Marvel Love Chapter 20

[CaptainNinnin]

Summary and Disclaimer

This is set in a version of the MCU. But with the addition of some new characters, concepts, and other franchises. Including all of the MCU movies AND TV shows and a few other things too. I DO NOT own any characters that I myself have not come up with and the rightful owners are Disney, FOX (for right now), Warner Bros., and others. No copyright infringement intended.

Chapter 20

Batman: The Begining Part 2

“No matter how many times I enter the Batcave I always have one question,” I said out loud looking around at my surroundings.

“And what’s that?” Barbara asked with a smile. All of the Batman family had removed their masks, well all but Bruce himself. He had “INVITED” Skye, Laura and I to his Batcave. He refused to allow Tony to come with us.

“All this stuff is from the battles that you and the others have fought right?” I asked.

“That’s right,” Terry said looking at me like he wasn’t sure if I was going to make a joke or not.

“Then who the hell fights with a giant penny and T-Rex,” I said staring at the two of these things.

“Is this what you do in all the other Batcaves?” Bruce asked with a scowl.

“Same old Batman. Are you working on my entry in the killfile? Okay here’s what you do: put Super Sentai on and open a bag of potato chips. I’ll come running and you can put a bullet in my...my adamantium skeleton would stop a bullet. You could poison the...my healing factor would cure me. This is going to be tricky but if we work together we can totally do this.” I joked.

“What are you talking about?” Skye asked, confused by my line of jokes.

“Other Batman, (Batmen?), anyway, they have a special file for when superheroes make the turn from superhero to supervillain. So he can kill or stop them.” I said.

“You’re kidding?” Laura asked.

“Not really,” Barbara said.

“It does sound like something that you would do Bruce,” Terry said to him.

“Don’t get mad at him,” I said to Skye who I knew was not a big fan of the Bat right now.

“Why shouldn’t I?” Skye demanded.

“Because he’s right. No one gives him enough credit for that. Sometimes we need to be stopped, not killed but stopped.” I said looking at him.

“Why would you say that?” he asked.

“I’ve run into versions of every superhero in this universe that have gone bad. But just because someone slips and loses their way, doesn’t mean that you should give up on them. Plus I’ve also run into versions of every supervillain who’s gone good too.” I said smiling.

Bruce reached up and removed his mask. “Well said,” he said to me.

“But seriously I do have one question. I get Dick was the first Robin but became Nightwing when he and Bruce were fighting. So you got the new Robin Tim Drake. And Barbara told me on the way here, she was the first Batgirl but became Batwoman after she came out of the closet and she felt more like a woman. And then you got Stephanie to be the new Batgirl. But how did Batman Beyond get here?” I asked to see if their backstory my father had given them stuck.

“Batman Beyond?” Terry asked.

“Oh, I’m sorry Terry,” I said and explained about us being comic book characters in the world that birthed the Marvel Multiverse. All the while not talking about the fact that each one of them belonged to another comic book company in that universe. I’ll admit it was getting pretty fun for me to see the looks on the faces of everyone when I told people that. Their faces were among my favorite so far.

“So I was a cartoon series in that universe?” Terry asked, amazed.

“Yes. And a pretty good one at that, it was called Batman Beyond. This was because it was set in the future. So how did you end up with them?” I asked.

“Well, it’s simple really. Like that CARTOON I come from the future, thirty years in the future. Well, one day I was in the lab with a friend who said that she was working on temporal portals. There was an accident and I was sent back here. I can’t go home so I sought out Bruce. He took me in and let me fight alongside these legends.” Terry said to me.

“Is it wrong of me to want to ask what the lottery numbers are going to be?” Skye asked with a little smile.

“Yes,” I said with a smile, realizing that she was helping me see if their backstory had stuck.

“I didn’t want to influence this time with my knowledge. So I had Bruce wipe my mind using some technology that he had developed. And he wiped my mind of most future events. The only things that he left were memories of my family and friends. Along with the knowledge of all my fighting experience.” he said looking at us.

“I’m sorry,” Skye said.

“I’m not,” he said to us. It was nice to see that what my father had put in their minds was sticking.

“Now that we have that out of the way we need to figure out what the Joker was doing there,” Bruce said.

“Didn’t you stop him?” Laura asked.

“No. He got away. But Bruce is right, the Joker doesn’t do anything without a plan. It may be an insane plan, but a plan nonetheless. So what was he doing there?” I asked.

“What has he been doing lately?” Skye asked.

“Well, there was this patent office,” Stephanie said.

“Patent office?” I was shocked and remembered what my father had said about the first time that I would be working with the Batman family and what Coulson had wanted us to do while we were here.

