Chapter 162 - [AT] Batman’s Here…

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Hanging on my perch above the main hall of the bank I watch as Two Face continuous to watch the cops outside through the windows while his thugs either do the same as him or quietly whisper to one another in their own little groups so as to not upset Two Face and because of this no one pays attention to the hostages in the corner of the room and no one notices how little by little the number of hostages are dwindling due to them being pulled through the little hole i the corner I made and escaping but even then the numbers have obviously changed and all it will take is one thug looking in their direction to notice so I'm prepared for action at any moment and I honestly find it bizarre and lucky that they haven't clicked on already but I'm not that lucky and so somethings gonna give soon, watching the security guard one by one grab the hostages and push them through the hole I realise that it's taking too long but there's nothing I can do and I've already committed to this so I either stick it out or start beating on the thugs but both come with risks and right now sticking this out is looking much better at least till as many hostages as possible are gone and then if an start to act since I don't want anyone dying on my first escapade especially since this was an unsanctioned outing and Batman didn't give me permission so if I fuċk up now I fuċk up everything I've been working toward these last three months and I can't let that happen. "Tsk, those fuċkɨnġ cops are still outside and they're not gonna be movin' anytime soon. We're gonna have to start leveraging these hostages for a way out of here soon once we have all the cash, it's not like we don't have enough hostages so we can pop a few to set the mood and get what we want. Speaking of which where the fuċk are the boys down in the vault? They should've finished packin' up the moolah by now, so what's the goddamn hold up? Forget it, looks like we'll be here for a while before the pigs fulfil our demand but first we gotta show them we mean business. One of you grab two hostages and bring em to me, we'll flip a coin to see which one gets whacked and which one gets to leave. Make em see we're serious but we're also willin to play ball, shouldn't be long till they start lickin our ȧsses with the Bat on the other side of town and unable to figh-"

Two Face begins to turn around from his position watching the cops from the window as he questions where the thugs in the vault are not knowing that I've locked them in there and knocked them out with knockout gas and when he mentions killing a few of the hostages to get the message across to the police (though I'm sure they already know the situation considering that they've not tried to make a single advance on the building yet) I find my disgust of the man grow knowing that he was once the distinguished DA Harvey Dent the white knight of Gotham but now he's just another mad man in Gotham because half his face was burnt off and there are thousands of people in Gotham with way worse problems but you don't see them having a bitch fit because of it and what really disgusts me about this guy is how weak he is to have all his morals and principles thrown out the door because he suffered an acid attack well so what I've been thrown through a literal fuċkin meat grinder and I'm not half as crazy as this guy, when the guy begins to talk about using the hostages and orders one of his men to grab them I know I no longer have the luxury to wait and I have to act but there are still some hostages in the room which means I'll have to protect them as well as fight these guys which makes my job a thousand times harder but as he goes to finish his last sentence I have an idea and so before he can actually finish his sentence I reach behind my back and pull out a Batarang which I fling across the room with such speed that it knocks the Tommy gun straight out slot Two Faces hands before I jump down from my perch knowing that's where they'll look and land on the walkway above the main hall and wait. "FUCK, IT'S THE BAT! EYES ON THE SKY BOYS, HE'S UP THERE SOMEHWERE AND WE GOTTA BRING HIM DOWN!"

Two Face immediately shouts after his Tommy gun is knocked out of his hands and he reaches both of his hands into his jacket to pull out his two automatic silver pistols and begins to aim up at the ceiling looking for Batman which his henchmen soon copy all of them looking and aiming up in search of the Batman which means they're not looking at the hostages which will allow them to hurry up and escape which is why I've done this since I needed to make sure as many hostages escape as possible and for that I need them distracted and what better way to do that then to play on their fears (ironic since right now fear is being used to terrorise people across the other side of Gotham by Scarecrow while I'm using it here to save lives, just goes to prove anything can be a weapon but it's whose hands the weapon is in which counts) primarily being Batman and so throwing a Batarang and sticking to the shadows (since while the lower floor is lit up the top floor isn't proving to be sufficient to hide myself) should convince them that Batman is here and should take up most of their time allowing for the hostages to escape, if they looked a little closer at the Batarang that knocked Two Face's Tommy gun out of his hands then they would've noticed that while Batman's Batarangs are plain black this one is black with golden/yellow inlays as well as edge proving that the one attacking them isn't Batman but tensions are high right now and their fear is preventing them from looking to closely more afraid of a possible threat and so they continue to stare up at the ceiling panicked and unaware that their attacker is not Batman and that their hostages are all escaping. "B-But Boss, I though Batman was fighting Scarecrow across town? How can he be in two places at the same time? Maybe the rumours are true and there actually are hundreds of Batman's out there fightin crime? How else can he be here when he's fightin Scarecrow all rod town along with big his little sidekicks?"

"Shut up you idiot, he must've already dealt with that freak Scarecrow and come straight here. Show yourself Batman, let's settle this man to man instead of you hidings n the shadows you coward." One of Two Face's goons is especially scared right now and begins to panic as well as doubt his boss and question the possibility of a rumour suggesting that there might be hundreds of Batmen fighting crime but Tow Face immediately shuts that down with an annoyed brown before calling out Batman to show himself and fight which I'm clearly not gonna do since I'm not Batman and there are still hostages that need to escape but I know that they aren't gonna look up here forever and they're are gonna need some extra stimuli to keep there attention focused up here as well as too distracted to notice the fact that hostages are escaping or that they could potentially grab a hostage for extra protection so I need to give them something to focus on and keep their minds distracted from the hostages, thinking quick I quickly sneak across the path to the front of the building with windows which are covered on either side by curtains that are currently open allowing for the moonlight to shine directly through the window and so I pull out another Batarang and throw it across the room making sure it makes some sound to draw their attention so they can see it go through one of the opened curtains dragging it along for a bit as it crosses the room before landing in a wall but the thugs are more distracted by the curtain flashing across the window for a moment blocking out some of the moonlight shining though and it almost looks like a cape streaking across the window making them think it's the Batman and so without a single word between them they all aim up at that section of the room and let loose a volley of bullets am starting an absolute barrage in the wall and windows which would no doubt startle the cops outside and I'm just glad that I'm not there since I would be ripped to shreds and Ben if I would recover almost instantly from it. .

The barrage raged on for like a minute before they finally stop having to reload their weapons even if half of them did it during the barrage and then continued firing and they stare up not hearing a single thing before they begins to look askance at each other asking 'if they had got him' while Two Face continues to glare upwards not letting a single emotion show, I watch as he ejects the clips from his pistols and puts new ones and in before he finally barks at them to shut up and actually tells me what he's thinking. "SHUT UP! That ain't enough to take out the Bat, somethings up. By now he would've taken out half of you guys already but he not made a single move, he is up to something and we ain't gonna let him do it so easily. Grab some of the hostages and point your gun on their heads, let's see if he'll do anything when we got some bozos at gun point." Heeding his orders his thugs turn around to grab some of the hostages but they don't move from there spots whic oh pisses of Two Face since gmthey aren't following his orders, he himself also turns around. "What the fuċks taking you guys so goddamn long? Just picky up a couple body shields and hold them in front of yourselves, it's not fuċkɨnġ hard to d-. WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE HOSTAGES!?"

Two Face's face twist into a grimace of anger when he turns around to see the corner that was previously filled with hostages empty with nary a sight of a single hostage which immediate angers him while his thugs all look around awkwardly knowing that they would be getting in trouble for this but this means that I'm free to act properly with the hostages gone, with the kids away its time for daddy to play or rather, with the hostages away it's time for me to start busting head together…

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