Anubis' "How would you do it?" Thread.

[deemar325]

Movie "Avengers Assemble" Pt. III

"Absolutely astonishing," Dr. McCoy said as he observed the Abomination suspended in an repulsor field that held him immobile. "You said your Body guard captured him?" asked hank.

"Not quite," Tony replied as several medical probes skittered across the Abomination's body. "He transported the thing here. Three other meta-humans rendered him unconsious."

"Actually, that was all Captain Marrow here," Spider-Man said as he walked in. he looked up at the creature. "You know, I've seen some transformations in my time but this... it's scary."

"I'm the Ghost Rider," corrected the dark rider. with a roll of his neck the flame extinguished and was replaced with flesh and hair. "But you can call me Johnny."

"HOLY CRAP!" yelped the Fantastic Four member. "You're Johnny Blaze! The world's best stunt master ever."

"I had a little help from on low," Johnny confessed.

"Don't you mean, 'on high'?" asked Tony.

"No," Blaze replied flatly. "What in the hell is that thing?" he asked, his Texas-drawl showing through.

"Exactly what we were attempting to figure out," Hank McCoy responded.

"Dr. McCoy," Spider-Man blurted out. "You're the secretary of mutant affairs."

"Not any more, son," Hank said, shaking hands with the only person in the room who was masked. "I have been meaning to ask you though... are you a mutant? People have been saying it, but I was wanting confirmation from the horse's mouth, so to speak."

"Nope," Shrugged the Web-Head. "Spider-bite."

"Right," chuckled the Human Torch. "And I'm just an android with flamable solar cells."

"In any case," Tony said, trying to jerk them back on topic. "The fact of the matter is that this... thing, this Abomination, was created through an unknown process."

"Genetic manipulation, then exposure to gamma irradiation," came a voice from the door. Dr. Bruce Banner strode confidently across, picking up a chart. he was still wearing the rough and mildly dirty clothes he had been when Ms. Potts had picked him up, but now he was at least clean shaven.

"Dr. Krenzler!" Tony greeted his guest. "I see Pepper was successful in convincing you to join me."

"It's... It's Banner," Bruce corrected. "And I did choose to come but... who's 'Pepper'?"

Virginia leaned on the door frame and smiled, "Me. Mr. Stark likes to give everyone nicknames."

"That explains Mr. Happy," Hank commented.

"Can't wait," Johnny Storm said to Spidey, "To meet Doc, Dopey, and Sneezy."

"In any case," Blaze said, jerking them back on track. "You said genetic manipulation, then exposure to... what?"

"Gamma Radiation," Bruce answered. "Specialized form. It was once considered for use in bombs, but it was too unstable. at times it would destroy everything, at other times it wouldn't even kill a person. However, I found that it was a fine energy source for nano-machines, however the nano-machines had some problems. however, when introduced into a being with proper genetic manipulation, it has the capability to mutate that being. The mutations can vary. It granted my father the ability to absorb anything and take on it's charactaristics. Me, it grants nigh unlimited strenth."

"It made this thing pretty damn strong," Spidey said, rubbing the back of his neck.

"I would like to investigate the company that produced it," Bruce replied. "Pepper told me about a company called Sterns. Ultd."

"I've been having my attorney try to process press things through," Tony commented. he turned around and called to Pepper. "Pepper, sweetie, could you have Jen come in."

"Yes, sir," she replied with a smile, and lingering look at Bruce, before leaving.

"Jen's also been working on getting your fugitive status revoked," Tony added. "How are those sedatives working?"

"So so," Bruce replied as he studied the graphs.

Johnny Storm was standing off in a corner, letting those brains talk. Peter was standing close to Hank, Tony, and Bruce hoping to learn something from these brilliant men. Johnny Blaze was trying to figure out how dark magic could be involved in this Abomination's creation.

"No luck yet," came a quiet, meek, feminine voice from the doorway. "On either fr... BRUCE!" the shout from the woman's voice sounded odd, even to those who'd never met the woman.

