Batman Beyond - Burning Passion of Love

Earth Mover

Batman Beyond 'Fan Fiction Story'

By Tayla Drago

Episode# 14 – Earth Mover

It's a quiet night out and Terry is finally getting some studying done with his friends Dana, Gwen, and Jackie.

"I'm that good at this."

"Way too good." said Dana to check on how Gwen was doing. "Still having a hard time, Gwen?"

"I was never good at these things. I pay attention in school, yes. But the rest I always get nervous." she said.

"I can always help you study if you want." Terry tells her.

For Dana to shove her boyfriend aside to say this.

"We're both helping her, remember? Studying together help out a lot." Dana is skeptical of Terry's ability to multiply without a calculator, but when she asks her friend Jackie to punch it into a calculator, Jackie wasn't listening. "Hey, Jackie, maybe you can help out Gwen while I get some help from my man...Ah, Jackie?"

When asked if there is anything wrong, Jackie explains that she feels like she's being stalked but she never sees anyone.

"I think...someone has been following me."

"Following you?" Dana was lost. "By whom?"

"Do you know of this person?" Gwen asks Jackie. "I hope it's nothing serious."

Jackie tells the three on what's been happening.

"I don't know...I get this bad feeling. Yesterday was in the backyard...today was on the soccer field. But when I look around, no one's there." she said.

And for Gwen's inner self to question her about who it might be...

"(Let me a guess, is it a ghost of some kind?)"

Outside, an unidentified man approaches the house. However, no one notices at the moment, as they are more concerned with the fact that Jackie calls her guardian 'Bill' instead of 'dad'. When Bill leaves, Gwen felt something or someone was here.

"I feel it!" she points out. "Outside of this house right now! (It could be Jackie's stalker!)"

Terry notices the stalker outside and goes after him.

"Someone is. You three stay put!"

The stalker quickly runs and somehow manages to slip under a fence. Still, Terry is able to reach him, but is surprised to find that whatever it is he caught isn't human. After tackling the creature, it breaks up on the road. Gen catches up to him and felt the stalker disappeared out of nowhere. Or rather, it was part of dirt of some type o living creature.

"Terry! Did you get it?" she asked.

"No, it crumble into dirt." Terry shows Gwen. "It was alive, and now it's not."

With Gwen touching it, she felt something to be part of something that was alive and in control of the grounds itself.

"We better tell Uncle Bruce about this."

Terry and Gwen take a sample of the creature to Bruce who says that the sample is nothing more than 'soil, plain old dirt'.

"Interesting." said Bruce

"More like something out of a sci-fi movie to me, Uncle Bruce. Well, that and a horror film...Not much into it." Gwen said.

For there to say that, Terry was telling Bruce it was something else for them to see up close.

"Interesting? That's all you can say?" he questions Bruce. "It was unbelievable!"

"A word I rarely use. And the soil you both have given me was plain old dirty."