Hiya guys, this is a collaboration story of TheRiddler95 and me. We decided to write our own chapters, and upload them alternately, or mix them like we did with this one, depends on the length of the chapter(s). In this chapter Sean and Selina do a bunch of antics at the GCPD, and later on, when Alfred is very, VERY furious, the children wonder if Alfred was always grumpy. And then, BOOM, Selina has a plan. Read and find out what:D

Chapter 1: Gotham 1990

My part:

It's a normal Tuesday morning at the precinct when Jim arrives. His partner Bullock came to work drunken, again, and Captain Barnes shouted the lackadaisical cynic's head off. Bullock however, stares unimpressed, like usual.

"I have a life outside the precinct, you know!" Bullock says, not even looking up from the morning newspaper. "And then I always like to go to bars and meet women."

"Really?" Captain Barnes bellows, swaying his arms madly to get Bullock's attention. It sadly doesn't work. Captain Barnes looks at Jim, who sits down slowly behind his desk. Jim shrugs and smiles sheepishly. Barnes takes in a long tired sigh, turning on his heels and walks over to his new, 'just-build-in' elevator. No one is allowed to use it, except Barnes himself.

Bullock grins and shuts the newspaper, turns to his partner and pulls his feet up onto the desk, sitting back as he starts chatting with Jim about his latest fling. Behind him is Barnes about to press the elevator button when the doors open, suddenly. Inside, a happy dancing Sean and Selina.

"What are you doing in my elevator?!" Barnes hollers, and the kids stop and grin at the bald cop.

"Enjoying the music," Selina replies cheeky.

"Yeah, today it's the love songs of the eighties," Sean adds importantly. "You wanna dance?"

Barnes sucks in a long deep breath, and his face swells up in anger and hollers; "Next time if you want to visit those two lazy cops, use the stairs!" Then, the bald captain stomps into the elevator, and ushers the kids out, muttering; "This is why healthy kids becomes unhealthy adults."

"Really, are we having this conversation?" Selina grins, and Sean starts to smile maniacally. At this point, Captain Barnes face looks like an over-boiled egg.

"For your information, I'm a speed walker!" the captain bellows aggravated. "Didn't you see me this morning at the mall, chasing you and that brat beside you?!"

"Wait, that was you?" Sean asks, and frowns. "Well, apparently the chase didn't work, because by the looks of it, you still didn't lose any weight since this morning."

And at this point, smoke comes from Captain Barnes ears, and a wild animal roar tells the two street kids they better might take a step back, safely outside the elevator. And they do, just in time because as the captain of the precinct bowls up to the doors, the doors closes and Barnes collapses his nose against it.

So, detective Barnes had charged to two street kids from the precinct and the captain was quite happy with himself for managing that on his own. Jim and Bullock always said it was a hard job, but with discipline you can turn the biggest brats into polite children. And Barnes just proved that.

However, suddenly there is a fire starting in Edward Nygma's office, and the entire GCPD has to evacuate. Barnes bellows orders to all his employees to leave the building. Rounding on his heels, Captain Barnes suddenly sees the doors of HIS elevator opening by itself, and two little street brats are about to walk out, but their eyes lock onto the bald captain and they quickly step back into the elevator, pushing the close-doors button.

"NOT SO FAST!" Barnes bellows as he barrels upon HIS elevators and squeezes himself through the already closing doors. "Kyle, Ornelas! What are you thinking?! There's a fire and in an emergency like that, elevators are the worst place you can be."

"Well, then we are so happy you're here with us," Sean grins sarcastically. Barnes face slowly turns purple. He doesn't like it when street brats are being witty. "Also, aren't we going up?"

"Which one of you pushed the button?" Barnes growls angrily, trying to push the down buttons at the same time.

"Not me," Selina says importantly, and Sean shrugs too. "Maybe it was you, Captain. Maybe you bumped it when you shifted your centre of gravity into this tiny space."

Barnes looks really deranged of anger to the two street kids who drop themselves to the elevator floor and laugh their faces off. The bald GCPD captain would have hurled himself onto them if the elevator didn't stop all the sudden.

"Huh!" Barnes grunts, holding himself standing against the elevator wall. Selina and Sean rise back to their feet, frowning. "Well, the power is still on, so it must be a fuse," the bald captain says, eying the button panel. "The one day I don't wear my tool belt."

"Hey, I have a paperclip!" Sean says importantly, waving the tiny metal thing in the air as he puffs his chest proudly.

