A/N I thought the anointed one was one of the worst story lines ever on BTVS. But for the stories sake, let's just say that the night he was supposed to be bitten Xander and Cordelia were on a date together (the one Xander promised her) and they saw a bus overturned. Seeing some vampires in the distance, Xander fought them off and slayed them. Saving the people and Collin from a bad storyline.
So basically this is after the events Never Kill a boy on the First Date.
Also thanks for the reviews. To BAKAMAN, you really hate Buffy don't you? lol
To Anthony1, things are gonna get hairy for Xander and the gang, so Diana might have to reprise her role as Batwoman. And no if I do use her like that again she's gonna have a different outfit. And I have a guest superhero about to appear to help clean out Sunnydale.
And to kuramalovergirl, thanks for the review. How do you like the changes to canon and this fanfic so far.
Chapter 9
The Clown Prince
The Master's Cave
"I understand how you plan to lure the Slayer to Los Angeles." The Master was saying as he paced around his cave with his hands behind his back. "But how do you plan to lure Batman out there?"
"Well according to my sources, the Slayer and the Batman have been seen together on several occasions." Mayor Wilkins said, never taking his eyes off of his enemy/ally. "I think they have formed an alliance and if the slayer is in trouble." he said with a shrug. "Who do you think is going to help her?"
"Los Angeles is over two hours away." the Master replied as he looked at the mayor. "Even if Batman did get wind of the Slayer being in trouble, he would never get to her in time."
"Even if he doesn't, Miss Summer's is still going to die along with her little friends. With her and her friends out of the way, Batman is going to be easier pickings."
"Is it just me or are you a little more devious than when we first met?"
"I just have a better writer." Mayor Wilkins said with a shrug.
"What?" the Master asked as he sat down in his chair.
"I didn't say anything." Mayor Wilkins said as he turned to leave. "I'll see myself out." he called over his shoulder. With a nod to one of his minions, the vampire in question stalked after the mayor to keep tabs on him, as the Master sat back and glared in the darkness.
Wayne Manor
Thursday night
"But Alfred I don't see why... but...oh come on is this part of dad's punishment?" Xander asked into the phone. "Okay, I'll do it." he said as he put down the reciever.
"Who was that on the phone?" Diana asked as she and Selina walked into the room.
"That was Alfred." Xander said as he leaned back heavily in his chair. "He said that there's a charity function in LA to raise money for the LAPD. My dad is busy so he wants me to go there in his place, to make a speech and donate the money."
"Well what's wrong with that?" Diana asked confused.
"Have you ever been to one of those charity functions?" Xander asked increduously. "They're so boring and the speeches..." he stopped as the phone suddenly rang. "Hello. Hey Buff... really, I'm going to the same benefit on behalf of my dad. Okay, I'll ask her...see you there." he said as he hung up the phone.
"That was Buffy. She said that she won a sweepstakes and is going to spend two days and two nights in LA."
"Don't you find it odd that all of you would be out of town at the same time?" Diana asked.
"I agree with you." Xander said as Selina sat on his lap. "That's why I'm taking my special car down there."
"Can I come too?" Selina asked.
"Actually, I was hoping that you could stay down here." Xander told her. "Buffy said she's taking her mom to LA with her but, they don't have a babysitter for Dawn, Buffy's little sister."
"So you want me to babysit?" Diana asked with a roll of her eyes.
"Please." Xander said with a pout. "It's only for about a day or two. If you do it for me all you have to do is name something and I'll do it for you."
"Please mommy." Selina said joining in. "I want to meet a new friend."
"Fine." Diana said in a huff. "But you owe me big Xander Wayne."
The next day
"Hi."
"Hi." a nine year old Dawn greeted back to Selina as the two ran off together in Xander's house.
"Thanks for agreeing to take care of Dawn on such short notice." Joyce said to Diana as she looked up at her.
"Not a problem, I like children."
"You know you're nothing like Buffy told me you would be."
"Oh and what did Buffy say about me?" Diana asked amused.
