Ep 4 Season 2
End of the Charade
Synopsis: "Kate and her team make their move to defeat Tommy Elliot once and for all forming a plan. Alice becomes increasingly unnerved due to fear of someone from her past potentially coming to Gotham. Meanwhile, Montoya forces Jacob's hand regarding his feelings toward the bats at play. Special guest appearances included!"
Disclaimer, still lol. This is another really long chapter. The story takes up about 8k words, which is pretty big. This time in total is 10k, a new record, again lol. I can't keep my typing mouth shut. It seems lol. So, gone over a little bit longer than a typical Batwoman episode, so hopefully, that's not too overwhelming.
A bunch of criminals were robbing a store, trashing the place heavily.
"This will show em!" One of them exclaimed, swinging a bat.
One of them nodded and noticed their lookout who was outside wasn't around. An odd occurrence.
"The heck did you go?" They whispered, approaching outside slowly, not seeing where they were. It was getting a bit scary. "Hello?" As they asked, a roop or something pulled them up in the air yelling in a panic.
"The hell!?" The rest of them asked, only three now remaining. They went outside with their weapons and had their two missing people dropped on them. Dead.
"What's going on! Show yourself!" One of them cried out.
"Surprise," A cold voice said from above, landing on them.
"It's the freakin, Bat!" One of them shouted, running away. In response, "Batman" fired into the back of them and turned, shooting the other leaving one survivor.
"Please don't kill me, man!" The last one shouted.
The Bat looked at him, smirking and patted him on the shoulder. "Don't fear, I'm not gonna hurt you. Somebody has to spread the word after all."
They looked confused. "What-what?"
"Tell everyone, anyone, you can, this bat is looking to kill! I'm thirsty for blood, regular people, criminals and defenders of Gotham. All on my hit list. Spread the word, or perhaps I otta finish you off," He said, glaring at the scared thug who nodded and booked it. The man dressed like Batman grinned sinisterly and chuckled.
Batwoman
Kate Kane sat in her office up in Wayne Tower. She was watching all the news about Tommy's latest actions when Luke walked in.
"Before you ask, yes, I've heard about Tommy. He's trying to mock me," She expressed.
"Why do you think that?" He asked, confused by her statement.
Kate stood up. "He's ego-driven, big shock, I know. It's obvious he's trying to prove his superiority by challenging me by killing criminals, something I wouldn't do. You saw it. People supported his insanity against the system," She explained, rolling her eyes.
"So, he's trying to get more people to drink his crazy Cooled?" Luke replied.
"Yep, pretty much," Kate said, nodding her head and blew from her mouth.
"What do you say we do to bring him down?"
Kate pointed at him. "Great question. Still thinking, though, just kicking his butt and sending him to jail. Have to find him first before he strikes again, you have any bright ideas?" She asked.
Luke shook his head, frowning and fiddling with his glasses.
"Could you check if he's got, friends? Contacts?" She then asked.
"I doubt a guy like him would. Seems like the type to burn all his bridges just from being such a douche. I'll dig in deep," He replied, opening his tablet.
"How about, Johnny Sabatino. The jerk who tried and failed to auction me off. Had the journal must have betrayed Tommy by not giving that up. I'd bet they'd have some bad blood, could be prime for his next hit. Kill a criminal and get payback on an old pal, two birds, one stone." Kate expressed, heading down to suit up.
Renee Montoya sat in her office, looking over a couple of cases at the same time. Until her phone rang.
"Commander Kane, let me guess, upset about Batman's latest crimes? Never ever wanting to just ask how my day is?" She asked, picking up the phone.
"Bingo, hoping we can work together to bring him in." He explained.
"Really? Should you even be working his case for a matter of fact, you still haven't resolved the fact you're related to his guy. Assuming it's not a fake."
He sighed. "You really want to bring this up now? We've got a murderer on the loose, doing god knows what next. What if he kills her? Batwoman? Jealousy, misogyny. Clearly, I don't know Bruce Wayne anymore, so anything is possible now." He expressed upset.
Renee rubbed her forehead leaning back in her chair. "I might be new in this position, but I've been waiting to rightfully get it for some time now. Not going to allow you to use vendetta against the bats to put the city at risk, even if it costs some of your image as Gotham's protector. I'm doing what's best, and I'm telling you if you stay in this case, don't you dare do anything insane. Or I'll bring you in. Got it?" She asked, genuinely serious about her threat, able to tell he was getting closer and closer to flying off the rails and what danger that could pose for Gotham.
"Fine, commissioner, I'll behave. Can tell that you're serious and that you're going to be a powerful force to be reckoned with in the future." He expressed, impressed by how good at her job, she was only just starting now.
"Why do you have such little confidence in Wayne? He's family, right? How could you think so little of him?" She questioned.
He sighed. "I'd rather not speak of this. I'll say, at least, Bruce has been a disappointment for some time. Parties, being a playboy. Sure, he put that heaping amount of money into some good causes, but I know he could've done more. If he really is Batman, he brought out such threats like Joker, Riddler, Catwoman, and Clayface. I could keep going with the ones who came after his creation. Criminals like that. How did that help Gotham? Clearly, something really did break inside of him that dreadful night." Jacob Kane grunted. "I've gotta go." He hung up.
"Better not be screwing with me, Kane." She muttered, looking now at one of the cases on her plate, involving a gun shipment Batwoman discovered on the same night of trying to bring in the woman named Whisper. The GCPD were looking closer into it and started to suspect that an outside source must have delivered them.
Elsewhere, Johnny Sabatino watched something on his laptop in his large office and seemed pleased with it. Made sense for the sleazy scumbag. Pointy ears appeared as a shadow blocking the view, which made him reach for his gun and alarm. Before he could, Batwoman crashed through the window, knocking away the firearm and smashing his head into the desk.
"Surprised to see me?" Kate asked sarcastically, holding him down.
"Someone seems to be holding a grudge!" He exclaimed, muffled from having his head being pressed into the desk.
"I'm not the only one, Tommy Elliot does too." She replied.
He laughed. "He's dead! Guess bat's don't have big brains!"
Batwoman rolled her eyes and tossed him over the desk. "He faked his death. Now he's wearing Bruce Wayne's face. Seems like he's a bit pissed off." She continued saying.
"Why should I believe the likes of you? I tried to sell you off to the highest buyer! You're lying, pulling my leg. Some kind of sick joke!" He exclaimed in disbelief.
