Batman Beyond
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Chapter 5: So...fight here often?
Paxton stared at Delphi's ample cleavage. "So" he managed. "What do we do about the project? I-I- mean that I want to be kept abreast of the situation. We lost a lot to that Catwoman attack last night..."
"That feline whore? Puh-lease," sneered Delphi. "I have no worries about her! She'll never get close...unlike you" she patted the space on the seat beside her. "Care to crunch some numbers Paxton?"
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This is great, how life ultimately tries to scratch your eyes outErika sneered. Paxton powers has two body guards with more muscles then white blood cells and Roma is standing there with some lummox in a trench coat on the lower level though. He looks familiar though. Where have I seen him before?
Erika climbed along the rafters on all fours and held herself their. The dancing figures were vibrating about with the beat. "Lovely" she said as she spotted Dana below making out with Terry...that's not Terry.
Erika vaulted from all fours and grabbed a pole; she swung on it to crouch on top. Her green lenses magnified the image and snapped a picture. She zoomed in on Dana and took another shot then the other guy.
"What are you doing?" Selina sighed.
"Not much" Erika replied. "What about you?"
"Waiting for you to stop being a psychotic anarchist"
"Hope you brought something to read" Erika replied.
"You'll get yourself killed my child. I can't stand by and let that happen"
"Then don't watch" Erika said and shut off the link.
She scampered along a cord like it was Gotham Bridge and crouched on a light fixture before launching off into the middle of the dance floor. The white light focused on her and all eyes between cage dancers and dancers stared at her. She glanced around as the lights swirled about on her position. And then she launched herself upwards; her whip cracked out and caught a balcony letting her swing up. She vaulted the railings and leapt at a wall, she kicked off and reached the 4th level. Balancing on a light jutting out from the walkway she leapt upwards and over at the glass of the exclusive loft.
Paxton stopped kissing Delphi to stare at the window where Catwoman had adhered the glass. Clutched between her teeth was a small button. She spat it at the window and snapped her limbs out to hold herself spread- eagled in the frame. The button bomb bleeped before a sonic ripple tore the glass into the room.
Delphi was dressed in a purple outfit, a one-piece trouser-top outfit with a silk scarf and pearl necklace that was from the most exclusive of her boutiques. She shrieked as Catwoman leapt in.
Paxton's bodyguards aimed their guns and fired. With a cackle Erika vaulted over the pair and landed on her hands, slamming both legs into them. She spun and savagely backhanded the first. The other took aim to fire but her whip cracked the gun from his hand. Her claws raked down the face of the first man and arched back up in an uppercut that knocked him over a table.
The second rushed her, she frog leaped over him and spun a she turned to meet his face with a kick. She lanced her leg into his stomach and side- cart wheeled away. Her foot slammed into his nose and broke it. She pivoted again and swiped him with both hands one after the other. He crashed down with a groan. She vaulted over him and bobbed to one side as his comrade took a swing at her. She rolled over his back from the side and back kicked him in the face.
"Now that was fun," she said. She cracked her whip at the other; the spikes emerged and slashed down his arm. He screamed in agony and rolled over. The other tried to get up and a Cat-Dart hit him in the arm. He slumped down.
"Hey Delphi" Erika grinned. She spun and kicked Delphi sending the other woman spinning off to one side. Paxton drew his pistol...Erika back flipped in a blur as he fired. She flipped up the wall and grabbed a rafter. She scampered along and dropped down; wrapping her legs around Paxton's neck she back flipped and knocked him through a plywood wall. "Your choice in men fails the Catwoman test miserably. Ah well, no one's perfect...ESPECIALLY not you"
Delphi pulled a dagger from her belt and slashed at Catwoman. Erika somersaulted and kicked, landing in the same spot with Delphi stumbling back. "Okay" Delphi hissed. "Let's go!"
Delphi attacked with savage kicks and punches that caught Erika off guard and knocked her back. "Meow" Erika sneered. "Someone's practicing her tai- bo"
"How do you know--" Delphi paused. "Lucky Guess!" She spun and chopped down. Erika pounced into a cartwheel and brought her heels down on Delphi. She spun into a full-length hook kick on the woman and sledge hammered the mogul back. Delphi caught a leg and swung Erika into a wall. She grabbed a chair and swung it down on Erika. Erika slammed her feet into it and shoved it off to one side.
Erika punched Delphi in the face. Delphi kicked Erika in the ribs. Erika swiped Delphi with her claws. Delphi hit Erika with an ashtray. Erika slammed her fist hard into Delphi's stomach and followed up with an uppercut.
"ROMA!" shrieked Delphi. Roma kicked the door in and fired. The pistol shots were dead on target but Erika was out of the way in time. The man in the trench coat advanced. Delphi smirked as he removed his coat.
He was dressed in a green body suit with pipes all over it and a large steel cylinder on his back. He wore a facemask with red eyes. No actually those were his eyes.
"Show her some pain Scum" sighed Delphi. "A little project of ours" explained Delphi.
D'OHErika inwardly groaned. That's just one of those pesky Kill- Erika-Because-She-Saw-Them projects. I really should print those out!
