Chapter 156 - [AT] Holding The Bank…

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I ride the rail with my boots giving the maximum boost possible shooting me grinding down the rail at speeds that would be dangerous for a normal human but I'm not a normal human as I can take an infinite amount of more beating than them and so it hardly fazes me as I'm boosted at break neck speeds down the secret passageway and with my enhanced eyesight I spot the end of the passageway which is just a bit a bit metallic semicircular door and I'm about to contemplate slowing down to figure out a way past this when the doors begin to open by themselves making me wonder whether this is an automatic response to something travelling down this passage at high speeds or if Alfred has noticed my absence and has opened the door for me but either way I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth (at least a gift horse I can trust) and so I continue to grind the rail to the very end, nearly reaching the end of the rail I jump disconnecting my magnet boots at the same time to give me both lift and speed as I shoot out of the hidden passageway exit into the air while spreading my arms out and pulling my cape taut to start gliding through the air and as I do so I take the time to appreciate the fact that Wayne Major is built on top of a mountain and so the secret exit brought me out at the side of the mountain (to a road with a sheer cliff) meaning I could boost through without issue into the air without slowing down and so I boosted out of the mountain into the air high above Gotham City giving me an amazing view of the city and the bright lights as well as the bustling noise of the city and when you look at it like this you can't see all the bad things or hear all the pain and it gives you hope that this city might be salvageable since it looks alright from here but I shove that thought out of my mind and focus myself back on my gliding to get to the bank as fast as possible.

At some point during my flight through the air towards the bank I realised that the boost from the railway was wearing off and so to maintain some degree of speed and height I began to dive downwards and then pull back up to catch some air beneath my cape to give me lift as well as speed and while every time I did this I did manage to near my previous height in the sky my position was still lowering and so at the cost of my altitude I was maintaining my current speed to get to the bank as soon as possible and I did manage to get quite far as well as close to the bank but at that point I had lowered enough to the ground that there were now a lot of buildings impeding my path and so it was at this point that I decided to retract my glider and begin to swing through the concrete jungle using my own ingenious invention, instead of having the grappling gun like Batman and his sidekicks I instead opted to have a more streamlined and powerful version attached to the underside of my wrist as part of my costume (it is indeed retractable if it ever becomes a hindrance instead of a benefit, pretty much all add-ons and pieces with metal parts are retractable since I want that option if I ever run into anyone with Magneto's skill set) and this had the benefit of being much easier to use and smoother to apply to aid my traverse of my surroundings and the reason that Batman and the others don't use this is because while streamlined the wrist attached grapple would still way down their arms and impede them when they are fighting others as the extra weight on their arms will make them more ċumbersome and my device is also more powerful the theirs since I am actually able to handle the extra power while if they used it their arms would be ripped out of their sockets so overall thanks to my revealed regeneration I have access to a lot more tech and firepower than the others which is just great for me.

What really pushed me to use this version is how similar it is to another version of travel I really wanted to use and as I stretched my hand out allowing a grapple to punch through the air and wrap around an overhanging gargoyle I marvelled at the feeling of swinging through the air before retracting my previous grapple and shooting out another from my other arm to continue swinging through the city towards my destination and while I did enjoy the rush of swinging through the air I still couldn't help but feel that there was still something missing whether it be that fact that I'm not using webs (which means I'm not actually web slinging) or the fact that there was always a pause between each swing due to the fact that I had to retract my previous grapple instead of letting it go like you would a web strand but as much as I enjoyed this form of tracks I still couldn't help but anticipate actually web swinging one day and I don't know if it's because I have exposed powers now and I want to try it or if it's engrained in my spider addled DNA but I feel a real urge to do it, this form of swinging will have to do for now and while it's not the real thing it's still close and it feels so natural for me to swing through the air like this and while there is a lot of mental calculations required such as angles and distances I find it very easy to do meaning my experience is nothing but pleasant and there are plenty of things for my grapples to wrap around (a whole fuċk ton of Gargoyles on nearly every building in Gotham City) so I swoop through the dark streets with ease with no one seeing me (no one ever looks up) or being any the wiser as I move through the city at break neck speed with the grace of a dolphin (after getting used to the swinging, everything has a learning curve) and closing in on my destination I manoeuvre myself through the air for a final big swing which would launch me high into the sky above the city and once I'm launches up into the air high above the city I spread my wings out catching a nice gentle glide to take me the rest of my journey to the top of the Bank currently being robbed by Two Face as well as hiding my approach to the building from everyone on account of being so high and landing with nary a sound on top of the roof.