"Jenny?!" yelped Bruce as he was hugged tightly.

"Wait, you know Bruce Banner," Tony asked Jen confusedly.

"Banner?" Jennifer asked. "This is my Cousin, Bruce Krenzler."

Tony hung his head and chuckled at his not spotting that connection.

"Our mother's are sisters," Bruce added. "I knew you were going to law school, but I didn't know you were doing corporate law."

"I'm not," Jen replied. "Mr. Stark is giving me experience in several different fields, tort, criminal, international, you name it."

"Well that was unexpected," Johnny Storm commented as he appraised the rather plain looking woman.

Love,Love,Love your dialogue Z! If you have one major strength, that is it.

 

[Zoken]

Warm and fuzzy is back! Warm and Fuzzy is BLACK! *hugs Deemar*
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I don't know why I said that.

 

[The Question]

Now, we all remember this brilliant plan of mine.

Well, I did have this idea:


Inspector Gadget is the hero and mascot of the Metro City police department. While quite clumbsy and often rather clueless, his sheer dumb luck, many gadgets, and assistance from his slightly more adept allies usually results in his cases ending succesfully, and his "never say die" aditude has made him a hero in the eyes of the public. He was origionally John Brown, a security officer who worked at a scientific reaserch facility. When the facility was robbed and set ablaze by members of the international crime syndicate known as MAD, John risked his life to save that of Doctor Slickstein. Injured in the fire, John is "rebuilt" by Slickstein, who then goes into hiding shortly afterwards. John becomes a member of the MCPD, and is soon known as Inspector Gadget. Gadget quickly gets caught up with the FBI's atempts to bring down MAD, which is based in Metro City and has ties to criminal activity all over the world. The feds have been trying to take down Mad for over a decade, and have a casefile on them as thick as an encyclopedia set. Still, they don't know what MAD stands for. Through all of this, he is aided by his super genius neice Penny and their freakishly human like dog Brain. He also has an uneasy relationship with Snake, a vaguley psychotic reporter for the Metro City Daily Press who is regularly trying to "take on the system" and dig up some dirt on Gadget (Transmetropolitan reference).

Soon, Gadget is drafted by the military into there "Posthuman Project," a government sponsired special ops. team of superhumans (reference to both The Ultimates and Supreme Power). Some members featured are Commander Apollo, a jingoistic patriot with anger issues and a severe lack of faith in humanity who was given super powers by being fused with alien DNA, and Nightblade, a nigh indestructible, somewhat racist special ops agent who often contemplates murdering his teammates so he can make a move on their girlfriends. All of the characters on the team are "Ultimate" parodies of the various Amalgam Comics characters, often being amalagamations of Ultimate and Supreme Power characters.

Sufice to say, Gadget's tenure on the team is a short one, and he soon goes back to fighting crime and trying to bring down MAD in Metro City. However, everything changed when Gadget is captured by MAD. There, he is cut open and thoroughly inspected by none other than Doctor Slickstein. Slickstein is in fact a member of MAD who faked the robbery of his lab and atempt on his life to create an excuse for dissapeating from the public eye. He not only informs Gadget that he's never seen him before, but that his body has no organics in it. He's made up entirely of random electronic parts that seems to be manipulated by some kind of strange elctromagnetic feild into serving whatever Gadget's needs are (thus explaining his seemingly limitless supply of gadgets). Gadget escapes, but is deeply troubled by the news. What makes matters worse is that, when he gets home, Brain starts talking.

