The Ventriloquist





"Come on people we don't have all day!" Dick yells at the hostages to get them to move faster out of the line of fire,


They all run towards the fire escape that spread through the whole building


"Widow what about you?" Nightwing shouts and stops mid run as if he was going to come back but I could handle this and his concern was touching but completely unnecessary


"Stick to the plan Nightwing" I yell back,


Nightwing runs with the rest of the hostages but briefly stops to pick up a terrified lady off the floor.


I backflip throughout the room dodging all of the gunfire, the sprinklers above fire gallons of water everywhere like there was a monsoon storm inside the building and the sound of the alarms was almost deafening and bullet proof shutters encased the windows cutting off all natural light sources leaving only the dim emergency lighting


"What's going on the rat said nothing about no lockdown system" Scarface exclaims as he is startled by the craziness,


Wait a minute so this was someone else's work I did find this very unusual as Scarface's plans were always well thought out and wouldn't be carried out in broad daylight this all seemed well sloppy like it's meant to distract us from something else.


Eventually all of the men run out of ammo they look down at their guns in a panic since they have no chance in taking me on head on,


I quickly leave my cover behind a bullet hole filled desk and a tall bald man that I didn't recognize comes charging directly at me 


<a poor move on his part>


I bring my palm upwards and break his nose I feel his nose cave in under the palm of my hand and the crunch of his bone breaking was sickening, the pain causes him to collapse on the floor where he withers in pain and cradles his face in his hands 


"Arggg!" he yells.


I turn to Scarface "Come on Rhino don't go easy on her just because she's a dame show her how we deal with her type" Scarface tells Rhino,


The giant man cracks his knuckles and prepares to charge at me like a speeding tank,


<and I've actually been hit by a real tank before, Long story>


 "Uh Mr Scarface isn't that a bit over kill" the Ventriloquist asks Scarface, 


he honestly wasn't a 'bad' person but more of a man with a misunderstood mental disorder he disliked violence but his other personality was rather fond of it,


Scarface hits him in the face as he is furious at his disobedience, "Dummy up!" he yells at Whesker who cradles his hurting face,


Rhino charges at me and I dodge just in time he goes tumbling into a book case all of the hard books come crashing down on him. "ouch" I wince.


I look over to the sealed glass doors I see the Police trying to break down the sturdy doors with Commissioner Gordon being at the front,


 I notice the floor is beginning to flood from the sprinklers above the depth of the water had gotten to a good few centimetres which gave me a good idea.


 I jump on to a wooden table and fire a Widows sting at the wet floor and suddenly the whole room burst with bright white electricity.


The material my suit is made out of protects me from the electrical current now running through the floor but the mobsters had no such protection, the police noisily burst down the glass double doors that were previously holding them back,


"Stay back" I yell at them,


They all quickly step back out of fear but the electricity was nowhere near powerful enough to kill but it would most certainly hurt,


<A lot> 


As the electricity subsides in what feel like minuets but is actually seconds,


 I shut down the emergency protocol leaving a calm silence on the chaotic scene as all the men either lay unconscious on the floor or withering in pain but fortunately just the person I need to talk to could still answer my questions and if he didn't want to talk I would make him.


I approach Whesker and Scarface I nudge him with my foot to get his attention 


"This was pretty sloppy even for you Scarface" I felt ridiculous talking to talking to an inanimate object when suddenly the dummy's head turns to look at me,


<Brr real creepy>


And whilst I knew logically that Scarface's personality came from Whesker but it made it none the less unnerving at the very best almost like a scene out of a horror movie,


"Don't insult me princess if I had put this plan together you would be eatin lead right now" Scarface yells, so I was right Scarface had been set up by someone else, but what were they after


"I very much doubt you're here to steal the free pens" I try and get answers from the already angry dummy


"Oh no, isn't no way I'm squealing I know my rights I ain't talkin" he argues with me, but I want to argue back that he is technically a block of wood he doesn't have any rights.


The Police all come running towards me lead by Chief Commissioner Gordon they cuff up the unconscious men on the floor and drag them out of the crime scene


"Black Widow what in the blazing hell is going on here!" Gordon exclaims,


But I was just as confused as him none of this made sense.


I soon see some recognizable faces approaching Nightwing, Harvey Bullock and surprisingly Jack Ryder,


Bullock attempts to push him back out of the room angry at the intrusion of the reporter


"Uh, Uh no way who in the hell let him up here come on people this is a crime scene not a friggin red carpet!" Bullock practically yells as everyone covers their ears in pain


"Hey Fatty cool it before you blow a fuse" Scarface says and honestly everyone forgot that he was even here everyone looks at him with the same confused expression on our faces


"Come now Scarface hush now after all you insisted you knew your rights" I remind him sarcastically which only seems to make him angrier


"You're really pushin my buttons Red cause when I get out and I will I'm coming after your little bird brats, the Bat Chick your boyfriend and then you in that order!" he shouts at me,


I never take well to threats especially when they're about people that I care about so I lift Scarface from Whesker's tight grasp and effortlessly toss him out of an open window,


I hear him yell as he plummets to the ground breaking the dummy into many, many different pieces.


Suddenly Bullock begins loudly and frantically clapping


"Boy I'm glad someone finally did it" He laughs,


 I turn to Nightwing he must have an idea of what Bruce keeps in his personal safe or at least something valuable enough that Scarface or another individual would want it


"Any ideas?" I ask him since he knew more about the ins and outs of Wayne Enterprises than I do but he simply shrugs his shoulders


"Not a clue Widow" he says I could tell that this was the truth, well that brings us back to square one until Jack interrupts in our conversation  


"Natasha Roma- uh, I mean Black Widow I thought you would like to know that Wayne Labs has been broken into" Gordon looks at his phone in amazement and the back at the incredibly nosey reporter  


"How the hell did you find that out kid I only just got the alert" Gordon says


"I've got my sources, insiders that work for Wayne Corp" Jack smiles as he turns to me with the same grin plastered on his face


"Would you like a lift?" he asks me,


Well it would look very suspicious if we went for that secret entrance in Bruce's office and with all the police around we wouldn't be able to get out of here unnoticed so I turn back to Jack Ryder 


"Sure why not" even though I can think of several reasons why not.


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Songs For Chapter 31


-Sweet about me by Gabriella Cilmi 


-Hard out Here by Lilly Allen


-Paparazzi by Lady Gaga


-7/11 by Beyonce


-Stronger by Britney Spears



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