"Pretty Kitty" rumbled Scum. "Fun"
"Yes have fun," yawned Delphi. "You can chase me if you want" she added to Catwoman. "If you can get past Scum here. Ta-ta, have fun" she cooed. She slammed down on the button on Scum's throat. It flashed green and the red toxins filled his system.
Delphi and Roma helped Paxton up and scampered off.
Erika looked at Scum, scanning him up and down. "I simply love that belt, what are you a 50 big and ugly?"
"KITTY!" bellowed Scum and lunged at her like a freight train.
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30 minutes earlier
"I'm on my way to CYBER-Catz" Terry said as the Batmobile shot along the sky.
"All right, be careful" Selina said.
"He rarely is" smirked Bruce.
"Yeah, great" grunted Terry. He paused. "Bruce, are you seeing this?"
"I don't believe it" Bruce whispered. The Bat signal lit up the sky, the beam shooting from the old police buildings roof. "Investigate it quickly, it might be a trap or someone might be looking for help."
"On it" sighed Terry.
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The roof was empty. Terry walked over to the ancient piece of history. "Wow" he whispered. "This is old. I'm surprised it still works."
"Actually it's running because I hooked it up with new circuitry. Just a hasty job" the voice said. Sketch hopped off the stairwell roof. "Hey Batman".
Batman raised the Batarang. Sketch disappeared. "That's a fake," Sketch said walking from seemingly being part of the wall. "I ever so slightly...stole...the technology of the Spellbinder when he used us to transfer his VR technology components past the border of Mexico."
"Really" Terry said gritting his teeth. Being ready to throw the batarang was reassuring but if the boy lashed out empathically he wouldn't be able to stop him.
"Look...I like to design weapons, I do that when I'm angry...here's the problem... I designed the Magna Cannon. It uses a combination of EMP, radiation and chemicals to cause massive damage. It can give a person 5 types of cancer and a virtual layer of brain tumours..."
"You designed something like that!" snapped Terry.
"Wait Terry" Bruce said calmly. "He might be trying to help"
"Designed yes, built no. I thought I'd burned all the plans. I was wrong. Somehow Victor got his hands on a copy. He's building it and he wants to use it tomorrow night on the Pre-Christmas Eve celebrations. I can't let it happen; with or without you I destroy that cannon. Even if it takes me with it."
Terry felt a pang of remorse for the boy. "What can we do?" he asked softly.
"Set your scanners to look for a bio-electric burst, my body gives them off when I use my empathy. I'll lead you to them tomorrow night before they can fire. As far as I know the Cat-broad has something planned for tomorrow afternoon and it's going to be big! I don't know what. But she's gunning for Cartland."
Terry looked at the boy. "Why do you want to help?"
"That weapon exists because of me. I created it, I have to destroy it" Sketch said simply. "I---I never had a family, not that I can remember. The Orphans are as close as I have even if they deem me an insomniac Amnesiac Freak sometimes. I helped Rocco by sending him to Opal...but if I have to pick saving innocence over getting rich and sticking with them? Saving those that need help takes precedence".
"That's...noble" Terry managed.
"Don't think I'm going soft" Sketch exclaimed, his features hardening to stone. "I'm just saying...even the idiots of Gotham don't deserve this..."
"Then I'll see you tomorrow" whispered Terry. He handed Sketch a small bat. "If you're in trouble hit this for help."
"Okay...tacky...hey infrared or radio wave signals?"
"Tell him not to tamper with it" Bruce said.
"Don't tamper with it" warned Terry.
Sketch shrugged and raised the device shaped like a stopwatch or cigarette lighter. He pressed the button and in a flash there was a jungle scene where he had stood.
That was weirdTerry thought.
"Terry, trouble at the club, Catwoman" Bruce reported.
Terry cast one last look at the vanishing Jungle scene. "On it" he nodded and took a leap off the roof into the Batmobile.
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Back to Now:
Catwoman shot backwards with a shout. She leapt up and over Scum. He caught her leg and slammed her through a table. She crashed through with a yowl.
"Oh, men!" she growled as she rolled away. She pointed her gauntlet and fired the missiles. They were small, too small to do much more then shove and singe an average human. Against Scum they made him flinch a little.
She switched to laser mode and took aim at his face. "Smile for the kitty" she purred and fired. The laser was for cutting through glass; at such a distance all it would do was hurt a person a little.
The red beam lanced out and Scum's head snapped out. Erika leapt into a kick to his chest. She released a barrage of bicycle kicks that managed...to make him take a step back...success! He slammed her across the room with a light-looking punch. She crashed through the glass and fell the four levels below to the dance floor. Scum leapt after her.
She glanced around. She rolled along the neon lit dance floor and reached the DJ's booth. She grabbed a CD and hurled it at Scum. It dug into his skin. He roared in surprise and removed the CD. Stalking forwards his eyes flaring with crimson rage and his muscles bulging.
"Wow, they just keep getting uglier" Terry said as he plunged through the glass roof and landed a kick on the back of Scum's head. "Are you related to Bane? Grandson, Nephew...Distant...uglier...cousin?"
Scum grabbed Terry's head in a massive hand and slung him onto Catwoman. She wrapped her arms around him and rolled with him. "So...fight here often?" Terry croaked. She shrugged and shoved off his body to rise to her feet.