Batwoman got closer to him, putting her foot over him while he tried to stand up. "Unlike you, I'm not petty enough to hold a grudge. I'm here to protect your sorry life. And then drop you off at GCPD, doubt you'll have a good time in Blackgate." She expressed learning in close. "Bet you've pissed off other people too."
He grunted and didn't respond.
"Maybe, just maybe, I can give a good word for you. If you give me something that could help track down Tommy. Weaknesses?"
"Tommy boy, he hates when a party is thrown without him invited. Especially if it's a big one. Takes it as a personal insult!"
Batwoman glared at him. "Is that really it? That's pathetic."
"No, wait! I know others too li-" Before he could finish speaking, another bat-like figure crashed through another window.
"Hey, Johnny, buddy old pal, how's the wife?" Tommy remarked, pointing a gun at him.
His mouth dropped. "Tommy?"
"Hush now, that's a secret." He replied, raising his guns and preparing to fire.
Batwoman got in the way, smacking him across the face. "Not going to let you kill him, even if I'm tempted," She remarked, blocking him.
"Hey! Rude!" Sabatino shouted at her, tossing something random, which broke on impact, making him make a scared face.
"More tempting than ever now, but I can't." Batwoman continued saying and kept beating down on Tommy, who wasn't a good fighter at all.
He tried head butting her and stood back up, rushing for his guns. Batwoman lunged over to him, knocking him over again. "Unfair!" He yelled, then tossed a grenade into the air running out the window. Batwoman joined him, bringing Sabatino with her as he screamed like a baby freaking out as the office exploded.
A few minutes later, Tommy escaped. GCPD came along and picked up the jerk Batwoman saved, giving him protective custody against the commissioner's wishes. Kate approached Renee when she stood away from her officers, looking around the scene heading closer to an alleyway.
"Why are you not arresting that creep and throwing away the key?" She asked.
Montoya sighed. "He's an informant, apparently. Personally, I feel like it's leftover favours from Forbes. Still got a ton of people in this department working against me. Pain in the ass, guessing that was Batman? Or perhaps Tommy Elliot?"
Kate was surprised. "How did you guess that?"
"I was a detective for years before this, still got those old tricks memorized. Such as we've figured out he paid a woman named Whisper, which I'm sure you know. Heard about your encounter with the Crows. Anyways, just creaked that if it was Tommy, he would've been targeting this guy, wanting to silence him. Looks like you're ahead of us." Montoya responded, impressed as well.
Batwoman nodded. "I'm quite the detective myself, still haven't figured out who he might go after next, got an educated hunch."
"Which would be?" She asked.
"Sorry, commissioner, secret. No offence, but I got a personal stake in bringing him down. And I might just know-how." She said, looking away.
Renee looked away for a moment, then started turning her head back. "You know, working tog-" She then noticed Batwoman vanished. "Great, are we going to be having this kind of relationship as well? I don't appreciate talking to nobody, you know, it would be nice having a partner," She remarked semi sarcastically and walked off.
Luke, Mary and Julia were hanging around the cave.
"How much are we going to be seeing her? I can't seem to get rid of her lately!" Mary whispered to Luke.
"She's a nice person once you get to know her. And besides, not like your going to be able to get rid of her. When she's on assessment, good luck trying to avoid her." Luke replied silently, as well.
Mary rolled her eyes at him. "Really helpful. Feel so much better now. Thanks, Luke." She responded greatly sarcastic, bumping his shoulder.
Julia came over. "You should know Mary, I had to have well-working ears."
"Of course you do. Not even surprised!" Mary replied, shaking her head.
Kate Kane returned to the Batcave, starting to take off her suit.
"Did you find that loony toon yet?" Mary approached first, being the closest to Kate.
"No, I didn't yet, I do have an idea of how we're going to catch him." Kate declared, looking at her team and Julia.
"Which would be how exactly? I'm a little worried now," Luke said, rubbing the back of his head nervously.
"Don't be, we're going to catch him, and we're going to have fun doing it too. Mary, we have to throw one hella party." Kate declared.
They all looked confused.
"Did you get bonked on the head, Luv?" Julia asked.
Kate rolled her eyes. "Tommy hates when he's not the center of attention. If we throw a party, us the people he hates. Along with that, we're showing him he can't keep us down, silenced. What do you think that would do?" Kate began saying.
"That would lure him out!" Mary said, finishing Kate's sentence.
"Exactly. He wouldn't be able to help himself from wanting to spoil it. He's trying to make Gotham tremble in fear focused on him. Let's take that away from him. We're dealing with a chicken, trying to prove he's tough. Powerful. Let's show Gotham why not to back down to losers like him." Kate declared.
Luke scratched his head. "Hate to admit it, that's a good plan. Guess it's party time." He replied awkwardly.
"Oh, silly Luke, it's not that easy to put together a massive party. I'm going to need like a day, less than 24 hours, I promise. Where do we have it, though?"
"My bar, our cover will be spitting in the face of a crazed man trying to stop us from living by threatening us with death. Think people will like that Mary?" Kate asked.
She nodded cheerfully. "Okay, I gotta go get this prepared! Screw sleep!" Mary exclaimed, heading out.
"And I gotta keep following her," Julia said, doing so.
"And I'm going to head back to my apartment, unlike the rest of you, I require sleep is important! I do have a phone call to make, I hate to admit it, but we might need some help for my plan to work fully, " Kate said, leaving the cave, leaving everyone wondering who she was going to call.
Elsewhere in Gotham City, Tommy returned once more to Alice's hideout, defeated once again and having nothing to show for his troubles.
"Goodness, yet another failure. Couldn't even kill one sleazy ball. How incompetent could one be, I wonder, and I continue being surprised!" She exclaimed.
"Batwoman got the better of me, I need your knife! Or hostages or that beautiful gun I had that could've ripped right through her damn suit!"
Alice shook her head in annoyance. "Tommy, what part of no killing and her do you not understand!" She said, getting in his face.
"Fine, Alice, you win. I just need to get the advantage somehow to get around her being so unstoppable!" Hush expressed.
"Well rest, get this done. Or get me someone who will. I've not seen Gotham falling apart, and my biggest problem gets closer to getting us as time is wasted!"
He walked away from her. "I'll think of something, do something. Yeah, I got a plan. I'll not come back until I've skewed the public option of the bats!" He declared leaving.
