter.
"Wow! A whole quarter." smiled the paper boy "Thanks mister, here is your paper."
Gordon takes the newspaper and walked away as he started to read the newspaper by walking, but he stopped himself from bumping into anyone. For he leaned himself against the wall and started to read the newspaper, nothing remotely interesting caught his attention, but the word Vietnam kept coming up over and over as there appears to be a war going on there.
Gordon frowned at that in which in his own dimension there never has been a war in Vietnam according from what he has read from history books in his own dimension. Also, the newspaper tells in detail about the hero known as Batman.
The paper does tell about a millionaire named Bruce Wayne being an eligible bachelor. Gordon just shook his head at this apparently according to the newspaper Batman helps the police all the time, surely the police can handle a certain common criminals.
Unless the local police are just bungling idiots who can't think for themselves in regards to fighting crime. The paper does not mention a single thing about the Combine and radio chatter from his suit did not pick up any Combine transmissions….so it narrows it down to the Combine not being here. A waste of time, but not a complete waste perhaps he can help this Batman to fight crime
Folding up the newspaper he throws the object in the metal garbage can as he closes a lid. Gordon decided to do some exploring. The buildings looked rather clean and nice that has a resemblance to Los Angeles and New York City as the New York City is a waste land in his dimension due to the fact during the seventh hour war the Combine destroyed the city in the matter of minutes with a warship of theirs known as a Devastator. His thoughts linger on his home dimension in knowing the Combine are blocked from going to his dimension, but that does not mean their legacy will remain. He kept on walking some more until….
"CRASH!"
A small object crashed from out of the window as the glass had broke upon impact and landed not to far away from Gordon in which it appears to be a small box. Looking above him he can hear a lot of shouting and fighting in which the words make absolute no sense at all
"POW!"
"BAM!"
"ZONK!"
"What the hell is that?" muttered Gordon as he is trying to make sense of the situation "Can anybody else hear this."
People on the streets just shrugged their shoulders and went about their business.
Then Gordon sees two men throwing out a costumed woman who is dressed as a bat out of the window. Then he rushes quickly to save her as he braced himself as he catches her in his arms just in the nick of time. The costumed woman dressed in a bat suit is surprised as Gordon noticed that she is Caucasian with brown eyes, large breasts and an athletic shaped body that shows all the curves in the right places. He winked at her as she seemed to blush a little bit as she has been saved by a mysterious stranger.
"Nice for you to drop in beautiful." said Gordon "I knew you are falling for me, but I think you are getting ahead of yourself on the first date." He puts the woman in the costume down as she stands up properly.
"What?" she said "I…uh, never mind Catwoman and her gang are getting away."
Then all of a sudden a dozen men dressed in odd gear swarmed out of the building and leading them is a brunette haired woman in a black skin tight costume and medium sized breasts. There is a smirk on her face, but it changed to shock as she sees Batgirl survived and another man who is not Batman standing besides her. A black van pulled up as well once the woman known as Catwoman and her gang had left the building.
"That's Catwoman." said Gordon "She looks like a swimsuit model for Rolling stone magazine."
Batgirl hides a snort at that remark
"Batgirl." said Catwoman "You and your friend will never catch me, get them."
Then the dozen men went on as ordered to attack them, Gordon is not one to underestimate these people as one of the men swings at him with a serious of fists in which one of them hit him in the chest. The goon broke is hand that sounded like.
"CRUNCH!"
Batgirl landed a right cross to the jaw of one goon that sounds like this.
"KAPOW!
Then she does a round house kick to the stomach of the goon in which the hair had left his body that sounds like this.
"OOF!"
Two goons came charging at Gordon as he side stepped out of the way as the two goons crashed into each other.
"CRASH!"
After that Gordon does a serious of martial arts to take down some more goons as the noises are heard like.
"BANG!
"BIFF!"
"UGH!"
Gordon still had to wonder what those noises are coming from, but he won't ask due to the fact these people are too ignorant to hear it. He noted that Bat girl is no slouch as she is a scrappy fighter as it reminded him of a certain friend back in his own dimension. Finally, the goons of Catwoman are taken down as the costumed criminal is shocked as she got in the van and started to drive off in a hurry.
