Chapter 3

The first trial was fairly simple write a letter and send it to a specified location or e-mail it to BatmanIsHot. The location differed based on the part of the planet they lived on and Flash was sent out to collect the handwritten letters. If not for Flash's speed the entire process would be endless so Batman was somewhat grateful for Flash's aid.

The letters were a simple introduction, some information about them, why they wanted to go on a date with Batman, and what they would want to do on the date. Batman would go through the letters and start the first round of eliminations from there.

Batman made a few exceptions, anyone who was a known superhero, a member of the league, or an acquaintance of his would automatically bypass the first two tests.

Rather than bother actually reading through the letters he simply uploaded everything into the monitor womb and had it look for keywords such as 'marriage' and eliminate them on the spot. After a few rounds of nearly automatic eliminations based on certain words and phrases he started to skim through those that remained, which was still an large amount.

With a sigh he started his job, he was making millions upon millions of dollars off these people the least he could do was give it a bit effort. However instead of looking at people who would be compatible with him he started choosing people that would make the challenges more interesting. He didn't care about dating anyone, the journey would be far more interesting than the result.

Even with randomly eliminations and skimming it took almost a full week to whittle down the competitors. Anyone still in the competition would be dealing with an interview in person with him or one of his chosen representatives. He chose to let Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Captain Marvel, and Martian Manhunter be the judges.

The group was picked solely because the different and dysfunctional personalities of each member would lead to them making very different choices on those moving forward. He didn't want a large group of similar people to move forward, he wanted to enjoy this. He also thought it would be funny to see how Wonder Woman whittled down her competition given that she had to allow some people through to the next round, so she couldn't eliminate everyone.

A few days after he relayed the information, he and his representatives left the watchtower to split those remaining into six groups, based on geographical location to be interviewed.

Although the interviews were extremely short Batman quickly grew sick of dealing with the plebeians, he said as much to Nightwing who was watching with undisguised amusement. After a particularly annoying giggly girl who most certainly was not making it into the next round left Batman allowed himself a moment of silence to take a few deep breaths.

It was interrupted by the opening of the door and a snort from Nightwing, Batman slowly opened his eyes and had to fight away his own laugh, "What's your name?" He managed to keep himself under control and not betray his emotions.

In front of him stood an extremely masculine woman who was clearly Aquman in a very bad disguise. He was wearing a tight dress which did nothing to hide his male physique and one of the fake breasts he had been wearing had already fallen out as he stepped through the door.

He introduced himself in a squeaky cracking voice that was meant to sound like a girl,"I'm ugh Aqua," there was a slight pause, "fina."

"Your name is Aquafina?" Batman asked watching Aquaman squirm. His blonde wig was slipping and Aquaman had to keep adjusting it in a completely noticeable way. Nightwing was cracking up and almost fell over, he had to lean against the wall to remain upright.

"Yes," 'Aquafina' responded trying to smile, but all it did was bring Batman's attention to the fact that he shaved, but he already had a five o'clock shadow.

"Right," Batman dragged the word out glancing at Nightwing out of the corner of his eye to see him recovering a bit. "So what are your defining traits, what make you, you?" Batman asked playing along.

"I enjoy swimming, fish, and helping others," 'Aquafina' replied twitching slightly under Batman's penetrating gaze.

"Helping others how noble, I suppose I can relate. When you say you like fish would you order seafood if we went on a date?" Batman asked wanting to see how 'Aquafina' would react

"I would never eat an innocent fish," 'she' sounded almost horrified.

"Oh, so you're an animal rights activist?" Batman phrased it as a question, but it almost sounded like a statement.

"No, just sea creatures I don't particularly care about land animals," 'Aquafina said dismissively of anything that lived on land.

"Well that's certainly odd. You know, you remind me of someone," Batman leaned in pretending to scrutinize 'her'.

"Uh, I was kidding I really like all animals like aardvarks and whatnot," 'Aquafina' nervously tried to retract her comment.

"Yes, and whatnot," Batman agreed slowly before continuing the questioning, "So what convinced you to enter this contest?"

"I just wanted to get to know you?" 'Aquafina' answered almost as a question as if 'she' didn't know why 'she' entered.

"Just to get to know me, you're not interested in me on a romantic level?" Batman asked raising an eyebrow.

"No, that's not it you're very handsome. Ugh your muscles are very good looking," 'Aquafina' floundered a bit.

"Thanks," Batman replied flatly, "Compliments mean a lot from beautiful women such as yourself."

'Aquafina' attempted to giggle, but it came out far too deep to be cute.

"Alright, this has been a very interesting meeting, I'm sure I'll see you again at the next stage of the competition have a nice day, Aquafina," Batman finally allowed himself to smile as 'Aquafina' stumbled out.

"That was incredible," Nightwing finally spoke up, "Aquaman impressed me today, I have a new found respect for him."

"Respect?" Batman turned to face Nightwing slightly at a loss for once.

"What kind of idiot thinks he can waltz into a room with Batman dressed in women's clothing as a disguise and actually get away with it? I mean that takes guts," Nightwing started laughing again, "You know in our line of work it's the little things we have to enjoy and I very much enjoyed that."

Batman refused to admit it out loud, but it did brighten his day a bit to have a break in the monotony. However that was gone when he fell back into his pace of dealing with relatively normal people. The only positive part of the situation was that Nightwing was there to make comments about everyone once they left.

He expected that everyone else was enjoying their experience about as much as he was, but he didn't feel particularly guilty about making them do it. He couldn't remember the last time he actually felt bad about ordering the rest of the league around like his lackeys.

A/N

Chapter 3 is done, I hope you enjoyed it. I happen to love Aquafina and yes Aquaman's alter ego will play a continuing role in the story.

Let me know what you think and thanks for reading.

Also I know I posted this on a Thursday which is odd, but I didn't post last week so I decided to post early and hopefully tomorrow (Friday) I'll update another one of my stories.