"What a fool. Surrounded by them all, a great mystery of who can actually do something useful for me." She sighed. "Oh, Kate, Mouse. how I miss you." She muttered to herself. "Every day, my past gets closer. She does. Payback." She scoffed. "I'm speaking to nobody! I've got not a soul left to listen to me speak, my men dead at her hands. Or captured, regardless. Think Alice! Think! I have to come up with a plan. My head, it's all fuzzy, not clear!" She yelled out and started recking her surroundings.
Later, Mary started preparing the party at Kate's bar. She was bringing in a bunch of people to help her out getting set up. Overall, she was being quite lazy, just commanding people to do stuff.
Kate walked up to her, seeing all the work done. "Wow, you've been pretty busy." She remarked, looking around and noticing the rainbow flags added. "Happy to see some more of those." Kate pointed out, smiling.
Mary smiled back. "Figured you would, having a few more wouldn't hurt."
"Damn right," Kate replied happily, then saw Sophie and Julia hanging around in the back, speaking closely to each other. "Sophie's here?"
"Yeah, Julia told her in a cryptic way about our plan. Just basically were trying to piss off the rich jerk." Mary replied.
"Wouldn't our dad, therefore, learn what we're up to?" Kate then asked knowingly to Mary, who looked surprised by this realization.
"Crap, you don't think he knows, do you?" As she asked this question, Jacob Kane entered. "Okay, I'm just going to go over there," Mary remarked, walking away slowly.
Jacob Kane walked towards Kate, unhappy. "What are you doing? That bat is pissed and threatening people. If he finds out about this, you could be in danger!" He expressed his worry.
"I'm aware, dad, was kinda hoping not to bring this up," Kate replied dismissively.
"Shut this down, pack it up. Go home until we can deal with Bruce. I'd bet a fair amount he'd gun for you, Kate, know he's lost his damn mind! He struck again for a matter of fact a couple hours ago. Took potshots at a damn church! He's insane, and an insane person doesn't make safe decisions. Especially when toting guns!"
Kate shook her head. "It's not Bruce, we both know he's not always been the most normal or most upstanding guy, but come on now. He's not a killer, the real one. I'm thinking this is Alice playing games with us." She explained.
"If that's true, even more reason to shut this down!" He responded.
Kate shook her head once more. "No, Dad, we can't let her or him control us. Make us all afraid forever. This is my way of standing up to them. We're all better off working together to stop those who want to hurt us. We work together, and Alice can't hurt us."
Jacob sighed. "I'm assuming arresting you and Mary wouldn't blow over well."
"You're correct," Kate replied, crossing her arms.
"Alright, you win. I'll let this go, but I need assurances that this place will be protected in the event of an attack. I'm going to get undercover officers and Crows to keep watch."
Kate was surprised. "Wow, working with the GCPD. That's a big step."
"Like you said, working together is the best way. So I'll try, listen to that."
Mary came back over as he left. "So, we're not dead?" She asked sarcastically.
"Would seem not. Guess the party is still a go!" Kate replied.
"Oh, thank gosh, I would've been so fricking mad if he canned this! I know we're trying to catch a crazy person, but come on. This is going to be a fun time too! Oh! Still haven't picked out what I'm going to wear!" She exclaimed, running off while Kate shook her head, smirking at her sister, finding it funny.
Over in the corner, Julia and Sophie were still speaking.
"Seems like we're going to have to blend in, Luv," Julia pointed out, gleefully smirking.
"Not necessarily, I'd rather be prepared for trouble then wearing a dress," Sophie replied, frowning, looking away.
"Come on, don't be a party pooper," She responded sarcastically.
Sophie sighed. "It's kinda like a date if I wear a dress then."
"Oh yeah, we haven't actually had an official date yet, huh?" Julia realized.
Sophie nodded her head slowly. "I feel bad. You know, just would rather our first real date to be, you know. Real. Not an undercover op. Never been on a real date before, with a woman. Kate and we never got that far." She explained.
"Oh, I get it, Luv. You want something special for your first one. Must be important to ya."
"Who was your first ever date with?" Sophie then asked.
"Ah, mine, blimey. Sometime ago. It was with some girl, her name was Regina, I believe. We were dumb teens, thought we knew what we wanted. We didn't. She wanted to saddle down, life somewhere nice. Just us, even if we'd not be accepted. Least we'd be together. I had higher ambitions. Wanted to help my country, like my dad. That made us break up." Julia explained.
Sophie looked disappointed. "Sounds like you didn't care a lot about her."
Julia shrugged. Wasn't sure how to respond to that, judging by her face body turning my defensive. "Don't worry, I won't do the same to you. Properly not. Kidding."
They both felt pretty awkward now.
"Well, I think that one of us needs to blend in a little. Would you like to assist me with changing into something more, revealing?" Julia asked.
"Yes, please," Sophie replied, smirking slightly and followed her.
Later on, the night came, and the party was finally getting started. People started lining up, hoping to get in. Mary's marketing worked wonders. Seemed like a fair part of Gotham was coming down. It would indeed be big news for social cycles and get Tommy down pissed off about this, and it would just be excellent for Kate herself.
"This seems twice as large compared to your previous party," Luke remarked, watching the cams keeping an eye out and spoke to Kate over coms.
"Have to thank Mary for that. Guess she really is an influencer." Kate replied, hanging around the bar keeping an eye out. "Have to admit, this is quite impressive. Hate, I'm on the clock right now."
"It'll be worth catching our fake Bruce and stopping Alice's plans in their tracks." He replied, reassuring her this was the correct option.
"Yeah, I know," Kate responded, continuing to look around, then noticed one of the women looked formulier for some reason. However, she got distracted as Julia approached her leaning next to the wall.
"You like the dress?" Julia asked, showing over her black tight and revealing dress.
"How could I not? You're wearing it." Kate replied smirking.
"Good point," Julia said, laughing slightly. "I see you continuing your war on dresses? Have you ever tried one?"
Kate nodded. "Yeah, it sucked. I'll stick with my suits, thank you very much."
"Each to their own. I don't really mind. You're fine, regardless. I'm a bit better, though." Julia said in response, smiling.
"Shouldn't you be with Sophie?" Kate asked, looking around for her.
"We're just patrolling. Keeping an eye out, I'm the incognito one, and she's the obvious one. As par usually. Really should teach her about the art of hiding in plain sight. Speaking of which, I should get back out there." She pointed out, heading back into the crowd, getting lost in it.
