DC's Path of Ruin: Book I

March 26th, 2015 - Part 2

Day 99 - March 26th, 2015 : Night - Around 10:30 PM

Brian walked along the edge of a building that was high above the ground. His patrol through this city proved quiet, as he expected. He pressed a button on his cowl, enhancing vision as he stood with his arms crossed. Lex was pretty good at keeping the city in line, Brian wondered what would happen if something were to have happened to him. Would the city attempt to stay the same, or would it crumble as his Father's city had.

He didn't put it past the people of Metropolis, they seemed to be very attached to him. Brian though, didn't really care about Lex's city, if he was watching, as Brian suspected, then he'd probably send someone to do something.

"So...what is happening here?" A familiar soft voice asked him suddenly from behind. "Dear, it is so cold up here..." Alva said, now wearing velvet purple robe to hide his features and, suddenly, somehow, standing beside Brian at this exact building edge when all physical signs pointed to his inability to climb to this height. "I was thinking, when I left, that you had no way of contacting me when you thought your plans though so...ehe, here I am!..." He lifted his hood just a little to reveal his freckled face. Brian looked at Alva, not really questioning how he got up here.

"I'm watching for things right now...Planning is a bit of a process. This is especially with a man with a mind like Lex's." Alva put a hand to one of his pink lips as he listened and thought to himself. Sorcerers from his line were not much of thinkers as they were actors of their craft, casting what felt right.

He manipulated his tapered wand of pure black obsidian, it glimmering the moonlight.

"Well maybe Lex has changed his mind, that man is not following you tonight" The Latimo mage told him with a sheepish expression and looked down at the great height they were, the roads looking smaller from here. Brian nodded.

"Maybe so.." Brian responded, though not believing it for one second.

"And there is a robbery or something happening three blocks that way" He pointed west, more center of town. "I thought something suspicious would be happening with a bunch of grown men around a black van on an empty road...but..." He waved his wand again "Maybe I am seeing things ehe" He blushed and shrugged.

Brian's cowl picked this up seconds later, red and black boxes within view showing the small cameras that he set up around sections of the city. His eyes narrowed. "No..." he started, having the camera zoom in on the men all centering around the back of the van. It could be seen further that there were boxes, one of them opening a case of it to reveal various sorts of drugs. He scowled once seeing it. "A drug trade. Looks like there's something to do after all..." Brian spoke.

"Oh shoot, I guessed completely wrong" The pink haired person said and shrugged, he pushed some aside to let it frame his face under the hood. "Maybe you should handle this?" He tilted his head when he asked, "I am...um...not good at hiding all the blood after, ehe"

"Yeah..Alright.." Brian answered, he figured that he was going to handle this anyway. He looked at Alva once as he stood on the edge of the building. He took a deep breath once as he fell forward purposefully. His arms spread out, for a moment as he felt the air rippled around him. He pulled his grapple gun from his belt and almost involuntarily aimed for a building near by. Once he heard the click, he held his hand on the trigger so as to not be pulled by the grapple gun as he swung forward.

Using this sort of transportation, he arrived at the location in a few minutes. He stood atop one of the higher buildings toward the side of the alley that they were doing this in. He took a moment to strategize this. There were eight of them there. 2 were loading the van, 4 were armed and acting as lookouts, and the final two were toward the front of the van talking. He knew that from the number of them, it would be best to keep them in the alley, the confusion from the amount of them possibly making the fight easier.