Batman: Family Connections

It was a cold night in Gotham City. The Batmobile speeded down the wind swept dark streets pursuing the purple and green clad dark haired lady speeding down the street, past all the old brown warehouses a little ways ahead, on a purple and black coloured motorcycle in the shape of a panther. There were three leopards running on each side of the purple and green clad woman on the motorbike. The woman carried a huge, brown bag over her arm from which dollar bills would occasionally fall out. The bag was slung over her left purple clad shoulder. She gripped the purple and black handlebars of the panther shaped motorcycle tighter than ever.

Inside the sleek, black, armoured looking vehicle, Batman sat sternly behind the wheel keeping his eyes glued to the sight of the fleeing woman and her leopards running way ahead of the Batmobile. Batman was about in his early thirties. Robin looked to be just a teenager. Robin sat at the left side of the Batmobile equally focused on the scene of the fleeing woman and the leopards. Batman turned his head and made a cold smile at his juniour partner. Robin's dark red hair was blown by the wind. Batman's heavily muscled body rippled under the gray skintight outfit. His outfit was covered with thin, bullet proof glass, including over his whole cowl. His dark blue cape hung out from behind his driver's seat. The wind vlew against his dark blue cowl with the short horns. "Well Robin you're about to encounter a villainess that your predecessor and I had plenty of run ins with. Mabey as Nightwing he still does," Batman said to Robin. "He told me all about her," Robin said, his eyes squinting under his dark green mask as he kept his eyes focused on the fleeing purple and green clad, dark haired lady speeding down the street on her motorcycle, ahead of the Batmobile. "Well Robin, "Batman said, "are you ready for some action? She's a good one to start one's career with being she's not one of the more evil, dangerous ones." "Jason Todd is out, Robin is in," Robin assured the dark knight seated besides him, " I can take her on!" "I can't even begin to name the number of times the first Robin and I ran into...the Catwoman!"

The Catwoman was riding her motorcycle faster than ever down the dark windswept streets of late night Gotham City, past all the old warehouses. Her leopards still ran alongside her on all sides of her. She carried the money bag with all her might as she looked anxiously behind herself and grit her teeth. The Batmobile was gaining on her. The Catwoman wore a long, flowing purple dress and mask. Her long, black hair was tied upwards in a long ponytail. She wore a green cape and dark blue boots and a green utility belt around her waist.

The Batmobile suddenly did a fast swerve and and U turn and then whipped around right in front of the Catwoman. The Catwoman fell off the motorcycle as the panther shaped bike hit a large trash can and fell over on it's left side. The Catwoman got up, and looked with frustration at the black armoured car in front of her. Batman and Robin both stepped out of the Batmobile the leopards all stood still.

At that moment, the Catwoman pulled out a small, black device from the green utility belt around her waist. She twirled the device around her hands and a long bullwhip emerged from the device at lightening speed. She slashed the whip at Batman and Robin's feet causing both crime fighters tip over sideways. "Nobody takes the Catwoman without a fight dynamic duo!" screamed the Catwoman with a fierce look coming her gorgeous features as she glared from left to right, at Batman and Robin. She then hissed like a cat. "HOLY...I MEAN HOLD ON BATMAN!" shouted Robin as he pulled out a large, black batarang from his green utility belt, (the weopon unfolded automatically from the smaller shape it was in tucked in the belt) in his left, green gloved hand and tossed it at the Catwoman's legs. The Catwoman jumped out of the way.

Then the three leopards all came running towards and snarled and hissed as they swiped their claws and bared their fangs at the dynamic duo. Batman and Robin simply dodged all the big cats's moves and both men ran towards the Catwoman who lashed out her bullwhip at Batman's and Robin's boots.

Batman pulled a small, light blue tube from his yellow utility belt. He tossed the light blue tube on the street in front of the Catwoman. The light blue tube burst into a thick spray of light blue gas which moved all about the Catwoman. The Catwoman coughed violently-putting both her bare hands to her mouth-then her eyes rolled and she collapsed unconscious on her back on the street.

The three leopards all walked around in circles in front of the Batmobile.

Batman and Robin walked slowly up to the unconscious form of the Catwoman as the blue gas cleared.

Sometime later, the Batmobile was zooming down the nighttime street with the three leopards all held in thick, large, steel, circular cages on the trunk of the Batmobile. The Catwoman sat between Batman and Robin in the black armoured car still completely unconscious. Her head tilted forwards. Batman made a weak smile as he gripped the steering wheel of the Batmobile. "Well how did you like your first assignment Robin? Or should I say Robin the second? All in a night's work for us," Batman bragged. Robin slowly turned his head to look at the out cold Catwoman. "Can I keep the bike Batman?" he asked as the wind blew his dark red hair. Batman chuckled and shook his head.

