Chapter 6: Batman is Gone
(Meanwhile…)
Carrie looked up at the book on the shelves. She held him in the books & found it by looking through the book cover: Bruce Wayne.
"That's it." Carrie replied.
Carrie walked around and to a table with the library teacher: Arlene Walsh, standing on the desk.
"Hi Carrie. The books." Walsh replied.
"Yeah, Ms. Walsh. I got the bat and the guy in the books." Carrie replied.
"Hmm, sure." Walsh replied.
Walsh gave the books to ISBN with barcodes by scanner.
"So, that's Bruce Wayne?" Walsh asked in concern.
"Yeah, the billionaire. The Bat. He is called Batman." Carrie replied.
"Batman. Oh yes." Walsh replied.
"I saw the Bat in here." Carrie replied.
"Too bad." Walsh replied.
"Yep." Carrie replied.
"Okay, three weeks later." Walsh replied, as she gave Carrie to the books.
"Thank you, Ms. Walsh." Carrie replied.
Carrie pulls the books to her school bag.
"Okay, see you later." Carrie replied, as she walked away.
"So, long." Walsh replied.
Carrie is out of the Library class and she walks and turns the hall.
"Batman." Carrie replied.
(Later at Ulmann's Class, that day…)
Carrie started toward the reading and turned the window in class, the bat paying much attention to the course. Yet she removed the smile that was growing on her face. On one hand, she was getting the knack of her newfound gift performing some as simple as making a bat…Carrie had a smile from the Bat. On the other hand, a group of kids and one mysterious teenage boy all wanted to extend a hand of friendship toward her without reason to judge her. As if for the first in a while, she suddenly felt the way almost every other student felt when they're surrounded by friends. Seemed perhaps things were slowly starting to look up. The English teacher: Mr. Ulmann.
"All right, who's next?" Ulmann the teacher spoke. "Uh, Carrie."
Soon as her name was called, Carrie looked up to face Ulmann.
"Favorite poem. Did you bring one?" Ulmann asked in concern.
All the kids turned toward her, several of them laughed. The only ones not laughing were Sue, Tommy, George and Freddy, who had taken seats along the back of the class to keep tabs over Carrie. To even suggest that Carrie was nervous was without question an understatement...
"Yeah." Carrie murmured.
"Why don't you come to the front of the class and share it with us all?" Ulmann asked in concern.
Carrie slowly got up from her seat and cautiously made her way down toward the front of the class. Sue, Tommy, and George whose desks are next to Carrie's, could see how uncomfortable she appeared to be... The other students quietly snickered as she approached the front. Soon as she stood at the front of the room, facing the entire class, she kept her eyes on her book and read her poem of choice...
"'This unfrequented place to find some ease, ease to the body some, none to the mind. Times past, and what once I was and what am now o wherefore was my birth from Heaven foretold. Twice by an Angel, who at last in sight of both my parents all in flames... ascended.'" Carrie replied.
"Uh... did you get that?" George whispered to Freddy.
"Okay, uh, that was, uh..." Ulmann stammered. "Disturbing."
The other kids laughed, especially Tina, who clearly had Ulmann's ear. Tommy, sitting between the students, merely glared toward Ulmann angrily...
"This is the most you've said all year." Ulmann continued. "Is there anything else you wanna add or are you done scaring us for the day?"
"Asshole." Tommy muttered, under his breath.
The other students turned and gasped toward him. There was no doubt everyone heard him, especially the teacher.
"Excuse me, Mr. Ross." Ulmann spoke up. "Did you say something?"
"I said, 'Bat.'" Tommy lied. "I just thought what I read was a bat. Didn't you, Mr. Ulmann?"
Carrie hurried back to her desk, trying to avoid further trouble.
"All right, who's next?" Ulmann asked, looking around. "Uh… Nicki. I mean, Lizzy."
Carrie sat back down, keeping her head as low as possible, she pushed some hair in front of her face hoping to stay hidden... She peeked over toward Tommy, who just smiled at her with an assuring wink. Sue and George spotted this right away, immediately realizing what was going on.
"I… the Bat- Uh, the Batman." Ulmann replied.
The other students toward him. Carrie thinks of Batman.
"The Batman." Ulmann replied.
The other kids laughed at Ulmann.
"All right. Batman is gone. Shut up!" Ulmann replied madly.
The other kids stopped laughing.
"THAT STOPPED LAUGHING AT ME! SHUT UP!" Ulmann called.
The other kids gasped, groaned, and looked down.
"Sue." Tommy spoke up. "I think Mr. Ulmann has a crush."
"I did so." Sue nodded. "The Bat's got a name?"
"The Batman, Sue." Tommy confirmed.
"Batman." Sue replied.
Carrie turned and looked down.
"Batman is gone." Carrie replied.
Sadly, Carrie, Sue, and Tommy were sad from Batman's absence & gone…
(Later at the Ship…)
Brainiac looked at Earth as a hologram.
"The people sealed their Earth's fate. The Era of a careless, dangerous civilization…comes to a close. The Kryptonian." Brainiac replied, with an evil smile...
To Be Continued…