Hunter's Game (Talia, Penance,and Robin)

[N.P.C.]

((N.P.C. is Talia Al Ghul))

The city known as Gotham is a flower bed for the most corrupt human beings ever born her father often says, If not for the detective and his chosen few the city would swallow its own poison and die is how he usually finishes the statement. She knows her father speaks the truth before Bruce emerged as the visage of justice he is the city had given up all it had to its worst element to those that only demanded more and didn’t care that hurting innocent people was the ultimate cost of their avarice.

Looking over the city hearing the cries of the emergency vehicles as they blare down the streets of the city their sirens echoing, she reflects on what brought her there. Standing on the roof of a building bought by her father to be a safe house for the both of them so, that if they had any business they would have accommodations. The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddle and many others began their life of crime here and even though they have sense reached out to other places they all come back here for one reason and one reason only to destroy Batman and take over the city but none have done more than delay him for a time but he returned each time and stronger and took each one of them down without fail.

The daughter of the man known as the Demon’s Head has a target in mind but not one for assassination but one that has drawn her intrigue one that she feels she promise. Mentally going over the file feels that her target can be useful and she planned to guide and instruct in all ways needed. The target has been free for a while it was rough from the pressure of incarceration. Lifting her hand to her ear she begins to communicate to her people.

“ I have eyes on you and the target as well as you our target has promise but still must prove itself worthy she will have three trails of fire, Trail one shall be the trail of Wits, Trial two shall be a trail of determination, and the last shall be a trial of understanding! T”

“Understood, The first trial shall commence shortly There will be a package that will take our target to the place where it all began. There will be a building that it will know backwards and forwards once inside a member shall inject our target with a solution that will steal off all of its natural senses one at a time starting with her sight. There will be two men the target knows all too well they will they will have information on how to get out but they will be connected to the targets let say incident will she believe them. ”

After hearing the response Talia gives the order to begin and waits. Batman has his disciples and she would have hers the beginning shall be humbling but will hard at first but shall have enormous benefits to come.

[Penance]

Been working at the Gotham docks for the past year and a half I’ve been off probation 6 months thank goodness the one thing I didn’t like was the fact of reporting in weekly and not being late or getting into any kind of trouble it seems like trouble follows you everywhere and I have managed to avoid getting into trouble like there is no tomorrow.

Getting into trouble wasn't the thing to do unless one wanted to go back to jail and that was one thing I didn’t want not by a long shot so staying out of trouble was the best thing to do.

Anyways the job isn’t the greatest in the world though it keeps me going and a roof over my head.

At least I’m not working with anyone, I prefer to work alone, knowing how my temper can get the best of me at times and when someone pushes the wrong button and things could get slightly messy. At least the boss was kind enough to put in the warehouse stacking and stocking inventory all day long.

Now if the boss wasn’t so dang cheap with equipment. The forklift is always breaking down and I usually end up fixing it in some way or form and I’ve spent the last hour fixing the forklift for the second time today slamming the hood of the engine down looking at the time only a few hours left before the shift was finished for the day, then looking at what was left to be put away.

Shaking my head going to have to bust my butt of to finish on time to get out, hoping into the seat of the forklift turn the key and it spits and sputters, “Come on you bucket of bolts and rust don’t have all day to waste here,” slamming my hand on the hood of the engine and it stops spits and sputtering, and I work my like crazy to put what was left away, finally finished up and everything is in order walking out seeing the clock and I grumble 30 minutes over the boss is not going to like it at all can hear him in the morning. I more or less roll my eyes and I head home tonight instead of going to the gym I’m hot, tired and miserable.

Stopping by the pizza joint on the way home picking up a small sub, bag of chips and a liter of coke to go.

A 5 minute walk home, taking out my keys unlock the door step into my apartment closing the door and locking it, head to the small kitchen noticed something on the coffee table, instantly setting the items down and pull out my Glock normally I pull out my favorite dagger though I do have to say the Glock is not as messy as the dagger is. Quickly doing a search making sure everything is in order after a few minutes checking the apartment out nothing is missing.

The odd thing is didn’t see any force of entry at the door nor the windows this has my nerves on edge the feeling I’m getting at the moment have a feeling something is going to happen really soon. Head to the kitchen and take out a paper plate open the sub and the chips take the soda with set them on the coffee table.