"We have to stop her before she gets away." said Batgirl
"She isn't going anywhere." said Gordon as he pressed a button upon his right forearm as he is summoning a weapon of his choice and it is the perfect one too.
His trusty, Gravity gun.
Or know as the zero-point energy field manipulator is designed for handling hazardous materials, but is mostly used for heavy lifting The primary trigger causes the gun to emit a small discharge which emits energy to the targeted object. The distance which the object is forced is dependent on its weight and distance from the gun.
The secondary trigger attracts the targeted object to the gun and holds it in midair a few inches away, negating its weight and allowing the player to carry it with them. Using the secondary trigger again will drop the item, while the primary trigger will launch it with considerable force. Due to the recent upgrades it can do a little bit more than that.
Gordon pulled the trigger and fired the gravity gun as the energy from the weapon collided with the black van as the vehicle is pulling away in a hurry. Catwoman thought she was getting away as she is confident she can however she thought wrong as she looked out the window as the van is hovering about twenty feet in the air and moving backwards. Then the van broke apart as Gordon clicked the trigger from the gravity gun to cause the vehicle to break apart. Catwoman falls into a garbage bin nearby with a hard thud sound that echoed all around.
Gordon Freeman and Batgirl walk to where the garbage bin is as Catwoman tried to escape in which Batgirl tackled her to the ground like how old school cat fights do work, in which she cuffed the criminal
"Guess now she can clean up her act." said Gordon.
"Right on." said Batgirl "Thanks back there for helping me."
"No problem." said Gordon "But looks like you need that bruise on your face looked at."
Batgirl felt a slight pain in her right cheek.
"I will have a look at it." said Batgirl
"I'll take her to the local police station." said Gordon "Do you know where that is, you see I am new in town."
"Indeed, I do I will take you there." said Batgirl
Gordon hauls Catwoman on his shoulder as she is kicking and screaming, but the one-free-man gave her a dark sharp look in silently telling her to cut it out or you'll be in worse condition just like the van. Catwoman nodded and stopped it as Batgirl disappeared for a moment, but came back driving her on vehicle a motor cycle that looked like her costume. She motioned for him to get on as he held onto her while having cat woman on his lap in an awkward position. Then they drive away.
Meanwhile…..at Gotham Police headquarters in Commissioner Gordon's office as Chief O'Hara has walked in after knocking on the door and found Commissioner Gordon sitting in his chair looking over the daily police reports. So, much paper work, so much to do. He just sighed at this and glanced up at Chief O'Hara.
"It happened again, Commissioner." said O'Hara "Another break-in theft of a Joke shop and chemical place." He added more to the conversation "who could it be?"
"There is only one person responsible that has a sick mind to do that." said Commissioner Gordon "And there is a man who can stop him." The commissioner got up from his chair, walked over to the red phone and pressed a button to call the one person to help.
Batman!
Elsewhere at Stately Wayne Manor, Home of millionaire Bruce Wayne.
Bruce Wayne and his ward Richard Grayson are having a long conversation about mathematics, along with history as the conversation seemed to be boring to some but to them it is. Unknown to anyone they are both the dynamic duo Batman and Robin. Bruce Wayne is about 6 ft 2 210lbs with short blonde and blue eyes; he is dressed in his usual attire. Richard Grayson his ward is about 5 ft 9 160lbs with brown eyes and black hair he is wearing his usual attire. Then Alfred Pennyworth the butler came into the room as in a way to interrupt them but not rudely.
"Excuse me sir." said Alfred "You have a phone call." He motioned to the next room.
"Thank you Alfred." said Bruce
Bruce Wayne and Richard "Dick" Grayson went to the next room as Bruce picked up the red phone and spoke into the red phone.
"Yes Commissioner" said Bruce in his Batman voice "How can I help."
"Batman we've been having a rash of break-ins and thefts" said Gordon over the phone "In joke shops and chemical places…I believe the Joker is back in town."
"Understood Commissioner." said Batman "Anything else I should know."
"Come to GPD headquarters and we will give you a list of things that were stolen." said Gordon.
"We'll be there in a jiffy Batman out." said Bruce as he ended the phone conversation.
"Holy Clowning Calamities Batman." said Grayson "What could he be up to this time?"
"My keen bat instincts tell me it could be anything." said Batman "But let's find out…..to the Bat-poles."
