Season 2 Episode 3: Killer Croc
My name is Bruce Wayne. When I was 8 years old, my parents were killed by an evil. And so I made a promise to fight that evil. I traveled the world for 18 years, and returned to Gotham City to protect it. Now I have new allies, helping me in my crusade, but I also have new enemies. New threats have arrived in my city, and I must stop them. I am vengeance. I am the night. I am the Batman.
A/N: Narration is back because fuck you.
Previously on the Batman...
Selina and Holly moved into Wayne Manor with Bruce and Dick
And yeah, that's really all you need to know for this episode
Batman drops down and walks up to the Water Works in Gotham. He looks in the water and sees a skeleton. He pulls it out of the water and sees that it's bones are stained with blood and barely has any flesh still attached to the ribs, fingers, and legs.
"Hm." Batman wonders.
He brings the skeleton with him to the Batcave and starts analyzing the teeth.
"Dental records reveal that this man was Carl Rothstein. He was a worker at the water works but...this happened to him." Bruce explains.
"Dear God!" Alfred says as he turns and sees the body. "It's like he's been ripped to pieces! Who could've done such a thing?"
"I don't know. But the disturbing thing is that there are bite marks on the bones and what's left of the flesh."
"So you're saying that whoever killed him was a cannibal who ate his flesh?"
"I'm afraid so. But that's still not the worst part."
"And what is?"
"The bite marks are from teeth that are too big and sharp for a human."
"Grandma, what big teeth you have!" Dick says, hanging upside down from the ceiling.
"So you're saying this is not from a human?" Alfred asks.
"I don't know. No animal in Gotham could do THIS much damage. We're dealing with something very strange in this city."
Meanwhile, someone is in a fishing boat in Gotham docks, when the boat gets broken in half and the fisherman falls into the water. He swims back up to the surface and tries to swim before a huge monster from the depths swims up and grabs his leg with a huge almost claw like hand. He gets pulled under the water, and muffled screams and sounds of rips and chomps are heard from the water.
The Batman
Holly sits at her and Selina's penthouse going through a box of old memories in her bedroom. Selina walks inside behind her.
"What're you looking through?" Selina asks.
"Old memories." Holly answers and pulls out a wallet. "Hey, is this the same wallet I tried to steal from you?"
"Yeah, but you can't steal something from me."
"Man, how long was that?"
"Like, a good 7 or 8 years ago."
"Geez...I can barely remember what happened before that."
"Before we met? Well, I wasn't there so I couldn't tell you."
"I would like to know."
Selina gets a notification on her phone.
"Sorry, Bruce needs me. I'll be back." Selina says and leaves.
"Yeah." Holly replies.
Selina walks into the Batcave, and then covers her nose.
"Ugh, what's that disgusting smell?" She asks.
"That would be that." Dick answers trying to lift a weight.
She looks over and sees the body, or what's left of it.
"Jesus. How did that happen?" She asks.
"That's what we're trying to figure out." Bruce answers, standing over the body. "It may not be human."
"So now we're tracking down animals who broke the law?"
"It's just a question I want an answer to. No animal could've done this, it must've been a human, but this bite marks beg to differ. It's almost as if...both did it..."
"Do you think Davis got out of jail?" Dick asks.
"No, I checked, he's still in the GCPD."
"What do you mean 'both'"? Selina asks.
"Well, what if these bite marks were left by an animal, but everything else was made by a human? Both of them could've been the culprit."
"So you're saying there's another cannibal out there, who ripped off the flesh of this poor man and fed the rest to, what, his dogs?" Dick suggests.
"These bite marks don't match up with dogs."
"I know, I was just saying...whatever."
Bruce hears a notification from his Batphone. He checks it.
"It's Gordon. He and a team of police are going to try to lure out the killer using a fake fishing boat in Gotham river."
"You think our cannibal is a scuba diver?" Selina asks.
"Well, the first body was found in the water works factory, and a second was found floating in Gotham river. The boat was found smashed in half."
"I would not like to see this river monster." Dick says.
"I'll go watch over them." Bruce says and heads out.
A big fishing boat sails out to the middle of the river and the cops hide inside as a couple undercover ones throw their lines out into the water.
"I used to fish ever since I was a boy, you know." One undercover cop says to the other which sounds like the start of a bad joke and this has nothing to do with the story and I'm babbling on and this should really just be an author's note but I'm too lazy to fix it even though I'm typing this as I'm thinking it but anyways I should get back on topic.
Then the fishing pole gets pulled out of his hands and into the river. Same with the other one. Both cops looks over the railing and into the water when they see a dark shadow lurk underneath before going under the boat.
"The hell was that?"
The boat tilts from side to side a bit, and then starts rocking a lot.
"Oh boy." Gordon whispers to himself.
A huge claw grabs the side of the boat and reaches for the railing. It does and another claw grabs onto the railing as well, and the boat tilts to one side.
"What the hell is this thing?" Gordon asks.
