Episode 1: Batspork Begins!

Late one night, 30 years ago In the bustling city of Emoswine, a young spork and his parents walked home on a dark secluded street. Then an elderly and poor knife steps out of the shadows. He points a gun at the spork’s mother, a middle-aged fork.

He then say’s, “Hand over that sugar crystal necklace, and no one gets hurt.”

At that point the spork’s father, a middle-aged spoon, steps in front of his wife and calmly states, “You really don’t want to do this. I own a multimillion dollar business. I’m sure I can find you a j-”

The spoon was interrupted by a deafening blast, and before anyone could think, he was lying on the ground surrounded by a puddle of his own blood.

The now shaking knife kept the gun pointed at the mother when she said, “Please, no, think of Geoff,’ she pointed at the young spork before another blast was heard. As the knife stepped toward her body to grab the necklace, he looked at the heartbroken spork, whose parents he had just murdered, and ran away. Leaving the spork with the bodies of his parents, that had now just died for no reason.

Present Day

A middle-aged spork and his ward, a teen-aged spoon, head over to their clock. Geoff, the spork, presses the center of the clock, as if it were a button, causing a section of the wall below the clock to move.

Geoff goes through this newly exposed doorway, followed by the spoon, Richie. By the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, they are dressed as the crusaders of the night, Batspork and Grouse.

In this cave there is a small training arena and three tunnels leading out of this cave, the Bat-Cavern. In front of each tunnel there is a vehicle. One tunnel is half submerged in water; this holds the Bat-Air-Boat. One goes straight up; this serves as an exit for the Bat-Balloon. The last one is on land and provides a rout for the Bat-Go-Cart.

Geoff and Richie head over to a computer with a screen as big a doorway. They turn it on and the Bat-Sign appears on the screen. Batspork presses a button, causing a live-feed video of Commissioner Gregson in his office to appear on the screen.

“Batspork we need your help. There are reports of a monster in the wetland areas of Emoswine. Do you think it could have anything to do with the recent robberies in that area, and if so, do you think this could imply the Jack-O-Lantern?”

“Possibly, Commissioner,” replied Batspork as he turned off the computer. then he said to Richie, “Richie, go prepare the Bat-Air-Boat. We’re going to the wet-lands.’

The Emoswine Wet-Lands look like the pictures of the Everglades that you see on the postcards. Tall And mossy trees surrounded by murky water bellow form these wet-lands that some people call home. Some of those people even have stores built out here, to them; it’s just another block of the city of Emoswine.

As Batspork and Grouse ride through this swamp, they see something up ahead. Batspork comments, “I guess that that’s the monster. It looks like some green knife covered in scales. I can’t see much more than that. check the swamp gasses for any fear gas. What ever it was, it’s gone now. I’m heading over where it was.”

Grouse, having just finished the tests, says, “Tests are a negative Batspork. Whatever that was, it wasn’t a hallucination,” he notices something as they near the shore, “Hey! Doesn’t that look like an alligator nest over there? I thought that all of Emoswine’s gators were killed off by poachers?”

Batspork, noticing the thing on the shore, replies, “They are gone. I’m going in for a closer look.” The duo steer the Bat-Air-Boat in towards the mud bank next to this mound that’s disturbingly like an alligator nest. They dig through it and find, instead of eggs, the missing items reported from the recent robberies.

Batspork then deduces, “I guess that these monster sightings have everything to do with these thefts, but it’s nothing like the work of the Jack-O-Lantern. So who?”

All of a sudden they hear, in a low growl, ”Gggggoooo Bbbbbaaaccckkk.”

Batspork and Grouse turn around to see the “thing’ they saw earlier. Up-close this deformed knife looks a lot like an alligator. It lunges at Batspork, yet Batspork skillfully dodges, grabs his arm and, using his own momentum, throws him into a nearby tree. The Swamp-Creature turns around, lunges at Batspork and Grouse again, but trips on a protruding root and lands face-first in the swamp mud.

The next thing it knows it’s in an interrogation room with Batspork and Grouse. Batspork calmly asks him, “Name?”

“Ohh, Uh, Wallace Jim, but you can call me Gruesome Gator; it sounds better In the newspapers.’

Batspork, not having paid any attention to Wallace’s last words, exclaims, “Wallace Jim, The son of Creg Jim, the man who killed Mr. and Mrs. Walls, and the very guy who killed my parents!!!”

Wallace replied, calmly at first, “Yes, yes, and,” then noticing Batspork’s last words, “Wait, WHAT! You mean to tell me that my dad killed your parents, the only people that my dad every killed were Mr. and Mrs. Walls, so you’re Geoff Walls II. Does this mean I KNOW WHO THE BATSPORK ITS!?!”

Geoff, just noticing his slip-up, quickly replies, “No, not at all. none of that’s true. it was all just a mix-up of words, nothing else, nothing important.”

Gruesome Gator smugly replies “Prove it.”

Tune in next week — same Spork-time, same Spork-url!