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The Batman Out of Time
Chapter II
-Justice League Journal ****-
The very next day, I woke up...or so everyone thought.
-Bat-Log entry *****-
It's me, Robin again.
It's not that Batman's still comatose...it's that he's too busy combing through our library to do the log.
He woke up around noon, delirious and...unable to speak english. He was babbling in some language I've never heard before. I'm not even sure that such a language even exists!
He switched to english as soon as Alfred asked him if he was alright, though.
Then he started asking weird questions like 'who are you', 'who am I', 'where am I', the standard amnesia package. Alfred directed him to the 'Bat anti-amnesia backup file,' which contained journals, ID, even videos and photos from his childhood and early adventures, all for one purpose: causing a memory recovery in case of amnesia.
Here's where some of the weirdness starts. Batman skimmed through the written parts so fast, he might as well have not been reading them at all. Alfred pointed it out, saying "Take your time, Master Bruce. Those memoirs won't do you any good if you don't scan every detail."
"I was!" he shot back angrily, shocking us both.
He quickly calmed down, and said "Sorry. I...guess I'll try a little bit harder." And with that, he started over on the paper he was working on, at a much more understandable speed. Now he was reading at 10 mph instead of 100.
After a little while, he finished up the last video, and said "Well, that was a waste. I didn't recover my memory at all! I can't imagine myself as being the kid in those pictures!"
He paused a little, and then said "Wait...if I inherited that much from my parents, does that mean I have a large collection of books as well?"
"Indeed, Master Bruce. Shall I lead you to the study?"
They went there, and he's been in there ever since.
Hold on. He's requesting use of the Batcomputer so he can cruise through it's memory banks. Gotta go.
-End Log entry.-
There were no log entries posted by me afterwards. Or would be for another week.
This next journal entry is from the incident files of the GCPD, courtesy of Commissioner James Gordon:
-GCPD Incident report, **-**-****-
Location: Gotham University.
Time: 21:45
Violation(s): Breaking and Entering, Assault with a weapon, Grand theft.
Suspect(s): Batman (location unknown)
Incident description: At 21:10, Gotham University Library, having just closed down for the night, was only occupied by librarian W. Armitage, and two security guards. Suspect used a laser-tool to break through the lock and, after incapacitating the guards with batarangs, demanded a specific set of books from the librarian. Robin and Batgirl arrived on the scene, but were unable to prevent the suspect's escape with the stolen property.
Notes: Due to obvious reasons, Robin and Batgirl were only available for questioning at the scene.
Commissioner Gordon's experience with Batman suggests that a form of mind control may be involved.
(here, some scribbling, possibly Bullock's, says or maybe Bats is finally showing his true self.)
-End Report-
I'm still working on acquiring the security tapes from the incident, just in case the report missed something.
However, some research into Armitage's background revealed something that could possibly be of significance: His Great-Grandfather, Henry Armitage, was chief librarian at Miskatonic University, from the town of Arkham. I'm still working on finding Arkham's location.
Tell me what you think!
A/N: This is still setup. I'm sorry if you think I'm doing too much setup! I'm trying to do this in the model of the Lovecraft Story I'm basing this off of. (Spoiler alert, it's The Shadow Out of Time.)