Suddenly, from out of the darkness ahead, a large group of men and women wearing dark blue, skintight outfits and half masks over their faces, came speeding on motorcycles right in front of the Batmobile on the same kind of black and purple coloured, panther shaped motorcycles the Catwoman was riding. The costumed men and women completely surrounded the Batmobile on their motorcycles while each person pulled a handgun (their other gloved hands gripped the handlebars of the bike) and aimed the handguns at Batman and Robin. One burly looking henchmen with long blonde hair sat on his panther shaped cycle in front of the Batmobile and aimed his handgun at Batman's face. "GIVE US THE CATWOMAN BATMAN!" ordered the burly, blonde haired henchmen, "DON'T MAKE ME ASK TWICE!"

At this moment, Batman took his left, dark blue gloved hand off the steering wheel and lowered down under the dashboard. He then pulled out a large, black, bat shaped weapon of some kind and fired the weapon at the burly, blonde haired henchman. A series of bat shaped, black tranquillizer darts flew out of the weapon and struck the henchman in the chest. The burly, blonde haired, costumed man screamed as he fell off his motorcycle out cold towards the left out of the way of the Batmobile.

Batman then stood up in the Batmobile and fired the bat shaped weapon at all the other henchmen, knocking out every single person, out cold with the bat shaped tranquilizer darts. The costumed henchmen and women all fell off their motorcycles as the bat shaped darts struck each and every one of them. In a second all of them were unconscious.

Batman then sat back down behind the steering wheel, dropped the weapon down on the floor of the Batmobile and the Batmobile drove off.

The three leopards contained in their large, steel circular cages on the trunk of the Batmobile, all walked around inside their cages and growled incessantly.

Batman cast a sharp glance behind himself as he drove and looked briefly at Robin. "I believe the Gotham Zoo has got a spare enclosure for them," Batman said. Robin smiled. The unconscious Catwoman groaned.

The Catwoman's eyes slowly fluttered open. She made a wry expression on her gorgeous face then closed her eyes shut again, while Batman pulled out a small, black, bat shaped phone from the dashboard of the Batmobile and put the phone in his ear with his right gloved hand, while his left dark blue gloved hand remained gripping the steering wheel. "Commissioner? Send some guys down to the corner of Lewis and Douglas, I left some presents for you," Batman said into the phone, in his deep, gritty voice.

Suddenly the Catwoman stood up in the Batmobile between Batman and Robin and whipped out the metal object in her hand. Batman and Robin both turned their heads and looked with shock at the sight of the now awake Catwoman. As the Batmobile kept speeding, the Catwoman raised the metal object above her head with both hands and the long bullwhip shot out and quickly upwards the side of a tall building and wrapped itself around a drainpipe sticking out from the side of the building. The Catwoman was pulled upwards and out of the Batmobile as the bullwhip went into action. "PURRRRRRRRRRRFECCCCCT!" shouted the Catwoman as he purple and green clad costumed body shot upwards above the Batmobile and up the side of the building, "VICKI VALE WON'T BE THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE ESCAPED LIKE THIS!" gloated Catwoman loudly, as her body still was pulled upwards by the force of the bullwhip, "SEE YOU LATER!"

Batman braked the Batmobile to a stop. Batman and Robin both stood up in the Batmobile, and watched as the Catwoman made her daring escape.

Catwoman ran aimlessly across the lonely rooftop. Her long, green cape fluttered in the wind. "So Batman and Robin thought they could get me huh?" the Catwoman thought to her herself with a grin emerging over her gorgeous features as she ran. She then stopped and opened a fire escape exit door on the rooftop and jumped down through the opening.

Catwoman jumped down into the dim, brown walled hallway of the building and looked around herself. "Going somewhere?" Batman's voice rang out from the dimness. Catwoman turned her head and looked with surprise at the sight of Batman and Robin walking slowly down the hallway towards her. Batman walked at the left side of Robin.