"Well from what she told me, I thought you would be alot older and...large." Joyce said looking her up and down. Seeing the scowl on Diana's face, Joyce changed the subject. "So where's Xander? Isn't he coming with us?"
"Actually he told me to tell you that he would meet you all there. He said something about getting there ahead of time for the fundraiser."
"That sounds responsible of him." Joyce replied as the limo driver suddenly blew his horn. "My chariot awaits." she said as she looked over her shoulder. "Thanks again for keeping Dawn, I'll see you soon." she said as she ran out the door.
"Oh, yeah." Diana muttered to herself as she thought about what Buffy had said about her. "You owe me big Xander." she said as she closed the door. She still didn't understand why Buffy was so jealous of her and Xander. "Unless...nah." she said to herself.
LA Police Banquet
Hours later
"I don't care what you say, they need to go to jail." a brute of a man was saying to a beautiful blonde, in the huge banquet hall.
"Dad come on the both of them are heroes." the blonde replied to her father.
"The both of them are vigilantes." her father said almost angrily. "And nobody is above the law."
"Ah the Lockley's, I've finally found you two." Commissioner Mervins said as he walked up to them. "There's somebody I want you two to meet." he said as a tuxedo wearing Xander came up behind him. "Kate, Trevor this is Bruce Wayne's eldest child Alexander Wayne, Alex this is Trevor and his beautiful daughter Kate Lockley. They're some of the best damn officers on the force."
"It's nice to meet you both." Xander said as he firmly shook the hands with the both of them.
"Maybe you can put some sense into my daughter's head." Trevor said giving Xander a look.
"Dad, I'm sure Mr. Wayne..."
"Xander." Xander cut her off.
"What?" Kate asked as she looked over at him.
"My dad is Mr. Wayne, I like to be called Xander."
"Well, I'm sure Xander doesn't want to be bored to death with our discussion." Kate finished.
'Lady you don't know the half of it.' Xander thought to himself. "Now what was the question?"
"My question was..."
"Daddy..."
"My question was do you think the Batman should be in custody?" Trevor asked as he put his hand up to silence his daughter.
"Even with all the help Batman's been giving he's still a vigilante." Xander said with a shrug. "Besides a guy in a bat costume clearly has issues."
"See a boy after my own heart." Trevor said as he grabbed Xander from the side and squeezed his arm.
'Yeah a boy.' Kate thought to herself. 'A boy like you always wanted, instead of having a little girl. Instead of having me.' she thought as she plastered a false smile on her face.
"Hey, I see some friends of mine." Xander said as he took Trevor Lockley's hand off his shoulder. "I'll catch up with you guys later." he said as he walked off.
"You see Kate." Trevor said as he looked in the direction that Xander was going. "At least I got somebody who agrees with me on something."
"Hey, you guys look great." Xander said, especially looking at Buffy, who was wearing a form fitting red dress. Willow was wearing a black almost prom looking dress, Joyce a stunning white dress, and Jesse with a tuxedo similar to his own.
"Thank's you're looking very 007 yourself." Buffy said giving him an appraising glance. As soon as they had gotten to the hotel in LA, the clothes were already layed out for them on thier beds. They were along with a mandatory set of ticket's telling them that they had to be at the banquet. 'God he looks good in that tux and that slicked back hair...'
"Well it's nice to finally meet you." Joyce said to Xander as she stood in front of Buffy. She hated when guys eye molested her daughter. 'Even if they were filthy rich.'
"The same here, Miss Summers." Xander said as he took Joyce's hand and kissed it.
'Miss Summers.' Buffy thought to herself. 'Why is it when he says that it reminds me of somebody else. It's almost like he's...'
"I see the legendary Wayne charm rubbed off on his son." Joyce said, cutting off Buffy's inner dialogue, with a slight blush.
"Hey, I think I just saw a few movie stars here." Cordelia said as she walked up to them.
"Cordy, what are you doing here?" Xander asked, quickly taking his eyes off of her cleavage and the her shapely legs, that were showing because of her skimpy dress. Even though, Cordelia didn't realize it, Buffy did.