Brain reveals to Gadget that he used to be Brian Callahan, a pessemistic and sardonic mystic, private detective, paranormal investigator, and con man (a parody of John Constantine, to be percise) who was cursed into becoming a dog by a god he angered. However, after some mystical workings of hos own, he was able to regain some humanoid characteristics, such as the ability to speak and walk upright. Still, he usually pretends to be an ordinary dog, stating that "If you're just a really smart dog, you can still get things to go your way with a litte work. If you're a talking dog, people tend to want to cut you open to see what makes you tick." With Brain's help, Gadget finds out that he is in fact biologically dead, and upon death possessed the various electronic devices in Slickstein's lab and became a technology elemental (Swamp Thing Reference). All of his gadgets, including the Gadgetmobile (which is in actuality a normal car) are a result of his ability to manipulate an possess electronic devices. He subconsciously fabricated the memories of Slickstein creating his gadgets to cope with the whole ordeal. After learning all of this, Gadget simply says "...cool" and asks penny if she wants to order out for Chinese food for dinner.

Shortly thereafter, Gadget gets a partner in Adam DaFoe, a detective with severe memory problems an an expertese in unusual/suprnatural crimes. It is soon revealed that Adam is one of the oldest humans on Earth and just has a really really ****ty memory, so he keeps forgeting who he is every few decades (Powers reference).

Meanwhile, within MAD, Claw is challenged as leader by Phinease McGuffin, the smooth talking, manipulative head of one of MAD's corperate fronts who thinks he can run the show better. He ends up usurping Claw and leaving him for dead in the middle of a dessert.

Gadget has several cases with Adam, Penny, and Brain, dealing with all manner of unusual crime. One notable one is when they take on The Big G, a completely insane and nigh omnipotent entity who wishes to rewrite reality in a bizar, surrealistic fashion (reference to both Red Jack from Grant Morrison's Doom patrol and, more importantly, Grant Morrison himself).

Eventually, Claw is revealed to be (barely) surviving in the dessert, living as a hermit. All of this changes when Claw runs across the Nex, a child of two gods from rival pantheons with seemingly limtless power. Claw fuses with Nex and gains control of all of it's power (reference to Jesse Custer and Genesis). With his newfound power, Claw deems MAD to be beneath him, effortlessly destroys the entire organization within a matter of minutes, and moves on to bigger and better oportunities. He finds them in "The Big Guys," a group of super-gods, each one a direct personification of aspects of life and the human condition (reference to The Endless). Claw does battle with them, atempting to gain control of their dominions and remake the universe in his image. The only wrench in the system is Gadget. Big showdown between the two arch rivals to cap everything off. Fun stuff.

During the final battle, Claw knocks gadget into the wall of reality, causing a "Retcon Bump." The next thing we know, it's "One Year Later." This is followed by a twelve issue story arc entitled "Twelve," told in real time with each issue covering roughly a month. Twelve has various seemingly unconnected and unimportant sub plots revolving around all of the supporting characters, who all have been unnecesairily changed by the retcon bumb, some being much more like they were in the cartoon, forgeting aspects of their lives added or built upon by the comic for no reason. Gadget is missing for all of Twelve, and one of the sub plots is Penny searcjing for him.


Of course, this is just a rough outline. There would be filler stuff and storylines that aren't parodies, but I haven't thought of them yet.



Also, one note: While Gadget and most of the stories would be played for comedy, Claw would, at least as a character, be played completely straight. He'd be a ruthless criminal mastermind and a truely badass villain. There'd still be comedic bits with him in them, but he'd be the straight man.

I'll give you all a moment to bask in my glory.



Now, I'd like to take a quick moment to elaborate on my line up for the Posthuman Project:

Commander Apollo and Nightblade you know about. After that, we have:

Sea-Queen: A freak genetic mutation with vast super strength and amphibious atributes, she suffers from very violent mood swings as a result from her mutation, going from reserved and shy to violent and borderline sociopathic at the drop of a hat.

Maelstrom: A crazy old lady who lived in a cave in Morroco, she was one day reborn as a nubile young teenager, and became a thief and adventurer while also being really really ****ing crazy. She possesses vast superhuman strength, flight, and the power to control the weather. She and Comander Apollo have a very creepy relationship.

Thronion: A mental patient who believes he's an alien god. But hey, he has super powers, so whatever.

Upscale: A biologist with a former acting career (go figure) who was born with the power togrow to massive sizes. She's cheating on her husband, Downsize, with Commander Apollo, who is in turn cheating on Maelstrom with her.