"This fella is big, Ugly and very stupid" commented Catwoman. "He also works for the petulant festering piece of upstanding citizen Delphi Cartland".
"Well she really must like those hiring policies that ask about a persons killing practices..." Terry grunted. Erika lashed her whip at Scum. He punched Terry and grabbed the whip swinging her around and over the bar into the row of glasses. She landed on spread all fours before throwing herself up to her feet.
She sighed. "All right go again" she laughed and leapt on the attack.
They fought endlessly for an eternity, never breaking through to Scum's feelings of pain. He simply shrugged the blows off and plucked them like daisies off their feet to throw them about.
"I have an idea," Erika said springing to her feet and slashing Scum's arm as she flipped past him. "When I give the signal come to me! Keep him focused for a while on YOU."
"Yeah, I trust you!" snorted Terry. Erika vaulted away and grinned. She sauntered across the dance floor as Scum slammed Terry onto the bar and slid him down it.
"HEY! YOU READY YET! ?" Terry roared as he beat on Scum's neck.
"Yes! Bring him over!" called Erika. Terry grimaced.
"Trust her, cat's always consider their survival above all else" reassured Bruce. Terry grumbled and leapt away, his boosters fired and shot to Erika. She grabbed a lever as Scum thundered onto the dance floor.
"Break it down now!" she cackled as she pulled the lever down and sent about 20,000 volts into Scum forcing him into a twitching dance of pain. He staggered back groaning as she pushed the lever up stopping the charge. "Wow he can bust a move," she whispered breathlessly. "Come grab some pipes but NOT the one in his head".
"What?" Terry exclaimed as she sauntered past him onto the dance floor. She casually ducked a slower swipe from Scum and grabbed the pipes on his left side. Terry tore the right side pipes out. Erika pivoted around to look up at Scum. "I loved your dancing just don't get a big head" she warned.
She delivered a series of kicks to the button at his throat. The red liquid splattered out on the dance floor with an acidic smell. Steam rose from it hissing into the air. "EVERYONE DOWN!" Erika shouted as he back flipped away. Terry dived back with her...seconds later Scum exploded into a volcano of red smoke.
"Wow, a swollen head can kill you" Terry murmured as they peaked up from behind the bar where the rest of the patrons had hidden.
"Yeah, that's the way it goes" shrugged Erika. She rose and leapt onto the bar. "Well it's been read but I have to jet" she flipped the button bomb into the air and leapt as she hit the detonator. The flash went off and forced Terry to his knees clutching his eyes in pain.
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Erika threw herself onto the bed of her apartment and lay there in her costume as Ms Kitty sauntered around her mistress and curled up on her stomach. Erika rose and walked over to the shower. She slammed it with her palm and the warm water blasted out. "I must be getting good a covering bruises," she muttered. "Though I am a fast healer...well Ms Kitty. That was a fun night."
Slipping out of her clothes she stepped into the shower. "I'll have to get Dana's claws out of Terry...then again I'm one to talk about getting claws into men."
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"Yo Terry!" exclaimed Max as they reached the doors of the Arcade. "Where's Dana? We wanted to see what her story of Catwoman had ended in."
"I'm just going to meet her" shrugged Terry. "Oh my ribs" he groaned.
"Cat-broad got you good?"
"Please be silent" Terry grated. "It was some steroid junkie called Scum. By name and by nature, so how's stuff going for you?"
"Oh, it's great. Dana's only tried to get me to create a website for her...what...20, 30 times this week?"
"My condolences" purred someone. Erika was leaning on a wall.
"Hey Erika" Max said. "Don't you have work?"
Erika gave a decidedly cat-like grin. "Oh you know, sometimes the boss takes a day off and doesn't need her assistant around. Especially when the printer explodes and blows ink all over her office."
Terry fought down a smile. "Odd happenings" he smirked. "Why don't I get breaks like that?"
"Because your boss might have a coronary if you gave yourself a day off" Max interjected. "And I mean that literally."
"Want to sit with us?" Terry asked.
"That's a deep philosophical quest-yes" Erika said with a grin. They walked over to the booth and sat into it. Blade and Dana arrived...the air stiffened like concrete in 2.5 seconds as Dana and Erika laid eyes on each other.
"Erika" Dana said coldly. "I think you're sitting in the wrong place...as in not the Loser table..."
"Oh Dana" chuckled Erika. "How's that pole up your butt? Rigid and Frigid as usual...though in that dress and this weather its no surprise."
"Shut your mouth you slag!" Dana snapped. Erika swung her legs up onto the table and pushed off from the seat to stand on it. She dropped off to stand beside Dana and stared at her.
"Wow Dana, how much did that nose cost you?"
Dana put her hands over her nose protectively. "You don't know anything you...you slut! An ugly slut at that!"
"Hmmmm" Erika mused. Her hand blurred out and clouted Erika in the side of the face. Dana spun with a slap. Erika pulled back with a laugh. "Is that all you have? I'm really not surprised...hey Dana do this". Erika hooked her fingers and crinkled her brow letting her mouth hang open and look in general look like a vampire. "I guarantee it will make you look better."