On the package there is a note taking the not off the top and the top opens, a chill slithers down my spine when I see the MP3 player who in the world knew I was at the orphanage when I was 14? The MP3 player was my best friend after I lost my parents, listening to the music always helped me calm down when I was upset or thinking of my parents.

Opening the note it reads,

I know of your past, you have a lot of promise like it or not to find out whom I am go the place where it all began if you fail to come I will not leave you alone until we have met each other in person.[/color]

Sitting back on the futon closing my eyes, who is this person more importantly how did this person know of my past?

The death of my parents were in the paper though I made sure no other important information was published. Though I wouldn’t put it past on some of the minor criminals would have dug out the information about me, or even some of the big villains like the Joker, might have an interest in me.

Standing up and walking over to the far corner of the living room/bedroom open two trunks and stock my belt with arrow head uzumak and devil crosses, taking my bowie knife out of its holster looking at it I sharpen it to a razor sharp edge sliding the bowie back into its holster make sure I have my curved dagger and it’s razor sharp as well make sure I have extra clips of ammo for my Glocks even though I don’t like using them in fight never hurts to have extra weapons on hand.

Slipping on my old red tee with the Saint James cross slipping on my cap and fingerless gloves.

Going back to the coffee table and reading the note again making sure I read it right and not missed anything must go to where it all began for me and that would be the orphanage haven’t been back to the orphanage since I left high school.

Heading out and lock up the apartment and head to the orphanage which is halfway across the city should take me about 15 minutes to get there; I break out in a light sprint and make my way to where it all started for me.

[N.P.C.]

(( N.P.C. is Talia Al Ghul ))

Kayleigh O’Connell is a Talia’s current project in progress. If not fouled up by Robin she might have tasted true justice. Four men assaulted a women the woman she considered her best friend which is a constant story of this city, citizens being hurt and murdered by the depraved and their loved ones left either to cry and hope for justice and some get inspired to obtain it on their own.


Kayleigh was among those and spent some time in Blackgate after letting her readjust and notice that nothing has changed so the moment has come to approach her. The men she has watching her report she received the package and has departed to find the answer of who has discovered her past. Excellent Talia thinks things are going exactly as planned and as long as she stays on top of it until the very end it will end smoothly and without notice.

The chill in the air is carried along the breeze that flows across her face and through her hair. With no doubts she knows that someone in this city is doing something he or she should not be, But she only has so many men and they are going to be needed shortly besides anything that can be a distraction shouldn’t be thrown away so callously.

She knows one day her beloved shall stand by her side and take his rightful place as the new Demon’s Head until that day Talia must do as she has done for as long as she can remember. Once this mission has been completed she plans to go to the next target who will not be as lucky he shall face judgment for his crimes and be executed by her in person he death is long overdue. The buzzing sound catches her attention.

“My lady our target has arrived!”

“Then keep watch of her and make sure everything goes as planned!”

[Penance]

Arrived at the old location where it all started the building was run down and falling apart in a few places and it looks like the building has been abandoned for years must be the orphanage was closed down because of the city building codes saying that the building wasn’t safe for anyone to live in it or the orphanage built a new building, more or less the orphanage was relocated or has merged with another orphanage in another part of the city in a way this was a bad location.

My mind drifts back in time can see images of my younger self walking down the hallways with a sad expression on my face just arrived at the orphanage a day after the accident.

I wanted to be left alone didn’t want talk to anyone after finding the room I was assigned I more or less locked myself in the room for a few days.

Time passes and I wanted so badly to be part of a family again hoping day after day that some couple would take me home with them, no one wanted a teenager everyone wanted a baby or someone younger than I was.

Once my hope was shot down for good deciding that I had to down the path in life I chose to go down.

The orphanage staff was very kind to take to mass on Sundays after I had a talk with them it was important I continued to go to church years have gone by I haven’t gone to mass since I left high school. I still have the faith not as much as I did when I was younger.

Shaking my head the memories of the accident, the orphanage still seem fresh in my mind like it all happened again yesterday. It seems like the wound has never healed the proper way. Once this over I should visit the old orphanage again I'm sure the staff has changed over the years since I left.

Quickly gathering my thoughts taking a deep breath letting it out, looks like this is where I find out who the person is who knows of my past. Reaching for the Kunai Uzumak’s and I open the front door it creeks with an eerie sound that echoes down the hallway, stepping into the abandoned orphanage very slowly checking the first room out.

