~ epilogues and detritus ~

First after credit ~
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Harley stares at the broken bat-tank, considering, while she hacks at her ponytails with a combat knife. A bat-harrier lands behind it, the pilot walks up dragging airlift chains and stands next to her, tapping a wrench on her leg.

Harley - Looks her over then back to the tank, "So you work for Batman, huh ? What's that like ?"

Jet - "It's okay ... pays well. Keeps trying to call me 'Batgirl' though."

Harley - Looks at her again, still hacking, "That's kind of creepy."

Jet - "Yeah ... we settled on 'Jet' ... because of the jet. I think he just has a bad memory for names."
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Batman - To Jet while she pries a circus mallet out of the front end of a broken batmobile. "Uh. What's your name again ?"
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Jet - Looks at her, "Hey don't you date the Joker ?"

Harley - "Yeah ... I don't know. He's getting kind of old ... and they never let him out of the restraints anymore"
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Joker's cell filled with guards playing cards around him as a table. He shakes the table, spilling money.

Guard - "Get used to it wild, you're all we've got left."
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Harley - "He makes me wear really dumb clothes sometimes too."

Jet - Rolls her eyes, "Tell me about it ..."

They stare at the broken tank.

Harley - Hair hacked off. "So ... I guess I'm dead now,"

Jet - "Ugh, vacation. Sounds lovely."

They stare again at the tank, Jet assessing the damage with an annoyed sigh.

Harley - Looks at her as she flips the wrench. "Hey you don't know how to fix tanks do you ? Because I was just wishing for that right before you got here."
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Last after credit ~
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Upon returning to Apokalypse, Orion sees his people gathered around something. Approaching he sees a small fruit tree bearing much fruit, growing and aggressively working it's roots through the hard soil, clearly made by the Swamp Thing.

Orion smiles looking at an apple and all fades to the laughing green head on the computer screen from the opening, before it blips out to darkness.

(end actual)

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Cut scenes ~
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Orion - To Barry, "What is it like ?"

Barry - "Really ?"

Orion - "Yes, you have a unique existence and I'm curious.  What is that like ?"  A pause.  "I'm not going to eat you, by the way."

Barry - "That's true."

Orion - A short laugh, "Indeed you would be hard to catch, but our physicists have determined that your flesh may decay into a lower vibration in our intestinal tracks.  One day you may realize that you are the key to what you call 'Grand Unification Theory'.  And so I wonder ... what is it like to run ?"

Barry - Taking a moment to consider the many things, sets it aside, "Like falling through information.  I can move as fast as I can understand it.  I don't know how that links to the vibrations of particles ... or any of that.  But that's what it's like.  The rest ... I just accept that that's what's happening because it's what make the most sense to me ... and my friends, right _now_."

Orion - Considers this with a nod.  "Hm."

Barry - "So your physicists studied me as food ?"

Orion - Looks at him as though it were foolish question.  "Well yes !  We don't just 'eat things'.  But we _did_ determine that it can in fact be cooked off then expanded with the proper yeast, but the process leaves it far too burned and flavorless for something so difficult to catch."

Barry - "I suppose that's true and good."

Orion - "Perhaps how you would view most rodents."

Barry - Pauses, then bursts out laughing _"Oh my god you are Such an ! ASSHOLE !_

Orion - Laughing with him, "Yes ... yes, it's true.  We all are.  But when once there were so many of you it was worthy of study." 

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Cut !
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Bruce - (as bat) "Commissioner Yindel."

Yindel - "Bat" Exhales smoke. "What ?"

Bruce - "I need Arkham."

Yindel - "I need a vacation. So sad."

Bruce - "Too bad."

She turns away, waits smoking impatiently,  then looks annoyed.

Yindel - "Isn't that when you're supposed to disappear ?"

She turns to see him still there.

Bruce - "I'll put back as many as I can." Turns and walks out the office door.

She thinks a moment, the runs to the door and looks down both ways of the busy hall, undisturbed. Furrows her brow.

Her phone rings, she looks - "Arkham - major breakout."

Yindel - _"! FUCK !_  APB on the bat and Every god damned inmate from Arkham !  _! NOW !"_