Downsize: Upscale's manic depressive, bi-polar husband with low self esteem. Gained his powers from studying his wife's. Was a thief in his youth. And again after he graduated from college. And again shortly after he was married. In fact, he was in jail when he was recruited for the team. He's something of a loser.

Archer: Only non powered member of the team. Funny thing is, he carries a sword.

Klein: A super genius who is secrety a spy. Is constanty trying to duplicate Commander Apollo's powers.

Houdini: A quantum physicist/thelemic mystic (again, go figure) who was born with the ability to manipulate reality like silly putty.

The Steel Rainbow: A former special ops agent of the military who started up a buisness after he left the service. Was called on to test a confiscated alien weapon and find a way to use it. He tried to use it to power a suit of powered armor, but the thing fried, putting him in a coma for five years. When he woke up, he found that not only did the armor give him enhanced strength as it was supposed to, but he could also use it to manipulate energy for a variety of effects. He also found out that if he took of the armor, he'd die.

Hot Feet: A young man born with super speed. Everyone thought that he was some kind of mutant. Turns out he's possessed by a demon. Sucks for him, I guess.

 

[deemar325]

Now, we all remember this brilliant plan of mine.



I'll give you all a moment to bask in my glory.



Now, I'd like to take a quick moment to elaborate on my line up for the Posthuman Project:

Commander Apollo and Nightblade you know about. After that, we have:

Sea-Queen: A freak genetic mutation with vast super strength and amphibious atributes, she suffers from very violent mood swings as a result from her mutation, going from reserved and shy to violent and borderline sociopathic at the drop of a hat.

Maelstrom: A crazy old lady who lived in a cave in Morroco, she was one day reborn as a nubile young teenager, and became a thief and adventurer while also being really really ****ing crazy. She possesses vast superhuman strength, flight, and the power to control the weather. She and Comander Apollo have a very creepy relationship.

Thronion: A mental patient who believes he's an alien god. But hey, he has super powers, so whatever.

Dude this is some crazy Eric Larsen sh-t. ^

Upscale: A biologist with a former acting career (go figure) who was born with the power togrow to massive sizes. She's cheating on her husband, Downsize, with Commander Apollo, who is in turn cheating on Maelstrom with her.

Downsize: Upscale's manic depressive, bi-polar husband with low self esteem. Gained his powers from studying his wife's. Was a thief in his youth. And again after he graduated from college. And again shortly after he was married. In fact, he was in jail when he was recruited for the team. He's something of a loser.

LOL!!!!!!!^

Archer: Only non powered member of the team. Funny thing is, he carries a sword.

Lol!

Klein: A super genius who is secrety a spy. Is constanty trying to duplicate Commander Apollo's powers.

Houdini: A quantum physicist/thelemic mystic (again, go figure) who was born with the ability to manipulate reality like silly putty.

The Steel Rainbow: A former special ops agent of the military who started up a buisness after he left the service. Was called on to test a confiscated alien weapon and find a way to use it. He tried to use it to power a suit of powered armor, but the thing fried, putting him in a coma for five years. When he woke up, he found that not only did the armor give him enhanced strength as it was supposed to, but he could also use it to manipulate energy for a variety of effects. He also found out that if he took of the armor, he'd die.

Hot Feet: A young man born with super speed. Everyone thought that he was some kind of mutant. Turns out he's possessed by a demon. Sucks for him, I guess.

Q what are you smoking? I enjoyed it regardless. Thorion!! heh

 

[The Question]

Q what are you smoking? I enjoyed it regardless. Thorion!! heh

Thanks. Like I said, it's a parody of Supreme Power and The Ultimates. So expect them to be massive ***** and Inspector Gadget being the only one who actually wants to help people.

 

[Anubis]

Funny stuff Q.

 

[rigel7soldiers]

Man... I wanted to do something, but I feel like my ideas are unoriginal and underdeveloped relative to the Question's...