[N.P.C.]

(( N.P.C. is Talia Al Ghul ))

The children with fractured pasts tend to be the easiest to manipulate thinks Talia as she watches the events unfold. Introducing the toxin in her system should be easy even though she has taken some precautions to prevent most types of danger. She could not have anticipated what is to come unless she has become a detective in her own right.

The building itself lent itself perfectly as a trap all the mellow tones hide well placed dangers. Once she is under the influence of the special drug. The bond some people have towards certain places is useful at times like this. Once she steps front of the door that leads to the headmaster’s office the she will set off a trap that will spray the drug in mist form in her face.
Shutting done the natural senses is hard work but not impossible she will feel extremely dizzy with each sense that is disabled. The last one will return to normal but it will take time at the end of this test if she is able to pass all of the test the cure will be presented but a failure will result in death.

The first sense she will lose will be hearing. On the desk of the headmaster there will be a note penned by a dagger. The note will inform her that will inform her that she is not the only one in the building that the person she must save is in her bedroom and the person will have a mask on their face hiding who they are and that she must keep the dagger with her.

She will have to get out of there without removing the mask. What she won’t know until she get in the her room is that the man is sitting on a trigger to a bomb he knows it so he will most likely put up a struggle so getting him out of the chair might be a hassle. Once she gets him up she will see he was sitting on a note along with the trigger which is inform her about the bomb and that all the ways out except for one have all been booby trapped and the front door was a onetime only exception.

She will have ten minutes to get out the only way to get out will be the door in the kitchen. Leaving her a can of Hardy Boy’s Chicken soup on her desk will be her only tip on how tip get out. The slogan of the company is “An escape from what is making you feel bad”.

“I hope she has a ken mind, Even though it is a difficult task I have given her she must be able to think and at times think fast to be able to withstand the trials of the league!”

[Penance]

Very slowly taking one step closer the door stopping not quit in front of the door taking a flash light that I brought with me shinning the light on the door way and door itself and the title forgot the firs room was the senior staff office3 looking around the door frame and at the bottom to see if there were any trip wires.

Over the years I have learned when checking out any building always look for strings to set off booby traps. After carefully looking the door frame and the bottom it seemed like the room was safe to enter. For some reason my gut tells me I should do a test before going in, reaching down picking up a small piece of wood and reach in just enough not to expose my hand seeing if I tripped something off.

After a minute nothing happened can’t stay like this all day taking out a handkerchief putting it over my mouth and nose carefully stepping in as soon as I step in I’m hit with a very fine mist.

At first I seem okay taking a step forward and I suddenly feel really, really dizzy the room starts to spin leaning against the wall on the inside of the room, feeling strange as if something was wrong.

And something is wrong it suddenly got really quiet as if I lost my hearing. I stay where I am quickly putting things together. Shaking my head mad at myself for walking into this, should have went to the other side first, no time to lose stepping towards the desk.

On the desk there was a note pinned down by a dagger, whoever wanted me must be testing me or messing with me, taking the dagger and note quickly reading the note.

The note said that I wasn’t alone and that I must save this other person and that this person and the location of the person is where one was assigned to sleep and that I had to take the dagger with me.

This person must be in my old room which is on the second floor of the building stepping out of the senior staff office quickly and carefully name my way up the stairs.

Reaching the top of the stairs the room was in the middle about 2 doors down from the landing of the stairs, slowly walking towards the room I could see the door was slightly opened which meant two things, one was that someone wants to lure me to step in front of the door and be blown away by being shot full of bullets, two there would be some kind of booby trap. Stepping to the side off door frame picking up a piece of wood that was sitting on the floor, quickly reaching over with the piece of wood and then quickly stepping out in front of the door and kicking the door fully opened and doing a quick sweep of the room making sure there were no other traps set that I could see from this point of view and set off, seeing the other person in the room sitting near the window tied to a chair and I slowly move toward the person. Not that I can’t hear this is going to make this a little more difficult never taken sign language I prettymuch know some body language.

Stepping towards the person remembering at the end of the note that the mask must stay on why I don’t know the mask will remain on. Kneeling down next to the person I quickly cut the rope away from the person’s hand.