"Did you just try hitting on her? Or her with you?" Luke asked.
"Claim down. Where's Mary, by the way? Haven't seen her yet." Kate asked.
"Oh, she's err with me. Well, not with me, but she's changing. Having a hard time picking the right outfit, she said." He explained.
Kate sighed. "Of course she is, just tell her to hurry up."
Outside, Jacob Kane was sitting around, waiting for trouble. Along with some of the GCPD, the commissioner wasn't around. She didn't think it was a good enough lead to come herself but was pleased by his accepting them working together on this case.
"Everyone check-in." He said suspiciously, referring to his people and the GCPD. Thankfully everyone did check in perfectly fine.
He then called Kate, still extremely worried about her safety.
"Before you ask dad, yes, I'm perfectly safe and sound." Said Kate knowing what he was going to ask.
"Good. You know, we never spoke a lot about Bruce. Just in passing." He stated then.
Kate grunted and scoffed. "Like I said, not convinced it's Bruce. Can't you trust my gut feelings by now? I was right about Alice and-"
"Fine, still. This must be digging up some old feelings. We both blamed Batman for that accident that caused all this to happen. Our family being torn apart." He expressed.
"Wasn't completely his fault, maybe if you trusted me more, then we wouldn't be in this current situation?" She questioned.
"I do trust you, Kate, I know you're a capable young woman who's tougher, stronger willed and far more courage than most people on this planet. I trust you." He reassured, sighing intensely, rubbing his face.
"Really? It doesn't feel like that in the slightest bit. I know that's true, but I don't think you do for real. Anyone can say something. Meaning it truly is completely different. You taught me that, remember?" Kate responded.
He didn't have a response to that.
"Okay, good talk. I have to go. You know, kinda want to enjoy my party a little bit." Kate remarked and hung up, leaving Jacob alone with his thoughts.
Kate proceeded to look around, getting into the crowd more now. She noticed the woman again, at least she thought so. With all the people, it was hard to tell. Didn't matter too much, could recall why she felt like she was recognizable anyways. Besides that, attention was taken up by her spotting Sophie, sitting around just watching the party unfold. Seemed quite dull, so Kate felt like joining her. "Hey, you have room for two?"
"Yeah, sure," Sophie said softly.
"Is everything alright?" Kate asked, looking concerned.
She nodded her head. "Totally."
"You don't say totally when everything is peachy." Kate pointed out.
"Alright, you caught me. Being here makes me wish I was here not working, you know. On a date, with Julia." Sophie admitted looking downwards.
Kate pretended to smile, she tried to make it real, but feelings were still felt for Sophie deep down. Made it pretty hard being genuinely happy to hear this. "I'm happy that you seem happy with Julia." Kate then said, telling the truth. She was delighted Sophie was in a better place now with her sexuality.
"Yeah, I don't know," Sophie replied, looking unsure.
"Why don't you know?" Kate asked curiously.
"Hard to explain, it feels right. Being with a woman, but-" She stopped herself mid-sentence looking away from Kate again.
Kate leaned back in the chair. "Julia isn't around right now, you can tell me." She began saying, before being interrupted by Luke.
"We've got a problem! Need you down here right now!" Luke exclaimed.
"Damnit. Okay." She muttered. "I'm so sorry, gotta go, manager business, you know?"
Sophie nodded and watched Kate walk away. She sighed, disappointed and quite upset about all the feelings deep down felt by herself regarding Julia.
"Sophie?" A female voice asked, just coming into the bar now getting through the line.
"Elle?" Sophie said upon seeing her, it was the woman she met during the killings of the apparent vampire Nocturna terrorizing the streets of Gotham approximately a few months back, or less. At this very bar, while on assessment too confidently.
"How are you doing? I never thought I'd see you again!" She said happily and gratefully.
"Neither did I. I'm so sorry about leaving and not getting your number. That killer struck, and I had to go all of a sudden." She explained.
She smiled. "Well, let's fix that error now. Let's exchange numbers before anything crazy happens." She said jokingly.
Sophie awkwardly smiled. "Yeah, I would like that. You should know, though, I'm kinda in a relationship now. If that changes anything."
"Hell no. Had you on my mind since I met you. We're exchanging numbers, and that's just that." She replied smirking.
This made Sophie feel better. They did end up giving each other numbers, thankfully nothing stopped them this time and continued talking away happily, now feeling pretty cheerful. More so than before.
Julia watched this, looking over jealousy.
Meanwhile, Kate went over to Luke. "This better be direr." She remarked.
"We've got a couple missing cops and Crows, few cams too. Safe to say, think Tommy must be here." He declared.
Kate went to go check on Mary, relieved to find her still picking out which outfit to wear. "Good, you're safe," Kate said, feeling less tension and grabbed into her, pulling her into the room with Luke.
"Unnecessary! And this outfit isn't up to my standards! This is a big party, you know!" She exclaimed, shaking her head.
"Doesn't matter, the party is over." Kate declared.
"What?! I didn't take that long. Did I? What year is it? Tell me we're past 2020 now, this year has sucked big time!" Mary expressed.
"Wasn't that long, and I did tell you that you were looking perfect as soon as you stepped in here. Like you always do," Luke stated.
"You don't know the importance of fashion. It could be a life ender if I end up wearing the wrong outfit here! People are super judgemental, you know! Like jeez, if I wore what I came in here wearing, I would be finished!" She exclaimed, shaking her hands around.
"Tommy is here. Being more stealthy than I thought, figured he'd trip up. Literally." Kate said jokingly and started looking at the cams. "See him, camera 4. Where is that?"
"Roof," Luke replied, looking closely. "Oh, crap!" He exclaimed.
"What?!" Kate and Mary asked at the same time, looking over at him and the cameras.
Tommy, dressed naturally as Batman, used small explosives to crash through the top of the building, making a small hole. Landing into the club, past security. He then pulled out his handguns, starting to fire off into the air. "Nobody moves!" He shouted. Nobody noticed or took him seriously, not afraid of him in the slightest. This made him reasonably angry, but nothing could be done. Then he grunted and took a hostage from the crowd. "Bring me, Kate Kane! Or this woman dies!" He shouted, firing more shots off.
Sophie and Julia rushed over as the crowd started to panic for real. "Let her go!" They both shouted, raising their guns.
"How about no! Bring me, Kane! Or you're going to have a death on your record!"
"Let her go. Phony." Kate Kane said, not in the suit.
