Chapter 17 - [AT] Throw Away The Plan...

[After Transition]

We are making our way from the cliffs edge to the mansion, we are passing by a lot of hedges that are neatly cut or are designed to resemble something. I even passed by one that resembled a certain masked crusader, I wonder if that some kind of secret entrance to the Batcave or just a play to Bruce's ego. Bruce might not even know he has this and Alfred has it done for fun, Alfred is known for his blank sense of humour.. oh... shit. I hope this isn't one of those universes where the Joker died and Alfred Pennyworth pretended to be him because he knew that Batman needed a archenemy and took it upon himself to fulfil that role. If it is that then we would be in serious danger in there though I doubt it as that only happened in one continuity but you can't help but ask right. I mean I pretty much traveled to the DC Multiverse but the universe itself that I transitioned to was randomised, I don't know what is happening here so it is best not to make assumptions, Alfred Pennyworth is just a former soldier, a former actor, a former teacher of espionage for the MI5... its best to be cautious.

We are now closing in on the outdoor pool because of course Bruce Wayne would have one, he's a playboy bachelor who is horndog, that's the narrative at least. I am letting Selina take the lead as she is more familiar with security measures and how to bypass them, I don't have much experience with anything aside from my knowledge on trans-dimesional energies and dimensions. I have only picked up a few bits and bobs along the way, building a machine to travel to different universes isn't easy and requires most of your time, I don't have time to use my powers or build cool shit and make contingency plans. Before I was reincarnated I was just an average joe and though my intelligence is way higher now and I can understand nearly everything I still think how I used to which means I am not the best at utilising my intelligence and make some mistakes, I will resolve this in the future.

It looks like Selina has just pick locked the back door or something, I honestly wasn't paying that much attention. She's signalling me to come inside with her and I subsequently oblige, she walks with a purpose and seems to know where she's going so I'm just going to follow her. We are about to walk around a corner before my enhanced sense pick something up and I quickly pull Selina back and quickly covered her mouth when she was going to scream in surprise. I quickly drag ourselves backwards and around another corner where I then let her go, I then put a finger to my lips and make a shushing sound. I peak around the corner and she soon follows me in action.

Rounding the corner is one Alfred Pennyworth, honestly my sense just barely pick up the sound of his shoes tapping against the floor which I guess make sense due to his background in spying. A good servant is seen and not heard or a butler in this case, he stops in the middle of the hall and looks both ways and checks every inch of the hallway. I make sure to pull myself and Selina backwards before he spots us, after making sure that everything is as it should be he turns on his heel and stalks off down the corridor and around another corner. That was close, we should be careful, a good butler knows every inch of his household and will be able to tell if something is off and Alfred Pennyworth is the very ideal of a good butler.

After waiting a few seconds to make sure he's not coming back Selina once more takes the lead and starts to head down the hall that Alfred appeared from, I follow her as she traverse down a few different corridors and turns a few corners before we finally stop outside of a door no different than the rest in the manor. She proceeds to prod and check the door a few times before kneeling before the lock and starts to pick it using one of the claws extended from her fingertip, I guess that's what I missed when she was opening our entrance point. A click resounds in the silent corridor before she stands back up and opens the door before pulling me in with her and immediately closing it behind us.

She starts to look around the room for a seconds for a few seconds before alighting to the desk in the middle of the room, I guess this is Wayne's office and it's pretty threadbare and plain. "Good job avoiding the butler, I didn't even hear him approaching he was so silent. Wayne's an idiot and he's left the blueprints on the table, I'll just quickly nab this and we can leave, I doubt that the pig will notice." She extends a hand for the blueprint but my own hand quickly shoots out and grasps hers before she can touch it, Bruce Wayne may project himself as a buffoon but he's as sharp as a door nail and would definitely notice the blueprints gone and it wouldn't take him long before he links it to the Catwoman. Normally since Selina is kinda screwing me(not the good kind of screwing) I would just let that happen and wipe my hands of the situation but if he catches Selina she will undoubtably reveal me and that leaves a trail which batman will definitely follow through on. It's better that we do this as clean as possible and leave no trace behind so that this won't lead to me in the future,so that I don't have a Bat on my a.s.s.

"Wayne may be an idiot but his butler and the people around him aren't and eventually someone will see that the blueprints are gone, they will then proceed to make changes or scrap this security immediately which will make these blueprints worthless and we will have essentially wasted our time for a few easy robberies. Here's a camera I picked up during my day out on the town, snap a few pictures and we can sneak out of here and no one will be none the wiser." I hand over a mini camera which I procured from my back pocket, you never know when you will chance upon something juicy and wish you had a camera. I am not above blackmailing others if they are a bastard and deserve it plus sometimes a little blackmail comes in hand, as a great old man once said 'For The Greater Good' which sometimes proves to also be beneficial to me.

She paused for a few seconds but doesn't deign to comment, she just takes the camera out of my hands and starts to photograph the blueprints making sure to capture the entirety of the different pages before she puts all the blueprints back in the same place. That's fine but I don't doubt that batman will be able to tell that something is a bit off, I quickly move towards the desk and put the blueprints back int the order that it was in before placing each page individually in the desk layering them and making sure that they were placed exactly as they were before we had entered the office. I turn around and Selina arches an eyebrow at me in question. "I'm just making sure that the room is as it was before we entered it, I told you I want to do this as cleanly as possible without leaving any evidence. Now let's get out of here before the butler comes back."

I quickly make my way towards the door and pull it open only to have the barrel of a shotgun pointed towards my face... I stare down the barrel into the face of one Alfred Pennyworth and he doesn't look horribly pleased...

"Hello uninvited guest, I always love to entertain people but I do believe that you have overstayed your welcome.."

Well f.u.c.k...

'Make the plan. Execute the plan. Expect the plan to go off the rails. Throw away the plan.'

The plan just went off the rails..

It's time to throw away the plan...