 

[The Question]

Man... I wanted to do something, but I feel like my ideas are unoriginal and underdeveloped relative to the Question's...

Of course you do. But I am a God amung men, so don't feel too bad.

 

[Zoken]

Ahem...

 

[The Question]

Ahem...

Yes, yes. You shouldn't feel too bad either.

 

[Zoken]

I don't. With the Quantity of stuff i put out that I'm told is Quality... if you're a God, then I'm The One Above All

 

[The Question]

I don't. With the Quantity of stuff i put out that I'm told is Quality... if you're a God, then I'm The One Above All

Hardly.

You see, Clarice, unlike you, I don't just type up any little idea that pops into the ol' noggin'. I actually, you know, wait until I have a fully formed and thought out idea that I've put time and effort into. I think you might have heard of the technique. It's called WRITING!

 

[Zoken]

Patient suffers from delusions of adequacy.

 

[The Question]

Patient suffers from delusions of adequacy.

Oh yeah, real clever, pulling out good ol' Doc House! We could have done a Scrubs themed bit, but no, you had to go with that whiny, fo American, two dimensional carbvon copy, didn'tya? Truthfully, La Toya, I'm not even mad. I'm kind of dissapointed.

 

[Zoken]

Oh yeah, real clever, pulling out good ol' Doc House! We could have done a Scrubs themed bit, but no, you had to go with that whiny, fo American, two dimensional carbvon copy, didn'tya? Truthfully, La Toya, I'm not even mad. I'm kind of dissapointed.

What has a stethescope and doesn't give a crap?

ME, haven't we met?

 

[The Question]

What has a stethescope and doesn't give a crap?

ME, haven't we met?

I hate you, Zoke. I just want you to know that I hate you. Very, very much.

 

[Zoken]

I hate you, Zoke. I just want you to know that I hate you. Very, very much.

I knew question was being crazy, but still... I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if he never ready my stuff again.



I had to do something fast, had to say something that would solve everything...

"BANANA HAMMOCK!"

damn...

 

[Anubis]

Lol

 

[The Question]

I knew question was being crazy, but still... I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if he never ready my stuff again.



I had to do something fast, had to say something that would solve everything...

"BANANA HAMMOCK!"

damn...

*takes man card*

You held on to it for as long as you could.

 

[deemar325]

OK every post on this thread so far is cracking me the hell up! lol

 

[Zoken]

awww... you think you've got one, that's... pathetic. Okay, I'm done caring about you today.

 

[The Question]

Forbush Man: Real Life

The story begins with an exhuberant Irving Forbush waking up, donning his "warrior's garb," greeting his less than friendly Aunt and Uncle, and leaving the house to finally acheive his dreams of Super Hero-dom: He was going to register with S.H.E.I.L.D. and the Commision on Superhuman Activities. When he's an official, registered super hero, then he can regain the hype he built up in his first appearance with hisn(very accidental) defeat of the Juggernaut, this time with the government's backing! Unfortunately, burocracy is a *****, and when he arrives at the registration office, he is told that, as he has no superhuman abilities and is in the possesion of no especially dangerous weaponry, then he doesn't technically have to register with either organization. However, the Registration Act does state that if he wants to be a freelance crime fighter and not go to jail, he has to aquire both a P.I. and Bounty Hunter's license from the State.

Irving returns home, not sadened as one would expect, but confident that he can pass both tests, get the licences, and get to adventuring lickety split. His aunt and uncle are, as usual, less than encouraging.

While studying for his tests, he continues working as a Janitor at the Marvel offices. And, as usual, all the editors make fun of him behind his back. But he doesn't care. He's Forbush Man, one of the few and proud to (accidentally) defeat the Juggernaut in unarmed combat.

While walking home from work, he stops by the grocery store. There, he meets Erica, a nice girl, only a few years younger than him. The two get to talking, and find that they get along fairly well.

At home, he stays up late into the night studying. His Aunt comes in and ends up berating him for wasting his life on a stupid dream. He does, however, ignore her.

