S6 Wk9: Layanderlett's Super Orange Kitties and Cats vs Royal Highness

Layanderlett’s Super Orange Kitties and Cats Working Together to Make a New Family are White Lantern Batman, Robin: Dick Grayson, Bat-Girl: Betty Kane, Harley Quinn Monkey, and Gramma Nutt.

The Royal Highness is Phantom Stranger and The Red Hood: Jason Todd w/a blue lightsaber.

White Lantern Batman ponders to himself as he prepares for the final battle of this year’s regular season.

“For as long as I can remember I have been forced to carry this burden. The weight of this ring is heavy on my soul. Why? Why must the White Entity embody me? Is it because so often I have put young children into harm’s way time and time again? Am I being punished? Has this entire thing that I have known as the FFL been in reality, a form of purgatory?”

A young voice then begins to echo in what seems like the distance.

“Batman.”

“Hey Batman.”

“Bruce!”

This finally shakes White Lantern Batman from his farlong daze. He turns to his side and sees his first Robin, Dick Grayson, still young and hopeful. The years have yet to age him into the man known as Nightwing. Robin finishes packing his utility belt with his bird-a-rangs, smoke bombs and flash bangs.

“Dude, you going to be ok? We’ve got work do to in Arkham tonight,” Robin says to his mentor. “Which is never an easy night if you ask me.”

“Yeah, I’ll be fine, Dick,” responds White Lantern Batman. “But be careful out there tonight.”

Robin shoots him a smirk as he races out the locker room, “Come on Batman. Aren’t I always?”

The Harley Quinn Monkey from Earth 2 lets out a screech and scampers past White Lantern Batman, before climbing up onto Bat-Girl’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry about it Batman,” reassures Bat-Girl. “We’ll be back victorious before you can even say Holy strait jacket.”

Still worrisome of tonight’s battle, White Lantern leaves the locker room, for what could be the very last time.

Lightning cracks the midnight sky, as a torrential downpour begins to pound down in Gotham City. Moments later there is a massive boom of thunder that fills the air. Robin eagerly leads the team towards Arkham Asylum. With a couple parkour hops, he leaps with excitement over the stone wall that surrounds the asylum. White Lantern Batman, flies effortlessly over the wall and uses his ring to bring Bat-Girl, Harley Quinn-Monkey and Gramma Nutt over as well.

“My my my. I do feel quite out of place in this dreadful building,” the CandyLand native murmurs to herself.

“Fear not, Gramma. You have been with the Kitties since we were originally known as P.M.S. Your experience and magical peanuts could prove very useful tonight,” White Lantern Batman says.

Batman then hears some laughing from high above on a balcony. Only it’s not the laughter from the Joker that one would expect to hear echoing through the halls of Arkham. Yet it is still very familiar.

“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me?” the voice cackles. “You brought this old lady to aid you? Give me a break Bruce. Oh wait, the Joker already did that. Several times. With a crowbar. Remember? Ah… the good ‘ol days.”

The worrisome look on White Lantern Batman’s face quickly turns to an angry scowl as he realizes who is mocking him.

“Jason,” he growls.

Red Hood flips down off from the balcony and in front of Bat-Girl.

“Hey check this out. I bet you’ve never seen this before,” Red Hood quips and in an instant he grabs a hold of the young blonde girl and breaks her neck, twisting her head completely around.

Betty’s eyes stare blankly at White Lantern Batman as they begin to roll back into her head. A small amount of blood trickles down from her nose as Red Hood tosses the body up against a cell that appears to have once held the serial killer, Mr. Zsasz.

“NOOOOOO!!!!” shouts White Lantern Batman.

Batman then fires a bolt of white energy towards Bat-Girl’s lifeless body, but it is deflected by a mysterious force.

“I am sorry Bruce, but I cannot allow you to do that. This is the course that has been set forth; I mustn’t let you alter things of this nature. The ramifications would be too dire for your teammate. She shall rise again in your locker once this contest is over,” says the Phantom Stranger as he lets his presence known.

“Boys, boys, boys. Now now, that’s no way to act in front of Gramma Nutt,” the CandyLand matriarch says as White Lantern Batman and Phantom Stranger begin to square off.

