章節 214: CHAPTER 211
"GCPD, we have this building surrounded, put your hands in the air and slowly exit the building or else we would have no choice but to smoke you out ourselves and I promise you it won't be pretty." A voice said through a speakerphone from outside.
"I would have liked to completely break your spirit tonight but that's our que to leave, see ya around." Before she could utter a word, I immediately cloaked Talia and myself, nullifying any sound emanated from us at the process.
"Wait, where'd you go?" She asked as she watched us suddenly disappear. "Come back, we are not done yet!!" She yelled out.
"Stay close and follow my lead." Talia who had already taken a battle stance, looked at me with a raise brow. "Relax you deadly assassin, there's no need to engage her tonight. The police are right outside and we both know Batman would be here any second now."
"There's no way she is just going to let us leave like that, and how about the police right outside the building?" Talia questioned, full of doubt but they were clearly understandable. The orange haired meta-human looked around for a bit before giving up, then turned back to the door as she was probably thinking of an immediate escape plan as her colleagues were already dead.
"Then it's your lucky day, or should I say night." As Talia gave me a confused look, I shoved both hands inside my pocket then walked past her, and out of the building. Looking up I saw Batman and Batgirl as they arrived at a nearby rooftop right next to the scene, while the hostages who escaped earlier were giving reports, information to the police so they could get a better understanding of the situation they've stumbled upon.
There was no way she could come outside pretending to be an innocent victim of the incident as everyone there would definitely identify her as their captor and oppressor.
The Commissioner of the Gotham Police signaled for the SWAT and quite a number of teargas was tossed through the top windows of the building. Being a private establishment, there were no windows at normal level but about eight foot high along the wall.
Few seconds after hurling the teargas inside, a fully geared up SWAT team smashed through the doors, others crashed through the windows using harnesses.
Talia and I were already up in the air, with her in my arms and about flying off when the heavy sound of multiple gunshots emanated from the establishment as the sound of men screaming in fear and agonizing pain caught everyone's attention.
Batman immediately dived into the building through the window but was sent flying back out through the door as he crashed into the hood of a police car, damaging the windscreen that instant.
Wearing her mask from earlier, she jumped out of the smoke and attacked the officers at a speed faster than they could react to. Others opened fire but she cleverly moved in a pattern that lead to friendly fires.
Batman and Batgirl engaged her in a two V one combat as they traded blows and kicks, it was quite entertaining to watch until she punched Batgirl in the guts so hard that she dropped to the ground.
Batman did a back flip then leaped into the air to put some space between them. He shot his grapple hook to wrap around her leg to restrict her movement but she evaded it and took a boosted step towards him, then punched his jaw with a fist crackling with electricity, enough electricity to give him a slight concoction while falling to the ground.
"You should be safe here, if I don't do something she would end up slaughtering every officer at the scene. We can't have that happening now, can we?" Dropping Talia at a rooftop I turned back down to see an officer shoot her with meta-powers dampening cuff but she dodged it and gave him an instant head shot with a piece of glass on the ground.
"Since when do you care about the life of the police?" Talia asked.
"I don't, but they are part of the reason why Gotham isn't a complete lawless city, even though a bunch of them are so rotten that they would look the other way for some change."
"Ugh… Admit it, you just want to fight her."
"True, she already picked a fight with me and it would be rude to ignore her challenge. She wouldn't stand a chance against me but she might serve as some entertainment for me tonight, especially after seeing how she moves." I said as a smirk slowly found it's way to the corner of my lips.
She kept shooting Batman with jolts of electricity as if playing with her meal before devouring it.
"You know, I've always wondered why a superhero without any powers remains alive even after fighting meta-humans with extraordinary powers. Well, this is the end of the road for you, rodent." She taunted, then she rose both hands into the air as electricity crackled and gathered around them.
"Haaaahhh!!!"
She screamed in agonizing pain as she held on to her ears. Batman had reached for a sonic tech in his utility belt which produced a frequency that could affect meta-humans in it's radius. "Just kidding, you'd have to do a lot better than that." She said as she gathered electricity around her hand like some anime character. As she was about to strike, I quickly grabbed her arm from behind, still cloaked, I made her instantly disappear from the scene.
…
The evening unfolded with a sudden crash as the orange-haired girl collided with a large container in a ship yard, leaving a pronounced dent in its metal surface. As she staggered to the ground, a mix of frustration and determination flickered across her eyes. "Hey, don't you dare interfere with my business. Batman was mine. But don't worry, you'll compensate with your life," she declared, her voice a blend of madness and arrogance.
Meanwhile, Tom, seemingly unfazed by the chaos, descended leisurely onto a nearby crate, his demeanor calm and collected. "Easy there, no need to get all blood thirsty on me. How about we start with introductions? I'm Tom," he suggested, his tone casual yet alert.