It then pulls itself up and the full creature stands atop the deck. It's standing on two legs, with grayish/greenish scaly skin, two yellow reptile eyes, sharp claws on HUGE hands and feet, sharp, pointy teeth, like a shark's, and wet jeans that are almost too small for him.
It's almost like he's a crocodile.
He charges for the two cops. One pulls out a gun and one pulls out a taser. He fires the taser and it hits the crocodile man in the chest. He quickly knocks it off but slows down and collapses to a knee. It looks up, mad, and roars an animal roar. It starts charging again.
"Jesus Christ!" Gordon yells and pops out from the quarters below deck and starts firing.
He misses most of his shots but one hits the crocodile right in his arm. He yells and grabs the cop who fired the taser and they both fall into the water. All the cops look overboard and see blood staining the water. They look a few yards away and see the top of the creature's head poking out from the surface, like some kind of swamp thing.
A/N: ;)
It goes back under when they see something else skiing across the water. It's completely black. It's the Batboat. The Batboat chases the shadow through the water and every once in a while, the creature would pop out from the surface to take a breath before going back down. The Batboat eventually catches up and waits for the creature to take a breath and when it does, it fires out a cable and grabs the creature by his shoulder.
The creature yells as the wire turns on and electricity goes through the wire and shocks the creature. It roars and uses it's claws to cut the rope. Batman unclips his cape and pulls out a small scuba mask. He puts it over his chin and ejects from the boat.
He jumps int the water and looks around. He turns on his night vision in his cowl and looks around. He sees a man with green and gray scaly skin desperately trying to swim away. He has huge muscles and sharp claws. He swims towards him and then grabs the man by his leg when he takes a breath. He pulls the man down and punches him in the face twice. It barely hurts the man as the water slowed down his hand when the man pulls out his scuba mask and headbutts Batman.
Batman loses a couple of air bubbles and then swims back up to the surface as the man starts swimming away. Batman presses a button on his belt and the boat zooms towards him. Batman hops into his boat and starts speeding off after the man. This time it sails over his head and releases a net, catching the man. As the boat drives off, Batman ejects again and does a backflip, landing feet first in the water. He takes the net and slowly carries it back up to the surface.
The Batboat circles around again and Batman pushes the ensnared man back up onto the boat, and then climbs out of the water himself. The man yells and Batman presses a button, and the net electrocutes the man, knocking him out. The police boat rushes over and sees some blooding dripping from Batman's nose from the headbutt, but he stands victorious over the defeated crocodile man.
Batman stands atop a large building in Gotham, looking over his city. His cape flows in the wind. Selina then drops down behind him.
"Thought I'd find you here." She states.
"You tracked me?" Batman asks.
"Yeah..."
"I'm guessing you need to talk to me about something."
"Holly. My friend, she's getting curious about where she comes from. Before we met."
"And?"
"I was thinking you could help me. With all your resources, you could help."
"I'm not sure if I can, Selina."
"What? Why not?"
"The Mutant gang is still running rampant throughout the city. They still have Venom. I have to stop them and I need your help, Selina."
"Bruce..."
"Selina please, I need you on this one."
"Bruce...you're making me choose between you and Holly. Don't make me do this."
"I'm not sure if there's any other option. But I need to find the leader and bring this gang to an end."
Later, Selina walks back into the penthouse and starts going through the old papers. Holly walks in.
"Find anything?" She asks.
"Unfortunately no. But we'll find something. I promise." Selina answers.
Meanwhile, at the GCPD, the crocodile man is brought down a hall by basically a SWAT team. Gordon watches from down the hall and asks a cop what's up with him.
"Well, it's a skin condition. He's not an actual crocodile but he might as well be. He was bullied because of his appearance and so, he quit school and joined some kind of freakshow going across the country. Everyone called him a crocodile and treated him as such that eventually, he snapped. He spent most of his time in the water, gained a lot of strength, sharpened his nails and teeth, and eventually became a cannibal. His real name's Waylon Jones. But in the circus he was called 'The Killer Croc.'" The cop explains.
"Jesus." Gordon comments.
As they reach the end of the hall, Croc swerves to the side and crushes an officer against the wall. He kicks one that runs up to him and headbutts another as he starts ripping through his straight jacket. Then three officers tackle him and puts him in a chain collar. Croc rips open the straight jacket but four officers run up and all tase him. He falls to the ground and they wrap him up in chains, before dragging him to a cell.
"He's almost unnaturally strong." The cop says.
The elevator to the Batcave reaches the bottom of the shaft and the doors open up. Out steps Lucius Fox who walks down the hallway and into the cave. He sees Bruce working on the Batwing.
"You wanted to see me, Mr. Wayne?" He starts.
"Yes. I need your help on developing something. We can work on it together at Wayne Enterprises." Bruce says.
"And what would we be working on?"
"A voice modifier. I need to hide my real voice just in case anyone realizes that mine and Batman's voices are the same."
"I'll get to work on it right away, Mr. Wayne."
"And Lucius..."
"Yes?"
"Make sure it sounds intimidating."
Lucius nods and leaves the cave.