She then reaches into the pockets of her apron and pulls out a handful of magical peanuts. Gramma Nutt takes aim and launches them at Phantom Stranger. But the mysterious being outstretches his hand and redirects them back at Gramma Nutt, eradicating her into a smear of peanut butter all over a clear acrylic cell door.

Robin then leaps into action and punches Red Hood in his head and then follows it up with a spin kick to the chest that sends Jason reeling backwards.

“Ha, I was hoping Bruce would be dumb enough to bring you here tonight, Dick,” Red Hood says as he takes his now cracked helmet off and tosses it down.

“Screeeeeeeeecccchh,” squeals Harley Quinn Monkey as she leaps off of a hanging light and towards Jason Todd.

The Red Hood however pulls his blue lightsaber out of his jacket, quickly ignites it and slices the monkey in twain.

“That’s it Jason,” Robin growls. “Time to teach you exactly why you will forever be second fiddle to me.”

The original Robin and the man who once took up that mantle begin to circle each other. Both combatants carefully measure each other up before engaging in battle. Jason reacts first and lets out a yell before racing towards Dick. The two parry, block and counter every single attack the other throws at them. Batman trained them both well. This is something that is causing a distraction in White Lantern Batman in this fight against Phantom Stranger.

“Your new power is great, Batman,” Phantom Strangers bellows ominously. “But it fits you ill.”

Phantom Stranger then fires a powerful energy bolt at Batman, but the White Lantern puts up a protective shield against the attack.

“You are one to talk about ill-fitting power…. Judas Iscariot,” grunts White Lantern Batman as he continues to block the energy bolts being launched at him.

This enrages Phantom Stranger, which causes him to intensify his attack. The blasts launch Batman crashing through a wall.

“You know nothing of my past, orphan, and you are far from earning the right to call me by my given name,” Phantom Stranger growls.

“Bruce! You ok?!” shouts Robin as he continues to defend against the Red Hood’s attack.

White Lantern Batman blasts the debris that covers him as he regains his composure.

“I’m fine, Dick. Do not lose focus. I am not going to lose you today,” shouts Batman.

Batman’s comment infuriates the Red Hood, who side steps Robin. He grabs the Boy Wonder by his cap, yanks him down to the ground and pins him down to the ground by pushing his knee into Robin’s back.

“Lose him? LOSE HIM BRUCE?!?!” shouts Jason. “Where was this compassion when you sent me out in battle time and time again?!”

Batman starts to respond but is cut off by the Red Hood. “IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE BRUCE! NOW YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH LOSING DICK TOO!”

The Red Hood ignites his lightsaber, raises it in the air and begins to thrust it down towards the back of Robin’s head. White Lantern Batman fires a blast of White Energy towards Red Hood, but everything all of a sudden stops in time.

“I’ve already told you Bruce that I wasn’t going to allow you to intervene with the course of tonight’s events,” Phantom Stranger says to Batman as he has stop time all around the two of them.

“I may not be able to save Robin, but I can stop you from walking away today, Stranger,” Bruce says.

He then goes to bended kneed and musters every last bit of white energy that he can. White Lantern Batman then lets out a yell as he outstretches his arms and unleashes a blinding blast of white energy at Phantom Stranger.

Time once again begins to slowly click by, and then quickly speeds up to its normal speed. The Red Hood continues with his lightsaber thrust, but Robin was patient and swiftly moves out of the way and out from his opponent. He then in a blink of an eye turns ignited lightsaber around and jams it up underneath Jason’s chin. The blue glow from the lightsaber pours out from the Red Hood’s open mouth as it then pierces through and out the top of his head.

“Holy jack-o-lantern, I’m fast,” Robin quips as Red Hood’s body falls to the ground.

Phantom Stranger’s fedora then blows past Robin as he tosses the lightsaber aside. “You see that Batman? Batman…..”

Robin turns around and sees Batman’s White Lantern ring on the floor of Arkham with no sign of either the Phantom Stranger or White Lantern Batman. Robin solemnly kneels down, picks up the ring and puts it into his utility belt as he realizes that he is the sole survivor of this battle.