Katt Girl & The Harley Kidd: Chapter 5: Mayor Maybe Not by Chad Sheefel 11/12/19

Chad Grayson sat at a local cafe, trying to dodge the cold rain, while pondering the latest news.

"Oswald escapes? Mayor Shrek is missing? And I can't seem to remember what I was doing last night."

Chad did remember being at the hospital yesterday, and heard what Oswald said about the Mayor. But for some reason he didn't remember too much after that. He thought that it could've bee a side effect from the potion he received from The Shadow Stranger.

He waived down a waitress and said, "Hi.. Selina is it? Could you bring me a Diet Pepsi please?"

The waitress responded by saying, "Sure thing tiger."

She came back a minute later with his Diet Pepsi. She asked him if there is anything else she could bring him.

He responded, "I would like to ask for your phone number but I would probably forget it."

She gave him a big smile and said, "I think I'm a little older than you. I hope you are looking for a cougar."

Chad laughed and said, "I'm 24 and you don't look much older than me."

She bent down and whispered in his ear, "I just turned 30. But, if you tell anyone, I will claw your eyes out."

Chad whispered back in her ear, "Your secret is safe with me."

Selina appreciated Chad's candor and decided to give Chad her phone number. She wrote it down on his arm so that he wouldn't forget it.

She noticed that he had a soaking wet newspaper in his hand and said, "Did you hear about that penguin fella escaping from the nuthouse? And now the mayor is missing? Plus, I saw those pictures that you took of those little superhero chicks. I especially liked the one that wore a cat outfit. I've always said this town needs an enema."

Chad was surprised. "You knew that was me who took those pictures? They didn't give me much recognition for that. It seemed like they buried the story and left it for the funny pages."

Selina responded, "Yeah, I knew it was you. I also read in the paper that you was shot trying to get the scoop on that Shadow Stranger fella. You seem to have recovered awful fast Chad Grayson."

Chad is shocked. He hadn't realized he was so well known. He got up, paid for his drank, and prepared to head back out into the rain.

He looked back at Selina and said, "If you think I heal fast, you should see what else I can do…. Fast. I guess I should have thought about that one. I will give you a call soon."

Selina smiled. As Chad walks away Selina silently mumbled, "Sure you will tiger."

Meanwhile, Lola and Gabby were at school when they found out the news about Mayor Shrek. They communicated through their necklaces.

Gabby said, "I don't think it's a coincidence that the Mayor is suddenly missing just after Oswald got away."

"Yeah, if the urban legend is true about Oswald, he might have taken Mayor Shrek to the sewers." Lola responded.

Gabby laughed at first but then she said, "You might be onto something Sis. Tonight, you better pack some extra deodorant... because we are going into a muckville."

Later that night they became Katt Girl & The Harley Kidd. The rain had finally stopped. They headed down below Gotham into the sewer.

"I'm not sure what we are going to find down here," Gabby said.

"As long as we don't run into Pennywise, I will be just fine," Lola responded.

They walked through the mucky waters for two hours and the smell had became overbearing. They decided to give up looking for clues, then head back to the top.

Once they uncovered the manhole, they hear a familiar voice that said, "Hey, don't I know you two from somewhere?" They turned to look.

"Brewsky!" Lola said as she jumped straight into his arms.

"His name is Bruce Wayne," Gabby said.

Lola smiled and said, "He will always be Brewsky to me."

Bruce had been checking up on the girls every-now-and-then. Making sure they didn't get into too much trouble.

"I see you got your new outfits and your new toys," said Bruce.

"Yes, I love my bat, the bad guys are very scared of it! Lola replied. "Are you the one that sent it to me?"

He told them that he knew a guy at Wayne Enterprises that made that kind of stuff.

"Look girls, I don't mean to sound like your father, but I think this could be quite a dangerous mission that you two are on. Maybe you should let the police try to figure out where Oswald and Mayor Shrek are at," Bruce urged them.

"Are you kidding me!? You think the police are brave enough to go into the sewers. They barely come out of the police station for doughnuts," Gabby said in an angry tone.

"And by the way, you are right. You ain't our father!"

Gabby didn't remember too much of her father. He was in and out of her mom's life. Then he disappeared before she turned six years old. She doesn't remember too much before then. Her mom always told them stories of how their father always slept during the day and would be gone all night.

"So, are you going to wait for the police to come out of their shells or are you going to help us solve this mystery?" Lola said to Bruce.

"You girls are quite persistent, aren't you? Bruce replied with a chuckle in his voice.

"We need to get you an outfit," Lola said.

"Hopefully it is better than a jogging outfit," Gabby joked.

Then Bruce laughed and said, "Yeah, that wouldn't be very scary would it?

While Bruce, Lola, and Gabby looked for clues, Chad Grayson checked out the archives about the Gotham flood that happened 16 years ago.

"Hmmm… I wonder what Mayor Shrek was up to during that time."

He found old articles about Shrek before he became Mayor.

