batwomans_gotham | Looking for Prey

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Looking for Prey

Thick leather boots gripped the edge of the rooftop as a young man peered over a rough end of the city. The east end, in particular. With the awful blackout that occurred not an hour ago, he was pretty busy. There had been no sign of Batwoman, and he was very glad of that. He was not...afraid, per se, just very wary when working the same time she was. He assumed she was very protective of her territory, which included the City, and he wasn't going to simply stand aside and let her be the only one cashing in on the fun.

Hunter grinned, there was a very poorly organized bank robbery that he had just foiled and the bumbling idiots had no idea who they were up against. He was new at this vigilante stuff, but after all he had been around criminals most of his life, unfortunately, and was too trained to be a fighter. Martial arts was something of a hobby in school, but he had persued it seriously once he had gotten older. He knew he would need it, with the kind of people hanging around at home. His theories were put to practice, of course, once he decided to don the costume.

Ah, looters. Will they never learn? He double-checked his crossbow and threw out one of his nifty new grappling guns, swinging to the chaos below.

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When she heard the gun, Spoiler thanked her lucky stars that one her costume was padded with bullet-proof armor. And two, that it missed her completely.

She looked at the group of mean-looking men, "You do not seem to understand, this whole city is our territory," (yes she was making them think her and the man were working together), "and we say that they can not just take what they want."

Spoiler looked over to Hunter, she could toss a smoke grenade and use her heat vision in her mask to fight them... but he did not seem as equiped. So instead, she flung out her bat-a-rang again, and it made a direct hit of the gun in the lead man's hand. Making him drop it.

Hunter's costume was slightly bulletproof, slightly meaning he had a vest on underneath his maroon leather and that was about it. He did have a grappling hook and some first aid in the two packs on each side of his belt, as well as plenty of ammo. However she looked like she was packing some dangerous heat of the non-lethal sort.

He glanced over at the girl, seeing that she made it look like they were working together. It was a smart move, a team united came off as looking stronger. He inserted another bolt in the crossbow and aimed it the lead man's head, who had a murderous look on his face. Hunter absolutely hated gangs with a passion, they had ruined his life, to say the least.

"Get outta here, or you're dead." He meant it, too.

The thing about gangs is once you start hurting their leader, they start to falter. Spoiler could see it in their eyes, the fear and uncertainity of what to do next.

"Go on... scat!" She threw a flash grenade just in front of the group, scaring off a few of the more timid men.

"Yeah...get outta here," Hunter leaned his crossbow against his shoulder when he saw the men start to take off. The leader cursed a blue streak at the rest of the men starting to run off.

"Hey, we don't wanna get arrested and these baby Bats will have their hands full with everyone else," yelped a skinny guy with a beanie into the leader's ear.

"Yeah, 'cept I'm not anythin' near a baby Bats, you know, it's not like we got team numbers on our backs," Hunter sneered. The flash grenade worked very well though because it warned off any straggling looters, and soon the department store was empty.

"Yer gonna get yours, ya losah," muttered the gang leader, who reluctantly backed off. "Just ya wait."

"I'm shakin' in my boots. In fact, tell all yer friends about me. I'm the Hunter." He shot the crossbow bolt straight at the man's head, but he flicked his wrist at the last second so it embedded itself into one of the metal columns near the door.

"So... The Hunter, is it?" Spoiler said, from where she stood. Looking around to make sure that there were no more stragglers to deal with, "I'm Spoiler."

"Spoiler, nice ter meecha." He stuck out his gloved hand, resting the crossbow on his other shoulder. His eyes studied her through his domino mask. She seemed and looked young, or at least from the way her voice sounded, even though there was a very strong tinge of maturity running through. "I've never seen ya around before. You new in town?"

Spoiler shook the offered hand, "you could say that."

She listened to the sounds of the city, frowning at how the blackout has a several pronged effect, "so where to next, Hunter?"

"There's a shopping district not too far north from here. They'll be sitting ducks, they don't have good alarm systems I think, too poor." He shrugged, but grinned. "Wanna play?"

"Sounds good." Spoiler grinned, "we just should avoid the Batwoman."

"I'm with you all the way on that one," he winked. He did not want to run into her tonight either. "Shall we?" He took out his grappling gun and made for the door.

"Lets go," she followed him. Glad that Hunter wanted to avoid Batwoman as much as she did so.

He didn't waste a second more, he fired off a line towards some office building and let the force take him upwards, hitting the edge of the wall with his boots and climbing to the roof. Now it was easy, it was just three blocks to the north and they were at the tiny shopping district. Sounds could already be heard of looters, and even gunfire. Hunter perched at the edge of the nearest roof to the block of little stores, a slight look of worry on his face.

