Chapter 21 - [AT] Getting My Stick.

[After Transition]

Escaping from Wayne Manor wasn't all that hard, we just went the way we came though I think that in the future such an avenue won't be possible again. After wall crawling along the cliff face with an excitable cat on my back and making our way back to the road it was just a matter of skulking along the rooftops with a variety of leaps and bounds till we reached back to Selina's condo.

We were just nearing Selina's condo when she decided to stop on a nearby rooftop, well this should be interesting. "Listen slick, I need to drop this off at my stash and I don't quite trust you enough to show you where that is so why don't you wait for me at the condo, hmm?" She turns around and says.

I proceed to walk past her to the edge of the rooftop. "Just make sure you have my memory stick when you get back, that's all I'm bothered about." I tell her without looking at her, I then leap off the edge of the building without waiting for a response and round a corner till I'm out of sight. As soon as she can no longer see me I bound up the building and land on the rooftop, I slink towards the edge of the rooftop and look for Selina. She's still at the rooftop and is looking off into the direction I left, after a few seconds she turns away and pounces off in the direction we just came from.

Of course she would try to mislead me about the possible location of her stash, we probably already went past it and she didn't want to drop off her I'll gotten gains with me still around. Well too bad that I'm gonna follow her to her stash, I can't trust that she would actually give me my memory stick so I'm gonna follow her to her stash and hope that it's there. If it isn't I can just steal her stash and ransom it for my memory stick, all is fair in love and war and this isn't either so I caan be brutally unfair.

I have been following her for a while and she doesn't expect a thing, though my training with Earl wasn't exactly great in reference to fighting(he was a 70- closing in on 80- year old man, there was only so much he could do to teach me) the other subjects he taught me he could still easily do. That means he was easily able to teach and transfer those skills to me with the utmost ability as it required minimal physical effort from him. Now I may be proficient in such skills but I don't have much experience with them, what this means is that I can easily do such things but I don't know when to exactly apply them. I am inexperienced and apart from my brief superheroic stint with the Fantastic Four(which isn't really applicable as we were dealing with stuff that isn't really humanoid and alien technology which I didn't really have a handle on) and every situation that I came across that one of my skills might have been applicable there was always someone else who could do it faster and better(Reed Richards, Susan Storm and various other people I had the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e of working with). Now I'm on my own in this universe with no such support and I'm either gonna succeed or I'm gonna die, fight or flight, ride or die you get the idea, I'm basically gonna fake it till I make it.

After a few more minutes she finally slows down at a rundown neighbourhood(which a sign I spot identifies as Park Row) and after looking around to make sure no one is looking she quickly pounces up the side of a rundown building and through a tiny window. The building from the outside is broken down and demolished and from other angles it looks like on the other side of the window she just scurried through is only debris and you can see the window, though curiously there do seem to be quite a few stray cats around, curious indeed.

I quickly scuttle up the side of the building using my stick'em powers and using my nimble spider enhanced body to slip through the window, immediately on the other side is just debris but using my night vision(one of my lesser spider powers) I can see that there is a narrow shaft going directly down with pipes and debris jutting out of it. Only someone with a nimble body would be able to fit down there, which means Batman and pretty much the rest of his rogue gallery wouldn't be able to do it. This is quite the clever place to hide your valuables as only Selina would be able to get through, Harley Quinn might be able to do it but she is friends with Catwoman and has no reason to.

That reminds me though I've researched the heroes in this universe I haven't researched the villains which is a big oversight as they are the most likely to be the ones to force me to act, like the current situation with Selina, case and point. I have no idea what villains are currently active and if the Joker is up and about, well I don't think I will be sticking around in Gotham for much longer.

I have been travelling down the shaft and it is quite precarious, we are definitely underneath street level now so her stash must be in the bas.e.m.e.nt that most likely is no longer accessible from the surface(except the window). Honestly I think that i might never have discovered this place if I didn't follow her here, you know what they say, cats and their crevices. Or I might have just made that up, the point still stands cats can get just about anywhere if they put their mind to it. There's a reason why they're called 'Cat Burglars', or is it just s.e.xy thief's who are called 'Cat Burglars'.

Unfortunately for this 'Cat Burglar', I swallowed a spider when I was fifteen.

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