"About time! Come over here, you're going to be my new hostage!" He exclaimed, pointing his guns directly in the woman's face. The one Kate thought she knew for some reason, in fact, of all people.
Kate listened to his demand getting close to Sophie's worry, but Julia gave her a reassuring look holding her back. "Alright, you win. Just don't hurt anyone. Got it?"
"Come on now, faster!" He shouted. Then his current hostage hit him with her elbow giving him a bloody nose. "Och!" He cried, getting kicked too.
The woman moved away a couple steps, which allowed Kate to start beating down on him once more. Tommy tried to block all the blows, but he wasn't fast enough. She kept the edge with her skill predicting what he would do first, hitting him. Having the batsuit, she actually knew where best to strike him, getting maximum hurt on him. That woman hopped back in joining in on beating him up, having different fighting but good enough to overpower him. Then, Tommy revealed his final resort. A bomb vest.
Jacob Kane, Crows and GCPD came rushing in. The helpful woman made her exit, as did Tommy revealed this to the group.
"I've got a deadman's switch! You kill me, or try anymore or your crap! It's all over! I've got all control around here, the power! Now, get on the ground, and you will listen to all my demands! Got it!"
"How about no?" A red and blue figure zoomed towards him, standing triumphantly in front of him.
"What the hell! How are you here! Have I gone mad!" He exclaimed.
The figure shrugged. "Not sure, I'm just positive you are not Batman. He would've brought a larger bomb for one." They grabbed the bomb and wrapped themselves around it, taking in the explosion. "I'm betting you thought that would make a bigger boom?" The person said, putting hands on their hips.
"Supergirl?" Questioned nearly everyone standing around watching.
"Yep, that's me. Now, you all have a madman to arrest, I believe." Super stated, crossing her arms and held him still with one hand.
The Crows pulled him away while he shook around, trying to break free.
"Are you alright?" Jacob asked everyone, as the Crows and GCPD
"Yeah, I'm fine," Kate said, Julia and Sophie agreed too. "Jerk ruined my bar. And the party."
Preferably the bar then you." Jacob expressed, reaching in for a hug.
Kate accepted. "Thank you, dad."
"Thank you, happy I listened to you. I'd say we brought that guy down. Or rather, you and Supergirl. Thank you, Supergirl." Jacob expressed, turning to her.
"Happen to help. Heard about this fake bat, wasn't too keen on letting him run around causing trouble in your city." She explained.
Jacob Kane nodded, just accepting this and walked off.
Kate approached Supergirl, rather known to her Kara, which she instead called her. "Thank you," Kate said, crossing her arms and looking around. "We should talk outside, let's go," Kate said.
Supergirl nodded and followed her.
Elsewhere in the club, Sophie checked on Elle. "Are you alright?" She asked, approaching her outside.
"Yeah, I am. Thanks. Can't believe that you got pulled away again. What are the odds of that? Did you at least get your guy?, Batman, apparently?" She questioned.
"Yep, I mean no. It was Batman, I think. Confusing way to share that information, I know. Feeling awkward? Hard to explain. Words I mean."
Elle laughed. "Oh, I can totally see that. Kinda adorable."
Julia came over. "Friend of yours?" She asked curiously.
"Yes, friend. My name is Elle, how about yourself?" She said, reaching out her hand.
"Charmed to meet you, I'm Julia. This woman here is my girl." She said, leaning in to kiss her, but Sophie didn't accept. Making matters quite a bit awkward now. "Everything alright, Luv?" She asked, confused.
"We should just get going, I'll call you. I swear." Sophie said, walking off with Julia.
"I'll call you first!" Elle replied jokingly.
Julia grabbed her hands. "What's up? Tell me if something's the matter here."
Sophie shook her head. "It's fine, I just felt bad kissing in front of her. That's it. Maybe I'm a bit tired too."
"I could join you, Luv," Julia said, coming onto her.
"I'm sorry, really tried." She yawned and walked off.
"At least let me drive you home then?" She offered.
Sophie nodded, smiling slightly, putting her arms around her. Feeling a bit better now, but still having this odd off feeling lingering.
Meanwhile, Jacob Kane was stopped outside by commissioner Montoya who now showed up upon hearing about the attacks that went down.
"Commissioner." He said, nodding.
"Commander, what happened here?" She asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"Batman happened, tried to kill or take my daughter. Unclear. Besides that, we've got some of our people who are getting hospitalized from an attack from him, none dead it would seem like. And, he's in our locked up. He explained, crossing his arms.
She smirked. "Sounds like it was a good discussion we worked together, huh?" Renee said knowingly, pleased he made the right call by listening to her.
"I should be thanking you and my daughter. Seems both of you would get along. Both felt like working together on this case was the best option. Hard to admit."
"Positive steps forward, commander." She stated, smiling.
He nodded slightly. "Don't think this changes my stance on Batwoman," Kane declared, walking away, heading back to HQ with the Crows.
"Didn't think so, at least it's something of a victory." She muttered, walking off as well.
Kate, dressed up as Batwoman, met up with Supergirl outside, trying to keep hidden from the Crow and Cops. Kate was able to sneak up on her quite easily.
"How did you know I needed help? Like earlier than I called you for?" She asked.
Kara jumped a little surprised. "Wow, you got the stealthy part down! Could you in the slightest! Oh, and to answer your question, my friend Nia aka Dreamer, saw things not going great in one of her visions. Figured it would be warranted some assistance. She's got a pretty good track record." She expressed.
"Fair enough reason. Thank you, Kara." Kate said, shaking her hand.
"Oh, stop that!" Kara exclaimed, shaking her head and hugged Kate.
Kate tried to break free from the hug and cleared her throat. "What about him? Did you bring along your martian friend like I ask?"
"Firstly, his name is J'onn. Secondly, I did and don't worry your plan is going to come all together, trust me." Kara said confidently.
"Alright, I do. Would he be fine if we ran a press conference after he does whatever he does to Tommy? This next part is critical." Kate explained.
Kara shook her head up and down, smiling.
Elsewhere, while in the Crows van getting taken away to jail, Tommy was getting a visitor. One he was not expecting to see.
"Bruce Wayne!?" He exclaimed.
J'onn laughed and turned back to his regular human form. "Not quite."
"I'm really losing it today!" He said, shaking his head.
"Don't worry, you won't remember this. Or a few other things. For the best."
"Wait no! I'll pay you!"