Standing up and I gently take the person by its arm and slowly try to help the person to stand up. The person doesn’t want to move from where it was sitting I take a step back and let the person calm down and I try it again the person doesn’t move, from what the person is trying to tell me is that there might be another trap or something else. I had to get this person out somehow after two more attempts the person finally gets up with my help but the person was very leery because of the mask as if the person couldn’t see. Seeing something on the seat of the chair looking closer seeing another note and something I didn’t want to see, Damnit thinking to myself.

Quickly picking up the note and carefully reading the note most likely I won’t have time to waste, sure enough after reading the note and there was only one way out nothing in the note to help out.

Scanning the room which was left the way it was when I left for college on the desk I see something stepping over to the desk on the desk was a can of chicken noodle soup. Okay this was kind of telling me the way out was the back door which was the kitchen and that I only had 10 minutes to get out of the building.

Stepping back over to the person and gently take the it’s arm and lead it out of the room to the landing of the stairs since the person couldn’t see it struggled against me the struggle didn’t last long I gently picked the person up and carried the person down the stairs once on the bottom floor setting the person down I quickly and carefully led the person to the kitchen on the way to the kitchen I looked for any more signs of booby traps and trips wire that could set off more traps.

Reaching the kitchen door stopping and gently leaning the person up against the wall and again I did what I did up stairs checked the door for trip wires and other things didn’t see anything taking the person’s arm and we both step into the kitchen and make a bee line for the back door of the kitchen. Looking at my watch only had 2 minutes left and it looked like the door had been padlocked.

Reaching into my pocket took out my favorite Swiss knife and I used the blade to pick the lock it took 45 seconds took the lock off and opened the door led the person out and more less shoved the person away from the building and I dove out of the door and hit the ground and moved over to the person covered the person as shield when the bomb went off sending a lot of debris everywhere.

[N.P.C.]

((N.P.C. is Talia Al Ghul))

The girl runs through the place like a hungry mouse after a block of cheese. It would be more amusing if there were not a reason for such an undertaking and thus far she is proving her worth and potential.

Escaping the building by using all the elements around her was something the girl had to prove she could do but do under unusually circumstances. The first trial having been passed means only it was time to begin the second one. While hidden in the smoke of the recent destruction a couple of her men snuck in and took the man that was just rescued.

The men moved quietly none but her beloved would have felt their presence and while being deaf made it almost. The girl would soon find herself once again but this time for not as long. Ms. O’Connell sense of hear should be returning shortly and her sight will betray her first begin with a blurring of vision followed by a burning sensation that will start at the eyes and slowly encompass the whole head.

Out the darkness one of her men approaches Kayleigh. The man was one of Talia’s best fighters and would be taking part of this trial.

“Your survival is impressive. I am here to reveal your next task sense reading will not be an option. You have shown you can think fast with the ability to use your terrain. Now you must show you’re able to complete a mission when the enemy not only knows about but are attacking you!”

He gives her a moment before continuing.

“You must now travel from this place to the courthouse where you were sentenced. The place is not that far away the thing is you shall be attacked the entire way there. You have been warned.”

And with that he returns to the shadows.

[Penance]

After the bomb goes off feeling the blast vibrates and it shook the ground and the dust had settled rolling over to the side for a moment opening my eyes looking around to see the person I had helped out of the building was gone how could a person vanish like that? The only people I knew who could do that were the ninja and I would have kind of known what a ninja looked like.

Whoever this person was they were really good was going to ask the person if they were okay.

Standing up and I feel dizzy and there was this horrible popping sound in both of my ears going down to a knee with both hands over my ears for a moment taking my hands off my ears then there was this horrible ringing sound in my ears like someone used your head like a golf ball was about to bring my hands back up and decided not to.

A moment later the ringing stopped and I could hear again the sound of traffic hits my ears, shaking my head to clear it man this crap that I was sprayed with is very powerful.

Just as my hearing comes back and now my vision is blurry might have gotten some debris in my eyes.

Carefully wiping my eyes with a cloth in my pocket which didn’t work and then my start to burn and the burning sensation travels through my eyes and throughout my head, giving me a wicked headache.

I don’t want to close my eyes as everything is really blurry at few moments later my eye sight is gone. I try not to panic if my hearing was only gone for a short time, then my sight will come after a short time.

I have a bad feeling that this is another test of some kind. I quickly calm down tune my hearing to around me, as I remembered a martial arts lesson when I was in Japan. I had been blind folded for a lesson to test my other senses and I did really well with the lesson.