"A social gathering this size?" Cordelia said with a grin. "Did you really think anybody could keep me away?"
"I had an extra ticket and Giles didn't want to come so I gave it to Cordelia." Buffy said causing Cordelia to pout at being embarressed. Before she could come up with a comeback, a speaker went to the podium and announced that Xander was up next to give his speech and to donate some money.
"I'm up." Xander said. And as he walked up to the stage little did he know, but two very bad things were about to happen in his life.
Wayne Manor
Sunnydale
"That was a fun game." Selina laughed as the two finished playing hide and go seek, with Selina's mom.
"Yeah." Dawn laughed right back as she walked by a door, she didn't remember seeing before. "Hey, what's in here?" Dawn asked as she started to open the door.
"No Dawn." Selina said as she grabbed her friends hand. "Uncle Xander and my mom told me never to go in that room."
"But they never told me." Dawn said with a mischevious smile as she opened the door and walked in. It was a room more lavish than the others, but with the exception of having a grand piano in it. "It's just a piano room." Dawn said as she looked back at Selina. "Why wouldn't your mom and uncle want you to come in here?"
"I don't know, but I don't think we should be in here." Selina replied frightfully. 'Something about this just doesn't seem right.'
"Stop being such a baby and besides your mom is asleep." Dawn said as she crept into the room. And feeling a little thrill run through her, Selina followed her.
"Wow, this is a nice piano." Dawn said as the both of them sat down on the piano bench. "I always wanted to learn how to play." she said as she played a few notes.
"I already do." Selina said as she cracked her little knuckles and leaned onto the piano. Dawn could only watch in amazement as Selina's fingers, glided across the keys expertly. She was playing Beethoven's piano sonata no.14 in C sharp minor.
"How do you know how to play like that?" Dawn asked, making Selina stop playing and look over at her.
"I've been playing since I was three. When my daddy saw that I liked playing on the piano at my daycare, he took me to get lessons." Selina said sadly.
"C...can you teach me how to play?" Dawn asked, not noticing her friends sad look.
"Yeah." Selina replied as Dawn hit two sour notes. "You really do need to learn." Selina joked as they suddenly heard a rumbling sound.
Looking up they saw part of the far wall go up, revealing a caged elevator. Giving each other a look they walked up to it and got inside.
"Dawn, I'm not..."
"Oh stop whining and come on." Dawn said as she grabbed her arm. "You can't tell me that you're not the lest bit curious about what's going on?"
"My mom told me that curiousity killed the cat." Selina said as she tried to back out of the elevator. Giving her a dramatic roll of her eyes at that old saying, Dawn held onto her arm and pushed the down button on the elevator.
With a scream from both of them, as the elevator started it's freefall, their hearts thumped as they made it to the bottom.
"What a ride." Dawn commented as the door swung open by itself.
"Maybe we should..."
"Stop trying to get out of this Selina." Dawn whirled on her new friend. "You can't go this far and not go further, now come on."
As they walked through the half lit room, Dawn heard the steady rhythm of machines and computers and, the sound a distant screech of a bat.
"What is this place?" Dawn asked as she looked around.
"I don't know." Selina replied as she bumped into something. Turning around, she let out a blood curdling scream as she saw a giant bat in front of her, making her fall to the floor and whimper.
"It's...it's okay." Dawn said as she found and flicked on the light switch, illuminating the room. "It's...it's just a costume." she said looking at it through it's glass case.
"But...but I don't understand." Selina said as Dawn helped her to her feet. "Why would uncle Xander have a costume of a bat under his house?"
Then both of their eyes widened as they both realized it at the sametime.
"My uncle's..."
"The Batman." Dawn finished for her.
Outside of the Police Banquet
"Come on Harley, get the led out, let's go!" the Joker shouted out as he loaded his pistol. He hadn't been this excited in months. First he found out that there was another Batman that he could torment and then his old mob bosses, Richard Wilkins had called him and told him that the bat might show up here. And since it was a banquet none of the cops would be carrying guns.
"Coming puddin'." Harley replied as she turned a corner with fifteen thugs, that they had broken out from Arkham Asylum, before they had come to LA.