"Do I really look like I need money?" J'onn asked, shaking his head and then went to erase Tommy's mind of all that he's learnt about Bruce, along with Kate Kane as Batwoman. Leaving him quite confused and alone heading back to Arkham.
A few hours later.
"Hello, Gothamites! Vesper Fairchild here! And man oh man, has the city been through a loop these past few nights! For those of you who have been living a tropical island or somewhere without radio reception and are just tuning in, here's the gist of what's been happenin! It started with the apparent return of Batman, who decided to attack the Crows for no apparent reason before unmasking himself as the billionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne himself! Say what?! I would've never believed that Bruce Wayne himself would be capable of such an act, and thankfully I was right! Just a few hours ago, the real Bruce Wayne! Appeared from out of nowhere not long after the fake one, Tommy Elliot was captured and sent back to Arkham, where he will be having a nice long stay. I suppose we should count our blessings and be grateful that Bruce Wayne is alive and well. Additionally, during a surprise conference, Kate Kane made clear that he'll be continuing his time away from Gotham. He confirmed despite being a billionaire philanthropist, he went off the radar to help out poor communities in other countries! What a surprise, a welcome one! He officially gratefully thanked Kate Kane for all her incredible work for Gotham and how much more she's planning on doing. Another inspiring moment was he publicly supports the LGBTQ+ community! Great news all around! As for whether or not that means the disgraced Mr. Elliot is truly Batman, National City's own Supergirl has commented that only her cousin, Superman, knows what kind of person the real Batman is. She's sure that he could likely tell that the impersonator is not truly the Dark Knight himself! You know Supers like them don't seem like the lair type! So talk to me, Gotham, and let me know how you feel about all of this!" She finished saying over her radio show.
Kate returned back to Luke and Mary, who returned to the Batcave after Kate had got them up to speed with her plans of how to deal with the issue at hand.
"Wow, that was a fantastic plan!" Luke exclaimed.
Kate nodded. "Why I thought of it, now nobody can pretend to be Bruce Wayne. Or try to drag us all down. Nobody will be questioning too why he isn't around or connect him to any bats. Nor me. Not even going to have to worry about Tommy boy again too. So we're good now. Nice having super-powered friends who can help out and can impersonate your missing family member giving them an out." Kate finished saying with a hint of sarcastic tone with the final sentence spoken.
Mary rubbed her chin. "Who was your friend? That woman who helped you out? Not Supergirl, wish she stuck around a little longer. Would've loved an autograph!"
"I'm sure we'll see Supergirl again. We're kinda friends. Great question about that other woman, I know she's formulier. Luke, tell me you have records on the cams." Kate asked, turning over to him.
He nodded and started looking back at the recordings. "I'll look, might take a couple hours to locate her face, then scan it. A lot of people were at this party." He expressed.
"Great, I wanted to head home anyway," Kate replied.
Mary frowned. "I'm so mad that I missed out on this party! Going to have to throw another one soon, somewhere else. No offence, Kate. Your place is a little, you know. Unlucky and not likely to get people, for a few days anyway."
Kate shrugged. "Have to fix that roof anyways, at least I can potentially add more while it's closed temporarily." She said, looking away.
"How about you install a panic room? In case of any more danger coming knocking on the door?" Luke asked.
"Good idea, or maybe even a second Batcave. Maybe both. Whatever, we'll figure this out." Kate said, walking out. "Thanks for the help." She said before leaving.
"I'm still mad about the party getting ruined! I should've expected this. Why didn't I?" Mary questioned allowed.
"Well, you are a very positive person. Like super crazy, positive. Not crazy in a bad way." He said awkwardly, shaking and fiddling with his glasses.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. Utter goofball. I appreciate your being such a butt kisser today, making me feel better. And cause I know you genuinely mean every silly word that comes out of your mouth." Mary replied, smirking back at him.
"Thank you, I think," Luke responded, not entirely sure if that was indeed a complement or not having a bewildered look on his face.
Mary rubbed her hands together and reached into a fridge that had drinks. "So, how long do you think this will take again?" She asked, thinking of drinking a bit.
"Could take a few minutes. Or all night." He replied, shrugging.
"Okay, think I might stick around a little, totally for the drinks. Not you, maybe." She said awkwardly and just started drinking a little, stopping herself from speaking.
This did make Luke have a slight smirk form across his face.
Kate meanwhile went back to her office, meeting with Supergirl, now dressed as Kara once again.
"You know, I would like to see your Batcave." She said, putting her hands on her hips.
Kate smirked and poured a drink for them both. "Maybe some other time. I do have to mention something important, and figured we should talk about it in person."
"Okay," Kara replied, sitting down while Kate reached into the picture frame where a curtain rock was being stored away. It was locked away in a safe see-through box that protected from any adverse effects.
"Turns out, this crappy rock can penetrate my suit. So, looks like we've got that in common. Somehow my angry sister discovered some of this and made an improved version of her knife made of it." Kate explained.
"Hate Kryptonite. Ever since the crisis and Lex. More has been popping up again. Not very promising. We're trying to destroy all of it we can find."
Kate sighed. "Kara, I just hate having this. We've got a lot of heroes who could stop you if you ever went rouge from mind control. Which is highly unlikely. This damn glowing rock could kill us both now. Wonder if I should even be keeping this around."
Kara nodded her head and sat back in her chair. "I see completely where you're coming from here. I want you to keep it intact. Even with these risks, it would be responsible for keeping it around. That Tommy guy would've been stopped with it. Assuming it got bad enough where you'd have to make a tough call. And, Clark trusted Bruce. Now it's our turn. I trust you to make the right calls. Heck, I trust you more than Batman. Maybe even Clark and I know my friends wouldn't ever do it. Hated having Kryptonite around, it's hard having to accept the existence of at least one of these darn things not being tossed into the sun. Happy, it's you and not someone else. I know you'd never let it fall into evil hands without one heck of a fight," Kara expressed.
"Yeah, guess you're right about that. They'd get it over my dead body," Kate replied, smirking and sat forward in her chair.
Kara's ears perked up. "Crap, Supergirl is needed elsewhere, it would seem. Nice to see you again, Kate, we need to hang out more." She said, flying off.
Kate smiled and drank. "Debatable." She joked, wouldn't admit it, but having Kara around was kinda a positive.
Alice sat around in her hideout, watching the news. Quite unhappy about this turn of events regarding her incompetent henchman.