The next day, Erica is at the Marvel Offices, looking to see Irving (he had told her he worked there, but neglected to mention that he was the janitor). Embarrased, he tries to cover up for it, but that fails fairly quickly. She, however, doesn't mind, and asks if he wants to have lunch with her. He does so. They talk, and she ends up asking him out in not so many words. Being Irving, he says he'd love to, but he has to study. She asks him for what, and he explains the whole thing about him going for a Private Detective license.

Irving goes home, and ends up telling his aunt about Erica. She then, finally, goes off on him in full. An excerp (in script form):

Aunt: This is what I've been talking about. You meet a girl, finally, and you pass up a date for your stupid dream!

Irving: It is not stupid!

Aunt: It is stupid!

Irving: I defeated the Juggernaut.

Aunt: He tripped! You'd be dead right now if it weren't for you being so damn lucky. Irving, you're smart. You could do so much better for yourself. You cluld go back to college, get a decent job. And you could have a girlfriend from the sound of things. But you're ruining your life persuing something that you'll never get.

Irving remains silent for a few moments. The silence is broken when he says...

Irving: Do you know what happened to me this morning, when I woke up?

Aunt: No.

Irving: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And that's the problem. That's why I'm persuing something I'll never get. And I will get it.

Irving goes back upstairs to study.

The next day, he takes a sick day to go take his test. After doing what he thought was a satisfactory job, he returned home, called Erica, and asked her out on a date. As he was getting ready, though, he received a phone call.

An hour later, in Central Park, he met up with Erica. They had their date, walking through the park, eating at a crappy hot dog stand, and so on. finally, she can tell that he's depressed, and asks what's wrong. He tells her: He failed the test. She tries to comfort him, unsuccesfully, and finally drags him to one of the fountains in the park. There, she climbes in, and they both get sprayed by the little water jet thinkies. He comes in after her, and she tells him that, maybe, he should stop to enjoy his life instead of trying to get a new one. He's unsure, but she gives him something to think about: A kiss.

While he walks home, feeling very confused and depressed, he runs across a mugging. Rushing to intervene, he gets a drop on the mugger, hitting him over the head with a trash can lid. The mugger fires of a shoot blindly, and then turns and points his gun at Irving. Irving hesitates, obviously scared, but overcomes it in time time to tackle the man and pin him to the ground. He calls the police, keeping the man restrained until they arrive.

He then goes home, and imediately opens up the safe in his room, taking out all the money he'd been saving up. Excerp:

Irving's Aunt enters his room.

Aunt: What are you doing.

Irving: This is all the money I've been saving up from work.

Aunt: What are you going to spend it on?

Irving: I'm going back to college.

Aunt: Oh..oh Irving, that's wonderful.

Irving begins to count and sort the money.

Aunt: So, do you have any courses in mind.

Irving: Yep. Criminal Justice, and criminology.

Aunt: Criminal...

Irving: And when I'm done, I'm going to take that test again. And I'm going to pass it.

Aunt: Oh no...

Irving gets up on his bed and strikes a pose.

Irving: Or my name isn't Forbush Man!

 

[Zoken]

Forbush-Man makes a come back with a new addition to his arsenal: a trashcan lid sheild!

 

[The Question]

Forbush-Man makes a come back with a new addition to his arsenal: a trashcan lid sheild!

Naturally. The idea is, after this lil' story, he actually does get licensed and becomes Two Gun Kid's partner.


Also, in keeping with the recent Scrubs fest, the title was inspired by this song.

 

[sandwraith]

Here comes another Batman story:

Batman: The Murder Dolls

A troubling new fad is sweeping through Gotham's youth: the Murder Dolls, custom-made dolls based off people you hate. Dolls you can maim, burn and piss on all for the cheap price of 9.95. The fad while disturbing seems harmless until an unexplainable bodycount starts to rise, the victims seem to just drop dead without a single physical wound. Their only link: a Murder Doll made in their likeliness. After a friend of Tim dies, Batman and Robin decides to get to the bottom of it.