"Good now I want you to leave for Sunnydale."
"But..."
"Just go!" he yelled out irratated. With a pout Harley walked away with her head down. 'Mister J, never let's me have any fun.'
As they walked up to the entrance, over twenty men stepped out in front of them.
"If you buffoons know what's good for you then step out of the way." the Joker warned. For some reason he felt strangely angrier than normal.
"Yes, sir we know who you are." the lead man said as he got down on bended knee. "We're a gift from the Master." he said as he slipped into his vampiric visage. The inmates looked at the rest of the vampires nervously, but the Joker just looked at them as if it were an everyday occurence.
"The Massa'?" The Joker asked in a southern slave tongue. "Well golly me." he said with a short laugh as the vamps fell in line with him and the other inmates. "Well boy's." the Joker said putting away his pistol as he reached into his car and grabbed a machine gun. "Let's crash a party."
"And in closing, me and my father who's absent right now are proud to donate..." Before Xander could finish his speech, the front door exploded off of it's hinges causing shouts, panic, and cries throughout the crowd.
Looking up from the podium he was speaking from, Xander saw an army of men, some of them were vampires, storm into the room. And what was worse, he also saw...
"The Joker." Xander said lowly to himself as the Joker started to shoot a few rounds of bullets into the air.
"Ladies and gentlemen could I have your attention please." the Joker said as he stopped shooting and walked fully into the room. His army only a step behind. With a nod of his head, some of the vampires moved off to secure the entrances and exits.
As the Joker started talking, Xander jumped from off of the stage and ran over to Buffy and his friends.
"We're so gonna die." Cordelia said as she saw the Joker shoot somebody who refused to hand over their jewelry.
"No we're not." Buffy said as she started to scan the room. "We just have to find a way out of here."
"Over there." Jesse said as he pointed further down the room. "The Joker only has one vamp guarding the door. I say we make a break for it there."
"Good eye. Xander do you think you can take out that vamp?" Buffy asked.
"No problem." Xander said as he looked over at the giant brute. "But what about you?"
"I have to stay and help, until the rest of the cops can get here with guns."
"Like hell you are." Joyce said as she grabbed Buffy by the arm and whirled her around. "Buffy, I don't know what's going on but you're definately not staying here."
"Miss Summers, I can explain everything." Xander said as he grabbed her by the elbow, making her turn around and glare at him. "Sorry." he said as he let go of her arm. "But Buffy can handle things here. You have to trust us."
"Mom, we're running out of time." Buffy said as she looked back and saw the Joker coming closer to where they were. "Just go!"
Against her better judgement, Joyce ran up behind the others.
"Now, let's see if we can make this a fair fight." Buffy muttered to herself as she pulled a stake out of her purse and dodged calmly into the crowd.
"Kate here." Officer Lockley said as he handed his daughter a glock. He was prepared for everything. "I just paged for back up, so let's get in position and wait for back up." he said as he crouched down low to find a hiding place. His daughter right behind him.
"Excuse me sir, is this the way out?" Xander asked, only for the vamp to take a swing at him.
Ducking under the punch, Xander rapid fired punched him in the chest. Unharmed by the attack, the enormous vampire grinned and slowly swung again, but Xander caught his fist, kicked the big man's knee out an, as he went down on his knees, booted him in the face. With a flick of his wrist, a stake popped out of a hidden compartment and he stabbed the brute through the heart.
"Did...did everybody else see that man turn into dust?" Joyce asked with wide eyes.
"Just come on." Xander yelled as he grabbed her by the arm and opened the door. Savouring the sweet crisp night air, Xander scanned out into the night. "Everybody get into the limo." he said seeing it in the distance.
"But Buffy..."
"Willow explain to Miss Summers what's going on." Xander said as the group piled into the limo.
"But what about you?" Willow asked.
"I'm going back to help, Buffy." Xander said as he loosened his tie and walked up to the front of the car. "Driver, get them out of here!" he shouted out as he slapped the hood of the car. Making sure his friends got a safe distance away, Xander ran for a dark alley where he hid the Tumbler.
