Batgirl: The New Origin
Dick Grayson Isn't Robin Anymore
by Steve Zink
The mundane minutiae: The following story contains characters owned by DC Comics/Warner Bros. It is written as a fanfic parody story not intended to make any use of actual story lines in published books. The story is purely for fun, with no profit to be made by the author.
Since 1966, there has been a Batgirl in one form or another in the Batman universe. One could even say that there was an earlier incarnation, but that Batgirl appeared only briefly in the early 60's as I recall, and was the niece of Kathy Kane, otherwise known as Batwoman. The Batman TV show was running low in the ratings going into its third year, so they decided to bring in a new character, Batgirl! DC Comics was asked to coordinate an introduction of a similar character into the books so that the TV Batgirl wouldn't seem an anomaly, and that is how we got the beautiful redhead crimefighter.
In the TV show and the comic book, Barbara Gordon was the daughter of Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon. She was an adult who had already graduated from college with advanced degrees. In the later Batman animated show of the 90's, Batgirl was again Barbara Gordon, but she was a much younger lass who was still going to university. In the more recent animated show, she appears to be closer to the original presentation, in both maturity and the colors of her costume. The movie "Batman and Robin" brought Batgirl to the big screen, but she was the British niece of Alfred the butler this time, and most fans were very disappointed.
In the story I am now presenting, pretend that Police Commissioner Gordon is without a family to start with, and that the team of Batman and Robin has been operating that way for a number of years, without any help. For a costume, I'm basing mine upon the light grey one of the mid-90's animated version, with a few variations. This is a totally different origin of Batgirl!
Batman and Robin were fighting a villain that seemed new to them and Gotham City. There was a tall guy in an odd purple tuxedo, with a tophat to match. He was breaking into a coin shop when the Dynamic Duo discovered him, and he seemed to be alone. No matter what either of them did, Batman saw that the crook was warding off their blows and batarangs and other Bat weapons with some kind of magical shield.
The new villain was actually someone that Batman had met a few times over the years alongside his friends in the Justice League. Felix Faust was a powerful wizard who normally bothered Flash and Wonder Woman more than anyone else. He'd been reading a lot of tabloids which made a big thing about the potential homosexual relationship that seemed to be developing in Gotham City, and he made up this new costume to confuse Batman and fix the problem. He may have been a villain and a murderer, but he was a strict homophobe who felt strongly about homosexual relationships. As odd as it might sound, the arch-criminal had his own particular code of decency!
The purple clad oddball made a motion as if he was looking for a specific coin in a case, then threw up his white gloved hands in a fit of rage. "Bah! The damned thing isn't even here! All for nothing. Farewell, Batman! Don't come looking for Maestro. I'll come looking for you." As he spoke, his hands threw packets at the floor which burst into thick smoke clouds. Maestro seemed to have disappeared.
Felix's show in the shop had been just that, however, a show. His real purpose lay in waiting for the Dynamic Duo to come back out and begin a search, which he knew they would. Just as he'd hoped, Batman had Robin split up with him to broaden the search, and the Boy Wonder was walking directly towards him. He was the real reason the Maestro had come to the shop that evening. Felix was ready to start fixing everything, not that he expected any thanks.
As Robin came around a car in the parking lot, Maestro sprang up and covered his nose and mouth with a chloroform soaked towel. The youngster collapsed in his arms, quietly. Batman never heard or saw a thing. Maestro scooped up his prize and dumped him unceremoniously into what appeared to be a nondescript Ford station wagon in the lot. Maestro himself sat down behind the wheel, and as soon as he did so, the purple tails and hat disappeared, to be replaced by a red T-shirt and bluejeans. His sleeping package on the back seat became what looked like sacks of groceries. Some of the Maestro's magic was more than smoke. Felix Faust was not a wizard to be safely laughed at.
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"Now stand up straight and don't slouch, Robin," said Felix, "I myself will put the next item on your body."
Robin watched as the wizard went around his back with a black garment in his hands. He knew what it was in seconds. A heavily boned corset was draped around
his waist, and Felix brought the ends together in back. The laces were slowly tightened, and with each draw, Robin felt his ribcage crush inwards and his stomach being compressed. It was hard to draw anything more than a shallow breath. Why was this madman doing these things to him?
Robin was now standing bolt upright, and looking decidedly odd. He still had a thin black mask over his eyes, bright green gloves on his hands, and added to them was rose colored panties over his crotch, and a wicked black corset nipping in at his waist. Nipping wasn't the word, though. The hourglass shape it gave his midsection, which Robin knew enough from being around Catwoman to call a wasp waist, was more like gouging.
Felix then gave his next instructions, "Go ahead and start putting on your new costume, start with the leggings." The costume had been put under a spell by Felix, the results of which would be rather astounding to the poor boy.
Robin went to the closet, and pulled out a set of shiny grey leggings that appeared to be some kind of theatrical dance fabric. He looked at the shape and size of the garment, and said, "I can't wear this! It looks way too small, and it is definitely for a girl!"
"You will indeed wear it," he was told, "and I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised at what you see once you get it on." Robin had no choice but to do as he was ordered, and stuck first his left, then his right bare feet through the stirrup slings at the ends of the leggings. He started to ladder them up his legs, smoothing them out as he did so. Robin could feel a warmth in his leg muscles, and felt something happening that he couldn't identify. He soon saw what the feeling had been, as the shape of his legs within the leggings had lost all their hard male hardness and sharpness, and become softly curved feminine moldings.
Robin pulled the leggings up over his hips, and watched them settle over the bottom of the corset on his waist. He could feel changes occurring in his lower body, and saw his hips widen and become pleasantly curved, matched by the growth in his ass, which bloomed and stuck out to a great degree over his legs. More importantly, the bulge on the front of his panties disappeared, and was replaced with a very flat tummy and smooth crotch with an oddly shaped small mound. One of his green gloves reached down, but as soon as it touched the unfamiliar new shape in his crotch, it sprang back in reaction to the intense jolt that shot through his body.
Felix Faust then handed Robin a wide blue utility belt, which when buckled together hung loosely on his hips, well below the waistline. "Now, put on your boots, Robin," he ordered, pointing to the chest. Robin reached down and grabbed them, then gave the wizard a quizzical glance when he saw both their tiny size and the tall heels. "My feet will never fit into these!" he protested. "And how can anyone stand in heels like these?"
"You'll see, you'll see," he heard the strange man chuckle, "now, put them on." Robin sat on the seat, and brought up his right foot. He unzipped the first boot, then put the blue boot over his toes, and started to pull. Robin could tell something was happening, because he felt his toes come together in the sharply pointed toe of the boot, and his heel hit the sole of the boot. He pulled the zipper back up, and the upper of the boot clung tightly to his ankles and lower calf. He did the same with the left, and then stood. Somehow, impossibly, his feet had shrunk to the size of the boots, and he could even stand in them! His head was in a whirl; this was becoming a most amazing evening!
"Now, go get your bustierre and put it on," Felix said. Robin now found that not only could he stand in the boots, but he could walk gracefully in them, also. He stooped down and grabbed the bustierre from the chest. He couldn't believe the size of the breast forms that were at the top of it, and saw that it clasped in the back. Robin saw no alternative but to put the device in place on his chest, then reach behind his back and secure all the hooks. All the time he was doing this, the angle of his arms was pushing his chest out, making the breast forms project even further from his chest. When the last latch was snapped, the wizard said, "Now you may finally take off your gloves. You won't need them any more. Get your costume top, and put it on."
Robin gets dressed!