"Well, that will certainly come in handy… IF WE NEED TO HOLD TWO PAPERS TOGETHER!" Barnes barks aggravated.

"It will come in handy in a lot of circumstances," Selina spits angrily, folding her arms. "But if you don't want our help, fix it yourself."

Barnes shoots a dirty look at the cat-girl before rounding on his heels and opening the doors an inch, bare handed. "Great! We're stuck between floors!" Barnes grunts, rounding back on his heels to face the two street kids who stare at him in awe. "Don't look at me like that! In high school I was an all-state squatter."

Suddenly, the elevator com beeps and just when detective Jim is about to talk through it, captain Barnes presses the button and starts to holler through it.

"Hey, listen up, generation epic fail! It's your fearless yet loveable leader captain Barnes! I am stuck in the elevator. Repeat; I am stuck in the elevator! Again; I AM STUCK IN THE ELEVATOR!"

"Hey, we are in here too!" Selina and Sean both scream through the com, in sync. "Repeat; we are in here too! Again; WE ARE IN HERE TOO!"

Bullock and Jim share a grin. The fire in Edward's office was put out, but it still would be fun to leave the captain stuck with two street brats, right? That's what happens when you call two Gotham's most hardworking cops lazy.

Two hours later, the captain is still locked inside HIS elevator with the two street kids, and the both of them already figured the fire danger was lifted, so they started to all kinds of antics inside the elevator. Sean was even faking the button panel gave him shocks if he pushed one of them.

Barnes was sitting in the corner of the elevator, wondering what he had done wrong to Bullock and Jim that they would do something like this to him. Yeah, sure he also knows the fire danger was lifted, so yeah, he also knew they left him trapped in this little cage with the two kids as a prank for getting even. But for what?

"Must be nice to have friends who care about you so much," Barnes says from his little corner. Sean and Selina frown, shrug, and continue the antic they were doing. "When I was your age I got picked on all the time."

Sean and Selina stop their antic for a second time, staring at each other confused. Barnes opening up to tem really starts to creep them out. Jim better gets them out of there quick.

"Why does your head look like an egg?" Barnes says in his old classmates nasty voice. He even impersonates their nasty laughter. "I'm glad they never found out I played the role of Humpty Dumpty at school when I was a toddler!"

Sean and Selina stiffen a laughter. Barnes looks up at them, his eyes swimming with tears of the painful memory. Then, both street kids look at the captain, sympathetically.

"I became GCPD captain because I wanted to make the streets safe and clean from criminals so each and every kid can grow up in safety. Now here I am, using my power to pick on my employees, and I also barked at two street kids who grew up in this rough city!" Barnes starts to cry. "I'm no better than those bullies were, or any other criminal at these streets! I'm so sorry…. I didn't mean for you to see me like this!" The captain's crying turns into sobs.

"You know?" Selina says, slowly shifting toward Barnes and sits down beside him. "In times like these I think; Who's going to feed all my cats?" Suddenly thinking something else, Selina gasps in horror; "I wish they don't eat Alfred!" Then, gasping even louder; "I wish Alfred won't eat them!"

"I'm sorry for being so hard on you guys," Barnes sniffs, wiping his eyes off with his uniform sleeve. "Both of you aren't such a bad kid."

"Thanks," Sean replies, standing casually against the elevator wall, rolling his eyes at the sight before him. Now two out of three people are acting crazy.

"Yeah, you… are a tolerable middle-aged authority figure," Selina says with a grin.

"Aw, that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me," Barnes cries happily, standing back to his feet and helps Selina up too before squashing her into a hug. "Thank you."

"Oh, no problem," Selina gasps, trying to breath. "Humpty Dumpty! Hah ha ha ha! Sorry, I couldn't resists!"

Meanwhile, Jim figured Barnes would have been in the elevator long enough and hired a mechanic who opened the doors right about the same time Selina couldn't resist the insult. The bald captain chases her out the elevator.

"Hah ha ha ha!" Selina laughs, dashing out the front doors and onto the streets. Barnes pursued. Sean strolls out the elevator as well, smirking at the baffled looking Jim and mechanic.

"Ehm, didn't anyone told you what can happen if you're in an elevator during an emergency?" the mechanic asks.

"Nah, but I'm quite surprised I must say," Sean replies, grinning even more. "I mean, don't get stuck with them because you definitely don't want to hear that bald guys sad memories, or Selina's anxiety about her cats eating Alfred. Or worse, Alfred eating HER cats!"