Hearing footsteps coming from a short distance and the footsteps are in front of me, I focus my hearing that way and I hear a male voice say it was impressed with the way I handled the first test and it was here to tell me about the next task or test. And that reading was out of the question and I have shown that I can think fast and use the ability to use what is around in the surrounding area.

And now I must prove that I’m more than capable to finish a task mission when the bad guys not only know where I am also the bad guys will be attacking me.

The male voice is silent for a moment to let me process this and the voice continues saying that I must go from here to the courthouse where I had been sentenced to jail the courthouse is not far from here and I will be attacked all the way to the courthouse and I have been for warned and I heard the footsteps fade away.

Quickly processed what was said, taking a deep breath letting it out knowing this area of the city pretty much by the back of my hand to the courthouse then again I could see where I was going.

All I have to do is keep my bearings and hearing tuned to street traffic I should be able to get to the courthouse, but I’m more than likely to fight a small army of thug to get to where I need to go.

Quickly taking my right hand and feel around the ground finding something cold and it is a piece of metal piping gripping the pipe I stand up and I quickly slide my hand on the pipe to feel how long it is, the pipe is long enough where I can use it to find my around objects and also use it as a weapon for a short time.

I have all other weapons on me alright I’m ready as I will be bring it on, listening for traffic on the street and I head for the street to head to the courthouse.

[Robin]

The night was slow, all Tim could do is wonder what could be going on. Typical nights in Gotham have him so busy, he wonders how there could be enough people to handle it; but nights like this send cold shivers down his back. When the city is this quiet, it means that something much more horrible than a standard carjacking is going on. He would have to keep his head on a swivel.

The alley cats made a ruckus as they fought over the territory between the buildings next to him. From the sound of it, it must have been a real dust up. Just below him he heard a lady screaming - must be a mugging. Stepping to the ledge he leaned over and saw everything. There were two, both roughly about the same build; tall and muscular both wearing dark clothing.

The only thing unique was the ski mask which bore the face of a rotting animal. But the shirts they wore had the shoulder removed so that their crow tattoos showed. He had been hearing about this gang. They were very new and were starting to make a name for themselves. “The Devil crows” are known for their tactics, being that they seem to have none. That and their tattoos - a crow with horns screaming at the sky with a skull in its talons that has a small globe in its forehead. Their weapons of choice are long jagged bladed weapons.

The gang’s leader has yet to be identified. That will be a different story when the time becomes right, and that time shall be coming shortly. One man had lifted the woman off the ground -one of his hands was massive enough to hold both of hers by the wrist. Sobbing quietly to herself, the woman had resigned herself to her fate as the other man looked through her purse grabbed some cash and threw the rest away. The men were too busy with their prey to notice that Robin had not only descended from the roof top, but was only a few short paces away.

The men were talking with each other about what they wanted to do to her and how they wanted to kill her. Robin shut the details out as they were not important. These men were going on an unpleasant trip. Tossing a gas pellet between them he got the drop on them, disarmed them easily, knocked them out quickly, and caught the lady before she hit the ground. When the smoke cleared the lady was standing between the two men, each of them now bound up to each other, and she was holding a phone that was already calling the police - and she will never know how she was saved. Getting back to the top Robin decided to head back to the cave, hoping maybe he could find something there, when an explosion caught his notice.

A few grappling hooks and a short glide later, Robin finds himself on the building that used to be across from a closed orphanage. The smoke began to clear and he thought he saw something. Switching over to inferred vision, he saw two people. By the way they were standing they must have been talking. Then, like it was never there, one of them disappeared.

People that can do that become a top priority. Since the other one was still there, Robin decided to make this a face to face meeting. Gliding down he landed a few paces away, just in case they were hostel. He turned off the inferred and the smoke cleared enough so he could see who it is standing there.

“I was hoping that if I saw you it would be under better circumstances… You are in trouble. That person who was here with you is highly trained. The only people I know trained like that is the League of Assassins. You have gotten on their radar somehow. I will do all I can to help get you through this. So tell me; what’s going on?”

[Penance]

Quickly moved to my left and darted towards the street keeping my senses ready for the attackers it didn’t talk long for the thugs to come out of the woodwork.

As quiet as they were I still could slightly hear them when they stepped on a rock or garbage that littered the alley way it was more I could sense them when they were near after I tuned my other senses.

At the last possible moment quickly bringing up the metal pipe that I had in my hands; blocking the first attack and quickly countered that connected to the thug hearing bones crack from the hard swing.

