Bruce: you are going to clean this room and you’re not going to leave it until it’s done even if it takes until you’re 80!
8:00 am Bruce comes by to check.
Tim has pulled out his entire closet and is modeling his wardrobe for Richard. Some of his clothes seem to go back a few decades.
Tim has put his cameras on display on his bed. He seems to putting them in some sort of order and is arguing with himself about it. A clothes pile is in the corner.
Tim has found his old road carpet and toy cars. He’s playing Godzilla with Jason. Bruce questions his sanity as Tim picks up Jason’s car chewing on it.
They have abandoned the carpet. Jason and Tim are now playing the floor is lava using the many piles of garbage Bruce had told him to pick up. Bruce yells at them to stop.
Tea party on Tim’s bed. Damian as joined and Bruce isn’t sure if the rat eating a cracker behind them is one of his pets or a pest.
The room is quiet. Bruce wonders if it’s actually been done. He turns in to find Tim sleeping on the clothes pile. The rat is on his head. It pulls his hair and Tim’s arm flys up. Is it coincidence or is it ratatouille?
Bruce hears yelling. Runs down the hall to almost be hit by a dart. Discovers the boys versing Alfred in a nerf gun battle using the piles as barriers. The room has officially become a war zone. He has lost Alfred, his only ally, to it.
Chanting. Singing. He doesn’t want to know but he has to. Tim’s lying in the center of the floor, the trash and his junk moved aside. There’s a pentagram drawn and the rats are surrounding him. Damian is standing in front of him casting something. They all turn to Bruce. Bruce backs up walking away.
Screams. Bruce runs up. A pillow collides with his head and he doesn’t want to know what that smell is. Cass and Steph are there and they are ganging up on Tim in a pillow fight. Tim is some reason wearing a bra and pink frilly matching panties.
Bruce is beginning to lose hope. How does he break through to his son? He goes to check again. Kon and Bernard are there. They are all getting frisky on the bed. Bruce fears all new types of diseases and sends the boys scattering like roaches. No boyfriends until it’s clean! Maybe that will be an initiative.
More singing… soft fruity singing. Bruce hesitantly peaks in. Tim is sitting in his gamer chair wearing a Cinderella dress. A rat is sitting on his knee singing with him. Tim is sending him a message and it’s quite clear.
Arguing. Jason and Dick are mad that Tim’s Cinderella. They are calling him Nepobaby. Tim calls them the ugly stepsisters. Damian tells him he’s ugly. Tim reminds him that Cinderella had it good before the ugly stepsisters came in. War breaks out. The boys grab Tim’s dress pulling at it. They want to be Cinderella.
It’s been 12 hours. Bruce is prepared to cave in and clean his son’s room because that’s what a good father does. He hears pattering as he nears. He hears orchestra music and sees dancing shadows. Suddenly everything comes to a stop. He runs forward.
Tim’s standing in the center of the floor in a pink dress. The room is spotless. A rat behind him is fleeing away. It’s wearing a crown and a little purple velvet robe.
Tim: the rat king. He cleans dirty rooms in exchange for your fist born.
The rat king? It couldn’t be real… but he’d seen it. The rat pulling his hair. The summoning spell! The stupid rat singing!
Bruce: WHY DIDNT YOU JUST CLEAN YOUR FU-
The rat ran through a hole in the wall to Damian. Damian takes off the little crown. Dick fist bumps Jason.
Dick: we’ll never have to clean our rooms again.
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