Days later, Killer Croc is dragged from his cell, through the halls of the GCPD. He's brought into a SWAT van waiting outside and the van drives off. He looks around at the officers and snarls.
"You know, there's one thing the boys in blue didn't really anticipate." Killer Croc states.
"Oh yeah? And what's that?" One SWAT officer dares.
"That crocodiles have the strongest jaws of any animal around."
Croc looks down at the chains and bites them. He chomps down, and breaks the chains using only his teeth. He snaps free of the chains around his body and the only one left is a loose thread hanging around his neck. One SWAT reaches for the trigger to shock the Croc but Croc swipes it out of his hands. He grabs him by the throat and snaps his neck. Two other officers point their guns at him but Croc takes the officer's gun and starts firing. It kills the two SWATS, and the driver, causing the van to swerve and crash into the side of a building.
Back at the Batcave, Bruce looks on his computer and finds out that the van has crashed.
"The prison transport carrying Croc has failed. Waylon is on the move." Bruce says and walks over to his suit chamber. Robin walks in, already fully suited up.
"See you there." He says and hops on his bike.
Selina is walking down the street, but then gets the alert on her phone.
"Ah, shit." She whispers to herself.
Croc bursts open the back door of the van and starts running. He gets to the bridge when Robin rolls up to stop him.
"Going somewhere?" He asks.
He hops off and confronts Croc.
"Gramma, my what big teeth you have!" Robin repeats.
"Die, freak!" Croc curses and charges.
"Look, who's talking."
Robin dodges his swipes until he blocks one swipe and kicks Croc in the chest. It does nothing and Croc punches Robin in the face. He tumbles on the ground as Croc goes in for the kill. Robin grabs onto his face and tries to push his open jaws away from him. Croc snaps his teeth but misses Robin's face. He does it again, but once again, misses. Robin eventually pushes him away and punches him across the face. He then jumps back up and kicks him square across the jaw.
Croc throws a punch but Robin ducks. He throws another punch and this one scratches Robin across his torso. He yells and falls backward. Croc doesn't make the same mistake twice and runs. He goes to jumps off the bridge and into the water, but as he jumps, he's caught by the Batwing. Croc tumbles off but is caught by another net which is then attached to the Batwing. Batman flies back to the GCPD but Croc uses his claws to rip the net and lands feet first onto the rooftop.
Batman ejects and lands in front of Croc. Croc yells and charges, punching Batman in the gut, then across the face, and then upper cuts him, so he lands on his back. Gordon runs up to the roof and charges Croc but Croc turns around and swipes his backhand across Gordon's face. Batman gets up on one knee and sees Croc slowly walking towards him.
"I know who you are...Waylon Jones." Batman says.
Croc takes a step back
"You were bullied your entire life. Your friends, your family, even your parents. They all thought you were a freak, but I know better. I know that you were a person once. In fact, you're still a person now. You don't have to change because no one accepted you. You can still be you. You are still a person, Waylon. I know better. You know better. Please."
Croc takes a second to think about this, before growing angry and growls.
"Dammit." Batman says.
Croc charges, and Batman pulls out a Batarang and throws it. The Batarang hits Croc's collar which shocks him. Croc falls to the ground, before looking up and seeing Batman kicking him right in the face, knocking him out. Batman takes a second to look down at him, before rushing over to Gordon.
"Are you alright?" Batman asks.
"Never better. You?"
"I could be better. Make sure you transport him while unconscious."
"Thank you. For everything."
Batman stays silent and looks back at Croc, before grappling up to the Batwing and flying away.
Bruce looks at his clipboard in Wayne Manor.
"There has to be someway to track down the Mutant gang. I've seen them doing petty crimes, but I can never track down WHERE the meat of them are. Including their leader." Bruce states.
Selina walks up behind him.
"Bruce, I didn't want to make this decision, but I did."
Bruce turns around.
"And what did you decide?" He asks.
"...I'm going to try to help Holly discover her past."
"Really?"
"Hm mm. That includes taking her and leaving Gotham. I won't be around for much longer."
"I understand."
"I've known Holly for much longer...than you. I have to go. I'm sorry."
"Then go." Bruce says bluntly.
"I will be back."
Selina turns around and leaves the room.
Back at her penthouse, Selina starts packing her bags as Holly walks up behind her.
"Why are we packing?" She asks.
"Because I'm going to help you find out where you come from."
Holly smiles.
"Pack your things."
Holly leaves.
Bruce installs the voice modifier into his cowl, and then puts it back onto his suit display. He then walks over and looks out the window. Dick walks in.
"Anything on the Mutants? Anything at all?" He asks.
"No. The track's gone cold, and more and more criminals are entering Gotham by the day." Bruce answers.
"What about Selina?"
"...she won't be helping for much longer."
The Batman
Next Time on the Batman: Masquerade (2x4)
A new partnership of criminals have entered Gotham who may have ties to the Mutant gang. They only murder the richest of Gotham, so Bruce and Dick hold a masquerade party to lure them out. But of course, things don't go quite as planned.
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