Chapter 2: 9 Years Later
As Victor cries on his wife's capsule the titles begin folding with Danny Elfman soundtrack playing in the background.
Warner Brothers presents
The camera lifts up into the snow above the lab as the credits continue.
A Tim Burton film
As snow falls from. The Darkness a swarm of Bats fly out shrieking.
The Title Card Flashes.
Batman and Robin
The Danny Elfman Batman theme sets in introducing the cast while flying through Gotham as it starts snowing…
The screen cuts of Gotham City with a gong playing in the background with a Nine Years Later.
Two years after the fall of the Riddler, Two-Face committed to Arkham Asylum.
Gotham has been under the protection of Batman and Robin. Crime actually fell fast after Riddler's death, not that Gotham was completely cleaned. Some criminals still run rampant criminals like Catwoman who Batman and Robin have been chasing for the past two years.
In the middle of August the heatwave ran wild. Since the end of the summer Gotham has been like an oven that would kill for cooling air…
We come to Gotham University where at gym Dick Grayson was intending to attend college funded by Bruce Wayne, he was playing Basketball for this week's game against Metropolis University team.
Dick had shots that scored them halfway over; above them a girl was on a running pad.
A redheadish Burnet girl named Barbara ran fifty miles like she was running a marathon.
Dick kept getting distracted looking up at her.
Causing him to get distracted and fall off after another player bumps into him.
The coach blows the whistle calling time out.
A team member helped Dick up and the coach approached him.
"You alright Grayson?" The coach asked.
"Yeah I just…I lost my focus for a minute." Dick said.
"You're usually more concentrated than that. What happened?" The coach asked.
"I don't know, I guess…just had a headache." Dick said.
"Well, take five." The coach said.
Dick went to sit as the coach blew the whistle.
"Hey, what happened out there? You never let headaches stop you." His friend said.
"Who's that up there?" Dick said to his friend.
Dick points up to the second floor where Barbara was still running and the boy laughs.
"You're kidding, you don't know who that is?" His friend asked.
Dick nods no.
"That's Barbara Gordon. The Police Commissioner Jim Gordon's daughter." His friend said.
"You're kidding me." Dick said.
"Nope. She just started here and a lot of folks are wigged out, she's here. She's got her dad behind her on everything." His friend said.
Dick was curious with her and a moment later Barbara finally exited off the pad.
"Bruce won't believe it himself." Dick said.
"You think she'll go out with you knowing you're Bruce Wayne's wand." His friend said.
"Hardy. I'm not really trying to put myself in his shoes." Dick said.
"Just saying ladies run wild with him." His friend said.
"You don't know the half of it." Dick said.
We cut to Gothcorp present day since the incident at 85.
Bruce Wayne and Lucius Fox were in a meeting with Ferris Boyle aged from the past nine years.
"As Gotham's new humanitarian of the year Gothcorp projects will be higher. Our pluses have never been over 100%. And our stock is higher than ever." Boyle said.
"As impressed as I am…when my father was humanitarian when I was six benefitted for all of Gotham not just Wayne Enterprises. And with your angle it's just Gothcorp." Bruce said.
"Bruce, I thought you would have more faith in me than that. We're both charitable men. I'm just working on both sides separately." Boyle said.
"Sure you mean well Mr. Boyle but Mr. Wayne is not one minded for a case like this." Lucius said.
"I am humanitarian both at heart and this year. So if you gentlemen doubt my word…I don't think there's more to discuss till the humanitarian event. Good day gentlemen." Boyle said.
Boyle closes his briefcase and walks out of the office with Bruce giving a mild smirk…
Later Bruce and Lucius walked out discussing what they believed to be Boyle's true intentions.
"I still think Boyle's corrupt." Bruce said.
"Sadly he's innocent till proven guilty. He's had the city's trust for years back when your father ran things." Lucius said.
"We can't prove it yet. Doesn't mean someone we know who works outside of the law can't look into it." Bruce said.
"Think you'll bring the kid in on this?" Lucius asked.
"He's busy with college. Dick tries to step out of campus when he can." Bruce said.
"You never minded being a loner." Lucius said.
Later that noon a cargo ship was venturing to the river of Gotham.
Within the lower deck held cargo…that held…lab equipment.
A crew member came down sorting some of the crates but heard a bump…
He investigates the noise and finds the lab equipment.
He didn't remember loading any of this. He reached up for it but…something red shinned on the wall in front of him…
He turns and to his horror a figure with glowing red eyes stared into his eyes with death pointing a weapon at him.
The man screams the second he's blasted FROZEN…
To Be Continued…