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 Post subject: For Matt Linton: Batman v. Spider-Man
PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:39 am 
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Your first pic in your thread reminded me of this story I wrote in another forum a long time ago.

Spider-Man ©2006 Marvel Comics Group, Batman & the Atom ©2006 DC Comics, inc. All rights are reserved. Story ©2006 James C. Taylor. This means they can't use this without paying me and I can't make any money off of this without paying them. At any rate...


The fog and the lack of moon over Gotham tonight was eerie enough, but then that weird flash of green lightning in the sky made the hairs on Batman's neck stand on end as he swung from one rooftop to another. And then as he looked over the horizon he saw a skyline he was unfamiliar with including a building emblazoned with the words "The Daily Bugle"

Peter chuckled about how much cash he had wheedled Jameson out of for his exclusive Spider-Man pics. If he kept this up, he would eventually be rich. Of course, if he didn't hurry up, he'd get caught in the rainstorm. The sky looked really weird, too. Almost green. And then, in the flash of lightning he saw...a bat?

Batman launched a batline to a nerby building on a path to swing by the unfamiliar offices. The skyline reminded him of his trips to New York City, but he didn't remember anything like this building there.

Spider sense is tingling, Peter thought. He saw the bat move, swoop, and he knew whatever it was, it needed stopping, and fast. Spider-Man fired a gob of webbing at the hurtling bat creature.

In mid arc, Batman saw him, a figure in a red and blue bodystocking. And then he was ensnared in a mass of sticky fibers, almost like a sack. Batman took out a batarang and cut the bottom of the fibers and fell through, using the springy cords to bungee down to the street below.

Spider-Man saw the Bat, or more properly the Bat-Man tear loose from his webbing and drop to the street below. Spidey swung down to the street below to look for the remains of this mysterious creature.

Batman needed a plan, and fast. He moved to the shadows, figuring it would be harder for the man to spray him with the web-like cords if he couldn't see him. He dropped a couple gas pellets from the utility belt into his palm and inserted the Bat-breather into his mouth.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Spider-Man taunted, working his way into the alley, the only place the Bat-Man could have gone to. The creature was not his imagination, that he was sure of. But it seemed to have melted into the shadows. "Uh-oh. Spider sense. Better move." Spider-Man leaped to one side, missing being hit by the capsule. It broke on the ground and spewed smoke. Spidey saw movement and dodged another capsule. Some kind of gas. He was glad he kept the charcoal filter sewn into his mask. And then he felt a sting between his shoulder blades.

Batman put the small tube and the tranquilizer darts back into his utility belt. The Spidery Man turned around to him, but by then the powerful agent had rendered the stranger disoriented. The next spray of sticky netting missed. And then the red and blue mystery man was down. Batman pressed his Justice League signal and planned his next move.

Peter's head felt like it did when he had one too many with Harry Osborn or when he had been hit one too many times by Flash Thompson back in the old days. His hand instinctively went to his mask, which was still in place. He sat up and looked around. It was a man dressed like a bat, in a cave full odd items, like a giant playing card, a huge penny, and of some of the most advanced scientific equipment Peter had seen (and as an alumnus of Empire State University, he had seen quite a bit.) "Where am I?"

"Up until a few hours ago, I could have told you with some certainty. Now I am not so sure." Batman walked over to his guest and sat down. "While you were out, I took the liberty of running your finger prints. You aren't on file with Gotham's police. I would have checked the FBI and Interpol, but right now I can't."

"FBI? Interpol? What are you, some kind of super cop?"

"You could say that. You're pretty super yourself. Most guys your size would have been out immediately from the tranquilizer I used."

"So why am I not locked up somewhere?"

"As I said, I ran your prints. You don't show up as a criminal, at least in Gotham, and I have met enough people dressed like you to not instantly assume you're all trying to kill me."

"And you have something pointed right at me which you can trigger on a moment's notice."

"Well, there's that, too." Batman got up and went to a large television screen. "I am more concerned about this." Batman turned on the television, showing a picture of the New York skyline with the Daily Bugle building prominently in view. "That's not my town. It's not even the New York City that I know. So where is that?"

