Chojin Bird-Man Castle was sighted in Gotham Bay. The Coast Guard did what they could, but the fortress deployed a red, umbrella styled shield in front and spun it to kick up the water. Inside the fortress, the Penguin cackled. “Believe it or not, Gotham,” he said, “this penguin moves just as fast on land as it does at sea…and it’s got one hell of a bite! You were all fools and just like the state of Kai in Feudal Japan, I’ve played you all like a harp from Hell!”
Back with the Doctor and her group, the Master was still in the throes of a heart attack. “Tysar, help me get his shirt off!” directed the Doctor. “Batman, Winston, I need three AED pads and something that can generate electricity!”
“Three AED pads?” asked Winston as he got the pads and attached cables. “That’s how many a Time Lord needs?”
“Both hearts need to be reset simultaneously!” replied the Doctor as she and Tysar tore the Master’s shirt off.
“Would the Shock Batarang work?” asked Batman as he pulled out said Batarang.
“Gimme!” Batman handed the Doctor the Batarang and Winston handed over the pads. The Doctor then wired the pads to the Batarang, then placed one of the pads on each side of the Master’s chest while the third and final was applied to the top just above the vessels bridging his two hearts. “Now, Batman, monitor for a double pulse.” The Doctor switched the Batarang on. “Clear!” She pressed the button and delivered the shock. The Master went silent and still. For a few tense seconds, everyone was praying the Doctor didn’t kill her patient. …The Master then shot up, screaming and scaring everyone but Batman into screaming. He stopped screaming, then sighed.
“…Hello, Rightie!” he said.
“Both hearts are beating,” reported Batman.
“Now…” The Master tore the pads off. “Time to pluck a penguin’s feathers!”
“Master, there IS a way to beat him, yes?” asked the Doctor with a smirk.
“…Don’t say it!” hissed the Master.
“Well, it seems to me…”
“If you say it, I WILL use the TCE on-!”
“We’ll need to work together,” finished the Doctor. The Master snarled, then sighed in defeat.
“…We need to disconnect the Quake Engine component from Chojin-jo’s main control room,” he said. “And the most vulnerable point is when it assumes battle mode.”
“Battle mode?” asked the Doctor.
“Chojin-jo’s Wind Forest Fire Mountain transformation,” explained Batman.
“…A little over the top. We’ll need to trick the Penguin into engaging it. But we follow Batman’s no kill rule.”
“Doctor-!” argued the Master.
“We’re guests in Batman’s city and temporary Bat Family members. We follow HIS rules.”
“…All right, what’s the plan?”
Chojin Bird-Man Castle marched closer to the shores of Gotham, ready to trample it. Inside the control room, the Penguin cackled as various Emperor Penguins squawked. “That’s right, my fine-feathered friends!” squawked the Penguin. “Gotham will be all ours! Then the Eastern Seaboard, then the rest of the continent, then the whole damn hemisphere, then-!” The computers flashed alarms. “Huh? What’s…GIANT FLY TRAPS?! IVY! Fine then, time to do some weeding! CHOJIN BIRD-MAN CASTLE: WIND FOREST FIRE MOUNTAIN TRANSFORMATION!
“Where did those plants come from?!” demanded the Doctor as giant fly traps grew while Chojin-jo rearranged itself into a battle configuration that looked like the Penguin, complete with a top hat, monocle, and hidden guns behind the umbrella shield.
“Those aren’t real plants,” remarked Batman. “Someone activated holograms. Who-?”
“Excuse me!” called Dr. King as he and Alfred arrived.
“What are YOU doing here?!” protested the Doctor.
“I’m sorry, Doctor, I wanted to help,” replied Dr. King.
“Don’t be too hard on him, Doctor,” said Alfred. “He overheard the plan and activated the holo-emitters based on Poison Ivy’s plants.”
“…I appreciate the help, Dr. King,” said the Doctor. “But I’d advise you to go back to Wayne Manor. If the boy you’re possessing dies, you fade away from history and the United States can’t have that.”
“…I understand, Doctor,” said Dr. King.
Back in Chojin Bird-Man Castle’s control room, the Penguin saw what was going on. “Holograms! Batman, you idiot! You really think that’s gonna stop me?!”
“No, but this will!” replied Batman from the ceiling. A kunai then buried itself into the controls!
“WHAT?! NO!” shouted the Penguin. He snarled as Batman landed. The Penguin then activated his concealed sword from his umbrella and attacked with Batman keeping out of reach.