"Oh, Tommy, you are such a disappointment. Now, desperate times call for, turning to someone I'd rather have never seen again." She sighed and went into a box containing an address. "Locked this away, years ago. You've escaped from Arkham, and I know this is where you'd head to. Hunker down, planning your great revenge of Gotham. Little do you know, my revenge is the best option. Someone like you will listen to reason, we have history, and I don't get scared easily. Not anymore, after all, I've endured. Mad man doesn't give me concern anymore." Alice declared to herself aloud, heading out to the location of her new mysterious ally, assuming he would play nice.
Batwoman
So, this happens to be a bit earlier than expected posting wise. Meant for next week on Friday, but then I thought against it. Next Friday, I'm getting my "Wisdom Teeth" taken out cause they are not very Wisdom filled lol. So, presumably, I'll be out of commission for at least a day, hopefully, if not more. I write every day for at least 3-6 hours, if not more. Love to write, and I'll be sad to not be able to potentially for more than a couple days. (Idk how crap this will go) So, my current goal is to post today, Wednesday. Then assuming everything works out, I'll have the next chapter done next Friday, I hope before I get possibly behind. After that, it'll for sure be a 2-week wait if not 3 weeks, which would suck quite a bit.
I wanted to apologize for how densely packed this chapter was too. A lot was going on here, and I hope everyone caught everything easy enough. Not sure if having so much development going on was a good idea or not. Guess I'll leave that with you all. The next chapter will be more focused on a particular character that has been hinted towards a fair amount now. About time for Kate to meet her officially (:
Response to "CG"
Oh, okay, I hope that you are satisfied with your name on here. If you ever wish to change it again in the future, feel free too. Happy that you are not anywhere near those fires. Hope it'll stay that way. That is interesting. Seems like you've been a fan for longer than I've been alive, possibly lol. Nice of your dad to get you into comics. Nearly it clicked for you (: I have too almost, started on season 2, episode 3 of Arrow, which seems random. Had to confidence my mom into watching it together due to not really watching more adult-ish stuff. Think I would've been 13 then. I was confused a bit, obviously, cause of not watching season 1. Got it as a present during the holidays and watched all of it. Made more sense lol. Pretty much watched everything from that point on. I'm assuming you've been watching since Smallville, so again you've been sure watching a lot longer than I have. I can see why you are disappointed. I am too, for reasons I won't get into. Can agree with the ones you've shared about.
"Batwoman" version of Two-Face - I'm sorry for getting confused, my mistake. I understand what you were saying, but it would appear I wasn't clear and didn't answer appropriately on review. Sorry again. I'll do what you suggest here. I do enjoy the idea a lot, and for sure I will do it! I've reread what you said here, and before multiple times now, I'm reasonably sure I understand fully. I should at least say, don't expect her to soon. Sorry once more, hope that isn't a disappointment. Hope the potentially wait shall be worth it. That series is quite surprising. I'm sure most people are quite happy they got Smallville instead.
"The Three Ghosts of Batman" - Thank you, I did, and you did a good enough job explaining about them. Still excited to use your ideas on them! I'm hoping they will be good enough origin stories. Nevertheless, several seasons (from my current projection/plan) till then, I'm hoping I will do it justice. (They will be season-long villains like you asked/suggested)
In regards to Ryan Wilder - That is a great assumption. I didn't mean to cause that, just wanted to make a Riverdale reverence. I'm happy having it be canon in this version is played by her cause I love her lol. She was also rumoured, and it shows that these two Ryans are not the same character completely. Yes, that is what I'm hoping to do, might have some minor alterations along the way. We'll see. Trying to keep true to what you suggest/recommend.
Casting Question - Should I potentially show who's planning who for visual reasons? Unless they already exist on the show. (Using Ruby Rose below to make clear she is Batwoman still for the reasons of not needing to recast/thinking/picturing stuff. Unless you think she should be recast?
Like for example, Ruby Rose as Kate Kane, Vanessa Morgan as Ryan Wilder, etc.
Or, Starring Ruby Rose, Vanessa Morgan etc and guest stars?
Just a thought, I'm not sure if I'll be pursuing that, could prove to be complicated. Just wanted to pose that question/thought.
Gotham's Overlooked Communities: Okay, I looked that up, thank you. I can agree with your thinking and like that angle. I'll be doing that, I can say that will begin to show up in the next chapter even. Thank you again for clarifying. That was pretty much what I figured.
Regarding the Bat-Family: That is very true, I think I'll go with the piece by piece thing too. Like naturally, over time, all their fates and what's going on with them are revealed. If accepted, it might have small appearances too. Perhaps Kate might bring them all back together?
Safiyah Sohail: Okay, I'll remember to share my original plans in the closing of ep 22. Would now, but I don't want to spoil anything.
In regards to the Chapter Title pull-down list: That is a great idea. Thank you for pointing that out. Feel dumb for not thinking of it. By the time you see this, they'll be fixed.
In regards to any "Black Lives Matter" situations that happens in your story: Okay, I like your suggestions and will do them. I will also 100% have "IMPORTANT NOTE/ADVISORY WARNING." Completely a great idea to have a warning and explain a little bit. It seems very important to include.
In regards to DC's Earth-One Graphic Novels: Ah, okay, thank you for sharing about that. I feel that way as well. Sounds interesting, might check it out sometime.
In regards to Supergirl: As did I, I'm surprised that it was not the real reasoning behind it all. That is very tragic that the bad plot point led to the death of the series, and I understand why people would've been mad about that leaving (I was just bored by it and found it odd). Interesting idea. I'm sorry that they've not chosen to go with doing that. Also, how it kinda hurts the set up at the end of the Crisis. Along with her and Kate's friendship, depending on what happens to her or if I'm allowed any libraries of her statues in the Arrowverse, I'd continue along with their friendship and maybe the bigger Justice League stuff.
Regards to PS.
I'm again sorry that nobody else mentioned it on Twitter it would seem (It's also 3 reviewers now, have a new one who seems to agree). I guess so, I do lol. That does seem possible. I'm so sorry how dirty they are being with this whole thing. It's really horrible and unfortunate how little they care about their own fans, truly despicable for them to be so harsh. Yeah, I agree. Soap operas are quite good at them, and my mom compares a lot of these shows to on par with them. It's so sad they didn't listen or have the same thinking as yourself.