Buffy skillfully weaved through the crowd and staked over five vampires that were covering the exits. Making sure a lot of people got to safety, she was unaware of the danger lurking behind her until it was to late.
And she was nearly knocked unconcious when one of the thugs cracked her on the side of the head with his crowbar.
"Gotcha." he said as he and a vampire grabbed her on either side and took her over to where the Joker was.
"Boss, we caught this girl helping people escape." the thug said as he made Buffy bow down before the clown prince. Buffy was still out of it from the hit to the head and all that she could make out was a purple suit and a white face.
"Ohhh... and who might you be?" the Joker asked as he caressed Buffy's face with his free hand, making her flinch away from his touch.
"She's with me!" a dark voice yelled out, as a batarang hit the Joker's hand, making him drop his machine gun.
"It's Batman." the Joker said, clutching his hurt hand as he looked all throughout the building for him. "Fan out you idiots. Find him!" he yelled to his minions.
With that said five thugs, various weapons in hand, got in a loose defensive ring, peering out into the dimly lit room. Suddenly a shadow dropped into the center of their ring and as one the thugs turned, all shouting. One swung a chain, another a knife. Ducking the chain, Batman sweep-kicked the knife-wielder to the ground, as the man with the chain swung again.
Jumping over the attack, one leg low, he to let the chain wrap around his ankle, and kicked his leg sideways ripping the chain from its owner, then he head butted him, taking him down. Still with the chain around his ankle, Batman spun into a roundhouse kick, smacking three thugs behind him in the face with the weapon.All three went down from the move, and the rest were either were unconscious or gone. His job temporarily done Batman stood there, long cape billowing out to one side, as the chain slid from his leg.
"As I said Joker." Batman said as he looked over at his newest enemy. "The girls with me."
"Really?" the Joker asked increduously. "Then why is she down on her knees in front of me and not you?"
As he said that, Buffy finally came out of her daze. With a growl, she used her Slayer strength and threw off her attackers, hit the Joker in the stomach, and rolled over to where Batman was standing.
"So nice of you to join me, Miss Summers." Batman said as Buffy stood to her feet.
"Enough with the sarcasm." Buffy said with a roll of her eyes as she got into a defensive stance.
"Get them." the Joker said as he looked down to try to find his gun.
"You take the humans and I'll take the vamps." Batman said as he moved off from her.
Before Buffy could comment six prisoners rushed her all at once. Buffy fought skillfully and hard, flipping one prisoner into another. Suddenly several prisoners hit the deck before loud retorts of a machine gun sounded off. Not caring that he was hitting several of his own men, he kept firing, all the while concentrating on Buffy. Jumping into a series of flips to avoid being shot, the Joker suddenly ran out of bullets.
"You aren't quite human are you?" he asked as he dropped his now empty gun as Buffy rushed him.
"More human than you." Buffy said as she picked him up off of his feet by the throat. 'He doesn't even care that he killed some of his men.' she thought to herself. 'And what's up with that damn smile?'
"Oooo...I love a strong woman." he wheezed out. "How about you take a whiff of my flower?" he asked as he squeezed a white flower on his lapel, making a small amount of gas come out of it.
As Buffy inhaled it, she let go of the Joker, making him fall flat on his ass, and started to violently cough. Knees buckling from the effects of the gas, Buffy fell to the floor, clutching her side.
"Alright boys let's go!" the Joker shouted out to the last of his gang as he heard police sirens in the distance. "Be seeing you peaches." he said with a laugh.
"Peaches." Buffy repeated as she too started to laugh uncontrollably.
As the Joker passed the exit door, Trevor Lockley stood up from his position and started to shoot his gun, only for the Joker to skip merrily out of the door.
"Damnit." Trevor said angrily.
"Kate, you stay here and wait for back up." and before she could say anything to him, he was out the door.
As Batman finished the last of the vampires, he heard the Joker's shout about leaving. Looking in his direction, he saw him skipping out of the door and Buffy twitching on the floor laughing without any control.