"It says here that Shrek was part of a major pharmaceutical company about 20 years ago. He discovered a cure for many illnesses at that time. That's how he rose to fame to be elected Mayor of Gotham. Whoa! It also says that Mrs. Cobblepot worked for Shrek. I was only 4 years old at that time. But I remember stories of Shrek doing clinical experiments on animals. I even remember a few animals that came up missing from the zoo. I will never forget about the story, when I was five years old, about the three penguins that came up missing and….. Oh my God!"

At that moment, Chad realized that Oswald must have been part of an experiment that went terribly wrong.

"Oswald wasn't lying, Shrek really did try to have him exterminated. He must have needed to get rid of any evidence that he may have created The Penguin Child."

Chad tried to gather as much evidence as he could find. Then he planned on going to the police station to turn in the information. As he headed toward the police station, he got pulled over by a cop car. The police officer got out of his car but Chad noticed that he wasn't dressed in a cop uniform.

The police officer came up to the window, smelling heavily of alcohol, and said, "I saw you coming out of the library a little bit ago. I didn't realize they were open at this time of night, or should I say, this early in the morning."

Chad is actually relieved to see the police officer. He asked the officer what his name was.

"Bullock, detective Bullock." The officer responded

At that moment, Chad suddenly recognized him. He was the Detective that was working for Mayor Shrek when they took Oswald away. Detective Bullock shined a light on the newspaper articles that Chad took from the library. Then, he remembered seeing Chad at the hospital disguised as a doctor.

He pulled out his gun and said, "I'm going to need for you to step out of your car, pal!"

Chad cringed as he stepped out of his vehicle. He suspected this wasn't going to be an ordinary traffic stop. Detective Bullock told him to turn around and put his hands behind his back. As soon as Chad turned around, Bullock conked Chad on the head with his gun. He dragged Chad into a field.

He stepped back, took his gun out and said, "Sorry Bub. We can't allow this kind of information to get out to the public."

He was about to pull the trigger, when all of a sudden, a shadowy figure knocked the gun out of Bullock's hand.

"What the hell is going on?" Bullock yelled.

Then the shadowy figure's arms rose up, then it completely pulled Bullock into his dark cloak. When the cloak opened back up. Detective Bullock was gone. Chad's evidence scattered about in the wind.

Chad woke up the next day in his car. He was dazed but he got out of his car and looked for his evidence that he discovered during the night. It was nowhere to be found. He sat back down in his car and hanged his head down as if he had just hit a dead end. He remembered gathering evidence, getting pulled over, and getting out of his car, but he couldn't remember anything after that. Then he looked down at his arm and remembered his conversation with the waitress Selina.

"I think I might need a Diet Pepsi."

Then Chad drove to the cafe. He rushed in to find Selina. She wasn't there. He asked the other waitresses if they had seen her. They told him that she never showed up for work nor did she call in. He tried to call her number but he only got an answering machine.

"Great, another mystery to figure out!" He said to himself.

Meanwhile, deep into the sewers, Mayor Shrek was bound with seaweed and was hanging upside down by his feet. Oswald was in the background. He was standing by a table with a bunch of knives, needles, and test tubes sitting on it. It appeared as if Oswald was conducting a science experiment. Shrek tried to speak but his mouth was covered by seaweed. Oswald noticed that he was trying to speak, so he ripped the seaweed away from Shrek's mouth.

"Oswald? What are you trying to do to me?" Shrek asked.

"Oh, I am going to do to you something much worse than you did to me. Raakk Raakk Raakk Raakk Raakk!" Oswald laughed with a penguins squawk.

Then he injected the Mayor with a needle.

The Mayor screamed,"You can't do this to me Oswald! I'm the Mayor damnit!"

Oswald looked directly into the Mayor's eyes and said, "You are no longer the Mayor. You may not even want to leave the sewers ever again after I'm done with you!"

Shrek yelled out again, "Oswald, I can offer you a ton of money! Just let me go!

Oswald injected Shrek with another needle. Then he startd to waddle away.

"Oswald! Oswald! Shrek yelled.

Just as Oswald is almost out of sight, he yelled out to Shrek,

"Raakk! I'm not Oswald any more! I am THE PENGUIN!"

Then Oswald went completely out of Shrek's sight. Suddenly, Shrek's body began to itch. Then his skin started to burn. It felt like his skin was drying out very quickly. He tried to squirm free from the seaweed. He finally got free as his entire body fell into the water.

"AAAHHH! The water feels so good!"

Then he rose up out of the water. He looked at his arms. Scales had started forming. He saw his reflection in the water. His face was turning scaly as if he was being turned into a crocodile.

"Oswald! What have you done to me! Oswald! AARRRGG!"

Chapter Recap: (Chad Grayson meets Selina Kyle, for the first time, at a cafe she was working at. They began to like each other. Chad tried to find out what Oswald knew about Mayor Shrek. Detective Bullock tried to stop Chad from going to the police with new information. Bullock was about to kill him, but a shadowy figure saved Chad. Oswald had Mayor Shrek tied up in the sewers. Then Oswald turned Shrek into Killer Croc by using one of Shrek's failed formulas.)