Meanwhile in Switzerland, Nightwing sneaks into an exclusive Swiss Bank which caters to the most select of clients, including Nyssa Raatko, where he intends to hack the bank's Stand-alone system to get the dirt on Raatko's finances and operations. Unbeknowst to Dick, Josiah Power is overseeing a delicate transaction on Nyssa's behalf in the same Bank where the two face off, Power intending to maintain his primary client's financial privacy at all cost.

Back in Gotham, Batman tries to link the Murder Doll phenomena to the Mad Hatter, all the clues bearing Jervis Tetch's distinctive hallmark. However upon closer inspection the Dolls don't seem contain any tech that the Scrapyard's instruments can detect. Swallowing his pride, Bruce heads out for Wayne Manor as his alter ego Grey Hendricks to access the more precise equipment in the Batcave. After an awkward scene which sees Bruce grumbling "permission" from Nyssa over the use of Batcave, the Demon's Daughter savors the moment and "grants" her displaced enemy his wish. In the bowels of his old coven, Bruce runs the mysterious doll through some tests while Alfred serves him some tea. Bruce asks Alfred how are things in the Mansion with Nyssa around. Alfred expresses his disdain at the number of armed guards present on the grounds but he can't fault Nyssa with anything more than that. Seeing that Alfred is somewhat torn on the matter, Bruce decides not to push the issue. The tests reveal curious results: the dolls themselves revealed nothing but traces of certain person's DNA are found: Humphry Dumpler AKA Humpty Dumpty, a former inmate of Arkham known for his pechant for tearing things up then attempting to sew them back together. Bruce puts Robin on the search for Dumpler while he takes a street level approach to the investigation.

Like in most comic books, when two Superheroes with opposing beliefs encounter each other, they end up fighting. Should I strive to be different? Nah. Anyways, Power who catches Nightwing in the act of extracting key files from the Bank's mainframe demands him to stop to which Nightwing pretty much tells him to @#$% off in a typical Bat-wit manner. Of course, a cultured man with strong convictions to his practice and a big bad gay brother to boot, Power decides to stop Nightwing when the Boy Wonder tries to make a getaway. The fight is pretty one-sided with Josiah bulldozing through the bank trying to catch the nimble Nightwing whom he connects with a number of times. Power, who even Superman considers a powerful meta, breaks a number of Nightwing's ribs but Dick manages a getaway with a number of files in his possesion. Power stands in the midst of several angry Swiss bankers, contacting Nyssa with his Cell to inform her of the current developments.

With the aid of Oracle who tracks the supplier of the Dolls via the Web, Robin finds himself in an abandoned warehouse not too far out of the city. The Boy Wonder finds Humpty in a room, surrounded by pictures of women, men, children and thread. Lots and lots of thread, buttons and other sewing items, Humpty so busy making dolls he doesn't notice Robin's presence. Rather than resort to force, Robin decides to aks Humpty who he's making the dolls for, the disturbed craftsman simply replies: "The short Doctor". It doesn't take long for Robin to realise who Humpty means when he suddenly looks down at his stomach to see a creature burst out from his body. Shocked Robin falls to the ground shivering as the shadow of Dr.Psycho falls over him.

At Gotham Central, Batman meets with Gordon who hands him a number of autopsy files on the Murder Doll victims. The results are the same, no visible wounds but one report made by a more attentive doctor noted that two of the victims had a distinct number of ruptured veins in their cerebral lobes (hey I'm no brain surgeon). Death by Cerebral hemorrhaging, consistant with Strokes. But prior medical reports state that neither patient suffered from the the notable symptoms of Stroke. Gordon points out the possibility of Psionic attacks and Batman agrees. Bats receives a call from Oracle telling her about Robin's sudden silence and his last location. Worried, Batman sets off, mentally running through the names of every Psionic/Telepathic villain he's encountered hoping its truly not who he thinks it is.

