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Post by Jakazul on Dec 17, 2003 23:27:59 GMT -5
"I should be, just get here fast." Batman flexed his abdomen. The injury, three knife slashes to the chest, was bad, but not unstandable. He pulled out a grapnel gun and fired it into the roof of the van, then kicked off and swung in, his feet slamming the doors open and leaving him a clear path of debris to land in, two batarangs already unfolding in his hands. "Give it up Hatter." He snarled, aware of the jolt of pain in his stomach.
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Post by Falcon on Dec 17, 2003 23:28:06 GMT -5
>>Don't capture them just yet...I have....plans. ;) <<
"Who are you, my dear?" Mad hatter asked the girl as he took a neatly folded blue dress from a small box.
"Alice." She said in an even voice.
"Perfect. Will you obey my every command?"
She nodded.
Hatter grinned evily. "Perfect. Now....put this on. I've no doubt your bird costume had a tracer of some kind. "
She nodded again and took the Dress that he handed her as he stepped to the front of the van and closed the small sheet that divided it from the back.
Mad Hatter looked up to the roof. "Looks like we have company. Dear me, I didn't even have time to make tea!"
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Post by nightwing on Dec 17, 2003 23:30:15 GMT -5
Robin was driving his cycle like a man possesed, he avoided oncomming traffic, trucks, pedestrians and more. "Damn snow..." he growled. It was slowing his speed down considerably.
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Post by Jakazul on Dec 17, 2003 23:31:31 GMT -5
"What the..." Batman glanced around the van. Empty. That's when he saw the small, LED timer at the front and the unconcious man at the steering wheel. With a fierce bolt of pain he leapt forward, grabbing the driver and smashing through the windshield just as the false van exploded.
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Post by nightwing on Dec 17, 2003 23:32:41 GMT -5
"BATMAN?!" Robin cried out, as he heard the explosion over their com-links. "Batman do you copy? Batman?!"
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Post by Jakazul on Dec 17, 2003 23:33:51 GMT -5
He hit the ground, still holding the driver, with a crunch as his head slammed into the snow, then rolled into an alley leaving a trail of blood. "Robin! Come in... Robin... Wrong van... Try tapping Rachael's tracker...I'll be...fine." He grunted, then passed out.
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Post by nightwing on Dec 17, 2003 23:36:01 GMT -5
"Batman?!" Robin shouted, but he got no reply. "Oracle, I need you to send someone to Batman's last position! He maybe hurt." Meanwhile, Robin turned on Falcon's tracer and found the signal was headed out of Crime Alley.
"I'm on my way Rach..." he said to himself, pushing his bat-cycle harder.
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Post by Jakazul on Dec 17, 2003 23:39:03 GMT -5
Batman sat agains the cold brick wall painfully. The driver, still unconcious, lay a few feet away. A few slight concussions probably, but nothing fatal. Batman looked down. The snow around him was crimson from the blood seeping through his abdomen as well as running off his arms from the huge shard of glass jabbed through it. He pulled himself up and jerked the glass from his shoulder, then fired a grapnel and ascended into the skyline, already tapping Falcon's tracker.
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Post by Falcon on Dec 17, 2003 23:40:40 GMT -5
"Already on it. vNightwing should be there shortly." Barbara said as she continued to type quickly at her computer. "And I managed to decipher that message, but I don't think it would tell us something that we don't already know."
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A small, red and black costume could be seen as it flew out of the back of a van and into an empty street.
Rachael, now clad in a blue gingham dress, white apron, white pantyhose, and black polished shoes, and black headbannd sat promptly in the back odf ht e van as it began to make its was towards an old boat off the pier.
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Post by Jakazul on Dec 17, 2003 23:43:39 GMT -5
Batman leapt from roof-top to roof-top as he dashed towards the pier. He had to get there in time, even with the blood loss. His tattered cape was now ripped apart from the strips he had used as make-shift bandages for his wounds and blood was still coming from several smaller gashes, but it could be worse. >>I gotta go guys, continue tomorrow?<<
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Post by nightwing on Dec 17, 2003 23:46:54 GMT -5
"Thanks O."
Robin noticed Rachel's signal stop suddenly, and that could only mean two things. They slipped her tracer or of they reached their base. And considering the singnal stopped in the middle of Jackson Avenue, that meant the first one.
He pulled his cycle into a shapr right, and found Rachel's costume laying in the middle of the street.
"Damnit," he growled picking up the costume and speeding off again. "Oracle we have a problem!"
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Nightwing sped his costume muscle car towards Batman's last position. "Please let him not try skyling hopping..." Dick sighed. According to Oracle he had passed out, but that kind thing didn't stop Batman.
(That's cool. I need to go also. Later guys! Go story so far. And well... you know what I'm gonna ask, so we'll just skip it. LOL. Hint hint... Look at that link below... Hint hint. LOL)
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Post by Falcon on Dec 17, 2003 23:48:09 GMT -5
"You made quite a show of my men, young lady." Mad Hatter said as the walked into the boat followed by Hatters men. "If I'm not mistaken it's almost tea time and today..." They got into the boat and it began to pull away from the pier. All tracking devices had been abandoned back in the streets. Maddhatter grined sinesterly. "Today is youre unbirthday." (If you ever read Alice in Wonderland, you'd understyand what he meant )
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Post by Falcon on Dec 17, 2003 23:52:27 GMT -5
"Already know, current boy wonder. Signal stoped right in the middle of Jackson. They gave us the slip." She slammed her coffe mug down. "Darnit! He's planning something big this time. He had to have spent allot of money just to Jam my frequencies."
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Post by Jakazul on Dec 18, 2003 10:31:10 GMT -5
>>I prob'ly won't be on till later today, but I figured I'd make one post... Btw "According to Oracle he had passed out, but that kind of thing didn't really stop Batman" is one of the best lines I'v heard in a while. lol<< Batman crouched on the rooftop, looking down at the pier as fog and flecks of blood flew in the cold night air from his breathing. The cold had numbed his wounds by now and he had washed some of the blood away with melted snow and dissenfectants from his belt as well as taking a few pain killers, although sometimes he wondered if his body hadn't built up an immunity to painkillers. He could see nothing for a moment, then suddenly a red and black van turned and moved towards the pier. He pulled out a tiny pair of binoculars and peered through. The Mad Hatter's van definitely, going towards the only dock with a boat tonight. "Batman to the Gotham Knights," he said, tuned into Nightwing, Robin and Oracle's frequencies. "I found Falcon. Get here ASAP."
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Post by nightwing on Dec 18, 2003 16:27:38 GMT -5
"We're on it!" Robin and Nightwing shouted in unision. There were the sounds of tires screeching on both of their com-links as they turned their individual vehichles to the pier.
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