“Okay, Batman family put your masks back on. Skye, get us in contact with the Director now.” I said.

“The Batcomputer is over here,” Barbara said, leading the way.

“What is it?” Bruce asked as he and everyone else put their masks back on.

“If I’m right then I know what he’s planning. Barbara put your mask back on.” I said seeing that she was the only one of them to not have her mask on.

“Do you trust him?” she asked me.

“Yes. But-” I said. “No buts. You trust him, I trust him,” she said giving me a kiss.

“Guys...where are you calling us from?” Coulson asked.

“We’re calling you from the Batcave,” Laura said.

“I see that’s where you went,” May said.

“Yes. They didn’t tell her that they were coming to see me.” Barbara said coming into view.

“You’re Barbara Gordon?” May asked as both of them looked at her.

“Miss Gordon, why are you dressed like that?” Coulson asked, still looking at what she was wearing.

“Okay, these guys are the Batman family. Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Batman Beyond (I’m going to call you that because it will draw back on the confusion) and Barbara is Batwoman. They have been fighting street-level crime for about a year now.” I said. The last part was obviously a lie but not to them. They each thought that they’ve been here all their lives and have been fighting crime for the past year.

“But that’s not the point of this call. Send us everything S.H.I.E.L.D. has on that fish thing you wanted us to investigate.” I said.

“S.H.I.E.L.D.?” Batman asked.

“Yes. I know what you’re thinking. But it’s not like that. Those of us who are loyal to what S.H.I.E.L.D. was supposed to stand for are trying to rebuild it.” Skye said.

“And we got reports about these fish, sending them to you now,” Coulson said.

We got the files and Skye opened them. And there were some reports and some pictures of some fish. “Oh my god, he’s doing the ‘Laughing Fish’,” I said, seeing the pictures.

“What’s the Laughing Fish? And who is ‘he’ ?” Coulson asked.

“Batman has a supervillain called the Joker. He’s clinically insane. And it will be proven by this plan. Why does this keep popping up?” I asked in utter bewilderment

“What’s the plan exactly?” Batman Beyond asked.

“The plan is...the Joker has made a chemical toxin that is transforming all the fish into Joker Fish. It must be why he attacked the Aquarium to see if his toxin could affect other aquatic life.” I said.

“And what’s the point of the plan?” Barbara asked.

“There is no point. He just wants to patent the Joker Fish and get royalties. Like I said the man’s crazy.” I said to everyone.

“Is the fish toxic?” Batman asked.

“There’s no telling. But I wouldn’t eat any of it even with my healing factor.” I said.

“We need to work out a cure for the already infected fish,” Coulson said.

“Do you have a work up on the laughing gas that the Joker traditionally uses?” I asked Batman.

“Yes,” he said.

“Okay. Director, send a Joker Fish over to Stark. Skye, you bring him the laughing gas work up. Hopefully, he can work up an antitoxin. Do you mind if Laura and I take the lead on tracking him down?” I asked the Batman family.

“By all means. What do you have in mind?” Batman asked.

* * *

“The Joker Fish has arrived and Tony is on it. But he says that it may take some time.” Skye said over the video call.

“Well, Tony is smart if anyone can figure it out he can,” I said.

“Yeah, I agree. But I hate waiting around and I feel useless.” Skye said.

“You’re not useless. Remember as soon as he comes up with a cure you have to take it to the docks to spread the antitoxin to the bay where the only documented cases were found.” I said to her.

“Okay, but what are you doing?” Skye asked.

“Well, Laura needs to get something to help us in tracking down the Joker. Bye baby.” I said hanging up the phone.

“So why are we here?” Barbara asked. She was back in her mask and all of us were at the insane asylum.

“Simply, we need to find a way to track the Joker,” X-23 said.

“And you think that I would rat out Mr. J? You’re dead wrong.” Harley Quinn said as the guards escorted her into the room.

“Oh, you’ve already helped us,” X-23 said, getting what we needed.

“You got it?” I asked.

“Yeah, it’s hard to miss,” she said as I indicated for everyone to follow us. Leaving her with the guards confused by what just happened.

“What was that about? Did you get the information from her mind?” Batgirl asked.

“No. He may not be anywhere that she thinks that he would be. Not with her in captivity anyway.” I said.

“Then what was that all about?” Batman Beyond asked.

“I needed to get something that he could not hide from,” X-23 said with a smile.

“And what is that?” Batman asked.

“His scent,” I said as X-23 and I took a whiff of the air around us.

[Starman]

More fine work, I'm still catching up a bit on your latest chapters.