The orange-haired girl scoffed at his attempt to defuse the tension. "And what does my name matter to a soon-to-be-dead man?" she retorted, her grip tightening around a metal rod that lay within reach. "This place is deserted, no one will hear your screams. You've chosen a perfect spot for your demise."
With a swift motion, she infused her powers into the metal rod and hurled it at Tom with deadly accuracy. However, to her surprise, Tom remained unperturbed, not even flinching as the rod hurtled towards him. Just before impact, a subtle shift in the air occurred, and the rod was sent back with incredible force, surpassing the girl's initial velocity. It narrowly missed her by a hair's breadth, piercing through the container behind her with a resounding clang.
"They said you were indeed powerful, I didn't take it you would be near invincible too." She grit her teeth and took on a firm stance as if ready to give it her all.
"They?" Tom asked, replaying everything that had happened that evening as if piecing them together as he watched the black iron sand begin to raise up into the night air. "As in the robbery wasn't a coincidence but an assassination attempt against me?" He asked with a raised brow.
"Shut up and die already." She replied as electricity ran through the iron sand around her and she extended it around Tom who just seemed to be a bit fascinated by the light show. "Controlling the iron sand with magnetism, I have to say that's quite brilliant."
She seemed to get more pissed off by his remark as she created a vortex with him in the middle, then caused it to implode within itself and with Tom right in it's eye.
"That should do it." She muttered, but to her surprise the imploding iron sand vortex was suddenly dispersed like it was canceled out.
"Okay, I see you're quite skilled and creative with your powers, but I'll give you just one last try to prove this wasn't a complete waste of my time. Then you'd have to answer a few questions of mine." Tom informed her, still curious as to why he would be targeted even after living a life of a teenager who doesn't seem to have anything notable going on.
Gritting her teeth in shame, surprise and humiliation, she thought to herself. 'He's able to repel my attacks without even trying. There is no way he is that strong there has to be a trick behind this ability of his, at least a blind spot.' A slight smile appeared on her face as an idea came to light within her.
"That's it, give it one more go." Tom said with a smile as the iron sand began to rise up into the air again while they swirl and shaped into numerous spears all around him, from every angle imaginable, including some hidden ones beneath the ground right below him, hoping there must be a blind spot or draw back to him repelling each and every one of them.
"You better give it your all because I can't really break your spirit until I've belittled the most powerful attacks you have in your arsenal."
"Shut up and die already, you scum." She yelled and every one of them began to rotate so hard that they began to emitting a radiant glow due to the intense friction and electricity coursing through them. "This is the end." She declared and the rotating spears began launching themselves at Tom from all direction and with slightly different timing from each other as the heavily magnetized spears tried drilling their way into Tom.
章節 215: CHAPTER 212
[Bruce Wayne's POV]
"What exactly happened out there Master Bruce?" Alfred asked as Batman and Barbara hopped off their vehicles and proceeded into the workspace of the Batcave.
"I don't know Alfred, but that didn't seem like a normal robbery." Turning to Barbara, Alfred raised a brow, hoping she throws more light on the matter.
"Everything felt off, most of the robbers were already dead, killed by an highly skilled individual." She said before taking a seat right in front of a portray of monitors and began typing away.
"I recognize those killing techniques, it is one often used by the League of Assassins." Batman said to them.
"The League of Assassinsr? Surely the hostages witnessed who killed them." Alfred suggested.
"Yes, we questioned a number of them and they said the other robbers were killed by a lady with black hair and a kid with snow white hair." Batman said as he looked up to the screen.
"From the collective data, the descriptions matches theses two." Barbara tapped on a key on the keyboard and two profiles appeared on the screen, one of Tom and the other of Barbara.
"And what connects these this two? It's quite odd to imagine such polar opposites having dinner at such a private and exquisite restaurant. Alfred shared, stroking his chin as he read through the profiles displayed on the screen.
"That's what we need to find out. What Talia al Ghul has to do with a kid like Tom. Especially since this is the first League activity since the disappearance of Ra's al Ghul." Bruce replied.
"The only robber left alive was a female who appeared to be too strong of a meta criminal to have gone unnoticed for this long." Barbara added.
"Anything on her?" Batman asked and Barbara immediately clicked on another button and a profile of the oranges haired criminal displayed with no detail next to it. "We know about those two but her on the other hand is a complete mystery, there is absolutely nothing on her. She doesn't exist, we only got a picture of her from our case recorder."
"The only person's who went missing from the scene apart from this criminal, are Tom and Talia." Batman pointed out as he began to go through the tape from his fight against the mystery girl.
"There's a sudden and abnormal change in the atmospheric pressure of a ship yard at the other side of Gotham, near Bludhaven." Barbara reported.
"Contact Nightwing and have him check it out immediately, and try pulling up a live footage of the scene so we know what's going on over there."
"On it." She replied as she got on the task. "Tapping into the ship yard's virtual feed." She updated.
"That's odd." She muttered.