Dana slapped Erika across the face. Erika hissed and lashed out catching Dana by the throat and hauling her over. She extended a full-length kick into Dana's stomach and sent her shooting back to land on a messy table vacated by the owners.
"Hey Dana, who was the guy, you and him, hot and heavy at CYBER-Catz last night" Erika smirked as she advanced. "Unless you've forgotten because WOW! We're still on breakfast menu time in this joint".
Everyone stared at Dana as she lunged at Erika. The black and purple haired girl dropped down low under Dana's arms and swung a leg up into Dana's face. Dana shrieked and fell back a few steps. Blade and Max debated on intervention. Nelson was red with excitement and Terry was trying to process the burst of information.
"Now, I'm tired of you" Erika said. "Beating you up is too good". Dana charged again but Erika spun and grabbed an arm to slam a fist into the back of Dana's head. "You're a cheap slut". She spun back to Dana's front and landed a palm to her forehead. "Who had a great guy but didn't see it". She kicked Dana into a booth and walked over to the piled up leftovers of a quick breakfast in the booth. "You decided to hit on some other guy, but you didn't break-up with him". She slapped the burger into Dana's face. "You lead him along all you wanted...I didn't think I respected you---" She poured the ketchup and mustard into Dana's hair. "But you've sunk lower then the time that you locked me in a locker for three hours after school ended" she poured the old soft-drinks onto the girl "And that was pretty damn hard to do. You're scum Dana. And worth destroying".
For the final touch Erika placed a slice of pickle on Dana's forehead like a precious jewel and stepped back. "Plus he's the Goalie for your rival school...that's pretty low too"
"Craig the Catcher! DANA!" Nelson exclaimed. Erika looked at Terry.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I didn't want it to come out like that"
Terry looked up at her. "You free later?"
Erika blinked. "Sorry? Are you asking me out?"
Terry nodded. "I wanted to but I was with Dana and now it's not even an option anymore and I do like you and I'd like to get to know you because you're really interesting and I'm babbling but I can't stop and it's really not like me to talk like this but like I said I can't stop so do you want to go out with me or will I be talking and talking and talk---"
Erika put a finger on his lips. "How does lunch at 3 sound? I have something to wrap up at about 12 to 2..."
"Okay, how about I meet you at Cobblepot Park?" Terry said. "I'll take you for coffee... or something...ya know?"
"Sound like a date" Erika said with a smile. She walked past Dana and paused. "I've really out done myself this time. And they said home hair- doing courses were a waste of time." Dana gave a shriek of rage and stormed out.
"Food spoils faster if you heat it in the wrong way Dana!" max called.
"Was it something I said?" Erika asked casually. "Park, by the pond at 3" she added and then she sashayed out.
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"We'll load this up on the top of the Balent building" Victor said. "You and Team B keep the bat Occupied. Then tonight the day before Christmas Eve...we can blast the people below"
"Oh what a hoot" Sketch growled as Victor spoke to Catwoman. She coiled the whip in her fingers.
"I still don't understand what the "package", as you put it, is Zeiss but I'll play along" she shrugged. "Anything for a game of Tag with the bat. Now...we all know our roles so...let's act"
Sketch, Zeiss and Brubaker climbed into the van and sped off followed closely by the skating and blading Orphans.
"Erika"
Erika touched the link in her cowl. "Yes? What? No more morality speeches I hope" she sighed.
"I'm sending you some co-ordinates, head there and follow the instructions"
"If this is a trap I'll never forgive you"
"It isn't honour amongst thieves" Selina reassured. "Though I'm against this course of yours to the bitter end."
"You're not helping your case much" Erika growled as she fired a cable and swung up onto a building. "But I'm on my way."
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THE EGGS IN CH5:
Gallant's knee – Catwoman busted Gallants Knee GO CATWOMAN (What? The git deserved it.)
Girl Talk – The girl chat with the Ice princess in Batman Returns ended badly
Kidnap drop – Yes Catwoman and Penguin gave their Kidnap victim a serious Drop
Cat Scratch Fever – A Catwoman episode was named after this
Where were you last time? – Michelle Pfeiffer asked Michael Keaton where he was last time she died. Then she died again...hmmmm
Gotham river drop – Julie Newmar took the plunge for Batman after a caper that didn't go well. Ah well it wasn't permanent at least.
Repeated shooting – Shreck shot her five times...THOSE SHOTS COULD NOT HAVE ERASED 6 LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Batman Marry Me – Yeah Julie Newmar took a dive after asking Batman to marry her, promising she'd reform...and subsequently have to kill Robin...not a good thing to add in there Julie.
CYBER Cat – An ex-Villain of Catwoman's from her own comic book. I never actually found out what her story was all I knew was that she had a deal with a company to wear their armour... go figure
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There are only (2) Eggs here. There will be mucho less because I'm running out of references. Keep your eyes open for a few notes over the next few chapters
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER: Erika and Terry have their first date...after they try beat each other into bloody pulps? Yeah and I thought my last relationship was complicated...plus Sketch's weapon gets a charge up and he risks his life to stop it...but if he destroys it...will he go with it?
I want opinions on my OC's (Delphi, Roma, Sketch, Erika, Victor...etc) and thoughts on my portrayals of actual series characters (Bruce, Max, Selina, Terry, Dana...etc).