Predictions on What Episode 4 Should be About:
Wow, that was pretty creative. Thank you for the suggestion, really wish I waited before writing episode 4 lol. So, after some rewriting, I hope it was good. Honestly, your conclusion was better than mine. (I share more about that below)
"Possible Title: Brilliant title, you really have a way with titles, ideas and summaries (:
"Possible Summary:" Sorry for not keeping it accurate, again. I enjoyed it, and I will say I'll use that stuff with Whisper & Ryan later. Just want to use that plotline a little long, and I feel once she learns about her secrets, things won't go well. Hope that it'll be good. I'm for sure more confident in this and everything else over "Fake Wayne plot." (More on that below)
Special Guest Appearances: For some dumb reason, I forget about how much freedom I have not being a real tv show lol. I'll not go crazy with this relizen. I'm just wondering what precisely boundaries should be set? If any? Anyways, thank you for your suggestions. I appreciate them a lot. Hopefully, they all were incorporated well into here. Please be honest if I didn't do well enough if so I'm sorry about that. Feel free to give more, and I'll try my best to allow it in.
Vesper Fairchild Radio Talk: Your impression was fantastic. I want to give full credit for how well done that was. It seems like it would be ripped right from an episode of Batwoman. I'm incredibly thankful you created that dialogue. My version would've been a very bitful version of that, and I think the stuff I changed might have hurt it. So thank you very much for making this story better once again, really just with this whole inclusion. Sorry for the parts that I neglected.
-Original idea - Dead honest with you and all others reading, I couldn't care less about all the stuff with Hush, kinda my own fault, but I just didn't want to deal with him any longer. Couldn't think of anything interesting for him to do without ripping myself off from the other series or wasting time. Idk, just not a fan of the show version too or the fake Wayne plot, I guess. Your solution to dealing with him is amazing and so much better than anything I thought of doing.
No joke. My original solution was just having him return to Alice after another defeat, where she just got annoyed with his stupidity. This led to her finding out about his "contact" or whatever, and she killed him because of dummy. Pretty anti-climactic. Just wanted him gone so badly. Thought of tossing his death into episode 3 even, happy I thought against that so we could have this hopefully better episode. With his memories being gone, it's possible I might bring him back somehow.
Additionally, the original title was going to be "Won't Hush Up." My thought behind it was a pun cause, "Hush." I was likely going to change it. Just really wanted a "Hush" pun or joke whatever thrown in. My idea at the time was cause he was annoying me, it was a party he would interrupt and idk, I'm bad with title naming.
Supergirl's Future - Your ideas are interesting. I hope someone makes them into a story if the show never does. I would kinda be tempted to attempt that once Supergirl comes to an end like was this series. (I know you were not asking me to write these ideas or a continuation of Supergirl. Just wanted to share why I sadly won't be ever)
First off, I'm not really sure how to write too much about Supergirl. I could learn, so that is a poor excuse. I was actually toying with doing a story with shipped Kara and Lena.
Second, I'm writing this, of course, a Spider-Man story, that other Batwoman series eventually will continue, I wanted to write another Marvel series, and I'm writing a story on Wattpad too. So, I've got my hands full lol.
Third my hope/DREAM lol, would be to write a spin-off for Dreamer cause, as said, I love her, and she speaks to me personally. My original thought would be just waiting to do one at some point whenever I had time. Supergirl got cancelled, so now I might do that once the show is over, depending on what happens with her. We'll see, might follow up on stuff that happens or just more my own thing giving her other stuff going on. Idk. We'll see in the future. I didn't think of sharing that for a while yet lol.
Hopefully, someone reading this will be inspired to tell that story and live up to your expectations or do some kind of contuinion if the series doesn't. Could be too hopeful, but Supergirl is the paragon of hope after all lol. I'm sorry I just wanted to make that joke. I'm not very funny. I do genuinely hope something can happen or something.
One last thank you to all assistance and helping to improve this series. I'm thankful for it all and likely why I'm most passionate about this series having an active reader enjoying it too. Oh, also, no rush for posting your reviews/comments (I say that again cause I've pretty much posted these back to back and don't want to be annoying at all), and I'm waiting for real before starting to write Episode 5, so hopefully, I can include suggestions better into that. Hope that you are doing well.
Response to Silver-Infinite
Hello, thank you for reviewing/commenting whatever. I appreciate it. So, would it be better to respond like this or PM? I'll leave that to you, I'm fine either way.
Chapter 1 - I won't confirm if that might happen here cause spoilers, but for sure, it would be nice to hear that she forgives him for that cause it really wasn't his fault. That makes sense. Never thought about that, interesting idea and thinking. Won't say if that might happen here or not. Still interesting, you brought up.
Chapter 2 - I hope that I gave a good exploration of his feelings, wasn't the best. I'll admit cause I went back on during the end, and I knew that so didn't want to spend too long on that. (Also cause he might learn for real later…) For everything else you say, I agree, but sadly don't have any answers. Good questions.
Chapter 3 - Hopefully, she's right. I love her, and she's my hero, so I'm just skeptical from my anxiety, I guess. Yeah, tbh figured as much, just trying to be hopeful, which is against my nature, so it's quite challenging sometimes and not always realistic. Kinda sucks about the 100 prequel, but it seems like season 7 isn't going very well. (Haven't watched yet, watched all 6 seasons so far) Sad about that show. I kinda wanted to watch cause I was a little curious. Yeah, agree entirely. Finally, thank you for saying this is better than my Sophie series. Could I ask what you disliked out of curiosity and wanting to improve?
Thank you again for enjoying it so far. Hope you will continue to (: Best wishes.
Batman1993, thank you (: x 10 lol. Happy you seem to be enjoying as well. I hope you will continue to as well!
-So, one thing of note I've stupidly nearly forgotten to mention. Something the show for whatever reason neglects mainly, Kate Kane is Jewish. Well, at least her dad is confirmed to be, but I'm going with her too. I'm going to bring this up and do stuff with it, not leaving it as a "yeah she's Jewish, moving on" kind of thing. If representation matters, it shouldn't be a throwaway element in the background or for one episode or in small areas one in a while. I am not Jewish, but I shall do my best to handle that subject well enough and with care to the best of my ability. It'll for sure actually matters here more than once. (Sorry for a rant or whatever)
Anyways, in closing, thank you all for reading these 4 chapters. I've immensely been enjoying writing this series. I look forward to continuing, and much, much, much more is yet to come along. Thank you (: