Chapter 8 - "Follow me" - a blog series

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       Chapter 8 - Rebirth

“Batman?” called Barbara on her phone as she walked with Nygma to her car. “Dick is down. And I’ve reported it to the department. They should take it on from here. I’m sorry!” She got no reply from Bruce.

She started to drive to the place Nygma asked to be taken.

“Derek Powers...” He started.

“More riddles?” she asked in a tone of disdain.

Chapter 7 - "Follow me" - a blog series

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       Chapter 7 - Revelations

Barbara opened her eyes and turned around. She was lying on something wooden. She couldn’t figure out where she was and was trying to remember what had happened last. She got up and stepped down and the floor was very cold and felt like rock. She could hardly see anything because her vision was blurred. She sat back on the wooden thing she had been lying down on. She had no clue where she was. And the last thing she remembered was getting into the Bat-mobile with Batman and Robin.

“Dick!” she thought, “Dick was Robin!”

She wondered if she was in the bat cave. She thought it was very much a possibility. But why would Batman and Robin drug her? Maybe they wanted to keep the bat cave’s location a secret. They could have just blindfolded her.

Chapter 6 - "Follow me" - a blog series

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       Chapter 6 - Vigilante

“Powers is attending the play on Christmas eve” said Batman through the Bat-phone.

“’The Three Ghosts’ play on Gotham Theatre?” asked Barbara, “but Friday is the day when the Riddler’s next...” and she turned silent for a while. She hoped Riddler wouldn’t make this crime-trail public. So far, only 3 people knew about this; The Riddler himself, Barbara and Batman. And it was 4 if HARDAC was also counted. But if he targeted Powers and decided to take him out during the play, the whole thing would burst open and become public. The last thing Barbara wanted was for the reporters and the press to be on her back and looking into it.

She then continued, “But Powers is a big fish. Even for Riddler. I doubt he has enough to take out a man like Powers.”

Chapter 5 - "Follow me" - a blog series

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       Chapter 5 - Batman and Bruce Wayne 

Barbara looked in front of her and there it was, HARDAC. Not quite the way she remembered it though. It was much smaller now. But she wasn’t surprised. Computers had come a long way, as they usually do. HARDAC was just the size of her personal computer.

“You may be startled by so many things right now.” Spoke the computer, “My very existence would be a start. Well, let’s say my friend Mr. Nygma was kind enough to give me a second life. Well, it wasn’t without returns that he wanted me to do this.”

“Wait, why are you telling me all this?” she asked.

“Because he told me you would come here, searching for me. Because this was a part of the deal he offered me in exchange for life, if I may even call mine a ‘life’.” It said.

“A part of it?” she asked.

The weirdest phrases in Tanglish (Tamil+English )

This is a collection of lingo that has become popular in circles around me and has stuck in my mind. These are the funniest, weirdest and my most favourite terms (in alphabetical order):

Ajak -

Funny as it sounds, Ajak is probably the most innovative way that I’ve heard it. If your hear one of my friends in Chennai say it, I’m sure you’d be able to immediately grasp what it refers to! If you have no clue as to what it means, “When unsure, call him or her an Ajak!”

Variations of the word: Ajaktha

Chapter 4 - "Follow me" - a blog series

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       Chapter 4 - Electronic 

The holiday season was fast approaching and the festive mood had already set down upon Gotham City. But for Barbara, the festivities would start only if she managed to find out the new vigilante who was terrorizing her. He wasn’t terrorizing the city. His days of theatrics were behind him. He was out to prove a point now. He was out to display something, not to the public, but just to her. And she was running out of time. She had just a day left to figure out what The Riddler’s last clue meant. And she was now hot on the trail of a new gang of hooligans who called themselves “The Jokers”.

“The kind of people that inspire youth!” she thought to herself, “Pathetic!”

“Anything yet?” asked the bat-phone.

It seemed so unlikely. The Batman himself couldn’t find a thing out from the letter. “Nope” she said.

At one point, Barbara thought she’d never find the clue out. She had been digging up all sorts of cases; drug dealers, mob bosses, gangsters who made up head to toe of mafia families. She was sure nothing ever fit.

Three of my Favourite Movie Dialogues/Narratives

I have decided to take a break from my creative writing spree and just make a blog post. The title is pretty explanatory, so let's dive right in, and pardon me for the language they use! ;) :

• Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) from Pulp Fiction (1994) :

  Jules: Get the fuck out my face with that shit! The motherfucker that said that shit never had to pick up itty-bitty pieces of skull on account of your dumb ass.
  Vincent: I got a threshold, Jules. I got a threshold for the abuse that I will take. Now, right now, I'm a fuckin' race car, right, and you got me the red. And I'm just sayin', I'm just sayin' that it's fuckin' dangerous to have a race car in the fuckin' red. That's all. I could blow.
  Jules: Oh! Oh! You ready to blow?
  Vincent: Yeah, I'm ready to blow.
  Jules: Well, I'm a mushroom-cloud-layin' motherfucker, motherfucker! Every time my fingers touch brain, I'm Superfly T.N.T., I'm the Guns of the Navarone! IN FACT, WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOIN' IN THE BACK? YOU'RE THE MOTHERFUCKER WHO SHOULD BE ON BRAIN DETAIL! We're fuckin' switchin'! I'm washin' the windows, and you're pickin' up this nigger's skull!

  This one is just pure brilliance of delivery. I just love the slang and the accent. GANGSTA!! Heights of attitude! It takes a lot of talent to make such a serious situation comical and very few can actually pull such a thing off! Pulp Fiction is a must watch for fans of the art of cinema!

Chapter 3 - "Follow me" - a blog series

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       Chapter 3 - Gloom 






It was a gloomy morning in Gotham; Barbara knew a storm was coming. Another suicide report was about to come in to her office. Before she even took the call, or switched on the TV, she knew who had died. She had figured it out the previous night. As she took the phone call from Richard Downing, the scenes of the previous night flashed through her :
 

“Donald Gosling” the bat -phone had screamed. By that time, Barbara had processed the clue enough to know that Riddler’s next target was one among three people. And if she had to pick one of them she would have picked Donald Gosling too. She was impressed with herself at that very moment and she hurried to her car, making sure she took the bat-phone with her.

“I’m getting there” she had replied.

 “There?” Batman had asked.