While the fight was going on, the Doctor, Tysar, Winston, and the Master entered the engine room. There, the power convertor for the Quake Engine rested. “That’s it!” called the Master.
“All right, start disconnecting,” directed the Doctor. As they started yanking wires, Tysar spotted a big one coming from the power convertor.
“Now if that isn’t a main power line…” she smiled and yanked it out! The fortress then juddered as the lights went off!
“Good eye, Tysar!” praised the Doctor.
“Doctor, outside!” called Winston. “The fortress stopped!” Winston was right. The legs of the fortress had stopped before they could reach the shore.
“The Power Convertor!” squawked the Penguin. He snarled at Batman. “You distracted me, didn’t you?!”
“Wasn’t all that much of a challenge,” replied Batman. The Penguin then leapt from the control room’s window and flew down to the engine room where he saw Tysar teasingly holding the main power wire.
“Lookie here!” she chuckled. “A local flightless bird getting too close to the sun!”
“Learned about the wildlife of Earth, did you?!” snarled the Penguin.
“Move aside!” commanded the Master as he shoved Tysar aside.
“Master, what are you doing?!” yelped the Doctor.
“Cutting a problem down to size!” replied the Master. “One shrunken penguin, coming-!” The Master then realized his pocket was empty. “…Wh…Where’s the-?!”
“Looking for this?!” cackled the Penguin as he held up a black rod with a sphere on the end of it.
“My Tissue Compression Eliminator!” gasped the Master in sheer outrage that a mere human stole HIS weapon. “How-?!”
“You dropped it during your heart attack!” cackled the Penguin. “Now let’s see how it works!” He activated the device, aiming it at the Master…but nothing happened. “…Oh, because, of course, you made it so this thing can’t be turned against you!” snarled the Penguin. He then smashed it to the floor.
“A pity, hm?” chuckled the Master. “But there’s something to be said about taking heads the old-fashioned way!” He grabbed a foil and swung it, but the Penguin blocked with his concealed sword and the two dueled.
“Come on!” called Batman as he grabbed the power converter. As the two villains dueled, everyone made their way to safety.
The Gotham News explained that the duel between the Penguin and the Master ended in a stalemate, resulting in the Penguin being impeached as Mayor of Gotham and both him and the Master being transported to Arkham Asylum. Within the Batcave, the Doctor was altering the Quake Engine’s power convertor. “And there we go!” said the Doctor. “All done!” Alfred then entered the Batcave.
“I just received a call from Lucius Fox,” he said with a smile. “He remembers Dr. King and his contributions to the continuing Civil Rights Movement. So do all those who temporarily forgot him.”
“Thank goodness for that,” remarked Dr. King. “…That means my young self’s time is up at least in this part of history.”
“Trust me, it will take a major catastrophe to utterly erase you from history,” chuckled the Doctor.
“Let me just…” Dr. King’s young self then closed his eyes and collapsed as his ghost left. Dr. King’s ghost looked as he did seconds before his assassination.
“That’s the face of a Civil Rights leader I know!” remarked Winston. The Doctor then keyed in a command. The power convertor glowed, then it and the young Martin Luther King Jr. vanished while his ghost remained.
“And that, as they say, is that,” sighed the Doctor.
“It’s a pity some Americans would rather forget about Dr. King,” sighed Winston.
“As long as people still practice compassion,” replied the Doctor, “I don’t see him fading away from history any time soon. Dr. King, I can’t say when, but that dream where humans let freedom ring WILL come true. There WILL be a time where everyone can say ‘Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we’re free at last’!” Dr. King smiled.
“That’s good to know, Doctor,” he said. “Now, I better get back to Coretta. See you all on the other side!” His ghost faded away, but his memory remained.
“…Well, with all that,” said the Doctor, “I think it’s time I take Tysar home. This point is deep in her people’s past, you know.”
“Tysar, stay safe with the Doctor, hm?” said Batman.
“As long as you keep Gotham safe,” replied Tysar. She and the Doctor then entered the TARDIS and it dematerialized.
“So, you understand what I’m currently doing?” asked the Doctor. “I don’t know if I can take you directly back.”
“…I don’t think the direct way back will be necessary,” replied Tysar.
“You understand it’s dangerous, yes? There’s a temporal catastrophe going on and certain time-travelling races will capitalize on it. Especially the Daleks.”
“We Thals may be pacifists, but we don’t run from our problems. Not anymore.” The Doctor smiled.
“Welcome aboard, Tysar!” The Doctor set the controls and the TARDIS whizzed off to track the next chronal surge!