"That's a lotta people down there. It looks almost like a...a riot already." There were several police cars down there already but one was being attacked by riotous looters.

Spoiler had been able to follow him with her own grappling hook, and was by his side as he headed three blocks to the north.

"I am thinking perhaps a tear-gas grenade, or flash-grenades, or smoke-grenades. They work well again rioters."

"You really are prepared," Hunter laughed. "I need to get me some of those." He dug in his pack and took out a flammable crossbow bolt. "Meh, these might scare 'em off too."

He took out a lighter and lit the fuse, and fired it off into the crowd rather recklessly. It was actually a sort of jury-rigged firework tip and it whistled and sparked wildly.

Spoiler watched him fire the crossbow, hoping his aim was true enough not to hit anyone innocent. Meanwhile, she tosses down tear-gas grenades, hoping to dilute the crowd with them.

His bolt just missed some guy with a giant trench coat, terrifying the man and making him drop what looked to be a thousand dvd's from the movie rental place down the road. Hunter just laughed as he ran, sparks flying everywhere.

"Gotta get another of these babies to do their work," he lights up another firework bolt and shoots it into the smoke.

Spoiler quirked an eyebrow as Hunter laughed, and watched the second crossbow fly into the tear-gas smoke. Down below, the rioters were now confused, and more than a little scared. "Shouldn't take too much more to scare them off," she comments.

He studied the crowd below, hoping that the tear gas would dissipate enough so that they could jump down in there to finish the job. He didn't have anything in the way of protecting himself from gas, and wondered vaguely if she did. Another check on the list of things to get to make this whole vigilante thing work properly.

"You wanna dive off the deep end?" He cocked his head in the direction of the crowd below.

Spoiler waited a couple more minutes, while the tear gas disappainted, then nodded. "Lets go!"

She fired off the grapple hook, and headed down towards the rioting crowd.

He was glad she waited, he wouldn't have been able to do anything much with the tear gas around anyway. The people were confused and some were wandering around in circles. Hunter fired off his grappling hook and swung down to the mess below.

It was truly chaos, some people were even trying to jack TVs and other items from each other. The police had arrived but there was just too many people in the one little street. Hunter was a bit wary when it came to having police around, somewhat because this whole job wasn't exactly legal, and also because of his upbringing. He wasn't sure if they were okay with the idea that they were basically taking the law into their own hands. But they probably needed the extra hand right now anyway.

"Hey! Everyone, I got an announcement to make!" He yelled in such an authoritative voice that several people actually heard him above the roar and turned around. "GO HOME!" He swung his crossbow around like he was going to shoot at them and they ran for it, not bothering to try and even figure who he actually was.

Spoiler in the meanwhile was doing some crowd control, directing some non-rioters out of the way, and just in general taking out those rioters who tried to get to close to her or Hunter.

He thought that their own brand of crowd control was working pretty well, until a shrill alarm burst out of one of the small pawn jewelry stores in the middle of the mess. He glanced about, the crowd was too thick for the police to get through at the moment, they were in the middle and the police were at the edges. He sighed, thinking it was a bit silly that the looters hadn't even gotten to that shop yet, and was surprised that their alarm system was even working after the blackout, much less in this neighborhood.

Which meant that there was something worth stealing in there.

"Hey, you wanna check this out?" Hunter motioned his head towards the dark store and snuck closer to it, crossbow at the ready.

The alarm had sort of come out of nowhere, but Spoiler was thinking the same thing that Hunter was. Something big had to be in there. She tossed a flash grenade to break up the crowd of rioters even more, so they were small enough for the police to handle, before dropping by his side.

"Right beside you," note how she said beside instead of behind. As if they were a team, instead of one leading the other.

Spoiler pulled out a bat-a-rang in one hand, sneaking closer to the dark building.

He grinned when they came in together, it was kind of nice working in a team. Hunter was a lone wolf mostly by choice but even more by circumstance, and this little excerise was teaching him that yes, it was actually advantageous to work with others.

The crossbow was held straight in front of him rigidly, he almost was afraid that if some guy jumped through the fading smoke and mist from the leftover gas he would accidentally shoot them, he was so tense.

"Y'think they're armed?" he whispered as croutched lower as he got near the broken glass door. There was broken glass everywhere, the window displays were all broken and knocked about. "There's prolly a safe or somethin' in the back where they are."

"Would be a safe assumption," Spoiler replied. "If they are after something big, they would be armed and ready to take it."

She noticed how tense Hunter was, "just listen to your gut, it won't let you down."

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