Wayne would turn a switch concealed within a bust of Shakespeare that stood on his desk. This would cause a bookcase to slide back and reveal two fireman's poles. And he and Grayson would slide down to the Batcave a mechanism on the way that dressed them as their alter egos in a hurry. Both of them are in costume as they run and get into the bat-mobile.
"Atomic batteries to power...turbines to speed." said Robin
"Roger, ready to move out." said Batman
With that, after fastening their seatbelts, the two would drive out of the cave at high speed. As the Bat mobile approached the mouth of the cave a camouflaged door would swing open and a hinged barrier outside the Batcave would drop down to allow the car to exit onto the road. In which the bat-mobile heads straight into Gotham City with no problem at all as drives and pedestrians cleared a way for the dynamic duo to head to GPD headquarters to talk to Commissioner Gordon and to find out what the Joker is up to.
Also, back at Gotham Police Headquarters. Gordon Freeman and Batgirl have just arrived in the bat cyle that she owns as Gordon got off carrying catwoman in his back, he figured that Batgirl will be leaving soon.
"So, who do I go to see." said Gordon "To drop her off."
"You should go talk to." said Batgirl "Commissioner Gordon he is on the upper floor, if you excuse me I have other matters to attend to."
"Perhaps when you're off duty you can go on a date with me." said Gordon
Batgirl is loss for words as she drives away, while Catwoman rolled her eyes at this, but Gordon stared at her and told her with a silent look to keep quiet. Catwoman gulped and didn't say a word.
Walking inside Gordon is carrying Catwoman on his back as he takes the nearby elevator to the top floor as in where the commissioner office is location. All is quiet in the elevator as he waited and waited, until finally after listening to annoying elevator music the elevator doors opened with a "ding" out as he stepped out of the elevator and walked down the hall to a pair of double brown wooden doors.
Gordon knocks on the door twice
"Come in Batman." said the voice from inside
Gordon raised a brow and walked in.
"Wait your not Batman." said the Commissioner "And why do you have Catwoman carrying on your back."
"Oh I'm just making a citizen's arrest." said Gordon "And she committed a crime, so I am taking her to you." He pointed out
"Hope that isn't a problem." Gordon threw her to the ground near the feet of the commissioner.
"No, no." said Commissioner "In fact the local police always welcomes the help, Catwoman is high on our list of wanted criminals."
"Good to know." said Gordon.
Then Batman and Robin walked in as the dynamic duo looked at Catwoman laying on the floor and a mysterious man in armor.
"Holy Kitten Caboodles, Batman" said Robin "The local police captured Catwoman for us."
"No Robin." said Batman "Our clever feline is too smart for the police to handle, my bat intellect tells me that this man is responsible in capturing the feline felon."
Barbra Gordon walked in as she is dressed in her normal appearance and has folders in her hand as she leaves them on her father's desk. Gordon looked at her for a moment as he suspected that she is the same height and build as Batgirl. Hmmm! He found this to be interesting. Barbra on the other hand stares back at him, but paid more attention to other matters.
"Well, I didn't do it alone." said Gordon "Batgirl helped out as well, for someone so beautiful she can sure kick a lot of ass."
Barbra smiled.
Commissioner Gordon, Batman and Robin frowned at the man's choice of language.
"Please watch your language." said Batman "Now back on topic….commissioner you have the list."
Commissioner Gordon handed the list of things stolen to Batman as the caped crusader and the boy wonder studied the list as the Commissioner and chief take Catwoman away while Barbra Gordon looks on in which she could help.
"Holy thieving, thievery Batman." said Robin "There is a lot of stuff the Joker has stolen, for what purpose."
"In his sick mind." said Batman "It could be diabolical and disastrous for Gotham City."
"I will take a look at this list." said Gordon
Gordon takes a look at the list as he found it to be interesting.
"The chemicals." said Gordon "When combined to form a gas like substance that is airborne in a wide dispersed area, a
delivery system would be the stolen items."
"Is that possible Batman." asked Robin.
"And so it is Robin." said Batman "It seems you know how the criminal mind works Mr.….Mr."
"Gordon Freeman." said Gordon "There is also something else I noticed. Today, is March 31 correct."
Everyone nodded.