Quickly side stepping to the right and swung the pipe as it connected to another thug and I quickly whip around and darted to the street.

Taking out several more thugs knowing I only knocked them out for a short moment it gave me a little more time to reach where I was heading.

I’m pretty amazed that I can fight this good being without my sight.

Another thug takes it chances with me as I’m nearly to the street when I hear a slightly familiar voice say in the lines of when it saw me it would be in a better situation also saying that I’m in trouble.

Quickly turning my head in the direction of the voice and thinking to myself no kidding I’m in trouble can’t you see that? The voice distracted me and cost me a road house kick in the in the chest and a fist to my jaw staggering back almost go down but kept my balance and I was about to say something when I took out the thug that had kicked me or at least I thought so.

Catching the last part of what the voice said telling me that the people I’m fighting are highly trained and they were the League of the Assassins shaking my head and road house kicked the next thug grabbing the metal pipe that I was using as a weapon.

And that I had gotten under their radar. Never heard of such a group and that voice it would help me get through this and asked what is going on.

I really can’t talk and fight at the same time, not far from the street and I need to get there and head to the court house.

Darting towards the street again after taking out another thug man how many more of these guys am I going to take out before this over with? Hoping the voice would follow me, “Whoever it is they know of my past and I’m being tested for something though at the moment I need to fight my way to the court house. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to have help; though I’m going to take the chance and say yes I do need help also I’ve been temporarily blinded,” I said as I continued to head to the street which I knew was only a few feet away and then I would hang a right and go from there.

[N.P.C.]

((N.P.C. is Talia Al Ghul))

The little red bird decides to join the entertainment thinks Talia. Timothy should have been kept busy dealing with other matters not here someone shall pay for this inconvenience. Now that he is there with her subject of interest only thing is to let things flow as they will her beloved would have taught the young detective well enough to handle himself.

From the shadows comes one her many minions.

“Should we remove the interloper and teach him what it truly means to involve himself when it is not warranted!”

She lets the thought run through her mind but she had already made her mind up she only needed it to be said out loud.

“No I am curious on how things turn out… The little bird may turn into a blessing but if he is too weak to make through to the end then he is your to do with as you please my beloved has an eye for talent and can always find another!”

They it seems they are conversing most likely Robin must be trying to gather information from Kayleigh to fully ascertain the situation, It would seem that their prior encounter has left him a bit mistrustful that brings a smile to her face. The halfway point of their journey will the roughest since they will have to go through an alley and they will be trapped both exists will be have men there waiting and on the tops of both buildings.

She ordered more men to there as to account for their new foe. Everything is set for the third and finally act of this drama it will be a true testament of heart. It will tell if she is able to tap into the potential that the daughter of the Demon’s Head sees in her.

[Penance]

Reaching the street knowing that is was a two way street rounding the corner of the alley to the sidewalk and run as fast as I could a couple of blocks and fighting off the thugs with my hands and the metal pipe and dart across the street and down another alley way knowing the route to the courthouse which is only 3 more blocks from here.

I continue to fight off the thugs and run, another thugs comes from behind and I back flip over the thug and of course not able to see where I’m landing I lose my balance and stumble the ground.

Two thugs take the opportunity and try to close in on me, quickly getting up to my feet and reaching for my arrow heads on my belt and throw one to the left and a roadhouse kick to the thug to the right and swinging my right hand and connect it to the jaw of the second thug coming from the left who just got back up and is down again, and continue to dart down the alley.

I’m more than halfway hearing the street traffic and I race for the end of the ally, taking out several more thugs.

And for some reason I’m sensing more thugs coming out of the woodwork must be after the familiar voice showed up whoever is testing me is not too happy about me asking for help.

Didn’t step more than ten feet when a fist connected to my midsection and I go down winded the thug that had winded me try to take me and at the last possible moment quickly reaching for the bowie knife from the boot holder on my right boot and taking the handle and shoving it in the throat of the thug.

Quickly reaching for the metal pipe that I have been using as a weapon grabbing it standing up and slamming it in the midsection of another thug and I dart forward to the end of the alley I’m nearly there when a thug nails in the right shoulder and slams me into a wall and is ready to take me down.

[Batman]

The moonlight is cool and dark as I move amongst the shadows of Gotham, multitasking between my cowl mounted police scanner and the new prototype drone transmitter I'm field testing.

