It had actually been 7:50 in the morning when Tabitha had entered the house.She had entered the kitchen and got a cup of water.As soon as the water entered the drain it dislodged a pocket of the pink gas and Tabitha coughed as she inhaled the cloud of pink gas which suddenly erupted from the sink.
Then she heard the intruders,got her baseball bat...
My own guess is that the stuff only worked on relatives of Rick and Brendan,but who knows?
Commissioner Gordon was having a rough morning.The Justice League of America was on strike,the Fantastic Four had gone bankrupt,Superman was in advanced old age,Spiderman had slipped off a wall and gone splat and Batman and Robin were off in Mexico shooting a movie.
Yeah and his daughter had got married and was out of this superhero business.
Lex Luthor was threatening to slip Boston into the Atlantic,The Joker and the Riddler had seized a nuclear power plant and were threatening to melt it down to China.Magnus had teamed up with The Brood and they were busy making preparations to send the moon hurtling into the Earth.
And then he got some call from someone named Tabitha Stevens saying she'd caught two intruders in her house.
He went over.
Before he entered the house he did a check on Tabitha Stevens
Outstanding arrest warrant for some womens liberation protest march in the 1990's.
An hour later Ricki,Brendan and Tabitha Stevens were locked up in the back of the cruiser.Commissioner Gordon looked at his watch.11:55 and time for a donut.
Just as he parked his car things started happening.
The sky seemed to darken.The sign on the Tim Hortons began to flicker.
And his passengers began to moan,sweat ,groan and scratch themselves.