That's when Batman realized what was happening. Before Alfred left he had given him case files on almost every villian Batman faced. And one of the Joker's specialties was a special gas that would make someone laugh uncontrollably until...
"Damnit!" he yelled out as he ran to Buffy who was still laughing on the floor. Hearing police sirens in the distance, he picked Buffy up into his arms, took out his grappling hook gun, and dissappeared with Buffy up into the rafters.
"It's about time you guys got here." Kate said as she approached a couple of uniformed cops. "What took you guys so long?"
"We were responding to a bank robbery." one of the cops answered. "What's the situation here?" he asked as he looked around and saw a few dead bodies and some people laying on the ground hurt from various injuries.
"Two words." Kate said as she holstered her gun and watched as the paremedics came into the room. "The..." was all she was able to get out as a black blur dropped down, grabbed her, and dissappeared towards the ceiling.
"The what officer?" the cop asked as he turned around only to find Kate gone.
Batman covered Kate's mouth, just as down below them the door smashed open and tons of cops and a S.W.A.T. team entered the room. As Batman let go of Kate, she turned around furious and saw Buffy lying in a storage space giggling to herself.
"What's happened to her?" she asked herself as she moved over to check on her.
"The Joker poisoned her with a nerve gas." Batman said from the shadows, making Kate whip out her gun at his voice.
"I don't have time for this officer." Batman told her. "This girl could die in a matter of minutes."
"Then let me take her down to the medics." Kate said still pointing her gun at him.
"They can't help her. But I can." Batman said as she finally lowered her gun. As she did so someone switched all the lights on bleaching the whole room with light. But luckily for them they all remained in shadow.
"How do you plan on getting by the cops?" Kate asked.
Batman didn't reply in words, but rather reached down to his boot and pressed a switch in the heel, producing a barely audible high-frequency whine.
"I need to get her the antidote before the damage becomes permanent." Batman said as he looked down at Buffy and then Kate.
"How long does she have?" Kate asked worriedly.
"Not long."
Meanwhile outside
A strange squealing sound rose in the darkness of the night. Some cops looked around, curious and saw a dark cloud crosseing the moon... not a regular cloud...
"Get her downstairs, meet me in the alley behind this building." Batman told Kate as he lowered a grappling hook line, so she and Buffy could get down.
"How will you get out?"
"I called for backup." Batman said as he indicated his boot. "And don't worry about the Joker, I'll deal with him."
"Do you know what he was planning?"
"I don't know but I'll deal with it."
"What is that?" Kate asked with a frown at the loud squealing noise.
"Backup." was all Batman said as he waited.
Outside
The cops screamed and dived for cover as bats, thousands upon thousands descended on the building, heading for the windows. It had to be almost every bat in LA. The windows shattered inwards as the bats poured into the building, just as Kate covered Buffy and carried her out the back way.
Bats then flooded into the bright stairwell, soaring up past the cowering SWATS, in a black mass rising, darkening the area. Batman amidst the bats, calm, pulled the sounder out of his heel, leaned over the stairwell and dropped it. The bats cycloned down the high area, following the signal as Batman jumped into the center of the black cyclone, hidden and falling.
Opening his cloak with a jolt, he landed hard in a crouch, moving calmly through the bats, slipping past the cowering Swats and crashing out of the back door.
As he turned the corner and down the alley, he saw Kate holding up a nearly unconcious Buffy.
"She's not gonna last long." Kate said to Batman as he picked up Buffy in his arms.
"I know." Batman replied as he started to run further down the alley, as the searchlight from a chopper blasted them.
"Then let's take my car and get her to the hospital."
"No need." Batman said as the blinding headlights of the Tumbler flared and the massive engine roared. "I brought my own."
Diving out of the way, Kate watched as the Tumbler came flying out of the darkness. The matte-black, muscularity of the stealth-finished "car" blew by, making her jaw drop.
"I wish I had one of those." she muttered to herself as her father ran up behind her.
Not caring about anything else but Buffy's life, the Batmobile smashed into a cop car, the huge front tires crushed the bonnet, bouncing the Tumbler right over the cop car in a messy display of brute force. 'I'm glad dad was donating money to these guys.'
