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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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."

Her advice did him some good, and it certainly proved yet again that she was a more experienced crime-fighter than he, no matter how old she might have been. He relaxed his arm a bit, but still kept his crossbow at the ready as he threw his back to the edge of the store wall, and considered peeking his head around the corner to see who was in there. But that could be dangerous in itself. He grabbed a large piece of glass, and angled it so he could see who was behind them.

"Uh...kinda dark. Got three big men, all with uzis or something. They're crowding around some lighted room in the back. Guess they brought a flashlight." He squinted, not being able to see anymore as they shifted and moved out of his line of sight.

"I think they're probably more than that, maybe more in the back. How do you think we oughter do this?" He felt a little awkward asking her, but she would probably know a way that wouldn't get them both killed.

"Flash grenades, and lots of them, times one after another. The light and noise would take them by surprise, and most likely make them waste bullets. At the last one, we go in, and take advantage of the situation."

"So let's do it," he grinned, a bit of good-natured madness flickering in his eyes. He loved getting the drop on people, he rather admired how Batwoman perfected the technique, but of course he wasn't going to ask her about it. "You'll havta take this one, as you can see I don't have any of the aforementioned."

Spoiler nodded, then quickly and quietly rolled the first of her flash grenades towards the goons. It soon dropped to a stop, and exploded into a bright flash of light, taking the robbers by surprise.

Hunter used this to his advantage and slid into the store a few feet past the door, still croutching down and having is crossbow at the ready. No one was shooting yet, which unfortunately meant they were smart.

Spoiler threw her next flash grenade, with a flick of her wrist she aimed it so it would come at them from a different angle. If these guys were as smart as they seemed, she would not want to give them her location.

There were yells, and he finally heard a wild shot, but other than that it was pretty quiet. Someone had probably an itchy trigger finger and that was about it.

"I hope they didn't sneak out through the back," said Hunter worriedly, leaning his crossbow on his shoulder for a moment.

"Lets go see, follow me and stay close to the ground." Spoiler slides forward, hoping that the men were still in the vincity.

Hunter had her back, taking a moment to make sure the outside was secured (barely, but with the police the riot was quieting a bit) and he crept inward slowly. He could see a bare faint outline of figures and fedoras, and he groaned.

"Great." He squinted through the fading mist. He whispered. "Uh...they probably don't have a back way out, or if they do they won't be able to reach it in time. Wanna bust in on them or make this a steathly job?"

"Stealth, give them least time to shoot at us." Spoiler whispered in reply.

She lowered herself to the ground, and started to commando-crawl towards the figures. Trying to get numbers and sizes that they would have to deal with.

He nodded (though what good would that do in the dark), and let her take the lead, following her crawling style. Even though that was a little hard, balancing his crossbow and all that, trying not to let it make that clickety-clack noise. He popped his head up as they were deeper into the store, and they could hear voices. Two men were stationed at the dimly lit doorframe.

"So what is dis thing dat they're makin' sucha fuss ovah?"

"Beats me. Just do yer job and shaddap."

There was two of them, and two of the guards. Spoiler quietly signalled for Hunter to take one side while she took the other. If they were lucky, they could take the two men at the doorway down without making much noise. Quickly, quietly, and without calling attention to themselves.

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