At 03:09 AM 6/3/98 EDT, Maercutio@aol.com wrote:
 

 Besides, she was curious about the Batman.
 
 The two shared a bond, she liked to think. Vigilantes, both
 of them... hunted by the police as well as the criminals.

The Knight Sabers, as far as I can tell, have no arrest warrants out, and the
ADP has made no effort at all to track them down.

Similarily, Batman was RARELY opposed by the Gotham Police.

	You're not QUITE right here, Mer.. technically, the Gotham PD has been
instructed to hunt Batman down. It's just that it's so _hard_ to catch him,
don'cha know. <grin> As for all those arrest warrents? pity about that
paperwork logjam.. It's _SO_ hard to get everything done.. you have to set
priorities. Some criminals go to the top of the list, some to the bottom.

	<smile> Cynical? Perhaps. But that's the was PD's function in real life,
for that matter. Police can pick and choose the laws they wish to enforce.
Legal? No. But by playing the red tape&paperwork game, they can often get
away with it on technicalities.

 "Keep them there another day.  Anything else of note?"
 
 //Yes sir.  Genom Tower Chicago has found a chamber similar
 to ours, except it has only an incomplete unit within.//
 
 "Not surprising.  Mason always did have a backup plan."

Genom Chicago was fried by Largo. The Tower as it existed during Mason's time
would be nonexistent in 2035, replaced by a brand-new facility.

	Quincy has this annoying habit of building on the ruins of previous
projects. Literally. If the foundation was still there, he'd simply have it
cleaned up and rebuilding would progress apace. Building inspectors?
Dishonest ones would go home rich. The occasional honest one might go home
with a bad case of dead-ness. ^_^ And if the chamber has been built by
Mason, that means it would be VERY well hidden, which in turn means it's
very likely DEEP underground. Particle beams are nice weapons, but they
don't give great soil penetration. Anything more than 100 feet underground
stands a very high chance of surviving intact. Trust me. This was what I
_did_, when I was still active military. I can show you radiation
pentration charts, but I expect they're already available on the net
somewhere, and it would be a boring waste of bandwidth for the list. A
quick example? 12 feet of just plain soil (144 inches) will reduce the
power of simple gamma radiation by a factor of 1,000,000. Sounds
impossible, doesn't it. But true.

 // o/~ Body!  Wanna feeeel my bo-dy? o/~ //
 // o/~ Body!  Such a thriiiiill my bo-dy! o/~ //
 // o/~ Body!  It's too much my bo-dy! o/~ //

Now THIS song I know.

	Y M C A! ^_^

 The Genom Deveopment Center was no more, replaced by a
 funeral pyre whose flames raked the stormclouds above.

Thnaks for not using the particle-beam laser sats. It's been done to death.
I'd be interested to find out how the Jokester survived that, though; a
Largobody (I assume that's what he downloaded into) isn't THAT tough.

	No? The original survived a direct blast from one of the particle beam
satellites. Admittedly, he looked like hand-hammered shit afterwards (See
BGCrash!), but he did survive, and that was with NO protection and no
warning. The Joker may be nuttier than an Akane-made fruitcake, but he DOES
plan ahead. He had _some_ sort of shelter available. We just don't know
what it was.

 Sylia took a deep breath to get herself motivated, then
 stood up.  Time to rise and shine, et-cetera et-cetera.
 Lots to do today, and there was one corporate entity left on
 the list to check.
 
 It was the company that bought Gothcorp, heartless betrayer
 of Victor "Dr. Freeze" Fries.

MR. Freeze. It's MR. Freeze, not Doctor.

	Correction. It IS Dr. Freeze. The man is/was a scientist, and held several
high-level doctorates. However, you're correct in pointing out the akward
usage here. Perhaps it should be '' Dr. Victor "Mr. Freeze" Fries.'' Or
maybe 'Dr. Victor Fries, aka the infamous Mr. Freeze.' Just word games tho.. 

 It was the company that bought Cybertron Labs, the research
 corporation that funded Karl Rossum, godfather of boomer
 technology.
 
 Wayne Enterprises.

WayneTECH Enterprises. If this is the animated series, it's Waynetech. It's
only plain-old Wayne Enterprises in the comics.

	Picky, picky. <grin>
 

 He knew the state of things at home.  He was crazy, but he
 wasn't stupid.  He'd done a check on the net, checked
 history files, looked at the old newspaper clippings.
 
 There seemed to be no doubt about it.
 
 Darling Batsy was gone!

He's forgetting one of the primary rules of superhero death scenes: no body,
no death. Even if there IS a body, you can never be sure.

	Joker is bright, even brilliant, but like almost all super-villains, he
tends to leap to conclusions. As do we all. ^_^

Nice story you got going here. I personally cannot wait to see what direction
you run with it; a boomer-ized Joker and what he could do is a VERY scary
thought.

-Mercutio
"A plague 'a both your houses!"

	Nice C&C, Mercutio. Rod's been working on this fic for a while, and he's
been polishing it til it SHINES. Hell, he's even spent valuable time
listening to MY half-assed comments.

	I agree.. this is gonna be one of his great fics.

	Ed Becerra

	"Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal.."