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Chapter 5: So...fight here often?
Paxton stared at Delphi's ample cleavage. "So" he managed. "What do we do about the project? I-I- mean that I want to be kept abreast of the situation. We lost a lot to that Catwoman attack last night..."
"That feline whore? Puh-lease," sneered Delphi. "I have no worries about her! She'll never get close...unlike you" she patted the space on the seat beside her. "Care to crunch some numbers Paxton?"
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This is great, how life ultimately tries to scratch your eyes outErika sneered. Paxton powers has two body guards with more muscles then white blood cells and Roma is standing there with some lummox in a trench coat on the lower level though. He looks familiar though. Where have I seen him before?
Erika climbed along the rafters on all fours and held herself their. The dancing figures were vibrating about with the beat. "Lovely" she said as she spotted Dana below making out with Terry...that's not Terry.
Erika vaulted from all fours and grabbed a pole; she swung on it to crouch on top. Her green lenses magnified the image and snapped a picture. She zoomed in on Dana and took another shot then the other guy.
"What are you doing?" Selina sighed.
"Not much" Erika replied. "What about you?"
"Waiting for you to stop being a psychotic anarchist"
"Hope you brought something to read" Erika replied.
"You'll get yourself killed my child. I can't stand by and let that happen"
"Then don't watch" Erika said and shut off the link.
She scampered along a cord like it was Gotham Bridge and crouched on a light fixture before launching off into the middle of the dance floor. The white light focused on her and all eyes between cage dancers and dancers stared at her. She glanced around as the lights swirled about on her position. And then she launched herself upwards; her whip cracked out and caught a balcony letting her swing up. She vaulted the railings and leapt at a wall, she kicked off and reached the 4th level. Balancing on a light jutting out from the walkway she leapt upwards and over at the glass of the exclusive loft.
Paxton stopped kissing Delphi to stare at the window where Catwoman had adhered the glass. Clutched between her teeth was a small button. She spat it at the window and snapped her limbs out to hold herself spread- eagled in the frame. The button bomb bleeped before a sonic ripple tore the glass into the room.
Delphi was dressed in a purple outfit, a one-piece trouser-top outfit with a silk scarf and pearl necklace that was from the most exclusive of her boutiques. She shrieked as Catwoman leapt in.
Paxton's bodyguards aimed their guns and fired. With a cackle Erika vaulted over the pair and landed on her hands, slamming both legs into them. She spun and savagely backhanded the first. The other took aim to fire but her whip cracked the gun from his hand. Her claws raked down the face of the first man and arched back up in an uppercut that knocked him over a table.
The second rushed her, she frog leaped over him and spun a she turned to meet his face with a kick. She lanced her leg into his stomach and side- cart wheeled away. Her foot slammed into his nose and broke it. She pivoted again and swiped him with both hands one after the other. He crashed down with a groan. She vaulted over him and bobbed to one side as his comrade took a swing at her. She rolled over his back from the side and back kicked him in the face.
"Now that was fun," she said. She cracked her whip at the other; the spikes emerged and slashed down his arm. He screamed in agony and rolled over. The other tried to get up and a Cat-Dart hit him in the arm. He slumped down.
"Hey Delphi" Erika grinned. She spun and kicked Delphi sending the other woman spinning off to one side. Paxton drew his pistol...Erika back flipped in a blur as he fired. She flipped up the wall and grabbed a rafter. She scampered along and dropped down; wrapping her legs around Paxton's neck she back flipped and knocked him through a plywood wall. "Your choice in men fails the Catwoman test miserably. Ah well, no one's perfect...ESPECIALLY not you"
Delphi pulled a dagger from her belt and slashed at Catwoman. Erika somersaulted and kicked, landing in the same spot with Delphi stumbling back. "Okay" Delphi hissed. "Let's go!"
Delphi attacked with savage kicks and punches that caught Erika off guard and knocked her back. "Meow" Erika sneered. "Someone's practicing her tai- bo"
"How do you know--" Delphi paused. "Lucky Guess!" She spun and chopped down. Erika pounced into a cartwheel and brought her heels down on Delphi. She spun into a full-length hook kick on the woman and sledge hammered the mogul back. Delphi caught a leg and swung Erika into a wall. She grabbed a chair and swung it down on Erika. Erika slammed her feet into it and shoved it off to one side.
Erika punched Delphi in the face. Delphi kicked Erika in the ribs. Erika swiped Delphi with her claws. Delphi hit Erika with an ashtray. Erika slammed her fist hard into Delphi's stomach and followed up with an uppercut.
"ROMA!" shrieked Delphi. Roma kicked the door in and fired. The pistol shots were dead on target but Erika was out of the way in time. The man in the trench coat advanced. Delphi smirked as he removed his coat.
He was dressed in a green body suit with pipes all over it and a large steel cylinder on his back. He wore a facemask with red eyes. No actually those were his eyes.
"Show her some pain Scum" sighed Delphi. "A little project of ours" explained Delphi.
D'OHErika inwardly groaned. That's just one of those pesky Kill- Erika-Because-She-Saw-Them projects. I really should print those out!