Using his proto-Batmobile (the real one's in the Cave) Batman reaches the Warehouse where he finds Robin sobbing, screaming sorries and apoloogies over Stephanie, his father, Conner and Bart. A good hard slap from Batman forces Tim to his senses after which Tim confirms Batman's suspicions: Dr.Psycho is loose on Gotham. Tim recalls a conversation between Psycho and Humpty while he was struggling in his vertigo where Psycho mentions a "harvest". Batman, calls up his files on Psycho and realises what the liliputan nutjob is up to.

Killing and maiming their way through a number of hospital staff, Psycho and Humpty are opening up the morgue, looking for the bodies of the Murder Doll victims which Psycho allows Humpty to chop up. Batman and Robin arrive on the scene, where Batman sums up Psycho's motives: Ectoplasm. While Circe had restored and improved on his power, Psycho's old drawback had returned in which he needed Ectoplasm formed by the grey matter of his victims murdered by his Telepathic power to further fuel himself. The Murder Doll ploy had been a case of selective targetting in which the "customer" would send pictures and names of these hated persons which Psycho would then monitor and choose from depending on their weakness to his powers. Humpty was simply his deranged craftsman, promised bodies to cut up and sew back together once their endeavour had bore fruit. Psycho being...well...Psycho applauds Batman's analysis and proceeds to attack Batman on a mental level while ordering the axe-wielding Humpty to deal with Robin. The Psionic dampers Bruce wore under his cowl manages to barely shield his mind from Psycho's vicious onslaught but as he attempts to fight Psycho's mental assault, the crazy dwarf jumps him with a Scalpel, ready to "gut Wonder Woman's leather boy". Robin still weakened by Psycho's initial attack fends off Humpty but alas trips on a severed arm at Humpty's mercy when the lumbering axe-wielder gets Psycho hurled right at him while Batman proceeds to toss his cookies. Robin tosses a couple of smoke bombs to cover them while Bats and Robin give themselves some room. Clearing his mind, Batman formulates a plan to stop Psycho and tells Robin to clear the rest of the hospital. Robin reluctantly complies as Batman starts hitting the fire alarm and starts up the basement area's sprinkler systems. Psycho, ticked off at being tossed ala Mr.T kicks his way out of the pile of severed body parts and swears to make Batman choke on his own fingers before killing him with a dulled spoon. Noting the Sprinklers turned on already reads Batman's intentions, Bruce's Psionic dampeners barely able to shield his most important secrets. "Really Batman. Electrocution? I'd love to see you pull that off." Batman faces down Humpty and Psycho in a dark, corpse-ridden corridor, the sprinklers soaking the trio as Batman prepares his attack. Charging towards Psycho, Batman throws bolas towards Humpty, entangling him immediately when Psycho hits him again with and agonizing telepathic attack drawing blood from his nostrils. The attack forces Batman to his knees where he meets Psycho eye to eye (sort of), Psycho pulling out the Electrical Stun weapon from Batman's utility belt, the information of which pouch to take it from open to him like a book. He brandishes the weapon with a smile "I like the women in this position more," Psycho admits as he charges the weapon before Batman "But I'm flexible" he says as he proceeds to stab Batman with the weapon. Fighting the pain, Batman grabs onto to Psycho and forces him to the wet floor, hoping his suits insulation would hold, after a long agonising minute both Batman and Psycho scream in pain, Batman blacking out...

Bruce awakens in the Scrapyard, his tattered costume on his work desk, his body and mind racked with pain. Robin informs him that Psycho's now in GCPD custody and is being remanded to the JLA. Humpty's back in Arkham since his role in the whole matter was pretty much as Psycho's unwitting pawn. Noing his mentor's physical state, Robin advises Bruce to take it easy a little when the Scrapyard's computer informs them of a crime in progress: Firefly is robbing a Moxxon Chemical Lab. "Scratch that" Robin mumbles as he watches Batman don his cowl once more. "Let's get to work."