The scanner is a prototype from one of Wayne Industries police liaison projects. Useful for getting intel on possible hostage situations and the like. Abandoned because of possible fourth amendment issue.

I don't ascribe to the fourth amendment as stringently as the police.

The prototype works fine, but its not showing me what I want to see.

Gotham is quiet.

Too quiet.

Muggings, murders, armed robbery, these things are constants in my city, and what I'm looking at tonight is too quiet. There's some low level action going on, the odd bit of theft, but nothing serious. Far too quiet.

Something is going on.

I'm not sure what, but I intend to find out.

The drones end up spotting it before the police scanner. The flit of shadows through the streets. Unrecognizable to most, but well known to me.


Ninjas, foot soldiers of the League of Assassins. I recognize their movements, the style of their attacks, but not who they're fighting. A young blond woman with a red shirt, bearing a Saint James Cross symbol.

A new vigilante? A league recruit?

This bears investigation of a more direct sort.

I tap a control on drone, bringing it in close, and then grapple onto it, letting it pull me into the sky, my cape forming an air foil behind me. Yet another feature of this new technology. It'll have me on the scene in less than five.

The league will regret coming to my city.

[Robin]

The amount of combatants seems to be increasing at a abnormal rate. The league must have plans for her that is the only reason why Robin could see them going this far on tests, he was going to find out their endgame and ruin it for them.

Taking out his staff he enters the combat having fought members of the league before he knows that he had best both keeping moving and to stay alert. The first of his opponents tries to sneak up on him jabbing him in the foot with his staff he spins behind his would be attack and knocks him cold with a jab to the back of the head.

Kayleigh mentioned that she was temporally blinded and that she was headed to the court house given their position must be the one she had her day in court at. So there must be some kind sensory toxin in her system that keeps her from using her eyes.

Was this some kind test also something that has to do with the old saying that justice was blind that didn’t matter at the moment the only thing he truly needed to focus on was getting to the court house.

Another attacker this one charges him using his staff not only to parry the sword the was swung at him a roundhouse kick not only takes his target of his feet but takes him out of the fight. Is being forced to switch between point man and flanker. Her impairment means he would have to keep all the ones from attacking her that he could.

They were nearly there reaching the halfway point of the ally Robin sees the exit is guarded by league assassins and the entrance was now seal off also. Looking up he sees both roofs packed.

“We have to make a stand here. Beating them all is an impossibility but if we can do enough to get by and to the court house that should be enough.”

[Penance]

Quickly gathered my strength and shoved my knee into the thug’s royal jewels. I know it’s not polite to hit someone in the jewels by hey in a fight a lady has to do what she has to do and if it is to fight dirty and that what I plan on doing to reach the court house.

The thug goes down although there wasn’t any screaming of pain or painful moaning still that had to hurt like the devil.

I move forward despite my right shoulder was throbbing like crazy form being slammed into a brick wall I take another thug out with a road house kick to the head.

Hearing Robin joins the fight and it sounds like his is using a staff
which is kind of unusual then again nothing is normal anymore when fighting.

Then I heard Robin say that we had to make a stand and beating all the thugs is all but a impossibility though if the two of us can work together and do what was needed to get by and get to the court house should be efficient.

As I continue to fight taking that in, and it meant one of at least two things that told me.

One there are a crap load of thugs we have to fight off to get to where I need to be, two it also meant that the end of the alleyway has been blocked off which meant I was trapped like a rat in a cage and cornered.

The old saying goes never corner an injured animal for they are most vicious when wounded and will fight and fight hard they will also tear you to pieces and fight to the end to gain their freedom, and that’s what I’m going to do.

Sensing that Robin wasn’t that far from me speaking quickly,
“not what I was expecting to be cornered sounds fair enough to me.”

Another thug tries to take me from behind whipping around and slamming the pipe into the midsection of the thug and to the back of the head the thug goes down.

Was about to step forward when a thug took my arms from behind and holding them tightly which made my shoulder throb even more.

Quickly forced my hearing and I just barely head the second thug coming at me. I quickly take my left foot and slam it hard on top of the thug’s foot that was holding e and quickly break the hold and I flip backward over the thug and road house kick the thug in the back reaching for my bowie knife and I slam the handle into the back of the thug’s throat.

And the fighting continues and the thug’s keep coming hope we can both hold out until that lucky break.