"What's wrong?" Batman asked. "I am not getting any signal from the cameras, almost as if they might have been disconnected or had their circuits fried. "
"Tell Nightwing to hasten up, something big is going on down there. Gear up, we're also heading out. Even if we don't make it in time, we could investigate the scene and to better understand what might have taken place there." Batman instructed before heading straight up for the Batwing, and Barbara right behind him.
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[Tom Hendricks POV]
Having exhausted herself by deploying a series of attacks at Tom, one after the other, she dropped to her knees as she continued to pant heavily.
"I don't know how many times I would have to tell you before you get it into your thick skull that no matter how hard you try girl, you can't hurt me. So why don't you give up on that and just fess up who sent you after my head and why. Then maybe I might consider not giving you a slow and excruciating death." Tom advised as he watched her stumble to her feet.
"I will have your head, this isn't just business anymore but now it's personal." She replied, breathing through each breath as she refused to give Tom an answer.
"What did I ever do to you to make it personal? You're the one who's been attacking me, all I've done is use your attacks against you because I know one direct attack from me would end this little fun we are having tonight."
"Fuck you and your messed up mind. The reports only mentioned you were strong, I guess they failed to mention how sick in the head you can be." She said as she began to draw in electricity from high up in the sky and surrounding buildings, creating a spear made out of pure electricity in her hand.
"Okay nameless girl, I think that's about enough." Tom said as he noticed the huge amount of electricity she was harnessing, so strong and powerful that it was possible for her to lose control of it the moment she hurl it his way.
'I will put everything I've got into this shot. At least with this, even if he tries sending my attack right back at me, I could release the compressed electricity and change it's form into an out of control array of intense current and electrocute him till there's not even a mustard seed size of moisture in his body.' She thought to herself as the electricity crackled around her and the spear she held in her right hand grew longer and brighter.
"This is the end, your arrogance to not wanting to dodge this or make a run for it, would be the end of you." She muttered before hurling the massive bolt of electricity at Tom.
"I said that's enough." Tom dashed right at the electrified bolt which came at him with the speed of light, grabbed it midair and compressed it into a small and more intense bolt of electricity before launching it right back at her.
'No… Way.' She thought to herself as she raised both hands in front of her, attempting to quell the lightening bolt and regain control of it but it was proving difficult for her.
The force from it pushed her backwards as her legs dragged along the ground while she finally got it under her control, but it was too late. Before she realized it, Tom had made his way to her side and landed a blow so heavy against her rib cage that it sent her flying into one of the containers in the yard, leaving quite a dent upon impact.
"I think I might have broken quite a number of ribs." He muttered to himself as he casually approached her unconscious body. "Now go to sleep like a good little girl, you would need all your strength when I start with you." He said to her before telekineticly lifting her off the ground, then flying off across the waters and into the night sky.
…
[Jason Todd's POV]
Scouting an alley from a rooftop, Redhood kept an intense gaze at the front of a red door in the depths of a dark alley sidewall. Rain droplets bounced off his helmet and leather jacket as he watched three suspicious men on suit approaching the building he was staking out.
He dropped to the ground of the alley and perched next to a Dumpster to get a closer look at them when he noticed the one in the middle had a brief case with him.
He watched them walk inside and followed through the door, deciding it was time to act. He did the same and to his surprise he was met with another door ahead and with a security guard in front of it. "Hey ugly, step aside." Redhood said to a hulking dark skinned man on dreads, he stood in front or the door like some guardian of some sort. Without giving a response, the hulking man reached for his pistol he had hoisted to the belt on his waist.
*Arrghh!!*
He yelled the moment a hurled knife ripped through his hand and out from the other side of his palm. "Keep it down you Oaf." Redhood said with a stern tone, charging in as he struck the jugular vein of the so-called Oaf. He reached for one of his pistols and struck a blow on his head.
As the body dropped to the ground, Redhood proceeded to toss a small disc-like device through the red door that was previously being guarded. Behind the door was a small crowd of men all dressed in black, having their guns trained at the door.
They looked down below to see the disc stop right in front of them. "Get down!" The one in front yelled, but before they could react to it, it exploded, resulting into a smoke screen.
They fired gun shots through the smoke but Redhood glided across the floor, shooting two down as he tackled another to the ground. "Incoming call from Master Tom." Gwen's voice echoed in he's ears as he fought on.
"Bad timing bro, am a bit busy right now." First thing he said as the call connected. "Good, you're a bit busy. Meaning you are just a bit occupied." Tom replied from the other side of the line as more men came swarming in from the back rooms and firing at him.
Diving to a corner, he peeped from the side of the wall to see how many they were but got more shots fired at him. "I'm literally getting shot at right now, so yeah, bad timing." He replied before reaching out his gun to fire back.
"Okay, I guess I would do it myself. And by that I mean call someone else to do it for me. Have fun playing soldier with your little friends over there." Tom replied before handing up.
"Sometimes I think he forgets not everyone is as invincible as he is." Red Hood muttered to himself as he let out a sigh before returning to the rain of bullets firing at him.
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