The Catwoman spun her body around and got ready to run, before Batman whipped out a batarang and tossed it at the Catwoman. A rope was at the end of the batarang and the batarang and the rope tied tightly around the Catwoman's legs. Batman dragged the struggling criminal towards him

Later that night in the Batcave, Batman sat at a brown desk and chair, talking on a black, bat shaped phone in his ear under the dark blue bat cowl. Several immense stalactities hung down from the brown ceiling of the cavern while several immense stalagmites grew up from the brown cave floor. There were several gray computers in the shapes of bat emblems situated in various areas of the gigantic cavern. Alfred, Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl stood together behind Batman, all watching Batman make the phone call. Alfred wore a dark blue tuxedo and white tie. His wavy brown and gray hair hung down to his shoulders. Robin stood at the left of Alfred, while Nightwing stood at the left of Robin-his very well muscled body could be see underneath his black and light blue coloured, skintight outfit. His wavy black hair made a sharp contrast to the light blue design on his chest, while Batgirl stood at the left side of Nightwing wearing her tradional, skintight, black and yellow outfit (black outfit and horned cowl, along with the yellow bat emblem on her bust, yellow utility belt, and yellow boots, and long, dark red hair flowing down to her shoulders). A huge, glass case was located behind Alfred, containing a yellow and orange and blue and pink coloured costume hung on a rack with the label: THE MAD HATTER'S OUTFIT, printed in big black letters on a white metal strip on the coat hanger just above the costume, while at the right side of the outfit was a full scale model of the dark blue whirly bat-the dark blue seat with the dark blue propeller ontop.

As Batman talked on the phone, his eyes looked down and studied the contents of the open manilla folder lying on the desktop. There were colour, newspaper photographs scattered about the manilla folder. Batman's other dark blue gloved hand moved all the newspaper photographs about as he studied. One photograph showed an image of two, eight foot tall, frightening looking half human/half bat looking creatures: the creatures each had long bat ears and eyes and fangs but human looking faces and eyes and human arms attached to giant sized, dark red batwings. Each of the creatures were light brown skinned with long, sharp dark brown talons at the ends of their fingers and toes. Blood streamed from their fanged mouths. It was a night sky outside. People could be seen in the photograph running away from the bat humanoids and screaming. Batman had made some handwritten notes, on a slip of paper taped to the bottom of the photograph: Your late mom and dad, Kirk Langstrom and his wife Fran in their mutant bat forms. I had no choice but to finally destroy them both. For that I'm deeply sorrowful. Mabey as their daughter you can continue Langstrom's research and put some good use to it. Believe me their deaths still haunt me. I often have nightmares of seeing Kirk's mutant bat form coming out of a grave. Batman. One of the other large newspaper photographs showed a picture of a tall, well built man wearing a dark blue, skintight outfit and mask in the shape of a cat-including cat ears and whiskers. In the photo the man is also wearing white bandages wrapped around his wrists. In the photo the man is standing standing a sunset backdrop. As before, Batman had made handwritten notes on a slip of paper taped to the bottom of the photograph. Wildcat he calls himself. I don't know him well but he seems to be an ok guy.

Alfred finally turned around and walked slowly to the back of the Batcave. He came upon a huge glass case containing a dark blue wing shaped cape, and a dark blue mask with curved bat ears hanging down from wire coat hangers inside the square shaped glass glass. A label at the front of the top of the glass case-the label was printed in black on a white slip of paper-read: THE COSTUME WORN BY THOMAS WAYNE: THE FIRST BATMAN. Alfred sighed and took out a large, brown brush from his left jacket pocket and began brushing off dirt from the glass case.

Batman meanwhile was lost in his thoughts talking on the phone. "So yeah Matt, you don't have to worry about anymore about catching the mysterious jewel thief in New York, because she came back to Gotham and I got caught her," Batman said with a sly grin into the phone.

Miles away in New York city, a man stood in a small, dim apartment wearing a yellow and dark red, skintight costume. The man was about in his late twenties. His costume consisted of a yellow, mask with small horns, a dark red costumed upper body and torso, and yellow clad arms and legs and dark red gloves and boots. The letters DD were printed in big, yellow letters across his chest. The man stood in his apartment with the phone in his ear. "Well thanks for letting me know Bruce," Daredevil said into the phone. He then turned his head and looked straight ahead of himself.

A gorgeous looking, young woman wearing a skintight, black bodysuit with short red hair and wearing a yellow belt and yellow arm bands sat sprawled on a green sofa at the far end of the small apartment, with her legs out. She made romantic gazes at Daredevil.

Back in the Batcave, Batman pulled off his dark blue cowl as he sat talking on the phone. The very handsome face of Bruce Wayne was revealed. His short, dark hair was covered in sweat. "Anyways I need a shower it's been a long night," Bruce Wayne said into the phone, "you take care Matt. Give my love to that Black Widow girlfriend of yours. You were always my favourite cousin."

Back in New York, Daredevil smiled as he spoke into the phone as his lis left dark red gloved hand removed the yellow, horned cowl from his head revealing the handsome face of Matt Murdock. Matt Murdock looked almost exactly like Bruce Wayne. He ran his dark red gloved hand through his short, dark red hair. "Well we're the only two crimefighters in the family, so i guess that's why you too are my favourite cousin. See you Bruce." Matt Murdock hung up the phone.