Batman: New Beginnings

Chapter 5: Getting Settled

After my first few months at the Wayne mansion things started to get less formal. I had slowly started calling Mr. Wayne, Bruce and I was free to roam the mansion for the most part which was quite interesting, there where so many rooms and Bruce had one converted into a lab for my research and I spend most of my time in there. Many times I would be in the lab working on some of the mathematics and I would hear him leave in the evenings for one of his meetings or a party and return much later and go straight to his bed and often Alfred would have to go out and get him. I didn’t think much of it at the time. I had know idea how billionaires lived so I stayed in my lab and worked away.

There were a few times when Bruce would invite me for supper and it was hard to decline an invitation from the man who was allowing you to stay in his home, funds your research and a billionaire. The meal we had were the best of the best. One meal we had was sushi, that was made with fresh fish that was prepared right in front of us. Another was an eight course Italian restaurant that you had to order a full course meal from. I would have considered may of those dinners dates but if we were not discussing my works with some of his collages or because we were out with some of his friends. One of the things that annoyed me the most about our dinners what not that we never had a true date, which I had hopped for but I would never tell him that he as after all my employer. He would almost always receive a call in the middle of our dinners and then have to rush off leaving me alone or with his friends or collages which was very uncomfortable. I was thankful when Alfred came to get me.

As time went on we all got use to each other. Alfred would often serve me dinner in my lab. Don’t worry I ate at an entirely separate table for all you science nerds out there. Bruce would often be out until very late. One evening we even “bumped” into each other in the hall as I was heading to bed. I noticed just how beat up Bruce appeared but thought noting of it at the time. Another evening I was looking though the books in the library and saw that some of the books had been left open. One had something to do with bats that I wasn’t really interested in. Bat to me where disturbing little creatures. I was glad that Gotham had Batman, don’t get me wrong, he was great for the city but why a bat, why not a tiger or lion heck even a spider would have been better anything but a Bat. Another books was opened to bipolar disorder a psychological disease. Next to the word was a classic picture of the Joker. Remembering Bruce saying something about him have more advanced medical books in his study I made my way to that area. I knocked on the door to his study but there was no answer and which meant that Bruce was out for the evening, again. Letting myself in I examined some of the painting on the wall and even some of sculptors. Everything was above my head which was really annoying, in order to actually see anything thing I had to wheel my chair back quite away. One of the pictures was an enormous picture of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and they had a young Bruce between them . Another was of the older Bruce standing in a very distinguished pose. The paintings almost looked hand pained but it was very hard to tell.

I made my way to Bruce’s desk. Looking for the book had become a fledging thought. Now I was more curious about what Bruce did in this office. Yes. I know it was wrong but when in Rome is what they say, or at least I hope it is what they say. I moved his huge chair out of the way and sat a his desk “Now Alfred, make me supper. Let count how much money I have” I said in the deepest voice I could create, I just had to laugh at myself. One of the sculptures in the rooms appeared to be a little different then the other it was of a philosopher Plato I believe. I went over at looked at the sculpture all over and slowly I touched the head, it had a loose feeling to it so I gave it a little bit of a push. Suddenly there was a loud noise and one of the walls opened revealing an old elevator. What else could I do but get on the elevator and see where it took me. When I got there were no button to push or anything, the doors closed behind me and the elevator started to descend. I was a little surprised that I had not been told about this elevator it would have been handy in getting to the lower levels of the mansion. When I finally got to the bottom the doors opened and I wheeled my way out. It was very dark where I was there as very little lighting but I follows the small light to one larger light at the end of a long tunnel. I touched the wall as and noticed that it was very rock and wet feeling. As I reached the end of the tunnel I found the largest computer I had ever seen and sitting at the computer was someone dressed in very dark clothing.

“Excuse me Sir want are you doing under Bruce Manor?” I asked the figure.

When he turned around I was shocked to see who it was.