After swinging from building to building, they got to Nightwing's motorcycle. Bubbles, who was used to flying everywhere was extremely excited to be on such a vehicle.
The bird-themed superhero passed her a helmet.
"Thanks Nightwing but I don't need a helmet I'm pretty durable." Bubbles said proudly.
"I'm sure you're strong but I'd feel better if you had a helmet on." He smiled. Dick did not want to test her durability.
Bubbles slipped the helmet on, her pigtails sticking out from the bottom. She attached Octi to her side securely.
She held on tight to Nightwing and together both heroes zoomed through the city towards the batcave.
By the time they got there Bubbles was feeling tired and sleepy. After all, she had been awake past her bedtime.
After what seemed like forever, they were finally at their arrived destination.
The first thing that caught Bubbles' eye were the hundreds, and probably thousands, of bats above them. This immediately peaked her interest as she was an animal enthusiast.
She hopped from the motorcycle taking off the helmet and then promptly flew towards the ceiling to see if she could make any friends.
The bats should be awake by now, considering that they were nocturnal creatures.
"Hello. I'm Bubbles! Who are you guys?" She squeaked.
"Y-you can understand us?" One of them spoke.
"Yup! I can understand all types of animals!"
"This is wonderful! You can express our many problems to the large bat below!"
"Problems? What type of problems?" She tilted her head.
"Our ears are very sensitive and they make so much noise below! It has been happening for generations! And they drive away our food." One bat complained.
"That's terrible! Don't worry little guys I'll make sure to bring this up to the giant bat! Whoever that is...."
"Bubbles! Could you please get down from the ceiling and away from those bats. They might have rabies....." Nightwing called out from below.
Reluctantly she flew down to where the superhero was.
"Mr.Nightwing? Do you know who the giant bat is?"She asked
Nightwing's face scrunched up in confusion "Who?"
"You know the huge bat that's always on the ground here."she said.
"Where did you hear that from?"
"The bats told me."
"...the bats?"
"Mhm I can talk to animals."
"...." A kid that can talk to animals? Sure why not. Totally not the weirdest ability he's heard of.
"-ello? Mr. Nightwing? Are you listening?" Bubbles waves her hand in front of his face, bringing him out of his internal thoughts.
"Oh right sorry kid." He shook his head. "Are you maybe talking about Batman? He's the closest thing to a giant bat around here."
"Yeah that's probably who the bats were talking about."
"He'll be here in a minute." They stayed in an awkward silence.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, the elevator doors opened and a man dressed in a cowl with bat ears stepped out.
He was silent and only acknowledged Nightwing before looking over at Bubbles and heading to the large computer.
"Is that the big bat?" Bubbles whispered to Nightwing.
"Yeah." He whispered back, holding in his laughter.
"He looks kind of human. Is he a talking bat? At home we have a dog that can talk and drive a car. I beat him up once but I said sorry." She said
"You what?! You beat up a talking dog?"
"I said I was sorry! Besides you never answered my question."
"Oh, Batman's human, he's just in costume."
"Superheroes here are weird. At home we don't have costumes and everyone knows who we are." Bubbles explained
Nightwing frowned "Well that's not very safe. Identities exist so that villains won't target us out of costume and so that we can live a normal life."
She never really thought about that. It seemed that in this dimension, superheroing (is that even a word?) was more dangerous.
He held out his hand for her to take "Let's go Bubbles I'll introduce you to Batman and then we can help you get home."
She wasn't sure how easy it would be for her to get home.
"What did you say your full name was?" Said the Dark knight.
"Bubbles Utonium." She stated
After typing her name in the computer they waited. But just as she expected there was no one named Bubbles Utonium in Gotham.
Batman tried New Jersey. No luck there
United States? Nope
The world? Nada
"Where did you say you were from again Bubbles?" Nightwing questioned .
She fiddled with her hands nervously but before she could say anything Batman spoke first
"About 3 hours ago the Justice League sensors picked up a huge power surge that originated from Gotham. Do you maybe have something to do with this?" He asked
Bubbles refused to look at Batman and Nightwing, and instead hugged Octi closer to her.
"You aren't in any trouble kid, we're just trying to get you home." Nightwing reassured.
"It's my fault I'm here..." she quietly said
He gestured her to continue
"I was with my sisters, Blossom and Buttercup, we just kicked Mojo Jojo's butt and then Blossom found something he made. She said it was a dimension traveler. Professor Utonium always said I'm too curious for my own good." Bubbles sighed now facing the two superheroes. "Blossom and Buttercup thing I'm not as tough as them, but that's not true! I had to prove them wrong so I...I turned on the dimension traveler and went through."
"Things just got a little more difficult." Batman grunted. "I'm guessing the way you traveled was science based and not magic correct?"
She nodded.
He sighed "I'll contact the League and perhaps Constantine. In the meantime I'll send you to stay with a friend of mine."
"Are you talking about Wayne Manor?" Nightwing said.
The Dark Knight nodded before disappearing to who knows where. Probably to brood or something.
"What's Wayne Manor?" The blonde girl asked.
"It's the home of Billionaire Bruce Wayne. He's a close friend of Batman."
Bubbles was skeptical she hasn't really had a pleasant experience with rich people. Nightwing must have read the look on her face.
"Some rich people are complete jerks, but Bruce is a nice guy. He has 4 sons 3 of them adopted. They're all on the older side but I'm sure you'll get along with them fine." Well except maybe Damian. Let's just hope he doesn't try to kill you or anything. He thought. "Point is, he'll take good care of you."
"Thank you Mr.Nightwing. You've been so nice to me since I've been here." She looked at him with her big blue eyes.
In return he ruffled her hair messing it up a little.
"Anytime kid. It's my job, we'll get you home in no time."
Home... that sounded nice
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A KID NAMED BUBBLES
FanfictionIt was supposed to be a normal day of saving Townsville and the world, but when Bubbles' curiosity gets the best of her, she goes through a portal created by Mojo Jojo. Somehow she ends up in a completely different dimension Luckily she's got a cre...
