Chapter 109 - [AT] Sweet Karma...

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Landing roughly in the ground I toss and roll across the floor before coming to a standstill facing the ceiling which was weirdly tinted orange but when I looked around me I saw the fire spreading all throughout the factory with the flames burning high and bright but another thing I noticed when I looked at the ceiling of the factory is that the ceiling was collapsing from the explosion of the van and when I looked to where the hell splashing originated I see nothing but piles of debris piled up and burning away with most of the debris being metal and when I look above at the ceiling where Batgirl was once hiding I notice that it has collapsed and has blocked the exit effectively trapping us in here but what I'm more worried about at the moment is Barbara's location as the rafters she once hung off of have now collapsed to the floor in a fiery rage so I'm worried where she could've ended and I didn't have time to keep track of her after the matron got her hands on the fallen gun and started firing at me and the kid in my arms and speaking of the kid he's no longer struggling in my grasp as he's calmed down and is just gripping onto me tightly which I honestly prefer as it makes it easier on me to not worry so much about what he's gonna do but for now I have to focus on trying to get out of here with the kid before the fire spreads to o far and we can't get out but also before this kid inhales too much smoke and dies as I'm fine inhaling the smoke because of my enhanced abilities and powers, standing up I make sure to keep the kid tightly grasped against my c.h.e.s.t with one of my hands making sure to press his head into my chance to make him less likely to breathe too much smoke but I'm afraid that this isn't such a good preventative measure so I'm gonna have to hurry up and find another way out of here as the garage opening is no longer feasible on account of it being barricaded by so much debris and I don't have the time to remove it plus it's on fire as well.

I begin to look around the place looking for a possible exit that doesn't require me to use my powers to escape from but so far it looks like I won't have a choice as pretty much all sides are blocked off by raging fires and the opening I do see at the moment are on the factory ceiling which is half collapsing but I'm afraid I don't have my web shooters on me to help me get up there and I would need to use a wall or surface to wall crawl up there but unfortunately all my paths to any such surface are blocked off by fires but I suppose I could just use my enhanced jumping ability to leap up there as that would be easily done but I would have to do it perfectly so that the already crumbling ceiling doesn't collapse when I jump out and land on the roof so that is a last resort as I don't want to use any of my powers to escape if I can find any other avenue to escape without my powers but if I'm left with no choice then I can use the roof holes and just hope that no one spots me though that seems up in the air right now as I don't actually know Barbara's fate and if she's in any position to see me using my powers, I look around to see if there's anything I could maybe use like a fire extinguisher or some rope or anything that might be useful but I don't seem to be able to find anything and I now know that life isn't as convenient as video games where you'll find a fire extinguisher in the kitchen suspending in mid air surrounded by a blue aura and spinning slowly to show that you can pick it up and so it seems my last option is to use the ceiling and escape using my powers but first I want to make sure that Barbara isn't watching me or anything because I'm pretty confident that she'd be able to escape the blast being and experienced and trained as she is but still I shouldn't shirk the idea that maybe she was caught in the explosion and is trapped somewhere and so I begin to close in on the debris that now stood in place of where the van was whole also straining my ears to see if I can hear her with my enhanced hearing but all I seem to hear is the roars and cracklings of the burning fire.

I'm nearing the burning debris to see if I can spot Barbara through it or hear her by straining my ears but it seems that she must've gotten clear of the explosion as I can't see any traces of her not even the batarangs she threw earlier as they've probably already been swallowed up by the bristling fire and reduced to ash but as I'm straining my ears I manage to hear something coming from the direction that I found the kid at send so I begin to walk towards it while trying to focus my hearing to block out the crackling of the fire to see if I can identify what the sound is but as I near I can also begin to see some figures and silhouettes through the fires and I can just about make out there figures of which there appear to be two though one is a lot less lively than the other and it isn't too hard to figure it out who is on the other side of the fire and they must've been lucky (or unlucky) enough to find themselves in a clear spot that wasn't consumed by fire but as far as I can see that doesn't seem to be for long as they are pretty much trapped there. "HELP! PLEASE HELP ME!!" I hear the screechy voice of the matron call out through the fire but even that is a little difficult to fully make out and for a moment I give Rome thoughts to the possibility of answering her pleas and helping her and the drug dealer survive as leaving them to die while having the power to save them might count as a sin and doom me to death and I'm not about to die just because I didn't save these f.u.c.kers and so I begin to think about how I might save them, the fires are too high so I won't be able to get through by jumping over them, the ceiling is too unstable for me to jump up and attach myself to it to get over to them.

I don't have a fire extinguisher to help me put out the flames to get to them, I don't have my webshooters to help me either and my enhanced abilities don't seem to be able to help too much in this situation but if there's a chance that they can be saved and I don't find it and end up being killed by the Spectre than I'm gonna be pissed so I begin to rapidly look around my surroundings to see if there's any avenues I can find to help them and each second I don't see any options I only feel better but I can't spend too much time here as the child in my arms is in danger as well and I'd much rather save his life than theirs but as I try and look around that doesn't mean that those two are staying idle, I might even go as far as to say they are being very detrimental to their own situation and they don't have enhanced senses so they don't know that I am on the other side of the fire trying to figure out a way to help them no matter how much I don't want to but that doesn't seem to discourage the matron as she continues to screech out for help. "SOMEBODY PLEASE SAVE ME! I DON'T DESERVE THIS!!" The matron screeches out but it seems like the drug dealer has had enough as he promptly stands up from where he was sitting on the ground and shouts at her. "Shut the f.u.c.k up bitch! We wouldn't be in this situation if it wasn't for your dumbass so the least you could do is shut up and let me die in peace without listening to your annoying f.u.c.kin' screeches!" He bellows to which the the matron retaliates with her own words. "Shut up! This is all your fault when you decided to go and burn this place to the ground along with those kids, we would have been fine if we just left things as they were but you had to go and decide to shut down the good thing we had going, YOU," she finishes punctuating her last point by poking him in the c.h.e.s.t really digging her finger into him which he shows when he reacts to he actions by pushing her back and away from him. "GET THE F.U.C.K OFF ME BITCH!"

Unfortunately for him he pushed her a bit too hard and far as she only managed to stabilise herself before falling into the flames but that wasn't enough as her arm still brushed against the flames and caught her sleeve upon fire which quickly began to spread across the rest of her sleeve and start the process of lighting her on fire and I began to her her screams in anguish and worry and in her panic she began to frantically move around and thrust her arms in all sorts of directions trying to blow the flames away but oxygen just makes a fire bigger which was being shown as the fire began to grow and start consuming her and she in her panic began to realise that waving her arm around wasn't helping and she decided it was better to move her whole body and so she began to run around while on fire in pain and screaming in anguish and she ran right into the drug dealer who also consequently caught on fire oddly starting with his sleeves as well which lead to a chain reaction of them both being conducted,ed by the embers and running around in panic all the while both of them screamed hellish screams of anguish that I took great p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e in hearing and I was glad that they ended up killing each other before I figured out a way to save them.

With all the screams the child in my arms naturally got curious and began to lift his head up to look around but I pushed his head back against my c.h.e.s.t and this time I made sure to cover his ears as he definitely shouldn't be listening to their dying screams, me on the other hand? I'm going to enjoy this for what it was. Karma, sweet karma...

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