Wheels fully on the ground the Tumbler tore left, and accelerated down the street...
"Hold on Buffy." Batman said as he looked over at her. He could tell that she was fading fast. "Just hold on..." he said as he typed at his onboard computer, opening a comm. link. "Diana!"
Wayne Manor
Diana's bedroom
"Diana!" Diana heard someone yelling out her name. Opening her eyes and sitting up in bed, she looked over and saw that it was coming from her communicater watch.
"Batman?" she asked as she picked it up and pushed a button.
"I don't have alot of time." Batman said urgently. "Get to the Batcave and prepare an antidote for the Joker's toxin."
"What happened?" she asked, even as she ran for the piano room.
"The Joker decided to crash the party." Batman replied. "He ended up infecting Buffy with the stuff." and to prove his point, Diana heard Buffy's faint giggles in the background.
"Wait are you still in LA?" Diana asked as she hit the notes on the piano and entered the elevator.
"Yeah." he replied.
"Xander, even in the Tumbler it'll still take you close to thirty minutes to get here." she replied back as she pushed the down button.
"I'm aware of that." he said back grimly. "That's why I'm gonna activate the Tumblers warp drive. I'll be there in ten minutes."
"But we haven't tested that before."
Dawn and Selina heard Diana say, as they looked over at each other and hid.
"Do you know how dangerous that is?" Diana continued.
"Yeah, I do." Batman said. If they hit the drive and hit something, namely a car, they would be smeared all over LA. "Batman out."
"Damnit, Xander." Diana said frustrated as she moved over to the lab part of the Batcave to prepare the antidote. 'I don't remember leaving the lights on.' she thought to herself. Letting the thought go she quickly looked up on the computer on how to prepare the antidote.
Batman glanced down at a row of buttons on the computer console, in his car. Seeing one that said WP, he put his hand over it...
"Here goes nothing." he said to himself and pushed the button, kicking the car into warp.
"Warning, the autopilot will not activate." the cool woman voice of the computer warned. "You must drive manually."
"Damnit." Batman muttered again, as he started to navigate manually. Buffy opened her eyes and saw trees, houses, and cars whipping past at incredible speeds. Looking away from the window she saw Batman nervously steering the car and looking at calculations on a computer screen.
"Just stay with me, Buffy were almost there." Batman said, feeling Buffy's eyes on him. "Please, just stay awake."
"Xander?" Buffy asked as her face started to hurt from laughing.
Looking straight ahead, she saw a lookout over a river gorge. Dropping out of warp Batman pushed the Batmobile, speeding towards the lookout. Buffy's glazed eyes registered the danger and she started to panick... even as the Tumbler rocketed off the edge of the lookout, over the gorge, flying straight at the face of the waterfall.
Buffy screamed as they splashed into the face of the waterfall and emerged through the curtain of water and into the batcave. The Tumbler's ground anchors then hooked a steel cable, spinning an interia reel bolted to the cave wall, yanking the car to a halt like a jet landing on an aircraft carrier. Not being able to take it anymore, Buffy bounced in her seat and passed out.
The canopy of the Tumbler hissed open in three complex sections, like insect wings imploding. Seeing Buffy knocked out, Batman lifted her from the cockpit, stepped down onto wet shale and carried her into the damp blackness of the caverns.
Cloak billowing in his wake, he headed for the glow of his work table. Gently laying Buffy on the table, Diana handed him a syringe. Putting the syringe between his teeth, he glided off the scaffold and landed beside Buffy. With a wince of his own, he injected her in the biceps. With a sigh of relief Batman stepped back, watching as Buffy's breathing started to slow.
"That was a close one." Diana said as she walked up to Batman.
"Tell me about it." Batman said as he took off his cowl and layed it on the table next to the Slayer. "Another couple of minutes and Buffy would have died."
"Buffy?" Dawn said loudly as she stood up from her hiding place.
"Dawn?" Xander asked as he turned to look at her with wide eyes. 'Busted again.'
