au where billy and mary were friends w a teen patrick wayne before everything went down in the 40's and they both think that bruce is patrick and that hes shy cuz hes a hero now
I think Billy, Mary, and Patrickâs dynamic wouldâve basically been two little kids and the older kid who hang out. Patrick would also have no problem treating them like his little siblings and would casually give them money in exchange for them helping him with experiments. Heâd rather just give them the money but they wonât just accept it for free so heâd resigned to making them do little tasks instead.
Patrick: âAlright, I need three fairy wings, dried unicorn blood, sixteen siren scales, and dryad bark! Go! Go! Go!â
Mary and Billy: *salute before running off*
You might be wondering what he needs any of that for. Youâll know later.
Anyways, as for how Patrick found out about Billy and Mary being Captain Marvel and Mary MarvelâŠ
Patrick: *talking to someone in Fawcett and trying to get siren scales because his usual suppliers (Billy and Mary) said they were busy with something at the moment (meeting with magical delegates)*
Seller: âBoy, you do realize how difficult it is to get siren scales, right? As far as I know, none of the shops in Fawcett sell it. Who is your dealer?â
Patrick: âMy friends?â
Seller: âYour friends?! You know kids your age going after sirens so you can get scales?! Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?!â
Patrick: âItâs dangerous?! I had no idea??? They never come back hurt or complaining??â
Seller: âTheyâre coming back unscathed?? Who are your friends???!?â
Yeah⊠so thatâs how Patrick found out about Captain and Mary Marvel being his two little suppliers/siblings. It took much poking and prodding and bribing, but eventually the two spilled. After that, they were just forced to take the money from Patrick anyways. He wasnât gonna send them on those trips anymore. No siree. Doesnât matter that they have superpowers.
Anyways, time moves on and unfortunately, Patrick was eventually old enough to be drafted into the war. He said bye to the kiddos went and came back, kept in contact with the kiddos up until the sixties when the time bubble appeared. By that time, Patrick was at least 30 and the twins had strangely not aged at all, not that he minded because Fawcett was weird like that. Thomas was a toddler at the time of it appearing. The time bubble caused Thomas to have a rather unfortunate early childhood as his father was always locked up in his study researching and wondering what the hell happened to the town, to the people, and to his friends. Fawcett was just gone. Practically overnight. Eventually though, he gave up and started focusing on his family again. He died thinking everyone in that little down had been erased.
Fast forward 50 something odd years and BAM the bubble pops! Billy and Mary are now in the present. They got to meet all of the new heroes, including Batman.
Marvel: âItâs a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Batman Si- Patrick?â
Mary: âHoly shoot, Patrick really is you!â
Batman: âMy name is not Patrick-â
Marvel: âYouâre soâŠâ *looks him up and down* âYouthful! Did you finally make that elixir thingy?â
Marvel: âYou know? The elixir you always talk about. It was an elixir, right?â
Mary: âWasnât it called the elixir of life?â
Batman: âNoâŠ? I havenât worked on an elixir at any point in time.â
Marvel: âYeah, you have. We saw you! Youâd always read that little book and do a little experiments!â
Mary: âAnd then the experiment would fail, and then youâd come to us covered in ash because nine times out of ten it exploded. Then, youâd slap twenty dollars in our hand and ask for us to find more ingredients so you could do more experiments.â
Batman: âIâve never done that in my life. I assure you Iâve never met you before this moment.â
Now you know what all those mystical ingredients were for. Patrick Wayne was casually doing Alchemy. Everyone in Fawcett is at least somewhat magical after all. He didnât even know he was doing it too. Heâd still worked on normal human gadgets though, which still allowed him to contribute to Wayne Enterprises.
Bruce later went to his study (once Patrickâs study) as he remembered one of the books on his shelves was related to Alchemy. When he eventually found it and pulled it from the shelf, a photo slipped out. It was a photo of a younger version of his Grandpa and two kids which he both had in headlocks. When Bruce flipped the photo over, scrawled on the back was a date. After getting sidetracked and deciding to dig up some information on his Grandfather, Bruce came to the startling realization that this was when Patrick left for the war. This was a commemoration photo. Interesting. It was also interesting that the other two people- children in the photo looked suspiciously like the Captain and his daughter. Was this Mary and another brother, one that didnât dabble in heroics? It made sense now why the Captain and Mary talked to him like they knew him. They both mustâve thought he was his grandfather. Oh well, Bruce isnât gonna spoil the surprise. He can find out more information on them if he lets them think heâs his grandfather.
Marvel: âThe war really toughened you up, huh? Did you inhale chlorine gas and somehow survive?â
Mary: âNo silly.â *elbows him* âHe didnât sound like this when he came back from the war so something else mustâve messed up his throat.â
Batman: âMy throat isnât messed up in any way, shape, or form.â
Mary: âIt isnât? So you talk like that on purposeâŠ?â
Batman: *doesnât want to give away he isnât Patrick* ââŠYes.â
Mary and Marvel: *share a look before pointing and laughing at him*
Any nearby Justice League member was visibly surprised that Batman didnât glare at them. Bruce himself was surprised he didnât as well.
Robin!Dick: *standing beside Bruce as Bruce works at a computer*
Marvel: âOh Tommy! Wait, Pat, this is Tommy right?â
Mary: âOf course itâs not Tommy. He wouldnât feed the elixir to him while he was a kid. But then again, you can be a little stupidâŠâ
Robin!Dick: âDid you just call him stupid?â *sounds like he wants to laugh* âAlso no Iâm not Tommy.â
Marvel: âThen are you a grandsonâŠ?â
Batman: âYes, he is. This is Bruce.â
Robin!Dick: *extremely confused* âWhat?â