"So, tomorrow in fact several hours from now is April fools day." said Gordon "At the stroke of midnight."
"Holy fowl full fools, Batman." said Robin "An April fools attack by the Joker."
"Does he always talk like that?" asked Gordon.
"Never mind." said Batman "A delivery system would spread out by air, my bat instincts tell me it is a plane."
"An air port is the logical choice." said Gordon "Gotham does have an airport right."
"Yes," said Batman "There is no time to lose….Robin to the bat-mobile and perhaps you can help out as well Mr. Freeman."
"Sure why not." shrugged the shoulders of Gordon, "Perhaps we will see Batgirl again."
Both Robin and Batman look at each other sharply.
Barbra Gordon hides a smile.
Then Batman, Robin and Gordon Freeman leave, moments later Barbra Gordon leaves as well to do a certain change.
Meanwhile, in a Gotham air hanger….A diabolical plan is unfolding as a large group of men are inside and a man dressed in light purple, green hair and bleached skin. He is the clown prince of crime and he is wearing a smile. While outside a large plane with a delivery system is ready to go once the Joker gives the word.
"See boys." said the Joker "Once the plane is in the air, it won't be long before Gotham becomes a bunch of fools on April fools….by the time Batman realizes what is happening it will be too late." He laughed a bit.
"Wow! Boss your smart." said one man.
"The clown prince of crime rules." said another man.
A door opened as another man walked in as he appeared to be running.
"Boss, Batman and Robin are here." said the man
"So, soon, hmmm!" said Joker "Did you lure them here?"
"I did boss." said the man.
"Then the trap is ready and soon Gotham will be a bunch of fools on April fools." laughed the Joker "Quiet! Get ready to spring the trap."
Everyone got into position.
Batman and Robin found their way in as they see the Joker standing there alone with a smile.
"The jig is up Joker." said Robin "You're taking the fall."
"We know about your diabolical plan Joker" said Batman "Give it up."
"Up you say." said Joker "The only people are going up is you….now."
A cage came down on top of Batman and Robin as they are trapped inside, then the cage is raised upwards.
Jokers men appear out of no where and laugh like he does, however their laughter is short lived as the rope holding the cage is sliced away from a buzz saw as it falls to the ground leaving the dynamic duo unharmed.
"What, who did that?" asked the Joker
"I did." said Gordon "You're the joker; you look like Bozo's distant cousin."
"Three against all of us aye." said Joker
"How about four against all of you." said Batgirl as she appeared as well.
"Get them." Yelled the Joker
The fight started as a series of noises are heard in which kicks, punches and among other things are heard on impact like.
"BOOP!"
"SLAM"
"CRASH!"
"SMASH!"
"OOPS!"
Gordon thought those noises are indeed annoying and wondered where these noises are coming from.
The Joker slipped away as he is running to the air plane as all his men are down for the count. The four of them went outside as they can see him getting away by plane. But Gordon has other plans in mind as he already has out his gravity gun and another device in a form of an explosive called Magnusson Device. Controlling the gravity gun with a click the Magnusson device shoots outwards from the gun and as the plan takes off it latches on the plane. The Joker thinks he got away.
He is going to find out how wrong he is.
"KABOOM!"
As the loud echo is heard all around in which the side of the plane exploded in which the Joker is losing control as the plane is in a tail spin until finally it comes in a hard landing into the bay of Gotham city. Smoke and fired raised up from the impact of the landing as all four of them looked on, Gordon was not shocked at this but the three of them are.
"What?" said Gordon "You wanted him stopped right, so he's stopped."
"Not something I would do." said Batman
"Holy exploding…." said Robin in which before he finished his sentence Gordon slapped him up side the head.
"Seriously cut that out." said Gordon "You really don't need to tell us that."
Batgirl just giggled a bit.
"Sometime tells me." said Batman "You are not from around here."
"Thank you for being the master of the obvious Batman." said Gordon "You're correct I am from not around here, I come from another dimension to give you a stern warning. Can we talk somewhere private."
Batman and Robin looked sharply at each other, and then they have a private conversation.
"It's been fun Gordon." said Batgirl "Meet me here later." She kissed him on the cheek as she got into her motor cycle and takes off
Batman and Robin agreed with each other on their private conversation.