"And me." Selina said as she stood up. "Hi uncle Xander." she said innocently.
Not knowing what else to do, Xander reached into his utility belt and threw a gas grenade at the girls feet, knocking them out.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Diana asked angrily.
"I'm going to use the same drug on them that my dad used on Jesse to make him forget he was Batman for the night." Xander replied as he picked both of the little girls up and layed them on the table beside Buffy. "I'm going to make them forget all about this."
Two hours later
Buffy's room
Buffy let out a yawn as she tried to roll over in bed, but something was on her arm. Opening her eyes she saw Dawn curled up on her arm, silently asleep.
"Dawn." Buffy called out, making her little sister wake up.
"Is it time for school already?" Dawn asked as she sat up and looked at Buffy. "What are you doing in my room?"
"Your room?" Buffy asked. "But this is my...wait shouldn't I still be in LA?" she asked more of herself then Dawn. 'The last thing, I remember was fighting a guy wearing a purple suit and Bat...Batman!' Buffy realized as her blood started to boil. "He did it to me again!" Buffy yelled outloud.
"Who did what?" Dawn asked confused. The last thing she could remember was playing with a new friend of hers. 'Man what was her name?'
"Nobody." Buffy said realizing what she had said. "Let's just get some sleep." Buffy said as the two snuggled closer to one another and fell asleep.
Wayne Manor
Sametime
"Mommy! Mommy!" Selina yelled out as she came out of her fit of dreams.
"Hey...hey babe it's alright." Xander soothed, as Selina looked around and saw that he was carrying her up some stairs. "Did you have a bad dream?" he asked. Dawn body took the medicine without complications, but as they examined Selina, they found that she had a rare blood trait. Her body would produce a special cell that counteracted, certain drugs.
In short, they didn't know if the one they gave her would work.
"Yeah and it was real bad." Selina said as she rested her head back on his shoulder. "I...I think I hate bats." she said as he stiffened.
"You do?" Xander asked. "Is that what your dream was about?"
"Yeah." She told him excitedly, as he walked into her room and layed her down in her bed. "I had a nightmare that a giant bat was chasing me. Uncle Xander..."
"Yeah, babe." Xander said as he tucked her in.
"Will...will you protect me against bats?" she asked seriously.
"Always." Xander said with a smile as he kissed her on the forehead. "Now get some sleep." he said as he walked out of the room.
Batcave
"I understand that Mister Wayne." Diana was saying to Bruce on the wide screen computer monitor. "But from what Xander was saying, the Joker is here."
"I still can't come to Sunnydale now." Bruce told her with a sad look. "Before the Joker left Gotham, he broke into Arkham Asylum and freed every criminal they had. I couldn't leave Gotham right now even if I wanted to. The criminals here are out of control."
"I understand." Diana told him.
"But there is something I want you to tell Xander. Tell him to be careful. Out of all the sicko's I've ever faced, the Joker is the worst."
"I'll be sure to let him know."
"And one more thing." Bruce interrupted. "Tell Xander...tell him that I love him. Bruce Wayne out." he said as he severed the communications link.
Sagging in her seat, Diana let out a sigh and typed into the computer. If they were gonna fight the Joker, she wanted to know all she could about him.
The Master's Cave
"Word has it that your little clown failed." the Master informed Mayor Wilkins.
"Some people died." Wilkins said with a shrug. "That's gotta count for something."
"A few curtains here, a slab of paint there..." the Joker was saying as he walked into the room. "So what do you think, Harley?"
"With a few changes this place could be just like home." she said scanning the room. Sensing someone about to run up on him, the Joker turned around and squirted his flower into the face of a vampire.
But unlike Buffy, the vamps face started to burn, because what the Joker used was acid. The vampires screams, as he clawed at his face, was like a music symphony to the Joker ears.
"Sorry, for the intrusion Massa'." the Joker said as he walked all the way into the room and bowed before him. "The names Joker."
A/N the episode The Pack is next. Also I hope I did the Joker some justice in this chapter. He is my favourite batman villian after all.
TBC...
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