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Gotham Knights - City On Fire

So.... which League were you guys expecting to see? LOL

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Jack was on foot now, miles from his previous location. He noticed the smoke in the air, and where there's smoke there's fire. One of the heroes found a lab, or a storage dump. The skull faced hero looked on at the cockroaches scattering, more goons of Bane's and not juiced up like the pusher he'd dealt with earlier. His ear piece that is linked to police and emergency frequencies was acting up. That was likely one of the Bats trying to keep the big man in the dark. Jack leaped from one roof to another. He thought he had seen a shadow go by so now he was on edge. Was one of the other recruits actually tailing him? It was clearly time to separate the men from the boys so he sprinted at his top speed leaping and vaulting over rooftops. He glanced back over his left shoulder and when he turned to look ahead of him he was stopped in his tracks.

Elsewhere...

"Cave to Bat-One?" came over Batman's communicator in his mask.

"What's going on?" Batman responded swinging to a location and pulling out binoculars from his utility belt.

"One of your... acquaintances... has caused a bit of a bonfire, sir." Alfred said from the cave monitoring situations across the city.

"Emergency response ETA?" Batman asked looking through his eye-wear at a sewer cover in an alley about a block away.

"None. One of Batwoman's people shut down all communications in that sector." Alfred continued. "However... the League is in Gotham."

"WHAT?!?" Batman responded surprised putting his binoculars down.

Back on a rooftop somewhere in midtown...

"What's the League doing in Gotham?" Jack asked what revealed itself from the shadows as several well armed ninja assassins.

"The Demon's Head knows your true motives and asks that you also free his daughter from her captives." the main ninja spoke to Jack as it appeared more ninjas were in the shadows on the anti-hero's right side.

"Who are you talking about, boy?" Jack responded still in a bit of a battle stance.

"The daughter of the Demon's Head... Nyssa." he ninja spoke.

Elsewhere...

Batgirl could see the older girl across from her through the glass window on her cell door. She hadn't seen Nyssa up close recently to know who she was. She had always wore a hood and mask over her nose and mouth. In the cell directly beside Ms. Gordon was the third girl. Nyssa could have looked her way if she wanted, but she didn't know the girl and frankly didn't care about her or the beaten Batgirl directly across from her.

Back on the rooftops of the city...

The ninjas disappeared into the shadows once more and left the man in the skull mask to himself. He still felt as if somebody was watching him and glanced over his left shoulder, but now it felt different. Somebody who knew how to hide, even better than those League of Assassins ninjas. Skeleton Jack sprinted off once more leaping from building to building and nearing the lush green gardens of Robinson Park. After going from rooftops to trees in a mostly empty park in seconds there was no way somebody was still on Jack's tail. Jack managed to be in the right place at the right time as several junkies were buying the Venom patches from a couple guys already jacked on them in the park.

"Finally... a decent workout." Jack thought leaping from the trees at the crowd of drug addicts.

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

@Kazemitsu I imagined him being like a large cat on the prowl leaping from rooftops sniffing people out.

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Also!

If we don't hear back from @Nightwing95 we'll just move forward with Batwing as an NPC. He might get maimed by Bane. Who knows. I'll be in the piratepad shortly to work on my next post.

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

I want to make sure everybody is also remembering Batwoman and Batwing are the only people with radio contact with Batman himself! I just don't want to have to RP more with Batman than I do Jack because often in RP's players will get too caught up with an NPC and it gives me less time to focus on my character. If you have the smarts to tap somebody's GPS/frequency you might be able to reach Bats in dire circumstances, but if anybody has radio contact, somebody's cell #, or telepathic/magic connections through characters that's on you guys.

In my mind Batman likely wouldn't hand out communication devices to mercs, ex criminals, etc. rather just tag them with some sort of tracer.

And @Skinner35 don't think you have to go back and change your posts. Jack will go off course and get a bead on Batgirl and the others as well. However if nobody's looking for Bane he'll eventually find some of us!

~KL~

Marvel REBORN (ALWAYS OPEN!)

Anybody else still around or...?

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

@Skinner35 So... Nuke asked who was with who and Batman responded. Nuke is a paid merc. The idea of getting more help from the least likely of places is so we as a group can cover more ground. So... why's he's doing stuff with the other group? I mean, I get that Batwoman's group is a little more organized, Batwing's group was meant to be the lone wolves [Wraith being the only one of Batwoman's group in my mind]. A superpowered merc, an ex-villain speedster, a monster, an anti-hero on edge, and Batwing don't seem like guys who'd be strategists or looking for tag-team partners.