"Pretty Kitty" rumbled Scum. "Fun"
"Yes have fun," yawned Delphi. "You can chase me if you want" she added to Catwoman. "If you can get past Scum here. Ta-ta, have fun" she cooed. She slammed down on the button on Scum's throat. It flashed green and the red toxins filled his system.
Delphi and Roma helped Paxton up and scampered off.
Erika looked at Scum, scanning him up and down. "I simply love that belt, what are you a 50 big and ugly?"
"KITTY!" bellowed Scum and lunged at her like a freight train.
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30 minutes earlier
"I'm on my way to CYBER-Catz" Terry said as the Batmobile shot along the sky.
"All right, be careful" Selina said.
"He rarely is" smirked Bruce.
"Yeah, great" grunted Terry. He paused. "Bruce, are you seeing this?"
"I don't believe it" Bruce whispered. The Bat signal lit up the sky, the beam shooting from the old police buildings roof. "Investigate it quickly, it might be a trap or someone might be looking for help."
"On it" sighed Terry.
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The roof was empty. Terry walked over to the ancient piece of history. "Wow" he whispered. "This is old. I'm surprised it still works."
"Actually it's running because I hooked it up with new circuitry. Just a hasty job" the voice said. Sketch hopped off the stairwell roof. "Hey Batman".
Batman raised the Batarang. Sketch disappeared. "That's a fake," Sketch said walking from seemingly being part of the wall. "I ever so slightly...stole...the technology of the Spellbinder when he used us to transfer his VR technology components past the border of Mexico."
"Really" Terry said gritting his teeth. Being ready to throw the batarang was reassuring but if the boy lashed out empathically he wouldn't be able to stop him.
"Look...I like to design weapons, I do that when I'm angry...here's the problem... I designed the Magna Cannon. It uses a combination of EMP, radiation and chemicals to cause massive damage. It can give a person 5 types of cancer and a virtual layer of brain tumours..."
"You designed something like that!" snapped Terry.
"Wait Terry" Bruce said calmly. "He might be trying to help"
"Designed yes, built no. I thought I'd burned all the plans. I was wrong. Somehow Victor got his hands on a copy. He's building it and he wants to use it tomorrow night on the Pre-Christmas Eve celebrations. I can't let it happen; with or without you I destroy that cannon. Even if it takes me with it."
Terry felt a pang of remorse for the boy. "What can we do?" he asked softly.
"Set your scanners to look for a bio-electric burst, my body gives them off when I use my empathy. I'll lead you to them tomorrow night before they can fire. As far as I know the Cat-broad has something planned for tomorrow afternoon and it's going to be big! I don't know what. But she's gunning for Cartland."
Terry looked at the boy. "Why do you want to help?"
"That weapon exists because of me. I created it, I have to destroy it" Sketch said simply. "I---I never had a family, not that I can remember. The Orphans are as close as I have even if they deem me an insomniac Amnesiac Freak sometimes. I helped Rocco by sending him to Opal...but if I have to pick saving innocence over getting rich and sticking with them? Saving those that need help takes precedence".
"That's...noble" Terry managed.
"Don't think I'm going soft" Sketch exclaimed, his features hardening to stone. "I'm just saying...even the idiots of Gotham don't deserve this..."
"Then I'll see you tomorrow" whispered Terry. He handed Sketch a small bat. "If you're in trouble hit this for help."
"Okay...tacky...hey infrared or radio wave signals?"
"Tell him not to tamper with it" Bruce said.
"Don't tamper with it" warned Terry.
Sketch shrugged and raised the device shaped like a stopwatch or cigarette lighter. He pressed the button and in a flash there was a jungle scene where he had stood.
That was weirdTerry thought.
"Terry, trouble at the club, Catwoman" Bruce reported.
Terry cast one last look at the vanishing Jungle scene. "On it" he nodded and took a leap off the roof into the Batmobile.
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Back to Now:
Catwoman shot backwards with a shout. She leapt up and over Scum. He caught her leg and slammed her through a table. She crashed through with a yowl.
"Oh, men!" she growled as she rolled away. She pointed her gauntlet and fired the missiles. They were small, too small to do much more then shove and singe an average human. Against Scum they made him flinch a little.
She switched to laser mode and took aim at his face. "Smile for the kitty" she purred and fired. The laser was for cutting through glass; at such a distance all it would do was hurt a person a little.
The red beam lanced out and Scum's head snapped out. Erika leapt into a kick to his chest. She released a barrage of bicycle kicks that managed...to make him take a step back...success! He slammed her across the room with a light-looking punch. She crashed through the glass and fell the four levels below to the dance floor. Scum leapt after her.
She glanced around. She rolled along the neon lit dance floor and reached the DJ's booth. She grabbed a CD and hurled it at Scum. It dug into his skin. He roared in surprise and removed the CD. Stalking forwards his eyes flaring with crimson rage and his muscles bulging.
"Wow, they just keep getting uglier" Terry said as he plunged through the glass roof and landed a kick on the back of Scum's head. "Are you related to Bane? Grandson, Nephew...Distant...uglier...cousin?"
Scum grabbed Terry's head in a massive hand and slung him onto Catwoman. She wrapped her arms around him and rolled with him. "So...fight here often?" Terry croaked. She shrugged and shoved off his body to rise to her feet.
