Re: Gotham Knights and Days

[Jakazul]

>>Can Batman come? Am I gonna have to play another pregnant woman? What happened to Dammage? Am I asking too many questions?<<

[nightwing]

Robin or rather Tim Drake strolled into Gotham Heights High School, feeling like absolute crud. He hadn't gotten much sleep last night and with his parents in an inhumanly happy mood, he felt a bit tired.

"Morning Timbo!" shouted Tim's longtime friend Ives.

"Hey Ives, whats up?" Tim asked in a yawn.

"Dude, did you get any sleep last night?" Ives asked sarcasticlly.

"Naw... You know the saying... I can sleep when I'm dead."

"So do you want your funeral before or after lunch?"

"Ha ha..." Tim smirked. "Remind me again why I put up with your abuse?"

"You're a closet sadist?" Ives chuckled.

Tim forced a smile. "IVES! TIM!" shouted a female voice. They turned to face Callie, Ives' off-again-on-again girlfriend. "Have you been listening to the news this morning?"

"Good morning to you too..." Ives sighed.

"Shut up, I'm serious." she snapped.

"No, why?" Tim asked.

"Somethings going one at the Gotham Memorial Hospital! Some kind of hostage situation! It's been absolutely crazy! The police have half the city blocked off!"

"Do they know who's behind it?" Tim asked trying not to sound to urgent.

"No, but something is seriously going down. I'm telling you Ives it's like something out of a movie or comic book! I can't believe you two didn't..." Both Ives and Callie turned to find Tim vanished.

[nightwing]

Robin soon stood ontop of one of Gotham's Banks that stood across from Gotham Memorial Hospital. It was a huge pain in the butt sneaking into this area, what with all the police swarming the streets and skies. But it was so much easier than it was during No Man's Land.

On the way to the hospital Robin had called Oracle asking for assistance, but she told him that all available operatives were busy. Meaning he was on his own... yeah...

After sneaking in through the sewer system, Robin was inside Gotham Memorial. According to reports, the suspect or suspects had the hostages on the first 13th floor. Kind of poetic if you thought about it...

Robin was suprised how light the security was, by the criminals. There was no one around. Could the crooks be that stupid? Joker is insane, but he is never this sloppy.

All power in the building had be cut by the police, so Robin forced his way into the elevator shaft and fired a jumpline up. Using the grapple gun, he retracted his line and slowly made his way to the 13th floor.

Once there the Teen Wonder moved silently around the floor. What this a prank? It seemed no one was here.

>Thud!<

Then again...

Robin looked through a cracked door and found a small group of cancer patients seated against the wall. In front of them was a very large man in a trenchcoat and ski mask. Just one man? Officially Robin was confused. Why would one man hold an enitre hospital ward of cancer patients hostage?

Not wanting to get the hostages in danger, Robin forced the door open just enough to make a sound. As expected the crook noticed the sound and then turned back to the others.

"Move and Die," he growled in an almost inhuman voice. He then turned to investigate the hallway. Just as he stepped out Robin swung his bo-staff striking the man directly in the face!

The man staggered back at the blow and then turned to face the teenaged vigilante.

"Didn't anyone teach you it isn't nice to kick a man when their down." Robin said, then swung his staff under the crook's legs and attempting the knock them from under him.

Suprisingly the crook had amazing reflects and not only jumped out of the way, but kicked Robin in mid-flip knocking him back.

"Now you shall die young one!" he snarled in the raspy inhuman voice.

"Jeeze, why does everyone always want to kill me? Is it something I said?" Robin quiped as he readied a Bang-a-rang and then threw it at the man, who caught it with ease.

"You attack me with toys?!"

"Yup," Robin said as the batarang elxpoded in the man's face. As the flash cleared away, Robin found the mask on the crook's face had been burned away. And what was beneath the mask wasn't what he was expecting.

Before Robin stood a blue reptilian skinned, glowing green eyed, creature. A demon.

"Oh cripes..."

[nightwing]

"DIE HUMAN!" the demon screeched as he threw out a clawed hand at the Boy Wonder. Robin spun around, avoiding the claws and back handed the demon in the face. He was positive he had just bruised his hand very badly!

"Ow... Jerk..." Robin sighed.

The demon leapt at Robin again, the teen vigilante blocking each blow with his fighting staff! Unfortunately the Demon had super-normal stregth, while Robin as skilled of a fighter as he is, he is still only human and was running out of steam.

"Your blood will flow like wine!" the demon shouted.

"Wow, you are such a poet," Robin responded, leaping out of another claw to his gut. His mind racing, Robin saw one resort left. He could only hope that Comissioner Akins didn't hold it against him...

[nightwing]

Dropping a gass pellet, the room was filled with a cloud of smoke as Robin made a hasty retreat from the demon. Unfortunatley this demon saw through body heat, rather than normal vision and took chase.

At one point the demon had grabbed a hold of Robin's cape in an attempt capture the teen. Thankfully Robin had been able to remove the cape and continue running.

Yet unfortunately Robin ran right back to the elevator shaft that he had entered in. The demon was right behind him.

"You have annoyed my master for that last time boy!" the demon growled.

"Yeah, well you can tell you master to kiss my a-"

"DIE!" the demon shouted leaping at Robin. Robin leapt back into the elevator shaft grabbing a hold on the elevator cable. The demon followed the Boy Wonder but wasn't as smart as him and fell down the shaft. But yet again, the demon's reflexes had been suprisingly fast as his claws broke into the wall of the shaft and began to crawl up the wall.

"Oh come on!" Robin sighed. "Oh well..." Taking out a small blowtorch, Robin began to cut through the elevator cord. The demon's speed was amazing as he raced up the wall. "Come on. Come on..." Robin growled to himself.

Just as the demon almost had Robin, the cord to the elevator was cut all the way through, and the elevator began to drop down the shaft! At the last moment Robin leapt out the open Elevator door and on to the 13th floor.

Meanwhile the elevator came crashing down shaft, crushing the demon beneath it's weight and killing it instantly as it crashed down into the bottom floor of the hospital.

"That wasn't so hard...." Robin sighed.

[nightwing]

As the police and medical personel ran into the building, Police Commisioner Akins stood waiting by the alley next to the Hospital. Ever since he took over as Commissioner for Jim Gordan, he had quickly come to know when one of them were involve in a case.

"Comissioner," came a voice from the shadows.

"My god!" Akins jumped. "Can't you people wear a bell or something."

"Sorry."

"My God." Akins said seeing Robin's bloody nose, bruised face and his cape completely shredded. "Shouldn't you be in school?" he asked.

"Shouldn't you be behind a desk?" Robin responded coolly.

"Fair enough. Where's your boss?"

"You know he doesn't do sunlight. Are all the hostages okay?"

"Yeah..." The commisioner said. "But what happened with the thug?"

"What do you mean? I told your people that he was killed in the elevator," Robin was un-nerved.

"I know, but when we checked we didn't find a body." Akins' face became lined with worry. "Is something wrong?"

"I don't know..."