Mad Hatter's Movie Madness by Donald Lemke

Author:Donald Lemke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 9781434221315, 9781434216755, Fiction, Batman, Action & Adventure/General, Comics & Graphic Novels/Superheroes, Law & Crime
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Down, down, down, Batman fell through the manhole and splashed into the sewer below. When he looked up in the tunnel, Tim and the other crooks were gone.

The Dark Knight stared at his hand. He was still holding the torn piece of mask. “A rabbit ear,” Batman said himself. “What was Tim trying to tell me?”

The World’s Greatest Detective rubbed the piece between his fingers. Right away, he knew the mask had been made from several layers of heavy-duty cardboard.

Between the layers, Batman felt a pattern of thin ridges, like the veins of a leaf. He pulled at the rain-soaked edges of the cardboard, slowly separating each layer. In the middle, Batman found a web of wires connected to a tiny microchip.

“I should have known,” said the Dark Knight, recognizing the technology. He thought about the faces of the masks again. A grinning cat. A dormouse. A white rabbit. Characters from the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. “This can be the work of only one man.” Batman crushed the sparking microchip in his wet glove. “The Mad Hatter,” he growled.

Batman had faced the villain many times before. He knew the Mad Hatter used this type of device to brainwash innocent victims into committing crimes.

“How could he have brainwashed Tim?” the Dark Knight asked himself. “I was with him the whole night at the movies.”

Then Batman recalled the strange usher at the theater. His gap-toothed smile and puzzling riddles suddenly made sense. “Of course!” shouted the Dark Knight. He remembered the initials “J.T.” etched on the usher’s nametag. Now Batman knew that the letters stood for “Jervis Tetch,” the true identity of the of the Mad Hatter.

“Jervis must have installed his brainwashing microchips into the 3-D glasses,” concluded Batman. “I guess the special effects really were mind blowing.”

Then suddenly, the Dark Knight heard a loud rumbling coming from behind him. The ground beneath his feet began to shake.

Batman spun around, expecting to see a subway train barreling down the tunnel. Instead, he saw a wall of storm water crashing toward him.

The wave knocked Batman off his feet. Within a moment, he was up to his chin in dirty water, swirling through the sewers. He tried to stop himself by digging his gloves into the wall. Sparks flew from his fingertips, but the rushing water pulled him deeper into the tunnels.

Barely able to breathe, Batman reached into his Utility Belt. He pulled out his grapnel gun, aimed at a sewer pipe above him, and fired. The metal grapnel hook latched onto the pipe. The Dark Knight quickly pushed the Recoil button on the gun, and a super-strong wire pulled him safely out of the water.

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