"This fella is big, Ugly and very stupid" commented Catwoman. "He also works for the petulant festering piece of upstanding citizen Delphi Cartland".
"Well she really must like those hiring policies that ask about a persons killing practices..." Terry grunted. Erika lashed her whip at Scum. He punched Terry and grabbed the whip swinging her around and over the bar into the row of glasses. She landed on spread all fours before throwing herself up to her feet.
She sighed. "All right go again" she laughed and leapt on the attack.
They fought endlessly for an eternity, never breaking through to Scum's feelings of pain. He simply shrugged the blows off and plucked them like daisies off their feet to throw them about.
"I have an idea," Erika said springing to her feet and slashing Scum's arm as she flipped past him. "When I give the signal come to me! Keep him focused for a while on YOU."
"Yeah, I trust you!" snorted Terry. Erika vaulted away and grinned. She sauntered across the dance floor as Scum slammed Terry onto the bar and slid him down it.
"HEY! YOU READY YET! ?" Terry roared as he beat on Scum's neck.
"Yes! Bring him over!" called Erika. Terry grimaced.
"Trust her, cat's always consider their survival above all else" reassured Bruce. Terry grumbled and leapt away, his boosters fired and shot to Erika. She grabbed a lever as Scum thundered onto the dance floor.
"Break it down now!" she cackled as she pulled the lever down and sent about 20,000 volts into Scum forcing him into a twitching dance of pain. He staggered back groaning as she pushed the lever up stopping the charge. "Wow he can bust a move," she whispered breathlessly. "Come grab some pipes but NOT the one in his head".
"What?" Terry exclaimed as she sauntered past him onto the dance floor. She casually ducked a slower swipe from Scum and grabbed the pipes on his left side. Terry tore the right side pipes out. Erika pivoted around to look up at Scum. "I loved your dancing just don't get a big head" she warned.
She delivered a series of kicks to the button at his throat. The red liquid splattered out on the dance floor with an acidic smell. Steam rose from it hissing into the air. "EVERYONE DOWN!" Erika shouted as he back flipped away. Terry dived back with her...seconds later Scum exploded into a volcano of red smoke.
"Wow, a swollen head can kill you" Terry murmured as they peaked up from behind the bar where the rest of the patrons had hidden.
"Yeah, that's the way it goes" shrugged Erika. She rose and leapt onto the bar. "Well it's been read but I have to jet" she flipped the button bomb into the air and leapt as she hit the detonator. The flash went off and forced Terry to his knees clutching his eyes in pain.
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Erika threw herself onto the bed of her apartment and lay there in her costume as Ms Kitty sauntered around her mistress and curled up on her stomach. Erika rose and walked over to the shower. She slammed it with her palm and the warm water blasted out. "I must be getting good a covering bruises," she muttered. "Though I am a fast healer...well Ms Kitty. That was a fun night."
Slipping out of her clothes she stepped into the shower. "I'll have to get Dana's claws out of Terry...then again I'm one to talk about getting claws into men."
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"Yo Terry!" exclaimed Max as they reached the doors of the Arcade. "Where's Dana? We wanted to see what her story of Catwoman had ended in."
"I'm just going to meet her" shrugged Terry. "Oh my ribs" he groaned.
"Cat-broad got you good?"
"Please be silent" Terry grated. "It was some steroid junkie called Scum. By name and by nature, so how's stuff going for you?"
"Oh, it's great. Dana's only tried to get me to create a website for her...what...20, 30 times this week?"
"My condolences" purred someone. Erika was leaning on a wall.
"Hey Erika" Max said. "Don't you have work?"
Erika gave a decidedly cat-like grin. "Oh you know, sometimes the boss takes a day off and doesn't need her assistant around. Especially when the printer explodes and blows ink all over her office."
Terry fought down a smile. "Odd happenings" he smirked. "Why don't I get breaks like that?"
"Because your boss might have a coronary if you gave yourself a day off" Max interjected. "And I mean that literally."
"Want to sit with us?" Terry asked.
"That's a deep philosophical quest-yes" Erika said with a grin. They walked over to the booth and sat into it. Blade and Dana arrived...the air stiffened like concrete in 2.5 seconds as Dana and Erika laid eyes on each other.
"Erika" Dana said coldly. "I think you're sitting in the wrong place...as in not the Loser table..."
"Oh Dana" chuckled Erika. "How's that pole up your butt? Rigid and Frigid as usual...though in that dress and this weather its no surprise."
"Shut your mouth you slag!" Dana snapped. Erika swung her legs up onto the table and pushed off from the seat to stand on it. She dropped off to stand beside Dana and stared at her.
"Wow Dana, how much did that nose cost you?"
Dana put her hands over her nose protectively. "You don't know anything you...you slut! An ugly slut at that!"
"Hmmmm" Erika mused. Her hand blurred out and clouted Erika in the side of the face. Dana spun with a slap. Erika pulled back with a laugh. "Is that all you have? I'm really not surprised...hey Dana do this". Erika hooked her fingers and crinkled her brow letting her mouth hang open and look in general look like a vampire. "I guarantee it will make you look better."
