Chapter 166 - [AT] Clothesline…

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Two Face with his guns in hand was currently running to the front door to leave thinking that the Batman was after him which I can understand since the smoke was pretty thick and I was a figure dressed in all black with bat horns so he must've seen my figure in the smoke and ȧssumed it was Batman which was why he ran when he noticed all of his men were getting decimated and so I quickly gave chase to the man who did a lot of crime and I wasn't about to leave him out of my sight when I've just finished mopping up his crew and he was the cherry on top which I was not going to let get away, giving chase whilst still in the smoke Two Face obviously notices my actions when he turns around to look behind him and begins to fire back towards me with his two silver pistols which I dodge pretty easily since he's firing at me from such a length away that it's easy to dodge the bullets since it took a while to actuality arrive and then Two Face finally reaches the front entrance with me right on his tail but he goes out through the doors before I can reach him but I can rest ȧssure since last I checked there was a police cordon outside with a dozen cops parked in this place ready and waiting for him so it should be easy pickings from here and so thinking that I ripped through the front door and straight out of the bank and into the outside world but what I find isn't very nice, not very nice at all.

I don't know how it happened since the police should have been keeping their distance and retaining the cordon whilst behind their cars but for some reason it seems a lonely cop had wandered close enough to the bank for whatever reason (probably to get a view inside when they heard all the gunshots and screams, those guys really shouted a lot when they were scared) and because of that when Two Face burst out of the buildings front doors there wan an immediate hostage for him to grab and use as leverage which is what I'm seeing right now since Two Face currently has one of his arms wrapped around the police officers neck pulling him in close whilst his other hand levels his silver handgun towards the police cordon but when he heard the doors slam open he began backing up so that myself and the police cordon were to his sides so he didn't expose his back since he backed up to a pillar that was part of the outside of the bank, he begins to wildly wave his gun around occasionally pouting it at his hostages head as a threat which Commissioner Gordon sees and begins to speak to Harvey through his speakerphone trying to deescalate the situation and somehow get his officer out of this alive. "Listen Harvey, just calm down. Think about what your doing, think about your situation. Are you thinking about it? Let me spell it out for you, currently you are entirely surrounded by the police with a dozen squads on every corner of the block and another dozen snipers on the roofs ready to put you down. You've got no hope of winning here because you don't have your crew to help you out and you're not gonna win in a gunfight especially if you hurt one of these officers so be careful, we aren't taking any chances and the second you shoot a snipers gonna shoot back so why don't you just put down the guns and let him go and we'll take you back to Arkham? Come on Dent, this is your only out here."

Two Face puts the gun he was levelling at the police in his pants while making sure to point his other gun at the hostage using the arm that was around the police officer and point the gun at the bottom of his chin while he reached into his pants pocket and pulled out his signature two sided coin that had one side burnt off and he flipped it in the air before catching it and gazing upon it looking for his decision, honestly I feel like I'm being ignored since I just came out of the bank and while both the police and Two Face are aware of my presence they aren't focusing on me too much more focused on the hostage situation and so they clearly think I'm Batman or something and they haven't looked close enough to see the slight differences in my costume to Batman's being the fact the my costume has good/yellow inlays, slightly longer a bat horns on the cowl, black lenses in the cowl whereas Batman's has white lenses and the biggest fact being that my face is entirely covered and not exposed like Batman's chin but even then I can see a few of the uniformed officers have noticed that I'm not Batman and are mumbling to each other about it quietly but they don't point it out to Gordon since he's busy right now. "Looks like I'm not gonna go so easily Commissioner Gordon, the coins decided and I gotta respect the rules. I ain't putting my gun down or letting this guy go either and I'm definitely not gonna go back to Arkham, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME AND NEITHER CAN BATMAN SO-. You're not Batman, who the hell are you?"

