After the intro the episode begins and Terry mcginnis's house, he's on his hologram computer goofing around, he switches his tabs to online homework when he hears his mother's voice from outside his door
miss McGinnis: Terry there's some mail for you
Terry's mom enters the room and looks pleased at her son's progress on his homework, she hands him the letter which is stamped with a wax deal and blazing with a top hat, Terry looks at it suspiciously but opens it when his mother leaves the room
the letter reads as such: dear cheap replacement you are quarterly invited to the christening of your Eternal nemesis, failure to attend this most sacred of events will result in leaked identity and a gaggle of angry criminals gunning for your loved ones, if you wish not for that to happen please come to, and then a place and time
Terry looks at the note in horror, he takes a common breath and calls up Bruce
hours later Terry in his Batman outfit is that the location indicated from the letter, the building is a warehouse most likely built before the Calamity that caused Gotham to be rebuilt into new Gotham, other than some broken windows and some Vines creeping up the sides the building looks intact
he entrance, the place is dark but before he can activate his night vision the lights blast on momentarily blinding him, when his eyes adjust the side he sees is not what he'd expect to be an interior of a warehouse, it resembles something you'd see on American Idol, he briefly takes note of the judge booth, each seat is marked with a different insignia, the one that interests him the most is one that resembles his his Bat insignia, before he can try and Survey anymore of the room for more clues about what the hell is going on something metallic raps around both of his ankles and wrists, and soon he's being yanked bodily to sit in his intended chair
The disembodied voice of jervis tetch: I'm glad to see you answered our call, now let me illuminate how this little event is going to play out
A hole in the stage opens up and rising from below is the form of the Flesh and Blood Jarvis tetch
jervis tetch: before you ask any questions it's a long story but all you have to know is I'm back but I'm not going back into the villain game, so don't worry about any hat shenanigans from me,(start talking like a game show host) but they will still be shenanigans from one of our hopeful candidates gunning to be your nemesis
some more holes open in the stage, and from left to right emerges the DD twins, Lenore tetch, Lewis crane, Dorothy tetch- crane, and finally some greasy kid in a pickle hat with glassy crazy eyes
greasy pickle kid: muttering the names of different sauces
Jervis: this is how it's going to go, you and the rest of our judges (he gestures to the other seats which have spontaneously been filled by the very much alive Jonathan Crane and a laptop with the digital face of the Riddler respectively) will be judging our lovely contestants in three competitions, first a fashion show to show off outfits they'll be wearing during any crimes they will commit, second how well they'll do during a crime without using any of their powers (he throws his children and annoyed look when they all give simultaneous disappointed size), and finally (he points at Terry) you will gauge how good they are at fighting you hand to hand, and the final definitive decision will be all yours
Terry's hands are Unshackled from the metal restraints they will in during the whole speech, his first instinct is to contact Bruce over the intercom, but all he gets when he tries is static, he looks up and surprise when a marker board is dropped half hazardly in front of him, the hatter looks down at him with a smug smile
jervis: sorry little man but no phoning a friend for this competition, not as long as this babies up and running (he holds up a small device shaped like a mouse it's eyes glow a steady green it's apparently a signal Jam of some kind most likely made by Dorothy by the proud look the hatter throws her)
and so the composition starts and through the Montage DD and Lenore are in the lead, with some funny little failures from the greasy pickle kid, and finally we're at the final competition hand-to-hand come back
the first up to battle all the twins who give Terry a hard time but he eventually wins out, the text children are hard to battle as well but they go down just like the DD's, and the pickle kid goes down in a single punch
jervis: you must be exhausted after all that punching,(touch hands him a bottle of water) drink as much as you can and stew over who you think's the best candidate buddy
Terry sits and thinks out a plan, the Jammers in the Hatter's pocket maybe if he, no he thinks to himself too many people he doesn't think he needs and Nemesis maybe friends is truthfully the surprise will give him an opportunity to grab the Jammer, yeah that sounds good
he finishes up his bottle and walks over to the hatter and whisper something in his ear
jervis(surprised): of course you need a nemesis, you're the Batman now it's part of the the package, like a parent trauma and a battery
the contestants are also complaining, Snippets of " what am I not good enough for him" are heard through the cacophony of voices, the pickle kid is still muttering sauce names, Terry takes the opportunity grabs the Jammer and crushes it in a fist, with his calms back on his suits other functions have also gone online again
jervis: you tricked me, well you're still not getting out of here, contestants bonus round kick his ass
the candidates dog piles him in a fight, the sound of batarangs and sauce gun fire feels the air, A stray squirt from the ketchup gun gets on to Lenoir's dress and soon the contestants are fighting each other, Terry uses the distraction to climb out a window
Bruce over the intercom: so what happened in there, I lost feed the moment you walked in
Terry: some dumb competition to choose my nemesis, I didn't pick any of them, I'm the new Batman, emphasis on new, I think it's best to leave some stuff in the past with you old man
Bruce just let's out a chuckle and Terry walks back home to finish up some homework
Meanwhile Back in the warehouse driver's lifts the pistol he pulls from his jacket and stops the fight with a shot to the ceiling
the contestant stop in their tracks, Dorothy's about to smash the computer containing the digital version of The Riddler over one of the D twins heads, the other twin has her teeth buried into one of Lewis's legs, Lewis is strangling the pickle kid and Lenoir is kicking the pickle kid in the nuts, the pickle kid is panicking and his eyes are a lot less glassy, his pickle hat is off
jervis: Jonathan tried to warn me this would happen,(he gives Jonathan the side eye at the I sure did he says) clearly the boy's too young for Nemesis right now, and the same goes for all of you, you know I think we should probably let the Nemesis thing happen naturally
the contestants all gave affirmative mumbling except for the pickle kid. Who's trying really hard not to have a heart attack
the end