"Well, pointy, I don't know how to tell you, but that's the only New York City I have ever known, the home of the Yankees, the great white way, and the Fantastic Four, not to mention your friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man.

"Okay." Batman typed in some commands on the computer keyboard. "Then what is this?"

Peter couldn't quite figure out what he was looking at. It looked like New York. It was New York. But there was no Baxter Building. No Daily Bugle. No Avengers mansion. "Trick photography."

"Maybe. Something weird happened right before we met and either my universe has moved into yours, yours into mine, or we've both kind of collapsed together. I can't get in communication with anyplace outside of my town, and only in the part up to where your town begins. I put out a call for members of the Justice League and got only one answer."

"What's the Justice League? A fraternal order of funny-dressed cops?"

"No room to talk, Spider-Man. And yes, it's a group of folks dressed like you that fight crime. I'd like you to meet one."

Ray wasn't an actor, but he knew a cue when he heard one. He enlarged to six inch height and jumped over the Spider-Man's shoulder in front of him. "Hi, there."

"It's a talking doll."

The Atom drew back a fist but Batman put his palm in the way. "Take it easy, Atom. He's just being funny. What have you found?"

"You're right about us being in some kind of a pocket. I can't reach Ivy Town at all. Tried my traveling through phone wires trick and hit some sort of interference. You're just lucky I was in Gotham or I wouldn't have gotten your signal at all." Ray hopped from in front of the Spider-Man over to the television console. "I have been studying the ion patterns. It is like when we travel through the time stream or through dimensions, only a pattern unrecognized by the computers."

Peter softly chuckled. A midget scientist. Well, if it worked for Henry Pym... "May I take a look at those?" The small blue man handed Spider-Man the printouts. "Reed Richards showed me something like this once, dealing with the Negative Zone." The two strangers looked at each other, then back at Spider-Man. "And judging by what I am seeing, I need to get back to my New York, fast. We may only have minutes before I am stranded here permanently."

Batman, Atom, and the Spider-Man got in the Batmobile and sped from the Gotham City outskirts to the heart of town. The New York City skyline was shimmering now, green as earlier.

Spider-Man got out of the sleek black automobile and shot a webline onto the Daily Bugle and swung himself airborne. His new acquaintances, Atom and the Bat-Man, were now shimmering in green. And out of the corner of his eye, he saw a woman carrying a baby crossing into his part of this pocket.

Ray always felt that coincidences rarely were, that there was some higher reason for being in certain places at certain times. He thought he knew why he missed his flight back to Ivy Town; to help Batman with this mystery. But as the shimmering New York City started to fade from view, he found out the true answer. Crossing over from Gotham to this New York City was a woman he once knew. A woman and her baby.

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 Post subject: For Matt Linton: Batman v. Spider-Man
PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:54 am 
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 Post subject: For Matt Linton: Batman v. Spider-Man
PostPosted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:33 am 
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Mark wrote:
So... rather than believing in coincidences... Ray Palmer believes in...

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Good one. Did anyone catch the appearance by the only character to be in continuity for both DC and Marvel as the same character? (That is to say, not Hercules, which each company has their own version of.)

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 Post subject: For Matt Linton: Batman v. Spider-Man
PostPosted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:13 am 
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Cool start so far, James. Not sure who the secret character is. There are a couple of bits of dialogue that don't fit my take on Batman, but that's no big deal.

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 Post subject: For Matt Linton: Batman v. Spider-Man
PostPosted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:18 am 
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Monk wrote:
Cool start so far, James. Not sure who the secret character is. There are a couple of bits of dialogue that don't fit my take on Batman, but that's no big deal.

Actually that's the whole thing. 'Twas a short story.

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 Post subject: For Matt Linton: Batman v. Spider-Man
PostPosted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:25 am 
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James C. Taylor wrote:
Monk wrote:
Cool start so far, James. Not sure who the secret character is. There are a couple of bits of dialogue that don't fit my take on Batman, but that's no big deal.

Actually that's the whole thing. 'Twas a short story.


Bitten in the ass by skimming once again. Sorry about that.

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