He's just not acting like a mercenary. He should be looking for the kill, a bonus, and that knife so he can charge Bats double.

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

It'll be crystal clear why my guy is going at it lone wolf. When the ID's of the other girls's are revealed, when the League steps in, etc.... then you guys MIGHT know how it's gonna play out. Best believe I'm gonna have everyone of you on your toes.

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

Skeleton Jack knew every one of the other people Batman chose for this dark crusade were gonna be watching him. It truly didn't matter. Finding him and watching him were two very different things. As a couple of the more heroic types began strategic planning to look for Batgirl, Batman leaped into the night sky with a grappling hook not even answering the monster in the dark corner's question. Jack flipped and bounced off of security ladders and the side of a neighboring building down to where he'd parked a black motorcycle. Nothing special. It COULD have been a little quieter. The masked man seemed to not really care. When he wanted to go stealth he would, for now... the punks needed to see him coming. He didn't bother to see where the armored Batwing went, or any of the others in his group. Jack didn't need anyone to tell him how to get information out of enemies. His first adrenaline rush of the night came in the form of a couple muscle bound idiots trying to sell Venom to some teenagers near a football field by one of the high schools. When they saw the man with the skull mask coming down the street like a bat out of hell they turned to run before a couple throwing knives pierced one of their legs.

The high school teens ran off with an adrenaline rush of their own, but Skeleton Jack didn't see an exchange made. He let them go to focus on the punk he'd hit with the blades.

"Where's your boss?" Jack asked pulling out a couple more blades from a compartment in his left gauntlet.

"I'm my own man now!" the pusher said slapping a couple Venom patches on his forearms and getting jacked.

The goon couldn't have been much older than twenty-one. Looked like a former athlete. With the drugs, he looked like a muscle bound professional wrestler. The parked cycle of Jack's might as well have been a piece of garbage because the goon threw it with one hand like it weighed nothing. Jack managed to dodge out of the way but not before the guy rushed him and speared him through a fence.

"All right Lil' Abner, I've had about enough of this ****!" Jack said picking himself up and throwing a three strike combo at the behemoth.

The brute grabbed Jack for something of a bear hug when the skeleton helmet came crashing into the nose of the goon with a headbutt. Jack pulled what looked like steel zip ties out of the pockets on his thighs and bound the guy's hands and feet. When he shook off the headbutt he was shocked to see himself zip tied to a length of chain coming off the tail end of the semi-smashed cycle.

"I'm gonna ask you one more time, junior. Where's. Your. Boss?" Jack asked already on the cycle.

"**** YOU!" the Venom junkie screamed.

Five minutes and about eight miles later down the highway...

"This punk didn't know anything after all. Damn shame those Venom patches wore off. Must not be the same as Bane's liquid formula. Of course he keeps the best product for himself..." Jack thought cutting the zip tie off the unconscious man's feet.

~KL~

Gotham Knights - City On Fire

There's no set starting point though. For all the IC Post indicates i'm suppose to be sitting in the back of the inn eyeing one of scarecrow's goons.

@vancexentan

Well, maybe my character can give a starting point? A place they should head first.
I'm not gonna be able to do that until tomorrow though.

@Unknown100

We're currently at an abandoned warehouse somewhere in the city. I didn't really give a set point to start from afterwards because... well we're supposed to be "combing the streets for Bane's goons" and there's ten of us. You've basically got Batman and a gang of vigilantes waging war on Bane and anybody using/pushing the Venom drug all across the city. All ten of us can't hit the same place without a ton of confusion and at least one or two dropouts afterwards. Pick somewhere... anywhere... could be Gotham University, the slums, downtown, uptown, under one of the bridges, on some random corner, etc. and try to get information out of these punks. You can use the buddy system with somebody else in your group, swing solo, stay close to the Bat-character of your team, etc. When I get an idea of where Bane is and where Batgirl and the two other girls are being held I'll chime in with Bats and give one of the teams a clue to find them.

Batwoman and Batwing will be the only people with radio between Batman. Doesn't matter if you're beating goons looking for Batgirl, or beating goons and looking for Bane and that knife... just get on the streets/rooftops/whatever and start busting heads.

I MIGHT throw in a minor villain committing a crime to give a couple of you something to do but that won't be for a few more days.

~KL~