Butterfly Effect

CHAPTER 02

Gotham Airport; June 26; 4:15PM

After the extremely boring and long flight, the plane finally landed. Danny and Chris encountered only minor problems concerning the power restraining, but other than that, it was as smooth as they could hope.

They were at the passport stand, each holding a bag on their shoulder. Chris wore a yellow sweater and black jeans while Danny wore camo pants, black T-shirt and a dark green denim jacket on top. Neither of them looked tired nor appeared to have jet lag, in fact Chris keeps on jumping her feet while Danny was drumming his fingers against the strap of his bag.

"Okay, so who did they send to look over NYC again?" Danny asked his voice overly hyper. He still could not get over the fact that this was his first mission with the Ancients outside of NYC.

Chris took out her passport, as did Danny, when it was their turn. After all the stamping, they proceeded to go get their bags.

"Ummm" Chris paused, a bit awed by the emptiness of the place. The only times she went to airports, they were always crowded with people, "They sent a team of five, I think" She paused, trying to recall the names "Their names were Amulet, Ziggurat, Pandora, Bones and Phoenix"

"Code names?" Danny asked. When he received a nod from Chris he continued, "Never understood why we need them. Like the whole thing is already on the down low. What is the use of all the security and secrecy?"

"Honestly, I don't think I wanna know" She said as she dragged her bag off the moving rail, "When people take all those measures to protect anything, they either have powerful enemies or they like to play code names" She replied as she walked beside Danny after he got his bag.

As they exited the airport, they noticed it was almost midnight. The moon was high above, but even with that, the city was buzzing with life.

"So, do we have a reservation somewhere?" Danny asked, already knowing that Chris planned that and probably a backup plan B through Z. Honestly, she had too much free time on her hands. Good thing she was on the good side. If she were not, the world would probably fall in a week or so.

"Yep" She said cheerfully as she entered the cab they hailed seconds prior," It is a four star hotel. Not too big, not to mention it's close to everything we need." She paused giving Danny the address so he can describe it to the driver.

The cab started moving, Danny started looking from the window beside him in the shotgun seat while Chris was looking outside from the back. She had gotten overly bored just when she thought she saw a shadow for a moment but dismissed it as a building. Suddenly the cab jerked to a stop. She hunched over to look through the front window. What she saw, she did not expect.

In front of the cab stood Bane wrestling with Batman. THE Batman. Both Chris' and Danny's eyes widened looking at the scene. Behind them, car horns going off every several seconds. Chris just looked at the scene then looked at Danny and saw him giving her a stare that said; should I do something? Chris shook her head. It was too risky. Besides they had just arrived, someone might be able to connect it back to them. When her eyes resumed to the front, she saw that Batman ha gotten the upper hand and moved the fight elsewhere.

The cab resumed to its way towards the hotel. At some point in time, it started raining. Neither Chris nor Danny could pin point the time. Both of them were too busy trying to figure out what to do next. Even Chris had to rethink her plans.

Soon the cab pulled through to the driveway in front of the hotel. Danny payed the driver and both teens got out. Chris then went to verify their reservation the proceeded to lead Danny to the rooms. She had booked two rooms that connected to a living room.

When they entered, Chris immediately started setting her computer system up. Danny, in the meantime, looked at a couple of maps of Gotham himself. He knew the they would have to meet up with Batman to arrange for them, or at least one of them, to go to the JLA's Independence Day celebration. Since today was June 7th, they had several weeks to plan until July the fourth. On June 28th, they would be luring Batman to the top of the GCPD building to make arrangements. Of course, Danny would have to make a handful of appearances around Gotham before that can happen.

After several hours, they both went to bed because of exhaustion and because they did all they can for the time being. Chris couldn't stop the feeling that something will go horribly wrong in the next few weeks.

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