The Police are surrounding the bank with officers cordoning the ends of the street off with dozens of police cars laid out along the street with nearly twice the amount of police officers hiding behind the vehicles each holding their guns with only one person who I recognise as police commissioner James Gordon holding onto a megaphone while crouched behind a police car and I can only ȧssume that he's already used the device before I got here since he promptly drops the megaphone to the floor and takes out his guns and it's at this point realise the fact that there are numerous bullet holes (most likely from a shotgun considering the spread of the impacts, along with bullets from a few other guns such as machine guns and pistols interspersed throughout) in the police cars in front of the Bank with quite a lot of bullet holes actually being in the car commissioner Gordon is hiding behind and I noticed of few points of impact along the floors in front of the cars as well which means these thugs from Two Face's crew didn't even consider any negotiation to get out of here even with them being surrounded and instead decided to start shooting at the officers outside and I doubt that Two Face would allow them to do that without a reason as he's not stupid so the guys ali side the Bank must have some leverage otherwise the cops would have retaliated by now, I duck down to hide when I finally turn my gaze on the buildings surrounding the Bank and spot nearly a dozen snipers on them all aiming down at the bank focusing on any of the windows with a clear view obviously looking for targets and I'm glad they are so focused on the inside of the building since I was not aware of them when I flew down and so it's only my good luck that my presence here is still unknown but what may be perhaps more worrying is the fact that snipers are actually here and not just a few but around a dozen which could only mean that the situation inside is a lot worse then I expected and the only reason that a bunch of snipers would be here patiently waiting is that there are a bunch of hostages inside which just made my job ten times harder.

Having gained a scope of the situation outside of the bank I now turn my gaze onto the inside of the bank and I do this by edging myself over to one of the glass ceilings on the roof and leaning forward to peer through into the building but my view is blocked by a big ȧss expensive looking chandelier (Dwight would probably be salivating about the perfect crime now, no wonder Two Face decided to rob this place it's fancy as fuċk) which irks me a little bit but I pay it no mind as I use a finger to tap the side of my cowl activating an alternative mode (Robin calls it detective mode, but it doesn't really help you be a detective instead of helping to identify people based on their best signatures as well as scan the surrounding for various things) which allows me to see a whole lot more than I should be able to as I can see through the building and see quite a lot of heat signatures through the building and going off of the schematics I pulled up on the small computer interface on my arm and using the alternative mode to apply it to my surroundings I actually have a physical map of my surrounding along with enemy locations, I can tell that right now there are a few people wandering around the halls of the building probably on patrol with some guards stationed at all the exits with mor guards stationed at the main entrance and while their are a few more thugs pissing around in a few rooms without the supervision of their boss I notice five people in what should be the vault and going by the actions I can see them performing they must be stealing all of the stuff in the vault so I can leave them alone for now since that will take them quite a while but most of my attention right now is focused on the main hall of the bank where there are quite a lot of thugs standing around one of which must be Two Face (can't really tell just going by heat signatures, he is still just a regular human after all though half of him is badly burnt) but what really cat he sky attention and worries me ante the bunch of heat signature maybe around fifteen or so that are also in the main hall but different to the other heat signatures these ones are in the ground with the thug heat sources surrounding these ones so I can only conclude that there are around fifteen or so hostages down there that are stopping the police from coming in to take these guys down as well as stopping the snipers from taking their shots at these scum.

Realising just how serious this situation now is I take a moment to review all of my possible actions in this situation and just what I can do as well as how the thugs as well as the hostages inside might react in turn not to mention the previous Arkham Asylum inmate Two Face who is looking to be bat shit crazy and a wild card on that is too unpredictable Ona Fflint of his instability, but there's not a lot to go on right now which is why used my enhance senses and push my ears to the limit to hear just what's going on inside and see if I can gather any more information that would aid my current mission, I came out tonight thinking that this would be over but that's clearly not the case…

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