"Come with us." said Batman.
Later on in the Batcave…..Gordon Freeman delivers his stern warning about the Combine and what they are all about in a long speech as Batman and Robin looked on in a shocking manner as Gordon knows he can trust these people, he told them all about the occupation and the uprising, among everything else.
"Holy Startling, storytelling Batman." said Robin "This insane and I believe him."
"So, do I Robin." said Batman "We can trust him…so it is ok."
Batman and Robin take off their mask reviling Richard "Dick" Grayson and Bruce Wayne
"Can you trust us with ours." said Bruce.
"I won't say a word and remember what I said about the Combine." said Gordon.
"Good luck Gordon." said Dick "You seriously going to need it."
"If you need to contact Me." said Gordon as he hands a small communications device to Bruce "This is for you." In which Gordon walked away.
"Where are you going?" asked Bruce.
"I have a date." said Gordon as he smirked as he walked away.
The next morning…..Barbra Gordon's place as the morning sun came up to start a brand new day, Gordon and Barbra are lying naked in bed as the covers cover parts of their body. Gordon's suit is nearby and Barbra's bat suit is lying down as well in which they are looking into each others eyes for a moment in which one last kiss occurred. Then Gordon got up out of bed and went over to his suit to put on his armor
"Your going right." said Barbra as her exposed large breasts are seen.
"Yes." said Gordon as he puts on the armor
"Like you say." smiled Barbra "Go kick some Combine ass."
"I will." Nodded the one-free-man.
"Will you come back someday." said Barbra.
"I will see what I can do." said Gordon "The combine are everywhere, good luck in crime fighting….goodbye for now."
"Thank you" said Barbra as she lies back down in bed and smiled.
A portal opens up in which Gordon pressed a button to activate the portal from his right forearm and unknown to the both of them the G-man is watching on from one the mirrors in the room as he has a smile on his face before disappearing once again.
Freeman's log.
Continuation…F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. My life is anything, but tragic as all heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Perhaps I will meet more of these Batmen, Robins and Batgirls. Will they have the same personality or will it be different. I don't know, but the unknown is always best to confront…there is no Combine threat to this dimension. As I travel to dimension to dimension I let to wonder if the inhabitants of the dimension will believe me or not.
I will have to find out first hand.
Right now my Odyssey Continues forward as I will face this head on.
End Log.
Gordon Freeman steps into the portal and disappears into thin air in a way he does not know where he is going next.
In another Dimension It is a warm day out as two teenagers are standing around in a clear field in which one of them is laughing in the words of Uh, Huh, Huh and other one is laughing in the words Heh, heh, Meh.
The blonde haired, blue eyed Caucasian boy is wearing a dark blue shirt that has the words written on the front that reads Metallica, he is wearing gray shorts and brown sneakers. He has an under-bite and a fixated stare; he is the one who is doing the heh, heh, meh.
The other one is brown haired Caucasian boy who is wearing a gray shirt that has words written on the front that reads AC/DC, he is wearing red shorts with black shoes. He has an under-bite and a fixated stare on his face. In which he is the one laughing in the words Huh, uh, huh.
All of a sudden the blonde one spots the portal, but to him it looks like a hole as the boy eyes are either playing tricks, on him or is it real.
"Meh, heh, heh." said the blonde boy "It looks like a hole…check it out."
"Uh…huh, huh, huh." said the brown haired Boy "You said, hole."
The two boys laughed.
"Wait, wait." Said the blonde boy "Meh, heh, heh "It is really an astrological phenomenon caused by a space tear in the time continuum as certain energies converge to form the basis-" he is slapped several times in the face by the brown haired boy.
"SLAP!"
"SLAP!"
"SLAP"
His head is knocked back by the slaps and the boy recovers by kicking him in the groin as the brown boy fall to the ground grasping in pain from the shot to the groin. At same time Gordon Freeman steps from out of the portal and noticed the two teenagers as a single thought came to mind to him.
This is going to be interesting thought Gordon.
To be continued:
After Gordon helps Batman and Robin put a stop to the Joker's diobolical plan before April fools day, Gordon delivers a stern warning about the Combine. Later on Gordon arrives in another dimension and sees two idiotic teenagers.
Chapter: 3
Two annoying idiots