"Wait! What?"

"Yeah, my thought exactly," Sean says, heading over to the front door. "I was really scared for a minute in there. I thought Selina would turn into a crazy person like that bald guy, but I'm glad to say, I'm quite happy she didn't. Humpty Dumpty, hilarious. That's my girl!"

TheRiddler95's part:

Selina, Bruce, Sean, and Annie were all seated on the couch while Alfred paced back and forth with a face that looked like he was going to throw up fire. None of the kids said a word, simply waiting for the butler to say or do something. Instead, Alfred just paced across the room looking ready to kill something, and even though all four kids were well versed in combat, none of them stood a chance against a furious military butler.

"Alfred?" Selina finally asked. "Are you mad at us?"

Alfred didn't say anything for a long time. Then, Annie leaned next to Selina and whispered, "Fascinating. He's so mad, all he feels is blinding fury. His brain cells are in such a state of concentration that he can't speak!"

Selina nodded. "Alfred, calm down a bit. Just say what's on your mind."

Alfred paused, glared at Selina, took a deep breath, and-

MEANWHILE, AT THE GCPD...

Jim and Bullock were on their way to Captain Barnes' office for their next assignment, while congratulating each other on their capture of Henry Decibel, AKA Sonic Boom.

Barnes saw Jim and Bullock walk in. He dropped his files and said, "Okay, I have a new case for you. A reliable source is telling us that Victor Zsasz has his sights on the weapons department president of Wayne Enterprises. Go and keep her under police surveillance. Oh, and good job on catching Decibel, by the way."

"Thanks, Cap." Jim smiled. "He shouldn't be causing anymore trouble."

"He'd better not." Barnes grinned. "His sonic wave maker destroyed an entire neighborhood. But you two put him away, so I don't think we have to worry about-"

Suddenly, an earth shattering sound wave hit everything around them, a huge thunder clap that sounded eerily like an angry butler yelling. The three cops were knocked over and forced to hide under the desk while picture frames shattered and furniture crippled. When it was all over, the three got up, and Barnes furiously yelled at the detectives, "You told me you put Sonic Boom away for good! That's it! Nine hours of training and you're both on probation!"

MEANWHILE, BACK AT WAYNE MANOR...

Alfred had finished yelling and was beginning to calm down. The four kids sat there on the couch, completely dumbfounded by the volume and variety of the words they had just witnessed being strung together.

"The four of you are grounded for a month." Alfred said calmly. "Also, you must write formal apologies to everyone you offended today. I will be in the kitchen, most likely with some bottles."

The kids waited until Alfred left, and then Selina slumped back on the couch, lying across the laps of her three friends. "Man, this sucks. We're grounded for a month!"

"Umm..." Annie said. "I can just take us forward in time by a month."

"But then Alfred will have won!" Selina growled, falling off of her friend's laps and onto the floor, her face down. "Was Alfred always this grumpy?"

Bruce shrugged. "I don't think he was before you moved in."

"No, he was." Sean said. "I met him really fast once before I moved in. He yelled at me for walking on the grass."

Annie nodded. "The first time I met you, he made me stay away from Bruce for the first three months to make sure I wouldn't rile up his hormones."

Suddenly, Selina jolted upwards with a lightbulb on her head, striking fear into her friend's eyes. "Hey, I have an idea! Let's travel back in time to Alfred's youth and then we can see if he was always grumpy or if a traumatic event made him grumpy and then we can stop the traumatic event and make him less grumpy today!"

"I didn't understand one word of that." Sean said, shaking his head.

Annie stood up and stretched. "Yeah, I guess we can do that. Okay, let's go back to... to... wait, how old is Alfred?"

"Why don't we ask him?"

TWO MINUTES LATER...

Alfred is downstairs reading a paper and is still really mad. Selina swung down and politely asked, "Alfred, how old are you?"

Alfred then rudely responded, "NONE OF YOUR

HALF AN HOUR LATER...

"I don't think he's going to tell us." Cat said, walking back into the study to meet the others.

Annie sighed, "I suppose we can... guess."

"Okay, how old does Alfred look?" Sean asked.

Bruce shrugged, "I know how old Alf-"

"Be quiet for a second, Bruce, we're trying to figure out how old Alfred is." Selina said. "Annie, what's your guesss?"

"Go with the most likely option?"

"Cool. Now let's go on an adventure!"

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