Dana slapped Erika across the face. Erika hissed and lashed out catching Dana by the throat and hauling her over. She extended a full-length kick into Dana's stomach and sent her shooting back to land on a messy table vacated by the owners.
"Hey Dana, who was the guy, you and him, hot and heavy at CYBER-Catz last night" Erika smirked as she advanced. "Unless you've forgotten because WOW! We're still on breakfast menu time in this joint".
Everyone stared at Dana as she lunged at Erika. The black and purple haired girl dropped down low under Dana's arms and swung a leg up into Dana's face. Dana shrieked and fell back a few steps. Blade and Max debated on intervention. Nelson was red with excitement and Terry was trying to process the burst of information.
"Now, I'm tired of you" Erika said. "Beating you up is too good". Dana charged again but Erika spun and grabbed an arm to slam a fist into the back of Dana's head. "You're a cheap slut". She spun back to Dana's front and landed a palm to her forehead. "Who had a great guy but didn't see it". She kicked Dana into a booth and walked over to the piled up leftovers of a quick breakfast in the booth. "You decided to hit on some other guy, but you didn't break-up with him". She slapped the burger into Dana's face. "You lead him along all you wanted...I didn't think I respected you---" She poured the ketchup and mustard into Dana's hair. "But you've sunk lower then the time that you locked me in a locker for three hours after school ended" she poured the old soft-drinks onto the girl "And that was pretty damn hard to do. You're scum Dana. And worth destroying".
For the final touch Erika placed a slice of pickle on Dana's forehead like a precious jewel and stepped back. "Plus he's the Goalie for your rival school...that's pretty low too"
"Craig the Catcher! DANA!" Nelson exclaimed. Erika looked at Terry.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I didn't want it to come out like that"
Terry looked up at her. "You free later?"
Erika blinked. "Sorry? Are you asking me out?"
Terry nodded. "I wanted to but I was with Dana and now it's not even an option anymore and I do like you and I'd like to get to know you because you're really interesting and I'm babbling but I can't stop and it's really not like me to talk like this but like I said I can't stop so do you want to go out with me or will I be talking and talking and talk---"
Erika put a finger on his lips. "How does lunch at 3 sound? I have something to wrap up at about 12 to 2..."
"Okay, how about I meet you at Cobblepot Park?" Terry said. "I'll take you for coffee... or something...ya know?"
"Sound like a date" Erika said with a smile. She walked past Dana and paused. "I've really out done myself this time. And they said home hair- doing courses were a waste of time." Dana gave a shriek of rage and stormed out.
"Food spoils faster if you heat it in the wrong way Dana!" max called.
"Was it something I said?" Erika asked casually. "Park, by the pond at 3" she added and then she sashayed out.
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"We'll load this up on the top of the Balent building" Victor said. "You and Team B keep the bat Occupied. Then tonight the day before Christmas Eve...we can blast the people below"
"Oh what a hoot" Sketch growled as Victor spoke to Catwoman. She coiled the whip in her fingers.
"I still don't understand what the "package", as you put it, is Zeiss but I'll play along" she shrugged. "Anything for a game of Tag with the bat. Now...we all know our roles so...let's act"
Sketch, Zeiss and Brubaker climbed into the van and sped off followed closely by the skating and blading Orphans.
"Erika"
Erika touched the link in her cowl. "Yes? What? No more morality speeches I hope" she sighed.
"I'm sending you some co-ordinates, head there and follow the instructions"
"If this is a trap I'll never forgive you"
"It isn't honour amongst thieves" Selina reassured. "Though I'm against this course of yours to the bitter end."
"You're not helping your case much" Erika growled as she fired a cable and swung up onto a building. "But I'm on my way."
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THE EGGS IN CH5:
Gallant's knee – Catwoman busted Gallants Knee GO CATWOMAN (What? The git deserved it.)
Girl Talk – The girl chat with the Ice princess in Batman Returns ended badly
Kidnap drop – Yes Catwoman and Penguin gave their Kidnap victim a serious Drop
Cat Scratch Fever – A Catwoman episode was named after this
Where were you last time? – Michelle Pfeiffer asked Michael Keaton where he was last time she died. Then she died again...hmmmm
Gotham river drop – Julie Newmar took the plunge for Batman after a caper that didn't go well. Ah well it wasn't permanent at least.
Repeated shooting – Shreck shot her five times...THOSE SHOTS COULD NOT HAVE ERASED 6 LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Batman Marry Me – Yeah Julie Newmar took a dive after asking Batman to marry her, promising she'd reform...and subsequently have to kill Robin...not a good thing to add in there Julie.
CYBER Cat – An ex-Villain of Catwoman's from her own comic book. I never actually found out what her story was all I knew was that she had a deal with a company to wear their armour... go figure
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There are only (2) Eggs here. There will be mucho less because I'm running out of references. Keep your eyes open for a few notes over the next few chapters
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER: Erika and Terry have their first date...after they try beat each other into bloody pulps? Yeah and I thought my last relationship was complicated...plus Sketch's weapon gets a charge up and he risks his life to stop it...but if he destroys it...will he go with it?
I want opinions on my OC's (Delphi, Roma, Sketch, Erika, Victor...etc) and thoughts on my portrayals of actual series characters (Bruce, Max, Selina, Terry, Dana...etc).
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