Harvey puts his coin back in his pocket after he flipped it and once again pulls out his silver handgun from his pants and levels it at the police begin to wave it wildly while he talks fist pointing it straight at Commissioner Gordon and then waving it towards me when he says Batman can't take him back to Arkham but it's at that moment that he finally takes a closer look at me and notices the fact that I'm not Batman which coincidently makes everyone else realise it as well when they take a closer look apart from the uniformed officers and go already noticed it but didn't feel it was the right time to point it out due to the ongoing hostage negotiation between Two Face and Commissioner Gordon, Two Face asks who I am since I'm clearly it Batman but instead of answering his question I see an opportunity in Two Face's shock and surprise and I take advantage of it by quickly reaching into my utility belt and throwing out a Batarang before he can even react and then with my already outstretched hand I release my grapple toward him faster than he can react and my grapple latches on to the end of his silver handgun that he currently pointing towards me and he struggles for a moment to keep it but I keep a tight hold of it waiting and it seems like Two Face has realised things are going bad for him so he uses the arm that's currently wrapped around his hostages and carrying his other gun to point it toward his hostages chin and shoot but Two Face was so focused on my grapple that he forgot about the Batarang I threw out a second ago that curved through the air while he focused on my grapple and just when Two Face goes to raise the gun towards the hostages chin my sharp Batarang finally hits its mark by embedding itself in Two Face's hand and making his drop his other silver handgun. .

The hostage seeing his opportunity quickly struggles to break for freedom and he succeeds too because the hand holding him was just stabbed by a Batarang and his other hand is currently still holding the other silver handgun which is being held in place by me with a grapple and facing towards me but I'm not worried about him shooting it at me since I picked my opportunity well and my grapple attactched itself to the side of the gun so that the muzzle it pointing towards the bank and he can't change its direction though he's trying really hard to but seeing the chance to help the hostage in his escape I chuckle retract my grapple pulling the gun and Two Face towards a me and while the gun quickly zooms towards me Two Face let's go after a second but that was all I needed as the momentum still carried him and he ended up stumbling forward to the ground releasing the hostage who quickly made a break for it and ran back towards the police cordon while I made the grapple let go of the gun during it retraction letting it go back to its spot on my wrist while allowing the gun to keep flying through the air towards me where I catch it with one hand fitted perfectly around the handle of the gun, I look at Two Face as he's kneeling on the ground and he looks back at me and then down at my hand and that's when I notice that I caught the gun and I was pointing it forward towards him but that's when I saw the opportunity to do something really cool and pull of a really badass move that everyone wants to do and while looking directly at Two Face with his own gun pointed at him I move the finger on my hand holding the gun and fiddle them around for a second which cause the gun to start dismantling itself with the clip dropping out first and then the muzzle coming off and the various components of the gun coming apart and dropping to the ground before I was left just holding the singular handle of the gun with nothing else attaché ego it before I let go of it and let it drop to the ground as well to join the rest of its parts.

Man that felt badass and I'm glad that Batman taught us about guns and how they work and made me learn about all sorts of guns and how they are made up and while he made sure we never used any guns he did make sure that we held them and made us train to dismantle them as quickly as possible with the goal being for under a second and while I could see the use in it I know understand that he taught us for the sheer badassery that doing that to someone's gun exudes and I'm so glad I learnt it because it just a great feeling to take a villains weapon and break it before there eyes, I continue to stare at Two Face for a second as he kneels on the ground cradling his injured hand that still has the Batarang embedded into it but he suddenly breaks eye contact and looks to the side and when I follow his eyeline I can see that he's looking towards his other silver handgun that he dropped earlier before his eyes darted back over to me and we stared into each other's eyes again (well I am because he is just staring into my black lenses and since my head didn't even turn when he looked at the gun the he probably doesn't realise that I've noticed it, man we're these black lenses a good decision) before he suddenly darts toward the gun and grabs towards it but not letting him do what he wants I run towards him and again use my grapple which launches through the air as I run at him and grapples onto the front of his shirt just as he picks up his gun and before he can even level it at me I retract the grapple pulling him towards me and I myself imp up into the air beige realest he my grapple but by this point he's already airborne and flying towards me at a heigh speed an I myself have just jumped into the air and I stretch out my arm to the side and when we finally collide it's in a clothesline that impacts his jaw/neck and ends him slipping through the air and tumbling towards the ground where he lands with a clatter utterly dead to the world (not actually dead just unconscious, that's just a phrase of speech) while I just gently land on the ground again.

Damn that was also badass, I was feeling unsure about this career decision earlier but right now I'm seeing the benefits and I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it a lot…

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